Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "The Quiet Death of Parliamentary Democracy: David Starkey" video.

  1. How's your best buddy Sweden doing these days? It used to be one of the safest places on earth to live.
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  2. Only 20% of the electorate, but with a carte blanche to do whatever they want.
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  3.  @eccehomer8182  31:29 Not true. Herr Sturmer probably has read one book. Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
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  4.  @andrewwalsh2755  The lamestream, legacy media are in Labour's pocket.
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  5. The Tories and Labour. Different cheeks on the same arse.
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  6. By whom? As The Carpenters sang, "We've Only Just Begun".
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  7. Oh for it to be the nineteenth century again.
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  8.  @linmal2242  Of course. It's just that the previous commenter seems to think that Sweden is just like it always was. In reality there are now "no go" areas. "Published torsdag 14 oktober 2021 kl 14.51 Three new areas in Stockholm were added to a list maintained by Swedish police that specify places with high crime rates and social exclusion. The list currently numbers around 60 areas across the country."
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  9. Britain died in 1997. It was just that she didn't tell anybody. Or nobody noticed,
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  10.  @Geokinkladze  Did the UK fully leave the EU. Also, what about the ECHR, which DS mentioned in this video?
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  11.  @Geokinkladze  "Parliament needs time to replace the HRA." How much time, a decade, or how about never? "Parliament can make any law it wishes. Nothing changes that." But what happens parliament uses the ECHR as a reason for not doing so?
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  12.  @jimjones-bk2is  Have we had this conversation a while ago? You seem to think "Collectivism", is wonderful. However, why don't you ask somebody who actually grew up in the Eastern Bloc, what there opinion was. They'll all tell you that it was awful. Constant shortages and hours spent waiting in queues for basic items. Reagan wasn't lying when he made the joke about having to wait ten years to buy a car behind the Iron Curtain, because it's true. Thatcher also made the same observation, when she talked about the lack of wealth creation in such countries. However, at least everyone in the East were treated same. Everyone got an equal share in not very much. People tried to get to the West on many occasions, often paying the ultimate price. There was even a family who built a hot air balloon, to escape from East to West Germany. Why would anybody take such a risk, if life in the place they left was any good?
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  13.  @jimjones-bk2is  OK, so it wasn't you, Jim. Even with a public transport system, people still waited a decade for a family car Firstly, why would you do that, and secondly, what sort of economy, makes people wait that long? Especially in the West, when you could just get one the same day. It's not as though the public transport system in the East was any good. Except for the metro, the buses and trains were dilapidated and overcrowded. There is a nostalgia because firstly, things, although rationed, was available, and what wasn't you found a way to get. Secondly, the way things are in Russia today, anything was better. The USSR might have been stable, but it was a terrible place to live. There's stability in the West, but there's also the opportunity to aspire and achieve more with your life.
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  14.  @jimjones-bk2is  If you're not that other person. maybe you're his clone, Jim? So life is just about food is it? What if through science and technology you have enough of it. How about reaching a little further, to actually make life worth living? Not just surviving, as under Collectivism. There can be no argument, over which system is superior. People voted with their hearts, minds and feet, and if given a free choice. They always choose a Free Market economy. Venezuela has the largest petroleum reserves on the planet, and yet is a bankrupt, failed state. And we all know why that is don't we Jim? The last but most important fact though is body count. Only religion has been responsible for the demise of more people, than the system you think is so great. One that is contrary to human nature. Now the UK has a PM, who also grew up subscribing to this nonsense. Imagine how bad Britain is going to be four years time.
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  15.  @jimjones-bk2is  It looks like you're spiralling out of control with the constant replies, Jim. You stick with your failed system, and I'll have mine. If you actually want to live it, and not just talk about it. Then why not move to North Korea, and see if you survive. Then you can have as much of it as you like? You also won't have to worry about owning a car, as nobody has one. They do have a Metro system in the capital though, which would suit your needs down to the ground. Also bullock carts to move things around in the countryside. Have a nice day.
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  16.  @jimjones-bk2is  So you'll even insult the memory of the one hundred plus million people who d!ed unnecessarily due to your precious system? Are their any levels you won't sink to to defend the indefensible? Once again. Have a nice day.
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  17.  @ianxyoutube  OK. So no foreign based crime exists then? All the reports are just false.
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  18.  @ianxyoutube  OK. So you have no imported crime. That's good to know.
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  19.  @ianxyoutube  However, they don't always stay in their ghettos. They have to come out to forage on a regular basis. If you think this is OK. Then best of luck to you.
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  20. But Herr Sturmer wouldn't allow that, would he. Isn't that Britain fought a World War against?
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  21. Remember, Herr Sturmer is an arch Remoaner. He never respected the will of the people.
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  22.  @jimjones-bk2is  Yeah, you need to keep your eyelids open with matchsticks to read anything by Marx.
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  23.  @lalaholland5929  It should. But under Labour there's a zero chance of that happening.
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  24.  @jimjones-bk2is  I've read the manifesto, and the website of the British CP. They make it sound all so appealing. The problem is that it's been tried, and it just didn't work. People might want to share with others, but they also like opportunity, and the chance to be successful more.
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  25.  @jimjones-bk2is  What do you think it means? The USSR and the regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed because the command economy was barely functional, and people were sick to death of a lack of democracy. China is a different case because they showed that would do anything to their people to retain power, and bought the populace off with allowing free market capitalism. The result being that many were lifted out of poverty. However, that's what capitalism is good at.
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  26.  @jimjones-bk2is  Are you sure you aren't the person I referred to earlier. You certainly have the same spiel. So according to you, as long you get a food ration everyday, everything's grate. Isn't that a rather low bar for human advancement? Also, you probably think that having to share some rooms and a toilet with another family is another perk. You'd certainly get to know them really well. That's what it was like in the good old USSR. Where they couldn't even give their population decent housing. Forget the car. You also had to wait a decade for your family to get a flat in some sh!tty concrete tower block. So much for the glories of the Collectivism. The reason I want to compare the two is that one works, and the other doesn't. Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty any other system, does or could ever do. OK, some get rich, but overall the system of wealth creation benefits everybody.
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  27.  @jimjones-bk2is  Yeah, you already wrote this.
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  28.  @jimjones-bk2is  And you keep repeating the same comment like a stuck record.
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  29.  @jimjones-bk2is  Yes you are. If it was up to you, you'd probably like to see the de@th toll even higher. There's also nothing address. Your way equals misery, and the Western way equals hope. It's a shame that your favourite authors where pure ideologs, who didn't know the first thing about human desires and psychology.
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  30.  @jimjones-bk2is  On consideration. Why don't you tell us why M@rxism is such a great ideology? How many does it have to be tried and fail, before people like you will accept that it doesn't work? It was just an ide in some academic head. Somebody who didn't know what the dreams and aspirations of normal people were. Oh, and the "well they weren't doing it right", just doesn't wash. It's same with the Religion of Peace, when the latest case of mental illness rears its ugly head. The explanation that "they weren't true believers", and that if they'd been following the book, they'd have been model citizens. Yet you go on universities, ad you'll still find middle-class spoilt brats espousing how great M@rx and his ides were. Kids that wouldn't have lasted five minutes in a Gulag. Have a nice day.
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  31.  @paulmason329  Wrong. Maybe you should look at the deterioration of Britain under labour in the late 1970's. Thatcher was elected with a landslide, to try and sort out the mess. She took some tough decisions which were needed to cut out the rot. Nobody could ever say that she didn't put Britain first. It was only in 1997, that things really changed for the worst. Laws restricting freedom of speech were introduced, and the floodgates were opened to mass migration. Something which the later Tory governments only made worse.
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  32. 31:29 Not true. Herr Sturmer probably has read one book. Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
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