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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. But they trust Sunak? A man with a track record of lying and corruption?
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15.  @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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  16. It's effecting patient care because the poor pay and conditions are the main cause of the staff shortages
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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @cellbiologyshorts9105  Did taxing alcohol stop people drinking?
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  22. 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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25. They did and there was an independent report that confirmed it. The report was produced under a tory government
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. So are Americans going to pay for this? It's going to cost hundreds of billions
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  29.  @harleydavidson3586  If it was the lockdowns, why is it just a UK problem?
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  30. The last period of economic growth above inflation that we had was under Blair / Brown
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. Where's the grilling of the bosses who are refusing to talk to the unions?
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. Is it any different to the government giving honors to anyone who donates a pile of cash to them?
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  37. 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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  38. I'm sure it'll work. No one drinks alcohol since they put the tax up on that
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  39. Sky's owner is one of the tories biggest donors. This report definitely has another motive
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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. They already ditched it because it never worked. Most people really didn't care about it anyway
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. Give the oil industry's £10bn of subsidies to the NHS. Oil companies make enough profit to never need subsidies
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  48.  @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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  49.  @T5Zplayer  Hester apologised for being rude, he has not apologised for being racist
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  50.  @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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