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