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

  1. There will ALWAYS be dangerous people out there. Perhaps we should be reiterating the dangers of going to isolated places alone? But of course the "teach your sons not to rape women" idiots will be out there making it impossible to give sensible practical advice to women. Funny though, it's fine to give that advice to kids. Hmmm.
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  2. @little solace His best isn't fucking good enough shill. He was slow to react, the governent's messaging was inconsistent and poorly articulated, the rules - as you see here - are barely enforced, and Johnson has zero fucking empathy. Meanwhile he's whining about the cost of fucking nannies! Johnson is ABSOLUTELY responsible. And for what it's worth, I 100% take responsibility for my safety and that of my family, but it has been illegal to operate my business for 7 months. What fucking responsibility do you suggest I take? Pathetic..
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  3.  @Repoocekim  I agree with most of what you said except what was a direct response to what I said. Simple rule - if you can't afford children, don't have children. I don't care what the average is - if you're not paying for them, don't have them. Children are not a right.
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  4. I'm so proud. That we elected a muppet as PM.
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  5. Thank goodness we didn't vote for Comrade Corbyn eh? I mean that would have been disastrous huh? :-/
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  6. Do to him what they did to Ghadaffi. Let it set an example to all fascist criminals against humanity.
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  7. Of COURSE he was. How anyone claims that Putin is not despicable and the government is not corrupt just amazes me.
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  8.  @ashamon99  Nope, not buying it. Dyson went o Malaysia for cheap labour and they didn't care about the cost to the BRITISH economy or the Malaysian labour force. They only withdrew when it became a public relations issue.
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  9. I'm more interested in the man who low-balled Epstein's sentence then went on to serve in Trump's government.
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  10. When you don't have evidence, you talk about "lived experience" and lived experience is another way of saying "my feelings." Racism exists, but British blacks are appropriating the genuine life and death grievances of American blacks to make themselves feel like victims. Artificial grievance mongering is the new western pass-time. Yes, racism exists in Britain, but institutional racism? No.
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  11. "Positive discrimination is hiring by colour" That was the moment she earned my respect.
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  12. Churches and f***ing garden centres still open?! If prayer worked, there wouldn't be 80,000 dead.
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  13. 1. Be in the Amazon rain forest hundreds of miles from anyone. 2. See 1.
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  14. If you really saw that video as telling you how you should think, you have a chip on your shoulder a mile wide. There was NOTHING proscriptive in it. It was a simple summary of facts.
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  15. If Johnson thinks for one second that this is a vote of support FOR him, he's a fool. People just wanted Brexit done and Labour made themselves unelectable.
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  16.  @DieNibelungenliad  Honestly, my 80 year old mother makes dumb decisions all the time, as do I. There's no age when I consider people COMPETENT to weigh all the factors and make an intelligent decision on this issue. Jeez, 75 million adult Americans just voted for Trump a second time! I am torn between the emotional harm done by forcing a trans youth to go through puberty as the wrong gender, vs the harm that is done by blocking the puberty of youngsters who go on to change their minds. At this stage, the hippocratic oath must surely be the guiding principle "Above all do no harm" or to put it another way, inaction is morally the preferable choice.
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  17. 3:41 Boris Johnson has finally found his intellectual peers.
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  18. What criminal is not using a burner phone and a code?
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  19. Is your friend still alive? Maybe she wouldn't have been otherwise. And are you certain the vaccine even caused those effects? Yes it is your choice. And it should be the NHS's choice not to treat you if you get a bad case of covid.
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  20. Why do anti-drug campaigners always look so bitter? Her response to Jessen's point about tobacco and alcohol was pure weapons grade bullshit. Who the hell is this woman to tell ANYONE what they can and cannot put into their own bodies? Her arguments sound as tired as the old crap Mary Whitehouse used to spout about censorship. Let's hope that prohibition goes the same way.
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  21. Oh do fuck off. When people are actively threatening people in public and posting hate mail through their letterboxes, that goes WAY beyond offence, and frankly why should innocent people who have done nothing having to tolerate abuse in the first place? If you think 6000 inceidents in just over a month constitutes "a few" any chance you could give me a few quid?
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  22. How do you know they were uninformed any more than the remainers? There were enough lies and bullshit on both sides to keep everybody confused. What special source of information were you privvy to?
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  23. Following the example set by Christians across Europe in the Middle Ages.
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  24. I empathise with anyone's fear of the European culture being overwhelmed. but when people are willing to embark on what THEY call the "route of death" rather than stay in their own countries, it's clear that these are not international dole scroungers, rather they are people made so desperate, partly by OUR nations' actions, that they would rather risk that than stay where they are. This is a crisis that needs addressing compassionately, not cynically or with racism.
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  25. Glad he was convicted, but also glad that procedure was not ignored. In this case, the policeman got the right result, in many more such abuses imprison the innocent. At least we've done away with the death sentence, although cases such as this test our resolve.
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  26. Masculinity is a trait that has been tens if not hundreds of thousands of years evolving, and is STILL a valuable trait. It's simply when it becomes too assertive that it is problematic. I'm not sure that Perry should be blaming othe world's ills on masulinty though. That's like blaming all pregnancy deaths on women. Men's masulinity is what drives them to achieve. The fact that they are disproportionately represented in the halls of power makes it inevitable that they will be the ones committing most of the atrocities. Look at the woman soldier in Iraq - women are just as capable as men of committing atrocities when they are will to place themselves in the same danger situations.
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  27. Nonsense. Trump's momentary popularity will be as fleeting as his wives. Springsteen on the other hand, is a legend appreciated the world over, and has been.
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  28. So England invaded their countries and oppressed them - true, then Britain withdrew, left them to their own devices, and they CHOSE to come to Briain, and it's Britain's fault that they refuse to live as Britons in Britain? That's some weak logic there.
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  29.  @riz7129  Ah, a mature, well reasoned response. Thank you son.
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  30. Johnson's a total clown.
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  31. Old people are taking it, it must be safe. :-/
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  32. I thought that Saint Vincent had declared independence. Why would the it be Britain's obligation to help?
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  33. All that mud seems like a second catastrophe in its own right.
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  34.  @ashamon99  Dyson moved their HQ to Asia for cheaper tax rates, thus stealing from the country that provides their greatest business. It is IRRELEVANT where the actual labourers come from - the fact is Dyson took advantage of them.
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  35. Two total clowns who I hope to see miserable in jail soon.
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  36. We're living in unusual times. I wonder if there was an energy cost crisis after any of the wars or the plague? Doesn't make it easier, but these things pass and hopefully it will motivate Britain towards energy independence sooner. At least it's happening just as we head into warmer weather. The government needs to secure supplies and prices in the 6 months before the summer passes.
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  37. A sudden embarrassing moment of self awareness when the guy being interviewed for TV says, stop reporting on TV lol. But pumps were dryiing up before the news reports.
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  38.  Oliver Eales  WTF are you talking about?!
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  39.  @Pianosnail12  So you're suggesting that this man embarked upon a 20 year career in an unrelated field of policing on the offchance it allowed him to kidnap a good looking stranger? As opposed to simply kidnapping a prostitute? I agree with you that adults who are drawn to kids often work as teachers, scout leaders etc. But that chain is extremely thin when it comes to the police. If you'd told me he joined because he was a control freak, I'd have considered that a reasonable speculation.
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  40. Trump is an unmitigated douche. If the majority support him (which I absolutely disbelieve) it's because they are mostly ignorant of the kind of person he is.
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  41. The ineptitude of Johnson's government was the greatest disaster. Back in March, one month of 100% lockdown, army on the streets to enforce, no planes coming in, and NOBODY allowed to move between househilds and this could have ended 9 months ago. Instead, the entire country has been pushed into a recession that will keep everyone poor for a generation.
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  42. The evidence contradicts you.
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  43. Hear hear. And Ivanka, McConnell, Graham and Pelosi. Traitors all.
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  44. +lordbossharrow You obviously know nothing about the diamond trade. Diamond miners are literally slaves who work under penalty of death. If this store owner is willing to make his living off their misery, it gives me no sadness when someone introduces a little misery into HIS life. And let's be honest, his inventory should have been insured. But even if that was not the case, your vision of wealthy peole as hard working innovators is rarely the case. Yes they may work hard, but they could not become wealthy without exploiting other people. At no point did I say that this theft by career criminals was justified - simply that I have no sympathy for the victim - a man who has done more to contribute to global misery than these thieves ever will. And what is HIS penalty?
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  45. No, the point is NOT that he wasn't their son. A 6 year old child or an old pereson with dementia can be controlled: a fully grown man in the grips of delusions cannot. The first thing ANY water rescue course teaches you is not to risk your life to save another. Of course the police didn't talk about the boy - it wasn't a "get to know" report, it was an inquest into police actions, and they knew taht they were fighting to prove their innocence. Rather than blaming the police, who are not paid to risk their lives because YOUR kid had a bad trip, how about looking at your son's actions? It's tragic that this youngster died, but the police didn't make him take drugs, allow him out of the house or push him into the river.
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  46. It sounded as though he was simply offering platitudes. I had no sense that there was any meaningful intent to deliver on what he was saying.
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  47. Always liked that guy. Down to earth but seems to be a real gentleman.
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  48. What a simplistic idiot. We won't CEASE to be part of Europe if we opt out of the EU, we'll simply cease to be bullied by it. And by "it" I mean Germany. You know Michael, the nation we gave all those lives to oppose.
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  49. He's a big mouthed buffoon. Truthfulness with being taciturn is foolishness.
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  50. Did ANYONE honestly believe that this, Olympics, horse racing or motor racing are not utterly corrupt? Sponsor integrity? Pah, right. How many corporates do not simply go where the money is?
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