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

  1.  @ADifferentBias  : He was part of the wrecking crew that ruined everything. Not like he hasn’t got blood on his hands. It just shows how far and how fast politics can plummet, I suppose. They really desperately need fresh talent.
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  2. “Tory disasters from the Tory election campaign . . . so far.” Just MUSIC to my ears. Suddenly I can enjoy the summer.
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  3. We had the same conversation about the Tories clinging on until things get better for them, late last year, and I said things would only get worse for them. Now, here we are. The only thing making things worse for the Tories is the fact that they won’t call the election. They can’t solve their civil war issues until they’re out of office and they’re annoying the public by looking desperate and obtuse.
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  4. MI5 should be investigating what is obviously terrorism, shouldn’t they? I’d bet real money that the funding and organisation will lead back to Russia. But, whomever is responsible for spreading the lies and said, “let’s meet at X time in X place,” is a terrorist.
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  5.  @davidcolin6519  : In fairness, the JSO protestors were causing criminal damage to irreplaceable art, or disrupting the roads with no concern for the potential harm their delays could cause to groups or individuals. Their reasons for their actions were ignored by the courts and they were only judged on what they did, not their motives, about which they are quite right. The judges in these cases are going to great lengths to let it be known that they will not get to air their grievances in court, or make a connection in their defence between the issues that drive their movement and the actions they take. Obviously the authorities intend to take away that stick before it even gets into the courtroom, so the press will have nothing about the issue (other than what is already in the public domain) to discuss when covering these cases. Smart, really. As it takes away the motive for committing such acts in the first place. But, setting aside that potentially lengthy debate, I just wanted to comment on your opening remarks. They were spot on. 100% agreement from me. You clearly get it and are speaking from a place of fact, not opinion. Or, at least, you are not mixing the two so as to blur the line. I admire that.
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  6. Ben Wallace needs to get into talks with Keir Starmer! In exchange for the supreme sacrifice of crossing the House, he could be offered a good job by the Labour Cabinet? Perhaps encouraging some others to come with him over subsequent weeks for maximum, drip, drip, “When’s the election, already?” effect? Sit down, Boris! No one wants you! The doors are slamming shut in all directions anyway for Wallace, as his seat was redefined by the new boundary reorganisation and he is believed to be one of the big beasts of Torydom at risk of losing his seat now anyway. He’s no longer guaranteed the Conservative voters of Preston and he’s at the mercy of Lancaster’s more cosmopolitan ministrations with a large student population to boot. Could he do a Chris Patton? He was a Tory who’s reputation for hard work and talent saw him being offered the governorship of HonKong by Tony Blair’s Labour government, overseeing the island’s transition back to China. Then he got a post chairing the BBC (which he wasn’t very good at in public meetings, that’s for sure) again, under Labour. Mr Wallace ought to apologise for his remarks last week, to wipe that blot off his copybook, and make some overtures to Keir Starmer, perhaps even to stay on in his defence post? He is already a known quantity in Europe with good relationships in the EU and NATO, which is no mean feat for a Tory. As is the fact that he appears to be untainted by any of their scandals. The pressure to become part of Johnson’s sewer, Truss’s mad house, and now Sunack’s pit of despair, incompetence, graft and insanity, all rolled into one must have been immense, so we might just have a Tory that’s worth something to the public interest here?
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  7. Even people who like Reform UK will have seen how Sisyphean the task of, “reforming,” immigration laws is. They’ve seen the Tories take L after L in the courts, trying to execute what (to a Reformer) must look like rather mild changes to the law, and Sunack’s humiliating, “purchase,” of a SINGLE asylum seeker to send to Rwanda, because he could only send the people who had already been refused asylum and who were willing to take £20K as a bribe, rather than be sent back to the place they were fleeing. So those potential voters are likely not to want to waste their votes on a no account party that isn’t going to move their needle anyway, aren’t they? Not that Reform voters are that bright or logical, so who knows?
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  8. I simply don’t get the logic here? The older a voter is, the more likely they are to support right wing policies and/or vote Tory, according to statistics. Yet, the older a person is, a tax payer who’s done it by the book all their lives, the more they stand to lose from losing National Insurance! Yet, knowing he cannot even implement his stated policy, Sunack makes this apparent declaration of hostile intent toward the very group to which he would normally look for his most loyal voters??? WTF? Can anyone explain that to me? It cannot JUST be that he’s inherently thick . . . Can it?
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  9.  @smoozerish  : I have never suggested it wouldn’t be. You have misread or misunderstood the comment. Unless you’re suggesting that we can pick and choose our national grid sources and only buy electricity from power stations that provide electricity from sustainable sources?
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  10. I hope that Sunak and Cameron can rally some of the old school Tories to help them hold the fort long enough to get a new leader that will be popular enough among their rank and file to keep most Tories happy and show the Badenoch’s and Braverman types the door. Britain will be much better off without raving swivellors like them anywhere near normal politics. They belong on the fringes. Actually, Braverman belongs in jail. She’s a security threat. And not just in the usual, too thick to be safe with responsibility, kind of way like Badenoch.
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  11. When you see that people want different things, but want people to engage in politics, not be divided by it, surely the goal is to reach across the isle and win over opponents. There are always things your political opponents want that you can give them, if you do your homework, without compromising your own vision. Biden achieved this in an American system that has never been so divided, passing a raft of legislation against the will of the far right, despite everyone predicting total paralysis. As it happens, American living standards have risen considerably, along with employment, trade, oil profits, soft and hard power, etc.
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  12. I do love this show. Thank you. So glad you clarified that point too, as I have heard people misinterpreting these findings. No one has been, “found guilty,” of anything. You can say they have been, “accused,” by the committee. Sort of . . . You never know? They might surprise us? Remember, everyone was debating whether Johnson might get 9 or maybe 10 days of suspension? People’s guesses veered between 30 days and none at all! We were all surprised at the massive slap down they gave him. Perhaps the Tories might choose to demonstrably, “clean house?” They may see an opportunity to divest themselves of their most careerist, opportunistic, corrupt and damaging MP’s who routinely present egregious law warping TV programs on GBN’s, “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Illegal,” “news,” shows? Maybe WishyWashy Sunack will find a pair and actually DO something to at least save some of the crew on the ToryTanic? Perhaps he is actually sick of corruption himself? . . . I can’t keep this up! Who am I kidding? Wishy Sunack’s glassy-eyed programming wouldn’t compute, let alone download, the word, “property.” The meltdown continues! “Blue on Blue action,” made me giggle though. 😁 You have a way with words, sir. 😆
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  13. This is the sort of clean up we’ve been waiting for! Cleaning up the board rooms along with the waterways they manage.
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  14. And of course, with the TV debates, the highlights get rebroadcast repeatedly on every news show. So just about everyone who’s going to vote will see those.
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  15. Do they actually WANT to get summarily kicked out of office?! Because this is exactly the type of anti-democratic, astonishingly arrogant, tone deaf, stunningly STUPID action that will achieve it. The sheer arrogance of acting like that’s a decision that’s within his gift! If he really thinks the press will happily allow them to get out all of their talking points with ZERO scrutiny, no reading of the room or reporting on reactions to keynote speakers and speeches, he’s in for a shock. Keir Starmer should respond to this news by announcing he plans to introduce legislation to BAN the practice of banning the press from the annual conference of the governing party! Please GOD let him be smart enough and quick enough to do that? This is a time when public trust in the democratic process is at an all time low, and Sunack’s Fascist tendencies are finally emerging when it counts! May the world show their disgust and force them to reverse this obtuse, inconceivably stupid, inexplicably self defeating decision.
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  16. Is it the case that Sunack’s real worry about Braverman is not about her eyeing the throne, but as a potential ally of Johnson’s or just an added concern, forcing Sunack to have to fight on two fronts? If he can see off Johnson comprehensively, perhaps Braverman’s stock falls concomitantly? Indeed, he may feel able to, “let her go,” or at least keep her on a very short leash from here on?
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  17. So, once again, we’re faced with EU red tape that is actually Brexit red tape, which never used to exist until Brexit, and no plan was ever made beyond the day we left the EU. Same ole’ same ole’. We’ll be paying for Tory cravenness for decades unless we change up our game.
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  18. I’m just wondering how many other people did what I just did? Which was to pause this video while I typed, “Rees Mogg heckled at conference,” into YouTube’s search box and spent a minute watching the Guardian clip of it? It was pretty good and that man deserves some acclaim.
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  19. Clarkeson is just another waning, “celebrity,” who sees no alternative to creeping obscurity other than leaning into the very thing that cost him his popularity over time, his vile, selfish, ignorant, entitled misanthropy, repackaged as, “anti-wokery,” or something.
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  20. Appointing a new, unbiased Chair of the BBC would be a huge benefit to public discourse. That institution needs to do a lot of work to restore its damaged reputation. A Chair who does not have a record of being a party donor would be a start. And one with appropriate experience in journalism would be a step up! And certainly someone who does NOT set up personal financial deals for the appointing PM! Throughout my long life (I’m 57), the BBC was always disappointing at times, but in a way that was human and just down to occasional misjudgements. Now it’s a Tory leaning propaganda machine, throwing out occasional sops to the left, just to fight the obvious accusations they’ve earned. OFCOM has been BLATANTLY Tory, flatly REFUSING to enforce the law when the Tories break them! They need to be root and branch reformed or scrapped and replaced, for an organisation with clout, zeal and commitment!
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  21. Not even about the time on the wall clock. Very much agreed.
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  22. Isn’t this why we have suspensions? To protect the public? If he’s innocent he’ll be cleared. If guilty, he could be deepening the trauma and damage of constituents who are relying on him for help, unless he’s under suspension. Suspend him.
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  23. But I thought it had been proven by science that she is a, “mendacious, vacuous goon,” to a clinical standard? She was being PAID to understand the subtleties of how public broadcasting works and she didn’t even know that Channel 4 is completely free to the consumer! Perhaps she was so uptight about their top notch journalism to do her homework? Who knows, but she was thick as two short planks in that hearing.
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  24.  @wolfen210959  : There’s a lot of it about. The Guardian used to have impeccable standards, but it really is going down hill it seems to me.
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  25. This seems like new phenomenon that has stunned the population into a kind of confused inactivity. A new breed of Brown skinned Brown Shirts whom it’s hard to call out for their obvious racist dog whistling due to the colour of their skin, yet it’s obvious they are pulling up the rope ladder that their parents used to get them into their privileged position. We thought Pretty Patel was bad? Braverman is hacking at the rope ladder with a meat cleaver! She might as well be a sleeper agent for the Chinese or Russians at this point! I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what they found! Both left wing AND right wing analysis of geo politics is pointing one thing! WE NEED A POPULATION BOOST! We ESPECIALLY NEED the type of young people with the drive and determination to risk everything to get here, and the sort of integrity to prefer that dangerous option to giving in to the dictatorships they are fleeing! China and Russia are both on the brink of economic implosions, for a range of reasons, but right at the heart of both is the fact that their populations are shrinking, and they’re being left with an increasing number of elderly retired people whom the state cannot generate enough income to look after, as the number of working youth, generating income they spend to stimulate the markets and that all important TAXES which pay to prop up the state, are vanishing! Our population has stagnated and desperately NEEDS an injection. The nations willing to do what it takes to create a baby boom, or welcome migrants willing to do all those ONE MILLION (count them! ONE MILLION PLUS!) JOBS going begging in the UK, that we don’t want to do, especially for the terrible wages, are the nations that will come out on top in the next 10 years and will have financial assurances lasting 30 years beyond that. But, no . . . This corrupt administration will cling to power for as long as possible, NOT in the hopes that they can turn things around, despite telling the press that, but simply to raid the sweeties from the sweetie shop before it shuts its doors on them for a generation of wilderness years! By their OWN SUMS government losses, due to, “Waste, Incompetence and FRAUD,” has gone up in the last five years almost 1,000%!!! How MUCH has it cost them to keep those figures out of the headlines, do you think? Over £26 BILLION POUNDS! I’m genuinely wondering if we should treat the Tories as a national security threat? They just seem to want to break the country so as to ensure Labour could never hope to fix it again?
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  26. To your thumbnail, “Has Daddy Trump Dropped Farage?” I would ask, “Did daddy trump ever pick him up?” I doubt he even remembers meeting him, let alone who he is? If I were Starmer, I would say, “You have a point, Mr Farage. And to that end, I am announcing an independent panel, with subpoena power and priority referral power to the CPS, who will be charged with investigating the entirety of Parliament for ANY AND ALL infractions. They will be making recommendations to close any legal loopholes in the law and will be a permanent oversight body, charged with reviewing and maintaining standards on an ongoing basis.” Then just sit back and watch all the rats scurry off for cover.
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  27. How many of his own supporters must there be who palm-slap their foreheads whenever a question is put to him on ANY subject whatsoever, only to see him go all glassy eyed and start reciting his ChatGPT routine of the Five Bogus Pledges? Remember that whole joke about the lettuce lasting longer on the shelf than Truss’s premiership? Well, it turned out they gave that lettuce the job! He’s like a Stepford Husband, with minus one personalities! “Out of touch with the public”? He’s not even in touch with an interviewer, when he’s on live TV! “Leadership”? He has NO OPINION about ANYTHING! What about the Boris vote? = Five Bogus Pledges What about the state of affairs in Russia = Five Bogus Pledges Rising cost of living? = Five Bogus Pledges Inflation? = Five Bogus Pledges Tell us more about these five pledges, as that seems to be going badly wrong, doesn’t it, PM? = Well, we’re out of time and oh look over there! Shiny shiny! What have we DONE??? 🤦‍♂️
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  28. Didn’t Farage already leave the country, as promised?
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  29. I suppose the Tories are using a, “Wag The Dog,” tactic? Get Labour to deny an obviously crazy policy allegation, then print their denials as, “evidence,” that they don’t mean what they say. Just get the outlandish into the headlines and let the easily startled herd do the rest.
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  30. I’m banned from Tw@er from the day I signed up. It kept forcing me to go through all these, “data scraping,” steps and shoving Elon Musk in my face, to the extent that I responded to his Tw@ by telling him why he was so wrong, dog whistling to the incel-fascists of the Alt-Wrong and that I just wanted to read people’s Tweets without having his dumbary shoved at me. Banned that same day! Without ever having Tw@ed! 😂
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  31. I was excited to get your take on these developments. And you don’t disappoint; unlike every Tory MP. 😉👍
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  32. Yeah, Mr Gauke? Who let the extremists in?
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  33. When you think of all the journalists, wonks and pundits who have had to buy this book, purely for professional reasons, and the number of MP’s and hangers on in her circle who had to buy it to stay in her, ahem, “good books,” that number represents a much bigger failure! How many actually bought that book out of interest? My guess is actually zero!
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  34. It’s like trying to communicate with a badly formatted ChatGBT bot. He may have lasted longer than a lettuce, unlike his predecessor, but having him as PM as as though that lettuce won the contest and got the job! It’s not even a lack of charisma with Sunack, as you could (as you say) accuse Starmer of the same thing. Sunack is a subtraction of personality! Try to get him to answer ANY QUESTION without him going to default setting and giving us his glassy eyed Stepford Husband impression while he recites his five BOGUS targets! He’s got less personality than a ZOMBIE, but he does more harm than a zombie horde!
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  35.  @foobar476  : Indeed. Now is not the time to take Mogg’s word for anything. Where venal gut reactions and excuse making takes the place of analysis, we can count on Mogg to be comprehensively wrong about everything. It won’t even occur to them that their policies are repellant and that people see it as fundamentally un-British to exploit THE most vulnerable people on the face of the Earth as a political football, let alone the fact that they care about fair economics and the cost of living, far more than us helping some desperate people in boats who would willingly contribute to our economy by doing the jobs that we all hate to do, if we would but let them! God, I actually HATE these politicians right now! Something I have never felt before in my long life.
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  36. If you don’t like cringe comedy, these last few years of Torydom must have been agony? I thought all investment bankers were just people from wealthy families with friends in the city, not good at anything. Why else did he get booted from the city and into an already flailing Tory party if he was any good?
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  37. I have a feeling that’s coming. They’re doing root and branch reviews of each department, shattering the traditional Tory playbook where they usually get to say, “Oh look how expensive and time consuming Labour’s plans are!” Soon, Labour will be pointing to each INDEPENDENT review outcome exposing the cravenness, callousness, waste, incompetence and corruption of the Tories, laying the, “blame,” for each mess where it belongs. But how soon before the patterns emerge and people start connecting the dots? How soon will it become apparent that there was a systematic and organised approach to sabotaging every public service, so that private companies could get to act like, “white knights,” saving the health service, the police, schools, etc, by buying up the lot outright and privatising EVERYTHING? To me, that looks (and has always looked for the last 10 years at least) like a conspiracy!
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  38. How long, I wonder, before people start looking at the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews and start joining the dots? To me, it has always looked like a deliberate conspiracy to drive all public services into the ground, so that industry bosses get to look like white knights, supposedly, “rescuing,” the floundering prison services, health services, policing, education, water, transport and whatever else they can lay their greedy mitts on. Start putting the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews together and they will reveal a pattern of consistent planning, from the top, almost as if putting a city banking hedge fund manager in charge of Britains resources was a bad idea. By electing a Labour government, we have literally just saved the country at the very cliff edge, from being broken up and sold off in packages to any foreign oligarch-investor that wants political clout in our country. And the people most culpable would have been given knighthoods and seats in the Lords, instead of going to jail where they belong!
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  39. Absolutely. It may well come to that. How long, I wonder, before people start looking at the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews and start joining the dots? To me, it has always looked like a deliberate conspiracy, to drive all public services into the ground, so that industry bosses get to look like white knights, supposedly, “rescuing,” the floundering prison services, health services, policing, education, water, transport and whatever else they can lay their greedy hands on. Start putting the outcomes of each of these departmental reviews together and they will reveal a pattern of consistent planning, ordered from the top, almost as if putting a city banking hedge fund manager in charge of Britains resources was a bad idea. By electing a Labour government, we have literally just saved the country at the very brink, from being broken up and sold off in packages to any foreign oligarch-investor that wants political clout in our country. And the people most culpable would have been given knighthoods and seats in the Lords, instead of going to jail where they belong!
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  40.  @chaptermastermarneuscalgar6926 : You touch it with a needle. They should definitely start by replacing the Chair of the BBC. His biases have contaminated the entire organisation and made a once great and respected institution into just another mouthpiece for the most powerful and loud voice in the room. The PM has that power and doesn’t need a specific reason to do it. We could do with someone independent from ALL political causes and certainly NOT a party donor, like the one we have now. That change would have a massive effect on the institution of journalism as a whole and serve as a warning to other outlets to watch their step. And we have seen that self regulation doesn’t work on the Murdoch press, so it’s time for independent watchdogs, with TEETH, to be set up.
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  41. Thanks for the giggles mixed with righteous indignation into a perfectly, piquant flavour. “Sunack Cost Fallacy,” works on so many levels it’s practically inter-dimensional! Yeah, I saw what you did there, alright.
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  42. I don’t care how drunk you are. If you joined a Farage riot, you’re obviously a racist. I don’t believe them. But, I don’t turn racist or feel the need to commit acts of violence when I’ve had a drink. Am I really so, “unique?”
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  43. Kemi Badenoch FRIGHTENS people! She doesn’t connect with ANYONE! She is only known for being thin skinned and baring grudges, personality wise. Beyond that she is well known for being comprehensively thick! What is this, “X factor,” that the Telegraph is dreaming of?
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  44. I wonder if anyone at all regrets electing Farage in his constituency? Now that he’s said that he isn’t doing surgeries, hasn’t taken any interest in constituency affairs, isn’t spending any time there and is barely spending any time in the same country? Probably very few, depressingly enough.
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  45. Oh, let’s be honest here? Who among this last bunch of Tory f ups would be considered, “employable,” in the REAL WORLD? With their scandals, corruption and abject failures, written in scarlet across their CV’s!? They are only, “employable,” among their own kind, where people graft without doing any work. That’s the price you pay for betraying the British people.
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  46. I just don’t get it!? This, “Stop The Boats,” policy was dropped on us out of a clear blue sky! NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS! Britain actually NEEDS population growth! This racist dog whistling is playing to the smallest gallery in British politics! We have all that potential financial activity from young people seeking all these low paid jobs that Brits refuse to do, as well as all the other jobs that so many of these asylum seekers ARE qualified for! That’s TAXABLE contributions, desperately needed, to our economy!
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  47. I saw Lord Haw Haw, otherwise known as Jacob Reese Mogg, being challenged on his own channel, by a guest interviewee, trying to explain why what the Tories are doing is both immoral and illegal. He used vivid analogies of, “Dickensian,” dystopias, evoking images of, “prison hulks,” and, “convict transportation,” and then explained that none of this legislation fits in line with international law. He said that Putin is even using our flouting of international law for his propaganda purposes, with a legitimate case! When evil pr*cks like Vladimir Putin can take the moral high ground over our politicians, you KNOW you have to REMOVE the ruling party. Lord Snot quickly killed the interview in mid sentence and it was priceless viewing. I thought it was just a clickbait title but checked it out anyway. I was rewarded with a genuine, “car crash interview,” in which the interviewer had, once again, assumed he was preaching to the choir, only to discover his guest has a brain which works. Vote, vote, VOTE!
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  48. They seem to be doing everything in their power to get themselves voted out of office? The SHEER ARROGANCE of acting like they have the RIGHT to exclude the public from their own party political process is ASTONISHING! This is supposed to be a democracy!
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  49.  @AceBanana100  : What does that even mean?
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  50. You mean, we might actually get some grownups on the grownup committees? There was a time when that would just be a basic state of affairs. Hardly a cause for celebration, but good news nonetheless.
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