Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Owen Jones meets Michael Sheen | 'Brexit appealed to abandoned communities'" video.

  1. Lucy Baston Corbyn attended and spoke at official republican commemorations to honour dead IRA terrorists. He was very friendly with Jerry Adams. A terrorist. He also called Hamas, another terrorist group, his 'friends'. He has shared platforms with Iranian hardliners (such as the stop the war coalitions Kamal Majid, a communist and supporter of the mass murdering Assad regime). And, as I already pointed out, he worked for the Iranians. Helping to spread their propaganda.  No doubt you will claim he had good reason for all this. Perhaps you think he was a vital part of the N Irish peace process. He wasn't. He was very much partisan. I'd be particularly interested in how you explain away his work for Press TV. The Tehran media organisation that worked alongside Iranian security forces to torture confessions out of Iranian dissidents. Like I already said, the Iranian government is far, far worse than the Israelis. Or perhaps you think otherwise? 
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  2. While I don't agree with King Nigel I of Ukip on 'globalisation' (neither does ol Nige. After all, he went off to the US and supported one of the most high profile billionaire globalists on the planet today!), he did make a great point.  '...Why are the people against Brexit all for democracy until it produces a result they don't like?' How many times have we read 'Well, do you trust this government to run the country?' from those who voted to remain? The answer is: Yes. The majority who voted do indeed trust this government to run the country. Which is why they voted for it. So, if your logic is  'the UK needs to be in the EU to save itself from the democratic process', then you will always lose the argument. It is not bigoted, xenophobic, or racist to want those who govern over you to be accountable to you. Neither is it bigoted, xenophobic, or racist to expect those in government to hold loyalty to your country and have some stake in its wellbeing. None of which was ever the case with the EU. 
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  3. And I don't think you'll win many votes by whitewashing the problem of Islamic extremism. If you import large numbers of people into the country who hold very different views of religious freedom, morals, and the right to criticize beliefs and ideas. Make no effort to integrate them into wider society and refuse to hold them to the same standards as everyone else. Then don't be surprised when things turn bad. 
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  4. Corey Smith The UK has a constitutional monarchy. Its holds no power. You really should learn a bit about your own system of government first before you start on the EU.
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  5. +Joson Blacklock. What a load of horseshit. If you voted Brexit, you voted for the right to elect your own government. Now and far into the future. Compare that to those who voted to remain. The self-entitled, virtue-signalling fuknut genocidal child rapist non-entities who have worked so hard to make the idea of Democratic Accountability a thing to be ashamed and embarrassed about.
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  6. Pretty much everything John David said is spot on. ''...they use fashionable victim causes as weapons for gaining power and status for themselves'' They're called 'Gatekeepers'. With no mandate behind them they appoint themselves spokesperson for an entire section of society. And then set about creating as much division between 'their' special group and everyone else as they possibly can. Meanwhile, they use their self-declared position to further their own political goals. Using carefully nurtured and exaggerated grievances as a shield against criticism.  ''...by the Little Britain-type stereotypes and insults they were throwing about when they didn't get their entitled way over Brexit'' Certain news stories were carefully manipulated to cast everyone who voted a certain way as beyond contempt. In an effort to delegitimize the referendum result. For example, the rise in hate crime since the country voted to leave the EU. Channel 4 news started the ball rolling with a report about someone who shouted ''Fuck off back to where you come from!'' During a heated road rage incident. Then figures were produced that supposedly backed up the claim. Many of them coming from a website that specifically asked the question 'have you been a victim of hate crime since the Brexit vote?' It was enough to answer 'Yes' to be added to the statistics. No police investigation. No official complaint filed. No conviction. But hang on. The BBC reported that in the last few months, hate crime against Muslims had tripled since the terrorist attacks in Europe. In London. The heart of multiculturalism and the flag bearer for all things EU. And anti-Semitic hate crime has gone thro the roof. All across Europe. These figures were included in the 'rise in hate crime since the Brexit vote'. And used by certain politicians and crusading 'journalist' as a way to make the argument that the UK has now gone nazi. That rejection of the EU means far right nationalism. But I'm not a far right nationalist. I'm not xenophobic. And I'm not racist. But when I look across at the continent I see the far right in France (Le Pen). PEGIDA in Germany. The far left in Greece. And the far right gaining ground in Holland. All these sit in the European parliament. And have a vote on how my country is government. No. They can fuck off.  
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  7. ***** I agree. Globalisation is a good thing. Its been around for centuries and has helped lift millions out of poverty. And once we are out of the EU, we will be free to make our own trade agreements. Just like every other country in the world. And just like we did for centuries before the EU came along. 
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  8. And who is scapegoating migrants? The UK takes in 300,000 of them every year!
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  9. Rant mode: Off
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  10. I suspect that if you look back at Yanis Varoufakis' political history you will find he was of the extreme left. A communist. I will check now...
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  11. Yes. We can change our government.
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  12. I may not like UKip, but I hardly think anyone who supports Corbyn can be pointing the finger at them when it comes to racism. Labour and anti-Semitism go hand in hand now. Sure, they say its about Israel. But Corbyn himself worked for the Iranians, helping to pump out their propaganda (Press TV). And Iran is far worse then Israel. Even on Israel's worst day and Iran's best. So it can't be that. Then there's the fact that the so called 'Stop the War Coalition' has close links to Assad and the Iranians. And Corbyn is a big fan of the STWC. And we all know about his other 'friends'. Ever wondered why there are no Stop the War Coalition demonstrations against Russia bombing the hell outta Syria? I would say Corbyn is a useful idiot. But he's fuckin useless. And the old fraud knows exactly what he's doing and why. So you can keep your Corbyn policies. Socialist dictatorships are good at coming up with popularist policies (just ask the Venezuelans). Even the nazis were able to come up with a few!  
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  13. Edward Till That is a good point. As far as I know, I've never met a 'trans' person in my entire life. Doesn't bother me what they do. As long as they are happy. And I'm guessing most people don't really care what they do either. The problems start when certain groups or individuals proclaim themselves as spokesperson for whole 'communities'. First they propagate a 'them & us' mentality to divide. Then they use the very people who they are supposed to be standing up for as a shield to hide their real political agenda. BLM is a very good example of this. You should check out Owen Jones' interview with two members of BLM UK. It was a beautiful example of how terribly, terribly liberal journalists can be browbeaten into believing any old shite so long as it comes from a supposed representative of an 'oppressed community'. They owned him. Totally. He was sitting there nodding his earnest little head so much it looked like it was about to fall off his shoulders! He never questioned them about their claims. The figures they used. It was all gospel to him. Either he hadn't bothered to look into what they were saying, or he was too frightened to question them. Perhaps both.    
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  14. Edward Till You didn't read my comment did you? Or you didn't fully understand it. Taking up a cause, twisting it, and using it for personal political gain does more harm than good. Another good example of this is the BLM demonstration at Heathrow (?) airport. Did you notice that all the demonstrators were white? There are those who wish to turn skin colour into a political statement. But it isn't. And it is very dangerous to try to make it so. Besides, what did Heathrow airport have to do with BLM anyway?
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  15. Then I apologise.
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  16. Corbyn is a sad, sad reflection of how extreme and out of touch the labour party has become. This dishevelled old fraud detests the very country he supposedly wants to lead. Is happy to sit with terrorists, calling them his friends, but would rather go to hell and back than ever share a platform with the hated tories. He's worked for the Iranians. Helping them to spread their hateful theocratical propaganda around the world. Plays the politics of envy and division. And, like many of those on the far left, shares the far rights hatred of Jews. Don't be throwing yourself off a bridge mate. Instead, be fuckin glad the petty minded lunatic never gets anywhere near power.
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  17. If a private company can run parts of the NHS better than the NHS. and for the same cost, what is wrong with that?
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  18. ''...After only a few weeks of lectures (at the university of Essex), Varoufakis switched his degree to mathematics. Whilst at the University of Essex he joined a variety of political organisations including ComSoc (the University Communist Society) and the Troops Out Movement, which campaigned for a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. He also became involved with the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization, and other organisations such as those in solidarity with Chile. Varoufakis was also elected as secretary of the Black Students Alliance, a choice that caused some controversy (given that he is not black) to which he responded by telling them, according to his PhD supervisor Monojit Chatterjee, "that black was a political term and, as a Greek, on the grounds of ethnicity he had as much reason to be there as anyone else.'' Wikipedia. ''Black was a political term and, as a Greek, on the grounds of ethnicity he had as much reason to be there as anyone else'' See what I'm saying?
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  19. If 'Black is a political term' what are its politics? And how do you argue against those politics without being a racist?
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  20. As I said earlier. They're called 'Gatekeepers'. With no mandate behind them they appoint themselves spokesperson for an entire section of society. And then set about creating as much division between 'their' special group and everyone else as they possibly can. Meanwhile, they use their self-declared position to further their own political goals. Using carefully nurtured and exaggerated grievances as a shield against criticism.
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  21. David Stewart And if David Cameron had been a member of the far right in his youth? Would that have been irrelevant to his politics today?
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  22. You are of course correct. I wasn't making any grand conspiracy argument. However, I do think that a persons political history is relevant to their present day politics. And we mustn't fall for the idea that things cannot change for the worst.   
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  23. And I know you weren't being partisan.
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  24. Immigration is the best way to push wages up? The UK currently has around 300,000 extra people coming in every year. How many more would we need to push NHS wages up to the levels of Canada and Australia? 900,000? Two million?
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  25. Then by your own admission, it hasn't worked has it? 
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  26. So the opposite must also be true. That mass uncontrolled immigration increases unemployment and drives down wages in the host country. And creates skill shortages in the home country.
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  27. Your example is way out of date. When Australia, the US, and Canada were settled, there was no social welfare system. And life was in no way comparable to what it is today. And, of course, overpopulation is a subjective term. Especially when you consider that both Ireland and Poland have far bigger populations today than they did then. 
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