Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1.  @Mattchupichue  "trans" children commit suicide at much greater rates anyway. The question is, is the greater good FOR THEM served by allowing children puberty blockers or not? It's clearly NOT neglect and such hyperbolic language does not help the conversation. Yes, some people deny them on emotional grounds, but the vast majority of professionals on the negative side appear to be attempting to draw conclusions based upon best intent and best science. I'm really not convinced that the same can be said of the pro blocker side who appear to be ideologically driven if Mermaids is anything to go by.
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  2. What a surpise - France and Germany are being obstructive. And to think we incurred decades worth of debt saving France and helping Germany rebuild after the war.
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  3. We all know what America stands for: unlimited power for white, wealthy men, racism, endless war on brown people, and stupid working class drones who thinks a man who has solid gold furniture somehow speaks for them.
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  4.  @RubenWhitter  Riiiight, because 18 and 19 year old students are supposed to be contract savvy, and they were supposed to anticipate the ineptitude of our prime minister, and they had a choice where to live that did NOT include contractual terms like this. You're living in a dream world.
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  5.  @professorpancakes6545  You realise that student accomodation isn't optional yeah? That people can't simply postpone their educations for a year.
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  6. If saving the lives of the people around them is not enough, don't reward them for being selfish.
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  7. I'd think that our own species should be first priority.
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  8. I thought Europe didn't need Britain anymore?
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  9. Ha ha!
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  10. @Daniel W Changed the rules so newcomers on the left cannot get elected within the party in an effort to shut Corbynites out of power.
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  11. Stupid clickbait question. Zero interest in the subject.
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  12. So the farce continues...
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  13.  @Echo-mz6tz  Just so long as you don't take up hospital beds needed for non-idiots, or infect people who had no choice, knock yourself out. Here's hoping the police catch you.
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  14. Taking about the bombs from the war YOU started might not be the best way to ellicit sympathy.
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  15.  @jo18533  Wow, did the local special needs school just let out? You and someone else both using he same feeble line. <slow hand clap> Good for you. Here's a lollipop.
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  16.  @jo18533  Ha ha - nice try for the moral highground. Fail. No, I'm not mocking them. I'm saying that you are their intellectual peer. If you were not so special, you'd have understood taht.
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  17. I agree completely. The media in general is definitely working to suppress the extent of the Muslim issue in the UK. I'm sure that many Muslims are perfectly lovely, and MOST would never do anything violent, but there's a VERY significant minority that sympathise with or directly support violence against the west, and that's a reality that needs discussing. I fear that nobody has any reasonable answers so they're terrified of discussing it at all.
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  18. When black people final rebel and start routinely executing cops for the way that they have been treated, the news will report it as "thug culture". "Administrative leave"? These scumbag cop should be in prison. But of course, the police cover for each other, and the courts cover for the force. The entire system is beyond broken. It needs tearing down and rebuilding from scratch.
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  19. ***** I dunno - Ferguson had potential. If there was a Ferguson EVERY time a black man was murdered by police, I suspect the government might start to hold the police to a higher standard.
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  20. By their very nature, ALL police forces are inwards looking, secretive, have superiority complexes and watch each other's back first. It's a police culture the world over, but in Britain it's exacerbated by Police rules against publicing such behaviour, reinforforced by leadership that is out of touch, and worsened still by government secrecy laws that can imprison people for revealing operational details. A perfect storm and the public are the victims.
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  21. +losIluminados You will when they start to fall apart and cause you agony.
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  22. The concern here is that his entire family, if not his entire circle of friends seems as though they are rotten to the core. I wonder how far out that spreads?
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  23. +Herve Shango How would YOU have handled this?
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  24. +Apollo Olympos 81 of the people in Guantanomo Bay, are guilty of no crime, in the president's own words, yet are STILL not freed. You're right, comparable - the Guantanamo victims are a far greater injustice.
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  25. +C06 Kll4r You know what, here in Britain, we lost democracy and freedom of speech decades ago, yet when Muslims suggest that people who offend them should be prosecuted, people lose their shit. Where were they when idiots were getting imprisoned for Twitter and Facebook insults? Where were they when INNOCENT British citizens were getting dragged off to American prisons at the behest of their government or media industry? I could go on, and again, I agree with your sentiment that it's appalling that ANY Muslims think that freedom of speech should be sanction to protect their feelings about their stupid sky daddy, and appalling that any of them think that it's acceptable to target innocent people, but let's not pretend that we live in a paradise of democracy and freedom of expression.
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  26. Ad Hitlereum arguments are not lazy - it's the only surefire way of finding a common frame of reference. If i equate an action to that of Stalin or Mao or Amin or Pol Pot or Hussein, their actual policies are rarely well known. The fact that I may not wish to divert a conversation down long lines of specifics, buit rather take an iconic example is not lazy - it's expedient.
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  27. The irony of Saudi Arabia lecturing ANYONE terrorism is clear. If they had no oil, I doubt Britain would be sniffing their arses.
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  28. Sasha Clarkson I don't really understand why it's financial terrorism to run your economy into the ground, borrow more than you can repay, then tell your creditors that you're not repaying what you owe?
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  29. +Sweat Music Well that's an interesting point. According to British law, no, no establishment is allowed to discriminate, which is why a hotel got prosecuted for refusing to accept gay guests.
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  30. Does anyone believe that the police don't routinely behave like this? I'm just glad we were never stupid enough to give them all guns. 5 years for this scumbag.
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  31. It was superbly choreographed, and some of the speeches, especially Biden's were pure genius. It's just a shame that Hillary is so deeply, deeply flawed.
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  32. Slimy as a snake. But he DID answer the question, but he refused to give her the soundbite that he feared would be used against him. Interviewer: "Do you think x is wrong" TF: "I have also done wrong things" The implication is clear that he thinks X is wrong, but he's trying to worm out by saying that he is not judging people.
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  33. AWW poor old Phil doesn't like the way investogators look at him. That must really hurt when he returns to his billion pound yacht. Meanwhile the people he's fucked struggle with THEIR retirements.
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  34. Is it the job of society to support minority populations? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it does, but you speak as though that should be our obligation. But why?
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  35. @nakyer Total false equivalence AND a slippery slope argument, in one sentence. That's impressive stupidity. There's no doubt about the legality of a CRIMINAL act such as mugging. It would be more like prosecuting someone for not obeying a new (fictitious) CIVIL law demanding separate bathrooms for trans people if you have a business that does over £250k per year. Obeying it would be expensive, and not everybody could be expected to know it.
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  36. Of course you're right, nobody should ever express opinions because that never accomplishes anything right? Except, you know, every important social change evr. And of course, anybody who expresses the tiniest bit of empathy for businesses on the other side of the equation should be labelled with hyperbolic shaming language. And of course, the fact that something is A CRIME (shock horror) means that we should simply accept it. Just as we still send children to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread right? You are everything that's wrong with SJWs, and over-sensitive, virtue signalling whiners like you are directly why the despicable right is gaining power all over the world as the public pushes back against the fascistic thought-policed world that you would create.
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  37. +B27 Couldn't agree more. Given the US's messed up trade deals and their recent signing to that TPP, the last thing we need is him trying to manipulate OUR markets as well. We are already linked to the US through the stock markets, and we all know what atotal disaster that's turned out to be.
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  38. +E Cooper Because greedy scum always want more wealth or more power at the expense of their people, and a lot of these cultures still have bronze age attitudes towards each other.
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  39. What an appalling choice. Could there be two more unAmerican candidates?
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  40. +Easternodyssey In both cases it's a fucking scummy way to mess someone up. California's draconian three strikes rule has demonstrably worse outcomes for society, and any time the GOVERNMENT is manipulating the system so that they can fuck you up, it's not a good reflection on the government's integrity. Of course, the government forgets that it exists to serve the people, not oppress them.
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  41. Great idea spoiled by inviting a total bigot as the guest. Kind of like having a moderate immigration control debate and inviting the grand wizard of the KKK as your keynote speaker. Of course this event was provocative. The message, which the government in Britain is too spineless to even permit people to express, is "Your beliefs deserve no more respect than belief in any other fairy tale."
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  42. The knighthoods are a joke - not because the system is corrupt (of course it is) but because ANYBODY gives a damn about it anymore. I'd sooner be recognised by my local community for hard work or good deeds, than by some bunch of hereditary ponces.
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  43. Bitter much?
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  44. +Deb Walker Yes, I share your concerns Deb
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  45. Good for him. If they are innocent, then I very happy to see him vigorously resist the hatchet job that appears to be portrayed by the media and some politicians. This is exactly why ALLEGATIONS should not be made public until proven.
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  46. Yeah, I think it's because he was completely unrepentant.
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  47. Hmmm, sense of proportion huh Rory?
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  48. Paul Wood You must be watching different news to the rest of the world. Poorer neighbourhoods, greater rates of incarceration, greater rates of killing by police, poorer schools, lower pay, far less career opportunity. Funny definition of gods in my book.
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  49. So he's simply asking companies to donate a couple of percent of their wage bill to whatever voluntary causes their staff deem worthy? I loathe this man with absolute passion.
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  50. So a politician who provoked outrage for hitting a member of the public as Deputy prime minister, is beating up on a journalist who is clearly ill equipped to deal with it. Isn't this like getting Mayweather in to "have a fight" with a woman? Strange publicity stunt.
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