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