Comments by "Gilded Chalice" (@GetGwapThisYear) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. There’s that British delusional exceptionalism we benefit from so much.
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  2. Couldn't win could he. If the party want nuclear weapons, he's a bad person. If he won't commit to nuking any country we might go to war with, he's a bad person. Cretins
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  3. I like Jon Snow, but cutting off Mr Chomsky, and shifting the focus every time he gets to the crux of an argument is quite disingenuous. This is disrespectful.
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  4. 23:38 completely lost me here. FDI driven Thatcherism, and PFI have been the two most detrimental campaigns to the fabric of the UK, and there absolutely no “mixed” outcomes. Yes, British affect is too laissez-faire, but it’s because political bribes are allowed and most of our politicians are economically illiterate - by design!! If we stop elevating self-serving morons, we won’t keep destroying our economy and the fabric of the country. We’ve become little America, trading our industries for US investment, while scapegoating migrants - most of whom are here because we also follow America into all of its wars and proxy-wars, forcibly taking the commodities of other nations, then subordinating them into the US hegemonic empire.
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  5. Deeply stupid country.
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  6. The low productivity argument is complete bull, but agree with the rest of it. Productivity is a deliberately ambiguous metric, because positive productivity - that is supply that exceeds demand, has a deflationary impact on the profits of capitalism. This is the supply of, and access to, housing is deliberately constrained and costs are artificially inflated via stupid schemes. Thatcher sold off our industry, and all of our public assets to the US and others via FDI, which skyrocketed under her government. We remain simply an offshore labour force for the US, who pays virtually no tax and lobbies for the suppression of our incomes so maximise the wealth they can extract. The same way they do the rest of the world. If we resist, or sought greater trade with one of their rivals, this would become blatantly obvious. We need government spending in training and housing regulation, and renationalising of our infrastructure and supporting functions. If not, we’ll continue down this road until the American empire falls.
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  7. The government could start by not propping the market up with anymore stupid schemes and just let it collapse on its own. Is it free-market capitalism, or interventionism?
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  8. Every police force is corrupt and up to their necks in misconduct. Do away with it all.
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  9. We have some deeply stupid journalists in this country. How depressing.
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