Youtube comments of Steve Parker (@steveparker8065).

  1. I'm just glad we have people like Johnson, Truss and Sunak representing us on the international stage, with such intelligence, integrity and poise. No wonder we are still looked upon as a powerhouse of industry and a shining light on the world stage... yes it's sarcasm...
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  2. One of the many glorious benefits of Brexit was that it showed just how much power the media have over the easily led and politically illiterate British public. The fact that nothing has changed since is a sin...
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  3. But apart from the loss of £trillions, prestige, standards, morals, human rights and trading relations. While polarising the nation, risking the Union & GFA, breaking international law and leaving a sizeable debt for our great-grandchildren and crashing our economy... What has Brexit ever done for us?
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  4. I think it's great that we have an ex-banker as PM, if there's one community that isn't given enough power in our society it's bankers!
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  5. The media are largely to blame for our situation. They should report with plurality and challenge government misinformation. Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes and provide little use to society?
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  6. I can name a few Brexit benefits: It helped uncover shadowy groups such as the E-R-G. Has shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how flawed the system is. Shows how data mining the public helps to steer and manipulate them to vote against their own interests. And has also shown how important the lack of transparency on our overseas territories are to the money men...
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  7. Priti is such a wonderful, caring humanitarian. When she's not having secret meetings with foreign powers, bullying civil servants, gaslighting the public or dancing on the graves of migrants...
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  8. This is where I draw a line. You can't have rich people forced to suffer the indignities of everyday annoyances like the rest of us! Rich people are special and deserve every luxury my poverty can provide them!
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  9. Anyone who hasn't seen this on the cards for the last decade were not paying attention...
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  10. The reason journalists are targeted have always been the same. To stop them exposing truth...
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  11. Government: Pay us taxes and we'll build national infrastructures such as roads, hospitals, schools, police stations, parks and industry. Citizens: Ok that sounds fair. Government: We have to raise taxes to provide the same infrastructure we used to provide you as corporations aren't paying their share. Citizens: Erm... But the services are being run into the ground and now those tax-dodging corporations own all the infrastructure we paid for. Government: Yea, erm sorry about that, we would give you a share of the sales but we need it to offset subsidies we give to corporations. Citizens: Ever heard of a guillotine?
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  12. "Hi, I'm the guy who made your lives worse and the reason many of your family members suffer in poverty and die from treatable illnesses..."
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  13. A Tory MP should be ashamed of the cuts that cost the police their most experienced officers and replaced them with youngsters who done a couple of weeks of training, they closed hundreds of police stations and got rid of tens of thousands of support workers. There's no excuse for the state of the police, but the Tories bear responsibility for the manufacture of those problems...
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  14. Tie their hands, fill the NHS with for-profit organisations, and then blame the staff... Truly a sickening betrayal of the British people by the Tories...
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  15. National security: Fail, Economy: Fail, Pandemic: Fail, Democratic accountability: Fail, Consistency of leadership: Fail, Protecting the vulnerable: Fail... Tories are fail!
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  16. I just love the way those wonderful Tories are helping the energy company cartel's shareholders to keep up bumper profits by loaning the taxpayer £200 (out of their own taxpayer money) to pay the extortionate prices while giving the shareholders a big boost to profits in October. Which will leave the taxpayers with a £200 debt so that they will struggle even more in the following years. Yet they present this as a generous gift to taxpayers. Genius! you have to admit the Tories are extremely good at ripping off the taxpayer and presenting it as a good thing.
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  17. I just love the way our PM and his philanthropic friends who deeply respect the British public and the rule of law are so trustworthy and would never lie. I'm overjoyed at how well they have provided a beacon of hope and integrity globally while managing our economy so well that even the poorest Brit is now able to occasionally eat...
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  18. lol, there are loads personally I love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up all over the Union. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how the UK's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. The UK has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It's like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a huge endeavour. The Tories protected the GFA at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to build. An all-around success story for the UK. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea and a trip to the sunlit uplands to feed my Unicorns...
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  19. So the PM and Chancellor of the exchequer have both been punished for breaking the law, probably less than they spend on a nightly bottle of wine. Remember the good old days when politicians used to resign for such indiscretions?
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  20. We pay them 80k+ a year to run our country and they can't answer for their crimes? Something terribly wrong with that...
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  21. If only human beings could put as much effort into defeating poverty, hunger and ensuring personal growth...
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  22. "I'm a fighter, not a quitter." That aged well in only 24 hours...
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  23. Anti-social behavior? like asset-stripping the country and transferring taxpayer money to your mate's off-shore bank accounts?
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  24. Brexit has given us all the same benefits as the Blitz without the need to bother a foreign nation. Rations, economic collapse and the reduction of infrastructure, what more could we ask for?
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  25. The EHRC report clearly showed there was no systemic AS in the Labour party. The 2017 and 2018 parliamentary reports clearly show less AS in Labour compared to the Tory Party, UKIP and society in general. It also clearly shows AS was reduced under Corbyn. The Home Affairs Select Committee of Parliament held an inquiry into antisemitism in the UK in the same year and found "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party". Hundreds of Jewish socialists who fully supported Corbyn were silenced by the media.
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  26. No matter how hard I concentrate when I rewatch the video, the plane always lands safely...
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  27. Unemployment benefits alone cost £1.23 billion in 2020/21 yet we spend 100x that much on giving corporate subsidies. In the same year, 2020/21 £120.1 billion was given to corporations in subsidies alone, that's without bailouts, tax relief, tax loopholes etc. We aren't poor there is plenty of money in the pot, it's being given to the wealthy at the expense of our life expectancy!
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  28. This is the world we now live in, truth is optional and causing other people problems through petty vindictive actions is commonplace...
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  29. I'm glad we still have a ruling class to pay for - who lord it over us while we sweat and toil just to pay our ever-increasing bills. So glad we didn't evolve beyond a monarchy and are still treated like serfs. Makes me proud to be an illiterate peasant, happy to vote for the continued inequity. If my poverty and suffering can enrich the life of an aristocrat then so be it, I'd happily vote them into office...
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  30. Makes my blood boil to see that man back in parliament or on the TV. It's like seeing the Yorkshire ripper on Blind Date...
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  31. I wrote this a while ago "I love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up and down the country. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how Britain's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. The UK has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It was like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a vast change. They protected the Good Friday Agreement at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to accomplish. An all-around success story for the UK. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea and a trip to the sunlit uplands to feed my Unicorns..." Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.
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  32. A child with chocolate all over their face denies they ate the missing chocolate...
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  33. I have no confidence in the Tories getting rid of Johnson. No matter how bad he is, they have no one to replace him. They are such an inept group that they can't find someone more palatable to the public than a criminal who lies all the time...
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  34. A luxury dinner for the architects of the NHS crisis and the loss of so many lives...
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  35. Thanks to the Tories for taking us back to the Dickensian era... I'm sure Rees-Mogg feels right at home...
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  36. Corporations making bumper profits, the Tories are all wealthy yet the poor get poorer. It's almost as if there is a directly proportional connection between wealth and poverty...
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  37. Now, this is a story all about how, Will's life just flipped, turned upside down. Chris made a cheap joke, about Jada's hair. Then took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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  38. Ok fair enough. I'm just glad Jacob Resse Mogg isn't a privileged elitist tax-dodging hypocrite who obfuscates and provides no useful service to the UK other than providing a good example of how to be a century or two out of date in thinking and fashion style. It so refreshing to have such a down-to-earth man of the people who understands what we are going through during these difficult times...
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  39. Subsidies alone to private sector companies cost the taxpayer £120.1 billion in 2020-21. Then there are corporate grants, bailouts, tax relief, tax loopholes etc. Workers' wages stagnate for decades. If only I could find a connection...
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  40. It's funny how the booms never trickle down to the workers, yet we pay for the system when it goes bust...
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  41. I love Boris he has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself he inspires dullness in others and has delusions of adequacy. Kleptocratic twit.
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  42. A luxury NHS dinner for the Tory party is like awarding Fred West a top-of-the-range patio...
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  43. The full title of the Tory party is Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte Society, surprisingly they don't use the acronym...
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  44. Rishi is such a down-to-earth man of the people and philanthropist, he even shares the blame for his party's crippling of public services by blaming doctors, nurses, teachers, police, transport and public service workers... The Tories are so low they could milk a pregnant field mouse...
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  45. Yvette is 100% correct. Suella is 100% cloven-hoofed, horned demon from the underworld...
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  46. I'd just like to say that I love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up all over the Union. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how the UK's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. The UK has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It's like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a huge endeavour. The Tories protected the GFA at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to build. An all-around success story for the UK. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea and a trip to the sunlit uplands to feed my Unicorns...
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  47. Apparently "Can't Priti Patel speak without a sly smirk on her face?" is worthy of censorship...
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  48. Energy production should be a priority for the government. Instead, the Tories sold it all off under the guise of privatisation and now we have a cartel extorting the British people. The government also cut funding for renewables and took us out of the EU where we had cheaper prices as part of a trading block. This is a serious situation that has been allowed to happen by our reliance on other nations to meet much of our energy needs. Completely avoidable if we were self-sufficient in energy...
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  49. The idea that striking is detrimental to a business is absurd, without workers there is no business. Wages are compensation for labour, if that compensation isn't enough to live on then people will look to redress the balance. Corporations have all the power and treat their workforce with disdain and then expect loyalty for peanuts...
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  50. Correcting mistakes is wrong? I love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up all over the Union. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how the UK's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. The UK has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It's like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a huge endeavour. The Tories protected the GFA at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to build. An all-around success story for the UK. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea and a trip to the sunlit uplands to feed my Unicorns...
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  51. A woman who like most Tory MPs has all the compassion of Fred West working on his patio...
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  52. Lots of Tory donors, ex-MPs and aids have been given prominent positions in the BBC in the past few years. Manufactured crisis after crisis and who profits from taxpayer money?
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  53. When i die, I would just like to be remembered as the guy who gave his taxes to the government to waste on cronyism and corporate greed, without question. Who never resented the endless tax increases and loss of freedoms. Who consumed and got into debt to enrich the wealthy elite, without a hint of complaint. A man who was happy to go without food and heating so that wealthy shareholders could top up their off-shore accounts. A man who played by the rules, even while the rules were playing him. Bless the wealthy elitists and corrupt politicians alike...
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  54. Struggle to pay your energy bills while they're giving billions of your taxes in subsidies and tax breaks to these tax-dodging corporations...
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  55. Our last PM was hacked by Russian agents, her home secretary breached top security protocols and is considered a national security risk, the blonde PM before her was friends with a Russian KGB agent's son, who happens to own a large chunk of British media. The Tories have a "Friends of Russia" group where they allow Russian Oligarchs to buy British property and interests and many Tories holiday in the homes of Russian Oligarchs well known to be Russian assets. It ain't security guards we need to be worried about!
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  56. Someone knows that guy, he doesn't look like he could control those two dogs either. They look to weigh more than him.
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  57. How come the wealthy keep growing their fortunes while the poor keep suffering austerity. If only there was a way to tell if these two things are connected...
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  58. The lowering standard of living in the UK coupled with the painfully low wages is sending more working families who live in unheated homes to food banks and will just add more strain through illness to the NHS. Such short-sighted governance is a trademark of the Tories and the bane of every British citizen.
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  59. No matter how much I concentrate as I rewatch the video, he still manages to rise to the surface...
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  60. To fear someone with integrity and compassion shows how far Labour has fallen. 'Real change'? Red or blue neoliberalism...
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  61. Some people might say "Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles." But I'd say that was letting him off easy...
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  62. As the last vestiges of humanity are sold for shares on the human stock market it's time to admit that we have the worst system of resource management and sustainability ever created. The impact on human psychology and the planet should tell us all we need to know. Led by a minuscule minority by our wallets to the grave...
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  63. When he says "The cult of death" is he talking about the conservative party?
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  64. What has Britain done to become so lucky with our leadership? First, it was Cameron, then May then we got Johnson. Now we got Sunak and Truss fighting over who's going to replace Johnson if they can manage to drag his sweaty carcass out of no10... Such talent in one country, I bet every civilized country on the globe is envious of our intelligent, caring, philanthropic leadership...
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  65. Such a classy woman, representative of Trump's supporters no doubt...
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  66. The NHS already has a shortfall of 40,000 nurses, the Government are responsible. Nurses will just move to Australia and get an extra 33% on their wages...
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  67. Was Boris Johnson born on the motorway, because statistically, that's where most accidents happen...
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  68. I'm not a master poet, But for the right word I will hunt. My apologies for the inference, But Boris is a...
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  69. I think we as workers need to understand the power we have. Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker and taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, taxpayers, cannon fodder and consumers. Why should we live in poverty while the Tories siphon our taxes and provide little use to society? We are tied to debt, mortgages, jobs, car finance agreements, bills, looking after our children etc and these things make us unwilling to take real action such as national strikes. But in reality, we allow these short-term problems to rob the next generation of even more freedoms and opportunities. Thanks for the video Gary, I think it's important to expose the big picture to as many people as possible.
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  70. Afghanistan: British army forced to 'make very difficult choices' by inept politician's incompetence...
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  71. "Labour hasn't been the party of the workers since Blair dropped clause 4. No longer reliant on Union financial support alone, they are funded by corporate lobbyists. Centrists and neoliberals are not friends of the working class and we do have a working class as has been made crystal clear by the Tories waging war on us..." Quotes as it was filtered out as usual...
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  72. This will be the third attempt to point out that "Chi-na makes all the tech devices we use while In-dia makes all our clothes, they are then sold by western corporate giants..."
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  73. With energy prices being so high and bumper profits for these corporations, I'm surprised anyone would defend them... Not to mention the ecological damage they've done over the decades...
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  74. Just because they partied while denying people a chance to hold their loved ones in their final moments and sip champagne while the rest of us can't afford energy and food it doesn't mean they don't care. They care about their donors, their social status and how much power and wealth they can accrue...
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  75. Congratulations to the media for wasting so much time and effort on this insignificant celebrity nonsense...
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  76. I love the idea of an enigma that creates art with a social conscience. With all the sadness in the world, a bit of light relief and creativity is much appreciated. Thanks, Banksy!
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  77. Richard Sharp is Chairman of the BBC, he has donated over £400,000 to the Tories and was an advisor to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London. Robbie Gibb has been an aide to two Tory MPs and was Theresa May's director of communications, he is now a board member at the BBC. Tory donor Catherine Baxendale is on the panel to pick board members at the BBC and Tim Davie who is the boss at the BBC was a Tory candidate. Just saying...
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  78. It could be something to do with the NHS being underfunded and starved of 100,000 staff due to poor working conditions and low pay. 1 in 10 Brits are on the NHS waiting list and so many of those who could have been cured, weren't seen in time.
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  79. Thanks Gary. We should also ask what has happened to National Debt. In 2010 when the Tories came to power it was around £1 trillion by Tory estimates, and that was after we bailed out the banks due to a cross-party decision. It's now over £2.8 trillion almost tripled in just 12 years, despite the dramatic cuts to public services. This a huge slice of our GDP.
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  80. lol, it's as pathetically weak as it sounds. It's a pity for the Tories that we have no confidence in them after the 13 years of contempt they've shown us.
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  81. What have we learned from day one? That Rishi has no plan for the economy and is willing to hand our national security over to someone who last week was a security risk!
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  82. In Britain, they came first for the Socialists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Socialist. Then they came for the Miner's Union and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Miner. Then they came for the Rail worker's union and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Rail worker. Then they came for the Nurse's union and I didn't speak up because I was a factory worker. Then they came for me--and by that time no one was left to speak up...
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  83. Diet Conservatives: A moment in office, a lifetime in our wallets!
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  84. You have to admire the way the Tories show almost as much contempt for migrants as they do for the British public... How these people get elected is beyond logic and reason...
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  85. He should apologise for the low wages and the need for strikes in the first place. We support the strikers and we are the customers!
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  86. I love how Tory apologies always blame Labour for their blatant misinformation and duplicity. Not a fan of the current Labour party, haven't been a member for decades, but I'd rather have Kermit the Frog as PM than any Tory...
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  87. I think rich people should be allowed to declare themselves a non-dom to avoid taxes, then ignore their husband's sanctions against Russia. While that Husband puts taxes up for ordinary working people. It's only right that we should go without food and energy so our betters can continue their lavish lifestyle. I'd gladly lay down my life so a multimillionaire can buy a new luxury yacht. It's the least I can do! doffs cap, tugs forelock
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  88. He'd know all about gas, the windbag...
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  89. So pointing out the evil of oil companies makes them extort us even more and that's on us? That's like a serial killer blaming their victims...
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  90. Watching Boris in PMQs reminds me of a serious accident on the motorway, everyone stops to have a look as they pass, but no one wants to get too close to the flames...
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  91. The director general - Tim Davie is a former Tory candidate and the BBC is stacked with Tories and donors in top positions. Motives behind the story need to be assessed...
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  92. Can't disagree, I can barely post a comment using descriptive words without being filtered or deleted...
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  93. It's not as if presenters at the BBC have a history of this kind of thing...
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  94. lol, I hate it when that happens. Nothing worse than being woken up by a nosey Rhino with the horn...
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  95. The fact that they can't go to school without fearing being shot and then spending their lives learning how to accept the prospect of a low waged job and then being fleeced by a corrupt government may have something to do with it.
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  96. All the best to the Nurses, the things they've seen and the horrors they witness on a daily basis are more than most of us could stand. Solidarity!
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  97. So Brexit and xenophobic sovereignty caused a shortage of HGV drivers, the solution to relax immigration rules to attract more EU HGV drivers? lol you couldn't make it up...
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  98. Inflation is still at 8.7% and those with the lowest spending power have seen increases in living costs of over 15%. The price rises up to Dec 2022 were at a huge 16.9% and so 6% isn't really a rise in terms of inflation or the cost of goods. It's still a real-terms loss of wages and spending power...
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  99. The Tories are morally, physically, mentally and legally unacceptable.
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  100. Unfortunately, there aren't enough negative adjectives in the English language to describe this dreadful excuse for a human being. He's the only man ever to be forced to give the Devil a full refund after selling his soul...
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  101. Tories are so self-centred. We all work for our money it's not all our money, we have to pay taxes to pay for the infrastructure like roads, hospitals, car parks, housing, surgeries, bridges, communication networks, energy facilities, politicians' wages and the administration of a nation. And no Tories are not going to win the next election, while many seem to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, most of us do not.
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  102. From a clown to the whole bloody circus...
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  103. Sajid Javid is the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up...
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  104. I like the orange visibility stripes, that will stop aliens from running them over...
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  105. Crocodile tears from the Wicked Witch of Westminster. She provided the opportunity for tragedy...
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  106. No! because you sold them off... The taxpayer owned the railways, the Tories sold them off. Now we pay the companies subsidies, give them tax breaks and then they ask us to bail them out every few years... Privatisation is a con to move vast amounts of money from the taxpayer's pocket into the offshore bank accounts of wealthy shareholders...
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  107. He unintentionally said things he knew to be misleading like he mistook a large group of people drinking as not-a-party and when he didn't realise he was breaking the regulations he implemented...
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  108. I heard France went ballistic and China went nuclear...
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  109. At least in medieval Britain you could forage for food or collect firewood to keep warm. Now we have malnutrition and hypothermia instead...
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  110. As the fiscal vampires drain the country dry, and the people dry. The heart continues to pump, the arms and legs continue to work, the cells continue to function. But the country stumbles on in shock, unaware that a mortal blow has already been struck...
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  111. Now, this is a story all about how, Will Smith flipped out, smacked Chris upside down. Chris made a cheap joke about Jada's hair so he got a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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  112. Legislation to prevent boycotts, protests, strikes etc are all the rage these days. Fash-is-ermm to keep the consumers, workers and dissenters firmly under the heel of the dystopian jackboots of corporatocracy...
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  113. While peasants go through the garbage for food, unable to pay their bills the aristocrats give themselves a tax-break and a pat on the back... Sickening greed...
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  114. Wash your hands, stay 2 meters away from human beings, stay in your house and ignore that little voice in the back of your head that's screaming something's terribly wrong!
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  115. lol that was a far better opposition than I've seen from Starmer. I have no religious inclination, but he hit the nail on the head, fair play!
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  116. It's always nice to see which pawn of billionaires and corporations wins the illusionary democratic process in this debt-based system of resource mismanagement...
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  117. Hey, I know let's forgive Johnson and vote the Tories in again next time. That way they can continue to make our lives a living nightmare. After all, none of us has a backbone, we'd rather binge-watch Netflix than march on Downing Street...
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  118. The human form of a shiver, looking for a spine to run up...
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  119. He's going to be a nightmare for the poor and no idea what real life is. Tories are playing musical chairs with the country while we suffer for their indulgence and incompetence...
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  120. I'd really love to see Jeremy Kyle talking about the exploitation of the vulnerable in society for TV ratings, but I'm busy watching paint dry...
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  121. We the public have had a chat and we've decided Nurses are a lot more beneficial to society than politicians so we'll cut MPs wages to help pay for the nurse's reasonable requests...
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  122. She's trying to use this legislation as a trojan horse. Once the court allows human rights to be lowered for immigrants it can then be used as a precedent and turned on any group. It may be immigrants now but soon could apply to ethnicities, wealth and class, religious groups, gender orientation, political orientation etc.
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  123. 13 years of suffering and the Tories have profited from every seemingly bad decision they've made. Let's not pretend Tories aren't bankers, investors and landlords...
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  124. So they are shackled to Tory corporatocracy like the rest of us, what a shame. If Scotland chooses to ditch the aristocratic kleptocrats in Westminster then that is their affair, give them the opportunity with a second referendum. Denying them that opportunity is wrong. They deserve self-determination if they so choose. Things have changed immeasurably since 2014...
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  125. The restrictions on flying were lifted after the pandemic and lots of students came back to continue their studies. But hey, as long as we aren't discussing the PPE fraud or the Tories crashing the economy...
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  126. Just admit the basic fact that automation obviously reduces your workforce. It's not that difficult or complex, most of us are aware that when 'tasks' are done by automation they are no longer performed by workers...
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  127. It's surprising how much Nadine loves the man. I mean Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles.
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  128. To be fair reading and talking are acquired skills that humans tend not to fully master until late childhood... I think most Tory MPs would make far more sense if they expressed themselves through the medium of interpretative dance...
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  129. I'm more than happy to go without food and heating so we can continue to fund corporate greed with our taxes. I'd gladly give my life so a multimillionaire can avoid taxes and buy a new luxury yacht...
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  130. Thatcher sold off our social housing under the guise of "right to buy" unfortunately as was well known over 40% of that housing was in the hands of private landlords within the first decade. They didn't reinvest in social housing and now they hand that responsibility to private housing who create unaffordable homes for profit. We need social housing and affordable homes, not a market under pressure which increases rents and house prices...
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  131. The oil companies lost a lot of money when the world ground to a halt during the pandemic, so they're trying to reclaim lost profits. Which is the base reason for everything going up, despite corporations making bumper profits. It's also a good way to get rid of a lot of poor people... Cost of living crisis? cost of capitalism reality!
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  132. I'm just glad we stopped profiting from our own transportation system by privatising it and selling it off to foreign investors. Many of whom use the profits to further improve their own Nationalized transportation system in their own countries. While the taxpayer who paid for all the infrastructure got nothing in return from the sale except increased fares and inferior service...
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  133. Solidarity with all striking workers and my sincere hope we all get the wages we need to live! Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes and provide little use to society?
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  134.  @KneeJerkReactor  Brexit was a good move for the entitled rich who wanted to continue to exploit the lack of transparency on the crown, estates and overseas territories that enables the largest amount of corporate tax losses globally. Whilst allowing them to hide their millions in offshore accounts. But yes it was an appalling catastrophe for 99% of British citizens.
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  135.  @Vanamutt  when you say "untreated sewage going straight to the sea" is that a literal reference to the catastrophic poor state of British environmental legislation or are you talking about a Tory day trip to the beach? :P
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  136. I'm glad the Etonian is going, But what really makes me sick. Is knowing he'll be replaced By another useless...
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  137. So this is to be our new PM for the next six weeks...
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  138. But bloo passports, Sovereign tea, taking back hour boarders!
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  139. Funny how one working wage could support a mortgage and a family before anti-union and strike legislation...
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  140. Balancing the books because they gave hundreds of billions to their mates, now they want the public to foot the bill for their greed and economic failures, yet again. The economy isn't a piggy bank for the Tories and we aren't going to keep topping it back up like the parents of a spoilt child...
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  141. Yes, it sounds excessive but what you have to remember is that trying to make a demon look human is very expensive!
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  142. Poor people paying for the tax breaks of corporations and bankers...
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  143. He's right it is, much of the legislation enacted in the past decade is very dodgy - especially in the past year or two...
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  144. Or you could take it out of the £100 billion in taxpayer money given annually to tax-dodging corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies.
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  145. I just think we're lucky those generous Tories have been putting so much money into the NHS and services while growing our economy. I mean imagine the problems we'd be having if they'd been forcing through punishing cuts to the NHS and Public Services to feed corporate greed while destroying our economy for the past 12 years...
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  146. Is it because she's being investigated and left last week for multiple breaches of security and is supposed to be in charge of National security by any chance?
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  147. Matt says that he wants to show politicians are human. In that case, he should have stayed at home and fought for the welfare of his constituents and the British people. His mistakes cost lives, a spot on a TV show isn't going to wipe that from the history books...
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  148. They should also be charged with non-payment of corporate taxation, misuse of people's data, and invasion of privacy to name but a few of their many flaws...
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  149. For the profit they cherish, we perish...
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  150. Personally, I always try to always remain optimistic as I watch the Tories slowly 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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  151. So apart from the breaches of national security, the inciteful language and failures from her predecessor (herself) and the vilification of migrants, what use is she?
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  152. I hope they lose the custom of us Brits, considering they hardly pay any tax in Britain anyway, we won't miss their contribution...
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  153. Went to bed crying? That would imply they are mammalian and have feelings like regular people...
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  154. You can't expect Tory MPs to follow the rules, and suffer the indignities and everyday annoyances like the rest of us! Tory MPs are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them!
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  155. Don't worry about the criminals running the country. Go back to binge-watching your favourite show on Netflix. See if you can find an old show about Britain, you know when it had a backbone...
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  156. If their loss to supply chains could have such a devastating effect on the economy, maybe they should be given respect and enough money to live on for their services? We all rely on countless low-paid workers for the goods and services we need. Support the workers not greedy corporations!
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  157. "Fair and based on merit" or as we like to say bribes and cronyism.
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  158. All the time and heartache her parents spent bringing her up and nursing her throughout her childhood and illness. All the time she spent in schooling and learning to acquire a degree to be a productive member of society. All the people whose lives she touched. All lost because of one man. Now her family and friends must grieve her loss because of that man's actions. Such a sad waste of human life.
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  159. Surely a pandemic should make us reassess having a system that promotes profit over health, nutrition, education, biodiversity and global ecology. I'm no expect but shouldn't the heart of any system be human advancement, individual growth, resource optimisation, sustained living.
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  160. Militant protests? Does she mean poverty-waged individuals trying to claim decent compensation for their labour? Does she know the cost of living crisis is her and her party's fault? does she know most Brits are struggling to survive? Gotta love the Tories, they keep trying to lower the bar on PMs and considering the last one, you'd have to be a world limbo champion to sink any lower...
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  161. Humans beings: turning a paradise planet into hell on earth since around 35,000 years ago...
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  162. Focused on stopping the boats to presumably save our economy, while they have crashed the economy and sent the UK into a downward spiral of cost of living, NHS, transport and shortage problems...
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  163. The main thing I like about Jacob is that he's so down to earth, the type of man who does his own DIY. A man's man who understands the struggles of the poor. I'd say more but I suffer from later-stage terminal sarcasm...
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  164. I for one am quite happy to go without food and heating to provide shareholders bumper profits and if the government want to make rules for us that do not apply to them, that's also fine with me. I know my place and I'd happily give my life to ensure multi-millionaires aren't deprived of luxury yachts and fast cars...
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  165. How come rich people only get Covid when trying to gain public support after a scandal?
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  166. Selflessly 'keep going' as he drags the country on its knees, down even further...
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  167. I just think we're pretty lucky those generous alturistic Tories have been putting so much money into the NHS and public services while growing our economy. I mean imagine the problems we'd be having if they'd been forcing through punishing cuts to the NHS and Public Services to feed corporate greed while destroying our economy for the past 12 years...
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  168. By our hands and minds they profit, by our suffering and discomfort they profit. Time for working people to create their own solutions to avoid being trapped in this poverty nightmare. National strikes, removing corruption from democracy, and removing lobbyists from the equation would be a start. March on no 10 and demanding better representation is also an option. Unity over polarization.
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  169. Give nurses a pay rise, and give Tories the boot. Rishi is just a placeholder, bland enough to survive a few weeks. I was surprised to see a nurse at the checkout the other day being refused service when trying to pay for her groceries with claps...
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  170. I'm just glad Boris laid out exactly what he wanted from the report before Sue Gray started. Could have been embarrassing If Boris hadn't and totally not a conflict of interest...
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  171. But hey! don't blame guns, he could have killed them all with a trifle and a dessert spoon...
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  172. “...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes” ― Thomas Paine
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  173. I won't hear a bad word about these wonderful people. I for one, just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the Brtish people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers...
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  174. Speaking as a Brit, we have more corruption and poverty these days than most African states. We're getting that desperate we're thinking of begging Ethiopia to hold a rock concert for us...
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  175. It's not like the BBC has a history of this sort of thing... (Yes, that is sarcastic and sardonic)
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  176. Strikes are simply a side-effect of the real problems. What percentage of the NHS budget now goes to managers, admin and shareholders? That is the real problem.
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  177. Sunak doesn't know the meaning of integrity, but then he doesn't know the meaning of most words. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The Dad hung from the chimney the result of despair, Because the Tories had made his life impossible to bear. The children were malnourished, asleep in their beds; While dreams of free school dinners danced in their heads...
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  178. Most exciting thing to happen in Snooker since Steve Davies once smiled back in the 80s...
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  179. I'm just glad we have such honest, competent, caring and selfless politicians managing the decline of our economy and country... Although I think they'd be easier to understand if they expressed themselves using the medium of interpretative dance...
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  180. Love the way the reporters have a smirk on their face, most people at home will join them. The ghost of his mate Jeffrey will surely be there to welcome him...
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  181. A musical genius and a bard of Shakespearian levels. A Welsh lad made good and did it for the most part on his own while struggling with illness. Good luck to Ren in the future I'm glad to see he's getting the recognition he deserves!
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  182. A little poem for Joe viewers: Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am Inequality, I do not sleep. I am ten million workers on wages low, Trudging to work through freezing snow. I am the sun that burns as you harvest grain, The autumn rain that soaks your pain. When you wake in morning and to work you rush, I am the depressed commuter against whom you brush. The dead-eyed citizens you circle in fright, That cry over debt; and can't sleep at night. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I do not care for cowering sheep. (Do not stand at my grave and cry, unless you oppose me, I will never die!) A reworked version of a famous poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye...
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  183. The day the world fell into an alternative dimension where truth is optional and illusion is more important than reality.
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  184.  @stanthemafia  Britain is an international laughing stock, we have 1 in 10 on the NHS waiting lists, over 1/3rd of the workforce in poverty, many people having to choose between food and energy. A government pushing through legislation that diminishes your human rights, seriously if you aren't ashamed you aren't paying attention...
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  185. Austerity or Economic Euthanasia as I like to call it is like the rich firing cannons at a poor village because it's too close to their castle. It's almost as if there is a directly proportionate connection between poverty and wealth...
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  186. Corbyn is on the front line with striking workers, at least the ex-leader of the Labour party is someone I can respect... Certainly can't respect the second-rate Blair tribute act we're stuck with...
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  187. The thing I love about democracy is the amount of unelected Tory PMs we get these days, all of them previously shamed by scandals...
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  188. Such a wonderful, caring, intelligent, compassionate philanthropist - everything you'd expect from a Tory MP...
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  189. I remember when we used to have to watch epic disaster movies on the TV, now we get to watch them weekly in reality...
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  190. So is Liz Truss the front runner for replacing Johnson? Surely she'd be more at home in a cheese rolling contest...
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  191. Every solution to any problem the Tories produce just costs the taxpayer and is unworkable. When will people realise they have their own agenda and it isn't philanthropy...
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  192. Summary of the past two decades under the Tories - from a clown to a full circus...
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  193.  @jonoessex  They voted against their own best interests because they were too concerned with nationalism and false arguments like sovereignty. Now they are suffering the consequences, please don't comment again asking me to explain, if you can't read facts and interpret the English language then there is no incentive for me to reply. It's like trying to talk a trifle into sapience...
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  194. I've heard he hasn't been feeling well lately, I just hope it's nothing trivial...
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  195. Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes and provide little use to society?
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  196. The Tories are like a child who constantly lies while naively unaware of how ridiculous their story sounds to their parents...
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  197. What is it with Tories, exTory candidates and their supporters that they do something intentionally with full knowledge, often deceptively and then think an apology excuses their conscious decision? Even children grow out of that kind of behaviour at an early age...
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  198. Brexit was reminiscent of a snake eating its own tail, an Ouroboros of infinite multifaceted clusterfks feeding itself...
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  199. The PM and Chancellor have been fined less than they spend on a nightly bottle of wine... Remember when politicians used to resign for such indiscretions...
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  200. But £5 billion for defence is given the green light today. £37 billion for a failed test and trace was given the green light. £700 billion to bail out the banks in 2008 was given the green light... Priorities?
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  201. Inflation is over 8.7% and those with the lowest spending power have seen increases in costs of over 15%. The price of items rose by a massive 16.9% up to Dec 2022 so I'm not sure a 6% pay rise is going to cover the increases. In fact, it won't and is still a real-term wage decrease when spending power is taken into account.
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  202. Is it that time again when we blame Jeremy Corbyn for everything that's wrong with the world? Would Berger ask him to condemn Jewish resistance fighters in WW2?
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  203. She is obviously scared of it happening. Celts should all leave Toryland. Saor Alba! - Tiocfaidh ár lá! - Annibyniaeth I Gymru!
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  204. This could happen to you! Please avoid dodgy right-wing sites full of misinformation and opinionated, factless trash. If you're struggling with right-wing addiction to misinformation, talking nonsense and blaming the poor while helping to keep them down - please seek professional help!
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  205. Boris is about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Any similarity between Boris and a human is purely coincidental. He has diarrhoea of the mouth and constipation of the brain. Doesn’t know the meaning of the word decency but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words.
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  206.  @metalicminer6231  I don't care too much that she's Indian who originally came to Britain from Uganda. The fact that she's a soulless cretin is my main problem with her.
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  207. My heart bleeds for Rishi and his Wife to be fair, they must be going through it. But I'm willing to continue going without food and heating to help multi-millionairs who are struggling...
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  208. Ring a ring of roses, A government full of posers. A-tishoo, a-tishoo, We all fall down...
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  209. The man who was found in the reject bin in Jim Henson's workshop...
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  210. What's that word that begins with f to describe a governemnt that doesn't allow protesting and shuts down unflattering news reports?
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  211. Transport Secretary urges people not to panic buy petrol knowing full well it will just encourage people to panic buy petrol...
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  212. UK politicians on their knees in front of corporate lobbyists...
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  213. Yea, but it's the erosion of British culture that most people are complaining about. How are we to drink German and Belgian beer and then go for an Indian curry or Chinese meal when foreigners are spoiling these cultural norms of British society? Where will the Greek kebab and Italian restaurants find trade if we allow this migration of culture from other places? The erosion of our Middle-Eastern religion and our Arabian currency and numeracy are being hastened by an influx of migrants which is destroying our Greek democracy...
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  214. We should remeber, he is not completely useless. He at least serves as a bad example. He recently thought he'd invented a new word: Plagiarism! I rarely agree with him as then we'd both be wrong. I wish he'd visit the restaurant called Karma, there's no menu, you just get what you deserve.
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  215.  @andywest6062  lol the combined membership fees we paid to the EU in 47 years have been dwarfed by the administration costs of Brexit alone...
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  216. Awful week, awful person. May her suffering be short as she is kicked out of office swiftly...
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  217. Johnson faces criticism? but he's done such an outstanding job pretending to be a grownup for the past few years...
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  218. So swapping previously disgraced Tory MPs for currently disgraced Tory MPs? endless supply of inept elitist kleptocrats...
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  219. They could restore the 5,000 mental health workers and social services and GP surgeries they've closed to help these young people. Using this as an excuse to further censor the British public is grossly cynical and leaves those who self-harm no place to discuss their issues online. Fair enough to stop people from encouraging it, but that's a broad brush to paint with...
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  220. He's responsible for lots of the economic decisions of the past couple of years including the £37 billion for test and trace...
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  221. I can't wait until people finally work out that poverty and wealth are inversely proportionately inextricably linked and take back power from these semi-sentient humanity vacuums... You don't need a university degree to become an investment banker, just a basic understanding of maths, a lack of empathy, an ego the size of a house and a willingness to risk other people's money... Oh and a loan from the taxpayer when you lose all their hard-earned money!
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  222. Reminds me of the joke in 'family guy' where the border guard pulls up a colour card with different shades of skin on to determine who is allowed in... Immigration should be based on need as well as responsibility. We accept lighter shades of skin tones that we bare no responsibility for, while denying darker shades that we bear responsibility for making them refugees via our wars/looting in the middle east... Ideally I would like to see all migrants treated fairly.
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  223. It's almost as if the profit being generated from the industry the taxpayer paid for is never enough...Time to cut out the middlemen, shareholders, management on huge salaries and layers of unnecessary admin...
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  224. Rishi says his compassionate party will continue to defend the poorest and most vulnerable in society... By cutting PIP payments? Reducing the NHS budget? Crashing the economy? The usual lies from the Tories. They will protect the most vulnerable with as much compassion as they protected the vulnerable in care homes during the pandemic...
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  225. Tories risking the Good Friday Agreement again at the same time as annoying our closest neighbours in the EU, they're a liability for Britain and Ireland...
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  226. Not sure who said it but still makes laugh: Farage the Alan Partridge of fascism.
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  227. I think it's important this Christmas to remember all those who suffer. It can't be easy being a Tory MP, having to give taxpayer money to their mates knowing that they are causing such immense suffering in society to the hungry children, the vulnerable and disabled, the freezing pensioners and the poverty-stricken workers. To have to live with that guilt and shame while forcing themselves to drink huge quantities of champagne every night just to get to sleep. So please spare a thought for Tory MPs and their supporters this Christmas. The choice of which thought is yours!
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  228. I'll try again as last time the video was removed: "Every day I wake up in a parallel universe far stranger and darker than the one that existed the night before."
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  229. He's about as popular as a floater in a swimming pool and just as charming...
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  230. What's that word that begins with f to describe a government that doesn't allow protesting and shuts down unflattering news reports?
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  231. All the trouble of installing a puppet government for imperialist westerners to manipulate, and then corruption...who'd have thunk it?
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  232. I'm just so overjoyed that I'm a subject and not a citizen. So ecstatic that the generosity of the royal family with all the extravagance of meals, drinks, security, hotels and cleaning services are paid for by the taxes of the poor and those using food banks to survive... After all, these people are special and deserve every luxury our poverty provides them...
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  233. Please be kind enough to read and share this appeal: Are you aware that many Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That many Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? That their closest confidant and friend is their butler? If you can spare just 10 minutes a week please reach out to a Tory MP, send them a message or a letter and tell them that they are loved and that there is a better way. Encourage them to integrate with people, you know real people. If you would like to adopt a Tory MP you should be hypocrite tolerant and have a very high boredom threshold. They require the most exquisite diet, because of their fragile constitution and need lots of care and light exercise once a year. A reasonable-sized mansion is suggested for housing your Tory MP and a large amount of public money should be set aside for future upgrades such as duck ponds, and moats; you know the usual. It's important to remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they can be found dipping into the public cookie jar at all times of the year. Adopt a Tory MP today, and show them the way to a better life...
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  234. My bucket list: get out of debt, be able to afford a nice cup of cocoa to sip while reading a good book, to live until I no longer enjoy being alive.
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  235. Boris is not completely useless, he at least serves as a bad example. He should visit the restaurant called Karma, there's no menu, you just get what you deserve...
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  236. "As a Tory party member I will donate everything I have to charity as we caused this mess with austerity, Brexit, economic incompetence and 12 years of cuts to the welfare state, NHS, Disabled and Vulnerable support, Community programs/grants etc and so I feel responsible." Is something a Tory would never say!
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  237. They've ignored international law, and now they're going to ignore their own laws... There's a historical example of this kind of behaviour and an ideological label.
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  238. A brave man and a true hero! I wouldn't want to go up against security in a place like that...
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  239. Is Teddy Bears a euphemism for children in chains...
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  240. Not a problem, us plebs are happy to go without food and heating so some millionaires can continue living in the luxury to which they're accustomed...
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  241. I'm old enough to remember when we were only allowed one volcanic eruption per year globally...
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  242. More cops and cop cars than wheels on the guy's truck, he even phoned the police to tell them an officer was trying to get him. Absolutely no need to use the dog, even other officers told him not to release the dog and repeatedly told him to remove the dog. Absolutely shamefully any human being would do such a cowardly and brutal act, let alone a cop. Send the cop to prison and stop using animals...
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  243. Primitive Misanthropes Quarrel. As for Johnson, he's barely sentient ham...
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  244. Now do a long-term study on the effects of fast food on the cardiovascular system, or carcinogenic additives in food...
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  245. He's not the Prime Minister, he's a very naughty boy!
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  246. Politicians don't come across as human enough? I don't know, maybe it's the corruption, cronyism and ineptitude that cost lives that makes us think you aren't human or lack a heart...
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  247. Because privatisation just adds an extra layer of admin and profit requirements. Privatisation costs the taxpayer in subsidies, bailouts and corporate welfare as well as tax breaks. Nationalisation is a country being self-sufficient.
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  248. A tragic mistake that's happened to over 70,000 non-combatant civilians... I doubt your sincerity...
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  249. Richard Sharp was a Tory candidate for 4 years and was protecting the Tories from criticism of their abhorrent policies. Tories threw him under the bus just as they do with the British taxpayer...
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  250. I love Trump because he's so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never been bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is like that of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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  251. The Tories were warned they'd risk the GFA, this is on the Tories for poking the bear...
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  252. The land of the fleeced and the home of the deranged...
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  253. That's just mean poor Trumpy. I love Trump because he's so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never filed for corporations he owns to go bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. You wouldn't have to ask Trump 5 times to serve his country in war, he'd jump at the opportunity. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is reminiscent of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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  254. Or we could just carry on dying from economic euthanasia while allowing the rich to limit our lives and ruin the planet...
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  255. Our taxes should go to nurses' salaries and to improve the state of the NHS, the Tories are giving more of our taxes to for-profit companies via NHS outsourcing, which means your taxes are going to shareholders! Support the nurses, support the NHS!
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  256. Now, this was a story all about how Will's life got flipped turned upside down. Chris made a cheap joke about Jada's hair then took a fresh slap from the prince of Bel Air...
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  257. Primitive Miscreants Quarrel is always fun to watch. While the Tories ignore SAGE advice and may be using economic euthanasia, on the plus side they save money on welfare and so can spend more on corporate subsidies. The upshot of which is that the rich can buy a new yacht while the working poor can use food banks...
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  258. The squeeze on the poor continues. Economic euthanasia for the masses...
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  259. RIP 10,000+ children...
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  260. At least the bid poop was made in America. Glad to see such high levels of journalism, this of course is one of the most important stories in the world right now...
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  261. Voter suppression. Anyone who pays taxes in the UK is entitled to vote and already has a government ID in multiple forms National Insurance Number, Driving License, HMRC account, County Council accounts, GovUK account etc...
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  262. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The Dad hung from the chimney; the result of despair, Because the Tories had made his life impossible to bear. The children were malnourished, asleep in their beds; While dreams of free school dinners danced in their heads...
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  263. Bless him, we all wanted to be Eddie Kidd, what a legend. Thank you Eddie for being a big part of my childhood. Not sure why but I'm filling up here...
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  264. I wouldn't base all your hopes on Uxbridge, they voted in a clown previously...
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  265. The US has had over 200 mass shootings this year alone. We have a population of 68 million in Britain and mass shootings are rare, the first and last school shooting we had was in 1996 in Dunblane. 16 children and one teacher were dead with at least 17 others injured. It was a major issue and an investigation was started by parliament. In December 1997 the House of Commons voted by a wide margin for Labour Party legislation to effectively ban all handguns, over 160,000 were handed in. Lots of people still own guns in Britain but mainly for sport and hunting and they abide by strict rules on licensing, storage and usage. America's problem is how highly the second amendment is regarded and the gun lobby, but hopefully they go down the same route as us.
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  266. Deplorable incident. I just wonder if the loss of 22,500 police offices, 5,000 mental health workers and 22,000 support workers contributed to the UK turning into the US...
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  267. Sorry, my incompetence, childlike entitlement and immense lack of professionalism cost so many paupers their lives. But I'm posh and protected by the media...
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  268. Tories are an organic, gestalt entity of malign intention that shapeshift and reorganise into an evermore malevolent and malicious body from Mary Shelley's most disturbing nightmares...
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  269. To be fair, analysing the words and thoughts of Nadine Dorries is like trying to teach a whale to fly. There is no logic, reason, intellect, sanity, consistency, or humanity in anything that woman says!
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  270. Imagine how much she spends on illusions to hide her horns, pointed teeth, bat wings and spiked tail...
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  271. Hold conference? abuse claims? He'd have been tried and locked up by now If he wasn't a member of the shallow end of the British gene pool and from an anaemic, archaic bloodline...
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  272. Everything about the Israeli PM and the polices of the past few decades are completely unacceptable. What does the international community do? Lie, dismiss, ignore, make resolutions to be ignored and fund Israel while providing military assistance.
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  273. The talented, hard-working, beautiful pride of Britain playing tennis with the wife of some bloke called William...
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  274. I can't imagine being one of those anxious parents who were restrained by police who wouldn't engage the shooter themselves...
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  275. I try to be optimistic as I watch the Tories slowly devouring the fatted carcass of everything that's British in a relentless assault on sanity and logic...
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  276. Last I heard 28% of Tory MPs were landlords, the tighter they squeeze the housing market by not building any new social housing, the more profits they make from soaring rent and house prices.
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  277. I'm sure he'll be comfortable in his bunker while the Earth regenerates, the rest of us is a different matter. The global market for “incident and emergency management” (bunkers, supplies, closed systems for air and water) is expected to jump in value from $132.4 billion in 2021 to $423 billion by 2025...
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  278. While It's very interesting and worthy of future study, providing solace and reducing anxiety for individuals. Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety, like war, disease, poverty etc. Meditation and breathing techniques can help individuals improve their lives and perceptions but we are leaning towards a global corporatocracy that sees people as cash cows and wastes the planet's resources in the pursuit of wealth and power. I'm not sure making people happy artificially is a boon to the individual or a tool that could be used to manipulate us.
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  279. Funny, Tories usually wait until the cameras are switched off to laugh at the public. 13 years of Tories laughing while they lighten our wallets all because of the media and the gullibility of a large section of the workforce...
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  280.  @jonoessex  I'm Welsh although I'd love to know what mental gymnastics you can accomplish to provide a logical rebuttal of my points.
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  281. It's the erosion of British culture that most people are complaining about. How are we to drink German and Belgian beer and then go for an Indian curry or Chinese meal when foreigners are spoiling these cultural norms of British society? Where will the Greek kebab and Italian restaurants find trade if we allow this migration of culture from other places? The erosion of our Middle-Eastern religion and our Arabian currency and numeracy are being hastened by an influx of migrants which is destroying our Greek democracy...
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  282. No, it's ok. You can't have rich people forced to suffer the burden of paying for the infrastructure they exploit for profit, leave that to the rest of us! Rich people are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them!
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  283. Bless him, $124 billion won't last long if he doesn't invest. If he spent $1,000,000 every single day for 339 years he'd be skint...
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  284. Considering the state of Britain at the moment with its multiple crises in the NHS, economy and cost of living. Choosing between Truss and Sunak is akin to having to choose between Fred or Rosemary West to babysit your kids...
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  285. Despite the mess of the economy which has cost British people their pensions and inflamed an existing cost of living crisis. She'll get her £115k a year for life while her victims will struggle to survive the winter...
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  286. If they whole truth was known Israel would be facing the same restrictions Germany faced in and after 1945...
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  287. How about a long-term study on the effects of outsourcing, privatisation and cuts to the NHS?
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  288. Tax multinational companies... That would be nice considering we pay for the infrastructure they exploit for their profits.
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  289. So apart from the pandemic, healthcare, schooling, the economy, energy crisis, and cost of living crisis they can also make a clusterfk of national security? wow just wow... Are they reading a book named 'All the things not to do in government and how to sink your own economy'?
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  290. The day we shifted into a parallel dimension and the truth became optional...
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  291. I like Conservatism in exactly the same way I like choking on a roast potato and having to spend 3 hours in A&E having a tracheotomy...
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  292. The same prognosis as under Johnson. We are fooked!
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  293. This is probably about as informative as an Afghan news report about how popular the Tories are in Britain...
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  294. He was told information that no rules were broken, despite the fact that the PM was at the parties and made the rules and hence should be fully aware that he and his cohorts were indeed breaking the rules from the evidence of his own eyes and ears. Nice try Moggy...
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  295. Woke elite? that's an oxymoron if ever I heard one...
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  296. 'Special advisor' to Boris... She must have been real 'special' to deserve that kind of honour...
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  297. Rishi is the reverse Robin Hood and will wield austerity like it's a feckin' superpower...
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  298. I've had my vaccinations, but this is a very slippery slope...
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  299. Poland should probably consider moving to a better neighbourhood, they always seem to get drawn into global conflicts...
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  300. Thank you Gary. Merry Christmas to everyone, May your wildest dreams come true. May the presents you receive, Be gifts of happiness for you. Happy Xmas to one and all, May your loved ones feel the wonder. May your thoughts be pure and true, And your troubles, torn asunder. May your charity heal the vulnerable, May your kindness salve the bruised. May this season be all you wished for, Hope and joy to your family and you!
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  301. Tories are masters of creating problems that cost lots of resources to resolve via some convoluted and cruel solution while ignoring more obvious and cheaper solutions.
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  302. I hate it when that happens. I often get a note through the door of my flat to tell me my £38 million superyacht has been detained. So annoying and so relatable to many of us living on council estates...
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  303. To be fair the way the Tories have ignored experts and blundered their way through this crisis, I'd let Frank Spencer have a go at this point...
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  304. There's around 14,000 homeless vets with PTSD in Britain, ask your mum if she got a spare room?
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  305. The main thing I like about democracy is that it ensures we always get the most qualified leaders who are the best of British... With these three caring, philanthropic humanitarians it's really hard to decide which one to pick, I'm sure they'll all continue to elevate Britain on the world stage and protect the poor from the cost of living crisis. In exactly the same way they protected care home residents during the pandemic...
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  306. Diet Tories: A moment in office, a lifetime on your wallet...
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  307. She was having nun of it... Sorry...
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  308. Boris Johnson: the marquis of mayhem, the duke of duplicity, the viscount of vacuousness, the baron of buffoonery, the earl of egomania, the prince of pork pies, the count of clusterflocks, the oligarch of omnishambles, the king of the kleptocratic crockwombles.
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  309. I'm just glad the Tories are doing their best to help the average Brit and definitely not feeding our taxes to their mates' offshore accounts via corruption...
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  310. I'm sure there's quite a few people that wish it had a quarantine procedure 2 months ago, unfortunately they can't be with us today.
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  311. The phrase "Patel Commited" at the start of the sentence really got my hopes up!
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  312. Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dancing around a cloaked figure. A scream piercing the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. Jack the Kipper!
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  313. Manual labour not only affects the body but also the mind. 12-hour nightshifts for example have a negative effect on mind and body. Sleep cycles, nerves, wear and tear on joints, years of constant stress, tiredness and deterioration. We should all retire before 60 and yes physical labour should be rewarded by earlier retirement. We work to live - living to work negates the simple joys of life.
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  314. The fossil fuel industry should compensate them for climate damage by arranging for a desalination plant and importing food...
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  315. "The prisoner who now stands before you Was caught red-handed showing feelings Showing feelings of an almost human nature This will not do" The Trial - Pink Floyd
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  316. You have a job that pays 80k a year and then earn 1 million on the side after saying the position is not about enriching yourself... Hoisted on your own petard...
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  317. I've often said, with all the problems of modern life what this world really needs is more squirrel cinemas...
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  318. Corporate-funded Labour are not left of me, and clowns to the right, here I am stuck in Tory Britain with you!
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  319.  @gerryg1056  Thank you, kind Sir. Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles.
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  320. Pink Floyd are deeper than the Mariana trench, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen and more zen than 1,000 Buddhist monasteries...
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  321. And another thing! Just because someone was born with a trust fund and their family has lived on inherited wealth for generations or because they invest that money in highly lucrative immoral, heartless and often criminal forms of profiteering it doesn't mean they're a bad person. Just because the government and big business conspire to rob hard-working taxpayers using tools like subsidies, tax relief, tax breaks, low wages and corporate welfare that doesn't mean the average person should complain about silly little things like not being able to heat their home, supply energy to the devices they rely on to function or indeed feed their family. If you don't have enough money to live you should consider not living. It's long past time to stop blaming the criminal elites for their effect on our lives and take personal responsibility for the world we had no choice in moulding, even though we are given the illusion of choice...
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  322. So Risha says that the Tories are the compassionate party that protects the vulnerable? Tell that to pensioners facing hypothermia this winter, to the working poor who are paying for Tory economic mismanagement. They will continue to show the same compassion they showed to the vulnerable in care homes during the pandemic... none!
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  323. What about Russian ties to the Tories? A home secretary who is a national security risk. A recent female PM who was hacked by Russian agents. An ex-PM who befriends ExKGB and parties with the son of a Russian Oligarch who was close to Putin's inner circle and owns a good portion of British media. Multiple Tory MPs have vested interests via the conservative "Friends of Russia" and holiday abroad as guests of known Russian assets...
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  324. The generosity of the British public is a thing of wonder, especially when you consider how they're bled dry by a corrupt government...
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  325. It's really very simple. If you want to pay £8,000 to have a baby or remortgage your house to cover the cost of a life-threatening illness then let your apathy allow the Tories to continue to outsource the NHS to the highest bidder while profiting from our NHS budget while your taxes go to shareholders. If you want your taxes to go to actual treatment and paying NHS salaries at a competitive rate to reduce the massive shortfall in staff and continue to improve the quality of service then support the nurses! How much do you enjoy living?
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  326.  @markjohn4802  ..and to think you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  327. And a wealthy corrupt kleptocrat is a wealthy corrupt kleptocrat...
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  328. Tories going for the worst individual in Britain to be PM again, after Johnson I didn't think they could sink any lower.
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  329. Branson doing his bit for Britain again, just like when he shafted the NHS!
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  330. It must be a terrible life having to beg for acceptance among the Tory elite and still be seen as an outsider. Poor Suella, I'm sure her nights are filled with drowning her many regrets with wine just to get to sleep...
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  331. A man with Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself but he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy. I mean seriously, he'd struggle to pour water out of a boot with the directions on the bottom. As he's an outsider, I'd like his perspective on humanity. Some like to inspire happiness wherever they go, Boris inspires happiness whenever he goes!
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  332. Good job! time to fight back against the growing corporatocracy. A fair day's work for a fair day's pay! Wales is with you!
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  333. Offtopic: Yesterday I called a Tory MP inhumane and was told by one commenter that I was using the "language of evil". While another commenter alluded to a certain camp doctor (Josef) from the 40s and said that word should be reserved for people like that. Inhumane means cruel, causing suffering and without compassion. Those words describe many Tory policies and attitudes. These two commenters made it clear that my use of the word inhumane was unacceptable in their eyes. I don't believe in censorship, it reduces our capacity to oppose and drives the far right into echo chambers where they proliferate unchallenged. In my 50 years of life, I've seen things go from bad to worse while in more recent history the rise of the far right has become a severe problem globally. When we don't show our abhorrence to economic euthanasia or excess deaths directly linked to cuts. We normalise/enable this behaviour with our lack of opposition. It's pointless to politely explain to the Tories what they are doing is wrong. It's about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. They already know, they are corrupt, they manipulate the system and the media to protect themselves. They are profiteering while shortening the lives of our families and loved ones. They use censorship to prevent our abhorrence of their policies being shared. This has led to the rise of the right and the neutering of the left at a time when the Overton window is being forced further to the right. We have a proud history in this country of heroes who gave their lives for the rights the Tories are now taking away with legislation. They didn't make the ultimate sacrifice so their progeny could apathetically enable the Tory agenda while binge-watching Netflix and finding things to be offended by on social media. Be offended by actions that cost lives and immense suffering, not the justified abhorrence and anger of decent people. Please don't force the silence of the censor your allies to protect the Tories from words which accurately describe their policies and attitudes. That enables the further erosion of our humanity to protect the ideals of polite discourse. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, unless there is no opposing force. Thank you for taking the time to read this fully.
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  334. Tories handed our cash to the top 1% again including rich pensioners (who predominantly vote Tory). They made cynical concessions to the poor with childcare and extending the price cap. 30hrs of childcare won't help people get a job, it's short term in the long term the same problems of costs and availability still exist. Especially since there aren't enough workers in childcare to cope with the increase. £2500 price cap doesn't affect the poorest, we can't afford to spend that much on energy. small businesses will suffer greater costs while multinationals will continue to thrive. For the poor, this budget is about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  335. The Tory cabinet is like one of those old MFI cabinets, far too expensive, plenty of screws missing, hard to assemble, weak and wobbly and falls apart after limited use...
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  336. I'm just so glad he can find peace of mind and sleep at night despite causing so much loss of life through incompetence during his time as Health Secretary...
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  337. If you cheat the nation and get caught you'd be lucky not to be prosecuted, entitled rich people moaning because their criminality is being talked about... Jebus - what a world...
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  338. Yea, people tend to skip buying luxuries when they can't afford basics like food and energy. Who'd have thought?
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  339. Profiting from the suffering and loss of life... This has changed the game, we can't rely on corporations, that should be obvious to anyone now...
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  340. I found the spine of a thesaurus yesterday, my apologies for my contumacious, execrable, garrulous comment...
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  341. The gravy train has ended for the Tory's mates and contractor shareholders, but Northern taxpayers won't be happy...
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  342. Toxic everything with Tories from personality to policy. Kick them out and then investigate every decision, policy and action they've taken over the past 13 years!
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  343. Influence, money, and power all equate to one thing - Control. The more control they have, the less we have...
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  344. Dying of hypothermia is indeed generally classed as a very difficult winter...
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  345. I also used to love watching disaster movies from the 70s, now I get to see them in real life every day in this pantomime we call life...
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  346. Members of that archaic, anaemic bloodline spawned from the shallow and murky end of the British gene pool and their privileges...
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  347. Most Tories can't function without them, their hypocrisy is unmatched.
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  348. There aren't enough staff for the cynical and unhelpful 30 hrs of childcare and the pensions changes will only help the wealthy, as will the extension of the price cap. Even during a cost-of-living crisis the Tories increase the poverty gap and feather their own nest. No humanity in them...
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  349. War, what is it good for? ask Edwin Starr. Although if you're a banker, mercenary contractor, specialist, fossil fuel company, corrupt politician, a weapons manufacturer, lithium miner or uranium extractor it can be quite lucrative. Useful if you want to protect petrodollar hegemony or add a new country to a system of debt...
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  350. Government: Pay us taxes and we'll build national infrastructure such as roads, hospitals, schools, police stations, parks and industry. Citizens: Ok that sounds fair. Government: We have to raise taxes to provide the same infrastructure we used to provide you as corporations aren't paying their share. Citizens: Erm... The services are being run into the ground and now those tax-dodging corporations own all the infrastructure we paid for. Government: Yea, erm sorry about that, we would give you a share of the sales but we need it to offset subsidies we give to corporations. Citizens: Ever heard of a guillotine?
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  351.  @davidmcculloch8490  I remeber being called a cultist many times. To which my usual reply was: I'm off to pray to a 10ft effigy of Corbyn. "Our ideology that art for everyone. Socialism be thy name. Our time will come as capitalism is undone on earth as it is inevitable. Give unto those your daily charity and forgive us our profits. As we forgive neoliberals who use profit against us. And lead us not into greed, but deliver us from monopolies. For thine is dialectical materialism, class struggle against the Tories. For ever and ever, ahem..."
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  352. It's really quite simple, it's called responsibility. Those responsible for launching the Satalite should clean up their mess... It's like asking How do we solve the problem of litter?...
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  353.  @MikkelMane  Yes all his and his Party's fault. Do you have problems reading basic English?
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  354. Everyone? No. Just those who can afford too. We've bailed out the banks and corp[orations too often. Time for payback!
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  355. Financial advice from Liz Truss is like taking swimming lessons from a butterfly...
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  356. It's national awareness day today, I had no idea... Don't live off inherited wealth and insulate yourself from working people kids and certainly never hang around with aristocrats and upper-class twits... This is the result and it's frightening... The one thing I like about Rishi is that he's erm... sorry I tried.
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  357. To be fair standing and talking are acquired skills that one doesn't master until late in childhood...
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  358. Selfish strikers... What they forget is that wealthy people are special, and deserve all the luxury our poverty can provide them!
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  359. You can't expect Tory MPs to follow the rules, and suffer the indignities and everyday annoyances like the rest of us! Tory MPs are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them!
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  360. Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dance around a cloaked figure. A scream piercing the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. The sound of a cane cracks against the cobbled pavement as a red pool reflects a blood moon with the silhouette of a nefarious character in a cloak and a top hat. Jack the Kipper...
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  361. Good for them. Corporate greed expands at the taxpayers' expense while the poverty gap grows. We are being cheated out of the basics of life.
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  362.  @AnaInTh3Sky  Agreed 100%, Thacher and Reagan and their Neoliberalism is the reason most countries can't afford the infrastructure and have debt to GDP ratio of almost if not over 100%. Before the 80s all our infrastructure was nationalised and profits went back into upgrades and cheaper prices. Now those profits find their way out of the UK to Bermuda and the accounts of shareholders.
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  363. I'd like to take a degree in financial market manipulation, the contrivance of a population through psychology, social engineering, how to make the most of political power and how to avoid the fallout from mistakes and failures by blaming underlings. Then I could become a Tory MP...
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  364. We all judge everybody about everything, the trick is hiding that fact to maintain civilisation...
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  365. Glad the government is doing something useful, stopping people from paying large amounts of tax for toxic products is just what we need during the cost of living crisis... Seriously why? who cares? leave people to make their own choices and stop looking for ways to increase tax on the poor, it's not like the rich will have a problem buying cigarettes and booze...
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  366. A Tory behaving irresponsibly is no more surprising than the wind blowing or the sun shining. You know it was that cold in London last week I actually saw a Tory MP with his hands in his own pockets...
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  367. I'm still amazed how well he hides the horns, wings and cloven hooves....
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  368. The Tory cabinet is hard to assemble, has too many screws missing, is weak and wobbly, far too expensive, and falls apart after limited use... Time to kick 'em out!
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  369. I think Matt Hancock should do all the trials and the insects should be replaced with big cats just to make it more interesting...
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  370.  @2DRonaldo  That's because she doesn't know the meaning of the word poor, but to be fair to Liz she doesn't know the meaning of most words.
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  371. If the Tories thought they could get away with it they'd treat us all like this. When we allow them to dehumanize innocents, we allow them to set the boundaries for our own future treatment.
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  372.  @HandleTier  Are you from an alternate universe? absurd comments R us? a representative from the pointless statements society? a member of online-brainfarts-anonymous?
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  373. I love the way the government keep tossing the poor a liferaft made of lead from the prow of their golden cruise ship...
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  374. Government protecting their corporate masters while allowing hard-working Brits to suffer poverty and degradation... Nothing changes.
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  375. Agreed, although despite the inherent flaws in capitalism, the system isn't broken, it works perfectly for billionaires and kleptocratic parasites.
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  376. Have ginger people suffered the same type of prejudice that black people have suffered? She mentioned the Irish and the traveller community too. This wasn't an attack on the Jewish community, simply a statement of nuance in the different types of prejudice and the generational effects of such. Was it wise for her to say this now? maybe not but many people suffer prejudice and racism in many different ways over different time periods.
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  377. Healthcare is a human right not an opportunity for the wealthy to profit. We pay a multitude of taxes for services and infrastructure as part of a civilized society. This should include health, education, services and basic human rights or the contract between a government and its people is null and void. In the UK our NHS is slowly being drowned by for-profit organisations taking a larger piece of the budget. Most Europeans are horrified by the amount of profiteering in the American system...
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  378. Good job America, keep manifesting that destiny and protecting the second amendment by sacrificing children and the innocent on the alter of brutal ignorance and apathy. It's a lot easier than changing legislation to improve gun controls - like a sensible, mature country...
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  379. 37,000 care home victims on the wall, 37,000 victims, if one of those care home victims should fall, there'd still be 37,000 victims on the wall...
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  380. Defund, run-down, then when the service is on its knees make a case for private finance as they've done with every other taxpayer-owned service...
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  381. Dragged us through the sewer while recreating slums and victorian disease...
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  382. He said "Cult of Death" lol, that's my nickname for the Tory party...
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  383. Yea, how dare people strike when they can't afford to pay the energy bills. Don't they realise how corporations will suffer from the reduced consumerism...
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  384. I fail to see how the two are linked, oh wait, narrative, yes that's it...
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  385.  @travelwell6049  Don't worry the tories will put a ringfence around them and protect them just as lovingly as they did with care home residents when the pandemic hit!
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  386. Tories out! Time to free ourselves from the shackles of aristocratic incompetence and cronyism...
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  387. lol, love it. To be fair of all the things Boris has lost, I think he'll miss his mind the most. People say nothing is impossible, Boris does nothing every day. He has enemies, he's also intensely disliked by his friends. Two possibilities: either Boris is an idiot or he is not; both are equally terrifying...
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  388. Ah, bless him. Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dancing around a cloaked figure. A scream piercing the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. Jack the Kipper!
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  389.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  Hey Huw, you get bread? I get a handful of gravel and think myself lucky ;)
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  390. I'm a mixed breed of many European and global cultures as are the majority of Brits according to DNA results. 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 straight 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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  391. Because privatisation has been such a success... They call it privatisation but it's just feeding the private sector cash and the public always end up footing the bill... Rail, Water, Energy you name it we end up paying for private-sector profits and the service always suffers.
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  392. A human being carrying their own luggage, surely a monument to investigative journalism...
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  393. Agreed, we will consume ourselves to extinction. Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes and provide little use to society?
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  394. lol at the people blaming electric cables and lasers. Hope they reach sentience someday...
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  395. Misfired a gun with blanks and killed a woman and seriously injured the cinematographer? Are we supposed to believe that nonsense?
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  396. She should have stopped after the first 3 words "I don't think" as that would have been the only honest thing she's ever said.
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  397. What we really need is for pop stars to re-release old material for charity and for politicians to give us some more empty promises while we all stand around in a circle 2 meters apart clapping and singing we'll meet again.
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  398. Someone should ringfence him into a care home for the winter and film it, now that would be entertainment!
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  399. Labour wants to borrow 28 billion? that's £10 billion less than the Tories wasted on the failed track and trace...
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  400. May? undoubtedly have intentionally and with willful contempt. The growing mountain of failings by this government is their only achievement...
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  401. Ring-a-ring a roses, A government full of posers, A tishoo! a tishoo! We all fall down...
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  402. The poor are trapped in a room with no oxygen while the Tories pump in the laughing gas from the golden, diamond-encrusted saferoom next door...
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  403. Seriously, I'm all for multiculturalism but having a scarecrow run the government?
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  404. He ran the NHS with all the care and grace of Josef Mengele...
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  405. But are Kulture!!! 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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  406. I hope it's nothing trivial...
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  407. I can barely make a statement on social media without getting deleted as it is. We live in a society where cash cows aren't supposed to have a say and corporatocracy is fast approaching...
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  408. Most tech these days has built-in obsolescence so that the devices fail within a certain time frame. It's all about profit at the cost of common sense and the environment.
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  409. I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected...
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  410. I'm just so looking forward to spending my remaining years watching the human race being transformed into docile cash cows, disenfranchised by digital currency, creating an underclass alienated from society. Where a lack of credit has serious consequences on your life expectancy and corporate billionaires become fickle deities that demand subservience...
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  411. I'm not a fan of Keir, but even nothing or minor changes to help out would be better than the constant backwards trends in our economy, cost of living and rights that the Tories are subjecting us to...
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  412. Tories kicked out their own 6 times Mayoral candidate for London simply because he heckled Cruella... Fash is mmm...
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  413. I'm not a master poet, But for the right words, I will hunt. My apologies for the inference, But Boris is a...
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  414. I support striking workers, and I understand the cost of privatising rail networks to the public in constant bailouts, grants, subsidies, tax breaks etc. Renationalise our infrastructure - Transport, communications, energy, water, mail...
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  415. Good for her, we are heading for catastrophe and this woman has more commitment to resolving the issue than most governments...
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  416. As Arthur C Clarke once said “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” I think that just about sums it up.
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  417.  @Alex-rc5rq  I'm not sure embarrassing covers it to be fair, catastrophically humiliating doesn't even come close lol
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  418.  @samfarrow348  I also love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up and down the country. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how Britain's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. Britain has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It's like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a vast change. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to accomplish. An all-around success story for Britain. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea...
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  419. The day we crawled into an alternative universe and truth became elusive...
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  420. The Tories spending our money on their engineered crisis? just process them and reduce the backlog. Stop creating problems that cost us our public services and healthcare while taking backhanders.
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  421. Backhanders and promises to their donors are the only pledges Tories keep. While they have nothing but contempt for the public, the law and parliamentary procedure...
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  422. "I'm a fighter, not a quitter!" That didn't age well despite it being only 24 hours ago...
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  423. lol, most people already cancelled Netflix when they couldn't afford food or energy bills. We don't all have a wage that allows us to buy a house with just two years of savings from work and a 60% freebie from Mommy and Daddy...
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  424. The UK hasn't succeeded in anything in the past few decades. Mainly because we are governed by creatures from the shallow end of the British gene pool...
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  425.  @jaipennycuick7993  Immigration was lower under Labour. Check the stats. Now we have lost free movement for UK residents and have labour shortages in the NHS, crop gathering, transport etc...
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  426. Finally some positive news in the media...
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  427.  @antifugazi  Tories have been putting minorities in the front line more often these days. I do wonder if it's a ploy as I'd put nothing past those despicable kleptocrats. The funny thing is they also blame Labour and the EU for migration and yet when we were in the EU under a Labour government in 2009 immigration was 196,000. Now we are out of the EU and have a Tory government immigration is averaging around 300,000 the last few years. Theresa May had the record of 650,000 in her last year as home secretary. We need immigration for HGV drivers, Abbotoire workers and the NHS as we've seen recently. We still have a staff shortage of over 100,000 in the NHS, partly due to the hostile environment policy and partly due to the loss of nurses bursaries.
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  428.  @davidmcculloch8490  Yea, it's a pity they weren't in every tabloid at the time. AS shouldn't be tolerated, but it also shouldn't be used as a weapon as it detracts from real AS. I'm not religious so speak as an outsider.
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  429. How about the rich take this one on the chin for a change? The struggling poor have enough problems, let the wealthy pay for their own mistakes...
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  430.  @captainshakesbeard2453  Ukraine only happened this year and fuel prices have gone up excessively in the past 2 years... Care to explain the increased debt and lower living standards for the past 4 decades in which Neoliberalism has been the predominant factor in the west?
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  431. Tories, Privatisation, Putin, North Sea Gas and oil down to 20 billion barrels, Tories, Monopolistic opportunism. Privatisation and Tories...
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  432. Breaking news: Man who lies for a living and couldn't lie straight in bed - accused of lying...
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  433. I'm just glad we have such honest, reliable and responsible people running the country. I mean, imagine if they were all just out for themselves and put profits before people?
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  434. Next, we'll have experts tell us an increase in water levels leads to floods or a lack of rain leads to drought...
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  435. He couldn't win a goldfish at the fair. The only reason he's PM is because of the previous failed PMs that have been removed.
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  436.  @sebastianguerre6868  Thank you for being the token Tory apologist. Takes a brave man to go against intellect, compassion, decency and integrity to make such a heroic statement...
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  437. My sincere apologies to the Afghans who suffered as a result of the invasion and especially to those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families who were abandoned by our heartless government.
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  438. Imagine being so spoiled and privileged that you can run over a cop and then try to claim immunity from justice! A sad indictment on wealth and privilege as well as society as a whole...
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  439. Why not ban disposable politicians, disposable food, disposable workers, disposable morals, and disposable society?
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  440. To be fair we should support all striking workers, especially keyworkers. It's important at Christmas to remember all those who suffer. It can't be easy being a Tory MP, having to give taxpayer money to their mates knowing that they are causing such immense suffering in society to the hungry children, the vulnerable and disabled, the freezing pensioners and the poverty-stricken workers. To have to live with that guilt and shame while forcing themselves to drink huge quantities of champagne every night just to get to sleep. So please spare a thought for Tory MPs and their supporters this Christmas...
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  441. Thanks to the Pinochet inspired crackdown by Thatcher on the unions and the working class which allowed a plethora of anti-union, anti-worker legislation/regulations from the Tories in the following decades.
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  442. "She's Priti, Oh Priti vacunt and she don't care..."
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  443. An ex-banker as PM for a change...
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  444. We're very sorry we deliberately criminalized 700 employees to cover our own mistakes and poorly written software. But we are only interested in profit... Yet another cautionary tale regarding privatization and selling off taxpayer assets...
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  445. lol good for her. Bet that stung the orange oligarch...
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  446. He's called 30p Lee and coincidentally that's how much he sold his soul for...
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  447. What have I come to, when I have to agree with Theresa May on anything. Battle lines are being drawn, nuclear proliferation has restarted and it seems Boris is happy to take us on this dark path down an unsure road...
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  448. The Tories have governed Britain with all the compassion and decency of Fred and Rosemary West. The NHS is their patio...
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  449.  @irinairy9  Yes I'm aware of her mixed heritage, she's still the pride of Britain, while you're just a miserable xenophobe...
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  450. Bless those philanthropic, good-natured, kind-hearted Tories and their never-ending plethora of good deeds. It's not like children will suffer any detriment from malnutrition or anything, it's not like they'll be less able to pay attention and learn at school to become more valuable members of society. Assuming we have any schools that can still function with all the cuts, failing infrastructure and pressure to perform...
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  451. What authority? Johnson has about as much authority as Cartman from South Park...
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  452. Yes, but to be fair, Brexit has only cost us a few £trillion, our prestige, standards, morals and trading relations. While polarising the nation, risking the GFA, risking the Union, breaking international law and leaving a sizeable debt for our great-grandchildren. It's not that bad!
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  453.  @rubbercable  Agreed, they also get food, transport, housing, backhanders and other expenses. It's about time the British public grew a backbone.
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  454. Austerity! Economic Euthanasia, Cuts, Big cuts, More losses to services. More tax breaks and subsidies out of our pocket to corporations and the wealthy...
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  455. Now, this is a story all about how, Will's life just flipped, turned upside down. Chris made a cheap joke, about Jada's hair. Then took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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  456. I have a theory that the Tories are our punishment for an imperialist past and ironically - historically they were the ones who profited and still inherit those profits.
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  457. You should have had the decency to read the conversation. She told Lady Hussey at the start of the conversation that she didn't have records of her African ancestry. This was because her ancestors were transported to the Caribbean by the British monarchy possibly including Lady Hussey's ancestors. They didn't write a cargo manifest of the slaves they transported and so she couldn't answer the question. Then Lady Hussey kept pressing the point...
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  458. She's being challenged legally because she's breaking international human rights legislation. The Tories are trying to rewrite them via the Human rights reforms, so if you want to see more of this being applied not just to migrants but to British people feel free to support the tories. Then find a way to explain that to your children when it affects them...
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  459.  @TheBigears1  Cheers, It's funny how one working wage could support a mortgage and a family before anti-union and anti-strike legislation. Materials and labour get cheaper due to mass production and industrial methods, product prices go up yet wages decline in relation to inflation. The only positive I can think of is that Thatcher is still pushing up daisies...
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  460. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then sh!ts all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  461. 30+ years of highlighting this issue and all we have is the COP 27 talking shop to give the impression that world leaders care while they continue to pollute and profit from the possible extinction of the species. It's not like this only affects a small group of people, we are all tied to the catastrophic incompetence of politicians and corporations to ensure the future of the next generation...
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  462. The Russian navy is 664 ships, Britain's navy is 74 ships. Not sure this 'show of force' is Putin the boot in...
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  463. Haven't Ukraine suffered enough?
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  464. Johnson couldn't even manage to fling a custard pie in his own face, he'd miss. I think you're being a bit hard on clowns to be fair.
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  465. Boris reminds me of Robert De Niro, everytime I hear him speak all i can think is Raging Bull...sh1t!
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  466. RIP Shane: "Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground But you'll stick your head back out and shout "We'll have another round" At the graveside of Cúchulainn we'll kneel around and pray And God is in his Heaven and Billy's down by the bay (yah!)"
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  467. NHS staff have the right to strikes as does any worker. With no right to strike workers have absolutely no control over their pathetic wages...
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  468. All the Afghans who risked their lives and families to help allied forces during the wars for petrodollar hegemony have been left to fend for themselves, the longer the Tories take the fewer families are still around to help...
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  469. If you look closely you can see what's left of her withered soul trying desperately to escape the putrid, fetid cage it's forced to inhabit...
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  470. 100%, we could make 120,000 Immigrants millionaires for the money given from our taxes in subsidies to private sector companies, which was £120.1 billion in 2020-21.
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  471. Corporations make bumper profits and get tax breaks and subsidies. The government spend billions on failed projects, cronyism and unlawful legislation. The hard-working backbone of the UK - its people struggle to pay bills while wages sink beneath inflation and the cost of living price rises... Something very wrong with this picture!
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  472. Oh, the injustice of righteous justice - lock him up - throw away the key - never mention the orange oligarch again...
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  473. Cheers, Tim and agreed regarding politicians offering their agendas via highly suspicious platforms. However, while most people never question what they're told the onus should be on the media to provide accurate and well-analysed, impartial information. We need plurality in the media and healthy scepticism in the electorate. Occam's razor and Cartesian doubt should also be used on the big picture.
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  474. @Charlie Harper Your comment is unhelpful and Jurz is correct, you haven't had a wage increase you got a better job. Have a little humility and decency and think of all those who are struggling...
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  475. Thanks for vid Gary, excellent as always. Inherited wealth allows generations to live simply by investing. On the opposite end of the scale are people who work all their lives and pay rent and end up with nothing to pass on to their children. Which continues the cycle of poverty despite working hard.
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  476. Britain's enjoying their cold exposure, although mostly through the increase in energy prices and no choice...
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  477. Good job, pity more dogs don't work for a living instead of sitting around the house begging for treats all day. Unemployment in the dog community is over 95% it's about time we put these freeloading cuddle monkeys to work!
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  478. British workers with a spine, good to see. Pity more people don't follow their example and prove we aren't going to be walked over by the tories and their corporate handlers...
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  479.  @gabrieldarcy1744  Not to mention that the Tories did such a wonderful job with the pandemic, protecting care homes, buying cost-effective and durable PPE, spending a minuscule amount on the test and trace system, and leading by example during the lockdown... Those wonderful philanthropic humanitarians in the Tory party make me proud to be British!
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  480. Poor Charles, after his most recent fraud scandal, he now has to witness his brother being served... Anaemic bloodlines from the shallow end of the British gene pool...
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  481. Witch hunt? more like which criminal act will eventually stick and be prosecuted...
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  482. I'm glad Gove is getting another chance to prove how incompetent and inept he is.
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  483. Signing your name and date should be second nature to all benefits claimants...
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  484.  @gouchscowl8601  I'd suggest US vs China over Taiwan as Taiwan make most of the microchips used in planes, trains and automobiles, computers, weapon systems etc.
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  485. This doesn't even cover the rise in the cost of energy, let alone food, transport, bills etc. Thanks for nothing...
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  486. Sitting on the fence, another PM with a spine made of jelly...
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  487. "Red neoliberalism or blue neoliberalism. Corporate-funded parties to the left of me clowns to the right, here I am stuck in Tory Britain with you!" quotes to avoid filtering as happened on the first post...
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  488.  @fredatlas4396  I think he meant a bailout for the energy companies that aren't needed because they are already making bumper profits. But I agree with your points. You're absolutely right about the extreme poverty being forced on the taxpayers and workers.
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  489. Yep, but to be fair the wealthy are very, very special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them...
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  490. They could have had a lottery and given 4,000 taxpayers a million pounds each - making them all millionaires. Instead, they did dodgy deals with your money!
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  491. Yea those pesky Vikings, Normans, Romans, Saxons...
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  492. There are three types of Conservative MP - The Despicable, The Loathsome and The Abhorrent although many seem to manage to be all three.
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  493. That was 43 seconds longer than it needed to be...
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  494. The Tories are doing their best. It's time we gave them a break. When i die, I would just like to be remembered as the guy who gave his taxes to the government to waste on cronyism and corporate greed, without question. Who never resented the endless tax increases and loss of freedoms. Who consumed and got into debt to enrich the wealthy elite, without a hint of complaint. A man who was happy to go without food and heating so that wealthy shareholders could top up their off-shore accounts. A man who played by the rules, even while the rules were playing him. Bless the wealthy elitists and corrupt politicians alike.
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  495. Why have they soared by 889%? could it be because prices have also soared by 889% in the past few years?
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  496.  @bazza5699  Potholes are predominantly imported from the EU as a way to get back at us for leaving the economic union. I've often caught various Europeans at night spreading potholes all over the country roads when they think no one is looking!
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  497. Talking of condemning. What's the price for sinking a country's economy and allowing a hard-working nation to suffer poverty so you can siphon our taxes to your off-shore accounts?
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  498. Trump is so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never been bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is like that of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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  499. The gravy train (pun intended) has ended for the Tory donors, mates and contractor shareholders. The middle Englanders and those on the outskirts of London have what they want and have fleeced the taxpayer out of far more than they expected. I'm sure the North will remember!
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  500. This has exposed the abhorrent cruelty of the Tories, the bias of the media and the simple fact that solidarity can challenge those in power.
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  501. Now, this is a story all about how Will Smith just flipped, slapped Chris upside down, Chris made a cheap joke about Jada's hair then took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air.
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  502. She may be right but her voting history and previous statements about the country prove her to be an inhumane opportunist. All vanity projects should be stopped until British people can feed themselves and heat their homes. Esther should have stuck to daytime TV where she had a modicum of respect and admiration.
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  503. Imagine saying there is nothing a candidate could do to lose your support... I hope she puts more effort into thinking about the bigger questions in life...
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  504. I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody!
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  505. We prioritise profits for the rich and hence the system provides more opportunities for profits the more money (a human construct) you have. The more money you have, the easier it is to make money. Eventually, the system ends with a few people at the top of the pyramid who use the construct of money to buy up all the 'actual' resources - water, land, and human labour... Just saying...
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  506. I hope the millionaire's insurance survived the incident... Can't say how easily relatable this is to us working-class...
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  507. If Tories don't have their hand in your back pocket, it's on your crotch...
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  508. Should we stop banning things because people don't like them? People should be free to be themselves and have the choice to dress as they wish.
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  509. Flying back from Jim Henson's workshop where the muppet was brought to life.
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  510. Feel free to do something about far-right extremism but don't use it as an excuse to further censor British people.
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  511. Truss is like a watercolour painting left out in the rain and Sunak is like the surface of a stagnant lake with billions of mayflies skipping across the surface. The only service they've ever provided humanity is spending their inherited wealth... Although the tax dodging and corruption levels the playing field on that score...
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  512. It helped the US pick Afghanistan as a target, but then so did protecting the petrodollar monopoly...
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  513. Malevolence on behalf of Israel and its Ambassadors. Like a cat playing with a mouse, it enjoys the sport and is not interested in letting it go. It's been doing so with ever more power for around 75 years.
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  514. GBNews; that bastion of integrity, intelligence, plurality and decency. Good man Tim for standing up to GBNews and Braverman, I agree wholeheartedly with this video!
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  515. lol, who hasn't accidentally spent a year in space... We've all done it!
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  516. PS The guy's only crime was failing to comply with police, and by the evidence he had every reason not to comply with the police...
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  517. Agreed, I was astounded when I went into the supermarket the other day and saw a nurse being refused at the till when trying to pay for her groceries with claps! Solidarity with nurses, claps don't pay the rent!
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  518. I'm just so pleased that we still pay corporations subsidies and corporate welfare and the government can afford not to collect the tax gap from corporations who neglect to pay their taxes. I'm also very pleased the government have let £30 billion slip through their fingers in import duties due to the failures regarding Brexit borders. After all I'd hate shareholder profits to go down just because the rest of us are going without heating and food.
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  519. Stop trying to look like ducks, fake beauty is not beauty. It's your body and your choice but many men just find it off-putting...
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  520. But maybe you should apologise for using Jewish people to further your selfish political ambitions...
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  521. Why did so many die? because of corporate greed, lack of forewarning, but mainly because people can't live underwater. There's a moral there for future generations...
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  522. Shocker - politician takes bribes... Show me one who doesn't...
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  523. Boris has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself but he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy.
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  524. Boris has pulled out? Bet Carrie was relieved...
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  525. I love the fact that despite being worth around £730 million he retains that man on the street perspective, he understands our struggles and trials. Hence the recent budget and the generosity to the wealthy, as we all know that money will eventually trickle down to us poor people. He could have increased the minimum wage and increased benefits so that the poorest members of society could get through the huge cost of living problems. By giving those in society more money they would inevitably spend it and increase our GDP via consumerism, taxes and profits for businesses, creating a virtuous circle that grows our economy. But no, Rishi knows that is a quick fix and wants to make us work harder for the simple pleasures so that we will enjoy the basics like heating and eating all the more. What a wonderful caring philanthropic humanitarian. I'm so proud of our government and the past 13 years of Britain's growth and the increase in Britain's stature on the international stage...
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  526. Here we go again... Let's see how long this one lasts as he makes our lives worse...
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  527. After a decade of cuts and incompetence that has cost over 230,000 British lives, it doesn't surprise me that the Tories are starting to feel the resentment of the families of those that died and the hardworking poor who have seen their lives reduced to debt slavery. While I don't condone this act, I understand there is a lot of people with good reason to despise the Tories.
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  528. Yes and anti-fascists are fascists, we all know right-whingers have problems understanding basic terms...
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  529. 'Keep Jabbing and Carry on Cautiously' is a wonderful comedy film from the 70s starring Kenneth Willams, Barbara Windsor and Bernard Bresslaw...
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  530.  @ranjananikam7390  I never thought of that... I'll get right on it!
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  531. The top 10 things I love about Matt Hancock. . . . . . . . . . .
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  532. The thing I most love about the centrist Labour party is their willingness to be the Tories in every single way... Leaving the public with little choice between red and blue-flavoured neoliberalism.
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  533. Thanks Germany, just in time for the winter... Playing politics with people's lives...
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  534. He works harder than most MPs and is well supported and liked by his constituents - even those who do not support his socialist policies. Your comment smacks of ignorance and a lack of research...
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  535. Nothing worse than your £6 million yacht going up in flames, I can sympathise completely. I once bought a dingy at the seaside for a tenna...
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  536. Unfortunately, while his points are all accurate and eloquently explained the people we need to convince are either profiting from the situation or have the IQ of a hamster with a head injury...
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  537. If he appointed the wrong ministers then he is to blame for the appointments as leader. His failings are not limited to the fact that he has all the charm of a public toilet and all the integrity of someone who has never known poverty or struggle...
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  538. The top 10 things I love about the Royal Family. . . . . . . . . . .
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  539. Make an obvious statement no one can disagree with then try to pressure people to put their children in mortal danger. Considering Tory track record in the past 10 years I wouldn't trust them to look after a school tuck shop.
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  540. Tuck Frump!
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  541. Well spotted Keir, it's only been just over a decade of constant cuts and deprivation for those in working poverty...
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  542. You have to love your country to see its flaws and try to change things for the better. If you think the wealthy Etonian elitists are your friends, you're not paying attention...
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  543. If only they had newspapers on billionaire owned islands of depravity...
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  544. The oil industry risking the local ecosystem and population for profit? Surely not...
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  545. I'm sure there are worse people in Dante's ninth circle, but not by much. Life is becoming evermore a divine comedy...
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  546. Before you feel superior, look at recent legislation from the Tories...
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  547. The petrodollar has left the building...
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  548. Is there a special school that teaches the incompetent and inept to act smug regardless of their many flaws? If so Priti Patel must be a star pupil...
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  549. Corruption in government is a terrible thing, but enough about the UK. What's going on in Peru?
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  550. Previously disgraced Tories replacing currently disgraced Tories...
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  551. Not all women can breastfeed for a variety of reasons, many on medication can't, and many working mothers rely on formula for a variety of reasons. These are hard-working taxpayers who simply can't afford the expense due to the cost of living crisis. This is not a failure of individuals but a failure of the government, don't blame those stuck in working poverty!
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  552. Go directly to jail, do not pass go. Let him rot.
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  553. Let's be honest though, despite all the problems I just think we're lucky those generous Tories have been putting so much money into the NHS and public services while growing our economy. I mean imagine the problems we'd be having if they'd been forcing through punishing cuts to the NHS and Public Services to feed corporate greed while destroying our economy for the past 12 years...
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  554. lol erm wasn't the drone program slated for only getting a 10% hit ratio with 90% of kills being non-combatants/civilians?
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  555. We don't call them loan sharks anymore, we simply call them banks!
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  556. She blames France but the Tories didn't spend the 33million to upgrade Dover terminals to take double the traffic as the experts had suggested was necessary. Tories blame the unemployed for being unemployed, the working poor for not earning enough money, the EU for the fallout from Brexit. Seriously take responsibility, they're like children...
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  557. I've seen more compassion from a hungry Lion towards a Gazelle than Tory policy shows. Lineker posted a balanced and fair comment and the BBC and the Tories have tried to demonize him for his compassion. There are a plethora of other parallels involving recent legislation that backs up Lineker's analogy.
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  558. Billionaires need yachts!
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  559.  @metalicminer6231  Agreed on that point, journalists and bankers who got their jobs through nepotism and then moved into politics. It's heading towards a dystopian corporatocracy.
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  560. Guess the appointments of Tory donors and ex-Tory MPs and aids to the BBC and board of directors gives them considerable power...
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  561. Let me know when investigative journalism comes back, I'll look out for it...
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  562. Having to see or hear Matt Hancock early in the morning is akin to Edward Scissorhands offering to scratch your back...
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  563. What a waste of millions of lives, creating millions of migrants, the loss of US/UK troops. Still, at least a few disaster capitalists made a killing...
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  564. Why don't these protesters understand? You can't have rich people forced to suffer the burden of paying for the infrastructure they exploit for profit, leave that to the rest of us! Rich people are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them...
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  565. Tory MPs are always so magnanimous in victory or defeat, such wonderful representatives of humanity, it makes my heart sing with joy...
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  566. Imagine a country that persecutes someone for the colour of their skin (orange)... Oh and the criminal activities that they have practised all their life...
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  567. Brave theif takes on a huge, terrifying dog in order to liberate a defenceless E-bike from confinement...
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  568. The taxpayer bailed out HSBC in 2008, who is collateral for the billions of debt that sunk the SVB? When a bank fails that money goes somewhere!
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  569. Fash gonna fash... The irony of their behaviour and their cognitive dissonance forever elusive to their understanding...
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  570. We had far more beds, hospitals, ambulances, far more doctors and GP surgeries, lower waiting times and a more streamlined service decades ago for a fraction of the cost. Selling off NHS assets, while outsourcing and adding layers of admin through soft privatisation is the reason for the current problems.
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  571. Lock him up...
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  572. I can only say how proud I am of our government which has fixed our economy, levelled the playing field and held the NHS funding as sacred. At the same time as lifting our international respect and prestige to new levels on the world stage. Wonderful philanthropic Tory MPs who constantly put the British public first and are consistently looking for ways to improve the lives of all Brits. I feel so privileged to be part of a country that upholds national and international law while protecting the right of its citizens...
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  573. Imagine living in a country that enforces leaders on its people, makes protesting illegal and forces its citizens to live in poverty. Move to the UK and you can have all those things!
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  574. lol, that saved him a lot of shame and embarrassment. Now he can face charges for Fastlane fraud and home care failures that would be great!
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  575. His body count is already too high...
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  576. I agree with much of what Tim says, The NHS budget is being drained via outsourcing, privatisation and by prioritizing for-profit organisations within the NHS. This creates a huge drain on resources and massive amounts of bureaucracy and administration further slowing down the timeframe and effectiveness of treatment. Our taxmoney is being siphoned off by profiteering in the NHS, which is not the model Nye Bevan fought so hard to provide.
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  577. This reminds me. Tory MPs who break the ministerial code should face the punishment of being placed in stocks in the street so the public can throw rotten fruit and veg at them. But in Raab's case I think tins of fruit and veg should be allowed...
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  578. I'm Asexual and so is my wife...
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  579.  @mradamdavies  Agreed, not to mention £37 billion for a failed test and trace - £552 for every single one of the 67,000,000 Brits at the time.
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  580. I'm so excited I drank a whole glass of council pop and then had my weekly meal...
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  581. A sad indictment of US politics and the electorate that the supreme court needs to be involved. Trump is clearly not cut out for politics, he should stick to spending his inherited wealth on silly ideas that end in bankruptcy while letting the US taxpayer pick up the tab for his failures. As he's done all his life.
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  582. I've had my jabs, I agree with quarantines as the best way to stop the spread of a virus. But I also support the right to free speech and the right to protest.
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  583.  @bfg3890  lol it started before Putin was rejected by the EU regarding the pipeline. Russia only supplied less than 3% of our gas so how do you explain energy prices going up over 400% in less than 2 years? Fossil fuels plummeted to less than a third of the price during the pandemic. The facts are free for anyone with a modest intellect and basic reasoning skills. About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  584. On 9 Sep 2010: Theresa May voted to support the continued deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan. Theresa May was also PM for 3 years and now she's rebuking other politicians?
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  585. Iran bad, US imperialism good... Now the weather...
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  586.  @alanb9443  Government stats from the ONS which anyone with an ounce of intellect would have researched before asking a redundant question...
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  587.  @Stanley-px3bt  It should have, the funny thing is Trump and Johnson have a lot in common - the same hairdresser - both born in New York - both ineptly handled the pandemic and both would make the world a better place by their absence.
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  588. We should ban strikes and just accept the generous compensation for our labour that benevolent corporations kindly donate to us, it isn't the fault of corporations if we can't afford luxuries like food, energy and rent. Just be grateful for the humanitarian CEOs who provide us with backbreaking work and think yourself lucky if they even bother to pay us...
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  589. 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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  590. I hope he gets a big kiss from Glasgow...
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  591. Boris Johnson has pulled out and no one is more releived than Carrie...
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  592.  @EngrzView  Agreed, I just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the Brtish people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe care homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers...
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  593. It's a pity as the manifesto he proposed - Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry - would have been perfect to help soften the blow of Brexit, the Pandemic, Energy crisis and the cost of living crisis. It would have all played out very differently and I think many lives would have been saved as well as the economic benefits.
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  594. It was bitter irony in response to 30p Lee's tweet. She was using his words to illuminate how callous his sentiment was. The fact that we take her words at face value and tar her with the same brush as 30p Lee is a travesty of context and a sad indictment on the media and British people.
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  595. Hope history doesn't repeat itself. Although the petrodollar isn't as important now. Libya was a socialist style country they used 'The Green System'. Gaddafi was 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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  596. Wild Polio Virus was eradicated in all countries except Asia, why are we suffering problems that less developed and economically poor countries have managed to eradicate?
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  597.  @MrLatarianMilton  They are all listed on the gun violence archive you will find if you search for it and each case is listed with the location, state and stats of injured, dead etc. So really easy to fact-check and prove it's all fact!
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  598. I think it's terrible that a show with such dignity and respect is now being dragged down by second-rate politicians...
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  599. I'm glad Priti Patel spoke up as she's such a reasonable, morally sound beacon of humanity and justice. Such a virtuous, noble, principled and honest humanitarian and her incorruptibility and just ideals are legendary...
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  600. The main thing I like about Nadine is how well she hides her horns and cloven-hoofed feet...
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  601. Unlike bars and sports arenas, there'll be a lot less trouble at these cafes and they will provide a huge boost to state taxes and many new opportunities for small businesses. I just wish we could do the same in Britain and have a vote on legalisation and allowing cafes like this.
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  602. They'll find a loophole or change legislation to suit themselves. Imagine how much better this country would be if those in parliament just had one job, being a politician that they took seriously. Imagine how corruption would diminish if MPs couldn't use their position for profit and instead of taking lobbyists money they made decisions based on their constituents' wishes.
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  603. Thank you for this message Tim. Most people like myself use the 'wealthy' as a generalisation. But in truth, it's the ideology and the callous nature of the 'I'm alright jack brigage' that infuriates us. It's not envy but self-preservation that drives us and we are all fully aware of people who are comfortably off who fight for the rest of us. I respect people like yourself and people like Corbyn all the more for coming from a wealthy background but dedicating time to fight for minorities and the disadvantaged.
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  604. I'd just like to congratulate the government on uniting Britain... At least in the sense of uniting Britain in their anger at the incompetent government...
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  605. But let's not forget it was a good way to waste hundreds of billions rather than putting that money into the NHS, Northern infrastructure or resolving the fact that 1/3rd of the British workforce live in working poverty...
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  606. US support of Israel's unholy war led to this. No doubt military aid regarding the recent attack in Syria. Also the UK's and US's support by attacking what's left of the Yemonese people who are trying to provide aid to Palestinians...
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  607. Coris is a bunt!
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  608. Tories and their Brexit. This has been on the cards for a while. Yes DUP are dinosaurs but this was inevitable.
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  609. Diet Tories: A moment in office, a lifetime on our wallets...
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  610. The thing I love about HS2 is that it's a good way to waste taxpayer money and avoid investing in the North, the NHS or resolving the working poverty that 1/3rd of the workforce live in...
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  611. I hope they manage to get all the opium and lithium out in time...
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  612. She's about as relevant as Mr Blobby's tailor... She'll be remembered for breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest crashing of a leading economy...
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  613. Worked back in the 70s. As kids we'd be happy to gather the bottles and take them to the shops, most adults would let you keep the money for sweets. Win-win :)
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  614. lol no truth allowed at the Tory conference, no surprise there...
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  615. Definition of Irony: Getting an email from Amazon to warn about online scammers!
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  616. Awesome, now I can sleep soundly at night knowing Bumblebees play with balls for fun. I heard Unicorns like a good game of scrabble after a few glasses of cider...
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  617. Is it solar-related by any chance?
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  618. I may have said "I'm sure the only reason Tories wear clothes is so we can't see their cloven-hooves, batlike wings and pointy tails..." but it would probably have been filtered...
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  619.  @andydudley1775  It's almost as if cronyism and corruption enable the Tories to siphon taxpayer money into the offshore accounts of shareholders :)
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  620. If what you don't know can't hurt you, then Matt Hancock is practically invulnerable...
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  621. Can't imagine why people would want to enjoy watching a Tory MP struggle for breath... teeheee
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  622.  @gavsterlegrand6488  I just watched the actual footage of the explosion the car was still moving pulling up to the hospital when the bomb went off, after the explosion, the car stopped and the driver then exited the vehicle and ran towards the safety of the hospital entrance. The explosion was just a massive puff of smoke, and the car then caught fire 45 seconds later... What do terrorists have against a gynaecology hospital? Why use a taxi? Why explode the bomb when the car was still moving? Why not choose a different route to the Cenotaph if that was the original target? Why are some saying detonator malfunction, others saying timed to go off at 11? Why if timed to go off at 11 was the incident several minutes before 11? Why is it that the terrorists have only taken the spotlight off the Tories?
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  623.  @johndean1634  GPs aren't responsible for the lack of staff and lack of funding. The Tories are, much of the NHS funds now go to shareholders of the for-profit organisations...
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  624. I always feel such pride in the humanitarian, altruist, philanthropists in the Tory party, their handling of the pandemic, the economy and the eloquence and oratory ability of Johnson... Yes it is!
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  625. We certainly won't miss their tax contribution, or lack of... So I suggest Brits boycott them and allow a more ethical online retailer to take over...
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  626. Appear to laugh? What's the point in reporting so 'conservatively' when any human being can detect that they are in fact, undoubtedly laughing...
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  627.  @jonoessex  So would Corbyn had he not been the leader of Labour at the time and subject to member votes on policy. I'm also a Eurosceptic, you missed the point. It was never feasible to leave in the timeframe and the only reason for such was the EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive. I think the results show the very low opinion Brits have for themselves but keep searching for any illogical argument to vent your frustration at reality. If you have read recent legislation in the past decade and the tabloid stories, and public comments on those stories and had a better understanding of economics and politics you would think the same as me.
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  628. Another right-wing slogan from Labour - seriously I'm happy to get rid of the Tories but I'm not seeing much benefit from replacing them with Labour...
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  629. Like most dogs, they are reflections of their owners. Any dog can become a danger if beaten and taught to fight.
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  630. A long time to think about his life of privilege and corruption in a small dark cell...
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  631. They Labeled the leader of the Labour party Corbyn and all his fellow cabinet and supporters, hard left, extreme left and far-left... and characterized him as a Communist. I mean seriously dude you don't think years of character assassination is enough?
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  632. Strange to have a Tory MP who is incompetent and ill-equipped for her role, I bet that doesn't happen through nepotism and cronyism often in the Tory party...
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  633. Regardless of how money was created and its alleged value to trading. Ultimately, money is simply a human construct that in practice allows a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of the world's actual resources (Land, Water, Human Labour). Since the loss of the gold standard in 1931 (UK) 1933 and fully in 1971 (US) money is no longer tied to a physical resource. Coupled with Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency money has become more digital to the point where the majority of money is now fractionally created and is predominantly just on computers and balance sheets. What this means for the working class going forward is that we can be cut off from the means required to live and support our families. Global debts are over $300 trillion, over 4x global GDP. Proving the system to be a farce. A Billionaire like Bezos has $214 billion which if he spent $1,000,000 a day, every single day would take over 530 years to spend (assuming he wasn't earning 5% per annum). Time to shake things up if we want to avoid a dystopian corporatocracy.
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  634. Aw bless, they understand us little people, our struggles with hunger and poverty, the worries of eviction and homelessness, the mass unemployment and global financial depression looming that we all dread...
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  635.  @romeolarenzo3929  That is partly true, but the cost of living and inflation hit those with the lowest income hardest. It's a disproportionate attack on the poorest members of society.
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  636. They're the same side of the same coin, the other side of that coin are people like Boris and his billionaire mates...
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  637. I would watch it all but unfortunately, I've had my fill of lies, omissions and obfuscations this week...
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  638. Boris pulled out? I bet Carrie was relieved...
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  639. That's great, now the media campaign to free Julian Assange can be started. Unless we want to live in a world where journalists pay the price for war crimes by the state...
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  640. I'd just like to say it's a pleasure and a privilege to listen to Gavin Williamson champion education, although coming from a Tory whose party have closed or downgraded 1,240 sure start centres, closed 419 schools and 535 libraries since 2010, I have to admit I trust him about as much as I'd trust Fred West to do my patio...
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  641. Free Tory PM in every box of cereal! What they lack in quality they make up for in quantity!
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  642. The wealthy are special, they deserve all the luxuries our poverty provides them...
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  643. I just think we're lucky those generous Tories have been putting so much money into the NHS and services. I mean imagine the problems we'd be having if they'd been forcing through punishing cuts to the NHS and Public Services to feed corporate greed for the past 10 years...
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  644. Tories don't suffer legal consequences or scrutiny from the media and therefore don't need to understand how their misrepresentations and lack of knowledge affect poor folk...
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  645. I remember when Earthquakes, floods and wildfires had the decency to be infrequent in their carnage on the world. Now it seems they're just ganging up on us...
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  646. I wish I was super rich and could lie and cheat while being a full-on hypocrite. Unfortunately, I have this thing called a soul...
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  647. It's ok it's just the US manifesting its destiny with some 2nd amendment loving American... Land of the free...
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  648. It must cost Priti Patel thousands for the enchantments that hide her horns, pointed tail and cloven hooves...
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  649. League tables, privatisation and finger-pointing. Let's just go back to the 1970s when the NHS was fully nationalised and properly funded...
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  650. Spreading hate? Tories are full of it anyway, her unhinged speech is par for the course at a Tory conference. Bile and poison are in everything they do and say - the only Tory not showing signs of evil are six feet under, like Thatcher. Always cheers me up thinking of that!
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  651.  @estonianreefer2851  I agree mostly. PS I'm Welsh we had centuries of English teachers beating our language and culture out of Welsh kids...
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  652. I think anything that's sentient could replace Johnson and do a far better job. By anything that's sentient, I mean human, animal or even a plant. I'd be quite happy to see a sea lion take over, to be honest, it couldn't do any worse...
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  653. I just hope they don't disturb the dragons...
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  654.  @markjohn4802  That's twice you've wasted the opportunity to say something witty or intelligent. Everything you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a penny and square the account?
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  655. Rich people's problems. Imagine this much effort and time being spent if it was one of the thousands of accidents that affect the average holidaymaker annually...
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  656. If the government didn't farm out their responsibility and infrastructure to private enterprise we'd be more self-sufficient as a nation. Instead of being at the mercy of monopolistic corporations.
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  657.  dani cali  Not me lol, Brexit was the equivalent of cancelling your direct debits, defaulting on your mortgage, throwing your mobile phone in the bath while it's charging, setting fire to your house, driving your car into the canal and then running off into the woods half-naked screaming "I'm the wild man of Britain, hear me roar!"...
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  658. Victims reject representatives from their oppressors coming to cover up their crimes...
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  659. Who would use Facebook for Virtual meetings with Facebook's record of data mining and selling its customer's data?
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  660. Needing foodbanks is a disgrace, no one should be going without food in a rich country with today's technology. Plant nut, berry and fruit trees all over your estate and stop anyone who tries to remove them. Urban guerilla gardening is the way forward, food grows for free and always has. In the 70s we used to pick hazelnuts, elderberries, blackberries, gooseberries etc there are over 300 foods (fruits, nuts, berries, herbs) that grow natively in Britain without any human intervention...
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  661. The economy is flourishing thanks to all the extra trade deals and good faith we've built up on the global stage... If only, we've lost trillions...
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  662. He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others...
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  663. Levels of gaslighting akin to Priti Patel...
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  664. Dominic Raab pretending this wasn't inevitable after the withdrawal? Still people like Dom and his corporate mates have already made a killing in Afghanistan...
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  665. A few Celtic phrases the Tories should remeber: Saor Alba! Tiocfaidh ár lá! and Annibyniaeth I Gymru! We won't stand by and be lectured by aristocrats in Westminster any longer.
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  666. We're always on a downward slope when the Tories are in power, baboom!
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  667. So much like alcohol, fast food, sugar and prescription drugs then? Oh and voting Tory - while I've never done that I'm sure many are regretting doing so...
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  668. Give a man a stick and he can beat other people for a day, Give a man a badge...
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  669. The arrogance and self-delusion of Trump are incredibly excessive, I'm not sure how he would have survived infancy without his inherited wealth and pampering. A trully abominable personality and a lesson to us all. I'm so glad I was born working class and had to learn life lessons regarding poverty, illness, power etc...
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  670. Tory MP apologizes for the loss of loved ones while they profited and partied... About as heartfelt as the middle-finger...
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  671. Ok my opinion on Bojo: "All the things Boris has lost, I think he'll miss his mind the most. People say nothing is impossible, Boris does nothing every day. He has enemies, he's also intensely disliked by his friends. Two possibilities: either Boris is an idiot or he is not; both are equally terrifying." I also think that: "Boris should have been born in the Dark Ages; he looks terrible in the light. He's as strong as an ox and almost as intelligent. He also possesses a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. He's so dishonest that we can't even be sure that what he tells us are lies!" So in essence I think I'm saying Boris shouldn't let his mind wander as it's far too little to be let out on its own.
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  672. Please keep him and his consort. They're about as much use as a rubber beak on a woodpecker...
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  673. Actually, money is infinite as it's a construct, things like precious metals and the Earth's other resources are finite. As is the time allotted to those on NHS waiting lists and the public's patience with untrustworthy politicians...
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  674. Social media Trolls? I can't even post government stats from the ONS without my comments being removed. Can't post stats regarding climate change despite deniers being able to post any old crap. How much more authoritarian can social media become?
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  675. The cost of living has gone up, the 560% increase in gas bills for instance. This increase won't even meet the current increases in the cost of living...
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  676. Energy firms should be nationalised, this extortion has gone on far too long. We need to be self-sufficient as a nation, especially now.
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  677. Collect your free PM tokens in every box of Tory cereal, collect enough tokens and you too could be PM next week!
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  678. Just admit you're an exhibitionist, naked protests make about as much sense as a chimney made of wax...
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  679. While we don't have any other need for billions, why not spend taxpayer money on the transport of the wealthy. It's not like we have food banks, working poverty and a pandemic!
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  680. Agreed, the fact is the only people who need to change jobs to sort out the cost of living crisis are Tory MPs...
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  681. Full poem here: "For the profit they cherish, we perish. While children with illness we could cure, Had the funds been in place, in each case; Lie in cold beds on freezing damp floors. While crime grows, it seems treason is the reason, This corruption continues to cause rot. The Tory's weak stories excuse these dire crises, As they pilfer from the workers' slim pot. As the resources to fix all these problems, Escape to bloated accounts far offshore. From food banks, we feed, as poverty caused by greed continues to grow, does it not? So what good could the censors accomplish? As they silence complaints we have in scores. While gaslit by the papers, the victim's lives taper into years less than their hard work should accord. If we seek to change our Union for the better The green lands we adore; they have scorned, Challenge this foul administration, that governs our nations. And stop this waged war on the poor..."
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  682. It's well known that sharks won't attack Tories; professional courtesy...
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  683.  @noodle845  Definitely, he was torpedoed by Blairites and centrists. Not to mention Starmer punishing him headlong into the Brexit minefield. The last general election wasn't lost by Labour but won by Brexit-supporting misanthropes...
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  684. Most expensive joke in the history of mankind is capitalism. It cost us the Earth...
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  685.  @chrisolagrim3597  Defecating cognitive diarrhoea on social media isn't a good look. We've lost 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction and icemelt causing the ocean to rise is swallowing up the coastline of many countries. Isn't it more likely that the billionaires who caused this are feeding you propaganda so you don't realise they caused it?
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  686. That's a relief, I was concerned but now they said they wouldn't I'm happy. I'm just glad the megalomaniacs leading countries are so trustworthy and honest...
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  687. Poor people should be penalised for acquiring knowledge, no one wants a working class of thinking, responsible human beings capable of critical thinking...
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  688. A pepper mill grinds pepper, a grain mill grinds grain, I'd hate to think what a puppy mill does. Almost as linguistically disturbing as baby oil...
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  689. The one thing they all have in common. Austerity or Economic Euthanasia as I like to call it is like the rich firing cannons at a poor village because it's too close to their castle. And as the poor villages hear the mighty roar of the cannons reigning fire on them the town crier announces it's just a storm and will soon pass...
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  690. Someone once said "If only we could find the object that ties Priti 'vacant' Patel to this world and destroy it. In doing so send her back to the depths of the underworld from whence she spawned." It was me :)
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  691.  @andywest6062  PS "In 2020 the UK made an estimated gross contribution (after the rebate) of £17.0 billion. The UK received £4.5 billion of public sector receipts from the EU, so the UK's net public sector contribution to the EU was an estimated £12.6 billion." ...and this may interest you "estimate of the “economic cost” of Brexit, £130 billion, now exceeds what we’ve paid in to the EU over 47 years."
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  692.  @pancakeslayer101  It makes no difference if the automation replaces the whole job or just a part of it. The end result is fewer working hours for human beings, whether that means a reduction in hours or personnel. If we didn't need to work to survive it wouldn't be a problem I'd be happy for automation to do it all. But we are headed for a dystopian corporatocracy and this is one of the methods used to replace us and hence make us redundant (not just in a work sense).
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  693. Rishi is too embarrassed to meet his fellow global leaders. If you were the most unpopular kid at school, would you want to go to the school reunion?
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  694. Levelling up? how come for the past 2 decades we've had austerity and cuts while the rich have hugely increased their wealth? The answer seems like a very simple logistical one!
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  695. I seen a FIAT falling off a cliff earlier today...
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  696.  George Washington  I'm Welsh and would leave in a heartbeat. A desire for Welsh independence is growing and with the state of Starmer's Labour party, I think I may vote for Welsh independence from now on.
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  697. That's why you should always leave the room before getting your butler to flush. I'm joking, what do you think I am a Tory?
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  698. Yet again we underperform as the people struggle and the wealthy make huge profits. It's almost as if there's a connection...
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  699. Take solace in the fact that despite all her bile she can't win over her peers and is still not accepted by her party and remains an outsider. She no doubt cries into a bottle of wine every night trying to get to sleep as what's left of her soul desperately tries to escape her mortal coil...
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  700. Leading by example as always. Such a pleasure to be governed by such impeccably bred philanthropic, humanitarians. Such integrity, class, honour and compassion. Long live our exemplary Etonion overlords...
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  701. The Tories can't even feed the country, just send the Tories into space. They're the biggest threat to the UK...
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  702.  @MazzaEliLi7406  Thank you! I always try to always remain optimistic as I watch the Tories slowly 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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  703. I was going to say how can she look emotional when she lacks emotion. But yours is better.
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  704. A sweaty little Authoritarian Dictator who ruins the life of his fellow countrymen out of megalomaniacal tendencies and privilege. Anyway, enough about Boris Johnson what's Kim doing?
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  705. People need to understand that the UNCHR includes the right not to be sexually abused, tortured, or discriminated against, the right to healthcare, freedom of speech, and the right to legal access. This underpins society and the only type of government that would consider leaving this convention could only be considered fash is mmmmm...
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  706. Tories still playing musical chairs with the country in crisis... It's very telling that the Tories are struggling so badly to find someone suitable that they've all forgotten they voted Boris out over a month ago...
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  707. Account for the £37 billion test and trace then...
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  708. Same as his other plans, about as much use as a verticle ejector seat in a helicopter...
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  709. If only we could find the object that ties Priti Patel to the waking world and then destroy it. In so doing send her back to the underworld from whence she was spawned...
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  710. Is it wrong to hope for a fatality this year? Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting targeting any specific Politician that's in the show...
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  711. Trickle-down economics - Taxpayers are fleeced over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies to give to tax-dodging corporations who cost the taxpayer between £40-100 billion per annum via the tax gap. Then the taxpayer is fleeced again to bail out private corporations that used to be owned by the public... The only thing that trickled down is poverty. The funny thing is I don't even recall getting my share of Royal Mail and all other taxpayer property when it was undervalued and sold off for pennies.
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  712. @Stalin Take your racism your right-whinge propaganda and your lack of sentience elsewhere, please...
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  713.  @jonsimmons4150  ECHR = Right to a fair trial - Right to privacy - Freedom from torture - Freedom of expression - Freedom from slavery - Freedom from discrimination and degrading treatment... Which British lawyers drafted. Yep don't need that!
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  714.  @andywest6062  lol I just lost 50 points off my IQ reading that. Don't let your mind wander it's far too little to be let out on its own!
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  715.  @fredatlas4396  Not to mention the loss of £9.1 billion from taxpayer money that could be used to combat the living cost crisis. There are 27.8 million households and that times £200 is £5.5 billion, Boris just said in PMQs the scheme will actually cost £9.1 billion So I'd assume that an extra £3.6 billion is administrative costs. Over 1/3rd of the cost of this scheme is admin generating debt to the taxpayer and increased profits to government contractors!
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  716. Let's be honest, Starmer put pressure on the previous Labour leader regarding Brexit to call another referendum as well as jumping on every Tory bandwagon to ensure Corbyn wasn't elected and we were stuck with the Tories. Yet since becoming leader he hardly ever mentions Brexit or plans on what to do next to resolve this heinous clusterfk...
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  717. He has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself but he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy.
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  718.  @annenunney9907  Thanks Anne. It was so cold last week I saw a Tory MP with his hands in his own pockets.
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  719.  @adamibrahim7338  Thank you for that irrelevant bit of whataboutery, next time might I suggest typing something witty or intelligent...
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  720. I'm jealous of Mogg's 19th-century chique and chain of workhouses...
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  721.  @captainshakesbeard2453  lol you don't seem to understand what the last 4 decades mean (40 years!). The pandemic only started in 2019... Just think, you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  722. Boris has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself but he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy...
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  723. The thing is Tory MPs should practice social distancing as a rule of thumb, for the sake of the species...
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  724.  @stephenosunkeye9730  Adults talking. Taxes on cigarettes net around 10 billion per annum in the UK. That's around 1/8th of the NHS budget... Smokers pay for themselves, try again...
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  725. Cheap labour for billionaires is big business. Definitely a unicorn, providing free cash for billionaires by magically exploiting those on the lower rungs of the ladder... The son of a war criminal profiting from apprentices and getting free PR from their mates in the media...
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  726. There she is, delivering for the nation...
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  727.  @GreenMorningDragonProductions  Yea, that's partly my point. But the main factor was the sale of 2 million council houses and the lack of any new social housing. Over 40% of that housing ending up in the hands of private landlords within a decade. Not to mention new legislation that prioritizes landlords over tenants. They're squeezing the market through a lack of investment, increasing the price of existing stock considerably.
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  728. King of archaic feudal Britain where the subjects can't afford to heat their homes or even buy food. We aren't suffering a cost-of-living crisis we are suffering a cost-of-economic-vampires crisis...
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  729. I don't seem to be able to type this without being filtered "Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like..." So ill try in quotes...
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  730. If only we could find the object that ties Priti Patel to this world, and then destroy it. In so doing return her to the underworld from whence she was spawned...
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  731. The Tory's answer to Irish diplomatic relations is Cromwellian...
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  732. Humanising a narcissistic incompetent responsible for so much suffering and cronyism makes me physically sick. Stick him in a care home over the winter and see how he holds up!
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  733. When disaster capitalism meets Tory incompetence and sovereignty...
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  734.  @gerryg1056  PS if you like alliteration. Boorish Boris blushes as he blithely boldly bulls#its the befuddled British with barmy boastful balderdash. Not all the British are brainwashed and bewildered by the berserk braggart. The brave beneficent British buck the blusterous blonde Boris and his breathtaking buffoonery.
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  735. Stilts still amaze people? Short bodied long legged aliens to keep us amused while the world burns...
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  736. How's Brexit working out for ya?
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  737. Sued? he shot two people on the set that he was director of, he hired people on the cheap and many people said the set was unsafe and walked out the previous week...
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  738. The UK denies Tory austerity as the Tory's incompetent handling of the economy over the past decade is the reason we are here...
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  739.  @markbriten6999  Exactly it's a reworking of a poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller.
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  740. To be fair shaking hands and walking are two skills that most people don't fully master until late in childhood...
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  741. How about supermarkets stocking fresh food instead of sweaty fruit and veg with a short shelf life? How about feeding those who are forced to use foodbanks? How about admitting capitalism is the worst system of resource management ever invented?
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  742. You had to wait that long? lol its Matt Hancock lies are the only thing allowed past his lips.
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  743. Misfired a gun with blanks and killed one woman and seriously injured a cinematographer? Sure, whatever...
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  744. People protesting peacefully against fash-is-ermm on a day that commemorates people who fought against fash-is-ermm. To most Brits who are protesting this has nothing to do with religion and is about standing up to a brutal regime. Those counter-protesting seem to be missing the point and as usual are clashing with police, just out for a fight and easily manipulated by people like Braverman.
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  745. Red or Blue neoliberalism... Hmmm tough choice...
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  746. Yes, I do feel for them, but what about the poor mercenary contractors, opioid suppliers, construction companies, arms manufacturers, oil companies, specialists, lithium and gold mining corporations, bankers and greedy politicians who have to find another country to loot? Look out Iran...
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  747. Ironic, that being the year the Balfour declaration was signed and the future of Palestine was destined to change forever...
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  748. The petro dollar has left the building...
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  749. Protect big business, screw the poor and smile while you lie...
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  750. Coris is a Bunt!
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  751. Who spends that much per annum on energy? how is that going to help the majority of working people? UK power prices have tripled year-on-year from August 2020 (£36/MWh) to August 2021 (£107/MWh) – a jump of £71/MWh. The UK pays £263.99 per megawatt hour in August 2022 and it's still rising. It's around 8x the price it was in 2020...
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  752. I'm just so grateful the magnificent Labour party are riding into battle against Tory economic euthanasia. So glad they didn't sell out under Blair, so glad Starmer isn't a Blair tribute act and definitely didn't torpedo his own leader at the last General Election. So grateful to have such a wonderful down to earth representatives of working-class traditions of supporting the Unions and striking workers... Yea it is! and no I'm not being serious...
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  753. Seems the 1922 committee get to choose our PM more often than the electorate these days...
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  754.  @Organic_Body_Transformer  Exactly. It's just no matter how obvious it is, no one talks about it. So I like to sarcastically point it out :)
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  755. It's ok don't worry, the bankers and corporations owe us a few favours, we'll get them to bail us out this time!
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  756. lol I suspect you'll be asking the same question of a different PM next week or the week after...
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  757.  @condotiero860  You have a reasonable command of the English language if not a reasonable command of geopolitics. In 1917 the British signed the Balfour Declaration to give their protectorate of Palestine to some Jewish bankers in return for a loan to win the war. In 1947 the Palestinians allowed Jewish settlers to free the persecution in Europe and settle in Palestine. The Nakba in 1948; the Palestinian exodus that occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs, about half of prewar Palestine's Arab population fled or were expelled from their homes is proof of your lack of understanding. Since then Palestinians have been subject to land grabs, brutality and apartheid legislation from their lodger... Did I mention over 3,000 Palestinian children were killed between 2000 and 2017 alone?
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  758. I've found the holy grail - Brexit benefits: It helped uncover shadowy groups such as the E-R-G. Has shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how flawed the system is. Shows how data mining the public helps to steer and manipulate them to vote against their own interests. And has also shown how important the lack of transparency on our overseas territories are to the money men...
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  759. The world is in a very similar state to how it was 80 years ago. The same types rising to power globally on the back of lies and hate. Never forget?
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  760. All those trees tirelessly producing oxygen for him, I think he owes them an apology...
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  761. Run down a service by underfunding then increase taxes while stealth privatising. It's getting a bit old now.
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  762.  @martinday2815  Sure please do. I just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the British people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe care homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, and they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers...
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  763. Wow, those three are the best the Tory party has to offer? god, help us!
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  764. That was lucky. In other news, the spycops bill passed earlier this year...
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  765. Those humanitarian ecologically friendly Tories have protected UK genetic diversity in the same way they protected care homes...
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  766. Such a huge loss to all the families affected. Over 200 mass shootings in the US this year so far and no sign of gun controls being changed. Time to stand up to the gun lobby and stop crying about your right to bear arms, you should be more concerned about the right to bring up your children in a safe environment...
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  767. I wonder which of these seemingly insignificant escalations between different countries will start a global conflict, answers on a postcard!
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  768. A beautiful, talented hard-working athlete meets a permanent welfare recipient...
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  769. "One less for St Nicholas. There's nothing as vile or as sad or ridiculous as the coffin of a child." - Carter USM
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  770.  @yehldyehld  Let's be fair, Brexit has only cost us a few £trillion, our prestige, standards, morals and trading relations. While polarising the nation, risking the GFA, risking the Union, breaking international law and leaving a sizeable debt for our great-grandchildren. It's not that bad!
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  771. "Suella braverman’s backlog" That's a phrase I hoped never to hear in my lifetime or ever conjure in my mind... Security risk last week in charge of national security this week.
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  772.  @msa-tt4bg  The answer is in my initial comment.
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  773. A clown meets Britain's most successful benefits fraudster...
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  774. Absolute joke of a country. We have more corruption and poverty these days than in most African states. Things are getting that desperate I'm thinking of starting a campaign to beg Ethiopia to hold a rock concert for us...
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  775.  @ImperiumMagistrate  He's filed for bankruptcy 6 times on his corporations. Which cost the US taxpayer and the unpaid workers. Stop trying to use semantics to try and defend him... It's just sad...
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  776.  @learseneshow9175  I don't think it's related to her Ugandan-Indian heritage, she's just a right-wing soulless psychopath.
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  777. If we condemn Hamas for standing up against Israel, we must then condemn the Jewish Resistance movement that stood up to the Nat-Cs. I will never condemn those fighting to free themselves from oppression, no matter how much I deplore the violence.
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  778. There was no conflation, just the usual Tory disregard and utter contempt for the democratic process and the taxpayer...
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  779. This is ridiculous, everything the man says is a lie. What's the point in dissecting his constant stream of bull? Just get rid of him, he can't lie straight in bed.
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  780. We need vegetables, herbs, berry bushes and fruit trees planted on every estate in Britain, so we are not reliant on profit-hungry supermarkets and can source natural organic food locally. It isn't difficult as this was the case in the 70s when I grew up. Both sets of grandparents had gardens full of food and we used to forage for a plethora of edibles on our doorstep... Now we have food banks?
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  781. At 100,000 a day it will take almost two years to test everyone, how long is the lockdown planned for ?
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  782. Thanks to all the first few points were given to me in a comment by a poster named Jodie, but can't find the original so couldn't credit.
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  783. A home secretary who is a national security risk. A recent female PM who was hacked by Russian agents. An ex-PM who befriends ExKGB and parties with the son of a Russian Oligarch who was close to Putin's inner circle. Multiple Tory MPs have vested interests via the conservative "Friends of Russia" and holiday abroad as guests of known Russian assets. The point that wealthy people internationally work together to profit from the masses while showing little interest in their own country's wealth and security should be a dire warning to anyone interested in geopolitics.
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  784.  @monkeymox2544  Reading Marx does not necessarily make someone a Marxist, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... an elephant!
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  785. I do like Joe but I hope he hasn't joined the Bullingdon club. Giving it to a kid's soccer team would probably be more appropriate, if not a children's charity.
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  786. On the upside, people missing their favourite shows may read a book or take part in local activities and stop hero-worshipping their favourite screen idols...
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  787. So apart from the sleaze, fraud, breaking the law, economic disaster, cost of living crisis, risking the GFA, ignoring parliamentary ethics etc, they're doing a good job?
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  788. To be, or not to be a dictatorship, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  789. If only we could find the object that ties Priti Patel to this world, the source of her power and then destroy it and in so doing send her back to the depths of the underworld, from whence she was spawned...
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  790. Israel offensive - yes it is to anyone who values law, rights, life and peace...
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  791. Good! and now for something completely different. Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am Inequality, I do not sleep. I am ten million workers on wages low, Trudging to work through freezing snow. I am the sun that burns as you harvest grain, The autumn rain that soaks your pain. When you wake in morning and to work you rush, I am the depressed commuter against whom you brush. The dead-eyed citizens you circle in fright, That cry over debt; and can't sleep at night. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I do not care for cowering sheep. (Do not stand at my grave and cry, unless you oppose me, I will never die!) Rework of the famous Mary Elizabeth Frye poem.
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  792. Let's not forget Libya. They left human trafficking and slavery in Libya after looting it.
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  793. Food additives, plastic, refined foods, pollution, dodgy meds, nasty chemicals...
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  794. I'm so glad the energy companies were privatised so we could pay them subsidies out of taxes while they price-fix and extort us for basic human necessities. I wonder how many pensioners will survive this winter...
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  795. They'll get a tap on the wrist and the parent corporation will still get their 50 million from the government... and the pantomime continues...
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  796. During Austerity the top wealthiest families in Britain doubled their assets. It's almost as if there is a tangible proportionate connection between poverty and wealth...
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  797. Tories and decency in the same sentence, made me laugh...
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  798. Feudalism, Serfs and archaic systems of divine rule should be consigned to the basement of history. Privilege being funded by the taxpayer who are struggling with living costs...
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  799. I think they are both appalling specimens of humanity and would make the world a better place by leaving it...
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  800. Gas lighting 101, reduce the tax burden? my arse!!!
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  801. Let me guess how it started. "Did you steal my pint? Did you look at my misses?" oh the good old days...
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  802. I think ISIS-inspired was the phrase used, about as accurate and descriptive as saying Sweeney Todd inspired...
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  803. Education can only help if the lesson is how to stop the rich from ignoring rules, laws and legislation. How to hold corrupt politicians to account. How to take control of the media from the billionaires and enforce plurality of the media.
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  804. Filtered for some reason so I'll try in quotes: "The press write the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, handwritten narrative, and carefully chosen word to manifest an illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy..."
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  805. I'm just glad our glorious Royal family are free from financial, moral and ethical worries. A shining example of all that's best about the aristocracy...
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  806. Hate begets hate...
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  807. We just need to accept that wealthy people are special, they deserve every luxury our poverty provides...
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  808. I never worry about having a period at a festival, because I don't have ovaries. Maybe this story isn't meant for me...
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  809. Tories engineering distractions to their appalling failures?
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  810. You're assuming he's human, I happen to think he's a scarecrow who made a wish to come to life.
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  811. Why is it that these no-win questions are always asked of Corbyn? He supports Palestinians and deplores the apartheid state of Israel, the illegal nuclear power and their authoritarian attitude and 70-year reign of terror. Not to mention their control of Western politics through lobbyists. He has always condemned violence but refuses to openly denounce the plight of the desperate who have little options to strike back at their oppressors. I don't support violence against Israel or violence against the Palestinians, but I won't condemn the Palestinians for trying to preserve what's left of their homeland and people.
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  812. Compassionate Tories are like the lesser-spotted flying whales of the English channel, they don't exist!
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  813.  @kendallbald  God :)
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  814.  @kevinwilde  Thank you for reminding me that she isn't around anymore. Always cheers me up!
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  815.  @danielwebb8402  Adults talking...
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  816. Still making children pay for the mistakes of adults? what a tragically weak society. Lost in ego and religious zealotry...
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  817. So they will continue to be shackled to Tory corporatocracy like the rest of us, what a shame. If Scotland chooses to ditch the aristocratic kleptocrats in Westminster then that is their affair, give them the opportunity with a second referendum. Denying them that opportunity is wrong. They deserve self-determination if they so choose. Things have changed immeasurably since 2014...
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  818.  @ktwine7994  Only 13.9 million Brits voted for the Tories. The turnout was 67% meaning just under a 1/3rd of eligible Brits didn't vote. Then take into account Tory's media control through their donors and FPTP system...
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  819.  @annmariesim1405  Agreed, Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then shits all over your house... and also lives for centuries.
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  820.  @timjackson8516  Yes the Tories and the lack of transparency on the crown, estates and overseas territories is the reason Britain is the biggest global enabler of corporate tax losses.
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  821. The fable here is that OFCOM is a regulator. I sincerely hope the hare loses the race, but my optimism is quenched by realism. GBNews should be renamed Pinocchio's nose...
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  822. I'd rather smear my nether regions in Nutella and dunk them in a tank full of Piranha than watch more soccer. But I love this! Great Job Joe!
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  823.  @jakel8627  I am so sorry for wasting your time by forcing you to read so many words and sentences. I certainly didn't want to elaborate a simple sentence into paragraphs of unnecessary information in a way that would be considered lengthy, wordy or expansive including repetitive long-winded redundant sentences. I will try to be concise in future and only type things that are implicitly necessary to communicate my thoughts and feelings in a condensed and succinct way. Again, my sincere apologies and my hopes that should you read this, you will forgive my elaborate discourse in future :)
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  824. And the cheque from the Israeli lobbyist helped make his mind up too...
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  825. You gotta start working on your humanity...
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  826. Agreed, He doesn't challenge Tories enough on their misinformation and bullying, yet goes full tilt at other benches for lesser offences.
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  827.  @helphelpimbeingrepressed9347  Yea alright, but apart from dragging us out of the slums and workhouses, Nationalising the Bank of England, Coal, Steel, Gas and other industries. The welfare state, the NHS, free education, public libraries, national parks, public transport, legal aid, human rights and workers' rights what has Labour ever done for us?
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  828. Dude, I like forgot to make a phone call that may have saved thousands of lives. Sorry and stuff...
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  829. Good, love to see that repeated globally.
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  830. The Lingchi (Death by a thousand cuts) PM - Brace yourselves for a tough winter...
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  831. Tories use statistics and facts like a drunk uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination. (Adapted from a quote)
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  832. Deplorable human beings, how can these semi-sentient obnoxious individuals be in charge of our lives...
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  833. These migrant boats seem to get very fragile near the coasts of Europe...
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  834. Starmer is being a little mean to poor Boris. Personally, I just love the way our PM and his philanthropic friends - who deeply respect the British public and the rule of law - are so trustworthy and would never lie. I'm overjoyed at how well they have provided a beacon of hope and integrity globally while managing our economy so well that even the poorest Brit is now able to occasionally eat...
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  835. Dimmer than a starless night...
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  836. US children paying the price for the ignorance of their parents, the right to bear arms against your government is pointless when they have nuclear weapons and biological warfare...
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  837. I hate it when that happens, you get a letter through your council flat letterbox telling you and it's so annoying. I'm sure most people in Britain - during the cost of living crisis - can sympathize with this scenario...
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  838. Heartbroken? is that a euphemism for losing 15 million and being a little upset? If anyone wants to call me a wife-beater for 15 million, feel free I could do with the cash...
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  839. The caption on the photo should read "Cheers to all the dead peasants we no longer have to support via benefits, now I can give all that saved taxmoney to my mates!"
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  840. He's not dead he's just resting in some native greek soil in a coffin under Buck palace...
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  841. A tortoise with an abacus would be a safer pair of hands than any Tory MP...
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  842. Doffs cap, tugs forelock, blah blah blah... About time Britain stopped living in a feudal society...
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  843. How many resignations does it take before a Tory is benched permanently these days? it seems infinite...
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  844. The King remembered the spat between his relatives in Germany...
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  845. Well, I wouldn't touch it with my finger to see how hot it is, put it that way...
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  846. I just hope Frodo and Sam got out in time...
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  847. America on bring a gun to work day... Civilisation? not even close...
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  848. The only way to look at what the Tories are doing is to ignore the tabloid perception and Tory PR and just analyse the information. Who benefits? Does this effectively challenge the problem? Is this related to other recent stories? what are the consequences? When we answer these questions we inevitably realise that the truth is often the polar opposite of what is actually suggested. Thanks for the vid Tim!
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  849.  @Scintillated  The WHO predicted that amount 3 months ago when they referenced it as a "ticking timebomb"... Tories are doing this on purpose as they usually do.
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  850. Risk your life for a living and then speak. Trainees get £11 an hour only the most competent get 32k after years of experience.
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  851. It hasn't been Labour since Blair got his hands on the party and dropped clause 4, Starmer is Blair v2.0 and offers little difference to the Tories...
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  852. About time, when are the British people going to follow suit and stop bowing and scraping? Enough modern-day feudalism and cap doffing forelock tuggers...
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  853. ~Just a guess but is it because America's prison system is privately run for profit and does that explain why the US has the highest incarceration rates globally? Maybe there is something wrong with your society considering all the mass shootings? just maybe because your country has been a corporation since 1913 when the FED was created is the starting point of the calamity... Like I said, just guessing...
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  854. After many months of excruciating soul searching, the Tories have yet to find one...
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  855. PM Sunak says blaming everything on migrants during the financial crisis we created is 'absolute priority'...
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  856. Lords and aristocrats discussing fiscal responsibility while the poor suffer deprivation from a cost of living crisis is grotesque and patronising...
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  857. Banning books is seriously backward, changing books is also a sign of a regressive civilisation. Times change and we shouldn't ban or edit books because they have old-fashioned views in them, in the same way, we shouldn't ban or edit books that feature new concepts or demographical changes regarding sexuality and gender. Books are living records of the past and present, they should remain unchanged and available to those who wish to read them.
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  858. All of these cuts are below price increases and the rate of inflation. Meaning they are still increases in the cost of living, but delivered with a smile and a lie...
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  859. So, Charles is a serial fraudster and Andrew is a seriously damaged individual... Good to know where our taxmoney goes...
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  860. We should just allow the rich to commit xenocide through greed and stop moaning apparently...
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  861. lol is that all, we give 40 times that amount (£100 billion) out of taxpayer's money to corporations in subsidies every year...
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  862. No apology and smiling when discussing a horrific event. Yes, he was making a point about u-turns but his comment was an obvious attempt to get a laugh from the hard right of his party... A despicable human being, unelected, unwanted and unconcerned with his inept leadership of the country...
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  863. Top ten things I love about Capitalism: . . . . . . . . . .
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  864. 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%.
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  865. The mainstream media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  866. Wealthy chancellor forcing an ideological austerity on a whole country leading to many losses and misery: A step too far?
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  867. The home of the peasants revolt under the control of aristocrats and their corporate handlers...
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  868. When competence is judged by the ability to communicate effectively with other human beings without offending them... A skill social animals like humans learn from an early age unless they are brought up in a bubble of privilege. But let's congratulate the Royals who have the ability to put these basic skills into practice. doffs cap tugs forelock
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  869. lol, Our last PM was hacked by Russian agents, her home secretary breached top security protocols and is considered a national security risk, the blonde PM before her was friends with a Russian KGB agent's son, who happens to own a large chunk of British media. The Tories have a "Friends of Russia" group where they allow Russian Oligarchs to buy British property and interests and many Tories holiday in the homes of Russian Oligarchs well known to be Russian assets. It ain't security guards we need to be worried about!
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  870.  @unrealharry  The economy is at its worst state in decades party because of the pandemic and massive borrowing regarding the PPE scandal and the failed £37 billion test and trace failure. Brexit and the bad decisions the Tories have made to increase our GDP. But mainly from the gross decisions to feed the wealthy taxpayer money while depriving hard-working people. Tories haven't provided growth, quite the opposite and they've been in power for well over a decade. They've lost our triple-A credit rating - twice, increased the national debt to £2.6 trillion, given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100% in the past year, and made the pound virtually worthless by printing money to give to their mates in expensive contracts.
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  871. Thoughts, prayers and candlelight vigils. But without tougher gun laws the insanity will continue...
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  872.  @knackeredmedic8187  lol, true although I'm not a fan of Blair, I left Labour when he dropped clause 4. But we should look at this from the other side to be fair. But apart from Brexit, Grenfell, Economic Euthanasia, Disabled Vilification, Election Fraud, Contempt of Parliament, Windrush Scandal, WASPI, Working Poverty, Homeless Crisis, Hostile Env, Food Banks, Universal Credit, NHS Crisis, Austerity, Incompetent handling of the Pandemic and wasting billions via Cronyism, Corruption and Fraud what have the Tories ever done for us?
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  873. As cavemen we just built a fire to keep warm, now we aren't allowed chimneys unless we have an estate and a fat wallet...
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  874. Let me guess... A right-whinger with the intellectual capacity of a dead dog with its head caved in? Blissfully unaware of Israel's history...
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  875. Handing it to corporations and their mates... In ever-increasing amounts...
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  876. Since 2020 we get global industrial accidents almost daily... Anything you'd like to tell us?
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  877. I keep making up words as I shout at the screen when I read a new story about Tory corruption, usually expletives. I think I'm suffering from Toryettes syndrome...
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  878. This may be filtered, i suspect it will be. The huge increase over the past few decades in migrants and asylum seekers is our own fault for supporting wars to protect petrodollar hegemony. "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." This is an oversimplification as the whole debate around these separate invasions and regime changes would take several books to cover.
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  879. The Tory council and Tory government legislation are to blame as well as the property owners. Families should be compensated, although money won't bring back the dead...
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  880. I love how corporations try to display some humanity and decency. Be happy and think of humane thoughts as you struggle to buy Christmas presents when you can barely afford food and energy bills...
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  881. One glaringly obvious interjection If I may be so bold - Rees-Mogg and the phrase 'working day' should never be used in the same sentence...
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  882. Apparently, We've lost over 5,000 mental health workers since 2010 and our Police numbers have been reduced by over 22,000 while support workers have been reduced by over 23,000. This contemptible situation is down to cuts, while we are spending more on corporate welfare than ever before...
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  883.  @kanedNunable  I don't pander to those people, I put enough hints in there for most people to see it for what it is m8. If they want to like my comment by mistake its a bonus :)
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  884. The Tory cabinet is like a DIY cabinet, far too expensive, hard to assemble, plenty of screws missing which makes it weak and wobbly and prone to falling apart...
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  885. How many now are the US up to? 3 or 4 a month? Must be all those bear arms...
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  886.  TheMetalGuy852  Go cry somewhere else, the kid took a rifle to a protest. And no there's no point in replying to me as I have heard it all before and seen the footage of the incident myself. He threatened people and they tried to defend themselves by closing in on him.
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  887.  @pjl8119  Your comment was filtered but I agree wholeheartedly so I'll try to repost it: "Deliberate and wilful managed decline of public institutions as prelude to firesale to US corporations. Textbook neoliberalism."
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  888.  @nicodesmidt4034  I'm like everyone else, a patriotic Brit. I just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the Brtish people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe care homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers...
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  889.  @gaspode505  It' may be undiagnosed but it's ubiquitous and induced by a media predominantly Tory. Too many Brits with cognitive dissonance from the constant barrage of Tory mythology.
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  890. Fake news! All the people love me, I'm the most loved president ever. No one has ever been better at presidenting than me! I'm bigly presidential, We have the best PPE and medical supplies and i'm heroically holding the US together during a crisis.
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  891. Corporate welfare and subsidies cost upwards of £100 billion per annum out of the taxpayer's pocket. To put that into perspective, unemployment benefit costs a mere £1.56 billion per annum. We spend 66 times the amount we spend on unemployment benefits giving shareholders free cash.
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  892. Armed security assaulting people who are praying is a symptom of a brutal regime. If only an historical example was available...
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  893. Thanks for the info Gary. Unfortunately, the system is inherently flawed and will always be. My solution would be an ideological shift to a resource based economy, using sustainable materials with local sourcing where possible, making things to last using modular tech and the best materials rather than unreliable plastic products for profit. Managing biodiversity, protecting ecosystems and having communal tools, transport and housing for those without. Providing a healthy, happy, thriving society for all with local management from communities, towns, counties all the way up to countries.
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  894. Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, Boris tripped up and hit his head on it...
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  895. To be fair hope or even 'false hope' isn't something anybody in the UK suffers from regarding the Tories. Also what about our emergency blood supplies sold to Bain Capital who later sold them on to a Chinese consortium for 8x the amount Bain paid? Was that clean?
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  896. Why is it always keyworkers getting things first? bloody locksmiths...
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  897. Same here but from a Welsh perspective.
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  898. Tough sanctions vs bombs? bombs win...
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  899. It's called polarisation and the media are responsible. BBC included!
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  900. They demonstrate nothing of the sort, they demonstrate a narrative that is clearly worked out in advance regardless of their individual levels of knowledge. Their pantomime is entirely intentional.
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  901. Erm... Tories. Brexit. Pandemic. Tories. Russia. Capitalism. Privatisation. Tories.
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  902. Such a caring, philanthropic humanitarian PM, who obviously understands the needs of the common man and woman. Surely such a kind person as Rishi must have personal experience with poverty judging from his humane and empathetic questions. It's a true honour to be ruled by such a down-to-earth man of the people...
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  903. First, it was Alsatians, then staffs, then pitbulls and so many other breeds in between. Occasionally a dog has a medical or mental illness and needs to be put down. But this is rarely the case, dogs brought up in a loving environment and given boundaries are almost always very loving and trusted members of the family. Bad owners make bad dogs...
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  904. Stop naming the storms it gives them power lol, Storm Tarquin is on it's way...
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  905. Th upcoming global conflict...
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  906. "The world is in a shambles and the people who are supposed to care don't" Out of the mouths of babes...
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  907. Trump dropped out of the Paris climate agreement and 3 nuclear treaties which created the unstable world we now live in where nuclear proliferation has restarted, the not-so-cold war has restarted and we face the threat of nuclear armageddon, and if we survive that, the climate catastrophe that follows...
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  908. We know diet is important and we also know many ingredients that we eat have been used in medicine for centuries. Over 40% of medicines are derived from nature and many others mimic or enhance these effects. Wellness diets are a matter of taste and each individual decides on the balance between eating to improve their health or eating to the detriment of their health.
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  909.  @anthonyfoster7228  Keep doffing your cap to the elitist aristocrats who have their hands in your back pocket...
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  910. I can't watch it, it makes my blood boil. It's like having Fred West on blind date with Cilla smiling and introducing him to the girls...
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  911. The mega rich who are laughing, the wealthy who are protected and the rest of us poor plebs awaiting each day with anxiety.
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  912. Funny how we are supposed to cut down while the government ensure bumper profits for energy companies. "Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less." Oscar Wilde.
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  913. Of course, the main difference between Kim and Boris Johnson is hair colouring...
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  914. Agreed, but he can protect big business and millionaires using taxpayers' money... The Tories have never done anything for the working class ever, they just want to get their hands on your hard-earned cash. All these cuts are below the rate of inflation and below the levels of price increases. Meaning the cost of living is still increasing and disproportionately affecting low-income families many of whom are living in working poverty...
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  915.  @chrislaurenceleo  Agreed, Panama Scandal (Which named Camerons and Johnsons) - EU tax-avoidance directive - Cameron negotiates - Comes back with tail between legs - then used a magic destruction spell "Referendum gratuitous" and the rest is history.
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  916.  @chrislaurenceleo  Farage? is that the one who looks like the product of relations between a certain Austrian-born dictator and Kermit the Frog? The alan Patridge of Fash ism?
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  917. For accuracy change the word Hamas to civilians... I'm not sure how many of the children who have passed were a threat to anyone...
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  918.  @jamesdouglaswhittaker4612  If you believe that you haven't been paying attention and know nothing or the Tory's modus operandi. This is a continuation of the long-running kleptocratic attitude that has existed for many decades in the tory party. Each time they make excuses and claim this a separate, uncommon event...
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  919. If only the government had the balls to restrict monopolies and price-fixing or renationalize energy and make Britain self-sufficient, that way we wouldn't be blackmailed by a cartel with a volatile market and instead we'd have control of our own energy market.
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  920. Not so, Brexit benefits: It helped uncover shadowy groups such as the E-R-G. Has shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how flawed the system is. Shows how data mining the public helps to steer and manipulate them to vote against their own interests. And has also shown how important the lack of transparency on our overseas territories are to the money men...
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  921. Say the B word. The economy, the Irish border issues, the travel crisis, the import and export problems, the logistical problems are all down to Brexit. The Pandemic has contributed but let's stop ignoring the elephant in the room...
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  922.  @hiramabiff2017 PS "In the year to June 2022, 40,365 NHS nurses in England left active service – equivalent to one in nine. Across the decade for which data are available, this is a peak in absolute terms (6,100 more leavers than the previous peak five years prior) and relative to the size of the workforce, with a leaver rate of 11.5%" Over 1 in 10 nurses are leaving the NHS, many opting to work abroad where pay is considerably higher...
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  923.  @vtechead1  No m8, we only ever brought 3% of our gas supply from Russia, 46% of our energy requirements come from sustainable renewables, most of the rest from Norway. I think you may have missed the point, maybe reread it and ask yourself why are you defending these people...
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  924.  @julianshepherd2038  Thank you, kind sir. Unfortunately, Stuart hasn't had his meds this morning.
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  925. I think we should ditch the unions and rely on the generosity of corporations and their shareholders. We all know corporations always treat their employees with dignity and respect and shareholders wouldn't accept profit if it came from wage slavery. Just let the government make these decisions and stop interfering with the wonderful resource management system known as capitalism, which has led to the world we live in today. A world of freedom and democracy where no one goes hungry and philanthropic politicians take care of their constituents as loving parents would. Well if those parents were Fred and Rosemary West...
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  926. Good old Tories and their farcical financial feebleness. Taxes at their highest in recent memory, the economy shrinking even further and all that after some may argue - 13 years of austerity. Dodgy Kleptocrats...
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  927. Maybe because Burnham is a democratic socialist with integrity, while Starmer is a corporate and state lobbyist funded neoliberal.
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  928. Comments like "Better than freezing cold" getting so many likes make me want to start legal proceedings to divorce the human race...
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  929. ...and discuss who has caused the most damage to British society.
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  930.  @T5Zplayer  I didn't mention the USA as we are only discussing the UK branch. Your ability to misinterpret sentences is unparalleled. My point is that HSBC was bailed out by the taxpayer who is now at risk of being used as collateral for the billions of debt racked up by SVB, at least the SVB UK portion. If this goes wrong the taxpayer may be subject to another bailout. Taxpayer money is for infrastructure and public services, not a guarantee for shareholders and corporations. Taxpayers do not get any of the profits but are liable for the losses of bankers... Money doesn't cease to exist, someone always profits from bankruptcy. Finance is a farce that enables a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of global resources, while the majority struggle to survive!
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  931.  @lauras3554  "Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade officially began, with royal approval, in 1663. In less than 150 years, Britain was responsible for transporting millions of enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas, where men, women and children were forced to work on plantations and denied basic rights." Please learn your own history before speaking to a fellow Brit who knows all of it!
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  932.  @tisFrancesfault  Privatisation is yes. Nationalisation pays for itself and any profits get reinvested to improve services and lower costs...
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  933. A government with such contempt for the health of the country should face criminal charges...
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  934. I hope positive change results. Sometimes you have to stand up to an Authoritarian regime as despite the cost it's better than allowing things to get any worse. British people should consider the previous sentence very carefully!
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  935. Yay, I love a good bit of flag-waving. Nothing like seeing a nation bend over backwards for an aristocracy that bleeds them dry through the crown estates and overseas territories and its lack of transparency...
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  936. Yellow neoliberalism, Red neoliberalism, Blue neoliberalism...
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  937. They can go to Australia and earn double the wages they get here. Tories aren't concerned, they all have private health care...
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  938. Economic challenges for the UK public caused by Rishi- I think Rishi will be fine...
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  939. @@matthewsmith3592 This is going to shock you, but over 150,000 lives were lost during the first 3 years of austerity due to cuts to the NHS. Try reading legislation and follow the money regarding NHS funding, for-profit organisations getting preferential treatment, hundreds of million £ fines for pharma and the staff shortage of 100,000. All of that was before Cov hit... You can't shock me with ignorance - PS half a million people die every year in the UK - that's over 41,000 a month...
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  940. Taiwan's microchips run the world's tech, cars, planes, laptops... I wonder why the US is suddenly interested in Taiwan.
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  941. Those poor mercenary contractors, opioid suppliers, construction companies, arms manufacturers, oil companies, specialists, bankers and greedy politicians. They're going to have to find another country to loot. Look out Iran!
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  942. Boris is doing a wonderful job, so focused and intelligent and he hasn't dropped the ball yet. Well apart from as Mayor, and then as PM during the pandemic, and then the fraud, oh and the law-breaking, the dodgy government contracts and the never-ending lies...
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  943.  @EnjoySynthSounds  I've never voted them. Neither have most people I know. The boundaries, the lack of PR, the lack of media plurality, and the cognitive dissonance of the British public all contribute to the Tory's unbelievable ability to get elected...
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  944. Key Points since 2010 the Tories have closed or downgraded over 1,200 sure start centres to help young mothers cope and provide early learning, have closed 419 schools and 535 libraries. They don't want an educated populace. But they have built a few new Academies for more affluent children...
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  945.  @ANDREWHALL28  Privatisation only came in the 80s with Thatcher and her neoliberalism. Before that all national industry was nationalised, it's the default. We now pay £93+ billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies to support privatisation and billions in bailouts. I'd rather have self-sufficiency and no they weren't unprofitable. The Tories did their usual defund, run down and then offer private finance as a solution...
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  946. Poor thing was just trying to get away from all the plastic and pollution and they forced him back into the ocean...
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  947. That's the worst intro to Eastenders ever...
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  948. He needs to undo the past 13 years of incompetence and destruction of UK infrastructure and the economy. Then he needs to turn the most selfish group of inept kleptocrats into 'real' human beings.
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  949. lol people will put up with any regressive taxes or strict legislation, lose in a game of soccer and all bets are off. Humans are curiously strange...
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  950. Mommy, is it my turn to rule the plebs? oh Mommy, please Mommy, can I rule the plebs now and teach them how to talk to plants?
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  951. We aren't allowed to grieve we are simply debt-enslaved cash cows.
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  952. It's almost as if a life of captivity with no external stimuli or companionship is harmful to longevity...
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  953. lol robocop will be here soon to stop them...
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  954. We now have anti-truth and illusions in place of reality...
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  955. Why so harsh on Trump voters? I mean seriously it takes a lot of courage to support one of the most inane, egotistical con-men in recent history!
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  956. If you stand close enough to Matt Hancock, you can hear the ocean.
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  957. So i can't mention the game monopoly or my comment gets deleted/filtered?
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  958. Matt Hancock shouldn't let his mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  959. Chinese batteries with nuclear power, what could go wrong lol. At least it's not for the general public...
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  960. It's a dic move by Belarus. But Poland sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan creating these refugees as a member of Nato, signed agreements in 2004 regarding immigration and refugees when they joined the EU and have to let them in under international law. They can process them legally and refuse asylum or they can leave the EU and renege on their agreements...
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  961. It's spelt Brexit...
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  962. The challenges the NHS faces: The Tories, who have always been the bane of the NHS...
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  963.  @metalicminer6231  Pakistan was part of India during the colonisation by the British Empire, the natural resources of India had been looted, then in 1947 the country was split into India which was predominantly Hindu, and Pakistan which was predominantly Muslim. In 1943 Winston Churchill's policies led to the Bengal famine which caused the death of 2-3 million Indians. We are completely to blame for India's poverty and many of its social issues.
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  964. While I'm fine with rejoining the EU, the damage has already been done and repairing trade, diplomatic and security agreements would take decades, If ever. The larger question is how do we stop something like this from happening again? The answer is removing power from the few and restoring the plurality of the media.
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  965. Fair enough, can the whole world stop talking about it now? bigger problems than a celebrity spat going on.
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  966.  @Sweetrose333  Yes, I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm. I also enjoy serf-ing on my days off ;)
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  967. Flown in from the states to cry on the BBC... Shows the mentality of these people...
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  968. From the party that sold off social housing, crashed the economy and increased inflation to the point where most people can't afford to get on the housing ladder. Now they're giving taxpayer money to developers for more unaffordable housing. 676,000 empty houses in England alone - the problem is that people need affordable housing!
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  969. Are we still pretending economics is completely arbitrary? just checking...
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  970. Alright, let's put this Cummings row into perspective shall we? Who here hasn't visited Barnard Castle and driven around 260 miles a couple of times during lock down and in a pandemic, while full up with a deadly virus to give their elderly parents a hug? Exactly!!
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  971. The only administrators in the NHS should be senior doctors who have worked in the system and know it inside out. Not fresh from economic school management types. Over a decade ago many of us pointed out how the Tories were repeating their enforced Privatisation methods in the NHS. Cutting funding, reducing incentives for workers, and creating more layers of unnecessary administration until the Service is no longer fit for use. Then they offer private finance as a solution until the service is fully privatised and controlled by mercenary profiteers.
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  972.  @thebear4880  Yes, Debt is owned and therefore wealth, that wealth is owned by the corporations and the wealthy Tory donors. Tory borrowing created hyperinflation. Our money is used to enrich their mates.
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  973. Yes, Keir Starmer is the man to lead the party, but the party he should be leading is the Lib Dems because he certainly ain't no leftie...
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  974. Not really, corporate responsibility is the main problem. Individuals contribute a fraction of the CO2 industry contributes. No matter how hard we work on an individual basis, we will never be able to offset the damage by corporate entities who have little respect for legislation, taxation or governments.
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  975.  @greenlivesmatter  Just under £1.3 billion according to the Home Office and studies show migrants pay more than they take out of the system during their working lives. Yet that taxpayer gives over twice that to corporations every single week in subsidies and tax breaks. On top of that, we lose up to £120 billion per annum via nonpayment of corporate tax. Not very good with figures are ya?
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  976. Despite my calculations using the government stats that there are 27.8 million households and that times £200 is £5.5 billion, Boris just said in PMQs the energy scheme will actually cost £9.1 billion. So I'd assume that the extra £3.6 billion is administrative costs. Over 1/3rd of the cost of this scheme is admin generating debt to the taxpayer and increased profits to government contractors while ensuring bumper profits for energy companies in October and leaving the consumer with a £40 debt burden for 5 years! How exactly is this helpful to anyone but shareholders in the energy companies and government contractors?
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  977. To be fair reading and talking are acquired skills that humans tend not to fully master until late childhood...
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  978. Someone once wrote "It seems the aristocracy was never reprimanded as children, never taught the difference between right and wrong, never learned about morality and decency. These privileged children should never have access to power over the already impoverished UK population. They drain the system like financial vampires until the UK and its people are anaemic and emaciated!" it was me, but it was filtered so I'll try in quotes...
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  979. Poor people disproportionately affected by a pandemic... next you'll be telling me a lack of money leads to poverty.
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  980. Make being an MP a full-time job then ban second jobs and side earners/backhanders. That will get rid of most of the chancers and attract people interested in doing the job with care for their public image and constituents.
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  981. I stand up for Ukraine. I also accept that NATO pressure on Ukraine to join and expansionist policies made the invasion an inevitability, many pundits predicted this over a decade ago. We all know Putin is a megalomanic and was always going to respond to NATO troop movements and efforts to turn Ukraine into a NATO outpost. Let's be honest about this, we bare some responsibility for the suffering of the Ukrainian people...
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  982. To do a u-turn you need to first go in a certain direction, he's just running around in circles avoiding the real left and pandering to the right...
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  983.  @the1beard  Italy, Spain and Portugal have close copies of our system and New Zealand and Malta take a lot of the inspiration for their system from the NHS.
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  984. lol why can't people read the basic story before commenting? She told Lady Hussey at the start of the conversation that she didn't have records of her African ancestry. This was because her ancestors were transported to the Caribbean by the British monarchy possibly by Lady Hussey's ancestors. They didn't write a cargo manifest of the slaves they transported and so she couldn't answer the question. Then Lady Hussey kept pressing the point...
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  985. Here come the Oompa Loompas to defend their King...
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  986.  @draculakickyourass  While I partly agree, we only tax working income in this country rather than wealth. While allowing the wealthy and corporations to avoid taxes. We pay over £100 billion of taxpayers' money to corporations in subsidies and corporate welfare every year. Those corporations cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxation. FIAT currency and Fractional Reserve Banking should also be taken into account. Not to mention our debt-to-GDP ratio which has been over 100% several times in the past few years. The losses from Brexit coupled with the increased cost of goods and transport also play a part as you rightly suggested. But mismanagement of the economy is not an accident, they are using economic euthanasia and creating a two-class system of extreme wealth and extreme poverty. Corporatocracy sux!
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  987. Farge and Churchill, that's a party I'd stick my hand in a blender to avoid... Yea, sorry can't make it tonight I'm picking up what's left of my fingers with my good hand...
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  988.  @lee9650  It's a backdoor for digital IDs, soon if you aren't on the system you won't be able to rent a house or get a car. If they abolish physical currency we'll be at their mercy for everything. They'll want a percentage if you sell your mate an xbox controller...
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  989. While I agree we need to reduce air pollution, especially in big cities. Putting the focus on the taxpayer instead of industry is a cop-out. Decent public transport would obviously help, but essentially UK air quality is predominantly affected by corporate pollution - transport, energy production via power plants burning fossil fuels, factories, waste plants etc. Industrial air pollution costs the UK taxpayer between £3.4 billion and £9.5 billion a year - according to the European Environment Agency.
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  990. A nice orange jumpsuit would look good on him, it would go with his face... Bigly!
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  991.  @bellezayverdad  I like WS too. I rewrote a sonnet, especially for Bojo. Shall I compare thee to a shit-stained cesspit? Thou art more revolting and more abhorrent. Rough winds should blow you into a bear pit. And hellfire's sun should light your final respite; Sometime too hot the fires of hell and often not hot enough for a PM so fell.
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  992. There he is, our fearless leader. Looking like a cheap scarecrow in a high wind...
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  993. I thought the devil wore Prada...
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  994. Only people who've had amnesia for the past 13 years...
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  995.  @hastekulvaati9681  Agreed, and yet the cognitive dissonance forced on the British public has given me late-stage terminal sarcasm with complications such as irony and satiristic leanings. I'm not sure I'll ever recover.
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  996. lol showing the world our feudal archaic leftovers, as If the world hasn't been laughing at us constantly the past decade...
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  997. That's a coincidence, Mickey Mouse is the name of the economic policy the Tories are currently following...
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  998.  @jake751  You should reread my comment, I defend the Palestinian people...
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  999.  @titteryenot4524  He writes songs not literature, put my comment into context. I'm comparing his story-based songs to the grit and realism of Shakespeare. The understanding of the human condition and the many societal questions we ask. You're entitled to disagree but seriously, Ren is a singer, poet, songwriter, rapper, musician, storyteller/bard, and prodigy in many ways. Just as flawed as the rest of us, as was Shakespeare!
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  1000. Agreed, They're spending £84 million on the vaccine, that'll buy a small lab and a few virologists. Still I guess spending £93 billion per annum on corporate welfare and subsidies to billionaires and their tax dodging corporations is more important than us peons.
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  1001.  @johnryan7932  :) Boris should have been born in the Dark Ages; he looks terrible in the light. He's as strong as an ox and almost as intelligent. He also possesses a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. He's so dishonest that we can't even be sure that what he tells us are lies!
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  1002. Because they don't want an educated working class - the last thing they want is well-fed, healthy citizens, armoured from manipulation by education and logic challenging their narratives. We are more pliable when hungry, unhealthy, in debt and naive.
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  1003. She didn't know where her ancestors came from as she told Hussey at the start of the conversation. Because Hussey's ancestors didn't write that on the cargo manifest when they transported her ancestors to the Caribbean as slaves...
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  1004.  @ai-d2121  Essentially 90-99% of us dependant on how high up the pyramid you go. The top 1% have the majority of resources and power, possibly refine that to the top 1% of the top 1%. The higher up the pyramid we go the more power and wealth are in the hands of a tiny organic group of people with varying views and interests who look after their own self-interests through mutual cooperation and control.
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  1005.  @davidbishopbishop4664  Agreed on many points. Some options include an ideological shift through education and agitation, strikes don't need to be damaging, they just have to be used effectively, enforcing criminal proceedings against corrupt MPs, marching, unity and if necessary uprising, enforcing plurality of the media. Then we tax wealth, the investor class, inherited wealth, close tax loopholes, and renationalise industries such as energy, communications, transport etc. As I said things will only get worse we have little to lose in the long run. We are heading for a dystopian corporatocracy. The longer we wait the harder it gets and the more legislation is put in place to block us.
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  1006.  @JokMetal  Please read and share this appeal: Are you aware that many Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That many Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? That their closest confidant and friend is their butler? If you can spare just 10 minutes a week please reach out to a Tory MP, send them a message or a letter and tell them that they are loved and that there is a better way. Encourage them to integrate with people, you know real people. If you would like to adopt a Tory MP you should be hypocrite tolerant and have a very high boredom threshold. They require the most exquisite diet, because of their fragile constitution and need lots of care and light exercise once a year. A reasonable-sized mansion is suggested for housing your Tory MP and a large amount of public money should be set aside for future upgrades such as duck ponds, moats; you know the usual. It's important to remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they can be found dipping into the public cookie jar at all times of the year. Adopt a Tory MP today, and show them the way to a better life...
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  1007. RIP the man who died. What are the qualifications to be Home Secretary? Judging by the last few I assume similar to the qualifications needed to work at a camp with showers in the 1940s...
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  1008.  @gothicgolem2947  Tell that care home residents...
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  1009. So passionate about public services that we are going to cut even more money from the struggling services. So less tax then? no, your taxes are still going up!
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  1010. Why is this even a discussion? Taxpayer money is not a pot of gold for shareholders. We should have nationalised energy and supply our own needs. Self-sufficiency in this day and age is a must...
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  1011. Feudal fascists, Digital dictators, Authoritarian assholes, Dystopian dicks, kleptocratic cockwombles... Just a few of the phrases used to describe the narrow genetics of that stagnant shallow gene pool that is the British elite...
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  1012. The petrodollar has left the building. UK becomes the US. Free Britney - actually on second thought-free Assange as Britney hasn't really done much for humanity...
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  1013. Today's Sesame Street was brought to you by the numbers 9 and 11, and the phrases 'black flag operation' and 'Machiavellian plots'...
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  1014. So many industrial accidents these days, bet the insurance companies are happy...
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  1015. In other news: I once had a pet hamster named honey. She was lovely and I used to watch her running on her wheel and taking drinks from her water bottle. But one day she died so we put her in a trifle box and buried her in the rockery. The End.
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  1016. Product recall on the most sensitive food item - baby food - is a severe indictment of unfettered capitalism. A country that can't rely on its government to supply the basics without the aid of a foreign nation is surely not the 'best country in the World'. Who puts baby food in inorganic arsenic tainted packaging?
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  1017. It begins with a T and ends in ories...
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  1018.  @stevec700  When i die, I would just like to be remembered as the guy who gave his taxes to the government to waste on cronyism and corporate greed, without question. Who never resented the endless tax increases and loss of freedoms. Who consumed and got into debt to enrich the wealthy elite, without a hint of complaint. A man who was happy to go without food and heating so that wealthy shareholders could top up their off-shore accounts. A man who played by the rules, even while the rules were playing him. Bless the wealthy elitists and corrupt politicians alike.
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  1019. lol, profiteering from those who can't afford new cars. Another tax o the poor - while those who own the businesses that pollute will drive their brand new cars without paying daily charges...
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  1020.  @nicolasetherton2534  lol you have to ask? He was born a multi-millionaire. He's had about as much experience with poverty as I've had dating Princesses...
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  1021. Yes, it's so wonderful to see our new King, can't wait to bow down and doff my cap to his Royal Heinous. I'll be forelock tugging all day as I'm so happy to still be a subject of a feudal system and therefore essentially a serf. God save our King and those wonderful upper-class Tories whose philanthropy is unmatched. I only wish I could bow and scrape all the time but I have to work 23 hours a day to pay for my electricity...
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  1022.  @Believe-you-me-  lol, I defend Blair on the economy as he reduced our debt to GDP by 4% before the crisis. I defend the PFIs in the sense that the tories ignored the cap, increased the duration and then added PFI2. But I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4 and he is the reason the Overton window has shifted so far to the right in Britain...
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  1023. Curious that Israelis haven't complained much about the nature of their country's regime until it turned on them...
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  1024. All the Tories care about is the fact that just means there are 115 fewer vulnerable people they have to worry about...
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  1025. The European convention of human rights clearly states "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers." So stop deleting my comments!
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  1026. Considering unemployment payments are only £1.56 billion per annum while corporate tax dodging costs the taxpayer £40-120 billion per annum, while corporate welfare and subsidies cost the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum (even more after this budget), I'd say the rich are fleecing the poor's taxes to top up their offshore bank accounts...
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  1027. The importance of punctuation: There's a maypole dancing contest. Theresa May, pole dancing contest.
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  1028. I'd have to say the main issues include 13 years of lies, corruption, incompetence and complete contempt for the electorate and political system.
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  1029. I have fresh coffee from beans - costs about 20 pence a cup. For a fiver I could buy enough beans to last 2 weeks. Coffee shops are all about hype and being seen, the Marketing of coffee shops is just another illusion people buy into.
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  1030. I need a taxi to take me to the hospital in the next ten minutes or I'll die. No problem we'll send a cab in 30 minutes...
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  1031. Sir Lindsey Hoyle is irritating. There fixed it! ;-)
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  1032. Profits from the crown estate belong to the state/parliament. The sovereign grant may come out of those profits but that is a generous benefit payment. George III gave up the rights to the crown estate in 1760 to avoid bankruptcy and received an annual grant known as the civil list. His descendants still get that grant although it's now called the Sovereign Grant. This means we've been supporting his family for 263 years, the longest-running welfare spongers in British history...
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  1033.  @metalicminer6231  lol I can't argue with stupid. Ignore history and claim books don't exist if you like. I've already given you a brief summary, there are thousands of books on the subject including texts from the time.
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  1034.  @cup1966wow  Energy companies are making bumper profits while many thousands of elderly won't see the other side of winter... The threat of energy companies putting up prices if taxed more is a circular argument. These corporations get over £100 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the taxpayer every year while costing the taxpayer between £40-120 billion annually via the tax gap. They should be paying more towards the infrastructure taxpayers fund that they use to make their profits.
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  1035. The Trump pantomime continues...
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  1036. Tory cabinet re-shuffle = replacing currently disgraced Tories with previously disgraced Tories...
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  1037. "The Tories have run the country with all the compassion and decency of Fred and Rosemary West. The NHS is their patio!"
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  1038.  @georgebodley8068  That's the kind of subtle prejudiced reference that created this problem in the first place. Talking about money lenders and Jesus. Let's blame capitalists and not bring religion into it, greedy people have always existed in every society, religion, culture and ethnicity. Those that exploit others globally are to be blamed for their ideology, greed and lack of empathy.
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  1039. While I'm not worried about Farage and not 100% convinced as to his story. I will say that banks should not have any say in our opinions and should have bank accounts available for anyone with any level of finance. Posh banks may choose not to let us paupers use them, that's fine as they are set up to handle the wealthy. But normal banks should not dictate acceptance of opinions or stop people having an account for those reasons. We are completely dependent on banking in the digital age and no one should be cut off from the ability to collect wages, pay bills, pay rent/mortgage etc.
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  1040.  @Yayo11111  I'd take a coalition run by Frank Spencer, Mr Bean and Del Boy - having said that I'm not sure that isn't what we already have.
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  1041.  @davidbaldwin521  You realise I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm? It's a point that is so obvious yet neglected in financial discussions...
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  1042. Maybe they enjoy watching as many as 10,000 pensioners die of cold each year?
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  1043.  @adamibrahim7338  The only thing that's true is that no one ever smiled when you walked into a room...
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  1044. What a fake, pointless photo op. Spend 5 minutes serving a few people then he's gone. Who believes he wanted to be there or that he spent any time at all with the crew? who believes his presence was a help? What a dumb world we live in...
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  1045. A government that parties while the rest of us can't comfort loved ones in their final moments, out of touch? that sips champagne while a large percentage of the country can't afford heating and food. Surely not...
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  1046. To those who accuse supporters of Corbyn of being a cult: not about the man - it's about integrity and ideology! anyways off to pray to a 10ft effigy of Corbyn: Our ideology, that art for everyone, Socialism be thy name. Our time will come as Capitalism is undone. On Earth, as it is inevitable. Give unto those your daily charity and forgive us our profits. As we forgive neoliberals who use profit against us. And lead us not into greed, but deliver us from monopolies. For thine is dialectical materialism, class struggle against the Tories. For ever and ever, Ahem...
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  1047. African Bullfrogs were invented by Sir Ian African Bullfrog, who named the creatures after his daughter - Sally African Bullfrog...
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  1048.  @analogdistortion  Tories cut funding to renewable sources of energy which is why we're in this mess. Not to mention selling off nationalised energy and allowing a consortium to take over and hike prices. Lefties use facts and knowledge...
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  1049. Priti "Oh pretty Vacant" Patel...
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  1050. If you look closely you can see what's left of her battered, withered soul desperately trying to escape the fetid, rotten cage of flesh in which it's entrapped...
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  1051. The poor can't afford to spend £2,500 per annum and they need the help most. The price cap only helps those on decent wages who can afford to use central heating, the rest us will continue to suffer the cold and still have to spend £80 a month on electricity just to run the basics...
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  1052. She was asked which part of Africa she was from, and she said she didn't have any records (her ancestors were transported as slaves to the Caribbean and had no documentation of their original country). She was then asked about her Nationality to which she replied born in London, I'm British. Then she was asked where 'her people come from' to which she replied her parents came here in the 50s. She was then told she was Caribbean. To which she replied I'm of African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality... It's a shame people can't read the story and the transcript before commenting...
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  1053. Our hard-earned taxmoney is being wasted by children who were given a hat, a uniform and an expensive car to wreck...
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  1054. Makes a change from the insects and slime he's no doubt used to brownnosing in his own party...
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  1055.  @toyotaprius79  Agreed, The Cromwellian invasion of Ireland and later the wealthy English being granted arable land in Ireland led to the famine. I was born in 1972 and some hotels and bed and breakfasts were still adored with the 'No Irish' signs.
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  1056. lol you know there's a transcript of the conversation and that Hussey apologised and resigned...
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  1057. What's he remembering? how his family faught with their relatives in Germany? Respect to the anti-fascists who defeated the threat of global tyranny. And here we are with the same types of people rising to power globally on the backs of lies. Never forget?
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  1058. Post office victims: 33 no longer with us, 4 took their own lives, countless others in bankruptcy and those who want compensation have to sign waiver... Taxpayer had their property sold, their services reduced and now will be paying out again... Justice? Culpability? Not likely...
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  1059. Poor guy, persecuted for the colour of his skin - orange. At least they only found 34 of his thousands of felonies...
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  1060. Hooray for rich people and their toys. If only they'd stop parasitically bleeding the Earth dry for joy rides we could solve humanity's problems and start to explore and utilize the infinite resources of the Universe...
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  1061. He's a member of the Conservative Ultra Nationalist Troglodyte Society, surprisingly they don't use the acronym...
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  1062. The thing I like about Boris is
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  1063. How do the police show remorse for excessive brutality? by doubling down... Jebus
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  1064.  @elsaflora9181  My pleasure, happy to provide a little cheer in these interesting times!
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  1065. The staff shortage in the NHS is over 110,000 in the UK and we have a 5th of the population of the US, this is during a pandemic. Hard to believe governments could be so incompetent when it comes to the public's health. Some may even argue it isn't incompetence...
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  1066. Operation hostile environment more like. Oh, I forgot these are mainly rich Afghans who helped the allies loot their own country, they have so much in common with the Tories...
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  1067. Everything that happened before 9/11 no matter how disturbing used to make sense in some way. Now nothing has to make sense in this crazy pantomime we call life...
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  1068. Negotiating? Do normal people often get the opportunity to negotiate arrest for crimes committed? Flawed justice and wealthy privilege...
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  1069.  @DJWESG1  ...or you're just a conspiracy theorist who thinks billionaires are funding oil demonstrations against themselves...
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  1070. Yes, of course they will, right after pigs start to fly in the pink sky of a nuclear wasteland...
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  1071. She predicted a financial crisis and that debt would rise and rise? So did Karl Marx in 1867... Capitalism is inherently flawed...
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  1072. PM lies and goes back on yet another promise.
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  1073. What we need is more profiteering in the NHS, some of our taxes are unfortunately still being used to treat and heal people rather than going to shareholders...
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  1074. It should be nationalised and the cost can be recovered from the £100 billion given away in subsidies and corporate welfare out of taxes every year because of privatisation, not to mention the constant price hikes and bailouts...
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  1075. Say what you want about his package, But I just think we're lucky those generous Tories have been putting so much money into the NHS and public services while growing our economy. I mean imagine the problems we'd be having if they'd been forcing through punishing cuts to the NHS and Public Services to feed corporate greed while destroying our economy for the past 12 years...
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  1076. I'm going to guess they'll be some buying, selling and maybe some manufacturing...
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  1077. lol, sure thing. He either didn't get the numbers or was told his return was not acceptable by the party. While I don't want the Tories in power, at least having Sunak as PM will upset the neanderthals...
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  1078. The Crown is a work of fiction and has about as much to do with reality as Matt Hancock has to do with integrity and ability...
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  1079.  @sageemma  My apologies to all demonic creatures/entities.
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  1080. My first reply on this video disappeared with the video, my second reply is filtered. My reply to someones else's comment disappeared as did their comment. Talk about narrative control...
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  1081. It's probably because she can't look directly at a cross or walk into a church unless invited, not to mention hallowed ground will cause her discomfort...
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  1082. Like all the other financial crises that ever happened in history weren't orchestrated...
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  1083. Boris Johnson: the marquis of mayhem, the duke of duplicity, the viscount of vacuousness, the baron of buffoonery, the earl of egomania, the prince of pork pies, the count of clusterf*cks, the oligarch of omnishambles, the king of the kleptocratic cockwombles.
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  1084. Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Land of dopes and Tories.
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  1085. Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill
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  1086. Of all the things I know I am, Like poor and old and fat. At least I'm not Boris Johnson, The useless Etonian...
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  1087. Agreed, The NHS in the 70s was fully funded, we had family doctors, no waiting lists, and twice the beds we have now run far more efficiently for a lower cost. The problem now is overpriced contracts, layers of admin and management, debt from private finance, sale of profitable NHS assets and essentially soft privatisation. I'd love to compare the amount of profits taken out of the NHS by shareholders these days in comparison to the 70s. I'm sure that would be very telling about where the taxpayer money is going. We have 1 in 10 people on NHS waiting lists, I've been on an urgent list waiting for an appointment for over a year.
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  1088. Say what you want about Bush, but he was far better than Reagan... at acting...
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  1089. Corporate welfare rising and public welfare declining as it has been the past decade or so...
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  1090. I bet they withdrew plenty of Lithium, Gold and Opium long before the deadline, priorities...
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  1091. He should still go and take the consort with him, they know how to treat royalty in France...
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  1092. While it does sound counter-intuitive, that's only because it bloody is...
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  1093. Start tugging your forelock and doffing your cap immediately you ungrateful peasant. The Tories have given you contempt of parliament, election fraud, disabled vilification, Brexit, election fraud, economic euthanasia, nepotism, cronyism, did I mention election fraud? kleptocracy, corruption. Some people are never happy!
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  1094. Let him eat cake... Sponger...
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  1095. So our PM and Chancellor of the exchequer have been fined for breaking the rules/law? Remember the good old days when politicians had the decency to resign when caught out ?
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  1096. Was that created with the aid of their weaponised spyware?
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  1097. I know what's going to happen. We are heading towards a dystopian corporatocracy with fascist tendencies and Orwellian invasions of freedom.
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  1098. Maybe we should ask the corporations and billionaires exploiting developing countries by chopping down the rainforest, to stop exploiting developing countries? I mean to be fair imperialism took a lot from Africa in general, many of its natural resources. Now corporations continue plundering and offer to give them a bung/bribe from the taxpayer to keep quiet?
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  1099.  @soylentroy7585  Go and doff your cap and tug your forelock for your wealthy overseers somewhere else, I'm not interested in brownnosing the wealthy...
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  1100.  Mobile Phone  It seems you can't read "I don't condone this act", so please stop making statements that are as pointless as your birth.
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  1101. Daft COP26 agreement published... Too little too late but provides the illusion of action...
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  1102. Breaking News: The rich have all got together and had a whip-round to collect some money for the poor to ease the cost of living crisis. Only kidding, as if! They aren't affected by the rise in prices or our suffering...
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  1103. Bye-Bye elections :)
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  1104. America the world is laughing, sort yourselves out!
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  1105. We need more MPs willing to give the Tories both barrels. Diet Tories: A moment in office - A lifetime in your wallets!
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  1106. Trump, Johnson same thing different side of the pond. Make up whatever you like, deny the obvious and use obfuscation as often as possible while having a slender relationship with truth and the real world. They were also both born in New York, both use the same hairdresser, both made a mess of the crisis in 2020 and both of them would make the world a better place with their absence...
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  1107.  @danielwebb8402  They don't have a home, almost 300,000 have to rely on awful box rooms while their children suffer hunger and deprivation. Just because they have a roof does not mean they aren't homeless. We have 22% of the population in poverty and we paid £120.1 billion in subsidies alone to corporations in 2021, those corporations also get tax breaks, loopholes, grants, bailouts from taxpayer money. Those corporations also cost us £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxes via the tax gap. Professional statistician - you mean you work for the ONS producing statistics with narrow focuses, misleading language and dodgy timelines? I've torn apart many stats for their misuse of phrases and also check the raw data to confirm them. For instance, we had a population of 67 million during the pandemic and wasted £37 billion a test and trace service that wasn't fit for use. That's £552 per person, which could have bought every man, woman and child solid gold medical trackers...
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  1108. The bride has her mouth tied shut, how will she say 'I do' - that's no way to start a marriage...
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  1109. The circus will continue as the previous clown is set to replace the incumbent clown...
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  1110. Those incompetent kleptocratic cockwombles have been costing us thousands of lives per month for a decade and making excuses. First it was the 30,000 excess deaths a year in the NHS caused by the cuts. Now they can't even arrange the simplest logistical tasks with lives at risk.
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  1111. Thanks for the vid, Gary. Accept the lack of freedom and the never-ending bureaucracy, consume, pay bills and give consent to the dystopian corporatocracy.
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  1112. Cheers, Gary. Every crisis is an opportunity for the wealthy. During the first round of austerity, the wealthiest families in Britain doubled their assets. At the cost of 160,000 excess deaths in the NHS alone, in fact, a recent article states "Austerity may have caused an additional 335,000 deaths in Great Britain between 2012 and 2019". Every banking crisis causes bankruptcy for small businesses and increases the problems in society. This means millions of people have to sell their assets, companies, stock, buildings etc at rock-bottom prices. Giving those with disposable wealth the opportunity to buy up all those bargains on the cheap. It seems to me a crisis is only ever a crisis for those without, for those with wealth it's always an opportunity. An opportunity that costs lives.
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  1113. They keep manifesting their destiny in the wrong way. Thoughts and prayers should be replaced by tighter gun controls. America has 1.2 guns per person...
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  1114. Boris making excuses for why the US wants absolutely nothing to do with international laughing stock the Tories...
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  1115. Hopefully, they'll keep her, we certainly don't want her back, or her front...
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  1116.  @moshedayan6698  It only affects people who use trains and they can't choose to work from home or they would have. So not sure of your logic or reasoning. As for how much Lynch has cost his members, it's 0. The industry and the government blocking deals is costing the members and they choose to strike. Thanks for your time, but I'm afraid your comment isn't going to be of much use on this occasion.
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  1117. Questionable? rogue state - time for international condemnation instead of support for these deplorable actions...
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  1118. 'Disappointing' UK economy contraction excuses...
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  1119. LEt's all just stop buying gas and have log fires in our houses like the rich...
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  1120.  @balance3201  Where do they get that money and power? from us. We need to stand up for ourselves before we end up in a dystopian corporatocracy. As much as I enjoyed Blade Runner I wouldn't want to live there.
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  1121. Wasn't this an episode of Eastenders complete with an Easter resurection? So hard to tell fact from fiction these days. But as we all know espionage stories are always 100% true...
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  1122. It's voter suppression if you pay taxes in the UK you already have an ID and are entitled to vote!
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  1123. The equivalent of scrawling 'Putin was 'ere' on a bus stop...
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  1124. lol, I seriously hope that's sarcasm. It's easy to adjust your levels of champagne consumption and nights out, but it's not so easy to restrict the limited amount of energy and food you can buy on minimum wage as you can die of hypothermia or starve...
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  1125. I have nothing against Matt Handcock, apart from his persistence in existing.
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  1126. Cognitive dissonance and every type of communication defecation available on this post. My aggravation of the abnegation of these allegations leads to exacerbation of exasperation. Vexation, frustration the castration of my elation this oration deserves celebration and ovation because the narration is a sensation...
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  1127. The budget will be aimed at improving the economy that the Tories crashed, if they throw the poor a bone it will be likely to be a cynical gesture that looks good but helps little...
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  1128. A little bit of trivia for the Americans. After the clusterfk of Brexit, the Tories claimed we could recoup some of our losses via a new trade deal with Tuvalu which is a collection of 9 islands with a population of under 12,000 and part of the British Commonwealth. That didn't age well! On a serious note, good luck Tuvalu with this project and the evacuation.
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  1129. Yes, next question. Anyways it's that time of year when we hear the sound of bells and look up to see Thatcher riding through the sky in a sleigh pulled by Brexit unicorns throwing bolts of debt and poverty at the houses of the working class. While she collects from us a glass of the milk of human kindness and dips her hands in our taxpayer cookie jars...
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  1130. Deplorable actions, which I'm sure the Tories will use to justify more authoritarian legislation...
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  1131. A pathetic warmongering country that uses dictatorial power, authoritarianism and brutal police put-downs of the populace. But enough about the US what happening in N.Korea?
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  1132. Collect your PM tokens free in every box of Tory cereal, collect enough tokens and you too could be PM next week!
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  1133. It's a good statement about society, but seriously the Tories would have us all living like that if we don't oppose them.
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  1134. The US certainly manifested a lot of destiny that day...
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  1135. Missiles in Ukraine is the reason for the invasion in the first place. NATO was trying to cozy up to Ukraine to gain bases on the Russian border, Putin obviously was trying to stop that. But they are both as bad as each other. Putin is using his gas pipelines to blackmail the west, hence the dramatic increase in energy prices in Europe. Humans are incredibly dumb and would risk the future of the planet and the species for ideological differences and lines on a map...
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  1136. The only thing I dislike about Trump is his persistence in existing...
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  1137. An authoritarian narcissist who loots his own country while denying his people freedom of expression and basic human rights, but enough about Boris Johnson, what's Kim doing?
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  1138.  @10whiten99  Yes, like most Tory MPs Ann is a wonderfully generous humanitarian and a compassionate altruistic philanthropist :)
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  1139. Prince Andrew has been busy...
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  1140. They don't want to incriminate themselves and expose their corrupt cover-ups.
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  1141. Breaking, some more desperate migrants victims of wars we started paraded on Sky to be demonized by right-whingers...
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  1142. Llywelyn is still remembered in the hills and valleys, the imposter can take a long walk off a short pier...
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  1143. Just put your tick in the box that says 'Corporate puppet who will continue selling your country out to the highest bidder and ignore the public because corporate lobbyists pay better' as the rest of the world does...
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  1144.  @ThomasDoubting5  Thank you for defecating cognitive diarrhoea on social media. The world appreciates you in the same way it appreciated the extra C02 in the atmosphere... Here is the main reason: The mainstream media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  1145. Takes a swipe at China and Russia when the US is the largest emitter of C02 and China being the first, makes all the US technological devices and in the process creates C02...
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  1146. Maybe it's because our only choice is between red, yellow or blue neoliberalism.
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  1147.  @CanadianBear47  We had a school shooting in the UK in 1996, the laws were changed, restrictions and storage regulations enforced and haven't had another. People of good character (no violent criminality) can still own firearms in the UK.
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  1148. Says a Tory who feeds corporate subsidies and his mate's offshore bank accounts with taxpayer money while using cuts to economically euthanise thousands of vulnerable Brits. The Tories know all about Mafia-style governments...
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  1149.  @ronventy798  Thank you for proving your childlike intellect and lack of credible response...
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  1150.  @herodotus4272  I'm as far left as I can go and am fully aware of my audience. Labour has lost their way since Blair dropped clause 4 and Starmer is a second-rate Blair tribute act, but still a far better choice than the Tories who have taken everything the Attlee government gave the working class including social housing, the NHS, working rights, human rights, public transport, legal aid, nationalised industry, free schooling and a welfare state to protect the disabled and vulnerable :)
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  1151. Considering the state of Britain at the moment with its multiple crises in the NHS, economy and cost of living. Asking Sunak to look after the economy is akin to asking Fred and Rosemary West to babysit your kids...
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  1152. Since when have the Tories even cared about the will of the people? corporations and profit are their motives. It's not my will to break international law and give up my human rights...
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  1153.  @imbonkers3629  Germany has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 59.8% of GDP, France is 98%. Italy is in the hands of the far right which explains their 134.8%... Anything else?
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  1154.  @RevJones48  Agreed, I've seen Jellyfish with a stronger backbone than the British public. Action needs to be taken.
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  1155.  @pierremartini2229  I think we need to put an ad on TV, something along the line of: "Are you aware that many Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That many Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? That their closest confidant and friend is their butler? If you can spare just 10 minutes a week please reach out to a Tory MP, send them a message or a letter and tell them that they are loved and that there is a better way. Encourage them to integrate with people, you know real people. If you would like to adopt a Tory MP you should be hypocrite tolerant and have a very high boredom threshold. They require the most exquisite diet, because of their fragile constitution and need lots of care and light exercise once a year. A reasonable-sized mansion is suggested for housing your Tory MP and a large amount of public money should be set aside for future upgrades such as duck ponds, moats; you know the usual. It's important to remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they can be found dipping into the public cookie jar at all times of the year. Adopt a Tory MP today, and show them the way to a better life."
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  1156. All the compassion of Fred West working on his patio...
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  1157. My top ten favourite things about the Queen. > > > > > > > > > >
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  1158. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of cash; Four and twenty kleptocrats siphoning off our tax. When the country realised, they all began to sing, Get the Tories out of office or they'll sell off everything!
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  1159. lol sovereignty loving Brexiteers are happy to be spending our money on a problem the Tories manufactured. Priceless...
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  1160. I'm just so glad we still have a ruling class to pay for - who lord it over us while we sweat and toil just to pay our bills. So glad we didn't evolve beyond a monarchy and are still treated like serfs. Makes me proud to be an illiterate peasant, happy to vote for the continued inequity. Bows and scrapes
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  1161.  @robertstrong6798  Agreed, the recent problems lie with the home office and their failure to process claims. Not to mention the reason for the mass migration in the first place was the West and the petrodollar wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia and the proxy war in Syria. As well as other regime changes and destabilisation globally led by the West.
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  1162. Any trees left in the world? I mean they do a good job of providing oxygen and I'm kinda partial to oxygen...
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  1163. I'll try again "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." Feel free to research this info, most comes from the New York Times...
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  1164. Why do I think Baldrick plan whenever I see Boris plan...
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  1165. I just watched the actual footage of the explosion the car was still moving pulling up to the hospital when the bomb went off, after the explosion, the car stopped and the driver then exited the vehicle and ran towards the safety of the hospital entrance. The explosion was just a massive puff of smoke, and the car then caught fire 45 seconds later...
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  1166.  @erospistaa  To be fair, Jacob is the human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up!
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  1167.  @barriewilliams4526  I'm just so overwhelmingly grateful that Brexit has improved the lives of Brits all over the Union. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how the UK's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound kept soaring ever higher. The UK has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It was like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a huge endeavour. Not to mention the extra investment we now provide the NHS as a result. The Tories protected the GFA at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to build. An all-around success story for the UK. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea and a trip to the sunlit uplands to feed my Unicorns...
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  1168. Heart-warming to see a baby trying to claim back some of her mother's taxes...
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  1169. I'm a failed politician and responsible for the loss of many lives... Get me out of here!
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  1170. Did the rain cause the flood? did the sun cause the drought? Of course, she is responsible and should be met with the full force of the law!
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  1171. The coalition of Chaos! One clown after another until the whole country is a circus!
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  1172. A Cardinal who'd do anything to protect children, except clean up his own religion...
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  1173. She was going to see friends and chose to go on a day when strikes had been announced, she was only inconvenienced by the fact that she had to use a bus rather than a train. Seriously pick a different day or sleep on the bus during the journey, it's not like you're going to work after a sleepless night worrying about bills...
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  1174. Poor entitled millionaires being harassed by the FBI for breaking the law... lol
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  1175.  @ozer9529  No, I voted for Corbyn and against Brexit. I'm not as foolish as most and not a politically illiterate sychophant...
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  1176. It's almost as if their country was invaded and looted for a decade and then left with a huge power vacuum that was filled by mercenary groups...
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  1177. We'd prefer your wallet, lol jk.
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  1178.  @danielwebb8402  Here's some more "But no one should be happy with the fact that our poorest households have to survive on incomes a staggering 20% lower than those across the Channel (£14,700 v £18,500)." When nurses are using food banks and many working households are in poverty in what used to be the second-richest country, you have to ask why people would deny it.
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  1179.  @danielwebb8402  I'm not interested in redefining the interpretation of poverty or homelessness, the facts are clear. The wealth gap/poverty gap has doubled in Britain compared to our EU neighbours because of 12 years of Tory mismanagement and corruption. Cronyism and fraud has cost us hundreds of billions during the pandemic. That money could have resolved the poverty issues if put into public services. Why is the taxpayer topping up wages for themselves via tax credits? while corporations make bumper profits. Please don't reply again, I've heard all this a million times...
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  1180.  @stonehengemaca  Agreed, and I did. Imagine the difference to the challenges the UK has recently faced Pandemic, lockdowns, Brexit negotiations if Corbyn had won with his Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry. Not to mention the Re-Nationalisation of the energy market and the fact that all that was offered for around £60 billion, a fraction of what the Tories have wasted...
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  1181. No, they risk their lives going to an unfriendly country that obviously doesn't want them because they love a challenge...
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  1182. Oh, for God's hake. Putin carping on again? or that just a fishious rumour? He should dolphinately scale back on the power trip. You don't have to be a brain sturgeon to see what a load of pollocks this is. They should remove Putin from power and leave it to salmon else. I know not the right plaice for this, I'm just a bit shell-shocked and now I'm giving myself a haddock. My apologies for being so unsofishticated...
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  1183. In other news, a lack of food could lead to famine...
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  1184.  @cup1966wow  Corbyn proposed enforcing transparency on the crown estates and overseas territories in a manifesto pledge when he run. If he'd been elected then transparency may have already been enforced by now. Meaning over 50% of global corporate tax fraud would have been stopped... I'm not sure why you're taking such a petty and unproductive attitude to my post. It's about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  1185. In other news: Living in Britain is like being repeatedly kicked in the balls by an elderly donkey...
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  1186. Authoritarian fascists?
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  1187.  @Felix-rising  Ask the thousands of families who couldn't say farewell to their loved ones or comfort them during their final moments. As the Tories ignored their own rules and partied while the rest of us obeyed them at great personal cost.
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  1188.  @frogmarched6869  I'm so glad we agree. I for one, just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the Brtish people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe care homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers...
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  1189. Tens of thousands of old women will die from hypothermia this year as they do every year. Actually many more than usual due to the cost of energy. But hey, let's talk about feudal systems of governance and the privileged...
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  1190. A cheese and whine party?
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  1191. 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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  1192. Why not provide decent schooling, youth centres, and support centres and then give their parents a real working wage they can afford to support their families on? Just a thought, but a kid brought up having to use food banks, going hungry and slipping through the cavernous cracks in the education system isn't in need of punishment, but opportunities. Society is crumbling all around them and they are not oblivious to that fact. Give them a decent society...
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  1193. If only native fruit and veg grew on their own and were planted around council estates...
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  1194. That's like asking a pod of Orcas why they think the seal population is dwindling...
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  1195.  @joshuaadams6565  Thank you for your obedience, consent and trite comment. The Tory party appreciate your apathy. Although I find it about as much use as a rubber beak on a woodpecker...
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  1196. We don't go near the sheep, the dragons need feeding this time of year!
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  1197. All strikes are ideological in that without the right to take action workers are nothing more than wage-slaves. While the main goal is a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, the battle against domination from the government and corporate bullies is in the interests of all workers.
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  1198. The truth is optional, opinions are facts, ignorance is strength...
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  1199. 190 years old and still hasn't come out of his shell...
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  1200. @RCF Chronicles The media use advanced psychological techniques while a group of wealthy people used Facebook data to manipulate their insecurities and prejudices. I have no time for working-class Tories but we have to accept we are products of the garbage we are fed. I agree with you but sympathise with the fact that we don't have plurality of the media.
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  1201. If only we could find the object that ties Priti 'vacant' Patel to this world and destroy it. In doing so send her back to the depths of the underworld from whence she spawned.
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  1202.  @Asilis23  No I'm a Brexiteer and therefore have no education and my only motivation is jingoism and intolerance.
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  1203. Comments like this make me want to start legal proceedings to divorce the human race...
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  1204.  @MartinNelson  Agreed to a point but those are gov stats, I have to use their own stats and terms to defend my position. What we also have to consider is that we pay our own wages through tax credits also. The taxpayer tops up low wages from corporations out of our own taxes. It's ridiculous. The Welfare state is funded by the taxpayer to protect the vulnerable, those with temporary illness, the disabled and those stuck in zero-hour contracts and temporary agency work. It's not a gift from a nanny state but a protection that we fund ourselves.
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  1205. lol, nationalizing? redistribute wealth? the latest budget continues over a decade of feeding corporate greed while cutting public services...
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  1206. Excuses to implement more Orwellian and authoritarian security on the UK public...
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  1207. Aye and fish may live underwater. The sun may shine during the day and it's quite possible gravity exists...
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  1208.  @chaosflower4892  Thank you for that erudite, intelligent, concise and insightful comment, I'll be looking forward to hearing more from you in the near future!
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  1209. The Brexit benefits just keep coming...
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  1210. So why should workers strike and is it fair to ask for reasonable wages that can support your family? "Well, workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker and taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, taxpayers, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes to their offshore accounts and provide little use to society other than investing their inherited wealth for their own profits?" We are the backbone of industry and the golden goose that lays the golden eggs, our lives get steadily worse as corporations make bumper profits. I stand with the workers!
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  1211. No one has ever asked me If my heritage was Celtic, Saxon, Roman, Viking, Norman etc in my 50 years of life. No one ever asked me where my ancestors came from. I guess it isn't relevant as I'm white... I can imagine it could be quite a shock to your self-image and sense of National pride to be repeatedly questioned...
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  1212. Emigration from Britain last year was 508,000 (Office of National Statistics). Amount of taxpayer money wasted or given 2 mates of the Tories = £billions a week (Me and research)
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  1213. Sold for a penny on the pound, run into the ground and now they'll either replace it with private enterprise or use it to fleece the taxpayer further. Always happens when they privatize taxpayer owned and funded institutions/infrastructures, bleed it for profit then get the taxpayer to refund it...
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  1214. lol, how low do you have to be to be suspended by the sewer of news - GB News... An Olympic gold medalist in ethical limbo dancing...
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  1215.  @the1beard  No mate, it proves your sarcastic statement was nonsense... The NHS was applauded around the world and was the basis for many health services globally.
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  1216. Tory MPs shorten our life expectancy, and nurses extend our life expectancy. I know whose side I'm on and it isn't the aristocrats ruining our economy and international reputation...
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  1217. Not to mention I bet Oppenheimer has bombed in Japan...
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  1218. 'We will hunt you down and make you pay' Isn't that how this all started 2 decades ago...
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  1219. How's this going to affect the opioid crisis in the US?
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  1220. The world bank and the IMF putting the squeeze on...
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  1221. Bribery? what do I win?
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  1222. My grandparents never used pesticides and yet they ate organic vegetables every day, straight from the garden. Although they didn't call them organic, they just called them vegetables...
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  1223.  @jackaljade  Reread my comment and accept it's media hype. The term is being abused to demonise anything to do with freedom, equality and decency.
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  1224. What's at stake? Just the opportunity to see which pawn of billionaires and corporations wins the illusionary democratic process in this debt-based system of resource mismanagement...
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  1225. Talk about being bombed back to the stone age, US imperialism and the protection of petrodollar hegemony has another increase to its body count.
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  1226. What doesn't Matt Handcock understand? We don't want him, we don't like him and he's responsible for more families in mourning than the blitz!
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  1227. Not mentally fit for a Tupperware party to be fair...
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  1228. The solution is a sustainable resource-based economy, ecologically friendly and using modern technology to keep power in the hands of all, rather than allowing corrupt politicians and corporate lobbyists to override democracy. But the problem is that rich people don't like that solution.
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  1229.  @lythalls  Thank you kind Sir. 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.
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  1230.  @missadventuresmotorcycledi2773  Yes, the serfs pay for the truffles and champagne while waving flags at those with nothing but contempt for them.
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  1231. Camilla the Hun...
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  1232. If the future of the species is in the hands of these people... Nice knowing you human race, you had a good run while it lasted...
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  1233. I'm glad that was to honour his father. At first, I thought America was upping the stakes on the school shootings...
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  1234. Agreed, but the elite don't give away power, it has to be taken.
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  1235.  @leeeastwood6368  I shouldn't be too hard on him. It's not his fault he's incompetent, dull and fickle. So what if he'd struggle to pour water out of a boot with the directions on the bottom. Intelligence, ability and leadership are not essential to being PM - Just ask Theresa May or David Cameron.
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  1236.  @ChrisJones-co4ei  If you want to enjoy the pantomime of modern life, without questioning anything that's your choice...
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  1237. How dare you impune the good name of the Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte Society (They don't use the acronym)...
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  1238. Fell foul of... Regrettable... Shame... Unfortunate... I understand her intention may have been to show an interest but the prevalence of this attitude in aristocracy was also highlighted by Megan for which she received bad press and threats from the far right. I can't imagine how someone would feel being born in Britain to be so questioned, it's the same as Americans who use the term African-Americans to enforce a difference. An American lady who visited Sweden was almost in tears when she was simply referred to as American without the prefix African. It's hard for us to understand how a person's perception, confidence and place in the world can be challenged and harmed with this type of subtle ethnocentrism.
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  1239. Top priority? Does she mean creating it or resolving it? The NHS is struggling with over 100,000 staff vacancies, how many lives will this affect/cost?
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  1240. *indictments or *fourth depending on which headline you were going for. Keep up the good work, I always trust news sources that can barely type sentences... Edit: lol good job correcting it!
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  1241. I like Boris in exactly the same way I like to accidentally trap my 4skin in the zipper.
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  1242. All the profits from our once nationally owned railways is being used to upgrade and modernize the national transport systems of other countries in Europe. Thanks to privatization and an extremely short-sighted, myopic government.
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  1243.  @Kyle_P2022  I'm well aware of how central banks work using Fractional Reserve Banking, FIAT currency. I also know we have over $300 trillion in global debt, around 4 times the global GDP. Showing how farcical the system is to anyone with a decent understanding...
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  1244. That's exactly 1,000th of the oil Libya had when the US invaded...
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  1245. Don't get me wrong, I do feel for her. But celebs talking about depression and pain when it's a pandemic among the overworked, under-paid poor workers of this nation who are drowning in debt and reaching up for a float to find it's made of lead...
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  1246.  @Sparrowash97  Snowflakes whining about PTSD and panic attacks? He's a murderer, Rittenhouse drove from his home state of Illinois to a Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin with a high powered rifle...
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  1247. We all know that police are subject to the highest standards of training and produce such tender, intelligent and careful human beings who never abuse their power and always do what's right. Unless you happen to be female, a minority or catch them on a bad day...
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  1248. People stuck in a cage while armed guards take potshots at them should just accept their fate and stand still while being shot at... /S
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  1249.  @markohenry5891  No m8 you were told it was about immigration to get you on board. Yes mate, it was about tax avoidance. The lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories allows the wealthy and corporations to avoid taxes. Britain is responsible for the majority of corporate tax losses globally. After the Panama scandal, the EU brought in the Tax Avoidance directive that would have put an end to that, had we stayed in the EU. The wealthy including the non-dom tabloid owners and Tories who had been named in the Panama papers Johnsons, Camerons etc would have lost their ability to dodge taxes. Cameron begged the EU to exclude Britain from the directive and they refused. So he came back and announced the referendum as it was the only option left to the wealthy. Then they sold it to the public with lies about sovereignty and immigration, taking control back etc. We always had the option to control our borders and to negotiate deals with the EU. We always had the ability to choose our laws, the only restrictions were ones we agreed to so we could trade and have free movement ourselves. British lawyers drafted the ECHR and many other things that EU countries agree to - border policies, human rights, animal welfare, food standards etc.
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  1250.  JOE FABULOUS  I'd just like to add on a more informative note. That Nigel Farage is a coast cruising, cliff clutching, shore shagging, surf stalking, seaside scampering, beach bothering, boat buggering, pier patrolling, promenade picketing, ferry fondling fkwit.
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  1251. White Supremacists are all thick. It's ok to be Sentient.
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  1252. A sweaty little Authoriatarian Dictator who ruins the life of his fellow countrymen out of megalomaniacal tendencies and privilege. Anyway, enough about Boris Johnson what's Kim doing?
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  1253. Why would they have been refused to dock? Not up to code? not the right paperwork? seems strange two ports denied them docking. Also how much has this cost the taxpayer?
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  1254. While I understand tobacco is harmful, banning things just leads to criminality. We all accept responsibility for our choices and should be allowed to make them. Fast food, sugar, air pollution, alcohol and many other things in society are just as bad if not worse for the nation's health.
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  1255.  @vicsomeone  It is, they seem to get filtered out, but this was written by me this morning.
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  1256. Absolutely disgraceful, they deserve compensation for damages and an apology for being asked to sign away any future rights to legal action.
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  1257. 100% agreed, Last time I checked I think it was about 28% of Tory MPs were landlords or had property that they rent out. Squeezing the housing market increases prices and keeps us off the property ladder.
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  1258. Pity they aren't used to farm produce in Britain considering the escalation of food banks, the loss of EU subsidies may be a contributory factor...
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  1259. Record rate? you mean they have fallen so low that even a slight increase is a new record in growth... Let's not try and tell people how well off they are when most of us are struggling to lift our head above water... Our bills and empty wallets let us know the truth despite media spin...
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  1260. @Omar Aguirre Which one? ;-)
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  1261.  gu daorou情  Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting all our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them while using economic euthanasia on the public. Land of dopes and Tories.
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  1262. Who'd have thought that armed people who roam the countryside with packs of vicious dogs would lead to someone getting hurt?
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  1263. Thanks to all: Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dance around a cloaked figure. A scream pierces the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. The sound of a cane cracks against the cobbled pavement as a red pool reflects a blood moon with the silhouette of a nefarious character in a cloak and a top hat. Jack the Kipper...
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  1264. I'm just glad that the British people are yet again paying through national debt and increased taxation for the cronyism and short-sighted profiteering of the Tories...
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  1265.  @b00ts4ndc4ts  No those profits go to the Dutch, Chinese, German and other owners of our rail networks and in many cases goes towards supporting their own nationalised transport systems. Before neoliberalism and privatisation, we use to run a debt-to-GDP ratio of around 40% max, now it's almost 100%... Our taxes go to shareholders' offshore accounts and out of our economy!
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  1266. GBNews is where truth and decency go to die...
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  1267. But I like doing mindnumbing work for a pittance to produce cheap, tacky rubbish with built-in obsolescence to enforce a continual cycle of consumerism...
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  1268.  @heliotropezzz333  I changed it before posting it and it automatically got changed back - spell checkers are useless and annoying. Changed it back yet again and agreed - the Tories are pushing the boundaries especially since Brexit to harm our food standards, animal welfare, human rights and freedoms.
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  1269. Wouldn't it be a shame if Priti decided to stay there...
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  1270. Leopards were first discovered in 1964 by Dr Frank Leopard while he was out looking for spotted felines. He then named the creatures after his daughter Emily...
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  1271. 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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  1272. Slurs against the PM aren't allowed, but corruption, cronyism and the asset-stripping of Britain seems to be fine...
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  1273. A cheap tacky cabinet that falls apart within days of assembly. Probably a few screws missing too...
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  1274. Farage, Huh, yeah. What is he good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again, y'all.
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  1275. Dystopian Corporatocracy is just around the corner. Consumer, worker, taxpayer, cashcow, collateral, cannon fodder...
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  1276. Matt Hancock was the first member of his family to be born without a tail...
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  1277.  @munashemsipa4177  Like water, energy, railways, post office etc? Prices all gone up, service levels down, and increased reliance on taxpayer funding and bailouts. Your hype has no place in reality, it's the brochure that no one is gullible enough to believe...
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  1278. Teflon Don, nothing sticks. If we find the material Donny boy is made from we could use it as a superconductor and have infinite energy...
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  1279. I'm just glad the Tories have kept police numbers up and haven't closed hundreds of police stations, and haven't cut the support workers, mental health and community services...
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  1280.  @Miquelalalaa  I just wish we could find the object that ties her to this world, the source of her power. Then destroy it and in doing so send her back to the depths of the underworld from whence she spawned...
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  1281.  @metalicminer6231  Like I said, I can't argue with stupid. History is what makes us who we are and India are still enslaved to sweatshops to supply your clothes. The past century isn't 200 years ago and I couldn't give a flying f what you think. You allow prejudice to guide what little logic you have...
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  1282. Wow can't believe this got likes. Must be a lot of elderly prejudiced religious people on here today...
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  1283.  @cup1966wow  Well call for transparency on the crown, estates and oversea's territories then close the loopholes and enforce a robust corporate standards watchdog that has the power to hold corporations to account. Then use fines that are meaningful for those who break the standards. But this is all beside the point, the extra revenue from windfall taxes can help offset the cost to the public. The other issues are above my paygrade...
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  1284.  @Skankhunt420.  It's a nod to Monty Python...
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  1285. Last winter it was so cold I saw Rishi Sunak with his hands in his own pockets...
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  1286.  @bh5037  lol yes, sure thing buddy. Global corporatocracy only exists in the UK... lol seriously?
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  1287. Just ignore the rest of the world and how they condemn you. Keep giving children and troubled individuals access to guns. Keep manifesting that despicably violent destiny...
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  1288.  @colingreen6950  Thank you. Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles.
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  1289.  @Samdo99  You are correct, and no worries we are all 'that guy' on occasion.
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  1290. Like we should care what Jeremy Mengele thinks...
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  1291. lol Britain is overrun with Poles that migrated here for economic reasons, and Poland has been a member of NATO since 1999 which means they are part of the coalition that made these people refugees. The word refugee means someone who is displaced and can't return home for threat of persecution and death, the Poles signed legislation to take their fair share of refugees and have broken their word. Learn about geopolitics before making dumb comments. These people are in exactly the same position as the Poles who were refugees after Hitler came to town...
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  1292. lol at the use of 'record number'. We are judging the record against ourselves, therefore every day an installation takes place we have a new record! I made a 'new record' today of how many days I've been alive and will gain tomorrow...
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  1293. 100% Agreed. We pay through national debt for the rich to wage wars, to loot countries. Then they make us live in working poverty using food banks to survive. While giving tax-dodging corporations billions every week out of our taxes. They tell us via the media to hate the unemployed, refugees, the poor and disabled but it's corporate greed we should be fighting against. Corporate greed and the wealthy elitists are the true enemies of the people.
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  1294.  @MAC_ABC  Thank you. To be fair Brexit was the equivalent of cancelling your direct debits, defaulting on your mortgage, throwing your mobile phone in the bath while it's charging, setting fire to your house, driving your car into the canal and then running off into the woods half-naked screaming "I'm the wild man of Britain, hear me roar!". I hope you like that also :P
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  1295. Lions were first invented in 1956 by Sir Ian Lion, who named the creatures after his daughter Emily Lion...
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  1296.  @analogdistortion  PS we have less than 20 billion barrels of north sea oil and gas left, around 5 years worth, we rely mostly on Norway and Russia for our gas. Nationalisation is a country being self-sufficient and providing its own energy requirements rather than giving taxpayer money to a long list of middlemen to supply it...
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  1297. Joyrides to space for billionaires are about as much use to humanity as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  1298.  @simongigney2138  Agreed, but what we have to understand is that the wealthy are very special people, they deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them!
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  1299. lol, like anyone believes a thing this man says. The economy is on the floor and people have never worked harder, paid higher taxes and suffered such poverty and lack of services. Tories out!!!
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  1300. @Delta 1 lol you only spotted one? are you a Brexiteer by any chance?
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  1301. Norway uses 98% renewable energy and supplies part of the 47% of the natural gas we get from Europe. If Tories hadn't repeatedly cut funding to renewables and the British energy market we wouldn't be in this position. Coupled with the fact that we don't keep large reserves as most sensible countries do, making us reliant on Norway, Belgium and Russia... While also being at the mercy of energy price increases as we have no buffer in reserve...
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  1302. Good Luck, Power to the people! Workers produce the goods, build the houses, build the roads, transport the goods, heal the sick, repair what's broken, provide the services, work out the balance sheets, fight the wars, manage, clean and protect society. We provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, producer and consumer, service provider and service user. We are collateral, cannon fodder and consumers. Why do we live in poverty while the rich siphon our taxes and provide little use to society?
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  1303. *too and no...
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  1304. I'm so glad she's being rewarded for all her hard work. Such an intelligent, caring, competent philanthropist and all-around humanitarian. With the voice of an angel and the wit and charm of Oscar Wilde... Yes, it is sarcasm...
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  1305.  @greenisnotacreativecolour  I was anthropomorphizing :) We all know they're not the same breed, some might say they're so in bred they should be classed as sandwiches!
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  1306. lol I doubt it's the first time and certainly won't be the last, they teach elitism and practice it too...
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  1307. Or Fred and Rose offering to babysit while they fix your patio...
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  1308. Wow, excellent investigative journalism. Such a delight to see these crucial stories being tackled...
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  1309. If they hadn't come up with HS2 they'd have had to find some other vanity project to spend £100 billion on - they sure aren't going to spend it on anything the general public would find worthwhile like schools, hospitals, affordable housing etc.
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  1310. He was a fair speaker mostly and I think the legend Dennis Skinner may have charmed him over the years to be more disposed to Labour. But considering Starmer is taking the Labour party further right of centre it's no surprise former Tories will find Labour more appealing. Unfortunately, that leaves the general public with little choice between red or blue flavoured neoliberalism.
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  1311.  @darkmusky9851  "Strike too much you will be fired" Kinda defeats the point of worker's rights. The 70s when a lot of stuff was nationalised? That stuff had been nationalised since the Attlee Government that rebuilt after the war in 1945. They never had any issues for 3 decades until the Tories started to underfund the National industry and reduce working wages at the start of the 70s. That winter of discontent you describe lasted a few days here and there and was the result of Tory manipulation and attacks on workers. Greatly exaggerated for effect, but essentially just a backlash against Tory cruelty. Not forgetting that one wage in the 70s could fund a small family and pay the mortgage, now 2 full-time wages struggle to cover the basics for a small family.
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  1312. It was just after the prefix which clearly states: 'The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.'
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  1313. Yea, Israel are real friendly...
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  1314. So generous this Government, so good to the people of Britain that some of us can now eat occasionally...
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  1315.  @evolassunglasses4673  lol, I'll point out a few things for your consideration. The average Brit's DNA is about 40% German/Anglo Saxon, about 20% Irish/Celtic, about 9% Scandanavian/Viking and other small amounts including Roman/Italian and Norman/French. The Welsh, Scottish and Irish have about 20% less Anglo Saxon and about 20% more Irish/Celt DNA, with Irish having as much as 50%. The Celts actually came from the Iberian peninsular (Spain/Portugal) around 10,000-15,000 years ago according to DNA evidence found in Ireland. Our 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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  1316. "Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade officially began, with royal approval, in 1663. In less than 150 years, Britain was responsible for transporting millions of enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas, where men, women and children were forced to work on plantations and denied basic rights." and yet I was told last night that Britain was never involved in slavery by a British person... People can remember things differently, but there are also many facts that are verified by a plethora of financial and logistical documents...
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  1317.  @AMYV3  Baldwin was the producer, apparently, they complained about unsafe working conditions. It sounds more likely that they were right to walk-off...
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  1318. Most of Britain will be celebrating this weekend with a glass of council pop and a smile. We may even be lucky enough to occasionally eat...
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  1319.  @lucastaylor2321  Thank you, but I'm no worse off than the majority of hard-working Brits. As Holly once said "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?" ;)
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  1320.  @JH-ez5pf  He's a paid Tory apologist, that's the third time he's replied to one of my posts with the same comment.
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  1321. lol throwing them is a bit silly. Not enough momentum...
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  1322. Too late, it's more a question limiting the damage already done.
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  1323.  @_____alyptic  She's a banker so yes she's directly responsible for the appalling disparity in economic growth between people. I'm not angry, human beings are selfish and misguided, I got used to that a long time ago...
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  1324.  @titteryenot4524  Grit, realism, the human condition and societal questions are 100% of Shakespearian literature. You have nothing more than a petty pedantic argument and an arrogance that assumes you're some intellectual messiah. You're not, you have an opinion and if you don't like my comments simply refrain from posting a response. If you want to hero-worship Shakespeare that's up to you, from my point of view - determined by the hundreds of Authors I've read - Ren's lyricism and poetry is best encapsulated in my comparison.
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  1325. Would you condemn the Jewish resistance movement that stood up to the Natsees? The Rohingya in Myanmar if they attempt to defend themselves? The Nuer in south Sudan? The Yazidi in Iraq? Darfuris in Sudan?
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  1326.  @davewalker3873  The magic money tree is the British public's taxes. They just dig into our back pockets, they've already borrowed £1 trillion in the past 10 years and are now adding £300 billion. Most of that will go to corporations and billionaires via corporate welfare, subsidies and to pay incompetent contractors that have connections to top Tories. It's always us who pays.
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  1327. A 'Prime' example of billionaires losing the plot...
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  1328.  @ChrisJones-co4ei  lol sure thing, another long line of coincidences and bad luck for the incompetent terrorists... Why use a taxi? Why explode the bomb when the car was still moving? Why not choose a different route to the Cenotaph if that was the original target? Why are some saying detonator malfunction, others saying timed to go off at 11? Why if timed to go off at 11 was the incident several minutes before 11?
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  1329. "My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters." - Boris Johnson. Sums up the Tories quite well...
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  1330. @SilverbackMatt If you don't understand my comment, look up the phrase bitter irony and stop wasting my time. I've got better things to do than the internet equivalent of teaching a whale to fly...
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  1331. People are struggling and the Tories are still diverting our hard-earned taxes to their mates...
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  1332.  @beatdizzy  It's not a criticism of Rob, just a brutal acceptance of the cognitive fallibility of the right and the 'I'm alright Jack' brigade. The UK voted for Brexit and the Tories for the past 13 years, optimism isn't an option in reality. I've lived for 51 years and things only get worse. We have a rise of the right globally, corporatocracy on the horizon and authoritarian legislation being passed like a reefer at a party.
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  1333.  @JesterEric  Worked well until Thatcher brought in privatisation. We never had our national infrastructure run for profit before then, all profit went back into the infrastructure and reducing costs to the public.
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  1334. Wildfires kill very few Americans it's mainly property damage, though the ecological damage and damage to wildlife are relevant... If only they were as concerned about their gun problem which kills around 50,000 people a year...
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  1335. All the children starving with worried parents drowning in debt must love to see the privileged living it up, not to mention all the homeless veterans eating out of the bins at the back of KFC...
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  1336. More like the poor kid in the yard that all the rich nations all point and jeer at for trying to copy them...
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  1337. The reason we lack HGV drivers is the illusion of sovereignty and Brexit. Coupled with low wages and no funding for training. The Tory's solution is to relax rules on EU HGV drivers. You seriously couldn't make this up...
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  1338. Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms alone, despite all the other properties around the UK. If the Queen was committed to the cause of homelessness in Britain, she could solve the problem on her own, without breaking a sweat...
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  1339. Taxes should be spent on UK infrastructure and the taxpayers - to make their life better. Our taxes more often go to think tanks, shareholders and shadowy groups to keep the Tories in power and to top up their mate's offshore accounts...
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  1340.  @NeonVisual  There is a far better one, we had a streamlined service under Labour and immigration was actually a lot lower under Labour than it has ever been in the past decade. The record on immigration was Theresa May with 650,000 in her last year as home secretary. The problem is the lack of effort in processing them and closing the facilities used to house them. The Tories then put them up in hotels at your expense to wind you up like a toy. They do the same with the NHS by underfunding and understaffing it to make it seem not fit for purpose. PS not a fan of Starmer and his Labour party...
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  1341.  @hmq9052  You know exactly what I'm talking about. Do you think people working 12-hour shifts every day for min wage don't know what hard work is? Taxpayers perform the dual roles in society of producer/consumer, worker/taxpayer, and service provider/service user. They also pay for the £40-120 billion tax gap and the £100 billion per annum on corporate welfare and subsidies...
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  1342. I agree with your points on immigration and the home office's murky procedures. We also need clarity when questioning a Tory MP as it's like pulling teeth. We'd get more sense from most Tory MPs if they gave their answers using the medium of interpretative dance...
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  1343. lol sure, in the same way, the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a 'marginal' effect on human history in the 20th century...
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  1344.  @QwadLuzr  I saw a report that suggests the Bank of England is running out of lives and is likely to collapse. Now I know a national bank can't really collapse as such, but if the pound becomes worthless internationally it's the same thing. Tories have stretched the pound to the point of breaking with the recent £400 billion in bonds, on top of which we have £2.2 trillion national debt which gives us a debt to GDP ratio of almost 100%. We'll be lucky to survive the damage the Tories have already done, whilst asset-stripping the nation.
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  1345.  @vincentmckenna1755  Yes mainly students coming back after travel restrictions were lifted, would you rather they paid for their education, food and accommodation in another country? OR is it the Ukrainians that we helped out that bother you?
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  1346. Fash-is-ermmmmmm
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  1347. That's indeed the problem in the modern age when the truth is optional and facts are seen as debatable. Without a plurality of the media, we spend out lives trying to read between the lines to discover the truth. Still nice to see Tim Putin the boot into Putin.
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  1348. So much pomp and pageantry put into preserving the shallow end of the British gene pool and decades of stagnant evolution. Did I say British I meant Germanic/Greek...
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  1349.  @SteveDorrans  He's a little more focused than Truss on an intellectual level that's about the only nice thing I can say about him. Well, actually one more I'd rather have Rishi Sunak help me with my patio than Fred West. As for Truss, she shouldn't let her mind wander — it’s far too little to be let out on its own.
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  1350. Cold War v2.0 turning into a Warm War. Who could have predicted that? I'm just glad nuclear proliferation restarted and we have egotistical megalomaniacs running the show...
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  1351. Stop their slaves from expelling gas?
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  1352. Agreed, this smacks of a set up. Lawyers and Solicitors acting illegally? The source is an allegation from the Daily Fail, nuff said...
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  1353. I wonder if domestic violence is related to the closure of women's refuges, the loss of 5,000 mental health workers, the loss of 22,500 police officers and the extraordinarily low rates of conviction in crimes against women? All due to Tory cuts and policy...
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  1354. Just tell us how the petrodollar is doing, is it ok? That's more important than human life. Priorities!
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  1355. Prime situation for an accident... While UK citizens drown in debt the Tories are still making big bucks from using taxpayer money to farm out their responsibility to contractors and being as inhumane as possible in the process...
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  1356. Cyber intelligence services in every country do the same to each other and have done for decades. But let's not mention that...
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  1357. The exclusion of the poor from schooling has been steadily increasing under the Tories in the past decade or so. The Tories have closed or downgraded 1,240 sure start centres, closed 419 schools and closed 535 libraries in the past decade, and these figures are about 2 years old. The Tories have no desire to have an educated workforce, they just want cash cows who consume and give the Tories obedient consent to continue their elitist agenda.
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  1358. They may not be delivering on NHS commitments, but they are consistent in that they haven't delivered on anything. Well, except for increasing the rates of homelessness, poverty and health problems... They have also done a great job of crashing the economy and ensuring the cost of living crisis extends into the foreseeable future...
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  1359. The Queen is too busy wasting taxpayer money and continuing her shallow gene pool...
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  1360.  @moiraruff3292  He went against the whip because since Blair with his centrist infiltration of the Labour party they were going against their own Democratic Socialism/Social Democracy ideology. Corbyn has always been ideologically consistent and stuck to Social Democracy even when the leadership turned against their own core historical ideology.
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  1361. lol erm what? Fair enough. Despite being wanted on crimes against Britain and humanity, he's actually right on this.
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  1362.  @robjose888  I read a nurse in a £23,000 a year position would get roughly the equivalent of £36,000, But that's from memory so no worries I could be wrong.
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  1363.  @mariusstasytis4149  NATO created the refugees by bombing their homes, Poland sent troops to both Iraq and Afghanistan and so bear responsibility. I've already stated Belarus are in the wrong, that doesn't excuse Poland's despicable actions...
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  1364.  @gtingaming716  Thanks for that asinine comment, negates the need for me to provide an intelligent response...
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  1365. The dodgy lawyers and solicitors talk is all based on the allegations made by the daily fail, nuff said...
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  1366. Vacant celebs being worshipped by the poor while they indulge in every excess known to humanity and their handlers do far worse... An Indictment on the species...
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  1367.  @nicoladouglas3270  Probably is a distraction, but the immigrant crisis they manufactured is the main distraction. As for watching him, I don't watch the show. Just the clips that show Hancock suffering :)
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  1368.  @Francois_Dupont  You could have typed something witty or intelligent, instead, you typed a redundant question that a child of 5 would have been able to answer...
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  1369. IMF and World bank really pilling the pressure on now...
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  1370. The last year: The financial vampires drain the country dry, drain the people dry. The heart continues to pump, the hands and legs continue to work, the cells continue to function. Yet the country stumbles forward in shock, unaware that it has been struck a mortal blow...
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  1371.  @Brodie-dj8hf  The Good Friday Agreement is to protect both sides from the escalation of violence. The Tories have risked that precarious peace. I'm not going to get dragged into some pathetic partisan argument. My point is related to Tory duplicity and ignorance...
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  1372. Campaigners have tried every method open to them to stop Britain from losing around 10,000 pensioners every year to the cold...
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  1373.  @Gordon..  lol thanks for pointing out how little you understand. Check the increase in malnutrition observed by the NHS... 3 million Brits live with malnutrition...
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  1374. Why no lifeguard? surely they must have someone supervising... Unexplained? Investigation? little comfort for the parents...
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  1375.  @nick777forde  Babbling was invented in 1802 by Sir Ian Babble. He was looking for a way to fill the pregnant void in between conversations...
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  1376. The irony of attempting to implement impossible solutions to manufactured problems... I'm glad to see that Brexiters are now subject to the same division and polarisation that was forced on the general public that helped enact this act of political insanity and the slow-malingering deceased economy that emanated from such.
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  1377. Brings a tear to my eye and breaks my heart to see all those beautiful British people flag-waving and grovelling to their genetic and intellectual superiors - the aristocracy...
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  1378. The main thing I like about the Tories - apart from the infighting - is the fact that they are the antidote to happiness...
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  1379.  @danielwebb8402  Here's some more info for you "The UK is the poorest country in North-West Europe, per person. The data shows the wealth gap between the UK and our European neighbours has doubled, from -7.6% in 2000 to -16.3% in 2021."
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  1380.  @leehenry5764  Intolerance, small government, corporate subsidies and tax giveaways, privatisation, deregulation of the banks. Same as it is globally, most right-wing governments use Thatcher and Reagan's neoliberalism. As for ULEZ, I said the same thing - it disproportionately affects the poor. Tax corporations and polluters - those responsible for the poor air quality.
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  1381. PS If a security camera records you shoplifting it's not the security guard's fault for switching on the camera and recording your crime!
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  1382.  @seanfaherty  Agreed, Red or Blue flavoured neoliberalism and the Overton window keeps shifting further to the right.
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  1383.  @Calszonal  lol attacked? Starmer has been vocal about the migrant issue but more to gain the Tory leftovers than to challenge Tory policy.
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  1384.  @Calszonal  No I'm talking about migrant policy in general. "The British economy must be helped away from its "immigration dependency", Sir Keir Starmer has said"
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  1385.  @Calszonal  " The days of "cheap labour" must end to wean the UK off its "immigration dependency", Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has told business leaders." Do I need to post more? he's chopped and changed his attitudes on a weekly basis I could post plenty more quotes for you if you like.
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  1386.  @maxsuicide4767  Starmer's speech at the CBI was anti-migration and used tropes about low wages and cheap labour and immigration dependency, forget the Rwanda policy. The speech was so right-wing that the Tory newspaper the Telegraph wrote that its message “echoes that adopted by successive Tory prime ministers, including Boris Johnson and now Rishi Sunak.”
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  1387.  @timcomley3241  Oh look the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up...
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  1388.  @emaarredondo-librarian  I'm not American and agree with you. We have healthcare, working rights, holidays, maternity and paternity leave, sickpay etc in the UK. Although the Conservatives are trying to take it from us.
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  1389. You say you want real people in politics and yet the Tories have stacked the HOL with their cronies. Very few of those people have actually lived a life of manual labour and low wages which puts them out of touch with the public. I appreciate the HOL is supposed to be part of our checks and balances, but why not replace it with a group of human rights lawyers, political experts, economic experts etc to keep the government in check. Paid to sit for a far more reasonable salary than we currently pay via the price-per-sitting (£323 a day) system. Surely from what you have said, that would be an appropriate compromise?
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  1390.  @trident6547  Agreed m8, I live in a heritage town Blaenavon so we benefited from EU funding. But did you see who I was replying to>? Not sure he could read that in one sitting...
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  1391.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  Keir Starmer is not left-wing and is only a slight improvement on the Tories. You're confusing ideology with politics, Starmer represents Centrists, Neoliberalism and corporate lobbyists. Some of us actually follow left-wing ideology - national industry, national bank, welfare for the disabled, temporarily ill and unemployed, free schooling, public libraries, public transport, legal aid, freedom of speech, workers' rights, human rights, healthcare paid for by our taxes and N.I. We are Shepherds...
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  1392.  @kincaidwolf5184  lol you suffer from right-wing revisions of history. Labour nationalised the BoE in 1946 as well as nationalising the steel, coal, iron, transport, energy etc. All of which were later sold off/privatized by the Tories. Thatcher brought in privatisation in the 80s, before that we didn't have to pay corporations over 100 billion per annum in subsidies and corporate welfare. Blair got rid of clause 4 which was the socialist base of the Labour ideology, which is when I left Labour! We are 46% renewables despite the Tories cutting investment in renewable energy. Fossil fuels are pointless and take millions of years to create. They aren't going to last so keeping them in the ground gives us an advantage in the case of war. PFIs were created by John Major he used them in Scotland, Blair wasn't a leftie, he was a centrist infiltrator. Despite agreeing with you that Blair shouldn't have used PFIs the Tory government expanded them beyond the 5% cap set by Labour. Then the Tories brought out another round of PFIs called PFI2... Like I said your revisions of history are from right-whinge stink-tanks...
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  1393. I made an invisible shield years ago, unfortunately, I can't find it...
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  1394. Precision drone strikes - One operator said the US only had about 10% target hit ratio while 90% are civilian non-combatant casualties. Such a cowardly way to wage war...
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  1395.  @zartoon7534  I think you need to read my comment again and reevaluate your perception of the recent wars in the Middle East and why the CIA instigated the Arab spring in the first place...
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  1396.  @zartoon7534  As an example, I'll leave this here for you to read. Libya was a socialist country they used 'The Green System'. Gaddafi was 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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  1397. He was acting as a bouncer, I heard him say "Boris Johnson shall not pass"
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  1398. Good luck with that, they own over 400 of the top brands on shelves in the supermarket. That's the problem with choice these days, a small amount of multinationals like Unilever own 95% of the brands on sale...
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  1399. Such a shame that tragedies like this can be avoided. Pity all houses aren't fully insulated and kept up to code. Every time corporations, landlords and Tories cut corners to save money, it's always the public who pay the consequences and often the highest price... Not to mention it's a false economy as doing things right the first time saves money in the long run. Energy bills, emergency ward visits due to damp causing mould, pensioners dying of hypothermia. We need safe social housing run by authorities and not mercenary landlords.
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  1400. A hamster threatens a tiger...
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  1401.  @georgebodley8068  You're talking to someone who has fought the right for decades. I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4. Starmer is a second-rate Blair tribute act. I get 80% of my comments filtered and have been kicked off Twitter for being mean to the right. Your use of language will get us silenced even further, I'm pointing out that you need to play the game and be clever about the language you use. Not leave yourself open to attack and further censorship. Do you get that?
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  1402. Taxpayer bailouts continue to flow, while taxpayers can't afford food, rent, mortgages and energy. But we're always happy to bail out the wealthy shareholders...
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  1403.  @M.Maring  lol as much as I like that, I still prefer my interpretation :)
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  1404.  @wordforever117  Not debating religious dogma over individual rights. Religion is a scourge that blights logic and reason...
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  1405. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then sh!ts all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  1406. Obviously a selfish act, but let's consider the opportunity was gifted to Russia because of globalisation and mass production. Every country should be self-sufficient in food and energy needs...
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  1407. Can we clear this Ms Fulani thing up? "People are deliberately misrepresenting the debate. Ms Fulani clearly stated at the beginning of the interview that she had no records of her ancestry from Africa. (Her parents were both descendants of slaves taken to the Caribbean under Royal decree as part of our imperialist past) Ms Fulani must have been embarrassed and uncomfortable that her African heritage was denied to her because of slavery and answered questions accurately. Saying that she was born in London and was British. After being further questioned she said her parents came from the Caribbean. In the end, she had to repeat that she is of Unknown African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality. This wasn't about being asked a simple question. Lady Hussey has form and so does the Royal household." Hopefully, that has made this a little clearer to everyone...
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  1408. If only we could find the object that ties Priti Patel to this world, the source of her power and then destroy it and in so doing send her back to the depths of the underworld, from whence she was spawned...
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  1409. It seems my reference to Caligula was too much for YT...
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  1410.  @XRPMAYBE  Emojis were invented in 1945 by Douglas Emoji during the end of the war celebrations. Unfortunately, the public had to wait until the computer and social media were invented before being able to use them.
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  1411. Tied to the sinking ship of Tory corporatocracy...
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  1412. He is a Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte ;)
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  1413. I'm so impressed with Mogg I've decided to join the Tory party. In penance of my lefty ways, I'm going to self-flagellate by bashing my head repeatedly with a stone tablet inscribed with neoliberal principles and shouting flock the poor. Then I'm going to ignite a homeless person in front of a £50 note...
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  1414. I was just reading the bit in the Geneva convention where it says "prohibiting the deliberate or indiscriminate attack of civilians and civilian objects in the war-zone", do I need to report a war crime?
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  1415. Thatcherism is the reason we have privatisation destroying services and costing the taxpayer a small fortune, the reason workers have no rights and we are all on agencies, low wages and zero-hour contracts. Common sense Thatcherism? Never heard such a blatant disregard for an obvious oxymoron...
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  1416. Sound of music ey? Tory version: Tear gas on miners and pepper spray in Britain Cruel coppers kettling and truncheoned heads splitting Brown paper envelopes; ransoms for kings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things...
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  1417.  @jpw6893  China alerted the WHO to the Virus on Dec 31st, who put out information to call for social distancing and quarantines. The WHO released a statement in January advising countries to: "have strong measures to detect disease, isolate and treat cases, trace contacts, and promote social distancing measures" Boris decided to miss five Cobra security meetings about the virus and leave airports open until a few days ago.
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  1418. Agreed, While no one noticed that the rate of antisemitism in society, the Tory party and UKIP was higher and that under Corbyn it was lowered in Labour. According to the EHRC report and the two parliamentary reports of 2017 and 2018.
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  1419. Afghanistan: Taliban's new cabinet includes dodgy mugshots lol
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  1420. Someone frightened Camilla?
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  1421.  @iamjurell  Woke is the opposite of corporate, billionaire megalomaniacs. I'm surprised you are unable to grasp this simple fact.
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  1422.  @dh1380  I agree with your first part as the term woke was used to describe the members of the civil rights movement who understood their history. The second part is simply untrue, fascism is an ideology and most right-wing comments display parts of that ideology in their comments and so deserve the title. Polarisation has been used for centuries to split opposition to the wealthy elitists 'divide and conquer' and 'bread and circus'.
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  1423. Have tensions between Russia and the UK prompted this?
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  1424. The illogic of using racism to counter racism...
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  1425.  @rob8530  The right to bear intelligence is something you should try... Bare means naked...
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  1426. I went to a fancy dress party last night as Boris Johnson, I wore a pink onesie and a purple hat...
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  1427. Or Ed Gein offering to reupholster your chairs, "No skin off my back!"
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  1428. Talk about a rock and a hard place...
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  1429. Finance is so complicated these days and with the addition of AI too easy to manipulate. The current system has failed to be effective at resource logistics, instead creates a superclass while the majority of people don't have access to basic resources and modern technology.
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  1430. Thank you so much for that hitting piece of investigative journalism...
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  1431.  @prideofdurham4776  Boy George isn't the subject of this thread. Feel free to type a comment that's relevant if you like. I have no intention of defending Boy George and he got 15 months for his crime. Criminals in government get away with worse every single day!
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  1432. You're misrepresenting the debate. Ms Fulani clearly stated at the beginning of the interview that she had no records of her ancestry from Africa. (Her parents were both descendants of slaves taken to the Caribbean under Royal decree as part of our imperialist past) Ms Fulani must have been embarrassed and uncomfortable that her African heritage was denied to her because of slavery and answered questions accurately. Saying that she was born in London and was British. After being further questioned she said her parents came from the Caribbean. In the end, she had to repeat that she is of Unknown African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality. This wasn't about being asked a simple question. Lady Hussey has form and so does the Royal household.
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  1433. Such a caring and considerate intellectual philanthropist who speaks with such eloquence, compassion and charm. /s obvs...
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  1434. "Someone notice me, please! I need to be relevant and haven't done anything bizarre in the last few days" Said Ye as he climbed into a car made of jelly...
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  1435. Too weak to take criticism I assume...
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  1436. I hope he's alright, and I hope he didn't disturb the dragons. While we don't often talk about the dragons with outsiders, that is surely the only reason for a person to be delving into caves during November. I remember visiting a dragon on its birthday when I was younger, you should have seen the poor thing trying to blow out the candles on its cake...
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  1437. By invading other countries for 2 decades supporting the US petrodollar wars and then refusing the fleeing migrants entry?
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  1438.  @alanhat5252  If there was any money behind these activists they would be promoted on TV in the media, the newspapers etc without resorting to these tactics... The fact that this is their only way to get coverage of these issues speaks volumes to anyone with logic...
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  1439. Because capitalism is the worst system of logistics and resource control ever created? Countries should be self-sufficient for food and energy at the very least. Allowing corporations to turn countries into specialised corporate suppliers is insanity.
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  1440.  @soniama5246  I support the refugees and migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc, because NATO invaded their countries and left them homeless or at the mercy of violence from the new regimes the US helped install. The US invaded based on lies to protect petrodollar hegemony and to loot the Middle-East and Africa. Russia/Belarus are using these refugees and migrants in a political chess match against Poland/EU. But Poland has failed to live up to its commitment to the UN declaration on refugees and EU law. Poland sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and so owe the refugees the right to enter and apply for asylum.
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  1441.  @soniama5246  I'm from Wales - UK, but try to see the world as it truly is rather than falling for propaganda. Take Care!
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  1442. Thatcher's ego...
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  1443. Yes, of course. People who save lives for a living should have their rights nullified... They have said they will respond to life-threatening calls... Why don't you mention the loss of 60 ambulance stations? how many problems has that caused?
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  1444. It never ceases to amaze me how far some clowns will go to win back an audience they lost, the minute they walked on stage.
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  1445. Ideologically suited to being a Democratic socialist? MR VIP Fastlane? MR PPE Fraud? MR Privatisation? I've never heard him say we should nationalise infrastructure or regulate the banks, tax corporations more, spend more on public institutions...
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  1446. So when a nuke lands and takes out 1,000,000 in a second that's just one person who pushed the button? and they would have been able to do that without the nuke? Learn what nuance and relevance mean...
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  1447. Haven't they suffered enough?
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  1448. Agreed, it will be mental gymnastics of Olympian levels.
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  1449. I think the main problem is Brexit, Tories, Covid, Tories, Cronyism, Tories, Incompetence, Tories...
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  1450. No more picking up Russian Oligarch backhanders in person then...
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  1451.  @andrewjones575  Let's not blame women for violent men. Some domestic violence occurs with no history of violence and no warning... Idiot!
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  1452.  @gerryg1056  Danke, Merci, Diolch, Grazie, Thank you.
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  1453.  @bellezayverdad  Heh Willie done all the hard work I just butchered it :) Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  1454. Democracy? that's a funny way to describe it...
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  1455. Yes, it's so wonderful to see our new King, can't wait to bow down and doff my cap to his Royal Heinous. I'll be forelock tugging all day as I'm so happy to still be a subject of a feudal system and therefore essentially a serf. God save our King and those wonderful upper-class Tories whose philanthropy is unmatched. I only wish I could bow and scrape all the time but I have to work 23 hours a day to pay for my electricity...
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  1456. Cash drops in the Caymans for soulless politicians Breaking their own rules and making cold-hearted descisions Brown paper envelopes which bribery brings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things...
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  1457.  @shelleylyme6402  The Tories throw the poor a liferaft made of lead from the prow of their golden luxury yacht...
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  1458. I loved his rally at new rum berg lago. "USA, USA, USA" it's like that's the only word they know...
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  1459. Excellent news, let's accelerate the end of the species. We've done enough environmental damage, hopefully, a more sapient species will become dominant in our absence...
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  1460.  @Daniel-gs9eh  Really? Considering unemployment payments are only £1.56 billion per annum while corporate tax dodging costs the taxpayer £40-120 billion per annum and corporate welfare and subsidies cost the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum (even more after this budget), I'd say the rich are fleecing the poor's taxes to top up their offshore bank accounts...
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  1461. Johnson is a Johnson. Economic euthanasia wielding entitled simpleton asset-stripping the country and allowing the poor to die because he was breastfed privilege and elitist doctrine from the moment the little blond b@stard popped out with his silver foot in his mouth...
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  1462. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then sheets all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  1463. Top ten things I admire about Trump: . . . . . . . . . .
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  1464. Russia using the same tactic that the US used against Saddam, try and make out they're a threat to justify a first strike...
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  1465. Yes son I remember fresh air, freedom and sunlight. The rain cascading down my face, a cold breeze that makes you shiver, people weren't afraid to hug each other and shake hands back then. We used to congregate at sporting events and concerts, danced in clubs, travelled on buses.
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  1466. Yes, it's because the Tories are such globally-minded humanitarian philanthropists, and certainly not psychotic insular kleptocrats...
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  1467. What's the motivation for this obvious unpolitical target? who was the person who died, a doctor, a nurse? an NHS whistleblower? or simply a husband visiting his wife? I'm not suggesting anything, just asking questions...
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  1468. Tory-lite - they haven't had working-class people's priorities at heart since Blair dropped clause 4...
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  1469. I'm just glad the tobacco industry hasn't lost any profits and the taxpayer no doubt paid for the raid...
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  1470. Tories screw the North yet again, The North remembers! - support for the North from Wales!
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  1471. Anyone pointing out this woman's lunacy is blocked or deleted, while condoning her actions is allowed, despite being illegal...
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  1472. Do you realise all households get the £400 grant, all 28.7 million households in Britain? and that while you earn a few quid, you aren't a top priority over poor families who can't afford to feed their children even with help from a local food bank? We're all struggling, I've had to go on a water fast at the end of some months as I run out food. Personally, I think we should renationalise the energy grid and stop giving our taxes and consumer profits to an energy cartel and their shareholder's offshore bank accounts.
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  1473. lol Keir Farage...
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  1474.  @Sunburst42  To be honest, no one could have predicted that a government with the combined IQ of a syphilitic, crack-addicted hamster having a midlife crisis would show more incompetence than Frank Spencer in every sketch from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em combined...
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  1475. All of those people could be adding thousands per person in taxation per annum and costing nothing while filling the worker shortages in agriculture, the NHS and other industries... Processing them would be a boon to the economy while detention is a drain...
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  1476.  @ince55ant  Can't you sealion someone else or make comments longer than a short phrase which explains little? If you want devolution and independence from the UK state your country and your reasons. As a Welshman, I'd be happy to go independent and drop the Tory aristocrats...
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  1477.  @jonsimmons4150  Our trade deal with Japan has cost us by lowering exports to Japan. Good old Truss. You haven't made a point mate, you've just typed childish nonsense that isn't relevant. Japan hasn't lost prestige by leaving the EU in fact they made a trade deal with the EU in 2019... As the EU's second-largest trading partner Japan buys $70 billion worth of goods and $28 billion worth of services from the EU... Doh!
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  1478.  JOE FABULOUS  Farage looks like the product of despicable relations between Kermit the frog and Hitler...
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  1479.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Sure why not, then the plants could rot in the fertilizer because of the worst drought in 40 years in the country... If you have any other bright ideas, keep 'em to yourself :)
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  1480. And you can't trust a "Special" Like the old-time copper When you can't find your way home.
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  1481.  @dime4026  That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type...
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  1482.  @MandyAustin-nl4cn  Thank you for your unsolicited erroneous and frankly laughable opinion. The UNCHR was created with the help of British lawyers to protect society from what happened to Germany at the beginning of the previous century. They have done that job ever since and your understanding seems very naive. Have a wonderful day!
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  1483. My in-depth financial analysis of Brexit: Brexit was the equivalent of cancelling your direct debits, defaulting on your mortgage, throwing your mobile phone in the bath while it's charging, setting fire to your house, driving your car into the canal and then running off into the woods half-naked screaming "I'm the wild man of Britain, hear me roar!"
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  1484. ​ @meljen8592  I expect I'm wasting my time, however, I will assume a genuine interest rather than sealioning. Brexit admin cost more than our combined contributions to the EU over 47 years. We lost trillions in banking trade and opportunities, much of which went to Frankfurt. We lost prestige, our acceptance of international law and our standing on the world stage. Our GDP has been reduced by 4% which is a loss of over £120 billion per annum. Our food standards, human rights and other standards have been threatened by recent Tory legislation which was all predicted. We have been plagued with shortages of goods and labour, problems at our ports and risks to the GFA. We have lost migrant workers which has amplified the manpower shortages and our freedom of movement in Europe. The only benefits I can see are that we now know how easily manipulated we are, how much power shadowy groups like the ERG have and how little patriotism our politicians have. As well as how effective data mining and its study can be used to usurp democracy. There are many other points I could make, but surely that's enough for now...
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  1485. What is the p[oint of these people resigning? they'll just be recycled within a few months into some new post until the next scandal...
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  1486. Cuba do something good, let's portray it as a money grabbing opportunity. If Boris had any sense he's ask them for 100,000 Nurses and Doctors to fill the shortage his party created in the NHS.
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  1487. Laverbread (bara lawr) is a traditional Welsh delicacy using Laver seaweed. Glad to know the cows are getting in on the action to help reduce emissions. Hopefully will lead to cows being treated better in general, not just dietary. I don't eat meat but if animals are treated well then I don't oppose people eating meat, provided they use all of the animal and ensure the longevity of the species.
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  1488.  @steverawlinson9635  My point is nothing about this makes sense... What do terrorists have against a gynaecology hospital, why use a taxi? why not choose a different route to the Cenotaph if that was the target? why explode the bomb when the car was still moving? I could go on...
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  1489. I've seen more suitable options for an MP in the reject bin at Jim Henson's workshop than 30p Lee and to be fair, at least they all know they're muppets...
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  1490. How about Tories start 'driving up standards' in their corrupt, nepotism and cronyism infested party and stop feeding corporate greed at the expense of the taxpayer and infrastructure...
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  1491.  @kikidevine694  I just try to always remain optimistic as I watch the Tories slowly 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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  1492. See other comments for examples of people in a burning house claiming they can't smell the smoke...
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  1493. What's the point in continually raising taxes for the right reasons, when the Tories will divert the extra money to their mate's offshore bank account? Why not take the money out of the £100+ billion the government gives to corporate greed via corporate welfare and subsidies every year? or collect the tens of billions owed in corporation tax per annum that we lose via the tax gap?
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  1494.  @MrSatnavatron  Yea, unfortunately for some reason billionaires don't want to give up their private islands and private jets, oh and global hegemony. Considering the amount of mercenaries used in the last few wars, I think they could easily finance a huge army. Ah well authoritarianism and a dystopian Orwellian state it is then, complete with ID chips, citizen tracking, immunity passports, digital currency and a one world government run for large multinationals with humans on slave wages. Blade runner here we come...
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  1495. Johnson should be in a chain gang for asset-stripping the country and feeding taxpayer money to his mate's off-shore bank accounts...
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  1496.  @feargach2107  Thank you!
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  1497.  @eightiesmusic1984  I agree in part, But since Thatcher brought in anti-Union regulations, and anti-Strike regulations it's very difficult to have a legal strike and to support workers. The NHS funding since 2012 and the Health and Social Care act is prioritising for-profit organisations, meaning NHS funding is being siphoned off to shareholders. There are always a few in any organisation that allow power to get to their heads, unfortunately, that's down to human fallibility. If the unions had more support and more power then maybe we could get everyone out of working poverty.
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  1498. It's a pity more people don't do this. Also, public gardens and fruit and nut trees should be planted by councils. When I was a kid in the 70s there were lots of foraging opportunities locally. Unfortunately, the problem is that despite native nuts, fruit and berries being self-sustaining they impact profits for supermarkets. Growing your own herbs, fruit and veg used to be the norm and everything was organic, heritage produce. Enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your labour, no better feeling than self-sustainability and no better taste than homegrown.
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  1499. ...and a kick in the teeth for low-income Brits. With 1/3rd of the working population already in working poverty.
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  1500. I'll try again in quotes as per usual YT has filtered me out of debate. "It's a disgracefully corrupt and authoritarian regime, but enough about the Tories, Putin is certainly just as bad if not worse. The difference is that the Tories are subtle. While our exports to the world such as the Industrial revolution have helped humanity, other exports aren't always globally helpful. For instance, the Bank of England has been exporting financial cons for decades and Britain is responsible for a large part if not, the majority of global corporate tax fraud. We launder the global criminal elite's money for them."
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  1501.  @JOEFABULOUS.  Traditional Labour got the whole working class out of slums and gave them social housing, free health care, free legal aid, free public transport, worker's rights, human rights and free schooling... You should learn history...
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  1502. I'd block the peerage on the grounds that she's the human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up...
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  1503. The illusion of sovereignty led to Brexit which caused a loss of HGV drivers who left in droves, Tory solution hire EU HGV drivers? Anyone else laughing?
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  1504. Abducting a loved pet is as low as you can get. But if it's all about money, shouldn't we ask ourselves why people are so desperate that they'd stoop so low?
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  1505.  @vicsomeone  lol cheers mate, great quote. I'm also collating my stuff in a book. So hopefully will be able to share a few laughs to a wider audience without the filtering and censorship.
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  1506. Who pays for the corporate bailouts and tax losses? Who tops up low wages from corporations? The taxpayer via tax credits. Who pays for corporate subsidies? The taxpayer. Who paid for the infrastructure corporations exploit for profit? The taxpayer. Who now profits from that infrastructure and fails to maintain it? Corporations. Who covers the annual tax gap from corporate tax losses of £40-120 billion per annum? the taxpayer. Who pays for the energy bill support grants? The taxpayer - While shell makes bumper profits. Why are tax credits and energy grants necessary? corporate greed...
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  1507.  @OrphanAnnie10  Exactly! they should let Johnson wear a fake nose and colourful clothing while honking a horn and smashing a custard pie in his own face, something the clown may actually be capable of.
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  1508.  @dustintacohands1107  Yes. That should be obvious from the article as well as historical evidence. Obvious to anyone who has even a bare, tenuous grip on reality...
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  1509. Did they allow the Tories to manage it?
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  1510. Tories know all about assisted dying... Ask the vulnerable and disabled.
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  1511. Matt Hancock was the first in his family not be born with webbed feet.
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  1512.  @kingdontrump9182  China have more capitalist billionaires per capita than any other country and are predicted by top economists to be the largest economy by 2028. They are not communists... Your point is also whataboutery...
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  1513. Outsourcing, For-profit organisations, Debt, Staff shortage, Overpriced pharma contracts - all enabled by the Tories. The majority of the NHS budget (taxpayers' money) goes to shareholders!
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  1514. People always trying to make things harder. If you want to know if there's a shark in the water simply put both feet in the water for a minute or so then pull them back. If you still have feet, the chances are it wasn't a shark! simples...
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  1515. So seriously he ignored medical advice and forced higher rates of infections in care homes and society...
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  1516. More guns? At least America is a shining example to the world of what not to do. This is a society in freefall, bound by their ego and failure to adapt...
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  1517. Some people have too much money and not enough self-control...
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  1518. He dropped out of 3 treaties reigniting the 'not so cold war' and nuke proliferation...
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  1519. and at least the Petrodollar can now sleep safely at night...
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  1520.  @heidimadeleine8808  An African-American who went to Sweden almost cried when she was referred to simply as an American for the first time in her life. She appreciated the fact that she was just seen simply as an American and not defined by the prefix African... Jesus, I give up with this thread, none of you have the decency to read the story or understand the history...
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  1521.  @danielwebb8402  14.5 million people a fifth of the population are living in poverty 8.1 million adults, 4.3 million children and 2.1 million pensioners. Obesity has nothing to do with poverty, cheap high-calorie food is to blame, quality food is expensive and you can't pick and choose at the plethora of food banks. Don't try to analyse stats yourself you don't seem capable. "English councils helped more than 278,000 households with homelessness between April 2021 and March 2022. That’s up 16 per cent on the previous year."
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  1522.  @taefravis  Thanks for the asinine comment. I've obviously provided evidence of Keir's right-wing stance on migration, your sidestepping of that fact with irrelevant misinterpretations of my points is about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Thank you for your time, have a wonderful day!
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  1523. Any PM should be sacked the first time they try to avoid answering a question that is relevant to the integrity of their leadership or party. They are an employee of the electorate (I know the system is rigged and democracy has never existed). However, if they want to play a pantomime for the public then let's have some accountability.
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  1524.  @generalzucc462  lol I'm expressing my opinion and it seems to be quite popular, unlike yours. Which to be honest is about as much use as a tampon machine in a Monastery...
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  1525. Correction "Daft COP agreement published" which will continue to provide profit at the expense of our children's future...
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  1526.  @johnadams9353  Thank you for that intelligent, erudite, concise and informative comment. I'll be looking forward to hearing more from you in the near future...
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  1527. Tory metaphor, Walking on lake of thin ice, Splash! no more Tory...
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  1528. She should change her name to Salmonella Cruelerman...
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  1529. Let's all worship vacuous celebs and help them overcome their poverty by rewarding them with a token of our appreciation for the groundbreaking work they do in portraying human beings. Not everyone can play pretend as an adult, it takes a special kind of person to do that. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good series or film, but I'd rather humanity reward humanity, let's put low waged mental health workers, carers, nurses and doctors on a pedestal. Let's reward compassion and decency and the willingness to do humble work like building, cleaning, serving, repairing and producing goods for society.
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  1530. Frail elderly forgetful old man meets pork-obsessed cheesy Liz with her antiquated financial cons... What could go wrong?
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  1531. He's right. But he's also a centrist neoliberal and almost as bad as the Tories. Red or Blue flavoured neoliberalism?
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  1532.  @philip_bray  Far left? Yes, I believe in fair wages, a fair legal system, human rights, equality, free speech, not forcing taxpayers to fork out on corporate greed, being paid enough to buy a house and support a family in a decent society and have a decent pension in my old age. So yes that makes me an extremist...
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  1533.  @edmunddantes7097  Pack animals often run from a threat but will gang up on a single victim. Power corrupts and most of the officers there are just that.
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  1534.  @feliciabrofford4673  He phoned the police telling them he feared for his life (Not sure if that is in the video or If I read it on a different news report), which is why some of the other cops were there. Also "The organizing group, Dismantle Circleville Police, are calling for the termination of Circleville Police Chief Gary Shawn Bear, among other demands." I think the local police are known to be aggressive by truckers and locals.
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  1535.  @denzel270  I'm talking about recent history, You're forgetting Lybia and the proxy war in Syria it's not just Iraq and Afghanistan. Look at the timeline of the wars and the timeline of when each country dropped the petrodollar. Look at the Lybian discussion to create the Dinar an African currency for oil sales backed by 150 tonnes of gold. This would have ended Petrodollar reliance/hegemony in the Middle East and Africa, the knock-on effect would have devalued the dollar. Not sure what atrocities Germany committed recently...
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  1536.  @elliottwright3772  The figure was £97 billion in the 2016 article I read and it keeps rising every year... The stats are from the ONS and were compiled in a study. It was widely reported in several top tabloids on both sides of the political arena...
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  1537. "We managed to get most of the lithium, gold and opium out in time. What the people? who cares..."
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  1538. With personality? I guess if they can do that they can give Zuckerberg one too...
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  1539. Too many damn lerts in Britain already !! What have the Coronavirus and the Tories got in common? (apart from not having a cure for either) They both like to disproportionately target the poor, minorities, disabled and vulnerable.
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  1540. Save repeating this on every erroneous comment I've seen: " The EHRC report clearly showed there was no systemic AS in the Labour party. The 2017 and 2018 parliamentary reports clearly show less AS in Labour compared to the Tory Party, UKIP and society in general. It also clearly shows AS was reduced under Corbyn. The Home Affairs Select Committee of Parliament held an inquiry into antisemitism in the UK in the same year and found "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party". The reports proved there were higher levels of Antisemitism in the Tory party, UKIP and society as a whole than in the Labour party. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. He also helped to restart the stalled talks after months of work to enable the prisoner exchange which itself enabled the GFA..." Don't bother replying to me unless you can conclusively rebut any of the information I've provided, I'm not interested in debating tabloid nonsense or personal opinions...
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  1541.  @radjalomas8854  Risks? Complimenting a reactor deserves censorship? Using factual eloquent words to point out missing aspects to a news story is worth censoring? Humor, decency, factual accuracy, different perspective to a commentor - these things deserve censorship? Besides I've seen enough factless, vile, aggressive comments to know I'm singled out for my political views (left-wing, anti-capitalist, human rights advocate).
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  1542.  @uchoob246  Jacob wouldn't lower himself to type on a public forum, even one the Tories have stacked with their donors in top roles. Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dancing around a cloaked figure. A scream piercing the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. The sound of a cane cracks against the cobbled pavement as a red pool reflects a blood moon with the silhouette of a nefarious character in a cloak and a top hat. Jack the Kipper...
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  1543.  @olebull9714  Same erroneous comment everywhere... Get a real job instead of being a paid Tory apologist.
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  1544.  @stephenelkington4971  Try learning about geopolitics, economics and disaster capitalism instead of being chairman of the pointless comments department...
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  1545. Here's some less uplifting news. Worldwide authoritarian governments on the rise, huge financial depression on the horizon, moving towards cashless / contactless society, more invasive surveillance from governments and Trump wants to have a crack at Chyynna. Still we're just a speck of dust on one of a billion planets like ours in the universe, so cheer up!
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  1546. Tut, tut. That's the Tory's job!
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  1547.  @SnuggLeona  I'm filtered on every second comment, at least two comments on this thread aren't visible. Compassionate dialogue is impossible with sociopaths...
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  1548. @TheAspergersStrikesBack Agreed, by Chinese property developers as Mayor, Russian Oligarchs for the past decade and state lobbyists to name but a few. The funny thing is Boris doesn't know the meaning of the word compromise, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words. Boris is the reason God doesn't talk to us anymore. Sentient ham...
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  1549.  @stuartpenman6387  The workers pay tax as we have no option, corporations cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in lost taxes it's called the tax gap. On top of the corporate subsidies, corporate welfare, bailouts and tax breaks that cost us hundreds of billions. NHS Trust provides Healthcare while companies can produce many types of services and goods. If you have any other pointless questions or points of little interest feel free to do research and improve your comprehension skills. I love corporate apologists...
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  1550. Thanks for that, I was going to wear a 10ft kite on my back and go mountain climbing. Just kidding appreciate the sentiment :)
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  1551.  @californiadreamin8423  Sorry I only communicate with higher forms of life, as soon as your reach sapience let me know...
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  1552.  @davidmcculloch8490  Thank you. Diet Tories: A moment in office, a lifetime on your wallets.
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  1553. lol, the human race is facing extinction and all we get is adverts for trips to space from billionaires. I'm sure there is some connection...
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  1554.  @petermorris3665  Your whataboutery is inane and incomparable. Firstly I don't support Starmer's Labour party. Secondly, Labour hasn't fed shareholders and contractors with excessively expensive vanity projects that only help the wealthy while costing the taxpayer £100 billion...
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  1555.  @jimthompson9370  No rebuttal of my correction of your misinformation? Yes, I miss integrity, compassion, decency and the fact that we wouldn't be in this mess if we'd nationalised the energy market, had responsible economic decisions and funded the NHS...
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  1556. Congrats to the Paralympians who despite a draconian benefits system that punishes the disabled proved their worth to society yet again...
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  1557. I'm heavily filtered by the YT algorithm, I think not only is there a general filter for certain words but also a score given to users against which this is used. I've had straight-up stats filtered. Thank you for allowing my jokes and not removing my dark humour and sarcasm. I get far more comments visible here than in most places and so can confirm that I think Tim is genuine in his desire and actions not to censor us. I've also got to know Tim better in the last week of two and appreciate his mild-mannered Professor demeanour with that wellspring of innuendo bursting to get out.
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  1558.  @wordforever117  As impressed as I am with your use of the word "hahaha" at the end of a sentence to prove your young age and lack of vocabulary, the story is about JRM and his religious views on the topic. Which you seem to share judging from your comment. Yes, I'm obsessed with the invisible mythical magical deity in the sky...
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  1559. Make the legal age 18 to buy and use vapes... Oh wait it already is! - How many alcohol-related hospitalisations for under 18s per annum?
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  1560.  @balance3201  Well, at least we agree on that. Let's put it in terms of physics. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Unless there is no opposing force. I've been alive 50 years and seen things get steadily worse as mainstream left ideologies are now called extreme and the media push the Overton window further to the right. anyways, take care!
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  1561. The main reason is that Jacob Rees-Mogg is a condescending, amoral, no-skill, inherited wealth, nanny fed, elitist product of the shallow end of the British gene pool and decades of stagnant evolution. It's well known the Mogg gene hasn't evolved since the 19th century...
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  1562. You can trust U-turn Truss to deliver!
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  1563. Grenfell was predominantly due to the local Tory council, Tory government legislation and landlords who use highly flammable materials because it's cheaper. The fire department may have many flaws but this is simply an exercise is shifting blame...
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  1564. Matt Hancock is the reason God doesn't talk to us anymore!
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  1565.  @stevec6427  Agreed, not only that but allowing the poorest to keep more of their income also helps to grow the economy. As those on the lowest incomes don't have spare money to save and so every penny goes straight back into the economy, creating a virtuous circle.
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  1566.  @cockneycharm3970  I think last time I talked about May the phrase Cloven-hoofed spawn of Satan was used.
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  1567. You sound like a paid bot for the ww3 kickstarter campaign. Oxford University researchers have studied the virus and determined the outbreak did not come from Wuhan, they have earlier strains of the virus found further afield. They are still trying to track ground zero but are confident that the Wuhan outbreak was not the original strain. PS China has also paid the heaviest price in terms of industry and economy.
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  1568.  @XRPMAYBE  Lol is an omnipotent pixie that haunts mankind and the English language. I may be kicked out of the pixie club for divulging such ancestral knowledge.
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  1569. @Lies Tricks We have millions of unemployed who are willing to work for decent wages but can't afford to work for peanuts. Automation is always going to be cheaper once it's up and running that argument leads to full automation of the workforce.
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  1570. Experience in what? compassion, humanity, decency, morals, dignity, ethics... She has a lot of deficiencies...
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  1571.  @captainshakesbeard2453  You mean because I got 9 likes to a reply to you and you got 2? Yea ok m8, whatever helps you sleep at night...
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  1572. lol as if people can afford Christmas presents this year. Many working people can't afford food and energy...
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  1573.  @kristinesharp6286  Is your middle name Notso...
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  1574.  @TWRehab  These people profit from the disparity and are directly responsible as bankers. They are selfish, inept and ignorant of the conditions that most people face. As you obviously are too...
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  1575. Australia, the US and the UK have working poverty with the majority of the population in debt. China is even worse. Seriously someone's going to have to take these megalomaniacs power from them...
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  1576. Tories, duh!
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  1577.  @alltypesofvideos9902  Her husband also advises corporations how to avoid UK tax laws too, very patriotic.
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  1578. Have any of them heard of Social Democracy? Centrist neoliberals pretending to be left...
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  1579. Agreed. They also grew organic/normal fruit and veg and foraged locally. Data collection and sales is one of the fastest growing new industries. Our lives are monitored, manipulated and recorded for the use of corporations. Security should be enabled at the source not forced upon the user. 1984 on steroids - Corporatocracy here we come..
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  1580.  @FJTx100  Agreed, All those Habsburg descendants still control countries through archaic forms of feudal governance.
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  1581. So you want to live in a fascist corporate dictatorship and complain about globalists? does cognitive dissonance hurt?
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  1582. Stealing a loved pet is about as low as it gets. Having said that why are people so desperate to get money that they'd stoop so low?
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  1583. Prop gun and blanks is a euphemism for egotistical actor goes postal.
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  1584.  @gedog77  100% life necessities are paid for by our taxes and should be profit free.
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  1585.  @knackeredmedic8187  My pleasure, thanks to you and the others who added a Pyhtonesque charm ;)
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  1586. Involuntary? lol anyone else would already be serving a life sentence.
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  1587. Coulda just admitted you're a nob save us all the 2 seconds it took to read your comment...
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  1588. Fash is mmmmmmm...
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  1589.  @andrewtongue7084  True, but at least in feudal society I could forage for food and collect logs to heat my home. Now we have foodbanks and hypothermia.
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  1590. While you're at it, ask him why children get cancer... Design flaw or cruel jest?
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  1591.  @damien706  I think men's obsession with porn is a separate issue, though there may be a small crossover. This is more likely related to Women feeling pressure to live up to unrealistic standards set by beauty magazines, the Fashion industry, Hollywood perfection and an obsession with plastic surgery.
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  1592. Best hangover cure is liver cirrhosis...
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  1593. Sensible precaution. Boris Johnson has done the opposite. But then the Tories did allow over 13,000,000 visitors to Britain in the first year of the pandemic...
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  1594. Boris Johnson is the Fred West of world leaders and his patio is Britain...
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  1595. About as relevant as a grain of sand in the Sahara desert...
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  1596. 100%, In one of the first responses to Hussey Ms Fulani, said that she didn't have documentation of her ancestry (as they were taken to the Caribbean as slaves). This story isn't about asking a simple question, it's about ignoring an uncomfortable admission from Ms Fulani and continuing to inquire while also being quite patronising.
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  1597. How else are the rich supposed to buy a new yacht? Unless we keep paying for the taxes that they don't pay to keep their profit margins rising, that's the important thing!
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  1598.  @user-ks1hp2pb5g  Most Welsh people's DNA is around 35-40% Celtic. The average English DNA is about 40% German/Anglo-Saxon, about 20% Irish/Celtic, about 9% Scandanavian/Viking and other small amounts including Roman/Italian and Norman/French. The Welsh, Scottish and Irish has about 20% less Anglo-Saxon and about 20% more Irish/Celt DNA, with the Irish having as much as 50% Celt. The Celts actually came from the Iberian peninsular (Spain/Portugal) around 10,000-15,000 years ago according to DNA evidence found in Ireland. So I suppose like most Brits my haplogroup is predominantly European, more Northern for the English more Southern Western for the Celtic nations and Cornwall.
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  1599.  @mrlaos297  Something you seem to manage to live without, enjoy a world full of opinion and supposition...
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  1600. National action is needed all over Britain in every arena. The poor are victims of a war they don't realise is happening.
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  1601. Teabagging has nothing to do with a tasty beverage from China served in porcelain teacups... lol
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  1602.  @philbarone4603  Agreed, on a personal level. But globally that won't work. Those with the power will simply take advantage. We've lost 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of extinction. Even in rich countries like the UK, corporate greed increases at a rate proportional to poverty, and food bank usage increases. It's no coincidence. We also have neo-fascism and authoritarian governments on the rise. Not to mention the cyberattacks, industrial accidents, and skirmishes which suggest ww3 has already started...
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  1603. If I was a billionaire who owned a corporation I'd be pushing my prices up so I could make enough profit to complete my bunker before the inevitable...
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  1604. Belarus are out of order, having said that the UK has taken in over 2 million Polish immigrants, France have taken over 1 million, Germany and Russia have taken about 400,000 each and the US has taken in around 2.2 million Polish immigrants. By my calculation, they should have room for around 6 million...
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  1605. However annoying they may to motorists, their cause is the cause of any decent human being who wants to see the human race survive our current problems. They've been ignored for decades while corporate lobbyists have been paying MPs to turn a blind eye. The system failed them as it has us.
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  1606.  @MikkelMane  lol you're not very good at commenting, are you? Keep practising you'll get the hang of it. Start with a basic understanding of words, then move on to punctuation and sentence structure...
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  1607. That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type...
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  1608. In 1917 the British signed the Balfour Declaration to give their protectorate of Palestine to some Jewish bankers in return for a loan to win the war. In 1947 the Palestinians allowed Jewish settlers to free the persecution in Europe and settle in Palestine. Since then Palestinians have been subject to land grabs, brutality and apartheid legislation from their lodger...
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  1609. So now he's patronising Kenyans instead of the British public? Divine rule archaic backwards feudal Britain...
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  1610. ~Why filter my little joke? c'mon be a good egg "Boris was born with a silver foot in his mouth and has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give Satan a refund... in roubles."
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  1611.  @sickbuffalo9902  Thanks for the basic maths lesson that attempts to feebly distort reality. We give over £100 billion of taxpayer money per annum to tax-dodging corporations via welfare and subsidies. Those corporations also cost us between £40-120 billion per annum via unpaid taxes/tax gap... We also allow the Tories to give government contractors £37 billion for a test and trace system than most countries can do for a million... I have a plethora of examples of why the rich get richer, and it has nothing to do with your very basic understanding...
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  1612. So it's goodbye to FUKUS. The French have gone ballistic since being torpedoed by Australia and China have gone nuclear...
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  1613. Not the Destiny the founding fathers had in mind to manifest...
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  1614. Good for them, they're obviously underpaid, just like nurses and doctors who aren't as important as actors. I hope they can up their wages to $20 or $30 million per film so they can afford to get themselves out of poverty...
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  1615. Yay capitalism!
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  1616. Cost of a Poppy £2 - cost of a privileged royal gaining publicity in multiple tabloids by giving that poppy to a minority toddler - priceless...
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  1617.  @feargal2433  Thank you and agreed.
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  1618. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of cash; Four and twenty kleptocrats stealing from our tax. When the country realised, they all began to sing, Get the Tories out of office or they'll sell off everything!
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  1619.  @lynchthis1  Thanks for that highly intellectual rebuttal of socialism. PS Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in 1867, which is a critique of Capitalism. Which is why I put that year. The communist manifesto was written by Marx and Engels much earlier in 1848. PPS Socialism was used in Libya under a system known as the 'Green System'. Libya had no IMF debt, $150 billion in the bank, 143 tons of gold and a similar amount of silver. Every citizen had a share in the national oil and no one went hungry. Now thanks to the US, forced regime change and Capitalism Libya has human trafficking and slavery. That's what Capitalism does to wealthy socialists countries. Look at the history of US interference and regime change in S.America...
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  1620. Western imperialism and Lebanon's ties to Iran...
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  1621.  @shelleylyme6402  OK, I'm exaggerating, but we lost 150,000 because of cuts in the NHS during austerity which she not only condoned but fought for. Then there are the losses from Pandemic corruption and incompetence. Not to mention the failure of the ring-fenced care homes. The 40,000 losses per annum from pensioners lost to the winter cold. Esther and her party are responsible for far more British losses than the Blitz...
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  1622.  @Storm.Z.4u  I can't argue with a lack of logic and understanding. Your comment is puerile...
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  1623.  @petehibbert310  That's what I'd have said If I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type... About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  1624.  @dylaanowen  People kill themselves with artificial sweeteners, sugar, cheap fat, lack of exercise, toxic products they buy from corporations they trust. We risk our lives crossing the road or working in heavy industry. Tax on booze, sugar, and cigarettes are iso only used to disadvantage the poor. What is more important 60 years of enjoyable lifestyle or 65 years of abstinence and worry?
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  1625. "There wasn't a fuel shortage" "Now I can't even get the fuel I normally need, its all gone"
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  1626.  @ennesshay5040  The pathetic wage and Rich employer's access to an offshore account is controlled via legislation as is the tax on the 'goods' you purchase. You care!
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  1627. @Wolf A wolf defending dogs, surprise surprise! cronyism I tells ya!
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  1628. The usual aggressive, genocidal rhetoric from the poison dwarf in the Garden of Eden...
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  1629. The economy shrank by 0.3% in March alone. Our economy shrank by 5.5% due to Brexit so this 0.2% growth barely scratches the surface of our previous losses. But don't worry about the banks and their management teams, they're all getting huge payouts, after all, If they fail they'll just ask for another bailout...
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  1630. Hire a big red bus and mark these words in large letters "We lose over £350 million pounds a week because of Brexit, let's fund our NHS instead! - vote rejoin"
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  1631. Defending Tories then?
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  1632. Thank god that old lady was arrested before she upset the tangerine troglodyte...
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  1633.  @David-kk5fx  Thank you, kind Sir. When i die, I would just like to be remembered as the guy who gave his taxes to the government to waste on cronyism and corporate greed, without question. Who never resented the endless tax increases and loss of freedoms. Who consumed and got into debt to enrich the wealthy elite, without a hint of complaint. A man who was happy to go without food and heating so that wealthy shareholders could top up their off-shore accounts. A man who played by the rules, even while the rules were playing him. Bless the wealthy elitists and corrupt politicians alike...
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  1634.  @seanwilson5147  You haven't a clue m8. Russia has over 6,000 nukes and 6 times the subs as well as hypersonic tech. I'm not going to continue to debate with patriotism over reality.
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  1635. Prop gun and blanks is a euphemism for actor goes postal...
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  1636. I've had my jabs so not partisan to the cause. But authoritarianism on this scale is alarming. I'm just glad this is an alternative universe and not the real one...
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  1637.  @jphenry3404  I can and do because they are responsible for their choices as am I. We take responsibility for our choices, my choice is to remain poor rather than exploit others or the grossly unfair system...
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  1638.  @bykurt_is  PS There have been 470 in the US so far this year alone...
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  1639. It never ceases to amaze me how far some clowns will go to win back a crowd they lost the minute they walked on stage...
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  1640. Minister of friendship and openhearted acceptance. She gives evil witches a bad name...
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  1641. Can someone find titter a friend? he seems to be one of those self-destructive personalities, faux Bourgeoisie with urban slang. He doesn't seem to comprehend context or language very well yet claims to be a literary aficionado and critic. Some of us grew up on a council estate and as Wilde would say "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars". Titter seems quite content to look at the reflection of the stars in the urine pool he created in the gutter...
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  1642. Bards were originally Celtic composers of eulogy and satire. Just like Ren. It seems Titter not only doesn't understand the word bard but hasn't read or understood Shakespeare...
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  1643. I hope they lose all their sales in Britain, they don't pay tax anyway, so their contribution won't be missed and maybe a more ethical corporation will take their place.
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  1644.  @bricktimelapsebuilds  Or you just have a controlling interest in one of the world's largest Aluminium suppliers when Yeltsin privatises the industry in 1993...
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  1645. We already pay for social care, then the Tories cut money from social care and run it down, then announce an overhaul that costs the poorest in society who are already under pressure financially. Same old underfund, then offer privatisation/tax hikes as a solution. Over 1/3rd of Brits are already in working poverty.
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  1646. Bye-Bye election!
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  1647.  @floopy1962  lol China are the least of your worries... The same people have been setting the course for humanity for a while, and it isn't ex-communists...
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  1648.  @pamelahardy2907  You think any global leaders aren't psychopathic megalomaniacs? You remember what the west did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria? That our oil-suppling friends in Saudi Arabia are committing genocide in Yemen?
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  1649. She did a great job directing Apocalypse Now, The Godfather trilogy and my personal fav Rumble Fish starring Mickey Rourke. lol sorry, just joking...
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  1650. That's a misleading question. Wind farms will solve our reliance on Russian gas within 2 years, but we need all renewables to be increased (Hydro, Solar, Biomass, Wind, Geothermal) as well as insulation and energy-saving technologies combined. There is no reason we can't be 100% self-sufficient in energy needs and every reason in the modern world to make it a top priority.
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  1651.  @richardgallagher4880  Thankyou for proving your lack of information and unworthyness to debate. Saves me the hassle...
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  1652. Stand with the nurses. A large percentage of the budget now goes to for-profit organisations and the admin and management required for that outsourcing. We had a much better service before the Tories took over in 2010 and things have degraded since then considerably. Pay nurses what they deserve as the could get 1/3rd extra wages by simply moving to Australia to do the same job.
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  1653. Welsh people know what is to have little, they also know what community means. This is how society should work from top to bottom. Humans are social animals, money is a toxic element that adds greed, inequity and logistical problems. Goods require time and effort to produce, nothing more. Trees, bushes and other plants provide free food, all we need to do is plant them and let them multiply.
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  1654. Misanthropes and neanderthals, economic vampires and seriously flawed human beings and she's queen? Such a sad comment from a sad little man...
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  1655.  @indricotherium4802  Hopefully someone will put a strong lock on the outside and leave them there :P
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  1656.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Stop the blatant lying. "MPs can claim for rent or hotel accommodation as well as expenses for a second home if they are not already receiving rent-free London accommodation through any ministerial post, and provided that their constituency is outside London."
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  1657.  @mrswintersparrow  Agreed, the NHS has received funding levels consistently under the rate of inflation for over a decade, during which they have a staff shortage of over 100,000 due to multiple factors, including low pay, lack of bursaries and debt from outsourcing.
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  1658. lol
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  1659. We are not a nation of accountants and are not interested in becoming data entry drudges on min wage. We aren't here to service the Tory agenda and go to school for a broad range of education not just to be trained how to do minimal tasks for low wages...
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  1660.  @pierremartini2229  I write a lot of satire and parody to try and get through to people who won't normally listen to facts. It's the ideology that concerns me rather than wealth. Here's another: "I just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the British people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe care homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers..."
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  1661.  @billseymour-jones3224  Agreed, Although to be a Tory MP you have to lack compassion, decency, morality and humanity it would seem.
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  1662. Yes, just take a poll of elephants and see how many of them want their tusks removed to make ornaments and potions...
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  1663. Reverse cuts, train police officers and hold them to a high standard then change legislation so that sexual and domestic abuse are punished?
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  1664.  @lIlIlIIIlllIIiLll  Placate the masses while they continue to siphon our taxes to shareholders offshore accounts no doubt.
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  1665. Laws and words are given meaning by those who create and use them. Predominantly the powerful in society who want to ensure their power and wealth increase no matter the cost to others. Changes to legal aid brought in by the Tory government in 2012 to save money along with changes to the way in which solicitors are paid for legal aid work in 2006 means that justice is now harder to get and is truly only for those with money. There is no incentive anymore for justice, no financial incentive for solicitors to protect those on the lower rungs of the social ladder. We have a government that spent over £200 million of taxpayer money challenging the human rights of the disabled and vulnerable who lost financial support due to their legislation.
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  1666. Agreed. To be, or not to be a dictatorship, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  1667. The base and Neanderthal king of misinformation. Proving he has a limited rudimentary understanding of the English language and primitive humour...
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  1668. Saudi Arabia seems to also be quite good at genocide, they've been practising for quite some time in Yemen...
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  1669.  @jonstersmall2716  Nothing to worry about but earlier this year the Tories passed the CHIS bill which allows security services to ignore your human rights and rape, murder or frame you for a crime with complete impunity from the law.
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  1670. Libya? Isn't that the country that was going to create an African currency 'The Dinar' for oil sales backed by 143 tons of gold which would have threatened the hegemony of the petrodollar? Just wondering...
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  1671. More 3 word slogans that amount to nothing from the clown with the frown...
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  1672.  @goych  It's inherently flawed, even if you change things it will just drift back. It's inherent to have a poverty gap and the powerful continually manipulating the system for their own ends. Money is simply a construction, not a real resource - we are social animals and need a system that thrives on cooperation as opposed to competition. Inequality always leads to exploitation and a continual cycle of the 99% being subservient to the 1%. While the 1% game the system and are virtually free from consequences - to the point where we risk the future of the species...
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  1673. I did panto once, but after a few ill-judged innuendos I was pulled off...
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  1674. But is there any oil left? that's the most important thing...
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  1675. Agreed, I'm sorry that people in your country don't feel safe walking outside without a gun. It's a terrible indictment on a society.
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  1676.  @knockedoutloaded  Thanks for the comment, but if I want the perspective of a child I'll ask you...
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  1677. Here's the complete explanation for the hard of thinking "Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like.." Nothing to do with economic or political ideology, it's just being used as a catchall phrase to demonise anyone with decency and morality...
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  1678. The situation is that the Tories are repeating the same mistakes by ignoring their advisors and experts and waiting until the last moment. That way they can reduce the welfare bill a bit more by reducing the number of those still alive on welfare...
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  1679.  @richardsmith1870  lol, we don't live in a democracy. Corporate lobbyists override constituents' wishes, special interests groups pay for political support, we live in a corporatocracy or a plutocracy. If you read recent legislation you'll see more authoritarianism and fash-is-mm than you can bare, you're obviously oblivious to that fact. Millions died in Bengal through famine due to Churchill's policies to support the war effort. Your facts are inane nonsense from the mind of a political illiterate, you have to exceed someone's knowledge and intellectual capacity to teach them, find some schoolchildren as that would be more your level. PS People who repeat the word fact after every sentence give away the fact that their arguments are weak as is their mental capacity. Don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  1680. But at least by way of an apology they're now ripping us off by doubling the price every six months...
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  1681.  Javier_600  PS "The Royal House of Habsburg, one of the most powerful dynasties of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, reigned over much of Europe for centuries. But genetic inheritance and the perils of inbreeding may explain their demise." Nothing to be proud of...
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  1682.  @dawnb8123  While corporate welfare costs us over £100 billion per year, Moshe worries about the £1.56 billion unemployment benefits...
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  1683. The lamplight illuminates the cascading rain in Downing street giving the impression of falling diamonds as the door to no10 closes and the reporters all hurry back to wet cars, annoyed at the usual obfuscation by the PM. The PM sips his champagne and laughs, "Fu*king plebs".
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  1684. Such brave men pushing around middle-aged peaceful protesters, women and students. The billionaire oil barons must be laughing all the way to the bank. Give them the George Cross for gallantry and for their attempt to reverse the right to protest...
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  1685. I've been told I should be nicer on social media, so here goes: I love their stupidity, ignorance, political illiteracy, economic ineptness, lack of historical understanding and inanity...
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  1686. Congrats to the Paralympians, Imagine what they could do if the Tories supported the disabled community instead of punishing them with regular check-ups to ensure they're still disabled... No the nerves in my back haven't regrown, No my legs haven't grown back...
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  1687.  @Starshine2007  Labour was infiltrated by Blair in the 90s and centrists still dominate the leadership. But the true left still exists and despises what Blair and now Starmer is doing to Labour. Starmer and Boris both support their donors, state and corporate lobbyists. No-one else. The 1% use bread and circus/divide and conquer to keep us fighting and slaving away for their profit. But never forget the left gave us rights, legal protection, took us out of the slums, gave us medical care and free schooling.
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  1688. lol, love the way my comment gets likes and then they disappear. It's hard enough to get a comment through the filtering as it is. Having a voice on the internet is becoming a simple display of which content is preferred by the host of the social media platform.
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  1689.  @mossychops  The Tories are just trying to increase the cost and paperwork so they can continue to use this as a diversion from their other failings. The increase in anti-migrant rhetoric in the tabloids will give the Tories a break from scrutiny as it always does, Hence why they never implement effective solutions.
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  1690.  @thebigpicture2032  lol sure... I mean seriously he's been caught out more times than a naughty teenager...
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  1691. Absolutely disgusting and proof of the failure of the system. Time to make a change!
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  1692. I spent the day contemplating the exact moment that the world fell into a parallel universe where truth is optional and illusion Trumps reality...
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  1693.  @MrTonpark  Possibly Civil War in the US too, unless they attack China before the civil instability reaches a critical stage. Get your popcorn ready, this parallel dimension we've fallen into is going to get a little weird.
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  1694. Well bugga me, about bloody time boyo, init. Nice to allowed out, i'll celebrate by walking over to the window and stare at the sun for a few.
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  1695. Will the fines cover the cost to the taxpayer for this investigation? Will the loved ones of those who died alone, feel any better about the betrayal? We have a government of elitist crooks and they seem impervious to the rules they lay down for the rest of us. Impervious to the harm they cause in society. Impervious to the suffering of those hit hardest by the rise in living standards...
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  1696. The highest number of days have passed so far this year... More on this story tomorrow...
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  1697. @UCZM9bvpLwLh91Nsa8uxePRg I see you don't recognise sarcasm and irony...
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  1698.  @RickyHarding  You have trouble understanding the words currency, numeracy and democracy I see... A little salty that my comment highlights the problem?
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  1699. Fair enough, if he broke the rules we need to know of his Cummings and goings. Although Laura Iceberg said he didn't do anything wrong and I trust Laura she's the most professional, impartial, investigative journalist / Tory sycophant I know.
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  1700.  @b00ts4ndc4ts  Agreed, under nationalisation workers had decent wages and all profits went back into subsidised fares for the public and improvements to the infrastructure.
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  1701.  @b00ts4ndc4ts  Same with NHS profitable assets that have been sold. For example, our emergency blood supplies were sold to Bain Capital for £90 million by the Tories, and they were then sold on by Bain for almost 10 times the amount at £820 million to the Chinese Creat Group. 80% of our emergency blood supplies...
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  1702.  @DropdudeJohn  No mate, of up to 8%, covering 2022 and 2023. That is not the same thing and is still a pay cut as it fails to meet inflation. Not to mention most will only see 4% and they have to agree to contractual and working practice changes as well as huge job losses.
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  1703.  @Guney1886  Nurses are fully aware of that, from the unique perspective of the inside. But agreed, 2012 health care reforms stated any body could apply for contracts. Since then the NHS contracts have been predominantly going to for-profit providers. Our taxes going to shareholders. Tory modus operandi.
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  1704. Belarus are out of order, having said that the UK has taken in over 2 million Polish immigrants, France have taken over 1 million, Germany and Russia have taken about 400,000 each and the US has taken in around 2.2 million Polish immigrants. By my calculation, they should have room for around 6 million...
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  1705. Well if it's a choice between funding social care and wheelchairs for the disabled or continuing to pump money into corporate greed through subsidies and tax relief for corporations. I say fund corporate greed, after all poor people will just waste their money on clothes, food and rent. While the billionaires who take taxpayer money in subsidies will put it to good use by buying another luxury yacht...
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  1706. Anytime there's talk of a perfectly obvious bias in society, like patriarchy, or inequality; there's always those who try to point out the reverse...
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  1707.  @jerrymiller9039  Israel are an illegal nuclear power and have some of the best weapon systems in the world. They killed over 3,000 Palestinian children between 2000-2017. I hardly think throwing stones and launching balloons are any threat to them inside their walled off apartheid state...
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  1708.  @VectorTracker  Yes it is very easy to condemn the Catholic church after centuries of continued abuse... Cynical offer that anyone could make as there's 0% chance of it being accepted...
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  1709. The funny thing is that in many respects, We were better off on a personal level in the stone age, with nice caves, plenty of fauna and flora to forage and all the fire you could need by rubbing two sticks together and burning dead logs. Now we have food shortages, no heating and you're not even allowed to have a wood fire unless you're middle-class and above...
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  1710. As sharp as a sphere...
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  1711. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then shits all over your house... and then lives for centuries... Bless must be hard to heat all those different homes with the high price of energy...
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  1712.  @timwoodger7896  Agreed. Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte Society... they don't use the acronym...
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  1713.  @discombobulate12  Millions who are disabled, suffer mental disabilities, temporary unemployment, temporary incapacity due to illness etc. Stop reading the daily fail, there aren't many people capable of work who permanently claim benefits...
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  1714. For anyone wondering that is what a LAbour leader should be doing, supporting the workers who can't afford to feed themselves and heat their rented accommodation...
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  1715. I love the idea of an enigma that creates art with a social conscience. With all the sadness in the world, a bit of light relief and creativity is much appreciated. Thanks Banksy!
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  1716. An emissions deal that increases the profits of corporations but neglects to deal with the issue in time...
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  1717.  @stonehengemaca  lol that's a new one, usually, I'm called a cultist for supporting Corbyn. To which I reply I'm off to pray to a 10ft effigy of Corbyn: "Our ideology that art for everyone. Socialism be thy name. Our time will come as capitalism is undone on earth as it is inevitable. Give unto those your daily charity and forgive us our profits. As we forgive neoliberals who use profit against us. And lead us not into greed, but deliver us from monopolies. For thine is dialectical materialism, class struggle against the Tories. For ever and ever, ahem."
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  1718.  @davidz3879  lol thanks for that, I needed a laugh. People who want to diminish their own rights for the sake of prejudice shouldn't be allowed to vote...
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  1719. Tim Davie was a Tory candidate for 4 years and now apologises for getting rid of Lineker who embarrassed the Tories... Shows what solidarity and unity can do when people stick to their principles and challenge the powers that be...
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  1720. What's the advertising jingle going to be? The scoop scoop song? Gypsies, Tramps and Ice creams?
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  1721. US economy shrinks faster than an orange man's manparts. The US economy is just trying to make the tango terrorist feel better.
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  1722.  @Eringobragh2024  Tories ignore the Irish, Welsh, Scottish and poor English and do what profits them every time, then make up some PR about how they're actually philanthropic humanitarians...
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  1723. and go out and do something less boring instead...
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  1724.  @darv66  lol i just remembered a scene from 'The young ones' when seeing your comment. "Look out Cliff" seems appropriate :)
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  1725. Tories individually and collectively are responsible for the loss of 100,000s of Brits during the past decade (over 100,000 via NHS cuts alone) or so and the suffering of tens of millions. These were not financial choices as the very wealthy doubled their assets during the same period. It was a choice to enrich themselves at our cost. I dislike both the ideology and the people who implement it.
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  1726. Asking him to apologize is pointless, just get his programmer to change his code...
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  1727. He's no Prince of Wales and his words are dust in the wind...
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  1728. I like Trump in exactly the same way I like accidentally trapping my junk in the zipper...
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  1729.  @shelleylyme6402  Economic euthanasia is far more insidious and has cost as many losses every single year.
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  1730.  @SimonWeston-en6sk  lol, well if that's a crime there are many nations guilty of such, including our own - the UK.
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  1731.  @julielevinge266  100% agreed, I'm so glad we sold off our North Sea resources and privatised the energy markets so a cartel could bleed us dry and increase the number of pensioners that die each year from hypothermia. I also appreciate all the subsidies, bailouts and tax breaks that the poorest pay shareholders, through their taxes. I'm just glad the British public are so apathetic they allow the Tories to con them so openly...
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  1732. Gove, Boris and King Charles - worst vocal trio you'll ever hear...
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  1733.  @metalicminer6231  Wales has a diverse culture including Indians, Afro Caribean, African and Eastern Europe. Unvetted is a silly word to use as immigration is never unvetted, so you will always be wrong using it. We have a shortage of HGV drivers, Butchers, Nurses and Doctors that needs to be filled with migrants as we don't put enough money into education and training in this country. I'm glad that they are willing to fill the gap, and studies prove they contribute more to society than the average native born. So stop your xenophobic nonsense...
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  1734.  @TheWebstaff  Thank you for the pointless, meaningless suggestion. Yes, I could do far better as I'm a decent human being who wasn't brought up in a bubble of privilege and self-absorption. My ideology is not Tory so I'd never represent such a self-serving belief system. If you have nothing to offer in terms of intellect or wit I suggest refraining from pointless comments in future...
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  1735. I'm just glad the pandemic came along, so Brexiteers would have something else to blame...
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  1736. I love the way Americans always provide a safe environment for their kids to be educated in...
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  1737.  @rohankurian5641  It sounds revolting, I say "Let them eat cake!"
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  1738.  @adpmac3981  Why would you say something like that? pathetic. Her policies, lies, party, ideology and duplicity are behind my comment. I said the same about Boris when he went to the US, I often say similar about all Tories. I have a wealth of knowledge on Tory policies in the past 13 years that helps me see them for what they are.
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  1739. God bless the king and all aristocrats we taxpayers fund the excessive lifestyles of...
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  1740. Does anyone remember that old TV series with Lee Majors - The Fall Guy?
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  1741. ​ @extremepoker75  It's owned by individual investors, institutions and foreign governments and some tied to pension funds. The UK would be ostracised from the IFF, WEF, Central Banks and most other international financial institutions if we refused to pay. We, the public are simply collateral for that debt and the higher the debt the easier it is for the Tories to refuse to pay for public services, infrastructure and welfare, hence why they keep it high.
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  1742. ...and more charm in a used tissue.
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  1743. Isn't he the 3-day resurrection specialist who got nailed to a plank by the Romans for saying it would be cool if we were all nice to each other? His dad's into infanticide, genocide and threatening people with torture in firey pits for eternity if they don't submit to his will? Heard about him...
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  1744. This all stems from US sanctions and China and the US reliance on Taiwan for commercial and military technology. Global conflict on the horizon... From a Reuters article dated 27th Dec 2021: "TAICHUNG, Taiwan – On the front line of the superpower struggle between the United States and China, Taiwan has fashioned a defensive masterstroke. It has become indispensable to both sides. In dominating the fabrication of the most advanced semiconductors, the giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC) has captured a technology that’s crucial to the cutting-edge digital devices and weapons of today and tomorrow. TSMC accounts for more than 90% of global output of these chips, according to industry estimates."
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  1745.  @quillo2747  The problem is that you are completely wrong about everything you just said. In Canada, gun deaths are very rare and the process to obtain and possess a gun is rather long and complex, and it involves a meticulous background check on the person interested in purchasing the firearm. Unlike in the US where anyone can walk into a shop and exit with a gun moments later...
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  1746. Yea, most of us struggling to choose between eating and heating agree wholeheartedly. Their control of inflation, crashing the economy and giving us the highest cost of living in memory is truly impressive...
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  1747.  @georgebodley8068  lol you think I'm unaware of the creation of the Fed in 1913 and the knock-on effect of that? The loss of the gold standard in 1933? The creation of Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency and how money is no longer tied to a physical resource? You sound like someone who sympathises with right-wing revisions of history, dangerous ones. I follow logic and reason. I'm just a council estate lad who grew up but can argue economics, and geopolitics with the best of them and have. Many right-wing tropes are behind some of your beliefs. I'm not wasting any more time explaining the glaringly obvious on a story about how AS was used to rob us of a decent PM and how that forced the left to be classed as extreme while the right rises to prominence globally. You're giving them the ammunition...
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  1748. Tories trying to game the system even more?
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  1749. @@CalmlocketThose costs are due to a lack of processing. We give away £3.7 billion every single week in corporate tax losses, corporate welfare and corporate subsidies. There is no reason for the British public to suffer poverty other than corporate greed, we can be generous to deserving migrants who contribute to our economy and still thrive as a nation. You should be aiming your ire at tax-dodging corporations and a corrupt government that hands them your taxes!
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  1750. Money is a human construct, resources required to propel us into space are finite. Instead of billionaires taking joyrides to space why don't we try and create a better world for all, then explore space together?
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  1751.  @adamibrahim7338  I don't have any content lol. Everything you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a pound and square the account...
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  1752.  @primordialpouch565  No m8, the historical Labour party (before Blair) gave us social housing, the NHS, public transport, nationalised industry, the welfare state, free schooling, public libraries, public transport, legal aid, workers' rights, and human rights. The Tories sold off all the taxpayer-owned national industry leaving us at the mercy of corporate profits. While trying to take away our rights. Ideology makes a huge difference, but these days Stamer's Labour are just Tory-lite...
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  1753. Gut-wrenching for the UK/US allies trying to escape the Taliban and falling from planes to the ground below too, no doubt...
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  1754. Back in the 70s when I was born debt-to-GDP was around 30-40%, since Thatcherism and Neoliberalism it has risen to 90-100% (Mainly due to Privatisation and outsourcing, things like corporate welfare/subsidies/tax breaks/grants/bailouts). The high percentage of our Debt-to-GDP is commonly used as an excuse to cut public services to control the debt. Hence why the Tories keep the debt high, they keep it high by lining their own pockets with vanity projects and farming out their responsibilities to a host of private enterprises (Everything from energy, water, education, telecommunications, Healthcare, construction, advisors etc).
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  1755. In other news: Mouse wins Nobel prize for participation in an experiment to test the toxicity of the Evening Standard newspaper...
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  1756. Lip service from the clown in no10, from a party that cut funding to renewables and jail climate activists...
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  1757. Support striking workers, the backbone of our economy. Don't support Tory kleptocrats who are draining our economy and public services at the cost of lives.
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  1758.  @corwinchelway9969  Same thing is happening everywhere US imperialism strikes. They left human trafficking and slavery in Libya after looting Libya's 140 tons of gold, a similar amount of silver, natural resources and oil. But feel free to blame the locals when their infrastructure and population have been decimated by war...
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  1759. ​ @charlesfavell3350  You neglected to mention that China has raised over 100 million out of poverty in the last decade and are set to become the financial number one by 2028. You also neglect to mention which NATO warmongering country you're from and which countries were looted with your tax money... As for human rights, I agree with you although not many countries in the west are much better...
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  1760.  @Crashed131963  I've had about 20 factual comments removed today, you think censorship is limited to China?
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  1761.  @charlesfavell3350  Name one western country that doesn't censor and oppress their citizens. The Tories gave us legislation that allows security services to ignore human rights legislation and murder rape and frame citizens with immunity from legality. That's the spycops bill, Also look at the internet safety bill. Not to mention they also caused the excess deaths of over 130,000 citizens during austerity while the richest 1,000 families in Britain doubled their assets. Assange is still locked up for reporting war crimes. The tories are now using ec0onmic euthanasia while asset-stripping the country. Imagine what they say about us...
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  1762. I always believe everything the media say regarding a spy story as it's all bound to be accurate...
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  1763. .redrum saw tI :semoh eraC
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  1764.  @stevec700  Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. Starmer has reduced the LAbour membership by over 25%. Corbyn has always been on the right side of history... Tabloid talking points and opinion pieces are for the politically illiterate...
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  1765. Protects shareholders and UK tech companies while the cost of living crisis continues to bankrupt the taxpayer, the same taxpayer that bailed out HSBC in 2008. Where's the taxpayer's share HSBC profits? If a bank fails, that money doesn't disappear, someone profits!
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  1766. Says the Alan Patridge of fash ism...
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  1767.  @ladyofthecreek279  Yes it was 1923 and Sir Ian took ages trying to get the Bull to mate with the Frog, which is understandable considering the logistics of such a feat :)
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  1768. I just wish we could find even more destructive, backward, inhumane ways to increase shareholder profits from the farming industry. Is there room for a little more cruelty? maybe we could just stick animals in their own diseased faeces and beat them relentlessly? oh no, we already do that. Maybe we could pump them full of drugs and toxins that stay in their system and end up in our food chain? nope, already do that too... and yes this is called sarcasm...
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  1769. Probably because it isn't the 1920s, we have electricity now :)
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  1770. Still, having trouble with science? Ask your invisible daddy in the sky to help...
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  1771. The breed's health concerns are important, but I'm Welsh and we have a Dragon on our flag as the national symbol so who am I to complain about the British bulldog... National symbol or not people are still breeding them and they are part of many families as pets. What are the options? stop breeding them until they go extinct?
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  1772. It won't save a typical household anything, most people can't afford to spend £2,500 on energy, we live in a cold flat/house and don't use the heating because of the prohibitive cost...
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  1773. I just watched Sky News regarding the consultant's strike. The salary quoted included overtime, the wage decrease percentage was 20% below what the BMA quoted because they hadn't taken factors like rents/mortgages into account. When the consultant said Doctors are going to Australia, Canada etc as the wages are virtually double what is offered here in the UK - Kay made some facetious comment about the government having no control over the weather. Pity Kay wasn't so aggressive when questioning Tory MPs...
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  1774. Cheaters were invented by the Tories in 1834...
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  1775.  @Sajuuk  "The force is investigating alleged Covid law-breaking" as a result the PM and Chancellor were both fined. Being fined for breaking the law, does indeed make you a criminal... Not that Boris and Rishi haven't done far worse...
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  1776.  @californiadreamin8423  Yes, the electorate is easily led by a media that doesn't have their best interests at heart.
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  1777. Although to be fair, I do love Boris as he has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself he inspires dullness in others and has delusions of adequacy. So current revelations are hardly anything new.
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  1778.  @888ssss  lol we have a Blair tribute act in Starmer, I'd rather him than the Tories but I'll struggle to tell the difference in many policies. I guess less corrupt and less kleptocracy.
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  1779.  @bfg3890  Instead of rambling on about a specific time period that suits you please feel free to read articles. "Struggling families are seeing their energy bills rise by as much as 350%, due to a loophole in the energy price cap, LBC can reveal." PS it's more than 400% if you look at Government stats. Price per megawatt-hour in Jan 2020 = £35.93 Price per megawatt-hour in Jan 2022 = £206.88 I'm sure despite the evidence so far you can do the maths...
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  1780. Money makes you impervious to many things. Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dancing around a cloaked figure. A scream piercing the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. Jack the Kipper!
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  1781.  @franklingoodwin  She mentioned both the Irish who suffered racism and the traveller community which is European in descent as a form of prejudice, half a million Romany people lost their lives to German fascism. I have used the term prejudice in my initial comment. Learn to read.
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  1782. Means society will have to change. Maybe move to a resource-based economy and kick the capitalist class to the dirt for their terracidal tendencies...
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  1783.  @xronald619x  RIP Trump 2024!
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  1784. It's national awareness day today, I had no idea...
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  1785.  @Ash-os1dz  We pay over £100 billion to corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies out of our taxes every year, those corporations cost us between £40-120 billion in unpaid taxes each year. We used to own our own energy supplies now we pay a consortium that has increased prices by 560% in the past year alone. Seriously your arguments are illogical and nonsensical...
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  1786. lol, yea that was lucky. Hey look guys there are loads of high tech weapons here and the impeiralist enemy have gone...
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  1787. Free Market ey? Why is the taxpayer propping up corporate profits while visiting a foodbank and living in working poverty...
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  1788. Well selling off our North sea oil and gas, then privatising the energy market that taxpayers owned allowed energy companies to dictate prices while they take money from our taxes in subsidies and tax breaks. We should be self-reliant in energy...
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  1789.  @purplehaze8557  Reasonable is the joy felt by the righteous when criminals and human garbage face justice... Hope this clears things up for you. PS Congratulations on your punctuation and spelling, you must the creme de la creme of Trump supporters...
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  1790.  @henryg3313  *be, there is that better? You suffer from sycophancy and cognitive dissonance by supporting a billionaire who feeds Wall St trillions while telling you he's on your side and fighting against billionaire elitists. Does the term glass houses mean anything to you?
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  1791.  @Robert-Downey-Syndrome  You say that as a neofascist-linked far-right candidate takes the top job in Italy... Seriously?
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  1792. I can't remember if I cried. When news of 9/11 went worldwide. But society was changed from deep inside. The day, the Truth, died...
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  1793. "Help people have more of their own money" By people she means the middle class and corporate elitists... Tax cuts won't help people whose wages are so low they barely pay any tax and spend a 1/4 of their income on energy... It's amazing that the Tories have an endless supply of entitled simpletons ready to give our taxes to corporations in subsidies while ignoring the increasing poverty. Keep it up and see what happens, people won't stand idly by and let their loved ones starve...
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  1794. Something something crime, something something do the time... It's not the first time, he's done enough for a life-sentence during his privileged existence. I wonder if he'll enjoy watersports in priz?
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  1795. Committed to climate fund lol in the same way a Lion is committed to Gazelle conservation...
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  1796.  @brandontrammel4581  It seems my second reply has been deleted. Forgot this is an American news channel and therefore censored to keep the population compliant. Check out his failures in Buenos Aries protecting child abusers and refusing to meet with the victims.
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  1797.  @Nickle314  According to economists at the ONS Britain's hidden debt is actually around £69.6 billion and not £16 trillion as you assert. Although the telegraph does make an argument that hidden public debt in liabilities is around £4 trillion. The Welfare state has not asset-stripped people, they pay for the safety net and many use it when in between jobs, sometimes through Illnesses and accidents or when pregnant or disabled. We give away over £2 billion to corporations in subsidies every single week and lose a similar amount via the tax gap through corporate non-payment. The wealthy are the problem, not the victims of a system that uses the unemployed and disabled to keep wages down and people in poverty.
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  1798.  @hade6833  Look at the legislation, all brought in by the Tories. Now go back to sleep...
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  1799.  @jackinthebox6876  If you're so confident in your decision maybe you could chip in to cover the £trillions lost and help a few million families who are suffering with high energy prices, food prices, mortgage/rent rises and all the other costs that you are partly responsible for...
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  1800. It should be confronted, But how about the last bastion of prejudice 'Poverty' shouldn't we do something about that Rishi?
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  1801.  @faraihove7232  Both are documented facts. Sealion someone else.
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  1802. Be careful what you import from the US...
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  1803.  @buddha1736  PS Blair was Thatcher's Greatest Legacy, a neoliberal sympathiser and a warmongering asshat. As much as I hate to defend him. New Labour only borrowed £100 billion between 1997-2007, only borrowed around £100 billion in ten years, the Tories have borrowed more than that every year since 2010. National Debt as a % of GDP 1997/98 – 40.4% of GDP When Labour took power. National Debt as a % of GDP 2007/08 – 36.4% of GDP Before the global financial crisis. National Debt as a % of GDP was reduced by 4% by Labour in the ten years of office before the Global Financial Crisis.
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  1804. The commonality is that both Syria and Ukraine are being used as a proxy war staging area in the cold war v2.0.
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  1805. The Taliban already have billions in US weaponry, these are just the leftovers.
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  1806. By way of apology? Clapping for nurses and core workers all over again... Lip service and crocodile tears...
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  1807. Will Smith's range as an actor isn't that good...
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  1808. Your joke would work better if it wasn't actually called 'duct tape'...
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  1809. I wonder how their genocide in Yemen is going, heartless b@stards...
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  1810. I'd rather dip my nads in Nutella and dangle them in a pool of piranha...
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  1811.  @soniama5246  Poland is becoming more right-wing, despite suffering from the brutality of Fascism 80 years ago, the far-right has gained a foothold in Poland and is growing.
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  1812.  @kriissyy09ify  Labour is neoliberal since Blair infiltrated the party. The Labour party is Socialist by definition it supports Social Democracy and always has, it says so on the membership card. The Labour party that gave us social housing, the NHS, national industry, a safety net for the poor and disabled, free schooling, public libraries, public transport etc is the real Labour party. Please don't try to lecture me from the perspective of recent shifts in the past few decades of the Overton window being dragged to the right. I've forgotten more political history than you understand, made obvious from your comment!
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  1813. No, you didn't read the conversation. I assume you told them you were British or whatever and that was the end of it. You weren't questioned repeatedly about where you were 'really' from even after telling people you didn't have records of where your family came from before they were exported to the Caribbean by slave traders, then settled in Britain where you were eventually born...
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  1814.  @T5Zplayer  Yes I do as privatisation has cost the taxpayer hundreds of billions in bailouts and over £100 billion a year in subsidies and corporate welfare. Not to mention tax-breaks, grants, loans, higher costs for public services and loss of ownership of taxpayer-funded infrastructure. Also the loss of between £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap. Although if you just want to start a tangential debate and offer more pedantry; I have better things to do.
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  1815. lol at the duck or goose standing on the shore looking at them like, that's my job hooman! don't steal my food!
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  1816. Vanilla ice cream is less exotic or as tasty as the plethora of other flavours available. Yet it outsells many of the other varieties as it's something that may not excite but that most people can tolerate. Starmer is vanilla, very safe and boring and willing to sell himself to corporate power while pretending to be on the side of the common workers.
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  1817. Seriously, I give up on humanity. What's the point in trying to avoid nuclear armageddon if this is what we leave behind. Bring on the firey extinction balls...
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  1818. Just like your idol and mentor Tony Blair then Keith!
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  1819. I hope she spends a few years in prison...
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  1820. Beurocracy and huge salaries for management are just one aspect. The NHS is paying back private financial debt thanks to Blair and the Tories who doubled down on PFIs, and pay for corrupt pharma contracts (Pharma has been fined £100's of millions). Then since the 2014 health care bill, for-profit organisations are being prioritized meaning taxpayers' money is going to shareholders. Outsourcing is another cause as well as the sale of profitable NHS assets and land. Not to mention the multitude of lawsuits the NHS face because of failures, mistakes, incorrect diagnosis etc. Most of this has been engineered/enabled by the Government and legilsation.
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  1821.  @billsmoke3929  I've been on an urgent waiting list for over a year m8 and have been to A&E 3 times this year. I think even 8 hours is an underestimate. People have waited twice as long for an ambulance when having a heart attack. What the Tories have done to the NHS is criminal...
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  1822. Pensioners and students...
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  1823. How about we rise up against divinely ordained monarchy and step out of an archaic feudal paradigm?
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  1824. "There have been reports of labor unrest on the set of the film, where Mr. Baldwin also served as a producer. Several members of the crew walked off the set earlier this week over working conditions, according to several people familiar with the shoot."
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  1825.  @Dimitris_Half  The NY times says something similar. Can't hide a labor dispute. This is dodgy as hell, we may never know what happened, but we've heard this story from Hollywood many times before...
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  1826. Reading the comments here depresses the shit out of me, these attacks on Putin may be justified in some cases, but you can't ignore the very real possibility that ww3 has already started. I'd take anything they say about Russia, China, N.Korea and Iran with a pinch of salt. I've read more convincing rough drafts from Ian Fleming when he was going through his 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' period...
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  1827. I wonder if the increase in asylum seekers in the past few decades is related to our taking part in helping the US protect Petrodollar hegemony by inciting the Arab spring and invading Iraq, Afghanistan and Lybia...
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  1828.  @Peter-ud9bx  Thank you, hope they do. Of all the things Boris has lost, I think he'll miss his mind the most. People say nothing is impossible, Boris does nothing every day. He has enemies, he's also intensely disliked by his friends. Two possibilities: either Boris is an idiot or he is not; both are equally terrifying.
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  1829.  @titos9809  Yep, the reason the UK is responsible for the majority of global corporate tax avoidance is the lack of transparency on the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.
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  1830. War with the US, Aus, the UK on one side vs China/Russian/N.Korea/Venezuela/Iran/Anyone who doesn't support dollar hegemony comes closer by the day... Still could be worse, it's not as if we have a civilisation to be proud of...
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  1831. lol, you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  1832. Senior opposition politician? Seriously? No wonder everyone laughed. Mogg is doing a great job of making himself look foolish lately. However, banks shouldn't be closing any accounts for political reasons or beliefs. They are essential to modern life and already have too much power...
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  1833. It's called transparency, the way a minister is supposed to be held to account. Crying because he got caught is yet another sign of Hancock's weak and duplicitous personality...
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  1834. Boris break a promise? Not Boris... Must be some kind of mistake...
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  1835.  @roban28  Yes, It's so wonderful to see our new King, can't wait to bow down and doff my cap to his Royal Heinous. I'll be forelock tugging all day as I'm so happy to still be a subject of a feudal system and therefore essentially a serf. God save our King and those wonderful upper-class Tories whose philanthropy is unmatched. I only wish I could bow and scrape all the time but I have to work 23 hours a day to pay for my electricity...
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  1836.  @telescopicS627  lol keep up with the lame excuses. It's funny how blind some people can be. Watch the footage of him risking families in SUVs last new year as he weaves through them at speed. A silly privileged child who'll end up hurting others unless he's stopped. I hope they treat him like any other person and give him real time now he's been refused immunity.
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  1837.  @titteryenot4524  PS I've had a wonderfully challenging, intelligent, enlightening and erudite debate. But this wasn't it!
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  1838.  @Nickle314  I already did, it's clearly typed. Here's some more info for the hard of thinking: "Richard Sharp is Chairman of the BBC, he has donated over £400,000 to the Tories and was an advisor to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London. Robbie Gibb has been an aide to two Tory MPs and was Theresa May's director of communications, he is now a board member at the BBC. Tory donor Catherine Baxendale is on the panel to pick board members at the BBC and Tim Davie who is the boss at the BBC was a Tory candidate." Feel free to check any of those facts for yourself, they are a matter of public record and therefore don't require debate or opinion.
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  1839.  @RocketRenton  Corbyn spent months getting the prisoner exchange program back on track which enabled the Good Friday Agreement and peace!
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  1840.  @stevec700  Which is ideal for someone of her erm... talents? Got nothing here... This poem is definitely not crude! I'm not a master poet, But for the right words, I will hunt. My apologies for the inference, But Boris is a...
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  1841.  @lewisg7614  Agreed, but much of the admin and management are only necessary because of the thousands of for-profit organisations.
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  1842.  @chinchin8269  Why is it that all your comments are about as pointless as a vertical ejector seat in a helicopter?
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  1843.  @steveturner6770  He is supporting his constituency far better than any other, despite the fact that he wasn't elected. He's well known for being available to constituents and supporting local events. Your comment is absurd and wholly based on the fact that he does "other work" for the larger community in his spare time.
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  1844. She should practice walking more often, she doesn't look used to it yet... Cruella De Vil MKII...
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  1845.  BILLY PIECRUST  Corbyn negotiated the prisoner release with Mo Mowlam over many months behind the scenes and prisoner release was the main roadblock to peace. Corbyn gets called a terrorist sympathiser and Blair gets the accolades...
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  1846.  @BossySwan  And I will tell then straight, consumerism is second rate. Equality is what we need and a nice full mug of mead!
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  1847. I'm not religious so I'll swerve this one for fear of offending. However, on the subject of the impenetrable darkness: After many weeks of excruciating soul-searching, the Tories have still yet to find one...
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  1848. Time to see how badly the poor are going to get stiffed, yet again. I'm sure they'll throw us a bone or a boon that will inevitably turn out to be a bane...
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  1849.  @Alexander_l322  As Oppai said, it's on the telegraph, just a cloud of smoke...
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  1850.  @skeeprbrit1673  I'm well-read on geopolitics, economics and aware of police procedure, legislation and covert ops, agent provocateurs the history of police actions against the miners, history of police actions during riots. Tonypandy, Brixton, Miners being bugged, Unions being bugged and also framed. BBC admitting to conspiring with MI5 to keep left-wingers from being given air time. These are all historical facts. I've also watched the explosion of smoke from the hospital footage... I'm also aware of the recent legislation that passed earlier this year called the spycops bill that could be used for such a distraction. I have only asked questions and pointed out inconsistencies. If you were as well versed in politics and legislation you wouldn't offer such a weak attack on me...
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  1851.  @psilocybinsoughtme6164  Let me know when you reach sapience...
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  1852.  @antonioszytulskyj8165  Maybe, Worzel Gummidge without his 'thinking head' but that's stretching it. Bozo has a smaller IQ than a syphilitic crack-addicted hamster.
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  1853. All the things Boris has lost, I think he'll miss his mind the most. People say nothing is impossible, Boris does nothing every day. He has enemies, he's also intensely disliked by his friends. Two possibilities: either Boris is an idiot or he is not; both are equally terrifying.
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  1854. Is one of them being lead singer for The Cure?
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  1855.  @NOCDGAMING  "Mr Bailey (Governor of the bank of England) told MPs there was a “striking” difference between the economic performance of GDP post-pandemic and that of the US dollar and euro. He said Britain’s economy was 0.7 per cent smaller than at the end of 2019, while the eurozone was 2.1 per cent higher"
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  1856. Lions led by Donkeys. RIP to one of the brave lions...
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  1857.  @Asdfgghhhjj  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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  1858. @Nico Fourie 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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  1859. Passion in parliament? That suggests politicians are human beings, sorry can't get on board with that nonsense. The pantomime that is modern life continues...
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  1860. Book burning and flame throwers - a bit Natseesque...
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  1861. If we can't win from within the system (which I think is patently obvious now after 3 decades of Centrist control of the left leadership), then we have to accept that we have to take the power back. I know a bloke named Wat who is a Tyler...
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  1862.  @drivenbyrage5710  100% agreed, that's why we have Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency, by printing money they increase the mass/density of cash/debt to enable them to steal a larger slice. While global debts are around $300 trillion which is 3 and a half times global GDP, it's easy to see we live in a system of debt slavery.
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  1863. Between 2010 when Tories took power and 2019 alone: The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk-in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed. 5,000 fewer Mental Health Nurses. The number of NHS beds has halved between 1987 and 2019 and has continued to fall while GP surgeries are being privatised via the back door. How many lives has this already cost?
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  1864.  @uioplkhj  I suffer from terminal sarcasm mate, the second part is actually true.
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  1865. Yes, that may be true but at least he has the fashion sense of a Victorian gentleman and the pomposity to match. If I had a workhouse Jacob would be top of the list for possible investors.
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  1866.  @NoUsername-cq6yp  Thank you for that well-though-out, insightful, erudite comment. Of course, you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  1867. I'm so looking forward to spending my remaining years watching the human race being transformed into docile cash cows, disenfranchised by digital currency, creating an underclass alienated from society. Where a lack of credit has serious consequences on your life expectancy and corporate billionaires become fickle deities that demand subservience...
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  1868.  @NeonVisual  I'd be happy to if I didn't live in a one-bedroom flat. However, the point is that this a governmental problem, not an individual one, Created by the Tories and legislation so they can keep using it as cover for their appalling governance...
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  1869. This isn't specific to wildlife, it also happens on a typical stag do... Sowwy...
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  1870. I'd be quite happy to pelt tomatoes at Raab, although I'd prefer them be tinned at the time of throwing...
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  1871. lol the Queen of cheese claiming credit for 6 years of nothing...
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  1872.  @hmq9052  They handle trillions on behalf of the country. They should be glad to pay that as a bribe to get their hands on the pot. Who bailed them out? who keeps paying for borrowing? we've had a debt-to-GDP ratio of over 100% in the past year. How does farming the British economy out to our overseas territories while providing profits for shareholders' offshore accounts help us? Britain is the largest global cause of corporate tax losses!
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  1873.  @SP-uz3yb  No worries deleted mine too. Bugs me that celebs complain about depression when single mothers, the disabled, the homeless, the debt-ridden and the overworked, underpaid in Britain have to put up with depression as they have no time to 'Find themselves', 'Take a break at a spa or weekend retreat' or 'Connect'. They're too busy having to do housework, change nappies, make packed lunches for kids, and don't have the money. They have to go to work to pay the bills and deal with their depression alone...
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  1874.  @HarryR545  Corporate welfare and subsidies were £93 billion according to a report published in the Guardian in 2015. It increases annually while the unemployment benefits are from the year 2019-2020 and can be checked with a simple search. I can't provide the articles as YT tends to remove outside sources. As for true, the corp welfare and subsidies figures are likely to be higher in reality, while the unemployment figures published by the government are likely to be on point.
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  1875.  @xsuploader  I said another online retailer, so your argument is flawed on all counts. Jeff Bezos doubled his assets to $180 billion in the first year of the pandemic, to put that into perspective, that's enough money to spend $1,000,000 every single day for 500 years. Profit margins could be lowered and provide goods at cheaper prices, ethically...
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  1876. Preferably in chains and escorted by armed guards. The reason for recent conflict and instability globally is his fault for dropping out of 3 treaties!
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  1877.  @mijicmugendo  We pay £100 billion per annum out of our taxes in corporate welfare and subsidies to tax-dodging corporations through privatisation...
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  1878. Did Doctor Who deliver them in the tardis?
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  1879.  @XAE_A_Xii  Agreed, in a word - Cartel.
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  1880. The same HSBC that taxpayers bailed out in 2008? what happens to the billions of debt that caused SVB to fail? Where is the taxpayer's cut of the profits or do we just get to pay for another bailout in the future? Money doesn't disappear when a bank fails, someone always profits...
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  1881.  @bearsbreeches  Agreed, not sure if you can see my reply directly before yours, but it mentions a word than begins with a g and ends in uillotine :)
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  1882.  @knockedoutloaded  Your childlike comprehension isn't my problem. My comment is perfectly logical and would resolve the issue...
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  1883. It's so important to continue to waste billions on shaving 20 mins of the journey time of the wealthy during these peaceful, lethargic months where nothing else of import is going on and everyone is well fed and healthy...
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  1884.  @jackaljade  lol, you have no idea about M and clearly don't understand the huge conflation and contradiction. PS Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make some a M, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... An elephant...
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  1885.  @jackaljade  It's impossible to argue with ignorance and a lack of logic and reason on that scale. Your conflations defy the laws of even mental gymnastics. Trying to debate you would be like trying to teach a fish calligraphy...
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  1886.  @jackaljade  Like I said, trying to debate you would mean correcting all your conflicts and conflations plus your lack of understanding and logic. Therefore even before I try to debate I'd have to spend 3 decades correcting your erroneous beliefs. About as pointless as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  1887. The gain of function experiments allows us to manipulate a virus to attack a new host such as human beings or give the virus new properties. In the US in 2014 Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor. Later that year Obama banned such experiments on US soil and I believe the US then invested in the same research in Wuhan, China.
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  1888. Why don't we all just get stamped at birth by the corporation that claims us?
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  1889. What an inspiration, what a hero. It's incredible how the Royal mind works, if only us normal people could think of such insightful, inspiring advice as 'Support one another'. Pure genius...
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  1890. lol they narrowly avoid a collision in their own ports, not a good sign...
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  1891.  @magnolia7774  I already know about it, I've been around a while lol. My main concern at the moment is the devouring of the human race and all its accomplishments by the disease known as disaster capitalism. Well, that and the restarting of nuclear proliferation, rise in neo-fascism and global troop movements signifying global conflict. Still, got to laugh, haven't you?
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  1892.  @martinwebster5709  Agreed, The main factor was indeed the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories. The wealthy wanted to continue to launder the global criminal elitists' money for them. The UK is predominantly responsible for the majority of global corporate tax avoidance. Standards as we see from recent legislation are also under attack including the ECHR and the UN Convention on human rights. So yes agreed, also regarding food and animal welfare which are a bane to those exploiting our food supply for profit.
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  1893.  Horse Steak  Excess death rates affect minorities more as traditionally they are often marginalised by society and so any drop in income is felt more by minorities. Look at the high infant mortality rates of minorities, then guess what effect cuts to the NHS have on those figures. It's like saying everyone is affected equally by Covid, but statistically the disabled, vulnerable and poor take the brunt of mortality rates. Austerity caused 120,000 excess deaths at the same time the most wealthy 1,000 families in Britain doubled their assets. The massive borrowing is mismanaged via cronyism and corruption while most of the money is given to third parties via outsourcing, privatisation, subsidies, corporate welfare. Tories are stealing taxpayers money and it ends up in the off-shore bank accounts of shareholders. As for fiscal policy, the tories are responsible for the creation of over 2/3rds of our National Debt, a debt to GDP ratio of around 100% and the worst damage to our economy via Brexit. Not sure if you've noticed but the UK is the largest enabler of corporate tax losses globally. Tories are fiscally irresponsible, inept and corrupt. Neoliberalism has spiralled debt via its cornerstone policy of privatisation which leads to bailouts, corporate welfare and subsidies. Corporate welfare and Subsidies cost the UK taxpayer over £100 billion a year, which is around 66 times the amount unemployment costs the taxpayer (£1.52 billion in 2019)...
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  1894.  @bengillen1287  I'm White Welsh, don't try to patronise me until you reach sentience. Vitamin D may have some effect on the virus but has nothing at all to do with poverty and fiscal policy. For that matter, the fact that the Virus affects the poor of all shades is more relevant than Vitamin D which can easily be purchased as a supplement. I blame the cause of a problem by tracing it back to the source using logic and reason. Maybe you could try logic and reason before your next comment?
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  1895.  @daddylovesfaith  I'm in full favour of the strikes m8, I think national strikes are required. We are heading for corporatocracy if not already there.
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  1896.  @daddylovesfaith  I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm mate. I'm just so glad the Tories sold off the taxpayer-owned Royal Mail for peanuts and allowed corporations to increase prices and reduce wages and conditions for their workers. The taxpayer loses their assets, pays higher prices, gets a reduced service and on top of that we pay them subsidies out of our taxes... Funny how privatisation always costs the taxpayer in subsidies, bailouts, and increased prices while increasing shareholder profits. It's almost as if that was the plan all along...
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  1897.  @zainzoala1083  Tony Blair tribute act finishing off the task of moving the left to centre - moving the Overton window to the right - and then characterising the real left as far left.
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  1898. I hope the Irish work things out and reunify. But it will be difficult with the Tories haunting them like the spectre of Oliver Cromwell...
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  1899. "There have been reports of labor unrest on the set of the film, where Mr. Baldwin also served as a producer. Several members of the crew walked off the set earlier this week over working conditions, according to several people familiar with the shoot."
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  1900. I hope he doesn't go to prison and have to suffer the humiliation of dropping the soap in the shower... Too often...
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  1901. If we could only find the frictionless superconductor Tories are made from we could use it to produce infinite energy.
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  1902.  @elaineclift2227  Puppets, muppets I'm not sure which branch the Tories belong to anymore, possibly both :)
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  1903. Nice to see such a philanthropist and champion of free will is still alive despite having more wrinkles than a 100 miles of tattered linen...
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  1904. You generally get sacked for falling asleep on the job. The fact this seems to be so common just goes to show the utter disregard these people have for their constituents and the general public.
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  1905. Is looting the right term to describe the theft of some sweets from a sweetshop?
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  1906.  @sumiland6445  Thankyou for that eloquent and erudite question, please explain what word troubles your understanding...
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  1907. Considering conservative neoliberal ideology is all about small government and privatisation, they've done a fking excellent job of nationalizing food banks, poverty and discrimination...
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  1908. I like the way he's managed to lie daily and provide at least one scandal a week... Seriously, how is this poor excuse for a human being not in prison?
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  1909. Crocodile tears from a cracked actor...
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  1910. Churchill was a genocidal maniac, in that regard Johnson is following suit... Churchill used famine, Johnson uses economic euthanasia...
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  1911. PS I don't want it to sound like I think all Palestinians are Hamas, so please accept that when I say Palestinians, I mean those who peacefully resist and those who take action against oppression.
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  1912. We should also ban muscular people, self-defence experts, trained fighters, and people who work in the armed forces. Because they are all capable of greater damage than most, which is the same as banning 'bully breeds'. My point is a dog or person given a loving environment, family and taught the basics of interactions with others need not be feared. Just because they are capable of greater damage does not mean they should be banned, exceptions obviously should be made for mental or physical illnesses that predispose an animal or human to violence. I agree with Tim, knee jerk reaction from Suella.
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  1913. Fair enough, if he broke the rules we need to know of his Cummings and goings. Although Laura Iceberg said he didn't do anything wrong and I trust Laura she's the most professional, impartial, investigative journalist / Tory sycophant I know.
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  1914.  @jonriley8342  You should take the time to learn about sarcasm and sardonic statements ;-)
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  1915.  @jonriley8342  Sorry, does your failure to recognise sarcasm cause you embarrassment? because it should.
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  1916. Not to void his bowels while in the middle of an important meeting?
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  1917.  @johnrueda3595  I'm a socialist, I think you need to learn to read and interpret language...
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  1918.  @dgamerssvideoreaction7666  Socialism = Resources belong to the people, tools of production belong to the people and the people are the state. Personally, I think a resource-based economy that is sustainable and ecologically friendly is the best way forward and despite being a socialist we need a new system designed around those principles. Modular tools and technology that last a lifetime, the best materials for goods, the highest standards in our approach to production using automation and allowing people to be free to develop themselves rather than spend their lives working 40+ hours simply acquiring money.
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  1919.  @blyat5352  I'd prefer a resource-based economy, ecologically friendly using sustainable resources. I'm sure you'd be happy to continue being led into extinction by soulless parasites...
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  1920. Educate the populous...
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  1921.  @emilymcplugger  Maybe he needs a nice cup of Indian or Chinese Sovereign Tea. Then a walk to the sunlit uplands to feed the unicorns.
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  1922.  @danielwebb8402  560,000 people emigrated from Britain this year alone, without freedom of movement we are trapped here, subjects of Etonian aristocrats!
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  1923.  @ecoworrier  100% bro! We are an amalgamation of concepts, cuisine, philosophy, numeracy and language from all over the globe, something we should be proud of. If not the methods by which we acquired those things.
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  1924.  @georgejackson4790  I might also say that some commenters are politically and economically illiterate cash cows that enjoy being milked by their 'betters' while they point the finger at victims like pensioners, single parents, immigrants, disabled, unemployed and the working poor...
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  1925. I'm a global citizen where's my invite? pshh
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  1926. Agreed, The Tory/Very wealthy attitude: Let's not educate working people, the last thing we want is educated, well-fed, healthy citizens immune to gaslighting walking around challenging the aristocracy and their corporatocracy...
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  1927.  @Scintillated  Again agreed, Not to mention the lack/restrictions on nurses' bursaries are putting students off. We should be encouraging people going into nursing and encouraging nurses from abroad to come to the UK. The Tories have done the exact opposite.
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  1928. @Divoc Deivi You spelt communism wrong and it's an ideology, not a religion. BTW reading Marx doesn't necessarily make someone a Marxist, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... an elephant...
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  1929. @Divoc Deivi If you're worried about religious terrorism go and stop the Catholic church abusing hundreds of thousand of kids in every country they infest.
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  1930.  @rinkydinkfretboard8737  Agreed, I can barely use terms that describe their behaviour without being filtered.
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  1931. Divinely chosen by an invisible man in the sky to inbreed and spread across Europe from the days of the Habsburg line until the present... Layabouts in luxury...
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  1932. Forgetful old man losing patience with Hitler-v2.0... Everyday I wake up in a far stranger universe than the one that existed the night before...
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  1933. Israel the perpetual victims... Despite being an illegal nuclear power with apartheid legislation and a hideous human rights record...
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  1934. Surely Israel have no credibility left, only the slow of wit and hard of thinking would believe their paid mouthpieces...
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  1935. What an inspiration the king is, such a philanthropist, egalitarian and down-to-earth monarch. A true man of the people whose family ruled Sudan via the British Empire as a condominium with Egypt up until 1956. Yes, the first part is sarcasm, He's just a man who talks to plants and has a decidedly dodgy charity...
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  1936.  @kanedNunable  It really makes me laugh, we could have Caligula as PM and as long as the tabloids big him up people would cheer...
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  1937. But luckily Frodo and Sam have already been whisked away by the eagles...
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  1938.  @adpmac3981  Break the law suffer the consequences, whoever you are! Not interested in your pointless whataboutery, use your brain and find facts!
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  1939.  @sirhumphreyappleby8399  Yes, of course, it's just a coincidence that the fewer police and support workers we have the more crime we have... No connection at all. Try Occam's Razor on this one bud...
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  1940. @Stalin Blair was Thatcher's greatest legacy, the man who dropped clause 4, a neoliberal asshat warmonger who takes money from S.Arabia to advise them on their genocide in Yemen? PS Iraq war was a cross-party decision in which 84 Labour MPs voted against it and only 2 Tory MPs voted against it. Right-whingers are just too thick...
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  1941.  @IorekBear92  lol he did his research reading memes on the toilet walls of right-whinge social media...
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  1942.  @analogdistortion  You should take the OG out of your name...
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  1943. Frankie Boyle was on a comedy quiz show on British TV and the task was to make jokes about famous last words. He said the following: "Stingrays love foreplay."
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  1944. Off-topic: Just remember spiders are more scared of us than we are of them. I remember the absolute terror etched on the face of the spider who bit my uncle shortly before he died...
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  1945. @The Dark Knight Thank you!
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  1946. ...and Spies always tell the truth. No to ww3, find someone else to manipulate.
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  1947. Send her to prison for a long time for attempted. PS it's too not to.
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  1948. It's a proxy war in the not-so-cold war part Deux...
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  1949. Very clever of you, an illogical point only someone with the IQ of a syphilitic, crack-addicted hamster would laugh at. How dare people complaining about industrial pollution use buses to go to London and inform millions of people via media stories like this of the likely end of our ability to live on this planet and therefore the species...
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  1950.  @1Grande55  The royal Family have German ancestry Phillip was 3/4rs German and spoke German fluently, the Queen was a quarter German. They all descend from the Habsburg dynasty that ruled Europe for centuries and married their families into each other...
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  1951.  @honeybunch6473  Little circles in a tank full of ignorance... It's like teaching a whale to fly or attempting to talk a chocolate cake into sentience...
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  1952.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Why is everyone so ignorant? "The mother of Queen Elizabeth II was British, so she was only partly of German descent, even if she did display some stereotypical German virtues throughout her life, including discipline and a sense of duty. Her husband Philip, however, had predominantly German ancestors and spoke fluent German."
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  1953. Unless you inherit over £475,000 it won't affect you and the standard rate is already 40%. If you are set to inherit millions there are multiple ways to avoid it. I'm not a fan of Starmer but Labour has also suggested a wealth tax to replace inheritance tax, as wealth is not taxed, only working income is... I realise if they lower the threshold to £125k many more people will be affected, the problem is both sides are afraid to go after the wealthy and instead put pressure on the middle and lower classes.
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  1954. Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles.
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  1955.  @Arthur_King_of_the_Britons  The NHS was the envy of the world when funded and not full of privatisation and outsourcing debt. There is another option but I'd prefer to keep the NHS. Germany has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private health insurance (Private Krankenversicherung). Only 11% of Germans opt for private health insurance.
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  1956.  Shaun  Trump's mother actually wanted to throw him away and keep the Stork instead. Trump uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination. He has delusions of adequacy. He is a self-made man and worships his creator. He has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form a shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself he inspires dullness in others. He'd struggle to pour water out of a boot with the directions on the bottom. As he's an outsider, I'd like his perspective on humanity. Some like to inspire happiness wherever they go, Trump inspires happiness whenever he goes!
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  1957.  @seekthetruthfindit6879  Wreck the economy by pointing out coffee shops are a ripoff? Seriously get a life or read a book if you have nothing better to do than defend profiteering corporatocracy...
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  1958.  @markwelch3564  I've 52 and have been renting a flat for over 20 years, I've paid more in rent than the cost of the flat. Despite working 12 hour shifts I've never been able to afford a mortgage.
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  1959. Fair enough, if he broke the rules we need to know of his Cummings and goings. Although Laura Iceberg said he didn't do anything wrong and I trust Laura she's the most professional, impartial, investigative journalist / Tory sycophant I know.
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  1960. lol, it's fair play for the Celtic nations to take the mick when England lose at sport. The least we owe them is a good bit of banter.
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  1961.  @WherEmEweeD  It's Blaenavon and I moved here from Cwmbran - Valley of the crows.
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  1962.  @johnlewis9745  Firstly Conservatives had 43.6% of the vote, that isn't most people. Secondly, I'm gripeing but didn't vote Tory. Thirdly, the media was highly critical of the opposition, while neglecting to report the mass corruption, lies and failures of the tories.
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  1963. From the frying pan into the fryer...
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  1964. The billionaires and corrupt politicians predominantly responsible for the problem creating the illusion of action...
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  1965.  @David_Jones8112  I heard he was found in the reject bin of Jim Henson's workshop...
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  1966. I'm surprised the drone isn't being used to sell confiscated recreationals...
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  1967.  @mckendrick7672  Yes we're all getting screwed by the Tories. But allowing jealousy to hold up others' wage increases seems a little counter-productive. We should be working together to support anyone negotiating or striking for better wages. From cleaners, office staff, factory workers, transport drivers and so on.
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  1968. Boris reshuffles his belly and the enemies he can least distrust... He is despised by his enemies, and his friends have a lot lower opinion of him...
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  1969.  @ChrisMinusHumour  Thank you and good luck. The Welsh will probably follow suit in the near future.
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  1970.  @mememachine5244  Tax losses from corporate non-compliance are between £40-120 billion per annum and a further drain on taxpayers... That's a separate cost to subsidies and corporate welfare...
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  1971.  @budbud2509  Because they don't pay tax, I've already pointed out the subsidies and corporate welfare bill is over £100 billion while the tax gap from corporate tax losses is between £40-120 million per annum. Research and development, as well as inward investment, comes out of profits. It's not the taxpayer's job to subsidise the offshore bank accounts of the shareholders... Especially when we have food banks, working poverty and thousands of elderly dying from cold every year, while gas prices have increased by 560% in the past year...
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  1972. Right-wing think tanks feed the ignorant and social media nobodies so they'll parrot the lies in this age of anti-truth. Seriously, anything Nadine Dorries and her cronies say is consistently proven to be lies that anyone with an ounce of intellect disregards at source. This kind of city planning was championed by the Zeitgeist movement and these ideas have been around since the 70s and offers an eco-friendly solution to many of modern societies' problems.
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  1973.  @Grizzy2023  The media is 80% owned by billionaires who are tax-dodging right-wing political donors... They polarise all issues to keep us arguing with each other so we don't notice their hands in our back pocket...
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  1974. Pity they pointed the cannons the wrong way...
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  1975. Pluto? The moon? Another part of the planet...
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  1976.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Hopefully, you'll be in prison with her soon then...
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  1977.  @Rāziq_1  I'm generalising regarding people who liked this comment. As the evidence clearly shows they are prejudice by agreeing with the nun's actions by liking this comment. It's basic logic...
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  1978.  @Rāziq_1  Why are you so unable to understand a basic point? The Nun showed her prejudice by stopping two women kissing. The Nun had no reason to force her belief system on others. She was obviously prejudice against same sex couples.
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  1979. They're not necessarily programming AI, although that is relevant in a small way. With AI the main technique is learning, the AI is given text, mug shots, pictures etc to study and then using the algorithms determines how to achieve a goal. For instance to simulate human text which is done by training the AI on conversations, or using literature to train the AI to write stories. With photos and art the techniques are very similar. The AI is given millions of photos of faces within subcategories and then compares to any new faces to determine the most likely subcategory. Yes, programming is a part of it, but a lot of it is down to the training and the accuracy of the training material.
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  1980.  @kincaidwolf5184  Feel free to point out what national assets Labour privatised...
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  1981. The only thing I dislike about Suella is her continued existence...
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  1982.  @alien4422  100%
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  1983. Increasing C02 and depleting the oxygen-generating flora... Not a good look humanity!
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  1984. Yes, but the majority of US billionaires managed to double their assets during the pandemic...
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  1985.  @petercooper2387  Agreed, not to mention Nye Bevan regarding the NHS. People tend to ask me to put a /s which I pointedly refuse, but occasionally I give hints if it isn't obvious.
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  1986.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  American Hamburgler :)
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  1987.  Richard Wilkinson  Thank you, kind Sir. However, when i die, I would just like to be remembered as the guy who gave his taxes to the government to waste on cronyism and corporate greed, without question. Who never resented the endless tax increases and loss of freedoms. Who consumed and got into debt to enrich the wealthy elite, without a hint of complaint. A man who was happy to go without food and heating so that wealthy shareholders could top up their off-shore accounts. A man who played by the rules, even while the rules were playing him. Bless the wealthy elitists and corrupt politicians alike...
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  1988. @Openside 7 Thanks mate, and agreed. I can't imagine the horrors you witnessed, but I respect your morality and decency. The fact that you seen through what was going on and now fight for the truth. Good man.
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  1989.  @stephenelkington4971  I'm not interested in correcting your delusions. Fascism is a view, it's not valid. All views are not valid, preposterous ignorance. We have almost $300 trillion global debts over 3.5 times Global GDP. While most of the human race live in poverty. We perpetuate a system of debt slavery, your clothes come from children in Indian sweatshops, your tech comes from Chinese sweatshops, the Colbolt in your devices was mined by 5-year-olds in D.R.Congo. Every war in the last few decades has been based on lies, resource control and the domination of the poor. Until you understand the world you inhabit, your views are based on delusion. If you disagree with left-wing ideology then you are complicit in right-wing ideology if not support it directly. Please don't reply again, you aren't even self-aware...
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  1990.  @Adam-zd2bk  No they were born into poverty and didn't inherit state-owned property for their personal use. Nor did they inherit a chain of transparency-free estates and overseas territories that allow the largest global corporate tax evasion network.
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  1991.  @MultiJosh80  Only if you beleive she is better or deserves better than everyone else. I'm not a brain-washed serf living in a feudal society. I don't think the royal line was chosen by God (not that I'm religious) and I don't believe certain people are above others.
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  1992. "Trump, Johnson same thing different side of the pond. Make up whatever you like, deny the obvious and use obfuscation as often as possible while having a slender relationship with truth and the real world. They were also both born in New York, both use the same hairdresser, both made a mess of the crisis in 2020 and both of them would make the world a better place with their absence..."
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  1993. Religions that praise money are like elephants believing they can fly. To this I'll simply add good and bad are innate human qualities, you need no book to tell you which is which. I'll end with a quote from Thomas Paine that I fully agree with and which is wholly relevant "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
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  1994.  @CaptainGrimes1  Tory MPs cost us trillions, immigrants cost us nothing... Migrants aren't illegal immigrants until they are refused entry into a country. Get my head out of the 18th century he says while defending archaic systems of feudal governance... lol
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  1995. World Bank and the IMF have been pressuring Lebanon for energy reforms, then suddenly blackouts, oil fires in the few resources left...
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  1996. Here's an idea instead of spending billions on allowing a small group of people to live in the moon, why not first ensure that people on the planet are removed from poverty, drought and starvation. We could explore space and mine all the resources far faster if we had an educated, healthy populous here on Earth...
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  1997. Agreed! "She wanted to jump ship after her crush Boris was crushed by his own ego. Who cares why she changed her mind? a waste of skin and a deplorable human being. If these people are the best the UK has to offer we may as well just climb back up in the trees and give up on evolution as a bad idea..." In quotes because I think it was filtered.
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  1998. Obesity itself causes a health risk and those who are obese probably shut down their immune system by consuming too much sugar and fake food. When I was obese my diet was mass produced, nutritionless garbage - ready meals, chocolate, crisps, cake etc. I try to eat a more balanced plant based diet now.
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  1999.  @CursedWheelieBin  Guess again... Working-class council estate lad now well past my prime. You speak like a guesswork racist...
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  2000. 'Turning point for humanity' he says speaking as an outsider...
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  2001.  @Ant-dx8yt  I think you mean "I'm a pedant" . However I'm willing to indulge your pedantry because I'm a generous person. "University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” and has taken off since"...
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  2002. Wow! imagine not realising that mobile phones exist and making excuses for inept politicians whose negligence could have cost thousands of lives...
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  2003.  @sarahnewton2550  Unfortunately what we are taught about life when younger is just PR. The system isn't there to benefit us, the government aren't there to benefit us. The police aren't there to benefit us. They are simply systems of conformity and control. To keep a privileged elite at the top of the pile while giving us the illusion of choice. That may not have been the intention of those who devised these systems originally, but it's how they are used now. We have global debts of around $300 trillion, 4x global GDP. This suggests Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency are farcical and simply tools of a system of debt slavery. Like all things they have a lifespan, people see past the con eventually and though it may be a cliche: It's always darkest before the dawn.
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  2004. Cavemen at least could rub two sticks together to make their cave warm, now pensioners die of hypothermia when they have a wood full of dead branches on their doorsteps... While the rich are still allowed log fires, mainly for effect...
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  2005. By osmosis? coin toss? spin the bottle? It doesn't make a difference, the Tory agenda continues as they flood the UK with incompetence and poverty...
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  2006.  @srp01983  If my words cause Brexiteer's brains to explode I can only take credit and laugh uproariously while pointing at them and chanting "We won, you lost!"
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  2007.  @jimthompson9370  You mean IFS and ONS stats are biased? oh my, thanks for letting me know... So I should ignore stats from the government and listen to your biased diatribe for which you provide no evidence? I've had a wonderful, enlightening, challenging and intellectual debate. But this wasn't it!
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  2008. The Trump administration agreed to withdraw from the country by May 1, 2021, if the Taliban negotiated a peace agreement with the Afghan government and promised to prevent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State from gaining a foothold.
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  2009.  @LucVNO  Minorites suffer the same but have fewer opportunities. Let's not make it about race, your enemy are the rich. Don't buy their propaganda.
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  2010. Pushed into poverty - by the same people who profit from it - the Tories...
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  2011. To profiteer by selling Britain down the river and put the squeeze on the poor by transfering our taxes to his mate's off-shore bank accounts?
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  2012.  @balance3201  ...and it will only get worse if apathy persists...
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  2013. Judging from their recent voting activity it seems karma is punishing Floridians...
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  2014.  @SuperTh123456  I'm Welsh and an atheist. Polish soldiers had been present in Iraq since July 2002 and combat was first confirmed on March 24. Polish soldiers have been present in Afghanistan for almost 20 years. Over 33 thousand soldiers and employees of the Ministry of National Defense participated in the mission. Poland should take some of the refugees it helped create and also because they signed agreements to do so.
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  2015.  @xXKameroniXx  The ONS stats that this report is based on clearly states it's predominantly the return of students responsible for the rise.
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  2016.  @chinchin9757  The shooter was active and the police refused to go in while preventing the anxious parents from trying to save their own children... Such bravery. And there was a swat team stuck on the subs bench. They couldn't have been any more incompetent...
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  2017.  @deenalight9271  I hope that's sardonic or sarcastic. As 676,000 empty houses in England alone, suggests we have plenty of housing.
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  2018. A legacy that echoes 20 years on in a parallel dimension where the truth is optional and illusion Trumps reality...
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  2019. Excellent news, aside from being handy for transfusions it also eliminates the vampire food shortage...
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  2020. Boris is not completely useless, he at least serves as a bad example. He recently thought he'd invented a new word: Plagiarism! I rarely agree with him as then we'd both be wrong. I wish he'd visit the restaurant called Karma, there's no menu, you just get what you deserve.
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  2021. Trump signed the Doha agreement peace treaty with the Taliban 18months ago, if Biden changed that agreement US agreements would be worthless in future...
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  2022.  @michellebyrom6551  You're absolutely right. I forgot about how much they've improved the lives of Irish people and how they protected the GFA at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved.
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  2023. Microchips are used in virtually every car, plane, boat, computer, phone etc. Those without them go back a century technologically. This may be wholly relevant to the fight for Taiwan...
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  2024.  @charlesfavell3350  I'm saying that despite my abhorrence of China's authoritarian regime we have no moral high ground. How many countries have China destroyed in the Middle East and Africa in the past couple of decades? How many millions of migrants have China created through regime change and resource wars? Read a foreign newspaper and see how your country is depicted outside of your country's biased media...
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  2025.  @chips1889  Why is it that right-whingers can't construct a sentence or use facts, intellect and reason to rebut a comment and instead prefer to rely on ad hominems and whataboutery? Answers on a postcard...
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  2026. Reasons: Overpriced big pharma contracts, sale of NHS land and assets, private finance debt, staff shortages, fewer hospitals, fewer beds, fewer ambulances, priority given to for-profit organisations for any new contracts. I'd be surprised if half the NHS funding goes on staff wages and treatment, the rest goes into debt repayment and shareholders' pockets...
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  2027.  @sujitpachode3207  Ok is such a versatile little word. OK first appeared as an abbreviation for “Oll Korrect”. exclamation: used to express agreement or acceptance. adjective: satisfactory but not especially good. adverb: in a satisfactory manner or to a satisfactory extent. noun: an authorization or approval. verb: give approval to.
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  2028.  @Vasiliy.Shlyakhov  империализм. Imperialism.
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  2029.  @HumanBeing...  I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm, as a Human Being you have a built-in sarcasm detector, it's called a brain :)
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  2030.  @80sMetalNeverDied  Don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  2031. @Lies Tricks If they offered decent wages and working conditions they'd find more willing staff. That isn't a factor in why they automate...
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  2032.  @pancakeslayer101  It's funny but I can';t seem to get this to appear on any comment. Sometimes quotes help. "Bezos has $124 billion which is enough money to spend $1 million every single day for 339 years. He can afford to pay decent wages."
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  2033. If only Rishi and his party put as much effort into supporting the workers in the UK, instead of constantly improving the lives of the banking, investor and tech classes...
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  2034.  @craigandrews2089  It's curious but I have exactly the same list for the Tories in general :)
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  2035. @Prince Edward How's the shallow end of the British gene pool and that old anaemic bloodline of yours?
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  2036. The people have spoken, and a mandate has been reached. lol, remind the Brexiteers of their own words. The catastrophic losses can't be undone but maybe we can hand the next generation a chance to repair the damage.
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  2037.  @OllieX123  It seems my previous reply to him was filtered "Who funds the NHS and education? The government. Who is responsible for a £37 billion real-terms drop in NHS funding in the past decade? Who is responsible for the 2012 health care bill that prioritizes for-profit organisations in the NHS? giving even more taxpayer funding to shareholders rather than patients - The government. Who is responsible for low wages in the NHS and public sector lowering incentives in those career paths? The government. Who is responsible for the decline of beds, ambulances, hospitals and a 100,000 staff shortage in the NHS? The Government..." These are only some of the facts that have contributed.
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  2038.  @vtechead1  Let me know when the humour starts as all I could see was misinformation that I corrected. All that you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a penny and square the account?
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  2039.  @DonutHolestien  Yes and Yes same here.
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  2040. As part of Nato and bearing responsibility for the wars that made them refugees and left them at risk of death and persecution in their home country, that's not an option...
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  2041.  @balsolvag6220  If NATO hadn't looted their home countries and left them with brutal regimes, human trafficking and slavery. They wouldn't need to migrate anywhere. Just like when Hitler invaded Poland and the rest of the world took in Polish refugees...
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  2042. I'm not religious, but book burning and censorship of any kind is antithetical to human evolution and intellect. There is worth in the evolution of ideas expressed in books and they should be protected in their original wording. That goes for anything from Alice in Wonderland to the Quran.
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  2043.  @knockedoutloaded  What job did you have? were you a door to the emergency room? I can't believe you can say the NHS isn't underfunded when the figures are easy to check. NHS funding was higher over a decade ago under Labour in real terms (adjusted for inflation and increase in population).
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  2044.  @anacc3257  I was correcting an ignorant comment. As I'm forced to do again. Drinking causes far more harm to people and costs the NHS far more so I don't see the relevance of you repeating a moot point... ...to think you could have typed something intelligent or witty...
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  2045. Three wise men, if only we had that many in government...
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  2046. Intellectuals read definitions and apply them appropriately, where idiots pose dumb questions...
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  2047.  @Andrew-yl7lm  PPS UK power prices have tripled year-on-year from August 2020 (£36/MWh) to August 2021 (£107/MWh) – a jump of £71/MWh. The UK now pays £263.99 per megawatt hour in August 2022. Not sure how many different ways I can put this from different sources but my 400% is clearly an underestimate. Please feel free (if able) to search for the figures I gave to find the sources...
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  2048.  @Two_Tier_Britain  As usual terrorism only helps the Tories enforce more authoritarian legislation, almost as if by design. As for accountability the CPS always fail to secure convictions against MPs in the majority of cases.
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  2049.  @fatnapster  The Tories are responsible for creating 2/3rds of Britain's £2 trillion national debt and Theresa May did her share. But Theresa May, like most Tories, only worry about themselves.
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  2050.  @icantthinkofaname9935  Not at all but thank you for proving how little you know about politics, economics, ethics, tech, security protocols and current affairs...
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  2051. Average people everywhere subsidize the very excesses of the wealthy. The mile high club is the wealthiest f-ing the poor!
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  2052.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make someone a Marxist. In the same regard, reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... an Elephant.
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  2053. @Retro PC Trump dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties on thin pretexts, restarting nuclear proliferation bringing the end of the species one step closer. Fed Wall St trillions, out of American taxpayers money and tried to take health care from 20 million Americans during a very ill-managed pandemic... Can you explain your use of the terms 'better', 'common sense', and 'critical thinking'... On second thoughts best not, I lost 2 points of my IQ reading your first comment...
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  2054. lol you really should read history. Maybe start with a dictionary and look up the term fascism...
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  2055.  @markperrin8098  Essentially then you can't provide a rebuttal for my original comment and you can't defend your own statement when Dereck asks you? Wow, talk about being as much use as a chocolate teapot...
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  2056.  @Rusty84CV  She was talking about white people and said travellers, Irish and Jewish people don't face the same type of racism "all their lives". It wasn't an attack on Jewish people. I agree her words may have been ill-chosen, but the West is predominantly white-orientated and so lifelong racism predominantly affects minorities who aren't white.
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  2057.  @sebastianguerre6868  Except for ideology, policy, integrity, looks, sex, understanding and intellect...
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  2058.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  I wouldn't talk about the ability to think until you reach sentience. You make up for your lack of intellect with stupidity and have delusions of adequacy... PS as an outsider what's your thoughts on humanity?
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  2059.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  lol nice ridiculously unlikely stat pulled from midair, would you like to prove your idiocy with more imbecilic comments or are you satisfied with your underperformance so far? Anyways I've had a wonderful, intelligent, enlightening debate, but this wasn't it.
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  2060. Bless Boris and his wonderful government. I just love the way the Tories have always done their best for Britain and its citizens. Every decision they make is carefully considered to provide the best opportunities for the Brtish people especially the poor, vulnerable and disabled. They always do their utmost to help the elderly, especially during the winter and provide safe homes for them in which to spend their final years. They never abuse their power by selling Britain out to the highest bidder, they never give their donors and friends overpriced contracts at the taxpayer's expense. They are the most moral, dependable servants of the country and always put everyone else above their own interests. It's indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be governed by such altruistic, philanthropic humanitarians, with such integrity, compassion and honour. Long live our inspiring Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers.
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  2061.  @kellydawes4854  Agreed, but it would help stop the mass shootings. 66 so far this month alone.
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  2062. Was "loaded with a live round" two people with one bullet now is it?
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  2063.  @hitachi9778  100% agreed on all points!
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  2064. "Keep Our NHS Public defines the privatisation of the NHS as: The involvement of private organisations in the provision of NHS services and finances The removal of public ownership and Governmental responsibility for the NHS Charging for healthcare beyond National Insurance contributions Rationing of healthcare. Keep Our NHS Public also condemns the underfunding of NHS services, particularly when done to cynically promote the unnecessary need for privatisation of services. Our definition is based on a World Health Organisation definition of privatisation of healthcare that was published in 1995 and has been used by health economists and policy commentators ever since. It reads: “…a process in which non-government actors become increasingly involved in the financing and/or provision of health care services.”"
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  2065. Same here in the UK. Here's a thought, why not tax wealth instead of just working income? Most of the 1% don't work. Inherited wealth is the reason 1% of the world are devolving - they don't struggle and grow, face trials and overcome, jump hurdles. Struggle forges character, ability, and problem solving techniques. The social ladder is greased at the bottom and the lowest rungs are completely missing...
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  2066. The main thing I enjoy about being a Trump supporter is that everyone who knows understands immediately that I'm completely politically and economically illiterate, have very bad personal judgement, that I ignore facts in favor of YT influencer opinion and have very little regard for democracy...
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  2067. Where do you people keep coming from, is there a political illiterate factory pushing out new dumbs on a daily basis?
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  2068. Far right apartheid state treating its own citizens in a similar way to how they treat the original occupants of the land they're grabbing...
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  2069. Perfect time for a National Insurance rise, as it's puts more pressure on the poor and vulnerable and hence furthers the Tory's economic euthanasia project...
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  2070. "Capitalism is inherently corrupt, it is entirely capitalism under neoliberal direction. Privatisation, small government, deregulation of the banking sector and a huge percentage of taxpayer money being given to shareholders..." my reply to empty space!
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  2071.  @NoNowwwell  lol another person who fails to understand and interpret basic language... I didn't say welfare! I said unemployment benefits which is the term used by the ONS who provided the data!
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  2072.  @jozz2248  He's done a lot to cover up child abusers too. Very progressive.
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  2073.  @elterrifico9522  Yes, I can't take criticism. Please don't say anything mean or I may have to go sit in a corner and cry for millennia. I'm just so fragile, it's just not fair! you're just a big meanie!
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  2074. If you're worried about the escalating population, you could always lead by example :)
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  2075.  @stephenduke412  You're trolling on a serious issue dude, get with the program, no one likes suck-ups to the rich.
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  2076. Little Miss trickle-down economics during a cost of living crisis, the rich have never had it so good. Ashamed to be part of the human race with people like these in power...
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  2077. Let's play pass the parcel with human lives, preferable migrants created by the wars we started. While allowing billionaires to rip us off left right and centre while not paying taxes...
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  2078.  @evolassunglasses4673  Labour has historically taken us out of the slums with social housing, given us rights, free schooling, free education, public libraries, public parks, free healthcare, legal aid etc. The Tories have reduced or removed many of those gifts. But the modern Labour party since Blair has been run by centrists and backed by corporate lobbyists. This has only happened in the past 3 decades, before that we had real working-class representation. Now we have people like Starmer, a second-rate Blair tribute act. PS Open borders gave us access to Europe, healthcare abroad and jobs abroad so that Brits could travel and work. We had fewer migrants under Labour as part of the EU. Enforcing fair and just migration policies gives us freedom of movement and options to work and live abroad, but we have to accept the other side of that coin.
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  2079.  @dredits6658  Get your facts right: "Washington provided Kyiv with the equivalent of €7.6 billion in the four weeks following the start of Russia's invasion on 24 February. This is by far the largest contribution with Poland coming second with an envelope of just under €1 billion followed by the UK, Germany and France." (Ukraine Support Tracker from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy) Poland has given more while Germany and France have given around the same aid as us. How you can defend such vile corruption and the suffering the Tories cause is beyond me...
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  2080. Politicians should represent the whole country, therefore they should represent all age groups. The best way to ensure that is by having politicians of all ages. I'm more worried about the corruption, duplicity and incompetence we see with the recent Tory governments than their age.
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  2081.  @Mark-Haddow  I'm Welsh, a Celtic cousin. She was asked which part of Africa she was from, she said she didn't have any records. She was then asked her Nationality to which she replied born in London, I'm British. Then she was asked where 'her people come from' to which she replied her parents came here in the 50s. She was then told she was Caribbean. To which she replied I'm of African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality...
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  2082.  @harry.flashman  You mean her ancestors who had their feet chopped off if they didn't obey British rules? I'm not sure that particular line of argument works. We were an Empire and transported millions of Africans to America, the Caribbean and many other places. We turned tribes against each other in brutal wars so we could usurp their lands. You can't absolve our history with mention of a collaborator...
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  2083. But the most important thing surely must be - Is the petrodollar ok now? Is it safe from competition?
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  2084.  @jonhelmer8591  Boris' tenure has seen the most Orwellian, authoritarian legislation. Including the Spycops bill which allows security services to rape, murder or set up innocents with no accountability. The Tories own the media, shut down any anti-establishment media and have banned the teaching of alternatives to capitalism in schools. All while using economic euthanasia to cut down on the welfare bill, which is a fraction of the £100+ billion given to tax-dodging corporations per annum. Next up is electronic tagging and neo-fascism.
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  2085.  @tomtom-gi9eo  Me sarcastic? moi? never! ;-) Remember when Blair dropped clause 4 and all the socialists in the LAbour party cheered? me neither. I'm just glad all those democratic socialists have been kicked out and now we can have two Tory parties! yay!
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  2086. Meet the mother whose ego tricks her into believing she looks as young as her daughter and prods strangers to politely agree...
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  2087.  @DM-jf7pt  Foreign aid is usually reciprocal and based on trade agreements. If you want to improve our economy get the government to collect the £120 billion lost annually from corporation tax, maybe also stop paying those tax dodging corporations subsidies in access of £93 billion per annum. Foreign aid is less than £14 billion per annum. Corporations cost us 10-15 times the foreign aid budget.
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  2088.  @trtvitor1385  Don't call me Jesus in public, not many people know I've returned...
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  2089. That's a good metaphor for the rich, building on sand. They think money is everything, there are only 2 actual resources - the planet and humans. Both are exploited by the rich for transitory wealth - a human construct called money. Also a quite apt metaphor for a climate change post.
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  2090.  @aryastark634  Stick him with Needle Arya :)
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  2091. Mary Jane likes C02, but if the species is unable to survive no one will be able to cultivate her...
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  2092.  @stoufer2000  I say we send them to an island where they can live in a dictatorial fascist corporatocracy without annoying decent folk.
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  2093. Stop deleting my comments when I'm giving a history of the NHS in the past few decades... It's all factual...
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  2094.  @kevinb9830  Yes, I appreciate the SAG-AFTRA are striking in relation to the talks breaking down between Hollywood and the writers guild. But that isn't very funny and offers little room for sarcasm...
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  2095. The Labour party has been taken over by lobbyists and is now corporate and state-funded, they have purged many socialists from the party and alienated the unions. They no longer represent working people and have left the electorate with the choice between red and blue flavoured neoliberalism. Corbyn is stuck in the middle trying to reclaim Labour's historical ideology.
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  2096.  @Saul_Ferguson  Politics may be an illusion but the catastrophic effects are plain to see all around us.
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  2097.  Osman Al-Ghazi  That's a shame, I'm Steven of the Parker, Second coming of Christ, Son of God, One-Third of the Holy Trinity, Three-day resurrection specialist and the guy who was once crucified by some Romans for saying wouldn't it be great if we were all nice to each other...
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  2098.  @IamGrimalkin  You may be correct about the bailout in specific terms, but they did profit from implicit guarantees and the liquidity that the government enabled with the £700 billion borrowing for said bailout. I'm not sure if the compensation for the PPI misselling cost the taxpayer. But HSBC certainly cost the taxpayer by allowing their Swiss subsidiary’s industrial-scale facilitating of tax avoidance for corporations and the wealthy while HSBC also laundered Mexican cartel money. They are not innocents and as regards shareholders, they didn't lose all their money when the banks failed, as the taxpayer-funded bailout saved them from losing everything by stabilizing the flawed system.
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  2099. Can someone please turn down the patriotic sycophancy please? thanks...
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  2100. I can solve our economic woes: If we simply invest in the sunlit uplands and increase the unicorn population we could have a thriving business model to export to the world. You gotta think big!
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  2101. Americans have such a wonderful society with all the violence and mass shootings you could want, no wonder so many people want to live in the USA...
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  2102. Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  2103. You also can't spell or punctuate. I'm sure you'll be saying these migrants need to learn English next...
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  2104. Please be kind enough to read and share this appeal: Are you aware that many Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That many Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? That their closest confidant and friend is their butler? If you can spare just 10 minutes a week please reach out to a Tory MP, send them a message or a letter and tell them that they are loved and that there is a better way. Encourage them to integrate with people, you know real people. If you would like to adopt a Tory MP you should be hypocrite tolerant and have a very high boredom threshold. They require the most exquisite diet, because of their fragile constitution and need lots of care and light exercise once a year. A reasonable-sized mansion is suggested for housing your Tory MP and a large amount of public money should be set aside for future upgrades such as duck ponds, and moats; you know the usual. It's important to remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they can be found dipping into the public cookie jar at all times of the year. Adopt a Tory MP today, and show them the way to a better life...
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  2105. Riding on the waves of public sentiment the Royal family offers to let the taxpayer compensate those that were looted and enslaved by the wealthy elitists...
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  2106. @Razor Mouth I guess talkign about Cromwell's attempted conquest of Ireland, the Potato famine and English (aristocracy) imperialist nature isn't allowed lol.
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  2107.  @Theactivepsychos  Like I said my comment is UK based, I did mention better public transport is needed and I did mention especially in cities! I'm simply pointing out that taxpayers constantly foot the bill for industrial pollution. I don't live in London and so have no irons in this fire so made a general comment about UK air pollution.
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  2108. Walruses were first discovered in the Sahara desert around 27BC by Mr Ian Walrus who named the creatures after his daughter Emily Walrus...
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  2109.  @elfedowen6452  Chat up lines were first invented in 1706 by Sir Alfred Chatupline in an effort to limit the amount of time wasted in social interaction :)
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  2110. So we should hate and fear vulnerable people now? ok got it!
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  2111. Oh no, they didn't!
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  2112. We live in a corrupt society that prioritises taxpayer money being given to the rich to buy a new Yacht over helping a 1/3rd of workers who live in poverty. We're headed for a dystopian corporatocracy and a human race lacking any form of sentience and compassion.
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  2113.  @cup1966wow  They've been through every other form of protest and legal action possible in the last few decades, yet we still lose as many as 10,000 pensioners every winter...
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  2114.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  Agreed Huw! Between 2010 when Tories took power and 2019: The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed. 5,000 less Mental Health Nurses. The number of NHS beds has halved between 1987 and 2019
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  2115.  @jhfdhgvnbjm75  lol no, Europe doesn't have a shortage and yes it is Brexit related. The irony being the solution the Tories posed was to relax rules on EU HGV drivers to encourage them to fill the shortage...
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  2116. Bad loser? or maybe Skynet has been born. You'd think they'd have sensors to prevent this type of thing.
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  2117.  @MrMmcdaid9  I think after Ms Fulani had explained at the start of the conversation that the documentation of her ancestors was missing when taken to the Caribbean as slaves, she should have added 'by your ancestors most likely Lady Hussey'...
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  2118.  @Seek-Light  Sorry but I'm not a corrupt megalomaniac naive enough to believe that politicians have free will and are not merely puppets of the lobbyists who pay their bills. PS instead of wasting your life with petty, pedantic nonsense, why not type something witty or intelligent?
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  2119. Won't be long then until an embittered breakup song is released...
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  2120. It's a shame perfectly reasonable comments are filtered out. Like mine "Maybe reverse the cuts that led to the loss of 22,500 police officers, scores of police stations, 23,000 support workers and 5,000 mental health workers. Then change legislation so that women can trust the Police and the criminal justice system?"
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  2121. Something tells me it's more of a crisis for the migrants...
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  2122. Nothing ding I like about this blatant advert, it has Nothing ding to offer me.
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  2123.  @glennwhitlock1272  My previous reply goes out to you and your kind. I'm not sure if any comparison could be justified to be fair, no group should be (excuse the pun) demonized to point out Suella's character.
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  2124. ​ @glennwhitlock1272  My sincere gratitude. Please inform B.L. Zebab I got that original copy of Dante's Inferno for him as requested and so expect to be taken off any lists :@)
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  2125.  @sumukhhegde6677  Rishi may not be a drinker, but I think you get the point... PS Defame a kleptocratic hypocrite who profits from his own budget decisions? Who defends his wife's profit from Ukraine, while telling British corporations to impose sanctions on Russia?
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  2126. I was going to watch the video but then I realised I couldn't give a flying f if they get back together or not...
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  2127. We need to allow free speech no matter who it offends, so long as it doesn't break laws that protect people from prejudice and hate. Blunting our tongue is an attempt to silence the populous at the exact time we need to be most vocal, especially regarding the disturbing legislation and actions of the government. The emergency services are not encouraged by a lack of censorship, but by many cuts and the lowering of standards within those forces. That is where the legislation and controls need to directed.
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  2128.  @billybob-jp7eh  Agreed, I was against all the wars for petrodollar hegemony. But I wanted to make the statement for those Afghans who follow Tim. PS love the Sabbath reference.
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  2129. A lack of cold weather...
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  2130.  jozef3024  I'm not religious or a bigot. I'm surprised you survived childhood to be fair...
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  2131. Trump signed a peace agreement with the Taliban On February 29, 2020. The trajectory for the Taliban reclaiming Afghanistan was set from that moment on... It's not a surprise, it's not unexpected, no one was caught off-guard... This was even predicted by the Afghan army commander...
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  2132.  @karimkekhia4369  Try again in English, your point is obscured by a lack of consistency and clarity.
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  2133.  @yt.personal.identification  I will add that :) That red bus with £350 million reminds me of a scene in 'The Young Ones' where they're all on a bus and Rick shouts "Look out Cliff!"
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  2134. Tories have been asset stripping Britain for decades while increasing national debt and sinking the pound... I wonder if there's a connection...
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  2135. A government that wastes our taxes on unworkable fixes to their own manufactured problems. When they aren't dipping their hands in the cookie jar. I just wonder what these people would do if they ever had to get a real job, you know a job where you need to be reliable, punctual, hard-working and capable... What a mess!
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  2136. Why is this filtered? what possible offence does it commit? "Apparently, investigations are 100% more effective than vigils and crocodile tears..."
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  2137.  @titteryenot4524  PS everything you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a pound and square the account?
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  2138.  @kellyt5341  He does seem very petty and jealous. He thinks considering Shakespeare at the top of the literary tree isn't ubiquitous. I won't reply to him again, it's pointless to waste time on pedantry. Every other person on YouTube just looks for things to disagree with, it's mundane. Anyways, nice to meet a fellow Ren fan, take care!
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  2139.    Nothing, I have many friends who are hamsters and oxen! ;-) All the things Boris has lost, I think he'll miss his mind the most. People say nothing is impossible, Boris does nothing every day. He has enemies, he's also intensely disliked by his friends. Two possibilities: either Boris is an idiot or he is not; both are equally terrifying...
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  2140. lol it seems "fork a pig's head" is offensive...
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  2141.  @Ruben-nc6es  Thank you! Fair enough, I will. When i die, I would just like to be remembered as the guy who gave his taxes to the government to waste on cronyism and corporate greed, without question. Who never resented the endless tax increases and loss of freedoms. Who consumed and got into debt to enrich the wealthy elite, without a hint of complaint. A man who was happy to go without food and heating so that wealthy shareholders could top up their off-shore accounts. A man who played by the rules, even while the rules were playing him. Bless the wealthy elitists and corrupt politicians alike.
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  2142.  @aituk  Cuts that sabotage education, policing, free schooling, health care as well as legislation that targets freedom of speech, human rights, workers' rights, the right to protest and gives security forces immunity from prosecution while targeting innocent civilians all prove my point. The best you can offer as a rebuttal is an inane two-word comment...
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  2143.  @aleccap5946  We give corporations £100 billion every year out of taxpayers' money to buy new yachts for billionaires and to top up the offshore accounts of the rich. While those companies cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxes. While your taxes go up to make up the difference. Unemployment benefits only cost £1.56 billion last year, so corporate welfare and subsidies alone cost the taxpayer 66 times what unemployment benefit costs. If you're worried about taxpayers' money, maybe mention that once in a while...
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  2144.  @pandasrules7536  I'm not comparing, Iran is a target of the US and has been for decades...
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  2145. Top ten things I like about having a Royal Family: . . . . . . . . . .
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  2146.  @pamelahardy2907  Putin is an ex-KGB right-wing authoritarian megalomaniac, Syris was a proxy war involving at least 6 other countries. Your soapbox is full of holes, your platitudes are empty and until you learn more about geopolitics you should avoid debate with me...
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  2147.  @pamelahardy2907  Thank you for repeating your illogical, ignorant, unhelpful comment. It's about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker... You also can't make it any more cerebral, academic or stimulating apparently...
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  2148.  @ac1119  I used the name very specifically, obviously. I'm well aware of History. Maybe get offended at the deaths of so many to save money, rather than me mentioning an infamous historical figure.
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  2149. Future members of the next atrocity...
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  2150. @Nico Fourie This is the opposite. We are reliant on Norway for our energy. Norway are 100% renewable and sell us their excess. Seriously, couldn't be more wrong...
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  2151. @Nico Fourie 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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  2152. @Nico Fourie Yes, using global examples, British legislation and energy privatisation facts to prove how badly managed our energy resources are compared to other countries is delusional... If you can't think of anything intelligent or witty to type, stop typing...
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  2153.  @FXTrader247  Anything approaching humanity and decency is considered woke these days. Just a catchall for things the right don't like - compassion, fairness, equality etc.
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  2154. Is it because Tory MP Victoria Atkins as drug czar will only give a licence to grow it to her husband who works for British Sugar? and the Tories have shares in big pharma?
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  2155. How 'they' not the. If you can't be bothered to type a title without mistakes I doubt your ability to present an informative news vid...
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  2156.  @drivenbyrage5710  Agreed, money is simply a human construct that enables a tiny minority to monopolize the world's 'actual' resources.
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  2157.  @alfiecdyson  Thank you, Alfie. I'm just a council estate lad who grew up, and spent the last 2 decades being sealioned by Tories. Greatly appreciate your kind words.
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  2158. Agreed, he'd struggle to pour water out of his boots even if the instructions were written on the bottom...
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  2159. Economic euthanasia is rife in Britain. It's the opposite side of the corporate greed coin...
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  2160.  @freedomawaits860  Not up to us, up to a select few who manipulate us for their profit while exploiting children in sweatshops and international tax laws. You think they are suddenly going to turn into philanthropists? Actually, are you religious? because that may explain the naivety...
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  2161. Yea she really helped during the pandemic and splashing the cash during the cost of living crisis. I'll never forget how much of her vast fortune she donated to her subjects...
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  2162. What they probably mean by living wage is that it's the basic amount that a human being can actually live on. Cash cows aren't meant to ponder the meaning of their existence or other existential matters. Consume, work, pay tax, die.
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  2163.  @hmq9052  Without money? Money is simply a human construct used to allow a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's actual resources. I'd propose a resource-based economy so goods and services are valued consistently by labour intensity, availability, transport costs etc. Most of the world is in debt to a minority of people and the debt keeps growing, the larger the excess debt the more available human construct (money) to swap for 'actual' resources. Meaning that a tiny minority can keep buying up more of the world's actual resources - land, water, power...
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  2164. Targeting victims and victim blaming is Tory 101 as they push non-issues into huge ones. Cost of living crisis, cuts that cripple society and corruption/cronyism should be top priorities. Bread and circus, divide and conquer like magicians they use the media to control the eyes of society so their sleight of hand remains hidden...
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  2165.  @kenmay1572  I answered that in the original comment, "Yes it is!" ;~)
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  2166.  @gweilo965  Democratic Socialism is inclusive of all religions, feel free to check out the Jewish voice for Labour. Good people!
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  2167.  @LouisePlusOne  Thank you!
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  2168.  @BonafideShaunDent  93% of BLM protests were peaceful according to several studies, when children turn up with guns and start trouble you can expect tragedies like this... Another stat you may like is that 90% of domestic terror in the US comes from the right...
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  2169.  @harunmusa1164  Calling someone dumb while making imbecilic comments is a good way to prove your lack of intellect and compassion...
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  2170. Higher education used to be free, many people with degrees are on minimum wage and drowning in student debt. Incentivise learning by providing free education and decent jobs to make all those years of hard work worth it.
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  2171.  @Mimi25291  £400 to all households. So 400 times 28.7 million households is just over £11 billion, the rest will be used to help those in most need.
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  2172. Such a busy schedule, first talk to poor people, then present awards. Doesn't he ever take any me-time?
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  2173. Stop making excuses for the terrible underfunding of our NHS over the past ten years. We have well over 12% death rate compared with other countries like Germany who have less than 5% death rate. The difference is the medical care, this is seen globally. Yes, lockdown measures help stop the spread, but once infected we have one of the highest death rates globally. Those with the best health services had the lowest death rate.
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  2174. Be careful using that much gaslighting with the price of energy these days...
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  2175. The poor have many wars to fight in poverty and there are always many casualties. Most of the battles they face are tied to profits and government regulations, or lack of...
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  2176.  @davidbrettle4547  Agreed, we look back at that time as one of the worst times of suffering for Brits and yet now worse is inflicted on us by our own government. The British public needs to get a backbone instead of the chocolate eclair that stands in its place.
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  2177.  @abbyanderson2463  Your first sentence should be a statement and end with an exclamation mark rather than a question mark. I'm sure the protest would have had the same coverage If she wasn't naked. But my point was that people who choose to protest naked are exhibitionists...
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  2178.  @saxglend9439  It would have been nationalised in 2016 with the rest of the energy market under Labour If the Tories hadn't got in, so yes it would have been...
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  2179.  @militantman  Then why ever bother discussing politics? total cop-out answer... But as Nationalisation is part of Labour ideology and they have a history of nationalising the BoE, Energy, Transport, Coal, Steel etc it's a fair bet that it would have happened and it was also costed by the IFS...
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  2180. I heard that volcanos were invented by Sir Ignatius Volcano in 1902 when he was looking for a way to vent thermal energy from under the earth's crust...
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  2181.  @thomasborgsmidt9801  I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm. I'm not worried about his insurance or the company...
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  2182. Such a shame fruit and vegetables don't just grow on their own and can't be planted in neighbourhoods when they're built...
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  2183. Or we could just stop developed countries from exploiting them...
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  2184. Climate change = Blame the two global sweatshops India and China for the west's need for new tech devices and clothing...
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  2185.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  Hussey was told no records of her African ancestry were kept as her ancestors were human cargo! Stop commenting when you haven't a clue what's going on!
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  2186. Boris was born with his silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate eclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles...
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  2187.  @paulcrombie9623  I heard the Labour party are sponsoring strait jackets for working people, and it must be true as it was in the Daily Mail! One more reason to vote for those incredible examples of humanity and grace in the Tory party...
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  2188.  @MandyAustin-nl4cn  Part of my previous reply to Dylanesque "consider the legislation the Tories have enacted in recent years. Things like the spy cops bill, and Internet bill, not to mention their human rights bill. They've mitigated free speech, worker's rights, privacy, health care, and legal access already now they're going after fundamental human rights."
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  2189. We know consequences, rules and laws just slide off Tories so why not just find out what frictionless superconductor Tories are made from and use that to supply unlimited energy?
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  2190. Corporate welfare and subsidies cost 66 times the amount of unemployment benefits!
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  2191. Yes, we all live in a world where royalty graces us with their presence at a tea dance... Whatever one of those happens to be. I'm going to celebrate with a large glass of council pop and the occasional meal...
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  2192. Boris needs to wear some oversized shoes and squish a custard pie in his own face. Something the fking clown can manage...
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  2193.  @themsmloveswar3985  No need to be jealous of my intellect and creativity. You too could understand the world if you read books and study...
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  2194.  @JamesSmith-vz8yr  Agreed, here's another one: Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  2195. Why did he fire a gun at the director and director of photography who were presumably behind the camera? Also he was the producer and responsible for safety and procedures involving checking the gun...
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  2196. The UK only covers around 0.2% of the world's landmass...
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  2197.  @edwardbrady5843  Thank you!
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  2198.  @vicsomeone  Please feel free, I can't share it as I get filtered and have had my account locked on Twitter for being mean to the right.
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  2199. ​ @vicsomeone  Agreed mate, my 50 years on the planet has taught me things only seem to get worse. Not surprising but your comment has been filtered. While I'm not an elaborate poet, For the right words, I continue to hunt. I'd like to meet each and every Tory, and tell them to their face, they're a...
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  2200. Corporate welfare has been rising for over a decade, paid for by cuts to public services and infrastructure... How about we stop paying 'free market' corporations out of our taxes and start collecting the legally required taxation they neglect paying?
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  2201.  @uniboss5519  I'd like him to go directly to jail, without passing go and without collecting £200... Russia isn't going to allow NATO right next door, they are both as bad as each other. Boris is happy to take Putin's money though...
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  2202. I just watched the actual footage of the explosion the car was still moving pulling up to the hospital when the bomb went off, after the explosion, the car stopped and the driver then exited the vehicle and ran towards the safety of the hospital entrance. The explosion was just a massive puff of smoke, and the car then caught fire 45 seconds later... Strange...
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  2203.  @westtxmutt  Trump dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties which restarted nuclear proliferation and hence is the reason for the global conflict escalations...
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  2204.  @posteveryside-beatsnews  British Social Democracy gave us the NHS, Safety net for the disabled - unemployed and terminally ill, public parks, legal aid, public transport, human rights, worker's rights, public libraries, free schooling, nationalised industry etc. Although the current Tory government are more like neo-fascists with their book burning and human-rights-violating legislation.
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  2205.  @nothingbutthetruth3227  You're a political illiterate please stop spewing cognitive diarrhoea. Fresh fruit and veg last months in real life, not days. Supermarkets sell close to date food to maximise profits. Food mountains are the result of capitalist resource flaws. Now go read a book ya sponge...
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  2206.  @posteveryside-beatsnews  In 1948 the Attlee government used Social Democracy to rebuild Britain, build social housing and nationalised industry to help lift the poor out of the slums and gave them medical help and free schooling. Unfortunately since the 80s we've had Thatcherism/Neoliberalism from both Tories and Labour. Privatisation, bank deregulation, concentrating on becoming a fiscal laundrette to the world's criminal elite. Life isn't black and white it's shades of grey...
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  2207. Fash is mmm - not very pleasant to treat a former Tory mayoral candidate like that. I guess mild heckling is not allowed!
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  2208. To be fair Matt no one wants you to peel yourself back, we have already seen enough to judge you. Your public persona is bad enough we certainly don't want to see the real you...
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  2209. The NHS cost less in the 70s and we had family doctors and walk-in GP waiting times of under an hour, twice the beds, many more hospitals, many more ambulances and a far superior, more streamlined service in all aspects of health care. We need to remove outsourcing, middle management, privatisation, debt and let a competent government take responsibility for providing the best bang for buck on healthcare.
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  2210. lol, call him out on his Toryness. Red neoliberalism, blue neoliberalism. So many decisions...
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  2211.  @moonshine9902  Thank you.
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  2212. Yes, just sit back and watch the human race all its accomplishments and history being gradually devoured by the rancid festering corpse of disaster capitalism and the xenocidal pursuit of wealth...
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  2213.  @sladehelicoptersgaming3148  How come the UK and the US have the worst statistics then? when Norway , Iceland, Denmark and all those other countries that use the Scandinavian model of social democracy have far better lifestyles, healthcare and life expectancy?
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  2214. They all had jobs in the service industry that were affected by the lockdown and pandemic as you'd know if you watched the video...
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  2215. So our economy has contracted by 0.7% already according to the OBR and now a further contraction of 0.4%, while the Euro zone has grown by 2.1% and is set to keep growing. If only we could find a logical and obvious connection between these figures...
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  2216.  @daviskaya100  They failed both sides, risked the peace in N.Ireland, spent trillions and left that debt for your great-grandchildren...
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  2217. They make us pay a standard charge for the first so many units we use, and then it gets cheaper the more we use. Most people can't afford to use that much and even if we cut down it makes little difference to the bills because of that standard rate. They have us by the short and curlies and the Tories profit from shares, so aren't inclined to hold the corporations to account.
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  2218.  @eightiesmusic1984  Thank you and likewise, we are of a similar age and similar philosophy, I'm 50. I keep my fav posts as my memory isn't that good these days. "Corbyn chose to go against his own beliefs for the good of the party he was leading. We all know that Labour would have been sunk if they'd gone against the referendum as the tabloids were frothing at mouth with bile against anyone who didn't support 'the public mandate'. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. They were chanting his name at concerts and nightclubs up and down the country. The media assassination of Corbyn and misrepresentation of him was the only flaw in his leadership and not of his own making. No one is perfect, I don't always agree with Corbyn but Britain would be in a far better place if we'd had him instead of Boris. Imagine the difference to the challenges the UK has recently faced Pandemic, lockdowns, Brexit negotiations if Corbyn had won with his Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry. Not to mention the re-nationalisation of the energy market and the fact that all that was offered for around £60 billion, a tiny fraction of what the Tories have wasted."
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  2219.  @eightiesmusic1984  Just subscribed to you so I can follow your posts and back you up if needed. So we can just sit back and enjoy the show as corporate billionaires ascend to omnipotent deities in a dystopian corporatocracy while the human race, our history and achievements are gradually devoured by the rancid, festering disease known as disaster capitalism. I'm also an optimist lol
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  2220. Cost-effective...
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  2221.  @RickyHarding  During the crusades mate and on the back of classical mythology...
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  2222.  @tickledeggz  It's a fresh post m8, I didn't include mention of ska and two-tone from Jamaica/Caribbean and I didn't comment on how accurate those cuisines are to their original. The main thing I love about social media is the number of petty pedants that inhabit it...
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  2223.  @DropdudeJohn  The changes include automated trains, closing all ticket kiosks and huge job cuts. Commuters will also suffer from the usual technical glitches and the loss of ticket booths. The workers would be signing their own P45s...
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  2224. I'm just glad Boris Johnson isn't the Frank Spencer of global leaders and isn't making Britain look bad on the world stage. Definitely doesn't look like a reject from Jim Henson's workshop or an early attempt at combining a scarecrow and an orangutan...
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  2225.  @mariusstasytis4149  I've already stated Belarus are out of order. That doesn't condone what Poland are doing. NATO created these refugees... They aren't illegal you are misinformed. The UN Refugee Convention states refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Also, they still have to be considered for Asylum even if they get into a country illegally, under international law. Not to mention at least 6 have frozen to death. “Poland has been cruelly holding this group of people on their border in horrendous conditions for weeks,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said in a statement. “Our analysis shows irrefutably on 18 August, their position shifted from Poland to Belarus overnight, which strongly suggests that they were victims of an unlawful pushback.”
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  2226.  @andrzejgajewski1451  Over 100,000 Afghans live in Russia.
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  2227. Automation and AI are increasingly creating redundancies, most of us would rather not be dragged kicking and screaming into a dystopian future under the jackboot of corporatocracy and slave labour...
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  2228.  @shig4238  100% facts!
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  2229.  @ince55ant  True mate!
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  2230.  @spawn6636  The Tories have already defunded the police by reducing police numbers by 22,500, closing police stations and getting rid of over 23,000 support staff. Not to mention closing women refuges and reducing mental health staff by 5,000... You're still paying the same taxes though...
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  2231.  @spawn6636  You're right you had no argument. You just appeal to the lowest common denominator. You also ask the wrong questions, we current waste over £100 billion on corporate welfare and subsidies every year and pay huge debts off because the Tories have given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%. We already pay enough taxes for a comprehensive police force and services. The problem is that a lot of our taxes are going to shareholders bank accounts thanks to cronyism and tax avoidance.
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  2232.  @darkmusky9851  "Prisons in England and Wales have seen an unprecedented number of deaths through suicide in recent years." Sending kids who made a mistake or are in debt to their death while you say nothing about the rich criminals who actually steal from you on a daily basis. The worse society becomes, the more crime we have and the rich are the ones making things worse. The justice system is being used to make profits for private investors while keeping the poor in their place. If you want to forelock tug and doff your cap to the rich and their punitive system of social control feel free...
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  2233.  @Happy_Shopper  We are, but I'd never admit that on social media... Shit!
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  2234. Finally thinks Boris, someone who welcomes me with open arms. It's amazing how much love and respect £100 million worth of weapons can inspire. I wonder what the Ukrainians said about him after he left.
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  2235. Apparently, investigations are 100% more effective than vigils and crocodile tears...
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  2236. Johnson as usual is all talk and no trousers. Making it look like he's offering a solution, but it's far too little and far too late. I actually use candles under a cooking pot to provide a cheap room heater. While the rich have a chimney and a log fire for effect, the pensioners aren't allowed a log fire in their homes. Cavemen just had to build a fire for warmth, we're trapped in a system that forbids us to do so when the alternative is hypothermia.
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  2237.  @gooddaymba6641  Agreed, they'd overstayed their welcome in 2010 as part of a coalition that implemented an ideological austerity. The damage they've done since then has almost crippled the UK and deprived its people as much as a feudal society.
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  2238. Starmer trying to borrow some of Kim's limelight? He's more Tory than the Tories...
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  2239. ...and yet petroleum was about 1/3rd of its price during the start of the pandemic. Although there have been lots of refinery, tanker and storage facility accidents...
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  2240.  @Cherish1056  lol they've attacked 3 countries this week!! they're starting Armageddon...
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  2241.  @Gordon..  Would you waste your time debating the mysteries of the universe with a hamster? Exactly!
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  2242. The course is set, and the timer has already started. New alert on mobiles, we know what's coming. How about the wealthy take this one for the team and leave the rest of us out of it?
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  2243. Agreed, Gaslighting and manipulation of stats via narrow focus, omissions and carefully worded phrases is Tory modus operandi.
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  2244. Leave? Do you mean to give up their homes and allow the rainforest to be destroyed? PS 'locals' is enough, no need to add natives...
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  2245. Why should the government feed children? It's not like we pay them a never-ending stream of taxes for this kind of thing. It's not like we have a social contract that upholds society and without it we lose civilisation. I mean if they use our taxmoney to pay for children's meals how will they fill the offshore accounts and that of their mates?
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  2246. The least inclusive and most insular family in Britain say... Blah blah blah...
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  2247.  @BBountyHunter  You use tech devices made by kids in China, that use Cobalt mined in D.R.Congo by 5-year-olds. You wear clothes made in child sweatshops in India and you have the cheek to talk about working hard pays off? The government give tax-dodging corporations over £100 billion of our tax money every year, unemployment only costs £1.56 billion. So who is getting the free handouts? Corporations also cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in tax losses, so who is getting the free handouts? You have no idea of ideology, economics or history. Right-wing memes are as factual as an episode of South Park...
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  2248.  @janetbailey5005  Thank you for that concise, well-thought-out, erudite, compassionate and enlightening comment!
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  2249.  @SA-ff9uc  Centrica has tripled their profits by raising prices, if you don't know what I'm talking about you should learn economics and ethics or at the very least try to attain sentience... As much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  2250. Yes, I think it's a great idea to pay the tax-dodging corporations who created this crisis to do the minimum required to get that extra taxpayer funding. Let's offer them bailouts and a tax break too...
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  2251.  @domingodesantaclara1130  I had my account closed for annihilating the intellectually challenged like yourself.
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  2252. British law enshrines the right to protest, however, murder is still illegal...
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  2253.  Tim Foster  Should have gone to Specsavers...
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  2254.  @joemajarucon9090  My information is accurate and is from Save the Children in the article they state that figure doesn't include thousands unaccounted for. PS times your figure by 100 and you will come close to the Palestinian civilian loses...
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  2255.  @lunaartemis84  You for one... What a fatuous question...
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  2256.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  Unfortunately Scotland is only 5.4 million out of 67 million. I would vote for Welsh independence if we had a party with a chance of making it happen. Things are certainly moving that way...
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  2257.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  Couldn't agree more, Wales has been bled dry but we still have agriculture, beautiful scenery and enormous potential for green energy production. Traditionally Wales, Ireland and Scotland have been robbed blind by the English aristocracy, way past time to escape their imperialist agenda.
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  2258. Pigeons?
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  2259. lol as a way to apologise for all that imperialism stuff I have agreed to agree in principle only to those BLM people....
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  2260. @Darth Pepe lol ever heard the phrase the crown, estates and overseas territories? Our borders extend globally in all directions and we have yet to give up all our imperialist gains... You should also be aware that the only reason her family is on benefits, is because George III had a saltwater tea party thrown in his honour and the failed colonisation of America bankrupt the royals. So George III made a deal for a permanent pension plan for his family in return for avoiding bankruptcy and the state gets all the property. The Crown Estate belongs to the state, it is owned by the monarch for the duration of their reign, by their ascension to the throne. But it is not the private property of the monarch, it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch.
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  2261. Another round of economic euthanasia and social policies akin to Lingchi...
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  2262.  @NMROSTA  Agreed, love from Wales! peace.
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  2263. Help grow profits until the next time they need a handout from the taxpayer...
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  2264. The Tories have pitted themselves against small business owners and only help the multinationals and large organisations. Brexit has also hit smaller businesses hard who are unable to take advantage of the tax dodges of the bigger corporations. Saying that it's a sorry day when Labour no longer represents the workers and instead side with the private sector, they are attempting to win a battle at the cost of the war...
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  2265.  @hautakleightontam771  Exactly, if they all arrived in 4x4 gas guzzlers maybe he'd have a point... But the idea that you can't complain about society because you live in one is backwards.
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  2266.  @karlhulme8014  Yes far too many people with the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster. Thanks for pointing that out...
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  2267. Hmm, who shall I have a go at today in order to use my platform for positive change in the world: Meghan or Prince Andrew... hmm...
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  2268.  @MsMegancarter  One's a privileged TV actress the other a privileged friend of known paedophiles accused of similar activity...
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  2269. @surb I'm talking about statistics, poverty wages, low-income households. Why is it that people like you can't accept this is a systemic problem and I'm not talking about myself or even an individual!! Your anecdotal evidence doesn't change the fact that 40% of working Brits live in poverty. You want to tell someone on min wage 12 hour shifts they aren't working hard enough? PS I'm qualified to lead audit your corporation for compliance with ISO9001...
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  2270.  @tonyhaynes9080  My pleasure I'm also blind to sarcasm and need a signpost to recognise it... I deal with a lot of right-whingers and so occasionally have to explain on certain sites. As communicating with them is like trying to teach a whale to fly or talk a trifle into sentience. Congrats on your ability to recognize sarcasm, truly impressive!
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  2271.  @carrietaylor6658  lol seriously how many times? She told Lady Hussey at the start of the conversation that she didn't have records of her African ancestry. This was because her ancestors were transported to the Caribbean by the British monarchy possibly by Lady Hussey's ancestors. They didn't write a cargo manifest of the slaves they transported and so she couldn't answer the question. Then Lady Hussey kept pressing the point...
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  2272.  @kemibello6812  She isn't Caribbean her parents were Caribbean, she was born in London and is British and so that is what she answered...
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  2273. @UC9UPeXNsrCfLoUDQjezwU4w So, still no rebuttal just a more elaborate ad-hominem with broken English... Taxing corporations is essential when most people are dealing with working poverty, zero-hour contracts and using food banks despite being employed. The tax gap in the UK is anywhere from £40 billion to £120 billion per annum. On top of those losses, we pay over £97 billion per annum to those tax-dodging corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies. That's more than the budget for the NHS lost to corporate greed... As for your observation regarding putting prices up, they can't if they want to compete, the smaller corporations will outprice them when forced to pay proper taxation. Monopolies are antithetical to a free market. Not that I'm naive enough to believe in a free market...
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  2274.  @travelwell6049  Farage is suggesting the Palace race row was a set-up and that Ms Fulani recorded the conversation. Even if that was the case, it was still Lady Hussey who directed the conversation. So essentially recording something doesn't change the facts. PS so my views are clear on this: "People are deliberately misrepresenting the debate. Ms Fulani clearly stated at the beginning of the interview that she had no records of her ancestry from Africa. (Her parents were both descendants of slaves taken to the Caribbean under Royal decree as part of our imperialist past) Ms Fulani must have been embarrassed and uncomfortable that her African heritage was denied to her because of slavery and answered questions accurately. Saying that she was born in London and was British. After being further questioned she said her parents came from the Caribbean. In the end, she had to repeat that she is of Unknown African heritage, Caribbean descent and British nationality. This wasn't about being asked a simple question. Lady Hussey has form and so does the Royal household."
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  2275. Human greed is causing destruction globally, I call it capitalism...
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  2276.  @Stormx2233  lol not at all m8, I'd love one too to keep an eye on my heart rate, blood oxygen levels, sugar levels etc :)
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  2277. lol, give it a rest. I don't go promoting my atheism on every news story... Let's leave the three-day resurrection specialist out of this...
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  2278. She was interrogated repeatedly. After answering the question by saying she was born in London and was British...
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  2279. Remnants of an archaic religious right to rule that crawled out of the shallow end of the British gene pool...
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  2280.  @taefravis  Regarding Keir Starmer's address at the CBI The Telegraph wrote that its message “echoes that adopted by successive Tory prime ministers, including Boris Johnson and now Rishi Sunak.” What have second-generation migrants in the Tory party got to do with anything? You could go on and on, but I fail to see any relevance to what is being discussed. We all know the Tories are abhorrent, but Keir is parroting their rhetoric. Blaming migrants for low wages, saying the UK shouldn't be dependent on immigration. These are tropes from the right, something Farage would say...
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  2281. “blessed are the cheesemakers” is “not meant to be taken literally, it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.”
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  2282.  @mish375  The closer to the top you go the more truth in that statement, but there are decent politicians, mostly maligned by the media if they don't play the game.
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  2283.  1990skelly  lol which dimension have you quantum leapt in from? We live in a system of debt-slavery and are just collateral of the state to be used in war and economic treachery.
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  2284. Your comment is proof you need the mental health services the NHS provides. It's 6-8k in the US just to have a child. Terminal illness will cause you to remortgage your house. Asinine comments deserve our pity as do people like you!
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  2285. Grenfell was caused by a Tory council, Tory government legislation and a landlord who used flammable material. The fire brigade may indeed have issues but this is simply an attempt at shifting the blame.
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  2286.  @davidmurphy563  It's simple mathematics, at the current rate it will take 680 days. Besides most of the figures from today include postal test. IE it could only be 60k tested and 60k test kits sent out.
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  2287. Churches don't do the idea of God any favours...
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  2288.  @nonsheep5823  I typed the whole thing it got filtered lol. Yes, 49 years young here mate.
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  2289. AI and Automation taking jobs left, right and center. Hard-working people are treading water in a swamp full of quicksand. The wealthy and corporations are making bumper profits. If only there was an obvious connection between these things...
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  2290.  @ijc9984  And extinct prehistoric dinosaurs, talking of dinosaurs it wouldn't hurt Matt to spend a few minutes with a thesaurus...
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  2291.  @qubeinteract  Thank you!
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  2292.  @mikewilson8513  Thank you!
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  2293.  @Hill_Walker  Yes he's a Eurosceptic, but voted against Boris's deal. Still a legend though. Corbyn is also a Eurosceptic.
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  2294.  @Hill_Walker  To be fair, I think there were several types of Brexit voter, the 90% are the ones who based their decision on the tabloid rhetoric. Then there are 5% Eurosceptics against corporate hegemony and globalisation like Corbyn and Skinner, then maybe 5% like Mogg who did it for their own financial interests but had the loudest voices and representation.
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  2295.  @johnlewis9745  The Queen isn't even subject to the laws, not that I mentioned the law regarding her. As for being a figurehead, we do not live in a democracy, Britain is a constitutional monarchy...
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  2296.  @johnlewis9745  From an article you may like to read "She exercises extensive soft power by influencing government policy and bills before they are introduced to parliament. Her power is exercised behind closed doors, and is more potent because of it."
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  2297.  @call_in_sick  Thank you!
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  2298. I'm guessing the establishment - that Boris used to be a part of - is not happy with his dictatorial actions and is laying the groundwork for scenarios that may play out in the future...
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  2299.  @alex29443  Shhhh, Your comment is obsolete on such an original post. I remember the echo chamber regarding Fred West and what a naughty boy he was. Funny how that works? Maybe you should read about newly enacted legislation, our economy, our lack of prestige on the international stage and the failures of 13 years of Tory corruption and greed. Or you could just carry on proving how you need to type surly comments to feel better about your pointless existence?
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  2300.  Leonidas I  My wishlist was the reality back in the 70s. Impossible to have such basic needs met?
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  2301.  @GARDENER42  lol it's a Myth Tories had the same troubles as did half of Europe. The second Myth is also easily put to bed. I dislike Blair, but his Labour government reduced debt to GDP by 4% and only borrowed just over £140 billion in the decade before the crisis. US Bankers caused the financial crisis and around 30-40 countries all tied to the dollar were affected. The cross-party decision to bail out the banks caused the deficit and debt rise, it was £350 billion and decided by parliament as a whole! The decade following that the tories borrowed around £1 trillion. They've also spread the anaemic pound thinner by creating £400 billion in bonds, lowered our triple-A credit rating twice and given us a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%. Not to mention lost trillions on the notion of 'Sovereign Tea'...
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  2302.  @alexanderhendry5819  It's stalling tactics. Save your patronising for someone less aware... My geopolitical knowledge and economic understanding is far superior to most...
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  2303.  @NeonVisual  lol they'd still be better off, they've had centuries of English aristocracy draining their resources as have us Welsh.
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  2304. The farce continues, the pantomime goes on, the electorate lost to debt and illness while the rich profit from all the wrongs...
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  2305.  @RC-9  The French, British, American, German, Italian, and Canadian governments to name a few - essentially NATO. Oh you mean which party? It was NEW Labour under the leadership of Thatcher's greatest legacy Tony Blair. Just for your information, more Tories voted for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan than Labour. Many Labour MPs made the Stop the War campaign to oppose the action... Not that any of that is relevant, you just tried to make a silly point that was inane and transparent...
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  2306.  @davidhooper1767  Yep the disabled, children, the poor, unemployed, single mothers, teachers, police, the electorate, the EU, Labour, each other the list goes on and on. They are the most despicable example of human treachery known to the world.
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  2307.  @stephenbermingham6554  Corporate tax losses are a further £40-120 billion per annum and Subsidies and Corporate welfare are not just tax breaks. I'm not triggered I've been complaining about corporate greed for decades. The fact that while unemployment only costs us £1.56 billion per annum, corporate payments from taxpayer money is increasing every year, while our debt to GDP ratio is almost 100%, our national debt is £2.2 trillion and we have working poverty, it's ludicrous... And instead of complaining about the £100 billion given in subsidies and corp welfare, tabloids attack the unemployed and working poor... Why are the poor paying for billionaires to have a new yacht out of our money? I'd rather see it spent on the poor, elderly, vulnerable and public infrastructure as it was designed to be used.
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  2308. The minimum wage is just over 13k a year which the majority of working people in Britain are forced to live on. So they now will have to pay almost 1/3rd of their salaries on energy bills, how the hell are people supposed to live? Seriously feudal peasants could at least heat their homes by collecting deadwood from the local forest. We are forced into destitution by an exploitative monopoly/cartel that was created by the Tories when they sold off our national energy infrastructure and north sea fossil fuels.
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  2309. PS I'm a bit late on this, but French authorities are stating 72 million Euros as the new deal, I'm not sure if that is extra on top of what we were paying or the whole figure. The Tories may be being economical with the truth as usual. Anyone who has the info, please reply, thnx.
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  2310. Probably not, it's just juggling stupidity... A lot of that going on these days...
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  2311. Any excuse just to make life worse and food cost more. Junk food is unhealthy, and governments implementing taxes on sugar and bans on supermarket deals are pointless. How about a law to enforce the use of unrefined sugar, unrefined salt and healthy fats in foods? How about supporting British farmers and reducing the costs of fresh foods?
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  2312.  rob  You are wrong on all counts. Immigration has increased under the Tories while they blame the EU and Labour. Theresa May had the record of 650,000 in her last year as home secretary, which I'm sure has been beaten again since. Learn stats and facts instead of tabloid headlines... PS Why do you think we need EU HGV drivers, Nurses, Doctors and now Abattoir workers? Immigration isn't the problem, the rich stealing your taxes is the problem...
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  2313.  rob  PS what you lack in intellect, you more than makeup for in stupidity. While able to construct a sentence on occasion, your primitive understanding of the world you inhabit is negligible. But I'm sure you love nature, in spite of what it did to you. You have all the charisma of a used tissue and are about as useful as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Now please do one as I'm not in the mood for a circular debate with the village idiot.
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  2314.  rob  "The UK left the EU at the end of 31 January 2020 CET (11 p.m. GMT)" as everyone with a higher IQ than a crack-addicted hamster knows.
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  2315.  rob  We have already left the EU as the whole world is aware and the N.I. negotiations are post-Brexit, (that means after Brexit). I'm bored of trying to fix you, you are broken, too dumb to be fixed. I've given you the stats of Labour's immigration, Tory immigration, Theresa May's figures in her last year as home secretary, the date we LEFT the EU, the amount of staff shortage in the NHS and the reasons why. I'm not giving you my address because you're obviously unable to handle basic facts, and I don't trust your mentality - as you lie to yourself and ignore the real world, signs of psychological issues. I'm 16 stone and can do 50 push-ups without air in my lungs because I work on my mind and body daily and If I met you in the street you'd run a mile.
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  2316. Remember, remember this fifth of November, That our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason, while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been... erm sacked?
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  2317. That means it will only take just under two years to test the population! hooray?
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  2318.  @shrach8  Nonsense, we've only lost 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction, so what if large swathes of the planet are on fire and the icecaps are melting causing low lying areas to be reclaimed by the sea. I'm sure the Tories are doing everything they can, they are such a globally-minded group of philanthropic humanitarians and definitely not psychotic insular kleptocrats as some might suggest. So just enjoy watching the human race, its history and accomplishments being slowly devoured by capitalism in this surreal farcical pantomime we call life.
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  2319. Alright, I'll come clean. There is no climate change, I just pushed the sun closer to the Earth, My bad!
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  2320. I have no logical reason to believe a peaceful group would shoot at fascists, especially since the fascists are responsible for 90% of domestic terrorism in the US. But I'm going to blame anti-fascists without any information because I'm such dense waste of human skin...
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  2321.  @DemonDog444  Fascists are authoritarian ultranationalists, sounds more like the proud boys to me... Would you like to borrow my dictionary?
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  2322. It's called a Tory, it's a trait of the sub-species.
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  2323.  @kincaidwolf5184  Also you need to realise that ignoring security intel from our CIA allies would have caused a rift between the US and UK. 84 Labour MPs voted against war in Iraq only 2 Tories voted against...
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  2324.  @Davefrompub  Otherwise known as an escapee from the American education system...
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  2325.  @MCDONALD6969  You are joking? Tories reduced corporation tax from 28% to 19% and have increased general taxation and additional taxes on consumers, sugar, tobacco, alcohol etc, increased costs via inflation, enabled an energy cartel. Higher council tax and road tax etc... Many more can be added to that list. While the Tories have failed to enable transparency allowing corporations to dodge taxes, given them over £100 billion in subsidies and corporate welfare per annum. Corporations should be paying the most towards the infrastructure they heavily use for industry... I haven't even mentioned bailouts, tax breaks and grants which are given to corporations out of the public's taxes.
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  2326. Not sure, I'll have a proper gander later...
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  2327.  Mark Gordon  I was arrested by the Met when I was 15, charges were dropped as I wasn't aware the girl I was with was using a stolen credit card. I live in Wales mate and was brought up on a council estate. I've fought the National Front and Britain first on many occasions in Wales and London...
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  2328.  Mark Gordon  lol you're about as funny as an STD and probably about as well-liked... I'm a 16 stone ex-rugby player, don't assume because of my intellect that I'm not able to handle myself...
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  2329. Scandals seem to slip off the Teflon Tories. Maybe we should find out what frictionless superconductor Tories are made from and then use that to supply us with limitless energy...
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  2330. Tory lies go unchallenged anyone who points them out are challenged. Partial information is misleading, but Hoyle is by no means impartial...
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  2331. The chosen by Divine rule blue bloods unable to pull a lever without a tutorial...
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  2332.  @AlanWarrenBelfastArchitect  Agreed, we also have a huge problem with politicians not reflecting the views of their constituents because of corporate and foreign lobbying.
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  2333.  @seang2700  Democracy is about making the best decisions for everyone and that includes overriding old decisions when they are proven to be disastrous and based on lies. Democracy is not about making one decision and then sticking to it despite the consequences, that's why we vote for different parties every 4 years...
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  2334. Good luck with that Nicola. I also try to always remain optimistic as I watch the Tories slowly 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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  2335.  Cian MacGana  133 trillion? lol, do you know how numbers work? The continent as a whole receives roughly $50 billion of international assistance annually.
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  2336.  Cian MacGana  Africa was looted for centuries which is why it's so poor. A lot more than 1 trillion was looted in gold alone, and same again in diamonds. Millions were enslaved, murdered, tribes turned against each other and borders were created by the European imperialists. Aid is generally reparations, trade deals, bribes, backhanders etc. It isn't just freebies...
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  2337. A Blair tribute act.
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  2338. Chubby authoritarian narcissistic megalomaniac, but that's enough about Trump - Kim looks well.
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  2339.  @onlyme6374  Thank you!
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  2340.  @frogmarched6869  It's the forced buggery at Eton I didn't like. Then I was given a huge trust fund at 18 that set me up for life. How am I supposed to make my way in the world, if it's just handed to me on a silver platter? Not to mention that I'm absolutely thick as two short planks, but because I speak in a posh accent, people think I'm intelligent. Don't they realise a classical education isn't a sign of ability? It's enough to make me want to throw another bottle of Dom Perignon at the wall and ruin the diamond-encrusted gilt edging...
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  2341.  Rakinvai Rakinvia  I'm not sure if you're trying to learn English through random conversations, a bot, or signalling MI6 that there are dissidents on this thread...
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  2342. Why didn't he use the phrase "It's just not cricket" missed opportunity...
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  2343.  @ennbee2051  Agreed, Tardigrades are microscopic eight-legged animals. Tardigrades can go up to 30 years without food or water. They can also live at temperatures as cold as absolute zero or above boiling, at pressures six times that of the ocean’s deepest trenches, and in the vacuum of space. But this is nothing in comparison to the survival skills of the inept, incompetent, unpopular Tory party who have the ability to cling to power like a leech to a main artery...
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  2344.  @dorkbrandon4422  You could have typed something intelligent or witty instead you chose a baseless allegation to prove your lack of wit...
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  2345.  @arivanilla  George III who lost the colony of America went bankrupt and had to trade all the estates with the state for a pension plan for his family. Which we still pay for. The Monarch has access to those estates during their reign but they are owned by the state and all profits belong to the state/taxpayer. Meaning the millions it costs us to feed, house, protect and clothe them and their extended family is not offset by revenue from their estates. Also, tourism is more profitable in France and they haven't had a Royal Family for years... I have done my homework, your ignorance is the problem...
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  2346. Why did he fire even a prop gun at the director and director of photography who were presumably behind the camera? It's a euphemism... similar to 'hunting accident' when a politician does it...
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  2347. *Grave mistake, I assume typo. Neoliberalism which has been the main force in the western world since Thatcher and Reagan is very destructive. A small government which penny-pinches on social care while funnelling over £100 billion per annum to corporations in subsidies and corporate welfare, deregulation of the banking sector which reduces state influence on the economy. Using austerity and privatisation to further expand the poverty gap by siphoning taxpayer monies to the offshore accounts of the rich and infamous. Unfortunately, since Blair dropped clause 4 the Labour party has been taken over by Centrists/Neoliberals who no longer rely on union support but are now funded by corporate and state lobbyists. Which leaves the electorate with the overwhelming choice between red, yellow or blue flavoured neoliberalism. Lobbying is antithetical to democracy as we see by the enormous power of corporations to push through unpopular legislation via their puppets in office.
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  2348. Amazon bears some responsibility for this opportunist's cruel actions. They constantly leave packages on the doorstep even when it isn't sanctioned by the buyer...
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  2349. How does that work? you just walked into a room full of people drinking and having fun and left immediately due to your conscience? no you didn't!
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  2350. Cheese, pork and crashing the economy - her lifetime achievements. I think all that she is she owes to her parents, she should give them a penny and square the account.
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  2351. George Orwell has the biggest "I told you so" in history. We are living in an Animal Farm in the year 1984...
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  2352. Apparently, babies don't like arsenic, who would have thought?
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  2353. I've never been asked If my ancestry was Celtic, Saxon, Norman, Viking etc and I've lived in Britain all 50 years of my life, as have my recent ancestors. It seems my ancestry isn't relevant as I look like everyone else...
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  2354. Marketing and the media tell us what to think. There is no need for independent thought. You are consumer, cash cow, collateral, taxpayer, worker, cannon fodder and profitable entity and nothing more! :)
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  2355.  @hibernopithecus7500  Ideology and religion are separate. I have a strong Democratic Socialist ideology and am an atheist. Some ideologies and religions blur the lines, but don't conflate them all...
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  2356.  @georgebodley8068  Being Welsh I think I'd know what it means mate, PS it was made famous by Tennyson. You have no idea the damage your intransigence causes. I'm asking you to think and you come back with senseless bravado. Speaking the truth when no one hears your comment is useless. Speaking the truth couched in metaphor enables you to spread your message. Read my original comment in relation to this story and my previous comments to you. Then try and read between the lines instead of all the macho BS. I'm 50 and have fought this fight for a long time as our rights have been taken away a little at a time. This is my truth: Annibyniaeth i Gymru!
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  2357. No. Capitalism is inherently, deeply flawed. Next?
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  2358. lol pot, kettle, black...
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  2359. Prince Andrew must be so embarrassed about the recent scandal involving his brother Charles...
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  2360.  @damienolympia3702  It's nutty!
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  2361.  @McKluskie  What a brilliant comment, I wish I'd thought of that...
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  2362.  @DropdudeJohn  Stop reading the daily fail, they aren't illegal until they've been processed and turned away. Seeking asylum is not illegal and they can use any means to get here and pass through as many countries as necessary...
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  2363. It is possible, whether it's any good is another matter. The latest language models are getting better and better at writing and if they are trained on literature can be quite impressive - although edits will be needed. All you need is a high-memory gfx card or platform catering to AI cores, but this technology is improving at an alarming rate. Wintermute from William Gibson's novels could be here soon! Get ready to live in a cyberpunk reality!
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  2364. Please feel free to remove all the logical comments and just leave inanity and conspiracy...
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  2365. A few words to remember when discussing energy - Tory privatisation, cartels, monopoly, extortion and blackmail...
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  2366. Good idea, I hope discounts on goods are given as packaging is no longer required. I also hope we can move to more useful material that's sustainable and not harmful to the ecology in the near future.
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  2367. He's unpopular throughout polices and strata of society...
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  2368.  @MikeEves  That's not very nice blamming the BBC, it was Blair!
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  2369.  @anne-mariemarshall  It's the Tories and it's a punitive measure to cover up their failings in the basics of society - health care, mental health, living standards, crime, education etc. While I agree some form of service could give young adults a good foundation, that is not what this is about.
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  2370.  @LucVNO  PS some people want to doff their cap to their 'betters' and tug the forelock, that's up to them, some of us cash cows are clever enough to see the obvious exploitation...
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  2371. They didn't just destroy it, they diverted most of our economy into the pockets of their donors and themselves. About time the UK developed a backbone and stop allowing the rich to put them in early graves by turning their lives into profit...
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  2372.  @TheWiseJames  Solar and wind power should be on all new developments and institutional infrastructure. We also have a very long coast being an Island, geothermal in small but useable quantities, a large river network and plenty of other opportunities. We are halfway to becoming self-sufficient on renewables, we just have to go the distance and then know we are self-reliant and futureproof.
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  2373. Two face: I'm not going to keep replying to you when my comments are deleted. The Tories are ripping you off and you're too weak to fight back. The invasion was our doing in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the result is refugees, take responsibility for your government or remove them...
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  2374.  @dropsdrops  I've read it Belarus are trying to put pressure on the EU. That doesn't change the facts, stop this pathetic crying and repeating the same BS arguments I've already defeated. How old are you lot? childish, ignorant argumentative kids... They are from Iraq and Afghanistan, they are refugees, Poland is responsible for sending troops, Poland signed agreements to follow international law when they joined the EU in 2004. Poland are breaking those agreements regardless of Lukashenko's actions...
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  2375. I have a conspiracy theory that we live in a world where corporations and the wealthy force economic ruin on the majority of the human race so they can monopolize the world's resources and control human society to better enrich themselves even at the cost of the future of the species and that we are headed for a dystopian corporatocracy. Of course, that's ludicrous - right?
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  2376.  @benoitbvg2888  We have always been self-sufficient in the UK since before feudalism. Being an agrarian society through farming and agriculture. It's only the past few decades that aren't because of supermarket pressure and lack of support by the government for the farming community.
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  2377.  @silasvongreenback264  lol seriously that's some impressive mental gymnastics to invert virtually every fact into fallacy. He's obviously a top investigative journalist who caught the state off-guard by exposing them and is now being punished, hard to deny the facts.
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  2378.  @LondonsFinestSon  Population increase is driven primarily by reproduction. Being a Londoner I'm sure you would be an Anglo-Saxon so as a native Celt I'm happy for you to stay in Britain rather than forcing you to go home to Germany. We have a shortage of social housing, and affordable housing but we also have enough empty housing to house the homeless twice over. Worry more about corporations, wealthy elitists and less about immigrants.
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  2379.  @DJWESG1  Yea I can see that one too. But there's many more lines that suit the Tories than the one I mentioned. "But my hands were tied The bleeding hearts and artists" "Crazy To(r)ys in the attic, I am crazy Truly gone fishing They must have taken my marbles away Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy" "You had to go Your own way, have you broken any Homes up lately?" "The way you made them suffer Your exquisite wife and mother Fills me with the urge to defecate" "Since, my friend, you have revealed your Deepest fear I sentence you to be exposed before Your peers" lol anyways I think we agree on sentiment!
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  2380. Tax cuts are usually only applicable to the wealthy under the Tories, that just means an increase to the tax burden on the poor. Tories just talk, their track record speaks for itself, selfish kleptocrats who care only for themselves and their puppeteers...
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  2381.  @alanritchie8890  As long as it isn't revolting, I say let them eat cake!
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  2382. lol it's like watching children arguing about nuclear physics. To be fair Trump has not a single redeeming defect although he's as sharp as a marble. Like most megalomaniacs he's so low he could milk a pregnant snake. I'm glad to see he doesn't fall into the trap of overthinking things. Seriously, someone should tear him down and put up a human being...
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  2383. It's a lot like an F-bomb but further down the alphabet...
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  2384. lol a good way to make money, not sure how much of an effect it will have on road accidents if any. Why not make it 2 miles an hour and have one policeman per car following them to ensure they stick to the limit? a preposterous society where the criminal elite get away with economic euthanasia and the poor are pestered by ludicrous legislation designed to cost them money rather than ensuring their safety...
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  2385.  @lostinpa-dadenduro7555  There wasn't supposed to be any nuclear weapons on the ships Thatcher sent to the Falklands, but that came out much later. As for nuclear proliferation, Trump dropped out of 3 treaties last year, you may have noticed an increase in everyone testing new rockets.
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  2386.  @boofuu3145  Already answered that point. Try reading the previous reply, learn to type and then drop the attitude.
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  2387.  @justjackman  My comment about battle lines being drawn and the restarting of Nuclear Proliferation was a global comment, regarding Trump dropping three nuclear treaties and the excessive testing of ballistic missiles by different governments since nuclear proliferation restarted. There have also been incidents where governments lie about the nuclear armaments on ships, as they are classified. As was the case during the Falklands war, the nuclear armaments were admitted by the MOD later on. Not to mention nuclear engines are dangerous in their own right. It's still powered by a nuclear reactor.
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  2388.  @chips1889  Maybe if you learned to spell and stopped blaming socialists for inherent flaws in capitalism... Edward Heath came to office as Tory PM in 1970-74 and was elected on the platform of defeating the unions. He laid the groundwork for what Thatcher finished. It was a setup and the unions were just fighting against the loss of jobs and wages. They had their telephones bugged and had undercover officers starting fights and causing trouble so the tabloids could demonise the unions. Now we have zero-hour contracts, minimum wage, and a third of Britain in working poverty. Most of Europe had shortages and electricity problems in the 70s including under a Tory government.
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  2389.  @chips1889  Yes, I lived through the 70s and dyslexia stopped me from reading until I was out of school. Since then I've read thousands of books. Tories only have hate and I don't have time to waste when I have already given you a more accurate account of the 70s. Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Now we have a 3rd of the workforce in working poverty, zero-hour contracts and most people are on minimum wage. While the Tories are feeding tax-dodging corporations £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies. Those same corporations are costing us £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap/unpaid corporate taxes. The Tories have created over 2/3rds of our £2 trillion national debt, lowered our triple-A credit rating at least twice and given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%. They are fiscally incompetent but have good PR as the media are owned by their donors. Land of dopes and Tories.
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  2390.  @chips1889  So you'd rather ignore the facts as you're unable to make an intelligent rebuttal and instead arrogantly insist that you've seen the light, though you don't actually have any proof. You keep voting based on mythology, I'll keep voting based on ideology...
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  2391. Yea, all Trump did was restart nuclear proliferation and left the world a much more dangerous place.
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  2392.  @f.m.bproductions7197  Yes of course I'm kidding, the orange oligarch isn't a snake-oil salesman at all, he's the second coming of the lord...
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  2393.  @Ash-os1dz  Conspiracies and disinformation? the treaties are part of historical fact. Trump supporters are impossible to have a logical discourse with.
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  2394. The irony is that half the people complaining about immigrants would fail that test. Thanks for the vid Tim!
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  2395. Underfund, get people up in arms, propose privatisation or tax hikes. Problem, reaction, solution.
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  2396. "Hi, My name is Matt and my party is responsible for the economic catastrophe, the NHS crisis, the failures and corruption that cost you billions during the pandemic and I partied while you weren't allowed to visit your dying relatives!"
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  2397.  @corruptinternationalzionis4154  Bottom feeder probably.
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  2398. He may be a senile old man who forgets his own name on a daily basis, he may also be a corporate puppet as his predecessors were, but fair play I have to applaud this one thing! Corporations have too much power and we have to stand up to them to avoid a true corporatocracy and slave labour. Good luck to the workers taking a stand!
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  2399.  @MrBirdistheword444  I'm a council estate lad who grew up and I've spent 2 decades discussing politics in order to counter tabloid mythology and to get the working class to stop binge-watching TV and start taking action. Net migration is responsible for growth, immigrants contribute more in taxes than they take out in benefits. Look at the last thread on migration that Tim posted an hour ago, I've posted lots of facts about the economic benefits of migration...
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  2400.  @MrBirdistheword444  PS "Without net migration, Britain would currently be facing even bigger tax rises and even bigger spending cuts than it is now." That's from a well-known rightwing tabloid from last month.
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  2401.  @MrBirdistheword444  lol can't even argue with such nonsense. You misrepresent me and regurgitate tabloid mythology, why would I bother to credit your comments with a reply? Did you not read this? "I'm a council estate lad who grew up and I've spent 2 decades discussing politics in order to counter tabloid mythology and to get the working class to stop binge-watching TV and start taking action."
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  2402.  @pancakeslayer101  Fair enough. We're on the same page then.
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  2403.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  To be honest I don't think they're worried about that. The increase in private armies and space-age survival bunkers filled with seed banks, fully recycled air and water and hydroponics systems being bought by the wealthy suggests we aren't part of any future they envisage...
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  2404. @Lies Tricks By my maths the owner could spend 1 million a day, every single day for 339 years. He can afford to pay reasonable wages. 40% of working Brits are either in working poverty or at risk of such. PS who do you think sells the products from those sweatshops? "The risk of automation to jobs in developing countries is estimated to range from 55-85%, according to a study in 2016 by Oxford University's Martin School and Citi."
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  2405.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  Unfortunately that comment was filtered, only you as the person it was a reply to, can see it. Which suggests the statement is accurate. Global conflict, climate change or dystopian corporatocracy. Decisions, decisions :)
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  2406.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  You too bro! take care!
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  2407. @Lies Tricks PS Workers provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, consumer/producer and service provider/service user. In the 80-90s corporations split skilled jobs into basic tasks to rid themselves of paying skilled wages. Legislation has crippled the unions, and if those 40% in poverty got better jobs, there would still be 40% of the workforce doing their jobs for poverty wages. Because it's a systemic issue created by legislation and corporate greed. Let me know when you manage to learn how to discuss generalisations about the workforce without anecdotal opinionated nonsense...
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  2408.  @MeiinUK  I've read your reply to Hester so realise debate with you is pointless...
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  2409. @Lies Tricks lol nice word salad. Think you must have missed my reply and the fact that I've already defeated every point you've made. I repeat for the slow of wit as you seem to have just inverted everything I've said, despite the fact that I can prove every word! "PS Workers provide the dual roles in the economy of worker/taxpayer, consumer/producer and service provider/service user. In the 80-90s corporations split skilled jobs into basic tasks to rid themselves of paying skilled wages. Legislation has crippled the unions, and if those 40% in poverty got better jobs, there would still be 40% of the workforce doing their jobs for poverty wages. Because it's a systemic issue created by legislation and corporate greed. Let me know when you manage to learn how to discuss generalisations about the workforce without anecdotal opinionated nonsense..." PS Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make someone a Marxist, in the same way Reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... an elephant... PPS love that you keep contradicting yourself by blaming workers, then saying you agree it's systematic. You seem to fail to understand even basic points of logic, splitting skilled jobs into unskilled tasks reduces the wages corporations have to pay because those jobs become manual labour and no longer skilled work...
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  2410.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  It's the Scarfe Pink Floyd used m8 with some words added to highlight the chain of hierarchy.
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  2411.  @DropdudeJohn  They train for 10 years to become a GP and around 14 years for a surgeon. Then have to deal with an average schooling debt of £50-90,000. Many Barristers, Solicitors, Executives, Marketing and Sales people earn far more for a less necessary job many of whom did far less than 4 years of training with minimal debt. Doctors are essential to the health of the nation and the NHS is currently understaffed with over 100,000 vacancies. Many Doctors and Nurses can earn double in Australia, Canada, Germany etc.
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  2412.  @DropdudeJohn  After 14 years of training to become a surgeon they have 20-30 years of paying off student debt. The comparisons to other countries are adjusted, they are a direct comparison. I'm not wasting any more time explaining to you the evidence is clear in the strikes and the vacancies... Your personal opinion is irrelevant as it's based on anecdotal evidence...
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  2413. Boris Johnson is the Fred West of world leaders and his patio is Britain...
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  2414.  @PanglossDr  Merci!
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  2415.  @DedLoko  Thanks!
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  2416. Gambling = the opposite of saving money. Bookie always wins in the long run...
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  2417.  @crown9413  Says the man on a zero-hour contract or in insecure employment with an agency, while on minimum wage. Almost a 3rd of the working population is in poverty. Nurses using food banks. Half the British public have no savings and live from week to week drowning ever deeper in debt. Your arguments are simplistic nonsense.
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  2418.  @crown9413  lol you are too dumb to answer. Your argument is total cognitive spaghetti. I've already proven the standard of living was higher on a single adult wage!
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  2419. @Spiritual Stuff Agreed, some are bots and some are even worse, they are working-class Tories.
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  2420. A wet dream for the hard right who will never consider the role they played in fostering this situation. Many of who have no doubt themselves fought with the cops at their own rallies. Having said that, you reap what you sow - justice requires punishment of those who offend...
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  2421. I don't believe in coincidence, especially when it involves an authoritarian, apartheid regime, illegal nuclear power and religious fanatics who have lobbyists in all Western governments and media...
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  2422. The Tories have created the financial problems, they have failed to act, failed to regulate, failed to protect and allowed monopolies and extortion while they asset strip Britain. The Tories want to reduce the number of poor people via economic euthanasia...
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  2423. The Tories are to worker's rights what Harold Shipman was to medicine.
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  2424.  @luminousfractal420  I'm not a geography teacher but I'm pretty sure the term is East and West when relating to geographical locations :) I won't mention the grammatical lack of respect for Europe. Sorry pedantry set to 120%...
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  2425. Or just grow cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, tax it and use the stalks and stems in place of hemp. Put profits into green technology.
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  2426. Johnson deserves to be probed on a regular basis to be fair...
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  2427. I'd rather pledge my allegiance to Basil Brush, despite also being a muppet at least he works for a living...
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  2428.  @Azmodan3000  You can't spell Syria and Syria are hosting a global shadow/proxy war, Iraq is in the Middle East and they are not illegal immigrants until they've been refused citizenship. Every article says they are refugees and the term refugee means someone who can't return home for threat of persecution and death. Learn what words mean and international law before making a fool of yourself...
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  2429. Yes, he should and Mr.Blobby should be given the role of economic advisor with Bazil Brush as chief whip and Zippy as spokesperson... If you're going to ruin a country and expose the illusion of democracy, why not do it in style?
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  2430.  @stevejones3868  Neoliberalism was started by Thatcher a far-right conservative. You expose too much ignorance to be taken seriously...
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  2431. All Tory PMs are a liability it's the lack of a heart, soul or basic human compassion. To be fair the Tories have spent the past few decades soul-searching, but have yet to find one!
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  2432.  @knasher2676  About 2 hrs ago judging by the timestamp on your comment... You could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  2433. Many of his comrades have been jailed, and his close advisors and campaign advisors. Including the Security advisor, Chairman and Deputy Chairman of Trump's campaign, his campaign advisor, his personal lawyer, and friends like Bannon and Stone who also acted as advisors. He'll let anyone take the fall for him, next, he'll be blaming it on the Boogie!
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  2434.  @lmy2366  You're confusing inflation with progress and misrepresenting stats. In the 70s one working wage could feed a family, and support a mortgage and holidays. Now you can barely run a household or get a mortgage with 2 decent incomes. 40% of the working population is in working poverty. Anyone who has lived for the past 5 decades will tell you the working wage barely covers the basics these days...
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  2435.  @lmy2366  I've put 30 years of work and taxation into this country and I actually said pensions were returns on investments from contributions paid throughout your working life. It seems you failed to attain basic comprehension...
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  2436.  @lmy2366  PS I never used the phrase "Supplements to wages" so why are you quoting it? considering, I've already corrected you on that point once. It seems your lack of ability makes debate impossible. Please take a course in basic comprehension and logic before replying again...
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  2437.  @ministryoflies1344  Agreed mate, Indeed the NHS while neglected and underfunded has given life and taken care of almost every Brit in the past 70 years. Most people don't seem to understand that even the most standard needs of a hospital things like Birth are incredibly expensive in places without free healthcare. Costs about 6k to give birth in the US. God help anyone who has a terminal disease as it's time to remortgage.
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  2438. I could take on 14 kangaroos, provided they don't all rush me at once and none of them are trained in firearms...
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  2439. Capped? lol when the cap is set higher than most working-class people spend, it isn't helping... The middle and upper classes will save money. Another bonus for the rich!
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  2440.  @gooddaymba6641  Yea, $3 billion in loan guarantees. I'm sure the millions using food banks to survive will be praising their generosity.
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  2441.  @condotiero860  Search for the philosopher of pessimism and see who comes up... I use facts to provide me with a geopolitical understanding. Anything else you'd like me to correct you on, feel free to comment again...
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  2442.  @sebastianguerre6868  Tommy is a little insignificunt right-wing puppet funded by Israeli lobbyists.
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  2443.  @Andrew-yl7lm  Exxon annual gross profit for 2020 was $30.942B. Exxon gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2022 was $91.013B around 3x the profit of the pandemic year...
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  2444.  @bfg3890  I directed this reply to Andrew erroneously. "PPS UK power prices have tripled year-on-year from August 2020 (£36/MWh) to August 2021 (£107/MWh) – a jump of £71/MWh. The UK now pays £263.99 per megawatt hour in August 2022. Not sure how many different ways I can put this from different sources but my 400% is clearly an underestimate. Please feel free (if able) to search for the figures I gave to find the sources..."
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  2445.  @marmedli9124  It's actually over 700% and the Tories sold off our national grid, North sea oil and our whole energy market to a cartel. So it's 100% the Tory's fault, they could have renationalised the energy market at any point and invested in renewables. We are 46% reliant on renewables despite massive cuts, If we were 100#% we would have full control over our own energy production and prices.
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  2446.  @craigmclaren3241  You need basic literacy and basic reasoning skills, but by the sound of things, you're incapable of learning as your second reply clearly proves. About as much use to humanity as an ashtray on the international space station.
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  2447.  @shieldsyx  I'm not sure the shareholders would agree. But please keep up the sycophancy, it amuses me...
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  2448.  @anangrycat86  How am I a hypocrite? I'm not the one defending capitalism. Now please don't fall into the logical fallacy of claiming I can't complain about a system I was born into... PS I also heard your ancestors couldn't swim, despite having webbed feet...
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  2449. Missed opportunity if Trump wasn't on it...
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  2450. Hancock needs to be shunned by anyone with morality and decency and should not be allowed to continue to represent constituents he's ignored... Maybe also charge him with gross negligence regarding care homes and PPE...
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  2451.  @Dr.Stacker  Yes since 2012 the health and social care act allows for-profit organisations to bid for contracts. They are now given preference and we have lots of for-profit companies paying insane wages, a large percentage of money that goes into the NHS budget is being siphoned into shareholders' accounts.
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  2452. Awesome, in a few months they'll mature and leave the ocean and run wild in the green pastures as real horses.
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  2453.  @KingpinKumar  I know dude. Go misinterpret someone else's comment... I'd have smacked him too and my wife's imaginary.
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  2454.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  I called you dumb in such a clever way it went over your head... Disney and I aren't friends too many sweatshops...
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  2455.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Says the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Bragging about missing a simple joke isn't doing you any favours. Don't patronise people with better put-downs, there's a good chap.
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  2456.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Maybe I should get a copy of 'cognitive dissonance for dummies' and read memes from the toilet walls of right-whinge social media to better understand your ailment?
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  2457.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Lots of mercenary contractors, opioid suppliers, construction companies, arms manufacturers, oil companies, specialists, bankers and greedy politicians conned the American public of $2-3 trillion to go loot the middle-east and to maintain petrodollar hegemony. The US geological survey of 2010 found $1 trillion in gold and lithium in them their Afghan hills while the military increased poppy production 10 fold. Close enough sweetheart?
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  2458. 6,000 miles from the US.
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  2459.  @parametr  That's our Truss fund kept for special occasions. The trade deal with Tuvalu is not going to save us either as they are evacuating as the sea reclaims the islands.
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  2460. @Delta 1 Glad to hear it. It's just a parody of the Brexiteers :)
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  2461. @Toning Tony Read the headline on the video if you have the wit. You'll find the Tories are ignoring international law and providing no safe routes while failing to process the backlog of 100,000 claims... But it keeps people like you distracted while they stick their hand in your back pocket...
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  2462.  @starwarsprequelsandsequels7582  My pleasure, mon ami.
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  2463.  @StrangerThanFiction11  God is going downhill, is he going to meet that angel he excommunicated?
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  2464.  @StrangerThanFiction11  You know the French Catholic church just admitted to molesting over 330,000 children? Isn't that evil or is that God's will, now apply those statistics globally...
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  2465. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The Dad hung from the chimney the result of despair, Because the Tories had made his life impossible to bear. The children were malnourished, asleep in their beds; While dreams of free school dinners danced in their heads...
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  2466. Another misogynist from the 1920s, If you have to demean women to project power it only serves to show how weak you are. It's funny but self-anointed alpha males are generally the most insecure, weak and emotionally stunted examples of masculinity.
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  2467. See aye ey?
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  2468.  @Ash-os1dz  98% of Norway's power is created with renewables, which isn't up for debate as it's an easily researchable fact. They supply us with gas out of their excess, proving the original comment and yours moot!
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  2469. @Wa ge My dream is not to be reliant on old adversaries for power during an age when nuclear proliferation has restarted and battle lines and coalitions are being formed. We are at the mercy of other countries such as Russia for our energy supplies, we've had a 560% increase in energy prices in that past year...
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  2470.  @williamshakespeare2550  To be, or not to be a dictatorship, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  2471.  @kellydawes4854  lol sure, criminals aren't affected by laws. So why have any laws? see the problem with your argument? stricter rules mean law-abiding citizens can use their guns safely and black market sales drop drastically. Those are facts.
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  2472. Infamy, Infamy, they've all got it in for 30p Lee - Carry on Lee, Oh! To say he deserves it is an understatement, I think he suffers from Toryette's syndrome...
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  2473.  @محمدرضانظریان-ن7غ  My comment is sarcasm...
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  2474.  @celticsaxon8857  So, He fired at two people who thought the set was unsafe after many members of the crew had walked out earlier that week. Two people with who it's fair to say as producer, he wasn't on good terms. With no reason to be firing a prop gun at them, at the unfortunate time the prop gun was filled with 'a live round' killing one and seriously injuring the other. Use Occam's Razor and a more likely scenario emerges...
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  2475. @Scruffy Sandra for the past 10 years...
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  2476.  English Terry  Read the article Joseph provided. Annual NHS spending increase under Blair (Labour): 6.1% Annual NHS spending increase under Brown (Labour): 5.4% Annual NHS spending increase under Cameron (Tory): 1.4% Annual NHS spending increase under May (Tory): 1.1% Since the Tories took power in 2010 : The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed. A&E 4 hour targets missed 10 million times. Number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in A&E up 2,700%. Spending on adult social care down 8%. 5,240 fewer mental health nurses. Number of operations classed as urgent that have been cancelled twice has doubled. 22% drop in ambulances meeting their 15 minute transfer target.
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  2477.  @warbabybites  Thank you! I'd rather a few people get a kick out of it than prefix it with /s it's more fun :)
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  2478. They are also known as Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte Society, surprisingly they don't use the acronym.
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  2479.  @stevec6427  Funny how since the 80s most of our taxes go to shareholders off-shore bank accounts via corporate welfare, subsidies, bailouts and tax breaks for billionaires. Someone might think neoliberalism was just a con to divert our taxes to private enterprise.
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  2480.    "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result."
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  2481.  @ZeekoRamen  Thank you for the inane response. Your name tells me everything I need to know about...
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  2482.  @pauljohn7969  What we have to understand is that billionaires are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide! ;)
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  2483.  @henryg3313  PS I'm happy to admit my mistakes. Unlike your parents...
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  2484.  @woke2woke153  If I was talking to you I'd have prefixed the sentence with the words oi idiot...
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  2485.  @woke2woke153  Are you head of the pointless comments department? or a representative from inanity-R-us?
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  2486.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  She spent her young adult life as a member of MSI a fascist organisation. "Brothers of Italy, which Meloni has led since 2014, has an underlying and sinister familiarity. The party formed a decade ago to carry forth the spirit and legacy of the extreme right in Italy, which dates back to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), the party that formed in place of the National Fascist Party, which was banned after World War II."
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  2487.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  It's a continuation of the "National Fascist Party" which is a bit of a giveaway...
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  2488.  @stoptheworldiwannagetoff4780  lol it's like talking to brick wall. She an ex-leader of MSI who call themselves the continuation of a fascist party. Her ideology and beliefs are based on fascism. Her early life is well documented, stop proving your ignorance and do some research...
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  2489.  @danw5760  Ireland is a tax haven for all intents and purposes, just like the crown estates and overseas territories which lack transparency allowing the largest global corporate tax losses. Over 50% of global tax fraud is due to the UK and its offshore territories. We had 28% corporate tax when the Tories took office they reduced it to 19%, around the same time the effective rate of tax in the US was over 30% with state and federal taxes.
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  2490. Tory propaganda outlet is far-left? Does dumb hurt or do you not notice?
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  2491. All the comments from people who haven't read the transcript and don't understand what the story is about... faceplant
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  2492.  @AtomicDuelist  The Tories made the rules that allow them to hire and fire so easily, the fact they broke the law on top of that is irrelevant. They are in bed together and the Tories are handing the parent company £50 million of taxpayer money. Not very aware of how politics works are ya?
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  2493. Ah, the pomp and pageantry of royalty. So much effort put into the preservation of the shallow end of the British (Germanic/Greek) gene pool and decades of stagnant evolution...
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  2494.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  You just make stuff up rather than interpret what I actually say, proving you have no intention of reading what I type. A typical religious zealot. Try some humility, reason and logic.
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  2495.  @saxglend9439  If I wanted someone with the IQ of a starfish to answer me, I'd have sent you a text...
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  2496.  HayesyBoy927  Yes, pointing out the obvious is a sign of lunacy, thanks for taking part, unfortunately, you haven't won anything on this occasion...
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  2497.  @saxglend9439  Just find your intellectually challenged comments boring, It would probably be better if you try to attain sentience before communicating with 'real people'.
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  2498.  HayesyBoy927  You don't understand the words you use, so why would I attempt to communicate with such a low form of life...
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  2499.  @Competitive_Antagonist  Yes just been reading his voting history. Consistently voted for mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities. Almost always voted for requiring the mass retention of information about communications. Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits. Almost always voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability. Generally voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices.
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  2500.  HayesyBoy927  lol nursery schoolyard banter. Sorry, I'm a grown man, come back when you understand the basics of being human.
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  2501.  HayesyBoy927  PS if you want my comeback, scrape it off your mother's teeth.
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  2502. Maybe they can afford to pay some tax now then?
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  2503.  @kifwoo1  Look up the term solidarity, I'm not a rail worker, postal worker, nurse or teacher. But always support strikers and would repeal anti-union legislation if I could. Yes, we need all workers to have decent wages and fair working conditions, but how is that going to happen if we allow the wealthy to use divide-and-conquer tactics.
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  2504.  @Nickle314  I'm not being sealioned by someone who can't find simple ONS data and instead uses terminology to semantically argue... Learn logic and reason and that your attempts to sealion me are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station.
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  2505.  @Nickle314  I've already told you they are ONS stats that are clearly displayed on our government's website. Your lack of ability and pedantic nature is not my problem. Simply type the statements into a search engine and you will find them...
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  2506.  @nickharvey7233  PS if I'm being harsh on people it's because they're excusing the loss of so many lives to feed shareholder profits and then trying to make inane comments to confuse or excuse this abominable situation...
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  2507.  @terryj50  Read the comments as I've answered your incredibly ineffective understanding of language several times - Government stats from the ONS and I didn't mention welfare! I've paid 25 years of tax and stamp last time I checked with the HMRC and watched it all being given to the private sector via subsidies, tax breaks, grants, bailouts, loopholes etc... Taxpayers pay for infrastructure and for their own welfare, we do not pay taxes to give shareholder's off-shore accounts a boost!
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  2508.  @terryj50  Who said I've never checked my own statements? what are you talking about, I clearly stated last time I checked my account at HMRC I'd paid 25 years of taxes and stamp. UK GDP is over £3 trillion mate! Government mismanagement of our finances and the reclassification of how figures are presented have to be closely studied by someone with the raw data and logic...Half of the money given to the NHS goes to shareholders through soft privatisation and outsourcing, same can be said for pensions and the welfare state. When governments outsource their responsibility to the private sector it costs the taxpayer in admin and profits to shareholders.
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  2509.  @nickharvey7233  The subsidies are predominantly for nationalised industry that was sold off to private enterprises. Look up the definition of Public Corporation (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) and who decides the classification? The ONS - The government. PS I used the term corporations, that doesn't exclude any corporation. Hence why it's pedantic semantics. "it is classified as a market body – a body that derives more than 50% of its production cost from the sale of goods or services" Hope your day is as nice as you are!
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  2510.  @terryj50  The Tories created a market of unskilled labour with temp jobs, agency work and zero-hour contracts. Most of the people on unemployment benefits are in between agency work or on tax credits to top up low wages or short hours from employers. Tabloid catchphrases about lazy people are for lazy thinkers...
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  2511.  @terryj50  Who brought in anti-union and anti-worker legislation, while reducing skilled work to menial tasks? The Tories, Labour had no choice but to provide a solution to a Tory created problem. As usual, you blame the solution rather than the problem...
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  2512.  @terryj50  lol sorry mate, but it's pointless debating with someone who thinks unions find it easier to strike now. The current strikes are the result of a dire situation in the cost of living and the fact that wages have decreased steadily in the past decade. If people can't feed themselves because corporations won't pay them enough to live on, the only option was to top up their wages, again the result of inherited Tory created problems. Why do you keep blaming solutions rather than the problems?
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  2513.  @terryj50  Listen, the lack of worker's rights and anti-union legislation is the reason we have low wages. We can't afford to pay for the lack of decent wages because the Tories have bled the country dry, sold off taxpayer assets, destroyed the economy etc. We have to make decisions to improve people's lives, but without the support of working people, it's impossible. If people keep voting the Tories in then Labour can't do anything but oppose. When Labour are in power they have to struggle to balance the books because of the short-sighted economic decisions of the Tories. I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4, I have no wish to defend him. But I will defend the truth!
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  2514. Blindsided by the glaringly obvious? Yes, I can see how that may happen. It's not as if the Afghan army commander predicted this or anything... I mean seriously, my cat glances at the news occasionally in between licking his own arse and yet even he predicted this...
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  2515. He's done more for this world than people like Bezos. Who exploits sweatshops, child labour and international tax laws...
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  2516. A child shaped man in the body of a scarecrow made up of lies, fraud, deception and corruption. Time to go before the country that is an international laughing stock slips deeper into debt and humiliation.
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  2517. Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  2518.  @A1readyDead  Thank you for that enlightening info, did you find that little snippet in 'real and mythical creatures for dummies'?
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  2519. But you may all die from hunger...
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  2520. Blair's the reason the Labour party is full of neoliberal centrists and offers little alternative to the Tories. He's also a warmonger who takes money from S.Arabia to do some PR about their genocide in Yemen...
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  2521.  @carolinecholmodeley8719  I'm a Shepherd, I protect the sheep from the wolves :)
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  2522. Surely a country that has to choose between Biden and Trump is run by lobbyists for the sake of shareholders. That's America's best and brightest? best you got? No, it's the best option for controlling interests...
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  2523. The Romans had hypocausts, cavemen had fires, we have huge bills and we live in freezing cold houses. Lots of hot air is being expelled...
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  2524. No, the justice system is prosecuting him for his criminal activity. But I understand the difficult Trump supporters have interpreting language...
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  2525. I think the moon is always pretty super but then I'm a little prone to lunar sea...
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  2526.  @stephenduke412  Thanks for your concern, but you don't need to worry about my libido or use it as an excuse to dismiss my clever points. An intelligent rebuttal will do fine, let me know when you're emotionally ready to discuss this...
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  2527.  @stephenduke412  Ah so you're head of the pointless comments department...
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  2528.  @stephenduke412  Wow the first Troll I've ever seen, you're so edgy and rad dude wish I was cool enough to act a tw@t...
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  2529.  @stephenduke412  I'll come back when you've outgrown puberty, maybe you'll evolve into a sentient human being...
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  2530.  @twilightstar9973  lol don't talk such utter rubbish. "The NHS is facing a deepening staffing crisis, with the number of unfilled posts across health services in England rising to 110,192, official figures show. The shortages include 39,652 nurses and 8,158 doctors, according to the latest quarterly data for health service vacancies published by NHS Digital." Official Figures
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  2531. You could say the same about politicians, and most of them get free food, rent and transport while avoiding even a two-day week...
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  2532. She's obviously using that as a way to get Baldwin into a court so the truth comes out...
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  2533. The world is in a similar state to how it was back then. With the same types rising to power globally on the backs of lies and hate. Never forget?
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  2534. How can we avoid losing even more genetic diversity? We could start by admitting that we are heading for a global dystopian corporatocracy and then say offer the solution of a sustainable resource-based economy that is ecologically sound and based around decentralised power. Essentially taking advantage of modern technology, like the ability to gain a consensus of the population in minutes on any given topic and therefore removing the middlemen who usurp power for their corporate causes via lobbying corrupt politicians.
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  2535.  @stoufer2000  He also has corporate and state lobbyist sponsors. Blair tribute act continuing the centrist infiltration of Labour to destroy their credibility with the working class and move the Overton window further to the right.
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  2536.  @californiadreamin8423  Yea bro, Despite the mess the Tories have made of the pandemic, imagine the state the UK would be in if Corbyn had won with his Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry... I wonder if the media character assassination of Corbyn had anything to do with that?
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  2537.  @stoufer2000  As System Of A Down said: "Revolution, the only solution. The armed response of an entire nation. We've taken all your shit, now it's time for restitution."
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  2538. Talking of mugs how well are his subjects doing financially in the present circumstances?
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  2539. Democracy doesn't exist when you have corporate lobbyists and corrupt politicians, not that we've ever seen true democracy. A free market doesn't exist when you have monopolies, embargoes, sanctions, punitive tariffs etc. Planned shortages and flooding markets to control prices is the essence of capitalism along with universal debt. We live in an illusion created by the media and the wealthy so they own and control the resources...
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  2540. lol Karl Marx wrote the most notable criticism of capitalism predicting bailouts and corporate greed. He was against the system and preferred a system where all people own the resources and the tools of production.
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  2541. To be fair to Nadine; reading and talking are acquired skills that humans don't fully master until late in childhood...
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  2542.  @davidravenscroft1641  Firstly I blamed Matt and his party! Secondly, they ignored medical advice intentionally... His and his party's actions have caused the excess deaths of hundreds of thousands of Brits during austerity, the pandemic and the economic collapse the Tories have manufactured through incompetence. If you read about the mistakes, incompetence, scandals and new legislation the Tories have brought in you wouldn't be so quick to misinterpret my comment in your defence of a truly awful human being...
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  2543.  @triggerhapp0990  Shh, adults talking. Governments are part of a social contract with the people. We pay them taxes and they provide the infrastructure, welfare and security out of our money. We pay for it! it's ours! we aren't asking for freebies, we are demanding that our government fulfil its part of the social contract... Let me know if you need any basic education in other areas...
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  2544.  @djcranium1210  I did a school once. They made my brain better and now I can count and spell and stuff. I think schools is great!
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  2545.  @titteryenot4524  lol that was a slightly pale version of what I said. Biden isn't left, he's a geriatric centrist, not my favourite person. Feel free to copy my style :P
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  2546. It's funny but a few hundred years ago all materials, industry and food production was sustainable. Profit is the main reason for cutting corners, pollution levels and ecologically damaging materials... and yes I'm well aware we have increased population dramatically, but as this story proves, it's about the will to change!
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  2547. Def-eat the rich! They increase their net worth while the hands that make their profit suffer cold and hunger...
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  2548. I'm sure rockets are supposed to move vertically not horizontally, unless it was a space shuttle challenging gravity, too soon?... Glad all were evacuated and no casualties reported.
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  2549.  @Nathan-1234  You don't remember Thatcher. Miner's strikes? Poll tax riots? Toxteth? Brixton? History is littered with examples: Churchill sent troops up the Mersey in gunboats, military called in for the Tonypandy riots. History teaches us that the police and military have and are used against the population every time they challenge the government in numbers.
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  2550.  @Nathan-1234  Spycops bill that allows state-sanctioned rape and murder was this year...
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  2551.  @lilbrit1019  The Tory's Spycops bill that recently passed allows state-sanctioned rape and murder and what I actually said was we have no reason to feel superior in regards to human rights legislation...
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  2552.  @lilbrit1019  That was Feb, The United Kingdom enacted the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Act (the CHIS Act) on March 1, 2021. You're a political illiterate.
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  2553.  @virginsim8024  I vote tactically and that means Labour in my area, your attempt to master logic went down about as well as Liz Truss's economic policies... I do what I have to and won't keep silent while the public is left without democracy and choice...
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  2554. Murder hornets? What's next nuclear-armed butterflies?
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  2555.  @Anthony_Romford  Sorry mate but you're too politically illiterate to make debate work...
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  2556.  @Anthony_Romford  Corbyn helped bring peace to N.Ireland by negotiating the prisoner release scheme when it was about to fail. Thousands of Tories have made mistakes regarding figures on multiple occasions. Supporting Palestinians does not mean supporting Hezbollah. Calling someone a terrorist sympathiser, when they are a peace negotiator, is an example of your illiteracy. If you want to talk about Ireland learn the history of the Cromwellian invasion and the later potato famine. You offer only misconceptions and basic Poundstretcher propaganda. We have £2.2 trillion national debt, a debt to GDP ratio of above 100% in the last few months and the Tories have stretched the anaemic pound further by creating £400 billion in bonds. Most of the extra money borrowed has gone to shareholders' offshore accounts (out of our economy) via cronyism and corruption, as well as a few billion lost to fraud. We have a 1/3rd of the working population in poverty, food banks, 100,000 staff shortage in the NHS during a pandemic and the money earmarked for the NHS was dramatically reduced by outsourcing and privatisation. We have childhood diseases rising that we haven't had since the Dickensian era.
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  2557.  @Anthony_Romford  Just as an example, we could have used Ireland's track and trace system for less than 1 million. Instead, the Tories spent £37 billion on a failure of a test and trace system. That is £552 for every man, woman, and child in Britain. We could have bought solid gold medical trackers for the whole population for that kind of money. We had the worst economic collapse of the wealthiest countries during the pandemic and one of the highest mortality rates, while Boris missed the first 5 Cobra meetings. Ineptitude, corruption and incompetence had been the hallmarks of the last decade of Tory leadership. We are also the laughing stock on the international stage thanks to our elitist overlords, who give over £100 billion per annum to tax-dodging corporations who cost us between £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap. To put that into perspective unemployment costs around £1.56 billion per annum, 66 times less than corporate welfare and subsidies...
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  2558. A bloke many years ago stole some land and titles off another bloke by convincing some serfs to fight for him. A few generations later the family got into debt after a huge salt-water tea party and King George the 3rd sold the land his ancestors won in the battle at the cost of a few thousand serfs, to the state for a pension plan and to avoid bankruptcy. The state now owns that land but still supports his family many generations later at the cost of over £334 million per annum. Some of the more prominent "working" Royals cost the taxpayer an average of £18 million per annum. PS No one mention the mad king that lost America!
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  2559. @gilkesisking Linux is better than Windows for lack of bloatware, spyware, telemetry etc. But I'm really talking about hardware and most production really including cars, washing machines, household items etc they are built with design flaws, weak parts, limited use to continue the cycle of profit.
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  2560.  @stefanhatcher6486  Yes, I often take my family on a suicidal trip halfway around the world in a dinghy looking for hand-outs...
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  2561. Barely human then, this must be how they make Tory MPs...
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  2562. UK is too full of Stock-Homed Sin-Drones...
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  2563.  @colingreen6950  Don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  2564.  @henryphillips3680  You don't understand the pension changes and speak from a lack of knowledge. They have given allowances to millionaires and high earners that used to be capped at £1million and now has no limit, those aren't public sector workers. They have increased the annual pension saving cap from £40,000 to £60,000. Do you know any poor pensioners who have a spare £60k to save every year? Try to read before typing...
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  2565. Free Tory MP in every box of cereal! quantity, not quality...
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  2566. Bah humbug!
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  2567.  @DropdudeJohn  Thank you for the info, I have read it before. Tim's comments and full-fact clearly show they are legally allowed to cross 'safe countries' on their way to Britain. Also, when does a migrant become illegal? "Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country." They are following the laws. PS as you just cut and paste I have no idea of your views so I can't really do other than clarify the situation as I've done...
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  2568.  @DropdudeJohn  My point is not specific to the Dublin agreement but a general point. That article only applies to penalties on refugees if they enter the country illegally! If they are migrants or refugees then they are not illegal immigrants unless they violate British immigration laws and therefore it does not apply. You have to cross-reference that with the whole document, not just cherry-pick your favourite clause. My reading and comprehension skills are fine thank you! As I've already said: When does a migrant or refugee become illegal? "Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country." and "The UN Refugee Convention does not make this requirement of refugees, and UK case law supports this interpretation. Refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in the UK after passing through other “safe” countries."
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  2569. Just because the Geneva convention says "prohibiting the deliberate or indiscriminate attack of civilians and civilian objects in the war-zone" and the US has killed 70,000 non-combatant civilians, we shouldn't go around calling people war criminals...
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  2570. Tories have turned Britain into a joke nationally and internationally, unfortunately, it costs the poor their lives...
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  2571. Where legality meets democracy for a head-on collision...
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  2572. Prop gun and blanks if an actor or director does it, Hunting accident if a politician does it. Both euphemisms to avoid jail time for the privileged...
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  2573. COP 27... 27 years of the useless talking shop full of the very people who continue to profit from the destruction of the climate...
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  2574.  @wolfiestreet6899  Marxist appologist? Das Kapital was a critique of capitalism that just gets more relevant each year. Why would anyone need to apologize for an accurate summary of the failures of capitalism? Right-whingers always use words they don't understand. That's the problem when you allow memes and tropes to dictate your cognitive reality. PS over 40% of jobs are BS and only needed to perpetuate the flawed system. I've worked all my life and am qualified to lead audit a company for ISO9001 standards. You're a slave to the system and you make yourself a slave to a rich man's ideology. PS don't pretend you're rich you can barely string a fking sentence together.
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  2575. Isn't he the 3-day resurrection specialist who got nailed to a plank by the Romans for saying it would be cool if we were all nice to each other? Isn't his Dad an omnipotent, invisible wizard into infanticide, genocide and threatening people with torture in firey pits for eternity if they don't submit to his will? Heard about him...
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  2576. The funny thing is most of your cheap tech, mobile phones and gadgets come from China and most of your clothes come from India...
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  2577.  JOE FABULOUS  We have $289 trillion global debts which is over 3 and a half times global GDP and most politicians are funded by lobbyists who overrule the public will with cash deposits...
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  2578.  @AmBush2048  Wintermute or Neuromancer? That's the only question that matters...
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  2579.  @joaoalbuquerque457  OR as I like to call them Conservative United Nationalist Troglodyte Society. They don't use the acronym.
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  2580. Capitalism: I'm all about a free market and democracy. Also Capitalism: Bailouts, Lobbyists, Tax havens, Sanctions, Embargoes, Subsidies, Ecological catastrophes, Famine, Monopolies, Burying patents, Resource stockpiling, Built-in obsolescence...
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  2581. Cut spending? the country is falling apart there are numerous crises in services from healthcare to transport. The public pay the highest taxation and receives the least in return than any previous generation and the Tories want to lower taxes for tax-dodging corporations? Increasing the burden on the public. How about we stop paying tax until the wealthy start paying their share - income is taxed in this country but wealth is not, time for change!
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  2582.  @Imnotarussiabot  Prove that statement, show me the figures!
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  2583.  @URBeingLiedTo  lol authoritarianism is right-wing and your revisions of history and political illiteracy make me laugh. You have no idea about ideology. Go back under your bridge troll and regurgitate your nonsense in an echo chamber for those who lack wits...
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  2584.  @hansolowe19  All of the above. The point being that technology allows people to do so in far greater numbers and in a far easier way. Technology shouldn't be in the hands of certain people and especially not children. Yes, I'm aware it was a 28 yr old this time. But how many 6-year-olds and younger have done similar?
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  2585. I was hoping Boris Johnson would take Britain's first spacewalk, preferably without a suit on...
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  2586.  @everready2903  They should legislate to break up the monopoly and stop price-fixing. Or better yet, renationalize energy and save over £100 billion in corp welfare and subsidies every year. As well as the occasional bailout. Britain needs to be self-reliant for essentials these days, not subject to market forces and blackmail.
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  2587. The moon may reflect the light of the sun...
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  2588.  @B-A-L  lol do they? sorry mate, jobs exist to maintain society. Investing your inherited wealth in a corporation and then siphoning off the profits from all the hard work of others isn't work or altruristic...
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  2589.  @CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan  They've been through every other form of action available, the government aren't interested. Their tactics may not be the best, but they've few other options.
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  2590.  @garyk1334  I can see a few security issues in that suggestion.
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  2591.  @ajorngjdonaydbr  I'm not insulate Britain, I'm just defending their goals. As I've already said 10,000 elderly will die this winter, they've tried every other form of protest...
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  2592.  @hughmungus1235  Mocking the obvious just shows your lack of real-world understanding. Trying to explain how the world works to you would be akin to trying to teach a hamster calligraphy...
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  2593.  @zorrodm  Working poverty, food banks, £2.2 trillion national debt and a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%. The pound will be worthless soon...
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  2594.  @yodings  There was a fuel shortage. Due to a lack of HGV drivers. Due to Brexit.
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  2595. Well, that's completely normal...
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  2596. Chance doesn't come into it, a free market doesn't exist when you have embargoes, tax breaks, subsidies, monopolies, sanctions, creative duties, or mass production of one product in poor countries. Diamonds aren't rare ask De Beers, the market is controlled, we have FIAT currency and Central banking run by a fractional reserve system which creates a $300 trillion global debt which is around 3.5 times global GDP. The Tories do what they're told and profit from their part in an illusion. Democracy has never existed - Lobbyists, special interest groups and corruption prove that.
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  2597. That's a coincidence, I have living human skin on my finger too, maybe I'm a robot?
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  2598.  @MrAzboGaming  The Tories are responsible for creating 2/3rds of our national debt and spreading the pound thinner by crating 400 billion in government bonds. We have a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%. The Annual average real growth rates in UK public spending on health from the IFS. Blair and Brown Labour governments 1996–97 to 2009–10 6.0% Coalition government 2009–10 to 2014–15 1.0% Conservative government 2014–15 to 2018–19 1.6%
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  2599.  DEx Stev  We have a staff shortage of 100,000 in the NHS. Hundreds of GP surgeries have just been sold to US medical suppliers. The problem is privatisation and outsourcing. Huge big pharma contracts that cost the taxpayer as much as 10x what comparable generic medication costs.
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  2600. PS Just heard Boris pulled out. Bet Carrie was surprised!
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  2601. ...and making a heatwave to back up their agenda. Doh!
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  2602. Boris Johnson has lied to the British people as Mayor and PM for a decade while feathering his own nest and throwing his own colleagues under the bus. Even when he makes a valid point, his lack of integrity and history of scandals and security risks gives him absolutely no credibility.
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  2603. Didn't watch the end, can't find the will to be bothered about petty American sensibilities. You have bigger problems to worry about including: War, gun control, far-right, presidential candidates over the past decade or two etc. Pay decent wages, control guns, stop wars, deal with far-right extremists, elect intelligent presidents, improve school system, get free medical care, get public transport stop letting corporate lobbyists control your lives...
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  2604.  @belfasta  Thank you. Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles.
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  2605.  @MrMmcdaid9  Agreed, while all the wrong things change for the worse. I've been alive for 50 years and seen things get steadily worse for workers in Britain. The government becoming more authoritarian, Orwellian and the workers becoming more obsessed with tabloid proper gander than stats and facts.
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  2606. lol I hope it does go bankrupt. I hope Musk goes bankrupt...
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  2607.  Jjdjdjd Jshshsj  To be fair though Israel has been doing a lot of soul searching recently over their apartheid system and appalling treatment of the Palestinian people. Unfortunately, They've yet to find one!
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  2608.  @scotmacc  All financial institutions say the same. Look at the fiscal results and projections for yourself. Seriously? Economic illiterate...
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  2609.  Olivarfitness  You spelt 'cover up' wrong...
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  2610.  @Dimitris_Half  Not at all, I just recognise a cover-up when I see it, this isn't the first time in Hollywood... I doubt anyone outside of those present will ever know the truth...
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  2611.  @Dimitris_Half  Let me put it another way. So, He fired at two people who thought the set was unsafe after many members of the crew had walked out earlier that week. Two people with who it's fair to say as producer, he wasn't on good terms. With no reason to be firing a prop gun at directors who were behind the camera, at the unfortunate time the prop gun was filled with 'a live round' killing one and seriously injuring the other. Use Occam's Razor and a more likely scenario emerges...
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  2612.  @Dimitris_Half  You should work for Gullible weekly, a tabloid for those who lack critical thought. Do you believe he shot two people behind the camera, by accident, at the importunate moment the prop gun was loaded with "A live round" killing the director and seriously injuring the director of photography with whom its safe to say there was much antagonism?
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  2613.  @benvandam369  I can't say many things without being filtered. Tories are the Fred West of politics and the NHS is their patio!
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  2614. It's Hollywood, they can do anything. PS prop gun and blanks is a euphemism for actor/director goes postal...
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  2615. I think a system where the government gives shareholders our taxmoney while giving us nothing but debt in return has a short shelf life...
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  2616. Taxpayers bailed out the banks in 2008 including HSBC, what happens if this £1 sale goes wrong, who is going to cover the billions of debt that sunk SVB? Who is going to pay if HSBC fails again? Banks don't just fail, the money doesn't disappear, and someone profits...
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  2617. Cannabis medical benefits are well known, unfortunately, it can't cure conservatism, tests were conducted and although promising at first with Tories showing partial signs of humanity and decency, once treatment had ended the Tories went straight back to being complete dicks.
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  2618. Zebras were invented by Miss Penny Zebra in 1878 when she took her horse into a car wash...
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  2619.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  He'd have probably bribed Noah for a spot on the Ark too if the invisible magical deity in the sky was real. But yes, the world is in a similar state to how it was back then. With the same types rising to power globally on the backs of lies and hate. Never forget?
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  2620. Prince Andrew must be so embarrassed about the recent scandal involving his brother Charles...
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  2621.  @rodgerq  Thank you. People keep telling me Boris is more intelligent than he looks, that's not hard. Poor trees producing oxygen for him, he owes them an apology. I love to shop, but I wouldn't buy a thing Boris says. People like Boris are the reason God doesn't talk to us anymore. Sentient ham...
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  2622.  @GavinHitchens  I'm now going to waste all the goodwill by proving some base crudity. Boris is a: Callous Ulcerated Nauseating Troglodyte
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  2623.  @tonyaduvall49  My point is a general point about needing to rely on low-paid workers, whether it's manufacturing, litter collectors, waste disposal or service industries. The system would grind to a halt without any of those vital functions. Yet the US has one of lowest pay structures in a civilised society. Most of us in Europe have maternity leave, sick pay, holiday pay, free healthcare and lots of other benefits that are simply non-existent on the lower end of the spectrum in the states.
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  2624. How can someone be expected to live on a mere £82k a year and not take bribes from corporations to usurp democracy?
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  2625. Agreed, and 71% of emissions come from just 100 companies. Predominantly fossil fuel related. Not to mention China makes most of the tech devices, India makes most of the clothes sold in western markets.
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  2626. "What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering drains our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets, The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, while inept Tory policies inspire inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, lives shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this cruel neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout 'Get those forking Tories out!'..." Steven Parker - Quotes as it was filtered out the first time...
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  2627. After being installed by his mate Boris to control the narrative...
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  2628. beats neanderthal knuckles against the keyboard in the hopes that a sentence appears
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  2629.  @howler6490  Cheers!
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  2630.  @BandsGiddy  You know I suffer from terminal sarcasm?
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  2631. Yes. Next question...
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  2632. I once had a pet hamster named honey. She was lovely and I used to watch her running on her wheel and taking drinks from her water bottle. But one day she died so we put her in a trifle box and buried her in the rockery. The End.
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  2633. Thought that said Taliban makeover for a minute...
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  2634. What Boris lacks in intelligence, he more than makes up for in stupidity. His mother wanted to hire someone to take care of him but the Mafia wanted too much. Most people live and learn, Boris just lives. Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, Boris only gargled.
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  2635.  @tomtheeagle1  Thank you!
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  2636.  @BlackEinsteinMusic  Luckily I live in Wales and we're used to mythical creatures walking the hillsides :) You should watch a Dragon trying to blow out the candles on its Birthday cake! hilarious!
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  2637.  @Qlair2632  No it isn't as I've already made clear. "Really? Considering unemployment payments are only £1.56 billion per annum while corporate tax dodging costs the taxpayer £40-120 billion per annum and corporate welfare and subsidies cost the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum (even more after this budget), I'd say the rich are fleecing the poor's taxes to top up their offshore bank accounts..."
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  2638. Hasn't he got any workhouses to go and run, or baby stem cells to invest in while taking a religious moral stance on abortion? That's what you get when you come from a family that hasn't worked for centuries due to inherited wealth. A product of the shallow end of the British gene pool and stagnant evolution from generational privilege...
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  2639.  @telescopicS627  He ran into the cop injuring his leg, not the first time he's been arrested for speeding and begged to phone daddy. Cry more!!!
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  2640. They're all paid to do it by billionaires apparently... If they had any money backing them they wouldn't resort to such drastic action, they'd be on panel shows, question time, and putting out adverts and flyers. To think billionaires fund the fight against themselves...
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  2641. The sarcasm and lack of knowledge shown in the responses fills me with a deep foreboding regarding the future of the species. Studies done by corporations hide detrimental effects and the amount of poisons, carcinogens and genetically destructive elements in food. It seems the genetic and degenerative cognitive effects of fast food are far worse than i'd assumed. My point is obviously dripping with irony and sharp disgust for corporate profiteering at the expense of our children's health. Feel free to miss the point!
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  2642. He wasn't very popular in Tonypandy when he threatened to fill starving Welsh miner's bellies with lead or when he sent an Armed warship up the Mersey to threaten dockworkers and seamen to break the strike. A typical Tory who like most Tories have their image favourably reimagined by the media and historians.
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  2643. All Media presents a kaleidoscope of multi-hued, narrow-focused illusions. Unfortunately, most people don't look any further than the pretty colours...
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  2644.  @garethmurray5901  Devolution of power sounds good right about now. Go back to committees led by village elders, town elders, county elders, regional elders and so on...
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  2645. "Mentally unbalanced egotist discharges weapon and kills Halyna Hutchins director of photography and seriously injured Joel Souza a cinematographer on the set of a movie" is what would have been said If Baldwin was a nobody...
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  2646. Would have cost your mum between 5-11k in America to have you, double that if there were complications. That goes for every member of your family and 99% of the population. The NHS says 'You're Welcome'.
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  2647. Tories fail everyone except the wealthy, their donors and their own offshore- accounts. How such self-interested hypocritical, kleptocrats stay in power is beyond reason... The media plays a large role and the apathy of the electorate...
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  2648.  @Anonymous-qw  Yes and while that is an exception to the rule, the main thing is hard physical labour that should earn an earlier retirement. No doubt you have many of the fatigue and sleep issues, but add that to constant physical wear and tear and it becomes quite significant. To be honest without the constant need for replacing flawed goods (built in obscelescence) via coinsumerism we could all work less hours and retire earlier. Imagine having modular tech devices and tools so that upgrades would be easier, with the highest quality that last a lifetime. Quality clothes and food for all. With a focus on ecological impact and sustainability and having more time for personal growth rather than the pursuit of wealth.
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  2649. She's able to meet and talk with real human beings? her talents are truly endless...
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  2650. If I ran a country interested in annexing another country via genocide and needed advice on how not to stir up the international community while creating a humanitarian disaster I'd hire Tony Blair as an advisor...
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  2651.  BILLY PIECRUST  Yea, but Blair dropped clause 4, dragged Labour to the centre, shifted the Overton window to the right, dragged us into a neocon war and now takes money from Saudi Arabia to help with their PR over the genocide in Yemen... So erm, fk him! PS What happened to David Kelly?
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  2652.  @Al-iv3mb  PS this is where you mention AS or supporting nefarious organisations by misunderstanding the role of a peace negotiator or someone who opposes apartheid...
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  2653.  @herodotus4272  You missed his rhyme through ignorance. If you don't have anything witty or intelligent to type I'd appreciate you not fouling my thread with asinine comments...
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  2654.  @ChrisJones-co4ei  Police interview just stated, they have no idea of the reason for the attack, no idea why the explosion occurred, but was an IED, they have no idea why they went to the hospital. But have declared it a terrorist incident...
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  2655.  @ChrisJones-co4ei  I haven't proposed a theory just asked questions and given facts. I've also pointed out conflicting information. Try again :)
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  2656.  @ChrisJones-co4ei  lol nice attempt to 'swag it out' you were wrong. I have professed no theory but to be honest I consider several including the official narrative...
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  2657.  @EpicMania18  I'm not a right-winger who espouses conspiracy. If you read all my comments there's plenty of facts and I also admit there are several possibilities/theories I'm considering including the official narrative. I wish people would learn to read rather than misinterpret for the sake of being a pedant. It may be related to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill which allows all sorts of covert operations on the British public while conflicting with the UN Declaration of Human Rights. But I'll leave you to believe what you like.
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  2658.  @aleccap5946  Democracy is an illusion for the gullible. We are heading for a dystopian corporatocracy. But we have very different views on the immigration that NATO caused when the CIA started the Arab Spring to loot the Middle East and Africa while protecting petrodollar hegemony.
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  2659.  @janicetaylor7516  I have no proof either way... Although Priti Patel has just raised the terrorist threat to severe so that means more authoritarianism for us.
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  2660. 'Mistake' is nonsense, you keep pushing your agenda until too much backlash exists then you back down. You have no regard for the democratic process and utter contempt for the taxpayer...
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  2661. They kicked me off Twitter years ago for using facts and stats while being mean to the right. I don't want to sound bitter but I'd be happy if it collapses under the weight of its own duplicity and biases...
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  2662.  @paulfenton7776  Thank you!
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  2663.  @shanjanusman9974  Sure lol, 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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  2664. No second jobs for MPs and replace the HOL with real people who represent all the nations of the UK! About time Starmer did something right!
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  2665. Because Tories don't like the north, and Tories don't like poor people. They just like your tax money for their vanity projects.
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  2666. Criminal confident he's untouchable with the support of a corrupt system that lets down the public in every way. A price will be extracted from the Tories for their failures and profiteering at the taxpayer's expense...
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  2667.  @alansbinnie1446  Yes, the transcript was posted and many witnesses have concurred that was the conversation they heard. Why can't you accept reality? why do you have to keep looking for reasons to doubt it? It isn't logic or reason that guides you, stop digging yourself deeper...
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  2668. Soldiers get that distant confused stare from too much combat, Hunt got it from causing too many excess deaths in the NHS and too much snorting powder to get to sleep at night...
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  2669. The Tories allowed this without a proper assessment of the impact on fish populations. The Tories allow mainly EU vessels to do this and the crisis has called for a review of the UK licences until an impact assessment can be carried out.
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  2670.  @alexsmith358  I would have added that but YT filters me constantly, especially if I use certain words. The algorithm bullies me...
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  2671.  @WSmith_1984  Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot.
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  2672. Aww! bless all those who are intellectually void, politically illiterate and annoyingly vacuous...
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  2673.  @kanedNunable  The basic annual salary of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons is £84,144, as of April 2022. Boris gets nearly 160k for being PM.
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  2674. It's ok, just keep wasting billions of our taxes through greed, incompetence and kleptocracy, we'll keep filling the pot back up... They're like children who don't understand the value of money and keep running back to mom and dad (the taxpayer) for a top-up every time they run out...
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  2675.  @lecco666  No it hasn't that is easily defeated. The past 12 years since the Tories took power funding has been lower than the rate of inflation meaning a real terms cut.
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  2676. A perfect example of what privilege and elitism provide the country. An arrogant clown that somehow manages to turn every national catastrophe into a clusterfk, while blaming everyone else for their failures. I'm just glad that the wealthy elite still profit greatly from the misery and shortened lifespans of the rest of the country... Truly remarkable that the British people are so stoneless that they allow this farce to continue...
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  2677.  @Triumph7  The only welfare governments concern themselves with these days is corporate welfare. Funny how we have dwindling financial help for people and growing financial help for corporations, almost as if the two were inversely proportional. Which would also suggest the poverty gap is also inversely proportional and those people who have nothing are the result of the other's who have it all... But that doesn't fit in capitalist doctrine...
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  2678.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  It will be at the control of the US, just like 'our' nukes. We launder the criminal elites cash for them, we aren't a superpower. We are hostages to the rich warmongers who run the world... Try reading about geopolitics before waving your flag of fantasy...
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  2679.  @tonychorley4936  Yes, as Gary noted, the working rich pay a reasonable amount of tax but as wealth is not taxed many wealthy pay less than 1% as they don't derive their sources of income from work. Not to mention all those tax dodges available for the wealthy like inheritance tax. "But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less." Oscar Wilde.
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  2680. We're already there mate, if it gets any worse we'll be asking Ethiopia to hold a rock concert for us!
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  2681. How much has rail privatisation cost the taxpayer already in the last couple of decades? All the bailouts, price rises, subsidies. We as taxpayers used to own our rail networks, now they extort us and I can't for the life of me remember getting my cut when it was privatised!
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  2682.  @freedomawaits860  Let me know how you plan on tackling billionaires and central banks, governments and international royal families in a world where most recent wars have been fought predominantly by mercenaries and specialists (loyalty to money being an important factor)...
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  2683. Food banks were created to give basic meals to people who couldn't afford to live without their help. I'm not interested in arguing semantics or being misinterpreted for the sake of argument...
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  2684.  @user-yv4nf8qp4u  lol i just hope that's sarcasm...
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  2685.  @sharons9773  Yes, I believe that is the current belief. But did he know he had a bomb? Why has his name not been released and what's the connection to the three men arrested? Hopefully, these questions will be answered.
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  2686.  @sharons9773  Yea fair enough, I read that but how did the bomb go off? Did the terrorist not think to smash a window? it seems a little sus that he blew himself up in a car alone instead of simply smashing a window. Why did he drive to the hospital? why didn't he climb over to the driver's seat and drive the car away, or open the locked doors? I'm just finding this lack of information a little curious.
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  2687.  @alanjones6359  Just watched the footage. The driver was actually driving the car when the explosion went off, the car was still moving, shortly after the explosion the car stopped and the driver ran out of the car towards the safety of the hospital doorway. From what I could see the driver didn't do anything until after the explosion as he was driving the car...
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  2688. In 2019 alone, around 700 civilians were killed... So who was president back then I wonder?
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  2689.  @IBTU  lol I was thinking China v Taiwan, Russia v Ukraine, USA v Iran. Tinky Winky vs Laa Laa...
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  2690.  @DidesCharlie  Ok so a bloke many years ago stole some land and titles off another bloke by convincing some serfs to fight for him. A few generations later the family got into debt after a huge saltwater tea party and King George III sold the land his ancestors won in battle; at the cost of a few thousand serfs, to the state for a pension plan and to avoid bankruptcy. The state now owns that land but still supports his family many generations later at the cost of over £334 million per annum. Some of the more prominent "working" Royals costing the taxpayer an average of £18 million per annum. Figures from Republic. PS No one mention the mad king that lost America!
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  2691. Doffs cap and tugs forelock...
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  2692. Looking down like a vulture that just lost its meal to a slightly younger vulture...
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  2693. lol never invaded Libya? Ask Clinton...
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  2694.  @SP-uz3yb  I have suffered from depression for over 30 years also, at 51 I've learned to accept it and even to consider it a badge of honour. Depression in my opinion is a natural reaction to the world in which we live for any decent person with a good understanding of modern times. While money can't cure it having options that money provides and not having to work 12 hour shifts while worrying about overwhelming debt is a big help. Not to mention that many causes of depression in a consumer-led society is money.
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  2695. @Octavian Augustus Antioch Illinois is 35 km to Kenosha Wisconsin and about 53 mins drive according to the route planner... Dumbass.
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  2696.  @kevinh4869  He drove 35km with a military-style semi-automatic weapon to confront peaceful protestors, spare me your childlike logic...
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  2697. lol at calling people Islamists and Anti-semites because they disagree with a brutal apartheid regime with a deplorable human rights track record...
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  2698. That's what you get for voting Republican...
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  2699.  @gidget8717  No its called Karma. There's a restaurant called karma too, you should try it, there's no menu you just get what you deserve :)
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  2700.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Shh, adults talking. Take your childish nonsense to someone with a small IQ to take you seriously.
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  2701.  @alkante2962  Your comment isn't visible. Use a different browser while not being logged in to see which of your comments are filtered.
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  2702. I can't remember if I cried, When news of 9/11 went worldwide. But society was changed from deep inside. The day, the Truth, just died...
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  2703.  @stoufer2000  Agreed mate. Time to harness consumer power and drop the apathy. Despite being outgunned enormously we can still fight back.
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  2704.  @richardmaclean7581  I'm not American. We use the £ and America actually spent more like $2-3 trillion of taxpayer money to protect the petrodollar and loot the middle east.
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  2705. As outsiders, the Tories do reasonably well understanding us human beings...
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  2706.  @NowisEvollovetion  I'm glad to see you also like to smile in the face of annihilation. As Holly from Red Dwarf once said: "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"
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  2707. Data collection and sales is one of the fastest growing new industries. Our lives are monitored, manipulated and recorded for the use of corporations. Security should be enabled at the source not forced upon the user. 1984 on steroids - Corporatocracy here we come...
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  2708.  @Charlotte_Dardenne  lol how many times do I have to point out that every household in Britain gets their fair share of that money (£11 billion)? The £4 billion left over is prioritized to those at risk of starvation or death because they can't turn on the dialysis machine or ventilator that keeps them alive...
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  2709. When I was a child I had a dog named Sam. A crossbreed rescue we got when I was around 6 years old. One day I took him for a walk and he weed on a lamppost. The end.
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  2710. lol, doffs cap, bends knee, tugs forelock...
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  2711.  Smug Man  You regurgitate the cognitive defecation of right-wing think tanks that fly in the face of centuries of historical fact. Revisions of history aren't history. You're smug because you aren't intelligent enough to realise how ignorant you are...
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  2712. Suella is the antidote to decency and a vaccine to morality... If only we could find the object that ties her to the waking world, and then destroy it. In doing so send her back to the underworld from whence she was spawned...
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  2713.  @davidphan100  We have a staff shortage in the NHS of over 100,000. Migrants and Asylum seekers are not illegal immigrants... You are aware that 334,000 people emigrated from the UK last year?
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  2714. Don't blame Clinton, it's the demon inside her using her as a sockpuppet :)
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  2715.  @qetoun  You mean the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing on the Gaza–Israel barrier. It's also only open to people and not goods subject to Israeli approval... The Rafah Border Crossing is available for goods and is subject to Egypt - Israeli peace treaty and as such Palestinians can be denied crossing leaving them stranded. Try again!
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  2716.  @NicholasWarnertheFirst  Thank you! Tear gas on miners and pepper spray in Britain Cruel coppers kettling and truncheoned heads splitting Brown paper envelopes; ransoms for kings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things...
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  2717.  @qetoun  They are but they're stuck in a detention centre awaiting processing Which is why we have 100,000 staff shortage in the NHS despite doctors and nurses applying and fields full of unpicked produce. Even tempory workers who don't want to live here permanently can't get visa. Do you actually read any articles or just repeat stuff from down the pub?
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  2718.  @DropdudeJohn They are using legal routes, it's legal to flee a country and use any means to escape to safety. Many of them helped our forces in wartime at great risk to themselves and their families on the promise of citizenship. I'm a Celt don't talk to me about demographics, Britain is a multi ethnic community and always has been...
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  2719.  @nifapz9596  Don't tease me! lol. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then sh%ts all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  2720.  @soutteruk1  I'd rather he went back to the reject bin in Jim Henson's workshop from whence he came!
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  2721.  @vincentmckenna1755  560,000 people emigrated from the UK this year, that would be impossible without migration on both sides...
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  2722.  @jonsimmons4150  Is that the place with the big tower and the headless monarchy? Make a point or continue to waste your own life posting asinine comments...
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  2723.  @markohenry5891  Brexit was nothing to do with immigration and we never had unlimited migration. The truth is = Panama Scandal (Which named Camerons and Johnsons) - EU tax-avoidance directive - Cameron negotiates with the EU to exclude the UK - Comes back with tail between legs - then used a destructive magic spell "Referendum gratuitous" ...and the rest is history.
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  2724.  @andrewmills509  He won't give you any but I got some Brexit benefits: It helped uncover shadowy groups such as the E-R-G. Has shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how flawed the system is. Shows how data mining the public helps to steer and manipulate them to vote against their own interests. And has also shown how important the lack of transparency on our overseas territories are to the money men.
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  2725.  @eightiesmusic1984  I use dark humour, sarcasm, irony etc to get a message out. As you can see from the likes it works. I'd rather continue getting the message out to many people and offend a tiny minority than be silenced by someone's personal tastes regarding propriety. Take care and feel free to simply ignore my posts in future.
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  2726. Cover yourself in petrol and run towards the fire screaming "I'm a phoenix, I will be reborn"... Am I close?
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  2727.  @hughjohns9110  lol best you got? Then let me outline the main problem we face. Our PM Boris has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself but he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy.
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  2728.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Co2 is the reason for the drought! people and plants can't survive without water...
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  2729.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  PPS can you tell me how we flood the air in Somalia with Co2 and what affect that would have on the respiratory system of humans. Not to mention the cost...our lungs remove Co2 from our body as high levels of CO2 can cause asphyxiation as it replaces oxygen in the blood-exposure to concentrations around 40,000 ppm is immediately dangerous to life and health.
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  2730.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  There is no lack of Co2 the plants grow when they're watered. Did you read many last reply about cost, methods and dangers? lol talking of plants...
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  2731.  @saxglend9439  Norway, Russia and the North Sea...
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  2732.  @kevinb6831  Have I told you I'm right-wing intolerant? Sorry, it's a medical condition brought about by knowledge, intellect and decency...
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  2733. This escalation of hostilities began the day agent orange - president of the US - dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties. Which restarted nuclear proliferation and the arms race in one fell swoop. Now we have China - Taiwan (The microprocessor conflict) with the US watching trying to secure its microprocessor contracts, Russia - Ukraine (The harvest for the world conflict), N.Korea having a tiff over its big phallic rockets, Iran and the uprising and growing tensions in the area. Many more things to blame on him, but that's a start...
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  2734.    I'm talking about recent history not the protection of US PetroDollar assets when they incited the Arab spring and made excuses to loot Iraq, Afghanistan and Lybia...
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  2735. Someone once wrote "I think we should keep using a failed system with resource mismanagement as its key component until we have a few incredibly rich deities and 99.9% of people live in absolute poverty...", it was me, a few moments ago, and yet it was filtered...
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  2736. Tories should all do that and then stay there...
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  2737.  @klb9142  You mean the Taliban who Trump signed a peace treaty with 18 months ago giving up the war and $83 billion in weaponry?
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  2738. I have a good idea. How about we drop money altogether and use the world's 'actual' resources as needed to improve the lives of all... Maybe once we sort the planet out we can gather some of the infinite resources on our galactic doorstep...
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  2739.  @LowPlainsDrifter60  We are still reaping all the wonderful benefits of Brexit and will for some time to come. The main benefit being generational debt and the loss of our rights.
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  2740. Gary is not wrong, check recent legislation and you will see a consistent attempt to take our rights, freedoms and usher in Fash is mmm...
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  2741.  @MandyAustin-nl4cn  I've provided a list of recent legislation that mitigates those rights and If you aren't following politics closely enough to realise it then me explaining it to you won't make any difference. But logic also works, the UNCHR was set up to oppose fash is mmm...
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  2742. A Royal coronation is a waste of money and serves to remind people of an archaic system of divine rule. Royals have them to feel important, but in essence, they are impotent symbols of decadence...
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  2743.  @vincentbrannelly8786  I'm not sure you understand sarcasm and irony. However, the benefits include exposing shadowy groups like the ERG, the lack of patriotism and corruption of the Tory party, shows how much power the media have and that a group of financial elitists can use data mining to manipulate the populous. It also clearly proved that trading as a block within the EU provided us with cheaper goods such as energy, that migrant labour was necessary to our economy and that freedom of movement was a boon that we lost through ignorance.
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  2744.  Horse Steak  You are talking about liberalism, neoliberalism is more accurately called neo-conservatism. They only coined the term neoliberalism to make it sound more friendly, but it's actually an extension of existing Conservative ideology. It is far more than the economic theory it is a con to move large sums of taxpayer money to the private sector at the cost of excess deaths through cuts to services. By deregulation of the banking sector, privatisation, outsourcing and cuts to public services and infrastructure which are the primary function of taxation. Taxes should never be used to enable shareholder profiteering. I'm not offended by your use of the term coloured, just giving you the advice that others may find it inaccurate, if not offensive. I understand using a second language is less precise than using your native language so no problems.
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  2745.  @joso7228  Agreed, He u-turns more than a snake with a broken internal compass. His promises are as insubstantial as the ether.
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  2746. ...otherwise known as Conservative United Nationalist Trolglodyte Society. Surprisingly they don't use the acronym...
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  2747.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  I'm worried about human rights, taxpayer money, Tory incompetence. I'm not worried about controlled immigration and giving people an opportunity for a better life...
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  2748.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  You aren't able to read statistics and studies that show the benefits of immigration? Seriously take your archaic belief system to someone who cares...
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  2749. Aww, bless Theresa May she used to be considered one of the worst PMs in history, who would have thought the Tories would have produced a succession of far worse PMs so quickly and efficiently...
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  2750. God save the cap doffing, forelock tuggers :)
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  2751. Yes, it's David and Goliath, except the Israelis are playing Goliath...
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  2752.  @nickbreen287  No I was speaking of reunification and Irish people in general...
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  2753.  @nickbreen287  I'm surprised you went to school...
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  2754.  @nickbreen287  PS you're not British. Britain is England, Scotland, Wales and their associated islands. It does not include Northern Ireland. You are from the UK but not British... and you called me a fool...
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  2755.  @nickbreen287  My bad, assumption makes an ass of you and me. Take care brother!
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  2756.  @EricBlair-jg2ux  It's lucky the climate decided to play along... Yes, the FED and banking, in general, is a con, yes billionaires have their secret societies to dictate the trajectory of mankind. And yes they'd love nothing better than a manageable sized population to extort with wage slavery. But climate change is real... We can see it, measure it, taste it, drown in it!
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  2757. Failing to live up to the standards of a normal human being let alone his own standards...
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  2758. Arguably the most important job in Britain and the Tories can't find anyone better than the previous clown. Now it's gone from a clown to full-on circus, a circus that doesn't make a profit and treats its customers and employees badly. Land of dopes and tories...
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  2759.  @axelwakler540  Ideology is different to corrupt politicians. Ideology is about beliefs, rather than conspiracy...
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  2760.  @anthonyfisher1670  lol you should take one to the playground. This thread is for grown-ups!
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  2761.  @djbogz1921  To think you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  2762.  @DropdudeJohn  A reference to the potato famine caused by the English? That's a despicable thing to say, very ignorant...
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  2763.  @DropdudeJohn  Extract from a recent article: "In fact, the most glaring cause of the famine was not a plant disease, but England's long-running political hegemony over Ireland. The English conquered Ireland, several times, and took ownership of vast agricultural territory. Large chunks of land were given to Englishmen"
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  2764.  @ooz139mm  You say malfunction, others say timed to go off at 11, but it was a few minutes before 11... How is none of this sus?
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  2765.  @ozymandiasnullifidian5590  Yea, that has nothing to do with what I said. Russia and NATO/US are using Ukraine as a proxy war staging area and yes it is the fault of both sides. This is the 'not so' Cold War v2.0. I think you misread my point, my point is about UK politicians being insulated from the rising cost of living, while the rest of us have to go without food and heating to support their excesses...
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  2766. Yes, I said the same about Adolf 90 years ago...
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  2767. Pesticide use by country shows the USA are second only to China, you use 407,779 tons per annum... India is 13th, Japan is 14th, S.Korea is 24th.
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  2768.  @amynoah1621  lol you mean ignore every relevant detail until the USA are no longer the second-largest user of pesticides by actual amount of pesticides used? The US also imports 15% of its food.
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  2769.  @kylesmith4572  You mean like then FDA, FALCPA, USDA etc? Organisations for the production, usage and regulation of the food and chemical industries that are overseen by the US government? Please don't conflate your inability to line up the dots as a lack of knowledge on my part...
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  2770.  @icarus877  lol that's exactly what I'd have said if I was politically illiterate and had nothing intelligent or witty to add...
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  2771.  @tippysdaddy7468  Thank you and please do! I'm always happy for people to spread the message.
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  2772.  @mendozamoore366  Thank you!
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  2773.  @Andrew-is7rs  So nothing to do with democracy or loss of trade deals built up over half a century? How did you survive infancy? or did you?
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  2774. Agreed, the thing is most people seem to miss the fact that pivatisation only came in the 80s with Thatcher and her neoliberalism. Before that all national industry was nationalised, it was the default. Nationalised industry is a country being self-sufficient and all profits go back into improvements and making the services cheaper. We now pay £93+ billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies to support privatisation and billions in bailouts. They've used the same defunding, run down and call for private finance scam on all our infrastructure.
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  2775. About as useful as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Any similarity between Boris and a human is purely coincidental. He has diarrhoea of the mouth and constipation of the brain. Doesn’t know the meaning of the word decency but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words...
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  2776.  @ElliHarper  Sounds like xenophobic nonsense and I've already discussed stats. If you think guns aren't the issue with mass shootings explain the success of no school shootings in the UK for over 25 years...
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  2777. lol, irresponsible kleptocrat complains about the irresponsible borrowing he's been doing to feed corporate greed via subsidies and overpriced government contracts while failing to protect those in working poverty - who are forced to use food banks - from the insane increase in the cost of living...
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  2778.  @anangrycat86  China emitted 27% of the world's greenhouse gases in 2019. The US was the second-largest emitter at 11% while India was third with 6.6% of emissions. Ever think lying makes you look like an idiot? PS The sweatshops in China and India is where you get your tech devices and clothes from. Maybe stop buying them?
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  2779.  @taras6806  My pleasure! To be honest, I love Boris he has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy.
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  2780. Yes, but the offshore accounts of many Tory MPs and their donors are very well served, swings and roundabouts...
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  2781. They often victim blame and criminalise the innocent. They profit through misleading the public and creating false narratives which they then profit from. How could the UK vote for the worst examples of humanity so consistently without being manipulated and polarised? It's beyond belief that we could allow this and very suggestive of media bias and control...
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  2782.  @westtxmutt  Thank you for that nonsense reply, what is the relevance of that to nuclear armageddon? Can a country protect itself from atmospheric nukes that irradiate the air and leave the buildings intact? Can a country put up a huge wall when an enemy used a nuke off the coast which turns into a tsunami? Can a country survive by force of will after a barrage of 100 nukes?
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  2783.  @ChuckAmadi  It's a proxy war similar to Syria. The superpowers like to use host countries to fight their wars in...
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  2784.  @cocos8903  Yep, and Oscar Pistorius as well as the new trade deal with the CPTPP worth a 50th of the lost trade from Brexit. Anything to distract from the poverty induced by Tory incompetence and cronyism.
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  2785.  @rm-kx8et  We haven't had a Labour government since the 70s. Blair was a centrist infiltrator who dropped clause 4 and renamed them 'New Labour'... He's also a despicable human being who took cash from S.Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen on the international stage... However as already stated the majority if not all of the anti-union and anti-worker legislation and regulations come from successive Tory governments...
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  2786.  @gerardmackay8909  Agreed, I'm just sitting back and watching the decline of the UK with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea...
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  2787. Shell made bumper profits in the first two quarters of this year and avoided the windfall tax thanks to loopholes created by the Tories... Now the Tories expect us to pay for the hole in the country's finances...
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  2788. You spelt looting wrong...
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  2789.  @AlanWattResistance  The NHS has saved many millions of lives and brought most Brits into the world for the past 8 decades. Try using your brain for once, such a dumb statement...
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  2790.  @richardkent7369  'British farming vehicles' are used to farm produce when not turned into rocket launchers.
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  2791.  @jackowens7636  My comments were being removed on all channels so I was checking :)
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  2792. A little economic euthanasia is at the heart of Tory ideology.
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  2793.  @AfricaGeo  Yes, like I said 'a narrative' oh wait you seriously believe that? that's so cute! ;)
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  2794.  @ImperiumMagistrate  It's semantics mate, don't try and justify your comment. His corporations, his losses and he walks away leaving the American taxpayer to pick up the pieces and causing other businesses to go bankrupt. Yes, Trump is a confidence trickster, a snake-oil salesman, every venture has failed and cost the American taxpayer...
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  2795.  @T5Zplayer  They have to put up with regulations and funding from Westminster. But we do get free prescriptions and other benefits. PS your whataboutery is lame. About as much use as an underwater ashtray...
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  2796. It isn't migrants dodging taxes, stashing bribes in off-shore accounts, ruining the economy, borrowing on behalf our grandchildren, failing to protect the vulnerable, failing the NHS and failing the British people in general. That would be the Tories!
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  2797. And here we see the global corporation the apex predator of the urban jungle - who has no natural predator - feeding on its prey, the consumer, without a care in the world. A flock of tax collectors take to the sky in fear. A few packs of politicians and shareholders scurry around in the near distance watching hungrily, these carrion eaters will pick the bones of the consumer after the global corporation has had its fill...
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  2798.  @hmq9052  There are only two actual resources humans and the planet. Both are exploited by a minority for their own power and wealth. Please don't blame the rest of us for the psychotic billionaires that the system we rally against produces...
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  2799.  @timeweaver476  Oh wait, just found it on IMDB "An exposé on how Hollywood and the mainstream media manipulate the multitudes by spreading propaganda throughout their content." May check it out but that's kind of been known for a while. In the 70's it was all the anti-commie movies like Rambo etc. Even Disney have had their hand in propaganda since the 40's.
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  2800. Just one example of NHS losses is the sale of our emergency blood supplies to bain capital, who then sold them on to a Chinese consortium for 10x the price they paid. Over £502 million of 'unwanted' assets have also been sold as well as many buildings and housing - some of which were still in use. £2 billion was paid in 2016 for private finance charges and has surely escalated since.
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  2801.  Kushty Mckush  I love that the Royal family are still continuing the shallow end of the British gene pool with their anaemic bloodlines :)
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  2802.  @runner1984  I was brought up on a council estate and struggle to pay my bills. Like many on low wages in the UK, I go without regularly despite working hard and paying taxes. I see thousands of people dying every month for want of medical care, while ever more authoritarian legislation is passed. If all you have is inane comments like that, maybe you should understand the situation before commenting.
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  2803.  @aviduke  He was talking to many groups in his capacity as a peace negotiator...
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  2804. In other words, Tories make promises, but never keep them and are big on hypocrisy. No surprise there, we'd have more luck talking a trifle into sentience.
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  2805. If Raab likes flying tomatoes so much then maybe we should start putting the Tories in stocks. Allow the public to pelt them with rotten fruit and veg from food banks, preferably tinned...
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  2806.  @dudleykamal4679  70% of Shri Lanka is Buddhist with less than 10% Islamic. The title used the phrase 'ISIS inspired', they may as well put Guy Fawkes inspired for all the accuracy of that statement...
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  2807.  @gryphonberlin  Unfortunately I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm. There is no cure in the modern age of misinformation and the rise of the far right.
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  2808.  @stuartpenman6387  I'm sorry I only understand written English, Welsh and French. Could you try using one of those languages?
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  2809.  @stuartpenman6387  It's just a reflection of your lack of attention to detail that limits your knowledge and proves your ignorance...
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  2810. All true, but what we have to remember is that the wealthy are very, very special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them.
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  2811. How shortsighted Tory policy left at the mercy of Russia and Putin's gas pipeline by cutting funding to renewables. We could 100% renewable energy like Norway, instead we buy our energy from Norway's excess and Putin via Europe...
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  2812. News just in: All MPs have donated their £30 taxpayer-funded meals to the homeless outside parliament, agreed to donate their recent pay rise to a worthy charity and decided to work together to hold corporations to account and fix the mounting problems we face as a society. Just kidding, as If...
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  2813.  @RickyHarding  No they got their tin from somewhere else... We traded with many cultures including the Greeks, and the evolution of ideas and the evolution of materials do not need a host to travel. Why are you being so petty and pedantic in an effort to defend xenophobes when I'm clearly ridiculing them by pointing out their hypocrisy?
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  2814.  @RickyHarding  What? I've been using these arguments for decades and have been sealioned by much more worthy foes than you. I've spent decades making memes, jokes, satire and humour. If all you have is accusations then run along. The evolution of ideas and materials are building blocks in the evolution of humanity. Does Archimedes get a percentage of profits when an invention used his geometric theories, laws of buoyancy, and displacement?
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  2815.  @cowboy4378  You do realise that death happens in every country, every day? and that accountability for those deaths is a matter of legality? for instance, accidents are investigated, cause of death is ascertained, liability is sought etc. Don't try using logic again, it isn't your forte...
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  2816.  @jakey960  No need for mental gymnastics, despite for Jo Cox wasn't based on her actions that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, she was killed because some ignorant right-winger was brainwashed by billionaires and the media into taking his anger out on the wrong people. The mental gymnastics required to kiss billionaires rear ends while your family are put at risk through corporate greed and corruption must be causing some cognitive dissonance for you though...
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  2817.  @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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  2818.  @purplehaze8557  Not about you buddy, it's about British culture. You can deny all you like but you are part of it and take part in it. Hope your day is as nice as you are :)
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  2819.  @b00ts4ndc4ts  100%, Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum! I smell the schemes of Tory $cum. They'll $teal our milk and $teal our br£ad, then profit from the bones of our d£ad.
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  2820.  @cole0889  B-eat the rich!
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  2821.  @Scintillated  Agreed mate. But we have to use the forces at airports as those trouble-making geriatrics escaping to warmer climbs to avoid winter fuel bills get pretty raucous!
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  2822. Levelling up? The rich doubled their wealth during austerity and the same happened during the pandemic. Tories are asset-stripping Britain and selling us down the river...
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  2823. What is so difficult to understand? The rich think too many poor people are ruining their unfettered profiteering, so despite the system being fixed to profit the rich, their endless greed knows no limits. They'll keep pushing the poor into early graves because that's preferable to creating a fair society that allows everyone to prosper.
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  2824.  @Adamnlaw  Are you saying my delivery isn't obviously sarcastic? lol, you insult me Sir! I don't pander to social media, those who get it will get a laugh, and those who don't can wonder. I don't really care :)
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  2825.  @BOZ_11  This is just a pseudonym my real name is Prince William, shh don't tell anyone or Katie will be mean to me!
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  2826.  @chrisd5964  While I understand your point, I'd argue democracy has never existed. We have corporate lobbyists, most politicians have several other jobs and most constituents are ignored. Not to mention FPTP, region changes and other manipulations of the system.
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  2827.  @leopoldstotch7076  I haven't used the word 'they' in any of my comments... If you're referring to the comment made by 'Butt Socks' I'd assume he's talking about the establishment...
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  2828.  @scam  Not sure a psychotic megalomaniac would make much difference, in fact I think that's the problem with the current lot.
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  2829.  @Diana1000Smiles  Agreed, I like some of the basic teachings of religion. But don't believe in any omnipotent magical man in the sky. Reality is truth when we allow ourselves to be misled we live in a false reality.
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  2830.  @guff9567  Are you speaking for other people or your other personalities? If you want to prove how gullible you are there are better ways...
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  2831.  @spawn6636  lol it's impossible to argue with thick people. The Tories have created over 2/3rds of our national debt only an economic illiterate would blame Labour for a global financial crisis caused by bankers. Before the crisis in 2007, Labour had actually reduced our debt to GDP ratio by 4% before the crisis. Now we have over £2 trillion debt and a debt to GDP ratio of over 100% thanks to a decade of Tory rule. PS I'm not a fan of Stamer but Tories are corrupt criminals...
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  2832.  @thetruth9116  Most dog's eyes cloud over when they go into attack mode from a poodle to a pitbull. German Shepherds suffered the same kinds of prejudice decades ago. Pitbulls, Mastifs, bull terriers etc are lovely animals when brought up properly and given a loving environment. As stated: aside from temperament and other medical issues which are quite rare and can occur in all breeds. If that doesn't happen as often in America then that's a cultural issue for Americans to rectify. The only difference between a lap poodle and a Pitbull is the amount of damage they are capable of. Using that kind of logic should we lock up all bodybuilders and marital arts experts because they pose a greater danger to society if they turn?
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  2833. We live in a world of lip service, crocodile tears and logical fallacies, while the wealthy gaslight the poor via their tabloid public relations experts. Manipulations and polarisation designed to continue the masquerade while the political mummers play their artless roles with facile duplicity...
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  2834. Western imperialism and Lebanon's connection to Iran...
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  2835. Many campaigns and petitions calling for it to be removed were ignored... If you were a victim by ancestry you wouldn't want to walk past a statue commemorating that person. Statues are supposed to commemorate great people who contributed to the lives of others... we don't have commemorative statues of Fred West or Ed Gein...
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  2836.  @theautisticcreative2619  People with learning difficulties and disabilities have been abused by society historically, and still are. Many who have overcome illness or disability have contributed greatly to the human race. But that's a separate point. If your family was enslaved or murdered by that man, you probably wouldn't want to walk past him every day. And as mentioned, statues to murderers shouldn't exist...
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  2837.  @theautisticcreative2619  I don't feel any oppression, I've never been a slave and no one in my family has as far as I know. I'm not going to remind you of the points I've already made or continue a circular debate. Take care!
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  2838.  @psilocybinenthusiast3695  History books aren't being changed and history isn't being forgotten. Removing statues of abusive murderers who enslaved thousands and therefore should never have been erected is called decency, maybe you don't have any...
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  2839. I always support the NHS and give information to provide evidence for my views. As someone who has waited 20 months for an appointment to finally receive scans which showed fluid in my lungs, liver cirrhosis, gallstones and a few other issues it would be easy to jump on the bandwagon and defame the NHS. But the staff and the original nationalised model is beyond reproach, the management of the NHS especially by the Tories and the legislation they have enacted can be directly linked to the current problems.
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  2840.  @burnout_2017  Most of them look like they're incubating a new strain of diabetes...
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  2841.  @elitetrancechampions8620  Congrats again you managed a sentence this time. My cognitive ability and political and economic acumen aren't in question, yours is!
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  2842. 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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  2843.  @Saul_Ferguson  Thank you for that erudite, insightful, eloquent, though-provoking comment. I look forward to hearing more from you in the near future...
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  2844. ...and in a few months' time, you'll still hear people say they're better off under the Tories despite the plethora of evidence to the contrary. How a nation could be gaslit and held ransom by privileged aristocrats is beyond my understanding...
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  2845. He's the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles. Boris has done an excellent job of raising the levels of corruption, sleaze, lawbreaking, adultery and treasonous duplicity during his life and has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the advantages of cronyism and nepotism...
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  2846.  @b.41879  You don't seem to understand words or their implications, you clearly said "you really might want to educate yourself about it rather than assuming or guessing" Implying that I'm ignorant... And yes, conversing with someone with a higher IQ than a dead possum may be pointless for you. Hope your day is as nice as you are ;)
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  2847.  @Gordon..  I'm not interested in arguing with someone who is unaware of reality and the facts of life. When you learn to investigate issues and give reasonable comments I'll credit you with enough intellect to respond. Until then it's like talking a trifle into sentience... I've given you facts which prove my points and you give me opinions repeatedly with no basis in reality. You aren't capable of cognitive reasoning...
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  2848.  @amiciprocul8501  lol as if Prop gun and blanks hasn't become a well-known euphemism for actor/director goes postal...
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  2849. Capitalism always solves a crisis by creating a fresh crisis due to profit motivation.
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  2850. Government lacks 'competence and compassion' over everything it does... That's better!
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  2851. The key to the home office in sorting out the paperwork - lies.
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  2852. @Stalin Without Labour's legacy you'd be living in victorian style slums with no medical care, no sick pay, no worker's rights, no human rights, no legal aid, no public transport, no free schooling, no public libraries and no public parks...
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  2853. @Stalin It was a war over the petrodollar backed by American disaster capitalists after the CIA instigated the Arab Spring by arming certain groups and setting them against each other then 'losing' over $1 billion in weaponry to the enemy, by accident... The financial crisis was US banks and anyone tied to the dollar was affected as 26 other countries can testify... Bailing out the banks was a cross-party decision as was the war in Iraq that 84 Labour MPs voted against... Theresa May has the record for immigration, 650,000 in her last year as home secretary...
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  2854. That's an expensive way to ignore human rights and extinguish the lives of the desperate and people keep telling me to be polite to those people and their supporters who make vile comments... Not happening...
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  2855.  @analogdistortion  I'm trying my hardest not to catch stupid, racism, or fascism from you... But I have to ask Are you head of the stupid comments department? or a representative from insanity-R-us?
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  2856.  @tompearce3610  Wasn't aware of his channel, looks very interesting after watching the first vid. Have subscribed, it's so difficult to find decent sites on here.
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  2857.  @tompearce3610  Yea I got a different bias, Robespierre and a few others. Novara has blocked me for some reason, I think they misunderstood my sarcasm. But I'm lucky to get 20% of my comments to get past the filter on YT. I check using a separate computer.
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  2858. Brexit: The most successful attack on British infrastructure and its people since the Blitz...
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  2859. A decade of Tory cuts to the NHS, Welfare state and support for the disabled and vulnerable is clearly having a massive effect. Some may argue the intended effect.
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  2860.  @alexselby349  Hubris? do they do a kleptocratic cokcwomble cabinet?
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  2861. How dare you insinuate our elitist Etonian overlords are drug-abusing party animals! They are actually kleptocratic robber barons bred in the shallow end of the British gene pool and products of centuries of genetic and intellectual atrophy caused by generations of inherited wealth...
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  2862.  @BBountyHunter  lol asking for decent wages, a pension you can afford to heat your home on, a mortgage that doesn't cripple you and a fair society to live in with equality and human rights is obviously 'going too far'...
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  2863.  @BBountyHunter  There's too much fallacy in your comment to suggest a factual debate is possible. Your knowledge comes from memes fingerpainted in faeces on the toilet walls of right-whinge social media and you're politically and economically illiterate.
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  2864.  @BBountyHunter  As for Socialism, a successful wealthy socialist nation existed not so long ago. Libya was a socialist country they used 'The Green System'. Gaddafi was 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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  2865.  @ThinWhite_Duke  Corbyn is a Socialist as is McDonnell. They promote Social Democracy in the Labour party. lol they call each other comrade? seriously can't believe someone said that as an argument...
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  2866.  @anglonorse2943  Cheers mate!
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  2867.  @derekharrison1582  Agreed mate, they always manipulate migration issues when they're under scrutiny for the various clusterfks. I also loved the punk bands like The Clash covering Junior Marvin - Police and Thieves - one of my favs! also SLF doing Bob Marley's Johnny was. Great time to be alive!
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  2868.  @Holloweve  You helping me is akin to the village idiot offering Isaac Newton an apple and then claiming to have helped discover gravity...
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  2869.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  As long as they're smoking. Talking of red and blue that's the only choice we have in the UK, red or blue neoliberalism.
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  2870.  @martinspedding4210  Brexit benefits: It helped uncover shadowy groups such as the E-R-G. Has shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how flawed the system is. Shows how data mining the public helps to steer and manipulate them to vote against their own interests. And has also shown how important the lack of transparency on our overseas territories are to the money men...
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  2871. I'll try again "The BBC are not there to educate and question. Like most media these days they are there to encourage societal narratives through pantomime. They direct the conversations of the electorate and seek the direction of future narratives, and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy of their carefully constructed manipulations." Sorry about the quotes...
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  2872.  @Arbaaltheundefeated  We already import 46% of our food. We have thousands of miles of roads and council estates filled with decorative trees and bushes. Preservation including salt pickling, fermentation and pickling in vinegar has provided seasonal foods all year around for centuries. Modern farming methods such as hydroponics, aquaponics and verticle gardens provide many multiples of food per square meter.
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  2873.  @mowilliams2517  Over 40% of human production is consumerism based and unnecessary, communal gardens and home gardens using the latest tech will enable us to feed ourselves with little effort.
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  2874. If it's a battle of intellect I'm gonna go with Oppenheimer, If it's a competition to see who has affected Japan the most - Oppenheimer wins...
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  2875.  @mrharry448  I'm happy to admit that I generalise about the wealthy but only those with a right agenda and ideology. One that reduces my and my loved ones' life expectancy and opportunities. Kicking the poor while they're down and out simply because they were born in poverty is wholly different to defending the impoverished by challenging those who perpetuate logical fallacies for their own fiscal gain... My bias towards the wealthy is based on ideology and not aimed at all, as you can clearly see from my defence of Corbyn. The other is based in prejudice and targets the whole demographic...
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  2876.  @mrharry448  PS Cameron and Boris for that matter whose families profited from the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories and were named in the Panama scandal. The result of this was the EU anti-tax avoidance directive and hence led to Cameron going to beg the EU to exclude Britain. When they refused he came home with his tail between his legs and started the decline of British democracy and our economy with the word referendum... The fact that Corbyn had a manifesto pledge to enforce transparency should also be noted...
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  2877.  @mrharry448  He chose to go against his own beliefs for the good of the party he was leading. We all know that Labour would have been sunk if they'd gone against the referendum as the tabloids were frothing at mouth with bile against anyone who didn't support 'the public mandate' so let's not pretend we live in a theoretical Britain. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. They were chanting his name at concerts and nightclubs up and down the country. The media assassination of Corbyn and misrepresentation of him was the only flaw in his leadership. No one is perfect, I don't always agree with Corbyn but Britain would be far better place if we'd had him instead of Boris. Imagine the difference to the challenges the UK has recently faced if Corbyn had won with his Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry. Not to mention the Re-Nationalisation of the energy market and the fact that all that was offered for around £60 billion, a fraction of what the Tories have wasted.
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  2878.  @tomfinney3416  You can't spell, construct sentences or use logic and reason. Keep your deleterious diarrhetic rhetoric to yourself...
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  2879. This squeeze on the poor has been coming from all directions for over a decade. The government seem to be taking this economic euthanasia too far.
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  2880. Must be terrible living in a country where you can't protest and journalists get arrested. But enough about the UK, what's happening in China?
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  2881.  @ProfessorTimWilson  Always happy to give my opinion unbiased by political affiliation or popularity. I appreciate your platform and enjoy hearing your opinions. But I am worried about the swing to the far right and the upcoming dystopian corporatocracy, assuming we survive climate change and nuclear armageddon (hope my cheery optimism is welcome!).
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  2882. I think we should blame migrants for the collapse of our economy, the cost of living crisis, the NHS crisis, the losses from Brexit and any other problems that the Tories manufacture through their incompetence, greed and corruption in their relentless assault on sanity and logic...
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  2883. A little background. In 1917 the British signed the Balfour Declaration to give their protectorate of Palestine to some Jewish bankers in return for a loan to win the war. In 1947 the Palestinians allowed Jewish settlers to free the persecution in Europe and settle in Palestine. Since then Palestinians have been subject to land grabs, brutality and apartheid legislation from their lodger...
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  2884.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  He was German through his mother’s side, as Princess Alice of Battenberg was a Hessian Princess.
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  2885.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  She couldn't answer the question as her African heritage was unknown, her ancestors were transported to the Caribbean by the British!!! Her first comment to Hussey was that she didn't have any documentation. She then went on to explain she was born in London and was British. Read the conversation that has been verified by witnesses and stop speaking from ignorance and lack of understanding...
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  2886.  @heidimadeleine8808  Are you proud to ridicule a British woman of Caribbean descent who is unaware of her African ancestry due to her ancestors being enslaved and having no documentation of her African roots? Because that's what you've done on this thread.
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  2887.  @MollyGoBully  Wow, didn't realise there were people so despicable that they'd attack a minority group about the loss of a baby. Congrats on being a fking attention-seeking, heartless loser.
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  2888. PMQs Pointless Mummery and Quackery, Predictable Musings and Quarrels, Peevish Misanthropes Quibble...
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  2889.  @danielwebb8402  I'm not going to debate nonsense with someone who thinks poverty isn't at a crisis point in the UK. I follow statistics and studies, not anecdotal opinions from Del Boy down the nag's head...
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  2890.  @DNAOrion  Outta the G7, Seriously? Amazon, Ebay, Apple etc are going to cut themselves off from the most lucrative markets in the world? A large percentage of their income? sure buddy. Here's the thing, probably better to do a little research before typing bolx on social media... G7 = Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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  2891.  @DNAOrion  You mean you only have an ad-hominem to offer in rebuttal to the many valid points I made that prove your naive assertion pointless? Keep digging sweetstuff. Feel free to explain how corporations like Starbucks and McDonalds are going to move their offices? How can they avoid taxation being forced on them? Will building a McDonalds in Sweden to serve customers in London work? A Starbucks in the US supplying customers in Cardiff?
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  2892.  @DNAOrion  You deleted your previous reply, but have basically stated the same thing. You have no rebuttal just a lame ad-hom and understand little of the points I made. Your bravado is commendable but your ignorance is damning.
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  2893.  @DNAOrion  You should research the loss of the gold standard, Fractional Reserve Banking, Global Debt of $280 trillion (over 3x global GDP) and the rise of central banks from 1913 on. Just to get the basics in global economics. Then maybe you'd realise that corporate greed is directly responsible for global debts and the poverty of the billions of workers. Then maybe understand the very simple point that workers provide many dual roles in society which is predominantly responsible for global profits. Workers are producer and consumer, worker and taxpayer, service provider and service user. We are the 'golden goose', governments and corporations exploit for their profits...
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  2894.  @DNAOrion  I'm not sure that any of those last two comments are considered a rebuttal of any of my points. Robots can't deliver without consumers and consumers need jobs to pay for products. As for legal issues and the big corporations dodging tax, you seem to have missed the point, the small corporations are losing out because the big global corporations aren't paying legally required taxation. The digital billionaires are morally and legally corrupt. While they may have a lot of power now, the world is changing. Lobbyists and corporate power won't keep people in check forever as this new legislation proves. People are sick of billionaires doubling their assets during a pandemic and having to foot the bill via national debt. However all that aside, the G7 controls a large percentage of global GDP, no big company is going to leave that behind. They may tax dodge, litigate, evade and avoid but the bill has to paid eventually!
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  2895.  @DNAOrion  You haven't made any new points, just more ad-hominems. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, engaging debate... But this wasn't it! PS I'm qualified to lead audit your corporation for compliance with ISO9001 standards...
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  2896.  @DNAOrion  You certainly are a banker, full of bull and bore... You've exposed your ignorance on several points and ducked under many others, or should I say many other points have simply gone over your head. PS I made the first comment, you are the one replying to me. Simply stop replying and your humiliation will end.
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  2897.  @PrivateSi  I'm not confusing anything, you're politically and economically illiterate. You use words you don't understand and type contradictions in terms. I'm not debating against stupidity anymore...
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  2898. Brexit is a snake eating its own tail, an ouroboros of infinite multi-faceted clustfks that feeds itself...
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  2899. *knew
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  2900.  @Joeblogs999  Yes I doubt it would be easy to use any device in such company. As I said I'm just defeating Farrage's narrative.
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  2901. Not much of a return on all the lithium, gold and opium looted from their country...
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  2902.  @Stormx2233  Agreed, But the Test and trace app cost £37billion which was wasted via cronyism on private groups. When we could have had a more effective app like was used in Ireland for less than a million. That's £550 per person in Britain (£37 billion divided by 67,000,000) which they could have used to buy us all solid gold medical trackers.
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  2903.  @mightymizzar9672  Infrastructure yes, transport for the rich to save 20mins on a journey time, no.
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  2904.  @buddha1736  Never voted Tory, and have spent the last 10 years getting kicked from social media platforms for pointing out Tory mythology using IFS figures and ONS stats.
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  2905.  @oufc90  I said "Has the right" governments enforcing slave labour via no-strike rules should be illegal.
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  2906.  @AwRighttttt  The system is and always has been a con. Capitalism is just a way to increase the poverty gap and create a super-rich few at the expense of everyone else. Money is simply a human construct that enables a tiny minority to control 90% of the world's 'actual' resources. In reality, there are only 2 main resources - human beings and the planet (Animals, Minerals, Vegetables - slight oversimplification), and those resources are exploited relentlessly by a small group of powerful psychopaths.
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  2907. And here we see the global corporation the apex predator of the urban jungle - who has no natural predator - feeding on its prey, the consumer, without a care in the world. A flock of tax collectors take to the sky in fear. A few packs of politicians and shareholders scurry around in the near distance watching hungrily, these carrion eaters will pick the bones of the consumer after the global corporation has had its fill...
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  2908.  @PeterMurrayComedyCam  Net migration was half of that at 606,000 in 2022 and that includes Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland. If you can't use accurate figures and allow prejudice to guide your opinionated rants then I see no point in debating you. You should also know that every study proves immigrants pay more in tax than they take out of the system and therefor cover any extra costs on the NHS themselves...
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  2909. As bad as each other, the West is always calling people out, but only when they get better at it than us...
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  2910.  @Vroomfondle1066  True, we are almost there.
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  2911.  @mish375  Agreed mostly. But I think the system works as designed. It may have been corrupted further but the inherent flaws have only been amplified. The media control the narrative and the rich control the media. We are not immune to manipulation, we often end up being part of a media self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  2912.  @blt4life112  I'm not Canadian and have no interest in betting on a fixed match...
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  2913. A cancerous boil on the asshole of humanity is the nicest thing I can say about him.
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  2914.  John Buffalo I am 97  No thanks, I'm trying to give up pre-ww3 propaganda. I'm not going to help point the tangerine troglodyte at China and help kickstart armageddon.
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  2915.  John Buffalo I am 97  I'm fighting the real threat and cause of this situation. You keep following propaganda and blindly blame who Trump tells you if you like. Courage is about standing up to the powerful who control things, not remotely killing some rice farmers with drones.
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  2916.  OldEnglish Ale  I can understand that, but we are responsible for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia and Syria and promised many of these people safety. Many worked with our forces to protect and interpret, saving our troops' lives. Then we turned our back on them and what's left of their families. Their homes have been ruined by our actions, many of them can't go home because of the risks.
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  2917. Every aspect of our lives is getting worse. Cost of living crisis, dental crisis, food crisis, NHS crisis with over 6 million on the waiting list (1 in 10 Brits). The government have mismanaged every aspect of our country to the point where only the rich can afford the basics of rent, food, medical and dental care. What an absolute joke this government is, so corrupt and incompetent...
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  2918.  @ArcanePath360  Hard work creates wealth, no politics at the table, listen to your betters, keep your head down, stiff upper lip, blah blah blah. As you say indoctrination from birth.
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  2919. I just wish the media would stop picking on the Tories. Every day another scandal, parliamentary rule break, laws broken, fraud accusation, mass corruption and cronyism story... And yet few Tory MPs are ever sacked, brought to justice by the CPS, jailed or fined. Which surely proves their innocence...
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  2920. I'm just overjoyed that despite the plethora of crises we endure, we still find money to enable the wealthy to shave a few minutes off their journey time! £25 billion well spent...
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  2921.  @dongmingzhu666  Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make someone a Marxist, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... an Elephant.
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  2922. Spycops bill...
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  2923. As my dear departed mother used to drill into me as a child "Never trust a thieving Tory b@stard!"...
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  2924.  @celticsole7542  Agreed, Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet-inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Now we have a 3rd of the workforce in working poverty, zero-hour contracts and most people are on minimum wage. While the Tories are feeding tax-dodging corporations £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies. Those same corporations are costing us £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap/unpaid corporate taxes. The Tories have created over 2/3rds of our £2.4 trillion national debt, lowered our triple-A credit rating at least twice and given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%. They are fiscally incompetent but have good PR as the media are owned by their donors. Land of dopes and Tories m8.
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  2925.  @stephenfarthing3819  I've only stated that Scottish people should have the right to choose and denying them is wrong. But I agree with most of what you say. However, the Tories will continue to be a drain rather than a help, they don't do altruism or philanthropy as I'm sure you're aware :)
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  2926.  @PercivalBlakeney  Then you plead gill-ty? Let minnow when we can stop, I’m piranha roll! and not at all koi about it. (I know, my coat)
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  2927.  @garethmurray5901  Your Ouroboros/Uroboros symbol needs to lie down. Our Rob or Ross - Red Dwarf :)
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  2928. Minus the opium, lithium, other natural resources and 120,000 civilians...
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  2929. I don't have a dark sense of humour. But I do wonder why our government have all the compassion of Fred West laying his patio...
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  2930.  @princesshassim6009  Agreed, when she's not having secret meetings with Israel, or bullying civil servants, or dancing on the graves of dead migrant children, she's gaslighting the nation. A repulsive human being (IE A Tory).
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  2931. The poor dog was going to retire before the Tories cut his PIP payments and forced him back into work...
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  2932. Tory plan = throw taxpayer's money at the problem with little regard to human rights and legality. The contempt they show for legality, parliamentary procedure, the electorate and humanity in general, should negate them from positions of power. Can you still claim to be human without showing an ounce of humanity?
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  2933. Why all this talk about testing key workers? Why the hell are locksmiths getting preferential treatment? aren't government taking this lockdown thing a little too literally?
    2
  2934.  @serinadelmar6012  Agreed, what he lacks in intellect he makes up for in stupidity.
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  2935.  @silversurfer328  And then the excuses start: I only voted Tory 'coz I want Brexit done. I only voted Tory 'coz Jezza's a terrorist! I only voted Tory 'coz I don't want a hard left government! I only votedTory 'coz I can't use critical thought and the Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph, BBC told me to...
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  2936. Consume, Work, Obey, Die. Please stop all this thinking it isn't necessary for cash cows. :)
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  2937. No we won't, we will remain slaves to human needs. (lulls them into a false sense of security)
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  2938. Nation celebrates? with council pop and the occasional weekly meal...
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  2939.  @hmq9052  Why are some people unable to grasp statistics and consider things from a sociological point of view? This isn't about me, over 1/3rd of British citizens live in working poverty, Nurses and teachers are forced to use food banks. I pity your lack of intellect...
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  2940.  @hmq9052  PS We have 1/3rd of the population in working poverty with nurses and teachers using food banks to survive. 27.1 percent of children in the United Kingdom were estimated to be living in relative poverty in 2020 and things have only got worse. We have a national debt exceeding £2.3 trillion which has led to a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%, meaning we can't afford to even pay off the debt instalments. 1 in 10 British people are on the NHS waiting lists because we have a staff shortage of over 100,000. While our government have lost billions to fraud, overpaid on excessively expensive contracts, broken the law and continually lied to people without the intellect to realise they are being conned...
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  2941.  @hmq9052  I could forage and hunt my own food and use deadwood to heat my home and cook my meals in the feudal age. Those things I can't do now. However, I'm sure you realise that's unrelated to my point and a waste of time typing. If you can't debate the point, stop proving your ignorance...
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  2942. Beacons lit to keep the poor warm as the wealthy celebrate archaic systems of governance...
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  2943. Fence sitting and Tory policies dressed up in a red tie...Corporate-friendly Tory-lite...
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  2944. Same manufactured genocide over and over again. A bully in the schoolyard who constantly picks on the weaker kid until the kid fights back. Then uses that resistance to justify yet another brutal attack. While the lobbyists and media enable it like the bloodthirsty gang that eggs the bully on...
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  2945.  @thebackup2121  The loss of trade is always a concern of corporations and doesn't lead to a higher profit margin, at least not in terms of logic...
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  2946. Indeed, if the Tories are going to shorten my life and that of my loved ones I'll take them down with any tool at my disposal. Often you can get a point across to the right by using a joke or satire to tell the truth, whereas straight conversation will just trigger their belligerence. Tories have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately, unfortunately, they've yet to find one...
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  2947. Slow news day? not much going on at the moment is there? apart from the threat of mutually assured destruction from nuclear armageddon...
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  2948.  @jhjhjhjhjhjhify  He's paid by corporate and state lobbyists and has hounded every Social Democrat out of the party virtually. He's a Blair tribute act...
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  2949.  @sandraakapuddinpop9540  Just my terminal sarcasm and flowery wordplay. I sometimes think we should have criminals do community service as politicians. Maybe they'd do a better job, right? I mean how could they do any worse? Then I think maybe not, as having criminals in charge of the treasury is what got us into this mess in the first place...
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  2950. Pay boost? lol £11 per hour isn't enough to pay for the basics with the cost of living and is far below the rate of inflation since the last minor increase. The only thing the Tories sell is misinformation...
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  2951.  @davidhooper1767  Corbyn gave me hope for a few months, then Starmer and his centrist cronies - helped by foreign lobbyists I can't mention - stabbed him in the back! PMQs = Pointless Mummery and Quakery? Predictable Musings and Quarrels? Peevish Misanthropes Quibble? ;-)
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  2952.  @oofballz4328  Those who lack logic and reason aren't worthy of debate. Cars are not made with the explicit purpose of killing. Go back to school!
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  2953.  @budbud2509  They've gone by just over 400% on average in Europe and 560% in the UK. Stats from an article Sept 2021. Privatisation and a cartel we allowed in the UK is our biggest hurdle, leaving us at the mercy of Gas coming into Europe as most of our electricity comes from gas. Iceland, Paraguay, Costa Rica all have 100% renewable energy creation while Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Norway, Tajikistan, and Uruguay are over 90% renewables. As for partial stats, I'll wait until the end of the year, but tax is also generated by the £400 billion in governments bonds that the Tories created, thinning the anaemic pound even further, mostly wasted via cronyism. We paid 37 billion for an ineffective test and trace system after being offered alternative models for free. That's £37 billion divided by a population of 67 billion, around £550 per person which could have bought us all solid gold medical trackers... Just one example of many...
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  2954.  @budbud2509  We've lost 65% of genetic diversity at over 1,000 times the rate of extinction. Low lying areas are being taken into the sea because of the ice caps melting. 96% of all mammals on the planet are humans and their food. Only 4% of living mammals are wild. We have an increase in extreme weather and volcanic activity. Please don't ignore reality by denying the obvious facts...
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  2955.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  Such a naive reply. So the majority of people on low wages can all move up the ladder? Whose jobs are they going to take and who will replace them in their low-paid jobs? The market doesn't work like that. We have a percentage of low-paid jobs in society that fail to provide a living wage... The problem is corporate greed and gov legislation coupled with the crippling of unions under Thatcher. I can program, have qualifications in C++, 3D animation and design with 3dstudio max, electronics, and recently qualified to lead an audit on a corporation for compliance with ISO9001 standards. I'm still only able to get temporary manufacturing work on min wage. The market is the problem, not the victims!
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  2956.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  lol you aren't able to see perspective and stop trying to turn a societal debate into a personal battle of anecdotal evidence and petty remarks... Look at the big picture, facts, stats and percentages. You can't argue personal experience over hard facts, its a tad pathetic...
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  2957.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  The thing I dislike about thick rich people is their lack of understanding regarding the basics. The system is the problem and not the individual. This is about a societal problem and nothing to do with my personal life. You try to make the argument about me, but you fail to realise not everyone is self-obsessed! I'm discussing a societal problem that has led to low-paid jobs, 0-hour contracts, a huge rise in agencies and where 40% of British workers live in poverty! Stop the circular debate, it's about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  2958.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  Yes and I'm sure you also believe in trickle-down economics... I've already pointed out the importance of statistics and the poverty rates among British workers. We've had more than 30 years of neoliberal mythology like you're spouting and things continually get worse. The poverty gap increases and the poverty-stricken workforce pick up the tab of over £100 billion per annum in subsidies and corporate welfare while they also lose out on between £40-120 billion per annum from the tax gap due to corporate tax evasion/avoidance... Not everyone is gullible enough to believe in political myths...
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  2959.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  ~PS the 'Workers' provide the dual roles of producer and consumer, worker and taxpayer, service provider and service user. They do all the work and pay all the bills. Corporations use the lack of transparency on the crown estates and overseas territories to avoid taxation and dump profits in off-shore bank accounts. Thus depriving our economy and tax funds. Britain is the world leader in corporate tax evasion accounting for the majority of cases globally.
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  2960.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  If the government wanted to increase GDP by creating more industry they could, they prefer to keep a certain level of unemployment for the reason of keeping wages down and people desperate for work. That's how the market is controlled and the evidence is in the legislation produced by any given government. Reducing taxation while the top global megacorporations already pay virtually nothing is a false economy as is much of what you regurgitate from tabloid memories. Corporations don't leave a country because of high taxes, USA has seen over 30% corporation tax via federal and state tax legislation. They didn't lose any top corporations, they just made a fair amount of money to reinvest in the infrastructure those corporations exploit for their profits. Do you think Mcdonald's, Coke, Amazon, Apple, eBay etc are going to cut themselves off from UK profits if they have to pay a similar fair corporate tax as they are forced to do in more educated countries? That's how illogical your arguments are, absolutely pathetic...
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  2961.  @andrew3347  Sunak made the political point and brought up the trans debate, Starmer just called him on it. PS I'm not a fan of Starmer but you're delusional...
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  2962.  @sebastianguerre6868  Assimilate, are you a borg?
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  2963. They'll be along soon, bashing their knuckles on the keyboard in the hopes of producing something legible...
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  2964. Money is a human construct, it's literally worthless since the loss of the gold standard. But actual resources like oil, natural gas and precious metals are in the hands of billionaires who waste them on day trips to space. It's about time we considered whether money is worth keeping since it devalues the planet and all life, and yet is just a tool to transmute the wealth of real resources like human Labour...
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  2965.  @metalicminer6231  I'm Welsh so don't talk to me about the difference between English and British. I'm a native Brit, a Celt. I know my history and how the English beat my culture and language out of Welsh kids in Welsh schools. It was called the 'Welsh not'. PS Henry VII was Welsh, born in Pembroke Castle. I haven't mentioned mass unvetted immigration and no intelligent person would use such an idiotic phrase, the last unvetted mass immigration we had was the Romans... See why it's important to learn history? Stops you from looking like an ignorant bigot...
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  2966.  rob  My points are all accurate and easily researchable. You can't see that you're wrong, because you lack logic, reason and intellect. You are fundamentally flawed, incoherent and objectionable incorrect on every point. Debating someone without logic is like trying to talk a trifle into sentience. Your comments are as pointless as your birth and you have delusions of adequacy...
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  2967.  rob  You already lost and I can't read your nonsense while you're crying and whining about brown people. Have we left the EU? Yes. Do we have higher migration to Britain under the Tories? yes as I pointed out Theresa May has the record of 650,000 in her last year as home secretary. Are bureaucrats under the direct control of politicians who head the department? yes. Are corporate lobbyists usurping democracy by funding politicians? yes. As I said, correct on all points and provably so. Now please stop annoying people who are your superior intellectually and physically.
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  2968.  rob  I've proven you wrong on every point you made, if you aren't able to see that I'm happy for you to continue proving your own idiocy. BTW under Labour in 2009 immigration was up to 196,000 a high for them. We were still part of the EU back then. Now we are out of the EU the Tories are in power and immigration is around 300,000 per annum. Over 100,000 higher than it ever was as a member of the EU when Labour was in power. So yea, keep ignoring reality and pretending to win, you're as delusional as Charlie Sheen on a 3-day bender...
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  2969.  @metalicminer6231  lol we've had a shortage of over 100,000 Nurses and Doctors in the NHS for the past 6 years, the main problems are immigration and lack of training and bursaries. It's called legislation and it's easy to read by going to the government's website. Why do you think the Tories have reduced immigration criteria for HGV drivers and butchers/slaughterhouse workers? Because we are trying to attract them from Europe, there is no worldwide shortage, but many of them in Britain left after Brexit added a load of red tape to their jobs. Please just stop your xenophobic logic, try facts instead. Your life sux because rich people take your taxes and legislation allows them to give you low wages, if you can't compete with someone who speaks English as a second language then that's your problem...
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  2970.  @taunteratwill1787  lol, you seem to be deluded into thinking that thinking about whether the billions of planets locally are or are not inhabited is an emotional instability. It's been considered by the most intelligent human beings since the dawn of understanding... It seems your comment is about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. But to be honest I'd rather attempt to teach a whale to fly than explain further...
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  2971.  @LordoftheFleet  We know there is life on other planets, what we don't know is whether there is intelligent life on other planets. I sometimes wonder if there's intelligent life on this planet...
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  2972.  @taunteratwill1787  Yes, that wasn't hidden from my understanding by your eloquent and insightful comment. The point is an ant doesn't fear the boot about to squash it because it doesn't have the understanding. Just in case you don't recognise sardonic comments and sarcasm by inference - you are the ant in that analogy...
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  2973. Try a spliff and a glass of wine instead. Maybe you would learn to mellow a little and get to know and respect your women...
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  2974.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Shhh, I told you before, let the adults talk. Seen and not heard!
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  2975. The wealthy's proxy war in the 'not so cold war'. Where the poor pay with taxes and lives to enrich the 1% (0.01%). This isn't about religion or ideology - this about resources and control - hegemony...
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  2976. Good for her, she works far too hard several days a year...
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  2977. Osmosis?
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  2978.  @EdsCanineAcademy  Sure thing and the loss of trillions and 50 year old trade agreements? all coincidental...
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  2979.  @Jonathan-yv2qj  Sorry try again, I can still hear that pathetic whining and crying in the background...
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  2980.  @Jonathan-yv2qj  Oh using my own joke, how original. So let's see you've done whataboutery, 'get over it' and repeating my own comments, you're out of ammo now I assume? You're about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  2981. I saw the video of her with a horse in Egypt, well I think it was a horse, could have been a body double.
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  2982.  @utoobsurfing2816  You're an oxymoron minus the oxy... 90% of US terror is right-wing! Proud boys deserve a good kicking...
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  2983.  @billnoel  Hundreds die every week from right-wing violence in the states, you haven't a leg to stand on buddy... When you learn how perspective works and are able to use critical thinking come back and we'll discuss the racial problems that Trump escalated...
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  2984.  @nikhilnewse3318  Probably because I wasn't there, I'd have flawed all the proud boys with a witty quip insulting their lack of intellect...
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  2985. What do Israelis do when they're not killing Palestinians, enforcing apartheid legislation or being an illegal nuclear power? Absolutely despicable...
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  2986. I think we should blame migrants for the collapse of our economy, the cost of living crisis, the NHS crisis, the losses from Brexit and any other problems that the Tories manufacture through their incompetence, greed and corruption in their relentless assault on sanity and logic...
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  2987.  @MCDONALD6969  Low taxes for consumers, high taxes for corporations with transparency to mitigate tax havens :)
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  2988. All those agreeing with this decision, are blissfully unaware this precedent can be used to lock them up next time they protest or march against the government... If you like the idea of no right to protest, then crack on with your dictatorship. Locked up for trying to stop thousands of pensioners dying every year from hypothermia...
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  2989. lol it's funny how blissfully ignorant you are... Enjoy the dictatorship you're enabling. These people have tried all the usual channels for decades, no one is listening... 10,000 pensioners die every year from the cold, I hope your elderly relatives survive this winter...
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  2990. @Democracy Agenda lol I've never read such illiterate, cognitive defecation in my life. Thank you for proving cognitive dissonance is rife...
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  2991.  Mark Gordon  *You're... I don't own any clowns. PS Don't let your mind wander mate, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  2992.  @colinmartin2921  lol you don't seem to realise you are wrong on every count. Most of our electricity that isn't renewables come from burning gas to create electricity...
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  2993.  Mark Gordon  What should frighten you is your ignorance and lack of intellect...
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  2994.  Mark Gordon  Biden is a corporate puppet and I despise people who abuse children. Your comments only prove your lack of intellect...
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  2995.  Mark Gordon  Theresa May covered up 90% of child abuse in this country, which involved over 120 wealthy elites. When she 'lost' those documents. I haven't been a member of the Labour party since the 90s when Blair dropped clause 4. Your pathetic attempts to malign me only serve to prove your ignorance...
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  2996.  @williamburnam4693  Get used to defeat :)
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  2997.  @supertuscans9512  Trump's a Scrotus!
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  2998. Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses... RATM
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  2999.  @janjan-dd4wv  You were, that's where that phrase originated and why it is still popular in modern vernacular... Not interested in circular debate with Tory defenders of little intellect...
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  3000. The Evil dwarf in the Garden of Eden that infects the land...
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  3001.  @petercooper2387  I may have paraphrased it unwittingly, I'm sure I've heard the same sentiment before and I did admire Benn.
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  3002.  Alex Holmes  I often pray to a 10ft effigy of Corbyn at night: Our ideology, that art for everyone, Socialism be thy name. Our time will come as Capitalism is undone. On Earth as it is inevitable. Give unto those your daily charity and forgive us our profits. As we forgive neoliberals who use profit against us. And lead us not into greed, but deliver us from monopolies. For thine is dialectical materialism, class struggle against the Tories. For ever and ever, Ahem...
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  3003. How could they have known in advance, it's not like Trump signed the peace treaty with the Taliban 18 months ago, committing the US and Afghanistan to this path and the obvious consequences...
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  3004. I hope he gets a visit from his mate Jeffrey's ghost...
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  3005. @Alexander You're defending the murder of children. Spreading so-called freedom and democracy cost over 70,000 Innocent civilians their lives in Afghanistan. Being lower than the Taliban isn't a good look.
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  3006.  @tommyk1210  "Mr Branson’s Virgin Care Ltd has gradually expanded its provision of NHS services since it 2010, with its website stating it has invested at least £75m to assist the health service - but its bids have also been rejected. It sued six clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Surrey, Surrey County Council and NHS England after it lost out on a £82m contract to run children's services in the area in 2016. The contract was instead given to Surrey Healthy Children and Families Services and two social enterprises. At the time, Virgin Care, which previously had a contract in Surrey, said it was "concerned that there may have been serious flaws in the procurement process". “Never before have we been so concerned with the whole process that we have needed to make a challenge of this nature." The six CCGs paid Virgin an undisclosed sum to settle the case out of court in November 2017. It was later reported that Surrey Downs CCG had a liability of £328,000 to a private company. The reference to the figure was later removed from the financial report."
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  3007.  @tommyk1210  https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/tax-avoiders-coronavirus-bailouts
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  3008.  @tommyk1210  "Richard Branson's Virgin Healthcare has paid no tax on £2billion NHS deals" https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/richard-bransons-virgin-healthcare-paid-21366075
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  3009.  @tommyk1210  No, you don't understand. He has been consistently dodging taxes and ripping off the British taxpayer, it's a personality trait and he is responsible for his actions and that of his businesses. If he was handed £2 billion in NHS contracts and failed to make a profit he is either inept, incompetent or more likely hiding his profits, using offshore tax havens and tax loopholes. If you can't make a profit you shouldn't be in business and if you don't pay the legally required corporation tax for the privilege of using taxpayer institutions and infrastructure, you're a scumbag.
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  3010.  @tommyk1210  Parasitic global multi-nationals get Labour where it's cheapest and sell their product at the highest price, while hiding profits, using tax dodges and loopholes and funnelling their profits to offshore accounts. They drain every society they infect and are role models to struggling billionaires like Branson. Feel free to continue to defend the parasitic worm, I've made my case eloquently and with evidence. I don't need to explain to you how the world really works. I have some fresh paint drying, that I'm looking forward to watching.
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  3011.  @tommyk1210  I've already provided the evidence, that a corporation gets £2 billion of our taxes in contracts from the NHS then claims a loss and pays absolutely no corporation tax. It's a scam, Branson used every trick in the book, many 'legal' ways to avoid to tax as well as many other illegal ways - hiding profits, putting losses from one company on to another and vice versa, tax loopholes, offshore accounts, funnelling money through low tax countries. Search for Branson and tax avoidance you'll find dozens of articles from a variety of sources. Like I said, I'm not here to educate you, you get butthurt coz Branson's your mom and ignore any argument or evidence given you. Look for yourself!
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  3012.  Cian MacGana  It was £50 billion in 2016, but since the pandemic, it's been cut globally.
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  3013.  @matthewhackett1710  Cash drops in the Caymans for soulless politicians Breaking their own rules and making cold-hearted descisions Brown paper envelopes which bribery brings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things.
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  3014.  @BewareOfTheKraut  Your reading comprehension and writing ability seem to be top-notch my friend. I do indeed give blood and no doubt the elite get their share as they sold off Britain's emergency blood supplies to Bain Capital in 2013. I had considered donating my internal organs to medical science, but have since decided to donate them to the Tories instead, who will no doubt eat them with a nice bottle of chianti. But I'm always looking for new ways to serve my kleptocratic elitist government and their corporate handlers :)
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  3015. Over 3 decades of lobbyists and governments being paid to turn a blind eye. Protesters have tried every legal route and every imaginative type of protest to change the public's minds because corporations and governments profit from the lack of action and won't listen...
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  3016.  @DropdudeJohn  My objective? seriously? what a pointless question. My point is that powerful organisations and governments are allowing a risk to the future of the human race. I don't have a defined objective other than to see the species survive...
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  3017. lol sure they are...
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  3018. Better off banning disposable politicians, disposable workers, disposable food, disposable tech, disposable values, disposable currency and this disposable society...
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  3019. To add to the billions of dollars worth of equipment the US had already given them...
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  3020.  @elstoniobanderas4091  lol no. Quality and production mostly.
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  3021.  @Anita-gp1gv  He sounds like he was a good man. My apologies for the following but I have to spread my own tenets of truth as I perceive them. They should have written "To those who bar their doors to the homeless, to those who build grand artifices to power and wealth, to those who allow children to suffer at the hands of those who should be trusted, to those who give power and blessings to megalomaniacs who war for resources, to those who collect money to enrich their own while many starve, thirst, freeze and live in poverty and distress." My conversation is always considered and I've read many texts from various religions. A good person remains a good person whether Muslim, Jew, Gentile, Atheist, Mormon, Christian, Hindu, Shinto, Confucian, Buddhist, Catholic, Spiritualist, Agnostic etc. Anyways, again my apologies for my candor. Take care!
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  3022.  @Swift-mr5zi  The AUKUS agreement was about nuclear-propelled subs to combat China which is something the UK, US and Aus have in common. Defence agreements are quite different to trade agreements, though obviously there's an element of trade. My point is about the Tories being untrustworthy and laughing stock on the international stage...
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  3023. Agreed m8, They could put Fred West (when he was alive) on that show and if he got all the stars he'd come home to forgiveness and probably start a nice little patio business...
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  3024. British taxpayer now paying to protect Israeli genocide by targeting the remains of the Saudi genocide in Yemen? Pity we don't have investigative journalism anymore...
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  3025. Just think, when they mature they'll leave the ocean and skip through the surf to join the grazing herds of wild horses already on the land...
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  3026. How many comments do I have to post to get one through the censorship? "It's not the left, it's the media amplifying the views of a few idiots to polarise the public. If you want to know what is ridiculous listen to the right who claim Bankers are all Marxists, Anti-Fascism is Fascism, Hit-ler was a Socialist, Anti-Racists are Racists and Communists billionaires run the world. So many contradictions and conflations that prove how cognitive dissonance is rife on the right..."
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  3027.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  Yea I know mate, I think you're the only person that does that. Most people just have it set to default 'most popular', I'm guessing you're a fellow Welshman from your name , possible further north than me in Blaenavon :)
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  3028.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  :~)
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  3029.  @rabmcnair4488  Agreed mate, the mainstream media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  3030.  @monkeymox2544  lol fair enough, my bad. My late-stage terminal sarcasm sometimes blinds me to it in others. I think the main point to take from Marx is that capitalism is inherently flawed, extends the poverty gap and polarises capital. Not to mention the evolution of ideas and materials and how they affect class struggle (Dialectical and Historical Materialism).
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  3031.  @prodigalsin6621  Thanks and agreed, I like that quote. If only people realised the power they have and stopped giving it to the unworthy.
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  3032.  @redhandtheblack  Thank you!
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  3033.  @vicarious7858  Hopefully mate, but after 50 years of watching things get steadily worse I've come to the conclusion that only direct action will change things. Power is never given only taken.
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  3034.  @riyadougla539  Legislation both anti-worker and anti-union as well as legislation that limits our right to assembly and protest stops us. But yes also some of the "I'm all right jack" brigade are to blame.
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  3035.  @robertlangley1664  They aren't being processed and put up in hotels because the Tories aren't processing the paperwork and have closed all the migrant centres. We could make 2,000 migrant millionaires every single week for the cost of corporate welfare and subsidies alone... That's 2 billion every single week given to the wealthy and you cry about a few million a week... It ain't migrants costing you, it's the Tories and their rich mates, who then blame the migrants. Maybe stop falling for their trick of pointing at immigrants while they lift your wallet out of your back pocket...
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  3036.  @barneybuster8915  They cost you money. You own their estates and the profits from tourism as a taxpayer. They just live there because George III went bankrupt after he lost America as a colony and made a deal with the state for a pension plan for his descendants which we've paid for over 250 years...
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  3037. A Recession is an amphibious mammal that inhabits the Amazon basin and spends its time hunting between the river and the rain forest... It was discovered in 1066 by Mr Tom Recession who named it after his daughter Lisa...
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  3038. Corporate apology template: Dear Pauper, We are sorry we killed/offended/caused suffering/caused catastrophic environmental damage or anything else you financially deprived peasants like to moan about. Please be advised our board of directors and shareholders are only concerned with profit. Unless you actually hit us where it hurts (profit margins) we will ignore you and continue to do just as we please. Please also be aware that we are probably too big to fail but if we do you will bail us out. We will make more money from this situation than will be fined because of it and therefore no longer give a damn what you think. Kind Regards, Profiteering morally devoid incompetents who are ruining the planet and risking the future of the species for short-term financial gains...
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  3039. It's disgraceful and he did so with full knowledge of the consequences. The rise of the right is pushed by the media as they force the Overton window even further to the right. The Tories are wholly responsible for the jingoism in the press and the misinformation as they use migrants to distract us from their ever-growing incompetence using demeaning short-sighted rhetoric. "A rising number of far-Right extremists radicalised online in their bedrooms are trying to acquire weapons to carry out lethal attacks, the head of MI5 said on Wednesday as he warned of a continuing serious terror threat to this country."
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  3040.  @puertodesuerte415  Agreed, the debt will never get paid and GDP will never grow enough to resolve it as that would leave the Tories with the problem of having to spend money on infrastructure and public services. They will carry on their failed ideology of Neoliberalism and keep debt high, even if they need to hide profits. That way they keep their control over us, we are simply collateral and cash cows, in times of war we are cannon fodder.
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  3041. No you are now a party paid for by corporate lobbyists and only a small improvement from the Tories. You no longer represent the working class or unions but the status quo and the developing corporatocracy... Corbyn is 100x the man Starmer is...
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  3042.  @stuartpenman6387  I'm 50 and not interested in educating you. You don't understand basic fiscal terms or even how mathematics works. You are simply not up to the level of understanding to make debate worthwhile. You call me a kid when you use capital letters for whole sentences and know nothing of punctuation. If you think lost profits or lost taxes are irrelevant then you don't understand how the economy works. You can't even formulate a sentence... Come back when you reach sentience...
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  3043. Video conferences leave a trail that can be used to prosecute a corrupt politician...
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  3044. Being subject to feudal aristocratic rule is nothing to be proud of...
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  3045. When I was young we had a cat named Whiskers. He was black and white and had really long whiskers, hence the name. One day he came into the kitchen with a vole in his mouth. The End. If you would like to know what happened to the vole I'll start a gofundme account, or you will never know if the vole was alive or dead and have to live with that uncertainty for the rest of your life! Muahahaha...
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  3046.  @evokestudiosbrighton  Yes, the situation was far more toxic at the last general election. Starmer didn't mind pushing Corbyn headlong into that toxicity! He's a moral coward and an opportunist.
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  3047. But then Jacob Rees-Mogg is a condescending, amoral, no-skill, inherited wealth, nanny fed, elitist product of the shallow end of the British gene pool and decades of stagnant evolution. It's well known that the Mogg gene hasn't evolved since the 19th century.
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  3048.  @RainerMichelle  Geopolitics is not your forte, please leave your BS at the door...
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  3049.  @RainerMichelle  Your argument is facile and your knowledge of geopolitics is basic. If you don't want brown people coming into Britain, be honest and admit it, stop trying to legitimise your base xenophobia with pointless statements. We created the migrant crisis in the middle east and Africa(Libya) via war and looting. We also as part of NATO set the scene for the invasion of Ukraine, by trying to manipulate them into joining NATO so they could be used as a base on Russia's doorstep.
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  3050.  @RainerMichelle  You know nothing and the topic of the piece is about the UK, immigration has increased since Brexit and doubled since the last Labour government. You should learn to read stats instead of talking BS all day... We (Britain) created those international laws after ww2... You keep making yourself look ever more ignorant of politics, geopolitics and basic logic... PS Immigrants contribute more than native Brits to our economy as many studies have proven...
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  3051.  @theressomelovelyfilthdownh4329  Agreed. Many people who voted Tory only did so using excuses such as getting Brexit done or using tabloid misconceptions about Corbyn and his manifesto. Such a shame.
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  3052.  @LeeGee  No mate, that's not what I said. I said to think carefully about what you say and also that AS was not to be tolerated. Read all the comments!
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  3053. The UK is full of well-honed drones that continually vote Tory. They too have done a lot of damage...
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  3054. I think vegetable stock is the new thing, and all those investing in chicken stock will find their investments dwindle...
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  3055. ...and another thing, all this talk about testing key workers. Why the hell are locksmiths getting preferential treatment?
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  3056.  @krisstoff7479  Well, this may take a while. But essentially it's what we in Britain call a joke. Key workers - locksmith...
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  3057.  @proximap2151  40% of jobs are BS, remaking things that have built-in obsolesce to reduce its shelf life. We have as much plastic in our food as we fill the Ocean with. We have reduced global genetic diversity by 65% at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction and may have already caused the extinction of the species. Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency are a joke since the loss of the gold standard money is no longer backed by any physical resource. To prove the ludicrousy of Capitalism we have $289 trillion global debt which is over three and half times global GDP. Next.
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  3058.  @Meltdown555  Thank you for the mundane, trite and inane comment. There is no one to reply to your comment at the moment. As soon as we can be arsed, we'll have someone get back to you...
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  3059. Wonderful news, I'm so glad we still have a ruling class to pay for - who lord it over us while we sweat and toil just to pay our bills. So glad we didn't evolve beyond a monarchy and are still treated like serfs. Makes me proud to be an illiterate peasant, happy to vote for the continued inequity. Long live feudalism!
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  3060.  @bp-lx7lf  Thanks and hopefully yes, some of us 50-year-olds know the score.
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  3061.  @Ant-dx8yt  Rugby football or association football? "University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” and has taken off since"...
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  3062. Love the way my comments keep losing likes because of the right-whingers I've upset the 'feelings' of in the past...
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  3063. Trying to lay a self-fulfilling prophecy in the minds of the electorate and hoping we forget how inept and corrupt the Tories are. Gaslighting set to 110%...
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  3064.  @sarahnewton2550  I know how you feel, Just sit back and enjoy the show as corporate billionaires ascend to omnipotent deities in a dystopian corporatocracy while the human race, our history and achievements are gradually devoured by the rancid, festering disease known as disaster capitalism...
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  3065.  @sarahnewton2550  I wish an ideological shift or humanitarian renaissance was possible. But as is often said, power isn't given, only ever taken. Those with power employ vast resources to retain it. At the risk of more cliches: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have dark hours ahead of us If we want to see the light of dawn.
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  3066. Broken Boris, Broken Britain. I'm just glad we allow corrupt, privileged elitists to run our economy into the ground while reducing our lifespans and killing our elderly relatives. Shows we know our place. Long may the cap-doffing, forelock-tugging British public be reigned over by clueless aristocrats...
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  3067. Energy saving tip: Vote out the Tories, break up the energy monopoly/cartel and take control of your own government with harsh penalties for those who sell taxpayer assets to corporations...
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  3068. Tardigrades can survive extreme temperatures such as absolute zero and above boiling, can live without food and water for 30 years, can live in the vacuum of space and at 6x the pressure of the ocean's deepest trenches. But even Tardigrades can't match the survival skills of Tory MPs who can cling to power as a leech to main artery...
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  3069.  @guff9567  Nothing, I'll leave you in bliss...
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  3070.  @mental9453  Well i could mention his 'Will Smith' outburst regarding his wife's illegal/immoral tax issues and funding of the Russian state at a time when Rishi was telling British businesses not to prop up Putin. The fact that he was an American citizen with a green card when he was in government. The investigation into his non-dom status and tax records by the government's standards watchdog. The fact that Labour accuses his family of defrauding the British people of millions in unpaid taxes. That's just the past year and there is plenty more I could say!
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  3071. Let them eat cake!
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  3072.  @reasonerenlightened2456  Agreed, those on the lowest wages spend all their money. They don't have spare to save and invest so they put it all back into growing the economy. Many countries powered their way through the financial crisis that way while the Tories chose to implement austerity which slowed growth.
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  3073. They cost me as a taxpayer over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies while neglecting to pay between £40-120 billion per annum in corporate taxes, not to mention the constant price hikes and bailouts...
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  3074.  @Hex_is  Timeshare Afgansitan, no one gets to keep it.
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  3075. Well, I for one am glad we still have a ruling class to pay for - who lord it over us while we sweat and toil just to pay our bills. So glad we didn't evolve beyond a monarchy and are still treated like serfs. Makes me proud to be an illiterate peasant, happy to vote for the continued inequity. Land of dopes and Tories...
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  3076.  @twoface6184  Read my previous reply, too many ignorant comments on YT these days.
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  3077.  @dropsdrops  They aren't illegal immigrants until they've been refused citizenship. Poland has gone back on its agreements and so they are the ones acting illegally... I'm not going to waste anymore more time arguing with right-whingers who are ignorant of the facts...
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  3078.  @dropsdrops  The UN Refugee Convention does not make that requirement of refugees, refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Poland signed an agreement to take in refugees and has now gone back on that agreement. They aren't illegal immigrants until they've been refused asylum legally. Stop perpetuating ignorance...
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  3079.  @Cabbage22927  Poland took part in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan as my previous comment clearly shows. They also signed agreements to do so. Take responsibility.
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  3080.  @shchenka  Shush already defeated that nonsense...
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  3081. @Hotovo Done But they did create the refugees by taking part in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan so take responsibility...
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  3082.  @Rdjzozet  lol not interested in excuses. Poland sent troops to both areas, Poland signed agreements to take their share of migrants, they are refugees from the Middle East as it clearly states in the article, how do you legally become a refugee? how do you get paperwork when your home and family were bombed? I'm sick of making the same points repeatedly.
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  3083.  @namelessking8905  No they don't, they signed agreements to take their fair share of migrants. I'm not crying, pathetic child. I'm not interested in arguing with thick people who have no logical arguments. I've already won the argument and you right-whingers can cry and whine all day for all I care.
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  3084.  @Cabbage22927  It states refugees from the Middle East in the article, know any other middle eastern countries that have been lotte4d and bombed recently? Stop this pathetic whining...
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  3085.  @dropsdrops  lol are you serious? Plane tickets? seriously? Do you expect refugees to get first-class tickets out of a warzone after they've lost everything? Most of them have lost their family, documents, money, everything and have already risked their lives on the open seas in a small boat. Stop being so utterly clueless...
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  3086.  @Rdjzozet  I haven't said Poland bombed anyone, I'm so sick of thick right-whingers. They are obliged to take asylum seekers under international law. Poland signed agreements when they joined the EU in 2004. Why are you people so utterly pathetic? "Poland’s mistreatment of migrants trying to enter via its border with Belarus is seen by legal experts as one further step in the erosion of refugee rights established by international law."
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  3087.  @dropsdrops  I've already said in my reply to you "and have already risked their lives on the open seas in a small boat" so why bother to prove you are incapable of understanding the written word? I've provided all the facts and I'm sick of you thickos who have no idea about Poland being a member of the EU, being a member of NATO and being responsible for the invasion in which they sent troops. You have no clue about international law and I've answered the same questions repeatedly... How dumb are you?
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  3088.  @namelessking8905  Pathetic whining little man who understands nothing. Stop proving how incredibly naive, ignorant and thick you are. Go cry somewhere else or use intellect and logic to rebut the facts... They are obliged to take asylum seekers under international law. Poland signed agreements when they joined the EU in 2004. Why are you people so utterly pathetic? "Poland’s mistreatment of migrants trying to enter via its border with Belarus is seen by legal experts as one further step in the erosion of refugee rights established by international law."
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  3089.  @dropsdrops  lol cry some more, you lost because you don't understand a thing about the situation. Learn what the term refugee means, learn about international law, learn about Poland's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, learn about international agreements that are signed by joining the EU, learn to read an article and understand a situation before commenting. I won't reply again because you are all pathetic ignorants who think you can state opinion rather than facts. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, captivating debate, but this wasn't it!
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  3090.  @Rdjzozet  Still crying? Belarus made a dic move. But facts are facts... "Learn what the term refugee means, learn about international law, learn about Poland's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, learn about international agreements that are signed by joining the EU, learn to read an article and understand a situation before commenting."
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  3091.  @Rdjzozet  My sources are Polish government stats, international law, historical facts regarding the invasions and EU regulations and agreements. All perfectly easy to read and takes a lot more than 15 mins to understand the geopolitical implications. Britain is just as bad and I say the same about my own government so stop whining. I'm half a century old and sick to death of you trying to make an argument out of nothing, you lost because you were wrong and ignorant of the facts, get over it.
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  3092.  @Rdjzozet  I blame all those countries and say exactly the same about them, including my own government. Your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker and make about as much sense as a vertical ejector seat in a helicopter...
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  3093.  @Rdjzozet  lol you can't win the argument so you accuse me of misunderstanding when I've already posted all the facts? I know about this story and the history of the Arab Spring, international law, EU regulations and asylum regulations. That's all I need to know, I haven't mentioned anything specific to Poland only this story. You can't get even a small win, so stop trying. You're about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  3094.  @georgeb248  No they can just leave the EU and ignore their commitments to international law and see how that works out for them... Dope!
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  3095.  @desra_  lol it's in the fking story I don't need to know anything about ~Poland, all the facts are available!
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  3096.  @desra_  This story has fk all to do with Polish history or politics, this is all clearly outlined by the facts I've already given a thousand times. My knowledge or Poland is irrelevant because I've read the story and the history of the Arab Spring, Nato, Legislation, International law and UN resolutions... Your argument is flawed...
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  3097.  @szurikan82  France has taken in over 1 million Polish immigrants and here in the UK we have 2 million Polish immigrants, Germany has taken around 400,000 as have other European countries...
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  3098.  @euwonder6170  That was one woman in the report I read... There are thousands of them, have you interviewed them all?
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  3099.  @readbooksinsteadofmyname7369  We have 2 million Polish immigrants in Britain, I grew up with children whose grandparents were Polish Jewish who came here after Hitler invaded Poland. Polish fighter pilots defended the UK in the battle of Britain mate, this ain't hate it's about truth. I wasn't a Brexiteer. At least six of the immigrants have frozen to death, they have no food or water and some who have crossed into Poland have been escorted back into Belarus at gunpoint... “Poland has been cruelly holding this group of people on their border in horrendous conditions for weeks,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said in a statement. “Our analysis shows irrefutably on 18 August, their position shifted from Poland to Belarus overnight, which strongly suggests that they were victims of an unlawful pushback.”
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  3100.  @Rdjzozet  Can't you right-wing sponges read? I keep posting facts that I've read in multiple articles, you lot keep posting the same BS that has already been rebutted. Do you know how debate works? no, because you're pathetic...
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  3101.  @Rdjzozet  I'm the only one who has posted actual facts rather than opinion, which is why I like to point out your intellectual negligence and infirmity...
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  3102.  @pawelm5662  Read some articles that clearly state Iraq, Afghanistan and Lybia...
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  3103.  @Rdjzozet  What does nationality matter, when we are talking about EU laws and UN resolutions? You are a joke...
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  3104.  Egert Roos  lol seems millions of Poles disagree since they left after 2004 when they had the opportunity thanks to the EU and free movement...
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  3105.  @Z3kingw  Yes, that's why as I previously stated millions of them left in 2004 taking advantage of free movement in the EU. Over 800,000 came to Britain and forced us to build Polish markets... lol
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  3106.  @Z3kingw  I've already answered those points several times in this thread and others on this story. I remember many Poles being given sanctuary in other countries when a Fascist dictator invaded... Despite you sending troops with NATO to Iraq and Afghanistan you don't want to help your allies who are fleeing persecution and death from the Taliban... Ironic...
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  3107.  @artygracja2097  lol half-truths mate. Nothing to do with Brexit, but Belarus are using them. Most are refugees and yes they want to go to Germany.
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  3108. A socialist would tax the banks, doh!
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  3109.  @jannichi6431  Not to mention rising global tensions, it's a huge mistake in this day and age to rely on imports for the basics.
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  3110.  @dearmas9068  My apologies but while I'd love to correct your fallacious, illogical comments, It would be like debating a hamster with a head injury...
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  3111.  @dudleydoright3398  It's called a joke. Take note: Vampires don't exist!
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  3112. I'm not a master poet, But for the right words I'll hunt. My apologies for the inference, But Donald is a...
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  3113. (It flies in the face of all the “justifications”) Yes, it also flies in the face of logic, reason and sanity...
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  3114.  @jeremysmith8035  Yes but then Tories are kleptocratic parasites asset-stripping the country and wielding economic euthanasia as if it were a friggin' superpower.
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  3115. After 13+ years of duplicity, incompetence and robbery I'm surprised anybody would vote for the Tories. However, I say that each election and I'm always shocked at the amount of votes they get. It's as if half the UK just vote Tory to spite the other half, cutting off their own nose to spite their face...
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  3116. Have the connotation parade in the middle of the night for all I care and most people I know agree, we got bigger problems than spoilt royals...
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  3117. Tories! it's the answer to most questions regarding problems with Britain.
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  3118. Manifesting your destiny again America? not the way...
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  3119.  @bradwest4821  I agree it's not the end times yet. However, hope doth not butter the bread. The only way to fix society is to accept something is wrong and point it out until change happens. All this positive thinking is for cattle as they head to the slaughterhouse...
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  3120. Excellent points and far too logical and sane for our government to ever consider. They won't bite the hand that feeds them, they'd rather feed us to their corporate lobbyist paymasters.
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  3121.  @cockneycharm3970  I always liked this meme regarding the importance of punctuation. There's a maypole dancing contest. Theresa May, pole dancing contest.
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  3122.  @4thzone697  Even China has said the new AUKUS subs are intensifying the arms race. Not to mention the Australians are talking about possibly a new design instead of an astute-class vessel. While the UK is set to increase production of its Virginia class and is about to commence the Columbia class SSBN programme which is related to my point regarding the escalation of nuclear proliferation. I haven't said anything about the ballistic capabilities of these subs, merely a reference to the obvious global conflict emerging...
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  3123.  @boofuu3145  Trump dropped out the nuclear treaties which restarted the nuclear arms race... Are you blind to logic, reason and linear time?
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  3124.  @4thzone697  I'm not defending China, I'm just pointing out the severity of the restarting of nuclear proliferation, the recent weapon tests globally and troop movements globally for anyone with half a brain can see a new age of warfare is about to hit humanity. Some may say it's already started with cyberattacks, industrial accidents, warehouse fires, internet outages, plane crashes, tanker/oil well fires and beachings and so on. lol, people on social media making up arguments, I made a general comment, no mention of nuclear warheads or the ballistic capabilities of these subs, yet I'm being corrected on things I haven't said...
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  3125. Imagine living in a society where you pay taxes and after a hard day of work have to volunteer to feed those worse off than yourself. The government misuse our taxes then abdicate their responsibility for its citizens. We should have national strikes and protests, Britain needs a backbone!
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  3126. Maybe a system of debt and wage slavery drives people to drink?
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  3127.  @Crashed131963  I never use links and can't post ONS statistics... So how many countries have China destroyed via lies and regime change in the past century?
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  3128.  @Crashed131963  The south China sea has a US fleet in them... I'm not sure if claiming a 1,000 miles of water is your territory is as bad as using lies to waste trillions of taxpayer money, many of whom live in debt and food poverty, to attack several countries in order to loot their natural resources while killing millions of people and displacing millions more... I haven't even mentioned torture, rape, war crimes, the use of mercenaries to avoid international legislation or the human trafficking and slavery yet...
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  3129. It seems sex scandals, a failing economy and the lack of respect of the British public while most of his own party want to get rid of him - are not enough to make him resign. But then again arrogant, privileged elitists never have to suffer the consequences of their own actions... Maybe we shouldn't have multi-millionaires are aristocrats in such positions of power, with access to the public's taxes that they use as their own little piggy bank?
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  3130. I hate it when that happens...
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  3131. Fair enough putin the boot into Putin. But who dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties and restarted nuclear proliferation and pushed the world into conflict? An overgrown Oompa Loompa...
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  3132. Agreed, and I'm also a Welsh Celt and proud.
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  3133.  @julianshepherd2038  No, they pay as much as 10x the price of generic medicines for brand names. There's a story from last year where firms were fined £70 million for overcharging the NHS. Feel free to do research...
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  3134.  @julianshepherd2038  PS the CMA also fined firms £35 million for an illegal arrangement regarding prescription anti-nausea medication. I have plenty more examples...
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  3135.  @Ash-os1dz  No he dropped out of the nuclear treaty with Iran, and the Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia and the Open Skies Arms Control Treaty. The USA has never been run by a president, your backers and handles make the descisions...
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  3136.  @rwc20071  Sorry but I can't argue with propaganda it lacks logic and reason. Your argument is that nuclear treaties don't work? and that we'd be in the same position without them? lol you may want to read about the number of missile tests by various regimes since the treaties were dropped...
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  3137.  @Ash-os1dz  He's still responsible for his own actions or are we ignoring logic and reason?
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  3138.  @HumanBeing...  My apple ogies. I have a joke for you. What have the Coronavirus and the Tories got in common? (apart from not having a cure for either) They both like to disproportionately target the poor, elderly, minorities, disabled and vulnerable.
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  3139.  @HumanBeing...  No worries, My first language should be Welsh, but not many people in the South speak Welsh fluently since the English teachers beat Welsh children with a stick for speaking Welsh in Welsh schools during the 18th and 19th centuries! (I wish that was a sarcastic witty quip, but alas it's true) All British children sing that rhyme at school or when playing. So it's well known here in Britain.
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  3140.  @bookie5667  I'm filtered on even basic comments. So yes the reason should be obvious...
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  3141.  @bookie5667  Well spotted, have a banana. How did you survive infancy?
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  3142.  @PercivalBlakeney  Just use two devices and don't log in to your account on one of them. It's easy to tell when you get filtered if you use scientific methodology...
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  3143.  @bookie5667  To think you could have typed something witty or intelligent. This is about as much fun as trying to teach a whale to fly or talk a trifle into sapience...
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  3144.  @corruptinternationalzionis4154  I made a similar but less cryptic comment, it was deleted :P
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  3145. lol at the sad, pathetic comments of ignorant people who obviously didn't even understand what the story was about. Such ignorance and lack of intellect on display in the comments, I really do feel sorry for the pathetic human beings with nothing better to do than prove their own stupidity...
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  3146. Oh, they were tsunami sirens and not wildfire sirens...
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  3147. Personally I think It's Corbyn. Either that or poor people who use food banks. Or immigrants. Or the unemployed. Or single mothers. Or the elderly. Or the disabled...
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  3148.  @nickbarton3191  Thanks Nick!
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  3149.  @stevec700  You mean Brexit and Starmer and his centrist buddies torpedoed Corbyn while the tabloids did a character assassination on him. Again all you have is tabloid opinion pieces, sad to think you're so easily led...
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  3150.  @MrBirdistheword444  Take your prejudice to someone gullible enough to fall for it. We have £2.7 trillion national debt, a GDP of over 100% earlier this year, we gave £120.1 billion in subsidies to corporations in 2021 and our GDP is roughly 3 trillion per annum. The Tories are responsible for over 3/4rs of our national debt. they're responsible for crashing the economy and responsible for the huge losses and generational debt from Brexit. Including the loss of over £115 billion per annum in trade with the EU...
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  3151. How many years to have to snort coke to get that crazy-eyed Charlie Sheen winning look?
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  3152. @Lies Tricks PS Bezos has $124 billion which is enough money to spend $1 million every single day for 339 years. He can afford to pay decent wages.
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  3153. @Lies Tricks Sorry but there are too many logical fallacies and straight-up misinformation in your post. Legislation is clearly the issue and corporate greed, if you think he's earned his money and deserves it after tax avoidance, sweatshops and paying poverty wages you're a fool. You have the cheek to insult me? lol
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  3154. @Lies Tricks lol legislation is the government's fault? like some other body creates legislation. You've never heard of corporate lobbyists and don't understand that they override citizens' wishes. Take fracking for example. You keep going around in circles saying absolutely childish responses and expect me to spend my intellect and time in a circular debate with a half-wit. Then you miss the point of my joke and try to use it against me... You don't even understand debate. You can't just make stuff up based on assumptions when someone puts facts to you. You have to disprove their facts or provide alternate facts. It's called a rebuttal. I'm not interested in unfounded opinions based on anecdotal evidence. Provide a rebuttal of my facts or facts of your own to back up your delusions... This isn't a chat in the pub, I couldn't give a flying f about your inconsistent, contradictory, illogical beliefs. They only exist in your head...
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  3155. lol can't debate a child.
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  3156. @Lies Tricks no facts? just excuses again and lies... lol
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  3157. @Lies Tricks I've provided facts and stats to prove my points. You just offer an opinion that flies in the face of logic with no facts. You haven't rebutted a single thing I've said. You lost and I'm not wasting my time explaining that to you over and over.
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  3158. @Lies Tricks Common knowledge and ONS/IFS stats don't need references and YT doesn't permit them. You learned how to search google? then my work here is done... "There's a voice that keeps on calling me, down the road is where I'll always be. Every stop I make. I make a new friend. Can't stay for long, Just turn around and I'm gone again."
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  3159. @Lies Tricks lol this is why I stated earlier that it's pointless to debate you... Common knowledge is things everyone's aware of through the tabloids, ONS and IFS are the predominant sources of information for government data and fiscal info.
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  3160. @Lies Tricks lol ONS and IFS are the most respected sources, the fact that you are talking about logical fallacies while ignoring reasoned arguments backed by facts is laughable. I'm saying you seem unable to accept statistics and facts which prove your opinionated rants to be fallacies based on anecdotal evidence. If you are unaware of what everyone else in the country has read in the tabloids and seen in government reports, then that's not my problem. Automation as I've already pointed out wouldn't be a problem if the cash cows being fleeced had an alternative source of income. But they don't. Your ad homs and logical fallacies prove debate is impossible as you further this circular debate. Read stats and facts and stop trying to analyse me, your pop psychology 101 is inaccurate and pointless. Don't reply again unless you can provide facts to counter the plethora of facts I've already given. I'm not interested in your opinion!
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  3161. @Lies Tricks You already have the source and the figures. While you have provided nothing. I'm not wasting any time listening to your pathetic ad homs! I've had a wonderful, enlightening, insightful debate. But this wasn't it!
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  3162. @Lies Tricks If you're unable to search a simple stat when you have the figure and the source then you lack ability. You know I can't post links on YT and a 2 second search would answer your question. You are sealioning me and its a sad way to waste your life...
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  3163. @Lies Tricks lol more sealioning and ad homs. I'm not wasting my life explaining the obvious to someone who lacks basic research abilities. If you can't research figures when given them and their source then you don't have the ability to debate either. ONS stats are all government statistics compiled by civil servants. IFS is a financial organisation that publishes fiscal data. They aren't individuals. Ultimately automation is a good thing. The way corporations abuse technology to lower wages and deprive people of work is a bad thing. Last reply. Won't reply again...
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  3164.  @oneeyedgirl617  It certainly is, a tiny minority own and control the vast majority of global resources and the poverty gap keeps growing.
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  3165.  @independentwarfootage4909  The disaster capitalists used them just as they used US and UK soldiers. They don't care about the people who helped them. They have what they wanted.
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  3166.  @ForFreedom  lest* You've been judged ;-) "For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again"
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  3167.  @DropdudeJohn  PS The average doctor takes between 20-30 years to pay off their student debt. So they obviously aren't paid a fair wage...
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  3168.  @feliciabrofford4673  He called the cops because he feared for his life when the cop first tried to stop him. That's the reason so many cops were there and why they tried to stop the dog being set on him. Read the story from multiple sources. The cops are well known in that area and being a trucker it wasn't his first time, he knew what to expect if he stopped. What are you trying to justify? an animal set another animal on him. He hadn't broken any laws other than not stopping immediately...
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  3169. So crashing the economy, fleecing the taxpayer, increasing the cost of living and scrapping things is all the Tories are good for. If only more people in the UK accepted that simple fact we could avoid all the misery and poverty...
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  3170.  @micallef87  That's mostly myth. You mean when we had a fully funded NHS, you could walk into a doctors surgery and be seen within minutes, a single wage could feed a family and cover the mortgage, housing list to avoid homelessness, free university and a secure job with a pension you could comfortably live on in your old age?
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  3171.  @tagb1107  Agreed, Heath was elected on a mission to crush the Unions in 1970, then Thatcher finished the job. She reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Land of dopes and Tories.
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  3172.  @lee9650  Yea all the infighting, swapping PMs and crashing the economy so Rishi could come in and make things worse, good one! What do you do for an encore?
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  3173. It's probably something to do with the shadow war being played out...
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  3174.  @Hertz2laugh  Your argument also works for humans, we are all going to die no matter what, either cancer or a car accident, or brutally murdered in a robbery... I used to work in butchers I've been veggie for 35 years. If we went back in time I wouldn't have a problem hunting animals for food out of necessity. No form of farming is cute and cuddly, farmers slaughter piglets before they are old enough to have had a nice life, suckling pig for example. I was simply pointing out the contradiction in your comment. Yes, small farms that give their animals a decent life is better than industrial farming, but the end result remains the same.
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  3175.  @mel4856  Thank you! The Tories have run the country with all the compassion and decency of Fred and Rosemary West and the NHS is their patio...
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  3176.  @mel4856  Yes m8, YT filters 80% of what I type. I have to keep finding new ways to type the same thing lol.
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  3177.  @rulebritannia3147  Celts are true Britons, you're the invader if you're an Anglo-Saxon, you don't even know your own history...
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  3178. Whip was taken away from him? it should have been used on him!
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  3179.  @Greenpoloboy3  I used to stay out until past 10pm when I was a teen. When I was an adult it would be more like 3 or 4 am. But then there was lots of raves in 90s.
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  3180.  @hunternedib1119  People who ask for examples, evidence, proofs etc are generally sealioning. Especially when it's a question of understanding through innate sentience or sapience. If you lack both no one can help you!
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  3181.  @captaincanada5139  My pleasure. He won't change, he's willfully ignorant and has no factual arguments. Just bitterness and the tears of a man so bereft of wisdom he thinks an aging wealthy con man is on his side and will fix all his problems.
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  3182.  @DropdudeJohn  Too many to explain. Start with the loss of 4.5% of our GDP which is around £100-130 billion per annum. The loss of workers and the fall in real terms of our wages due to inflation. The spending power of what we have now due to the increase in product costs. The lack of variety and shortages we still have on our supermarket shelves. The problems with imports and exports which has caused many small businesses to go under. The changes to our rights that have already happened and more being debated in parliament - such as HMRC, Human rights. The drop in food quality since our degradation of food standards. There are 100s more, but you won't listen. You do this on every post I make, no matter how many times I explain them to you...
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  3183.  @markwelch3564  I invested in sunlit uplands and now have a unicorn farm which is doing quite well.
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  3184. lol drain the swamp? they've allowed the swamp to submerge most of the UK in fetid, sewerage just like our beaches and rivers. Poverty, polarization, bullying, economic devastation they've turned the British people against each other in a relentless attack on sanity and reason...
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  3185. A little reading for you and your viewers related to your post about names. I recently looked into my name out of curiosity, which like most Brits is derived from a mixed European heritage. Steven is derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) meaning crown, wreath, to encircle, while Paul derives from the Roman family name Paulus which comes from the Latin adjective meaning "small", "humble", "least" or "little". Parker is Old French (Anglo-Norman) "parquier" with the meaning "keeper of the park" commonly employed by lords to hunt, tend and look after their grounds. As my name Is Steven Paul Parker I'd like to think it means to encircle the humble who work on the land. To defend the workers. I know it sounds arrogant to say it like that. But is it possible names do have a deeper meaning? what does your full name mean and do you feel any connection to the meaning as a whole?
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  3186.  @David_Jones8112  Good name :)
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  3187. Tim, Brexiteers are happy to lose trillions to get a drink of their illusionary Sovereign Tea. They'd happily spend a lot more of taxpayers' money on the chance of spitefully stopping the desperate from finding refuge. Tories love to manifest a migrant crisis as a distraction, this won't change anything, the Tories want to keep using migrants to distract from their appalling corruption and kleptocracy...
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  3188.  @edwardvalivonis23  I can't argue with stupid so I won't...
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  3189. @Washing Machine I grew up with Polish Jews who came to Britain after Hitler invaded, and I'm grateful for the Polish fighter pilots who helped fight the Nazis in the battle of Britain in return for citizenship. Read history...
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  3190. Who dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties and forced the world back into nuclear proliferation? Answers on a postcard kids!
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  3191.  @DropdudeJohn  You've never heard of the Crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? Take your tired rhetoric to someone else...
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  3192. Agreed, yet this brings the total up to over 200 mass shootings this year alone, with over 200 dead and over 750 injured. It's also increasing from around 40 a month, this month's total is 66 so far.
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  3193.  @lmy2366  Have you heard of technology? Technology has moved on which provides access to transportation and social mobility. As far as I'm aware cars, trains and powered boats didn't exist back then so talking about people dying in the town they were born is lazy logic. We are talking about the fact that despite almost 1,000 years of advancement we can't collect firewood to heat our homes, tens of thousands die of hypothermia every winter, millions of children go hungry and don't have the option to even eat berries and nuts from the local trees, because there are none, they've been replaced by aesthetically pleasing but not edible vegetation.
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  3194.  @lmy2366  Only those with money can invest and provide themselves other sources of income. The vast majority of people rely on wages alone. Andy is 100% correct and you seem to be delusional and talking nonsense. Pensions are paid for by contributions out of your wages. They are not wages, but returns on investments you made during your employment...
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  3195.  @lmy2366  What a bizarre irrelevant question. My comment has nothing to do with the density of invention but the fact that over 1,000 years we've learned a lot about diseases, nutrition, physics, education, thermal dynamics, flight etc Which makes life easier and should extend the lives of all...
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  3196.  @lmy2366  lol I can't argue with illogical nonsense. Using inflation-adjusted figures just shows the fiscal values between the different times. It doesn't cover the cost of living, how rents have doubled in real terms, how food and clothing has increased in price independently of fiscal value. The point being that your analysis is deeply flawed. The reason I know this, is because I lived through it and I'm currently living and so experienced both conditions and so can specifically tell you that one wage could afford the same things that 2 wages now afford a household. As for the technological advancement, the point was to show how our lives have improved regarding disease treatment, nutritional knowledge, building materials and construction tools, basically, we've moved on from being superstitious peasants who knew next to nothing about maths, physics, geography, biology and so on. With all those advancements, we still can't look after children and the elderly? The point is obviously the differences between those two specific periods of history. The rate of technological change is irrelevant as any logical person would have realised...
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  3197.  @lmy2366  Listen carefully as this is very simple, for clarification I'm providing you with examples of the majority of working people's lives between two timeframes, talkign about exceptions to the rule is pointless as we are generalizing: One wage in the 70s was the norm and could run a household, provide for a family and pay the mortgage. That simply isn't possible these days as many people who apply for a mortgage will tell you. Two full-time wages are required for the same family in modern times to have the same living standards. That is a fact that 50% of the population can attest to as they lived through it and experienced both conditions. Irrespective of how inflation and wages are estimated to show differences, the real-world experiences of families who lived through both times prove the most reliable guide and most experts would agree. Trying to define living standards by estimates of inflation is pointless as it's only one factor in a plethora of factors that affect the two scenarios. It is the difference between theory and practice! Technology has moved on in the past 1,000 years making our lives better and more productive. Comparisons between a point in history 1,000 years ago and the modern day do not require any estimate of the technological speed of advancement as it is simply the difference between two points in time. The point is that despite 1,000 years of technological and information evolution, we still can't provide for ourselves in the way one could in feudal society. Tens of thousands of pensioners die of hypothermia every winter, when once they would have been able to heat their homes by collecting dead wood for a fire. I'm not getting drawn into your failure to understand basic points of fact...
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  3198.  @anangrycat86  Shush up Del my old boy, Adults talking son...
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  3199.  @frdsg8350  There have been 285 armed conflicts since 1946 can you tell me what percentage of those China has been involved in, then compare that to say... The USA... I'm in no way defending China, just defending logic and reason...
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  3200. But worse, the petrodollar is starting to slump and opioid profits are down...
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  3201. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. If Starmer and his gang of paid lobbyists had got behind Corbyn we wouldn't have a Tory government now asset-stripping Britain and giving us generational debt. Starmer has reduced Labour membership by over 25% in the first year and a half of his leadership.
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  3202. Am I missing something? Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau is the official national anthem of Wales...
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  3203.  @tonyves  I'm sorry but your comment hasn't met our standards and so will be ignored. Please come again!
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  3204.  @randomlyswatching9481  I'll take your word for it, you seem like an expert...
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  3205.  @nilsalmquist802  Corporate Feudalism for the poor, socialism for the wealthy.
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  3206. It's a dic move by Belarus. But Poland sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, are a member of Nato, signed agreements when they joined the EU and have to let them in under international law. They can process them legally and refuse asylum or they can either leave the EU and renege on their agreements or continue to look like the bad guys.
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  3207. @USB PLUG The UN Refugee Convention does not require refugees to stay in the first safe country they find, refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Poland signed an agreement in 2004 when they joined the EU to take in refugees and has now gone back on that agreement. Poland is willfully stopping them from entering to claim asylum, which they are entitled to do under international law. They aren't illegal immigrants until they've been refused asylum legally...
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  3208. Agreed, I'd say by using natural fresh whole ingredients it would be much more healthy than prepackaged, heavily processed 'food' wrapped in inorganic arsenic packaging.
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  3209. That's the look of someone who takes copious amounts of recreational substances to be able to sleep due to the massive loss of life under his administration of the NHS. At least I'd like to think so, although I wouldn't object to seeing him go a few rounds with the victim's families...
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  3210.  @GARDENER42  You're mentioning things that are caused by privatisation or have got far worse under privatisation. Then giving me anecdotal evidence of your personal perceptions. I've read the stats and facts, not going to argue with unfounded statements from the annoying bloke down the pub...
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  3211. In the same way, raising the price of medicine will lead to a greener planet with fewer humans... Pointless question...
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  3212. I'm getting no sound on this video Tim.
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  3213.  @Derek-ux3hg  2 years of intermittent lockdown while the rich freely travel by air... If you are unsure about quarantines check history regarding The Spanish flu and the plague. I support your right to be ignorant though...
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  3214.  @alexanderwalker8233  lol you take conspiracy nut to new levels.
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  3215. The innovator that gave the world the Industrial Revolution and steam engines is being left behind. Our transport systems are run by nationalised foreign interests that plough that profit back into their own nationalised transport systems. Our trains are so old that rust now makes up 50% of the mass...
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  3216.  @mysterymaverick1982  Corporate Pledge: I give my silent, obedient consent to the corporate agenda. I promise to believe anything the media print. I promise to support financial wars of resource control. I promise to support whatever regulations the government implement, no matter how devastating to society. I promise to pay almost 50% of my income in a multitude of taxes to pay for public services and infrastructure, even when the government divert that money to the private sector via privatisation and subsidies. I will not complain or rise up even when it becomes obvious we are being governed by corporate gangsters and banking shills...
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  3217. ...I'm disgusted. Matt Hancock is responsible for 37,000 excess deaths in care homes in 2020 the cause of which was deemed unlawful. Twitter is removing anti-fascists as I type. Many platforms like YT silence the left while permitting extreme far-right views. What Putin has done is wrong and I feel for the mothers. He's an authoritarian bigot. But to say Matt Hancock is irrelevant is a sickening statement and a slap in the face for the families of 37,000 victims of Hancock's decisions. I'm disgusted...
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  3218.  @condotiero860  lol thanks for the cognitive defecation and rationalisation of evil. But you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  3219.  @condotiero860  I was talking about your statements, not the quotes from the philosopher of pessimism...
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  3220.  @clowncarqingdao  You didn't read the reply directly before yours I gave to Andrew I assume? "Exxon annual gross profit for 2020 was $30.942B. Exxon gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2022 was $91.013B around 3x the profit of the pandemic year..."
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  3221.  @craigmclaren3241  Pointing out an extortionate price increase that's costing people their lives... The price of electricity has increased by more than 700% since August 2020. Stop sucking up to corporations and learn that people are more important than profits...
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  3222. @Raymondo666 Erm lol, that's an easy question to answer, because the price of energy went up and they aren't going to sell much cheaper than their competition Duh!... They are all out to maximise profits. UK power prices have tripled year-on-year from August 2020 (£36/MWh) to August 2021 (£107/MWh) – a jump of £71/MWh. The UK now pays £263.99 per megawatt hour in August 2022. You don't think that's suspicious?
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  3223. China, where sweatshops make all the latest tech for you to buy, in sweatshops owned by western corporations who avoid tax and contribute to climate change? (already agreed to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060) India where child sweatshops make all the latest clothes for you to buy, for western corporations who avoid tax and contribute to climate change? The United States is the second-largest polluter yet absent from your observation.
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  3224. The average in the UK is 3.8 deaths per year per 1,000 live births. While the Black ethnic group has had the highest infant mortality rate each year with a rate of 6.4 deaths per 1,000 live births. It truly is shocking that one group should experience such different levels of care.
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  3225. In other news, Conservatives: A moment in office, a lifetime on your wallets...
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  3226. The Tories will just pick another clown to forward their agenda as usual and we'll be back to square one. Unless the British public stands up to their aristocratic overlords nothing will change!
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  3227.  @mrdaveythebaby  Yes, it won't work for them, delusion never does. But unfortunately, if the media keep pushing the idea it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  3228.  @franklingoodwin  And yet your reply was directed at me and my initial comment...
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  3229. The war between Russia and Ukraine is likely to include soldiers armed with rifles and other weapons says analyst in groundbreaking observation...
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  3230. Even money-saving experts are saying there's nothing they can do. It's like giving savings advice to people who are drowning in debt. Tell the energy cartels to stop gauging their customers... Monopolies setting high prices when raw materials have gone down in price.
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  3231.  @anangrycat86  Politically and economically illiterate then? I guess that 5-year-olds mining Cobalt in Congo for the kids in China to make your smartphone and other tech devices aren't working hard enough to make something of themselves? or maybe the kids in sweatshops in India making your clothes aren't working hard enough? Your ancestors couldn't count to 12, despite having 6 fingers on each hand...
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  3232. Explosives, during a war? surely not...
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  3233.  @druunderwood5602  Agreed it's hard to tell the difference. Part idiocracy, part oligarchy, part corporatocracy either way we are being screwed...
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  3234.  @paultyler9600  lol there's a shortage of over 100,000 staff in the NHS if you had done even a slight amount of reading instead of insulting people, you'd know that. Nurses have left in their droves. They can go to Australia and get 1/3rd extra wages doing the same work. They stay because of they leave it could costs lives, so they strike to force the government to fix the problems...
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  3235.  @kevinb6831  It's thanks to human ingenuity we have this platform, competition caused by capitalism has dragged us down. We invented the wheel, harnessed fire, learned democracy, literacy and invented all the base technologies that capitalism exploits long before capitalism came along. But thanks for intellectually defecating cognitive diarrhoea on social media...
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  3236.  @kevinb6831  You're not big on geopolitics or you'd know any successful socialist country has embargoes, sanctions, blockades slapped on it so it can't compete fairly. Venezuela's oil for example is held hostage by the American military and sanctions that stop them from importing vital chemicals to refine oil. You'd also be aware of the history of US interference in South America in the past century. No doubt you're also aware that Libya had a socialist system (The Green System), they also had no IMF or international debt, $150 billion in the bank, built the world's largest irrigation project and every citizen had a share in the oil. They also had job equality and the legal right to a home, so no homelessness. But then after deciding to create an African currency(The Dinar) backed by 143 tons of gold to rival the petrodollar for oil sales suddenly they needed some good old US freedom (Regime change). That freedom left the country in poverty with human trafficking and human slavery running rampant. Strange how right-wing sponges just repeat memes...
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  3237.  @terminsane  I'm not advocating socialism, I'd advocate a resource-based economy with eco-friendly tech and sustainable resources preferably designed for our modern lifestyle. Capitalism exploits the 5-year-olds mining Cobalt in DR Congo, the 8-year-olds in China making your mobile phone with that cobalt and the Indian children working in sweatshops to provide your clothing. Feel free to tell the children exploited for you that hard work pays... Communism, Socialism and Social Democracy are three different social systems, two of which are replacements of capitalism. If you aren't capable of debate try keeping your ineptitude to yourself.
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  3238.  @kanedNunable  lol yea. Patriotically goose-stepping us into a dystopian corporatocracy :)
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  3239. But apart from Brexit, Grenfell, Economic Euthanasia, Disabled Vilification, Election Fraud, Contempt of Parliament, Windrush Scandal, WASPI, Working Poverty, Homeless Crisis, Hostile Env, Food Banks, Universal Credit, NHS Crisis, Austerity, and crashing the economy during a cost of living crisis what have the Tories ever done for us...
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  3240. Aww c'mon! Yes, it's easy to mock Trump. But who could have predicted that an ex-president with the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster with a brain injury would have all the leadership skills, competence and eloquence of Homer Simpson after a weekend on Duff beer and meth? He has the eloquence of a rabid dog and all the charm of a used tissue...
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  3241.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Making up things I apparently admitted to in no way wins an argument, it just makes you look desperate. Biden is a corporate stooge and a centrist neoliberal, I have no love for him. Democrats consistently put more money into social care than Wall ST as it's part of their fundamental ideology. Whereas Republican ideology is all about trickle-down economics, which has never been observed to actually work anywhere it's been tried. Feeding corporations taxpayer money and the easiest way to do that is war. Biden despite his flaws is a step up from the orange oligarch, who let's face it was lucky not to be charged with sedition.
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  3242.  @luntershaptopfukinov6413  Yes petrodollar hegemony, don't compare 20 years ago when the war started to last week. The petrodollar died recently, but before Biden took the presidency. Libya was a socialist country they used 'The Green System'. Gaddafi was 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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  3243. Obfuscate, cherry-pick, omission, misinterpretation, denial and outright lies are the tools of the Tory overseers...
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  3244. I'd love to watch the latest mouthpiece for the banking sector the Tories have installed deliver the usual platitudes, illusions and lies but I'm washing my hair!
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  3245. Squirming like a maggot on a hook. Still you can't expect Tories to know right for wrong or have compassion for human lives...
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  3246.  @stuartpenman6387  You are aware that people simply tolerate you? Please stop defiling my threads with your ignorance.
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  3247.  @CricketEngland  Seriously? going from 0 to Godwin's law? It's not a comment about Jewish people specifically it's about racism as perceived from a white perspective compared to that of a minority non-white. Context is important...
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  3248.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  Sorry would you like me to use single syllable words next time so you can understand them?
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  3249.  @unvaccinatedAndPureBlood  There is no currency under Communism as its foundation is the communal ownership of resources and the workers owning the tools of production. lol...
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  3250. The current regime is indeed more right-wing and dangerous, but previous regimes weren't much better. I'd rather support Ultra-Orthodox & Anti-Zionist Groups like Neturei Karta, Satmar Hasidim, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and the Jewish Voice for Peace.
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  3251. Black op or real terror? who knows...
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  3252.  @nevadak3424  Jean-Claude Van Damme? Jesus Christ Video Diaries? Jeremy Corbyn Votes Democrat?
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  3253.  @deejay7648  No mate, all the things I've listed are carcinogenic to human biology as proven by science and a plethora of medical studies... Thanks for playing though...
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  3254. The thing I love about Truss is that she's a fighter, apparently. Despite being a pork and cheese trader joke and the woman who crashed the economy. I love the way these Marxist bankers are ruining the economy in her opinion, people who use the term left-wing bankers should be forced to undergo a full lobotomy to remove the possibility of future faux pas...
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  3255.  @Ash-os1dz  PS Albania, Iceland, and Paraguay obtain essentially all of their electricity from renewable sources (Albania and Paraguay 100% from hydroelectricity, Iceland 72% hydro and 28% geothermal). Norway obtains 98% of its electricity from renewable sources almost 97% from hydro.
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  3256.  @Ash-os1dz  lol I'm not going to debate opinion over fact. I've already proven many countries are almost if not 100% renewables and we have just as many opportunities but we aren't funding them.
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  3257.  @markscript5746  The Guardian is better than most but not free of its owner's biases. I prefer to read facts, not opinions. Take the facts, ignore the opinion and interpretation from any news source then compare it with multiple sources to find a nugget of truth. Works with all media, the only difference being how much opinion and misdirection you have to ignore...
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  3258.  @geraldhewing2076  The Scott Trust and therefore its shareholders are the owners. As I said it's reasonably impartial in comparison to most media, but not a beacon of plurality...
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  3259. The vandalism done to the NHS in the name of the prophets of profit is the single largest betrayal of the British people by successive Tory governments. Not to mention Blair's contribution with John Major's PFIs which the Tories doubled down on with PFI2. Health care is a human right that we pay for, to think a large chunk of the NHS budget goes to shareholders of for-profit organisations is despicable...
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  3260.  @kellydawes4854  I agree with that part. Not to mention they had a SWAT team on the subs bench. But stronger gun laws reduce the number of weapons and make will it harder to sell on the black market. A simple rule regarding not carrying in public and strict storage rules are needed. They worked here in the UK and many people still have guns. I can apply for a shotgun, handgun or rifle licence If I chose to.
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  3261.  @kellydawes4854  California is the state with the strictest gun laws, and it also has the seventh-lowest rate of deaths by gun violence. Don't try to pick the exception to the rule. Look at countries globally to see how backward American gun laws are...
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  3262. Police resources are stretched - many corrupt police - lack of police stations and prosecutions of real crimes - answer? raid herbal farms...
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  3263.  @robertadams1054  Read the article posted and the stats already given instead of making incorrect statements. Blair was a warmongering asswipe, he dropped clause 4 from the Labour party and renamed them 'New Labour', he was also widely known as Thatcher's greatest legacy! The Tories have added 18 billion worth of privatisation in the past few years alone. Tories also developed PFIs in the first place under John Major and extended the limited PFIs 'New Labour' started as a coalition and then gave us PFI 2.0. So please stop reading right wing versions of history!
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  3264. lol every comment of mine has been filtered or deleted. Talk about a right-wing echo chamber...
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  3265. I also blame immigrants for all the inequalities in society because it's easier than blaming corporations, the media, politicians, the powerful, the wealthy and bankers who are actually bleeding the country dry...
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  3266.  @mootedtols4865  Definitely! Ivan's terrible. Nothing at all to do with 3 decades of neoliberal policy, greedy shareholders, privatisation, huge national debts, stagnant economy, dodgy bankers, non-doms, tax gap, kleptocrats, lobbyists, poverty gap expansion, loss of trading and procedures when trading with our closest neighbours.
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  3267. The NHS is suffering from outsourcing, private debt, privatisation and because of Tory policies prioritizing for-profit organisations within the NHS. Taxmoney is going to shareholders and much of the budget is being wasted on the cumulative administration and bureaucracy of all these separate organisations. In other words, the stealth privatisation implemented by the Tories!
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  3268. Is Chicango somewhere near New Nyork?
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  3269. Financial crises are opportunities for the wealthy. During Austerity for example the wealthiest 1,000 families in Britain doubled their assets. We are playing monopoly against people who start with multiple times the amount we have and hotels on Park Lane and Mayfair, while they have an infinite supply of 'Get out of Jail free!' cards...
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  3270. Why don't we just admit capitalism doesn't work? It creates a billionaire class while the rest of us live in poverty. Cheap toxic goods and the exploitation of child labour and developing countries...
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  3271. Yes, our right to protest and free speech is protected by the UN Convention on Human Rights. New legislation ignores those protections and the Tory's overreaching authoritarianism proves we do not have basic freedoms.
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  3272. I enjoyed your recitation, I'm more of a socialist rhyme artist. Parodies-R-us! "Every worker in Britain liked Christmas a lot. But the Tories, who lived in luxury, well, they did not! The Tories dislike Christmas, the giving time season. And we all know why; their selfishness the reason. Could it be that their heads aren't screwed on quite right? Or could it be, perhaps, that their fists are too tight? But with Tories the most likely reason of all, Is their freezing cold hearts are a few sizes too small. Whatever the reason, for their uncharitable views, They stand there at Christmas, making profits for the few, Staring down at the Populus with a sour, grouchy frown, At the poor blighted workers in Britain's cold towns. For every worker in Britain, they would love to bequeath, In place of mistletoe a withered old funeral wreath. "No hanging of stockings!" the Tories doth jeer, Tomorrow may be Christmas, but the Tories don't care. They scowl at the thought of a little drummer boy drumming, So they crashed the economy and stopped Christmas from coming." By Moi.
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  3273. @Patrick Swan Our exports to the EU were 43% of our annual trade, We've lost over £50 billion from trade with the EU in 2020. In 2019 and 2018, UK exports to the EU were around £300 billion, they were around £250 million in 2020 after leaving the EU and will drop further. That's £50 billion less going into our GDP...
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  3274. But how will the wealthy shave a few minutes off train journeys without the taxpayer funding of vanity projects like this?
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  3275.  @vhawk1951kl  Woke is simply a catchall phrase used by the illiterate right to describe everything they dislike about humanity, equality and decency.
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  3276. Did Russia steal Reagan's star wars program (The Strategic Defense Initiative)...
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  3277. Agreed: Cash drops in the Caymans and Blinkers on Politicians Bright precious metals and cold-hearted descisions Brown paper envelopes which bribery brings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things.
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  3278.  @poppydogz  Already been discussed - do keep up puppy. PS don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  3279. Pathetic cap doffing and servile forelock tugging, about time we stopped living in a feudal society and allowing bankers and hedge fund managers to run the country while diverting our taxes to off-shore accounts. Thanks to the lack of transparency on the crown estates and overseas territories...
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  3280.  @bazle64  They like 5-year-olds mining Cobalt in D.R.Congo so the kids in China can make their tech devices that pair well with their Indian child sweatshop produced clothing. Then they complain about China and India's carbon footprint....
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  3281. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television I'm not sure how the most incompetent, greedy and dishonest clinicians are seen as the most experienced and best suited to administer a hospital and I'd be interested in any data you have to support that hypothesis. However, even considering your point, it would seem that the worst senior doctor would still have a far more potent understanding of the hospital's workings than a straight-from-university economics and administrative graduate.
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  3282. Spoilt, privileged aristocrats behaving like spoilt, privileged aristocrats. Can we have a general election where we don't choose the most despicable human beings to run the country? just one, just so I can remember what it was like to live in a grown-up country!
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  3283. Poor people can't afford to add £60k or even £40k to their pension pot annually and will never reach the £million pension cap. We pay the taxes they get the benefits, if only we had plurality in the media to expose Tory myths...
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  3284. He's right, but he's also the man who has betrayed the entire working class by turning Labour into a centrist haven while expelling anyone who is actually left wing. He's left us with the choice between red or blue flavoured neoliberalism...
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  3285. While I agree with many points, the idea that reasoned talks are always the best solution doesn't seem to be historically proven. I however deplore the shooting of Imran obviously. My point is that the Tories are engaging in a class war while using economic euthanasia as if it's a superpower. While we politely ask them to stop sacrificing us to the pyre of profit things continually get worse. Not everyone has empathy as we know, psychopaths and sociopaths for instance...
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  3286.  @AtomicDuelist  The media outed P&O, the Tories had no choice. It's called breaking the law. I'm not wasting my time arguing with a political illiterate. Feel free to look up the legislation, the parent company DP World and their connection to the Tories...
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  3287.  @AtomicDuelist  "I'm not wasting my time arguing with a political illiterate. Feel free to look up the legislation, the parent company DP World and their connection to the Tories..." Tories only ever look after their own when it doesn't cost them anything, this was too big. Trust me or feel free to research.
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  3288.  @ElliHarper  Debunked lol I could reply to your nonsense all day long with factual evidence, legislation and government/financial records... "Rishi Sunak, said he was “thrilled” to greenlight hundreds of millions of pounds of DP World investment in Thames Gateway and Southampton. A month later the company partnered with the Foreign Office’s development finance. And for the last two years, DP World has sat on the UK government’s trade advisory group."
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  3289. Tories have made that an inevitability, cheesy Truss once said she'd like to "Bang the dumb all over the world for Britain" and she sells more pork pies than Melton Mowbray. What have we done to deserve such a malicious group of corporate stooges? well, personally I've never and will never vote Tory but many of you voted for them out of apathy and ignorance, that was your first mistake.
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  3290. Agreed there are so many 'real' things to be offended by like resource wars, famine, inhumane treatment of people and animals, the destruction of the planet for profit... Opinions no matter how absurd can be laughed at or logically rebutted. The censorship of language and opinions is enabled by the media and only serves to silence us all so we can swallow the bitter pills of corporate narratives with solicitous submission.
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  3291.  @axos3130  Lockdown was a medical strategy that's been used for centuries. Brexit has crippled our economy and cost £300 billion while losing us £115 billion per annum in trade with the EU. Over £2 trillion in investments moved out of the UK from London to places like Hamburg after Brexit. PS we had major financial issues before the pandemic so learn to read before you type. You know nothing, tabloid regurgitating nomark...
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  3292.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  I asked religious people their views, so of course, I put it in their terms... I don't believe in all gods, you don't believe in all gods except one. You're just a less committed Athiest.
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  3293.  @jdewalt9847  So God isn't all-knowing and didn't create humanity in all its flaws? Thanks for the honesty.
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  3294.  @dandare2586  You can't argue with people who believe in invisible, omnipotent deities. It's like trying to talk a trifle into sentience.
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  3295. People keep telling me Boris is more intelligent than he looks, that's not hard. Poor trees producing oxygen for him, he owes them an apology. I love to shop, but I wouldn't buy a thing Boris says. People like Boris are the reason God doesn't talk to us anymore. Sentient ham...
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  3296. The PM breaks the law every day, Britain launders the global criminal elite's cash for them and is the largest enabler of global corporate tax evasion. Sells arms to regimes on our blacklists. Uses economic euthanasia on the poor, vilifies the disabled and shows contempt for parliament virtually every time he steps into Westminster. Partying while people aren't allowed to spend time with their loved ones during their final moments is the least of his crimes.
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  3297. Cameron? Seriously? The guy who gave us a misleading referendum to cripple and sink the good ship Britannica? lol, the UK is a circus - send in the clowns...
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  3298. Sir Kayda - 83 mass shootings between 1982 and 2022 involved legally obtained firearms, only 16 involved illegal firearms. So please stop trolling with erroneous statements...
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  3299. It's a terrible thing to have a corrupt authoritarian government that gaslights its people, but enough about the UK what's Putin done this time?
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  3300.  @jackpirie7382  PS I've been fighting the Tories and the rise of the right online for over 20 years and spent thousands of hours being sealioned by impossibly ignorant half-wits...
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  3301. Must be terrible to live in a country where protesting is being outlawed and journalists get arrested. But enough about the UK what's happening in China?
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  3302.  @ba_creative8240  You don't understand the economy. Over £100 billion is given to corporations in subsidies every year. We have a debt to GDP ratio of 95.8% and the Tories are responsible for creating 3/4rs of our £2.4 trillion national debt. Brexit cost us trillions in trade, admin and losses to the pound, things like our triple-A credit rating being reduced twice. We also lose between £40-120 billion from corporate tax evasion would which pay for the NHS annual budget twice over. So please don't mention research when all you offer is Tory mythology...
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  3303.  @ba_creative8240  Debt is taking 95.8% of our taxes, do you understand that? that money could be used to pay for infrastructure and help for those in poverty. Collecting the annual taxation that corporations fail to pay could pay for the NHS. Stopping corporate welfare could pay for real welfare for the poorest in society. Do you understand these things? We have the money to give everyone a decent life!!!
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  3304. I just love Boris. He's so honest, compassionate and committed to serving the British people in the best way he possibly can. Such a moral, philanthropic humanitarian and a true guiding light in Britain. With his cheeky little relationship with the truth to his unabashed profiteering, he has always put his constituents first. A remarkable man in many ways, despite being born in the USA he managed to convince people he's quintessentially British. God bless Boris and all the other corrupt, inept politicians that make our lives a living nightmare...
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  3305. Agenda = How can we keep the masses consuming and do as little as possible to resolve the issues regarding the future of the species...
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  3306.  @Noallegiance  Capitalism is inherently corrupt, it is entirely capitalism under neoliberal direction. Privatisation, small government, deregulation of the banking sector and a huge percentage of taxpayer money being given to shareholders...
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  3307.  @Nickle314  Welfare spending is not unemployment benefit, learn to read before typing. Just think you could have made an intelligent or witty comment...
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  3308.  @Nickle314  No! I've used the figures and terms used by the government and the ONS who compiled those figures on behalf of the government. Furlough is a separate issue. Subsidies cost us £93 billion in 2016 and grow annually. Your lack of comprehension skills and pedantry is your own problem. Stop wasting my life because of your own ineptitude!
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  3309.  @nickharvey7233  Furlough payments are not included in the figures, the trend of increased subsidies has been continual for decades. I haven't confused anything, simply given the figures and my opinion. I don't appreciate your accusations and attempted excuses. I'm not interested in your interpretation of the data, semantics is the refuge of the desperate...
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  3310.  @terryj50  I've already pointed out in this thread that the taxpayer tops up their own wages through tax credits... I agree claiming benefits or giving the cost of living support/energy support to the wealthy is wrong. While corporations cost us £40-120 billion via non-payment aka the tax gap.
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  3311.  @nickharvey7233  The figure and the language used is directly from the government's own website. It's very clear that £120.1 billion was corporate subsidies alone! You said "you have confused some terminology here" and also stated that you think I was conflating furlough with subsidies. I castigate the right who have sealioned me for decades and cost me thousands of hours of my life! So have little time to waste on subtle pleasantries with pedants. I will be happy to agree with you on things we have in common, but while you try to dismiss my figures that are represented factually and accurately I will try to end the conversation as quickly as possible!
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  3312.  @nickharvey7233  My name is Parker which surprisingly isn't a Welsh surname, my grandfather moved to Wales after the war to become a miner. So I blame 1/4 of myself for oppressing me and stealing my culture and language :)
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  3313.  @terryj50  Reread what I said, you can't seem to follow the conversation. I haven't denied strikes in the UK I've pointed out the reasons for them I haven't said I wanted the taxpayer to be forced to top up their own wages, corporations should provide liveable wages. I simply said that the decision was taken because of necessity brought about by Tory legislation reducing worker's rights and anti-union legislation. Stop trying to make arguments out of thin air.
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  3314. Allowing mass shootings in schools and malls while hiding behind the second amendment... Very brave!
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  3315.  Bethlehem Eisenhour  During a scene the director and director of photography are behind the camera, I can't think of a scenario where an actor fires at them... A minimum of two times, killing one and seriously injuring another, with a coincidentally lethal prop gun...
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  3316.  @imtruegeordiesballscratche9261  Labour is now Tory-lite run by a bunch of state and corporate lobbyist funded centrists. Lib Dem has always been ideological chameleons. The electorate now has the choice between red, blue and yellow flavoured neoliberalism... The Tories have sold the country and given your great, great-grandchildren a huge debt while enriching their pockets. They are kleptocratic parasites stealing your cash and freedoms...
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  3317.  Faisal Faqir  It seems someone wants us to move to a cashless society where we maintain social distancing and are all digitally tracked via IDs that if you don't own, you can't work, rent, buy stuff etc. Authoritarian Dystopia for all.
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  3318. Absolutely disgusting. Our government aren't happy with their corruption, cronyism and vilification of the disabled and vulnerable. Now they want to plumb new depths of immorality...
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  3319. @John Evans I'd like to think so!
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  3320.  @Colin623  £2 billion is lost to corporate tax non-payment every single week! on top of the £2 billion given to wealthy shareholders out of taxpayer money every single week. They stick their hand in your back pocket and then point at migrants!
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  3321.  @Gattobuono  I mean - while I'd like her to suffer the humiliation indefinitely we can't as a nation deal with the long term consequences :)
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  3322.  @moallysnackbar  Cancel culture doesn't exist, it's the media hyping up a very tiny minority. The left support freedom of speech for all and have always fought for it since they are the ones that gave us those rights and freedoms! I support your right to be ignorant and talk nonsense...
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  3323.  @duanemarshall1889  Don't talk nonsense they had a policy to root out the left since the 70s using UK security agencies. Sick of answering factless no marks...
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  3324. "NATO says Poland incident 'likely caused by Ukrainian missile"
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  3325. Topical...
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  3326. Intolerant right whingers hate everything except white heterosexual males. We have many words to describe their intolerances, incel being one of the more strange and most recent. I prefer just to call them all cnuts...
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  3327. Why is she making a speech in the US as opposed to the UK? Because people in the UK know what a worthless shell of a human being she really is...
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  3328.  @SDW3-6-9  Thank you!
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  3329.  @AFGuidesHD  lol think you need to work on your logic, I'm not defending colonialism or imperialism and Britain isn't suffering from colonialism.
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  3330.  @AFGuidesHD  lol it doesn't it heavily supports the fact that despite the methods used to obtain those things our culture is global. We didn't colonise the Romans it was the other way around. We learned currency, numeracy and democracy from other people. It's a joke that clearly proves arguments about multiculturalism are erroneous.
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  3331.  @AFGuidesHD  I've had thousands of likes on this comment on various sites, it's obvious to anyone except the most pedantic and ignorant. If you want to further display your own flaws please continue, I love pedantry...
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  3332.  @gothicgolem2947  Equality is the answer in both cases, something that we had but lost. I'm not sure siphoning our taxes to the wealthy and corporations is the best way to fix poverty. In fact, I'm pretty sure there's a tangible, directly proportional link between poverty and wealth. I also don't think the tabloids have the most calming influence on the gammonesque hordes.
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  3333.  @gothicgolem2947  That's like saying a thief is trying to stop crime by pickpocketing a person before anyone else does it...
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  3334. Fun fact: Fire was invented In 1836 by a very clever man named Lord Ignatius Fire after he spent the day playing with matches...
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  3335.  Cardinal Sin  Not so fun fact: We have lost over 65% of the genetic diversity of the planet at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction due to the effects of human activity on the climate. Wildfires are natural, certain areas have always had smaller versions of this problem - when you get wildfires ravaging new territory all the time at accelerated numbers and ferocity you have to admit they're becoming a threat to the future of our oxygen-breathing species...
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  3336.  Cardinal Sin  I direct my views to whomever I can, especially if they show signs of not being fully aware of the problem. Surprisingly I don't run into many billionaires willing to talk. No, I don't own an apple anything. Never have, I prefer to own and control my own device and update the OS to a modded one and have a memory card slot.
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  3337. Multimillion pound scam? that's not the biggest fraud case though is it? Try £37 billion for a flawed test and trace system...
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  3338.  @Ahuman1-o1y  The British public are methodically mesmerized by the media for maximum malleability. Excuse the alliteration I had alphabet spaghetti for breakfast...
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  3339.  @justthatguy3949  Last time we had a Labour government it was called 'New Labour' and run by a centrist Thatcherite named Blair. He followed CIA's bad intel and ignored the 100+ MPs from Labour who held a 'stop the war' rally. Interestingly only 4 Tories voted against the war in Iraq while a third of Labour MPs voted against it. Labour was also blamed for the global economic crisis that affected all currencies tied to the dollar. They also used some Thatcherite policies. While I agree with much of what you say about the pantomime of democracy you seem oblivious to ideology. Regardless of how much the modern Labour leadership has sold out, they are still a better option for the poor. I believe in fair wages, fair taxes, a balanced society, free healthcare and schooling. Free legal aid and a society that values human rights. So while I understand your point, my support of leftist ideals doesn't mean I'm oblivious to the game being played. The wealthy and corporations are at the top of the food chain, and politicians are just their errand boys.
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  3340.  @alexl6543  Poland is the biggest European donator by far! So no you didn't read the facts!
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  3341. Sychophants will cry, Royalists will cry, Charles will gleefully shed a tear for dear Momaa. The rest of Britain will be working trying to pay their electricity bills...
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  3342. I'd rather smother my sack in Nutella and dangle my balls in a pool full of piranha than listen to Piers Morgan. We are a laughing stock globally and not only because of the actions of our government but also because of the pathetic response of British people who put up with these arrogant incompetents. British people need to grow a pair! Please excuse the male-oriented metaphors but I'm a neanderthal...
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  3343.  @ProfessorTimWilson  I love loose leaf Earl Grey and the avoidance of plastics and other contaminants in the teabags enhances the taste and reduces the toxicity. However, I'm sure you're aware teabagging is a sexual practice ;)
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  3344. Well, she is ignoring the sanctions her husband is enforcing, while profiting directly from the war in Ukraine. I'm not sure the Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil tactic will work to be honest...
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  3345. Glad to be rid of him, but we all know they will replace him with someone just as bad. Failing upwards is a common trait of the Tory party as is having an endless supply of corrupt megalomaniacs...
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  3346.  @raz0rcarich99  Don't bother to read my replies or try to understand my original comment, please just put a generic reply...
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  3347.  @billusher2265  My initial statement commends the technology as laudable as I myself practise meditation and breathing techniques. But also states the opportunity for abuse of such technology. Yet most commenters seem to lack nuance and try to attack my point as If I'm stating what I believe to be absolutes. As you have twice.
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  3348.  @yournan6546  Agreed, Stamp-duty only applies to houses over £250,000 not many people in low waged work can afford that. Buy to let means paying higher fees and interest rates. We need more social housing to reduce competition in the market as well as incentives for people to buy their own home. Rent is dead money, I've paid enough in rent over the past 2 decades to own my flat and have nothing to show for it.
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  3349.  @muzzmurgatroyd  In addition I'm not sure If I posted this on this thread or another recently. But it is relevant to central banks, Petro-dollar hegemony etc. Thankfully the petro-dollar is now in retreat. "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, and 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, and 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." Thanks for reading this far :)
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  3350.  @Mark-Haddow  I agree m8, I thought my initial comment made that clear.
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  3351.  @Mark-Haddow  I put it better on a different site. I understand her intention may have been to show an interest but the prevalence of this attitude in aristocracy was also highlighted by Megan for which she received bad press and threats from the far right. I can't imagine how someone would feel being born in Britain to be so questioned, it's the same as Americans who use the term African-Americans to enforce a difference. An American lady who visited Sweden was almost in tears when she was simply referred to as American without the prefix African. It's hard for us to understand how a person's perception, confidence and place in the world can be challenged and harmed with this type of subtle ethnocentrism.
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  3352.  @patsimpson7834  lol I'm not answering your asinine comments on every post. I like to debate with intellectuals not hamsters...
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  3353. @M K NATO created these refugees... The UN Refugee Convention states refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Not to mention at least 6 have frozen to death. “Poland has been cruelly holding this group of people on their border in horrendous conditions for weeks,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said in a statement. “Our analysis shows irrefutably on 18 August, their position shifted from Poland to Belarus overnight, which strongly suggests that they were victims of an unlawful pushback.”
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  3354.  @namename1599  They are refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. The reason they are refugees is that being allies of NATO they will be killed if they return home... Refugees are not illegal and can illegally cross a border and still claim Asylum under international law. As for intelligence, kindly display some before making statements...
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  3355. @M K I've already posted the words from the actual UN refugee convention, dosey illiterate...
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  3356.  @namename1599  NATO allies at risk of death m8. Hence why they flee their homeland in order to be insulted by idiots like you. Don't blame the REFUGEES for the actions of Belarus... PS many have already frozen to death, those who made it to Poland were forced back into Belarus by Polish security as witnessed by amnesty international. I prefer facts to nonsense...
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  3357. @M K lol, All Member States of the European Union are States parties to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and have thus adopted a refugee definition without any limitations as to country of origin.
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  3358. @M K It was updated in 1969 and again a few years ago, those clauses are still there stop being a dik...
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  3359. Person who broke the law should be prosecuted? Why the question mark or the debate?
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  3360. Dystopian corporatocracy and a return to the dark ages...
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  3361. Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Land of dopes and Tories.
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  3362.  @garyb455  Corporate greed, tax breaks, cronyism, subsidies, corporate welfare. IE to the wealthy and corporations - the unemployed and wages for civil servants is a minuscule amount by comparison. For instance, they give away £2 billion or £2,000,000,000.00 every single week from our taxes in corporate subsidies!
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  3363.  @harry.flashman  PS I can't debate someone unaware of history, logic, reason and imperialism. It would be like trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  3364.  @stevec700  I didn't say that "As I said it's bad logic anyways." and also "Two wrongs maketh not a right!" The tabloids choose to overlook the actions of the powerful, not me...
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  3365.  @harry.flashman  I'm proud of my Welsh heritage and ashamed by English imperialism that stole my language and culture from children in Welsh schools by beating them, despite having 1/4 English ancestry myself. You can be proud of your history and acknowledge the flaws... Nos Da!
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  3366.  @harry.flashman  Agreed, let's blame those responsible and not innocents. My grandfather came home from the war and came to live in Wales and married a Welsh woman. Went down the mines and also developed black lung. He then also got Parkinson's disease and had to have a mug with a handle he could put his whole hand through so he could drink without spilling it. Anyways, as I said I'm a council estate lad of 50 years old, my arrogance is feigned as a defence against sealioning. Take care!
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  3367.  @titteryenot4524  You must have missed the comment where I said "Biden isn't left, he's a geriatric centrist, not my favourite person."
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  3368.  @paulwalker797  The soulless minions of corporatocracy.
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  3369. So the greatest impact of the pandemic according to Liz was the economic shock and her priority is the economy. Typical Tory putting money above lives and claiming to want to fix the economy her party has been eroding with corruption for decades...
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  3370.  @martinc.720  Yes, of course, poverty isn't caused by wealthy elitists... There is a direct inversely proportionate relationship between wealth and poverty. This should be obvious to even those with basic intellect...
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  3371. I don't want to sound like a cynic, but will humans still be able to survive on the planet in a decade? Tell them to make plenty of sustainable shrouds, there's going to be a huge market for them...
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  3372. @Alexander lol but what about the upcoming wars between the US and Iran/China/Russia/Anyone who threatens dollar hegemony? we are already experiencing the information wars - cyber-attacks, industrial accidents, internet outages, plane crashes, tankers beaching, warehouse fires etc.
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  3373.  @tomtom-gi9eo  Thank you! and agreed. Without opposition to neoliberalism or Tory policy, there is no choice, representation or change possible for the majority of working families. Have a poem! "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of cash; Four and twenty kleptocrats stealing from our tax. When the country realised, they all began to sing, Get the Tories out of office or they'll sell off everything!"
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  3374. I appreciate this was a troll and therefore should be highlighted and investigated if necessary. However, calling out people in public office who are publically accountable and supposed to represent us is the only choice left when the tabloids won't act with plurality. I only wished this happened to those more deserving of being called out, such as the whole of the Tory party...
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  3375. It's become vanity and corruption...
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  3376.  @xav500011  Doff your cap and tug your forelock to your betters, but I prefer a world where the law applies to everyone. Foie gras is excessive cruelty, as is the production of veal, but industrial meat production can be just as cruel. As for wars to protect petrodollar hegemony they are part of that same 'laws not applying to everyone' I mentioned. Standing up to the rich and powerful is something all working class should do, maybe we wouldn't be cash cows enslaved to debt if everyone grew a backbone and learned the difference between a duck and a duct...
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  3377. Bow down serfs... What is this archaic nonsense? It's about time Britain grew up and moved out of feudal society...
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  3378.  @martincopeland8153  Maybe that's a good thing :)
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  3379.  @martincopeland8153  Wasn't arguing dude and can't be bothered with petty pedantics...
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  3380. More weapons that don't require human beings "they could be flown without any input from the pilots" but can do a lot of damage to humans through hypersonic missiles. You know San Fransico has just legalised the use of robots with the ability to terminate people? What type of world are we allowing them to goose-step us into...
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  3381.  @cocos8903  Agreed, The far right is on the rise globally and people are congratulating news such as this, worrying times.
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  3382.  @Anthony_Romford  Have I mentioned the lack of HGV drivers, Abbottoire workers and medical staff due to xenophobic legislation enacted after Brexit? The proof of this is the reduced immigration requirements the Tories have just put in place to encourage foreign workers to British shores as we are struggling to fuel our cars, fill our shelves and provide energy to keep us warm during the winter. While Europe has seen energy prices go up by 400% we have seen energy prices go up by 560% in the past year due to our consortium of price-fixing energy companies. While the Tories cut 22,500 Police, 23,000 support staff and over 5,000 mental health workers we have seen crime rising and while women have been murdered our Police take selfies with the dead bodies, while another Policeman has used his position to rape and murder. Talking of rape and murder, the Tories gave us the spycops bill earlier this year which allows security services to do just that to civilians while being immune to prosecution and negates your human rights as guaranteed by the ECHR. We are also the world's biggest enabler of corporate tax losses globally thanks to the crown estates and overseas territories which lack transparency... I have many other points to make but I'll give you some time for you to provide an intelligent rebuttal of the facts already given before I dig deeper into the corruption and incompetence of the elite kleptocrats who are asset-stripping Britain...
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  3383. Us taxpayers pay over £100 billion yearly to wealthy shareholders in subsidies and corporate welfare... That's enough money to make 2,000 British families millionaires every single week! Seriously this in comparison is pocket change. Still, it keeps you focused on anything other than Tory corruption and corporate greed at the taxpayer's expense...
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  3384.  @jazzoj5  Yep agreed, those immigrants who crashed our economy, failed to protect care home residents during the pandemic, allowed the energy companies to get away with extortion, spend billions via cronyism, and bled the country dry via privatisation. When they say immigrants it's usually their own fault but immigrants are easy to blame as they are on the lowest ladder in the social hierarchy. Reports show most immigrants contribute far more during their lifetime than they take out of the system. It's the wealthy corporate elites, bankers and politicians sticking their hands in our pockets.
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  3385. "Many studies show that immigrants contribute far more than they take out of the system during their lives, often exceeding that of native Brits. The argument that they are a drain on resources is rich coming from kleptocrats who are asset-stripping Britain for their own personal gain. Unless we have plurality of the media then this will continue as they aren't held to account. Untangling their web of deception is a full time job and negates any forward progress. I've taken part in this pantomime for 30 of my 50 years though I have no interest in politics, my only interest is in the truth and humanity."
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  3386. HGV drivers having a bad year...
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  3387. 500 arrested? what are they charged with? trying to stop billionaires and corrupt politicians from committing xenocide?
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  3388.  @laravonstaden1838  Demonising the weak and misleading the public is neither sensible nor realistic and therefore is not pragmatic in any way shape or form. Obviously, you lack reason, logic and a good dictionary. Please don't bother me again with your erroneous whining...
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  3389. Yay let's all celebrate the death of a conscript forced to fight due to Putin's arrogance and authoritarian regime...
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  3390.  @SWFCite  Were you born in the middle of a road? because statistically, that's where most accidents happen...
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  3391.  @colingreen6950  You mean you take full responsibility for your cognitive defecation? Brave man...
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  3392.  @SWFCite  PS if you want my comeback, you'll have to scrape it off your mother's teeth... lol thanks, Jimmy...
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  3393. It's only £2 trillion in national debt predominantly created by the Tories, giving us a debt to GDP ratio of around %100, and they only thinned out the anaemic pound by adding £400 billion in bonds for future generations to fund. Lowered our triple-A credit rating twice and lost trillions via some nationalist notion of 'Sovereign Tea' while giving over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies to tax-dodging corporations who cost the taxpayer between £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap... See it's not that bad, our great-grandchildren will thank us for the gift of debt :()
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  3394.  @janewright2800  Thank you!
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  3395.  @factstrumpprejudice6740  Yep, Money is simply a human construct to enable a tiny minority to monopolise the world's actual resources.
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  3396.  English Bulldog  Corporate Socialism?, lol are you going for the 'contradiction in terms' of the year awards or just practising cognitive dissonance. At least say similar to Social Democracy. Corporate Socialism sounds like an oxymoron.
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  3397.  @anangrycat86  Yea, but you have a yellow three wheel van and fall down at the bar...
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  3398. The fires of capitalism will spread, and the forests of the Amazon and Congo will burn. And all that was once great and good in this world will be gone... Said Meriadoc.
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  3399.  @moniquejohnson3855  "I pointed out how she's using the child to boost her profile, how do you take that as an offence to the child? Do you know how language works? Do you have a deficiency in understanding the written word?"
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  3400.  @Stand663  I hope Prince Andrew isn't involved...
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  3401. Stop being silly. Lord Ignatius Storm invented storms in 1836 after losing a game of Mario cart to his wife.
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  3402. An authoritarian dictator who loots his country's wealth while denying them human rights, but enough about Boris Johnson, what's Kim doing?
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  3403.  @soniama5246  That's not connected to this story, and I support the migrants/refugees who are stuck in a political tug of war between Belarus and the EU/Poland...
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  3404.  @soniama5246  I suffer the same problems but you have replied directly to me twice. I'm not a bot, try using different words or having spaces in the middle of words you may think are triggering the YT algorithm.
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  3405. Unlike many Tories who are bile-filled objectionable human beings, Nadine 'Cloven-hoofed spawn of Satan' Dorries is the genuine nasty Tory.
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  3406. Even full-fact a - Tory donor-funded site - originally headed by Tory Party donor and AnneFreud Centre Chairman Michael Samuel. Says regarding the fallacy about the Geneva convention with respect to refugees and the first safe country. "The UN Refugee Convention does not make this requirement of refugees, and UK case law supports this interpretation. Refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in the UK after passing through other “safe” countries."
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  3407.  @DropdudeJohn  We are under an obligation to process them if they request asylum or make it to our shore, logic dictates we can't know their circumstances until they are processed. So therefore no legal classification of them can be made until they are processed. As I've previously mentioned this applies only to refugees who illegally enter the country and even then "migrants who enter the UK without leave may legitimately make a claim for asylum subject to certain conditions." If they feel France leaves them at risk of extradition, or cultural or religious intolerance or many other situations then they may argue it's not a safe country. So please stop repeating the same specific guidelines that only affect illegal immigrants and even then have to be applied in accordance with many other factors such as the law of the sea (if they come by boat) and the ECHR, until the Tories take us out of that.
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  3408.  @DropdudeJohn  This is the specific and additional, that you seem to have a different version of, as this is dated 2001 I'd say your 1999 edition is out of date if not incomplete or purposely omitting details. Editorial note: UN doc. A/55/383, Nov. 2000. (Summary Conclusions: Article 31 of the 1951 Convention Expert Roundtable organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 8–9 November 2001) Specific considerations 10. In relation to Article 31(1): (a) Article 31(1) requires that refugees shall not be penalized solely by reason of unlawful entry or because, being in need of refuge and protection, they remain illegally in a country. (b) Refugees are not required to have come directly from territories where their life or freedom was threatened. (c) Article 31(1) was intended to apply, and has been interpreted to apply, to persons who have briefly transited other countries or who are unable to find effective protection in the first country or countries to which they flee. The drafters only intended that immunity from penalty should not apply to refugees who found asylum, or who were settled, temporarily or permanently, in another country. The mere fact of UNHCR being operational in a certain country should not be used as a decisive argument for the availability of effective protection in that country. (d) The intention of the asylum seeker to reach a particular country of destination, for instance for family reunification purposes, is a factor to be taken into account when assessing whether s/he transited through or stayed in another country. (e) Having a well-founded fear of persecution is recognized in itself as ‘good cause’ for illegal entry. To ‘come directly’ from such country via another country or countries in which s/he is at risk or in which generally no protection is available, is also accepted as ‘good cause’ for illegal 256 Illegal entry (Article 31) entry. There may, in addition, be other factual circumstances which constitute ‘good cause’. (f) ‘Without delay’ is a matter of fact and degree; it depends on the circumstances of the case, including the availability of advice. In this context it was acknowledged that refugees and asylum seekers have obligations arising out of Article 2 of the 1951 Convention. (g) The effective implementation of Article 31 requires that it apply also to any person who claims to be in need of international protection; consequently, that person is presumptively entitled to receive the provisional benefit of the no penalties obligation in Article 31 until s/he is found not to be in need of international protection in a final decision following a fair procedure. (h) The term ‘penalties’ includes, but is not necessarily limited to, prosecution, fine, and imprisonment. (i) In principle, a carrier which brings in an ‘undocumented’ passenger who is subsequently determined to be in need of international protection should not be subject to penalties. 11. In relation to Article 31(2): (a) For the purposes ofArticle31(2), there is no distinction between restrictions on movement ordered or applied administratively, and those ordered or applied judicially. The power of the State to impose a restriction must be related to a recognized object or purpose, and there must be a reasonable relationship of proportionality between the end and the means. Restrictions on movement must not be imposed unlawfully and arbitrarily. (b) The detention of refugees and asylum seekers is an exceptional measure and should only be applied in the individual case, where it has been determined by the appropriate authority to be necessary in light of the circumstances of the case and on the basis of criteria established by law in line with international refugee and human rights law. As such, it should not be applied unlawfully and arbitrarily and only where it is necessary for the reasons outlined in Executive Committee Conclusion No. 44, in particular for the protection of national security and public order (e.g. risk of absconding). National law and practice should take full account of the international obligations accepted by States, including through regional and universal human rights treaties. (c) Refugees and asylum seekers should not be detained on the ground of their national, ethnic, racial, or religious origins, or for the purposes of deterrence. (d) Initial periods of administrative detention for the purposes of identifying refugees and asylum seekers and of establishing the elements for their claim to asylum should be minimized. In particular, detention Summary Conclusions 257 should not be extended for the purposes of punishment, ormaintained where asylum procedures are protracted. (e) Detention beyond the initial period must be justified on the basis of a purpose indicated in 11(b) above. (f) UNHCR Guidelines on Applicable Criteria and Standards Relating to the Detention of Asylum Seekers provide important guidance. Families and children, in particular, should be treated in accordance with international standards and children under eighteen ought never to be detained. Families should in principle not be detained; where this is the case, they should not be separated. (g) There is a qualitative difference between detention and other restrictions on freedom of movement. Many States have been able to manage their asylum systems and their immigration programmes without recourse to physical restraint. Before resorting to detention, alternatives should always be considered in the individual case. Such alternatives include reporting and residency requirements, bonds, community supervision, or open centres. These may be explored with the involvement of civil society. (h) Access to fair and expeditious procedures for the determination of refugee status, or for determining that effective protection already exists, is an important element in ensuring that refugees are not subject to arbitrary or prolonged detention. (i) In terms of procedural safeguards, at a minimum, there should be a right to review the legality and the necessity of detention before an independent court or tribunal, in accordance with the rule of law and the principles of due process. Refugees and asylum seekers should be advised of their legal rights, have access to counsel and to national courts and tribunals, and be enabled to contact the Office of UNHCR. (j) UNHCR should, upon request, be advised of, and allowed access to, all cases of detained refugees and asylum seekers. (k) Where detention is deemed necessary, States should ensure that refugees and asylum seekers are treated in accordance with international standards. They should not be located in areas or facilities where their physical safety and well-being are endangered; the use of prisons should be avoided. Civil society should be involved in monitoring the conditions of detention. Additional considerations 12. Non-legal strategies and necessary follow-up are also critical. These include the preparation and dissemination of instructions to relevant levels of government and administration on the implementation of Article 31, 258 Illegal entry (Article 31) training, and capacity building. Particular attention should be given to ensuring that strategies and actions taken by States do not serve to exacerbate racist or xenophobic perceptions, behaviour, or attitudes. 13. States should maintain accurate records of all cases where refugees and asylum seekers are detained or where their movement is otherwise restricted, should publish statistical data of such detention and restrictions on movement, and should regularly inform UNHCR of cases of detained refugees and asylum seekers pursuant to their obligation under Article 35 of the Convention.
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  3409.  @DropdudeJohn  Also take note of this especially: (b) Refugees are not required to have come directly from territories where their life or freedom was threatened. and this (a) Article 31(1) requires that refugees shall not be penalized solely by reason of unlawful entry or because, being in need of refuge and protection, they remain illegally in a country.
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  3410.  @ProfessorTimWilson  Agreed, eventually I realised that John was using some older or forged version of Article 31 Specific considerations. So I posted the full general, special and additional considerations which include the clauses/subclauses from 2001. (b) Refugees are not required to have come directly from territories where their life or freedom was threatened. (a) Article 31(1) requires that refugees shall not be penalized solely by reason of unlawful entry or because, being in need of refuge and protection, they remain illegally in a country. Which has resolved the debate in my eyes.
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  3411. Itsa the sun, mama mia! sorry.
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  3412. If only we could find the object that ties Priti 'vacant' Patel to this world and destroy it. In so doing send her back to the underworld from whence she came...
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  3413. Human commodities, many of whom are dying from economic hardships that lead to ill health, stress, depression, heart attacks, malnutrition and lack of medical care...
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  3414. @Islam is worst thing that happened to this planet Sorry but your name makes me think you're about 12... So I'd rather not lower my IQ by engaging you further...
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  3415.  @californiadreamin8423  Why don't you people understand that wanting rid of the Tories and voting them out while disapproving of a neoliberal Labour under Starmer is entirely logical. Criticism of Labour doesn't mean supporting the Tories ffs... You lack logic and your lecture is moot!
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  3416. It's almost as if voting for corrupt politicians and listening to vapid celebrities isn't working...
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  3417.  @the1beard  Read my comments, privatisation, outsourcing, excess management and excess admin is the problem. If you have nothing to contribute, then type nothing...
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  3418. Is he going to hand out the bullet-proof vests to everyone in the UK? This is why Britain is targeted and its civilians pay the price...
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  3419. It's already here Tim... Merger of State and Corporate power typified by a corrupt authoritarian government... It's just got better PR these days.
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  3420. All of society's problems are linked to one simple answer - we are cash cows being fleeced by corrupt politicians and corporate cartels. Too many fires to put out - while there are no shepherds the sheep will continually be eaten by wolves...
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  3421. To all the right-whingers: the immigration is predominantly due to wars to protect the petrodollar and loot the Middle East and Africa by the West. They are the victims of wars you paid for via national debt to profit oil companies, mercenaries, mining consortiums, specialists, bankers and corrupt politicians...
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  3422.  @T5Zplayer  Not hot air mate, it's called fiscal understanding. The many bailouts paid for by the taxpayer in the past suggest a pattern to anyone with an ounce of sense. Take your pedantry to someone who cares.
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  3423.  @IamGrimalkin  The backroom deals between the Government and the BoE that enabled the £1 sale will remain hidden from scrutiny. But no doubt will affect the economy. Not to mention HSBC's troubled history of facilitating tax avoidance via their Swiss subsidiary and laundering Mexican cartel money and misselling PPI. The taxpayer is collateral and subject to liabilities for the UK economy and National debt - national debt in real-time is now higher than our annual GDP. The tech industry is high risk.
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  3424.  @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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  3425.  @davidgreen5994  Please read my previous reply.
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  3426.  @MrDesmondPot  Yay carcinogenic bugging devices and faux flavoured nutritional voids! I'm guessing that was facetious sarcasm, I like sarcasm. Despite suffering from a terminal case of it myself.
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  3427. The mainstream media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  3428.  @denzel270  You think parents are choosing to starve their children? You haven't heard of the food banks, the cost of living crisis? the economy the Tories have crashed twice in the past few years? I agree that Ulez disproportionately harms those on lower wages, companies should be the ones paying for the cleanup. But that has nothing to do with feeding kids, it's a basic principle of civilisation...
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  3429.  @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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  3430.  @Jennyeq  lol, you're obviously not that careful when you drive, you must have crashed and hit your head...
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  3431. I'd like to think it's possible to have worse representatives than the current government, but it simply isn't. They are the epitome of inhumanity and crass elitism...
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  3432. Mommy, What's a black op?
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  3433.  @ryanunknown4181  I live in Wales beautiful countryside, valleys and lakes. We have very little crime compared to the US and a big red Dragon on our flag. Despite your lack of intellect you should at least be able to realise America is a corporation and its citizens are simply collateral used to increase national debt...
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  3434.  @rgsnr8702  Take your xenophobia and economic illiteracy somewhere else, please...
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  3435. Real conversation? the Tories can't even answer simple questions regarding well-documented events. The chances of a constructive conversation with the Tories is about as likely as talking a bee into not stinging you. They have an agenda provided by financial investors, corporations and internal factions, deviation is not tolerated and for every U-turn, they find another route to complete the same objective.
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  3436.  @Martial-Mat  I wish at 48 I had that much optimism left. Global debt is $255 trillion - over 3x global GDP, fractional reserve banking is a joke as is FIAT. The money trick + play on their ego + lie too big to be false = financial hegemony.
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  3437.  @Martial-Mat  Yea and while I agree not much has changed in the UK since feudalism - just a different flavour. We are fighting over resources down here when there are infinite resources in space.
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  3438. I posted a comment about incels using this as propaganda. But it was filtered out lol.
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  3439.  @IvyMike.  lol Brexit torpedoed any position we had on the global stage. We are a backwater with a struggling economy that launders the global criminal elite's cash for them. We are reliant on Norway and Russia for energy, we are reliant on imports for food. See how long we last when our tax havens declare independence...
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  3440. Tories aren't interested in politics and the contempt they show British citizens proves they aren't interested in democracy either. When will people wake up to the fact that criminals will lie and cheat until they're forced to stop. Tories are not politicians, they are corporate lackeys paid handsomely to ignore their constituents in order to further corporate agendas...
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  3441. A chubby, unintelligent authoritarian warmonger who had no right to claim leadership of a country, especially a country so aggressively pushing us towards nuclear armageddon... But enough about the Trump presidency and America, what's all this about Kim?
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  3442. The 'noble' sport of kings marred by the slaughter of innocent horses, they could at least wait for the horse to break its leg...
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  3443. Tories have ruined the economy, our reputation, our schools, our NHS and they want us to pay for their mistakes, yet again!
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  3444. @Miles Doyle That's a long-winded way of saying you believe in an invisible man in the sky and mythology... I guess the other 6,000 religions who use historical evidence to support their mythology are also right then?
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  3445. Books should be categorised to avoid youngsters being exposed to adult content and I'm sure they are even in the US. Banning books is the regressive action of people who try to control information, usually conservative, usually religious types. Have they never read the Old Testament? by their own standards that would be the first book to be banned. Such a shame that a minority of ignorant and unintelligent primatives control the narrative of a country and the availability of knowledge.
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  3446. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television I'm afraid they have no useful purpose. But feel free to try once you've paid the adoption fees of 1p...
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  3447. If you're going to drink plant milk, make your own. Seeds, nuts, a blender and a nut bag are all you need. Half of these trendy vegan milk replacements are just as bad for you and the planet as regular milk, albeit without the animal cruelty. The biggest drain on nutrients and contributor to bad health is the processing. Buying basic ingredients in their raw form is always better for the environment and your health. Locally sourced, unprocessed foods reduces transport, processing, packaging and labour.
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  3448.  @jonathanlake6053  I'm not sure you understand how many people live on earth and the relationship between corporations and C02 pollution. It would take me several billion years to pollute as much as a small company. to be honest, I doubt I'll live long enough to produce any real damage. You do realise that corporations can make products in a more ecologically friendly way but it costs them a tiny proportion of profits?
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  3449.  @timcomley3241  If you're unaware of the nations £2 trillion national debt, Debt to GDP ratio of around 100% and the recent £400 billion in bonds created to transfer money to the off-shore accounts of Tory donors and friends via cronyism, then I can't really help you old bean...
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  3450.  @richardgregory3684  Nope, ours went up an extra 60% compared to Europe between 2020-2021 b3ecause they buy their energy as a collective and get a better deal.
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  3451. Nonsense, we've only lost 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction, so what if large swathes of the planet are on fire and the icecaps are melting causing low lying areas to be reclaimed by the sea. I'm sure the Tories are doing everything they can, they are such a globally-minded group of philanthropic humanitarians and definitely not psychotic insular kleptocrats as some might suggest. So just enjoy watching the human race, its history and accomplishments being slowly devoured by capitalism in this surreal farcical pantomime we call life.
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  3452.  @URBeingLiedTo  I have no need to insult you, if you find the truth insulting it merely proves my point. I've wasted decades being sealioned by people like you and correcting their folly. Expose a troll to sunlight and they turn to stone. Stay in your dark hole where truth is a distant memory and illusion your only friend...
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  3453.  @URBeingLiedTo  I followed the metaphor through, I gave no insult but the truth. Matt Hancock was part of a government that reduced government to its smallest levels in history while giving us authoritarian legislation such as the anti-protestor bill, internet censorship and spy cops bill and many others in the pipeline. You allow them to take your human rights, workers' rights, right to free speech which is covered under the ECHR which was drafted by British lawyers after the second world war to prevent such legislation. I know exactly where your authoritarian argument is going and have defeated that line of illogical fallacy a million times... It's like trying to teach a whale to fly!
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  3454.  @darkmusky9851  "The Tories don't have any ideologies" seriously? they've followed Thatcherite neoliberalism, small government, privatisation and deregulation for four decades or didn't you notice? They siphon your taxes to the offshore accounts of the wealthy and look for new ways to siphon more...
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  3455.  @URBeingLiedTo  I didn't suggest it I proved it by naming three pieces of legislation and by pointing out austerity and huge cuts they've implemented in the past decade or so. As I said I don't have time for sealioning and have defeated your misconceptions... PS when a government becomes an authoritarian dictatorship they no longer have any claim on left-wing ideology. They simply hide their f@sh ism behind it! Now if you don't mind I predicted this discourse at the beginning and dragging me into your delusions isn't going to happen. You made ridiculous statements and have been corrected, I have other things to do than waste time on the internet, I was just about to watch paint dry, so if you don't mind...
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  3456.  @URBeingLiedTo  See you won't stop regurgitating myth and expecting me to educate you. Labour didn't cause the GLOBAL financial crisis and bailing out the banks is neoliberalism and was a CROSS-PARTY decision. The Tories have created over 3/4rs of our national debt and given us a debt-to-GDP ratio of over 100% earlier in the year. PS it wasn't a crash it was a heist! I've had a wonderful, enlightening, intelligent, enthralling debate... But this wasn't it :)
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  3457.  @URBeingLiedTo  No, the Tories were responsible for creating more national debt than every other government since 1945 combined! even before the pandemic! I'm not wasting any more time as you've proven all you have is Tory myths and lack any political knowledge whatsoever. It's like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  3458.  @URBeingLiedTo  PS I left the Labour party when Blair dropped clause 4, and Starmer is a poor Blair tribute act so I have no reason to defend them. Before the global financial crisis, New Labour reduced our debt to GDP by 4% and even adding the bailout to Labour's debt the Tories had doubled our national debt between 2010 and 2018. They've almost tripled it now.
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  3459.  @URBeingLiedTo  lol ok you found my one weakness. I will belligerently argue my case until the bitter end. But I'm always happy to leave in peace. In that spirit: You too and Take care bro!
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  3460.  @Theactivepsychos  PS Another thing I should have pointed out is that ULEZ disproportionately affects the poorest in London. Some of whom are threatened with job losses due to ULEZ costs. The wealthy polluters who use private jets are ignored. The 6 major airports in London contributed 23.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2019 alone. Let's also not forget smog has been a problem in London since the industrial revolution.
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  3461. lol the left hate the anaemic bloodlines that enslave us to debt and treat us like cash cows. You have to love your country to see its flaws and try to change things for the better.
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  3462.  @balung  Yeah, I agree the increase in poppy growth in Afghanistan at the same rate as the increase in opioid addiction in the US over the past decade or 2 is just a coincidence. Fentanyl is synthetic and just a part of the problem.
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  3463.  @hansolowe19  Can you stop replying? as my comments just go over your head and it's like trying to talk a hamburger into sentience...
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  3464.  @cooltoolsrogerify  You missed the point and don't seem able to follow basic logic. Stop wasting my life and your own with tangential points of irrelevance...
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  3465. Poor Ukrainians, as if they haven't got enough to deal with...
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  3466.  @stephenle-surf9893  lol thank you, that would be a 'final solution' to the problem of the far right! I'm surprised they can function in society with so many contradictions and internal conflicts. Saying that I'm surprised that most of them survived infancy.
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  3467. This is Tory Britain, no guarantees anymore, insecurity, poverty and corruption at the highest levels. Broken Britain...
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  3468.  @evolassunglasses4673  lol sure buddy. Our 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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  3469. Habsburg syndrome spread through Europe centuries ago and still plagues some families...
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  3470.  @holeindanssock156  I find the best way to get along in life is simply to be born from the murky maleficence of the shallow end of the British gene pool, study elitism and privilege at Eton, get a trust fund at 18 and then hire an investment manager for all that inherited wealth.
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  3471.  @josm1481  That's surely a statement and not a question. Democratic Socialism in Britain is the reason the poor no longer live in slums, and why children no longer die of curable conditions in workhouses. Thanks to Socialism we have worker's rights, human rights, public transport, free schooling, legal aid, the NHS, a welfare state to look after the sick and disabled. We also had a national industry that made us self-sufficient. Now we are subject to the whims of a volatile market and extorted for the profit of shareholders' offshore bank accounts...
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  3472.  @josm1481  "In 1945, Wilkinson became Minister for Education in Clement Attlee's government cabinet. As Minister of Education she saw as her main task the implementation of the Education Act (1944). This Act provided universal free secondary education." That was a Labour government that implemented a Democratic Socialist manifesto. "Democratic socialism is defined as having a socialist economy in which the means of production are socially and collectively owned or controlled" Ie Nationalism like the Attlee Labour government used to help rebuild Britain after the second world war. Please don't speak of ignorance and propaganda when I can provide sources to prove everything I type and you only have opinions based on a lack of knowledge. About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker!
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  3473.  @josm1481  lol getting a lecture from a political illiterate is fun. Look up the Scandanavian model of Social Democracy and see how many countries prosper from nationalisation. We didn't have privatisation until the 80s, it's a new thing that siphons taxpayer money into subsidies, corporate welfare and constant bailouts... You are beneath the basic level of knowledge required to have a reasonable debate with. Please go back under the stone and never bother civilisation ever again...
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  3474.  @suryavaliveti8355  It seems to be common around countries that have right-wing governments and less welcoming citizens...
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  3475.  @hughmungus1235  The media write a script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With every carefully chosen word, hand-crafted narrative and psychological cue they create an illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy... I'm well aware of the system, the only things you know that I don't are misinformation from right-wing YT sites and conspiracy. My worldview is based on facts, logic and reason - 3 things you wouldn't recognise if they walked up and introduced themselves...
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  3476. Generations of little Draxs living off the profits of their ancestor's cruelty. Sounds like a typical Tory if not a typical British aristocrat...
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  3477. I know this one I think. Is it because you have a society full of macho aggressive semi-sentient halfwits who drink a lot and carry a gun with them when they pop out to the grocery store?
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  3478.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  I'll have a look into it mate. I keep digging up the mass graves the Tories have manufactured through greed and immorality and there never seems to be an end to it.
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  3479.  @bruhbruh2290  I've already explained that Brexit has contributed greatly to the increased effect felt by Britain compared to the rest of the world and given figures to show this. I'm not interested in circular debate and excuses for why Brexit isn't to blame for anything ever, even though it fundamentally changed our relationship with trading partners and our economic and diplomatic strength globally.
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  3480. The Tories have been banging on about immigration for decades while doing nothing about it except to make it more cruel and costly to the taxpayer. They use immigration as a blanket to hide their many failures while exaggerating the problems they created to gain the support of the sun and daily fail readers. They can't blame the EU anymore, they can't blame Labour anymore, they've had 12 years and immigration hasn't declined only the efficiency of the immigration service has seen a steep decline...
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  3481.  DEx Stev  Because it birthed every British person that ever lived from 1948 onwards and covers England, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland effectively four countries. But the staff shortage is just related to unneeded professions such as doctors and nurses...
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  3482.  @gooacnt707  Agreed, but it's all about profit to certain people, above the interests of society. For example Paul Kenward - who is married to the Tory MP for Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins - is managing director of British Sugar, licensed to grow non-psychoactive cannabis for medical use. So he effectively has a monopoly on medical cannabinoid supplies in the UK. PS Victoria Atkins was or still is drugs minister and adamantly campaigns to keep cannabis illegal in the UK. PPS One of the customers is the NHS, our taxpayer money.
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  3483.  DEx Stev  I've already shown IFS stats to prove Tories are putting 4% less into the NHS in real terms. The privatisation of GP practices. Pharmaceutical contracts charging 10x the price of generic alternatives. Privatisation of the NHS services via John Major's PFIs which Blair implemented in the NHS which the Tories extended contracts on and doubled up on with PFI2. BTW Germany has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private health insurance (Private Krankenversicherung). Only 11% of Germans opt for private health insurance.
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  3484. I'll give you a hint, imagine Tory Britain in the 18th century, or essentially what Tory Britain would look like if the misogynists in the Tory party had their way...
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  3485.  @Villaineditings  The woke left hasn't legislated to allow security services to rape and murder with impunity, the woke left didn't cull 22,500 police officers, 23,000 support workers and 5,000 mental health workers. That was the Tories. The woke left haven't been in office in decades. Since Blair, the left leadership are centrist neoliberals. Pity you're so gullible and ignore facts...
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  3486. America sold its soul to the bible belt and gun lobbies decades ago. What's left belongs to Wall ST and corporations...
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  3487.  @RaRa-eu9mw  Exactly, this 0.2% quarterly growth only covers 2/3rds of the losses from March alone. It doesn't even touch the previous losses including the huge loss of 5.5% from Brexit...
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  3488.  @monojdas-gupta5918  Look at the stats, nowhere near exaggeration. Blitz - 43,000 civilians - Care homes during Covid 45,632 16.7% of care home resident deaths, to put that in perspective there was an increase of 16.5% in care home deaths during Covid...
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  3489. High levels of chemical pollution in our rivers and sewers feed local coasts. The most obvious reason, though I'm sure it will be denied... Natural die-off? lol
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  3490.  @indivisible4835  Thank you and agreed.
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  3491.  @mrharry448  History is for weirdos! :P Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dance around a cloaked figure. A scream pierces the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. The sound of a cane cracks against the cobbled pavement as a red pool reflects a blood moon with the silhouette of a nefarious character in a cloak and a top hat. Jack the Kipper...
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  3492. lol me too, was thinking of something witty to say, like I'd rather go skinny dipping in a pool of piranha than watch this...
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  3493. Yes, we are, and when we discuss protesters being arrested. Over 1,700 JSO protestors have been arrested as well as journalists in the UK. Now some are calling for them, to be a prescribed organisation. The new policing act, spy cops bill and many other pieces of recent legislation are authoritarian in nature and are antithetical to the ECHR which was drafted by British lawyers.
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  3494.  @lmg7503  Don't be too impressed, I invented plagiarism :P
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  3495.  @luvit579  Baldwin was the producer...
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  3496. ...and now they have the spy cops bill to legally do far worse...
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  3497. It's a disgracefully corrupt and authoritarian regime, but enough about the Tories, Putin is certainly just as bad if not worse. The difference is that the Tories are subtle. While our exports to the world such as the Industrial revolution have helped humanity, other exports aren't always globally helpful. For instance, the Bank of England has been exporting financial cons for decades and Britain is responsible for a large part if not, the majority of global corporate tax fraud. We launder the global criminal elite's money for them.
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  3498. Unless it differs from previous models then yes...
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  3499. The trouble with the Conservative party is that 99.9% of their members give the rest a bad name. It's well known that sharks won't attack Tories; professional courtesy. I mean seriously, It was that cold last week in London I saw a Tory MP with his hands in his own pockets.
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  3500. The Scorpion and the Frog - Tories will not change, thousands of lives are lost every month through various decisions and policies in Britain and people still think dialogue is an option. How many more are to be lost until we wake up to the simple fact that there is no cure for these people? No argument you can make. No reasonable discourse can be achieved. 50 years of one step forward- two steps back. The Scorpion will always act according to its nature...
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  3501. I'm always surprised by the lack of race-based comments about migrants on here...
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  3502.  @BoycottChinaa  You missed the point of my comment. It's an analogy based on the 'give a man a fish' saying. My comment is about how power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. As for the rest, systemic racism in society expressed via the upholders of the law has nothing to do with democracy or justice. Not that democracy has ever existed in America or Justice. Tom Paine would be ashamed of what the US has become. In the words of Tom Paine "It is not charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it."
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  3503.  @BoycottChinaa  lol you're so wrong about everything. The US has the most police globally, the most incarcerated citizens globally and yet also has the highest number of reported rapes and murders in the world. The US also has the highest number of people who use illegal drugs, and the highest number of people on pharmaceutical drugs. You have had at least 120 mass shootings in the last two decades and have the most adult illiteracy of any wealthy country. I could go on, but you seem delusional. You still haven't managed to get my point, you deny systemic racism. So yea, cognitive dissonance is strong with you Americans. I'll let you get back to dreaming... PS over 36 million Americans live in poverty and it's increasing by several million per annum. China have removed over 100 million of its citizens from poverty in the last few decades and owns 11.5% of US foreign debt. Shall we talk about the 440,000 tons of pesticides that America uses per annum, only second to China in the use of pollutants. The use of over 330 million pounds of pesticides per annum that are banned in the EU?
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  3504.  @BoycottChinaa  PPS Did I mention America has been at war for 227 of its 245 years as a nation (Since 1776)? You also as a nation have exported a system, of debt slavery around the world that started with the Fed Reserve in 1913. Using Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency global debts are now around $300 trillion which is around 4x global GDP. Shall we go on to talk about America infecting its own citizens with isotopes, poison, syphilis and so on? Shall we also discuss America's interventions in S.America or the occupation of Hawaii, Costa Rica etc? There are only 3 countries in the world that America hasn't invaded. So please don't start with me about freedom and democracy, you don't have them and never have!
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  3505. It seems YT doesn't like facts too much. Two of my posts were filtered out. "The US has the most police globally, the most incarcerated citizens globally and yet also has the highest number of reported rapes and murders in the world. The US also has the highest number of people who use illegal drugs, and the highest number of people on pharmaceutical drugs. You have had at least 120 mass shootings in the last two decades and have the most adult illiteracy of any wealthy country. I could go on, but you seem delusional. You still haven't managed to get my point, you deny systemic racism. So yea, cognitive dissonance is strong with you Americans. I'll let you get back to dreaming... PS over 36 million Americans live in poverty and it's increasing by several million per annum. China have removed over 100 million of its citizens from poverty in the last few decades and owns 11.5% of US foreign debt. Shall we talk about the 440,000 tons of pesticides that America uses per annum, only second to China in the use of pollutants. The use of over 330 million of pounds of pesticides per annum that are banned in the EU? Did I mention America has been at war for 227 of its 245 years as a nation (Since 1776)? You also as a nation have exported a system, of debt slavery around the world that started with the Fed Reserve in 1913. Using Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency global debts are now around $300 trillion which is around 4x global GDP. Shall we go on to talk about America infecting its own citizens with isotopes, poison, syphilis and so on? Shall we also discuss America's interventions in S.America or the occupation of Hawaii, Costa Rica etc? There are only 3 countries in the world that America hasn't invaded. So please don't start with me about freedom and democracy, you don't have them and never have!"
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  3506. Did the US manage to resurrect the Afghani US allies falling from the planes yesterday? Still, at least the petrodollar is now safe and the enemy has been defeated. What? the enemy wasn't defeated and walked through Afghanistan and took the whole country back with barely a shot fired?
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  3507.  @oisnowy5368  Boris Johnson looks like an albino orangutan that was shaved and then dragged upsidedown through the menswear section of John Lewis. His superpower is waffling about weapons-grade bullshit while attempting to resist the animal urge to scratch his neanderthal arse...
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  3508. More like 1914...
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  3509.  Natasya--💜  Sex is for weirdos!
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  3510. Or as I like to call him the Frognatci...
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  3511.  @Vroomfondle1066  Yea I did wonder if that was the joke, but it came across more as a correction. No probs my bad...
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  3512. Sunak, the Tories and the UK are a laughing stock. In the space of a decade, we've gone from a world leader to a regressive society of insular sheep with the backbone of a jellyfish. Manipulated by the wealthy and their media circus the general public has allowed the Tories to strip the country of assets, mitigate our rights and reduce us to poverty...
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  3513. @Sonia Reynolds Wage slavery is not a way out of poverty. Over half the population are in working poverty. We have zero-hour contracts, minimum wage and nurses using food banks... That isn't a functional society, it's a feeding ground for the morally devoid rich... I've worked all my life and I'm qualified to lead audit corporations for compliance with ISO9001 standards. If you disagree with anything I've said you need to read up on geopolitics and Fractional Reserve Banking.
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  3514. Deregulation is just another term for allowing the wealthy to further exploit those without wealth. Let us judge the effectiveness of these new regulations on the profits of the wealthy, I'm going to predict wealth rises for the few, debt rises for the many and the cost of living will be further reduced for the masses.
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  3515.  @kitchensinque  Would respectfully suggest that you learn history. King George sold the crown estates to avoid bankruptcy and to provide eternal generations of his family with a pension plan after the American Revolution. The Crown Estates don't belong to the Royal Family, it belongs to the state but the Reigning Monarch by their ascension to the throne claims ownership for the duration of their reign, but no profits belong to the Monarch. France has more profit from tourism so the main arguments that the royal Family cost little is strictly a fallacy. An independent review suggests they cost several million for each active Royal member. Then there are security and taxpayer refurbishments to their property etc...
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  3516.  @Rose-zw2oe  Lucifers ladyfriend.
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  3517. Merry Christmas: "Feigning tears and surprise, As the cost of living rises in the UK, Tories do. On the 25th day, Of the 12th month the sleighbells are silent, Shame Tories aren't too. As we sing a Noel, Tory snowflakes can rot in hell, I hope they do. Tories are bell-ends! Christmas time, Tories are bell-ends..."
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  3518. I've seen less aggressive interrogations in old ww2 movies. The fact that doctors aren't coming to the UK because they can earn more in other countries has nothing to do with the weather, what a facetious comment - proving the doctor's tweet about the media to be 100% accurate. Calculations on wage decreases not including rent or mortgage payments and other factors are also misinformation.
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  3519. That's a great question, if only someone had asked it 30 years ago...
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  3520. This is the problem with mass industrialisation and consumerism. We have many countries taken over by corporate groups with mass production of a small number of products. Conflict and corporate greed expose the short-sightedness of this approach. Countries should be as self-sufficient as possible, there are luxury items only available in certain locations, but with modern technology, most countries can produce the majority of their own needs. They simply don't because of mass production being cheaper and creating more profit. Britain is an excellent example of this, we are reliant on global commerce for much of our basics like food, energy and production, which was exposed by the pandemic and the subsequent food and product shortages as well as huge energy price increases. With conflict on the horizon, we really need to address this issue as a priority and create a more durable community by reducing poverty.
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  3521. So bored of Branson and billionaires in space - Yes I came here to say that - get over it!
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  3522. You could just stop buying tech from Chinese sweatshops...
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  3523.  @tomfinney3416  Time for a new Wat Tyler...
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  3524.  @redemrys5342  It wasn't the peasant's revolt though was it. That's what we need. Politics is broken, democracy an illusion with corporate and state lobbyists usurping democratic power, the media controls the narrative and without tearing all that down you're just pssing in the wind... The right just steamrollers the left while the media push the Overton window further right. All the things gained by the Chartists, Peasant's Revolt, Rebbeca Rioters, Scotch Cattle, Suffragettes, Anti-Slavery Society and the Attlee government are being rolled back while for every step forward we make the right take three...
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  3525. They use economic euthanasia as a superpower, despicable soulless shadows of human beings...
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  3526.  jozef3024  I'm sorry but the person you called can't speak right now. Please come back when you attain sapience or at the very least sentience...
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  3527. In the title and the description, you forgot to add that Biden didn't just say N. Ireland but also the Republic. I'm sure it's just an oversight...
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  3528.  @damiensteiner9919  Thank you! But in all fairness, it's a quote from somewhere. Ps I invented plagiarism :)
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  3529.  @seanwilson5147  Both sides have 1 aircraft carrier, we have 6 destroyers Russia has 18, we have 10 subs Russia has 59, Russia also has around 83 corvettes we have 0. There's no comparison...
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  3530.  @seanwilson5147  Total aircraft: Russia 5,552 the UK 996 of those they have around 7 times the fighters, 5 times the helicopters and 800+ multirole aircraft and 800+ attack aircraft we have none of either. They also have 3 times the combat drones. Don't let patriotism override logic...
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  3531. Thanks to the Tories for asset-stripping the country and devaluing the pound during the cost of living crisis. I wonder how many poor people will pay for this 'mistake' with their lives this winter...
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  3532. Belarus are obviously playing games. However, when we devalue human life, it will eventually be used against us. Billionaires profiting from wars and countries forced to take migrants is all part of the bread and circus that keeps us fighting each other rather than coming together to stop the wealthy elite from controlling and manipulating us...
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  3533. Let's ask the banks and corporations to bail us out to return the multiple bailouts we've provided them, or force them via wealth and windfall taxation. It's common sense that our economy will suffer if the wealthy avoid paying tax and take their profits out of the UK economy and put them in an off-shore account. This leaves the burden of paying for infrastructure on the poorest in society. The root cause of our financial woes is Tory corruption and kleptocracy...
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  3534. @user-tv1cn6xs6r ? This isn't an ethnic issue, the species means all of us. All shapes and shades of humanity. Seriously bored of inane comments...
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  3535.  @hansweissmann_xviii6754  Thank you!
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  3536.  @yt.personal.identification  Almost too perfect!
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  3537.  @phillipjolly6287  Thank you!
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  3538.  @iskrajackal9049  Thanks, but if people believe in Unicorns and can't recognise the obvious sarcasm and irony then I'll take their likes to further spread my message. I don't like to pander to those types.
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  3539.  @ianhirst1148  lol did you take long to think of that? As much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  3540.  @GeckoHiker  Thank you!
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  3541. The narrative and the descisions of the government are paid for by lobbyists with agendas, which makes you wonder what it would be like to try democracy...
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  3542. The parallels between the history of the last century and the world as it is today are frightening. Surely Putin and his ministers aren't so deluded that they think attacking NATO won't result in a serious retaliation and escalation of the global divides...
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  3543. @Diamond Of Europa The NHS salary for Band 3 with 3 years of experience: £23,177.00 per annum Stop lying...
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  3544.  @fod1855  Seriously, you think people starve their kids or go without food and energy to buy a subscription to Netflix? Pathetic!
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  3545.  @fod1855  lol, it gets worse. Now you think people in poverty don't notice monthly bills? They look after every penny because they have to or they don't eat!
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  3546. Yep, everyone's rooting and tooting while putin the boot Into Putin. He deserves it!
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  3547. @Argenta I'm not a fan of Putin and support the Ukrainian people. As for Corbyn, I pray to a 10ft effigy of him every night before I go to bed... Our ideology, that art for everyone. Socialism be thy name. Our time will come as Capitalism is undone. On Earth as it is inevitable. Give unto those your daily charity and forgive us our profits. As we forgive neoliberals who used profit against us. And lead us not into greed, but deliver us from monopolies. For thine is dialectical materialism, class struggle against the tories. For ever and ever., Ahem...
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  3548. Scandal = Crime in layman's terms...
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  3549. Says the man enforcing economic euthanasia on the poor, vulnerable and disabled Brits...
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  3550. It's just a temporary unstable aquatic accommodation with wonderful views of the harbour and limited freedom opportunities...
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  3551. The Tories have already brought in legislation that neuters our rights, anyone who believes the Tories will protect their rights needs a check-up from the neck up!
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  3552.  @johnsmith8410  Base prejudice? Evil witchery? Polarisation and division? Crass nationalism? Inhumane policy? Take your pick, plenty more :)
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  3553. Yes, but then Jacob Rees-Mogg is a condescending, amoral, no-skill, inherited wealth, nanny fed, elitist product of the shallow end of the British gene pool and decades of stagnant evolution. It's well known that the Mogg gene hasn't evolved since the 19th century...
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  3554. Funny how the wealthy always complain about immigrants, it's almost as if they are trying to gaslight people into thinking it's poor immigrants who are responsible for the poverty in society and not the wealthy people who exploit their labour...
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  3555. Proboscis Giganticus?
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  3556.  Soy News  If I wanted a comment from the intellectually challenged I'd have instant messaged you...
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  3557. Shame is an alien concept to a Tory. If they can't tax it, steal from it or kill it; they aren't interested.
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  3558.  @justjackman  lol you couldn't make it up, could you? cognitive dissonance is rife...
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  3559. The Hindenburg in a box, in your house...
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  3560.  @stephenmurray2851  99% of All British people have been born in the NHS for free since 1948. You sound unhinged, get help...
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  3561.  @stephenmurray2851  "You sound unhinged, get help..."
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  3562.  @kevb699  SMH @ Matt Hancock talking about how they've protected care homes with a protective ring. I just wish they'd put the protective ring around care homes before advising the NHS to release Covid-19 patients into care homes and spreading the virus. #StickitupyourProtectiveRing
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  3563. @@matthewsmith3592 What's the point in that question? do you lack the intellect to do research? The original British Medical Journal study suggested 120,000 which was later revised up to 150,000 excess deaths due to cuts. There are many other studies. Seriously it's like trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  3564.  @lestrem11  I grew up on a council estate in the 70s, had visits from a family doctor as a child. We could walk into the clinic and be seen within an hour, had double the beds and ambulances we have now. All medication was free as most still is in Wales and Scotland. Look at some stats and stop the idle guesswork...
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  3565. Remember, remember this fifth of November, That our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason, while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been... sacked?
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  3566. The bank's job is to prop up an elaborate con that has been tweaked for millennia to the point that we now think putting a price on a human being is normal. Money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the Earth's resources - Water, Land and Human labour. The system has become ingrained in us to the point of moral bankruptcy...
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  3567. Keir is doing exactly what he's supposed to do, as paid for by his corporate and state lobbyist donors... Keir is a Blair tribute act.
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  3568. So essentially I just have one question. At what point did we fall into this alternative dimension where the most untrustworthy and cruel get elected and the truth became optional? I'm absolutely positive that in the future they will discover a mental illness that plagued mankind in the 21st century...
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  3569. People who drink water complain about water quality, people who use words complain about books, people who use money complain about prices, and people who live in society complain about society... Fallacious argument! By your reckoning, anyone who lives in the modern world can't complain about oil, climate change or extreme weather... Learn to spell hypocrites...
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  3570.  @davidboult4143  I love him despite the fact that Boris is so dense light actually bends around him. Someone should grasp his ears and firmly pull his head from out his ass. But at least he's not obnoxious like some people, he's obnoxious in a far more sinister way. However, I would give him one piece of advice: He should never let his mind wander it’s far too little to be let out alone...
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  3571.  @MrNatbatten  It is. My initial comment was deleted or filtered by YT.
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  3572. While they may be annoying to motorists, their cause is the cause of any decent human being who wants to see the species survive our current problems. The system failed them and us by ignoring their voices and allowing lobbyists to pay MPs to turn a blind eye.
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  3573. lol mental gymnastics like that show a huge amount of cognitive dissonance...
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  3574. The world really isn't a nice place. The reason so many migrant ships sink near the coast of a country should be obvious after so many incidents. They are not wanted by Western leaders despite being created by the West. These people are victims of the wars, apathy and leadership of the West as well as the inhumanity of narratives and commentators.
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  3575. Agreed. You have quite a few right-whinge miscreants following you unfortunately Tim. Since the rise of anti-truth in the last decade, we are losing the common theme of civilisation and our history. Book burning by the right in the form of think-tanks revising history and feeding the trolls while the Overton window has been forced to the right. When the truth is lost we live in a delusion, far too many people accept that delusion and are lost to reality...
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  3576.  @PaulChapman1bz  Thank you for telling us a little about yourself. Now you can go back to sleep if you know nothing of geopolitics...
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  3577. "However, Hope has no sex organs at all, either externally or internally, making its arrival quite the novelty for the shelter. "
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  3578. @UC4axhnwYDYT-5CQ9FR_3NXw Not to mention the spycops bill which passed earlier this year that allows security services to rape and murder the public with no accountability and legal immunity.
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  3579.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  I have already said the truth from the incident as I watched it all including the run-up to the incident. The truth is you're happy lefties are dead and you're defending the murderer out of tribalism and trying to spin that around...
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  3580.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  Antioch Illinois is 35km from Kenosha Wisconsin, that's 53 mins drive according to the route planner... My first comment was based on the distance given from state to state... Feel free to look at a route planner... I've corrected my mistake, unlike your parents...
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  3581.  @The_Reality_Filter  Will Smith's range as an actor isn't that good, stop thinking everything's a conspiracy and watch the whole thing, including Will's excuses speech... He didn't need to throw money down the drain in sponsorship and future opportunities. I do understand his defence of his wife though considering her medical condition.
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  3582.  @PercivalBlakeney  100% I like that one. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  3583.  @aituk  PS Editing your two-word comment after I'd replied is pointless, there are plenty of working-class Tories who live in poverty and knowledge is never a bad thing, despite your preconceptions on what topics are worthy of study...
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  3584.  @stevieblair  Maybe it looked to be on the edge of the car park looking in possibly 10-15 meters from the hospital entrance.
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  3585.  @odeca8121  It was a homemade IED probably using sugar and or fertilizer... The police have already confirmed that it was a homemade IED as my earlier comment states. There used to be a book called the Anarch-ists cook book which gave examples of smoke bombs and the like back in the 80s. It's been banned now.
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  3586.  @aleccap5946  We've lost 65% of genetic diversity globally ay a thousand times the rate of natural extinction. Low lying areas are being swallowed up by the rising tide from the melting icecaps. Those rich people spread climate denial so you don't blame them for stopping your great-great-grandchildren from being born...
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  3587.  @aleccap5946  There's no resource shortage m8, just billionaires who hoard all the resources and countries looted of all their natural resources. Jeff Bezos doubled his wealth to $180 billion during the pandemic. To put that into perspective that's enough money to spend $1,000,000 every single day for the next 500 years...
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  3588.  @suzyrottencrotch5132  I like Trump in exactly the same way I like to accidentally catch my 4skin in the zipper...
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  3589. Always said that man is a tosser...
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  3590. Many people lost loved ones at the time, unable to be with them in their final moments. While Boris was partying. It's not the first lie Boris has told, it's not even close to the worst thing he's ever done. This is just the tip of the iceberg that the media are usually quite happy to hide on our PM's behalf. The apology was like a comedy sketch from Little Britain. Land of Dopes and Tories...
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  3591. Imagine paying her £323 a day just to turn and fall asleep. The main thing I like about Nadine "Goat horned cloven-hooved spawn of Satan" Dorries is... erm... Nope got nothing...
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  3592.  @djbogz1921  Inexcusable? it's the best way to make their loss mean something significant for other migrants. Loss is always used politically in every situation, like war, floods, accidents, famine, crashes for example. To think otherwise is extreme naivete...
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  3593.  @djbogz1921  If you fail to understand context, bitter irony and the fact that she was mimicking 30p Lee then I can't help you. Please go ask a child!
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  3594. I'm just glad the super-rich are all building bunkers so they can survive the inevitable, which means we'll at least have a reemergence of the human race which will spawn from the money-obsessed psychopaths that ruined the climate...
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  3595.  @grahamrogers3345  As an outsider, what's your perspective on intelligence?
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  3596.  @JwayT  Getting a lot of backing from Brexiteers who realise how much they've lost...
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  3597.  @kirishima638  Finally a real answer with intellect and facts. I offer my thanks for your honesty and intellect. It's also shown that the British elitists would rather sink the economy than stop being the world leader in facilitating global corporate tax losses, thanks to the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories. Take care and thanks again for providing a sane and factual comment, those are so rare on social media.
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  3598.  @JwayT  Many of the business moguls such as Dyson who said we are glad to be out of the EU, then moved his business interest to Singapore after they signed a free trade agreement with the EU. The polls also show it "A tracker poll found support for reversing Brexit is now at 57 per cent, compared to just 43 per cent who want to keep it."
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  3599.  @lobonskerva5441  Thank you for that eloquent, intelligent, well-thought-out, concise rebuttal of the facts. I'll be looking forward to hearing more from you in the near future...
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  3600.  @lobonskerva5441  My apologies, I did actually search through all 200+ replies for an earlier comment from you for context. I've made so many replies it's hard to tell what comment that was a reply to. My bad :)
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  3601.  @jonsimmons4150  Utilities were cheap when the British taxpayer owned them and completely within our control. You might say we had sovereignty over our energy. The Tories sold them to corporations and now we pay over £100 billion in subsidies and corporate welfare every year to those corporations who cost us £40-120 billion in tax losses. Instead of using the profit from our utilities to reinvest and get cheaper prices.
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  3602. Working class traitor says what?
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  3603. @TheEditor Thank you and agreed.
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  3604.  @ewalker1057  No doubt, my comment is written to counter US propaganda.
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  3605.  @peteregan7864  She was asked what part of Africa? Is the Caribbean an African country now? Royal sycophants who can't even be bothered to read the story and type asinine comments from ignorance...
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  3606.  @sammyhain  You crashed an Incels-R-us meeting bro.
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  3607.  @beewithab6122  It's connected to a woman's body by the umbilical cord which contains the umbilical vein which supplies the fetus with oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood from the placenta. Without which the fetus would die. When the umbilical cord is cut after birth, the baby becomes a separate entity.
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  3608.  @kevinsyd2012  While I'm no fan of Blair; he used John Major's PFIs to resolve the short-term funding issues left by the Tories. The Tories then ignored the 5% cap, increased the duration of PFIs to 2035 and then added another layer with PFI2. The Tories have been pushing for their model of the NHS with private hospitals since Thatcher. Using their usual methods of defund, rundown then offer a solution of privatisation. The 2005 pamphlet written by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt clearly proves this and the later 2012 health and care act allows for more for-profit organisations in the NHS. Blair's healthcare reforms were unthinkable for a Labour PM, but the Tories are predominantly responsible for selling NHS assets and the outsourcing and for-profit organisations.
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  3609. CERN = Catastrophic Ending Rendered Nuclear.
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  3610.  @stuartf2946  After many weeks of excruciating soul searching, the tories have yet to find one.
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  3611.  Palaherk  Thanks for the cartoon, I realise your limited intellect prohibits words and sentences.
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  3612. It's funny how all these Tory MPs understand exactly what the poor are going through, despite continuing to vote for more cuts and higher taxes while siphoning taxpayer money to their mates...
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  3613. I'm sure the right will turn up with their internal contradictions.
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  3614. I'd like to believe this is someone at the BBC giving Ryanair a well-needed kick up the butt regarding evacuating holidaymakers from the Greek islands due to wildfires.
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  3615.  @liveloud9894  The EU only have an increase of 400% of energy prices while we have 560%. The loss of HGV drivers is directly linked to Brexit.
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  3616.  @joecater894  No, they EU only has energy increases of around 400% we have a 560% increase. The EU doesn't have potential food/petrol shortages or a shortage of HGV drives which is why the Tories are relaxing the rules so they can use the EU HGV drivers.
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  3617. I'm a Luddite and as such I'm sick of seeing all these new technology adverts on my mobile phone, tablet, PC, console, laptop and ebook reader...
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  3618.  @Speedkam  Both have their fair share of guilt. But Tories are responsible for the legislation which reduces tenants' rights in favour of the Landlord's profits. There are plenty of mercenary private landlords out there...
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  3619.  @kincaidwolf5184  People who ask for sources when the information is widely known and covered in multiple articles lack basic research skills.
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  3620.  @andymcdonald8922  Gardening and patio tips from Fred West.
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  3621. Taste and quality are two things not reflected in a simple poll of 48 items. While it's a good guide in general and can agree from my own experience with the findings, what we are sold isn't food. It's overprocessed with unhealthy fats, additives and full of refined sugar and salts which don't contain the natural 80+ vitamins and minerals they should contain. Buying heritage fruit, grain, nuts, berries and veg is the only way to avoid the nasty stuff...
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  3622.  @JOEFABULOUS.  The UK switched from using OPV to inactivated polio vaccine ( IPV ) in 2004, the year after poliovirus was declared eradicated in the WHO European region.
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  3623. Tories: Cut support for free school meals, then offer a small percentage of that support back and act like they're philanthropists.
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  3624. Why does YT filter my jokes! "Tardigrades can survive extreme temperatures such as absolute zero and above boiling, can live without food and water for 30 years, can live in the vacuum of space and at 6x the pressure of the ocean's deepest trenches. But even Tardigrades can't match the survival skills of Tory MPs who can cling to power as a leech to main artery..."
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  3625. But you invaded Poland and started rounding people up in camps. Hilter: "No one objected"
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  3626. Where better than the home of the deep-fried mars bar to discuss the excesses of capitalism...
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  3627.  @julianshepherd2038  It's a joke as a deep-fried Mars bar is about as close to capitalist excess that we poor are allowed.
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  3628.  @Isochest  Capitalism has never been Capitalism, the idea is inherently flawed. The polarization of wealth was always going to happen, giving a tiny minority a monopoly on resources. Feudalism v2.0 - Same thing with democracy, It's an illusion, lobbyists usurping the public's will is a classic example.
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  3629. Capitalism leads to a wealthy group of demi-gods that want ever more control over their cash cows. Whether that be artists, taxpayers, customers, consumers, constituents etc. You can't fix a broken system from within...
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  3630.  @knackeredmedic8187  lol yes, their environment. Provided it's luxurious and there's plenty of caviar and champaign :)
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  3631.  @ChadCawleyYT  It's all true I ar'member. Although that stuff about thinking machines and flying from country to country on metal birds was obviously artistic license. I don't think that stuff was ever meant to be taken seriously, just something to spice up the tales for kids.
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  3632. They've wrecked everything: education, healthcare, production, the economy, food prices, transport, energy and even police and security forces. Economic vampires draining the UK until its economy is anaemic.
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  3633. Activists? racist tw@ts more like. Gamonesque miscreants...
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  3634. lol good one!
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  3635. A country full of "Stock-Homed Sin-Drones" unfortunately, particularly in Uxbridge. Seems like having a backbone is overrated these days...
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  3636. Funny how corporate groups who stitch up the energy supply market, the Queen and banks get bailouts, while the working poor pay for it...
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  3637. So prices are going up over £800 a year for the average household because of the recent price cap, yet the government are going to give us all a £400 grant... Wow, you could just stop the energy cartel ripping us off via legislation or go back in time to before you sold taxpayer's property off to that cartel by renationalising our energy...
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  3638.  @Fahrenheit451.  They certainly do, privatisation is simply a way for the rich to get their hands on taxpayer-owned industries and turn them into profits at any cost. They get corporate welfare, tax breaks and subsidies all paid for by the taxpayer and can also rip us off as consumers by price-fixing as they have a monopoly.
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  3639.  @lecco666  PS Annual NHS spending increase under Blair (Labour): 6.1% Annual NHS spending increase under Brown (Labour): 5.4% Annual NHS spending increase under Cameron (Tory): 1.4% Annual NHS spending increase under May (Tory): 1.1%
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  3640.  @lecco666  Between 2010 when Tories took power and 2019: The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed. 5,000 less Mental Health Nurses. The number of NHS beds has halved between 1987 and 2019
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  3641.  @lecco666  Spending figures are from the IFS.
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  3642.  @lecco666  Well? nothing to say in response to the figures from the IFS?
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  3643. Some of the greatest minds, artists, musicians, philosophers, writers, scientists, inventors etc used mind-altering substances or methods as a muse to inspire creativity or simply for recreation.
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  3644.  @DJWESG1  Yes, and during the same period of history Marx pointed out that capitalism leads to the polarisation of capital which extends the poverty gap. Yet here we are...
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  3645.  @hypernorm4802  Please do, feel free to share :)
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  3646.  @DropdudeJohn  John, you're a bot. You have nothing of worth to say, you just repeat the same arguments. I'm bored of the repetition as you seem unable to learn from previous answers. It's like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  3647.  @Bungle-UK  I've followed the privatisation, profits, owners of our rail networks, bailouts, failures and price increases since Thatcher brought in privatisation. Not to mention it is a common feature of all privatised industries. Maybe you should learn about legislation, ideology, politics, economics and stop posting mind-numbing inanity...
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  3648. But he can protect big business and millionaires using taxpayers' money... The Tories have done nothing for the working class ever, they just want to get their hands on your hard-earned cash. All these cuts are below the rate of inflation and below the levels of price increases. Meaning the cost of living is still increasing and disproportionately affecting low-income families many of whom are living in working poverty...
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  3649. I invented an invisibility shield years ago, unfortunately, I can't find it...
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  3650.  @gothicgolem2947  Matt Hancock ignored medical and legal advice that clearly stated moving Covid patients into care homes or releasing them from hospitals into care homes would vastly accelerate the spread of Covid. It's on his head!
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  3651.  @gothicgolem2947  Every tabloid in Britain has covered it. Sealioning just proves your own failings when the facts are public knowledge.
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  3652.  @taras6806  Please feel free in the future to giggle uproariously, in the worst of times we need a good laugh!
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  3653.  @taras6806  lol pleased to hear it!
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  3654.  @YouTube-are-Trump-Toilet-Crud  Your replies were filtered, liked and agreed.
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  3655. Essentially Boris states the opposite of what is true in order to keep the global megacorps happy at the expense of the workers and the local economy...
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  3656. Some people say we need people like him guarding our shores from half-drowned child migrants. I say Nigel Farage is a coast cruising, cliff clutching, shore shagging, surf stalking, seaside scampering, beach bothering, boat buggering, pier patrolling, promenade picketing, ferry fondling fkwit...
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  3657. What a load of bullocks, only joking - good job!
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  3658.  @freedomawaits860  lol I'll spare myself the time of correcting your optimism.
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  3659. Carcinogenic food and packaging are common these days, it's like we aren't meant to be healthy and live a long life...
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  3660. I'm just glad she didn't get all emotional and make herself look unbalanced...
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  3661.  @GuantanamoBayBarbie2  More guns don't lower crime, quite the opposite. Most countries in the world are free. Britain is a free country, in fact we have many freedoms you do not have, we have had no mass shootings out of 68 million people. I'm sorry that you were born in a country with such a blatant disregard for human life and I'm also sorry that your excuses are so overwhelmingly illogical and backwards. Your country is not free, Trump dropped out of international human rights in June 2018. You have no rights, little freedom and are delusional...
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  3662.  @jdnetwork-reselling  Cost of living has been rising for decades, rose sharply after Brexit and again after the pandemic... But thanks mystic Meg for the predictions...
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  3663.  Biba Ibrahim  Is that a fact or a narrative? I assume non-terrorists were able to get to the Cenotaph? No other roads? they couldn't have left earlier?
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  3664.  @sharons9773  PS I've just seen the footage, the car exploded as it entered the car park, it was still moving... No one got it before the explosion... The driver then exited the vehicle and ran a few meters away...
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  3665.  @sharons9773  Indeed, The fire didn't start until 45 seconds after the explosion which was just a massive cloud of smoke. Hmmm
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  3666.  @NeonVisual  The point you fail to understand is we've always had these migrants coming here because we are signed up to international agreements that promise to provide humane treatment. Criminal gangs are not as common as you suggest and are being hyped up to give the idea that these migrants are wealthy. They are mostly desperately poor people escaping brutality. Many come from countries with civil strife that we created when we invaded such as Lybia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of them are fleeing from the proxy war in Syria that we are involved in. If they were processed and housed effectively they wouldn't suffer and the taxpayer would get a more efficient immigration service...
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  3667.  @NeonVisual  An estimated 590,000 people arrived to live in the UK in 2008 while 715,000 people migrated into the UK in 2020. Those are the official figures proving it has gone up by about 15%. Proving you exaggerate a lot and have no clue what you're talking about...
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  3668. Like the rest, spin the bottle or draw straws. So long as the Tory agenda moves forward they don't care which clown they sit in the driving seat...
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  3669. It's ok I've been reliably informed that climate change is a myth, so just ignore the sea as it eats away the foundations of your home...
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  3670. From the party that housed nukes on the ships sent to the Falklands...
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  3671. Nothing this government has done in over 13 years has been a success. The country is in a shambles, the divisions are worse than ever, and health problems and poverty are increasing as much as the price of gas. Why do people still defend these 🤡's....
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  3672.  @Kyle_P2022  Firstly those two comments aren't connected I never said he was a central bank employee although he had the ear of their governors at the G7. One was referring to Rishi and the other to the banking structure in response to a question.
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  3673.  @Kyle_P2022  The main statistic you seem unable to read is that 40% of British workers live in working poverty. Those 40% can't move up the ladder unless someone takes their place in those low waged jobs, hence it's a societal problem. I'm a 15-stone Welshman, I tolerate your insults only because I assume you lack the intellect to grasp simple facts. Again you fail to understand that your anecdotes and ad hom attacks on me don't speak to the problem, maybe you're just not clever enough to see the big picture and can't understand how statistics work...
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  3674. Hows is that problem with sexually deviant priests being dealt with? Still, allowing them to work despite the risks?
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  3675. I wish you good luck in your candidacy...
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  3676.  @JohnHoward_  Hard-left conspiracy theories? lol thanks for that, was wondering what the dumbest comment I'd read this week was, looks like yours is a clear winner... Thanks for not typing anything intelligent or intentionally witty...
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  3677. Not sure of the legal ramifications of stopping a father from visiting his own daughter. What do mean grandfather? I know what I said... (Just to be clear, yes that's an incest joke)
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  3678. The northern migration of Canada Geese during the summer?
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  3679. Another opportunity for the gammonesque hordes to display their compassionate character... See below:
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  3680.  @mashlee8712  Yes, with Tory arms sales help and Tony Blair's expertise on how to get away with war crimes...
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  3681.  @Sparrowash97  You're a political illiterate who doesn't understand basic logic... I'm 49 and have studied geopolitics, economics and history. The tragedy never would have happened if Rittenhouse hadn't driven 35km from Antioch Illinois to Kenosha Wisconsin with a high powered military-style semi-automatic rifle... America should have learned by now that children can't be trusted with guns...
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  3682.  @nattyice94  lol sure he's an angel... Spare me the bs I have an IQ higher than a crack-addicted hamster. Children carrying military-style semi-automatic weapons to a peaceful protest aren't innocents and should pay for their actions...
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  3683.  @ThePatrickBinderStory  Talking of brains like sponges... The United Kingdom has 0.06 per 100,000 death rate from gun violence, the US has 4.43 per 100,000 (District of Columbia, the rate is 16.34 per 100,000) and virtually no one in the UK teaches gun safety to children... Do you see a connection? You are creating a high risk for your children.
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  3684.  @kevinh4869  If you want to talk about human rights read about the spycops bill the Tories passed earlier this year that allows security services to rape and murder with impunity from the law, essentially nullifying your human rights as guaranteed by the ECHR...
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  3685. Congrats on waiting long enough to inherit the crown, what a truly exceptional human being...
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  3686.  @gidget8717  I'm not sure you have a clue what Karma means, as there are plenty of real-life examples of it. For instance, you're getting Karma for saying stupid things. To think, you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  3687. We pay a host of taxes and extra ones on sugar, tobacco, and alcohol while a large amount of our tax money goes to pay for overpriced contracts for Government obligations that they outsource to their mates. On top of this they give away over £100 billion a year to corporations in subsidies, tax relief etc. While those corporations cost the treasury between £40-120 billion per annum in non-payment. It's a farce!
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  3688.  @harunmusa1164  Don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out alone...
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  3689.  @sandersson2813  Keep paying over £100 billion to millionaires to buy a new yacht and then complain about the unemployed, like a good little peasant... The figure I gave is the full amount of unemployment benefits. If you have a problem with the disabled or housing learn the difference between words and how they are used...
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  3690.  @sandersson2813  The unemployment rate is 4.8% of 67,000,000 people. Discounting under 16s and pensioners that would still leave around 5 million (many of whom are unable to claim benefits). However £1.56 billion divided by 1.3 million is £1,200 so I'm guessing mathematics isn't your strong suit. That means roughly £100 per month, £23-25 a week (Assuming every unemployed person claimed benefits). Other benefits including housing are a separate issue. The figures I quoted regarding unemployment benefits are from the ONS and it seems you're unable to understand basic maths...
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  3691.  @sandersson2813  PS This is a direct quote from a popular statistics site "The expenditure on unemployment benefits in the United Kingdom was 1.56 billion British pounds in 2020/21, an increase when compared with the previous year."
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  3692.  @sandersson2813  I didn't mention anything other than unemployment benefits. Your lack of observational skills and misunderstanding of the English language is your problem. PS Housing benefits go to landlords and all the money given away in benefits goes straight back into the economy... It's still a minute proportion of the tax relief, corporate welfare, subsidies, working credits to top up wages, tax breaks, low tax rates, free employees via schemes etc that the private sector gain from the taxpayer. Which was the point of my statement...
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  3693.  @sandersson2813  No, I said that was what unemployment benefits costs. Many unemployed don't claim, many unemployed are simply ill for a short period of time, some are permanently unemployed due to a disability etc. I'm not going to answer pedantic nonsense all day...Many benefits go directly to landlords, debtors or straight back into the economy. Your understanding is the problem, my statements are entirely accurate and reflect that the private sector take larger amounts of freebies from the taxpayer than those in need... Don't you have anything better to do than defend corporate greed and theft from the taxpayer?
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  3694.  @sandersson2813  Stop lying and trying to misunderstand my point. Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is an unemployment benefit you can claim while looking for work. It's included in the figures as it's the main benefit available, don't assume different names for individual benefits are not included in the overall phrase "unemployment benefits"! "In 2020/21 the government of the United Kingdom spent approximately 1.04 billion British pounds on the Jobseekers Allowance, the main benefit for unemployed people in the country" If you have any further trouble understanding written English don't hesitate to ask for more help!
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  3695.  @HarryR545  I wouldn't worry, he seems unable to comprehend written English. JSA is included in my figures. Other benefits like PIP, housing benefits etc are not, but I'm sure that is obvious to most people. He's just a pedantic troll. He seems blissfully unaware that many people on benefits also work, which reduces the amount they claim and that not all people who are unemployed actually claim, are eligable or get benefits.
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  3696.  @sandersson2813  You are not listening, I've given you the exact figures that covers all unemployment benefits (UC, JSA) that is the total. £1.56 billion is the total made up of £1.04 billion in JSA and the rest is UC. I'm not replying to you again, as you are obviously too ignorant to understand written English. The figures are easy to research and my comments are entirely accurate and verifiable. It is not paid out to people with savings, some people choose not to claim, other people only get a top-up some unemployed people aren't eligible for a plethora of reasons. Stop trying to debate a fact, it's easy enough to verify.
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  3697. Commonly called the squirrel Kangeroo, and if it's not, it should be. Lovely animals that should preferably be part of a healthy population in the wild.
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  3698. 1 in 10 Brits on the NHS waiting list. How many will die before they receive treatment? who will take responsibility for those deaths? The Tories have crippled the NHS and left us to deal with a pandemic when we had a staff shortage of over 100,000 in the NHS. Then instead of giving money to the NHS to deal with the pandemic, they shared hundreds of billions with their mates and donors in overpriced contracts given without even checking if the company was older than a few days...
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  3699. They are intentionally profiting from misery, laziness and arrogance are a by-product of their self-interest rather than having any true commitment to the job. They are willfully destroying people's lives to enrich themselves. They know the consequences of their actions they simply don't care about us plebs...
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  3700. It's almost as if the dangerous conditions of the buildings, the lack of funding, the lack of teachers, the high density of pupils per class and the cost of living crisis on overworked parents with little time to look after their children is having a knock-on effect on the children... Civilized society? my arse!
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  3701. China should take a leaf out of the Tory's book and use economic euthanasia to get rid of the undesirables, vulnerable, disabled and poor...
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  3702. A sweaty little Fascist Dictator who ruins the life of his fellow countrymen out of megalomanical tendencies and privilidge. Anyway, enough about Boris Johnson what's Kim doing?
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  3703.  @mijicmugendo  It was actually costed by the IFS at £80 billion in the 2016 Labour manifesto.
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  3704.  @mijicmugendo  They are privatised which means they get those subsidies and the corporate welfare. They also get bail-outs and the infrastructure they use was paid for by the taxpayer.
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  3705. I'd rather be forced to read every Agatha Christie novel while sitting in a cold bath with a hornet's nest in the corner of the bathroom than hear any more about these two and their pathetic little spat...
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  3706.  @hazelb7218  Yes, 1/3rd of the British workforce is living in working poverty. We have a corrupt government who are waging war on the poor, vulnerable and disabled. Spending hundreds of billions of our taxmoney on corporations who have bumper profits and overpriced government contracts for their mates. Then leaving the majority of people with these little peace offerings to keep us placated.
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  3707. @Cassie That's all anecdotal tabloid sensationalism. People can't afford to work or find a job locally because of the system. I've been in and out of work with different agencies and if the job doesn't last more than 2 months I'm actually worse off. Despite qualifying two years ago to lead audit a corporation for ISO9001 I'm stuck reliant on public transport taking jobs that are 3 hrs of travelling per day. Most people on the dole are temporarily ill or between agency jobs. Some are disabled and unable to work. A few no doubt take advantage of the system, but that's the exception to the rule. The lack of union representation is why 1/3rd of the workforce live in working poverty, we have zero-hour contracts, low wages and short term agency work being the only choice for many.
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  3708.  Mobbdeepak McMacaveli Shakoor  The right created that argument by installing people like Blair and Clinton, Starmer and Biden at top positions on the left. But left ideology should not be confused with supposed left-wing politicians who don't hold any left-wing political views. All the aforementioned are neoliberals and not Social Democrats. The left fought the right (rich, royals, elites) and died to claim the rights, freedoms and privileges we have, that the right-wing now seek to take away from us...
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  3709. All politicians start thair careers as a comedian, but most of them never realise it.
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  3710.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  I hope that wasn't the Mary Whitehouse Experience as I had a lot of respect for that show :)
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  3711.  @kongspeaks4778  Obviously I'm a Socialist but understand the brand won't be accepted globally. So I'm proposing a repackaging based on modern ideas including from the zietgeist movement.
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  3712. They are looting the country and while incompetent most incompetence is simply their agenda not being aligned with what is best for the British public or economy. But you can guarantee every step is a desire to grab more of the public's taxes to siphon off into off-shore bank accounts.
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  3713. ​ Smug Man  I've already made my views clear on currency and digital currency. "Currency is simply a human construct to allow a tiny minority to monopolize the world's actual resources." "Digital currency will disenfranchise the masses, those without credit will perish."
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  3714.  @anonymoushuman8962  Not likely to be short but it will be a sharp shock, analysts are predicting the end of the BoE. Our Debt to GDP is closer to 100% in real terms and the growing cost of living is going to lead to action, eventually. The Tories have stretched the anaemic pound beyond its limits with the recent £400 billion in gov bonds. We've been downgraded on Moody's at least twice lost our triple-A credit rating. Tories are using every trick to keep us afloat, while they continue to asset-strip the UK.
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  3715.  @anonymoushuman8962  I agree that would have been wise. Despite denials, Brexit only served to allow the UK to remain the largest enabler of corporate tax avoidance globally. But I don't think it will matter, we're in late-stage capitalism and nuclear proliferation has restarted. We are on course for a dystopian corporatocracy at best. Sorry to be so cheerful :)
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  3716. I appreciate what Joe was trying to do but he should've given the money to a children's charity or distributed it to the network of food banks...
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  3717.  @sw1000xg  So Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Lybians etc are not fleeing war? lol. Why would they want to come to a country with 22% of its people in poverty? and risk drowning? seriously I'm not replying to you again as you have no idea what you're talking about...
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  3718. I enjoy your commentary and find it insightful and witty although I don't always agree with everything said. But I hope my satire and dark humour is taken in the spirit it is intended. If the Tories are going to shorten my life and that of my loved ones I'll take them down with any tool at my disposal. Often you can get a point across to the right by using a joke or satire to tell the truth, whereas straight conversation will just trigger their belligerence. Tories have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately, unfortunately, they've still yet to find one...
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  3719. The main thing I love about cricket is... Nope, got nothing...
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  3720. With green paint? or Take the power back? hmmm...
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  3721. Overcrowding and disease outbreaks, allowing the Tories to treat people like this is the reason they think they get away with treating the British public so poorly...
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  3722.  @MuttleyVonErich00  No worries, I should have been clearer, more like within the past two decades. Although Blair was a neoliberal so wasn't much better.
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  3723. And now for something completely different: "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 misleading millions of Brits every day, In the awful Tory Britain full of poverty and decay, On a planet in the embarrassed Milky Way."
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  3724. lol
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  3725.  @chinchin8269  The only thing that is misplaced is your loyalty, morality and reasoning skills. Keep doffing your cap to your betters and using that upper-class character. But we all know what a working-class traitor looks like!
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  3726.  @tonytucker7359  They wouldn't have made much if prices were the same as 4 years ago and there would have been no need for the energy price cap.
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  3727.  @viperzvapourz4738  Always got Vera's if you got 'erbs...
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  3728. @Invictus lol
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  3729. @RoderickTheRed PS if you really want the truth this is something I wrote which you can verify yourself with a little research! "The lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories allows the wealthy and corporations to avoid taxes. Britain is responsible for the majority of corporate tax losses globally. After the Panama scandal, the EU brought in the Tax Avoidance directive that would have put an end to that, had we stayed in the EU. The wealthy including the non-dom tabloid owners and Tories who had been named in the Panama papers - Johnson, Cameron, Rees-Mogg etc would have lost their ability to dodge taxes. The more the wealthy and coprorations avoid taxation the more the tax burden falls on us to pay their share. Cameron begged the EU to exclude Britain from the directive and they refused. So he came back and announced the referendum as it was the only option left to the wealthy. Then they sold it to the public with lies about sovereignty and immigration, taking control back etc. We always had the option to control our borders and to negotiate deals with the EU. We always had the ability to choose our laws, the only restrictions were ones we agreed to so we could trade and have free movement ourselves. All countries have to agree to compromise by following international law to be part of the EU and gain the benefits from the trading block and to ensure that citizens rights are protected. British lawyers drafted the ECHR and many other things that EU countries agree to - border policies, human rights, animal welfare, food standards etc."
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  3730.  @stevec700  Yes dear, the horny deity is a misunderstood entity of vast empathy and love...
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  3731.  @stevec700  I'll make it up to him by having The Bangles - Eternal Flame as the entrance music for my funeral and The crazy world of Arthur Brown's - Fire as the exit song. My soul will be toasty warm when I greet the fallen one in the first circle of Dante's inferno.
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  3732. Even God (invisible magical omnipotent omniscient deity in the sky) doesn't like the Tories... Says it all...
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  3733.  @susannehartl3067  Thank you! Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of cash; Four and twenty kleptocrats stealing from our tax. When the country realised, they all began to sing, Get the Tories out of office or they'll sell off everything!
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  3734.  @TheRaymondo103  Thank you! ​Apparently, there is a new invention that can be used to hold the Tories to account. It's called a guillotine...
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  3735.  @Leszek.Rzepecki  Thank you!
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  3736.  @peachesandpoets  I can't disagree. The only US presidents I ever had any fondness for, got assasinated.
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  3737. "A reign of unprecedented duration and achievement" She was born into it and achieved an increase in her generous annual payments while getting the public to pay for the upgrades to her plethora of mansions and castles...
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  3738.  @DFandV  Yea, war crimes, poverty, but hopefully the ceasefire will help end the war in Tigray. There's a report on this channel about that later. Colonialism left a lot of scars in the form of divisions and borders. Not to mention the continued exploitation of Africa by multinationals and US imperialism.
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  3739.  @hughjohns9110  My statement is an attack on British politics by reference to 'Live Aid' in the form of a joke. Clearly, you should type more clearly if you have a point to make.
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  3740.  @speakup18  Yes the Bank of England exports financial cons globally and the Crown, estates and overseas territories are the biggest cause of corporate tax evasion globally via their lack of transparency. London launders the global criminal elite's money through off-shore accounts. But it's all tied in to the start of the Federal banks which was 1913 in the USA.
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  3741.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol, but they can't survive without water and neither can the people! look up the word drought! Oh btw C02 is what caused the drought! FS mate give up and stop pestering me with your bright ideas...
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  3742.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  PS only people who grow weed know that!!! tut tut lol
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  3743.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  PPPS our lungs remove Co2 from our body as high levels of CO2 can cause asphyxiation as it replaces oxygen in the blood-exposure to concentrations around 40,000 ppm is immediately dangerous to life and health.
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  3744.  @Ass_of_Amalek  And yet Libya, Ghana, Namibia, and Algeria to name a few solved their lack of water using desalination. Deep saline aquifers can be used to avoid concentration, not to mention the brine can be used to produce salt which can be sold m8, and doesn't have to be dumped in the sea...
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  3745.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol stop making yourself look even worse. It would cost more than importing food to pump enough Co2 for a small field. How will they maintain high levels of Co2 in the atmosphere or are you going to cover the whole country under a tent? What you are suggesting is not only dangerous, illogical and expensive but is the reason for the drought! please stop digging yourself deeper and read my replies!
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  3746.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  PS Apart from Co2 being responsible for climate change and the drought in the first place. For most crops the saturation point will be reached at about 1,000–1,300 ppm. So you haven't a clue what you are talkign about... lol
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  3747.  @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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  3748.  @Ass_of_Amalek  Here's a little more info for you. "The long-term prospects for desal as a key strategy in Africa’s water security mix have been boosted in recent years as renewable energy becomes more efficient, and the method of converting brine and other desal waste products into useful commodities like hydrochloric acid through standard chemical processes make facilities more cost effective."
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  3749.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  We have too much Co2 being produced hence climate change and the drought. Why do you have such problems reading and understanding the English language? You're just making yourself look naive and ignorant...
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  3750.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol makes me laugh someone is liking your comments, must be you as the like is instant. By adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, people are supercharging the natural greenhouse effect, causing global temperatures to rise. Which in turn caused drought like the one in Somalia that we are talking about... Doh!
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  3751.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol this is so funny. You want to put a tent around a whole country to increase Co2 levels, when the global climate crisis that caused the drought was created by too much Co2. I'm not repeating the same thing over and over because you are unable to learn. Your suggestions are absolutely pathetic and so is your level of knowledge. I'm not wasting any more time on your insanity...
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  3752.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol this is so funny. You want to put a tent around a whole country to increase Co2 levels when the global climate crisis that caused the drought was created by too much Co2. I'm not repeating the same thing over and over because you are unable to learn... PS the sun is only one factor, the greenhouse effect determines how much light from the sun reaches earth...
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  3753.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol can't argue with stupid...
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  3754. lol James you need to read a book. You have no conception of how silly you sound...
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  3755.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol *FacePlant*
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  3756.  @Ass_of_Amalek  It's being used to solve droughts all over the world to avoid famine. It's working, you can't deny something that already works. Yes, it's not economically viable (yet) to produce a whole nation's water supply. But they don't need to, they can use undrinkable brackish water for plants, the plants filter the water, the soil turns it into nutrients for the plants. lol seriously, it is already working globally to resolve this exact problem! Stop being pedantic...
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  3757.  @Ass_of_Amalek  No one suggested that, there are lots of sources of water that aren't suitable for drinking. But as Desal becomes more cost-effective that is a future use. The point is that it's already working for this exact problem globally!
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  3758.  @RodolphosTechchannel  It's *You're. I'd rather dip my Nutella soaked testies into a full tank of piranha than vote for Starmer the corporate puppet.
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  3759.  @johnbuffaloiam9741  Here's a few. Pi - The Anglesey-born mathematician William Jones (1675-1749), Ball bearings - The Carmarthen-based inventor and ironmaster Philip Vaughan patented the first design for a ball bearing in 1794. Hydrogen fuel cells – thanks to Sir William Grove (1811-1896). Iron smelting - Process developed by Welsh workers. The microphone David Edward Hughes (1831-1900). Mail-order shopping Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones (1834-1920). Deep space photography (very long exposures), Isaac Roberts (1829-1904). Pumping rod for oil wells Samuel ‘Golden Rule’ Jones (1846-1904). Edward ‘Taffy’ Bowen (1911-1991) was a key figure in the development of radar. In 1976 Lion Laboratories in Barry patented the breathalyser.
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  3760.  @mistybehaviours  Thank you for the correction my apologies for the igneous intrusion...
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  3761.  @cherylgalipeau6132  Next you'll be claiming volcanos are made of meteors that crashed to earth billions of years ago or that matter is the condensed chemical soup resulting from the big bang. PS the World was invented in 1972 by Mr Ian World who named the phenomenon after his daughter Emily World...
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  3762.  @SJAutomotiveDesign  Steve Jobs stole the blueprints for Pompeii from Icarus as he crashed to the earth. I was the one who told Icarus to use wax for his wings, teehee...
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  3763. Like he has a choice, he was not chosen by some divine entity to make decisions for the human race. He does not have the power to deem countries worthy of independence, just a huge amount of privilege and entitlement to think he does.
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  3764.  @kevinb6831  You said "There is no evidence of 'white privilege' in today's society." While contrary to accepted fact it's a right-wing view. Yes, I'm what's labelled an extremist because I realise that finance is a human construct to allow a small minority of people to monopolise the world's 'actual' resources - Humans and the Planet. I believe in equality, freedom, being paid enough to support your family, a safety net in case of illness and that no one should be exploited by the rich...
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  3765. Lying, multi-national domiciles, tax avoidance, war profiteering, hypocrisy...
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  3766.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  She didn't know where her ancestors came from as she told Hussey at the start of the conversation. Because Hussey's ancestors didn't write that on the cargo manifest when they transported her ancestors to the Caribbean as slaves... Do you get it now?
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  3767.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  How many times do you have to be told? "She didn't know where her ancestors came from as she told Hussey at the *start of the conversation*. Because Hussey's ancestors didn't write that on the cargo manifest when they transported her ancestors to the Caribbean as slaves..." Do you get it now?
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  3768.  @Jame629  Yes mate, Finance is simply a human construct to allow a small minority to monopolise the world's actual finite resources. Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency are a joke, since the loss of the gold standard money isn't even backed by a physical resource. A farce as proven by the fact that global debt is $289 trillion over 3 and a half times global GDP...
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  3769. Agree with your sentiment and the sentiment of the reply. He won't be sacrificing anything, just profiting from dodgy charities and taxpayer's money as he always has. And yes it's you/us that are to be sacrificed as we always have. Us plebs do the work, they take the credit as always.
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  3770.  @summerbankboy  You could have just said you're completely politically illiterate. You know myths only. The media are predominantly right-wing, PC is their creation. We've left the EU so stop blaming them, migrants actually add more than they take compared to a native UK citizen. You are a working-class Tory peddling their myths. Hope your day is as nice as you are!
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  3771. Ode to Bojo Shall I compare thee to a sh!t-stained cesspit? Thou art more revolting and more abhorrent. Rough winds should blow you into a bear pit. And hellfire's sun should light your final respite; Sometime too hot the fires of hell and often not hot enough for a PM so fell...
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  3772.  @TheMasterblaster32  In a way, but my birth certificate is just proof I'm governmental collateral to be used at their will especially in times of war. I'm talking about dystopian corporatocracy, not just crony capitalism :)
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  3773.  @magnolia7774  For thousands of years? damn, I thought it was only roughly once a month. Sorry, I have terminal sarcasm, but yes agreed it's bread and circus :)
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  3774. Targets in the NHS, education, the police force and many other institutions are counter productive. Efficiency and the job at hand are ignored for the sake of fake numbers that have little to do with reality. Effectiveness is the only target that should be considered - How effective is the healthcare in Britain? - How effective is education? - how effective is crime reduction? Targets are profit and perception driven and have little to do with success...
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  3775. Evacuated 9,000 from Kabul at great expense and risk but the 20 Afghans who made their own way here whilst risking their lives on the open ocean to turn up on the beach will be sent away...
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  3776.  @MandyAustin-nl4cn  You mean you can't rebut anything I've said and was simply ignorant of the political intricacies? Apology accepted!
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  3777.  @DropdudeJohn  I'm not interested in your prejudice. I'm discussing human rights, they apply to all humans!!!
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  3778.  @MandyAustin-nl4cn  lol irrelevant? Obviously, you can't interpret the English language so I'll leave you with your anecdotal opinions and self-imposed ignorance...
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  3779.  @DropdudeJohn  There is no invasion and I'm a native Brit - A Celt. If you're so worried about our historically mixed race, mixed culture population feel free to send all the Anglo-Saxons back to Germany!
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  3780.  @Geffo555  Sure, although since France armed and trained the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi to enable the Tutsi genocide they may not be too welcome! at least not among the surviving Tutsis.
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  3781.  @Geffo555  Feel free to send Mogg too :)
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  3782.  @semolinasemolina8327  Thank you for your inane comment and middle-class patronisation. Africa was enslaved by monarchs and corporations continue to take advantage of countries whose gold lies in the private residences of the monarchy of Europe. Corporatocracy is another form of monarchy, another way to take power from the majority and fully supported by monarchs. If you want a history lesson please feel free to reply, or if you'd like an economic literacy or political literacy 101 I'd be happy to oblige...
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  3783.  @semolinasemolina8327  I would - but from your comments, it would be like trying to teach a whale to fly or talking a trifle into sapience...
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  3784. Our purse strings are being cut by the Tories so their corporate overlords can fill their pockets with your hard-earned cash...
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  3785.  @crapmalls  I was glad they left the first time, they killed our Druidic leadership on Anglesea (Ynys Môn) which left us Welsh in a precarious position. But apart from the loss of £trillions, prestige, standards, morals, human rights and trading relations. While polarising the nation, risking the Union & GFA, breaking international law and leaving a sizeable debt for our great-grandchildren and crashing the economy... What has Brexit ever done for us?
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  3786. Because they've pushed into it... GMO means unnatural crops that don't reproduce so you have to keep buying new seeds. Unhealthy, commercialised, extortionate, illogical consumerism. The planet is capable of providing food for all if you don't have large corporations and foreign nations causing ethnic wars in your country...
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  3787. We have plenty of Vatnyks right here in Britain. I think it's a global phenomenon that has existed since the Greeks first adopted democracy. Not that any country has actually successfully installed anything but the illusion of democracy with media bias supporting the status quo/wealthy... Hard Truth is often impossible to find in war, all sides have a proper gander at the others. Research and educated guesswork is the best we can hope for.
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  3788.  @afghanistancitizen6175  I just hope petrodollar hegemony and the opium trade were worth $2 trillion of US taxpayer money and the US military lives...
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  3789.  @mogznwaz  PS "The UK economy is expected to shrink this year and will be at the back of the leading G7 countries during 2023, the International Monetary Fund has warned. The IMF has lifted its forecast for the UK's economy this year – it is now expected to shrink by 0.3%, not the 0.6% fall in GDP previously expected.11 Apr 2023" That is an optimistic account of our finances...
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  3790.  @georgepayne9895  It's a generalisation on the British public of which I am one. It also reflects a voting public that continually vote for the Tory party, despite their obvious corruption and profiteering. Feel free to provide some actual political literacy by explaining your reasons for leaving without using the lies such as Sovereignty, controlling our borders, and making our own laws, as all of these things have always been in our control. Or explain how we should not be reliant on a trading block and have to follow standards and international legislation as is ubiquitous to all trade deals. Then please explain to me how the Panama papers, Pandora papers and the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories fit in with the EU Tax Avoidance directive and the timing of the referendum. While also acknowledging that the UK is the largest enabler of global corporate tax evasion and avoidance.
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  3791.  @gordondarker4073  We have a cost of living crisis, everything has gone up and we have food shortages.
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  3792.  @violatorU  Unfortunately we both have a similar system of a two-party state. Both in league with corporations and lobbyists and neither have any respect for the electorate. We both have the choice between red or blue neoliberalism and a rise in right-wing rhetoric and misinformation. Neither country has a choice to vote in anything different.
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  3793.  @markuschristian4843  Almost half of us voted against Brexit and I'm a Celt - meaning my ancestry is native Brit but originally from the Iberian peninsula/roaming Europe, I believe Germany, France and other countries for that matter still have a few Celtic regions with language and culture intact. You're preaching to the converted, I thought that would have been obvious from my sarcastic comment and detrimental statement about the intellect of my fellow countrymen. Not to mention the many replies I've already given in this 4-month-old thread. I guess you were bored...
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  3794. ​ Horse Steak  Neoliberalism is the child of Thatcher and Reagan both conservatives, it has nothing to do with a liberal traditional laissez-faire attitude and was never meant to be. It's about control. Neoliberalism is a small government to enable more taxpayer money to be transmuted by privatisation from the public sector into the off-shore bank accounts of the wealthy. Neoliberalism has dominated US and UK policy for four decades and many other countries have followed suit. It is a right-wing Conservative ideology. Don't be fooled by the name. As you aren't British you may not be aware of the massive cost of privatisation of our Water, Energy, Prisons, Public Services, Banking sector, Public Transport paid for by the taxpayer. Your comment doesn't address the issue and while I'd love to explain the con of Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency, that isn't really the point. However imagine being so rich that you need to increase the mass of money, how would you do it? well, with debt. Global debts are over $289 trillion, which is over 3 and a half times global GDP. "coloured" isn't the right term, I haven't seen many blue, green or red human beings and you seem blissfully unaware that the west has been run by right-wing Neoliberalism for over 4 decades. We are witnessing the effects of Neoliberalism, and yes the costs and debts hit the poor hardest, especially minorities as I've already explained.
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  3795.  Horse Steak  Central Banks evolved from the Fed in 1913 and took Europe within a few years, then spread globally like a fiscal virus. The few countries not tied to that system of debt are under constant threat of war and regime change. I'm dirt poor and struggle daily despite being qualified to lead audit a corporation for compliance with ISO9001. I survive and am happy enough. I'm also happy you managed to earn some money for your family. I may despise the rich who use inherited wealth so that generations of their family never have to work, but support the working class who get a leg up. Laters.
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  3796. ​ Horse Steak  We may as well go back to the Mesopotamians 5,000 years ago and their creation of the shekel if we're going to talk about the history of finance. We could also mention the first mints that date to 650 and 600 B.C. in Asia Minor, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped silver and gold coins to pay armies. But as I said, it's predominantly a con to enable a perishable resource to be bartered on the cheap with an unperishable currency used to hoard wealth and to transmute the cost of Labour in able to exploit the proletariat. Cheers for the well-wishing bro, but I'm 49 and the media will keep pushing society to the right to enable the dominion of corporate billionaires and a dystopian corporatocracy with fascist tendencies. I'm more worried about the future of humanity than my own poverty. Provided I can have a nice cup of cocoa at night and read a good book I'm happy :) As Bob Marley once said some people are so poor all they have is money (not aimed at you bro). Take care!
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  3797. This government seem to find a way to reduce the population in any circumstances. Migrants and citizens alike suffer the cost of their idolatry of the prophets of profit...
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  3798. How affordable are national strikes? People won't remain hungry and cold while they see the government handing out billions to their mates...
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  3799. Arresting journalists and authoritarian legislation are key aspects of a political system that starts with f...
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  3800.  @malachi5813  Maybe, but the proxy war in Syria is also still ongoing.
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  3801.  Javier_600  She's as common as any other human being, aside from her family inbreeding. Your sycophancy and belief in divine rule is archaic feudal dogma...
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  3802. And we're all rooting and tooting as the sun is putin the boot into Putin...
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  3803.  @PETE4955  A flower grew in a rockery in the exact spot where honey was buried and I had an epiphany. I realised that life is just a moment in time and we have to make the most of it. But even after we're gone a new life blooms and the universe continues to expand, grow and learn about itself through the shared consciousness we call life.
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  3804.  @YorkshireT806  Putin is a psychotic megalomaniac, a quality common to most global leaders. I hope you were this concerned for Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq when the US and NATO decided to loot the Middle East and Africa to protect petrodollar hegemony. I hope you show the same compassion for the people of Yemen who are victims of the S.Arabian genocide. This is the not so Cold War v2.0 and NATO and Russia are using Ukraine to stage a proxy war as they both did in Syria.
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  3805.  @MrBoybergs  Thank you, But I'm not sure I'd get on well with an investment banker trained in neuroscience. Money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to control the majority of the world's 'actual' resources. Of which there are two: Human beings and the Planet (Vegetable, Animal and Mineral) both of which are exploited to the detriment of the species and to the brink of extinction.
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  3806.  @Stuff248  Thank you for the sentiment, I'm sure honey's spirit is running on that big hamster wheel in the sky, looking down on us and smiling :)
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  3807.  @YorkshireT806  Agreed, Trump dropped 3 nuclear treaties and led us back into nuclear proliferation. If we don't all die in nuclear winter you can enjoy the show as corporate billionaires ascend to omnipotent deities in a dystopian corporatocracy while the human race, our history and achievements are gradually devoured by the rancid, festering disease known as disaster capitalism...
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  3808.  @chrismitchell4622  Unfortunately, It's a pity people still don't realise that money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of our actual resources (Land, Water, Human labour)
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  3809.  @alanhat5252  It sounds great, but in my experience, green parties are centrists and won't tackle the offshore accounts of the rich, the power of the growing corporatocracy or pump money into public services and infrastructure. I'm hard left, but have no party to vote for as Labour are now run by neoliberals funded by corporate lobbyists. The green party doesn't have much of a vote share either, it seems at least in Britain we are stuck with the choice between red or blue neoliberalism. However, I will look into the green party's finances and policies on your request.
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  3810. I heard one question to the PM that asked why doesn't MI6 trust the PM, the answer seems obvious. The PM is in bed with Russian Oligarchs and foreign-owned corporations selling out the British public and British workers while giving those corporations large amounts of taxpayer's money. He's not looking after British interests, he's looking after himself and his donors...
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  3811. When are people going to realise, the Tories aren't doing these things accidentally. They are seriously callous and devious individuals causing immense misery and suffering for the country and anyone entrusted to their care from the elderly, disabled and children to migrants...
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  3812.  @nickbreen287  Being a Celt who had his language and culture beaten out of schoolchildren by English teachers in Welsh schools for speaking Welsh I sympathise with the historical problems of my Celtic cousins in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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  3813.  @nickbreen287  Take the insult as retaliation for your intentional misinterpretation of my comments to start a petty little debate. Now if you don't mind, I've had a wonderful, intelligent, inspiring, constructive debate. But this wasn't it!
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  3814.  @nickbreen287  PS I'll argue robustly with you for as long as you pedantically misinterpret my statements and their meaning. But I'll be quite happy to agree with you on other issues tomorrow. I don't hold grudges. So feel free to drop this line of pedantry and we can go back to agreeing on the commonalities we share...
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  3815.  @nickbreen287  PPS I'll accept that while technically you are not living in Britain you are British. While I'm not religious I sense you are, so consider that a white dove with an olive branch.
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  3816. Wildfires were first invented by Lord Ignatius Wildfire in 1802 when he was playing in a field with a lighter... Since then humans have managed to harvest the power of climate change to create wildfires naturally...
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  3817. They've ruined the country, the economy and millions of people's lives to top up their offshore bank accounts...
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  3818.  @pepelepew1227  Agreed mate. Your comment seems to be only visible to me, no surprise there.
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  3819.  @aracoixo3288  Sorry did I wake you up? Keep doffing your cap and tugging your forelock as the aristocracy bleed you dry... About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  3820. Earthquakes, floods, terror, wildfires, disease, poverty, migrants, climate change - Just some of the wonderful benefits of disaster capitalism...
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  3821. Fo instance Bezos has $124 billion which is enough money to spend 1 million a day, every single day for 339 years.
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  3822.  @howardosborne8647  Yes, that's traditionally the best way although I use coconut oil. I've been veggie for 30 years since working in a butcher's and numerous trips to the slaughterhouse to carry warm halves of cow and pig to the van.
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  3823. @CNN is Fake News An American I presume, one who lives in a country without medical care, statutory holidays, sick pay, maternity leave and no definition on full-time work...
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  3824.  @axelwakler540  My hands are tied by censors, yours by ignorance...
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  3825.  @TurinTuramber  lol a Trumpette attempting a soapbox speech, irony much? Justice. After all his money has let him get away with and his friends. He had a friend who went to prison a while ago, but that didn't work out too well...
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  3826.  @scaf121  They do the bidding of corporate lobbyists and bankers. If you think the illusion of democracy fools many people you'd be mistaken. We use the tools available to make the best decisions possible in the circumstances! Pitchforks, torches and a backbone are needed.
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  3827.  @piccalillipit9211  Thank you!
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  3828.  @justinquinn8921  Originally published: 6 January 1946... If you can't see global conflict on the horizon you're blind, deaf and well you can guess the rest...
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  3829.  @DropdudeJohn  You haven't read any recent legislation, have no idea how much your rights are affected and seem oblivious to the global conflict on the horizon. There are many key factors that are aligned with the world back them. Why would I attempt to debate with a political and economic illiterate who seems completely oblivious to geopolitics? That would be like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  3830.  @nickbarton3191  Agreed, not to mention the spy cops bill which allows security services to commit crimes with impunity and to even frame citizens for crimes.
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  3831.  @ThomasKing19933  Thank you!
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  3832. They present a narrative and have no interest in reality. Doing the government's bidding for fame and fortune, the NHS has been subject to the same defunding and defaming as so many other nationalised infrastructures in order to hand it over to for-profit organisations. We the British taxpayer are the ones who suffer the consequences and the hard-working staff who save lives. Which is the exact opposite of what the Tories are doing.
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  3833.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  lol says the expert on terrorism. There are too many coincidences and too much misinformation. This is sus, but feel free to swallow whatever you're told...
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  3834.  Johann Sebastian Bach  Comments yes, you no. I have the ability to remember names... You see how logic could save you repeatedly making a fool of yourself?
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  3835.  @ozymandiasnullifidian5590  I've already said it's the 'not so' Cold War v2.0. I've already agreed NATO and Russia are both using Ukraine as a staging ground for a proxy war. USA and China are on opposite sides of this. Nuclear proliferation has restarted and we're heading towards a global dystopian corporatocracy if we don't have a global conflict and nuclear winter first. I'm not on either side, on the side of humanity not becoming extinct.
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  3836. Centrist infiltrators took over the party shortly after Blair dropped clause 4. After Corbyn was torpedoed by the centrists during the general election I'm unclear as to why anyone would support Starmer for any other reason than removing the Tories. Even then Starmer is only a slight upgrade from the Tories, his ideology is closer to theirs than historic Labour ideology. Starmer is a Blair tribute act and like Blair suffers from a severe case of Thatcherite neoliberalism...
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  3837.  @OptLab  My comment was actually sarcasm...
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  3838.  @amynoah1621  It took the EPA 14 years of public pressure to ban chlorpyrifos in food usage. In 2016 the USA used more than 320 million pounds of pesticides that were banned in the EU. Please stop this, research is quite easy to do and I'm bored of correcting you...
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  3839.  @amynoah1621  India is a South Asian country, S.Korea is an East Asian nation, Japan is an East Asian country. It is only China that uses more pesticides than the US and is 2.2% larger in landmass. You should just accept your generalisation is incorrect and move on. Anyway, I'm bored of circular debate. All the best Amy!
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  3840. Go doff your cap and tug your forelock elsewhere...
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  3841.  @crown9413  We also launder the cash of the global criminal elite through the crown estates and offshore territories, exploit sweatshops in India and China so the CO2 emissions produced aren't added to our tally. And had quite a few wars recently that produce a lot of CO2. Even accepting these figures we still overproduce CO2 using a population comparison to the mean by 113%... As for our GDP we currently have over £2 trillion national debt and a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%. Not to mention the £350-400 billion in bonds spreading the pound like butter...
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  3842.  @Ash-os1dz  Overpopulation, and not billionaires using the same resources as a small country? or as many resources as a couple of million people? sure bud...
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  3843. I'm far too polite to repeat ad homs all the time but I did hear that Farage was the product of carnal relations between Kermit the frog and Hitler... Just saying...
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  3844. Of all the things Boris has lost, I think he'll miss his mind the most. People say nothing is impossible, Boris does nothing every day. He has enemies, he's also intensely disliked by his friends. Two possibilities: either Boris is an idiot or he is not; both are equally terrifying.
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  3845. Remember, remember this fifth of November, That our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason, while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been... erm sacked?
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  3846.  @misssocrates3442  Funny you should say that, I have a little book on a large distributor named after the longest river in S America. "The art of left-wing self-defence", it's satire and humour :)
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  3847. Real or black op? who knows...
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  3848. Government trying to gaslight the population because they'd prefer to profit from the NHS than provide the health care we pay them for.
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  3849.  @Andrew-is7rs  lol the gas monopoly that exists was created by privatising gas and you neglected to consider food. The north sea has 20 billion barrels of oil and natural gas left. So the loss of trading power and trading partners, decades of negotion, decades of trade deals and the loss of trillions coupled with Tory incompetence has had no effect on logistics it's all just a coincidence? I've had a wonderful, enlightening, intelligent debate, but this wasn't it!
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  3850.  @Andrew-is7rs  U.K. electricity prices reached £277 per megawatt-hour on Sept. 8, a 560% increase compared with a year ago. The average increase in the EU is less than 400%...
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  3851.  @derryshore5586  You tell me to educate myself just after I posted the fact that Britain has seen a 560% increase in prices while the EU average is around 400% increase. Don't you feel silly now...
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  3852. Many studies show that immigrants contribute far more than they take out of the system during their lives, often exceeding that of native Brits. The argument that they are a drain on resources is rich coming from kleptocrats who are asset-stripping Britain for their own personal gain. Unless we have plurality of the media then this will continue as they aren't held to account. Untangling their web of deception is a full time job and negates any forward progress. I've taken part in this pantomime for 30 of my 50 years though I have no interest in politics, my only interest is in the truth and humanity.
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  3853. Terror attack?, 2nd amendment nut?, black flag Op? US randomly manifesting its destiny? We'll never know...
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  3854. Billionaires and corporations don't debate, as has been proven by the past 4 decades of attempts by a plethora of groups and scientific facts. Their intransigence isn't the fault of protesters...
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  3855.  @kevinparker461  There are around 600-700 thousand licensed firearms in the UK and yes plenty more than that floating around on the black market. Luckily gun crime is still relatively low in the UK but it's getting worse.
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  3856. Do you take special classes to be this dense or is it a natural gift you were born with?
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  3857.  @taras6806  Boris - the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles.
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  3858.  @taras6806  lol thanks and feel free to use it.
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  3859.  @taras6806  Still, Boris is not completely useless, he at least serves as a bad example. I'm kidding, he's about as useful as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. The closest he’ll ever get to a brainstorm is a slight drizzle. I wish he'd visit the restaurant called Karma, there's no menu, you just get what you deserve...
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  3860.  @taras6806  Glad you had a good laugh. To be honest quite a bit is 'borrowed' from historical figures and quotes. PS I invented plagiarism :)
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  3861. In Britain, we had 100,000 staff shortages in the NHS before the pandemic even started...
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  3862. Tropical Storms were invented in 1932 by Professor Gertrude Tropical Storm...
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  3863. Many are wearing natural materials. But Yea, that's kinda the point. Our reliance on oil has ruined the climate. Wake up and smell the ozone layer buddy...
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  3864. PMQ Petty Misogynists Quibble? Predictable Maniacs Quarrel?
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  3865.  @oxana3806  How when farming is becoming a dying industry partly due to lack of subsidies and downward pressure from large retailers making bumper profits off Farmers...
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  3866. test
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  3867. Our political system has been hijacked by trumped-up migration issues for over a decade and the result has been catastrophic for our economy. What does that say about the British people? so sad...
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  3868. I'm so glad he's going to keep going, after all, we shouldn't blame the death, misery and destruction of the British citizens and our economy on the PM and the Tory party just because they are the people responsible for it all...
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  3869.  @hollyexley  They are also known as the Conceited Unctuous Narcissistic Troglodyte Society, surprisingly they don't use the acronym.
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  3870.  @alanhat5252  I suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm. I'm not optimistic! lol
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  3871. Boris Johnson: the marquis of mayhem, the duke of duplicity, the viscount of vacuousness, the baron of buffoonery, the earl of egomania, the prince of pork pies, the count of clusterf*cks, the oligarch of omnishambles, the king of the kleptocratic cockwombles.
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  3872.  @indivisible4835  lol not a chance m8, I get 80% or more of perfectly reasonable comments filtered. I see many vile comments allowed even on my thread and when I post a rebuttal it's filtered out. Most of my comments, replies and material is filtered it has been happening for months, even on simple reaction videos where I post a thank you.
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  3873.  @indivisible4835  Why do people have to make comments about experiences they don't have? I have posted on a variety of sites today and received no likes on comments that usually get the most likes on that particular story. I don't need to be patronised. I use a separate device to view the comments, they are not there unless logged into my account, as is the case when a comment is filtered, only the commenter can see it. Empirical data is used to determine my statement, not paranoid guesswork. I give up on the left, they're almost as bad as the right trying to gaslight people regarding things they haven't experienced...
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  3874.  @indivisible4835  I can take screenshots of the same post from two different devices and show the empirical data to you or anyone else for their observation. So no empirical data isn't subjective, empirical is objective by definition. I'm a programmer and have worked with AI and algorithms, I also accept I have trolls marking down my comments as I see likes go down. These are two separate issues. As I said I use factual analysis and empirical data to determine my views. Your denial of my facts seems pedantic and I have no idea of your motivation, although right now it seems pride as you've been proven wrong. Either way, I don't care to be patronised or slighted by inference by someone who then denies their inference as if they're suddenly being victimised. You are simply wrong and I can use Empirical data to prove so! Now please it's annoying as hell to be filtered, silenced and deleted on social media I don't need to be patronised to add insult to injury...
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  3875.  @indivisible4835  Dear god, I don't want or need to argue pedantic nonsense. When my likes are at 2 and go down to 0 it's obvious people are down-marking my comment, I'm followed by trolls but can't get rid of them I can only block them from commenting on my videos, as I'm commenting on news and other channels videos I have no control under the YT system. I have not blamed malign actors, and I have not suggested some undefined agency, those are misinterpretations of my comments. I have simply stated it is YT filtering. I have proven I use empirical data and given you the method, there is no discussion it is fact! You are still debating me over some petty misinterpretation of facts and your misunderstanding of the word Empirical (verified through repeatable observation and not based on theory or logic IE how we determine scientific fact) and you ask me how you are inferring I'm wrong? I've already proven my point, I've already proven your misunderstanding of words used and suggested your hurt pride is the reason for your continual pedantry. You can misinterpret my comment to continue this pointless sealioning as much as you like, but I've given you the tools to prove it. I'm simply pointing out that the more you upset the status quo, the more you get filtered and silenced. I don't want to debate allies over petty nonsense, I choose my words carefully as I've been forced to, to avoid censorship...
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  3876.  @indivisible4835  lol last two replies went missing... Take your inferences and pedantry away from me. You're part of the problem!
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  3877.  @indivisible4835  PS I took screenshots of the two replies I just had filtered and of the two replies missing on a different device, tell me where to send them and I'll happily do so! Then you'll have the proof and I can stop being pedantically sealioned and subtly insulted...
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  3878.  @indivisible4835  I have the proof and your misinterpretations of my comments are yours to justify not mine. If you read into my replies then that is your misunderstanding not my fault! Give me a location to upload the screenshots and then you can stop this absolute nonsense!
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  3879.  @indivisible4835  The staus quo? It's a statement of general belief systems not a body of individuals. It's Latin for "existing state". Your misinterpretation and made-up arguments are not mine to justify!
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  3880.  @indivisible4835  I don't have 'concerns' I have proof of my statements and will gladly give them to you. You're reading into my statements and drawing unfounded conclusions to justify your erroneous understanding, then inferring faults on my part. That is not my problem! Now admit you are wrong and that all I'm pointing out is a simple truth as you said "you enjoy being wrong". Or prove yourself to be a pendant and a liar...
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  3881.  @indivisible4835  Here we go again, I have to check each reply so you can see why this is doubly annoying. " I don't have 'concerns' I have proof of my statements and will gladly give them to you. You're reading into my statements and drawing unfounded conclusions to justify your erroneous understanding, then inferring faults on my part."
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  3882.  @indivisible4835  lol still at it? You thought Status Quo was some inference to a shadowy body, rather than the accepted views or existing state within society. Anyone can read this thread. They will see you admit that at least two of my comments were filtered and that because you pointed that out, you prove that I can indeed tell when being filtered. They will see your many references/subtle insults. If you feel patronised when being corrected that is your ego...
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  3883.  @indivisible4835  lol again with the reading into my comment to infer statements I haven't made. Thank you for the endless pedantry and misinterpretation. But I'm off to teach a whale to fly or talk Jelly into self-awareness as both of those things appeal to me more than listening to your fantastical nonsense... Please don't comment on my posts in future, I've given multiple opportunities to end this pedantic misrepresentation of my comments and keep you as an ally, but that isn't possible obviously...
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  3884.  @indivisible4835  No, that's your claim. Again you fail to read and put your own interpretation on my words, What I said was: "I'm simply pointing out that the more you upset the status quo, the more you get filtered and silenced." The interpretation of this is that if you challenge the 'existing state' of things, you will be more likely to be filtered. I have explained your misinterpretations again and again. I haven't concocted offence, but despite offering legitimate evidence you keep maligning me with suggestion and inferring statements I haven't made. I won't defend your misinterpretations, they only exist in your head! Feel free to reread the whole thread and analyse the consistent logic I've used. I'm not interested in your erroneous interpretations. Feel to free to come unarmed to a battle of wits anytime!
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  3885.  @indivisible4835  lol because it wasn't pertinent. What can you possibly interpret that basic statement to mean? It seems obvious that the basic meaning is that I choose my words because I've experienced filtering more often on certain words or phrases. Things like cronyism, dystopian corporatocracy, autocracy, theft, corporate greed and corruption. I've also noticed that comments in the main story are more often filtered than comments in a sub-thread. My observational skills are not flaws... Seriously just stop digging yourself deeper. I don't have time to correct your distortions constantly, get a life!
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  3886.  @indivisible4835  You fail to interpret language and invert the truth to suit a pedantic argument of your own creation. I've already defeated your arguments. Your lame sealioning and circular debate only serve to prove your own flaws. Your pop psychology 101 is as naive as your baseless comments. I pity you and the life that is so deeply pathetic that you waste my time on this contrivance of your own imagination. I won't explain the obvious to someone who fails to understand basic interpretations of words and fails to construct logical arguments without misconception at their heart. I hope your day is as nice as you are :) I won't reply again, claim victory, make more baseless accusations based on your inability to interpret sentences, I care not...
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  3887.  @indivisible4835  lol pathetic. As I predicted. Give you enough rope... Childlike and impossibly thick... Your only argument is based around your own inability to interpret language, how could I lose a debate when the premise is imaginary? You smile and claim victory and are too naive to understand what a fool you look. You lost before you started to type. Witless wonder unable to perceive his own misconceptions, inferences and misunderstanding of basic language. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, intelligent, thought-provoking debate... But this wasn't it! ;-)
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  3888.  @matt-lo8ut  Yes, ofcourse wages didn't fall, everything else rose in price making relative spending power far less. I appreciate your point of view but have to state the percentage gains are meaningless in my opinion, when compared to the cost of living, energy, mortgages, shopping rises. The small percentage doesn't mitigate the accumulated cost of living rise. But thankyou for the perspective.
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  3889.  @danielmiller9012  Agreed he (failed to) served 5 times despite having horrendous feet injuries (according to a pediatrist in the employ of his father) and being in college at the time. lol good one I forgot about that :)
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  3890. Last year our GDP was £400 billion lower than in 2018 so your sarcasm is noted. It has been claimed by many that Brexit cost at least 5.5% of our GDP. But I invested in Unicorns and grassy sunlit Uplands so I'll be fine!
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  3891.  @LittleKitty22  I think right-whinge think tanks rewriting history and the media gaslighting the populace coupled with the Overton window being forced to the right has torn an opening in the veil between worlds. That's my best guess :)
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  3892. Tories don't do responsibility, they farm it out to private industry at the taxpayer's expense. Our taxes support shareholders' offshore bank accounts as they take the money out of our economy.
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  3893. A little info: Tardigrades are microscopic eight-legged animals. Tardigrades can go up to 30 years without food or water. They can also live at temperatures as cold as absolute zero or above boiling, at pressures six times that of the ocean’s deepest trenches, and in the vacuum of space. But this is nothing in comparison to the survival skills of the inept, incompetent, unpopular Tory party who have the ability to cling to power like a leech to a main artery...
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  3894. Yes the Royal Family and their superior bloodlines are given divine rule by God himself, and definitely not an archaic pastime left over from feudalism...
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  3895.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  Yes the Tories have been bought off by Israeli lobbyists since 1917 and the signing of the Balfour Declaration... However, you seem blissfully unaware that the protests are in support of the Palestinian people and against the Israeli apartheid regime. Your argument is akin to tarnishing the Irish for the actions of the IRA or indeed the Loyalist paramilitaries on the other side. We can deplore terrorism and still support the fight for freedom from oppression.
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  3896.  Ben Avery  If only we could find out what superconductor Tories are made of, we could solve this energy crisis!
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  3897. Poor Barry...
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  3898. Asking someone a question then predicting that they answer it is not cause for a victory salute... So dumb...
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  3899.  @timeweaver476  No but looking for it lead to me to horror films, a docu about Georgia and the Soviet Union and a few other things. But if it's the documentary that says we are going to overthrow the elites by magic or luck...
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  3900.  @terrydaktyllus1320 The ones who train their dogs to fight say the same, it's a basic human response to excuse behaviour. They aren't likely to say "Well, we trained him to fight anyone he saw as a threat, it's not our fault your child acted threatening near him" Seriously...
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  3901. Never met a Tory who wasn't a Conceited Unctuous Narcissistic Troglodyte.
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  3902.  @danmanscan  I've worked all my life and we are talking about working people who have rent arrears due to the pandemic and lockdown. Try logic and reason in future...
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  3903. Yes and Israel is a fluffy kitten that smells of roses and not an illegal nuclear power, apartheid state and oppressive regime...
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  3904. Brexit has cost us big time, but the kleptocracy of the Tories is also responsible for huge losses as is the corruption and cronyism. They're bleeding the country dry...
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  3905.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  The burden of proof lies in his speeches, Twitter history and the minds of everyone who watched him frothing at the mouth trying to start a rebellion because he lost the vote...
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  3906.  @jonriley8342  Do whatever you need to do to feel better about your mistake, your words mean nothing to me. I have more important things to consider than your failure of understanding...
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  3907.  @leebex100  Probably, I'm more concerned about his lack of intellect and pedantic perseverance to prove his perceptual flaws :)
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  3908.  @jonriley8342  I only said probably, as it would explain your lack of understanding. Have fun in Central London which is definitely not in Russia...Tvoye zdorovye!
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  3909.  @jonriley8342  Sure, keep searching for way to blag a win...
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  3910. Boris is not completely useless, he at least serves as a bad example. He recently thought he'd invented a new word: Plagiarism! I rarely agree with him as then we'd both be wrong. I wish he'd visit the restaurant called Karma, there's no menu, you just get what you deserve.
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  3911. I'm not sure if my comment has been filtered, they usually are. So I'll put it here as it seems relevant. "The bank's job is to prop up an elaborate con that has been tweaked for millennia to the point that we now think putting a price on a human being is normal. Money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the Earth's resources - Water, Land and Human labour. The system has become ingrained in us to the point of moral bankruptcy..." Bless the system that protects us from poverty by ensuring it.
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  3912.  @englishciderlover7347  Look up the term 'ideology' :)
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  3913. Grown-ups arguing over marbles like children, just give 'em back. The Parthenon Marbles are just one example of our arrogance to put stolen loot on display in museums so their original owners can come and look at them. Phidias and his assistants put a lot of effort into creating masterpieces yet 1 and a half millennia later they're still in the hands of thieves...
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  3914. Capitalism - the bane of modern existence and could quite possibly be the end of the species...
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  3915. Tories have asset stripped the country and the economy for short-sighted greed and their offshore bank accounts...
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  3916. Sunak, the Tories and the UK are a laughing stock. In the space of a decade, we've gone from a world leader to a regressive society of insular sheep with the backbone of a jellyfish. Manipulated by the wealthy and their media circus the general public has allowed the Tories to strip the country of assets, mitigate our rights and reduce us to poverty.
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  3917.  @stuartpenman6387  I'm assuming that judgewooden was being sarcastic. PS Biden is a centrist with dementia he's not left wing, but a huge step up from the Orange Oligarch...
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  3918.  @stevec700  I will of course do as you say. I'd hate to learn about the $300 trillion global debt being around four times global GDP proving that Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency were just a farcical con to enslave the world to debt. The last thing I'd want is to realise is that the wars in the Middle East were all about protecting petrodollar hegemony, fossil fuels and looting or that Syria is being forced to host a proxy war. I'll just go and have a lie down before I confuse myself, or get above my station :)
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  3919.  @stevec700  Thank you. I will always do my best to show utter obeisance and supreme submission to those in power. I would never let it slip that money is simply a human construct that allows a very tiny minority to control the vast majority of global resources. Of which there are two: Human beings and the planet (animal, mineral, vegetable) both of which are exploited to the detriment of the species and close to extinction. Your secret is safe with me!
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  3920.  @stevec700  Joe Biden despite his ailments, corporate sponsors and ageing is at least a step up from the previous administration. The orange festering, cancerous boil on the a-hole of humanity.
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  3921.  @stevec700  Biden is not left-wing he's a corporate puppet. As for the withdrawal from Afghanistan, you have to thank the orange man for signing the Doha agreement and unilaterally deciding the timetable. The reason we are close to a third ww is also the orange man's fault. He dropped out of three nuclear treaties restarting nuclear proliferation. After which the doomsday clock was moved down to 100 seconds for the first time since ww2...
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  3922.  @stevec700  Trump pulled out of 3 nuclear treaties because his handlers told him to. Israel is committed to the destruction of Iran and the Palestinian people, not to mention being an illegal nuclear power and stealing the Golan Heights from Syria while they were hosting a proxy war for 5 or 6 other countries... All global leaders are psychopaths, Trump is a conman who has ripped off the American people consistently, failed to pay taxes, failed to pay workers on his many construction scams. He isn't on your side...
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  3923. Agreed, she's a figurehead for sinister semi-legit lobbyists who want control. I'm more worried about the rest of her party- the carrot kleptocrats, the parsnip pilferers and the swede swindlers. Liz Truss has surely already defeated herself with her own track record and laughable slip-ups that inhabit the trending trash of yesteryear. The lettuce lobby are concerned with pushing Truss as she's clearly easily led and not the brightest bulb in Britain. The fact that our political landscape is full of such vegetables is a sad reflection on the electorate...
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  3924.  @nicholaspurdie2677  Sorry you need to be sentient before you get a reply, I made an exception as your ignorance no doubt exceeds your IQ...
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  3925.  @ChrisMuehlberger60  Capitalism is at the root of human greed. By that I mean the fallacies we're taught about hard work paying off (child sweatshops), trickle-down economics, get what you pay for, nothing is free, onwards and upwards, gotta tread on a few toes to climb the ladder etc... We're acclimatised to capitalist BS from nursery school...
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  3926.  @snoopie2253  No. Not sure how you missed the part about me saying I wanted a resource-based economy. Finance is a construct to allow a minority to monopolise the world's resources, at the cost of the future of our species...
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  3927.  @jasonc3589  Agreed m8, it's just sometimes I feel sorry for the intellectually challenged and throw them a bone. TBH I thought he was a representative from inanity-R-us :)
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  3928.  @EGF1000  Agreed, The Tories are running the country with all the compassion and empathy of Fred and Rosemary West, and the NHS is their patio!
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  3929.  @eightiesmusic1984  It's actually amazing to me that we have a decent thread here that isn't ruined by the usual types. Lots of history and understanding that covers much of what the UK has been through and the main points of our political history and where things went wrong. Thank you and the other commenters for an intelligent, comprehensive thread!
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  3930. @Beans on Toast Thank you for that erudite, eloquent, intelligent and though-provoking comment. I'll be looking forward to hearing more from you in the near future!
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  3931. I also like a bit of alliteration on the odd occasion: "The toxic team of Tory troglodytes toast to their tyrannical turmoil while truth testifies to the totalitarian transfiguration thunder-striking our territory. The Tories terrorise the taxpayer to traitorously transfer taxes to tax-havens via treasonous tailored tributes."
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  3932. Taiwan have a monopoly on semi-conductor technology and intellectual property rights that make it near impossible to be made anywhere else. China and USA need the microprocessors for their war machines and economic infrastructure as do the rest of the world. Both the USA and China have been pushing up the ante to get exclusive control of these technologies...
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  3933.  @pandasrules7536  lol that's the most ridiculous statement I've seen this week and some of the statements were written by hamsters running along the keyboard...
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  3934.  @RickyHarding  Must hurt, having that stick jammed up so far...
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  3935.  @RickyHarding  PS learn about humour and how arrogance is a trait of the ignorant. I love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up all over the Union. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how the UK's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. The UK has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It's like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a huge endeavour. Not to mention the extra investment we now provide the NHS as a result. The Tories protected the GFA at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to build. An all-around success story for the UK. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea and a trip to the sunlit uplands to feed my Unicorns...
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  3936.  @IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi  It's a parody of British xenophobes mate.
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  3937.  @foofung9961  Radical/Extreme/Far left=people who protest and risk their lives against a brutal police state, for human rights, a fair society, security in their old age, a job that pays enough to support a family, an end to racism, a decent society to bring up their families. Radical/Extreme/Far left=human.
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  3938.  @yaraelpoof7242  Labour reduced debt to GDP by 4% before the GLOBAL financial crisis which affected 30-40 countries tied to the US dollar. The £350 bank bailout was a cross-party decision. The Tories are responsible for creating over 2/3rds of our National Debt and have given us a debt to GDP ratio of almost 100% while thinning the anaemic pound further by creating £400 billion in bonds. Not to mention the mass corruption and cronyism. Try learning facts before spouting blatant propaganda.
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  3939. The mainstream media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  3940. Said the man whose DNA is a mix of German (Saxon), Norman (French), Roman (Italian), Viking (Scandanavian), Celtic (Irish/originally from the Iberian peninsula)...
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  3941.  @jasondevon481  Not all, The average English DNA is about 40% German/Anglo-Saxon, about 20% Irish/Celtic, about 9% Scandanavian/Viking and other small amounts including Roman/Italian and Norman/French. This is proven by DNA records...
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  3942.  @purplehaze8557  Sorry mate, but you obviously haven't read the comment I made about our culture being global...
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  3943.  @bensims7501  I guess I take offence to politicians who force poverty and hunger on children and economic euthanasia on the disabled and elderly. Call me old-fashioned but I think killing people through cruel and sadistic policies is something that needs to be highlighted...
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  3944.  @DropdudeJohn  How does it work for the elderly, technophobes and those who can't afford a mobile phone? Homeless people, who travel around to find a bed for the night?
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  3945.  @harryfaber  I think you'll find in the 70s under nationalisation a single working wage could support a family and pay for a mortgage... You can't do that with 2 full-time incomes these days. Not to mention in 2021 taxpayers gave over £120.1 billion in subsidies to corporations, and then there are the bailouts, tax breaks, tax loopholes, grants etc. Nationalisation will always be cheaper as privatisation adds a layer of admin and profit requirements.
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  3946.  @tcskips  lol free market? like the energy cartels? Does a free-market often include subsidies, bailouts, tax breaks, grants, loopholes, monopolies? We don't have a free market and I've already proven by efficiency and cost that privatisation has always failed. Without taxpayers bailing out private industry they'd predominantly be bankrupt. I'm not going to have a circular debate with someone who hasn't read the thread and repeats redundant points of little interest. I'm not so ignorant as to fall for that nonsense. Efficiency on certain government contractors of 3% isn't something to be proud of. Neither is continually bailing out bankrupt entities with taxpayer money while investors bet against them on hedge funds. Before privatisation we had a debt-to-GDP of around 40%, it's been above 100% this year and in 2021 we paid over £120.1 billion in subsidies alone. What percentage of taxpayers' money went to shareholders before neoliberalism and privatisation and what percentage of taxpayer money goes to their offshore accounts now? out of our economy. Take your privatisation PR to someone gullible enough to fall for it...
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  3947. lol the pound is swirling around the sinkhole due to over a decade of Tory kleptocracy...
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  3948.  @YanksandBritsProductions  lol if you're a Brit you were birthed for free instead of your parents paying 8k assuming a normal birth without complications. You've no doubt been given vaccinations and treated medically during your life and so made a profit on the small amount of your taxes that go to the NHS... A complicated illness will cost your mortgage in the US as I'm sure you're aware. Long-term conditions, the same. The problem is indeed the profiteering off our health care...
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  3949. Starmer and his mates are paid by Israeli lobbyists, too scared to upset their state and corporate lobbyist handlers.
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  3950.  @ДядяТом-й9я  lol that doesn't even make sense and so doesn't deserve an intelligent response... You have no idea what I'm concerned about and Putin and Lukashenka are very much still alive...
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  3951. @Divoc Deivi Thank you for wasting both your time and mine with inanity...
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  3952. 13 years of Tory rule and she sums up their achievements as banning mobile phones in schools. Well that balances out the inflation, cost of living crisis, NHS crisis, low wages, extortionate energy prices, economic crashes, cuts, low standards of policing and security, treatment of pensioners, care homes, pandemic failures, cronyism, nepotism and greed...
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  3953. Thanks for filtering my comments out, now you know why I won't pay for a TV licence to be silenced.
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  3954.  @stevec700  lol I think 2001 was also a turning point for the world. Then in 2016 in the UK. Then it got considerably worse in 2017 with an orange hue.
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  3955. Let them reach sapience first before expecting them to read a book. For some of them standing and talking at the same time seems to take all their cognitive power... I've met ham sandwiches with a higher IQ...
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  3956. I get your grammatical correction. But to answer the question. It's a proxy war predominantly due to Saudi aggression for religious, cultural and economic hegemony.
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  3957. @Bill Carson No, that's only part of it as I've already stated. Genocide is not economic and it's a proxy war, not a civil war. Iran and Saudi are the main players, but not the only players.
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  3958.  @babymonalisa  Thank you!
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  3959. We all know Trump is guilty, we heard the speeches, read the Tweets, read the facts. Time for the king of the Oompa Loompas to serve some time... The orange priz jumpsuit will go well with his face...
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  3960.  @ProfessorTimWilson  lol I don't know you well enough to detect if that's sarcasm or genuine. After 5 decades of life, watching things continually get worse I'm now suffering from late-stage terminal sarcasm, a side effect of which is that I sometimes find it difficult to detect in others.
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  3961. Propping up the rotten, cancerous fatted carcass of disaster capitalism is not a good thing...
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  3962.  @rinkydinkfretboard8737  Yes, I also mentioned a plethora of recent legislation which is easy to compare to fash is mmm. Security bills, censorship, human rights, freedoms, electoral bills and so on. All while showing disdain for the electorate and parliamentary procedures.
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  3963.  @dominicmoreno4662  Yes religion and bigotry do go hand in hand in the US...
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  3964.  @guff9567  Democracy has never existed. We have a corporate-sponsored hegemony...
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  3965. Agreed, they were taken over by neoliberal centrists when Blair took over. Starmer is simply a Blair tribute act and they've dropped the Unions in favour of corporate lobbyist funding.
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  3966.  @spawn6636  ...and yet you get less for your money. Corporate greed is responsible for that and cronyism. Not advancing your argument with that statement really are you?
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  3967.  @spawn6636  Your pop psychology is a naive stereotype only someone with no arguments left would use. It was about as pointless as your birth...
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  3968.  @darkmusky9851  Poverty and crime are intricately linked, as are poverty and wealth. I'm not going to explain the whole system to you, but you are simply a cash cow to be exploited by corporations, your life is shortened, your opportunities are severely diminished and you have a choice between a minimum wage job that doesn't pay the rent or insecure employment. You pay your taxes while the rich take them in subsidies and corporate welfare then avoid paying their own taxes. Money is simply a tool used to allow a tiny minority to control the world's actual resources. A third of Britain lives in working poverty with little to no savings. Stop blaming victims and start blaming those responsible...
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  3969.  @gio-oz8gf  I'm sure it would be had I ever experienced such. I'm guessing you're the brains behind the operation. I would ask if there's anything you can do for Boris Johnson, but then I remembered you said neurosurgeon and not a proctologist. What's the difference between God and a neurosurgeon? God doesn't think he's a neurosurgeon. If a hippo wanted to become a neurosurgeon would he need to go to the hippocampus? Not many neurosurgeons on social media to be fair...
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  3970. You can't communicate with a tone-deaf government that lies and obfuscates, or with the corporate lobbyists' agenda that they follow...
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  3971. Polarisation, abdication, aggravation, adaptation a decision to cause division a collision of supervision Tory's indecision with imprecision a transmission of their mission. True to form Tory's scorn encompasses all, with no delay the taxpayer will pay. Manufactured crisis to blight the land while they take our cash with sleight of hand...
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  3972.  @CiterellicSunset  You seem to be immune to sarcasm and sardonic irony. I support strikers of all kinds such as the writers guild and low-paid actors. I suggest you reread my comment with that in mind :)
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  3973.  @simply2ghetto  Sure, the US geological survey of 2010 states £1 trillion in gold and lithium, the poppy fields, oil and natural gas...
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  3974.  @theautisticcreative2619  I've tried to be polite but you just repeat the same arguments, unaware of what a circular debate is. I'm Welsh and white. My racial pain comes from my culture being beaten out of Welsh children a century ago. You have no argument, you're just defending the commemoration of a brutal murderer. Your comments are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station.
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  3975.  @psilocybinenthusiast3695  Statues don't contain history and the plaque didn't state any of his unpleasant activities... I don't really give a flying f what racists think to be honest. Talking to you is like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  3976.  @theautisticcreative2619  Your first 5 points are irrelevant, and I'm not sure anyone could argue in favour of any without dropping reason and logic. Your last point is back to circular debate and a point that hasn't previously been mentioned that only proves your lack of logic. All statues are of a specific race, culture, ethnicity... what you mean is that that you don't like having a minority statue, despite the fact that 99% of all other statues represent white culture... As for the oppression comment, it contradicts your previous point. But I can't spend the time explaining that to you because I'm trying to teach a whale to fly, as it's easier than talking to you...
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  3977. ​ @theautisticcreative2619  Trump did though when he signed the Doha peace treaty with the Taliban in 2020, unilaterally committing future presidents to that agreement... Biden is a centrist paid for by corporate lobbyists and certainly not left. Thinking without emotion has a name, it's called psychopathy... I could correct more but there really is no point...
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  3978. Now my comments are being removed... so I'll repost. "I'm well aware of autism, it doesn't mean I can't correct illogical or erroneous statements you make. The fact you advertise your medical condition and keep mentioning it doesn't help debate either... I'm treating you as a human being, I'm not going to ignore nonsense statements or patronise you because you're on the autistic scale. Read the DOHA agreement instead of making more erroneous statements. The US under the Trump administration left billions of dollars worth of weaponry in the Taliban hands before Biden was even selected as a presidential candidate. Listen to the testimony of US Head of central command Gen Frank McKenzie."
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  3979. Another failed Tory policy to add to the other ones our grandchildren will be paying for... Ever wonder why immigration never goes down under the Tories despite them banging on about for decades, even after we've left the EU? It's because it's their ace in the hole, rile up the populace so we don't notice them sticking their hand in our wallets...
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  3980. That's wonderful, such philanthropic humanitarians. I'm sure they also welcomed Afghans, Iraqis and Libyans in exactly the same way, no?
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  3981. Funny how we get a string of incompetent Tory PMs who "Deeply regret their mistakes" only to be replaced by another PM who repeats them... It's almost as if the Tory PM is just there to take the flack while the party continues its agenda despite growing public opposition...
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  3982. Here's a solution, make Britain pay back the loan it took to help win the first world war and reneg on the Balfour declaration. In which they sold the protectorate of Palestine to money men who later became as oppressive as the fash in Europe they were fleeing...
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  3983. @sdrawkcabUK Possibly or such as people who choose to use plants as medicines. But I'd rather not get drawn into vaccination arguments as I see both sides.
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  3984.  @elitetrancechampions8620  Congratulations you managed to bash your knuckles and typed two words. Now try a sentence...
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  3985.  @_____alyptic  Afghanistan paid dearly too not just in blood, but in fossil fuel, opium, uranium and lithium.
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  3986. Ironically he's using a Molotov cocktail...
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  3987.  @indivisible4835  Thank you! and Merry Christmas.
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  3988. Archaic feudal farce adding insult to injury for the Welsh. Handing out titles to the firstborn of the reigning monarch to people with no connection to Wales. Time to become an independent republic and stop this costly mummery...
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  3989. Energy companies probably paid for this as an ad for that very reason, more profit selling less product...
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  3990.  @nickssurplus  I'm not a nationalist just proud of my culture and heritage, the difference between nationalism and patriotism. Nationism is predominantly linked to a desire for power. Welsh DNA has about 40% Celtic/Irish, about 20% Anglo-Saxon/German and other amounts like Scandanavian/Viking 9%, Norman/French 3% and a mixture from other European countries. English DNA has about 40% Anglo/Saxon and only 20% Celt/Irish and similar on the rest. Celts actually come from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain/Portugal) around 10-15,000 years ago according to DNA results in Ireland. Learn the history and the difference between patriotism and nationalism...
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  3991.  @alanaw27  A) We still have to pay for the PM and politicians on top of that. B) The cost of the Royals is usually offset by the profits from the crown estate. But those profits do not belong to the Queen. Royalty costs tens of millions. The Crown Estate belongs to the state, it is owned by the monarch for the duration of their reign, by their ascension to the throne. But it is not the private property of the monarch, it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch.
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  3992.  @theme6590  I try to keep up with news on former colonies ;) ~Yes I'm a Brit and no I don't support colonial attitudes, just joking as I've nothing better to do in feudal Britain as our new King is the only thing on the news...
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  3993. The Crime is Sinister with our Primed Minister, a distraction from party gate for a short attention span electorate...
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  3994.  @Gordon..  I'm not your carer! go find a nurse and ask her for a top on your meds...
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  3995.  @Gordon..  lol so you don't have the capacity to think of a new insult and you can't prove my facts wrong? Don't go to a battle of wits unarmed...
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  3996.  @jillosler9353  Lifeguards? who didn't miss a young girl for over an hour? Why protect the incompetence that cost a child their life?
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  3997. Sold to Hollywood? There is no excuse for 'losing' 154 children...
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  3998. But how will western governments exploit the 5-year-olds mining cobalt for their tech devices if they allow democracy...
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  3999. The PM and his party are an international laughing stock and a national embarrassment. MPs are supposed to be the best of us, not the worst...
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  4000.  @methhead3140  If a politically illiterate, possibly...
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  4001.  @methhead3140  Orwell was a Socialist dumbass...
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  4002.  @methhead3140  You tried to use a Socialist book to malign Socialism lol. I've read the letter Orwell wrote regarding his novels, he talks about Authoritarianism in regimes like Musulini's Italian Fascism, Franco Spain's Fascism, Hitler's German Fascism and Stalin's usurpation of Communism when he became a dictator, a trait of Fascism.
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  4003.  @mynamemylastname5918  lol never? he should have. I like to correct politicians' lies. Sue me!
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  4004. Time for her to go back to be a laughing stock with cheesy deals and porky pies... I'm sure the Tories will have no trouble finding another clown to sit in the driver's seat and keep pushing forward their agenda irrespective of what British people want. The sooner Brits realise they are held hostage to the illusion of democracy and decide to rise up against criminal elites reducing their life expectancy the better...
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  4005.  @nick777forde  *a Simian... Have the features of Simiiformes or have the features of a Simian. Got it? good!
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  4006.  @nick777forde  No, I simply corrected your grammar. I see logic, reason and linear time have left the building...
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  4007.  @nick777forde  If you didn't like the joke you coulda just stfu instead of being a drama queen and trying to jump on my thread. Still, if annoying people trying to spread a little humour keeps you happy, it's probably cheaper than therapy...
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  4008.  @nick777forde  Still trying to bathe in my intellect and wit while throwing ad hominems around like a Simian having a tantrum? I've had a wonderful, enlightening conversation, but this wasn't it!
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  4009.  @majidaljaburi7870  Are you scared of gay people or something? maybe worried about your own sexuality? I'm heterosexual and support people in Ukraine, Women in Iran and the LGBT+ community. Take your bigotry somewhere else!
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  4010.  @majidaljaburi7870  sure thing buddy, you doth protest too much!
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  4011.  @فاطمةالزهراءجوال  Not interessted in your bigotry and prejudice.
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  4012. Funny, but we used to trade with countries a 20-mile ferry ride away until recently... Imagine the increase of carbon emissions from trading with a country on the opposite end of the globe...
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  4013.  @gingerbaker4390  UK exports to the EU have dropped from £295.1 billion in 2018, £294 billion in 2019 to £251 billion in 2020. Obviously, data from 2021 won't be available until the end of the financial year, but it isn't likely to rise...
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  4014.  @mememachine5244  Over 43% of our exports went to the EU in 2019...
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  4015.  @gingerbaker4390  lol 43% of our annual trade was with the EU, as I've already pointed out! We've lost over £50 billion from trade with the EU in 2020, that's £50 billion less going into our GDP...
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  4016. @Stalin The politically illiterate, economically ignorant meme fed annoy me. I also dislike Blair, but his Labour government reduced debt to GDP by 4% and only borrowed just over £130 billion in the decade before the crisis. The cross-party decision to bail out the banks caused the deficit and debt rise, it was £350 billion and decided by parliament as a whole! and yet still the Tories have created over 2/3rds of our national debt.
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  4017.  @lsfilgueiras  The Islamic world were happy where they were before the bombs started dropping... PS you are aware Sunni and Shia Muslims don't get along? didn't think so, ignorant right whingers just make stuff up...
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  4018.  @lsfilgueiras  PS the Arab Spring was instigated by the CIA and backed by American money men as many American tabloids have widely reported. The fundamentalism is predominantly a pretext for an invasion to allow the US and NATO to loot the Middle East and Africa while protecting petrodollar hegemony. Let me know if you need help with any of the big words...
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  4019.  @lsfilgueiras  Then go tell the Catholic church to leave kids alone. That kind of terrorism has caused far more death and destruction...
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  4020.  @stoufer2000  Thank you, I was proud of that bit of quick wit. It's not often my addled brain works as I like it. Too much cans of bliss.
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  4021.  @oops9684  Agreed and to think freedom of expression is protected by the ECHR which British lawyers helped create. Yet we can't use words that accurately describe the Tory's abhorrent treatment and disdain of the taxpayer. They're literally using economic euthanasia and we can't fight back as when we name it, we are censored. I'm lucky if 40% of my comments aren't filtered out of here. The things I'd like to say would turn your ears blue!
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  4022.  @tompearce3610  Thank you!
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  4023.  @MegaKapo12  Yep lol. They don't like to use scientific theory, logic, Cartesian doubt or Occam's Razor too often, it makes their nose bleed. To be fair I'd rather attempt to teach a whale to fly than debate them :)
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  4024. I'm glad we don't have competent, caring, intelligent, trustworthy MPs like Zarah in government. I'd much prefer corrupt kleptocrats who steal my life expectancy with every cut and each new piece of authoritarian legislation...
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  4025. 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 lying to millions of Brits every day, In the awful Tory Britain full of poverty and decay, On a planet in the embarrassed Milky Way.
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  4026. Two mugs drinking tea from two mugs. Corporate representatives and banking shills...
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  4027. US drone 6,000 miles from the USA on the coast of Ukraine during a war... Hmmm. I don't agree with the invasion, but I'm not going to consent to ww3... Let the wealthy compromise over their resource monopoly and leave us out of it.
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  4028.  @GetItRightUpYees  I very much doubt that and certainly didn't suggest it either. Try a basic course in interpreting words, then move on to sentences...
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  4029. Niagra falls were built by Mr and Mrs Falls in 1491, the year before the Santa Maria first visited the coast of America.
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  4030.  @BBountyHunter  The sacrifices are made by the poor who pay their taxes and do 12-hour shifts of manual graft daily, while the rich don't. While the poor watch their taxmoney being spent on giving a billionaire a new yacht via corporate welfare and subsidies or a tax break that will cost the taxpayer a tax rise, rather than solving working poverty or supporting the elderly, vulnerable and disabled. You're nothing more than a rich man's tool, fed on lies and doffing your cap to your supposed 'betters'. Pathetic...
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  4031.  @BBountyHunter  PS China is capitalist and owns around 10% of US foreign debt. They are the second-largest capitalist economy, with more billionaires per million than any other country. They are predicted by top economists to be the first largest economy by 2028. And no, I'm not a fan of their authoritarian regime, but they have cleaned up their act and lifted over 100,000 million out of extreme poverty in the past decade. They also make the tech devices everyone uses to communicate on here...
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  4032.  @BBountyHunter  I've already proven that it's the wealthy stealing from the poor and getting freebies, every comment I have made is a direct rebuttal of your erroneous fallacies. I've also proven socialism works to create a better society. I've proven capitalism is inherently flawed and that it relies on the exploitation of poorer countries. I have given around one hundred facts in 6 or 7 comments, while you have given none. That's because I base my opinions on facts and stats, not memes. Your comment is word salad and grossly negligent of fact and logic...
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  4033.  @BBountyHunter  lol please don't talk about Venezuela by using US pretext as a logical fact. Dissect the history of US intervention in S.America and its warmongering in the past few decades. US dollar hegemony is propped up by the war machine, for the exclusive purpose of protecting the petrodollar and providing profits to specialists, mercenaries, bankers, weapon manufacturers and the fossil fuel industry. Corporate Theft from the taxpayer is provably 10 times higher than the money used on unemployment. Yet the taxpayer's money is also being used to provide the infrastructure that corporations exploit for profit. The triple whammy is that those corporations don't pay their legally required taxation depriving the treasury and the taxpayer of £40-120 billion per annum... So please stop these factless attempts at rebuttals. You have not successfully rebutted any assertions, facts or stats I've given. Stop wasting your life and mine on opinionated rants.
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  4034.  @ThinWhite_Duke  lol I've annihilated the childish fallacies muh communism, muh deaths, muh anti-fascism is fascism, muh Hilter was leftwing, muh Socialism doesn't work etc a thousand times... Your meme knowledge is easily defeated with logic and facts, so please stop trying to debate when you're politically and economically illiterate...
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  4035.  @patriciawhite619  100%
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  4036.  @janetbailey5005  lol I wont, let me know what time to send the nurse around with your meds. She's a lovely Jamaican lady!
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  4037.  @jannenreuben7398  That is why we have democracy so people can choose by a majority what they want their country to be like. That is how we sort the good from the bad. My point is that multiculturalism has always existed since we learned to navigate the oceans. We were Pagans until the Romans killed off the druidic leadership on Anglesea which was the Celtic leadership that existed up until that point. We adopted new techniques and materials we learned from invaders and visitors. We have always adapted and adopted new cultures, scientific theories, materials, religious aspects and philosophies into our own. The slippery slope fallacy isn't worth my answering. But I will point out that our country was built on Social Democracy/Socialism. It has been with us since 1945 and has given our country free health care, social housing to move us out of the slums, free schooling, legal aid, national parks, public transport, public libraries, nationalised industry (until the Tories sold it off), the welfare state to protect us when we can't work because of illness or lack of available work. These ideas came from Marx and Engels who were both German. We can't avoid new ideas and why would we want to? we use logic and reason to determine whether they are right for us and democracy to implement the changes we want as a nation.
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  4038.  @MrDarkgreen  Most of what you say is accurate, especially the last sentence. I assume you mean those 'developing nations' predominantly provide our technology (China) and our clothes (India), the Cobalt for our mobile phones is mined by kids in D.R.Congo and so we are party responsible for their emissions. At least I hope that's what you mean.
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  4039.  @thomaspower5982  No, the game has always been to turn us into cash cows without being obvious. Now they don't care to conceal the con or the contempt they have for the electorate. Kleptocrats taking bribes from corporate lobbyists is now the norm, not the exception, but 100% of the game.
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  4040.  @SA-ff9uc  Energy price is over 8 times what it was in 2020, it's continually gone up. You seem delusionally ignorant of the topic... UK power prices have tripled year-on-year from August 2020 (£36/MWh) to August 2021 (£107/MWh) – a jump of £71/MWh. The UK paid £263.99 per MWh in August 2022 and it's risen considerable since then, most of our electricity comes from burning gas so the prices are interlinked.
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  4041.  @SA-ff9uc  Energy prices are interlinked, Gas prices declined because of the pandemic and the fact that global usage dropped considerably. But Gas is used to create most of our electricity, and as energy prices are interlinked you need to consider the facts more logically, they are interconnected. You also didn't understand my initial comment that blamed corporations and conflated that with shareholders, Did I touch a raw nerve? Either way, the harm caused by energy prices puts profits above human life, wake up...
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  4042.  @alicianah8352  Agreed, I also like the idea of a resource-based economy that's ecologically friendly and sustainable as the Zeitgeist movement promotes.
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  4043.  @alicianah8352  Yea, we live in a time where we are seen as collateral, cannon fodder and cash cows. Consume, work and pay taxes while we silently allow a dystopian corporatocracy to take over. I also can't ignore it, the media polarise us while the Tories bring in more authoritarian legislation blocking our human rights, freedom of expression, right to protest and strike. Us Brits need to grow a backbone and learn to unify against the wealthy elitists and corporations.
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  4044. I didn't believe in jobs until I got myself.
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  4045.  Michael Downing  You spelt ignorant wrong.
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  4046.  @harunmusa1164  Good comeback, think of that all by yourself?
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  4047.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Never used it. Next redundant comment?
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  4048.  @delanodegenie6970  That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type... You're about as much use as dehydrated water or an ashtray on the international space station...
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  4049.  @Deleted6477  You can't use a citizens arrest on someone expressing their rights to protest. At least, I'd love to see how that plays in a courtroom... Feel free to try it and let me know :)
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  4050.  @Holloweve  Just wondering mate, but Is it true that your ancestors couldn't count to twelve despite having 6 fingers on each hand? and that they couldn't swim despite having webbed feet?
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  4051.  @delanodegenie6970  You know the problem with terminal sarcasm, it's difficult to recognise it in others, sometimes... So far your comments have been as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker... So my question is this: Are you head of the pointless comments department or a representative from inanityRus?
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  4052.  @delanodegenie6970  I also do eloquence on occasion. MSM writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy... Unless you realise that simple truth you will continue to allow the rich to polarise the masses with bread and circus, divide and conquer and forever tug your forelock and doff your cap to the rich in ignorance of their manipulations...
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  4053. John, The grammar, punctuation and attempt at eloquence fails harder than Boris Johnson's Tory party at a karaoke bar. Colloquialisms are regional variations in speech patterns, I'm not sure there are that many to describe ancestry and so the usage of such is as redundant as your logic. Human history is documented and I mentioned no point of convergence, as ancestry is a linear path from the past to the present. Mesopotamian's developed numeracy and the Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. So quite a few of your ancestors should have been numerically literate, if not for their lack of intellect. The analysis of my joke is therefore both redundant and illogically constructed and serves only to illuminate several words and phrases that you don't use correctly out of ignorance. I wasn't discussing human ancestry, just yours...
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  4054. After the last 3 PMs have been kicked out of office they may as well just have a mascot as a placeholder while they continue to force their agenda on Britain regardless of laws, decency, and morality...
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  4055. So advocating hit and run is ok but defending humanity and decency gets deleted and filtered? what type of society are you trying to create?
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  4056. Starmer is funded by corporate lobbyists, he's not far off being Tory in many ways. Don't expect him to go up against corporations or the wealthy...
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  4057. Yes, it's easy to mock Trump. But who could have predicted that a President with the IQ of a syphilitic, crack-addicted hamster having a midlife crisis, all the leadership skills, competence and eloquence of Homer Simpson after a weekend on Duff beer and meth - would get a chance for a second term in office...
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  4058. "What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering bleeds our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets. The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, inept Tory policy inspires inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, their lives are shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this inhumane neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout "Get those fecking Tories out!"" Steven Parker...
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  4059.  @Tawny6702  lol more like Land of dopes and Tories.
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  4060. Spy or Defector, place your bets!
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  4061. Putting out fires constantly while the Tories just light new ones. We know what they are doing is aggressively hostile to immigrants, the vulnerable and the poor. Until we take action, we will remain in a constant state of stagnation, putting out fires while nothing changes, or indeed, things get far worse.
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  4062. "older people are the most skilled and experienced people we have" Until senility kicks in and they start voting Tory...
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  4063.  @kevinfernandez9999  US and Russia have been playing in Afghanistan as part of the not-so-cold-war for decades...
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  4064.  @kevinfernandez9999  The US has been at war for 228 of its 246 years as a nation...
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  4065.  @MrWhothefoxthat  If people glorify genocide or laugh at migrant children washed up on a beach, they'll get both barrels from me. To hell with polite discourse, these people need to be humiliated for their vindictive bigotry... Objects without an opposing force gather momentum.
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  4066.  @mrharry448  Corbyn is a Eurosceptic who respected the referendum out of integrity and to honour the wishes of his constituents. Something a Tory MP wouldn't understand...
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  4067.  @mrharry448  So he should have ignored his constituents' wishes to forward his own agenda at a time when he was vilified in the press and subject to unjustified character assassination? That's not what a leader with integrity does...
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  4068.  @californiadreamin8423  I did suspect that mate especially as you put in quotes but couldn't see a comment it came from. No offence intended buddy and my sincere apologies.
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  4069.  @Panini_Edirisinhe  He's one of the few good men we have in politics. You are absolutely correct. He has humanity, decency and integrity which is a rare thing in a politician these days. Sri Lanka is a lovely country. I'm sure there are many Democratic Socialists who would love to come and visit, myself included. If not emigrate permanently.
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  4070.  @Panini_Edirisinhe  My apologies, I wasn't up-to-date with recent political events of the past 3 years. Hopefully, both our countries will learn wisdom and remove those who seek to dominate through oppressive control.
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  4071.  @Panini_Edirisinhe  Steven is a common name in Wales ( named after St. Steven) and Parker means a Groundskeeper so was a common job, so many people have that surname. There were around 30 people in my hometown with the name Steven Parker.
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  4072. Victims of genocide by S.Arabia trying to help other victims of genocide by Israel - Terrorists?
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  4073.  @Saoirse_don_Phalaistín  Control of media and political activists is a fundamental part of fascism as we saw after the Reichstag Fire when the SS rounded up the unions, communists and leftists. But the predominant feature is a merger of state and corporate power typified by a dictatorship.
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  4074.  @tjenadonn6158  That too! Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  4075.  @randomlyswatching9481  I've given the dictionary definition twice but my responses are being filtered. Look at recent legislation such as the Spycops bill, internet bills, security bills etc.
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  4076. Tories still devouring the country in an insane assault on logic and reason? kay, just checking...
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  4077.  @thomasmoore1499  Winning the battle by becoming the enemy and losing the war is short-sighted and illogical. Not to mention they will be seen as ideological chameleons like the lib-dems... What's obvious is that turning your back on your ideology and losing the war is a failure!
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  4078. Created by the west when they decided to give a push to the Arab Spring in order to loot the middle east and Africa and protect petrodollar hegemony...
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  4079. lol, that's the dumbest thing I've seen today, and you had a lot of competition...
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  4080. Labour is now a Tory-lite party led by neoliberals and funded by corporate and state lobbyists. They've lost the support of the Unions, The working class and minorities. A once proud institution has been slowly infiltrated and betrayed by Blairite neoliberals...
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  4081. Send her on a pork-trading tour of the middle east?
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  4082.  @karlhulme8014  Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement. The fact you seem blissfully unaware of that only reflects poorly on your own IQ. The fact we wouldn't know the level of your ignorance if you hadn't commented compounds your mistake...
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  4083.  @roystonrubble7103  lol unless you can prove you are a grown-up I don't think I can reply without upsetting you...
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  4084.  @karlhulme8014  lol sorry but I'd rather dip my Nutella soaked testies in a tank full of piranha than listen to right-wing conspiracies...
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  4085.  @roystonrubble7103  Are you that thick that you think I'm a superhero and you need the answer that badly? Maybe if you learn to express yourself using written language and ask pertinent questions you'd get an answer.
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  4086.  @roystonrubble7103  No need to worship me, I'm not a diety, a superhero or god. Sometimes intellect looks like magic to chimps.
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  4087.  @roystonrubble7103  Fan of Bobby Darin are ya? or are you trying to tell me something?
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  4088.  @roystonrubble7103  You're giving away your age, and the fact you may actually be senile :)
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  4089.  @roystonrubble7103  Capital letter at the start of a sentence and finish with a full stop (period for Americans). Seems I can see after all :)
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  4090. Stop being mean to the Tories. Are you aware that most Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That most Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? Please give generously to these amoral victims of privilege and elitism...
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  4091. @Linni loov Agreed. Truth is just a memory, reality is an illusion.
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  4092. @Linni loov You know it's funny but the more I find out about him, the less I like him :)
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  4093. @Linni loov I'm just a thick council estate lad who grew up and feigns intellect, but thank you! ❤
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  4094.  @stevec700  lol don't start me off. To be, or not to be a dictatorship, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep.
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  4095.  @theicebolt4361  Yes, he won't be much of an improvement. But maybe when he gets in no10 the real left can storm Labour, reinstate clause 4 and unban all the socialists Starmer's got rid of on various pretexts...
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  4096.  Jim Carrey  Yes, because I read. It's surprising your ancestors couldn't count to 12, considering they had 6 fingers on each hand. They also couldn't swim despite having webbed feet...
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  4097.  @jackdanielsamarreto  Will let me steal his ode! To be, or not to be a dictatorship, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  4098.  @WISDOMBITES1  The lack of a heart and soul isn't a quality it's a mental disease...
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  4099. "Schools, Unis, Hospitals, GP surgeries, Police, Transport, Mail and many other sectors have been subject to huge cuts in the past decade or so and have an increased workload because of this. The Tories obviously don't care about education, health or crime if they can siphon those savings to the private sector. They are destroying civilisation in an insane quest for profits that beggars sanity and decency..." quotes are fun...
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  4100.  @honeybunch6473  I know this is very difficult for you, but next time why not try typing something intelligent or witty? You know, like an adult who has some knowledge and decency...
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  4101.  @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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  4102.  @mjmj8980  Then you have no idea of British history...
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  4103.  @heidimadeleine8808  I haven't said anything about the OP, other than the argument he/she made is irrelevant in light of the actual conversation. Which I suggested should be read before making a comment that isn't relevant... The OP is aware of his/her heritage, Ms Fulani isn't...
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  4104.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, those commenting who obviously haven't read the transcript are therefore speaking from ignorance rather than knowledge. I clearly stated Philip's ancestry, not his Nationality. Nationality is an absolute, ethnicity is not and can therefore be mixed. Even someone with dual nationality is 100% both nationalities...
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  4105.  @fionam.1784  Her ancestors were taken from Africa as slaves (Possibly by Hussey's ancestors as it was the British Royal Family who condoned and profited from it during the 1600s), she didn't have documentation of which part of Africa she was from so how could she answer the question Hussey asked: "What part of Africa are you from?" If you read the transcript and can't see the assumptions, pressure and how uncomfortable that would make someone feel then you lack logic and compassion...
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  4106.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  She isn't aware of her ancestry, If you have read the transcript you'd know that, she had no records of where her family came from when they were transported to the Caribbean. Both her parents were from the Caribbean so assumptions made about her name and clothing proving her Nigerian or West African heritage are irrelevant guesswork... The common practice with released slaves was to pick their own name when emancipated. Thank you for the continual circular debate based on guesswork, may I suggest re-reading the transcript...Ngozi Fulani herself describes her heritage as African - which as you know is a continent, if she could be more precise she obviously would have been and wouldn't have told Lady Hussey that she had no records of exactly where her ancestors came from.
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  4107.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  So now you're playing the race card because you lost an argument on logic and merit? lol sorry, I don't believe in treating people differently, positive or negative... PS Lady Hussey has form for this type of behaviour, so does the Royal household. It has been noted before despite their power and control of the narrative.
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  4108.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Not interested in your race-baiting. My comments are based on this story and are accurate. You post comments that clearly show you haven't understood the story. Proving debate is as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. My culture and language were stolen and my people fought against slavery. Take your pedantry to someone more willing to accept inequity, I treat people as equals until they prove otherwise.
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  4109.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  You mean the person who has no idea what the article is about and didn't seem to understand that it's hard to be proud of a heritage that you are unaware of? I'll let Ms Fulani know that she should be proud, not shy away from, or deny the heritage that she is unaware of because it was stolen from her when her ancestors were taken to the Caribbean as slaves... I'll let the self-congratulatory people who don't understand the story get back to blaming Ms Fulani for not knowing what her heritage is, through no fault of her own... Despite the fact that Ms Fulani has a Master of Arts in African studies... PS search for articles on the rise of the far right and ask yourself why you think that is something that wouldn't concern me...
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  4110.  @NoLefTurnUnStoned.  Not my words mate, I was using TheAysma's statement with regard to Ms Fulani, seems you can't even remember the statement you're defending. TheAymsa wrote "I've always taken great pride in answering that particular question. I immediately say where my parents / Grandparents came from! I'm just as proud of my African origins, I'll never shy away, forget or deny." Would you like to explain how this applied to Ms Fulani who despite not knowing her specific heritage has done a Master of Arts in African studies? Do you think you could at least admit that it's erroneous and that your support of that statement lacks logic? I've been active against the far right for decades and they are using this to further their cause and saying quite vile things about Ms Fulani because of the same misconception this thread suffers from.
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  4111. I can't remember if I cried. When news of 9/11 went worldwide. But society was changed from deep inside. The day... the Truth... died...
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  4112. Cash drops in the Caymans for soulless politicians Breaking their own rules and making cold-hearted descisions Brown paper envelopes which bribery brings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things...
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  4113. Health Secretary says it's right to use barges with legionnaires disease? No wonder the NHS is so badly managed and funded...
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  4114.  @danielwebb8402  What part of I don't communicate with people who have a lower IQ than a crack-addicted hamster with a head injury are you missing?
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  4115.  @danielwebb8402  lol sorry mate but you're about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker and my time is precious...
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  4116.  @aluisious  Thank you!
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  4117. @UC9UPeXNsrCfLoUDQjezwU4w Seriously? now you think having no presence in a country won't hit the bottom line? What about PR, Legal representation, Staff offices etc? Ship it all to Ireland? You have to market and sell your product, and taxation is the bottom line dimwit. Not sure what kind of two-bit company you run, but we are talking about multinationals with hundreds of subsidiaries. Taking the small cost of office space out of the equation is a minuscule buffer to the losses from no national presence and a hostile government. No matter where your offices are you still have to pay tax on the products you sell in a country. Most of the reason for the new taxes is the tax avoidance predominantly facilitated globally by the UK through the UK's off-shore territories. If transparency were forced on the crown, estates and off-shore territories companies would have to look elsewhere to dodge their legally required taxation. I'm sure you're also aware that the corporations we are talking about are predominantly digital retailers, I'm not sure how they can avoid paying the extra taxation if they wish to continue to do business with G7 countries, despite where they are headquartered...
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  4118.  @DNAOrion  I'm happy to leave them there to educate those less intransigent than yourself. :)
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  4119.  @DNAOrion  "Are there any ISO standards that apply to banking? A common misconception people have is that ISO standards only apply to manufacturing. On the contrary, service-centric industries, the banking industry in particular, are also concerned with issues like quality, environment and information security, for example. So, yes, ISO standards do apply to banking." I had assumed in my naivety that risk management may be useful to investment banks. PS that's how sarcasm works...
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  4120.  @leehenry5764  PS if you mean right-wing in a non-political way. Then moaning conspiracy theorists who believe bankers are Marxists, controlled immigration is bad, global warming is a myth and anything they say is fact regardless of studies, stats, research etc...
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  4121. He's just yet another mouthpiece for wealthy paymasters who control narratives to keep their agenda on track while they polarise the poor. Trying to hijack people's insecurities to further the political goals of their elitist puppet masters. Here and in the US they dominate the media with half-truths and disinformation in order to keep control and steer the West in the direction they choose.
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  4122.  @PrivateSi  You're not very well balanced, so no point in me pointing out that you believe in conspiracies that are fed to you by the people responsible for all 3...
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  4123.  @PrivateSi  You're being played by the wealthy elite, until you realise that you'll continue to be their tool...
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  4124.  @0w784g  Both... Confused? It's not a contradiction, just fact...
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  4125.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  I'm from a council estate buddy. Most lefties are working class, hence why we support the working class and not a corporate agenda...
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  4126.  @PrivateSi  I can't argue with conspiracy. The left (Social Democrats) not liberals! have fought the wealthy elites since the dawn of time. Scotch Cattle, Chartists, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt. We have always fought the elitists and their machinations and many died for the rights that are now being taken from us. We believe in your right to talk conspiracy and protest against authoritarianism. Central bankers are not Marxists, Anti-Fascists are not paid and are not Fascists. Corporate billionaires like Gates, Soros are right-wing elites who give to charities and fund organisations to avoid paying tax, not out of the goodness of their hearts. You can't believe in left-wing ideology such as shared resources and workers owning the tools of production while exploiting workers and owning the tools of production, it's an obvious contradiction. The battle has always been rich vs poor, the wealthy are trying to create a dystopian corporatocracy while they themselves ascend to kings and emperors in this new world. China has more billionaires per capita than any other country and are predicted by top economists to be the largest economy by 2028, they are not Communists and haven't been for decades. The West is only 23% of the total global population. You are being fed conspiracy in the usual divide and conquer tactics of the wealthy. The left do not want to ban Christmas, have uncontrolled migration, ban books or old comedies. PC and cancel culture are manipulations of the media who amplify the voices of a few fringe groups to create division and avoid the real issue of equality. You are fighting the wrong enemy and being used by those you claim to despise...
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  4127.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  The left have always fought the rich, people like Biden and Starmer are not left, you are conflating ideology with political leadership...
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  4128.  @PrivateSi  You conflate too much, all Socialists are Marxists and the left is controlled by Centrist Neoliberal leaders. Neoliberalism is a right-wing ideology created by Thatcher and Reagan. You don't even know the basics. Leftists are not authoritarian and the exact opposite of Fascists. I've already posted the figures for migration to prove lie to your point. Without bleeding heart lefties you wouldn't have human rights, worker's rights, legal aid, free schooling and freedom of speech... You suffer from many conflicts as you are fed conspiracy rather than facts. I've tried to educate people like you too often to know debate is pointless, as you've already proven. You are a tool of the wealthy, a traitor to the working class and full of conflation and conflict, aiming your anger at the people who would free you from oppression. You don't even understand many of the words you use.
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  4129.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  Starmer is an establishment pawn and has never been a socialist. He's a Blair tribute act and his purge of socialists from the Labour party is proof of that, as are his policies. If you think the 5-year-olds mining cobalt in DRC aren't working hard, or the people in sweatshops in China making your tech devices, or the people in sweatshops in India making your clothes aren't working hard then you're a fool... If you think the 1/3rd of the British workers who live in poverty, don't work hard doing twelve-hour shifts then you are ignorant...
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  4130.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  You can't even follow a conversation and you're politically illiterate. You mentioned working hard deserves rewards, that old myth. I simply pointed out how that is absolute BS... Blair used Thatcher's deregulation of the banking sector, John Major's PFIs and many neoliberal policies.
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  4131.  @PrivateSi  You are beyond politically illiterate and use words you don't understand. It's impossible to have a logical debate with someone who has no logic. Neoliberals have run the UK and the US for 4 decades. Both sides have been using Neoliberalism and it is right-wing. Virtually everything you say is BS... Debate with you is like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  4132.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  Repeating the same mistake is the definition of stupidity. You are politically and economically illiterate, your knowledge of ideology, history and geopolitics is also negligible. You can't follow a simple conversation and have no understanding of logic and reason. None of that is an insult, just stating facts. I'm Welsh, a true Brit, a Celt. People who have knowledge and reason realise the futility of trying to educate someone who believes in conflicting, illogical assertions that are contrary to historical fact...
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  4133.  @PrivateSi  Neo-liberalism is right-wing it is more accurately called Neo-conservatism, it is small government, privatisation, deregulation of the banking sector and the only thing you have got right is siphoning public taxes to the off-shore accounts of the rich. Left-wing ideology is nationalization, the opposite of privatisation. The merger of state and corporate power is the first step in Fascism, again the opposite of left-wing ideology. Liberals are centrists, Neo-liberals are right-wing, Social Democrats are Left-wing. The media is 80% controlled by right-wing billionaires. Democracy has always been an illusion, something to give us plebs the illusion of control. The left has always fought the rich and globalist billionaires who lobby governments and hold the puppet strings of politicians. You conflate ideology with politicians. But there hasn't been a left-wing government in the US or UK for over 4 decades... I'm not going to keep correcting you, you read memes fingerpainted in faeces on the toilet walls of right-whinge social media, a useful tool of the wealthy and their agenda...
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  4134.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  I'm happy to disagree with anyone, but people who don't know what they talk about and type sentences that are contradictions while proving they lack logic and reason are impossible to argue with, debate or educate. I'm dirt poor and live in a flat, don't confuse intellect with wealth...
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  4135.  @PrivateSi  Tories have been conservative neoliberals for 4 decades, the fact you still make the same mistakes even after being corrected proves your lack of political literacy. Deregulation, smaller government, privatisation to siphon the public's taxes are the height of conservative ideology. There is no horseshoe model, the left and right do not meet in the middle. Far-left is a contradiction, once you allow a dictator like Stalin to become an authoritarian dictator they can no longer be called left, those are traits of far-right fascism. Hence why Stalin was known as a red fascist... Socialism is a replacement of capitalism, there are no corporations under Socialism. However, Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy have tailored forms of Socialist policies that fit under a capitalist system. The Tories have been drifting further right for decades as is obvious to anyone who follows policies and legislation. Such as the spycops bill that passed earlier this year which is fascism and denies your human rights. You are incomprehensibly ignorant of politics and talk in contradictions because you don't understand the basics. This is my last reply as any attempt to debate with you is as pointless as a vertical ejector seat on a helicopter.
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  4136.  @PrivateSi  Blair was Thatcher's greatest legacy, Thatcher and Reagan both Conservatives gave birth to neo-liberalism. Blair is a warmongering neoliberal, he only added to the de-regulation Thatcher started and the Tories have continued since. I've already mentioned that he used John Major's PFIs, which is a form of privatisation. But Labour had a 5% cap on PFIs which the Tories ignored when they extended them to 2035 increasing the debt exponentially while also creating PFI2 increasing the debt even more. The Tories are responsible for creating 2/3rds of our national debt and give away over £100 billion per annum of taxpayer money to corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies. To put that into perspective, unemployment only costs £1.56 billion per annum, which means corporate greed costs the taxpayer 66 times what unemployment costs. On top of that those tax-dodging corporations costs you and me £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxes, via the tax gap every year. The Tories have privatised Royal Mail, Rail, Energy, Transport, Communications and many other industries, what Labour added is paled by comparison. I haven't been a member of Labour since the 90s when Blair dropped clause 4. Yet again you prove you only have Tory myth and right-wing misconceptions. All of my figures and assertions can be checked using the IFS and ONS stats. Neo-conservatism and Neo-liberalism are virtually the same thing, Conservatives pioneered Neo-liberalism under Thatcher and Labour only used those policies under Blair and only a fraction of Labour policies were neoliberal, most Labour policies were Democratic Socialism. The Conservatives use them exclusively. You are being used to regurgitate Tory mythology, check my figures.
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  4137.  @bertiescunsbutch9323  I'm dirt poor and have already told you not to confuse intellect and knowledge with wealth or class. I'm only superior in knowledge because I learned and read facts and figures, instead of regurgitating memes. I'm as humble as I can be in reality, but I have to fight these misconceptions on a daily basis, so am happy to insult political illiterates who give power to the thieving wealthy elitists, as those people are class traitors...
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  4138.  @PrivateSi  lol the Bank of England is close to collapsing, you can't spell 'you're', 'indoctrinators' you obviously don't understand terms like Anarcho-Capitalism or State Capitalism and seem blissfully unaware of Disaster Capitalism. You also make assumptions about my economic beliefs. I'm in favour of a resource-based economy with the absence of currency, where resources have globally accepted 'worth' based on abundance, logistics, need and labour intensity. You are a walking illogical contradiction who uses words and phrases while proving to those with understanding how little you understand them. As already stated politically and economically illiterate. Trying to explain the basics to you would be like a bird trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  4139.  @PrivateSi  You have already proven you lack comprehension of politics, economics and the meaning of political and economic terms. You speak in contradictions. No long-winded excuses, while repeating the same conflictions and conflations will make me want to debate someone so critically erroneous in historical fact and political knowledge. You are a right-wing conspiracy theorist who lacks 'real knowledge' and proves it in every comment. The more you try to prove yourself, the more errors and conflicts you pronounce, while not bothering to take the corrections onboard that have already been pointed out. So as mentioned, debate with you is as impossible as a bird trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  4140.  @kal77uk  To be classed as an asylum seeker you have to be under threat of death. Proving your comment is full of contradiction and you are ignorant of what you speak.
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  4141.  @kal77uk  You don't even know the meaning of the words you use. The UK is part of NATO that created these refugees and Asylum seekers. I'm not interested in arguing with you when you clearly have no idea of what you speak...
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  4142.  @kal77uk  NATO and US invasion is the reason for refugees from Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. You are politically illiterate and I can't spend time educating you. Most refugees and immigrants coming to Europe from Africa and the Middle East are fleeing those wars...
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  4143.  @kal77uk  We paid for the rich to loot these refugees' lands and so will your grandchildren via national debt. Now you blame them for having their families murdered by the mercenaries that your taxes paid for, 2/3rds of boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan were mercs. Instead of blaming the rich who looted these countries with your tax money, you blame the victims created by the fake wars. Coward!
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  4144.  @kal77uk  They pay with their lives and research shows they contribute more over the course of their lives than native Brits. Unemployment costs £1.56 billion per annum, while corporate welfare and subsidies cost over £100 billion out of your taxes every year. Over 66 times the amount given in unemployment is given to billionaires in freebies, those corporations also cost us £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxes. Yet people like you would rather a billionaire have a new Yacht than give a few quid to a refugee who has lost everything. Then you blame the unemployed, vulnerable, disabled, poor and weak for the increase in taxes. Blind cowards are used by the wealthy to split the poor into groups to fight each other. Now that's just a small part of the education I promised you, rather than being angry at me, research those facts and adjust your blame to those who deserve it.
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  4145. I hope you are aware that Orwell was an outspoken Socialist who fought alongside Communists against the rising Franco fascism in Spain.
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  4146.  @The_Reality_Filter  My point is simply that many on the right who use Orwell to defame the left, while espousing conspiracy, seem blissfully unaware of the intent of Orwell's warning about authoritarianism and totalitarianism... And the references to a fake Socialist party in 1984 that are actually fascist, which parallels a certain Austrian born German leader... I'm not assuming that is you, but just pointing out that fact.
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  4147.  @The_Reality_Filter  There is little difference between the leaders of the left and the leaders of the right. This is because since the 90s the left has been infiltrated by centrist neoliberals. Which means we have a choice between red or blue flavoured neoliberalism. But underneath the leadership level is the ideology which couldn't be more different. Right-wing think tanks want you to believe there is no difference between left and right as it serves their interests, but ideology is far more important. The right ideology supports corporate greed and turning us into cash cows. Left ideology is about shared ownership and fair society where we are not dictated to by billionaires. PS if you mistrust Eric Blair then feel free not to paraphrase him.
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  4148.  @The_Reality_Filter  Left ideology is the sharing of resources and workers owning the tools of production, I've already pointed out that you are conflating infiltrators who lead the left, with ideology. It's a Paraphrasing of Eric Blair/Orwell's message from his books by Klaus Schwab...
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  4149.  @The_Reality_Filter  I've corrected your ignorance repeatedly, if you can't learn new information then the debate is about as pointless as a rubber beak on a woodpecker...
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  4150.  @The_Reality_Filter  No you seem to misunderstand that leaders of a political party that are corrupt in a system where democracy is an illusion is completely separate from ideology. I'm sick of wasting my time repeating the same points. You are incapable of learning...
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  4151. It's almost as if Republicans rely on lies to get elected... Yes, the democrats ain't much better before you start all that whataboutism, but at least most democrats accept reality...
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  4152. Rishi is probably the least commanding person in the world and yet Truss is sidelined when he talks over her. None of them have a backbone and both of them have a 'protect the wealthy' attitude to finance. I'd rather a scruffy muppet reject from the bin in Jim Henson's workshop than either of these corporate puppets...
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  4153.  @roymillsjnr5172  Thanks. :)
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  4154.  @oufc90  We are signed up to the UN Convention on human rights as well as the ECHR despite Brexit, which grants the right to strike. Having the right and legally being allowed are different. I'd rather not argue semantics, you've made your point and I've made mine. If workers do not have the right to strike then it's slave labour.
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  4155.  @petercollins7848  No I didn't say anything like that, you have obvious trouble inter[preting language. I haven't been able to afford central heating for two years and so haven't used it and I still can't afford the costs. The help goes straight into the bumper profits of energy companies, how does that help the poor? Many energy companies have paid zero windfall tax, it's a con and does little to limit the bumper profits. They are not subsidising the cost of energy they are adding to the national debt that we poor people pay for in interest rates and through GDP and tax hikes. You understand little and say nothing intelligent or useful. PS this thread is 3 months old, how petty and pedantic are you? Your comment is as pointless as your time...
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  4156.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  Sorry but I try not to argue with ignorant xenophobes. Most people don't have a house worth that much, 19% of people are stuck with private landlords, and many others are stuck in council accommodation. I'm a Celt and so a native, I'm guessing you're an Anglo-Saxon, feel free to go back to Germany (Saxons), Normandy (Normans), Italy (Romans), Scandinavia (Vikings) or wherever your ancestors are from...
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  4157. Is everyone in the Tory party going to have a go at being PM? They'll be giving knighthoods away free in a box of cereal soon...
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  4158. As we all know balloons are made of ecologically friendly rubber, latex or nylon fabric... If you want to make a point try not to contribute to the problem...
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  4159. Almost the same headline as another tabloid rag, you know the Tories always complain about immigration but it's increased steadily since they took power? Do they force you to write this nonsense?
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  4160.  @DaraM73  Yes, around 4,000 years before the 3-day resurrection specialist showed up.
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  4161. Labour won't even put a windfall tax on banks who are set to make bumper profits - we don't have an opposition just two flavours of corporate shills...
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  4162. Seriously, with a staff shortage of over 100,000, the NHS is on its knees because of 12 years of Tory mismanagement and he won't deny rumours of sacking nurses? What parallel universe am I living in? How? Why? What? The Tory government are about as much use as an ashtray on the International Space Station...
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  4163. 'Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive' The US complaining about spying on its citizens... That's our job says the US government (FISA Amendments Act of 2008)...
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  4164. Issiah Kurn as PM was always going to be a crass clash of class cash. Risshi wouldn't know poverty from Poetry. He's about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  4165. That'll get them all in the mood for the nice relaxing disappointing holiday that awaits...
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  4166.  @Vroomfondle1066  Capitalism isn't much of a step up from feudalism to be fair. It essentially allows the wealthy to keep growing their inherited wealth while promising the same opportunity for the poor. I think people like Gary are the exceptions to the rule, good luck to him for making a few quid. Respect to Gary for exposing the Tory myths. But the system is a pyramid scheme. The bottom rungs of the ladder are greased to stop the poor gaining a foothold.
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  4167. @O. M. You obviously haven't understood me or my comment. Gold is irrelevant the fact it's not tied to any physical resource is the problem. I'm not a fan of Milton Friedman or the Chicago school of economics. Digitised money: "What this means for the working class going forward is that we can be cut off from the means required to live and support our families." The more global debt rises the more of our actual resources are bought up by the wealthy (Polarisation of capital and expansion of the poverty gap) - check people like Gates and the acquisition of farming land in the US. As for getting something for free, listen to Gary it's the jobless wealthy who pay less than 1%. Corporations take £100+ billion per annum in corp welfare and subsidies off the tax payer and create a tax gap of £40-£120 billion per annum. While I appreciate economic analysis as a tool to use as counter-propaganda and for educational purposes. My view is that Money is an illusion, it's the curtain that hides the disappearing lady as she slips down through the trap door in the floor. Nothing more than a trick of the light to attract magpies who like shiny objects. A middle man to help the global criminal elitists to cheat the vulnerable and the gullible. Once you know how the magic trick is performed, further study becomes redundant to a pauper like myself.
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  4168.  @Vroomfondle1066  Yea I'm not suggesting going back on the gold standard, I'd propose an ecologically friendly, sustainable resource-based economy where goods are valued based on rarity, usefulness, sustainability labour intensity etc. But that's something that requires an ideological shift in the public's thinking. So I'm not holding my breath :)
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  4169.  @Vroomfondle1066  There is no currency in a resource-based economy Nat. Resources themselves have values that are interlinked by rarity, usefulness, sustainability, labour intensity, transport costs etc. The 'cost' is how long it takes to gather the resource, transport and refine said resource which are essentially energy, labour, other resources required etc. The trouble is we are all brought up with capitalist thinking, which predisposes us to think of alternatives in a capitalist light. Hence why we need an ideological shift. Sorry if my explanation is lacking. But I'm trying to be concise :)
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  4170.  @TheRoz93  I read the introduction online and it sounds as if he is talking about the same things as me. We allow finance to dictate our morality, we see excess deaths in the NHS as justifiable despite how easily we could avoid them. I've bookmarked the online edition to read when I have time, thanks for the link.
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  4171.  @stevenmackay3342  FIAT currency is only tied to citizens in that we are used as collateral by the government. Fractional Reserve Banking allows a bank to have as little as 10% of the assets it loans. So essentially loan out 90% more than they have. We don't have that ability and when we get a mortgage the bank creates the cash, not us. Bonds are a debt obligation, just another form of national debt with us as collateral. The difference in language and scale are all important, we as individuals can't create sovereign bonds or create money.
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  4172.  @blt4life112  You mean people with critical thought who recognize lobbyists and corporate entities control corrupt politicians globally are simply aware that they are playing a game. As I said I have no interest in who wins the election, my whole point is that it doesn't really matter except in the case of a few local policies.
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  4173.  @blt4life112  Says the head of the pointless comments department who has a 1st in pedantry and sealioning from the university of life. Do you work for Inanity-R-us?
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  4174. Gaslighting set to 120%...
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  4175.  @baryka2015  Germany sent 100 Bundeswehr troops to Northern Iraq to train the Peshmerga in 2014 bro :)
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  4176.  @ZachAsaD  Shssh every report apart from this one describes them as refugees.
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  4177.  @Atrail_Mckinley4786  Agreed, not to mention his dual nationality quick fix, seatbelt issues and wife's financial trickery.
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  4178. The FO is like every other department. It wastes taxpayer money with ineffective and inefficient processes due to incompetence and leadership failures. BTW Tim IMHO criticism of the Government is the highest form of patriotism, without pointing out the flaws the system continues to crumble.
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  4179. Considering Tories can lie, cheat and break laws with every consequence sliding off them. Why don't we find what frictionless superconductor the Tories are made from? We could produce enough energy to last for centuries...
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  4180. I like racoons but they go way to heavy on the eye shadow...
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  4181. lol seriously bro stop reading right-whinge nonsense... If they had just one of those backers - Blackrock - they have a corporation that handles investments worth 10 trillion dollars backing them and they wouldn't need to write on bits of cardboard and stand in the streets. They'd be on every talk show, news show, billboard, and have their own TV adverts. They wouldn't need to leave their homes...
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  4182. Mr Hunt aka Conceited Unctuous Narcissistic Troglodyte.
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  4183. He's back from the reject bin in Jim Henson's workshop, and now the mu ppet has come back to finish the job of destroying what's left of Britain's economy and international reputation.
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  4184.  @davidz3879  I'm talking about the misuse and rewriting of human rights, Plonka... Maybe you should be deported too, you don't seem of much use to society...
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  4185.  OldEnglish Ale  lol at all the people who want their rights and children's rights stripped because they think migrants are the reason they can't afford to live. The Tories dip their hands in your pocket then point at migrants and you fall for it every time. After 12 years of Tory government, we're not in the EU anymore, can't blame Labour now and yet migration has increased, Doh!
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  4186.  OldEnglish Ale  I didn't want these wars. I didn't vote for them. It was a cross-party decision... Sorry, I was just trying to appeal to reason and empathy, I now realise you have neither...
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  4187.  @TheAArmstrong  We used missiles in Syria and sent troops to Afghanistan... Syria is a proxy war. We supported the US in many conflicts to protect petrodollar hegemony...
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  4188.  @TheAArmstrong  In Afghanistan we lost 454 people. Operation Toral...
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  4189. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...
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  4190. Free schooling, public parks, legal access, public libraries, healthcare, social housing replacing slums, nationalised industry are all Socialism. Paying extortionate amounts for necessities like energy, water and food are all failures of privatisation and capitalism. Most of the money borrowed went to the wealthy and their mates. Donors of the Tories and quickly set-up companies that failed to deliver PPE and test and trace. But nice try!
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  4191.  @wattyler6075  As much use as an ashtray on the international space station. As much use as a verticle ejector seat in a helicopter. PS when are you getting the band back together? We're ready.
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  4192.  @randyking8626  It took 3,000 Trump supporters weeks to think that up for me!
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  4193. Corporations deplete our resources, sell us carcinogens and pollute the environment all with the help of corrupt politicians. We die for their profits...
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  4194.  @stephenfarthing3819  Tories follow ideology, there are nuances between PMs and certainly different groups with their own agendas within the Tory party. But essentially they all follow the same profit motives and haver the same kleptocratic attitude towards getting their hands on taxpayer money. Shifting it from the public sector to the private sector.
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  4195. The Tories are too worried about their Russian Oligarch money to do anything more than robustly launder their crooked cash through the crown estates and overseas territories which lack transparency...
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  4196.  @DoronL73 It's not free it cost Lord Rothschild a fortune in loans to Britain in 1917 to help us win the war provided we gave up our protectorate of Palestine.
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  4197. Despite this all being quite obvious at the time, because of the political climate - Trump and his allies are wholly responsible for the incitement and direction of the mod. It's almost beyond reason that this was allowed to happen by security agencies and police...
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  4198. Showing off: The toxic team of Tory troglodytes toast to their tyrannical turmoil as truth testifies to the totalitarian transfiguration thunder-striking our territory.
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  4199. Tories terrorise the taxpayer to traitorously transfer taxes to tax havens via treasonous tailored tributes...
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  4200. It paints the picture they want to proliferate. Adds to anti-migration sentiment and gives the racists something else to blame on minorities.
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  4201. Oh If only those evil Palestinians would stay quietly in Gaza the canned-hunting environment kindly set up by those humanitarian Israeli lodgers...
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  4202. Israeli lobbyists asked them to. Priti 'vacant' Patel and her soulless Tory cohorts aren't friends of peace, justice, morality and decency...
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  4203. Propaganda and lies. As usual. Britain isn't far behind N.Korea in terms of manipulating its citizens, the only difference is that it's far more sophisticated, subtle and insidious.
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  4204.  @alexd7029  No, the reason we have such problems is because of a virtual dictatorship from Westminster. The opposite is a solution - to allow regional and national controls and devolution. Allowing the corruption at Westminster to be absolute over the whole of the UK would catalyse the problem, not resolve it.
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  4205.  @alexd7029  They were elected by Scotland, they have done more than the Tories have ever done for Scotland. The Tories are siphoning off your oil profits and have neglected Scotland throughout history.
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  4206.  @CassieAngelica  This was started because of Grenfell, the fireman was the least of the contributing factors. The Landlord, Tory government legislation and Tory council are predominantly to blame but are using the fire brigade as a scapegoat. Fair enough they need to sort out these problems, but our government could be accused of exactly the same issues. In fact, they were several times and many reports have proved these problems exist in the Tory party in higher case incidents than all other parties.
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  4207.  @CassieAngelica  You have too much optimism. Even if Starmer gets in, in 2024 he's funded by corporate lobbyists. He's expressed views on immigration, corporate taxes, unions and striking workers that in some cases further right than the Tories. Don't get me wrong, anything is better than the Tories but I'm not expecting dramatic change.
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  4208.  @CassieAngelica  Better yes. But he's a neoliberal, a Blair tribute act. He'll toe the line and provide slightly better choices while we still dive headlong into a dystopian corporatocracy.
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  4209.  @CassieAngelica  Thank you for the pleasant discourse. Makes a change on social media. Take care!
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  4210.  @jablot5054  Adults talking... Not interested in excuses, but facts...
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  4211.  @kevinb9830  Adults would know that mentioning a faulty fridge is pointless as that happens to thousands of fridges every year and so isn't the reason for the catastrophe. The cladding meeting the design-build is why Tory legislation is to blame and the landlord as well as the local Tory council who approved the building. He had already been defeated before he left his comment. He didn't seem to recognise that basic fact, and neither do you apparently...
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  4212.  @davidmurphy563  Your comments are redundant, my comment clearly states at 100,000 a day. Anyone with reasonable intellect will make adjustments as necessary. As it stands my comment is perfectly correct and your comments seem overly pedantic.
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  4213.  @seekthetruthfindit6879  Just politically and economically illiterate then or just easily led by capitalist propaganda?
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  4214.  @JOHNBURNS67  Thank you for exposing your special interests and proving what little you know...
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  4215.  @JOHNBURNS67  I'm not American, Biden is almost as bad, your logic is flawed, your intelligence is lacking. Typical Trumpette...
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  4216.  @ChristianPatriarchy  I'm not a channel, just had to do that for some youtube reason. Feel free to check out my old satire blog : https://stevessatire.blogspot.com/
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  4217. Yes, only guardian readers care about the extinction of the species...
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  4218.  Who Dis?  lol you could have typed something intelligent or witty. Instead you're happy to blame the left for the cowardice of the right, keep using children as sheilds to protect your rights, you disgust me.
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  4219.  @shakalakboom  Shh, if you have nothing intelligent to type then save the internet your ignorance. The virus was a travesty but is just a symptom of a larger disease...
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  4220.  @shakalakboom  You missed the point, everything I said went over your head and your word substitution was naive and dumb. Don't try and analyse me, I'm 51 and I've forgotten more than you will ever know. The media writes the script for society and we unconsciously play our part, with each psychological cue, each carefully chosen word and each handcrafted narrative to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  4221. @Enigma lol you Americans aren't worth the time to type back to. It's like trying to talk a twinkie into sapience...
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  4222. Must be tough getting through customs with 40 tons of opium, and $1 trillion in lithium and gold...
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  4223.  @77smp  Are you suggesting that Tory MPs are corrupt, incompetent, heartless, soulless kleptocrats who care only about the money a corporate lobbyist puts in their offshore bank account? Because if so, you'd be 100% correct!
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  4224. Conceited Unctuous Narcissistic Troglodyte Society.
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  4225. Regimes that try to outlaw protesting and arrest journalists have a special name beginning with Fash, but enough about the UK what's happening in China?
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  4226. Tories have done this, lives lost in every facet of society due to cuts that are only necessary to feed corporate greed and Tory kleptocracy...
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  4227.  @manny8816  Thank you!
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  4228.  @donaldellis3609  My favourite politician ever! A true legend, a beast! Dennis Skinner!
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  4229.  @jonno1335  Those are government figures, are you aware of the Tory's modus operandi? They use any excuse to overcharge the taxpayer.
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  4230.  @jonno1335  lol shhh. I'm not wasting my life trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  4231. @Mark Thomas Yea mate, the cost of not being in the EU greatly outweighs your pride at being an isolationist...
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  4232.  @annmariesim1405  Yes, I'm aware. Democracy has never existed, politics is the curtain that covers the disappearing lady while she exits through the trapdoor, an illusion...
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  4233.  @johnlewis9745  Trade unions were crushed by Thatcher with the destruction of industry and a never-ending stream of legislation to make standing up for worker's rights illegal... Corporations on the other hand use lobbyists to bribe politicians to overturn democratic decisions made by the public...
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  4234.  @fang_xianfu  That's called spin and my comment is called sarcasm and irony...
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  4235.  Tell me the joke again😂🤣  With cheese!
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  4236.  Tell me the joke again😂🤣  Search Liz Truss and cheese ;)
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  4237. Conflict of interest is something Starmer would also know a lot about. Rishi - chancellor of the exchequer during an unprecedented rise in the cost of living that is leaving people destitute and he's defending his wife's tax avoidance. Yes, it may be legal, but it's still immoral and unconscionable during the present crisis.
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  4238.  @hmq9052  I'm qualified to program in C++, CAD design and 3d animation and recently qualified to Lead Audit a corporation for ISO9001 standards. You should have the intellect to talk about my stats rather than turning this into an ad hominem based argument. Obviously, you are unaware of how statistics work and have failed to read a newspaper for decades... Anecdotal arguments and attacks on an individual rather than their argument simply proves your lack of ability and complete ignorance.
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  4239.  @hmq9052  I answered your unrelated, pointless question. You can't debate because you are ignorant of the facts and seemingly unable to use logic and reason...
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  4240. Tory policy is akin to making chocolate illegal for anyone below the age of 201 and then arresting anyone who eats chocolate...
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  4241. Different flavours of the same cruel, inconsiderate, heartless, criminal, inhumane and inhuman Tory MP. Neoliberalism is re-emerging as a fledgling neo-fascist Phoenix, rising from the ashes of the 1940s and suckling on the diseased rancid teat of disaster capitalism, while feeding the fires of global conflict. Never Forget?
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  4242. It's not a flood but a temporary precipitation problem that created an unexpected reservoir through excess ground-based moisture... Sorry, I thought I'd try politician jargon...
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  4243.  @martincopeland8153  I'm not a Brexiteer so I don't fall for tabloid nonsense. I'm one of those weirdos who use facts to determine my worldview. Corporatocracy is on its way, finance is going to be digital and dissidents like me will be forced out of the loop. We're heading for a Blade Runner dystopia!
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  4244.  @maureen669  As an ex-cocktail barman who can juggle bottles and writes political satire I am. Pity you'll never get invited to any...
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  4245. Banks are a guaranteed lucrative industry, making money by only needing 10% of the assets they loan out under fractional reserve banking. How can they fail? Scams? Insane gambling? I'm sure the real reason won't be told by the media and hence will elude the vast majority of people. Either way, money doesn't disappear, someone profited from the failure...
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  4246. World's largest organisation with a vast history of historical abuse of children defends disgraced Royal pervert... No surprise there then...
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  4247. My question is this: Will the global wealthy and corporations do anything before the loss of billions of lives, or will wait until after they emerge from their bunkers to repopulate the world in their image?
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  4248.  @David_Jones8112  Yes, you seem to have a penchant for wealthy kleptocrats :)
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  4249.  @johnryan7932  My pleasure!
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  4250.  @digital_oni  Agreed, Jeff Bezos doubled his assets in the first year of the pandemic to around $180 billion, to put that in perspective that's enough money to spend $1,000,000 every single day for the next 500 years.
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  4251. PS I haven't said Visa is a UK company, my comment is regarding Amazon, why that redundant comment got so many likes is a tribute to cognitive dissonance and pedantic social media...
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  4252. Lies, this footage has been taken with a fisheye lens, everyone knows the Sun is flat. If it even exists that is...
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  4253.  @jungwapo1222  Are they? are you clairvoyant? are you suggesting oppressed people should just accept the loss of life? Don't bother answering as your lack of punctuation speaks volumes about your illiteracy grammatically and politically...
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  4254.  @amgpower213  So you support the willful slaughter of children? hope your life is as nice as you are...
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  4255. Saudi Arabia's illegal war and genocide of Yemen and support of its "Recognized? Government" is the reason for the civil war. Proxy war if ever I've seen it, pity Sky News don't have the principles to paint with a truthful palette and instead turn an easily recognizable photograph into a Jackson Pollock of misdirection...
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  4256.  Leonidas I  lol an ideological chameleon then...
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  4257.  @tommiko8313  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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  4258.  Leonidas I  The media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  4259. You mean the media used their kaleidoscope of incandescent truth and professional investigative journalism to protect the Tories? That must be a first!
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  4260. The devastation will be downplayed, the oil company will fail to resolve the issue and the water table, water sources and land will suffer the consequences. They will get fined a tiny portion of their profits and the media will sweep it under the rug...
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  4261. Agreed, his paymasters want corporate fash-is-erm and their methods are manipulation and polarisation. Steering the West so far to the right we end up going in circles.
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  4262. It's obviously far more acceptable to the (Royal) family to be the worst type of deviant than to distance yourself from the family over prejudice and intolerance... Showing their true colours...
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  4263. No doctors, no nurses, no dentists, no childcare facilities, no mental health support. Tories are creating a social hsit storm on purpose. The more chaotic our lives become, the less time we have to notice their hands in our wallets...
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  4264.  @oofballz4328  You don't seem to have the wits to understand my points. Even a spoon can be used to kill, and vehicles transport hundreds of millions of people every day safely. Accidents aren't the product of conscious thought and there are very strict laws on driving, owning and tracking vehicles. Guns are made with one purpose!!! Seriously, it's like trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  4265.  @pectenmaximus231  Agreed mate, Same thing during austerity, the top 1,000 families in Britain doubled their assets.
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  4266.  @mememachine5244  You're a cartoon frog who asserts corporate tax should be abolished, leaving who to pay for the infrastructure business exploits? or to pay for corporate bodies and govermnetal departments that govern the business world? Political and economic illiterate...
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  4267.  @thomassidney2913  Conservative ideology and Communist ideology are polar opposites.
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  4268.  @thomassidney2913  What you mean is that all systems are open to corruption and tyranny because people are corrupt and tyrannical. This is why a system of decentralised power is essential.
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  4269.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  I'm trained in many things to a high level. It's the system that's a problem as statistics clearly show. 40% of the working population live in poverty. Legislation, taxation, corporate greed, subsidies, tax breaks for the rich, the tax gap etc Learn about policies and how they affect people rather than lecturing me on personal motivation with useless anecdotal evidence. Your personal perception doesn't interest me, only your ability to use facts to present your case...
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  4270.  @user-gz6tx6yp3v  You can't deny stats and simply assure me that you are right. You are too naive to realise that many corporate and fiscal ideas are based on profits and marketing. IE lie to make more money and then sell some BS to the public about how the wealth trickles down or lower taxation doesn't reduce our GDP. We've been over 100% Debt to GDP in the past six months, that means our whole annual income is spent on paying interest rates on the £2.6 trillion national debt that was created predominantly under neoliberalism. In fact the Tories have created 3/4rs of that debt. While they still pay over £100 billion in subsidies to tax-avoiding corporations then blame unemployment which only costs around £1.56 billion per annum. You see how I use real stats and facts to back up my arguments, whereas you use mythology and insistence?
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  4271. And any which way you can...
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  4272.  Jim Carrey  You really should try to expand your vocabulary instead of just your waistline...
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  4273.  Jim Carrey  Thank you for that enlightening info, did you find that little snippet in the onomatopoeic representation of snoring for dummies?
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  4274.  Jubal 65  Thanks for telling everyone a little about yourself, anything else you'd like to share with the group?
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  4275.  @michaelschmidt9708  I just feel sorry for all the mercenary contractors, opioid suppliers, construction companies, arms manufacturers, oil companies, lithium and gold mining corporations, specialists, bankers and greedy politicians who made a killing. They'll have to find another country to loot now...
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  4276. I gave up after a minute and a half. There are no limits these days to how much misinformation a politician can regurgitate. I could rebut almost all of what I heard, but what's the point? Increases in subsidies and taxes as well as inflation are the result of over 3 decades of neoliberalism and privatization. The 'woke' bargain bucket is openly being filled with anything the right don't like, just a catchall phrase used to dehumanise. If what you don't know can't hurt you, then Truss is 100% bulletproof...
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  4277. "The media write the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, each carefully chosen word, and every handcrafted narrative to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy..." quotation marks are fun when being filtered...
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  4278. In the US the bible belt and the government prop up Israel's economy and do their bidding in the Middle East.
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  4279.  @jimmymac4778  Agreed, we may as well just sit back and put our feet up while watching the human race and all its accomplishments being gradually devoured by the rancid, festering, cancerous, fatted carcass of disaster capitalism during its senseless, futile, fruitless, final death throes...
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  4280. Thatcher started it and now with all the advantages corporations have over us, they still get more legislation every year to help with their exploitation by weakening workers' rights. They worship the prophets of profit and would enslave us If they could get away with it.
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  4281. !tius a ni liveD
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  4282.  @jackgammon4084  Poison dwarfs are your thing I guess, to each his own.
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  4283. ​ rob  A) Immigration is higher under the Tories. B) We've left the EU so you can't blame them anymore. C) Bureaucrats don't run governments, bureaucrats are given their orders by Politicians. D) Politicians are funded by lobbyists for corporations. E) Bring it thicko. F) Let me know when you're emotionally ready to admit you're a political and economic illiterate.
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  4284.  @jsbstation  It wasn't blatant as that would be too inappropriate, it was a microexpression that came to the surface several times.
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  4285.  @jsbstation  Then you aren't very observant. What can I tell you?
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  4286.  rob  I'm the only one who has given any verifiable facts and statistics, something you've neglected to do. Yet to prove how illogical you are, you accuse me of being a propagandist who doesn't back up his assertions... Too much dumb in one human being is dangerous...
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  4287.  rob  I haven't said anything about my address but my name is obvious you imbecile. As for N.I. negotiations, they are between an ex-member of the EU and the EU, which doesn't change the fact that we have already left, and you are completely wrong. That is qualified by the date and time I gave you of when we left, which is an inarguable historic fact. I've given you stats and facts that prove you wrong, I can't do the thinking for you as well, hence why it's your problem that you can't put 2 and 2 together...
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  4288.  @taunteratwill1787  That's all you got? Like I said bro, it takes a vast understanding of the implications to recognise why both options are terrifying. Not just emotionally but intellectually as well... Head for sentience then move towards sapience. You do realise all that you are you owe to your parents? Why not send them a penny and square the account...
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  4289.  @Neil-Aspinall  Afghans love weed and wine it's just the women they have a problem with. Misogynists are a global phenomenon, not restricted to Afghanistan.
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  4290. The US wanted to protect their PetroDollar sales. If Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria all dropped the PetroDollar for oil sales that would have undermined US Dollar hegemony. The regime change in Libya was mainly about Libya's plans to promote an African currency the 'Dinar' backed by 143 tons of gold, to use for oil sales. Which would have cut the US out as a middle man and helped take control of the oil away from the US who need the oil for their war machine and to maintain their global military supremacy.
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  4291.  @domingodesantaclara1130  I only have one account, It's all I need to defeat the imbeciles.
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  4292.  @davidadiwego4608  I'm sorry I don't speak dumbass...
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  4293.  @davidadiwego4608  I didn't say 65% of mammals, I didn't say 65% of insects. I said 65% of 'global genetic diversity' which includes plant life, sea life, and land animals - everything. That is accurate and your semantics are a waste of my time and your own. So I tried to end this pointless debacle yesterday...
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  4294.  @davidadiwego4608  Stop using semantics to further your pathetic argument. " I said 65% of 'global genetic diversity' which includes plant life, sea life, and land animals - everything." Not playing this game of imbecile any longer...
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  4295.  @davidadiwego4608  You missed the point that it doesn't matter. 65% of genetic diversity is the loss of ecosystems that all life is dependant on. How much time are you going to waste with semantics while being unable to take the point at face value? I'm not interested in your paranoid conspiracies that the people responsible for this are exaggerating the extent to extort you. They already extort you and now planted conspiracy theories in your head so you'll ignore their unconscionable xenocide. Don't drag this out, I know the point you're trying to make, but you are missing the big picture and it's annoying as hell...
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  4296.  @davidadiwego4608  There are thousands of ecosystems that are being lost. "Loss of biodiversity appears to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to results of a new study by an international research team" "Biodiversity loss is caused by five primary drivers: habitat loss, invasive species, overexploitation (extreme hunting and fishing pressure), pollution, climate change associated with global warming. In each case, human beings and their activities play direct roles."
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  4297.  @davidadiwego4608  You're incredibly thick, I can't be arsed to keep repeating myself and quoting articles for someone who is unable to grasp simple facts. No matter how deluded by conspiracy theories anyone with a brain larger than a pea would be alarmed by 65% loss at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction. Don't reply again or I'll block you, I've wasted hours trying to explain the basics to you and going around in circles. I'd have more luck teaching a fish to ride a bicycle...
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  4298.  @davidadiwego4608  It's 'You're' not 'Your' and sentences start with a capital letter. You don't have a reasoned argument you have semantics which was rebutted in my first reply to you. Yet you've continued a circular debate because you aren't smart enough to recognise that fact. I've already answered your points but no matter how I phrase the reply you seem unable to grasp basic concepts like the relationship between all life via ecosystems. You can't see the relationship between the loss of biodiversity or the effects it's had on the planet and so accuse me of quoting unrelated arguments lol. Talk about not being able to see the wood for the trees. It's like trying to talk a trifle into sentience. Learn how to at least punctuate, spell and apply grammar to a sentence before calling others thick...
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  4299.  @Jonathan-yv2qj  Sorry could you speak up a bit, I couldn't hear you over all that pathetic crying and whimpering...
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  4300.  @Ash-os1dz  U.K. electricity prices reached £277 per megawatt-hour on Sept. 8, a 560% increase compared with a year ago. The EU has seen only a 400% price increase. Ergo...
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  4301.  @cup1966wow  I'm aware of how the system works and calling me arrogant when you don't seem to fully understand that the crown estates and overseas territories' lack of transparency is the mechanism used to evade tax and hide profits - among others - is amusing. The UK is responsible for the majority of corporate tax losses globally. The criminal elite's money launderer. Money is simply a human construct used to allow a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources. All the other cons are just the icing on the cake...
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  4302. @Kendall Ferguson Speaking of or for? Thanks for telling us a little about yourself. Anything else you'd like to share with the group?
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  4303.  @Free.Britney  It's a clever pun, that obviously went over your head... Flawed "having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection."
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  4304.  @Free.Britney  Over 19,000 people were killed in shootings and firearm-related incidents in the US in 2020. 90% of domestic terror is right-wing. 1+1=2.
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  4305.  @Free.Britney  The 1+1 = 2 means to cross-reference both facts to reach a conclusion. PS I didn't mention non-gun-related violence, cars crashing into people or many other causes of death but they should be taken into account. Do I have to explain maths and English to you? Search for the statement and it comes up with about 10 news stories news sites like Csis, the guardian, the economist, NYtimes etc. I've had a wonderful, enlightening debate, But this wasn't it!
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  4306. @Kendall Ferguson I'll quote my previous reply. "Thanks for telling us a little about yourself. Anything else you'd like to share with the group?"
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  4307. @Kendall Ferguson You're the reason your country has to put directions on shampoo bottles! ╭∩╮(òÓ,)╭∩╮
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  4308. @Kendall Ferguson Any country where you reside, it's all about you! Your comments are about as useful as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. The closest you’ll ever get to a brainstorm is a slight drizzle.
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  4309.  @Free.Britney  I already did, what you mean to say is you're incapable of connecting the dots... Don't blame your own ignorance and lack of critical thought on me...
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  4310. @Kendall Ferguson Yes, I'm so insecure I make jokes about psychotic fascists on a daily basis... Do you have an off-button?
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  4311. @Kendall Ferguson Can't think of anything intelligent or witty to say so you have a go at using pop psychology 101? Seriously can I block you in real life?
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  4312.  @Free.Britney  I've already explained that you have to use several different facts I've presented in conjunction with each other using critical thought to recognise the conclusion. This is like trying to talk a goldfish into sentience...
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  4313.  @Free.Britney  We've been through this, your lack of comprehension is on you. I'm not responsible for the fact that none of your ancestors could count to 12, despite having 6 fingers on each hand...
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  4314. @Kendall Ferguson " it's a sore subject for you" How are so literately challenged? Most people can interpret words, 'You' for instance refers to someone other than myself in that context. Your inability to realise you came unarmed to a battle of wits is a testament to cognitive dissonance...
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  4315. @Kendall Ferguson Here's a poem I wrote just for you. I'm not a master poet, But for the rights word I will hunt. My apologies for the inference, But Ken doll is a...
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  4316.  @billnoel  It's you're not your... 2020 2020 boogaloo killings 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting 2019 Poway synagogue shooting 2018 Jeffersontown Kroger shooting 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 2018 Murder of Blaze Bernstein 2018 Murder of MeShon Cooper-Williams 2017 Murder of Richard Collins III 2017 Car-ramming attack into counter-protesters at the white nationalist Unite the Right rally
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  4317.  @billnoel  2017 Portland train attack 2017 Stabbing of Timothy Caughman 2015 Shooting at a showing of the film Trainwreck 2015 Planned Parenthood shooting 2015 Charleston church shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Charleston 2014 Attack on Pennsylvania State Police barracks 2014 Ambush attack on Las Vegas police officers 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting Overland Park, Kansas
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  4318.  @billnoel  2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting attack on TSA officer 2013 Double murder committed by Jeremy Lee Moody and Christine Moody Jonesville 2012 Ambush attack against St. John the Baptist Parish police 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting Oak Creek, Wisconsin 2011 Tri-state killing spree by white supremacists David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby Multiple 2011 FEAR group attacks 2011 Murder of James Craig Anderson Jackson, Mississippi 2010 Murder committed by Aryan Brotherhood members Mississippi 2010 Shooting at bookstore cafe perpetrated by Ross William Muehlberger 2010 Murder of Todd Getge
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  4319.  @billnoel  Your analogy is incorrect if you had 100 deaths and 90% of drunk drivers arrested you could say it's likely that 90% of the deaths were caused by a drunk driver. It's called Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation is usually correct). Also look up Venn diagram it adds two or more pieces of information together to show a connection in the overlap... PS did you get any of the jokes or did they all go over your head?
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  4320. @Kendall Ferguson I haven't walked anything back, just because you can't see beyond your ignorance, don't assume we are all as limited as you. Did you like the poem Ken doll?
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  4321.  @leehenry5764  How many of him are there?
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  4322.  @kincaidwolf5184  lol really? why do think we have zero-hour contracts, no nationalised industry and 40% of workers living in poverty? Thatcher reduced industry to purge the left and Unions of power in a Pinochet-inspired attack while putting our eggs in the London fiscal basket. Since then the Tories have turned us into a global hub for laundering the criminal elite's cash for them. Land of dopes and Tories.
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  4323.  @oneoflokis  Feel free, I'm a socialist - words and ideas should be free :)
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  4324.  @Le_mane  I haven't used the word "uncivilised"... Take your inference somewhere else...
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  4325. That's so unfair to hold someone to account for their own actions... I love Trump because he's so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never filed for corporations he owns to go bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. You wouldn't have to ask Trump 5 times to serve his country in war, he'd jump at the opportunity. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is reminiscent of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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  4326. Europe doesn't have the NHS, it's only in the UK. Stop proving your complete ignorance... PS Almost 30 million people in America have no healthcare, backward country...
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  4327.  @MCDONALD6969  PS ask small business owners if they're happy with the way they've been paying the most and receiving the least help. Capitalism is a farce at best, the Tories turn it into a pantomime...
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  4328.  @tommorgan7599  Yes "At least 13,000 hero soldiers left HOMELESS after leaving the military - and almost all have PTSD" that's from The Mirror. The British legion also say around 4% of the 330,000 homeless people in Britain are vets.
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  4329.  @unitnippynipz  lol it was early this morning before I wen tto bed, oibviously I meant his nan... My bad!
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  4330.  @booey28  Yes I made a mistake, I meant his nan. I get confused when talking about archaic, anaemic bloodlines from the shallow and murky end of the British gene pool :)
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  4331. or die of hypothermia due to a lack of heating, I wonder if there is a connection...
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  4332.  @thesocialmediascientistmbe  Talking of imbeciles...
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  4333.  @wenlambotomy6231  If they are still on the roads in December then I'll accept your point as a weak argument. But sacrificing their time so those who are unable to, can be warm this winter is a better use of their time than moaning about the poor, disabled, pensioners and other victims of corporate greed on social media...
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  4334.  @wenlambotomy6231  PS you are aptly named as at first glance your comments may seem worthy, but dig a little deeper and you realise they are just worthless Iron pyrites, best used for brake pads or to colour glass...
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  4335. I've met a crack-addicted hamster with a higher IQ than most Trumpets.
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  4336.  @nothingbutthetruth3227  lol don't type things you know are lies... Have some self-respect...
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  4337.  @michelmilaneh8963  There are 8 million independent landlords across the country. Collectively, they collect over 300+ billion dollars in rent each year... People can't work during a pandemic in lockdown. Stop replying to me, I lose an IQ point every time I read your BS...
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  4338.  @michelmilaneh8963  The rent owed was from the time of lockdown, they had no choice as they couldn't go to work. Stop typing you're starting to make me think climate change and the extinction of the species is a good thing...
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  4339. A scandal-ridden clown who was kicked out of office is still being considered to take over from another clown who left the country in a mess. We deserve everything we get for allowing the wealthy to manipulate us so easily...
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  4340.  Wendy Owens  Wow amazing, I'll have to invest all my money as I'm a complete imbecile who loves pyramid schemes...
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  4341.  @janjan-dd4wv  Talking of wit, you seem to lack the wit to type an Oscar Wilde quote in its entirety! "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.”
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  4342. Please be kind enough to read and share this appeal: "Are you aware that many Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That many Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? That their closest confidant and friend is their butler? If you can spare just 10 minutes a week please reach out to a Tory MP, send them a message or a letter and tell them that they are loved and that there is a better way. Encourage them to integrate with people, you know real people. If you would like to adopt a Tory MP you should be hypocrite-tolerant and have a very high boredom threshold. They require the most exquisite diet, because of their fragile constitution and need lots of care and light exercise once a year. A reasonable-sized mansion is suggested for housing your Tory MP and a large amount of public money should be set aside for future upgrades such as duck ponds, moats; you know the usual. It's important to remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they can be found dipping into the public cookie jar at all times of the year. Adopt a Tory MP today, and show them the way to a better life." Thank you for your time!
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  4343. Yes Karl Marx was opposed to the inherent flaws in capitalism and hence despised the monopoly of essentials like energy.
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  4344.  @ejbh3160 lol privatisation didn't exist in Britain until Thatcher pioneered it in the 80s.
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  4345.  @ejbh3160  Private industry is allowed to compete with nationalised but because they require profit margins, they can't offer the same level of service. Hence why we have to keep bailing them out and paying them subsidies.
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  4346. What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering drains our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets, The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, while inept Tory policies inspire inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, their lives are shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this inhumane neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout 'Get those forking Tories out!'...
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  4347. Had the opportunity? they were invaded to protect petrodollar hegemony. They were looted. Their crops turned to poppy fields which were increased 10 fold under US occupation. Tabloid fed yes men...
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  4348.  Alex Holmes  It's an ideology called Social Democracy/Democratic Socialism although neoliberal centrists wouldn't understand that...
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  4349.  @paulnolan1352  Thank you!
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  4350.  @alphacentauri2134  Yeah, not how it works. But since you brought it up we've lost 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction.
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  4351.  @alphacentauri2134  Sorry but if you type illogical nonsense you can't expect people to waste their time replying to you. The data clearly shows the increase in C02 since the industrial revolution, predominantly because of the fossil fuel industry. The effects are documented in history and the present day. Not going to debate fact!
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  4352. Now, this is a story all about how Will's wife was dissed, by Chris the clown. It only took a minute, and he stood right there as he took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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  4353. If it was industrial espionage, industrial sabotage or a cyber attack by a foreign nation or group would you tell us or would you make up some story about interest rates affecting safe investments?
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  4354.  @saabsonsan  lol, Everything makes a banker richer including our poverty. Any financial crisis is an opportunity for the wealthy to pick up bankrupt stock, buildings, shares and holdings. The top 1,000 wealthiest families in Britain doubled their assets during austerity.
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  4355.  @robertsmith9810  I'm not a heartless moron. PS your reverse psychology is childlike.
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  4356. Floods are bad but less damaging than Clinton was...
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  4357.  @jamesprice4647  It took 40 years to build up those relations and trade routes from a neutral position. We are now in a position of weakness and mistrust. You are way too optimistic...
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  4358.  @seang2700  Seriously? The first referendum was when we joined. You are beyond dumb...
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  4359.  @M2Mil7er  Thanks, and agreed the multi-coloured incandescent lens of the media kaleidoscope illuminates misinformation and Tory mythology, most people don't look any further than the pretty colours.
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  4360.  @TheAliBayati  Well spotted, yes my innocuous comment is here...
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  4361. Democracy, we should try it sometime...
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  4362.  @PortlandMan  I didn't say that, but obviously, you lack rational thought. Ever heard the phrase take the high ground? It has military and ethical relevance...
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  4363. @Alexander Combatants do yes, Drones kill predominantly civilians and a high number of children. Your comment is in defence of those war crimes. Check out the Geneva convention it's a really great read! "prohibiting the deliberate or indiscriminate attack of civilians and civilian objects in the war-zone"
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  4364.  @Tmorans  THIS is on every tv show, youtube video and news outlet. This is the media polarising people so they don't discuss the important issues we face. We are heading for a global dystopian corporatocracy, nuclear proliferation has restarted, the not so cold war v2.0 has begun. Genocide is being committed in Yemen. Ukraine is being used as a staging area for a proxy war between NATO/US and Russia. People are being economically euthanised and your primary concern is discussing a little slap that happened days ago... It's bread and circus, divide and conquer, the polarization of the masses to keep them busy fighting each other so we don't notice we're being manipulated...
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  4365.  @tommyk1210  https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/tax-dodging-virgin-no-bail-out
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  4366.  @tommyk1210  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/coronavirus-tax-avoidance-richard-branson-virgin-atlantic-bailout-a9485206.html
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  4367.  @tommyk1210  Go make your excuses for your mom elsewhere. I'm not interested in you trying to justify Branson ripping off the British public over the past 3 decades. He's got more dirt on him than a group of female mud wrestlers.
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  4368.  @tommyk1210  No if you want a conclusion, try this : I provided you more than enough evidence to prove my assertions. You provided sycophantic excuses for your moms lack of humanity and criminal activities.
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  4369.  @tosinojo7310  Global Debts are well over $289 trillion which is around 3 and a half times global GDP.
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  4370.  @seyy1415  Not interested, Sex is for girls!
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  4371.  @olebull9714  Actually the War in Iraq was backed by the Tories more than Labour. The lies came from the USA. Iraq war was a cross-party decision in which 84 Labour MPs voted against it and only 2 Tory MPs voted against it. Corbyn and many other Labour MPs opposed the war and marched. Corbyn said: "Thousands more deaths in Iraq will not make things right. It will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations."
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  4372.  @olebull9714  I've just given you facts that prove your own ignorance so I assume you are talking to yourself. As for Blair, he dropped clause 4 (the foundation of the Labour party), renamed them New Labour and was the reason I left the Labour party. He also takes money from S.Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen. So I've no reason to defend him...
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  4373.  @ironhand9096  Yes, all that is my comment. Thanks for providing a redundant comment...
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  4374.  @stevekiberd3474  The fact you need to ask for proof says a lot about your lack of ability to do a simple search. I don't type anything that can't be checked...
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  4375.  @wodens-hitman1552  A right-whinger I assume. About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Keep kissing the wealthy's backside...
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  4376.  @stevekiberd3474  I have proof of everything I've said, the fact that you aren't able to type a few words in a search engine isn't my problem. Your point is childish nonsense. Please do some research and stop bothering people with your ignorance...
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  4377.  @stevekiberd3474  Jesus H... Are you unable to type, everything I';ve said is well publicized and common knowledge. I can't believe you're that ignorant, are you a child?...
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  4378.  @Alex-fs9vl  Does cognitive dissonance hurt?
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  4379. Purchased recently from five different gun stores without the police knowing. This proves yet again the need for proper controls and legislation. But nothing will change, backward society...
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  4380. More archaic feudal dogma and divine rule...
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  4381.  @AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947  We are all Kings and Queens and beat the odds to be here. Our heritage spans the depth of human existence. Every one of our ancestors beat extraordinary odds to pass on their genetics. PS Glad to hear California keeps the red flag flying there.
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  4382.  @AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947  I believe in ideology, not capitalist installments of neoliberal centrist pretenders. I'm Welsh and so don't follow US state politics as much as the big picture. Democracy is an illusion, Capitalism is the bane of humanity, the media are corporate entities that promote the narratives of their patrons. This is the age of anti-truth, it seems you have a US schooling or bias against Socialism despite your current location. Humans are social animals, lone wolves starve and the sheep follow the current. I'm a shepherd and don't conform to any political party, just a belief system.
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  4383.  @AutomatedPersonnelUnit_3947  PS Democratic Socialism in Britain is the reason the poor no longer live in slums, and why children no longer die of curable conditions in workhouses. Thanks to Socialism we have worker's rights, human rights, public transport, free schooling, legal aid, free healthcare via the NHS, a welfare state to look after the sick and disabled etc. Although the last few decades we've been sliding backwards...
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  4384. raise the legal age to 22 for ciggies and keep running the NHS into the ground... Talk about the cart before the wheel...
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  4385. I'm just glad all those people smugglers have been arrested and not the warmongers in the west who created the situation by invading countries based on lies to protect petrodollar hegemony... Let's keep blaming the victims and ignore the profiteering politicians and oil industry...
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  4386. Tories always give trick answers, they control the job market, and they know that most jobs these days are minimum wage and many through agencies. They use unemployment and the unemployed to keep wages low and then employ dodgy government contractors to train them for non-existent jobs... Cynical redundant nonsense as usual...
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  4387.  @paulfairbairn1066  Thank you!
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  4388.  @benji.B-side  Thank you!
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  4389.  @willwebb3037  Thanks!
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  4390.  @bravoalley228  Agreed, It's all the right can do as they are politically illiterate and rely on misconceptions from right-whinge think tanks for their opinions. I pity their lack of sapience.
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  4391.  @TheAArmstrong  Another bigot exposes himself. Already answered this pathetic point several times, learn to read, think and reason. When you reach sapience feel free to repent your ineptitude.
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  4392. Banks don't do this, it's a sign that financial collapse is now inevitable, the flawed system has become untenable after decades of instability. Time to move on to better system of resource management that eliminates the poverty gap instead of extending it by creating financial demi-gods...
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  4393.  @thelordismyshepherd9980  Thanks for the distortion of facts and the complete opposite of reality. Tories have brought in legislation similar to that of 30s Germany while trying to destroy the freedoms and rights that resulted from the second world war. Such as international agreements on refugees which resulted from the Jewish exodus of Europe to the ECHR which was set up to protect citizens from authoritarian regimes. Take your illogical, misspelt, inversion of the truth to someone ignorant enough to fall for it. I know my history, reality, logic and reason. Unlike you!
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  4394. So essentially the people supposed to protect society are the ones to fear, especially if a minority or female. I could mention the loss of police stations and trained officers due to cuts, the loss of support staff and oversight. But essentially a corrupt society comes from the people who lead it, who enable the bullies, who use their power for their own purposes...
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  4395. Fash is mmm in the form of corporatocracy while the decaying corpse of capitalism continues to infect the ecosystems we rely on for survival... What a piece of work is man...
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  4396. But they can't because of the treaty, oh wait Trump dropped out of that treaty and two others and restarted nuclear proliferation...
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  4397. Tories are already far-right by policy, attitude, authoritarian tendencies, human rights degradations, security - privacy and censorship legislation. Things like spy cops bill, human rights bill, internet bill etc. They are becoming fash is mmm incarnate.
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  4398. lol at all the macho men not hard enough to take criticism... Bunch of weaklings...
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  4399. The culture war is peddled by right-wing think tanks and enabled by the media. Bread and circus to keep us busy while the wealthy put their hands in our wallets...
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  4400. I'd rather be wokerati than an economic euthanasia-wielding psychopath willing to destroy the economy, the British people and the planet...
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  4401. The foul cognitive effluence spreads through social media and is backed by the right's think tanks.
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  4402. @Just A Pleb lol thanks for stating the obvious and acting like it's some sort of revelation. Some of us have been around far longer than you bud...
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  4403. @Just A Pleb You're not special bro and no one is impressed by your reasonable grasp of English. Do pay attention: Money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority of people to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources... Democracy has never truly existed and the media write the script for society and we unwittingly play our part, they predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy... Laters...
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  4404.  @mrnice7570  Great minds...
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  4405. You people are so ridiculous. Churchhill was an appalling man and while I don't like Putin, 26.6 million Russians died fighting Fascism in ww2 alone. Anti-fascists are not fascists by definition and action, stop trying to look clever...
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  4406. Political? What he means is that working people have been subject to political attacks on their wages, rights and very existence and are now resisting the oppression...
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  4407. Taxpayers already paid for the infrastructure, the Tory government sold it off on the cheap. Now they want the Taxpayer to buy it back temporarily so they can reprivatise it in the future? This is the cost of privatisation, again and again, the Taxpayer is propping up corporate profits and bailing out business...
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  4408. I think we should blame migrants for the collapse of our economy, the cost of living crisis, the NHS crisis, the losses from Brexit and any other problems that the Tories manufacture through their incompetence, greed and corruption in their relentless assault on sanity and logic...
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  4409. Isn't this the president who dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties allowing nuclear proliferation to restart and the Cold War to start anew? I hope people have enough intellect to realise this guy is being used. A snake-oil salesman being used by the real powers behind the thrones...
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  4410. Travesty? that was in 2017 when he was elected. Go cry somewhere else...
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  4411. Baboons were first invented in the 18th century by the famous anthropologist Dr Emily Baboon when she was out searching for a primate with a large red arse. She named her invention after her nephew Frederick Baboon...
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  4412.  MadArticDriver  All media was the target of my comment. MSN basically covers everything of import. Here's a tip when reading news: Take the facts, ignore the opinion/interpretation. Ask yourself who gains? who loses? why am I being told this? is there anything more to the story? are they missing any of the arguments? Is this related to recent stories? Works with all media!
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  4413.  @Ukfairgrounds  Russia has 1600+ nukes and hypersonic tech. The UK has 120... Russia has an estimated total military personnel of 3 million and more weaponry than any other country except the USA, they also have 12,000 tanks, 5,500 Aircraft - while the UK has only 275,660 personnel and much-outdated tech including around 250 tanks, 990 aircraft... Compare rocketry, aircraft, tanks, artillery, navy - Russia has over 10x what we in the UK have...
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  4414.  @leewhyte101  S.Arabia hasn't been charged for that yet... Pity Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan took the brunt of the blame at the cost of several trillion American taxpayer dollars. Still at least the oil companies, bankers, mercenary outfits, specialists, mining consortiums, pharmaceutical companies and corrupt politicians made a good profit...
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  4415.  @jamesarnold7253  You mean Brexit and media lies negated his chances? You mean centrists fomenting trouble and backstabbing their legitimate leader cost Labour the election? Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. Starmer has done the exact opposite...
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  4416.  @californiadreamin8423  That 3-line whip was in 2017 and the least-worse option at the time. Corbyn has always been an EU sceptic but as a labour leader had to do what's best for the party too. You'd still have had a go at Corbyn whatever he did. If article 50 had been defeated an early election would have resulted in giving the Tories 4 more years. Complexities of alienating the public and giving the Tories 4 more years would not have helped Labour. Go back to dreamin'
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  4417.  @MrBurtonshaw  Agreed, and deleted my previous comment as it was made in error.
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  4418.  @californiadreamin8423  I already replied to you about that, do you think you've made a point? "That 3-line whip was in 2017 and the least-worse option at the time. Corbyn has always been an EU sceptic but as a labour leader had to do what's best for the party too. You'd still have had a go at Corbyn whatever he did. If article 50 had been defeated an early election would have resulted in giving the Tories 4 more years. Complexities of alienating the public and giving the Tories 4 more years would not have helped Labour. Go back to dreamin'" Your point is a non-starter. Brexit wasn't a choice for any politician, it was a referendum. A mistake that has cost us dearly, but has nothing to do with Labour. Supporting it or fighting against would have only alienated them and solved nothing...
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  4419.  @Camille_Anderson  The Tories are dragging their feet on processing migrants and also shut the refugee centres, this is a managed crisis created by the Tories as they've always done since the dawn of time. They stick their hand in your back pocket and then point at migrants. Corporate subsidies cost you £330 million a day.
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  4420.  @Mike-rr2ni  No m8, they dodge taxes and pay very little. They do not subsidize us, they push the tax burden onto us. Also, those figures are very misleading. Every year in the UK we have a rich list of the wealthiest and a top taxpayer list. Very few on the rich list of the wealthiest in the UK are on the top taxpayer list, feel free to check it yourself. We tax working income in this country, not wealth. The wealthy avoid inheritance tax, VAT, income tax (by not working) and many other forms of tax through loopholes and creative accountancy. My facts are accurate your misunderstanding is cognitive dissonance mate...
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  4421.  @Mike-rr2ni  Shh, that's a circular argument you are talking about working wealthy who earn 150k. They are nowhere near the wealthiest people in Britain and they are not the corporate tax dodgers of whom I spoke. Neither have you mentioned loopholes, tax breaks, subsidies, tax relief, creative accounting or the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories which is responsible for a large part of global tax fraud. I'm not going to go around in circles with someone who lacks reason. I have better things to do. Go sealion someone else, I'm bored of wasting my life correcting the same misconceptions on a daily basis.
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  4422.  @Mike-rr2ni  Highest rate of tax in the UK is 45%, I'm not wasting anymore time with you!
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  4423.  @Mike-rr2ni  I've given you facts, while you are regurgitating misconceptions and ad homs because you can't formulate an argument that isn't hearsay or anecdotal in nature. Proving debate is pointless as you lack knowledge, reason and logic... I've defeated every argument you have made so far a million times with carbon copies of yourself, that's how uninteresting you are to me. Just another mug who repeats pub gossip...
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  4424.  @toyotaprius79  Agreed, If we had democracy corporate lobbyists wouldn't be able to bribe MPs to overrule their constituents' wishes. We are becoming more of a corporatocracy daily.
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  4425.  @Oliver-Closeoff  Yea it's a pun based on the US manifest destiny ethos. Clown!
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  4426.  @KinorArgonis  Texas school shooting in Uvalde: "In the six days since the mass shooting, it has emerged that Ramos legally bought over 1,000 rounds of ammunition and two AR-15 rifles just days earlier – as soon as he had turned 18." As soon as he turned 18, no waiting period... Learn something before typing opinions...
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  4427.  @KinorArgonis  Seriously? are you a child?You don't even need a permit in Texas to carry a gun since 2021. What background checks did they do on an 18 year old? What background checks are required in Texas? do you know anything? You don't have any knowledge about state laws or federal laws. I'm not in the mood to correct people with no knowledge!
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  4428.  @KinorArgonis  I didn't ask for your opinion, my comments are based on facts. My point is that either he had no background check or they missed the fact that he was on the edge. The reason I mention a lack of needing a permit to carry a gun should've been obvious considering the topic... I only speak about things I understand. You should try doing the same instead of making senseless opinionated comments. If you don't know the answer to a question, don't make it up! Many media articles say "50% of Texas guns sales lack background checks" So please learn something before trying to contribute...
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  4429.  @KinorArgonis  My 'facts' are based in reality because I researched the laws and legislation. That's why they are facts, anyone can check them and see that I'm correct. Your guesswork is what determines your pointless comments and the lack of fact is what makes your comments as much use as a vertical ejector seat in a helicopter... Stop wasting my life with your pathetic comments based on opinion and guesswork.
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  4430. lol, have you ever read a book? you sound like a child cheerleading their favourite cartoon character. The Tories have ruined the economy, given us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%, lost our triple-A credit rating twice and increased the national debt to over £2.4 trillion. Seriously, you should stop commenting on things of which you are ignorant...
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  4431.  @georgebodley8068  I don't buy into that as my post clearly shows and I criticise Israel openly for their apartheid policies, land grabs, stealing of the Golan Heights from Syria and deplorable treatment of their Palestinian landlords. But your attitude and statements are closely related to right-whinge think tank nonsense that has allowed the rise of the far right globally and shifted the Overton window to the right. If you just learn to voice your opinions without using right-wing tropes then the left would be able to be heard more clearly and attacked less by state lobbyists...
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  4432.  @mdb3040  Thank you!
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  4433.  @georgebodley8068  lol you have no idea mate. Keep up with your blatant filtering of yourself and watch as we are censored into oblivion and head towards a dystopian corporatocracy. I know political history from Attlee onwards. I know my own history from Welsh villages flooded to provide England with water, to the coal mining my ancestors did to fuel the Industrial revolution. From the 'Welsh not' and my language and culture being beaten out of children in Welsh schools. To hungry Welsh miners being told they'll have their bellies filled with lead by Churchhill in Tonypandy. To industrial crimes that led to the disaster in Aberfan. None of your comments are visible to anyone because you don't use common sense. I have two devices so I can check when I'm being filtered. Use your head or continue to allow yourself to be filtered and the rest of us to be silenced for your bravado... Take Care!
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  4434.  @georgebodley8068  You've gone off on a tangent now. You are teaching your grandma to suck eggs. Starmer has kicked out most Socialists from the party and used the PLP like the Tories use FPTP. I'm not disagreeing with that. Just stating that some of your comments have a close similarity to conspiracy from the right and carefully avoiding that will allow your other views to be heard. While Blair will flinch and Starmer sneers, we'll keep the red flag flying here!
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  4435.  @georgebodley8068  Agreed, the infiltration of Blairite centrists has left us with the choice between Red or Blue flavoured neoliberalism.
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  4436.  @adriftinaboat3452  Thank you!
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  4437.  @ennesshay5040  Yes, I like Norman Finkelstein he tells it as it is.
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  4438.  @1headtheball  Thank you! although I'm actually so unhip it's a wonder my bum doesn't fall off!
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  4439.  @LeeGee  Second comment I made "AS shouldn't be tolerated" stop interpreting out of context!
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  4440. Brexit benefits: Uncovered shadowy groups such as the E-R-G. Shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how flawed the system is. Shows how the public are steered and manipulated to vote against their own interests. How important overseas territories are to the money men...
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  4441.  @tonib5899  Thank you!
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  4442.  @adrianfielding4678  Agreed, although my pessimism tells me a cyberpunk future such as Phillip K. Dick's Bladerunner awaits. Maybe even William Gibson's sprawl. AI fighting for control of a corporate dystopia and anyone without credits is banished outside the system - homeless and doing whatever they can to survive in a hostile world.
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  4443. The coalition of chaos strikes again. It's got so bad that even the bank of England's governor has to point out how far we've fallen and how much of that is the fault of Tory incompetence...
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  4444. In the UK you can knock on a stranger's door for help or even just directions, no one walks around in fear of being shot. There are criminal gangs with guns but rarely do they shoot civilians. We also have guns for hunting, shooting as a sport etc. Tight regulations and careful procedures for the transport and storage of guns control the way they are used. We still have civilisation. America has lost its way to lobbyists and corporations...
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  4445.  @steadly3668  We have less than a tenth of the knife fatalities per 100,000 people the US has and less than 1% of the gun fatalities per 100,000 people. That is a direct comparison per person! So go look at some stats, the reason they are in the news is because we have a civilised society... Now go do some research and stop proving your ignorance and lack of wit!
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  4446. We've lost over 65% of global genetic diversity at over 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction. The British government won't do anything as they continue to allow pollution of our rivers and beaches while the COP summits are talking shops to give the illusion of action. Imagine all the things we've already lost that your grand children will never see.
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  4447. No evidence to link turbines to the whale beachings. NOAA carried out 90 post-mortems on whales and found that at least 40% are due to human interaction, but no links to turbines. The UK is home to four of the largest windfarms globally and we haven't seen any evidence of beachings linked to turbines. It's the usual bull from supporters of fossil fuels...
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  4448. The people of Uxbridge previously voted in a second-hand Mayor of London, they can't be trusted to make decisions... The whole country isn't as naive and easily led...
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  4449.  @jesussaves_316  lol gotta love asinine remarks from intolerant religious people...
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  4450.  @BeBe-vh4ry  lol thanks for the asinine pointless comment, about as useful as your existence... We are who we are because of our history. Do you not realise how contradictory and illogical your comment is?
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  4451.  @AbdulAbulbulAmir  I make my own with coconut oil, hazelnuts, honey and unrefined cocoa. Well, when I could afford to. I haven't used palm oil-infested refined spreads for decades :)
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  4452.  @octavianpopescu4776  lol thanks for your carefully considered analysis that excludes any actual facts or knowledge of the circumstances... I'm lucky to get 20% of my comments to stay unfiltered and don't expect to be sealioned when providing a little light relief. If you have any further complaints please take them up with my secretary during office hours...
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  4453.  @jackgammon4084  You live in a world that doesn't exist. Actually, that's not accurate, it exists in the media and in your head. We are run by elitist criminals who launder money for the global criminal elite via the lack of transparency on the crown, estates and overseas territories. We also help global corporations avoid tax in 3/4rs of the world, and are the leading cause of corporate tax avoidance. If you have a look at recent legislation you'll realise you've lost some human rights, freedoms and are subject to laws that don't apply to certain members of society. You have the illusion of choice and the same people own most of our media and dictate what you think and talk about through narrative control. I could explain further but I suspect you've already switched off...
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  4454.  @pedalman130  Starmer is almost as bad as the Tories. However, without Labour, you'd still be living in a slum, with no rights, no public transport, no legal aid, no schooling and no healthcare. A second class citizen watching your children die of curable diseases...
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  4455.  @jackgammon4084  lol seriously? You can't be that naive. Either way, I don't have the time, inclination or energy to correct your cognitive dissonance. Have a nice life, I hear ignorance is bliss...
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  4456. Agreed, He's jamming a red, white and blue economic suppository up the public's rear to make up for the tax losses from corporate non-payment and subsidies...
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  4457. Weather and climate are two different things and the temp is 31 degrees all week in Senegal, In the interior, highs are normally around 38 °C. If it gets much hotter they won't be able to live there...
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  4458.  @beng7845  You mean you support dictatorship and fascism? Sounds about right for a politically illiterate right-whinger...
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  4459. We kept allowing the Tories to win elections and became apathetic about an increasingly deceptive, negligent media that lacks real investigative journalism.
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  4460. @@Calmlocket And 90% of that is covered in Corporate greed I mentioned the other 10% in corrupt government!!!
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  4461. Cold War v2.0... Leaders on both sides are only interested in their own agenda, personal wealth and power. NATO and Russia are playing tug of war with Ukraine and this could turn into another proxy war between the West and the East like Syria...
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  4462. We got on a talent show and then some producers put us together, gave us a look, taught us to sing better and hyped us up into a band, we all lived happily ever after - the end...
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  4463.  @markopecinovic4475  The idea that politeness is all-important when we live in a world of such inequity is laughable. It's a millstone around the neck of anyone who fights inequality. You can't convince imperialist slavers, Nat sees, or people who think you're a different species and deserve your lot in life through polite discourse. Were that the case we'd have Eutopia instead of dystopia.
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  4464.  @j.harrison6744  Comments section. At the time of posting it was climate deniers and 'I'm first comments'. While my comment that India is producing most of the clothes for western corporations in factories running day and night gets filtered.
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  4465.  @j.harrison6744  My bad, despite suffering from late-stage terminal sarcasm myself, I'm often blind to it in others. BBC is under Tory management these days since Theresa May gutted it...
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  4466.  @tq33ng  thanks!
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  4467.  @MackerelCat  Learned a new phrase? not appropriate mate. Go doff your cap to your corporate masters...
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  4468.  @laurisafine7932  Firstly it's a parody and you obviously don't recognise humour. We have a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. Britain is Celtic, and Anglo-Saxons only represent 40% of English DNA. The Welsh, Scots, and Irish are Celts - True native Brits. All democracy stems from Athenian democracy as any bookworm will tell you. Church membership was around 7.5 million in 1980 and has dropped to 4.6 million in 2020, just 7.2% of the population and an average rate of decline of 1.2% per year. We are not a religious country. If you want to patronise someone over a joke make sure they don't understand more than you, or you'll end up looking foolish...
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  4469.  @laurisafine7932  They're all accurate and relevant, if you do research you'd know that... PS In Wales we kicked the Romans out in 383AD, you don't think they left any DNA behind after 3 centuries of occupation?
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  4470.  @laurisafine7932  Diptheria is a bacterial disease caused by lack of sanitary conditions due to overcrowding and lack of hygiene. Britains are vaccinated from birth. Feel free to blame the government for not giving vaccinations to those from countries that weren't vaccinated from birth and have a backlog of over 100,000 people waiting on decisions at the tax payers expense. It's a crisis that has been managed by the Tories.
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  4471. Right whingers don't realise they're losing their human rights and freedom of speech while the Tories engineer a fake crisis to legislate against us all...
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  4472.  @QUEEG500_  Queeg go back to Red Dwarf as the low IQ militant AI, because this country is suffering and your comment is about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  4473.  @symzie  Democracy is an illusion, the market is tightly controlled, and currency is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources. The media write the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, each handcrafted narrative, every carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion the media predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy. Erm or something :)
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  4474. That's not like the US government to enforce regime change in foreign countries...
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  4475.  @jimthompson9370  lol you mean they suck over £100 billion from the taxpayer in corporate welfare and subsidies every year while costing the country £40-120 billion via the tax gap. Then there are bailouts and the fact we have to top up our own wages using taxpayer money via tax credits. The Tories who borrowed £1.5 trillion in twelve years and crashed the economy are good with finance? You don't seem sure of anything mate, because you obviously don't understand the situation...
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  4476. @Johannes C 100%. Look at Bezos who profits from sweatshops, low waged employees and tax loopholes. He has $124 billion which is enough money to spend $1 million every single day for 339 years.
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  4477.  @basskick666  Be careful you don't sprain your brain using mental gymnastics that difficult... 40% of the working population are in working poverty or at risk of such. That proves it's systemic...
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  4478.  @williamkinkade2538  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts. Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  4479.  @williamkinkade2538  It's what the great bard would have said if he was alive today. At least judging by the tone of his other works.
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  4480.  @thomasbradley2225  You haven't read my posts and are unable to see that wealth and poverty are inextricably linked. There is a direct correlation between corporate greed and lower living standards. Our taxes should not be used to bailout corporations and top up shareholder profits... The corporations are getting freebies from our taxes and as a result our living standards decline...
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  4481.  @thomasbradley2225  You are redefining what I said into your own terms. If you can't interpret my comments without misrepresenting them then I don't see any further point to discussion. The UK taxpayer paid £120.1 billion in subsidies alone in 2021 to corporations that get tax breaks, bailouts, loopholes and dodge taxes. The tax gap is between £40-120 billion. Yet we have 22% of the population in poverty, many of them working. We have had a debt to GDP ratio of over 100% this year, yet before privatisation from Thatcher's neoliberalism, our debt to GDP was around 40%. I'm not saying it's all down to privatisation, but it sucks a large amount of our taxes while the government outsource their responsibility to shareholders.
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  4482.  @thomasbradley2225  Accepting something is grossly inhumane doesn't take an economic expert. Different economic schools have different interpretations of that I'm well aware. I'm not expecting altruism from corporations, but a lack of kleptocracy from my government. Stating the obvious no matter how eloquent is redundant. The fact that most of the UK, US and indeed many western countries with high poverty can be traced back to Thatcher and Reagan's neoliberalism is illuminated by stats and facts. I've provided some of those relevant to the UK and indeed these can be traced back to pre-pandemic/Brexit Britain. Accusing me of envy when I have proven my case with stats and facts is churlish to say the least. My own circumstances are irrelevant to global stats, anecdotal evidence is pointless.
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  4483.  @thomasbradley2225  Ayn Rand lol that explains your logical fallacies and misinterpretation of obvious points of reason. I'm talking about the scale that's traceable back to Neoliberalism in the UK. You obviously aren't able to follow reasoned debate without going off on a tangent. 60% of human labour is unnecessary and caused wasteful pollution making objects with built-in obsolescence to continue fleecing the cash cows. Technology has provided us an enhanced living, capitalism buries inventions that are useful to protect corporate profits. I'm not going to waste more time on someone who can't follow logical discourse and offers delusional circular debate while proliferating fallacy. 4 wars were fought after the CIA instigated the Arab Spring to protect petrodollar hegemony. Billions have been lost to resource shortages because of capitalist endeavours. I've had a wonderful, intelligent, constructive and enlightening debate... But this wasn't it!
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  4484.  @thomasbradley2225  I can't debate a political illiterate who doesn't understand basic ideology. Then goes off on a tangent at every opportunity. I could rebutt every sentence you type and you'd still repeat your erroneous claims in a continual circular debate. So what would be the point? Americans believe 70s Hollywood Russophobic propaganda and misinterpret a basic ideology that states the tools of production should be owned by all, not an elite class. That all resources belong to the people. If a dictator takes over they are no longer following that ideology! Study Lenin and not Stalin...
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  4485.  @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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  4486.  @thomasbradley2225  As I already said, your tangential arguments and lack of following the debate is the reason this is pointless. What has African history got to do with enforced regime change in Libya? Americans are responsible for Gaddafi's death and torture, keep telling yourself lies if it makes you feel better. You should read Thomas Paine and understand the similarities between his beliefs and socialism. Your country has been at war 228 of its 246 years and only 3 countries globally haven't been the recipient of US interference and global hegemony. You should be ashamed of your obvious denial and cognitive dissonance...
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  4487.  @thomasbradley2225  You brought up imperialism and African history that was wholly irrelevant to America's capitalist looting of Libya. Then you deny the facts and the correlation between Paine and Socialism... "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine.
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  4488.  @thomasbradley2225  We don't need to understand Keynesian economics to see how it works globally. Theory and practice are two separate beasts. Those countries that didn't enforce austerity in Europe recovered quicker from the financial crisis. You'll be a proponent of "Trickle-down economics" I expect, despite after decades no country has seen it work. The exact opposite in fact, as the poverty gap grew. For instance, the top 1% in Britain doubled their assets during Austerity. Anyways feel free to reflect on my points and enjoy your Thanksgiving. I won't reply to this thread again.
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  4489.  @2msvalkyrie529  I'm sorry I only discuss sensible suggestions with sensible people. I don't have time to babysit you through economics 101...
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  4490.  BILLY PIECRUST  A lot more in real terms no doubt. The media loves to control the gullible to enable the corrupt. The mainstream media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  4491.  English Bulldog  Haven't you got a bed to go and wet?
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  4492.  @primordialpouch565  It's not utopian mate, it's called ideology. I've already said Starmer is a corporate puppet funded by lobbyists, but don't tarnish the whole party and their history...
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  4493.  @10Tabris01  lol what? Politicians already run the show as their corporate lobbyist paymaster agenda dictates. Getting rid of the monarchy will only change the name to a true parliamentary democracy.
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  4494. Asside from the invisible magical deity in the sky and their myriad representatives who force their dogma on the rest of us. Everyone is born with equal rights and equal status until the system kicks in and determines their rights by age, geographical location, wealth and power. The struggle then begins for those on the lower rungs of the hierarchical ladder to keep the basic rights their ancestors fought for. For instance in the UK many groups such as the Rebecca Rioters, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt, suffragettes and the Anti-Slavery Society fought and died to achieve the rights we now have. While the Government are trying to remove those rights as they get in the way of profits and control.
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  4495.  @willnicholson18  "HOME Secretary Suella Braverman has sparked outrage over describing the number of migrants crossing the Channel as an “invasion”" There are quite a few examples of her thoughts on migrants. Migrants are only called illegal immigrants after they've been refused entry, up until that point they're migrants or Asylum seekers...
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  4496.  @YenkammaNe  You could have just said you're delusional and only believe in mythology...
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  4497.  @pseudonayme7717  We are a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. So you are partly right, we don't have it much better than we did under feudalism. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then shits all over your house and lives for centuries...
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  4498.  @balance3201  I'm just glad the Rebecca Rioters, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt, the Suffragettes and the Anti-Slavery Society and many other left-wing groups who fought and died for our freedoms and rights. That the Tories are now taking away from us didn't share your view. Risk ourselves now, or allow our children to suffer far worse...
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  4499. Libya was going to create an African currency 'The Dinar' for oil sales backed by 143 tons of gold which would have threatened the hegemony of the petrodollar, all they got was US freedom and democracy, their country asset-stripped, human slavery and trafficking...
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  4500.  @johnrussell3961  Why would we need foreign sources of Energy based on the two most destructive forms of creation? We should be self-sufficient on renewables. We already generate roughly 50% of our energy from renewables. And if they are nationalised then prices won't fluctuate and will be outside of market forces...
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  4501.  @Rdjzozet  Because I don't like giving ignorant children the last word. Humiliating you with facts is only half the fun... Hopefully, it will encourage you to do research in future and maybe you'll realise that as I've already said genetically, culturally and literally the boat sailed on multiculturalism centuries ago.
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  4502.  @baldingeagle8404  Its a two year old post. Get a life. PS Your comment is moronic...
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  4503. Whatever erm, floats your boat? I'm glad this story is here rather than something worthwhile written by a proper investigative journalist...
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  4504. lol he made 1.3 pence for every day he'll be incarcerated...
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  4505. No one wants a trade deal with partners they can't trust who have been proven to lie on the international stage...
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  4506. Democracy is an illusion perpetuated by the rich to convince the poor they have a choice...
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  4507.  @888ssss  Something fishy going on, but those who gave orders and those who obey should be held accountable. Failing to protect nursery school children doesn't look good...
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  4508. @Dagoth Ur Well by that argument the police and SWAT teams are pointless and may as well be disbanded... Not to mention that wasn't the case...
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  4509.  @robstewart1703  Nah, we don't need to stockpile that as no one eats it these days. But thanks for the suggestion...
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  4510.  @robstewart1703  I'm against imperialism and the monarchy, try again. We imported tea and spices from India via the East India Company hardly essential survival basics... Look up "The British Agricultural Revolution" also known as the Second Agricultural Revolution which took place between the mid 17th century to the late 19th century...
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  4511.  @dearmas9068  (*a ridiculous) your understanding isn't required and your ignorance isn't my problem...
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  4512.  @silasvongreenback264  lol so he's a blackmailer now? Not interested in arguing with stupid.
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  4513.  @joegibbs448  I'm not 100% sure he did, he paid 30p too much for a worthless soul :P
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  4514. I've always said the tories should bugger off to the other side of the world and eat a D... Glad Matt has finally taken my advice...
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  4515. Onshore wind farms are nowhere near the water... They don't have to be on the coast.
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  4516.  @oddboxpolitics9912  Talking of simple...
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  4517.  @oddboxpolitics9912  I'm sorry but I'm on the toilet at the moment and can only deal with one 5hit at a time...
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  4518.  @oddboxpolitics9912  Don't turn up to a battle of wits unarmed, what you lack in intellect you make up for in stupidity...
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  4519. In the Museum for failed neoliberal fiscal policies of Thatcherism...
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  4520. When countries don't stick to the existing one? I'm afraid the world is continuing to devalue human life on a grand scale. Capitalism sets little value on us cash cows that drive production and profit.
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  4521. lol copying my post precisely and getting double the likes. Try thinking of something yourself and stop trolling me, surely you have something better to do with your life? then again maybe not...
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  4522. I would be flippant and say "Boris the man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give the Devil a refund... in roubles." But I will refrain this once...
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  4523.  @SamBeck6090  They are dwindling through human action. We've lost over 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction. But as you say, it's just a witty analogy.
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  4524. I see only racist comments seem to be allowed, the rest are filtered out.
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  4525. If idiots could fly, Tory HQ would be a bloody airport...
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  4526. They need a bill to dissolve their illegal aparteid country.
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  4527. Maybe reverse the cuts that led to the loss of 22,500 police officers, scores of police stations, 23,000 support workers and 5,000 mental health workers. Then change legislation so that women can trust the Police and the criminal justice system?
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  4528. Was going to reply earlier but wanted to wait just incases someone who wasn't a rapist or a misogynistic asshat had replied...
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  4529. Like what exactly? Trump's first actions as President was to give trillions of US taxpayer's money to Wall St, dropping out of climate agreements, taking the US out of human rights accords, trying to take medical care from 30 million Americans and dropping 3 nuclear treaties. The last one being the reason so many missiles are flying and conflicts escalating globally...
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  4530. As I wrote when he left office: "Goodbye, you orange b@stard, may you rot in the deepest prison. For the consequences of your actions, you will never be forgiven. I know karma will eventually find you and I just pray that when it does; you will feel all the pain you've caused. You psychotic orange c**t..."
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  4531.  @j7ech402  It's a bit of a pun 'Illusion is Trump's reality'.
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  4532. Stand up to the gun lobby or continue to see your children murdered by other children. It's that simple. Over 40 mass shootings per month is not normal...
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  4533. Nice to see so many sociopaths with a lack of intellect...
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  4534.  @OH877  Intellect is not calling for wilful hit n run of protestors who are trying to save the lives of 25,000 pensioners who die every year...
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  4535. Agreed, during the pandemic, fossil fuel prices plummeted to less than 1/3rd. The giants of industry who have dominated the globe for decades weren't happy, now they're trying to claw back lost profits by blackmailing the world. Good old capitalism, the worst resource management system ever created...
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  4536.  @alanhynd7886  No, Brexit was a pipe dream full of impossible dreams for the intellectually challenged. Nationalism, division and polarisation were used to allow the wealthy to avoid the EU Tax Avoidance Directive. Because they like to leave us poor people with the tax burden. Using tax avoidance via the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories. But thank you for your eloquence if not your logic and reason...
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  4537.  @roystonrichards1556  Agreed, The IMF has ranked the UK 9th now on the largest economy. While the WEF ranks us at 61st out of 141 countries in terms of the government's “long-term vision”. But the wealthy prosper!
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  4538.  @Lucky-wt6fg  Thank you!
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  4539.  @SimonPass230267  Brexiters still don't realise they were sold a lemon, an impossible dream that was based on manufactured poroblems.
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  4540.  @massivehero4871  I hope that's following my lead into satire. I can only assume it is satire as anything else would be unthinkable :)
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  4541.  @betweenlamppost  I'm so pleased you took the time to post that comment. Thankyou for your honesty and commitment to pedantry. Always a pleasure to read such intelligent and witty perspectives...
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  4542. Poor Lee! his cognitive dissonance has reached the point he can't stop spewing verbal diarrhoea from the hole in his face rectum. Imagine having intellectual constipation at those levels...
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  4543. Centrist infiltrator. Him and his fellow neoliberals attacking Corbyn when he was party leader and torpedoing the general election is the reason we have a Tory government wrecking our economy and reputation...
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  4544. Hmm, am I on the side of the guy who crashed the economy twice and is part of a couple worth 3/4rs of a billion pounds or am I on the side of the next generation and the one after that who will have to live with the consequences... Tough decision...
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  4545.  @andre-qe5yr  Finance is a scam, the banking system is a farce...
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  4546.  @williamshakespeare9815  I still pay for it and still have to suffer the indignity of being a feudal serf in an archaic system of divine rule...
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  4547.  @williamshakespeare9815  You are obviously unaware of reality. Divine rule is endemic to monarchy and the act of monarchy makes us subject/serfs and not citizens. Your failure to understand those facts and your pedantic semantics are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. William Shakespeare would be ashamed to have someone like you assume his identity.
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  4548. They'll keep feeding corporate greed while the pound grows ever weaker and people can't afford to eat or heat their homes. Epic fiscal fallacies and meaningless slogans like levelling up...
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  4549.  @tedbell4416  The rest of the world has been at war with America at some point. Don't blame the rest of the world for the fact you've had over 200 years of non-stop war...
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  4550. Compared Total Deaths Eng and Wal 2019 and 2020 from ONS data. Total Deaths in Eng and Wales 5th April - 3rd May 2019 = 50,705. Total Deaths in Eng and Wales 3rd April - 1st May 2020 = 97,204. Registered as Covid-19 in Eng and Wales 3rd April - 1st May 2020 = 32,718.
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  4551.  @boofuu3145  I can't argue with dumb. Your argument is that Nuclear treaties haven't halted nuclear proliferation for decades and the restarting of nuclear proliferation when the treaties were dropped is a coincidence? Why is it misleading for me to mention nuclear proliferation when this is clearly the result of nuclear proliferation?
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  4552.  @rosemarie575  We haven't had a war on the scale of ww2 because we had treaties in place which were dropped last year by Trump. Which restarted nuclear proliferation and sped the arms race up. It is the reason that this is happening... We are on the brink of another global conflict for anyone with half a brain to see.
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  4553.  @boofuu3145  PS China has around 320 nukes, and have Pakistan with 160 nukes and India with 150 nukes on their border. China doesn't really get along with Pakistan or India, there's a bit of history there... Hope that eases your mind a little.
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  4554.  @KonveZ  Yes you're collateral of the state. A cash cow... Welcome to capitalism...
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  4555.  @datro864  Trump dropped the Nuclear treaty with N.Korea, Trump signed the DOHA agreement in which he made a peace treaty with the Taliban (which the Taliban ignored during Trump's final months as president). The dark path I was referring to is the restarting of Nuclear proliferation again thanks to Trump who dropped out of three nuclear treaties making this possible and restarting the arms race. So it's nice of you to post a load of bs to excuse the mess Trump made on US foreign policy, but your points are all partisan opinion while ignoring the facts...
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  4556.  @boofuu3145  I'm Welsh, and to be fair you'd struggle to pour water out of a boot with the directions on the bottom...
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  4557.  @boofuu3145  Don't let your brain wander, it's far too little to be let out alone...
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  4558.  @boofuu3145  I don't care what you believe, from what I can tell all you believe can be read on the toilet walls of right-wing social media...
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  4559.  @boofuu3145  There have been 285 armed conflicts since 1946, which would suggest the nuclear deterrent thang doesn't work...
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  4560.  @boofuu3145  No your argument is flawed. Those with the most nuclear arms have been starting the wars. Look at how many of those wars involve the US, quite a high percentage of them. Now please stop exposing your lack of geopolitical knowledge and political illiteracy in general. Nukes only stop nukes, it's a self-defeating argument.
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  4561.  @boofuu3145  The point is they cancel each other out. They perform the same function as their global absence would except that with nukes we risk some dictator starting armageddon. This is like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  4562. Boris looks like a before picture. Considering there are trees tirelessly producing oxygen for him, I think he owes them an apology. I love to shop, but I wouldn't buy a thing Boris says. People like Boris are the reason God doesn't talk to us anymore. He's sentient ham...
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  4563.  @Josh-oy7zp  I love Boris, although he'd struggle to pour water out of a boot with the directions on the bottom. As he's an outsider, I'd like his perspective on humanity. Some like to inspire happiness wherever they go, Boris inspires happiness whenever he goes! Kleptocratic cockwomble.
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  4564. Baldwin shooting incident sparks narrative shift to 'prop guns'...
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  4565. When you mislead people and have to keep upping the ante eventually you wander into farce. The pantomime is too well known, and credibility is lower than the Mariana Trench. The Tories are a one-act circus full of clowns.
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  4566.  @Green-wk4bn  Don't assume. Biden is a geriatric puppet for corporations. The world isn't binary...
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  4567.  @UNIVERSAL-UR  Earned? His German father came to the US and ran a brothel and restaurant for the miners during the Klondike gold rush. That's where the Trump family wealth came from. Trump hasn't earned a penny in his life. You can't spell, know nothing about Trump and are obviously politically illiterate. His string of bankruptcies has caused countless other businesses to fail as he never paid his debts to them, He lost many workers their livelihoods and cost the US taxpayer millions. Stop wasting my time with your pathetic whining, go and read a book...
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  4568.  @user-lt3nx2ys6u  Last time the votes decided Trump tried to start an insurrection because things didn't go his way... People like you aren't capable of making intelligent choices. Trump has no background in politics, gave Wall.ST trillions of your taxes, dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties, human rights agreements and tried to take healthcare away from 30 million Americans. I'm not interested in fallacies and opinion, try facts or go play on the motorway...
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  4569. lol my educated, factual responses are filtered and I can't point out the lies from the delusional Trumpettes. If they only had a brain...
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  4570. Sure, judges always listen to the defendant's concerns in a long meeting before the trial begins... We all know the Tories are corrupt, opaque and cover their own asses with the help of the media and fellow aristocratic elitists... I know it's pointless to mention this but all the media do is gaslight the public's very real concerns...
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  4571. Before we blame the NHS, Doctors and Nurses we need to understand how privatisation, outsourcing and less funding have stripped the NHS of its ability to provide us with care. We have a staff shortage of over 100,000 in the NHS and the Tory government is responsible as they are trying to enforce stealth-privatisation by crippling the NHS. This story is just the tip of the iceberg, the crisis in the NHS is due to the government. The same government that spent £37 billion on the failure of the test and trace system that lined the pockets of private corporations and shareholders instead of allowing the NHS to do its job with the funding required to do so.
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  4572. He's jamming a red, white and blue economic suppository up the public's rear to make up for the tax losses from corporate non-payment and subsidies...
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  4573.  @trevorsaunders684  I'm sorry I'm not available at the moment. Please leave your Tory sycophancy message after the beep... BEEP
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  4574.  @maryamnazir512  Agreed, it seems this thing has been around for quite some time and may be impossible to track to a single source.
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  4575.  @davidrobertsemail  Dude get some help. In 2014, Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina - USA, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, and that SARS had the potential to re-emerge from coronaviruses circulating in bat populations in the wild. Dr.Fauci (NIAID Director and presidential advisor) paid that Wuhan lab $3.7 million around the time the US National Institutes of Health placed a moratorium on SARS, MERS, and influenza gain-of-function studies, due to concerns about the risks vs. benefits of such research. It seems more likely the US set this up as per usual and you're being used to help start ww3.
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  4576. Human rights abuses from misogynistic insular neanderthals. Anyways enough about the Tories what are the Taliban doing?
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  4577.  @daam  It's a pity that most Brits seem oblivious to the Rebecca Rioters, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt, Suffragettes and the Anti-Slavery Society who were willing to lose their lives to provide the rights the Tories are now slowly taking away, one piece of legislation at a time.
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  4578. More tech articles, being a Luddite I've had enough of tech articles appearing on my PC, Mobile phone, Tablet, Kindle, and Laptop...
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  4579. That'll fix the economy, the cost of living, energy prices, the housing market and the NHS, not... Why don't the government ban shamelessly profiteering politicians who ruin a country's economy and show contempt for the public?
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  4580. Wow. This story was sensational. I think I may have a lie down now as I'm just too excited...
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  4581.  @HumanBeing...  I just go by stats in both cases. How about a poem? Ring-a-ring o' roses, Incompetent Tory Posers, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down.
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  4582.  @HumanBeing...  It's based on a rhyme that's been doing the rounds in Europe since 1790s. Possibly earlier as it's about the great plague of 1666.
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  4583. The government have been 'moving backwards' for 13 years, we'll be back in the Victorian era soon with Mogg sending us all to workhouses...
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  4584. That's not a cat, it's a furry ghost...
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  4585. Here come all the overpopulation comments. Surely overpopulation is determined by resources, considering people like Jeff Bezos has $124 billion then I'd suggest we are not so much short of resources but have a problem with logistics. Bezos could spend 1 million every single day for 339 years...
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  4586.  @bookie5667  You realise everything you are you owe to your parents? why not send them a penny and square the account. Your comments are as worthless as your existence...
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  4587.  @bookie5667  No, I wouldn't touch your mother even when she does discount nights...
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  4588. Trump the tango totalitarian, the mango megalomaniac, the squash supremo, the tangerine troglodyte, the orange oligarch, the pumpkin parasite, the authoritarian apricot. Basically, I guess I'm saying Tuck Frump the sentient satsuma and his carrot corporatocracy...
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  4589. Duh! erm just a guess, but could it be that ww3 is on the cards? Wealthy retire to their bunkers and the rest us will be retired...
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  4590.  @MrBirdistheword444  Your diatribe is anti-immigrant propaganda while you mention white working class, then blame Labour for a certain scandal. While ignoring that 90% of institutional abuse was due to white wealthy lords and business leaders who the Tories let off when Theresa May lost the dossier! There is no logical argument against illogical prejudice! Debating people like you is like trying to teach a whale to fly or talking a trifle into sentience...
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  4591.  @stevec700  So you admit you're a Tory voting sponge who has no consistent ideology and is therefore a political illiterate with no fixed views...
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  4592.  @stevec700  lol and yet three reports proved that is erroneous. AS should not be tolerated or used as a weapon. The EHRC report clearly showed there was no systemic AS in the Labour party. The 2017 and 2018 parliamentary reports clearly show less AS in Labour compared to the Tory Party, UKIP and society in general. It also clearly shows AS was reduced under Corbyn. "The Home Affairs Select Committee of Parliament held an inquiry into antisemitism in the UK in the same year and found "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party" PS ideological and logical consistency go hand in hand, you either support small government with privatisation and deregulation or you support national industry, normal government and controls on the banking sector.
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  4593. Poverty is a killer, maybe the rich should all wear heath warnings...
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  4594. Is the answer a huge rubber chicken that hides near the polling booths and jumps out and attacks people? Could be the Republicans, they have the most to gain as when you support the 1% you have to con the electorate into voting against their own best interests and block those most likely to vote democrat.
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  4595. @Lies Tricks Also why do you keep talking about me? I'm qualified to lead audit a corporation for compliance with ISO9001 standards, I can program in several languages including Java and C++, I'm also qualified with 3dstudio max and CAD for animation and design. The statistics that prove you wrong are fact, your opinions based on your anecdotal evidence are nonsense. You haven't provided any facts. I've provided facts, logical arguments and stats to prove my points. Remember that everything you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a quid and square the account...
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  4596. @Lies Tricks YT is filtering me constantly. "lol legislation is the government's fault? like some other body creates legislation. You've never heard of corporate lobbyists and don't understand that they override citizens' wishes. Take fracking for example. You keep going around in circles saying absolutely childish responses and expect me to spend my intellect and time in a circular debate with someone who couldn't outthink a child. Then you miss the point of my joke and try to use it against me... You don't even understand debate. You can't just make stuff up based on assumptions when someone puts facts to you. You have to disprove their facts or provide alternate facts. It's called a rebuttal. I'm not interested in unfounded opinions based on anecdotal evidence. Provide a rebuttal of my facts or facts of your own to back up your delusions... This isn't a chat in the pub, I couldn't give a flying f about your inconsistent, contradictory, illogical beliefs. They only exist in your head..." "Also why do you keep talking about me? I'm qualified to lead audit a corporation for compliance with ISO9001 standards, I can program in several languages including Java and C++, I'm also qualified with 3dstudio max and CAD for animation and design. The statistics that prove you wrong are fact, your opinions based on your anecdotal evidence are nonsense. You haven't provided any facts. I've provided facts, logical arguments and stats to prove my points. Remember that everything you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a quid and square the account..."
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  4597.  @geoffreycodnett6570  Technically that's true, but thanks to the £700 billion bail-out they were given implicit guarantees and the stabilization of the market via liquidity. The specific bailouts were only a small portion of the money borrowed that the taxpayer is liable for.
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  4598. ​ @ForFreedom  If no one judged anyone else we'd have a pretty messed up society full of deranged lunatics wandering around. It's a form of control that society exerts on itself, sometimes through peer pressure, cultural convention, or legal penalties. The point is that it's a biblical reference that while it sounds nice, means nothing...
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  4599. I wonder how many right-whingers will prove their cognitive dissonance by patriotically showing their respect by goose-stepping to the Cenotaph before putting their arm up saluting with a Sieg Heil...
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  4600. Any more talk like that and the Chinese will flood the market with cheap aluminium leaving our expensive aluminium with no buyers...
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  4601.  @jobbins008  It seems you can't read my comment. I said "by the evidence (Being attacked by a dog with as many as 10 police cars and 20 officers on the scene) he had every reason not to comply" I didn't say right and pointed to the obvious evidence. I'm not interested in your petty sealioning, feel free to find someone with your lack of intellect to debate with!
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  4602. All the people cheering this on don't realise that they may be in the same position as these immigrants soon. Global conflict is on the horizon, careful what you wish for...
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  4603. 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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  4604.  @kth6736  Yes, let's all allow the rise of tyrants and dictators with our apathy...
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  4605.  @alwaysOPEN4business  Via the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories...
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  4606.  @alwaysOPEN4business  Not at all, I gave you an accurate and concise answer. If you want more look up the terms kleptocracy and cronyism. The UK through that lack of transparency is responsible for the largest percentage of global corporate tax fraud.
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  4607.  @alwaysOPEN4business  Other people who can't understand basic sentence structure and fail to interpret the meaning of words will often blame others for their ignorance. Even when they're given more information they still can't comprehend. I'm not interested in your lack of ability...
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  4608. 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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  4609. 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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  4610.  @micallef87  My mum and every mum on the council estate called the doctor out several times during childhood when we were ill as children. We could be seen at home rather than spreading infection and carrying sick kids to the doctors on public transport. Most people had one job back then and we were paid relatively double in terms of standard of living. It was a struggle for some of us, but we had a parent at home (doesn't matter which) and no debt. Debt and HP came later in the 80s which is how most working poor survive these days. By juggling ever-increasing debts in households with two adult wages and multiple jobs.
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  4611.  @iamwhatiam8686  Take your little private war somewhere else, that's tangential nonsense. Nothing to do with the debate about energy prices or cost of living.
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  4612.  @iamwhatiam8686  I haven't mentioned any of those things and so you are ignorant to my views on them. I have used economic, political and ideological facts. So stop proving your own ignorance by typing...
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  4613.  @iamwhatiam8686  Because your steriotypical generalisation doesn't fit me and I reject your simplistic tangential argument...
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  4614.  @iamwhatiam8686  ...and I've proven that by posting plenty of them with logical assertions on this thread. Not interested in your petty little sealioning...
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  4615.  @lee9650  To be honest mate Alan Partridge could take over and be portrayed as some sort of saviour in comparison to the clowns this Tory circus offers us. But definitely not planned...
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  4616.  @lee9650  Not really, I took you for a fan on your first comment but agreed and extended your second point. I just don't agree with the planned bit.
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  4617. Not only is it cruel but feeding people diseased animals just leads to diseased humans, physically and psychologically.
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  4618. If I was a mantis I'd probably be celibate... I bet the incels use this as propaganda...
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  4619.  @Hertz2laugh  I understand your point, I really do but mass production is never cruelty-free. There are a few small farms that may produce more ethical products but they still have to kill the pigs and piglets to sell their product.
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  4620. A greedy, selfish, authoritarian regime led by a defacto dictator in a country manipulated by the media - but enough about Tory Britain, What's Kim up to now?
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  4621.  @jamestoner3900  Cheers! ;-)
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  4622. I'm a Celt, if you're an Anglo-Saxon prove the truth of your own statement and go back to your germanic tribes...
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  4623.  @rulebritannia3147  You missed my comment always contained the word 'If' I only said if. As for your history I'll give a brief recap: The oldest DNA found in Ireland suggests that Celts from the Iberian peninsula settled there between 10-15,000 years ago. They also settled here in Wales, in Scotland and in Cornwall through trade routes or by coming directly from Ireland. I won't go into Edward VI or the reformation by James I. But later the Cromwellian invasion in the mid-17th century through English imperialism and the English (Anglo-Saxon) aristocrats took large swathes of arable land or were given them through titles. Two centuries later this led to famine as the English aristocrats attacked the Irish and threw their babies into the sea during a brutal effort to further subjugate Ireland. A similar story to what the English did in Wales and Scotland. For example, in Wales, we had villages flooded to provide reservoirs for England, my coal mining ancestors helped to fuel the Industrial revolution. We had the 'Welsh not' as my language and culture was being beaten out of children in Welsh schools. And a history of strikes leading to hungry Welsh miners being told they'll have their bellies filled with lead by Churchhill in Tonypandy and industrial crimes that led to the disaster in Aberfan. Having said that I'm 1/4 English on my paternal grandfather's side so have to blame my own ancestry in part, which is like having ancestral cognitive dissonance. Hope you enjoyed your lesson on the history of your claimed people, although you should have noticed the 'IF' and pointed out your Celtic heritage when first challenged!
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  4624.  @rulebritannia3147  PS My comment was based on your own obvious prejudice, not my own. I was pointing out how you should live by your own beliefs 'IF' you were an Anglo-Saxon...
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  4625.  @rulebritannia3147  Your lack of understanding and asinine comments mean nothing, you don't even know your supposed history. Keep doffing your cap and tugging your forelock as you bow to your aristocratic overseers and parrot their words as your own...
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  4626. Starmer and Blair made that coffin together and centrists have been banging nails in the lid for years. A once proud party that gave us the NHS, Worker's rights, legal aid, public parks, public transport, nationalised industry and secure employment is now a lobbyist controlled platform offering nothing more than a different flavour of neoliberalism to the Tories...
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  4627.  @Mediumal  lol yea, "lack of preparation" by the airlines for what? Brexit changes maybe? lol, jog on...
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  4628.  @hunternedib1119  No that's your IQ, he's given you enough considering you're supposed to be the Trump expert. If you can't interpret the examples and are willfully blind then that's on you. PS if you have no rebuttals or facts then you must simply want attention. Either way your comments are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  4629. Floods trying to catch up with Clinton's death toll...
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  4630.  @shauntaylor6040  I hope you didn't work all day on that comment...
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  4631.  @qetoun  lol you mean Aaron Banks, Farage, Brietbart, Robert Mercer and Cambridge Analytica used our Facebook data to get Brexit passed via lies? Or do you mean the loss to our GDP of over £100 billion a year since Brexit? You should try facts instead of opinions...
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  4632.  @DropdudeJohn  You don't understand and your arguments are childlike. I'm wasting my time as you've failed to rebut any of my points and just made excuses. The Eurozone has seen a GDP rise of 2.4% compared to our loss of -4.5%. The EU has no shortages or import and export problems as they haven't left, we did! The human rights and ECHR means that I could be tortured, lose my freedom of speech, be setup by our own security forces and worse. The shop prices and shortages mean I pay more and have less choice. The drop in GDP and inflation means I pay more and have increased costs such as Energy, Rent, Mortgage, Food costs etc. All of that is self-evident from my first statement to anyone with the ability to think. PS We have seen a marked increase in the costs of food and energy that the EU buys in bulk as a trading block, so they haven't been affected as badly as us! Now stop pestering me with pointless questions that any child would realise the answer to!
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  4633.  @hiramabiff2017  Who funds the NHS and education? The government. Who is responsible for a £37 billion real-terms drop in NHS funding in the past decade? Who is responsible for the 2012 health care bill that prioritizes for-profit organisations in the NHS? giving even more taxpayer funding to shareholders rather than patients - The government. Who is responsible for low wages in the NHS and public sector lowering incentives in those career paths? The government. Who is responsible for the decline of beds, ambulances, hospitals and a 100,000 staff shortage in the NHS? The Government... You are politically illiterate and ignorant of the real causes...
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  4634.  @tjmarx  Messenger? Tabloid regurgitating guilible government suckup is more accurate...
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  4635.  @tjmarx  No I was referring to you as a typical Daily Fail regurgitator and Tory suckup. Your analysis is tabloid propaganda and complete nonsense. The NHS has a staff shortage of 100,000 and 1 in 10 nurses leave because of the working conditions and pay. Overworked and having to deal with shortages and old equipment. Much of the NHS funding goes to shareholders because of private debt, outsourcing, privatisation and the 2012 health care bill which prioritizes for-profit organisations for new NHS contracts. You seem unable to grasp the situation, unable to interpret my comments and I'm not interested in your pub gossip/daily fail interpretations. I always back up my comments with undeniable facts that can be researched.
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  4636.  @tjmarx  PS the government control the NHS via legislation, funding, equipment and wages. I pay taxes and have no choice if a corrupt government waste that money using cronyism. As previously stated you aren't worth the time to educate. It's like trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  4637.  @markhoskins4996  Brexit cost London £2.3 trillion in one month alone, in derivatives losses. Any party that supports that can take a jump off a cliff...
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  4638.  @namewithheldforprivacy7107  Partly, but also the fossil fuel industry lost out on huge profits during the pandemic. Now they are extortionately clawing back those lost profits.
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  4639.  @Fractalchemystical  They are conflating the two, I am not as I'm simply responding to their question. I assume you're a Celt to speak of native British culture, if you're an Anglo-Saxon then you are not in a position to comment. From my point of view, immigrants are welcome under a system of controlled migration as that benefits Britain. Whether they are Anglo-Saxon, Lybian, Indian, Arabian or any other nationality/culture. British culture is Indian curries, Greek Kebabs, Mesopotamian numeracy, Roman inventions, Chinese Tea and many from other global influences. My point was simply that to discourage breeding means the Bulldog will become extinct.
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  4640. It's funny how the wealthy increase their assets while the poor suffer austerity repeatedly, what a coincidence! If only we could find a link between these two seemingly disconnected facts...
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  4641.  @paulnolan1352  Thank you and well spotted!
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  4642.  @deebater5298  Sorry but are you excusing the multiple national security breaches and national security risks by attempting whataboutery? Your sycophancy is legendary, I'm not one for cap doffing and forelock-tugging. I'll leave that to people like you...
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  4643.  @vtechead1  You don't use gas? you are aware that gas is burned to create our electricity... Doh!
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  4644. The UK is the largest enabler of global corporate tax losses thanks to the crown estates and overseas territories lack of transparency. We are also governed by elitist corrupt kleptocrats...
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  4645. I'm just so thankful that the system provides the best humanity has to offer as global leaders and politicians. I mean a system that guarantees the most megalomaniacal, corrupt, greedy, privileged, warmongering, corporatized psychopaths ever to walk the earth to make decisions on our behalf... Genius...
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  4646.  @ssuwandi3240  He was PM... lol seriously...
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  4647. Hopefully, she stays there as we don't want her back, or her front for that matter. Dog whistle politics, shiny objects for right-wing magpies at the taxpayer's expense.
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  4648. What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering drains our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets, The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, inept Tory policy inspires inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, their lives are shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this inhumane neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout 'Get those ferking Tories out!'...
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  4649. Tories funnelling money from the poor into the offshore accounts of the wealthy shareholders and affluent communities? surely not!
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  4650. The only reasons are that the ECHR interferes in many ways with corporate profits and government authoritarianism. Neither of which he would admit.
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  4651.  @TWRehab  No, because it's obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a syphilitic crack-addicted hamster... I'll give you a hint, there are finite resources available and money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to monopolise the vast majority of those resources...
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  4652.  @billgiles3261  The transcript was posted on Ms Fulani's social media and has been verified by many witnesses.
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  4653.  @dustintacohands1107  They signed an agreement to take in refugees and as part of NATO are the reason these people are refugees. Everything you just said is wrong...
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  4654. @Washing Machine Germany invaded Poland. The Polish refugees were escaping Germanic brutality. I'm a native Brit a Celt from Wales and Anglo-Saxons who don't like immigration can go back to Germany...
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  4655. @Hotovo Done Lol a comment as pointless as your birth...
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  4656.  @balsolvag6220  You haven't even read the title of this story have you? "Hundreds of migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa remain gathered at Belarus’s border with Poland in an escalating crisis." It clearly states refugees, Under international law, anyone seeking international protection must be given access to the asylum process, even if they have crossed a border illegally. That is the law, Poland has been doing this for months. Belarus are in the wrong, but so is Poland. At least six migrants have been found dead near the border with temperatures now falling below freezing overnight. Poland is suspected to have pushed back migrants into Belarus’s territory, a digital investigation from Amnesty International found, suggesting the EU country has breached migrants’ rights. Amnesty found that a group of 32 Afghan asylum seekers was surrounded by Polish border forces on August 18. A day later, the same group was located on the Belarus side. “Poland has been cruelly holding this group of people on their border in horrendous conditions for weeks,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said in a statement. “Our analysis shows irrefutably on 18 August, their position shifted from Poland to Belarus overnight, which strongly suggests that they were victims of an unlawful pushback.”
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  4657.  @balsolvag6220  I posted facts, you post opinions. Not going around in circles when I've already answered every point you just made. Stop wasting my time with yer whining... PS France has over 1 million Polish immigrants, here in Britain we've taken over 2 million Polish immigrants, Russia and Germany have also both taken around 400,000 Polish immigrants each. You should have room for around 3.8 million... Stop wasting my time, anything I post you'll say the media are lying, so what's the point in arguing with the terminally delusional?
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  4658.  @balsolvag6220  PPS America has taken in 2.2 million Polish immigrants... That's 6 million Polish immigrants who have had the good fortune to move to a country that doesn't let them freeze to death on the border, or illegally push them back into a neighbouring country. And yes, Belarus are out of order, but that doesn't excuse your double standards and lack of humanity...
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  4659.  @balsolvag6220  Refugees are not illegal, they have no water or food and at least 6 have frozen to death. They even have the right to cross the border illegally and still claim asylum under international law. Most of them are allies of NATO and hence the Allies of Poland. Stop making ridiculously simplistic arguments and posting misinformation. I haven't time to come back here to correct you all day. I have a life.
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  4660. COP talking shop will be the only thing left standing, except for the bunkers globally where the wealthy will await the healing of the climate they damaged. The global market for “incident and emergency management” (bunkers, supplies, closed systems for air and water) is expected to jump in value from $132.4 billion in 2021 to $423 billion by 2025. In Switzerland alone, there is space for approximately nine million people in one of the country's 360,000 bunkers...
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  4661. Yes, the country is in shambles because of corporate greed, corrupt politicians and compliant media...
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  4662.  @stevejones3868  You are blatantly politically and economically illiterate. You are falling for the agenda of those in power. Don't bother me until you can understand the basics of politics, power, economics and manipulation. Talking to you is like trying to talk Jelly into sapience...
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  4663.  @garethmurray5901  lol erm thanks, I'll treasure those words without prejudice or ridicule for as long as it takes me to type this sentence :)
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  4664.  @knasher2676  So are you a representative from Inanity-R-us or head of the pointless mystic comments department?
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  4665.  @knasher2676  Thanks for telling us a little about yourself. Anything else you'd like to share with the group?
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  4666.  @Steve-fv7zc  Not sure what poison you're on about mate. Unless you're talking about neoliberalism which has infected the US and UK and hit hard...
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  4667.  @primus7776  Thank you and agreed. Or as I like to call them, the 'Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte Society'
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  4668.  @MandyAustin-nl4cn  And the pope keeps allowing known sex offenders to continue in trusted roles where they have contact with children...
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  4669. Loving the idiocy of everyone defending the fascists despite 90% of US domestic terror coming from right-wing groups... Still who needs facts when you're a knuckle-dragging simpleton...
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  4670.  @thorhalfthor4882  lol sorry can't argue with stupid...
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  4671. Trying desperately to be popular. Shouldn't he be PM-ing or crashing the economy again?
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  4672.  @alexbetts8291  I don't care how big their genitalia was. Stealing twigs and eating songbirds? How did the wealthy nobles enforce that nationwide? Did they have security cameras on trees?
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  4673.  @lmy2366  lol seriously. Stop trying to use logic, it's like watching a whale trying to fly... You've misquoted me, misinterpreted me, misunderstood me and provided nothing but petty illogical nonsense in return for my time. If you want to pedantically sealion someone, first you'll need intellect and knowledge. Trying to argue that one wage in the 70s is not the fiscal equivalent of two wages in our current fiscal climate is pointless. Anyone 50 or over will tell you that's nonsense because we've lived through it. Stop trying to manufacture arguments based on your misinterpretation or misunderstanding. It's a pathetic waste of your life and mine. If you have further questions, reread my comments with a dictionary to hand and ask a friend with intellect to interpret the meaning and implications...
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  4674. ​ @lmy2366  Opinionated? it's factual. "Over the last ten years a shocking quarter of a million older people have died from the cold –1 older person every 7 minutes and at the root of this problem are cold, poorly insulated homes." That makes it a financial decision by a government that gives over £100 billion to corporations in subsidies every year... Wages haven't gone up. Rises have been lower than the rate of inflation for decades and the cost of living has increased dramatically. I'm not interested in your opinions, I base my comments on proven facts... Now if you want me to use facts to defeat your opinions again, feel free to find another way to repeat the same lies...
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  4675.  @lmy2366  The trade-off is between morality and greed. Corporations dodge taxes and hide profits more and more, recent legislation allows them to do this and the tax burden for the infrastructure those corporations exploit for profits and the lost taxes falls on the taxpayer... US corporation tax was over 30% a few years ago with State and Federal tax, the UK was at 28% 12 years ago before the Tories reduced it to 19%. Who picked up the tax burden for that lost 9%? the taxpayer and therefore it is no coincidence that the cost of living rose as a result as their wages could no longer buy the same amount of goods. Your argument is that we should sacrifice 25,000 pensioners annually so high-wage earners have more incentives? Pathetic...
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  4676.  @lmy2366  lol you are beyond logic and reason and I'm sick of swapping facts for opinionated nonsense. Have a nice life with your factless circular debates. I've better things to do than try and talk you into sentience...
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  4677. ​ @lmy2366  Can you show where you've provided any facts? You've provided contradictions of your own posts which are all opinions. You're apparently not in favour of shifting tax burdens onto some other group yet that was your response to a loss of 9% of corporations tax which got shifted from the private sector to the public sector. So what you really mean is you're not in favour of moving the tax burden back onto those who exploit it most. Infrastructure is roads, industrial parks, Hospitals, Car Parks, Shopping centres, housing estates, the national grid, sewage and water pipes, telecoms, energy, transport etc... All of which are used so the question of which infrastructure is irrelevant, all infrastructure is paid for from GDP if you have a loss of 9% corporation tax that has to be redeemed from another group. Common myths you perpetuate: Corporations would have to increase prices, no they'd have to reduce excessive profiteering. Corporation tax will cost us a loss of trade. You think Nike or Mcdonald's will stop selling in the UK if we put the corporation tax back to a reasonable amount? The same amount or less than they are paying in other countries? Cur their profits out of spite? not likely m8... Privatisation of Energy is the reason we pay them subsidies and the reason we are now blackmailed by energy companies making bumper profits. Who tops up low wages from corporations? The taxpayer via tax credits. Who pays for subsidies? The taxpayer. Who paid for the infrastructure for the national grid? The taxpayer. Who now profits from that infrastructure and fail to maintain it? Corporations. Who covers the annual tax gap from corporate tax losses of £40-120 billion per annum? the taxpayer. Who pays for the energy bill support grants? The taxpayer - While shell makes bumper profits. Why are tax credits and energy grants necessary? corporate greed... I'm not repeatedly going around in circles, I've been patient and kind enough to offer facts to support every comment I've made. Take care, that was my last reply!
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  4678.  @lmy2366  lol you aren't even able to follow an argument. National income? has increased in real terms? only 49% of household income is from wages? Can't find those stats when I search for them individually so I assume they aren't real. How were they calculated? by what formula have they produced these absurd figures? what organisation? Those questions are rhetorical as a circular debate is pointless! You said you don't agree with shifting the tax burden onto different groups, I pointed out that the loss of 9% corporation tax would have to be picked up by the taxpayer, and then I stated that was moving the burden from the private sector to the public sector. Hence it was a retort to your own statement. It has nothing to do with whether you agree with every choice of government, I never suggested that and it's not relevant I simply pointed out the contradiction in your statement. Your personal observations of purchased products are irrelevant that's anecdotal and we are talking about average wages for working people in general. Your taxes regardless of what you purchase, pay for all the infrastructure as does every taxpayer... Those taxes pay for schools, hospitals, roads, telecoms, energy etc that are used by corporations and their employees. Naive? Shell made record profits in the first two quarters and paid zero windfall tax because of loopholes provided by the Tories. Yet energy prices have increased by multiple factors in the past 2 years alone. "Corporate tax will cost us a loss of trade" never did say that. It's implied in several of your comments. Tax credits are paid to people who are on low wages to top their money up to something they can live on, barely. That money is paid by the government and therefore comes out of our taxes, it's surprising you don't understand that basic fact. Subsidies are paid out of our taxes to Privatised industries like the energy companies, stop taking everything personally, we are talking about corporate greed affecting the cost of living in general for working people. Hence why it is wholly relevant. It seems you're unable to discuss things in general without referencing yourself. I use stats not anecdotal stories... "Whom isn't greedy?" we are talking about the deaths of 25,000 pensioners because of excessive energy prices and you try an inane comment like that? How is that a rebuttal of my comment? it's nonsense. What Eutopia? you think corporations paying their fair share of the tax burden is Eutopia? wow such low standards... You seem unable to follow a debate as I've just proven. Your so-called stats don't exist on any website I can find. But are obviously a misrepresentation of reality as we have the highest cost of living and lowest wages for a decade. Those are facts that you can freely search. I've comprehensively defeated every single point in your last reply as I've done with the others. Your misunderstanding and inability to comprehend a continuous debate over several replies make debate impossible as I've previously stated. Anyways take care and please don't reply again I've spent hours trying to explain things to you and painstakingly rebutted every point several times over.
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  4679.  @lmy2366  lol you haven't a clue... Don't ever post to me again...
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  4680.  @jankohrasko3  What's in your left pocket? Is this a game of dumb questions, because I'm quite good at that game...
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  4681. @UCqZegC4gTw-m8wLwyyEPutQ lol yes global debt is $289 trillion Q1 2021 over three and half times global GDP and it's not the system is it? that's people's fault...Sure. Missed logic 101 I assume?
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  4682.  @anangrycat86  If it was survival of the fittest I'd be surprised if you managed to survive infancy...
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  4683.  @mrc3014  Stockholm syndrome for their government and a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance is hard to argue with mate. As you say ignorance is bliss.
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  4684.  @anangrycat86  You can't even spell my name, just shows how good your perceptual skills are. See you first dopey!
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  4685.  @anangrycat86  lol I'm 49, 16 stone and do Wim Hof's cold showers, breathing techniques and 50 push-ups on a single breath. You may find yourself just as outgunned as you clearly are in a battle of wits...
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  4686.  King Arwald  Have I, you mean my wanting a decent wage, decent pension in my old age, not to pay for corporations greed and a decent society to bring up a family is some how extremist? Jog on!
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  4687. @UCqZegC4gTw-m8wLwyyEPutQ Your pop psychology and knowledge of memes is about as well observed as a Dodo... Spare me your intellectual deficiencies...
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  4688.  King Arwald  I've forgotten more about British political history, Geopolitics and Economics than you will ever know. From the Peasant's revolt, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Rebbeca Rioters to the Attlee government who rebuilt after ww2 and built social housing to replace slums. To the history of the Central Banks from 1913 on. To the fact that we have Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency which since the loss of the gold standard is backed by no physical resource. While we have $289 trillion global debt which is over 3 and a half times global GDP, like I said a system of debt...
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  4689.  King Arwald  lol you call that a rebuttal? I'm opposing that system right now by commenting here in the first place. While you're kissing rich people's ring and doffing your cap to people who wouldn't look twice at you...
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  4690.  King Arwald  Solution = Resource-based economy, sustainably managed and ecologically friendly. Problem = Rich people don't like that solution...
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  4691.  King Arwald  Resource-based economy is the absence of finance, money etc. We also don't use resources sustainably or ecologically. So no we have none of those things. Maybe if you drop your ego you'll stop turning up to a battle of wits unarmed.
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  4692.  King Arwald  lol going for it on kissing your 'betters' arses? Does forelock-tugging so strenuously hurt?
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  4693.  King Arwald  Do you have to lower your own IQ with each statement? "Resource-Based Economy is a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude."
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  4694.  @chrisl6291  China has done extraordinarily well in lifting people out of absolute poverty, but the term I used was poverty. If you look on the human development index China is 0.761, while the UK is higher at 0.932. the US are on 0.926 with Australia on 0.944. While the HDI considers other factors than finance, like life expectancy and education it's a good indicator.
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  4695.  @wrongwatch  I used to love the red and white Marlboro soft packs when I was younger, these days I can't afford to smoke.
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  4696.  @youtubemakesmedothis7280  lol such a pathetic argument. Anyone with enough intellect to realise we are being used by rich elites is jealous. Learn the realities of life before making silly statements online...
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  4697.  @youtubemakesmedothis7280  I appreciate the effort of a bit of research. Here's a few facts for you. Money is a human construct that allows a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the World's 'actual' resources. Most if not all Billionaires/Millionaires make their profit from exploiting low wage workers, sweatshops, child labour and a corrupt system. Global debt is £300 trillion - 4x global GDP. Proving Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency are a farce. We live in a corrupt system of debt slavery. There are very few rich elites who do anything positive for humanity. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos etc doubled their wealth during the pandemic. Charity is a form of tax relief to these people. If they were good people they'd use their money for good, and would no longer be billionaires/millionaires. Most of them use the same resources as a small country and then claim the world is overpopulated... Capitalism has stalled human advancement by producing an endless stream of plastic rubbish to advance the profits of shareholders while exploiting the only two resources that exist - Human beings and the Planet (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) to the brink of extinction.
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  4698. Abusers of human rights and misogynistic insular neanderthals. Anyways enough about the Tories what are the Taliban doing?
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  4699.  Super Bad  Probably, but the US is overstretched covering Iran, Venezuela, China, Syria and many other places. It's endgame time for capitalism, nuclear proliferation has restarted and I'm just going to sit back and watch the twilight of our species before the darkness comes :)
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  4700.  @itsourlife  It's funny how so many people struggle to leave the country but Opium is probably on most planes leaving...
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  4701. Looks pink to me, is there a filter being used?
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  4702.  @anglosaxonmike8325  I get censored for using actual facts rather than dismissing obvious climate change. It's not red because there is a filter being used.
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  4703. Cities can defend themselves by not allowing billionaire capitalists who deny climate change while causing it from living there?
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  4704. BLM isn't a competition all you 'all lives matters' morons. It's about injustice and prejudice within a society, of course, all lives matter but that isn't contradicted by a movement BLM trying to get justice and equality. You're just standing in the way of progress!
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  4705.  Leonidas I  Thank you for proving what an ignorant child would have said...
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  4706.  Leonidas I  BLM is an organisation that tackles injustice and prejudice in society, they would be the first to say all lives matter. But as an organisation, their job is to gain equality and equity for minorities that suffer under a predominantly white culture that affords them different opportunities or lack of. It's really quite simple...
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  4707.  Leonidas I  Reading Marx doesn't necessarily make someone a Marxist, in the same way reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... an Elephant.
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  4708.  Leonidas I  You argue opinions instead of facts, and they are always insane fringe opinions, hardly worth me even insulting you anymore... BLM was started by a Marxist and some of them may be Marxist. Some of them may be lesbians. All of them are fighting prejudice and stupidity which you seem to possess in large quantities...
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  4709.  @babalonkie  Agreed on all points.
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  4710.  @Bevrinton Between 2010 when Tories took power and 2019: The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed. 5,000 less Mental Health Nurses. The number of NHS beds has halved between 1987 and 2019 I hope none of your family ever need medical care...
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  4711.  @Bevrinton  Annual NHS spending increase under Blair (Labour): 6.1% Annual NHS spending increase under Brown (Labour): 5.4% Annual NHS spending increase under Cameron (Tory): 1.4% Annual NHS spending increase under May (Tory): 1.1%
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  4712.  @Bevrinton  lol you sound like a thick Tory sycophant. So no point me trying to use logic, facts and reason as you've already proven. The cuts and loss of funds have screwed the NHS, people like you. Have fun when its privatised and you have to mortgage your house to treat your illness...
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  4713. Because the media encourage the witless members of the working-class to vote against their own best interests while covering up Tory failures.
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  4714. Red neoliberalism or blue neoliberalism. Corporate-funded parties to the left of me clowns to the right, here I am stuck in Tory Britain with you!
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  4715. The likelihood of success is about the same as me winning the lottery, which is not very likely considering I don't play the lottery...
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  4716. 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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  4717. lol what a farce the human race has become, consume, obey, bow and scrape...
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  4718.  @wayneford2481  The man with the backbone of a chocolate eclair and all the charisma of a used tissue? The man who was born with a silver foot in his mouth and has delusions of adequacy? The only man to have sold his soul and get a full refund? in roubles? No not me :)
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  4719.  @DJWESG1  'Seriously' isn't the tone of the comment :P
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  4720. Trump is certainly a cult - I may have spelt that wrong...
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  4721.  @reginavittoria  lol It's a country, The UK is a union... For now!
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  4722. I just wish the media would stop picking on the Tories. Every day another scandal, parliamentary rule break, laws broken, fraud accusation, mass corruption and cronyism story and yet no Tory MP is ever sacked, brought to justice, jailed or fined. Which surely proves their innocence...
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  4723. Iran = bad, N.Korea = bad, Cuba = bad. All of them are not members of the World Bank and therefore their citizens are not collateral debt enslaved cash cows :)
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  4724.  @randomlyswatching9481  I didn't like my own comment, but thanks for proving how quick you are to error... As much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  4725.  @randomlyswatching9481  My comment is a generalisation about the system, specifically systems that use currency as its base. I think a resource-based economy would be a far superior and more ecologically friendly system of logistics...
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  4726.  @randomlyswatching9481  No we use Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency and have global debts of over $300 trillion. Over 4 times global GDP. It's growing at an alarming rate, meaning those who own the debts can buy more water, land and human labour... It's a pyramid scheme that ends with a few demi-gods ruling the world is some dystopian corporatocracy...
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  4727.  @randomlyswatching9481  PS Money is simply a human construct that enables a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources (land, water, human labour)!
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  4728. Congratulations to the US for following their manifest destiny, upholding their second amendment rights and allowing children and the innocent to suffer the consequences of their brutally idiotic system...
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  4729.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Labour under Sir Kiddie Starver are not much better at all as they have the same backers. Labour sold out decades ago, but they aren't so destructive to the country and its people.
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  4730.  @phillipq5814  Poland should have thought of that before agreeing to those laws and regulations when they joined the EU, and when they sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq as part of NATO, which created those refugees... The ship sailed on cultural diversity centuries ago; genetically, culturally and literally...
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  4731.  @balsolvag6220  lol right-wing idiots can't even read the hundreds of articles that clearly state they are refugees...
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  4732. Despite the mess the Tories have made with Brexit, the pandemic and the state of the country imagine the state the UK would be in if Corbyn had won with his Free Broadband, Green Industrial Revolution, Rebuilding Public Services, Tackling Poverty and Inequality ensuring the NHS was funded and that no school child goes hungry...
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  4733.  @haranyan5420  Yep they also dropped out of the Paris climate accord, and three nuclear treaties under Trump, restarting the arms race and nuclear proliferation.
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  4734.  @GARDENER42  lol you mean spending £120.1 billion in subsidies alone (2021), the tax breaks, bailouts, grants increases in fares and low efficiency is better? Privatisation provides profits out of your taxes to shareholders and adds layers of admin and managers on huge salaries. There are literally hundreds of articles regarding transport, railway, water, energy, communications, mail that prove you are wrong!
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  4735.  @GARDENER42  No there aren't mate. Privatisation has been a huge con. Accept the truth and look for the evidence. I read multiple articles regarding all the industries I mentioned. It's not just proof regarding certain industries, it's proof regarding the flawed concept!
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  4736. 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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  4737. You don't have to be skinny, you don't have to be perfect, you just have to be you!
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  4738. lol the sooner the world forgets or locks up the orange snake-oil salesman the better. It's so depressing that such a waste of human skin could take so much airtime from real issues...
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  4739. It's a nationwide problem due to changes and cuts enforced by the Tories - blame game from Suella de Villain.
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  4740.  @billcarson532  Not at all, I just rely on things called logic and reason. You should try it sometime...
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  4741. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian TV That's a narrow definition of what Tim said. I did watch the whole video. We keep making excuses for these people, Hunt has even more on his conscience and is now chancellor. This is a class war the Tories are perpetuating and most people seem oblivious to the loss of life...
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  4742.  @djbogz1921  I'm lucky to get 20% of comments visible, I was banned on Twitter for upsetting the 'feelings' of right whingers by using facts and stats...
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  4743. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian TV Well my comment is obviously aimed at Tim's nonchalance regarding Hancock. Tim is big enough to take criticism and I'm big enough to still agree with Tim on other issues.
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  4744.  @Onur-ng7cz  The world ground to a halt, most shipping, transport, airlines, petrol stations did virtually nothing for a year. The price of fossil fuels plummeted to less than a third of what they were. Don't bother typing if you lack the intellect of even a syphilitic, crack-addicted rabbit...
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  4745.  @craigmclaren3241  Energy is abundant, it's virtually free. Electrons are everywhere, We have geothermal energy, solar energy, wind, rain, rivers, coastal hydro sources. In fact anything that moves can be harnessed for its kinetic energy. Fossil fuels are for dinosaurs, literally...
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  4746.  @craigmclaren3241  Feel free to stop making redundant comments. I mean seriously are you captain of the inept squad? a representative of inanity-R-us? Head of the pointless comments department?
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  4747.  @marmedli9124  lol yes they have a lot of control, but this is fossil fuel companies. Stop listening to right-whinge conspiracy...
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  4748.  @jamesmoyes5685  lol yes, fossil fuel extortion is because of renewable forms of energy that never run out and are infinite...
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  4749.  @RetroMasters1977  You also didn't read the reply before yours I gave to Andrew I assume, we were talking about oil companies, not just energy... "Exxon annual gross profit for 2020 was $30.942B. Exxon gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2022 was $91.013B around 3x the profit of the pandemic year..."
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  4750.  @jamesmoyes5685  We are 46% renewables, if we were 100% we would be able to control energy prices. I have provided plenty of facts and stats in this thread for you to read. If you can't understand the basics ask a child to help explain it to you!
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  4751.  @jamesmoyes5685  lol Lithium and Cobalt are mined for your mobile phone and technology. Very little to do with renewables. Check your dumb!
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  4752. @Raymondo666 You obviously don't understand energy production. Oil is energy and gas, fossil fuel companies sell it as petrol, oil and gas which is used to generate our electricity. You can't delink it, and renewables are the solution. You haven't a clue!
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  4753. Stay woke was an African-American term the origins of which can be traced back to 1938 and the blues performer Lead Belly. It was a term used to warn African-Americans to be aware of social prejudice and their history of being marginalised and discriminated against. It became the shortened 'woke' during the civil rights movement and was simply a term to describe an African-American aware of their history. Now it has been hyped up by the media and the far right to include anything they don't like...
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  4754. 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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  4755. I just hope that someday we find the object that ties her to this realm and destroy it. In so doing send her back to the underworld from whence she came...
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  4756. Thanks to Clinton and US imperialism...
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  4757.  @analogdistortion  Firstly Libya is not Iraq, secondly, the CIA instigated the Arab spring backed by US capitalists to protect US petrodollar hegemony and loot the Middle East and Africa. Libya was a socialist country they used 'The Green System'. Gaddafi was 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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  4758.  @analogdistortion  lol I see that famous right-wing logic at work, I use facts, history and reason so you label me and provide no rebuttal of the facts. Like I said before bro, take the OG out of your name...
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  4759.  @analogdistortion  lol not Capitalist? they did it to loot resources to sell and protect the petrodollar. Top weapons manufacturers, mercenary companies, specialists, bankers and the fossil fuel industry are peak Capitalism. Seriously how did you survive infancy?
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  4760.  @analogdistortion  lol learn about geopolitics in a capitalist system. Just stop talking you're a political illiterate...
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  4761. A large percentage of the human race trying to fix problems caused by a few, the endless pantomime continues...
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  4762. Tossing teddy bears should be illegal...
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  4763.  @michaelcoward1902  Take your simplistic nonsense to someone who is naive enough to believe it. I'm well aware of private companies and their compliance with legislation, and their bias to their shareholders. We are being silenced while the world heads towards a dystopian corporatocracy. This isn't the first legislation proposed by Priti or indeed the Tories, that impinges on our rights.
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  4764.  @michaelcoward1902  Your arguments lack logic and reason, private companies are bound to comply with international legislation and national legislation. I haven't agreed with you, I corrected you. The Tories have already introduced internet legislation that restricts our rights and has been trying to introduce more. The fact that I can make basic comments has no logical connection to internet regulations that restrict me. The fact you think that's a logical argument proves your naivete and your lack of reasoning skills. PS your surname is apt...
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  4765.  @michaelcoward1902  I just posted 4 headlines from 4 of the top UK news sites, the comment has been deleted.
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  4766.  @michaelcoward1902  I didn't post links, just the titles, please stop making excuses and look at the legislation and research the subject. Ill-informed opinions can be more damaging than erroneous opinions.
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  4767.  @michaelcoward1902  That's the opposite of my point and therefore further proves your lack of logic and reason. But you may want to check what human rights and free speech are about. Especially regarding the use of my taxes! PS most comments that get deleted are rebuttals to opinion pieces where I quote figures from the IFS or stats from the ONS. Please just read some articles, legislation and stop making comments out of ignorance, it's a waste of your time and mine.
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  4768.  @michaelcoward1902  Try and learn something from the time you've wasted attempting to argue with me. "In 1998, the United Kingdom incorporated the European Convention into its domestic law under the Human Rights Act." The exact passage you need to understand I'll provide you with just to shut you up. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
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  4769.  @michaelcoward1902  Please don't infer what my understanding is, and please stop discussing things you are ignorant of. I've had 5 comments deleted in this conversation with you.
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  4770.  @michaelcoward1902  I've already proven my understanding is based on fact, I provided you with those facts. BTW it's your not you're you thick sponge.
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  4771. Matt Hancock is no longer beneath my contempt...
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  4772.  @nuttynutts2270  You are a sad strange little man, and you have my pity.
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  4773. The way they treat migrants is how they'd treat us citizens if given half a chance. They live in a world that revolves around worshipping the prophets of profit and disdain the poor, disabled and hard-working people of Britain. How they keep getting elected is beyond me, I'll have to have a proper gander at that later...
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  4774.  @AZNXXXful14  The integration of information in my creation and imagination is for your interpretation and conversation but not for interrogation.
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  4775.  @gratefulblacksugar9619  The foundation of innovation is information and my deliberation, demonstration is an invitation to a revelation for the elevation of speculation.
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  4776.  @jeanmcguinness3297  My sincere apologies, I ate a dinosaur for breakfast - a thesaurus vex...
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  4777.  @rickatatastan2695  A selfish Philosophy from the right-wing anti-hero Ayn Rand. I'm not interested in social animals who believe their own importance supersedes society and their own natural instincts... If everyone believed that we'd all die from the first serious illness, accident or bad run of luck.
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  4778. Meh I'll try again "I'm more worried about the carrot kleptocrats, the parsnip pilferers and the swede swindlers within the Tory party. Liz Truss has surely already defeated herself with her own track record and laughable slip-ups that inhabit the trending trash of yesteryear. The lettuce lobby are concerned with pushing Truss as she's clearly easily led and not the brightest bulb in Britain. The fact that our political landscape is full of such vegetables is a sad reflection on the electorate..." grr YT algorithm has an agenda...
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  4779. Prigozhin probably took a huge bung from the West and then got even more from Putin to go away...
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  4780. Economic crisis manufactured by the world bank and IMF...
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  4781. Black Friday, bought base layers a few weeks ago for £19.99 full set, and now they are £25 with a 'Black Friday' reduction of 15% making them £21.25 lol
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  4782. Oh no, I'm triggered by your intellectually compelling argument... PS I heard that Global Debts are now $289 trillion, over three and half times global GDP, which suggest that Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency is a farce and only creates a system of debt-slavery :)
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  4783.  @anangrycat86  lol it's funny watching poor people pretend they're rich, cap doffing and forelock-tugging must be in this year.
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  4784. @Alexander I called myself triggered in my initial comment sardonically, repeating me isn't big and it isn't clever. But I suppose if you have nothing witty or intelligent to say parroting other people is acceptable...
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  4785. @Alexander Well clean your teeth and put your pyjamas on and I'll pop up in a minute to read you a bedtime story...
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  4786.  @anangrycat86  Still toting fallacy after being warned? Stupidity is making the same mistakes repeatedly... "Now please don't fall into the logical fallacy of claiming I can't complain about a system I was born into.."
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  4787.  @anangrycat86  Whereas you failed to graduate nursery school...
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  4788. Yes, but whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown: 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 manipulating millions of Brits every day, In the awful Tory Britain full of poverty and decay, On a planet in the embarrassed Milky Way.
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  4789. Those damn ignorant abusers of human rights, misogynistic insular neanderthals. Anyways enough about the Tories what are the Taliban doing?
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  4790.  @steveo4991  lol take your opinions to someone with a low IQ. Snowflakes gave their lives for your rights and privileges...
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  4791.  @steveo4991  lol sorry mate, you don't understand the story, you don't understand British history and how you were given the rights you now have and you aren't worth replying to... Everything you are you owe to your parents, give them 10p and square the account...
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  4792.  @steveo4991  Catchphrases instead of logic, reason and a rebuttal. That sounds about right mate. Didn't expect intellectual debate from you anyway... About as much use as a rubber beak on a woodpecker...
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  4793.  @steveo4991  Still trying to use phrases you don't understand as you have no logical, intelligent rebuttal? Aww never mind m8, read a book. You do realise trees are producing oxygen for you, I think you owe them an apology...
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  4794. Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  4795.  @karthikj8969  lol he only restarted nuclear proliferation and dropped out of human rights, and climate control legislation last time he was president... He's a danger to the future of the species...
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  4796.  @Nickle314  People pay for their pensions - if that money is gambled away or used to make profit then that is the fault of a corrupt government. I don't hear you complaining about giving wealthy corporations over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies, neither do I hear you complaining about the tens of billions lost to corporate tax non-payment via the tax gap every year. I can't hear you complain about the tens of billion given to mates of the Tories in contracts via cronyism. I don't hear anything about the billions taken from the NHS budget by for-profit organisations. I have plenty more examples, you have basic misunderstandings and Tory myths. Don't bother me with inane comments, I have better things to do like teaching fish calligraphy or training whales to fly...
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  4797.  @0w784g  Blair is the reason I left the Labour party. But yes it's based on a typical Tory MP - I would have to change it to fit Labour MPs. Whatabouttery is the lowest form of debate...
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  4798.  @0w784g  I answered your comment fully so your statement is just as pointless as the first. Try logic, reason and critical thinking...
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  4799.  @paultyler9600  Sorry mate I'm on the toilet and can only deal with one sh1t at a time. Triggered much by facts sweetie? We lose thousands a week because of cuts, but the strikes don't affect medical emergencies where lives are at stake...
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  4800. I can't remember if I cried. When news of 9/11 went worldwide. But society was changed from deep inside. The day... the Truth... died...
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  4801.  @kevinb6831  It's logical as socialism is a replacement of capitalism doh! But the free market isn't free if you're cut off from it. PS It's social democracy that is the version of socialism that works in capitalism and provides the highest quality of life, pensions and medical care in the world. Check Sweden, Norway, Finland etc for examples. The nordic model of Social Democracy. Sponge... PS if someone bombs your country, loots your savings of $150 billion, 143 tons of gold, 100+ tons of silver, natural resources - oil, lithium etc by lying to the international community and then waging war on civilians leaving them enslaved, you really shouldn't defend that with 'meh capitalism'... America refused to compete in a free market against a strong rival and instead murdered the rival by deciet to protect US dollar hegemony...
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  4802.  @kevinb6831  There are no failed examples. Just examples of capitalists waging war unlawfully against a legit economic rival, because America can't solve its own problems, can't even provide clean water for Flint, safe schools for kids or an educated populous. PS can you stop spewing meme logic at me when I've already obliterated your argument with enough examples...
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  4803.  @crown9413  Democrats have been taken over by neoliberals since the Reagan years. The Democrat leadership is controlled so that corporate-friendly warmongers get into office. Flint isn't the only example of poor water quality in the US, it's national. Nordic socialism has given those countries decent pensions, the large welfare state and medical care, not to mention worker's rights. No one said they weren't capitalist countries, I explained what Social Democracy is already. I've also done the argument regarding socialism ie embargoes, sanctions, blockades, military use to enforce regime change and steal the country's wealth. Not going to do circular arguments.
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  4804.  @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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  4805.  @terminsane  You don't understand geopolitics and talk like a political illiterate. Your economic knowledge seems limited as you fail to understand Fractional Reserve Banking and the con of a debt-based society. Your capitalist programming is dogmatic and makes you believe fallacy over reality. Trying to put words in my mouth based on your own flawed understanding of the topic is childlike. Capitalism has cost us over 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction and costs millions of lives per annum in resource wars alone. Let alone the fallout of industrial accidents, or the escalation of flooding, wildfires and extreme weather. I've had a wonderful debate, but this wasn't it!
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  4806.  @crown9413  lol Forced Labour? China and congo are communists? You mean the largest growing economy in the world is not an economy? Please read more than just memes before trying to debate. Your arguments are pathetic.
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  4807.  @crown9413  It's the Democratic Republic of Congo, the clue is in the name... IE It's a Democratic Republic which means democracy without a hereditary King or Queen... China has the most billionaires in 2021, because they embraced capitalism. Communism is a replacement of capitalism. There are no billionaires or dictators in a communist system because the people run the country and there is no monetary economy. Communism and Socialism are very different and are both replacements of capitalism, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are the only systems that have Socialist ideology within a capitalist marketplace. Now please stop elaborating on your ignorance by typing...
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  4808.  @crown9413  No Socialism and Communism are two different systems based on the writings of Marx and Engels. Democratic Socialism is socialist ideals used within a capitalist construct. Socialism is the end goal of Socialism and Democratic Socialism whereas Social Democracy fits in a capitalist world with no goal of moving to socialism. China was in a transitory state from a form of communism towards full-blown capitalism but that's now met with them having the largest economy outside the US. But the US has dollar hegemony backed by a gun. China owns over $1 trillion of US debt. PS you seem to have forgotten me mentioning China has more billionaires than the US, the true test of advanced capitalism...
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  4809. Wish I was immune to the extinction of the species and intellect...
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  4810. He did the same thing to the country that he did that pig's head...
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  4811. Biden may be a forgetful old weirdo on the centre of the political spectrum, but he's still a huge step up from the tangerine troglodyte!
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  4812.  @AndrewArminRyan  Consumer capitalism? You still don't seem to understand the main tenet of Fascism is the merger of state and corporate power which means more control for corporations and less autonomy for people. Essentially a corporatocracy headed by a dictator... PS Neoliberalism has ruled in the west for 3 decades and is right-wing started by Thatcher and Reagan - both conservatives. So wtf has liberal democracy to do with it? Another politically illiterate right-whinger who doesn't understand the fact that under fascism he would be a slave worker or a disposable soldier with no rights... Some people walk blindly into hell through ignorance and drag decent people along for the ride with ill-informed votes...
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  4813. @Dario Cordell She's a far-right member of a neo-fascist organisation. Read stuff now and again!
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  4814. @Dario Cordell lol the media is 80% owned by Tory donors and regurgitates Tory myths. I analyse information, stats, facts, and history to understand the world. I always check an article, check the facts and ask myself why are they telling me this? You are being used by the wealthy to sell their dream of working people sleepwalking into a fascist corporatocracy where we have no rights.
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  4815. China makes all the tech devices we use while India makes all our clothes, they are then sold by western corporate giants...
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  4816. Poland has been a member of NATO since 1999 and therefore is responsible for the wars that created those refugees and signed legislation to take their fair share of refugees who can't return home for threat of persecution and death. But let's not let facts get in the way of your ignorance and xenophobia...
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  4817.  @edwardvalivonis23  I have. Next?
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  4818.  @hourbee5535  The ship sailed on cultural diversity when ships were invented... Poland agreed to take their fair share of refugees and are now going back on that agreement. They are also responsible for the reason these people are refugees as part of NATO... Just like when Hitler invaded Poland and the world had to take in Polish refugees...
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  4819.  @hourbee5535  lol so you're an imbecile...
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  4820.  @edwardvalivonis23  I'm Welsh and I'd be happy to :)
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  4821.  @nomiskynlem78  They are part of NATO and Poland and Germany both agreed to the invasion are you ignorant of facts? Polish soldiers had been present in Iraq since July 2002 and combat was first confirmed on March 24. Who sent armed forces into Iraq? United States, Denmark, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. What about Afghanistan? Polish soldiers have been present in Afghanistan for almost 20 years. Over 33 thousand soldiers and employees of the Ministry of National Defense participated in the mission. In 2003, Germany's parliament voted to send Bundeswehr troops to Afghanistan in support of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Germany became the third-largest contributor of troops and led the Regional Command North. By December 2014, in support of the American-led military intervention against ISIL, the German cabinet approved the deployment of up to 100 Bundeswehr troops to northern Iraq to train Peshmerga forces. As for cultures being stuck in the middle ages, I'd say that about most religious groups, being an atheist.
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  4822.  @nomiskynlem78  Whatever mate? you mean you lied and got caught out? Don't tell me to open my eyes when you didn't even know Germany and Poland both sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. You are the ignorant one using xenophobia rather than facts and I've already proven I understand the complexities far more than you. Now go do some reading and stop talking nonsense...
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  4823.  @nomiskynlem78  You can't even count you've labelled two points as 4. Are you a right-whinge sponge by any chance? everything I have said is factually accurate. I'm not interested in circular debate with someone who has already been proven wrong. My agenda is the truth and defeating the lies of ignorant racists... You are the one who lacks education, numeracy, literacy and facts...
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  4824.  @nomiskynlem78  lol you all say you don't want immigrants because of their religion and culture. That's racism. Don't cry because you got caught out.
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  4825.  @edwardvalivonis23  You do know I'm a person and not a country don't you? doh! They're welcome in Wales, we have Ska and Two-tone thanks to Jamaican immigration in the 50s, we have Indian takeaways, Italian restaurants, Polish supermarkets, Chinese food all thanks to immigration, it's great :)
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  4826.  @edwardvalivonis23  I have a one-bedroom flat, not sure 1,000s of people would fit mate. But as I already pointed out I'm not a country! Stop confusing individuals with countries, it's easy to tell the difference...
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  4827.  @nomiskynlem78  Don't split hairs and use semantics to deny your own statements. I have Ska and Two-tone music thanks to Jamaican and Caribbean immigration, Indian takeouts, Italian food, Polish supermarkets, Bavarian beer and many other cultural influences thanks to immigration. I also have Saxon DNA mixed in with my predominant Celtic makeup. I use Mesopotamian currency and numeracy, Greek democracy, as well as Christian cultural influences from the Middle East and some guy named Jesus. Not that I'm religious, I'm an athiest. The ship sailed on multiculturalism when we invented boats!
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  4828.  @nomiskynlem78  Most of my last comment is new. I thought you said you were a teacher? you don't have the intellect to realise you've lost the battle and are now just making yourself look foolish... If you have a problem with the number of refugees in your local neighbourhood, blame your own government...
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  4829. If only the CIA hadn't instigated the Arab Spring as a pretext to loot the middle east...
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  4830. I made (insert the appropriate amount of currency here) trading with (insert name of financial advisor here) I can't believe people think this is a pyramid scheme...
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  4831.  @stuartpenman6387  You can't be that ignorant that you didn't notice everything I type can be proven by stats and facts. Maybe politically and economically illiterate trolls shouldn't try to judge other people based on their own ignorance... PS your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  4832. @UCaBqIrBlOzSYgiM6rdr9AFg Still just wagging your tongue without saying anything then. All of your ancestors must number in the millions; it’s hard to believe that many people are to blame for producing you...
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  4833. The acting deputy commissioner says that lawmakers breaking the law in an unprecedented manner isn't something she should comment on? corruption all the way to the top. What a farcical country...
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  4834.  @wylde780  I hope he gets plenty of presidential pleasure in the shower room.
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  4835.  @betruthful5196  I'm not a fraudster. You seem to lack understanding of how justice works. Not surprising as you support a criminal...
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  4836. 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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  4837.  @paddyglenny  No it wasn't, despite being an ailing economy for over a decade, we are still considered 'leading' because the Bank of England exports it's financial trickery globally and we provide the majority of corporate tax loses globally via the crown dependencies and overseas territories, thanks to their lack of transparency.
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  4838.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  What part of I recognise psychological manipulation and distorted logic in the form of a fallacious question don't you get? Corporate tax was 28% before the Tories changed it, at the Time the US had a corporate tax of over 30% with state and federal taxation. The idea that lower taxation is beneficial is from the same school of thinking as trickle-down economics. Both are think-tank nonsense that's never been proven to work globally. Speaking of globally thanks to the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories the UK is the largest contributor to global corporate taxation losses. You think Nike or Mcdonald's are going to leave the UK market because of a tax rise? lol
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  4839. It's not judgement or incompetence issues, it's simply that the tories don't give a flying f about British citizens, they only care about profit and the agenda set by the corporate lobbyist donors...
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  4840.  @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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  4841. Dark money, think-tanks, shadowy economic usurpers...
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  4842. Instead of replacing cocoa with some funky nonsense, how about we just stop exploiting developing countries? Blame Cadbury, Nestle and Mars and get them to change their practices...
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  4843. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television Merci, Thanks, Gratzi, Diolch, Gracias. Remember, remember Tory sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  4844.  @ralphlee6386  My comment has been filtered to the bottom of the pile while It was ahead of yours on likes. The main use of Gas is to make electricity so the two are synonymous, I thought you'd have realised that being so opinionated. Your argument about subsidies is untrue, nationalised industry doesn't take subsidies, it's privatised industry that takes subsidies. Most renewables are national projects. Your market prices are based on multiple factors, but the more investment the cheaper and more effective solutions become available. Not that we have a choice as fossil fuels are finite and running out.
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  4845.  @thomasmusso1147  We used to rely solely on hydropower before electricity and steam engines. Africa has thermal energy and space in generous proportions. Britain is ideal for wind, solar and hydro being a windy island... We already generated 43% of our energy requirements in q1 2020 (Solar contributed 28%) with renewables in the UK. Energy is all around us in multiple forms, capitalism is the problem, not renewables.
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  4846.  @timlong7289  I mean platforms that are highly suspicious in terms of integrity and agenda. Such as many media outlets - GB news, TalkTV etc which are clearly propagandist platforms spreading misinformation and fallacious far-right views. I hope you aren't trying to sealion me as that gets boring really fast!
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  4847.  @geraldhewing2076  Not sure if my reply was filtered but you are correct I replied "I mean platforms that are highly suspicious in terms of integrity and agenda. Such as many media outlets - GB news, TalkTV etc which are clearly propagandist platforms spreading misinformation and fallacious far-right views. I hope you aren't trying to sealion me as that gets boring really fast!" Sorry if this is a repost but wanted to be sure.
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  4848.  @geraldhewing2076  lol stop pedantically trying to diminish my point. The Scott Trust is limited and has 5 shareholders with an equal 20% stake. David Adetayo Olusoga, Ole Jacob Sunde, Katharine Sophie Viner, Russell James Scott and Haroon Siddique.
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  4849. Conceited Unctuous Narcissistic Troglodyte.
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  4850. ISIS-K are the low fat option?
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  4851.  @celticsaxon8857  lol seriously, coincidence on top of improbability. A director and director of photography shouldn't even be in any position to be shot at, they are behind the camera...
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  4852. I sometimes think we should force criminals to do community service as politicians. Maybe they'd do a better job, right? I mean how could they do any worse? Then I think maybe not, as having criminals in charge of the treasury is what got us into this mess in the first place...
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  4853. I don't have records of where my ancestors came from because your ancestors didn't give me them when they transported my ancestors to the Caribbean as human cargo... They eventually came to Britain and gave birth to me and so I am British and any further questions just remind me that your ancestors owned mine... That's what should have happened...
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  4854.  @capturedflame  Yep, it's a crazy world. The politicians and the media gaslight us back into the slums and most people will defend them and struggle to feed their kids while blaming immigrants and the disabled/vulnerable for their lack of cash.
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  4855.  @Stevexnycautomotive  You have an appalling grasp on reality and sentence structure. Not even close...
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  4856.  @justachipn3039  Thanks for the cartoons, next time try words. Words are how intelligent grown-ups communicate...
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  4857.  @Peter_Turbo4  You mean the Island owned by Ghislaine Maxwell's ex? You know the one Trump asked "Has she said anything about me?" when she was arrested...
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  4858.  @Peter_Turbo4  Not at all, every word is true. Your lack of ability isn't my concern. Your lack of intellect and intense gullibility isn't my concern. He's a grifter and a snake oil salesman.
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  4859. Trees grow and reproduce without any intervention, it takes a human being and a price tag to ruin a natural process. Stop cutting them down and allow forests to regrow...
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  4860.  @Hertz2laugh  Every country in the world has those problems. It's only the USA that has 260+ mass shootings a year... If I want to debate at your level I'll head for the nearest nursery school and engage the children there in debate...
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  4861.  @Hertz2laugh  Do you have an off button or can I block you IRL? I'm not interested in debating with someone who obviously (by the lack of intellect and knowledge displayed in their comments) has an IQ lower than a crack-addicted, syphilitic hamster. Take your right-wing think tank tropes and biases to someone as gullible and naive as you are... If you climb the intellectual ladder a few more rungs, I may be able to drop down to your level for debate, but at the moment it's clear that debate is not only impossible but likely to lower my own IQ simply by reading your comments...
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  4862.  @golantrevize515  Agreed, That seems evident by the fact that this article was necessary in the beginning. I'm sure YT has removed my comments but having tried to communicate with the average joe on here I eventually revert to sarcasm and ad hominems. Not that I'm an academic of any kind, I'm a poor lad from a council estate who has grown to the grand old age of 50. This was my reply to the previous commenter "Do you have an off button or can I block you IRL? I'm not interested in debating with someone who obviously (by the lack of intellect and knowledge displayed in their comments) has an IQ lower than a crack-addicted, syphilitic hamster. Take your right-wing think tank tropes and biases to someone as gullible and naive as you are... If you climb the intellectual ladder a few more rungs, I may be able to drop down to your level for debate, but at the moment it's clear that debate is not only impossible but likely to lower my own IQ simply by reading your comments..."
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  4863.  @jumpingoutofairplanesmentality  lol, when you learn to spell the name of the city you wish to discuss, I may treat you with a modicum of respect. Until then I will just mock you as you are very unlikely to understand why you are the butt of many jokes globally as an American and an individual. It's clear from the misunderstanding and ignorance of your comment that debate would be about as intellectually stimulating as watching paint dry and about as useful as an ashtray on the international space station... PS thank you for not typing anything witty or intelligent!
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  4864.  @samueledison4676  He didn't use a gun ffs, are you sentient?
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  4865.  @samueledison4676  I've already pointed out that the US has a huge problem with mass killings compared to every sane country in the world. Stop talking nonsense, I'm not American and so have a decent education. "Every country in the world has those problems. It's only the USA that has 260+ mass shootings a year... If I want to debate at your level I'll head for the nearest nursery school and engage the children there in debate..." You also don't have to give up guns, if you're a responsible gun owner then you just need tougher gun controls. No weapons should be carried in public, guns should be locked up at home and transported unloaded in a locked trunk. There should be a waiting period and a proper check for criminal offences, especially violence. Since we legislated those rules in Britain we haven't had a school shooting in over 30 years...
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  4866. I just wanted to say it's winter, the weather is windy with heavy rain, and I just heard and icecream van outside. Surely that's the definition of optimism...
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  4867.  @samiraa8165  South Wales here on a mountain lol.
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  4868. Such an obvious example of the failure of the system, almost as bad as when we bailed out HSBC in 2008. Finance is a farce, just a fiction created to concentrate resources in the hands of a tiny minority while the rest of us struggle in a perpetual cost-of-living crisis...
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  4869.  @jablot5054  A resource-based economy using priority, abundance, production costs and labour to determine the worth of goods. Using renewable resources in a sustainable and ecologically friendly economy...
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  4870. No book should be banned, edited or changed, they are part of our history. The left has always supported freedom of speech and that includes books with views and attitudes we don't share...
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  4871.  @trishsullivan9261  You can't read. I haven't banned or want to ban any book. Sexually explicit books have an age restriction any teacher showing age-restricted books is a criminal and should face charges. Now go away as you lack intellect!
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  4872.  @llh3025  Over 4,000 books have been banned from US schools since 2021. Many thousands of books have been banned historically in the US. It has a long history of book banning including political, race-related, sexuality and many thousands of books have been banned by America's bible belt by lobbying the government...
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  4873. I've just spoken to my lawyer and forwarded the paperwork to divorce the human race. How come evolution seems to work in reverse these days...
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  4874.  @VIVA_CPTPP  Please do, you may also want to call Starmer a corporate lobbyist puppet with the backbone of jellyfish... Assumptions about me you hold are erroneous, as is your support of corrupt aristocratic simpletons...
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  4875.  @petyrkowalski9887  Agreed, taxpayer assets that provided profit or at worst paid for the employees and maintenance of the infrastructure.
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  4876.  @FightingTorque411  Scamming the tax laws globally, scamming sweatshops, scamming sellers, scamming customers, scamming employees, scamming countries. I'm not going to debate it. If you don't think avoiding tax, creating a hostile environment for workers and abusing human and worker's rights globally is scamming I don't know what to say. Bezos is worth $124 billion, if he didn't make another penny he could still spend $1,000,000 every single day for 339 years. Semantics aren't worth an argument mate...
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  4877.  @Conquistador75  Yea, no worries and thanks. I have loads more as well and a few more for the Milk Snatcher... I actually have an old list of around 200 Tory MP criminals who were charged with everything from fraud and attempted murder to wife-beating and child sex offences.
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  4878. No, we will keep ordering from Amazon on our Apple I-phone as the floods swallow our houses and tech gadgets, we will keep exploiting the rest of the world and telling ourselves hard work pays off, we will keep the lie alive that 'competition is better than cooperation' and we will never hold the billionaires, corporations and government parasites responsible. Because the media control the narrative and the rich control the media...
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  4879.  @lamueldagon7618  and malevolent :)
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  4880. Macron is so ineffectual a fascist like Le Pen looks like a credible alternative to the French, it's like they've forgotten everything from 1914 to 1945... Good luck with that!
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  4881. Don't educate the poor, they'll only learn about rights, uprisings, and civil unrest!
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  4882. Agreed, We live in a world of lip service, crocodile tears and logical fallacies, while the wealthy gaslight the poor via their tabloid public relations experts. Manipulations and polarisation designed to continue the masquerade while the political mummers play their artless roles with facile duplicity. They only care to continue the status quo or increase our suffering for their profit.
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  4883. I smite thee! says a mysterious tramp who was previously refused spare change for a cuppa by the couple in question...
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  4884.  @iamjurell  I'm not concerned with your lack of understanding. You don't accept my response yet prove it to be correct with your elongated verbal excretion. I'm not a wolf or a sheep, I'm a Shepherd - your acceptance isn't required or wanted. Your comment makes it clear that communication would be like trying to teach a whale to fly and I've already spent 1,000s of hours being sealioned. So save your knuckles and stop bashing your keyboard looking for validation.
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  4885.  @benfisher1376  lol billionaires and corporate entities who run the world are not middle class and many people are university educated. Your comment is as pointless as your existence...
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  4886.  @princemishkin1601  Clearly you haven't read my previous replies and are projecting...
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  4887.  @princemishkin1601  I said corporate billionaires megalomaniacs as in the individuals not working environments. Middle-class workers doing yoga and drinking espresso in some fancy corporate lounge isn't woke. That's cringeingly entitled. The people who actually own those places like Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg and Bezos are right-wing billionaires. They and their political allies make the rules, evade taxes and shaft workers. There are no left-wing billionaires. They just give money to charity as a tax writeoff and say nice things to confuse idiots. If they gave a damn about people, humanity, the rights of minorities they wouldn't have made billions exploiting them and poor countries.
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  4888. Petroleum products, the industrial revolution, temperature patterns in the past couple of centuries. Connect the dots...
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  4889.  @squamd5777  Why do Trump supporting neanderthals fail to understand humour and take a soapbox, despite the deplorable actions of their hero? Shambolic Sycophants Suffer Psychosis...
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  4890.  @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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  4891.  @olegfedorov3225  Using senior doctors as administrators means they no longer actively perform medical procedures. It was always the way the NHS worked as logic dictates those with experience of the issues have a better understanding and therefore can resolve issues more effectively. The idea that we need specialist administrators who know nothing of the NHS workings has only been the case for the past decade or so. Governments create laws and regulations so your last two sentences are a contradiction...
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  4892. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television We agree on many points. But statistics always have a source with original figures that represent facts. Yes, they are misrepresented by narrowing the field or changing the timeline, exclusion and inclusion of relevant or irrelevant factors. Unequal comparisons and misrepresented conclusions. But the raw data will always provide factual analysis that is far superior to one's own narrow perspective of events. It's a matter of analysing the original figures and the language used to define the parameters. But yes, administrators and economic experts full of their own importance are the bane of modern society. For instance, think-tanks that advise governments on financial matters that then crash the economy. As we saw recently with our previous PM.
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  4893.  @jolantahill787  Funding has gone down of that there is no doubt. But yes the debt, outsourcing, partial privatisation and mismanagement are all part of the puzzle.
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  4894. lol fossil fuel companies who have ruined the climate and overcharge us are all cuddly and fun...
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  4895.  @ftumschk  Brings back memories, At times like this, I always remember what my dear old departed mother drilled into me as a child. "Don't ever vote for those murdering Tory B@stards; products of decades of stagnant evolution from the shallow end of the British gene pool."
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  4896.  @Robert-Downey-Syndrome  It's a merger of corporate and state power, extreme right-wing and typified by a dictatorship. Where all citizens are considered property of the state and cannon fodder...
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  4897. They'd be affordable if Tories' lives depended on it as ours does, but Tories don't believe in free healthcare, they use private healthcare. It's only us suckers whose lifespans are reduced by Tory incompetence and inhumanity...
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  4898. I'm just glad all those people smugglers have been arrested and not the warmongers in the west who created the situation by invading countries based on lies to protect petrodollar hegemony... Let's keep blaming the victims and ignore the profiteering politicians and oil industry...
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  4899.  @purplehaze8557  If you want to discuss migration you should realise most migrants come from Lybia, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Stop wasting my time and your own, you're obviously a political illiterate ignorant of geopolitics... If I wanted to waste my life responding to people like you I'd get a job in the zoo...
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  4900.  @karenneill9109  Not only that but he gave trillions of their hard earned taxes to Wall ST, tried to take human rights and healthcare from them, dropped out of climate agreements so their children would have no future and just to be sure restarted the 'not so cold war' and nuclear proliferation by dropping out of 3 nuclear treaties.
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  4901.  @Ukfairgrounds  Ermn, no. Boris has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. He's the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself but he inspires dullness in others. He also has delusions of adequacy.
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  4902. Tories are economic vampires. They've drained the country and its people dry...
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  4903. Rich people problems, ask her if she can feed her children or pay the rent and energy bill...
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  4904. What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when the Tories drain our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets, The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, while inept Tory policies inspire inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, lives shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this cruel neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout 'Get those forking Tories out!'...
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  4905.  @deejay7648  lol shhh adults talking!
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  4906.  @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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  4907.  @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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  4908.  @longboy7  Learn to punctuate before taking the mick out of a real word... "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) calls it “dialect” for the past tense and past principle of think"
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  4909. lol, would be nice to see. But Rwanda has had enough of civil war and bloodshed in the past few decades, the last thing they need is Johnson turning up...
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  4910. No doubt egged on by royalist tabloids and their constant stories about her...
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  4911. Celebrate the UK being a laughing stock... Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then defecates all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  4912.  @Ibn_Abdulaziz  So children die of cancer so I can appreciate the little things in life? good talk... I'm a born again Athiest... I believe in the universe and science.
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  4913.  @leval1000  I could say the same to you. But essentially I don't type Athiest PR on unrelated stories...
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  4914.  @davedogge2280  Agreed, apart from Brexit, Grenfell, Economic Euthanasia, Disabled Vilification, Election Fraud, Contempt of Parliament, Windrush Scandal, WASPI, Working Poverty, Homeless Crisis, Hostile Env, Food Banks, Universal Credit, NHS Crisis, Austerity what have the Tories ever done for us?
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  4915. Take it out of the £100 billion given to tax-dodging corporations out of our taxes!
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  4916.  @rosenguyen94  Capitalism isn't the best logistical solution. Bezos has $124 billion, that's enough money to spend $1,000,000 every single day for 339 years...
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  4917.  @jackpirie7382  Are you aware that most Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That most Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? Please give generously to these amoral victims of privilege and elitism...
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  4918.  @pbysome  Between 1997 - 2007 Labour only borrowed around £130 billion and reduced our debt to GDP ratio by 4%. In a similar ten year period between 2010 - 2020 the Tories have borrowed £1 trillion 10x the amount! The Tories are also responsible for 3/4s of our £2.7 trillion national debt. The Global Financial Crisis was caused by bankers and the bailout was voted for by both sides of the house... Blaming Labour is economically illiterate Tory mythology...
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  4919.  @shaicruz176  Yes crashing the economy and borrowing more than the combined borrowing of every government since 1945 is action...
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  4920.  @pbysome  That was joke used by a previous Tory administration who left the country in a bad way that the Labour chancellor repeated. It's an ongoing joke between opposition chancellors. The FT article of a few years after the gold sales showed that it was the right move, as it saved us money in the long run. The losses from selling when gold was cheap, were less than the cost of borrowing the money. Listen carefully: " Labour only borrowed around £130 billion and reduced our debt to GDP ratio by 4%. In a similar ten year period between 2010 - 2020 the Tories have borrowed £1 trillion 10x the amount! "
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  4921.  @pbysome  lol we left the gold standard in 1931, the USA left the gold standard in 1971. The borrowing period I compared was 1997 - 2007, and 2010-2020. The Tories borrowed 10x the amount of Labour in the following 10 year period, not much difference in inflation. PS I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4 and renamed them New Labour but I'm defending the truth, can't stand the man!!
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  4922.  @pbysome  PPS the Tories have sold just as much of our gold as Labour and for very much the same reasons. Try again!
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  4923.  @pbysome  Do you take the figure for the gold the Tories sold off into account? Stop wasting my time. Read the Financial Times article about it...
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  4924.  @mydogeatspuke  National debt is now higher than our annual GDP, the money has gone to off-shore accounts and the taxpayer is still liable for that debt as collateral.
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  4925.  @G4RY1159  The annual cost of immigration is less than the weekly cost of subsidies to corporations. Studies prove immigrants pay more back into society than they take out, we currently have a shortage of labour, nurses, doctors etc.
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  4926. We wonder why people have mental health issues when they are bombarded by e-mails, texts, scams, and adverts from a plethora of corporations and other entities that try to force their hands into your back pocket by stealth. Especially when society is suffering huge debt, inflation and cost of living crises.
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  4927. Sure, why not? It's not like we have better things to spend the money on and the human race does lack any decent long-term prospects...
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  4928. What feckless leadership the Tories provide us, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering bleeds our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses of cold and frozen toilet. The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land. Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected...
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  4929. That's a cheap way to recycle, although the cost to the environment is high...
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  4930. Nigel Farage is the Alan Partridge of fash ism. His previous statements and political contributions to the UK have been polarisation, nationalism (not to be confused with patriotism) and self-interest. He's made a lot of money out of being a political oddity.
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  4931. 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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  4932. My favourite thing about Boris is
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  4933.  @markusmuller6173  I doubt we'll survive as a species long enough for it to be a problem :) Just sit back and watch the rancid corpse of disaster capitalism as it chews on the last morsels of humanity...
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  4934.  @markusmuller6173  YT censors me because I use government stats to defeat government lies... Even basic comments on reaction channels get censored. YT must be worried about my beliefs regarding equality and justice...
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  4935.  @eggboundanddown9851  My pleasure.
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  4936. Windfall tax on energy corporations that has a loophole built in that protects energy companies. Everything about the Tories is a lie, they're about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station... If idiots could fly, Tory HQ would be a bloody airport...
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  4937.  @ba_creative8240  PS when energy prices are increased by roughly 400% in a few short years and wages stagnate or increased below the rate of inflation then people have less fiscal power and those who are struggling have to make choices between food and energy bills. We have a cartel monopolising the energy market thanks to privatisation and the sale of North Sea gas and oil. This is all the Tories doing and you haven't the fiscal knowledge to back up any of your claims...
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  4938.  @ba_creative8240  If you can't accept reality don't take out your ignorance on me. I've provided the reasons for poverty and why the Tories aren't willing to help the poor. If you lack the wit to understand that, then that is your problem, not mine... to think you accused me of not understanding the economy and you can barely understand written words...
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  4939. @bina nocht Look at the track record of the Tories, they've closed hundreds of state schools and replaced them with public schools for the wealthy. They are all talk, they promise the world and then you read the fine print and realise the promises are misleading at best, and the complete opposite at worst. They gave 6 million to a public school that charges tens of thousands per annum for pupils. The state school down the road can barely function due to cuts.
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  4940. It's because turkeys all ram themselves into slaughterhouses looking to escape their tortured existence. lol or something...
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  4941. Most people tend to purchase cheap material stitched by the hands of low-paid workers in global sweatshops sold by billionaires in their online Inconvenience stores. Then blame those developing nations for their emissions...
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  4942.  @adamant5419  lol, thanks for not punctuating your sycophantic, inane masterpiece...
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  4943.  @Nickle314  They are both government stats from the ONS as I've already pointed out. Your diatribe is as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker!
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  4944.  @JamesOversteer  Agreed. Saying that the media creates the narrative and they predict the future. We accept their analysis and hence become the self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  4945.  @nickharvey7233  Choosing Anglo-Saxons over fellow Celts, tsk tsk. Enjoy your night!
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  4946.  @JohnDoe-gc1pm  You mean nationalised industry that was sold off by the Tories and run for profit? some who have taken bailouts from the public taxes...
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  4947. lol trojan horse to stop whistle blowers?
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  4948. The media projects a kaleidoscope of multi-coloured deception; most people don't look any further than the pretty colours...
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  4949. Sunak and his fellow Tories have no intention of improving the NHS, just stealth privatising it behind our backs. As for EU laws, only the EU and members can change or scrap those so Liz is off in Narnia as per usual... Even blatant lies aren't challenged anymore, the Tories just say whatever they want. Does anyone remember investigative journalism?
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  4950. ​ @anangrycat86  In the US in 2014 Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor... PS gain-of-function studies only exist to enhance a virus, to give it new properties, like making it more deadly or allowing it to infect a different species. Obama put a moratorium on gain-of-function studies later in the year of 2014, but the US still paid over $3.7 million to a lab in Wuhan, presumably to continue research. I have no idea where the virus was manufactured, leaked etc. But considering there were confirmed cases of Coronavirus elsewhere, before the outbreak in Wuhan, it's unlikely it started there.
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  4951.  @anangrycat86  I've already pointed out that the WHO have documented cases outside Wuhan before the outbreak in Wuhan started, which negates your argument. Not to mention you neglected to reply to the information I provided regarding the study performed in the US in 2014 which found how the coronavirus could be altered to infect humans. Which also seems to be the crux of the argument. I only offer facts, I have my own opinions about the origins but prefer to keep them to myself until more definitive answers are found.
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  4952. They should, it's way past time. The rich are waging war on the poor while we are already suffering. Although the fossil fuel industry is also extorting the world for the loss of profits due to the pandemic. When will people wake up and realise this is no way to live!
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  4953.  @chriskeene241  :)
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  4954. 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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  4955. Unfortunately the rich always prosper during a crash. They can buy up all the cheap businesses and assets from the bankrupt small businesses, consolidate their fortune. As an example the richest 1,000 families in Britain doubled their wealth during austerity.
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  4956. @Bill depopulate the planet gates They could, but once you reach a certain point you have balanced investments, if one item falls short you can make more by betting against it etc. The millionaires may suffer losses, but the multi-millionaires and billionaires will just consolidate their assets. Some would argue that economic crashes only serve the rich as an opportunity to profit off the misfortune. People like Bezos and Bill Gates will make big bank off this for a multitude of reasons.
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  4957. Johnson to urge Biden to delay withdrawal until he's climaxed...
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  4958.  @mrmeldrew693  The Jewish lobby push these stories to dismiss criticism of Israeli policies. It isn't Muslims that are the main critics of Israeli government policy... It's not an imported hatred, it was here 100 years ago and has never left.
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  4959.  @A1readyDead  That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type... You do realise your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker?
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  4960.  @xx-my5vh  Centrists who usurped power and implemented Thatcherite neoliberal policies...
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  4961.  @analogdistortion  No, this is about refugees/asylum seekers - not economic migrants. Tories put personal profit above soldiers, the homeless, the disabled, the vulnerable and working people in general. We are a rich country being bled to death by aristocrats.
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  4962.  @analogdistortion  We are being bled to death by privileged aristocrats who asset-strip the country and feed you full of hate. You should be ashamed of your ignorance...
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  4963.  @analogdistortion  PS "An asylum-seeker is a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country, but who hasn't yet been legally recognized as a refugee and is waiting to receive a decision on their asylum claim. Seeking asylum is a human right." They are running for their lives by definition. Economic migrants are not Asylum seekers! Asylum seekers are all ages... Stop swallowing propaganda and learn basic terminology...
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  4964.  @analogdistortion  lol you are obviously unable to understand basic terms and basic words. You are being ripped off and lied to! The Tories have their hand in your wallet while pointing at immigrants...
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  4965.  @hankterreros223  If you have to explain it... C'mon Hank, you can do better than that.
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  4966. and they get some free advertising, assuming their PR dept didn't write this story...
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  4967. They'll keep feeding corporate greed while the pound is flushed down the toilet and people can't afford to eat or heat their homes. Epic fiscal fallacies and meaningless slogans like levelling up...
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  4968. Good point that would have been so much better without the caps.
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  4969. I love Boris he has Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. The human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull himself he inspires dullness in others and has delusions of adequacy. Kleptocratic twit.
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  4970. As my comment was filtered I'll try again: "Israeli lobbyists asked them to. Priti 'vacant' Patel and her soulless Tory cohorts aren't friends of peace, justice, morality and decency..."
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  4971.  @catherinepositano8544  Cheers! ;-)
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  4972.  @talkingbutt3150  That kinda thinking is the reason the US has the choice between two old pervs with the mental capacity of a brain damaged hamster...
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  4973.  @talkingbutt3150  PS those with the most cash are the most irresponsible, selfish, privileged, ruthless, egotistical megalomaniacs to walk the Earth...
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  4974.  @Colin623  PS it costs less at worst £2 billion a year to do that (and it isn't necessary it's a manufactured situation), while those migrants survive on £1 a day. We spend over £2 billion a week giving shareholders taxpayer money through corporate subsidies, every single week!
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  4975. @John Evans They aren't economic migrants, those in hotels are asylum seekers, many of whom helped our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on the promise we'd give them a home... Ask some of the soldiers who served how many lives were saved by local interpreters and militia...
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  4976. Ukraine will have fields and tracks covered in unexploded bomblets now, a countryside that will harm their own people for decades to come. That's why they were banned in the first place...
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  4977. In 2014, Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, and that SARS had the potential to re-emerge from coronaviruses circulating in bat populations in the wild. Dr.Fauci paid that Wuhan lab $3.7 million even after the US National Institutes of Health placed a moratorium on SARS, MERS, and influenza gain-of-function studies, due to concerns about the risks vs. benefits of such research.
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  4978. So let me get this straight! We give the Tories our taxes and they waste them via tax breaks for corporations, subsidies, consultants, vanity projects, bailouts, and cronyism. Then they come back asking the taxpayer for more money. This leads me to conclude Tories are simply delinquent teens who have never worked a day in their life and are used to pestering parents to bestow them with more cash. OMG! We are the Tory's parents! maybe it's our fault they turned out so rotten!
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  4979.  @Nickle314  The GDP of the UK was £2.2 trillion in 2022 and pensions amounting to £115.78 billion were paid out of this as is clear to see if you look at UK government spending. Roughly 5% of our annual GDP. Pensions that are owed are future liabilities and will come out of future profits via our GDP and government spending. Do you work out the cost of your whole life and then compare that to a single year's income? Because that's what you're doing...
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  4980.  @Nickle314  My figures are from government spending you can check with the IFS, ONS and many other fiscal resources. Hidden debt is obviously 'hidden' as its name suggests. My figures are not wrong, we have a national debt of just over £2.5 trillion, probably a little more than that. I'm well aware how figures are often fudged. Government spending is only around half of our GDP the rest predominantly goes on servicing debt. Drop the patronisation and check my figures against official balance sheets. I have not argued regarding the existence of hidden debt and the possibility that it could be as large as £4 trillion. But you are conflating future liabilities with current expenditures... PS State pensions have gone up this year but the Pension benefit spending is forecast to total £123 billion in Great Britain in 2022-23. I'm not sure where you get your exaggerated figures from but the pension forecast is from the OBR...
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  4981.  @Nickle314  I'm not sure why you're being so petty and pedantic. I was brought up on a council estate and I haven't been able to afford central heating for over 2 years and often go without food. I spend a lot of time debating the right and defending working-class values that I myself uphold. While also pointing out the inherently flawed system and the fallacy of finance. Tax receipts are just one aspect of our GDP, why wouldn't I use the total income? It provides a better and more accurate perception. What does it matter? What point if any are you trying to make? You've exaggerated every figure you've given me and conflated many things. I'm not interested in debating opinion and guesswork. It's about as much use as trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  4982.  @Nickle314  Your ad homs and economic and political illiteracy make it impossible for any form of intellectual debate. If that wasn't enough try your lack of logic, reason, pedantry, pettiness and penchant for misinterpreting everything I say. The Neoliberalism that has prevailed in the west in the past 4 decades is the op[opposite of socialism. You could have just told me you were a right-whinger and can't read books, handle facts or understand how debates work. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, intelligent and erudite debate. But this wasn't it! I suggest you find a hamster with a brain injury to debate as you may have less chance of being outwitted...
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  4983. As I appoint incompetent national security risks and vile bullies to my cabinet, I want you to understand my message is about integrity... Seriously? Is the country full of gullible children? if not why are we treated as such by these aristocratic crooks...
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  4984. I just wish we could find even more destructive, backward, inhumane ways to increase shareholder profits from the farming industry. Is there room for a little more cruelty? maybe we could just stick animals in their own diseased faeces and beat them relentlessly? oh no, we already do that. Maybe we could pump them full of drugs and toxins that stay in their system and end up in our food chain? nope, already do that too... and yes this is called sarcasm...
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  4985. Foreplay is over is it? all the preppers will be happy...
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  4986. It all started going wrong for the human race when they started to name storms...
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  4987. When are people going to wake up to the reality of Tory corruption? This is the usual taking from the poor, helping themselves and ignoring any codes including laws, morality, decency, and compassion. Self-serving greedy kleptocrats.
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  4988.  @billlarner7977  Take your ignorance to someone gullible enough to fall for it. Migrants grow the economy and put more in through taxation than they take out in benefits as countless studies have proven. The problem is that the Tories are pointing at migrants while their hand is in your back pocket. Corruption and greed has cost the UK it's economy and morality.
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  4989.  @Security848  Politically illiterate nobody by any chance?
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  4990.  @Security848  Best you can do is try to use my own words? To think, you could have typed something intelligent or witty. You're outmatched, give up now before you embarrass yourself further. Talking to someone like you is like trying to talk a trifle into sentience.
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  4991.  @nihilistlivesmatter  Previous studies and continual studies have proven my statement, you lack reason and logic if you think your petty comment deserves to be called critical thinking. It's about as pointless as your existence...
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  4992.  @ErrrorWayz  Such a lame comment to ask for sources on a site that filters links. You lack the skills to type and research? Shame. There are multiple sources for my statements that will take you all of 3 seconds to find. If you have any intellect you wouldn't have wasted your comment with inanity...
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  4993.  @greenlivesmatter  No mate the story is about migrants, the classification of migrants being discussed include refugees and asylum seekers. Don't use money as an excuse as I've already provided data that prove immigrants cost the taxpayer nothing in the long term as they pay more back into society. If you're worried about money consider the £2 billion given away to tax dodging corporations every week, the £100+ billion lost in unpaid corporation tax. The cronyism and corruption that diverts taxpayer money to the wealthy. You obviously don't read politics very often and don't research facts, parroting tabloid opinion points is lame...
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  4994.  @nihilistlivesmatter  You got owned on logic and reason and exposed your lack of intellect, not once but now you've done it again. Talking to you is like trying to talk a jelly into sapience. I've met hamsters with better debating skills. Now please stop humiliating yourself and accept you're out of your depth. Your first comment was inane, your second comment was like hearing a 6-year-old crying about having their hair cut...
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  4995.  @greenlivesmatter  You do use corporations that get subsidies, tax breaks and fail to pay corporation tax, even if you aren't aware of that. Migrants aren't illegal as they have no routes or processes to apply for asylum as is required under international law. They are allowed to travel through safe countries and are allowed to enter the country by any method without legal prejudice. They can only be called illegal if they've been refused citizenship. The stats for immigrants contributing are general, meaning on the whole all migrants who come here pay far more into society than they take out, they don't have the option of not working and living here for free. You parrot tabloid talking points and have no understanding of the real world, the standards migrants have to meet, the legislation or the reasons for the migrant problem (Tories creating a backlog by failing to process them efficiently and legally, failing to provide basic accommodation and failing the taxpayer by spending money on a crisis they engineered to wind up people like you).
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  4996.  @nihilistlivesmatter  If you lack the wit to realise your comments are worthless and mine are statistically and factually correct then that is your problem. You wouldn't know irony if it walked up to you and introduced itself. You parrot tabloid opinion pieces and have no understanding of legislation, stats, studies, facts. Go back to sleep as this is about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, intelligent and erudite debate... But this wasn't it!
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  4997.  @greenlivesmatter  Going off on a tangent now? I'm glad you were the first person in your family to be born without webbed feet...
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  4998.  @nihilistlivesmatter  If you lack the wit and ability to do research that's your problem. This platform doesn't allow outside links as I'm sure you're aware - proving yet again that you are just a sealioning troll. All that you are you owe to your parents, why not send them a pound and square the account?
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  4999.  @nihilistlivesmatter  You have assumed incorrectly yet again when as previously mentioned a 3-second search would prove my statements. You're only calling out your own ineptitude and incompetence. Keep dropping ad homs, straw-manning etc while you're the only one doing that. Sealioning so ineptly only serves to prove that you can't even troll at a basic level. Typical tabloid parroting, asking for sources, using phrases your comments make clear you don't understand. You don't reason you assume because you'd rather post inane replies than do research for a few seconds... Please don't procreate, the human race is devolving because of people like you.
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  5000.  @nihilistlivesmatter  There are many and you're still sealioning in the most naive and pathetic way possible. I wasted thousands of hours on people like you. Stop bothering me and educate yourself, it isn't hard to type a few pertinent words... You'll find many articles, studies, ONS stats and fiscal data to prove my statements. PS "Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated." Your comments contradict your chosen name. Also, you miss the point of the original movement you ineptly parody. Contradictions and conflations as you present are clear evidence of cognitive dissonance...
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  5001.  @ErrrorWayz  It's a pity in your arrogance you lack basic logic, reasoning skills and the ability to do basic research. Everything I've said is a matter of recorded history. "Richard Sharp is Chairman of the BBC, he has donated over £400,000 to the Tories and was an advisor to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London. Robbie Gibb has been an aide to two Tory MPs and was Theresa May's director of communications, he is now a board member at the BBC. Tory donor Catherine Baxendale is on the panel to pick board members at the BBC and Tim Davie who is the boss at the BBC was a Tory candidate." Feel free to research those names and facts as they aren't a matter for opinion or discussion they are what intelligent people call facts, indisputable. It's a shame people like you waste the time of people like me because of your own ineptitude and lack of wits...
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  5002.  @MyTv-  Judging from recent history I'd have to assume the affirmative on that one. Tories are like a pirate ship with the cannons facing the decks, just let them fire off a few shots and they'll sink themselves!
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  5003.  @catchit9794  Tony the Tiger turned down an ad campaign for the Tories because of the shame it would bring his proud family!
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  5004. Reject stupidity...
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  5005. lol, I think IQ45 is too generous a nickname. I've met crack-addicted hamsters with a higher IQ :)
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  5006. Brexit is like a snake eating its own tail, an Ourobourus of infinite clusterfks that feeds itself...
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  5007. Rabid Tory xenophobes wasting taxpayers' money in cruel policies. So nothing new then...
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  5008. Another virus that has been subject to 'gain-of-function' experiments... Hmmmm
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  5009.  @AFGuidesHD  It's not an argument, it's a joke that takes the mick, while having facts. Curries come from India, China, Thailand etc we just make a version of them. But there are plenty of authentic curry houses in Britain. Are you unable to perceive a joke? Are you captain of the pointless comment society? a representative from inanity-R-us? If you don't get the point then that's on you!
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  5010.  @fyrdman2185  lol thanks for the painfully dull diatribe. Just think, you could have typed something intelligent or witty...
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  5011. I agree although I've already had the jab.
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  5012.  @twilightstar9973  No, I've already given you the Official Figures and a quick search will show you their accuracy. Doctors and Nurses are working all the hours sent and are exhausted. Stop trying to refute ONS stats, NHS stats, Government stats and using excuses to cover your erroneous statement...
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  5013.  @twilightstar9973  lol I've given you official figures. If you do a search you will find NHS doctors and nurses talking about the shortages and how stressed they are from overwork. You made an erroneous statement and are not big enough to admit your lack of cognition. Your protestations are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. Anyone can search those figures in a few seconds and realise how wrong you are. You're only fooling yourself. Lying to yourself is living with the enemy...
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  5014.  @twilightstar9973  Ok I've had enough of trying to debate with stupid... Before the pandemic there was a shortage of 100,000 in the NHS it's grown to 111,000 according to Official figures the staff themselves are overworked and the patients are waiting on emergency lists for months. People with heart attacks are dying waiting 12 hours for an ambulance. The general public are forced to wait 2 weeks for an urgent appointment with a GP. Give up your pathetic argument, there are thousands of articles and statistics that prove you wrong!
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  5015. I'm currently watching the human race and all its accomplishments being devoured by the rancid, festering, fatted carcass of disaster capitalism as we slide inevitably toward a dystopian corporatocracy...
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  5016.  @PhilosoG  By not running a country through kleptocracy and not turning Britain into a corporatocracy would be a great start. I haven't got time to illuminate the plethora of ways the Tories siphon our taxes to their mate's offshore accounts...
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  5017.  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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  5018. Yeas those US-based company sweatshops in China pollute quite a lot...
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  5019. Cancel culture is a polarizing narrative created by the media to divide us. They promote the views of fringe groups to antagonize both sides of the political spectrum... Next!
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  5020. lol headquarters of one of the Tory's old masters...
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  5021.  @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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  5022.  @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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  5023.  @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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  5024. @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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  5025. @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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  5026.  @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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  5027. I think they realise that the corruption and cronyism plaguing the Tory party is more of a drain on UK resources than a government with a similar ideology but slightly to the left would be.
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  5028. @UCNAIm30vqdShSJ03DxVUdFA lol the majority of Brits are stuck in working poverty. Cold homes, increased cost of living. Take your excuses to someone less aware of the facts...
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  5029. It's a good scam, run down by underfunding then increase taxes while stealth privatising. It's getting a bit old now.
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  5030.  @alexl6543  No m8, You're extrapolating when the info is already provided by me. "Poland coming second with an envelope of just under €1 billion followed by the UK" It clearly says Poland has given 960,000 Euros and the UK has given 720,000 Euros following them. Total bilateral aid to Ukraine in € billion. The percentage of GDP has only been mentioned by you and is irrelevant. I've had a wonderful, intelligent, enlightening debate. But this wasn't it!
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  5031.  @babalonkie  Bilateral aid includes hardware, support, finance, resources etc. I literally pasted their own words three times: "Poland coming second with an envelope of just under €1 billion followed by the UK" Poland contributed 0.96 Billion Euros in bilateral aid, the UK contributed 0.72 Billion Euros. The GDP was 0.03 for Britain and 0.18 for Poland, so yes 6 times the contribution per GDP and over 240,000 Euros extra in bilateral aid from Poland. You are just looking for financial aid alone, I assume...
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  5032. 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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  5033.  @soylentroy7585  They also bribe the Tories to keep dodging taxes and to buy up property in Londinium...
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  5034.  @soylentroy7585  The left aren't Royalists and the far-left is a myth. How can you want equality in an extreme way? Is wanting fair wages, decent working conditions, a fair society and human rights evidence of extremism? Right-whingers are too ignorant to educate...
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  5035.  @Master_Petes_Theater  You're aptly named.
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  5036. Funny how we never jail ours. We have some pretty obviously corrupt MPs and PMs these days...
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  5037.  @richardgallagher4880  lol, you mean Brexit cost us trillions in trade, opportunities, foreign assets, sterling and banking. I'd rather teach a whale to fly than talk to someone like you, it would be easier...
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  5038.  @nimzgaz7049  It's nothiong to do with the laws and regulations, they've been there for many decades. The Tories have cut funding, manpower and resources. Stop guessing and learn to read legislation and policies. The new legislation is a trojan horse to remove us from the ECHR, which protects freedom of speech, protects you from torture, protects from abuse and slavery and so much more. You're being manipulated into giving up the rights your ancestors lost their lives to give you! PS you know nothing and can't even spell dumb...
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  5039.  @nimzgaz7049  You could have typed something witty or intelligent instead, you ranted like a spoilt child. Keep proving how naive and ignorant you are, It amuses me...
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  5040.  @nimzgaz7049  I'm not narrow-minded, but I do have a mind unlike you. You parrot tabloids and think-tanks because you can't offer an original thought. Feel free to stop yourself from being humiliated, I have better things to do than point out your flaws and insecurities. But mainly I don't want to catch stupid from you...
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  5041. Would have cost your mum between 5-11k in America to have you, double that if there were complications. That goes for every member of your family and 99% of the population. The NHS says 'You're Welcome'.
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  5042.  @bathwater3196  Germany has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private health insurance (Private Krankenversicherung). Only 11% of Germans opt for private health insurance. So it's not that different, a lot of NHS budget goes on profits for shareholders via privatisation and outsourcing with overpriced medication from pharma rather than generic medications that can be as much as a tenth of the cost.
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  5043.  @omkhuluBasss  Pay up for your family first and we'll talk. Parents (assuming you weren't grown in a lab), siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents they were all born in the NHS for free.
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  5044. Temporary unstable aquatic accommodation with wonderful views and limited freedom opportunities...
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  5045.  @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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  5046. Another virus that has been subject to 'gain of function' experiments...
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  5047. "It's very interesting and worthy of future study, providing solace and reducing anxiety for individuals. Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety" "I use Wim Hof's breathing techniques and cold showers to improve my inner world as well as meditation." "How many of you are not going to bother reading my words correctly or the numerous replies already provided, in order to argue minutia?" At what point have I said not to use these means to provide stress relief and use these techniques and technology to improve your own state of mind? When did ultrasound become the only means of providing happiness? If productivity was derived from happiness why is it that our greatest philosophers, artists, songwriters, poets etc predominantly share a life of suffering and depression? Do you actually believe change comes from happiness? because history teaches us that change comes from struggle, from recognizing problems and getting angry enough to risk your life to provide a solution. Take the Rebecca Rioters, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt, suffragettes and the Anti-Slavery Society as examples of this (British revolutionaries that changed the world for the better). Giving women the power to vote, abolishing slavery, fighting unjust tolls and taxes, removing unjust systems of government. Try learning about fractional reserve banking, global financial hegemony, corporate monopolies, planned obsolescence (making flawed products that have a limited shelf life), geopolitics, global conflict, climate change (loss of 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction), environmental sabotage for profit, how the diamond industry hoards diamonds to artificially inflate prices, how the oil industry has known the risks of climate change for a century etc. I could go on but you have already proven a lack of logic and an inability to understand written language...
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  5048.  @raz0rcarich99  My comments are being filtered/removed. Ask the worth of Michaelangelo, Samuel Johnson, Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Charles Dickens, Tolstoy, Isaac Newton, Tesla. All had depression.
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  5049.  @billusher2265  While I haven't said otherwise, the phrase 'tortured genius' and similar wasn't coined by me...
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  5050.  @billusher2265  Have the human race become petty-minded individuals who seek to see the world in black and white with no shades of grey?
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  5051.  @raz0rcarich99  I've already provided several examples of how seemingly harmless technology can be abused. It was filtered or deleted. We are not talking about mediation per se, but the artificial inducement of mental states using ultrasound. Your pedantry and semantics are noted, well done for proving what a petty individual you are on numerous occasions. I've had a wonderful, enlightening debate, but this wasn't it...
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  5052.  @squamish4244  Already answered in my comment, not to mention I practice Wim Hof's breathing techniques and meditation myself. "Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety, like war, disease, poverty etc."
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  5053. Keep allowing children to defend your rights with their lives. Coward!
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  5054.  @Cruner62  Check the recent increase in billionaire bunkers with seed vaults and fully recyclable air and water and private armies. It's all the rage among the idol wealthy...
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  5055. The middle class have their uses, although I suspect the plastic removed was mainly theirs in the first place...
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  5056. I pray he drops the soap in the prison shower...
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  5057.  @jayh9529  Scientists provide consensus but I do agree cronyism has crept into science.
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  5058. 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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  5059.  @muzzmurgatroyd  lol a small factor. What you're suggesting is a by-product of the housing shortage. The term that is relevant here is supply and demand. The housing shortage causes demand and rising rents and housing costs. If you want to talk about debt, global debt is around $300 trillion which is over 3.5 times global GDP. Debt is simply a means of resource acquisition. Central banks began in 1913 with the creation of the Fed then quickly spread to Europe and since then has spread globally by force. The loss of the gold standard means that money is no longer tied to a physical resource. Since then FIAT currency and Fractional Reserve Banking were introduced as methods of financial monopoly. The fact that many countries have a debt-to-GDP ratio of around or over 100% is conclusive proof of the fiscal farce. Before neoliberalism and privatisation, our debt to GDP was around 40%. Simply methods of syphoning money from the public sector to the private sector, giving corporations more of our taxes, while they pay less themselves.
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  5060.  @muzzmurgatroyd  PS money is simply a construct that allows a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of the World's actual resources (Land, Water and Human Labour). I'd prefer a resource-based economy where goods are communally owned by humanity and have a standardized price based on labour intensity, transport, availability, sustainability and necessity. Eco-friendly and sustainable using the best tools for the job and the best technologies available. Making goods without thought of consumerism and resale from built-in obsolescence. Using all available technologies rather than corporations buying up their competitor's designs and inventions to be buried as they are anathema to consumerism or profit margins because they are robust or more energy efficient/sustainable. Specifically in a framework of devolved power. I realise for a capitalist this sounds like a pipe dream but so did flying, space travel, modern medicine and most of the inventions of the last two centuries. It's time we worked towards personal development and ditched this competitive, short-sighted race to acquire wealth.
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  5061.  @muzzmurgatroyd  I'm glad you agree with much of what I've said. Regarding the debt, global debts are increasing and those who own that get a higher percentage of the world's 'actual' resources the more debt they own. Essentially the higher the debt, the higher the majority of our global resources is bought up by the super-wealthy (0.01%). That is its purpose though this is rarely discussed. The poverty gap extends and more of our resources end up in the hands of this financial and corporate elite. We all know sanctions, embargoes, monopolies, shorting, tax cuts, subsidies, corporate welfare, grants, lobbying etc prove that market-based economics is a myth. Lobbying governments also proves democracy to be a myth. I agree with the sentiments expressed by Nick and I'm glad to see you share much of the same understanding regarding the system and its inherent flaws. As well as a historical understanding of how socialism has been subject to regime change and sabotage predominantly by the US and also much of which has happened in S.America in past few decades.
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  5062.  @alfaseeds13  $83 billion in US weaponry lost to the enemy...
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  5063. While I'm happy you're putin the boot into Putin. Without the sacrifice of 27,000,000 Soviets, you'd be goose-stepping to work...
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  5064. The main talent of Nadine Dorries is her ability to store prejudice and repeat misinformation. Her only redeeming feature is that she's not intelligent enough to be taken seriously.
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  5065.  @AlexLee360  Clearly a criminal who lost any privileges when he committed a crime... My cognitive function far exceeds yours, as I would imagine does a hamster with a brain injury. Supporting Trump is tantamount to admitting a mental illness...
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  5066.  @campbell3711  Trump's organisation has already committed crimes of fraud and falsifying business records and fined $1.6 million. The Stormy Daniels pay off went through the business accounts which is also fraud and falsifying business records. Trump supporters should all have a lobotomy for the future of the species...
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  5067.  @adpmac3981  Freedom of speech is being taken away by The Tories via several pieces of legislation, Lefties have always supported free speech even for single-celled organisms like you!
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  5068. They believe in reducing corporation tax, while they increase council tax, and road tax etc, while also adding extra taxes on sugar, tobacco and alcohol to ensure the poor pay more. Then they give our taxes away to their mates via overpriced contracts on jobs we pay the government to do! This is epic gaslighting from the Tories!
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  5069. Even after death Royalty and the aristocracy still bleed the economy and British citizens dry...
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  5070. @M K They were chanting Germany, no mention of the UK and Netherlands from the articles I've read. However, did you miss the point?
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  5071. @M K They are refugees and I'm not arguing with delusional political illiterates.
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  5072. @M K Don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  5073.  @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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  5074.  @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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  5075.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  Not you again with your pathetically inane comments. Public expenditure, subsidies, tax breaks, tax-gap, ONS figures, articles, studies, spreadsheets, and a host of other sources. It's called research and I'm not wasting my time on a sealioning nobody...
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  5076.  @joso7228  I've pointed out subsidies, corporate non-payments, cronyism, tax gap, tax relief, tax breaks, dodgy government contracts, corporate welfare and numerous other facts to him in the past. He'll just act like he has no memory and re-ask the same inane questions over and over...
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  5077.  @freko106  100% agreed, we tax income in this country but not wealth. The wealthy don't work for a living and hence have no income as such, allowing them to sidestep most taxation.
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  5078. Labour is the epitome of false advertising these days. Keir Hardie wouldn't recognise the Labour Party and by policy would call them right-wing conservatives. Funny how our glorious democracy leaves us with the overwhelming choice between Red, Blue, Green and Yellow neoliberalism...
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  5079. @dondoodat lol following me around to disagree with the obvious fact that Labour have been neoliberal centrists since Blair dropped clause 4? sad... Go find a centrist to form a tautology echo chamber with...
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  5080. 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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  5081. @Kass What has who done that's worse than who? Do you mean the Tories? try searching for excess deaths during austerity, care home infection rates, wasting billions on PPE that isn't fit to use, crashing our economy, borrowing most of the £2.7 trillion national debt, printing money and causing inflation during a cost of living crisis. I could go on...
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  5082.  @harry.flashman  The British. What's your point? She has no records of her ancestry and her surname is likely to be a chosen name as was common practice when slaves were emancipated.
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  5083.  @stevec700  Prince Phillip you mean Lady Hussey's best friend's husband? That isn't helping your case mate. Two wrongs maketh not a right! Birds of a feather, flocketh together. I've gone all Shakespearean for some strange reason...
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  5084.  @stevec700  He often wasn't, but Lady Hussey wasn't King/Consort/Prince at the time. As I said it's bad logic anyways.
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  5085.  @stevec700  Her family were transported to the Caribbean, she would be in Africa if slavery had never happened and would be aware of her true heritage. Your lack of logic and reason makes debate impossible...
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  5086.  @thinkingallowed7042  Agreed. Right-whinge think tanks are rewriting history and defecating their cognitive diarrhoea all over social media.
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  5087.  @harry.flashman  lol keep blaming others, excusing the actions of the British empire and making logical fallacies into the illusion in which you live. It's your mind you are corrupting not mine... I'd rather live in reality and not some illusion where prejudice overrides logic...
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  5088.  @stevec700  I'm just a council estate lad who grew up and learned to read...
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  5089.  @harry.flashman  Enough of your excuses and lies. No one blames you or your family for anything other than ignorance of history. Talking to you is like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  5090.  @stevec700  Diolch and Bora da, take care!
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  5091. Third attempt to avoid censor "Uncovered shadowy groups such as the ERG. Shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how corrupt the system is. Shows how the public are steered and manipulated to vote against their own interests. Shows that the money men would rather sink the economy than give up their off-shore accounts and tax fiddles."
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  5092.  @dcfox5435  There is no jest, perminant benefit scroungers from the shallow end of the British gene pool just take from society. I don't beleive in putting privilidged people on a pedastal simply because of their birth mother.
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  5093. Tax payer money is only available to these parasites because of privatization, outsourcing, the loss of nationalization and Tory legislation mainly brought about by neoliberalism. Taxpayer money should be used to fund the NHS, Public services, public transport, education, the welfare state and social housing...
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  5094.  @chrissims6552  The slogans of the mentally deficient...
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  5095.  @petebishop6287  Labour is nowhere near the levels of corruption and incompetence of the Tories. Political illiterates should read the legislation the Tories have introduced in the past decade and the scandals. Whatabbouttery is the last resort of the desperately ignorant...
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  5096. They manage the economy for themselves, the tighter the belt for the rest of us the more profit for them. They worship the prophets of profit...
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  5097. They're manifesting their destiny. It appears their destiny is to be a gun-toting mob at home and on the global stage. My apologies to the decent Americans reading this...
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  5098.  @neilmcbeath954  Tories aren't interested in their constituents only the lobbyists who provide their backhanders. Trying to fix corruption through legitimate means is about as much use as a rubber beak on a woodpecker.
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  5099. 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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  5100. Extortion talks over gas prices, with the squeeze on the poor coming from all directions for over a decade the government seem to be taking this economic euthanasia too far.
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  5101. He wouldn't even make it out of the bin in Jim Henson's workshop!
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  5102.  @dfr6663  Thank you for wasting seconds of your life trying to diminish my point and ignoring my lighthearted comment. Hope your day is as nice as you are :)
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  5103.  @dfr6663  At the time of writing "Roughly 400 passengers were on board the plane as it sat on fire but all are reported to have been evacuated." and the News report states no casualties had been reported. My point is that life is too short to be a petty pedant who complains about a light hearted comment! Your life must be so empty...
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  5104.  @shimmy7169  The Bill would amend Part II of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and allow public bodies to authorise covert human intelligence sources (“CHIS”) to engage in criminal activities – including rape, murder and torture – with impunity.
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  5105.  E.u lefty Dictatorship   Common sense during a pandemic would have been nice. Rightwing is the ideology of the rich, the 1%. Unless you're a millionaire you're a tool. Have a nice day ya working class traitor :)
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  5106. Social media and right-whinge think tanks are rewriting history allowing the curse of fascism to rise again. Never forget?
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  5107. @dondoodat I remember when the Labour Party was a social democratic party with socialist members. Great friends of the Unions, minorities, workers' rights, fans of taxing corporations and reinvigorating the collapsing public infrastructure... Now they just clamp down on socialists and reinvent Thatcherite neoliberal policies. Small government, financial deregulation and privatisation. Keir Hardie would be ashamed...
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  5108. @dondoodatMy point is that some people can't see how wrong it is to become the enemy and leave your ideology behind in order to win a popularity contest! providing the majority of the electorate with a lack of democracy, lack of choice and no representation... Look up the phrase ideological chameleon, or the words integrity and consistency... Giving the media what they want to win an election is winning a small battle and losing the war...
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  5109. @dondoodatI'm not dissuading anyone and certainly not being dishonest. I'm providing facts and light-hearted entertainment to people forced into a two-party system and a cost-of-living crisis. I have a book about the Tories on a well-known site - look for The Art of left-wing self-defence. In the meantime, I've had a wonderfully intelligent, constructive, erudite, lucid and transformative debate - but this wasn't it!
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  5110. If Tory MPs were paid against their performance they'd owe us billions collectively...
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  5111. Exactly, this is the fossil fuel industry clawing back profits from a bad year when the pandemic left them with very low oil prices and little profit. Not to mention increased costs in energy makes mining digital currency less attractive...
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  5112.  @Wilsnap  Corporations that make dams, houses, flood barriers, exploit terrain and change the course of rivers or create flood plains via deforestation, corporations who pollute the ecosystem, causing global warming that caused the loss of 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction. I could go on, but let's just accept the fact that even so-called acts of God are predominantly influenced by human activity...
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  5113.  @tony_w839  The first sentence I typed clearly negates your comment. Pedantic replies on youtube from people who are unable to interpret language wastes too much of my time.
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  5114.  @andrewelliott4436  I prefer jokes that work and don't expose the ignorance of the commenter. It's a play on the baby oil joke, but that one works because it's actually called baby oil...
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  5115.  @bigverybadtom  Duck is the brand, duct is the name of the tape...
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  5116. Agreed, Instead of replacing cocoa with some funky nonsense, how about we just stop exploiting developing countries? Blame Cadbury, Nestle and Mars and get them to change their practices...
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  5117.  @aarondavids5798  Agreed, Like most of the media they are controlled by predominantly tax-dodging, non-dom Tory donors. The media write the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, each predetermined narrative, and every carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  5118.  @himoffthequakeroatbox4320  The phrase 'lions led by lambs' springs to mind!
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  5119.  MiAnne Jackson  To be honest I was thinking more cyber attacks, industrial accidents, warehouse fires, internet outages, global disasters. If we assume ww3 will start as an information war, it's only reasonable to assume it's already started and we are on the subs bench...
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  5120.  @likemike6107  Yes the Tories sell them weapons and have the cheek to use Welsh airspace to train their pilots...
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  5121.  @ziyad5368  I'd rather have nothing to do with people who commit genocide and your pilots were the one's training.
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  5122.  @Anthony_Romford  If you are unaware of paragraphs, then maybe you should study the English language. As for immigration, we had the highest from Labour in their last year in office of 196,000 (2009). We now have left the EU and have around 300,000 a third higher, so that firmly proves your ignorance. Not to mention the Tories having to lower immigration standards to attract HGV drivers, Nurses, Doctors and Abattoir workers. Theresa May holds the record of 650,000 in her last year as home secretary. 84 Labour MPs voted against the war in Iraq while only 2 Tory MPs voted against it. Not to mention it was a cross-party decision. I also remember Corbyn saying something which became almost prophecy a few years later: "Thousands more deaths in Iraq will not make things right. It will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations."
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  5123.  @Anthony_Romford  Corbyn worked with Mo Mowlam for months on the stalled prisoner release scheme which was the sticking point of the peace talks, without which the Good Friday agreement wouldn't have occurred. All you have is easily defeated Tory myths as I'm proving with facts, logic and reason.
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  5124.  @Anthony_Romford  The Tories dropped Nurses bursaries and reduced wages while also decreasing the extra money invested in the NHS as the population grew. As the population grows so does the tax pot, if that extra money isn't used to fund services then you get a real-terms cut as the following IFS figures clearly demonstrate. Annual average real growth rates in UK public spending on health. Blair and Brown Labour governments 1996–97 to 2009–10 6.0% Coalition government 2009–10 to 2014–15 1.0% Conservative government 2014–15 to 2018–19 1.6% Between 2010 and 2019 The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed. 5,000 less Mental Health Nurses. The number of NHS beds has halved between 1987 and 2019. So please stop using myths and start using facts.
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  5125.  @Anthony_Romford  As for the gold, apart from the fact the Tories sold almost as much in the 70s. There is an FT article that clearly admits we would have been in a far worse economic position had Brown not sold the gold, as the money was needed to stabilise the economy. Before you blame Labour for the Global financial crisis remember that before the crisis hit New Labour had reduced our debt to GDP by 4% and that the Tories are still responsible for more than 2/3rds of our National Debt and have forced Moody's to lower our triple-A credit rating at least twice. Not to mention the Tories giving us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100% this year. Any other easily defeated Tory myths you'd like corrected?
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  5126.  @Anthony_Romford  PS I left the Labour party when Blair dropped clause 4 and have far more to say about him using Thatcherite policies and John Major's PFIs so please stop the whataboutery and start providing rebuttals of the facts given you, rather than myths and opinions... You will notice my paragraphs contain stats from the ONS and IFS while your comments are predominantly factless opinions...
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  5127.  @Anthony_Romford  I've provided the immigration stats and facts to prove that wrong, the fact that you are so ignorant you repeat the same fallacies regarding immigration even after being given the proof only confirms my earlier opinions about your political illiteracy. As for multiculturalism, the boat sailed on multiculturalism genetically, culturally and literally when we invented boats. We use Mesopotamian numeracy and currency, Greek democracy and the Romans gave us strait roads, sanitation, hypocaust, irrigation etc...
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  5128.  @Anthony_Romford  You don't have a leg to stand on regarding the privatisation of the NHS, the Tories ignored the 5% cap Labour put on PFIs and extended them to 2035 which increased the debt massively, while also adding PFI2. The Tories have also sold NHS hospitals, Land, Assets and added far more cost and debt through outsourcing and stealth privatisation. They brought in American medical profiteers into our GP surgeries this year and in the past have sold our emergency blood supplies to Bain Capital, who went on to sell them at a massive profit to the Chinese. Any other nonsense you'd like to be corrected on?
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  5129.  @Anthony_Romford  I've used facts and stats to prove you wrong and now you're still trying to claim Labour are responsible for the Global Finacial Crisis? Proving debate is impossible with political illiterates. " Before you blame Labour for the Global financial crisis remember that before the crisis hit New Labour had reduced our debt to GDP by 4% and that the Tories are still responsible for more than 2/3rds of our National Debt and have forced Moody's to lower our triple-A credit rating at least twice. Not to mention the Tories giving us a debt to GDP ratio of over 100% this year. Any other easily defeated Tory myths you'd like corrected?"
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  5130.  @Anthony_Romford  As for EU payments the process of Brexit alone, cost more than 47 years of payments to the EU... That's before we look at the dire cost to our economy and the loss of £490 billion in foreign investments and sterling. Not to mention the cost of investment being moved from London to Frankfurt.
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  5131.  @Anthony_Romford  No use getting angry because you have been beaten on every topic by facts, stats, logic and reason. It just shows how the right rely on misinformation and mythology to control the gullible, while facts and stats provide clear proof...
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  5132. Seriously? why would any American call the police for help... No patience, multiple bean bag rounds, tazed and then shot 5 times. A 22 year old scared kid against 5 or more armed police. US cops are violent, aggressive cowards...
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  5133. Why is this filtered out? Sick of this narrative control... "Over 76% of C02 emissions come from industry and 71% is from just 100 corporations. No matter how carbon-neutral consumers become, while corporations continue to ignore legislation and governments continue to make vague promises we are doomed..."
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  5134. Britain's global reputation and her economy have already been damaged beyond repair by this party, their corruption and incompetence. No one respects the Tories...
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  5135. He'll start ww3 if he's not carefull, just as bad as the guy that caused ww2...
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  5136. I'd rather neuter myself with a rusty spoon than watch Eurovision, it's almost as bad as the coronation...
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  5137. @gilkesisking Bill Gates stole Dos from IBM and gave it a GUI, now he uses the platform for tracking, telemetry, adverts, bloatware etc. Then he used nefarious means to monopolise the industry, as you said, open-source is the enemy to people like Gates. Now he helps security services with facial recognition software, bots for propaganda and facilitating the selling of our personal data. I use dual boot mostly because I need Microcrap's platform for compatibility. But Linux has improved vastly in the last decade and would be my preferred platform.
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  5138.  @KieranConnelly1987  Hamid Karzai didn't become president until Dec 2001 when installed by the UN after the invasion and bombing runs of October had already started...
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  5139.  @billbird6494  has Nothing at all to do with Israel, central banks or a global monopoly. I certainly wouldn't suggest the US was Israel's faithful puppy.
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  5140. Tories don't care, they've worked out the British public has the spine of a chocolate eclair. Mostly full of tabloid-regurgitating neanderthals and the rest of us are silenced by filters and censorship.
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  5141. Yes, Rishi feel free to ignore the questions and just obfuscate. But apart from Brexit, Grenfell, Economic Euthanasia, Disabled Vilification, Election Fraud, Contempt of Parliament, Windrush Scandal, WASPI, Working Poverty, Homeless Crisis, Hostile Env, Food Banks, Universal Credit, NHS Crisis, Austerity, and crashing the economy during a cost of living crisis what have the Tories ever done for us?
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  5142. £37 billion taken from 67,000,000 taxpayers, Codename Test and Trace. Then there's the PPE scandal and now we have to pay ourselves energy grants as taxpayers so energy companies can continue to make bumper profits off us as consumers... lol talk about stiched up...
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  5143. 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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  5144.  @bjorndunderbeck  Several people, it states their names clearly at the beginning of my reply. I'm sure you are aware some replies don't show up due to filtering...
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  5145.  @RoryMacdonald-pfff  No, I'm just trying to figure out why so many seem to be defending the oil companies. They've ignored the damage they're doing since the industrial revolution and caused the loss of 65% of global genetic diversity at a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. I'm assuming they don't want the human race to join that list.
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  5146.  @brynleytalbot778  We only produce 46% of our own energy through renewables. We buy our energy from Norway via the Nord Stream pipeline. Most of our North Sea assets were sold by the Tories. It seems you are one of the 'uneducated' ones...
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  5147.  @charlottewalnut3118  The oil companies pay politicians via lobbyists to ignore environmental concerns, protect them and avoid compensation for the damage. The protestors have tried for 4 decades to go through the system, laws, and every type of process imaginable. You can't deny they are on every news channel getting the message out. I think their methods are easy to knock and I wouldn't do it, but they have no other choices as we are risking the future of the species by allowing the wealthy to continue. When things become even more unstable globally the poor will perish in their millions, while the wealthy will pay for self-sufficient bunkers, cruise ships and occupy any viable land available. It could be as soon as a decade before large parts of the world are barren, underwater, deserts or unable to support life through other catastrophes.
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  5148. That's wonderful, when are going to round up all the corrupt politicians and global leaders?
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  5149. Tories create problems, waste taxpayer money and ignore parliamentary procedure while showing contempt for the electorate. No reason for them to give accountability as there are never any consequences for their actions. Time for Britain to grow a backbone!
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  5150. Same thing could be said about many Tory MPs, funny how when you cull tens of thousands via economic euthanasia it's called Austerity...
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  5151.  @Jonas-jx3kw  Fascism is an ultranationalist merger of state and corporate power typified by authoritarianism and dictatorship... PS I'm Welsh...
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  5152.  @Jonas-jx3kw  lol sure, he's just an ultranationalist who wants to merge state and corporate power into an authoritarian regime... hmm where have I heard that before?
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  5153.  @Jonas-jx3kw  lol check your DNA you're a mix of European DNA from different stages of history... As am I... Average Brit is around 36% Anglo Saxon/German, 20-40% Celtic/Irish, 5% Scandanavian/Viking and small amounts of DNA from other places such as the Iberian peninsular. And we are an Island, with no land borders to several other countries...
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  5154.  @Jonas-jx3kw  Culture? ok, you use Mesopotamian numeracy and currency, Greek Democracy, and have many different subcultures based on global Religions and ideologies...
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  5155.  @Jonas-jx3kw  The ship sailed on multiculturalism centuries ago - genetically, culturally and literally.
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  5156.  @Jonas-jx3kw  You mean you have no logical argument so use the fallacy that people who don't experience things first-hand can't understand them through statistics, studies, and factual evidence? I can make a cup of tea, but I've never been to India or picked tea... I've never been to the moon but I could list its features and many references in human cultures...
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  5157.  @Jonas-jx3kw  lol yes so you don't believe in science, facts or reality. I see, well no point in talking to you then is there? Keep making up stuff if you like, I'm a grown man and require logic and reason.
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  5158.  @Jonas-jx3kw  I can tell an ultranationalist with fascist policies when I read about him... You don't accept logic. Stop with the fallacy that you have to be French to be able to spot a French Fascist... I can spot them in any country, by their speech, policies and politics.
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  5159.  @cristianistrate8301  Are you on stupid pills? you have no logic, the current trajectory of the system of governments globally is not related to my occupation. It's related to how Capitalism is changing and becoming more dominated by lobbyists and corporate billionaires.
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  5160.  @Jonas-jx3kw  I've already proven I used critical thinking to determine my beliefs. Stop wasting your time typing inane nonsense.
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  5161.  @cristianistrate8301  I'm left-wing and anti-fascist. Neoliberal Conservatism is a disease...
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  5162. As the thunderous sound of Tory cannon fire continues reigning down economic euthanasia and poverty, the poor look up and wonder If that's thunder in the distance and whether a storm is approaching.
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  5163.  Darth Vader's Dad  Meow
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  5164.  @laravonstaden1838  Really? it doesn't show. I'd say that everything you are you owe to your parents and therefore you should send them a penny to square the account. My erudite, adroit and eloquent comments stand testimony to my cognitive ability. While your comments stand testimony to your wasted consciousness... I've met crack-addicted hamsters with more wit.
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  5165.  @paulroberts7544  Tories have stripped the country bare and sold our nationalised industries and infrastructures. Immigrants cost you nothing, every study proves they pay more into society than they take out. Tories give away over £2,000,000,000 every single week in subsidies and corporate welfare to corporations that cost us £40-120 billion per annum in lost taxation. There is no need for anyone to go without, other than the corruption and greed of the Tories! Your lived experience is based on prejudice and is anecdotal. Try using facts, stats and studies to determine your views.
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  5166. A devout Roman Catholic against abortion and profits from baby stem cell research...
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  5167.  @davidkottman3440  Apart from missing the point entirely you also seem oblivious to hydroponics, aquaponics and a multitude of other techniques which allow us to create most produce in any country. There are a few exceptions like Brazil nuts that have complex ecological requirements but 99% of produce can and is grown globally.
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  5168. Bacon porking referendum announcing failed PM and Panama scandal star...
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  5169. I wish your parents had took that advice...
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  5170.  @sebastianguerre6868  That shipped sailed hundreds of years ago. Average DNA of an English person: British (37.61%), Europe West (20.45%), Irish (20%), Scandinavia (9.39%), Iberian Peninsula (3.09%), Italy/Greece (2.01%), Eastern Europe (1.85%), European Jewish (1.51%)
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  5171. @UCduKsG7J8xJyKFe7lzY3SOQ lol it's a contradiction in terms - Socialism is the tools of production in the hands of the workers. Corporatism is the tools of production in the hands of corporations. FFS get an education Del boy...
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  5172.  @george4vIogging  I post witty comments mostly or sarcasm, not my fault people like you want to be head of the pointless comments department.
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  5173.  @sebastianguerre6868  They make a difference to the genetic makeup which makes a big difference to many psychological and physiological abilities or predispositions. The argument over nature or nurture is a long one and wholly irrelevant to my rebuttal of your multicultural comment. For instance, we have numbers and currency thanks to the Mesopotamians, Democracy thanks to the Ancient Greeks. Many technological innovations from the Romans and so on.
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  5174.  English Bulldog  I see what you lack in intellect you make for in stupidity. Don't come to a battle of wits unarmed...
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  5175.  English Bulldog  lol as I thought, a political illiterate who masks his ignorance with threats and insults. I can look after myself and fight for my beliefs don't worry about that.
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  5176.  English Bulldog  Already answered your nonsense for some other zombie. " lol it's a contradiction in terms - Socialism is the tools of production in the hands of the workers. Corporatism is the tools of production in the hands of corporations." Maybe if I use smaller words next time ey bud?
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  5177. ​ @ContraryClipsHub  Agreed, but it's all about profit to certain people, above the interests of society. Paul Kenward - who is married to the Tory MP for Louth and Horncastle Victoria Atkins - is managing director of British Sugar, licensed to grow non-psychoactive cannabis for medical use. So he effectively has a monopoly on medical cannabinoid supplies in the UK. PS Victoria Atkins was or still is drugs minister and adamantly campaigns to keep cannabis illegal in the UK. PPS One of the customers is the NHS, our taxpayer money.
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  5178.  @ContraryClipsHub  If buying your own, I imagine, I seriously doubt that's available through the NHS. But the point wasn't really about that...
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  5179.  @no1hotterk936  I pointed out how she's using the child to boost her profile, how do you take that as an offence to the child? Do you know how language works? Do you have a deficiency in understanding the written word?
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  5180.  @Stand663  I've researched many Royals and their charities. Good cover for tax evasion, fraud, taking donations for knighthoods and even human trafficking. That's just a few stories I can remember off the top of my head. Just type royal charity and scandal to see pages of it!
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  5181. ​ @Stand663  lol I can't argue with stupid. Each Royal is given millions per annum as a stipend from the British taxpayer. Then you have to calculate the cost of property renovation, protection, police escorts etc... The taxpayer/state actually owns the Royal estates, but the monarch's ascension to the throne entitles them to use the estates for the duration of their reign only...
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  5182. ​ @Stand663  Please stop lying, you don't have a clue what you're talkign about. Republica released a report a few years ago proving the more prominent Royals cost several million per annum. As you just admitted the Tourist attractions belong to the nation, which means the usual argument offered by people like you is 'that tourism offsets the cost of Royal welfare benefits' is erroneous. PS King George was bankrupt after he lost America, he made a deal to avoid bankruptcy provided we pay for his family for eternity... That was 250 years ago...
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  5183.  @Stand663  You haven't got a clue. The relevance of Tourism is that Royalists use it to excuse the huge cost of the Royal Family. France makes more money from tourism and they haven't had Royalty since the guillotine was invented... The royal family are part of a European dynasty of inbreed Habsburgs and our recently departed Queen was part German and her hubby Phillip had predominantly German ancestry and spoke German fluently. British culture is Celtic, not Saxon...
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  5184.  @Stand663  lol read a few extracts from your diatribe but the lack of any logic or facts make the debate worthless. Just as your comments are...
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  5185. @Hellsbells The fact that I'm pointing out how she's using race to boost her profile isn't racist. She interacted with numerous people but this is the image she and her PR team have allowed the world to see... You see someone mention race and accuse them of racism. You have no idea what ethnicity I am or my political views. But just to clarify I'm left-wing and believe everyone is equal regardless of race, ethnicity, language, wealth, geographical location etc...
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  5186.  @masumi1990x  No, i see the blatant use of a minority to boost her image. Royalty chooses how they are represented in the press. I've answered that point numerous times, maybe you have a problem with reading and comprehension?
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  5187.  @masumi1990x  PS "Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton have been accused of benefitting from the “blood, tears and sweat” of slaves as they arrived in Jamaica to be met by a protest calling for reparations from the British monarchy." I wonder how to combat such negative press, maybe a photo op?
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  5188.  @henryphillips3680  The £40-60k you speak of is savings towards a pension, if you know any public sector workers who can afford to save 60k a year in their pension pot let me know. The fact that £1million has been uncapped means that the average UK pension of £18,772 would take 53 years to meet the cap. Do you know anyone who lives 53 years after retirement? Even assuming you get 40 years after retirement the cap will only aid those getting more than £25k a year from their pension, most people don't earn that in work, let alone after they retire. This only affects the wealthy! So you are not using knowledge or your own intellect, you're listening to Tory spin. Check the figures and analysis I've given you using your own methods, If you don't trust me try the economic experts saying the same as me. I'd recommend Gary's economics and critical thinking. Stop relying on PR and spin...
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  5189.  @marialee-smith6772  It would seem you not only misunderstood the changes but are unable to read my previous reply. "You don't understand the pension changes and speak from a lack of knowledge. They have given allowances to millionaires and high earners that used to be capped at £1million and now has no limit, those aren't public sector workers. They have increased the annual pension saving cap from £40,000 to £60,000. Do you know any poor pensioners who have a spare £60k to save every year?" It only benefits people who can afford to add an extra 60k to their pension annually and people who expect to get paid more than £1 million in pensions...
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  5190.  @kevinsyd2012  Please read my previous replies regarding £1,000,000 divided by the average pension time calculation of 20-25 years. A 1 Mil pension over 25 years is £40,000 per annum. That's far more than the average Brit gets as wages. Also the increase in pension savings of £20k a year from £40-60k, do you know anyone who can afford to put £60k extra into their pension scheme annually who is poor?
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  5191.  @kevinsyd2012  You are wrong and it's a waste of life trying to correct you yet again. Watch the video or read the story for a better understanding. It's like trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  5192.  @kevinsyd2012  Most people don't make £48k per annum let alone have the finances to pay £48k a year into a pension scheme. This only profits the wealthy!!! It's like trying to talk a trifle into sapience...
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  5193. 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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  5194. Congrats you win! dumbest statement of the decade! Think water, sewage, electricity, access, emergency, stability, communications, crime, sustainability, logistics etc...
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  5195. Bankers are still making big bucks. Capitalism - the only system that bankrupts the majority for the sake of a tiny minority...
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  5196.  @VoteForBukele  No he invented rubber Johnnys, Doh! Saying that I think he had help from the 6th Earl of Durex...
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  5197.  @soniama5246  I suffer from my comments being filtered/removed constantly. I use a separate browser on a different device to see which comments get through the censorship.
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  5198.  @mrharry448  "I didn't know that was in question." That was the initial point of Tim's video... France isn't assisting anyone they are following international law and the Geneva convention. Although to be fair, after Brexit you can't expect the EU to bend over backwards when they take more refugees than we do. For instance, Germany has taken over 1 million per annum while France has taken around 4-500,000. In the year ending June 2021: 573,000 people migrated to Britain and 334,000 people emigrated from it, leaving net migration of 239,000 people.
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  5199.  @DropdudeJohn  From the government's parliament website: "migrants who enter the UK without leave may legitimately make a claim for asylum subject to certain conditions."
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  5200.  @DropdudeJohn  I've used the government's own interpretation as based on legislation and case histories (Which Tim has also stated) as well as the 'charity' Full-Fact which is a London-based fact checker supported and started by Tory donors. And also the UK parliament website...
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  5201.  @DropdudeJohn  Feel free to look it up, first check the laws of the sea, and you will find that turning them away or hindering their entry is in violation of those laws of the sea and also relates to the Status of Refugees and the European Convention on Human Rights. The legislation regarding migrants, refugees and illegal immigrants, which are 3 separate groups. Article 31 only applies to penalties on refugees who enter the country in violation of our immigration policies. The point is you are applying a very specific law to groups that law doesn't necessarily govern. "Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country." "The UN Refugee Convention does not make this requirement of refugees, and UK case law supports this interpretation. Refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in the UK after passing through other “safe” countries." "migrants who enter the UK without leave may legitimately make a claim for asylum subject to certain conditions."
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  5202.  @DropdudeJohn  Yes, it does say that. But that is a case-by-case decision and many of those coming here have already been refused asylum elsewhere. Therefore they need to be processed legally to find out the specific nature of each asylum seeker's case. But again that relates to Asylum seekers only. If a refugee had the choice of a dangerous sea journey that may cost their life to a place that doesn't want them or applying in the country they're already in I'm sure they'd do the latter.
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  5203.  @DropdudeJohn  Ok bored of the sealioning now mate, I'm not your Wikipedia and my time is limited. The laws of the sea do apply to those who get here by boat and as we're an island that is a lot. Check amnesty international's website for clarification and also the ECHR. Certain conditions are irrelevant if you don't process them and find out their circumstances, as you wouldn't know if they meet or fail to meet said conditions. So for the point of this discussion aren't that important. However, some may have criminal records, have been enemy combatants or have been previously refused Asylum.
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  5204.  @DropdudeJohn  I also noticed you haven't copy and pasted the general considerations. Have a read! Note that compliance with international human rights legislation and individual case merits as well as expectations need to be considered. None of which we can know until they are processed. Editorial note: UN doc. A/55/383, Nov. 2000. (Summary Conclusions: Article 31 of the 1951 Convention Expert Roundtable organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 8–9 November 2001) Illegal entry (Article 31) General considerations 1. Article 31 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees presents particular challenges to States seeking to manage asylum applications effectively, while ensuring that specific international obligations are fully implemented. 2. The interpretation and application of Article 31 requires that account be taken both of the developing factual circumstances affecting the movements of refugees and asylum seekers, and also of developments in international law, including the impact of regional and international human rights instruments, the practice of treaty and other monitoring bodies, and the provisions of related treaties, such as the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.1 3. It was recalled that the UNHCR Executive Committee had acknowledged that refugees will frequently have justifiable reasons for illegal entry or irregular movement, and that it had recommended appropriate standards of treatment in, among others, Conclusions Nos. 15, 22, 44, and 58. 4. It was also observed that for States Parties to the 1951 Convention and/or 1967Protocol, Article 31 combines obligations of conduct and obligations of result. 5. Thus, Article 31(1) specifically obliges States not to impose penalties on refugees falling within its terms. Article 31(2) calls upon States not to apply to the movements of refugees within the scope of paragraph 1, restrictions other than those that are necessary, and only until their status is regularized locally or they secure admission to another country. 6. The effective implementation of these obligations requires concrete steps at the national level. In the light of experience and in view of the nature of the obligations laid down in Article 31, States should take the necessary steps to ensure that refugees and asylum seekers within its terms are not subject to penalties. Specifically, States should ensure that refugees benefiting from this provision are promptly identified, that no proceedings or penalties for illegal entry or presence are applied pending the expeditious determination of claims to refugee status and asylum, and that the relevant criteria are interpreted in the light of the applicable international law and standards. 7. In particular, while the relevant terms of Article 31 (‘coming directly’, ‘without delay’, ‘penalties’, ‘good cause’) must be applied at the national level, full account must always be taken of the circumstances of each individual case if international obligations are to be observed. It was further noted, on the basis of the practice of States, that these obligations are implemented most effectively where accountable national mechanisms are able to determine the applicability of Article 31, having regard to the rule of law and due process, including advice and representation. 8. Steps are also required to ensure that the results laid down in Article 31(2) are achieved. In particular, appropriate provision should be made at the national level to ensure that only such restrictions are applied as are necessary in the individual case, that they satisfy the other requirements of this Article, and that the relevant standards, in particular international human rights law, are taken into account. 9. The incorporation and elaboration of the standards of Article 31 in national legislation, including by providing judicial review in the case of detention, would be an important step for the promotion of compliance with Article 31 and related human rights provisions.
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  5205. Like Trump and many others, she is part of the deep state using think tanks of dubious morality and financial groups with inhumane intent to take control.
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  5206. 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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  5207. Watch how many people complain about China's emissions on their tech device made in a Chinese sweatshop that produces CO2...
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  5208. Starmer is a corporate stooge and his only purpose is to stand in the way of an effective opposition taking over from him. A second-rate Blair tribute act.
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  5209. Yep, apart from the war against the poor. Economic euthanasia wielding elitists.
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  5210. At least he's not a condescending, amoral, no-skill, inherited wealth, nanny-fed, elitist product of the shallow end of the British gene pool and decades of stagnant evolution... or is he?
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  5211. @Chris Baldwin We evolved from the sea billions of years ago, we are the descendants of the first mammals. Mammals first appeared a mere 178 million years ago. Took us this long to learn how to commit xenocide.
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  5212.  @HalfEatenMushroom  You certainly prove your own argument.
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  5213. @Islam is worst thing that happened to this planet I'd be surprised if you had an IQ...
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  5214.  @kriissyy09ify  lol thanks for the delusional insight into the world of fantasy... Ya know you could just type "Politically illiterate and lacks logic" rather than prove it by making a comment...
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  5215. Tories like to spend taxpayer's money on themselves and their donors. The added advantage is that the country is in so much debt that budgets for Health and Social care can be cut to shreds with impunity.
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  5216. It's the police's fault, the nurses and doctor's fault, the striker's fault... No Rishi it's your party that crippled public services and made everyone's job far worse and less rewarding...
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  5217.  @crown9413  Norway who use 100% renewable supply a portion of the 47% of natural gas we get from Europe... PS If LAbour has got in 2016 we'd have nationalised energy and investment in renewables. When the Tories sold our national energy infrastructure and cut funding to renewables and Britains own energy creation market, they left us wide open to this supply problem.
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  5218.  @crown9413  As already stated your lack of logic and reason makes it impossible to argue with you as you have at least 3 mistakes in your first sentence. It was costed by the IFS with everything else in the manifesto at £80 billion. The Tories just gave £37 billion away just to get a failure of a test and trace system. The Tories also give away £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies. Investing in renewables is essential as the Nort Sea Oil and Gas has only 20 billion barrels left, under 5 years worth. This should have been done a decade ago, instead, we are reliant on Russia for gas...
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  5219.  @the1beard  You obviously know nothing about the legislation brought in in 2012 that allows for-profit organisations to suck profits from the NHS budget, to suck profits from your taxes. The reason for the bloated management and admin on huge salaries is outsourcing brought in by the Tories. Not to mention Blair's PFIs and the Tories increasing the duration of those PFIs to 2035 while adding a second round via PFI2. Read the history of the NHS and follow legislation if you want to make an informed comment...
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  5220. @Justifying I've heard the same tabloid nonsense from many people claiming it is their neighbour. Unemployment payments cost the taxpayer £1.56 billion in 2021, just unemployment benefits. While corporate subsidies cost the taxpayer £120.2 billion. That's over £2 billion every single week to tax dodging corporations. Start looking at facts and stop the pub gossip, I'm not interested in your anecdotal evidence, only facts! You allow the Tories to rip you off while blaming nurses, or your fake neighbour, or a situation you don't understand. Learn to read something other than tabloids and stop bothering me with your petty jealousy!
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  5221. Capitalism is the worse system of resource control ever, most of the resources are owned by a few, and the majority of people barely have the same resources they had under feudalism when technology is taken out of the equation.
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  5222. Funny that the only anti-growth coalition that exists is Tory MPs and their willful incompetence...
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  5223.  @garyweston9078  Rouse or not that doesn't refute my assertions, just adds another factor to the equation. Labour has now become a corporate and state lobbyist funded party, out of touch with unions, workers, teachers, nurses, minorities and anyone who is not a neoliberal shitkicker...
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  5224. I wonder how many Brits have died fighting corrupt aristocrats throughout history to gain working people a right to protest...
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  5225. They are not by-elections, they are bye-bye-elections. Farewell to the Tory-enabled decimation of the UK.
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  5226. More people die of poverty than disease, maybe the rich should wear health warnings...
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  5227. Welcome to Capitalism - inherent corruption and iconifying greed and egotistic megalomaniacs are the name name of the game. Same here in the UK, most politicians that get elected seem to have escaped from the trash can in Jim Henson's workshop. Muppets!
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  5228. The squeeze on the poor in society will continue until we stand up, at which point the government will react with even more authoritarian measures. Short-sighted megalomaniacs are running Britain into the ground, how after over a decade people still buy the Tory's excuses and victim-blaming is beyond me...
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  5229.  @T5Zplayer  PS Global debt is over 3x global GDP, the UK's national debt is over 100% of its GDP in real-time. Money is no longer tied to any physical resource since the loss of the gold standard and the rise of central banks which started in 1913 with the Fed which is now global and has enabled FIAT currency and Fractional Reserve Banking. It's a farce!
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  5230.  @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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  5231.  @T5Zplayer  More anecdotal evidence backed up by a single industry example. There is more bureaucracy/admin with privatisation and more handouts. Check water, energy, telecoms, mail, transport, and trains. PS shortly after Thatcher pumped that money into BL it was sold to the US. Who had a monopoly on the car industry. She also crippled the coal, steel and iron industries making imported materials necessary for the car industry.
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  5232.  @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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  5233. 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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  5234.  @sirianna2150  The aristocracy is profiting hugely from the collapse of Britain by asset-stripping, corruption, cronyism and mismanagement. The crown estates and overseas territories are the most significant cause of corporate tax losses globally largely thanks to a lack of transparency. It costs the British people between £40-120 billion per annum - the tax gap. Not to mention we pay those corporations over £100 billion in subsidies and tax breaks every year out of taxpayer money, while shouldering an ever-increasing tax burden. Taxpayers money is being siphoned out of our economy and into the offshore accounts of wealthy shareholders via extortionately priced government contracts. Constructive criticism is far more productive than mindless cap doffing and forelock-tugging...
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  5235.  @manthalion1  Didn't it? I could go back to imperialist Europe. Formerly under Italian control, Eritrea was taken over by Britain during World War II and was a British protectorate from 1941 until 1952, when it was federated with Ethiopia. Not to mention I'm not sure all the 1,000 migrants were from Eritrea...
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  5236. Why am i getting all my replies filtered out? it's almost as if social media is just for imbeciles...
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  5237.  @manthalion1  The war is between Eritrea and Ethiopia which is directly linked to my previous comment as is cause and effect: "Eritrea was taken over by Britain during World War II and was a British protectorate from 1941 until 1952, when it was federated with Ethiopia."
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  5238.  @ontheslide2339  Look up the term cause and effect. Time is irrelevant when talking about hostility between nations...
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  5239.  @ontheslide2339  lol nice attempt to misquote me and then accuse me of racist low expectations on a thread where I'm defending migrants. "Time is irrelevant when talking about hostility between nations" is what I actually said. Generational wars have always existed and Imperialists pitted different countries/tribes against each other to make them easier to annex and control.
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  5240.  @adamcampbell5977  Learn how to punctuate, spell and use grammar. Learn to paraphrase my words correctly and not insert england (no capital E?) in place of Britain. Also try logic, reason and linear time...
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  5241.  @ontheslide2339  Because the British started them? I didn't bring N.Ireland into this I said Britain, the UK didn't exist until 1922...
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  5242.  @bronte6364  No one is suggesting unlimited people, most migrants will die before finding a country in which to settle and the UK takes in less than most. Studies prove migrants contribute more than native Brits. I'm more worried about the £100 billion given to tax-dodging corporations in corp welfare and subsidies every year. Especially when those corporations cost us between £40-120 billion per year via the tax gap in unpaid corporate taxes...
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  5243.  @bronte6364  Try reading studies and stats instead of basing your opinions on reading right-wing tealeaves...
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  5244.  @adamcampbell5977  Yes, I believe in fair wages, a fair legal system, human rights, free speech, not forcing taxpayers to fork out on corporate greed, being paid enough to buy a house and support a family in a decent society and have a decent pension in my old age. So yes that makes me an extremist...
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  5245.  @bronte6364  "Yes, I believe in fair wages, a fair legal system, human rights, free speech, not forcing taxpayers to fork out on corporate greed, being paid enough to buy a house and support a family in a decent society and have a decent pension in my old age. So yes that makes me an extremist..." PS facts are facts. Opinions are debateable.
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  5246.  Saint Norbert  Me too, although watching the human race and all its accomplishments being gradually devoured by the rancid, festering, cancerous, fatted carcass of disaster capitalism during its senseless, futile final death throes can be a little nauseating. Still, you got to laugh :)
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  5247.  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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  5248.  @lynchthis1  We are done when I say so buddy, you don't call the shots. If you reach sentience and are able to articulate your reasoning I may learn to have a tiny amount of respect for you. But until then you should learn not to comment about things of which you are clearly ignorant. Your pop psychology is off on every point, which is expected from someone so fking clueless. You're about as useful as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  5249. Agreed, It's a little trick the tories use that we mortals call lying. They say what is required to keep their scam in place. They are censoring us, silencing us, gaslighting us and trying to remove our right to protest, right to strike and trying to make sweeping reforms to human rights in general. Also, electoral reforms to keep them in place while employing voter suppression. National action is needed.
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  5250. @@dogboy5398 You have a basic understanding of comedy and know of whataboutery, congrats...
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  5251. Yay, I can buy an extra carrot...
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  5252. Lower than a snake after being run over by a steamroller...
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  5253.  @andymac7584  Ever thought of using logic? If you want to change your country for the better you have to do it from that country. Take your inane response to someone who cares, I have no time for sycophantic illiterates...
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  5254. NHS staff don't really do much for society apart from healing and caring for people. It's politicians, actors, sports stars and celebrities that hold society together and need a pay rise. Some celebrities have as little as £5 million to live on, it's just not fair!
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  5255.  @qetoun  As an expert in Parliamentary procedure you seemed to have missed much and understood little. Look up stories from 2018 regarding legal advice about May's Brexit withdrawal plan. The Tory party were forced into full disclosure after misleading the house and being found in contempt. As the liberals and remainer criminals comment proves you lack any actual political acumen there's no point in me wasting time with a delusional Brexiter...
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  5256. I can't look, all that arable land under attack...
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  5257.  @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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  5258.  @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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  5259.  @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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  5260. Yes mate agreed, but to be fair, Nigel Farage is a coast cruising, cliff clutching, shore shagging, surf stalking, seaside scampering, beach bothering, boat buggering, pier patrolling, promenade picketing, ferry fondling ferkwit...
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  5261.  @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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  5262.  @ashleygarnett8840  Oh yes kind Master... I'm glad we still have a ruling class to pay for - who lord it over us while we sweat and toil just to pay our bills. So glad we didn't evolve beyond a monarchy and are still treated like serfs. Makes me proud to be an illiterate peasant, happy to vote for the continued inequity...
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  5263. @D C You are at the top of that list right at this moment, to be fair :)
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  5264.  @roastedicons1234  You could have typed something intelligent or witty, yet you chose inaccurate and lame...
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  5265. Immigrants didn't sell all the social housing allowing 40% to go to private landlords, didn't crush the unions, didn't cripple the economy, defund the NHS, and they don't give away £100+ billion a year to corporations in corporate welfare and subsidies or fail to collect tens of billions in corporate tax. That's the fking Tories!
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  5266. If only we could find the object that ties Priti Patel to this world and destroy it. In so doing send her back to the depths of the underworld from whence she was spawned.
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  5267. The bumbling buffoon and his barmy, boastful balderdash. I'm bewildered by the berserk braggart. I'm just glad he's not in charge of the country...
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  5268. I blame the Romans, Normans, Saxons and Vikings for coming over here and stealing our jobs and torching our villages...
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  5269.  @donnamarie8639  Love Somerset used to go there a lot when I was younger to meet with biker friends, visit the caves and drink scrumpy. Lovely countryside and people and they have a unique accent as we do here in S.Wales.
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  5270.  @Bay-BGhost  These stats are per 100,000 of the population, negating your comment about size. Firearm-related deaths in the UK per 100,000 are 0.23, homicide rate 0.06 and suicide rate 0.19. Firearm-related deaths in the USA per 100,000 are 12.21, homicide rate 4.46 and suicide rate 7.32. Those are direct comparisons per 100,000 people... I have no doubt there are many wonderful people in America. They are trapped in a country with corrupt politicians and ignorant people...
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  5271.  @Bay-BGhost  Just type one of those stats into a search engine you can read the article. Just copy one of the sentences and it's likely to be the first result. YT censors most web addresses. The CDC says "Firearms were involved in 79% of all homicides and 53% of all suicides in 2020" and "New analysis shows firearm homicide rates grew nearly 35% from 2019 to 2020" and "Suicide rates increased across the country in large and small metro areas, as well as non-metro and rural areas." and "Non-metro and rural areas experienced the highest rates." Seems to back up everything I've said although looking for a global source comparing countries would be more illuminating than focusing on the CDC.
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  5272.  john d  No, treason is the crime of the Tories, civil uprisings happen when fascists take power. As those in the trenches knew only too well...
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  5273.  @rgsnr8702  Most studies show immigrants contribute more throughout their life than they take from the system, EU migrants add 20k to the system. You should be worried about the amount of your money the Tories give their mates. Trickle-down economics - Taxpayers are fleeced over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies to give to tax-dodging corporations who cost the taxpayer between £40-120 billion per annum via the tax gap. Then the taxpayer is fleeced again to bail out private corporations that used to be owned by the public... The only thing that trickled down is poverty. The funny thing is I don't even recall getting my share of Royal Mail and all the other taxpayer property when it was undervalued and sold off for pennies.
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  5274.  john d  High treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Crown...
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  5275.  john d  Treason is the crime of betraying one's country or the Crown or even a friend or agreement. High Treason is the crime of betraying the Crown or government or giving aid to the enemies of the crown or adultery with the Royal consort, or adultery with the Queen's oldest daughter. PS the phrase I use for the Tories policies is Economic Euthanasia.
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  5276.  @lauras3554  lol are you serious? learn your history. British Empire! Africa - Caribbean? Jesus the levels of ignorance is beyond sanity...
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  5277.  @DJWESG1  Agreed, I don't believe in censorship, it reduces our capacity to oppose and drives the far right into echo chambers where they proliferate unchallenged.
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  5278. Yesterday I called a Tory MP inhumane and was told by one commenter that I was using the "language of evil". While another commenter alluded to a certain camp doctor (Josef) from the 40s and said that word should be reserved for people like that. Inhumane means cruel, causing suffering and without compassion. Those words describe many Tory policies and attitudes. These two commenters made it clear that my use of the word inhumane was unacceptable in their eyes. I don't believe in censorship, it reduces our capacity to oppose and drives the far right into echo chambers where they proliferate unchallenged. In my 50 years of life, I've seen things go from bad to worse while in more recent history the rise of the far right has become a severe problem globally. When we don't show our abhorrence to economic euthanasia or excess deaths directly linked to cuts. We normalise/enable this behaviour with our lack of opposition. It's pointless to politely explain to the Tories what they are doing is wrong. It's about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. They already know, they are corrupt, they manipulate the system and the media to protect themselves. They are profiteering while shortening the lives of our families and loved ones. They use censorship to prevent our abhorrence of their policies being shared. This has led to the rise of the right and the neutering of the left at a time when the Overton window is being forced further to the right. We have a proud history in this country of heroes who gave their lives for the rights the Tories are now taking away with legislation. They didn't make the ultimate sacrifice so their progeny could apathetically enable the Tory agenda while binge-watching Netflix and finding things to be offended by on social media. Be offended by actions that cost lives and immense suffering, not the justified abhorrence and anger of decent people. Please don't force the silence of the censor your allies to protect the Tories from words which accurately describe their policies and attitudes. That enables the further erosion of our humanity to protect the ideals of polite discourse. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, unless there is no opposing force. Thank you for taking the time to read this fully.
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  5279. Britain was built on socialism, without it you wouldn't have legal aid, free schooling, the NHS, public transport, nationalised industry, human rights, workers' rights etc...
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  5280.  @monkofmayhem1373  Sure it would, trouble is that's Tory propaganda. Until Thatcher popularised privatisation, everything was Nationalised. We taxpayers owned our telecoms, energy, water, transport, postal service, steel, coal, North sea oil and gas, and other industry. Strikes still happen in privatised industries as a result of insufficient wages, paying people enough to live on solves that problem...
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  5281.  @monkofmayhem1373  Strikes are not a feature of Nationalisation, it was only a feature of Tory government attacks on Unions and workers. The idea that strikes are related to Nationalisation is a Tory fiction. Strikes happen now in our privatised railways that China, Germany, France, Netherlands and some other national corporations own, they predominantly put the profits back into their own transport systems! Why aren't we doing that? Privatisation costs over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies, Those corporations cost us between £40-120 billion per annum via the tax-gap.
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  5282.  @darkmusky9851  I cited France as profiting from our transport system. They are not a heavily nationalised country so I'm not sure of the connection. We've had comparable amount of strikes to France in our privatized industry, regularly. This 70s Unions/Strikes blah blah is Tory manufactured. Before Thatcher was Ted Health from 70-74 who was elected on the platform of crushing the Unions. Thatcher continued the work of wire tapping, infiltration and false narratives to undermine the unions and bring in antiworker/union legislation. Hence why we now have 40% of British workers living in poverty...
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  5283.  @isj032  I hope that's satire. When billionaires complain about overpopulation when using the resources of a small country, I laugh...
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  5284.  @isj032  As is your comment, although it does illuminate the murky mindset within. It's also not visible to anyone and hence about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  5285.  @isj032  Your claim is invalid as is your latest assertion. If not satire then it only stands to illuminate your utter lack of comprehension regarding humanity, geopolitics and logistics... Making plastic crap in sweatshops to enrich a few privileged tax-avoiding billionaires while polluting the planet isn't resource efficiency...
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  5286. Another virus that has been subject to 'gain-of-function' experiments... Hmmmm
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  5287.  @CMarkem  Funny you should say that, but they found the magic money tree when they wasted £38 billion on a failed track and trace system that performed worse than the £1 million pound version Ireland employed. They find £100 billion every year out of taxpayer money to give to corporations in welfare and subsidies. To cover the tax loses from the wealthy and corporations and also to prop up the economy after the failures of Brexit. We don't have a free market, or organic financial growth and decline. It's a controlled monopoly in favour of the wealthy.
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  5288.  @Sinner1660  Thank you!
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  5289. Over 76% of C02 emissions come from industry and 71% is from just 100 corporations. No matter how carbon-neutral consumers become, while corporations continue to ignore legislation and governments continue to make vague promises we are doomed...
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  5290. Why would they apologise for industrial manslaughter? that's the foundation of their ideology...
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  5291.  @yahyaelmi8435  Agreed, The aristocrats that rule should go the way of the dodo.
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  5292. No, he's a centrist with neoliberal tendencies. A Tory wannabe.
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  5293. I'm surprised they managed to spot a terrorist in Israel, plenty of camouflage...
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  5294. Trump has been caught by facts doing lots of illegal things he shouldn't and then prosecutors charge him with the offences he committed. Coincidence?
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  5295. A witch hunt of an orange ****...
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  5296. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television Special case: Jacob Rees-Mogg - Provided you can afford to look after his mother-in-laws ancestral home which is a 300-room mansion, as it may need further repairs. Actually taking into account the considerable challenge presented by Rees-Mogg, we've decided to waive any adoption fees.
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  5297. @Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television If I drop them in the woods it will be Fangorn forest so the Ents can stamp on 'em. lol
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  5298. I bet Lord Ignatius Storm who invented storms in 1836 is kicking himself now...
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  5299.  @perolagrande  I was posting my opinion not a legal document. Your point is irrelevant to the debate on voter suppression...
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  5300.  @mma93067  If it cuts the voter population for no other than to do just that, what's the point other than to further manipulate the system...
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  5301. Perfectly normal Tory behaviour, throw your colleagues under a bus then lie your ass off!
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  5302.  @russtaylor2122  Agreed m8, although in reality it's more like a century of gaslighting from the fossil fuel industry. Rather than spending a few extra quid to provide more environmentally friendly products, they pay billions to political entities through lobbyists. Insanity.
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  5303.  @stevec700  Would you call a librarian a hypocrite for asking you to be quiet by using words? Your argument is illogical, I didn't have any choice in the society that existed when I was born. I do a lot more than you to buy and use resources that are ecologically friendly. But thanks for proving what an illogical mind you have. PS how does someone bloke traffic? Learn to spell...
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  5304. You can't fix a broken political system within a flawed ideological system. The politics come out of the ideological system - in this case Capitalism with its inherent imbalances further amplified by 4 decades of Neoliberalism. Time for people to take control from corporate billionaires and their well-paid political puppets...
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  5305. @Razor Mouth I just typed a little history of Cromwell and the makeup of the average DNA of Brits, predominantly Saxon/German and Celt/Irish but it was deleted.
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  5306. Labour hasn't been the party of the workers since Blair dropped clause 4. No longer reliant on Union financial support alone, they are funded by corporate lobbyists. Centrists and neoliberals are not friends of the working class and we do have a working class as has been made crystal clear by the Tories waging war on us...
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  5307.  @richardgregory3684  lol it actually went up 160% higher than Europe and I got the information from Bloomberg. Here's the exact quote "U.K. electricity prices reached £277 per megawatt hour on Sept. 8, a 560% increase compared with a year ago" They only went up by 400% in Europe. Feel free to search for that quote and read the article...
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  5308. Bribe from the West to cause trouble, then a payoff from Putin and promises of power to leave Russia...
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  5309. The press write the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, handwritten narrative, and carefully chosen word to manifest an illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  5310. I think we should keep using a failed system with resource mismanagement as it key component until we have a few incredibly rich deities and 99.9% of people live in absolute poverty...
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  5311.  @patriciaoreilly8907  Agreed, The Tory Government should come with a health warning. Most of the stress is caused by the Tories waging war on the poor. They are using economic euthanasia to decrease the number of disabled, vulnerable and poverty stricken.
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  5312. So nothing new there then... Britain has more corruption and poverty these days than in most African states. Things are getting that desperate I'm thinking of starting a campaign to beg Ethiopia to hold a rock concert for us...
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  5313. Straws? By the 1922 committee? by divine right? The farce continues as British people wonder if democracy had ever existed...
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  5314.  @URBeingLiedTo  I'm not insulting you by pointing out your lack of knowledge, that's you insulting yourself! PS I haven't given much in the way of opinions, my posts are predominantly straight-up facts. Which you'd know if you weren't politically and economically illiterate. That's not an insult, just another statement of fact. Now if you don't mind I have to go and bleach my mind before I lose another 30 points off my IQ by having to read another comment from you...
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  5315.  @URBeingLiedTo  lol, I'll let you work out why a fact isn't an insult. PS if I said you're the human form of a shiver looking for a spine to run up, or that you couldn't pour water out of a boot with the directions on the bottom; then you could accuse me of insult...
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  5316.  @URBeingLiedTo  lol pop psychology 101 is where right-whingers go when they can't rebut comments. Your cognitive dissonance is only slightly less annoying than your verbal diarrhoea... Coupled with constipation of critical thought. Feel free to take that as an insult. Now if you've nothing else to say other than proving how many asinine comments you can type... I say type, what I really mean is bashing your knuckles against a keyboard repeatedly until something approaching a sentence appears. Let me know when you develop primitive humour...
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  5317.  @URBeingLiedTo  I use humour to get rid of sealioning bots. I only came on here to correct your erroneous statement, the fact that you keep repeating the same mistake is on you buddy, there's a term for that. To think trees are producing oxygen for you, I think you owe them an apology...
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  5318.  @URBeingLiedTo  lol so you have developed primitive humour! congrats. Now I'm sure you realise everything you are you owe to your parents. Why not send them a pound and clear the slate? Feel free to have the last comment, say I'm running away, or present a late point of little interest. I care not, I'm bored of running rings around you.
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  5319.  @filledwithvariousknowledge2747  Heart disease caused by fast food and sugar is the biggest killer and drain on the NHS next to alcohol. Smoking doesn't come close...
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  5320.  @Aethid  No, it's lorries, vans etc used for deliveries, transportation of goods, takeouts, shopping and the 23.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year from the 6 major airports in London... Industry and the wealthy are the problem - not the poor who need their cars for work and can't afford to buy new...
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  5321. 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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  5322.  @rickh3714  Cowards who allow children to pay the price for their rights should refrain from commenting. Witless weaklings...
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  5323.  @hansolowe19  You thought wrong, you don't have reason or logic and so discussion is pointless. You can't accept basic truths and so I'd have more luck teaching a whale to fly than discussing anything conceptual with you. Just another witless coward who hides behind children and allows them to pay the price...
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  5324.  @cooltoolsrogerify  Says the guy who can't spell sense... I'm not American and so use the proper spelling of English words... If you have nothing witty or intelligent to type, don't type!
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  5325.  @robertconway2266  That's a fake argument, cars were invented to enable travel. Guns were designed for one purpose, which is how it's used in every mass shooting...We also used a knife and fork to eat, are you going to mention something about those implements too?
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  5326. More weapons will lead to an escalation of the war? If only the US hadn't dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties causing the restart of nuclear proliferation...
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  5327.  @cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059  Thank you for that obvious and extremely useless piece of information... Judging by your name you should be well aware of which orange president dropped out of those treaties sending the world into uncertainty and conflict.
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  5328. It's tragic that people are forced to settle so near to the chimps, a no-win scenario. No doubt caused by large corporations buying up the land for mining and plantations. Many sugar cane plantations are owned by the Rai family one of Kenya's richest families.
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  5329.  @bensullivan194  I would reply but they don't have an emoji for cnut!
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  5330. I can't understand what's causing the mental health problems. Unless it's something to do with the drowning in debt, food banks, low wages, and corrupt government that many people have to endure, while the NHS is on its knees with 1 in 10 of the population on a waiting list... It all seems related to our incompetent government which profits from making our lives intolerable...
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  5331. The guy with the referendum that turned the UK into a insular toxic wasteland and has very close relations with porcine friends... How do these people reincarnate themselves?
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  5332. Another business on the way to bankruptcy taking affirmative action? lol
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  5333. Wow, director of the state-the-obvious society, a representative from obvious-R-us...
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  5334. The world burns, millions starve, millions die of curable diseases, millions are displaced by illegal resource wars, but billionaires are going to save us all with day trips to space...
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  5335. 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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  5336.  @torquetheprisoner  Maybe you could explain the parts of the advice document that the Tories are releasing next week? Maybe you can tell me the different rules for England, Scotland and Wales and what to do if you live in one and work in the other? can you tell me what I need to provide workers in terms of equipment and environment? Can an employer be sued if an outbreak occurs? Can a worker refuse to go into work and still keep his job?
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  5337.  @annoyingbstard9407  Nah, I prefer the Wim Hof method, keeps me healthy and calm.
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  5338.    Agreed, If Starmer and his gang of paid lobbyists had got behind Corbyn we wouldn't have a Tory government now asset-stripping Britain and giving us generational debt.
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  5339.  @pjj177  The Labour council are dependent on the Tory party (The Government) for their funding. Typically Tory councils get more funding per head. Also many Tory councils have faced bankruptcy despite this. The WEF has f all to do with it!
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  5340.  @SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor  Something's got to give! To be, or not to be a dictatorship, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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  5341.  @hueyfreeman7010  In that case. Wanna buy a ticket to Qatar for the games?
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  5342. There is a game where you collect £200 when you pass go, which seems relevant...
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  5343.  @akritasdigenis4831  lol, spare me your political illiteracy...
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  5344. @YouTubename804 You mean from Lybia? the place we and the US looted and left the people in the hands of traffickers and despots? In the name of petrodollar hegemony. You're obviously the one who needs to be educated. Come to think of it, everything you are you owe to your parents. Why not send them a penny and square the account?
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  5345. Just because the Tories have shortened your life, forced you into debt, increased the cost of living, caused the excess deaths of hundreds of thousands of their citizens, diminished your rights and freedoms while usurping taxpayer money via corruption and cronyism. That doesn't necessarily mean they are totalitarian ultra-nationalist authoritarians... But they obviously are!
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  5346.  @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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  5347.  @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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  5348. @Tyrone Ngubu Imagine being so thick you haven't noticed the catalogue of problems and debt it's left us with...
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  5349. @Tyrone Ngubu We have two trillion national debt, that is a debt your great-grandchildren will be paying off, assuming you're not as sterile as your mind...
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  5350. @Tyrone Ngubu lol so you're self-confessed ignorant who is unaware what he pays for?
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  5351.  @jhfdhgvnbjm75  My comment is fact, only 40% of our natural gas come from the mere 20 billion barrels of oil and natural gas left in the North Sea (less than 5 years worth). Much of the gas coming from Europe comes in tankers as well as pipelines. Brexit has cost us trillions in losses and more than our 47 years of membership fees to the EU. It has also cost us to lose our triple a-credit rating twice and more than £490 billion in foreign investment and sterling. We have over 100,000 staff shortages in the NHS and a lack of HGV drivers causing food, energy and fuel price rises and shortages. We have a national debt of over £2 trillion and a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%. We are the world's largest enabler of corporate tax evasion through the crown and overseas territories and that was the predominant reason for Brexit...
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  5352. @Tyrone Ngubu You pay inflation on everything you buy based on our fiscal situation, national debt and our debt to GDP ratio. Stop being thick...
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  5353. @Tyrone Ngubu Everyone in Britain is subject to inflation and various forms of taxation. Seriously just stop...
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  5354. @Tyrone Ngubu I'm losing points off my IQ just reading your responses. I hope your day is as nice as you are.
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  5355.  @bruhbruh2290  Surprising then that the Tories are offering to reduce post-Brexit immigration rules to attract the non-existent EU HGV drivers to make up for the shortfall in Britain? Shades of grey, HGV drivers may well be in short supply, but the problem in the UK is greatly increased by Brexit regulations and extra red tape for HGV drivers, who don't want all the extra hassle for min wage. PS I've already discussed this several times and I'm bored of Brexiteers who can't find any faults with Brexit, even when they are in all the newspapers. Food shortages, basic material shortages, petrol shortages, increase in Gas/Energy prices of 560% compared to an average of 400% in the EU.
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  5356. In other News: The best way to produce good politicians who are really down to earth and understand the needs of the nation: Bring them up in privileged backgrounds preferably at least the third generation living off inherited wealth. Get them a good Nanny to accede to their every whim. Then send them away from their parents to school at a young age. Indoctrinate them with elitism until they're full of entitlement and utter contempt for the poor. Give them a cushy exceedingly well-paid job via nepotism and then teach them all about cronyism. At this point, your subject should have all the necessary skills to run for election...
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  5357. Why are 2 powerful countries attacking Yemen who have recently come through sustained attack from S.Arabia? Why are we defending Israel who ignore international law? Why is the taxpayer paying for this? Jen-o-side is not something we should enable, support or take part in. Are we the bad guys?...
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  5358.  @ph-vf5hx  Check recent legislation from the past couple of years Authoritarianism doesn't have to be overt. I never mentioned dictatorship, but who chose the last two PMs?
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  5359.  @gunggerdin1  Labour dealt with an economic crisis. Only the economically illiterate blame Labour for global financial issues. The Tories have created 3/4rs of our national debt and sold off our transport, energy, communications and water. They've stripped out country bare and left us at the mercy of energy prices and high import costs. While crashing the economy through their own actions...
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  5360.  @silversurfer640  Agreed, cronyism, corruption, nepotism, kleptocracy, authoritarian legislation, Orwellian legislation, and Economic Euthanasia to name a few...
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  5361.  DEx Stev  lol sealioning is for the one-hit-wonder meme users. I've repeatedly answered your questions with multiple facts and assertions, including financial reports and you still post the same comment like it has any weight left at all. It's as pointless as a rubber ball...
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  5362.  DEx Stev  lol did my facts, stats, assertions scrape your head when they flew over? They look after 67 million people, every childhood illness, every birth, every death, every operation. It's not comparable to any other field and the fact we have such a large health service used to be a braggin' right before the Tories underfunded it to create an argument for privatisation which has crept in since Thatcher in the 80s...
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  5363.  DEx Stev  Your point moot and has already been rebutted. As for Germany: Germany has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory health insurance (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and private health insurance (Private Krankenversicherung). Only 11% of Germans opt for private health insurance.
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  5364.  DEx Stev  Your point is moot and has already been rebutted. You brought up Germany so I pointed out the differences. Most private health insurance in the UK isn't comprehensive, it's basic. The Germans don't have corrupt kleptocrats running their health service to the ground and invest wisely. They also have higher wages and better pensions for their health workers.
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  5365.  DEx Stev  Check the dictionary definition of comprehensive as applied to insurance... I've had a wonderful, intelligent, enlightening debate. But this wasn't it!
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  5366. The impact of rising inflation is that most of us in the UK are ecstatic about paying through the nose for basics as well as the arbitrary energy price hikes. I'm over the moon that the UK is becoming a global laughing stock thanks to an incompetent government...
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  5367. A geriatric with memory problems and a crook with ego issues... The US is a cautionary tale for all countries...
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  5368.  @fakenewssucks211  You're thinking of the weather. lol
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  5369.  @Glavieman  Nothing to do with me. I was against the war. Blame the US and their petrol-dollar hegemony...
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  5370.  @Glavieman  No I don't live in a democracy and I fought against the war. I stood up for black S.Africans during apartheid as well as standing up to Israel regarding their treatment of Palestinians and apartheid legislation. Maybe you should stop having a go at people who defend the innocent and start having a go at US and UK politicians as well as the traitors in your own government who helped them...
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  5371.  @Glavieman  lol you are incredibly naive to blame a whole country for the actions of a few. Obviously, you have no intellect, reason and lack the ability to understand how the world works. I'm going to assume you're very young. The reason for the wars was Petro-Dollar hegemony and the chance to loot countries that had all dropped the petro-dollar for oil sales. While also getting their hands on lithium, cobalt, uranium, Afghani poppy fields and Iraqi oil and natural gas. Lybia was also looted for much the same reasons and because Gaddafi was going to create an African currency (The Dinar) to use for the sale of oil, replacing the petro-dollar and therefore threatening US dollar hegemony. If you want to grow up and learn the truth about the world you live in, maybe you should stop blaming innocents for the atrocities of the wealthy elite and their corporate sponsors...
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  5372.  @Glavieman  I'm Welsh and you have incorrectly mislabeled me enough. It's clear you don't have the intellect to understand complex problems and can't see that I'm an ally in ideology despite my geographical location. Have fun spreading hate and making enormously erroneous statements about people you don't know. You're about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  5373.  @GAGATTI-777  So do Tory MPs...
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  5374.  @thegoodthebadandtheugly579  Yes, imagine thinking those pioneers of women's rights would do anything to harm the country's women. Apart from the persistent rape allegations, sexual misconduct and the fact they legislate to take funding away from Women's refuges and closed 1,200 sure start centres while securing fewer rape convictions since records began...
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  5375. A free market has never existed and this is tit for tat, Russia had its new pipeline delayed and is now extracting a fiscal penalty. Watch how quick Russia gets that pipeline going now with obstacles removed and EU bending over backwards.
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  5376. Sir James Dewar of Scotland invented the vacuum flask in 1892... Move on people, the contaminated water you drink won't be any tastier in one of those... A perfect analogy of capitalism form over function, hype over truth, ego over intellect...
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  5377.  MajorCharlesCarringtonVC  That seems to be a redundant question if you understand the function of a vacuum flask. Variables will affect how well it works such as quality and build material but essentially, nominal improvements. Thank you for your question...
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  5378.  @originaldelta  Cry much? Thanks for the one-word comment, more than most Trump supporters can manage, you must be special...
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  5379. "Doing the right thing" Doesn't usually cause problems with the European Court of Human Rights, which Britain suggested and signed up to after ww2 so that no government could abuse its citizens...
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  5380. Poor immigrants fleeing persecution from Hitler, erm I mean the Taliban...
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  5381.  @RaRa-eu9mw  To put that in perspective our GDP was £2.8+ trillion in 2018, last year it was only £2.2 trillion...
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  5382.  @RaRa-eu9mw  That may be just England or the comparison to 'current prices' which is essentially fudging the figures, but our actual GDP for 2018 was £2.878 trillion as noted by the World Bank and in 2019 it was £2.857 trillion again the source is the World Bank... In 2022 it was just £2.2 trillion according to statistica while the world bank states around £2.49 trillion. Either way a huge loss and that doesn't take into account the price increases which means spending power is now also lower...
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  5383.  @RaRa-eu9mw  It's only 3.07 in dollars not in pounds it's actually (according to the World Bank) "United Kingdom 2022 £2,491,238.00" Read closely it clearly states "GDP (current US$) 2022 3.07" for the UK.
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  5384. "Economic Indicator Most recent value Trend GDP (current US$) current US$ 3.07 (2022 trillion)" "Economic Indicator Most recent value Trend GDP (current LCU) current LCU 2.49 (2022 trillion)"
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  5385.  @larslarsen5414  The total losses during the past 4-5 years are twice the 5.5% stated. The Brexit losses are calculated by studies - one of which was done by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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  5386.  @jackaljade  The left don't use the term and I'm bored of your childlike understanding of the world. It's like trying to teach a frog to use an Xbox...
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  5387. Supporters chasing his car like street dogs and roughing up a protestor like neanderthals... Such classy people...
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  5388. Tories like to spend taxpayer's money on themselves and their donors. The added advantage is that the country is in so much debt that budgets for Health and Social care can be cut to shreds with impunity.
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  5389. @@l.2692 So you like serfdom and are happy to subjugate yourself to a bloodline that's apparently chosen by God? lol automaton...
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  5390.  Boris Johnson   Earl Grey please old chap, just been highlighting some of your more positive traits. Don't worry I didn't mention the bullying of journalists, the sale of half of London to Chinese property developers or your corruption and cronyism :)
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  5391.  Boris Johnson   Sovereign TEA...
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  5392. The cheesy woman who once said she'd like to "bang the dumb" globally for Britain sells more pork pies than Morrisons and so does the wealthy elitist banker who was born into a huge inherited wealth. I'd rather choose between Sooty and Sweep for PM...
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  5393.  @mrharry448  Veronica? Vera? lol if only I'd lived in Victorian Britain I'd probably know, I'll ask Reese-Mogg :)
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  5394.  @mrharry448  I just enjoy belittling him for all the poverty his lies have brought to Britain. I'm just glad Jacob Resse Mogg isn't a privileged elitist tax-dodging hypocrite who obfuscates and provides no useful service to the UK other than providing a good example of how to be a century or two out of date in thinking and fashion style. It so refreshing to have such a down-to-earth man of the people who understands what we are going through during these difficult times...
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  5395. Britain becomes protectorate. Britain borrows large amounts of money to help win the first world war and makes a deal with the devil (Balfour declaration 1917). Then comes 1947-48 and the mass exodus of Palestinians and the following 'conflict' that has seen Israel grow (land grabs) at the same rate Palestine has shrunk. The slow genocide. Backed by God (or the other one) and the US bible belt Israel has ignored international outrage and continued their lesson in applied fash-is-ermm up until the present day...
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  5396.  @Greenpoloboy3  As my dear departed mother used to say "Never trust those Tories, they'll crash the economy, ruin the NHS, increase the cost of living, allow energy cartels to monopolise the market and demonize the poor and disadvantaged. While profiting from misery and insider trading, handing out contracts to their favourite donors and selling off UK assets in a garage sale that will eventually bankrupt the UK."
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  5397. Billionaires and wealthy corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want to use it to control us, while we should only be allowed to use it if we sign away our rights... That's what's going to happen so this discussion is pointless...
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  5398. Benefits? lol Brexit was the equivalent of cancelling your direct debits, defaulting on your mortgage, throwing your mobile phone in the bath while it's charging, setting fire to your house, driving your car into the canal and then running off into the woods half-naked screaming "I'm the wild man of Britain, hear me roar!"
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  5399. So glad we have a monarch and haven't evolved beyond feudal ideals. Makes me so proud to be an ignorant peasant, can't wait to doff my cap and tug my forelock to every aristocrat I meet...
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  5400. I'm going to guess in November of the year 2022 and because they can't afford to live on poverty wages... Answers on a postcard!
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  5401. Iran using drones in Afghanistan on their ally, shortly after Afghanistan beat Iran's greatest rival the US? Afghanistan and Iran have been allies for centuries. Sure thing, next...
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  5402. US economy shrinks faster than an orange megalomaniac's manparts.
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  5403.  G M  Are you a right winger?
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  5404.  G M  but in reality Trump is an elite. China owns $1.2 trillion of US debt via bonds (which will come back to haunt you). Global debt will exceed $257 trillion in the first quarter of 2020 around three times global GDP - fractional reserve banking is a con / joke - FIAT currency is currently taking a long dive into a very deep dark well and we're on the verge of a global depression unseen since the 30's. America has been been at war for 227 of the 244 years since it's creation and was patient zero of a financial pandemic in 1913. Why is it you guys seem to miss the point that the 'elite' are predominantly right wing billionaires?
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  5405.  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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  5406.  G M  Sorry I have to disagree with 2 main points. No the Elite aren't a stabilizing force, they've been manipulating / profiting from every war since Napoleon. Give Trump a little more credit? He's being played, he's just too narcissistic to see it. He can't go a day without exposing his idiocy with some comment or tweet. As for the investing advice, I'm sure it's a good tip but I'm content in poverty thanks. PS the world is headed towards a dystopian future not unlike blade runner. Cashless, authoritarian society run directly by the elites with a choice of 30 million substandard products from 2 or 3 multi-nationals. No choice, no freedom and your whole life is mapped out on a GPS vs Time graph and no one can live 'off the grid', without a digital identity you're homeless and destitute.
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  5407.  G M  Not sure if that's genuine or sarcasm but I'll give you a thumbs up either way. Have a nice day ;-)
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  5408.  @Gone_Gaming0  Trump's debt ? no he's only had 4 or 5 bankruptcies. It's kind of taken as read that when I say US debt I'm talking about the country not just the president, seems obvious to me so I'm not sure what point you're making.
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  5409. Manufactured crisis - close migrant centres, fail to process claims allowing them to fall behind then house the migrants in hotels to enrage the public. Spend silly money on cruise ships that can't dock, Rwanda flights and migrant centres at taxpayer expense, and pay for migrant centres in France while paying millions for legal challenges in the courts...
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  5410. We've only lost 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction, so what if large swathes of the planet are on fire and the icecaps are melting causing low lying areas to be reclaimed by the sea. I'm sure the Tories are doing everything they can, they are such a globally-minded group of philanthropic humanitarians and definitely not psychotic insular kleptocrats as some might suggest. So just enjoy watching the human race, its history and accomplishments being slowly devoured by capitalism in this surreal farcical pantomime we call life.
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  5411. Yes of course Iran, N.Korea, Palestine, Syria, Russia, China are all 'the bad guys' because they stood up to Western imperialism. Just as Afghanistan and Iraq did. You are talking about a brutal apartheid regime and illegal nuclear power who routinely ignore international law and UN resolutions...
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  5412.  @SamuelBlack84  Agreed, we are taxpayers, workers, collateral, cannon fodder and debt holders/indebted slaves...
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  5413.  @andrewjones575  Maybe you should read the headline "domestic violence - focusing on crimes which mainly affect women and girls." and stop making excuses. Whatever gender the victim is my comment holds regarding a history of violence and no warning. But as it's predominantly women who are victims and you were replying to a woman, it's hard to take your excuses seriously.
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  5414.  @andrewjones575  lol and you don't like your own comments either... I'm not going to be drawn into a pedantic debate. We both know your comment is senseless nonsense that doesn't contribute to the debate. Your elaboration is merely an effort to 'swag it out'.
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  5415.  @andrewjones575  You have no idea of what you speak. Your protestations are as much use as a bird attempting to teach a whale to fly...
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  5416.  @itzyorboi7972  Give a man a stick and he can beat a man for a day, give a man a badge he can beat people for the rest of his life...
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  5417.  @BoycottChinaa  I'll try once more as my posts are being removed. America leads the world in rapes, murders, people on illegal drugs, people on prescription drugs, the highest number of police and the highest number of citizens in prison. 36 million in poverty. A health system that is extortionate. Became a corporation in 1913. Over 120 mass shootings in the past 2 decades. The second highest user of pesticides at 440,000 tons per annum including 330 million pounds of pesticides that are banned in the EU. America has been at war for 227 of its 245 years as a nation in 1776. Has occupied Hawaii and Costa Rica amount others, in fact there are only 3 countries globally that haven't been invaded by the US. So please don't do that freedom and democracy routine, you've never had either...
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  5418.  @BoycottChinaa  lol again you miss the facts and make excuses. Honest media in the US? are you serious? PS Africa is a continent made up of 54 countries... Chinese sweatshops make all your tech devices, and Indian sweatshops make all your clothes.
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  5419.  @itzyorboi7972  You're about as funny as an STD, if you still can't comprehend then that's on you buddy.
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  5420.  @BoycottChinaa  lol, no point in me trying to argue with ignorance and excuses. Have a nice day!
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  5421.  @BoycottChinaa  I pointed out that despite the US having the most police globally, you also have the most incarcerated citizens, the highest number of reported rapes and murders. At least 120 mass shootings in the past 2 decades. You have the highest number of citizens on illegal drugs and the highest number of citizens on pharmaceutical drugs globally. You also have an extortionate health care system, 36 million living in poverty, which is increasing annually. You have been at war for nearly all the time you've existed as a country. There are only 3 countries the US hasn't invaded. You have low wages, no standard maternity leave, very few paid holidays. These and many other things I posted are called facts! You have nothing but excuses and ad hominems. I know more about your country than you do...
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  5422. Soemome said "I pointed out that despite the US having the most police globally, you also have the most incarcerated citizens, the highest number of reported rapes and murders. At least 120 mass shootings in the past 2 decades. You have the highest number of citizens on illegal drugs and the highest number of citizens on pharmaceutical drugs globally. You also have an extortionate health care system, 36 million living in poverty, which is increasing annually. You have been at war for nearly all the time you've existed as a country. There are only 3 countries the US hasn't invaded. You have low wages, no standard maternity leave, very few paid holidays. These and many other things I posted are called facts! You have nothing but excuses and ad hominems. I know more about your country than you do..." It was me, but YT has filtered it...
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  5423. It's so creepy, it's like watching a Tory MP being interviewed on telly...
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  5424. @Alexander Someone from Australia...
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  5425. "What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when Tory profiteering bleeds our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets. The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, inept Tory policy inspires inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, their lives are shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this inhumane neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout 'Get those fecking Tories out!'" Steven Parker...
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  5426.  @garethmurray5901  Agreed, the product of the reject bin in Jim Henson's workshop :)
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  5427.  @igvc1876  lol so banal. There are many flaws in your statement, but the main one is that you believe whatever is said on video by someone you're told is a Russian agent. I'm sure you also believe that Russia has used the most deadly poison in the world in the last 2 years at least 3 times and failed to kill the target every time. The media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  5428.  @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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  5429.  @igvc1876  I've already answered your question in 3 very elaborate and eloquent ways. I'm not going to have a circular debate. You can simply accept that you don't agree with me...
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  5430. US Dollar under threat from the rising Chinese economy. Western leaders tied to Dollar hegemony unsurprisingly support US. Nuclear proliferation restarted by the orange oligarch and the ramifications of the Pandemic and accusations of Chinese complicity signpost the new agenda of NATO. All we need now is a few more anti-China stories and then the media can convince the braindead to give their governments the green light to start ww3... Yay capitalism and human stupidity...
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  5431.  @algonquin7187  I don't care about Israel they get enough money from the bible belt. My problem is with Trump who dropped out of three nuclear treaties and restarted the cold war and nuclear proliferation...
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  5432.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  I'm providing a solution to climate change, famine and constant war...
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  5433.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  Sorry but you are too naive to debate. We just had wars in the middle east to protect petrodollar hegemony. Who do you think bankrolled the Arab Spring? You're obviously a political illiterate if you liken the far left (who want a decent job and a pension) with the far right who want Authoritarian Ultranationalist Dictatorship. Have a nice day dummy...
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  5434. After the ceremony the dog was quoted as saying "I don't want your damn medal, I did what I did because I was trained and given treats. Besides which I don't agree with a divine right to rule or archaic systems such as monarchy. If you want to honour me give me more food and more toys to play with."
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  5435.  @emanuel1940  Tories have always done the same, they have an endless supply of elitist kleptocrats they will protect until it becomes impossible, then they'll turn on them. It never ceases to amaze me how incompetent or unpopular a Tory PM can be and still stay in office...
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  5436.  @os2musicuk203  Red, Blue or Yellow flavoured neoliberalism. It's a pity Labour has been taken over by centrist lobbyists, they gave us so much historically including national industry, the NHS, welfare, worker's rights, free schooling etc.
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  5437.  @JohnWilliams-bk9bq  Thanks for that, made me lol
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  5438.  @Vroomfondle1066  No D mate, If you're going to correct someone make sure they're wrong...
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  5439. Liz Truss - pork, cheese, 30-second PM crash the economy.
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  5440.  no1youknowz  I remember Gaddafi trying to take a share of the Petrodollar sales by suggesting an African currency 'The Dinar' backed by 143 tons of gold. And yes Brics+ is set to cause the US problems. But then China owns 11% of US foreign Debt, and Japan also owns a fair chunk so the US is on shaky ground if they start to decline. To be honest, since they dropped the gold standard and are now using Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency money is more illusory than ever. We have global debts of over $300 trillion, around 4 times global GDP. It's increasing at an alarming rate and the higher the debt goes the more fake money is created to be siphoned to the wealthy. The bigger slice of the world's 'actual' resources in the hands of the few. The polarizing of wealth is coming to a head in the next decade or so.
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  5441.  @rosem5041  Thank you :)
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  5442. @Spleens The Cat I'm sure Van Gogh would freely admit he has a lack of hearing on the one side and Einstein wouldn't claim to be an adonis. But I take your point in the spirit it was given :)
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  5443. The problem with the green solution is that while we do get nice clean hydrogen it spews nasty oxygen into the air polluting the environment...
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  5444. Israel has lobbyists in all major western nations affecting the political and media institutions with disproportionate influence. We are entirely responsible for this situation by essentially selling the protectorate for a loan in 1917 and then allowing the division and subsequent fleeing and conflict in 1947/48. The bible belt and political powers in the US has also supported and funded the ongoing enmity. The UN are powerless as hundreds of resolutions have been ignored.
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  5445.  @aceeeed  Speaking to your party and being accepted by your peers as an equal are completely separate. Sorry, but I don't really get your point.
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  5446. Agreed, During the pandemic, fossil fuel prices plummeted to less than 1/3rd. The giants of industry who have dominated the globe for decades weren't happy, now they're trying to claw back lost profits by blackmailing the world. Good old capitalism, the worst resource management system ever created...
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  5447. Why wouldn't they free themselves from the yoke of aristocratic kleptocrats in Westminster? Good luck to them.
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  5448.  @simonevans8979  He's the ultimate something, an insult to humanity for a start. Something I wrote years ago I still use occasionally: "Whenever I see Jacob Rees-Mogg I can't help but think of the 1800s and Whitechapel. Flickering shadows cast by an oil lamp post dance around a cloaked figure. A scream pierces the pitch-black midnight silence that hovers over London like an ominous warning. The sound of a cane cracks against the cobbled pavement as a red pool reflects a blood moon with the silhouette of a nefarious character in a cloak and a top hat. Jack the Kipper..."
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  5449. Underwater...
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  5450. As much as I love a good laugh, we have daily natural disasters and authoritarian governments abusing human rights globally, nuclear proliferation has restarted, we have a surge in neofascism and the planet's on the brink of climate disaster that could leave millions dead and possibly end the species. Could the BBC possibly promote the news on the odd occasion and not just fluff pieces and Tory propaganda?
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  5451. Pensioners will be worried considering the price of energy and the state of the NHS. Tory cull...
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  5452. While we while away the hours, Discussing how Hancock makes us sick, Just be glad you're nothing like him. 'cos he's an annoying callous pri...
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  5453. Paranoid, opinionated nonsense I suspect based on partisan tribalism. Trying to make out they're luxury hotels and that the legionella is an attempt to thwart the government using terms like suspicions, and poor scientific value...
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  5454. Compromised by Israeli violence, oppression and apartheid legislation. There! I fixed it for you!
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  5455.  @pooptard5773  Apparently the Earth is flat and nephilims have come back to haunt us from the pages of the Hebrew bible... What a strange lot human beings are...
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  5456. That man is about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Any similarity between Boris and a human is purely coincidental. He has diarrhoea of the mouth and constipation of the brain. Doesn’t know the meaning of the word decency but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words. If idiots could fly, Tory HQ would be a bloody airport.
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  5457. Maggie's down that's a start!
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  5458. I'm so glad it is, they claim religion and want to elect the antichrist. The sooner these people lose power in the states the better for world peace...
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  5459.  @e.d9424  Yea, it was the original Norman Lovett although I also love Hattie Hayridge too.
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  5460.  @e.d9424  My pleasure :)
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  5461. Seriously deluded aristocrat addresses other deluded aristocrats in an attempt to blame anyone but themselves for the state of the country and the economy...
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  5462.  @kenhardy8405  Labour was infiltrated by neoliberals 3 decades ago under Blair. Under Starmer they are corporate puppets, but still a lesser evil than the Tories. Your rights and freedoms are being taken by the Tories while they asset-strip the country...
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  5463.  @thetruthhurts7675  lol take your pathetic whataboutism to someone who cares. Starmer is a corporate puppet. Nice try and fail buddy! PS all of your statements on this post are wrong, If I cared about you I would correct them all...
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  5464. Dogs are evil, they're just lulling us into a false sense of security and then they'll take over the world! Mark my words!
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  5465. Tabloid nonsense. The EHRC report clearly showed there was no systemic AS in the Labour party. The 2017 and 2018 parliamentary reports clearly show less AS in Labour compared to the Tory Party, UKIP and society in general. It also clearly shows AS was reduced under Corbyn. The Home Affairs Select Committee of Parliament held an inquiry into antisemitism in the UK in the same year and found "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party". The reports proved there were higher levels of Antisemitism in the Tory party, UKIP and society as a whole than in the Labour party. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. He also helped to restart the stalled talks after months of work to enable the prisoner exchange which itself enabled the GFA...
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  5466. Kleptocracy is just one of those endearing little traits of the Tories. Like cronyism, nepotism, corruption, economic euthanasia, infecting care homes, disabled vilification, racism, misogyny, victim-blaming, selling arms for genocide and laundering the global criminal elite's money...
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  5467.  @TheBorderRyker  Thank you!
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  5468.  @hamduddinmasrur4614  Would be nice, but my point is that China is one of the world's global sweatshops. We use their carbon footprint for our cheap tech.
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  5469. If idiots could fly, Tory HQ would be a bloody airport!
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  5470. Starmer is a Tory, an establishment figure who cares not for the unions and the working people of the UK. Just a placeholder that is acceptable to many on both sides as a status quo ornament...
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  5471. I'm just glad we still pay higher and higher taxes for decreased services while the Tories loot the public's taxes to transfer them to their mate's offshore accounts. Makes me proud to be a human doormat like the rest of the British people...
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  5472.  @redemrys5342  The Chartists didn't revolt but believed in using political pressure to enforce change. That's not possible in such a corrupt system. Wat Tyler is what's needed...
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  5473.  @michaelathanasiou2030  Us poor people don't inherit much and I'm in favour of taxing inheritance. The rich get around it while the poor still have to pay, as with most taxes.
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  5474. lol seriously? We are paying the highest taxes ever thanks to the Tories. They have shunted the burden of tax from the wealthy to the poorest...
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  5475.  @billybob-jp7eh  I took no insult friend :)
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  5476. "In good faith" sure! Can't trust people in positions of power, society is a sham, the system has failed, and the poor always pay the price for the lies, financial crashes and wreckless economic gambles...
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  5477.  @smungek  Please read my earlier replies, and reread the original comment. It seems you're misunderstanding my comments...
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  5478.  @gooderspitman8052  I left when Blair dropped clause 4 but would have rejoined had Corbyn won. If Starmer and his gang of paid lobbyists had got behind Corbyn we wouldn't have a Tory government now asset-stripping Britain and giving us generational debt. Backing a corporate puppet (Starmer) to take over from corrupt corporate puppets (Tories) seems a waste of 4 years...
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  5479. Lock the manipulative election rigger and civil disturber inciting a coup up and throw away the key.
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  5480. Sychophants worshipping at the altar of celebrity, is that what we are? The vacuous wealthy are leading us to a precipice and we ignore it all to binge-watch some mediocre entertainment heavily laden with adverts and recaps for the hard of thinking...
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  5481.  @damiensteiner9919  nice, take care bro!
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  5482.  @Waryan1  US had to be tricked into ww2 and relations aren't great between the UK and US these days...
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  5483.  @seanwilson5147  NATO wasn't under discussion and we've alienated a lot of NATO countries with Brexit and lost our 'special relationship' with the US in recent years. Russia has over 5 times the army and more than twice our population and they still have conscription. If you want to discuss allies include China, Iran, N.Korea etc. If this turns into a global conflict those countries aren't going to allow Russia to stand alone...
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  5484.  @seanwilson5147  Russia also has almost 30 times the nukes and hypersonic technology with 6 times the subs to shoot them from...
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  5485.  @Ukfairgrounds  lol The Sukhoi Su-57 multirole fighter only has its debut 12 years ago. Stop lying.
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  5486.  @seanwilson5147  You mean too many thick patriotic people that can't spell and don't understand geopolitics... PS the weak ones are the simps relying on US backup...
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  5487.  @seanwilson5147  My point is that you can't spell, punctuate or form logical, coherent sentences. So I wouldn't trust your disjointed, anaemic grasp on geopolitics...
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  5488.  @seanwilson5147  You should learn to think and act like a grownup instead of believing in fairy tales... You're about as much use to the UK as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  5489.  @Ukfairgrounds  A multirole fighter capable of aerial combat as well as ground and maritime strike, the design incorporates some features of stealth, supermaneuverability, supercruise, integrated avionics, and substantial internal payload capacity. Yea, sounds really crap m8...
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  5490.  @seanwilson5147  We have 225 nukes the Russians have over 6,000. We have 10 submarines the Russians have 59. The Russians have hypersonic missile technology we do not. I'm not wasting any more time correcting your delusions...
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  5491.  @internetenjoyer1044  The numbers are accurate and deployability and logistics affect both sides. This isn't the golden age of the Royal Navy, that was centuries ago. Anyone who believes the UK are a match for the Russian military are allowing patriotism to override logic. We rely on NATO and the US as we have to. I'm not defending Russia, so many people answered my factual comments with faux patriotism and illogical excuses for why the numbers don't count. This is similar to the proxy war in Syria. Russia is treading lightly in the Ukraine to get what it wants without starting ww3, but if either side goes too far...
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  5492.  @seanwilson5147  I'm the only one posting facts, yet you call me delusional while you rely on ignorant patriotism. Some people should avoid internet debate as they don't have the necessary equipment...
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  5493.  @yeahme8367  You geopolitical illiterates seem unaware of what the term 'Proxy war' means, and blissfully unaware of the cold war part deux...
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  5494. We are no longer workers, we are collateral, cash cows and now wage slaves. Wake up and smell the corporatocracy...
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  5495.  @throwow1014  We have the bigliest numbers of infected and the most deaths, we're winning this thing. No one else in the world has as much coronavirus as we do, we are number one! All thanks to my actions as president. You know you guys are lucky to have me looking out for you. I could be making a lot of money with my brain, a stable genius is a rare commodity. But I believe in you guys, I believe in this great country of ours and I believe we can stay number one in the world!
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  5496. That was a global crisis and the result of cross party decision to bail out the banks. The Tories have created 3/4rs of our national debt and crashed our economy several times since then. Tory myths from economic illiterates makes me laugh...
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  5497. I'll have a proper gander later...
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  5498.  King of the Saxons  Be careful to ignore right-wing think tanks telling you it's a global communist takeover. Right-wing billionaires control the world and always have. Yes, I've read your comments before... You're firmly in the camp of the people doing this, their useful idiot!
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  5499.  Tim Foster  It doesn't matter at the end of the day what you or I think. The virus can kill you and your family so they got you by the balls. Either way you take a risk...
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  5500. It's not a good situation to have an authoritarian government that arrests journalists and fails to provide adequate health care for its citizens, but enough about the UK. What's happening in China?
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  5501. Immigration has increased since Labour left power, Theresa May has the record of 650,000 immigrants in her last year as Home Secretary. They create the problem then bang on about it to get votes from prejudiced imbeciles...
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  5502.  @NoWindNoSunNoPower  Hilarious, if only your cognitive ability matched your simplistic understanding of humour. Your comment is about as much use as a tobacconist on the international space station...
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  5503. Jacob Rees-Mogg is about as religious as a cloven-hoofed, horned demon and embodies hypocrisy like a Greek actor (hypokrites). He also has all the humanity of a parasite that kills its host...
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  5504. We've only lost 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction, so what if large swathes of the planet are on fire and the icecaps are melting causing low lying areas to be reclaimed by the sea. I'm sure the Tories are doing everything they can, such a globally-minded group of philanthropic humanitarians and definitely not insular kleptocrats. So just enjoy watching the human race, its history and accomplishments being slowly devoured by capitalism in this endless pantomime we call life.
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  5505.  @MattBrophy  Thank you!
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  5506.  @susanhonegger9987  Thank you!
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  5507.  @alvindimes4729  lol indeed. Land of dopes and tories!
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  5508.  @chrismeadows7488  Thank you!
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  5509.  @nollamara1  My pleasure!
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  5510.  @Mister_P  Thank you!
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  5511.  @DeeJayEll  Shhh, It's a secret that only people with the internet will ever know!!
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  5512.  @enowilson  :)
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  5513. Steve Parker to miss G20 to 'unequivocally condemn' Ukraine-Russia war being used to excuse the Tory corruption and greed that has crippled our economy and shortened the lives of British citizens...
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  5514.  @marktrinidad7650  The Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis? Project 112? there are many examples of the US infecting tube stations and using insects to spread pathogens on its own populous. Spraying cities with bacteria that lead to food poisoning. In 2008, the US Government Accountability Office acknowledged that tens of thousands of civilians might have been exposed to biological agents thanks to Project 112 and other tests. You must be delusional...
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  5515.  @randomperson2670  Financial assets maybe, debt assets, objects for infection to study biological weapons and diseases. Read my previous reply to Mark...
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  5516. Espionage is more likely than an accident. The number of explosions and fires in Russia these days suggests infiltration. Not that I care...
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  5517.  @888ssss  Labour has been corrupted since Blair dropped clause 4, Starmer is funded by corporate lobbyists. But your whataboutery and suggestion of a two-party state is about as intelligent as a slug riding a razor blade...
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  5518. I spy with my little eye...
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  5519.  @silveriver9  US Soldier just happens to attempt to cross one of the most secure borders in the world after serving time in prison in S.Korea...
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  5520.  @telescopicS627  PS cops are there to protect the wealthy and many are corrupt. This isn't about a cop doing his job!
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  5521.  @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings  Yes, Israeli lobbyists own a disproportionate amount of media and political assets in the West.
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  5522. I wish people who vote Tory would just throw the contents of their wallets into a thunderstorm, at least then it would be only them who pay for their bad descisions.
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  5523. lol Social Democrats in Britain are called far left by the media, then they call Social Democrats in Germany centre-left...
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  5524.  @m.r4841  Same in UK and the US, centralist neoliberals infiltrated the left leadership.
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  5525.  @simonmorgan225  When it doesn't even meet the rate of inflation and still leaves them in the same position they were in a decade ago...
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  5526. No lions left in the UK but plenty of witches although they tend to be found in the cabinet rather than wardrobes these days...
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  5527.  @jphenry3404  Money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to monopolise the finite resources available. You are responsible for your words, in the same way, a banker is responsible for their actions. I'm not interested in circular debate, it's about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station.
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  5528.  @fod1855  You haven't got a clue mate. Stop perpetuating Tory mythology. 40% of the population are living in poverty - that's a statistic from the house of commons research 2019/2020. 22% of the working population are in poverty. Things have got worse since then... Please stop replying to me with ignorant guesses...
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  5529.  @fod1855  You're ignorant of virtually everything. The reason 40% of British people are in poverty is because of low wages. That's the government's fault, they choose the wages through legislation like zero-hour contracts, minimum wage etc they also allow a cartel to buy our nationalised energy companies, landlord and tenant legislation that affects rent prices, it's all related to legislation and therefore government-induced. I'm not interested in your pathetic excuses. The statistical facts prove the lies in your opinionated nonsense. Please stop bothering me as I have better things to do than educate heartless simpletons...
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  5530.  @hillybilly7165  Yes, the Saudi genocide in Yemen I have commented on multiple times.
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  5531.  @robertsteele474  The UK has a tenth of the fatal stabbings the US has per 100,000 of the population. Seriously the US is uncivilized stop trying to compare. The stats prove the US is a violent idiocracy...
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  5532.  @muckraker7942  The UK has something called civilisation and decent legislation...
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  5533.  @Ozzyjo  Do you lack the ability to read or interpret the English language? I've posted it twice on this thread and that's it. If you have nothing to say, say nothing...
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  5534.  @marioluigi9599  You could have typed something witty or intelligent. Instead, you regurgitated my words. Truly sad!
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  5535.  @RNA0ROGER  Despite not having a constitution. They now have the power to deny the supreme court so that the supreme court can no longer overrule the Government. So they now have absolute power and can no longer be overruled. They didn't have that power before, which is why it's so controversial and why so many Israelis are protesting. Pity the Israeli people didn't consider this as their Government have become so far-right. They don't mind authoritarianism when it's directed at others, now it affects Israeli citizens they realise their mistake...
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  5536.  @academision  Learn how to interpret tense from a sentence "and now they're going to ignore their own laws..." They now have the power to override their own supreme court. They are "going to" ignore their own laws...
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  5537. lol at least 3 likes disappeared from my comments, gotta love youtube and the petty Neanderthals that inhabit cyberspace...
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  5538. I can't wait until they choose the next incompetent, corrupt leader of our nation...
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  5539. I just hope the petro dollar is ok, that's the most important thing...
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  5540. Tories have wallowed for decades, they just let the frontman take the fall and recycle them back into rotation a few years later. It was only a few years ago Priti Patel had secret meetings with Israel and Netanyahu and was forced to step back, now she's back to gaslighting the nation as if nothing happened...
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  5541. Human greed causing death and destruction globally, it's called disaster capitalism...
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  5542. A crack-addicted hamster is a greater threat than Keir Starmer, second-rate Blair tribute act... Remember when the working class had representation? it was about 3 decades ago...
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  5543. Big Oil lobbying to undermine legislation to tackle climate change that big oil is largely responsible for? That ain't news to anyone with a higher IQ than a crack-addicted, syphilitic hamster...
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  5544. Wintermute or Neuromancer? That's the only question that matters...
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  5545.  @titteryenot4524  No, I've already clearly stated he's flawed like the rest of us, as was Shakspeare. So your mention of hagiography seems to come from a lack of understanding of the written word. Which suggests your petty pedantry is one of your few skills. Take your erroneous assumptions, absolutist rage and lack of understanding to someone who cares. As Bob Dylan once said, "It ain't me babe!" PS I find pedantry about as much use as attempting to teach a whale to fly or a fish to roll a fatty...
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  5546.  @titteryenot4524  lol arrogance, pedantry and patronisation. I hope your life is as nice as you are ;)
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  5547.  @titteryenot4524  I know you from your lack of wit and intellect clearly displayed in this post. If you don't have the wit to reply in kind spare me your facile faux good intentions. For someone with all the likeability of a used tissue, I'm forced to assume my initial judgment of you was accurate. Have a wonderful day! PS Feel free to have the last word, I really don't care enough about you to continue this trite discourse.
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  5548.  @philmckenna5709  Everyone thinks Shakespeare is at the top of the literary tree, therefore it's a ubiquitous opinion (everyone assumes it to be true, it's everywhere)...
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  5549. US are the second largest producer of C02 emissions and China who are the largest C02 emitter are making all of the US tech devices in sweatshops for US companies...
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  5550. No and yes. As with everything else in life it depends on the circumstances. There are no absolutes, that is why we have a brain to help us make decisions. Now, this is a story all about how Will's wife was dissed, by Chris the clown. It only took a minute, and he stood right there as he took a fresh slap from the Prince of Bel-Air...
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  5551. @William Tell So you believe in a lack of consequences for your actions or that those consequences should be limited to what you personally consider acceptable, but anything goes regarding humiliating someone because of a disability or medical condition? Got ya, you suffer from logical inconsistency and absolutism... How's that for an overture?
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  5552.  @rufus1346  My actions? I happen to believe both physical and psychological abuse can be equally damaging. If it was a disabled child being verbally abused I'm sure you'd defend that child. Many kids have committed suicide over bullying and cyberbullying. There are no absolutes, each case should be seen for what it is, Chris made a cheap joke and Will overreacted. You can be opposed to both actions...
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  5553.  @kevb699  Yea wonder why that is. Annual NHS spending increase under Blair (Labour): 6.1% Annual NHS spending increase under Brown (Labour): 5.4% Annual NHS spending increase under Cameron (Tory): 1.4% Annual NHS spending increase under May (Tory): 1.1% Jacob Rees-Mogg actually admitted that the increased spending under May has actually been reduced to just 1.1% Since 2010 : The rate of extra investment has fallen by 68%. 16,481 fewer beds in hospitals. 66 A&E and Maternity wards closed. 103 NHS Walk in centres closed or downgraded. 60 ambulance stations closed. 1,000 GP practices closed.
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  5554.  @kevb699  Your powers of deduction never cease to amaze me Holmes...
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  5555.  @Western-imperalism  You obviously don't understand the point and fall into the same category as her. Results? bankruptcy and division? giveaways to Wall st? taking away your human rights? stopping people accessing medical care?
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  5556. I think the question is 'Should Boris Johnson survive partygate?' To which the answer is no. He lied, broke ministerial code, broke the law and this a continuation of his utter contempt for his position, parliamentary rules, the law and the trust bestowed in him by the electorate.
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  5557. Yay! more pandemics are on the way. I can't wait for more vaccines and lockdowns. About time we had a positive story in the news...
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  5558. Good old-fashioned bullies who are too blind to see past their daily lives to protect their grandchildren. Standing up to eco-protestors who are going up against the powerful corporations on the planet... I know whose side I'm on and it isn't the corporations who shorten our lives.
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  5559. Someone once commented "I just wish people would stop picking on the Tories, every day another scandal, a law broken, a parliamentary rule broken, fraud accusation, corruption and cronyism story. And yet no Tory MPs are ever charged. Which surely proves their innocence..." It was me and it was filtered...
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  5560. No free speech for the left, journalists or anyone interested in the truth. Government and corporate agendas along with right-wing disinformation dominates social media.
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  5561.  @ashyclaret  Shhh, haven't got time to debate right whingers who lack facts. It's like trying to teach a whale to fly...
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  5562. Says someone trained in espionage and disseminating misinformation. Well, I'm convinced. No, I'm not defending Russia it's just a joke so don't be Putin me on trial...
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  5563. "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 fail, the Tory express, the Torygraph, Are misleading millions of Brits every day, In the awful Tory Britain full of poverty and decay, On a planet in the embarrassed Milky Way."
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  5564. Arrested for not being a Royalist? feudal Britain is getting worse. Time to ditch aristocrats and take back the power!
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  5565. Trump indictment, more excitement, orange manchild, shame of mankind, running wild with orange smiles. Lock him up, before another plot to usurp a nation, aggressive flirtation, dictatorial mutation, national damnation.
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  5566. Today's sesame street was brought to you by the numbers 9 and 11, and the phrases 'black flag operation' and 'Machiavellian plots'...
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  5567. Cancel culture is simply a concoction of the media, who want to change the narrative from equality in society, by amplifying a tiny fringe group to polarise the public...
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  5568.  @Nickle314  NHS didn't receive the funding it was given to private enterprise. We lost billions to fraud and the Tories gave the contracts to their mates who failed to deliver.
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  5569.  @Nickle314  Because they have been underfunded for over a decade and they're not psychic... The government are responsible for unexpected crises and the NHS can't do anything without government approval and funding...
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  5570.  @DropdudeJohn  Thank you for proving your lack of wit, intellect and knowledge in such a profoundly obvious way.
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  5571.  @Anonymous-qw  I didn't suggest all labourers do nightshifts. You should learn to read and stop being so pedantic. I'm not interested in petty disputes of semantics...
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  5572. Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Palestinians and Israelis that are against the right should be seriously worried at this point...
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  5573. Cameron and his cronies have a lot to answer for, but maybe we can fix some of the problems. What's the difference between a pig's head and Britain? The pig's head didn't have to suffer the endless humiliation and poverty after being screwed by Cameron...
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  5574.  @lordwhitesk1n996  Well some may argue a billionaire building robots and rockets to Mars could do more good by not accelerating climate change, not exploiting child labour and sweatshops, not exploiting a global crisis to double their assets in a year, not avoiding taxation that pays for the infrastructure they exploit for profit and maybe using those profits to undo some of the damage they caused humanity and the planet, rather than frivolous tech that will only put more people out of work. Not that I have anything against robots, but the term priorities comes to mind...
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  5575.  @1flash3571  lol not a fan of logic and reason are you? I see you like ad hominems though. Good for you, come back when you reach sentience.
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  5576.  @JoelJoel321  lol if I wanted an asinine comment from a Tory sycophant I'd ask...
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  5577.  @JoelJoel321  So a centrist then? If you don't support the NHS and are happy with privatisation, you're neoliberal and as bad as a Tory...
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  5578.  @gking1338  Management on excessive salaries is part of the outsourcing and for-profit organisations allowed under the 2012 Health and care act. You are agreeing with me yet have no idea and instead blame diversity. Just another clueless right-whinger helping the Tories to reduce your own family and friends' lives...
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  5579.  @Altair885  Just checked and it's just over £2.4 billion in 2021/22 spent on claims, including legal fees which is only a couple of per cent of the budget, still far too much but that's the cost of privatisation. For-profit organisations are notoriously less efficient and prone to malpractice.
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  5580. ​ @JoelJoel321  You made an asinine comment without specifying anything. I've already said "much of the admin and management are only necessary because of the thousands of for-profit organisations." And "Management on excessive salaries is part of the outsourcing and for-profit organisations allowed under the 2012 Health and care act." I'm not going to have a circular debate.
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  5581.  @muckraker7942  lol you haven't read my previous replies and don't understand the problem. For-profit organisations are the problem - they have been proven less efficient and more prone to malpractice, while draining resources via profit for shareholders.
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  5582.  @JoelJoel321  My assumption was based on your lack of specification. You disagreed with my whole comment! Hence you are no Labour supporter if you defend Tory privatisation of the NHS. If you learn to express yourself and also learn logic, come back!
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  5583.  @JoelJoel321  Thank you for that intellectual, thought-provoking, erudite, concise comment. I'll be looking forward to more from you in the near future...
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  5584.  @jeanlind7540  Thank you!
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  5585.  @PaulChapman1bz  No my arrogance is a defence against being sealioned by politically and economically illiterate trolls... You told anyone with a reasonable IQ quite a lot about yourself in one sentence. The fact you lack the ability to understand that isn't my problem...
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  5586. ​ @PaulChapman1bz  lol you're a conspiracy theory loving bigot then. At least 3 conspiracies in that paragraph. You really ought to learn real history instead of listening to the propaganda billionaires feed you as they dip their hands in your back pocket and pilfer your cash... The only thing you have correct is the end of civilisation. That will happen either through global conflict, climate change or because we are trapped in a dystopian corporatocracy.
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  5587.  @PaulChapman1bz  PS I've been on an urgent waiting list for over a year. Been to the A&E three times in the past year. Because of the Tories underfunding 1 in 10 of the population is on the NHS waiting list. Many with terminal conditions. All you are worried about is the colour of people's skin... Wait until you get your wish and end up in an authoritarian nightmare...
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  5588.  @PaulChapman1bz  I have to sleep sitting upright or my lungs flood with mucus, try waking up the night gasping for air... I'll speak down to you because you're ignorant and delusional. You haven't posted any facts just mythology and misinformation from think tanks. You're an embarrassment to the human race. I've met hamsters addicted to sniffing glue with more charisma and intellect... That's what you get when you threaten me. Try it again!
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  5589. If they loose a nuke they'll probably call it a surprise thermal event with lasting implications...
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  5590.  @antoniobrignoni3722  Agreed, but China has other historic reasons also. Not that I'm defending anyone.
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  5591.  @chinchin8269  It does to most people, just because you make up for stupidity with a lack of intellect, don't assume everyone else has the same flaws... Your comments are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station... Feel free to come back for more, I have plenty :)
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  5592.  @Ruben-nc6es  Agreed, the media lens illuminates a kaleidoscope of multi-coloured bull-ish. Most people just see the pretty colours :)
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  5593.  @pdempseyful  As you're agreeing with me I assume you meant to reply to ron and not me, couldn't agree more with your assessment :)
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  5594.  @cherylburrows1655  Starmer purged socialism from Labour and is funded by corporate lobbyists so it's no surprise - Tory lite.
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  5595.  @ronventy798  You have the level of humour I'd expect from a syphilitic crack-addicted rat with a brain injury and you're about as charming as a used tissue. That's humour m8!
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  5596.  @FlyingJay117  lol how come people defending murderers are so thick?
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  5597.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  You're a Saxon are you, Anglo-Saxon? well go back to Germany then and leave us native Brits (Celts) to decide how we run our own country...
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  5598.  Leona Bastet  Sorry but I can't discuss reality with someone who is clearly not from the same planet as me and witnessed the incident in a parallel universe...
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  5599.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  I'm Welsh and a Celt a true Native Brit, my surname simply means park keeper or groundsman... You're a German living in Britain and complaining about immigrants...
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  5600.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  You keep saying that while defending a murderer who is right-wing who killed some left-wingers, does cognitive dissonance hurt? You're the one doffing your cap to the rich and buying their propaganda... Go tug your forelock somewhere else...
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  5601.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  You mean you can't argue with the fact your tribalism is forcing you to defend a murderer who drove 35km from his home state of Illinois to a Black Lives Matter protest in Wisconsin with a high powered rifle and killed 3 people after threatening them...
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  5602.  Leona Bastet  Sorry I'm on the toilet and can only deal with one shit at a time...
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  5603.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  I already explained that was the milage given when I checked state to state, after using the route planner I proved your 20mins to be bolx... You really shouldn't use pop psychology after giving so much away about your own cognitive dissonance and lack of logic, someone may point out your psychological flaws...
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  5604.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  Says the person calling out tribalism because people think murderers should be punished...
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  5605.  @JuanMendoza-qd5lm  A child took a military-style semi-automatic rifle to a peaceful protest (BLM protests were 93% peaceful and the only time trouble occurred was when counter-protesters turned up) and shot 3 people killing 2... PS try punctuation (You've) yes I'm that guy!
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  5606.  Leona Bastet  Don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on this own... (I have plenty more where that came from quit while you're so far behind)
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  5607.  Leona Bastet  PS were you born in the middle of a road? because statistically, that's where most accidents happen...
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  5608.  Leona Bastet  As Rittenhouse had no way of knowing that, and I'm not saying it's true, but as he had no way of knowing that it's not relevant is it? it's about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  5609.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  It's Parc in Welsh, and in Middle English it's Park which is a keeper of the park... It's also quite common globally. You read the wiki entry rather than a proper ancestor site...
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  5610.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  Parc is a Welsh word, French and Welsh are very similar so I understand your confusion... When are you going back to Germany?
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  5611.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  PS The average Britons genetic make-up is 36.6% Anglo-Saxon, the majority of the remaining DNA is European. This includes 23.14% Irish (Celtic) and 37.42% continental European, covering all regions of Europe. Some of us realise that the ship sailed on multiculturalism when we invented boats... As for Culture we use Mesopotamian numeracy and literacy, Greek Democracy and Roman influences such as irrigation, strait roads, the hypocaust, baths, aqueducts etc.
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  5612.  @mikelowery6227  I'll be surprised if you can aim straight with genitals that small m8...
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  5613.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  Parc is Welsh Parchier is French, do you see the connection now sweetie? My genealogy results come from a study on actual DNA throughout Britain and those results were printed in your favourite right-wing comic the Daily Fail. You're a mongrel just like me, Only I have about 20% more Celt, you have more Saxon, stop whining I've got some cute rescue Pitbulls to watch on The Dodo channel...
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  5614.  @WuKnowz  Not half as idiotic as someone with the IQ of a dead dog with its head caved in, which is how your comments come across...
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  5615.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  Breton the language used in Britony France is very similar to Welsh as is the French language. They are both of Celtic origin. For example, ‘window’ is ‘ffenestr’ in Welsh and ‘fenestr’ in Breton; ‘dog’ is ‘ci’ in Welsh and ‘ki’ in Breton. If you'd like a lingual lesson from my linguistic largesse just ask :)
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  5616.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  PS From 1880 until c.1950, French authorities banned Breton in schools. Those caught speaking it were punished. Around the same time, the Welsh Not - a piece of wood - was given to schoolchildren caught speaking Welsh to stigmatise and punish them. Thankfully this doesn’t happen anymore, and people in Wales and Brittany make great efforts to keep their languages alive. I can keep going if you like?
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  5617.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  PPS "Wales’ influence as a Land of Song is clear in Brittany's anthem. Bro Gozh ma Zadoù is based on the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. Both titles mean ‘Old Land of my Fathers’, and they share the same tune."
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  5618.  @fioredeutchmark  That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type...
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  5619.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  French Welsh English pont pont bridge église eglwys church mer môr sea triste trist sad fenêtre ffenestr window terre tir land
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  5620.  @mikelowery6227  Funny that, because I can't hear you over all the pathetic whining and crying you're doing for a teenage murderer :)
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  5621.  @WuKnowz  lol I see you're an intellectual right-whinger...
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  5622.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  Yes, French comes from Latin as do many other languages, Doh well spotted! In fact French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Gaul was inhabited by Celtic and Aquitani tribes, encompassing present-day France. I'm a Celt, still not getting this are ya buddy?
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  5623.  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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  5624.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  lol glad you corrected *your*self. My DNA proves 35-40% Celtic, my culture is 100% Celtic... Despite the Romans killing our Pagan ancestors on Angelsey, we have very little Italian heritage as I've already pointed out the East of England has the most Italian/Greek (Southern European) ancestry a mere (2.53%). DNA doesn't lie Mr.German. You should learn to read :)
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  5625. The biggest fraud scam was £37 billion and affected 67,000,000 taxpaying victims. Codename test and trace...
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  5626. By allowing vile comments and filtering facts and stats that illuminate the truth you are silencing those who speak truth to power... Don't pretend it's a righteous crusade...
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  5627. Vindictive Trump supporters care nothing for morality and decency. They just want to burn civilisation to the ground out of spite. Trump is just using this as a dog whistle to rile up his supporters who by now are foaming at the mouth with the idea of more brutality.
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  5628.  @Al-iv3mb  Blair gave us Thatcherite neoliberalism after dropping clause 4, Thatcher's greatest legacy. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. Since Starmer took over he's lost over 25% of Labour members... Take your Tory mythology to a neoliberal centrist, they might buy it...
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  5629. ​ @Al-iv3mb  Blair took money off Saudi Arabia to cover up their actions in Yemen on the international stage. He also took us into wars to protect petrodollar hegemony. Here's what a better Labour leader who has always been on the right side of history said about that war, which turned out to be prophecy: "Thousands more deaths in Iraq will not make things right. It will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations." Corbyn.
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  5630.  @jonathanfoster2568  Thank you!
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  5631. Labour was the party of the people, now it's run by Blair v2.0 who is funded by lobbyists...
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  5632.  @aituk  You are a Tory by proxy whether you are smart enough to realise it or not, you are defending them against a plethora of actual facts by using opinion and supposition. Your anecdotal evidence is illogical and ill-formed. I've never met someone defending the Tories who admits they are a Tory, you may even believe what you say, but you are a Tory by design or unwittingly. Your ad homs about lefties prove your lack of understanding, erroneous preconceived notions and animosity making you nothing more than a useful tool of the right.
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  5633.  @aituk  Sure you did, you also haven't liked your own comments immediately after posting. There are no tuition-free universities in the UK, students get into debt to pay for their studies and work part-time jobs. Again you are proving your lack of basic understanding. You also don't understand Marxism or gender. As much as I enjoy correcting your misinformation, for me this is as pointless as trying to teach a whale to fly. Take your illogical prejudice to someone who cares, it isn't me!
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  5634. Well, at least he didn't make it all about him...
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  5635.  @Lonely_Goat  lol sure. No one else has ever blocked an ambulance on purpose...
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  5636. It says the locals have named the suspect as Jake Davidson according to the telegraph...
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  5637.  @sticky59  It was CCTV on the Telegraph video, probably on a lampost, at least according to The Telegraph in their title summary. On the rest I agree with you.
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  5638.  @capapa5179  Yes, I've already mentioned it's a gynaecological hospital. There are new reports suggesting it could be some sort of misogynist attack. Although I've yet to see any article confirm that theory.
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  5639.  @RawTopShot  If you can point out my comment that suggests it was a phone I'd be amazed. lol wasn't me although I did correct that comment.
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  5640. @Jamie Jones Sorry mate, I'm on the toilet and can only deal with one sh-it at a time.
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  5641. Dorries, Mogg and Johnson among many others are blurring the lines between politician and propagandist. Many even crossing the line into shock-jock territory.
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  5642. I noticed. The heavy rain and strong winds remind me constantly while battering my not-so-well-sealed windows.
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  5643. How many times can they install a new PM to fix the problems created by the previous PM? before we realise they're all as corrupt and incompetent as each other...
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  5644.  @ronnieince4568  Whatabbouttery is pointless and while most politicians are corrupt there are a few good ones. I judge more on policies and the fact that the Tories have been proven criminals, liars and thieves robbing the taxpayer blind.
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  5645.  @vincentblack7467  You allow prejudice to control your decisions. Which is exactly how the tabloids play you. Heard it all before mate, you got weak links and a few scandals. The Tories have 20x the dirt. But like I said, it's about ideology and policies. I'm not going to let the rich keep stealing my tax to give to their mates.
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  5646.  @dolphin069  BBC has constantly used secret services to root out the left. Many top ex-Conservatives and donors are on the board and direct the BBC. So your argument is obviously flawed...
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  5647. Thankyou Thatcher for the 'Right to buy' scam that transferred 40% of social housing into the hands of merciless landlords, and consecutive governments who have failed to provide social housing...
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  5648. The West probably gave Prigozhin a huge bribe to start trouble and then he took another one from Putin to go away.
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  5649.  @32shumble  Tories don't do transparency and every report or independent inquiry to date has been a whitewash...
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  5650.  @manspider6574  You mean the legal foundation that comes from the old latin phrase "Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat"? Let me know when you think fraud, tax evasion, 8 bankruptcies and constant misinformation and incitement shows a person of high moral fibre...
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  5651.  @w1ndgeneral226  Agreed, and the dropping out of human rights and climate agreements and 3 nuclear treaties restarting global conflict, feeding Wall ST. trillions and trying to take health care from 30 million Americans. There are many more things too.
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  5652.  @Chompchompyerded  Agreed. I put a few facts about him personally in one reply and in another about his presidency. I have to be careful what I say if I want my comment to remain visible :)
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  5653. Nothing surprising about it, funny how the Tory advisors and budget claim it's falling. Give people on the lowest incomes better wages as they will spend any extra they get out of necessity, this will feed tax, trade, profits and reduce the burden of the cost of living. A virtuous circle that increases the GDP...
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  5654.  @djbogz1921  I'm not angry mate, I've given no indications of anger. You don't seem able to read. She was using 30p Lee's words! I see nothing wrong in her using his words and no one in Britain has watched TV and avoided the F-word. Taking offence on Lee's behalf or the public's behalf is pointless. I don't care if you're easily offended by words, I care that you seem ignorant of the cost in lives...
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  5655.  @shanjanusman9974  I love hearing tropes from the politically and economically illiterate...
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  5656.  @shanjanusman9974  PS the £37 billion spent on an ineffective test and trace system works out to £550 spent for every one of the 67 million Brits. We could have bought solid gold medical trackers for that kind of money. Just one example of the cronyism that eats your taxes.
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  5657.  @zainzoala1083  The media control the narrative and the Tories control the media. They also move boundaries and are guilty of election fraud and contempt of parliament.
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  5658.  @LimeyRedneck  @beatdizzy stated Rob's words and mentioned Rob. I'm not conflating anything and I'm not criticising dizzy, simply pointing out that anyone who follows global politics, economics, recent legislation and the global rise of right-wing ideology should be more worried than they are. To use terms like Authoritarian, Dystopian, or Orwellian with regard to the recent changes globally is an understatement. We take 1 step forward for every two steps back. Nuclear proliferation has restarted, AI and automation are replacing workers, Nihilist philosophies are common, history is being rewritten, book burning and censorship are increasing, we are heading for a digital currency where our ability to support our families can be turned off with the push of a button. The truth is now optional and opinion is as good as facts. Not to mention the future of the species is at high risk due to global warming. Global debt is over $300 trillion - 2.5 times global GDP. Even in the UK we have had a debt-to-GDP ratio of above 100% several times in the past decade. Free speech, the right to protest, human rights, and workers' rights are all being reduced considerably. My point is simply that this isn't a time for optimism.
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  5659. She's definitely a few planks short of a wooden bridge. Diarrhoea of the mouth; constipation of the ideas. She certainly shouldn't let her mind wander — it’s far too little to be let out alone.
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  5660. Blackm@iling people via their energy bills, I wonder where Putin learned that from...
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  5661.  @bigred1554  In 2014, Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, and that SARS had the potential to re-emerge from coronaviruses circulating in bat populations in the wild. Dr.Fauci paid that Wuhan lab $3.7 million even after the US National Institutes of Health placed a moratorium on SARS, MERS, and influenza gain-of-function studies, due to concerns about the risks vs. benefits of such research.
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  5662.  @kolar  Are you aware that most Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That most Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? Please continue to give generously to these amoral victims of privilege and elitism... Remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they'll bleed you dry all year around...
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  5663.  @junglie  Yep that's where they store the taxes we pay them after they siphon them off to their mates...
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  5664.  @Vanamutt  Yep, I got that m8, just used your eloquent reference as a springboard to have a pop at the Tories :) You know last week it was so cold I actually saw a Tory MP with his hands in his own pockets!
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  5665.  @thepm3972  Splitter!
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  5666.  @tonyroy8123  Thank you!
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  5667.  @BOZ_11  lol yes, the trillions lost and hundreds of billions borrowed through kleptocracy will go away on its own...
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  5668.  @BOZ_11  Printing billions is the reason for the inflation rise. Debt to GDP was over 100% this year, our national debt is draining all of our available income! Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency is indeed a con, but a con we still pay for... USA growth 4.2% Eurozone growth 2.1% UK declined by 0.7% We are the only economy in the G7 to have shrunk and not recovered...
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  5669.  @BOZ_11  Energy is a factor and energy prices have actually doubled every 6 months for over 2 years. That indeed puts up the cost of transport and goods. But it is only one factor. The OBR says we're heading into a recession. Your figures don't come up on any search engine... I've already given you the figures that clearly show our situation is not a common problem that other countries face. This indicates the Brexit losses and the fiscal incompetence of the Tories is responsible. I agree with you on energy corporations and on the growing winter losses of 40,000 per annum from pensioners due to energy prices. But as already stated, I can't find your figures and mine are available from the IFS... Is your whole argument that printing money doesn't cause inflation? because that's already been proven by fiscal studies and shouldn't be up for debate.
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  5670.  @BOZ_11  lol I'm not sure you have the ability to analyse information. You are making arguments I've already made as if in rebuttal. Of course, wages are falling hard, and the Unions were stripped of any power under Thatcher. The corporations have had the upper hand for decades and new legislation keeps hammering us down even further. That doesn't mean inflation and recession don't play a predominant role as we are all aware of how are lives are affected by Tory austerity, which is a political choice and not a financial one. You obviously haven't read all my replies or understood any of my points. Brexit losses are a huge burden that the wealthy are transferring to the poor, your argument regarding energy, corporate greed and government kleptocracy are ones I've made myself so how can you call me a tool when using my own arguments? I'm working class and have fought the inevitable dystopian corporatocracy on the horizon for decades. Corporate subsidies and welfare cost the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum, while those corporations also cost us £40-120 billion annually via the tax gap. We pay for the excessive borrowing of the Tories and the losses to our economy while the Tories keep siphoning our taxes to their mate's offshore accounts...
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  5671.  @BOZ_11  My comments are being filtered and you obviously are misinterpreting my comments. "You are making arguments I've already made as if in rebuttal. Of course, wages are falling hard, and the Unions were stripped of any power under Thatcher. The corporations have had the upper hand for decades and new legislation keeps hammering us down even further. That doesn't mean inflation and recession don't play a predominant role as we are all aware of how are lives are affected by Tory austerity, which is a political choice and not a financial one. You obviously haven't read all my replies or understood any of my points. Brexit losses are a huge burden that the wealthy are transferring to the poor, your argument regarding energy, corporate greed and government kleptocracy are ones I've made myself so how can you call me a tool when using my own arguments? I'm working class and have fought the inevitable dystopian corporatocracy on the horizon for decades. Corporate subsidies and welfare cost the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum, while those corporations also cost us £40-120 billion annually via the tax gap. We pay for the excessive borrowing of the Tories and the losses to our economy while the Tories keep siphoning our taxes to their mate's offshore accounts..."
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  5672.  @BOZ_11  Are you misinterpreting me on purpose? You are making arguments I've already made as if in rebuttal. Of course, wages are falling hard, and the Unions were stripped of any power under Thatcher. The corporations have had the upper hand for decades and new legislation keeps hammering us down even further. That doesn't mean inflation and recession don't play a predominant role as we are all aware of how are lives are affected by Tory austerity, which is a political choice and not a financial one.
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  5673.  @BOZ_11  Seriously You obviously haven't read all my replies or understood any of my points. Brexit losses are a huge burden that the wealthy are transferring to the poor, your argument regarding energy, corporate greed and government kleptocracy are ones I've made myself so how can you call me a tool when using my own arguments? I'm working class and have fought the inevitable dystopian corporatocracy on the horizon for decades. Corporate subsidies and welfare cost the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum, while those corporations also cost us £40-120 billion annually via the tax gap. We pay for the excessive borrowing of the Tories and the losses to our economy while the Tories keep siphoning our taxes to their mate's offshore accounts...
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  5674.  @markjohn4802  Not at all Mark, and that was all on record before the pandemic started. Half a trillion lost on sterling and foreign investments alone...
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  5675.  @markjohn4802  They were loses to our investments and sterling due to Brexit devaluing the pound and losing confidence in the UK market. We lost over $1.8 trillion in investment banking that moved to Hamburg. The Tories are the ones asset-stripping.
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  5676.  @jpw6893  No, because if you lack the ability to research those basic facts that are common knowledge and mentioned in fiscal reports and articles then you're just sealioning me. Everything I've mentioned has been covered in multiple forms and is part of government records.
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  5677.  @markjenner7199  Most of the losses from Brexit happened before the pandemic, before the war in Ukraine and so your answer is so wrong it isn't worth discussing. We lost over £470 billion in sterling and foreign investments back in 2017, lost over £1.8 trillion in investments that moved out of London to Hamburg and lost over £115 billion per annum from loss in trade with EU countries. But keep telling yourself whatever you like, I don't care :)
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  5678.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Brexit was to avoid corporation tax, it was wealthiest who pushed for it. This country is the largest tax haven for the global elite. You're so wrong it's impossible to make a worse argument. lol and on a year old post. Seriously, your comment is so out of touch it's laughable...
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  5679. ​ @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Brexit was neoliberalism incarnate. The Panama scandal named Cameron's parents, Johnson's family, Rees-Mogg etc. All of them caught with their hand in the cookie jar. The EU legislated to stop tax fraud so the workers wouldn't be stuck paying the burden of taxation. Brexit has done nothing but impoverish workers and taken away our food standards, human rights, caused the cost of living rise, increased taxation on the poor and provide further tax cuts for the wealthy. While bankrupting the country. All so the wealthy can continue to avoid taxes. If you think the news that the EU are corrupt neoliberals is a surprise you'd be wrong. It's a big boys club for the wealthy elite. Yet it still no where near as corrupt as the Tories and those who profited from Brexit while the country suffered. You still think the arguments against Brexit are a fear campaign, despite 99% of coming true and being factually proven. You're even debating me on a thread that's well over a year old... Get a life and stop being politically and economically illiterate as it makes you easy prey for the wealthy... PS I'm with Corbyn - I've always been a Eurosceptic, as you pointed out - the left have been fighting the elite for decades!
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  5680. Remembrance Sunday is a good opportunity for right-whingers to show their cognitive dissonance by goose-stepping to the cenotaph and doing a Nazi salute...
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  5681. It's not the left, it's the media amplifying the views of a minuscule minority to polarise the public... I don't want anything cancelled, I love tasteless humour and will fight for the right's right to talk absolute nonsense...
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  5682. America has some of the highest crime rates globally, they have the most incarcerated citizens globally and the most rapes and murders. It's nationwide, stop trying to turn everything into an exercise in deeply flawed racist tropes...
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  5683.  @chinchin5408  Not everything is figures? yes it is! unmanipulated stats are consistently the best way to understand anything. I'd love to explain why you're wrong on everything you say, but it would be about as much use as a rubber beak on a woodpecker. White collar criminals have ruined America yet the gullible blame the poorest communities. Give your racism a day off. Sad, pathetic, worthless trope defecating working class traitor...
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  5684.  @chinchin5408  I've worked all my life in factories spent my teenage years fighting outside pubs and was brought up on a council estate. We had orange juice as a treat at Christmas. Don't talk to me about real-life experience when you steal the persona of a wealthy actor to defecate your cognitive diarrhoea all over YT...
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  5685.  @chinchin5408  You aren't David Niven he died in 1983, so yes it's a persona. The crimes committed in America are committed by the rich and poor alike, black and white, intelligent and stupid. Stop being such a useless waste of life. Say something intelligent or witty on the odd occasion to break up the monotony of answering your pathetic excuse for comments.
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  5686.  @chinchin5408  I can't waste any more of my time on your ignorant opinionated rants. Please stop posting such nonsense, try to challenge my intellect instead of trying to reduce my IQ to your level. There are more than 4 million criminals in the US there are 2 million in the prison system. Now go away as I'm bored of your self-liked pathetic comments.
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  5687.  @chinchin8269  That's because YT censors me so the unintellectual ignorant options of people like yourself will flourish and keep the poor fighting each other instead of noticing the wealthy ripping us off...
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  5688.  @chinchin8269  Stop trying to invert everything I say, the stats and facts are on my side. If you can't think of your own arguments, feel free to use the witty and intelligent arguments I make...
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  5689.  @MyLovelyOnlineFriend  Because politicians earn 80k a year on top of pocket money from lobbyists?
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  5690.  @ac1119  Thank you for wasting yet more of my time with your pathetic attempt to be offended. Are you a professional offence taker? Captain of the easily offended organisation? Chairman of the snowflake brigade? Either way, your comments are about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station.
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  5691.  @GardenandGreen  Overpopulation? lol Britain already supplies 46% of its energy via renewables and that's while nuclear and oil are using lobbyists to corrupt and manipulate politicians for profit motivations. We could easily support all 67 million Brits with renewables if the Tories hadn't cut funding for energy-saving technology and renewable energy construction. As for overpopulation in general, we have multimillionaires using the same resources as a small country on a daily basis, the problem is not overpopulation but greed and logistics...
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  5692.  @ewalker1057  I can understand that sentiment, though I'm not black. While I'm a leftist, I usually describe her as Hillary 'Cloven hoofed spawn of Satan' Clinton. She represents corruption and corporate hegemony.
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  5693. Correction "Daft COP agreement published", as the human race face extinction, those responsible provide lip service while maintaining profits...
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  5694. I pray God will heal my Atheism...
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  5695.  @Chari-  Wildfires have killed 3,190 Americans in a ten-year period - according to the U.S. Fire Administration, an average of 300 a year. Compared to 50,000 deaths a year from guns. Half of gun deaths are suicides the other half are murders, doesn't say a lot for American society or psyche...
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  5696.  @PECOSO0  You are American I assume, the type of man who'd rather thousands of children die every year so he can feel like a big man holding his hand cannon. Pathetic... Learn how to fight and hand your guns into the cops.
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  5697.  @potatoslayer2392  lol keep telling yourself that nonsense, I've already given you the stats. Half of them are suicides because they hate their life, half of them are murderers because they love their fellow Americans so much... Firearm-related deaths in the UK per 100,000 are 0.23, homicide rate 0.06 and suicide rate 0.19. Firearm-related deaths in the USA per 100,000 are 12.21, homicide rate 4.46 and suicide rate 7.32. Those are direct comparisons per 100,000 people...
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  5698.  @ex7229  lol it's all over the USA regardless of political doctrine... PS helping criminals is what Republicans do, their mates on Wall ST for one, their gun-toting mates in the NRA and gun lobbies.
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  5699.  @potatoslayer2392  No intelligent response to factual stats that prove you wrong? Yes it's hilarious that so many Americans want to kill each other or themselves. Hopefully, they'll succeed and the Mexicans and Native Americans can have their land back...
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  5700.  @potatoslayer2392  I live in Wales we have plenty of Caribbean and Indian communities and they have been here for decades paying taxes and working in the community. Take your racist nonsense to someone with a low IQ like yourself.
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  5701.  @potatoslayer2392  The suicide stats I posted are all gun-related deaths only! Stop trying to convince me of your petty, ignorant opinions you wouldn't know a fact if It walked up and slapped you in the face... You're about as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  5702.  @potatoslayer2392  Do you have an off button? drugs and stabbings? seriously grow up... You live in a country with the highest global levels of drug abuse and violent crimes such as stabbings...
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  5703.  @potatoslayer2392  You still haven't understood that I only mentioned stats regarding gun crimes and therefore the suicides mentioned are only a small percentage of overall suicide stats which include all those other methods. Three times you've made the same mistaken assumption after being corrected. Obviously, you don't have the ability to learn...
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  5704. A scandal is one way of putting it, continual corruption and fraud from the Tories is another way...
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  5705.  @lord.of.veracity  You lack objectivity and regurgitate tabloid nonsense. The trade deal is an increase of 0.08% to our GDP, we lost over 4% GDP by leaving the EU trading bloc. Which means he's managed to claw back 1/50th of the loss to trade. Within that deal we have to give up our sovereignty, as with any trading bloc we have to meet their standards and regulations. Not to mention rather than being on the same continent we now trade with the opposite side of the globe and it's very hard to leave or get other trading deals as a member. For instance rejoining the EU would be neigh impossible. As they are lower than the EU's standards that means we will get lower quality goods. As for better relations and charm, offering France £480 million over 3 years to do what they used to do when we part of the EU is evidence of bad negotiation skills and foresight. But ultimately despite having a party split, he chose those people and excuses doth butter no parsnips... Facts guide my bias, as any politically savvy person will tell you!
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  5706.  @lord.of.veracity  PS Many people who defend the Tories often use the excuse that they don't vote Tory. Nearly every debate I have is with someone claiming not to vote Tory while defending their incompetence and clear disdain for the law, the electorate and the political process... Wanna talk about bias? Because the legislation, cronyism, corruption, economic disasters and incompetence over the past 13 years would prohibit anyone with sense from defending them.
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  5707. Reading the comments here makes me realise cognitive dissonance is real and some people will do any amount of grotesque mental gymnastics just to support a corrupt idiot.
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  5708.  @adam6543  Tories have cut renewables, cut funding for development and Labour are not in power so stop the whataboutery. This is all down to Tory incompetence. Including Brexit, billions lost to fraud and our reliance on Norway and Russia for our energy needs. Fracking provides so little at such risk that it's pointless mentioning... Go read about geopolitics and look at countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark and see how the Scandanavian model of Social Democracy provides a much higher standard of living...
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  5709.  @GrayDogNowIDK  Agreed, They have also infiltrated the BBC. The chair of the BBC is Richard Sharp long term Tory donor of over £400,000, Robbie Gibb who was the former director of communications in No 10 for Theresa May is on the board at the BBC and Tory donor Catherine Baxendale is on the panel picking BBC board members. The Director-general of the BBC is former Tory candidate Tim Davie.
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  5710.  Peter Hicks  Yes they made many cuts across the board. However, the stats I have read most frequently is that renewables supply up to 46% of our daily requirements. And yes most of the excess is made up by Norway through the Langeled pipeline or Britpipe.
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  5711.  @Whoami691  I'm in favour of 100% renewable energy and complete self-sufficiency. Did you even read my comment before you decided to rant? "The government also cut funding for renewables!"
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  5712.  @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..." And "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..." And "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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  5713.  @Whoami691  No probs.
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  5714.  @petercollins7848  Everything you just said is true of privatisation but also far more expensive as prices prove. Energy companies now have a monopoly and are price gauging their customers while making excessive profits. On top of that we pay them subsidies, corporate welfare and tax relief as well as initiatives for cleaner energy. It costs the taxpayer over £100 billion per annum in corporate welfare and subsidies alone, while tax losses are between £40-120 billion per annum. Russia supplies less than 3% of our energy and we are 46% renewable energy, despite the huge cuts to funding...
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  5715.  @petercollins7848  lol our prices have gone up far higher than the rest of Europe who buy in bulk as a trade group, many countries in the world are self-sufficient and so aren't affected. My comments stand, your opinionated beliefs lack facts...
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  5716.  @Gnomezonbacon  We are already 46% reliant on renewables even considering the modest renewable energy budget was slashed repeatedly. We have a bounty of sources from solar, geothermal, tides, wind, rivers etc. Why would any country not be self-sufficient in energy in this day and age?
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  5717.  @beewithab6122  Conjoined twins aren't a mother and baby, they are two human beings connected by growth anomalies. Different argument completely.
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  5718.  @beewithab6122  Yes, I have a problem with your lack of logic, I can see the illogical scrawl you typed without caps... If you are dumb enough to compare conjoined twins with a mother and baby you don't understand biology, logic or linear time...
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  5719.  @beewithab6122  I already have, a mother and baby are not conjoined twins. A baby is reliant on the mother for nutrition and oxygen via the umbilical cord for 9 months. Conjoined twins are not connected via an umbilical cord, and neither is the conjoined twin in the womb of the other. In other words - apples and pears mate...
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  5720.  @beewithab6122  Your illogical argument is getting boring. A mother and child biological relationship is nothing like the biological relationship between conjoined twins. Only an imbecile would argue any similarity so I see no point wasting my life debating with an imbecile...
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  5721.  @beewithab6122  If you can't discuss a baby and mother then you're on the wrong thread, your comparison is horrendous and irrelevant. Admit you're an imbecile and I won't belittle you further. After all, it's not your fault your ancestors couldn't count to 12 despite having six fingers on each hand or couldn't swim despite having webbed feet.
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  5722.  @beewithab6122  That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type. Do you realise you are the reason we have to put instructions on shampoo bottles?
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  5723.  @richardgallagher4880  I see we have a factless child in you. Maybe learn something before bashing your knuckles on the keyboard...
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  5724.  @1daxwood  lol said by someone who can't be bothered to learn about politics and legislation and doesn't understand how taxes work...
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  5725.  @1daxwood  Learn about the 2012 health care act, privatisation, outsourcing and other Tory agenda outlined in Jeremy Hunt's co-authored pamphlet about the NHS from 2005. You seem oblivious to facts so I'll take your weak ad homs as you don't seem to have the basic requirements to debate...
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  5726. Right-whinge ideology is about protecting the assets of the 1% at the expense of the 99%. Hence the small government, deregulation of banking and business, privatisation and huge national debt... They've always treated us serfs as collateral, property and a source of manual labour nothing more...
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  5727. @Daniel Caine Because this story is about Javid the Tory and so is the main comment to which I replied? erm...
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  5728.  @firebyrd437  Sure, I'd question your assertion that she told lies simply based on the fact that you couldn't possibly know. This means another force determines your beliefs other than logic and reason...
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  5729.  @unionjackjackson4352  People who ask for sources of well-known facts on YT prove their lack of ability and knowledge. Blame the Tories for management salaries, its called outsourcing and soft privatisation...
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  5730.  @sylvanuschristopher4959  My comment is born out of a dislike of privileged people 'living it up' when most hard-working Brits are suffering from poverty. I have nothing against Harry and Meghan personally, just the class and entitlement they enjoy. Simple logistics would suggest the only reason people go without in such a rich country as Britain, is because of inequity that is caused by elitist tax dodgers and their privileged lifestyles. For instance around £100 billion of taxpayer money is given away to corporations in subsidies and corporate welfare annually, while those corporations cost us between £40-120 billion via corporate tax losses (the tax gap)...
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  5731.  @jarednovel  No, Obama actually put a moratorium on Sars, Mers and influencer gain-of-function studies in 2014. But before that in 2014 Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, and that SARS had the potential to re-emerge from coronaviruses circulating in bat populations in the wild. Seems research isn't your strong suit...
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  5732.  @HazyWave1974  I don't believe the law works as it always favours the wealthy. But hoping that this one-time justice prevails is a sign of optimism, rather than a lack of intellect. PS the 19th century called and they want their joke back...
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  5733.  @GIBBO4182  Sorry but you wouldn't understand as you don't have the intellect and are politically illiterate. Triggered? Not me, have a look in the mirror. Red-faced semi-sapient single-celled organisms should learn not to show their ignorance with such an inane comment.
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  5734.  @BondJFK  The wars for petrodollar hegemony was led by corporations, paid for by the American taxpayer and orchestrated by the See Eye Aye which started with the Arab Spring. You want to go down that rabbit hole you're looking at thousands of powerful people who need to be arrested. Thanks for playing though!
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  5735. Sadly 7-32,000 have lost their lives in the Ukraine war, which is less than a quarter of the excess deaths recorded in the NHS during Tory austerity...
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  5736.  @MR.TB67  agreed, the Tories are the kings and queens of hypocrisy!
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  5737.  @joeds3775  Are you? You think the profiteering of a well-connected company and the profits from big p[harma medicine has nothing to do with the lack of availability of a miracle cureall? Think about it!
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  5738. Right-whingers will prove their cognitive dissonance by patriotically showing their respect by goose-stepping to the Cenotaph before putting their arm up saluting with a Sieg Heil...
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  5739. lol no point even commenting as the whole story is farcical as is the conference... The Pantomime of humanity continues...
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  5740.  @mccari09  Firstly the Afghans coming here are allies - interpreters, specialists who worked with British troops on the ground. Secondly, 70,000 is also just under the amount of Afghan non-combatant civilians who died in the Afghan war the west started to loot the $1 trillion in lithium and gold, the opium farms and secure the petrodollar.
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  5741.  @mccari09  'To Loot' was the phrase I used not the past tense. Also, look for the United States Geological Survey and the words Afghanistan and $1 trillion. Predominantly Gold and Lithium.
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  5742. Wrong PM full stop - According to anyone with a higher IQ than a crack-addicted hamster with a brain injury...
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  5743.  @martynblackburn9632  I'm sorry to hear about your illness, I hope it's nothing superficial... People can only claim free school meals if they get any of the following: Income Support. income-based Jobseeker's Allowance. income-related Employment and Support Allowance. Even then it's an application and there are no guarantees... So please wake up, smell the coffee and stop repeating Tory lies... PS don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  5744.  @constantfind9052  Enjoy the lack of food, the energy price increase of 560%, the debt to GDP ratio of over 100% and lack of petrol to get to work... The Tories are giving EU HGV drivers the work lol.
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  5745.  @joecater894  Pointless debating when I've already won. I'll just give you some time to catch up and realise excuses and whataboutery aren't a rebuttal.
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  5746.  @wodens-hitman1552  Sorry couldn't hear a word you said, try again but without the pathetic whining...
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  5747. @Lap Dog Is that the best you can do? a pathetic "no they're not though". lol try pointing out why I'm wrong using facts.
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  5748.  @jrbs  lol absolute rubbish. As I've already pointed out several times in this thread...
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  5749. That is a prime example of the cost of privatising the energy markets so a cartel could price fix. All made possible by the tories and backhanders. There are thousands every week affected by lack of medical care, lack of energy, lack of food and yet the rich in Britain keep getting richer... Time to kick out the aristocracy and their parasitic profiteering...
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  5750. Unless you are a Celt that means you! Celts are the only true Britons and if you're English you're an Anglo-Saxon or English-German... Feel free to go back to Germany :)
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  5751. If you want to sort out the cost of living crisis, the only people who need to change jobs are Tory MPs...
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  5752.  @magesalmanac6424  If you read the terms of service for everything you're pushed into agreeing to online you'd have no time to live, and would need legal training in between signing away your privacy...
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  5753. Well said. The Tory party are full of corrupt, soulless kleptocrats. They use the taxpayer as their personal bank, investor and a cash cow to be milked at will. Privileged, entitled, insular aristocrats with more than their fair share of bigots and misogynists. Voter ID is counterproductive to the democratic process, as are illegal activities, cronyism and fraud. These criminals behave like a mandatory mafia that we are forced to endure.
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  5754. Take all the really nasty cheap fats and sugars from products, use unrefined sugar and salt and make real food instead of heart attack inducing cheap rubbish in an in-convenient microwave package. Force companies to use real ingredients, whole ingredients instead of overprocessed constituent parts of plants and animals. Or we can keep blaming the symptom instead of the disease...
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  5755.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Feel free to go back to your hovel under the bridge. Trolls not welcome. Taxation on ordinary people is at its highest in decades and corporations already get tax relief, tax breaks and cost the treasury between £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxes via the tax gap.
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  5756. Are you aware that most Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That most Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? Please give generously to these amoral victims of privilege and elitism... don't forget a Tory MP is not just for Christmas...
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  5757.  @TomNook.  The WHO says "This reduction is the result of the global effort to eradicate the disease. Today, only 2 countries in the world have never stopped transmission of polio (Pakistan and Afghanistan)."
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  5758. Neoliberalism is re-emerging globally as a fledgeling fascist Phoenix, rising from the ashes of the 1940s and feeding on the diseased rancid teat of capitalism and just like in the 40s is feeding the fire of global conflict... Never forget eh?
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  5759.  @mossychops  I'm so sorry but I don't speak the same language as you. Feel free to add some more inane comments, they are about as pointless as your life...
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  5760. They may invade for the lucrative microprocessor market in Taiwan, but I doubt they're after Covid...
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  5761.  @JwayT  How's the generational debt and loss of £115 billion per annum in trade going? hows the human rights reforms, anti-protesting, and anti-free speech legislation going? That's on you and I bet you don't even know about it...
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  5762.  @JwayT  I think you're stuck mate, do you have an off button?
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  5763.  @JwayT  Lol only phrase you know is it? last time I heard it was 56% in favour. You really should try to think about what you want to say and then attempt something witty or intelligent for a change...
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  5764.  @JwayT  Hope you get better soon. If I'd known I wouldn't have been so mean, take care buddy!
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  5765.  @ProfessorTimWilson  Thank you Tim, If I use a different device to view the comment it's not visible. I'm assuming you liked the comment or one of my 18 followers as no one else can see it. At least on the default filtering settings, 'sort by' has to be changed to 'newest first' to make it available. Which most people do not use.
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  5766. We won't spy on you honest, sponsored by tech giants who have used recordings against their owners in legal proceedings... Director of Public Prosecutions Max Hill "Smart devices such as the voice-activated computer assistant Alexa could be star witnesses in court cases"
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  5767. @Saviour Joe Biden We agree on something. Sarcasm is fun!
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  5768.  @Zalley  That's net migration including visitors working in the UK. We could make 2,000 migrants millionaires every single week for the cost of corporate subsidies and corporate welfare which cost the taxpayer £100+ billion per annum.
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  5769.  @sarah6557  Thank you!
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  5770. Well, the wealthy have the fast expansion they wanted and the huge amount of profiteering at the taxpayer's expense has already been astronomical. They obviously aren't concerned with the North or the gratuitous costs already incurred...
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  5771. More cuts are needed, I don't mind cutting back a bit more to fund the siphoning of taxpayer money to the offshore accounts of the wealthy. After all one meal a day and 1 hour of electricity per day is more than enough. As long as the wealthy make enough profit to buy a new yacht that's the most important thing!
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  5772.  @acthompson9983  I'm not defending Labour as Starmer is a corporate puppet. But I can name at least 8 Tory MPs currently under investigation for sexual offences...
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  5773.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Sorry but I try not to interact with political illiterates who defend corruption and lies. Boris is on 160k and makes many times that amount from selling his services to the highest bidder. As for crimes, they received fines for breaking the law, we call that a crime. Also breaking international law, human rights and contempt of parliament. Not to mention being told their policies have broken the law from the British legal system...
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  5774.  @PraetorUA  84k is basic the PM is on 160k. They also get expenses for food, transport, rent etc not to mention backhanders and insider trading... Take it down to 20k a year and see how many of them quit...
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  5775.  @tincoffin  2020 look it up instead of forelock tugging all day...
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  5776.  @johndonson1603  lol not even going to give such nonsense any more of my time. I've outlined the facts, and you've provided an opinion with no basis in reality...
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  5777.  @johndonson1603  The population has only increased by 5 million since 2010 and much of that is births, so no...
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  5778. Cash drops in the Caymans for soulless politicians Breaking their own rules and making cold-hearted descisions Brown paper envelopes which bribery brings These are a few of the Tory's favourite things...
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  5779. The Tories have a lot to answer for. They have stripped the police to the bare minimum and got rid of trained officers with 30 years+ of on-the-job experience and replaced them with barely trained megalomaniacs. Many of the police themselves seem to be proof of the idiom - power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately. Criminals are overlooked and the personal vices and vendettas of officers are let loose...
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  5780.  @stevec6427  Funny thing is before Rishi's plan is ever put into place we've always had those jobs filled. I learned programming and 4 number bases for maths after leaving school. Maths isn't abscent from the curriculum and advanced mathematics is available at university or in many other forms of higher education. The job market has been forced into unskilled, piecemeal jobs and moved away from apprenticeships and long term skilled personnel. This has been done to reduce wages. Your arguments are not relevant to the new proposals, just inane and obvious comments about the usefulness of maths in general. If you want to sychophantically support Rishi without reason, I'd question your sanity.
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  5781. 100 years from now humanity will be extinct thanks to Trump dropping out of treaties and restarting the arms race...
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  5782.  @pierremartini2229  Agreed, bread and circus, divide and conquer. Binge-watch TV and carry on regardless. Having said that "Apart from Brexit, Grenfell, Economic Euthanasia, Disabled Vilification, Election Fraud, Contempt of Parliament, Windrush Scandal, WASPI, Working Poverty, Homeless Crisis, Hostile Env, Food Banks, Universal Credit, NHS Crisis, Austerity, and crashing the economy during a cost of living crisis what have the Tories ever done for us?"
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  5783.  @uniteddreamer  Agreed, The 70s started with Tory PM Edward Health who was elected on a platform to crush the unions. He laid the groundwork for Thatcher and with the help of security agencies, phone tapping and tabloid smears created a hostile environment for the unions and workers alike. The mythology the Tories laid in the 70s and the gullible who bought their lies are the reason Thatcher was able to bring in anti-worker/anti-union legislation and hence the reason we have zero-hour contracts, temp agency domination and working poverty.
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  5784.  @miguelramalho8792  Thank you, Miguel.
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  5785.  @happinesstan  Agreed, most people unfortunately are too worried about the mortgage, job, bills etc to see their collective apathy will lead to a harsher world for their children. The system is made that way and the media encourages compliance.
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  5786. So the already struggling working poor are to pay for the tax breaks of corporations and banks. Every inch they squeeze our finances means more excess deaths while billionaires can buy a new yacht with our tax money...
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  5787.  @moneypenny1267  Yes, trickle-down economics is BS, just something to tell the plebs while asset-stripping the county.
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  5788.  @matthewwatt2295  Agreed, and we already paid once for the infrastructure, then again through price increases and then again through bailouts. They'll renationalise with taxpayer money, then sell it off again as they've done with other parts of the rail network. It's unbelievable that the public put up with this.
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  5789.  Cardinal Sin  I'm not allowed as I'm not a country (at least last time I looked). But if I was a bank under Fractional Reserve Banking I'd only need 10% of the assets I loan out to people as collateral. Unfortunately, I'm not a bank either...
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  5790.  Cardinal Sin  Follows the Fed model these days, but the BoE was nationalised in 1946 by the Attlee government, Pity it wasn't still nationalised.
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  5791.  Cardinal Sin  Yes the Fed Model. Since the loss of the gold standard money isn't backed by a physical resource. Since fractional reserve banking, up to 90% of the money is fractionally created and only exists on computers. Global debt is 3x global GDP its a farce :)
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  5792. I wonder how many recreational substances he needs to be able to sleep at night...
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  5793. Yea sure, he was so committed to it he spent 27 years in prison...
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  5794.  @Lee_303  Agreed, aside from bribes they need control over their members. Blackmail is just part of the game. To be fair, they must live a pretty lonely, meaningless existence or is that just wishful thinking on my part?
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  5795.  @sancte3982  The remains of the Yemenese people who survived the Saudi genocide are supporting Palestinians, not trying to stop international trade. They realize attacking commercial interests would be detrimental However, the media reports are bound by national security to back up government narratives...
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  5796.  @saraswatkin9226  Traffickers? traffickers sell human beings, they don't ferry them to a safe new life in another country. Don't get me wrong there are some unscrupulous people taking advantage of immigration. But ultimately the west created a migration crisis with wars against Lybia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria (proxy war) all to protect petrodollar hegemony. The trafficking nonsense is media sensationalism in support of Tory incompetence and treachery. I'd rather ship all Tories to Rwanda and take any Rwandans that want to replace them.
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  5797.  @coronavirus4you648  Thank you for the barely eligible scrawl, I'll look forward to reading that after I've been to the toilet as I can only deal with one sh!t at a time!
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  5798. The war in Ukraine is awful and has already cost around 30,000 lives. Which is about a 1/5th of the excess deaths recorded by the NHS in the first wave of Tory austerity in Britain... Barbaric!
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  5799.  @banjo234  Around 32,000 Ukrainians in the war. But the austerity losses were around 150,000 just in the first wave. Wonder how many the Tories will get this time around...
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  5800.  Catania Momma Italia  lol too much delusional nonsense. Read a book. Hope you get better soon :)
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  5801.  @danielwhyatt3278  They didn't protect care homes and they haven't protected UK genetic diversity...
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  5802.  @martyn4422  The number of different species that exist from plants, and insects to fish and animals. We are losing species at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction.
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  5803.  @LifesAbe-ach  Open borders imply a nationless world, no countries, no borders, I don't know of one politician to ever suggest that. Also, fossil fuels are responsible for climate change, the sooner we switch to renewables the sooner can we end our reliance on a resource that is almost depleted...
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  5804. The problem is that the government does not want long-lived, healthy, well-educated citizens. Without all our trials, ignorance and poverty we may notice the Tories dipping their hands in our back pockets.
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  5805. Brexit benefits as posted to me yesterday by Jody (sorry can't remember the full name) "It has shone a spotlight on the shadowy lobbying groups within the Tory party that previously kept to the shadows, in particular the ERG. It’s shown how public opinion can be steered by social media and language manipulation to encourage people to vote against their own interests and to end their own rights. It’s shown how utterly broken and corrupt our political system is and how the checks and balances are illusionary. It shows how a significant portion of the English population are rac ists living in the past. And it’s demonstrated just how good we had it as EU citizens." I would add It's also shown that the British elitists would rather sink the economy than stop being the world leader in facilitating global corporate tax losses, thanks to the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories.
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  5806. Boris Johnson is a perfect example of a privileged, private schooled, entitled elitist and therefore a very typical Tory MP...
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  5807.  @megasmart7740  Elephants, like the black Rhino, will face extinction if they are hunted for their ivory. We only have 5 thousand black rhinos, up from 2,400 in 1995. We don't want the elephant to go the way of the dodo. We've already lost 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction. PS I'm vegetarian so no animals are killed to feed me.
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  5808.  @nationalsocialist6590  Your name is accurate. The children that died and will continue to die are on your conscience. I'd be happy to take your guns from you, there should be a basic IQ test to enable people to own a gun, a test that you would obviously fail.
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  5809.  @DesertStateInEU  lol you're just making up nonsense. Norway had only 2 deaths by firearms in total in 2020 and none at all in 2017. They have had less than 5 deaths per year in the past decade through firearms. Your stats are clearly from a right-whinge think tank, IE complete nonsense! Seriously, get a grip!
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  5810. Why are comments about government censored when every post is littered with god squad and scams...
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  5811. A:) Tories lie. B:) Probably won't be in power much longer so promises are easy. C:) There are 676,000 unoccupied homes in England alone - The problem is the housing market. D:) Tories have failed to build social housing after selling them off- we need affordable housing. E:) Developers get subsidies and grants from the taxpayer to build these unaffordable homes. The Tories have ruined the housing market via economic failures and mismanagement. F:) Tories can F off!!!
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  5812. Barry the Chuckle brother... Learn what semantics are... That is why debt and food banks were created...
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  5813.  @HelloThere-gs3ii  lol...
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  5814. Hard to imagine why the US would hesitate to make a trade deal with corrupt crony politicians that have ignored international law while backing out of previous trade agreements...
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  5815.  @EnjoySynthSounds  Let's be honest democracy didn't even work when the Greeks invented it. But it's a step up from monarchy and feudalism. It literally means people power and yet since its inception, it has been controlled by the powerful to control the powerless. We can't claim a free market with embargoes, sanctions, blockades etc and we can't claim democracy if it's being controlled by powerful lobbyists through the wallets of corrupt politicians. We have the illusion of democracy but it more closely resembles a kleptocracy heading straight towards corporatocracy.
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  5816.  @NeonVisual  lol utter nonsense criminal gangs? sensationalised nonsense. We're out of the EU and the Tories have been in power for over 12 years. This has nothing to do with remainers the Tories are failing to process applications and are a year behind, they create the problem and have only made it worse and increased migration since they took power. Stop using migrants as a scapegoat for all the failures of the Tories...
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  5817.  @NeonVisual  lol I just gave you the figures up to 2020. Accept reality, the reality is that you have been caught lying and even now won't accept the actual figures. Here are the figures for 2022 proving it's lower this year and also how much nonsense you spout. "The current net migration rate for U.K. in 2022 is 2.572 per 1000 population, a 11.4% decline from 2021"
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  5818.  @grtcara8386  You mean Corbyn who was torpedoed by the centrists in Labour and subject to character assassination in the press? Neoliberals centrists actively working against their leader during a general election is the reason we're stuck with the Tories. Corbyn wanted to sort out our energy, NHS and national industry for a similar amount to what the Tories spent via cronyism during the pandemic. I just wonder how many lives would have been saved if we had someone competent like him during the Pandemic and that funding in the system...
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  5819.  @grtcara8386  You mean when the populace voted for Brexit as opposed to a political party? Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. If the centrists had supported him we wouldn't have had to suffer the past 3 years of Tory kleptocracy...
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  5820.  @grtcara8386  Your retort lacks any impact, it's just a nonsense jibe. So I won't waste much effort in replying. I've had a wonderful, intelligent, enlightening debate... But this wasn't it!
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  5821.  @grtcara8386  lol I didn't realise you were a self-admitted Blairite, I mean who idolises a man who takes money from Saudi Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen on the international stage? As I previously stated your retorts lack real impact. Lame ad homs akin to nursery school spats. You make about as much sense as an ashtray on the international space station and are no doubt about as useful...
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  5822.  @grtcara8386  lol I'm being lectured by a political illiterate who felt embarrassed after being corrected. Anyone who ever told you to just be yourself couldn’t have given you worse advice...
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  5823.  @래모루래모로  I try not to go to war with anyone these days, I'm trying to give it up as it's bad for your health...
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  5824.  @babalonkie  lol that's not what I typed. My correction was from "I wonder which of these seemingly insignificant global escalations will start a global conflict, answers on a postcard" But I didn't like having global twice. You really are a sad individual, what a seriously odd comment and mindset you have...
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  5825.  @ThePereubu1710  Most people. The cost of living crisis and interest rates, mortgage and rent increases have virtually put an end to the middle class. The majority of people in the UK are on minimum wage or not much better and have no savings...
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  5826. @FunnyFlix lol glad I never had a snowball fight in N.Ireland. I did spend a New Year's Eve in Dublin one year but all I remember is being hungover the next day and puking black Guinness-based spew over the side of the ferry on the way home.
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  5827. Send the attacker to prison, neanderthals helping the government to take away the right to protest... Don't bother replying to argue with me, I don't care about thickos who don't understand real issues...
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  5828. Be tough get peace sounds like a contradiction rather than a rallying call. The minister for cheese - like the rest of her party - has no clue, just confused sloguns...
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  5829. I'll do a degree in financial market manipulation, the psychology of how to control a Populus, disinformation and media contrivance to enforce narratives, how to demonise the powerless, how to wield political power to further your own ambitions and how to avoid blame by scapegoating your underlings. Then I can become a Tory MP...
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  5830. Human rights abuses from misogynistic insular neanderthals. Anyways enough about the Tories what are the Taliban doing?
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  5831.  @CoderBoy2004  Most of the microchips are made in Taiwan, technologies are invented globally by enhancing the technological breakthroughs of previous generations going back millennia. Thanks to such civilizations as the Ancient Greeks, Romans and Mesopotamians. But apart from that your comment is irrelevant we all use technologies and devices from all over the world, most of our phones are made in China as well as many other devices. Your point is moot and illogical...
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  5832.  @CoderBoy2004  PS Why are 2 powerful countries attacking Yemen who have recently come through sustained attack from S.Arabia? Why are we defending Israel who ignore international law? Why is the taxpayer paying for this? Jen-o-side is not something a sentient sapient person should encourage...
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  5833.  @hmq9052  You think bankers pay tax? lol they use every scam in the book to pay as little as possible. Then get huge bonuses. We pay for the infrastructure they exploit for profit!
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  5834.  @Kyle_P2022  It's sad that selfish people like yourself are unable to see statistics and rely on personal anecdotes to make decisions. My comments are about society and working poverty which affects 40% of the British workforce. If you aren't intelligent enough to argue the facts and instead fire off ad homs at me out of ignorance then that's your fault...
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  5835.  @Kyle_P2022  I'm qualified in programming, 3d animation, electronics and recently qualified to lead audit a corporation for compliance with ISO9001. But as you still seem unable to grasp I'm using empathy to discuss a societal problem. This isn't about me! Banks lobby, corporations lobby and as a result anti-union laws are brought in, lower wages are allowed, workers' rights are diminished, taxpayers top up low wages with tax credits, the public sector pays for the gross profits of the private sector. The taxpayer pays for the tax gap left by corporate tax evasion/avoidance on top of paying over £100 billion in corporate welfare and subsidies every year. The poor are forced to pay for the losses left by corporations and bankers who hide profits and dodge taxes!
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  5836.  @maskedavenger2578  Thanks for your opinion, I'll add it to the comments from people who aren't clever enough to understand statistics and how they work...
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  5837.  @Kyle_P2022  Your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. I've given you stats from HMRC regarding the tax gap, ONS stats regarding employment and wages and talked a little about Fractional Reserve Banking using FIAT currency, global debts and how they relate to global GDP. You call me a conspiracy theorist as you aren't able to offer anything other than anecdotal personal testimony and ad homs regarding the topic... Someone with a little more self-awareness would realise he was already beaten soundly and save what little of their dignity remained...
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  5838.  @maskedavenger2578  Then you make descisions based on a tiny percentage of the information available and don't have the ability to check stats and find the most accurate? None of them lie they just show different sets of data with different criteria. You just have to use the raw data to understand which is accurate...
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  5839.  @maskedavenger2578  Unemployment alone costs around £1.56 billion per annum, we pay over £100 billion per annum to corporations in welfare and subsidies, you want to tell me who is getting the free stuff? those corporations also cost the taxpayer between £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid legally required taxes. So if you have any logic or reason you will complain about corporate welfare, not the pittance spent on people who work for agencies and have to put up with being laid off every few months...
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  5840.  @maskedavenger2578  I don't guess, I read figures and records. If you're not capable of understanding that legislation is to blame for 40% of working people being stuck in working poverty then there ain't much I can do for you. You're beyond reason and live in your head, you can't seem to understand how important facts are and try to turn a discussion about low-paid jobs into a personal debate about your pathetic life experiences. Waste of oxygen!
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  5841.  @maskedavenger2578  Sorry you seem unable to comprehend virtually anything. I'm talking about corporations lowering wages and rights of British people causing poverty. This isn't about me personally, I'm sorry you just have the capacity to discuss society as a whole instead of your insignificant options...
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  5842.  @maskedavenger2578  I'm sorry but you are beyond the ability to have a reasoned debate. I'm, not wasting any more time when you clearly have never seen a statistic in your life and are 99% guesswork... try reading!
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  5843.  @maskedavenger2578  Stats can be manipulated but raw figures are facts! You just have to learn how to understand data, I'd suggest starting small maybe learning your times tables. It seems like a trip to a mental health expert may not be a bad move for you. Anways. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, intelligent debate, but this wasn't it!
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  5844.  @maskedavenger2578  If I count 6 boxes of apples with 12 apples in each box I know I have 72 apples. Your opinion won't change that fact! you could say I have more than 50 apples and it would be accurate. You could say I have less than 100 apples and it would be accurate. You can't change the fact that there are 72 apples! Facts= Reality.
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  5845.  @maskedavenger2578  Duh! receipts, order forms, digital records, tax records. But you kinda missed the point. I am fully aware of how many apples there are because I counted them, so that's a (fact). You can say that fact in many ways (stats). But the fact always remains. We orbit the sun (fact). A Moon orbits us (fact). Some things are quantifiable and therefore are governed by simple rules. Philosophy, religion, and politics are all debatable but some things are scientifically proven, mathematically proven, proven through repetition etc
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  5846.  @maskedavenger2578  lol ok buddy, have fun not getting simple things :)
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  5847.  @maskedavenger2578  lol, I'd have more luck trying to talk a trifle into sentience!
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  5848.  @maskedavenger2578  If idiots could fly your house would be an airport. Take your lack of facts to someone as simple as yourself...
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  5849.  @maskedavenger2578  It certainly wasn't through your eloquence or lexicon... What game was it? hide and seek?
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  5850.  @maskedavenger2578  lol you still haven't managed to understand that I'm not talking about myself and that your own delusions are the reason you can't see the big picture. There is a balance between labour and payment. 40% of British workers live in poverty!
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  5851.  @maskedavenger2578  I see it every day. I grew up on a council estate and live in an old mining town. The stats prove wages are down, stats prove prices have gone up, stats prove 40% of working people can't afford the basics on the wages they get. Not interested in wasting any more time with your delusions, I use my own eyes and stats to see the full picture. You just see what you want...
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  5852.  @maskedavenger2578  You haven't a clue, provide evidence to support your ridiculous stories! No evidence = pointless debate... PS I grew up in the 70s, one wage could run a household and a mortgage, buy all the household food and afford holidays. The NHS was fully funded, no waiting lists, housing was available for all, free university and a decent pension to look forward to...
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  5853.  @maskedavenger2578  lol you're like a walking copy of the sun or daily fail... Impossible to argue against nonsense m8, so I'll leave you to argue with yourself...
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  5854. Hey, guys let's just carry on what we're doing but pretend to do some positive stuff to keep the hippies happy... Yea not fooled, humans are going the way of the Dodo...
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  5855. A fight to legalise authoritarian fascism... Some people seem to neglect lessons from history despite the effect on their ancestors...
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  5856. That man was born with a silver foot in his mouth and has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give Satan a refund... in roubles.
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  5857.  @JohnHoward_  I'm comparing the privatisation of a TV station to the privatisation of Rail, Water and Energy... Not a fan of logic are you? ...and it seems I've been transported to a youtube feed where logic, reason and linear time have ceased to exist...
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  5858.  @JohnHoward_  You realise Britain still profits from its Imperial past? Still uses a hostile environment to deprive people based on the colour of their skin? Still deports people who have paid taxes for decades because the Government didn't digitise the records before destroying them? Black people account for 3% of the population, but 8% of deaths in police custody. Why shouldn't white kids be taught about the disparity between how different people are treated? You do know 'white privilege' isn't about material wealth don't you? If you take two poor kids on a council estate 1 white and 1 black, society gives the white kid more opportunities, more lenience regarding crime, more chance of a career in say politics, TV, the legal profession etc. Get back to your lame skate videos ffs...
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  5859.  @JohnHoward_  I'm glad you believe in nationalisation, but isn't that a cornerstone of hard-left ideology? lol Mocking the right is a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it!
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  5860.  @JohnHoward_  That clip of the race is a visual metaphor, the sentiment is learning/understanding. Do you know how words work? Tip: Understand the words you use before using them. PS Have I told you I'm right-wing intolerant? Sorry, it's a medical condition brought about by knowledge, intellect and decency...
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  5861.  @JohnHoward_  We can both agree privatisation adds a layer of administration and profit requirements that have to be paid for by the end-user and hence it's always going to be more expensive and less reliable than nationalised industry. Not to mention privatisation comes with a board of directors/shareholders who care nothing for the customer and make decisions based on profit alone. Anyways I've had a lovely, intellectually challenging debate... But this wasn't it! ;-)
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  5862. @UCdGiPdd-4IoNq7OaP8FhWdA Well spotted! He also used 'your' instead of 'you're', 'a' instead of 'an' and thinks a TV station that gets all its revenue from ads and absolutely nothing from the public is a 'public owned news channel'. Sorry for being 'that guy' and the excessive use of 's...
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  5863. Boris Johnson must have been born on the road, as statistically, that's where most accidents happen...
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  5864.  @fatfat1877  Thatcher and Reagan gave birth to neo-liberalism - privatisation, bank deregulation, tax havens. Privatisation adds another layer of admin and profit requirements to any business, the taxpayer essentially picks up the bill for shareholder profits. Bank de-regulation is the reason we are hit hard by the financial crisis. Tax havens and off-shore accounts deprive the treasury of billions per annum. Almost half the working population live in poverty... Thatcher's attack on worker's rights and the ability for workers to have a voice is the reason we're all on minimum wage, insecure employment and have 0-hour contracts...
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  5865. I unequivocally condemn the Tories for profiteering during a pandemic, crashing the economy and then having the audacity to ask the taxpayer to fill the pot again...
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  5866.  @Tao_Tology  You missed the point and misinterpreted my comment. My point is that she has money and far better options than the millions of disabled, debt-ridden and homeless that have no choice. A lack of money is a primary factor in depression. As is stress and lack of sleep from working min wage jobs, including 12-hour shifts. Thanks for your pedantry though, it's always nice to see the traditions of taking offence vicariously, pedantry and pettiness still triumph on social media...
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  5867.  @Tao_Tology  lol patronising much? goes well with your entitled pedantry and arrogance. Assumptions should be limited to those with the cognitive ability to make them. You obviously lack the reasoning skills to interpret language in context and would rather spend your life attacking other people's opinions than making your own comments. I've made myself clear on a few comments where I stand, feel free to read those comments and then think about why I'm not going to peddle idolatry for celebs when there are millions suffering far worse that the media ignore...
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  5868. Jesus, why not just paint a bullseye on the ground and ask Putin to shoot it...
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  5869.  @jameswhiteley6843  Thick g@mm0n says what?
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  5870. Bibby Stockholm Sydrome... Quit the semantics swimming isn't an option it's a prison.
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  5871. Back from the reject bin in Jim Henson's workshop, the muppet has come back to finish the job of destroying what's left of Britain's economy and international reputation.
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  5872.  @kevinh4869  I'm Welsh ffs, The United Kingdom has 0.06 per 100,000 death rate from gun violence, the US has 4.43 per 100,000 (District of Columbia, the rate is 16.34 per 100,000) and virtually no one in the UK teaches gun safety to children... Kyle Rittenhouse has killed more people than terror attacks in Wales.
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  5873.  @nattyice94  What happens to that stat when you look at a country without citizens with guns...
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  5874.  @nattyice94  lol so it's a labelling problem, not because people on the left aren't gun-toting psychos?
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  5875.  @ThePatrickBinderStory  lol The United States has the 28th-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world and knife crime is mainly hype, very few lives are lost per annum from knife crime...
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  5876.  @viper2148  lol I'm sorry mate but you're too far gone to help. He went to a peaceful protest to confront people with a military-style semi-automatic weapon. We all know legalese is a language of deceit. I watched the incident including the run-up to the incident. I don't need to muddy the waters with after the fact hypothesized nonsense...
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  5877.  @ThePatrickBinderStory  We can agree that Brazil certainly have a bigger problem if that makes you feel all fluffy inside :)
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  5878.  @viper2148  I've already said several times I watched the incident and the run-up to the incident and that courts are full of legalese, the language of deceit. I trust my eyes and ears mate. Not to mention the fact that he chose to go there with a high powered rifle to confront those people. Spare me the ravings of right-whingers...
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  5879.  @ThePatrickBinderStory  ~It's hard to shoot someone without a gun, killing someone with your bare hands take a hell of a lot of work!
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  5880.  @ThePatrickBinderStory  You should use some form of hard plastic rather than scratch, undetectable at customs :)
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  5881.  @viper2148  lol I'd love to respond but I can't speak dumb...
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  5882.  @emperorpicard4901  lol you seem unaware that I'm not a lawyer or a judge and so I don't have to swallow BS after the facts. He travelled 35km to a BLM protest with a high powered semi-automatic rifle with the intention of confronting the BLM protestors. He put himself in that position and if you think people 'bullied' him while he was pointing a high powered rifle at them you are a lunatic. The only reason people attacked him was in self-defence, he was pointing an AR-15 at them ffs... I'm not spending my life arguing with your confirmation bias and tribalism that allows you to ignore logic and reason and blame murder victims instead of a child with a gun...
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  5883.  @Robodog69  I don't care about the law, I don't care about excuses, I don't care about you defending a murderer. I've seen multiple footages from the day and the day before. Mistrial or not, he's a murderer...
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  5884.  @Robodog69  How about some compassion for the families of the victims? Rittenhouse ran away from the first shooting, refused to accept the surrender of Grosskreutz who held his hands in the air, before later pulling out his Glock as Rittenhouse refused to accept his surrender and continued to point his cocked semi-automatic rifle at him. He also discharged two rounds at an unknown man. Fired at least 8 rounds and had no reason to kill 2 people to 'defend property'
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  5885.  @UnderPr3ssuRe  Sorry but I don't speak dumb...
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  5886.  @gidget8717  I beleive in many things, but the strangest thing I believe is that you can be cured of your mental deficiencies with education and careful tutoring :)
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  5887.  @gidget8717  What you lack in intellect you make up for in stupidity. I mean seriously if idiots could fly your house would be an airport... Anyway, I've had a wonderfully enlightening, intelligent debate. But this wasn't it!
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  5888.  @gidget8717  PS could you use a few more smiley faces so I can be sure you're a child or have serious mental issues...
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  5889.  @gidget8717  Considering there are trees tirelessly producing oxygen so you can use the energy to defecate cognitive diarrhoea on social media, I think you owe them an apology.
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  5890.  @gidget8717  Had enough Karma for one day have you? Were you born on a motorway, because that's where many accidents happen...
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  5891.  @prodbycasper2949  Yes, I agree it was clever to parody an American song about an American tragedy and apply it to an American tragedy...
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  5892. The main thing I like about Matt Hancock is... Nope got nothing... Annoyingly vacuous kleptocrats seem to lack redeeming features...
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  5893. Sorry but YT has filtered this comment, So I can't see the reply only that there is one.
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  5894. The past few PMs have been utterly contemptible and shown utter contempt for law, human rights and taxpayer money. Corbyn outshines them all in morality, decency and aptitude for the job. Such a shame the press did such a number on him and so many people fell for it. He has always stood up against oppression, war and corporations to enable the disenfranchised to have a voice.
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  5895. An indictment on life in the USA. Children covering themselves in the blood of a dead friend to avoid being killed by a mass shooter... What a diseased country...
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  5896. Keep up the good work! PS Tardigrades are microscopic eight-legged animals. Tardigrades can go up to 30 years without food or water. They can also live at temperatures as cold as absolute zero or above boiling, at pressures six times that of the ocean’s deepest trenches, and in the vacuum of space. But this is nothing in comparison to the survival skills of the inept, incompetent, unpopular Tory party who have the ability to cling to power like a leech to a main artery...
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  5897. Like a faecal-coloured fledgeling fascist phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1940s to smother the world in ignorance and hate...
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  5898. Lib Dems are ideological chameleons, Labour has been hijacked by centrists and the Tories manifest cronyism and corruption like they are untouchable and wield economic euthanasia like it's a fking superpower. The Overton window has shifted to the right in Britain and the US since neoliberalism re-emerged during the Thatcher and Reagan era. The right predominantly owns the mainstream media and choose the narratives and available options for us to discuss, rather than informing us impartially. The media writes the script for society and we unwittingly play our part. With each psychological cue, every handcrafted narrative, each carefully chosen word to manifest the illusion. They predict the future and we become the self-fulfilling prophecy...
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  5899. Bezos has $124 billion which is enough money to spend $1 million every single day for 339 years. His money was made from sweatshops and poor working practices and pay for his employees. Not to mention not paying taxes globally. Having said that billionaires are special and deserve every luxury our poverty can provide them...
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  5900. lol duties? mascot, banquets and waving. It's a hard life being a prince...
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  5901.  @qetoun  Trump dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties which forced Russia, N.Korea and China to become more aggressive as the orange one had restarted the arms race. Not interested in debating whataboutery and opinion. Facts are all that's important. Biden's a forgetful old centrist and I don't much like him, but he towers over the incompetence of the orange one.
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  5902.  @pauljeffrey1181  Trump dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties and restarted the arms race/nuclear proliferation which is the reason Russia, N.Korea and China became more aggressive and have restarted their missile programs. It's called global politics...
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  5903. Starmer is a Tory in actions if not name. Labour has become the lesser evil rather than a representative of working people and these ads just go to show how low they have sunk.
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  5904. 100% agreed, "Anti-protest laws, Anti-strike laws the brave souls who fought for the rights and freedoms we are losing would be turning in their graves. The British public have the backbone of a chocolate eclair. A few hundred Tories are taking our money and providing authoritarian legislation and huge cuts in return. We are being bombarded by tax hikes, wage cuts, loss of freedoms, curable illness, and economic euthanasia. While we sit back and binge-watch the TV the next generation will inherit the causal brutality caused by our apathy..."
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  5905.  @NowisEvollovetion  Don't worry about the Legitimate Herald of Catastrophe or LHC as some call it. We are more likely to ruin the planet's ability to harbour the species before gambling our way to one of the numerous unforeseen atomic consequences of playing God. Although there is a slim chance of a Dystopian Corporatocracy if we manage to avoid the previous endings. So it's all good :)
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  5906.  @NowisEvollovetion  Philosophy ey? I'm far too busy watching the human race and all its accomplishments being gradually devoured by the rancid, festering, cancerous, fatted carcass of disaster capitalism during its senseless, futile, fruitless, final death throes... Still, I'm sure some extremophiles like the Tardigrade will endure!
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  5907.  @hgbnkbggj2915  So far the LHC has observed 3 never seen particles some are pentaquarks, some are tetraquarks and some are new higher-energy (excited) states of baryons and mesons. How do you know the safety margins of particles we haven't yet studied? How do you what the limits of the LHC are? What particles it could produce/observe in future? What natural disasters could affect it? Making bold unequivocal statements about something of which you can't possibly know the complete set of variables in play shows a lack of understanding.
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  5908.  @lawrencekling8598  My comments are filtered or deleted mostly. The algorithm has a long memory and holds grudges...
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  5909.  @арефнар  I supported the old thing. We are enemies!
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  5910.  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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  5911.  @YesItsRickySpanish  Planet reality where politicians aren't protected by media narratives and the general public has the intellect to see through the lies and hold their representatives responsible...
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  5912.  @robertbeattie3988  I'd rather force my hand in a blender than ever vote Tory, I never have. I'm also aware of the political history of Britain and worried about the authoritarian legislation of the past decade.
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  5913.  @seanmcilvenie9097  Starmer is almost as bad as the Tories, but less destructive. Same policies as the Tories but not as criminal and corrupt...
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  5914.  @seanmcilvenie9097  Impossible, Tories have already sold every asset the UK taxpayer paid for and dumped enough debt on us to ensure our great grandchildren will be paying for it. They also enabled the most dreadful anti rights legislation in a century. Starmer is a cockwomble, he sold Labour out for a blank check from lobbyists. But don't waste your time on idle whataboutery, we're in the mess we are in because the Tories have bled the country dry for decades. Like the financial vampiric parasites that they are.
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  5915. Matt Hancock's ancestors must number in the millions; it’s hard to believe that many people are to blame for producing him.
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  5916. All that Matt Hancock is he owes to his parents. He sent them a penny to square the account...
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  5917. Israeli militants continue to shell, bomb and brutalize the Palestinian people in their own land...
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  5918.  @thomaswright7580  Thank you kind Sir!
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  5919.  @meln704  lol the world you live in must be full of naive trusting people without a clue how billionaires become billionaires... Tax evasion and the exploitation of child sweatshops, while creating climate crisis and avoiding international taxation.
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  5920. There are 8 million independent landlords across the country. Collectively, they collect over 300+ billion dollars in rent each year... They can't go out to work during a pandemic when their employers have no work for them. Heartless imbecile gets likes - welcome to youtube...
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  5921.  @michelmilaneh8963  Thanks for proving what an imbecile you are on social media and saving me all that time wondering...
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  5922.  @sjones8030  So you are an intellectual void, politically illiterate and annoyingly vacuous? thanks for clearing that up.
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  5923.  @QwadLuzr  Labour has been infiltrated by centrist leadership since the '80s when Blair dropped clause 4. The left has always fought the machinations of billionaires. Currency is simply a human construct to allow a tiny minority to monopolize the world's actual resources. Central banks, Fractional Reserve Banking and FIAT currency are predominantly fractionally created digital currency already. Digital currency will disenfranchise the masses, those without credit will perish. Capitalists are in control of the world and they want us as cash cows to feed endless profits.
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  5924.  Smug Man  Yes, I'm aware of the conflicted nature of the Bank of England, from its nationalisation in 1946 to its ability to generate financial scams to export globally. It's a Central Bank which is a national privately-owned bank, that uses FIAT currency and so prints money under a Fractional Reserve Banking structure. There's a difference between a national bank (has the name of a country) to a nationalised bank (run by the government)...
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  5925.  Smug Man  Can't you read? Nationalised is run by a government, national just means it carries the country's name. You make arguments because you can't interpret English... It was nationalised back in 1946, the Tories reversed that. It's still a national bank, but not a nationalised bank. There's a difference!
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  5926.  Smug Man  They're called books, like memes but longer and factually researched...
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  5927.  @djam7484  From a major banking and finance tabloid: "Will the Pound get stronger in 2021? With the coronavirus pandemic, continued frustrations over Brexit and the UK suffering the biggest economic recession amongst major economies, most bank analysts predict the Pound Sterling will continue to be under pressure in 2021."
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  5928.  @soraninja  The millions for our NHS have been siphoned by the Tories into the offshore bank accounts of shareholders. But they've given us debt in return, which was nice :)
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  5929. Tax payer money is only available to the wealthy because of privatization, outsourcing, the loss of nationalization and Tory legislation mainly brought about by neoliberalism. Taxpayer money should be used to fund the NHS, Public services, public transport, education, infrastructure, the welfare state and social housing...
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  5930.  @Willywin  Labour was infiltrated by the centrist Blair and since then has moved further to the right. Starmer is funded by corporate lobbyists and so isn't someone I admire or would vote for. However, even Starmer is better than the Tories. Besides, the Labour party got us out of the slums by providing social housing, gave us nationalised industry and gave us free medical care and free schooling to ensure our children no longer had to die of curable diseases...
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  5931.  @suzesiviter6083  The world is what it is, unless Brits grow a pair of balls and take back the power from wealthy elitists we're stuck having to choose the lesser evil.
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  5932.  @suzesiviter6083  As a leftie I've been advocating marching on parliament and no10 to remove the Tories for years and take back control of the system from the wealthy. Labour has sold out in the 90s and Starmer is funded by corporate lobbyists and so not much different. Unfortunately, people in Britain are too apathetic and also blackmailed by their mortgage, energy requirements, food needs, bills, jobs, debts etc as well as being far too busy binge-watching their favourite show on Netflix...
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  5933.  @Willywin  Tories have been in power predominantly and have created over 3/4rs of our national debt. The right to buy was a con which ended with a cheap sale to desperate people who eventually sold their houses to private landlords. Over 40% of the houses sold under the right-to-buy ended up in the hands of Tory donors - private landlords! Can't be bothered to correct the rest of your nonsense because it's too politically illiterate to credit with an answer... Keep listening to right-whinge think tanks and their revisions of history all you like, it just shows how gullible you are...
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  5934. Or we could stop corporations profiteering from the genocide of the human race...
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  5935. All those agreeing with this decision, are unaware this precedent can be used to lock them up next time they protest... Locked up for trying to stop thousands of pensioners dying every year from hypothermia...
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  5936.  @qetoun Israel stopped being in control of the Rafah crossing in 2006 as my previous comment states it is controlled by Egypt under the peace treaty with Israel. It remains the only crossing for people.
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  5937.  @qetoun  Hamas don't control the exit, only the entry as anyone with the IQ of a hamster would realise. I said from the start Egypt controlled that border with Israeli permission and if they go against Israel that would break the treaty. But you're missing the point, the cage exists despite your attempt to gaslight my analogy with inanity. You are wrong! admit your mistake and grow or continue to prove your lack of humanity and honour.
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  5938. !lla dna eno ot samtsirhC yppaH
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  5939.  @stevec700  Like a leech on a main artery.
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  5940.  @blackbeard6423  I agree with the sentiment, but no. We already pay enough in a variety of taxes. We need to remove profiteering from the NHS and get back to how it used to be. We also need to tax wealth, people who don't work for a living at the top of society pay less than 1%. While a large percentage of the money we put into the NHS goes into the accounts of shareholders, putting up taxes just increases the amount of our taxes that go to the private sector.
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  5941.  @blackbeard6423  We have increased funding of around 170 billion (since the pandemic) in the NHS but this is being wasted. Most of that money goes to private companies, not to the NHS. Our GDP is just under 3 trillion. We pay through taxes and N.I. contributions and had a far more efficient service years ago before the Tories sold off assets and increased outsourcing, management, admin etc Blair also played his part by using John Major's PFIs which the Tories extended until 2035 while adding another layer via PFI2. I'm saying that the money is being wasted on contracts with big pharma that charges 10x the cost of generic medications for brand names, excessive admin and management on huge salaries, the sale of profitable NHS assets, the cost of outsourcing and soft privatisation coupled with private finance is draining the funds. Not to mention until recently the underfunding of the NHS. The huge cost of legal cases due to mismanagement. We could pay for the 100,000 staff shortage, the increase in wages for staff and funding new hospitals and emergency stations by simply removing these drains on resources. As for the 1% have a look at the richest people in Britain list and then compare that to the list of highest taxpayers in Britain, you'll find the richest aren't there In the highest taxpayers list. This is because we don't tax wealth, we tax income from work. The richest don't work, they invest and take money from other sources while avoiding inheritance tax, using tax loopholes and creative accounting. The money to have an excellent health service is already in place, it's being siphoned off to shareholders and wasted through mismanagement. PS you seem to be talking about health and social care in general as regards the elderly comment, immigrants have nothing to do with it they pay their share, the subject is the NHS!
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  5942.  @blackbeard6423  Search for some of these sentences and read the articles. "In the year to April 2017, £7.1bn worth of NHS clinical contracts were awarded through an NHS tendering process, according to a report by the NHS Support Federation. Since the Health and Social Care Act came into force in 2013, which stipulated that “any qualified” provider could bid for NHS contracts, spending on non-NHS providers has totalled around £25bn. “The number of contracts awarded to the private sector has increased sevenfold since the act came into force,” says Paul Evans, director of the NHS Support Federation. He adds that for-profit companies won £3.1bn worth of new contracts in 2016-17, 43% of the total value of those advertised."
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  5943.  @blackbeard6423  How is it possible that you can invert the meaning of everything I've said? the Tories have sold the NHS to the highest bidder through the Health and Social Care act by allowing for-profit organisations to get the lion's share of new contracts. Most of the companies have a poor record on patient safety and are a huge drain on NHS resources via their profit requirements. I've given you the facts and I haven't said the NHS doesn't deserve more money or that the staff don't deserve to have wages that rise with inflation. If you don't have the capacity to read and interpret the English language and follow the information I've given you to do a little research, then I'm wasting my time. Seriously reread what I've typed as many times as you need to until you understand it. You certainly haven't understood hardly anything I've said so far.
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  5944. @@helpmboab2034 It's called research, the NHS has a staff shortage of over 100,000 and Doctors and Nurses while trained people are being refused working visas and citizenship. Migrant workers are happy to fill the job shortages in agriculture but we don't have freedom of movement anymore. Wages are pushed down by greedy corporations who get over £2 billion of your taxmoney every single week. A little research would show you who the real enemy is...
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  5945.  @qetoun  No, your guess is obviously facetious. I mean processing them by international agreements and legal frameworks that are in place to decide legitimate cases.
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  5946. Poor Russians, it's bad enough they have to listen to Putin, without us Putin the boot in by forcing Boris on them...
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  5947. Why are my comments being filtered? "Maybe reverse the cuts that led to the loss of 22,500 police officers, scores of police stations, 23,000 support workers and 5,000 mental health workers. Then change legislation so that women can trust the Police and the criminal justice system?"
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  5948.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  There are many factors from social distancing timeframe to testing rates. But if you have a look on the live global feed, you will clearly see far lower death rates in countries with a good national health service. Some have less than 2% death rate, while we have more like 13-14% death rate, many of those countries have the same problems with test kits and logistics that we have. Not to mention it could be argued that a well equipped health service would have access to more test equipment / labs.
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  5949.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  and those 23 million Americans Trump took off health care have been tested? Point is those without insurance won't be able to get to a doctor or a hospital and aren't likely to get tested.
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  5950.  @christinevenner183  Yes and that is universal. While we can't be sure until the final figures, it's understandable to draw a parallel between death rates and health of the population / quality of health care system. These figures have been created over the past month or so and all countries have these issues regarding Test kits and logistics. The defining factor is the health of the population and the state of the health care system. We can adjust these figures to cover things like test kits available to population or timeframe / strictness of lockdown etc. But we are just comparing the total number of cases to total number of deaths, the same factors apply to all countries. The availability of test kits and labs etc is also affected by the quality of the health care system.
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  5951.  @poolie6662  Privatisation is sucking money out of the NHS, the government are putting 4% less extra investment in than 10 years ago. Healthcare visitors are largely myth and cost the taxpayer less than your average conservative politician. The NHS has served us well for over 60 years saving millions of lives and restoring the health many generations of Brits. The only time it seems to suffer is when the Tories are in power as demonstrated by these figures. Annual NHS spending increase under Blair (Labour): 6.1% Annual NHS spending increase under Brown (Labour): 5.4% Annual NHS spending increase under Major (Tory): 4.7% Annual NHS spending increase under Thatcher (Tory): 2.7% Annual NHS spending increase under Cameron (Tory): 1.4% Annual NHS spending increase under May (Tory): 1.1%
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  5952.  @poolie6662  I just gave the actual figures on spending. And yes spending goes up every year as we grow as a nation, paid for by the extra taxes and N.I. contributions. Actually the NHS health tourism was part deals we made with other countries who do the same for our citizens.
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  5953. lol @ the speaker stopping the opposition from pointing out factual points regarding Tory corruption...
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  5954. Let them eat cake...
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  5955.  @chinchin8269  It's a reference to a time when people stood up to the elites and their corruption and greed. Feel free to add some more cartoons. I know words are difficult for you...
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  5956.  @vincentmckenna1755  How many students bring their families with them? Go back to the planet you came from. Seriously...
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  5957.  @vincentmckenna1755  Studies have shown Immigrants contribute more to the economy than they initially take out. We paid over £120.1 billion to tax-dodging corporations in 2021 in subsidies alone...
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  5958.  @ince55ant  If I judged you incorrectly feel free to say, however, your name came up as 'UCZM9bvpLwLh91Nsa8uxePRg' on my other comment and both were posted within seconds so I assumed you to be sealioning me. Happy to apologise if I got it wrong.
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  5959.  @Al-Hunt  What? try being specific about the part that troubles you. I've made many replies!
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  5960.  @andrewmills509  :)
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  5961.  @gnrseanra9070  lol in The UK had the greatest decline in 2020 growth was -11%, so what you're really asking is am I aware that we clawed back 7.5% of the lost 11%? Try again bud, I understand economics...
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  5962.  @ferret9800  Annibyniaeth Nawr✊ Brother!
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  5963. @RoderickTheRed One simple fact proves your lies. Immigration is higher under the Tories than it ever was under Labour. It's higher now after leaving the EU and after the Tories have been in power for 12 years. So you believe in lies! and are willing to impoverish yourself based on those lies... What does that say about you?
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  5964. @RoderickTheRed That's all Tory propaganda mate as the immigration stats prove. I'm a council estate lad who grew up and learned the truth. I don't have any interest in economics, politics but I do have an interest in British people standing up to the wealthy aristocrats who rip us off and lie to us!
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  5965. @RoderickTheRed Trust me what I've posted is well-known and considered the primary factor in Brexit, it's also proven through a logical timeline. However, as those who profit from it are the tabloid owners, the wealthy and corporations it isn't widely published.
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  5966.  @resonate3987  lol are you completely ignorant? We got debt, a lower GDP, shortages, a corrupt government and no benefits from Brexit...
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  5967. Less than 700 hundred desperate migrants fleeing war and persecution shouldn't be sensationalized to appeal to the xenophobes... Record high for 2022? seriously? no wonder the Tories are still in power with headlines like these to whip up support for their failed agenda... Under the Tories, immigration has increased dramatically, almost as if they're doing this on purpose!!!
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  5968. Boris pulled out? I bet Carrie was relieved...
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  5969. Tories are allowing migrants to drown and allowing unaccompanied children to somehow end up in the hands of human traffickers already. I'm sure the only reason Tories wear clothes is so we can't see their cloven-hooves, batlike wings and pointy tails...
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  5970. What's the problem? who hasn't infiltrated a political party, started a war based on lies and taken money from S.Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen? I think it's fair to say we all have at one time or another...
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  5971.  @stevec700  I'd rather dangle my nether regions in a pool full of piranha while singing wrecking ball... Religion is a form of control no matter which which side of the pearly gates you envisage...
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  5972.  @stevec700  He can stick his horny head up the hole beneath his tail for all I care. Cloven-hoofed bully.
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  5973.  @DropdudeJohn  Thank you for that erudite, concise, insightful and thought-provoking comment. I look forward to hearing more from you in the near future...
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  5974.  James Smith  I can't remember if I cried. When news of 9/11 went worldwide. But society was changed from deep inside. The day, the Truth, died...
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  5975.  @eightiesmusic1984  So it's ok for the Tories to end the lives of 100,000s via Economic Euthanasia but me comparing them to Fred West upsets you? If you want to be offended, be offended at the incompetent kleptocrats selling our country to the highest bidder and shortening our lives and the lives of our loved ones.
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  5976.  @YA-hm5zy  I agree it takes two to tango, and NATO has been repositioning troops and trying to gain Ukraine as a member for decades...
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  5977.  @fredmercury1314  You were fooled by the Devil. He does that...
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  5978.  @fredmercury1314  Did it look like an angel? Walk like an angel? Talk like an angel? If so you need to get wise It's the devil in disguise, Oh yes, it was. The devil in disguise.
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  5979.  @fredmercury1314  Ah well must be God then...
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  5980.  @jackywalsh3627  They aren't illegal and they aren't economic immigrants. Claiming Asylum is a legal process for people who are at risk of death. It doesn't matter how they arrive, the law still stays they are legally entitled to claim asylum. You're obviously thick as F...
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  5981.  @briandominguez3687  1.8 billion barrels ain't bad, but agreed it's more about the poppy fields and adding another country to a system of debt and consumerism.
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  5982. I wonder if any of them are Libyans. The French President Nicolas Sarkozy funded his re-election campaign with Libyan gold looted during the invasion... Just saying...
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  5983.  @hughjohns9110  Yea I think selling half of London to Chinese property developers as Mayor was a good start for Boris, then taking bribes from Russian Oligarchs to launder their cash through London. Then there's breaking British law and being the first PM to receive a criminal fine during his time as PM. Breaking international law, risking the Good Friday Agreement, contempt of Parliament. Then there's the corruption, cronyism and lies. PPE scandal, wasting £37 billion on a test and trace programs many countries only spent one million on. Which is around £552 per person. I could go on...
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  5984. ​ @hughjohns9110  The Financial Times wrote a good article that explains why Gordon Brown selling the gold was necessary as the hit to the British economy if he hadn't would have cost us far more... Next you'll be blaming Labour for the Global Financial Crisis and the cross-party decision to bail out the banks... You realise the Tories are responsible for creating three-quarters of our £2.3 trillion national debt? If all you have is Tory mythology, best give it up now. PS I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4, but will still defend them on the economy and historical record...
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  5985.  @hughjohns9110  I'm not a member of the Labour party since 1998. Everything I said was a historical fact. As for the war, blame Blair and the US faulty intelligence but ultimately you need to realise the CIA started the Arab Spring with the help of financing from US venture capitalists. Iraq war was a cross-party decision in which 84 Labour MPs voted against it and only 2 Tory MPs voted against it. They demonised the Middle East and Africa (Libya) to start wars over petrodollar hegemony and to secure uranium, lithium, gold, oil, natural gas and opium. Libya were going to use their 142 tons of gold to back an African currency 'The Dinar' for trading in oil sales. Effectively taking oil sales from the mighty dollar. This would have led to the collapse of the petrodollar and had a knock-on effect on the dollar itself. Hence why after Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan dropped the petrodollar for oil sales the US destabilised the area and invaded those countries...
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  5986.  @hughjohns9110  I think Blair is a warmongering asshat, but a large amount of Labour MPs voted against the war and held a protest in Hyde Park. One of those Labour MPs was Corbyn who said something that day that turned out to be true. "Thousands more deaths in Iraq will not make things right. It will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations."
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  5987.  @joshbentley2307  Ethiopia has suffered a series of civil wars in recent history. They are ongoing even now. Seriously, stop with the nonsense arguments. By our own standards, 1/3rd of the workforce lives in poverty. I could post the numerous stats to prove my point, but judging from your previous attempt, you can't use logic and reason...
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  5988.  @joshbentley2307  It's what is known as a sarcastic joke by comparing Britain's failing economy and infrastructure with a war-torn African country in the middle of a civil war. Britain has 1/3rd of the population in working poverty, 1 in 10 people are on the NHS waiting list, we have nurses and teachers using food banks, and a national debt of over £2.3 trillion which has gone over 100% GDP in the past few years. The cost of living crisis is very real for a large percentage of the population.
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  5989.  @joshbentley2307  We are a wealthy country having the problems of a developing nation. The French have it far better as do most European countries. Our energy prices for instance are over 100% more expensive than EU countries that buy energy in bulk as part of a trading block... Don't use opinions to fight facts, you will always lose. Get some facts, because right now you've shown a distinct lack of knowledge...
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  5990.  @joshbentley2307  That's not even worth answering, just hyperbole to excuse the facts and stats. Norway is 100% renewables and supplies us their excess, which is ten times more than the 3% we used to get from Russian energy. The EU buys energy from numerous countries as a trading block to ensure cheaper prices, the difference in prices is 20% lower than here in the UK on average. The war in Ukraine has been prophecied since NATO started pestering Ukraine to join over 10 years ago. You seem oblivious to facts and just spout propaganda that isn't supported by facts, aside from France's nuclear reliance, nothing you have typed was correct.
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  5991.  @joshbentley2307  You say we're not corrupt. We are the largest global enabler of corporate tax losses via the crown estates and overseas territories and its lack of transparency. We launder the global criminal elites' cash for them through London as well as corporations. With a government not only guilty of highly corrupt contracts given away via cronyism but also our government has broke British law and international law. But this is getting boring now. The government are kleptocratic con men, if you haven't noticed that, then you must be apolitical.
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  5992.  @laurecrp8751  Vive la révolution or as you would say where you now live Viva la revolución. Either way, I agree the British public suffers Stockholm syndrome for their aristocratic overlords. The media control the narrative and most people are too apathetic to engage in politics.
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  5993. Far-right groups and think tanks buying off politicians and influencers is the norm these days, surprised it took this long to be given airtime. A world where facts are useless against the gestalt weight of a million idi0ts...
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  5994.  @blablup1214  No reread, you seem unable to understand the basic point I made. "compensate them for climate damage"
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  5995.  @Ass_of_Amalek  lol water exists in the porous rock we call the water table and dirty water can be found all over. Iraq hasn't been Sumeria for 3900 years and Iraq is not Somalia! Stop talking nonsense...
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  5996.  @guff9567  So they should have stopped having kids a decade ago on the off chance that a drought was coming? lol
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  5997.  @Ass_of_Amalek  I was talking about non-drinkable water being available in many sources, dirty water will be filtered by plants and feed soil bacteria. Brackish water can be manipulated via chemical processes to create hydrochloric acid or simply evaporated to produce salt and other byproducts. Plants require a certain PH balance depending on the plant so if the soil is too alkaline or too acidic it can cause problems. But again, Somalia isn't Iraq and my point is related to multiple sources of water available that isn't suitable for drinking.
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  5998.  @blablup1214  We aren't talkign about individual corporations. We are talking about the fossil fuel industry in general paying damages to the world out of the bumper profits they continually make and have made in the past. A fund created by those responsible to negate some of the damage they caused. Some of these funds will be diverted to the most affected areas such as Somalia. This has been discussed globally and can be enforced via taxation and many other forms of government initiatives.
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  5999.  @guff9567  I'm sorry to hear about your mental health problems, I hope you get better soon.
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  6000.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  OMG weather isn't the climate. Stop proving how little you understand... I'm embarrassed for you... Weather is a symptom of the climate and erratic weather is a sign of climate crisis... Global warming has been proven, measured and calculated and 99% of scientists agree with the conclusions. Please stop, you come across as a child or someone with learning difficulties...
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  6001.  @21LAZgoo  lol I love people who haven't a clue what they're talking about. The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years and you use it while claiming our timeline is only 6,000 years old. See how silly that is? Jesus H Christ simpletons everywhere...
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  6002.  @21LAZgoo  lol can't argue with stupid...
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  6003.  @21LAZgoo  lol I understand everything you said. You think the Sumerians were taught by the Anunnaki aliens/gods and that the world is being reset every 6,000 years and you name-dropped a couple of historical facts into your conspiracy to make it sound plausible... I eat people like you for breakfast. I just know what a waste of time it is trying to communicate with stupid...
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  6004.  @21LAZgoo  Wait, come back. You forgot your bullsh!t.
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  6005.  @21LAZgoo  lol that's why it's the top-liked comment on this story and no one has liked any of your comments? Everything you are you owe to your parents, give them a penny and square the account...
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  6006.  @21LAZgoo  You said "is why i think our timeline of history is only 6000 years old" Then you said: "what i said about civilizations going back before 11700 years" Doh!
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  6007. Queen consort? Do you mean Charlie's bit on the side... Don't smile too much it's a memorial, not a time to celebrate your lifelong ambitions coming true...
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  6008. Before we blame the NHS, Doctors and Nurses we need to understand how privatisation, outsourcing and less funding have stripped the NHS of its ability to provide us with care. We have a staff shortage of over 100,000 in the NHS and the Tory government is responsible as they are trying to enforce stealth-privatisation by crippling the NHS. This story is just the tip of the iceberg, the crisis in the NHS is due to the government. The same government that spent £37 billion on the failure of the test and trace system that lined the pockets of private corporations and shareholders instead of allowing the NHS to do its job with the funding required to do so.
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  6009.  @AnnaMorris411  Systemic racism is a problem in the US and I've had many debates regarding this, there is a lot of denial and blame games. Not just in the health system but also in every aspect of life, especially the justice system. It also exists here in the UK but is not so pronounced systemically. Although it is very similar in infant mortality rates. The average in the UK is 3.8 deaths per year per 1,000 live births. While the Black ethnic group has had the highest infant mortality rate each year with a rate of 6.4 deaths per 1,000 live births. It truly is shocking that one group should experience such different levels of care.
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  6010.  @888ssss  lol never ceases to amaze me how ignorant some people are. Tories have created 3/4rs of our national debt and crashed the economy while feeding their mates billions...
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  6011.  @nick-her9275  I'm Welsh I don't live in your archaic land of subservience to a German matriarch :)
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  6012. ​@Billy Kimber The surname Parker simply means 'A keeper of the park' and is of English origin, but we have parks in Wales too and I'm predominantly Celt in looks and genetics, most English people are around 25% Celt and about 27% Germanic (Saxons) based on a DNA study :)
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  6013. @Ryan I kinda already answered that: "most English people are around 25% Celt and about 27% Germanic (Saxons) based on a DNA study :)"
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  6014. Illegal nuclear power wants to stop other nations from being illegal nuclear powers...
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  6015.  @surquhart64  I'm not a fan of "divine right to rule" or kleptocratic politicians. Neither am I a fan of wealthy benefactors with hidden motivations. Corruption seems just as rife in Jamaica as it is here in Britain. My apologies but I'm not all that familiar with Jamaican politics, however becoming independent is something I would also consider for Wales, Scotland and a United Ireland. Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then shits all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  6016. "Neoliberalism is re-emerging globally as a fledgeling neo-fascist Phoenix, rising from the ashes of the 1940s and feeding on the diseased rancid teat of disaster capitalism and just like in the 40s is feeding the fire of global conflict... Never forget?" - Me...
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  6017. I'm just glad we're all tied to jobs that produce ineffective, cheap rubbish with built-in obsolescence to enforce a continual cycle of consumerism at the cost of the climate, and extinction of the species for the profits of the wealthy...
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  6018. For perspective, the UK government give over £100 billion to corporations every year out of taxpayer money in corporate welfare and subsidies.
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  6019.  @kevinb6831  That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type...
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  6020. Democracy = corporations lobbying MPs to turn a blind eye to the extinction of the species, those who have no voice in the system that failed them who decide to take action get arrested. Absolute farce...
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  6021. Is that the son of god? one-third of the holy trinity? the 3-day resurrection specialist? the water walker? the bloke who gave the Roman's 3 nails and asked "Can you put me up for the night?" I'm sure I've heard of him...
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  6022. lol yes neoliberalism and a prejudicial society is all part of Mar-x-ism... Seriously learn to read and research as your contradictions and lack of understanding are showing...
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  6023.  @denzel270  lol what an illogical argument. They are allowed to pass through 'safe countries' and just because I support legitimate international legislation does not mean I therefore support criminal gangs. You lack logic, reason and compassion apparently as well as an inability to do research and understand issues.
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  6024.  @sayithowitis1  You pay over £2 billion in subsidies to wealthy corporations every single week who dodge taxes and cause you to pay more of the tax burden. All studies show that migrants pay more into the system throughout their working lives. If it's money you're worried about then realise the only freeloaders in Britain are the wealthy...
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  6025. Killed the director of photography and seriously injured the director, who was presumably behind the camera and therefore not likely to get shot, with "A live round" not rounds...
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  6026. Economic crises only ever affect the poor, the rich profit from all the cheap bankrupt stock and buildings. It's a chance for the wealthy to invest in the plethora of cheap goods from all the businesses that went under...
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  6027. Good, now if only we can find the object that ties her to this world, then destroy it. In doing so send her back to the underworld from whence she came. All the better!
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  6028. Facts and Tories don't mix. Oil and water. They knew Rwanda was a non-starter, it's more cronyism while attempting to mollify the far right.
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  6029.  @ShaunieDale  Agreed, a more recent example being Royal Mail which was sold for pennies on the pound.
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  6030. After the horrors they've inflicted on society they play the underdog card? They are not only the worst government in history but the most corrupt shells of human beings ever to haunt the UK. Despicable selfish twisters of the truth that destroy everything they touch...
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  6031. In other words hastening the decline of civilisation. Tory bot = cognitive failure, inept sycophant, mindless automaton...
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  6032.  @DrSt-mu4zw  Trump's first actions as President was to give trillions of US taxpayer's money to Wall St, dropping out of climate agreements, taking the US out of human rights accords, trying to take medical care from 30 million Americans and dropping 3 nuclear treaties. The last one being the reason so many missiles are flying and conflicts escalating globally.
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  6033.  @mariatheresavonhabsburg  She did say that at the start, your 50 comments show your ignorance and lack of ability to learn from mistakes...
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  6034. Tuesday's papers are full of the same gaslighting misinformation protecting Tory incompetence as Monday's papers...
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  6035.  @Etheral101  He was Austrian m8... Phillip was predominantly German and spoke German fluently (when he wasn't insulting brown people), the Queen was half German and they and their European Royal cousins are all spawned from the Habsburg line...
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  6036. Human babies are, that's how it works, the foetus gestates in the womb. Once born they become a separate entity we call this growing up, something you might like to try...
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  6037. To the USA a travelling circus came,they brought an unintelligent president and Donald was its name. One dark night,he slipped his iron chain. But he's a bum, too fat to run and he's the one to blame. Oh! Donnie the president flooded the swamp and turned the world into a circus. Off he went with a Trumpety Trump, Trump Trump Trump. Donnie the president flooded the swamp and turned the world into a circus. Off he went with a Trumpety Trump, Trump Trump Trump.
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  6038.  @klb9142  Biden is a corporate stooge, a neoliberal warmonger, and he's still an upgrade from the previous administration. An orange snake-oil salesman with all the charm of a day old cow pat and all the intellect of a dead dog...
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  6039.  @Jame629  Agreed mate, I'm just spending my time these days watching the human race and its accomplishments and history being slowly devoured by the rancid festering corpse of disaster capitalism. While suffering from late-stage terminal sarcasm.
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  6040.  @klb9142  You realise Trump dropped out of three nuclear arms treaties forever restarting nuclear proliferation and moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight for the first time since ww2?
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  6041.  @klb9142  The pretext created is always irrelevant, policies are driven by decisions. The decision to start a war with Iran has already been taken, get ready to pay for it via national debt.
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  6042.  @SteveDorrans  She's a bit cheesy though, my favourite of hers is saying she's like to 'Bang The Dumb' For Britain :)
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  6043.  @summerbankboy  Low wages, 1/3rd of the workforce in working poverty, NHS crippled by cuts, outsourcing, overpriced contracts and privatization. Energy cartels, banking monopolies and the largest enabler of corporate tax fraud globally. Laughing stock on the world stage and the pound has recently sunk to 1.23 US dollars making imports 8-9% more expensive...
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  6044.  @summerbankboy  As per usual the rags to riches story. Even if it's true it's an exception to the rule. Statistics clearly prove my points, your anecdotal story is expected and irrelevant... Thatcher used a Pinochet inspired attack on the unions, and workers' rights to pave the way for privatisation. Zero hour contracts, minimum wage, working poverty and food banks are our rewards... Statistically speaking!
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  6045.  @summerbankboy  Thatcher ruined the steel and coal mining industry. Your personal anecdote doesn't not trump statistics. In the 70s one wage could feed and house a family, you had free university, a fully funded NHS, decent pensions, job security, and no privatisation. Now we have privatization, low wages, working poverty and food banks. Corbyn's manifesto won on individual policies in blind polls, he lost because he was character assassinated by the right-wing media...
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  6046.  @lemdixon01  Labour has historically represented the people, but that ended when Blair won and dropped clause 4. Since the 80s Labour leaders have been promoted by lobbyists to provide a safe alternative for corporations no matter who won. With one notable exception. Global billionaires are not communists or philanthropists, the people making the decisions are and always have been right-wing billionaires... If they were true left-wing or actual philanthropists they wouldn't still be billionaires...
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  6047. This was all just whataboutery to take the pressure of the real breach of lockdown rules - partygate. A fabrication of rule-breaking, made apparent by the fact that Starmer was so confident he hadn't broken any rules he said he'd resign if fined. No, I'm not a Starmer supporter, just a supporter of living in a reality that isn't fabricated by the media to protect the Tories...
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  6048. I like the orange oligarch in exactly the same way I like accidentally trapping my 4skin in the zipper or exactly the same way I like accidentally mangling my hand in a blender. I guess I'm saying I'd rather dip my peanut butter-soaked balls in a pool of starving piranha than see another comment about that snake oil salesman...
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  6049. And we hope for an impartial speaker...
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  6050.  @Chouettechevêche172  It was in large part thanks to the works of Thomas Paine who wrote about the plight of the working class in feudal society. It was the French people, the peasants who took the power back from the wealthy landowners. If a few of the bourgeoisie joined them, that does not make it their revolution. It's you who are confused! After being locked up for refusing to support the beheading of the King. Thomas Paine was eventually helped to escape and went to America where he helped start the revolution against the British redcoats...
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  6051.  @christonamtb4089  Thank you I'm here all week, poem? I'm not a master poet, But for the right words, I will hunt. My apologies for the inference, But Boris is a...
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  6052. I've heard that since Blair and yet things get progressively worse. The tabloids will always dig up dirt and lie about the left, it's in their best interests...
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  6053. Showing off "The toxic team of Tory troglodytes toast to their tyrannical turmoil as truth testifies to the totalitarian transfiguration thunder-striking our territory."
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  6054. To be fair in her 19 years of life, she's already done far more than the COP meetings in their 27 years...
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  6055. Democracy doesn't exist in the west either, we have lobbyists who pay MPs to ignore their constituents to vote in favour of whatever madcap scheme they're trying to sell...
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  6056.  @adpmac3981  Pureblood? your DNA is a mixture of German (Saxon), French (Norman), Scandinavian (Viking) and Iberian Peninsular (Celt). You don't even know your own history and we lost enough people thanks to the Virus. Get a brain!
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  6057. Hunt administrated the NHS and was given a humanitarian award for global leadership in patient safety. Wonder how many people you have to kill to get one of those? 130,000+
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  6058. Diseased chickens that live a short life of suffering while being pumped full of antibiotics and other nasties. If you don't care about animal welfare at least care about your own body...
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  6059.  @Dylanesque  Agreed, especially when you consider the legislation the Tories have enacted in recent years. Things like the spy cops bill, and Internet bill, not to mention their human rights bill. They've mitigated free speech, worker's rights, privacy, health care, and legal access already now they're going after fundamental human rights. My throat has a boot print on it.
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  6060.  @semolinasemolina8327  Spaience is intelligence or wisdom you may have heard of a species known as Homo-Sapiens? It's from Latin and translates to 'wise person' and that is what human beings are. Well most of us. Whales can't fly but they do leap from the ocean surface. I'm a working-class lad brought up on a council estate, but clearly, I have enough intellect to challenge most of the wealthy...
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  6061. From floods to drought, surely there is an obvious solution that a government with foresight can implement. All we need is a government with foresight. Hopefully not flooding Welsh villages to create more reservoirs this time...
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  6062. It's probably for the best that we allow aristocratic reprobates into politics via nepostism. It's not like they could get a job anywhere else...
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  6063. Brexit had absolutely no effect on anything obviously, all the losses, shortages, delays, and economic misery is all a coincidence...
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  6064. The lady is venturing into territory she was urged to avoid, as it exposes the corruption, cronyism and criminality of the Tory party...
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  6065.  @Sport4Life  Send him to priz and the establishment will put him down so he won't turn on his friends. Epstein styleee...
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  6066. She wanted to jump ship after her crush Boris was crushed by his own ego. Who cares why she changed her mind? a waste of skin and a deplorable human being. If these people are the best the UK has to offer we may as well just climb back up in the trees and give up on evolution as a bad idea...
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  6067.  @evolassunglasses4673  lol delusional. Why bother to prove your complete ignorance and lack of intellect by commenting. Get back under your bridge...
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  6068.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  Tell yourself whatever makes you happy, but the media and those who control the media have vastly increased in power in 50 years. Leaving has cost us greatly so no, history doesn't repeat itself...
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  6069.  @meljen8592  Proof Brexit was responsible is in the fact that many other European countries are not suffering the loss to GDP, higher cost of energy (30% less in the EU), the severity of shortages and manpower. threats to standards and rights etc. With Starmer as the only viable option, I think we'd be better off rising up against the corrupt system than voting for a neoliberal sheep in Labour clothing. But agreed, removing the Tories is a good first step.
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  6070.  @massivehero4871  lol your lack of intellect, understanding and failure to produce anything other than lame ad-homs proves my point. Thank you for being a perfect example of that which I described. When are you going to pay back the rest of us the trillions that your lack of wit cost us?
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  6071.  @FrankBrown-c5l  Obviously not, if you bothered to read my replies instead of wasting your time with an inane comment.
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  6072.  @mogznwaz  We always had sovereignty, what we had were commitments and agreements that bind countries for trade, standards and security. Something that exists with any trade deal we make. The CPTPP is the same as the EU requiring standards and commitments, yet we joined that for a 50th of the losses incurred by leaving the EU. Don't bother replying again, it's you that has little political and economic knowledge and wasting my time explaining that is like trying to teach a fish to ride a bike...
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  6073.  @mogznwaz  We've lost 4% GDP due to Brexit, our National Debt is £2.6 trillion at least, which is around 94% of GDP. Interest rates have risen to 4.35% and is expected to rise to as much as 5%. The Financial sector in Britain relies heavily on laundering money for the global criminal elitists via the lack of transparency on the crown dependencies and overseas territories, we have fractional reserve banking and FIAT currency. Our economy is declining more than any other in the G7, despite Tory fiscal fudging. You lack the wit and intellect to challenge anyone, stop wasting my time with your failures of knowledge.
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  6074.  @modsmayday1  Go cry somewhere else, we're all paying for your lack of wit...
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  6075.  @llewev  The people who believed 80% of the media lies are illiterate for not being able to do research and use critical thinking. Your comment isn't clever, just very sad. I pity you!
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  6076.  @adrianrouse5148  Pay up the trillions of pounds lost before talking about arrogance...
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  6077.  @charlesodonoghue3382  You don't know what the words insulting or elitist mean. Saying that you probably don't know what most words mean...
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  6078.  @georgepayne9895  How are the loss of 4% of GDP and 40+ years of trading and other relationships a good thing? regardless of timeline or competence, these things would have happened. There was no way to leave the EU without losing our bulk purchasing power, relationships, preferential trade deals and security. You haven't provided any credible arguments to support your opinion that this was something the UK would benefit from and blame some ambiguous future direction. Sorry, but you haven't convinced me of anything other than the fact you are literate and reasonably eloquent, if not logical. The EU has grown despite our departure, and we are losing animal welfare rights, food standards, a migrant workforce we rely on, not to mention our human rights are under threat from several bills passed since we left.
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  6079.  @georgepayne9895  You were sold a pack of lies and pipe dreams. Then blame the negotiation team for not delivering what was always an impossible dream. I don't want or desire an exchange of Ad-Homs, I've made this point to thousands of people like yourself. Regardless of your low expectations of benefits, or future dividends, the outcome is what was predicted by a host of pundits - political, financial, legal etc. Your analogy is flawed, the benefits of immunity are not negated by a short-term state of mild symptoms. I've been good enough to reply repeatedly, despite no answers to my initial retort, please don't drag this out. Take care!
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  6080.  @llewev  You mean the political literates saw through the lies and impossible dream that was fed to the nation via the media. The eltists pursued Brexit to keep dodging their taxes. Those tax dodging non-doms who own the media especially pushed fallacies to fool people like you. Not sure how many times in this thread I have to explain that to people who seem oblivious to reading... Panama Scandal - EU Tax Avoidance Directive - Brexit connect the dots!
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  6081.  @seafatt  Says a picture of an ass...
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  6082.  @MedicGoat  My Pleasure!
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  6083.  @alfiecat9288  lol sorry but your naive drivel made me laugh too hard to reply comprehensively. Not all Brits are naive enough to buy aristocratic narratives from bottom-feeding tabloids like the Daily Fail...
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  6084.  @dacorum8053  Your ignorance of the two financial crashes, cost of living crisis, low wages leading to industrial strikes, poor spending power of the pound, international import and export problems, supply problems, supermarket price and shortage issues, shortage of workers, etc is astounding. The fact that you blame an influx of workers we are now crying out for is the height of illogical and unreasoning cognitive powers. The fact that Europe, the G7, America and all the other major economic blocks doing far better than us is proof of my statements. The fact that you espouse such illogical, opinionated, unsupported guesses is the reason for my comment. Please learn about things before trying to discuss them, we aren't down the pub and I'm not a political and economic illiterate. I work hard to understand the implications, media misconceptions and political intrigue both home and abroad. I'm not interested in petty optionated, baseless anecdotal debate...
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  6085.  @thethirdman225  You mean the narrative control technicians? Owned by wealthy billionaires who thrust their agenda onto the public? the same billionaires who donate to the Tories - in exchange for? The same billionaires who own MPs via lobbyists and bribes? The same media that is rated one of the lowest for trustworthiness in Europe? We have one of the lowest levels of trust in our media globally, for good reason. PS you do realise this is regarding Brexit, the motherload of media manipulation and lies? Seriously...
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  6086.  @robinbreeds9217  Nothing to do with the EU or immigration and everything to do with capitalism and greed. Things are even worse now - so your logic is flawed. This is all down to people like you blaming immigrants and the poor instead of blaming the wealthy, try blaming those responsible!!
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  6087.  Horse Steak  Neolibneralm is nothing like socialism it's the exact opposite. You have been reading right-wing nonsense by the sound of it. Fiscal in-depth analysis is very much like starting a school to study the mafia's numbers game. If you want the truth, money is simply a human construct to allow a tiny minority to monopolise the world's actual resources. Take care.
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  6088.  @Mari-hb5do  Have you seen any recent legislation like the spycops bill? or the legislation that makes protesting illegal? or allows security forces to break the law and frame a citizen with impunity? There is much more Orwellian legislation that's been forced on us in the past few years...
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  6089. When things don't add up it indicates a lack of pertinent data. While not as obvious as in Syria, Ukraine is hosting a proxy war for the superpowers in the second instalment of the not-so-cold war... A retreat could be seen as defeat or could be a sign of moving friendly targets away before a more aggressive long-range attack...
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  6090. Thunderclouds gathering ominously on the horizon opening up to drown the world below in gmo rain illuminated by vicious blue-white forks of lightning as your soul slowly withers away from a lack of human contact and the oppressive regime you now live under.
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  6091. Failing in every single way - full stop. The economy, environment, business, trade, and global respect. The only thing they seem to excel at is victim blaming, misinformation and corruption...
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  6092. An alien invasion would be preferable to what's going on now. Bring it on!
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  6093. Corporate greed has already drowned the British people in debt, when we going to admit this ain't working?
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  6094.  @whitefang238  Seems he was right. You may enjoy this for a quick read :) https://stevessatire.blogspot.com/2019/01/socialism-and-capitalism.html
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  6095. Why doesn't Starmer just call for the non-dom status to be revoked for all? That also applies to inheritance tax breaks for the rich and infamous...
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  6096.  @AbdusSalam-ll1yp  Thank you.
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  6097.  @mrmeow2297  Capitalism has failed and is inherently flawed, so no surprise there...
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  6098.  @an-albumhole4400  We had less immigration under Labour and better processing meaning we weren't paying £3.7 billion for detention centres. The costs are all down to Tory incompetence and a lack of processing. PS Labour are as right-wing as the Tories these days, Brexit cost us 100x more than migrants. You need to stop listening to pub gossip and start reading stats, facts and proper analysis.
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  6099.  @wor53lg50  Most right-wing Tory party in generations, you're obviously politically illiterate...
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  6100.  @brotherlestat305  Inavasion? I'm a Celt a native Brit, let me guess you're an Anglo-Saxon invader??
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  6101.  @wor53lg50  You've had a right-wing government for 13 years, you haven't got a clue. We had less migrants and less people in detention under Labour. The majority of British people are decent, moralistic human beings, not far right idiots who can barely type a sentence, like you...
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  6102. lol past tense. Labour is already full of centrist neoliberals.
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  6103. Multibillionaires striding the globe like demigods after making their billions from sweatshops and tax avoidance. Super rich are buying up more land and water and social media platforms to ensure compliance and consumerism from us cash cows...
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  6104.  @ben06031978  I'm speaking for those that can't. My comment is about the 1/3rd of the British public in working poverty being sucked dry by an energy cartel... Not everyone thinks about themselves 24/7...
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  6105.  @ben06031978  lol aren't you pedantic and fond of wasting your life. My comment is part experience and part public service announcement. It's a light-hearted comment about the state of this country. I also suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm. Your comments are about as much use as a vertical ejector seat in a helicopter...
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  6106. He presided over the NHS as health secretary during the cuts that caused the excess deaths of over 100,000 Brits. I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw my voice...
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  6107.  @Rayblondie  You should get out more :)
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  6108.  @oo--7714  You're obviously an ill informed political illiterate then.
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  6109.  @mijicmugendo  What is wrong with pedantic people? I never said they were I said my Celtic cousins in the North and South... English are anglo-Saxon not Celts...
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  6110.  @nickbreen287  lol I never claimed to speak for you. Why are you such a pedantic English suckup? I never said N.Ireland was Ireland, I never said I speak for all Celts or all Irish people. Learn to read English and interpret language rather than pedantically misinterpreting someone's words to create a pathetic petty argument... About as much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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  6111.  @nickbreen287  If you are happy being a subject of the crown then carry on doffing your cap and tugging your forelock, I'm not interested in your pedantic misinterpretations and sycophancy...
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  6112.  @nickbreen287  What's wrong with me editing spelling mistakes or correcting grammar? Unlike your parents, I like to fix my mistakes... Check the timestamp on my corrections... I have enough knowledge of Cromwell's invasion, the Irish famine and more recent history to speak my mind without your permission... You got hurt because you don't like the idea of reunification, so you made pedantic arguments to take out your frustration on me... PS I'm from the UK too, remember? my political problems too! Your pedantic nonsense is not required!
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  6113.  @nickbreen287  I didn't say whether reunification should be as part of the UK or as a devolved Irish nation. lol, you talk about the subjugation of N.Ireland? Seriously? Learn your own history!
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  6114.  @nickbreen287  lol "Reunification = restoration of political unity to a place or group, especially a divided territory." You don't know the meaning of the words you use or even your own nationality... Please stop digging yourself deeper... Your comments are about as constructive as trying to teach a whale to fly... Edit (00:01) to correct your repeated conflation of UK and British. UK is Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. Britain is Scotland, Wales and England. It isn't being pedantic to correct you on a matter of fact...Just to be clear N.Ireland is part of the British Isles, but not part of Britain. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
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  6115.  @mariewalker4010  Britain is Scotland, Wales and England. You are part of the British Isles and the UK and so feel free to call yourself British but I was talking about North and South and you obviously don't speak for everyone...
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  6116. @The Slip How can you miss the sarcasm and still claim to be sentient? I've met smarter hamsters, in fact, many hamsters love sarcasm and say it helps them through the monotony of treading that damn wheel all day...
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  6117.  Federal Bureau of Investigation  Who? Where? When? Not sure I know how to play this game, but I think I'm winning...
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  6118.  @gospeloftruthministries1838  I'm the second coming of Christ, kneel down and pray for my forgiveness. You must have strong faith my son and therefore must have faith that I am finally here to free you. Now my task for you is to give your worldly possessions unto me...
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  6119.  @EricBlair-jg2ux  The Earth warms and cools over millennia, we know the current problem is created by events following the industrial revolution. We have the data, we've analysed it. You are denying climate change caused by human activity. We've lost 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of extinction. Wildfires everywhere, the sea is reclaiming low lying areas and hundreds have drowned from flooding in areas not used to them...
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  6120.  @gospeloftruthministries1838  I love you too, despite the fact that you are as mad as a box of frogs :)
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  6121. Race to the bottom... The "puerile nature" of Tory leadership comes from the grassroots and continues all the way up to the top...
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  6122. Putin is ultimately responsible for the atrocities. But NATO/US pressure on Ukraine made Russia's actions more likely if not inevitable. Russia was never going to be happy about having Ukraine join NATO and have an outpost on its doorstep. This is just as much a proxy war as the war in Syria - part of the 'not so' Cold War v2.0...
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  6123. lol sure. Tabloid fed cash cows say what>? 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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  6124.  @dragonkite1  I'd use letters in the form of words and sentences. Possibly cut and paste certain sentences. If I have to explain to you how searching works I don't have much faith in your research abilities...
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  6125. While the financial vampires drain the country dry and drain the people dry. The heart continues to pump, the hands and feet continue to work, and the cells continue to function. But the country stumbles forward in shock, sickly and pale and unaware that a mortal blow has been struck...
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  6126. 'despicable attacks against innocent civilians' well Boris would know all about that... Economic euthanasia wielding kleptocratic elitist...
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  6127. The population is only supportable by resources and so yes eventually overpopulation will be a problem. But the increase in billionaires should be factored in. China has created hundreds of billionaires recently and the amount of billionaires globally has risen by factors in the past few years. The population of the planet has always been at its highest point. The problem is logistics, the resources are in the hands of a few.
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  6128.  @olebull9714  I'm so glad the token Tory apologist showed up. The team that fined them were looking into Covid law-breaking, breaking laws is generally considered a criminal act. I'm no saint, but then I don't lie, cheat and steal to further my career...
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  6129.  @axelwakler540  4 comments filtered because I mentioned people like Wat Tyler and the Peasants revolt being lefties who died for your rights... but your comment is inspired by their propaganda so it stays...
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  6130.  @thekurgan3688  Why is it homophobic? Learn how to think.
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  6131. @Robert Wallace Can you point out the conflict in my logic? which beliefs do I hold that conflict with my actions? or is the humour you don't get?
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  6132. @Robert Wallace The Tories have closed hundreds of schools, hundreds of hospitals, over a hundred police stations, hundreds of public services like the 1,200 sure starts, they've reduced mental health care workers by over 5,000, reduced the police numbers by over 22,500, reduced police support services by over 23,000. Then blame the people doing more work for the same amount of money... Seriously don't use terms you clearly don't understand...
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  6133.  @AM2K2  I suffer from terminal sarcasm :)
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  6134.  @andrewworthy4931  Thank you!
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  6135. @Robert Wallace Eronious whataboutery, Starmer is a corporate shill but Labour are nowhere near as corrupt and costly as the Tories are to our finances and lives...
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  6136. @Robert Wallace Blair and Starmer are corporate puppets. However, you seem oblivious to the trillions borrowed and the billions lost to fraud under the Tories. Starmer is the lesser evil by far, he isn't responsible for hundreds of thousands of British lives lost...
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  6137. @Robert Wallace It was a cross-party decision to go to war. Half of Labour voted against it, while virtually every Tory voted for it. Blaming Blair is lame and naive. There is of course a lesser evil, the problem is you lack logic and reason as you've already proven. Absolutes are very rare, there are degrees of everything. lol I'm a shill? I left Labour when Blair dropped clause 4 and already told you I'm no fan of Starmer. Pointless to attempt conversation with someone so utterly devoid of intellect...
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  6138.  @DropdudeJohn  Thanks for that pointless comment, I'll waste no time in reading it... What you lack in intellect you clearly make up for in stupidity...
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  6139.  @djbogz1921  You have? I wrote it a few years ago, but haven't posted it since I got suspended from Twitter for using facts against right-whingers... Migrants aren't illegal until they are refused entry. The home office is way behind on paperwork because they use migrants to wind people like you up. Then use your ignorance to keep diverting our taxes to the rich...
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  6140.  @DropdudeJohn  Can you do me a favour? could you please defecate your cognitive diarrhoea on someone else's comment? I'm worried your ignorance will lower my IQ if I read anymore..
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  6141.  @djbogz1921  No one wants uncontrolled borders and unlimited migration. Have you been reading the daily fail again? We signed up to agreements as part of a civilised world. To take our fair share, no more, no less... It works both ways... PS Migrants from the EU add more to the country in taxes during their lives than they take out...
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  6142.  @djbogz1921  Sorry did you fail to read my comment or was it understanding that let you down? I never mentioned border security... But I haven't noticed any Albanians climbing over the Welsh hills or slipping in through the river Severn...
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  6143.  @DropdudeJohn  The part where you missed the fact that soldiers guarding at-risk migrants who already suffer inhumane treatment and disease from the lack of facilities they're forced to live in - is morally wrong and authoritarian. That you can't see the connection between what we allow our government to do to migrants, and how that lowers the standards with which we are also treated. Take a look at the authoritarian legislation in the past decade that neuters your rights...
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  6144.  @djbogz1921  Enjoy your roast beef and have a long hard think about how your bigotry affects the way the Tories will eventually treat you! Don't be a useful tool...
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  6145.  @DropdudeJohn  Why are you having a go at everyone on this thread? is your life that lonely and hate-filled? I mean seriously, were you born on a motorway, because that's where a lot of accidents happen...
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  6146.  @DropdudeJohn  PS All of those unions have been targetted separately and as a whole by anti-union/antiworker legislation which lowers your rights and economic income. It's pointless to explain every second comment to someone who doesn't have the base knowledge everybody else does. All you have is Daily Fail myths to peddle and requests for information that most people already know, even then you seem incapable of connecting the dots...
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  6147.  @colinwishbone4437  lol reading Marx doesn't necessarily make someone a Marxist. In the same way, reading Dumbo doesn't necessarily make you... An elephant...
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  6148.  @Hypersonik  ...we don't use leeches as much as we did back then. Technology has moved on a little in 700 years. What you should know is this: "How did the bubonic plague end? The most popular theory of how the plague ended is through the implementation of quarantines."
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  6149.  @Hypersonik  You obviously didn't learn the lesson of why the bubonic plague was stopped, you also don't understand that quarantine doesn't work with people continuing as normal and hence breaking the quarantine, Covid has killed healthy children and adults and ruined the lives of other healthy people by giving them long term conditions. Not sure what you mean regarding the £42k but if you're talking about the national debt, it's £2.2 trillion, divided by 67 million population = £32,835.8 each, not that it works like that...
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  6150.  @Hypersonik  lol your logic is wrong. You can't compare a bike accident to an illness. One is a choice. I've been knocked off my bike 3 times and I've had the flu many times. One is a physical accident, the other is an illness... I can chose to avoid riding my bike ever again, I can't choose to avoid illness... UK GDP was £2.7m last year. UK population is 67.2 million. Not even sure what your point is regarding GDP but the maths is off...
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  6151.  @Hypersonik  You can't choose to avoid being infected by an idiot who thinks illness is a personal choice...
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  6152.  @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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  6153.  @Hypersonik  GDP is profit, not debt. The national debt is what we owe. Quarantines and lockdowns only work if everyone does it. A delivery driver who doesn't lockdown can still spread the virus to customers. The elderly and vulnerable still need food shopping etc. I've worked during the pandemic, my understanding of how lockdowns and quarantines work is the reason I follow the advice, not because I personally want to be locked down, it's a sacrifice we make to stop the spread of the virus. Yes, debt is a problem and lockdowns will reduce our GDP and increase our debt. But the system isn't designed to allow for things like this, and debt is just information written on a computer, it really is a farce. Stop worrying about a fictional number and start worrying about your friends and family's health... None of us enjoy this, and yes the wealthy are taking advantage of the situation. But the virus has us by the balls, ignoring it could lead to the country shutting down completely.
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  6154. ​ @Hypersonik  I'm well aware what Gross Domestic Product is, but I was trying to explain it simply to someone who repeatedly conflated GDP with debt, you!. My point wasn't a point but a rebuttal of your comment, simply follow the conversation. You brought up the lockdown and debt. The Tories are giving away £100 billion per annum to corporations who cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in lost corporate taxes. Corporate greed is what is putting us in debt! The pandemic is being used to give taxpayer money away via cronyism. Our credit rating falling isn't good, our finances are looking dire, our debt to GDP ratio is around 100%. Economists predict nothing good for the pound. We also had the worst economic fallout of the developed nations. An economic expert you are not! Currency is a fiction, it's a human construct used to control and allow a tiny minority to monopolise the world's actual resoruces!
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  6155.  @Hypersonik  Corporate greed is killing our economy. Brexit has also cost us trillions. The Pandemic also played its part. All that aside we have the option to play it safe or risk it spreading and getting worse, if we ignore the virus or don't play it safe it could develop into something that could destroy the species.
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  6156. As we all know Vigils, thoughts and prayers will ultimately defeat the NRA and gun lobby... Stop these mass shootings by changing gun laws, having a sing-song won't stop the cycle. Improve the regulations regarding storage, usage and licencing of firearms so that people can't walk around with guns in public and have to store them securely where children can't get access to them.
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  6157. To the USA a travelling circus came,they brought an unintelligent president and Donald was its name. One dark night,he slipped his iron chain. But he's a bum, too fat to run and he's the one to blame. Oh! Donnie the president flooded the swamp and turned the world into a circus. Off he went with a Trumpety Trump, Trump Trump Trump. Donnie the president flooded the swamp and turned the world into a circus. Off he went with a Trumpety Trump, Trump Trump Trump...
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  6158.  @drama772  That's an awful lot of lucky coincidences, as usual, the bumbling terrorists only created bad press for themselves and increased Islamaphobia and the only death was the alledged terrorist... Why use a taxi? Why explode the bomb when the car was still moving? Why not choose a different route to the Cenotaph if that was the original target? Why are some saying detonator malfunction, others saying timed to go off at 11? Why if timed to go off at 11 was the incident several minutes before 11? Why all the conflicting information?
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  6159.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  lol you think people aren't prejudiced towards Islam despite the comments in every article, we don't even know if it was an Islamic extremist yet...
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  6160. @UCg0Ozr1rBJPlB5X4PZgxCxg You contradicted yourself in your first sentence, and expect me to credit you with enough logical consistency to debate, I've argued with you before. You lack cohesion of thought and therefore just change your points as often as the wind... Debate is redundant. Yes it could be a black/false flag as many of the incidents often are. Including the one that started this whole thing off..
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  6161.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  Says the German living in a land occupied by Celts over a thousand years before the Saxons invaded...
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  6162.  Johann Sebastian Bach  Says a dead composer... or should that be a nameless poser...
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  6163.  Johann Sebastian Bach  lol right-whingers calling the left conspiracy nuts, that's rich!
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  6164.  Chief Sunna of the Saxons  Good, I'm Welsh :)
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  6165.  Johann Sebastian Bach  I haven't proposed any conspiracy, I've asked questions and pointed out conflicting information. I'm also the only one who's given the most actual facts on this discussion. Including paraphrasing the police statement from a few moments ago. If you have such a dislike for the left, and agree with known right-wingers then it's a logical assumption. But feel free to deny it, I'll keep an eye on your comments in future and get back to you :)
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  6166.  Johann Sebastian Bach  I've pointed out inconsistencies and absolute contradictions, stop trying to make up illusionary arguments. I'm not interested is debating with the intellectually challenged. I'd rather follow people who haven't already proven they lack logic and reason...
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  6167.  Johann Sebastian Bach  Another redundant comment with an ad hom, my how predictable you are... Your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  6168.  @CjTriker  There's defo something fishy about the whole thing m8. It may be related to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) Bill aka the spycops bill the Tories passed earlier this year.
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  6169.  Johann Sebastian Bach  lol If I wanted to insult you I would say you have Van Gogh’s ear for music and Einstein's looks. love nature in spite of what it did to you. And that you're the human form of a cold shiver looking for a spine to run up. Not only dull yourself but you inspire dullness in others. You also have delusions of adequacy.
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  6170.  Johann Sebastian Bach  You mean by posting a fact that states a piece of legislation that allows security forces to do black flag operations is a conspiracy? I've had a wonderful, intelligent, constructive debate. But this wasn't it!
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  6171.  Johann Sebastian Bach  lol you just rationalised jokes, feel silly? PS not a fan of Gyles and some of those are my own adaptations. PS Are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?
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  6172.  Johann Sebastian Bach  So inane you have to post the same reference to Gyles twice? Seriously though, how come your ancestors couldn't count to 12 despite having 6 fingers on each hand? and why couldn't they swim despite having webbed feet? Saying that your ancestors must number in the millions; it’s hard to believe that many people are to blame for producing you.
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  6173.  Johann Sebastian Bach  PS If what you don’t know can’t hurt you, you're practically invulnerable. It's a pity that the closest you'll ever get to brainstorm is a slight drizzle. But keep talking, someday you’ll say something intelligent! Anyway, I’m busy now. So can I ignore you some other time?
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  6174.  Johann Sebastian Bach  You realise people simply tolerate you?
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  6175.  @ooz139mm  Yes, it happens a lot... It's usually an electric charge sent into the fertilizer or compound used. It's as straight forward as an alarm clock...
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  6176.  Johann Sebastian Bach  You constantly ignore the facts I type such as "PS not a fan of Gyles", I have plenty more material, but really can't be ar-sed to continue this fruitless, soul-destroying, cognitive atrophy...
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  6177.  Johann Sebastian Bach  If I wanted advice from someone who has failed to produce anything witty or intelligent I'll send you a message. Until then stop trying to gain my approval with your cognitive defecation. I'm not interested in proving anything to you or reading your regressive diatribe.
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  6178.  Johann Sebastian Bach  Have the last word if you like, this is my last comment...
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  6179. Microchips predominantly, plus a history of antagonism between the US and China that started long before the cold war...
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  6180.  @joandolliedoyle775  My Pleasure :)
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  6181.  @ozymandiasnullifidian5590  I agree in many respects. However, most global leaders are psychopathic megalomaniacs and Putin is at the top of that list. I don't blame Russia for not wanting a NATO friendly country on their border that could be used as an outpost. But I also don't think attacking Ukraine was a smart move.
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  6182.  @pandasrules7536  Well that's one way to rationalise the extinction of the species...
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  6183.  Never Bend The Knee  Are you king of the stupid people?
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  6184.  Never Bend The Knee  You mean you stole my comment about defecating cognitive diarrhoea and made it boring? Being a right-whinger maybe you can answer this: Is cognitive dissonance painful?
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  6185.  Never Bend The Knee  No, you used a watered-down version of my phrasing. Can't blame you for trying to swag it out, but seriously you lack originality and style. You're about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  6186.  Never Bend The Knee  PS look at the thread started by Adam on this story, my comment about cognitive diarrhoea was 5 hours before you mentioned it to me. You said you had read my comments in another thread. So presumably that's where you got it from, either way, the timestamp of my comment on Adam's thread predates yours by 5 hours...
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  6187.  @Hertz2laugh  They are created by how many tons of pesticides are used as my example clearly shows, using the same criteria for each country. What is wrong with you people? Can't you take simple facts when they don't fit in with your ego?
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  6188.  @Hertz2laugh  I'm the one who presented facts based on actual amounts used, per country, with the same criteria being used for each country and was challenged twice with nonsense arguments... I've pointed out your 'reality check' was actually the opposite, an attempt to misrepresent the data as compromised because it didn't fit in with your hilarious suggestion that the US cares about its farmland and isn't willing to use chemicals to pollute it (despite being the 2nd largest user of said pesticides/chemicals). There's nothing wrong with the American dream, but you have to be asleep to dream...
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  6189. Illegal to feed hungry people on public property? What a perversion of law, justice and morality. Anyone remember civilization?
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  6190. I hope he's caught and then named and shamed for his lack of humanity. I sincerely hope he doesn't have children and doesn't procreate...
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  6191. It's ok the British public is always happy to suffer more hardships than they need to thanks to Tory incompetence...
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  6192.  @chrisd5964  Agreed, those mean old EU people trying to steal 'Are Sovereign Tea!'...
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  6193.  @Andrew-is7rs  I'm 50 kiddo. I love the way Brexit has improved the lives of Brits up and down the country. How smooth the transition was and how quickly all the border, import and export issues were solved. I was especially pleased with how little money was spent on administration and how Britain's standing improved on the global stage, especially in Europe. There were virtually no financial losses and the pound keeps soaring ever higher. Britain has become unified and we all feel a closer kinship with the world. It's like a dream come true and there were hardly any teething problems as you'd expect with such a vast change. They protected the Good Friday Agreement at all costs. They made a plan right at the beginning and stuck to it all the way through, for a seamless transition, without aggravating a precarious peace. While implementing border controls that were easy to understand and smooth sailing for all involved. So glad we didn't lose any of the trading deals and relationships that took decades to accomplish. An all-around success story for Britain. Now all that's left to do is to sit back and enjoy all those wonderful benefits with a nice cup of Sovereign Tea...
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  6194.  @mickeythompson9537  To think he must have millions of ancestors dating back to the dawn of time. It's hard to Imagine that many people are to blame for producing him! I feel bad for trees producing oxygen for him, I think he owes them an apology.
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  6195.  @billlarner7977  Thank you Vicky for that erudite, thought-provoking, intelligent, witty, eloquent comment. I can't wait to hear more from you in the near future...
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  6196.  @Ash-os1dz  No my comment proves that we are 0.2% of the world's landmass and create 1% of global CO2 emissions (assuming your stat is correct). Meaning we create 5x more CO2 than the average in comparison to landmass...
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  6197.  @32shumble  Starmer is more popular but he's another corporate puppet. We don't have a left in the UK anymore, just blue, red and yellow flavours of neoliberalism.
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  6198.  @ruthguthrie1099  ❤ TY :) "What feckless leadership the Tories provideth, as they strive with lies and thus divide us. What food and energy can a working wage buy, when the Tories drain our Country dry? With hungered belly and empty wallet, houses like ice with frozen toilets, The workers who provide the hands, that toil so hard across this land, Are left alone to fend unprotected, while corporate taxes remain uncollected. As cruelty reigns and poverty encircles the vulnerable and impoverished workers, 'Help' we cry in desperation, while inept Tory policies inspire inflation. We drown in debt, they drown in champagne, lives shallow, self-serving and vain. With unity and action direct, the people can stop this cruel neglect. It's time to stand, as one and shout 'Get those forking Tories out!'"
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  6199. I'm not sure waiting for climate change to marry its girlfriend and then take a cyanide pill and shoot itself in the head is going to work. But I agree with the sentiment...
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  6200. lol seriously? nothing to do with the Tories giving billions away to their mates in overpriced contracts, massive national debt, corporate subsidies, corporate tax loses, Tory kleptocracy?
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  6201. Tories always stick their hand in your back pocket then point at immigrants...
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  6202.  @avenue8822  So your primary concern is race, yet if I called you a race ist you cry foul... My point is simply that whatever they say it is, it is just as likely to be a false flag masquerading as that...
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  6203.  @avenue8822  No problem, I wondered what the quotes were for. It makes more sense now. :)
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  6204. Hmm, dead logs from the local woods or expensive combustible air from Norway and Russia?
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  6205. He didn't want to be upstaged by a blond clown. Now we have two clowns representing us both of whom only care about the green in your wallet...
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  6206. Floods, war, disease, climate crisis, restarting of nuclear proliferation. It's almost as if our leaders are psychopathic profit-hungry megalomaniacs...
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  6207.  @walterblock5082  Yea I think read around 1.2 guns per American. It won't be easy to get around the second amendment and gun lobby. But no one has to give up their guns, they just have to follow sticker rules to keep their licence (including not handling or carrying in public) which is key to reversing the gun culture. No one says it's going to be easy, but either fight for that or continue to accept children being killed en masse...
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  6208.  @welditmick  I was getting that feeling from Beto O'Rourke verbally challenging his rival at a press conference. He was shouting "You chose to do nothing!" at him and a panel of cops. Your comment has helped me confirm it, cheers.
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  6209.  @alexojideagu  Raoul Moat killed 1 person and injured 2 in a 6day fugitive run. It wasn't a mass shooting (Which usually requires at least 4 victims for it to be classed as a mass shooting) and it certainly wasn't a school shooting which is what I was talking about. We have shootings and rare mass shootings but we haven't had a mass shooting at a school since Dunblane.
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  6210.  @thedarkwolf2525  Nothing is stopping anyone in any country from illegally buying an assault/automatic rifle and going postal. Or turning a bread knife into a stabbing spree. The things that make that harder to do are legislation on weapons and gun controls. It's harder to sell weapons on the black market in a country with tighter gun laws. It's also harder to get away with carrying a weapon in countries where it's illegal to carry a firearm/weapon in public.
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  6211. While we while away the hours, Discussing how Hancock makes us sick, Just be glad you're nothing like him. 'cos he's an annoying callous p...
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  6212.  @jordanforbes2557  The elitists (they are not elite, just pretend to be) have conned us into thinking they have the power, but the power is always with the masses. History teaches us that (Revolutions, uprisings, civil unrest etc). The elitists on both sides are interested in power, influence and wealth and we are just cannon fodder as we always have been. The sooner we drop notions of countries, currency, religion and borders the better off humanity will be. We have a universe full of resources and the capability to reach those resources if we worked together as a race, the human race.
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  6213.  @donsong9958  lol Russia have 70 million people available for war as they still use conscription, we have around 147,000 troops. They have more troops than Britain has population. They also have around 3,000 tanks we have around 200. Britain has around 70 naval vessels Russia has over 600. They have over 6,000 nukes we have 225. They have at least 10 times the artillery, aircraft, rockets etc we have. Britain vs Russia is a non-starter :)
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  6214. We need good public services? so why did the tories sell them off to corporations who take subsidies from the taxpayer to run the services that we paid for, into the ground? Then they ask for bailouts from the taxpayer while continuing to make profits from the increased costs to the public. The economic mismanagement and debt the tories have created further drain public resources while feeding tax-dodging corporations around £100 billion per annum in subsidies and corporate welfare.
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  6215. Yet another example of how taxpayer money is being misused to provide profits to private enterprises. Cuts and for-profit organisations have caused a reduction in beds and a lack of facilities. With so much for-profit organisations taking a larger slice of NHS funding this will only continue to spiral, the taxpayer is giving larger portions of their taxes to shareholders. How can people be so blind to this obvious fact?
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  6216. I'm sure Yogi will be happy to see Boo boo returned to the wild. Yea yea my bad that's Hanna Barbera - owned by Warner Brothers - major shareholders include Blackrock... What a world...
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  6217. Tories only fully fund Tory councils, they look after themselves and have no love for the North. All they care about is the continuation of their inherited wealth and the future of the shallow end of the British gene pool from which they spawned...
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  6218. A president who is a corporate stooge and friend to the status-quo is a perfect target for the far right. The far-right will offer change and people may very well take that offer as opposed to the status quo. It's sad that there are no decent options for people to choose from in a system so corrupt. Here we go again just like in 1914...
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  6219. Goodbye to one of the last bastions of the free press in Britain. Hello to Tory sycophants...
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  6220.  @maryfragain4812  Don't start I've already got one Trumpfan to humiliate. If you don't have anything intelligent or witty to type I suggest not typing. Either that or go and find your usual echo chamber so you don't feel so out of your depth... But thanks for proving your own ignorance, saves me the effort of wondering...
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  6221.  @westtxmutt  lol you obviously lack the intellect to understand basic words. A nuclear armageddon isn't a partisan issue, it affects everyone, every ethnicity, every political persuasion, every religion, and every person! Your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
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  6222.  @maryfragain4812  That's the best you got?> seriously stop typing. It's like watching a whale attempting to fly... I realise that it must be very difficult for an intellectually void, politically illiterate and annoyingly vacuous person, but please try and stay away from the keyboard. At least until you reach sentience...
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  6223.  @westtxmutt  It seems you still have trouble with a basic comprehension of written words and their connection to topics being discussed. Your inability to realise you came unarmed to a battle of wits is a testament to cognitive dissonance... Hope you get better soon!
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  6224.  @maryfragain4812  How can I prove you wrong when you do it to yourself by typing... You don't have the geopolitical knowledge, political savvy, fiscal acumen or cognitive consistency to trouble me in debate. I'm not American! I come from a country with freedom, education and a lack of armed imbeciles...
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  6225.  @ChuckAmadi  No I said Ukraine and Syria. If you want to discuss Putin trying to get the Soviet Union back together then that's a separate topic. PS it's Chechnya, I'll assume typo. NATO and US/UK/Polish weaponry and resources being used in Ukraine clearly prove it's a proxy war. Trump dropped out of 3 nuclear treaties which restarted the arms race, nuclear proliferation and restarted a new version of the not so cold war... N.Korea, Iran, Russia, China etc all kicking off in the past year are clear indications of the heightened instability globally.
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  6226.  @wulfhere83  Do you know anything about geopolitics? There were several wars going on during Trump's presidency. He also handed the Taliban the country in the peace deal that cost the US billions in lost equipment and manpower. But I'm pretty sure restarting nuclear proliferation which is causing the escalation of conflicts globally is far worse than starting a single war. We will be entering a global conflict soon, of that there is no doubt. Russia v Ukraine, China v Taiwan, N.Korea v S.Korea and so on... PS Joe Biden is a forgetful old centrist. He's a huge step up from Trump, but I'm not a fan of Biden... Maybe you should go back to school and get the basics down before making a fool of yourself on social media.
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  6227.  @wulfhere83  It's impossible to debate with illogical nonsense. Taiwan isn't part of China, they declared Taiwan independent in 1895. Giving back Afghanistan to the Taliban who were terrorists according to Trump was a huge U-turn and humiliated American soldiers and made a mockery of the American losses human and financial... Push nuclear weapons underground? are you from another planet? Nuclear treaties are there to stop the use of nuclear weapons and limit their creation, the lack of those treaties creates a black market for nuclear weapon sales as now no one is monitoring as that is no longer enforced by the treaties... Too much misinformation and an obvious lack of political acumen in your reply to make the debate worthwhile. Keep following your orange god, whom anyone can tell is a snake oil salesman, confidence trickster, fraudster and tax evader, whose previous campaign manager languishes in jail... Trump had avoided paying American workers, avoided American taxes, defaulted on loans and claimed bankruptcy 3 times due to his constant business failures...
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  6228. We won't be here in 47 years...
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  6229. @Sole Knight Decimate means to reduce by a tenth. You assume justice has been served because a very popular actress defeated an unknown optometrist in a court. Justice favours the wealthy as history has proven time and time again...
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  6230.  @pissiole5654  I didn't view it, I came here to post my comment. Congrats on being illogical and posting an inept comment and facile argument out of pedantry...
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  6231.  @johnstory2996  lol another who fails to understand reason and instead goes for a logical fallacy. I saw the title and posted my comment. You could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  6232.  @johnstory2996  So If I complain about politics I can no longer vote? If I complained about society I can no longer live in one? If I complained about speaking I'm no longer allowed to speak? See where I'm going with this? Your concise comment is even more inane than the last and just as erroneous.
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  6233.  @johnstory2996  You still don't understand the illogical inane comment you repeated? Continuing to repeat the same mistake over and over is evidence of your lack of intellect. Feel free to keep bleating, you are like an empty vessel rattling without purpose...
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  6234.  @Snowy265  Such a pointless comment that ignores logic, that old argument that you can't complain about something if you're part of it. You're the third to show such a lack of reason.
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  6235. Mount Doom, I guess Vladimir Sauron won't be happy...
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  6236.  @zocon6  I meant aid as in to accomplish a goal, not as a reference to giving money to something. Either way it's Israel being Israel and ignoring human rights while trying to legitimise their apartheid regime.
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  6237.  @zocon6  No, you're unable to interpret a simple statement.
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  6238.  @zocon6  The nation-state bill passed on July 19, 2018. Stop commenting to me, you're unaware of the basics and I have no need to waste time with people like you...
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  6239.  @thegrandmuftiofwakanda  Shush Anglo-Saxon invader... Celts are native...
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  6240. The sewage in parliament leaking into rivers, a nation shivers, Tories fail the green agenda, cash in envelopes, corporate tenders for lobbyist members.
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  6241. I'm just looking forward to spending my remaining years watching the human race being transformed into docile cash-cows, disenfranchised by digital currency, creating an underclass who can't even participate in society, where a lack of credit has a severe effect on life expectancy and corporate billionaires become fickle deities that demand subservience...
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  6242. Billionaires and corporations who lack any sense of morality and decency driving the human race like cattle straight off a cliff in the name of profits...
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  6243.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  lol, thanks for the inanity. The West uses cyber intelligence on its own citizens - think Facebook and Cambridge Analytica or simply look at recent legislation the Tories are trying to pass that gives them control over what can be discussed online...
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  6244.  Jim Carrey  Comming from someone who can count their IQ on their own fingers, that means a lot...
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  6245.  Jim Carrey  I have other things to do than get comments removed constantly for belittling idiots.
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  6246.  @georgeamos7651  I'm sorry but I can't read Braille or Morse code...
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  6247.  @oskardahle2478  I didn't say I couldn't learn Morse code, that spells 'sieees' so not sure what you were going for .-.. --- .-.. :)
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  6248.  @garethwilliams2058  You have free prescriptions unlike the English and many other benefits despite being underfunded by Westminster. Maybe you should consider what effect Thatcher shutting down Welsh industry had on the valleys. Anyone, where I live in Blaenavon, would laugh at you for what you just said...
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  6249. Travesty, antisemitism is intolerable as is using it as a weapon. The EHRC report clearly showed there was no systemic AS in the Labour party. The 2017 and 2018 parliamentary reports clearly show less AS in Labour compared to the Tory Party, UKIP and society in general. Sue me, everything I said is fact!
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  6250. I'm just glad this has nothing to do with Brexit and poor wages. So pleased to see the army being called in to handle these troublesome pensioners escaping winter fuel bills...
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  6251. A successful badger.
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  6252.  @indivisible4835  You keep suggesting or inferring some paranoia, conspiracy, malignant actors, undefined organisation, self-importance/persecution complex etc when I've proven it's a simple logical experiment that proves this to be the case and even said it is YT filtering. Now you're suggesting my imagination despite me pointing out a simple screenshot from different devices will prove it. How would you expect me to respond? I'm not interested in your justifications and I've been sealioned for decades. Pedantry is a pandemic on social media and my precise use of language and accuracy is logically consistent. I'm not wasting my time with your erroneous inferences and subtle insults any longer. I've proven my point logically, you've proven your pedantry, pride and lack of understanding. End of debate, you are wrong by definition, interpretation and understanding...
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  6253.  @indivisible4835  lol my last comment was filtered, although as the recipient you may have seen it, but as I've just checked I can assure you no one else can. "You keep suggesting or inferring some paranoia, malignant actors, undefined organisation, self-importance/persecution complex etc when I've proven it's a simple logical experiment that proves this to be the case and even said it is YT filtering. Now you're suggesting my imagination despite me pointing out a simple screenshot from different devices will prove it. How would you expect me to respond? I'm not interested in your justifications and I've been sealioned for decades. Pedantry is a pandemic on social media and my precise use of language and accuracy is logically consistent. I'm not wasting my time with your erroneous inferences and subtle insults any longer. I've proven my point logically, you've proven your pedantry, pride and lack of understanding. End of debate, you are wrong by definition, interpretation and understanding..."
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  6254.  @martin777xyz  I'd turn the UK into a sustainable ecologically friendly resource-based economy, where resources are valued consistently based on abundance, transportation, labour intensity and useful properties. Become self-reliant for energy, food etc and trade abundance for the few things we aren't able to produce for instance due to ecological conditions or native availability.
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  6255.  James Burton  Orwell was a Democratic Socialist. Tories do have a lot in common with corporate fascism.
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  6256.  James Burton  Not really, I'm simply pointing out that despite the main characters being Socialist, Orwell himself is a Social Democrat, and Oceania resembled 1940s Germany in many ways.
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  6257.  James Burton  George Orwell's first paragraph of his letter regarding why he wrote 1984. "I must say I believe, or fear, that taking the world as a whole these things are on the increase. Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national movements everywhere, even those that originate in resistance to German domination, seem to take non-democratic forms, to group themselves round some superhuman fuhrer (Hitler, Stalin, Salazar, Franco, Gandhi, De Valera are all varying examples) and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means."
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  6258. Money is a human construct, the resources required to launch a rocket into space are finite... The human race should be trying to avoid the extinction of the species through exploration, not providing joy rides to the privileged few...
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  6259.  @roenin  You know what humour is right?
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  6260.  @ବିନୋଦକୁମାରବିଶ୍ଵାଳ  Rishi was Chancellor of the Exchequer between 2020 and 2022... So erm no - he was partly responsible for the decline of ‑11.03% from 2020 to 2022...
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  6261.  @tastypymp1287  If that was the case how come we suffered losses while the Eurozone grew by 2.4%? Most of them went further than us with lockdowns. Fact is we were one of the worst performers in the G7 also. So no, wasn't the main factor, just contributory as proven by Eurozone, US and G7 growth far above us as our economy shrank. We got played!
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  6262. It's probably just the slaves that built the infrastructure to host the World cup being burned as they are no longer of use...
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  6263.  @bereal6590  :)
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  6264.  Jim Carrey  Thank you for so eloquently proving you're really bad at analogies, logic and linear time :)
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  6265.  Jim Carrey  No I'm pretty sure that will be your epitaph. PS You do realise you are the reason we have to print instructions on shampoo bottles?
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  6266.  Jim Carrey  Was going to leave you alone and stop humiliating you as I felt I was bullying a simpleton. But after your comment on a different thread, I see what you lack in intellect you more than make up for in stupidity...
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  6267.  @Nickle314  All the unemployment budget could be paid 10 times over by the amount we waste on corporate greed. It's around 30 billion per annum and paid for by the same people who use it. As for the debt, we have over £2 trillion national debt and 3/4rs of it was added by the Tories. Stealing from your children's future to feed their mate's your tax money...
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  6268.  @Nickle314  lol, people pay for pensions themselves. Corporate greed is not socialism, pensions are paid over the course of your working life. The mismanagement of that money is the responsibility of government and investment. Do you expect people to simply die when they finish working? No reward for a lifetime of wage slavery? You also seem not to understand figures, the total GDP of Great Britain was £1.96 trillion in 2020 you think pensions cost 7 times the total GDP of Britain? PS a trillion is a 1,000 billion...
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  6269.  @Nickle314  It's not an annual debt that has to be paid and it's nowhere near 14 trillion it's less than £2 trillion. It's paid for by taxes and pension contributions. Corporate greed and investment strategies are largely responsible for the debt as is Fractional Reserve Banking and the bail-outs paid for by the public. If banks and pension funds mismanage or lose the money they should be held accountable. As should the government. You failed to represent the figures correctly, failed to understand the difference between debt and projection. Failed to take into account who pays the most towards pensions - the pensioner! Pasting a long-winded description of how pensions are calculated doesn't change the fact that your argument is grossly inaccurate and moot...
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  6270.  @Nickle314  The government of the United Kingdom is expected to spend approximately 101.2 billion British pounds on the state pension in 2020/21. Not 14 trillion... State pension comes out of our taxes and N.I. contributions. Corporate pensions and Pension debt is a different matter and grossly misrepresented by you. As stated pension contributions are made and wise investments + inflation grows those contributions. Your figures while wrong and also based on a projection using the variables of corporate debt, investments, flawed banking practices and contribution-based pensions. Only state pension comes out of our taxes and it's only a few per cent of GDP... In fact, we spend over £100 billion on corporate welfare and subsidies per annum the same amount as we spend on pensions for the workers who grafted to achieve our GDP. Not to mention the tax gap is also a similar amount, lost by tax evasion, tax havens, offshore accounts and some corporations paying less than 1% of the legally required taxation.
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  6271.  @Nickle314  Stop accusing me of failure to understand when your argument is moot, irrelevant and your figures a fantasy. Read my previous reply, you're not mentioning anything that is relevant to taxation. You are talking about corporate debt, pensions, contributions, profits, projections and inflation. While ignoring the fact that most pensions are covered by contributions. You've proven you're good at copy and pasting while grossly overstating the figures and having no understanding of the basics like how many billions make a trillion.
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  6272.  @Nickle314  You keep trying to lecture me by falsely accusing me of not understanding, you can't compare pension debt to annual taxation or GDP. Pension debt is lifetime projections based on the worst-case scenarios. I've pasted the annual cost of all state pensions (the only amount relevant to the discussion about where our taxmoney is going) it's around £100 billion out of £2,000 billion GDP, which is peanuts. Corporate welfare and subsidies cost us over £100 billion per annum. Corporate tax losses cost us a similar amount per annum. This discussion has nothing to do with lifetime corporate pension debt projections, it's about taxation. Stop pasting elaborate explanations of things I already understand, but which are irrelevant to the discussion of taxation.
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  6273. ​ @johnryan7932  Thank you and yes that was the idea, although I'd suggest the old way of having senior doctors who know the whole system in those roles rather than administrators or bean counters seems a superior choice IMHO. Thatcher brought in Neoliberalism in the 80s with her good friend Reagan, a hallmark of which is privatisation. I can also agree with the Prof's assertion regarding communication as my recent experience of seeing 8 or 9 different doctors who clearly hadn't read my notes was obvious. Having to explain the situation over and over from the start seems very inefficient. After 20 months of waiting to see a specialist I was given scans and have liver cirrhosis, gallstones, and fluid in my lungs and stomach. Although I understand the doctors and the service is under enormous pressure so I don't hold any grudges. However, the inefficiency costs more while further exacerbating the patient's condition. Meaning a higher cost to resolve the issues. Also agreed the stealth privatisation has hit our GPs, Staffing and services with much of the outsourcing going to American firms.
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  6274. Can't Priti Patel speak without a sly smirk on her face? even when talking about something dire like this. Like an evil child from a horror movie...
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  6275. lol, are they removing all the sh-it... Kamala and Biden represent corporate interests, they are about as leftist as my right hand...
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  6276.  @toyotaprius79  Yep tabloid mentality, flavour of the month narratives. Every worker in Britain liked Christmas a lot. But the Tories, who lived in luxury, well, they did not! The Tories dislike Christmas, the giving time season. And we all know why; their selfishness the reason. Could it be that their heads aren't screwed on quite right? Or could it be, perhaps, that their fists are too tight? But with Tories the most likely reason of all, Is their freezing cold hearts are a few sizes too small. Whatever the reason, for their uncharitable views, They stand there at Christmas, making profits for the few, Staring down at the Populus with a sour, grouchy frown, At the poor blighted workers in Britain's cold towns. For every worker in Britain, they would love to bequeath, In place of mistletoe a withered old funeral wreath. "No hanging of stockings!" the Tories doth jeer, Tomorrow may be Christmas, but the Tories don't care. They scowl at the thought of a little drummer boy drumming, So they crashed the economy and stopped Christmas from coming...
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  6277.  @mrneutral8423  Thank you, Happy Christmas!
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  6278.  @Skylark_Jones  Thank you.
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  6279.  @mohammadhughes1561  Disaster capitalists looted the middle east for oil, precious metals and to ensure the hegemony of the petrodollar and therefore the dollar. They were never interested in helping anyone.
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  6280.  @lat1419  Yes agreed, they're demonstrably civilized Neanderthals. It's conclusive evidence for Braverman's confusion, the police don't treat them differently but instead defend themselves against a group of fanatics who have been frothed into a frenzy by the Tories and polarizing media narratives.
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  6281. Talk about 'balls to the wall'...
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  6282.  @Earhairy  So if you vote Tory you're responsible for every Tory action? when individual MPs abuse or defraud you take responsibility? No. Stop typing inanity and pull your head out of your backside. You are right about one thing, Israel sees all Palestinians as Hamas hence why they've killed 30-40 Palestinian children this year and thousands in the past decade, Palestinian children who didn't vote for anyone. Not to mention tens of thousands of Palestinian children who've been detained, insulted, threatened, beaten by Israeli security. You expect Palestinians to stand still in a cage as Israeli security whittle them down shot after shot?
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  6283. Art, Music, Films, Books, Mathematics, Astronomy, Sports, Architecture, Engineering, Industry, Civilisation (or a close approximation of it at times)... The list is endless. My first reply was more comprehensive and for some reason filtered out...
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  6284.  @Derek_Garnham  Money isn't a resource, it's a human construct that allows a small minority to monopolise the world's actual resources. Of which there are plenty.
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  6285. Bullies trying to enrage the rightful residents...
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  6286. The government are doing everything they can to keep us down. The wealthy misers profit from our misery...
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  6287.  Iosif Iosif  I'm fully awake thanks. Just trying to point out if we don't stand and make a choice now, the elite will make it for us. That means authoritarianism, Orwellian state and cashless digital society.
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  6288.  John Smith  Resource based economy based on sustainability, no need for money. Money is a tool used to rip people off. We were better off under a barter system.
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  6289.  Iosif Iosif  The economic crash is going to be the worst in 300 years, unemployment world wide is massive, food shortages, poverty, Looks like the fallout from the pandemic may kill more people than the pandemic!
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  6290.  Iosif Iosif  Yes although I'm aware of the fact that 2014, Shi Zhengli collaborated on additional gain-of-function experiments led by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS coronavirus possesses allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, and that SARS had the potential to re-emerge from coronaviruses circulating in bat populations in the wild. And that Dr.Fauci (NIAID Director and presidential advisor) paid that Wuhan lab $3.7 million around the time the Obama administration and US National Institutes of Health placed a moratorium on SARS, MERS, and influenza gain-of-function studies, due to concerns about the risks vs. benefits of such research. I'm not 100% convinced yet if it was deliberate or just the elite taking advantage. I'm also concerned it's a civil war between the old Oil and Weapons global elites vs the newer digital billionaires. Power grab either way.
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  6291.  @lamestreammedia3154  You missed the point, the argument put forward is about the ability to harm or do damage based on the breed. I simply put that in terms of a human being. But social conventions are learned by all animals, laws are arbitrary, and they are not morality incarnate. Many laws are unjust, prejudiced, based on class or finance etc.
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  6292.  @chrysalis4126  The dog's name was Rocco... The mother also said she warned her daughter to get rid of the dog. That doesn't say much about how well the dogs were treated and it's all anecdotal. If the mother foresaw problems then the dog was obviously acting in a way that indicated such. Maybe a predisposition as mentioned, or lack of training. Either way it's a daily fail story.
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  6293.  @lamestreammedia3154  If you have to put words in other people's mouths then you've already lost the debate. I said humans and dogs alike have different abilities to cause harm/damage. A small lapdog like a poodle could present a greater threat than a large dog, simply because of training, illness or behavioural issues. All animals have social conventions, watch a documentary on natural history. People are allowed guns they simply have to fill in a form and follow gun regulations... The law was changed after Dunblane to make it harder to get a gun, but they are accessible to anyone who meets the criteria (not an armed robber) and follows the legislation. People online should learn to understand basic language before entering into debate...
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  6294.  @lamestreammedia3154  I'm not interested in your petty misinterpretations of my statement. A poodle is a huge danger to a baby or a child. The point was about the ability to harm being a reason for banning dogs, I'm not getting dragged into some pathetic pedantry. I corrected your misinterpretation of my points and your lack of understanding regarding legal ownership of guns, and my generalisation about "armed robber" was meant to be understood as a reference to criminality negating the right to own a gun. Sorry, but I'm not wasting any more time on your pedantry and petty nonsense... Feel free to have the last word, you aren't debating me when you put words in my mouth and intentionally misinterpret my comments... If you were a dog I'd seriously consider you eligible for being banned...
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  6295. Herd immunity is all us cash cows are worth. We are nothing more than collateral, cannon fodder, taxpayers, debtors and consumers to the government. They pick and choose which medical experts to promote and which to ignore based on the price tag of the information - as Johnson and Hancock clearly did. Too many wolves and sheep, be a Shepherd!
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  6296.  @Longshanks1690  Which is a great argument to prove you talk bolx...
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  6297.  @heartoftheswag2534  Lockdown, pandemic everyone was in the same boat... Do you practice ignorance or does it come naturally?
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  6298.  @danmanscan  They all had jobs, they work and pay rent, the trouble is back rent from during the pandemic when they couldn't work. Is this a special club for imbeciles?
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  6299.  @danmanscan  WTF are you on? seriously stop typing do the world a favour and become a hermit...
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  6300.  @margaretwilson8736  I've answered that imbecilic point at least 4 times, due to the stupidity of people who can't read. Ignorant and illogical...
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  6301.  @thedeadesttrim6994  Couldn't you think of anything more ludicrous and erroneous to type?
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  6302. What does it say about Trump supporters? that they will support this man even more after he's been accused of defrauding them, obstructing official proceedings, conspiracy to remove their democratic rights by attempting to overturn election results and even knowing around 8 of his close allies have already been imprisoned for criminality - mostly relating to Trump and his campaigns...
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  6303. Trump should get damaged by the woman... or should I say women I'm sure there are plenty out there...
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  6304.  @qetoun  Civilised people have plenty of proof of that Neanderthal trying to goad millions of people into conflict just to further his own interests. I'm surprised you have the audacity to suggest it. Not to mention your other comment, when Maxwell was arrested Trump asked if she's said anything about him, he was also friends with Epstein. You avoid facts and only give opinions and then have the cheek to mention emotive reasoning...
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  6305. Previous goals were obvious double inflation, shrink the economy, increase debt, increase waiting lists, fail to process immigrants and allow the media to demonize them...
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  6306.  @jonriley8342  I just feel sorry for you, as you are obviously the type of person who can't admit their mistakes and have nothing in their life other than pedantically misunderstanding other people's comments. But keep digging yourself deeper, I'm sure being criticized by me is better than your lonely, pointless existence...
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  6307. Sweaty, red-faced, vindictive ignorants who delight in spreading misinformation and victimizing easy targets. But that's enough about the Tories, what's this story about?...
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  6308. Then they'll crash the economy again and ask for another handout for the poorest...
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  6309.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  lol you associate Jewish people with the banking industry? Yes that is anti-semitism go have a long talk with yourself!
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  6310. What's the point in planting trees when industry is stripping the rainforests at an alarming rate. We couldn't plant trees fast enough to recoup the losses caused by morally corrupt multinationals... How about corporations replace any trees they take down? or better yet stop destroying the World's lungs...
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  6311. They parrot tabloid myths and they binge-watch TV, and they think they're so clever and classless and free. But they're still fork king pe@sants as far as I can see, A working-class Tory is nothing to me, A working-class Tory is nothing to be...
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  6312. Considering we've lost 65% of genetic diversity globally at 1,000 times the natural rate of extinction, spending another decade or so measuring our decline seems pointless. Power needs to be taken from corporations and billionaires who pollute and poison us at will, for profit. Governments and checks and balances are useless when lobbyists control the decisions made.
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  6313. US Senator Chris Murphy pleads ^with his Republican colleagues after school shooting. Any chance of learning to write a sentence?
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  6314. Belarus are out of order, having said that the UK has taken in over 2 million Polish immigrants, France have taken over 1 million, Germany and Russia have taken about 400,000 each and the US has taken in around 2.2 million Polish immigrants. By my calculation, they should have room for around 6 million...
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  6315.  @dawidoskwarek3960  They aren't illegal you are misinformed or ignorant. The UN Refugee Convention states refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Also, they still have to be considered for Asylum even if they get into a country illegally, under international law. Not to mention at least 6 have frozen to death. Poland have acted illegally by forcing those who got into Poland back over the border, as witnessed by Amnesty international. “Poland has been cruelly holding this group of people on their border in horrendous conditions for weeks,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said in a statement. “Our analysis shows irrefutably on 18 August, their position shifted from Poland to Belarus overnight, which strongly suggests that they were victims of an unlawful pushback.”
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  6316.  @dawidoskwarek3960  lol Belarus didn't create them and are not a member of NATO or the EU... You really shouldn't try to discuss things you don't understand, your ignorance is transparent... I'll repost this as you failed to understand it the first time: “Poland has been cruelly holding this group of people on their border in horrendous conditions for weeks,” Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, said in a statement. “Our analysis shows irrefutably on 18 August, their position shifted from Poland to Belarus overnight, which strongly suggests that they were victims of an unlawful pushback.”
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  6317.  @fossils-z9d  Because it's fact and you seem unable to grasp simple language... Would you like me to use smaller words?
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  6318.  @giovannip8600  They are not illegal. As I've pointed out several times already. "The UN Refugee Convention states refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Also, they still have to be considered for Asylum even if they get into a country illegally, under international law." I get accused of reposting the same information because you lot seem unable to grasp simple statements...
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  6319.  @giovannip8600  PS yes, it's very different the Polish immigrants weren't trying to escape death...
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  6320.  @dawidoskwarek3960  They are predominantly allies of NATO, hence the reason their life was threatened in their home countries... You make up for your ignorance with a lack of knowledge... PS It should be obvious that Eve has proven Poland has acted illegally...
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  6321.  @bartlubicz5916  There is 2 million Polish immigrants living in Britain and Britain is no longer in the EU, 2.2 million living in America, Refugee4s aren't illegal, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but you could have typed something witty or intelligent...
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  6322.  @balsolvag6220  Does being that stupid hurt?
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  6323.  @fossils-z9d  I'm not demanding anything, simply pointing out that Poland made agreements when it joined the EU in 2004 and signed on to the UN convention on refugees which it has illegally reneged on. Your simple-minded Ad hominems mean very little to me buddy, I don't get offended when political and economic illiterates make a fool of themselves by typing inanity...
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  6324.  @fossils-z9d  PS don't let your mind wander, it's far too little to be let out on its own...
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  6325.  @adamkrakowski8159  I'm not going to keep repeating myself for the hard of thinking. They are predominantly NATO allies fleeing Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya because they fear for their lives... That's the definition of refugee...
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  6326.  @balsolvag6220  Countries outside the EU are not subject to EU rules and regulations and aren't automatically signed up to the UN convention on refugees as those within the EU are, Doh!
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  6327.  @balsolvag6220  You still haven't grasped the facts, so I'll stop trying to correct you as you are incapable of learning...
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  6328.  @balsolvag6220  I'm bored of your idiocy, Belarus are not singed up to the UN convention on refugees...
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  6329.  @bartlubicz5916  No, wrong. As I've already posted the facts from Amnesty international I'm surprised you could be so ignorant. Push back is illegal regardless of risk...
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  6330.  @bartlubicz5916  How can you be dumb enough to post that when I've already pointed out that Poland agreed to EU legislation and UN convention on refugees when they joined the EU in 2004... Stop wasting my time with your inanity...
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  6331.  @bartlubicz5916  I've already proven that wrong. Stop repeating your ignorant assumptions and read the actual document. 1951 refugee-convention on the UNHCR website. I'm not wasting time explaining the same thing over and over to the intellectually deficient...
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  6332.  @bartlubicz5916  lol you have proven ignorant of the facts and now have a go at my intellect? I have more brain cells in my left testicle than you have...
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  6333.  @edvinaspetrauskas7594  That's your opinion, it has nothing to do with facts!
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  6334.  @HCforLife1  I'm not repeating the same arguments over and over again. I'm not calling anyone out, I have no problem with immigration, unlike you! I'm simply pointing out Polish hypocrisy, the fact that you are unaware of the EU agreements Poland signed up to, the fact that Amnesty international has caught Poland "illegally pushing migrants back" into Belarus and the fact that refugee status as defined by the UN convention of refugees. These people are being used by Belarus, of that there is no doubt. That doesn't mean Poland can ignore international law that they signed up to in 2004 when they joined the EU. 800,000 Poles have come to Britain since 2004 taking advantage of the EU free movement. But we have a Polish population of 2 million. I have spoken about growing up with a Polish friend, who was the son of Jewish immigrants who came here after Hitler invaded Poland. Yes, I'm also aware of recent legislation enacted by Poland. But you still have to abide by UN conventions and EU legislation you signed up to.
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  6335. Vegetable patch, is that a euphemism for Buck Palace?
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  6336.  @uberdude2555  Starmer can at least spell, count and articulate. But he isn't that far from Tories in policy which is part of the problem with politics in Britain. If people are too easily led by the media and keep choosing to let wealthy aristocrats ruin their lives then maybe we should consider the plurality of the media and better education of the populace.
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  6337. An extinction alert issued for the purpose of saving a porpoise, we should have an alert on the human species. If we don't go nuclear, the planet will still become unable to support us. We ruin eco-systems for a few pounds in profit for the prophets of industry to invest in their offshore bank accounts. No account taken for the lives they've taken...
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  6338.  @anonomous8719  I don't gamble. Some of us consider society and not just oursleves.
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  6339.  @richardharvey1732  Thank you and agreed, money is a human construct used to allow a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of the World's actual resources - water, land and human labour. Most people only see the carrot dangling in front of them and ignore the hand in their back pocket.
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  6340.  @Pastaface  Pointless question. We are talking about changing/replacing a global system. However, there are many places that implement the flawed system far better. Why waste your time with such inanity...
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  6341.  @AtlasofInfo  lol, he wrote the most famous critique of Capitalism. You should stop making a fool of yourself.
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  6342.  @seamuspadraigsanders431  U.K. gdp for 2022 was $3,070.67B, a 1.66% decline from 2021. If we make a 1.66% growth throughout the whole of 2023 we are still only equalling 2021's GDP, however, predictions state we'll be lucky to get an annual growth of 0.4% which would leave the UK GDP 1.22% lower than it was in 2021...
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  6343.  @seamuspadraigsanders431  PS UK GDP was $3,094,006M in 2007, it was $3,070,600M in 2022.
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  6344.  @seamuspadraigsanders431  We had a decline of 1.66% from 2021 to 2022. As the economy is forecast to grow by 0.4% during the whole of 2023 if we're lucky, we would still be 1.22% down on GDP from 2021. You are commenting on a 9-month-old post about monthly and quarterly figures, use annual figures and put that in perspective of food inflation, rent/mortgage rises and wage stagnation. The economy is ailing and the people are suffering. My post was accurate at the time of posting and meant to point out the increase in the poverty gap...
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  6345.  @seamuspadraigsanders431  You didn't ask for anything, you made a comment about June's figures on a 9-month-old post. I don't care what you later claim you want. Your untyped desires are not available to me as I'm not able to read minds... Your analysis is late, unwanted and erroneous.
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  6346. "Fears for global trade" is the reason for the attacks, the wealthy don't want their profits and domination challenged, even by a country that barely survived the Saudi aggression...
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  6347.  @brynleytalbot778  Phrases like militant unions is the reason you won't get any likes, the middle class is predominantly a myth, we have workers and middle-managers to create profits for the idle wealthy... Appealing to centrists is the reason we've had over a decade of Tory austerity and why it's produced such poorly educated people using Tory mythology...
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  6348. Extortion from the oil industry. Holding the human race to ransom, disgusting evidence of the failure of capitalism...
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  6349. Ga m mon fes t
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  6350. Rise in knocking Israel, which has less than 50% of the global Jewish population and many of their own citizens march against the government's authoritarianism and apartheid legislation. They do however have a disproportionate amount of Lobbyists to control media narratives and Western government policy...
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  6351. No, the children will be unintentionally given to human traffickers via Tory policy as recent history shows...
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  6352. Hope? no one left after around 14 years of Tory rule that even understands that word... From crisis to crisis each costing more money to fix and we're still at square one... I hope Starmer defeats the Tories then gets replaced by a real left winger, assuming there are any left after the purges...
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  6353.  @yungamurai How about packs of rabid Neanderthals stop ruining rural communities with their aristocratic, bloodthirst and cruelty? Feel free to hunt animals for food but there's no need to make childish games out of it and be intentionally cruel. I live in a rural mountainside community...
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  6354.  @yungamurai  I've been veggie since I was 16. I worked in a butcher's shop for about 12 months on weekends and before/after school and later full-time for about 6 months. Visiting slaughterhouses and carrying half a cow or pig on your back brings home the reality. But I've nothing against subsistence hunting (as you said provided it's ethical and humane). I can understand rural communities not wanting masses of 'outsiders' turning up on their doorstep, but to be fair the hunters bring them because of their attitude, pomp, pageantry, cruelty and archaic choice in pastimes. For a mostly banned 'sport' it seems far too prevalent. My problem isn't with subsistence hunters and hopefully, they use every part of the animal skin, bones, feathers etc. and not just the meat. My problem is with feudal landlords continuing their practices despite public outcry and a corrupt government who turn a blind eye.
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  6355.  @popsbubbles1242  lol people still say things like that. I left Labour in the 90s but Labour reduced debt to GDP by 4% before the Global Financial Crisis that hit every country tied to the dollar. More Tories voted for the cross-party policy to bail out the banks and the Tories have created 3/4rs of our national debt and crashed the economy several times since then. Stop parroting mythology...
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  6356.  @titteryenot4524  My sources say Russian imports are 8%, almost 1/3rd from our Norweigan friends via the Britpipe but the fact that we only produce 46% ourselves is truly shocking. We should be self-sufficient in energy...
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  6357. Just to be clear Boris Johnson's speeches are a paralytic for the mind, he's like the antidote to enjoyment, a vaccine for contentment. The human form of a stroke waiting to strike. All the cunning of a fox but sadly lacking the IQ. Boris Johnson has done for politics what Fred West did for patios...
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  6358. Mentioning a log fire to stave off hypothermia is cause to have a comment filtered? pathetic censorship...
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  6359.  @nicholaspurdie2677  Says the man who said STFU in his first comment to me. If you're going to complain about ad hominems have the decency not to start with them. Also, your pop psychology is off by about a mile, which curiously is about how far my comments fly over your head...
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  6360.  @jasonc3589  You must be on a sledge attached to the back of the train then. The evolution of ideas and materials is a group effort. I'm not sure if Descarte, Dante, Newton, Aristotle, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Machiavelli, Plato etc became millionaires but they had a huge effect on human evolution. Alexander Fleming didn't bother to patent his bread mould (Penicillin) as he wanted it to be a gift to humanity. Tesla died in poverty but his gifts to the world were priceless... Imagine assuming any one of these people were useless members of society before their breakthrough...
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  6361.  @nicholaspurdie2677  Wait! come back! you forgot your bullsh!t...
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  6362. Law and order has always enabled priority care for the wealthy, but agreed the corruption and systemic pandering to an orange imbecile is staggering. If he'd been born to a working class family he'd be Peter Griffin, his name and inherited wealth is the only reason anyone knows him. I can't believe the US has fallen so far that it is on the verge of possibly re-electing a con man selling verbal snake oil for a second time. Crump is a Tunt!
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  6363.  @eightiesmusic1984  Agreed, I've said similar myself many times regarding Thatcher and Reagan and neoliberalism - which has been used to siphon off taxpayers' money via privatisation, small government and deregulation of the banking sector for over 4 decades. As for Blair, he's the reason I left Labour, the moment he dropped clause 4 and now we're stuck with a second-rate tribute act in Starmer. Keir Hardie, Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan would be ashamed of what has become of Labour. Before Thatcher's neoliberalism debt-to-GDP ratio was around 40% or less, now most countries that practice these policies have a debt-to-GDP of almost 100% if not more in cases like Italy which I think under their far-right has reached 170%. Also allowing HP and Credit to trap the working class in debt and poverty by bringing it in during the 80s.
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  6364.  @eightiesmusic1984  Though Blair will flinch and Starmer sneers, we'll keep the red flag flying here! 🚩
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  6365.  @eightiesmusic1984  Agreed mate. We'd be in a far better position now, with far fewer losses due to the pandemic, a far better economic position, and more control over energy prices. So much was lost when the Blairites and centrists torpedoed their own leader in the GE. But media mogul non-doms were worried about his pledge to remove transparency from the crown dependencies and overseas territories. I think that was their main incentive in demonizing him.
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  6366.  @eightiesmusic1984  Agreed, His manifesto was nowhere near as left as Attlee's and would have been considered mainstream democracy in much of Europe. Especially in countries that use the Scandinavian model of Social Democracy.
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  6367.  @lamestreammedia3154  Foundation Trusts are not managed by the Department of Health they are a semi-autonomous body that generates funding from non-NHS treatments. You should also know that Foundation trusts inhabit a halfway house between the public and private sectors: independent corporations on paper yet entirely dependent on the state in reality. IE taking money off the taxpayer but also reliant on bailouts when things go wrong.
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  6368. So this is the PM for the next 6 weeks?
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  6369. Probably through running all those factories day and night that supply western corporations with our clothing....
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  6370. I've been caught stealing once when I was 5, I enjoy stealing It's just as simple as that. Well, it's just a simple fact. When I want something, I don't want to pay for it.
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  6371. @Dagoth Ur It's lyrics to the song 'Been caught stealing' by Jane's addiction...
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  6372.  norman smithers  She still working with John Waters?
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  6373. It's almost as if all Tory MPs are duplicitous bullies who feather their own nest while dancing from scandal to scandal in a never-ending game of pass the MP parcel... Thanks for the vid Tim and for standing up for truth and decency.
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  6374.  @soylentroy7585  China is the world's second-largest economy, will be the largest by 2028 according to economic experts and owns 15% of US foreign debt. IE they're coming in second place in capitalism and have more billionaires than any other country. Hardly communist anymore mate...
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  6375. Locally driven investment zones = Tory corruption and greed on your doorstep!
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  6376.  @Dan_1348  All democracy is Athenian-based democracy from the 6th century... Then I realise you are joshing me - fair enough our democracy is an illusion while aristocrats subvert it for profit!
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  6377.  @Dan_1348  Fair enough, you could have said that :) Our parliamentary democracy hides under a constitutional monarchy. Long live feudal serfdom!
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  6378.  @evolassunglasses4673  lol thank you, now try again but this time try to type something witty or intelligent...
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  6379.  @charles47t  I said "I don't condone this act" therefore I haven't justified anything, I've simply stated that the cost of lives in Tory incompetence and corruption has a price, providing a logical bridge between my disapproval and my understanding of resentment towards criminal kleptocrats...
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  6380.  Mobile Phone  "I understand there is a lot of resentment towards the Tories and while I don't condone this act, I understand where the resentment comes from logically and historically." Don't try to speak for me, you can barely communicate...
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  6381.  Mobile Phone  Not content with your original mistake, you do it again and again. Proving you aren't capable of interpreting words or learning...
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  6382.  @yaraelpoof7242  You didn't understand my previous reply? Stop making yourself look stupid and btw it's 'our' not 'are'...
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  6383.  @yaraelpoof7242  No it doesn't, my comments are clear to anyone with the intellect to grasp them. Your inadequacies and the limit of your understanding of complexity and nuance are your own problem, not mine.
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  6384.  @yaraelpoof7242  PS I've already proven that the Tories are financially responsible for the majority of our national debt and current financial trauma. Another thing you're unable to grasp. Still, economic and political illiterates love to blame Labour for the financial crisis. PS I'm not a fan of Starmer and left the Labour party when Blair dropped clause 4 in the 80s...
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  6385.  @purplehaze8557  Keep counting using an Arab system of numbers when you pay for your Chinese or Kebab...
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  6386.  @BeBe-vh4ry  Your comment is about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Britain is Celtic, not Anglo-Saxon. Wales, Scotland and Ireland are Celts, and most English have as much as 40% Celtic DNA. Your lack of understanding isn't my problem and your right-wing tropes are as pointless as your existence...
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  6387.  @BeBe-vh4ry  Are you head of the pointless comments department>? Go and read a book or at least learn how to formulate a response. My life is too precious to waste being sealioned by the ignorant...
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  6388. Truss is being propped up by shadowy inner groups to run for Tory leadership. What a farce, her premiership was a disaster even compared to her inept predecessors...
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  6389.  @kneedeacon2309  She hasn't resigned lol, Cummings may be forced to resign. My comment is a joke!
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  6390.  @DropdudeJohn  No I'm standing up to the digitisation of our lives and the mistreatment of workers already suffering a cost of living crisis... When money is gone and our digital footprint is all we have, getting cut off from the means to support ourselves will be done by the push of a button...
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  6391.  @harryfaber  Not to mention that when taxpayer-fed contractor goes under, the Tories keep pumping them full of money for almost 2 years while betting against them on hedge funds. I think you can probably remeber from a few years ago what I'm referring to.
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  6392.  @DropdudeJohn  lol read the story again, the plans include automating trains and the sale of tickets and closing all booths. As I said not everyone has options, many people use cash.
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  6393.  @tcskips  lol no, most train operators are privatised industry that has been reduced in capacity by corporate profits, very few have been taken back and those that have we paid for with bailouts and then were reprivatised. Government corruption and efficiency losses due to privatisation are to blame.
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  6394.  @DropdudeJohn  Microwave? that's not relevant and no I'm not a Luddite so stop trying to make fake analogies. I was around in the 70s, well as of 72... I'm well aware of Tory running down nationalised infrastructure in order to enforce privatisation. Don't blame nationalisation it worked for 40 years until Thatcher's neoliberalism... Now look at mail, energy, water, transport, and communications all suffering from privatisation and the profits go to offshore accounts of shareholders. At the taxpayer's expense.
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  6395.  @DropdudeJohn  The problem isn't automation, the problem is capitalism. We are tied to jobs that produce ineffective, cheap rubbish with built-in obsolescence to enforce a continual cycle of consumerism. Your inability to appreciate that is the flaw in your argument that makes your comments as pointless as a rubber ball...
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  6396.  @DropdudeJohn  lol you have tried to continue a circular debate despite the fact you already lost, your arguments are erroneous, redundant and as much use as an ashtray on the international space station. Don't come to a battle of wits unarmed again...
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  6397.  @DropdudeJohn  Mythology isn't fact and I already provided a rebuttal to the misinformation... Future trends based on technological advances that only enhance corporate profits while filling the oceans with plastic, destroying the climate and risking the extinction of the species. Not really a good argument... We need to stop wasting human resources on futile attempts to put a bandaid on a system that has been deceased for decades...
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  6398.  @DropdudeJohn  We have lost 65% of genetic diversity at around 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction. Why don't you mention technologies which lie in the basements of industrial giants never to be used because they get in the way of profits? What has mass immigration got to do with automation, make your mind up about who you want to blame. I am standing up for thousands of people who use money and don't have access to the latest technologies. Like the 40% of British workers either in working poverty or at risk of. Illogical analogies about an air ambulance when we are talking about automation is farcical, especially since I've already told you I'm not a Luddite. If you can't use critical thinking and logical arguments then debate becomes as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker.
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  6399.  @stevec700  lol you and your horny, cloven-hoofed deity...
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  6400.  @tcskips  PS search for the following article and formulate a rebuttal of all the points discussed in it: "The Guardian view on privatisation: the god that failed" PS don't complain about the source, rebut the contents! I'll look forward to an erudite, concise and thorough rebuttal...
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  6401.  @tcskips  Not a rebuttal just an uninformed opinion. Privatisation or in other words the art of siphoning taxpayer money to the private sector while providing no smaller percentage of costs to our GDP... We spend the same now as we did in the 70s, the only difference is the services have gone down the tubes (literally; transport and water) while the costs have gone up for Brits as both consumer and taxpayer... PS not impressed with the awful PowerPoint presentation of little substance and word salad...
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  6402.  @tcskips  Free market capitalism has never existed - embargoes, trade tariffs, sanctions, blockades, resource wars, petrodollar hegemony. Before privatisation was installed via Thatcherite neoliberalism we had nationalised industry that fulfilled all our needs for over 40 years. For instance, the NHS was fully funded, no waiting lists, we had family doctors, twice the hospital beds, twice the staff and a far more efficient service in the 70s for a far smaller cost... Now we have corrupt contracts that charge 10 times the price of generic medication, outsourcing, layers of admin and middle management, loss of profitable assets (emergency blood supplies, land, hospitals) and that's only soft privatisation. Neoliberalism and its primary failure of privatisation have led to huge debts in every country it's used. Four decades of privatisation has doubled GDP spending and yet government services has been reduced greatly. Unless you got anything better than PR, then I suggest you read some articles.
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  6403.  @stevec700  You mock yourself I merely help you along!
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  6404.  @tcskips  We create useless tat with built-in obsolescence while burying technologies in an endless cycle of consumerism as we plunge headfirst into extinction for the sake of profits in a relentless debasement of sanity and logic... Edit: I may put that on a t-shirt.
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  6405.  @stevec700  Blasphemy, Blasphemyou, Blasphemous...
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  6406.  @stevec700  I just burned my finger lighting a candle, was that the power of B.L. Zebub?
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  6407.  @thegoat11111  lol best you got? There are many countries they can earn an extra 3rd or more. Things are more expensive? lol pathetic...
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  6408.  @PA-lf8sd  You don't read much do you? "Rishi Sunak said he won’t back down in a pay dispute with National Health Service staff that is leading nurses and ambulance drivers to go on strike" There are multiple articles proving the Health Secretary also blames Rishi such as "Minister refuses to deny Rishi Sunak blocked path to break deadlock on nurses strike" Alos read up on the 2012 Health and Social care act and the 2022 changes. Which allow for-profit organisations to take a large slice of the NHS budget. It would seem you aren't even up to the level of a potato...
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  6409.  @patsmith8035  No it's not. Band 1 nurses get £21,318 after 6 years of experience. Band 3 nurses get £23,177 after 6 years of experience. They have to pay off the training costs of their education out of that. They can earn 50% more in many other countries that value the health of their citizens...
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  6410.  @patsmith8035  I hope you don't need any healing and care, suffer from disease, old age, infirmity or accidents... Nurses see more disturbing things than many soldiers on daily basis. Have some decency...
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  6411.  @patsmith8035  I'm glad you can afford it, I've been on an urgent waiting list for over a year. Buying my own medicine. There are managers on over £100,000 in the NHS who have no other problems than filling in forms. Blame the government, outsourcing and for-profit organisations that take much of the NHS funding. Shareholders are probably taking a larger share of the NHS funding than nurses.
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  6412.  @patsmith8035  I'm sorry for your problems, but I have to sleep sitting upright or stop breathing when my lungs fill with fluids. I'm in a catch 22 despite 3 trips to emergency and 12 trips to the GP I still can't get a diagnosis until I get my urgent appointment. After a year I'm still waiting. I still use logic to blame those responsible rather than stressed-out nurses doing 80 hours a week.
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  6413. Wildfires were first invented by Lord Ignatius Wildfire in 1802 when he was playing in a field with a lighter... Since then humans have managed to harvest the power of climate change to create wildfires naturally...
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  6414. Uncovered shadowy groups such as the ERG. Shown how good we had it under the EU. Shows how corrupt the system is. Shows how the public are steered and manipulated to vote against their own interests. Shows that the money men would rather sink the economy than give up their off-shore accounts and tax fiddles.
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  6415. Queen on the side because of Diana's completely accidental car crash...
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  6416.  @TheFreshman321  lol, you're obviously a political illiterate as well as a bad judge of character...
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  6417. @Divoc Deivi You are illiterate or English is your second language, no such word as 'anythink' now stop pestering me with your conspiracies and ignorance. I can't be bothered to keep correcting you.
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  6418.  @desertsky9886  ...and you could have typed something witty or intelligent.
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  6419. Remember, remember Tory's sleaze this November, and how our government have all lost the plot. They will never see reason; while they profit from treason. In the old days, they would all have been shot...
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  6420.  @glory4645  I'm a subject you're a citizen. Finance is only one aspect. I don't wish to remain in a feudal system run by wealthy elitists. Peace!
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  6421. Must be all the sunlit uplands thanks to Brexit...
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  6422.  @carolbarker8488  My pleasure!
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  6423.  @leewhyte101  Was born in a council estate in St.Dials Cwmbran, then lived in Thornhill council estate in Cwmbran, now living in a cheap flat in Blaenavon, have I passed the test bro or do I need to drink some council pop in front of you and say "Cheers Drive" to a bus driver convincingly?
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  6424.  @sarahjones-jf4pr  I use a candle and a terracotta pot as a space heater when I run out of gas. I also go on a water fast when I can't afford food.
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  6425.  @jimmymilne6065  I'm qualified to Lead audit a corporation for compliance with ISO9001 standards but unemployed due to Britain being a tad crap. I'm also qualified to program in C++, electronics and 3dStudio max for graphic design...
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  6426. It's amateurs like Starmer that give right-wing neoliberal kleptocrats a bad name! ;-)
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  6427.  @tisFrancesfault  You do know Corbyn was no more left than the Attlee government who took us out of the slums and gave us free schooling, free healthcare, legal aid, workers' rights, public transport, public libraries, and national industry. You are aware that Corbyn also increased membership from around 200,000 to well over 560,000? proving your statement to be erroneous? He also turned around party finances to create a surplus and gave Labour their biggest swing since 1945...
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  6428. Technically that is their land, learn your own history!
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  6429.  @Adamnlaw  No worries, just teasing :)
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  6430. Probably because they have US corporations' sweatshops running day and night to supply the west with clothing...
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  6431. He didn't know that Braverman was a national security risk and that Williamson was a bully? the rest of the country was aware! How often should we allow PMs to get away with ignorance? as far as I've been aware all my life, ignorance is no defence in legal terms...
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  6432. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to provide a platform for people to advocate murder... It's also illegal to delete my comments under the human rights act, as you're providing this platform to Europeans you should read the Declaration of human rights regarding the free expression of ideas and beliefs...
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  6433.  @propofol-98  But it's a legal right to protest...
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  6434.  @propofol-98  They have been using all channels to get their message out for decades, no one listens which is why to save thousands of lives every winter, they are taking more direct action and as we are talking about it, then clearly it's working to highlight their cause...
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  6435. You know human beings are capable of lip reading? It looks like that's exactly what he's saying... Go peddle your sycophancy somewhere else...
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  6436.  @DM-gy3ce  I'm sure that's a helpful suggestion, I'll let people using food banks know...
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  6437. Sky is deleting and filtering comments that don't advocate hit n run...
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  6438. Labour has been taken over by centrists and the Tories only care about the London stock exchange, I think I'm ready to vote Plaid Cymru.
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  6439. Billionaires, corporations and politicians deciding the fate of billions for the sake of their own egos. If the poor on all sides had any sense they'd refuse to serve and let the wealthy sort it out between themselves. Without us they soon learn how to compromise rather than risk themselves...
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  6440.  Donald J Trump  It's always a trade off between fear and freedom, at some point we run out of freedom. Not that I'd expect the tangerine troglodyte to understand that :)
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  6441.  Donald J Trump  I've decided to start jacking up domestos on the advice of a world leader (not going to say which one). Don't worry I'm not stupid, I'll sterilise the needle before I use it!
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  6442. I just wish people would stop picking on the Tories, every day another scandal, a law broken, a parliamentary rule broken, fraud accusation, corruption and cronyism story. And yet no Tory MPs are ever charged. Which surely proves their innocence...
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  6443.  @angrygromit93  His logic is apparent to anyone with an IQ higher than a flattened hedgehog on a main road. Please use punctuation, logic and reason...
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  6444.  @Believe-you-me-  PS anyone who takes bribes from S.Arabia to cover up their genocide in Yemen on the international stage is not worthy of respect in any form.
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  6445.  @Lee_303  Clown act lol, it's a full circus these days :) As for Biden, he's a step up from the tangerine troglodyte but I wholly agree he's a centrist with dementia...
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  6446.  @T0NYD1CK  Charity and Aid are often used to launder money or avoid tax. But didn't FTX go bankrupt recently?
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  6447.  @T0NYD1CK  Same place as the 2008 global financial crisis I suspect when 1/3rd of the world's cash was stolen. Into the hands of someone or a group playing both ends against the middle.
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  6448. But wasn't a trade deal with Tuvalu the Tory's answer to the hundreds of lost trade deals from Brexit buffoonery?
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  6449. @fab We are trapped between the right who are pro corporations and the wealthy as part of their ideology and the left who have been infiltrated by centrists since Blair dropped clause 4 and have leaders who are funded by corporate lobbyists in spite of their supposed ideology. This provides corporations with a friendly leader, whoever wins the election. But there is a big difference in the ideology, if only we had representatives that support that ideology.
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  6450. Economic vampires with more power than the electorate. Democracy never truly existed, it's now barely functional...
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  6451. I'm a technophobe and a luddite. I'm so sick of these tech stories on my phone, tablet, PC, laptop, and ebook reader...
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  6452. Hilary (Cloven hoofed spawn of Satan) Clinton is almost as bad as Trump. When it comes to foreign policy, public perception vs reality is often very different, take Iraq and the lies used as justification for the war, the supposed WMDs or Let's take the public perception of Libya vs the actual reality. We were told he was a vicious dictator abusing his people, we needed to "defend, liberate" them. While we may (via our misunderstanding of the green system) assume Gaddafi was a dictator, under him: Education and medical treatment were free, Newlyweds received U.S $50,000 from the government, Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, Libya had no external debt and had reserves of $150 billion most of which were frozen globally at the time of the war, The price of petrol was $0,14 per litre, Having a home was considered a human right, Gender equality actually a reality, The Human Development Index of Libya was better than two-thirds of the countries reported on it, Privatization of all Libyan oil to every citizen, People had enough food - no food banks or starvation. Yet we went in toppled his government and avoided him setting up an African currency, the Dinar, which backed by 143 tonnes of gold would have threatened the petrodollar. The public believed we were attacking a threat or freeing a people, but in essence, Libya may, even under a so-called dictator, have had a better standard of living than us in the West. The reality is that Libya dropped the petrodollar for oil sales and was going to create a rival currency the African Dinar backed by 143 tonnes of gold, to be used for African and some Middle East oil sales. That would have threatened the petrodollar and hence devalued US currency.
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  6453. I'll have a proper gander later...
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  6454. lol, Capitalism is the best resource management system ever... Industry predominantly causes climate change and then want to charge you more for ethically reducing their emissions...
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  6455.  @idkwhatsgoingon4584  They're almost as bad as Trump. Same type of people, born to inherited wealth and profit from manipulating the poor and intellectually challenged...
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  6456.  @guff9567  You sound like a child with learning difficulties... Please don't bother to reply to me, coming from someone like you they mean very little...
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  6457. Because Is-raeli lobby-ists asked them to. Priti 'va-cant' Patel and her soulless Tory cohorts aren't friends of peace, justice, morality and decency...
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  6458. lol lemons aren't cheap and if you follow the groves rather than going against them it's easy to clean a grater... Laundry hack seems reasonable...
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  6459.  @spawn6636  lol rich and successful are two different things and not to be conflated by ignorance. If you don't realise you're being robbed it's because you don't understand how the world works. Your petty comments are getting lame and predictable...
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  6460.  @billbertboyce324  I've wasted thousands of hours of my life being sealioned by right-whingers with memes. Usually the same people with the same arguments that I've rebutted repeatedly. I feign arrogance and use sarcasm to minimise pointless interactions. But I also use humiliation as a learning tool, I'm just a council estate lad (well 49 now) and banter is a good way to get people to reassess fallacies they've been taught since childhood. I also suffer from late-stage terminal sarcasm.
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  6461. Tory deception, For the motive of profit. Sigh! Kleptocracy...
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  6462. People who believe in invisible omniscient beings in the sky and also believe in the divine rule of Monarchs are happy to give away responsibility for their own lives and clearly unaware of how these are simply tools of control used by the wealthy and powerful to rob you of freedom of choice.
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  6463. The AI wouldn't be much different than a news organisation, instead of being paid to produce narratives, it could simply be programmed to do so...
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  6464. Just here for a visit ey? nothing to do with, I don't know let's say a recent conflict...
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  6465. A cabinet that will be deadwood come bonfire night no doubt. The British public is not going to tolerate the austerity con now.
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  6466. 👍Someone likes your comment - it was a right-wing adolescent troll - I must be very special for you to waste so much of your life... Sad YT employee with nothing worthwhile in your life?
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  6467. lol most scientists say differently, I'd love to see your figures. Since 1750 around the time of the industrial age, humans have increased the abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by nearly 50 percent.
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  6468.  @JOEFABULOUS.  I agree with some of that, just change the end to enjoy voting Tory 'coz they're easily led and politically illiterate... They doff their cap to the rich like serfs because they can't learn...
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  6469.  @simply2ghetto  lol seriously stop talking, I'm not interested in explaining geopolitics and disaster capitalism and how the MIC profits from war. You're just simply too ghetto... Saving petrodollar hegemony was the main point of the war, but that $2-3 trillion was from the American taxpayer, the mercenary contractors, weapons manufacturers, bankers and greedy politicians I mentioned got most of that money.
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  6470.  @simply2ghetto  Yes I pointed that out at the beginning and you argued it cost the warmongers $3 trillion, and so their profits were negligible. The warmongers (i named earlier) were gifted $2-3 trillion of taxpayer money to protect petrodollar hegemony and loot Afghanistan. Which started when US venture capitalists funded the Arab Spring which was instigated by the CIA. Now please go away, I can feel myself losing IQ points every time I'm forced to read your nonsense...
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  6471.  @Francois_Dupont  For the British people, I mean seriously do you think he's talking about how the crisis in the NHS will affect Rabbits? People with the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster should stop typing when called out on their lack of ability...
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  6472. Too appealing? 40% of working people in poverty, food banks, cost of living crisis, NHS run down and on its knees and a government that keeps asking us to refill the pot because they siphon our taxes into the off-shore accounts of their mates...
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  6473.  @stevefletcher8157  Statues aren't history and taking down a statue to a genocidal slaver doesn't negate history. There was no history on the plaque and there are no historical records in a statue. We don't erect statues to Fred West or the Yorkshire ripper so stop whining! As for Nelson Mandela, he spent 27 years in prison being tortured for trying to free his country from invaders, so stop talking nonsense. Racist D...
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  6474.  @stevefletcher8157  lol that's the dumbest statement I've ever seen. He was imprisoned for political activity against an apartheid regime... His wife was a badass though...
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  6475.  @stevefletcher8157  PS anyone can be racist...no matter ethnicity.
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  6476.  @stevefletcher8157  lol you're politically illiterate and illogical. I'm 49 and was debating ignorant people like yourself before you were born... Judging from your comments you're mid-twenties and a right-wing meme reader... PS in his trial in 1964 he said peaceful protests failed, so the ANC matched violence with violence. If you look at how many people were killed by the apartheid regime, you can't blame them for fighting back. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. It's a matter of perspective and with violence against black S.Africans being so high from the apartheid government what else could they do? When governments kill their own citizens your only choice is to fight or die... Try providing an argument for Colston's slavery and mass murder? He wasn't fighting an oppressive regime, he was part of one... Try logic and reason.
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  6477.  @stevefletcher8157  Yes mate, sure thing, anti-fascists are fascists, anti-racists are racist, Nazis were socialists. You can't even spell racism and defecate cognitive diarrhoea from memes written in faeces on the toilet walls of social media... Can't educate contradiction and conflation...
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  6478. 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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  6479.  @supersense5924  Blame the travellers, that old chestnut. Don't you get bored of spreading unfounded stereotypes?
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  6480.  @spiderwebb4983  I'm sure many people have had their pets knicked by a neighbour but we don't badmouth all neighbours.
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  6481.  @nightowl3218  They don't abduct animals to keep, they sell them... Most thefts are local according to crime stats.
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  6482.  @nightowl3218  It would, but some dogs are worth a couple of grand and cars don't come to you when you offer them food.
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  6483.  @shadrana1  Shh grown-ups talking...
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  6484. Rats is spot on. Scurrying through the sewers of morality to embezzle the taxpayer's money...
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  6485. Boris was born with a silver foot in his mouth and has the backbone of a chocolate éclair, the IQ of a crack-addicted hamster and all the charisma of a used tissue. The only man, who after selling his soul had to give Satan a refund... in roubles.
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  6486. Imagine being so far gone that you are more motivated to vote for a president with each new corruption and criminal charge laid at his feet. Half of his campaign team and friends are in prison for helping him and then taking the fall. That's the type of snake oil salesman you admire...
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  6487. There are only 239 million people eligible to vote in the US, the turnout is only around 155 million - roughly 62% of those eligible... Feel free to keep deluding yourself.
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  6488. Trump, as useful as a rubber beak to a woodpecker. Any similarity between Trump and a human is purely coincidental. He has diarrhoea of the mouth and constipation of the brain. Doesn’t know the meaning of the word decency but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words...
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  6489.  @The_Reality_Filter  I'm going to assume that's a sarcastic remark criticizing the middle-class rather than jingoism and give you a like.
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  6490. Crump is a Tunt. My apologies for the coarse wordplay, but he represents the worst in humanity...
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  6491. So much easier to arrest activists than the heads of corporations causing the extinction of the species and the corrupt politicians feeding them taxpayer money to do it...
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  6492. @M W If you want to talk about geopolitics you should try talking with someone else. NATO pressurizing Ukraine to join is the reason Putin invaded. Putin is a megalomaniac, and yes most global leaders are. Politicians are indeed corrupt, hence why they're helping corporations to ruin ecosystems that we rely on for our survival. People starving in Africa is down to the exploitation of Africa from imperialism when Africa's natural resources were looted, to the present day exploitation by corporations. For instance in the D.R.Congo where 5-year-olds mine the Cobalt for your mobile phone, that the low paid workers in Chinese sweatshops make for you. The idea that I can't understand the connection between all these problems, the fact that you seem to miss that connection and the fact that you don't think I'm capable of understanding complex global situations regarding all these issues is amusing. Your lack of geopolitical knowledge is made obvious by your comment, as my extensive knowledge is made apparent by mine. So, do me a flavour and do one!
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  6493.  @scotchbarrel4429  lol, I'm not sure about dictator(yet) but he is definitely a dic.
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  6494. Sleaze is the least of it, corruption, nepotism, cronyism, lies, deceit, contempt for the democratic process and British citizens. Elitist crooks run Britain.
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  6495. As usual, Johnson is all talk and no trousers. Making it look like he's offering a solution, but it's far too little and far too late. I actually use candles under a cooking pot to provide a cheap room heater. While the rich have a chimney and a log fire for effect, the pensioners aren't allowed a log fire in their homes. Cavemen just had to build a fire for warmth, we're trapped in a system that forbids us to do so.
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  6496. AS shouldn't be tolerated, it also shouldn't be used as a weapon and reports shouldn't be misinterpreted by tabloids. The EHRC report clearly showed there was no systemic AS in the Labour party. The 2017 and 2018 parliamentary reports clearly show less AS in Labour compared to the Tory Party, UKIP and society in general. It also clearly shows AS was reduced under Corbyn. Why would those 3 reports be misrepresented? Why was no similar argument made about Tory leadership? Why were the Jewish members of the Labour party not allowed to air their views in the tabloids? "A letter signed by over 200 Jewish members and supporters of the Labour Party, states that under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership the party has become a "crucial ally in the fight against bigotry and reaction," including anti-semitism."
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  6497.  @michaelshanahan4042  Thank you!
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  6498. @Johannes C Agreed 100% we are workers, collateral, cash cows and cannon fodder.
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  6499. Why does YT/BBC keep filtering perfectly reasonable comments? "Probably through running all those factories day and night that supply western corporations with our clothing..."
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  6500. Good for them, we have a staff shortage of over 100,000 in the NHS, which is indicative of the low wages and lack of funding. Healthcare is the most important aspect of our lives, which determines our life expectancy. Hopefully, the nurses will force the Tories to act on the NHS crisis instead of allowing so many people to suffer through lack of care. 1 in 10 Brits are on the NHS waiting list, many for life-threatening conditions...
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  6501.  @johnsometimesoffandsometim8933  Same side opposite religion...
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  6502.  PIG IGNORANT  It's almost as if the loss of tens of thousands of member's subscriptions, attacking the grassroots of your organisation, not defending Unions that supply your finance whilst relying on corporate and state lobbyists for funding was a bad idea... PS Apt name for a political illiterate.
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  6503. Americans have managed to teach school children to cover themselves in the blood of a dead/wounded friend to avoid being shot... That's all you need to know about America, after that it just gets worse...
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  6504.  @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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  6505.  @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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  6506.  @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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  6507.  @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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  6508.  @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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  6509. ​ @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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  6510.  @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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  6511. Hit, nail, head - he's probably trying to rejoin the Tories to make a few squid after his efforts to become the STD of politics have left him a little short...
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  6512.  @vespacheck  Asylum seekers by definition aren't illegal. She hasn't stopped anyone dying at sea. You haven't a clue...
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  6513. lol at all the comments from the cap-doffing, forelock-tugging people who want to go back to serfdom... Get a backbone, spineless sycophants...
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  6514. Usual delusional nonsense, if he could why wouldn't he just advise someone else on how to end the war? because he's full of ****, more effluence than a thousand sewers...
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  6515. Considering the CDC recommends Diphtheria vaccination for adults I'd say you're wrong... It's caused by toxin-producing bacteria.
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  6516. Sop this is the PM for the next 6 weeks?
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  6517.  @Germany12235  Too many errors to correct in your understanding. Striking is the only tool a worker has to improve their situation, purely emotional? lol you don't understand wage slavery. National rail? they've been privatised for decades. Not wasting any more of my time...
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  6518.  @Germany12235  Wage slavery is the obvious truth of your incomprehension. They deserve to be on par with other countries where they could earn over 33% more. Rail privatisation began in 1994 and was completed by 1997. Some small sections have been brought back into national control only to be reprivatised. You're obviously unaware and therefore debating you would be akin to teaching a whale to fly!
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  6519.  @Germany12235  You don't even understand the basics, anyone reading this will see how little you know. You deny obvious historical facts and logical conclusions. It's like trying to talk a jelly into self-awareness...
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  6520. If only we could find the object that ties Priti 'vacant' Patel to this world and destroy it. In doing so send her back to the depths of the underworld from whence she spawned.
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  6521. A quick Ode to the Tories: I love the way you funnel our taxes, to the bankers and corporations you serve. The way you ensure policies to profit investors like your mate's firms. The way you smile in PMQs, while lying to the house. You really are as generous as the hawk is to the mouse. The way you help the disabled, by ensuring their hardships increase by taking away their mobility benefits and helping them to become deceased. I'm sure I'll never meet you, as in different circles we move. But I'd love you to leave office immediately so the lives of all Brits can improve. So please take your kleptocratic underlings, and your donations from those you serve. And shove them where the sun don't shine and that's more than you deserve...
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  6522. I also find it comforting to know that the wealthy are profiteering from our misery in a slightly less mercenary fashion.
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  6523.  @biocapsule7311  They have lobbyists in most Western countries manipulating narratives and political assets alike. But none of that matters if their message is seen as fallacious by the masses. Unfortunately I have little faith in the intellect of the masses...
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  6524.  @nickssurplus  Many racists have a union jack in my experience... I prefer the Welsh flag.
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  6525.  @nickssurplus  The Welsh flag never represented brutal colonialism, slavery and Imperialism. That's the short answer, you obviously don't want the long-winded version... I also provided education regarding the lack of purity in DNA which proves racism is illogical...
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  6526.  @nickssurplus  I haven't forced my views on anyone, and I'm in favour of free speech even for those I disagree with, therefore I'm not a bigot. Bigot doesn't mean what you seem to think it does... You do however sound like one of those who says things like "I'm not a racist, but..." or "I work/am friends with a person from a minority"...
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  6527. Says the man who wanted to have a journalist beaten up, tried to sell half of London to Chinese property developers and has lead the Tories to their most destructive and harmful term of governance in its history, which is saying a lot...
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  6528.  @b.41879  8.5% are privatised, the rest are state and federal and are also run for profit using inmates as a workforce. While technically they may not be privatised, they are contracted as slave Labour. Incarcerated workers in the US produce at least $11bn in goods and services. If you want helpful and respectful, maybe admit the flaws in your society and stop assuming I'm ignorant of the facts...
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  6529.  @b.41879  PS Feel free to search this and educate yourself! Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers ACLU and the University of Chicago Law School Global Human Rights Clinic, June, 2022 “Our research found that the average minimum hourly wage paid to workers for non-industry jobs is 13 cents, and the average maximum hourly wage is 52 cents.” "Incarcerated workers in the US produce at least $11bn in goods and services."
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  6530.  @b.41879  My tone in the original comment is sarcastic and I'm fully aware of the flaws in your prison system. The fact you seem to think I'm guessing shows your lack of ability, despite me explaining my reasoning in further replies... Bullying? Childish? Seriously? A witty quip about your lack of intellect has you crying foul...
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  6531.  @b.41879  I haven't called you any names, simply pointed out the lack of understanding which is present in your comments in a humorous way. Anyway, I've had a wonderful, enlightening debate... but this wasn't it!
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  6532.  @b.41879  You post on the thread 5 days after my last reply and then tell me you didn't read my reply? lol sure buddy, whatever makes you happy...
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  6533. @Puppy 1975 Shush. Read about the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland and the great famine.
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  6534. Some of our greatest poets, writers, musicians, lyricists, thinkers, scientists, inventors used 'drugs' to help them think outside the box. The Evolution of ideas and tools since the dawn of time has been aided by perceptions being influenced by mind-altering substances. The fact that we demonize them these days and assume a right to tell others they can't use them is detrimental to our future and just increases the danger of usage. More than twice as many people are lost through heart disease per 100,000 but I don't see anyone outside McDonald's and Burger King arresting fast food addicts...
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  6535.  @kevinb9830  He's responsible for his dodgy charity and the many scandals as well as profiting from his family's past. He inherited 3/4rs of a billion when the Queen died. That money is the family heritage/legacy/imperialism...
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  6536.  @kevinb9830  Try reason and logic, this isn't a case of absolutes this is a case of scale and amplitude. It's like comparing a fight down the pub with the genocide of a country... Either provide an intelligent rebuttal of my point or give up. Prince Charles is no innocent and his charity alone has cost the British taxpayer huge sums of money via fraud and tax avoidance and been accused of profiting from human trafficking of children. Charles as an individual has also cost the British taxpayer large amounts through less than legal activities.
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  6537.  @kevinb9830  Look up the words logic, nuance, reason and intellect. It seems you lack all of those things. Not interested in debating with a Feudal Sycophant. I'd rather try to teach a whale to fly...
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  6538.  @kevinb9830  You're defending fraud, tax avoidance and human trafficking and then claiming not to be a sycophant or royalist? Despite making arguments that are illogical and lack reason? Despite having no conception of nuance and correlation? I don't have time to argue with pedants, my time is precious and your contrarian nature bores me. I've had a wonderful, intelligent, enlightening and instructive debate, but this wasn't it!
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  6539.  @kevinb9830  What part of I'm not interested in your excuses, pedantry and contrary nature don't you understand? I've called you out on your lack of logic and reason. Would you debate someone who lacks the fundamental requisites? You are misinterpreting my comments to try and win a small point and extend this pointless circular debate. It's like trying to talk a trifle into sentience...
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  6540. So we pay taxes to be impoverished, have no healthcare and have our kids taught at the lowest level just to give them enough knowledge to be working cash cows but not well enough to spot the criminal profiteering of their own government?
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  6541.  @Gordon..  Statements of fact by definition have to be true, so no. As I have 3 times your intellect calling me a fool only further insults yourself. Considering you haven't provided anything other than opinion to counter my facts I'd suggest you go and learn to read and write before attempting to debate again.
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  6542.  @simonmorgan225  lol another ignorant post from someone who doesn't understand the situation. 40% of British workers are in working poverty. Because of low wages and rising prices, this isn't about me... Read some stats and facts!
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  6543.  @offrampt  How is that relevant? I'm not sure many kids who can't swim would choose to go to a waterpark. Seriously, get a grip of your heartless ignorance...
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  6544.  @crashbandihoot5038  Why no brains? did you have a lobotomy? Are you the head of ineptitude at the pointless comments department? or a representative from heartless-statements-R-us?
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  6545.  @davidcat1455  I'm a left-wing intellectual unlike yourself. Science is ubiquitous, you can't really ignore science, but you can accept cronyism has become a problem. I've been jabbed and while I no longer identify with centrists who claim to be left, I suppose you'd call me a Socialist. Although to be honest I'd much prefer to have a system founded on a resource-based economy, ecologically friendly and sustainable. While using modern technology that enables us to ascertain a consensus of the electorate in minutes and hence 'cut out the middle man' of lobbyists and corrupt politicians who hijack democracy (or the illusion thereof). Have a nice day bud and remember to steer clear of predictions and pop psychology 101 in future!
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  6546.  @davidcat1455  If it was a politician the euphemism would have changed from 'prop gun and blanks' to 'hunting accident'...
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  6547.  @davidcat1455  It's happened too many times to ignore Cartesian doubt and Occam's Razor. If I wanted to engage in pop psychology I'd mention you have no other argument than inverting my own comments towards you. Which is usually a basic psychological concept indicative of nursery age children. I've had a wonderful, enlightening, riveting, intelligent debate, but this wasn't it!
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  6548.  @davidcat1455  lol you got owned by superior intellect but are so delusional you think you've won? does that cover it? ...and it seems I've been transported to a thread where logic, reason and linear time have ceased to exist.
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  6549.  @davidcat1455  Please don't sully my name with comparisons to the orange oligarch...
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  6550. Britain is a poverty-stricken nation paying homage to the archaic system of elitism that bleeds us dry through overseas territories and the lack of transparency...
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  6551. @Liberty Educate myself? How about I educate you. We have 1/3rd of the population in working poverty with nurses and teachers using food banks to survive. 27.1 percent of children in the United Kingdom were estimated to be living in relative poverty in 2020 and things have only got worse. We have a national debt exceeding £2.3 trillion which has led to a debt to GDP ratio of over 100%, meaning we can't afford to even pay off the debt instalments. 1 in 10 British people are on the NHS waiting lists because we have a staff shortage of over 100,000.
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  6552. Yes, of course, they can. After a century of polluting the world and lobbying to denying climate change, I'm sure they'll have a change of heart and give up their multi-billion dollar business...
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  6553. Long live our arrogant, aristocratic, aloof, bumptious, high-hat, haughty, high-and-mighty, highfalutin, high-handed, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, persnickety, potty, ritzy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, toffee-nosed, toplofty, uppity Etonian overlords and their wealthy corporate handlers. Sorry I ate a Thesaurus, though it was a dinosaur when I swallowed it...
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  6554. It doesn't. Ukraine's arsenal comes from the US, Britain and many other countries. But Ukraine v Russia is a proxy war between the East and West. A new flare up in the ongoing - not so cold war - as was Syria. Western media is always looking for an excuse to demonize Russia, N.Korea, China etc with the aim of gaining our/public support for what will no doubt turn into WW3. I'm impartial and have interest in wars of resources or control of oil, banking and consumer cash cows, but I try to be aware.
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  6555. Bold statement
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  6556.  @cockneycharm3970  Brexit was responsible for the loss of trillions before the pandemic even started. Before the lockdown and before the government wasted billions of our taxes feeding their crony's offshore accounts... Try again!
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  6557.  @Nickle314  The government give over £100 billion of your taxes to corporations in welfare and subsidies every year. Those corporations cost us between £40-120 billion per annum in unpaid taxes - the tax gap. The national debt has grown by over £1 trillion in the past decade to around £2.6 trillion now. It has also grown to give us a debt-to-GDP ratio of over 100% earlier in the year. The pound is worthless in the international market as it has fallen so far in value, meaning we pay more for our goods. Also, we don't buy our energy as part of the EU block anymore so energy prices are going up even higher in Britain than the rest of Europe...
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  6558.  @cockneycharm3970  The EU is a paradise for globalists and world leaders to get rich. But it still cost us trillions to leave and is a big part of the reason British people are struggling worse than the rest of Europe in the current environment. Tory corruption has made things far worse...
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  6559.  @Nickle314  lol again, you can't expect me to argue will drivel. Tories are responsible for creating 3/4rs of our national debt and sinking the pound to its lowest level in 60+ years. We pay for the state pension, I've paid for my state pension. The money is lost and squandered by government mismanagement. The losses on the pound has cost every pensioner thousands of pounds a year. Corporations are taking what little money is left in the pot after our debts are paid via our GDP. We only have a few per cent of the whole pot to spend because of the enormous debts the Tories created and the annual debt repayments. Whether you personally buy from overseas or not a fair percentage of our economy is based on overseas trade, meaning those profits will shrink because the pound is so low. Stop trying to make points when you barely understand the situation...
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  6560.  @Nickle314  Debt to GDP ratio was 99.6% at the end of the first quarter of 2022. Equivalent to 99.6% of the gross domestic product, which means the government can just keep the debt high and keep telling the taxpayers we're skint. While they give away £100 billion per annum (search for articles from 2016 for sources) and the tax gap is anywhere between £40-120 billion. Unemployment payments cost us £1.56 billion per annum so that means corporate tax losses alone are at least 30-70 times higher. I'm not going to get into the central banks, fractional reserve banking and FIAT currency because this is YT. The system is a con but we have to deal with the consequences. The Tories are playing games with the public while dipping their hands in the pot.
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  6561.  @Nickle314  I'm not sure how you think exposing Tory lies and economic mismanagement makes me a Tory supporter who believes their lies... The fact is global debts are over $300 trillion, over 4x global GDP. The system is a farce based on a farce. Money is simply a human construct that enables a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources. As debt increases so does the wealth of the few which is why global debts increase year on year. Leaving a tiny minority with enough of the construct (money) to buy all the actual resources (water, land, human labour). Sovereign banking, Fractional Reserve Banking, FIAT currency etc are just tools or levers used against the poor to create the illusion of consistency.
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  6562.  @Nickle314  Stop talking nonsense and make a point, the system and especially the tories have many cons and no one actually believes National Debt is the whole story. We have bonds, foreign assets, and sovereign assets as well as fluctuations in sterling to be considered. If you have any idea what point you want to make, I suggest you make it and stop the immature ad homs. Not interested in discussing the intricacies of small cons when I've outlined the foundation of the fiscal illusion. If you want to make a point about National Debt or GDP calculations go ahead but it's a tangent to my initial joke and a tiny part of the topic...
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  6563.  @Nickle314  Lol you're a right-whinger fed on think tank data manipulations? State pensions can't be broken down so easily as you seem to naively believe. The debt has already been paid by contributions and the future debts will be paid by future contributions. The competence of those who invest that money and how they scam pensioners is relevant here though. But your nativity is evident in your asking redundant questions while spouting mythology. Neoliberalism has ruled the western world for the past 3 decades, a right-wing ideology that siphons your taxes into the pockets of corporations and shareholders while deregulating the banking sector. It was started by Thatcher and Reagan two Conservative right-wingers and despite the confusing name Neoliberalism is actually closer to Neoconservatism. The problems you see around you are not caused by the pittance in benefits, but by corporate greed which costs many times more to the taxpayer. There is no point debating with someone who uses myths. Tories are right-wing and they are responsible for our current debt and economic crisis.
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  6564.  @Nickle314  lol sorry can't have a political discourse with someone as clueless as to call pensions part of the socialist state and claim they are entirely separate from banking. Economic and political illiteracy are a curse and you have my sympathy...
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  6565.  @rosslogie217  That's part of it but then that legislation and crackdown was a reaction to the Panama scandal in which two famous PMs families were embroiled. Who happened to champion the EU divorce. Cameron and Boris Johnson. The Panama scandal exposed the fact that the lack of transparency on the crown, estates and overseas territories is responsible for over half of corporate tax losses globally. We avoided being tied to the EU anti-tax-avoidance directive by leaving the EU. It wasn't just those non-doms who profited but yes they spearheaded the campaign through the media.
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  6566.  @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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  6567.  @Nickle314  No, I'm using the number everyone in the world understands from the term national debt. As I've already expressed the debt isn't the whole story and I've already listed many other things that affect both debt and GDP. You are making accusations and false assumptions while asking misleading questions and forcing words in my mouth, how can you expect me to take you seriously? Pensions aren't socialism, you don't have paid labour under socialism, and you don't have money under socialism. So your obvious ignorance means I can't answer foolish questions...
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  6568.  @Nickle314  Our entire GDP is over £3 trillion. Because of working people contribute to the economy. If it costs a couple of billion to pay them back for that hard work in their old age so what? "Pensioner benefit spending totalled £114 billion in Great Britain in 2020-21" That's all pensioner benefits including winter fuel allowance, pensions and any grants or entitlements...
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  6569.  @Nickle314  Why would I include costs that were nothing to do with pensioners, I gave the government figures for the total annual cost of pensioners and all entitlements... I'm not going to be sealioned by someone who posts alarming figures because they can't tell the difference between a long term projection and actual annual spending...
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  6570.  @Nickle314  lol I just gave you the annual cost figures for public sector pensions' you were talking about long-term fiscal projections of pension debt which is entirely different. National Debt is our debt, it includes everything we owe. Pension debt is a liability and is not included until it is paid/falls due. Not all of those due pensions will reach retirement age, not all those on pensions will be alive next week etc. So casting a forecast over a long period of time, then comparing that figure to annual GDP is pointless. It's like asking why civil servant wages for the next 20 years aren't added to the national debt, it's because they aren't due and when due they are added to that year's total...
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  6571.  @Nickle314  I've already told you they are gov stats, therefore from gov dot UK... But what is the point in continuing this facade? I'm not interested in correcting you all night.
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  6572. They aren't illegal, they are seeking asylum under EU law that Poland signed up to after Poland helped destroy their countries by sending troops to help NATO loot the Middle East. Poland signed commitments to EU regulations and international law when it joined the EU in 2004. They only become illegal if you legally process them according to international laws you agreed to abide by and refuse them asylum. Even then they aren't illegal unless they decide to stay past the agreed departure date. Stop crying...
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  6573.  @zepter00  No you don't stop talking rubbish. The UN Refugee Convention does not make that requirement of refugees, refugees can legitimately make a claim for asylum in any country after passing through other “safe” countries. Poland signed an agreement to take in refugees and has now gone back on that agreement. They aren't illegal immigrants until they've been refused asylum legally. Stop perpetuating ignorance...
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  6574. Thanks for the shout out buddy. I guess facts and intellect must scare you. Don't worry m8, I only correct the delusional with facts, stick to facts and stop touting conspiracy and you won't have to be so scared of my knowledge, wit and intellect :)
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  6575. PS My account is subscribed to hundreds of reaction channels and many news sites and used every day. Stop posting rubbish that anyone can easily disprove :) That's the trouble with thick people.
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  6576. None at all. The same resources will exist as they did before the economy contracted. The only difference is that we be allocated less monetary compensation for our labour and charged more of that fictional construct for our food and energy...
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  6577. I'd suggest by the amount of industrial accidents, cyber-attacks, internet outages, warehouse fires and global catastrophies that ww3 has already started and we are all on the subs bench...
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  6578. "Making money off of people's deaths" That lady just summed up Tory ideology...
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  6579. Latest hour of the day so far at 16:00...
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  6580. PM Sunak says getting the public to pay for Tory corruption and greed during the financial crisis is 'absolute priority'...
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  6581. Gotta love YT filtering I'll try again "While the financial vampires drain the country dry and drain the people dry. The heart continues to pump, the hands and feet continue to work, and the cells continue to function. But the country stumbles forward in shock, sickly and pale and unaware that a mortal blow has been struck..."
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  6582. Tories using the media to appear as victims is the height of hypocrisy, they have been going after workers and their representatives since the era of Thatcherism. Of course, the workers and their representatives will strike back out of self-defence, it's only natural and logical...
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  6583.  @nick777forde  It's a pity your ancestors couldn't count to 12, despite having 6 fingers on each hand...
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  6584.  @nick777forde  If you're so desperate to have the last word, at least have the decency to think up something witty or intelligent...
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  6585.  @nick777forde  Have I told you I'm right-wing intolerant? Sorry, it's a medical condition brought about by knowledge, intellect and decency...
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  6586.  @nick777forde  So you're just going to use my comments as your own, and stick to not typing anything witty or intelligent then? Your pop psychology is about as well observed as a Yeti...
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  6587.  @فاطمةالزهراءجوال  I'm not interested in your prejudice, it isn't logical and I am not prepared to listen to lies. Syria is a proxy war and you understand little about the topics you discuss. You also know nothing of me so can keep your petty insults.
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  6588.  @فاطمةالزهراءجوال  Afganistan, Iraq and Lybia were about petrodollar hegemony. Look up the Gold Dinar and Lybia dropping the petrodollar for oil sales. There are at least 5 countries fighting in Syria. Israel grabbed the Golan heights and its petrolium. The UK fired missiles. The UN through the OPCW admitted the chemical attacks weren't real...You allow prejudice to overide logic and reason and so make debate impossible.
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  6589.  @فاطمةالزهراءجوال  Heres something I wrote to show you my understanding of how the CIA were funded by private finance to instigate the Arab spring. But that is a sepearate issue! "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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  6590.  @gargar1986  Don't host a global sporting event if you lack tolerance...
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  6591.  @david_r_morgan  Yes mate, every act of incompetence is a theft of taxpayer money to enrich the off-shore bank accounts of shareholders.
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  6592.  @gingerbaker4390  I've proven using government figures that we have lost over £50 billion in trade with the EU since leaving. Immigration has risen by 100,000 since 2009 when Labour was in power. Now we are out of the EU we are lowering immigration standards to attract HGV drivers and Abottoire workers, so how do we have more control? Not that I mind the immigration as we need those vacancies filled to function. Keep trying to swag it out, but I already defeated your fallacies...
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  6593.  Terry Wogan  I'm not married and I'm a Celt so jog on...
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  6594.  @budbud2509  Distance to China is 7,775 km, Distance to New Zealand is 18,390 km over twice the distance, not very good at geography are you?
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  6595.  @budbud2509  lol that old chestnut, it ain't Brexit it's the pandemic...
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  6596. @CastAirLead Did you miss my earlier comment? "43% of our annual trade was with the EU, as I've already pointed out! We've lost over £50 billion from trade with the EU in 2020, that's £50 billion less going into our GDP.".
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  6597. @CastAirLead They are applauding a minuscule £2.5 billion trade deal as a win because that's how bad things have got... We have £2.2 trillion national debt, Brexit cost us £490 billion in foreign investments and sterling, trillions in losses, our triple-A credit rating was downgraded twice, and our debt to GDP is currently around 100%. We are an international laughing stock. GDP is our gross domestic product and so yes it covers all things valuable, everything that makes this country money...
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  6598. ​ @budbud2509  That's the distance given from the UK for both countries, it's the shortest route no doubt. Stop trying to diminish the point which is that it's over twice the distance... Air is obviously the shortest route... Your point about the distance has been butchered like a lamb, your acceptance of that fact is down to your own self-denial...
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  6599. @CastAirLead Every piece of information I gave you can be researched and proven correct, you just have to look as I can't post the links here. Most of your comment is lies and irrelevance, that isn't worth debating. PR is not fact and wanting to improve your nation by admitting the flaws instead of deluding yourself is not hate. I've given you the fiscal details, the dire state of UK finances so stop trying to dodge the facts with opinionated PR...
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  6600.  @heybabycometobutthead  Read the thread...
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  6601. @CastAirLead That's bs You said "similar distance' it's over twice the distance, you look like a fool trying to backtrack... lol my own point was that the EU was around 20 miles away... Shipping by volume? they would both do that, same distance, again a childlike logic exposed by a foolish statement...
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  6602. @CastAirLead So how come I can find this then? "Britain has £490 billion less in its coffers than previously thought, according to revised estimates of Britain’s balance of payments from the UK’s official statistics body, the ONS."
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  6603. ​@CastAirLead Sorry but you're delusional the £490 losses are trading and sterling downturn after the Brexit announcement. And I've already told you the source is the ONS - Government statistics! Our debt to GDP ratio is almost 100% so you're obviously an economic illiterate... Covid didn't cost £400 billion, Cronyism cost us £400 billion in government bonds. Immigration is 100,000 higher now and last year than it was in 2009 under Labour and the Tories have recently lowered immigration standards to attract EU HGV drivers and Abattoir workers. In 2009 immigration was 196,000. Theresa May had a record of 650,000 in her last year as home secretary, and we have almost 300,000 in 2019 and 2020... After leaving the EU... We have £2.2 trillion national debt and a debt to GDP ratio of around 100%, a loss of £50 billion in trade with the EU after Brexit, our triple-A credit rating has been lowered twice, and we make our money by being the largest enabler of global corporate tax losses due to our overseas territories.
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  6604.  @Andy-Aims  lol I wish, it would save me repeating the same stats and facts over and over on the same thread...
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  6605.  Terry Wogan  So if I'm married you're right, and if I'm not you're still right and it all makes sense? Gotcha, no matter what I say you're going to claim a win because your brain is made of sawdust and woodchips...
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  6606.  @mememachine5244  Except for all the facts and figures I gave to back up my assertions... If I want advice from a cartoon frog, I'll let you know...
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  6607. Yes, may have something to do with Trump restarting nuclear proliferation by dropping out of all the nuclear treaties... Not that Biden is much better...
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  6608.  @soylentroy7585  Israel is an illegal nuclear power and protected by the US who fight their wars for them. As for giving nuclear material to a dodgy regime, the pretext doesn't cover all 3 nuclear treaties Trump took the US out of.
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  6609.  @adpmac3981  Talking of crack cocaine I usually prefer to communicate with people who have a higher IQ than a syphilitic, crack-addicted hamster. Biden is a corporate stooge and his son should face any criminal charges for wrongdoing. This is about Trump!!!
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  6610.  @danielkidd1012  Hillary 'Cloven hoofed spawn of Satan' Clinton was as right-wing as Biden is. They both support the war machine, corporations and the abuse of taxpayer money. So does Trump as he proved by feeding Wall Street trillions and dropping out of 3 nuclear treaties restarting nuclear proliferation, which is the reason China, Russia and N.Korea are flexing their muscles...
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  6611. Belarus are out of order, having said that the UK has taken in over 2 million Polish immigrants, France have taken over 1 million, Germany and Russia have taken about 400,000 each and the US has taken in around 2.2 million Polish immigrants. By my calculation, they should have room for around 6 million...
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  6612. @UCpAHyuF8AXNdP4afLxYWw6g lol funny how you can post absolute bolx like that but my actual facts get deleted... Guess YT wants to proliferate disinformation...
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  6613.  @lsfilgueiras  You can't spell militia and you really believe after over a decade of the US using drones in Iraq that Iran would attack its ally shortly after defeating their greatest enemy the US? talk about delusion...
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  6614.  @lsfilgueiras  My last reply to you was deleted so I can't really retype it...
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  6615. The defecation trial ended now has it? so who shat the bed?
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  6616. Yea but Rishi isn't being honest. More policemen, more nurses, more doctors? They cut over 22,500 Police officers in one year alone and then trump the fact they put 15,000 kids in hats on the streets, they've gutted NHS funding and salaries to the point we have over 100,000 job vacancies in the NHS. Crashed the economy, and borrowed heavily, while they siphoned our taxes into their mate's offshore accounts... Are people still buying this?
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  6617.  @Soraviel  Yes, the Economic Euthanasia will continue as will giveaways to corporations, bankers and shareholders at the taxpayer's expense.
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  6618.  @stevec700  We have plenty of money and immigrants pay higher taxes than we do. The problem is we have corrupt kleptocrats giving our money to wealthy shareholders... get a soul!
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  6619.  @stevec700  If people like you hadn't been enabling the Tories by blaming migrants and ignoring the problems at home we wouldn't be in this mess. You allow the corrupt kleptocrats to blame everyone except those responsible. You are the reason they get away with it, perpetuating tabloid myths instead of challenging corruption and greed.
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  6620.  @stevec700  Shhh. Your prejudice allows them to play you like a fiddle, which is the reason they get away with treating us as they do. 560,000 people emigrated from Britain this year, without international agreements that wouldn't be possible. It works both ways. Hurting other people through ignorance won't help...
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  6621.  @stevec700  lol cry much? I used one of those words and considering migrants cost you nothing and pay higher taxes, your financial arguments don't work, so assuming prejudice is perfectly logical. The annual waiting list for processing migrants is usually around 10,000 - the Tories are so incompetent it's now over 100,000 waiting to be processed. Which is the reason it costs more money. Blame those logically responsible and you won't be accused of prejudice!
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  6622.  @djbogz1921  Through legislation, look it up. Migrants from certain areas pay as much as double. PS this is from a rightwing tabloid "Without net migration, Britain would currently be facing even bigger tax rises and even bigger spending cuts than it is now."
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  6623.  @djbogz1921  They pay more tax and are less able to claim benefits such as tax credits and unemployment. Here's more proof "The Warwick research calculated that migrants in the top 1 per cent of all income taxpayers alone contribute 8 per cent of total income tax"
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  6624.  @djbogz1921  "Recent waves of immigrants to the UK have contributed far more in taxes than they received in benefits" There are literally hundreds of sources and many studies which prove this. How many quotes do I need to post? "The study calculated that migrants constitute 24% of the top UK income taxpayers"
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  6625.  @djbogz1921  look into it, different origin countries have different requirements set on them by our legislation for immigration, I've proven every point I stated your lack of understanding is not my concern...
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  6626.  @djbogz1921  They do! They pay extra taxation indirectly in a number of ways, increased NI contributions etc. They also aren't able to claim certain benefits that native-born taxpayers get. Meaning they pay for things on your behalf, that they can't themselves claim. Immigrants also tend to have higher skill levels as a requirement to be accepted to the UK, meaning they are charged at higher rates.
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  6627.  @djbogz1921  This is from the Financial Times and this is the last headline I'll give you to search as I've proven this point many times over! "EU migrants pay £20bn more in taxes than they receive"
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  6628.  @djbogz1921  lol so after all that you accept I'm right and come back with an asinine comment... Well done you!
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  6629.  @djbogz1921  lol keep trying "Immigrants from outside the EU countries made a net fiscal contribution of about £5.2 billion, thus paying into the system about 3% more than they took out." EU migrants and non-EU migrants pay more than they take out! they also pay for visas, schooling, extra contributions and hidden costs. Now please leave me alone! I don't want to play with you!
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  6630. ​ @analdistortion Thank you!
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  6631.  @alanpattinson6211  Thank you, Alan.
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  6632.  @discombobulate12  I'm not interested in your personal experience or anecdotal evidence. You should be more concerned about the fact that 100x the losses per annum from benefit fraud are due to non-payment of corporate taxes. But you probably only want to have a go at poor people because you don't have the stones to complain about the wealthy...
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  6633. Did it start with the sentence: "Goodbye, dear Duke, wrinkled, parchment skinned vampiresque old misogynistic xenophobe."?
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  6634.  Feda Unra  I'm not interested sorry, sex is for girls!
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  6635.  @alexselby349  lol. I get half my posts filtered out, I can't spell those words without being censored. I have to get creative like pointing out that the Tory party is actually the Conservative Unionist Nationalist Troglodyte Society. Surprisingly they don't use the acronym...
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  6636. ~Yay, now we get to watch the Tories impose yet another clown on the British people to prop up their agenda-driven dictatorship...
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  6637. You do realise how pathetic your point is. Did you expect them to sprout wings and fly there?
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  6638.  @benmaxwell115  lol yea the trillions lost and the trade agreements that took 40 years to secure will all be restored by blind faith in the corrupt aristocratic kleptocrats we have to endure...
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  6639.  @yvonnesanders4308  lol, you have no idea. Ask the Russian Oligarch family the Lebedev's who own a decent portion of UK media and got a knighthood for their support...
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  6640. Please do as you seem completely ignorant of politics and the corruption that is destroying our country!
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  6641. The Tories look after us with all the attention of a Cuckoo, all the care of a lion who takes over a pride shows the previous leader's cubs. Unambiguously kleptocratic...
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  6642.  @dvidclapperton  Senility has its advantages lol
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  6643. It's not the left, it's the media amplifying the views of a few idiots to polarise the public. If you want to know what is ridiculous listen to the right who claim Bankers are all Marxists, Anti-Fascism is Fascism, Hit-ler was a Socialist, Anti-Racists are Racists and Communists billionaires run the world. So many contradictions and conflations that prove how cognitive dissonance is rife on the right...
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  6644.  @koalaeinstein-y7r  Yes, they exist and it is fine it gives people and chance to denounce those philosophies, I believe Mein Kampf and Zweites Buch are available on Amazon with many other books. Also, there are plenty of books on Satan available. Without discussing these things openly they go underground and become more problematic. You can't debate and denounce these things if they are hidden away in secret groups. Banning things has historically created an allure around those things.
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  6645.  @koalaeinstein-y7r  PS have you ever read the old testament? worse than many books that have been banned.
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  6646.  @koalaeinstein-y7r  I'm well aware of the Habsburgs and their extended family throughout Europe and the wars inspired by royalty and religion. The Crusades and the religious aspects but that has nothing to do with the topic. You seem to be going off on a tangent, - the old testament is full of genocide, infanticide, fratricide, incest etc which is why I mentioned it. I don't believe in banning books and your arguments are inane. Please don't prolong my suffering with more of your weak points and tangential references.
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  6647.  @BBountyHunter  Like I said, it's impossible to argue with an illiterate. Revolutions, the abolition of monarchy and uprisings happen under all ideologies, you should count the number of deaths from those things under Imperialism and Capitalism if you want a factual comparison. Venezuela is under sanctions that forbid them to take advantage of their 300,000 billion barrels of oil, the largest proven reserves of oil in the World. Making them a very rich country. There's a US battleship parked offshore to ensure the Venezuelan's are forced to sell what little oil they can refine to the US. The sanctions forbid Venezeula the chemicals used to refine their huge oil reserves. So yea extortion, sanctions, embargoes and blockades is how capitalism handles wealthy rivals... You may want to check out the history of US intervention in S.America before using that line of argument in future...
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  6648.  @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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  6649.  @ThinWhite_Duke  Lots of people call each other comrade. The term comrade is used to mean 'mate', 'colleague', or 'ally', and derives from the Spanish and Portuguese...
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  6650.  @bobbilly87  Venezeula is held by the US mafia with warships guarding their oil and sanctions stopping chemical imports that are used to refine oil. You know nothing of geopolitics or petrodollar hegemony. Don't reply to me, your political and economic illiteracy is offensive...
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  6651.  @bobbilly87  They have the largest reserves of oil in the world, they are rich. It's nothing to do with their system, it's the sanctions and the US battleships stopping them from selling and refining their oil. They have over 300,000 billion barrels of oil, if they weren't held ransom by US mafia they'd be rich. Stop replying to me as you're politically and economically illiterate. You know less than a child...
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  6652. @The Dark Knight Agreed mate, the media like to control the narrative to help keep their rich chum's off-shore accounts topped up. They polarise us, but all we have to do is stick together!
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  6653.  @jannenreuben7398  Thank you for proving why I had to type this and how little you comprehended of the original comment I made...
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  6654.  @jannenreuben7398  Thanks for the patronisation and insinuated insults. As you are beyond rational debate I won't waste any more of my time. Prejudice overrides your logic and reason. In truth, democracy doesn't exist when corporate lobbyists control our representatives. You don't have to be worried about the demographics affecting democracy as people like you have allowed corporate power to ascend and billionaires to rise as demigods as we are goose-stepped into a dystopian corporatocracy...
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  6655.  @ozer9529  Yes, the media and the Tories create the delusional world in which we live, full of people like S A who speak from ignorance and enable the wealthy to exploit the rest.
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  6656.  @SA-ff9uc  You could have typed something intelligent or witty. Look up the terms corporatocracy, kleptocracy and corruption.
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  6657.  @Krytern  The EU pays 20-30% less than us as they buy as a consortium. So no, you are wrong. When you buy in bulk as a group of countries you can negotiate better deals. It's called supply and demand. PS Brexit has cost trillions and ruined the UK in a myriad of ways, try reality and logic...
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  6658.  @Krytern  You brought up Brexit and made false statements about it not contributing to energy prices. This is clearly wrong as the EU prices haven't increased as much as ours. I corrected you and assumed nothing. My comment will be filtered if I give sources, try the FT...
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  6659.  @Krytern  You are the one assuming, put it in the context of your reply, where you proved you lack awareness of the reduced cost to the EU from buying in bulk as a trading block. Pointing out the devastation of Brexit is merely related additional info. Don't accuse me of assumptions that are yours and your reply was addressed to me regarding Brexit in the context of gas prices... Seriously pedantry and semantics are diseases that social media users seem prone to...
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  6660.  @Krytern  To be clear, Brexit has cost us our buying power within a trading block, many studies have shown we pay far more for energy than EU countries because of this. The increased borrowing, losses and devaluation of the pound have all affected the UK's buying power in sterling. These are just some of the plethora of effects that contribute to our energy prices being higher. You made an erroneous statement and are now trying to win any small victory to assuage your ego and pride. I'm not interested in providing you anything other than the truth, keep digging...
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  6661.  @Krytern  The Financial Times is not an unknown website and is a trusted source for economic understanding. Youtube doesn't allow external links and enough of my comments get filtered for no reason. You are incorrect and your assumptions about tribalism are based on your misunderstanding of the relevance of my additional info, which I have explained several times. Your pride and ego mean nothing to me, neither does your pedantry and semantics, am I clear? Stop wasting your life attempting to salve your bruised ego and accept when you've been comprehensively proven wrong in assumption and opinion. PS your first comment was a defense of Brexit causing rising energy prices, which is and has been proven erroneous. Then you went on to contradict your defence of Brexit despite the evidence being against you, you have no logic or reason and pedantically tried to debate me using semantics and assumption, you have to earn respect, you failed to do so...
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  6662. I love Trump because he's so mature and speaks so eloquently and cautiously. Always pays his taxes, he's never filed for corporations he owns to go bankrupt, always pays his workforce, and fights so very hard to provide Americans with healthcare. He always puts the US first before his own petty agenda. You wouldn't have to ask Trump 5 times to serve his country in war, he'd jump at the opportunity. He's extremely generous to his friends on Wall St. And his voice is reminiscent of angels descending from the heavens to bless your ears with humanity, compassion and decency...
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  6663. It's almost as if selling our transportation system via privatisation was a bad decision...
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  6664. Trying to keep the Labour party in the hands of centrist neoliberals and their corporate paymasters?
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  6665.  @worstknightmayor4439  Not sure how you could be so inhuman and stupid at the same time...
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  6666.  @ZionistGundam  You and those who liked your comment obviously can't read: "My information is accurate and is from Save the Children in the article they state that figure doesn't include thousands unaccounted for."
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  6667.  @karasani560  You don't have the intellect to understand any response if that's all you got. I hope your parent's know you're up late, it's a school day tomorrow...
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  6668.  @gazevans1038  Hamas and Palestinians civilians are not the same thing. The fact you try to excuse the loss of so many innocents prove your lack of humanity, understanding and cognitive ability.
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  6669.  @propofol-98  A society where idiots condone murder while their grandparents freeze to death...
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  6670. During the pandemic, fossil fuel prices plummeted to less than 1/3rd. The giants of industry who have dominated the globe for decades weren't happy, now they're trying to claw back lost profits by blackmailing the world. Good old capitalism, the worst resource management system ever created...
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  6671.  @lordtywinofhouselannister5433  He was a corrupt criminal who broke British and international law, while lying, cheating and having the moral code of a syphilitic hamster...
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  6672. Tories fell apart years ago and have been dragging the country down with them ever since. Time to lose the Albatross from around our neck and drop the Tories into the deepest darkest pit...
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  6673. While there's no excuse for AS, why are they floggin' that again? all 3 reports proved there was less AS in Labour than most other parties and society in general, it was lowered under Corbyn and even the biased reporting on the subject has to accept the conclusion: "no reliable, empirical evidence to support the notion that there is a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes within the Labour Party than any other political party"...Banging this drum just allows real AS to rise while they ignore the Jewish members of Labour who point this out!
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  6674.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  You obviously have problems understanding basic English. Read my comment, then read the reports for yourself, instead of proving your ignorance and lack of comprehension...
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  6675.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  I'm not in Labour I left when Blair dropped clause 4. You should stop reading tabloids or attempting to interact with people who aren't politically illiterate...
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  6676.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  I call out ideology, there's a difference between being ideologically consistent and being a hypocrite, something you obviously wouldn't understand. Corbyn has integrity and ideological and logical consistency, no Tory could have that and I wouldn't respect a Tory in any reference because of their neoliberal ideology... Same reason I don't respect Starmer, because he's a cheap Tony Blair tribute act, they follow Thatcherite neoliberalism not Socialism...
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  6677.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  lol again you prove your reliance on mythology while you regurgitate tabloid nonsense. Peace negotiators have to talk to both sides. Your comments are about as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker, they only expose your ignorance and lack of logic.
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  6678.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  Dude, why would you expect me to answer you, you lack any knowledge at all. He's been given awards for peace negotiations and credited for getting the peace process in N.Ireland back on track after the exchange of political prisoners failed. Debate with you is like trying to teach a whale to fly or talk a trifle into sentience...
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  6679.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  You're ignorant of much, even people who criticized him said he was instrumental in getting the prisoner exchange back on track after months of negotiations which stalled the GFA. Trying to turn my own comments on me by using the term myths about something which is a part of recorded history just shows what I've previously noted, debating you is like trying to talk Jelly into sapience. Stop trying to debate with someone more knowledgeable, witty and intelligent than yourself. Please take my arrogance as a sign that your comments and ignorance aren't welcome and do one!
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  6680.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  Here's a quote for you "Jeremy Corbyn’s involvement in Northern Ireland encompassed discussions with both republican and loyalist figures – many at the request of the UK government, specifically then-Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam. Corbyn played a vital role in negotiating the details of the release of loyalist and republican prisoners, which was one of three essential factors underpinning the eventual ‘Good Friday Agreement’." Just as I'd already said. Now please do me a favour and do one, I'm not interested in debate with a single-cell organism. I've had a wonderful, intellectual, inspiring and enlightening debate, but this wasn't it!
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  6681.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  Jesus H, I've given you the facts and you give me Daily Fail mythology. "Corbyn has consistently said he is against violence and wanted to see an end to the armed conflict in Northern Ireland." Corbyn's words on N.Ireland radio: “I condemn all bombing” and then: “I condemn what was done by the British Army as well as the other sides as well.” After signing the GFA he said “We look forward to peace, hope and reconciliation in Ireland in the future.” Corbyn has consistently said he is against violence and wanted to see an end to the armed conflict in Northern Ireland. Now go away as all you do is regurgitate erroneous sensationalism from tabloids. I've given you facts repeatedly, in other people's words and Corbyn's own words. Stop bugging me as you don't have the intellect, knowledge and wit to compete. You're a novice!
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  6682.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  I quoted Corbyn speaking in answer to the dubious nonsense you spouted, it seems you can't even manage logic and reason. You still persist in saying he supports terrorism, despite him denouncing violence in all its forms. Like I said, no knowledge, logic, reason, intellect tabloid regurgitating nobody. Go take a walk off a short pier and stop pestering me with your ignorance and lack of sapience...
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  6683.  @proselytizingorthodoxpente8304  You accuse him of things he hasn't said and ignore the things he has said. You lack logic and are unable to see basic reason. Have the last word if you like, I won't reply to you again as you're unable to comprehend at the level of a child let alone debate. Everything you are you owe to your parents, why don't you give them a penny and square the account...
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  6684.  @oofballz4328  Was his mate Jeffery persecuted too in your mind? Do the crime, do the time. Less winning more whining...
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  6685.  @johnwright9372  I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
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  6686.  @electro1463  Thank you for the disjointed sentence, I assume English isn't your first language...
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  6687. The problem with the green solution is that while we do get nice clean hydrogen it spews nasty oxygen into the air polluting the environment...
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  6688. @Darth Pepe PS Having a Royal Family is like owning a really expensive breed of dog that only eats gold, can't do any tricks, has an expensive medical condition due to inbreeding, barks and growls at you when you approach and then shits all over your house... and lives for centuries...
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  6689.  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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  6690. @Darth Pepe I hear Prince Andrew is embarrassed about Charlie's latest scandal... Can't argue with someone who uses God's will to anoint the anaemic bloodline of a German and a Greek...
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  6691. @Darth Pepe PS the crown estate profits are included in your calculation of Royal profit. The estate profits belong to the state, (it is not the private property of the monarch, it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch) not the crown it is managed by a committee. According to an independent survey published in 2016 the Royal family actually cost around £334 million per annum. With some of the more prominent "working" Royals costing the taxpayer an average of £18 million per annum. Figures from Republic.
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  6692. @Inter Dimentional Cake Wars 2397 I'm Welsh and I support BLM but I don't support the anaemic bloodlines from the shallow end of the British gene pool.
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  6693. @Darth Pepe People who use the argument 'Gods presence on Earth' regarding the queen have no right to ever utter the word cringe!
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  6694.  @Britannia.  lol can you twist the truth any further via your mental gymnastics? Looting a country's natural wealth isn't an act of philanthropy...
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  6695.  @Arbaaltheundefeated  I clearly stated using the latest technology and all areas of roads, common spaces and council estates and my point is about community gardens. Guerrilla gardening. Your insults only serve to prove your arrogance and lack of understanding. We are close to global conflict, how do suggest we survive with only 54% of our food grown in this country? Keep your petty and pedantic points to yourself or find someone who cares, you misinterpret and misunderstand the concept and speak from a lack of knowledge.
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  6696.  @davidnoelfranks1124  Its easier just to announce your stupidity...
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  6697. Please be kind enough to read and share this appeal: "Are you aware that many Tory MPs have never had the benefits of a happy family upbringing? That many Tory MPs were brought up by paid help or a Nanny? That some Tory MPs only know their parent's name because it is displayed on their Trust Fund? That their closest confidant and friend is their butler? If you can spare just 10 minutes a week please reach out to a Tory MP, send them a message or a letter and tell them that they are loved and that there is a better way. Encourage them to integrate with people, you know real people. If you would like to adopt a Tory MP you should be hypocrite-tolerant and have a very high boredom threshold. They require the most exquisite diet, because of their fragile constitution and need lots of care and light exercise once a year. A reasonable-sized mansion is suggested for housing your Tory MP and a large amount of public money should be set aside for future upgrades such as duck ponds, moats; you know the usual. It's important to remember a Tory MP is not just for Christmas, they can be found dipping into the public cookie jar at all times of the year. Adopt a Tory MP today, and show them the way to a better life." Thank you for reading!
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  6698. Chope the veteran objecter and filibuster master. Another Tory whose words and actions show them to be immoral sewer dwellers...
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  6699.  @kevinfernandez9999  No they were invaded to protect petrodollar hegemony and left to suffer with their infrastructure in ruins and many of their working-age population left in the ground...
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  6700.  @kevinfernandez9999  lol TeamAmerica strikes again with its uplifting world police ethics... You'd have to live as a hermit in a cave in Afghanistan to believe that...
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  6701. lol having my comments filtered. No worries anyone with a brain knows the truth.
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  6702. Social media and right-whinge think tanks have been rewriting history for the past decade or so allowing the curse of fascism to rise again. Never forget?
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  6703.  @californiadreamin8423  “lower orders”? glad to see the final bastion of prejudice - bashing the poor - is still flourishing... I was brought up on a council estate in South Wales and can eruditely and concisely defeat most Tories in a battle of wits, especially since most of them come unarmed... Privilege and prejudice make fine bedfellows...
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  6704.  @californiadreamin8423  PS I agree wholeheartedly with your initial comment and the retort to mr harry.
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  6705.  @californiadreamin8423  Please have a laugh this Sunday morning on me! 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 misinforming millions of Brits every day, In the awful Tory Britain full of poverty and decay, On a planet in the embarrassed Milky Way...
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  6706. MPs lie and act like children, there's no real penalty or oversight. The system is corrupt and the wealthy cheat the poor...
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  6707.  @Tyronepeader  Carrying on with the destruction of the working class where Thatcher left off. What troubles me is the new weapon they've been using the past decade - Economic Euthanasia!
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  6708.  @Saoirse_don_Phalaistín  Yea in and off itself alone agreed. I gave the hallmarks of Fascism with historical examples, not sure if you can see it. I'll try to reprint it with some edits in another reply just incase.
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  6709.  @Saoirse_don_Phalaistín  "Control of media and political activists is a fundamental part of fash ism as we saw after the #Hashstag Fire when the eSeS rounded up the unions, socialists, and communists. But the predominant feature is a merger of state and corporate power typified by a dik tato ship."
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  6710.  @_____alyptic  Meh, money is simply a human construct to allow a tiny minority to control the vast majority of the world's 'actual' resources. The system is just a smoke screen to keep everyone involved in the illusion.
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  6711.  @debbiehenri345  I've given historical examples and examples of connections to legislation and actions. My comments are filtered unfortunately so most do not appear. Check recent security, internet legislation, anti-protest legislation and the spycops bill for examples...
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