Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "The Spectator" channel.

  1. Joan de Menezes: was he not someone who had overstayed his visa? That is, not entirely innocent. Or was this libel on the part of the Met? Also, to see someone running as fast as he can and then jumping over the ticket barrier in a tube station, as soon as he catches sight of the police, immediately after a terrorist attack - suspicious? My problem with the Met is that I would like to see one law for all, everyone equal before the law. This seems to be a very offensive thing to say. Also I have a problem with the apparent decriminalisation of rape, burglary, theft, the embracing of Wokism and blatant display of controversial political beliefs and insignia on their uniforms, and the apparent criminalisation of thought crimes - what in the name of all that's wonderful is a 'non-crime hate crime'? They intimidate people they don't like the look of (who are, according to them, guilty of 'thought crimes') by accusing them of breaking laws that they have just sucked out of their thumbs.
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  2. Sir Christopher Meyer: 'Afghanistan is not important'. It's only sitting on 97 per cent of the World's lithium! Not to mention lots of other rare-earth elements, all of which will now be snapped up by China.
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  3. Replacement for BOJO: NOT JEREMY HUNT!
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  4. Correction to Cindy; the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine can be stored at 0 degrees C. It is the Pfizer vaccine which requires minus 70 degrees C.
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  5. Another thing Taiwan did was to close its borders in short order, instead of our policy of having flights from China, including Wuhan, landing at Heathrow through February and the first half of March, 2020 every 10 minutes. But that might have entailed evincing a degree of scepticism towards the WHO (the creature of the Emperor of China), and apparently that would never do.
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  6. I think it should be made easy for people to be healthy, eg in terms of buying food that is not going to poison you - this means regulation of food manufacture, animal husbandry, etc. It perhaps means putting a minimum charge on a unit of alcohol.
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  7. But will the Cass Report be (a) read, and (b) treated seriously? Already, in the NHS response, there is the TRA contamination of using the word 'gender' in a potentially dangerous way, where it could be used as a justification for promulgating 'Trans'.
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  8. Paul Embury: sane.
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  9. Mrs Forbes: don't forget that the Free Church of Scotland seceded from the Established Church of Scotland because the latter was getting too tolerant and liberal - although still Calvinist and adhering to the pernicious doctrine of predestination - which appears to get very little mention nowadays (satire of this doctrine from 19th century 'Memoirs of a Justified Sinner' by James Hogg). The Free Church does not allow statues, paintings, stained glass or instrumental music in church. As Calvinists, there is no hierarchy, therefore no vestments, candles, smells or bells. The minister is dressed in black. However, it should be remembered that the Church of Scotland admitted women ministers 25 years before the C of E.
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  10. Gender self-ID: Keir Starmer supports this.
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  11. In Britain we are just in a demographic Ponzi scheme, and no government will face this fact. It was a good thing that Britain's population was fairly static. The situation now is desperate. Where do we build these houses? The fields which we depend on to produce food? Our food security at present is too low.
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  12. You just don't get it, do you, Kate (Edwards)? You need to watch James Lindsay's 'New Discourses' lectures (U-tube), especially the ones on Gayle Rubin.
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  13. Queer Harmer is as thick as a brick.😖
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  14. 'Nuclear as a green form of energy'. How many tens of thousands of tonnes of concrete do you need to build a nuclear power station? What is its productive life? (25 years, 30 max). How many tens of thousands of tonnes of concrete do you need to enclose the decommissioned power station in its sarcophagus? How do you dispose of the high-level nuclear waste? Britain produces 2-4 tonnes of plutonium per annum (half life 24,000 years, it becomes safe after 150,000 years). This costs us several millions of pounds per annum to try to keep safe, ie criminal- and terrorist-proof, as well as weather-proof and out of the water supply - plutonium, which hardly exists in nature, is the most toxic as well as the most radioactive element in existence.
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  15. I would put my money on gross negligence and lack of proper Biosecurity in the Institute of Virology, Wuhan. At least we don't locate Porton Down in the middle of London..
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  16. A computer genius can always reach 'deleted' messages, with a bit of effort.
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  17. I can remember when inflation was 25 per cent per annum (late 1970s), and interest rates were normally 7-8 per cent, going up for a short time to 15 per cent (early 1980s). Also, wages and salaries were low. Admittedly, prices were low compared to today.
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  18. I saw a schoolteacher in Lagos, Nigeria on TV (Michael Palin's travel programme) saying that he was one of eighteen. His father had eighteen children by his first wife, and seventeen children by his second wife. I think he was a Muslim, so perhaps his father had another two wives. The World cannot sustain eight billion people as it is - not at the level at which it would like to live. There are no secrets in the modern World. No-one wants to live at subsistence level, and why should they? The population of the World has tripled in my lifetime. It is not possible to keep on reproducing as we have up to now and have people have the possibility of having a decent life without irrevocably destroying our habitat - the only one we have, *or will ever have*. On a World scale, the problem is sexism and machismo - in some cultures the more little replicas of himself who are strutting around a man can point to, the greater status he has.
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  19. Cats recognise their human staff.
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  20. Humza Yusuf is a nitwit.
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  21. Miriam Cates ought to be Secretary of State for Education.
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  22. Vaccine passports are not comparable to IDs. Vaccine passports are an emergency measure for the present difficult situation, and would not be permanent. They would not set a precedent.
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  23. You don't mean 'interbreeding'. You mean the opposite: 'inbreeding'.
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  24. Labour will be worse.
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  25. Nigeria has had one trillion dollars in aid since becoming independent. Why do more than 95 per cent of its population still live on less than $2 per day? Zimbabwe used to be the bread basket of Africa.
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  26. I don't think this young Political Editor understands the concept and reality of Institutional Capture - see Yuri Bezmenov.
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  27. 1 Repeal the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) (2004). 2 Stop all immigration, legal and illegal, for at least five years.
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  28. God save us from Penny 'Dreadful' Mordaunt! - '"Trans" men are men. "Trans" women are women.' - ar the Despatch Box!
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  29. They 'get on with it' by providing a safe haven and breeding ground for terrorists who then attack the whole World. The Talibans' barbarity does not end with their regarding Afghan women as subhuman (and why should we care about them?) - it is coming for YOU - whether you are in New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Manchester, Mumbai, Nairobi, Kabul, Indonesia, Dar-es-Salaam, Australia or wherever. They will get on with it. Don't you worry about that!
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  30. Primates in scientific experiments: in Britain this refers only to monkeys; it has been illegal to use any great ape in any experiment in the UK since 1985.
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  31. Mr Farron, we just haven't got the houses.
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  32. Judith Butler (Queer Theory) has reified essentialism. One of my heroes, Mr Menno, says, 'Gender identity is magical lady-feelings'.
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  33. Every stage of Covid pandemic explained? Follow the money.
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  34. What about Rupa Huq? She sounds rather posh to me. Is that allowed, considering she does not look exactly like Anne Widdecombe?
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  35. A long time ago, when I was approaching five, my mother took me to my primary school on the first day of the reception class, to show me where it was and how to get there. Admittedly there was half the amount of traffic around in that smallish town than there would be now, we only had one main road to cross (with a lollipop lady to usher us across), and two minor roads to cross. The distance was about a mile. People walked home with schoolmates going in the same direction. Anyone whose mother had collected them at the school gate at the end of the day would have been a laughing stock.
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  36. Manchester bombing: it is high time the Grievance Industrial-complex was eliminated.
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  37. Kelly-Jay Kean was questioned by British police for putting up a poster with the Oxford English Dictionary definition of 'woman'. She had funded the poster herself, and was ordered to take it down or be prosecuted for 'hate speech'. The Cambridge dictionary has since altered its definition of 'woman' to include mentally ill men.
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  38. Good for Rod Riddle!
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  39. The Civil Service has been captured by Queer Theorists. Any Civil Servant at any level who tries to make policy should be sacked.
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  40. Demographic Ponzi schemes will not get any country out of trouble. No Ponzi scheme ever got anyone out of trouble (except the person who Madeoff with the money, until he got caught). Second point: AI will mean that the only people employable will be those who write computer programs for computers to write computer programs. Anyone who has fewer than three PhDs will be totally surplus to requirements.
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  41. Same-sex marriage was for the benefit of gay and lesbian people. It has nothing to do with 'Trans'. 'Trans' Ideology is universally unpopular outside ivory towers, a lot of Westminster, our Institutions and some of the chattering classes. Normal people recognise it for the pernicious insanity that it is.😖
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  42. 'You write my Foreword, and I'll write your Foreword.'
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  43. Antifa are terrorists (see Andy Ngo's book 'Inside Antifa'). They are the armed wing of the Queer Theorists. At the moment, in the UK we do not have so many firearms as in the US. But in the US they are very dangerous.
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  44. Lionel, British Gas should be eschewed at all times!
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  45. You can't plan for anything - schools and education, health spending, transport policy, housing - if you have uncontrolled, unlimited immigration year on year.
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  46. Independence for Scotland is entirely thinkable only by biological entities with no brain. Three words: Defence, Intelligence, Currency.
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  47. The University Trade Unions have acted shamefully.😖
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  48. It was from Gaza that Hamas attacked Israel. If you declare war on a neighbouring country, it may not go well for you. Hamas hates the Palestinian leadership of the West Bank (Fatah).
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  49. Dylan Mulvaney is not as pernicious as Geoffrey Marsh.
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  50. Go, Sall Grover!!! You are fighting for the women of the World through CEDAW.
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