Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "The New Statesman" channel.

  1. CONGRATULATION ON A MEANINGFUL DISCUSSION and not 20 minutes on "Was Charles right to get angry with a pen"
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  2.  @HamnaTabuu  - Almost entirely down to EU membership IMO - 75% down to EU membership. The country switched to a long term view, an investment in infrastructure and education view of life from the "lets get through the next crisis" view it had had since communism ended. We have brand new battery electric busses here - when the fuel prices skyrocketed they got out the old not yet sold off diesel buses and doubled the amount of public transport and took it as an opportunity to get people out of their cars. They did not put up the fairs - flat rate 70p no matter the length of the ride. This is how they tend to think here since joining the EU. IMO it was not just the economics of the EU that helped, but a new mindset it gave people. They have tried very hard to modernise without westernising.
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  3. I HAVE NOT LIVED IN THE UK FOR 14 YEARS And its been total hell for me just watching - God knows what it must have been like living it...
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  4. Im a Brit that moved to Bulgaria in 2009. It was honestly pretty backwards. Many dirt roads and horse and carts were a common sight. Now the country is miles ahead of the Uk and the average standard of living is different - but higher. Its hard to compare like for like as the society is so different. But the average person here has a much better life than the average in the UK.
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  5. 100% THIS IS WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO if he was a decent human being - he would not be a Tory MP
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  6. YOU GUYS CAN ONLY DREAM OF SQUARE ONE square one is a FANTASY paradise compared to where you are right now 50% lower national debt, almost no NHS waiting lists, everything worked, wages going up, Average UK house price £150k, interest rate 0%. YOU WILL NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE
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  7. I ASSURE YOU ITS WAY LESS THAN £10 MILLION they would be ok with racism for £50
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  8. THE GREAT TRAGEDY IS the more intelligent you are, the more you understand what is happening, the more you have read history, economics and politics... The closer to tears you are about the state of the UK today. This situation is NOT rescuable, there will be 15 years of unimaginable pain and suffering.
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  9.  @jaisriram295  QUOTE "what personal freedom have they taken away" FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT ACROSS THE EU - FREEDOM OF PROTEST They are quite important freedoms people used to have.
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  10. Crazies dont go away - you can give them nothing or you can give them everything - they will still keep coming and asking for more - they are crazies
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  11. IF YOU VOTED TORY you voted for this - I hope you enjoy it...! IF YOU VOTED BREXIT you voted for this - I hope you enjoy it...!
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  12. I was on a long holday in 2010 when they got elected - I never came back. BEST decision I have ever made, and Im not known for my good decisions as a rule.
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  13. I listened to a podcast on the history of the British Fascist movement in the 1930's - I was struck by how moderate they were compared with the right wing of the Tory party today
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  14. he has to be more radical in office if only because its not possible by the laws of physics to be LESS radical than he is in opposition
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  15. Im a Brit living in Bulgaria - the life of the average Bulgarian is significantly better than the life of the average Brit. Its not even close - a 20 year old nurse can afford their own apartment and nights outs
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  16. This was my comment: COMPLETELY FLAWED LOGIC you have 8 years of people turning 18 - approximately 1 million per year @ 80%+ remain = 60% of 8 million = 4.8 million at 70% turnout = 3.36 MILLION Extra Eamain voters.
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  17. IM AN AUTHOR writing a book called 1930 - its about the UK in 50 years where there is an upper class and a total under class - the divider was "did you own a house in 2022" The upper class no longer have to work, they own all the housing stock and they have decided to live permanently in 1930 with stem trains and compulsory cricket on Sundays. England is a kind of 1930's Disney world pastiche, with the poor people enslaved to 200 year rental contracts they are born into, part of their duties are to perform the roles of blacksmith and milk maid etc for the amusement of the rich property owners.
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  18. I DONT LIKE STARMER but he is a strategic genius - HE brought down Bojo over 18 months, HE let Sunak tie himself to the £2,000 whilst having a letter that proved it a LIE Maybe its wishful thinking, but I cant imagine he is going all this very long term strategic planning to get into power - but does NOT actually have a grand plan for when he gets there, We will all find out shortly.
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  19. I was on £65k in 2002 But that same job only pays £52k on average now when it would have to be £110 to keep up with inflation. I dont live there any longer thank God. But automation and the lowering of technology costs have made that incredibly technical job more mundane and the industry less profitable. A technology we used to sell for £10k in 1995. £2,500 in 2002 is now £250. This is a national trend in all British jobs.
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  20. @renideo - Very true - the only thing I would add as a British person living in Bulgaria, what one considers extreme is incredibly subjective. 25% of people here flat out vote communist. And today I spoke to an OK guy in America who thinks the republican party is slightly right of centre. So where I would differ with your explanation is not so much the political positions the "extremists" take, but the dogmatic way they hold the opinions. I an now - having live in Bulgaria 14 years - a communist. But I am a big supporter of the house of lords cos it works pretty well, I prefer King Charles to President Boris Johnson and the royal family I dont care too much about cos we spend 3 X as much on art galleries. so politically I am extreme left - but I am in no way dogmatic and puritanical about it. New labour were neoliberal shills and the Iraq war I marched against - but I would swap them tomorrow for ANY tory govt. Its the nut jobs on either side that cause the problems. The "I wont vote for Starmer cos he was nasty to Corbyn" types who would literally rather see another 5 years of the tories... And they exist by the thousand.
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  21. I live in Bulgaria - not a rich country - but the life of the ordinery person here is IMESURABLY better than that of the average British person - cos EVERYTHGIN WORKS...! NO waiting lists for dentists, doctors, NHS, Free school meals, brant bew electric busses every 7 minutes at 70p for the day I can go on. Its a functioning society that invests in new thngs all the time.
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  22.  @Whiskah  I can't begin to imagine how worn down people must be, just relentless sh!t that never ends.
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  23. YES...!!! I live in Bulgaria - the quality of life of the average "poor" Bulgarian is a BETTER life than that of the bottom 25% of the UK
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  24. This was my comment - it relates to yours: £60 MILLION FOR APPRENTICESHIPS - STOP LIVING IN 1980 The UK needs to invest £4 TRILLION in buildings and infrastructure over the next 10 years £553 BILLION is needed for new schools alone. The UK state has not spent ANYTHING on infrastructure of maintenance since 1975 - 50 YEARS of ZERO investment. Stop talking as if £60 million means anything, or £28 billion for green stuff will make ANY difference - its 2024! ONE SEWER in London cost £5 Billion - you all live in 1980's numbers £1 million is PENNIES today ---!--- None of these commentators can get a grip on the scale of the problem, they all grew up when £60 million was a lot of money and £1 billion an unimaginable amount. So they hear £60 million invested and they give CREDIT, then Sunak might as well throw hot pennies on the floor for us to scrabble for like the rich used to in the 1850's
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  25. I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. The collapse of the Uk is 13 years of Tory underinvestment in infrastructure, systems, institutions, and Brexit. Exogenous shocks like Covid in Ukraine just exaggerate the situation and hit way harder due to the other issues. The UK will suffer 20 years of decline and stagnation before any serious recovery.
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  26. AT THE MOMENT I HATE STARMER but I hate the Tories more - I hope to God he is just doing this so as not to be torn apart by the right wing media and when in power he will be different.
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  27. But they think they did - like they thing they fought in the war
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  28. Why isn't that person YOU...? Unless decent normal people go into politics, it will never change.
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  29.  @alien4422  You're wrong and quoting stereotypes not facts. 69.8% of 18 to 24 year olds voted in the GE in Poland YOU may be from a politically disengaged youth, but Gen Z are not - they vote.
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  30. EXACTLY
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  31. It was a game of tactical escalations and over reactions. Hamas did a terrible thing knowing Isreal would over react and look bad, lose support. Get the struggle on the front page of every newspaper in the world. Israel over reached, but Israel made a MASSIVE miscalculation - which is driven by what this guys says* - Israel decided to over react SO MUCH it would drag Iran and Lebanon into the war and it could have a regional conflict, America would pay for it and America would fight it. And Iran and America said "Na, were not doing that" [America likes to lose small wars to it irrelevant countries, which provide massive subsidies for the arms industry but fighting Iran would be a nation bankrupting event] * the reason Israel made this gamble is changing demographics in America - 76% of Gen Z and Millenials support Palestine and 4 million Boomers cash their last pension check every year. As this guy said - Iran and Lebanon dont believe in the existence of Israel LONG TERM. Israel exists cos America protects it - in 15 years America will NO LONGER protect it - and now Iran and Lebanon have a slaughter of 2023 to avenge. Israel made the mother of all miscalculations - it won't exist in 20 years unless it can get a UN-mandated and monitored peace very quickly - which it won't cops its run by psychop[aths.
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  32. AND literally, no one will feel any benefit of the interest rates coming down. If you got your fixed rate last week - you are on that for another 2 or 5 years. If you get it next month well you are moving off 1% to 5% - just cost ist now 6% does NOT make you happy
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  33. COMPLETELY FLAWED LOGIC you have 8 years of people turning 18 - approximately 1 million per year @ 80%+ remain = 60% of 8 million = 4.8 million at 70% turnout = 3.36 MILLION Extra Eamain voters.
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  34. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh my god - what must it be like inside your brain - it must be more worm than brain at this point.
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  35. FINGERS CROSSED
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  36. Dude - I grew up in Batley - went to Batley High School, stop believing the right wing media - its fine
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  37. WERE ALL TRYING TO FIND THE GUY WHO DID THIS says Rishi Sunak in a hot dog costume...
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  38. I was thinking that when they were saying it.
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  39.  @TinaButcher-r6m In the UK 40,047,930 people have been vaccinated - a 40% death rate would be 16 million
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  40. 35ºC IN MY LIVING ROOM here in Bulgaria, 42ºC outside - if you look at a heat map of the earth the jet stream has broken down - that's why you guys in the UK are so cold BUT - if it does not start back up again - you have a -25ºC winter ahead of you...!!!
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  41. I EMAILED KIA STARMER THIS MORNING and told him how sh!t he is and how shockingly disappointed I am in everything he has done - I suggest others do the same One letter will make no difference but a flood telling him he is sh!t and he will lead to a Reform victory if he does not radically improve the UK - it might just get through to him.
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  42.  @ljt3084 Very true...!!!
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  43. Yeah lets have a fascist country
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  44. And how are the vast majority of people supposed to do that in collapsing sh!t hole Britain with an average salary of £32k...??? I dont live there any longer but I was on £65k in 2002. But that same job only pays £52k on average now when it would have to be £110 to keep up with inflation.
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  45. @MichaelgerardCondon-f8r So you're racist is what you are saying???
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  46. He has lost - accept it
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  47. HERE IN BULGARIA the average wage was 400 leva a month when I arrived in 2009 - its now 2000 leva a month = 24k a year You can buy a small house for modernising for 25k. Small modernised house 50k. Small new apartment 50k. Large new luxury apartment 200k [All in Bg Leva £1= 2.2 leva]
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  48.  Average Everyday Non-Sociopath  "Why are you copy/pasting this same comment into every thread?" because I want to and you cant stop me "You're an author of one thing, and one thing only - spam." sadly for you - I don't validate my existence by what irrelevant nothings on the internet think You are claiming to be a non-sociopath - Im not so sure of that.
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  49.  @ronagoodwell2709  No you dont - not even close. The new Russian missiles are astonishing. The Iranian air defence missiles are equally astonishing.
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  50.  @drmodestoesq  We are from the world dude, the whole world, all of it is laughing. your empire ended 6 years ago cos of a greedy Pistasio Billionaire and that's not even a joke. The same guy who has Trump obsessed wiht the Delta Smelt - the little fish
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