Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Professor Tim Wilson"
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And in the midst of all this national chaos, Katie Price, a supermodel, feels a bit shy and doesn’t want to show up in court? And she’s twisting the courts around her little finger, at tax payer expense, creating delays and further backlogs, while the courts are stretched to breaking point! Truly sickening behaviour.
THIS is the, “two tier,” justice system that we SHOULD be talking about! How the wealthy get away with murder just because they have a, “name,” or MONEY, even when they pretend they don’t.
It’s funny how these, “influencers,” seek public attention 24/7 yet are allowed to escape the public gaze when accountability is called for? She can afford elective surgery, trips to exotic locations and, as one journalist recently observed, she was sunning herself and relaxing as the press pack tracked her down and didn’t appear to be, “working,” at all, despite telling the court that she was.
And she has been playing the media game for decades now, so I don’t believe she doesn’t know what she’s doing, or is so, “vulnerable,” and alone, whilst paying for a film crew and her entourage to skulk off to Turkey.
She’s not just getting away with it, but rubbing our noses in it. I know people who are on medical waiting lists for surgeries that are not desired or, “elective,” by any description, yet she has the funds to pay for a fatter lip or whatever the heck she’s having done this time. It truly is sickening to me and I would like to see the courts send in a receiver to liquidate her assets and put them to the service of the country. Not coo and role over when she says she, “doesn’t like appearing in public,” and grant her video links to the court from around the bloody corner! THAT’S two tier justice! Always in favour of the monied class.
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That’s not accurate! Ukraine ceded its nuclear arsenal to Russia, yes. But IT IS CRUCIAL to understand that it was at AMERICA’S PERSUASION that they gave them up! In return for AMERICAN PROMISES OF PROTECTION from RUSSIAN AGGRESSION! And that support has been pusillanimous at best! We in the west OWE Ukraine, for going along with our desire to prevent nuclear proliferation and taking a MASSIVE RISK which backfired on them, BECAUSE we did not prevent a Russian invasion DESPITE PREDICTING IT AND WATCHING ITS PREPARATIONS IN REAL TIME!
And, now that Ukraine has been so badly let down, lost so many people, suffered so much loss, torture, theft, rape and humiliation at Russian hands, the VERY LEAST we in the west can do is see to it that they get EVERY SQUARE INCH of Ukraine BACK into UKRAINIAN HANDS!
“There is only one Nazi contingent in this conflict,” and they are sitting in the Kremlin, being lead by Putin!
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Well, I watched your video (compilation?) with great interest and was riveted. Your knowledge and expertise in languages is genuinely impressive, but unsurprising. Despite entertaining the Old Testament translation debates in a manner more original than I’m used to hearing from most theologues and cleverly expressed, I still feel it’s a trap unworthy of falling into, as the Old Testament laws are no longer pertinent to Christians who follow Christ’s teachings. However, you do go on to point this out, or reference Christ’s fulfilment of the laws. So, one could say you were simply being thorough and, as an academic, I’m sure you enjoyed the exercise for its own sake.
I was struck by how gently you touched on most points when drawing your conclusions; or even indirect?
I cannot deny I learned an awful lot, as I don’t have any other languages (not really), let alone ancient ones, and I have had to rely on the research of others and the help of books like The Strongest Strong’s for translation and deeper understanding.
I think you and I are closer to agreement on these issues than I first believed, though probably not 100%.
I thank you for the link and the education, though, entertaining and informative as it was. I have things to ponder and pray about as a result.
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Let us face facts. Conservatism is dead. The, “Conservative,” Party is already no more. Tories are a PLC masquerading as a political party. Even the most conservative voter has to admit that there is no single, “ideology,” to speak of, around which anyone within the party can unite, let alone the voting public.
We have witnessed years of incompetence, “personality,” politics and opportunism, combined with callous indifference to public welfare. We’ve seen carpet bagging and fleecing the last of the nation’s wealth, all conducted with a sense of urgency that you only see from jewellery shop thieves, clearing up before the inevitable arrival of the police.
And all of this is presented to us now, by a vacillating PM who employs his excuses of the week, which nearly always directly contradict his excuses of the previous week. A PM unfit for purpose and every bit as morally corrupted and personally vain as Boris Johnson ever was, yet he presents in the manner of a badly programmed Artificial Intelligence. His last interview was appalling.
I can only imagine that people who still vote for this party do so because they believe the lies of their client media, or because they’re downright racists . . . Or because they’re already very rich and see a pliable, corrupt [arty which will be easily manipulated for the right price?
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Honestly, I’m getting so tired of hearing about Farage and all this disproportionate coverage. I get why you would do it. He’s colourful, says things that stick with people and nearly always epically wrong. So there’s a lot to say, if you want to assist in raising his profile, and if you understand that Farage being wrong makes no difference to his success as a public figure. All he needs is ongoing discussion about him.
Like the figure of Colonel Kurts in Apocalypse Now, we didn’t need to see Marlon Brando for him to dominate the picture, because everyone talks about him the whole time, acts either for or against him and makes it clear throughout the entire journey that everything we see happening is happening because of him. The fact that we don’t even get a clear look at him by the end of the movie, and that he mumbles a few lines from the shadows before making his exit, was neither here nor there. It is still credited as one of Brando’s biggest films!
I think it’s related to, “The Streisand Effect,” in that respect. The press and people like you are building Farage up, way beyond all reasonable proportion. And the result will be that he will be empowered to take over the remains of the, “Conservative,” Party BECAUSE of people like you never shutting up about him! I’m certain there was an element of this distraction toward the bright and shiny objects involved in the rise of other historical dictators. And make no mistake, if everyone keeps playing his game, by his rules, fuelling him with the oxygen of attention, just because he says something a bit weird or different from the mainstream (right, wrong or indifferent) it will be those people (you included) who will have given him that power.
The Tories are being exposed for what their opponents have long suspected to a wider cross section of the public and it is merely the fact that they are so empirically awful that makes right leaning voters confused. They no longer see Farage as the purely risible clown figure he once cut, but not because he’s gotten any better, more competent, less of a blatant liar, but simply because he’s no longer distinguishable from the rottenness we see from Tories at every turn! And the pundits and MSM are turning him into that viable alternative!
You should act more responsibly, covering the many, many political issues and stories that are burning out there and limit your time on Farage to something more reasonable! Or forever take responsibility for the role you played in his rise to eventual power and the end of our democracy!
I know you think I exaggerate. I’m being, “hysterical,” or, “hyperbolic,” perhaps? Well, let us see how well these words age?
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Your words of wisdom are a balm to my troubled spirit in these unsettling times. I am grateful that you take the time to talk to us and offer an alternative perspective to the, “mainstream,” (a term I use advisedly in this case) norm.
Using Johnson’s connections, Truss has hit the money making circuit, apparently not thinking about what she actually planned to say, almost until the moment she got to the podium. There was a moment when she referred to the US Constitution and our Magna Carta, adding something like, “and there are many such documents I could name.” An awkward, if brief, pause followed during which I just WISHED that someone shouted out, “Can you really, Liz? Go on then? Name just one?”
But what alarmed me was that she was really pushing that Neo-Liberal agenda, from the, “think tanks,” that she belongs to (who are probably the source of her scripts?) and stating that she plans to stay in politics for that, “cause,” alone.
To me, her speech sounded like an advertisement. “I am available, along with all of my Westminster connections, for Lobby work and setting up private meetings,” was my translation.
We are increasingly creating a false sense of class in Britain, like the old Tudor notion of the, “worthy,” “impotent,” poor (which are, by design, very few in number) whilst everyone else must be seen as, “unworthy,” or, “indolent.” This seems to be born from a sense that the wealthy are directly threatened by the growing numbers of, “have nots,” so long as they remain enfranchised, educated and having access to accurate information. And the blatancy with which Britain’s elites are actively working to take away those three vital tools of democracy seems, to me at least, to be on the increase.
Every time I hear the term, “woke,” from the mouth of a far right hack like Cruella Braverman or Liz Truss, I feel it is a deliberate attempt to define a separation between, “them and us,” in direct opposition to the role and responsibility of a politician, who’s job is meant to be concerned with uniting the people.
I am unmoved by Truss’s bandwagoning attempts at baiting better people than herself in society, with such deliberate hostility she spits at those whom she meant to lead. That’s just like being harangued by an angry toddler who feels personally slighted at being made to go to bed. But I am disturbed that overtly divisive rhetoric is considered acceptable from this, “political,” party, which is so gleefully breaking its social contract by attacking its own population, rather than attempting to reason with them and calm their anger. When a party is all out of political ideas and has no longer got any, “ideology,” to lay claim to (other than an extremist version of neo-liberalism which they know the general public finds as unrealistic and immoral as proposing we become a communist dictatorship) people like Liz Truss are scraped up, from the very bottom of the barrel.
It’s the, “normalisation,” of allowing leaders to be actively hostile and baiting of those in their charge which is truly unprecedented in British politics. I only hope it becomes recognised as a key reason for their defeat at the next election?
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If you were to make a special video, looking more deeply into the ideas, history and uses of conspiracy theories, it would be worth discussing the use (abuse) of the Blood Libel which, as current events demonstrate, is alive and well to this day and has been since the early medieval period, in one form or other. Indeed, the blaming of, “migrants,” (for, “migrants,” see, “Jews,” in the history books) for horrific acts of violence, on highly spurious grounds, has ever been the cry of the privileged classes at the moments when they have felt their power slipping. That is all we’re seeing with these riots. And that is why no stone should be left unturned to discover the people funding and organising them.
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These rules already exist! You cannot be a, “news anchor,” as an MP, but all second jobs should be illegal in my view. The arguments to the contrary are completely specious! The real problem is that OFCOM is toothless and corrupted the by, “friends and families,” of Tory MP’s! THAT organisations needs to be completely swept clean and re-staffed with genuinely INDEPENDENT people who believe in DEMOCRACY, and invested with REAL POWERS to subpoena people, fine organisations, and make criminal referrals to the CPS!
Anything that levels the playing field, or makes media fair and balanced, the Tories oppose.
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Yes, we should introduce a Stolen Valour act, using the American model as a template. Within that act of Parliament, criminalising such fraud, there should be equal punishment for casting aspersions on the validity of genuine medal winners. An equal and opposite offence, for casting doubt upon people who have served their country with such excellence that they have won a medal for it, should be seen as equally egregious, as it does precisely the same thing! To claim a genuine medal recipient is, “faking it,” is to, “steal,” their, “valour,” in the eyes of the public for the purposes of personal, political, or otherwise tangible gain! It is no less despicable!
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When a political party has internally abandoned all pretensions of ideology and simply wishes to create a neo-liberal free-for-all, wild west, society of haves and have nots, this is what you get.
All of the crooks, who are considered, “talented,” at stealing Britain’s wealth, resources, industries, lands, etc. and selling it all off for personal profit, are put to work to do exactly that. So putting people in the shop window, as a front for the organisation, comes almost as an after thought. Liz Truss was scraped up from the very bottom of their barrel, to distract the press and their party members and keep them busy, while the elites who fund the whole operation from their, “think tank,” lobby groups could get on with the business of instructing, “our,” elected representatives on exactly what they’re going to do whilst in office.
That’s why truss is like a ghost of Victorian Christmas past, blaming the, “woke,” for her downfall, even though anyone with half a brain would tell her that the banks, financial institutions and back-stabbers of her own party were the ones who put an ignominious end to her idiocy, whilst the, “woke,” (whomever TF they are?) had no say in the matter.
That’s why they like Sunack for now. He’s quieter, not deliberately baiting the public (whom it is his, “job,” to, “unite,”) like Cruella Braverman is . . . at least not so much as people like her and Truss are.
And, because he’s willing to do unprecedentedly anti-democratic stuff, like locking the press OUT of their upcoming party conference, allowing them to train up their worker bees, our MP’s, in their dark arts in a shameless, unvarnished manner without ANY public scrutiny. Knowing they will to lose their mandate next year, they have about one year to clean us out completely, in an Everything Must Go sale of Britain’s best and brightest hopes.
They don’t want the likes of you and me paying attention to any of that!? So, they’ll have Braverman spew out a bit more borderline racism at about the same time as their conference, putting on a good dog and pony show for us all to get distracted by, while they’re going through your pockets (and any pockets you may own in the future) to clean them out.
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