Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "David Starkey Talks" channel.

  1. To be fair to Labour - The Conservative government with an 80 seat majority could've reversed most of the rotten Labour policies.
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  2. Most of the British Empire was built, not by British governments, but by merchants and traders doing deals with local princes and potentates. It wasn't built by military power, but by free enterprise. Nobody did "empire" bigger or better than the British. And when the era of empires was finished, nobody dismantled faster than the British. Maybe too quickly.
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  3. Mr. Starkey if you're reading this: Please retell the story about how the Royal Navy smashed the global slave trade in the early 19th century. It would make a great BBC or Channel 4 TV miniseries, but there's no chance of that because the tale doesn't fit their narrative.
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  4.  @markmcnicholas9475  The Tory wets saw nothing wrong with Blair's policies. I weep too.
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  5. "I'm a Ukrainian patriot and I love my country!" - Receives applause. "I'm a British patriot and I love my country!" - Receives hatred, vilification, accusations of far right zealotry, accusations of racism and bigotry.
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  6. Is the Anglosphere a good thing? Compare Australia, New Zealand and Canada with the Spanish-speaking world. Who did liberty and prosperity better? Thank God the Ottomans or the Chinese didn't get to those territories first.
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  7.  @alexread9838  Maggie had the same battles. In those days, "woke" in the civil service was known as "ratchet socialism". Somehow Maggie usually got her way, but the wets got her in the end.
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  8. I loved Mr. Starkey's TV programme about the Magna Carta.
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  9. Many centuries ago, some of the wiser Romans must have seen the end times approaching but felt powerless to do anything about it.
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  10.  @geoded  Agreed. Being British doesn't make you less Scottish. I feel the same way about being Cornish.
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  11. If our monarch has a divine right to rule, Charles lost it as soon as he inserted lines from the Koran into his coronation.
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  12.  @fredericksaxton3991  Blair, his wife and son have a combined wealth running into hundreds of £millions. Yeah, he understands the problems of the working class Brit in a northern city, alienated and abused because more than half the community is imported from overseas.
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  13. Many definitions of "conservative". I was a Conservative Party activist for 29 years, but I was really a Thatcherite. I allowed my membership to lapse under Cameron, and I'm not going back. These days, with a few exceptions, the UK's Conservative Party is Labour with a pretty blue label.
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  14.  @elss8717  I recall his TV documentaries from 40 years ago. The BBC might not offer him a contract these days. He's too white and perhaps he won't depict Anglo Saxons as west African.
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  15. The Normans regarded the native English in the same way as the SS regarded the locals during Barbarossa.
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  16. ADAM SMITH > karl marx.
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  17.  @andrewegan7011  Yep.
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  18. Damned right about that!
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  19. Starkey is gay and has a club foot. But you and I respect him for his mind, not his ability as a track athlete or a womaniser.
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  20. An intelligent and well-educated person gets cancelled because he's too white and too male.
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  21. "Take up the white man's burden". The so-called "historian" David Olusoga would regard that as waycist and patronising.
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  22.  @Horizon344  yes, and the African technological revolution which gave us the silicone chip, steam trains and the pointed stick.
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  23.  @reasonablyserious  Charles lost it as soon as he adopted lines from the Koran into his coronation. Not my monarch.
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  24. One of Henry's wives was black, right?
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  25. True, but maybe the Prof knows things we don't.
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  26.  @nickbrown6457  Well yeah duh, and Anne Boleyn was black. Oh sorry, that was Channel 5.
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  27.  @nickbrown6457  Telling truths like that is becoming a hate crime.
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  28. And Disraeli created a great album with the rock group Cream.
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  29.  @Perun944  Greek? A bit like Prince Philip.
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  30.  @TimLondonGuitarist  The British "military" ended where the Royal Navy's docked its vessels.
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  31.  @alanbstard4  A funny thing just happened. I tried to Reply to you, but the YT autobots sent me a message in red and refused to allow me. Possibly this was because the Reply included a D-word, the same word which Rhett Butler used in his final scene of "Gone With the Wind". So I tried again, replaced the D-word with "very" and you can read it yourself. I've previously run into the same problem with the B-word which means a female dog. On a video about dogs. Strange how some words are considered offensive.
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  32.  @ireneheron9523  Maggie referenced the "Glorious Revolution of 1688. She knew the French would celebrate their bicentennial. She arranged for tricentennial celebrations during the previous year and beat the French to it.
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  33. Yes, Bloody Mary was bad. The same as most monarchs at that time.
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  34.  @Yelluz  Nah, the monarchy will be here forever. Charles will gladly accept the UK becoming an Islamic caliphate, providing his family firm still provides the hereditary caliph.
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  35. The Tories these days are socialists. And they're running out of other peoples' money.
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  36. Both King Henry and Prince Harry made bad marriage choices.
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  37.  @fredericksaxton3991  I would laugh so hard I'd break a rib. You can't spell "slaughter" without laughter.
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  38.  @spencerburke  Yeah, Ireland would've been a better place today if the Ottoman slave traders had settled in Ireland and colonised it. As happened with Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. This could've happened if the British/English didn't get there first. And that's exactly what's happening today, thanks to Sinn Fein.
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  39.  @spencerburke  You're not Muslim, for which the Catholic church should thank the Anglicans. Old saying: The Irish remember everything and learn nothing. Hundreds of years have passed and you can't give it up.
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  40. In the case of Tony Blair, I'd be satisfied with a lamp post and some rope. I'd provide seating and sell tickets.
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  41. There are people who claim England was created by black people. Deny it and you're a white supremacist bigot. And that, my friends, is where we are today. (Can anyone see this comment? YT often hides my comments and renders them invisible.)
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  42. Agreed. More like a civil war than a war between nations. Some of the issues were those which were left unresolved 110 years earlier.
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  43. Putin says he invaded Ukraine to get rid of the neo-Nazis. Surely that's a job for social workers and the BBC.
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  44. No need for a single state. Independent states co-operating is much better. As with Europe.
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  45.  @theoneandonlyjones2261  Agreed.
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  46.  @JB-is9pv  At this stage now, the Conservative Party should stand down and not contest any constituencies in the GE. All the Tories will achieve is to diminish the Reform vote and ensure a Labour victory.
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  47.  @Lagerfanny-g7e  Find online with a Google search.
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  48.  @Lagerfanny-g7e  Not the liturgy.
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  49. I demand reparations from the Italian government, following their illegal invasion and enslavement of Britannia from the year 50 BC. Ancient British Druid Lives Matter and I remain traumatised. Gimme money.
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  50. White males are being cancelled across the globe. Watch civilisation collapse across the globe without us.
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  51. The Anglosphere was a great thing in the days of Churchill, who wanted a "union of the English-speaking peoples". Something might've been achieved in Maggie's time, with the special relationship between herself and President Reagan. But these days all we've got is Biden and Boris. So sad.
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  52. Putin's comments about Ukraine being run by drug addicts and neo-Nazis revealed a lot about his personality.
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  53.  @TimLondonGuitarist  Free enterprise > government f*ckwittery.
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  54.  @jamesmason8436  Slavery existed on every inhabited continent for millennia before Harold fell at Hastings. The British came late to the party but were among the first to leave. No country in the history of the world has done more to destroy slavery. But that's OK, there are still f*ckwits who'll blame the British for slavery anyway.
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  55.  @alanbstard4  Very true. Also, do you ever see Piers Fletcher-Dervish these days?
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  56.  @spencerburke  Plenty of English sent into slavery by King James after the failed Monmouth Rebellion.
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  57.  @spencerburke  Maybe you are indeed Muslim. Give me reparations for the Moorish/Ottoman slave trade, raiding British coastal villages and seizing people over hundreds of years.
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  58.  @ianbigsand7  Wilson's sudden unexpected resignation has never been properly explained.
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  59. The present PM is a Liberal Democrat, anti-monarchist Europhile. Says it all.
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  60. Trouble is: "Liberal" can mean all things to all people.
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  61. HEY DAVID IF YOU'RE READING THIS - Please make a video about how the Royal Navy smashed the worldwide slave trade, during the early and mid 19th century. An interesting counterpoint to the usual "whitey oppressed me" rhetoric.
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  62.  @WakingUpToday213  Haha!
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  63. He'll never get another job with the BBC because he's the wrong colour.
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  64. Both Henry and Prince Harry made poor choices in marriage.
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  65.  @richtea615  There's truth in your comment.
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  66.  @Bobmudu35UK  Draining the swamp? The Conservatives BECAME the swamp.
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