Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "A Different Bias"
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I really hope that poll is a sign that the British public has soured on, “personality,” politics wholesale? Asking our politicians to, “perform,” for us, like Hollywood stars, or make us laugh, or to even have a noticeable personality at all is just SO NOT what we NEED. I’d settle for dull, boring competence, honesty and hard work, with a watchful eye out for the dirty tricks of the far right.
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So, just to get this straight: Braverman has been outed by the intelligence services as a security risk, on six separate occasions; she has been demonstrably incompetent, with several of her schemes either failing of their own accord or being shut down as, “unlawful,” by the courts; she deliberately, openly attacks half of the population, courting popular enmity - which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what a politician is being PAID so handsomely to do - and now she’s trying to make a virtue out of her abject bloody-mindedness FAILURE, at a time when WE NEED a population increase, doing everything she can to scare away decent, hard working migrants! It’s like she’s a sleeper agent working for China or Russia!
At least it gives the Labour Party the opportunity to make, “Stop The Boats!” the opposition’s battle cry, as the nation’s majority is clearly horrified by these Plague Ships! The sheer COST has been INSANE! Braverman must have Sunack’s goolies in a glass jar or something, and threaten to stomp on them if he fires her!? What hold on him must she have!? After already leaving in disgrace, she’s gone from bad to worse to country destroyingly worse!
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When she was Home Secretary, Teresa May LAMBASTED Labour for even putting forward the mere IDEA of ID cards. She said they were, “utterly un-British,” and more characteristic of Hitler’s Germany! A Hitlerian hyperbole that was considered not out of place for once. Now she’s no longer a victim of The Peter Principle (as she was a far better Home Secretary than she was as a hopeless PM) she’s gone back to actually doing her job, which is a vanishingly rare instance of a Tory MP who does what they get paid for. And she has been the Tory’s biggest thorn in the flesh (at least from an internal, party source) ripping down the flaws in the proto-fascist, “Stop The Boats,” bill. It does illustrate how far the Tories have sunk in such a short time, though. And I genuinely hope, regardless of Feckless Rees Mogg’s gut reaction in place of analysis, that their ID scheme WAS one of the factors that backfired so badly! I’ve never seen such scum rise to the top of our party political system as the egregious, hate filled, self dealing, thieving, little junta we have now. They deserve hell from the electorate. And period in the wilderness that’s long enough for all of these scumbags to become nothing more than bad memories.
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It’s understandable that Reform UK are seen as the main source that is siphoning votes from the Tories, and that’s a big story, as it’s Tories eating Tories; very much a theme doing the rounds presently. Granted, it’s clear that Tories would be losing if Reform didn’t exist. Also, granted, the Galloway result ought to be getting at least some coverage, as should the other groups with major gains, and I’d say that’s inexcusable for mainstream media to ignore these facts. But we also know that the client media have infiltrated the BBC at this point.
Unless Labour introduces some radical reforms to prevent this in future, during their first term in Parliament, that looks set to only get worse. The first sniff of danger in the air and the likes of Rupert Murdoch will start throwing money and bribes at Labour MP’s and courting them with positive press coverage, like they did on the run up to the 1997 elections.
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“Why didn’t they point out,” these various points? Because, A) they are vapid and don’t know these things. And, B) there is pressure on them from the three most senior figures at the BBC who are all well known Tory donors and activists and who have NO PLACE running the BBC.
And, yes, Ed Balls was a senior Labour MP, but he was disliked and distrusted in the party because he was always a snake who played both sides, and who cared far more about his own, “brand,” than any ideology. He is what political thinkers of the 1990’s all feared might happen as a consequence of Blairism: the ideology-free salesman; in it for the notoriety, the cash and the connections.
He’s NOT the sort of person who does his homework before an interview, or with any, “statesmanlike,” instincts enough to have even cared about the topics in hand. He’s a real piece of work and I wouldn’t be surprised if he JOINED the Farage party one day. All it would take is money.
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@ohyeah2816 : Never let ANYONE convince that there’s, “no point,” in writing to your MP. That’s just not true. Letters from the public alarm MP’s. If you are articulate, polite, but forthright on your issue, and willing to write several times, they will write back to eventually. They know that for everyone willing to write a well thought out letter, there are hundreds (possibly thousands) who feel the same way. If you tell them a bill on migration is an election issue for you, they now know it is for many others too, as these views never occur in a vacuum. They hope for your apathy. They survive on voter apathy. When you take that from them, they get all scared and willing to do things to make you go away.
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You all saw Jan 6th, right? They’re plotting a coup! It’s all planned. The conspiracies are set up to run, the infrastructure is in place to spread the word like wildfire; the muster points already selected; orders will go out to take away security measures just as the election is happening at state levels all over the country.
It’s his last chance and he is desperate enough to do anything!
We all have a responsibility to play our part in defending democracy world wide. Sadly, yet inescapably, that means looking to America. If their democracy fails, every other democracy in the world will fall thereafter. We just don’t have the means, physical or financial, to withstand China, Russia and America uniting against us.
YOU have a legitimate dog in this fight and a responsibility to do what you can; whether you donate to Harris’s campaign, raise awareness through videos like this one, join forces internationally with US YouTubers, whatever you can think of.
To each and every person reading this I say, take responsibility and stay within the bounds of decency and lawfulness, but fight for your democracy with every means at your disposal, as this is the big one. We either save worldwide democracy together in November’s American elections, or we get to tell our children about how things used to be better once and how we watched it all fall apart. It’s on YOU now.
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Even if the leadership of Labour seems somewhat uninspired in the eyes of conservatively leaning voters, it remains inarguable that the difference between both parties is stark! At the very least Starmer comes across as competent, unlike his counterpart, and has the added gravitas of experience, having served as the Attorney General under the last Labour government, rather successfully I might add.
People will surely be anticipating a PM with a good, broad knowledge and experience of criminal law with glee, considering how many enquiries are still ongoing into Tory criminality and anti-democratic rug pulling. Just reminding people that vote for Labour is a vote for ACCESS to previously hidden knowledge about the postal scandal, Covid, the water scandals and so much more!
With some amendments to existing laws and some root and branch reform of the committees’ powers and staffing, so they can subpoena the right people and recommend criminal procedures against the guilty parties, we might just get some long overdue JUSTICE.
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The irony is that their coverups draw more attention and cause them to be even less popular than the actual things they’re covering up! I mean, who TF will be even remotely, “surprised,” that all of these WhatsApp messages contain nothing more than a gag reel of sick jokes at the bereaved’s expense, confessions of knowingly doing harm, insider dealing for their friends and family’s brand new, “companies,” meant to provide the protection equipment for hospitals, and MP’s handing off all of their own responsibilities to civil servants!?
My dad, having had a series of mini strokes, was like that protagonist in the Christopher Nolan film Memento, where he couldn’t make new memories and he kept asking for his wife, my mum, whom we’d buried the year before. He had it explained to him over and over again that his four children were not allowed to be with him, and why, but forget again within minutes. So, in his world, he died of Covid, alone, and heart broken, unable to comprehend why he was alone.
After going through a series of loopholes, so I could get permission to attend his funeral, travelling from Scotland to England, I returned home, weary and emotionally exhausted, so I only have myself to blame for putting on a current affairs program. But the first image I saw when I got back, now SEARED into the scar tissue of my neuro-divergent brain, was some Tory press wonk, standing before the agog press and a live camera, ACTUALLY LAUGHING OUT LOUD at the drunken antics of Cabinet members and Number 10 staff at a series of parties for Boris Johnson’s birthday!
I can never relate that vertigo inducing sensation you get when you have been forced against your better judgement to place your trust in the government at a time of genuine, worldwide crisis, only to see that they drunk at the wheel! And LAUGHING IN YOUR FACE! I know there are many out there who went through something similar, some of them with worse mental health issues than me to begin with. And I will NEVER forgive or forget that utterly self-entitled, reckless, arrogant, cruel indifference to the fates of so many trusting fools like me.
So now, when I hear that they want to cover up what we all KNOW we will find - cruelty, selfishness, indifference, arrogance, theft under the guise of business as usual and flat out incompetence - I once again feel that revolutionary RAGE boiling in my blood. It will be good for the country when the Tories are sent into the wilderness and not allowed to re-enter the corridors of power until they’ve culled their far right deliberate antagonists of the people and self enriching Masonic lodge Liberal Economics clubs they call, “think tanks,” altogether. But in the mean time, we have one HELL of a mess to clean up and a MOUNTAIN of hard cash to reappropriate for the people who earned it.
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@Rich-ng3yy : Yet, much like your original comment, you don’t have any specifics. Only generalisations regarding, “Gaza,” or her being, “a weather cock,” in your opinion. Tell me what politician hasn’t said something they wish they could take back since the Hamas Attacks started this latest craziness? Or which politician isn’t a weather cock to some degree or other? But, unless you reference something she said, or something flip flopped on, you’re only expressing a, “feeling,” that you have about her, no facts.
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@Rich-ng3yy : You can relax. It didn’t annoy me. I was curious is all. I haven’t, “debated,” with you at all. Indeed, I was merely pointing out that there is nothing to debate. I cannot speak for, or about, your feelings. They are yours and you are entitled to them. But you didn’t qualify your remarks either, with an, “in my opinion.” You stated your views as though they were established facts.
I am not aware of her saying anything, “unfortunate,” or any of the other adjectives you attached to her public role, so I simply wanted to know what these incidents were.
You must understand, when you make comments about politicians that have value judgements attached to them, on a political channel, in response to a political comment, during an election period, it is natural that people will ask you to qualify your assessments. They may even wish to, “debate,” you, though I was seeking no such thing. I may have. But my questions were merely about getting more information, perhaps looking up the incidents in question, about which you may well have been right.
All of this to say, you have your, “feeling,” about her, and that’s fine. More power to you. She has said some things you found, “unfortunate,” but you cannot recall any of them, so that’s just a feeling too. That’s also fine, but it is equally meaningless in terms of offering anything to the discussion. Yet I would admonish you to expect, “debate,” on a channel which is pretty much for that purpose, and not act all surprised when people challenge assumptions, check your statements or, as was the case for me, merely seek clarification.
Hope this somewhat lengthy comment clears things up a bit? No harm, no foul. The rest is up to you.
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“CELEBRATES”??? Was that just Truss, knowing the reminders were coming anyway, doing the equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and shouting, “Lah, lah, lah! Not listening! Lah, lah, lah!” Yup. Everyone, not just Labour, can remind voters, “Truss, and the Truss supporters, still accept no responsibility and are STILL TRYING to do it again!”
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