Comments by "John Warner" (@johncrwarner) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1. I think the slapping scene from the original Airplane! movie would be a good thing to do live.
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  2. Does this mean she cannot be ousted until the end of January 2026?
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  3. As a British citizen living in Germany I used the fact that I could while we were still in the EU swap my British driving licence for a German one I did this prior to Brexit so I have a German driving licence.
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  4. he'll do a Nadine Dorries who no showed for 12 months in Parliament and didn't do any surgeries either.
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  5.  @mesothelimoa341  I prefer the quotation from Isaac Asimov - "Violence i the last refuge of the incompetent" - in his novel Foundation. I however agree that they have and are continuing to be lose influence. They are no longer the adults in the room and are the toddlers rampaging round being dangerous to themselves and others.
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  6. Section 28 was repealed in 2003 after two Labour victories not earlier It was an evil piece of Tory legislation but it was never actually used so it was symbolic nastiness. It needed removing but there were other higher priorities.
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  7. What was it that Aneurin Bevan said about the Tories in 1948? "So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin," he went on. "They condemned millions of people to semi-starvation. I warn you young men and women, do not listen to what they are saying... They have not changed, or if they have they are slightly worse." That was 75 years ago
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  8. I was just writing “Isn't it a way to discipline Tory MPs?“ when you pointed it out.
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  9. I think Tom Tugendhat's uncle was an EU commissioner in the Thatcher years.
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  10. He might have had a plan but it is in tatters - in fact before he won it was destroyed.
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  11. Why is fishing such an issue to Brexiteers Farage never went to the Fisheries Committee when he was a member British fishermen sell their quotas to EU fishermen The fish in British waters are not the sort British people like to eat and governments for the last 50 or 60 years have not been interested in it (at all) Brexit is the worst thing for the British Fishing Industry yet it is a "sticking point" in the negotiations It makes no sense. It appears to be nonsense. Am I missing something?
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  12. At my first OFSTED observation for my class nearly three decades ago so the system was very different My favourite part was I was teaching mathematics using computers and the observer came up and said she loved the lesson and thought it was a good lesson which challenged all the students etc. etc. However she had because I was using a computer room to grade me using the IT criteria and it didn't meet their requirements at all so I got a very low mark for this lesson Mmmph, I left mathematics teaching two years later!
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  13. My bathroom shelf is a microcosm for Brexit economy - in February / March when the cliff was potentially close - I bought my preferred shower gel from the UK - I cleared the shelves of my local supermarket and I now have not bought any shower gel since then. When I run out and if we have crashed out of the EU trade relationships - I will move to a German shower gel - rather than paying through the nose for my preferred shower gel if it is even stocked.
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  14. I have long argued that the best arguments for unification are made by the existence of the DUP
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  15. I suspect that the "anti-Wokism" of the Daily Fail and others is just a desire to be "performatively cruel" to others especially those who are perceived to be weaker or less deserving than the reader or writer.
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  16. Sunzi in his 2500 year old book called in English "The Art of War" said that you should build your opponent a bridge to retreat over. William Ury in his negotiating books enhances this to "building a golden bridge to retreat across" These are hard tasks as they need to see the other side's view BUT is necessary for success.
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  17. You are right that no-one is celebrating Brexit today.
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  18.  @peterebel7899  Could you explain your comment? Geographically Britain is an island off the European continent and the overwhelming majority of people speak an Indo-European language mostly related to the nearest languages to the islands. So do you mean something else?
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  19. Sadly several industries in Britain will be no more before these foreseeable problems are acknowledges and plans are put in place to ameliorate these self-induced Brexit problems.
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  20. Good to be reminded that Biden is not a white knight for either side and has a clear set of agenda points for the EU and Britain both at the trade talks level and over the Good Friday Agreement over which the US is one of the guarantors.
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  21. That's rude to boxes of frogs.
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  22. The other loser is government tax receipts as banking moves abroad and banking jobs disappear from Britain. Loss of tax receipts by the government will be a great reason to cut services and benefits so everybody loses in Britain.
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  23. How long did parliament spend on the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 - which is a lot shorter and was one of the most flawed pieces of legislation in modern times. I suspect they got more than 3 days to pass through the commons etc.
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  24. My experiences of racism, sexism and classism have, because I am a white middle-class over-educated British man, been observing others being ignored or over scrutinised by folks in authority. After college I worked for a charity for young offenders and my boss was a woman and her boss was also a woman and the folks from the Manpower Services Commission came to talk about future funding. I was in the meeting to take notes. However every question was directed to me a 21 year old white man and I had to redirect them to my boss or her boss as they were the decision makers. I then became very aware of sexism. I have similar stories of sitting with a black friend and the ticket inspector not checking my ticket but asking for ID from the black guy. We both worked at the same location teaching but he was under more scrutiny than me.
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  25. Going from being part of the "rule makers" to being one of the "rule takers" which is what Brexit did and the Extreme Tory Brexit pushed us further into taking rules. Boris Johnson was a bad foreign secretary and regularly made bad decisions and rash statements and now when diplomacy is vital he and his ilk regularly put their feet in it and paddle around.
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  26. I had not thought about the "rationale" for the obsession with Pacific nations until you pointed out the two contradictory mantras of the current Conservatives "we love free trade" and "keep the foreign poor out" It made "sense" then.
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  27. The MP for Clacton is likely to do what he did in the European Parliament not attend and claim the salary. His record on the Parliamentary Fisheries Committee was he missed 42 out of 43 meetings.
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  28. Is “Poll Watch“ going to be a regular feature?
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  29. Why did I think of the Eric Morecambe quote: "I am playing all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order" in your introduction to this morning's video? LOL
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  30. As Brexit is a whine - this is always goping to be the case - it is fascinating that as soon as a Brexit proposal comes to the fore as an actual policy the Brexit supporters all say that it is NOT "true brexit" - as Brexit is a reflexive moan that at its core is incoherent.
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  31. All the opposition MP needs to work together to formulate a set of words which points out Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a liar and refuses to correct the record like "When will the Prime Minister correct the record on <specific lie>?" Sadly I think that the heat will go out of this before the next session.
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  32. I buy books mostly in English I used to purchase books from Britain Now I only occasionally buy from Britain when there is no choice. But those books often take twice as long to get here in Germany.
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  33. The USA and Britain seem to have parties who just do PR the Republicans and Tories just operate to provide "good" PR for themselves and have no interest in governing except to deny others the opportunity to do stuff.
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  34. The Swedish system has embedded several acts of parliament in law requiring that the equivalent of the Representation of the People Act to only be changed by a vote of parliament, a general election and a second vote in parliament.
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  35. The ETIAS scheme (as I understand it) is effectively a visa-waiver scheme designed to stop the need for stopping and deporting people at the border If memory serves it applies to countries which have visa-waiver schemes with the EU (like USA, Canada, Australia, large chunks of South America) but other countries that require full visas will still require full visas Perhaps the Brexiteers would prefer that system the requirement for a full visa? I suspect not but being in the ETIAS system speeds entry at the border, is valid for three years and can be used multiple times. The 7 Euro charge (6 GBP) is an administrative fee to run the system To get a US ESTA (valid for maximum of two years) cost 14 USD Can I hear the outrage from the Daily Express readers about that?
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  36. I always found the purveyors of Brexit who claimed it would enable "Global Britain" Leaving the Single Market and Customs Union was the opposite of that yet the Johnson deals ripped Britain out of them and gave importers and exporters pages of red tape in multiple languages to hinder trade which the modern British economy depends on.
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  37. It is a great big dead cat he's flinging on the table.
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  38.  @carlossaraiva8213  The single market coming from The Single European Act 1986 which Thatcher claimed as her legacy.
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  39. As a British citizen living in Germany I have been biometric data taken for my leave to remain.
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  40.  @almudenainesarchilla5633  Firstly, many of my providers didn't offer a service to Germany anymore, at least initially. There were also great delays from those who did ship due to having to travel through the customs office adding lots of time to deliveries. It would also often involve a trip to the customs office to collect items. Germany also changed its VAT regulations.
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  41. I will likely have to have a letter or card to go with my passport so my settled status in Germany remains in place so that I can go on holiday in other EU and EEA countries. I suspect the Netherlands who have been building a special Brexit area in Rotterdam (I believe) and have been training staff for customs and control (as have France, Belgium and Germany that I am aware of) are feeling smug at the moment.
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  42. The political culture of the UK has the binary model because of quirks in the electoral process that allow a party getting 36% of the vote getting 50+% of the seats. Living in Germany were we have wonderful names for coalitions - Paprika Coalition and the Jamaican Coalition based on party colours as well as the grand coalition which makes the federal government. They do tend to make an agreed programme after the election and negotiations can take months.
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  43. The Jersey authorities announced the "change" on 30 April - the day before a widespread public holiday in Europe and it would take effect on 3rd May. So the French fishermen responded fairly quickly - not sure they were aware of the local elections in Britain.
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  44. I wouldn't as she doesn't seem to know one end of an ethics issue from the other.
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  45. I am amazed he hasn't got a supply teaching job?
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  46. I am sixty-one years old this year since I was about eight years old (1970) we were taught in metric units. So there is an education process needed. I was made to do the imperial measures because I was good at mathematics (I ended up a mathematics teacher) so I improved my 16, 14 and 12 times tables so I could do the calculations solely in the imperial units. I live now in Germany and we have the Pfund (pound) which is 500 g and the Zoll which is the inch I recently bought a new computer monitor and needed to work out the size in inches with a metric only measure. I still think in ft and inches for height and have no image of people's heights so I still stay he is over six foot etc. and I have to think what the metric equivalent is.
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  47. I would prefer a presidential style of government BUT a model of president like the German model which interestingly was designed by British (and American) lawyers after the Second World War and is an indirectly election version of British Monarchy. My feeling is that what we need to focus on having as part of the coronation like the Dutch monarch making a contract with the people so it is clear that sovereignty comes from the people rather than heredity.
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  48. It's embarrassing to be British at the moment
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  49. "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible" Not sure which wag said it but it is still true
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  50. I voted tactically but as I point out to folks I am voting for a candidate not "Jo Swinson" or "Jeremy Corbin" etc. I vote for the local candidate.
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