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

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  29. Let’s face it? What the government should be putting in every single speech that references the economy should contain three major talking points, for the rest of this Parliament. 1) The last budget of the Truss government EXCLUDED the OBR, the Bank Of England AND the Treasury! 2) The last budget of the Sunack government EXCLUDED the £20 + BILLION POUNDS MISSING and HIDDEN from the public, whilst the Tory government’s OWN FIGURES confirmed a RECORD BREAKING £26 BILLION POUNDS LOST to, “Waste, Incompetence and Fraud!”!!! 3) The last Tory government, despite being questioned about this in every forum imaginable, from the press, to the Commons and Lords, to the COURTS and sworn statements in government committees, have yet to offer ONE SINGLE, “benefit,” that Britain reaps, or is yet to receive, from Brexit! Not ONE Tory minister, or any minister from other parties that are pro-Brexit like Reform UK, has EVER stated a SINGLE, “benefit,” from Brexit. Not ONE! Labour should be seizing every single opportunity to pummel these points home until the entire country is at least AWARE of these FACTS, whether they excuse or deny them or not! They should be making the TRUTH as inescapable as the consequences we are ALL OF US suffering as a DIRECT consequence of Tory entitlement, self interest and atavistic greed! Every single Labour (and Lib Dem) MP and candidate should be making these three points the centrepiece of ANY discussion on public finances and speaking in terms of their proposals, policies and actions being direct response to the financial CRISIS the Tories wantonly lead us into. Sure, we want to hear solutions, answers and policies that move us forward. But every single one of those policies NEEDS to be set in context so persistently, so often and so articulately that even the Tory client press cannot avoid printing their words in black and white, hearing it on the radio, seeing it laid bare in any and all news coverage. It needs to be organised with military precision and the commitment of an election campaign. Then, when the public has NOTHING ELSE to talk about; when whatever new situation arises and is duly set into the proper context, it will become an abject impossibility for any of this current iteration of the Tories to get elected ANYWHERE. Anyone who was in government during the economic meltdown under the Tories will be marked by the pirate’s Black Spot and will need to seek employment outside of politics or lose their deposits at the polls. And any talk of a potential, “Johnson comeback,” Will be met by derision, even in the Tory press. Only then will the country (possibly) get an opposition worthy of office, capable of doing what a healthy democracy needs, which is holding government accountable, for REAL issues and holding their feet to the fire in parliament. But, as you have observed on multiple occasions, the one thing the Labour Party is bad at, and really needs to get better at, as a matter of urgency, is communicating with the public. So, I doubt this would ever happen. But, a man can dream, can’t he? . . .
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  36. The bigger project for me, that I hope more Brits will spread the word on, is to get the Tories down to Third Party status. The Tory project has not just failed us this time, but resulted in unforgivable damage, some of which can never be repaired. But it’s worse, even, than that. They have no plan for Britain, which makes them as likely to grasp at straws dangling from the Nazis as it does old fashioned conservatives. And the evidence for this is their increasing tendency to lean into deliberate divisiveness and the far right rhetoric imported from America’s Republican Party. “Woke,” as a pejorative; “Open Borders,” as an allegation; and active hostility toward large sections of the electorate, from the dispatch box, with the conscious aim of deepening fear, anger, outrage and widening those ideological gulfs of division through a type of soft core media terrorism, are all imports from the Capitol of school shootings, mass murders and insurrections we know as the once, “United,” States of America. I want to see a concerted campaign that nips THAT hard in the bud and answers it in such a resounding fashion that the conservatives are forced to spend a wilderness period culling their most egregious race baiters, like Braverman, Patel, Rees Mogg and Mister, “Stop The Boats,” himself, Sunack, whilst also having to kill off their most egregious carpet baggers, like the Quasi Chancellor Kwarteng, and his side kick, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and, once again, Rees Mogg. Between the Liberal-Economics of attempting to privatise everything from transport and clean water to policing and the health service and the sheer, blatant carpet bagging of, “personality politics,” as characterised by Johnson, Rees Mogg and that despicable waste of organs, Matt Hancock, we’ve devastated Britain in a giant game of British Politics’s Got No Talent, like we were playing a popularity contest with the nation’s future! And in the same manner that so many winners of Britain’s Got Talent manage to win because the public wants to make a point, rather than believing in the ability of the contestant, so the winner ends up vanishing into obscurity again, we’ve done the same with our votes! Except, the pond is too shallow for our failures to sink without trace, and we’re all forced to deal with the corpses of their populism, rotting and floating among us, daily. We cannot escape our failure of judgement and just, “stop going on about it,” as so many wish we would about Brexit, or Prime Ministerial corruption, or the simple failure of INSANE economic policies, because we’re all having to deal with them, every day! The only way we get to, “move on,”m from this mess is if we honestly accept our mistakes and face them, fix them (as best they can be fixed) so that then, and ONLY THEN, do we get to move on and stop talking about them. And that means that the British public needs to seize this once in a lifetime opportunity to galvanise a national Tactical Voting Campaign so that the Tories are not just beaten, not just Landslided out of power, but utterly CRUSHED! Even those who care about Conservatism could get onboard with that, as it presents conservatives with an opportunity for a complete restructuring of the Tory project from the ground up, and to revive their core values that were once so popular. That simply cannot happen while the people in charge are either blatantly corrupt or abjectly incompetent, or both. Tactical Voting! Look it up, spread the word. Do your bit for Britain.
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