Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "TalkTV" channel.

  1.  @Kat-ds5xd  It might be disrespectful, but had Markle been there, the Queen's last words might well have been 'Keep an eye on her or she'll pinch some of the jewellery.'
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  2. Perhaps Lord Alli paid the bill?
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  3.  @paulm2339  Especially, of course, when it is merely public money being wasted.
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  4.  @Mighty5754  You've spoken to all of them, have you? You must have been very busy.
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  5. Joe Stalin did something similar in the 19830s and millions starved.
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  6.  @Craig121000  Then explain the concept to him. Who knows, if you make a valid enough case, he might reverse his decision?
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  7.  @nigelhart3897  To be honest, it would be easier to judge Sir Keir if he actually we peasants what his policy on the subject might be.
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  8. Unfair! Not everyone, as he is doing quite well himself.
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  9. I did read that the Rev. Vennells, has the largest collection of completed Sudoku books and 1000 piece Jigsaw Puzzles in the United Kingdom. After all, as none of her 'people' ever told her anything, she had to find some means of passing all those long, tedious, days in the plush office, sitting in a comfy chair behind a large, elegant, desk.
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  10. Rachel lass. If you have to post, you should do it using your own name. Indeed, the economy has been stablised. Just as the situation of the Titanic has been.
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  11.  @Nick-fg4dq  I do apologise. I had assumed a greater degree of knowledge on your part than you appear actually to possess> Still, just to help you, here is a dictionary definition of 'Sophistry.' 'The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.' In your case, I would remove the 'clever but' part of this definition.
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  12.  @lindsaymckeown513  Apparently, Mandelson was on a short list of three for the post. The other two were Diane Abbott and Tulip Siddiq.
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  13.  @lindsaymckeown513  Sorry. I was being humorous.
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  14.  @lindsaymckeown513  My fault entirely. Sarcasm doesn't work well in writing!
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  15.  @thetellmechannel8952  Perhaps you should read John 17 3 in the original Greek? You would then learn what it actually says.
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  16. If you wish Reform to be an irrelevant right of centre pressure group, then continue to believe that.
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  17. ' I am not British, so I obviously have the right to tell you British people how you may or may not behave.' Is that what this former Labour Advisor really means?
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  18. What if the question was 'The northern border of India in the days of the British Raj was called the Khyber what?
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  19. To what end? Exactly what does the Dear Leader believe 'as long as it takes' means? What does he believe that the outcome of the war will be? When the last Ukrainian soldier is dead, perhaps?
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  20. 'A quarter of mint imperials please, Rachel.'
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  21. 'Royal feathers are flying?' Really? I don't recall reading a single comment by any member of the Royal Family. The only people obsessing about this book are you media people.
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  22.  @plcf6995  Before my son was born, I wondered if he might be left-handed, as I am. Clearly, I must be a shameful bigot.
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  23. Perhaps you missed the events of the evening? Certainly, the BBC did.
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  24.  @markabrahams2191  Odd how these people seem to confuse Suffragettes, who were willing to take violent action to achieve their ends, with Suffragists, who were genuinely non-violent.
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  25.  @pathopewell1814  I am gald you qualified your comment by using 'possibly'. What evidence do you have in support of your statement?
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  26.  @pathopewell1814  Actually, the family tree of the Ptolemies, right back to Antipater, is known to ancient historians in great detail. There is no mystery about it at all. The only 'ambiguity' is the one created by people with particular axes to grind.
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  27.  @VTepesIII  Presumably, you consider military aggression, mass extermination, and the widespread use of slave labour as far more preferable?
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  28.  @Shadylady4181  In terms of the numbers of votes needed to elect one MP, the figures were as follows :- Labour : 23,622 Tories : 56,437 LibDem : 48,877 Reform : 823,522 The Labour vote actually fell by 500,000 from that of 2019. What might Spock have said of that in Star Trek ? 'It's democracy Jim. But not as we know it.'
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  29.  @CCCGustavo  How do you reason that? Wonderlocs comment did not have any relevance to the original post. I merely pointed the fact out to him.
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  30.  @thomas-q8z  'which instrument did you play in the band Neville.' You would have flourished in early 1914 - 'We haven't had a decent war for some time, and it'll be over by Christmas anyway.' I assume you have been down to you local Army Recruiting Office? Motivated and enthusiastic volunteers for front-line infantry units are in short supply.
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  31.  @skagamnesia1972  We had Pakistani Daleks years ago, courtesy of the late great Spike Milligan.
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  32.  @danako2382  I am well paid by my employers, but that does not give them the right to involve themselves in my personal matters.
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  33. Another invented job for someone who has presumably demanded nothing less in exchange for the immense favour she did for the Dear Leader, and who requires continual bribes in order to keep quiet. What next, Sue? A Peerage, presumably?
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  34. Weekly? There have been that many new guests welcomed to our shores in the last 48 hours.
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  35.  @hazelthorp317  True, when Starmer has David (Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII) Lammy, and Yvette Cooper in two great Offices of State, it really doesn't bode well. I was thinking more of older people no longer active in politics, such as Blunkett for example. Certainly not, however, 'President' Blair.
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  36. Which is precisely why the Dear Leader is posturing on the World Stage. Starmer's domestic policies are crippling Britain's economy, and as a result he is widely detested for his duplicity. As desperate politicians tend to do, Starmer is seeking an exciting overseas adventure to divert attention from his serial failures. I wonder if he got the idea from General Galtieri of Argentina in 1982?
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  37.  bengunn3698  No, it doesn't. The US Election was a straight 'either-or' vote, where First Past the Post is appropriate. The British General Election involved numerous alternatives, and in that case a party for which less than one in five of the electorate actually voted, and which received half a million less votes than it did in 2019, was able to stumble across the finishing line on the basis of a protest vote.
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  38.  @paulsara9694  No. Less than one in five of the British electorate actually voted Labour.
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  39.  @bobby9791  What was complex about it. Basically, the Government suspended negotiations, handed the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius without even considering the concerns of the Chagos people, and then gave the Mauritian government a cash payment. The term 'negotiation' only applies when both sides are talking, not when one side is simply capitulating.
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  40.  @bobby9791  'In December 2023, it was reported that the UK government was planning to discontinue the talks.' Perhaps you are unaware that many Chagossian activists opposed the talks, as they did not include Chagossians as participants. Still, they needn't worry about that now, need they? Their concerns have been totally abandoned.
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  41. 'cannot operate with a complement of Planes.' What does that even mean?
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  42. Surely you realise that our hard-working MPs make this country what it is today? Oh, wait a minute, errr?
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  43. The foolishness of people with right of centre opinions is quite breathtaking. How to fight back against the Dear Leader and his coterie of malevolent half-wits? Let's form lots of little parties, splitting the available voters into small groups. That's a good idea! Reminds me of the multitude of irrelevant resistance cells in 'Life of Brian.'
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  44.  @bobby9791  Started negotiations, but didn't simply hand them over.
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  45. By the time he has finished, his appeal will have been considered by the Klingon High Council!
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  46. Silence does not necessarily imply lack of unity. Perhaps the members of the Royal Family simply do not choose to respond to every whim of the media like medieval performing bears?
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  47. 'leading the UK into battle, like Richard the Lionheart.' Hardly, unlike Coeur de Lion, Starmer certainly won't lead, though he would be happy to send.
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  48. Unlikely. No foreign leader regards him as anything other than irrelevant, whilst no British citizen regards him as anything other than an embarrassment.
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  49.  @margaretcardona2165  Indeed. He saw an exciting foreign military adventure, the invasion of the Falklands, as a way of diverting attention from the chaos within Argentina. Our Dear Leader is about as unpopular, and is evidently working to the same plan. We, however, know how it ended!
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  50. Because, in their opinion, they are more important than you.
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