Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. So many people were afraid Corbyn that 12 million people voted for him.
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  2. Starmer doesn't want to debate the issue because it will highlight the fact that he is on the side of the oppressor.
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  3. Terrifying! The arrogance of these people is off the scale. This fool should remember the outcome of the last time the US started a major war in the Middle East: The US just demonstrated how ineffective its superior force actually is in practice, made Iran by far the most powerful independent country in the region and created ISIS for good measure. The kind of attack he is suggesting is going to make it very difficult for the US's tame dictatorships in the region (it might well find itself having to invade quite a few of them in order to protect or even restore its puppet regimes) and will certainly not make Israel a safer place.
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  4.  @cyberfunk3793  Totally ineffective. How long it took them to get to Baghdad is irrelevant. The point is that this was asymmetric warfare and they were soundly defeated by a vastly inferior force. US influence in the region took a beating and has been taking a beating ever since while Iran has gone from strength to strength.
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  5. Buckle up. There are going to be plenty of these. Reform Ltd has had to fill these vacancies at very short notice so get your popcorn ready!
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  6. The spelling and the grammar! So funny. No wonder these people can't think properly!
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  7. What this means is that the so-called "centre" is closer to the Far-Right (to Fascists), than they are to the democratic Left. As they say in Glasgow, You couldnae get a bus ticket between 'em.
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  8. Wow! There's a clearly well-organised Fascist response to this. The whole country watched them desecrating the Cenotaph and they have the brass neck to claim that they were "well behaved".
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  9.  @lennymccartney1  Actually, a Palestinian. But "lemon" is certainly accurate.
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  10. Er no. It's England's national day. Do you even understand the difference?
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  11. ​ @cyberfunk3793  Not irrelevant? Which country currently has the most influence in Baghdad? The US or Iran?
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  12.  @z0n0ph0ne  Yes.
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  13. What a load of old nonsense. The SNP losing its distorted (by FPTP) majority in Westminster would be a setback for them but a very minor one. It's the majority in Holyrood that matters and all polls show that they would remain the largest party there by far. Meanwhile, the proportion of people wanting Independence continues to edge slowly upwards as demography literally kills off British Nationalist support and more pro-self-determination voters come of age. A Starmer government will nurture rather than hinder the march of independence, by the way. The soft No voters are those who think that the travails we are now experiencing are down to Tory incompetence and wickedness. Starmer is continuity Tory and it will quickly become apparent that it is the so-called Union which is the problem, not the party in charge of it.
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  14.  @zoltan-zq3xe  Eh? It wasn't even the lowest Labour vote since 2015 (9.3m) or 2010(8.6m)...
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  15. Yeah. Cos no one else over 60 has any experience! Is it even possible to make these people up?
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  16. "what has JC got to with labour ,,? Well, there's the fact that a large percentage of Labour voters agree with the policies he proposed. Do you not think that's something of a problem for Sir Kid Starver, champion of NHS privatisation and, come to think of it, most Tory policies?
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  17. Utter nonsense. The Iranian attack was carefully calibrated to do minimal damage while making enough noise to satisfy its hawks at home that a response was made. Had they deployed their full potential they'd have done massive damage but the Israelis would have been forced to respond. As it is, the Iranians have sent a powerful message but no more. The West has foolishly allowed Israel to have nuclear weapons and it currently has a Prime Minister who would likely use them to save himself from political defeat and possible jail. We should be grateful for the fact that there are cooler and wiser heads in Teheran than in Jerusalem.
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  18. Peter Mandelson got it wrong. Starmer didn't climb a cliff. The cliff shrunk. Starmer actually got less votes than Corbyn. Starmer was only successful because he was opposing Sunak. Anyone else would have walked all over him.
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  19. Of course the US could win. It doesn't want to. Was no one listening to Mitt Romney when he said the quiet part out loud? The US will keep giving Ukraine enough help to keep the fight going because it's good value for money. As long as it keeps bleeding the Russian economy and degrading Russian warfighting capability which could be deployed elsewhere, Biden will fight Putin to the last Ukrainian.
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  20. Abdullah is beginning to see that being an ally of the US is NOT a good idea. It doesn't have allies. It has vassals. Trump doesn't care that Abdullah's dictatorship could be in its last days. He can do as he's told or the blood money stops.
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  21. Your strap line is understatement in the class of "testing this chainsaw on both my legs would be a mistake". How could anyone think this imbecile could be in charge of anything?
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  22.  @cyberfunk3793  The biggest factor in their victory was bribing Iraqi generals to either stand down their troops or deliberately put them in harm's way. Of course they intended to take it over long term. The intention was to install a puppet government which would be loyal to Washington. They were unable to impose the government they wanted and were eventually forced out with their tails between their legs, unable to deal with the insurgency that opposed them. And they did so leaving Iraq as an Iranian ally. The exact opposite of what was intended. Totally ineffective. Iran is several times the size of Iraq, much more advanced and nowhere near as corrupt. What's more, since the invasion of Iraq, they have been deploying infrastructure way underground. So they won't be so easily degraded from the air. The US massively underestimated the "cakewalk" in Iraq. Iran is a completely different kettle of fish.
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  23.  @tonyrobin3124  Ah! so you've seen the entry requirements on US forces applications forms.
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  24. Toryism, a welfare state for the rich.
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  25.  @djsandford  I'm a pensioner. I pay tax to live in a civilised society. I have no problem paying for the next generation to be educated because anyone but a complete idiot (there are plenty of those here) can see that the alternative is a damned sight more expensive. What I do object to is subsidising those who want to elevate their mediocre offspring above the rest of us. That's how we got Rishi Sunak and Tony Blair!
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  26. ​ @davidgardiner4720  Indeed. The phrase was one of Thatcher's favourites and had originally come from a Mont Pelerin session where a whole litany of similar cliches were developed. "Let the Tall Trees grow" was another one along with "Keep politics out of [insert industry threatened with regulation or nationalisation]". Very little of the phraseology of the right is as organic as they'd like you to think.
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  27. I'm white. My Dad lost an eye in 1940 fighting against people like this. I can't be bothered calling them "gammon". They're Nazis.
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  28.  @theoilandgasresourceportal2132  What would a bus driver be doing at a middle-class dinner party?
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  29. For at least 70 years the so-called Centre Right has attempted to ward off electoral pressure from the Fascists/ultra-nationalists with appeasement. Instead of challenging and pushing back against their hateful agenda they have compromised with it. Consequently, they have normalised racism, homophobia and misogyny. They have turned the likes of Le Pen, Wilders and Meloni into mainstream politicians.
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  30. Of course the UK's economy was growing the fastest. That's because it had sunk further than the others. The dead cat had further to bounce.
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  31.  @remoanersrknts6736  Er, how about by the level of poverty that was inflicted? Not really something which matters to most economists because the poor are nothing more than an abstract statistic to them.
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  32.  @remoanersrknts6736  Austerity (per Osborne and Cameron) was years before Brexit! But anyone who thinks that Brexit hasn't increased poverty needs someone to button them up the back. It's made everyone poorer but especially those at the bottom of the scale. But you've made my point for me. For some people, poverty is just a "measure". They haven't a clue what it actually means.
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  33.  @remoanersrknts6736  I know my wages haven't kept pace with inflation. When I go to the supermarket, I'm paying at least 30% more than I was before Brexit. That's when what I want is on the shelves, that is. And fresh food is always of a lower quality and less fresh. I used to be able to shop once a week but now, any vegetables I buy are unusable after a few days. (source: real life ). Meanwhile, food rots in the fields because there is no one to harvest it or sits in lorry queues at ports caused by the extra red tape Brexit has brought about. And higher wages don't mean a thing for those people who worked in jobs which were dependent on exporting to Europe or have been moved to The Republic of Ireland or the continent in order to keep trading. Cos, unemployment rates certainly haven't gone up 16%. Don't worry. I've no illusions about being able to convince you. That's only possible with rational people who actually live in the real world. But it doesn't matter. The proportion of the UK which still supports this disaster is down at 33% and falling as reality catches up. Opposition to it is now at 57% and rising. ( source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-poll/ )That's quite a margin. You can whitter on all you like but you're a small and shrinking minority and no one cares.
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  34.  @remoanersrknts6736  Yes. It's due to a drop in house prices which is due to a drop in demand because everyone is poorer.
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  35. They put their children in fee paying schools to get a jump on other, cleverer children. That why we have clueless morons like Rishi Sunak, David Cameron or Tony Blair getting to positions of power. If there is one single factor which explains the UK's decline, it is the public school system.
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  36. "Bibi on notice", my pimply bottom! This is the equivalent of the spoiled Pomeranian being told "Mummy will be very cross" if it keeps crapping on the carpet. Netanyahu will carry on murdering civilians and Genocide Joe will keep on helping him to do it.
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  37.  @polmcsuibhne7657  You don't think that losing the support of Labour voters is a problem for a Labour leader? There you go then...
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  38.  @polmcsuibhne7657  We all do. What's your point?
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  39. ​ @polmcsuibhne7657  That's not a point.
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  40.  @polmcsuibhne7657  Yes. I see what your point is now. It wasn't worth the effort it took to get you to explain it.
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  41.  @polmcsuibhne7657  You do "truth"? That would be the problem. I prefer facts and analysis, properly explained and debated.
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  42. It's a crazy situation. A substantial part, possibly a majority of the population of a country is actively supporting the committing of war-crimes. Israel is literally becoming a war-criminal nation. No country exhibiting the policies it is currently pursuing should be considered part of the civilised world. In fact, it is a very real and present danger to it.
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  43. What utter nonsense! There are also Episcopal courts for Christians and Beth Din courts for Jews. All three operate under the same rules: that they are limited to certain kinds of civil cases; that both parties have to elect to use them; that both parties have to agree to be bound by their decisions; that no remedy the court prescribes can breach British laws. It is of course outrageous that superstitions have such legal status but if you're going to reject one then you have to reject all.
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  44. So you think that you should be let off VAT for a commercial transaction so that you can benefit your child above others? I'm a pensioner and you're asking me to do here is subsidise your child's education. When all is said and done, you're nothing but a scrounger.
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  45.  @siangriffiths3691  Education is not a personal economic good that you buy for yourself! It's a social good which benefits everyone in society. You're not paying for my kids. Nor am I. We all pay for the next generation to be educated. Why? Because it will cost a damned sight more if they (all of them) are not educated. See how well capitalism does with an uneducated population. What you're paying extra for is for your kids to be elevated above others - whether they merit it or not. That's why this country has been led by total numpties like Tony Blair, David Cameron, and Rishi Sunak. Everyone forgets that private schooling has two massive downsides: First of all, people who have genuine talent and ability are failed for lack of resources; Secondly, people without talent or ability are elevated beyond their abilities to the detriment of all of us. Yes. If they pay VAT, they'll be able to reclaim VAT on inputs. That applies to all businesses. Do you seriously think that's controversial? Were you privately educated too?
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  46. The debate shouldn't have gone ahead without representation from other parties. The fact is that Starmer is frightened of being challenged from the left. If he had to answer the arguments of Greens, Plaid Cymru and the SNP, it would show that there is little difference between him and Sunak. At the other end of the scale, Sunak would benefit from the opportunity to distance himself from Reform UK. He does himself no favours by competing with them for nastiness.
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  47. ​ @davecross4493  Thanks for that. I love satire. The one that made me laugh most was the "Labour's Broader vision" paragraph. When I joined the Labour Party 50 years we didn't even have to oppose anyone as right-wing as Starmer. They existed but they were on the most right-wing fringes of the Tory Party. What you call "far-left ideologies" formed the core of the Labour Party's policies at the time. It is quite disgusting that the media protects him from being exposed what he is.
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  48.  @lewis123417  Nope. Starmer has chickened out of them. He's not able to be challenged from the left. It will emphasise the fact that Starmer's Labour Party is, for all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from the Tories
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  49.  @davecross4493  That's very good. Do you patronise people for a living? If not, you should consider taking it up professionally. Labour has to ditch the working class to be electable? What about condoning genocide? Is that a "progressive value". We're told this charlatan is likely to be Prime Minister soon. It won't be with my vote. Most of my work colleagues also won't be voting Labour, nor my working-class extended family, nor my working-class neighbours. I have to wonder where the pollsters are getting their percentages from. Do they know where to find the working class? Or do they just consider those votes to be banked for Labour? If they do, they're in for a nasty surprise.
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  50.  @eerr1438  Indeed. And England is not Britain - though many people seem unable to tell the difference.
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