Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

That was a superb presentation. Seriously, they should be showing this in all colleges and universities, regardless of the subjects people study. Just so the youth of the world understand the planet they are inheriting and can come up with ways to make it a better one.
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Thank you for stepping into the, “noise-scape,” and offering an unbiased, practical breakdown of the issues at hand. It is really hard for a lay person like me to get a grip on the basics when all, “analyses,” seem to be coming from extreme positions, necessarily inserting their political biases first and foremost, whether opposing or supporting the introduction of a new tariff policy. As you make clear, all countries have a dog in this fight, so to speak. So a good understanding of the unvarnished facts are essential. Much appreciated.
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Absolutely. My wife and I realised that, if we sold all our properties, we’d be millionaires even if we didn’t get a particularly good price for them. Yet, we don’t, “feel,” rich. Nor do we behave that way by trying to, “offshore,” our wealth or avoid taxes, or screw the tenants in our houses. We supported the rent freeze during Covid (we’re in Scotland) and we still haven’t even talked about putting up the rents. The irony is that policies are aimed at this tiny minority of super rich people who wouldn’t fundamentally change anything in Britain if they all up and left. The biggest industries of all, like Apple, Microsoft, Google and YouTube, and their attendant info-tech dealers would all remain in place regardless of how we taxed them! What else can they do? Take their business elsewhere? Off planet? What is actually WRONG with people? It’s like FOMO! Just mythical fears built up in their imaginations that have no basis in reality but which are ruthlessly exploited by unscrupulous politicians. People, “fear,” paying more taxes than they’re actually affected by them. I’ve never met a tax whiner who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from. And every time you see the results of a reliable survey, people ALWAYS say they would prefer to pay MORE taxes than lose the NHS, decent education, water, transport and policing.
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“Many people feel that this law has lead to the people of Canada being confused about the meaning of the word, ‘ironic.’” 😂🤣😂🤣🤣
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I’m the opposite. I believe in contributing generously to your own society. But I guess we have different values.
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When you said a, “Four billion dollar increase,” in the UK’s spending on its NHS, did you mean, “pounds”?
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Thanks for the offer. I am tempted, being a sucker for novelty, tech and the toys more generally. Give me an extra reason and that will nudge me over the edge. Anyway, I’m not business smart at all, but I do enjoy learning from your entertaining, witty videos. You have a deftness when it comes to deciding what to laugh at and when to laugh; a lightness of touch that would make your scripts entertaining to read on their own in pure manuscript form. Do you write for any well known rags?
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I saw the CoffeeZilla interview. It’s startling. It proves that really dumb people can get rich quick from slightly dumber and even smarter dupes.
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They should make it compulsory for UK millionaires to register their intent to leave 10 years in advance (if they are British nationals) so they can’t dodge fairer taxes. But there will be many millionaires whose influence on causing corruption and the undermining of national security will not be missed by those who know about these things. Nigel Farage is one of the millionaires who promised to leave Britain if Brexit failed to deliver, yet he’s remained here, running for a seat in Parliament, so yeah, what they say and what they do are not the same thing.
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Perhaps Norman Angel was right? We just haven’t had any, “rational,” leaders? Explainable, perhaps? But not rational. Our modern wars seem to be unexceptional to those of history. It’s still primarily greed, mass ignorance and the greed and egos of irrational leaders that cause them.
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@ljragsandfeathers : It’s forgivable for thinking that, especially if you watch a lot of YouTube and follow what its algorithm shoves in front of you. But the evidence is that people are more interested in fixing the world’s problems than you may think. On the news, yesterday, I watched hundreds of thousands of people in Britain, from a wide range of backgrounds, march together for peace in Palestine, calling for a ceasefire. They did so, despite countless lies being told about them in the media and direct threats from the far right. They did so, despite the egregious mischaracterisation of their intentions, route and motives by Britain’s actual HOME SECRETARY, who actually INCITED VIOLENCE through dog whistles and downright lies! These were brave, motivated and young people, for the most part, who knew they were taking a risk with their own futures, as well as the possibility of direct violence on the day, merely by showing up and calling for peace! They do not fit your description. Ironically, there were several acts of violence committed on that day, but none of them occurred on the peace march. They actually happened a mile and a half away, around the cordoned off Cenotaph. And they were ALL committed by far right extremists, answering Suella Braverman’s dog whistles. They broke the police lines, knocked the cameras out of news teams hands, issued death threats and several were arrested for actual acts of violence. All whilst being too thick to realise that their target was a mile and a half away, because they believed the Home Secretary’s deliberate lie and thought they would all be at the Cenotaph. What we can learn from this is that people on both sides are highly active and motivated. And that the far right nut jobs are vastly outnumbered, as well as fail to grasp any form of reality, which is helpful to the reasonable human. The web is a distorted, fun house mirror, which only shows you what you feed it. “We see, as through a glass, darkly.”
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@lowwastehighmelanin : ?
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Just want to say thank you. I love your channel. Sometimes you are witty, acerbic and ironical, while others, like in this case, you are simply focussed on the facts and imparting educative, informative and entertaining information. In either case, you always move rapidly through masses of information in such a well organised way that it is easy to follow and to retain the important details. It strikes me that the quality of your research and depth of your knowledge is unimpeachable. You are a great benefit to your audience and YouTube, which needs more people like you.
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⁠ @petersuvara : Well, I would just say CoffeeZilla is just different in style and reaching a slightly different audience. Both are doing a great job in their own, different ways. But we can agree that Patrick is pretty awesome. I particularly enjoy his funny videos, as his deadpan delivery cracks me up every time. The fact that his research, depth of knowledge and depth of concern for his fellow human travellers is unsurpassed are just bonuses.
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I must applaud that segue into that Ground News ad. Never seen anyone else take that rather obvious opportunity to link their own topic to the app and just keep the story rolling. Perhaps it only seems obvious now that I’ve seen it in practice? Like when Sherlock Holmes explains his line of reasoning to Dr Watson? Regardless: 10/10 for sheer, “Smooth.”
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It’s hard to find, “authentic,” encouragement from anywhere, currently. I wasn’t expecting to find it here, in a video under such a title as yours, but I did. So, thank you for that moment of cool headedness. Now, let us see if your optimism can withstand the coming, “Trump years”? I am grateful, regardless.
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@3_character_minimum : Yes. It’s interesting to note just how many Tory MP’s are land owners and property owners in the heart of London. It’s not even possible to get a fair deal from such people when their vested interest is the opposite of the masses and they have such a well documented, proven track record of being fundamentally corrupt at every turn. Just another reason why they have to go.
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