Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. I am not a dictator that writes things that tells people what to do. - Jeremy Corbyn
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  2. Sinn Fein is a legitimate political party. We had 26 years of violence and death in Northern Ireland holding up 14,000 troops. Then people like Jeremy Corbyn started to talk to them and started the process of peace which came about with the killing, in Ireland and the UK, being stopped. The Tories were still perpetuating violence and getting nowhere. Jeremy Corbyn and others need to be given medals for what they did. • In 1995 Jeremy Corbyn met with Sinn Fein to help in a peace. 22 years later the right wing press have a problem with this. They never had before. • In 2017, 51 days before the Manchester attack, May met the Saudis to sell arms. Saudis give arms to terrorist ISIS. The press do nothing.
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  3. Corbyn was excellent - a true intelligent leader. May was pathetic - an old school mistress.
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  4. 7:14 Paxman is attempting to trivialises matters then Corbyn forcefully goes to what the manifesto and election is about. Excellent.
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  5. The Labour Party is a highly democratic organisation. They do not put in a dictator at the top. The leader has to go with what the majority want. It is that simple.
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  6. They are spending billions on an un-needed HS2 when the existing network is a shambles.
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  7. The Labour Party is a highly democratic organisation. They do not put in a dictator at the top. The leader has to go with what the majority want. It is that simple. Paxman could not get that. `I am not a dictator that writes things that tells people what to do.` - Jeremy Corbyn
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  8. +99fulham999 "IRA sympathiser (association with Gerry Adams and his ilk)" Jeremy Corbyn met with Sin Fein, a legitimate party and assisted in a lasting peace. "Unable to be decisive regards trident deterrent" Jeremy was very decisive. The party is democratic and voted for Trident. "Will not commit to limit on immigrants" Corbyn will not allow low wage labour into the country to undermine the living standards of the people. That was clear "He is a clone of Neville Chamberlain -(peace in our time 1938)" Chamberlain in 1938 had the military on full alert, as was the Soviet and French military. He made it clear to Hitler you can have war right now if you want it. You are very confused. No wonder you vote Tory. Voting Tory is like turkeys voting for Christmas.
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  9. +Sam Lucky Paxman: do you think we should have nukes. Jeremy: well I th.... Paxman: Come on Jeremy give me an answer. Jeremy: If you let me fi..... Paxman: So your not going to answer. He didn't do that to May.
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  10. There are 420 food banks in the UK. 1,182,954 3-day emergency food supplies were given to people in crisis between April 2016 and March 2017. 436,000 went to children. Meanwhile those in the Rich List got £658 bn in tax handouts.
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  11. Again for you... Sinn Fein is a legitimate political party. We had 26 years of violence and death in Northern Ireland holding up 14,000 troops. Then people like Jeremy Corbyn started to talk to them and started the process of peace which came about with the killing, in Ireland and the UK, being stopped. The Tories were still perpetuating violence and getting nowhere. Jeremy Corbyn and others need to be given medals for what they did. • In 1995 Jeremy Corbyn met with Sinn Fein to help in a peace. 22 years later the right wing press have a problem with this. They never had before. • In 2017, 51 days before the Manchester attack, May met the Saudis to sell arms. Saudis give arms to terrorist ISIS. The press do nothing.
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  12. +Liam van der Spek People like Corbyn and Ken Livingstone paved the way. This is a non-issue as this is all the right-wing owned media can come up with. They get at the hard of thinking and keep drumming away
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  13. +sustenanceember You are confused
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  14. +rockie0708 "Trump protects his people, unlike you !!!!" What tripe! I do not see Trump banning guns in the USA. How many school classes were wiped out this week?
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  15. +Kojii Naz You are very confused.
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  16. +WatchDog You are some sort of nut!
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  17. Corbyn destroyed this pillock on the Middle East. I like the way he would take no crap from him.
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  18. The landowners here is clearly a freeloader.
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  19. faise1011 You fly to and from Barcelona each day to London? Do you ever sleep?
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  20. The "economic rent" of the land is created by all and must be reclaimed and used for all. "economic rent" is where there is no enterprise or costs of production. In short someone else created the wealth, which is the community. When appropriated is the "economic free-loading"
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  21. Jeremy Corbyn wanted to keep up the negotiations with the UN over the Falklands with Argentina and promoted a joint sovereignty deal.
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  22. I voted for Khan and I am not a Muslim. I would vote for him again. A fine man.
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  23. When interest rates are zero people move their savings to other forms of making their money grow, property, stocks, etc. This creates some growth as this money is moving around the economy. Obvious. He did not say where money being printed comes into it. Either he missed something or I did.
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  24. +Arturo Senni Did you move your lips when reading the Labour manifesto? Have you finished reading it yet?
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  25. Nice try. But..... A Political Railway HS2 is a political railway. A flawed design originally to serve only four chosen cities directly, FAST. These cities were chosen by the Tory government to be some sort of regional economic centres, although at the time one city clearly was not. Instead of allowing the free market to decide which cities are economic centres, they were engineering it. The other cities, not a part of the chosen four, will have a half-cocked cut down service, with bits running on and off HS2 tracks. When HS2 trains run on existing tracks they run slower, as they do not tilt. Capacity fails At first they boasted speed. Then after valid castigation by the media, they changed stance and said it was for capacity. From day one all slots on HS2 are full. So much that the Liverpool to Birmingham and Chester to London services are omitted from HS2 entirely. HS2 was supposed to take all inter-city services. About capacity? Sure! Pull the other one. If it was about capacity, it would have been 4-track from London to the vital Crewe junction. But no such thing, it is two track. You couldn't make this up. No link to the Continent One of HS2s prime points was that it would connect British regional cities directly to the Continent. The Continental link was omitted. No kidding. No link to major airport Heathrow The link to Heathrow was dropped. The UKs major airport, yet two provincial airports get HS2 stations. NO kidding. Liverpool City Region omitted The whole of the Liverpool City Region, of over two million people, was omitted from a direct service, with the centre being only 16 miles from a HS2 line, and the city region border one mile. No consideration was taken to relieve existing lines for the new large, additional, Post Panmax container terminal that has just opened. I doubt they knew of this massive privately funded port construction. If HMG want to encourage private investment they have to play their part, otherwise they will go elsewhere. Also, HMG is wanting to move freight onto rail. No rail connection at Curzon St, Birmingham Curzon St station is stand alone, that is there are no connection to other rail services from the station,. Only HS2 trains will use the station. After a fast ride from London, passengers will have to drag cases down streets (in the rain an cold) to other stations. No kidding. No rail connection at Manchester airport Manchester airport already has a rail station. It is not connected with the HS2 station at all being about a mile away, and also a way from the terminal, needing a bus. The HS2 station will be accessed from Birmingham or London, who have their own airports, as Manchester is too near already served by the existing station. It will be the least used station in the UK. No kidding. Big bend slows down trains High speed trains need straight tracks to keep speeds up - if new track is not straight it is not worth building. So in their wisdom HS2 does an S bend around Tatton slowing trains from over 200mph to about 100mph. It just so happened George Osborne's seat was Tatton. Osborne had a lot to do with the initial layout of HS2. So billions is spent to keep him in his political seat (he has since resigned). Then the track runs into a gold plated 7.5 mile dead end tunnel into Manchester, a provincial city not some mega city, into a station facing the wrong way. Manchester already has a straight direct line to the Crewe junction where it could pick up HS2, with little time penalty if uprated here and there. Billions will be spent moving the northbound HS2 track over to Manchester, when entering the city via the Mersey corridor is more direct and cheaper and would also accommodate Liverpool accessing HS2. No kidding. Billions for one man - Osborne. Birmingham airport station remote The Birmingham airport HS2 station is not in the terminal, again it needs secondary transport to get to the plane. So you go fast to the airport then trundle all over to get to the plane. No kidding. Just a taster. I could go on and on and on.....on
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  26. High Speed Rail In Spain - which is comprehensive. Spain has twice as much km of track per inhabitant as France and three times more than China and Japan. But... it is the least used, with passengers per km 15,500, against France at 58,300 and Japan at 101,500. A bit of a flop to say the least, when the local rail, which benefits most people, was dire needing urgently updating, they built this white elephant. Echoes of the UK, with crumbling local & regional rail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYWYhPVwJBY
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  27.  @richardgoode4761  ??
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  28. +Stephen Hughes "Your false claim about Theresa May has been dreamt up by the left" I go by factuals.
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  29. Apply to EXIT.
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  30.  Alan Roberson  Duh! Corbyn was not found to be a racist at all. labour are the largest party in Europe. So much for being dead.
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  31. Slave2PaperWithInkOn Thanks. I am fully aware that private banks create money out of thin air predicated on debt. When the loans are paid off the money is destroyed. The more debt, the more money in circulation. mmmm not such a good thing, hence positive money. McDonnell and Corbyn want a public owned bank to print HMG money (quantitative easing) for mainly the likes of infrastructure projects. Currently HMG uses private banks to print the money who take a cut and give themselves bonuses. Hence these private outfits make money out of doing nothing showing no enterprise.
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  32. May told Paxman the country needs strong leadership for the Brexit negotiations. Why didn't she suggest someone?
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  33.  @peterwilliamallen1063  Convoluted nonsense.
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  34.  @peterwilliamallen1063  We do not need a third line to Birmingham when upgrading the Chiltern does the same thing. We cannot afford this White Elephant.
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  35. Trump does not have to leave the White House. He can mount a coup by just staying, as there is mechanism to remove a sitting president. A TED lecture (on-line): https://youtu.be/WZWRhLW7Y8w?t=451 There are more Red states than Blue, but Red states are low population. Each state can legally forward a president. If there is violence on the streets (Trump cares nothing about that), with organized large armed groups the Republican states may go along with him to avoid civil unrest, maybe even civil war. Then, knowing when the Democrats get back in they will have the laws changed. All in order to avoid civil war. If the military get involved in evicting Trump, they are also getting involved in a coup. It is outside their remit. Trump is within the constitution by staying, and going the court route, then hijacking the presidency. Then if all Red states are for him he stays, as it goes by state, not total population.
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  36. Oh no! He will go to Scotland!
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  37. The long term economic state of the nation is at stake. That is should be put first over any personal dislikes or party politics. Corbyn will be the leader of an interim government until a called general election - a government that will will be toothless. How any remainer can go against Corbyn's proposal is beyond the reasoning of any sane mortal.
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  38. FPTP gives complete control for a group in the Commons with desperate, wayward with confused ideology, with no checks or balances, to act against the best interests of the country/people. As Brexit showed us just for one.
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