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

  1. Alexander B. de Pfeffel Johnson throwing another pipe dream at the public to distract from the mess the Extreme Tory Brexit is making of the country.
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  2. Though I am a Labour supporter in my constituency (which was a new one) I voted tactically for the Liberal Democrat who won the seat. In my county we now have NO Tories Two Labour and four LD. I am very much on board for proportional representation and a common agenda politics at present as we have to keep the Tories as they are rippers down of our economy / well-being BTW I checked several friends and my sister's postcodes so I might have skewed their usage figures LOL.
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  3. My mother who is 89 - has no passport as she doesn't feel she wants to travel much more, has given up her driving licence though she has her bus pass which I think has a picture on it. But the assumption that everyone has ready access to photo ID is hilarious.
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  4. I think Boris Johnson is in the David Davis school of Brexiter - Davis is very much the bright six-former who performs well in class and is verbally good but never puts things down on paper (no homework, no good class notes etc.) - net result is Davis and now Johnson come a cropper when faced with the exam.
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  5. Doesn't Ranjit Singh Boparan own companies with processing plants in Ireland, the Netherlands and Poland. The extreme Tory Brexit should have been front and centre for his business
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  6.  @johnthorburn1913  That was a weird story about the reporter showing law-breaking, wasn't it?
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  7.  @hanskuijsten2380  they appear to be very ignorant and as a consequence are incompetent - also they seem to refuse to learn - and double down on their incompetence.
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  8. The EU that in the long term they have to have a relationship with Britain even if the current British government is looking at the shortest term profits for its disaster capitalist backers and d__n the consequences.
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  9.  @pyellard3013  for a Tory.
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  10.  @cidercik  My 89 year old mother and my sister still live in the UK.
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  11. The question is will the government act not throw money at the problem not get a "mate" to do it for them but actually work on this before there are severe shortages that cripple British industries and have scarily frequent empty food shops? I like a British shower gel and have bought it here in Germany for many years - from my local supermarket I stocked up - I had twenty bottles but late last year they have not been stocking it in the shop - so my supply is slowly dwindling and it will last some time but when it ends - I will buy a European brand of shower gel most likely a German brand It won't be what I want but I shower every day and use shower gel every day and so if I cannot because of Brexit get the gel then I will buy elsewhere. My bathroom windowsill is a microcosm of Brexit and it is not looking good at the moment.
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  12. Isn't that Jonathan Gullis' new job?
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  13. My first foreign holiday was aged 11 in 1973 to Italy fortunately it was a package holiday so the location part was fixed and done by the travel company (I suspect) though we had to fill in landing cards as all third country nationals have to even into Britain The holiday industry because of the pandemic has been furloughed to a large extent as those restrictions end the reality of Brexit Britain will dawn on more folks.
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  14. Do we need to add another dimension to the classic alignment matrix with good <-> evil and lawful <-> chaotic adding a third dimension of competent <-> incompetent to make so the current Tories would be evil, chaotic and incompetent An alignment tensor perhaps?
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  15. A spin of a spin - that is this government all over - they are whirling around and the most dangerous thing is that they might actually believe their own spin.
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  16.  @SirAntoniousBlock  I like how often the "heroes" of modern right-wing parties so Thatcher for the Tories and Reagan for the GOP in the USA are often only an empty shell. Their policies as declared and enacted would be anathemised by the current lot.
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  17.  @earthman6700  unless you are very rich there never were any benefits.
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  18.  @almudenainesarchilla5633  Delays in shipping, some suppliers not shipping to Germany, the paperwork being wrong (resulting in extra costs for me) and the customs tariffs necessary. A toxic brew of things to put me off.
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  19.  @geraldwagner8739  But is that a problem?
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  20.  @thehellyousay  Thank you for pointing out that she was nominated by the European Council and elected by the European Parliament. I had not thought that was necessary to point out to folks but my understanding is that the verb to succeed does not negate the verb to elect. So I) can say "Boris Johnson is Theresa May's successor" and be correct. He was also elected to that position by the Conservative Party and formally appointed by the Queen as well. I am not planning to drink and battery acid in the near future - though I do use quite a lot of vinegar in my cooking as it has a good flavour.
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  21. There is an interesting phenomenon (or series of phenomena) where attacks made (usually from the hard right-wing press in the UK) on a politician has a rebound effect on the politician - Diane Abbott, who I don't think is an "idiot" BTW, has been seen as at minimum an okay person and perhaps even a "woman of the people" because she did consume a mojito on the tube - breaking a minor by-law which is more often honoured in its breach by the public. The critics often end up looking nasty and mean spirited as well as desperate in their attacks on the politicians. Perhaps this is the way forward for the poisoned well of British politics?
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  22. PS I don't think Diane Abbott is an "idiot" but she isn't one of the greatest political tacticians and debaters in the Labour Party at the moment. Here is an idea - perhaps you could look at politicians on all sides of the house whom you find have useful ideas - I lived in a deeply conservative constituency - and still vote there - but I always made a point of when my MP did something I thought was positive - I wrote and thanked him - I also wrote and criticised some of his voting positions too.
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  23. Would you trust this government to organise a p*ss-up in a brewery? Not sure I would.
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  24.  @willtricks9432  Do the Tories have any seats left to lose?
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  25. In a dystopian novel the home secretary would announce that police officers were allowed to kill with impunity then to face a coup they have facilitated where she is assassinated by a police officer. And we would all criticise the plot.
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  26. Büsingen am Hochrhein is an interesting exclave of Germany Like many things it pre-dates the existence of a country called Germany. It was an Austrian possession in Swiss territory which when Napoleon defeated the Austrians at Austerlitz led to Austrian territory in Swabia (the region) going to the French ally the Kingdom of Württemberg So when German unification occurred in 1871 it became part of Germany. It is inside the Swiss customs area like Liechtenstein Check out The Tim Traveller's video on "Büsingen: The Strange German Village inside Switzerland"
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  27. The Tenth Man Rule is an idea devised to break "group think" If nine people agree it is the DUTY of the tenth person to disagree. This, I think, came from or was popularised by a film "World War Z" but it is a valid principle for quality decision making.
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  28.  @cobbler40  I write to my local MP (not of my party) regularly.
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  29. @jimbofatplum but we are choosing to be in that period of less control followed by even less control either it will be "Donnie says..." or "Brussels says..." - neither are appealing plus we lose rights in the EU.
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  30. and if we play "Brussels says..." it will cost us more to play and have no say.
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  31. Taking a look at American right-wing organisations and their personnel There are connections that I am aware of from post-WW2 red scare personnel, through variously little known organisations, to people in the Nixon era, to Reagan and all Republican presidents up to and including Trump. We need James Burke to make the connections both there and I am sure here.
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  32.  @javaman9010  I suspect the agreement is based on the reciprocal health agreement within the EU and no deal rips that basis up. I hope you are right.
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  33.  @caccioman  Corrected in post, serves me right for posting without my reading glasses on.
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  34. Are the Tories going for the Canadian option?
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  35. and I am technically a baby boomer born in 1962.
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  36. It is always harder to lie than tell the truth And this current government do not seem to have learnt that simple lesson. It is so sad that these people are killing people by their lies.
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  37.  @stevens7379  Though sadly the British government and a large number of folks who voted for them believe "just get Brexit done" which is folly our relationship with the various EU states will continue whatever the question is whether it is a beneficial relationship or a bad relationship.
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  38. The timetable for getting a new leader in just under over a week, firstly puts pay to the summer of paralysis we were subject to and is going to need to be very carefully organised to get a credible candidate.
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  39. Your comment about making a mess of this week - does sum up the current government - it is lurching from self-inflicted mess to another - it doesn't seem to end.
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  40.  @helloweener2007  Useful to know but at the time I did it there were no plans as the British government were still negotiating
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  41.  @helloweener2007  Though I don't own a car but do belong to a car sharing scheme and haven't driven since 2019 because of covid.
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  42.  @totoarriba  So my part-time evening degree course in Chinese that I took in the 1990s might come in useful LOL
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  43.  @stewartcampbell1786  She doesn't like or use the Internet and had it removed when my father died so not sure how I could get anything to her. Plus swearing is not my mother's thing. I have an Alan-Bennett-esque play to write of all her saying after she dies.
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  44. The "Bridge to EU 2.0" like the garden bridge, the channel bridge, the Scotland - Northern Ireland bridge and the "four nations tunnel complex under the Irish Sea" All brain farts.
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  45.  @joycastle.  The one with something in front of him in the infamous picture. Political memoirs are always vanity projects if you read any memoirs they tend to airbrush reality - I remember reading Richard Nixon's memoirs and reading the gloss he put on events. I believe the date for the Barnier book's publication in English translation is set for 30 September this year. I ordered a copy of the original paperback in French so it will be interesting.
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  46.  @Northstander  Indeed - well our power in Germany is a lot less than in the UK.
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  47. I hope he enjoys the “rubber chicken“ circuit of dinners at Conservative Party Associations. That is what his life will be from now on.
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  48.  @billpugh58  I have never used them "in anger" and do not want them to return It would be a step backwards for the British export market as all bar three countries in the world (US, Liberia and Myanmar) use the metric system. The original plan was to go metric in 1980 but the 1979 Conservative government mothballed the idea.
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  49.  @oliverseitz9215  True the UK doesn't have to sell products to anyone but sadly we aren't self-sufficient and economic theories (especially those of followed by the Conservatives) indicate that we should endeavour to have free trade with the maximum number of markets so we can make money to buy the imports we need. So a "pull up the drawbridge" approach to the EU is not very sensible. It is very simple.
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  50. I have always held that the only party which will alter the British Constitution.
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