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Comments by "Stephen Brookes" (@stephenbrookes7268) on "Ann Widdecombe: We're Fed Up With Woke Minority Bullies + Labour's Lost Touch With Reality" video.

The thing is that you can also not deny that overall things have never been as good as they are now. I say the reason why everyone is whinging about poor old me and my suffering, is because they never have!
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ropey bird Why not get rid of early years education in total. Start school at 7.
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@rhonda9718 I have not seen much libertarianism in the last decade! I have seen disempowerment of the workers, the rise of minority interests dominating the majority, I have seen an increase in authoritarianism and a total disregard for liberty.
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Matthew. You are giving them an excuse! There is no excuse for corrupt behaviour! Letting evil happen by sitting back is corrupt behaviour! However, this government is proactively corrupt!
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@jonsmum5552 Sadly, so true!
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ropey bird This is the crux of the matter! The whole of society should be there for the benefit of the whole of society. We know that social problems have an impact on societal health. Our society is so fractured and factionalised by encouragement of these minority bandwagons being launched with greater frequency that any public transport system. Demonising people for impecuniousness feels exactly the same to the sufferer as if the characteristic being demonised is any of the 9 in the act. It is a discrimination that affects all of us.
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@drwhatson I don't want any ideology ground into dust, because that would be Fascistic. I would like to see political ignorance ground into dust as that would enable people to make sensible choices as to what they believe!
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@clemalford9768 It's not in the water. "The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force." A famous quote?
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@drwhatson What is not being said, mainly due to media ownership bias, is the fact that both of the main parties have the same problem. They both have extremists among their ranks! Only extremists on the left are being publicised, the extremists on the right are truly controlling the narative as they have the power to enact. The left is not in power!
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An interesting point that was raised was the effect that not voting has on the democratic process. People may not vote due to indifference, dislike of the government but similar dislike of the opposition, due to the natural dogmas attached to broad church, powerful parties. They may feel a vote for a more representative small party will just dilute the opposition vote share and still result in no change. My idea is to have a general opposition. This would be a non proportionally representative coalition of all other political parties that are not the main two. A vote for Labour is a vote for Labour, and so with the Tories. However the general opposition will be all other parties. You will then have a large party which will have extremely wide views, but the vast majority of small parties are opposed to the dogma of pluralism as it stands. The radical idea that I have is that any voter that does not vote or spoils their ballot, is a default vote for the general opposition. This would end the danger that an extremist party could win an election with a small majority as the NASDAP did in Germany due to proportional representation.
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I agree with the title. Just like I agree with the title of Black Lives Matter. However what comes after the title is the narrative. It remains to be seen if I will agree with that! We shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but we can make a reasoned assessment of it based upon the usual editorial of the writer. Anne Widdecombe is someone with a track record of enforcing her minority beliefs on us all! We could also add another tag line: The Tories have never been subjected to reality.
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@sye601 Specifically which point of the many that I have articulated do you claim is utter rubbish? I think you need to first explain what you mean by left and right politically. I believe that they are purely academic. The Overton Window is just another way of saying; tell them what they want to hear to get their votes, but do what our paymasters want and get the payoff at the end. Or politics by another name.
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@jonsmum5552 You can drive at 17, there is no age limit on property ownership. Two 16 year olds could have a child. If an election will affect a young person directly and they will be 18 before the next election they should be able to vote on that issue.What is your point?
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@andrearossini4447 That is not exactly true. The truth is actually far worse. Those of us that have spent their lives battling inequality, injustice and unfairness, welcomed legislation that makes axiomatic facts legally enforceable. However some think that they are more equal than others. I have recently been refused something due to being male and another because of my age. I was also accused of being a racist based on the fact that I am white. All of these are on the sacred 9, but actually it is fine to discriminate against white, middle aged men. This actually means that woke means no respect for the law.
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@isfbuster6733 What makes you think that I am not struggling? I have several very difficult problems to overcome, all of which simply require money!
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@garytallowin6623 What you appear to have observed is that the government is not where true power lies. That is not really much of a point of contention, but where it does lie is. What institutions that you are talking about, and what power do they actually wield? Real power is the ability to enact changes in legislation or the power to impose Marshall law or declare war. This power is given by the electorate to the government at the election, but we have very little say in what happens between The power to influence the legislature is very complex and completely out of the power of the electorate. In real terms the government is being controlled by unelected forces. As we are unarmed we have no way to defend ourselves. Welcome to our dictatorship. Why do you think it is left wing?
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@sye601 You appear to be saying that you believe that the Tory party have no right wing policies. Again you need to explain what you believe is a left wing ideology and what is a right wing ideology.
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@sye601 You are not really explaining anything. Imagine that I have arrived from a different world and am a being unable to read your mind. What do you believe the left and right stand for?
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@skadiwarrior2053 Who is in control of everything? Unknown? Firstly by deduction. It cannot be anyone not in power. The government is the institution that is elected to power. The current government is the right wing party. However, do the elected, or transient elements of government have all the power? What about the permanent secretariat? What power do they wield and what would their orientation be? Ultimately who wields power? Those in control of the money supply. If you think a bunch of pipe smoking, organic carrot eating, tree huggers is running the world you are deluded.
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@andreaderbyshire2613 Yes totally. S
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@jonsmum5552 Well there are a great many adults that know nothing and have the vote. What to do? Have the same system as USA?
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@andrew30m When in 20 years time some whipper snapper throws a tantrum at you personally and everyone you shared a birth year with, and says I'm a victim of you and all those greedy You Tube influencers and tech billionaires. Whinge whinge poor me you should be cancelled blah blah sad face turd and puke face icon!! Will you think them churlish?
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ropey bird Although my lovely wife is teaching in Egypt during lockdown and tells me that most of the kids are turning into desensitised, endomorphic blob morons, due to non executive parents. So maybe it depends on the home as to whether home ed is a good thing.
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@crustyotter4734 Are you a time traveller?
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@jonsmum5552 I was the same. Young people now are better informed or at least have better access to information than in my younger days. Do they know how to process it is a whole other tale.
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@jonsmum5552 I was living in Mexico a few years back, and while staying with a colleague, I showed his step son how to cook an omelette. The kid had never been shown how to look after himself. His mum said she could not understand why he would not get a job. I said because you give him anything he wants regardless of cost. In other words you have never enabled him to be independent. The lad still contacts me for cooking advice.
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@jonsmum5552 Both of my millennial sons are great cooks. It is all environmental. The kids are over indulged, over coddled and under exposed to action. Very sad.
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@mattylamb9194 Divisions are very easy to exploit because they just exist. We as a race naturally subdivide into groups and have a tendency to have pride in our group, defend our group and promote our group. What we need to realise is that it is not important what colour we are, where or to what we worship, what we do in the bedroom, the jobs we do or which country we were born in. We are in either one of two distinct groups. The ruling elite and the rest of us. The rest of us need to unite into an all conquering army. Infighting loses battles!
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@berniestevens3625 Bernie. You clearly have not read much of my content. I do constantly educate myself, but have never had any illusions that the government that we are allowed to choose from a list of candidates pre-selected on our behalf has any connection to our leadership. The puppet master hides his strings so well. I believe that the opportunity to practice writing the letter X every 5 years is simply an exercise in appeasement. The fact that our government feels the need to seek approval from the people does however mean that we do not have soldiers on the streets (yet) as is the case in Cairo. A city I have proudly been escorted from at gun point, for making anti government comments on my radio show. The point is that the government does have the power to create legislation, and the sheeple do comply with it. However much they fear the slaughterman, they willingly walk towards his knives when a single dogma barks. If you read prior comments I quite clearly state where the real power lies. And lie they do haha! They do also want to remain elected which is why the, so called, Overton Window, exists. If we didn't have a public to have popular misconceptions to believe then the politicians would be redundant. Then the strings might be more visible.
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The last TV set I owned had a CRT.
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@berniestevens3625 The word Tele comes from the Greek for far away or remotely. The use of telecommunications to influence public opinion is not new. The ancient high priests claimed to be conduits for communications from afar.
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@margaretbarclay7079 None of us lives on an island, even though I live on an island. The youth, not all and not exclusively them, seem to have more anger at the world than perhaps the boomers and gen xers had, or perhaps they are completely not realising that those generations as the parents of the youth are doing something that our parents failed to do. We are letting them speak, and acting on what they say. Please guys don't abuse us. We love you.
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@berniestevens3625 I can see you didn't waste much time learning grammar!
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@jeremysmith8035 Racist comments are not the bone of contention. If someone ridicules someone for any immutable characteristic they are clearly wrong. The problem is when people invent things that defy logic, scientific fact and common sense, just to get upset about. We must be allowed to say things that are true without opposition. Also we should be allowed to express an opinion even if it is unpopular.
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@David-ci1vn The left right thing is not a constant. As,per Einstein, a beam of light will bend in a gravitational pull. When a populist political regime begins to lose its popularity or to run out of enemies of the regime it becomes subjected to the gravitational pull of the now obese ideology that started it. As the leadership becomes corrupted by power and to prop up the regime that gives that power they turn to authoritarianism which leads to declaring their own people as enemies. The left right will stop being linear and curve, eventually into a circle. It then behaves as a black hole engulfing everything on its vicinity. The inevitability is the regime and the ideology implode. One thing you can be sure of though. Somewhere a banker will make a fortune.
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@David-ci1vn I am aware of all of that. I have poked my head down so many rabbit holes I am beginning to look like a ferret. By not a constant I mean at its extremes it stops being linear. If you consider the laws of physics as being indicative of all forms of natural behaviour. Politics, economics and fashions all follow Newtonian principles, to a point. The more I learn about economics, politics and physics the more similarities I uncover. Not having had much formal education in the first two, I have to rely on what I do know about to try to make sense of those things.
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@Richard Fox Surely you mean all students. Nobody should be suffering from harassment, not just black, Asian and gay students.
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@Richard Fox Or just say people. When you make a list of characteristics that should not be abused, some might read that as a tacit permission to abuse anyone not on the list. What my generation have strived for is a society that is fair for all. Why this is such a difficult concept for people to grasp?
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@Richard Fox The point is not to sub-divide the population, into minorities, and then set up conflicts of interest between them. As a society we should have solidarity. Only then can we have true power.
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@Richard Fox I also have friends that have said the same. Unfortunately we have a job on our hands trying to remove ignorance based biases. I have lived in many countries, my mother was an immigrant and I am married to a foreign woman who is very afraid of being discriminated against. I am sure that she will not be as the profession she is in and the area that we live have very low instances of this. That is not the case for everyone. I do think that a great deal of bias is based on ignorance and fear. ignorance is reasonably easy to deal with by education. However, people fearing discrimination and avoiding situations because they fear they may be unwelcome is really more difficult to deal with. I admire anyone that chooses to move to a different country, I know how hard it can be. I do not believe that giving extra rights to minorities is such a good idea as this will alienate those minorities and make majorities feel unfairly treated. What would be a better idea would be for a society to feel that they are one majority and concentrate on opposing the oppressions that the majority sufferers at that hands of the one minority that discriminates against us all. The super rich and powerful!
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@dogmadogma5398 However, if they said: "You're a tosser I'm gonna punch you," or " That person is a tosser, I feel that this crowd of people should lynch them." This might be a little bit criminal.
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@R Tim you will have to remind me which comment.
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@dogmadogma5398 You are the one arguing and shouting. Is there the slightest possibility that you are a bit of a narcissist? Nooo if course not you are just always right on everything that you say, in all your opinions and all of your actions. I guess you must be one of those woke people. Are you going to cancel me?
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@dogmadogma5398 I am sure that in you mind you are perfect.
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@dogmadogma5398 FYI I wasn't trying to have an argument. I just don't believe that they have figured out how to convict us of thought crime yet, but you got all wokey and hurty on me.
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@R Tim Tim I do believe most education authorities offer adult literacy classes. In the absence of functional literacy skills try asking a grown up to explain it to you.
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@R Tim Tim. I am not going to answer assinine questions, asked by morons.
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@dogmadogma5398 I am against clear stupidity, anti science and oppression. I am have always been in favour of people being treated fairly. However I am of common stock. The serfs of England were no more than any other serfs in any of the colonies of British Empire. I do not see why anyone would try to blame us for that. If these wokites actually were left wing they would be attacking the true beneficiaries of the Empire. That will never happen because the woke movement is an ultra right wing divisive instrument to fragment to population in to intersections so small; and in such vehement opposition to each other that the masses will never unite against the real oppressors. That is the Royals, the aristocrats and their power structure, the monetary system. This is a left wing view. Woke is not.
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@davidharris3264 I can think of a better reason that it will never happen. It might actually devolve power to the masses so it will never happen. The logistics issues of how to organise the leadership, how to form a general policy that represents all angles etc. would actually be a benefit because it would stop politicians doing anything, which is the aim of democratised anarchism.
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@gabrielleheard6366 The trojan horse was hollow!
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@MrDaiseymay Mr Churchill was quite occupied, but I do not remember any stories of him having his palms greased! I don't know many things so if anyone has some stories of Churchillian corruption I think we should be told!
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@gabrielleheard6366 The figure of speech was understood. Do you often have to explain the punch line of your jokes as well?
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@rhonda9718 Propaganda works!
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@gabrielleheard6366 If I have a speciality Mon Ami it is eggs Benadict. However a retort is also a device for heating shale to release gas. It has been said...
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@rhonda9718 Unfortunately grubby handed politicians is not a Partizan phenomenon. After the revolution I envisage a more devolved form of government, with local communities taking responsibility for local matters. There should be no real need for a national government. We all have lamp posts and rope here. Dodgy politicians you have been warned.
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So was Mary Tudor.
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