Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1.  @pip1723 : It’s the only compensation we get as a nation, for having to put up with an unjustifiable amount of his presence on mainstream media. After all, Ed Davy doesn’t get nearly as much airtime and has to fling himself off a bridge just to get noticed, and he stands a realistic chance of forming the opposition. Farage may win his seat and the best case scenario for him is that his party gets two seats total. Yet he’s everywhere right now. But, the downside for him is that the nation (just occasionally) gets to see an adult ask him grownup questions and watch him crumble under pressure or flee the interviewer like he was Rishi Sunak meeting a poor person. Hopefully we’ll get more of that stuff to help voters make up their minds.
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  2. Making the offer is corruption. And we must remember, just because no laws are broken, doesn’t mean it isn’t, “corruption,” by the definition of the word.
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  3. I saw the interview with the journalist who wrote that account, on YouTube’s Times Radio channel. What struck me most of all was what their talks actually broke down over. Not once did either of them bring up the future of their party; the future of Brexit; the good of the country; NOTHING! They BOTH talked about what they wanted personally and fell out in an unsightly squabble over the baubles, like two carpet baggers scrapping over the last jewels that fell out of the crown, before leaving the country forever! Truly sickening! I just can’t wait for the election, and I hope the word gets out everywhere about tactical voting. Time the Tories became the third party in politics and culled its racists, trolls, thieves and dividers out there in the wilderness, rather than making the nation suffer for every hair brained thieving scheme they hatch, or the infighting that gets in the way of their doing their jobs so badly! Make CERTAIN of your registration and VOTE!
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  4. Yeah, I’m expecting an announcement that the Tories will ban time travel and Terminator bus drivers next. 🤷‍♂️
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  5. Why vote for a party with no policies? Are they MAD?
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  6. I’ve always said that Labour are the new conservatives, ever since Tony Blair’s day.
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  7. I beg to differ, when you said MP’s were less likely to choose a leader who was truly awful. The last four leaders of the Tories were disastrous for both their own party and for the whole country.
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  8. It was not just, “insulting,” to Puerto Ricans. It was downright threatening. Any citizens of South American descent should be very alarmed.
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  9.  @Zandra747  : Even if the Labour govt has to compel them by this time next year, perhaps? Speaking of, “ships that have sailed,” the ToryTanic is one, “boat,” that Britain would like to, “stop,” and sink on sight.
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  10. Oliver Dowden calls for an investigation into the matters that will now, inevitably be investigated anyway . . . by the incoming government. Probably hoping to cover his own arse for capitulating to and collaborating with the enemy.
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  11. Yes! That’s why I’m encouraging anyone who will listen to join the Tactical Voting campaign in their area, and look up what’s organised on both a national and local level on the web. 👍
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  12.  @grahamgriffiths7405  : At least they have some. Tories don’t have any answers. 😁
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  13. Can’t say I blame you. But, please don’t hold it against the population of Britain? We were lied to, we knew it, but we found out that they’d even lied to us about their lies . . . Well, obviously it’s not likely to happen, even if we go cap in hand to Europe and make self-destructive concessions. But we might well be able to cut a new, uniquely modelled deal? In the manner that Norway and other have? . . . That’s my hope, at least?
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  14.  @samhartford8677  : Why would you? No reason I can think of. Like I said, I don’t blame you. But, in the end, it will be the MONEY that makes that decision, nothing else. It’s ALWAYS the MONEY. But, other countries have special arrangements without the Diva disruptions, so obviously, we would hope to set up something like that? Something of mutual interest. However badly things have gone in Britain lately, we still have a giant, leading economy. And no one walks away from the money. Not ever. That’s just physics.
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  15.  @samhartford8677  : Ah, but who’s money? The people who stood to get rich from Brexit, got rich from Brexit. Now, some of those same people are about to lose their power, and their money, but that’s short term greed for you. I wish it wasn’t money that decides these things, but it ALWAYS is. Just, not your money. And just because they haven’t broadcast it in their campaign speeches, doesn’t mean the data isn’t there. Look it up?
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  16. This year, I have seen an unusually high level of campaigners begging voters to, “study the form,” and vote TACTICALLY. Personalities and YouTubers of all kinds, appealing to the public to get the Tories out at all costs. The idea being, whomever seems to be the strongest candidate most likely to beat the Tory in your respective area, vote for that person, regardless of party, so long as they are NOT Tory or anyone right of them. I figured, if they were successful, we would see increases for both Labour and Lib-Dems all over England. It seems to be baring fruit?
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  17. So, Farage wants to go and live abroad because Britain is rubbish now, due to inexplicable domestic breakages, and he’s been casting about for excuses to explain away his utter treachery and betrayal of his supporters.
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  18. Raab’s own comments make it clear to the general public (if it wasn’t clear already?) exactly what kind of bully he is and obviously was whilst in post. He might as well just be calling his victims, “snowflakes!” Sunack classic: Try not to upset anyone and end up upsetting everyone.
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  19. Well, obviously it’s not likely to happen, even if we go cap in hand to Europe and make self-destructive concessions. But we might well be able to cut a new, uniquely modelled deal? In the manner that Norway and other have? . . . That’s my hope, at least?
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  20. It’s a fitting caricature. At a time when Prison Hulks are reappearing on our coastlines, and the most vulnerable people ON EARTH are being used as a human football; whilst the Tories act as though they have the, “right,” to hold their next conference behind closed doors, as if they were just some fringe party and not the, “governing,” power, locking Britain OUT of the democratic process; after all the corruption and entitlement we’ve uncovered, which is exactly what we uncovered after the last time the Tories had a prolonged period in office under John Major, merely proving that they are incapable of learning any lessons from past scandals and continue to literally TRAIN their protégés in the art of getting away with murder; I could just keep going all day, but suffice it to say . . . My honest conclusion is that they WANT us to fear them. We are moving toward a dictatorship, and we really should be flooding the streets with protestors, demanding not only that the Tories reverse their decision to lock the press out of their conference, but laws should be introduced, making such abjectly anti-democratic actions ILLEGAL. And with harsh consequences!
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  21. That letter frankly astonished me! Any civil servant could use that letter as evidence for why they were right and Raab was unfit for his job! He stopped just short of calling his victims, “snowflakes!” And this specious, “argument,” that Rees Mogg pushed, “Why shouldn’t a minister get angry if his civil servants let him down?” really misses the point . . . deliberately. Yet, I haven’t heard a journalist put it to him that getting angry is not the issue, but there’s a big difference between correcting your staff and threatening them with ACTUAL BODILY HARM in front of all of their colleagues! Raab belongs in a psychiatric unit and is clearly incapable of dealing with a high stress environment . . . He can CREATE a high stress environment! But he doesn’t have the first clue how to put out his own fires. His, “getting his retaliation in first,” letter of resignation clearly demonstrates his aggressively defensive and narcissistic obtuseness.
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  22. GBeebees is getting money from Russia. And they see propaganda as an investment. So they don’t need to make money.
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  23. Is he going to join the Tories? Is this him preparing for his bid? Is he planning to use the position the way trump uses his? As a shield between him and a jail cell?
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  24. Honestly, it’s never the hypocrisy, cowardice or abuse of trust that the right wing press routinely demonstrates that surprises me. It’s the fact that they always get away with it, even after they’re exposed! Why does the public put up with this sh*t?
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  25. How is this even LAWFUL???
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  26. I didn’t quite follow what, “Horizon,” actually is? Something to do with cooperating on technology, or science? I wish you had explained it, for dunces like me? But everything else in this video was vividly clear. I very much like your style. You get a lot of information out in a clear, comprehensive, unvarnished way, trusting your audience to infer what they will from the facts, without putting any, “spin,” on it. That’s something we used to be able to rely on the BBC’s political analysts for, but it saddens me to say we simply can’t any longer. Not that the BBC is, “terrible,” but ever since it became a political football (since the early 1990’s. At least, that’s when I noticed the change in tone and constant implicit threats made in Westminster regarding the renewal of their Charter, or their license fee?) I’ve seen a bizarre twisting of, “agendas,” within the organisation, where they seem to want to please everyone and end up pleasing no one. It doesn’t seem to occur to Auntie that she should simply remain unbiased altogether. Anyway. I love the name of your channel, btw. A Different Bias is sort of a stroke of genius, if you ask me . . . which you didn’t, but there you go. I’m getting sort of addicted to this channel. I always come away feeling like I’ve had a good gossip about Westminster with a smart guy who can fill the gaps in my knowledge without making me feel thick about it. A bit like a big brother you look up to. Thanks. 👍
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  27.  @stewie7338 : All media.
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  28. Yes, if we got all three of those names at the end, Patel, Truss and Badenoch, (add Braverman to that too) then we really would see the old guard making a huge comeback. Or we should. Maybe they would FINALLY get the message that it has been their lurching to the extreme right that has genuinely alarmed and upset the voting public? Ironically, the only people who still believe too thick to get that point would be those three.
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  29.  @Noel-ji8nm  👈🤖 Beep Boop. 🤣
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  30. It seems you’re getting legged up a lot by, “events, dear boy, events,” these days. All just signs of the, “interesting times,” we’re living in. Humza Yousaf never struck me as, “quite nice.” I live in Scotland. I’ve heard him speechifying about how angry he is that people in positions of power here are predominantly white. The country’s population is still overwhelmingly white and, while I will always support good faith attempts at addressing inequality in all walks of life, there has been something truly sinister the wording of his newest legislation (which breaks the law, by his own definition) articles and speeches. You just cannot give the power and tools of oppression over to a new, previously marginalised, group and call it solved. But it seems that some radical thinkers prefer this alternative to actually addressing the hard and challenging work of good faith education. No one in Scotland (other than SNP members) will feel particularly upset, or even distracted, by this development. And I think that is sufficient commentary in and of itself as to the caliber of politician we’re talking about here.
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  31. Carole Vorderman believes there’s a real chance (“statistically speaking”) that a tactical voting campaign could knock the Tories into third place at the next election. She understands the numbers and she’s clearly passionate, but I don’t know how well she understands the electorate? I wonder what you think, Phil?
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  32. Musk bans people from Twitter routinely. Everyone knows this. He’s a classic case of the accuser being guilty of what he accuses others of.
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  33. To the several people who have replied: Thank you all for your kindness and humanity. You have each in your individual ways been instrumental in the (partial) healing of a broken heart. The mere fact that you cared at all matters more than words can express. Humanity is not the complete waste of evolutionary energy that I often suggest in other places. Each tiny stitch closes the wound, regardless of the scar.
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  34.  @johnmorrison9424  : Blatantly obvious about being sneaky. That’s called, “ARROGANCE.” The mere fact that he thinks he can get away with that without causing a storm of protest, and backlash from the very press he’s so reliant upon, should astonish us all. If he’s made deals with the right wing press, so that they wind up being the only source from within the conference, peddling Tory talking points for them, without us ever getting to hear the boos, read the atmosphere of the receptions of certain politicians, or get any sense of what the rank and file Tory thinks of certain keynote speeches, then that will just be one more nail in the coffin of our democracy. It should be illegal.
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  35. Tories have been suffering buyer’s remorse since they flung open their doors to anyone they thought might win them a seat or appease a minority that only exists on the fringes of their party and NOT in the voting public. He really ought to cull the far right as they are the anchor holding them back anyway. But, he’s clearly both incompetent and craven, so it makes little difference to the rest of us.
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  36.  @jamesrussel1133  : Having said all that, yes, there will be a collectible value to the thing after it’s been pulped and no one talks about her anymore. I don’t know how the rare books market works, but I do know a woman who was offered over £1,000 for a book she was using as a doorstop. That had something to do with a message being penned on the fly leaf by the author though, I think. Something tells me Truss is holding doors open for lots of journalists across the land, as we speak?
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  37. I’m so glad these studies, reviews and reports are being done, and I bet the civil service must be delighted that they’re finally being listened to and they’ll be helping the government diligently to get all the facts. These detailed reports PROVE to the British people that only time, hard work and tax payer money can repair the appalling damage the Tories have done. And voters will not blame Labour for Tory sabotage.
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  38. I would be utterly unsurprised if these WhatsApp exchanges amounted to little more than a gag reel of sick jokes at the bereaved’s expense and evidence that ministers knew they were actively doing real-world harm, and handing off their responsibilities to civil servants, because they had no clue as to how anything works. My suspicion is based upon the very firm foundation of my own experience of finally coming home after the funeral for my dad, who died of Covid, for which I had needed special permission to travel to England from Scotland to attend, and which had been complicated by my dad’s mental health which made his death particularly hard and cruel, only to switch on the TV to see a Tory press spokesperson LITERALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD to members of the press, in front of camera, and for some reason believing this would not somehow become a headline story! LAUGHING, by the way, at the drunken antics of Cabinet members and Number 10 staff at Boris Johnson’s birthday party! Nay, PARTIES, plural! I was so emotionally damaged by that experience that I could have physically harmed Johnson had he been within blind rage shot! I carry that vertigo inducing sense of horror and despair at the realisation that the very people in which you have placed your trust at a time of crisis, are literally drunk at the wheel and think the whole thing is FUNNY! I kept seeing those (ironically enough) WhatsApp images of my dad, unable to make new memories, asking where his children were, having it explained to him, yet again, and then forgetting and only knowing he was dying alone, abandoned by his loved ones for no reason he could understand. That image is SEARED into the scar tissue of my brain. There is no, “healing,” that. But, every time I hear of yet more attempts to either play games with the truth, or to bury ANY of it, for a PUBLIC enquiry that THEY set up, I once again want to strangle a Boris Johnson type. They should just arrest the lot of them and get warrants to turn over every nook and cranny of their private spaces. Lord knows what they’d find!
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  39.  @meromorfu  : Mmm . . . I did begin to wonder about something like that.
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  40. Oh, this video will trigger the bots. Anything about trump automatically sets off the Russian St Petersburg algorithm and the massive range American nut jobs and bots in a pincer move across the global web. Of course, trump plans to end democracy, since he plans to stay out of jail, let alone massage his psychotic ego.
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  41. I honestly thought that title read, “Sunack’s A Budget Hole,” for a second. Getting rid of National Insurance is presumably part of their dystopian mania for privatising policing, health care and all education?
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  42. Pence just didn’t want to get indicted, because he understood the law better than his frothing at the mouth colleagues. He does not have, “back bone.” He is, “as corrupt as trump,” but had a more adult understanding of what would follow if he’d attempted to back his coup. You don’t need to look very hard to see Pence is an invertebrate.
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  43. You saved the real reason for the last part of your video there. They want to create mistrust and give themselves both excuses for failure and recklessly create civil unrest around elections.
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  44. Rayner is one of Labour’s biggest assets. Everyone I know says they think so and most of them love her. I do. She’s got everything that the, “personality politics,” fans look for with none of the drawbacks. She’s attractive, articulate and fizzing with performative style and aplomb at PMQ’s. The fact that she seems to genuinely care about the poorest and most vulnerable people in Britain is just another boon. I think the Tories want us to think of her as, “Marmite,” because their entire political model is about exploiting division wherever they can find (or create) it. But that doesn’t make it so. Sure, there will always be a small minority of people who will hate her accent, and read her directness and eloquence as bluntness and haranguing. But who are these people? The very rich and snobbish, who fear her, and the Tory MP’s who are SO afraid of her that they will enter a Stasi level CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to get their Tory pals in the police to dredge through her past to find ANYTHING they can call a, “crime,” without ANYONE, EVER laying a formal complaint! That’s desperation! Treat ALL Tory attitudes toward Rayner with deep suspicion.
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  45. The main reason Tories haven’t got a hope at the next election, regardless if Sunak could pull off some sort of economic miracle and make us all rich, is their relentless desire within their ranks to reinstate an obviously corrupt and self dealing man in the top job. Johnson is their Achilles Heal, yet they’re all too blind to even see that. They might as well be trying to get Bernie Madoff into Number 10! And they wonder why we don’t trust them!?
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  46.  @witthyhumpleton3514 : A well phrased retort. You win the internet today. 🏆 tadah! 🥳
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  47.  @Buckets1000  : Well, what I suggested was NOT, “rejoining,” but something different. From a purely NOT-EMOTIONAL point of view, I see it as highly likely. People just seem to like MONEY. They’ll do almost ANYTHING to have some for themselves. They’re funny that way 🤷‍♂️
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  48. Personally, I’m grateful that you dialled down your coverage of the US elections, since I find that topic unutterably depressing. Yes, I acknowledge that it matters more than any other election outside of British ones and that the fate of the world seems to depend upon the outcome. But those are just two of the many reasons I find it so deeply distressing. I hope that Britain and Europe will take the breathing space of this next Democrat government to put measures in place that will make us less dependent on America’s wealth and military power, and a stronger opponent of Russia’s attempts at invading Europe.
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  49.  @bluefarie10 : I’d go with Nero. He had Johnson’s tendency to vacillate over important decisions and to hand them over to conflicting interests to fight it out amongst themselves, just like Nero. Plus, they were both romantics with a warped sense of their own, “destiny,” inspired as much by the arts as reality.
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  50. You made a series of very excellent points there. The only thing I would have added to your list of reasons was when you spoke about government officials taking, “the path of least resistance,” what we’re really discussing is, “Appeasement.” And that’s the watchword that needs to be drummed into the Labour government. If I was the party manager I would be drilling this term into every single MP’s head, personally and collectively, wherever possible. “Watch out for ANYTHING that smacks of APPEASEMENT,” even a little bit. And I would remind them all that even if we kowtowed to everything trump wanted, he would STILL find a reason to get mad at us and try to, “punish,” us for something. And, knowing that his wrath is inevitable, we should make our choices accordingly, and let him be angry at us for doing the right thing, rather than failing to bow and scrape low enough. “Appeasement,” is the buzzword that we need to fill the pages of the press with, so the national gets an unambiguous grasp of what their government is doing, even when the wrong-wing press tries to spin it some other way.
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