Comments by "Anon Nemo" (@anonnemo2504) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

  1. Of course, this is still going on. The perpetrators are part of a now even larger and ever growing community that must never be offended and our authorities are even more determined to ensure they never are. The policing of the seemingly interminable weekly marches in London should be evidence enough of that.
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  2. An interesting first hand account of just a part of the madness that has taken hold of the BBC in recent years.
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  3. Academia is at the heart of the problem and has been for years. Teachers and lecturers in our schools and colleges mould impressionable, young people in their own image. After "education", they then gravitate towards careers in the quangocracy, education to continue the cycle of indoctrination, national institutions and, very often, the BBC, their movement's propaganda wing.
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  4. The term, "multiculturalism", has almost as many definitions as the number of people who use it. Like the description, "progressive", when applied to left wing policies, it has become meaningless. A more accurate description, and one which far more people are likely to agree upon for the situation in the UK, though a bit of an oxymoron, is "multiple mono-cultures".
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  5. In 1990, I became a widower with an eight year old child. In those days and, so far as I am aware now, a widowed mother, no matter her circumstances, was entitled to far more state assistance than a widowed father, no matter his circumstances. I mention this to highlight yet another example of how various authorities discriminate against men in favour of women and how long this has been the case. Many thanks for this video. It is long overdue for society to take a long, hard look at the injustices handed out to men.
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  6. The simple answer to the question, "Will Sadiq Khan ever fail to win a London mayoral election?", is almost certainly "No". London now has too many voters who do not vote upon the issues, but along ethnic, cultural and religious lines. Anyway, London, far from being "the greatest city in the world", as people like Khan would claim, is a prime candidate for where, if the planet ever needed an enema, it would be inserted.
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  7. As always, Ms. Widdecombe spoke a great deal of common sense, particularly upon the subject of education. When Labour decided to abolish as many Grammar schools as they could and replace targeted education with "one size fits all" indoctrination, they killed the greatest driver for social mobility this country has ever had.
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  8. The BBC has been in violation of its charter for decades, particularly the impartiality clauses. It should have ceased to exist long ago. Instead, what we are likely to see, under a Labour government and given the numbers who now refuse to pay the licence fee for such a shoddy service, is the BBC funded out of general taxation, whereupon it will become even more entrenched in its profligacy, political bias and dire programme making.
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  9. Labour will seize upon any excuse not to have its failings in the way it ran councils and police and crime commissions in most of the areas where these horrors took place subject to a full, public inquiry. Neither will they wish to risk alienating substantial parts of the electorate in their many very marginal parliamentary seats. Why cannot this bill be passed and an inquiry held too? Labour has no answer to that question other than mendacity and obfuscation. Starmer and his government give off a very nasty odour.
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  10. Mr. Bell embodies the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see". He is so steeped in the BBC that he can accept no criticism of it when, clearly, it has been in breach of its charter regarding impartiality for decades.
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  11. With this particular issue, they were overridden by our authorities' fears of offending a certain community and, of course, this is still going on. The perpetrators are part of a now even larger and ever growing community that must never be offended and our authorities are even more determined to ensure they never are. The policing of the seemingly interminable weekly marches in London should be evidence enough of that.
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  12. Sadly, as Mr. Hitchens points out, the greatest obstacle to a return to state grammar school education on a par with standards set before the demise of the former one is not political. It is practical. Where would we find enough teachers of sufficient quality to deliver those standards of state education?
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  13. So, the police in Scotland and, no doubt, soon in England and Wales, will be required to investigate all complaints of this trivial nature. Wouldn't it be great if they investigated all burglaries and physical assaults etc.?
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  14. Mr. Bleksley speals the truth from a position of great experience, much more so than many of our senior police officers some of whom now, apparently, consult with the "leaders" of certain communities on what "style" of policing they wish to see adopted in their local areas. Whatever happened to consistency of law enforcement and policing without fear or favour?
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  15. Labour supported this in the Scottish parliament and they will pass a similar law when they become the UK government. The police in Scotland and, no doubt, soon in England and Wales, will be required to investigate all complaints of this trivial nature. Wouldn't it be great if they investigated all burglaries and physical assaults etc.?
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  16. The statement in the House of Commons in support of first cousin marriages by this MP (the member for Palestine?) is typical of religion's denial of objective and well researched science in favour of mediaeval dogma. The cost to the NHS and, therefore, to the taxpayer of this revolting practice must be enormous.
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  17. With our elected government reneging on their promises and no longer being a threat to the BBC's licence fee, the only way now to achieve the necessary radical reform to this increasingly irrelevant and wasteful organisation is for individuals to stop paying for and watching its output. It will be a slower process but still, hopefully, quite inexorable.
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  18. Agreed; all political and ideological activism within these organisations should be verboten!
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  19. Great that we are going to have a parliamentary committee investigating the vitally important matter of the issues surrounding Phillip Schofield. What are the chances, I wonder, of one being set up to look into the matter of excess deaths, running at up to 20% above average for months now.
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  20. The answer to the question is that the BBC believe that indoctrination into their beliefs can never start at too early an age.
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  21. Excellent discussion again. Our civil service is more than just a "fifth column". It is also unfit for purpose in the things it should be doing. Unaccountability and "shirking from home" are amongst the reasons it delivers such a poor service to the people who pay their wages. I have recent personal experience of this. His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service took 7 months to process my application for grant of probate to execute my late father's will and they admitted, quite without any shame, that my application lay unopened for over 5 months after receipt. Whatever one may think of Dominic Cummings, he hit the nail on the head when he called for a root and branch reform of our civil service.
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  22. In an extended interview such as this, Mr. Tice demonstrates both credibility and gravitas. It is a great pity that our mainstream media will, in their biased and partial support for our dreadful status quo, never show anything similar and allow his message a much bigger audience.
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  23. Ms. Gallagher twice referred to "giving back" the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Mauritius never owned them. The only connection they have with them, at 1200 miles distance, is that Mauritius and the Chagos Islands were once administered by the empire (as it was) from Mauritius. It is important, in any discussion on the islands' future, to be aware of this and not convey the impression that Mauritius may have any legitimate claim over the islands.
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  24. Powerful arguments from a very brave man; this woman should be put on trial for her crimes in one of the countries she committed them and never regain her citizenship. Those over here who support her return are stupid and/or have malevolent intent towards their own society.
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  25. Many thanks for a very incisive commentary upon the current madness, and the dangers thereof, taking hold of sections of society.
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  26. An excellently presented reminder of the importance of recovering those values we have now (hopefully, temporarily) lost and the dangers presented by those minorities pushing for various forms of totalitarianism in the guise of "worthy causes".
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  27. Mr. Bell embodies the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see". He is so steeped in the BBC that he can accept no criticism of it when, clearly, it has been in breach of its charter regarding impartiality for decades.
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  28. Benefits? Well paid, non-jobs in the UK's diversity industry? Anyway, Mr. Heydel-Mankoo spoke very well and the debate he had won was over but, of course, the ill informed chap on the right had to ask to have the last word and, of course, one of the worst presenters on GB News had to allow it.
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  29. The description, "Blob" also has connotations of laziness and general uselessness. On 18th November, 2022, HMCTS (His Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service), part of the Justice Department, received my application for a grant of probate to execute my late father's will. Not until 24th April, 2023, did a civil servant read it (they admit there was a period of over 5 months between their "scanning it in" and a "physical examination" of the documents - their words) and it was only after my telephoning them that they actually read the paperwork I had sent them all that time ago. Over three telephone calls, I have had to wait an average of half an hour to talk to anyone. The department's target for processing probate applications is 8 to 16 weeks, yet six and a half months have now passed since my application and I still have no grant of probate, nor any indication of when I may have. Laziness and unfitness for purpose have, of course, become endemic in the civil service over decades. It is unrealistic to expect the civil service to carry out even the most mundane of tasks on time and free of error. Shirking from home has, of course, exacerbated the problem. Other connotations of the word, "Blob", related to political obstructionism, have arisen more recently and should, probably give us far greater cause for concern. The civil service is bloated and unfit for purpose and needs radical reform.
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  30. Yes, they should be renamed the "Establishment Elite" party, Re the video, so true and how depressing for our future. Our politicians have much to answer for regarding their behaviour over the last quarter century.
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  31. Some special dispensation given him to allow him to qualify perhaps, because he seems as thick as a plank. As Mr. Heydel-Mankoo reminded us, a few years ago, on "Celebrity Mastermind", in answer to the question, "Who succeeded Henry VIII", he answered, "Henry VII". The new pub licensing proposals are probably aimed more at reducing the time that the plebs may congregate and moan about Starmer and his motley crew than reducing alcohol consumption, though that too may be a factor. Starmer's wife is called Victoria? That would be Victoria Sponger then.
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  32. That seems almost inevitable. With MPs being effectively gagged on this matter, and the much delayed revelation of new factors, it seems this case may be headed in a similar, nonsensical and perverse direction to that taken with the Nottingham killings, when those who lost their lives were judged to be victims of manslaughter, whilst those who survived were judged to be victims of attempted murder and the perpetrator ended up with an indefinite stay in a secure hospital facility. The authorities seem determined, once again, to airbrush out all references to the "T" word, both in the reporting of this case and in the eventual verdict.
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  33. Yes, the chickens of decades of state comprehensive education have come home to roost. I consider myself fortunate to have been educated at a state grammar school where, not only did I receive a good education, compared to today's state offering, I was also taught how to think rather than what to think. Widespread state grammar school education was a tremendous force for upward mobility for children from less privileged backgrounds. Sadly, it was all thrown away by Labour governments in the sixties and seventies and never rescued by the Tories, despite their many promises.
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  34. They only care for their phoney-baloney jobs and Labour will seize upon any excuse not to have its failings in the way it ran councils and police and crime commissions in most of the areas where these horrors took place subject to a full, public inquiry. Neither will they wish to risk alienating substantial parts of the electorate in their many very marginal parliamentary seats. Why cannot this bill be passed and an inquiry held too? Labour has no answer to that question other than mendacity and obfuscation. Starmer and his government give off a very nasty odour.
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  35. Indeed so. Compare and contrast his performances in interview with those of the mendacious, iIl tempered automaton we now have as PM.
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  36. Probably so. Religion and race are separate issues. This is all about Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynical and dishonest bunch of politicians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  37. Why is the description, "trans women" used, even on here? These people are not women, even if to say so risks being cancelled by "Big Tech", where a tiny group of billionaires now controls who gets to say what on their worldwide platforms. This situation is incredibly dangerous and must be changed.
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  38. As usual, very wise words from Mr. Bleksley, whose opinion on the issue of (let us call it) a lack of single stratum policing is an order of magnitude more trustworthy than those more often reported in our mainstream media. Thank you for an excellent interview.
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  39. Yes, TTPaLE is real, which is the reason I had to use this acronym. Dark days!
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  40. It seems very significant that widespread, institutional misogyny, the sort embedded and given religious force within certain communities seems not to fall within the scope of Cooper's proposals.
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  41. Ms. Widdecombe speaks a great deal of sense on so many issues. Her proposal that those who claim asylum should be detained within suitable facilities until their case have been heard is entirely correct. Even if their claims are unsuccessful but they cannot be deported, continued detention would be a serious disincentive to any considering the dangerous voyage across the Channel.
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  42. Thanks for bringing the crazy deliberations of the Law Commission to our attention (I've heard no mention of it elsewhere). Thanks also for inviting Ms. Widdecombe to your programme to so effectively rebut the "thinking" that must have gone into them.
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  43. I will be voting for Reform too. To anyone who says my vote will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember. Anyway, "multiple mono-cultures" is a very apt description of the dangerous place to which uncontrolled migration has led us. It is also one capable of being understood by most people, unlike "multiculturalism", which has almost as many definitions as the the number of people who utter the word.
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  44. Point of information; anyone with a TV set does not have to have a TV licence. It is those with a TV set (or PC, laptop, tablet etc.) who watch or record live TV broadcasts that have to have a TV licence. I cancelled my TV licence some time ago, but still have a TV. Otherwise, an excellent exposé and it is hardly any surprise that the BBC would not take part to defend themselves against such clearly justified criticism of their decades of bias, corruption and profligacy.
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  45. I disagree. London, far from being that important and "the greatest city in the world", as people like Khan would claim, is a prime candidate for where, if the planet ever needed an enema, it would be inserted. The simple answer to the question, "Will Sadiq Khan ever fail to win a London mayoral election?", is almost certainly "No". London now has too many voters who do not vote upon the issues, but along ethnic, cultural and religious lines.
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  46. For me, just one of them but a very good one. Compare and contrast his performances in interview with those of the iIl tempered automaton we now have as PM.
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  47. Mr. Bell embodies the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see". He is so steeped in the BBC that he can accept no criticism of it when, clearly, it has been in breach of its charter regarding impartiality for decades.
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  48. It is and it does indeed. For many of those wise enough not to trust Labour in government and who did not vote for them, these attacks on free speech will come as no surprise, other than perhaps their speed and their extent. At this rate, before very long, we will have lost many of our hard won freedoms.
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  49. Cooper portrayed in profile, rather akin to a monarch on a coin or a postage stamp, speaks volumes. Leading figures in other regimes, of course, had themselves portrayed everywhere. One only has to think of previous leaders of Russia, China, Iraq etc.. What price a portrait of Starmer on every street corner soon? The replacement of a portrait of Nelson by one of Cooper is the substitution of a national embarrassment for a national hero.
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  50. Those who only see and hear the M S M? I will attempt to post my original comment which has become invisible to me. Please excuse any unnecessary spaces. All reli gion is based upon denial of reality but the one under discussion encompasses oppre ssion and intol erance, often viol ently so. On reflection, however, it is at about the same stage of its development as Chris tianity was during the Inqui sition. Perhaps, in about 900 years, the problem will have disappeared.
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  51. Indeed so, and those returning to their communities after serving their sentences seem not to suffer much ostracisation. Cooper's announcement is Labour's denial of a proper enquiry, at which people may be compeIIed to give evidence, and kicking this embarrassing issue for them into the long grass. They are deeply concerned about the nature and the extent of any maIfeasance by members of their party that a fuIl enquiry may reveal and are desperate to continue covering it up. It would seem that Brad ford may be one of the places not selected for a Iocal enquiry and it is likely that what has emerged from previous investigations into Rot her ham would only amount to a fraction of what has happened in Brad ford.
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  52. And, "How would you like your gathering to be policed?" was a question asked by a senior police officer of the leaders of a certain community around the same time. Sadly, this "cancer" has now reached stage 4.
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  53. An excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  54. All in line with Blair's 1997 government stating a wish to rub the right's nose in diversity. Re the video, sadly, a very similar decline is taking place in all our major towns and cities. The day is fast approaching when the British identity we have rightly been so proud of will no longer exist.
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  55. Me too and I share that hope, though it may take a couple of elections before it happens. To those who say my vote for Reform will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember. I used to vote Tory but will not do so again in the foreseeable future. I am well past caring what damage a large vote for Reform will do to the Tories. They can go to hell. In an extended interview such as this, Mr. Tice demonstrates both credibility and gravitas. It is a great pity, however, that our mainstream media will, in their biased and partial support for our dreadful status quo, never show anything similar and allow his message to reach a much bigger audience.
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  56. We are certainly well on the way to being replaced. Re the video, sadly, a very similar decline is taking place in all our major towns and cities. The day is fast approaching when the British identity we have rightly been so proud of will no longer exist.
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  57. That was very perceptive of him. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  58. Yes, Cooper portrayed in profile, rather akin to a monarch on a coin or a postage stamp, speaks volumes. Leading figures in other regimes, of course, had themselves portrayed everywhere. One only has to think of previous leaders of Russia, China, Iraq etc.. What price a portrait of Starmer on every street corner soon? The replacement of a portrait of Nelson by one of Cooper is the substitution of a national embarrassment for a national hero.
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  59. Yes, whatever one thinks of Mr. "Robinson", the treatment meted out to him shows that two tier policing in the UK is now a fact. Senior police officers are a disgrace to their uniform.
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  60. I've already seen this interview and won't submit myself to the torture of watching it again. Listening to someone shouting demented opinions, which is all this harridan does, is not good for the blood pressure.
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  61. Long gone, to concentrate on other battles they have some chance of winning, hopefully. Sadly, the vast majority of the London mayoral electorate vote along "cultural" lines, rather than upon day to issues, such as the buses and trains running on time (if they are running at all, that is). Consequently, there is no candidate on earth who could unseat Khan or, if he were not a candidate, any other politician of a similar stripe.
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  62. No, she didn't. You just made that up or confused it with "Defender of the Faith". Anyway, of course, this is still going on. The perpetrators are part of a now even larger and ever growing community that must never be offended and our authorities are even more determined to ensure they never are. The policing of the seemingly interminable weekly marches in London should be evidence enough of that.
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  63. Before that, we need the authorities to acknowledge the problem and not try to deflect from the motivations of those who carry out these acts. The suspect is from a reIigion that condones Iying in the furtherance of its aims (the practice is known as "t a q i y y a"). Claims as to the suspect’s attitude towards certain issues should be taken with a pinch of salt. This latest incident has all the haIImarks of a "sIeeper ceII" operation aided by German government negIigence and duplicity and European Iegacy media is being its usual disingenuous self over this matter.
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  64. Not I. Re the video, all religion is based upon denial of reality but the one under discussion encompasses oppression and intolerance, often violently so. On reflection, however, it is at about the same stage of its development as Christianity was during the Inquisition. Perhaps, in about 900 years, the problem will have disappeared.
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  65. Sadly, a very similar decline is taking place in all our major towns and cities. The day is fast approaching when the British identity we have rightly been so proud of will no longer exist.
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  66. As a slightly younger version of yourself, I agree wholeheartedly with those sentiments and appreciate your good use of grammar and impeccable spelling, which are rarely to be found in anyone under the age of 50. I would add that it is sickening how our legacy media collude with incompetent and corrupt governments over deflection from the real issues of concern surrounding horrendous cases such as this. That the whole trial, in which the suspect faced a number of serious charges, would have collapsed through the release of information related to two of the relatively minor charges, is clearly nonsense and obviously an attempt by Starmer to cover up his, and his sinister government's failings, over the release of information in this matter.
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  67. Mr. Bell embodies the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see". He is so steeped in the BBC that he can accept no criticism of it when, clearly, it has been in breach of its charter regarding impartiality for decades.
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  68. If you mean the one proposed for Remembrance Day that threatens to disrupt acts of remembrance, of course It should, but will it? I doubt it very much. We now have a police force that applies different standards of policing to different groups of people. This is another stage on our journey to Hell in a hand cart, a journey at the end of which, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will have counted for nothing and replaced by a new Dark Age that will see a return to mediaeval values of intolerance enforced by terror, organised superstition and ignorance.
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  69. Me neither. With this leaked report, the Home Office continues to prove its unfitness for purpose, and then some. That the perfectly rational view that we have non single stratum law enforcement and judicial systems should be regarded as an extreme, right wing view speaks volumes regarding the nature of our civil service and government statements rejecting the report ring very hollow. Free speech has passed away. Welcome to Starmer’s Britain.
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  70. I agree, but sadly, the vast majority of the London mayoral electorate vote along "cultural" lines, rather than upon day to issues, such as the buses and trains running on time (if they are running at all, that is). Consequently, there is no candidate on earth who could unseat Khan or, if he were not a candidate, any other politician of a similar stripe.
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  71. Some chap called Powell predicted this situation more than fifty years ago. For many of those wise enough not to trust Labour in government and who did not vote for them, these attacks on free speech will come as no surprise, other than perhaps their speed and their extent. At this rate, before very long, we will have lost many of our hard won freedoms.
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  72.  @victory2115  Yes, in my constituency of Leeds East, people would vote in a donkey if it were wearing a red rosette and, actually, would be much better represented if they did.
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  73. Indeed so. Compare and contrast his performances in interview with those of the mendacious, iIl tempered automaton we now have as PM.
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  74. So true and how depressing for our future. Our politicians have much to answer for their behaviour over the last quarter century.
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  75. A worryingly clear exposition of the madness that has taken hold amongst senior people in our institutions, including the police service and of the type of subversive organisations behind it. Dr. Randall seems a very reasonable fellow and gave the impression he was not expecting a great deal of support from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sadly, I expect this will prove to be the case.
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  76. I agree, and whilst Mr. Farage has a platform to speak on such things, he will be of more benefit to the campaign than were he to stand as an MP, for which he would need to concentrate his efforts within a constituency, and his national influence would be very much diluted. As for electing Reform UK now, I reckon that success, for Reform UK, would be to become the third largest party at Westminster. Re the video, the disgraceful events in Brussels the other day are but a foretaste of what life will be like for EU citizens if the unelected proto-phashists (deliberate misspelling) taking ever increasing control over all aspects of their lives are not stopped in their tracks, and soon.
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  77. Yes, it seems very significant that widespread, institutional misogyny, the sort embedded and given religious force, within certain communities seems not to fall within the scope of Cooper's proposals.
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  78. Leeds is not far behind. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  79. (Another attempt at a reply so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). Cooper's announcement is Labour's denial of a proper enquiry, at which people may be compeIIed to give evidence, and kicking this embarrassing issue for them into the long grass. They are deeply concerned about the nature and the extent of any maIfeasance by members of their party that a fuIl enquiry may reveal and are desperate to continue covering it up. It would seem that Brad ford may be one of the places not selected for a Iocal enquiry and it is likely that what has emerged from previous investigations into Rot her ham would only amount to a fraction of what has happened in Brad ford.
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  80. I'm happy for Mr. Farage to carry on with what he is doing. If he were to stand as a candidate, his national influence would be diluted in the crucial last few weeks of an election campaign. Anyway, an excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  81.  @nockianlifter661  I shall vote for Reform. If my vote turns out to be "wasted", according to some, so what? Living in the constituency of Leeds East, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember.
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  82. The right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  83. Nobody could more deserve such an honour. Ms. Widdicombe deserves far more than an "MBE" at the end of her name!
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  84. I reckon Mr. Farage will be of more benefit to the campaign doing what he does now. Were he to stand as an MP, he would need to concentrate his efforts within a constituency and his national influence would be very much diluted. Success, for Reform UK, would be to become the third largest party at Westminster. Re the video, the disgraceful events in Brussels the other day are but a foretaste of what life will be like for EU citizens if the unelected proto-phashists (deliberate misspelling) taking ever increasing control over all aspects of their lives are not stopped in their tracks, and soon.
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  85. I agree and thank you for your service. My father, a WWII war veteran who passed away recently would be appalled at what has happened to the country he put his life on the line for. I agree with what you say about Starmer. He is a proven liar and hypocrite. We have seen Harehills (close to where I live) and we have now seen Southport, Hartlepool and London, where many people were arrested seemingly at random and without provocation. Two tier policing in the UK is a fact. The establishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the police went about their "duty". Thanks to our dishonest and incompetent politicians, the UK is "going to hell in a hand cart".
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  86. DEI - Denunciation, Exclusivity and Inequality.
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  87. The right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  88. Because, for them to be challenged on their actual merits and capacities for doing the job, would invite accusations of you know what. Sadly, the vast majority of the London mayoral electorate vote along "cultural" lines, rather than upon day to issues, such as the buses and trains running on time (if they are running at all, that is). Consequently, there is no candidate on earth who could unseat Khan or, if he were not a candidate, another politician of a similar stripe.
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  89. Mr. Bell embodies the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see". He is so steeped in the BBC that he can accept no criticism of it when, clearly, it has been in breach of its charter regarding impartiality for decades.
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  90.  @Raven44453  For some, insomniacs for example, I would recommend a Starmer interview. The mendacity and hypocrisy are matched only by the tedium.
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  91. I fully agree and Reform would seem to be that party. In an extended interview such as this, Mr. Tice demonstrates both credibility and gravitas. It is a great pity, however, that our mainstream media will, in their biased and partial support for our dreadful status quo, never show anything similar and allow his message to reach a much bigger audience.
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  92. She was entirely correct. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  93. I cancelled my TV licence long ago, mostly due to the propaganda it was peddling. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes (the BBC etc.) are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  94. Indeed, the continuation of Blair's 1997 government stating a wish to rub the right's nose in diversity. Re the video, sadly, a very similar decline is taking place in all our major towns and cities. The day is fast approaching when the British identity we have rightly been so proud of will no longer exist.
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  95.  @unravel3416  Next time, don't let them in. In fact, don't even engage with them.
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  96. I hope Mr. Heydel-Mankoo was not suggesting that the BBC should be funded out of general taxation. Were this to happen, the public money handed to the BBC on a plate would be more guaranteed than it is now and the BBC would become even more entrenched in its political bias, the dire standard of its programme making and its general profligacy, secure in the knowledge that there was no threat to its income.
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  97. I agree. Politicisation of our judicial system goes all the way from the magistrates courts to Blair's creation, the Supreme Court. The miscarriage of justice in Mr. Fox's case follows hard on the heels of another, when a man who went on the rampage and murdered three innocent people and attempted to murder three others was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter regarding the more serious offences. Consequently, he will spend an indeterminately long time in relative comfort in a secure hospital instead of in a mainstream prison. What kind of a justice system is it that allows someone to admit that, in the space of a couple of hours, he deliberately tried to kill those that he failed to kill but not those that he did kill? The law is an ass. I include the emoticon because of the theory doing the rounds that, to do so, may foil the algorithm. 🤣
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  98. Inevitably, the demographic we are talking about has reached a size and strength where it thinks it may start to throw its weight about. We should not be surprised at this, nor at the response from our useless, cowardly politicians. I include the emoticon because of the theory doing the rounds that, to do so, may foil the algorithm. 🤣
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  99. Indeed so, and the right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  100. That has already happened to thousands upon thousands of young females of the same colour without consequence for many of the perpetrators.
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  101. Good morning to you too. Of course, this is still going on. The perpetrators are part of a now even larger and ever growing community that must never be offended and our authorities are even more determined to ensure they never are. The policing of the seemingly interminable weekly marches in London should be evidence enough of that.
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  102.  @jumblestiltskin1365  Yes, the will was straight forward and the estate was below the threshold for inheritance tax. Putting that to one side, however, the problem has arisen through no civil servant reading the documentation I had sent them for over 5 months (they admit this), and then only when I had telephoned them to chase progress. I also saw the deficiencies in the NHS for many years before my father passed, when he was in their "care". It is good to know, however, that some people within the NHS are aware of its problems. All the best to you.
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  103. I will be voting for Reform too. To anyone who says my vote will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember.
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  104.  @MrDanielvass  The current Speaker is in danger of becoming as partial as his predecessor. Anyway, the rules say an MP can say whatever he or she wishes. It is called "parliamentary privilege"
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  105. Mr. Lowe is a man of exceptional talents but I disagree. Farage's public recognition and standing as the man who, almost single handedly, extricated us from the EU, makes him the right choice for the job.
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  106. For that message to get through, much will depend on how many of them view current affairs content other than that provided by the mainstream media.
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  107. Sadly, the vast majority of the London mayoral electorate vote along "cultural" lines, rather than upon day to issues, such as the buses and trains running on time (if they are running at all, that is). Consequently, there is no candidate on earth who could unseat Khan or, if he were not a candidate, any other politician of a similar stripe.
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  108. Indeed so. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  109. Morning, troII.
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  110. With Badenoch at the helm, the Tories have no chance of regaining the "red wall" seats won by Johnson in 2019 and, therefore, no chance of winning the next general election. The membership, however, was presented with a difficult choice of leader. They had a candidate with little chance of leading to them to electoral success and another with zero chance and they elected the latter.
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  111. If there is credible evidence of the unsuitability of any candidate, it does not matter where that evidence comes from and it has to be investigated. The mainstream media will be far less kind to Reform UK than it will be to Labour over this issue and Labour will have some dodgy candidates too, a few of them, probably, seeking re-election. An excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  112. What chance is there of an appropriate response from the authorities regarding this matter? Such action would offend "local communities" and we saw what happened when large scale child abuse was allowed to go unchecked, and is probably still happening, for precisely the same reason.
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  113. I see I have a reply but, unfortunately, the YT algorithm will not let me see it.
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  114. Yes, and Reform need to include a referendum on migration in their election manifesto.
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  115. No longer? In 2006, Labour Home Secretary, John Reid, described the Home Office as "unfit for purpose" and that criticism would have been valid twenty years earlier. With this leaked report, the Home Office continues to prove its unfitness for purpose, and then some. That the perfectly rational view that we have non single stratum law enforcement and judicial systems should be regarded as an extreme, right wing view speaks volumes regarding the nature of our civil service and government statements rejecting the report ring very hollow. Free speech has passed away. Welcome to Starmer’s Britain.
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  116. Mr. Heydel-Mankoo spoke very well and the debate he had won was over but, of course, the ill informed chap on the right had to have the last word and, of course, one of the worst presenters on GB News had to allow it.
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  117. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  118.  @BritishNaturalist-vb8hj  Really? I have a bridge to sell. May you be interested?
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  119. Perhaps she isn't and has spotted a market for "shouty" people on talk shows. Anyway, I've already seen this interview and won't submit myself to the torture of watching it again. Listening to someone shouting demented views, which is all this harridan does, is not good for the blood pressure.
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  120. Unfortunately, Cressida is not the only Dick influencing the actions of the Metropolitan Police.
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  121. (2nd attempt to post this so, with a few "amendments", here goes...). We have seen Hare hills and we have now seen South port, Har tlepool and London, where many people were arrested seemingly at random and without provocation. Two ti er policing in the UK is a fact. The estab lishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the po lice went about their "duty". Thanks to our dishonest and incompetent politicians, the UK is "going to hell in a hand cart".
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  122.  @jacobkenney5646  There are fundamental similarities, however. Both are based upon the supposed existence of a magic Grandpa in the sky.
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  123. @paulwood5131 Yes, the BBB tells it like it is with the BBC. Another YT channel I would recommend for this sort of advice and guidance is that of "Chilli Jon Carne".
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  124. Welcome to Starmer's "Brave New World", where we have arrived courtesy of just 20% of the electorate.
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  125. I too cancelled my TV licence a few years ago. I hope Mr. Heydel-Mankoo was not suggesting that the BBC should be funded out of general taxation. Were this to happen, the public money handed to the BBC on a plate would be more guaranteed than it is now and the BBC would become even more entrenched in its political bias, the dire standard of its programme making and its general profligacy, secure in the knowledge that there was no threat to its income.
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  126. It would certainly go some way to achieving those aims. Cooper's announcement is Labour's denial of a proper enquiry, at which people may be compeIIed to give evidence, and kicking this embarrassing issue for them into the long grass. They are deeply concerned about the nature and the extent of any maIfeasance by members of their party that a fuIl enquiry may reveal and are desperate to continue covering it up. It would seem that Brad ford may be one of the places not selected for a Iocal enquiry and it is likely that what has emerged from previous investigations into Rot her ham would only amount to a fraction of what has happened in Brad ford.
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  127. Yes, and this was a very good interview in which we saw more gravitas from Mr. Tousi, a very brave man, by the way, than his usual platforms permit.
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  128.  @Horizon344  I believe that, before the next election, Reform will offer the electorate a referendum on immigration. There are many senior members of the party who will realise what a vote winner it would be and I doubt Tice could resist the pressure to go along with it. I have no idea, however, what the question, to which, of course, there could only be a "yes" or "no" response, may be. Whatever it would be would need to be decided and included in Reform's manifesto.
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  129. Intelligent and well informed people discussing the dire situation we find ourselves in somehow makes the whole thing seem even more depressing! The depression soon lifts, however, and I always look forward to the next edition.
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  130. Academia is the cause of many of the problems we now face. The overwhelming majority of its professionals see their duties more to do with indoctrination than education. If we do nothing about this, we can only rely upon the old adage that, if one is not a socialist at twenty, one has no heart but if one is still a socialist at thirty, one has no sense (we can substitute all sorts of beliefs for socialism here). We have to hope that encountered realities will moderate some of the effects of young people's received "wisdom" during their formative years.
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  131. There will never be mass deportations and, unless we have an unexpected and dramatic change to the birth rates in various communities, I fear you may be correct.
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  132. Yes, our civil service is very much a "fifth column" these days. It needs root and branch reform, speaking of which, I will be voting for Reform. To those who say my vote will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember. I used to vote Tory but will not do so again in the foreseeable future. I am well past caring what damage a large vote for Reform will do to the Tories. They can go to hell. In an extended interview such as this, Mr. Tice demonstrates both credibility and gravitas. It is a great pity, however, that our mainstream media will, in their biased and partial support for our dreadful status quo, never show anything similar and allow his message to reach a much bigger audience.
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  133. I cancelled my TV licence some years ago. The BBC has been in violation of its charter for decades, particularly the impartiality clauses. It should have ceased to exist long ago. Instead, what we are likely to see, under a Labour government and given the numbers who now refuse to pay the licence fee for such a shoddy service, is the BBC funded out of general taxation, whereupon it will become even more entrenched in its profligacy, political bias and dire programme making.
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  134. Many will consider that the Pearson case highlights three real matters of concern, the real intentions of government re "free speech", the incompetence and/or dishonesty to be found at senior levels in our police force and the intellectual qualities of those who enforce the law at the "sharp end" ("victim”, not "complainant"). The authorities will know that people will be cowed by the fact that, whatever the outcome of a case such as this, the punishment is in the process and so, we are headed towards the very dark place that they wish to take us. All this too at a time when official statistics suggest that the fitness for purpose of our police regarding real crime is on the decrease. The way things are going re suppression of free speech and the hostile response from authorities to genuine concerns of the majority of the population, I am beginning to wonder whether the 2024 general election will prove to have been the last one for a very long time.
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  135.  @TiamatWarrior  No, it's down in that London again.
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  136.  @neilg4208  Many thanks for the advice and information. It is much appreciated. The matter has been escalated twice within the HMCTS but no outcome has been communicated to me. I have rather given up on the prospect of any satisfactory resolution within the HMCTS and have made a complaint to my MP and to the Justice Secretary. In the meantime, some of my father's creditors have been pressing for settlement. Some of them, I have settled at my own expense but one of them is a nursing home with a rather large invoice that cannot be settled until probate is granted and funds may be released. Again, many thanks!
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  137. I will be voting for Reform too. To anyone who says my vote will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember. Given what we have seen since 2019, I am well past caring what effect a big vote for Reform may have upon the Tories.
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  138.  @heatherhinde6544  Sadly, such MPs are as rare as hen's teeth.
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  139. I agree, and Mr. Heydel-Mankoo's debating opponent is clearly "away with the fairies". He made me laugh out loud and, sometimes, it is good to simply laugh at such detachment from reality.
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  140. Or even Nissen huts. Why should they have access to a car as well as free healthcare and dentistry etc.? It probably is beyond them, however. For years now, people smugglers, illegal transport providers, slavers, drug dealers, misguided sympathisers and shyster lawyers have run rings around our hopelessly incompetent government. Can our politicians, government and opposition, not get their heads around how attractive, compared to other countries, the UK has become for illegal migrants and what is it about the term, "pull factors", they do not understand?
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  141. (Another attempt at a reply so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). It is sickening how our Iegacy media collude with incompetent and cor rupt governments over deflection from the real issues of concern surrounding awfuI cases such as this. That the whole trial, in which the suspect faced a number of serious charges, would have collapsed through the release of information related to two of the relatively minor charges, is clearly nonsense and obviously an attempt by Star mer to cover up his, and his government's failings, over the release of information in this matter.
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  142. I agree and I will share my experience as a "service user". Following the death of my father, my application for grant of probate to His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, part of the Ministry for Justice, took 7 months to process (the target time is 8 to 16 weeks) and then only after I had involved my MP. Two civil servants, one on the telephone and another by e-mail, admitted that, for 5 months after receipt, my application had not been "physically examined" (to use their words) and neither told me this with any tone of regret or apology. Now, three months on from making a complaint about the delay, and asking them to, inevitably, investigate themselves, I am yet to receive any satisfaction and my requests for updates have been ignored, so I have, once again, sought the support of my MP. HMCTS is no longer fit for purpose and, I suspect, neither is any other branch of the civil service. Civil servants should spend more time doing what the taxpayers pay them to do and less time on political indoctrination within their departments, but it seems it would be a hell of a task to change anything so firmly entrenched now.
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  143. Really? What are you smoking? it must be good stuff. An excellent speech and a good question and answer session. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  144. Welcome to Starmer's "Brave New World", where we have arrived courtesy of just 20% of the electorate.
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  145. Sadly, this "cancer" has now reached stage 4.
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  146. People like Goldberg seem to get more of a pass for the things they say than others do. This is another symptom of the general madness by which Western society is being overcome.
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  147. If there is credible evidence of the unsuitability of a candidate, it doesn't matter where that evidence comes from. Anyway, an excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  148. Yes, like the term, "progressive", applied to left wing policies, which are anything but, "far right" has no real meaning. It is a prop used by those who struggle to engage in real argument. I will be voting for Reform too. To anyone who says my vote will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember. "Multiple mono-cultures" is a very apt description of the dangerous place to which uncontrolled migration has led us. It is also one capable of being understood by most people, unlike "multiculturalism", which has almost as many definitions as the the number of people who utter the word.
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  149. @mollienight How, exactly, would Farage have "seen it through" without being in government? Clearly, what you say regarding his character, including the "dilettante" reference, is of no relevance. On the contrary, Farage is someone to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude.
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  150. Mr. Lowe is a man of exceptional talents but I disagree. Farage's public recognition and standing as the man who, almost single handedly, extricated us from the EU, makes him the right choice for the job.
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  151. I agree, and think that "multiple mono-cultures" is a very apt description of the dangerous place to which uncontrolled migration has led us. It is also one capable of being understood by most people, unlike "multiculturalism" which has almost as many definitions as the the number of people who utter the word.
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  152.  @jimjones-bk2is  The answer should be quite obvious. It is heightened, inter-communal tensions as we saw, quite recently, in Leicester between Hindus and Muslims.
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  153.  @CandiceGoddard  Good points, well made. Those who voted to remain in the EU were also voting to be part of an increasingly undemocratic, would be super-state that, ultimately will fail. When it does, it will be much better not to be part of it. I give it about 10 years.
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  154.  @TheRobbex  Indeed so, "nudge units", to use the common euphemism for something far more sinister.
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  155. Mr. Heydel-Mankoo's debating opponent is clearly "away with the fairies". He made me laugh out loud and, sometimes, it is good to simply laugh at such detachment from reality.
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  156. And so, so tedious. Not the video (I didn't watch it) but the whole sorry saga.
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  157. @Pale Rider I don't think I said I was surprised by what emerged from the interview.
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  158. The new pub licensing proposals are probably aimed more at reducing the time that the plebs may congregate and moan about Starmer and his motley crew than reducing alcohol consumption, though that too may be a factor. Starmer's wife is called Victoria? That would be Victoria Sponger then.
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  159. Why are taxpayers still funding "Stonewall"? Because the wheels of government grind exceedingly slow. This "charity" has long outlived its purpose and usefulness and its executives are desperate to find other causes to justify their existence and their phoney-baloney jobs, even if it means inventing causes that do not exist.
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  160. Mr. Heydel-Mankoo is correct in his scathing criticism of Starmer and Lammy for their incompetence and blind ideology, so threatening to the prosperity and security of the UK.
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  161.  @harveyneedleman817  Indeed it does. We need politicians with some backbone but there seem to be none on the radar.
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  162. @incurableromantic4006 Yes, many of them will have been "taught" that it is acceptable to their religion. It is too much to expect that they may ever think outside this particular “box”.
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  163.  @stuartofblyth  Many benefitted in a similar way until Labour decided they needed to keep all these less well off kids in their place and to have them follow their parents in always voting Labour. Hence, the end of grammar school education for those who could not afford it.
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  164. Indeed so, and the biggest iniquity of the TV licence system is that it has to be paid to watch or record the live broadcasts of any TV channel. I do not have to pay a fee to Tesco to shop at Sainsbury's! I hope Mr. Heydel-Mankoo was not suggesting that the BBC should be funded out of general taxation. Were this to happen, the public money handed to the BBC on a plate would be more guaranteed than it is now and the BBC would become even more entrenched in its political bias, the dire standard of its programme making and its general profligacy, secure in the knowledge that there was no threat to its income.
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  165. No, he said it was to be discussed further and the likelihood is that he is not yet across the detail. During his sit down with Starmer, someone had to explain to him what "AUKUS" meant.
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  166.  @golfbulldog  Yes, you may be onto something there.
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  167. The word is a nonsense. A phobia is an irrational fear of something. What is irrational about fearing certain extreme actions perpetrated in the name of this religion? Re the government reaction to these outrages, Labour will seize upon any excuse not to have its failings in the way it ran councils and police and crime commissions in most of the areas where these horrors took place subject to a full, public inquiry. Neither will they wish to risk alienating substantial parts of the electorate in their many very marginal parliamentary seats. Why cannot this bill be passed and an inquiry held too? Labour has no answer to that question other than mendacity and obfuscation. Starmer and his government give off a very nasty odour.
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  168. Don't call it "progressive" ideology. It is anything but. It is taking us back to mediaeval days when "justice" was meted out arbitrarily by the few who had the power to do so and everyone else lived in fear. The miscarriage of justice in Mr. Fox's case follows hard on the heels of another, when a man who went on the rampage and murdered three innocent people and attempted to murder three others was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter regarding the more serious offences. Consequently, he will spend an indeterminately long time in relative comfort in a secure hospital instead of in a mainstream prison. What kind of a justice system is it that allows someone to admit that, in the space of a couple of hours, he deliberately tried to kill those that he failed to kill but not those that he did kill? The law is an ass. I include the emoticon because of the theory doing the rounds that, to do so, may foil the algorithm. 🤣
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  169. I agree. Anyway, Mr. Heydel-Mankoo's debating opponent is clearly "away with the fairies". He made me laugh out loud and, sometimes, it is good to simply laugh at such detachment from reality.
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  170. Polling at Reform UK levels? What are you smoking? It must be good stuff. An excellent speech and a good question and answer session. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  171. Mr. Murray speaks wisely on this issue, as he does on many others. I sometimes wonder, however, whether it may be better simply not to give publicity to the wicked utterances of the cranks he criticises.
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  172.  @vincentl.9469  Before that came the left wing march through all our educational institutions.
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  173.  @jacobkenney5646  Thunder and lightning are examples of many phenomena we used to attribute to "supernatural gods", i.e. things we could not explain. The list of these is becoming shorter and, theoretically, if we survive as a species for long enough, the list may cease to exist, as will religion. I'll leave it your other correspondent to answer your question re "hallmarks" but the statement seemed perfectly reasonable and understandable to me.
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  174.  @gilly5094  Excellent point, well made.
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  175. Indeed so. Anyway, I've already seen this interview and won't submit myself to the torture of watching it again. Listening to someone shouting demented opinions, which is all this harridan does, is not good for the blood pressure.
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  176. This is an issue made even more serious by the mainstream media's failure to bring it to our attention or allow it to be debated. Perhaps they approve of the way that "Big Tech selectively polices the views of its contributors. The only remedy is in the hands of governments throughout the world. For years, they have resisted calls to deem these organisations "publishers" and allowed them to get away with hosting much more hate-inciting statements than those (arguably) recently posted by Trump on their supposedly neutral "platforms". "Big Tech" is a serious threat to democracy.
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  177. An excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  178. An excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  179. I was surprised and interested to hear of documentary evidence of BBC bias over the years, confirming widely held suspicions, based upon BBC output such as "Newsnight" and "Question Time". Hopefully, this evidence of charter infringement will be presented to those who will be deciding the BBC's future in 2027. It would be better, however, for it to be acted upon much sooner than that.
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  180. Welcome to Starmer's "Brave New World", where we have arrived courtesy of just 20% of the electorate.
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  181. ​ @jacobkenney5646  Not as "interesting" a take as that I have any such issues, one that points to a level of arrogance amongst such zealots as yourself (it would seem) that could not possibly be justified; profound ignorance too.
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  182. Honourable or not, Mr. Bell embodies the old saying, "There are none so blind as those who WILL not see". He is so steeped in the BBC that he can accept no criticism of it when, clearly, it has been in breach of its charter regarding impartiality for decades.
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  183. Unless things change, they will be living under Sha ria law. Some chap called Powell predicted this dire situation more than fifty years ago. For many of those wise enough not to trust Labour in government and who did not vote for them, these attacks on free speech will come as no surprise, other than perhaps their speed and their extent. At this rate, before very long, we will have lost many of our hard won freedoms.
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  184. He's certainly going about things in a way that suggests he may be. What further evidence do we need of the authoritarian intent of this new government and why are the police involved in incidents deemed not to be criminal in nature?
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  185. Most of them seem to be doing that now, especially those nearer the top of our police "forces".
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  186. Indeed, it is absolutely nothing to do with that. Religion and race are separate issues. Nor is this for "multiculturalism to keep working", as Mr. Whittle suggested. That never did and never could happen. This is all about Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynical and dishonest bunch of politicians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  187. The simple answer to the question, "Will Sadiq Khan ever fail to win a London mayoral election?", is almost certainly "No". London now has too many voters who do not vote upon the issues, but along ethnic, cultural and religious lines. Anyway, London, far from being "the greatest city in the world", as people like Khan would claim, it is a prime candidate for where, if the planet ever needed an enema, it would be inserted.
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  188. I shall be voting for Reform and, to those who say it will be a "wasted" vote, I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember.
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  189. The right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  190. An excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done. If there is credible evidence of the unsuitability of any candidate, it does not matter where that evidence comes from and it has to be investigated. The mainstream media will be far less kind to Reform UK than it will be to Labour over this issue and Labour will have some dodgy candidates too, a few of them, probably, seeking re-election.
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  191.  @wasted-blaster.  Not I, and for UKIP to field candidates at the general election will only split the anti-Tory / Labour / Liberal "Democrat" vote. I will be voting for Reform UK, the only party with any chance of making any difference.
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  192. The prime source of this infection running through our national institutions is our universities. For a complete cure, though it may take a long time, this is where our efforts should be concentrated. In the meantime, to address one of the main symptoms of this malaise, do as I and thousands have already done, and cancel your TV licences.
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  193. Welcome to Starmer's "Brave New World", where we have arrived courtesy of just 20% of the electorate.
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  194. This week we have had the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Gary Lineker's announcement that his lucrative decades at the BBC are coming to an end. A coincidence? I think not, and I think Mr. Lineker would be ideally suited to the role and cut a fine figure in an Archbishop's cassock and mitre.
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  195.  @DieFlabbergast  Yes, logic dictates that now, when so many people qualify to attend university, the qualification standards must be lower and so, therefore, must the average ability of the thousands of extra lecturers required to deliver the lectures (and they will mostly be part of a generation similarly poorly educated, so the cycle continues). It was no surprise that, during the interview, Mr. Hitchens referred to academic work produced from curricula of a standard thought par for the course in a 1950s or 1960s grammar school that would now be considered far too advanced for children of equivalent age in our state education system. This is stark and undeniable evidence of the deterioration of education standards over the last 50 or 60 years. Sadly, I tend to agree that no recovery is possible, The situation has deteriorated beyond the point of no return. Sub-standard state education has now been with us for decades and we see the evidence for that all around us. "Comprehensive" education, and its adherents, have much to answer for.
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  196. Leeds is not far behind. Of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  197. It is now almost certain that our grandchildren will be. Re the video, we can't entirely rule out the possibility that this person will die in prison and many will say that they live in hope of that.
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  198. How do you know? Even the official number for Channel crossings is enormous.
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  199.  @alexmay1754  Trouble is, their views are never debunked in the media which carry and promote them, but only on channels such as this.
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  200. This was a very good interview in which we saw more gravitas from Mr. Tousi, a very brave man, by the way, than his usual platforms permit.
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  201. (2nd attempt to post this so, with some "amendments", here goes...). That is a very insightful analysis of how we have got to this place. Re the latest manifestation of the strategy, we have seen weekly pro-Pal estine marches and, so far, one-off incidents in Hare hills, South port, Hartle pool, Rot he rham and London etc.. Our po lice react differently to lawlessness according to who is participating in it. Two ti er policing in the UK is a fact. The establishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the po lice went about their "duty". In Hare hills, close to where I live, in the face of greater lawlessness, they were noticeable by their absence. At the pro-Pal estine marches, they ignore the incite ment of ra cial hat red. If this issue is not tackled, the bad situation we have now will become even worse. As well as a proven li ar and hyp ocrite, Starmer is an automaton, incapable of thinking outside the way he has been programmed. There are many people like this but a great tragedy that we now have one as Prime Minister.
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  202. @dpstrial Indeed, and they never did. Commentators who refer to "giving back" should know better. Some, of course, do but intend to mislead.
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  203.  @TestGearJunkie. The money will come from the long suffering taxpayer. Where else?
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  204. @mollienight A simple explanation for you; Farage formed the UKIP party and they attracted sufficient votes to scare Cameron into promising a referendum. I ask again, having won the argument but not being in government, what more could he have done? Anyone who feels betrayed by Farage really hasn't thought things through properly.
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  205.  @LeeGee  That will be after the general election here, during which Farage is going to campaign for Reform. So yes, if one believes that Reform are the most patriotic party, then patriotic indeed, not that we needed any proof of Farage's patriotism. What he does in America afterwards, from a patriotism point of view, is quite irrelevant.
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  206.  @yarnybart5911  You will be very much in the minority of Reform UK voters then but thank you for your vote!
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  207.  @kevinh4869  I will treat your claim to speak for the majority with great scepticism.
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  208.  @justwrongright4977  Some of them may just be a bit thick and were expecting a "pantomime dame". Oh no, they weren't!
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  209.  @PJRayment  There is so much, far too much to cover in the couple of minutes I allow myself to type this reply but, essentially, the vastly superior credibility of rigorously tested science over two thousand year old myths.
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  210.  @jacobkenney5646  OK. You are entitled to your opinion. I disagree, however.
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  211.  @gilly5094  Again, excellent points, well made.
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  212.  @PJRayment  I've have no idea what you mean by "trying again part X" etc.. Just as I have no idea as to why your powers of logic fail you so and can you see not see that the term, "magic Grandpa" is only a euphemism? I have already answered your final question.
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  213.  @PJRayment  Again, see above and may I just say again that you really need to question your own powers of logic? One cannot prove the non-existence of a supreme being, because one cannot uncover an absence of evidence for it. Discovering nothing to prove something makes no sense as a concept. You're welcome.
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  214. Mr. Oliver is a true sage and a brilliant raconteur. Many thanks for this video. Mr. Oliver's exposition of the "what" was incisive and almost unarguable. Regarding the "why", I'd say we need not look much further than our state education system over the last half century or so.
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  215.  @michaelmayo3127  Thank you for telling us how we Brits think. Do you think such presumptuousness and arrogance in any way helps your "argument"? I cannot comment upon your final sentence. It makes no sense, grammatical or otherwise.
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  216.  @jimjones-bk2is  Whichever word one uses for it (and "invasion" seems quite apt), we now have migration on a scale that can only end in turmoil and strife. Who suggested we could turn the clock back? That was just another of your delusions, perhaps.
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  217. When the head of a police force says that common sense is not an appropriate thing for a police officer, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, with most of them clearly in the ivory towers of the College of Policing. If something is not a crime, the police should be nowhere near it. Heaven knows, they show little interest in some real crime. Just ask young people in places like Rotherham, and others, where the police turned a blind eye to some very serious crime. Policing in the UK is becoming farcical and some of the utterances of their most senior officers are quite surreal. A great interview; many thanks and particular thanks for the courage of Mr. Miller. He has done society a great service. Hopefully, this will not go to our similarly politicised Supreme Court and the Appeal Court's decision gets overturned.
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  218. Welcome to Starmer's "Brave New World", where we have arrived courtesy of just 20% of the electorate.
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  219. How does somebody as thick as the woman on the right get to be a "talking head" on a news programme?
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  220. I agree. How does somebody as thick as the woman on the right get to be a "talking head" on a news programme?
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  221.  @tcollingscollings9299  Indeed so; choice of the news the BBC covers and how it covers it are also determined by a political agenda.
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  222. I thought that when Ms. Roberts referred to Labour and the Tories as "two cheeks of the same derriere", she was going to go on to describe the Liberal "Democrats" as something in between. When the electorate says, "a plague on both their houses" to Labour and the Tories, the Liberal "Democrats" are the inevitable, if only temporary, beneficiaries.
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  223.  @harveyneedleman817  You are welcome. Many of mine also become invisible to me after posting. The YT algorithm works in mysterious ways, its wonders to perform. Clearly, we can all look forward to a wonderful future, confident in the knowledge that AI will be the solution to all our problems.
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  224. Me neither. The claim, like much else of what he says, is probably false. Anyway, it beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  225.  @compactcasette  Indeed so, and particularly with the word "progressive", with all its positive connotations, being used to describe left wing policies, many of which are actually regressive. The practice of hijacking the language to create a positive impression of a belief or policy has always been with us. The word, "gay", for example, is an appropriation of the language of many years' standing.
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  226.  @hah-vj7hc  Indeed so and, indeed, I do.
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  227.  @hah-vj7hc  You guessed correctly. I am English and live in the UK. Over many recent years, we have had experiences here similar in nature to those you describe. In Rotherham, Rochdale, Bradford, Leeds and half a hundred other towns and cities, "grooming gangs", largely because of their demographic, have been allowed to get away with horrendous crimes against young people, mostly girls. Sadly, every day that our useless politicians and senior police fearfully refuse to take appropriate action against such criminals is a day closer to a similar situation you predict for Germany.
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  228.  @ascgazz  You would know such a thing, would you? When did you have your cognition bypass? It was clearly a great success.
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  229.  @hah-vj7hc  Interesting, thanks. You may notice we are being "trolled" by someone here. I have decided not to waste any more time upon this inadequate.
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  230.  @hah-vj7hc  Then I apologise for bringing it to your attention. One can only hope the regularly, necessary sedation will be soon administered to him. He does seem to be in quite a state of frenzy, and that is only on this thread! All the best to you.
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  231. Calvin Robinson, who speaks so much good sense generally, hit the nail on the head regarding the new Ofcom rules, when he said that they will only be applied in one direction, i.e. against those whom organisations such as the BBC hold in contempt. It is a licence for suppression of majority views on a grand scale. I wonder, by the way, why Ofcom did not mention hair colour in their list of characteristics one may not criticise. Surely, they missed a trick there.
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  232.  @colin_a  Yes, that is effectively what has happened. Great comment!
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  233. Perhaps the best single word to describe what is going on in our schools and universities is "subversion". The left know that they cannot win power through democratic means, and have settled upon a means that requires the indoctrination of young people against traditional values.
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  234.  @MoominJude  Good for him! Unfortunately, my city has not retained them. Leeds, however, is one of the few bricks remaining in the "red wall" and, for decades now, has settled for mediocrity of teaching and indoctrination for the children of parents who cannot afford school fees. Fortunately, however, Leeds had several state grammar schools when I was growing up and I too benefited greatly. Thank you both for your replies.
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  235. We now have a police force that applies different standards of policing to different groups of people. This is another stage on our journey to Hell in a hand cart, a journey at the end of which, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will have counted for nothing and been replaced by a new Dark Age that will see a return to mediaeval values of intolerance enforced by terror, organised superstition and ignorance.
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  236.  @evolassunglasses4673  If there is credible evidence of the unsuitability of a candidate, it does not matter where that evidence comes from. The m s media will be less kind to Reform than it will be to, for example, Labour. They will have some dodgy candidates too (all parties do), only some of theirs will be seeking re-election.
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  237. Mr. Murray speaks wisely on this issue, as he does on many others. I sometimes wonder, however, whether it may be better simply not to give publicity to the wicked utterances of the cranks he criticises.
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  238. Hopefully, if Trump is elected, his days as Foreign Secretary will be numbered. He is incompetent and, like his boss, does not wish the UK well.
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  239.  @hugodrax71  No, a vote for Reform is a vote for Reform. Only a vote for Labour is a vote for Labour. Sense and logic prove that.
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  240.  @hugodrax71  Nonsense, "El Indio". See above, and Reform will also attract voters away from Labour. Why do you use multiple identities on here, by the way?
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  241.  @embalmertrick1420  As we run out of hotels, barges and barracks, that is what we will be asked to do. If we don't agree, that is when the government "nudge units" will step in and then, if that fails, there will be legislation.
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  242. An interesting discussion and, whether one agrees with all that Dr. Starkey says or not, he is always worth listening to.
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  243.  @harryeast121  Thanks for that. I found it very informative and confirmative of my opinion that the law is an ass.
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  244. Mr. Lowe always talks a great deal of sense. What most resonated with me was his criticism of our civil service. My recent experience of it includes its handling of an application for grant of probate to administer my late father's estate. It lay unopened for five months on a desk in His Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service, part of the Ministry of Justice, a fact that they admitted in writing but for which they made no apology. With the support of my MP, I took this matter to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. It took the PHSO about two months to say they had found no maladministration by HMCTS and that was as far as I could take the matter. I am sure Mr. Lowe would not be surprised to learn that when one group of civil servants "investigates" another, no matter the evidence put before them, the chances of an outcome unfavourable to the civil service are vanishingly small. A root and branch reform of the "blob" is the best service a Reform UK government could deliver for the nation, not least because of the pressing need to end the days of the "tail wagging the dog" and the ever reducing power of our elected representatives. All power to Mr. Lowe’s elbow and many thanks for a great interview.
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  245.  @rstafford9191  I am very sorry to hear that. This "scatter" policy forces one to consider the possibility that our new Labour government wants to see civil unrest.
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  246. Another reason that Labour started to flood the UK with immigrants was that they wanted to also flood the country with future Labour voters. The reason the Tories have increased it is that they are "in hock" to global corporations demanding cheap labour and hoped that nobody would notice.
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  247. @ It is always better that, when there is no justification for doing so, facts are not delayed. It provides for a more informed, and earlier, basis for peoples' reactions.
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  248.  @kitcat4512  Indeed so.
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  249.  @ckuk1066  Trouble is, the BBC still has many viewers who either share its values or, through ignorance, never question them.
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  250. No mention of hair colour, a glaring omission by Ofcom, surely. This must begin to raise some doubts about this august body's fitness for purpose.
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  251. It is an agenda espoused by the mainstream media. Why would they want to put a stop to it? Mr. Murray speaks wisely on this issue, as he does on many others. I sometimes wonder, however, whether it may be better simply not to give publicity to the wicked utterances of the cranks he criticises.
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  252. This isn't for "multiculturalism to keep working". That never did and never could happen. This is for Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynical and dishonest bunch of politicians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  253.  @SimonLloydGuitar  Yes, it has now gone too far to see how it may ever change. I need to get my act together to become part of the next set of net migration figures.
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  254. In an extended interview such as this, Mr. Tice demonstrates both credibility and gravitas. The main problem for Reform is that our mainstream media will, in their biased and partial support for our dreadful status quo, never show anything similar and allow his message to reach a much bigger audience.
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  255. If one talks like a racist and acts like a racist, one is almost certainly a racist. Khan should resign. He is a disgrace to his office and history tells us what happens if politicians vilify sections of society.
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  256.  @samueldesmond440  Indeed so; the people in the photograph were smiling.
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  257. Good discussion and good to see young (relative to myself, anyway) people recognising the great danger to free speech that "Big Tech" represents, unlike so many others of their generation (and younger), blinded to the dangers of "Big Tech" by the huge attractions of sharing photos and videos and holding (mostly) inconsequential on-line conversations. The only antidote to the decline and death of free speech is in the hands of governments across the world and we can only hope that they recognise this before it is too late. Perhaps, Merkel has done so already. We will see.
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  258. Yes, its provisions should apply only to those who have the legal right to enter and/or reside in the UK. Re the current Rwanda bill, the Tories are tearing themselves apart (again) over an issue that, ultimately, will make no difference to anything. Surely, our politicians have done the maths and realise that the prospect of a few hundred illegal migrants being sent to Rwanda will have no deterrent effect whatsoever on the tens of thousands waiting to cross the Channel. One must assume that they have, so this means a great deal of disingenuousness in their ranks but, I suppose, we all knew that already.
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  259. Those who say that are those who seem incapable of seeing the damage the Tories have done since 2019. I will be voting for Reform too. To anyone who says my vote will be "wasted", I say that, having lived in the Leeds East constituency a long time, I have been wasting my vote for more years than I care to remember. Given what we have seen since 2019, I am well past caring what effect a big vote for Reform may have upon the Tories.
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  260.  @JamieJoeJustice  Nobody has had the option to vote for Reform in a general election before. That is likely to change at the next election and there should be a Reform candidate on your ballot paper.
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  261.  @sutty85  It probably doesn't matter what the Tories do after a resounding defeat at the next election. If Labour get in, anyone resident in the UK, citizen or not, will be allowed to vote. This will ensure the Tories can never form another government. The Tories deserve a good kicking, however. This was brought home to me earlier this morning when I watched Home Secretary, James Cleverly, lying through his teeth about illegal migration. On the subject of "stopping the boats", he even said that, from one year to the other, weather was largely the same.
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  262. It beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  263. Dr. Kiszely speaks so much sense on so many subjects that I wonder how he has not yet been "cancelled" by Leeds University. Re the claim from the left that Harris ran a "perfect" campaign, one only needs to see her "concession" speech to know that the claim is nonsense. It opened with, "The light of America's promise will always burn bright". That was yet another "word salad", albeit, this time, only a little one. It really is the vacuousness of the Harris campaign summed up in one short sentence. The West can breathe a sigh of relief that she did not become President of the United States.
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  264.  @dirtycitydisco  That makes about as much sense as Ms. Night's drivel.
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  265.  @crumpetsbuttered  Really? By then, Mr. Lowe would be in his late seventies.
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  266.  @kevinh4869  The issue is how many Reform UK supporters would prefer Farage as leader of Reform UK. How many of the 48% who voted to remain do you think have a strong opinion on the matter and how important do you think that opinion is? I see you have changed tack from "a majority of" to "a lot of" but you are still misinformed. Farage has gone out of his way to maintain his distance from Mr. Robinson.
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  267. Yes, our current problems have their roots in the spread of "comprehensive" education since the mid-sixties. Not only did this destroy the rise in social mobility brought about by the then numbers of sate Grammar schools achieving "critical mass", it brought in teaching staff of lower quality, left wing indoctrination of our children and those of whom go on to become teachers themselves continue the process. What we saw from senior Home Office officials at the recent select committee hearing is conclusive proof of the unfitness for purpose of the Home Office and sadly, this is probably true of the entire civil service.
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  268. For me too. I always voted Tory at general elections but am well past caring what damage a large vote for Reform UK will do to the Tories. They can go to hell. An excellent speech and a good question and answer session. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  269. Surprised, but not disappointed at all, that our Supreme Court has ruled this way. May this evil woman continue to rot in a refugee camp.
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  270.  @iainrae6159  Yes, indeed so.
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  271.  @dragonofhatefulretribution9041  Please spare us such ignorant mumbo-jumbo.
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  272.  @gilly5094  There also seems to be a profound ignorance amongst the religionists that takes no account of the fact that proving a positive should always be possible (however, on this issue they consistently fail). Proving a negative, however, is not always possible.
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  273.  @PJRayment  Proving a positive, i.e. something that really exists, should always be possible (however, on the issue of the existence of a supreme being, nobody has done this). Proving a negative, i.e. the non-existence of anything, however, is not always possible and judgments need to be made on the basis of reason and logic. Is it reasonable and logical, for example, to believe that there is a magic Grandpa in the sky? For my part, I do not think so.
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  274.  @PJRayment  See above.
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  275.  @brandonatchison4769  How so?
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  276.  @PJRayment  You're welcome to your strange world where logic and reason play second fiddle to blind "faith" and dogma. It is yourself who has no answers. Feel free to have the last word, if you wish. I sense that may be very important for you. For me, however, a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent soon becomes tiresome.
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  277.  @davidlamb7524  Indeed it was. Obama said the UK would go to the back of the "queue" when it came to a trade deal with the US. If Cameron had not coached him in what to say, as an American, he would have said back of the "line". It was one of the best own goals scored by the remainers during the Brexit campaign. Another, of course, was Eddie Izzard's appearance (in more than one sense of the word) on the BBC's "Question Time" programme, shortly before the referendum in 2016.
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  278.  @brandonatchison4769  And deservedly so. Spare us the rank amateur psychology and your criticism of anyone who dares not to concentrate their thoughts on the issues that you hold most dear. You will find, by the way, that many will share your concerns about the current unrest but try not to be resentful of their not spending every waking hour expressing their thoughts about it.
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  279.  @brandonatchison4769  What sort of experience qualifies you to make such diagnoses on such limited evidence and what sort of value would you be looking for from an exchange of views on a forum such as this? Methinks you take yourself far too seriously, perhaps.
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  280. Whatever one thinks of Mr. "Robinson", the treatment meted out to him shows that two tier policing in the UK is now a fact. Senior police officers are a disgrace to their uniform.
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  281.  @michaelmayo3127  You do realise, don't you, that memories of what happened in the 1940s in Belgium will be very difficult to find amongst Belgians now and how hilariously ridiculous a comparison you make between then and now?
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  282.  @stepchicken3238  An excellent prospect but, unfortunately, he may have a long wait.
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  283.  @salus1231  Now, or soon after, there would first have to be a suitable by election. I know there's one in Blackpool in a couple of weeks and he'd have had a good chance of winning it. It would, however, have meant him spending time on constituency duties on the dark side of the Pennines and I wouldn't wish that upon anyone, Keir Starmer excepted, perhaps.
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  284.  @erinloo8921  I doubt anyone thinks that reform UK have any chance of forming a government. If they were to become the third largest party at Westminster, and the SNP is now on life support, that would be a success, in my opinion, and they could, perhaps, build from there.
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  285. This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their collaborators, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  286.  @fatherjack1148  Sadly then, with the use of such calumny against political opponents, it would seem that Brexit Derangement Syndrome is both real and enduring. You have my sympathy and my hopes that, one day, you will recover from it.
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  287.  @fatherjack1148  Such nonsense only serves to confirm the diagnosis. My deepest sympathy.
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  288.  @jimjones-bk2is  Oh dear, the blind, stupid arrogance of someone who claims to know, whilst ignoring their words, what others are asking for, and, Einstein, you have no answers to the excellent questions posed above, I see.
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  289. He also exposed the new form of corruption within our financial services sector. We owe Mr. Farage a huge debt of gratitude.
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  290. Hopefully, she has now exhausted the appeals process. Anyway, surprised, but not disappointed at all, that our Supreme Court has ruled this way. May this evil woman continue to rot in a refugee camp.
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  291. Whilstever people take their news from our mainstream media, they will never "wake up" to what is happening. Prince William needs to keep quiet on political matters and cease abusing the newsworthy status an accident of birth has given him.
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  292. Indeed so, and of course the people responsible for this disaster and the promotion of its causes are not going to acknowledge it or report on it. What do we expect from them? Honesty?
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  293. It has come to something when not only do we have uncontrolled political indoctrination of children in our state schools but also sexual perverts given free rein to further poison their minds at such a young age. Hopefully, politicians will start to realise the seriousness of the situation and actually do something about it but, given the quality of our current crop of politicians, I doubt they will.
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  294. Indeed so. Re the video, we can't entirely rule out the possibility that this person will die in prison and many will say that they live in hope of that.
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  295. It would compel evidence. How would you organise civil action against any wrongdoers, be they those who carried out the acts or those who sought to cover them up? Cooper's announcement is Labour's denial of a proper enquiry, at which people may be compeIIed to give evidence, and kicking this embarrassing issue for them into the long grass. They are deeply concerned about the nature and the extent of any maIfeasance by members of their party that a fuIl enquiry may reveal and are desperate to continue covering it up. It would seem that Brad ford may be one of the places not selected for a Iocal enquiry and it is likely that what has emerged from previous investigations into Rot her ham would only amount to a fraction of what has happened in Brad ford.
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  296. @ In civil court cases (what you seem to be advocating), yes of course. In reality, we have no idea of all the names and the full range of their wrongdoing. That is why we need a full, national enquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  297. @pistonburner6448 For lack of expertise and expertise, and no little guIIibiIity, I suggest you look much closer to home. I am completely right about your not knowing the full extent of who was responsible, and for what. How could anyone know that without there being a full enquiry? Even then, not all the truth could be uncovered. Please try to understand if we take your claims of omniscience in this matter as the nonsense that it most surely is. Feel free to have the last word, if you wish. I guess that may be important to you but, for me, there is no point in debating a clearly ridiculous point of view.
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  298. @ Indeed so. well said.
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  299.  @annewalden3795  No, it goes back much further than that, at least back to Blair, and many would say it goes back to Wilson, and the introduction of "comprehensive" "education".
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  300. Indeed so, and the right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  301.  @peterh7594  BBC DGs have presided over, and tried to cover, up many scandals. Anything they say needs to be seen in the context also of their continuing vested interest in the BBC. From the time I started watching the BBC, from around the same time as this former DG joined it, until the time I cancelled my TV licence, a couple of years ago, I have noticed no diversion from a path of ever increasing bias towards the left of politics. The BBC has been in breach of the impartiality obligations of its charter for decades.
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  302.  @peterh7594  Great insights there. Many thanks.
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  303.  @peterh7594  I think it's just time for the BBC to go, period.
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  304. Mr. Fox speaks a great deal of sense. His candidacy, however, will split the anti-Khan vote and probably lead to the re-election of this useless mayor and several more years of unnecessary turmoil in our capital city.
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  305.  @pelinoregeryon6593  I completely agree. Thanks for your reply. It prompted me to watch the video again. It was a damning exposition of the bias ingrained in the BBC by someone who worked for them for a long time. I now have a short cut to it on my PC.
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  306.  @rhodiusscrolls3080  I never listen to the sanctimonious claptrap voiced on "Thought for the Day". In fact, I rarely listen to the BBC Home Service at all these days.
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  307. Some chap called Powell predicted this more than fifty years ago. For many of those wise enough not to trust Labour in government and who did not vote for them, these attacks on free speech will come as no surprise, other than perhaps their speed and their extent. At this rate, before very long, we will have lost many of our hard won freedoms.
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  308. It beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  309. Whatever one thinks of Mr. "Robinson", the treatment meted out to him shows that two tier policing in the UK is now a fact. Senior police officers are a disgrace to their uniform.
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  310. People whose news intake is only from the M S M, and there are a great many of them, may not have known. All religion is based upon denial of reality but the one under discussion encompasses oppression and intolerance, often violently so. On reflection, however, it is at about the same stage of its development as Christianity was during the Inquisition. Perhaps, in about 900 years, the problem will have disappeared.
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  311. Me too. This isn't for "multiculturalism to keep working". That never did and never could happen. This is for Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynical and dishonest bunch of politicians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  312. With this leaked report, the Home Office continues to prove its unfitness for purpose, and then some. That the perfectly rational view that we have non single stratum law enforcement and judicial systems should be regarded as an extreme, right wing view speaks volumes regarding the nature of our civil service and government statements rejecting the report ring very hollow. Free speech has passed away. Welcome to Starmer’s Britain.
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  313. How can this be explained? Simple; it is down to our state indoctrination system that some refer to as our state education system. Kids tend to believe anything a "teacher" tells them, no matter how corrosive and ill-intentioned.
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  314. Religion and race are separate issues and this move is not intended for "multiculturalism to keep working", as Mr. Whittle suggested in another interview earlier this week. That never did and never could happen. This is all about Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynical and dishonest bunch of politicians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  315. I've already seen this interview and won't submit myself to the torture of watching it again. Listening to someone shouting demented views, which is all this harridan does, is not good for the blood pressure.
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  316.  @hah-vj7hc  If I understand what you mean by the "obvious" one, i.e. the one that is especially intolerant of all other cultures, many problems will arise out of reactions from other cultures to that intolerance.
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  317. Like many of our laws, honoured more in the breach than the observance. Another example would be that banning incitement to violence, as we have seen in the recent protests against Israel. It has come to something when not only do we have uncontrolled political indoctrination of children in our state schools but also sexual perverts given free rein to further poison their minds at such a young age. Hopefully, politicians will start to realise the seriousness of the situation and actually do something about it but, given the quality of our current crop of politicians, I doubt they will.
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  318. Yes, TTPaLE is real, which is the reason I had to use this acronym. Dark days!
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  319. I hope Mr. Farage does do what he "normally" does; identify a serious problem, tackle it and then, if he does leave, leave us in a better place. This is what happened with Brexit and his exposure of the new corruption within our financial service sector. We owe Mr. Farage a huge debt of gratitude.
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  320. Yes, this is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community of which he is part. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their collaborators, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  321. (Another attempt to get a comment through so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their col labor a tors, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  322. Yes, whilst ever we have main political parties detached from reality, we will never see any change. For years now, people smugglers, illegal transport providers, slavers, drug dealers, misguided sympathisers and shyster lawyers have run rings around our hopelessly incompetent government. Can our politicians, government and opposition, not get their heads around how attractive, compared to other countries, the UK has become for illegal migrants and what is it about the term, "pull factors", they do not understand?
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  323.  @87stevan  Vote Labour to get PR? Really, especially that the SNP is now a busted flush? I have a bridge to sell. May you be interested?
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  324. What we are seeing is the result of generations of left wing indoctrination of our young people in a state education system that teaches them not how to think, but what to think.
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  325.  @leofoley634  Voting is not yet compulsory and the comment was accurate. Yours, however...
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  326.  @leofoley634  The implication was there, however, and you fail to understand basic logic.
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  327.  @leofoley634  When finding yourself in a hole, I suggest you stop digging. You lack basic expression skills. Now, feel free to have the last word, if you wish. That would probably be important to you but, for me, a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent soon becomes tiresome.
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  328. TTPaLE is real, which is the reason I had to use this acronym. Dark days!
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  329. Good point, well made. Anyway, it beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  330. Yes, just one of the many bad things for which Blair was responsible. This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their collaborators, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  331. (Another attempt to get a comment through so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). We can trace many bad things back to Blair. This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their col labor a tors, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  332. (Another attempt to get a comment through so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). Yes, many bad things can be traced back to BIair. This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national dis gr ace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their coI Iab or a tors, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  333. What are Leeds MPs doing while our city burns? They are hypocritically lambasting Nigel Farage for daring to state the cause of the problem, i.e. irresponsible, mass migration. From Blair onwards, our politicians have betrayed us. I live in Leeds, about 3 miles from Harehills, where the residents are probably over 80% not of British origin and who, recently elected a Green party candidate for the Gipton and Harehills ward who gained some notoriety in the media for shouting something like "Alan's Snack Bar" at his victory rally. It is a place I would never walk through and, if it were on my route driving to another part of Leeds, I would take a detour around it. Sadly, I reckon this is just a taste of things to come.
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  334.  @nigelxavier883  You say, "You can't that naive" and then add a little picture, for some reason. I say you must be only semi-literate, need to use little pictures in your comments and probably, therefore, quite thick, so why should I care what you say?
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  335.  @AngelaHavey  Good points, well made. Neither has Tice, unlike Starmer, shown himself to be a complete and utter hypocrite. Perhaps that is only a matter of time but, hopefully, not. Starmer's calling for Johnson's resignation merely for being investigated by the police over COVID rule breaches and, when his turn came, sticking to his job like s**t to a blanket is hypocrisy of the highest order. The same goes for his deputy plank.
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  336. Yes, his claim about what he did in the army is unbelievably crass. Anyway, it beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  337.  @JamesJohannes-l6w  Me too, particularly with this government in power.
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  338.  @anthonybartlett6924  Thanks for the advice. I'll bear that in mind. I don't hold out much hope of my MP getting any results. I have had dealings with him before (on another matter related to my father, before he passed) and he proved to be lazy and useless. Perhaps the Secretary of State for Justice will do better.
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  339.  @anthonybartlett6924  Many thanks. I greatly appreciate your advice. All the best to you!
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  340.  @anthonybartlett6924  Understood and thanks again.
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  341. Very well said. How many times will the BBC be allowed to breach its royal charter on grounds of failing to be impartial in its news and current affairs coverage, and now in the messages it is giving to children? I take some consolation from having cancelled my TV licence some years ago, over several issues additional to this latest one, so I am not paying for such political propaganda. We should all be concerned, however, about how dangerously out of control is this still influential organisation. Re the police, it cannot now be denied that they operate double standards in their policing of public protest. They only come down hard upon those they consider it safe, in terms of reaction from mainstream media and unpatriotic politicians, of whom there are now many, to do so. Senior police officers who have decided upon this strategy are a disgrace to their uniform.
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  342. I fear you may be right and we now have a police force that applies different standards of policing to different groups of people. This is another stage on our journey to Hell in a hand cart, a journey at the end of which, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will have counted for nothing and replaced by a new Dark Age that will see a return to mediaeval values of intolerance enforced by terror, organised superstition and ignorance.
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  343.  @heathfairbairn2460  Only the deluded would suggest that. Thanks for the amateur psychological analysis of Mr. Tice, by the way.
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  344.  @vandammesque  Don't forget nobody knew how serious the need for them was back then.
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  345.  @heathfairbairn2460  Why would you ask that? "Bots" do not generally react logically and relevantly to other comments, be they posted by a human or another "bot". "Bots", however, are driven by a form of intelligence, albeit artificial. How about trying to find some to put behind your comments?
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  346.  @Angelcynn-x9m  Indeed so. Presumably, either ignored or forgotten by those who bring the subject up.
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  347.  @heathfairbairn2460  And yours (though not a sentence at all) merely gives credence to your being a numpty. You really aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you? Feel free to have the last word. I sense that may be important to you but, for me, a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent soon becomes tiresome.
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  348.  @BoomerForever  What a ridiculous request. Anyway, many traditional Labour voters are socially and culturally "conservative" and will, therefore, be drawn to Reform. That should be a "no brainer" for you, though you seem not to understand. Coincidence?
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  349.  @ascgazz  I use only one identity on here. How bizarre that you seem not to understand that I was challenging someone who uses more than one.
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  350.  @BoomerForever  Why do you also post as "Dave Clanger", by the way? Are you, perhaps, one of those often referred to in the modern vernacular as a "troll"?
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  351.  @BoomerForever  Of course, it is, Dave. Watch out for the soup dragon! At least my user name is an obvious pseudonym, hypocrite.
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  352.  @BoomerForever  Simple; you pretend not to use a pseudonym and yet you use at least two, "Dave Clanger" and "Boomer Forever". If you think traditional Labour voters cannot be socially and/or culturally conservative, for a lack of intellect, I suggest you look much closer to home, i.e. under the surface of the moon, in caves.
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  353.  @BoomerForever  You really are quite hard of understanding, aren't you? I said "many", not a "majority" and, if you are going to quote me, please quote me correctly, hypocrite. Tell your mate, Dave, to do the same.
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  354.  @BoomerForever  See above.
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  355.  @ascgazz  As in the other threads you have frenziedly infested, I invite you to again have the last word today, as I think that would be very important to you, and I find a battle of wits with an unarmed man soon becomes very boring. The rejection you received following your attempt to become friends with another on here provided me with much hilarity, by the way. I guess that it is something you have become well used to, however.
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  356.  @BoomerForever  Another quite ridiculous question. Do you expect me to take a survey of the entire electorate? Ask your mate, Dave, whether he thinks that would be a practical proposition too. I notice, by the way, that you edited one of your previous comments after I'd pointed out your failure to quote a previous one of mine accurately.
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  357.  @BoomerForever  Dave to the frenzied, idiot keyboard thumper: "WTF are you talking about? 😂😂😂 I guess you're not busy tonight? Just staying at home to look after the dog... whilst people you know are partying.. they must of forget to invite you out 😂" Oh dear, this is priceless! 🤣Excuse the copy and paste but it was well worth repeating.
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  358.  @BoomerForever  It is a phrase neither you nor Dave could ever have had the wit to come up with yourselves. In fact, if wit were s**t, both of you would be severely constipated. I hope you enjoy yourself with Dave at midnight and that you have plenty of tissues.
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  359.  @BoomerForever  It's taken until very late in the year for you two (or is it three?) to produce what must have been one of its most hilarious series of misunderstandings. It's a pity that so few others would have been able to share the hilarity it provided me. I wonder, if there were ever a remake of "Dumb and Dumber", and you both passed the audition (probably a shoo-in), which of you would play which role.
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  360.  @BoomerForever  The sad thing is that you (and Dave) probably really believe that. You have shown that, intellectually, you are a pygmy. Some advice for you; when finding yourself in a hole, stop digging!
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  361.  @BoomerForever  Some more advice for you; it is far better to say nothing and thought to be stupid than say something and have it confirmed. Pass it on to Dave too.
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  362.  @ascgazz  I am glad you are stunned. Only pharmaceutically, though, I hope. I bet they had to tear you away from that battered keyboard and force feed you your meds or, perhaps, they used a needle. Night, night. Hopefully, when morning comes, you will have completely forgotten the utter humiliation you have suffered on here. Thanks again for all the laughs, though!
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  363.  @ascgazz  Still angrily hammering on your keyboard when most people were out celebrating? Oh, dear, how sad, never mind. Thank you for another laugh and I hope that 2024 is much, much better for you than the last day of 2023!
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  364. It is sickening how our legacy media collude with incompetent and corrupt governments over deflection from the real issues of concern surrounding horrendous cases such as this. That the whole trial, in which the suspect faced a number of serious charges, would have collapsed through the release of information related to two of the relatively minor charges, is clearly nonsense and obviously an attempt by Starmer to cover up his, and his government's failings, over the release of information in this matter.
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  365. Cooper portrayed in profile, rather akin to a monarch on a coin or a postage stamp, speaks volumes. Leading figures in other regimes, of course, had themselves portrayed everywhere. One only has to think of Stalin, Moa, Hussein etc.. What price a portrait of Starmer on every street corner soon? The replacement of a portrait of Nelson by one of Cooper is the substitution of a national disgrace for a national hero.
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  366. It beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  367. Those who say "Scrap the BBC" mean exactly what they say. There should be no place in our society for an organisation that broadcasts content that most find irrelevant and/or offensive (Boyle, Brand et al), taxes them for the wherewithal to do so and denies them the right to watch broadcast content, other than its own, on pain of imprisonment.
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  368.  @Lindy-ht8cr  It is not advice. It is information and, if accurate, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
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  369. I agree. How does somebody as thick as this woman get to be a "talking head" on a news programme?
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  370. I agree. Sadly, we now have a police force that applies different standards of policing to different groups of people. This is another stage on our journey to Hell in a hand cart, a journey at the end of which, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will have counted for nothing and replaced by a new Dark Age that will see a return to mediaeval values of intolerance enforced by terror, organised superstition and ignorance.
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  371. For years now, people smugglers, illegal transport providers, slavers, drug dealers, misguided sympathisers and shyster lawyers have run rings around our hopelessly incompetent government. Can our politicians, government and opposition, not get their heads around how attractive, compared to other countries, the UK has become for illegal migrants and what is it about the term, "pull factors", they do not understand?
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  372. If I did so, I'd be imagining a country with a referendum nearly every week. It just couldn't work. We do live in a democracy, not perfect by any means, but is far better than any alternative.
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  373. No, they allowed them to build shanty towns and did not provide them with free healthcare and dentistry. They probably also turned a blind eye to those criminal gangs taking thousands of euros to provide them with a flimsy vessel in which to get half way across the Channel to the awaiting taxi service. For years now, people smugglers, illegal transport providers, slavers, drug dealers, misguided sympathisers and shyster lawyers have run rings around our hopelessly incompetent government. Can our politicians, government and opposition, not get their heads around how attractive, compared to other countries, the UK has become for illegal migrants and what is it about the term, "pull factors", they do not understand?
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  374. I agree. For years now, people smugglers, illegal transport providers, slavers, drug dealers, misguided sympathisers and shyster lawyers have run rings around our hopelessly incompetent government. Can our politicians, government and opposition, not get their heads around how attractive, compared to other countries, the UK has become for illegal migrants and what is it about the term, "pull factors", they do not understand?
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  375. You're just as likely to get one if you vote Tory. For years now, people smugglers, illegal transport providers, slavers, drug dealers, misguided sympathisers and shyster lawyers have run rings around our hopelessly incompetent government. Can our politicians, government and opposition, not get their heads around how attractive, compared to other countries, the UK has become for illegal migrants and what is it about the term, "pull factors", they do not understand?
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  376. Indeed so, and it has come to something when not only do we have uncontrolled political indoctrination of children in our state schools but also sexual perverts given free rein to further poison their minds at such a young age. Hopefully, politicians will start to realise the seriousness of the situation and actually do something about it but, given the quality of our current crop of politicians, I doubt they will.
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  377. That is what I will be doing. I always voted Tory at general elections but am now well past caring what damage a large vote for Reform UK will do to the Tories. They can go to hell. Re the video, the disgraceful events in Brussels the other day are but a foretaste of what life will be like for EU citizens if the unelected proto-phashists (deliberate misspelling) taking ever increasing control over all aspects of their lives are not stopped in their tracks, and soon.
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  378. Indeed so, particularly the Gallipoli shambles. However, Churchill was a politician and therefore very unlikely to have been some sort of saint. Without him, though, we would all now be speaking German. Anyway, Mr. Heydel-Mankoo spoke very well and the debate he had won was over but, of course, the ill informed chap on the right had to ask to have the last word and, of course, one of the worst presenters on GB News had to allow it.
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  379.  @benkhan2908  I'd be very surprised if it wasn't. For many of these people, wherever they live, science has not been allowed to intrude into their lives.
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  380.  @RobertJonesWightpaint  Yes, Fox's reasoning seems to have been as flawed as the judge's.
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  381. I agree but see little chance of such a thing happening. Re the video, in recent years, thanks to the foolishness of Tony Blair, universities have greatly increased their intake of young minds to shape according to the ways of thinking of most university lecturers so, as Aristotle said, whilst a child's formative years are very important, those who indoctrinate them now have the opportunity for control of many more 18 to 21 year old minds than was previously the case. I am fortunate enough to have been educated at a state Grammar School which had no political indoctrination on the curriculum, nor teachers particularly concerned for health and safety in the playground. In those days, when state Grammar School education achieved "critical mass", society as a whole benefitted from much greater social mobility than the tragically low level we have today. Sadly, I think it would take a miracle to return to such relatively halcyon days. This was an excellent speech from Mr. Heydel-Mankoo. He usually speaks with great wisdom. I have one slight quibble, however. He has fallen into the trap of ascribing to the indoctrinators the same description they apply to themselves, i.e. "progressive", a word that usually has positive connotations and one which, if everyone adopts it, will become a significant, but unnecessary, obstacle to the change that is so desperately needed to prevent this nation going to hell in a handcart.
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  382.  @ascgazz  No argument then? Just a couple of single syllable "words" and a string of childish emoticons. Why am I not surprised?
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  383.  @ascgazz  I am happy to answer questions if they are not posed by idiots incapable of understanding the answer. Now, feel free to have the last word. No doubt, that would be important to you but, for me, a battle of wits with an unarmed man soon becomes quite tiresome.
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  384. It is sickening how our legacy media collude with incompetent and corrupt governments over deflection from the real issues of concern surrounding horrendous cases such as this. That the whole trial, in which the suspect faced a number of serious charges, would have collapsed through the release of information related to two of the relatively minor charges, is clearly nonsense and obviously an attempt by Starmer to cover up his, and his government's, failings over the release of information in this matter.
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  385. The disgraceful events in Brussels the other day are but a foretaste of what life will be like for EU citizens if the unelected proto-phashists (deliberate misspelling) taking ever increasing control over all aspects of their lives are not stopped in their tracks, and soon.
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  386. @@keithsaville6091 Me too and I live well away from that London. The ones I see are more likely to be council administrative staff than civil "servants", I reckon.
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  387.  @somethingintheair5373  I hope you are right but, somehow, I doubt it. Stand by for the MSM spreading all sorts of allegations about Reform candidates.
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  388. I agree. If one talks like a racist and acts like a racist, one is almost certainly a racist. Khan should resign. He is a disgrace to his office and history tells us what happens if politicians vilify sections of society.
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  389. It is good to hear that, at least somewhere, there may be at least one teacher not spreading the current propaganda. Re the video, in recent years, thanks to the foolishness of Tony Blair, universities have greatly increased their intake of young minds to shape according to the ways of thinking of most university lecturers so, as Aristotle said, whilst a child's formative years are very important, those who indoctrinate them now have the opportunity for control of many more 18 to 21 year old minds than was previously the case. I am fortunate enough to have been educated at a state Grammar School which had no political indoctrination on the curriculum, nor teachers particularly concerned for health and safety in the playground. In those days, when state Grammar School education achieved "critical mass", society as a whole benefitted from much greater social mobility than the tragically low level we have today. Sadly, I think it would take a miracle to return to such relatively halcyon days. This was an excellent speech from Mr. Heydel-Mankoo. He usually speaks with great wisdom. I have one slight quibble, however. He has fallen into the trap of ascribing to the indoctrinators the same description they apply to themselves, i.e. "progressive", a word that usually has positive connotations and one which, if everyone adopts it, will become a significant, but unnecessary, obstacle to the change that is so desperately needed to prevent this nation going to hell in a handcart.
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  390.  @flachi32  Throw in the possibility of corporal punishment for bad behaviour and that sounds rather like my 7 years at a state Grammar School many years ago!
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  391. He is also a proven liar and hypocrite, He is an automaton, incapable of thinking outside the way he has been programmed. There are many people like this but a great tragedy that we now have one as Prime Minister.
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  392. Yes, the principle of self determination trumps all other arguments. Mr. Heydel-Mankoo is correct in his scathing criticism of Starmer and Lammy for their incompetence and blind ideology, so threatening to the prosperity and security of the UK.
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  393. (Another attempt to post a comment so, with an £edit" or two, here goes...). Yes, and self determination trumps all other arguments. Mr. Heydel-Mankoo is correct in his scathing criticism of Starmer and Lammy for their incompetence and blind ideo log y, so threatening to the prosperity and security of the UK.
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  394. We have seen Harehills and we have now seen Southport, Hartlepool and London, where many people were arrested seemingly at random and without provocation. Two tier policing in the UK is a fact. The establishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the police went about their "duty". Thanks to our dishonest and incompetent politicians, the UK is "going to hell in a hand cart".
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  395. I think Mr. Heydel-Mankoo meant "Reliant Robin". Anyway, all this nonsense going on in the civil service and all the shirking from home is having a profoundly harmful effect upon efficiency and, consequently, upon the public. Civil servants should spend more time doing what the taxpayers pay them to do and less time on political indoctrination within their departments, but it would be a hell of a task to change anything so firmly entrenched now I have my own recent, personal experience of the lowering of civil service standards. My application for grant of probate to His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, part of the Ministry for Justice, took 7 months to process (the target time is 8 to 16 weeks) and then only after I had involved my MP. Two civil servants, one on the telephone and another by e-mail, admitted that, for 5 months after receipt, my application had not been "physically examined" (to use their words) and neither told me this with any tone of regret or apology. Now, three months on from making a complaint about the delay, and asking them to, inevitably, investigate themselves, I am yet to receive any satisfaction and my requests for updates have been ignored, so I have, once again, sought the support of my MP. HMCTS is no longer fit for purpose and, I suspect, neither is any other branch of the civil service.
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  396. Re impartiality, the BBC has been in breach of its charter for decades. It must be taken away from it in 2027.
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  397. Teacher training reform is not the answer. It would be too late. Teachers, when they arrive at teacher training colleges, are already fully indoctrinated. They will then go on to indoctrinate the next generation. It seems we need to reconcile ourselves to decades of ill informed protest and agitation and hope that it never leads to the type of government that the architects of this indoctrination would wish to impose upon us.
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  398. What further evidence do we need of the authoritarian intent of this new government and why are the police involved in incidents deemed not to be criminal in nature?
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  399. The right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  400.  @mrror8933  Any evidence for that, or is that the only "contribution" you are capable of making?
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  401.  @janecheyne2943  You seem a little confused as to who accused whom of being naïve.
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  402.  @hiramabiff2017  I don't smoke a pipe. You must be smoking some good stuff, though, if you think by-election results provide any guide to general election results.
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  403.  @HopeGreen-m7i  Irrelevant facts, if facts at all. I am no supporter of the Tories and the inquiry you refer to did not address this specific issue with the rigour which the proposed inquiry should bring to bear.
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  404. They were very wise words. What we are seeing is the result of generations of left wing indoctrination of our young people in a state education system that teaches them not how to think, but what to think.
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  405. We do not know that. The likelihood is that he is not across the detail. During his sit down with Starmer, someone had to explain to him what "AUKUS" meant.
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  406. The deputy commissioner's performance will further reduce confidence in the police. It seems that if he ever gets promoted, the Met will have another Dick in charge. His claim that the police did not run away from BLM protestors is a lie. We all saw the videos. I wouldn't have been surprised had he claimed it was a "tactical withdrawal".
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  407.  @b85382 As one would expect, some are very good, some are average, some are poor and some, like this one, are really poor.
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  408. Oestrogen is not a drug. It is a hormone. Anyway, it beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  409. The right decision by Mr. Farage, I reckon. He will be of much greater assistance to Reform's cause campaigning throughout the country than in a single constituency. Anyway, with Brexit and the exposure of the de-banking scandal, he has more than earned the right to do exactly as he pleases. Those who condemn the decision seem really not to have thought things through. I agree, however, that Reform UK should put immigration at the front and centre of their election campaign.
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  410.  @RJAH355  He got us out of the EU. That should be enough. Anyway, interesting that you refer to idi ots as, clearly, if I were to bother trying to explain things to you, it would be a complete waste of my time.
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  411.  @RJAH355  Farage brought a long standing scandal to public attention. What more could he do? It may have escaped your attention but he is not in government. Only someone of the intelligence level you referred to in your previous post would deny that, without Farage, Brexit would never have happened. That is principally why we owe him a huge debt of gratitude. Since we left the EU, we are no longer ruled by an unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy and our democratic deficiency is no longer as pronounced as it was when we were members of the EU. Again, only someone of the intelligence level you referred to in your previous post would deny that. Also, we have joined the CPTPP, a trade organisation with a growing share of world trade and GDP and one which doesn't seek to control the lives of the citizens of its member nations. On all three, counts, compare and contrast with the EU. Sadly, your comments suggest you are one of those, even after eight years, still unable to get over Brexit. It is quite pathetic, really. Anyway, I will leave you to your delusions. Have the last word, if you wish. I have wasted enough time on you and I probably won't even read them.
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  412. We now have a police force that applies different standards of policing to different groups of people. This is another stage on our journey to Hell in a hand cart, a journey at the end of which, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will have counted for nothing and been replaced by a new Dark Age that will see a return to mediaeval values of intolerance enforced by terror, organised superstition and ignorance.
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  413.  @janethollman7894  Several police officers to a middle aged lady. Was there ever a first coming or was that, just like all religion, a fairy tale too?
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  414. Re impartiality, the BBC has been in breach of its charter for decades. It must be taken away from it in 2027.
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  415. Ms, Kaur is no more than a shallow publicity seeker and none of her claims ever stands up to scrutiny.
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  416. We can't entirely rule out the possibility that this person will die in prison and many will say that they live in hope.
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  417. If one talks like a racist and acts like a racist, one is almost certainly a racist. Khan should resign. He is a disgrace to his office and history tells us what happens if politicians vilify sections of society.
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  418. I agree. Mr Heydel-Mankoo was quite right in his analysis of what kind of "Conservative" MP will survive the next election and few will have much in common with Mr. Farage. Anyway, the Tories are tearing themselves apart (again) over an issue that, ultimately, will make no difference to anything, i.e. the Rwanda bill. Surely, our politicians have done the maths and realise that the prospect of a few hundred illegal migrants being sent to Rwanda will have no deterrent effect whatsoever on the tens of thousands waiting to cross the Channel. One must assume that they have, so this means a great deal of disingenuousness in their ranks but, I suppose, we all knew that already.
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  419. As well as a proven liar and hypocrite, Starmer is an automaton, incapable of thinking outside the way he has been programmed. There are many people like this but a great tragedy that we now have one as Prime Minister. Re the latest manifestation of government strategy, we have seen weekly pro-Palestine marches and, so far, one-off incidents in Harehills, Southport, Hartlepool, Rotherham and London etc.. Our police react differently to lawlessness according to who is participating in it. Two tier policing in the UK is a fact. The establishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the police went about their "duty". In Harehills, close to where I live, in the face of greater lawlessness, they were noticeable by their absence. At the pro-Palestine marches, they ignore the incitement of racial hatred. If this issue is not tackled, the bad situation we have now will become even worse.
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  420. "Multiple mono-cultures" is a very apt description of the dangerous place to which uncontrolled migration has led us. It is also one capable of being understood by most people, unlike "multiculturalism" which has almost as many definitions as the the number of people who utter the word.
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  421.  @ascgazz Oh dear, it seems that in addition to your other endearing qualities, the struggle against reality etc., you are a bit of an angry stalker. 4 "attacks" in 4 minutes strongly suggests so. I bid you good day, weirdo.
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  422. I agree but 3% is more than the Tories, Labour and the Liberal "Democrats" would spend on defence. An excellent speech and a good question and answer session. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  423. If there is credible evidence of the unsuitability of any candidate, it does not matter where that evidence comes from and it has to be investigated. The mainstream media will be far less kind to Reform UK than it will be to Labour over this issue and Labour will have some dodgy candidates too, a few of them, probably, seeking re-election. An excellent speech and a good question and answer session. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  424. The suspect is from a reIigion that condones Iying in the furtherance of its aims (the practice is known as "t a q i y y a"). Claims as to the suspect’s attitude towards certain issues should be taken with a pinch of salt. This latest incident has all the haIImarks of a "sIeeper ceII" operation aided by government negIigence and our Iegacy media is being its usual disingenuous self over this matter.
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  425.  @davidwilkins683  Incredible, when one considers Labour's fitness for government, but probably so.
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  426.  @JamieJoeJustice  Is that Northern Ireland? That's the only part of the UK where Reform are not intending to field a candidate.
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  427.  @JamieJoeJustice  Good! Glad to have been of help.
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  428. It beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  429.  @birdy5548  You think so? Then I have a bridge to sell you.
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  430.  @TestGearJunkie. So what? Police Scotland will review, and probably change, its priorities.
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  431. Revisionism is one of the favourite tools of those who hate our traditions and values. Anyway, Mr. Heydel-Mankoo spoke very well and the debate he had won was over but, of course, the ill informed chap on the right had to ask to have the last word and, of course, one of the worst presenters on GB News had to allow it.
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  432. @mollienight Because to negotiate with a foreign power, one has to be in government. Is that really too difficult for you to understand?
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  433. @mollienight Your comments become ever more detached from reality. Farage was an MEP only until we left the EU, not that MEPs had any real power anyway. How would his having been an MEP made any difference to anything that happened after the referendum? It is impossible to understand what it is you are asking me to explain and I leave you to your befuddlement.
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  434. @mollienight Pathetic. Anyway, good luck with your sense of betrayal over someone failing to achieve the impossible.
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  435. @mollienight OK then, I leave you to your strange sense of being betrayed by someone failing to achieve the impossible.
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  436. @mollienight "LOLz" says it all, really. You are not a deep thinker, are you?
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  437. @mollienight Anyone who doesn't understand that one has to be in government to negotiate with a foreign power deserves to be told that they are not really a deep thinker. The chances are that they would never be able to work it out for themselves. So, that was doing you an undeserved favour, really. Feel free to have the last word, text speak, whatever. No doubt, that would be important to you but, for me, a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent soon becomes tiresome.
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  438.  @rogerwoodhouse7945  I think he was talking about mass deportation. He has said, many times, that iIIegaI migrants should be deported. However, there will never be mass deportation and, unless we have an unexpected and dramatic change to the birth rates in various communities, I fear you may be correct.
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  439. No, he doesn't. I'm happy for Mr. Farage to carry on with what he is doing. If he were to stand as a candidate, his national influence would be diluted in the crucial last few weeks of an election campaign. Anyway, an excellent speech. Mr. Tice is gaining gravitas all the time and I am gaining confidence in his leadership. We need to see him on mainstream media more, however, and this may be more easily said than done.
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  440. I agree. Perhaps the best single word to describe what is going on in our schools and universities is "subversion". The left know that they cannot win power through democratic means, and have settled upon a means that requires the indoctrination of young people against traditional values.
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  441.  @brandonatchison4769  Really? Do you admonish anyone you see not devoting 100% of their attention to one of your own pet concerns?
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  442.  @brandonatchison4769  How so?
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  443.  @linmal2242  ?
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  444.  @linmal2242  I have no idea to which comment you refer.
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  445.  @Rose-eq1xm  I'm not sure. I will ask him at our next shooting weekend.
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  446.  @Rose-eq1xm  I'm not sure. I will ask him next time I see him.
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  447. Indeed we would and, for that reason, to bring about change will be very difficult, if not impossible. Re the video, in recent years, thanks to the foolishness of Tony Blair, universities have greatly increased their intake of young minds to shape according to the ways of thinking of most university lecturers so, as Aristotle said, whilst a child's formative years are very important, those who indoctrinate them now have the opportunity for control of many more 18 to 21 year old minds than was previously the case. I am fortunate enough to have been educated at a state Grammar School which had no political indoctrination on the curriculum, nor teachers particularly concerned for health and safety in the playground. In those days, when state Grammar School education achieved "critical mass", society as a whole benefitted from much greater social mobility than the tragically low level we have today. Sadly, I think it would take a miracle to return to such relatively halcyon days. This was an excellent speech from Mr. Heydel-Mankoo. He usually speaks with great wisdom. I have one slight quibble, however. He has fallen into the trap of ascribing to the indoctrinators the same description they apply to themselves, i.e. "progressive", a word that usually has positive connotations and one which, if everyone adopts it, will become a significant, but unnecessary, obstacle to the change that is so desperately needed to prevent this nation going to hell in a handcart.
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  448. Yes, our media suppresses such conversations and what are Leeds MPs doing while our city burns? They are hypocritically lambasting Nigel Farage for daring to state the cause of the problem, i.e. irresponsible, mass migration. From Blair onwards, our politicians have betrayed us. I live in Leeds, about 3 miles from Harehills, where the residents are probably over 80% not of British origin and who, recently elected a Green party candidate for the Gipton and Harehills ward who gained some notoriety in the media for shouting something like "Alan's Snack Bar" at his victory rally. It is a place I would never walk through and, if it were on my route driving to another part of Leeds, I would take a detour around it. Sadly, I reckon this is just a taste of things to come.
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  449. If there is credible evidence of the unsuitability of any candidate, it does not matter where that evidence comes from and it has to be investigated. The mainstream media will be far less kind to Reform UK than it will be to Labour over this issue and Labour will have some dodgy candidates too, a few of them, probably, seeking re-election.
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  450.  @erinloo8921  Who is "we"?
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  451.  @erinloo8921 I'll take no reply as meaning you're not very proud of your own country then.
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  452.  @1312Johnny  That would have to be the citizens of nations who are members of the EU.
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  453.  @erinloo8921  Deafening silence then. Perhaps the UK has "fallen" but which western country hasn't? Anyway, at least, we have had a position to fall from. Perhaps your country has always been at the bottom of the heap and couldn't fall any further.
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  454.  @erinloo8921  You still won't say where you are from then. It must be a country you are really ashamed of and, for immaturity, I suggest you look much closer to home.
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  455.  @erinloo8921  No answer then. For immaturity, I suggest you look much closer to home.
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  456. If only Ms. Widdecombe was our Home Secretary and Ms. Patel was the ex-contestant on "Strictly Come Dancing" and now being believable on TV and radio (though little chance of the latter).
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  457. Mr. Murray speaks wisely on this issue, as he does on many others. I sometimes wonder, however, whether it may be better simply not to give publicity to the wicked utterances of the cranks he criticises.
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  458.  @fatherjack1148  See above.
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  459.  @jimjones-bk2is  Green? They would have us bankrupt even quicker than the Tories, Labour and the Liberal "Democrats".
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  460.  @jimjones-bk2is  OK. I leave you to your delusions and your apathy.
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  461. Re the new Tory leadership, Tory members faced a very difficult choice; whether to select a candidate with an almost zero chance of leading them to victory at the next general election, or one with an absolute zero chance. It seems they have chosen the latter. Destroying an ill tempered automaton like Starmer at the despatch box during each PMQs will not bring the Tories back to power. Farage will be delighted that Badenoch became the Tory leader. "Meet the new boss; same as the old boss".
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  462. When someone may be arrested for praying "in their head", this arrest should come as no surprise. We now have a police force that applies different standards of policing to different groups of people. This is another stage on our journey to Hell in a hand cart, a journey at the end of which, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will have counted for nothing and replaced by a new Dark Age that will see a return to mediaeval values of intolerance enforced by terror, organised superstition and ignorance.
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  463. That is a very insightful analysis of how we have got to this place. Re the latest manifestation of the strategy, we have seen weekly pro-Palestine marches and, so far, one-off incidents in Harehills, Southport, Hartlepool, Rotherham and London etc.. Our police react differently to lawlessness according to who is participating in it. Two tier policing in the UK is a fact. The establishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the police went about their "duty". In Harehills, close to where I live, in the face of greater lawlessness, they were noticeable by their absence. At the pro-Palestine marches, they ignore the incitement of racial hatred. If this issue is not tackled, the bad situation we have now will become even worse. As well as a proven liar and hypocrite, Starmer is an automaton, incapable of thinking outside the way he has been programmed. There are many people like this but a great tragedy that we now have one as Prime Minister.
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  464.  @ascgazz  Many people express all sorts of opinions and emotions in this forum. It is what forums such as this are for. If you cannot get your uneducated head around such a basic concept, I suggest you look a little closer to home for someone in a losing battle against reality.
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  465.  @ascgazz  I am happy to answer questions if they are not posed by idiots incapable of understanding the answer. Now, feel free to have the last word. No doubt, that would be important to you but, for me, a battle of wits with an unarmed man soon becomes quite tiresome.
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  466. Two tier policing in the UK is a fact. I quite believe what you say about the behaviour of the police. The establishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the police went about their "duty". Thanks to our dishonest and incompetent politicians, the UK is "going to hell in a hand cart".
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  467. I "disliked" this video, the first time I have done so on this forum, not because I disagreed with much of what was said but simply because it is yet another where the time and the thoughts of various distinguished commentators and journalists are being wasted on what was a pack of lies emerging as a result of cheque book journalism. Why should anyone care what this bewitched numbskull and his gold digging wife say about anything? Please get away from this nonsense and concentrate on matters of actual importance.
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  468. I see I have a reply but, unfortunately, the YT algorithm will not let me see it.
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  469.  @susanshadrake6193  I heard he was nicknamed "Rafters" at school, because "plank" didn't quite convey the thickness.
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  470. Yes, the rot started with Blair and his determination to "rub the right's nose in diversity". The UK now contains a growing and significant proportion of people, here legally or not, who detest Western values. We have, and have had, governments who turn a blind eye and it is likely that the current government will be the worst of the lot, led by a proven liar and hypocrite. Things are not looking good.
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  471. (2nd attempt to post his so, with a few "amendments", here goes...). Yes, the rot started with Blair and his determination to "rub the right's nose in diversity". The UK now contains a growing and significant proportion of people, here legally or not, who detest Western values. We have, and have had, governments who turn a blind eye and it is likely that the current government will be the worst of the lot, led by a proven li ar and hyp ocrite. Things are not looking good. Re the latest manifestation of the strategy, we have seen weekly pro-Pal estine marches and, so far, one-off incidents in Har ehills, South port, Hartle pool, Rot her ham and London etc.. Our po lice react differently to law lessness according to who is participating in it. Two ti er poli cing in the UK is a fact. The estab lishment would have demanded many arrests at the Downing Street protest for the purposes of discrediting the growing movement against them and we saw how the police went about their "duty". In Hare hills, close to where I live, in the face of greater law lessness, they were noticeable by their absence. At the pro-Pales tine marches, they ignore the incite ment of ra cial hat red. If this issue is not tackled, the bad situation we have now will become even worse. As well as a proven li ar and hyp ocrite, Starmer is an automaton, incapable of thinking outside the way he has been programmed. There are many people like this but a great tragedy that we now have one as Prime Minister.
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  472.  @pistonburner6448 What you suggest is completely impractical. Also, the inquiries you mention bore little resemblance to the one that is being called for.
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  473. @pistonburner6448 For lack of expertise and expertise, and no little guIIibiIity, I suggest you look much closer to home. I am completely right about your not knowing the full extent of who was responsible, and for what. How could anyone know that without there being a full enquiry? Even then, not all the truth could be uncovered. Forgive us if we take your claims of omniscience in this matter as the B S that it most surely is. Feel free to have the last word, if you wish. I guess that may be important to you but, for me, there is no point in debating a clearly unhinged point of view.
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  474. @14Anon2 You may well have a point. The judiciary is very politicised today. It is, however, our only hope of getting somewhere near the truth and certainly much better than councillors and various officials marking their own homework which is what Cooper seems to be proposing.
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  475. Yes, the Tories too have done more than fair share to wreck our nation. Re the video, so true and how depressing for our future. Our politicians have much to answer for regarding their behaviour over the last quarter century.
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  476.  @annewalden3795  OK. Then perhaps you should count yourself lucky. Be careful on your next visit!
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  477.  @annewalden3795  Good. There are, however, newer dangers now, as I recently discovered on an evening visit to Leeds city centre. I will not be going there again.
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  478.  @annewalden3795  Thank you. It is a much changed place, as are the suburbs too, and not for the better.
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  479.  @annewalden3795  That would depend very much upon one's own personal circumstances, then and now, and there are many who would disagree with you.
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  480.  @bernardedwards8461  Your prediction came true and a man who detests his country laid the first political wreath, and a man who commanded over 40% of the votes that Stamer did, and a real patriot, got to lay no wreath at all.
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  481.  @annewalden3795  But not with your thinking which, of course, is perfectly OK.
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  482.  @annewalden3795  You are, of course, entitled to your opinion but, during the era of widespread state grammar school education, social mobility increased at a rate not seen before or since. “Secondary Modern” schools, for those children who did not pass the 11+ examination, were superior to most state schools today in many ways. "Comprehensive" "Education" (I put both words in quotation marks purposefully) holds back the brightest pupils to the pace of the slowest. Labour, of course, are quite content with this as it guarantees that more children will not succeed in life and will, therefore, be more likely to vote Labour. They are also quite content that our children are taught what to think rather than how to think. It makes them much more controllable in adult life.
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  483.  @annewalden3795  What nonsense. These were children born well after WWII. No idea what you mean by "qualified citizens".
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  484.  @annewalden3795  Saying "what nonsense" does not mean a lack of manners, particularly in view of the ridiculous nature of your claim. Suit yourself. Neither is it much fun having a conversation with such a "delicate flower". I thought "snowflakery" was a preserve of the younger generations!
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  485.  @robertareilly4847  Who are these unelected "leaders"?
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  486.  @maggieattenborrow6725  Indeed, and me too, but when one looks at the candidate who will come second in the London mayoral election, one realises that the Tories are not seriously contesting it.
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  487. Indeed, and it beats me why we have all this fuss about a bewitched, and possibly seriously disturbed, numbskull and his gold digging wife who are both in positions of privilege due to absolutely no merit of their own. If the Royal family are taking the wise course of ignoring the outlandish and probably mendacious utterances of these useless, self-centered narcissists why don't we, and the media, do likewise?
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  488. In recent years, thanks to the foolishness of Tony Blair, universities have greatly increased their intake of young minds to shape according to the ways of thinking of most university lecturers so, as Aristotle said, whilst a child's formative years are very important, those who indoctrinate them now have the opportunity for control of many more 18 to 21 year old minds than was previously the case. I am fortunate enough to have been educated at a state Grammar School which had no political indoctrination on the curriculum, nor teachers particularly concerned for health and safety in the playground. In those days, when state Grammar School education achieved "critical mass", society as a whole benefitted from much greater social mobility than the tragically low level we have today. Sadly, I think it would take a miracle to return to such relatively halcyon days. This was an excellent speech from Mr. Heydel-Mankoo. He usually speaks with great wisdom. I have one slight quibble, however. He has fallen into the trap of ascribing to the indoctrinators the same description they apply to themselves, i.e. "progressive", a word that usually has positive connotations and one which, if everyone adopts it, will become a significant, but unnecessary, obstacle to the change that is so desperately needed to prevent this nation going to hell in a handcart.
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  489. Please excuse any unnecessary spaces. I think my original comment has been suppressed. All reli gion is based upon denial of reality but the one under discussion encompasses oppre ssion and intol erance, often viol ently so. On reflection, however, it is at about the same stage of its development as Chris tianity was during the Inqui sition. Perhaps, in about 900 years, the problem will have disappeared.
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  490. I doubt that very much. Khan will have more than enough genuine votes. The simple answer to the question, "Will Sadiq Khan ever fail to win a London mayoral election?", is almost certainly "No". London now has too many voters who do not vote upon the issues, but along ethnic, cultural and religious lines. Anyway, London, far from being "the greatest city in the world", as people like Khan would claim, is now a prime candidate for where, if the planet ever needed an enema, it would be inserted.
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  491. They were very wise words, but now completely ignored in the UK and, probably in much of the Western world. Re the video, in recent years, thanks to the foolishness of Tony Blair, universities have greatly increased their intake of young minds to shape according to the ways of thinking of most university lecturers so, as Aristotle said, whilst a child's formative years are very important, those who indoctrinate them now have the opportunity for control of many more 18 to 21 year old minds than was previously the case. I am fortunate enough to have been educated at a state Grammar School which had no political indoctrination on the curriculum, nor teachers particularly concerned for health and safety in the playground. In those days, when state Grammar School education achieved "critical mass", society as a whole benefitted from much greater social mobility than the tragically low level we have today. Sadly, I think it would take a miracle to return to such relatively halcyon days. This was an excellent speech from Mr. Heydel-Mankoo. He usually speaks with great wisdom. I have one slight quibble, however. He has fallen into the trap of ascribing to the indoctrinators the same description they apply to themselves, i.e. "progressive", a word that usually has positive connotations and one which, if everyone adopts it, will become a significant, but unnecessary, obstacle to the change that is so desperately needed to prevent this nation going to hell in a handcart.
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  492. Yes, he despises us. This isn't for "multiculturalism to keep working". That never did and never could happen. This is for Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynical and dishonest bunch of politicians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  493. (Another attempt to get a comment through so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). This isn't for "muIticulturaIism to keep working". That never did and never could happen. This is for Labour hanging on to vote share in certain communities. The very word is a nonsense. A phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear of something and this has to be the most cynicaI and dishonest bunch of poIiticians that ever formed a cabinet.
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  494. The Tories are tearing themselves apart (again) over an issue that, ultimately, will make no difference to anything, i.e. the Rwanda bill. Surely, our politicians have done the maths and realise that the prospect of a few hundred illegal migrants being sent to Rwanda will have no deterrent effect whatsoever on the tens of thousands waiting to cross the Channel. One must assume that they have, so this means a great deal of disingenuousness in their ranks but, I suppose, we all knew that already. The COVID enquiry is a publicly funded, £100 million pantomime, focused upon tittle-tattle and who used which swear words to describe another and vilification of anyone who questioned "the science". That it will not be addressing the use of clearly flawed data, too many lockdowns of too long a duration, with their disastrous consequences, and the heavy promotion of a hastily developed and under-tested medical intervention by politicians and mainstream media is disgraceful. Mr. Mankoo's saying that its findings have already been written may not be very far from the truth. What we saw from senior Home Office officials at the recent select committee hearing is conclusive proof of the unfitness for purpose of the Home Office. Sadly, this is probably true of the entire civil service. My own recent experience includes HMCTS, within the Department of Justice, unashamedly and unapologetically admitting that it took them 5 months to get around to examining my application for grant of probate following the death of my father. Unfortunately, having exhausted the HMCTS complaints process, the issue, assuming my MP has got around to supporting me (I have heard nothing from him in 6 weeks), should now be with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, another bunch of civil servants, probably equally lazy and useless. An excellent discussion. Many thanks!
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  495.  @jameshayhurst9655  I doubt that and, anyway, there is no parallel.
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  496. Yes, this is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community of which he is part. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their collaborators, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  497. (Another attempt to get a comment through so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national dis gr ace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their coIIaborators, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  498. (Another attempt to get a comment through so, with an "edit" or two, here goes...). This is a very brave man for speaking up from within the community in which he lives. Clearly, this is a national disgrace, happening on a huge scale over many years and one which our politicians, and their col labor a tors, are determined to conceal from us. There must be a full, public inquiry with powers of subpoena.
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  499. It is indeed and, whatever one thinks of Mr. "Robinson", the treatment meted out to him shows that two tier policing in the UK is now a fact. Senior police officers are a disgrace to their uniform.
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