Comments by "jdg" (@jdg9999) on "The Spectator" channel.

  1. Basically we combine the worst bits of left and right without the good bits (i.e. our right wing party fails to encourage business and investment and promote order and efficiency, while our left wing party fails to invest in useful state capacity and pull those at the bottom out of poverty)
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  2. I love how when they say "21st century audience" they mean "21st century audience of leftists"
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  3. Like him or not, he's pretty much the only person in British politics thinking at this level. (Which itself raises a lot of questions)
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  4. Green jobs? What green jobs come from importing Chinese wind turbines?
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  5. The fact that it's controversial is proof that it exists.
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  6. She's right, the reason no one talks about it any more, is that deep down, the majority know they behaved like moronic sheep. ANd who wants to be reminded of that?
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  7. It's amazing how utterly unconservative the conservative parliamentary actually is.
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  8. Lol at how these "experts" keep saying "I always knew this would happen" despite earlier in the war saying "Ukraine will achieve total victory"
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  9. She unironically quoted Neill Ferguson. How many times does that guy have to be wrong?
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  10. That woman is an activist, not a journalist.
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  11. How is this even a question? Mainstream "conservatives" have been pathetically weak in resisting th left's takeover of our institutions.
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  12. Saw a video on Twitter today of a Chinese restaurant owner that finally got tired of black people not paying after eating there. Almost like there's a reason small businesses used to "turn them away".
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  13. Britain is sliding into bumbling toralitarianism
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  14. No it wasn't because of fucking d-day or betting, it was because your party isn't actually conservative.
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  15. What does it matter what majority Labour gets? The Tories have exactly the same policy preferences as them. The "vote Tory to keep Labour out argument is a joke"
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  16. This stuff isn't a secret, we just have a useless elite (on both sides) that prefers managed decline to actual leadership and vision (which is why they loved being a rubber stamp for the EU, which is of course the same managed decline on a continenet wide level). Return to financial discipline, slash current spending in favour of capital investment by government, similarly incentivize private investment and private capital markets, then massively deregulate the private sector. Add some genuine reform of the state (full school choice, mostly abolish the army and RAF and roll their spending into the Navy since we're an island, abolish many government departments)
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  17. It's laughable to try to blame this on Trump. We were never any kind of "partner" He's just honest.
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  18. Mr Solomon using that high verbal IQ to BS his way through that conversation lol. He literally had the "chutzpah" to say he hadn't interrupted Douglas ten seconds after he had interrupted him. Then 30 seconds later he interrupted him again.
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  19. The devolved Scottish government should be abolished.
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  20. Nice to see a little more balance in the guests for once.
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  21. Is there going to be a third chamber in the British Parliament for the indigenous people of these islands?
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  22. This sort of genuine right wing discourse is so far above the level of what The Spectator normally posits as conservatism (but which is in fact just liberalism).
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  23. "Do we need children" is such an anti human thing to even ask
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  24. "the public seem to be quite happy with this" - lol
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  25. That woman is symbolic of the childish moralizing of Western foreign policy, it basically all comes down to "BUT THEY'RE THE BADDIES!"
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  26. The pandemic hasn't destroyed our economy, the lockdowns that the government chose to implement has.
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  27. I love that Liz Truss can talk about using nuclear weapons and be cheered as a strong leader. And then Putin talks about using them as a last resort in the event of a Western attack on Russia, and that is somehow proof that he's a maniac.
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  28. Sorry why should we have more in common with Europe because of geographical proximity? We have far more in common with Australia and Canada than we do with Europe, and they're as far / even further away than the US.
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  29. Every worker who earns less than 30k per year is actually a net drain on government finances (they take more than they pay), so while adding 700k mostly low paid immigrants makes the GDP of the country rise, the average British citizen actually becomes poorer and GDP per capita goes down. We used to have a law for that exact reason mandating immigrants had to earn above 30k, but what do ya know, the Tories repelaed it just after Brexit.
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  30. Labour will finish this country off if they get the power this guest predicts they will.
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  31. The idea that he even owes an apology for a couple of mild jokes is laughable.
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  32. The fact that Tory leadership candisates have to "pretend to actually be right wing" says a lot about what the Tory party actually is.
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  33. It's telling that they talk about what Putin supposedly said without ever quoting or showing it. Almost as if they know they're lying about it.
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  34. Notice the sleight of hand "the damage that covid wrought" - no, covid wrought very little damage at all, the policies your government CHOSE to implement wrought massive damage to the economy. This is a similar game they play with how "the war in Ukraine" caused massive damage to European economies - no, the policies you CHOSE to implement, declaring all out economic war against Europe's biggest energy and raw material supplier was what caused the damage, not the war itself.
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  35. Did you have to talk with Never Trumper neoliberal Kate?
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  36. I never voted for Britain to be a multi ethnic or multi religious society.
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  37. Totally failed to question the basic premises of this guy's arguments.
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  38. "What abput green jobs?" What green jobs lol, importing Chinese wind turbines?
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  39. Lol, when she stuttered before saying that bs about how Ukraine is "fighting for Europe"
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  40. "But aren't the far right as much of an issue as the far left?" When every major corporation and government institution has a white pride month you might have an argument
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  41. Saying "I won't be drawn into slippery slope arguments" doesn't actually discredit them. The guy was hilariously evasive when she called him out on this.
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  42. I'm not pro Chinese, but the fact that a politicians is going to "decide" whether or not there's a genocide shows that this is about geopolitical games, not objective facts. And frankly, if what the Chinese government is doing to the Uyghurs (importing Han Chinese immigrants, encouraging inter-ethnic marriage, attacking and delegitimizing Uyghur culture and history, and denouncing anyone who resists as an "extremist"), then you could just as easily say that the British liberal establishment is carrying out a genocide against the native British, since it does all of those things too.
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  43. The guy talks about freedom then moves straight to authoritarian communism. Positive "freedoms" are just things you make other people pay for at gunpoint.
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  44. People wouldn't object to new developments if they were building traditional villages in the local style rather than ugly new build piles of houses in random fields next to motorways
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  45. I enjoyed when he basically said "violence is different when leftists do it, because they're the good guys"
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  46. When there's too much rape do we say "we need to legalize rape"?
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  47. The Tories are open borders globalists, of course they opened the borders. The issue is the use of "GDP" as some sort of marker of economic success, because most people don't understand that GDP says nothing about individual prosperity. GDP would go up if we imported 10 million Somalians next year, but GDP PER CAPITA would collapse, meaning the average British person became poorer. The use of GDP rather than GDP per capita as a show of economic success allows the government to import 1% of the population each year and claim that it's providing "2% economic growth" - this is technically true, but it doesn't mean that the average Briton is 2% wealthier, it just means that they've added lots of low paid workers who are captured in that 2% figure but are actually lowering the average earnings of British citizens.
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  48. She's right about the bias narrative. Many conservatives accept it, but then are surprised by the consequences (if you accept that all inequality is due to bias, then the existence of any inequality proves that bias remains and the institution/society/organization is still in need of reform, allowing for a sort of permanent revolution against discrimination)
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  49. Of course the athlete they interview is a leftist feminist who says we need more "equality" and less masculinity, supports BLM and attacks the past. The Spectator is a joke. Also her position is ironic since winning is literally about setting yourself above others, which is the opposite of equality.
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  50. How has it been "impossible to cut taxes"? That's simply a lie the Tories tell to avoid responsibility for their policies. No, government policy is a CHOICE. The Tories CHOSE vast government spending and high taxes.
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