Comments by "sososoprano" (@sososoprano1) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

  1. I’m worried that the one promise he’ll follow through on will be no more elections.
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  2. Carla Denyer was right. When Starmer promised “change” he meant Labour were changing into the Tories.
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  3. @almostthere-q6c- I’m very far from intelligent yet it’s very clear to me that Reform will only do us harm. Unless you’re very rich, of course.
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  4.  @jim-es8qk - an entire stock of cheap housing exists where there are no jobs.
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  5.  @johnroekoek12345 - ha ha. Good little joke!
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  6. We all need to work on that. I got very depressed yesterday evening when I saw the polling in Islington North, with Labour way ahead, not because people don’t like Corbyn but because they pay no attention whatsoever to politics, even if naturally left leaning. In some ways I can hugely empathise because the politics we see on TV is such a turn off. We need to do better than that.
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  7.  @jim-es8qk  - yes, but it’s going to take my son 7½ hours to get from Leeds to Andover this coming Sunday for a work meeting lasting three days. He hasn’t been able to find somewhere he can afford to rent near work so far, so for now he’s back living with me.
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  8. Yes, I remember it being said in the 70s. Some of us were well aware back then, did our best on a personal level and to try to get the message out, but we were dismissed as cranks. My MP is Rachel Reeves. I’m voting Green.
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  9.  @loc4725 - Last winter, 4,950 people died because their homes were cold, according to research by UCL and the Institute of Health Equity based on data from the Office for National Statistics, where 21.5 per cent of excess winter deaths are attributed to cold homes. We know fuel bills are going to increase by at least 10%. I don’t understand why some people think all, or nearly all, pensioners are in exactly the same circumstances as the rich ones.
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  10. Yes, and thank goodness for a bit of hope that there are decent people like him on our side.
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  11. I’ve never understood what “culture” means despite being almost 70 and never having lived anywhere but the UK. Perhaps that’s because I’ve always been a misfit. I remember, for example, being at primary school and bringing in the things we were asked to bring in for BBC nature programmes on the radio. It was made VERY clear to me by the others that wasn’t socially acceptable. My “culture” wasn’t theirs.
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  12. There are a large number in my 50s born women’s pension groups who are now saying they won’t ever vote Labour again. My worry is they’ll opt for Reform instead.
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  13.  @loc4725 - clearly one of the problems is that nobody on the new state pension qualifies for the WFA now. Perhaps you think that £220.20 per week is a vast fortune, but don’t forget some pensioners are still paying off mortgages and a great number are paying rent. Also, we tend to feel the cold more as we age, even me with Outer Hebrides genes in me, and that leaves us more susceptible to illness and so costing the NHS more.
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  14. You can get a good idea of that from some of Richard’s other videos and/or blogs.
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  15.  @jim-es8qk  - so you expect people to come up with unsubstantiated claims? Why?
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  16.  @MRW515 - so you’re saying he’s putting a stop to himself? You’re completely mistaken about that. He’s doing quite the opposite.
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  17. I have no idea how you can say that after his speech at Madison Square Gardens, as well as that of the other speakers. It was terrifying.
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  18. I knew the naysayers would quickly turn up. You are a huge part of the problem, disgustingly so.
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  19.  @private-citizen-NO1 - most people have disregarded that, but I’m haunted by the fact that Trump said “if you vote for me this November, in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."
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  20. Except I want to enjoy what I eat, so I’ll continue to have a biscuit, or currently a mince pie, or a portion of rhubarb crumble (I’ve still got rhubarb in the freezer from the huge pile my neighbour gave me and my own rhubarb plant will be harvestable next year). I do use whole milk though and butter, though I spread my morning toast with tahini. Admittedly there was a fair amount of butter and cheese in the vegetable and walnut cobbler I made yesterday. I don’t really know what most people eat. I do know that the majority of products in supermarkets is stuff I’d never buy, and I’ve never understood why nearly everyone thinks those breakfast cereals are a healthy start to the day. I’ve always been a weirdo.
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  21. But if you have to move into a nursing home, don’t you have to sell your house to pay for the fees?
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  22.  @stephenhaywood5672  - there is no point in going with a so-called party that is even more right wing. I would never vote for a privately owned right wing lobbying group run by very rich businessmen.
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  23. It’s because I feel inadequate that I pay little attention to adverts, always switching the sound of TV ads off. I hate being patronised and advertisers so often treat us as if we all have IQs of -12. I think the reason I hate being patronised is that I don’t like being reminded that I’m much less intelligent that I’d like to be, or something along those lines. I honestly don’t under how people put up with TV ads.
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  24.  @reallymakesyouthink - I’ve read what he said and looked again, but still don’t understand what he means.
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  25. I think it’s because Musk supports the far right a lot more than Gates does.
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  26. I don’t understand your objection to Richard’s stance on climate change.
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  27.  @ster2600 - do you think we should all work until we drop dead?
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  28. He did say before the election that it would be the last, that people would never have to vote again.
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  29. Richard has shown many times how superficial and wrong that teaching on the economy is.
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  30.  @winterfrost37  - who did? I certainly didn’t! I voted Green.
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  31. Completely agree. I used to work in a primary school. I remember the despair of a Year 4 teacher who showed me two stories written the previous day, both full of creativity and imagination, but only one of which she could mark “right” because that used lots of fronted adverbials which was the theme for that term. Knowing how to use them was one thing, but to use only that phraseology for a whole term…? One of the other TAs in that school had an art degree. She was an “old hippie”, like me. She was really skilled at teaching the children how to produce some great artwork that showed great creativity. The school walls were covered in the children’s artwork. It made the old, crumbling school a joy to walk into. Sadly, shortly after she and the old head retired, (me too) the new head had all artwork taken down. It was replaced by nothing. I heard tales of how children there who used to love school were now bored. The last teacher I worked with, who had loved her job and who got to get the children to really enjoy being there, began to feel the opposite. She dreaded going to work because it had become so prescribed, stripped of the joy of learning. Awful, just awful.
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  32.  @stephfoxwell4620 - yes, it’s in line with the average wage rise. I don’t understand why people are upset by that, especially since many pensioners, particularly women, don’t have a private pension.
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  33. Nothing socialist about either of those countries.
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  34. This is the sort of thing some commenting here refuse to understand.
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  35.  @Clodhopping  - four Green MPs were elected by people who thought it wasn’t a wasted vote.
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  36. You mean because Trump lies all the time Richard should believe what he’s said about tariffs either?
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  37. I don’t know one person who thinks Starmer will be any good, that includes some who rejoined the Labour Party when he became leader. They have no hope that Rachel Reeves will make anything better either and there’s certainly no way I’ll be voting for her. My daughter might vote Labour if they come out with something strong about childcare but she lives in one of the few areas where the Tories hugely increased their vote share in the local elections. I don’t think Starmer has the vision to see that Reeves has to change or be replaced.
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  38. I’d have thought one answer to that would be to employee enough agents to have the lines open more hours so that people didn’t have to use those “peak times”.
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  39.  @daveisbrill  - of course not, but nevertheless, but part of my lack of understanding about what culture is supposed to be is because my mother was born and brought up on the Isle of Lewis and the culture there is very different to that in central Scotland where I was brought up, so I never understood why we were supposed to be “one” separate from people from other countries. Also, my PERSONAL “culture” is very different from most people around me. I’m from a council house in a mining town, always been on a low income, but worked in a few radical worker co-operatives, I love classical music (particularly string quartets), sing in a choral society, have always been pretty left wing, I swear a lot, and I’m very far from intelligent. I guess it’s because I don’t fit any stereotype that “cultural values” are pretty meaningless to me. It’s a lonely place to be, and I have very little self confidence, but I can’t change who I am. All I can say is I find a commonality with other people simply because we’re human beings rather than where we’re from.
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  40. Here was me thinking we were all human beings on a planet increasingly in peril. Didn’t realise those in other countries were lesser beings.
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  41. At one time I would have been perplexed by people with those top two priorities yet vote Tory, but now there’s little reason for them to vote Labour instead.
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  42.  @Spartan-jg4bf  - except according to recent data and reports from organizations like the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), green energy, particularly solar and wind power, is now generally cheaper than fossil fuels in most parts of the world, with the cost of renewable energy technologies rapidly dropping due to technological advancements; making it the most cost-effective option for new electricity generation.
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  43. @Jethro-q6u- no, it’s refined carbohydrates that are bad for you, not that food group in itself.
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  44. Of course they are! You’re forgetting they’re in disguise, though not a particularly good one.
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  45. Oh but according to some here, that level of income means we’re rich! Their attitude sickens me.
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  46. You’ll find even wealthy people like you must be might find themselves bankrupt when we have an American-style insurance base health system. Reform has become more honest recently that this is what they desire. You should be very wary.
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  47. So is altruism. Our “human nature,” according to the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, is to be social and engaged and connected to others. We cannot survive without human attachments. Recent studies have found that the “default network” of the brain — the part of the brain that’s active when we’re “not doing anything” — is the social network. When our minds have time to wander, we think about other people and our self and our relationships. The huge success of media is an obvious example of our deep need for this connection with others
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  48. I don’t either and I won’t be. I’ve done my best to make the world a better place, but having recently moved to a different city even that will be forgotten. I decided some years ago that I’m not having a funeral, though I was still living in the place where I knew lots of people. My ex-father in law didn’t want and didn’t have one either, lovely man though he was. I can really relate to his decision.
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  49. Some of us have been saying this, campaigning about this, since the 70s. We tried, but what we failed to do was get these ideas outside the small bubble I now realise we were in, failed spectacularly. For that, I apologise.
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  50. @ - oh I completely agree that neither Labour nor the Conservatives are on the side of working people. I think “flooding” is a huge exaggeration. Clearly we have a skills shortage in this country and it’s going to take far too long to train “white British” people to do those jobs, if that’s your desire. Me, I don’t care about where people were born or the colour of their skin. I care about what kind of people they are, if they’re willing to contribute positively and are caring and compassionate rather than out to uncaringly exploit others.
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