Youtube comments of the other Andrew (@theotherandrew5540).

  1. 55 years ago my professor explained that we were moving towards 3 social classes, the upper class, and two others, the unemployed and the poorly employed. The two lower class are left to fight while the upper class live very nicely off their labour. “Your enemy comes not in a small boat, but in a private jet.”
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  2. "We do not raise money from Russian oligarchs" but we are quite happy to receive "donation", especially if we have already given them voting rights in the UK.
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  3. Having worked for many years with fostered children and others with family problems, I STRONGLY recommend, if you don’t want children, DON’T have them. To grow up into healthy happy people, children need happily devoted, loving parents. Nothing will change for the better so long as our society promotes Work, Profit, fat Incomes over child care. Shovelling small infants off to nurseries is no the answer. Children need their parents and parents need society to support them to nurture their children. Breeding children to fill a gap created by our profit oriented society is certainly not the solution.
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  4. The sparse population of the house shows just how little our MPs care about civil liberties. It’s just one more step towards a totalitarian regime.
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  5. When he says "openness and humility", we know with absolute certainty he is about to lie, again.
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  6. Well done China! American consumers may be very grateful to you.
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  7. When America voted was it obvious or just blindingly obvious that Trump was dangerously psychologically disturbed?
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  8. Both. Trump has given so many examples that he has lost touch with reality. Hopefully next year the US voters now experiencing regret will change the Congress and stop this malicious lunatic.
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  9. British foreign policy has ALWAYS been based entirely on self interest. The people of the countries affected are of absolutely no concern to the policy makers - as with slavery, an the Balfour agreement, to mention but two of a very long list. No country has a "clean" history, but that doesn't excuse us.
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  10. That people in a country as rich our need to go to Warm Banks is utterly bonkers, obscene!
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  11. Decoupling from the dollar is overdue and coming soon. Watch BRICS.
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  12. In my experience, most people just don’t want to know, they’d rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend it’ll all go away.
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  13. Assange’s crime was to embarrass the US government. Guardian left wing? 😂 It might be middle of the road, on a good day.
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  14. Like Farage, he’s good on hot air but not so good with reality.
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  15. A good friend once said to me, “don’t try to fix me, just listen!” When I have a problem, just talking about it to someone who will just listen, really helps me to see it and to see the next step towards the solution.
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  16. Frightening, but extremely important to get this out to public view. This should be front page news and repeated and repeated.
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  17.  @fredmercury1314  I don’t think those who experienced the Amritsa massacre would agree with you, nor the relatives of the 3,000,000 who died of starvation as a result of the British confiscating their rice in WW2.
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  18. We are right on the edge of elected dictatorship. If the Tories are not thrown out, utterly, we will have dictatorship, real and irreversible dictatorship. Our entire political system needs to be completely revised.
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  19. After living for 15 years in a culture where hugging was the normal greeting, I returned to the UK. I desperately miss it.
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  20. Britain’s imperial history is extremely uncomfortable to acknowledge. An Indian professor I knew 60 years ago commented that the British went to India to do things that would have been totally unacceptable back home.
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  21. Trump’s first and only interest is Trump.
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  22. There is no way out of our social, climate and economic problems as long as the worship of the Great god Maximum Profit continues.
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  23. You are asking Starmer & Reeves to commit neoliberal blasphemy! To imagine something outside the Chicago school box 😮😢!
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  24. Braverman is clearly profoundly mentally disturbed. Her selection as a Tory candidate and then to a very senior cabinet post reflects very badly on the Tory party, and on her constituency.
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  25. The solution is very simple, neutral Ukraine guaranteed by BOTH sides. Of course Russia won't agree to NATO in Ukraine. We all remember how the US reacted to the possibility of missiles in Cuba.
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  26. The music owns Himari and her violin, what a magnificent trio!
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  27. This should be bold headlines, and in every non-Conservative manifesto.
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  28. Once again, it is clear that Scotland MUST regain its independence. The whole of the British island will benefit from Scottish independence.
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  29. Reeves simply follows standard neoliberal economics and PFI just an deceitful as New Labour.
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  30. If you are really interested in other views, then, as someone who lived in Russia for 15 years, I can tell you that it looks very different there. The UK has not been invaded for a thousand years, there has been very little serious violence since the civil war, over 400 years ago. Russia has been invaded by the French, and then by the Germans. They lost around 23 million citizens, every family lost someone. Russia has to defend the longest land border of any country in the world. America (by far the most important member of NATO) has no hostile neighbours and therefore no need to constantly defend its borders. NATO has tried to, and continues to try to surround Russia.
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  31. Starmer has become just a pink Tory, a slightly leftish Tory. It’s time for the left to muscle-up.
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  32. What NATO says, in its self description, and what NATO does, and it's members try to do, are not the same.
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  33. His trial is long overdue. We can only hope this becomes a reality, soon.
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  34. Tax where the profits are made, not where the company is registered.
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  35. AstraZeneca is offering "at cost", breaking the rules of neoliberal economics ... how does this play into the PR game? Yes, cynical but that doesn't make it wrong.
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  36. No party has ever put country before party. “Make Brexit work” is an idea still-born. It’s not that the wheels have fallen off, it never had any wheels.
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  37. There he is, our new PM. Common decency at last!
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  38. A very rare Tory, a potentially honest MP, not a brown-tongued toady.
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  39. “Growth” is the holy grail, the belief that all good things will be showered on us so long as we worship Growth Growth Growth (which in reality is Maximum Profit …. to those already holding maximum wealth). Planetary sustainability can be just kicked down the road, again again till sometime after some far (too far) election.
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  40. The independence argument is about more than economics. Scottish a more socially aware country than England, more in tune with Scandinavian tax and social welfare than the English love of low tax and Tory austerity.
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  41. “Assuming she’s a wise person … “ Well, that’s something to ponder.
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  42. Lynch is so right, yet again. We really need spokesmen like him.
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  43. As long as Profit Profit Profit remains the god, nothing will change. Those who apply for and those who grant these drilling licenses know perfectly well they are burning their and our children’s future, but they continue to worship Profit Now. They will not be forgiven.
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  44. So Streeting is just another Tory, like Starmer.
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  45. Like any other Tory leader, Starmer is just using immigrants to cover his ineptitude. In July we simply swapped blue Tories for red ones.
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  46. They are just workers, they aren't Tory donors or Tory MPs.
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  47. Well, that was 20 seconds of nothing.
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  48. One can only hope this will finally sink the Tories, completely!
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  49. Another case for Scottish independence.
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  50. I used to come to Moscow, to that very station. There are so many beautiful metro stations and all those busy mainline stations, which have been absolutely transformed since the end of the Soviet era, like St Pancras in London, full of shops and restaurants and cafes. You saw the electric busses behind Tucker? Russia is following China’s lead in electrifying public transport.
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  51. Sir Kier Stalin isn’t interested in moral choices, his interest is power.
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  52. The massacres in Gaza & Lebanon with the active support of the US and the UK show clearly that no one has learned anything from past catastrophes. Who ever wins (whatever that means) there is trouble ahead.
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  53.  @baronmunchausen645  There are about 200 nationalities in Russia, many with their own language, and Russian as a second language.
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  54. Starmer didn’t know where he was going before the July election and he still doesn’t. It has been said that “it’s dangerous to have the US as your enemy, but it’s worse to have the US as your friend.”
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  55. Johnson & Grease-Mug are two peas lying in the same pod. Dorries is just bonkers. Johnson as foreign secretary would be yet another international embarrassment. Hopefully Johnson can sink the Tories for a very long time.
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  56. Once upon a time someone was on watch 24 hours.
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  57. Don’t underestimate Mogg’s malicious influence.
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  58. As a professional turner, I’m truly astonished by the quality of the spindle and the bowel (2500 years ago!). I’d love to see their tools!
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  59. “The British people” don’t want to stop the boats. Some do, some want the immigrant labour, some (many) don’t care. Paying the mortgage or the rent, keeping the house warm and feeding the children is what most people care about.
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  60. Right on Angela! Keep doing the job of holding the government to account, keep up the heat. Let’s hope you will soon have the opportunity to walk your talk.
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  61. Yes, and spend the tax on getting children and poor families out of obscene poverty.
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  62. And Starmer needs to stop prancing around making stupid pacts with Ukraine instead of getting to grips with the problems at home. (Some of us really thought Starmer might actually be the man for change. 😢😢😢)
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  63. At least Trump is consistently economically ignorant.
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  64. Starmer is getting better. But Johnson is a big target, it’s hard to miss.
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  65. Education is always teaching about yesterday’s world. In an age where almost all knowledge not at the cutting edge can be accessed on the internet, education should be focussed on how to understand the information, how to check it’s validity and how to use it. The ancient days of being able to regurgitate facts are long gone.
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  66. It’ll always be wrong for Hislop “to go quite yet.” The ghost Ian Hislop (or the real Ian) will haunt the corridors of Westminster for centuries to come.
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  67. SO right! We desperately need independence in Scotland. The UK could be a loose federation, but the present situation is untenable.
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  68. As I have experienced! So now I use that to my advantage. If I need a tradesperson to fix something I pay him/her as soon as I receive their invoice and I’ve checked the job has been done (properly). So now when I want something done, I simply jump the queue. They know I’ll pay quickly so they came when quickly.
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  69. Замечательно!
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  70. Law in the UK has a.ways been there to protect the established ruling class.
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  71. That is the most important reason for Scotland to break away from the UK.
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  72. If I wasn’t watching, I would say this is impossible. The music is playing this little girl!
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  73. "Les Miserable" is becoming reality.
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  74. Ah but that was before the election.
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  75. It's interesting to see "modern hominids" had Gillete razors rather early on. How did that come about?
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  76. I am immensely impressed by the efficiency of an induction stove. Everything Matt says about them is right, and they are easy to clean. The only disadvantage is that the glass is breakable (as I know to my cost).
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  77. The idea of direct electric power from the reaction looks like a really massive game changer.
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  78. By a very long way!
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  79. Yet he could be the solution to so many problems. Money tends to corrupt and unlimited money to corrupt absolutely.
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  80. Don’t let Trump dictate the agenda.
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  81. Israel will ignore this as it regards itself as utterly above any law, and backed by the US (which also regards itself as above law.
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  82. Trump a friend? Really?
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  83. Unfortunately those with money have always held power. The preeminence of wealth has been part of the US political system from the origin of its constitution.
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  84. Dories has stated that Johnson is honest, when she knows, as we ALL do, that he’s a serial liar. She too is a liar.
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  85. I think Sunak wants to leave Tinkerbell all the space she wants to make an utter fool of herself.
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  86. There is a community of foster families in Russia who practice many of the methods Gabor described. I worked there for many years and saw the results as he described them. Alas some children had been so severely neglected (traumatised) before they came to us that the damage couldn’t be repaired.
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  87. And the bottom percentile of less than £15,000p/a for a household? They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel!
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  88.  @brenglover72  there you have it, anyone who tries to change the system is just shot down by the media (and the Blairites).
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  89. Not so much clueless an simply malicious.
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  90. No worries mate, things can only get WORSE under this government.
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  91. Let’s start with returning workers rights for collective action, and making zero hours contracts and fire& rehire illegal.
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  92. Interesting explanation, but the stupid background jingle is very distracting and entirely unnecessary.
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  93. What do you expect from a centre right neoliberal party?
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  94. Well, if Starmer does succeed in improving the lives of most people (not really a hard task, compared to the past 14 years), that should sink not just the Tories, but their client media too, the Daily Mush and the daily Excrement.
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  95. I favour any leaders who will strengthen Europe and weaken the American attempts to dominate.
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  96. Having lived in Russia, I know Sachs is right. Russia has absolutely no interest in invading anywhere, so long as no one threatens it (like NATO trying to get into Ukraine). Russia want to trade with Europe. Trade will secure peace as it does in the EU.
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  97. SO blindingly obvious! The UK is a one party state where the shop front faces are shuffled every few years. Democracy? What democracy?
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  98. So painfully, depressingly right. War? I fear for my children and grandchildren.
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  99. When the Tories defend workers rights, pigs will fly!
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  100. As a devout neoliberal banker, Reeves tells him we must!
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  101. 47% approval! Well America, don’t complain as your country goes down the pan and becomes recognised internationally as a pariah state.
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  102. Thank the gods for good stone age accounting.
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  103. As with almost all educational reformers, he was largely ignored. He threatened the status quo, and dared to encourage the children to ... THINK!
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  104. What's the alternative? Does anyone really believe another political party would be able to change this systemic corruption?
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  105. Yet another reason for Scottish independence, so we could offer the cheapest energy in Europe. Now that would attract investors! (And scare the pants of the English.) 😂😂 😂
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  106. He should crawl away in shame after the way he backstabbed Corbyn.
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  107. As ever, save the Tory party comes before anything else. The confidence of the people has vanished.
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  108. It can’t be worse off than under Westminster.
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  109. Keep this up front. This is what we NEED! This what we want, NOW!
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  110. As Scotland is not a “region” so we don’t need Grey to flap around here.
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  111. As long as decisions on planning, material and maintenance affecting Grenfell and similar local authority buildings are made by committees in which individual votes are not recorded, nothing will change. The committee meetings must be accurately recoded and indicated votes recorded (as in Hansard). Only then can individual members of these committees be held to account, and where appropriate, charged with criminal negligence or similar offences.
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  112. Whoever wins, we must have PR is we are to be anything like a democracy.
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  113. This use of consultants is a direct result of appointing ministers not for their knowledge but as “jobs for the boys”. Grant Shapps was a prime example of that. If we had a second chamber, of EXPERTS elected on PR, they could scrutinise legislation and hopefully eradicate much of the I’ll considered stuff that results on laws achieving undesired results.
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  114. Religion has always been co-opted as a tool,of the powerful.
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  115. Not a hope!
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  116. Yes, Starmer has changed the Labour Party into the New centre right Tory party.
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  117. Utterly morally bankrupt!
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  118. He's only one of the cogs in a huge machine of corruption. The Brits like to point the finger at the Russians, it's much easier than lifting the lid on our own.
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  119. I admire the courage to describe this terrible tragedy so clearly.
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  120. According to a lecturer in law I know, in British law, property is far more valued than human rights.
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  121. Reform of the UK tax system is so, So urgently needed that it’ll never happen. Far too many people have a vested interest in keeping the chaotic shambles just as it is.
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  122. ❤ Я очень уважаю выносливость и доброту этих людей. Мне так грустно, что мне пришлось уехать из России после того, как я прожил там 15 лет.
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  123. I recall a fatal rail derailment several years ago, caused by a fractured rail. This fault was known about, but the necessary repair had been postponed for two and a half years, just to save the cost to profits. If regular maintenance is reduced, we can be CERTAIN that another such accident will occur.
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  124. “We want to do the right thing for the country.” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Tories only every do the right thing for the PARTY.
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  125. The more independence Scotland has, the better for all the British isles. Scotland is a more socialist country but the English can look over the border and see how different policies work. They might even get their politicians to take up a good idea.
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  126. Correction, “because we were caught nicking ….”
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  127. But incompetence in the true nature of this mob.
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  128. I don’t think even the Tories would allow her to speak for them as leader of anything other than a tea trolley after their inevitable catastrophe defeat at the next election.
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  129.  @DJ-Daz  Keep our nose down, mind your own business, everythng's fine. It almost makes me laugh. One of my professors said after I made a comment sililar to yours, 50 years ago, "If you ever get too close to the real seat of power, you will just ... disapear."
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  130. Power tends to corrupt (government leaders) and absolute power (80 seat majority) corrupts absolutely.
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  131. If Starmer proclaimed his three top priorities are improving the NHS and public services, improving public services including the NHS, taking care of the NHS and providing good public services, he would be onto a winner! If he delivered, he’d be certain of reelection and reelection and reelection.
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  132. The great opportunity now opening up is federalism. If Britain was a federation of equals, not a union, it would be possible for each republic (its time!) to try out different policies which might suit their different societies, and allow the other republics to follow or reject. Central control was a conspicuous failure in the Soviet Union, it is demonstrably failing in the UK. Starmer will of course oppose this. He has to go.
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  133. I used to have a T-shirt which read: You can’t scare me, I have kids. (My daughter gave it to me.)
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  134. Fascinating information, but this mega dam project will displace how many thousands of people? And where will they go? Who will support them to resettle? For how long? How much? And how will this resettlement affect the area(s) where it will take place? How does all this cost stack up against the cost of solar power plus wind power plus energy storage?
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  135. What can we, individuals do? We can boycott ALL recognisable Israeli products. It's not difficult, just look in the supermarket, where are the products from.
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  136. Well thank goodness Brexit gave us back our sovereignty 😂 Now we can sell it to the highest bidder. Any more bids? … going … going … !!
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  137. Corbyn is right again. Keep going, Jeramy!
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  138. Fascinating explanation, but your dogmatic statement that all competition in good, may be true in THIS situation, but it is certainly not universally true. Just look at the mess and prices on railways in Britain, for a start.
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  139. Mad Nad’s and Michael Fabricant’s rants read as if written by some sort of intelligent, so we can be sure non of it was their own words.
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  140. We can only hope that Johnson returns to find his seat is not vacant.
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  141. The country has major problems of poverty and sickness. If remedying these is the top priority, growth will naturally follow.
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  142. Protest WAS a fundamental right in the UK.
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  143. Carbon capture is such a brilliant idea, it sounds so technically clever and just allows the carbon emitters off the hook. I wonder how much the fossil fuel companies contributed to Starmer’s election fund?
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  144.  @AArata63  And if you take the trouble to look at the rates of increase and decrease of temperature, you will see that the current extremely rapid rise in global temperatures correlates accurately with the use of fossils fuels/industrialisation.
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  145.  @lilylittlemonster5  While the British brought about some changes in India which might be seen as beneficial, those same changes might well have happened without imperial intervention. The British East India company began by destroying the indigenous Cotten industry which was as advanced as the British, it then took the cotton, and sold cotton goods back to India, thereby retarding Indian industrialisation.
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  146.  @lilylittlemonster5  Unfortunately you seem to view “other cultures” through your British media lens. They are often different, but rarely feel oppressive to the citizens. Seen from outside, Britain looks as if it’s on the brink of civil war, yet we on the inside know that’s true.
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  147. No one is safe! 50 years ago on the hay days of left wing student protest, my professor warned us that if any of us got too close the real power, we would just disappear.
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  148. Thank you for that sliver of hope, but it seems that rather more than half of your country gave the keys of the kingdom to a lunatic.
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  149. Yes, Trump’s chaos is an opportunity for everyone to identify what is really important to us, or to crawl on the belly, brown-tongued.
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  150. I saw all of this when I lived in Russia and my students recalled childhood in these Kruchovsky panelky with warmth an appreciation of the freedom and security they felt.
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  151. It stinks, but doesn't surprise me. Alas most people just don't want to know about such things, ignorance is more comfortable.
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  152. After the war in Chechnya, Russia rebuilt Grozny. When the war in Ukraine is over, Russia will rebuild the cities in its newly acquired territory so we should leave their money alone, for that rebuilding.
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  153.  @tim3440  Ever since WW2, the US has tried to dominate the world order. Your references to international affairs illustrate that excellently. The US or China is simply a false dichotomy. We can ALL to much better by working together, no one needs to dominate. NATO, which is controlled by the US, is out of date and only causing trouble between Russia and its neighbours. (With due respect, I doubt if you have lived there and come to understand a different, non-western point of view.)
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  154. Absolutely right.
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  155. Scraping the bottom? The Brexiteers went through that with Donkey Davis blaming remainers.
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  156. You’ll only get that when the law limits what and who can donate.
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  157. His front bench just laugh at his jokes. Is this what Parliament is for? It’s just time the whole charade was abandoned, the “palace”:sold off and an entirely new system and chamber built, fit for the purpose of Democratic government, not pantomime.
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  158.  @JasonBarnett-YTisantiWest  Most human being, including those who come in small boats, as kind and compassionate.
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  159. Britain is about to get dysentery 😢
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  160. Let’s have prosperity. Cooperation allows the spreading of wealth, prosperity for the many, as opposed to competition which naturally concentrates wealth in the hand of the few.
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  161. I remember the Cuban missile crisis.
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  162. The Tories can “stick together” and loose the next election, do anything else, and loose the next election. The only question is How much of a loss. Roll,on the next election, prepare for the party (no, not that one, the street parties)!
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  163. From experience, we know Boris will NOT do the right thing. Johnson has a single priority; SELF.
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  164. If the value of the pound falls the price of most foods will go up. Most of our food is imported.
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  165. The January implementation will be delayed. Lord Frozenbrain will manufacture excuses.
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  166. The view that all landlords are wicked misers simply out to screw their tenants is imply not true. Of course there are some lie that, but most, like me, look after our tenets who look after our houses. Of course tenants need protection to keep their homes, but landlords are also people and they must not be prisoners of their tenants, unable to get a bad tenant out without extensive delays, and get rent arrears paid, which is their income. They must also be able to sell, or alter their property, the building. We need reasonable laws that take into account the needs of both, without stigmatising their.
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  167. If you hope for anything faintly socialist, you’d better dump Sir Torylite Starmer, PDQ.
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  168.  @mickroper1685 Russia invaded Ukraine to block the eastward advance of NATO. Putin very clearly warned against that but the US persisted till it got the war it wanted. While Russia could indeed snap up the Baltic states, it has no desire or intention to do so. Don’t poke the Russian bear and peace will prevail.
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  169. Starmer has shown very clearly that he is an authoritarian. This will ultimately be his downfall.
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  170. What else would you expect from Sun readers? Hardly the most informed readership.
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  171. Reality sucks!
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  172. If you expect socialism, you’d better dump Starmer.
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  173. In the same way, sanctions have been a huge boost to Russian industrial and agricultural production.
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  174. Our political system offers us the choice between the kleptocrats on the left or the kleptocrats on the right.
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  175.  @tim3440  Your reply is interesting, but has nothing at all to do with my comment.
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  176.  @tim3440  Somehow I think US domination won't help. Europe has to solve it's own problems.
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  177. The voters who chose the Tories in 2019 should remember this at the next election.
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  178. There’s not much point in giving us access to accounts unless we also have the power to influence those investments.
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  179. Even if it was Putin’s action, is that surprising when NATO is using its satellite surveillance to direct missiles and drones into Russia?
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  180. This is obvious. It’s so good to hear an economist saying it.
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  181. We need not just to overhaul the system, but to start from the beginning and ask why we are sending children to school. I totally agree - Student lead. Throw the old system out! Look to Finland for some good ideas. As a retired teacher, I have long questioned the value of homework, and the many ossified traditions that bedevil out ancient system.
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  182.  @WeOutlawsTV88  You have explained accurately how the boat people have to struggle to pay for their crossing. What have jet-setters got to do with that apart from exploiting them? Many (certainly not 90+%) are indeed able bodies men, who are willing to work and pay tax, thus contributing to the economy of the host country. Wars only make the situation worse.
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  183. At last, someone in the House asking those questions. Conflict of interest? Ministerial roles in this government come with a free hand, in the till.
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  184. Clare Wise in the Guardian complained bitterly about the hardship of farming, a way of life and it’s essential role for the nation. She couldn’t afford shoes for her children as the had to fork out £7000 to repair a tractor. Are we supposed to believe that these poor farmers with assets worth £3,500,000 can’t stretch their overdraft just a tiny bit further? (I’ve yet to see a farmer on a bicycle.) They claim to care for the environment; in my experience they poison anything they didn’t sow and shoot anything they didn’t rear (and those as well).
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  185. There are a few, but in present day politics you only climb the ladder by deception, intrigue and backstabbing.
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  186. “No wonder the country put them in the bin.” Fabulous line!
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  187. The BBC in the mouth of the Tory establishment.
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  188. I presume your phrase “most murderous regimes on the planet” refers to Israel.
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  189. Liz Tinkerbell should be minister for paper clips. Just export Patel to Rwanda. The idea that an economist should be minister for economics (chancellor) is far too unBrexit! He might even fall into the category of “expert” (almost)! Shocking!! Imagine what Gove, or Lady Bracknell would say about that!
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  190. Starmer is just an echo of the Tories. It really is time to push the LibCom twins off the stage.
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  191. Get rid of the annoying jangle in the background.
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  192. You lucky follow. I’m almost the same age as Gabor, and only now getting to grips with the “stuff”.
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  193. “Says one thing and does another.” Of course, just followed his boss BloJo.
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  194. Keep it up Angela. We all deserve answers. Of course truth isn’t part of Tory-speak.
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  195. Venture capital investments reflect the fact that wage rates in the UK are now lower than comparable countries, allowing investors to extract yet higher profits.
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  196. This will be one of the most significant tests of Starmer’s sincerity. Will he actually change the voting system to reflect the views of the citizens, or keep the one that benefited him now?
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  197. From my experience, this is a rather nice refurbished apartment, the mock fire is most unusual. Often a family live in an apartment like this. All the original windows were wooden, double glazed, all apartments are centrally heated, including hot water, except for two weeks in summer when the system is serviced. Most balconies provide extra storage space as well as summer freshness, but are not heated. Unlike most flat complexes in the west, the trees have been preserved, gardens are cared for by whoever wants to. The fences round the play area are a very recent addition. Only 5 stories and playgrounds and primarily school always within easy walking distance for small children. (I suspect the roof access is open for maintenance. I certainly wouldn’t be in winter.)
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  198. My foreign friends are either completely baffled by Brexit, of collapsing with laughter. Britain has become an international laughing stock - Brexistan.
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  199. @ Most voters can’t be bothered to think beyond four words.
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  200. Flynn on target again!
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  201. Only if politicians (and the right wing media) tell voters that is necessary.
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  202. How many homes these turbines can power is a distraction from the industrial use of electricity. How do they stack up against electric car demands, electric trains, steel production, and general manufacturing demands?
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  203. Party has always come before country for Tories. The Tory principle is power at ANY price.
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  204. Thinking is of course the ultimate aim (which is why most successful experimental schools, the world over, are eventually closed by governments). Self determined education, which is enjoyable is always and inevitable much more successful than a prescribed curriculum. The one major flaw in Locke's ideas is his lack of appreciation of the place of emotion. Young children learn through their emotions, and adult reasoning is always influenced by emotion, often blinded by emotion.
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  205. Protect the Chumocracy. We'll soon be looking to China for freedom.
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  206. Land value tax might have worked for William the conqueror.
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  207.  @Karim94222  It upsets you to see China no longer kow-towing to the west. Why does the US think it has any right to interfere in affairs on the other side of the world?
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  208. Now the queen has departed, is the king supposed to keep on all the staff? Doing what?
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  209. I doubt even Starmer can be worse than Boris/Rishi.
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  210. It has grieved me over the years of my career to see good students get poor results simply because they are poor at memory tricks, or are frightened by exams. Failure produces failure! It really is time to offer more than one exam format - designed to find what the student understands; not what they can repeat on one day.
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  211. I really look forward to your work unfolding in 2025. My mother explained double entry book keeping in almost the same way as you describe it, 70 years ago.
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  212. Rees-Smug clever? Yes, slippery arrogant and self righteous.
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  213. 😢
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  214. Why won’t we learn from the Finnish, who have clearly one of the best education service in the world? They support families to take care of small children, the start school at 7, homework is almost nonexistent and so is testing until the final years. It’s time Brexistan moved on from the Middle Ages.
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  215. It's also spectacular financial stupidity.
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  216. The Titanic was a truly trussian disaster.
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  217. Dyson just likes winning when someone threatens to take away one of his toys.
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  218. The SNP leader is exactly right. Westminster Tories are now intent on bringing Scotland entirely under their control, devolution be damned.
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  219. And the Guardian helped to keep them out by attacking Corbyn.
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  220. The bosses are in the same cabal as the Tories.
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  221.  @michaelhartle9737  Religious tolerance is a mark of civilisation and astute politics.
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  222. The cost of building is a very small fraction of housing cost. It’s simply market demand & supply. As long as the government continues to allow housing to be the best investment for voters, by not building sufficient social housing, nothing will change.
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  223. Oh the blessings of privatisation! So much opportunity to cream off more profits all the way down the chain… for a worse service at higher cost. Water, railways, health … all cash-cows.
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  224. Confiscate their assets.
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  225.  @Present-Tense  If "Most Americans are decent, reasonable, peaceful, empathic people with ethical values" how come Trump won the election? For sure many are as you describe, but most??
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  226. @ Alas, as Plato pointed out, that is the great flaw of democracy.
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  227. @ Alas I suspect that is an accurate assessment of the situation. I sincerely hope you can hold the thug off.
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  228. Of course in your country, no driver ever gets sick, no bus ever has mechanical failures. You only have to deal with small problems like panels blowing out on airplane.
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  229. Disappointed that you didn’t show the iceberg advertising your channel. I don’t like cheats. But I liked the guy walking up the flooded stairs as if it was just trouble with a dripping tap.
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  230. Absolutely right, this is the time of opportunity as we see the old order crumbling.
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  231. Every time I listen to Gabor, I learn more and understand more of my family’s dynamics.
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  232. “Will drive her mad?” You’ve got the tense wrong - Drover her madder. Mad Nutter Nad.
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  233.  @NoWonderDragon  The rise in sea level was a very slow process, From my reading, there is evidence of a meteor strike in the western Indian Ocean, and considerable evidence of water smoothed stones and pebbles all around the Arabian gulf and that area, at heights that could only have been reached by a tsunami.
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  234.  @MrMcCawber  In which case, ALL the members who voted for that substandard cladding, amd delayed the essential repairs, shoud be held INDIVIDUALLY accountable in law.
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  235. It is to be hoped that the imminent cost of living crisis will finally destroy this government and the Tory party.
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  236. Happy couple? Really?
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  237. If this “growth” doesn’t result in voters actually feeling better off, and receiving better public services, Starmer will be out on his ear at the next election.
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  238. Transparency? His tissue of lies? And "the prime minister deserves to be trusted." Trust Johnson? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ......... ha
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  239. Politics in Westminster has descended into a mix of Punch & Judy and a public school playground brawl.
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  240. So true! I don’t recall the idea of “service” to anyone but self in Mr Lipsey’s economics text books. According to him, Homo Economicus is a profit maximising creature, poor thing. My brother has compiled an account of the many extraordinary things our very ordinary mother did.
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  241. Do it!
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  242. Thank goodness someone has said it publicly. We are a one party state.
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  243. @ There was a clear agreement between Gorbachev and the US that if Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany, NATO would not advance further East towards Russia. Bush deliberately violated this by planting missiles in Poland at a time when Russia was still recovering from the collapse of the USSR. The statement that Russia needs buffer states is clearly true, if you just glance at Russian history. It is also true that America has faced no serious threat since its independence yet it tries to control the world, including trying to surround Russia with hostility.
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  244.  @Logans3Run  I don’t know how Iberian people view their imperial past, but the impartial British have left a similar trail of destruction.
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  245. Just a normal Tory.
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  246. This needs to be included in any description of the earth warming & cooling cycles. Why was it not mentioned?
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  247. One of a very few.
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  248. The legal system will be next.
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  249. U-turn? No, just pirouetting. Truss as normal.
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  250. Helping people? Well yes of course, if they are wealthy Tory donors.
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  251. The Johnson doctrine: Never, under any circumstances, ever answer the question!
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  252. I look forward to hearing your ideas on what can come after neoliberalism now that it’s flaws are clearly visible. Talk of a mixed economy sounds “nice”, but the powerful do not give up their power willingly, and the neoliberals show every sign of fighting for yet more.
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  253. I recall Harris as a beloved performer. I was, like many people, deeply saddened when I learned how he has abused his position. Savile, on the other hand, learned quickly how to abuse his power, and became a truly disgusting character. He even looked lecherous. Those who protected him must live with shame for the rest of their lives.
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  254. We all know the Israelis just lie, lie and lie, and the rest of the world just nods. Human Right watch and others have pointed out that the IDF are committing war crimes including genocide. Racism is the new normal, actively supported by our leaders.
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  255. My impression, walking through the March was that there were even more supporters from non Mauri people. The government rushed the bill through parliament as soon as they knew there would be such a protest, to get it signed into law as quickly as possible. The rights of the indigenous people are now severely at risk. For a small country the protest looked massive.
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  256. She blessed us with here (uniquely true) comment about the government of zombies. One zombie less.
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  257. Let’s pray that the Tories will be out of office for generations!
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  258. And the liar should be suspended for a significant period.
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  259. Of course the Tories are trying to steal the election. They will do anything they can get away with to undermine our democracy and make Britain their personal fiefdom. Remember, patient, sleepy Brits, “the world ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.”
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  260. The Russians and the Chinese have a lot to learn from the Tories, the party of Churchill. Stalin would have hailed Braverman as a “hero of the people”! In 1939 to 45 we fought against exactly this kind of dictatorship.
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  261.  @Jodi_Johnson  yes. But you suffer from a dreadfully corrupt political system.
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  262. It would be a good idea for NATO and in particular the US, with its long history of intervention in anywhere is considered it own interests were threatened, to take note of these two saying.
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  263. There is no stupidity too stupid for Brexiteers incapable of admitting they were wrong. Don’t expect Starmer to fix Brexit, he’s joined the club.
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  264. Thank god for Lynch to speak out for all of us.
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  265. Right, right and right. As we see, Johnson and the Tories will do ANYTHING to cling onto power.
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  266. We so much need another like her. The best headmistress the commons ever had.
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  267. Well if we get Sunak rule, at least it won’t be quite so internationally embarrassing as Tinkerbell Truss.
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  268. What gigantic waste of money and resources. Let’s look after our home planet properly before we try to play god.
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  269. Much too dangerous.
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  270. The more mud in the water, the easier it is for Reeves/Starmer can pretend to be doing something. Now Starmer is planning to invest in armament, he will be able to put those production figures into the magical GDP.
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  271. Truss is so obviously a puppet, why even mention it? The ERG are in charge, Truss dances in their strings.
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  272. Boris has failed. That’s the whole story.
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  273. For an economist, you are suffering from a serious bout of common sense. Take a lie down, political normality will return.
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  274. Keep going, slowly, slowly the truth is emerging from under the turds.
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  275. I presume Mick Lynch and others can just not turn up for work, and have a holiday, and be paid of course. Or maybe I didn’t understand Tory policy, rules for the common people don’t apply to Johnson et.al.
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  276. But normal Tory policy.
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  277. No worries, they’re just Tories under a red banner.
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  278. Interesting account. Once the ferry at Salen, Isle of Mull, was similarly buffed, so hard that the deck bollard was torn out!
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  279. The distorted USE of the suicide incident is below shameful.
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  280. Ethics and the Johnson party? What’s the connection?
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  281. A Scottish independence referendum is for Scotland. England has no say, beyond the resistance of the the Tories PM.
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  282. I recall the white panic in the US when the missile site was discovered in Cuba.
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  283. Australians seem quite good at that. See the “Darwin awards”.
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  284. Let NATO stay out of Ukraine and there will be peace.
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  285. Congratulations Kwazi! Maybe you have finally succeeded in saving the country, by destroying the Tory party, hopefully once and for ever.
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  286.  @woodsghost9088  It is the job of government to protect its citizens, therefore your logic leads to immigration control. In the good old days before Brexit, migrant workers did a lot of the seasonal work in agriculture in the UK. Similarly, tradesmen from other countries were quite prepared to work in remote locations where “indigenous” tradesmen were reluctant. The UK has an aging population, it needs more able-bodied young workers. If the government manages to stimulate the economy, there will quite quickly follow a shortage in the labour market. Statistically, by working and paying tax, immigrants make a small net contribution to GDP. The costs come from not allowing them to work.
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  287.  @billB101 Time to finally tear up that card.
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  288. I notice PR is missing from the Labour manifesto.
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  289. A few weeks of homelessness on the streets might perhaps just modify their views of homeless poor. But they won’t ever experience the reality of homelessness.
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  290. No one has a RIGHT to happiness, but young people do have appropriate EXPECTATIONS. In the 1970s we had free university education and good student grants. When you left university you had NO DEBTS unless you’d over spent your grant. We need now to tear up the school curriculum and begin from the beginning. WHY are we educating children? How do other countries go about it? What results do we expect? Are we achieving those returns? Are other countries achieving their aims? Like our parliamentary system, our education system is still stuck in antiquated thinking. We need a serious, deep, long national debate.
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  291. @ Yes, that makes sense. Basically you are dealing with a rotten political system, the same as in the UK.
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  292. “That’s what they say” because the mealy media tells them to.
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  293. Nadine the Nightmare.
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  294. Not a comparable issue. Farmers in the UK are a tiny minority and not a difference ethnicity.
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  295. We absolutely must all stand together and support those at the sharp end, the strikers.
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  296. Alas true and understandable
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  297. With the Tories, that was BLINDINGLY obvious, a gang of the useless lead by the incompetent. How about appointing experts, or at least people with actual knowledge to ministerial positions. (Gove was totally wrong, and knew he was.)
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  298. I hope, really hope you’re right. I am appalled that there is even a single Tory MP after the utterly shameful support those MPs gave the their lying, corrupt, incompetent leaders.
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  299. Decency and the Tory party parted company long ago.
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  300. Would it not be simpler to tax all income from all/any sources (including “perks”, bonuses, shares, cars, homes, anything which is effectively income) aggregated together at the same level, and rising incrementally to well above 50% for extremely high incomes.
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  301. Nothing will happen of course. Present day politics contains absolutely no vestiges of “moral compass”, it’s simply a completely self-interested, grubby, dishonest game of power grabbing.
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  302. Don’t forget us in Brisbane.
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  303. The enemy is anyone who doesn’t praise Tinkerbell Truss. That’s an awful lot of us.
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  304. Reality is just so lefty!
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  305. My impression of this video is that Paris did not suffer badly during the war.
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  306. When maximum profit is god, it’s money first, safety as an afterthought.
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  307. Ah, but abortion probably wasn’t legal then. We can’t expect JRM to see into the future, as far as the 20th, or even … the 21sr century, let alone the 19th.
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  308. Not a hope! Until she is staring at the walls of her cell.
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  309. Of course he lies. Has he ever done anything different?
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  310. “Politician should know what is right” said the man who also said dealing with climate change was “too expensive”. Well, as Tom Lerha sang in the 50s, “we will all burn together when we burn”.
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  311. Rishi Spineless, as usual.
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  312. “The flood” was a tsunami which originated in the western Indian Ocean, it was not a global event as described in the Christian Bible.
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  313.  @NoWonderDragon  The myth of Atlantis remains fascinating and unsolved. You might well be right, but I’m inclined to think Atlantic was somewhere in the Atlantic because the ancient Greeks seemed to know something about it.
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  314. The effort to try to rescue these 5 wealthy submariners is indeed admirable and appropriate, but compare that to the rather different way the British, Italian and Greek governments deal with 1000s of poor refugees in distress at sea - just left to drown.
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  315.  @MrMcCawber  I've seen the same, but on a smaller scale. Unfortunately I see no sign of chnge under the current kleptocrats.
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  316. Trump and Putin are quite different and have very different agendas. Putin does not want NATO breathing down his neck. The war in Ukraine is not about territorial gains, but simply keeping NATO at a safe distance, out of the Slavic neighbourhood. However it is dressed up, the war will only end when Russia is assured that Ukraine is neutral.
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  317. The northern people are very VERY tough!
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  318. Abstract symbols have no meaning for small children, and often for those who have "street maths". It's not a problem of language. Eight apples has meaning. "8" is empty of meaning.
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  319.  @keithfallinghorse6732  Thank you.
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  320.  @TheBigBlueMarble  In the short to medium term, immigration can easily solve that problem. In the longer term, society is probably going to have to go through some painful readjustment as the global population declines.
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  321.  @TheBigBlueMarble  In the short to medium term, births significantly exceed deaths in most developing countries. Emigration relieves pressure on their social systems while immigrants can provide the rich, demographically imbalanced countries with needed and tax paying labour.
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  322. Have a heart! He’s just a poor MP struggling on only £82,000 a year, and the poor chap has to actually travel up to London sometimes to vote.
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  323. Gosh! You mean they weren’t working hard, day and night, for the nation’s benefit? Surely not! 😅😅
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  324. Yesterday, or rather last century would have been a better time to address the problem.
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  325. I totally disagree with the inappropriate good wishes to the scumbag who has turned this once respected country into a shameful international laughingstock.
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  326. You threatened the ruling elite! You posed the real possibility of power of ordinary people. That was your crime, rather similar to the destruction of Michael Foot. The ruling elite hold power in all three major parties in the Britain, they have absolutely no intention of supporting anything like real democracy. They simply wear whatever colour suits their self serving agenda.
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  327.  @tonymccake3057  I guess you are right. The Tory-managed press will forget the the Tories Russian money laundrette in a few days.
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  328.  @tberry79  There are many tipping points, all of which make the situation worse, some catastrophically. But anything that slows or reverses the CO2 increase, slows the disastrous consequences, and brings the possibility of climate rebalancing closer, even if not in our lifetimes.
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  329. So much for Tinkerbell’s Oxford education.
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  330. Starmer’s Labour Party is just another neoliberal party.
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  331.  EL JAY  The Barnet formula does not "bankroll". As I stated, independent Scotland will have the right to raise its own taxes and choose its own spending priorities; Independent, not Dependent.
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  332. Starmer has one outstanding quality; he doesn't tell lies.
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  333. Instead of spending £bns repairing the ancient palace, arranged in parallel benches “two sword lengths apart”, the palace should be sold off … to Disney World or whatever, and turned into a museum and a theme park. The money from the sale could then be used to create a 21st century semicircular debating chamber, and sufficient office space, and even with 21st century technology.
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  334. Ah but they work so hard, every hour of the day, like the ghost MP for Clacton.
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  335. Why did we bother to vote in July? Just to change one set of silly faces for another? We had foolishly hoped for a change to policies to actually improve lives.
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  336. When you are sick or injured, you want a sympathetic HUMAN, not a stupid bot or someone who simply reads a script.
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  337. Splitting the country’s railways into private bits was one of the stupidest bits of Thatcher’s con-tricks to pretend we could have public services without taxation. But then she regarded not being wealthy enough to pay for private services as “your own fault”.
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  338. "If an error has been made." Dear madam speaker, there is no IF.
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  339. If Russia is imperialist, why has Putin not taken back Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Georgia and any of the other countries on its border? As said, Russia has 14 countries on its borders, unlike the USA, which has two countries and two oceans on its borders. Putin made it clear in 2014 and 2021 that as Russia has been invaded, from Europe, it needs neutral buffer states. If the US hadn’t tried to push NATO armaments right up to the Russian border (Ukraine), there would have been no war. America is entirely responsible for this act of calculated malice. Ukrainians are just collateral damage in yet another proxy war against Russia.
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  340. It isn't. The system of government is fundamentally rotten and will remain so as it favours those in power.
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  341. News doesn’t need a muzak background. It is, or should be, information, not entertainment.
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  342. Boris statesmanlike? Gosh so Peter Rabbit really did exist!
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  343. One more Brexit success ... for Europe.
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  344. From experience of living in Russia for many years, I know three windows is much better than two. Moss, leaves and hemp waste provide excellent insulation. The Russian stove is a remarkably effective and economic space heater. But the greatest weakness is the walls; they aren’t thick enough. I miss Russia, those warm hearted generous people.
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  345. Bring on the chaos. That’s the only way to wake up the sleeping voters.
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  346. At a local level, citizens assemblies have been seen to work. Citizens are randomly invited to participate, there is no compulsion. For a representative democracy, we must have some form of PR, but we also need political education for all, beginning in school. (Of course it will be difficult to agree a syllabus, as it was sex for education.) We need to look around the world and see what works, and what doesn’t. The US have a tripartite system, but they’ve screwed it up. The power of money to control the system must be removed, and the judiciary must remain protected from political interference. Getting rid of the ancient, impractical Palace of Westminster and replacing it with something suitable for 21st century government would be a start. (Sell it to Disney or Musk, as a museum/theme park.)
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  347. Here in Australia, the idea that you wouldn’t put your purchase is a plastic bag, however well wrapped or small it might be, is simply incompatible. EVERYTHING gets wrapped in plastic in plastic. When I asked for 2 sushi just on a serviette, not in a plastic box, it was received with incredulous astonishment.
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  348. @ замечательно!
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  349. Johnson and his cronies will sacrifice anyone, do anything, regardless of any law, in order to cling onto power. Worse is yet to come.
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  350. Great, but the clips are FAR TOO SHORT. Less and longer would be much better.
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  351. We can't have non-Tories in the country. They might not vote Tory.
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  352. If Scotland were independent it could offer the cheapest and greenest energy in Europe.
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  353. I lived in Russia for 15 years until just before the war began, I have friends in Ukraine, as many Russians do. I could hardly believe the utter malice of the US, backed to the hilt by lying BoJo. And the western mainstream media just goes on and on perpetuating the same lies over and over again.
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  354. Again, Lynch is right on the ball!
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  355. Israel is protected the US, both countries regard them selves as above any law.
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  356. As ever, fascinating.
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  357. Very interesting and informative.
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  358. Most ones get poorer.
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  359. Could we ever?
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  360. That’s the problem!
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  361. For sure this device seriously contributed to allied success, but did it really win the war? Could the combined forces of the US, the USSR and the British empire possibly have had something to do with it? Please, please cut the hyperbolic claims in the title.
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  362. Yet another already existing alternative to fossil fuels. They early are long past their use-by dates.
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  363. Don’t hope for change from Sir Kier Stalin.
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  364. I want to see you continuing to comment or and challenge the government’s policies - anything up to about 9 or 10 min suits me
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  365.  @view1st  I dont know where you get your history from. William of Orange, a relatively minor prince, by European standards, was invited to reign, as a constitutional monarch, in order to try to avoid more religious riots Britain. He came just with his personal ontourage, no invading army. He was indeed involved in Ireland, but I referred to mainland Britain.
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  366. Our "representatives" in their OWN interest! That is blatently clear.
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  367. Of course a party isn’t a social gathering. It’s just a gathering for a social event.
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  368. Haven’t you noticed those who levy profits are in the same club.
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  369. But he IS living in cloud-cuckoo land. He's one of Bo-Jo's cabinet.
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  370. I wish Russia and its allies every success. It’s time America stopped trying to control the whole world and learn its place is America. Ukrainian’s “hour of need” was deliberately created my American provocation. There will be no winners in Ukraine, sadly the Ukrainians are paying the price of American interference.
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  371. For a long time, rising house prices has been a way of buying votes by manipulating the interest rates. Make sure the voters greatest asset increases in value! After the pandemic when the rent freeze ended, rents jumped. Thatcher’s “right to buy” and her destruction of the successful policy of council housing was a master stroke of vote buying, aided by the major house building firms always providing just not quite enough housing, thus stimulating prices rises by ensuring sacristy. All good neoliberal policies … until it finally starves its golden goose to death.
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  372. When has Israel ever paid attention to international law? Under the protective wings of the USA, Israel acts as if it is about any law. Now Trump thinks he’s king of the world.
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  373. It's one of the options, and as such, it's essential that it is developed. No one system is going to dominate in the CO2 net zero future.
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  374. If the ruling party in Hungry is so criticised for controlling the media, why is is OK for all the mainstream the media in the UK to be controlled by the current ruling party?
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  375. Inflation is largely driven by HUGE profit increases for the energy companies, electricity distribution, transport companies. As long as they are allowed, and encouraged to stuff the pockets of shareholders at the expense of everyone else, ordinary working people will continue to suffer falling living standards. But that of course is the Tory plan, to reduce the workers to penury, wage slaves, so they will ANYTHING for a crumb to survive, while the rich play on their yachts.
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  376. We have far more trained doctors than posts for doctors. More money would allow more doctors to be employed.
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  377. Not for a while, but remember Wilson’s line, “a week in politics is a long time”.
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  378. Soon, we will have to get used to recycling everything, Very soon!
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  379. Starmer has shown clearly that Starmer only does Starmer’s ideas.
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  380. 40% of the world is connected. So 60% is not, The idea that the transistor isTHE most significant invention is arrogant nonsense. It's one of many significant advances, like fire, farming, metallurgy, vaccines, Newton's discoveries, Relativity, paper, gunpowder and so many more. The transistor is just one step, nothing more.
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  381. Simple solution. Governments must require the drinks companies remove the same weight of plastic as they sell.
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  382. Does anyone believe anything Tinkerbell Truss says?
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  383. BBC impartial? How can a Tory party controlled organisation possibly be “impartial”? It’s not just a joke, it’s another Tory swindle.
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  384. Great insight into the minds of the ruling class.
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  385. Yet another reason why Brexit was such a truly stupid idea.
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  386. So he declared no more tax rises. Well, at least that divides him from the previous bunch, so the rich and super rich can relax, nothing is going to disturb their life of ever increasing luxury.
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  387.  @alanmcdonald5000  How have you connected that to my comment?
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  388. A nation of just 54,000 can’t possibly afford such a project, so who’s paying? The idea that tolls alone can pay for it, considering how few people there are to use them, is ridiculous … obviously it must be NATO (or the US), for strategic military functions. Good luck Faroe islanders, you’ve sold your soul to the devil!
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  389.  @TheRedBaronHP  I’m sure that’s the official line, but as explained, it’s completely implausible.
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  390. May was in the wrong job. She could have been an excellent head of the civil service. But she completely lacked ideas necessary for leadership.
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  391. Stalin used this technique to rewrite history, but what else would you expect from the deceitful Grant Shapps, or whoever his is. Incidentally maybe you missed it, but the Soviet Union was dissolved over 30 years go.
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  392. As ever, the Conservatives are looking backwards to conserve some mythical glorious past, when the common people knew their place.
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  393. IF we had a leader as PM instead of a timid schoolboy, he’d politely ignore emperor Trump. If we want a DEFENCE organisation we need small fast technically advanced ships (we are an island) and submarines, and defensive missiles, NOT a huge cumbersome aircraft carrier and unusable nukes.
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  394. Most of Australia doesn’t have “weather”.
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  395. Oh!
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  396. Whatever makes money! Truth? What's that got to do with it profit?
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  397. Hardy folk!
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  398. But Trump doesn’t care, he just wants to be Mr President. Any old lie will do to try to cover his failures.
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  399. I lived in Russia for 15 years. The airport queues were as bad as Heathrow, and the border police wear permanent scowls, but travelling by train of by bus is so much more pleasant than Britain. Apart from the suburban buses & trains, if you have a ticket, you have a seat. And timetables are reliable.
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  400. While Muskuts will bring about hardship and death in many parts of the world, he also provides an open door for China. Stupid simplistic policies don’t usually produce the desired result.
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  401. Do you normally practice stupidity, or is it just your natural state?
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  402. 😢 This should be shown to every voter in America.
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  403. Which is exactly why no party will support it.
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  404. Ah, you mustn’t criticise your government. That’s the rule in a fascist state.
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  405.  @ondaja1167  yes, I agree with you.
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  406. Thank goodness someone has a platform to say this, to tell the truth.
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  407. The British people,were fooled in 2019. We're stuck with this unimaginably corrupt government until They allow a general election.
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  408. @ we agree on NATO. Sadly those militarists are determined to find any excuse to maintain the war machine, regardless of the human cost. But can you explain your last point more clearly?
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  409.  @everready800 So long as they don’t reveal that it was the threat of NATO’s eastward advance to the Russian border that provoked Russia to a preemptive attack.
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  410. @ Ukraine has a unique place for Russia, being the birth place of the Russ. There were very close relationships between Ukrainians and Russians, their languages are almost the same (Ukrainian has a couple of different vowel letters). Ukraine is geographically significant, south of Belorussia and on the Black Sea. The little western orientated Baltic states present no significant threat and Finland and Russia managed to get along well. (NATO of course jumped at the opportunity the was in Ukraine presented to persuade the Finns to join their gang). Russia’s eastern border is with China, which isn’t part of NATO. (North ATLANTIC Treaty Organisation, not Baltic or Black Sea or Mediterranean.) its southern borders are mostly guarded by client states formerly part of the USSR. As Putin has explained, Russia needs neutral buffer states to protect its huge land borders. Unlike the USA it doesn’t have oceans on two sides and weaker friendly nations on two other sides. Russia doesn’t have 750 military bases in foreign countries, just two in Syria. During the 15 years I lived in Russia, 2006 - 2021, I saw real prosperity, huge improvements in public transport and infrastructure, clean streets, less crime. Putin in popular because for most people life is better. It’s true that pensions are still poor, and inflation is higher due to the cost of the war.
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  411.  @sarahjaneross2918  You are living in a one party state with a tradition of musical chairs. Nothing can change until voters refuse to accept to LabCons, but as there is absolutely no political education in Britain (deliberately), hope lives alone.
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  412. What else would you expect from Tinkerbell? Tinkerbell for PM? This is what you'll get, absolutely spectacular incompetence.
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  413. You explained how the floods occurred, but how did the ice damn rebuild?
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  414. Tell Starmer! Print it in the Guardian, DEMAND this action as soon as Starmer enters No. 10.
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  415. How are these artefacts cleaned?
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  416. Patel should be sent to Rwanda on a one way ticket.
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  417. Do you really think that there aren’t attacks from western secret services in Russia? And against Russian interests? It has been the US policy the “contain” Russia since 1947. Initially it was explicit. While it has not been on the front pages, the policy has remained active and implicit ever since. The US has an absolutely appalling, disgraceful record of interfering in other countries and their governments, whenever they don’t tow the US line. This criticism of Russia really is the ultimate pot calling the kettle black.
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  418. What about the interest paid? Does that not create more money?
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  419. Oh Tice and palls will go much, much lower.
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  420. Completely bonkers.
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  421. “Financial engineering” what a lovely phrase for “cooking the books”. Definitely a ‘must use’ phrase. 😂
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  422. Like fossil fuels, this move is ferocious opposed by the farming lobby, who are a very powerful block in Britain, in the US and in Europe. When I learned about this, 50 (yes, fifty) years ago, I gave up meat as the most inefficient land use and cruelest way to get protein. While small amounts of animal protein are pleasant sometimes, and for a few people, necessary, the vast majority of the human population do no need to eat meat. With so many of us on the planet and so many eating meat, it’s time for a change, right now!
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  423. Truth is the first casualty of war. Distortion of truth? Do you really think the western media isn't propaganda? Do you think the US didn't and doesn't lie?
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  424. Times have changed. In the ‘50s some people barely earned £10/week.
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  425. @ In the 70s the “top brass” were paid about seven times the wage of the “shop floor”, now the CEOs of many multinationals receive on average about 76 times the pay of the menial employees.
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  426. Fantastic photography, but how many of those workers fell?
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  427.  @woodsghost9088  That can only be true if employers fail to pay reasonable wages.
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  428.  @woodsghost9088  in the theoretical model of free market economics that holds true. But apart from the unreality of economic models, social intervention by governments aught to regulate labour markets in a way which protects citizens (by far the majority of whom are empires) from “free market” exploitation.
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  429.  @thomaslacornette1282  Religion and “culture” have long been used as tools of power.
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  430.  @woodsghost9088  Simplistic solutions don’t fix complex problems. In the unreal “free market” economy, yes unlimited immigration would lower wages, but in the real world that effect is minimal due to appropriate minimum wage laws and the reluctance of British workers to do some jobs. Doctors are well paid, the underemployment of doctors is not related to immigration but to government policy. Housing shortages and other social paucities are also the result of government action, or inaction. Immigration just makes that more obvious. Homelessness in Finland has been eradicated by … building homes. What a novel idea! Immigrants are simply a convenient scapegoat to distract the public from government failings.
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  431. As Michaelthayer described, Russia will not collapse. It is very clear from this video that the writer of it has rather limited knowledge and even less understanding of Russian people. I lived there for 15 years; Russian do not think along the same tramlines as Americans.
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  432. Excellent! This man is a real leader.
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  433. This should be played daily in the lead up to the next general election.
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  434. So why does the UK maintain so many tax havens? (About 14 of them.) What’s in it for the tax haven?
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  435. … but profit is necessary. The god worshipped is Maximum Profit, worshipped with devotion above ALL else (including safety now and the lives of future generations). This is even enshrined in law in many countries where traders, hedge funds and government can be severely fined for any action which might impinge on maximising profit and dividends to the Holy Shareholders.
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  436. So this war could have been easily avoided if Zelensky has simply agreed to neutrality last December or earlier. This war is ENTIRELY the result of the US refusal to accept Russia's demand for security via neutral Ukraine.
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  437. And remember ONLY to report bad news from Russia. A country where, according to western news media, nothing good could possibly happen. Even a sort of good story has to have a nasty end.
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  438. It sounds just like the “disputes” between the British and the Spanish in the era of Elizabeth 1st. Raleigh was a state sponsored pirate, just like the Americans in the Middle East.
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  439. I have great respect for the professor’s knowledge and wisdom WRT economics and issues related to money, but WRT the invasion of Ukraine there is a common misunderstanding deliberately fostered by NATO and the US. I address this question as someone who lived in Russia for any years and came to understand their views. Russia has a huge land border, … while the USA has oceans on two side and friendly/weaker countries on two other sides. Historically Russia has endured devastating invasions, two from Western Europe. Russia lost around 27 million of its citizens during the last invasion (more than all the other allied countries put together) so understandably there is a visceral fear of invasion. After the collapse of the USSR, Gorbachev had an agreement with the US that if Russia agreed to German unification, NATO would not advance any further eastward towards Russia. Bush ignored this, planting missiles in Poland when Russia was still recovering and Putin was finding he feet. Don’t forget that when the US learned of a potential missile base in Cuba there was near blind panic in Florida, and the world came to the brink of nuclear war. Putin explained the Russian strategic need for buffer stated, but NATO threatened to push right up to the most sensitive border. Now, I speak from information given by people who know much more than I do; Russia does not want or need more territory (it is already the largest country in the world), it doesn’t want to take over Belorussia of Kazakhstan or any other of those countries. If the little Baltic states and Finland don’t engage in military provocation, their former good relations with Russia can be restored. The invasion of Ukraine was deliberately provoked by NATO in order to pretend that they were the good guys without needing a single boot on the ground, and with the intention of weakening Russia, perhaps even breaking it up so the US could grab its resources. The solution … after the end of WW2, the most terrible European (and global), it was recognised that cross border trade agreements would make war much more unlikely. Since the reign of Elizabeth 1, Russia has been trying to establish good trading relations with Europe but has been repeatedly thwarted by “the great powers” fear of having to accommodate the rising power of Russia. The sale of cheap Russian gas to Europe presented a major threat to American dominance of Europe … thus the destruction of the Nordsea pipeline and anti-Russian sanctions (which have greatly stimulated industrial and agricultural development within Russia). If we want peace and stability, we need more cross border trade, not more dead Ukrainians.
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  440. This is typical politics of a third world country like … Brexistan.
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  441. The idea that these crop circles are man made is about as stupid as suggesting that Neolithic man made stone spaceships.
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  442. 😅😅😅
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  443. I just hope “fire’s out” is actually fire out. My father experience of ship fire is that it can reignite unless the whole encasing zone is cool.
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  444. The refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster is an obscene waste of public funds. Sell it to Disney or Virgin holidays, or let some other turn it into a history theme part. The building is very obviously not fit for purpose in the 21st century. The second chamber should be a house of experts, elected by PR, and with power to hold up unsuitable legislation, and not be overruled by the "lower" chamber.
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  445. Right, right and right!
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  446. Oh what a jolly child!
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  447.  @ronald3836  You may well be right … but perhaps other more intelligent life forms have overcome the problems of space travel.
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  448. The education system is, and was, designed to produce compliant obedient little consumers, and bits to plug into industrial/commercial production. Exams are organised to make them easier to be marked by computer. The idea of allowing the student to display his/her talents and knowledge doesn't even register. We need a national debate to ask why we are educating children? There follow many, many questions about how, what, why, who....
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  449. SLOW DOWN!!! It’s impossible to follow the commentary!
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  450. Liz Truss is the perfect candidate for PM, weak and easily manipulated by the right wing. The ERG would love her.
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  451. Gove, like so many Tories, is mentally disturbed. “Power tends to corrupt…”
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  452. Right on bro! Long live the Whinimes.
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  453. Export her to Rwanda (one way only).
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  454. To Johnson, truth is just an inconvenience.
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  455. It really is time to retire the monarchy (without a state pension), but our entire political system needs to be rebuilt. Democracy? From Blair to Johnson to Starmer we see Prime Ministerial rule like an all powerful president. Even with his massive House of Commons majority, Starmer received less than 1/3 of the public support. We need some form of PR, an empowered second chamber of experts to monitor and restrain the occasional hasty and ill considered bills of the Commons, and a trustworthy, impartial president, probably chosen from the most senior of the legal profession, to have the final check.
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  456. If the Tories get in again, "the voice of the people" will become irrelevant.
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  457. The structural weakness of the Soviet economy was centralisation. The idea was excellent, Soviet = meeting, the idea was to meet the needs of the people. The failure in practice was the tendency described much earlier by Lord Acton, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power to corrupt absolutely”. Centralisation centralised power … As we have seen brilliantly demonstrated over the past 14 years, centralisation of power leads to corruption. The remedy is … decentralisation of every aspect of government to the level of operation. Military needs to be central, medical services and schools need to be appropriate to local needs.
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  458.  @markwelch3564  Yes, bottom up, centre provides what is requested from the local region.
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  459. My rich friends agree with you. They think they should pay more tax.
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  460. It’s not different in the UK.
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  461. 2019 was a single issue election. The public DID NOT give you a mandate to give unscrutinised contracts to your chums, or for your PM to tell lie after lie in parliament, or to wreck the fishing and agriculture sectors, or to deny human rights to refugees desperately seeking life is a relatively safe country.
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  462. Brexit is a catastrophic self-inflicted disaster from which Britain will not recover.
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  463. Alas most politicians and media are more interested in power and money.
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  464.  @adenwellsmith6908 poverty is not imported. Some I immigrants may be poor when they arrive, but with few exceptions they are young, fit willing to work and contribute to our national wealth. They also do many of the low paid jobs British born people don’t want to do.
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  465. @@user-ci2se2lj1t what a joke!
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  466. There is a difference between babies (and soldiers) and immature foetuses. But we all know Rees-Mogg is bonkers.
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  467. Every citizen should be entitled to 18 years of free education (that includes kindergarten) to take when they choose it. Let secondary compulsory education end at 16, and public schools be taken over and repurposed as sixth form colleges. Apprenticeships and technical training should be similarly included. How to pay for all that? Massively revise the tax system and dump political vanity projects like HS2, refurbishing the ridiculous Palace of Westminster, and posturing “defence” spending on unusable nuclear submarines and vast aircraft carriers for American aircraft …
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  468. The news of expanding airports is beyond, far beyond stupidity. It’s exactly the kind of malicious, environmentally wrecking “development” we are seeing from Trump. Starmer is the good schoolboy who does exactly what teacher says and gets the prizes, but lacks even a wish for originality or thought beyond the text book. (Who was the teacher who told him to sabotage Corbyn?)
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  469.  @andrewmah5605  I think the old bird will be long gone to tapping angels on the shoulder before she gets round to me. Fortunately the British Empire only exists now in dusty history.
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  470. Britain has always been al oligarchy, successfully fooling the public into believing it is a democracy. We need your help to inform people.
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  471. It all makes sense. So we have to ask who benefits from the deliberate ignoring of Keynes?
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  472. Don’t hold cash, hold “assets”. These (things/property) increase in value.
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  473. Never EVER answer the question!
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  474. Sue Grey was appointed by the Tories. JRM simply can’t believe reality doesn’t follow his opinion.
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  475. Catch 22, whatever you do, Patel will obstruct it.
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  476. Starmer had no ideas in opposition, he still has no ideas He’s a rule follower, not a rule maker.
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  477. Government listen? When did they ever do that?
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  478. May peace prevail
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  479. Unions do not have “barons” as they are, as a result of Tory legislation, amongst the most democratic organisations in the country. The Tories intend to make it illegal for nurses to strike, so that the public won’t see the problem. They will then squeeze their pay to the point that so many will leave that the NHS will collapse into the waiting arms of American buyers. The energy price hike is the direct result of western (American ordered) sanctions, and sabotage of the pipeline. A spectacular own-goal designed to force Europe to buy American gas at 4 times the price of Russian gas. As Deep Throat said of Watergate, “follow the money”.
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  480. Privatisation is the best way for governments to unload their responsibilities. Starmer has simply created an alternative face to neoliberalism and the sooner voters disown those two parties and the fascist Farage mob, the better.
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  481. "Bla bla bla bla bla " echoed by "baa baa baa baa baa" from Tory back benches.
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  482. Yes, I think you’re absolutely right, and Scotland is further to the left. We must hope the lefties manage to push Starmer to the left.
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  483. The rot within is becoming very visible.
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  484.  @NoWonderDragon  The sea level rise from deglaciation was slow, very slow. Look at the situation today with global warming at an unprecedented rate, with massive polar and glacial melting. We barely notice the rising sea level even though it’s progressing rapidly. There is considerable evidence of a large meteor strike in the western Indian Ocean, and a significant layer of water smoothed stones all around the Arabian gulf, the Tigris/Euphrates valley, Pakistan and western India, evidence of a huge tsunami that probably resulted from such a meteor. That is the likely origin of the flood story.
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  485.  @NoWonderDragon  No. That amount or rise would simply have been impossible. Ice melts slowly. Just look at the present day situation with our unprecedented rate temperatures rise and the consequent polar and glacial melt. We barely notice the sea level rising. Of course deglaciation was a much bigger mass of ice, but the process took hundreds of years, not days.
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  486. I have much respect for Bowen as a reporter, but journalism is about reporting the facts impartially, without the reporter’s personal bias. I lived in Russia for many years saw both their stoicism and their overwhelming trust in Putin. There are of course a significant number, particularly young people, who disagree, but is there any country with 100% devotion to the leader? 1989/90 was a very different time when that the west, particularly the US set out to exploit the crisis in Russia, not for the good of Russian citizens.
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  487. As a user of railways, I find the inability to speak to a human being and get straight forward answers to occasional problems is immensely frustrating. We need HUMAN interaction. We, the travelling public, aren’t robots, cyborgs, parcels that can be just parked until some problem is resolved. “Their motivation is to make the business run better.” See above!
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  488. I don't particularly like Macron, but he is certainly the best presidential candidate. His ideas for a Euro-centred Europe certainly appeal to me.
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  489. It’s good to see someone is taking action against Israeli terrorism in Gaza. It’s very easy to fix; stop supplying Israel with anything related to their military. And call out the Zionists for their illegal (under international law and UN directives) action. The problem is that both Israel and the US think they are above such law.
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  490. @ Russia is already very mineral rich. To claim NATO is just defensive is absurd. Since at least 1945, the US (which controls NATO) has pursued an explicit policy of trying to surround and weaken Russia. There are 14 countries bordering Russia, of which two European one have invaded in fairly short order. Russia has 2 military bases outside its territory (in Syria). The US has over 700 military bases in foreign countries.
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  491. A pretty damning report: D - “could do better.”
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  492. So right! Starmer is simply red Tory replacing blue Tory. The time for change is rolling forward and can’t be stopped.
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  493. When basic survival is on the table, potential violence is there too. Violence precedes fascism.
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  494. This is “compassionate Conservatism”.
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  495. And it has 2 foreign bases outside the homeland, while America has over 780 external military bases.
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  496. Thus the court has denied democracy to Scotland. What a sick joke! In reality, Scotland is treated by Westminster like a colony.
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  497. Self interest is and always has been the fundamental mindset of the Tories. We are stuck with this cabal of incompetent, self interested plonkers until the next general election.
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  498. Scotland does not want to be estranged from Europe. In the short term, independence will probably be costly and uncomfortable but soon Scotland can follow the Nordic models and apply to re enter the EU. Independent Scotland will benefit England, which will not have to provide subsidies, Scotland can have the cheapest, greenest electricity in Europe and policies can be tried out in Scotland which the English might see as beneficial. We already have free university tuition, better care homes and we pioneered free bus passes for the elderly. A federation of mutually respectful British nations might work, so long as England doesn’t try to dominate.
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  499. Боже мой, эта дверь все еще застряла! Так было уже больше десяти лет. Но приятно снова увидеть город.
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  500. There is NO ONE in that party who is a man or woman of honour. They backed their serial liar leader; they are ALL culpable.
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  501.  @meditationMakesMeCranky  I am a landlord. It is in my interest to look after my tenant because he pays into my income and he looks after my property. And I support social housing. We need much more good quality social housing. You analyse of Thatcherism is correct, but there will always be room for the private sector too.
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  502.  @meditationMakesMeCranky  Just a normal Scottish landlord.
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  503. About as rare as an honest answer from a Tory minister.
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  504. What the experiment also demonstrates is the Tory party’s religious commitment to privatisation, whatever the cost to the public, in spite of Thatcher’s comprehension of the impossibility if this. Rail, like roads, are essential Public Services, which should be owned by the public, and paid for through tax. It could be argued that as with roads, the use of the track should be paid by a reasonable, predictable tax to the train operator, but this does not resolve the questions of confusing ticketing, and subsidising small but essential branch lines and stations. Renationalisation of the entire system is essential. Let the new, publicly own BR learn from the improvements brought in by private companies, and provide the best possible Public Service.
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  505. It looks like some of these might not have been photoshopped.
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  506. And the politicians continue to downplay it … too expensive, not sufficiently vote catching
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  507. That's just too cruel. Hislop would make us all laugh AND do a good job for the country, and hate it. It would drive him insane.
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  508. Why hasn't he been charged over the conspiracy to have the journalist beaten up? And his other dodgy deals? Or is he actually about the law?
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  509. Ministerial code? Is that the title of a comedy?
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  510. Nuclear power is extremely expensive compared to wind/solar/geothermal. Maybe it has a place for those specific industrial uses identified, but for general use, it’s dead in the water.
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  511. Of course he’s lying, he’s leading the Lying Tory party.
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  512. He won’t, he’ll have to be pushed!
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  513. The solution lies in social acceptance of people, as they are. If someone is of one sexuality, but acts of prefers the other gender, we should all just accept them, not judge or criticise them. It is an appalling condemnation of our “modern” civilised(?) society that anyone feels a need to physically mutate themselves in order to be accepted. As Sabine says, there is no “normal”.
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  514.  @imacmill 100% correct!
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  515. Thatcher told us greed was good!
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  516. 3 decades or more.
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  517. Boing … “complete transparency” … that would be a first!
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  518. Has Johnson ever played by any rules? Does Sunak? Or Braverman? Or any other of the Tory mob?
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  519. We can boycott all Israeli produce. Look at the labels in the supermarket; if it’s in any way connected to, or from Israel, don’t buy it.
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  520. Fascist State Britain
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  521. Economics is the art of the devil.
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  522. St Augustine - “God make me good … but … not yet.” Ok, I’ll go for that one.
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  523. @ There was a similar proposal for Georgia to join NATO. In that instance it was Russia that did the provoking and the Georgians failed to negotiate (they were snared before they could react). Chechnya was a different case, it was effectively controlled by organised crime, much like some South American states. After an attack in Moscow, it had to be stopped. Western press hugely exaggerated the war and its consequences. All Russia needs is neutral buffer states, not having an ocean on its eastern and western borders and weak compliant countries north and south. Ever since 1945 (probably since 1920) the US has tried to encircle Russia with hostility.
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  524. @ So the solution is not to provoke Russia by bringing NATO right up to its sensitive border, but to support neutrality between west and east; and to encourage cross border trade, thus making war disadvantageous for both.
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  525.  @just1it1moko  another referendum. Oh happy days! Another shot in the Johnson arse!
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  526. Simple solution: accept Russia needs secure borders without NATO/US military on the other side. A mutually guaranteed neutral Ukraine.
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  527. Trump has no idea how ordinary people live and simply don’t care. Why should he? He’s got what he wants with their votes now he can just ignore them.
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  528. Right, right, and right again!
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  529. Snake? They really don’t deserve what kind of insult!
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  530. I am truly sick of online forms where I, as an ordinary non-computer-nerd, am expected to understand what was in the mind of the creator of the form (human or AI). I want AI to learn to act like a human and test these forms rather than us humans being trained to understand computer-speak. Simple examples: “click” is a sound, not an action. A button is a circular disk used to fasten a garment. Bots are limited to a given manual. When I want to “chat” (btw “chat” is a style to talking, not writing) I have already read the site and found some detail incompatible - almost always because it’s been written by a computer nerd and not tested on ordinary humans. AI certainly has its place, but recognise its limitations.
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  531. Johnson has ALWAYS played games with truth. But you seem to be the only sane person who has any faith in Johnson’s ability to do anything more than play games and flatter himself.
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  532. Bugger Boris would just carry on as normal. He as, as said, absolutely no principles apart from Boris.
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  533. Pray for Johnson’s survival and the demise of the Tories. Does anyone take Nodding Donkey Dorries seriously? Tinkerbell Truss may provide the Tories with a tissue paper parachute.
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  534. Are you sure Nadine Dores can read?
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  535. Well, we can only hope Johnson does indeed destroy the Tory party, totally!
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  536. There is absolute logic to their policy: smash the public services then sell them off cheap to private companies who then screw the (public) customers who have no option but to pay up.
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  537. Did you really expect Johnson to answer the question? That would be a real miracle!
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  538.  @EaterOfBaconSandwiches  Sorry mate, tide’s out.
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  539. As intended, you’ve fallen for another piece of clever propaganda.
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  540. Nothing short of political revolution will ever sort this problem in a rotten, outmoded system. I hold out no hope of such a thing happening within the next 50 years.
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  541. Brexit was the ultimate demonstration of the weakness of democracy. The majority are ignorant; parliament is supposed to be a group of the knowledgable. Alas … 😢😢😢
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  542. The House of Commons is just a pantomime. Johnson isn't funny, he's dangerous.
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  543. Tinkerbell is just a child having a tantrum.
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  544. It’s not “the world” that turns its back on the unfortunate (left voting) citizens, it’s the USA and it’s client states. The crushing suffering of ordinary citizens in Venezuelan is the direct result of US sanctions applied because the citizens had the effrontery to elect a government not slavishly obedient to the USA. Similarly in Zimbabwe, along with too rushed Africanisation of agricultural exports.
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  545. C for Hunt. Lovely!
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  546. The IMF is just another arm of the US financial controllers. The IMF specifically targets national assets and govermental control. Their aim is and always has been to force privatisation. This is a simple way for those with financial force (the IMF and its supporters) to gain yet more international control. Since the 1940s or earlier, it has been the undeclared aim of US foreign policy to control the world. Thus it is essential for the world outside the US to self-finance, using an agreed non-dollar currency. China is the current leading player in creating this alternative currency, and it will obvipusly succeed. The policy decision to go organic should have been introduced more gradualy and with better preparation. Of itself, it is the way forward if we are to stop poisonong our earth environment. Now the country is experiencing the kind of chaos seen in Russia in the '90s, but worse. Like Russia, it now needs a strong, stable government, to put it back on its feet. Weak democracy won't help, nor will self-interested disctatorship.
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  547. OMG! Rule by the ERG, and the UK will be the laughingstock of the world.
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  548. The days of global empires by military dominance is over. We will all benefit from a multi polar world where disarmament is the mode of politics. Putin is intent on security for Russia, not expansion. If there had been no push to get NATO into Ukraine, right up to the Russian border in the most sensitive underbelly, there would be no war there.
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  549. Excellent news, international freedom from US attempts to control the world. This really is a win-win development. But any new currency must NOT be tied to any fossil fuel.
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  550. PR would be a good first step on a massive long overdue reform of our political system. It’s rotten, rotten to the core! We need an erudite discussion on how to create a democratic system that is both intelligent and actually democratic.
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  551. Kier who?
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  552. What a hoot!
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  553.  @sumtenwitty6021 We desperately need political education in schools
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  554. What a repetitive commentary, again and again and again. Thank goodness for BRICS, freeing the rest of the world from the strange of the US dollar.
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  555. As ever, the Tories regard Parliament as nothing more than a tiresome nuisance.
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  556. You made the point that the US has nukes in 5 countries outside its own borders while Russia has none. So, if you are actually interested in reducing military tension, Putin's demand is totally reasonable and obvious. You simply ignored Bush's deployment of missiles in Poland, completely violating the agreement with Gorbachev for NATO not to do so in the former Soviet republics. If you want TLDR to be a respected channel, try to be neutral, rather than simply trotting out the usual propaganda.
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  557. Johnson leading the Tories into the next election is the best possible option for the Labour Party. He will have become the lead balloon lifting the Tories into oblivion.
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  558. All that makes sense, but hopefully the BRICS system will soon be up and running. In that case, the rest of the world outside the Americasphere can dump their dollars and just watch America sink into the Trump swamp.
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  559. Even though net zero is a con trick it is absolutely essential we reach even that small step if we are to have any hope of human survival into the next century.
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  560. Bottom up means politicians start by asking people what they want, and listening to them, as oppose to offering a basket of predetermined options. Usually such “baskets” contain one or two good apples amongst a heap of rotten ones … thus we have to choose the least worst.
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  561. Simple and obvious.
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  562. Dempsey is completely right!
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  563. Assange’s crime is to embarrass the American and British governments by revealing the truth.
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  564. As someone who lived in Russia for many years, much of this account is probably correct, but predicting what might happen in Russia is a fool’s game. Don’t underestimate Putin, he does make some poor judgements sometimes, but he is very smart and popular. Nothing is Russia is quite what it seems.
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  565. Now we have Starmer. The right has captured the entire political scene in Brexistan.
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  566. Has there ever boon a political leader who tells the truth?
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  567. @ I’m sure the Tory press didn’t want anything so outrageous as “truth” to be published.
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  568. Just think of all that lovely money to be made by the US armaments companies!
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  569. Since Starmer is clearly now a paid up Zionist, and therefore culpable, how can any decent person ever vote Labour as long as he is leader, or a member their front bench … or even a member of the Labour Party. This country desperately needs a functioning left wing party.
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  570. What do you mean, “seems”? It IS all ridiculous and futile.
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  571.  @eddieharris6004 No. Those characteristics exist and so do generosity, kindness, altruism, love. We are not programmed to be selfish, we can choose.
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  572. Trump - big mouth, small brain, no wisdom. Putin - small mouth, sharp brain, cunning. Lavrov - very smart, tells the truth even if you don’t like it.
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  573. What else would you expect in a market controlled by the Tories?
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  574. Let’s hope Tinkerbell wins. Short term pain, but in the long term she will sink the Tories for decades, thereby saving Britain from annihilation.
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  575. None of this is new. The real problem is that most people just don’t want to know. 😢 Besides, if those lazy dinosaurs had backed up their hard drives properly there wouldn’t be any problem. Let’s pretend it’s not true and maybe it won’t happen. 😢😢
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  576. Bloody thieving trees! There aughtabe a law against them!
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  577. And your money.
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  578. If membership of the EU continues to be a conduit through which NATO expands, the Russians will definitely obstruct any attempt by Georgia to join.
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  579. The English are so proud of being amateurs. Small wonder the previous lot were totally incompetent. Alas the twin now in the hot seat follows the same tradition.
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  580. This really is addressing a gap in the market. Let’s have lots more information about this technology.
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  581. The hypocrisy of your defence of NATO is truly staggering!
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  582. “Not yet” If you know anything about Russians, Ukrainians should be extremely worried..
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  583. Apple just want to be the kings. They have more than enough cash to accept this directive.
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  584. Rushing, you know absolutely NOTHING at all about that ordinary people are going through. Poverty is as far away from your knowledge as the nearest galaxy.
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  585. About bloody time! Well done Mr Blackford.
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  586. Beware Lynch, the Tories will be put to get you. They’ll come after you through lies in the media, just as they did with Corbyn, and Michael Foot, to name two two of their targets.
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  587. @ As I saw when I lived there, sanctions have again been a great boost to Russian manufacturing, not having to compete with European imports.
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  588. It’s a great joke. Well done Mick. Sad you have to talk that idiot.
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  589. Strategic long term thinking is a concept totally beyond Trump even on a (rare) sane day.
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  590. Who considers the impact of farming innovations? It took a lot of public pressure to get any control on the introduction of GM crops before there was any consideration of their environmental impact. There is a common attitude amongst farmers that if they didn’t breed it, kill it; if they didn’t sow it, spray it to death. The British countryside has been decimated by ever larger farms, ever larger field. This has been largely driven by the supermarket driven pursuit of ever cheaper food, regardless of quality and environmental impact.
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  591. @ Scotland is now a net contributor to the UK economy.
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  592. Russia can probably export oil & gas from Vladivostok and avoid the pesky European sanctions.
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  593. Right again! And good to hear you explain the stupidity of the sanctions against Russia.
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  594. Keep it up Mick, but don’t underestimate the fascists in the Tory ranks.
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  595. Fat lot of good blame will do. Get off your arse and DO something about it.
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  596. Not quite. Germany had a leader with a clear plan.
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  597. Fascinating. But I understand in the neolitic times, women had at lest equal sttus to men, and there were no significant heirarchies. How and when did this change?
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  598. You are so far behind the curve, I’m surprised you didn’t come in a bullock drawn cart.
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  599. The railways in Brexistan are known to be the worst and the most expensive in Europe. Labour must renationalise the railways and run them for the benefit of the country, not for the profit of (mostly foreign) shareholders.
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  600. Amazing, fascinating again. Keep going!
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  601. Absolutely right. It’s about time the truth was exposed.
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  602. Again China leads. There’s something to be said for state modulated capitalism.
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  603. We, the citizens, have less say in how we are governed than medieval peasants had.
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  604.  @adenwellsmith6908  I didn’t understand your question. Please explain.
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  605. This is exactly why we can change the government but we can’t change the government policy; neoliberalism rules. Neoliberals backed the profoundly conservative Starmer and Reeves to continue to implement neoliberalism. And that is why Corbyn had to be destroyed, he offered a real challenge to the neoliberals.
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  606. Your representations of Doggerland show hills and mountains in the background. But we know there were none, Doggerland was flat marshland, like Holland, Friesland, East Anglia.
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  607. @ Alas that’s not an unusual account.
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  608. It’s obvious that no investor buys shares in privatisation unless they see profit, usually substantial profit. Therefore privatisation, by definition, means either poorer conditions for the employees or poorer service, or more expensive services; or all three.
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  609. @ A banker, which is worse.
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  610. @ Hayek had some interesting things to say, he wasn’t altogether a free marketeer.
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  611. Questions to be asked about why planning permission was given.
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  612. “Climate crisis … I don’t know.” How thick do you need to be? Maybe, just maybe these people will vote for action on climate. It’s far, far too late of course; never take action until after the horse has bolted over the far hills.
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  613. Fear of anything outside the well worn grove of neoliberalism grips the throats of our current politicians. Einstein defined stupidity as trying to solve a problem again and again with the same solution and expecting a different result.
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  614. What a bunch of unaccountable, unprofessional, dishonest cretins.
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  615. Since this “independence” of the BoE was a Blair policy, we can reasonably assume it’s another scam, like PFIs. And now we have a clone of New Labour, so what can we expect …?
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  616. The UK register of interet? The Tories can't bite the hands that feed them.
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  617. “The CO2 is just sent off and sequestered.” Where? How? And what “other” renewable energy sources are there apart from electricity?
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  618. What an absurd idea. No politician will buy that one, it’s an idea only the common plebs would consider.
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  619.  @jaijaiwanted  liberty … as in the denial of women’s rights in Alabama? Democracy, as choosing between two parties offering almost identical policies in the US & UK? Yes, there are plenty of dictators, but they tend to dictate in their own countries. The armaments race only produces more and more expenditure on aggressive weapons threatening peace, not protecting it.
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  620.  @edt6488  your attitude displays accurately the cause of war. There is still enough for everyone if we share, don’t horde and recycle. The Americans had better weapon in Vietnam, and Afghanistan but they lost both wars.
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  621.  @95rav  Do you remember the START talks? How about arms reduction negotiations?
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  622.  @abarbar06  so we need disarmament negotiations.
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  623. If the Tories aren’t stopped, they will soon revive similar conditions.
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  624. Prat speaks fluent Prattish.
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  625. How did the erruption affect the history of the time?
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  626. This also requires governments to push. We really can get free from dependence on oil, but not easily. The Oil lobby can buy a lot of political clout.
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  627. Unfortunately in this country (Russia) most people just believe there's always more space to dump the rubbish.
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  628. Nadine Doggy yaps on command.
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  629. We need a similar inquiry around the Grenfell Tower disaster, which will imprison those responsible for the preventable deaths of 72 who died as a direct result of decisions to use flammable cladding and poor, inadequate maintenance. Causing death by negligence is a more serious crime than fraud.
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  630. What are governments afraid of? The “other side” discovering some military advantage in the technology of these. 😢
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  631. That was a fun lot. The last one was a guy complementing the haircut and saying their sitting on the road for a photo was a very bold act. The Russian clips were so Russian in character they gave me a good chuckle as I used to live there. Not much phases a Russian. They laugh and just get on with it.
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  632. Sounds good. Here in the U.K, we have plenty of suitable sites including the long sea lochs of Scotland where the storm waves are moderated.
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  633. How did you manage to find so many stupidity ignorant people to interview? Every schoolchild knows leaves take in CO2 and give out O2.
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  634. If profit (as in neoliberal economics) is God, safety must unavoidably be sacrificed. Profit first, safety … ? Let’s pretend. Every time you read a company proclaim “Safety is our primary concern”, you know they’re lying. For any private company, Profit is their primary concern. Safety is an inconvenient drag.
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  635. Starmer is just another Tory less the idiot Rwanda scheme.
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  636. The war is in Ukraine! What happens on the British islands has absolutely NO INFLUENCE on that war.
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  637. Brexistan as Silicon Valley! 😂😂😂😂
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  638. Track record of failed businesses and bankruptcies continues. Alas poor America.
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  639. We all know Trump is beyond insane, but Americans voted for him. Perhaps, just perhaps they will experience voters remorse. Probably not.
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  640. Of course we all want to see a nuclear free world, but we have to start from where we are.
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  641. Compassionate Conservative is an oxymoron, a ridiculous concept. Truss has shown the true face of the Conservative party; ultra neoliberals, a party for the rich who sincerely regard the ordinary citizen an plebs, peasants, expendable eaters.
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  642. Sounds like time for law and inspection to control the loading of cargo.
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  643. That’s why they were imposed. The war has nothing to do with “democracy” or saving Ukraine, and everything to do with the US trying to undermine the Russian economy.
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  644. Thus Boris Johnson et.al.
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  645. “I said I would fundamentally change out country, and I mean it”, I’ll change it into a Tory dictatorship where you plebs will do as you’re told. Got it?
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  646. I would really like to know what people who don’t have an infinite budget can do to improve old inefficient houses. And what about low budget new build?
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  647. If it wasn’t for gravitas there wouldn’t be any VPN, then there wouldn’t be any NordVPN, and no Sabine … no YouTube physics, no life on planet … watsitsname. But I do like her style, I’m always looking out for more of it!
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  648. It’s much easier - if Bravewoman’s mouth is open, she’s lying.
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  649. You manage to make these videos AND manages teenagers? Wow!
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  650. Let them pioneer that.
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  651. Who are “they”?
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  652. Russians are wonderfully warm hearted, I think the Yakutia people must be some of the best of the best. But -30 hurts your face, I can’t imagine how you manage to be outside for more than 10 minutes at -60. And how does the camera work? Mine gave up after about 20 minutes at -25. Beware of frostbite in your cheeks! It’s painful and can leave permanent scars.
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  653. The British media and the current British PM sabotaged our Bernie, Corbyn. And what’s wrong with Socialism? Well of course it’s blasphemy to care about and support ordinary citizens in a neoliberal state.
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  654. The government alway tries to save itself (and its cronies) from problems it created.
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  655. Eeeer, could we perhaps do something to stop making this worse? Like ummm, putting out less CO2? Using less fossil fuel? Cuffing fossil fuel subsidies? Oh but that might reduce profit, divine profit! Can’t do that, the guys who back the politicians wouldn’t like it.
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  656. Excellent explanation. Don’t just think of self.
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  657. Rules are for the guidance of the wise and the obedience of fools.
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  658. Trump, F OFF! America should stick to America and respect the rest of the world, instead of trying to own it or control it.
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  659. @ No quotable source, I read an article in the Guardian about unemployment doctors. Check with the BMA.
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  660. @ The Great God Neoliberalism sayeth “just let the market sort it out.” This translates as ‘let the plebs die if they can’t pay’.
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  661. About bloody time this endemic British class based corruption is exposed. It has a long, long history.
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  662.  @tim3440  Competition occurs when there is perceived to be scare resources. Human beings have survived, and become the dominant species because we have cooperated.
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  663. It’s important to remember that most serious accident occurred when more than one safety measure failed, or under situations which were not figured into the original plan. (Titanic, the collapse of the Tay bridge in Scotland, the nuclear reactor in Japan, the Herald of Free Enterprise and many others)
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  664. When your colours are red and you’re pretending to support working people, you can pull off policies that no election conscious Tory would contemplate. Just watch him do it!
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  665. From teaching an autistic youth, I learned that the way I see the world isn't the only way to see it. Why should my view be more "right" than his?
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  666. And why so much trash? Did they excrete it?
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  667. I would certainly support Corbyn. Who, with any sense of humanity, could favour either of the pro Zionist parties supporting genocide?
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  668.  @Magpie6639  What was rejected was not independence so much as the poor governance of the SNP. I suspect the approximately 50% support for independence is still there. Labour was seen as the best way to kick out the incompetent Tories.
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  669.  @JohnSmith-cs7jg  In the short term, a coalition of parties left of centre. Then we need a national debate about what to replace this archaic corrupt system with.
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  670.  @billyb6043  An excellent summing up of the situation. At the time I recall well, Thatcher’s privatisation being described as “selling the family silver”. Well, now we have the result. The once imperial Britain reduced to vassal state.
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  671.  @nothereandthereanywhere  The lettuce leaf? One can hardly take that seriously.
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  672.  @chrisrobinson860  Blue.
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  673. Erdogan's great crime is to dare to challenge western debt based monetary system, which requires interest and inflation in order to survive. The Washington elite will continue to do everything they can to undermine him. The debit based monetary system is at the root of the now decaying neoliberal economy system. I don't like his dictatorial leadership, but I applaud his courageous economics. Unfortunately the ordinary people are (as ever) the ones to take the pain of this transition. If he succeeds, they, the poor, will be the inheritors of great prosperity.
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  674. Oh the joy of outsourcing! Brilliant way of disowning any responsibility for the cock-ups. When have governments EVER governed in anything other than their own interest? Public interest? What a sick joke!
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  675. Israel has repeatedly demonstrated total unwillingness to accept any agreement which doesn’t give them everything they want. They continue to ignore UN agreement and international law.
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  676. Bonkers, utterly bonkers.
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  677. Why did so many people accept Thatcher’s neoliberal worship of selfishness, if that isn’t human nature? It seems to me that too many people just follow their favourite media and simply don’t make any effort think and the question the given doctrine. I remember her much repeated “there is no alternative” and wondered immediately Why should we accept this? There are always alternatives.
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  678. One again an articulate, sane, straightforward response to the utter insanity in Westminster.
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  679. Well, Tinkerbell has to be seen to be doing SOMETHING now she's not minding the photographer.
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  680. The child sees the emperor has no clothes. That description of neoliberalism is succinct and accurate. Unfortunately children absorb their parents emotions, from before birth, and those feelings remain subliminal for the rest of their lives. Hopefully this will soon give rise to a mass rejection of neoliberalism and a search for something better.
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  681. Those is politics go there by choice. If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen. I have ZERO sympathy for Nodding Donkey Dorries.
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  682. Nicely told.
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  683. The people want the Tories out like flushing the toilet.
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  684. WE (the ordinary citizens) were not consulted or given a choice. Those decisions are/were taken by the undemocratic big fossil fuel companies. Such questions have barely made a footnote in election campaigns. And now those same extremely powerful lobbyists have managed to get even demonstrating against them made a criminal offence. The idea that we live in a democracy where the people can determine the direction of their lives is just a sick joke.
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  685. Well, well, well. For Johnson, lying came naturally as he simple never considered whether what he said was true or not. But Sunak knows exactly what he’s saying, he knows exactly when he’s lying and who’s back he’s stabbing. In any other country this would be called a palace coup.
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  686. What! Yes, we all have dreams.
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  687. @ Unfortunately
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  688. The government is in the same club. They will do nothing, absolutely nothing to threaten Branson and his palls profiteering.
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  689. In the “good old days” I used to take my accounts to the local tax office so I could get it right. And the tax officer also helped me to make justified tax claims. Now I often get it wrong, because the online system is complicated and I’m not a wizzkid with accounting.
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  690. Reeves is a faithful disciple of Thatcher, clearly demonstrating that Statmer’s Labour is just red Tories less some of the stupidest policies.
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  691. And crop circles? Conventional science studiously ignores these inconveniently inexplicable modern phenomena.
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  692. This should be on the front pages of every newspaper
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  693. Brexit was never about benefit to the UK, it was always about saving “the party”. F the country!
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  694. If only we knew how to count the number of angles that can stand on a pin head …
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  695. So why no water on Mars & Venus?
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  696. Johnson may possibly understand but he doesn't care and along with the chancellor, he'll do nothing about it.
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  697. If MPs have “a duty to tell the truth”, why are Johnson and his chum still members of The House?
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  698. Got to save a good few billions to bribe the votersat the next election. The Tories can't squander it on the poor, specially in Scotland where they might vote SNP.
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  699. Yes, I think that sums it up pretty well, the worship of Win Win Win especially when you’re loosing.
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  700. Looks like three to bring down the Tories at the next election.
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  701. If Birch is native, plant Birch. Don't use exotic species. Just look at the multitude of problems that have occurred throughout the world from introducing non-native species. Find how to use birch. The Russian While birch is a nice hard wood when kept dry, it grows fast, and is pretty soil tolerant. What else was native? Aspen? (Not much use). Pines? Other conifers?
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  702.  @damionkeeling3103  I hope they grow Siberian Larch.. It's slow growing, but the wood is exquisite, strong, durable, workable and beautiful, for both furniture and external use.
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  703. You were an idiot to go out without a hat!
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  704. What options are offered to the voters? The loony Farage gang? Or the Lib/Lab/Con-scramble? Corbyn offered what voters wanted when he was elected leader of the Labour Party, so the media and all right of centre politicians (that leaves out barely enough to count on one hand) shot him down. Power to the people? What heresy!
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  705. Good man, FACTS for the public, not the emotional trash trundled out by the Tory media.
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  706. Non of the problems of humanity will be resolved until the great god Maximum Profit is deposed.
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  707. But at what cost?
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  708. @Willy_TepesNo, it was US sabotage. You don’t go and blow up your own export route. Biden has explicitly stated that he would not allow Nordstrom to operate (undercutting American gas exports).
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  709.  @MUUKOW3 Some American brain fart.
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  710. Not just a mafia state, but an international farce state. Nothing will change until the public stop pretending it's a soap opera.
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  711. The Bank of England is a Tory institution.
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  712. Stagflation is nothing new in western economies. The current economic problems in Russia are of course one of the primary reasons the US provoked the war in the first place. As long as Wall Street continues to try to control the world economy, it will continue to try to destabilise China, Russia and indirectly, Europe. Loss of trade and loss of cheap gas has seriously hurt the German economy in particular. Russians are used to hard time.
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  713. Britain of course doesn’t offer any support, just a new coal mine.
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  714. Wonderful fascinating video. Astrology does not predict anyone’s future,it predicts what might be called “emotional weather”. What anyone chooses to do with that is their decision. How? That’s as unknown as the secrets of the sun.
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  715. Good story, almost as good as the Australian Aboriginal peoples story, but the Hindus have much better stories. I prefer the Buddhist story. Maybe the Amazonian people have better stories.
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  716. Rishi apologise? The moon will turn into cheese first.
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  717. She’d be OK as a cleaner.
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  718. God won’t, it’s up to us.
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  719. It takes the British (Tories) a very long time to accept that citizens have any right to govern themselves.
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  720. Trump & Bezos & Zuckerberg would have been quite at home there.
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  721. No information in the Brexistan news because Prick Sunak hasn’t yet worked out how to get a vote from it.
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  722. You sound like a dreadful lefty. That will never do for Starmer.
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  723. Nature does get angry, it just responds to what ever disturbs it, including humans. If you’re in the way, you’ve only your kind to blame.
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  724. Having lived in Russia for quite a long time, that item was particularly interesting. The gulf of Tonkin incident says a lot … How about a similar investigation into the origins of the 7 day was in Israel? (I remember it well.) The so called attacks by unmarked hostile planes never happened. Israel expected attacks from its neighbours (not surprising, considering its own land grab) so they simply fabricated an excuse for a preemptive strike.
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  725. Gosh! That sounds like socialism; not even a faint hope of that under Keir Stalin.
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  726.  @dinnerwithfranklin2451  Old Stalin was a dictator, new Stalin doesn’t tolerate dissent either.
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  727. Even more Tory than the Tories.
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  728. Starmer is just a minor bully. The real question is who’s putting him up to it? Like B Liar he grovels to the US President.
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  729. But Russia will.
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  730. Much of this is true, of course, but it's a very biased view of Russia. There are very few closed cities. The west does it's secret jobs in a different way. Young people everywhere rebel against their parental generation. I lived in Russia for 15 years, and I saw the same attitudes in the young people as you describe, I also saw a country of truly remarkable prosperous development, cleaner cities, new roads, better reailways and public transport both much cheaper and superior to anything I've seen in western countries.
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  731. We need to hear from Ian Hyslop a lot more often. He entirely appropriately ridicules political cheats and idiots.😊
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  732. So Rosenberg you’ve noticed the citizens are behind their leader. What did you expect? You perhaps know Russians better than I do, so you know they will react strongly to the (unwise) Ukrainian invasion. Russians want peace but the threatened expansion of NATO was, as Putin warned several times, an unacceptable threat. So the US deliberately provoked Putin, knowing he had to defend his country. This was deliberately malicious. All the US want is to try to weaken Russia, they don’t give a damn how many Ukrainians are killed, or what it costs the EU just so long as American gains from arms sales, gas sales and anything else they can sell to displace Russian sales.
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  733. “If we do I right, it will lead to … “ the rich becoming even richer and the rest … just expendable chaff.
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  734. Trump has left the door wide open to China.
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  735. Labour & Tories are two faces of one party. Nothing will change until voters realise this and vote adequately for politicians who actually might represent their (the voters) interests.
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  736. Does anyone trust these Tories? Graph for trust in the Tories would be below the floor.
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  737. As ever, profit trumps all. It’s not that the companies and their directors want to kill workers and consumers, they just don’t care. Profit is God!
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  738. Errrr ummm you don’t believe me, even when I’m obviously lying! What’s wrong with you? Can’t you get it, I’m too thick to understand the rules everyone was supposed to follow.
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  739. It's good to see he values the NHS as "that magnificent organisation". That explains why he's so intently secretly selling it off to the private sector.
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  740. I remember a German guy and his family coming to visit us for their holiday, in my childhood in the 50's. He had been a POW guest in the family immediately after the war.
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  741. How much does the sugar lobby pay into BOTH party funds?
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  742. The forebears of Trump came from Germany. We in Scotland want Grump like we want an angry skunk.
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  743. I think … you in the US are leaving little Britain in the Stone Age of green technology.
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  744.  @londonyes1380  Being British is embarrassing under this government.
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  745. Recycling? Absolutely essential for human life on one small planet.
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  746. Breeding white elephants.
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  747. Dear Kier, sort out your failing policies at home instead of trying to distract attention abroad. “A just and enduring peace” will be achieved when NATO (aka the USA) stops trying to destabilise Russia by trying to surround it with military bases.
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  748. 25% extra cost and 3 years behind schedule? No problem if it's a big prestigious project. But if it's a small business ... down the pug hole!
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  749. It sounds like the future direction.
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  750. We, ordinary people, can begin by boycotting any and everything we can identify as from Israel. Fruit is the easiest place to start; look at the labels, find the country of origin. BOYCOT ISRAELI PRODUCTS.
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  751.  @roymillsjnr5172  Alas true.
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  752. Think globally, act locally.
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  753. Much more interesting to see what would/will happen as the human population declines, to about 1/5th of its current absurd size.
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  754. If such a speech were delivered by any PM, it would result in huge applause and hope from the public, then the collapse of all “donations” from corporations and a concerted attack in the (right owned) media. Remember how Corbyn was sabotaged!
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  755. @ Maybe you haven’t noticed, but the USSR hasn’t existed for well over 30 years.
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  756. @ Have you heard that the USSR hasn’t existed for over 30 years?
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  757. Salt is very corrosive. How do they cope with that?
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  758. You spent half the video NOT talking about the new vehicle. Please remember “unique” means single, one. You can’t have “very one”. It’s one, singular, just unique.
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  759. Excellent answers from Lynch. He knows what he’s talking about, unlike government ministers.
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  760. Every country at war has to apply censorship.
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  761. We’ll need to give Starmer and chums one hell of a kick to get ANY of this innovative change. The current Labour Party is just as superglued to maintaining the status quo as the current mob.
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  762.  @foxmoongaze  Unfortunately power attracts the most unsustainable. In our country with absolutely no political education and an excessively simplistic form of democracy, the ill informed voters are offered wretched choices and are easily duped.
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  763. The wound be fools to sell out to America.
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  764. We need her to finish the job of completely destroying the Tory party.
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  765. Sounds just like the American system skewed heavily to draft blacks into the Vietnam war.
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  766. Privatisation is about Profit. Why else would anyone invest in it? My experience in business is that if you look after your employees, they will look after your business.
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  767. One of the first things I realised when was a student was just how ignorant most politicians are on anything except classics and classical philosophy. Occasionally one might have studied something else, Thatcher had a science education but either knew NOTHING about economics or was blatantly lying (probably both). Our entire parliamentary system needs drastic reform.
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  768. AI devices are brilliant at many things, but it is NOT human. We should stop trying to make humanoid AI and make them as the machines they are.
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  769. Are any politicians listening?
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  770. Three days? That’s absurd, why? The farm isn’t going to go bankrupt without that field for a year, or ten.
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  771. As explained, the left is not offering anything.
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  772. The significant factor here is that IF the report of this aircraft being shot down is true, and Putin is unable to prosecute those responsible, then he is indeed in a dangerous position. But, as I know from experience of living in Russia, BBC reports are sometime completely inaccurate.
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  773. 😂😂😂😂
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  774. Railways were a public service then, not a cash cow for private shareholders.
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  775. In the UK, only money counts, and unless someone with connections to the Tories is going to massively profit, it won't happen. In Russia, where I used to live, things are happening, but slowly. I remain optimistic that there will eventually be a really high speed link right across the country, Petersburg to Vladivostok via Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, etc. Maybe one day even a line to the far north, connecting Petrozavodsk. Now that would really be amazing! (But very unlikely.)
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  776. Of course if a president visits, the problem is solved, all efforts go into taking care of the great man instead of wasting time of ordinary people. I don’t think Russians are quite as gullible to political propaganda.
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  777. Starmer & Reeves are equally untruthful and equally lost.
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  778. The intention of the government IS to scare people off the street, to scare the ordinary people into submission so this neofascist dictatorship can do exactly whatever they want. I sincerely hope they don’t go so far that violence become the only way to regain democracy.
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  779.  @jacthomson4905  there are about 58 million English and 5 million Scots. No BIG STATE ever willingly allows a part/province/allied state to succeed. Democracy is about the citizens preferred choice of government.
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  780. Your politics hasn’t changed, the Labour Party has been hijacked by Sir Kier Stalin to replace the Tories now they’ve replaced the National Front.
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  781. Economists are theoreticians in Peter Rabbit land, they don’t understand accounting because that’s done in the REAL world.
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  782. As long as we have this rotten dead system of government and this completely corrupt party in power, the ordinary people have no power to change anything at all.
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  783. Wonderful news! But don’t expect the Tories to change course.
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  784. The Soviet Union dissolved over 30 years ago, but perhaps TLDR hasn’t heard of that yet. Modern Russia has no interest in invading Finland, as long as the US (calling itself NATO) poses no threat there. The US has currently 873 military bases outside its own borders, many in countries bordering or close to Russia, which has … just 2 foreign bases.
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  785. What’s so great about stopping time in the 18th century? Why not the 15th? Or the 1st? Or the time of the Pharos?
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  786. Voting tactically is the only option at present.
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  787. You cover my arse and I'll cover yours, Boris.
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  788. So why are so many Americans supporting him? That doesn’t reflect well on America. Do they really want a psychopathic lunatic as President?
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  789. Parliament? It’s just a public school bear bating pit, point scoring, as described by that “honourable member” David Davis.
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  790. -30 hurts my face, -50 is just painful. How the hell does he manage to survive in -70? And take off a glove? How did you manage to keep your camera working? And why don’t his friends give him glass for that window? (That would have lasted longer than the fish, and cost less.) It’s a very inefficient house, no porch and just a thin door. I used to make doors not less than 10cm thick, with insulation inside them, for a climate 40 degrees warmer.
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  791.  @noneofyourbeeswax01  Birch is a pioneer tree.
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  792. The managing director is stuck, rooted in past thinking and the great god Maximum Profit.
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  793. Kett (of Kett's Rebellion, pitchforks and all) ended up rather dead, as did quite a lot of his followers.
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  794. Why isn’t Scotland a leader in both on show and offshore in wind energy? Lots of wind, lots of islands in windy places and a wide continental shelf.
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  795.  @notroll1279  BRICS is developing slowly, but it'll offer a serious alternative to the dollar in a very few years.  Having lived in Russia, I don't see governance there are worse than that in western countries. It's different, more chaotic at times, but more effective at other times. While I read about increasing poverty and collapsing infrastructure, pot holed roads etc, I watched an eye-watering increase in prosperity in Russia, a national program of road, rain and internet improvement across the country from Petersburg to Kamchatka. No one in Russia is fooled into thinking it's a democracy and few care. Yes there are demonstrations by the young and educated, mainly because job opportunities aren't great, and the education system is struggling to keep up with the pace of change, but don't underestimate the best. The best are truly excellent, just foolishly excluded from western academic flow (to the detriment of both). Unfortunately the Russian school system has followed the worst of the western systems, being much too prescriptive. But it also allows for experimental schools to deviat and try different methods.  WRT democracies, the EU is not a democratic institution, and was never set up as one. South Korea is unstable, Mexico might have a semi democratic government, but it's controlled by the US and the drug barons. NZ has swung to the right and Japan is economically paralysed.
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  796. @ only if you make them so. Since the reign of Elizabeth 1, Russia has been trying to get good relations with Europe.
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  797. @ correct as far as I know.
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  798. Accept them as they are and help them to make the best use of their unique abilities.
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  799. Step one, US backs off from supporting Israel. Then Israel backs off from their massacre of Palestinians … peace follows in the Red Sea.
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  800. Caught with her fingers in the till. Poor Mone, 😢😢😢 😂
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  801. The 2CV was just fun, it was almost a toy, but incredibly useful and adaptable. Now, what about the Russian Wazik? Not super efficient but almost indestructible.
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  802. Fascinating account, but absurdly Americacentric. Americans still imagine that they are the centre of the universe. The depression was indeed Great in America, with its persistent worship of get-rich-quick. And it added more pain to European economies trying to recover from war, but the collapse in America greatly aided development and prosperity in the USSR. I doubt it created more than a ripple in countries beyond the Americasphere and the British empire. Japan certainly benefited after the first shudder.
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  803. Shock! Horror! The civil service isn’t in the pocket of the Tories! How can we ever tolerate such a possibly! A non-Tory civil servant! Unthinkable!!
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  804. Gosh! An almost honest Tory MP! Poor fellow,,all on his own. He'd better watch his back and look for a real job. PDQ.
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  805. Starmer? No, Stalin.
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  806. Trump has made it quite clear that he is opposed to democracy, and Tice, Farage and the Tory cabal are watching to see how they can copy.
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  807. Nothing new. Braverman is severely psychologically disturbed, in need of long term psychotherapy. She should never have been allowed near the levers of power.
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  808. I was in Ireland just before and up to the day the troubles started. There were no watch towers, no barbed wire, indeed the border checks were just a nod. Now the Unionists are behaving again like petulant children who can’t get the toy they want. It was this bloody minded intransigent refusal to give proper democratic representation to the Catholics minority that lead to the original outbreak of violence in 1969. Bloody Sunday was a response to the IRA and others killing British soldiers who were there to try to keep the two sides apart. Peace was brought about by Tony Blair after he ended the obdurate Tory policy of refusing to talk until the IRA layer down their arms; a policy absolutely guaranteed to perpetuate the violence, civil war. There’s no need for violence now. The Irish (well most Irish) know how to compromise and enjoy life, but again we have boneheaded Tories in Westminster.
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  809. In what alternative reality did you find this thing?
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  810.  @OutlawTV89  I’ve no idea what you’re wittering on about.
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  811.  @annamoon7222  There is no society in which everyone shares the same values. Like Darwinism, some are more prevalent than others but diversity alway exists.
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  812.  @annamoon7222  Yes of course but never a complete closed set of values.
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  813.  @annamoon7222  sorry, I don’t understand what point you are making?
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  814.  @woodsghost9088  There is no such thing as a “free market”. There cannot be such unless all players are equal and all knowledge is available. That is referred to as the “free market” is a place where the most powerful dominate and set the rules to the disadvantage of all lesser players.
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  815.  @woodsghost9088  while I agree with your description of the problem, your solution don’t fit. It’s not less government we need, but better, more democratic, accountable government, aided by truly independent media (something sorely absent at present). Less governance gives more power to multinationals businesses. Immigration controls are all together another issue.
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  816.  @michaelbrittain7445  Islam has no interest in your freedom. They would just like to be allowed their own.
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  817. Normal commercial lying. Nothing will change until the great god Maximum Profit is deposed, preferably by Common Good.
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  818. “Boris” will be remembered as the worst prime minister Britain ever endured, save only for Tinkerbell Truss. As for Zelensky, does being a puppet of the US war mongers make one eligible for a peace prize? How did refusing to implement the Minsk agreement contribute to peace? Refusing to agree to neutrality plunged his country into war, resulting in the deaths of thousands of his citizens. Peace prize? What utter hypocrisy. But that’s a well honed western skill, as we saw in Ethiopia.
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  819. He’s a small child who’s been given a Cadillac and thinks he can drive it.
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  820. Reeves is more neoliberal than the Tories.
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  821. In English law, high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered, although beheading could be substituted by royal command. Alas the good old days; those penalties have been abolished.
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  822. “Free world”? Great idea, so long as it’s not Trump world. Trump & Freedom are diametrically opposed.
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  823. “What’s that puddle on the floor?” “Sorry Mum, it’s my brain, I was watching one of Sabine’s videos.” “Oh, Brilliant! I warned you …”
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  824. In my experience, benefit claim forms are often so complicated that a less educated claimed just gives up. According to a friend who worked in a benefit office, he was instructed to interpret the rules in a way that allowed them not to pay out.
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  825. Ukraine alas has been destroyed by US intervention. If the US hadn’t tried to push NATO right up to the Russian border, there would have been no war. Ukrainians and Russian were like close cousins until the US decided to cause trouble there.
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  826.  @piluny да, точно.
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  827.  @fenixfelicia800 It was intentionally maliciously provoked by the US so that they could pretend to be the “good guys”.
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  828.  @serega13 😂😂😂
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  829. The US can't forgive the Afghans for not toadying along behind them. They want to place more missiles on the Russian border, and they want Afghanistan's uranium. So they have frozen Afghanistan's assets, they starve its people and now promote attacks on its borders. The US government has truly become the Evil Empire.
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  830. Trump could well turn out to be the greatest gift to free the world of the god all blighted dollar (except for his bro in Israel).
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  831. But she’d make a sweet Brownie.
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  832. After 14 years of spectacular incompetence we hoped for something different, not just more of the same. Starmer has no ideas, he just “follows the rules”.
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  833. Tories know what’s good for them? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  834. Definitely worth keeping an eye on! Only 110 years ago a couple of nutters managed to get a flying machine off the ground for several yards.
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  835. Reeves is fundamentally a Tory neoliberal.
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  836. How can anyone pay attention to the speakers with so much chattering in the background? Her description of Thatcherism should be published nationally, and debated.
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  837. Let’s stop wasting billions on HS2, unusable nuclear weapons, refurbishing the Houses of Parliament which are completely inappropriate for a serious 21st century government, aircraft carriers without aircraft, weapons to continue the pointless war in Ukraine (How about talking instead of allowing even more Ukrainians to die?) and any other vanity project. Then even Rachel won’t be able to claim the purse is empty. (Or should I refer to the handbag, as Rachel is reading from Maggie’s handbook.)
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  838. To me it seem inconceivable that pilot training would be carried out in such a congested civilian aviation area. Who authorised this? Who organised this scenario?
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  839. Who the heck does Vance think he is? Maybe he hasn’t realised Zelenskyy is a president of a democratic country.
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  840. Sir Kier Stalin will give the peasant (voters) just enough corn to keep them quiet while he keeps his rich masters happy.
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  841.  @lonevoice  He has clearly demonstrated that he’s prepared to tell blatant lies, like the Tories before him, and he tolerates no opposition. Like Stalin. Sir kier Stalin, a ruthless leader prepared to do whatever he sees an necessary to hold onto power.
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  842. As always, money comes before safety. Take note of the current RMT demands and the nurses. Money before safety inevitably produces disaster.
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  843.  @joeysausage3437  They seize ships on the high seas, just as Raleigh did. Of course, Americans may view this as legitimate, because they imagine they own the world, or at least they think they are the world's law-givers.
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  844. @ because ordinary people haven’t got it to spend, but as Keynes pointed out, that’s not the problem for the government.
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  845. NATO is controlled by the US, Starmer is the ‘good boy’ who does what teacher says, and he’s a bully who will just cooperate with other bullies.
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  846. Hang on a mo ... it's coming!
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  847.  @spytf2-pb3yo  who? And what does he suck?
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  848. Well, it’s degrowth and new metrics, or die out. The only major obstacle is, as usual, political inertia (in the grip of Big Finance). Very few people want to change anything that might affect the future when they’re comfortable now.
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  849. I absolutely love listening to Yuma Wang.
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  850. WRT the demise of Neanderthals, I think humans may have brought diseases from Africa that they could withstand but were fatal to Neanderthals.
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  851. Braverman & her backers want an excuse to brink in laws that ban all demonstrations which criticise the Tories.
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  852. Democracy in Britain? Where?
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  853. Interesting news, but what’s the point of the silly background noise? This isn’t a Hollywood production.
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  854. PFI will come it under those snakes Starmer, Streeting and Reeves.
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  855. It's such heroic bullshit to cheers these misguided children. Only idiots fight a battle they can't possibly win.
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  856.  @TomHamster  закрой глаза!
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  857.  @markthomas7279  How would you react if Russia set up military bases in Ireland?
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  858. You can’t have state assets, that’s ….. Socialism! Shock, horror!! Any respectable “liberal” (neoliberal) economy has to privatise, public services in particular, lest the public get any idea of “entitlement”.
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  859. The sooner the better for everyone, including all Americans not in the super rich league. 😊
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  860. Jeramy *unt is such a blatant lier! But then he’s following the example set by Johnson, just ignore facts, keep blathering.
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  861. The Times is owned by Boris’s pall Murdoch.
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  862. What else would you expect from Tinkerbell, the would-be PM fairy.
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  863.  @Vroomfondle1066  The rich want to maintain their riches and increase them. The poor are just insignificant. Those who own the capital tend to believe that gives them the right to rule.
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  864. Possible solutions, other than EVs getting non-flammable batteries. Can the EVs be loaded as deck cargo, while they are still relatively fewer than fossil fuel vehicles? Can there be automatic release mechanism for deck cargo, to jettison burning vehicles? Can the compartments be hermetically sealed once loaded? (Starving fire.) Improve loading techniques so the batteries are not damaged?
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  865. The British media is almost completely controlled by the right, so persistently undermines any political threat from the left. Corbyn was thus undermined with a mixture of lies about his supposed antisemitic views (he was anti right wing Israeli politicians) and belittling of his honesty and radical politics. He was extremely popular with younger voters for these very reasons. He is not a natural leader, and not a good campaign organiser, but a combination of his desperately needed left ideology and Starmer's cool statesmanship could and should win and restore Britain to some respectability. If the party continues to self-destruct and Starmer pursues a Blairite rightward lean, the party and the country are doomed to Tory dictatorship for many generations.
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  866. GDP belongs to neoliberal thought. Reeves and Starmer are simply traditional neoliberals.
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  867. Why spend time making something which is human-like? We needs robots to do useful work that humans don't want to or can't do.
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  868. It is indeed a very black outlook. England (not Scotland) is now a one party state, and they will do whatever they regard as necessary to make sure it remains so.
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  869. Yanks, you know that the war in Ukraine was deliberately provoked by the Americans in their unrelenting attempt to undermine the Russian economy.
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  870. These investors believe that they can buy their way into whatever “safe” lairs remain, and f**k the rest of humanity.
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  871. In a universe where there are more stars than grains of sand on earth, the idea that we are alone is absurd, as is the idea that we are the supreme intelligence in the universe, or that other intelligent being would be hostile.
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  872. Who damages the Nordstream pipeline? Well, would you damage your own exports? It’s obviously the Ukrainians or their palls.
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  873. Of course Harris won’t do anything. The US was built on UNfair competition and UNfree markets.
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  874. Steve Baker is a well known nutter.
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  875. The Rwanda policy has nothing to do with stemming the flow of immigrants and everything to do with pleasing the extreme racists.
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  876. Oops!
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  877. Clever Tory policy, wreck the economy on the Labour watch. Who are the bankers? Tories.
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  878. Check out the Rose Butterfly on the BBC "30 animal that made us smarter".
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  879. The US push to get their (NATO) missiles onto the Russian border in Ukraine, caused war in Ukraine. Do the Finns want war in their country? Do the Swedes want their economy destroyed? Of course the US will continue to arm-twist, but hopefully the Europeans have now learned that the US is only interested in the US. For them, Europe is just a convenient parking lot for their missiles.
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  880. As everyone knows, Assnge’s only crime was to embarrass the American military by revealing the truth.
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  881. Sadly anger, hate sells. We all need to support Lynch and his colleagues.
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  882. What a horrific idea! Are you really suggesting the Eton boys shouldn’t be in control? OMG, this could lead to revolution!
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  883. Figures shown for pensions aren’t the same as the commentary.
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  884. Yes, let's have WW3. Are you completely insane?
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  885.  @dennisthegrower  you want WW3? Are you insane? Or just insane?
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  886. The peasants revolt was crushed by a lying king. The Diggers were crushed by a lying Parliament. The Jarrow marchers were ignored, like the 2 million in London demanding a second referendum. Nothing has changed. How long before more civil unrest? Violence isn't the way (the nasty guys always win), but social organisation from the bottom might begin to supplant the centrally controlled institutions of the state.
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  887. BTW Alex Salmond isn't a member of the SNP.
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  888. @ Maybe it’s time to break the tablets of stone and write a new constitution which specifically limits the power of money.
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  889. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  890. @ wow! A whole pound, with the Sovereign’s head on it!
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  891. So much effort to try to rescue 5 very rich people; how much effort goes into rescuing 1000s of poor refugees at sea between Turkey and Greece, in the channel or in the Mediterranean?
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  892. Sea water for cooling?
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  893. Reeves is just another neoliberal. We’ve only changed the faces, not the policies.
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  894. Alas this description of Russia completely fails to address the question of why western style democracy has not been adopted in Russia. All people including Russians were free to choose their leaders until the establishment of settled farming. The early Russ was democratic until the shifting allegiances of the “peasant” (fighting) population made it impossible to hold the growing empire together. The northern Indians, the Inuit people and those in Tierra del Fuego manage to live well in harsh climates. Siberian villagers did indeed live a hard life, but as you said, life was much better in Ukraine. America depended hugely on slaves while Russia had its peasant labour force. As for trade, whites controlled that in America, even to the extent of burning whole black neighbourhoods when then began to prosper. Your description of the establishment of large estates is a perfect image of England and most of Europe under its various monarchies. Similarly your description of the way to manipulate the Soviet system describes the way Power is manipulated in a so called democracy, it’s just done less obviously, more “nicely”. Power corrupts … everywhere. There is no government in any country which is without corruption. If the US or UK or any other government collapsed, thousands would loose their jobs. But maybe you’d prefer government by Elon Musk (coming soon) or by Google. As for the difficult life of your friend, do you really think poor Americans live on streets paved with gold?
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  895. @ Спасибо за интересный ответ. Мое поспешное несогласие с вашим видео касается не коммунизма или Советов, а ваших рассуждений о стиле лидерства в России. Как вы описали, существует напряженность, чтобы уничтожить огромную Российскую империю из более чем 200 различных этнических групп, поэтому неуверенные в себе лидеры должны навязать сильную власть. Ленин не был демократом, и, к сожалению, его фракция контролировала промышленное сердце. Политические системы и их общества не меняются легко и не быстро. (Парлатское правительство в Великобритании заняло много веков. Я увидел, как трудно хорватам адаптироваться к демократии.) Мой хороший друг Дмитрий Морозов, который был журналистом во время распада СССР, сказал: «Россия не готова к демократии, в конце концов она придет». Ваш российский телеканал 1 подчеркивает хаотичные недостатки американской «демократии». Здесь есть что обсудить, но не хватает места.
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  896. @ Спасибо за интересную статью. Но, пожалуйста, подробнее объясните ваше заявление «агрессор все еще Россия». К какому времени относится это заявление? В 1914 году именно новость о мобилизации России для защиты Сербии напугала Германию принять меры против возможного российского вторжения.
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  897. @ Ваша статья очень интересная. Жизнь грабежа ресурсов соседей (рабов, скот, других продуктов питания и ценных вещей) практиковалась на протяжении всей истории: в границах Римской империи, среди индейских племен, на шотландско-английской границе (Риверы), викингов, работорговля Западной Африки, которая эксплуатировалась европейцами. Это часто сопровождалось увеличением населения, которое, возможно, было результатом климатических изменений. Россия всегда терпела гораздо более суровые условия, чем европейские поселенцы в Америке. Я очень ценю отношение к взаимному сотрудничеству в России, совершенно не похожее на агрессивный индивидуализм Америки. Отношение поселенцев неизбежно более агрессивно, чем отношение коренных народов, которые просто пытаются выжить.
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  898. Governments have used the ever increasing price of property as a middle class vote bribe since at least the 50s. Starmer hasn’t got the courage to challenge that, at best he’ll tinker with the edges and pretend to be doing something.
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  899. Alas it’s the very people we need to screen out who get to control the rules. The system is self perpetuating.
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  900. Definitely plausible.
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  901. HOW TO MAKE ENGLISH. Take a little organic Celtic and cook slowly, adding just a pinch of Latin. When it's off the boil, add a generous helping of old German, of the Friesland variety and cook slowly for a few centuries. Add several handfuls of hot Scandinavian and stir well. Once this is simmering nicely, cover it all with a thick layer of course French and put the lid on. Wait for the grammar to begin to curdle. Once this appears to have settled, skewer the mix with a sharp Caxton, which will instantly crystallise the spelling. Keep well away from logic as this ruins the flavour. Allow it to simmer gently for a century or two then top it with a sprinkling of Greek, and just a few odd words from random languages. Allow it to cool and solidify. It travels well and makes an excellent base for Air, sea, commercial and diplomatic dishes. (Store in a cool place, lest it goes rancid and becomes American.)
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  902. Monbiot is right against, completely right.
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  903. Irreversible? We’re already there, and out politicians fiddle while the planet burns, afraid to grasp the truth and act …. until it’s far, far, far too late.
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  904. As long as there is no limit to how much your parties can spend on elections, your system will be ruled by money and corporate greed.
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  905. Much of the properties shown are Victorian.
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  906. As ever, politicians promise the glorious (imaginary) past, the Good Old Days. Yesterday’s men and women offer the dry bones of yesterday’s ideas. They are usually incapable of imagining a different future and certainly too timid to offer one lest they frighten the voters.
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  907. 😂😂😂😂
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  908.  @lllKRENDELLLlll xenophobia rules! Let’s blame immigrants for everything! With Tice and Farage, we can have World Beating xenophobia!
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  909.  @GA-fz2wt idiot!
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  910. And the Maidan Square incident in Kiev.
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  911. OMG, this is a scary description of one of my work colleagues when I opposed her plans.
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  912. The same destruction of public services has been Tory policy for at least the past 70 years.
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  913. Why reverse the letters?
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  914. Barely a handful of MPs present. Parliament has become a joke, and not even funny. These MPs paid for what? A job with no job description, for turning up once a week for a few hours to shout Raa Raa! when their man, or woman, stands up and makes a statement? They get paid £87,144, after their recent £3000 pay increase; nurses, who work at least five full days, every week, start on £27,000. So one MP, without the burden of a £10,000+ debt for training, working occasional hours, is valued at three nurses. Has Britain gone completely potty?
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  915. How does the ice age fit into this? The humid period seems to have ended around the same time as the last ice age ended.
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  916. Мне очень нравится ананас!
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  917. Chicago economics assumes we are all equal, with equal opportunities and equal market abilities. Pricing in that system is based on “what the market will bear”, in other words, as much as the seller can screw out of the buyer. Neither of these have anything to do with fair allocation of resources or the wellbeing of citizens.
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  918. I have travelled extensively in Russia. On all but commuter trains, a ticket guarantees you a seat. The trains are clean, comfortable, and punctual. This is achieved by providing sufficient rolling stock and sufficient regular services. My experience of Virgin trains has been that they are often late or cancelled and frequently overcrowded. Booking a seat on Virgin means you might, possibly get one.
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  919. They are certainly tough people, I’m sure I couldn’t live there, even though I love the winter invigorating banya (rather closer western Russia). The cold air outside is very dry, so the warm air inside is extremely dry, so the washing drys quickly and adds some pleasant moisture inside the house. It’s good to see the family have upgraded their radiators.
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  920. It all sounds remarkably like Tory budgeting in slightly different words. Well, what else would we expect from the other LabCon twin? SO disappointing but no surprise as we live in a one party state.
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  921.  @adenwellsmith6908 While the average wage on the UK is £35,750, this is not related to the amount spent per person in public services.
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  922.  @adenwellsmith6908  Mr Average is irrelevant. If those with the highest incomes paid proportionately the same as those on low incomes, the tax revenue would be billions greater. At present there is truly HUGE. wastage of revenue in the idiot HS2 @ around £100bn, refurbishing the Palace of Westminster @ £3 or 4 or more billions plus unusable trident submarines costing uncountable billions. The OBR calculated, a few years ago, that the cost to the state of care and services of migrants (excluding boat people) was less than their contribution to GDP. The Rwanda plan costs £1.8pm to £2bn for each migrant. It would cost considerably less to accommodate them in the Ritz. The cost of immigration is a direct result of government stupidity.
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  923.  @adenwellsmith6908  1. Not many criminals have that in their documents. 2. Yes, no discrimination on race/colour etc. 3. Allow immigrants to work on arrival while being processed, so they can contribute.
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  924. And the US saw the dollar, the World Bank and the IMF as a tool to manipulate weak developing countries to comply with their objectives - mainly privatisation of public services, which American “investors” could then buy up or sell drugs to; just another limb of the American hegemony.
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  925. Why would anyone want to spend time in an environment as hostile as Mars? Bonkers. If the aim is to mine it, surely it must be easier to do it remotely.
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  926.  @ronald3836  The air on Antarctics is breathable, there is water (frozen but accessible), the gravity is virtually the same as everywhere else on earth, the journey to be there takes just days and the temperatures rarely drop below -50 celcius (not -80) and there are penguins and birds for company. Mars offers no such comports.
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  927. Earthships are a great idea, if you can afford to build one, live in the right climate and have enough space for one. Great for community projects. (I believe the one in Scotland has damp problems.)
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  928. Sunak doesn’t sound like a human being …. Well of course, he isn’t.
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  929. 50 years ago I pointed out to my economics professor, as you have, that the capitalist system could not possibly continue indefinitely, and he agreed. "But as long as everyone plays, it goes on until it crashes."
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  930. Happy days Donald Duck! Oh, sorry, Donald Trump.
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  931. Kier Stalin’s backers wouldn’t like it.
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  932. The rich buy most of the imported goods. Looks like shooting himself in the foot.
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  933. My impression is that Trump is going to crash himself; wait for the rats to begin jumping overboard!
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  934. Why aren’t we taxing the bads? Lobbying and corruption.
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  935. Corbyn really gave us hope, real hope! We need him and the likes of him as a fish needs water.
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  936. It is obviously impossible for Ukraine to stop the Russians. They will be defeated, so it would be much wiser to negotiate the best terms possible as quickly as possible and avoid a great many unnecessary deaths and destruction of homes. Only idiots fight a battle they can't possibly win.
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  937. Remember those first horseless carriages.
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  938. Shout down the opposition rather than listen. Mr Speaker, your job is to keep order, not to rush over questions which embarrass the government. Of course Johnson hasn't seen any evidence, it hasn't been looked for.
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  939.  @PhilipMatthewsPAEACP  For sure we need a new system!
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  940.  @kevinsyd2012  Unearned income?
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  941. Bless her rotting socks!
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  942. "What I can say to you today ..." is what my bosses(????) will allow me to say. Truth? What's that got to do with Tory politics?
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  943. The household bank account analogy to the country’s economy was made by Mrs Handbag Thatcher, its just being revived by a Tory successor who happens to be chancellor of a nominal Labour government. Last July we just exchanged an incompetent and utterly dishonest Tory government for a slightly less conspicuously incompetent and slightly less obviously lying Tory government under a different colour.
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  944. At last, a way out! 'taint going to be easy, but there IS a way. This is non-violent revolutionary bottom-up change.
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  945. @ It would all be difficult to implement which is why we need to get started now. Do you really think spending £100bn to save 20 minutes off a train journey is good value? That’s not even considering the environmental damage.
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  946. Icelanders have a pact with the devil. The trouble is the devil sometimes ignores the small print.
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  947. Blair was a pink Tory, 'Thatcher's natural successor'. Labour needs to promote brave, radical left politics, otherwise it's a dead as the ancient Liberal party.
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  948. Having seen the ferocity of storms in the Black Sea, arising very quickly, I’m not so surprised the ships were in trouble. The Black Sea has an ancient history of sudden marine disasters.
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  949. It is to be hoped that soon, when someone mentions Trump, the response will be, “who? Oh you mean that nutter.”
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  950. Good job by the courageous reporters. Suspiciously incompetent security. Trump really has gone over the top. He should be arrested for deliberately using his office to promote insurrection: Treason!
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  951. Oh happy day!
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  952. Well done NATO for crashing the European economy, and stupid idiot Europe for agreeing to them. Putin was quite willing to work with the EU, but now he trades eastward. Sanctions hurt Europe far, far more than they affect Russia.
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  953. As ever, profit rules. It’s time for maritime authorities and insurers around the world to demand appropriate safety standards, such as bulkheads, smaller sealable compartments so that fire can be isolated and the free wash of water can be better controlled. This of course will be costly but if most (hopefully all) countries demand the same, these safety standards will be accepted.
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  954. Well done Greens!
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  955. If more people acted like this, we’d need to pay less attention to “rights”. PS, helping your neighbour or any passer-by in need is common place in some cultures… such as Russia (where I used to live).
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  956. Does the US want peace or war. It's quite simple to resolve this citation, BOTH sides agree to leave Ukraine demilitarised.
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  957. We also suffer deeply from the rigidity of ‘qualifications’, certification. I know my skills, I see the results, but having no certificates, I receive no recognition (apart from colleagues).
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  958. This government has an unparalleled record... of rejecting refugees.
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  959. As with uranium, the main concern is the waste product. 500 years is a very long time in human terms, just think of the technologies of the 16th century; horses were the fastest transport, waterwheels were the engines of "industry" (milling, sawing timber, weaving). 10,000 years for the half life (HALF life!) is about an entirely other, unimaginable civilisation (IF humans survive that long).
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  960. The July election changed the faces, but nothing else. Ok, Starmer ditched the stupidest Tory howlers like the Rwanda farce, but nothing of substance will change under these red Tories. BTW in 1933 Bernard Shaw commented that the British system of government was “only 300 years out of date.” (Prologue to The Apple Cart)
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  961.  @mickreaddin4979  That’s the best joke of the decade!
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  962. Erdulan is a cunning politician so take his words with a large pinch of salt. But yes, it is time to revise the current agreement, and give Turkey its due financial rewards and some say in who can sail through its territorial waters. I can't see the UK agreeing to similar access to the Solent, or the US allowing free uncontrolled passage through Panama (even though it isn't their country). Egypt earns money from Suez.
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  963. Has anyone noticed that the Soviet Union ended more than 30 years ago?
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  964. Anything is better than football!
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  965. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, “it is dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be its friend is fatal.”
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  966.  @hamajoji And he would know!
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  967. I'm fascinated - amd not a Christian. I'd still like to kow more. What do you know about the Buddha? Lao Tsu? Mohamed?
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  968. Very interesting! If these green technologies work, hydrogen really will make a major contribution towards a sustainable world. We may yet escape being burned up by our own folly.
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  969. You Ozzies are in a tight spot, politically dominated by the US but economically dependent on China. Get your ducks in a row, BRICS is the way.
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  970.  @sarahann530  Do you expect something different from the other LabCon twin ?
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  971.  @sarahann530  yes if you believe the LabCon twins are your only option. Look further, there are plenty of ideas out there.
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  972. Export to Rwanda (with return denied).
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  973. It is time for our economy to move on from pointless consumerism to the circular model; recyclable, repairable quality, not cheap throwaway.
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  974. Never forget that this company was one of Thatcher’s heroes. Profit rules. When any company says “your safety is our first priority” they are lying. As this account clearly demonstrated, safety is just an inconvenience in the way of ever higher profit.
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  975. Trump has absolutely no intention of keeping his election promises, just like Johnson.
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  976. Excellent video as usual. The main obstacle in the US is politics.
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  977. Fascinating video, let’s have more! But let’s not even think about other planets till we’ve learned how to take care of this one.
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  978. Maybe the Irish have enough common sense not to become another US poodle, like the UK, the Germans etc.
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  979. Americans think the world consists of America with bits round the edge.
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  980. When the next election comes round, remember which MPs and which party voted against feeding poor children during the cold holidays.
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  981. No one needs to be taught to care, it has been demonstrated to be innate in babies. It can unfortunately be crushed my society and through education. Like Trump, Musk is clearly deeply psychologically disturbed.
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  982. Well, it’s up to US voters. Do they want fascist dictatorship, or democracy? Alas most voters don’t actually think about it, they just plop the cross where the shrieking voice tells them to, or where daddy always used to. THINK America, THINK before you vote.
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  983. Success has given Musk the idea that he’s right because he’s fabulously rich. Now he lives in a bubble of self deluded optimism somewhat detached from reality.
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  984. @ Yes, he is/has been a techno-wizard and the world benefits from his electric vehicle advances, but any good scientist knows his present/past achievements give no guarantee of future success. Musk’s ego is now in his driving seat.
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  985. Trump’s chaos is a fantastic opportunity for change, for the better, as soon as he falls. “Carpe diem!”
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  986. So “what’s affordable” includes billions for useless PPE and Track and Trace that didn’t work, and uncountable millions to Ukraine, but doesn’t include reasonable pay for nurses, rail workers, teachers, firemen. What we can afford is entirely a matter of choice.
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  987. At last, someone who states that Labour is now centre right. I suspect that a left wing party similar to Corbyn, would win considerable support, IF the media didn’t try to deliberately destroy them.
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  988.  @zwcdamien  If so, why the provocative eastward advance towards Russia, despite assurances given to Gorbachev that there would be no such move?
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  989.  @ayushkumar-bg1xf  When the Soviet Union was occupying parts of Eastern Europe,there was a role for NATO. No it's a white elephant.
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  990.  @Buttercup697  "Ukraine invited NATO ...". Who? The chocolate puppet installed by the US.
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  991.  @awesomeavengersfaithfulcan8543  Russia reclaimed Crimea, which Khrushchev had given away. Crimea is populated mostly by ethnic Russians, and Russian citizens. Put that into the context of the US occupying bases (small cities) in 76 countries outside its borders.
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  992.  @КоваленкоВадим  Россия может обойтись без Украины, но это было бы очень печально. Они действительно одна и та же семья. Нейтральная Украина обеспечивает безопасность России и Западной Европы. НАТО в Украине стало бы невыносимой прямой угрозой для России.
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  993.  @nastique  Russians and Ukrainians that I met during the 15 years I lived in Russia, were like cousins, brothers & sisters. They really are the same family. A neutral Ukraine ensures the security of Russia and Western Europe. NATO in Ukraine would become an unbearable direct threat to Russia.
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  994.  @bagusade2674  Have you seen the swasticas in Kiev? The dirty war was the fascist snipers in Maidan square.
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  995.  @КоваленкоВадим  Вы правы, Украина заблокирована. Это был стратегический шаг России. Донбасс слишком долго игнорировался Киевом, к сожалению, из-за глубокой коррупции в украинской политике. Решение этой проблемы с помощью Запада и России принесет украинцам больше пользы, чем любое вмешательство НАТО. Безопасность Украины зависит от ее нейтралитета. После распада Советского Союза НАТО пыталось использовать слабость России. Теперь Путин четко заявил: ХВАТИТ, ХВАТИТ!
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  996.  @awesomeavengersfaithfulcan8543  As long as you and western governments hold that attituse "that's Russia's problem", there will be no meaningful progress. To resolve a disagreement, you need to at least try to see how the problem looks from the other side. The annexation of Crimea was not a policy statement of imparialism. Rusia has plenty of opportunities to reclaim it's former Soviet states, but doesn't do so because those countries provide non-threatening buffer zones. If NATO really wants peace, then nuetral Ukraine is the obvious answer. But that would not fit into the US intention to surround and weaken Russia. Russia has offered gas to Europe at quie a resonable price, but the US is trying desparately to block this (Not Russia, the US - has stated this quite clearly). So the US can sell it's gas to Europe at 4 tmes the rpice of Russian gas.
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  997.  @zwcdamien  On 27 May 1997, at the NATO Summit in Paris, France, NATO and Russia signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security, a road map for would-be NATO-Russia cooperation. NATO said it had no plans to station nuclear weapons in the new member states OR TO SEND NEW PERMENANT MILITARY FORCES.
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  998. Change is the only constant.
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  999. Does anyone still believe anything a Tory minister says?
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  1000. It’s time for mass resistance, not just to Trump, but to the USA who invited this insane megalomaniac into the seat of power. Let’s start by boycotting anything and everything that comes from that country. The message has to be clear and powerful. NO to Trumpism!!
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  1001. Before the July election we had government by incompetent liars, after the election we have government by incompetent fantasists.
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  1002. Unfortunately, like almost everything you put forward, Starmer doesn’t see this as a vote winning policy. But I suspect a lot of people in those energy inefficient homes (like me) would disagree with him.
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  1003. And not ever the Tories could be pursued of that.
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  1004. The major problem with nuclear energy is the huge cost, the unknowable cost of decommissioning and storing of the waste. Thorium is a good alternative but it too has considerable problems. Nuclear fusion will solve the problem in the next 30 + 30 + 30 + …….. years, perhaps.
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  1005. Russia has a flat tax of 13%. Badenoch really shows her colours by this proposal, money for the rich scraped off the poor. Trickle down theory was rubbished when I was reading economics 50 years ago!!! Out political leaders go forward looking backwards.
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  1006. Norman bollocks from a normal incompetent Tory minister. She should be minister for waffle.
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  1007. Only totalitarian states jail peaceful protesters.
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  1008. Beach property in central London, as the sea level rises! 😂😂😂😂 But, like the Great Stink, when MPs have to wear wellies in Westminster, they might perhaps take the climate crisis seriously and try to do something about it, (don’t get your hopes up) much too late of course.
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  1009. Bonkers? No, deliberate liars.
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  1010. The caller is totally correct. We are living under a government of crooks, cheats and thieves.
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  1011. You’ll frighten the hell out of Racheal Reeves!
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  1012. Rub it in!
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  1013. Trump’s connection with reality is tenuous.
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  1014. Are there really more than two flat earthers?
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  1015. Neoimperialism will fail. The disadvantaged are learning to recognise it. The climate/energy crisis is global, any investment that is not mutually beneficial is doomed to cause conflict and ultimately fail.
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  1016. If the fare prices were reasonable, it would be a great idea. But as with the rest of the underground, it will be priced for middle class commuters, no consideration for the working class who can't afford to live near the city centre jobs.
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  1017. Labour Party? This is bog standard Tory policy; if you succeed, jolly good, grab it! If you don’t, it’s your own fault, get lost!
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  1018. As to be expected, profit trumps environment. This is the direct pathway to climatic disaster: maximum profit now, f**k the planet.
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  1019. I really hope China backs BRICS. I am so SO sick of America treating the rest of the world as it’s playground.
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  1020. They don’t deserve a single seat.
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  1021. How about cladding the sides of tall buildings?
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  1022. This aggression by Russia was deliberately provoked by the US (calling itself NATO). Taiwan is not America’s business. If America stopped trying to control the world we would all be much better off. I sincerely hope Trump’s isolationism works.
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  1023. 😂😂😂 Ali could have been slightly more tactful and suitably stuffed Starmer. How long does this myth that anti Netanyahu = antisemitism? It’s clear that the Zionists have Starmer … probably through his/the party’s financial balls. All very quietly of course, but no room for manoeuvre. “If you want to be “in power”, just do what you’re told.
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  1024. Oh G, that’s familiar!
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  1025. That’s hardly a complement.
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  1026. What does “governed from the bottom up” mean?
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  1027. @ so if you’re low skilled, living in an area of high unemployment and you barely earn enough to live on and feed your family, you pay the same tax as a billionaire jetting off to his yacht in the Med.
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  1028. If Thunberg wasn’t so accurately right, no political leader would be angry at her words.
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  1029. They may indeed be made of mushrooms in the near future.
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  1030. The very wealthy have always wielded power. Money tends to corrupt and unlimited money to corrupt absolutely.
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  1031. No, Trump doesn’t care, but those millions who voted for him are responsible for allowing his insanity to materialise. They have absolutely NO EXCUSE and cannot claim they didn’t know. The same applies to anyone who votes for Badenock.
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  1032. What happens to all the old diesel trucks? This electrification could be hugely supported by simply progressively reducing government subsidies to the oil industry.
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  1033. Trump believes in the Rule of Trump. Law is barely relevant. I with the BRICS countries all the best.
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  1034. The US, as the more powerful adversary should now begin negotiating an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine followed by negotiations for a resolution in which both sides respect other. This should be the beginning of disarmaments talks aimed at completely illuminating nuclear weapons globally within just a few years.
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  1035. Prosperity is exactly what I saw when I lived in Russia, while Britain in particular slid into decline. The solution for Ukraine in mutually guaranteed neutrality. If the US (pretending to be NATO) had agreed to this, there would have been no war. Russia needs secure buffer states, just as the US has. But unlike the US, she doesn’t demand hegemony, 183 military bases in foreign countries and a military budged greater than the next nine countries. If the US/NATO actually want an end to the war (this is a serious question) they will have to accept that Russia can not and will not allow Ukraine to join NATO.
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  1036. This prehistoric civilisation seems to be unique, not sharing similarities with stone henge or the Egyptian pyramids. Something truly beyond our current understanding.
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  1037. The American provocation to the Russians to start the was in Ukraine will be seen as a spectacular own goal for the US, as Russia develops better and better trade and political connections with its Asian neighbours including India.
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  1038. @ Wait and see.
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  1039. @ Having lived in Russia, I understand their situation quite well. I also understand the fears of the Poles. The USSR did indeed treat its satellite states badly. But the USSR folded over 30 years ago. Russia is not a democratic state and while a cohort of the young and educated want more democracy, the vast majority of the people are content with the huge improvements they’ve seen in their lives under Putin. I saw improvements in infrastructure that would make Americans and Brits cry while their infrastructures crumble from neglect. Belorussia is a different country. Once it achieves the same economic level as Russia, there might be a union, but Russia has no need of burdensome dependencies like the southern Stans. The claim that countries need to beg for membership of NATO is frankly absurd. Every expansion of the EU has been followed by NATO. The Maidan Square incident was of course engineered to promote NATO advancements in a country known for spectacular political corruption. WRT Finland joining NATO, that border is less sensitive than Ukraine; Finns are not Slavic people. The current head of NATO is a Swede, no surprise there. Europe, historically lead by the British, has always been hostile to the big guy on the eastern side of Europe. Now the sanctions have hurt EU members who were enjoying significant trade with Russia and consuming cheap Russian gas, especially in Germany. Without this competition from Europe, Russian manufacturing has greatly benefited, and now trade eastward. America’s sphere of influence is shrinking and they know it. MAGA is a doomed concept.
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  1040. @ Petersburg was build by French architects and craftsmen, it was never intended to by Russian style. Moscow is Russian. I have traveled and seen several Russian towns and villages, all of which have been through considerable improvements and cleanups in the past 18 years. You will find the streets are clean, transport works, people are almost always kind and helpful. The poverty shown in Vasya in the Hay exists in small corners of every country, as do all the social problems you listed. I have seen rather more homeless people in the US, the UK and Australia than I saw in Russia. The domestic architecture of rural Russia reflects the availability materials as it does in every rural environment. Your description of looting, I simply don’t believe, it’s utterly absurd. Everything you can find in European shops is available in Russian shops, and often a lot more in the markets.
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  1041. But as Murphy has explained, national finance is quite different from household finance.
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  1042. The driver of the truck on the cliff has a pact with the devil.
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  1043. It is the specific plan of Sunak and his chums to destroy any publicly funded service so they can privatise everything. Privatisation is NOT about efficiency, it’s about profit, just profit.
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  1044.  @paullangford8179 Created by Peter the great, in the 18th century, the age of empire building. Like the United States, it is one united country with a federal system, just with a little more centralised power. One of the principles differences is that Russia seeks to dominate just its bordering republics for legitimate security, having endured several invasions, while America has oceans as neighbours on its eastern and western borders, a weak country to the south and a friendly one to the north. Perhaps that’s why it tries to control the rest of the world, - paranoia?
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  1045.  @cardboardking577 Are you jealous?
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  1046.  @peterwarner553  Throwing insults at Russia needs to be balanced, especially as these insults usually come from I’ll informed Americans. There is no country which has no skeletons in its cupboard.
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  1047.  @peterwarner553  Dear Peter, I lived in Russia for 15 years. They are wonderful warm people and the bureaucracy is sometimes difficult to negotiate. They are patient people, they know how to live with people they may not particularly like, and they help each other quite naturally (something I did NOT see in the US, where helping a stranger was so rare is was and still is a source of amazement). But don’t mess with Russians, when the patience expires, they’re not gentle. But for ordinary people, there is no brutality in daily life. Putin is popular because he restored self respect to the Russians after the squalid years of Yeltsin and the American attempt to exploit Russia, milk its recourses and destroy its economy. During the time I lived there 2006 - 2021 I witnessed astonishing prosperity including nation wide major upgrading of roads, railways, public transport, health facilities and a massive fall in petty corruption. It’s not perfect, the mafia still have a hold in Moscow, corruption still exists (do you know ANY country where there is no corruption?), the country is ruled by force, not law. Comparison with a similar sized country is valid. My impression of the US is that political corruption is the norm, as is gun violence - something almost unheard of in Russia. In the words of an American commentator, “America is a one party state, with two right wings.”
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  1048. The Conservative and Unionist party is completely unsustainable to govern, and should never allowed to govern again. It’s up to us, the ordinary voting citizens to ensure this happens, to condemn the Tories to oblivion, once and for even.
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  1049. The Brits didn’t win two world wars, they were on the winning side. Then, America was a rising power with good leadership.
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  1050. This is EXACTLY why Scotland needs to be independent of the neoliberal government of Westminster. We need to be free to develop our own democracy. A small independent country is the best place to start this revolution.
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  1051. Here in Australia, Covid is rising again and causing concern, but the health service isn’t collapsing, it has adapted to the new reality. We all know Covid isn’t going to go away but Tory ministers in Westminster still pretend it’s a passing anomaly responsible for the destruction of the NHS. The only lasting reality is Tory lies.
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  1052. And what are you doing about it?
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  1053. We used to grow cherry trees over the septic outflow of the little holiday centre in Greece; the crop was magnificent!
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  1054.  @meditationMakesMeCranky  and there is a shortage of landlords.
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  1055.  @meditationMakesMeCranky  I agree, we need more social housing. But as social housing is insufficient for the current need, private landlords necessarily fill the gap.
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  1056. More than unhinged, completely utterly bonkers.
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  1057. Farage is one of the wilful financial elite. If Farage believes in the will of the people, why did he so vehemently oppose a second referendum when the reality of Brexit became somewhat clearer?
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  1058. WRT solar power, wind power and EVs, China is leading the world. And their use of coal has peaked, come on West, the technology already exists.
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  1059. Do you trust our political leaders? Power corrupts.
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  1060. Most voters don’t think, they just do what their favourite media tells them to do.
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  1061. Why is the speed of light the maximum possible?
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  1062. Two corrections: that island country off NW Europe is The United Kingdom, England just happens to be one of the kingdoms (ok, the largest and noisiest); and snowy winter is just a scatter of days, perhaps a week there. Even in Scandinavia it lasts a small fraction of the year. The Chinese don’t have any interest is invading Australia (or Taiwan), they will get all they want by just buying it. Enjoy the party while it lasts, the great witching hour is coming.
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  1063. Excellent analysis. The IMF is there to impose American style private enterprise. It is NOT there to help countries to sustain their development except according to US requirements. Any socialist like policies have to be squashed in order to get IMF money. This was quite clearly their policy when I studied economics in the 1970s. Nothing has changed.
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  1064. He does whatever his paymasters tell him. The real question is WHO are they?
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  1065. Students who want to understand the issues will support the staff. But since the government is intentionally discouraging working class students through higher fees, they think they can create division (again). “Divide and rule” is Tory methodology.
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  1066. Who will decide on the criteria of "eligible"?
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  1067. Of course he’s lying, what else would he do? He has no awareness what so ever about truth.
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  1068. Corbyn was sabotaged by even the so called left wing Guardian.
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  1069. Technically interesting, but I give this one the same thumbs down as all other nuclear optios so far. Too many failures, the problems of waste storage, however small, has still not been solved, and therefore it;s just far too expensive. Much better to spend all that money on building and improving the renewable systems.
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  1070. Alas the wreck of the Pamir, the last square-rigger on the North Atlantic route.
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  1071. Relieving child poverty? How scandalous! But I love your detractors complements, Socialist! Marxist! I’d be proud to wear such labels.
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  1072. That was how the Germans gave power to Hitler.
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  1073.  @MarKeMu125  As in Germany in the ‘30s … Hitler.
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  1074. NZ is a small country with a small economy generating small revenues.
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  1075. Russia has always had a very strong connection with Ukraine. If anyone thinks it’s a good idea to stop Ukrainians from being killed, then I might be time to call for a ceasefire and negotiations. (There is absolutely no possibility of defending Russia. Hitler tried it and lost 90% of the troops and hardware he sent there, as did Napoleon before him.)
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  1076. Good publicity for Isreal needs good dramatic story. Truth is completely irrelevant, just as with the Nazis in the 1930s, and ignored be western media just as in the 1930s.
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  1077.  @colinwishbone4437  well, who was in government? It wasn't Labour. And it wasn't Labour who cut off the payments when they were needed.
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  1078. Say it again George!
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  1079. Solution - stop the war and negotiate.
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  1080. Anyone who believes in a Tory "fact-checking" website, is choosing to deliberately believe in fairies.
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  1081. Under Starmer the city will get whatever it wants.
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  1082. Just chill. Why the hurry to travel so fast? Just slow down a bit and enjoy the journey.
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  1083. Having seen bears at close enough quarters in Kamchatka, I wouldn't be happy to have one wandering onto my veranda. This one looks unusually tame.
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  1084. The Goon were absolutely brilliant! They kept us alive then.
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  1085. You sound concerned that this is a Russian project. It’s time to learn to cooperate rather than to complete and waste resources.
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  1086.  @jabiraidan  You have of course identified finance as a key problem, thus my reference to the need for support, financial being primary. It’s not possible to remedy or alter one part of societal problems alone, as all aspects of society are connected. WRT selfishness, this is also connected to social pressures and attitudes; when life is less of a struggle people are less selfish.
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  1087.  @mylesleggette7520  quite so. Most modern societies value material wealth over children.
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  1088.  @JohnPretty1  Yes, which is we’re the state should be providing adequate financial support, indicating it values children.
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  1089.  @milferdjones2573  We already have too many humans consuming the resources of the planet including other nonhuman inhabitants, the ecosystem is badly out of balance. As the climate changes and limits the habitable space, the human population also need so shrink. Contractual obligations to rear children are absolutely not the way to go. Society needs to support those who choose to take care of children, and should enable family members and others to do so. Universal Income would be a significant help. Of course women are able to make similar contributions to society as men do, the care of children she similarly valued. But you can’t have your cake and eat it. Care of children doesn’t coexist with continuing a career away from the children.
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  1090.  @milferdjones2573  I think you may have a good point about delayed childbirths. While the care and development of old ten children has been traditionally carried out by the grandparents generation, there can be no substitute for mother in the infancy.
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  1091. We need a parliamentary system fit for the 21st century, not the 18th. They could start with semicircular chamber instead of one designed for two parties at “two sword lengths”. And a speaker who guides the members more towards cooperation for the good of the country and less of schoolboy point scoring.
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  1092. 😂😂😂😂 Go for it!
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  1093. Normal government incompetence. Corruption has been industrialised in the UK (and most other countries).
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  1094. To know that requires more than two working brain cells.
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  1095. The lady holding up the whole line of lorries gets my vote. Let the world slow down!
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  1096. Sunak knows absolutely NOTHING about the lives of the “most vulnerable”.
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  1097. A multipolar world is long overdue. The days of world empires are over.
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  1098. And the farce continues. A man with absolutely no integrity, doesn’t know how to resign. He needs physically removing from No. 10.
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  1099. The main obstruction to resolving the climate crisis is not technically, but political. In our democracy(?), the next election (4 years) is as far ahead as they think, and sweeties to voters is the only objective.
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  1100. “The brightest and the best”!!!!! God help us.
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  1101. The real question is what will NATO bring to Sweden?
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  1102. No, just normal British politics.
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  1103. Thatcher knew perfectly well that she was just deceiving the voters.
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  1104.  @Dilbert-o5k  water, power, transport are all necessary SERVICES for the nation. These should be owned by the nation, for the nation, and payed for by the nation, not sold off to some foreign investors whose only interest is in profit.
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  1105. Starmer is just a red Tory, not a thinker. He just follows “the rules” as he always has. Follow the rules, get the prizes. That doesn’t require thought and certainty no originality.
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  1106. So the western bull shit goes on. After perestroika, there was a tacit agreement that NATO would not advance eastwards close to the Russian border, but Bush ignored this and installed missiles in Poland. We remember how the US reacted to just the possibility of missiles in Cuba. Putin explained in 2014 that Russia needed neutral buffer states for its security, but the US (steering NATO) set about arming Ukraine, pushing for it to join NATO so they could plant missiles right on the Russian border. Putin warned that this was not acceptable, so the US continued to push until they got what they wanted, a war against Russia, far away from the US, with no US soldiers involved. This was/is an act of pure, absolute malice. Zelensky is just a puppet who will be thrown away when he’s no longer useful.
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  1107. Santiago really did find human nature … friendship, mutual support.
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  1108. My experience of living with snow, in Russia, is that around -12c or maybe -15c, the crystals are stronger, they don't crush so easily under foot. Maybe this is because the flatter ones now pile up onto the column ones? When that kind of snow melts, it collapses suddenly.
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  1109. Excellent description.
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  1110. Hold on! «Держись» as the Russians say. Get out and talk to people, make contact.
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  1111. Party interest ALWAYS trumps, especially for Tories. But don’t expect the sun to shine when Sir Tory-Lite Starmer gets into the hot seat.
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  1112. “Palestinian freedom and Israeli safety go hand in hand, you can not have one without the other.” Precisely!
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  1113. You’re talking about “joined up thinking”. When has that EVEN existed within government?
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  1114. You did. Is it just possible that you might not make the same stupid decision next time, if you survive that long.
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  1115. Transport is crucial for our country. Renationalise the railways and adequately support them. Roads are nationalised and subsidised, why not railways?
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  1116. Sue Grey was appointed by the Tories. As for Donkey Dorries, she demonstrates the complete lack of value her constituents get for her salary. What would happen if the rest of us just didn’t bother to turn up for work?
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  1117. It's time for Alex Salmond to accept Sturgeon is doing better than he did, and quietly lick his wounds. The SNP cause is more important than personal squabbles.
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  1118. The shortage of energy is the direct effect of western imposed sanctions, and western sabotage of the pipeline. This is a spectacular own goal. WRT the economic growth figures, Shapp is simply lying.
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  1119. Indeed. “If Labour believes …”
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  1120. At last, an economist prepared to tell some truth!
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  1121. Ukraine can not defeat the Russian military. It's a simple choice; either quickly negotiate a ceasefire and save a great many Ukrainian lives, or fight and be forced to accept unconditional surrender with a great many deaths.
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  1122. BRICS is the future, and the dollar countries will just have to accept that. All of the American huffing and puffing and trying to make it “great again” won’t make any more difference than a ripple on the ocean.
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  1123. So no one can stand for Parliament until they have at least 10 years experience in the real world.
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  1124.  @xwhateverx666 Like lying, cheating and burning £50 notes in front of a beggar.
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  1125. Why is the areal view of the Icelandic volcano shown in reverse? (Lava flows out of a volcano, not into it.)
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  1126. You tell it well, and it’s all interesting.
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  1127. Without Russia, where around 90% of equipment and manpower sent in by Germany never returned, WW2 would have been won by the Nazis. Stalin was reluctant to publicly acknowledge aid from the west, but when will the west acknowledge the huge cost (about 26,000,000 citizens) paid by Russia in the Alied victory?
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  1128. @ Whatever ethnic group they may or may not have belonged to, they were all citizens of the USSR. Your quibble is an irrelevant distracting from the massive sacrifice made by the Russian empire, greater than all the other alies together. Or perhaps you think it was the English who won the war, and the contribution of the Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, Kenyans, Nigerians, Ghanaians, and all the other British colonies, and the Scots and Welsh were mere add-on details.
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  1129. @ And the British were only one part of the allies but they so very often ignore the contribution of the many, many service men from their vast colonies (3,000,000 civilians, of whom were sacrificed - starved to death - in India on the orders of Churchill).
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  1130. @ Do the Brits honour the contribution of all the colonials? Do the US duly honour the contribution of the blacks?
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  1131. @ no change of subject, just pointing out hypocrisy. And nothing personal about you, as you say I know nothing about you. Churchill did order the sequestration of all foods from the Indian provinces bordering Burma. He didn’t specify how or how severe the sequestration should be, that was done by a British administrator with extraordinary insensitivity. But nevertheless it was instigated by Churchill who was known for his racist views.
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  1132. @ Yes, as you said, Churchill ordered the removal of foodstuffs from areas likely to be invaded by the Japanese. This was carried out with crass insensitive and the result, regardless of all the complications you refer to, was mass starvation. Why do you want to defend that action?
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  1133. Looks fascinating. But why do you want snooping cameras inside? How about some privacy? External cameras for security.
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  1134. Now! Please, right now!!
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  1135. 1500 roubles is $13.20, not exactly expensive. I love travelling platzcark. The compartment becomes like a family, everyone shares and if they learn there is a young foreigner amongst them, they take care of them like their own.
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  1136. The two greatest problems for nuclear power are what to do with the used nuclear material … and consequently, the COST! Nuclear is by far the most expensive way to general electricity. The thorium system is a possible option.
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  1137.  @platospotatoes6205  If nuclear power is such a good investment, why would no one touch it when Thatcher tried to sell off everying? Because the decommissioning remains so astronomically expensive that the whole system is an economic failure.
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  1138.  @platospotatoes6205  As you say, no one is factoring in the cost of decommissioning; that’s just to be dumped on a future generation, like the nuclear waste. The new nuclear power plant is of the type that produces weapons grade plutonium, as was Sizewell B. Thus we see that sustainable electric generation is simply a suitable camouflage for the illegal (under international law) proliferation of nuclear weapons. Solar, wind (and possibly wave power) are now cheaper than any other form of generation; and some remarkable energy storage systems are vary rapidly coming on line. Considering the time (and cost) it takes to build and commission a nuclear station, it’s an absurd option.
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  1139.  @platospotatoes6205  thank you, that adds clarity. But you are still left with some highly dangerous material to dispose of at the end. I don’t see the value of investing in this expensive technology which leaves dangerous waste, over investment in renewables and the many current short and long term storage systems. Nuclear may be relatively tried and tested, but so were stone tools.
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  1140. Unfortunately I think he’s quite enough of a psychopath to know exactly what he’s doing. Such people lack empathy to the extent that the suffering they cause just doesn’t register. The world might be eventually saved by American voters finally recognising their folly.
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  1141.  @jedih8526 Ah but what about HS2? It’s only costing £100bn and it’ll a whole 20 minutes (for those who can afford the tickets).
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  1142. Trump = mayhem. Happy days, USA.
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  1143. It's just a pity this speech was not in the Commons.
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  1144. Let’s do it. Federation is the best solution, an agreed common foreign and defence policy. But this can only be achieved if all participants in a federation are mutually respectful. One part lording it over any other won’t work.
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  1145. As usual, profit trumps anything else including safety.
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  1146. If Sunak is proud of the Tory’s record, what else do we need to know he’s a lying cheek?
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  1147. Even the speaker is getting fed up with this disgusting PM.
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  1148. Like Starmer, a bog standard neoliberal incapable of thinking beyond the standard model.
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  1149. Having seen the huge arrangement of deck cargo on container ships, would it be possible to construct car carriers with lower freeboard and a deck “cabin” structure for EVs, on an insulated deck? (NASA knows a lot about insulation.) This could allow much greater use of water to contain fire, with water allowed to run off the deck. Isolation & insulation of the two types of vehicle is surely an obvious first step.
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  1150. How are you going to counter the media warping of truth? They sank Corbyn by lying about antisemitism (he was anti the far right Israeli government, and NOT antisemitic). Even the Guardian participated! They sank Michael Foot for choosing to dress slightly differently from usual at a national ceremony, but they backed Blair because he was "Thatcher's natural heir", a Tory in a Labour mask. They will similarly systematically sabotage Starmer by ignoring his achievements and magnifying the smallest error. Fortunately he has had plenty of experience in being very careful. But we still haven't seen the real Starmer.
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  1151. I’m retired, but I used to ask my school leavers (6th form) what they thought was missing from their education. Every year lack of financial education came up, along with some other “life skills” like how to attend an interview. It’s time to reconsider what is actually useful and relevant in our school syllabi. Currently that is based, as it was originally in the 19th century, on what politicians think is useful for business. If it is reoriented towards the needs of the pupils/children, the whole society will benefit, and there will be much mess disruptions in secondary schools.
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  1152. I read “A very British Coup” just before Corbyn became leader. It was inevitable that, like Michael Foot, he would be destroyed by the established powers in this and other countries. He presented an alternative as radical as the overthrow of the Romsnovs in 1917, just without the violence. Power to the ordinary people, Democracy! God forbid!!
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  1153.  @ddoumeche  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature
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  1154.  @AArata63  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature
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  1155. Keep us informed. This looks very interesting.
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  1156.  @firebyrd437  Totally agree
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  1157. Zelenskyy can end this war. Russia attacked because of the imminent threat of NATO advancing into Ukraine. Zelenskyy should meet with Putin and the European leaders and agree Ukrainian neutrality guaranteed by both Russia and Europe. No NATO = no war.
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  1158. @ You’re right, it’s late, but still possible. I think Putin would agree, as neutrality of Ukraine is his aim, but Trump is likely to object as he won’t get the glory, and the tin pot idiot in Downing Street will call it a foul.
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  1159. The COP meetings have become a greenwash tent for fossil fuel deals. There is virtually no sign of any serious attempt to address the global heating crisis, outside of China. The questions we need to address are how do we survive this catastrophe, and how do we undermine the market in fossil fuels right now?
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  1160. This is not a disaster, it’s EXCELLENT news. The earth isn’t just for humans, the other species desperately need room too, less pollution, and more habitable space. Less humans = better planet. Equitable distribution of money and resources can hugely support an aging population. AI and smart robotics can do more and more tedious jobs, releasing more people for meaningful human interaction. Of course this is going to be difficult and painful for some,so we’d better get to grips with it now, and stop playing the growth-growth-forever game.
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  1161. The Russian media is absolutely accurate. Rosenberg has always been anti-Russian.
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  1162. Big Dopy to Tinkerbell. God save us!
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  1163. So what happens if 10,000 rail workers go on indefinite strike? How do the employers image they can run the railway then? This government are taking on a fight they can’t win. They might win a battlefield but they will loose the war.
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  1164. She’s beyond fantastic!
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  1165. Absolutely, and hopefully this is the beginning.
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  1166. Usual urine from Richy Soonsunk.
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  1167. But Reeves (and Starmer) is just a bog standard Tory neoliberal. What’s that got to do with social justice? Mustn’t rock the boat.
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  1168. @ Unfortunately your last statement is almost universally true, which is why popular non-violent revolution is essential.
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  1169. I have no sympathy for those suffering voter’s remorse if the voters don’t think beyond the end of their noses.
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  1170. Dear Madam, the public has completely lost trust in “the house” as a result of your party backing the spectacular lies of your leaders again and again and again. Trust, honesty has simply been trampled in the pursuit of personal and political gain.
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  1171. Oh what fun! Just such a shame nothing will change apart from the faces.
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  1172. Amazing and very promising, for passenger ships, bulk carriers, tankers and smaller cargo ships but what about the huge container ships? What’s the pay off between cost saving and loss of hold space to accommodate these technologies, especially on hybrids?
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  1173. BBC = Bloody Bollocks Codswallup
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  1174. The Americans and the British have given Assange far,far more publicity than he could have ever achieved by himself.
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  1175.  @fredmercury1314  Your coda “that’s a fact” doesn’t make it so any more than your use of capital letters. The imperialists did indeed unify the subcontinent and added their cultural mark, just as previous dynasties had. Empires are built for extraction,for the benefit of the imperial centre.
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  1176.  @Briselance  Crime in the UK has been steadily declining over those 30 years.
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  1177.  @mushogi  Tell me more.
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  1178.  @mushogi  Interesting article. As I suspected, the SNP is being rather quiet about what to do after indepencence. I agree with the Scottish Greens. But first Scotland needs to get free of Westminter control. This will benefit all pasts of the current union, by allowing Scotland to demonstrate different policies, which can then be adopted, or rejected south of the border. Some public service policies suit Scotland but not England. The Unionist reluctance to allow Indy s more aboput political face saving than any public benefit.
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  1179. All Russia wants and needs is neutral buffer states.
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  1180. The Israelis will not be satisfied until ALL Palestinians have left or been killed. What do the Americans do? The help the Israelis. Human right? An obscene joke.
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  1181. The Prime Minister of a government which has consistently under funded and degraded public services for 13 years now talks about “securing the future of public services”. Even if he does absolutely nothing, inflation will automatically fall. WRT waiting lists, some will die, others will go private, in desperation. What a slick talking con-man!
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  1182. The popularity of Trump reflects very badly on the state of American voters.
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  1183. Oops!
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  1184. Unfortunately telling the truth doesn’t mean people will believe you.
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  1185. Brilliant! The lady has not ducked the difficult issues, and not pretended that independence will be trouble free. But the potential is truly great for Scotland, and beneficial to England too.
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  1186. Tony Blair? Who? Oh, you mean Tory Blair!
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  1187. The problem with your ideas, Richard, is that you think like a socialist, ideas for the common good. Starmer’s Labour is just same old Thatcherism neoliberal in a red package.
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  1188. Game, set and match to Starmer.
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  1189. Will these SSBs make the current EVs with Li batteries worthless?
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  1190. On balance, infrastructure connectivity sucks resources to the centre, draining the connected regions. Prices of properties in the north will rise, while jobs will go south.
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  1191. Great green idea. I really hope I’ll see them in the sky sometime soon. They won’t replace ships or planes, they will make a huge contribution to greener (maybe cheaper eventually) transportation.
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  1192. This requires governmental cooperation to resist cococola & Pepsi.
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  1193. Britain remains a fosilised country with medaval traditions, fosilised education, a mediaval parliament and mediaval, mediocre leaders.
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  1194. He’d fall off his horse.
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  1195. Alas lack of experience always leads such young people to see simple solutions in complex problems. This video is yet another “nice” piece of anti-Russian propaganda.
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  1196. Like most people, I care like you, but present day politics denies us any choice for change. Like China, we live in a one party state, just much more inefficient.
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  1197. The US is the greatest terrorist state in the world.
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  1198. No wonder Hamas has carried out savage attacks on Israel. The Israelis have harvested what they sewed.
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  1199.  @davidcann8788  Thatcherism.
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  1200.  @adenwellsmith6908  But they pay 23% in tax.
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  1201. So Germany wants to see lots more Ukrainians killed. The speaker admits this intervention will at best only slow the Russian advance. Cease fire now would achieve the same political result, but with much less death. Well, who cares, only Ukrainian soldiers and civilians will be killed, and those US puppets (otherwise called NATO) can all pat their backs and say they slowed the Russian advance.
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  1202. Mistakes were made, but as I know from experience, it is very difficult to appreciate just how quickly and dangerously the Cairngorm weather can change. ALWAYS be prepared for the worst. And always be prepared to turn back quickly if conditions begin to deteriorate beyond your preparations.
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  1203. The “war on terrorism” conducted by the world’s greatest terrorist organisation.
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  1204. I wonder why successive governments have failed to do anything about seriously taxing sugar? Or controlling junk food additives? Lobbying? Party donations? ????
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  1205. Alas most people vote without thinking.
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  1206. The effect of Brexit is twice that of Covid. Word beating stupidity.
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  1207. Take note, while you can!
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  1208. It’s so good to hear the truth in such a public view.
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  1209. Will somebody please just throw Johnson out! And wash your hands afterwards.
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  1210. Though your analysis might be plausible, the video is obscene. You repeat the fatal crash over and over with Hollywood like musical background. This isn’t some cheap thriller, over 100 people died a tragic death by fire. Have SOME respect for the grieving families!
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  1211. Oh how Starmer loves to play the hero, like his idol, Margaret Thatcher. Like her, an external enemy is so convenient to distract attention from the shambles at home.
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  1212. You’re rather I kind to snakes.
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  1213. Time to exit NATO, out under the thumb of Uncle Sam, evict the US bases and form a United European defence force. And, crucially, talk to Putin, come to a non-aggression agreement. As I saw very clearly when I lived in Russia, they want trade agreements with Europe. They have tried since the reign of Elizabeth 1 to have friendly relations with us but all the wars with Russia have all been provoked by western interference.
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  1214. Maybe they’ll paint it green, or put in a green centre line. How sweet! 😢😢😢
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  1215. Delaying departure isn’t going to prevent fire once the ship is loaded. It might protect the crew, but it seems to me that there needs to be research on how to extinguish Li-io fires, what safe chemicals can be used?
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  1216.  @grahamstrouse1165  more research needed. And a change to the new sodium batteries which don’t burn.
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  1217. At the end of WW2, most of the shareholders were British. Now the shareholders in English water companies (sold of by Ms Thatcher) are all foreigners. Not only does Starmer fail to understand the accounting of nationalisation, but he is simply afraid of offending foreign investors. He has always “followed the rules” like a good lawyer, never questioned them, never dared to think of an alternative.
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  1218. Trussenomics. Invest in lettuce.
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  1219. Corbyn offered a completely different alternative, but he was rubbished by the press, even the guardian. Maybe we will eventually be thankful for this catastrophic government, for showing just how corrupt they really are.
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  1220. Is it possible to retrieve the “black box” from the Verity?
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  1221. The theory is partially correct, but like all early theories, needs to be expanded.
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  1222. Lucky France, they have a history of reform, unlike Blighty-in-the-mud. George Bernard Shaw said in 1934 that the British parliamentary system was “only 300 years out of date”.
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  1223. This guy should be PM!
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  1224. The return of serfdom is coming your way soon, very soon. AI is coming to steal your job. Maybe you noticed the last PM was a Bot! Perhaps the present one is too (his chancellor obviously is).
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  1225. We have several obvious candidates for the ministry of bollocks.
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  1226. Why is this extraordinary?
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  1227. You don’t need a mind to be an MP, just the ability to recognise which lobby to enter at voting time. There are NO qualification specified for the job (?) of MP, or PM!
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  1228. Roll on the wreckers!
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  1229. Most accidents occur in the home, but you still go there. We live with some hazards, why add more?
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  1230. We have one type of gas filler, so why not a standard electronic connector - and a standard for charging electric vehicles.
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  1231. Once again, government ineptitude caused huge suffering to ordinary people while they protected their own. Never forget that it was Hitler’s diversion to the east, to Russia that lead directly to his defeat. 90% of resource and men sent to Russia never came back.
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  1232. Stopping corruption in Ukraine! 😂😂😂 That’ll really upset the political class!!
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  1233. Johnson has shot yet another rival. Under the blond haystack there is a vicious, ruthless, deranged dictator.
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  1234. Never answer the question, always blame anyone else for your own chaos, make up any old bollocks as you go along.
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  1235. No, the planet can’t support infinite population growth. We need fairer distribution of wealth to support the caring services and intelligent use of technology to relieve boring tedious work.
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  1236. @ Sure, that’s one solution. Tell Farage!
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  1237. The sound from Johnson comes from his bottom.
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  1238. The madman THINKS he runs the world. More fool those who let him.
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  1239. @ The rest of the world needs to speak/resist as one united group. Trump’s tactic is to pick them off one at a time.
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  1240. Braverman isn’t human.
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  1241. What on earth has the idiot PM of Brexistan got to do with a real war in Eastern Europe?
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  1242. It is the deliberate intention of the Tories to create insecurity in the labour market, in order to be able to suppress wages. Profit is god, it keeps Tory shareholders happy. The wider that gap between the rich (Tory shareholders) and disempowered workers helps the Tories stay in power, divide and rule.
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  1243. We are not ACCERERATING anywhere, but moving at a constant speed. If there is no gravitational force, and only curved space-time round large objects, how did these large objects form at the Big Bang, when there were no large objects?
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  1244. So once Starmer has executed Trumpism, on this arm of the state, what is he going to do for the unemployed? Sincerity it certainly not a label that sticks to Starmer.
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  1245. Don’t put your hopes in Kier Stalin. He’s just the red face of neoliberalism replacing its blue face.
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  1246. Oh happy days!
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  1247. I get the impression that American trains don’t have functioning automatic breaks which need to be pulled OFF by the engine’s vacuum system.
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  1248. The great god Maximum Profit is the lethal snake that is killing human society. And Private Equity allows the government to privatise (off-load) its responsibilities by the back door. Reeves, as a good student of neoliberal economics, is just doing what she was taught. Like Sir Kier Stalin, she lacks the courage to challenge traditional Tory orthodoxy.
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  1249. Populist? Why, why would any sane person vote for Reform? It opposes everything except clones of Farage.
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  1250. Reform is just a megaphone for Farage. His only policy is ME ME ME ME ME. If the government is “for the people” then their local priorities come before central spending on all but national security and services which must be nationally organised (power, major transport links).
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  1251. There’s not much the Brits can be proud of now. We need to cozy up to our neighbours.
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  1252. Reeves just joined the wrong party.
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  1253. The US, exactly in line with Israel regards itself as above international law. Have a look around to see just how many other almost unilaterally agreed laws and conventions the US (and Israel) refuse to sign up to … relating to human rights, the responsibilities of soldiers, atomic weapons, the use of degraded uranium … and plenty more.
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  1254. Can this idea be developed to increase the efficiency and reduce the noise of wind turbines? Would this make it possible to reduce their size without loosing power generated?
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  1255. My experience as a teacher in the UK, was that trying such innovative ideas got me into trouble. Almost universally, head teachers are obsessed with order and control. Effective education is a poor third. But Finland seems to have taken some notice, and the idea of rules by student/staff consensus rather than top down imposed was practiced by a few schools for severely disturbed children in the UK, and in Russia (Kitezh, a community of foster families).
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  1256. Of course the US government ignores public protests and continues to support the Israeli genocide (by any legal definition is IS genocide).
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  1257. What is really interesting here is that none of this was on the western news at the time. As ever, news about Russia has to be bad. Truth is what you DON’T receive.
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  1258. Democracy is an inconvenience to privatisation.
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  1259. So unlike the dead system in Britain.
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  1260. And the sooner the US accepts it doesn’t own the world and it has NO right to interfere in other countries, the sooner we can all begins to create a fairer, less exploitative world.
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  1261. Totally agree, but our government has never been set up to represent the will of the people. If Starmer does indeed expose those shortfalls, that might possible begin the process of creating a better system.
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  1262.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  You undermine your own argument in your last word.
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  1263.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  We have no political education, therefore voters have very little understanding of the consequences of their votes or of how the political system works, or how it could work differently. Tory constituencies tend to vote conservatively regardless of who is parachuted in as their candidate (as adequately demonstrated by many incompetent Conservative MPs in the last parliament) while usually members of other parties are there from conviction of their beliefs. As was demonstrated in the last election, the incumbent party was rejected (having been seen to be incompetent). Labour received less than 1/3 of the support of voters, but due to out particular antiquated electoral system, they gained most of the seats. As explained above, the situation is not simple, nor are any solutions. Alas, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power (or a huge majority) to corrupt absolutely.” (Acton didn’t seem to appreciate this comment on India is a universal truth.)
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  1264.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  Democracy may indeed be “the least worst” because it includes accountability. Since Athenian times there have been many versions of democracy. Then, only free men could vote, which meant less than 1/4 of the adult population. In Europe, many people simply voted with their feet, or their spears. Nowadays there are democratic systems of citizens assemblies which have proven to work very well. (But as they are extremely difficult to control, political leaders don’t like them.) There are several different voting systems, and different parliamentary systems. Westminster, being one of the oldest is stuck, petrified from the post English civil war era. (Scotland wasn’t and shouldn’t now be part of that system.) The UK could learn a lot from other systems, but once a leader is in power he doesn’t want to change the system that got him there. Thus “democracy” has become completely corrupted, as in the USA.
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  1265.  @Tensquaremetreworkshop  i entirely agree with your last statement. The exploding collar story is a reference to an early 2000s film set in Japan.
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  1266. That Farage is given airtime demonstrates that the BBC has lost any interest in real journalism and is now only interested in click bait.
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  1267. The US is, in reality, the evil empire.
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  1268. Please don’t qualify “unique”. Unique in 1. You can’t have “very one”, or “quite one” or “fairly one”. Unique is unique.
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  1269. The Palace of Westminster, with its parallel opposing benches, depicts exactly what Galloway describes. It is unfit for purpose. It’s time to sell it off (Disney world? A theme park? Museum?) and convert one of the many government buildings into a circular or semicircular “house of parliament” devoted to the betterment of the citizens of the country, not to the howling playground game of party and personal advancement.
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  1270. It was been US policy to try to surround and ultimately destroy Russia since at least 1945. This is well documented, the US seriously considered invading Russia after the allied defeat of the axis powers, presumably as they saw Russia as the main obstacle to US hegemony. The agreement between Gorbachev and the US President was that if Russia didn’t oppose the reunification of Germany then the U.S. (NATO) wouldn’t advance eastward, was well known but never committed to a document. That was Gorbachev’s error. WRT the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Hungry, that was during the days of the USSR, not the Russian Federation under Putin. It’s not difficult to imagine the reaction in Washington if California decided to secede. Those Baltic states suffered greatly under the USSR so it’s hardly surprising that they fled into the open arms of the west at the first opportunity. Once Putin had revived Russia, they could have easily swallowed those little Baltic states, but they didn’t. Bush planted missiles in Poland; we know how the US reacted to the possibility of nukes in Cuba. Wilson, you’ve swallowed the western propaganda, hook line and sinker.
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  1271. Truth!? That’ll destroy the government if it gets out !!
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  1272. That’s not going to happen.
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  1273. Is economics really the art of best allocating resources for the wellbeing of society as a whole? Most economists I’ve hear claim it’s a science and most … all politicians see it as one of the dark arts of decision.
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  1274. They are beautiful, the make those showery spring days so bright and cheerful.The the leaves are a delicious addition to normal “salad”. Clean the roots (old ones are often the best), chop them up and fry them with onions as a delightful addition to so many dishes.
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  1275. This should include deliberately lying to parliament and deliberately lying in political campaigns like referendums and elections. We could make a good start with Farage, who admitted lying the day after the referendum.
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  1276.  @holobolo1661 No, FPP always elevates minority views, unless there are only two candidates.
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  1277. Never underestimate how much “animals” (and birds) understand about humans (just other animals).
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  1278. Massive cock-up. I looks as if the reputation of the unit trumped child safely.
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  1279. Singapore appears to be interested in the health and well-being of its citizens; VERY unBritish and unAmerican. World leaders!
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  1280. Nodding dog Dorries? Her remarks illustrate the utter stupidity of a system where ministerial appointments bear absolutely no relationship to the actual knowledge of experience of the candidate. They are simply shuffled like pauns, but in this case, with no more intelligence than a wooden chess 😊
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  1281. So why should the indicted individual receive any preferential treatment?
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  1282. In the 1950s, the nuclear industry promised electricity so cheap it wouldn't need to be metered, and the problem of waste management would soon be resolved. 70 years on, nuclear power remains one of the most costly and the waste problem remains unresolved. Not all technologies are beneficial.
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  1283. They should never have given that word processor to the monkeys. Thank goodness paper can be recycled.
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  1284. In my experience as a woodworker, the Robertson is the better. It is slightly quicker to use and less likely to cam-out.
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  1285. As an apologist for that congenital liar, BoJo, you deserve all the derisory comments you receive. How any of the politicians involved in the unscrupulous behaviour Sachs reveals have you met? As an observer a few years older than you, I have been appalled by the behaviour of the US, which has sought to undermine Russia since at least 1945. The fact that the British sought similar world domination in the previous century is no excuse. To use a good Glaswegian expression, “Awa an’ boil yer heed!”
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  1286. Yes indeed they are courteous fighters, but now lead by a NATO puppet.
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  1287. Absolutely predictable result of privatisation. Any private company exists for profit; safety is a secondary inconvenience. In a nationalised company, efficiency should be almost the highest priority, surpassed only by safety. How the original purport was allocated to the wrong line In straight forward incompetence. The fact that no fault was found on the inspected line should have caused the inspector to consider other options - the other line? But of course that would have cost more and touched the private company profit.
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  1288. Entirely green hydrogen is not going to happen any time soon. Government, major players and the public need to pressurise industry to agree on a unified batter exchange system. It’s obviously the best solution.
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  1289. Keep it up gran!
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  1290. I suspect Russia is exporting lots of diesel to China by rail. I used to see trains of almost 100 wagons of oil when I lived there.
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  1291. The first pyjamas appeared (briefly) in England in the 17th century, rather after the Middle Ages. It took another two centuries for them to be adopted as night wear.
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  1292. 3 years ago, BoJo told Zelenskyy not to accept one. But BoJo didn’t have to fight, just blather, as usual
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  1293. @ which is no NATO, cessation of hostilities towards the Russian speaking eastern provinces and the removal of the neonazis. Territorial acquisition is not the objective. Those first two are not difficult to negotiate and the third is unachievable anywhere.
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  1294. @ With the orange in power, no agreement is worth the paper its written on.
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  1295. You have completely failed to include the extremely expensive cost of decommissioning the nuclear plant.
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  1296. Access to water is not a human right. How can it be where the natural distribution of water is so very uneven? Equitable sharing of resources including water might be considered a right.
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  1297.  @jimnickola7196  access to water and anything else is a CIVIL right, not a human right. Bring human does not bestow on us any right. Being (probably) the most intelligent animal, humans have responsibilities, not rights.
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  1298.  @francismarion6400  Humans, like all other beings, have no RIGHTS.
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  1299.  @jimnickola7196  Does a goat have a right to clean water? Does a pig or a misquote have a right to life?
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  1300.  @jimnickola7196  Of course water should not be controlled or owned by corporations, but that is the right of a citizen, a civil right. Animals, birds, insects, reptiles, fish, have no “rights” by virtue of their being; nor do humans.
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  1301.  @jimnickola7196  While I fundamentally disagree with the theft of water by corporations or anyone else taking more than their needs, it remains an inalienable fact that there are no such things as Human Rights or Animal Rights, simply by virtue of being. If we humans attend to out responsibilities, the issue of Rights disappears. In the Christian Bible, “man has dominion over the animals.” But in the Muslim Quran, “man has responsibility for the animals.”
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  1302. Moreover US, BRICS is coming whether you like it or not. The dollar will soon be just one of several international trading currencies.
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  1303. Absolutely right. Corbyn is a true “man of the people”. Starmer is just a Tory wearing a red rosette.
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  1304. To m
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  1305. Well said, Dempsey, it’s about time it was spelt out so clearly.
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  1306. I know you’re right, from personal experience.
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  1307. Neutrality for Ukraine, guaranteed by both sides. No NATO troops and weapons, and no Russian troops or weapons in Ukraine. Peace.
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  1308. How about the many new options for energy storage? Surely if Ireland has so much wind energy, it’s domestic electricity price should be amongst the cheapest.
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  1309. Reeves & Starmer are just alternative neoliberal Tories.
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  1310. Yes, of course, but clear warning signs were ignored. If the operator of the ship hadn’t ignored those, there would have been no catastrophe, and they could have sued the port authority for poor quality fuel. The ship’s operator remains primarily responsible.
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  1311. Don’t underestimate the Tories dirty tricks department, they are determined to break the strikes and crush the working class. We ALL need to support those brave strikers; they do it for all of us!
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  1312.  @Lea_Kaderova  Меня изгнала коллега, когда я обнаружил, что она ничего хорошего не задумала.
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  1313. For what? Killing ourselves faster? If malicious Aliens arrive, you can be absolutely certain they will outgun us. They haven’t probably because the human race hasn’t yet learned just how utterly stupid war is.
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  1314. The unionist arguments are all out of the Tory playbook. Brexit is what has reignited independence, along the utterly crass corrupt Tory Westminster administration. A federation of Britain might work, but it requires MUTUAL RESPECT, not domination by the big guy.
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  1315. Oh the wonders of Privatisation, it takes all the responsibility out of the government … and dumps it.
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  1316. She’s a bonkers nut case who screeches rubbish.
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  1317. Thus we see very clealy that the dollar as the universal curancy is the problem. Asia needs to get free of the dollar domination, and create its wn currency. The dollar has become a doom monster.
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  1318. Labour is now more Tory than the Tories.
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  1319. This bill is an attempt to abolish democracy in this country. If parliament, in which the representatives of the citizens are supposed to govern the country, enact or reject laws, is bypassed, it has no function, there is no DEMOcracy, the people have no say. This bill is a direct statement of dictatorship. If passed, the UK will be a dictatorship, like Russia, where “Democracy” is simply a pretence.
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  1320. Great stuff, Matt. Keep going!
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  1321. The Tories chose him, THEY are responsible for that lying b*****d. He's not "running" the country, he's ruining it.
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  1322. Good one. I like the clear explanations.
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  1323. If you and your partner can change and develop and accept each other, you are very fortunate. But sometimes that doesn’t happen. Remember, you used to love the other, release without any blame. Your paths have diverged, that’s all.
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  1324. What a bunch of lying turds.
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  1325. Badenoch and the Tories will say ANYTHING they think will get a few more votes. Nothing else matters. Truth? Johnson binned that 15 years ago.
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  1326. 50 years when I read economics, we had the collapse of the Phillips Curve in spite of the myths of rational decisions, free markets, full knowledge e.t.c. It seems to me that professional economists are slow learners, or just prefer theoretical fairies.
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  1327. He’s Sir Kier Stalin.
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  1328. This is the carrot for change towards solving the plastic waste problem. Now we need the stick, as in Maine, to push out the recalcitrant packagers.
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  1329. What is expected to be the result of marine life setting up home on the underside of these panels?
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  1330. For gods sake, dump him!
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  1331. Absolutely fabulous! ❤
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  1332. The problem is not the Tory failure to stop the boats, accommodate the immigrants or process the. The problem is the insane policy of excluding the foreign workers the country needs.
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  1333. She certainly is a beautiful dancer but don’t tell me what will “amaze” me.
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  1334. Poor Zelenskyy utterly unprepared for politics. The solution is simple. If Zelenskyy talks directly with Putin and agrees to neutrality the war can quickly end.
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  1335. Rowing boats transport? Come on, you can do better than that. Just use a few bottles in the ocean; maybe a net of bottles holding up a container.
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  1336. @ quite true, which shows that a great many of the colonists oppose this bill.
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  1337. Of course this didn’t change everything, it might change something.
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  1338. Israel’s usual revenge is to kill 10 to 100 Palestinians for every Israeli. Biden of course stands clearly behind Israel, after all Palastinians aren’t Americans, and don’t have massive financial interests in the US. Sunack no doubt has friends in Israel.
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  1339. While I understand the reliance on coal, I hope you will soon be able to use your highly advanced nuclear systems, instead of dirty coal. Of course this will employ fewer workers, but mining is not a pleasant job. We all need to adapt to change. Теплые сердца русского народа останутся такими, какими бы ни были теплые дома.
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  1340. Of course not. It was never set up to do so. It’s designed to draw money from the poor to the wealthy.
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  1341. Minimum service levels require a descent, inflation proofed level of pay, but the Tories want to go back to the good old days of slave labour.
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  1342.  @Isclachau  How odd! He throws our anyone who could possibly be called “left” or (god forbid) Socialist and adopts Tory policies just a Blair did after Thatcher. That doesn’t loose to sane people like “far left”. My maybe you have a unique view, please share it.
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  1343. Relying on governments anywhere is a waste of time. Politics the world over is corrupt and controlled by money. The only solutions are through local action.
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  1344. Why did he wait so long to make such a warning? He will of course be ignored, the election of Trump is just one demonstration that it’s too late, much too late! The media repeats and repeats the story of Russia’s illegal brutal invasion of Ukraine, completely ignoring the fact that NATO deliberately provoked Russia - in order to win the media over and in the vain hope of destabilising Russia by crushing its smaller economy. No American boots on the ground, Ukraine is just collateral damage. And of course there’s all that lithium in Ukraine! America isn’t a democracy, just an oligarch in democratic clothing.
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  1345. Mick, we’re behind you, we know who tells the truth, Johnson taught us well.
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  1346. These problems were 100% predictable, an act of utter stupidity. Tyres? Out of sight, out of mind.
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  1347. He sounds neatly as dishonest as the Tories.
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  1348. It shows we know very little about those builders and their view of the world.
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