Comments by "" (@stevec6427) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. He was our local MP. He did nothing for the constituency, didn't show up for clinics and became very unpopular. It's hardly surprising he's gone
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  2. Cutting inflation does not mean prices fall, it means they rise at a slower rate.
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  3. Hold on. What happened to all the money we'd gain due to Brexit? Surely Britain should be in great shape with that?
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  4. Or whether Americans want to pay for it
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  5. Here's a radical idea. How about putting some effort in to getting the NHS working again so sick people can get treated and get healthy enough to work rather than just forcing sick people to work.
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  6. The vaccine reduces cases where symptoms are present. No coughing means much lower risk of transmission
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  7.  @Surfer-727  What countries has the US out survived? It's a relatively young country. My house is older than the US
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  8. If we let them win again then we're effectively telling them that we're fine with them raising our taxes, giving billions to their mate and destroying our public services while giving (not selling) them to their donors to operate at profit. I'm not fine with that.
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  9. Interesting that their minimum salary threshold for skilled workers is higher than the salary for most nurses, junior doctors and teachers. I think that says a lot
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  10. If it was poor people on board, they'd have given up before they started
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  11. The ironic thing is Farage wants LESS regulation on banks. That means he would be opposed to telling banks who they can and can't do business with.
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  12. As long as there's racism, there will be support for BLM. If people stop being racist, BLM become irrelevant
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  13.  @Phylicity  Over 90% of people on benefits have a job. Benefits are basically subsidising low wages in this country
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  14. It reduces cases where symptoms are present. No coughing means significantly less transmission
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  15. Lots of people have been saying it. The opposition have said it a lot. Unfortunately, no one who can sack him has said it
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  16. It was predicted in the 90's to be 1.5 degrees by 2030. Nothing has moved
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  17. Not just a failure to sack him, Boris defended him
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  18.  @foxon172  No, there are definitely some good politicians with morals and standards. They are generally kept on the back benches out of the way
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  19. It's generally been pretty accurate. Which prediction was wrong so far? Be aware, there's a lot of false claims about predictions made. I read an article recently claiming that scientists in the 90's predicted sea levels would rise 10 metres by 2025, so I wen't back and found predictions from that era and they predicted 200mm. The actual rise has been 180mm so thats not far off
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  20. Maybe if the tories had built some new prisons we wouldn't be in this mess.
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  21.  @taffyterrier  Go and look up junior doctors salary. They are a long, long way from even moderately wealthy let alone super rich. £35000 is pretty crappy after spending £70k on education to get there
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  22. This is only going to make the shortages of staff even worse. Even more will be leaving and even more will be put off joining the profession
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  23. We don't need more houses, we need something to stop landlords buying everything suitable as starter homes before they're even advertised. There are a group of landlords working with estate agents in our town to make sure they get every 2 bedroom home before it's advertised for sale. Then they put it up for rent for £1500 per month
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  24. And she's a great man
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  25. Super power? When did the United States last win a war? They've even lost the war on drugs
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  26. Just out of curiosity I googled Infosys and nuclear power. That answered the question for me
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  27.  @crappymeal  No they aren't
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  28. He's a great bloke
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  29. Why don't the unionists take advantage of the fact that NI now has this unique trading position, one of the best in the world and use that as an arguement against reunification? In NI reunifies with ROI then they lose the free access to the UK market which they now have as well as free access to the EU single market. NI is the only country in the world with this dual access, take it as a win.
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  30. I absolutely guarantee that that £36bn will only ever be used to fund tax cuts for the rich
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  31. Judging by the comments, that's all anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and the occasional religious nut who blames everything on Satanists
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  32. Do parents need to go to work every day to survive? Yes. School 5 days a week is essential for more than just education
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  33. Of course he stokes divisions, that's exactly what ALL politicians do all the time
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  34.  @KaleemAkbar786  Because that doesn't happen to Tory MP's. Look at how many were arrested over fraudulent expenses claims?
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  35. Neither did Trump. He's equally responsible since he initiated the withdrawl. Trump should have never started it, Biden should have stopped it
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  36. Why? Students families can only get a visa. They can't claim permanent residency, they can't claim any benefits or support, they don't cost us anything so what's the issue? It's foreign students who keep our universities open, they pay far more than British students. Once our universities are gone, where do we train the next generation of engineers, architects, scientists, lawyers etc, etc? Britain was built by great engineers and those who design and create tech & structures can only get their knowledge of science and maths at university.
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  37. Pumping billions of tonnes of gasses in to the atmosphere each year cannot come without consequence. Even if climate change isn't real, breathing cleaner air and drinking cleaner water has to be better for all of us.
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  38.  @jamesrobert102  It's done by an "independent" body with a head selected by the government so not independent at all
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  39. But since then, Sunak has promised transparency and has delivered exactly that, we can all see right though him
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  40. Labour left a programme in place to replace all of these schools and a substantial amount of money. If that programme had continued then this wouldn't be happening. So yes, it is a tory problem. No one can instantly fix it because it's too widespread and will take time to engage contractors, plan how to fix each case and then get workers in to do it. We have quite a shortage of construction workers which is not going to help
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  41. No they aren't. They are complaining about being forced to accept a contract which gives them worse hours, conditions and benefits. It's the lower paid staff who are pushing for a rise and good luck to them
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  42.  @abim3365  No, the money goes to keeping our universities open and keeping fees down for British students and funding research and facilities
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  43. I'm in Somerton so I'll be voting today. The tories aren't even trying here. I've met canvassers from every party except the conservatives. I've also had leaflets through the door from every party except the tories. I've seen all except the tories campaigning in the town center and on local tv. They won by 20,000 in the last election, you'd think they'd make an effort to keep it since this is probably the one they have the best chance of winning. I'm starting to wonder whether they know there's a byelection today.
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  44. Junior doctors are not highly paid. GP's and consultants are highly paid, the rest are barely above average salary having spent £70k on student debt to get there
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  45.  @captricharddee3634  That's not going to happen as long as Labour have a huge majority. Snap elections are only ever called when a government can't get policies through parliament and that's not going to be an issue for Labour
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  46. I couldn't believe the frequency of services in France. Most of them are municiple run services with the essentials but it works
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  47.  @katarzynaidzikowska5359  Why would surgeons wear them if they don't prevent the spread of virus? To look cool?
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  48. Because this has become a low wage economy. Something the tories have aided by backing the employers in every single wage dispute
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  49. I often refer to adjusting my gentleman parts as a cabinet reshuffle and to be honest that is probably more beneficial to the country than Sunak's cabinet reshuffle
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  50. No, it should be illegal. They already have a full time job which they are very well paid for
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  51.  @shaunnickalls453  Different reasons in the UK to most other countries. Here it's mainly about new terrible trade deals that allow foreign imports to undercut British produce by allowing food that is produced to lower standards. Also, they were promised that all EU subsidies would be paid by the UK government after brexit but they weren't. On top of that, our main export market for food was the EU and that's dead now. And then there's the new veterinary checks introduced by the government which are really expensive and there's not enough vets to do them
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  52. No but he was by far the worst
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  53. A lot of conservative voters are more likely to switch to lib dem than labour but a lot of life long conservative voters just stayed at home
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  54.  @fabio8738  They are striking for better pay and working conditions. Those are also the reason for the staff shortages in the NHS. Since 2021 40,000 nurses left the NHS. They need to improve pay and conditions to retain existing staff and attract new staff. The strikes are trying to help the situation
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  55. I'd say Nadine Dorries has said farm more stupid things than Abbot
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  56. Yet when Starmer said he should be fired, everyone jumped on him like he was being unreasonable
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  57. Why should the tax payer pay to protect a tax haven?
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  58. They eliminated the 2yr wait by letting everyone on it die
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  59. Private bank as in a bank for private customers as opposed to business customers
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  60. Working until 75 is just unrealistic. People in physical jobs just won't have the strength and fitness to keep up and those of us in technical jobs will lose our problem solving skills as the brain naturally deteriorates in old age. My father intended to keep working and realised he wasn't able to do his job properly once he was 68 so fully retired
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  61. And the Portuguese rail network is nationalised
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  62. Why would they come to England when Germany & France both give them higher benefits payments?
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  63. It's overseas students who keep British universities open. They pay far more than British students. Putting them off coming here to study means we will lose universities and then we will have nowhere for our future engineers, scientists, teachers, etc, etc to study and Britain will fall even further behind the rest of the world. Family members can only come here on a visa, they aren't entitled to permanent residency, they can't claim any sort of support at all so I don't see the problem.
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  64. They're using the standard politician tactic following any mistake. Deflect attention from their own failings and hope everyone forgets.
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  65.  @T5Zplayer  Did they not? What about when they allowed pensions to fall well behind inflation? Or how they allowed energy bills in Britain to become the highest in the world last year without giving any extra help to pensioners? Or how about their cuts to sickness and disability benefits which many not specifically hurt pensioners but hit the most vulnerable. Tories also continually supported the erosion of workers pay and despite giving several tax cuts, not a single one was for the working classes. I'm not defending Labour but lets not pretend that the tories are better
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  66.  @taffyterrier  Since when is £35k a kings ransom? That's a pretty cheap king
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  67. It's not the majority of water companies that are foreign owned, it's all of them. I've worked in the water industry for a couple decades and everything is about saving money and balancing fines against the cost of fixing things. We don't have the dirtiest rivers and lakes in Europe though, our waterways are actually some of the cleanest in Europe. I've done some work across Europe over the years and some countries such as Spain, Greece and Portugal treat their sewerage far less than in the UK
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  68. I think there are very few Farage supporters who have the £1m minimum balance or £3m savings required to open a Coutts account.
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  69. If only there were a NI government they could negotiate with...
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  70. He did say he was going to do this before the last mayoral election so effectively Londoners have had a vote on it. It mostly seems to be people who never go anywhere near London who are complaining about it. One of my work colleagues is always going on about it so I asked him how often he goes there and he said "why would I want to visit that dump? I went there once in the 80's and didn't like it" so he's getting all worked up about something that will never effect him. It's weird. Personally, I don't go there often and if I did I wouldn't drive anyway
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  71. Aid is nearly all paid on condition of natural resources or trade etc in return. It's never just given away
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  72. None of the things he has been saying would be in the budget actually happened. It's now clear that he just made it all up. Also the OBR report in to it said the opposite to what he's been saying
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  73.  @cw8867  The difference is that MP wages have kept up with inflation and not fallen 35% behind over the last 13 years
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  74. Maybe it would have helped if Boris hadn't closed down the pandemic response team despite previously acknowledging that a pandemic would be the biggest threat to the UK
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  75. Yes, aliens would fly millions of light years and just go to New Jersey
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  76. Maybe it makes him feel comfortable. Who cares what other people do?
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  77. This is from a woman in a public sector job which has had above inflation rises for the last 12 years while all other public sector workers have had below inflation or nothing.
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  78. I should imagine that 95% of the British public could not care less either way about Harry attending his father's coronation. That same 95% would probably be rather unhappy to see Andrew there
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  79. I'd like to see the money in public services go to providing those services rather than syphoned off to shareholders of private companies
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  80. The problem there is much of what's labelled as British isn't. For example if chicken is imported from Kazakhstan then turned in to chicken nuggets in a factory in Britain it can then be labelled as British. Most people seeing that union flag logo on the packaging would then think it was a British chicken, raised, butchered and processed in Britain but it's not.
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  81.  @Grace2HelpInTmeOfNeedEvenIjits  No one has ever used that hand signal as a gesture of "giving their heart"
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  82. They do. Thats the reason why doctors and nurses are unable to work part time to help pay for living costs while studying which prevents a lot of people going in to these careers. I'd have never been able to do my degree if I couldn't do my part time job to pay for food, busses etc
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  83. He must be confused, a German GP earns around 200k to 250k euros. There are British doctors going to Germany. Also, seems very unprofessional for a GP to discuss this with a patient so I'm guessing this conversation never happened
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  84. People opposing racism is stupid?
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  85. £10bn paid in subsidies to the incredibly profitable oil and gas producers by the British tax payer and what do we get in return? The highest energy prices in the world
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  86. Those people should be striking for better pay. We're all getting screwed. Britain has the lowest average salaries of any of the top 10 major economies and apparently we're the 5th biggest. Instead of suggesting people should be brought down to the lowest pay level, fight to get your pay raised.
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  87. They also decided against recovering the £8bn for faulty PPE and the £38bn for the test and trace app that didn't work and a potential £4bn in furlough fraud
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  88.  @monsterjazzlicks  No, she's stood by his money
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  89. There isn't. A quick google brought up articles from Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, The Sun, The Daily Mail and I can't be bothered to list the rest. Why is it every time someone on here says the media is hiding something from us I can usually find loads of reports on that subject? Just because it's not trending on youtube doesn't mean it's being hidden. A protest in France hardly generates much interest because there's always protests about something in France, it's their national sport
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  90. Restored suggest he once had credibility
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  91. Instead of arguing against them getting a decent pay rise, we should be arguing for all of us to get one as well
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  92. He's made zero progress on a single one of his pledges Inflation is not falling Channel crossings only fell during the time when there were storms in the channel and they couldn't cross The national debt is still rising NHS waiting lists are still growing The economy is not growing despite the fact that inflation should increase GDP by default
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  93. Nothing to do with a decade and a half of austerity?
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  94. There's certainly no arguing that he's elderly. Time for the US to introduce an age limit of 65 on the president
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  95. I'm sure teachers forcing pupils in to their cars could never end badly....
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  96. In every single EU country, students can get get visas for immediate family. Same in the US where I did my masters
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  97. We subsidised a hell of a lot under the tories. Remember when we got absolutely fleeced as the oil companies made eye watering profits last year? Well we gave them £10bn in subsidies as they ripped us off. We subsidised investment banks and foreign property developers and got nothing in return. At least when labour spend, we get infrastructure or public services or people get paid more and return it to the economy through spending and tax. I'm happy with what Labour are doing except the winter fuel allowance, they handled that very badly
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  98. I don't mind taxes if they go to public services but they dont, they go to corporate subsidies and the profits of tory mates
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  99.  @taffyterrier  Australia pays a decent wage which is why all our doctors and nurses are headed there
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  100. This is entirely my fault. I bought a new motorbike. Obviously this would only cause months of rain and wind to prevent me riding it
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  101. The country of registration is nothing to do with the ship owners nationality, it's just the country that offers the most favorable tax arrangements for that particular vessel
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  102. I love a roast dinner and fish & chips but British food is made so much better by the contributions of India and the Caribbean. There's nothing quite like curry goat
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  103. Thats because the tories don't care about low and middle classes. They have only ever been the party of low taxes for the rich. Labour traditionally are the party of lower taxes for the average person
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  104. Flights are operating at reduced capactity so they're not crammed
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  105. Well where are the British workers to do the jobs?
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  106.  @Gencturk92  Canada and Russia are better prepared for cold winters than the UK, their houses are built differently to ours. If our were like theirs they'd be unbearable in summer
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  107. Only a tiny percentage of EU countries laws are forced by the EU. Just look at the differences is laws across the EU and that's pretty obvious. Speed limits are one example. Taxes are another. Non EU customs are another. Criminal laws are another. The differences in laws across the EU are so easy to find
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  108. I did an apprenticeship back in the late 90's. Back then, we had 5 years with day release to a technical college plus a training agent to assess on the job qualifications. It was heavily subsidised by the government. Now all the subsidies are gone, the technical colleges are mostly gone and the training agents are gone. All of it scrapped by the tories to save money. What they forgot is that those of us who did an apprenticeship went on to well paid jobs so we repaid all that money and more on to through our taxes and very few of us ever claimed any benefits. Training and education is an investment, not a cost
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  109. Who'd have thought it, conservatives just out to make themselves rich. I mean who could have predicted that? It's just unbelievable.
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  110. After the 2008 crash, countries which implimented austerity recovered slower than those which didn't. It's been proven that investing in infrastructure is a positive way to help an economy recover. It creates well paid, lower skilled jobs and gets billions moving around the economy within the construction industry which then expands out to manufacturing and the whole economy
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  111.  @mikechapman8896  A junior doctors salary is £35k. That's a very, very long way from rich
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  112. It's not our governments choice to introduce vaccine passports. Other countries are requiring them so the British government have to introduce something or no British people can visit those countries. don't want a vaccine passport? Don't visit those countries that require one and stop whining about it like a spoilt teenager.
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  113. There's a lot more flights now, proportionally there are less crashes
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  114. @Dale Benton No they didn't work for it, Sunak, Patel and Hancock all inherited their wealth. I have great respect for people who get rich through hard work but the majority of rich people had it handed to them.
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  115.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Farage has been accepting free private flights to the US worth over £120k
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  116. Thats terrible pay for a job that requires a degree qualification. The graduates I work with are paid close to £33k and will rise to £50k over a period of ten years and that's in engineering (outside London), a profession which has traditionally been lower paid than others
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  117. I don't know whether it's poorly designed BUT well designed submarines like all other vehicles would have gone through the relevant approvals to prove they're well designed. When I used to design relatively small parts for ship, every single item we made had to be backed up with calculations to justify the design and then tested to prove manufacturing and then registered with the relevant agencies and that was just bits of ships, not entire vessels.
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  118.  @tcgfade0ut  Lets call lobbying what it really is, bribes
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  119. They never cut taxes for the working classes though do they?
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  120.  @MrPatch25  If there is such huge waste in the NHS, why have the tories done nothing about it in the last 12 years? Isn't that the health secretaries job?
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  121. There's a lot more logic to the argument that if the shooter didn't have a gun then no one would have been shot
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  122. No. Get them processed and get them in the jobs we don't have the people for. We have over a million more job vacancies than unemployed people and that shortage is killing British industry and stopping our economy growing
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  123. I really couldn't care less about vaccine passports. I think that's the best way to be. Getting angry about it makes no difference to anything.
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  124. The bosses are trying their best to turn people against working people wanting to maintain decent conditions and pay but it's not working. Incidentally, the boss of Royal Mail did an interview recently and came across an a really unpleasant specimen. RM claim they can't give a pay rise because they didn't make a profit which is true and the reason they didn't make a profit is that they bought a Canadian company for £200m and spent another £50m on electric vans and another £100m on buildings which are not being used. They clearly deliberately wiped out their profits
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  125. I don't think many people voted for Boris, they voted for brexit. Most of the problems with brexit came from Boris and his half arsed negotiation of a trade deal
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  126.  @aardvarkrevolution5764  It's not so much an attachment to Labour. It's more a hatred of the tories
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  127. Yep. This is already the new tory attack.
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  128. Inflation was pushed up by the huge increase in the cost of energy making everything more expensive so of course raising interest rates while doing nothing about the cause of the problem hasn't worked. Apply an actual windfal tax to energy companies (as most other countries have done without problems) and use that money to fund a tax cut for low and middle earners and inflation will come down
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  129.  dirpitz6157  They are definitely qualified. A junior doctor has qualifications above a masters degree. An apprentice in any profession will have absolutely no job specific education, a junior doctor has at least five years of post graduate level education and around £100k of student debt, an apprentice has no student debt. Junior doctors are required to study for a minimum of 20 hours a week to move up to the next level or lose their job. No other profession does that. In my profession, engineering a graduate with a masters will be starting on £35k and up to £60 within 5-7 years. Even chartership will take bugger all effort and add another £5k - £10k to that salary
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  130. Who is there to replace him? He has gone up in my opinion since he's actually started opposing all the tory corruption. He may not have the numbers in parliament so all he can actually do is keep it in the news
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  131. "I don't want biased media unless it's biased in the direction I like"
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  132. And is it good for the business to have sick employees who will be unproductive and unreliable? Businesses need healthy, motivated employees
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  133. How would they just suddenly close them down? There's nowhere else to put those people. They can't instantly fix the mess they're being left
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  134.  @taffyterrier  If that is true then why are so many leaving for better pay in other countries or other better paid work here? And why are so few currently in training to become doctors?
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  135. Maybe this bloke needs- to re-read the NI threshold details. Very few barbour shops will need to pay
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  136.  @RaRa-eu9mw  Junior doctors are not on substantial wages. Less than £40k for a job which requires £120 of student debt to train for is terrible. It's considerably lower than in many other countries which is why so many are leaving for places like Australia
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  137. Or close tax loopholes and recover nearly a billion a day
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  138.  @mikez6683  I can't quite work out whether that's sarcasm or not
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  139. Thats not being paid for by the tax payer
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  140.  @joprocter4573  That is indeed what the DUP believe but clearly the people of NI don't agree since more voted for Sinn Fein than the DUP
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  141. Attenborough has been an enviromentalist for decades
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  142. How about the government causing the huge shortages of doctors by making the job unappealing? Isn't that more of a problem?
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  143. Life will never be multi planetary. There is no other planet in the solar system which can be habitable. We'd best start looking after this one
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  144.  @lonegroover  It cost the country £65bn. She was going to borrow in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest. What was good about that?
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  145. Yes, she could be a GB News reporter who will never challenge Reform but absolutely grill every other party
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  146. Not enough of them and thats the point. The pay is too low to justify the years of training, £120k of student debt and then 20 hours a week of study alongside working long hours until they qualify as a senior doctor
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  147.  @thomaselwood12  That didn't happen the last time the top rate of income tax was raised so why would it happen this time? I'm in the 40% tax bracket, if it gets raised by 5%, I'll be marginally less well off but I'm not going to miss it so I don't care. I'd rather see this country dragged out of it's current black hole than have that 5% lower tax on some of my income.
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  148. Low wages are a major issue. We have a shortage of engineers in the UK because wages are much lower here than in many other countries and we relied on European migrant engineers who have now left. No one wants to join the military to give there life for barely above minimum wage. I am an Engineer, I know I would make significantly more money in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany, Korea or Japan but I quite like it here and I'm not really motivated by money
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  149. She's asking very reasonable questions. The tories made promises and have not delivered
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  150. Half the tory MP's have investments in property. The last thing they want is house prices to fall or even level off
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  151. He didn't even have the right skill set to wipe his own behind
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  152. The bigger issue here is the influence wealth donors can have on the way the country is run. Was it coincidence that after donating £10m, Hester got a £130m contract? Does anyone donate large amounts to any party without an expectation of getting something in return?
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  153. Like any private business, they can choose who they do business with and if a customer is working against their interests they may decide they no longer want that customer
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  154. It won't cost anywhere near that. Firstly, 19% is a starting point for negotiations, Scottish nurses agreed to 10% so English nurses would likely accept the same. Out of that pay rise, 20% goes straight back as income tax and then when they spend it a further 20% goes back in VAT so the actual cost is considerably less than what the nurses would receive
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  155. Farage is all in favour of deregulation of the banks and businesses in general. We can't be regulating their rights to ditch customers they no longer want can we?
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  156. Stuff the financial hub. Put Britain back at the front of the world in engineering, that's where we really profit from the efforts to achieve net zero. We already lead on technology for low energy system development and clean power generation technology. This is our oppertunity to lead the world in engineering again like we did before they decided finance was more profitable for the rich
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  157. Those things create British jobs. Britain makes a LOT of carbon capture and green energy generation equipment. That's why the government are promoting it so much, it's investment
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  158. But they trust Sunak? A man with a track record of lying and corruption?
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  159. I was interested in moving from engineering to teaching but recently looked in to it again and I couldn't take the pay cut. £35k for a job that requires a subject relevant degree and a teaching degree is bloody terrible. I thought they wanted to attract people from industry, they aren't going to do it with that salary
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  160. I can't argue with this, we do need to improve maths skills. We need a more highly educated population earning higher wages in the future to get the country out of this black hole. Just one question, who's going to teach these extra maths lessons? We have a shortage of teachers and people aren't queuing up to train as teachers? We need people with industry experience to teach such as engineer but who's going to leave a £40k engineering salary for a £27k starting salary to teach?
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  161. Population has increased but unemployment is very low which means all those extra people are paying taxes & NI so the money should be there to pay for the expansion of the NHS to match that population growth. There are some incredibly profitable businesses in the NHS such as Serco (tory party donors) and Medstar (tory party donors) and Bupa (tory party donors)
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  162. They still need to process the water. Removing the solids is easy, they're basically just taken out by mechanical strainers. The water then left over needs to go through multiple stages of settlement, chemical dosing and filtration. What most people don't realise is that the turds make up a tiny percentage of what is in sewage. Most of it is a mixture of rain water, showers, baths, washing machine water, detergents, commercial waste etc and all of that needs to be filtered and neutralised before it can be returned to a river or sea.
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  163. I know murdering was a bit naughty. How about I pay a £10 fine? That'll teach me not to do it again
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  164. Our taxes are far higher now than before 2008 but public services were much better then. They keep cutting the services we get but taking more money from us. A good health service and education system is essential to give businesses healthy, well educated employees
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  165. No, they are mostly spills due to old plants that can't cope with a growing population and more frequent heavy rain.
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  166.  @kevonslims7269  The same deal that Boris agreed and the entire tory party voted through but they now all say is unacceptable
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  167. It's effecting patient care because the poor pay and conditions are the main cause of the staff shortages
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  168. She's from a tory safe seat where people vote tory because their parents, grandparents and great grandparents did. They could have a dog turn as their candidate and it would win
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  169.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  CO2 was at 3000 PPM millions of years ago and at that time the earth had a very, very different climate and much of the life on earth was very different to the life on earth now. Much of the planet then was rainforest. Many animals evolved to life in the current climate didn't exist then. These changes need to happen over millions of years to allow evolution to keep up.
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  170.  @originalbiggzzz3623  For their superb track and trace system and the amazing performance of their testing service. Worth every penny and they absolutely got the job because they proved they'd do a better job than anyone else
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  171.  @perolagrande  MP's aren't threatening to go on strike because they get pay rises each year far beyond the rest of the public sector not because they're in some way morally superior
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  172.  @cellbiologyshorts9105  Did taxing alcohol stop people drinking?
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  173. As an engineer myself, I'd like to point out that if we're given a target for something, we'll get there. Want cleaner & more efficient jet engines? give a team of engineers the task and the resources and they will achieve it. Early turbo jet engines were too thirsty, too noisy & too unreliable. Engineers were told to fix it and the turbofan jet engine was created.
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  174.  @kevindominic5224  It almost doesn't matter. Millions of people will vote against Trump by reluctantly voting for Harris. In reality, how many actually wanted Biden? Most of his votes last time were votes against Trump
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  175.  @Bungle-UK  In what way has it been a success? Britain has the least reliable and most expensive rail service in Europe. It's been an utter failure
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  176. They did and there was an independent report that confirmed it. The report was produced under a tory government
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  177. So are second jobs, especially when the second job is consultant in a company that supplies services to the UK government.
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  178. Anyone in a professional or skilled job should be able to afford to buy a house. When that's not the case, something is very wrong.
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  179. So are Americans going to pay for this? It's going to cost hundreds of billions
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  180.  @harleydavidson3586  If it was the lockdowns, why is it just a UK problem?
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  181. The last period of economic growth above inflation that we had was under Blair / Brown
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  182. Labour are the party most likely to give us PR. For that reason, Reform would actually benefit from a Labour government to get this switch because they can never win or even get a good number of seats under FPTP
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  183. Labour aren't losing ground, they've been pretty steady for over a year now. The only party who are is the tories. The longer they drag it out, the more voters the tories will lose to Reform
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  184. Where's the grilling of the bosses who are refusing to talk to the unions?
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  185. Even if they can increase numbers entering the NHS, how do they stop them leaving for other countries or the private sector to earn much more money for less hours? Forcing them to stay will just put even more off starting.
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  186. No, the conspiracy theorists would have us believe this sort of information is being hidden from us but this clearly demonstrates that they will be open when this information is available
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  187. Is it any different to the government giving honors to anyone who donates a pile of cash to them?
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  188. Yep, war against most of Europe will go well won't it. Our military is a fraction of what it once was since the tories cut it all to save a few quid
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  189. I'm sure it'll work. No one drinks alcohol since they put the tax up on that
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  190. Sky's owner is one of the tories biggest donors. This report definitely has another motive
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  191. No it isn't. There aren't enough nurses for it to have any effect on inflation even if they got 10% above inflation. What is actually causing inflation is landlords raising rents by above inflation and energy companies raising prices by 22% and corporations making huge profits
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  192. I'd rather competency over charisma. I don't care whether our leaders have charisma. If I want to be entertained, I'll look to entertainers for that
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  193. They already ditched it because it never worked. Most people really didn't care about it anyway
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  194. If the people of London didn't want this then they shouldn't have voted for Khan because he was quite open about this before the mayoral election and yet the people of London voted for him in far greater numbers than any of his opponents. The people of London generally don't drive (because driving in London is a hopeless pastime) and would like cleaner air
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  195. If I drive along a road, realise that I'm going in the wrong direction and then turn 180 degrees, it that not a U turn?
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  196. To be fair it was Corbyns fault. If he hadn't fought such a weak election campaign then the tories wouldn't have such a huge majority and there would be an effective opposition
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  197. I do actually work with an engineer who came here as a refugee from Venezuela to escape the cartel. He's a very bright lad. I'm not saying every refugee has a valuable profession but they do exist. It's not only poor people who escape war and violence
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  198. Give the oil industry's £10bn of subsidies to the NHS. Oil companies make enough profit to never need subsidies
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  199.  @franksimpson339  Odd that you'd use Starmer as an example of a rich MP when his net worth is less than half a percent of the man who is running the country. Infact, every member of the tory cabinet has a net worth at least 10x Starmers.
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  200.  @T5Zplayer  Hester apologised for being rude, he has not apologised for being racist
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  201.  @paulfrancis3237  That doesn't achieve anything. Our previous conservative MP, David Warburton was suspended on full pay for over a year, many letters were sent to the conservative party hq complaining that we didn't have representation and as far as I'm aware, not a single person got a reply. That's the main reason the tories lost the Somerton by election by such a big margin
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  202.  @simonmorgan225  So when they leave because the pay isn't good enough and we have even less of them then is the problem better or worse? The reason for the shortages of staff is the pay isn't good enough to retain staff or to attract new recruits. In industry, when a business has a problem with recruitment they offer more money to make the job more attractive and then people apply.
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  203. No they aren't. However, the tax payer is paying the companies £30 million a day while they refuse to negotiate
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  204. I don't like Harris but she's a lot sharper than Trump. The debate will need a good moderator who will stop Trump just rambling about how great he is
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  205.  @MCDONALD6969  Taxes under Labour are always lower for the working classes under Labour. Under the tories, they are lower for the wealthy but higher for the working classes. Guess which is the focus of billionaire media tycoons
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  206.  @rthonlimbu8134  There are none who are currently working as doctors or nurses employed by the NHS
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  207. I'm fairly certain Boris is behind the "leak" of the video. Hancock was coming under too much scrutiny for dodgy dealings and Boris wants him out of the way before anyone probes too deep
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  208. Since 2010 money to the NHS has dropped 20% when adjusted for inflation. Money to the private health industry has substantially increased. That is why politicians say they put more money in to health care and not that they put more in to the NHS
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  209. Useless people?
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  210. Of course it did. People were suddenly allowed to go in to crowded places so instead of just a few people being alerted for each case, it's potentially hundreds. The app doesn't work. If I sit on the opposite side of a restaurant to someone who is tested positive for covid then I still get alerted because I was in the same restaurant at the same time even though I might have been 20 metres away or even on another floor. The app is deeply flawed and if the government want people to take any notice of it, they need to get it re-programmed to take in to account actual proximity rather than just in the same building.
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  211. While a president can declassify documents, he has to do it through a formal process to register them as declassified. The accusation is that Trump didn't do that, he just took them and assumed that he could just say they are declassified.
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  212. Almost worse is the fact that Starmer will just let them get away with it rather than standing up against it and fighting it. I was hoping Starmer would be a good leader and bring the Labour party back but he's spineless. I didn't like Corbyn's policies but at least he stood up for what he believed and fought against the tories.
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  213. Yes we are. Now Labour can start work on fixing things
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  214. The problem is that all the other G7 countries had all of those things to deal with. They all had very similar length lockdowns. They're all contributing to Ukraine at least as much as the UK. They all (except US) have similar unemployment and they all (except US) paid similar or better furlough. On top of that, all of them have done far more about energy costs, the UK has the highest energy costs in the world. Even Germany, who were reliant on Rusiian gas are paying less than us. French people pay half what we pay for energy. There is no excuse for the mess the UK is in now. We didn't go though anything that the rest of the G7 didn't.
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  215. For a start there was £10bn paid in subsidies to oil companies in the last year while they were absolutely fleecing the British people and not paying any taxes. There was also £8bn to tory donors for faulty ppe Then there was another £35bn for an app which didn't work There 's also an estimated £50bn - £80bn in furlough fraud which the tories have said they will not pursue
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  216. The catholic church have to take some of the blame for that. People will have sex, everyone has natural urges so let them use contraception. The catholic church telling people they'll go to hell for using condoms has really contributed to the problem.
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  217. Exactly. Thatcher didn't stop coal being burnt, all she did was made sure it was transported thousands of miles on oil burning ships before it was burnt
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  218. He has literally done nothing to control inflation. He says its the responsibility of the BOE to bring inflation down and then when it happens, he takes credit for it
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  219.  @GrizwaldTheDog  It's worse than that for the US. Their military equipment industries lose all their biggest customers. Europe won't be buying any more US made equipment now Trump has said he'll be able to remotely disarm it.
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  220. Junior doctors aren't still in training. Junior refers to all doctors below consultant or GP level
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  221. I guess someone in his position would be too much of a terrorist target on a train and doesn't have time to spend 8 hours plus in a car so the plane seems to be the only option really. Just because he has to use something doesn't mean he can't say that thing should be improved.
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  222.  @seabreeze4559  The only sources I can find are saying that Germany is only accepting vaccinated tourists. Why would they ban vaccinated tourists? I can see that they may ban all tourists from some or all countries but there's no logic in specifically banning just vaccinated tourists
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  223.  @summerisonthursday5239  I see. I understood the comment as they were just banning vaccinated travellers. I guess if they're banning everyone to prevent the delta variant taking hold that makes sense. Britain should have done the same
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  224. Because he's white
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  225. He's not committing because it will be May, he just doesn't want to commit. It's obvious it'll be May because tax rises come in during April and we won't feel them until the end of May, after a potential election. There's also new import checks coming in during November which will cause price rises (Sunak said previously they were delayed because they would be inflationary). Then there's the usual NHS crisis in autumn/winter. Most of all though, Sunak says it'll be the second half of the year so that effectively confirms it'll be the first half
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  226.  @taffyterrier  There are two sides to any dispute. If one side refuses to negotiate, as the government have then they have to take the blame for the dispute not ending.
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  227.  @thehealeruk  No, that's not true. As I said above, it's all available for anyone to see. Models do change as observations are made and there's opportunity for refinement. Unlike religion, science is never 100% settled and is open to constant scrutiny and questioning
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  228.  @michaelmumby2328  He had ample oppertunity to sack her before following the investigation which found her guilty of bullying but he decided to ignore it
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  229. It would also result in international trade sanctions which would cripple the UK
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  230.  @TheMagicJIZZ  What inventions? The cyclone his vacuum cleaners used was copied from an industrial extraction system and was invented over 100 years ago
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  231.  @anonanon7497  Thats how capitalism works. Businesses pay the absolute minimum for labour and sell their products for the absolute maximum they can get away with
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  232. Norway has average 6.5% tariffs on US goods. Most of the figures Trump gave for tariffs against the US were incorrect
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  233. I went round to visit my elderly neighbour, the man is a comedy genius so it's always a pleasure. Keep them stocked up with cold stuff, make sure they have plenty of water in easy reach and lend them fans if they don't have them.
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  234. I would boycott Harley Davidson, Fender & Chevrolet but Chevrolet don't sell over here, I prefer Ibanez guitars and Harley haven't ever made a bike I'd actually want
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  235. Rubbish. They cannot be worse
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  236. I've spent the last 20 years working on huge construction projects for various water companies. They have definitely invested, there is a huge industry built around water/sewerage treatment construction projects. Just take a look at the Thames Tideway scheme for one example. The problem is huge developments built with no consideration for whether the infractructure can handle it. There are villages around here which have more than tripled the numbers of homes over the last 20 years
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  237. It's not pay rises at all. It's energy prices and corporate greed driving inflation. Unless the average UK pay rise is above inflation (and it hasn't been) then it won't drive inflation
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  238. That's nothing compared to what the US military contractors and arms manufactures got out of it. Blairs money comes from other dodgy deals rather than Afghanistan
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  239.  @OngoGablogian185  Seems about right for a team of employees in a medium size pharmacy
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  240. It's not because of the affair, it's because of the hush money and how it was hidden from the tax man and the fact he previously lied about it under oath.
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  241. Or unless they are in full time education. What would really help is bringing back proper state funded, technical apprenticeships supported by technical colleges to get more people in to proper, well paid jobs. It costs money from the tax payer but if those people get higher paid jobs because of it (it worked for me) then those people repay the investment in them through their higher tax bills and that's why I'll never complain about my tax bill.
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  242. There's gender fluids everywhere. Terrible mess
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  243. Graduate pay for most professions is £30k+ so why are nurses worth less? Low pay is the reason for the shortage of new recruits. Who would want to spend £50k on student debt to earn considerable less than other equivalent professions?
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  244. It was one wasn't it? How many billions of our money did the tories give to their mates? Why have they refused to investigate a potential £55bn in furlough fraud? Why hasn't baroness Mone been tried for her £250m fraud from the tax payer? Sure there is some corruption within Labour but it pales in to insignificance compared to the billions in corruption in the tory party
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  245. Actually that would cover it for 12 years
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  246. Well that would be a problem if there were any railway stations left around here
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  247. Cryptospiridium is a tricky one. Extremely difficult to kill and measures are only put in place in areas where there's a likely risk. Would it have been any different if nationalised? I'm all for nationalisation of essential services but I'm not convinced it would make a difference to this
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  248. She probably does hope he's ok. Without Trump, she might have to go up against someone sane
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  249. The Scottish government managed to agree a settlement and the English nurses have said they would reluctantly agree to the same deal
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  250.  @Phylicity  When has that ever happened before? When Labour raised the top rate, did everyone earning that rate leave the country? No, they didn't. Meanwhile, people who we actually need like doctors, nurses and engineers are leaving because of low pay here in the UK. It seems fine to let them go but we can't lose the bankers can we?
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  251. If we don't buy it, they won't make it
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  252. The Taliban was originally trained and armed by the United States during the previous Afghan war and it came back to bit them. You'd think they'd have learned.
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  253. How? I earn double the national average and even I'm not getting hit with any tax rises
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  254. And what will a damp sponge do to emulsion paint on the walls? It'll damage it. Best to let the landlord do it. If it's so easy then they surely won't mind
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  255. They still get dug up on construction sites all the time. Thames dredgers are bringing them up daily
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  256. Every time I look up the career of a scientists who is saying climate change is not caused by humans, at some point I find they've worked in the oil industry or they're a member of the Republican party (who take funds from the oil giants). Guess who stands to lose the most as we fight against climate change? The oil giants. Potentially for us low life members of public, it could save us money. Everything we do has a consequence, without exception so why do people believe we can pump billions of tonnes of CO2 in to the atmosphere each year without consequence? Add to that the fact that we're deforesting and therefore reducing the planets ability to process that CO2. Each tree can only process CO2 at a certain rate, it won't process more just because it's there.
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  257.  @v4skunk739  The main reasons for the protests across Europe are badly implemented environmental taxes and pesticide bans
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  258. Then we should stop helping the US in it's wars which cause these problems
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  259. Thats because there' a shortage of doctors. Training places were cut years ago and many of those we did have moved abroad for better pay when public sector pay was frozen here
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  260.  @richydoumbe0  The Polish people I worked with have left the UK now but haven't gone to Poland, most have gone to Germany and Austria for better paid work
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  261. And who set the budgets that the NHS had in Wales?
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  262. It's not just London. Latest polls put rejoin at 55% and undecided at 13% and stay our at 32%.
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  263. Like brexit did? No thanks
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  264. They tell us it's the responsibility of the BOE to reduce inflation and then when it comes down, they take credit for it themselves
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  265. If they didn't dig in this location then they wouldn't have. They get found all the time
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  266. It used to be the case that the working class were home owners. If more houses were built and wages kept up with inflation then the working classes could afford to buy a house again. When I bought my first house, I was working as a welder and managed it very easily. A two bedroom house cost me the equivalent of three and a bit years wages and a deposit of £10,000. Thats how it should be. Labour are asking for better wages and more affordable houses. That is what the working classes need.
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  267.  @Aloh-od3ef  Depends who they cut tax for, rich or poor
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  268. There are people who always vote for the same party no matter what. Often it's the same party their parents voted for. They're a bit thick
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  269. No deal and no border. Basically they want the impossible
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  270. Breaking news - Something that happened a few months ago is still happening
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  271. The cost of illegal migration per year is one tenth of what the tories spent on one app which didn't work.
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  272. People are taking this the wrong way. There's more than one way to cut aviation emissions and the best one is to increase the efficiency of the engines. Britain has some of the best engineers in the world along with one of the greatest jet engine manufacturers, Rolls Royce. Invest in R&D, get the best engineers on the case, give them the resources they need and the problem will be solved. This can be applied to ALL problems like this. As an engineer myself, I'm loving the challenges we're getting now. Most of what I do I refining mechanisms that have existed for decades, searching for wasted energy and looking for energy recovery oppertunities. In most cases it results in products which are quieter, smoother running and more reliable due to reduced heat, vibration and friction.
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  273. No, not Europe, just the UK. Most of Europe is doing ok
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  274. Exactly. Defense layers cannot reject clients otherwise anyone with a shaky case would get no representation
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  275. He isn't a proper doctor and has no qualifications in virology
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  276. With the economy in such a terrible state and in rapid decline, how can they commit to any spending now? They don't know what money they will have by the time they get in to power
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  277. According to the government figures, there is not a single homeless person in the UK!
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  278. An extra £140 million for the tax payer and it will have zero effect on the numbers of houses built. It will increase profits for the developers though
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  279. That's exactly what I was thinking. The things he's now accusing them of are probably what he advised them to do
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  280. In countries where guns are tightly regulated, the relatively low numbers of legal guns means much lower numbers of illegal guns because they are much harder to source. It also makes prosecutions for illegal weapons much easier and penalties for illegal possession of a firearm are often so strict that it's not worth the risk for the majority of criminals. The US may be too far gone to fix this though. There are now so many guns that it would be impossible to get them under control.
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  281.  @michaelhibbert2907  Well no but I'd have thought the comment section would give an idea of the type of people who watch this particular channel.
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  282.  @heliotropezzz333  They also have much higher hospitalisation and death rates among those who catch it. The vaccines seem to be working here (despite what the anit vaxxers say) and although cases are rising, hospitalisations and death rates are not at anywhere near the same rate
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  283. I support them. That's a really low salary for a job that requires 5 years at uni with £70k of student debt and then they have to work around 50 hours a week plus another 20 hours a week studying to become a higher level doctor (development is compulsory, not optional) as well as paying for those studies and exams. In the US, a junior doctor earns $150,000. I spent 3 years at uni, work 40 hours a week at most, haven't studied in years, have far less responsibility and earn £10k more. If the salary is good, then why aren't there people queuing up to fill the vacancies for doctors and nurses? I sure as s**t wouldn't do it even if I thought I could pass the training
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  284.  @taffyterrier  No it isn't. It's £34,740 to be precise. £70k is a senior doctors salary
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  285.  @melluques8475  The DUP doesn't represent a majority in NI. Sinn Fein are the largest party so surely their opinion matters more
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  286. In a two party election where one candidate is as divisive as Trump, the opponents lack of popularity is almost irrelevant because they'll get most of their votes from people voting against Trump
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  287. I trust scientists, not government
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  288.  @idk-k2c3m  Get away with what? They've done exactly what was in their manifesto that they were elected to enact.
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  289.  kermitidiothunter5943  The only option left for them is to quit, as many already have. We certainly won't be better off if that's the case.
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  290. His best was never good enough
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  291.  @Northern_Rockhopper  No, they took on a job with a good level of pay. Traditionally in this country, pay in all professions has kept up with inflation, and it did in the public sector until 2010. No one takes a job expecting to get progressively worse off. Following your logic, people should expect to eventually earn virtually nothing as their salary stays the same for ever. My father used to earn £27 per week as a steel worker, should he expect to still be earning the same now?
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  292. No, managers in businesses like this get crap pay as well. A friend of mine is a shift manager in the workshop at a local bus depot an makes around £25k which is crap these days. A manager job title doesn't automatically mean good pay
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  293. If I so much as accept a bottle of wine at christmas from a client or supplier I will be fired. That's a very standard business anti corruption rule. Also, If I accept any paid work from any supplier, client or consultant within 3 months of leaving my job I will be in breach of contract. These are standard rules yet politicians (who are supposed to be the best of us) are exempt from these standards
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  294. Even he's getting bored with answering every question with "...but the vaccine is a great success"
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  295.  @Bevrinton  Lets see how long the private sector lasts when there's no educated employees for them in the future
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  296. Or maybe she thinks 23 deaths in 710 million doses is actually very safe
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  297.  @briandoyle667  Global averages getting higher does not mean everywhere getting hotter all the time. Higher averages means more extremes, especially for us since the gulf stream has moved closer to the UK
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  298. British students pay £9,000 per year. Non British students pay £22,000 - £38,000 per year and they cannot get student finance, it has to be paid in advance. Their immediate family can come on a visa which does not entitle them to full residency and they cannot claim any benefits and only have very limited working rights and have to pay £500 per year to entitle them to use the NHS.
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  299. He came from a working class background. His dad was a tool maker, a very working class job, same job I used to do. The right wing press made a big thing of him owning the company but the reality is that the company was two men in a shed. He didn't go to private school or Cambridge/Oxford but he had the brains to get to the top in his career
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  300. I won't be voting FOR labour. I will be voting AGAINST the tories. If that means I have to put a tick next to labour to get rid of the tories then that's what I'll do. The priority for me is to get the tories out. I'd rather vote green but they haven.t got a hope in this constituency
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  301.  @generalapathy6446  Get on the phone to Wiggum immediately. He'll get Eddie and Lou on the case. I bet it's Sideshow Mal again
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  302. @@godblessfarage Since brexit, very few EU students are coming here. The change to the rules has made British universities considerably more expensive for them compared to ones in the EU. The Indian and Chinese students I was at uni with stayed long enough to lose graduate status in their profession and then went back to their home country for similar wages and much lower cost of living. Thats why we currently have severe shortages of skills. Less British people are going to uni because it's so expensive and wages in the UK don't justify it. The last graduate I worked with had £60k of student debt to earn £40k pa for at least the next decade. It's not worth it. I know welders and electricians earning a lot more than that
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  303. And halving it won't mean prices will fall, it means they will rise at half the rate they currently are
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  304.  @taffyterrier  No, France pays the same as the UK but the difference being that they won't have had to pay for their tuition and their salary rises much more rapidly
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  305. If they are breaking laws, as he claims, then why aren't they being arrested and deported? Is it because they aren't actually breaking laws?
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  306. I'd prefer just a complete cange of leadership to leaving but they have made a right mess of this. One week they're saying the don't want the AZ vaccine, the next they're suing AZ for not supplying enough.
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  307. The house of commons was set up to provide representation for the common people. Now it's full of millionaires and even billionaires who have lead extremely privileged lives and been to schools which cost several times per term what the average person earns in a year. They have no idea what it's like to live on an average wage and have no savings because just living costs every penny they earn. We need these rich boys, in all parties out of parliament and replaced with people who have lived on an average wage and worked hard and struggled. We also need the politicians banned from having second jobs or any private investments in businesses and banned from accepting donations. Give them a salary and that's their lot. They work for us, not their donors
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  308. Don't forget that inflation naturally increases tax revenue due to the increased price of goods and services on which taxes are charged as well as the increased corporation tax revenue. The money is there for wages to keep up with inflation, it's a choice not to do so.
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  309. I live in his constituency (I apologise on behalf of the people of Somerset) and Mogg is not just arrogant at a national level, he is at a local level as well. He will not meet with members of the public during his surgery, it's for business people and the wealthy only
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  310. Only England and Wales had a majority for leave. Scotland and NI had majorities for remain and now both want to leave the UK. Wales also want to leave the UK but only because Mark Drakeford came out of the pub and there was his bike, gone! He went didn't even have a coat for the walk home because he couldn't remember which coat was his jacket
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  311.  @Chris-ju5un  The OBR have also confirmed the existence of the £22bn deficit left by the tories
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  312. He's been very clear about that and answered it multiple times. He is referring to people working in normal jobs, everything from refuse collectors, shop workers and warehouse workers to engineers, lawyers and teachers. He is not interested in CEO's, footballers, investment bankers etc
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  313. It doesn't matter what sources they choose. As long as our energy or fuel is traded on the global markets we will be vulnerable to fluctuations due to global events. The only way to isolate from them is to nationalise the energy and oil & gas industries
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  314. I don't like what Labour are now but I dislike the tories far more so I consider it a vote against the tories rather than a vote for Labour
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  315. Those projections were based on us changing nothing. Cars got more efficient. CFC aerosols were banned and factories got more energy efficient. We slowed it a bit but not enough
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  316.  @Stuffilike618  Since I stopped driving to work a few years ago, I save £2000 a year in petrol. That's £2000 extra for me and £2000 less for oil companies. I'm also fitter due to the 20 miles a day cycle round trip which is actually quicker than driving due to the traffic. Never mind the climate, I've certainly benefitted from cutting my emissions
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  317.  @williammaxwell5985  Yes he did. He's been quite open about it. He openly admitted that he told his media empire to switch support to Labour in 1997 because he couldn't be seen to be on the losing side in that election
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  318. He said this last year. Why is everyone surprised?
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  319.  @snowyowel7961  The UK offered help to Ukrainian refugees and then made it impossible for them to get a visa
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  320.  @T5Zplayer  They do have a small amount of medical training but less than a nurse let alone a GP
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  321. Because there is no mechanism to actually take any action when he fails to declare a conflict of interest. There used to be an indendent body to deal with it but the tories changed that so that now they decide on whether any action is taken and what the punishments are. I wonder if they have thought about the fact that Labour will inherit that system?
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  322. No chance, they'll all be retired by now. That was my grandfathers generation, he worked in the mines and was always telling us how horrible it was. They're going to have to pay very well to get anyone down there
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  323. It's going to make no difference. Most students never repay the full loan anyway. It's wiped after 20 years. I didn't pay all of mine.
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  324. They didn't take anyone's guns. The just introduced a license scheme so that people with a history of violence or mental health problems can't legally have guns and since then the UK has had a much lower murder rate.
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  325. The Somerton & Frome byelection is in the south west. Very different to both the north and London. The tories are going to get a kicking here as well
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  326. Yes they do. British students pay £9,000 per year. Non British students pay £22,000 - £38,000 per year and they cannot get student finance, it has to be paid in advance. Their immediate family can come on a visa which does not entitle them to full residency and they cannot claim any benefits and only have very limited working rights and have to pay £500 per year to entitle them to use the NHS.
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  327. Yes, that coalition involving well respected Labour leader Nick Clegg. Please, remind me, why did Nick Clegg wear a yellow tie instead of a traditional Labour red one?
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  328. Or the fact that every other G7 nation has falling inflation while ours is static? Or the fact that raising interest only stops inflation when it's caused by public spending, which it currently isn't
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  329. They'll lose a lot but the party of government always does really badly in council elections. Reform will win a lot of the tory councils and Greens/libdems/independents will take a lot of labours
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  330.  @chestadium929  The foreign nurses were trained in their home country. British nurses don't pay for their training but they do work effectively unpaid for a year and long hours so can't do a part time job like most students to pay the bills
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  331. We need another Betty. She wouldn't have put up with the lies and deflection going on under the current speaker. Rest In Order
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  332. No, that was below inflation. They have had nothing or below inflation each year for the last 13 years now.
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  333. Probably the best British character. Trump and his hair were by far the best
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  334.  @emilgrigorescu8282  No but why was it ok for him and his mates to party while he gave the instruction to the police to fine any of us who so much as had a pint with a mate
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  335. Hollywood doesn't need tariffs, it needs new ideas rather than continually remaking the old classics. We don't need remakes, they're never as good as the originals. Give us new films with new stories which are as good as films like Back To The Future, Star Wars, The Crow, Bullitt and Easy Rider
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  336. Never going to happen. They want to try Truss's budget again and that didn't go too well did it?
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  337. Thing is Germany, who were far more dependent on Russian gas, currently have much cheaper energy prices than the UK
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  338. Why does he even listen to the DUP? Boris & May used them to get a majority before 2016 but Sunak has a big enough majority. They aren't the ruling party in NI so don't represent the majority there.
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  339. Russia kept their hooligans away from the world cup and it was peaceful. They were probably in a labour camp in Siberia
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  340. 90% of that is paid to people who are in work so effectively subsidising employers paying inadequate wages. UK wages have been stagnant for 20 years(under Labour and tories) and have fallen well behind countries we used to have pay equality with such as Germany, France and Australia
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  341.  @danielwebb8402  Thats the most ridiculous argument yet. Everyone deserves a pay rise but most of us in the private sector have had rises somewhere near inflation over the last 13 years where public sector workers have had their pay all but frozen effectively giving them a pay cut. Unskilled workers are generally paid roughly what they'd receive doing the same job overseas, nurses are paid considerably less than in other first world countries, the average in the US is $82,000. An unskilled worker hasn't had to spend £50,000 and 3 years at university to be able to do their job. There is a massive shortage of nursing staff which is a direct result of their low pay
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  342. Budgets for state schools have not increased but grants paid to private schools have increased substantially
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  343.  @gushutchinson8758  It would not have been possible to do this while we were in the EU so brexit is partly to blame along with failed privatisation and a government who want deregulation for business with zero benefit to the people of this country
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  344. The only complaint anyone had about his running of the bank of England was that we wouldn't do as Boris Johnson wanted, which would have caused severe inflation
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  345.  @boofuu3145  Nothing to do with privatisation of water companies meaning profits are the priority over performance and no consequences for failure? How about brexit providing the opportunity to relax these rules, it wouldn't have been possible while we were in the EU
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  346. I don't see why 1950's women are different to everyone else who has had the pension age raised from when they started working. When I started working, my retirement age was 65, now it's been raised to 68 and it'll probably go up again
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  347.  @emceedoctorb3022  Dredging doesn't prevent flooding. It slightly increases the river's static capacity but doesn't increase it's capacity to take water away. The answer is to not build on flood plains
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  348. Frank Spencer was at least likable
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  349. Because celebrities are our gods. Kneel before them and worship them
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  350.  Samara Aldeen  Both bad choices
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  351.  @IM-gc1vp  And the Conservatives are funded by billionaires, big business, US health insurance business and US arms companies
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  352. I guarantee there's something in it for Infosys
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  353. Thats about £50 worth of tattoo at most. My regular artist would knock that out in an hour at most. Could have been a birthday present, several of mine have been paid for as presents
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  354.  @ThatCarGuy1983  Any evidence of that?
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  355. He is very different to Trudeau. Socially liberal but economically conservative
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  356. Sometimes the open goals are so obvious to the public that there's no benefit in going after them
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  357. They haven't had a well paid job in years
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  358. Investment is up since Labour took power
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  359. Look at nurses salaries in other countries and then say that British nurses are well paid. The average in the US is $82,000. Nurses and carers while both essential for society are very different jobs and not really comparable for pay purposes
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  360. It's a lump of cells and they just go with all other medical waste
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  361.  @davidwhitehouse5366  Reform cannot ever win unless we get proportional representation and to get that we need Labour because the tories will never switch away from a system which massively benefits them. Ironically, a labour government could benefit reform in the long term
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  362.  @jcgoogle1808  VAT is applied to all goods equally. It does not single out US made goods.
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  363. Where was all this outrage when the tories refused to reinstate the subsidies they lost from the EU after promising that they would?
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  364. They expected far more corruption from him
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  365. There is absolutely nothing to stop them leaving Rwanda and coming back for another attempt at getting in to the UK. With the tiny number being sent to Rwanda they'll never get sent twice.
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  366. China regularly gets mentioned in covid related stories on the BBC breakfast news
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  367.  @fozzarooo  Public sector pay rises actually only cost half what the award is. 20% of it comes straight back as income tax and a further 30% roughly comes back in various other taxes when it's spent on anything with VAT (20%) or petrol (80%). MP's seem to forget this when talking about how much it will cost
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  368. And tell Elon he can keep it white. That'll make his day
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  369. The UK exports over £60bn to the US and £130bn to the EU. Its a strange myth that we don't manufacture
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  370. How does she keep getting paid while not showing up to do her job?
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  371. I always go to Cornwall early June, half the price and every year we get sunshine
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  372. Maybe an upper age limit of 60 at time of inauguration would be a good idea as well. Get rid of these dinosaurs
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  373. If he was good then he wouldn't be in all this trouble
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  374. Yes he did, he was very vocal in his support for Truss
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  375. Very true. We all need a rise
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  376. Politicians in both the US and UK seem to be doing this a lot, trying to get themselves more and more power while forgetting that their opponents will one day inherit it
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  377. Political parties don't operate ship yards, neither do governments. They are owned and operated by private businesses. Accidents like this are extremely rare but can happen
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  378. Can I come? I'm an athiest but I like a good story
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  379.  @kevinb9830  Rubbish. I bought my first house in the late 90's while single and working as a welder. Try doing that as a young single person on a working class salary these days
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  380.  @dannyhouse5630  In London, it's cheaper, faster and easier to use public transport. I've driven in London before and I'll never do it again, ulez or not. Driving in London just sucks
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  381.  @Bobisalive  Northern Ireland isn't part of Great Britain. Never has been
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  382. Jacob Greased-Hogg had the job of finding the benefits for six months and even he couldn't find any other than an oppertunity to deregulate business but when pushed for more detail just talked about removal of workers rights
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  383. When has Trump picked people based on qualifications? He picks Yes men and family
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  384. Who's getting gene therapy? That's a long and complex process which needs to be tailored to the individual. It cannot be done in two jabs.
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  385. He didn't though did he. He was investigated by the police who lets be honest are headed up by an ex tory party member and they found that Starmer didn't break the rules
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  386. GP's do a very different job. They haven't done many of the tasks junior doctors have done for decades and have probably forgotten how to do many of them. A junior doctors job is very hands on, a GP has more of a diagnostic role. Also, most GP's are no longer employed by the NHS but are employed by private companies and contracted back in to the NHS
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  387. I don't believe in god or satan but if satan does exist, it's either her or Kenneth Copeland.
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  388. We have a shortage of labour. 1.5 million more job vacancies than unemployed people. Screw Rwanda, get them in jobs here so our economy can grow. If those vacancies cannot be filled our economy will shrink even more and our recession will last even longer
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  389. Go on then.
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  390.  @williamproffitt6688  £33k is is the lowest pay for any profession requiring a degree qualification. Why would anyone spend three years studying and get £50k of debt to earn a relatively low wage? We pay our graduates £32k straight out of uni. If nurses were over paid, then why is there such a problem with recruitment and retention?
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  391. They won't be able to cut taxes with the amount of damage to public services they have to repair. At least they will be honest unlike the tories who tell us they're giving us a fiver while stealing a tenner while we're not looking
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  392. The reason more taxes are needed is that stagnant wages since 2008 have not kept up with inflation which means tax receipts have not kept up with inflation which means extra taxes have to be created. Windfall taxes are only applied to excess profits which means companies still make good profits but just pay a little more tax. Windfall taxes on energy companies are have funded help to reduce energy bills across Europe but not in the UK where we have a windfall tax but with such a huge loophole that barely any gets paid meaning that we have the highest energy prices in the world now and that's not an exaggeration
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  393.  @marioluigi9599  That is absolutely correct. Whether it's the right system or not is another question but that's the system we have
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  394.  @danielm173  He can't resign when he's not an employee.
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  395. Blame the people who are putting up our taxes to the highest rate ever, cutting our services beyond the minimum and yet still cant find the money. Why can't they recover the £8bn from the useless PPE they bought from their mates? If it's no good then send it back for a refund surely? They're currently spending £750,000 a week on a warehouse for it. Or there's the £3bn for the track & trace app that didn't work. Why not recover that?
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  396. He's certainly not failing at making his family richer. The childcare policy that gave millions to his wife's business and the new oil licences granted within days of his father in law signing a billion dollar deal with BP, a deal which involved Sunak being present at the negotiations. Now lets see how infosys will benefit from the Indian trade deal. They operate the system for Indian migration to the UK so I'm guessing there will be huge increases in migrations from India to the UK
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  397. Fortunately it didn't actually go to the DUP, it went to the Northern Ireland treasury
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  398.  @simonmorgan225  Who was it made those decisions? Hospital directors or doctors and nurses?
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  399. Hold on. I thought they were coming here for free accommodation and money. Why would they work?
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  400. Or just have a holiday in Britain. We're having great weather down here in the South West and Britain has some of the most beautiful coat in the world. I couldn't have my usual holiday in Italy and was not at all disappointed with west Cornwall. Make the best of a bad situation rather than moaning about it
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  401. But our wages have been dropping even when the economy was doing much better. In 2010 the average British worker earned the same as the average German, now the average Brit earns £10,000 per year less than the average German. British workers are getting absolutely screwed
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  402. I've got more freedom than ever. I don't have to drive 25 miles to work spending an hour and a half sat in the car, I don't have to wear a shirt and tie. I can work at home in shorts and t shirt, with loud music playing when I want it. I also haven't been forced to go to any weddings or christenings. I haven't had to make excuses for not visiting people. I've been free from people with foul breath who insist on standing far too close to talk to me. Look for the positives, there's plenty of them.
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  403. Because of the settlement Boris signed for leaving the EU but maintaining free trade, we are still paying the EU
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  404. Whos fault is it that we have to pay to accommodate those migrants? Why haven't they been processed and moved out of those hotels? More to the point, why are they no longer being processed in Calais so we don't have to ever pay to accommodate any of them and none arrive here unless already accepted?
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  405.  @taffyterrier  If that's the case then why is there such a shortage and why are so many leaving to work overseas? Surely people would be lining up to take the jobs and no one would ever leave if it were that easy and that well paid
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  406. Legally it's not discrimination as it doesn't discriminate against specific protected characteristics. If an employer doesn't hire me as a nuclear physicist are they discriminating against me because of my lack of qualifications?
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  407. Because that's not the conservative way. When they put taxes on the rich, they put in loopholes
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  408.  @Jase29  Most of the EU is doing better than the UK and the protests are nothing to do with the EU or single market.
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  409. He can't. The tories did that deal and gave a contract with no absolute obligations or ways to measure success or failure
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  410. Should world leaders base their countries policies on personal relationships or the best interests of their country? If it's not the latter then they are the wrong person for the job.
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  411. We pay for a service so why should we not be able to use it? The NHS used to function well so why isn't it now?
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  412.  @tellthemthetruth7490  It is not gene therapy. Gene therapy is a much, much more complex and lengthy process than two injections. As for "all lab rats died" got any reliable sources for that? I know a lot of people who have had the vaccine and definitely not died
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  413.  @charlestownsend9280  It cost us more. We now subsidise the railways, effectively paying for the profits of a private company
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  414. They did when Starmer suggested it a few months back
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  415.  @uniquevideosUk  I don't like the current Labour party and I don't think they'll be great but I honestly don't think they can be worse. The last Labour government was far better than this incompetent, corrupt mess
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  416. They have been properly tested. Yes, the time was compressed but most of the time in a normal testing programme is taken up with financial review and funding reviews between each testing phase during which the scientists move on to other projects. Cutting out all that and taking the risk plus trialling multiple vaccines in parallel instead of one at a time has saved a huge amount of time. There were literally hundreds of potential vaccines developed and dropped during testing due to unacceptable safety or effectiveness
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  417. If it is true, that's a hell of a lot of jobs for local workers. I worked at Wembley and there were hundreds of contractors on site, maybe thousands
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  418.  @Noel-ji8nm  Then why didn't the waiting lists come down before Labour took over? This is the first time in 14 years that they have fallen in winter
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  419. It got the city a lot of grants and brought in events such as music festivals spread across city venues
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  420. Thats what politicians have to do. They have to back their leader or get removed. They all do it on all sides
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  421.  @taffyterrier  American doctors are paid a considerably higher wage with a junior doctor making $130,000 and a senior doctor making between $200,000 and $250,000 while consultants can earn anything up to $1,000,000 depending on their specialisation
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  422. Labour were never going to take Somerton & Frome. They've never done well here but liberal democrats historically have done well here. Labour generally don't do well in rural areas and liberal democrats are seen as a slightly less unappealing alternative to those who used to vote tory. Also, lib dems historically do well in by elections but less well in general elections
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  423.  @RandoStaRR  Boris had lots of charisma and did none of the things he promised
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  424. The Beano did threaten to sue if he didn't stop impersonating Walter the softy. I think they have a solid case
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  425.  @T5Zplayer  gilt rates up by 0.5% compared to 2.6% for Truss really isn't all that bad
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  426.  @Chris-ju5un  None of the things he has been saying would be in the budget actually happened. It's now clear that he just made it all up. Also the OBR report in to it said the opposite to what he's been saying
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  427. How would it be possible to be an independent PM? To become PM, he would have to be the leader of the party with the most seats but by definition he is then not independent
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  428. @Orcbotbasher What's wrong with his English? What he's saying is pretty clear to me
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  429.  @oscarmensah8331  It's wrong that prisons are run for profit. They are literally incentivised to never release prisoners early. Reform is bad for business. That's why the US has the highest proportion of it's population in prison of any first world country
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  430. It doesn't on it's own. I know people who are very slim but extremely unfit and overweight people who are very fit. At one point I was quite successfully racing in mountain bike endurance events while 15 stone, I was extremely fit but enjoying too much cake . Diet is best for weight loss, exercise is best for fitness and health
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  431. They have no problem giving tax cuts to the rich and big business
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  432. Congestion charging is a result of tory policy though isn't it?
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  433. He already is. He was the highlight in Spitting Image
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  434. No. That would be a decision that only central government could make
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  435. Because those wars don't involve a super power with a huge stock pile of nukes and they're not affecting the price of oil and food
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  436.  @robertadams1054  That was long before Blair. The last big spike in inflation rates was 1991 and that was 15%. During the Labour Blair & Brown years it stayed fairly steady at around 5-6% but that was considered low back then. The difference is that at that time an average house would cost 3-4 times the average salary where now its 9-10 times the average salary
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  437. Still a win though
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  438. Genocide? Who's being killed for this genocide?
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  439. A growing population will mean a growing prison population
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  440. All the polls suggest that support has dropped a little but it's still over 60% in support
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  441.  @Jase-y1o  Labours plans (which are published) involve rises for the richest only and closing loopholes so that businesses no longer get away with not pay any. Shell paid a total of £0.00 between 2017 & 2021 despite some very large profits
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  442.  @kazthamc58  Facts? In a youtube video? I doubt it
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  443. They have no spine. They should have showed up to vote whichever way they believe s right not just abstain to try to avoid upsetting anyone who might vote against them. I don't care which way they voted, they should have shown up and voted
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  444. Glitter was nothing to do with the BBC. They did cover up Savile though
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  445. Good point. Hold on a second, Farage made his millions as a banker
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  446. And there's nothing said about Jeremy Hunt not paying stamp duty on seven houses
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  447.  @spms3018  I'm fairly sure Blair's list was never enacted due to the iraq war enquiry
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  448. What did he ever actually achieve though? Where's the wall? What happened to draining the swamp? He left the economy in a worse state than what he inherited
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  449. It s now but it wasn't always and it isn't in many other countries.
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  450. No it doesn't
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  451. Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Christians are all the same. They all believe in the same stories and the same people but have slightly different interpretations of those stories so they have to kill each other. Isn't religion great?
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  452. Lockdown or not, I'd rather shove a pinapple violently in to my back passage than fly with ryanair
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  453. They'll be lucky to have as many seats as a bicycle
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  454. No. Uranium would make no sense at all as a ballast weight since there are much safer and cheaper materials with similar density such as tungsten
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  455. The NHS is understaffed because it cannot retain or recruit staff and the reason for that is the pay is inadequate. People are dying because of the staff shortages already. Pay more and people will want to work for the NHS again and less people will die
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  456. Completely support them. I wouldn't do their job under those conditions and for their pay
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  457. Who cares?
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  458. I'm currently banned after Facebooks automated moderator picked up that I said "this new mini sucks". Apparently that's bullying!
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  459. Of course it has. This was always going to be the case
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  460. Oh piss off. This is something cool. Just enjoy it. No one is distracted, most people can deal with more than one thing happening in a day
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  461. Look at the nationalised energy supply in France. Their prices are currently roughly half what we pay in the UK.
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  462.  @scienceevolves4417  That £350 million a week saving doesn't exist. It's all been spent on the costs associated with leaving such as all the extra paperwork and re-writing laws and the extra customs checks and the lost tex revenue associated with the loss of 15% of our exports
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  463. He's already demanded one in to the billions the tories handed over to their mate. This £3bn is less than a tenth of that amount
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  464. It's in a very remote location, extremely deep and the tech to do these scans at such depths is relatively new. It's still great that they've finally done it
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  465. ULEZ was a tory idea and the expansion was initially the idea of Grant Shapps
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  466. Restrictions have been eased twice this year without new variants causing delays so no, it's not every time.
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  467.  @joshw9277  Actually it's mainly unskilled worker's we're short of. One lad I work with came here as an asylum seeker with a degree in engineering and 15 years experience. He came here to escape drug cartels in Venezuela
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  468. Time for an age limit of 65
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  469. We spend less on foreign aid that we pay in subsidies to incredibly profitable oil companies who don't pay UK tax
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  470. So far Labour are seeming like the better option with the way the tories are throwing all our money at their mates while at the same time raising taxes for us. The main thing Labour are doing wrong at the moment is not capitalising on all of this tory corruption and fighting like hell to put themselves in the lead for the next election. Starmer needs to go.
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  471.  @grahamwicks9970  Labour aren't far left. Starmer is pretty much in the same place as Blair, just a touch left of center
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  472.  @jules151968  Every other country shut down during covid and has migration however Britain is the only country in the G7 and in Europe with an economy which is smaller now than prior to covid
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  473.  @QuimbayaABC  Is it a secret? Trump gets mad when anyone is at all critical of Putin
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  474.  @ChristineRead-ck1uq  What exactly is rubbish? In 1990 the UK average salary was £13760 and the average house price was £58,000 which is 4 times. Now, the average uk salary is £35,000 and an average house is £285,000 and that's 8 times the national average salary
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  475. Thats what used to happen until the tories decided that nurses had to pay for bankers ruining the economy
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  476.  @lloydnaylor6113  Historically elections have always been held in May with only one or two exceptions. January is probably about the worst time for an election for the tories. Too cold and icy for old people to get out and vote plus the now standard NHS winter crisis is at it's peak.
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  477. Stability would be a change from the current instability
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  478. When an IMF prediction doesn't come true. Is that because they were wrong or because mitigating action was taken to avoid their prediction?
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  479.  @Lynann25  "..why joining NATO instead making alliance with Russia?" I should think that's pretty obvious. Russia are on the opposite side to all of Sweeden & Finland's existing allies and Russia does have a bit of a track record for invading their allies, such as Ukraine for example and installing their man as president in Belarus.
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  480. Keep voting for conservatives and this is how it'll always be. Can't vote for any party who might support unions and change that situation because they're marxists/communists/socialists and I don't know what any of those mean but they're bad
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  481. Infosys supply the nuclear sector as well
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  482. I work and will vote for lib dems but only as the most effective tactical vote to keep out the tories who used to win here. We had a by-election last year and Reform lost their deposit and were beaten by the local independent religious weirdo
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  483. Yes, there are at least two agencies who donate to the conservative party
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  484. Some of the abuse he got definitely referred to his colour. Yes he gets paid an obscene amount, far too much in my opinion but he's human and all humans make mistakes. What about all the other players in the team who failed to score in the previous hour and a half?
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  485.  @joh22293  That didn't happen. The ting that pushed the UK to go alone in procuring vaccines was the EU delaying their order. The UK got their order placed first
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  486. zero hours contracts are a huge problem and need to be dealt with but the easiest way out of that is to generate more business investment to create real jobs and investing in infrastructure will achieve that, something we haven't seen in years
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  487.  @LA-fr7fx  The state is not too large. The state is being exploited by far too many private businesses who are absolutely fleecing it due to a lack of regulation. Just look up the profits of Serco
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  488.  @tastypymp1287  How about removing the tax loopholes used to avoid billions of pounds each year. Cut the subsidies in the oil industry. Remove the massive loophole in the energy profits winfall tax which means none of the energy giants actually pay a penny. Remove the private contracts so no one is making a profit out of the NHS.
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  489. Money is worth more to them and they aren't making money from us when we can't go out. Their shares in oil companies are worthless until we go out and start driving all over the country for days out.
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  490. Tomorrows headline : "Sunak family business, Infosys signs multi billion dollar deal with Elon Musk"
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  491.  @obiwanjabroniX  Exactly
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  492. The UK accepts asylum claims from Rwandans around twice as many per year as Rwanda has agreed to take from the UK.
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  493. Go and read Labour's published policy. They certainly have a plan to clear the backlog and make boat crossings pointless. Will it work? I don't know but it's got to be better than the Rwanda plan which is only agreed with Rwanda for 200 people per year which is one 2000th the number arriving
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  494.  @SlowhandGreg  Asylum seekers can work once they are accepted and the employment figures suggest at least them majority of them must be working. I used to work with a very clever electronics engineer who came here from south America to claim asylum after escaping from the Caracas cartel who forced him to work for them and murdered his brothers
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  495. The difference with Labours borrowing is that it's investment, we have something at the end of it and also a very significant amount of that investment will come back in the form of various taxes
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  496. But working class people have a property portfolio, their tax bill could rise by millions. They might have to sell one of their holiday mansions. I earn more than double the national average and there's nothing in this budget that will effect me.
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  497. Thanks to Trump, yes they have.
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  498. It's the third school year
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  499.  @longlivetheboleyn1917  How ar Labour to blame for this? When they were in power, asylum claims were processed in Calais. Claimants wouldn't set foot in the UK unless they had been accepted. That meant there was no issue with accommodating them, France took care of it. I'd say Labour did it much better than the current government
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  500. She's certainly not my first (or 60 millionth) choice but there's certainly worse. I'd take her before Arlene Foster, Priti Patel or Dianne Abbot
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  501. There's some very well paid manual trades. I design process plants for a living and the steel fitters, civil engineers, builders, carpenters and electricians who build my designs all get paid a lot more than I do. I know the steel fitters are earning well over £50k a year and the electricians make more than them. I used to work as a steel fitter myself until injury put a stop to it, if I could I'd go back to it tomorrow.
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  502. Employers can't make money without employees. They can't grow without increasing employee numbers. This will absolutely not stop people being employed. We already have far more job vacancies than people to fill them so we can afford to lose a few bad employers anyway
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  503.  @ZxlittledevilxZ  There's main stream media tied to both the right and left. Independent & Gardian are very definitely left. Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Telegraph are very much on the right. BBC seems to be very pro liberal but also support the tories so they're just confused
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  504. This budget raised guilts by 0.5%. Liz Truss's budget raised them by 2.9%. This isn't in the same league as Truss
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  505. All they have to do to stop them is re-open the Calais asylum center. When that is open, there is no reason to cross the channel plus we don't need to pay to accommodate them while they wait to process them. Boris Johnson caused this whole mess when he closed the Calais center
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  506.  @paulhoye9680  When hundreds of millions of people worldwide are injected with a vaccine, or any medication a number of bad reactions are expected. There has never been any medication that has no side effects. The biggest problem here is everyone is getting vaccinated in a short space of time so it's inevitable that all the bad reactions come at once making it appear far worse than it is
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  507. But there's been 14 years for the tories to fix it and have they?
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  508. Yes because 13 years of tory rule has involved no failure or insanity has it?
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  509. Jesus was a refugee, so was Moses and many others in the bible
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  510. These new rights will only effect employers who treat workers badly. They only protect against the worst employers and would not have effected any employer I have ever worked for in the last 30 years because they were decent (mostly small - medium) companies who didn't do things like fire & rehire or enforcing contract changes which are worse than previous ones
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  511.  @StuartJ  Britain is behond most of the world with net zero. Even China are ahead of us with net zero
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  512. @@godblessfarage How can there be 3 million EU scroungers in the UK when we have less than a million unemployed in total?
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  513. The women of the Taliban were world leaders with face coverings
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  514. I have a couple Jewish friends who are ashamed of Israel now.
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  515.  @Andy-kj1rc  Well the constitution won't allow that so he can't
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  516. Why? They've done nothing that wasn't in their manifesto
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  517. The honours includes several people who were at those parties and who also lied and defended Johnson. I wonder whether Charlie's sword might slip as he knights those who were partying as he and his mother couldn't visit Prince Philip as he was dying?
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  518.  @GRUTTLaw  The hole in the ozone layer is still shrinking. It was found that CFC chemicals caused the damage so they were banned and the damage stopped and is healing through natural processes
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  519. It's not swapping though is it? The agreement states a limit of 200 to be accepted by Rwanda. There is no mention of a limit on the number to be accepted from Rwanda by the UK
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  520. Actually tax evasion very rarely ends in jail time as they have to prove intent. Benefit fraud which is effectively the same thing (stealing from the tax payer) results in jail time even if it can be proven unintentional. The difference is one is a crime committed by the rich and the other a crime committed by the poor
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  521. Truss is unfit to walk around without a carer
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  522.  @johngray722  What their parents and grandparents paid in is irrelevant, unless they never used roads, hospitals, doctors, police, schools etc, etc. We all pay our own way.
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  523.  @priyajesus9228  He can't do that because HE DOESN'T EXIST
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  524. Got our blue passports though so it's all worth it
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  525. Olympics is amazing for bringing out the armchair sports critics. People who've never done a days sport in their life who are suddenly experts in bouldering and synchronised swimming. I've been a rock climber for 25 years and still know next to nothing about bouldering except I can't do it because I'm too weak.
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  526. I was all ready to go but brexit screwed that
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  527. To put it in to context. If the oceans were the size of a football field, this would protect an area the size of an A4 sheet of paper
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  528. @@bingus6282 We have 1.5 million more job vacancies than unemployed people so migration isn't the problem. Until 2016 we actually manufactured and exported more than at any time in history. We had the biggest car & parts manufacturing industry in Europe. For some reason, we now export far less. I've worked in manufacturing for a very long time, it's dead now but up until about 2020 we were doing great and demand for engineers (like myself) was higher than ever. These things don't excuse public sector workers getting absolutely screwed on pay.
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  529. It is but, does that matter? I could take a paracetamol, then I could eat some chicken, then I could drink some cola and that's a big cocktail of chemicals but does it harm me? The cola is a bit unhealthy but as a one of, it'll do no harm
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  530.  @dannyhouse5630  How does planting trees help with the air quality in cities? Trees absorb CO2 but not nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, particulates, NMOG, Formaldahyde, sulfur dioxide or hydrocarbons and those are the chemicals which are hazardous to health.
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  531. If people carried on and just filled up when they need it instead of panic buying and brimming their cars with petrol and fulling fuel cans straight away there wouldn't be a problem. I have half a tank in one car and three quaters in the other so I'll be going nowhere near a fuel station for another couple weeks.
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  532.  @HebArgentum  I used to work for a Korean company in the UK. While they earn more, they are at work for very long hours, typically 14+ hours a day and don't really get any holiday. They do have a LOT of smoke breaks though, they really like a smoke
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  533. Or like GB News and Talk TV to Labour
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  534. This is Prime Minister's questions. There is only one person who is there to answer questions and it's the PM. No one else is being asked questions
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  535. He would never be back as leader. He wasn't a winner. Brexit won the election, not Boris. Every single bi election under Boris was a loss for the tories. People were sick of his constant lies. If he'd just been honest about the parties and apologised straight away rather than lying badly and constantly changing the stories it would have all been forgotten about after a couple months. It was his lies that dragged it out for months
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  536. It sounds like a nice idea but at the moment there's more job vacancies than unemployed people. Those who are unemployed mostly don't want to work, they aren't the people who will train as nurses, engineers and solicitors
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  537.  @T5Zplayer  Well a pandemic readiness plan and a warehouse full of equipment for a pandemic which was all scrapped by the tories
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  538. But at the next election, they'll win again. Depressing isn't it?
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  539. That would require deflation which very rarely happens
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  540.  @tastypymp1287  The Rwanda plan is agreed for a maximum of 200 people per year, it's utterly pointless. The alternative is to reopen the Calais asylum center so that no one crosses the channel and we don't have to accommodate people while they wait to be processed. No one sets foot on UK soil unless already granted asylum. We know this works because it did until Boris closed the Calais center and started this whole mess. Historically around 30-35% of asylum claims are rejected which means we are currently paying to accommodate around 40,000 people who will ultimately be rejected for a year or more.
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  541. We knew about covid weeks before the first case in the UK, we saw it spreading across Asia and Europe. If the borders had been closed then we'd have never had a single lockdown, people wouldn't have died and we could have carried on as normal while the rest of the world struggled with it then emerge two years later in a stronger position than just about any other country in the world
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  542.  @andrewmaccallum2367  Wasn't that an Aerosmith song?
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  543. Our local tory MP, David Wharburton was photographed with a silver plate of white powder including some cut in to two lines. He claims it was baking powder
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  544.  @tomash6805  These people who are striking for better pay and conditions will set the precedents that help the rest of us get pay rises
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  545. Sinking? If it sinks any further, it'll pop out the other side of the earth
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  546.  @wolfiestreet6899  The survival rates for certain groups is as low as 20%. The death rate from the vaccine worldwide is 1 in 33 million
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  547. So while we're getting told to drive less and use cleaner cars and eat less meat, it's ok for the wealthy to blast in to space? Just send the flat earthers up to shut them up and then scrap Space X and Virgin Galactic
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  548.  @taffyterrier  No, there is no wage price spiral. Wages are following inflation and lagging behind by a long way. For wages to cause inflation, the UK average salaries would have to be rising faster than inflation. Just look at when UK inflation first hit 10% and when NHS staff first asked for a pay rise. The inflation came first
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  549. There never was a dividend. Brexit has so far cost billions, not saved money
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  550. As is always the case with similar cases no matter the colour of the suspect
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  551. Whats the problem with that? A head of department doesn't need to know the technicalities, they need to know how to manage. My manager knows very little about the technical work our department does but he's still doing a good job
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  552. That's an impressive number of spelling mistakes for such a short post
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  553.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Germany & France didn't implement austerity to the same level as the UK after the 2008 crash and both recovered faster.
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  554. I don't think he actually realises that he can't win an election with tax cuts for the wealthiest, especially when the working classes are struggling just to survive
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  555. Because helping poor people is socialism, helping big business boost profits is capitalism. As everyone knows socialism is evil and therefore helping poor people is evil
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  556.  @uingaeoc3905  But the DUP got less votes than SF, that's how the political system works. Not all unionist parties are equal, some are more reasonable than others
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  557. But will anyone want to work there? I know from experience mines and quarries are really horrible places to work and at the moment there's far more job vacancies than unemployed people so unless pay is particularly good it's a poor option
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  558. I dislike him but at the moment there's no one to replace him. Only a centreist like Starmer can have a hope of doing well in an election
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  559. No one has seen it but apparantly, businesses are closing and millionaires moving abroad because of what they think might possibly be in the budget but have no way of actually knowing yet
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  560. Beef?
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  561. Yes, well observed. I too am glad she's not naked
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  562.  @wardaddy6002  Alien lizards don't die. Is she going to prove David Ike wrong?
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  563.  @whitetroutchannel  Fishermen are ruined because they can't sell to their biggest market. Over fishing has been going on for decades, that's not the cause of the sudden change this year
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  564.  @kevt3318  Britain doesn't make nuclear reactors or iron
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  565. Only one of them was in the position where they were telling the entire country they could not do something while they were doing it. Also, only one of them was a senior member of a political party running the country and trying to give the impression that they are the party of family values
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  566. Misery? Really? What about the misrey of workers who are being forced to accept a worse contract to work more hours without even a cost of living rise again while the company enjoys extremely good profits for providing a terrible service?
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  567.  @saigonbaby  £34k for a junior doctor. To be able to get to £70k they have to do several years of studies whilst still working full time & overtime and then take more exams which are far tougher than the ones they did to become junior doctors. They also have to pay for those studies and exams. Once they reach the higher position and £70k salary they have to continue that development or fall back to a junior position
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  568. It will keep happening for many more years until they can upgrade the plants to cope with growing populations. It's not helped by the massive shortages of engineers due to training programmes being scrapped, colleges being closed down and the European workers we relied on all left for some reason
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  569.  @jonathanj.7344  Maybe doing something about the horrific cost of living, falling real terms pay, dire economy and failing international trade could be priorities rather than sending 200 people per year to Rwanda
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  570. In a two party election where one candidate is as divisive as Trump, the opponents lack of popularity is almost irrelevant because they'll get most of their votes from people voting against Trump
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  571. Thousands out of millions is a small minority
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  572.  @Tom-qf3mq  Most economists disagree with all of those points. Only tory funded think tanks actually promote those as being negatives.
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  573. Is there any evidence they have recordeed flu as covid? I was really unwell about a month ago, had two negative PCR tests and it was diagnosed by my GP as flu. Worst flu I've ever had.
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  574. Bring back council houses so that councils have rental income rather than it all going to private landlords
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  575. There's a reason for that. The government always makes more funding available to their own councils. It was the same when Labour were in power, their councils had better funding and lower council tax. When it was lib dem/con coalition, lib dem & conservative were better funded and cheaper, now just conservative are better funded and cheaper
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  576. The barge is several times more expensive
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  577. According to Sunak's figures, In order to raise the £75bn over six years, each of the 72,000 civil servants they are removing would have to be on a salary of £173,611pa. That doesn't seem right to me
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  578.  @blue47er  Seems reasonable, I mean how can they say no? Surely if they're doing their job right then it's no problem?
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  579. What he means is every landlord will be able to buy more
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  580. They knew what the pay was but they didn't know it would be all but frozen for over a decade effectively making them 30% worse off. What they're asking for is pay restoration, not a pay rise
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  581.  @davidnoelfranks1124  How will people learn about history without statues? This is why no one knows who Hitler was, there's no statues of him
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  582. It's fairly standard practice. Just look at all the remainer MP's Boris removed before the election. It always happens. There's usually more than one potential candidate in each constituency and the leadership chooses the one they prefer and that may not be the one who stood for them previously
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  583. This is the state of the country under this absolutely useless government. £60bn for useless ppe and a useless app supplied by their mates but they can't possibly find any extra money for the NHS despite the fact that the rise in energy prices means a rise in VAT receipts from that energy. Where has that money gone?
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  584. It's more likely to keep people unemployed as businesses re-open and take time to recover
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  585. Nadine Dorries
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  586. There's also the billions in subsidies they're still paying to incredibly profitable oil companies and the massive loophole in the energy windfall tax that means that it's completely ineffective. The £40bn paid for a test and trace app which didn't work, why was it paid for before delivery and why isn't it being reclaimed for failure to deliver? Same for the £8bn for ppe
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  587. Reform and conservatives were both opposed to any pay rise at all
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  588. And now he's lost his seat
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  589. I'm fairly sure the chancellor must be doing at least half of those hours as a second job by himself. Thet would explain why he's doing absolutely nothing to sort out the economy
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  590. Dog turd or cat turd?
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  591. Nationalizing it would be socialist, they couldn't possibly do that but somehow giving businesses huge sums of tax payers money is absolutely fine.
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  592.  @BVking509  I'm not so sure about that. I did my A levels in the 90's and recently had a look at last years further maths A level paper and it was just as tough as I remember. Every question still needed a good page or two of working out and none of them gave an equation, just a complex problem so the student needed to work out the equation. It also included complex (root -1 etc) numbers which I don't remember being in my exam. I can't see that GCSE's have got easier if A levels haven't.
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  593. Maybe if the wages were more appealing, they wouldn't all be leaving to work in other countries and we'd have more junior doctors in training
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  594. Because small scale manufacturing for one market is really expensive so all products will get much more expensive. We don't have a lot of the raw materials so have to import them anyway. Who will fund these thousands of new British factories? Look back to 70's British manufacturing, British Leyland, Triumph, Jaguar, BSA etc, etc. All went bust multiple times and made rust buckets
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  595.  @sonofsomerset1695  "Labour have more in common with the tories than Reform do" I'm not sure about that. Their leader is an incredibly wealthy, privately educated ex-banker. He's in a relationship with a senior member of the think tank that wrote Truss's budget. They share many donors with the conservative party. They're backed by the same Murdoch owned media
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  596. It's AI, not people doing impressions.
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  597. Thats a more difficult one. Semiconductor manufacture is extremely complex and requires extremely specialised knowledge. It would take decades to get that back here
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  598. Truss is Labour's best asset. She's quite popular among Conservative party members but incredibly unpopular amongst the voting public with a poll showing only 7% of people thinking she was doing the right thing despite the fact her tax cuts would benefit less than 1% of people
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  599. The mini budget didn't include any tax cuts for anyone earning under £150k. Conservatives haven't cut taxes for the working classes since Thatcher took 1% off the lower rate of income tax. At the same time she took 23% off of the top rate
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  600. It's a case of their house, their rules. Trump broke the rules he agreed to when he opened the account, he had warnings and ignored them. Imagine if I walked in to a church and started telling everyone satan is great and god is weak. I'm not breaking any laws but I'd be told to leave and rightly so because it would be against their rules. It's the same thing
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  601. Of course not
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  602. It's probably close to the track and just been dug up during cable or pipe laying works
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  603. For the rich, yes
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  604. Technically, when adjusted for inflation there has been no growth since 2010 and GDP per capita has shrunk. They just present inflation as growth and people don't understand the difference. This recession has been caused by inflation and rate rises. People have no money, they can't spend so recession was inevitable
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  605. Housing associations are privately run businesses these days
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  606. So there's no evidence that it does effect fertility then?
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  607. There can't be another lockdown because this one hasn't ended
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  608. Does the wildlife deserve it?
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  609.  @rightherethereeverywhere  If that were the case, no one would enter the training and then where would we get doctors from? As it is they leave university with around £120,000 of student debt.
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  610. Ireland is a sovereign nation, they make their own choices
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  611.  @UTBLADES  So why weren't they honest about it then?
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  612. Yay, we can still get fleeced rotten at £1.40 a litre. Aren't we lucky?
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  613.  @neillaw  Only private GP's earn £150k although most are private now even if in an NHS practice
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  614. So it's still British jobs and that's what matters. British companies have always done a terrible job of management, all these companies that have been taken over by companies like Tata and TVS are now much more stable, not going bankrupt every few years and providing stable jobs. Jaguar for example have lasted longer under Tata without bankruptcy than any of their previous owners
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  615.  @Monicablackbelt24  Hydrogen cars don't purify the air. They burn the oxygen from the air and combine it with hydrogen to produce water as a byproduct. The pollutants in the air are also exhausted alongside and in that water Hydrogen cars won't be mainstream in the next couple decades, just look at the billions each manufacturer has put in to R&D and production lines for EV's, they are 100% committed to going that route. Toyota have had one hydrogen model for several years now but there's still no infrastructure other than 4 filling stations in the south east (there were 5). Hydrogen is more expensive than running a car on electricity because it takes nearly twice as much electricity to produce the hydrogen which then also has to be liquified and transported. Hydrogen will be used for plant machinary and HGV's but unlikely for cars
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  616. It shouldn't matter. He's a winning athlete, that's all there is to it
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  617.  @Abm5544  There has been a suggestion from the UN recently that both should be tried at the Haig. I think very few would argue that they should be tried, even most Labour voters think Blair should be tried
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  618. What police? Theresa May cut the police to the point where there aren't enough
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  619. .....the 100 metres sprint at the last Olympics? A beauty contest? The Nobel prize for theoretical physics? A bottle of wine in the raffle at a school fayre? Please be more specific
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  620. And I'm sure she won't care
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  621.  @mogznwaz  If nurses aren't unhappy with pay and conditions then why did they vote for a strike? The unions cannot call a strike unless the workers vote for it and those ballots are more tightly regulated by law than our election votes
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  622. I use similar digital scans for my work. They are accurate to within 2mm. It's amazing technology, absolutely invaluable in the construction industry. I can even load it in to VR and look around things at full size
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  623. Robot production lines generally don't replace humans. They usually just allow an increased production with the same number of staff. Currently though, we don't have the skills necessary to automate all production lines or the skills to maintain those robots
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  624.  @lori7196  Go and read about how wage spiral inflation works. If everyone receives a pay rise inline with inflation (which used to be the norm) then that has absolutely zero effect on inflation because it doesn't actually make people better off. Rises inline with inflation keep your income inline with the cost of living and keep your affordability the same. Rail companies make large profits. They pay good dividends to shareholders. They are putting up ticket prices by the maximum allowed in March. They even agreed a deal with the union, it was the transport secretary who killed it. If we want this recession to end then we need people to have money to spend in businesses and get the economy moving, keep squeezing peoples income and they have less to spend with businesses and the economy cannot recover.
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  625.  @sherpa003  It's illegal in this country for striking workers to run a service for free. Closing down to go on strike is the only option they have
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  626. Pointless boycotting elections. Unless every single voter in the UK boycotts it (politicians can & will vote) then it will achieve nothing
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  627.  @redpillnibbler4423  Spoiled votes count for nothing in reality. They are counted but they don't physically achieve anything
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  628. Michael Gove also just claimed that Brexit has created £800 billion in extra trade. Surely with that there's no reason not to give pay rises and cancel the austerity. Surely the honorable Mr Gove isn't lying is he?
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  629. And us buying tonnes of oil and gas and plastics and chemicals is bad for them is it?
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  630. Yes, they could construct new buildings in a more sympathetic style, blend them in with the original architecture. Use the shells or facades of old buildings for new developments. It's been done quite effectively in Bath and Bristol
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  631. Thats not a lot of use since nurseries are closing down due to a lack of staff. There's not enough places available around here
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  632. No more bin collections, road repairs, schools, police, fire service, health care, ambulances
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  633. What has happened to immigration levels since the tories took over from Labour. Has it gone up or down?
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  634.  @anonomous8719  Don't be stupid. They still pay VAT, fuel duty and plenty of other taxes plus their employers pay taxes on the profits made due to under paying workers. The economy would collapse without those low paid workers, they are essential so why punish them further?
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  635. I think they made the same statement about Theresa May so they have a history of good character judgement on that front
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  636.  @matthewbaker2573  So people should live in poverty to keep prices down?
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  637. There's plenty of bombs in the area. All labelled with "made in the United States"
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  638. He is not the man to talk about credibility. On occasion he'll say something I agree with and I hate it because he's such a terrible, dishonest, slimey piece of work
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  639. We have the highest energy bills in the world. Every other country has managed to do something about it but the tories say they can't because it will drive away investment. If we do the same as other countries, that doesn't put us at a disadvantage. Instead we now have a situation where the population is screwed
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  640. What does AI have to do with it? AI is everywhere already anyway.
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  641. Labour are working on an assumption of April/May for an election expecting the tories to announce it at the last possible moment. Autumn is a bad time as people start to dread the winter heating costs and the NHS winter crisis starts plus a summer of potential channel crossings and more time for the Rwanda policy to fail. It just makes no sense for them to wait
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  642.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  That makes no sense. Waiting lists dropped throughout the Labour years despite rising immigration. Then as soon as the tories took power waiting lists grew and immigration increased despite their promises to cut it. Immigration has continued to increase post brexit as well so either the tories don't want to cut it or they are too incompetent. Tories have had 13 years to reverse anything Labour did and they haven't
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  643. Nope, the deal with Rwanda is that in return for sending them migrants, they send more back here. It's very, very expensive exchange programme
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  644. No they couldn't. Donations are voted on by the members, not decided by the board of directors. That means they would have to hold a vote and it's highly likely that the members would vote to continue donations since no union has ever voted to withhold all donations from the Labour party. Less than half of unions donate to the Labour party anyway
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  645. @rabbit man European court of human rights rejected his claim a few years ago now
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  646. How do British companies design and build it when we don't have the engineering knowledge (I say that as an engineer working in energy). Unfortunately, until we start paying engineers the salaries to keep them in the UK we have to rely on overseas engineering
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  647.  @snowtfl5617  Why is Jersey valuable to us? It's just a tax haven for our millionaires so they don't have to pay any tax back here.
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  648.  @aleccap5946  Thats simple. There's a shortage of staff and facilities
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  649. They have elsewhere. These news videos are always just short clips. This isn't the best edit though
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  650. Thats exactly what is happening in the UK. People are dying because ambulances don't arrive or take too long. This is not typical of developed countries.
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  651. There's no god. Congo is a very christian country, why would a christian god chose to make a volcano erupt there?
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  652. Crews are quite oftem mostly Philippino. They're happy to live on the ship and not go home for several years at a time so they're popular with shipping companies. When they do go home, they are quite well off
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  653. The tories have an 80 seat majority, Labour cannot block or effectively fight them. All they can do is highlight failures.
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  654.  @redtale6527  Not to start with, no. The others joined after he started his aggression
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  655. If they wanted to trace your movements there's no need for a vaccine passport. All the data they need is already available from your smart phone and various other electronic devices. They could track your bank card use. They have automatic number plate recognition on many roads, which I'm all for since they used it to find my car within an hour of it being stolen. There's just no need for a vaccine passport if thats what they want. What are they going to do with that data any way? Why would they care where Terry from Scunthorpe was at 3pm last Friday? He was in the massage parlour same as every Friday getting a happy ending but what are they going to do with that data? Are they going to keep tabs on 60 million people?
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  656.  @elainelerwell2294  Yes, a new type of missile, a new design which is being tested because it is still in development. In my 20+ years of product development I have never seen any new product go through testing without a single issue. The whole point of testing is to find out what doesn't work so it can be put right before full scale production
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  657. Isn't that what all crooks do? Take the lesser charge in the hope the serious one goes away?
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  658.  @jamesperrie1393  Not sure that number is exactly right but the survival rate for under 20's with covid is extremely close to 100%. Long term health problems are the problem they are trying to prevent with vaccinating young people. I don't know if anyone knows the actual covid death rates. We know there's a lot of false positives with the tests which would make the survival rate lower than the official figures because if a significant percentage of those used in the figures didn't actually have covid to start with the percentage would drop
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  659. Infrastructure investment is a positive thing which benefits an economy. There has never been a case of tax cuts generating growth, it's a myth
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  660. She has quit her current job to join Labour. I'm wondering whether her investigation and digging in to the tory sewer is what persuaded her to join Labour and try to get the tories out
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  661. Not sure the US has it under control but the UK should definitely stay the hell out of it
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  662. Is it any different to calling Starmer far left?
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  663. I agree but they're discussing a scheme which landlords can choose to opt in to which I suspect very few, if any would.
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  664. Because Trump has previously said it would have to be part of a UK US trade deal
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  665.  @jrobs1133  I'm earning well above average, close to double the national average but despite two significant promotions and pay rises I still have less disposable income than I had in 2010. Why should we accept being much worse off and expected to work harder just to make up for the mess this government has created?
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  666. Standard tory tactic. Blame the poor, the young, the weak and the immigrants. Promise to be tough on them. When elected do absolutely nothing
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  667.  @MarkXHolland  Yes
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  668.  @terrygardner6395  If this is socialism then I'm all for it. Working class people are being prevented from getting on the property ladder by wealthy people wanting a holiday home. People needing a home should always be prioritised
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  669. Yes, it is over 98% full recovery but it's the long term side effects that are causing the real problems for over 50's. I know several people who were previously fit and healthy but took months to fully get over the effects of covid.
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  670. I don't get the idea of mass surveilance. The things that 99.9999% of us do are of no interest to anyone. As long as we keep working and keep paying taxes they have no interest in us
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  671. They should have admitted to it but it's an insignificant increase. £750 on top of the current £27,000 for a bachelors is not going to be noticeable, especially over 20 years of repayments
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  672. Just don't do it then. I don't, I haven't got a smart phone so I can't and no one has ever said anything to me.
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  673. The real reaction I've noticed is that everyone has suddenly switched their opinion of him. The left now believe every word he says and the right say he can't be trusted. Being in the middle myself, I find it quite amusing.
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  674. Well £800m to send three people to Rwanda was great value wasn't it?
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  675.  @andywatts8654  There was no fascism
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  676. It's a dumb policy anyway. The governments own figures released this week show it costs £165k per person to send them to Rwanda plus it's for a limited number. Who on earth thinks that's a good value, sensible solution? For the price of one refugee to Rwanda, they could hire five more people to process asylum claims and remove the 25% who typically get rejected rather than accommodate them for up to three years and they can get the remaining 75% in to the jobs we desperately need people for
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  677. The amount sent to Ukraine is still considerably less than the amount thrown to tory friends and family for faulty ppe and a useless app. Add in the £55bn in written off furlough fraud they decided not to go after and it comes to around 3 times the amount sent to Ukraine
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  678. Yes there are dodgy politicians in all parties but one party seems to have far more than any other and they'll do anything to cover it up or stop them being punished where the other parties immediately suspend their dodgy MP's when there's an accusation
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  679. America is paying for this first
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  680. The need managers to take care of all the reports and paperwork the government demand of them
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  681. My local MP (David Warburton) is currently in his second term and in that whole time all he has ever done is vote with the party line. He has never introduced and bills, never questioned anything. He may as well not be there.
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  682. It's funny how when inflation was rising, they said inflation was out of their control but now that it's falling, it's definitely because of their policies and not because energy prices have dropped
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  683. Serco currently operate the tagging systems for criminals. They also donate to the tory party and get contracts for just about everything
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  684. Russia might have some very violent fans but Putin dealt with them. They were probably in a gulag.
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  685. This is a first test, failure will have always been a possibility. There will be a plan in place already for the next step but there's no point in rushing it and getting it wrong again. They need to investigate the wreckage, find the failure, work out why it failed and then understand how to fix it and replicate the failure conditions in a lab so they can do component testing rather than risk another multi million pound failure.
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  686. The tories always claim to be on the side of working people. That always changes when working people expect to be paid a reasonable wage. Anyone in a professional or skilled job should be able to afford to buy a house. When that's not the case, something is very wrong. Back in the late 90's I managed to buy a house only a year out of my apprenticeship while working as a welder
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  687. NI is currently the only part of the UK experiencing economic growth and that is because of the protocol deal. The government wants to put a stop to that
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  688. It won't happen. Boris knows it would be the end of his career and that's all he cares about
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  689.  @Rilu666  So that the big oil corporations who own the governments lose money through us not driving anywhere? So the billionaire property owners lose money as businesses downsize to smaller premises as their employees work from home and big, expensive offices are empty?
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  690.  @patburnsy8  Any evidence that it's supported by Soros? Every time there's something the right doesn't like, they claim it's funded by Soros. He's incredibly rich but he can't be funding everything.
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  691.  @mikehunt1528  Mountaineering involves a lot of time in small tents and sharing breathing equipment when someone's kit fails.
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  692.  @mstelios4259  That's incorrect. The EU delayed placing their order because they were trying to negotiate a lower price. The initial two doses are being supplied at cost already so they didn't get their cost reduction and payed the same as the UK
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  693. He has a butler called Morrison
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  694. Boris is as well isn't he?
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  695.  @nowgrownup  My friends in London could certainly afford a car but don't have one because the traffic is so bad that it's a waste of time trying to drive anywhere. Public transport is faster and cheaper in the capital, bloody useless anywhere else though
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  696. The shortage of staff costs lives and peoples health and the reason for that shortage of staff is people leaving the profession for better pay elsewhere and no one wanting to train for a job that pays so poorly and gets worse each year
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  697. While I agree he is useless, I don't hink he's any better or worse than Trump. Both were / are completely incompetent and should be in care homes, not the white house. It's time for an age limit on the president. Maximum 55 years at time of first term inauguration seems reasonable.
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  698.  @kse8348  There's no point having extra beds without the staff to care for the extra patients and they can't get extra staff or even keep the staff they've got without increasing pay. If they increase pay and increase staff numbers then they won't be paying £75 per hour for agency nurses
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  699. The only people who judge people by race are those on the far right and the far left. Most of us in the middle don't care what colour a person is and judge them only by their actions and personality. The far right and far left hate each other but in reality they're closer than they realise.
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  700. Because some people are idiots
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  701. As long as the US has weapons, the world is not safe
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  702. And we wouldn't have the highest energy prices in the world.
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  703. They did try to reform the NHS but their idea of reform was more reliance on the private sector and putting the directors of those private companies on the board that directs the budgets. Cameron's reforms also included removal of a lot of the regulations put in place to ensure those companies delivered good value service
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  704. It already was illegal anyway so this is pointless
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  705. Thats the way I see it, The striking workers will set a precedent to benefit all workers
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  706. I think she'll last a while. Not because she's good or liked (she isn't) but because the tories know that whoever replaces her has to be the person who takes them in to the next general election. It's absolutely critical they get it right this time.
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  707.  @globalist1990  No one earning £35k a year would be able to become a landlord. They've probably moved in to industry to earn £10k+ more than they could teaching
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  708. If he said "every word I say is a lie" I'm not sure I could even believe that
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  709. It's a special white, columbian coffee
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  710. It'll never happen. The government couldn't even manage to introduce a working track and trace app. This will be far more complex. Don't get upset about it, our government are far too incompetent.
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  711.  @goodlookinouthomie1757  The American society hasn't always been so heavily armed with such efficient weapons. If it was still bolt action rifles or single shot weapons then they wouldn't be able to cause such carnage so quickly
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  712. How is it unobtainable? Other countries are a long way ahead of us on this despite the fact that much of the engineering for renewable power generation is done in the UK. We're world leaders on wind turbine & solar panel design and manufacture yet we're shipping them all abroad
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  713. No it won't. North sea oil is owned by private companies and sold on the international markets. It would have to be privatised to bring our costs down and that's extremely unlikely
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  714. In real terms, salaries are lower now than in 2010. They don't seem to realise that a population with no money cannot spend and who benefits from that? Surely businesses want us to spend, banks want us to invest and the government want more tax revenue so making the general population better off is in everyones interest.
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  715. Exactly. The same model is used in a lot of similar businesses including tattoo shops
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  716.  @T5Zplayer  Heathrow does receive subsidies from tax payers.
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  717. And then, Cameron was followed by an even more incompetent one. I'm still yet to decide whether Boris is less competent than May but it's close
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  718. Nope, the ship's name is Petrel - - - - - pathetic neiljosephbennett
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  719.  @samcreech497  Musk says his businesses invented the first sophisticated AI but that's simply not true. It had been available for years in various applications including the fluid mechanics software I've been using for a decade now
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  720. No one was processed for two years so didn't get visas, they got stuck in hotels. Did that stop them?
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  721. Probably neither
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  722.  @taffyterrier  No, there are not "more training places at any other time". The government keep making this claim but it's not true. It has been increased in the last few years but that won't make any difference for a decade because it quite rightly takes a very long time to become a senior doctor
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  723.  @Gordon..  But a large proportion of NHS funding goes to paying the private sector to do treatments at a much higher cost than the NHS could do it if it had the resources
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  724. What the tories threw at their mates for faulty ppe and a faulty app would pay for those pay rises for nearly a decade.
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  725.  @cheekychappyo8  Thats true and all around the world there are trading blocks which have favourable trade deals with members compared to external countries. We are now in none of them, the only first world economy not in any trading block. So far we don't have a single trade deal that we didn't have while in the EU and all the ones we do have are equal to or worse than the agreements we had while in the EU.
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  726. The post office CEO did an interview. He came across as a really horrible person, it was fairly disasterous. I think the rest learned from that
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  727. Who cares who leaked them, they showed us what was happening
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  728. Obviously he was right when the remain campaign predicted exactly this situation and he said it was just fear mongering
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  729. Growth has also never been a result of low taxes. It can be a result of government spending if correctly targeted.
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  730. I'm still waiting. Where is it?
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  731. What about the rest of the UK? The whole of the union needs to prosper or none of it will
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  732. I've never done heart surgery but I know about hydraulics. Surely it can't be too different. I'll get my overalls on and head to the hospital
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  733.  @rhinoboy6603  That's pretty well inline with any large organisation
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  734. I'll be voting Labour, not because I want a Labour council but the Labour candidate is less bad than the tory and the only one with a reasonable chance
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  735. I'd have a better pension if Robert Maxwell didn't steal it to prop up his failing business and then Liz Truss didn't wipe billions off the value of pensions including £15k off mine
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  736. Does she?
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  737. @@johnconner581 Blame the people cutting their wages and conditions, not the people trying to defend their livlihoods. We're paying the highest taxes since WW2 and yet the workers in all public services have taken a 17% real terms pay cut over the last 12 years and all our services have been cut beyond the minimum. Where's all our taxes gone?
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  738. Surely the ideal location would be near the motorway
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  739. He'll be president of D wing by 2024
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  740. I wouldn't care who he said this about, whether it were Abbot, Braverman or Badenoch or any black female politician of any political persuasion, I would still have to call this man the lowest form of racist low life
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  741.  @Noel-ji8nm  Have they? When? Labour introduced 14 private finance contracts. The tories added another 8000. I actually have no problem with the private sector in the NHS but it needs regulation to ensure service is provided
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  742.  @Noel-ji8nm  The conservatives signed up over 200 times as much PFI debt that Labour did. The conservatives also took £35bn out of NHS budgets for the test and trace app that didn't ever work (France made one that worked for £50m)
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  743. As landlords leave the market, the houses don't just disappear. They go up for sale meaning a first time buyer actually has an opportunity to buy or they're bought by another landlord. People keep talking like the houses just disappear
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  744. Labour Lib Dems and half the conservatives have said they'll reject it. It'll never make it through parliament
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  745. At least NASA provided science and technology which benefits everyone
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  746. It's impossible to scientifically prove that something didn't happen because if something didn't happen there is no evidence and a lack of evidence available doesn't mean something absolutely didn't happen. I suspect they came to their conclusion because there's no concrete evidence that it did happen.
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  747. I was 26 when they left power. We had functioning public services, lower taxes, free university, a third the national debt, lower house prices relative to wages, higher wages (allowing for inflation) and I'd never heard of a food bank
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  748. Nearly all GP's are now privately employed now and most GP surgeries are privately operated. Look in to it, I'll bet your local surgery is privately operated
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  749. Nice idea but completely illegal and how would we attract skilled labour (which we desperately need) if they can't work for three years?
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  750. I'll be honest, I've enjoyed them. No commuting, no need to make excuses not to see people, quiet roads. I've been social distancing for 40 years. The only thing I miss is live music. There's so many hypocritical people complaining that they can't go to the pub yet pubs have been struggling for years because no one went to them, I know people complaining they can't go to the pub who never went to the pub.
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  751. It'll never happen. A Trump style leader wouldn't work in the UK. His style is to tell people what they muct do, a leader in the UK has to take a more collaborative approach to get things done and that's one of the reasons Boris failed
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  752. If this isn't what the British public want then the British public won't vote for Labour. Give the public a choice and let them decide. If the public don't want this then they can vote conservative or reform. No vote has ever determined policy indefinitely.
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  753.  @merlin7766  Don't those on the right hate Sunak as well? It seems most of his own party despise him
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  754.  @scienceevolves4417  There are plenty of other jobs that pay less but they don't require years of training or involve the pressure of making potentially life and death decisions. I work in the private sector earning considerably more for less pressure and less hours. When many of these nurses joined the profession they were getting a decent pay and they bought homes and had families which were within their means but their pay has been all but frozen for over a decade and their pay has fallen behind inflation by 19%. I couldn't afford a 19% pay cut. Should they just cheerfully accept that? Low pay is also the reason they can't retain or recruit nurses so they have to top up with agency staff at more than double the cost of NHS staff
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  755. No but then at the moment, where would the money come from? We need some economic growth before that can happen
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  756. Actually we are a long way behind all the major European countries and China
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  757. None. If they do then they will be sanctioned and not be able to fly anywhere. The Royal Air Force could do it and for the numbers agreed with Rwanda, it would only take one flight a year.
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  758. Pay attention. Drivers aren't represented by the RMT and aren't on strike. It's cleaners, ticket office and maintenance staff on strike
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  759. Like Boris, he cannot deal with criticism, especially when it's obviously reasonable
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  760. Looking at Labour's proposal, it looks like it'll be far cheaper and more effective and result in less arriving and us not having to accommodate them while awaiting processing
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  761. @@godblessfarage There are plenty of skilled jobs. In fact we have massive shortages of skilled workers. Last time I applied for jobs in engineering, I had four offers within two weeks because of the demand. I'm still getting three or four calls a day asking if I want to apply for jobs.
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  762. Keeping up with population growth is the problem
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  763. Food inflation is 23% and it's not per month, that's not how inflation works
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  764. To be fair, the British people know that's what tories always do and we voted them in with a huge majority. We are unfortunately in no position to complain about what we bought up on ourselves
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  765. What lies has Starmer told?
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  766. Completely agree
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  767.  @lestrem11  Don't be daft. Starmer's too boring to get wasted. He has never partied or had more than one pint of weak lager in any month
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  768. Braverman has previously said they have no intention of going after the gangs. Reopen the asylum center in Calais and the problem is solved overnight, suddenly there is no reason to cross the channel and no need to house anyone in hotels
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  769. Migration was lower under Labour. As the council elections showed, Labour dont need migrants to win elections
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  770.  @T5Zplayer  If the strikes were political to remove the tories then why are they continuing? Tories claim to be on the side of working people but I cannot think of a single occasion where they have taken the side of workers on any pay or conditions dispute, every time they oppose workers. Britain's average salary in 2010 was equal with Germany, now it's roughly £8000 lower in Britain. And tory supporters like to tell us Britain is doing better than Germany, so why are British people earning so much less?
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  771. But she's doing a useless job. The prison ship for example only holds 500 people and costs considerably more than keeping them in hotels. The Rwanda policy is just an expensive exchange programme where we end up with Rwandans in return for our asylum seekers. It's not point coming up with these plans if they're incompatible with international laws. Even if we leave the ECHR (which actually means leaving the council of Europe) then we will still be breaking UN laws and we certainly won't be leaving the UN. There are only two countries to have ever left the council of Europe and they are Russia and Belarus, do we really want to follow their example?
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  772. Greased-Hogg is still getting one though despite never having actually done anything
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  773. Not unheard of. Unfortunately it happens, rarely but it does happen. They support the ship on chocks, there could have been all sorts of reasons it could have shifted
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  774. Labour have published their policies. On the migration issue, they plan to take up the French offer of an asylum and migration in Calais so they apply there without setting foot in the UK so there's no need to accommodate them. I don't understand why the tories rejected that offer, makes no sense at all.
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  775. Taxes shouldn't need to be raised to give pay rises inline with inflation. Price and wage rises inline with inflation automatically increase tax receipts by the same because tax is a percentage
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  776. And this one is facing an investigation for dodgy financial dealings.
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  777. Having no opposition is very bad for everyone. I don't care whether Labour, Conservatives or anyone else is in power, a decent opposition is essential to keep them in check. I hope Labour get it together and sort out a party worth voting for and I hope the conservatives remain strong as well whether in power or opposition
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  778. According to Labour, they will all have their claims processed
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  779. Back in 2016 and 2020, Trump was much sharper, he could actually debate. He's lost it. He's just rambling now
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  780.  @tt-ew7rx  He should never have been allowed to teach
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  781.  @procatprocat9647  It is not a fact. That's not how inflation works, not in the slightest. Go and read about the mechanisms which cause inflation
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  782. A lot more than my little hatchback which I'm told pollutes too much
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  783. It's about how much business Sunak can get for Infosys
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  784. @Lost in translation Communism doesn't really exist anymore. Even the Chinese Communist party aren't communist in anything other than name. We are still bound to so many EU regulations and now have no say in how they are changed or applied
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  785. Fair point
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  786. Probably. Look back at every pandemic/plague through history. Every single one lasts 3-7 years with the ones in the 5-7 year range being before the invention of vaccines and antibiotics. The only pandemic with no end so far is HIV/Aids, which is a disease which attacks the bodies systems which a vaccine would need to work with although stem cell treatment has been successful but the US government are blocking it because they are backwards. This is going away no time soon.
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  787.  @francescostello1377  and that's exactly why this investment is needed
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  788.  @kevinb9830  Anyone in a professional or skilled job should be able to afford to buy a house. When that's not the case, something is very wrong. That's certainly how it used to be
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  789. Operations are getting cancelled all the time because of shortages of doctors & nurses
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  790. No, this is the UK, not America. It's maths skills
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  791.  @facitenonvictimarum  I've got a degree in the subject, it's maths
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  792. Did Trump make a plan for bringing them back when he planned the withdrawl?
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  793. That isn't true. It's very closely based on existing coronavirus vaccines which have over a decade of data. All the vaccines, including the MRNA vaccines are tweaked versions of tried and tested medicines
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  794. Very much so, yes. Not helped by the protections the tories put in place for them
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  795. Everything that happens is a conspiracy and definitely not the result of an attack by an enemy in a time of war against a computer system that is outdated and not adequately protected
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  796. Hold on. Didn't Sunak just promise to sack striking nurses and also cut hospital waiting times which are long because of a shortage of staff. The tories are in no place to criticise
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  797. Remember when left or right just referred to economic policy direction? We have very few MP's on the economic far left but quite a few on the economic far right. I note that none of those others mentioned as being far left are actually politicians, they are activists. One isn't even British.
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  798. To be perfectly honest, even if they weren't on strike there's still a fair chance of your train being cancelled
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  799. Levels of infection is just one piece of data which, by itself is fairly meaningless. What about the rates of hospitalisation and death? Those are the figures that will show how well the vaccine really works.
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  800. No they didn't the only people who said this wouldn't happen were a few tory back benchers who have less power than most school dinner ladies so were in no position to say anything. The government were quite open about the possibility of it happening
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  801. There were no fees when I did mine
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  802. Which bit is bad? The banning of fire & rehire? Is that bad?
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  803. No, that was a passenger, not an astronaut
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  804. Conservatives are moving further to the right. Look at the tax proposals from both conservatives and labour for example. Both are offering tax cuts but conservative tax cuts benefit the highest earners while Labour tax cuts benefit low and middle earners.
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  805. The US is too far gone for unarmed cops. Guns are just too common and too easy to get illegally. The country is a lost cause
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  806. If they can pay tax or join the military then they should be able to vote. Surveys showed that only around 20% would actually vote anyway but even if every one of them voted, it's a relatively small group of the electorate
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  807. A large number of them will be replaced next year
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  808. How about if they use jet ski's instead? Is it fine as long as they're not using boats?
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  809.  @grimnir8872  FFS, go and read what the civil service actually do because it's certainly not just admin
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  810. Why not send the Reform party there to govern the iceberg. Their policy of "Keep the berg white" would absolutely be a winner.
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  811. Why would anyone other than HMRC know about that? How about Jeremy Hunt "forgetting" to pay stamp duty on seven houses he bought?
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  812. Are there any Labour billionaires? Labour's policies of closing tax loopholes really go against the interests of the super rich
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  813.  @guzzergusher  Not without breaking international law and then having far more costly sanctions. The solution is to re-open the Calais asylum center (the French have offered this) so that we don't have to accommodate anyone while processing them (up to two years currently) and no one sets foot in the UK unless their application has been accepted. Boris was told this would happen when he decided to close the Calais center but he decided he knew best
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  814. Even the speaker said that didn't happen
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  815. Maybe one of them identifies as a gender neutral being. Bloody gender fluids everywhere these days
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  816. And yet there are large numbers of people who want to do nothing about reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. The technologies exist now to stop using fossil fuels as a fuel reducing crude oil use to just the chemical industry
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  817. When a landlord sells a house, someone else buys it and either lives in it or rents it out. It does not get demolished
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  818.  @ravd8082  They haven't said they won't tax UK people. They have said they won't tax working people. That still leaves the wealthy and big business plus they can scrap the £10bn subsidies to the incredibly profitable oil giants who dodge taxes
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  819. The standards committee can only issue a suspension. A 35 day suspension will trigger a by election so it's effectively booting him out anyway. Only the party can immediately withdraw the whip and boot him out of parliament
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  820. Is it? I work with engineering graduates and most are very well educated.
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  821. It was just another oil rich country invaded by the US.
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  822.  @Bevrinton  What would we do with the coal from 20 mines? There's hardly any coal power stations left now. It provides 3% of our power
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  823. I wanted to make a career change from engineer to paramedic, until I saw the wages. After two years training and a degree qualification, I'd earn less than I was paid as a graduate engineer a decade ago. For what they do, the pay is disgusting. They don't expect to get rich but they've got bills to pay and anyone in a skilled job should be able to afford a reasonable standard of living
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  824. Isn't their motto Be Prepared? Ray Mears would be turning in his grave
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  825. They don't get beaten often in a single tournament. They're beaten and they're out
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  826. Team America got it right
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  827. No, I hate London.
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  828. £35bn spent on an app which didn't work. £8bn on PPE which was unsuitable. £50bn in furlough fraud which was written off. £800m on sending four people to Rwanda and building housing which was sold off months before the tories even left office. £45bn on a failed mini budget. £10bn subsidies to the oil industry in the year they were absolutely fleecing us and making record profits. I think the tories win when it comes to wasting money
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  829. Grant Shapps made energy secretary. That'll be an easy job doing absolutely nothing about energy costs rising as wholesale prices are dropping
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  830.  @Baba-so6fh  I've not understood it since they switch the pack colours for cheese and onion with salt and vinegar.
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  831.  @simonharrison1874  He stil lies though. In fairness to Starmer, he lies a lot less than Boris but then I guess he's not got as much to lie about at the moment
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  832. It's not planned. Once the system is overloaded, it's spills to a storm system automatically and is then discharged. We had to study water treatment systems at uni years ago for my civil engineering course. An interesting subject that stuck in my brain somehow
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  833.  @joyceguest7868  Unfortunately, those in a position to do something about it aren't
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  834. The British are crap at managing industry. Take Jaguar as an example, the longest period of single ownership in Jaguar's history is under Tata's ownership. Their best selling vehicle by a huge margin is the F Pace. I've owned several Jags and the best quality one was the 2014 XFR, it was so much better built than the old XJ's. We're good at the engineering and building but we're hopeless at keeping businesses solvent
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  835. Thats all first past the post will ever allow. Labour are more likely to give us proportional representation which gives more power to smaller parties and a fairer representation based on votes received. FPTP massively favours conservatives because they set constituency boundaries to benefit them
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  836.  @tat2zz68  It's not US territory, it's mostly international waters so no, it's not officially the Gulf Of America.
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  837. This isn't a democrat or republican issue, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was initiated by Trump without any real plan for how it would end and Biden is just carrying on with the same blind process.
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  838. One fact I'll point out which explains some of that. European car manufacturers make sure their products comply with all US regulations so they can sell there. US car manufacturers mostly do not make their cars compliant with European regulations so they cannot be sold here. I'm sure they made those choices with good reason but US manufacturers make cars that would sell well over here, if they made them compliant.
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  839.  @johnou.k.3780  I'm not, because I got my pay rise
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  840.  @T5Zplayer  No they didn't. Blair was found to have lied to parliament and it was Cameron who was PM at the time who chose not to implement the recommendations of the committee at that time. Corbyn was Labour leader and wanted Blair punished. Incidentally, Corbyn voted against the Iraq war wile the majority of conservatives voted to go to war
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  841. This happens every election. Tories always cut tax before the election, raise it afterwards
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  842.  @888ssss  As terrible as they were, they did a better job with the economy than these clowns
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  843. Because the vaccine doesn't give 100% protection, no vaccination ever has done. At 90% effectiveness, that could mean that out of 100 vaccinated people on a flight, there is a slim chance that 10 of them could have the virus.
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  844.  @louisedawson1362  Disaster capitalism
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  845. There is no wage price spiral unless the national average income increases by more than the rate of inflation but even with this rise, the national average rise is around half the rate of inflation. Inflation is never temporary unless we go in to recession and have a period of deflation. Once inflation drops back to the target 2%, that doesn't mean prices drop, it just means they rise by 2% per year instead of the current 16% per year. As prices rise, tax receipts automatically increase by the same amount so the money is there to pay for rises, it's a choice by the government not to increase wages because they don't want a public sector
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  846. Why wouldn't they? The NHS cannot be turned around immediately, it's going to take many years and during that time there will have to be some reliance on private companies. They weren't personal donations, they were donations to the party sent via Wes Streeting
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  847.  @markadams738  I'm all for Sunak dragging this out until January. The polls are only going in one direction for the tories, even Rwanda hasn't given them a boost. January will be the peak of the NHS crisis plus it's too cold for their geriatric voters (the last age group with a majority voting for tories) and people are generally in a bad mood and ready to punish them
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  848. Boris is doing his best to make sure Labour win the next election
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  849. The only solution is to build more prisons and that'll take a few years (not helped by the lack of skilled engineers & construction workers). Until then, there's no choice but to limit the prison population which means either sending less people to prison or letting people out early.
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  850. But they can overcome the challenges with out of the box blue sky thinking to meet the objectives laid down by the stakeholders
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  851. The entire tory party cheered Truss's budget when she announced it and they all defended it for as long as they could
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  852. Maybe it's time to just end PM's giving honours to their mates. Just because it's tradition doesn't mean it has to continue for ever
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  853.  @russelledwards001  Keep up with the news, it's his father, wife, sister and ex(?)mistress Allegra Stratton
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  854. Lawyers don't receive legal aid. Some of their clients receive legal aid. Lawyers also don't decide anything, judges do that. It's in Britains interest to not break international law as that leads to trade sanctions and since we've already lost 15% of our global exports we can't lose any more
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  855. It'll be everything Infosys wants it to be
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  856. There was an applied thermodynamics book (I forget the exact book and don't have it here) for my mechanical engineering degree. There's nothing in it which would suggest that we can't stop using fossil fuels as far as I remember. I don't recall anything in it which even touched on the subject and I don't see why it would have based on the content. There's nothing in the scope of thermodynamics which would determine whether or not the abandonment of fossil fuels is viable
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  857.  @TheTwistedStone  I guarantee it doesn't work. None of the internals will be steel or iron so a magnet won't effect them
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  858. Boris was behind the leak. I'm absolutely positive about that. Hancock is getting more and more scrutiny for his dodgy deals and Boris wanted him out the way so when the opportunity came up, he took it
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  859. I'd rather use a road roller on him
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  860. There are lots of graduate programmes. The problem we have is they're mostly located in cities where graduates can't afford to live. We're in a rural area with cheap housing and competition for graduate vacancies is huge
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  861.  @T5Zplayer  There is a lot of unnecessary spending that could have been avoided. The £10bn paid in subsidies to oil & gas companies last year for example while they were making an absolute killing out of fleecing us. They could have made an effort to recover the estimated £50bn - £80bn of furlough fraud instead of writing it off. They could have recovered the £8bn for faulty ppe, if it wasn't supplied correctly then there is a solid legal case to recover the money.
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  862. He's not dictating to us. Labour can't do anything unless we vote for them
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  863. Is that why we had no PPE? Or why existing NHS ppe suppliers were ignored in favour of tory friends and family?
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  864. Despite the fact that austerity has never worked
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  865. The thing is the longer they prevent the assembly forming, the more unpopular they get so they're effectively just shooting themselves in the nuts
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  866.  @jjefferyworboys8138  And the government action so far has failed. After the introduction of the windfall tax, Shell & BP have paid a massive £0 due to the massive loophole that Sunak put in for them. The oil companies have said that a windfall tax on surplus profits will not have any effect on future investment in the UK yet the tories still don't want to tax them. I wonder how many senior tory MP's own shares they're earning huge dividends on?
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  867. Unlikely. EV cars with regenerative braking produce very, very little brake dust and since all new cars will be EV by 2030 then why bother. Has anyone ever said they are a problem? Brake pads are non toxic
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  868.  @Milo-id9qd  Reducing taxes doesn't increase inflation but raising them does. Inflation has just gone up and the reason for it was tax rises
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  869.  @T5Zplayer  No it wasn't but because it handled wrong once, should it never be done better?
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  870. That might not be a bad thing since the US economy is experiencing much lower inflation and higher growth.
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  871.  @Logarithm906  The amount the tories gave away to their mates just for faulty ppe and the faulty test and trace app was £53bn, the migrant boats cost £10bn and that's only because they're not employing enough people to process them and get them out of hotels and either out of the country or in to jobs so technically probably at least half that £10bn is also the fault of the tories
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  872. Thats pointless now. The tories removed all the powers the unions had
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  873. As it happens, my employer is advertising a vacancy for a new health and safety advisor. As a full time job with a minimum of 40 hours per week, this comes with a salary of £35k - £40k dependant upon experience. Therefore I'd say £100k would be very excessive even if it were for a full time position
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  874. Climate change is about global yearly averages, not local peak temperatures. A few hot days here and there are perfectly normal. The mild winters are more of a sign of global warming
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  875. We, like Canada elect a party to government, we don't elect a leader.
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  876. Why would people want their wages to rise as the cost of living increases? I think that may just be the dumbest question ever asked on the internet. As long as the average national wage rise doesn't overtake inflation then it will not drive inflation, it cannot do so because we won't have any more excess money to spend
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  877. Thats exactly what NI have had since 2020
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  878. Rent prices in the UK are disgusting. I know my neighbours rent is more than triple what I pay on my mortgage for an identical house
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  879. Canada are the biggest supplier of lithium to the US. If they stop exports, it would kill Tesla
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  880.  @rjws69  Maybe if Trump used a teleprompter his speeches wouldn't have been rambling gibberish. Using a teleprompter just suggests he (and/or his team) spent time preparing a speech in advance
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  881. At least he holds constituency surgeries, unlike Farage
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  882.  @blacklisted4885  They did the same under Blair & Brown so they're clearly not just anti tory
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  883. Probably not. Lib Dems backed Boris on that issue
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  884. No, that was flammable cladding, the concrete at Grenfell was fine
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  885. Why would he?
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  886.  @dougie1943  The problem with the NHS is most of it is privatised. Most of the money going in to it goes straight out to shareholders of the companies within the NHS. Take a look at your local GP surgery, I almost guarantee it's operated by a private business on behalf of the NHS, most GP's are no longer employed by the NHS
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  887. Before anyone did too much digging in to Hancocks dodgy deals and found something to put half the tory party in jail
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  888.  @tonypepperoni3679  There is loads of land to build on. There is currently only 10% more land used for housing than for golf courses. In the small town where I live there are three very large ex factory site which developers bought years ago and have done nothing with, there's potential for around a thousand houses in total on those sites.
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  889. Russia needs a new leadership which will move towards peace and a new start so they can work with the rest of the world not against it and the Russian people can benefit
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  890. The tax payer doesn't fund food banks
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  891. I'm not sure about that. I think what he's saying is that Boris convinces himself his own lies are true. Despite that, after Boris was made aware of facts, he failed to correct the record
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  892. He's busy setting up more deals for Infosys. I really hope Labour cancels every government contract with Infosys and all the tory donors to replace them with companies who are right for the job
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  893. Home owners are mot "having a disco" our mortgages have gone up significantly. Landlords are doing pretty well though, they've put rents up by in many cases double inflation
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  894. Oil tankers are never empty.
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  895. It's a private business, governments don't have responsibility for how private businesses operate. Health and Safety regulations that the ship yard would be working to are set by the British government, not the Scottish government
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  896. It's illegal for councilors to take donations. Only MP's are allowed to take them and they can also tell councilors what to do
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  897. No, UK PM to make Infosys very happy. Sunak does nothing unless there is profit for his families businesses
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  898. It's looking unlikely. He's lost a lot of support over the last few years and he's running against the same man who beat him before. Personally I'd rather see both replaced by someone much younger
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  899. How can they do that? We won't suddenly get new coal fired power stations. The ones shut over the last few decades have been flattened and the few left are already at full capacity
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  900.  @infohound41  Polls are showing Labour will have a huge majority. They're not going to need a coalition unless it goes really badly. This is just Sunak trying to scare people in to voting tory A coalition isn't necessarily a bad thing anyway, they're quite common around the world and often bring a little more balance to government
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  901. Nothing to do with the massive spike in the cost of oil and gas plus the fact that everything we import is now more expensive because of all the paperwork the seller has to do?
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  902.  @katejackson7432  My employer spent hundreds of thousands on UKCE and there never was going to be any benefit to it. It was just a replica of CE but only recognised in the UK while CE was recognised around the world, not just in the EU
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  903.  @TheAArmstrong  Why would she? Starmer booted her out of the party over a year ago. She's an independent now.
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  904. Her promise was to fight for independence not to deliver it
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  905.  @lewis123417  Wage price spirral happens when the national average salary rises significantly above inflation, not when wages follow inflation rises. If wages couldn't follow inflation, that would mean that everyone in the UK would only ever get worse off. What a depressing world that would be. The UK is already a low wage economy compared to the rest of the G7, our average salaries are really low. Compare pay for the same profession in the UK to any other G7 country and it's lower in the UK.
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  906. Another corrupt tory. What a shocker
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  907. They have promised to investigate this. It's not a firm promise though
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  908. It's about time they realised a happy and healthy population will be far more productive than a sick and miserable population
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  909. They haven't
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  910. @@godblessfarage Is it Putin's fault that Britain has the highest energy prices in the world? That's not an exaggeration. His war may be to blame for global oil and gas prices rising but he's not to blame for them rising in the UK more than the rest of the world. Every other country has takes significant measures to keep prices lower for consumers but the UK just gets a token effort which is effectively a loan to tax payers instead of being funded by oil company windfall profits
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  911. Has any politician ever given a straight answer to the question asked?
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  912.  @T5Zplayer  There was an investigation in to Blairs lies but strangely it was Cameron who decided to do nothing about the result. The banking crash was a worldwide financial disaster, we could never have avoided it and we survived it better than some countries however, if Thatcher & Major hadn't removed banking regulation or if Blair and Brown had reinstated that regulation then we would have come out of it better. Not having a decade of austerity afterwards which achieved nothing but stagnating our economy and wages would have helped as well. Other countries who didn't take the austerity route recovered faster and came out stronger
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  913. Behave. Politicians criticize each other all the time and they all get over it. They should all be big boys & girls, take the insults and fire them back occasionally. Is Trump that weak he can't get over it?
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  914. The responsibility lies with the principle designer. The legislation has existed longer than I've been in the industry but it's always just expected that the designer will follow legislation, there's no checking up on it by regulators
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  915. No, the civil service are accountable to the law while politicians are not. Politicians make demands and then civil servants have to try to make those demands work and sometimes the constraints of international law, economics and reality prevent those things. A civil sevrant can be prosecuted for breaking British or international law while an MP cannot
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  916. Trump should respect the governments that other countries have elected and he should absolutely not decide foreign or trade policy based on any criteria other than what is best for the United States and not based on grudges with foreign politicians. Having said that, there's a lot of evidence that Trump doesn't hold grudges, just look up comments that Musk and Vance have made about Trump in the past. Boris Johnson said some very insulting things about him and they still speak now
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  917. I don't think there's anyone left who she hasn't blamed. It's everyone but her
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  918. Interestingly the media seems to have ignored the promise to investigate the corruption involved in HS2 (they were still buying land after the cancellation was announced) and in covid ppe purchasing and other government policies. They have also said they will aim to recover the fraudulently claimed £50+bn of furlough which Sunak decided to write off
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  919. No one forced Boris out. He had plenty of warning that people were fed up with his constant, obvious lies but he just couldn't stop and that finished him off. He caused his own downfall
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  920.  @Alan-ec7ko  Their other option is to quit and find another job, as many have already done. I'd say a couple one day strikes are preferable to that. My friends wife has quit nursing after more than 20 years to go and work at a local factory for more money for less hours because she just had enough
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  921. Is an exam situation representative of real life in work? After 30 years in engineering I have yet to come across that situation where I can revise for two weeks and then have to work through a paper of questions in two hours
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  922. Britain needs a workforce that is happy, healthy and well educated to be able to do well. Demoralising people with low pay, not keeping them healthy and not providing them with the knowledge they need on leaving school can only ever lead to poor productivity. Britain had the 4th largest economy in the world until 2016, now we're very close to slipping to 8th which pushes us out of the G7.
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  923.  @bieituns  did we get our fishing waters back? No but whats the point when fishermen have lost access to their biggest market. Not being able to land in the EU is destroying the industry Have we took back control of our borders, ie has immigration numbers come down? No but the oppertunity is there it's just that our government has failed to do what is required. We actually had better control when Britain had a refugee and asylum center in Calais because no one had to cross the channel to apply for asylum Are we still following EU laws and regulations? Yes but Britain was one of the biggest contributors to making those laws and the only ones the tories want to scrap are those protecting our rights as workers Have we done anything about VAT or reduced taxes? No, the conservatives have raised our taxes, they have never, at any point in history lowered taxes for anyone but the wealthy Have we started training our own doctors and nurses? They would if they paid enough to attract people in to the NHS. This is nothing to do with the EU. Who's going to take on £50k of student debt and work unpaid for a year to eventually earn £35k when every other profession requiring similar qualifications pays considerably more? Whats going on with Northern ireland? A problem that was always going to exist. In fact, the current situation has given a trade advantage over the rest of the UK AND the EU as they are in a unique position of free trade with both sides.
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  924. They can't turn them back. That would break maritime law and it wouldn't be long until UN vessels turn up to escort them through
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  925. No they weren't. Everything only got worse under the tories
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  926.  @Paul-eb4jp  But surely we're better off having trade which involves sending goods to the other side of the world on ships with four week delivery times rather than trading with countries with road connections and one or two day delivery times?
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  927.  @doccevida9051  Who is saying it's controversial or wrong to hate Hamas? Opposing Israel doesn't mean taking Hamas's side. Not wanting civilians killed is not support for Hams
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  928. Building nuclear reactors creates a lot of very well paid jobs. There's around 10,000 people working on the Hinkley reactor C project. I have a few friends working there and believe me, they are very well paid for example, a welder earning £80k and an electrician earning £72k. We need more of this, not less
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  929. I find it confusing that the same people who say that pumping hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2 in to the atmosphere cannot change the climate but that geo engineering on a relatively tiny scale can
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  930.  @taffyterrier  Doctors pay their tuition fees, just like every other student. The government stopped funding higher education many years ago. The only way in which there is any subsidy in British universities is that foreign students are charged much higher fees in order to keep them low for British students
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  931. Billions for the tories mate which could be recovered if they wanted to
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  932.  @alanhenderson6497  If they want protection, they should pay some taxes. Jersey is nothing more than a tax haven for the rich
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  933. He gets a pretty good salary but he seems to be doing an extremely good job. The union would be rather hypocritical if they paid employees like Lynch minimum wage while demanding their members employers pay more
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  934. There's the problem. British students don't want to train as doctors or nurses because the pay and conditions are unappealing
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  935. Why on earth did your mortgage triple? Typically repayments increased by 20% - 25%
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  936. Well then their alternative is to quit and go elsewhere for better wages so the doctor shortage gets even worse. I'd rather they could strike and fight for better pay here than just leave
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  937.  @taffyterrier  Yes they do. Australia, US and Germany are all actively recruiting British doctors and nurses. I've personally been to hospital in New Zealand after breaking a femur (not recommended) and had trouble understanding the thick scouse accent of one of the doctors treating me
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  938. They'll lose no matter who is leader. Those who the party membership want as leader are just as unpopular with the wider electorate (according to polling). It's a sorry state of affairs when Labour have an enormous poll lead despite the fact that their leader has a -10 point poll rating. Starmer isn't popular, he's just less unpopular than Sunak or Tice
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  939. And how many times has Lawrence Fox threatened to sue people who have said unkind things about him? He can't take an insult either
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  940.  @w3w3w3  Because we couldn't afford to get fined. People lost their jobs after getting fined. We couldn't go to the care homes to visit grandparents or go to the hospitals to visit friends and family because they were locked down. We couldn't go to the pub because it was shut. Many of us couldn't even go to work. While the government put these restrictions on us, they partied
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  941. It won't happen. The party don't want that sort of instability this early on
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  942. We had a Green run council here. Absolutely hopeless. They made the parks look beautiful but cut refuse collections "to promote recycling" to the point where people couldn't recycle enough to keep up. They also run a monthly market on the only car park in town which attracted thousands of people to town and gave them nowhere to park except residentual streets
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  943. The problem started back in the 70's when all these critical industries were sold off. Once they're sold, all control over ownership is gone. The owners are free to sell to the highest bidder, which is why most of our critical infrastructure is foreign owned now
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  944. It is the lowest paid profession which requires a degree qualification by a significant margin. I'm qualified to the same academic level as a nurse and earn £20k more than the median nurse salary. On top of that, I don't have to work shifts, or weekends, or nights and when the end of my contracted hours comes, I'm out the door and going home and my contracted hours are lower
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  945. She was prime minister for 44 days, they didn't have time to organise a strike then! The mess she left is part of the reason for the strikes, the spending cuts to repair her disaster are why there's no money for pay rises
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  946. It depends on whether there is an over supply of labour. Currently we have a shortage which is harming business. We need enough to fill all the jobs but still leave a bit of competitiveness for the employment market
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  947.  @joesheridan9451  It wouldn't be unchecked if there were enough staff to process them and kick out the 35% they typically reject. We'd also have far less if we were still in the Dublin agreement that we could have remained in even with brexit but Boris chose not to
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  948. Screw the DUP. The people of NI rejected them in the last election because they don't want what the DUP want
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  949.  @azillliasmith2734  Traffic in central London is ridiculous but any efforts to address it are branded an attack on motorists.
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  950. He doesn't support the strikes so why would he not like that?
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  951. How about the government are made personally responsible for every death due to underfunding in the NHS?
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  952. And everyone is inside which makes transmission easier
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  953. He's our local MP. He was really popular here before the last election but not anymore. He'll be out at the next election. He's locally known as Greased-Hogg
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  954. There's going to be a lot of re-opening businesses who won't be able to make use of all their employees until they get properly up and running after months of zero cash flow. I'm guessing it's to prevent a mass unemployment event
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  955. Bit like Trump then
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  956. So why are things only this bad in the UK? Why have other countries managed to cut inflation and energy prices. This is the fault of the tories
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  957.  @aydencaldwell2472  The average salary for an NHS paramedic is £27k. That's utter dog s**t for a skilled professional. I work in engineering and we pay graduates straight out of uni with zero experience more than that. I know unskilled factory workers earning considerably more than that
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  958. They will but whats far more important is that they perform well where they win and serve the locals as well as possible. If they fail to do that, they are doomed. The press are already digging dirt on the candidates, Reform's selection process clearly has some major holes. I think ironically winning could be their undoing because at the moment, their biggest strength is a lack of track record. No one can say they've done badly yet...
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  959. They can request one but only the PM or king can call one and the king won't get involved and the PM knows they're out the door at the next election
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  960. Those migrants cost a fraction of what the tories threw at their mates for ppe and an app etc. We have a severe shortage of workers. Let them in, process them faster and get them in to work and contributing taxes and spending in our economy. If they just want benefits, they go to Germany or France where they get better benefits than here and they get them quicker and the cost of living is much lower
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  961. Seems fairly neutral to me. They reported what the plan is and reported that there is strong opposition to it.
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  962. I wonder how much his father in law's business will profit from this deal? Everything Sunak does seems to result in profits for his family
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  963. totally dude
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  964. It'll be a right wing echo chamber full of people who all think the same (anti abortion, pro gun, pro capitalism, anti democrat, etc etc). It'll be boring, I like that people have different opinions, it makes life interesting. Conversations are dull when everyone agrees, people have lost the ability to disagree with each other and still respect each other and not get offended.
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  965. It's going to mean more people using coal and wood for more of their heating so no, it's not better. Heating my home with gas was cheaper than firewood but this winter I'll probably use the fire more.
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  966. All that combined is less than the tories spent on an app which didn't work. The carbon capture funds are being spent with UK businesses so a very large proportion will come back in taxes
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  967. This is what happens when we vote for a government with a huge majority, they can do what we want. All those going on about how great it was to crush Labour forgot that no opposition means the government wins every vote in parliament so can do exactly as they please
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  968. Quite regularly. The thing is they make predictions based on current situations and policy then the B of E and government look at it and say "oooh, that's bad" and they take mitigating action and therefore the bad thing doesn't happen. That doesn't mean they were wrong
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  969. What he doesn't seem to understand is that he can tell us the economy is improving all he wants but no one will take any notice when we feel the squeeze more and more. We don't care about economic figures, we care about how far our wages go and right now they aren't going far at all
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  970.  @mrjamesjordan1  UKIP have never won a single seat in parliament, they aren't going to win an election. Having read Reform UK's website, it's all hot air and nothing solid, I can't see them doing well either. Both are too far right, British elections have only ever been won by parties close to center
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  971. I went to proper rural Texas once, near Aubrey. We were kicked out of the farm when I gave the wrong answer when asked whether we'd be in church on Sunday morning. Texas isn't the place to be an athiest
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  972. I don't think Labour will make him a Lord
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  973.  @aeb200  A bit of a lettuce? Well that's better than Truss then
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  974. I'm isolating because I hate people
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  975.  @pleasantville4529  The idea was that it would make it easier for people to live in the north and midlands and work in London and for London financial institutions to have offices in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham while allowing people to easily travel between them therefore creating higher paid jobs in the north which then means more people spending more money in those areas. It's a good idea in principle but has been incredibly badly handled. I did look up a list of the main contractors and then a list of conservative party donors. What I saw was hardly surprising and probably explains why it's costing so much
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  976. Maybe the Ukrainians spoke English. I've worked with plently of people in the Ukraine & Russian energy industries and they all spoke excellent English
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  977. Badenoch said she wouldn't back this bill because it doesn't make half the cuts the tories want
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  978.  @angelaharris6577  Labour at least generally have a decent relationship with unions and public sector workers and up until now, with the other member states of the UK
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  979. Anyone in a professional or skilled job should be able to afford to buy a house. When that's not the case, something is very wrong.
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  980. Putin has never and will never negotiate. It's a choice of give in to him completely or defeat Russia
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  981. Doctors and nurses are leaving the country, not arriving. Australia is targeting British nurses and doctors for their recruitment
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  982. We need more homes for first time buyers and make sure they can actually get them before landlords buy them up. Every 2 or small 3 bedroom house around here is sold to the landlords before it's advertised
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  983.  @tastypymp1287  What part of that is untrue? When the rich get more money, it disappears to tax havens where it's of no benefit to the UK economy. When low and middle earners get more money, they spend it which helps get the economy moving
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  984. @educational1651 A good mate of mine did a music degree and now works in a top recording studio, his class mates are all either session musicians (big money), teachers or in music production. Maybe your friend just wasn't very good at it. It's not an easy degree from what I understand. Lots of theory and a surprising amount of science
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  985. They have to be a pretty bad employer to be effected by any of these changes. Most companies already do these things
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  986. There is no god. There is also no buddha, no allah, no jehova, no satan, no angels and no demons. All hail Thor
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  987. The best selling car in the UK so far this year is a Tesla
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  988. Labour have to spend more to repair the public services which the tories try their best to destroy
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  989. Exactly, plus 20% of it comes straight back in income tax
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  990.  @Vasbyt6540  Israel is considerably less wealthy and independent than Russia
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  991. Which of the biggest three parties don't want to cut benefits? Reform and tories have both said they want far bigger cuts than Labour are promising. Some of the tories will back this bill. Reform won't bother to vote, as usual
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  992. That is cancelled out somewhat by the entire first world being in the same situation. We're not in a position that's any worse
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  993.  @maxhobby1701  Take a look at how much the councils budgets were cut by central government. One of the big reasons so many councils are going bust is they have no rental incomes from council houses now. There's just as many tory councils going bust as labour, they're all screwed
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  994. Why do they carry out tests? Is it because they expect things to work first time every time?
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  995. There's no money for better wages but they can afford to pay £75 per hour for agency nurses to fill some of the gaps
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  996. Don't be ridiculous. Anyone can be good at maths. If we want this country to get out of the black hole it's in, we need more educated people doing more skilled, more highly paid jobs. Get yourself an engineering degree and there's almost a guarantee of a £40k salary within a few years
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  997. A party who knows it will be gone from power in a year or less can promise anything because they know they won't have to deliver it. They'll just criticise Labour for not upholding the promises that the tories made
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  998. Elon's businesses would have a definite need for the services of a company like Infosys
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  999. If hate speech wasn't a crime Abu Hamza would still be in Britain telling Muslims that British people are evil and deserve to be blown up in the name of Islam. He hadn't been found guilty of any terror offences and was deported purely under hate speech law
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  1000. Tories have NEVER given a tax cut to the working classes except when Thatcher gave us 1% at the same time she gave the highest earners a 24% cut. Despite their reputation, tories have never been a party of low taxes for working people
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  1001.  @LabRat6619  No. Every other party was calling for a windfall tax on energy companies to fund tax cuts on energy. Sunak eventually gave in and implemented a tax but wrote in such a massive loophole that nothing gets paid. This is all on the tories Every other major country implemented a windfall tax to fund some sort of help for consumers. Now we have the highest energy costs in the world.
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  1002. Just like the covid nightingale hospitals, there was never anyone to staff them so it was a pointless PR exercise
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  1003. No past pandemic has ever lasted less than 3 years with most lasting 7-10 years
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  1004.  @Elfrida-ls2mo  Cornwall isn't a city, it's a county and a very nice one that the people would rather wasn't spoiled by the presence of MP's
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  1005. A few legal experts have said that there's no clear criminal act here
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  1006. Minimum service requirements which far exceed the service standard available when workers are not on strike
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  1007. The UK has already taken very effective action to cut it's own international trade
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  1008. The funding is still there, it's just all going to the shareholders in the private companies in the health service now instead of where it should be going
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  1009. Reform are in favour of an insurance based private system (US style). They're just the same as the tories when it comes to public services. For evidence of this, check out the recent interviews and social media of their leadership and also of Nigel Farage who I'm fairly sure will be their leader for the next election.
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  1010. Don't forget the 40 new hospitals and 400,000 new affordable houses he also promised
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  1011. She is right though
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  1012. The tories claim to be on the side of working people but oppose workers getting a decent level of pay. They said at the last election that they would make being in work pay and yet they oppose people getting decent pay. I'm starting to think they are not on the side of workers. Anyone who is in work should be able to live without worrying about money otherwise whats the point? May as well give up and live on the dole
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  1013.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Well that is the job of a judge. Their entire purpose is to make judgements based on UK law. They are prohibited from brining their own morals and preferences in to judgements. Thats exactly how it should be.
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  1014. Both lower than when Boris was mayor
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  1015.  @HorusHerotic  nope. Check out the crime figures for yourself
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  1016. I lost my first private pension. Because of that, I'll never be able to retire
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  1017. The tories have answered every question for the last six months with "but the vaccine has been a great success". Some say that's how Hancock answered all his wifes questions about his affair.
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  1018. No, most of Europe is doing much better than the UK
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  1019. And Boris has been nothing but success of course
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  1020. Sadly they won't. Trump will pardon himself and his cronies
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  1021. Have they pulled out of an athletics event as well?
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  1022. Not just the north. The South West is just as poor, we actually have higher rates of poverty down here but we don't get the token gestures the North gets. Average wages in the south west are about the same as rural areas in the north but houses and rent are much more expensive because londoners buy them up as second homes
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  1023.  @muirislandjim453  He has explained that it was a mistake and he didn't intend to get caught
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  1024. Yep. Vote for change, for for the same as before but it'll be different this time
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  1025. Ex PM's always get rich after leaving office. Their contacts and influence are extremely valuable to big business and they always capitalise on that. Cameron is different in that he's still an MP. I don't think that MP's should be allowed to have any business interests, running the country should be their only focus and a full time job. If it's not a full time job then we clearly don't need as many of them
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  1026.  @T5Zplayer  Germany and Denmark's energy prices are higher than ours now but while prices were at their peak, ours were the highest in the world. Not much cheaper is still cheaper isn't it? I'm not slagging off the country, I like this country but I don't like what successive governments have done to the average British persons quality of life. Why should British people have it worse than most of Europe?
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  1027. Tories want to impliment austerity which is what caused the economy to stagnate after the 2008 crash. Labour want to invest in infrastructure to create good jobs and get money moving in the economy. This is what countries including Germany did following 2008 to recover far faster and stronger than the UK
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  1028.  @T5Zplayer  Positivity about something is not whining is it?
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  1029. It's hardly surprising. I wouldn't do their job, especially for what they get paid
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  1030. They would stop cutting down the trees if people stopped buying the products. Cut the demand and the deforestation will stop. The local governments aren't doing anything about it so it's up to the us to stop buying it.
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  1031. When fuel prices were up around £2 per litre, the VAT receipts on that fuel increased by 40% yet Sunak told us he couldn't afford to do anything to help us
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  1032. Not giving them a pay rise means that nurses keep leaving, the NHS is left with an even more massive shortage of nurses and then the government use that as an excuse for privatisation and obviously those private companies will have to pay more to recruit nurses and we'll end up paying for it anyway
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  1033. Most of them are so crooked they sleep on a spiral stair case. They're worried about who will be caught next
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  1034. Canada is already in talks with the EU and UK
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  1035. Meaningless pledges with no deadlines
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  1036.  @karthikj8969  But there's money to continue paying subsidies to to oil companies and leave massive tax loopholes open
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  1037. Labour have policies. They are all published on their website and have been there since the spring
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  1038. The deadline was 2035, Boris changed it to 2030, now it's gone back to 2035 again. Seems kind of like a U turn
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  1039. The UK was prepared, we had stockpiles of ppe and equipment and a plan which had been tested via drills. Boris decided it was a waste of money so scrapped it all
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  1040. They really have handled the vaccines very badly and then tried to deflect it back to the manufacturer. It's no coincidence that they couldn't get what they wanted and then decided that they weren't any good anyway
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  1041.  @julieelcock8477  Yes
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  1042. In the alps there are glaciers which are shrinking by 10 metres a year. In the Dolomite region of northern Italy, they have reached a point where bodies frozen since WW1 are now becoming exposed
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  1043. More than one thing can be done at once and the people involved in this are not cancer or neural specialists and therefore cannot concentrate on curing cancer or dementia. It would be like expecting a civil engineer to design a quantum computer, the civil engineer is very clever but in the wrong areas
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  1044.  @taffyterrier  That is just simply untrue. We're getting poor value because most of the funding in the NHS goes straight to the shareholders of private companies
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  1045. Very, very similar to Trump
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  1046. There cannot be an effective opposition when the government has an 80 seat majority. It's impossible for them to get anything through parliament or block anything?
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  1047. Technically we never get to vote for a PM. We only vote for our local MP
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  1048.  @nickyn4076  Sunak manages it in PMQ's occasionally
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  1049.  @stevebrooks6275  Actually, Liz Truss did make a monumental cock up which cost us £45bn and sent the economy in to a dive but Sunak has since cost far more and the economy is now even worse
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  1050.  @shamanahaboolist  While that is true, he's kind of a traditional tory while the actual tory party are no longer anywhere near that
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  1051. Because then they would be breaking the law. The workers don't own the trains so running them without authorization would be theft
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  1052.  @JamesLWilliams-k9x  We won't be back in the EU. Other members have benefitted to much from our departure, Holland in particular. Any attempt to rejoin would be vetoed
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  1053.  @snowyowel7961  Money to healthcare has gone up by 50%. Money to the NHS has not increased.
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  1054. In fairness to her (and I don't like her at all). The home secretary is not allowed to interfere in individual cases. It is the police's job to arrest international criminals on arrival in the UK and they should do that. I think Labour are still trying to avoid anti-semitism accusations. They can't really win on this one
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  1055.  @Afghan31  There's no ICC arrest warrant for Putin, he hasn't left his bunker in years and he has never visited any western country so why would that even be a question?
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  1056. There's a shortage of turnips though
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  1057.  @patburnsy8  Thats not true. No test will ever be 100% accurate so no one is claiming they are. A couple of independent reviews (including the cochran review) have put the accuracy at around 90%. That seems reasonable to me, I've probably had a couple dozen so far this spring / summer and every one of them has been negative. If they were only 5% accurate, I'd expect to have seen several positives in there. In fact at 5% accurate, I'd have expected nearly all of them to show positive when I don't have it. At 5% accurate, they could just reverse the result and it would instantly be 95% accurate.
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  1058.  @columbus7950  Well that's simple. Raise the pay of those low paid workers by the cost of a lunch every day
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  1059. It's not that cold yet. I don't wear a hat unless it's below freezing. We all feel the cold differently
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  1060. @Amanda Hughes Go to the BBC website and search for the London freedom protests and you'l find they published a few reports on the protests. I don't understand why people are saying the protests weren't reported on, they definitely were
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  1061.  @edmundironside9435  At least Starmer answers most questions. I can't remember the last time Sunak actually answered the question he was asked
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  1062. There were a huge number of tory voters who just didn't vote
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  1063. We had an elected conservative party who have NEVER done anything to improve things for anyone other than the rich. Sunak is doing exactly what any tory prime minister would do given half the chance
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  1064. The entire reason for that overcharging is deregulation. Tories are completely in favour of deregulation
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  1065.  @dudette2x  Train drivers won't be replaced. The network cannot be automated until all trains are electrified and fitted with automated controls and every single track is upgraded with the required instrumentation and controls. It will cost many billions of pounds and take decades. They couldn't even manage to build a railway from London to Birmingham for £150bn
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  1066. If he has no plan then how can Sunak come up with figures for what Labour's spending will cost?
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  1067. For £900 a roll I'd expect them to dig up Van Gough, bring him back to life and make him pain the wallpaper by hand.
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  1068.  @matthewbaker2573  One of many reasons but without farmers we have nothing to eat
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  1069.  @jamonit7169  Better to make it public than risk a leak and claims of a cover up
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  1070. Sunak doesn't have the spuds for it
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  1071. He'll have out lasted four tory PM's soon and took them from huge election loss to an enormous lead in the polls so I guess he's doing alright
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  1072. They've never said that
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  1073.  @KungFuWizardOfJesus  tory boy is only ever going to support FPTP because it's the only way his party can win
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  1074. Not a problem around here. We don't have any bus routes left any more
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  1075. Not if we want to have a free at point of service healthcare system we don't. Reform are in favour of the full US style system and as an ex US resident, I highly recommend never, ever voting for that
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  1076.  @gavinkalaher7314  Yes, the energy minister (I forget his name) was defending this recently. Apparently this is for our own good
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  1077. In fairness to her (and I don't like her at all). The home secretary is not allowed to interfere in individual cases. It is the police's job to arrest international criminals on arrival in the UK and they should do that. I think Labour are still trying to avoid anti-semitism accusations. They can't really win on this one
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  1078. I want an election and so does my wife
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  1079.  @stewartkingsley  The average Brit is now paying a greater percentage of their income as tax now than under tories yet the NHS has shrunk, schools have teacher shortages and police stations have disappeared. We are paying more to get far less
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  1080. Yeah because Trump supporters were so calm when he lost weren't they?
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  1081. In what way are they undemocratic? I seem to remember them being the parties who wanted us to have a vote on the brexit deal we were signing up to. Since when has having a vote been undemocratic?
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  1082. @Daz Heb Labour increased the size of the military. The tories drastically cut it, they scrapped the majority of our ships and fighter aircraft. Britain now has less than 200 fighter jets and quite a lot of them aren't in operational condition
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  1083. The international jamboree is in a different country each year, this year just happened to be South Korea's turn. I went there when I worked for a Korean company, amazing place, stunning countryside and really interesting culture. Smoking seems to be their national pastime and the smoke everywhere got to me after a while
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  1084. I won't vote for either but only because Labour have no chance here and a vote for Lib Dems is the best vote against the tories
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  1085. We can't. All our manufacturing has been outsourced to them. That's why our emissions have gone down and theirs have gone up
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  1086. There was a poll recently which showed that less than 1% of under 24 year olds plan to vote conservative. It also showed that less than 10% of under 50's intend to vote tory. Traditionally people switch to conservative when they become home owners but with less and less people able to afford to buy a home, less are making that switch and those who can buy struggled so hard that they aren't switching anyway
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  1087. They haven't complained about having to do their job. They've complained about inadequate protective equipment and having to work 16 hour plus shifts on just their basic pay and having what effectively amounts to a real world pay cut for the 11th year in a row.
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  1088.  @Northern_Rockhopper  Pay attention. This isn't really about the pay, it's about being forced to accept a contract with much worse conditions, the main thing being major changes to shift patterns. There's also the redundancies which are planned to replace full time staff with agency staff
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  1089. Trump wouldn't get anywhere in the British political system where no single person has that power which Trump needs to do what he wants. It would be near impossible for him to fill his cabinet with family members and yes men when they have to be elected to parliament first
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  1090.  @winterroadspokenword4681  Acro props will if anything make collapse more likely. They'll introduce mid span point loads which is not good. Props are good if there's somewhere for the load to go
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  1091. Easter is next month and, just like every year there are easter celebrations planned
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  1092. At the moment, the economy is in such a dire state that we haven't got the money to re-nationalise the water industry. What they can do is properly regulate it and make the consequences for failing to comply with regulations far more severe
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  1093. Sky is owned by one of the tory parties biggest donors
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  1094.  @1milliondogs  How can Labour solve any of these problems when they aren't in power? They have outlined their proposals for how they will deal with all of these issues but they can't actually do anything until they are in government
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  1095. They should have admitted to it but it's an insignificant increase. £750 on top of the current £27,000 for a bachelors is not going to be noticeable, especially over 20 years of repayments,
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  1096.  @NoMercy-bt8xg  Under Labour 14 private sector contracts were issued in the NHS. Since the tories took power that has risen to over 3000 plus much of the regulation introduced by Labour to ensure quality of service and value has been removed by the tories
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  1097. Traffic on the UK roads is a mess. When I had to commute, it took me 5 minutes less to cycle the 17 miles than drive. That's messed up. We need decent public transport so people can use it to get to work rather than sitting in traffic jams for a couple hours a day. If I could have got a train to work in 30 minutes instead of taking an hour in the car to do 17 miles (that is a rediculous time for 17 miles), I absolutely would have
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  1098. @bigstu2821 Blame the transport minister for blocking any negotiations, not the working people who are fighting for their jobs and conditions. They are striking this time because they were promised a meeting for negotiations and cancelled a planned strike and then the meeting was cancelled by the transport minister at less than an hours notice
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  1099.  @julianpetkov8320  Classified documents relating to national security and military capability are definitely not his and what the hell would he possibly need them for anyway now that he's out of power and a private citizen?
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  1100.  @andymac7584  Biden may be in the wrong as well but that doesn't mean what Trump has done is ok does it?
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  1101. Ridiculous rent prices and no controls on rent rises are the problem.
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  1102. I've flown with Ryanair. Their flights are the opposite to freedom and in many countries considered a cruel and unusual punnishment.
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  1103.  Charles Makow  While big business has so much power over government, communism will be impossible. Communism and big business are completely incompatible with each other, the two need completely opposite things to exist.
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  1104. Just imagine the rage posts if Harry and Meghan went to the pub. People would find an excuse to be furious about it
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  1105. I'm confused. Anti vaxxers love RFK because he was an anti vaxxer but have they forgotten Trump was pro-vaccination? In interviews, he refused to say vaccines were bad and he even took credit for the creation of the covid vaccines
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  1106.  @lincolnsnow6166  Exactly. When fuel prices shot up, I swapped from driving my 2 litre car to work to riding a 125cc motorcycle. I'm saving a bloody fortune, 140mpg and I don't have to sit in traffic. Yes I get wet occasionally (not as often as you'd think) but I'm saving about £2k a year on fuel so I'll take that. I traded in the nice merc for a little Skoda Fabia since I barely use it now
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  1107. That's not true. Diesel generators are a little more efficient than direct diesel power. The generator is set to run constantly in the most efficient part of it's rev range where a petrol or diesel engine is constantly accelerating or decelerating. I love my big V8 (Jag XKR 5.0) but as an engineer, I'd rather be honest about it. If I did the miles, I would change my little Skoda hatchback for electric (I did 4000 last year, it's not worth the investment) but for a weekend toy, even if electric cars are quicker, nothing beats a howling V8 accompanied by a screaming supercharger for a bit of drama and excitement to get the adrenaline flowing.
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  1108. The UK accepts asylum claims from Rwanda which is an admission that it isn't
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  1109. Porch?
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  1110.  @Bungle-UK  byelections always have a lower turn out than a general election because they don't bring a change of government. 40% turn out in a byelection is pretty average
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  1111. They do have a plan which is published on their website. Unfortunately the press choose to ignore it and don't give them time to promote it. The reason they have to keep ditching plans is the rapid decline of the economy. They can't keep all their promises when there's less and less money available
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  1112.  @az..0N3  Sunak could potentially pay £300m in inheritance tax if it's not cut
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  1113.  @SV_Wilko-1KCClub  They deserve a pay rise as well. Military personnel pay is disgusting.
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  1114. Well he was selling EV's yesterday so maybe he will save the world after all
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  1115.  @user-wg8bn2pc2d  It was safe. Bridges cannot be designed to withstand impacts from 50,000 tonne ships. The energy in that impact would be colossal
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  1116. It's tradition. New PM always says a few nice things about the outgoing one even though they despise them. It's the British way
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  1117. All religions are equal. They all deserve to be crushed
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  1118. Instead of cutting taxes, how about stopping subsidies for ultra rich big businesses and closing tax loopholes
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  1119. A protest vote is usually booting out the party who have had that seat for decades, not keeping them. A protest vote would have seen the greens or lib dems win, not labour or tories
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  1120.  @ziggy007mousecatcher  Enough to pay nurses a 19% rise for five years! They can afford not to recover that but can't afford to give nurses a raise
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  1121.  @davelee8856  It's been confirmed in the OBR report. The report isn't exactly positive about Labour's budget but it does confirm that the £22bn black hole is real
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  1122. They have to rely on foreign nurses because the pay is too low to retain British nurses and no one wants to work up £50k in student debt to earn a below average salary working long hours as a nurse
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  1123. If they recovered the £8bn for faulty PPE and the £34bn for the test and trace app that didn't work, it would be enough to pay for nurses to have a 20% pay rise for five years and that ignores the fact that they'll pay back 20% of that rise in income tax and then more in VAT when they spend it so it'll be closer to 8 years
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  1124. By elections always get a much lower turnout. A lot of people aren't really interested because it's not going to result in a new government
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  1125. More than double the percentage that either Conservatives or Reform got
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  1126. Privatised energy with prices which rocket every time there's a war somewhere is working so well at the moment isn't it? Something has to change.
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  1127. Try looking up Farage gifted private flights. That make's Starmers gifts seem like nothing
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  1128. I'm finding it hilarious, all the people who were for the last couple years saying they'd never go to Europe for a holiday again following brexit now crying because they can't go to Spain for a holiday.
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  1129.  @chubbychaser00izu  I completely agree. I planned my holiday in Britain this year in a place I love visiting therefore I have no complaints
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  1130. Why would they send their nurses here? They need them.
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  1131. We already do pay, via taxes and every UK tax payer has benefitted from a state education so why should they not pay? Even private schools benefit from large subsidies from the education budget
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  1132. They won't do that. No more queens speech on tv. No more advert free tv in Britain. Plus the BBC are very biased towards the tories come election time
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  1133. Quite a few of my friends have been told they have to retrain, some of them after having done 5 years at university to train for what were perfectly viable careers until they were ruined in some cases by covid and in others by brexit. Now they've got £50k+ of debt for nothing
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  1134. Exactly so these tariffs are effectively meaningless
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  1135. She hasn't punched anyone has she? Clarkson has done great out of being fired
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  1136. I misread that three times, thinking what's heavy metal got to do with this?
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  1137. I've had 666 and an inverted cross tattooed for years but I haven't grown any horns yet
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  1138. Because the UK is breaking an agreement it signed with Ireland to end generations of violence
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  1139. They have published a full set of policies after the party conference. Some are a bit crap, some are pretty good
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  1140. Republicans have to actually come up with an attack campaign now that they can't use "he's too old to be president". Now Trump is the old one and actually the oldest US presidential candidate ever
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  1141. Running on budgets set by the tory government
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  1142. It's a backwards country where people cannot openly criticise the government. Unfortunately this is the way Britain is heading under the tories
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  1143. Is he a political prisoner when he hacked in to MOD computer systems and released classified documents? He knew that crime would come with a long prison sentence if he were caught and he decided it was worth the risk.
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  1144. It was a long time ago and it was a mistake and as far as we know he's done nothing similar since so he's learned from his mistake BUT it should have been correctly disclosed so his constituents could factor it in to their voting choice and I'm sure most would see him as a reformed character and there would be nothing to attack Reform with now
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  1145. They could afford to pay those rises for nearly a decade just by recovering the near £50bn paid to tory mates for faulty ppe, the faulty app and fraudulently claimed furlough
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  1146. Why on earth would socialists hate that? Most socialists like the idea of a return to manufacturing and that requires engineers and engineers need excellent maths skills. It's the tories who have been slashing education for the last 15 years
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  1147.  @martinwarner1178  Blair brought Milosevic to trial and played a major part in building the case against him. The only ever successful prosecution for genocide. He did have his failings though (to put it mildly)
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  1148. Correction, a half empty room of people from a Republican think tank who have no ability to do anything to help our situation and we paid for it
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  1149. No one has seen it but apparantly, businesses are closing and millionaires moving abroad because of what they think might possibly be in the budget but have no way of actually knowing yet
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  1150. No, he owns a business that Infosys could make a lot of money from
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  1151. Inflation is up so far this year
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  1152. The house of lords has a huge conservative majority yet Sunak is blaming it all on Labour peers who don't have the number to block anything
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  1153. Those who do lose the allowance are losing the equivalent of £3.85 per week. It's nothing. Most pensioners will still qualify for it anyway
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  1154.  @joecater894  But it was a lot better back in the early 2000's than it is now
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  1155. We voted to put them there, we knew they only serve themselves, we even gave the conservatives such a huge majority that they can do anything they want. We are in no position to complain, we did this.
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  1156. Brexit has been an absolute mess. Maybe it could have been done well but this government has made a real mess of it. We're still tied in to most of the rules we were wanting to escape, we've got a new customs border between British mainland & Northern Ireland. Our fishing waters have definitely not been taken back. British fishermen were told brexit would be a huge benefit to them but they're going out of business because they can't sell to Europe. British farmers can't get the seasonal workers they need. The British music industry (worth 5 times more than fishing) is screwed because touring costs have exploded due to customs rules. British people retired abroad are absolutely screwed and forced to return. Apart from that, where's the benefits?
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  1157. Transfer away from the oil industry? I hope so
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  1158. That's why it's fitted with radar beacons and marked on charts and big ships have those charts and radar receivers
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  1159. So none at all then? Or at best, "oi pedro, dos cervezas and make it sharp mate"
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  1160. People keep saying it wasn't covered but I had a quick look. The BBC had three big articles on it and the Sun had two, I didn't bother looking further. It was certainly reported on, it just didn't hit the most popular stories on here. Go and do a search on the major news websites.
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  1161. What happened in America was the biggest, most powerful party which has won the presidency more times than any other won the election again. I don't think it's comparable. The republicans and democrats both have generational loyalty from families, something which Reform don't yet have purely because they are a new party
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  1162. All members of the ERG voted for it
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  1163. So he has something in common with Trump?
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  1164.  @joancooley1387  Very few people agree it was a good idea for Truss to give tax cuts to the rich with no plan for how to fund them
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  1165. Why should your town get special treatment? Every other town is being turned in to a huge housing estate
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  1166. It sure as s**t doesn't feel like it. I don't care what positive figures politicians dig out to make things seem good. If the people don't feel the benefit then it's not real
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  1167. They did look in to making a hatchback to rival the BMW 1 series when I worked there but couldn't make it competative on cost. They will be making an all electric version of the XE & E Pace so they will be around £30,000 - £35,000 for a base model. JLR are a really small manufacturer. Their entire years output is less than the number of C200 diesels that Mercedes build. All their cars are hand built. Developing a cheap car and building a fully automated production line would run in to billions of pounds. Then there's the fact that British people think German cars are more reliable (reliability surveys disagree, Range Rover excepted) so most of JLR's vehicles are exported. British people won't buy them. I own a Jaguar XFR, a car which every magazine review rated as better than the BMW M5 on it's launch yet the Jaguar sold 200 a year in Britain while the BMW sold 600 a year.
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  1168. If this is an election winner, then why are Labour 20 points ahead in the polls? Why are Reform only just ahead of the Green party?
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  1169. He even disappeared in to obscurity like Abbot. Is she still alive?
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  1170. I strongly believe that a large proportion of the anti climate propaganda and anti climate change "science" originates with the oil companies. We know without doubt that they have done it in the past. We know they have bought patents for devices to reduce oil consimption and kept them out of production. It only makes sense that they're still doing it. Wars have been fought over oil and it's extraction from the earth has resulted in many disasters. I'll be glad to see the oil companies lose their power. Electric isn't perfect but anyone can generate electricity with solar panels or turbines
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  1171. She's right. I had both jabs then boom, two months later I was feeling a bit frisky one night and the wife had a headache. Coincidence? No. Do your own research
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  1172. I'd rather have boring politicians than crazy ones.
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  1173.  @timhicks2154  That doesn't make sense. In fact, it's impossible to trip out a substation in that way.
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  1174.  @cleopatra5682  Boris was the man who gave away billions of our money to friends and family of the tories. He also signed us up to a terrible brexit deal and all lockdowns were his decision plus he was more in favour of net zero than Sunak
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  1175. For most of them, their MP's salary is insignificant. They make far more in their second job
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  1176. Yeah, I voted for Cameron and regret it. We learn from our mistakes. I'll still never be loyal to any party, it's all down to the most appealing policies come election time for me
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  1177. It's ok for Farage to campaign with Trump but not for some unknown Labour members (not even MP's) to campaign with the Democrats? Why is that?
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  1178. Labour cannot provide any opposition while the tories have an 80 seat majority. The electorate effectively gave the tories absolute power to do exactly as they please.
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  1179. She does have a couple lovely features though
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  1180. It's entirely because commodities like oil and gas are traded by bankers on the global markets which is where the price fluctuations come from. Nationalise the UK oil and gas industry and we become self sufficient and isolated from fluctuations due to global supply and events like wars.
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  1181. Exactly. If Biden really wants to upset Trump and his supporters, he should scrap presidential immunity including for himself
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  1182. It was positively warm here in Somerset. I didn't even put on a jumper to walk the dog.
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  1183. The worst thing is, even after this change, they're still better off than we are in the UK and still get to retire 5 years earlier than us
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  1184. While that's true and a shame, when they were under British ownership, they made unreliable rust buckets and went bankrupt every few years. Jaguar have lasted longer under Tata than they did under any of the British owners. Norton motorcycles last British owner spent the workers pension fund on Aston Martins and a mansion and is now in prison, TVS (Indian) are pumping in money to build up the business and making better quality bikes with British engineering. We're excellent at engineering, hopeless at management
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  1185. Hail Thor
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  1186. That's true. Farage was a banker and is currently pushing for deregulation of the banks
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  1187. I have never had a job where pay rises weren't at least inflation rate. I have never heard of rises linked to economic growth
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  1188. Britain is the problem. It's all b****ks. The government is currently trying to get us in the trans pacific trade partnership which comes with nearly as much regulation as the EU but all our trade will be on the other side of the world and we'll have to compete against third world countries with far cheaper labour.
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  1189. In fairness to him, he couldn't win. Say nothing and he'll be accused of ignoring it. Say there's no problem and people won't believe him. Say there is a problem and then people will actually believe him. There was no right thing he could have done
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  1190. It's not just this president. Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden are all equally responsible. All of them have failed
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  1191. Standard
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  1192. There's plenty of places they could take it from, such as the £10bn paid to incredibly profitable oil companies in subsidies or the budget allocated for sending people to Rwanda at a cost of hundreds of thousands each
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  1193. So when they change profession or move overseas, who will treat us when we're sick?
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  1194. We will always be dependent on imports. We're in the north atlantic so we have very short growing seasons for crops where many countries can grow year round. All our mineral and oil resources are privately owned so the UK has no more legal right to them than any other country. Manufacturing everything here in small factories will always be more expensive than huge factories around the world (including here) and exporting globally.
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  1195. He was more popular than any of the alternatives and since he was up against an actor and a youtuber it wasn't great competition
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  1196. Just because they say they're going to make things more efficient doesn't mean they actually will. All Musk will do is remove regulation to suit his own business interests. He will become the most powerful business lobbyist ever. Anyone who thinks Trump will put an end to EV's will be very disappointed
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  1197. I used to work with several Chinese scientists and engineers. They all took on English names but for some reason their English names were all old names. It was weird calling 25 year old Chinese people Godfrey, Colin, Karen and Albert. I learnt their Chinese names instead
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  1198.  @tisFrancesfault  The constituents cannot recall an MP unless they are suspended from parliament for more than 10 days
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  1199. Yes, they pay half the rate and get a decade to pay it plus the threshold below which they pay no inheritance tax is so much higher that most will never qualify
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  1200.  @P..  Sunak has said there will be no funding made available for it so schools can't really do anything about it
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  1201. Adam West, Family Guy?
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  1202.  @paddydoyle4234  There's the same level of tax on US and Chinese imports in the UK
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  1203.  @muckraker7942  Yet nearly every other country in the world also had a lockdown and most aren't in the same state as the UK. We are the only G7 country to have not recovered to pre covid GDP
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  1204. There's no point. Their sales are dying across Europe as the boss of Tesla constantly insults and rages at exactly the sort of people who buy Teslas. EV buyers are almost exclusively liberals. Trump's Telsa sales pitch yesterday will probably hurt them even more.
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  1205. He's now got three bi elections to worry about. The tories have lost every single bi election since the last general election and they've only got less popular
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  1206. It's not a new buzzword. Blair used it as well
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  1207. They've never done that. They've always been under pressure to take the party line
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  1208. No. Without the IMF, the worlds economies would be in an even bigger mess
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  1209. Two big problems there. According to the Nuremberg code, a medicine is no longer experimental once signed off for use by the countries authorising agency. That was done late last year so by the definition of the code it is not experimental. Second point, and this is a big one, the Nuremburg code is not law as recognised by any country or international body. It is a code of practice so even if the vaccines were still under the definition of experimental under the code, no legal case can be based on the Nuremburg code, only the laws of the country involved.
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  1210. Climate change or not, I'm all for the oil companies losing their power over our governments. For the last 100 years they've pretty much controlled western politics and even pushed governments to start wars over oil. The cost of your commute depends on stock market traders buying and selling oil. Britain can never be self sufficient for oil but can be for electricity if the government invest in tidal power which is absolutely reliable for as long as the moon orbits the earth. Having clean air to breathe would be a nice bonus.
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  1211. It's not just Boris. Every PM has had a £30,000 budget per term for decorating No.10. H probably knows it's not worth spending his own money for the short time he has left there
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  1212. Inflation is only ever one way. The best we can hope for is pay rises to keep up
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  1213. Prisoners have been getting released early for the last two years because prisons have been full. It has been reported but not by the tory supporting media. There's another maximum security prison due to close next year due to it's crumbling structure and radioactive geology (no one cares about the prisoners but people have to work there)
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  1214. If the money blown on an app that didn't work and faulty ppe was recovered, that would pay for all NHS staff to have a 20% pay rise for the next 6 years
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  1215. I'm not but then I have had rises at least inline with inflation every year. Everyone else should as well. Inflation linked pay rises literally cost nothing
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  1216. How does that stop them administering vaccines? There's no state of emergency around polio, flu, measles or rubella but they still administer vaccines for them and I'm sure come late autumn there will be flu vaccines
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  1217. I'll get my steel toe caps on
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  1218. Please dont confuse Western governments with Western people. Many western people are disgusted by Israel's actions
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  1219. Automation will require replacement of all trains and full electrification of the rail network. It will cost billions and at the end of it, they'll still need all the cleaning, ticket office and maintenance staff who are currently striking. Drivers aren't striking, they aren't represented by the RMT
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  1220. Doing his best? Does that include writing off £55bn of furlough fraud rather than recover it? Ignoring the £8bn we paid for faulty ppe and making no effort to recover the money? How about creating a trial which involved a business he is a shareholder in and stood to gain millions from personally? How about his absolute failure to make any progress with any of his 5 pledges? Since he said he would halve inflation, it has only risen and is now the highest in Europe.
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  1221.  @RaRa-eu9mw  What about the other professions we're short of? There's a lot of them. We're also short of unskilled and especially seasonal workers
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  1222.  @karthikj8969  Other countries paid furlough and aren't in the same state. Some, such as Germany paid more than the UK and are in a better state
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  1223. The problem there is that it would kill coastal tourism and many of those areas have no other industry and why should those coastal areas suffer because of the government deciding to stop processing of applications applications to create this huge backlog?
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  1224.  @blunelson8226  I have a couple relatives who work in private care homes. Minimum wage and horrible managers are the norm in private care homes. I've also been in my grandmothers care home while the manager was arguing that they don't want her there because she costs them money because she needs more assistance than some others.
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  1225. What she should have said is "it is the job of the police to arrest international criminals who arrive in the UK. I will not be interfering in the independence of the police"
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  1226. The big problem is that there are a lot of physically demanding jobs and we're going to end up with 70 year old brick layers and steel fabricators and the cost of caring for them when they're completely burned out and in ill health because of working too long will be greater than the savings from pensions. I personally have no intention of working to 70 so the only option for me is to move abroad so I'm off to Australia where I'll earn considerably more and get my pension 5 years earlier
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  1227. OK, who's building the prosecution case?
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  1228. Well get a job then. It's not hard, there's plenty of vacancies
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  1229. They don't get the money
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  1230.  @stephencollins9062  People without a NI number are not supposed to be treated without paying BUT there's no staff or systems in place for a quick check in hospitals or doctors surgeries
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  1231.  @stephencollins9062  While PFI's in the NHS were introduced by Labour, they only actually set up a total of seven. There are now several thousand. When the scheme was set up by Labour it was regulated to ensure value, David Cameron removed the regulations to allow companies to fleece the NHS
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  1232. The NHS sick pay system is pretty much the same as just about any large organisation
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  1233. People believed politicians
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  1234.  @MookMineola  Ok so where's the tax cut from our loss of dental services? There's less NHS dentists now so it must be costing less and the NHS dentistry budget was cut by £500m in 2014 so why am I paying far more tax than before?
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  1235. Another decade of austerity would effectively hand the next election with Labour so they have to go for a more centerist budget. It's a mile away from marxism though
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  1236. Sadly they no longer exist
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  1237.  @ganndeber1621  Despite an enquiry from the tories (who want to scrap postal votes) there has only ever been one single confirmed case of postal vote fraud in the UK. The vast majority of postal votes are the elderly, who generally vote tory
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  1238. Ban or not, all the manufacturers are fully committed now anyway. There will be no new petrol or diesel cars on sale in five years time. The production lines are already starting to wind down as new models are EV and all R&D for petrol & diesel engines stopped years ago
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  1239.  @perolagrande  Professional engineers on average are around £40k. There's certainly more to be made in engineering, I make a fair bit more but your average, mid level engineer is on about £40k. Seems like a reasonable figure for comparison
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  1240. Didn't Hilary Clinton get more votes than Trump?
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  1241. He is going with austerity yet promises growth. The two are not compatible, as history shows.. During the last decade of austerity, the UK had far lower growth than other countries who chose not to pursue austerity. Severely restricting our EU exports and not getting any good replacement deals to replace those exports will also restrict growth. The shortage of labour will also restrict growth, businesses can't grow without employees and currently there are 1.5 million more vacancies than unemployed people and many of those vacancies are for skilled jobs so the unemployed people we have can't fill them anyway. Growth will not happen and without growth, debt cannot be reduced
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  1242.  @AK-ru3sg  How was it expeted? Everything that was promised by the government prior to the vote has been done. There were things promised by people (like Farage) who were in no position to deliver them but you'd have to be stupid to listen to promises from people who can't deliver
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  1243. Something has to change. We have one of the highest retirement ages of any developed countries in the world and one of the lowest state pensions. Canada and Australia both have lower retirement ages and much higher pensions. Their system must be working better
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  1244. He has a jazz band in his head? I almost feel sorry for him now.
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  1245. Cool. Id rather watch that
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  1246. Sunak knows it's going to fail which is why he keeps saying "it's up to Labour to support it". The tories have a 70ish seat majority, they don't need Labour to support anything unless their own MP's rebel
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  1247. Whats the point of attracting investment if it doesn't benefit the people of this country? If P&O are upset about regulation which protects workers from fire & re-hire then do we really want them? We already have far more job vacancies than people to fill them so why not strategically target good employers rather than ones who have a history of treating British workers badly?
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  1248.  @mikefish8226  It's all on their website, a full proposal of how they would deal with it which includes processing in France (don't need to accommodate them and makes channel crossing pointless if they do that), speeding up processing of those already here by hiring more staff to do the processing. Agreeing returns deals with other countries so we aren't stuck them. The Rwanda plan is agreed for 200 people per year over 5 years. Thats 1000 people total and has already cost £140m. Thats £140,000 per person and not a single one has left yet.
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  1249. At what point did we vote to diverge from the EU? In many cases, the standards we would be abandoning are ones that started out as British Standards. The EU adopted British Standards rather than anyone elses because they could see ours were the most comprehensive and best written. Diverging from product standards only means higher costs for us because a product to sell in one country will always cost more to produce than a product to sell in 27 countries (actually more because many non EU countries use EU standards). The government implimented the UKCA standard as a replacement for CE and after business spent huge amounts on compliance, the government decided to scrap it because of the cost
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  1250. The UK government signed up to it therefore, they accepted it with equal responsibility with the EU. If it was no good, there was always the no deal option
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  1251. Look at the polls, Trump is finished. Even members of his own party are disowning him
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  1252. Do they? I don't know anyone who can afford that
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  1253.  @joprocter4573  Labour set up a total of seven private contracts with the NHS. Now there are thousands. Yes Blair opened the door but the tories have really gone all in on them
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  1254. Our conservative MP, David Warburton was booted out for sexual harassment last year
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  1255. If they aren't paying any taxes anyway we lose nothing if they go
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  1256. Falling inflation doesn't mean falling prices, it means prices rise at a slower rate
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  1257. A huge increase in privatisation happened. All the money we're paying in to the NHS now goes to shareholders
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  1258. They had far more funding from the government.
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  1259. They won' be great but at the moment they are definitely the less bad option
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  1260. How long have people been saying "Europe is about to fail"? If anything, Trump is going to strengthen Europe by forcing Britain and other countries to strengthen ties with the EU
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  1261. That's not true. It's over 3 million, not 1 million
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  1262. That would be illegal to give a disciplinary for that reason
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  1263. I'll be voting Labour because when we last had a Labour government, NHS waiting lists got much shorter, school class sizes were much smaller, VAT was at 15%, general taxes on the working classes were lower, the government didn't take the side of the employer in every single pay dispute, immigration was considerably lower, the economy was better, even after the 2008 crash than it is now.
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  1264.  @keithdonnelly8636  Exactly. To make promises on spending now would just be irresponsible and that applies to all parties, not just Labour
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  1265. It doesn't look all that fresh. It just looks like it's been done quite well. They don't fade as fast as they used to. Some of mine are still solid back after five or six years
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  1266. Unfortunately we're so heavily invested in Chinese manufacturing that if we cut trade with China, half our manufacturing businesses would be finished because they rely on Chinese components because there's so much stuff no one makes in the UK.
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  1267. But the economy is improving. Growth has just about started, inflation down and interest rates dropped again
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  1268.  @christoph7395  The reason they get a hard time is that government ministers cannot be held legally responsible for their decisions but the civil servants can so when a minister orders them to do something potentially illegal (as they often do) the civil servants won't do it because they quite understandably don't want to go to prison or get sued
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  1269.  @christoph7395  The government cannot change international laws
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  1270. Brown did sell off some of the gold and he has admitted it was a mistake. What cost the country more though was the gross undervaluing of Royal Mail when the tories sold that off
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  1271. They are the only party who support workers rights and pay rises for workers. Reform and conservatives take the side of the employer every single time
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  1272. Usually if one person has a problem with a whole group of people then the fault lies with the individual. I used to work for a company where the MD thought putting the boot in would get work done. He went bust after four of the team of six accountants he employed quit in the same week after his rants and he couldn't get replacements because of his reputation as a terrible boss
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  1273. The wealthy are doing very well, they have plenty of money while the working classes struggle
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  1274. Take a look at historical global temp trends. The current rise is a long way off where it would be expected
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  1275. The problem Boris has is not so much the parties but the repeated lying to both parliament and the public. If he admitted to it and appologised then it would have been forgotten about relatively quickly. This case is all about his lies
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  1276.  @cyberpunk3052  Jobs won't be going automated any time soon. Britain has a massive shortage of engineers to design, build, program and and maintain these machines. I've worked in automation for years and businesses are waiting up to 9 months for a single machine because that's the fastest they can get them.
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  1277. How can they? Look at the state of this countries economy. Who knows what money will be available once we finally get an election
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  1278. It's an insurance write off. Direct Line have offered a pay out of £200 but the captain wants to claim for whiplash
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  1279.  @roberttalbot6397  Sunak wasn't born in Winchester, he was born in Southampton, a very working class town. He must hate that
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  1280. I've never seen anyone keel to marxism.
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  1281. I think the majority of Tory MP's want him gone now because they see him as an electoral liability and a cause of division in the party. I think Labour would rather he stays
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  1282. He's a good person if strict, conservative islamic rule is your thing.
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  1283. It is, I beat someone up to get an anti bullying wrist band to show my support
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  1284.  @ab-js2gw  Zahawi recently argued that MP's salaries should be doubled
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  1285.  @Shariah-4-UK  And where did Tommy get the money to be in a luxury hotel in Cyprus? He doesn't have a job. Who is funding his lifestyle? Who's he working for?
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  1286. Yes.
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  1287.  @fabiennemitchell2371  Civil servants are always recruited by a party which is coming to power after a long time in opposition. They need someone with experience of the processes a government has to go through and a senior civil servant is the best person for that job. Labour have been out for so long that most of their MP's have never been in government
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  1288. I did my training when we had a Labour government. All of it was state funded and because I now have a good job, I've more than repaid that investment in my training through my taxes. All the training funding was slashed by the tories. They've started bringing back apprenticeships but they are half arsed. Where an engineering apprenticeship used to be five years, it's now only two and that's just not enough, it doesn't even get half way through what they need to learn.
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  1289. Landlords don't care about unhappy neighbours. Councils already have the powers to deal with anti social tenants if neighbours complain. The only thing landlords are interested is more money
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  1290. The risk of clots is lower in older people.
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  1291.  @vitalyl1327  I'll disagree with that. Try living in a rural area without your own transport. Busses are infrequent and unreliable and trains don't exist in a lot of places. If I wanted to get a bus to the next town for work, I could get one two hours after I start and then an hour after I finish. It's useless.
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  1292. I've never seen the point in petrol/diesel advertising. I just buy petrol because my fuel guage says "Empty". Nobody sees fossil fuel adverts and wants to go out and buy some
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  1293. Is there anyone left who she hasn't blamed?
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  1294. Just have him in and have the brew. As long as he brings biscuits or cake it'll be fine
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  1295. Nearly all the car manufacturers are financially committed to be only building EV's within the next 5 years. They're building the production lines and testing the next generation of prototypes now. It's going to happen no matter what Sunak says or does
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  1296. That would depend where they are built
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  1297. Universities are non profit. They've been losing their biggest source of funding, overseas students who pay more than double what British students pay and pay upfront
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  1298. These tories never learn, they keep getting caught out in variations of the same sting. Surely they'd learn from past mistakes if they had half a brain between them
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  1299. Name one of their policies. The policy page of their website is literally blank. They're all just ex tories anyway and generally in favour of the same economic policies as the tories but more extreme.
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  1300. Thats land owners, not Farmers. The majority of farmers are tenants and they are skint. Most of them around here drive around in a battered Toyota or Nissan pickup held together with baler twine. We don't even see them in the pub any more
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  1301. They don't even have a majority in NI. They should be ignored, the people of NI voted them out so why are they involved?
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  1302. But if they let them in then they aren't illegal and can work. We have 1.5 million more job vacancies than unemployed people which is one of the major factors restricting growth. We need migrants otherwise the economy cannot grow and we're stuck in this mess
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  1303.  @bentonks7751  I'm a British working person, what have they done to me? They haven't put up any of my taxes. Have they put up any of yours?
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  1304. Most Europeans do speak English
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  1305. Look at the details of the deal, it's just a very expensive exchange programme. For each asylum seeker we send over there, we also send £6000 plus they send back one Rwandan person
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  1306. That's because there aren't enough of them any more and they spend all their time filling in paperwork. I used to have a cop as a neighbour and he told me a single arrest would generally result in between 4 & 6 hours of paperwork and planning a drugs raid would take 4-5 days of filling in forms and risk assessments, none of which actually makes them any more effective
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  1307.  @DarkHelixia  They ordered the railway to be built so , yes they did. They might not have been holding the chainsaw but it was done under their orders
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  1308. A head of department doesn't need specific knowledge, they just need to know how to manage people who do have the knowledge. My manager heads up a technical department with very little specific knowledge other than what he's picked up on the job and he does an excellent job of assigning tasks and ensuring they are done on time. Thats what a head of department does
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  1309. It had to be controlled autonomously from the rover. The signal takes several minutes to get from earth to mars
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  1310. Elections are only ever lost, not won. People vote against the party they most dislike and I guess more dislike the tories than labour. If Labour introduce proportional representation (and they'd be stupid not to) then that will change and we can vote for who we actually want and the smaller parties such as greens, lib dems and reform will get more power. Ironically a labour government could actually benefit the reform party
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  1311.  @balthiersgirl2658  If that's what they wanted then why has it been advertised constantly, everywhere for the last couple weeks
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  1312.  @niblet112  I don't watch the news either. It's been bloody everywhere, I don't understand how anyone could miss it
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  1313. That's a bit over dramatic. Trump forgot the names of world leaders on multiple occasions and did he start a war?
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  1314.  @spaceghost4475  How's a ten year old going to pay for a tesla?
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  1315. That might happen when the each country has some real power over it's future rather than just being dragged down by a government who only cares about London
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  1316. Also, he promised to release his tax accounts after the argument about his wife's non dom tax affairs, he wasn't pushed for it, he offered it so where is it?
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  1317. @@user-fs4ug8bu9e The problem with that attitude is that we need to attract people to do these jobs. Who would look at a job which pays £35k and involves long working hours and think "that's worth spending 5 years at uni and getting £70k of debt for". I sure as s**t wouldn't. It's because of the low pay that so many leave to work abroad for considerably higher pay. Some say that they should be tied in to working for the NHS for 20+ years after training but lets be honest, who's going to sign up to do that? I work in industry in south west England, lower qualified than a doctor and earn considerably more for working less hours.
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  1318. Republicans have always been against NASA funding. I guess that will change now that the owner of their rocket supplier is in government. No chance of removing subsidies or support for EV's either I guess. In reality, Musk and Trump both have huge egos, they will not last long before they clash in a big way
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  1319.  @GBPaddling  Solar minimum and maximum make bugger all difference to temperatures. Just look at the surface temperatures of Venus and Mercury. Which one is hotter and which is closer to the sun? Also, parts of Mars are warmer than parts of earth
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  1320. What's that got to do with this article?
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  1321. How about giving us some positives about the tories? Khan was re-elected last year which suggests the people of London thought he was better than any of the other options. He wasn't beaten by a tory candidate was he?
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  1322.  @TheytellToomanylies  They can drive a tractor or ride a moped
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  1323. Unfortunately, successive governments have tied us too tightly to the US
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  1324. I like this idea. Free up more houses for first time buyers
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  1325. I only sacrifice to lord satan
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  1326. It's a few angry fishermen, not the French Navy so no, it's not an act of war
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  1327.  @FALslayer  It's not the responsibility of European countries or the EU to protect our borders. Each country is responsible for controlling people passing in to it, not controlling who leaves. Remember how we took back control of our borders?
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  1328. Boosters are only being recommended for the same group who get the flu vaccine. There's already research going in to whether they can be combined. Maybe yearly boosters will be recommended in countries without state healthcare but not in those with a health service.
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  1329. They should be banned from having businesses and doing work other than their work as an MP. The parties should also be banned from having financial backers, even if that means that they get grants from tax payers to top up their membership funds. Make them work for us.
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  1330. Americans aren't going to get anywhere. All they're interested in is Ukraine's natural resources. Zelensky would have to be stupid to sign it all over to them unless it comes with a guarantee the US will protect their borders permanently and that's not going to happen
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  1331.  @A190xx  They are told Rwanda is a safe country so by coming here, one way or another they are guaranteed asylum in a safe country. Not much of a deterrent is it?
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  1332.  @darralnolan5792  That seems like an awful lot of effort just to get an extension when he could have just handed over an envelope full of cash like everyone else does
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  1333. But then we can't get to work
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  1334. Yes they do. There are solar farms in some of the hottest places in the world. This thing about solar not working when it's hot is just utter b*****s and I can't believe people actually believe this toss just because they read a fake article on social media. My employer has installed solar farms in some of the hottest parts of Australia and we provide monitoring and maintenance. They have never stopped working because it's too hot
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  1335. What has she ever achieved? Nothing she has ever done has been successful. She blames it all on lefty lawyers but if her policies were legal then they couldn't stop anything. She's spent money on a prison ship to house immigrants which is far more expensive than hotels and only has capacity for 500. She set up an exchange programme with Rwanda which sees a reduction in money but not immigrants.
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  1336. There is currently only 50% more land used for housing than golf courses in the UK
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  1337.  @captricharddee3634  try rubbing natural yoghurt in to the area. Don't use a crunch corner though
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  1338. Trump himself said he could shoot a person in the street and his followers will still support him
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  1339. He's trying to build relations with Ireland. The US always used the UK for influence within the EU (a major competitor of the US for trade) so now that the UK is out, he needs a new man on the inside for influence.
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  1340.  @tastypymp1287  Well part of the investigation is in to the procurement of PPE and the test and trace app so that will look at whether corruption or fraud laws were broken
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  1341.  @clivet3252  Boris just kept lying and wasnt very good at it. He caused his own problems
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  1342. Last time the polls were close. This time the polls show a huge majority for Labour and have done for a year now. Last time the tories had the massive advantage of being able to benefit from brexit. This time they have nothing to offer other than tax cuts for the rich
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  1343. Technically that's the effect a 90 day suspension would have as it would force a by election
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  1344. Fossil fuel donors
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  1345. Most fines for criminal offences are means tested but all have an upper limit so although normal people can pay up to 30% of a months salary for a speeding fine, which will hurt, it's capped at a few thousand so rich people don't feel the punishment at all
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  1346.  @sarahann530  Rail companies are privatised. They have money to pay to shareholders, they are the ones who should be paying staff. They receive huge subsidies from the tax payer and as long as that happens, there should be no shareholder dividends
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  1347. Because they don't believe that Harris has a hope of winning
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  1348.  @gameofender4463  So why wouldn't they use a membership vote rather than a poll which is open to bot attacks and people overseas?
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  1349. I've looked in to it as I'm starting to upload my music to streaming sites and it's actually worse than Spotify. Even more difficult to make anything out of your music
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  1350. Absolutely. She has failed to come up with a working solution. She is head of the home office which is undeniable failing to deal with the issue. Why is she not being fired?
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  1351. Trump is a problem for the UK. He's forcing the UK to give up one of our two biggest trading partners. Forcing us to chose trade with the EU or US is going to be disastrous for the UK economy. Both are far too big to lose. He will be pushing us in to a huge recession
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  1352. Of course he rested, he is human
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  1353. That's not what they're voting against. They're voting against a policy which has repeatedly failed and will most likely fail again and even if it doesn't, the agreement is for 200 people per year and has cost nearly half a billion. The government knows it will fail which is why they're doing nothing about arranging flights. All airlines and airports have refused to take the contract so it's up to the military who have requested funds to put in place the facilities and security to deal with illegal migrants on a military base but the home office refused the £12m they requested.
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  1354. Insulating homes doesn't mean flammable cladding. Current fire safety regulations are far more strict because of Grenfell
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  1355. Look at it this way. The total amount given to tory freinds and donors during covid plus the amount of furlough fraud written off is still more than the UK has given to Ukraine
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  1356. Isn't it Russia's responsibility to end their invasion?
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  1357. That must be a hell of a drinking session or a really expensive barrel
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  1358. Betting websites can be one of the more reliable places to judge elections, they can't afford to get it wrong and they have no political agenda to push
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  1359. Tories are hopeless at the moment. They need some of their own ideas. All they are now is a second rate Reform tribute act. Everything Farage says, Badenoch says the same the following day. Who's going to vote for a second rate copy of Reform when they can have the real deal?
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  1360. I saw two popes in Rome a week or two before their death. John Paul 2 and the last one, I forget his name. Anyway, I'm off to Rome in a couple weeks so he's got three weeks left
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  1361. Elon's support for Trump seems strange. The trade war Trump wants to start is going to be terrible for exports of Tesla cars because tariffs will be reciprocated, they always are. It also seems strange to join the side which hates electric cars, those who buy them are much more likely to vote democrat so it's a terrible PR move for his business. I can't see republican voters giving up their V8's for a tesla (I wouldn't even though they are quicker)
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  1362.  @SimonDraper42  Grave or tarpaulin in the woods.
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  1363. Of course he does, he had to make cut backs this year. His new super yacht only has the one helicopter landing pad to save money
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  1364. I'm positive Bojo set up hancock. I'm positive he's behind the leaking of this video
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  1365. Who is Brandon from Wales?
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  1366. It's not going to rust while it's down there so it's fairly well preserved
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  1367. We're still extremely dependent on oil and most of us still have petrol or diesel cars. On top of that, the cost of all electricity is linked to the cost of oil & gas under law so this price rise will hit all of us
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  1368. I don't like him but I'd trust him more than Boris
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  1369. As a liberal, I think this is good. The public aren't stupid, they'll see these cuts are only for the very wealthy so it'll only help Labour win the election and then reverse the cuts
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  1370. If they can still make money despite the tax, they will still invest. The UK has relatively low taxes and even after the rises Labour are proposing it will still be low by international standards
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  1371. If they start paying better wages then they also charger the end user more to cover costs
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  1372.  @K20rotrex  Yes but we don't have any modern coal plants in the UK and it makes no sense to build them instead of nuclear. Although modern coal plants use carbon capture systems to prevent too much CO2 & CO emissions, they still emit a lot of nasty nitrous and sulpherous emissions, I wouldn't want to live near one. The carbon capture systems produce some pretty nasty chemicals which need to be disposed of as well
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  1373.  @upshankkumalu9301  What doesn't make sense? The fact that we don't have any modern coal fired power stations?
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  1374.  @stevenkawask8915  If all the nurses take your advice and go to better paid jobs in the private sector then who exactly will replace them?
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  1375. Automation of the railways in the UK would require replacement of all trains and full electrification of the network plus the installation of track side instrumentation. It will cost billions and even then, at the moment even the most autonomous trains need workers. It's not drivers striking at the moment, it's all the other staff who would still have jobs with full automation. Automated trains don't clean and maintain themselves or inspect and repair their own tracks
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  1376.  @BBountyHunter  We're still decades away from the entire network being fully electrified and even then they don't have the track side instrumentation and comms systems or any suitable trains at all. Why would they invest billions in railways that no one uses because they're already too expensive?
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  1377. I suspect not because there is no ICC arrest warrant for Putin. There should be but there isn't
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  1378. Thats always the way. No party ever wins an election, their opponent loses. We never vote for the party we like, we vote for the one we dislike least
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  1379. Unions won't drop their support for Labour due to the new workers rights Labour have in their manifesto to replace rights that the tories removed and they're scrapping zero hours contracts
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  1380. How did parties on the right do in the council elections? Tories - Lost over 1000 seats Reform - Won 6 out of 500 seats contested UKIP - Completely wiped out Labour are barely left of center these days
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  1381.  @URBeingLiedTo  It definitely was
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  1382. Judging by the number of people stabbing Sunak in the back this week, the tories are the ones with major issues. One tory minister even suggested in his speech that donors should stop giving to the tory party until the new conservatism group seize control. It's hilarious, Labour must be loving this melt down
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  1383.  @BleedingSnow  Train drivers aren't on strike though are they? It's railway workers on strike but the drivers aren't represented by the RMT so aren't on strike. It's cleaners, ticket office staff and maintenance workers NOT DRIVERS
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  1384.  @j7ech402  In what way is demanding fair conditions and pay from extremely profitable businesses marxist? If he's a marxist then he's not a very good one
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  1385. Like most of the tory party. At least the other parties have a reasonable proportion of MP's from normal backgrounds. I wen't to school with my local Labour candidate, he grew up on the local council estate, worked in a factory and became a councillor while still working full time and is still active in the community, unlike our current MP, Reess-Mogg
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  1386.  @jamendya  It'll never happen in a country as divided as the UK. Not everyone wants the same things so how do we all unite?
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  1387. What's she ever done to deserve it? She's never really achieved anything plus she gave her support to Truss over Sunak during the leadership challenge
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  1388. Whatever happened to his promise of transparency, honesty and integrity?
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  1389.  @theancientsancients1769  True but it's how they deal with the recovery that is important. Here we'll get full on austerity while the German government will invest to get their economy moving again
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  1390. I don't understand why anyone is listening to the DUP. They are the minority party in NI. Surely the British government should be working with the party who the majority of NI people voted for, that would be more democratic than working with the party rejected by the people
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  1391. Except that with electric vehicles increasing in popularity that wouldn't be a viable excuse
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  1392. Taliban knew in 2016 the US were pulling out, it was Trump's election promise. All they had to do was wait and keep their heads down for a few years then take it all back as soon as the US were gone because when the US leave, NATO leave
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  1393. What I don't understand is the antivaxxers who support him. Trump took credit for creating the vaccine, he promoted it, he started the vaccination programme
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  1394. Serco are tory party donors with Dido Harding on their board of directors. They already operate the criminal tagging systems and just about everything else from prisons to healthcare to school meals. They also supplied the covd test and trace system which cost us £35bn and didn't work (France spent £15m on a similar system which worked)
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  1395. But it was Boris who made those rule so it's because of him we had lockdown and he chose to not follow the rules he imposed on us. Whatever your argument, Boris is your enemy
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  1396. Reform don't have a realistic policy to deal with illegal migration. Returning them to France is impossible without a returns agreement. The French will just stop British Navy boats landing
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  1397. I went to a Christian school and was forced to read the bible everyday. That's what made me an athiest
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  1398. Of course it is. They paid billions for development of a vaccine without knowing whether it was possible to make one. Whatever they did would have been a vaccine. No vaccine and waiting for herd immunity would have been a gamble. Saying f**k this, I'm out of here, let Labour take power would have been a gamble. Sticking their head in the sand and ignoring it would have been a gamble. Going upstairs at Downing Street and indulging in autoerotic asphyxiation would have been a gamble.
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  1399. Around 10%
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  1400.  @Sec_coach  Dude, Canada has huge amounts of raw minerals. Timber, oil, gas, various metal ores, lithium.
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  1401.  @samtaylor6003  It's not zero cases of flu, it's zero deaths from flu. It seems pretty logical to me. The people most likely to die from flu are isolated at home throughout the flu season so how are they going to catch it?
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  1402. I'm in Somerton and Frome where we have a byelection tomorrow, I have had leaflets and seen candidates from lib dems, greens and labour. Nothing at all from the tories. I've spoken to others thinking maybe they'd somehow missed our part of town but no one has heard anything from them. It's as if they're not interested. It should be close between lib dems and tories, they should be in with a chance so I don't understand why they're making no efforts
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  1403.  @drewu213  There is nothing written in law to prevent politicians lying or cheating. There are actually laws which prevent politicians being held accountable to their promises and lies
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  1404. It won't happen. Tories will lose the election so if anyone takes over the leadership now, they'll be out in no time when the election is lost
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  1405. Labour can't delay anything. There is a significant conservative majority in both the lords and parliament. This is all on the tories
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  1406. The job of crashing the US economy, destroying thousands of businesses with his tariffs, driving up inflation and firing people only to have to rehire them a week later? What a success it's been
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  1407. Since the poles first froze, they have never thawed despite multiple ice age cycles
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  1408. Followed six months and £20bn later by another U turn after Boris's neighbour's cat sitters cousin fails to produce a working passport system. Doesn't matter whether they want the scheme or not, they don't have the competence. Just look at the failed test and trace app, a passport scheme will be more complex.
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  1409. They had them back then as well. The Famine never effected the cities, it was the poor people in the rural areas
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  1410.  @taffyterrier  Nurses are really poorly paid. It's one of the lowest paid professions which requires specific qualifications. I'm similarly qualified to a nurse but working in the private sector with considerably less responsibility and earning £20,000 a year more. Their wages are terrible
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  1411. They don't currently make it cheaper because the govenment made the decision that all electricity supply cost is determined by the cost of oil and gas. Renewable power suppliers have been arguing for years that their pricing should be separated so they could sell power cheaper
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  1412. Sunak is winning by miles judging by the polls
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  1413. They don't need a magic money tree. All they have to do is remove the massive loophole Sunak put in the energy windfall tax so some of it actually gets paid.
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  1414. Tariffs are nearly always reciprocal. Will Musk be happy with his cars suddenly getting 20% more expensive in most countries? It seems that Musk holds a lot of power over Trump
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  1415. Lets not forget that their wages had to be frozen to help pay for the last recession, who else would pay for it, the bankers who caused the recession?
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  1416. ...and having relations with a pig. He's got quite a bit of experience with Sunak's favorite pastime, corruption. Remember Greensill and the £60m of our money Cameron gave his mates there?
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  1417. It's ok, Serco operate the criminal tagging systems at the moment and they're tory donors
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  1418. So twice as many as voted for Reform then?
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  1419. He is excellent. He takes no bullshit and demands straight answers, even from members of his own party. He could make the best political journalist we've ever seen in this country.
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  1420.  @applepie8772  They won't fold. Public schools are extremely profitable businesses
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  1421.  @lookingforthewhy6447  Thats fine, it was a long time ago and it was a mistake and as far as we know he's done nothing similar since so he's learned from his mistake BUT it should have been correctly disclosed so his constituents could factor it in to their voting choice and I'm sure most would see him as a reformed character and there would be nothing to attack Reform with now
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  1422. Musk is a strange bloke. His main business is building electric cars but politically he opposes the side most likely to embrace his products while sucking up to the side that only wants big V8's and fossil fuels. Similarly, NASA is the biggest customer of SpaceX by far yet the side he's chosen wants to slash NASA's budget while his political opponents support space exploration.
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  1423. We're all loaded at the moment with this super cheap, almost free oil and gas reliant power aren't we?
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  1424. People have been talking about them and their ownership for the last couple years.
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  1425. Civil servant pay is quite low so why would more intelligent people take those jobs? If I were to join the civil service, I'd have to take a very large pay cut and for someone reasonably educated and experienced, I'm not spectacularly paid
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  1426.  @txmn2583  Yes hea failed on the withdrawl from Afghanistan but since the withdrawl was started by Trump, shouldn't a plan have been made under his leadership? Both Trump and Biden are useless
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  1427.  @tonygrantham3213  I remember the last Labour government. It was terrible being able to make a doctors appointment or see an NHS dentist (remember them?) and the maximum class size of 25 was just terrible and then there was the smooth roads which were just horrible. In 1998 I had a Lotus Elise and a Ducati 748 and hadn't learned the pleasure of smashing wheels in potholes. Young people could buy a house, disgraceful. It was disgraceful that sometimes the government took the side of workers in pay disputes and people got pay rises. We had that horrible economic growth before we got to enjoy this stagnation. Yes, it was a horrible time
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  1428. There is. It's a bit rubbish
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  1429. Jersey is just a tax haven for the rich. Why should we pay for the Navy to protect them? Let them go out in their million pound Sun Seeker boats and protect the island themselves
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  1430. I agree HS2 is a waste of money but if they stop it now then that's around 20,000 construction workers unemployed
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  1431. And they'd still screwed up the economy with a decade of failed austerity
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  1432. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54842605 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54310520 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56469687 Do the BBC not count as mainstream? https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15272371/laurence-fox-anti-lockdown-protest-london-boris-johnson/ Or how about the Sun? I'm sure I could find something on every major news website if I could be bothered to look
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  1433. They can't do anything about the cost of living but they're all in for this repeatedly failed policy
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  1434. I don't understand why anyone will ever vote Reform
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  1435. A good friend of mine came from Venezuela. The country is run by drug cartels. They bought the government and police. He left because it's extremely violent and his brother was forced to work for the cartel (it's that or be hung from a bridge) so they both escaped to the UK. Fixing these governments will never be simple and I'm fairly sure western governments don't want to fix some of them
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  1436. Even lib dems are moving away from rejoining now. I forget her name but there was an interview with a senior lib dem mp at the weekend who said that we could never regain our membership with our old terms so we're best off re-integrating as much as possible but stopping short of full membership. That's pretty much the same as the labour view on the subject. Either way, our membership would likely be vetoed by other members such as Holland who benefitted from our departure
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  1437.  @mogznwaz  Britain has limited growing seasons and can grow limited types of crops. We have to export to make it profitable
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  1438.  @yvetteloach8617  The ECHJ only has a say on matters which involve EU law. It's also worth noting there is a British judge in the ECHJ
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  1439. No, he talks b****ks with confidence. A large proportion of his suggestions are completely unworkable due to breaking either international, EU or UK law
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  1440. It's only the last 15 years that defense spending has been cut. It actually peaked at 26% of GDP in 2009
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  1441.  @robertevans8010  Farage is just as bad. He's just another ex city banker> There's no way he doesn't dodge a few taxes
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  1442. They don't if they are first time buyers but thats the same for all first time buyers
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  1443. Brexit has made drug smuggling easier. The backlogs at ports mean that huge amounts of imported containers never get checked
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  1444. Has anyone worked out what those opportunities are yet?
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  1445. They recovered my car within an hour of it being stolen so I'm happy with the police. It cost me £600 for two replacement tyres that their stinger destroyed but I'll take that since the insurance would have come up around ten grand short of replacement cost. The cops are alright by me.
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  1446. Will it be as much as the trillion dollars that Bush's Afghanistan war cost the people of the United States? That's an average of nearly $6000 per US tax payer
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  1447. Anyone who has worked has paid in to the system to fund their pension. Anyone who hasn't worked the minimum number of years doesn't get the full state pension
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  1448. The only party where every MP is a millionaire and the party with MP's with the highest average net worth and led by a banker. I'm not voting for that. We've had bankers as PM's and they've been useless. On top of that, they've just hired Liz Truss as an advisor.
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  1449. As much as I dislike her as a person, she's the only politician I can think of who stuck to their election promise. She promised to fight for independence and she sure as s**t did that
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  1450. I'm fairly sure that since he's very much on the left, Bill Gates wouldn't be doing deals with right wing politicians like the tory party. Anyway, the man has so many contacts in Microsoft that he could probably have hacked computers and got him out without the need for CCTV
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  1451. Exactly. Other countries who didn't take the austerity recovered faster than the UK. Spending on infrastructure projects really boosted the German economy by creating well paid jobs and getting money moving in the construction and manufacturing industry which helped kickstart the economy. All austerity does is cause stagnation, if people don't have money they can't spend it and recovery takes longer. Tories blame Labour for privatisation of the NHS because they created the first private contracts in the NHS, what they fail to mention is Labour awarded 14 contracts and the tories have since awarded over 3000 while also removing the regulations on those contractors which were created to ensure value and quality of service
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  1452. Not really big news is it? It'll be of interest to about twelve people
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  1453. It would just be incredibly vague, unhelpful suggestions like "sack managers" or "make staff work more hours for free".
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  1454. No, good alternative candidates didn't arrive
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  1455. No, that what Maxwell did is to take money from the pension fund to try to prop up his own failing business. It didn't work and now I work with lots of people in the late 70's who lost their pensions they paid for in the print works that he owned here in Somerset
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  1456. The problem with that argument is that those oil and gas businesses don't pay tax. Shell for example didn't pay a single penny in UK taxes between 2017 & 2022. There was more tax paid by renewable energy companies than fossil fuel companies in the last year.
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  1457. And last year over £30bn was given to oil companies while they made record profits. Conservatives have never in their history given more than a token tax cut to the working classes
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  1458.  @scottymackay1801  Workers didn't have a choice whether they went on furlough, the decision was made by employers
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  1459. Covid passports would be the exact opposite of globalism's ultimate goal of no borders at all
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  1460. No, they weren't allowed to. Conservative MP's were forced to vote in favour of it without reading it
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  1461. He never said "get it done competently" therefore he hasn't broken promises. I voted to remain and would do so again but I can't help thinking no deal at all would have been better than the deal we've ended up which is basically all the disadvantages of remaining combined with all the disadvantages of leaving very few of the advantages of either. To many people wouldn't accept that there were positives and negatives to both leaving and remaining and were too focused on everything on the option they were against was all bad
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  1462. There is already a shortage of labour. Over a million more job vacancies than unemployed people. Who will staff these extra businesses and factories?
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  1463.  @spage2102  Disabled need help they didn't choose to be disabled, should we just leave them to rot? That sounds more like something third world countries would do. Unemployment benefits are abused and should only be a short term safety net there as protection when people are made redundant etc. Obviously the unemployment benefit system needs fixing
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  1464. I'm afraid the blame for this lies with everyone who made that effort to destroy the conservatives opposition at the last election and with that opposition for being weak. We now have a government who can do exactly as they please, they have no effective opposition in parliament, votes in parliament are now pointless. Lets hope we never get in this position again, we need opposition.
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  1465.  @cyclingseagull  blue obviously, like our brexit passport
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  1466. There should never be business owners in government. Their own profits will come first and the rights of workers will come last
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  1467. They call the unions communist but the fact is communists didn't allow strikes or protests so in reality the government are closer to communists. Communists believed in everyone being paid the same so they wouldn't be fighting for a wage rise anyway
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  1468.  @kalzsantan  Not 100% recyclable. The lithium itself can be recycled but there's lots of plastics and semi conductors in the battery which would go to landfill
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  1469. That is kind of the entire point of the opposition. The whole purpose of the opposition in parliament is to highlight the governments failings and wrongdoing to the public and to question their policies.
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  1470. It'll never happen. Th UK has a fairly equal left/right split which ensures that the party closest to the center always wins. Historically it has always been the party closest to the center who has won
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  1471.  @strawberryfieldsforever3308  The US is currently doing a hell of a lot better than the UK with falling unemployment and economic growth. Also, nurses in the US are paid considerably more than in the UK, with an average US nurse earning $82,750
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  1472. If there is one? No there isn't a god
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  1473. Nuclear works extremely well with renewables to provide a stable base level of generation. A combination of nuclear, wind and solar are the way to get rid of gas and coal generation
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  1474.  @piscesDRB  Wind isn't intermittent, it's providing power constantly. Solar only works during day time obviously but doesn't need direct sunlight, only daylight
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  1475.  @piscesDRB  It's not seasonal at all. Wind turbines kill less birds than coal fired power stations. The underwater vibrations are considerably less than those from drilling from oil and they don't destroy subsea habitats because they're installed in places like sand banks where there is no real habitat
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  1476. And I have a very distinguished career as an astronaut
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  1477.  @ROBBYX08  There are only four millionaires in the Labour party and their combined net worth is less than any single member of the tory cabinet
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  1478. The majority of Labour MP's and candidates are from average backgrounds (yes there are some exceptions) yet we vote for the incredibly wealthy tories instead
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  1479.  @onlyme972  I think tidal is a big part of the overall answer. Tidal power needs either tidal lagoons or a tidal estuary to work. It needs controlled flow through some form of conduit (river/channel/pipe etc)
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  1480. While their flights did undoubtedly produce a lot of pollution, rocket engines are actually very clean since they run on hydrogen and oxygen. Building them, flying people around the world and producing the fuel is not so clean
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  1481. Sunak was definitely on the side of motorists. Just look at the way he pretended to feel sympathy as he did nothing about rising petrol prices
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  1482.  @oldskoolordie  People like to say the millions leaving Ukraine should be fighting but are there weapons for them? Is there food and survival equipment?
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  1483. Create jobs through getting us some trade deals since we've got none of any merit. Infrastructure projects create jobs and we've got roads & a rail system which badly need upgrading. Our power grid and water networks need upgrading and pressure needs putting on the operators, upgrading them will create jobs.
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  1484. So all those factories I see as I travel around the country, all obviously still very much open, what are they doing if they're not making things?
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  1485. We are pissed off with what this government has done to this country. 14 years ago this was a decent place to live, now it's very expensive and nothing works
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  1486. Rich people don't go to jail. Remember Michelle Mone? The tory Baroness arrested for fraudulently taking the best part of a billion of our money? Last seen by a journalist in Majorca on holiday
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  1487.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Try living in a country with only private healthcare for a while, I have and it's really expensive and I've seen people get in to incredible debt because their insurance policy didn't cover their illness
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  1488.  @RalphdontGAF  If they were Thorium salt reactors the waste would be minimal and easy to handle and they are more efficient. The ONLY reason plutonium or uranium are used is that the waste can be processed to make nuclear weapons.
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  1489. It's made up of salt water
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  1490.  @tomhenry897  Prices never drop. Inflation is a rate of change, when it drops the rate of price increase slows, prices don't fall. Biden did lower inflation and kept it lower than most of the world. Since Trump started his trade war, inflation has increased again
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  1491. Ironically, that was easier to do when we were in the EU and had a returns agreement
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  1492. He'd fit in well with the tories. Sex offender and tax dodger plus he's full of it. The only man who can claim to be politically neutral and then launch in to a very one sided rant on any subject
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  1493.  @davebirch76  There is oil and gas in the north sea, lots of it BUT unless it's nationalised, it will never be isolated from global price fluctuations. Oil and gas are traded on global markets by bankers, doesn't matter where it comes from, prices are controlled by the same markets
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  1494. The problem is that he lied to his constituents in order to hide his past. I would expect the same treatment for any MP who has done the same, no matter what party.
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  1495. They will do well but whats far more important is that they perform well where they win and serve the locals as well as possible. If they fail to do that, they are doomed. The press are already digging dirt on the candidates, Reform's selection process clearly has some major holes. I think ironically winning could be their undoing because at the moment, their biggest strength is a lack of track record. No one can say they've done badly yet...
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  1496. All these "free speech" advocates get very upset when someone says something they don't like
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  1497. Exactly. Charities don't own stately homes and make a profit
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  1498. Musk is too political to get involved in these events. He's already picked his political allies and won't work with their opposition so whats the point of inviting him? Also, Musk isn't the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault is with $223bn compared to Musk's $195bn. Jeff Bezos is looking likely to overtake Musk in the next few months as he's currently less than a billion behind Musk
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  1499. It is not completely independent. The government appoints the head of the bank of England and if he wants to keep his job he has to go along with the governments plan
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  1500.  @MARTINA-gc3tq  All 10 of those members are appointed by the government and they only get to vote on the options proposed by the head of the BOE
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  1501. The best selling car in the UK is an EV. All manufacturers are now committed to ending ICE manufacture well before 2030 because it's too expensive to make ICE & EV at the same time. Like it or not (and I don't) there will be no new EV cars available within 5 years other than a few supercars
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  1502.  @Noel-ji8nm  Barely won maybe but he still got more vote than any of his fellow candidates didn't he? I'm afraid our system is win or lose, margins don't matter. It's certainly not a safe seat and I would personally like more politicians to feel unsafe in their position, it might make them work harder for their constituents.
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  1503.  @Noel-ji8nm  So why are they reversing so many tory policies and why are the tories opposing everything they do if they're both the same? It looks far more like the tories have become a Reform tribute act, which pretty much makes them unelectable. Anyone who wants Reform policies will always vote for Farage over Badenoch every time..
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  1504. The reason they pay nothing is that conservative legislation created by Theresa May means that they cannot work until their asylum claim is accepted and conservative incompetence means that despite virtually no rise in the number of claimants, it now takes 8 times as long to process claims as it did 15 years ago so we have to pay for accommodation and food. Get them processed fast and get them filling the jobs we have no one for. We have a labour shortage and we have people who want to live here. Seems like there's an obvious solution there. Get them working and paying tax
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  1505. He did. If he'd not told the prosecution to improve their case then all of the paedos would have been acquitted.
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  1506. Does the boss of P&O know how to captain a ferry?
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  1507. No one is letting illegal immigrants in. If they're let in they aren't illegal. If they're in the asylum system they're not illegal. Those people being held in hotels aren't causing the housing problems
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  1508. Net zero is big business. It's generating enormous amounts of tax income
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  1509. Have Labour historically lowered taxes which effect working class people? Yes, they cut VAT from 17% to 15%. Labour also introduced low or zero tax for small, low emissions cars. They raised the income tax allowance inline with inflation. Have conservatives historically lowered taxes which effect working class people? Only once, when Thatcher gave a 23% cut for the highest earners and 1% for low/middle earners. As for public services, NHS waiting lists, A&E wait times and ambulance response times all lower and NHS spending per capita, number of doctors per capita, number of police per capita, classroom sizes and education spending per pupil all higher under Labour. All of that was achieved with lower taxes.
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  1510.  @johnb8956  Only in the US
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  1511.  @Geffo555  Those are some very good reasons to not vote Reform. Another one is that they have all the same financial backers as the tory party
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  1512. So Farage shouldn't have gone over there to campaign?
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  1513. The UK can't compete against the rest of the world. There is only one country in the world that chooses to isolate itself from the rest of the world and they have never done well. Do we want to be North Korea? Global trade keeps prices lower than they would otherwise be and gives us more choices. We are a small country, we physically can't make everything
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  1514. It is approved though
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  1515. Yes they did
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  1516.  @robertstrong6798  He's being knighted for services to talking utter b****ks with a posh accent
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  1517. Hail satan
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  1518. An attack by Russia is extremely likely
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  1519. I'm positive it was all set up by Boris as a distraction
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  1520. They'll get votes by default. Scotts detest the tories so they'll never win and Reform aren't even bothering to properly campaign in Scotland
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  1521. Well I'm glad I don't live within the blast radius of your garden shed
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  1522. Not really. Standard conservative tactic before an election. Create groups of people for their supporters to hate and then promise to be tough on them. Conservative voters are not young so it's an ideal target. Of course if they win an election, they'll do nothing about it
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  1523. Of course a politician wouldn't lie to get what he wants would he?
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  1524. Reform are no different to tories. They just shout louder
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  1525. We still produce the more specialist grades of steel here. Standard grades are so much cheaper to import from China but there are some applications that standard grades don't work for. Chinese steel is actually decent quality these days
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  1526. Notice how they're not committing to it and Sunak recently refused to say it won't be a spring election? It'll be a spring election
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  1527. I don't think he'll ever be leader. I'd actually like to see him as a political journalist. His performance in select committees has shown he demands straight answers, takes no crap, accepts no deflection and treats members of his own party the same as members of other parties
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  1528. There won't be one. I wish christmas was cancelled
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  1529.  @wolvo5441  All those people he's put in charge of various sectors have experience in those areas. Far better than the usual way of taking a random MP with no experience and putting them in charge. What experience did Matt Hancock have to qualify him to run the NHS?
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  1530. In a general election, tactical voting will make things much, much harder for independents and minor parties. It's highly unlikely Galloway will keep the seat. Small parties and independents always do much better in byelections because tactical voting doesn't happen
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  1531.  @thwalesproductions  Yes but those only use the locations for processing asylum seekers. Once processed they are either accepted and allowed in or they are deported elsewhere. The Rwanda scheme just send them to Rwanda and they stay there.
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  1532. Yes and take a look at the sea defences. They aren't actually at sea level, they're about 20 metres above sea level
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  1533. It's repealing the legislation which removes workers rights including the right to things like paid holiday and a contract of employment
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  1534.  @T5Zplayer  The economy is now in a WORSE place than it was in 2010
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  1535. @penderyn8794 It was about increasing rail capacity not speed. Trains are overcrowded
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  1536.  @dogsteeth7400  The BBC had loads of news coverage. It was on the radio regularly when I was at work. We only ever had Radio2 or BBC 6Music on
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  1537. If they're so patriotic then why are they smashing up British homes, businesses and public services (library and citizens advice)? Is it patriotic to tear up garden walls and headstones for ammunition to throw at British police? There is nothing patriotic about these people
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  1538. But the reservoirs are empty and the ground is dry. It will take months of rain to recover
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  1539. Those certainly are words. A random collection of words with no meaning but at least they are all correctly spelled. Well done.
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  1540.  @hetrodoxly1203  Reform want a US style health insurance system. I've lived with that system and seen how bad it is. I will never vote for a party who want that
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  1541. He did talk about it at the labour party conference. It's fairly safe ground for Starmer as neither him nor any of his cabinet are implicated plus he booted out Corbyn so he's not even a party member let alone an MP now.
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  1542.  @pjj177  It's actually both which is even worse
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  1543. Anyone who believes they are the right hand man of a sky wizard has serious mental health problems
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  1544.  @someguy344  Like Sunak????
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  1545. National service was stopped because it's REALLY expensive
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  1546. No one has seen it but apparantly, businesses are closing and millionaires moving abroad because of what they think might possibly be in the budget but have no way of actually knowing yet
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  1547. They've know for decades this was coming and should have invested their profits in diversifying their businesses. This hasn't been suddenly dropped on them
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  1548. What incentive is there for employers to spend millions on relocating to these areas? Small businesses tend to start up close to the home of the person starting it up and big businesses will generally go where there's good transport links and a good supply of the workers they need
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  1549.  @happystarhappystar1477  Thats not true. Only asylum seekers from Ukraine can legally arrive via airports
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  1550. @@Davedani687 Bring back Lizz Truss. She did a top job of that
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  1551. Maybe Reform should stop blaming generation Z for everything and calling them all lazy if they want their votes
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  1552. No, not trans. It was a female woman. Unfortunately some females are born without a uterus
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  1553. 65 at the time of inauguration seems reasonable
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  1554. Bristol
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  1555. Don't forget that it's the conservative government being investigated and it's highly likely that we will have a Labour government by the time the investigation is completed
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  1556. I'd be happy to be used as a marketing tool if it got me in to space
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  1557. Sky's owner donates millions to the tory party each year
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  1558. Why are the DUP even involved? They lost their NI majority in the last election. Surely it should be the party the people of NI voted for who are involved. They like to talk about respecting democracy but have chosen to ignore NI democracy
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  1559.  @BirdieToBogey  Strikes have worked in the past to get pay rises on plenty of occasions
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  1560.  @DavidJohnson-dc8lu  How does that work when people aren't out spending money? I've saved thousands through not commuting alone.
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  1561. They aren't putting pensioners in to poverty. It's literally a few quid a week they're losing
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  1562.  @antonydandrea  It wasn't stable though was it. Boris was in constant crisis, mostly because of lies and corruption
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  1563. Doing that would result in trade sanctions from the EU and United States. The UK economy would be decimated
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  1564. Students are in social bubbles, they have to be to go to uni and sit in lectures together and share houses together. They are aloud to meet up out of class. There's a lot of collaborative work they have to do these days
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  1565.  @tomash6805  They're fighting for their jobs and pay. That is more important than a few people being inconvenienced
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  1566. Hunter Biden is not, never was and never will be a government employee. If he's broken any laws he should be prosecuted but IF Trump is guilty, that is much more serious due to his position as president and potential future president
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  1567.  @4TNTDaily  HS2 could have been good but it's already been cut right back
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  1568. They generally still make profit
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  1569.  @TheVanpablo79  In what way do their jobs not exist anymore?
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  1570. He'll be your neighbor soon
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  1571.  @facitenonvictimarum  Sunak was educated in England (Winchester College & Oxford uni) and worked at Goldman Sachs in London
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  1572. Their costs for import goods has risen so why would they not put prices up?
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  1573. And stop giving £10bn a year to the oil companies who are absolutely fleecing us. We get no preferential supply or lower costs in return, we have to buy through the same global markets as every other country which doesn't have nationalised energy
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  1574. She's also claiming more expenses than most cabinet MP's despite being a back bencher.
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  1575. No party ever wins elections, they pick up wins handed to them by losing parties. For example the conservatives didn't win the last election, Labour disastrously threw it away and handed it to them
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  1576. Thee only reason it dropped under the tories was that they removed fraud from crime figures
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  1577. Putin hasn't left his bunker in years
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  1578.  @sunflower-oo1ff  Maybe he should have made his point in a more intelligent and professional manner rather than resorting to personal insults
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  1579.  @eriihf  Most of the current bosses were put there by the Conservative health ministers over the last 12 years. Why would they be labour activists? Also, the bosses aren't striking
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  1580. She's actually predicted to lose her seat anyway plus just to be sure, there's a targeted tactical voting campaign in her constituency to get her out mainly because she's spending all her time either in the US or promoting her book rather than representing her constituency. She also has some of the highest parliamentary expenses despite being a back bencher
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  1581. She can't be any more useless than Shapps was can she???
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  1582.  @taffyterrier  Thats exactly why the UK needs to pay more. Why should we have a dumbed down health service?
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  1583. There's no way I'm voting reform. They want a US style healthcare system. I've lived in the US and there's no way I'm voting for that. Even the run down NHS we have now is better
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  1584.  @Jamesyahyah  The other parties aren't giving their mates billions of our money or dodging taxes or putting their mates in positions of power or giving contracts to their donors or creating tax loopholes to benefit their donors are they? There has been a level of corruption in every government throughout history, it's what finished Major's government but this current government has taken it to a whole new level
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  1585.  @ebillyboi  The only people who owe furlough money are the businesses who fraudulently claimed it but the government voted against going after them.
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  1586. The problem in the NHS is private business. No regulation means they put shareholders first and provide useless service. The NHS needs strict regulation so those companies put service first and if they don't perform then they're out
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  1587. But none of the other signs of a shifting pole are present at the moment such as fluctuations in the earths magnetic field
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  1588. They need each other. China needs to be able to sell to the US, it's an enormous market for them and US manufacturing can't function without Chinese materials and parts
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  1589. With the current electoral system, voting for anyone else is just pointless
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  1590. Why? I can understand both pretty clearly
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  1591. Not really. They can't transplant a womb in to a male body, the male body doesn't have the space for it or the equipment to support growth of a baby.
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  1592.  @woofolliesmydog8628  Blair increased tax on the wealthiest and they didn't leave then so why would they this time? If taxes are increased for them but it results in economic growth due to investment of that money then they make more money anyway and it's of no concern to them
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  1593. I think I technically qualify as middle class & I can guarantee there is no sugar at all in my coffee
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  1594.  @dftfire  There was a tory MP (I forget his name) recently suspended for antisemetic posts on social media
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  1595. She looks so good for her age. No, hold on, I misread that as 81. She looks dreadful for her age
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  1596. And churches of all faiths wonder why young people are deserting them. I personally had so many missed lunches and exclusions from class when I was at a church of England run school just because I was honest about the fact that I didn't believe everything in the bible was fact
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  1597.  @jumbojimbo706  They are not all the same. Where's the videos of the labour parties? Where's the billions of our money Labour gave to mates? Where's the Labour policies to give millions in grants to their wives businesses? The tories are the ones doing all this, no one else. It's not Labour or Libe Dems or Reform or Greens or Plaid Crmyu (may have spelt this one wrong) What we've also seen is when tories are caught out, the party try to sweep it under the carpet, defend them and hide evidence from us. When it happens in other parties (and it happens a lot less often) the guilty party is immediately suspended
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  1598.  @andrewjackson8089  We do have alternatives. They may not be all that appealing but none of them have given their mates billions of our money or locked down the country while they partied or run all of our public services in to the ground or governed while Britain has the highest inflation in Europe and the worst performing economy in the G7 and the highest energy bills in the world. The tories have to go no matter who replaces them
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  1599. I'm surprised the tories want voter ID because lets be honest, if there is significant voter fraud in Britain then it must be benefitting them since they've won the last few elections.
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  1600. Everyone know that Sunak's delay will be reversed by Labour. I don't think anyone is worried about it. Businesses are pissed off because of the huge investments and commitments they've made
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  1601. And that's why I'm not over there
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  1602. They haven't been screwed over. They've known this change is coming for decades and failed to diversify their businesses to cope with the change to electric cars
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  1603.  @carlgoring2330  Look it up. London is not even in the top 10 cities for knife crime. It's not even number one in the UK, Liverpool is. On the bright side though, better knife crime than gun crime
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  1604. One point I'll make as a motorcyclist myself is that the cold isn't really an issue for most of us because we're dressed for a 70mph wind blast at near freezing temperatures this time of year. What is a killer is blood loss, especially unseen, internal bleeding. I hope the poor bloke was ok. It's been 25 years since my last accident and I still remember how much that one hurt.
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  1605. No, there wasn't a decent alternative candidate. As with all elections, the least unpopular person won
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  1606. I'm not sure whether he doesn't understand, doesn't care or both
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  1607. What has he lied about?
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  1608. Some are asylum seekers and some are economic migrants. We get less economic migrants because they get more benefits or better pay in either France or Germany
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  1609. Why would anyone want to come here? Just look at British wages compared to Germany, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea etc, etc. Wages here are terrible
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  1610. This is the man who was fired as housing minister after it was leaked that he helped his mate dodge the taxes on a £1bn development project
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  1611. One persons happy news is another persons bad news
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  1612. Look at it this way. The total amount given to tory freinds and donors during covid plus the amount of furlough fraud written off is still more than the UK has given to Ukraine
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  1613. That "lie" was an incorrect date leaving a job. She did the job so had the experience, she just left it a couple months earlier than it said on her cv. That won't get anyone fired.
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  1614.  @theblueboxtardis  We had a visit from Rees-Mogg (our local MP) at work. He was not given an easy time by the gathered engineers who had just spent months and hundreds of thousands of pounds preparing for the UKCA certification which the tories dropped at the last minute. Incompetent was a word used frequently
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  1615.  @colinu9209  That was the tories fault. They introduced FPTP in a way which actually made it more likely he would win (more constituencies in inner london than the suburbs) and then stood a candidate who started he campaign with lies and then started sharing borderline racists/islamaphobic/transphobic stuff on her social media while campaigning in a very liberal city. They needed a centerist candidate who would remove ULEZ for outer london and they'd have won
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  1616. Well they do. They will be publishing their version of the budget this week. They have also published policies for energy costs, migration, labour shortages, funding for public sector pay rises, funding for the NHS, economic recovery and various other things. All the policies are published on their website and in some media outlets but most, including the BBC, Sky, Sun, Mail, Times, Telegraph choose not to publish them
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  1617.  Charles Makow  Al Gore isn't a climate scientist, he's a politician
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  1618. I don't see that he has any choice anyway. If Trump forces the UK to choose EU or US trade then Starmer has to choose the biggest one, we do far more trade with the EU, we can't choose the US
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  1619. I'm afraid it's written in to law that MP's and ministers cannot be held legally accountable for lying and neither can the press. Labour tried introducing a law to hold the press to account for lies but it hadn't passed before the tories took power and they scrapped it almost immediately along with the phone hacking enquiry
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  1620.  @KJ-js7pi  Tory voters are disappearing
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  1621. And British businesses would collapse with a lack of workers causing a huge recession so no one would be able to buy. Great solution
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  1622. If Reform take £80m from Musk then they can never say another word about Starmer getting some glasses and a suit without being incredibly hypocritical
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  1623. They don't need to
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  1624. They set interest rates on government borrowing. If our government does stupid things then we end up paying more interest on borrowing
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  1625. Not going to happen. The only things they've U turned on have been things that have involved spending (which this doesn't) as a response to a rapidly declining UK economy
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  1626.  @hymns4ever197  Is it worth spending billions and sending UK service personnel to die? No, definitely not. This isn't our fight
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  1627. If the US doesn't start a war soon, they'll be in trouble. Unfortunately for them, cold wars aren't big business for them
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  1628.  @markmeadows3485  It's explained in the Labour policy page on their website. Firstly, it's important to remember that when money is invested in infrastructure, it all goes on goods and labour so 20% of it comes straight back in VAT and income tax so £28bn of spending only costs £22.4bn to start with. On top of that when those workers spend their wages from this investment, they pay tax on that and the businesses they spend with pay tax on it as well. This spending also helps stimulate the economy which creates growth which also brings more tax revenue. At the end of the construction phase, we have a new national asset which helps lower the costs of energy and travel which also helps stimulate the economy. This is the theory that many other countries put in to practice in order to recover from the 2008 crash far faster than the UK when our government chose austerity which just strangled the economy. This £28bn is a similar amount to that which Liz Truss wanted to borrow in order to fund tax cuts for the rich which would have all just disappeared to offshore accounts
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  1629. She was found to owe nothing by HMRC
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  1630. He's in the process of introducing additional regulation scrutiny on MP's incomes outside parliament so it appears he's against corruption. Lets see how it goes when Farage has to submit his financial records next week (like all MP's). I guarantee he won't and then he'll kick off and pretend he's being victimised by being treated the same as all other MP's
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  1631. The difference there was the right wing press launched an all out attack on Corbyn. They don't seem to be going the same way with Starmer, possibly because he's pretty much an old style tory
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  1632. It has a very thin atmosphere. The helicopter had to be designed to deal with much less dense air
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  1633.  @Epic_Memer_Man  I'm not so sure. Welingborough was Reform's big effort. They stood their highest profile candidate and through everything they had at it and still only managed half the votes the tories got at a time when they are deeply unpopular and made no real effort. I'd like to see the tories demoted to third (or lower) but I just can't see it happening
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  1634. It'll only be a vote winner if it's tax cuts for the majority of people. More tax cuts for the rich will count against them
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  1635.  @Usernamegigiboe  There are people in the US who are demanding exactly this happens there. Mainly christian evangelical groups are demanding martial law and the military remove Biden and replace him with Trump
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  1636. New variants are only detected in lab testing of samples
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  1637. They were stolen goods when they were sold to Britain
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  1638. Why can't I find any evidence of this study? The closest I can find is "Evaluation of salt marsh restoration by means of self-regulating tidal gate Avon estuary, South Devon, UK" which as the title suggests is based around using a tidal gate. It has never been suggested that the islands would sink, rather that the sea would rise above them.
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  1639.  @lordpembridge303  If Obama never changed anything then why did Republicans hate him so much?
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  1640. We enabled them. We voted them in. We gave the conservatives such a huge majority that they can do anything they want. This is our fault.
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  1641.  groot6830  Well they did really well in local elections winning just over 1% of seats they contested
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  1642. Historically, it has always been the party closest to the center who wins elections
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  1643. Reservoirs need to be fed by rivers, the rivers are already suffering from the existing levels of abstraction.
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  1644. The arms industry and the US military contractors have made an absolute killing in more than one way.
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  1645. There is one major side effect associated with all vaccines, old age.
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  1646. I'll be honest, I hate people, I'm quite enjoying lockdown. The longer it goes on the better. As a bonus, I'm saving a few grand a year on petrol by working from home.
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  1647. It was never a conspiracy theory because it's been openly discussed by the government since before the first vaccinations. The only politicians who said it wouldn't happen were ones with no say in whether it would happen.
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  1648. Coincidentally, Sunak would stand to save an estimated £300 million if inheritance tax is scrapped. It's unlikely to happen though. As Hunt keeps saying, there is no money to fund tax cuts. If they scrap inheritance tax, it would mean a significant amount out of the public services budgets
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  1649.  @mememachine5244  I'd have thought it's bloody obvious. Create a situation where the other side gets hurt if they refuse to negotiate. Just asking politely will achieve nothing. What does this have to do with Labour? Don't working tory voters want to get paid more?
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  1650.  @LA-fr7fx  Spending done right is investment. Do businesses grow by spending more or by cutting their spending?
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  1651. Spoiled ballots don't get counted, they just get binned. Yu may as well just save yourself the trip and not bother at all
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  1652. It's like choosing the tastiest turd in the litter tray
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  1653. I want all those things but absolutely do not believe that's what Reform will deliver. They voted against improving workers rights, against NHS funding boosts. They've just hired Liz Truss as an advisor so based on that, I can only assume their top priority will be tax cuts for the rich. They are absolutely not for properly funding anything. My problem is I don't know which party will deliver this.
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  1654. The NHS issue isn;t that difficult to solve. The health service budgets are set by the government and then the board who decide where the money is spent is comprised entirely of directors of private companies who supply the NHS, that has to change. There are no controls over profiteering in the NHS, that also has to change with controls on pricing and introduction of competition rather than one company for each service. Ideally I'd like to see all private business out of the NHS asap but that's not going to happen. Then they have to do something about attracting and retaining staff
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  1655. It is. But is it a good one?
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  1656. Reform are nothing but conservatives. Half of them were conservative MP's. They have no published policies but their talking points are just conservative policies. They want to fully privatise the NHS and give us a US style system (biggest reason for bankruptcy in the US is medical bills). They want business deregulation, including removal of workers right (I quite like paid holiday and a safe work place thanks). They basically want to turn the UK in to the US and having lived there for a few years, I'm really not too keen on voting for that car crash
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  1657.  @Curryking32000  Yes because the tories reversed so much damage after 2008 didn't they? They did a great job of reducing the national debt and making the public financially better off didn't they? Just look at our shining public services that they fixed for us. Look what they did for net migration numbers, they definitely haven't doubled them have they, hold on, they have doubled them. Bugger
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  1658. The phone companies paid for it. It was in the contract last time they renewed their licences
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  1659. No. There was a deal (nothing to do with Patel) but it ended when we left the EU. We don't pay anything to France anymore
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  1660.  @Jase29  There's a whole lot more lies coming from the tories.
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  1661.  @normankennith7919  He was involved in Gary Glitter's prosecution
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  1662.  @terryloftus8626  But when they do privatise, where are they going to get new nurses and doctors from? I doubt those leaving now would want to work for them
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  1663. Who's going to pay? It's sure as hell not going to be Gazans, they've got nothing to pay with. It'll be the US tax payer
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  1664. Why? They've been extremely successful in getting voted in to the Scottish parliament. According to the most recent polls, the SNP would get more MP's in Westminster than the tories if there were an election now
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  1665. Which conspiracy theorist? There were so many of them with so many different theories. Some said it came from the US, some said it was deliberately spread in China, Some said it came from Proton Down, some said it was started by the vaccine manufacturers, some said it was caused by 5G and some just said it didn't exist. There's the ting with conspiracy theories. There are so bloody many that the laws of averages means that they have to get it right now and then
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  1666.  @TurinTuramber  Of course they can be but far more often they're talking absolute rubbish. Maybe if they filtered out all the unsubstantiated crap they might get just a little credibility
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  1667. In fairness, we don't ever know who will be in a cabinet when we vote in elections
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  1668.  @markgregory7140  It's going to be a long, long time before the tories are back in power. They've turned in to a Reform tribute act and anyone who wants Reform policies will want Farage in charge so if that's the direction they're taking then I can't see a future for them.
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  1669. On what charge specifically? As much as I hate him and his bunch of goons, I can't see what actual laws they have broken. There are specific legal loopholes to make politicians exempt from any laws relating to lying and deceit.
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  1670. The thing is they don't want tax cuts for the hard working people of this country. They want tax cuts for the wealthiest and large businesses
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  1671. The reason they didn't do that is it would mean all our goods become 20% more expensive in our biggest export market and it would break the good Friday agreement which means trade sanctions from the US and EU. Basically it would be suicide for our economy. Thats why Boris kept threatening it but never did it, even he isn't that stupid
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  1672. We could vote the tories out at the next election but the majority of british voters are idiots who will do as Rupert Murdoch tells them and vote the tories back in
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  1673. Thats how elections always happen. There's rarely an ideal choice for anyone so it's more a referendum on whether to keep the existing MP/government or ditch them. Elections are always lost, never won
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  1674. Someone please tell Farage when he crawls out of Trump's hole
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  1675. Technically, Im a key worker and I get paid three and a bit times minimum wage. Key worker has nothing to do with it
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  1676. Or the maximum of 200 per year?
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  1677. The alternative to raising NI is to raise the retirement age again. The aging population means we have a greater percentage of the population retired than ever before.
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  1678. If it's mismanaged then why have the conservatives done nothing about it during the last 13 years? It's them in charge of the dept for health and that has overall control of the NHS
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  1679.  @boofuu3145  In what way does net zero raise costs? gas and coal are the two most expensive sources for electricity. They have benefits in terms of providing a stable base load but they're far more expensive than other sources
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  1680. And will we get a huge pay cut when the NHS is replaced with an insurance scheme/scam? Will we f**k. It'll be a huge cut in corporation tax, scrap the 45p & 40p rate and nothing for the average working class person
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  1681. No it didn't. It proved that it's possible to write a heavily encrypted code in to your phones operating system, install it with an update and then send an encrypted signal to it. Shame it didn't really work.
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  1682.  @bamboozled3531  Awesome story man
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  1683.  @kerryhadley7090  Let the people decide. The reason Labour will win so easily is that the right wing vote is split and it was the tory culture wars that has contributed so much to the rise of Reform. Tory strategists are the ones who are asleep
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  1684. Murdoch's publications are always against prisons reforming people, they're all for locking people up for life.
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  1685.  @daveh322  But the US has a particular problem. They have the highest murder rate per capita of any developed country. Thats pretty bad for "the greatest nation on earth" and a nation which claims to be christian
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  1686. Clarkson hasn't worked for the BBC in over a decade and has done much better since his departure. He wasn't actually fired either
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  1687. I can see that this one has been deleted
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  1688. How can he tax companies in China for goods sold in Europe?
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  1689. Correction, they end up in the South East. There's f**k all headed to the South West
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  1690. Nuremburg trials were a military tribunal. Which military is going to be tried? Who will bring the prosecution case? Who has the power to run an international court?
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  1691. I worked in automotive R&D back in 2018 - 2020 and ICE development was being wound down back then. Development of new models takes around 8 years normally, You'd be amazed at what goes in to it and the amount of prototyping and testing they go through. I know the four manufacturers we worked for were all expecting to be only building EV well ahead of the deadline. Getting their full model range on to one power type is so much more efficient for them than having a petrol/diesel engine factory and a batter factory, they just want one
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  1692. All budgets within the NHS are controlled and distributed by a single board. All members on that board are directors of private healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. There's the problem
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  1693. Trump is forcing the UK back in to the EU by making the UK choose EU or US.
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  1694. Boris closed the Calais asylum center which is what triggered the channel crossings. There was no reason to cross when they could apply in France and that also meant we didn't have to accommodate them or deport those who were rejected. Boris was the most damaging PM this country has ever had. He also introduced the UK's first net zero commitment
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  1695. None. It was sold by Thatcher to British owners. It was then sold on to Tata (Indian) who then sold it to the Chinese via a deal set up by the last Conservative government. Privatisation was always opposed by Labour
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  1696. I've tried using it and wanted it to be good but it's just not good enough
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  1697. Poison? It's just a modified version of vaccines which have been in common use for over a decade. It's nothing new
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  1698. It is. Don't believe that rubbish. I've had a flag pole at the bottom of my garden with either a union flag or george cross for the last two decades and no one has ever complained. It's clearly visible from the road so plenty of people see it
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  1699.  @briancarno8837  I did. There are no reliable sources for this. No videos and no direct quotes in any trustworthy source
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  1700.  @normankennith7919  Communication would have been by umbilical. If that's gone then there's nothing
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  1701. If people don't like what he's saying then they won't vote for it. What the population wanted 7 years ago matters less than what it wants now. If we want to fully diverge from the EU then the people will vote for Conservatives or Reform, if they want more alignment then they can vote Labour, if they're confused about life they can vote Lib Dem, if they're smelly hippies they can vote green. I don't see how that is at all undemocratic
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  1702. Ok, so 19% is unaffordable. How about a counter offer? How about an inflationary rise this year and then 1% above inflation each subsequent year until all NHS staff have got back to the equivalent of what they had in 2008?
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  1703.  @wobblywally-0  They're a mix of ex tories and ex brexit party. Look at their intentions for healthcare and then look at how many Americans are bankrupted when they get cancer and their insurance doesn't pay out then consider 1 in 4 people get cancer. That's why I will never vote for reform
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  1704. What recovery? There was none to stall
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  1705. Move to another country
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  1706. Most first world countries have very similar human rights laws to Britain. We're not unusual in that
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  1707. If Westminster was disbanded they'd all be out of the job and we'd have monarchy rule so I doubt civil servants, on anyone wants that
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  1708.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  Inflation was a little higher during the labour years but the difference was wages kept up with inflation while for the last decade they've been pretty stagnant. It doesn't matter that prices go up if your income goes up with them. I'm yet to see any benefits from brexit, only negatives. Whether that's because it's been poorly managed or whether it's just not going to work I don't know but I'm fairly sure we'd been better off staying in than the mess we're in know. We're currently the only G7 country with GDP still lower than pre covid and still not in positive growth. Killing our exports has to have something to do with that. It's ruining my employer not being able to import goods in a reasonable time because EU businesses don't want to deal with the extra paperwork and we can't buy these goods elsewhere when the only two suppliers in the world are in the EU.
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  1709. Of course, no one ever got robbed in the street before masks were used. Come to think of it, masks have NEVER been mandatory outdoors so why would it make a difference?
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  1710. Trump stopping support is likely to result in forcing NATO to escalate and send troops in to Ukraine and bring it to an end without giving in to Russia
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  1711. Look up the definition of proxy war. Britain my not be fighting there (officially) but are funding Ukraine to at least weaken Russia who have been an enemy of the UK & US for many years.
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  1712.  @ishaanparikh485  Not quite true. Calculus was invented about 500 years earlier in the middle east but it didn't really have any application. Newton kind of rediscovered it and brought it to the west and applied it to various physics problems
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  1713. Hasn't Boris been divorced twice because he cheated on his wife and he cheated on his current wife with an American business woman?
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  1714. We have been shafted but I don't believe a party run by millionaires will change that. Reform's MP's have the highest net worth of any party
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  1715. He did genuinely have covid, a relative of mine was part of his care team and absolutely despises him now. Apparently he was genuinely very close to death
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  1716. But most of Europe is going ahead with it and they have far cheaper energy than us. They also have far higher wages than us
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  1717.  @Adilrajasoldierspeaks9702  There have always been alliances alongside NATO, this is nothing new. The UK and US in particualr have always had a very close alliance
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  1718.  @anthonygibbs3243  I was partially mistaken, it was inciting violence and hate speech. Inciting violence alone wasn't enough to get him deported. Hate speech law does get used to shut down people like him who are telling their followers that the western infidels are evil.
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  1719. Starmer is a capitalist, not a communist. He's pretty much a traditional tory, very much like Blair
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  1720. It's quite clear by the people Biden is meeting with that Biden is building relations with Ireland. The UK / US relationship was always a bridge to the EU for the US, now the US are clearly building that relationship with Ireland to get their influence back in the EU now that the UK doesn't have any influence there. The US sees the EU as an economic opponent so having influence within the organisation is extremely valuable to the US.
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  1721.  @smileright9  The party with a convicted wife beater as an MP?
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  1722. <in Bart Simpson's voice> "Hi Dr Ahmed Al Bin Khan"
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  1723.  @dyeremi  We can afford it. What the tories threw at their mates during covid for faulty ppe & app plus written off furlough fraud would have paid for everyone in the NHS to have a 30% pay rise for more than a decade
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  1724.  @360webdesigner9  I've seen large numbers of colleagues move overseas for better pay over the years and I've also seen companies cutting their graduate schemes and apprenticeships, and then they complain about a lack of skills available to them. I did a 5 year apprenticeship back in the 90's fully funded by the government and the (small(ish))company took on three apprentices every year. I then went on to do my degree which my employer paid for. It was seen as investment back then. Skilled engineers were valued. Not any more, I'm a senior level engineer and earning less than an unskilled, unqualified estate agent who talks nonsense.
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  1725. Lab grown food would be incredibly expensive
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  1726.  @bugballs2211  Whats the point of having ambulances if there's no crews to operate them? They're short of staff to crew the ambulances they already have
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  1727.  @mrspeedygoat6497  If they do that there won't be any public services left at all. What we need is our export markets fixed so that businesses can make more money to pay more taxes and pay workers more and they need to close tax loopholes
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  1728.  @rogermellie8068  Keep up the good work in the field of profanity
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  1729. It was Boris closing the Calais processing center which kicked off the channel crossings. Before he did that, there was no reason to cross the channel. Why didn't the tories even try to reverse any of the migration over the last 14 years? They didn't even attempt to tighten acceptance criteria. They just made promises at election time and did nothing
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  1730. Whats the point of attracting investment if it doesn't benefit the people of this country? If P&O are upset about regulation which protects workers from fire & re-hire then do we really want them? We already have far more job vacancies than people to fill them so why not strategically target good employers rather than ones who have a history of treating British workers badly?
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  1731. It won't work until we have PR
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  1732. Re-open the Calais asylum center. Closing that is what started this whole mess
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  1733. Judges don't take sides. The judge purely on the legality based on the existing laws of the land. Judges are not allowed to make judgements based on anything else such as opinion or their own morals
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  1734.  @j7ech402  She's not that clever
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  1735.  @nigelhopkinson6614  Even if they restored all 21000 that would still be less per capita and less per tax payer
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  1736.  @brianlawson4368  Racism is everywhere.
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  1737. This has been the only story in the news for weeks now. What are they hiding? It seems odd that at a time when we're in an economic black hole and with a corrupt government, this is the only story
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  1738. If I so much as accept a bottle of wine at christmas from a client or supplier I will be fired. That's a very standard business anti corruption rule and the root of this rule is based in British anti corruption rule. Politicians are running the country and "should" be the best of us so why aren't they held to equal or higher standards?
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  1739. We don't need to wait for them to get away with it. Parliamentary reviews are controlled by the PM and the consequences based on the outcome of the enquiry are decided by the PM.
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  1740. The government has got a lot wrong, far too much. They can certainly be blamed for the billions paid for useless ppe and a useless app and their decision not to recover that money. They can also be blamed for choosing not to investigate an estimated £55bn of furlough fraud. Then there's the fact that our economy is the worst performing in the G7 when the rest of those countries have gone through the same covid lockdowns and energy cost problems as us. That only suggests incompetence
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  1741. @EUROPATHELASTBATTLE861 And yet more people voted for him than Trump
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  1742. All part of the tory plan to prevent people from poorer backgrounds working their way up to a decent job and life
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  1743. And only 2% of the UK is built on
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  1744. Don't blame the Russians. Blame the Russian government
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  1745. 2017 isn't really a good reference point for electoral performance. It was a single policy election. Brexit won that election, not Boris or the tories. It was entirely about Brexit and it wasn't long after that election that the tory poll ratings took a huge dive
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  1746. Wasn't Cameron previously exposed as having interests in the weapons industry in the UK and US?
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  1747. They have a recruitment and staff retention problem because of low pay so long term, it will help
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  1748.  @tomselect3030  Muslims generally don't vote. no one represents them. Labour are too pro LGBT for muslims
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  1749.  @davidty2006  In the late 19th century, railways were heavily government funded. They also had a monopoly, people couldn't choose to travel by car, bus or train, it was train or nothing.
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  1750.  @davidty2006  My point is that rail now has a variety of competitors which are all as fast if not faster, more reliable and cheaper
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  1751. Whats the alternative? Tories who do exactly the same? There will never be an ideal party, all we can do is vote for the one we dislike the least
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  1752. We had a more left wing Labour party and it gave the tories an 80 seat majority. It's no good having Corbynism (and I liked Corbyn) if it can never get in to power and actually do something. Going too far to the left just gives us more tory rule
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  1753.  @kathleenrose3545  Well where do we start? Investing in infrastructure projects to help restart the economy. This is a proven tactic as used by virtually every country who recovered faster than the UK following the 2008 financial crash, Austerity has been proven to have only caused the economy to stagnate. Investing gets money moving, creates well paid, skilled jobs and stimulates recovery. Reopening the Calais asylum office. The closing of the office is the reason people are crossing the channel. They can be processed in Calais as they used to be and we don't have to accommodate them and no one arrives unless already accepted. Starting a state run power company to compete with the existing ones. Just take a look at how this works in France and how their energy prices compare to ours.
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  1754.  @memyself1566  I watched the riots from a hotel room in Westminster during a family wedding. Those people were definitely angry, I've never seen so much fire and objects thrown at police before but in fairness to Westminster council, the streets were spotless by morning
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  1755.  @sqwalnoc  It was a fairly average turnout for a local election. It's pretty clear that the tories are going to get battered in the next election. Every poll and every bi election and the local elections all point to a big loss for the tories. It's hardly surprising with all their corruption, they crashed the economy, they made a disaster of brexit, we have the highest inflation in Europe, the highest energy prices in the world and our standard of living is now officially equal to Poland (average wage vs cost of living)
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  1756. Is it? The barges cost the same per day as hotels but that excludes the cost of getting the barges here, port fees and security and on top of that, the two barges between them house a total number less than one week's arrivals so make bugger all difference
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  1757. Vote tactically. Labour have no hope of winning here in the byelection tomorrow but lib dems can win so I'm voting lib dem but as I told their candidate last week, it's a vote against the tories, not a vote for them
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  1758.  @bobbailey7024  Dont forget that prior to Brexit asylum claimants were processed in Calais so there was no reason for them to cross the channel and any who did were immediately sent back to France but also because they were in Calais we didn't pay to accommodate them. That didn't have to change, France offered to keep that setup during the brexit negotiations but Boris said no. He was warned it would lead to this situation but apparently that was project fear
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  1759. They'll definitely win Somerton & Frome. It didn't go down well that the tories left us without an effective MP for over a year after suspending David Warburton for sexual misconduct and drug use and then taking more than a year to investigate it.
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  1760. It's a wee research vessel
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  1761. As much as I dislike all religions, I will say that they make their own money, they don't receive any funding from the tax payer
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  1762. If there are less properties available to rent then that means there are more available to buy because those houses don't just disappear. Maybe then some of those renting while they wait for an affordable house to come available could buy
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  1763. It is mostly privatised. Most GP surgeries and hospitals are privately run, all it means is that more of the money available has to go to pay shareholder dividends
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  1764. Those greedy people with their mortgages and food. Why can't they just accept being much worse off than they used to be?
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  1765. Look at the numbers turning out to riot and look at the community response afterwards. This is a minority, it won't lead to anything like civil war.
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  1766. If they're so patriotic then why are they smashing up British homes, businesses and public services (library and citizens advice)? Is it patriotic to tear up garden walls and headstones for ammunition to throw at British police? There is nothing patriotic about these people
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  1767. The UK has nothing to offer the US anymore. They used to use the UK for influence within the EU and as an extension of their military. Now the UK has a much smaller military than it used to and no influence within the EU
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  1768. The predicted 2% income tax cat will save someone on an average income of £32k a whole £5 per week. It's hardly big potatoes
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  1769. We always will be. We were warned that leaving the EU would mean more red tape, not less
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  1770. He did. He said they're not setting a direct figure. Lets be honest, there have been plenty of figures given by the tories for migration reduction and it only went up so just keeping it level would be doing better than they ever managed
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  1771. Train and tube companies are subsidised so they can pay a decent wage without passing it on to the customer
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  1772.  @Noel-ji8nm  If the US want mining operations in Ukraine, they'll need to protect those interests, Europe will prioritise civilian population, not US business. Also, it will have to be written in to any peace agreement
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  1773. Until Biden dropped out, yes a Trump win was guaranteed but now, it's looking far less likely
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  1774.  @kokonut5491  Trump made it a campaign policy to pull out of Afghanistan. All his supporters said that was great. Trump put things in motion to begin the withdrawal and his supporters still said it was great. Biden is in power during the actual withdrawal and suddenly it's the worst decision ever made by a politician. Personally, I believe every president since Bush is equally responsible for this mess
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  1775.  @panathasg13  Inflation is a measure of the rate of change. For prices to fall, we would have to have negative inflation. As inflation drops, it just means prices rise more slowly. This misunderstanding is (deliberately) not helped by the likes of Sunak suggesting that lowering inflation makes people better off, it doesn't it just slows the rate at which they are getting worse off
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  1776. Reform are mostly just failed tories
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  1777. After several months of very dry weather. It's all soaking in to the very dry earth and not making it to rivers and reservoirs
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  1778. They won't because they won't exist. His promise is that building will start in 2025 which means they won't have to deliver them
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  1779. She's actually predicted to lose her seat anyway plus just to be sure, there's a targeted tactical voting campaign in her constituency to get her out mainly because she's spending all her time either in the US or promoting her book rather than representing her constituency. She also has some of the highest parliamentary expenses despite being a back bencher
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  1780. Who's getting 10% pay rises? Everyone I know is looking for another job to try to find better pay because their rise has been well below inflation
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  1781. Except that civil servants aren't getting a pay rise
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  1782.  @fgcpeak9591  Farage refuses to be remotely critical or contradictory towards Trump. He has said he wants the UK to join with Trump's US. He even wen't to the US to campaign for Trump. He is definitely on the political right and I think he'd agree with that. I'm not sure he's far right but definitely firmly on the right
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  1783.  @aclark903  If he can't fulfill promises he shouldn't make them. The war in the Ukraine isn't the only reason the UK is in such a state. That war effects every G7 nation, as did covid lockdowns yet the UK is the only one with GDP still lower than pre covid and and economy which isn't in growth. Maybe he could recover the £45 billion paid out for faulty PPE and the app that didn't work. That would go a long way to helping the NHS
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  1784. Is she the "blob" that Jacob Greased-Hog keeps referring to?
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  1785. I'm in Somerton & Frome. I'll be voting liberal democrat today, not because I want to but because they are the only party who can beat the tories here. It's a vote against the tories rather than a vote for the lib dems and that's exactly what I told their canvassers last week.
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  1786. With Sunak being one of those with considerable wealth hidden away in the Cayman islands to avoid paying his share
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  1787.  @dragonfly6908  £4m is nothing compared to those in the tory party where they have MP's with hundreds of millions in the bank. My local Labour candidate went to the same state school as me, grew up on a council estate, worked in a factory as a labourer and worked full time alongside his councillor duties. There are quite a number of MP's and candidates in the Labour party from an average background and they certainly outnumber the millionaires by a good margin. I don't like Starmer, he's like Blair light but I'd take that over Boris
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  1788. @anonymousone6075 £5m a day is a tiny amount compared to the billions that tories have thrown at their mates. If they actually processed the claims then we wouldn't have to pay to keep them in hotels would we? The number of applicants has not significantly increased, the number being processed has been slashed and there's the reason we are paying to keep thousands in hotels
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  1789. £30 million and delivered nearly a decade late
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  1790. They'll throw him in the ground. That's all we need to know
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  1791. Just not having austerity would help. We need economic growth and that is not compatible with austerity. What we'll see is wages slipping even further behind inflation which means tax revenue falls behind inflation which means either cuts to services of tax rises, probably both
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  1792. Why can't I find any report of that? Surely that would have been reported
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  1793. Why in the name of all that is unholy would we ever want to go back to archaic, pre decimalisation systems?
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  1794. It wasn't but then with the state of the country and the way everything was failing other things had to be prioritised before growth. Growth is only positive if it benefits the public with higher wages and when did we last see that happen? Wages have been stagnant for decades now
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  1795. If David Ike is right and she is an alien lizard then she might live another hundred years but most likely, she'll be worm food in the not too distant future. I'll be honest, I'll be more upset when my tomato plant dies. I've never met the queen, she doesn't know I exist (obvioulsy) so why would I care more about her death than any other stranger? The only celebrity death I ever took note of was Lemmy but I met him a couple times, he was really friendly and his music meant a lot to me.
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  1796. There's been a spike in food poisoning since we've had no controls of imported food standards
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  1797.  @jogger949  That's not how it was at out local hospital. I live just up the road from the hospital and it was certainly busy. Only the visitors car park was empty
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  1798. A friend of mine lives around the corner from Michael Gove. He regularly puts up Vote Labour/Lib dem/Green signs on Gove's front gate as well as the occasional rainbow flag. He put a Vote Remain sticker on his wife's car once which stayed on for a few weeks.
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  1799. £4bn a year for healthcare seems a hell of a lot better than the £10bn a year we pay to oil companies in subsidies while they make enormous profits
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  1800.  @tyronsimpson2143  I'm giving them neither
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  1801. How would that work? Our coal fired power stations only make up 3% of our power generation capability. It'll make bugger all difference
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  1802. Musk is a strange bloke. His main business is building electric cars but politically he opposes the side most likely to embrace his products while sucking up to the side that only wants big V8's and fossil fuels. Similarly, NASA is the biggest customer of SpaceX by far yet the side he's chosen wants to slash NASA's budget while his political opponents support space exploration.
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  1803. Musk is a strange bloke. His main business is building electric cars but politically he opposes the side most likely to embrace his products while sucking up to the side that only wants big V8's and fossil fuels. Similarly, NASA is the biggest customer of SpaceX by far yet the side he's chosen wants to slash NASA's budget while his political opponents support space exploration.
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  1804.  @minmo2288  Was that a very long time ago when houses were considerably cheaper? These days an average three bedroom house in many areas is over £300,000
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  1805. I fail to see how it would be illegal. It's not covered by any discrimination law because that only covers specific characteristics
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  1806. There's enough loopholes that the richest business owners don't pay corporation tax
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  1807. The tories are doing so well aren't they? The economy is now in a worse state than it was when Labour last left office
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  1808. Historically, they are the most likely party to take conservative safe seats
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  1809. It's a bit difficult to say now what can be done in a year. The economy is in rapid decline. What's affordable now may not be in a year
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  1810. It's complicated because we cannot cut trading links with them without doing enormous harm to ourselves. We no longer have the capacity to do our own manufacturing and even if we could, it would be considerably more expensive
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  1811. Because it's the responsibility of the dept of education for academies, which is what most schools are now. The funding for repairs have to come out of the schools budget. Rebuilding schools takes a lot more than six weeks
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  1812. Bollocks
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  1813. He wants to build factories here but only if he can get exemptions for tax, health and safety and employment law. Is that the investment we want?
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  1814. Republic of Ireland is in the EU. The EU wants to protect their border from smuggling. Incidentally, smuggling of illegal goods and evading customs is through the roof at all UK ports due to a lack of customs officers
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  1815.  @MrMichaeljhinde  His policies aren't really that far from Thatchers. She was definitely to the left of where the tory party is now. Thatcher even applied an effective windfall tax to energy companies when prices rocketed during her time, that's something Starmer wants but Sunak hasn't done, he's put in loopholes so they don't actually pay the tax. Starmer and Thatcher both had similar positions on the EU and immigration, she wanted more migrants to fill jobs. Labour's policy on apprenticeships and training is almost a direct copy of Thatchers.
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  1816.  @iansmith8247  They seem to be either bankers or lawyers. Or slum lords, like our local tory MP
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  1817. Maybe his taxes should have been scrutinised at the time rather than after the matter
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  1818.  @nowgrownup  They replaced the Jags with electric BMW's when Jaguar stopped making the XJ & XJR. Bullet proofed Range Rovers were disregarded because they're so heavy (4 tonnes) and slow
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  1819. Since the covid passports don't exist yet, they can't force anyone to have one yet
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  1820.  @garyd6009  Vaccines normally take 7-15 years to make due to a stage gate process which requires a financial review phase at the end of each phase, during that phase the scientists work on other projects so when the financial review is finished there is still a delay while the scientists are unavailable to return to the project. 80% of that 7-15 years there is no actual work on the vaccine. For the covid vaccine development, they cut out the financial review phases and the covid vaccine was the only one being worked on. They also worked on several options so where normally they work on one at a time and basically start again when they hit a dead end, they worked on many vaccines in parallel so no time was wasted on the dead end vaccines.
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  1821. When has any government ever listened to the will of the people. All I see is that the French still get to retire with a state pension age 5 years earlier than in the UK. They also have a considerably lower cost of living, better healthcare, less of a wealth gap, a higher average income, shorter working hours and less drizzle. But apparently they're the ones getting screwed
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  1822. Of course private is more expensive. They pay staff better (the one good thing) but they have to make profits and pay dividends to shareholders which means our taxes are paying those dividends
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  1823.  @eriihf  Is Marcus Rashford on strike? I can't support that one, he's paid enough
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  1824. Not so much enabled but necessitated. Universities lost virtually all funding so had to offer all sorts to attract as many people as possible
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  1825. I'm not so sure. She would be done if there were a more credible replacement. At the moment the best option they have for replacement is Jenrick and he's even less popular with the general public than Badenoch, and she's really unpopular. They need a leader with their own ideas rather than just running the party as a Reform tribute act because anyone who wants Reform will vote for Reform, not a second rate copy
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  1826. Not a chance. Reform are just a bunch of failed tories
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  1827. I used to get the train to work. When they're not on strike the service is unreliable and crap
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  1828. Prescription opioids are the biggest cause of opium addiction and heorion is cheaper than prescription drugs so that's why people end up on it
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  1829. We have a capitalist, free market government. They sold off the oil industry years ago so now we have no more right to UK oil and gas than anyone else in the world. It's all owned by Shell & BP etc and they sell to the highest bidder
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  1830.  @Verity98765  Most other countries are failing as well.
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  1831. Not just the poorer areas. I'm in a fairly affluent area and the roads are falling apart, the police station is gone, the hospital moved to a much smaller building with less services, the schools are selling off sports fields in order to pay the bills and there are no NHS dentist places available in the whole of Somerset, Dorset or Wiltshire. This was a safe tory seat but they lost it in a recent byelection
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  1832. Thats nothing compared to the amount of our money given to oil companies in subsidies, the same oild companies who are now fleecing us get billions from our taxes and cost hundreds of times as much as the migrants
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  1833. Is it greed to want more than $0.20 for a thousand plays of your song? British musician Gary Numan shared his statement from spotify recently which showed a payment of $39.80 for one million plays after taxes and their fees
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  1834.  @hhgk6963  When they remove all checks and balances from the political system, which Trump has done
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  1835.  @HorusHerotic  Read it again man. She said he's pushed for FEWER regulations, not more
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  1836. I tried ecosia and to be honest, it just wasn't as good as google although I really wanted to ditch google
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  1837. My dog would do a better job of running the country and he regularly growls at his own tail
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  1838. There's no such thing as a left wing bank. Banks are at the pinnacle of capitalism, they are all right wing
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  1839. And a day later.... ......is that tumbleweed over there?
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  1840. It was rigged by the tories when they decided to put a moron in as their candidate
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  1841. They know but they don't care
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  1842.  @audioarchitekt  Tactical voting means there is no real link between numbers of votes and seats won.
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  1843. But what part of Wales? In the south very few want independence, in the north it's much more popular. Overall I don't think (I may be wrong) that there is a majority for independence. Having said that, pro independence parties may win based on their other policies
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  1844. The majority of NI people are happy with the current situation as it's given them an economic advantage over both the rest of the UK and ROI. That's one of the reasons why they voted out the DUP in the last election
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  1845. Pensioners are better off with the pension rise which was more than the winter fuel allowance. Some on benefits and social care are worse off but I suspect they'd be even worse under the tories or reform, both of whom want to cut as many benefits as possible. Tories also want the state pension means tested meaning those who pay the most in won't receive anything
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  1846. Who cares about that BS? It's all a bt weird to me but so far down my priorities I just don't care. The tories are the ones destroying the country and they have to go
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  1847. It's going to get worse. Austerity is extremely restrictive to growth, as is a shortage of labour. Because of these factors, the OBR has predicted that with austerity in place national debt will rise to 320% of GDP. That's worse than following WW2 and worse than any other country not recognised as third world
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  1848. It's the fault of a government spending more than a decade of deliberately moving our money to the richest in society
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  1849.  @taffyterrier  Australia, the US and Germany are actively targeting recruitment of British doctors
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  1850.  @callum4796  The conservatives have a very large majority in the lords so they'll be calling their own lefty's
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  1851. When has that ever happened???
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  1852. Tories have already destroyed themselves
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  1853. Harmon slapped down Mogg in parliament yesterday quite ell. He stood up to say she was biased and should have stepped down as chair. She responded to say she raised the perception of bias with the government and offered to step down but they made the choice to keep her as chair. They could have removed her if they thought there was a problem and she wouldn't have fought it
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  1854. He will be. No leader ever survives an election defeat in any party. I predict there will then be a messy fight for leadership between Braverman, Patel and Truss one of whom will last as leader for maybe a year then Mordant will take over and restore some sort of sense and make them electable again
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  1855. His role is to hold the government to account. That is the entire purpose of p[[psition
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  1856. No
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  1857. It's already up to 69 for people in their 40's now. The French definitely have most things better than us
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  1858. Sounds fishy to me
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  1859. Why is Farage dressed like a farmer? Why is that necessary?
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  1860. I've seen a few tory MP's questioned about this subject of the decoration funds over the last few days and it they've been very clear and open about it. The source of the fund is "but we've made a great success of the vaccine programme, over half the population vaccinated. Great vaccine roll out, we've done brilliantly with vaccines" So that answers it very well, now we can move on. Any more questions?
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  1861. I find it interesting that the royals have more problem with Megan and Harry than with Andrew.
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  1862.  @Sammy1234568910  The UK government hasn't withheld funds, they are there for NI but without a functioning government there is no one to set budgets to determine where the funds get spent
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  1863. The US has changed regimes in the middle east many times and it has never worked. Reagan installed the current Iranian regime
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  1864. And some politicians on the right in the UK want to replace our healthcare system with the US system. I've lived in the US and the healthcare is one of the worst things about the country
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  1865. If wages cannot keep up with inflation because that will cause more inflation then that right there is a massive problem in the capitalist system and means that the average person can only ever get worse off
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  1866. Thats not how falling inflation works. As the rate drops, the speed at which prices increase gets slower, it absolutely does not mean that prices fall. For prices to fall, inflation would need to be negative (deflation)
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  1867. @Emz 3103 Chips can be forged, very easily. A chip doesn't have to look the same, it just has to function the same. It's probably easier to forge a just a chip than a document with built in a chip similar to your bank card
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  1868. He was asked by tory PM's to destroy the NHS, he did that very effectively
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  1869. I did once, I admit I voted for Cameron in 2010. I learnt my lesson, never again
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  1870.  @jackspring7709  There can never be free speech in the media because the financial backers will always remove funding when someone says something which could harm their profits. GB News has many financial backers
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  1871. If the French built HS2, it would have cost a fraction of the price
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  1872. It did stop in the 90's but then houses were built at a rate that the water companies couldn't keep up with and they are now at a point where during storms, the treatment works can't cope and they have to send some of the incoming water to bypass the treatment
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  1873. So still well above Sunak then?
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  1874. Just like every single religion
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  1875. There's no such thing as a renewable source for chemically pure CO2
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  1876.  @Kieran-Hodgson  The French system, which actually worked cost £5m compared to £35bn for the British system which didn't work
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  1877.  @hughjohns9110  If they process the asylum claims, they can kick out the ones we don't want and find jobs for the rest
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  1878. The last person who said that to me was a heavy smoker who uses recreational drugs
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  1879. As well, not instead. I think most Labour voters would actually support this
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  1880. He is the most sensible candidate when he's up against an actor, a youtuber and Khan
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  1881.  @happyapple4269  What did they do to people who weren't vaccinated? Absolutely nothing
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  1882. They aren't imported from the US, they come from China so US tariffs, don't apply
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  1883. Apple products are shipped to the UK direct from China so US tariffs won't apply to them. They will apply to Tesla cars though
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  1884. No, all we needed to do was close borders and the virus would have never even arrived here
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  1885. Not only that, they will have lost all risk. In construction a good amount of money is added in costing for risk of unforseen problems and correcting errors, that all disappears when a contract is cancelled but the money is paid
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  1886.  @sirloin8745  try million, not thousand. We paid over a million just for Johnson's lawyers
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  1887.  @T5Zplayer  Labour did see it coming which is why they had a school rebuilding programme in place to deal with it. The tories decided to cancel that
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  1888.  @T5Zplayer  Yes it did. Schools with RAAC and temporary buildings were prioritised although the scheme was a rolling replacement of all school building
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  1889. @@jimmym4265 Reform are in favour of NHS privatisation, low business taxes, low wages, removing workers rights. They supported Truss's uncosted tax cuts for the rich which crashed the economy and are in favour of scrapping 4000 laws all at once which is predicted to crash the court systems for years and completely finish our export industries
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  1890.  @jjefferyworboys8138  And Sunak has used those opportunities to help tory donors and peers get very rich
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  1891.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Immigration has significantly increased since the tories took power. They haven't so much held the gate open as smashed it off it's hinges and made it twice as wide
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  1892.  @Victoria.Reynholm  Khan only has power over greater London. The people of Greater London voted for him. They could have voted for one of his opponents if they didn't want this. He is not extending it outside of the area where residents have a vote for the London mayor
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  1893. Many Labour MP's voted AGAINST the Iraq war, very, very few tories voted against it. I will never defend Blair but he allowed himself to be bullied by Bush
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  1894. The ones which Labour voted against in Scotland?
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  1895. There's a fair chance they will be in power by the end of the year. The ERG are already trying to force out Sunak and there's no way they'll get away with changing PM again without an election
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  1896. Yet he loves Russia & Putin who has his opponents and critics killed. He's just a hypocrite. In the US, Trump wants states that voted against him punished, that's extremely anti democratic. He's removing people from government and courts who disagree with him. What about their free speech?
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  1897. He does have a very large mansion in the US as well
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  1898. That's impossible from outside the single market
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  1899. I can't but then again, I wouldn't if I could
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  1900.  @kanedNunable  Thats a bit of an oxymoron. Comrade, insinuating communist and therefore extreme left but then call him a centerist. Which is it? He can't be both can he?
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  1901. Well to do that would cost billions to upgrade the rail system and replace all the trains. Our rail network doesn't have the required comms systems or instrumentation. The network would also have to be 100% electrified since no one makes autonomous diesel trains. Even the fully automated systems need human cleaners and station staff, under UK regulations, they would also need a qualified driver observing the automated controls. It's not the drivers who are striking, it's all the low paid staff who would still be required for an automated network
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  1902.  @robknight1473  I've spent time in the US, I worked with a lad who had to spend $1600 per month on epilepsy meds, he basically worked just to pay to stay alive. Type 1 diabetics pay well over a thousand dollars a month on insulin which is why so many lose limbs, eyesight or just die
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  1903. He's a tory, of course he's corrupt
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  1904. Why on earth would either of them want that? Tories know they won't win and so do Labour. Why would either of them want to give Reform an election win? It just makes zero sense from either side.
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  1905. Not so much. It's quite clear by the people Biden is meeting with that Biden is building relations with Ireland. The UK / US relationship was always a bridge to the EU for the US, now the US are clearly building that relationship with Ireland to get their influence back in the EU now that the UK doesn't have any influence there. The US sees the EU as an economic opponent so having influence within the organisation is extremely valuable to the US
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  1906. Lets hope it is peaceful protests and not riots. Protesters can be talked to, rioters should never be listened to. Negotiate with these rioters and then everyone else will expect the same and we'll see JSO and pro Palestine riots
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  1907. He can't be lord and prime minister plus there's no way Sunak is going to make him lord so unless he becomes PM, he won't become a lord
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  1908. Richest man in the world? What has Bernard Arnault had to say?
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  1909.  @patburnsy8  Research where? A google of "soros funding BLM" is bring up nothing .
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  1910.  @niburu1508  Why bring back Corbyn? I liked his policies but he spectacularly lost an election because he couldn't stand up to the mostly false attacks by the media. He was just too weak. There's a lot I dislike about Starmer but at least he'll beat the tories and do a marginally better job than them
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  1911. It's up to the police to decide whether a crime has been comitted
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  1912. Only on youtube, not overall by a long way
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  1913. I don't honestly think Klaus Schwab would care less what happens to Trump.
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  1914. Violating the GFA results in trade sanctions with the US and EU. Our economy can't take that punishment
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  1915.  @jaw2112  Our auntie Jackie's sister's brother's boy got it
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  1916.  @jaw2112  no, our auntie Jackie's sister's brother's boy.
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  1917. If they had any leverage on the government then they would have created the test and trace app for several billion pounds rather than Matt Hancock's neighbour's pool cleaners wife's sister. They probably would have made it work as well.
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  1918. They get £3 per week while in the hotels and then standard unemployment benefit when processed and accepted. Benefits are not whats attracting them
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  1919.  @dalskiBo  If that was what they wanted then they would actually process the applications so they could work
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  1920. Why? I vote based on policies. Reform haven't published a single one yet
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  1921. They need a union to fight for them as well
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  1922. They never do.
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  1923.  @dvidclapperton  It didn't work. Other countries such as Germany were in a similar position in 2010 but instead of austerity they chose investment which created growth while the austerity here just strangled the economy. Austerity by definition means less money circulating in the economy and less money circulating means no growth. Investment in big infrastructure projects creates well paid jobs, creates business and gets money moving and people spending
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  1924. Strangely not a single mention of the cost of living in Sunak's speech.
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  1925. But the majority voted for Khan knowing that he was going to do this. It was announced before the last mayoral election and he won by a huge margin. Laurance Fox on the other hand promised to scrap the ULEZ and lost his deposit
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  1926. Tory voters generally switch to lib dem more readily than labour and historically tories have lost most safe seats to lib dems
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  1927. Civil servants job is not just to do as they are told but to also advise ministers when their policies are not compatible with current laws, will have a negative effect on the department of are simply just impractical. Ministers do sometimes just get it wrong and need to listen when told that they've made a mistake. I'm sure there are some bad civil servants but if there are, then use the standard procedures available to all employers to deal with them.
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  1928. Exactly. It doesn't disadvantage US goods compared to domestically produced goods
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  1929. I'd quite like both to go away
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  1930. It happens a lot more often than that in this area of Germany and many other places
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  1931.  @PaulinePalmer-fg5qc123a  I don't support Khan at all BUT I do support democracy and to give the people a vote on the mayor and for the government to then overrule that mayor because they don't like him is absolutely not democratic is it?
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  1932. Smaller musicians (like me) cannot afford to make music for free. It costs a lot of money to make music. Equipment is very expensive and recording studios won't work for free plus to get music to a good standard for recording takes a lot of time and effort to write the songs, develop them, work out the right guitar, drum and vocal tones and then recording with perfect timing takes a lot of time
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  1933. Far more than Greased-Hogg does here. He hasn't been seen in the constituency once since the last election. Sadly he's standing down for the next election so we don't get the pleasure of voting him out
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  1934.  @worldaheadOf  Look at global heat maps over the last 100 years. The change isn't subtle. Solar cycles don't correlate with temperature change.
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  1935. Tax rises on business have NEVER correlated with a reduction in inwards investment. Businesses don't care about tax, all they care about is the bottom line and if Labour can improve the economy so that their businesses make more money then who cares if there's a little more tax?
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  1936.  @fastyaveit  Labour are voting against it because it breaks international law so WILL fail in the supreme court after wasting many millions of pounds. If it went in to operation, it would result in trade sanctions from all UN & EU members for breaking international law. That would be very bad. It would also go against the TCA so end our free trade with the EU, also very bad. It also goes against WTO rules so would limit our WTO trade, very, very bad. We would be the only country in the world except North Korea with no process for asylum application The easy, overnight end to the gangs and the channel crossings is to reopen the immigration office in Calais so asylum claimants can make their application without setting foot in the UK and without us paying to accommodate them for up to a year before assessing them. It breaks no international laws, the French have offered a site for the office. It would save millions. That's the Labour proposal but the tories don't want it and I don't understand why
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  1937. Nope
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  1938. It's the lying to parliament and the British people that is the issue more than the parties. Politicians have to be stopped from lying and now is the time to make an example
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  1939.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  Every single trade deal comes with regulation. The government are currently trying to get us in the pacific trade partnership and that comes with a whole heap of regulation
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  1940. The tories said they would clear the national debt within a decade and they tripled it, and that was before covid came along
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  1941. They did it so they can say in interviews either "I didn't vote against Johnson, I was loyal to him" or "I didn't vote to protect Johnson from the consequences of his actions" depending on the interview
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  1942. I have met plenty of Americans who claim to be Irish. I always ask what part of Ireland they're from to which they say they of Irish parentage to which I ask which part of Ireland their parents are from and inevitably there's no answer so I ask what part of Ireland their parents are from to which they all answer, without exception, Dublin. Dublin must have been like a ghost town when 30 million people moved from there to the US
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  1943. It's ok for Farage to campaign with Trump but not for some unknown Labour members (not even MP's) to campaign with the Democrats? Why is that?
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  1944. Because all religions are about hatred and violence, even if they worship the same god they'll kill each other over minor differences in the same stories
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  1945. Rayner would win
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  1946.  @Bungle-UK  I'm not sure I see your logic there. Give us a general election and let the British public show what they think of this government. If Sunak were confident of a win, he could call a GE now and vastly strengthen his position as PM by proving to the various factions in his party that they need to follow him.
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  1947. Sky is a private business. They are funded only by their customers
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  1948. The OBR released their report which proved the £22bn black hole. He had been trying to stop the report being released
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  1949. Depends on the geology. If it's on a decent rock base then no problem but if it's on a shale or sand base, such as many in the south east and east of England then they are already getting washed away
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  1950. They won't change leader while they're so far ahead in the polls. I preferred Corbyn but unfortunately when it came to campaigning for an election and standing up to attacks from the tory press, he was utterly useless
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  1951. Why are the DUP involved? They lost their majority in NI during the last election. Why aren't the government involving the party that the people of NI voted for with a majority?
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  1952. At the very least, share dividends should be taxed at the same rate as income tax
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  1953. I think we have had some who believed they were doing the right thing. Whether it was right or not is a different thing. I think Rees-Mogg believes he's doing the right thing. He also believes there's trade deals to be had with Siam, Persia and the Austro-Hungarian empire and that the new fangled metric system will never catch on. I think Cobyn thought he was doing the right things but he also believes there is limitless money and that the 1980's will be a bright future for British manufacturing
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  1954.  @WH-ne9jl  Much of the control systems in critical infrastructure have been isolated from China now so that's at least improved. I'm not sure the terror threat has got any worse, there were a hell of a lot more terror attacks in the 80's & 90's from the IRA than there ever has been from islamists
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  1955. Nope.
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  1956. We have a major problem with political bias in the news media. One side will claim everything Labour does is the worst thing ever while the other claims perfection. We need neutrality
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  1957. If they don't suggest alternatives when criticising the government they get criticised for it although to be honest if they do suggest alternatives they get criticised as well
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  1958. Pay needs to be competitive enough to attract and retain employees. Clearly the current nurses salary isn't doing that. Salaries never reflect your actual value to your employer, they are just what it takes to fill vacancies and keep them filled.
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  1959. There is another article on this and apparently it's not possible. The male body is not equipped to support the growth of a baby or give birth. It would almost certainly kill both.
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  1960. Yet he loves Russia & Putin who has his opponents and critics killed. He's just a hypocrite. In the US, Trump wants states that voted against him punished, that's extremely anti democratic. He's removing people from government and courts who disagree with him. What about their free speech?
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  1961. Electric vehicles are getting very common, especially with London based businesses like Sky who don't want to pay congestion charges
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  1962. Closing tax loopholes and cutting subsidies to the oil and gas industry. Investment in infrastructure as well. Investing in infrastructure project gets money moving in the economy and creates lots of higher paid jobs therefore getting people off benefits. The spending on infrastructure gets money moving, people and businesses spending and therefore more taxes
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  1963.  @vincentblack7467  Not any more Vince. Sorry
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  1964. @CharlesWhite-j4f There's a lot of bad things to say about the tory party at the moment but they are certainly neither woke (they're anti trans, anti lgbt, anti migration, anti human rights, anti workers rights) nor marxist (their policies are among the most capitalist in the UK, possibly more so than Reform). The biggest problems with them are utter incompetence and corruption. They'll recover eventually. No party is forever doomed, Labour recovered and so did Lib Dems and both were decimated after badly screwing up.
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  1965.  @newsgeekus1216  Not for Northern Ireland who are benefitting from the current situation
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  1966. I voted once. Six months later, boom, herpes. Coincidence? I don't think so
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  1967. Not at this time of year. Winter greens now
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  1968. Most private pension funds invest heavily in water companies
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  1969. Because Sunak is trying to put barriers in place to prevent Labour doing a decent job and keep us in this mess until the next election so giving too much info makes that easier for him. The tories have accepted Labour will win this election and are trying to make sure that they can't improve anything before the next election because if they do then it's a guaranteed second term.
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  1970. I've seen that story reported virtually everywhere
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  1971. But a large part of modern warfare is cyber attacks and we need to defend from them. There's a constant stream of attacks from Russia and China
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  1972.  @danieljameshustler  There's also oil field workers who are there helping to stop our energy costs getting even higher
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  1973. Tories went on about it for 14 years and then left it in a worse state
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  1974.  @yavarjn2055  They're not following in the footsteps of the tories
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  1975. It would be stolen in Coatbridge
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  1976.  @prasanta5139  Most of what we do make is the higher grades used in the aircraft industry and the US don't make those grades of steel so it'll still sell but it's the US companies getting effected by the tariffs
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  1977.  @Ricimer671  Thatcher was competent. What she achieved was entirely intentional
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  1978. I'm sure it was set up by Boris to conveniently get Hancock out the way before anyone probed to deep in to his dodgy deals and put half the tory party in prison
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  1979.  @doriangray6985  Most of that £30bn is going to British businesses who pay tax and who also pay salaries to British workers who also pay tax and spend with businesses who pay tax and those businesses buy from suppliers who pay tax. Spending like this is a positive. It's what gets the economy moving
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  1980. Labour have plans to reduce immigration. Go to their website and look at the policy page
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  1981. The tories set quotas and they meant nothing
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  1982. Strikes are a symptom of the problem, not the cause. If staff didn't have their pay cut in real terms over the last decade they wouldn't feel the need to strike. The NHS is losing staff at an alarming rate and that is largely due to poor wages and poor conditions and the more staff they lose the worse waiting lists will get
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  1983.  @MyName-cw4yr  Thats easy to say but how easy is it to actually do?
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  1984. Tory councils have put up tax just as much as Labour. I'm in a tory run council and it's rocketed here. When the government cut funds to councils by over 30% they didn't really have much choice but to put up rates
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  1985. Teachers didn't have time off during lockdown, they had to teach remotely which most hated doing and actually involved more work than teaching as normal they also don't get paid that much. £34k is an normal teachers salary which is crap for any job which requires a degree although teachers have to have two degree qualifications. People keep saying we need more teachers with industry from professions such as engineering, and I see recruitment ads in engineering magazines yet the people they are targeting would be earning £50k - £60k, they'll never take that sort of pay cut
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  1986.  @Reactivate100  Most modern diesels cant run on home brew bio diesel. It melts seals and the fuel quality sensors will just go nuts. It would probably just work out more inconvenient than using electric
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  1987. The bible also says there was a talking snake, a 500 year old man who built a ship and well, lets be honest everything in that book is just rediculous fiction
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  1988.  @taresy6789pp  try taking a look at the side effects for hydroxychloroquine. It's really nasty stuff
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  1989. Biden voluntarily returned them while Trump refused to do so after being repeatedly ordered to return them
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  1990. Last year I went to see the extremely heavy band Meshuggah in Somerset. At the end of their set, the sound engineer put on this song, several thousand metal fans all looked very confused, I thought it was hilarious
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  1991.  @weswheel4834  I like how tories like to make out that Starmer is the most boring man in the world yet during Covid, he was a hard drinking party animal yet for some reason got away with it despite the head of the MET being a tory
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  1992. @Connor James Weddings are big money business
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  1993. Firstly kick all the directors of private businesses who supply the NHS off the board who decide how NHS budgets are distributed. Then regulate private companies working in the NHS to ensure they provide decent value for money rather than minimum service for maximum profit. Then start reintroducing NHS dentistry.
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  1994.  @edix1673  The tax payer had been propping up the steel industry for decades. Every five years it needed billions to bail it out
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  1995. It was £65 billion Truss cost us
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  1996. No, it's not
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  1997. No thanks
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  1998. Twitter is running at an enormous loss as advertisers have deserted it (47% of advertising revenue lost since Musk took over). That's not "better than ever"
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  1999. This is what we deserve for giving one political party a huge majority. We gave them permission to do anything they want with no opposition.
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  2000. Historically, Labour have taxed the working classes LESS than the tories. Labour tax the rich and the tories tax the poor. Unfortunately our media likes to twist these facts because our media is run by very rich people who don't like paying tax
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