Comments by "Zetectic" (@zetectic7968) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. My grandmother over 50 years ago called it The Daily Liar - nothing has changed.
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  2. There was an article in the Guardian suggestion if Labour gets their strategy right & win the next election they could be in power for 12 years. The trouble is I think it will take at least 12 years to undo all the damage the Tories have done to the country & are continuing to do under Truss.
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  3.  @paulwilson7234  Austerity 2.0 is a Labour choice.
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  4. Never put a miser in control of stock or planning. Tories: know the price of everything & the value of nothing! 14 years of misrule by incompetents & the arrogant.
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  5. Will the useless Hoyle be dumped?
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  6.  @Noel-ji8nm  W⚓
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  7. Both Labour & Tory would rather lose under FPTP than form a coalition. 2010 was an anomaly. Blair abandoned PR as soon as he got power, he had no intention of carrying out electoral reform, it was a ploy to get more support.
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  8. Labour, because of Brexit, could decouple the price of electricity from gas. They could alter the standing charge from 1st October 95.57p a day, which disproportionally penalises the poor & low energy users. That is nearly 1/3rd of my monthly DD. Another point is how many pensioners will need medical treatment because of living in a cold & possible damp home? What is the cost to the NHS for that?
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  9. What's the betting that BBC et al will still have Faridge on speed-dial to make an appearance/comment ignoring LibDems & Greens. Levenson 2 is needed! So much Labour can do without spending little or no money.
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  10.  @eileenspamer  Foolish troll Joined 18 Jan 2023
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  11. I know from 2 different sources that some small businesses employing teenagers on the lower rate & then finding a way to replace them once they hit the higher minimum wage at 21. This was not out of necessity but to maximise their profit.
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  12.  @peterwillson1355  Amnesty International disagrees with you plus “There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.
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  13.  @johnrussell3961  Wrong again. we used North sea gas to make electricity. Government had not control over the energy companies selling gas after they had bought licenses.
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  14.  @gregjones-x8c  W⚓
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  15. Signed the petition before watching this. Labour needs to implement Leveson 2 but they won't.
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  16.  @davidcolin6519  Not all pensioners own their own home! Renters ignored yet again.
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  17.  @jonmould2946  W⚓
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  18.  @Noel-ji8nm  W⚓
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  19. Better late than never but begs the question why didn't Blair & Brown do this as bus services were failing back then as well.
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  20.  @maeror1022  W⚓
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  21.  @stephaniewilson3955  What about the pensioners that are just above the limit for Pension Credit that are still poor?
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  22. The raise in stamp duty for 2nd homes.
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  23. Its against the law to cause a pet unnecessary suffering.
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  24. New troll, Joined 1 Sept 2023
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  25. We could have had PR but TB & Gordon Brown changed their minds after the big win in 1997
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  26.  @lat1419  Just like Blair & Brown never repealed any Tory anti-union laws eg secondary picketing.
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  27. Thatcher's govt. was negotiating with Argentina to give back the islands. She was told not to withdrawn the ice patrol ship Endurance as it would signal that the UK was no longer interested in the South Atlantic but did it anyway. Thatcher caused the Falklands war.
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  28. The problem with Labour not pushing for electoral reform in the next parliament is that it assumes that Labour will win & have a big enough majority to do it in a second term. Like Blair before, if Labour gets a big win under FPTP it will kill electoral reform & a change to PR because like the Tories they want to be a 1 party government and once in power they will not be concerned with the future or another 13 years of Tory rule. Short term rule is more important than what is best for the country when it is not best for the party. There are still too many in Labour that would rather be in opposition under the current system than in a coalition government.
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  29. Media so eager to splash Huw over the news, yet complicit & quiet about this. Meanwhile MPs get special treatment & like the NI ones claim their salary & expenses for doing nothing. This should have been resolved months ago.
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  30. The firearm officers refusing to carry out their duty should have their pay docked ( yes they do get a bonus for being a qualified firearm's officer). what they are saying is we should be above the law & not be accountable when carrying a weapon. Given that the Met is under investigation for the attitude & behaviour of both instructors & members of the armed response unit, they are on a sticky wicket. It calls into question the motives of said members.
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  31. £22 billion "black hole", £22 billion found for untried & tested carbon capture🙄 Labour "the sky is falling!", public "when?", Labour "We can't tell you until the end of October" 14 years in opposition & enter government with no plan & such poor communication that semaphore was better.
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  32.  @Noel-ji8nm  Troll
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  33. Hell will freeze over first! There are no one-nation Tories any more.
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  34. You missed out the grossly over paid people running the utilities.
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  35. No that is the IEA
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  36. No 2nd jobs for MPs. The old saying but still relevant: Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.”
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  37. Javid is a millionaire ex-banker, that's all you need to know
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  38. That is nonsense for the average worker. Who is going to put 15% of their income into a private pension in their 20's, pay their bills & have enough money for rent while they try to save to buy a property. Can't be done even if you forgo a holiday every year.
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  39. "Reputational damage" aka a blight on society
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  40. A windfall tax is pointless! It just returns money to the overcharging energy companies via the higher bills as the price cap still keeps rising. A suggestion has been to have a low "social tariff" for those on UC and below a certain income and pensioners on tax credit. Tories have had 12 years to properly insulate homes and failed through piecemeal underfunded projects. The energy standards for new homes are still based on the 20th Century and ignore the perils of climate change. I'm with Scottish Power that boast 100% renewable electricity, like others. They have put up the price to either increase profits or to cross subsidise the gas price. The renewable electricity for 2026 has already been sold bee sold by the government for about 3 pence per kW hour. So, currently we can assume what is now being sold at circa 40 pence a unit was also bought 4 years ago at the same price. That is a nice profit! This current situation proves the following: failure of government, failure of privatisation of the utilities, failure of "light-touch regulation" and corruption in setting up toothless regulators who often don't even properly use the powers they have. It is pointless finning companies that continue to break the rules, just pass on the fines to the customers and continue to pay the board high salaries and huge bonuses.
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  41. You don't claim the winter fuel allowance it was paid automatically.
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  42. This is a new word/concept to me, just heard of oratory before. Anything to stop the younger generation using like in every sentence, or init and you know.
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  43. It has struck me as bureaucratic & inefficient, maybe due to higher rate tax-paying pensioners, that the state pension has been kept low then topped up with too many benefits that have to be claimed (& the govt. saves money from those entitled but don't know or don't claim)
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  44.  @OneTrueScotsman  Do you think another head of state will be cheaper and without problems? If so you haven't followed news from other countries.
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  45. I think the best analogy is from when a lot of people rented a TV & so in the long term paid for the TV 3 times over. Then they would offer you an new TV (better than the old one of course) but that would put the rent up. Many got stuck in the cycle of paying through the nose in the long-term for something they would never own. It was only when cheaper credit & lower cost TV's killed the rental model that people realised the con.
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  46.  @mariogmajner6549  Still banging the drum for the failure that is Jeremy Corbyn - couldn't lead a conga
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  47.  @Noel-ji8nm  Troll! Joined 15 Apr 2023
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  48. What a fool, never heard the phrase "One swallow doesn't make a summer". Your anecdote proves nothing except you can use a Strawman fallacy.
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  49. No she didn't. £22 billion wasted on unproven carbon capture, scraping the WFA, keeping the 2 child benefit cap, freezing tax thresholds, no wealth tax, nothing to mitigate the damages of Brexit, raising the bus fare cap to £3, not investing in infrastructure and the employers NI increase that will be paid by employees & hamper growth.
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  50. May 2022 my rent went up by 10%, the landlord has just notified me of another review which will be at least 5% but could be another 10%. The few flats in my area ( within 20 miles) that are available are already £150 pm more than I pay at present, then you have to add the cost of moving, agency & credit check fee plus at least a £1k deposit & 6-8 week wait to get my current deposit returned. So I have no choice but to accept the rise of say £100 pm because it is still cheaper than moving to a more expensive & smaller flat. Another depressing note is that I have not got a surplus with my energy supplier due to the high prices & debt from last winter.
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