Youtube comments of Henry Law (@henrybn14ar).

  1. They aren't sanctions. They are a boycott, and self-harming.
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  2. It's obvious. It happened at the start of the university year. It was done as a prank by Swedish students.
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  3. Numbers and types of migrants here in Sweden are ludicrously higher than the ability of the country's resources, institutions and economy to absorb them. To make matters worse, the tax system locks people out of the kind of work that migrants traditionally took up to support themselves. VAT, the Eurotax, in Sweden has almost killed off market trading and tradesmen working independently. Meanwhile, earnings from crime are tax free. All that before we even consider the differences in culture and values. The result is a crime wave
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  4. Singapore-on-Thames? Bring it on. Complete with a Singapore type tax system to make it work properly.
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  5. Sea temperatures at Brighton peak around the first week in August at around 18 degrees. This has been the case since the end of WW2.
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  6. There has never been a deal to be had.
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  7. The resentment this caused has simmered for decades. At last the UK has got shot of this nonsense. The UK government must not replicate the policy after Brexit.
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  8. The authorities have got their heads in the sand here in Sweden.
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  9. These demonstrations are a show of power.
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  10. The head of WHO has an disturbing biography.
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  11. They need to double the track and build back to Carlisle, and might as well electrify it as well for 100 mph running to provide a diversion from the WCML. Machester-Edinburgh would be a useful inter-city link.
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  12. Women in yellow: Her descendants are turning in their graves? Surely not, unless she has had a family tragedy?
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  13. Why is this even being discussed? "Islamophobia" is NewSpeak, an invention intended to shut down discussion.
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  14. We have lots of wind and solar energy in Sweden. Pity it is freezing outside, there is no wind, the sky is completely overcast and the sun sets at half past three.
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  15. The worst of this is that the Swedes have not been allowed a referendum about joining NATO.
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  16. ​ @abbofun9022  Gibraltar belongs to the people who live there. It hasn't been stolen from anyone. Discussion of its status should not be on the agenda unless the people initiate a demand for change.
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  17. Kosovo 1389 is still of immense importance for Serbians.
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  18. Sri Lank is yet another country well endowed with natural resources, ruined by political and economic mismanagement.
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  19. In his sermon on Sunday, Patriarch Kyrill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, gave strict orders that people should absolutely not go into churches. He said that the example of St Mary of Egypt should be followed at this time. St Mary of Egypt is a popular saint among the Orthodox; she spent 47 years in solitude in the desert and never went into a church; at the very end of her life she was discovered by a monk who brought her the Holy Communion and then she died.
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  20. I am baffled at the fact that Caroline Lucas is not a leading Brexiteer. The EU's fishing and agricultural policies have been an environmental disaster.
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  21. The virus is so deadly that you don't know you were infected.
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  22. The EU resembles the Soviet Union in its dying days. The Commissioners do the bidding of the lobbyists. It would be difficult to devise a worse set of policies than the CAP, VAT, the Tariff Wall and the Euro. Germans do not benefit from the artificially low Euro. It means that German workers have to work one day a week more than they would have to do if Germany had its own currency.
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  23. The EU has not "witnessed" high inflation. The European Currency Board has caused it. The entire EU trade policy has always been based on self harm.
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  24. Green is the colour of Islam. This happened to the Green Party in Sweden
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  25. I had a lot of difficulty in obtaining a vitamin D test here in Sweden, though I eventually succeeded in getting it from my GP service. There has been little publicity about Vitamin D, despite the low levels of sunlight and the large population of migrants with dark skin.
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  26. Those who have made these decisions need to be placed in secure custody.
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  27. We cannot even talk about this in Sweden. The moderators remove the comments from the newspaper web sites unless they conform to the narrative.
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  28.  @josephryan9230  Pity nobody took Kaliningrad when Russia tried to give it up after 1989.
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  29. We kicked ourselves in the teeth by boycotting Russian energy and the US or Ukrainians or British blew up the gas pipeline.
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  30. Ukraine is in a part of world where borders have been disputed since time immemorial. If you provoke your neighbours you are asking for trouble.
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  31. The UK killed its manufacturing sector with its idiotic tax system. Even a window tax would be better. The UK tax system is nothing but a system of fines and penalties for successfully engaging in legal economic activity
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  32. Halal slaughter is definitely brutal. Don't know the details of kosher slaughter. Animal welfare generally leaves a lot to be desired.
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  33. Trust the experts. Follow the science.
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  34. It is easy to get out of inflation. The government has to follow the same policy as the German government did at the end of 1923, when it introduced a new currency, the Rentenmark, backed on the yield from a land value tax. This was successful and put the German economy into good shape until US bankers killed it off at the end of the 1920s and the rest is history.
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  35. Sweden will be interesting. It might get off relatively lightly despite the official response. The people need no encouragement to distance themselves socially. Looking around the town in Gothenburg, is seems as if the advice about social distancing has been followed enthusiastically, even though the authorities are still advising to continue travelling as usual. I guess a lot of people have gone off to their summer cottages. Public transport is almost empty and the national railways have cut one in four services due to lack of passengers. The next week should be instructive. The sun is starting to get stronger so we can get extra vitamin D from sitting out.
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  36. Please make another one now that the election has happened.
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  37. Nobody is talking about the supply difficulties, delays and added costs that will hit consumers and manufacturers in the EU after, and because of, Brexit. These will be disruptive, especially in the Irish Republic, and it will all be the EU's fault. Should be interesting. If the public in the EU is clued up, there will be a wave of anger against Brussels. It could even set the EU on the road to implosion. Please do a piece on Mercantilism, the seventeenth century economic theory which has always driven EU trade and economic policy, and that of the EEC before it. Mercantilism was shown to be false by all the classical economists, including Adam Smith in his famous book 'Wealth of Nations'. Why the EU runs polices based on a theory which went out with the Phlogiston theory is an interesting question.
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  38. I meet a lot Serbians. They loathe the EU nearly as much as they loathe NATO. Then there is the business of Kosovo. Orthodox Christianity retains a significant hold, and its values are diametrically opposed to EU values.
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  39. Cyrillic, has no ascenders and descenders, which make it more difficult to read at a glance than Latin eg road signs. But Latin can also get difficult if it has a lot of accents and diacritic marks.
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  40. I wonder if Putin has noticed? The Russians could probably get a fleet of tanks and APCs ashore without opposition.
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  41. It's the price of housing for families that is the trouble. We don't need migrants.
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  42. Your brother probably realised that if he took and entry-level job, he would be worse off. The system encourages it.
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  43. Hahaha, who's talking about rules of law and freedom of speech?
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  44. The independent Ukrainian church was recognised by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Unfortunately, there is doubt as to whether he had the authority to do so and if the canonical procedure was correctly followed. This leaves the status of the independent church as uncertain. It is significant that the other Orthodox Patriarchs have not recognised the independent church.
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  45. If the Guardian supports anything it almost certainly wrong.
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  46. There will not be another war unless Hamas provokes it.
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  47. Rioting muslims in Malmö Sweden yesterday. No arrests made. That will give Alternativ för Sverige a boost. We need some policies that offend the EU establishment.
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  48. Regulation 18B needs to be reintroduced.
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  49. It's VAT. Before that it was Purchase Tax. Also PAYE Income Tax, which is a burden on business, as well as BOTH employers' and employees' NI.
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  50. Here's hoping that this will hasten the long overdue demise of the EU.
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  51. ​ @mrir2008  Islam is the greatest colonialist project in the history of the world. They are trying to colonise Sweden, which never colonised any Muslim country.
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  52. Australia is an important source of China's coal and iron ore.
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  53. It has been like this since the underground opened. The air at Highgate used to be thick with dust due to trains with brake blocks coming down the hill from East Finchley and braking hard all the way. It ought to be better now that trains have regenerative braking which creates less dust. The characteristic smell of the tube is dust and a bit of ozone.
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  54. People used to claim the the EU was a force for peace Long ago I would argue that it could lead to a large scale conflict with a non-EU grouping of some kind.
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  55. It makes you something when you focus on Israel and ignore all the other crimes against humanity going on around the world eg China, Iran, Yemen, Papua New Guinea. Do you see what I mean? Who started this anyway? What do you think that the Israelis ought to do? Nothing? Should they just let the terrorism continue?
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  56. Russia and the UK are potentially valuable for each other after Brexit. They are complementary economies.
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  57. The EU are experts at self-harm. The entire Single Market and CAP are an example of how the EU punishes consumers and business inside it.
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  58. There is almost nothing worth reading on the Guardian's website this week.
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  59. Too late. Read 'The Brothers Karamozov'. The west is where Russia was at the end of the 1870s. Hell is coming within the next 30 years. The west forgot its Christianity. The churches forgot their Christianity. The only significant Christian leadership world-wide is in a surprising place. The place where, 50 years ago is the one where it would least have been expected.
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  60. How can students have two votes? That is illegal, surely?
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  61. Having an economics degree makes the graduate a menace to the public.
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  62. A lot of Hungarians would no doubt welcome expulsion from the EU
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  63. The LibDems too. And the Guardian. The traditional free trade Liberals must be turning in their graves at their successors' support for the uber-protectionist EU.
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  64.  @gerrytowie9618  Except that there is plenty of evidence that they are useless or harmful.
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  65. "We're going to make you poorer" They don't know the difference between sanctions and a boycott.
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  66. Because there is space for them all in Ireland.
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  67. Excellent sign.
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  68. Interesting. This is in line with the ancient rule of thumb, that the price of a field is 20 harvests.
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  69. They wouldn't do that.
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  70. I think it is time you stop making these. 1) You are giving them the oxygen of the publicity they crave. 2) It will wear you down in the end. 3) The best way to fight it is to present another, better way to live one's life.
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  71. Anne Widdicombe.
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  72. Regional economic imbalance is inevitable when tax systems ignore the effects of geographical advantage and disadvantage. The disadvantaged locations are below the margin at which profitable economic activity can take place. This is an example of Ricardo's Law of Rent, which is, apparently not taught in most economics courses.
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  73. The Guardian is a useful source. It tells you what not to think.
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  74.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  Same here in Sweden. There were no foreign adventures.
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  75. People are fed up with it but the government is lackadaisical.
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  76. The religious programme 'Sunday' has got bad. There was a nasty report on the Russian Orthodox Church last week, emphasising the negative aspects.
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  77. It is a good way of making people not believe a word they say.
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  78. That follows from basic Darwinist theory.
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  79. The party might have peaked but the resentment against mainstream policies keeps on growing. "Far Right" and ******phobia are badges of honour.
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  80. In my day boys normally fell in love with steam locomotives. Diesels don't really cut it apart from a few noisy brutes like classes 20, 33, 37, 40. 55 and 66. Electrics are nowhere. Zero carbon will kill off interest in trains.
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  81. ​ @studentstudent5044  WHO in Sweden is rich?
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  82. Master F*** Up.
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  83. The Swedes used to do compassion and now they regret it.
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  84. Freedom of the press? Lots of things cannot be mentioned.
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  85. Takkia on full display by the first speaker.
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  86. 7 October has also backfired, hasn't it?
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  87. Nice ikons on the wall.
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  88. Self harm is the EU way.
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  89. All the money created by Quantitative Easing since 2008 was bound to come pouring out in the end.
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  90. When the formal political system is so far out of touch with the public mood, politics moves out of parliament into the street.
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  91. Not an official word on D here in Sweden. You would have thought that they would have given D priority especially before the vaccine was available. Pi55 poor performance. Credibility nil.
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  92. My estimate is that Boris got into the habit of playing the clown at school because he did not want to be seen as too clever. Sticking out as too bright does not go down well at boarding school, and the habit of playing the clown has stuck.
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  93. They don't want people to know the real causes.
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  94. The Amish could end up having to migrate to Russia to continue their way of life. Oddly enough it is similar to that of the Orthodox Old Believers.
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  95. ​ @SteveGreenwood-gb7dc  Who is buying the drugs?
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  96. I thought that Zelensky's victory parade in Red Square was imminent.
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  97.  @tubemonks  Carbon dioxide diffuses due to molecular movement so it is fairly evenly spread. If all the carbon dioxide separated out it would form a layer about 3 metres thick at the surface. That said, the whole concept of greenhouse gases is a misnomer. Greenhouses do not affect radiation. Sit in a greenhouse on a cold clear night and you will freeze. You are probably right to say that water vapour is the most important substance which holds in heat. The main instrument of climate change (if it is a genuine phenomenon) is probably deforestation. The severity of the floods is mostly due to fast run off in the Pennines because of EU-subsidised sheep farming, which means that the land cannot act as a sponge.
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  98.  @mathrocksucks  The "refugees" who arrived in 2015 mostly turn out not to have been refugees at all. They have bust the Swedish government and are behind the crime wave. That is quite a lot to be afraid of, don't you think?
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  99. Dad conscripted into the army and absent for five years. Repeat x several millions. Many faathers never came back.
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  100. Only 2 steps?
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  101. Stalin grabbed a chunk of Hungary after WW2 and pasted it into Ukraine SSR, complete with a few hundred thousand Hungarians, who have had a bad deal since Ukraine became independent. It would nor be surprising if Putin has done a deal to hand back this land, in exchange for keeping quiet Hungary was part of the Ottoman Empire under 1683. After that experience they are wary about having the sort of migrant influx that countries from Sweden to France have had. The political troubles that are affecting these countries are making a lot of people look with envy at Hungary. Hopefully they will keep up the opposition to Sweden joining NATO.
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  102. Anything advocated by The Guardian is exactly what should not be done. It is a 100% reliable guide for what to avoid.
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  103. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA is a declaration of genocide.
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  104. ​ @stephenjones6500  Who is his master?
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  105.  @saabsa  The British are perfectly capable of eating all the fish their fishermen can catch.
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  106. The world has had years to stop this, before 7 October.
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  107. It's going to be messy when it happens.
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  108. The unpalatable truth is that this can only be stopped by a convincing threat of force. There is also the "push" factor to consider Why are so many young people leaving a continent endowed with so many valuable natural resources?
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  109. ​ @twenty_four24.  Islam has two faces.
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  110. You are a rational person. The people who run Gaza are not. The Israelis left in 2005., Gaza is world class real estate. It could have been another Singapore by now. The Israelis would not have stopped it. Hate prevents rational thinking. The people of Gaza have brought the on themselves. If you are on the side of reason and decency then you have to take the side of the Israelis.
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  111. Professor Kaldor warned against having a single currency in the mid-1960s.
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  112.  @canadiannavigator3346  I shouldn't think this crowd go anywhere near the wall.
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  113. Executives of banks that need to be bailed out should be automatically arrested and charged with fraud. Banking fraud should be a crime punishable by execution. These banking frauds have become a regular occurrence. The cause is always the same: reckless lending backed by weak security. Those responsible know exactly what they are doing.
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  114. I suspect that after 700 years of squeezing, it is finally over for the Serbs in Kosovo. The monks are trying to hold on but they might do better to set up in places like the UK and stiffen up the Orthodox presence in Western Europe. Someone has to fill the gap left following the collapse of the other churches, including the RCC. NATO has behaved disgracefully.
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  115. Sweden's economy has been taxed to death for decades. Honest work is punished. The property tax was heavily capped, pumping up the housing bubble. Large scale migration has been catastrophic for education, crime, employment, housing and social cohesion.
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  116. It's the usual sloppy TLDR.
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  117. Zelensky will be taking the salute in Red Square by Christmas.
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  118. The threats to Europe come from within.
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  119. Time they Turks got out of Cyprus.
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  120. The truth goes against Jack's narrative. 😊
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  121. In the old days the Swedish would have brokered a peace conference.
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  122. Bosnia is another Lebanon only with two Christian camps and no love lost between them either, with memories of the Ustase only just beyond living memory. A lot of western European countries will be facing these conflicts in a couple of decades.
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  123.  @sulosky  Sweden is already lost.
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  124. Excellent. The man has the right touch. But the UK also needs to build its bridges with Russia, for trade apart from anything else.
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  125. ​ @thefreedomguyuk  OBSTRUCTION OF THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY.
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  126. Wouldn't it be more efficient to send this hardware straight to the scrapyard?
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  127. ​ @zekkiy  There is nothing good about eye slam. The more you see of it, the worse it looks.
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  128. The competition for unpopularity is tough. Failed migration policies and their knock on effects are also behind the disapproval. Funny this wasn't mentioned.
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  129.  @tozmom615  You cannot altogether blame people for living on benefits if they would be worse off if they took the sort of job they are likely to get.
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  130. The entire tax system is a structure of fines and penalties for successfully engaging in legal economic activity. If you argue that taxes should be based on ability to pay, and equate 'ability to pay' with incomes, this is the result.Taxes on wages, goods, services and imports are all theft. Which leaves land value taxation as the only way of raising public revenue which is not theft. That is the Singapore and Taiwan way. But the last time there was a suggestion of change, the private member's bill was squeezed out of parliamentary time. Root and branch reform is needed.
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  131. The coal in South Wales is clean burning and of high calorific value.When it burns it smells like incense. Unfortunately the coal seams are difficult to mine, which is why they closed early. A remotely steered robot needs to be developed to recover this valuable fuel.
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  132. Banning him proves he must have been more right than he thought. In the meantime YT will lose audience and viewers for its advertising. He must be annoying Mssrs Swab, Tsures and Stink.
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  133.  @bikingcopenhagen4068  Nobody was originally from where they are today.
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  134. Ukraine holds a bit of Hungary that was nibbled off by Stalin. That might have something to do with things.
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  135. The Guardian has been a joy to read this week. They are panicking.
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  136. Taxed to oblivion
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  137. where are the young men with pitchforks on the Sussex beaches?
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  138. Me too and I am more concerned about the invasion that Sweden has already had.
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  139. The Guardian website has become the epicentre of woke. It is a reliable guide as to what not to think. If the Guardian supports something or someone you can be pretty much certain that it is or they are a bad thing
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  140. Those two countries would go straight over to the Russian side.
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  141. The general public is alarmed at the creeping islamification all over Western Europe.
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  142.  @icuigloo  Great. Give all the Gazans a refuge. You have plenty of space and they will fit in nicely, though I don't know if they will take to Irish bacon.
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  143. He has probably noticed the cost of shipping goods from Zeebrugge to Dublin, a 40 hour crossing.
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  144. Get rid of the Eurotax,VAT. It is probably the most damaging and inefficient tax ever invented. The true yield is probably little more than a third of the headline figure. It is a major government expense in its own right.
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  145. There are comedy acts all round - Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Ukraine - all the WEF puppets. They make Putin look like a wise statesman in comparison..
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  146. It is exactly what happened to Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism in the whole of North Africa, Turkey, Persia, Syria, Afghanistan, Central Asia, half of India and Indonesia under the tide of murderous Islamic expansionism. That would make a good programme too.
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  147. Why? What can they contribute? Too many of them will never be able to support themselves and their families.
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  148. ​ @DiogoJ1  Since the EU is trying to punish Russia by not buying their gas, it would be morally wrong to take Putin's gas for nothing.
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  149. The British negotiators are playing a dangerous game. The approach seems to be 'We will shoot ourselves in the feet if the EU shoots itself in the feet". It is not a sound negotiating position. The losers from tariffs are consumers and manufacturers in the country whose government imposes them. The UK government should announce that as from 1 January 2021, no tariffs will be imposed on imports. If the other side do not want to be as sensible, it's their funeral.
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  150. ​ @magicponyrides  Copes? What is a cope?
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  151. Please make another one now that the election has happened.
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  152. The weaponry the factories make is piling up in store. It will have to be used soon or there will nowhere to put the new stuff rolling off the production lines.
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  153. The last place in Europe where steam locomotives are in constant use.
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  154. Sweden suffers from over dependence on insecure and unreliable IT systems which go down all too often.
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  155. It's a funny old world. The EU is insisting that the Irish Republic imposes sanctions on itself against the entry of goods from the UK. The EU Single Market is based on the principle of self-imposed sanctions.
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  156.  @louminarty  By putting military infrastructure into hospitals. There is your war crime.
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  157.  @PVAPlayy  And promoted vitamin D. No better in Sweden unfortunately.
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  158. ​ @virtualworldsbyloff  Only a few places need to be stopped up. Funny how they managed to build them with a total blockade going on.
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  159. I stopped listening when the commentator referred to her as "far right".
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  160. Brilliant liar.
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  161. The Irish Republic just needs to leave too. It makes no economic sense for it to stay if the UK is not in.
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  162. Invest in tinfoil hat futures.
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  163. Can you draw it on a map ?
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  164. Ukrainians have form. The Chmielnetski statue has a place of honour in Kiev.
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  165. A colleague lent it to me to read. I got on a Piccadilly Line train at Finsbury Park, meaning to travel to Earl's Court. I remember the first stop, Arsenal, then I was woken up by cold air coming into the train at Baron's Court, but the doors were closing before I could get off, so had to continue to Hammersmith and go back three stations.
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  166. The note was written in 2015.
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  167. Millions of people have been and are brought up with fathers who were or are away at wars; many fathers never came back. This started with the industrial warfare from 1914 onwards.
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  168. Take them home with you
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  169.  @SarastistheSerpent  The fascism is Islam. The collaboration goes back over 80 years.
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  170. Gaza is, potentially, world class real estate. Tax free zone, rail link from Alexandria to Tel Aviv, Halifax, Beirut and Tripoli, Freeport, international air hub, solar farms and winter holiday resort. It could become Singapore on steroids. This could have happened in 2005, and one then has to ask why it did not?
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  171. The Swedish commentator is obviously forced to be careful what he says.
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  172. It is rather a silly comment but hardly a reason for expelling a 17 year old. On the other hand he is better off out of the wretched institution. If they were competent the staff would have cracked down on the bullying and he would have been asked to support his ideas in a 1000 word essay.
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  173. The Ukraine fiasco is a symptom of the west's wider collapse, which was well under way in the 1960s.
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  174. The policy is to go for 'herd immunity'. Older native Swedes tend to be a bit reclusive anyway and inclined to be a bit obsessional about cleaning so they carry on as usual. Many have summer cottages to retreat to. Ethnic minority communities will be differentially affected, especially as they are in majorities in the big cities, with large families and children at school who will carry the infection home. If the aim was to cull the immigrant community, the authorities could hardly have thought of a better method. Then there will be an almighty political row. Those in charge have not been very bright.
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  175. Sweden's entry into NATO is not so popular in Sweden. The country is broke, with soaring inflation and an unsustainable tax burden which is slowly destroying the economy. There is more concern about the unchecked gang warfare and crime wave.
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  176. ​ @alsoascot02  The Christian churches should teach Christianity. Take it or leave it.
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  177. Then there is the disgrace of the Swedish application to NATO. The traditional Swedish approach would have been to broker a ceasefire and peace conference.
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  178. The sooner the EU closes down, the better.
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  179. They should be in police cells awaiting charges for criminal damage.
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  180. If it had not been for the famine of 1783, caused by a volcanic eruption, France would probably have evolved into a constitutional monarchy. There is hardly a country in the world that is not suffering from bad governance.
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  181. The German economy was kept going by lending money to southern Europe.
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  182. The air quality in some streets in the middle of Glasgow was terrible when I was there in 2019. Hope Street is uphill on a bus route. The buses were the culprits. They shouldn't have got rid of the trams. Some of them were only 8 years old when they scrapped them in 1962.
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  183. Watch Colonel Macgregor to get the complete picture. A few local advances do not alter the reality that it's all over for the Ukrainians. The ammunition is running out. The supply of trained soldiers is running out. The supply of suitable men for army is running out. They should not have followed Johnson's advice when the Russians began to move last year.
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  184. The old Law Lords will need to be reinstated but that will need a proper reform of the House of Lords.
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  185.  @bighands69  The latter is more dangerous. Its effects will last more than a couple of seasons.
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  186. ​ @xiontion9993  Islamic Standard Operating Procedure.
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  187. Some criticised and some went along with it. The Dutch got punished for their criticism. The French, Belgians and Italians have an honourable record. The Polish less so. The Lithuanians, Croatians and Ukrainians were keen collaborators. The Catholic Croatians tried to exterminate the Orthodox Serbians.
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  188. They will have to ban a certain holy book.
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  189. Tried to buy from a Russian website yesterday but the transaction failed. I will have to spend £150 on getting the item repaired when I could have got a new one for £40. Visa has blocked payments. They are trying to punish Putin by punishing their own customers.
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  190. Truss should stand firm. The EU protected Single Market is something that you don't want to be in. If the Republic wants a border then they can put one up for themselves. Everything you try and buy from outside the EU gets seized by customs. The EU is trying to make a grab for sovereignty. While Truss is at it she should scrap the Eurotax, VAT. It is the most inefficient and damaging tax ever invented.
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  191.  @mathish1477  Nobody wanted Kaliningrad in 1992.
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  192. The EU does not do free trade; free trade does not stop at any border. Few countries in the world have tax policies that are anything other than both immoral and ruinous.
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  193. Shallow analysis - it does not refer to the damaging effect of tariffs and the way that tariffs prevent the effective operation of competitive advantage. From that perspective, there are better prospects of trade between countries with complementary economies. The UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands are similar advanced industrial economies which are competitive rather than complementary. The EU's regional policies have been ineffective. The whole structure works to the advantage of the geographical core, and against the periphery.
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  194. Christianity is built on a community of spiritual fellowship and always has been. You need to come to church and participate. We encourage each other, pray together and support each other in time of need. When two or three are gathered together in my name, I am in their midst. The disciples recognised Him, the Risen Christ, at the breaking of bread.
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  195. mrtomjoy Have you tried reading the Koran? If you persist it will addle your brain. And proper Muslims learn the whole poisonous bundle of hate literature by heart.
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  196. Harming them? Cheap bread shock horror.
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  197. The Shababa text is itself offensive to Christians. That is its aim and purpose.
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  198. Another evil Ottoman legacy.
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  199. This will go down in the annals of infamy. If anyone should be brought to court it should be whoever was responsible for IT security.
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  200. How long does it take to set up manufacturing facilities?
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  201. Does the Republic want to take on Northern Ireland?
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  202. Please look deeper into this. The burden of Income Tax is on the employer. We need to look behind the illusion of gross pay. The reality of Income Tax is that it makes it expensive to employ people. The idea of taxing everyone's earned wages is one of the dumbest things in economics in the 20th century, along with Keynesianism and Value Added Tax. This stupidity is going to be very difficult to shift because it is embedded in Oxbridge and the London School of Economics.
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  203. Brexit has just been a nuisance for ordinary people in the EU. The wretched Single Market means that there is a lot of stuff we can no longer obtain easily. This is not trivial. We cannot get English language text books for university courses in under six weeks from when they are ordered. I had to drop a distance course at a Swedish university because of this. It is also a problem for libraries Hopefully the EU will soon be history.
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  204.  @bravoalley228  VAT is EU legislation.
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  205. Gaza is potentially one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the world. If the people are still having a hard time two decades after the Israelis got out, they have only themselves to blame.
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  206. Marx's Labour Theory of Value is wrong. The value of an item is not, and cannot possibly be, related to the amount of work and the materials that go into it. This theory was applied to pricing in the Soviet Union, with sometimes comical results. Unfortunately, this led to a reaction in which economists falsely claimed that work and value are unrelated. Value does indeed come from labour but not in the way that Marx asserted. There is a full discussion of the relation between value and labour in 'The Science of Political Economy' by Henry George. http://schalkenbach.org/library/henry-george/science-of-political-economy/spe214.html
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  207. The government has messed up badly in failing to take advantage of Brexit opportunities.
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  208. The border might, with advantage, and subject to the agreement of the inhabitants, be revised.
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  209.  @Mariemarie-uw7id  Hopefully these idiots will be punished. I get the impression that people are taking their own precautions.
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  210. ​ You forgot to mention NATO uranium.
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  211.  @marisabenson1222  The meter needs re-calibrating.
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  212.  @robertaspindale2531  There is a long list of differences which favour German industry, and there are also important differences between the tax systems in the two countries. Germany also has the advantage of being in the centre of a land mass rather than being an island, and a currency which is undervalued by around 20%; the latter is not really an advantage as it means that Germans are effectively working for nothing for one day a week. If Germany has done better it despite its tax system, not because of it. If an enemy power wanted to damage the economy of a country, it would impose a tax system like that of the UK.
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  213. Phnom Penh 1975. A product of the Sorbonne philosophy school.
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  214. Putin might have already landed a task force for all anyone would know.
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  215.  @aliengrey6052  Mogg is almost certainly not part of the select circle. He's a trad Roman Catholic. That rules him out.
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  216. Another Oxford University graduate in PPE. They know more when they have just left school than they do when they have got their degrees three years later.
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  217. Hydrogen is never a good transport fuel due to the energy density issue.
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  218. How are things in South Africa now?
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  219.  @ts3784  Even a worm will turn if you provoke it enough.
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  220. The UK has Pannier tanks and Jinty tanks and Hunslet tanks and Thomas the Tank. Around 60 altogether.
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  221. What Swedish democracy? NATO membership overturns two centuries of neutrality, and for what? We have had referenda on far less significant issues. In the meantime the Swedish press has stirred up the Russophobia.
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  222. ​ @Titus9508  The two are, historically, allies.
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  223.  @giovy1922  The Euro is the problem. Europe is too large an area for a single currency. The Euro is undervalued for Germany and overvalued for countries like Greece and Spain. This leads to chronic trade imbalances.
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  224. My thoughts. The sooner the better. It will be cold and uncomfortable though.
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  225. Another fine legacy of the Ottoman Empire. Same story in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, former Yugoslavia and coming soon in countries which have experienced large migrations from former Ottoman Empire countries.
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  226. The EU normally does the opposite of what it needs to do. They are masters of self-harm.
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  227. ​ @brianlopez8855  The French only got into North Africa in the first place because of the raiding from across the Mediterranean.
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  228. EU membership would damage the economy of Ukraine just as it has for the Baltics. There also the little matter of the Hungarians stuck in Ukraine and the Hungarian territory taken by Stalin.
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  229. The Swedish authorities are still being lackadaisical. Official advice is travel as usual! Swedish people seem to be largely ignoring the bad advice. Many have gone off to their summer cottages.
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  230. Cutting the top rate of tax was a top class blunder. They should have realised it would play badly. Having done it they should have stuck to their guns. The economic case is mixed. It would have been better to raise thresholds and allowances.
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  231. Red Square by Christmas.
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  232. The Guardian is an excellent newspaper. You can absolutely rely on it being completely wrong, whatever it writes about.
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  233. He doubles as the Pope.
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  234.  @billgiles3261  that needs to be challenged. Charities are forbidden from political campaigning. The purpose of the charity is in its constitution or Articles of Association.
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  235.  @monteceitomoocher  Pedigree Chum and some dog's biscuits to finish up with.
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  236. Takkia
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  237. "Outfit"? "Right wing"? "Populist"? "Sounds like one of those suits people wear for jumping off mountains. The Guardian don't like it, which means it cannot be all that bad. Another nail in the coffin of the EU. Would TLDR approve of an unpopular left wing gang? Appointing a banker as PM was not exactly tactful.
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  238. Good analysis. The mainstream politicians cannot listen.
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  239. How about a piece on the way that Brexit will push up costs in the E27?
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  240. I thought we had seen the last of the Spider Woman. I would have expected her to lie low after she exposed herself last year.
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  241. It surely has to be said that the letterbox comparison was rather silly. Letterboxes are red.
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  242. Nice Britannia class loco in the background. What scale is it?
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  243. It's our problem. We are the ones who are getting hit with the extra costs.
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  244. Hopefully the time will come when the elected members vote to dissolve the wretched EU. It has become an oppressive and intrusive bureaucracy which is impoverishing most of those who live in it through its incompetence, and is too sclerotic to adapt.
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  245. RNLI more likely. A tidal wave will strike at midnight on 1 November.
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  246.  @frankkobold  English language text books was the one I have come across. This is serious as so many university courses are taught in English. We now have to oder at least 8 weeks before the start of a course. One of the librarians at Gothenburg University Library was complaining about the problem. There will presumably be problems regarding availability of spare parts, components and consumables for equipment made in the UK.
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  247. Wages are not a COST of production. Wages are a SHARE of the production (after it has been sold)
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  248. Highwayman - leader of a gang of bandits.
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  249. No chance of Africa uniting.
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  250. Why should Russia want a Labour government in the UK? What good would it be to them? Russia is full of anti-Marxists, from Putin down.
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  251. They could get one of Network Rail's contractors in.
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  252. Why does Russia have VAT? You could not think of a worse tax, on any of the criteria for a sound tax.
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  253. Yes. It is the argument for land value taxation. Land isn't going anywhere.
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  254. Rousseau is the basis of contemporary educational theory and has been since the 1960s.
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  255. Exactly. Think of it as a punishment from God.
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  256. Self punishment has been the EU and the EEC way since the start.
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  257. Swedes could have trouble getting hold of their favourite sweeties - Fisherman's Friends, made in Fleetwood. And other UK goodies too, such as Stilton and Scotch Whisky, Fuller's draught, Shepherd Neame's and English malt for the home brew and microbreweries. Probably the same story all over the EU. Hopefully people in the EU will realise the source of the problem and direct their anger at Brussels.
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  258. Yes, and Mossad is behind Hamas.
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  259. In 'Protection or Free Trade?', published in 1884, Henry George made a convincing and comprehensive case to show that the nineteenth century protectionist policies did nothing but harm to the economic development of the USA .
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  260. Hamas is as fascist as a regime can be, and it is a direct descendant from the Arab islamic fascists of the 1930s.
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  261. It's not shingles is it? Could there be a connection between Covid or a vaccine side effect?
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  262. The story of Brighton as a little village is a myth. It was a substantial medieval town which suffered from the depredations by the French, and the damage caused by the Great Storm of 1703.
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  263. If the Guardian objects then it must be a good thing.
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  264. Far Right? The scale has just been recalibrated. Far Left was the old centre.
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  265.  @fahimshamsuddin672  Being in the European Union just costs us in Sweden money and causes us trouble. Since Brexit we have even had difficulty buying university course text books because they are normally in English and they get stuck in customs. If you don't order two months before the start of your course you will probably not get them in time. I had to give up a couple because of not being able to get the books. The EU has trashed Internet trading eg Ebay and Amazon. We are even getting hammered for charges if people send gifts. Being in the EU is a curse. EU membership also requires countries to apply Value Added Tax - the most inefficient and damaging tax ever invented. It has destroyed small businesses and street trading which is what migrants traditionally did. This has created a massive obstacle to integration. The EU was a good idea but it was taken over by idiots from the start and just goes on getting worse. There is no way of dislodging these people who run it due to the democratic deficit. It is also nice gravy train for the EU bureaucrats who get tax free salaries. That is why the EU is not popular.
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  266. Sounds like a joint Schwab/Soros venture. Ir has their dirty paw-marks all over it.
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  267. Why are the mainstream media doing this? It is not just reporting of cv. that is being suppressed. The end of it will be a collapse in trust. Heavy censorship here in Sweden.
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  268. Oxford PPE graduates should not be allowed anywhere near the levers of power. Same goes for LSE and Cambridge. VAT needs to be scrapped. Corporation Tax also needs to go in the bin. Business Rates could go up but the valuations need to be kept properly up to date.
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  269. Communism was 100% evil but the problems with 'capitalism' remain. How did land, the gift of God, become private property?
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  270. Henry George predicted this. We are in the last phase of the real-life Monopoly game.
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  271. Good potted summary of Maxwell, but correction: Czechoslovakia was sold out at Munich, not Nuremburg.
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  272. The EU needs no help from anyone in harming the interests of its own people
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  273. Thereby crippling key industries essential to the military, including clothing and scientific R&D. The German army did not have enough winter clothing when about to invade Russia. Mass produced clothing was dominated by a certain group.
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  274. I think you have put your finger on the motivation.
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  275. They might.
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  276. NATO has been doing the dirty on Cyprus for decades. TLDR Forgot to mention the two holocausts of Greeks and Armenians at the end of the Ottoman Empire. 3 million died.
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  277. If the UK government imposes tariffs on imports from the EU, everyone in the UK will suffer. And what would be the point of it? The losers from the EU tariffs are mostly in the EU. Let them get on with their stupidity.
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  278. Tariff the EU into oblivion? UK customers are the ones who will be stung with the price rises, and the quality of UK alternatives would fall if the competition was not there. The whole point of leaving the EU is to get rid of its idiotic tariffs, not to replicate them with the UK's home grown poison.
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  279. Oxford University went bad at least a decade ago.
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  280. In 1914 Chesterton wrote a book called The Flying Inn about this.
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  281. Putin is essentially historically correct about the origin of Ukraine within its present boundaries. It was devised by Stalin in the 1920s, and after 1945, bits were added on from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania. It is also the case that both the EU, the US and NATO has sought to extend their influence, which Russia sees as a threat, quite reasonably. None of which justifies the invasion, which looks like it is going to get dragged out in a prolonged and risky conflict, but it does not help in understanding to ignore how things look from the Russian perspective.
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  282. The authorities have behaved uselessly. https://www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafik/nyhetsarkiv/corona/ Gothenburg is pretty deserted though. I think people have gone off to their summer stugor.
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  283.  @ingurlund9657  I am not so sure about that. The Swedes here in Gothenburg seem to be quarantining themselves without having to be told by the authorities. Darwinist theory will operate. I don't think the lefties are as smart as to work things out the way you suggest.
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  284. https://www.flickr.com/photos/seadipper/28089772935
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  285. Time this war came to an end. The Russians will grind Ukraine down and there will be more dead Russians and Ukrainians, and for what? The two sides should stop fighting and negotiate.
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  286. When I was a child the goods were on shelves behind a counter.
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  287. Borrelia AKA Lyme Disease.
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  288. An independent Scotland in the EU would have an economy like that of Latvia. If that is what you want, go for it.
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  289. ​ @definitelydaniel69420  Russia hasn't blackmailed anyone just for the sake of it.
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  290. And one about Sweden where the second biggest party has been excluded from the government. Funny kind of democracy.
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  291.    What point are you trying to make? The Irish starved during the famine because of the Corn Laws - a tariff on food imports, imposed to protect British landowners. In 1846 the Corn Laws were abolished by a Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. Abolition was the culmination of a campaign which had begun after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and was marked by the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. They were reinstated in 1973 when another Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath, took the UK into the EEC. The CAP, which reintroduced tariffs on food imports, exists to protect landowners. Same old, same old. Who is choking on excremental propaganda?
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  292. That makes the Serbs the good guys
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  293. British waters belong to the British people, not British fishermen or British owners of fishing boats. The fishing licences should be distributed by a system of open bidding at auction.
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  294.  @SteveGreenwood-gb7dc  Who are the customers?
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  295. Too late. The battle is a spiritual one and since it has been going on in the churches - even the great bastion of the Roman Catholic Church has fallen, it is lost. Christian leadership by default now means the the Eastern Orthodox, which in practice is Moscow, astonishingly. The west is finished. The 1917 moment is approaching. Or possibly the 1453 moment. A lot of responsibility will be falling on Israel.
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  296.  @Ivanfpcs Two perfect examples which confirm the point. The single currency makes it impossible to remedy the huge and chronic regional economic imbalances in the countries you mention. This leads to excessive internal migration, rural depopulation, urban slums, social disruption etc. The single currencies suck wealth from the periphery to the core. The Euro is doing the same thing
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  297.  @LizardSpork  The EU/NATO strategy has been to keep on poking the bear. For 30 years.
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  298. Personally I am not keen on these three but they are a targeted and malevolent attack on the national culture..
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  299.  @Subzeropole  Fat chance of there being a father around when there are wars going on all the time. But wars are very profitable. For some.
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  300. If you want to ask for trouble, just continue with the same attitude.
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  301. The 10th century was the time of Alfred the Great.
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  302. They have fallen into a trap. Bishops in those days actually greeted the members of their flock with a Holy Kiss. Santa Claus was was Bishop of Myra in the 4th century. I am not certain if they don't still do it.
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  303. Chmielnitski's statue has pride of place in Kiev. It belongs not in the river but melted down and made into useful castings.
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  304. You can sit at home and freeze if you want.
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  305. @leif viking Yes the Jews pushed the Swedish government into encouraging Moslems to come to Europe so that their own people could be hounded out of, first Malmö and then Gothenburg. BTW check your keyboard. Your caps-lock key is jammed.
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  306. Newspapers in Sweden often publish pictures of criminals but they have pixilated heads. They are almost invariably dark males with beards
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  307. Nice to see the ikons on display
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  308. We need tax reforms to make it worth working and family housing affordable on one income.
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  309. What is the point of extension? The EU is going the way of the Cheshire Cat. There will be nothing left but the grin.
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  310. The EU core trade and economic policies were discredited by the Classical economists over 200 years ago. Unfortunately they were revived in the 20th century, taken up by the German government in the 1930s and carried over into the EEC. The Eurotax, VAT, is probably the most damaging and inefficient tax ever devised. GDP is reduced by at least 0.25% for every 1% of VAT.
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  311. Is there a correlation between severity of symptoms and medications routinely taken eg statins and alpha-blockers?
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  312.  @nineteenninetyfive  How is carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas? Greenhouses work because the glass stops cold air from escaping through convection. Please explain the mechanism.
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  313. A bit like Brexit and vaccination divisions.
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  314.  @mikeyaureliush9017  the money comes from the land value the railways generate. It is is time that the value was taxed.
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  315. In cases of congested lungs, is there a benefit in lying on a tilted board, head down, to allow fluid to run out?
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  316. Norton Antivirus for Windows 3.1?
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  317. What is the carbon footprint of this event?
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  318. The current generation of journalists have done media studies and were brainwashed by their post-modernist lecturers. The movement is derived from late Marxism, as promoted by the Frankfurt school and people like Adorno and Marcuse.
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  319. What a shame. There will be less money for corrupt officials and contractors in the poor countries to line their pockets with. 'Rich' Sweden has run out of money. The great influx of immigrants since 2015 has resulted in the Swedish central and local government having huge liabilities and no resources to meet them with. Good for the UK. It now looks as if, all along, it had been the cornerstone of the whole babel tower. Now it has gone, the edifice will collapse. Here are the policies that would have been needed for a viable and sustainable EU, based on the ideas of the once famous, but now forgotten economist, Henry George. * No agricultural subsidies or guaranteed prices permitted * No taxes to be levied on goods, services, individuals or companies.(with possible exception of alcohol, tobacco and other harmful substances, and gambling) * No tariffs to be charged on imports from outside the EU. * A minimum percentage of public revenue to be raised by a tax on the rental value of land (at least, say 60% on entry, 80% after five years). * A small carbon tax, on the basis that the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is the use of a "common" - though not too much as it hits people in remote and colder regions. * Contributions to the central fund to be in proportion to:the aggregate land rental value of each country, plus revenues from all other taxes (all taxes come out of land rental value - it follows from Ricardo's Law of Rent) Such a scheme would have allowed free movement of people as immigrants could easily have found means of supporting themselves. A common currency would have been possible if desired. The only trouble is that the privileged classes would not have bought the idea, and as they are in charge, the EU will go through an acrimonious break-up.
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  320. I can't think of any country that ticks all your boxes.
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  321. Unseasonably chilly here in Scandinavia this year. Quite wet, too.
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  322. Vets are at least as skilled surgeons as doctors.
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  323. I have swum in the Thames at Oxford and Bourne End - quite a good experience.
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  324.  @naps3386  If the schools are open the pupils will bring the disease home. Parents may have underlying conditions or be in the vulnerable age group. There may be grandparents in the household.
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  325.  @AnHeC  The idea is to have a controlled explosion. Nearly everyone will get it. The point of the restrictions is to prevent a surge of cases. The impact on the economy raises fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of the economy. There are far more people working than in the 1950s. We were told then that by the end of the century, productivity would be so much higher that it would be possible for people to work just two or three days a week, with just one member of the household working. Nowadays, families have both parents working full time to pay the mortgage.
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  326. How about this possible origin for the virus? It was created in the laboratory at Wuhan, but a rogue technician did not incinerate the experimental animals but flogged them off to a trader in the food market.
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  327.  @martinpakes5436  The tariff wall will cause fish shortages and higher prices in the EU. Meanwhile the Brits can eat all the fish their fishermen can catch. As an EU citizen, it is plain that the Brussels clowns are not negotiating in the interests of most people in the EU. They are clueless.
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  328. If, as we know, sanctions are a bad thing, why does the EU persist with its protectionist Single Market, which is self imposed sanctions?
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  329. ​ @desolateones  They work like a refrigerator, backwards, so to speak. But there is only so much outside heat that can be removed and used for heating buildings, especially when it is cold outside. Scandinavian systems extract subterranean heat, ultimately from radioactivity of the granite substratum. The most efficient way to heat buildings is combined heat and power. Green electricity will always be unreliable. If CO2 is really the cause of the purported global warming, then we need a plausible theory to explain the mechanism. CO2 is a poor absorber of infrared radiation.
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  330. Keep up the good work, Darren. Don't backtrack in the face of the Cultural Marxists. No real need to apologise, given the context. Get out there and kick arse.
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  331. She was dressed for a Halloween party.
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  332. "The World" does not have feelings. People have feelings and the ability to think.
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  333. Tax avoidance would be reduced to vanishingly small levels if the tax system was fit for purpose.
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  334. Prigozhin isn’t dead. He is the same person as the Pope, but they might be a clone.
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  335. They didn't have any options.
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  336. Shortly after the Skripal affair, a chemistry academic noted that Novichok could be made by a reasonably competent student who had taken chemistry to A-Level. The Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory happens to be at Porton Down, five miles from Salisbury.
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  337. ​@rogermelly1710 Well done, you noticed. Uri Geller brought down the Iranian helicopter. He has moved on a long way from spoon-bending.
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  338. Election priority (1) Get Brexit done properly. Election priority (2) Keep Labour and the LibDems out. After the election, priority must be to minimise economic disruption. VAT needs to be scrapped and not replaced by a purchase tax.
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  339. Because they can recognise antisemitism when they see it, and know what it leads to.
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  340. Pride is the root of all the other deadly sins.
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  341. A Ukrainian neighbour of mine regularly ferries medical supplies to the country and is in contact with people on the ground. They are losing about 300 people a day. There is a feeling that they are being used as a cat's paw. There is also resentment over the conscription of ethnic Hungarians. The occupation of the historic Kiev Lavra and confiscation of churches has also upset a lot of people. Support for Zelensky could collapse. The two parties ought to stop fighting and talk.
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  342. Ukraine should implement the Minsk accords.
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  343. ​ @heldertorres4296  You are not the one who is losing your customers. Enjoy the winter without your Russian gas.
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  344. I used to like to visit Britain but it's all got too difficult and not worth the trouble. Last time I visited in July, nothing seemed to be working. The sea in Brighton was nice and warm, though. I don't think the country has got over the death of the Queen.
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  345. Not when you consider the diversity of the country. The EU is no friend of the Christian Orthodox, anywhere.
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  346. Many things will cost more in Ireland after Brexit because of the EU tariffs. Ireland needs to follow the UK out of the EU, for the same reasons as it followed it in when the UK joined the EEC.
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  347. The tax system makes matters much worse.
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  348. Thirty years of folly since Gorbachev plus the EEC and EU follies starting in the 1950s. This is a good example of the old maxim that if goods don't cross borders, soldiers will. The UK is also sliding towards a conflict with the EU.
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  349. First they came for the Jews. Then they came for us, but it was too late. Be very afraid.
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  350. Gross incompetence on the part of politicians, the entire economics profession, bankers, and those who how mismanaged relationships with the former Soviet bloc since 1992. This expert commentator is also part of the problem. He doesn't know what he is talking about.
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  351. Isn't it an option in Microsoft Flight Simulator?
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  352. The biggest threats to Sweden are inside the country already. The Swedish military are needed to stop the regular shootings and explosions and bombings in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. Then there is our own government, which, among other things, has run the economy into the ground. I think that is a widely held view. Sweden would benefit hugely from collaboration with Russia. China is another matter as they are busily buying up the country's assets.
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  353. Let the Argentinian sell food to the UK tariff free in exchange for shutting up about the Falklands. The Argentinians could make a decent amount of money from servicing and local trade and the British get a good deal with a useful source of food. Win-win.
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  354. Mahyar - please sharpen up your economics. You really let your channel down. The one-evening-a-week course at the School of Economic Science in Mandeville Place (behind Selfridges) would equip you to take down the nonsense spoken and written by the majority of experts, politicians and journalists, and the damaging policies they are inflicting on the country. They can only get away with it because people do not realise that we are so badly misled by them.
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  355. Can you provide a list of the art works? Who is the Cardinal? And what is the meaning of the winged symbol?
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  356. Well done.
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  357. The worst thing about this action is that Trump owned up to what could have been a mysterious explosion.
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  358. The thugs seem to have been put into uniform.
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  359. Friends arrive back in Sweden last night from Ethiopia, no checks, no quarantine. Deaths statistics might be untrustworthy. The true numbers dying from CV may be fiddled in some countries by recording the co-morbidity as the cause.
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  360. Just like Lewisham
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  361. The Israelis departed from Gaza in 2005.
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  362. Next, direct action on the beaches.
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  363. Georgia is an Orthodox country. A lot of people do not accept EU values.
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  364. Disgraceful scenes. The HoC suddenly starting to look good.
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  365. We need to be clear about the distinction between a boycott, sanctions and a blockade. The EU has been operating a boycott against Russia ie a blockade against itself.
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  366. Unseasonably cold weather here in Sweden. Summer got off to a very late start.
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  367. And Pannier tanks.
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  368. Pure WEF propaganda.
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  369. He can't pronounced a lot of English words properly either.
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  370. Sweden has been losing territory for the past 20 years. The third city, Malmö, has gone, Stockholm and Gothenburg are being eaten away from the edges
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  371. Then there are the countries in the EU where membership is not so popular.
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  372. Can you do a piece on the weapons manufacturers who are producing these items, how much they are making from the extra sales, and how their share prices have been affected? This has been a great opportunity to clear out old stock.
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  373.  @verttikoo2052  There is not much support for the EU here in Sweden these days.
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  374. Join NATO, bring on WW3 and be in the front line, oh yet, very clever Just keep on poking the bear.
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  375. The EU should stop punishing its own industries with import tariffs, the CAP, Value Added Tax and taxes on wages. The EU has destroyed its own economy with the wrong sort of taxes and the wrong economic policies. The EU economy needs protecting against its own politicians.
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  376. The EU got its trade and economic policies from Mein Kampf. They are revival of long discredited 17th century mercantilism.
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  377. ​ @sit-insforsithis1568  Serbians generally don't want to be in a colony of the 4th Reich.
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  378. They could have the Palestinians.
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  379. ​ @RomanLavandos  They could take in the Palestinians. They breed fast, even under genocide.
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  380. The UK government has not made the best of Brexit. VAT, the Eurotax, could have been phased out, and customs controls could have be cut down to the absolute minimum, with scrapping of import duties. The UK also needs to cut loose from the EU Justice and self-styled "human rights" courts.
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  381.  @BoleDaPole  Karma.
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  382. On the face of things, this sentence sounds grossly excessive. A couple of years suspended sentence and being bound over to keep the peace would have been proportionate. My impression is that he cannot be quite all-there to have carried on like that and then defending himself.
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  383.  @annaredding  No comparison.
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  384. They can't pronounce English words properly.
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  385. Santeria
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  386.  @reddoomedearth4020  A society which lived as Man before the Fall ie in the Garden of Eden.
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  387. We often have baptisms in lakes. It's quite normal.
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  388. ​ @jimpaddy79  The wealth comes from the work done by British people.
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  389. ​ @jimpaddy79 Colonisation made people in Britain poorer. It was a vast waste of resources and the main cause of the world wars, as well as earlier wars.
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  390. Good news for us in the EU as we will get cheaper food But these trade deals are nonsensical. Just remove the tariffs. Unilaterally.
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  391. I live in Sweden and living costs seem pretty reasonable to me, as long as one does not expect to buy the same things as one would buy in other countries. The Swedish krona is cheap when bought with UKP. Heating costs are next to nothing due to the district heating system. Beer in a pub or restaurant is expensive but it is stronger than British beer and one just drinks less of it. Meal of the day at a restaurant is normally about £10. Public transport is reasonably priced and of a high standard, so that there is less need to go to the expense of running a car. The Swedish tax system is not sustainable but that should be the subject of another video. VAT in particular locks small and one-man businesses out of the legal economy and is a major reason why immigrants are not integrating, as the traditional things that immigrants did are too difficult due to having to deal with the tax authorities.
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  392. Landowners' and bankers' team.
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  393. ***** I was being sarcastic, but the Israel-haters (aka antisemites) will claim it for real. If people do not want to accept a fact in the face of infinite evidence, what can one do? Then there are the logic-twisters, who cannot follow a straight line of reasoning. People claimed this beheading by Jihadists was a fake http://patdollard.com/2014/03/warning-horrendously-graphic-syrian-christian-forced-to-convert-to-islam-then-beheaded-anyway/
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  394. What is this "capitalism"?
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  395. Simplistic and dishonest. Hayek has been hijacked by the sharks who claim they are in favour of economic freedom when nothing could be further from the truth and their real aim is to grab as much as they can.
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  396. Bring on the war crimes enquiry.
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  397. studyTUBE I said it was a fake video but then I was being sarcastic.
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  398. Yes and Hamas is Mossad operation so that Israel can blockade Gaza and bomb the hell out of the place. Something to think about.
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  399. Anas Aloudeh Your intemperate language is not a good advertisement for your faith or the prophet you follow.
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  400. Anas Aloudeh You sound like just the sort of person I would want to invite to meet my friends. Where did you get your great command of English from?
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  401. Anas Aloudeh If you used polite language it would certainly make me and others think that your faith and your prophet might possibly be the truth, which is the first step to coming to believe in it. The behaviour of Muslims is a major obstacle.
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  402. nasnus999  Zionists are not hated half as much as Muslims in Britain. People have not forgotten the London Underground bombings and the Woolwich murder. Muslims are not too popular in Scandinavia either. There is a little bit of sympathy because Britons and Scandinavians like to take the side of the underdog, but that sympathy will quickly turn to anger if the underdog becomes the oppressor. This applies to both the Israelis and Muslims. When people look at Iraq and Syria sympathy turns to disgust. Two successful terrrorist attacks in Britain and Muslims will be at the receiving end of pogroms.
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  403. Widdicombe would be perfect. Brilliant suggestion.
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  404. Can you please do a piece on how almost everyone is being misled by the resurrection of seventeenth century mercantilist economic theory. This applies to Trump, the EU, the Chinese government abd and most remainers. It is the (ir)rationale behind the Euro, currency wars, the Single Market and Trumponomics
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  405. Fiscal oriented drivel indeed.
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  406. The Scots and the Irish seem determined to emulate Latvia. Nice country cut off from its trading hinterland. The population ebbs away.
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  407. Good riddance. People don't want Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum stooges.
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  408. ​ @LordCoeCoe  Not because of Brexit though.
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  409. A deal with Norway. They have got Swalbard.
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  410. The Guardian was a great admirer of hers.
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  411. It'll all be fooked.
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  412. The influence goes to those who can afford the most effective lobbyists - mostly the Franco-German industrial giants and owners of large agricultural holdings. Which is why EU policies are geared to their interests. They are the same faction as bankrolled the Nazis and fascists between the wars.
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  413. It is a serious distortion of history.
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  414. I am not sure about this always working. I had endless problems with UEFI and had to disable it in the bios, which meant Linux only. It is also a good idea to create separate partitions for the operating system and data.
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  415. I make it that there are over 80 tanks in Britain: 24 Pannier tanks, 9 Jinty tanks and 70 J94 type tanks.
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  416. We still don't know what was the religion of the stabber.
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  417. I wonder about who the police are recruiting.
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  418. He was Catholic. Served at the altar ever Sunday. Or what?
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  419. ​ @andypicken7848  He might have become a Christian Scientist or something.
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  420. Rushi was responsible for the covid helicopter money which is the main reason for the current wave of price rises.
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  421. The low (for them) value of the Euro means that the purchasing power of German workers' wages is at least 10% less than it would be if Germany had its own currency; they would probably be able to enjoy the same standard of living on a four-day week. This is the madness of mercantilsm. For those who do not know, mercantilism was the dominant economic theory in the seventeenth century. It was, among other things, an important reason for the ruination of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. The theory went out with alchemy and the phlogiston theory of combustion, having been thoroughly refuted several times over by 1800; it was finally demolished by Henry George in a book published in 1884. The zombie like resurgence of the discredited mercantilist economics will be of interest to future historians. The UK Government is probably unable and unwilling to punish UK citizens by making it more expensive to buy German cars. The EU is clearly willing to punish Irish citizens by making British goods more expensive for them to buy.
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  422.  @raivisb326  Latvia has been a big loser from being in the EU. Look how the population has dropped. Look at the state of Daugavpils. Riga feels more like a quiet English provincial town than a capital city. Your country is an EU backwater. What happened to RVR?
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  423. It's entertaining, especially the pronunciation of the place names. Makes you wonder about the reliability of the content. Why are they rooting for the one side?
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  424.  @actionfx1  the Swedish taxes have gobbled up by the wave of immigration in 2015.
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  425.  @McSlobo  Swedish taxes have gone down the drain over the last few years. And the people have still not succeeded in changing a bad government.
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  426. The WHO is a serious health hazard.
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  427.  @itchyvet  It's the smoke and noise that attracts the crowds. Introduced in 1960, the 22 Deltic locomotives replaced 55 steam locomotives. But the 22 locomotives had 55 generator sets between them, so they might just as well have ordered 55 new steam locomotives. Unfortunately BR had messed up the design and construction of the prototype Class 8 Duke of Gloucester and its "teething troubles" were not sorted out until well into the 1980s; after its current refurbishment it will be more powerful than the Deltics which replaced the original steam locomotives.
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  428. Can *we * in Sweden survive winter? Electricity is 0.56 Euro per unit, no wind or solar generation at the moment, nukes are closed for maintenance, soaring food prices, minus 7 forecast next week. I am not sure how long support for Ukraine allowing itself to be used as the USA's cat's paw will continue when the bills start to arrive. If Germany is surviving they can thank the Swedes for exporting their electricity.
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  429. They've got money to throw away on climate compensation.
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  430. Perhaps they reflect the population at large more than we would care to acknowledge.
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  431. I know a lot of Serbians. They are invariably anti EU. Membership would do them nothing but harm. They would just become a German colony.
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  432. Too late now. The only hope is for the west to recover our Christianity. This would help to resolve an entire raft of problems. Selection by a random process might work just as well - members of parliament could be chosen in the same way as juries
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  433. What strategic use is Sweden to anyone? We have already been invaded, by consent of the Swedish government. The demographic time bomb is ticking. Swedes are a minority species in the middle of Gothenburg. Majority Arabs, then Turkish, Chinese, and Balkans, sprinkling of British and Oz. Shop signs mostly in English.
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  434. Housing costs, declining economies, all thanks to the EU's trade and economic policies.
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  435. EU cheerleaders, hence the drivel from DW, whoever they are.
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  436.  @dennisreed6345  How do you propose to achieve that?
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  437. The entire concept of human rights starts at the wrong end. There are no rights unless other people accept and perform duties, including duties "not to". If the Ten Commandments are observed, the question of rights does not arise. Legal frameworks could, with advantage, be reformulated in terms of duties. This would both simplify and improve public understanding.
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  438. Pity that SF does not have policies which would achieve the intended effect. Ireland's housing problem will not be helped by SF's policy of capping mortgage interest rates. Ireland's economy will also be harmed by Brexit; the UK and Ireland need to be in the same trading block as they have complementary economies and geographically close, which makes them natural trading partners.
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  439. It is called 'embodied energy'. A lot of so-called clean energy embodies a lot of dirty energy.
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  440. Macron should get himself to the front and set an example.
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  441. It's a resigning matter following a grave error of judgement.
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  442. The British can eat all the pork their farmers can produce. Here in Sweden we can only get streaky bacon. Sometimes there is back, from England, but there hasn't been any for weeks.
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  443. How does the Russian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate operate in China?
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  444. The way this channel talks, you would think that all the trouble is due personally to Putin alone.
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  445.  @Zarion106  Marx's theory is wrong but value cannot be created without the application of labour.
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  446.  @davec-1378  Marx's Labour Theory of Value is wrong. George's Labour Theory of Value is the correct formulation. The mischief done was that Marx gave credence to those who claimed that value does not come from labour.
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  447.  @Zarion106  Diamonds are valuable because (a) people want them; and (b) because it takes a lot of labour to dig them out of the ground and shape them into a desirable form.
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  448.  @davec-1378  Marx never explains why land, which is not a product of human labour, has a value. He just ignores it.
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  449.  @davec-1378  'the mechanisms for the few to consolidate the majority of wealth' Is land enclosure followed by the private appropriation of the economic rent of land. Marx actually noted this process but failed to draw the conclusions. (they might be in das Kapital III)
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  450.  @Zarion106  Ganesh is sort of right. The counter arguments are in 'The Science of Political Economy' by Henry George. You might also find counter arguments in the third volume of Das Kapital, the one which most Marxists don't study, if you can get hold of a copy and have the time and patience to wade through the turgid prose.
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  451. @Emmerich August Value and labour are related, but not as Marx described. The only coherent analysis of this topic is in 'The Science of Political Economy' by Henry George.
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  452.  @davec-1378  "Value" to Marx is a theoretical unobservable, That would make it a completely worthless concept. Price is the measure of value _at the time the exchange takes place_.
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  453.  @davec-1378  "Value" is to Marx's theory as "electrons" are to the atomic theory of matter. Electrons are negatively charged particles with a very small mass, which surround protons in a pattern governed by quantum mechanical rules in accordance with Pauli's Exclusion Principle. But how does the analogy work? Until you can explain that, the remainder of your explanation does not hang together. George falsifies Marx's theory of value.
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  454.  Ôgun Chinashàwè  The alternative system is not necessarily Marxism. The environmental impact of Marxist economies was just as damaging as those of capitalist economies. No capitalist system would put a dirty, dusty coal handling in the middle of a city, which is what you will find in Riga, Latvia.
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  455.  @davec-1378  Where did you see this assertion? Please paste from my comment? Marx's Labour Theory of Value is itself an assertion. My assertion is that Marx is correct in his assertion that labour and value are related, since value cannot be created without the application of labour. However, the application of labour in itself does not guarantee the addition of value, however one cares to measure it. The two alternative assertions can be tested though thought experiments and observation. Marx's assertion fails the tests; an artist can spend weeks and use expensive materials but produce something worthless. My assertion is that the value of something is the labour that someone one will give in order to acquire it. Price is the only measure of value that exists, which becomes knowable when an exchange takes place. Marx's Labour Theory of Value is based on a fallacy of logic. In all normal circumstances, the value of something will indeed be the value of the materials and labour that has been expended on order to produce it, but that would follow naturally if the value of something is the labour that someone will give in order to acquire it. If the value is less than the work required to produce it, then the thing will not be produced. Marx's theory goes nowhere towards explaining why things like antiques are valuable, nor why they can lose their value as a result of changes in fashion.
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  456.  @Zarion106  Keep the discussion polite, guys. When you have to start name calling, you are losing the argument. Ganesh has got a point, though he is wrong. You need to demolish his argument with a proper counter argument.
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  457.  @davec-1378  Are you listening? Please see my latest comments. Or are we in the same situation as I got into with some anarcho-capitalists on PragerU? I hope this is not another one of those Matthew 7:6 moments.
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  458.  @davec-1378  Probably, but Marx is at fault. The English translations that are available are not properly constructed in grammatical English, which makes them inaccessible, but he seems to be mixing up the philosophical concept of value, with value as it appears in economics, ie price. Frankly, it is not worth the effort of wading through such turgid text, and to judge from results, the effort would be less than profitable. The obscurantism of the text also means that there is no way of telling if stepbrother's interpretation is any other than his own.
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  459.  @davec-1378  How about applying the principle of Occam's Razor? Prices tend to an equilibrium due to competition. If the price is higher than the cost of production (ie raw materials, energy, transport and wages at the going rate), then more will be produced. As production increases, price falls. This may lead to the production of unwanted surpluses but the production quickly ceases at that point. Price is how value is revealed at the particular moment and place when and where an exchange take place. Why pile in unnecessary complications?
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  460.  @davec-1378  'It doesn't matter to Marx's Labor Theory of Value what the consequences of the failure of capitalism are.' The theory is wrong, for reasons which are readily observable, one of which is that land has value but is not the product of labour - a phenomenon he does not account for.  Marx's critique of capitalism is deficient because he conflates land and capital, which are different categories of thing with different properties. Capital is created by human labour but land is a gift of nature.
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  461.  @davec-1378  Marxist theory presents four insuperable problems. 1) His Labour Theory of Value. It does not stand up to close examination, for the reasons which have been rehearsed so many times since the theory was first put forward. The Marginal Utility Theory of Value is also false, since it attempts to deny that labour creates value. Labour and value are related. The value of something is the labour that someone will give in order to acquire it. Drop the dialectic for a moment and you will realise that this is obvious. It is also the reason why Marx was able to draw the conclusion that value depends on the labour that goes into production, which is normally the case. This is a mixture of accurate observation so mixed in with howlers that it is difficult to disentangle, which is probably the reason for its lasting appeal. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch03.htm 2) Value of land. The LTV does not explain why land has a value. No labour is required to produce land, for the simple reason that land cannot be produced by human labour. 3) Conflation of land and capital. Land is sui generis and a factor of production separate from capital. The supply of capital, defined as goods set aside for the purpose of production, can expand in response to demand. The supply of land is both fixed and monopolised by landowners. Until this is recognised, it is impossible to analyse the nature of the economic process. Marx was not the only one to make this mistake. So did Pope Leo XIII, and so also do the defenders of the so-called capitalist system. One of the mischiefs this does is to make it impossible to identify with accuracy what is wrong with 'capitalism', and so the arguments go round in circles. 4) The general problem of changing human society for the better. If people are 'bad' because of their circumstances and the system, then, since the system can only be changed by people, how is it possible that people who have been formed by a 'bad' system can act in such a way as to create a 'good' system? If find myself at odds with both the libertarians of the Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard camp on the one hand, and Marxist like you on the other. The Randists accuse me of being a Communist and the Marxists accuse me of being a libertarian extremists. I am still trying to work out how I can be both at the same time.
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  462. 50 years ago the young men of the Sussex and Kent coastal towns would have been defending the beaches.
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  463. He should be forced to become PM. Someone else should nominate him, against his will.
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  464. The Muslim Albanians have been trying to drive out the Orthodox Christian Serbians from Kosovo for hundreds of years. Some neighbours of mine are victims. They were brutally evicted from their home in Pristina. Nasty business, aided and abetted by Nato and the EU.
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  465. Sweden went through this mass migration in 2015 and we are only just beginning to pay the price.
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  466. There is nothing funny about it. They don't teach proper economics in those places.
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  467. Do you think the Russians will not turn up the volume and bit us in the butt?
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  468. You need quite a lot of salt, though.
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  469. The downside of a rail link would be no more steam trains in North Korea.
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  470. The Euro is a convenience but the politics and economics do not even begin to work. Make the most of it.
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  471. JRM has more sense than to take on the job of PM.
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  472.  @onionpie52  Countries don't choose anything. Their governments do the choosing. The current state of Ukraine is what happens if you make a move which the other side perceives as a threat. Finland has not been invaded. In fact, the Russians offered back Karelia, which the Russians took in 1940, but the Finns didn't want it. The Russians also tried to get rid of the former Königburg region of East Prussia but nobody would take it off their hands. Anyway, Putin has blown it because the Russians in Ukraine don't appreciate being targets for Russian forces.
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  473. Too many adverts. I always make a mental note to avoid what is advertised.
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  474. We did it to ourselves. 1 We taxed our industries to death. 2 We bought vast amounts of stuff that could have been made in Britain. 3 The Chinese bought up our country's assets will the money we gave them to buy their stuff. Massive British self harming action over 80 years.
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  475. An army of sturdy young men with pitchforks needs to be stationed on along the beaches. It would of course result in an armed conflict but it would stop the process in its tracks. There would be no second time.
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  476. The Greek Orthodox Church seems to have problems in many places. Shame.
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  477. Make them into tax havens.
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  478. At least your church is still being used as a church. English Christians should give it a try. This has happened with churches in Sweden - they are gradually being subject to a reverse takeover as they are almost the only traditional Christians in town.
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  479.  @VantaBlack216  German efficiency is a myth. It is a case of "other people's grass". In my experience they are even better at being jobsworths than the British. This inflexibility costs them money. I had a run-in with a German company (DHL) only last week which lost them a job and inconvenienced me as well. They live up to their stereotypes. It might be a Lutheran trend, though the Scandinavians are also Lutherans but tend to be more pragmatic, probably because they are maritime cultures like the British.
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  480. The problem in Glasgow is buses grinding up the hills in the city centre and chucking out diesel exhaust, and the inner motorway. It is a 1960s planning legacy.
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  481. Sweden has had a change of government and they are coming down all heavy handed with new restrictions. This is aided and abetted by the media which are trying to terrify people with this threat of a highly contagious mutation which most of those infected don't even know they have got.
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  482. The Russians might have offered to hand back the Hungarian areas of Ukraine.
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  483. Of course. It is calling on Sauron.
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  484. The EU should scrap tariffs unilaterally. The quest for export markets is the old seventeenth century Mercantilism that refuses to die.
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  485.  @Mcsqw  The UK is just like nearly everywhere else and the problem of rotten politicians goes back to the days of Ancient Greece.
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  486. ​ @NLTops  They might get back the chunk of Ukraine that Stalin took from Hungary.
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  487. ​ @anatolian1842  Who in Ukraine wants to join the EU and why? Support to join the EU in Serbia is zilch. Not much support for the EU in Sweden.
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  488. I have neighbours here in Sweden who were driven out of Kosovo. They are stealing ancient historic Christian properties. The EU does not care, of course.
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  489. The Amadeus String Quartet was set up in an Isle of Man detention centre.
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  490. The US$ does not work. Most of the country away from the eastern and western seaboards, around the Great Lakes and Texas is an economic desert.
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  491. The £ is a cause of the UK's chronic regional economic imbalance. Wealth is sucked out of the regions through the tax and financial systems. A means of recycling that wealth to the periphery is needed, but there isn't one. That is a prime cause of the stress which now threatens the unity of the UK.
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  492. "Free trade agreement" is a self-contradiction. Free trade is when a government gets out of the way of people who want to trade with others in other countries. It does not wait for the governments of other countries to reciprocate. The people in the other countries are the ones who lose out the most.
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  493. I doubt if there would be many tears shed in Hungary. I wish the EU would throw us (Sweden) out.
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  494. Price increases are an EFFECT of inflation. They were bound to happen due to 15 years of Quantitative Easing plus the Covid helicopter money. Central Banks and politicians have caused this. The boycott of Russian energy has triggered what was inevitable.
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  495. Yes by cutting off its own supplies very clever.
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  496. ​ @nbgoodiscore1303  Yes you can start by binning your computer and mobile phone with its Chinese components.
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  497. Perceptive comments. Farming has gone in the wrong direction since the end of WW2. This was largely driven by the government and the EU. It needs too much input of energy, manufactured fertilisers and pesticides, too large in scale and there are too few people working on the land. I expect that the farm in the video was divided into much smaller fields sixty years ago and was a much smaller scale and mixed operation with traditional crop rotation. I suspect that output per acre would improve if farming was smaller in scale.
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  498. The politicians are mis-educated.
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  499. Subsiding farmers just ends up with the farmers paying higher rents.
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  500. The history of this region is almost impossibly complex to understand. The conflict has religious overtones which ought to have been referred to. Armenian Christianity is not only ancient, but also holds to a different theology which sets them at odds with the Russian Orthodox. I don't know the details but but it seems to matter.
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  501. Restrictions on outward flows will cause shortages in continental Europe. People do not buy UK goods because they feel sorry for the British but because they need them or want them. Continental customers will soon start to scream at their politicians. Focus on keeping out bads eg drugs and weapons, wave the goods through.
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  502. There is a well known phenomenon called "Regulatory Capture". This is a good example.
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  503. This needs to be put in context. Turkey has enjoyed a bad relationship with Europe for the past 800 years. The first thing that they need to do is acknowledge responsibility for the genocides of 1915 and 1923. 3 million were killed.
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  504. They are calling on Sauron.
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  505. Once people get into a care home they are certain to be fed standard UK junk diet. In Swedish care homes, the diets are even worse. And they don't even get enough sunshine and vitamin D, poor devils.
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  506. The Islamic Shababa prayer is an intentional insult to Christians. Hate speech.
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  507.  @cloudybeforerain7134  Economics graduates generally know less about economics than they did when they had just left school. It is a bogus subject.
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  508. Neo-colonialism. Infrastructure creates and enhances land values. If land rental values are not collected through the tax system, this investment will just lead to a widening of the gap between the rich landowners and kleptocrat minority, and the poverty stricken poor. The gap is the biggest driver of migration. The EU should just remove its tariff barriers unilaterally and leave the rest to markets. The manic scramble for markets is a relic of discredited seventeenth century Mercantilism. The EU should keep its nose out. The Chinese intervention will go sour in the end. Most of Africa will remain an economic and political basket case for the foreseeable future. It is the tribal structure.
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  509. It is surprising that it hasn't gone bad long ago. VAT and import tariffs are a deadly combination guaranteed to hammer any economy. The entire notion of export-led growth is based on the misguided and long discredited seventeenth century economic theory known as Mercantilism. An undervalued currency has forced Germans to work a day a week for nothing. They have been shafted for years. 😊
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  510.  @sarantis1995  A single currency across a large and diverse region is a recipe for chronic trouble.
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  511.  @Juho221  Absolutely. The single currency makes it impossible to remedy the huge and chronic regional economic imbalances in the three countries you mention. This leads to excessive internal migration, rural depopulation, urban slums, social disruption etc. The single currencies suck wealth from the periphery to the core. The Euro is doing the same thing.
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  512. Darwin's principle operates. The mildest versions dominate.
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  513. I will believe Ukraine isn't Nazi when the statue of the country's national hero, Chmielnitsky, is removed from its place of honour in the middle of Kiev.
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  514. Horrible looking coin, horrible typeface. It should have been a £2 coin. The beautiful 1860 penny design would have been entirely appropriate, Britannia ruling the waves, with a ship and lighthouse in the background. The Royal Mint must have the original pattern. Enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bun_penny#/media/File:Wyon-bun-head-1869.jpg
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  515. Are the police immune from the virus so that they do not themselves need to maintain 2 metres social distancing?
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  516. The wheels are starting to come off.
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  517. Shelter is bad too.
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  518. The prostate can also sometimes grow into the bladder, reducing capacity. The popular drug alfuzosin leads to reduced blood pressure which can cause dizziness and tiredness. Finasteride and some substances with similar action can delay the growth, gaining up to ten years. A side-effect of TURP can be retrograde ejaculation.
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  519. The EU is doing the same thing in Northern Ireland.
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  520. Good grief.
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  521. What sort of people are they?
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  522. Fight to the last Ukrainian.
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  523. 3:52 is why it is so right to leave.
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  524. Scary.
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  525. Greece demonstrates the need for a robust tax system. The construction of the Euro has always been defective. It should have been modelled on the Rentenmark, the currency introduced in Germany to put a stop to the hyperinflation of 1923, backed by the yield from a land value tax.
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  526. Cut carbs to <50g (dry weight) per day. Eat as much as you feel like of anything else and get about an hour or two of exercise a day and your weight will go down. But most prepared and ready made foods are loaded with starch and sugar so you have to read the labels carefully or cook all your own from scratch.
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  527. Dunning Kruger Channel. They must be getting a lot of dosh from somewhere.
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  528.  @WhiteOwlet  Has Russia been threatening Finland lately?
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  529. The EU has been destroying its economy for 60 years. The Protected Single Market, the Common Agricultural Policy, the Euro and VAT are a deadly combination. Then add in Zero Carbon and get rid of nuclear and you have got most of the nails nailed into the coffin of its economy, and that was before the nonsense of taking sides in the Ukraine dispute.
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  530. All of the economic arguments for remain are based on seventeenth century Mercantilist theory. This had been refuted several times over by 1800. Who doesn't understand what Brexit is about? The old Liberals in the free trade tradition must be turning in their graves at the espousal by their successors of the protectionist EU.
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  531. Zelensky has thrown away support with his attack on the Kiev Lavra monks. It would be astonishing if a move to bring Serbia into the EU did not stir up large scale opposition. Hungary has still got its eye on the bit of Ukraine that Stalin took from them. This sounds like wishful thinking.
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  532. ​ @sylvarogre5469  Being a good father means that he wasn't conscripted into an army and sent to war.
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  533. ​ @Qazmlpoknwssxcdecvbnm  They have brought disaster on their people. That is not bravery.
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  534. Diversity is pure gain. Who wants to buy their stuff?
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  535. 28 people go to a restaurant and try to pick a menu that they will all be able to eat. They end up with steamed Chinese cabbage. That happened to me one with a group of people.
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  536. I would not be surprised if the Russians have offered to return to Hungary those parts of Ukraine taken by Stalin.
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  537. Serbians are being squeezed out of Kosovo by the Albanians. They should not cave in to the US or EU.
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  538. The CU leaves the UK saddled with VAT and tariffs. VAT is the most damaging tax that anyone could have invented. It is the ultimate anti-labour tax. It also amplifies the north-south divide (but so do all other taxes apart from the UBR) Surely Burnham knows this? Burnham of all people ought to be coming up with proposals for reform that are not permitted within the EU.
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  539. A neighbour of mine in Gothenburg was forced out of the flat he owned in Pristina. There is something nasty going on that we are not being told. It doesn't sound as if these peace keeping forces. The Albanian man who took the stolen property had a bad conscience and gave him a bit of money to buy somewhere in Serbia. The Kosovo government has been stealing churches that are hundreds of years old and the Serbians cannot get in. Kosovo was Serbian for 1500 years.
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  540. Preferably on Titan.
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  541. Where did they get the steam locomotive from?
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  542. Führer Stürmer
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  543. The EU and EEC have been harming their own people for over 60 years.
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  544. It would be a mistake to cosy up to the West. A country like Armenia should maintain good relationships with both blocs. Neither is going to continue without upheavals over the next few decades
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  545. Thomas the Tank and Friends. Brighton could also send its 25 Pannier Tanks. But they might just as well send them to Booth's Metals, Doncaster.
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  546. If Khan has ever put a foot wrong they will haul him in for questioning. Bad idea to upset the Met.
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  547. How much of the money disappears into the pockets of corrupt officials and contractors? Cornwall was the recipient of EU money, which was spent on road improvements and renovation of buildings in some of the run-down towns. Then people from London and the South East moved in, rents and property prices went up, and the locals got nothing out of it. Good for landowners though, such as the Duchy of Cornwall. Take from the poor and give to the rich. That's the EU all the time.
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  548. The Ukrainian leaders should have been negotiating last January instead of allowing their people to be used as catspaws for the US military-industrial complex. Some people are making a lot of money out of this.
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  549. I would not trust anyone with the name of Hamza.
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  550. They might have upset Him by raiding the Kiev lavra.
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  551. Romania is top of the EU league for VAT fraud, with a VAT Gap of 35%
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  552. The Lubianka NKVD Headquarters and prison was built as the offices of the Rossia Insurance Company in the 1880s.
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  553. The air quality in Glasgow depends exactly where the measurements are taken. The air quality in some streets in the hilly centre of Glasgow is terrible. There is a one way system. The air in uphill streets such Hope Street is filthy. The main culprits are the buses. The trouble began in 1962 when the trams were scrapped, thanks to a Labour Council. With a week there was massive congestion and pollution, which there had not been before. Then they had to build inner city motoways which also cause pollution, and electric cars also cause plenty of pollution due to extra dust from tyres and tarmac. The city needs its trams back, and not those ridiculous long 3-car trams they have nowadays, which cause their own congestion.
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  554. Same story as Lebanon, Syria, Iraq etc. Same trouble coming in Scandinavia soon. EU expansionism will make it all worse and add in a pack of economic woes.
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  555.  @RevGary  What happened to the seven missing books of the bible which were in the original Hebrew text, and the Septuagint? The original Hebrew texts of the OT are not available. They were edited after the Septuagint was produced, with the Christological references toned down. It is also clear that John 6 is saying that the Eucharist is a real transformation and not merely symbolic. That interpretation is not exclusively one held by the RCC.
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  556.  @RevGary  Very interesting points. The Protestant church began as a protest. A protest against the Roman Papacy. So the early church cannot have been a Protestant church! Constantine was not in Rome but in Constantinople. After the fifth century, Rome and the Roman Papacy lapsed into obscurity until it was promoted by Charlemagne at the end of the eight century. There was, and still is, another Pope at Alexandria. There are also traditional branches of the church in the east and in Africa, beyond the boundaries of what was the Roman Empire and where Constantine never had influence. The Constantine story does not work.
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  557.  @RevGary  Very interesting points. The Protestant church began as a protest. A protest against the Roman Papacy. So the early church cannot have been a Protestant church! Constantine was not in Rome but in Constantinople. After the fifth century, Rome and the Roman Papacy lapsed into obscurity until it was promoted by Charlemagne at the end of the eight century. There was, and still is, another Pope at Alexandria. There are also traditional branches of the church in the east and in Africa, beyond the boundaries of what was the Roman Empire and where Constantine never had influence. The Constantine story does not work.
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  558. It is good on political analysis. Economics not so much.
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  559. They cannot even produce the names properly. They should rename TLDR the "Dunning Kruger Channel".
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  560. Critique of Israel is not antisemitic if the critics speak up against all the other dreadful and oppressive regimes around the world. Useful idiot and sell hating Juice.
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  561. Capitalism as currently practised is not a free market system.
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  562. Good. The EU has become the EU-SSSR. The EU has been turning language round for decades. "Access to markets" means the opposite to what the EU means by it. Trouble brewing in Sweden too.
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  563. Is this the prophesy of the MonkPaisius (1924-1998) about to come to pass? The Turkish problem is just another instance of the dire state of economic theory world wide. The analysis is hardly better - economics is not this channel's strong point. Alex and Alex could usefully read Progress and Poverty in order to upgrade the quality of their economics comments.
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  564. The EU bas the reverse midas touch. Everything turns into a turd. Sanctions = businesses being forbidden from buying essential raw materials and supplies. Very clever.
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  565. This dispute needs to be recognised for what it is - a legacy of the messy break up of the USSR. The present boundaries of Ukraine do not match linguistic, religious and ethnic differences and were never intended to. There are even bits taken out of Hungary and Slovakia in 1945. It needs to be sorted out with a bit of goodwill and commonsense. The EU is also a problem because of its trade polices which interfere with the flow of goods across all its borders. This is exactly the same thing as the Northern Ireland EU dispute. The protected Single Market is a dangerous anachronism which needs to be scrapped.
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  566. Honesty is absent when the EU is concerned.
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  567. People who have been elected in a boycotted election 3% have no mandate and should not have attempted to take office.
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  568. That the Ukraine adventure is going bad must also be concealed.
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  569. Greta should be happy, though. The war on carbon will have casualties, but I am still trying to find a scientific explanation for the theory. There ought to be plenty of potential for internal UK air services because, apart from the main routes from London, rail travel in Britain has been neglected for decades. Cross country routes are particularly awful. Virgin aggravated the problem when it took over the Cross Country franchise and invested in a fleet of unsuitable trains, intended for a revised timetable which it was obvious was impossible to keep to and lasted just three months. It is not much fun sitting in carriages with a pervasive smell of poo and a large diesel engine growling away under the floor, and having to check one's luggage every time the train stops at a station, to make sure that someone is not about to walk off with it. However, internal services which do not connect to the hub airports are inevitably going to lose potential traffic. Travel to Exeter and the west from Heathrow or Gatwick is a pain. Other regional centres such as Newcastle and Edinburgh have direct services from mainland Europe which are useful. I hope they get back in the air soon.
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  570. If enough people have degrees you end up with an army of highly qualified people doing menial jobs.
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  571. Wrong. She is, prima facie, a criminal. Which raises the question of why she has not been charged and is awaiting trial.
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  572. There's nothing like a nice cloud of Deltic clag. The only thing to match it is the black smoke from a few shovelsfull of Kent coal thrown into the firebox of a Bulleid Pacific.
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  573. Funny thing this evening. A group of girls got on the tram, with hijabs but otherwise dolled up to the nines, including eyelash extensions.
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  574. She really is clueless. Stamp Duty cuts help SELLERS.
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  575.  @Waleed-bx9mp  She is identifying herself with what has become a toxic brand. The problem is she does not realise she is doing this.
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  576. Tell that to people and businesses struggling with the fuel bills.
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  577. She's doesn't look so smart after 7 October.
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  578. They told us that Novichok was very difficult to make, until a chemistry tutor pointed out that it could be done by an A-level chemistry school student. Salisbury is five miles from the UK's Porton Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Station.
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  579.  @Xamufam  Sweden has vast taxes on business. There is no VAT registration threshold. Gross labour costs to employers are 230% of the net purchasing power of workers' wages. That is a massive burden on business.
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  580. What do the people of Gibraltar want? As I understand it they do not want a Spanish takeover. A significant proportion of the people are Jews who movex in and used it as a refuge from Catholic Spain. There was a clutch of pupils from Gibraltar at my school. Solid Brits. Labour should not sell them out. The matter should not even be up for discussion until there is pressure from the residents themselves, same as the Falklands.
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  581. That is the myth put out by the National Farmers Union - a landowners' organisation. The British can eat all the food that British farmers can produce.
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  582. Locke's theory of property rights is a reason why we are stuck between two alternative evils. It is, to start with, in conflict with Judeo-Christian principles. Rousseau just adds another layer of error.
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  583. There was no Mrs Claus! He was a bishop.
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  584. Funny about the ads. I always make a mental note to avoid what is advertised.
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  585. Good explanation of the issues. Locke's theory of property ownership is fundamentally flawed from a Judeo-Christian perspective. Acceptance of the theory is fundamental cause of the intractability of contemporary economic problems. Rousseau's ideas are indeed even more flawed, starting with their assumption of natural human goodness. The theme is of course behind Lord of the Flies and A S Byatt's The Babel Tower. We need to get back to first millennium Christianity to find our way back to a coherent view. It is significant that the Locke/Hobbes argument arises at the start of the Early Modern period. In order to get a handle on this it is necessary to track back through the developments in thinking within the Roman Catholic Church after 1054.
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  586. Germany should get out of the Euro and have its own currency, scrap VAT, raise the tax free earnings allowance, and introduce a national land value tax. That would fix the problem as much as it can be fixed.
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  587.  @theonlylauri  Yes. Not many commentators seem to have noticed. The native Swedes do self-isolation anyway as a lifestyle choice. There is also the issue of low vitamin D levels due to reduced levels of sunlight. The climate is unsuitable for people from lower latitudes.
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  588.  @danomau  Only the native-born Swedes.
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  589.  @robi1kenobi  They might be in a couple of weeks. We are behind the curve.
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  590.  @overtime5560  It's a case of one-bitten, twice shy. Confidence in the authorities had collapsed before this came along.
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  591. People in Serbia are still dying from the NATO bombs. Great success in Afghanistan. NATO is the took of the US military/industrial complex. Its purpose ended in 1992.
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  592. More like 1915 and 1923.
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  593. With the exception of a tax on land values.
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  594. It will not be long now before the Euro collapses, and will look stupid then?
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  595. Please refine the debate. Different taxes have different effects. There are different ways of cutting a particular tax. The burden of taxes generally does not fall on whoever is formally responsible for paying it. The Laffer Curve is borderline nonsense but there is a grain of truth in the theory. Inflation is taxation by the back door; so is Quantitative Easing. These are taxes on savings. Until there is a better understanding of these matters by politicians, economists, commentators and the general public, it will make next to no difference who is elected. We will continue to lurch ruinously from crisis to crisis.
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  596. Japan and Sweden also have demographic problems. Sweden has "solved" it. Abortion is a cause in both cases. Behind Abortion are often economic causes eg shortage or high price of housing and lack of work opportunities.
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  597. The issue is destroying the whole of the west. Britain was hit about 20 years before some other countries; it did not arrive in force here in Sweden until 2015, though it has been incubating for 40 years. The Ukraine conflict is at least in part driven by the conflict between two sets of values. The west is on the wrong side of history and likely to go through the same torment that Russia went through.
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  598. If they can't get the names right it means that they are unreliable. Their English isn't great either.
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  599. Who is going to stop food from getting into the UK? We in Sweden will have to stock up on large baking potatoes and Fisherman's Friends, which come from Britain, and which will get stuck in customs in Gothenburg and have an EU tariff slapped on the price.
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  600.  @richardhewer335  The net yield from VAT to the Exchequer is, at most, half of the headline amount collected, due to churning, deadweight losses and abstraction of revenue from other taxes.
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  601. A Sunday morning demolition happened to the seventeenth century house that had been the home of the hymn writer Isaac Watts, in Newington Green. This was around 1969.
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  602. We need to distinguish between immigrations. Those from South East Asia are an upgrade to the population. Those from other parts of the world - not so much.
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  603. What exactly is right wing populism?
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  604. Those reasons PROVE that the Russians did it, as they make it harder to convince people that they did. After all they blew up their own pipelines so that they would not be able to sell their gas.
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  605. "Property" is a deceiving term. Land is not capital but a gift of God, or of Nature if you prefer. Capital is stored labour eg the artisan's tools. The contemporary dialectic is dominated by opponents who share the same false assumptions.
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  606. What happened to variants epsilon to psi?
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  607.  @robertcohen8554  There speaks a descendant of Aaron the first in the line of High Priests.
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  608. Weird state of affairs. Incomes should be taxed in the country in which those incomes arise. If you live in a country you should pay towards the upkeep of the country through a property tax. Unfortunately this basic principle of justice is rarely followed.
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  609. Typical politician.
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  610. If you want to pay $3000 for a basic mobile phone, then go ahead with your tariffs.
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  611. After poking a bear for 30 years it is not so surprising it gets a sore head.
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  612. A band of neutral countries from the Arctic to the Black Sea would have prevented the current hostilities. This should have been the policy post 1990. Funny thing with all the guns in the country that Switzerland doesn't have regular school shootings.
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  613. The two headed monster and the two headed Eagle in confrontation.
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  614. Arrest, charge with illegal entry and remand in custody. Simple.
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  615. TLDR doesn't know the difference between sanctions, a blockade and a boycott. Slava Serbia. Why should they support the west? What good would it do the Serbians to join the EU?
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  616. Wait till the all the migrants from third world countries arrive.
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  617. Her outfit was right for a Halloween party, though.
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  618. The British could send Thomas the Tank. As for the British vintage tanks - they would be more effective if sent straight to the scrapyard.
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  619. ​ @nerdlingeeksly5192  Meanwhile we have no heating through the winter. Very clever.
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  620. "Far Right"??? Jackbooted, black shirted and ready to arrest opponents for thought crimes?
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  621. ​ @michalkosmita5194  They didn't read the recipe for success.
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  622. Reliving the 1970s was inevitable once QE was started 12 years ago.
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  623. The documentary has broadened misunderstanding.
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  624. Sooner or later the Russians will turn up the volume big time. Keep on poking the bear. Good business for the manufacturers.
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  625. Is Lagarde a real person or a CGI Avatar?
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  626. Political prisoner. His sentence should have been 20 hours Community Service and bound over to keep the peace.
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  627. How do you explain the generation who were brought up as communist atheists turning against their parents and embracing Orthodox Christianity?
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  628. Are religious texts exempt from this legislation?
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  629. 🤮🤮🤮
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  630. It was a non problem. Children learned the system from the age of seven. They were better at arithmetic then. IQ has continued to drop over the past 50 years. 12 is handy if you are buying in dozens. It is easy to pack goods in dozens. Another British self hater. Decimalisation was a handy excuse for inflation. The 1 pee was too large until the inflation kicked in, which happened within a year of joining the EEC.
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  631. A lot of us here 🇸🇪 think that the British have come up trumps. Respect.
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  632.  @brianperry  People knew very well what they were voting for in 2016 and their politicians have refused to give it to them.
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  633. The words of the Shahada are offensive to Christians.
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  634.  @jamiecartwright5093  Best scenario is that it fades away. The alternative will be messy.
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  635. Not to mention the well off Swedes who buy the drugs
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  636. ...apart from the no go areas controlled by criminal gangs and the protection racketeers. We have more to worry about than Putin.
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  637. Every statement in defence of the EU and remaining is based on the ancient and long discredited mercantilist view of trade and economics, as are the EU's own policies. They are adverse for most people in the EU, but were particularly so for the UK, as it is an island at the periphery. It would make no sense for an independent Scotland to be in the EU, as most of its goods are sourced from England and would cost more due to the EU tariffs. They could bring them from the continent instead, but Edinburgh is a long way from the nearest ports on mainland Europe. It costs money to ship stuff across the water. The same problem is about to hit Ireland, but strangely, they have not noticed.
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  638.  @frbo9002  Vi bör strunta i EU överhuvudtaget.
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  639. You can thank the building societies for forcing both parents out to work. In the 1960s they started to take spouses' incomes into account when giving mortgages. House prices promptly doubled.
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  640. The need for academic conformity has corrupted the teaching of economics since the late nineteenth century. It is why the universities turn out economics graduates who are utterly clueless about economics.
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  641. Why the heck do we need to join NATO? We got through the Cold War without it. Support for joining the US military-industrial warmongers' club is far from universal here in Sweden. We have severe social and economic problems with no solution in sight. Rising gun crime, failing public services, a hard core of unemployables and a tax burden which is gradually crushing the life out of the economy. Hardly anything here is not made in China or Vietnam or Bangladesh, etc. The country has already been invaded, with parts of the cities being no go areas under the control of criminal gangs. Russia should be the least of our worries. I hope that Erdoğan will save us from ourselves. The tragedy is that we have given up our traditional role as trusted peace brokers.
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  642. At least Erdoğan is doing Sweden a favour.
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  643. This is an old story. In the late 1970s a young lecturer at a technical college in London was keen on Pol Pot and went to Cambodia to show his support and solidarity. He was never heard of again. But the same thing was going on in the 1920s and 1930s, when enthusiastic Communists emigrated to the Soviet paradise and ended up in the Gulag.
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  644. If Sweden is low it would be because the people are ignoring the government's bad advice.
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  645. The rot was setting in during the 1950s. It is the influence of Rousseau, among others.
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  646. Catholic teaching is that there is no salvation unless one is in communion with Peter and his successors, the Bishop of Rome. Which even excludes the Orthodox.
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  647. This flooding is worse than it would otherwise be due to the rapid runoff from uplands (the Pennines, in this case) used for EU-subisidised sheep farming. But that would go against the LibDem narrative. These uplands should be managed so that rain is held back, by planting more trees and constructing holding lakes, which makes the land act like a giant sponge.
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  648. Russia is about to invade Sweden. It was reported in the newspapers that extra tanks have been sent to Gotland in the Baltic and to Gothenburg on the west coast. Now that the covid scare is over they have to come up with something else to cover up their incompetence.
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  649. The EU trade policies are a structure of self imposed sanctions. They are based on the Autarky principle.
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  650. My neighbours are Serbians who were winkled out of Kosovo. One was evicted from his flat in Pristina. It is still going on. They won't stop until the Serbians have been ethnically cleansed. They will not trust the Kosovo government to keep to an agreement, based on bitter experience. Serbians aren't interested in the EU.
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  651. Yes, the Swedish krona has tanked because of Brexit.
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  652. I hope not. Sweden is highly vulnerable to hacking attacks due to over reliance on networked IT systems. We should not be stirring up hostility with Russia. Then there is the matter of money. The kitty is empty. Membership of NATO should be a constitutional or referendum issue.
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  653. How should roads be paid for?
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  654. There are still a lot of Serbians trying to hang on in Kosovo.
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  655. Switzerland?
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  656. Co-religionists, perhaps?
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  657. Protection punishes the people in the countries who protect their industries.
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  658. Sweden has enough internal problems that needs to be dealt with urgently. There is an intifada coming.
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  659. At this point there is nowhere to hide from this madness except within Eastern Orthodox Christianity where it is possible to touch solid ground again.
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  660. Please make another one now that the election has happened.
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  661. Milan trams - 95 years in service.
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  662. "Sanctions" is a false description. It was western countries doing what they are best at - self harm.
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  663. Economy of scale, comparative advantage. The government should keep its nose out of private business. Mayhar's conservatism is losing its edge.
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  664. A psychopathic family in, charge, and to what extent is China behind them?
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  665. Why is rt nearly always blocked? What is someone afraid of us getting to hear about?
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  666. GNI based on VAT is wide open to fraudulent returns. Agricultural policies and cohesion fund policies largely go to benefit the landowning classes in the poor countries. There is no trickle down. Tenant farmers get nothing out of these schemes. Owners of large landholdings get the most. It is a transfer from the poor in the rich countries to the rich in the poor countries. Sweden is broke, anyway. GNI says nothing about a country's liabilities, for example, to support immigrants who cannot join the productive economy.
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  667. Why? They lose money when you buy them.
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  668. @Mortimer Laforet Where will the EU get the money from which the UK used to contribute?
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  669. Economic war? The EU is shooting its own people in the feet. The best thing for the Ukrainians would be to remove Zelensky who has been a disaster for them.
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  670. Sterling could still be in trouble. Ten years of Quantitative Easing, and Sushi's helicopter money, and now Khazi's helicopter money, have left a huge overhang of cash that needs to pulled out of circulation through taxation.
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  671. Do you remember the election posters with Demon Eyes?
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  672. ​ @Rampart.X Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh.
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  673.  @flamingpieherman9822  B12 is added to Marmite. There's a surprise
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  674. is there a correlation between adverse effects and the efficacy of the vaccine? If you have had a heavy reaction from the AZ, could it mean that you probably don't need a second shot?
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  675. I wonder if they have run out of toilet paper as well? Is this what is called a clusterf*ck?
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  676. I had to post in a foreign language to avoid that.
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  677. Perhaps some people want to gamble on catching the virus and getting over with it?
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  678. The Guardian praised her. Enough said
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  679. The principles laid down in the Balfour Declaration were formally adopted by the League of Nations.
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  680. Invest in milk shake futures. Horrible people.
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  681. Funny how Labour is enamoured with the EU. This week is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, which was a protest against, among other things, the Corn Laws, high rents and low pay. The EU's CAP operates a tariff system which works in pretty much the same way, while 'Freedom of Movement' is a major cause of high rents and low pay. A further irony is that the Manchester Guardian, which has run an unrelenting campaign against Brexit, was founded in the aftermath of the Massacre.
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  682. Turkey would at least be doing Sweden a favour.
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  683. Privilege to be fleeced. Thanks for nothing, Brussels. I hope we 🇸🇪 are out soon too.
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  684. The police should have just stopped the march.
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  685. Anything to keep the house price bubble inflated.
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  686. The British government has never said it intends to restrict the movement of goods across the border, post Brexit. It is the Republic's government that is insisting on the restrictions, at the behest of the EU. But given the pattern of import and export trade in the Republic, there is little point in it remaining in the EU, at least from an economics perspective.
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  687. The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton predicted this in 1914.
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  688. Rabbit.
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  689.  @realCharAznable  Christians Catholic and Orthodox have always belied in the Real Presence ie Transubstantiation. It is spelled out in John 6, and again in the appearance at Emmaus. The idea that it is symbolic is a 16th century innovation.
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  690. Serbians I know from Kosovo tell me that they are getting a bad time. Churches and monasteries have been confiscated.
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  691. Easy now. The UK fishing grounds belong to the British people, not to British fishermen. Fishing licences should be put up for auction, not given away. They must be worth quite a lot of money. http://www.landvaluetax.org/the-lvtc-blog-by-henry-law/fishing-and-brexit.html
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  692. Rights enjoyed are derived from duties observed.
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  693. Disappointing. Marx developed his theories in response to his observations of the failure of early capitalism in Britain. These were a product of the land enclosures of the period after 1760. The problems that land enclosure caused have not gone away, and that feeds the left. It is indeed necessary to study history, from which it can also be concluded that without Christianity, the west is lost.
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  694. Swexit nu.
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  695. ​ @Grieche-i8y NO
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  696. @Swedish and Nordic. Malmö is already lost. Have you not been keeping up with the news?
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  697.  @queenzy591  People generally seem to be ignoring this bad official advice https://www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafik/nyhetsarkiv/corona/
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  698. This would be a non issue if it were not for the idiotic EU Protected Single Market. There would be little interest in joining.
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  699.  @lewis1609  the issue is not skin colour. It is religion and the culture it gives rise to.
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  700. Uninspiring speaker. Where is the fire in the belly?
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  701. There is at least £30 billion of spare capacity that could be used to fund a rise in the tax free allowance. Scrapping VAT would also cost less than half of the headline figure. Reform of the chaotic UK property taxes could pick up any shortfall.
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  702. Bad idea. Tariffs are self punishment.
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  703. What happens when democratic governments are not representative?
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  704.  @a2eoas  In Britain and Sweden people vote for change and nothing changes. The Swedish government was voted out in 2018 but they are still mis-governing the country. We have referenda and our politicians ignore them, splash our money up the wall on wasteful projects, import people they think will vote for them and bribe them with unlimited welfare. What's the point? It is all as Plato predicted. Democracy degenerates into tyranny.
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  705. A European federation would work only with more devolution, and abolition of sales taxes, tariffs and dismantling of the Euro.
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  706.  @verttikoo2052  Hitler was bankrolled by the German industrial giants who have not gone away but been joined by their French, German and Dutch counterparts who make sure that the EU acts in their interests.
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  707. 60 years of stupidity and no sign of an end to it.
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  708. Good analysis but the EU cannot reform.
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  709. The British are at fault. They kept back their Pannier tanks.
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  710. The principle behind favourable treatment for the remote regions is not unsound. Higher tax thresholds and slashing VAT would be more relevant though. And too much land in Scotland is owned by a handful of people.
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  711. It wasn't quite like that. They had a language test. Then the EU wrecked the industries of the Baltic countries. And the Russians are stuck in the economic waste land the EU has created.
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  712. High tax, low tax, its all a giant bluff. Tax is like snow. All our taxes are the wrong sort of tax. That's why they keep on having to put them up and up.
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  713.  @johndeacon6308  Did you look at the graph? The brown line is wages and the blue line is CPI. That is not the catastrophe predicted by the experts. Remainers have never helped their cause. You don't help by over-egging the pudding. On the run up to the referendum, I was a fence sitter. One of the tipping factors was interventions by people with a record of bad judgement. Since 2016, the remainers have consistently supported their case with slurs, name calling and bad arguments, which is an indication of how poor their arguments are. The economic case for remain is informed by mercantilist thinking - a notion of political economy which was prevalent in the seventeenth century, had been refuted by 1800, and was regarded as ludicrous in the nineteenth. So that carries no weight at all. Nor do remainers help the case by failing to admit the truly dreadful policies which the EU has followed, not only in the economics sphere but in almost every policy area it gets involved in - whether it be copyright legislation or simple things like the banning of filament bulbs, which was a good policy three years too soon, creating a mountain of broken glass contaminated with mercury as the only alternative was CF lamps - this when LED lighting was about to make a technical breakthrough. It is almost as if the EU was jinxed.
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  714. To judge by the comments the answer seems to be yes, but understandable. The EU trade and economic policies have trashed the economies of the entire belt along the eastern borders of the EU, breaking ancient trading relationships. Cities like Daugavpils have become industrial wastelands. The huge RVR rolling stock factory in Riga lost much of its business. The populations of the Baltic countries has fallen since the Soviet break up; they were formerly the most prosperous regions of the USSR. Interfering in church affairs is religious persecution. These countries have not handled their Russians well.
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  715. The concept of National Insurance was flawed from the outset. NI and PAYE Income Tax are a Jobs Tax.
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  716. It started in the 1950s.
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  717. You must admit he has a point, though.
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  718. Same word, different meanings, though probably the same etymology. The point well made, with murders here in Gothenburg most weeks.
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  719. TLDR have entirely ignored how this conflict has developed.
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  720.  @andrewpaulhart  The EU had demanded that Ukraine breaks existing agreements with the former Soviet countries in exchange for a trade agreement. The Single Market has to be protected. Its the Northern Ireland problem.
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  721. Weird. Before it went quiet, TLDR was assuring its viewers that the Ukrainians were winning and the Russians were stuck.
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  722. Armchair military analysts. It looks futile to me. The two sides need to stop the killing and start talking. The Ukrainians need to accept that they will have to give up some territory instead of continuing with the bloodletting.
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  723. Trade deals are done between businesses, not governments. Governments just get in the way. The protectionist Single Market is very expensive for us in the EU.
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  724.  @carusmike  United or not, the countries still need to be out of the EU.
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  725. Who exactly would receive this compensation?
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  726. The decline of Liverpool was directly due to the EU. It was a major port on what had become the wrong side of the country.
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  727. Actually the EU acts against the interests of most people in the EU. The protected Single Market deprives consumers and businesses from important sources of supply. The EU is set up for the benefit of corporate Germany. Its champions have done a good job in deceiving people that it is working in their interests.
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  728. The state of Russia is to a large extent due to the west. Western economists advised on privatisation Post Soviet. The EU economic policies got in the way of normalisation of trade relations. NATO expansion encouraged the Russian military lobby.
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  729. Serbia should take the opportunity when attention is elsewhere. The Kosovo government has behaved badly.
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  730. Labour is just as responsible. It goes back to 1997.
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  731. Where is the evidence that Khazi's budget would have worked?
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  732. Could it be that Patel wants something published, that civil servants would rather was not published? I wonder what that could be?
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  733. Pay per mile would make no sense. There would be some rationale in charging for travelling in the busy direction at peak times, and that was the principle behind the Cambridge road pricing scheme proposed in 1990. A crude mileage charge is absurd and pointless.
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  734.  @supertramp6011  The West is boycotting. The Russians are doing the sanctioning. We in the west are the losers in this game. It is not going to help the Ukrainians either, who are getting slaughtered in what will have turned out to be for nothing. There are some people in the west who are either very wicked or very stupid or both. I wonder how long it will be before Zelensky is removed? The Ukrainians will not treat him kindly once they realise that they have been duped into being used as a cat's paw.
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  735. They are both designed to further the interest of the military/industrial complex.
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  736. Gibraltar belongs to the people who live there.
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  737. Führer Stürmer
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  738.  @jonathanbowers8964  Trade is based on geography and the Britain is an island and the Ireland is another island even further from mainland Europe. I don't know what you mean by "trading partner", but trade takes place between people and companies, and having to ship goods over the sea adds to the costs of logistics This will always put suppliers in the UK at a disadvantage compared to those in Germany. That is one reason why it never made sense for the UK to join the EU. It doesn't help that the EU cripples its own economies with the Eurotax and import tariffs. Did you know that these policies were advocated in Mein Kampf and put into effect by Goering in 1934? The purpose of an economy is not to make stuff and flog it to foreigners.
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  739. How did Finland manage for 60 years during the Cold War without being a member of NATO?
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  740. ​ @Roeland666  There is a clone of them. One is the Pope.
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  741.  @WiggaMachiavelli  you are advocating fraud by government. It ends up like the Weimar Republic and the money is worth less than the cost of the paper it is printed on.
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  742. Enjoy the freeze.
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  743. A flat rate mileage charge would be nuts. That hammers people who live and work out in the sticks. The Resolution Foundation is a job creation scheme for economics graduates.
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  744. Tasteless video in the circumstances and the UK faces bigger problems now.
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  745. Does the Republic want NI?
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  746. The Swedish government has enough problems on its hands without having to think about trying to sell the idea of joining the Euro. Confidence is at an all time low.
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  747. It wasn't a smart budget in the circumstances. Inflation will not go down unless a lot of the QE and helicopter money is removed through higher taxes. On the other hand there is a need to cut the taxes which are throttling the economy, of which the very worst is VAT. There would have been a better chance of success if VAT had been scrapped and any shortfall made up by changes to the Council Tax; there is a bit of slack there to allow an increase in tax without messing up the economy.
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  748. Aren't the dinghy men qualified in medicine, care work, broadband engineering, butchery, etc? Especially butchery.
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  749.  @MrAranton  Have you read the agreement clause by clause?
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  750. And bad religion - voodoo in Haiti, Islam elsewhere.
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  751. Jesus did not claim to represent anyone. His advice to his apostles was to preach and if the people did not listen, to shake the dust of the town off their feet.
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  752. I love the idea of trucks being psychically inspected. Is HMRC going to employ Mystic Meg to train customs officers in extra-sensory perception? Wil they be provided with crystal balls?
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  753. Perhaps the problem is the institution of the Papacy itself. The claims are not as solid as they are appear at first sight. The Roman interpretation of Matthew 16:18 is not the only possible, or even reasonable, one. St Peter was bishop at Antioch. The primacy of bishops in the early church belonged to Jerusalem. The evangelisation by the early church was distributed among several of the apostles. The monarchical concept of the papacy developed towards the end of the first millennium.
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  754.  @Arcadia61  The main purpose of an economy is not to make stuff and flog it to foreigners. The shortage of cheap EU labour has given British workers some negotiating muscle. The game is up for skinflint employers. Shock horror.
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  755. Scots will flock to shop in Newcastle where everything will be cheaper, but will get stuck in the EU customs queue up the A1 from Morpeth to Berwick. Everything will cost more in Scotland because either there will be the EU's tariff to be paid or the goods will have to be brought from mainland Europe, with extra transport costs. The country will end up like Latvia. The SNP leaders haven't a clue.
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  756. Follow the money.
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  757. Britain is getting like Orwell's 1984.
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  758. 45% of German labour costs are tax.
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  759. The succession need to pass on to the next generation.
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  760.  @crazydragy4233  The Common Agricultural Policy promotes environmentally destructive farming inside Europe. The British landscape was wrecked by intensification of farming due to EEC subsidies and guaranteed prices. It has also led to long term soil damage which is anything but secure and sustainable. At the same time, European consumers have been forced to pay through the nose for daily necessities, while values of farm land have soared. It is up to people to protect their own natural environments. The EU cannot act as environmental policemen.
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  761. Yes it is a fake. It is a studio job, those ruins are just a photograph montaged on to the background, probably the aftermath of an earthquake but definitely not Gaza. It was obviously made by the Israelis, they are fiendishly clever at that sort of thing.
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  762. Jacob Wolf What difference would it make? There are other posters here claiming it was faked.
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  763. No but once you realise that Hamas is a Mossad operation then the pieces all fit together.
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  764. Why not claim it is a fake made in a studio?
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  765. Belinda Benson Brilliant. Where precisely is their native country three generations later?
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  766. *****  A question for you. Supposing the Israelis were to all go away somewhere else. Who would the land actually belong to? I mean, who would become the new landowners?
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  767. If you come up with proposals like you did and are not antisemitic then you are certainly a little out of touch with reality.
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  768. I said it was a fake made in a studio but I was being sarcastic.
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  769. viharamonastry Naah, the film is a fake done by the Israeli security services, obvious, isn't it?
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  770. I said that before you only I was being sarcastic.
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  771. Muhammad Jafar Your religion has an image problem. Statements like the one you have just made are making it worse. Islam is hated in Europe. The UK has already had two atrocities committed in the name of Islam - in one of them over 50 people were killed. The Brits are slow to get angry but when they do, it will not be safe to be a Muslim in Britain. Things are going the same way in other countries. Decent people are disgusted by what is happening in Iraq and Syria right now.
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  772. You should go and sit down in a quiet place for a while.
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  773. *****  I hope you realise that Hamas is a Mossad operation. Now do you understand what is going on here?
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  774. The film is a fake put together by the Israeli information services.
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  775. *****  Hamas is a Mossad operation anyway. They are doing it to make an excuse for Israel have their blockade.
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  776. deyvi69  If the brave Hamas fighters realised this, they would turn their AK47s on their own leaders. Think about it.
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  777. deyvi69 Ditt svar stämmer inte alls. Skulle du inte vara jätteglad om Hamas soldater riktade deras gevär mot deras egna ledare? Jag vill bara sprida misstänksamhet.
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  778. Talha Khan Countries do not own land. People own land. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that Israel handed the whole back to a Palestinian government, who would own the land then?
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  779. A proper Koran is in Classical Arabic.
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  780. The British government has taxed its economy almost to oblivion. The death spiral was set off in 1945. Economic activity is actively punished. The solution is in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and repeated in Progress and Poverty by Henry George but nobody reads them. Implosion beckons.
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  781. Technically the Russians started the war but the provocation by NATO and the EU has been going on since 2014.
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  782. EU membership has been ruinous for the Baltic countries. Their main export has been people. They had been among the most prosperous regions of the Soviet Union. The EU trade and economic policies are the main cause.
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  783. The EU ruined Sweden dairy farmers with its sanctions on Russia, which was a major customer. The UK is still a major customer for EU suppliers. They will be big losers if they restrict exports to the UK.
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  784. The 'sanctions' were a boycott. Self harming.
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  785. It will cost EU taxpayers a fortune just to engage more customs officials, then there will be extra costs, double VAT, delivery delays, delays at airports. It will hurt us in the EU (I am in Sweden) more than it will hurt the UK. Thanks for nothing, Brussels.
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  786. The mainstream Jewish Hagana confronted them and ordered them to stop.
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  787. Who is running Armenia? I thought the Armenians were smart people. Why would they want to smother their economy under the blanket of EU policies?
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  788. It could just as well be some western outfit what done it.
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  789. IKEA is a Dutch company. It pulled out of Sweden due to the high taxes. The Swedish tax system is a disaster. It locks the low skilled into unemployment. Public services are a shadow of what they were. And money is squandered on useless infrastructure. The one tax that ought to be increased - is absurdly low. Unemployment figures are massaged by changing the definition of who is unemployed. I do not recognise the Sweden I live in from the description. It sounds like another country altogether - an imaginary Sweden.
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  790. Could there be a link between the severity of the disease and insulin resistance (diabetes/pre-diabetes/metabolic syndrome)?
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  791. TLDR is plumbing new depths today. How can anyone talk about wealth without first defining what they mean by "wealth"?
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  792. The EU is not a free trade zone. You cannot even trade with another member of your own family in the house next door without being hit by VAT. It's a FEE TRADE ZONE.
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  793. ​ @lellyparker  The EU is run by the unelected elite of Commissioners.
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  794. ​ @Elfdustify  Nothing democratic about the EU. It's the Third Reich rebooted.
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  795. A bonkers set of policies. Very dangerous. Has he learned nothing from Barber's Dash for Growth of 1971? It will lose them the election anyway. The trap is set for the great crash of 2026. Third week in September.
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  796.  @pulsatingsausageboy2076  Sweden has been invaded by an enemy no less dangerous than Russia.
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  797. He has got chubbier since his picture for the Guardian was taken. Astonishing that anyone remotely left supports the EU. It is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, which was a peaceful protest against, among other things, the Corn Laws. These drove up the price of food and worked in almost exactly the same way as the EU's CAP tariffs.
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  798. Oxbridge and LSE teach bogus economics. Beware of anyone who has studied at the feet of the charlatans who fill up their students' heads with piffle.
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  799. They always are.
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  800. All the economic arguments for remain are based on a seventeenth century theory of economics called 'Mercantilism'. This had been refuted before 1800, notably and famously, by Adam Smith, who wrote his book 'Wealth of Nations' to show that mercantilsm was based on a set of fallacies. This is worth following up. It is as if chemists were working to the Phlogiston theory, which was disproved about the same time as Mercantilism.
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  801. HS2 is an expensive way of getting capacity, and capacity was not the original reason for the project. The alternatives were examined with the intention of demonstrating they they were not practicable or cost effective.
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  802. I intend to vote for Reform (if the postal voting form arrives in time) but their policies are not up to dealing with the problems. These have their roots in the theories that have been current in the departments of economics in Oxbridge and the London School of Economics, and which circulate within the civil service and and the government. Until these series are recognised as bogus, policies which might succeed are simply not available to whoever gets elected. It their root are the notion that government revenue should be raised primarily from taxes on productive and legal economic activity. This is ultimately self-defeating, since it leads to a death spiral. The present mania for bringing ever more people into the country is a desperate attempt to escape the inevitable. The system was never viable, since so much government spending has been financed by inflation; sterling has lost 98% of its value since the end of the war, and there are other countries which have even worse records for inflation than Britain. Whether the country has the stomach for making the necessary changes is doubtful. Reform seems unlikely to take the initiative in the right direction, which means that it will inevitably disappoint.
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  803. Classify Islamic radicalisation as a mental illness and section them. Mohammed himself had symptoms of a mental illness, which has been variously diagnosed as a tumour or epilepsy.
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  804. This channel damages its credibility by personalising the conflict as a Putin thing. Bad pronunciation of place names doesn't help either, not to mention not being able to pronounce some English words properly.
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  805. There is a war on. The Israelis did not start it. The Palestinians can stop and there will be a ceasefire.
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  806. ​ @maxtorque2277  A ribbon cable could suffer multiple breaks or failures.
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  807. Serious politicians should not use social media.
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  808. Harry got into real estate and is now a rentier living off other people's work.
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  809. Watch out Moscow, here they come.
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  810. Actually it sacrificed UK consumers. Au food disappeared and food prices doubled. This led to industrial unrest, the three day week, the winter of discontent, the election of Thatcher and the Falklands War. The Argentinians would never have started a war when the UK was its best customer.
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  811. UK waters are a "common" which is the property of the entire British people. They should not be given away to anyone. In economics, fish in the sea are classified as ‘land’, which provides a clue about how this natural resource, which belongs to the nation as a whole, ought to be managed. A scheme of leasing or licensing is needed, on the following lines. * Fishing grounds would be divided into zones based on criteria such as location to ports, types of fishing habitats and availability of species. * Licenses should not be freehold but be valid for a limited period of from one to five years. * Licences should be subject to terms and conditions such as sizes and types of boats which can be used, methods of fishing, size of mesh, quantities and sizes of each species which can be caught. Licenses should be sold at open auction; auctions for inshore fishing zones might be held locally. * Revenues should be reserved for policing, protection, conservation, fish hatchery and research. There is no reason why foreign fishermen should be allowed to bid for these licences. However, it is unlikely that Dieppe fishermen would outbid the Hastings fishermen for the right to fish off the Sussex coast. Sixty miles across an often stormy sea in a small boat would not be worth the risk of paying for the licence. The long term aim should be to protect and enhance what is an important part of the national ‘estate’, and as any prudent landowner would do, revenues would be ploughed back so as to maintain, and preferably increase, the long term rental yield. The precedent has been set with the systems for auctioning of offshore oil exploration rights and radio spectrum.
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  812. That was Pillow Talk
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  813. Can someone please explain the point of the EU protected market? Russia is being threatened with sanctions as a PUNISHMENT. The Single Market is a system of self imposed sanctions which they claim is good for the EU. Which is it?
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  814. No-one does it better than TLDR.
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  815. If the country has followed Taiwan and Singapore, and adopted land value taxation the policies would have been a success. It will not recover unless the Taiwan/Singapore model is copied.
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  816. They got rid of property taxes, now they are bringing in people but there is not enough room for them.
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  817. Sorry to see you going all mercantilist. The purpose of the economy is not to make stuff and flog it to foreigners. Just remove import tariffs unilaterally. Forget level playing fields - they are nonsense. Make our own industries competitive by getting rid of taxes which push up labour costs, including VAT, income tax on wages, and national insurance. Countries which don't "play fair" are just harming their own people.
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  818. A lot of them end up in Sweden.
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  819. Sounds more like one of the altar servers was careless with the contents of the incense pot after Mass. We nearly had a similar thing at a church I used to go to.
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  820. The idea is misguided in principle. Nicholas Kaldor, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge advised against the common currency in the 1970s. The Swedish krona has sunk like a stone recently. Sweden would be in even bigger trouble if it had the Euro. The Euro is at least 10% undervalued for Germany, which means that Germans are working a day a week for nothing. The German motivation was mercantilist and therefore wrong. This has led to the dangerous situation of Germany having a persistent balance of payments surplus with the surplus consisting of bad debt, and the southern countries having a persistent deficit, also on borrowed funds. If these countries had continued to have their own currencies, with floating exchange rates, the trade imbalance would have corrected itself. A fundamental flaw with the Euro is that as long as interest rates are a primary means of economic regulation, there can be no interest rate which is suitable for any large geographical area; even the UK is too large for a single currency in that situation. These conceptual faults far outweigh the convenience of not having to exchange money. The Euro is now on borrowed time. When the crash comes, it will be messy.
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  821. Is it possible to separate out the effects of the co-morbidities and the medication used to control them? Why would dementia be a factor? Is there a third factor causing both dementia and vulnerability to the virus? Do multiple co-morbidities have a single causal factor? There is lots of statistical analysis to be done, followed by at attempt at establishing mechanisms.
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  822.  @timdoherty101  thanks. I deleted all my comments. Matthew 7:6
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  823. ​ @jsharp9735 He doesn't worship Mary or idles.
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  824.  Macavity  Separate matter altogether. If there is nothing left over to pay for the rent of the land, then the land is sub marginal. You might as well dig anthracite by hand from an 18 inch seam.
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  825. Sweden's economy has been weak for years. The public sector has grown unsustainably and a lot of people are locked out of the economy by the tax system.
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  826. "Ukraine" includes a chunk of Hungary taken by Stalin. I would not be surprised if Putin has done a deal to hand back the territory if the Hungarians keep quiet.
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  827. EU economic policies have always ever been based on cutting off noses to spite its own face. However we need to remember that there are a handful of influential people who win from the stupidity. I suspect that the inflation is the delayed effect of 12 years of QE which was INTENDED to cause inflation.
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  828. It is made much worse because tax systems ignore the differences, apart from national property taxes.
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  829. Sterling seems to have come up against the Swedish krona on Friday. Khazi for the khazi. They could have done a few good things quickly (1) Scrap VAT with immediate effect. (2) Change the Council Tax ratios and introduce a national component to the Council Tax. 3) A small increase in the business rate, with the promise of a new valuation next year, based on site values only. 4) Cut down HS2 to make the most of what has already been constructed. 5) Pull out of Ukraine involvement - cannot afford it. 6) Swallow pride and deal with Russia.
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  830. The Greens are just another disaster. See Brighton.
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  831. Vucic merely reflects opinion in the country. The Serbians detest the EU and NATO, based on bitter experience.
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  832. ​ @JohnCenaFan6298  Banning the traditional Latin Mass?
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  833. Both candidates have the fatal flaw of being Oxford PPE graduates. They know more about economics when they left school than after they had got their degrees. An MP from a farming constituency is unlikely to support free trade and the cheap food it would bring.
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  834. Scotland's economic problems are the same in nature as those in Wales and the English regions. The UK tax system is the principal villain. The article in the link below illustrates how the tax system amplifies the effects of geographical disadvantage. The only form of tax which recognises geography is a tax on the rental value of land. If that is off the menu, then other measures to rebalance the economy remain possible, such as differential tax thresholds in different parts of the country. The government also needs to grasp the nettle and drive through a reform of the property tax system, resisting the hysterics about old widows in mansions. It is absurd and unfair to base a property tax on what was a rough-and-ready valuation done thirty years ago, while the UBR hammers manufacturers, heavy chemicals, petrochemicals, high streets in poor areas, and stamp duty is a tax on moving which gums up the entire property market. http://www.landvaluetax.org/theory/sounds-from-the-deep.html The UK government should do NOTHING to restrict inward movement of goods to the UK. The government should be firm about this. If the EU wants to have restrictions on goods moving into its jurisdiction, then it should pay the cost and run whatever system it chooses to have. The EU's determination to restrict movement of goods INTO the EU is negative for those inside the zone of restriction. This seems to be little appreciated. An independent Scotland in the EU would cause a permanent traffic tailback on the A1 which could stretch all the way to the outskirts of Newcastle. It is astonishing that the Scotnats seem not to have understood this. Prices of goods in Scotland would rise due to transport and customs delays, EU tariffs and the extra cost of transporting material across 400 miles of the North Sea. As for fish; the fishing grounds belong to the British people, not to British fishermen. Licences should be auctioned and go to the highest bidders wherever they are. http://www.landvaluetax.org/the-lvtc-blog-by-henry-law/fishing-and-brexit.html
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  835. Putin is in large part a creation of the west, in particular NATO and EU expansion and the EU trade and economic policies. The latter have prevented the normalisation of trade relations with the former Soviet countries. Putin has made a huge mistake but there are ideological issues which will not go away.
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  836. Scroungers.
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  837. Build detention centres in remote places like Dartmoor. They would be free to leave the country at any time, but would be unable ever to return.
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  838. Why the synthesised voice?
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  839. Micron? Mucron?
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  840. British people will have to pay the tariffs and the government will piss the money against the wall.
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  841. The EU is Deutsches Reich 3.1 whichever way it is shaped. You cannot polish a turd.
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  842. The EU and the EEC before it have been kicking down their member countries economies since 1957.
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  843. We do not need a new Enlightenment. Post Modernism has its roots there, via Rousseau and Marx. We need to claw our way back to orthodox means of thinking. The Enlightenment was a Gnostic movement, and it is what has brought us to this point.
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  844. Not a good prospect for us here in Sweden. The staff in our local supermarket were taking no precautions at all first thing this morning.
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  845. Always has been since the time of Chmielnetski in 1648. His monument in the centre of Kiev needs at least to be contextualised.
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  846. We could do with a lot more "Islamophobia". Islam is the real threat to those western liberal values which are worth preserving, and followers of Islam would not disagree.
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  847. On your reasoning October 7 would have had to be a false flag operation.
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  848. There is not much Christianity to be had any longer in most of the western world. The mainstream protestant churches have collapsed. The RC church is imploding. Orthodox is generally thin on the ground. What is anyone to do if they seek authentic Christianity?
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  849. To stop more people getting killed?
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  850. Your idea sounds like socialist interference to me.
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  851. The Arabs themselves brought on the first naqbah.
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  852. Zelensky's attack on the Orthodox Church will cost him. Mistake.
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  853. The EU most suits the Tory grandees who own large tracts of Britain and who get their pocket money from the CAP, while the rest of us have to pay through the nose for all our food. The real extremists are the power behind the remainers.
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  854.  @yummyfuzz1  Magna Carta was a power grab by the landowning barons, and they have kept the power ever since.
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  855.  @fraterdeusestveritas2022  And it was sabotaged by the ERG and Minford's outfit who failed to present the economic case. The dukes and lords cannot be without the pocket money they get from the CAP. Once Gove and May had announced they would continue with the EU's terrible policies, the point of Brexit evaporated.
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  856. High GDP tends to lead to sky high land prices ie sky high house prices. That is good for the moneylenders. Not so good for everyone else. The earlier history of the republic is a good example of the damaging effects of protectionism. Why does the EU base its trade policies on protectionism?
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  857. Here is the low-down on Sweden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ycw-nBp94
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  858. There is a description of the experience of being under an artillery barrage in Solzhenitski's August 1914.
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  859. I know a lot of Serbians and have yet to meet one who wants their country to join the EU . Here in Sweden most people I know want the country to get out.
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  860.  @fahimshamsuddin672  GST, VAT, MOMS. The most damaging and inefficient tax ever invented. The real yield to the government is less than 50% of the headline amount supposedly collected. VAT just robs other taxes of the revenue they would have collected anyway if the VAT never existed. VAT also shrinks a country's GDP by at least 0.25% for each 1% of VAT If you can think of a worse tax, what is it?
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  861.  @raivisb326  The whole of the economy in Eastern Europe on both sides is messed up because of the customs barrier between the EU and the countries outside. It blocks the free movement of goods and has disrupted normal trade patterns. That explains exactly what you have described. There is no need to be offensive. It does not help your argument.
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  862.  @fahimshamsuddin672  VAT is not a tax on consumers; it is a bluff. Businesses bear the cost of the tax. They absorb the VAT to maintain volumes of sales. Those that can't go broke. VAT is a destroyer of businesses. Compensation payments create poverty traps. There is also the cost of compliance. VAT is a big expense for smaller businesses. In needs to go but the EU is wedded to it. If you look at the EU web site you will see that VAT fraud is massive 34% of VAT is lost in Romania. You would think that the EU would have realised that their tax is not fit for purpose but apparently they are unperturbed.
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  863. Queers for Palestine
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  864. And Pannier Tanks
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  865. TLDR has dropped the subject. They were very voluble only a week ago.
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  866. Not from us in Sweden. No wind, no solar, nuclear out of action. 56 Euro per kwh.
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  867. Very interesting but how are the following to be explained? * Less ice in the Arctic, with the north-west passage now ice free * Retreat of ice in the Antarctic * Retreating glaciers in the Alps * Increased frequency of extreme weather events
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  868. Fart consists of methane. We can collect it in balloons and fix them to our boilers.
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  869. If Palestine was free, it would be run by the thieving thugs who run the West Bank and Gaza. Most Palestinians would get nothing.
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  870. ​ @isaacisaac1130  The devil doesn't like the Juice.
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  871. Yes, they should stop crippling its economy with taxes on food and other imports, and taxes on wages, goods and services.
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  872.  @IMGreg..  The west has taxed its productive economy almost to death since 1945. There is a widespread idea that money can be made by moving money around and by speculation.
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  873.  @Solitas777  The EU concentrates on thinking of ways of damaging its own economy.
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  874.  @Marqan  European politicians have been assertively ruining their countries' economies since the 1950s. They and their advisors don't know what they are doing, or they would, presumably, stop doing it.
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  875. She doesn't know the difference between war and genocide. War is nasty. The people of Gaza voted for genocide.
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  876.  @sonneh86  Having a military HQ under a hospital is a war crime.
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  877. @Felix Furball It's all because of the juice.
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  878. GG never mentions the Chinese and their ill treatment of muslims. That is old school antisemitism.
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  879. M$ has had a similar effect on the economy as the epidemic, due to the amount of technical support that users need, and the high specifications of the computers needed to run it on, and this has been going on for nearly thirty years.
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  880. No mystery. Supply and demand, partly a consequence of a bumper crop from the money tree. Land Value Tax, reduced migration and cutting down the money tree are needed. Rent control is a proven failure. You end up with a secondary grey market. Nothing to do with interest rates. Landlords cannot pass on higher costs. TLDR needs to get up to speed with its economics.
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  881. ​ @raymondelliott2280  People can decide for themselves what to buy, or get themselves injected with.
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  882. Anti dumping measures are what governments do after they have taxed their own industries to death.
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  883. Ask around in the Nations' bars. It is just the sort of thing that Swedish students would do as a Rag season prank.
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  884.  @arturschlegel-ky2wt  What is heretical about them? There is definitely a dispute over jurisdiction and the independent Ukrainian Church has modernist tendencies but I have not come across accusations of heresy.
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  885.  @__Aurora__  It doesn't work like that. New autocephalous Orthodox Churches have to be recognised by all the others. That has not happened.
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  886.  @richlopez5896  That still leaves a long list which have not recognised them. The accepted process was not followed.
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  887.  @sergeyb8  Yes. Orthodox in Ukraine generally want to be in communion with all the other Eastern Orthodox. Because the procedures for setting up an autocephalous church were not followed, they have now been cut off. The decision should have been made and approved in accordance with Canon Law, which requires a synod. The Patriarch of Constantinople does not have the authority to carve out an independent Church from another Patriarchate. There is an accepted way of going about the process.
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  888. At the rate things are going, Hungary will end up in an alliance with Putin. Keep prodding, Brussels.
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  889.  @tigerseye73  internal combustion engines are on the way out anyway now, apart from aircraft. They are going the way of reciprocating steam engines.
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  890. And the EU blockade of Northern Ireland.
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  891. As an Orthodox myself, I didn't know it was. It is the symbol of Byzantium, and was then adopted by Moscow.
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  892. Ukraine includes a chunk stolen from Hungary by Stalin. There are chunks of other neighbouring countries too.
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  893. We are far too dependent on IT systems connected to networks. These things can also down from natural causes and accidents. This vulnerability has crept up through people making chains of decisions without concern for the wider implications.
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  894. The way that this channel has personalised the conflict has not enhanced its credibility.
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  895. More likely the crisis will hit the €.
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  896. Inflation is caused by the government of each country. There is not much Inflation of the Swiss Franc.
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  897. What happened to Biden's model aeroplane?
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  898. This is the tip of an iceberg of discontent. Didn't a bunch of fringe German nutters do something similar in 1923? The EU has been hammering its industry for decades.
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  899. There is a funny thing. Patriarch Kyrill was criticised for wearing a Rolex but how did anyone know it wasn't a fake?
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  900. The EU's tariffs will cost Irish consumers and Irish manufacturers. It will cost more to transport goods to Ireland from Continental Europe than from anywhere in Britain. It is a simple matter of geography and logistics, quite apart from anything else. After Brexit, around half of the Republic's imports and exports will not be with the EU. Is this too simple and obvious for anyone to notice?
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  901. Mercantilist analysis. EU consumers are big losers. EU rules have wiped out the smaller concerns eg civil engineering, railway rolling stock etc. Only the big fish can afford the compliance costs.
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  902. Same thing in principle as the EU in Northern Ireland. Sliding towards WW3.
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  903. Who voted for them and their policies? Who will save us from them? Can Putin?
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  904. ​ @benghazi4216  The west has been poking the bear for 30 years.
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  905. The EU needs to scrap VAT and the Single Market, just for a start.
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  906.  @dennisreed6345  How do you propose to achieve that?
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  907. That knocks the power-hungry EU on the head.
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  908. You forgot to mention the British Pannier tanks. There are at least a couple of dozen. Plus Thomas the Tank.
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  909. Rent is a reward for not working.
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  910.  @BeauKooJack1  Yes. Have you read 'Progress and Poverty'?
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  911. Swedes seem to be exceptionally naive on financial matters. They spend and borrow money as if there was no tomorrow. The Swedish inflation is the consequence of ever growing public spending and a tax system that is well beyond its capacity for raising additional revenue.
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  912. We in the EU are the ones who pay for the EU trade wars. Sky high prices for food, petrol diesel and gas. They are clueless.
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  913.  @English_Dawn  EU is clueless.
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  914. .Muslims who take their religion seriously do not want to live in peace with anyone else, nor ever have. Before the Muslim Arab colonisation, the land from the Euphrates to the Atlantic was mostly Christian.
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  915. The policy of focus on exports is the present-day implementation of the seventeenth century theory of economics known as 'Mercantilism'. It was shown to be fallacious by all the classical economists, starting with the French Physiocrats, but famously, by Adam Smith, who demolished the theory. The most accessible refutation, however, is in two books by Henry George, 'Progress and Poverty' and 'Protection or Free Trade.' A reading of the former book is essential to understand what is going on in the present situation with low or negative interest rates, the effect of which is to support unrealistically high land values (usually and confusingly referred to as 'asset values'). They will propel the countries affected into the biggest crash of all time, probably around 2026, and we can expect comprehensive political and civil unrest to follow. Mercantilism leads to irrational economic behaviour but has always been the driver of EEC/EU policy and is now espoused by China and Trump. The winners are the countries which resist the temptation to fight it with tariffs and other trade barriers of their own.
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  916. The EU trade and economic policies are optimised to cause damage. The combination of VAT, CAP, the protected Single Market and the Euro are almost as destructive as full blown communism. The EU is the Third Reich rebooted.
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  917.  @sarahlaslett3279  300000 Orthodox priests, monks and nuns were killed by the Soviets. 20 million Christians probably. The worst was at the time of the Revolution and in 1937. Krushchev stepped up the pressure again and it continued until the early 1980s. The relationship between church and state is inevitably a balance between tension and accommodation, everywhere and at all times.
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  918. It's fine to criticise Israel if you also criticise other governments who do bad stuff. If you don't, then it is antisemitism. "YOU PEOPLE" reveals your swastika armband.
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  919. How can I get a blue passport before my present one expires in 2028?
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  920. The HK model would never be accepted by the EU. Same as Northern Ireland.
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  921. ​ Boomer Galactica  25% of Ireland's imports come from the UK. Why do you think that is? Short of uprooting Ireland from the sea bed and towing it into the North Sea, how is Ireland going to stop being dependent on Britain?
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  922.  Boomer Galactica  Ireland is creating a problem for itself by cutting itself off from one of its main suppliers. The Irish will have to deal with the higher prices and extra transport costs. How much land and property in Ireland is still owned by the same British as before 1914?
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  923.  @taintabird23  At the rate things are going, the UK will have to hurry or there might not be much left to join.
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  924. Is this a Verdun situation?
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  925. It is time to stop conflating "Free Market" and "Capitalism". They are separate things.
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  926.  @ianhamilton3113  Yes but it would have been worth a bob or two as scrap metal.
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  927.  @johnsergei  wrong sort of tax.
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  928.  @nicky-73-38  What should the Jews be taken on for? Their participation in banking? Their participation in Marxist movements? Their assent to the theology of Judaism? If that is the case, shouldn't the criticism be directed against the banking system or Marxism, or Judaism as a set of beliefs.
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  929. Lots of people get murdered on the stage at Glyndebourne. Some opera plots are quite bloodthirsty.
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  930. The EU trade and economic policies were inherited from pre war Germany. They are a guaranteed recipe for failure. VAT is crippling in the long term.
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  931. Two fingers.
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  932. How strange that the left should support membership of the EU when we now know that it is controlled by, and acts in the interests of, the Franco-German corporate military-industrial complex and of corporate and aristocratic owners of agricultural farmland. Can anyone explain this?
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  933. I am unable to post links to any of Dr Campbells on the discussion comments sections of the Swedish newspapers. They are automatically deleted by the censusbot that controls by Ifrågasätt which provides the comments service. The Swedish government has a new PM who is trying to make herself noticed, and we have gone back into panic mode with new restrictions, requirement for vaccine passports and an advertising campaign on YouTube to encourage people to get more vaccination, which there never was when the epidemic was at its height and the vaccination programme had stalled because of delivery problems thanks to relying on the EU.
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  934. ​ @v4facade  It is insulting Christians and Christianity.
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  935. ​ @alyzahs  The Creator God had a name: I AM. The allah of Islam is worshipped according to the rites of a diabolic pagan moon god.
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  936. @mason Christianity has been African for over 1900 years. The Bible says "Proclaim the Gospel to all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". Western Europeans are committing cultural suicide.
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  937. Free Palestine - that is an interesting concept. Try this thought experiment. Supposing that every last Jew in Israel was taken up in a spaceship and migrated to another planet. What would happen the day after?
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  938. Anyone who focuses on the misdeeds of Israel while ignoring the worse misdeeds of several dozen other countries is doing so with questionable motives.
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  939. A deficient understanding of economics is not confined to socialists. But Corbyn's gap in understanding is spectacular.
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  940. Ex-Catholic, no regrets at leaving the clown show. Fortunately there are several Eastern Orthodox parishes where I live. No need to put up with all the nonsense any more.
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  941. The entire tax system is a pail of poo anyway. Labour had 13 years to fix it. Labour invented most of it in 1945. Channels like this one ought to be campaigning for radical change.
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  942. Net Zero is not about nitrogen compounds.
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  943. Attempts to refer to this video and this channel in the online comments columns of Swedish newspapers are removed by the moderators as not complying with the guidelines. There is a de facto policy in Sweden of trying to keep people in the dark, which has the effect of handing the baton to conspiracy theorists.
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  944. They are not 'our' trawlers, unless you happen to own a few yourself. The fishing grounds belong to the British people. Licences should be bid for at auction. If foreigners are willing to pay more, then why would they be allowed to fish?
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  945. Who is controlling Biden's strings?
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  946.  @juliantheapostate8295  Almost the entire UK tax system is a monument to fiscal ineptitude and has been since 1945. It is nothing more than a tariff of fines and penalties for legal and successful economic activities. Fiscal competence would mean taking the axe to the most damaging of these impositions. It cannot be so very difficult as the Chancellor could have begun almost anywhere.
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  947. They aren't thrust onto anyone unless we signal that we would take them in. There are over 50 other Muslim countries.
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  948.  @Lam168  You are over generalising. London is also in a better time zone than the Far East centres.
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  949.  @georgemavrides3434  "Nothing the UK has to offer is needed in Russia." This is true if you take a broad-brush view. Outside the UK, British goods have a appeal in their own right. It is a diversity of niche brands with a bit of historical association or snob appeal. Whiskey? Holidays? Top end clothes? Ceramics? Television programmes? Russians certainly seem to like the UK, to judge by the numbers who come.
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  950. Genuinely free trade (no EU style free trade), plus a Swiss style arrangement, should sort this out. If people want more local government, they should be allowed to have it. But it means no taxes on wages, goods and services.
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  951. Inflation is primarily due to pushing too much money into the system, which is the original definition of Inflation. QE has been going on for the past dozen years. Trade restrictions = a self imposed blockade. ie a sustained policy of own goals. A strategy of self reliance runs against basic economic principles. Economics here is good in parts but is not the strongest point of this channel. Please stay off this topic - it detracts from its generally high quality.
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  952. The Customs Union is part of the trouble. It is a protection racket. You should get a proper job.
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  953. The EU exists for the benefit of corporate Germany.
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  954. Please hold to the proper definition of inflation: undue increase in the supply of money. Money supply has been increasing since QE was introduced in 2008. Price increases are an effect of inflation. TLDR should be informing its audience, not propagating misleading ideas.
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  955. Whatever happens, on no account negotiate. Fight to the last Ukrainian.
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  956. Destructive economic policies, destructive trade policies, destructive tax policies the world over for the past 100 years. Funny about inflation. The central banks have been trying to cause inflation for years and now they have succeeded we are annoyed. The real cause is bogus economic theories.
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  957. The USA is founded on a conspiracy to destroy Christianity. The Protestant churches have fallen, and the Roman Catholic church is almost finished. The Patriarch of Constantinople has been nobbled. Which leaves Moscow, the Third Rome. From that perspective, these actions form a consistent pattern.
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  958. That music calls up all the demons in hell.
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  959. Erdogan might do Sweden a favour.
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  960. It's a mirror image of RT but seems to be getting more influenced by warmongers and neocons. Follow the money.
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  961. They are not sanctions. It is a boycott.
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  962. It seems to me that this illustrates the need to cast doubt on the use of GDP as a policy objective. Less stuff is being produced, and less stuff is being consumed. Except that if people are at home, they are producing wealth outside the money economy eg the meal prepared at home from ingredients grown in one's garden or allotment does not show up in the GDP statistic, whereas the meal plucked from the supermarket freezer does, even though the home made meal is almost certainly a better quality one. 'The economy' does not pay for care homes. Care homes are paid for by people who are doing other work and can support those that work in the care homes. The country needs a decent tax system, which it has not had for centuries.
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  963. It is not a dung heap but there are more and more areas best avoided.
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  964. The Single Market is a hostile action against the rest of the world. The main victims are the poor suckers inside the EU itself.
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  965. The EU has wrecked the economies of the Baltic states.
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  966. Get yourself a pair of ordinary headphones - something a bit tech looking, made in the UK or course. B&W PX7, perhaps, made in Worthing. Ear buds are unflattering. Please start talking about the tax changes which need to be made to return manufacturing to the UK. Taxes on all economic activity need to be phased out. Which mean that revenue will be needed to be collected by some other means. Adam Smith is the place to start.
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  967. I have a CV passport. I was spreading covid around for several days before I got the symptoms and had to stay indoors for a few days, then came back with a positive result. The vaccine is now as much use as Norton Anti Virus for Windows95 on the latest Mac, while the passport is a complete waste of time.
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  968. Give the north a hefty tax break eg higher income tax and NI thresholds for those who live and work in the area.
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  969. Are they prevented from leaving the country voluntarily?
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  970. Anti Israel is code for antisemitism when much worse things all over the world are ignored. None of this would have happened if 7 October had not happened. The people of Gaza voted for what they got.
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  971. ​ @blablup1214  Don't buy the products if you have doubts. That includes a lot of ready meals and stuff with too much salt, sugar and artificial sweeteners.
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  972. ​ @alm9322  It isn't free trade in the EU. VAT at >15% and a trade barrier against the 165 countries not in the EU. Fee trade area would be a better description.
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  973.  @stevo8164  Juice. And JC too.
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  974.  @jasonclarke7422  Arrest them when they land and give them the options of returning home immediately or being detained pending thorough investigation. We have had enough problems with these streams of people in Sweden. Many of them are unassimilable and will never be able to support themselves in the UK. There are fifty other countries in the world where they would fit in perfectly well.
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  975. I thought the Russians were getting thrashed in Ukraine.
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  976. They could use chickpeas in pea shooters. You put them in your mouth and blow them through the tube. Any left over can be made into hummus.
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  977. The EU economic are needs to be reformed from the ground up. The policies are ruinous.
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  978. ​ @sharingsharedudebro1236  The Russians would occupy County Kerry at the drop of a hat.
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  979. The quality of your comments is slipping badly. You were superb before the election and up to 31 January. But now you are advocating two mutually exclusive policy aims. It is not unreasonable that property tax payable should be proportional to the value of the property, and this should apply at a national level. It is also unreasonable that a property tax should be based on values which are thirty years out of date. The relative values of properties in different areas has changed hugely since then, for example, due to the construction of new infrastructure. Some properties are loaded with too much tax, others are paying less than their fair share, and their owners have been free-riding. Singapore is substantially funded by a property tax on land values, as is Taiwan, while in Hong Kong, there is no freehold ownership of land, and the government receives much of its revenue from the sale of 40 year leases. This is key to their remarkable success and why they sustain genuine enterprise capitalism whereas the UK economy creaks along, held down by rentier capitalism. Please do some proper research so that you can enlighten your audience. Your comments today are misleading. You could usefully do a course in economics. The London School of Economic Science is solid on this subject - possibly the only place in London that is; they also teach the Indian system of philosophy known as Advaita Vedanta but that is a separate department and you do not need to have anything to do with it. https://www.schoolofphilosophy.org/course-category/economics/
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  980. Why are they worried about Singapore-on-Thames? There is not a cat in hell's chance of it happening, because the government would have to apply a Singapore-type tax system, where government revenue is raised though a substantial land value tax instead of existing taxes. The government is not going to run with that idea.
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  981. Haha. Nobody seems to realise what a lot of trouble businesses and consumers in the EU will have when they have to pay the EU tariffs on UK goods, or look for alternative suppliers in the EU. The Irish will pick up a huge transport bill.
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  982. Lunar ticks. Can't they even calculate when the moon will rise?
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  983. Labour plans to introduce abortion on demand up to nine months with no reason required. Caroline Lucas, the Green, previously MP for Brighton Pavilion, also supports this policy. This is unduly restrictive, in my opinion. Why not wait until the children are aged 18? They could also have compulsory euthanasia for Brexiters, Conservatives, Islamophobes, people with Down's syndromes, and everyone over the age of 75. Something like it has been done before, hasn't it? The Labour Party has never been worse in its history. Time to close the BBC as well. It is full up with Brighton 'progressives'.
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  984. It's another Lebanon.
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  985. Cornish fields very rarely freeze. And who is the diesel with mauve hair?
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  986. What an absurd idea. They claim all the land from the River to the Sea. That is no basis for a peace agreement. The Israeli policy of moving the grass is only way of keeping the lid on the conflict. The Muslim Arabs are the colonial interlopers. Before they came it was predominantly Christian.
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  987. Who pays for the welfare for landowners?
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  988. Richard Adam's novel The Plague Dogs is worth a read. This entire research activity is disgusting.
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  989. The CAP is just a landowners' protection racket.
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  990. Germany armed up. What could possibly go wrong?
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  991. Please stop misusing the phrase 'access to markets'. 'Access to markets' is something that customers need. The EU is based on the principle of preventing its people from gaining access to markets, so as to force them to buy over-priced EU food and industrial products.
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  992. The Palestinian freedom movements deny the right of Jews to exist. They get it from their holy book.
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  993.  @Trials_By_Errors  Marxism is anything but scientific. The basic concepts are flawed.
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  994.  @mission3479  Capitalism, a fuzzy term in itself, is, as we know it, a device for securing monopoly privilege, as in the game. The history of the game is instructive. Marxist theory barely touches the real issues.
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  995. Hasn't he heard of the Royal Navy West African Patrol?
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  996. They are not sanctions. It's a boycott. When people start to freeze and go hungry as a consequence, the question is will governments in the west survive, including the EU?
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  997. Nobody has asked the Swedes. The Swedish government hasn't had the confidence to put the issue of NATO membership to a referendum. Support is lukewarm despite all the attempts by the media to drum up the Russophobia. Sweden has kept out of alliances for over 200 years. The policy has served the country well. Our geography makes us of minimal strategic importance. When the costs are revealed and conscription is reintroduced, people will realise what a historic mistake this is. It also needs to be remembered that a significant proportion of the younger generation would not support being in an alliance with the USA.
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  998.  @davec-1378  Sorry, please can you re-phrase that sentence, it is not clear what you mean.
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  999.  @davec-1378  I am saying that the consolidation of wealth arises in the first instance from land enclosure and the private appropriation of the rent of land. I am informed that Marx said much the same thing. If he did not, then he ought to have done, since the people whom he observed were peasants who had lost their land rights following the land enclosures that were taking place at the time, which forced them into destitution or wage slavery. But Marx isn't strong on this subject. The authorities were the Hammonds, writing in 1910. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9458836-the-village-labourer
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  1000.  @davec-1378  Marx's theory is frankly, incomprehensible. It does not make sense in English, due to the poor quality of the translations, which also casts doubt on whether the concepts reflect Marx's intentions. It isn't even grammatical. Whether it makes sense in German, I am in no position to judge; my knowledge of that language is just sufficient to get by when travelling. Your own English is not clear, either. Equivocate is an intransitive verb. I am not being pernickity; I genuinely do not understand what you are saying, or trying to say. This is not a matter of equivocation, but according to your previous explanation, Marx appears to be conflating two separate meanings of the term 'value', which makes it useless as a tool for understanding the economic process. As I understand value, it is measurable ONLY at the point when exchange takes place, when a price appears. I am happy to accept another definition, but you need to explain it clearly and unambiguously. Again, as I understand it, equilibrium price is the price towards which actual price trends at any given time and place. If you can come up with an alternative definition, then please do so in your own clear words. There is a competing LTV, the one given by George in 'The Science of Political Economy'. That you have not heard of that theory does not mean that it does not exist.
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  1001.  @davec-1378  are equivicating on "Value" because what Marx is REFERRING TO is completely different than the subjective or utilitarian definitions of Value. Marx is REFERRING to a theoretical unobservable that EXPLAINS equilibrium prices. Please clarify the above. Your version of "value" is NOT trying to explain equilibrium prices, is it? My definition is a refinement of the normal English meaning of the term. Any discussion has to agree the meanings of terms. It appears that we are not speaking the same language. So your "value" and what Marx terms "value" are NOT in reference to the same thing. Hence, you are equivicating. I am still trying to discover what Marx means by the term value, because it appears to be utterly divorced from any normal meaning of the term. I accept that in economics, terms need to be defined with more precision than in everyday speech but they cannot diverge too much. That is why I have asked you to clarify but you have not done so.   2. It's funny you claim Marx is "unintelligible" but yet believe you are in a position to critique the theory. You cannot critique what you do not understand. It is not in the least bit funny. It is not necessary to understand a theory in precisely the way that the author of the theory intended in order to recognise if it is fundamentally flawed. If you try to play the card of having special knowledge, then no discussion can be had. Nor can you expect anyone to accept without reservation that what you have to say is an accurate interpretation of Marx himself. Unless German is your first language and you can dig the meaning out of a heavy, mid-nineteenth century text, you yourself are dependent on the accuracy of the translation.  3. "OTHER THEORIES" Your constant equivocation invalidates any idea an apposing theory explains what Marx explains and predicts because you have shown you lack the understanding to compare any theory with Marx. QUESTION What theory explains equilibrium prices and how does it explain them. That's a first small step you need to take to say there is a competing theory. BTW Notice that all you do is say "Marx is wrong and xxx is right"? That's mere assertion and not addressing his argument. I gave you chapter and verse. You can check it out for yourself. You are the expert on Marx. If equilibrium price according to Marx means what it normally means in economics, then the George theory explains it very well ie it is the price which is equal to the cost of the inputs and wages paid at the going rate. If the price is higher, the goods will continue to be produced. As production increases, the price falls to the point when it is not worth producing any more of the goods. It is a tendency due to hysteresis in the system which leads to overshoot when production increases, and over-pricing when demand is waiting for supply to catch up. This is a familiar situation with RAM chips. That explanation accepts that only labour can add value but also accounts for the observation that labour does not necessarily add value. The Marx theory appears not to explain the latter phenomenon.
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  1002.  @davec-1378  You are not answering or trying to explain, patiently, any of the questions that I am trying to get answers to. You shout - complete with CAPS LOCK, like an angry schoolteacher who has lost his temper for no good reason, calling his pupil an idiot for asking awkward questions. On top of that you are looking for infinite evidence. It is an approach which does nothing to promote your cause. On the contrary, you promote revulsion for the cause. The paper I linked to is not a line of reasoned argument based on a set of propositions, but an unstructured stream of consciousness rhetoric infused with angry emotion. The anger is a characteristic of Marxist. Anger gets in the way of reason. You display the anger of the Marxist in all its hideousness. It is no wonder that it has inspired actions leading to 200 million dead and still counting. Good bye.
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  1003. I would agree if the EU was not determined to foist dysfunctional trade and economic policies on its member countries.
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  1004. Defeat Putin and another one wl step into his shoes.
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  1005. There was an early report that the Israelis have a vaccine routinely given orally to chickens, which is a close match.
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  1006. The Russians are just dying for a chance to get a dip in the Atlantic in Galway Bay.
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  1007. The EU's tariffs are immensely damaging to consumers and business in the EU itself. Why do so few people understand this?
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  1008. Sweden's SD has slipped because it is going native.
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  1009. IF the climate is really changing, and IF the change is due to human action, the most likely cause is deforestation, not carbon dioxide emissions. Street pollution due to internal combustion engines and high level pollution from aircraft are separate issues. Unfortunately, regulations have led to the closing of passenger ferry services such as Harwich-Esbjerg as the clean fuel is too expensive.
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  1010. It's obviously Russian sabotage. Same as the pipelines.
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  1011. Here is a lovely piece of anti-Russian fake news https://www.vlt.se/artikel/vasteras-kommun/building-of-russian-orthodox-church-in-sweden-presents-a-potential-security-threat It's the onion domes. They are device for focussing radio waves and contain listening and jamming devices.
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  1012. Dawkins has written well on the subject of evolution. He is clear, entertaining and challenging, and definitely worth reading. However, he does not distinguish himself when he strays outside his area of expertise Dawkins has given force to the biblical literalists who promote a bonkers nineteenth century view of Christianity. The Orthodox Christian revival in Eastern Europe casts doubt on his indoctrination theory. In my own parish, the majority of members are young, were brought up under communism, and often at odds with their parents who have held to their atheism. They cannot understand why their children have gone back to the old ways.
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  1013. EU countries have taxed their own industries to death. Their politicians can't see the damages they cause and blame others. Dumping is a benefit to those who buy the goods. The EU has been one of the leading dumpers. "Green" cars are anything but. That is another story.
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  1014. Do you buy armour by mail order?
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  1015. Index finger as well, surely?
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  1016. First they came for the Jews. We in the UK are facing the same enemy as Israel.
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  1017. It's win-win. It gets rid of a rubbish US company and upsets millions of people in the EU at the same time.
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  1018. Reagent is pronounced REE-AGENT.
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  1019. Gothenburg in Sweden had the same thing on Sunday and yesterday. The newspapers concealed the fact that it was mostly Somali and other immigrant youths and the published photographs carefully avoided showing who was doing it. It was like Palestine - no surprise, same people. Intimidation of this kind has long been a classic Marxist technique. You can read it in Solzehnysin's novel 'Lenin in Zurich'.
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  1020. Who elected the EU? Pots. Kettles. I wish they would throw us out as the riots continue here.
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  1021. Don't those two guys look very gay at 3:28?
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  1022. Is the EU approaching the buffer stop? The temperature of the sea in the Kattegat is low for the time of year.
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  1023. The EEC and successor EU have been harming their own people since 1957. Shooting itself in the feet.
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  1024. It seems to have accelerated since the Queen died. Sweden was better 15 years ago but it caught up quickly after 2015.
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  1025. Nice pickings for US military-industrial complex.
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  1026. The EU is a slow motion crash. Doomed.
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  1027. Islam is the biggest colonialist project in world history
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  1028. Where is the Thames at Oxford when you need it?
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  1029. The west lost its Christian Orthodoxy a thousand years ago. Perhaps this is the denouement. This talk focusses the thoughts I have on the subject since the war started.
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  1030. The UK is making a hash of the fishing negotiations. Divide the sea into zones eg from Beachy Head to Dungeness up to 12 miles offshore. Calculate the number of licences, say 100, and auction them to anyone who will pay. The EU should be told that if its fishermen want to bid, they should attend in person at Eastbourne Town Hall at a particular date and time.
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  1031. The so called 'Greenhouse Effect', if it exists at all, works in a completely different way from greenhouses. Greenhouses work by preventing warm air from getting out by convection. The Greenhouse Effect is explained by a complex balance of exchange of radiation arriving from the sun during the day and escaping back into the atmosphere during the night. 'Greenhouse gases' absorb some of the radiation arriving from the sun at during the day and preventing it from reaching the surface of the earth, but during the night the gases absorb some of the radiation from the earth and re-radiate about half of it back to the surface again. The total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one part in 2500 which corresponds to a layer of gas 3 metres thick. I am still waiting to see the mathematics of the energy flows. I suspect that we are barking up the wrong tree and that IF any of the climate change is due to human activity, then the most important effect is deforestation, not burning of fossil fuel.
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  1032. Is there a single science graduate on either of the front benches?
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  1033. EU obstructionism and NATO expansionism causing trouble again. Same as EU and Northern Ireland. The British should take the same firm line.
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  1034.  @trytellingthetruth.2068  Your comment contradicts the narrative we are meant to believe.
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  1035. The Turks need to do exactly what Germany did in 1923. The hyperinflation stopped immediately. Erdogan's policies will lead to an implosion within 6 months. What is the Western exposure to the coming collapse?
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  1036. Hamas should move its forces out, then the bombing will stop. Why haven't they made their tunnels available for civilians? In the 15 years they have been preparing the wars against Israel, why didn't the prepare adequate civil defence for the women and children? If they sit down with the Israelis and talk to them, they can hand back the hostages and the bombing will stop. The Naqba and the Six Day war were both the effects of Arab attempts to wipe out Israel.
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  1037. I have said this many times - underpaid laboratory technicians could routinely sell off the "used" experimental animals to market traders instead of incinerating them as required. There is something on this in "The Plague Dogs" by Richard Adams.
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  1038. Are the globalists behind the attack on the churches including the Roman Catholic, and the Greek and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches?
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  1039. People didn't drive cars in the city centres of Edinburgh and Glasgow until they got rid of perfectly good and efficient tram systems in the 1950s. You didn't need to. This is the result of an earlier bad government decision.
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  1040.    Transylvania belongs to the Vampires.
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  1041. How about crowd funding a private prosecution?
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  1042.  @onionpie52  In a democratic country the connection between what people choose and what their politicians decide they should have is closer than in a dictatorship but it is still tenuous. Look at the way covid was handled in most democratic countries. Populations can be and are manipulated, and lack information needed to make decisions. The current debate in Sweden about NATO is a case in point. The structure of the EU is another. The Commission is an example of second hand democracy. The last two US presidents cannot possibly have been what most people would have wanted. Who selects the candidates? In the UK the most important decisions are fixed up by the Oxbridge LSE network, which also manages the schools, what young people are taught, the media and public opinion.
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  1043. Carry on bashing the EU. Every little helps.
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  1044. These divisions go back 1000 years. For most of the time the Serbians were the oppressed group, mostly by the Muslim Turks, and they have not forgotten. They were the victims of genocide during the Second World War, that time by the Catholic Croats.What happened in the 1990s was an attempt at payback. It is a long history of tit for tat.
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  1045. Massive EU financial resources to be corruptly siphoned off.
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  1046. Has history got sides?
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  1047. Sweden is lost anyway. The conquerors are as bad as the Russians could have been except it genocide is in slow motion.
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  1048. Watch out Moscow, here they come.
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  1049. The sea temperature is the Kattegat is already cold for the time of year. How smart is Germany being in choosing to freeze next February?
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  1050. Sections are meant to prevent goods from reaching an enemy, unless they are EU sanctions which are a self imposed blockade.
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  1051.  @jonsimmons4150  It is disappointing that the UK government has largely failed to take advantage of the benefits Brexit could have given to the country. Sabotage or a failure in imagination?
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  1052. Why is this a surprise? The west, through NATO and the EU, have made no real attempt to normalise trade and other relationships since the break up of the USSR. Putin has also become a standard bearer for opponents of woke values and multi culturalism.
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  1053.  @themsmloveswar3985  The Euro was built for failure from the start.
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  1054. Can't anyone take advantage of this? When you have a mortgage, you are the bank's tenant. What they call interest is really rent.
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  1055. It would be a Karen.
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  1056. Yes but Putin eats babies.
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  1057. Go on then, get out there and sign yourself up.
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  1058. Gladstone used to be a telephone exchange, dialled GLA.
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  1059. ​ Serbians did not appreciate being bombed by NATO.
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  1060. It is doable. If the boundaries are sensibly drawn and the rules are carefully drafted so that the system is hard to game. Differential tax thresholds would be more beneficial than differential rates of tax. A national Land Value Tax would be the best way to compensate for regional disadvantages. Parts of the South East and even Greater London suffer from poor infrastructure.
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  1061. There is a need for a national discussion about what is government for. In my view, government should do what cannot be done by private agencies. This includes defence of the realm, administration of justice, and ultimate guarantor of land rights. There is also a need for solid thinking about how the expenses of government should be paid for.
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  1062. You are getting two issues mixed up. The first is whether there should be a public service broadcasting channel at all. The second is about tax systems in principle. A well thought-out property tax is only form of tax which is not robbery, pure and simple. However, the Council Tax and UBR are ill-conceived forms of property tax. But the cultural Marxist BBC should not be feeding off taxpayers' money, however it is collected.
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  1063. The Russians have not exactly covered themselves with glory but the Ukrainians are not going to win against the odds. The two sides should stop the fighting and negotiate. They will be forced to in the end. Ukraine's friends are doing them no favours by encouraging them to fight on to the bitter end.
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  1064.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  The Ukrainians will get squashed in the end. It's weird because Russia and Ukraine were on good terms until 2014 and the EU poked its nose in. Ordinary Ukrainians and Russians are the victims of western power games.
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  1065. Get everyone to wear full nuclear, chemical and biological warfare suit when they leave their homes.
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  1066. Sweden is in for a long hot summer for other reasons. The Easter riots were just a start.
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  1067. Shortage of leccy no problem. Just get the steam locomotives out to run the railways.
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  1068. Putin could offer to hand back the stolen land.
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  1069. For a lot of people, it isn't worth working because of tax and NI deductions.
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  1070. The Liberals lost their way forty years ago. If they had held to their principles they would never have joined up with the SDP. Their disappearance has left a void which still needs to be filled.
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  1071. Changed account. Everything from my other account is automatically being removed after 2 minutes, goodness knows why, I am not exactly controversial.
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  1072.  @icxcnika9399  Thanks. I was doing that. Vanishes. I get "Return error" if I try to edit it.
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  1073. Targeting of small businesses is a means of enforcement of the tax system. Income Tax, VAT and NI are always under threat from cash transactions. HMRC is probably driving this. The tax system is part of the general rot.
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  1074. Ukraine and Russia can choose to live together or die together.
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  1075. The female orifice is also part of a waste disposal system.
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  1076. Khazi's budget brought ineptitude to an art form. It doesn't do to blame globalists.
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  1077. Mariah demonstrated Godwin's Law.
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  1078. More speculation. The Russians are doing quite nicely grinding the poor Ukrainians to pulp while Zelensky is feeding his countrymen into the meat mincer. A million Ukrainians killed or crippled for live so far.
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  1079. We don't need NATO. We need our own government to take back control from criminal gangs and stop crushing the economy with unsustainable taxes.
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  1080.  @SimplyVanis  EU gravy train.
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  1081. The US and EU are at war with Christianity. The Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches have fallen. It underlies the conflict in Ukraine. Serbia, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Antioch are the last bulwarks.
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  1082. A movement that rhymes with groan?
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  1083. The Liberals want what is impossible without political, legal and economic reforms that would have to be accepted throughout the EU. They have taken leave of their senses.
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  1084. The EU is an addiction.
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  1085. ​ @gnrseanra9070 Dunning Kruger site
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  1086. ​​ @gnrseanra9070  Banned They are scared to let us see it.
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  1087. Convenient, but disastrous as an economic policy though. Make the most of them, they are on borrowed time.
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  1088. Scottish independence will bring ruin on Scotland. NI will cost the Republic big bucks.
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  1089. Please do a piece on Speakers' Corner.
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  1090. They'll be in Moscow by Christmas.
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  1091.  @nickt2822  Do you believe in cutting off your nose to spite your face? Do you believe that being rude strengthens your argument?
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  1092.  @awalkwithtilly6512  We have trouble getting goods from the UK, including academic text books, which is the problem I have encountered personally. Some speciality foods have disappeared eg high end cheeses. It is petty and stupid.
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  1093.  @awalkwithtilly6512  It is not a benefit but the EU rules are the cause.
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  1094.  @slaterslater5944  Talking of the SD, perhaps someone told him that the EU trade policy comes from Mein Kampf and was introduced in 1934 under the name of Autarky. That could have turned him into an admirer.
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  1095. Most of the land from the Euphrates to the Atlantic was Christian before the colonialist Muslim stormed in.
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  1096. Muslim rights trump everyone else's.
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  1097. It is probably beneficial for a lot of civil servants to stay at home and dig their gardens, rather than do their jobs, which create negative wealth and make other people miserable.
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  1098. ​ @DennisTheInternationalMenace  Where would you find one of those? You vote for one thing and the politicians do what they anyway. Half the people obviously don't have a clue what they are voting for. Otherwise they would never support parties who make empty promises.
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  1099. ​ @DennisTheInternationalMenace  Most people don't pay taxes. It's a giant confidence trick. The biggest single taxpayer here in Sweden is the government. It hands out billions which people pay back in tax.
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  1100. ​ @DennisTheInternationalMenace Mislead people, listen to the people and ignore them.
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  1101. Might as well be in the Single Market since the UK government has not had the wit to scrap the Eurotax.
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  1102. Credit will be needed to re-start the economy and the banks are not up to it. If governments push money into the economy it will be inflationary. However, there is a previous model which allows money to be put into the economy without causing inflation. This was the German Rentenmark which was used to curb the hyperinflation of 1922/23. It was successful but the US bankers made the German government put an end to it because it cut them out of the loop. That had fateful consequences.
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  1103. The biggest threat to NATO countries is the incompetence of their own governments. We have lurched from one economic crisis to another since 1945. Conflicts with China and Russia are an essential distraction from things like chronic economic problems, housing shortages and crumbling infrastructure and waste.
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  1104. Weird. Germany allowed itself to be invaded in 2015 and did nothing to protect itself against the danger.
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  1105. Where does this end? Christians and Jews find the Koran offensive. Muslims and Jews find the New Testament offensive, Christians, Jews and Muslims find Das Kapital offensive. Homosexuals find the Old Testament offensive.
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  1106. A couple of plastic baths, a tube of silicone caulk in between, and some rolls of gafa tape and there's your sub.
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  1107. Too much high tech. It does not need a computer to tell a member of staff that a toilet is running out of water.
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  1108. EU present trade and economic policies would be very bad for Ukraine. What would be the point?
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  1109. EU leaders are utterly clueless. The EU countries are bleeding their economies with VAT, the Euro, the CAP and tariffs and quotas on imports. VAT fraud is massive - 34% in Romania. That is on top of the damage done by countries' own tax systems. Scholtz sounds like Hister Lite. Joining an outfit like he suggests would be ruinous. Hopefully the EU was be no more sooner rather than later.
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  1110. It might be a decade of QE feeding into prices.
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  1111. People in Gothenburg seem to be ignoring the official advice and isolating themselves. Sweden is a victim of its political correctness. Same as in 2015 and that has bust the financial system. We will get our 'herd immunity' but before that happens the health service will be overcome by the surge in cases. The health service has been cut to the bone as the surge of migrants in 2015 has gobbled up the public finances.
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  1112. Both Russia and the USA are too big for their own, and everyone else's good. The USA could usefully break into three or four pieces. How can "peace talks" not include both combatants?
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  1113. There will soon be a lot of people who have quarantined themselves despite having had the illness, recovered and no longer being contagious. There will need to be a test for recovered patients so that they can be out and about, especially medical staff.
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  1114. It is the same problem as already exists from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The problem is the faulty architecture of the EU. Hopefully the UK will not impose any blockages on imports from the UK. Why should it?
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  1115.  @andrewrobinson2565  Who is eating what pies?
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  1116. Most of the economic arguments against Brexit are based on the seventeenth century theory of economics known as 'mercantilism'. It had been refuted several times over by 1800 and the refutations have never been overturned - only ignored.
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  1117. ​ @TheNightOfTheGenerals  Why would they want to import an army of people who want to kill them all?
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  1118. Sweden has locked its low skilled people out of the legal economy due to its stupid tax system. There are no thresholds for Income Tax at 30% and VAT registration at 25% on everything. The government has stuffed Sweden's economy.
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  1119. No but they know what it leads to. We know that this is rank antisemitism because there have been no protests against worse things that have been happening all over the world for decades. The obsession with Israel is a flimsy cover.
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  1120. Local producers trying to carry on ripping off local consumers. It's just a protection racket.
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  1121. ​ @mormacil  Protection is anti free market action.
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  1122. Not much consolation when the economy of Europe is on its knees.
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  1123. Governments should stick tp doing what only Governments can do.
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  1124. They are trying to dismantle the Orthodox Church, having demolished the Roman Catholic Church. Onlu a few strongholds remain apart from Moscow.
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  1125. They were not sanctions - it was a boycott. We in the west are paying for it, and we were not asked. This is the Mercantilist mentality at work: the EU leaders think that they are doing a favour to people outside the EU by allowing its own citizens to buy goods from those countries.
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  1126. This is just embarrassing, and and I say this as an Orthodox Christian.
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  1127.  @tnickknight  The EU runs Na4i trade policies for the benefit of Corporate Germany. It is text book fascism.
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  1128. A degree in economics would be a disqualification for running a whelk stall.
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  1129. Operation Barbarossa 2.0 TLDR commented approvingly on this.
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  1130. Congratulations on wading through this turgid tosh and getting to the end.
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  1131. Where does that leave the Greek and Cyprus churches?
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  1132. The comments section of the Spectator has a fee bright bits.
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  1133. Western countries have been taxing their industries to death for most of the past 80 years.
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  1134. Hopefully, for their own sake the rest of the Balkans will keep out of the EU, or it will not be lasting too much longer. The EU could do with some good neighbourhood policy with Russia.
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  1135. What motive would anyone in Sweden have? Unless it was done as a bet or a prank.
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  1136. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-the-lockdown-have-side-effects-no-one-has-considered
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  1137. Tomatoes £5 a kilo, electricity (40 p a unit here in Sweden) and gas prices sky high, shortages of eggs. Perhaps TLDR should be looking more closely at what is happening at our own local shops. The Green Energy fetish is also taking its toll. Do they mean budget surplus or balance of payments surplus? Does TLDR know the difference?
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  1138. The names tick the Intersectionality boxes.
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  1139. The measures in the budget are exactly and very precisely wrong. Not thought through.
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  1140. Weird reason, but the expansion of Heathrow is a bad idea. Intensively used flight paths over Central London are a catastrophe waiting to happen.
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  1141. EU and German trade, economic and tax policies have caused this. The policies are based on seventeenth century Mercantilist theories which were debunked by the Classical Economists between 1750 and 1830. All the western economies have got into the same trap.
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  1142.  @victoriagodley5277  there are ways of saying someone is an idiot. The ambassador was being unprofessional. A diplomat would be expected to wrap his opinions in layers of politeness.
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  1143. Not quite. He and his companions travelled from Switzerland across Germany in a locked compartment. The rest of the journey through Sweden and Finland was in ordinary trains. Nice story though.
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  1144.  @andreab2114  If the UK rids itself of some of the EU's crippling regulations its economy will go up.
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  1145. No
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  1146. I had a very pleasant week in London at the end of January, and it was not even expensive. Hyde Park was deserted apart from the dog walkers and the birds on the Serpentine. To be avoided for the other eleven months of the year, though.
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  1147. Господи помилуй
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  1148. It's the wrong side. Leads to more accidents. Most people's leading eye is their right one.
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  1149.  @OS-yg9fr  Penalty for apostacy from Islam is death.
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  1150. The EU seems to be hell bent on annoying as many people as possible. Here in Sweden home brewers and microbreweries are going to have trouble getting hold of ingredients after Brexit as a lot of them come from the UK, including the best malting barley. What a load of CUИTS they are who have got in charge of the Brussels circus.
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  1151. The Swedish policy is to let it rip through to achieve herd immunity. A restriction of gatherings of no more than 50 people has just been enforced, otherwise it is business pretty much as usual. I think I had it a couple of weeks ago; there have been sore throats going around since the middle of January. But it could equally well be pollen, as there is lots of hazel and birch pollen in the air. No tests available. The government epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, is behind this do-nothing policy, which is based on the gamble that there will not be a surge of cases which are beyond the ability of the health services to deal with. That is a risky strategy, with cases in Stockholm The Swedish government has lurched from one bad decision to another since 2014, so this is just one more. The major importers were holidaymakers returning from ski holidays in Italy.
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  1152. It was the choice of the population's leaders. They voted for conflict.
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  1153. Islamophobia is everywhere. Why do we have these absurd security checks at airports? It is fear of what Muslims might do.
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  1154. Why are the Greens so keen on the EU?
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  1155. Trade takes place between companies and individuals, who negotiate the price and specifications by mutual agreement. Trade does not take place not between governments. Governments just get in the way. The UK government is now free to stand aside and let people get on with it. People in the EU are stuck with the protectionist tariffs which are not there for their benefit. Do you want the UK government to get in the way when people in the UK have now got rid of the EU interference?
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  1156. Last time I was in Glasgow, just before covid, the centre was full of buses chucking out black smoke.
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  1157. The best bargain the UK can make is to allow importers to bring goods into the country without slapping a tariff on them. It is Joe Public who pays.
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  1158. Only if they get rid of VAT, the Single Market and the Euro.
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  1159. Amazing how TLDR supporters have turned into raving warmongers who can't wait for a nuclear World War 3 to begin
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  1160. The Russians tried to hand it back in the 1990s.
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  1161. Eastern Poland was absorbed into the Soviet Union, mostly now Western Ukraine. Western Poland was previously part of Germany. The postwar Poland was not subsumed into the Soviet Union. GDP figures mask a great difference between the east and west sides of the country. The west thrives but tbe east is blocked off from its natural trading links outside the EU.
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  1162.  @Destshade  What has the EU done for countries like Latvia and Romania and Bulgaria, apart from draining off their skilled people and criminals?
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  1163. The British tax system is like a crochet bag - it consists of a mass of loopholes. Labour set it up in 1945. Both parties have had ample opportunities to fix it. There is no real interest in dealing with the problems - they are inherent to the tax system itself. People are mobile. Income is never defined. Companies are abstract legal entities. VAT is designed for avoidance and fraud.
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  1164. Stick to pork and bacon.
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  1165. CAP has always been a disaster. It is just a bung to landowners. The great EU protection racket.
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  1166. The Swedish authorities, with a Corbyn-style government, are doing next to nothing to restrict the spread, apart from telling people to carry on travelling as normal. The indigenous population is, on the whole, ignoring the bad advice.
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  1167. It's obviously a Mossad job - they are world leaders in the paranormal. They used concentrated thought forms to bring down the helikopter.
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  1168. They could run their cars on the gas that comes out of their rear ends. Put collector hose pipes under their seats and they can plug themselves in.
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  1169. What are the people of Gaza winning? They have accepted and supported leaders who have brought death and destruction on them. What would losing be like?
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  1170. Who will believe anything they say?
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  1171. No. The EU trade policies favour Big Business
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  1172. They couldn't conspire their way out of a paper bag
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  1173. They lost it in July 1941.
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  1174. We in the EU will be hit just as much, and what is the longer term aim? The EU is doing what it does best - damaging the EU's own economy. What a bunch of clowns. Meanwhile in the UK the Conservative government shows its contempt for its own supporters.
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  1175.  @jeffreyexposito3803  Forget the effect on Russia. It is going to have an even more serious effect in the EU. The best thing that could happen is that it kills off the EU.
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  1176. A number of Monitors were built for lake use in Sweden. One is preserved in Gothenburg.
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  1177. ​ Islamist expansionism.
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  1178. Why not relocate the Lords to St Kilda's? Or South Georgia?
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  1179. They haven't a clue. I am in Sweden. WE are going to get the grief from Brexit because we will have to pay the import tariffs and put up with the delays and customs checks. Hopefully the whole Tower of Babel will collapse, the sooner the better.
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  1180. Are they trying to be like Sri Lanka? Nitrogen compounds are valuable fertilisers. It sounds as a a fundamentally sound policy has been mishandled. How typical of the EU
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  1181. TLDR has been captured by the Soros/Schwab/Neocon set.
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  1182. Threats of self harm are not a wise negotiating tactic. Just let the stupid EU get on with its own self harm. No need to copy.
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  1183. Why is the UK govermnent making such heavy weather of the fishing rights? The fishing grounds belong to the British people - technically, the sea bed is part of the Crown Estate as far as the territorial limit. In other words, the fish do not belong to British fishermen or owners of fishing boats registered in UK ports (who might not even be British). Fishing rights should be sold by auction to whoever puts in the highest bids. This seems to be part of a bigger problem - not thinking things through from first principles and asking basic questions. What is government for? What are, and are not, a government's duties and responsibilities? What do the citizens owe in return? What is the basis of property rights? Fundamental stuff, but these issues are rarely the subject of public debate, which normally proceeds from assumptions made without considering whether they have any moral or philosophical justification
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  1184. No doubt the residents of Kharkiv are delighted at having the war brought back to their doorsteps.
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  1185.  @opus_workshop  What exactly is the point of your question? The population of the UK needs imports to live. Literally. Anything which makes imports more expensive is negative for the people who live and work in the UK. Tariffs have the same effect as undue transport costs.
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  1186. Oxford PPE, Cambridge and LSE economics should be an automatic disqualification for ministerial office.
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  1187. No trade deal was necessary. The UK should have gone for unilateral free trade.
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  1188. A worthless project driven by clueless politicians. Gravy train for consultants and contractors, just like the British HS2.
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  1189. Who got 40 acres of Manhattan?
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  1190.  @arturobianco848  Sweden's main vulnerability is due to its dependence on flaky IT systems. It is surprising how many information screen are blacked out with an instruction to reboot.
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  1191. The UK government needs to keep its head, though. The country does not want to end up with tariffs on goods from the EU. I have not been arguing vigorously for Brexit for the past four years only for the UK government to subject Britain to the same damaging policies that we voted to be free from. We also need to remember that the fishing grounds belong to the British people, not to British fishermen or owners of British fishing boats. The fishing licences should be distributed by open auction.
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  1192. The EU/EC has been self harming since 1956. The protected Single Market is an institutional self harm policy.
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  1193. It would be worth trying to correlate medications taken for pre-existing conditions, and for insulin resistance/diabetes/pre-diabetes/metabolic syndrome.
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  1194. Trade deals are not made between governments between businesses. What makes these people think they know better than the parties to the deal? The EU leaders seem to be hell bent on wrecking the economies of their member countries.
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  1195.  @petarticinovic2710  It depends where you go and at what time. There are , and always have been, areas which are to be avoided. Areas which are safe in the middle of the day could be risky places to be at midnight. But that is true of any big city.
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  1196.  Vans Kris  Marxists hate zionists.
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  1197.  Vans Kris  Marx was all sorts of things, most of them bad, but there is no evidence to suggest that he was a Zionist. Zionism was invented around 1890. Most Jews were strongly opposed and thought Zionism was a crackpot idea.
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  1198. Yes, it is the ancient discredited mercantilism which misleads people into thinking that money is wealth.
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  1199. Zelensky and his supporters have screwed themselves by kicking out the monks from the Kiev Lavra. They're stuffed.
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  1200. Let's hope it comes true, then.
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  1201. Please do a piece on the Västlänken fiasco in Gothenburg.
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  1202. The Russians won't stop till their soldiers can take off their boots and wash their feet in the Atlantic in Galway Bay.
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  1203. Keep an eye on Sweden over the next six weeks. Schools, swimming pools, gymnasia all open. The children will take their infections home. It is, to say the least, an odd-against gamble.
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  1204. The elite that runs the EU are ostriches.
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  1205. Why are so many Youtube channels using voice synthesisers?
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  1206. What is these progressive politicians going to apply the anti-hate laws against hate literature which enjoys protected status because it is "religious"?
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  1207. A couple of decades ago the progressive left would have been marching in Stop the War protests. Now they are rooting for the US military-industrial complex who will be making a fortune as they rev upp their warmongering machine. What a turn round.
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  1208. What do you expect of anyone with a degree in PPE from Oxford. Truss also has an Oxford PPE so we should not expect anything good from her either.
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  1209. Usual TLDR globalist propaganda. Who pays for this fantasy analysis? Good entertainment, though.
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  1210. Uncontrolled migration is the big danger.
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  1211. I bet the Ukrainians wish they had a fleet of serviceable steam locomotives and mechanical signalling.
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  1212. He is too stupid to realise anything.
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  1213. Brighton Pavilion had some weird Conservative MPs until 1997.
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  1214. Putin has made a moral and strategic mistake and it will be the end of him. However, the narrative is historically correct.
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  1215. Wow. The Jesuits are behind everything.
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  1216. Referenda are exactly what are needed, but they need to be independently monitored. If the "international community" was honest, this would be on offer.
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  1217. The infection has reached Scandinavia too.
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  1218. It seems to be coming to an end in Sweden following basic precautionary measures, mostly voluntary. https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/
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  1219. They'll be in Moscow by Christmas.
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  1220. UN w@nkers.
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  1221. EU countries have strangled their industries with tax. No need to subsidise until they have fixed their destructive tax systems.
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  1222. There is a trade barrier between you and every tradesman and ahop inside Britain. The EuroTax - VAT. It shrinks the economy by 5%.
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  1223. Only a million Ukrainians killed or crippled for life so far. Who has been making the mistakes?
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  1224. He sounds not so unlike AH.
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  1225. Fraude Suisse.
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  1226. Disgraceful. The Swedish government should have had a referendum before applying to join NATO.
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  1227. The Russians have blown it. Russians in Ukraine are not appreciating having their homes bombed by Russians. Stalin and Putin between them have wrecked any prospect of getting people in Ukraine on side.
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  1228. A small turn out with a high proportion of postal votes.
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  1229. They don't want to be part of Greater Germany.
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  1230. Here in Sweden the feeling is that the EU is ripping us off, despite the fact that the media are solidly pro EU. The media has also promoted undiluted Russophobia. It is perceived as a tool of the Davos crowd.
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  1231. I wonder what the inducements were?
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  1232. I hope that the Ukrainians have got their reserve fleet of steam locomotives ready for use, that coal supplies are in place and railway staff have been trained to operate and maintain them.
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  1233. Cervical resection will become prevalent. There will be no stable administration.
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  1234. It is probably better to have civil servants washing time, than doing the jobs they are paid for, which mostly screws things up for other people.
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  1235. Depending on the tax, surely?
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  1236. It's always been good for a laugh. Overgrown schoolboys who think they know more than they do.
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  1237. Support for Ukraine is a hiding to nothing and underneath it are genuine issues. The country was a creation of Stalin.
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  1238. Ukraine's Six languages and four religions make a real country like Yugoslavia was a real country, unless it is organised on a cantonal system like Switzerland. It was an accident waiting to happen. The EU's protected Single Market was also an obstacle to a successful structure, as the British have discovered in Northern Ireland. It is a good example of the old saying "if goods don't cross borders, soldiers will". But the invasion means that Putin's objective will never be achieved, and Putin himself is unlikely to last much longer.
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  1239. Borrelia is Lyme Disease.
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  1240. Large scale migration to Sweden has been a social and economic disaster. None of the arguments put forward carry much weight. Unemployment is around double the official figure, with school leavers, newly qualified and over-50s being particularly badly hit. This makes nonsense of the demographic argument. The moral argument collapses in the light of experience: refugees import the conflict they are fleeing from. Then there is the M issue which must not be mentioned.
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  1241. The baleful influence of the Oxford PPE course has a lot to answer for. Both candidates are PPE graduates.
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  1242. The Swedish leaders are nuts. The principal danger is the one demonstrated by the violent riots over the weekend, beginning in Norrköping and Linköping. The Swedes have already lost the cities.
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  1243. Emperors with no clothes. However, we have some excellent modern art on the walls of our church. It was finished a couple of years ago. It is not fake and not pastiche. https://www.flickr.com/photos/seadipper/43750199612
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  1244. The Muslim ages were not so bad.
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  1245. Fixed by a w-anchor?
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  1246. One of the most corrupt and incompetent countries in the world. They replaced a apartheid by a black kleptocracy. Ironic too that black South Africans are recent arrivals.
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  1247. Good news but it would be nice to have the money spent on the right sort of tax cuts. Most likely it will be wasted on a few more grandiose infrastructure projects and the extra cost of being in NATO. I hope I am wrong.
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  1248. Bring it on. Do us a favour and kick us (Sweden) out as well. EU values are tyrannical. Love this channel - loyal mouthpiece for the globalists.
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  1249. The difficult seams might be mined with remote controlled robots..
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  1250. They could always take refugees from Gaza. They need the benefits of diversity that the Gazans could bring.
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  1251. Islam does not name Allah, because their Allah is a diabolic entity. They are pagans who worship the same black stone as the Arabs tribes, the throne of a pagan Moon God.
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  1252. That giant white table where they had the meeting would have been good for an OO gauge model railway
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  1253. ​ @politicallyincorrect4452  Support for Ukraine will evaporate as people start to shiver.
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  1254. Nobody - including you, Mahyar - has noted the obvious point that the main victims of locking out UK service providers will be their EU clients. They do not use UK city providers for fun, or because they feel sorry for them.
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  1255. 1) The UK can have some of our Jihadis, who are Swedish citizens. 2) Why not make fishing rights in UK waters open to anyone who wants to pay for a licence to fish? These would be for a limited period - not more than three years, and subject to strict terms and conditions eg size of vessel, mesh size of nets, and any other measures needed to maintain stocks. The revenue should be ring fenced for protection, conservation of stocks eg fish nurseries, and research. 3) 'Access to markets' in Eurospeak means the opposite of what it really means. People have access to markets when they can go shopping wherever they want eg the local street market. In Eurospeak, it means that the authorities refuse to allow people to buy from anyone they do not approve of.
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  1256. More to the point is why the Swedish government suddenly decided to give up its historic role as peace brokers? We should have been pressing for a cease fire and providing facilities for negotiations eg a nice comfortable hotel with security, in the Stockholm skärgård. Erdogan is doing us a favour. Russia is far from being the biggest threat to Sweden and the budget is bust.
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  1257. Dream on.
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  1258. Old N@z*s.
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  1259. Russia starts being Russia again after 30 years of humiliation and provocation by the EU and NATO. What a surprise.
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  1260. In my days of innocence, this was an STD. http://www.countrybus.org/STD/STD.html
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  1261. Sooner or later the Russians and Chinese will have another bust-up.
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  1262. The west bit off more than it could chew with its support of Ukraine. It is going very badly and the end will be even worse. Underestimating the strength of one's enemy is never wise.
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  1263. The EU does its best to harm its economies. VAT and the Single Market amount to wilful sabotage. There is nothing inherently good about a BOP surplus.
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  1264. The EU stirring up trouble again. The British should be kicking up as hard over the EU blockade of Northern Ireland.
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  1265. I remember at the time. The Israelis were convinced that they would be completely crushed in both 1948 and 1967. The Israelis only had small arms in 1948, plus home made stuff. The Muslim Arabs don't want Jews on the planet.
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  1266. The EU has become the enemy of its people and most of its business community. Its politicies are tailored to the interests of corporate Germany. It would be good riddance.
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  1267. The EU is doing what it does best - punishing the people who live and work inside it. The woman is clueless. Who elected her?
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  1268.  @Henry-no3ml  You cannot trust Russia or the US or the EU or our own governments. Crooks and fools the lot of them
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  1269. Probably Ukrainian government behind it, if not CIA and or MI6 involvement.
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  1270. Blocked urinal? Call a plumber.
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  1271. I understand that the Serbian government is in favour of joining the EU.
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  1272. Some silly suggestions I agree but VAT could usefully be scrapped. The EU should not have got involved in vacuum cleaner wattage. Total usage is trivial. Funny about precautionary principle. It seems to have ignored when the vaccine was rolled out. EU has never dealt with vehicles with sharp front edges.
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  1273. Bad decision by Putin but there has been constant provocation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin played into the hands of the US warmongers who are making big money out of their proxy war.
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  1274. Most of these departments are doing stuff that no government should ever be sticking its nose into.
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  1275.  @HeadsFullOfEyeballs  What threat is Ukraine an ally against? Ukraine is a poor choice of ally, given its corrupt government, evident instability, artificial frontiers, and inability to get to grips with the chronic poverty which is endemic there. NATO was established to counter the real threat of expansionist communism, driven by Soviet Russia. Perhaps you can explain what relevance NATO had after 1989? The CO2 theory of climate change is grounded on the assumption that molecules of carbon dioxide can absorb infra red radiation. Any first year chemistry undergraduate should have learned about quantum theory and infra red absorption spectra. CO2 absorbs about 10% of infrared radiation - about 90% passes through, assuming that all the radiation that could be captured actually was captured. The same capture also limits the radiation reaching the surface in the first place. All the CO2 in the atmosphere would form a layer less than 4 metres thick. If the climate is changing due to human action, the cause is something else. Put another way, if CO2 emissions were drastically cut, the problem would continue. Don't you think that is something to be concerned about?
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  1276. Where did the Chinese get the money from to buy the property?
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  1277. A neighbour of mine was forced out of the flat he owned in Pristina. An Albanian family took it over. The Albanians in Kosovo are the aggressive party.
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  1278.  @aleksazunjic9672  Socialism and capitalism bring war. Fathers get killed.
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  1279. The need for two incomes to support a family has arisen from the way the land market has developed since 1960.
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  1280. ​ @daryld4457  He is just telling what happened. That is not bias. The Arabs have created their own troubles.
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  1281. These changes have all happened in the past 8 years.
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  1282. We in Sweden are going to wake up on 1st February to find goods from the UK stuck in customs. Then we will be asked to pay VAT plus a £7 handling charge on every package from the UK. But it is the Irish who will get the nastiest shock. Hopefully, the whole wretched EU will start to unravel.
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  1283. They gave up being Catholics.
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  1284.  @JanBruunAndersen  The Russians are, to a man, servants of Sauron himself.
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  1285. Don't buy Russian goods if you object. Stop telling others what they should do.
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  1286. There is a theory that aspirin was a factor in the high death rate in the 1918 epidemic
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  1287. ​ @freedom4life312  Yes indeed. Repeat Kyrie eleison 40 times to neutralise it, then pray the Jesus Prayer without ceasing.
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  1288. ​ @wordwordful  Check it out for yourself. White Black Red and Pale.
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  1289. Is it possible to separate out the effects of the co-morbidities and the medication used to control them? Why would dementia be a factor? Is there a third factor causing both dementia and vulnerability to the virus? Do multiple co-morbidities have a single causal factor? There is lots of statistical analysis to be done, followed by at attempt at establishing mechanisms.
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  1290. Great idea. Councils should rip all Israeli-design chips from their computers. That will shut them up for a good while.
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  1291. They don't want to be subjects of the monarch but are dying to be tools of Brussels.
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  1292. ​ @rizkyadiyanto7922  Yes. You don't own your property. The bank owns it.
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  1293. No half a bad as being forced to work a day a week for nothing, which is what the Euro does for Germans.
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  1294. They will put people like you in secure custody.
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  1295. Arabs brought naqba on themselves.
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  1296. To everyone - please study your Adam Smith and stop being mercantilist; keep your focus on IMPORTS as well as EXPORTS. A balance of payments surplus means that there is a net flow of real wealth out of the country. The surplus is other countries' paper. The EU negotiators are behaving stupidly, in particular, because they ignore the effect that treating the UK as a third country will have on IMPORTS to the EU. Ireland in particular, will be badly hit because the UK is a major source of so many goods. After Brexit, the Irish will suffer as they will either have to pay the EU tariffs or the extra transport costs of bringing goods from continental Europe instead. They will be hit with a price hike. In other EU countries, there will be specific problems as UK products become more expensive and difficult to obtain - for example, Swedish microbreweries like to use UK malted barley. The best thing that the UK government could do is to announce that it is committed in principle to allowing unrestricted importation of goods from everywhere in the world (including the EU), without waiting for the governments of other countries to reciprocate. I was going to say 'reciprocate the favour', but reciprocation is doing their own consumers and manufacturers the favour; they are the ones who want or need UK products - they do not buy them as an act of charity. The only politicians who seem to have been aware of this and understand why are some in the European Research Group. If the principles they advocate are not followed, the UK will not get the most out of Brexit. I am Swedish, and want to see Brexit succeed and set the example to other countries of the benefits that will come from a return to the British free trade tradition. Waiting for reciprocation is not part of that. If the other countries' governments do not reciprocate, it's their own funeral. Mahyar - please explain this in another video.
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  1297. What attacks?
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  1298. If you discuss Israel but ignore all the other bad stuff happening around the world, then you probably are antisemitic. Galloway comes across as a classic old school antisemite
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  1299. Nationalised bodies end up being run by, and for, old pals' networks. Useless old geezers are shoehorned into middle management positions to which they would never be appointed on their merit and could never retain on their performance. Their presence demoralises the entire workforce unfortunate enough to be under their control. That was the story of British Rail, and countless local authorities.
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  1300. I was never convinced about the wisdom of taking sides at all. It is like egging on a little kid to carry on fighting when they are being beaten up by the big playground bully. By 2024, how much will be left of Ukraine? You can't trust a word that anyone is saying, given the record of those who are saying it as the source of a torrent of lies on other issues over the past few years. Then we should remember that some people are making big bucks out of the war. The Ukrainians are being used as a cats paw.
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  1301. My guess is that Brexit will not happen this time round. It might be better to wait. The EU will collapse in a decade anyway, but the UK will then have to pay the cost of picking up the pieces.
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  1302. Watch TLDR, who are trying to convince viewers that Zelensky will be in Moscow any day soon.
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  1303. Why not revert to the original names of these lines eg "The East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway", "Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway", etc?
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  1304. Too late even if it works. Omicron will have run out of "customers" by then. Everyone will have had it whether they have been jabbed or not.
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  1305. Retired prime ministers should be offered the choice of a villa on the Falklands Islands or St Helena.
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  1306. It sounds as if Piri Patel wants something published that the civil servants in the Home Office do not want published.
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  1307. Germans seem to be a bit dumb. With their undervalued Euro, they are working a day a week for nothing. They don't seem to realise that they are being short-changed.
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  1308. NATO nej tack. It would be nice if the Swedish government took back control of the lost suburbs of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, where the police dare not go.
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  1309. The history is more complicated than that. The Kievan Rus were Swedish eg Anne of Novgorod. The Finns and Estonians are a separate ethnic group. The Finns had the choice of alliance with Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
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  1310. US military-industrial-banking alliance?
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  1311. That comes as a welcome surprise, after the abortion referendum. Is this the start of push back? The difficultly for Ireland is that the Catholic Church let them down and it is going to be hard to rebuild Christian culture.
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  1312. Marx is fundamentally flawed. 1) His Labour Theory of Value is topsy turvy. 2) He conflates Land and Capital Through these two errors, Marx fails to analyse effectively what constitutes the Capitalist system and therefore fails to come up with anything like an effective solution. Wolff is falling into the same error. The soundest critique of the present economic system is that of Henry George, in 'Progress and Poverty'. Marx is not worth spending time on. With a body count of 200 million, surely it is time to drop Marx? His theories have never worked in practice. The 'excesses' of Stalinism are inherent in Marxist theory.
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  1313.  @Maxcraft12  You can do it to all the others with one exception. Henry George, author of 'Progress and Poverty', and 'Science of Political Economy.' There is also an important piece of work by Ricardo which is key to understanding how economies work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyv1xYDWAxk&t Why Marx ignored this is a mystery as it is key to understanding the problems he wanted to solve.
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  1314. Mistake.
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  1315. See my comments. You need to be careful about how CV deaths are defined. I am not sure there is a consistent standard between countries. https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/
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  1316. The certain distinct people had been singled out as second class citizens from the time that they were absorbed into the Russian Empire at the dissolution of Poland (before that there were none of the certain distinct people in Russia). Unsurprisingly, they tried to leave if they could and turned into a fifth column if they could not. Where the certain distinct people were not treated unfavourably, they become good and loyal citizens of the countries where they lived and were key in those countries' economic development.
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  1317.  @thebeautifulones5436  Although there was some nasty stuff going on into the early 1980s, the main period of the tortures was from 1917 until 1953. A lot of the torturers ended up as victims themselves, due to the NKVD a policy of "rotation". The survivors must be long dead and buried.
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  1318. Who is "President Biden" a front for? I had a bad feeling that his "presidency" would end up with a major war, and we are less than half way through.
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  1319. I suspect that a lot of us here in Gotheburg had a mild infection between the middle of January and the end of February. There was a horrible sore throat going round. Our parish priest lost his voice for weeks and sounded like a frog. And the infection would have gone round the congregation, which has had no severe cases. It would not be wise to be taking chances, though, till the tests are done. I think there will be a long wait unless the authorities get their fingers out.
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  1320.  @MsEnelin  Some people in Sweden are practising social distancing.
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  1321.  @svanteekholm7334  People will be very angry when granny is not there to look after the children between the time the day nursery shuts and mum gets home from work.
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  1322. Sweden went to the bad after the 2014 election, but the causes had been building up for the previous fifteen years.
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  1323. Haha. Nobody seems to realise what a lot of trouble businesses and consumers in the EU will have when they have to pay the EU tariffs on UK goods, or look for alternative suppliers in the EU. The Irish will pick up a huge transport bill.
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  1324.  @marahbadrian  Correct. We need to replace Council Tax and the UBR with a property tax based on land values. If you have consent to develop, after allowing time for development you pay the land value tax whether or not the buildings have been constructed. Third parties have always been able to make planning applications on land they do not own. I had to do that a few times myself as part of my job. No more land banking.
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  1325. This has a significant religious dimension which needs to be covered.
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  1326. They are not sanctions. It's a boycott ie EU self harm. A referendum is exactly what is needed. It needs to be independently monitored. Ukraine's borders are an artificial creation by Stalin and include chunks of Hungary and Poland as well as Russia. These boundaries were never viable. The Ukrainians and Russia should stop fighting and talk. No more money or help to encourage Ukraine's intransigence. Go away.
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  1327. If you think that the purpose of an economy is to make stuff and flog it to foreigners, then the boycott of Russian goods is bad for Russians. However, it is we in the west who are paying the price in energy costs and soon, food shortages. Cold people will get angry.
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  1328. The best way to support Ukraine would be to advised them to cut their losses and negotiate.
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  1329. "Sanctions" on Russian exports are a boycott. The main losers are we in the west who are now having to pay through the nose for the stuff. I understand that this is causing serious shortages in some sectors. It's called shooting ourselves in the feet.
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  1330. It sounds as if Piri Patel wants something published that the civil servants in the Home Office do not want published.
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  1331. Dartmoor has safe and secure accommodation
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  1332. Two years later, it is no better.
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  1333.  steve gale  Tariffs are a form of self-punishment. You might as well call in the Royal Navy to blockade UK ports to prevent goods getting into the country.
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  1334.  steve gale  Which helps keep the Indians poor and forces them to be fobbed off with poor quality locally produced goods, in the absence of foreign competition.
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  1335. Willingness to eat a bacon sandwich or drink a glass of wine should filter them out.
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  1336. Enjoy being unemployed and freezing in February.
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  1337.  @theakiwar9118  It is people and business in the EU who will be feeling most of the pain. Not the unelected elite who run the EU; though.
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  1338. Why did Trump even bother to claim this as his action. Accidents happen.
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  1339. Haha I got censored. I must have been spot on the mark.
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  1340. In Sweden, children will carry the virus home and carers will pass it on to the old people they are caring for. The health care system in Sweden WAS superb, but that was ten years ago. Trust in the authorities has been at rock bottom for the past couple of years.
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  1341. There are several tens of billions which could be raised by rationalisation of the UK property taxes. However, this requires fundamental reform to these taxes. VAT could usefully be scrapped. A lot of the yield is illusory, due to churning and robbery of revenues from other taxes.
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  1342. Would Argentina have invaded if the UK had still been one of the biggest customers for its meat, as it was before Britain joined the EEC? The CAP killed off the trade.
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  1343. We are tracked all the time we have our mobile phones are switched on.
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  1344. The police arrived and shot Khan just in time to prevent him from being murdered by being stabbed with a narwhal tusk. That would have led to an embarrassing court case.
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  1345. In my day the audience would have been rolling around with a fit of the giggles.
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  1346. The LibDems could best serve the interests of the country by pulling out the policies to which the former Liberal Party had held firmly between 1880 and 1939.
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  1347. The public sector is full of idiots. It was bad 30 years ago. A whole generation later I guess it is a qualification to work in the public sector these days.
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  1348. Some of my neighbours are from Kosovo. They were brutally hounded out by Albanians and are refugees in Sweden. You should stop believing the lies told about Serbia. They mostly do not want to join the Brussels club.
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  1349. Zelensky will be in Moscow by Christmas for the Ukrainian victory parade in Red Square.
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  1350. Excellent, but who are these terrorists? Methodists who have been reading too much John Wesley? Christian Scientists motivated by Mary Baker Eddie's book, 'Science and Health'? We need to be stop covering up and be explicit about who they are and what is motivating them. If we stay silent and treat is as an operation like fighting brushfires, then the problem will just go on and on. We should stop being coy. And yes, there is a war on and prisoners of war are not released until the war is over.
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  1351. Where are the medics up to with treatment? As I understand it, the fatal cause is due to cytokine storm, which sounds like some kind of response among susceptible individuals. My hunch is that there is an existing medication, possibly one which is readily available and in widespread use, which would be effective.
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  1352. Talking of the mainstream media - that this piece of music was condemned by the critics is a great endorsement. This tells one all one needs to know about the leading critics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQpU6Xj_GfQ
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  1353. Farage will end up as a political refugee in Putin's Russia.
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  1354. Perhaps the problem is the institution of the Papacy itself. The claims are not as solid as they are appear at first sight. The Roman interpretation of Matthew 16:18 is not the only possible, or even reasonable, one. St Peter was bishop at Antioch. The primacy of bishops in the early church belonged to Jerusalem. The evangelisation by the early church was distributed among several of the apostles. The monarchical concept of the papacy developed towards the end of the first millennium.
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  1355. There is a bigger conclusion to be drawn. If a tax on sugar means the people eat less sugar, then a tax on wages results in fewer jobs and a tax on goods and services results in the purchase of fewer goods and services. Yet most public revenue is paid for by taxes on wages, goods and services.Then we are worried about joblessness and failure of the economy to grow. Most of the tax system is designed to damage the economy, yet politicians across the entire spectrum fail to acknowledge what should be obvious - that the tax system needs root and branch reform.
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  1356. That pattern is exactly what could have been predicted, though the problem has more to do with the Euro than the EU as such. The core flourishes at the expense of the periphery. This is in accordance with Ricardo's Law of Rent, but it is not taught to economists any more. Hasn't been for decades. If you look in an economics textbook, there is almost nothing on rent.
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  1357. It's the Dunning Kruger Channel.
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  1358. What a pain Windows is. NVidia is a pain with Linux
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  1359. Yes but the enemy of the Juice are the enemy of the rest of us. They are the canary in the cage. The Wermacht froze in Russia because they didn't have enough warm clothing, because they had kicked out their Juice. British Radar equipment was made by the Juice who had set up radio and TV factories along the Southend Arterial Road in the 1930s. The Mosquito aircraft and the Sten gun were developed and made in factories run by the Juice. Hindu Indians are pretty smart too. Support their causes and they will support us. They generally don't do unpleasant crime.Their enemies are our enemies. One needs to discriminate and make sure not to be on the wrong side - the side of the stupid and wicked.
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  1360. Go on, challenge the points made.
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  1361. Weird times we are living in. The independence of the referendum was not as transparent as it could have been. Meanwhile the UK government has given away the country to third world invaders.
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  1362. The UK already has excellent trading links with the rest of the world due to the presence of immigrants from India and China. The EU is just an obstacle. I expect there are boatloads of stuff on the way already, ordered by UK supermarkets, which will be tariff-free by the time it arrives.
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  1363. China is just acting as a colonial power. It will go sour eventually. The EU should keep its snout out of the toilet bowl that Africa has always been. Funny that the EU hasn't noticed that its internal problems need to be given priority.
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  1364. Follow the money.
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  1365. How much has life improved in ex-Empire countries in the 50 years since the Empire was disbanded?
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  1366. Chmielnetski.
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  1367. The Russians offered to give it back in 1990.
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  1368. The rich brother read 'Rich dad, poor dad' and got into real estate early in life.
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  1369.  @Wizardman555  Really? It gives added weight to your statement.
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  1370.  @solank7620  If you tax the rental value of land at 100% you get 100%
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  1371.  @solank7620  Laffer has got it all badly wrong. Even a tax of 1% on wages, goods or services will cause a reduction in overall wealth production. That is the well-known 'deadweight loss'. All taxes on wages, goods or services or transactions are therefore a bad thing. As regards land value tax. The primary value of land is its gross annual rental value ie market rental value plus any tax payable on the land. Land value tax does not change this. All it does is to change the proportions of rent paid to government and title holders. The PRICE of land is the capitalisation of that proportion of the rental value that is retained by the title holder. A land value tax has no deadweight loss, unless more than 100% of its value is collected in tax, in which case the land becomes sub-marginal and cannot be used for any economic purpose. A critical problem with all taxes on wages, goods and services is that they can cause marginal land to become sub-marginal and go out of use. That is the deadweight loss. If the only tax is a land value tax, all land that is better than marginal can be put to economic use, since no tax is levied on the marginal land. Laffer ought to have been aware of this. So should PragerU.
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  1372. The French have previous when it comes to rioting. 24 August 1572 is an example of what can happen.
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  1373.  @borderlands6606  In its original language.
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  1374.  @borderlands6606  In its original language.
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  1375.  @RevGary  How can you be certain it is the Holy Spirit teaching those things?
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  1376.  @RevGary  How can you be certain it is the Holy Spirit teaching those things?
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  1377.  @RevGary  What happened to the seven missing books of the bible which were in the original Hebrew text, and the Septuagint? The original Hebrew texts of the OT are not available. They were edited after the Septuagint was produced, with the Christological references toned down. It is also clear that John 6 is saying that the Eucharist is a real transformation and not merely symbolic. That interpretation is not exclusively one held by the RCC.
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  1378. It's way harder to stop using going forward. Do you get the idea?
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  1379. The entire Single Market is a system of self sanctions. Some of us have been saying this for the past 50 years.
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  1380. That is not a Conservative budget. It is plain stupid. Cutting stamp duty will not help first time buyers. Prices will just go up. Wrong sort of income tax cuts. Increasing the allowances and thresholds is more beneficial. The Chancellor should have scrapped the Eurotax, VAT. With immediate effect. That one would generate 5% growth. How many extra work coaches will have to be taken on? If the work is not available in your area or you are too old then looking for work is a waste of time.
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  1381. Hindus are next. Hinduism is Shirk.
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  1382. Ridiculous. When they are handed over to UK Border Force they should be arrested, handed over to the police on landing, charged with illegally entering the country and remanded in custody. It would take just a couple of boatloads to be dealt with in the way and the flow would cease.
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  1383. Gaza protests are mostly a display of force.
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  1384. The EU trade and economic policy is the cause of the hostilities all round but that is partly required because of VAT, the Eurotax. The EU is a fake free trade area.
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  1385. This whole business of pensions needs a fresh look, especially when so many employers will not take on anyone over the age of 50. It's a big scam, anyway, because these state schemes are a compulsory loan to governments. Private schemes are also a big scam, as the funds a vulnerable to frauds eg the great Robert Maxwell swindle. The underlying problem is reliance on the taxation of wages as a major source of public revenue. The tax wedge is the villain. The French should know better, as it was French economists who invented the concept of land value taxation, which gets rid of the tax wedge.
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  1386. What reforms would make things better?
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  1387.  @owenokane9643  Most EU countries are in trouble with their economies. The four key EU trade and economic policies are a recipe for decline and failure: the CAP, the Euro, VAT and the protected Single Market with tariff barriers. These are based on the long discredited seventeenth century Mercantilist theory of trade. The UK has failed to take advantage of the Brexit opportunities. It is like a prisoner who refuses to leave jail when released.
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  1388. We rejected them in 2018 but they didn't leave. The SD are still excluded from the government despite being the second largest party.
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  1389. It was my guess that technicians might have been selling off the experimental animals to the market traders. There is a novel about escaped experimental animals called 'The Plague Dogs' by Richard Adams.
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  1390. I cannot reference this channel on the website of the main newspaper in Gothenburg. It is immediately deleted.
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  1391. Hahaha. The EU doesn't know the difference between sanctions and a boycott. EU self harming behaviour as always. The sooner the EU is closed down, the better.
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  1392.  @ChildofGoodFortune  I don't suppose it was intended as a serious comment.
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  1393. The mainstream media are scared that reporting what is happening will stir up feelings against migrants and migration but all that they are doing is to feed the rumour mills and destroy their own credibility. The migration induced crime wave in Sweden is another thing that is being kept out of the news. Even when the crimes are reported the criminals are anonymous.
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  1394. The majority of Israelis are not of European origin
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  1395. I have dual citizenship but I hope my EU country follows the UK out as soon as possible.
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  1396. Taxation of wages, goods and services and profits is robbery.
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  1397. Yes the Palestinian's supporters were cheering for something that didn't happen. Beheadings are unknown. And the chant "From the river to the sea" does not mean what it says.
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  1398. They already do. VAT. You couldn't think of a more inefficient and damaging tax than VAT.
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  1399. VAT, the Eurotax, is the most powerful depressant of the economy that has ever been devised, short of full blown communism.
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  1400. It's a hard one. The Palestinian case is like a fruit with a kernel of truth wrapped in thick layers of distortions and downright lies. This is obvious to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the background to the conflict. I am against censorship, but how much false information is it acceptable to push out?
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  1401. Fun fact about Romania - it has the biggest VAT gap of all EU countries, at a massive 34%, according the the EU website! What do we in the rest of the EU get from this deal? More taxpayers' money going to corrupt politicians and more beggars. Why is the EU even making noises to suggest that this basket case of a country should be allowed onto the gravy train? If the aim is to increase trade, then the obvious answer is to merge the Russian and EU customs zones.
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  1402. This is presumably driven partly by trying to prevent tax evasion. The tax system is at the root of the problem - income tax and VAT are flaky when payments are made in cash. It's our own fault for refusing to recognise that the tax system is intrusive and a threat to personal liberty.
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  1403. Sweden is already in the grip of a low level civil war and it has not got the measure of it. We also have a record of astronomical cost over runs due to misconceived and mismanaged infrastructure projects. Too many women in top management in the public sector resulting in non functioning services. Can't see Russia as the biggest threat nor could we stand up to them unless we smarten ourselves up dramatically and learn how to make good decisions.
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  1404. I walked from Gare du Nord to Gare St Lazaire in October. The place looked worse than Lewisham.
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  1405. Brexit is fine but are they preparing to freeze the pensions of UK pensioners who live abroad? Thousands of British pensioners who have retired to countries like Australia who have been swindled by this piece of government sharp practice.
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  1406. ISIS operatives are now dispersed all over Western Europe, so it is anyone's guess what happens next.
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  1407. Is Borrel anything to do with Borrelia? I thought the point of the EU was to promote peace in Europe. It hasn't done too well, what with Yugoslavia and now Ukraine.
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  1408. ​ @markwelch3564  Hamas cannot be trusted to keep an agreement.
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  1409. I wouldn't take a betting tip seriously from this channel.
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  1410. The EU has stuffed itself with dysfunctional policies, notably the protectionist single market, value added tax, and heavy taxation labour. Zero carbon is costing heavily. The chances of reform are zilch
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  1411. It's old school Celtic antisemitism.
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  1412. The entire financial system is ultimately secured on land titles valued at grotesquely unrealistic prices, pumped up on speculative assumptions. The situation is probably worse than it has ever been, but the phenomenon was identified by Henry George in 'Progress and Poverty', published in 1879, which almost nobody reads these days.
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  1413.  @kriegwhatever  I would put them in the centre, which is where they were before 1914 East/West is an over simplification.
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  1414. Poland will be toast if they upset the Russians. The Poles aren't best buddies with the Ukrainians, either.
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  1415. After the raid on the Kiev lavra?.
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  1416. How weird that Labour supports membership of the EU when its policies are geared to the interests of bankers, landowners and big business.
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  1417.  @saba1030  The Russkis are behind it.
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  1418. Decarbonising the railways in a particularly egregious example of the NZ folly.
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  1419. Just to make sure, the Swedish tax system locks them out of the legal economy.
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  1420. There is a nice deal waiting to be done with the Russians.
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  1421.  @BassesandBows  Saving the EU from its own rush to oblivion.
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  1422. TLDR is a good illustration of the Dunning Kruger effect. One really ought not to take pleasure in what ought to be an embarrassment. Who pays for it?
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  1423. He isn't too good pronouncing ordinary English words either.
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  1424. Very bad idea. We need a Bill of Duties - Citizen's Duties and Government's Duties. Including duties "not to". Human Rights are a dangerous Enlightenment notion.
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  1425. Putting the pieces in place for WW3. What became of the idea of trying to reduce tensions with hostile neighbours?
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  1426. No harm in this but... Railways cannot change the facts of geography. The Baltic countries are out on a limb from an EU perspective. Their natural trading links are to the east. The EU trade and economic policies are negative for the Baltic region.
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  1427. The EU bosses have got enough on their plate following the ruling of the German constitutional court. But the UK government still has to get a proper policy in place for the management of the fishing grounds, which belong to the British people (actually they are part of the Crown Estate), not to British fishermen or owners of boats registered in UK ports. http://www.landvaluetax.org/the-lvtc-blog-by-henry-law/fishing-and-brexit.html
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  1428. The next wave will be wave Good Bye.
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  1429. Expensive reflects the fact that this energy is a boondoggle.
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  1430. The EU trade and economic policies are inherited from the Na7i government. They were introduced in 1934, and advocated in Mein Kampf. The EU is classic Corporate State fascist.
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  1431. Keep up the EU bashing. The collapse of this wretched organisation cannot come a day too soon.
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  1432. This is one of the best arguments for leaving the EU that I have ever heard. Well done for putting it together, and I bet that was not recited from memory. What a chaotic and incomprehensible shambles you have described it to be, like a ball of wool a cat has been playing with all day. It explains the almost unerring ability of the EU to make bad decisions, even when the intentions are worthy. And why is it meddling with trivia like the power consumption of vacuum cleaners? Run away. Fast. In the British Constitution, power derives from the Sovereign, who is responsible to God. This is made explicit when the British monarch is anointed at the Coronation ceremony. The rest, Lords, Parliament, the Justice system and the executive civil service, follows in a logical and comprehensible progression and is mirrored at county, city, borough and parish level.
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  1433. When someone can come up with a boundary which corresponds to where they are living, then there will be a proposal to negotiate
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  1434. This is the inevitable collapse of 60 years of German Mercantilism. Mercantilism was refuted by the French Physiocrats and Adam Smith 250 years ago. It was revived by the author of Mein Kampf.
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  1435. We could help by re-gaugeing the Class 37 fleet and sending them over for running trains on lines where the electricity has been knocked out.
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  1436. Farage is right to hammer the tax system but he has never made a positive contribution to the debate. There hasn't been a coherent public debate about taxation in Britain since the 1930s. Public understanding of the subject is almost non existent, and it is no better in academic circles.
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  1437. In the 1970s these people would have been dealt with by the police informally.
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  1438. Just the rind that you cannot eat.
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  1439. How many people have not died due to the cleaner air?
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  1440. The Cohesion Fund is another racket. It is pays for corruption.
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  1441. ​ @BobLouden-r9q  No, it is about 700 million in total Muslims were killing 10000 a day when they invaded India. 3 million Christians killed by Muslims just in the 1915 and 1923 genocides.
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  1442. Please drop the cr@p about far right.
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  1443.  @cryptomnesiac  Sweden was quite well run until 2014 but the centre-right government ran out of energy.
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  1444. Why are there no counter demonstrations?
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  1445. ​ @BabsJohnson111  1683 has made Austrians wary. You obviously don't associate with the average migrants.
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  1446. ​ @YaroTheCutest  There's no such thing.
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  1447. To judge from the comments, the "progressives" who support this channel have metamorphosed into raving warmongers.
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  1448. The EU is classic corporate state fascist. The policies are out of Mein Kamp.
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  1449. Putting tariffs on goods from the EU would be crazy. It would just lead to price increases in the UK. UK producers would not keep up the quality of their products if they were not faced with EU competition. It would be lose all round for the British. It is not a good principle to apply threats which are self-harming. Threat of tariffs is therefore a terrible negotiating strategy. It just needs to be pointed out that the EU tariffs are harming consumers and business in the EU. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. If their politicians still persist, let them get on with it.
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  1450. Singapore on Thames is an excellent aim. Do those who advocate it appreciate that land value taxation is an essential component of its economic model?
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  1451. Taxed to death
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  1452. Careful. you will be accused of wanting to send new-born babies down coal mines.
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  1453. The crinoline could make a comeback. I had a Karen as a supervisor for about a year. She was a nightmare. We're all going to die.
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  1454. They have taken over "security" at Heathrow.
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  1455. Neutrality served Sweden very well for 200 years. Very bad decision which we will come to regret. There is a long list of problems that have to be dealt with. The country is of no interest to the Russians, apart perhaps for the island of Gotland. We don't need to be in NATO to defend it.
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  1456. The corruption in the squeaky clean countries is just better hidden.
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  1457. How is that consistent with employers' complaints about the forthcoming shortage of labour after Brexit?
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  1458. It isn't good for any man to have power for more than half a dozen years. For his own benefit, Putin should retire soon and write his memoirs, and there is a need for a hand-over which preserves stability. He is not going to live for ever. Russians might at some time consider the possibility of becoming a constitutional monarchy modelled on the British system, complete with a genuine coronation. The country also needs a proper tax system which means it abandons the harm caused by taxes on wages, profits, goods and services. The model here is possibly Taiwan or Singapore.
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  1459. Why not? 0% on wages, profits, goods and services. Anything more is theft.
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  1460. The EU still needs to reform its outdated trade and economic policies which are slowly strangling it. Of course there are people in non EU countries who want money from countries like us (Sweden). But the money has run out. The Swedish appetite for joining NATO is slight.
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  1461. Rory Stewart looks very ill, poor guy.
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  1462. Why?
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  1463. Try looking at things from the point of view of Moscow. Encirclement by NATO, locked out of the EU and war mongering factions in the US champing at the bit.
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  1464. Good. With luck they will wander off into the wilderness and vanish forever. That still leaves a political vacuum. We need a party committed to doing what only governments can do - and nothing more than that.
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  1465. The northern countries are not sqeaky clean. The Swedish tax system is destroying the economy, as well as locking migrants and the low skilled out of work.
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  1466. The SNP seem to be beyond stupid. There is some sort of a case for Scottish independence, but most of its imports come from England so would cost more in Scotland due to the EU tariffs. Scotland would end up poorer than Latvia.
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  1467. Or the Muslims are persecuting the Christians, who then want to leave.
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  1468. This crisis illustrates one of the fundamental flaws with the Euro. The system is heading towards collapse. Modern tax systems are unfit for purpose; in short, they cannot generate enough revenue and they give rise to accelerating deadweight losses.
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  1469. Macron should be first at the front if he thinks it is a good idea.
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  1470. The mainstream politicians need to stop pretending that everything in the garden is lovely. They might be fringe nutters but they feed on the failures of government and the lack of trust in the media, who have not covered themselves in glory these past three years
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  1471. North Africa was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. What happened?
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  1472. EU free trade is crippled by VAT. If another group of countries set up a tariff-free and VAT-free union, it would show the way for the EU to go. The region also needs to secure its external borders.
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  1473. Yes. The Ukrainians have thrashed the Russians.
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  1474. Make it a tax haven. Income tax and NI threshold up to £30k for people living and working in the area. VAT-free shopping in the town.
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  1475. Manufacturing would not have gone away in the first place if governments had not crippled it with taxes on wages, goods and services. It will not come back unless these things are changed.
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  1476. The west has been squaring up for trouble with Russia since 2008, when some US warmonger said they wanted to get Ukraine into NATO. The EU and NATO has been actively provoking since 2014.
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  1477. If a man cannot become a woman, how can a Hall have become Hogwart's Castle?
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  1478. This clapping craze is straight out of 1984. Don't people read it any more?
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  1479.  @Jimbobalina1  There is nothing in Christian doctrine about the stoning of gays and virgins.
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  1480. From Västtrafiken's (West Sweden) web site Västtrafik now reduced tram frequencies in Gothenburg. The change applies from Thursday. The reason is staff shortages due to the corona virus. March 24 at 6:53 pm Prohibition of gatherings with more than 50 people The Public Health Authority has introduced a new ban on public gatherings with more than 50 people. It is about planned and larger gatherings, such as parties and competitive sports events. The Public Health Authority has announced that they will gradually specify what gatherings will be subject to the ban. Public transport has not yet been included, but Västtrafik is following the trend closely. The army has set up emergency hospitals in Stockholm and Gothenburg ready for the expected onslaught. The policy seems to be to let it happen. There is a lot of politics behind this. The government's advisor, Anders Tegnell, is a known Marxist and takes the view that the community is more important than the individual, and a few thousand dead grannies and grandpas is a price worth paying to acquire herd immunity. That said, it would be a merciful release for those in some of the Swedish care homes. There is a pattern here. It is the same incompetence, perpetrated by the same government, that allowed an influx of 190,000 migrants, including a few genuine refugees, in 2015. These migrants, mostly young men, were then spread round the country and the local authorities were told that the government would give them financial support - for a limited period (two or three years, if I recall). We have also had an explosion of violent crime in what was once an outstandingly safe country. Now the government money has stopped and the local authorities have gone broke. From being one of the best managed countries in the world ten years ago, it has degenerated into a shambles of mis-government.
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  1481. The Zyklon B orders have been placed, and in Sweden as well.
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  1482. The EU protected Single Market creates additional logistics costs for Ireland. Why is this so little talked about?
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  1483. Sweden is the shooting capital of the EU.
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  1484. Yes except for one tax which is an exception to the rule.
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  1485. The Net Zero religion.
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  1486. Dangerous utopians informed by crackpot economics.
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  1487. How can Sweden afford this?
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  1488.  @Seitbp242  Have you looked at the Swedish figures for tax, crime, unemployment, inflation? That is not doing fine. The country is highly dependent on insecure IT systems. Turkey has done us no favours. Soon there will be demands for a two state solution as the country goes the way of Lebanon. There has been no public debate on the issue and the media have all gone along with the narrative of needing to join. The distraction is a godsend.
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  1489. I have mostly been in Sweden since 2006. When I first came it was like Britain in the 1960s. It has caught up in the past decade. However, I have a good social circle, which keeps me here.
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  1490. Russia is way down on the list of threats to Sweden. The livelihood of a return to conscription in Sweden was never mentioned. It is significant that the politicians didn't trust the people to support NATO membership in a referendum. We will come to regret the decision.
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  1491. The EU has an uncanny knack of mucking up everything it sticks its long snout into.
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  1492. Halal involved killing animals by a particularly cruel means. It is even worse than kosher killing. Bacon and pork are nutritious and should not be off the menu.
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  1493. Zelensky has blown it anyway. It was a big mistake to have a go at the Orthodox Church after it had cut loose from Moscow so as to avoid accusations of disloyalty. That has lost him the support of loyal Ukrainians who now realise that they have been set up. Zelensky's days are numbered.
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  1494. Democracy has been subverted by Post Modernism. When "there is no truth", the people can no longer make rational decisions.
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  1495. The main problem is that a lot of pleasurable things that are important may not be possible for many people. On the other hand there are treasures to be found on-line, there is less pressure to do things on time, and long deferred projects can be taken up eg gardening, sorting out family photographs, reading. One can try to make most of the opportunities which would not otherwise have arisen. One of the on-line treasures that I have particularly appreciated is the daily services from Russia from the channel TVsoyuz, which have wonderful singing and a tour of the churches, which have only recently been restored - the production standard is outstanding and it is a different place every day, with different styles of music. You don't have to understand it to appreciate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5IVGZSVjk
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  1496. Anglo Saxon Common Law and the UK's unwritten constitution. The monarch is sovereign under God. That is the reason for the anointing at the Coronation ceremony and why it says FD on the coins. The coronation ceremony is modelled on that for the consecration of bishops. The power should never have been given away.
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  1497. ​ @Kelvin_Yearwood  Shame you cannot avoid being rude, and you also forget the League of Nations decision, which established the state of Transjordan as the Arab land. However, on your basis the definition in Resolution 181 of 1947 stands. Except that the surrounding Arab powers then immediately went to war against Israel, with genocidal intent, and lost. Land won in a war started by others is not illegally occupied. That is why Kaliningrad is not an illegal occupation, unlike the occupation of parts of Armenia, Cyprus etc. Not only are you pompously offensive; you have not answered the question. Please try again.
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  1498. It's a joke. We criticise the Russians for corruption.
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  1499. Never mind. The Russians are weak. Zelensky will soon have his troops in Moscow.
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  1500. The EU's trade and economic policies are a disaster. However, since the Tory government was determined to perpetuate the same policies in home grown form, and there was no opposition from Labour, the point of Brexit disappeared. It is now all pain and no gain. Part of the blame must lie with the ERG and Minford and his cronies for failing to present the economic case. Behind this, one wonders what was the role of the Tory landowning grandees, who would not want to lose the pocket money they have been getting from the CAP for the past 40 years.
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  1501.  @ChristianIce  CAP, VAT, a tariff wall and the Euro. Short of full blown communism, you could not think of a more damaging set of trade and economic policies than those which are central to the EU project. They benefit the geographical core at the expense of the periphery.
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  1502.  @ChristianIce  nobody will import anything unless they are almost certain that there are people who will buy it.
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  1503.  @ChristianIce  Nobody will import 'shit from the third world' unless people want to buy it in preference to the internal production. It's the customers' choice.
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  1504.  @ChristianIce  What gives you the right to stop them from buying what they want to buy? They are not trying to buy weapons.
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  1505.  @ChristianIce  You seem to be wanting to decide what other people can, and can not, buy.
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  1506. He will be appointed as head of an Oxford or Cambridge college.
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  1507. A solar flare will save us from these electronic controlling mechanisms. We will be back to steam power and mechanical systems.
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  1508. Horrible rendering of the Beethoven, but I thought the behaviour was a bit on the boorish side. At least they kept their trousers on.
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  1509. Surely the effects of Brexit depends on how smart the government is? Scrapping VAT generates at least 5% of GDP growth. Phasing out import tariffs, unilaterally, delivers a rise in people's real wages and reduces manufacturing costs.
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  1510. The central banks have been mismanaging since 1914.
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  1511. Battered like scampi, they could be OK.
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  1512. The EU is as much of a danger to people in Europe as is Russia.
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  1513. Haha. Nobody seems to realise what a lot of trouble businesses and consumers in the EU will have when they have to pay the EU tariffs on UK goods, or look for alternative suppliers in the EU. The Irish will pick up a huge transport bill.
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  1514. Communism was eradicated from Russia about 30 years ago.
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  1515. Worrying that the left has not got you in its sights. Is there something you need to be saying?
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  1516. Cardinal Pell's conviction on the basis of the evidence of one witness?
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  1517. Why is the British government introducing import controls on food?
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  1518. There is enough home grown stupidity. The epicentre is the Oxford University school of Politics Philosophy and Economics. Its graduates infest the government, the civil service, the press and the rest of academia. They need to be rooted out and given a few acres each on the remote side of the Falkland Islands.
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  1519. The Swedish policy is to let it rip through to achieve herd immunity. A restriction of gatherings of no more than 50 people has just been enforced, otherwise it is business pretty much as usual. I think I had it a couple of weeks ago; there have been sore throats going around since the middle of January. But it could equally well be pollen, as there is lots of hazel and birch pollen in the air. No tests available. The government epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, is behind this do-nothing policy, which is based on the gamble that there will not be a surge of cases which are beyond the ability of the health services to deal with. That is a risky strategy, with cases in Stockholm The Swedish government has lurched from one bad decision to another since 2014, so this is just one more. The major importers were holidaymakers returning from ski holidays in Italy.
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  1520. Very good apart from your economics, which is shaky. Please stay off the subject, or better still, get it up to speed. A good start would be to read Progress and Poverty, by Henry George.
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  1521. There are plenty of other customers for Russian energy.
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  1522. Not really. Read August 1914 and see what happened in 1904. However, the Russians have weight and should normally win in the end. The Bear should not be poked.
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  1523. Not smart on the part of Khazi, who could have achieved the same by raising allowances and thresholds.
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  1524.  Moni Penny  It is not the point. The US government should have an effective Land Value Tax and the Syrian government should charge for the value of the extraction rights eg by open auction. If governments do not make people pay, in tax or royalties, the full value of their country's land rent or natural resources, it is nobody else's fault.
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  1525. ​ @theclotshotdidit3115  It is called Bergvärme. The ground is granite and warm due to low levels of radioactivity. It is still expensive to run. The most efficient system of heating buildings is Combined Heat and Power generation.
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  1526. I bought a MacMini in 2005 but they changed to Intel a few months later and stopped supporting the G5, so I never bought another Apple again. I was asked 600 kr to look at a dead Macbook a friend had been given, just to look at it. Walked out of the shop. Not my idea of the way to do business.
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  1527. They bought it. Are you saying that land must not be bought and sold? Before the Arab Muslims invaded, it was mostly Christian.
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  1528. Not right enough, unfortunately.
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  1529.  @ragael1024  Ethnic minority Russians are given a bad time in many of the independent former USSR countries, as a matter of policy by those countries' governments. Isn't that inviting trouble?
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  1530. There are plenty of poor people in "rich" countries. They are the ones who will pay, and the debt will never be repaid. The sooner the Brussels circus closes down, the better. It has been running even longer than Coronation Street.
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  1531. This channel tells an opposite story to TLDR. The truth must be out there somewhere
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  1532. Ruin for Ukraine. Ukruin. It's up near the top for corruption. The main export of the Baltics is people. Cheap labour for German corporations.
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  1533.  @eliahabib5111  Tsar means king.
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  1534. The economic policies of the EEC were rotten from the start. Political union was always going to be necessary to implement them.
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  1535. There are obviously a lot of problems with the police. Keep an eye on Sweden which has adopted a light touch approach. But this 'experiment' certainly raises the question of what an economy is for. So much of the economy seems to be about making stuff that people have to be persuaded to buy because they don't really want it, or have enough of already, or haven't got space for in their homes, or have to borrow money to buy it.
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  1536. How long to they think the tanks will last? They might as well send them straight to the scrapyard. The Ukrainians cannot not win this. At the best they will carry on indefinitely sending their people into the mincing machine until they have had enough, or there are no more men left to send. This is a seriously stupid wars on a par with the west in Afghanistan, the Soviets in Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Vietnam and WW1. In the meantime, the wheels are coming off in Kiev.
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  1537.  @sarowie  Stupid EU. That means higher prices and shortages of fish in the EU. It doesn't bother us so much here in Sweden as we get ours from mostly from the Kattegat, Baltic and lakes, but in other places the shortages will be noticed. I am sure the British can eat their own fish. If they don't like it the usual way I am sure the processing industry will take advantage and sell it for ready-meals, fish fingers, cat food, etc. It will not go to waste.
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  1538.  @paulneville7154  Not a problem. The EU will suffer shortages and higher prices, so they are the big losers. People in the UK can eat all the fish that is caught. In the worst case scenario it will end up in fish fingers and as cat food.
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  1539.  @MrJimheeren  I have eaten herring three times in the past seven days. Salmon is farmed in Scotland. The British, and their cats, can eat all the fish that the British fishermen catch. In the worst case it can become fish fingers.
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  1540. Before the Supreme Court was established this would have been decided by the Law Lords. Would the Law Lords have made the same decision?
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  1541. Patriarch Kyrill said several years ago that the West was making a huge mistake and events are proving him correct.
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  1542.  @dorderre  The German politicians who are taking the risk are not the Germans who wl be suffering from their decision. It could get interesting.
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  1543. Similar in Sweden. The perpetrators get compensation.
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  1544. Emil has lost the plot on this one. There are wheels within wheels within wheels in a story that goes back 3000 years. Shame because he was quite good on Ukraine.
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  1545. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch, in his sermon a couple of weeks ago, forbade people from going to church, and to emphasise the point, he referred to a popular Orthodox saint as a model - St Mary of Egypt, who lived alone in the desert east of the Jordan and did not go into a church for 47 years.
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  1546.  @Petal4822  Why them?
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  1547.  @robduncan599  Are you suggesting that the UK government will allow goods entering the UK to be delayed at UK ports by customs when they are urgently needed? How long do you think that situation will be allowed to go on? The alternative to riots will be to wave the goods through. That is not a difficult choice.
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  1548.  @robduncan599  The UK government has not announced plans to do anything which would disrupt INWARD movement of goods. HMRC does not have the resources, nor is the infrastructure in place, nor would they even dare. Incoming goods from the EU will be waved through. Goods destined for the EU will not even be dispatched if there is the prospect of delays at continental ports. This will cause problems for both those in the UK who are sending the goods, and for those in the EU who will be waiting for them. Logistics businesses would not be so stupid as to send their vehicles to stand idle in a traffic queue in Kent. There will be trouble, but not the trouble predicted. I live in Gothenburg and foresee delays at customs here, while British products go in short supply or become unobtainable. Consumers will be inconvenienced. Agents for British products are going to be in serious difficulty as there will be delays in fulfilling customers' orders.
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  1549. The protected Single Market is a scam. The EU needs to close down.
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  1550. What do you expect the Russians to do? Walk away?
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  1551. The breeches and stockings are eighteenth century. Perhaps he should have gone back to a medieval monarch's costume? The coronation ceremony is based on that for the consecration of a first millenium bishop. The cape is based on a bishop's cope.
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  1552. A defence of the EU Autarky politics. The UK government threw away the opportunities. Now, we, in the EU, have trouble getting goods in from the UK, which adds it to the list of 165 countries from where consignments get stuck in our (I am in Sweden) inefficient customs non-service.
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  1553. Why does Ukraine want to join what the UK voted to leave? The only plausible explanation is that the Ukrainian oligarchs want to get their hand on the EU's money.
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  1554. ​ @madsolsen9184  Uranium and its compounds are toxic at any temperature. It is still making people ill in Serbia.
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  1555. Blame the juice and get your tinfoil hat on.
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  1556. One case in Gothenburg confirmed (visitor returned from Italy).
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  1557. Influential people are making plenty of money out of this. Hotels filled up when tourists are staying away. Has anyone even applied for the necessary planning consent?
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  1558. Best to stand up on stage and say nothing, then your jokes will not offend anyone.
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  1559. You will feel the pinch very quickly.
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  1560.  @levi_amplaylist5951  It has not been happening
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  1561. Britain's number one problem is its positions.
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  1562. EU trade and economic policies are text book fascist. They are in Mein Kampf.
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  1563. How many Ropers work for these government departments?
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  1564. Nice to know that the PM is joining the jamboree at the resort in Egypt to save the planet.
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  1565. The EU is in a similar plight.
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  1566. Mastiffs.
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  1567. Evidence?
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  1568. Israel is not a colonialist power. There was nothing worth colonising, the land was legally purchased at extortionate prices, and half the population is of North African or Middle Eastern origin. Irish people have been badly misinformed.
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  1569. Breast stroke or front crawl?
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  1570. I am registered to vote in barmy Brighton. Who do I vote for?
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  1571. Funny you should mention that. I am short and am expected to play the role of pet or mascot. On the other hand it can be a benefit if you play along with it.
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  1572. You will not benefit.
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  1573. ​ @CIutchX  The EU trade and economic policies would work against Ukraine.
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  1574. TLDR's personalisation of the conflict as "Putin's" destroys the channel's credibility. Putin is the best tsar Russia has had since Alexander II. If he vanished tomorrow he would be replaced by a very similar tsar.
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  1575. UK inflation was caused by the Bank of England and Sunak as Chancellor.
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  1576. They are the Dunning Kruger channel. The Duran is more reliable.
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  1577.  @MorganMadej  What you are saying is that Britain is governed by the sort of people who become politicians everywhere, and always have. What else do you expect? Why would you expect anything else?
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  1578. ​ @MrGieltedze  68% of Swedes do not support the EU's plans to force the country to take more migrants.
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  1579. Hungary and Turkey will just cosy up to Russia.
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  1580. ​ @steverooke1717  Swedes at a crayfish party?
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  1581. Keep up the war on carbs. One benefit is that IBS goes away. Bad gut bacteria die of starvation.
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  1582.  @jackuzi8252  These engines were used in BR Class 55 locomotives. 22 locomotives had 55 engines between them. They needed a lot of maintenance, which is why they were quickly replaced by the class 43 which ran in pairs on at each end of the train.
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  1583. The war crime is using women and children as human shields.
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  1584. SWEDEN 421 patients taken into intensive care  so far. Increase of 19 since previous day 76% men Average age 62 9.7 days from first symptoms to intensive care. 77.7% of these with risk factor. Heart or lung condition 24.5% Diabetes 25.2% High blood pressure 35.6% Kidney disease 4.5% It would be useful to know what medications are being used routinely to control the above conditions eg statins, alpha blockers. Figures in Sweden will rise when it is transmitted from the schools, still open, to homes, where there may be older parents and grandparents.
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  1585. ​ @PjRjHj We mix and match with Church Slavonic, Greek, Serbian, Swedish and English. Our Patriarch is solid. Definitely not heretical.
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  1586. Speak for yourself.
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  1587. VAT has the same effect on an economy as arsenic on the human body. The EU cannot get rid of it. The UK needs to, as fast as possible.
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  1588. Some people admire him, especially the country's firm line on migration.
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  1589.  @buddy1155  That would be good. These countries need protection from the folly of their own governments. Bigger threat than the Russians.
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  1590.  @maniacZesci  Big strategic mistake but the conflict goes back 800 years.
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  1591. Can someone explain why vaccination is necessary against a disease that one has already been infected with and recovered from?
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  1592. Positive test result still sleepy 9 days from start. Getting better but slowly. Don't think vaccination made much difference as people I know who were not vaccinated were about the same.
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  1593. Her name, Mein Kampf is appropriate. Her attitude alone is enough of a reason to leave.
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  1594. Great news. Our most proficient criminal gangs come from that part of the world. Two more corrupt black holes for taxpayers' money to disappear into. I wonder if they will beat Romania's current 34% VAT gap?
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  1595. They didn't do so well at the UK nationality test.
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  1596. Polisens tid är helt upptagen av kontroll på sociala medier.
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  1597. High tech products at competitive price! The horror of it. 17th century Mercantilism continues to live its zombie existence.
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  1598. Why is the Green Book exempt from hate speech legislation?
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  1599. 'Continent' means, in this context, mainland Europe.
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  1600. Tusk has helped to gather strength for the leavers. However, the Brexit leavers have certainly failed to make the economic case and point to the specific EU policies that are such a burden on the UK and which need to be scrapped. Preferably on the 30th of March.
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  1601. Can't Hamas protect its people by allowing them to take shelter in its tunnels? We should not lose sight of the obvious fact that none of this would have happened if 7 October had not been done.
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  1602. The EU is based on self harm
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  1603. Simon, you ought to be more discriminating. The three religions are mutually incompatible. The Muslim prayer is an explicit denial of Christian doctrine. Judaism also denies Christian doctrine. Judaism confines itself to its ethnic group. Islam is a colonial project. Christians can be pushy but the mainstream denominations have long taken a "come and see" approach. The god of Islam is never named but the rite of worship is based on that which honours a pagan moon god.
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  1604. Too many LSE graduates in high places? Not enough Neanderthal DNA?
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  1605. Sanctions are most acting against people in the EU. It is a self imposed blockade.
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  1606. Wuhahan laboratory technicians flogging off experimental animals to market traders after use?
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  1607. Payback for the atrocities perpetrated by the Bosniaks. Not justifiable but explicable.
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  1608. ​ Please explain.
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  1609. It is a full on attack on Christianity. They wrecked the RC church from the inside, now they are having a go at the Orthodox, which is what is behind the Ukrainian dispute.
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  1610.  I am not who you think I am  Why would, Jooz want antisemites coming in?
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  1611. Take out an injunction against FB. Find a friendly lawyer.
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  1612. TfL needs close scrutiny. There was the huge waste involved in replacing the D79 stock, which was had only been refurbished a few years previously. Has there been a cost over-run with the Bakerloo Line stock refurbishment? What are the running costs of the S-stock? Similar questions apply to the bus fleet. What is the extent of fraudulent travel?
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  1613. Putin has become what he is largely because of the expansionist actions of NATO and the EU. NATO is perceived as a threat. The EU's trade and economic policies have actively prevented the establishment of normal trading relationships with the former Soviet countries. On the contrary, it breeds hostility with all the neighbouring countries, as has developed with Ireland since Brexit. Even if Putin were to disappear, the replacement is likely to be similar or worse.
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  1614. Rotten politics is not just a British thing. Nor is it new.
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  1615.  @stephenconway2468  Land Value Tax can work at all levels as long as assessments are consistent. It could also work for the EU, provided that the effect of other taxes on land values is taken account of. If I were to construct an EU I would base the national contributions on gross national land value. Sales taxes would be forbidden. Tobacco and alcohol might be taxed up to a maximum permitted level. Taxes on wages and profits would tend to disappear due to tax competition and the fact that they eat into the land value tax base. The bureaucracy and bottom feeding accountants and lawyers would have to become wealth producers.
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  1616. Apart from the one exception.
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  1617. This has happened because the Georgist revolution never took place and we had the Marxist one instead.
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  1618. ​ @JH-pv6rd  That's a lot of imports which people in Europe will be going short of if they stop coming. Get knitting a supply of thick sweaters.
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  1619. Moral: don't pick a fight with the bully next door.
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  1620. Sweden has strangled its economy with its tax system. What is rarely mentioned is the fact that the drug gangs' customers are respectable well off Swedes. Then there is the epidemic of prescription drug taking.
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  1621. A gangsters' club. Gangsters get their come-uppance.
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  1622. Yes, they can easily keep their railways running with steam locomotives.
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  1623. Dodgy relationship? Are they having an affair?
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  1624. The Swedes should have had a referendum. There is no great desire to join.
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  1625. Farage is too good for the British public in its present mood.
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  1626. ​ @jeremyflowers8908  People who call "tosh" do not deserve the courtesy of a polite reply. The information regarding freehold ownership is already held by the land registry. Changes in occupancy are three or four times more frequent than chamges in freeholding. There are also many times more occupants than freeholders. There is a massive saving in IT and administration costs. How do you support your claim that my comment is tosh?
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  1627. The Left love lockdown because they want to control everyone's lives. Why is anyone surprised?
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  1628. Dunning-Kruger in full flood. I love it.
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  1629.  @clutrike7956  They sound like a WTO operation to me.
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  1630.  @andrewemerson1613  "objective reality has an overwhelmingly liberal bias. there is literally no subject where the collective body of evidence supports the 'conservative' position.# Can you prove that objectively?
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  1631. This is the real reason for the war in Ukraine. The EU relentlessly spreads its tentacles.
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  1632. Have you spoken to the people who live there,
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  1633. Oh, blast! I thought the Ukes were heading for Moscow last autumn.
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  1634. Midnight Mass in Cricklewood could get a bit rowdy at times.
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  1635. Funny that people protest against the Israelis but not against the Chinese. I wonder why?
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  1636. This is an poduct of the madness of gross domestic product growth as a policy aim.
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  1637. Funny these countries survived the Cold War without being in NATO. Sweden has already been invaded through reckless immigration policies.
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  1638. Fascinating, but the sound should be at half the speed. What is the hurry?
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  1639. The Islamic profession of faith is insulting to Christians.
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  1640. Buying books and burning them boosts the publisher's profits. Swedish bacon isn't very good. It's all the streaking kind, sliced very thin. Good English back disappeared after Brexit.
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  1641. Can you do an in depth piece on the Ukrainian Church?
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  1642. It is the work of Marx, as re-interpreted by Marcus, Adorno, Derrida, Foucault & Co. The only defence against it is Chrstianity but that has been subverted too - with an important exception, and a surprising one. Or perhaps not so surprising, as they suffered 70 years of the Marxist torment and have come out the other side. The west's torment is yet to come.
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  1643. The biggest threat to most of the EU countries comes from the EU and the countries' own governments.
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  1644. I can see Farage ending up as a political refugee in Russia, possibly the harbinger of a wave of such, as totalitarianism spreads.
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  1645. The EU's trade and economics policies are based on seventeenth century Mercantilist theory which was discredited by the classical economists, and remained discredited until revived by Keynes and the Nazis in the 1930s; it was former Nazi policy makers who were the architects of the EEC policies, which are a continuation of the Autarky policy of Germany in 1934. The principal flaws are the Eurotax (VAT), the CAP, the Protected Single Market and the Euro. The Euro means that Germans are paid in an undervalued currency and are effectively working a day a week for nothing. These are self-harming self-imposed sanctions. It is a formula for economic decline, just as the same polices led to the ruination of Spain, Portugal and France during the eighteenth century. One effect of the protected market is to restrict trade and the flow of goods at its borders. This is a cause of conflict at both east and west eg with the UK post-Brexit, and Russia. The UK has so far failed to take advantage of the opportunities Brexit offers. Given its inability to reform itself, the only hope is that the EU will disintegrate.
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  1646. The north needs a tax reform which does not work against it as the present one does. So does Scotland, which may be enough to keep it in the Union. An independent Scotland in the EU would end up like a poor, cold Romania without the Orthodox Church to keep things together.
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  1647. ​ @thegamer5367  Are you serious? The EU is one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine and the troubles in former Yugoslavia. It pours petrol on the fire.
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  1648. The Israelis should all go to Venus and terraform the planet. Then the Palestinians can take over from the River to the Sea. They would immediately have a civil war and in a few months all that would be left would be a pile of rubble.
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  1649. Good new music with nautical feel.
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  1650. Everyone likes a bargain.
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  1651. The EU needs to disband.
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  1652.  @ahmedtahaouhmidan8957  Please put your reply in your own words and argued from first principles.
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  1653. Sweden has already been invaded. In 50 years it will be part of the Ummah.
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  1654. Funny because a $100 Russian dive watch takes a lot of beating. Great technology and original design.
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  1655. Fascinating material, horrible production style with the commentator constantly jumping from side to side and talking in a expressionless robot-like voice.
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  1656. The Duran, Putin's mouthpiece, says the opposite. Where is the truth?
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  1657. 'As soon as you throw an insult, your argument is lost'. Remainers claimed the intellectual and moral high ground and then proceeded to insult the Brexiters. This was the standard picture not just in the Guardian but in the FT.
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  1658. Zelensky will be taking the salute at his victory parade in Moscow by the end of the summer.
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  1659. I wish people would stop personalising international politics. Putin did not lead the Russian army into Sevro-whatsit.
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  1660. He has helped catering, hospitality, and the arts, plenty of women in those sectors, also transport. What a stupid analysis.
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  1661. Places like this should become tax free zones.
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  1662. Why hasn't anyone considered using hydrogen carbides? These are liquid at room temperature.
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  1663. Even if Ukraine got its act together it would make no sense for UK itself in economic or political terms. EU trade policy is based on the gravity model which is why it would not work for Ukraine. Ukraine soumds so dreadful that one has to ask why we are being asked to suffer in defence of its "democracy". We should stop the meddling and encourage the Ukrainians to mend their fences with their quite similar neighbours.
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  1664. Not one of your better efforts. Mansion tax is a bad idea but it is undeniable that the most valuable properties in the London and the south east pay an absurdly low tax in relation to their value. These properties are expensive because of the wealth that flows into London and the south east, which is largely because the tax and financial systems suck wealth created in the rest of the country into London. The value of these properties is sustained on the vast amounts of public money that must be spent in providing the infrastructure that London enjoys. If the rest of the country is to regenerate, the overall burden of tax must be shifted away from the regions (including Scotland and Wales), which means that London and the South East must accept the need to carry some of that burden. If this is not done, not only will the new Conservative support in the north will evaporate, but political unrest will build up again. Last time, it gave rise to Brexit, which was an excellent thing. If disillusion sets in, the results could be ugly. What is needed is a comprehensive rationalisation of the entire chaotic and irrational UK property tax system to make it fit for the post-Brexit age. The South-East tiger economies of Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong derive much of their government revenue from a soundly designed system of property tax. This enables them to levy low taxes on work and wealth creation. If we want Singapore-on-Thames, the country needs to follow suit with Singapore' tax system. The real objection to Mansion Tax is that it is tinkering with a problem that has been allowed to fester since the end of the Second World War.
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  1665. What became of Dad's Army?
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  1666. Shame that they will not be scrapping the most damaging EU law of the lot - the Eurotax, VAT.
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  1667. Yes they are quite similar. The Ukrainians have been bashing their Russian minority since 2014. The Russians had had enough.
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  1668. In the sixteenth century, disloyal servants of the state were dealt with robustly.
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  1669. Paying compulsorily to get indoctrinated.
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  1670. It sounds as if Piri Patel wants something published that the civil servants in the Home Office do not want published.
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  1671. The Danes have been pushed beyond their limit of tolerance, but throwing books around is silly. The mature response is to attack the content. The Koran is hate literature and should be challenged in court. The Swedes are grinning and bearing it at the moment, but for how long? It is also important to make the right noises: people who want to integrate should never be denigrated.
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  1672. The EU is pushing its luck. The Hungarians could do a nice deal with Putin to hand back the bits of Hungary stolen by Stalin and included in Ukraine at the end of WW2. The EU is hammering nails into its own coffin. Keep it up VDL.
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  1673. The left has always been disgusting. Look at the way they murdered the Russian royal family and family servants in 1918.
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  1674. Ask the Serbians about the good intentions of NATO.
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  1675. Lump of labour fallacy.
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  1676. HS2 was never a good idea why you look into the system in detail and the alternatives that were possible.
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  1677. We in the EU are the biggest losers. Enjoy your cold showers.
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  1678. Ireland's real problem is its IMPORTS, so many of which come from the UK, and on which Irish consumers and business will have to pay the Brussels tariffs. Almost nobody has noticed this.
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  1679.  @bergenbergenbergenbergen3512  I wish you were right.
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  1680.  @_robustus_  Christians who spread Christianity by compulsion and violence were violating the teachings of Christianity itself. Christianity spread perfectly well before the middle ages without swords - all the way from Britain and France to India and China and Africa.
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  1681.  @pebblepod30  Early Christianity spread by the force of its preaching, the solidity of its theology and the good example of its followers.
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  1682. This is reminiscent of Verdun 1916. But the really big mistake is the eviction of the Kiev monks.
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  1683. Especially if there had been no eastward expansion of NATO and the EU. It was the EU that kicked off this trouble in 2014.
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  1684.  @nicolasbascunan4013  In that case you are the one who should be in charge.
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  1685.  @remlatzargonix1329  An independent Scotland could work, but inside the EU it would have an economy worse than that of Latvia.
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  1686. "Our farms"? Have you got some farms? What do they need protection against?
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  1687. The games should be boycotted. Don't participate. Don't watch them. Don't read about them.
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  1688. The so called Court of Human Rights upheld the hefty fine on a German family for home schooling their children. Sweden also has a ban on home schooling.
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  1689. Mahyar is not at his best when talking about economics. I am unsubscribing. He sounds as if he has been fed a yarn from the National Farmers' Union - a landowners' organisation. Farmers do not benefit from protection. Their landlords are the winners. The British can eat all the food that can be produced in the country. Trade deals are based on illiteracy about economics. Governments should not be interfering in private business apart from protection against the sale of harmful substances.
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  1690. Why are they wearing face nappies?
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  1691. What does anyone expect? Sunak has a first class honours degree in PPE at Oxford. Ed Balls was another. Nobody with a degree in economics should be allowed near the steering wheel of government.
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  1692. Far Right = Centre Left before the Looney Left fixed the scale.
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  1693. It's not guilt. They can spot antisemitism when they see it and they know what it leads to. First they come for the Jews. The real target is is the Christians.
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  1694. Funny about the GDPR - everyone's personal information in Sweden is publicised by the Tax Agency. It's a fraudsters' paradise here. How is that legal under the GDPR? Everything that banks ask as security questions is public in Sweden and you have to ask your bank to add extra security questions.
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  1695. Does that mean NATO will be sending troops to Sweden to combat the shootings and bombings in Stockholm and Gothenburg?
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  1696. The headline is misleading. Oxford Student's Union is not the University, which is not to say that there might not a problem with the academic staff. The underlying cause of what is being discussed is that the the west has abandoned Christianity. However, there is a deeper problem, in that the mainstream churches ie Anglicans and Roman Catholics, no longer hold solidly to their traditional Christian faith. The main alternative on offer in the west is an anti-intellectual bible-based Christian fundamentalism which has no credibility with people with more than a basic level of education. However, it is worth keeping in mind that the torch for Christian orthodoxy is still being carried by the Eastern Orthodox churches, now present in increasing numbers in the west as a result of immigration. Oxford is unusual in being a centre for orthodox Catholicism but it is, unfortunately, an island in a sea of modernity.
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  1697. If true it is reassuring that the UK government is doing the right thing for once. The Israelis are fighting the battles for us all.
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  1698. Is the national divide the ancient one of Cavaliers and Roundheads?
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  1699. The sands are running out for the EU anyway. It would be best to do nothing now and await events. The Euro is on the verge of collapse and will not survive the next financial crisis, which will occur by 2026 at the latest. Given the EU's unfailing ability to come up with legislation that riles people, the pressure for leaving will bubble up again. The likely trigger will be an EU requirement for member countries to take a share of immigrants.
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  1700. It is time to stop using GDP as a measure of anything. It is nonsensical. If a couple of million women are working in factories making junk food, the value of this work appears twice over, first in the monetary value of what they produce, and second, in the money the spend, probably helping to pay the mortgage. If they stay at home and cook their own food, it is reflected in a lower GDP figure, even though it would probably be better food. The GDP measures only the money economy. It cannot, of its nature, measure the value of work people to for themselves or their families, or for friends and neighbours, food grown in gardens and allotments. GDP began as a figure used by academic economists. When it becomes a target for government policy, it is disastrous.
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  1701. The EU would be the ruin of an independent Scotland.
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  1702. I am all for Brexit but is the UK government going to swindle pensioners by freezing their pensions, which is what happened to British pensioners who were living in Australia and other Dominion countries?
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  1703. The Wuhan connection was obvious from the start. The next "revelation" will be that the "escape" was due to underpaid technicians flogging off the experimental animals to local market traders as a matter of routine.
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  1704. Zelensky will be in Moscow any time soon.
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  1705. Exact parallel with Northern Ireland. The EU creates hostility all around its borders. Hopefully this political monstrosity will implode. The irony is that the EU claims to be a force for peace.
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  1706. The biggest single item is money spent to mitigate the damage done by the tax system. Second biggest is money handed out top people which they pay back in tax.
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  1707. This is a classic example of apocalypse mass hysteria, which has been gripping people periodically for at least the past two millennia.
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  1708. What point are you trying to make.
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  1709. Is it a consequence of the disruption and breakdown of families partly because of the two world wars? War is not family-friendly.
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  1710. They are not sanctions. It is a boycott. We in the west are being made to do without essential stuff which comes from Russia eg oil and gas.
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  1711. What is the point of being locked into the EU's ruinous trade and economic policies? Lowest Common Denominator applies.
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  1712. They had their priorities right when they rebuilt the cathedral in Moscow that the communists blew up in 1931, so perhaps it is not so surprising that the country is starting to come good. The way things are going it could be the west's turn to suffer the pain. I hope I am wrong.
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  1713. The horror of it. Cheaper bread.Great idea to prevent food from getting into your country. A policy straight out of the 18th century. It cost Louis XVI his head. With luck, the politicians who run these policies will end up with their heads in baskets.
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  1714. "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head." Revelations 12:1 We still need the woman, and the moon needs to be put under her feet.
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  1715. The British economic model is to tax its industry to death. Then we are surprised that so much stuff comes from China.
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  1716. Did the dray horse get a bucket of ale at the end of the day?
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  1717. The Swedish politicians have got enough on their plate without having to try to sell that idea. Lowest poll ratings ever this month.
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  1718. This raises at least two questions 1) How do we know that all the infected people with no symptoms were diagnosed? 2) Is there existing immunity in the population, in particular, children? If there is, could it be because infection with some common cold viruses carries over to COVID-19?
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  1719. I hope you are right. I know a lot of Serbs. They detest and despise the EU. So, seemingly to a lot of Swedes; the question of Swexit keeps on popping up.
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  1720. India had screwed up big time by introducing a Goods and Services Tax quite recently, with Modi's support. A serious error of judgement. Russia has also caught the VAT bug, so there is no reason to fall out on that score; both countries are infected with the same daft economic theories and policies.
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  1721. "Let's bomb Russia " - Kenny Everett
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  1722. The singing calls up the demons from hell.
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  1723. ​ @xiontion9993  That music calls up all the demons from he'll itself.
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  1724. ​ @mnoorbhai  The tune calls up demons from hell. The allah referred to is a pagan moon god. God the Creator has the name I AM. The only name by which man is saved is Jesus, in Hebrew Joshua, which means Saviour. Repent and believe the Good News of the Gospel.
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  1725. ​ @osmanamjid2432  There are many gods. The god - allah - of Islam is a pagan moon god which is worshipped around the black stone. It is a demon god. God the Creator has a name: I AM. The only name by which man is saved is JESUS. Muslims are the victims of a great deception.
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  1726. EU leadership is clueless.
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  1727. This raises an important question. Given the range of effects from next to nothing to fatal pneumonia, within a couple of weeks there will be a lot of people who have had few or no symptoms, or thought they had a cold, and then recovered. If they have cleared the virus, they cannot give it to anyone else and don't need to isolate themselves; effectively, they have been vaccinated. If the curve has been stopped, it means that there as still a lot of people who remain vulnerable. I have pondered this myself. Like a lot of people, I have been sniffy with a bit of a sore throat since early February; my normal temperature is 36.3 but has been 36.9 the last couple of mornings and feeling a bit tired. Is this the infection, or is it nothing much, or is it my imagination? We need a test to determine if we have contracted this virus. I expect an explosion of cases in Sweden within the next fortnight.
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  1728. They are getting the pieces in place for WW3.
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  1729. Now that the subject has cropped up, medical staff should not be wearing uniforms except when on duty. They can bring infection in and out of hospitals in this way. The practice is a risk to both patients and the public. Staff should change into on their medical clothing when they arrive at work, change out of them when they leave and working clothes should be sent for sterile laundering.
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  1730. Greengauge21 was the driving force - a consortium of consultants and contractors.
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  1731. The Russians will soon be trounced. Zelensky will be in Moscow by Christmas.
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  1732. This puts me in mind of Italy and Draghi.
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  1733. The EU has been passing legislation to allow their member country governments to scrap pensions if pensioners move to other EU countries.
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  1734. Islamophobia is Newspeak, exactly how Orwell used the term in 1984. And the Moslem community needs to clean up its act. Charges should be judged on the basis of whether they are 'fair comment'.
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  1735. If one side imposes tariffs, its own people are the losers. The tariffs make goods more expensive for their own consumers and manufacturers, and the quality of goods tends to decline in the absence of competition. The best way to handle them is to let them get on with it. It's their funeral. People in the UK will not benefit from tariffs on imports. You might as well ask the Royal Navy to patrol the costs to prevent goods from getting into the country. During the war it was the enemy's navy which did that.
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  1736. EU loving WEF stooges. Why they want their country to adopt the EU's disastrous trade and economic policies is a mystery.
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  1737. In the 1970s the south coast beaches would have been patrolled by gangs of skinheads armed with scaffold poles, while the police would be otherwise occupied.
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  1738. ​ @fhujf  You are really saying that you dislike those values, but they are going in the same direction in countries which have had large scale migration. The migrants bring their values with them.
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  1739. How? The tax and benefits system is a snake devouring its tail
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  1740. There is no W in Russian. "В" is pronounced as V. Progozhin is spelled with Ж pronounced zh as in pleasure. If TLDR cannot even get that right, how much credence can one give to the channel?
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  1741. The EU measures aren't sanctions. They are a boycott. Self harming behaviour.
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  1742. The US is going the way Russia went. It is now roughly where Russia was around 1880 - read your Dostoevski and you will get the flavour. Like Russia in the run-up to the revolution, whoever is elected to power cannot fix the growing economic divide, and this will create a driving force for the creation of the Soviet Union 2.0 in the USA, Gulags and all. Western Europe is a different matter: it might go for Marxist dictatorship but it could equally well fall to Sharia.
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  1743. People with Oxford PPE, or Cambridge or LSE economics, need to be kept firmly on the back benches.
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  1744. They will join the Republic soon.
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  1745. Now to wash away the bad taste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCwdreKpXI "We, who mystically represent the Cherubim, And chant the thrice-holy hymn to the Life-giving Trinity, Let us set aside the cares of life That we may receive the King of all, Who comes invisibly escorted by the Divine Hosts."
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  1746. I am offended by most of what most politicians say.
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  1747. The public sector should not be using commercial software. Free Open Source should be the standard. It is more secure and runs on hardware up to ten years old.
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  1748. The Supreme Court needs to be replaced by a new body equivalent to the former Law Lords, who were part of Parliament. This will have to go with a proper reform of the House of Lords, which should not continue as an establishment retirement club for party political hacks, and the great and the good.
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  1749. Flixtrains sound like a good idea but the interiors of the trains are horrible, probably so that they can fit in an extra four seats. And there are not enough opening windows, which means the passengers get baked in hot weather. Buying tickets is a pain. You used to be able to turn up at a station 20 minutes before departure, buy a ticket and go. There is also the lovely practice where you can sit down on an empty seat and after a while, someone comes along, says they have reserved it and you get turfed out.
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  1750. We could do with some natural intelligence in the government and civil service.
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  1751. Import restrictions,, taxation of wages and payroll taxes are the royal path to economic ruin. They don't teach that in universities.
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  1752. Eye-slam is the real far right. Support for the so called far right is a backlash against fascism.
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  1753. Could that dome on the head have been a resonator to amplify their calls?
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  1754. That comprehensive schools were a recipe for disaster was evident from the early 1950s. We ended up with area schools ie rationing by ability to pay to live in a "good" area.
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  1755.  @You-are-right-but  If carried out properly, Brexit could have freed the UK from the burden of the EU's dreadful trade and economic policies. But the case was never presented, let alone alternative policies. Besides which those policies would not have been good for the dukes and lords who have been getting their pocket money from the CAP for the past 40 years, and who are the power behind the Tory throne. And Labour had its mind on other things and was in no position to oppose.
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  1756.  @You-are-right-but  There was a case but the leading advocates of Brexit screwed up with their analysis of the economics. Then the dukes and lords who enjoy their pocket money from the CAP would have been unhappy. Now we see that the Tories will keep them in their pocket money by running a UK version of the CAP, and they have no intention of dealing with other damaging EU policies, in particular, VAT, which is mandatory for EU members. Brexit then becomes completely pointless. The UK might as well stew in the EU's juice.
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  1757. It's beginning to look like a sport.
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  1758. 8 stone kid stands up to 18 stone 6 foot six bully. What happens?
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  1759. Who would want their country to be tied in to such a complicated shambles of a structure?
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  1760.  mininmalta 123  The structure verges on incomprehensibility. It confirms the wisdom of getting out.
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  1761.  @iedco4  Listen a couple of times and try making a flow diagram. It is worse than shambles which was left after the botched privatisation of British Rail.
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  1762. Because it works well to use the English meaning. Probably the same etymology.
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  1763. Next thing is to get rid of the troublesome security at airports. 90% of passengers do not need to be searched and anyone could work out who they are.
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  1764. Toothless dog. GDPR is just ignored in Sweden. Private security information is published by the tax authorities. It is a paradise for confidence tricksters. Then there are those annoying cookie messages which have to be clicked away all the time.
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  1765. Zelensky will be victorious in Moscow by autumn.
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  1766. Horse collars, moveable types, locks for making waterways navigable, silk, fine ceramics.
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  1767. The buses are one of the worst culprits.
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  1768. Islam is historically fascist/far right
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  1769. ​ @derekcable  The dark ages were not as dark as the ROP darkness.
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  1770. The Swedish government is a disgrace to its predecessors. Traditionally they would have brokered a ceasefire and peace conference. This will have to happen in the end. Probably there will need to be plebiscites. The longer it is delayed the more men will get shredded in the meat grinder. Encouraging the Ukrainians to fight on is doing them no favours.
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  1771. Fight on to the last Ukrainian.
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  1772. Bitter envious man, and a danger to the whole country. What were the circumstances that led him down his path?
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  1773. What a flip. It's amazing how this progressive woke channel has suddenly morphed and is now rooting for the American warmongering machine.
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  1774. WEF is nothing more or less than a religious cult. The elite is a reworking of the idea of the Elect, a key idea developed by the Swiss Protestant reformer, John Calvin.
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  1775. The EEC started off on the wrong track with its trade and economic policies. They are slowly destroying the economics of the member countries.
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  1776. Haj Amin el-Husseini
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  1777. The reality is much worse than this exposition suggests. The EU is not 'being awkward'. Under the terms of the Single Market regulations, Ireland is obliged to treat imports from the UK as imports from a external country and has no option but to put up a barrier. The effect on the Irish economy is wholly negative. Either the prices of imports from the UK goes up because of the EU tariffs, or the goods have to be obtained from alternative sources in continental Europe, at higher cost due to the greater distance the goods have to be transported. The real cause is the faulty architecture of the Single Market. The forthcoming ill-effects on the Irish economy are the same as the present ill effects on the economies of every country with a land border to the east of the EU, from Finland in the north to Bulgaria and Greece in the south. The Single Market gets in the way of natural patterns of trade.
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  1778. Queen Jung the First. There's a thought. She could have married Harry if Meghan hadn't got there first.
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  1779. Godwin's Law proved again
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  1780. The Novichok hoax next.
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  1781. ​ @BlackWater_49 30000 lobbyists in Brussels.
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  1782. ​ @BlackWater_49 Democracy is where we get a choice over which corrupt psychopaths will order us around.
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  1783. I live in Sweden, bastion of public sector waste and incompetence. If Britain is behind, that is not such a bad thing..
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  1784. TLDR has gone quiet, and they were certain that Russia was losing badly.
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  1785. This is the Dunning Kruger channel. If they can't pronounce the names of the places properly, how much credence do they deserve?
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  1786. That Frenchwomen is so brainwashed with mercantilist thinking that she hasn't a clue.
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  1787. Scrap VAT and rationalise UK property taxes to raise additional revenue. There is a lot of scope.
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  1788.  @sqoerrel  Yes I am a racist, if you say so. Who cares any more?
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  1789.  @mistermiles3271  Some migrants acculturation, but they have to drop a religion which is opposed to all the values of their new country, and they have to marry into the host community. If they import their spouses, they are always children of migrants.
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  1790. What is the religious affiliation of the police?
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  1791. When the sun farts in our direction, the whole system is likely to do down. The last time it happened was in 1859
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  1792. Misallocation of resources. Gravy train for consultants and contractors, failure to deal with root causes.
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  1793. Yes but the Israelis downed the Iranian helicopter. Uri Geller did it.
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  1794. Bringing in extra people pushes up rent and drives down wages. They know what they are doing. Immigration is good for skinflint employers and rapacious landlords.
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  1795. Слава Россия
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  1796. The Euro is a disaster for Greece. It is grossly overvalued, just as it is undervalued for Germany. The EuroTax, VAT, is perfectly designed to cripple an economy and promote avoidance, evasion and fraud. Which could help to explain the apparent lack in GDP growth, since there is probably a huge unofficial economy. Another leaking hole in the sinking EU ship.
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  1797. The smart more for the UK would be to allow unilateral free trade from the EU and everywhere else. But the UK needs to phase out that worse of all taxes, VAT, imposed by the EU.
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  1798. Live in northern Europe with a dark skin and you will suffer from vitamin D deficiency and give it to your children if you are not careful about taking supplements. These include respiratory weakness, winter depression and possibly brain damage in children. White skin evolved for a reason.
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  1799. Sounds OK to me. We all get the benefit of being able to buy goods from Serbia without being hammered by tariffs. It is we in the EU who pick up the bill for the Brussels tariffs.
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  1800. Good idea, perhaps, but government should not be getting involved in this sort of thing. The useful thing it could have done would have been to require the use of open source software in the public sector. But it hasn't done that.
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  1801. European countries have taxed their economies to death with the wrong sort of taxes. Now comes the reckoning.
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  1802. EU sanctions = self imposed blockade. It sounds like a copy of the Northern Ireland dispute. Swedes are not enamoured with the threatened NATO tax. We are already taxing our economy to death and preoccupied with the apparently unstoppable wave of gang crime. As for Russia, the Good Cop/Bad Cop tactic might work. The west and the EU have mishandled relations with their eastern neighbours for the past 30 years.
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  1803. M, you are wrong on inflation. It is a hidden tax, and inflation is government policy. And the government is not cutting it. The whole tax system is a disaster, and that is why the government resorts to inflation.
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  1804. Funny that you have mentioned God. They are a religious cult with roots in Calvinism.
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  1805. This is not one of your best efforts. The amount of wealth is unlimited but the amount of land is not, and there are those who own land and collect rent, and those who must work for wages or pay rent. The latter are in the same situation as someone who joins a game of Monopoly after all the squares are already 'owned' by one of the original players. Labour's solution is robbery. Conservatives' solution is to pretend that this is not an issue. But Conservatives need to address this as Generation Rent, indoctrinated by Marxist teachers and university lecturers, grows inexorably and are on their way to becoming a dangerous destabiliser.
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  1806. Far Right = Moderate Left up to 20 years ago. The scale has been recalibrated to the point that it is meaningless. What counts as "centre" was looney left.
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  1807. Funny how quick the politicians are to add extra taxes but they almost never cut taxes. The Swedish government has introduced a tax on plastic bags, which is not a bad idea in itself, but where is the matching tax cut? If they were concerned about the environment they would get cut VAT and taxes on wages, which make it expensive to repair things, so they are more likely to be thrown away.
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  1808. The land values will be sky high once the station opens
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  1809. The US is going the way of the Roman Republic. Biden is the sock puppet for the warmongers.
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  1810. Sweden is heading for an explosion of cases. Swedish cities have huge populations of third world immigrants who are not going to take even the limited precautions which are advised. Actual Swedes and other Europeans seem to be voluntarily hyper-cautious. There seems to be an official policy of allowing the epidemic to develop and run its course to the point that there will be herd immunity, and in the meantime, it is hoped that those in risk groups will keep themselves out of harm's way. This will be yet one more issue to add to all the others which have caused a collapse in confident in government at all levels. The Swedish health authorities' advice is to "carry on as normal. No recommendation to avoid public transport. Traffic will run as normal. We are watching developments carefully and react according to the information and guidelines that come from the public health and other responsible authorities. The public authority's advice is to travel as usual but it is important to follow advice against becoming ill or infect others. Thus - wash hands often and sneeze into armpits and stay at home if you feel ill." FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE WESTERN SWEDEN PUBLIC TRANSPORT AUTHORITY (translation above) Frågor och svar Hur agerar Västtrafik kring coronaviruset? Det finns just nu inga allmänna rekommendationer om att undvika kollektivtrafiken. Det innebär att trafiken går som vanligt och du kan resa som du brukar. Men vi följer utvecklingen noga och agerar utifrån den information och de riktlinjer som kommer från Folkhälsomyndigheten och andra ansvariga myndigheter. Bör jag vara orolig när jag reser kollektivt? Folkhälsomyndigheten har i nuläget inga allmänna rekommendationer om att undvika kollektivtrafiken. Det innebär att du kan resa som du brukar, men det är viktigt att följa Folkhälsomyndighetens råd om hur du kan skydda dig mot att bli sjuk eller smitta andra i vår gemensamma kollektivtrafik. Alltså genom att tvätta händer ofta, hosta och nys i armvecken och stanna hemma om du känner dig sjuk. https://www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafik/nyhetsarkiv/corona/
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  1811. ​ @EvoraGT430  Made in a hurry, production was not up to standard, but what about the points made?
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  1812. The Conservatives need new tax policies which replace the rentier economy with an economy where wealth can be created without the burden of taxation.
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  1813. There is no shortage of families of Middle East and African origin in Sweden with between 4 and 10 children. It is the school system that is overloaded and a lot of thse children will grow up to be unemployable. The tax burden is a problem only if wages, goods and services are the main source of tax revenue.
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  1814. The ambassador can not have been much of a diplomat. Dragged up, rather than brought up. There are diplomatic ways of expressing disapproval eg 'decisions appear to be made without always being in possession of the necessary information', or 'there seems to be a lack of co-ordination at times'. Hirohito's expression of surrender at the end of WW2 was a masterpiece in the genre that one would expect from a diplomat. Hirohito proclaimed that ''the war situation has developed not necessarily to our advantage.''
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  1815. When is Victory Parade in Red Square taking place?
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  1816. The EU has not banned glyphosates.
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  1817. The Swedes scrapped conscription about 20 years ago. They were a nuisance who could not be trusted with the high tech equipment.
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  1818. The US is mostly an economic desert apart from the seaboards, Great Lakes and Texas
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  1819. The Guardian and FT have been almost entirely one-sided.
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  1820. We need one great big massive bill to repeal all the useless and harmful legislation at a stroke.
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  1821. He is based on a real person - St Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. Funnily enough it was a custom to embrace people one met with a Holy Kiss (not on the mouth).
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  1822. People knew perfectly well 🎉what the Mass meant when it was in Latin. Getting rid of it was divisive. We get round the language division in our Eastern Orthodox parish by mix and match, with Church Slavonic, Greek and at least three other languages. Latin would actually work better.
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  1823. It could be many things but hypoglycaemia is one possibility. Has she got diabetes? Excellent band.
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  1824. Mass arrests of the rioters on the streets and deport them if possible. Fast. Otherwise very long sentences. Perhaps the Chinese could provide the necessary custodial facilities. Otherwise the UK is going to be looking at a two state solution with a 10 metre high concrete wall in between.
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  1825. The British have still not got rid of the WEF puppets which run them.
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  1826. Good point. Sweden needs a party following economic liberal principles. Something like the old Danish Justice Party.
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  1827. This sounds like a copy of the Northern Ireland blockade Post Brexit. The EU protected Single Market must be protected at all costs.
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  1828. Could the root cause be the Pill?
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  1829. ​@lylm4147 Who are they?
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  1830. The EU and EEC have been running self harming policies since the 1950s. The policies date from the 17th century and were debunked by the Classical Economists of the 18th century.
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  1831. The Single Market is a system of self imposed sanctions. Shame the UK government decided to do the same thing.
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  1832. The Russians traditionally went in for inexpensive and unsophisticated kit which can be produced inexpensively and in large quantities.
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  1833. Me too. Loyal globalists. Listen and think the opposite.
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  1834. I suspect that the Deep State operates from Oxbridge, not Whitehall. There appears to be a network of selected academics, senior civil servants, intelligence and military chiefs, diplomats, top judges, a inner circle of scientists and medics. Keep an eye on Oxbridge academics who write for the Guardian.
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  1835. TLDR for half truths.
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  1836. Some Latvians indeed had a dark past as SS Auxiliaries.
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  1837. Nothing? It was always even for the good of the large German corporations. It is the Fourth Reich.
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  1838. How much does the Duke of Buccleugh get from the CAP?
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  1839. The referenda are another Russiaan blunder. However there was obviously a genuine problem from 2014 onwards. The EU should have leaned on Ukraine and Russia to sponsor a properly and independently supervised referendum. The borders of Ukraine were drawn up by Stalin with no intention that they would become the borders of an independent country.
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  1840. Here's an important reason why manufacturing has moved out of western countries. It's the tax system. http://www.landvaluetax.org/images/employersburden-2019.gif
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  1841. They have chosen to freeze. We'll done for what?
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  1842. And drink and swim in chlorinated water.
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  1843. Islamism is only part of the cause of the troubles. People who live in the estates are locked out of the legal economy by the punitive tax system.
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  1844. The term 'ACCESS TO MARKETS' ought to be banned. Access to markets is something that customers enjoy. The EU works by denying its unfortunate inmates from access to markets. The EU politicians have turned the meaning of 'access to markets' inside-out. It is Orwellian Newspeak.
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  1845. The attraction is Britain's institutional racism. They are gluttons for punishment.
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  1846. The EU makes enemies all round. It makes you wonder how much it has done to provoke the Russians.
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  1847. Please stop jumping from shot to shot at the start of every sentence.
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  1848. There is going to be a shortage of baking potatoes and Fisheman's Friends here in Sweden after Brexit.
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  1849. ​ @mladennestorovic3366  They don't want to know that on here. I have neighbours who were the victims of what you describe. There is something else though. The Serbian Orthodox Church has a parish in the city which is drawing in a steady trickle of young people. It seems to be fulfilling the role that used to be the realm of the happy clappiies.
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  1850. The Irish Republic?
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  1851. Elementary, my dear Watson.
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  1852. The EU's trade and economic policies are based upon a theory called MERCANTILISM. Unfortunately, most Brexiters also hold to the mercantilist view. This is marked by a preoccupation with exports and the balance of payments, support for protectionist policies, and the notion that 'trade deals' must be reciprocal. Mercantilism had been discredited several times over before the eighteenth century was out; the work was done by the French Physiocrats, Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Henry George. This led to genuinely progressive policies such as the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846, after 30 years of bitter struggle, only for the Corn Laws to be reinstated when the UK joined the EEC. Mercantilism was the cause of the ruin of the Spanish and Portuguese empires and an important cause of the First World War. There is a danger that the UK could go mercantilist after Brexit, which would throw away the advantages of getting away from the Brussels madhouse. Please do a piece on this topic for the enlightenment of Brexit supporters.
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  1853. ​ @JustFun-wl3jf  Not all countries have these troubles
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  1854. Henry George explained the reason. They nearly all do the same silly policies. It's their tax systems.
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  1855. Welfare states are not viable if they are paid for out of taxes on honest work, goods and services. In the long run we go broke. Look at Sweden and its shrinking krona
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  1856. The west has not imposed sanctions. It has applied a boycott. Since the boycott encompasses a range of essential supplies, the main losers are the economies of Western countries. This is the classic self harming behaviour as we have come to expect. The underlying issue is Mercantilist thinking which misleads people into thinking that money is wealth. The falsity of Mercantilism was exposed nearly 300 years ago but it refuses to die.
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  1857. Please lodge your complaint with Network Rail - there is a contact form on their website. It is an abuse of the Passenger Information System. Whoever is responsible should be disciplined.
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  1858. Abortion is no less horrible.
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  1859. Politicians see it as a way onto the gravy train. Pity about the disastrous economic policies. None of the traditionally Orthodox countries would be a good fit, since Orthodox values are at odds with EU values. Nor does membership make economic sense from a geographical perspective. It runs counter to the gravity model which was only ever the argument for the Single Market. Kosovo is too busy with its ethnic cleansing of its Serbians. Albania is a good source of gangsters and drug dealers, and accession should allow the rest of the EU to take advantage of their skills. Nice to see that the Serbians have put a spoke in the wheel in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hopefully the EU will collapse before the end of the decade. Can we have a programme on which country will be next to leave the EU?
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  1860.  @yoannbelleville7763  Not really. Membership cuts everyone off from supplies of goods from the 160 odd countries in the world (over 90% of the population) which are not in the EU. Here is Sweden, just buying stuff on Ebay or Amazon is trouble if you are getting it from the UK or USA - this affects university textbooks which are mostly in English. The Single Market has trashed internet trading.
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  1861. Sweden has a massively bloated public sector and public living on benefits. It has also imported more of them. This is heading for implosion as it is unsustainable. People who support the right are generally dissatisfied with the performance of the parties that claim to be following right policies. The Green and left parties have support from Islamists.
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  1862.  @acolli777  Hundreds of thousands of people from dodgy parts of the world are causing crime waves all over Europe.
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  1863. What was the embodied energy wasted in this harebrained scheme?
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  1864. The UK tax system is like an old sweater that is been worn and moth eaten and repaired over and over again so it is mostly a patchwork of darning. It needs to be got rid of and rebuilt from the ground up.
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  1865. Ideally the EU would reform, , but the elite, with their tax free incomes, who run it from their ivory towers, cannot see the need. The problems will build until it falls apart, and great will be the fall of it. In the meantime we will have to put up with the censorship, growing poverty and creeping totalitarianism of what is turning into the Third Reich rebooted.
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  1866. Reporters on the Gaza war can stay in comfort and safety in Tel Aviv. This is really an excuse for those preparing the Muslim take-over to flex their muscles.
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  1867. Russian gas making bubbles in the Baltic. German industry strangled. All thanks to US terrorism.
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  1868. It is on Europe's political San Andreas Fault. The Ottomans left a legacy of chaos and conflict wherever they went.
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  1869. ...don't mention the Chinese government.
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  1870.  @mahbriggs  Steam initially went out of use for trains in the drier regions of the US due shortage of water. Then the manufacturing capacity for diesel electric made it competitive. Steam in Europe was phased out primarily due to the maintenance costs associated with the use of coal. Thermal efficiency had and has little to do with the choice. Steam locomotives built for tourist routes in the 1990s run on light oil. In practice they use about the same amount of fuel for the same amount of work. Steam locomotives have smaller transmission losses due to direct drive, and waste heat can be utilised for train heating and auxiliary services. In theory internal combustion wins hands down. In practice the advantages are tighter. Steam has not been able to make a comeback due to inertia and lack of infrastructure. Given a decent sized production run the lower unit cost would make it competitive for lightly trafficked routes.
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  1871. They could look at Romania's massive VAT gap next.
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  1872. ​ @basandel173  EU infrastructure investment is mostly for the benefit of property owners. Some cousins of mine did very well when an EU funded road was built close by.
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  1873. ​ @methos4866  There could be a deal with Putin as a reserve position. Like returning the part of Ukraine that Stalin took from Hungary.
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  1874. Det är inte Lon­don. Det finns inga spårvagnar i London
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  1875. ​ @John-.-Smith111  Al Jizm, that totally independent and unbiased news source.
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  1876. The debate is in the wrong terms. The effect of a tax depends on what is taxed. Most taxes are a disaster and a ruination. They need to be scrapped. .
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  1877. Blahh Blahh Blahh. What would she expect of the Irish government if Unionists persistently engaged in similar attacks in the Republic, backed by the British government? Has she spoken up again what the Chinese government is doing to its Muslims? I call good old fashioned antisemitism.
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  1878. Dr Acula.
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  1879. The high-tax/low-tax debate is a dangerous distraction. Different taxes have different effects and consequences. Swedish taxes on wages, goods and services remain at a dangerously high and unsustainable level. The only sustainable and non-destructive tax is one on land, based on its rental value. Swedish public services have been disintegrating over the past three years.
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  1880. Restrictions on outward flows will cause shortages in continental Europe. People do not buy UK goods because they feel sorry for the British but because they need them or want them. Continental customers will soon start to scream at their politicians. Focus on keeping out bads eg drugs and weapons, wave the goods through.
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  1881.  @georgesdelatour  The Singapore model is what the EU needs to adopt in order to survive.
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  1882. Hopefully the EU will have imploded by then.
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  1883. The ROI should take in the Gazans. Ireland had a population of 8 million in 1841, and is still only 7 million. There's plenty of room for them all. It would also add much needed genetic diversity, especially since the voted themselves into extinction at their referendum. The replacement Muslim Irish population would of course become the Islamic Republic of Ireland, to become the base for the takeover of the rest of the United Kingdom, eventually to be renamed the United Sultanate of the British Isles. It's a brilliant strategic move.
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  1884.  @einienj3281  Join NATO and become a US catspaw.
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  1885.  @melkor3496  What protection? Against the riots? What interest are we to Russia? Can't even organise passports any more. Can't even put route numbers on the Gothenburg trams. The country is going down the pan.
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  1886. They will probably decide to go home.
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  1887. Too soon to tell with Sweden. At least we are not going mad, locked indoors.
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  1888. Western leader are in cloud cuckoo land. People will be delighted to freeze for Zelensky.
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  1889. Events on stage can get violent, though.
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  1890. Please remind everyone how this started. Defending themselves with a brutal massacre and kidnappings. Hmm. As far as the Palestinians are concerned, ALL of the territory of the former British Mandate Palestine are occupied ie Israel as no right to exist. How is that a basis for a peaceful settlement? Sounds more like genocide to me.
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  1891. The EU is largely responsible for economic problems. They are a recipe for failure.
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  1892. Wrong sort of taxes. It started in 1945. They have slowly strangled the economy almost to death.
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  1893. This isn't so weird. Little girls used to think they were ponies and little boys thought that they were steam engines or cars, and ran around making puff-puff or brm-brm noises.
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  1894. The burden of Income Tax is on the employer. It is really a payroll tax in disguise.
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  1895. The countryside is racist
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  1896. The EU is one of the reasons why Russia has failed to establish normal relationships with the rest of Europe following the end of communism. The protected Single Market turns all the countries outside it into hostile neighbours.
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  1897. Sloppy video. There are no trams in Central London.
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  1898. ​ @jolyon_lb1423  On the basis of your definition, to use ethical or philosophical views as a basis for promoting restrictions on other people's rights would not be bigotry. One could otherwise argue that objecting to any laws - theft, murder or commonplace matters such as taxation - is bigotry. Some people argue that tax is a form of theft. The counter to that argument is that the state's claim on your property is based on some kind of ethical foundation. Is that correct?
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  1899. Pleasant surprise that the Slovakians have some much sense. Ukraine includes a chunk for Slovakia stolen by Stalin. If they don't upset the Russians they might get it back. Another kick in the teeth for the WEF and EU can't be bad.
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  1900. How far back towards Newcastle do you think the queue on the A1 would stretch, as everything coming into Scotland had to be checked on EU customs rules?
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  1901. Hamas spend 15 years preparing for war against Israel, built a huge network of tunnels but, couldn't construct shelters for its population. The people of Gaza have been cynically exploited to make the Israelis look as bad as possible.
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  1902. There is an easy solution to the fishing issue. The fishing waters belong to the British people, which is not the same as British fishermen. Let licences be sold to anyone who wants to bid for them at auction. This would not be a new principle - it is the same as applies to radio spectrum for mobile phone networks. http://www.landvaluetax.org/the-lvtc-blog-by-henry-law/fishing-and-brexit.html
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  1903. What happened to Swedish caution? The Russians could easily blockade Swedish ports, and worse. Gotland would be a handy prize as well. If Swedish politicians had anything between their ears they would have collaborated with Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. It would have been a good alliance.
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  1904. Sweden will be a member of the Arab League within 50 years.
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  1905. Kishinev is the place where there was a pogrom in 1903. Karma.
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  1906. The EU trade and economic policies follow principles which were prevalent in the 17th century and were comprehensively refuted by the end of the 18th. These are the Common Agricultural Policy in all of its versions, the protected Single Market, Value Added Tax and the Euro. The EU also ignored its founding principle of subsidiarity. Schengen is a gift to criminals. You can do a crime in Malmö in the morning and be three countries away before the day is ended. There is also the fundamental incompatibility between the English Common Law system and legal systems in the rest of the EU. Sweden has suffered a fall in GDP. Inflation has nothing to do with shortage of labour. It is due to monetary policies.
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  1907. The remainers are obviously unaware that all their arguments are based on an obsolete theory of economics known as Mercantilism. It is one of the ideas that was refuted by Adam Smith in his famous book 'Wealth of Nations'. All the world leaders should be reading it, including the Chinese and Trump, as well as the Brussels crowd. Their policies are irrational and a recipe for conflict and impoverishment.
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  1908. I was given a copy by a missionary. Nasty boring book taking up space on my bookshelf. What is one to do?
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  1909. The ikons are back on display, I see. -;)
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  1910. Minford is wrong on agriculture. Marginal farmland goes over to other uses, and rents drop for all other farmland. The extent of this depends partly on exchange rates. To understand the effect on the rest of the economy, I would recommend 'Protection or Free Trade?' by Henry George. That said, there is a need to make the UK easier for start-up business and self-employment. Scrapping VAT would be hugely beneficial. So would measures such as banning of upwards-only rent revision clauses and replacing existing property taxes such as the UBR by site-only assessment.
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  1911. The EU's politics are based on 17th century Mercantilism as recycled by Walter Sombart, advocated in Mein Kampf and implemented by the Na7is in 1934.
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  1912. ​ @chiaraimpeduglia1308  The people were either not asked or were not told what they were getting into and did not understand the implications.
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  1913. Immigration from Muslim countries shouldn't be a problem if the migrants are people fleeing from Islamists.
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  1914. Africans were taken as slaves long before the Europeans became customers of the slave dealers and it continued well into the twentieth century. Slaves were also taken from towns and villages on the Channel coast on the south of Ireland.
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  1915. Biden is the warmongers' glove puppet.
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  1916. HaHaHa! EU tax. VAT is DESIGNED to provide opportunities for fraud. See the EU's own web site. 12% of the yield from VAT is lost through fraud. VAT fails every one of the tests for a sound tax. https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/tax-cooperation-control/vat-gap_en It is time for the UK to phase out this horrible and damaging tax as soon as possible after Brexit. 'Protection' as in 'Protection Racket'. Kleptocracy.
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  1917. They should get some Pannier tanks. They were very successful
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  1918. The Swedish tax system has been undermining the economy since the 1930s.
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  1919. To promote the WEF agenda.
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  1920. TLDR is still trying to convince viewers that the Russians are getting thrashed. Northern Ireland is still being hit by EU sanctions.
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  1921.  @erik7999  How is Sweden an important part of the EU except that is costs a lot of money and makes it expensive and difficult to get stuff from outside the EU, including the UK after Brexit. EU membership just has nuisance value for us.
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  1922.  @dsludge8217  Try blockading St Petersburg. Why are you so keen on starting World War Three?
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  1923. Steam locomotives to keep the railways going without electricity? We could lend them some 9Fs.
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  1924. It's not illegal.
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  1925.  @view1st  The drafting of the tax legislation is fuzzy. The books on tax legislation will fill a library.
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  1926. This development demonstrates how irrelevant is the pigeonholing of people and politicians as "left" or "right"
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  1927. That is an argument in favour.
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  1928. There are plenty of eggs in letterboxes. Perhaps it is partly because the price of houses has gone through the roof, and that was because the banks started to give mortgages calculated on two incomes, which led to a doubling of house prices in a few years after 1970.
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  1929. TLDR is scraping the barrel with this one. The EU protected Single Market is nonsense on stilts, based on a long discredited theory of economics. There are 165 countries in the world which the UK can source supplies from, and sell goods to. The British can eat all the food its farmers and fishermen can produce. The main losers from tariffs imposed by the EU are companies and consumers in the EU. Shame that TLDR doesn't understand this. The EU policy creates conflict all round. It is a major factor in the Ukraine hostilities.
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  1930. This is reminiscent of the WW1 stalemate. The Ukrainians are being disgracefully exploited as a Western, principally US catspaw. They will get ground down in the end. The two sides need to stop fighting and negotiate.
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  1931. This is the model for Free Palestine from the River to the Sea. South Africa is going the same way. No wonder they led the accusations against Israel.
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  1932. The Swedish socialists had murky links with the Na7s. There are serious problems in the Swedish cities. Failed integration policies are the fault of the socialists. Why kind of democracy is it that excludes a party with so much support?
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  1933. They really are determined to have World War 3. The EU leaders couldn't be trusted with a box of matches. Germany has already achieved the economic aims of the Third Reich, since the Single Market is substantially a continuation of the Autarky policy of 1934. The EU's trade and economic policies have played an important part in turning Russia into the paranoid-agressive menace it has become. A European army should prime the fuse for WW3.
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  1934. Nothing.
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  1935. Income Tax is a burden on employers. The idea that it is paid by workers is a bluff.
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  1936. Brexit opportunities 1 Scrap VAT 2 Scrap import duties 3 Scrap unnecessary non tariff barriers. 2 and 3 should be unilateral.
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  1937. Good idea, in that case. Bring it on.
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  1938. ​ @MohNaz-ly6yx  Yes but many are designed in Israel. Check out and remove them. Most goods from the Far East comes to Europe and passes Yemen. The best drones in the world are made in Israel. When they find out where the attacks are coming from, the attackers will get neutralised. If they are wise they will decide to stop before then.
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  1939. Bravery or folly?
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  1940. Germany just committed economic suicide.
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  1941.  @RCAvhstape  The really important developments in steam came in the late 1960s by which time it was too late.
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  1942. Poor Euro MPs - they should get an allowance for working at home.
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  1943. GDP replaced Jesus Christ. Don't blame the government. The government is us.
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  1944. TLDR assures its audience that Ukraine is winning.
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  1945. If you are in Sweden you ought to have noticed that the country has already been invaded. This is a nice distraction though. If you want to know the future of Sweden and many other Western countries look at Lebanon.
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  1946.  @Eaglebrace  Taxes are an issue. They are locking 5% of the workforce out of legal and gainful employment.
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  1947. Why is that? How would the USA benefit?
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  1948. The Swedish media has saturated people's heads with Russophobia, tightly focussed on Putin himself as archdemon.
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  1949. Do you have a historical example of such a country?
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  1950. My contact with Ukrainians tell me they they are getting fed up with their leaders. Continuing seizure of church property is also upsetting and lot of Ukrainians.
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  1951. ​ @brasherish  They aren't trying to take over the rest of the world.
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  1952. The horror of it. Cheaper bread. Louis XVI lost his head due to import bans on food.
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  1953. Every single EU country is running a tax and trade policy which maximises the damage done. The most harmful is VAT, followed by import tariffs. It is textbook stupidity. The urgent need for remedial action should put reform at the top of the Commission agenda, yet these policies are regarded as sacred and immutable. What a useless bunch are in charge.
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  1954. Scotland has its own team of clowns in charge.
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  1955. NATO is stirring things up as hard as it can.
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  1956. You don't have to be a globalist to see that the budget was a dumb set of policies. There is a huge overhang of surplus money due to ten years of QE and Sushi's helicopter money. It needs to be removed through higher taxes. At the same time the most damaging taxes, above all VAT need to be phased out to remove both supply side and demand side blockages. This needs a comprehensive programme of tax reforms. Unfortunately the budget suggests that Khazi could never deliver. The cut in top rate tax was a well crafted vote loser.
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  1957. An important reason why manufacturing has shifted out of western countries is because western tax systems have pushed up the cost of labour. It is not generally understood that the burden of taxes nominally charged to employees in reality falls on employers. To avoid what is effectively a payroll tax, the production gets moved abroad. Tax reform is overdue in all western countries.
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  1958. Sweden has failed to defend itself for the past 20 years.
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  1959. More questions Dust from rubber and tarmac. Tax model. After life disposal of materials after use. Heating in winter.
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  1960. The purpose of an economy is not to make stuff and flog it to foreigners.
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  1961. The EU sanctions are are self imposed blockade = EU self harm.
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  1962. The EU countries have been wrecking their economies for the past 50 years. VAT, the Euro, and the protected Single Market are a guaranteed recipe for failure. The Single Market is a system of self-imposed sanctions. This is the economics of advanced lunacy. Shame that non-EU countries are doing the same stupid thing.
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  1963. The flag with the double headed eagle is almost identical to that of the Christian empire of Constantinople, also that of Mount Athos, famous for its ancient monasteries. Weird.
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  1964. The war is dragging on because one side is much more powerful than the other, but less efficient than was expected. The strategy now is just to grind Ukraine down. They need to sit down and negotiate before the country is in ruins.
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  1965. If the € is 20% undervalued, Germans are working a day a week for nothing. Why haven't they noticed they are being short changed.
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  1966. Nej Tack.
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  1967. ​ @gail9299  There is a trickle of conversion of Jews to Christianity. At the same time the Arab Christians have been driven out of Palestine.
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  1968. ​ @shinichikudoz people do not hate Islam but its followers have been persecuting Christians since the time of the prophet. You can not hide the facts of history.
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  1969. Time to talk
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  1970. Little boys used to think that they were the Flying Scotsman or a Spitfire.
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  1971. A lot of families were disrupted by the two world wars
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  1972.  @michaelpettersson4919  Keen on border security? Welcome to our ISIS veterans. We could do with a bit of security here in Sweden.
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  1973. The Civil Service has been a conspiracy against the public for the past century. John Betjeman put it in this poem. Mortality by John Betjeman The first-class brains of a senior civil servant Shiver and shatter and fall As the steering column of his comfortable Humber Batters in the bony wall. All those delicate re-adjustments "On the one hand, if we proceed With the ad hoc policy hitherto adapted To individual need... On the other hand, too rigid an arrangement Might, of itself, perforce... I would like to submit for the Minister's concurrence The following alternative course, Subject to revision and reconsideration In the light of our experience gains..." And this had to happen at the corner where the by-pass Comes into Egham out of Staines. That very near miss for an All Souls' Fellowship The recent compensation of a 'K' - The first-class brains of a senior civil servant Are sweetbread on the road today. C S Lewis also had them rumbled, in his book "That Hideous Strength". The epicentre is in Oxford.
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  1974. That was a stunningly bad article. He seems to be completely unaware why Islam is unpopular.
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  1975. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Nicely put.
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  1976. It's nuts. The EU Single Market is a system of self imposed sanctions, supposedly for the good of the EU economy. If that is the case, then sanctions will be very good for the Russian economy. According to the principles behind the EU trade policy, the way to harm Russia would be to send an endless stream of containers loaded with valuable goods into Russia.
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  1977. The EU needs to disband. It would be hard to devise a more damaging set of trade and economic policies, short of full blown communism.
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  1978.  @RainerMichelle  They don't want NATO on their doorstep. Not unreasonably. The EU is also a bad neighbour, as the British have discovered.
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  1979. These are the effects of the EU policy of self punishment. Why is anyone surprised? If would be funny to watch the clowns in charge of the EU if the consequences were not so serious. At least it we help to achieve net zero.
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  1980. Time for full-on rugby club songs.
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  1981. We need to go over to numbered bank accounts.
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  1982. Brighton Harridans.
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  1983. My Marxist friend dismissed the vote as due to the problem of having a 'lumpen proletariat'. In other words, democracy is a good thing as long as the people vote the way they agree with.
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  1984. Israelis have had enough. They got out of Gaza in 2005 and what happened?
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  1985. Ypres is Wipers.
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  1986. How does more inflation reduce the price rises caused by inflation? They are on the slide towards hyperinflation. The cure for inflation is to convert the Euro to a soundly backed currency like the 1923 Rentenmark. And stop the boycott of energy from Russia. The EU needs to kick its self harming habits before it falls to pieces.
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  1987. Women in Sweden don't feel safe.
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  1988. The two world wars were driven by, among other things, the desire of the German industrial giants for dominance in their export markets. The same applies to the EEC and the EU.
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  1989. Floods in Britain are probably aggravated by excessive sheep farming in upland areas, encouraged by the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. As for the lawn affair, why weren't those doing it arrested and charged with criminal damage?
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  1990. Possibly Botswana, perhaps Malawi and Zambia seem sort-of OK.
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  1991. Sweden is too dependent on M$ IT systems. Turkey will object.
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  1992. Cambrdge University Professor Nicholas Kaldor warned against having a single currency in the 1960s. Shame that the EU got its trade and economics policies from Walter Sombart via Mein Kampf. They were a resurrection of 17th century Mercantilism, a theory which was discredited by all the 18th century classical economists. interest rate adjustment is not an effective tool for economic management. The EU economy is throttled by dysfunctional tax systems, notably VAT, and inefficient resource allocation due again to dysfunctional tax systems. Will the policy makers address these causes? Not a chance.
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  1993. You have just explained why the EU will fall apart in the not too distant future. It is worse than that, because the EU's finance is based on VAT, the worst conceivable tax that it is possible to have - of all taxes, it is the most inefficient and damaging that could have been devised.
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  1994. Cable broadband is 1990s technology. We all use wireless for the last bit of the connection so what does it matter if our devices are connected to a wireless box in one's own home or a mast up the street? There are few places without access to broadband internet via 4G.
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  1995. The EU are masters of self-punishment. We ( 🇸🇪 and the rest or the E27) are the losers from their mercantilist policies. We are the ones who will lose if the EU slaps tariffs and other tariffs on UK goods. It means shortages and higher prices. Tax competition is an excellent thing. VAT, the Eurotax, is the most damaging and inefficient ever imposed on an economy. The whole concept of 'access to markets' is a deception. 'Access to markets' is about allowing people to buy things. The EU's concept of 'access to markets' deprives people of the right to purchase freely.
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  1996. Religion is not on the way out. The replacement population brings its own.
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  1997. The EU has ruined the economies of the Baltic states. It would do the same for Ukraine.
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  1998. There won't be any earth left if that happens. Is that what you want?
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  1999. And the people behind the scenes who are pulling Biden's strings.
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  2000. Getting the pieces in play for World War Three. Yippee!!! One slip and we will all go up in a forest of mushroom clouds.
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  2001. It now takes six weeks to get English language textbooks into Sweden now, if they arrive at all. Moat advanced courses are taught in English. A university librarian was complaining to me about this only last week.
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  2002. They could start by opening a branch in the middle of Kiev. It would probably do quite well.
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  2003. The video was a silly illustration.
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  2004.  @joshuaobrien6137  wrong sort of tax, that's the problem.
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  2005.  @mr.nemesis6442  now try building an atom bomb.
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  2006.  @Dreamdancer11  If you have inherited a large tract of Central London, the millions keep rolling in, whatever you do.
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  2007.  @Dreamdancer11  I am not jealous but the land value of these central London estates is due entirely to the presence and activities of the community, mostly through the actions of government which protects the realm, upholds and protects their rights to title, and provides the infrastructure without which these acres, some of the most valuable in the world, would be useless except for summer grazing for cattle, and all of this at taxpayers' expense. It is parasitic. How does it affect my ascension to my goals? I am too old to care, but it creates a situation where business are forced to pay rents why many of them can barely afford. In fact, they do not afford them and quickly go out of business. Rents and tax are the two factors which make the difference between swimming and sinking. So it most definitely gets in the way of many people's ascension to their goals. Rents and tax are the deal-breaker. Ignore them and we go back round the loop which gave us the snake oil of socialism. It has not lost its appeal to the gullible.
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  2008.  @Dreamdancer11  Most of Central London is owned by the same six families who owned it in 1700. If you need to have your business within a particular area, you are confronted with a monopoly landowner from who you must rent. That is not what free market capitalism is about. It is a relic of feudalism. In effect, businesses are required to pay a private tax to a private landlord on top of the tax they pay to the government. There is much more to this than advocates of free market capitalism are willing to acknowledge.
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  2009.  @Dreamdancer11  There is a system which allows capitalism to function effectively - more effectively than the present system without the collateral damage. The present system is not a genuine free market. The alternative system would function as advocates of free market capitalism pretend that the present system does, but there is in reality a gaping hole which prevents it from working as claimed. The failure to address this gaping hole gives rise to persistent and intractable problems which then feed the socialist monster. If you want to slay the monster, it has to be deprived of the food that keeps it alive. Capitalism needs to be fixed.
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  2010.  @nathanbrown492  Most government funded projects end up by enhancing land values. The beneficiaries are the landowners who can charge higher rents or sell their land at a higher price. Hong Kong's infrastructure is paid for by re-selling 40 year leases - there is no freehold land ownership in Hong Kong. In justice, the beneficiaries should pay, through a land value tax. Otherwise, we have a situation where landowners are parasitic on the taxpayers as a whole.
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  2011.  @nathanbrown492  HK does not, so far as I know, have a classic land value tax, ie an annual ad valorem tax on the gross annual value of the land. There was no freehold land in HK. All land was sold on 40 year leases by auction and then reverted to the government, when it was re-auctioned. A well documented case is the Jubilee Line Extension in London, which cost £3.5 billion and generated an aggregate land value uplift of about three times that amount. If an LVT was in place, then that would have been captured as an enhancement to the tax revenue stream. London Crossrail has given rise to a substantial uplift. The aggregate uplift is a good indication of the worth of the project, better than the cost benefit analysis method. HS2 has come under fire for the high cost of land acquisition. The project may yet not happen.
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  2012.  @CodyStegeman  Anyone can get up to degree standard in mechanical engineering by studying the subject on their cell phone, and there will be a plum job waiting for them when they have finished their homework?
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  2013.  @CodyStegeman  Would you even employ a tradesman - a plumber or electrician - who told you he had learned his skills on the internet? Who would even give them insurance cover? I am not talking about outliers.
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  2014.  @CodyStegeman  If you learned everything you know on the internet, I would not employ you to do an electrical or plumbing installation. You would never get certification or insurance cover.
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  2015.  @CodyStegeman  IF an operator will take you. You would have to start young and you would be exceptionally bright to be able to get enough from the internet. So bright that you would be looking for a career at another level. Then there is the matter of paying for your accommodation, if you do not live at home. If your parents home is in a poor location, then you have to move and pay rent. Or sleep on a friend's settee. I am not saying that it cannot be done but the odds as stacked against most people. The best way to get rich is to choose your father carefully.
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  2016.  @artyomarty391  Social mobility in Britain depends on marrying the heir to one of the owners of land urban land holdings. If your mother was a doctor in the UK, she would have had little choice but to work for the NHS. However, whether one should enter the medical profession with the expectation of making millions out of people's illnesses is another question which she will no doubt ponder in her old age.
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  2017.  @CodyStegeman  That is more realistic. The internet will give you the theory, but you need to gain practical experience under supervision. And you need to make the right choice, which is not so easy if your hard won skill becomes obsolete.
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  2018.  @artyomarty391  If you want to become a millionaire, training as a doctor is not the first thing that comes to mind. Prior to the Reformation, healing the sick was regarded as a way of serving God. When absolutely everything is commercialised, it indicates a slip in standards of morality. Professionals in the care sector should be rewarded to a level which enables them to live securely at a standard of modest comfort.
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  2019.  @artyomarty391  Of course doctors should be well rewarded. But millionaires?
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  2020.  @artyomarty391  I am coming up for being a (dollar) millionaire myself, now you mention it, though I do not normally think about it. I didn't do anything much though. Bought a house in a modest area in the 1980s and the run-down town become gentrified and prices rose way above the rate of inflation. Then I inherited a flat which had also risen in value for similar reasons. Then I sold the house and bought a flat abroad and the value of that has gone up as well. Because I don't have expensive tastes I have tended to receive (I will not say 'earn') more than I spend, so my net wealth has accumulated. I have not lifted a finger for most of it. Why bother when it will just come of its own accord if you buy into the property market at the right time? I don't think there is so much opportunity to do the same thing now as prices have been inflated by a credit bubble. In about ten years the bubble is likely to have burst and then could be the time to jump in. Just play the land price cycle.
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  2021. Let's invade Russia.
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  2022. Lagarde is a CGI object. And the Brexit objectors kept their trousers on.
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  2023. Next stop Moscow.
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  2024.  @johndeacon6308  The pound is within the middle of the range it has been against the SEK since I moved to Sweden in 2012, in fact, since the big drop which was in 2007.
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  2025.  @DJB2  What Giles does not say is that the effects of Brexit will depend on what the UK government does. A phase-out of VAT is an option that becomes immediately available. It is the most damaging of all taxes and a major government expense in its own right. With VAT at 20%, a phase out delivers an increase in GDP of at least 5%.
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  2026.  @johndeacon6308  You have to look at exchange rates over a much longer term to discern a meaningful pattern. Sterling was below 10 SEK between February 2013 and April 2013. The 10 year maximum of 13.6 was July 2015; it was above 13 for most of the time between February and December 2015. Sterling has fallen but it has been about 11.8 for most of the past 12 months. The rate is driven partly by short-term speculative forces but primarily by the relative demand for the currency, which depends on what can be purchased with it. Tourism would also be a major factor in currency demand. There seems to be a tendency for sterling to drop at around the end of July and creep up again towards the end of the year. There is a research project for someone. My guess is that the late summer drop in sterling - at the start of the school holidays - is due to the Brits going away on holiday and wanting to change their sterling into the currencies of their destination countries. If this link works it will give you the ten year movement. https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=SEK&view=10Y Relative purchasing power also needs to be considered. The equivalent sterling rate would be about 10.5 SEK, so everything is still about 10% off in the Swedish shops. Sterling cannot be said to have tanked.
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  2027.  @johndeacon6308  Without Brexit, the UK is permanently saddled with the EU's three terrible economic policies: VAT, CAP and a tariff wall against imports from outside the EU. That is a heavy price to pay. They are a major factor in the UK's regional economic imbalance. Freedom of movement of labour drives down wages and forces up rents, which is good if you are a tight employer or greedy landlord. The four freedoms will not work effectively unless a fifth freedom is added - free land, which means land value taxation at a meaningful rate. Given a package of reforms which scrapped VAT, CAP, and import tariffs, and required member states to operate a land value tax, we would have a very different EU, one that was sustainable, and which closed the gap between rich and poor. I would wholeheartedly support such an EU. Otherwise, it is is a millstone.
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  2028.  @johndeacon6308  How has Brexit made you poorer? It has not even happened yet. It might not happen at all.
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  2029.  @johndeacon6308  How do you know this was due to the threat of Brexit? How can you be certain that your shopping bill would not have risen anyway? Prices have risen a bit here in Sweden, too, and that can have nothing to do with Brexit.
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  2030.  @johndeacon6308  It sounds as if you are missing out badly. You need to ask for a pay rise or take advantage of the situation by moving on. What Brexit effect are you talking about? 'Wages are continuing to rise at their highest level for nearly a decade, the latest official Office for National Statistics figures show. Compared with a year earlier, wages excluding bonuses, were up by 3.3% for the three months to October, the biggest rise since November 2008. Average weekly wages are £495 - the highest since 2011, when adjusted for inflation. The number of people in work rose by 79,000 to 32.48 million, a record high. That is the highest figure since records began in 1971.' https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46520876
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  2031.  @johndeacon6308  What was the hit? A bit of market uncertainty immediately after the election. Is this also a Brexit effect? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46520876
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  2032.  @arvedludwig3584  Rents are nothing to do with people being greedy. Rental values arise when there is no longer an unlimited supply of land of the best quality and some people are obliged to move onto the second best sites. The best land then has a rental value. Every beggar or busker in the street knows that instinctively. This becomes a problem when the rental values are appropriated by private individuals or corporations. Then greed kicks in. This piece explains rents. It is the classic theory formulated by David Ricardo, known as the Law of Rent. If economists and politicians understood it and acted in good faith, there would be no Brexit and no food banks. http://www.landvaluetax.org/theory/sounds-from-the-deep.html
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  2033.  @johndeacon6308  None of this compares to the perpetual damage inflicted on the economy every single day by VAT, and as long as the UK is in the EU, it cannot be dropped below 15%. Get rid of it and your CPI drops instantly. Get out of the single market and your CPI enjoys another big drop as the EU tariffs do not have to be paid. That saves the government big money as public sector pay, welfare and pensions are linked to the CPI, and it also removes a lot of wage pressure on employers. Scrapping VAT at 20% gives the UK economy a boost of at least 5%, with commensurate savings in welfare costs and increases in tax yields. Try directing your complaints towards policies which really are making your poor.
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  2034.  @cbcdesign001  Any Chancellor would ditch VAT in short order if he did the sums. The headline yield is about £125 billion. It would be 10% more but that is lost through fraud and evasion. Now deduct. 1) Administration costs. 2) Churned revenue. VAT forms part of the prices index to which benefits, pensions and public sector pay are linked. The government is paying out taxpayers' money to these people so that they can pay it back in tax. This is a cost to the exchequer and this income is cancelled out by the cost. 3) Abstraction from other taxable revenues such as profits and rents. Retailers try to absorb some of the VAT in order to maintain volumes of sales. This cuts into profits and rents, which would have been taxed anyway. 4) Deadweight losses. At a conservative estimate, with VAT at 20%, the economy would grow by at least 5% if it was scrapped. Getting rid of VAT would lead to increased tax revenues from a larger economy, as well as reduced welfare costs. VAT is a tax the country cannot afford. Is it I who am deluded or you who are deceived?
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  2035. Turkey is saving Sweden from its own folly. The country is broke. The krona has tanked. A big, half built infrastructure project has been stalled due to no money. Any support for joining is because the media have fed the national Russophobia.
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  2036. Heresy.
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  2037. They will regret it.
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  2038. ​ @DiogoJ1  The EU and Russia are at war, they just haven't made the war official yet.
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  2039. Here is our Christian leader, perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpe5oOjfgXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_zTj9DDeU
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  2040. ​ @18something  The destabilising is the Ottoman legacy.
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  2041. Good for them.
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  2042. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
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  2043. We in Sweden need to keep out of this. I wonder what the inducements were? Hopefully the Kurds in Sweden will take to the streets and our politicians will get thrashed.
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  2044. My hunch is that the lab technicians who were responsible for incinerating the experimental animals have been flogging them to market traders to make a bit of extra cash.
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  2045. About as dangerous as those who are actually in charge, in whom trust has been lost over the past ten years, who are responsible for raging inflation, energy shortages, mass immigration without integration, the real possibility of nuclear war, the propagation of lies by the media, democracy which has been stolen by an elite, and the influence of shadowy organisation and shadowy individuals. They might be nut-jobs but the mainstream politicians and media are feeding these movements.
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  2046. ​@@nadeemshahzad2182 They are hounding out the Serbs. Evil country, essentially a NATO base.
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  2047. Poverty and race do not force people to fill up their shopping trolleys with food that will make them ill if eaten regularly. Then there is the vitamin D issue. Don't the medics check whether their patients and colleagues have sufficiently high levels? It is probably the most useful intervention that could be made to improve the health of people with dark skins living in northern latitudes.
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  2048. The Ukrainians will be fine as long as their fleet of steam locomotives is in good order and the staff know how to operate them.
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  2049. VAT is the most damaging and inefficient tax there is. NI is a tax on jobs. Income Tax is payroll tax in disguise. Real wages = Net Pay. VAT is mostly a tax on business, disguised as a tax on consumers.
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  2050. Applications could black-up, like old style minstrels.
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  2051. SL has just one good thing - the ban on usury.
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  2052. Was there a correlation with the medications that the residents were taking, or not taking ie is it the condition or the medication taken to control the condition?
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  2053. Is the risk from the co-morbidities or the medications used to control them? Just asking.
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  2054. Is that all?
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  2055. All after 7 October.
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  2056. Gothenburg is rat infested. I have never seen so many.
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  2057.  @MrB1923  If testimony is not evidence, then what is it?
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  2058. VAT, CAP, the protected Single Market and the Euro - a perfect formula for failure. The theory behind it is known as Mercantilism and was obsolete by 1750. It owes quite a lot to Catholic Social Teaching and comes from the 13th century. Unfortunately the structure of the EU makes it impossible to change. The so called sanctions against Russia are really a boycott and were the tipping point. All entirely predictable.
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  2059. If rents in LA are sky-high, landowners are making a fortune out of the misery.
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  2060. We need to worry about the coming decade of double digit inflation and the soaring food and energy prices and the criminal gangs streaming into the country.
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  2061.  @VaucluseVanguard  British people are paying big bucks. Don't bank on them contunuing.
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  2062. Israel are first in line, then the rest of us.
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  2063. Do you think Burger King supplies its Russian shops with food from the EU. The others on your list are made in China or Bangladesh or Vietnam. They don't need to come through the EU.
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  2064.  @innocentiuslacrim2290  Where do you think Russian Burger King restaurants get their supplies from?
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  2065. The Irish should be panicking. They will have to pay the EU tariffs or find alternative sources from mainland Europe, with all the extra transport costs and delays that will entail. Brexit will be also problematic for Scandinavia, because a lot of goods come from the UK. A customs officer was on Swedish TV explaining that it will be illegal to bring in Cheddar cheese. I don't know how they will achieve that as the explosives, weapons and drugs come in will little or no hindrance. There is risk of a tsunami in the English Channel. There was one in 1928.
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  2066. Global minimum tax is good. 0% tax on wages, goods, services, incomes and profits. These taxes are nothing but robbery, pure and simple. Which should also be a global maximum tax. The UK should have scrapped the Eurotax the day it left the EU. Time to get rid of VAT now. It would be hard to devise a more damaging and inefficient tax - a German invention which hits GDP by at least 5% and is a solid obstacle to growth. VAT undermines the revenue from other taxes. With raging price rises, the country cannot afford this absurd tax. WEF should take a long walk in the alps.
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  2067. Please refine the debate. Taxes generally need to go down but some could safely go up. Corporation Tax, Stamp Duty and VAT need to be phased out, and fast. More money could be raised from the Council Tax, and, if the valuations were kept properly up to date, from the business rates, without damaging the economy. The more tax/less tax argument is dumb. Different taxes have different effects.
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  2068. TAIWAN is the example to follow. Its economy was turned around by a tax reform programme about 50 years ago.
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  2069. They will drive Hungary into the embrace of the Russians.
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  2070. Brexit doesn't matter anyway now. The government announced that they would simply replace the EU's rotten policies by home grown versions of the same thing. Labour rose no objection. So Brexit would have been all pain, no gain. All the potential advantages of Brexit would have been thrown away. The Tory grandees who get so much from the EU would not allow it.
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  2071. Kosovo is a NATO military base.
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  2072. Joe Biden lost his model aeroplane. What a shame. He should stick with those model planes you fly while attached to a control line, and play with it in the grounds of the White House.
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  2073. They could have a bonfire of EU Directives. That would be a good energy source. Then there is all the hot air and fart coming out of Brussels. What climate change are they concerned about? The cold spring weather this year is part of a trend. Cost of building and maintaining windmills in the North Sea is horrendous. These politicians have obviously never been out in the North Sea in January. Wind generation produces nil energy when the wind isn't blowing.
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  2074. Left/Right is a crude and out of date categorisation. There are owners and renters. That underpins the main division.
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  2075. Freak weather? Very hot in Saudi in the middle of June?
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  2076. The source is the abandonment of Christianity. That leaves a vacuum that has been filled by unbounded nonsense.
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  2077. It sounds like the Northern Ireland dispute on steroids. Lithuania was the most prosperous part of the Soviet Union. Now, its main export its people. Hopefully the EU will collapse before WW3 can get going.
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  2078. What is its tax policy?
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  2079. If they support abortion and same sex marriage, how many Muslim voters will they lose?
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  2080. High tariffs on UIK exports will be paid by EU consumers and manufacturers.
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  2081. Our church nearly caught fire due to careless disposal of the contents of the incense pot one Sunday morning. The floor of the sacristy was smouldering. 3:18
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  2082. The EU protected Single Market is a major obstacle to the normalisation of the Russian economy. The Washington consensus ignores the fundamental matter of economic rents of land and natural resources. The latter gave room for the oligarchs to muscle in. Land and resources rents should be the primary source of public revenue, which is not part of the Washington programme. The failure demonstrates the great flaw in the Washington analysis.
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  2083. Shame, they have voted for ruin. Shame, too, that the politicians of other stripes cannot solve the problems that lead to the left getting re-elected, when this obsolete ideology deserves to have died 60 years ago. It will go bad within less than a couple of years.
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  2084. St Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in the fourth century and would normally have greeted everyone he met with a Holy Kiss ie embrace and touch cheek to cheek three times. Then the recipient would kiss the bishops hands. This is still a practice to this day.
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  2085. Fascinating piece, yet again. But please do something about the weird, robotic sounding commentary with the sudden jumps from scene to scene.
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  2086. Don't you dare sneeze, any of you.
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  2087. https://www.vasttrafik.se/om-vasttrafik/nyhetsarkiv/corona/ People seem to be ignoring the bad advice from the authorities.
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  2088. Wait till the British send in the Pannier Tanks.
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  2089. Who pays for it?
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  2090. If Blair wants to have an influence on any matter, his best course of action is stay silent.
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  2091. The Christian Churches need to be protected against their progressive clergy.
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  2092.  @carusmike  Perhaps but a united Ireland would still need to follow the UK out of the EU.
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  2093.  @macker33  You need to think about imports as much as exports. Ireland united would still need to follow the UK out of the EU.
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  2094. Yes because London sucks out all the wealth through the tax and financial systems.
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  2095. Mayhar. We did not fight so many years for Brexit, only to have Westminster impose the same damaging policies as we have had since 1973 from Brussels. To judge from many of the comments, there seems to be a serious misconception about the nature of international trade. I suppose it is because the mantra 'exports good - imports bad' has been repeated for so long. There is also a misconception about free trade agreements. 'Free Trade Agreement' is an oxymoron. It is like saying 'I will stop shooting my own people in the feet if you stop shooting your people in the feet'. Your own people are better off your own government stops shooting without waiting for the other side to give up the self-punishment. This is the point about unilateral free trade. If the other side don't play ball, it's their funeral. Please do a piece on the benefits of unilateral free trade. There is very little on the subject on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtYJlVzXpIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=533vBn-qehk
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  2096. The economies in the EU countries are no better. EU trade and economic policies are a formula for failure
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  2097. ​ @RobertHosein  EU countries are no better. EU trade and economic policies set up the economy for failure
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  2098. ​ @europainvicta3907  It's no better in the EU.
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  2099. ​ @edgardebruin5539  The economy in the EU is just as bad. How can that be Brexit?
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  2100. ​ @chilloutcentral2097  Exactly the same problems in the EU, so it can't be Brexit.
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  2101. Most countries in the world operate destructive tax policies. The EU is one of the worst offenders. On top of that is the EU Mercantilism. They are running 17th century trade and economic policies that had been discredited long before the American Revolution.
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  2102. You forgot to mention that five Arab countries attacked the newly formed Israel in 1948 with the aim of getting rid of it altogether.
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  2103. ​ @6581punk w⚓️s?
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  2104. Why is there a pandemic of diabetes?
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  2105. How do we know that the referendum was false? Where were the impartial observers?
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  2106. The EU-SSSR will soon have its hands full with Internet censorship.
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  2107.  @greattobeadub  You mean that Liverpool is on the right side of the country for shipping to an EU port?
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  2108.  @GorinRedspear  Because the effect of joining the then EEC was, as intended, to focus on trade within the block. If imports are not coming into a country, then it cannot export. The countries to which the exports are to be sold do not have the foreign exchange. So there was a decline in the volume of trade passing through those ports on the wrong side of the country.
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  2109. Why? Don't you like a bargain?
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  2110. Hungary doesn't need the EU. It has negative value to most Hungarians.
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  2111.  @KerekesMarton12  The EU costs jobs and money.
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  2112. The sanctions have, apparently hit Swedish farmers who have lost an important market. Hopefully the UK will be building up trade in both directions with Russia after Brexit.
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  2113. You are a rampant speciesist. Shame on you.
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  2114. It sounds as if they have been lending heavily for purchase of real estate, or making shaky loans secured on real estate. Any solid information on this?
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  2115. Looking forward to Zelensky taking the victory parade in Moscow.
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  2116. The UK government should leave the tariffs off, whether or not free trade agreements are made. Tariffs just put up costs to consumers and manufacturers. Then VAT needs to be phased out - it is inefficient and damaging - it probably cost the country at least 5% in lost GDP.
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  2117. Ruanda is a Catholic country. The Southport suspect was an altar boy who served at Mass every Sunday.
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  2118. These people are led by people who have openly advocated genocide.for the past 100 years.
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  2119.  @petes6521  A piece of Ukraine is land bitten off from Hungary, complete with Hungarians still living there.
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  2120.  @DavidOfWhitehills  I have two European nationalities but don't feel in the slightest bit "European '.
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  2121. Then they will wait for ever. People here in Sweden are thoroughly sick of the EU.
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  2122. G K Chesterton predicted that this would happen when he wrote his book The Flying Inn, published in 1914.
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  2123. The EU is run primarily the benefit of Corporate Germany. How is it right wing to be against it?
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  2124. I had forgotten about Uri Geller. The pieces fit. He brought down the Iranian helicopter.
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  2125. Free movement of labour within an area tends to average out the level of wages. Thus, UK wages will get driven down. An increase in population will drive up rents. This is good for skinflint employers and rapacious landlords. Amazingly, the progressive remainers scream their approval.
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  2126.  @zadokwest  Yes, there are trends in both directions. You might buy a farm in a rural idyll in Romania.
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  2127. It's 1914 war fever all over again, getting all the pieces in play for World War III. Naughty Danes, up to now, not following the views of their political elites.
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  2128.  @NoName-hg6cc  In 1914 there were the Allies and the Central Powers. Now there are the EU and Russia. All it needs is a stray incident to spark off the keg.
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  2129. People always behave worse when they think they have God on their side, especially when they do not believe in God.
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  2130. It would be worth analysing death rates against permanent prescription medication taken.
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  2131. Scary
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  2132. They could use Microsoft Tank Simulator.
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  2133. Sweden has bigger problems than the threat of Russia.
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  2134. He over estimated his army's strength. But the west has been provoking for 30 years.
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  2135.  @michealchimzi1685  The US is fighting against European countries.
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  2136. Vexatious litigant.
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  2137. The central banks have been wanting higher inflation for ages. Why are they complaining now we have got it?
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  2138. Worse still, he is a Catholic Christian, and there is only one thing worse than that, which is an Orthodox Christian.
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  2139. What is behind this personal obsession with Putin?
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  2140. Sanctions = self imposed blockade. They are self harming. The same objections apply to the EU protected Single Market. If you want to harm someone you don't sell them stuff they need.
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  2141. Do you really think Russians are that upset about not being able to visit Finland? What has it got that the Russians do not already have?
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  2142. Do Chinese who join the Russian Orthodox Church get harassed in China?
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  2143. What can be expected of anyone with an Oxford PPE degree? Tax systems throughout the west are nothing more than a tariff of penalties for honest work. LSE is even worse. Its charter states that it its purpose is to promote Fabian socialism ie it is a political campaigning organisation, which means that it should not received government funding, nor should its students be funded from state grants.
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  2144. Shame we can't stop the constant shootings and bombings inside Sweden.
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  2145.  @sunspot42  They will both go broke within months. If the EU has any sense it will not take Scotland, ditto the Republic and Northern Ireland.
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  2146.  @maxdavis7722  Trade flows develop between countries with complementary economies eg Britain and Southern Hemisphere agricultural producers. Most of the original EEC countries had competing economies and the trade potential was for taking in each other's washing. Eastern Europe is a basket case precisely for geographical reasons, because trade to the east ie former Soviet countries, is blocked off. This is a factor in the current proxy war. Once goods are on board a ship, the cost of additional distance is relatively small. This works well for Britain, but not so much for Germany which is better place for trading with neighbouring countries with transport by road and rail.
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  2147. The burden of Income Tax and NICS is on employers. They have exactly the same effect as a payroll tax. An increase in personal allowances would be beneficial though it is really just tinkering with a bigger problem. VAT needs to be scrapped. It is probably the most damaging and inefficient tax ever inflicted on a country. It steals revenue which would have been collected by other taxes.
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  2148. When was the allegation of illegal activities tested in court?
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  2149. ​ @historydiscover  The Balfour Declaration was made in the knowledge that it was a cheque issued but never likely to be cashed. Support for Zionism was negligible among European even in the 1960s. Israel was the refuge country of last resort. Ironically, it was the Palestinian leaders who promoted the Final Solution which led to the influx of European Jews after 1945. The majority of Jewish migrants to Israel are from the Muslim world ie not from Europe. Sorry about your family but they should not have supported such rotten leadership.
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  2150. Nobody wanted East Prussia after 1990 which is why the Russians have still got it.
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  2151. Losing Generals sounds like carelessness.
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  2152. Landowners' and bankers' man. Just what is wanted.
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  2153. Islam itself is an extreme right wing movement. All genuinely liberal people find it abhorrent. Anti Arab sentiment is fuelled by the behaviour of the Arabs themselves. You don't get much anti Chinese or a anti Vietnamese or anti Korean or anti Thai sentiment. People are also learning to distinguish between Christian Arabs and Muslim ones. A minority of Muslims can be serious trouble. We would not have all that trouble with airport security if it was not for them.
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  2154. There are no real conservatives. Commies under the surface.
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  2155. Woke channel.
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  2156. Taxes on earned wages should be 0.00%. End of.
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  2157.  @johnjamele  they are all getting the same benefit in the example of the fence and gates.
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  2158.  @funny1048youtube  you could not think of s worse tax than the European style consumption tax. How about reading what Adam Smith wrote about taxation? In the original. He gives a bit thumbs down to sales taxes and taxes on earned wages.
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  2159.  @gooble69  the beneficiaries should pay, in proportion to the value of the benefits received.
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  2160.  @gooble69  taxes on earned wages, goods and services are the wrong sort of taxes.
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  2161.  @alexxclass  just as bad as taxes on wages. Look at the European VAT. You could not think of a worse tax.
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  2162.  @WiggaMachiavelli  WIth public spending at around 40% of GDP, funding with printed money would lead to inflation at about 20% a year. That means it loses half its value every four years. Nobody would be able to save. Confidence in money would disappear. The currency would be unwanted in foreign exchange markets. Prices of imports would soar. Property prices would soar, since it would be the only means of secure investment. The process would then accelerate. It is a recipe for economic catastrophe. The purpose of money is to (1) provide a convenient means of exchange and (2) to act as a store of value. If its value is constantly shrinking, a currency cannot act as a store of value. The appropriate means of raising public revenue is through a tax on the annual rental value of land. Land has a value only because of the presence and activities of the community which maintains that value.
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  2163.  @gooble69  Move somewhere else and let someone else take advantage of them, who is willing to pay. You are not a subscriber to the 'I don't want it, you can't have it' school, are you?
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  2164.  @gooble69  How do you work it out that 30 million Americans would have to leave?
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  2165.  @WiggaMachiavelli  It is not clear what exactly you are proposing but if government were to create the money needed to pay for the public sector, including pensions and benefits, the additional money in circulation would lead to a general rise in prices. In year two of the scheme, more money would be needed to pay for the public sector, due to that rise in prices. In year three, it would be more still. Within a decade, there would be runaway inflation. What you are proposing was done in Zimbabwe and Nicaragua. My argument does indeed apply to all inflationary monetary policy. It is fraudulent, it robs people of their savings, it destroys the function of money, government should not do it and they do not need to do it. There is no difficulty in assessing the rental value of vacant land. The valuer looks at the value of all the land around and takes a weighted average. Valuers do this all the time. It is their job. If it could not be done, a tenant or purchaser would never know how much they should pay for purchase or lease. Exemption of unused land promotes dereliction. It rewards landowners for leaving sites vacant and punishes them for bringing the land into productive use. That would be a perverse incentive. It is, in fact, the way the British commercial property tax operates. That is why British cities are full of derelict sites. Dereliction deprives people of work opportunities. It is a major cause of unemployment.
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  2166.  @WiggaMachiavelli  Funding governments by wholly or partly by expansion of the money supply has been done many times before. It has invariably led to accelerating inflation. The simple explanation is the one I gave earlier. The more detailed explanation is based on the academic work done between 1955 and 1980, following the problems that arose with the Keynesian full employment policies adopted after 1945. It is a runaway effect. Inflation was a couple of per cent in 1946 but had risen to over 20% by the late 1970s and that led to the election of Thatcher. In between there were two runs on sterling, followed by devaluations, and the crisis which led to a bail out by the IMF, as well as the property boom which ran from about 1965 to 1974. People allow for the inflation in advance by fleeing to other stores of value. As for your comments on land value taxation - I am not even going to begin to answer them, since clearly you have not yet understood what is proposed, nor the economic theory that lies behind the proposal, nor the likely effects, which are largely known because it is not a new or unknown policy. Valuations are based on the rents that are actually taken. They are derived from market evidence. If they are wrong, there is an appeals procedure, exactly as there is with existing UK property taxes. The difference from existing UK property taxes is that since the valuation is on land alone, there is more certainty and less scope for dispute. The purchase of land which is then left derelict is widespread. There are large and valuable sites in the middle of Brighton (Sussex, UK) which have been vacant for over 30 years, and that is WITH planning consent for most of the time. Those sites are exempt from property taxation.
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  2167.  @gooble69  Are we having the same conversation? Seemingly not. What do you think I mean by 'benefits received'? Hint: see Adam Smith on taxation - Canon 1. 'The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expence of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expence of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. Every tax, it must be observed once for all, which falls finally upon one only of the three sorts of revenue above mentioned, is necessarily unequal in so far as it does not affect the other two. In the following examination of different taxes I shall seldom take much further notice of this sort of inequality, but shall, in most cases, confine my observations to that inequality which is occasioned by a particular tax falling unequally even upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it.' You could usefully read the entire chapter if you want a coherent right wing view on taxation. https://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN.html?chapter_num=36#book-reader I am not in the US but another commentator said that military defence worked out at $2000 per head per year, which is $40 a week. That is not a fortune. If 40 million people cannot afford to eat regularly you need to ask why. I would suggest that one reason is precisely because the tax system is NOT based on benefits received, as defined by Smith.
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  2168.  @WiggaMachiavelli  Hyperinflation does not occur when the money supply is tightly controlled. But what you seem to be suggesting is that all government expenditure should be by expansion of the money supply. We can look at the figures for the UK. In the first place, money supply has to be defined, as there are four separate measures. The widest measure is M4, which includes double counting with credits which are cancelled out by debits. If we go with the M3 definition, that is £2.8 trillion for 2018. Government expenditure in 2018 was expected to be about £1 trillion. If that amount of money was just printed into circulation, it would increase money supply by 30%. This takes two years to worth through into prices, so in 2021, prices would be 30% higher. That means that in 2021, £1.3 trillion would have to be printed into circulation. In succeeding years the annual amounts needed to be spent into circulation would grow at an increasing rate, and there is your runaway inflation. It would not be hyperinflation at Zimbabwean levels, but the rate would be accelerating. Money CAN safely be spent into circulation but it has to be removed later on through taxation. In most modern economies, the inflation has been feeding into land values eg spiralling house prices, rather than to retail prices. This is going to end catastrophically, probably in 2025. What I am saying is not in the least controversial. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/634/economics/the-problem-with-printing-money/
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  2169.  @WiggaMachiavelli  The meat of the matter being?
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  2170.  @WiggaMachiavelli  I did not say hyperinflation as in the Weimar/Zimbabwe cases. You can work out for yourself what would happen. All you need to do is to get figures for government expenditure, total money supply and economic growth. Then work forwards two years and you will get the inflation. Then reiterate for every subsequent year. Economic growth is limited by physical factors. You will get rounds of wage demands as workers attempt to maintain the purchasing power of wages. There will also be issues relating to rents, as inflation reduces real rents. In the face of rising inflation, landlords will withhold from the market as it is more profitable to wait and re-let at higher rents. Leases will be subject to shorter and shorter terms. It is a recipe for economic chaos. Where has this proposal come from?
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  2171. Yes, it is an artificial example.
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  2172.  @gooble69  You made another comment which seems to have disappeared, about the differences in the quality of infrastructure available in different places. Please can you re-post. I think we are on the same wavelength after all. The tax that is based on 'benefits received' is the land value tax proposed by Henry George. I assume that you are alluding to that.
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  2173.  @gooble69  I cannot find your comment but didn't you refer to the differences in infrastructure in different places? I thought it was a good comment which puts the benefits received principle into context.
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  2174.  @theamericandutchman8067  Why 10%? Why not 9% or 11% or 0% or 100%? What principle is behind your proposal?
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  2175.  @theamericandutchman8067  When people propose round figures, it suggests that there is no principle behind the idea, other than expediency. Sales taxes are robbery at any rate you care to suggest. They are a violation of the basic human right of people to exchange goods or services on terms which are freely and mutually agreed.
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  2176. Bacteria will become an issue with heat pumps. They are not hot enough.
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  2177. There is plenty of racism in Britain. It flourishes within some demographics.
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  2178. BLM is a Marxist organisation which is using a genuine grievance to inflame and divide. It's declared aim is the usual one of 'smashing capitalism'. Woke is Cultural Marxism.
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  2179. Sweden's policy is to let the virus spread, so as to achieve herd immunity. If it gets rid of a lot of OAPs, that is a bonus. That's our National Socialist government.
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  2180. The sea bed up to 12 nautical miles from the shore is part of the Crown Estate and therefore belongs to the Queen. If anyone wants to fish in Her Majesty's waters, they must bid for licences at auction. I don't know why this point has not been made.
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  2181. Neither are their customers in the EU.
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  2182. The stealing begins at the top. Brussels, Strasbourg, Kiev etc.
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  2183. Governments have always had these powers. They are criminals, the lot of them. Hopefully Sweden will get a new government in a couple of weeks which could show the way forward. .
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  2184. The system is wholly run by and for those who collect rent from everyone else: landlords and banks. "Interest" is really just rent. Banks are today's landlords. The entire fiscal system is a Ponzi scheme. Sushi Runak is the last person who should be PM. In the olden days he would have had his head on the block on Tower Hill.
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  2185. Business rates are only part of the problem - to the extent that the valuations are out of date. The real issue is greedy landlords who are unwilling to accept the going market rent. All of this London commercial property is lettable if the rent is right. Behind the greedy landlord problem is the practice of borrowing on artificially high values. If the properties were let at the going rate, the market values would have to be written down, leaving the owners in negative equity. That is the scam behind the vacant property epidemic. The solution is reform of the business rate to keep the valuations up to date, and based on site values only - then the rates would have to be paid by the owners, who would have to get tenants into their properties so as to have the income to pay the rent with. This has been an issue for the past 100 years. Cuts in the business rate would not help.
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  2186. Any first year chemistry student should know that the CO2 greenhouse theory is bogus.
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  2187. I was brewing Brexit Bitter in Sweden in 2016. Very popular it was, too. English hops and malt - Kent Fuggles, with the genuine English bitter flavour.
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  2188. I wish they would kick us out.
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  2189. She should be nominated as the UK's European Commissioner.
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  2190. Whoever becomes the government will be a disaster for the country, but countries get the governments they deserve. However, reform of the Council Tax is long overdue. It was a stop gap measure to replace the failed poll tax. You cannot have a property tax based on what prices were 30 years ago. Failure to deal with this is one of the reasons why housing costs were out of hand long before the flood of immigration.
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  2191. Could age be a proxy for other factors more prevalent among older people eg insulin resistance, diabetes, and medications routinely taken eg statins, drugs to control blood pressure, arthritis, etc?
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  2192. Exploitation of a vulnerable person for a virtue-signalling publicity stunt. I would like to know how much energy went into constructing the yacht?
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  2193. The Guardian has praised her. Enough said.
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  2194. Let's kick ourselves in the teeth as hard as we can.
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  2195. It's the EU's fault for not scrapping VAT. It is designed for fraudsters.
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  2196. Election? It used to be called Buggins' Turn.
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  2197. Trade negotiations should not be based on the principle that 'we will start shooting ourselves in the feet if you do not stop feeding yourselves in the feet.' Shooting its own people in the feet is standard EU operating procedure.
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  2198. It goes with the quality of the analysis.
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  2199. Best criminals in town.
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  2200. Funny how does the Sweden government manage to get away with ignoring digital privacy? Anyone can look up anyone's name, address, telephone number, income and date of birth, released by the tax authorities. It's a scammers' paradise. Information used for security in Britain is all freely available on line on Sweden. Data protection? Forget it.
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  2201. ​ @inbb510  Whatever we vote for, we get the same.
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  2202. Zelensky will be taking the salute at the victory parade in Red Square by the end of August.
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  2203. The 11+ included an intelligence test which was difficult to train for.
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  2204. Why Labour is so keen on remaining in an organisation that runs politics for the benefit of big business, landlords, owners of farmland and skinflint employers is a mystery that future historians will struggle to explain.
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  2205. Does England want a bankrupt dump on the other side of the garden wall, even worse than the one its own incompetent politicians have turned the country into?
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  2206. Israel should take off the kid gloves.
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  2207. ​ @toyotaprius79  Rightly so. Preoccupation with the evil deeds of the Israelis is the mark of an antisemite.
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  2208. It is all globalist WEF propaganda anyway. You wonder why TLDR needs extra money. Good for a laugh but we are being led to ruin.
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  2209. Brighton is a mismaged, misgoverned mess and has been for the past 25 years. I moved out in 2012. Forty years ago, it was a place to move to, but not now, and the trains are horribly cramped and uncomfortable. Try Lewes unless you want to be near the sea, but both places are infested by cultural Marxists, the universities being a hotbed of them. Folkestone, Margate or Broadstairs might be worth a look, as the train service has improved over the past few years. Salisbury is not too far but those responsible for the city planning are useless. Winchester is expensive. Oxford is nearly as expensive as London and suffers from poor air quality.
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  2210. Our own politicians are our most dangerous enemies.
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  2211. ​ @cj4680-er4tg  The Khazar theory goes against everything that is well known about the subject
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  2212. That's a relief for the Serbians.
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  2213. Numbers of new cases reported in Sweden are sinking fast. https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/
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  2214. What is the right decision?
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  2215.  @ragnargustafsson6637  I would have thought that Sweden would be too much of a headache. The Islamic Republic of Skåne will be something that the Swedes will eventually have do decide how to deal with.
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  2216. When the ground has dried out, it could be a different story. The Russians have their forces in place and will be able to spread out. There can be no winners in this conflict. It just needs to stop, and the warring parties got round a table. The Russian demands were not unreasonable: no EU, no NATO and a redrawing of Stalin's borders, which also include bits of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The Russian mistake was to step up the war. This is not a conflict outsiders should take a sides over.
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  2217. This shows how ludicrous the sanctions are. The economy of little Estonia has always been tightly linked to that of its neighbours. The Estonians need to understand the importance of rubbing along with the neighbours they depend on. Where did the missiles come from that landed in Pskov?
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  2218. This looks like the same issue as Cambridge Analytica was up to. The old Liberals were strongly opposed to the EU's core trade and economic policies. The same applies to the Guardian and its forebears at the Manchester Guardian. They must lie uneasy in their graves. Soros is well named, variously often spelled tsuris or tsures. (צרות) https://momentmag.com/jewish-word-tsuris/
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  2219. It isn't the juice but there seems to be some juice involved. Joseph Sciambra writes about this stuff in his autobiography.
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  2220. The biggest losers from the sanctions are the people who need the gas and oil.
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  2221.  @WhichDoctor1  Well put. You can thank the EU for getting in the way of a normal trading relationship.
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  2222.  @derorje2035  ...and therefore the most important supplier, and the EU Single Market gets in the way of imports.
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  2223. All shipping that passes in and out of the Baltic must pass through either one of the the two narrow straits between the Danish islands or the 4 mile strip of water between Denmark and Sweden at Helsingör (Hamlet's Castle). Then it has to pass through the Kattegat and Skaggerak, between Gothenburg and Frederickshaven, and round the tip of Jutland. The Danish port has a small naval base. Sweden has a decent air force.
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  2224. Because they support the Hagarites?
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  2225. The Met will be investigating Khan. I wonder if they will discover anything?
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  2226. Sweden is a haven for terrorists and criminal gangs. We sent more people to ISIS than any other country, proportionately. We have our own problems to fix. NATO is an irrelevance.
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  2227. Here is the Soyboy News, complete with soyboy voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqsciNbBQg4&t=68s
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  2228. They Arabs have brought this on themselves by their own harbouring of hatred over more than 100 years, and subhuman behaviour of a significant minority. They could start by reining in their men of violence.
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  2229. Ukrainian forces are advancing on Moscow. Any day now, Zelensky will be on the podium in Red Square taking the salute for his victory parade.
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  2230. It would be good to hear the UK coming up with a sensible policy for UK fishing waters. The French fishermen should be allowed to fish in UK waters. They must bid for annual licenses, subject to strict terms and conditions. They will not be able to outbid the Sussex fishermen for licences to fish the coastal fishing grounds, because they must cover the extra cost of crossing the Channel and take account of the time it takes and the number of times they will not be able to get to the UK fishing grounds due to bad weather. But they will not be able to complain that they have been treated unfairly and the licence fees will help towards the costs of protection and policing. Any revenue left over should be used for conservation, research and re-stocking.
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  2231. Fat chance. The US would have to scrap all its present taxes and adopt the tax and economic policies proposed by Henry George. The power of the US monopolies is too strong and they would never allow it. They would rather the country goes to pot.
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  2232. Rights are a bad thing. Rights imply duties. It is easier to define the duties. The rights arise automatically from the duties.
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  2233. The centrepiece of the EU's own trade policy is a system of self imposed sanctions. In the short term, it fosters the protection and development of local industries. In the long run, it sucks the life out of an economy. The EU has had 50 years of this, which is about the time it takes for the adverse effects to show up when the policy is applied across a region of 400 million people. Russia is big enough to be able to withstand it for decades and in meantime the EU deprives itself of an important source of supplies. It is ordinary people who will pay for this idiocy.
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  2234. Sturdy young men are needed to defend the beaches. Where are they? The rescuers should have a vessel ready to take them straight back and disembark them on a French beach, the dinghies being confiscated.
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  2235.  @crazydragy4233  The EU should not be shoving its nose anywhere.
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  2236. Why isn't this women in a police cell waiting to be charged with criminal damage?
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  2237. NATO nej tack.
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