Comments by "" (@stevec6427) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. Reform need to be very cautious about being too close to Trump/Musk. If thing's go badly in the US, it'll take down Reform as well.
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  2. It applies to England and Wales
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  3. I was going to do route 66 by motorbike this year. I'm now going nowhere near the US. It'll be a big tour of Europe instead
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  4. According to the brexity inclined over here, Italy and Holland will be leaving the EU any day. They also believe that the EU will face economic collapse any day.
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  5.  @tomthomassony8607  where I work there are lessons learnt meetings at the end of each project. In 6 years, I have not once seen the lessons learnt from a single project I wasn't involved with.
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  6. Less seats than a bicycle
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  7. Thatcher introduced the first environmental taxes and several bans on substances hazardous to health and the environment. Farage is very against all that.
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  8. ​@johnrussell3961 anyone who isn't angry, isn't paying attention.
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  9. At least his culture war has temporarily gone away
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  10. No tory government is definitely a good thing but what we do need is a sensible and effective opposition to keep a reasonable balance.
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  11. ​@johnowen1677 like it or not, he is our pm.
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  12. ​@takenoprisoners-u3x listen to what he actually says. He said he has no intention to reverse brexit during this government and he's right to say that. We need to prove to the EU that there is solid public support to rejoin so they're satisfied we won't leave again a few years later. It's going to take a decade or more before we can rejoin. It's not just our decision, the EU need to be satisfied as well.
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  13. ​@franksmith6637 a military dictatorship is not socialism
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  14. ​@Paul-je7bo we'd not be happy about it but no one cared when energy bills doubled at the start of the Ukraine invasion. In fact, it was the people complaining about this who told us to stop complaining and work harder. So there's your answer, if you can't afford the extra 20% then work harder. Private schools are very profitable businesses, they could absorb some of the fee rise.
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  15. I had a look at Reforms website to see what their policies are and they have none. The policy page is blank. I think you're right, they exist to control the tories rather than compete with them.
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  16. I'm a heavily tattooed man who has stated on social media what I think of Trump. I'm going nowhere near the US. That's disappointing, I've been planning a motorbike trip up the west coast for years.
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  17. I don't understand why they're doing nothing about this crisis. Surely by making the majority suffer they are killing their chances of winning the next election
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  18. It's all Labour's fault
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  19.  @johngaskell1467  Is that a job for the EU? Each member state is responsible for security of it's own borders. The EU only allows free movement of EU citizens within the EU. Illegal immigration is illegal, border police of each country needs to deal with it. The EU is doing nothing to enable illegal migration or prevent states fighting it.
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  20. I don't work hard at all, I'll be honest about that. Despite that I have been promoted multiple times by proving my competence, that's where I differ to the tory party
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  21. I'm in a position where I managed to get an Italian passport so I can still travel easily. There are some hardcore brexiters who want this banned despite the fact it effects them in no way at all.
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  22.  @sososoprano1  None of the British newspapers could be considered a reliable source. Most are foreign owned, all are politically biased one way or the other. So about that source? Where is it?
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  23. It's not much different in the South West. There's nothing down here except second homes.
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  24. ​@erushbass8326 how about wage growth UK vs EU? The UK is falling far behind the EU and that's something we feel far more than GDP
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  25. If you want a laugh, check out the tory Facebook page comments. They're in complete meltdown, half of them are furious that brown person is in the final two. Then seeing the weird logic they use when someone points out that Boris is an immigrant while Sunak was born here gets plain odd.
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  26.  @raisagorbachov  You could never get a job in Britain? Why not? I've had several in Britain, always found it fairly easy to get at least something here
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  27. I would like to see a sane tory party to provide an effective opposition. I don't like either side to have a huge majority. We need some balance
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  28. The daft thing is that if he'd told the truth when the parties were first reported and admitted they happened and he was there this would all be forgotten about by now. It's his lies that have got it this far, it's just a gift for the opposition, he's giving them the ammunition to use against him.
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  29. Sounds like Halfords. They pay minimum wage and contracted hours are really low plus they give the legal minimum holiday etc and then complain that they can't get good, reliable, motivated staff. My employer pays above average, gives good benefits and a nice working environment and has no problem recruiting staff from professions with skills shortages.
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  30. I went on a tour of a sewage works and the manager from the water company said "the effluent from this new, high tech plant is so clean you could drink it" everyone in the tour groups said go on then. When he said there were no cups to drink from someone pointed him at the canteen 20 metres away he just mumbled and moved on.
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  31.  @elliotwilliams7421  I did my apprenticeship while Labour were in charge. It was a scheme they started and was scrapped by the tories. Once that was scrapped, apprenticeships in engineering were cut from 5 years to 2 years making them effectively pointless
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  32. You've crossed a line with pineapple on pizzas
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  33.  @DavidMoxham957  For a fixed penalty fine, the police are Judge Judy and Executioner though
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  34. I voted tory in 2010. It was a vote against Labour at the time. I deeply regret it.
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  35. Apparently the real reason we're recovering slower than Europe is that the EU is punishing us. I thought they said the EU would collapse after we left so how would they have the power to punish us?
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  36. ​@anglonorse2943 if that's true then why are the tories constantly attacking Labour but won't say a bad word about Reform?
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  37. The right wing media are claiming that Starmer and Labour's popularity ratings have crashed which makes no sense considering they've so far done exactly what they said they would
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  38. Labour had a true socialist leader and got destroyed in an election. The choice we have now is Starmer led Labour or Tories. We have a choice of two so which do you dislike least? Elections are always a choice of the lesser of two evils.
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  39. If that does happen, some of them would be replaced with Reform MPs and I'm not sure that's better
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  40. ​@j.4332 if you want free speech without consequences, consider that it would also apply to radical preachers. Do you want them grooming their followers to go out and kill people? No of course you don't. Free speech cannot be free from consequences.
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  41. All this talk of global problems will alienate the flat earth society from the tories.
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  42. You're not allowed to call them far right, they get all upset. Apparently far right doesn't exist but Labour are extreme far left
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  43. I went to a rather poor school, left with limited gcse's at 16 but managed to get an apprenticeship which then allowed me to eventually become a senior level engineer. Those apprenticeships don't exist anymore, an engineering apprenticeship has been reduced from 5 years to 2 years. Even with that 5 year apprenticeship that is no longer available, I could have got my current job a decade earlier with a degree. Poor education definitely holds back the working classes. I've worked with a few people who had very expensive educations and they definitely wouldn't have got their jobs based on their actual ability.
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  44. The Queen swears in Truss as PM and dies the next day. That's no coincidence, she didn't want to hang around for the incoming disaster
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  45. Still the tory supporters are just going with the line "but Labour would be worse". At this point, I'm not sure that would be possible.
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  46. All over the place like a metronome? A device used by musicians to reliably keep steady time? In what way is a metronome "all over the place"?
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  47. I would apply fees depending on how much we need skills. Engineers for example are in very short supply and high demand so I'd apply low fees. Interpretive dance on the other hand is not an in demand skill so I'd apply the top rate to that.
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  48. A friend of mine is the same. He accepts the tories have royally screwed the country, admits Labour will probably do better but will still vote tory because he always has
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  49. But he's a multimillionaire ex banker offshore tax avoiding man of the people wanting nothing more than the best interests of the common man.
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  50. JD Vance has already had a tantrum about this. Apparently its an attack against American security for Europe to not buy American weapons.
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