Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Times and The Sunday Times" channel.

  1. As they say in America, 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.' Once you have demonstrated that you are a liar, as Rachel from Accounts has done, you will never regain trust.
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  2. Some passengers did indeed cancel their bookings. Almost as many as had cancelled for Olympic's maiden voyage almost a year earlier. What would you suggest that proves? Olympic had been back at sea, fully repaired, since late November, 1911. At the time of Titanic's sinking, she was about 500 miles south by west of her, heading for Southampton from New York. 'Full insurance payout?' Yes. £1 million for a ship which cost £1.5 million to build. "They tell you what they want you to believe'. I assume you refer to the switcher bideos which you have evidently watched and swallowed whole?
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  3.  @neilkendrick4976  The Black Hole seems to be as convincing as Tony's Weapons of Mass Destruction, in that no trace has, apparently, been found of either.
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  4.  @hodayfa000h  Isn't the first duty of any government to protect the well being of the citizens of that country? The UK is not remotely capable of solving all the problems of the world, whatever Mr. Lammy might try to suggest.
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  5. Just imagine, had Justin Welby had his way, when she gives evidence, she would be introduced as 'You are the Right Reverend Paula Vennells, former CEO of the Post Office, and current Bishop of London.'
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  6. AS Rachel from Accounts would probably argue, 'they won't need it after a number have died of cold over the winter.'
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  7. Ne does know where Syria is. A neighbour of Libya, apparently. It must have moved recently.
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  8. No, there weren't. Don't believe the nonsense you see in conspiracist videos, expecially the fact-free ones.
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  9.  @SilverEye91  Unfortunately, references to Titanic seem to bring out the idiots in large numbers.
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  10. No, he didn't.
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  11.  @drcommonsense1  As this is your first, meaningless, comment on the subject, I assume you are referring to yourself?
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  12.  @diceman199  The OBR have not, actually, confirmed anything of the sort. £22 billion? You are having a laugh. Or, at least, Rachel from Accounts is.
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  13. I wonder how much will satill survive in four years time.
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  14. As I recall the history, those Poles who flew in the RAF did so because their own country had been conquered, and Britain was the only place where those who chose could continue to resist Hitler? Am I wrong?
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  15.  @12packadayhabit  No. They didn't, despite what sad obsessives might wish to believe.
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  16.  @danke1150  Well, I have actually heard the case, since it was first invented by Robin Gardiner in the mid 1990s. It had no credibility then, and has, if possible, even less now.
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  17. Look what Stalin did to the Kulaks in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Possibly where the Dear Leader got the idea from?
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  18. Even if she has an academic qualification, it counts for little within practical business experience.
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  19. Titanic' 'owner' never said anything of the sort.
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  20. One of the most dangerous things on earth is a desperate politician. There are currently two of this breed preening themselves on the world stage. Macron and Starmer.
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  21. You do know that simply crying 'RAYCIST!!!' at everyone with you disagree in an attempt to ahut down debate doesn't work as well as it formerly did. People are now wise to it.
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  22. I have never encountered an expert on icebergs before. Oh sorry, my mistake, I still haven't.
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  23. Have some sympathy for him. Imagine knowing, as he does, that he was only second choice after Hague turned it down. Cameron will now go down in history as second best to Harrogate Billy.
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  24. No. It didn't.
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  25.  @MicklowFilms  Perhaps you should look at pictures of the wreck?
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  26. 'everyone else pays.' Really? Do you seriously think that everyone pays inheritance tax?
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  27. 'Nurses pay inheritance tax on their homes.' Only if their homes are worth £325,000 or more. 'Am I wrong for thinking that the inheritance tax changes encourage more smaller family owned farms. Yes, you are. Profits on farming are marginal at best, and reducing the size of farms will make a large number unviable.'
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  28.  @billygoat9006  You could, of course, look at the Gov.UK report for yourself, as I did.
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  29.  @billygoat9006  I'm glad that you are sure. You could, of course, have simply looked at the GOV.UK site, under 'Farm Business Income By Type of Farm in England 2023/4.' DEFRA have produced a chart or two which shows how income has declined since 2021/2. I am not, by the way, a farmer myself.
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  30. With this government, it may be the only way to get their attention.
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  31. The stern separated, and is a mangled wreck.
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  32.  @ozboz8888  The '14 years of Tory failure and the 22 billion black hole' is wearing a little thin now, isn't it comrade?
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  33.  @drcommonsense1  I must confess that I didn't expect a new government to trash the manifesto it issued quite so quickly. Nor did I anticipate the imaginative way in which a 22 billion black hole (as yet totally unverified by anyone) would be invented. I an delighted for you that you are 'happy to see a government pledging investment into vital public services' but would ask you to explain how crippling the equally vital Private Sector (you know, the one which actually produces the funds which Rachel from Accounts is determined to pour into bottomless pits like the unreformed NHS) is of any benefit to the UK? Perhaps you might seek, at the same time, to explain to those inevitably soon to be made redundant as a result of Rachel's attack on a private sector she neither knows nor cares much about, how the increase on minimum wage will benefit them? You seem determined to view the budget through a selfish, overtly political, standpoint. Haven't you been listening to what real, as opposed to faux, economists have been saying, or what misgivings CEOs of a whole host of major companies have been expressing?
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  34. We all pay Inheritance Tax? Don't be silly. What planet do you inhabit?
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  35.  @jonjayjay  Perhaps, like Rachel, you cannot grasp the concept of 'asset rich but cash poor?' Put simply, would you expect a manufacturing company to sell off the machine tools it uses to meet such a tax? The land the farmers have has little value simply as farm land. It becomes valuable only when used for something else. If a farmer needs to sell off the land in order to pay inheritance tax, then the farm is at best reduced in size, or at worst rendered unviable. I assume you wish to carry on eating, do you? Have you ever asked yourself where those things you buy in your local supermaket come from?
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  36. So, you believe that all businesses must be viable, or should go to the wall? Goodbye to rail services, rural transport services, most if not all utility companies and, indeed, the NHS, then, to name but a few.
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  37.  @JORDANDAVIES30  They were not identical. Titanic was modified during building following recommendations from Olympic's first few voyages. These included partial enclosure of 'A' deck, and the conversion of the forward end of 'B' deck to fit extra cabins and a cafe. These modifications can be seen on photographs of the wreck, and were unique to Titanic.
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  38. Yes, I wish he'd gone as well.
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  39.  @alamunez  No. She was designed to be 'practically unsinkable.' Her sister Olympic was just that.
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  40.  @alamunez  It is clear enough. Look up 'practically.'' - Almost, nearly, just about, close to, more or less, not far from. That should explain it.
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  41.  @alamunez  No. I am saying that 'practically unsinkable' is not the same as being 'unsinkable.'
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  42.  @alamunez  Changing your tune, I observe. You actually wrote 'Wasn’t it designed to be “unsinkable”? Seems like there was a pretty big flaw in that design.' A design is not flawed simply because it encounters circumstances far beyond anything it is designed to survive. Were the Mauretanias 'flawed' because Leonard Peskett did not include anti-torpedo bulges?
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  43. It usually does, like the poor, the conspiracists and switchers are always with us.
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  44. Don't be an idiot.
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  45.  @SamanthaHeath-h9t  Quite right. There are a lot of simpletons on here who don't actually seem to understand what inheritance tax actually is.
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  46. 'Farmers buy new £600k tractors (tax deductable).' Whereever did you get that from? Moreover, how would you suggest that farmers work their land? With medieval mould board ploughs drawn by Oxen or Clydesdales?
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  47. A pity you didn't watch the whole of the meeting, or are you simply an enthusiast for perpetual war, so long as you aren't personally involved?
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  48. Perhaps the sinking of a warship, even an auxiliary one, carrying troops & U boat crews, as well as refugees herded aboard at the last minute by the German authorities, b y an enemy submarine, in wartime, is not seen as quite so surprising?
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  49.  @davidvanhansen  Gustloff was an armed auxiliary warship. If you can put your prejudices aside for a few minutes, try looking her up. She had an operational life of less than six years. The sister of that 'tin heap' Titanic, the mighty Olympic, had one, in peace & war, of 23 years. You are becoming hysterical, mon brave. I am really sorry that the facts don't agree with you, but it cannot be helped.
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  50. 'Starmer can't call them all far right on a whim either.' Of course he can. In his mind, anyone who denies his infallibility is, ipso facto, a right wing extremist.
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  51. I'm sure the guards at any Concentation Camp also said it was nothing personal.
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  52. Which comment, repeated by you on frequent occasions, is, as usual, irrelevant.
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  53. 'Mr. Aujard, you were Former General Counsel for the Post Office. Is that correct?' Was I? I don't recall that. Where am I, by the way, and who are you? Please remind me what my name is, again?
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  54. 'Potential route for migrants?' Does this creature actually know where the Chagos Islands are, or is he simply parrotting a script given to him?
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  55.  @obiwanjabroniX  They now become a colony of Mauritius, a state for which the people of the Chagos Islands have little respect, and a considerable degree of fear. Do you enjoy parading your ignorance?
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  56.  @waynewal971  If no rules were broken, why did the Dear Leader feel it necessary to hand a few quid back, seemingly for the sake of appearances?
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  57. These are CGI 'images' not actual pictures.
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  58. How about you return to earth occasionally?
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  59. @flickthenick But what if the only way to pay your taxes was to close down your company and sell it off?
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  60. @flickthenick Because most British people have developed a perverse desire to eat something called 'food' on a regular basis. You really cannot be as simple as you pretend, surely?
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  61. Proven false on myriad occasions, ever since the claim was invented in the mid 1990s.
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  62. They do pay their taxes. Are you really incapable of grasping the difference between normal taxation and inheritance tax?
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  63.  @colinyates7485  Perhaps you don't understand the concept of 'land rich but cash poor?' Seemingly not. Put very simply, most farmers affected by this tax will be obliged to sell off land in order to pay the bill. At best, their farms will be significantly reduced in size. At worst, the remaining farm will become unviable. I assume that you actually do wish to continue to eat? 'I bet most of them voted for Brexit.' I presume you mean that anyone who so voted must be punished? That seems to be what you really mean.
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  64. Farmers, like the rest of us, pay their taxes. Surely you are not too stupid to understand the difference between normal taxation and inheritance tax. By the way, farmers are not receiving subsidies out of government generosity, but because the population of Britain has developed a liking for eating. Even you, probably.
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  65. Multi-millionaires urging the little peopl to vote for Harris? Oh well.
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  66. That does seem to be the inevitable conclusion. There is nothing more dangerous than a desperate politician seeking an exciting overseas adventure to distract from his domestic failures.
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  67. They do pay their taxes, you fool. Their land is worthless until/unless it is sold. Once that happens, there will be one less farm. I assume that you do actually eat something called 'food' occaasionally?
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  68. Who is this 'we' that you claim to speak for? It seems that you haven't viewed the whole 50+ minutes of the meeting. Still, you can make your heroic gesture, as Ukraine are eager for front line volunteers.
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  69. Not everyone who disagrees with you is, ipso facto, a bot. As The Lord Protector said in August, 1650, “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken”
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  70. I wonder how many of the people who oppose his visit have actually seen the whole of the meeting, not just the tiny section the BBC chose to show?
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  71. Whatever his motives, Trump soes seem to seek an end to the war. Unlike European 'leaders' and still less our very own 'Dear Leader.'
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  72.  @alazarn7  I believe that a small group with such a name lived in a place called Knotty Ash, near Liverpool.
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  73. If anyone sought for proof that the House of the Living Dead is not fit for purpose, here it is.
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  74. He is President of the United States, you idiot!
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  75. They already do. Are you so dense or so indoctrinated that you cannot grasp the difference between taxation and inheritance tax?
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  76. @flickthenick It isn't a tax dodge. The land the farmers own is worth little unless/until the farmer sells up in order to meet inheritance tax demands. At which point, the farm becomes an unviable business, and a little less food is produced. I assume even a loyal comrade like you eats from time to time. Read about what Genial Joe Stalin did to the Kulaks in the 1930s, and the effect it had on the Soviet Union. Is that what you really want?
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  77. @flickthenick 'sure for actual farmers then maybe.' Isn't it the real effect on actual farmers that this debate is all about?
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  78. @flickthenick Oh dear. Exactly the sort of childish non-answer I had rather expected.
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  79. @flickthenick You could always try claiming that your garden is really a farm. I wonder how far that would get you with the local council? Did you attend the same Economics course as Rachel Reeves?
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  80. @flickthenick You are going round in circles, you fool. They already do pay their taxes. I bet you would have absolutely loved Genial Uncle Joe's treatment of the Kulaks in the 1930s. So what if a few million did starve?
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  81. Farmers pay their taxes. Are you really gormless enough not to know that?
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  82.  @fireburn95rs  Really? How many actually have made such claims, then? Admittedly, a number might do that now, as the people of the Chagos Islands have had a degree of antipathy towards their new overlords for many years.
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  83.  @jonathanbuzzard1376  Acually, around 60. Tamils who fled from persecution in Sri Lanka.
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  84. You really shouldn't swallow conspiracist videos whole. When you repeat what they say, it does tend to make you look something of an idiot.
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  85. Easily solved. Just raise employer national insurance charges a bit more. Probably, Rachel from Accounts is already onto it.
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