Comments by "" (@random6809) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. People owning property and charging whatever they want for rent is not "corruption". It is nothing to do with governments what private individuals charge for rent, they should stay out of it. A lack of housing stock is everything to do with government and the solution is right there, start building.
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  2. LOL indeed. Replacing a plastic pipe isn't rocket science!
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  3.  @michaelclifford6468  "state funding of political parties" The state funding extremism, what a genius idea! Or is it only parties on your "approved list" that get funding? "compulsory voting" Absolutely not, that is not democratic. What a ridiculous idea.
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  4. What prison sentence? It was a civil trial and the allegations have not been proved to be true!
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  5. Deposits don't grow on trees.
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  6.  @jjefferyworboys8138  "Within the law" This whole thing has gone way over your head.
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  7. He did a deal with her. Now he pays the price for his idi0cy. First day in the job and his integrity is damaged, what a m0r0n.
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  8. Not if they join NATO, that is the point of them and Sweden considering it. Had the Ukraine joined NATO when they had the chance years ago, they would not have been invaded by Russia.
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  9. Yeah because saving for a deposit while also paying the rent is a thing!
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  10.  @Tayloraurrekoetxea  "considering how incredibly rare false allegations are" No they aren't. Ask a police officer. That is an incredibly naïve comment.
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  11.  @s.a.y4117  Plus overtime etc etc. The RCN state the average is 34k.
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  12.  @user.0704  "The police don't strip search for no reason" You haven't read the report then. Half of these CHILDREN had no further action taken against them. 50% means a success rate no better than had they flipped a coin, in other words, the "reason" was invalid and simply made up.
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  13. An average of 34k isn't bad at all too many people. Plus all that overtime and 30+days holiday. The average would be raking in 40 grand.
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  14.  riyadougla539  "London has the most to offer in the UK." Because you know all about what every other city and town offers, oh wait no, you are talking b0ll0x.
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  15. 53% were no further action. That is a huge number to get "wrong" and suggests that reasonable cause is being overused as an excuse to stop and search, which we all suspect is the case anyway when dealing with the police abusing their powers. 53% means they'd have equal success just by flipping a coin and randomly stopping people walking past them. It is not a "complex issue", it is merely a scattergun approach rather than using an intelligence led targeted one.
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  16.  @robertcarter4423  It is for those far clever that I to decide what intelligence led policing should be put in place, it clearly isn't in place at the moment, it is no better than simple chance!
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  17.  @adrianthoroughgood1191  A success rate of 50% is no better than chance. That is not intelligent policing, it is flipping a coin.
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  18. Generally agree with you on r@cism, however with the Met I tend to believe their bad press. In 2018, 75% of those stripped were bl@ck when only 19% of the population aged 10- to 17 in that policing area are. Pretty difficult to argue that isn't about r@ce, the percentage of non-bl@ck should be MUCH higher.
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  19. Imagine not knowing that you need to save a minimum of 40k and then be in full employment with two incomes.
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  20. @Lee Ohh The average pay of a nurse is already 34k and that does not include generous overtime, so it will be around your 40k!
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  21. @caravan stuff Perhaps the police should have arrested themselves as they are a proven danger to the women there? I mean we are talking what could have happened, yes?
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  22. Some of that is clearly damp penetrating the walls. That is absolutely a building maintenance issue.
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  23. "Bad legal advice." Her stark reality was: 1. Admit guilt, walk away free with a criminal record. 2. Be found guilty (an absolute certainty). Be locked in a concrete room 23 hours a day for the next 3-5 years, and still have the same criminal record on release. Added on top the trauma of being torn away from friends and family. You think she was given bad legal advice? Hope you aren't a barrister!
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  24. You don't mention what he was arrested for.
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  25.  @TitanMind1  Possibly, but not mentioning the reason is suspect.
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  26. I worked at a hospital when the government had the great idea of being businesspeople in as department managers rather than clinical staff doing it themselves. They created these expensive roles where every department got a "Business Manager" regardless of the size of department Yup, that's right, we had many departments of less than a handful of staff, each with its own Business Manager. I kid you not, I personally knew a nurse who had her very own personal Business Manager!
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  28.  @rickydaley3347  Ginger people should be strip searched because ginger people carry knives?
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  29.  @rickydaley3347  Read your own comments, YOU said profiled. You completely miss the point that you would get the same success rate merely by flipping a coin. That is not intelligent policing, it is random chance. You may as well randomly stop people in the street and strip search them.
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  30.  @rickydaley3347  Nice bit of whataboutery. Perhaps we should all be strip searched as we leave our homes just in case, right?
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  31. It is no different to the rest of the World. Were there enough evidence then the state would bring charges and go to a criminal trial. Her going for a civil trial suggests the evidence, if any, was not credible. The only difference with the US is that there are plenty of vulture lawyers who will take a civil case such as this knowing that they could get a settlement without having to step foot in a courtroom.
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  32. When you are paying rent and likely living from pay day to pay day, what exactly is left to save?
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  33. @Wendy Adams "Keep your views to yourselves like most of us do." Irony right there.
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  34.  @woden3894  "Developers are forced to make 20% of UK housing affordable." If only that were true. The rent is based on the value of the new build property so hardly affordable!
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  35. @Lauren Lewis You missed the point that half of them did not, "walk round with knives, guns and drugs with NO accountability". That child could have been YOUR child.
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  36. No doubt you are "sure there is racism and discrimination added to the mix" on everything.
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  37. and what the impact on inflation will be
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  38. The average is 34k plus overtime!
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  39. What would being in or out of NATO matter? The Finnish border is with Russia regardless. If Russia does not "feel safe" then it hasn't since WWII. Your point is ridiculously irrelevant, Ivan. Finland granted asylum to Jews and had Jewish soldiers serving in its armed forces. You also failed to mention that Russia and the Nazis were allies in WWII, how convenient!
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  40.  @ony583  The position of Met Commissioner is a POLITICAL one not a policing one. You are literally believing a politician who has been brought in to placate people like you, by saying all the "right" things. Are you really THAT gullible?
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  41.  @ony583  You really believe anybody will read all that?
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  42. The Fins do want to join, keep up with the news, Ivan.
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  43. I've never quite figured out why government can't build houses and pay for them over 25 years using the benefits they would usually give to private landlords. Unless of course those in power are landlords themselves...
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  44. "25k during pandemic" Consider yourself lucky, many got nowhere near that.
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  45. Are you suggesting that "young kids" should not be free to step out of their homes without being strip searched? Would you be happy if your 10 year old daughter was strip searched merely for being a "young kid"? Rather than randomly stopping children wouldn't a better solution be to target the adults, you know, by using actual police work? But that's too much work I guess, the police would have to have some intelligence to do it.
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  46. People don't have the money for a deposit so they have to rent, meaning that they never get the chance to save for a deposit. Vicious circle.
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  47.  @worfoz  modest too!
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  48. I read that she gets a pay-out and HER charity gets one. The question being how much actually ends up with victims...
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  49. Tells me that she was in it for the money and the evidence was very weak.
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  50. It is social housing that is required. That would not affect house prices, but it would drive down rent costs in the private sector, so no bad thing there! It is not hard to build for the reason you stated, there is simply no political will to spend the capital costs of building social housing.
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