Comments by "" (@stevec6427) on "The Times and The Sunday Times" channel.

  1. No elections have been cancelled. Some have been postponed due to council mergers, some due to a lack of candidates and some at the request of ill prepared councils on the verge of bankruptcy. Several requested postponements but Raynor rejected them.
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  2. It's a few years late for that. Work started nearly a decade ago
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  3. Well technically oil is regenerative but at an incredibly slow rate. The oil that exists now is all pre-ice age the problem is that there's a 2.4 million year gap when the earth was covered in ice and no organic matter was decomposed down to make more oil and it's not been all that long since the last ice age. Give it another couple million years and new oil fields will be formed
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  4. Why do the tories put all their efforts in to attacking Labour while their voters are deserting them for Reform? Are they a bit thick?
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  5.  @readmore7180  There is money but it's being directed to the wrong places. For the last year, while oil companies made enormous profits from absolutely fleecing us, they received £10bn in subsidies from the tax payer. Following the announcement that HS2 was being cancelled, they continued to complete the purchase of two huge plots of land. Late last year, Sunak made the decision that between £50bn & £80bn of fraudulently claimed furlough will be written off (labour will be setting up a taskforce to recover this)). Every year we pay billions to rail companies to subsidise their shareholder dividends because they aren't competent enough to make a profit. All of that money could be re-directed in to public services
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  6. Is there anyone in the US who doesn't have classified documents? Seriously, the country is a mess and has been for decades
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  7. She's also thick as mince
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  8. If we wanted the best then why did we vote for Boris?
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  9.  @OneTrueScotsman  Go and read their policies published on their website rather than the rather manipulated versions that our politically biased press gives us. There are some significant differences. Never forget that the UK press is all biased one way or the other
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  10. £33k average for a skilled profession which requires a degree qualification is absolute crap. It's hardly surprising the NHS has such a staff retention and recruitment problem. All working class people in this country are being screwed. For the last 12 years, average incomes have failed to keep up with inflation while business profits have exceeded inflation, that suggests we're all being screwed. If the average person had money to spend then this countries economy wouldn't be in such a dire state. This government prioritises getting more money to shareholders at the expense of people who actually work for a living.
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  11. Count Binface has more chance of being PM after the election than Sunak
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  12. Starmer didn't go to a private school, nor did most of the Labour party
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  13.  @jenniferlaughlin47  Not all of the conservative cabinet were privately educated, Mordant wasn't
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  14.  @jaipennycuick7993  The national debt has increased at several times the rate of inflation since the tories took power, the defecit is larger than ever. The countries credit rating is lower. We slipped from our place as fourth biggest economy in the world. NHS waiting times were much lower. We had more police and NHS staff per capita. Net migration was half what it is now. Taxes on the working classes are far higher now than they were under Labour, we paid less taxes and got more in return. I will not defend the wars but I will point out that a higher percentage of tory MP's voted to go to war, quite a large percentage of Labour MP's including Starmer voted against the war. I certainly remember the country under Labour compared to now so I will be voting Lib Dem because they are the party in my constituency who can beat the tories and get Labour in power again.
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  15. I went to Glastonbury at least a dozen times. In all that time, the only main stage headliner I watched was Blur (what a disappointment). There are over a hundred stages and the smaller stages are always much better to watch at.
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  16. Considering several of the leading brexiteers incuding Farage, Johnson, Sunak, Gove and many others are in favour of a US style insurance system I think it's fair to say the NHS is never going to see that money and they never intended it to
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  17. Absolutely and there's nothing wrong with it. Now why couldn't Sunak admit to it in that interview a few days ago. Have your private healthcare but make sure the NHS works for the working classes
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  18. We don't choose PM's. We only vote for our local MP and then the party chooses their leader. The leader of the party with most MP's is then prime minister. We don't have a president who we directly vote for. In Sunak's case though, the party members weren't allowed a vote either and he was selected only by MP's. Similarly, Reform have no members and they also have no published method for selecting a leader.
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  19.  @mogznwaz  Well they aren't so far are they?
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  20. Oil companies aren't "just recovering" from anything. They've been making their biggest ever profits from absolutely fleecing us
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  21. It's the job of the leader of the opposition to question and hold to account the PM. The opposition have no power to actually change anything
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  22. R is for Reform. R is for rectal infection
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  23. The tree hugging hippies haven't been there for a couple decades now. It's all very middle class these days
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  24.  @doreenbates  We are not in a dictatorship, politicians cannot dictate to us
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  25. The RNLI isn't government run, it's an independent charity and they rescue anyone in trouble. It's up to border agents what happens to them once they are rescued. Tax rises are nothing to do with migrants. The amount that the tories threw at their mates during covid equates to 57 times the cost of migrants. If they reopened the Calais asylum center then they wouldn't have to accommodate anyone. You've got Boris Johnson to blame for this mess. Bear in mind also that while raising your taxes, the tories managed to find money to lower taxes for the richest and give £10bn to oil companies in subsidies while they made their biggest ever profits
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  26.  @oldarchillies163  I think that's going to change. It's become obvious that the US is longer an ally. Them having the ability to switch off or control software in weapons systems is now very risky
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  27. Israel has a right to exist, as does Palestine
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  28. What has she actually done? She's just all hot air
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  29. Only one party has been in power and destroying this country for the last 14 years
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  30. That will destroy the US arms industry (no one will buy from them if they are not an ally) and remove the US's ability to block anyone joining NATO
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  31. The media make their money from advertising. That's hardly a secret
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  32. Why? Their entire economy is supported by it, if they give it to the US, they're screwed
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  33. The party are very definitely against joining the US. Pretty much their entire campaign was about not joining the US
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  34.  @Sniffles69  All those opportunities like losing their healthcare?
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  35. But the only other party to promise to scrap net zero is Reform and in the two seats they stood candidates in last wek, Reform got 2% and 4% of the votes. I'm not sure it's a big vote winner scrapping it
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  36. True but what else can they do? Just roll over and take it? They have to respond
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  37.  @caitlinpreece9811  Net zero doesn't mean that though does it? It just means balancing CO2 emissions with methods of reducing CO2 such as planting trees. No one is stopping the natural process of CO2 emission
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  38.  @jacobcohen9205  They have done several times. This is prime ministers questions. The opposition are only allowed to ask questions, they are not allowed to propose alternatives. They have published a full set of policies on their website and launched them at their party conference
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  39.  @Y.JFavello  Ukraine weren't just fighting their own war, they were being used by countries including the US to fight a proxy war
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  40. Unfortunately it's not physically possible at present. There's no route to get oil and gas to Atlantic coast ports. The UK doesn't use enough oil and gas to make it worth constructing the required infrastructure
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  41. There's plenty who would do it without pay
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  42. You'll be pleased to hear that Labour will be writing this in to law along with a specific law against defrauding the public purse
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  43. The CPS didn't prosecute postmasters. The post office for some reason had the power of prosecution
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  44. All of them declared and put in to the party accounts. I'd rather that than tories working as "consultants" in big oil companies and healthcare companies for several times that amount
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  45.  @davidsmith5523  What it means is some people are too thick to understand that some people can have a bit of money and still want better conditions for the working classes. They would rather vote for tories who routinely and openly screw the poor
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  46. Because there is no regulation for builders to include them. They don't add profit so they won't do it
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  47. Go and read some history. Guy Fawkes did not have the good of the British people in mind when he tried to blow up parliament. His intention was to transfer the power to the Catholic church
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  48. Under the tories, more than half of families are on benefits because wages have dropped so low. Maybe a party who will fight for better wages could cut the benefits bill by making employers pay a proper wage
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  49.  @mn5499  Supply and demand. The NHS has problems with recruitment and retention of staff. That suggests they need to pay more. Agency nurses earn a lot more. Thats why so many nurses leave for agency work or to work abroad, they can have a better standard of living and who wouldn't want that? The industry I work in had a skills shortage so wages rose fairly drastically, now recruitment isn't a problem
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  50.  @Themistocles30  Tory??? Piss off. I'm definitely no fan of this government. At the moment I would vote Labour
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