Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. He wanted a career in London - chances are better with Labour and his ethnicity can be put to better use with the Labour base
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  2. Respect to the interviewer - he would not be "confused" or distracted - and by coming back again and again to the essential point he exposed the shill
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  3. fund the NHS properly, relief for student debt, MUCH more council housing, bold investments in renewable energy and broadband ... many jobs. better minimum wage and end zero hour contracts .... more income. Take back water and railway into public hand (lower costs, better services, privatization of THAT has ALWAYS failed. With natural monopolies the consumers always will be ripped off). Fund the communities better so they can provide sufficient local services. WHAT of that is only for immigrants ?? Most of the population are "natives" so they profit the most from those GENERAL services. Never mind that they are LEGAL immigrants (for the most part) and contribute to the economy (like the U.K. citizens that work in Europe, at least they still can work there. Wait till they will be forced to come back).
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  4.  @josephdyson3737  She tried to kill it, Thornberry has threatened to sue her. I think the NEC should deal with it, she defames a fellow Labour member and brings the party in disrepute. people have been expelled for much less (when some Blairites still controlled the committees). Now NEC is fully staffed with Corbyn supporters.
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  5. Windrush - the complacency might have been not quite as striking if the people would not have been black
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  6. Marketing technique: using the words over and over ... and switching now to a more effective TRIGGER WORD "racism". Maybe some internal polling suggested that the Brits were tired of hearing of "anti-semitism". No decent person will condone what happened during WW2. But the Brits offered a safe haven for the Jewish refugees, they mostly fared well - they are 0,5 % of the U.K. population, their life and property is not in danger. I think most people got tired of hearing how self appointed representatives of the Jewish community and the media and some MPs (with a not so well hidden agenda) feigned to be offended, OFFENDED ! - by this and that off the cuff statement and social media post. It is almost like citizens have more pressing concerns. It is also a big No No to be racist, and the term has not been worn down - YET. So ... next round in "Everything but the issues that really concern the voters". After all Labour does well in the polls, when the manifesto is talked about. Can't have that !
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  7. probation service is half privatized ! (and it was not involved, one judge determined indefinite imprisonment, that was overturned to 16 years, he became eligible to be released after 8 years that was 1 year ago. The question is why he could wear a knife ?
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  8. I heard he had to meet a probation officer twice a week and had to wear his monitoring device - that is likely the "privatization part" - they can make money of that.
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  9. These council houses were long ago paid for - and they paid rent. It is just that that area is very expensive - so compared to private housing it was cheaper.
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  10. free stuff is only for banks and corporations ! Exhibit a) bank bailout Exhibit b) QE for finance - to the tune of trillions. But heaven forbid someone would mention QE for The People Exhibit c) tax dodging of the mulitnationals, subsidies for them .... but not for small(er) biz. Exhibit d) the Fed recently stepped in to save the banks. There was a day (or a few) where the banks would not lend each other overnight. To settle the balances, that is normal and usually they charge each other a tiny interest rate. In fall 2019 the interest rates spiked. That is a sign that many banks were not willing to lend (trust) or could not lend (liquidity problems). The last time that happened ? In 2008 after the Lehman crash.(What if one bank lends the other a few billions and the next day they do not pay back but declare bankrupcy). Likely they know something we don't know. So again: the Fed to the rescue. creating the billions for them to keep them "liquid". Money is a highly virtual thing anyway. digits in computers backed up by legal and societal rules and agreements.
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  11. Ideally Sanders is sworn in as president in 2021 and then the international tax dodging could be curbed for real. At least the chances are much better).
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  12. Corbyn can't be tough on terrorism he was never in a position with that mandate. When May was H ome Secretary (under PM Cameron) jihadists were encouraged to go to Libya and Syria. The U.K.wanted to forment regime change (with the U.S. France, in Syria also KSA, Turkey, Israel, ...) The Manchester boys were a large group among the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. They were under watch of MI5 (to a varying degree), some had almost house arrest, passports taken away. They had fled Libya years ago and frankly I think MI5 groomed them as assets. Then around 2010, 2011 they got the passports back, a number to phone if they would be kept at the airport (one was in the database. Police in Heathrow held him when he wanted to leave. He gave them the number, they called ... and he was sent on his way - to wreck havock elsewhere and to learn the trade of terrorism. One of these "Manchester boys" was Salman Abedi. His father also went to the region likely Libya (and I think there was another brother). The family had been quite a while in the U.K. There is a story of how he went back and forth between the UK and the Middle East - also shortly before he came back for the concert bombing and if he might have had help of the UK authorities / spooks to get back into the country.
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  13. @S Putin does not wage war currently. Assad had the war forced on him by the U.S.,U.K, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, Turkey - this is not a "civil war" as much as it is a covert regime change operation. the "moderate" rebels are jihadists and a lot of them are foreign mercenaries. They are armed, trained and funded by the Western war mongers. (John Kerry in Sep. 2016: we wanted ISIS to become stronger in Syria, that would hurt Assad). They wanted to regime change Libya and Syria (and break Syria up). Never mind warring jihadists groups would hold the enclaves and murder or drive out all that were not Sunni Muslims (and went along with their religious dictatorship).
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  14. Silver lining: Flint is out, Ruth Smeeth is out. BoJo did not want to "win" the Leave campaign, watch footage of the morning after. He wanted to polish his anti-immigrant street creds. He could hardly campaign all over the country "I want the position of Cameron" - but he could use Leave as platform. (He pestered Cameron so he solved his internal problem with giving them the referendum, to shut them up once and for all). Johnson expected the referendum to be Remain. So he would have the riled up base to convince the party he could acitvate people Cameron couldn't reach as easily (he is typical Tory politician material). Boris would promise the riled up Leavers that he would continue to go against the "others" even if must respect the outcome - but we honorably lost the referendum. Most important: the referendum would have settled the concern of regular Tory voters who wanted to remain in the EU. They would not object to BoJo, because the U.K. would remain in the EU - so BoJo could hope to win them over when he could make the case that he had better chances than Cameron to win the GE ... And then it all went wrong.
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  15. The pandering of the BBC did not help, BoJo will not spare them. - BBC is center right in many cases (dominantly Remain for sure, but that does not equal "left"). Many of the important anchors are known to be Tories. - They have cushy jobs. Blair demanded and got a purge to get rid of anyone who was against the Iraq war in 2003. So what's left is the Yes men/women. - It is well known that they stuff Question Time with citizens that are Tories. "The man in the white shirt" comes to mind. (5 times in 2 years called to ask his question, always with a rightwing spin and the question always directed towards the most "left" person on the panel. And he ran for the Tories, but did not win). Likely working towards his viral moment. And the BBC will gladly cooperate. just did a quick search: Ryan Jacobz the Tory plant. They overdid it in this case, he always wears a white shirt (so the viewers started to recognize him - so it is not likely that everyone get's their chance and that audience is an average mix of citizens (interested in politics)
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  16. centrist in London - true the people that are subject to a rent-extortion scheme, and realize he does not much to act against knife crime - they would all vote for him. - He would not stand a chance against a populist left candidate.
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  17. She is a neoliberal hack and can sign up with the LibDems. even IF Thornberry had said that (and I sincerely doubt she was that stupid. Or so mean - to rub it in when a collegue lost her seat) - considerations for the greater good of the party (which she purports to support) should keep her from going public. Give Thorberry some heat if she forgot herself (in the shock of the moment) but don't go public.
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  18. More than enough "labour" MPs wanted Corbyn to badly lose an election and actively worked on it (see GE 2017, not sure about this time). But now the vultures assemble, and they do not mind to damage the party - at least in the short run. In 2017 (when they had recovered from the relatively good result in the 2017 snap election) and in 2018 they were pulling PR stunts whenver the party polled well. It was like a clockwork: Tying the Tories in the polls, another tempest in the teacup. At that time they (and all other enemies of a left party) had figured out that "antisemitism" worked best. It was never about the policies that would improve the lifes of the regular people. Corporate media went along with that (like in the U.S. where the "liberal" media colludes with the party establishment. They have blackout on Sanders, but also on Yang, Gabbard). Pulling stunts becae very obvious BEFORE the hacks of the Independent Group broke away in 2018 (no doubt they had a backup plan provided by some special interests to compensate them for the risk they were taking to lose their seat). That attempt to prop them up so they could split the vote in a soon to come election failed. On the flip side: they have purged themselves out from Labour - Corbyn could not get rid of them because they had been so long in the party and had of course the establishment support (and that of finance, the Israeli lobby, weapons manufacturers, ...) MPs are supposed to serve their constituency. Not leverage their seat (as long as they have it and in exchange for late favors) in order to split the vote so that the Tories can win. The constituents that had voted for a Labour MP did not want that MP to promote a Tory win in the next GE (and in 2018 and 2019 everyone was waiting for the next snap election to be called). They wanted the Tories to win if that would help to unseat a party leader that does not suit the war mongers, Friends of Israel, surveillance state and all multinationals that dodge paying taxes. .
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  19. The Blairites are upset because now the party can deselect backstabbers. The NEC has been filled with 9 Corbyn supporters.
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  20. + James Neoliberal fallout: Great Financial Crisis anyone ? Allowing tax dodging. passing the laws that suit Big Finance. Leaving the citizens to the mercy of the landlord class. The government has access to very cheap money if they want (zero % interest if they want) and not in form of loans or bonds (which must be paid back) but to create money directly. Debt and Interest Free Money (see Dr. Richard Werner or Dr. Stephanie Kelton). It was done for the Banks in form of QE for the banks - but that could of course also have been done for common good projects like social housing, education or healthcare (it is especially suited because it provides a lot of value for the population resp. reduces their costs of living, provides jobs, and the expenditures are for resources that a country usually can provide, workforce, construction materials). But of course the neoliberals like the Blairites serve Big Finance and the landlord class - so that idea is hardly talked about. Historically (because of the resistance of Big Finance) the concept is used in times of crisis or big challenges only. The Bradbury Pound during WW1 for instance. Now it is called QE for the People, MMT, Sovereign Money (positivemoney(dot)com). With the internet the information about it could be spread, the gatekeepers of information now can be circumvented. Books are only read by so many people - and there was no chance books about these concepts (they are not new) would ever be hyped by the media, or reviewed by major print outlets. Unorthodox economists survived in their niches until the GFC shook the system to it's core - so new ideas (MMT) were at least discussed, and found a little bit of attention. Rent is a major part of the budget of low income people. covert privatization. the allegedly left or liberal politicians siding with Big Biz, Big Finance, real estate developers and undermining the rights of workers. Not only Blair played that role : also Bill Clinton in the U.S. and Gerhard Schroeder in Germany. Citizens were subject to the media propaganda of the "new and modern globalized financialized" economy, and those who lose are not mentioned - or only in passing. - and then back to reporting on the stock exchange. NAFTA cost millions of jobs in the U.S.. And the Chinese tariff agreement since 2000 again cost even more million of jobs (at least hundred thousand companies closed in the U.S. mostly manufacturing plants. I do not recall the exact number but I am sure it was more then 100,000). It was not much talked about in the U.S. media. At some point the regular citizens figured out that neoliberal economics and the McJobs economy does not work - for them. Then there were wake-up calls that the elites were not to be trusted: the Iraq war. the war against Afghanistan was prepared in SUMMER 2001, 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden was a pretext, U.S. Nato is there since 2001. Then Libya. and Syria.
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  21. Some of the Labour MPs would rather have Labour lose the next election than see Corbyn as PM. Talk about anything than the economic plans (Labour does good when THAT is talked about) BBC: Labour: The Summer that changed everything youtube.com/watch?v=sWnIpHAHaaE&t=1877s go to 30 : 00 The BBC accompagnied 4 MPs (no fans of Corbyn) during the campaign for the snap election in June 2017. So their reaction for the first accouncement on TV is recorded. ....one could assume they would have been pleasantly surprised..... Go watch it. Hint: one of them reacted as to be expected. With a smile. Stephen Kinnock could not muster a smile, not immediately and not later (not even a fake one). Lucy Powell sprung into busy mode - loud utterances of surprise, doing calculations about majorities, and speculations about May stepping down - but also no signs of JOY (if only for fellow MPs that would keep their seat).
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  22. I wonder how hard SHE was campaigning. - How hard is it to say: I was wrong, I am pleasantly surprised.
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  23. 18 months before an  industrialreport was presented to the Council and the Tenents Management (!) Organization. 19. Notwithstanding what  we have said in paragraph 18 above, we do not believe that it should take a serious fire in which many people are killed before all reasonable steps are taken towards minimising the risks. The evidence we have received strongly suggest that the small-scale tests which are currently used to determine the fire safety of external cladding systems are not fully effective in evaluating their performance in a "live" fire situation. As a more appropriate test for external cladding systems now exists, we see no reason why it should not be used.
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  24. they are falling over themselve with the Labour bashing vids (I see them recommended). In other words whoever owns Sky is really concerned that Labour in Australia could get the support of the voters.
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  25. Preemptive bashing by proxy ;) - Sky Australia belonged to Rupert Murdoch. (No ! I could never have guessed that !) Is now owned by several companies incl. Comcast.
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  26.  @Johz318  It was always for the elites. The newspapers and the politiicians that pushed for Brexit are RICH - and the EU starts to crack down on tax evasion - at least a little bit.
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  27.  @ChariotsofWire180  the Tory lite government that lied the country into a war (oh and ignoring 1 million protesting which is huge in a country of approx. 60 millions). Plus looking the other way while the banks run amock and the bubble built until it burst in the Great Financial Crisis.
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  28.  @ChariotsofWire180  nothing was engineered for Corbyn - the party establishment was shocked and in sheer disbelief that he did so well, he hardly got enough endorsements to get on the ballot. They thought it would add some diversity and after all without the nod of the insiders the big donors etc. - he would not go far. - I guess some PR guy told them that it would please the base if they were given more say in how the party leader was selected. And of course - true to neoliberal form - that was intended to reduce the influence of the unions who would become party leader. Ooops ! that backfired.
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  29.  @ChariotsofWire180  Flint and Burnham, ... etc. can join the LibDems that is the centrist, Tory Lite party they want to be part of. Labour is THAT - the party of the miners, working class, the underdogs, and solidly to the left, and the party that puts up a fight against the Corporate interests and the war profiteers.
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  30.  @ChariotsofWire180  What merit would it have for the Tories (at least under Cameron, BoJo plays it differently) the LibDems and Labour to be more or less the SAME. - of course the Blairites would like to run under the established brand.
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  31.  @ChariotsofWire180  "far left cretin, ....rats" Yeah, I can see how Labour is a broad church. Not. - The flaw of Corbyn made is that he is too nice for his own good. And that HE did worry to hand the Tories a victory by tearing the party apart and ousting the backstabbers. Everytime Labour polled well in 2018 they put on another act (usually "antisemitsm" to tear the party down and have media talk about anything but the policies). Referendum gone wong for PM Cameron, he steps down. Time for the opposition to go after the Tories. What did the feckless backstabbers do ? Launch the chicken coup. 9 months after the insubordinate base had voted him in (over 80 % of registered members, 50 % of affiliated, he beat the heck out of all other candidates). They did the same in 2018. Not to forget the Blairites that formed the Independent Group (their job was to split the vote in the case of an upcoming election and to ensure a Tory win - no doubt they were promised a golden parachute for the likely loss of their seat).
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  32.  @ChariotsofWire180  some Labour MPs had a hard time to mask their disappointment when Labour was not crushed in the snap election in 2017. see the BBC documentary: Labour: The summer that changed everything. 4 "centrist" MPs (watch out for: self serving career politicians from the Blair era) accompagnied during their campaign. Also filmed when they watched the first exit poll at 10 pm. ONE was very pleasantly surprised. Stephen Kinnock was not pleased ! (and his father who held the seat before him could not grasp the result either - even after he had at least one hour time to process it. Kinnok Sr. was surprised and not in a positive way). Lucy Powell was also not good in faking joy (not a grin to be seen) but she switched immediately into busy / calculating mode (seats, hung parliament ?, potential coalition partners, would May need to step down). so she glossed over it - and more smoothly than Kinnock.
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  33.  @ptbot3294  Boris blinked (seems the Tories are more afraid of a Hard Brexit than the EU). his most recent proposal is a softer Brexit than the last proposal that May tried to get passed (not my opinion, Farage said that before the election).
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  34.  @ptbot3294  So BoJo can either do a Brexit In Name Only (and explain that to the ardent Leavers and "Brexit means Brexit" and "we take our country back" crowd. Or it would be the feared Hard brexit. - I think the Corporations have put their foot down. it is all fun and games when he campaigned Leave (but never expected or WANTED to win. Watch the footage of BoJo the morning after. He was not a happy camper). It was as a way to later challenge Cameron as party leader /PM. Johnson would give it a good fight, ramp up his anti migration and right wing street creds and honorably lose. That solved 3 problems: 1) he could prove to the party establishment (especially with losing narrowly !) that he could reach and activate voters that were not so responsive to generic Tory Cameron. In other words: he was better in winning a GE 2) He could tell the riled up Leave voters: sorry we have to accept the referendum - but vote for me and I continue to be anti immigration and a rightwing eccentric (fake) populist. 3) The people that always vote Tory and the business community that wanted to Remain would not oppose him either. The referendum had served its purpose (propping up BoJo) and settled the question of Leave. So Cameron could not use that against BoJo in a contest. Nope, no "taking back our freedom" with the BoJo Brexit: Freedom of movement, fisheries unchanged , the EU court rulinhs apply, the payments to be associated with the club. All of that - but without having a say in the club.
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  35.  @ptbot3294  The manufacturing industry is very worried about a Hard Brexit, and they are a major influence on the Tories (if only since they provide cushy jobs for ex-politicians and donate to the party). So crashing out of the EU w/o a deal is not an option and BoJo knows that (never mind the brash rhetoric he used to have). - What is the point of Brexit in Name Only ? More red tape. Same obligations. Less influence. Labour (and many Tories) were seriously concerned what a hard Brexit would mean
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  36. They were incensed when the insubordinate base voted Jeeza as party leader. They know better - and the idea of grassroots is deeply unnerving for them. Even those that are not so neoliberal have a strong reaction. (It might be the Thatcher trauma of course). - Some very cynically serve special interests - that crowd was especially loud with the howls.
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  37. Yep, Flint voted like a good Blairite (PFI's for the NHS etc). Not much protest to be heard about defunding the NHS - only under corbyn the Tories got some heat and to a degree it helped. They still want to unravel the NHS (privatizing it one PFI and one outsourced contract at a time) but during the campaigns they felt compelled to make promises. Thornberry voted against cutting benefits, against the Iraq war etc. Flint is a neoliberal hack and can go to the LibDems if they will have her.
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  38.  @triumphontour895  it is Labour's fault ?? when the party that governs and has a majority ! does not get Brexit done !! What kind of logic is that ? A part of the Tory MPs campaigned for Leave, May said she would deliver, BoJo strongly campaigned for Leave, they just had to do it in parliament. - Oh the TORIES were split on that so it did not happen !
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  39. BoJo has now as SOFT Brexit (according to Farage). With no worker's right protection and Labour would have a SOFT Brexit WITH worker and consumer protection. - Labour would have presented that to the people and let them decide. The Tories in parliament were SPLIT on Brexit (some oligarchs wanted a Hard Brexit because it would serve their interests, while those MPs who work with the manufacturing industry were panicking).
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  40. Nope he said the manifesto was supported. Which is true, they developed it (well reworked the 2017) at the party conference. Which are party MEMBERS. I think the party also decided the strategy how to tackle Brexit, the Remain fraction was for that course (MPs like Ruth Smeeth will not acknowledge that now, she was Remain in a 70 % leave seat. Got ushered in in 2015, narrowly won it in 2017. Voted against party orders with the Remain fraction of the Tories. Now she blame Corbyn / the party for loosing her seat. Maybe SHE should have worked her district ?? Good thing that snake is out, a backstabber from the very beginning (she is a Friend of Israel), and one that leveraged anti-semitism against Corbyn and Marc Wadsworth.
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  41.  @jamesbradley582  Of course he will, he would deliver the hard brexit, make his cut and be out of the door. Same with Rees-Mogg. BoJo was NOT happy the morning after the referendum, not sure about Farage though. And the oligarchs are split on this, the ones that produces something are Remain (or soft very soft Brexit), but some of them can see the advantage. The economic crisis would deliver the pretext to turn the U.K. (or England) in a tax haven, they could slash the rights of workers, consumers, ....
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  42. But No - the U.K. citizens can't have free dental or free (or very afffordable and good) childcare.
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  43. So... the NEC appeased the Friends of Israel, other lobby groups and the Blairites. And OF COURSE the Blairites WILL ASSIST the TORIES further in the "anti-semitism" circus. this is about MAKING LABOUR LOSE the NEXT GE **. Avoiding to talk about the economic issues (which are against the neoliberal agenda and the City of London does not like the idea of Corbyn being PM either) ** I recommend BBC: Labour: The Summer that changed everything youtube.com/watch?v=sWnIpHAHaaE&t=1877s go to 30 : 00 The BBC accompagnied 4 MPs (no fans of Corbyn) during the campaign for the snap election in June 2017. So their reaction for the first accouncement on TV at 10 pm is recorded. ....one could assume they would have been pleasantly surprised..... Go watch it. Hint: one of them reacted as to be expected. Broke into a wide smile once he realized that a hung parliament was a possibility and the Tories had done worse and Labour much better than expected. Stephen Kinnock could not muster a smile, not immediately and not later (not even a fake one). Lucy Powell sprung into busy mode - loud utterances of surprise, doing calculations about majorities, and speculations about May stepping down - but also no signs of JOY (if only for fellow MPs that would keep their seat). The only good thing: the NEC was elected with a crowd that is supportive of Corbyn - all 9 of them. They can now pass the rules to make the party more responsive to the base - and have mandatory reselection. Someone should run against this neoliberal shill.
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  44.  @arcadia449  no, he didn't smear Boris. The Tories already have partially privatized the NHS. A PFI, here forcing a contract on them there - they will not admit it of course, a death by 1000 cuts. The Tories have been hostile towards the NHS since 1948. The NHS is not allowed to hire more doctors but must be staffed. So they need to pay contractors (doctors), which is of course more expensive in the end. But if the NHS hires a doctor no one makes a profit of it, the doctor gets the wage and that's it.
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  45.  @arcadia449  True to neoliberal form Blair started it, and the Tories did not stop the nonsense (or reverse it) but were glad to expand it.
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  46. Austerity was the reaction which the Tories CHOSE (and they could have asked an economist or studied history). But they did not want the best economic strategy: "Never let a good crisis go to waste" - to privatize public housing (if the councils are underfunded they must sell some), to defund the NHS to argue later how it needs privatization and to and slash welfare. The GFC was allowed to build up when Blair was PM and London and New York had a race to the bottom regarding deregulation. That would of course ALSO have happened under the Tories. That said that moron Alan Johnson was Home Secretary of Blair, lets sum up: lying to get the country into the Iraq war and looking the other way regarding finance, also starting the PFI nonsense and accepting lots of immigrants - but not willing to expand the services proportionally. - he can keep his mouth shut, New Labour lost the election 2010 deservedly, and they lost again with a centrist in 2015.
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  47. War monger, liar, shill of big finance. Asleep at the wheel while the financial crisis built up (The City of London and New York SE had a race to the bottom going on regarding deregulation.
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  48. Now BoJo has enough rope to hang himselves, his ego will get into his way. Farage said that his last proposal was softer than the last proposal of May. So he can either try to sell a Brexit-in-name-only. Or crashing out. I guess the industry stepped on the toes of the Tories (they are donors and they provide jobs for ex-politicians) so .....
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  49.  @witwovideo6667  Alan Johnson was Home Minister under Blair - so under him MI5 groomed the reservists of moderate terrorists. search for Salman Abedi Manchester bomber, Manchester Boys and Libyan Islamic Fighting Group - enjoy
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  50.  @witwovideo6667  alan Johnson part of the cabinet that lead the working class (soldiers) into a war based on a lie (and blair knew it was b.s. Germany and France knew it too, Bush / Cheney were livid but they did not go along with that crusade.
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