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

  1. I've always been skeptical of SOME of the claims made against Weinstein, but I am in no doubt that Lysette at the very least passionately BELIEVES that she was repeatedly raped, and if I was a betting man, I'd bet that she actually was. She's totally credible. The pain in her recollections, and her self disgust and the emotions as she recounts are very compelling, and if it was all just an act, then she'd deserve to be in much more high profile work than Hollyoaks. Her mixture of defiance, disgust, outrage, and self loathing are beyond the scope of any performance I've ever seen. I hope that she gets her wish. Good on her for holding her head up and fighting and explaining just how a normal girl can find herself in that position. She's really changed my perspective on the whole thing.
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  2. The entire campaign on both sides was based on lies and fear mongering. We could SEE that immigration was a problem. We could SEE that Europe was failing in some important areas. And what case did the remainers make? The entire thing was a disgrace.
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  3. If they think that a company with no customers should start up just for the sake of jobs, lets at least make it a business that does something fun, like making bouncy castles or space ships.
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  4. I'd love to have seen that. The incredible improbability of the only planet in our solar system with sentient life having a moon the precise size and distance to perfectly eclipse the sun is fantastic! Literally witnessing the clockwork of the solar system at work.
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  5.  @Lotte-xw3ze  Incredibly sad.
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  6. I'm a fierce anti-royalist but that was a good speech. Got me right in the feels. I only hope Britons are as decent as she suggests. I have serious doubts about many of them.
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  7. I don't mean to be callous but who hides in a basement during a flood?!
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  8. I am incredibly keen to see these boys safe, but jeez, could C4 milk this any harder? Get the kids out safe first, then if you want to make documentaries about what happened, or about the state of Thai local league soccer, feel free. For now, all I care about is the safety of these lads, and what they are doing to save them. Relieved to see that most of the journey does NOT appear to be underwater (if the graphic was to scale). Even so, incredibly impressed at the courage, self sacrifice and ingenuity of the divers.
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  9. Nonsense. The man was guilty as it was possible to be.
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  10. Riiiiight, and eating baby sheep, factory reared chickens, and seafood that lives in filth is healthier?
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  11. What does that have to do with this video?
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  12.  Elfoxoloco  She's not attempting to TREAT these kids - she's simply saying that she recognises that there are issues with blocking puberty for non-medical reasons. Something I'd have thought was pretty uncontroversial TBH.
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  13. Also, starting legal action against the company that you are depending upon to save your life seems SPECTACULARLY short sighted! It's the metaphorical equivalent of sawing away the branch you are standing on.
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  14. Funny the way new organisations only become fake when they say things people don't like.
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  15. Sanctions - what are not gonna do, ban the import of Matrioska dolls?
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  16. We clapped because you risked your lives and your mental healt to save lives. If you're now going to risk the lives of your patients because of your stupidity, then you no longer deserve applause, you deserve contempt. Is that really difficult to comprehend. And yes, the government are two-faced, do you really think that makes your behaviour any better?
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  17. As long as America leads the world in actively denying the problem, and actively opposing action, we're done for. I'll have died of old age in 20-30 years, but I'm so gutted for today's young people. I just hope that America is the worst hit.
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  18. Every "refugee" that Britain accepts, is money stolen directly from the pockets of British tax payers. By what right does the British government give away a single penny of the money British people pay to make British lives better, especially in the midst of the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes? If a government agent turned up at your door and demanded at gunpoint, £1000 to give away to an economic migrant, you'd rightly be outraged, yet because we are one step removed from the process, we are supposed to not only be willing to do so, but feel guilt when their failure to bypass the already ludicrously lax and generous asylum process, sometimes fails and costs their lives. This boy was not "terrified"; he was upwardly mobile. The vast majority of British teenagers could never muster £4000 to relocate. If fear was his motivation, he'd have stopped once he reached a safe country.
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  19. What an indictment of the education system. "You can't take that combination of subjects that inspires you." Krishnan nodding along and doing his best to pretend his has the slightest clue what Penrose is talking about with the collapse of the wave function.
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  20. Why are you asking here?
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  21. Yeah, a detestable moron. Hope she's the first one to suffer from it.
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  22. I don't blame the people of Wuhan in the slightest, even if it came from eating bats. We don't all have the luxury of eating vegan or farm tortured chicken. However, I 100% hold the Chinese government responsible for withholding information about the severity of this outbreak, and I hold OUR government in Britain and the US for doing likewise. Allowing them all to travel though, seems incredibly ill-advised.
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  23. I have empathy with the policeman. It was an unprecedented situation for which nobody could possibly be adequately trained. But what I find unforgivable, is the subsequent cover up and smearing of the victims and other spectators. This reminds me of the truism - "Remember, the police are not on your side."
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  24. TheGava4 Yeah, how terrible not to want to be ruled by people who take their morality from a 3000 year old book that endorsed slavery and rape. How annoying for people to want to be treated with respect and have their own self determination.
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  25. callum traynor So you disagree that immigrants are net contributors? Hundreds of thousand of Brits do NOT go to live in other countries? You must have on your magic glasses.
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  26. So hard to see past all the manipulation on both sides. I consider it a MASSIVE imposition for Obama to involve himself in this issue when he has no idea WHAT loony policies his country will implement when he's gone, especially in light of the hugely unpopular TPP deal that he foisted upon the nation.
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  27. Britain and America should be in the international war crimes tribunal for selling arms to Saudia Arabia at ALL, let alone in this latest case. Fuck their oil - we both have oil, and even if we didn't that makes a shitty excuse for arming a dictatorshiip with such a despicable record of human rights violations.
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  28. It's terrible when people are just picked up off the streets, doing nothing, then locked up in Guantanomo England for ten years days without any sort of trial. If you think uncomfortable matresses suck, you should try being fed by tubes up the ass. I do feel sympathy though, the British governement has moved ever closer to tyranny for the past 30 years. It's not a good sign.
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  29. This is blatant scaremongering on so many levels. To call the Y12 break in a threat is to say that if someone broke into your dustbin cupboard that they had burglarised your house. And the crap about transporting weapons from Aldermaston to Scotland  - I'm sure that they always do it on the same day, after announcing their schedule first on public media, and using unguarded removal vans. FFS! And yet again, someone who should know better, minimising the difficulty of making a nuclear weapon, and hiding the material to do so. The polonium that killed the spy in london could be tracked all over london just by the trail its emissions left. Iran is unhappy about inspections 25 YEARS after radioactive material was used. This man cheapens the subject by his discussion, but Snow should now better.
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  30. I'm sure Assad is terrified at this news. I'm sure that he'll immediately cease fighting for his country and fly to America for the trial. Perahps whilst we're prosecuting war criminals, we can get Bush, Blair and Cheney in the docks at the same time?
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  31. Hmmm, racism by stealth. Isn't this how it started in Germany?
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  32. If it's that easy to control the child, why did the MOTHER, the one person on the planet who best knows her, have to enlist professional muscle? Anyone who works with children knows that even a chunky child of 5 can represent a danger of harm to an adult with flailing arms and head, and kicking feet. If the kid was spitting, I think placing a see through muslin hood over her head until she calms down is PERFECTLY reasonable. The only part of this story I have a problem with was the detention without contacting a parent.
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  33. If you know that you look unhealthy with cellulite and rolls of fat, what's the problem? And if you don't give a shit how you look, what's the problem?
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  34. Given that it is KNOWN that running news stories in which you name and focus on these mass murderers actually increases the likelihood of repeat occurrences, why are channels like C4 continuing to send the message that mass murders like this are a path to fame?
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  35. It's amazing that youtube has enabled people to make a really good living like this. I just wish that they weren't so aloof, dictatorial, secretive and unaccountable.
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  36. +Guy Boyman No, I didn't say that. I pointed out that Christians had done this exact same thing. Christianity is a theology not a race.
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  37. Why the hell was an Islamic extremist in Britain simply allowed to turn in his passport at his leisure in the first place. Or why wasn't he immediately deported?
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  38. I am stunned that black people continue to tolerate this deplorable injustice. The time for peaceful resistance by black people is over.
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  39. It's not our desire for quality food at low prices that's problem - it's the supermarket giants' never ending quest for profits  that pushes down the cost that they are willing to pay for products to ridiculous levels. Companies like Tescos and Asdas literally have the power to destroy farms and organisations that don't knuckle under.
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  40. She seems to be confusing online abuse for increased accessibility and accountability.Perhaps she'd prefer it where only those with a degree in English and the willingness to go post a letter communicated with her? I agree that abuse is demoralising, but so long as it is not physically threatening, it comes with the territory. If I elect you to do a job that you promise to do, then I discover that you are incompetent or lied to me,  I would give you abuse too. now that politicians are coming face to face with the sentiments provoked by their actions, they are uncomfortable. They're all back in the town hall again and they are scared by it. I'm beginning to sense a movement by feminists and politicians to censor the right of disagreement. This is far more troubling than politicians receiving hostile emails. That said, we DO live in an age where people are rude in ways that they never would have considered acceptable before.
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  41. Fuad M The fact that marijuana is natural is irrelevant. Deadly Nightshade and Hemlock also come from the ground and they're deadly. I wouldn't go so far as to say that marijuana is good for you, but I would certainly argue for your absolute right to use it. And this discussion was not primarily ANOUT marijuana in any case.
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  42. I somewhat forgive that woman her ignorance - at least she made an effort to see the immigrants as people - but she didn't grow up in care because of the fantastic quality of people she has in her family. And she hasn't lost her kids because she's such a great asset to the nation.
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  43. It must hurt, smashing your face against the keyboard to make that incoherent ramble.
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  44. Not at all. If you live with someone and s/he beats you up every day, you don't need to also know whether or not they have a job, are hygienic, manage their money, and have unsavoury friends. The fact that that person beats you is fact enough. For many Brits, the fact that the EU has been expanded beyond its agreed upon remit is enough. The fact that it is not properly democratic is enough. The fact we keep getting outvoted is enough. The fact that open borders means that we accept thousands of workers but export far fewer is enough. I could continue, and any ONE of these could be deal breakers for some people.
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  45. If it's THAT essential, why was it allowed to operate under such lax monitoring?
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  46.  @itsourlife  Yes, so it appears, especially if you are a politician or work for the BBC.
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  47. I assume that there is an element of danger each time the divers swim to the cave. I wonder if there is any chance of the cave flooding to the top? I can't imagine how terrifying it would be to be dragged on a stretcher for over 4 hours to get out with no possible control over your own fate. It's such a long distance. I imagine some of the boys will need to be sedated. And I don't suppose you can safely rig a pulley over such a distance. I just hope they get those poor lads out sooner rather than later.
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  48. Kicking an incapacitated man in the head?! WTF! That said, police are not impervious to fear or harm. They don't become invulnerable the second they join.
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  49.  @karltanner8047 I'll look it up now. Thanks for the recommendation Karl.
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  50. Nonsense. There are 1.47 million unemployed in Britain. Numbers rose at record rates in February. Perhaps if all the jobs were not given to foreign workers living Kibbutz-style, 20 to a house, paying them no benefits, British citizens, particularly the young, would have a better chance. Employers have treated workers like scum for decades. Maybe now they'll be forced to stop being such greedy, socially reprehensible vermin, and treat their workers as integral to their businesses.
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