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

  1. I lived in Oxfordshire for twenty-six years And we had one Labour MP With a Liberal Democrat on occasion The other three have been Conservatives. When you look at the voting preferences This is not a system that represents the people. I have long been a proponent of multi-member constituencies With Single Transferable Vote. As it give the local representation And a higher chance of one of your MPs Being sympathetic to your positions. I believe it is like many Proportional Voting Systems Devised initially by a Briton In this case Thomas Wright Hill.
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  2. DIE LiNKE in Germany is a nearer analogy for some in Labour It is made up of leftist from Western Germany and the remnants of the former ruling party in Eastern Germany. They get between 5 and 10 percent in the General Election and have representatives in 10 of the 16 states plus one head of a coalition government in one state.
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  3. I was at school starting in the late 1960s (aged 5) and remember the new books coming out for decimal currency and also introduced the metric system. The plan was that by 1980 we were going metric. Sadly that didn't happen. Because I was good at mathematics I finished the new books very quickly and the teacher got me to use the imperial units books so my ability to use the 12, 14 and 16 times tables got very good. I have used the metric system for most things except weirdly height whether I have to convert to get a feel for what a metric height means.
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  4. Interestingly Parliament would have to pass a law To enable the British Museum to transfer ownership of the Elgin Marbles To Greece. Or can the new powers to make law without reference to Parliament be used To just alter the law?
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  5.  @kirkhunter146  One of the authors, Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, several of whose books I own wrote books on mathematics and physics in this style. Other than that I have bought several books in English or translated into English which would be classified as free verse or prose poetry which look like this.
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  6.  @kirkhunter146  Lillian Lieber wrote in a preface: “This is not intended to be free verse. Writing each phrase on a separate line facilitates rapid reading and everybody is in a hurry nowadays“
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  7. Smacks of Trumpian tactics where rather than talk to the Federal government he is the one who told the world about the FBI raid on his property in Florida. Neal Lawson publicised it in the Guardian I am more worried that the Guardian didn't check with the Labour Party first.
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  8.  @pyellard3013  but wasn't in charge of his party remember the Maastricht 14 and the moral failures of several of his MPs.
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  9. I remember going to a talk by Albie Sachs the South African jurist who served on the new Supreme Court after the fall of Apartheid He started his talk by saying he had been reading the papers the British papers and there was no news from South Africa in them This he said was good news as during the Apartheid years there had often been news stories from South Africa as it was a state in crisis He welcomed the "boring normalcy" of the new South Africa Sadly I think Britain can be viewed as being a state in crisis hence the large amount of political news around until something happens and we can return to "boring normalcy" this state will exist.
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  10. BTW Congratulations on the Silver Play button.
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  11.  @justmythought7658  Are the current government "the Johnson variant" are living up to the Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the UK" where they sang: "Don't know what I want, But I know how to get it"?
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  12.  @peterebel7899  which implies the government are a) deluded b) stupid and c) not grasping the reality of their situation
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  13.  @prunabluepepper  The Federal land in Germany controls Education and there are definite preferences within each Land NRW where I was teaching participants often talked in the Adult Education sector about "Oxford English" as the premiere style of language Whereas I have colleagues in Bavaria whose clients definitely wanted American English. I always taught both even though my automatic responses when speaking English is to use British English I often pointed out differences in spelling and grammar to the higher level students especially.
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  14.  @garryferrington811  Government ministers act as if they are the opposition and Labour is in government already.
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  15.  @ruthguthrie1099  She seems to be doing well at the moment.
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  16.  @justmythought7658  The AFD have also been mired in corruption scandals so they are not expected to do well
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  17.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  I was wondering how long he'd last on a diet of dodgy pork products.
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  18.  @korolev-musictobashbrexitby  I was not aware of that, I will bear it in mind if I ever move Music Business circles. I agree he is a waste of space hence my suggestion he be put to work testing the dodgy pork products personally.
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  19. I have been hearing the "he's not fully recovered from COVID-19" from some family members so some weeks and that is definitely a position that some Conservatives and Conservative voters at the last election seem to hold.
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  20. I fear you are being to cruel to pirates!
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  21. It is the "backstop agreement" that brought Theresa May down in 2019, is it not?
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  22.  @nicodesmidt4034  I was talking about Phil's introductory comments Not what Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson said or did which are all about him saying or doing anything to stay in power for another week
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  23. Why are Brexiteers so keen to "prove" their case even down to desperately pretending UK shops are somewhere else or not bothering to read the sign in plain sight though it was in French what one lad in my class 30 years ago described as "foreign jibber jab"
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  24. As in January 2022 is the point where I can no longer vote in British General Elections so sadly I likely will not be able to vote in the next GE.
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  25. It will be the first election since 1983 I will not be able to vote in.
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  26.  @jimbop4499  I am sure that Britain can and will survive without me
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  27. The CEO of Marks and Spencer doesn't seem up to the job Blinkered by an assumption that Britain will still be in the game even when it has taken its bat and ball home in a huff His failure is not to realise the problems and rapidly find workarounds The ideas suggested in the video should have been first and foremost over the Christmas break in the department responsible. Just giving up shows a lack of imagination and a failure of leadership.
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  28.  @justmythought7658  Brexit was always going to be hard so the zero planning mentality that many CEOs seem to have adopted is going to lead to shrinking businesses and the shareholders will not be happy the result will be the CEO's neck on the chopping block. AND all of this could be foreseen and was
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  29. The trick is that the MAGA movement have convinced their own supporters not to believe their own eyes If it isn't coming from the orange one it isn't true.
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  30.  @susannehartl3067  I need to as I am now the principal carer for my German partner but the downside is getting to classes for the Integrationskurs etc.
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  31.  @GorinRedspear  my rights to vote in local elections are based on my EU citizenship which is being stripped from me by the British government sadly.
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  32.  @joopjansen9102  I am fine, thank you. Normally the word "mate" is used to express familiarity with someone - someone you know well - someone you've seen in the pub (and said hello to) Not sure that applies here so your comment sounded like a comment made by "the Coopers and Robinsons" in Goodness Gracious Me.
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  33. A classic policy to build an alliance on I would say a cross party alliance but the Tories would never support it as it attacks their current modus operandi but it could be used as part of a joint programme in an election pact for the non-Zory parties-
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  34. The technology behind Twitter isn't very cutting edge. So Musk bought the user group - the content creators. He doesn't seem to realise that - he will hit several brick walls including the EU regulations as well the potential dip in profits.
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  35. Brexit seems to be premised on "being in the American* camp" (* a mythical Ayn Randian vision of America) rather than "being in the European* camp" (* a mythical "socialist monster" vision of Europe) This fails to understand as you put it "the role of Britain for the USA is as a bridge between the US and Europe" and we have sadly and decisively "burnt our bridge to Europe" so sadly I would suggest we will like the Chinese map of the world in the 18th century become the small islands on the edge of the world rather than some sort of "global player"
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  36. Mark Blyth (the political economist) wrote a book about "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea" - he is interesting even though he seemed to be pro-Brexit. He has done lectures on YouTube about it. Worth checking out.
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  37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE
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  38. I believe today's voting round ends at 19:00 BST.
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  39. In the 1980s as part of the Peace Movement I was introduced to a classic of negotiations "Getting to Yes" from the Harvard University Program on Negotiation by Fisher and Ury and it has served me well as a touchstone of principled negotiation The British government in its handling of the negotiations ignored all the guidance and in her first party conference speech issued a set of red lines which set the path to nothing but the Hard Tory Brexit we got but no planning for that outcome happened at any point I am not sure they are even trying now to set up the parallel institutions that we need after disconnecting ourselves from the EU life support machines
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  40. The Michel Barnier book "La grande illusion: Journal secret du Brexit" was published on 6 May 2021 in French in paperback I believe the English translation will be out on 30 September 2021 when presumable the largely monolingual British press will take an interest.
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  41. The Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA) is a cornerstone of long-lasting negotiated agreements - the UK's BATNA isn't teribly good nor have the government done the work to improve their BATNA - net result is that they will not have a satisfying agreement from their position.
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  42. Video quality comments incoming Video quality comments incoming... The camera certainly seems not to have been designed by Smurfs so it is nice to see you without the "blue tint" The sound seems okay until you mentioned it I would have noticed So that is a sort of carry on as you are.
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  43. As I am not resident in the UK and do not consume UK broadcast media except BBC Radio 3 I don't feel in a position to send a complaint.
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  44. Sadly Brexit is being shown once again to be a whinge a drunken whinge by a bloke down the pub on a wet Wednesday evening which is where it should have stayed. It is a whinge that to be realised needs the world to "magically" conform to what the whinger wants. When it doesn't they will whinge some more.
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  45.  @gerardvila4685  As a teacher it was one of the must read books about five or so years ago I even have two copies one to lend out and one for my own reference.
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  46.  swave158  But I remember the paradigm shift of neoliberalism (or neoclassical ideology) and it was fascinating and frightening to behold. This government is the death throes of that period which, I personally think, died intellectually with the "Great Recession". It is a question of what will replace it. I would like a greener and more socialist future but that is only one of a strand of options.
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  47.  @SirAntoniousBlock  Power and retaining power seem to be the only continuing drivers for the Tory Party Like the GOP went into an election with the programme to do what Trump wants they don't have any ideological goals.
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  48.  @rorykeegan1895  Not sure Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson's backers would be keen on capital restrictions
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  49. The difference is between bourgeois arts and sports and non-bourgeois arts and sports - it show the class dividing line in UK society sadly.
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  50. Who is there for them to field?
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