Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "A Different Bias" channel.

  1.  @FuriousImp  It is happening as we speak. The US has temporarily escaped, but the UK is well down that path. Other nations as well: Hungary, Poland. And in others nations more and more people fall for the lies. Like in the NL, people voting for FvD.
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  2. What are the odds that the moment Labour comes into power, the media start crying murder about the same policies they welcomed under the Tories? The media are the main cause of Britain's problems.
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  3. ​ @Jay...777  Just look at the concept of the whip. That is an absolute mockery of democracy. As a government, it is your job to satisfy the MPs, not the other way around. MP's derive their authority from their voters, not from their party. In our (Dutch) constitution, it specifically says that MPs vote without burden (or obligation, the word has several meanings in English). Even mentioning something like a whip would cause the immediate termination of a government where I live.
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  4. These trade "deals" and food imports will only make things worse. Apart from undercutting what is left of UK agriculture, they will place more demands on logistical systems and worsen the trade imbalance. For a real solution, I am sorry to say, a lot of people need to move from the cities to the countrysides and start work in agriculture. A sensible government will create incentives to do that. But then, a sensible government would work on realigning with the EU as a first priority, so I fully expect this government to make things worse than they are.
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  5. Reminds me of the propaganda in East-Germany: "No-one mention any shortages of bread. There is plenty of bread."
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  6. ​ @mickeythompson9537  Corbyn should have not been so egoistical and co-operated with other parties. Then a non-tory would now be PM without the need for the 2019 GE. But no, he wanted to be PM himself. Well, he gambled with the future of the UK, and lost.
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  7. Seems like BRegret will be the word of the year 2022...
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  8.  @jasbindersingh2441  "The issue ain't brexit" As Brexit was about getting rid of the forinners that stole British jobs, the sudden shortage of drivers is definitely a consequence of Brexit. Or, at least of how Brexit was executed. They got rid of the forinners, all at once. Turns out, those forinners did work vital to the British economy. Now everything goes tits up. Who would have thought?
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  9. "We hold all the cards" Utter bollocks.
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  10. Sadly, the period between the short term and the long term is going to be dark indeed. Britain will be needing food aid: another Brexit dividend.
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  11. ​ @andypeutherer4218  Sadly it looks like the Tories will be in power for the foreseeable future, and disaster will strike before they give it up. Time to leave the sinking ship...
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  12. "not to let them drive the trucks" But where could they go? You're on an island!
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  13.  @Gary-bz1rf  Obviously you are ignorant of the billions (!) of € in fines that have already been issued to banks that were slack in rejecting dirty money.
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  14. Exactly. People who still think Conservatism (neo-liberalism) is any good, should read up on what liberalism originally led to. Any Dickens novel will do. Or e.g. Les Miserables. The main duty of any civilised government is to protect the weak from the strong. All nations that do not are doomed to self-destruction, at tremendous cost to the weak.
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  15. ​ @tonymccake3057  Indeed. A wise man once taught me to NEVER go away from a bad situation, but only to go TOWARDS a better situation. The only valid exception I know of this rule is for a wife to seek shelter from an abusive husband. That she should definitely do, even if she doesn't know yet where to go. So the capital mistake at the heart of Brexit is that they only wanted to get out of the EU, without the foggiest notion of where to go from there. Bozo revealed his deeply flawed approach to Brexit with his infamous and infuriating "Brexit means Brexit" wisecrack. The Moron. I don't normally insult political leaders or heads of state, but make an exception for Bozo and Dump for their total lack of sense of responsibility or duty.
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  16. Only for their mates. Brexit and the pandemic created opportunities to make oodles of money for some people close to the government.
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  17. What, Tories being hypocrites? The horror!
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  18. He didn't need Brexit to buy beer from outside the EU. Could have done that for centuries already. I hear Corona (the Beer) is getting real popular here in the Netherlands, for instance.
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  19. "No way to restore party discipline" -- which would be one step towards a real democracy. The whole concept of "whips" is an affront to democracy. The practice is outright illegal in my country (Netherlands).
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  20. A constitution would not help you. You need direct representation. And you need good media, who tell things as they are instead of misleading the sheeple.
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  21. Project Fear, mate! Or is that Project Hear? Cause that seems to be the problem: the Brits only listened to who they wanted to listen to.
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  22. WTO rules with added economic sanctions...
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  23. ​ @watfordgap6737  Not at all. If you are divorced already, the divorce of someone else does not change anything for you. You wanting all marriages to fail only shows how bitter you have become.
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  24. He tried. But the Ukrainians stood up against it and made the traitor run for his life (in 2014).
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  25. ​ @robertlee6338  Knowing that people were shot during the protests, that uprising definitely required balls, and big ones too. Between 70 and 100 protesters were brutally murdered by the traitor's security forces.
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  26.  @alanhollands8901  US voters have been voting against their self-interest for decades as well.
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  27. At the moment the Pound is keeping its value at between 1.1 and 1.2 euro per pound. That is because the BoE is doing its worst to keep the pound high, and the ECB is doing its best to keep the Euro low. We will see that value of the pound drop as the impact of Brexit comes home.
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  28.  @johncoffey1483  Most certainly: the Brexit referendum caused an immediate drop from 1.3 euro per pound to the current level.
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  29. Boris description of his government was spot on.
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  30. The biggest bonus of a PR voting system is that parties become less adversarial. British politics is permeated with the "winner takes it all" mentality, and all-or-nothing policies. With PR, the winner does NOT take it all. He needs to work together with other parties to find a majority coalition. This will weed out extremist policies, like Brexit or Free Cities etc, and will make politics much more civil and respectful -- because politicians know they may need to work together at some point. It tends to move major parties towards the center, where most voters are, and gives room for more extremist / visionary / activist parties to represent the views of various smaller groups of voters. That will result in more political engagement of the voters.
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  31. Logistics is like a delicate conveyor belt. Stop it anywhere, and the whole system collapses. Ships that can't unload can also not load for the return trip. Lorries stuck in customs areas the same. And the UK is more than ever dependent on imports from the EU.... It's going to be a long, cold and hungry winter...
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  32.  @therealrobertbirchall  Obviously there will be a real, hard border between Scotland and England. Luckily, most of the border is river with just a few crossings.
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  33.  @therealrobertbirchall  I am not anti-English, I have lived there. But I fear the political realities will make any alternative impossible. I expect England to harden its anti-EU stance making any deal that requires trust a pipe dream. Scotland has to choose between freedom and rebuilding its economy together with the EU, or sinking into dictatorship and poverty with England. In 2014, I was against independence. But now, to remain with England will mean suicide.
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  34.  @baronvonlimbourgh1716  Shell will not be barred, it will be forced to pay the taxes it dodged by moving to the UK using the new international minimum taxation frameworks. But this time, the Dutch government won't be able to help them.
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  35. Perhaps now the Tories will be in favour of PR. In the past, the Tories have always benefited from First Past The Post. But now it seems they have sunk below the threshold where it hurts them.
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  36.  @creativecascades1328  That is definitely not true. There are many people in Britain that are in food poverty. Cheap food is usually not healthy. Obesity is not so much caused by too much food, but by unhealthy food with too many empty calories, that make you fat without fulfilling your nutritional needs (proteins, fibers, vitamins, minerals etc).
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  37. The comparison of what these media figures do with the discharge of effluent is a nice one!
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  38. Great metaphor. Indeed, this is the goal of the EU: to bind economies together so that future conflicts become suicide. As the UK is kindly demonstrating.
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  39. Brexit has always reminded me of the "upper class twit of the year" contest.
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  40. ​ @ADifferentBias  While at the surface and in the short term Hungary is a challenge for the EU, it will come round in the future as its culture is infused with input from freer nations and its economy gets more sensitive to "gentle nudges" from the other member states. We see this already in Poland, where support for its dictator seems to be declining. In the end, Hungary is too small to permanently endanger the EU, and the strength of the EU is its diplomacy and economy, not its rhetoric nor sanctions.
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  41. Labour shouldn't let itself be pinned down when asked about their Brexit plans. They should give two barrels to the Tories for a). turning Brexit into a disaster, and for b). making the poor pay the Brexit costs, then shift to how they will fight for more equality.
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  42. Phil is also leaving a public record of his observations that can be used to reconstruct exactly what happened and when. It will be useful in the post-mortem phase to understand how it could have gone so tits-up. More and more people will find this channel and understand how they have been conned.
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  43.  @rocketsurgeon2135  Me, I am all for the UK triggering A16! As someone said, "Go ahead, make my day", and "Do you feel lucky, punk?" But then, I live in the Netherlands, and Brexit has been a big win for us up to now.
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  44. As everybody who had a look at the UK trade balance would have noticed long before Brexit.
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  45. The fun will really start when the UK government runs out of international credit and won't be able to import food anymore. It will take a few years, but that day will come.
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  46. The biggest issue with Britain right now is not the corruption of the Tory party but the corruption of the media. The UK can not recover as a democracy while the media is carrying on as it is.
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  47. So they want to get back to the conditions of the 19th century. But they forget that what level of luxury a Lord had in 1820, pales in comparison to what is available to the average Joe in the EU. The riches of the wealthy are created by the spending of the poorer. Poorer spend less, rich get less profits. By making everybody poorer, they also reduce their own standard of living compared to what it could have been.
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  48. Tories are all for a devolved government. Devolved into a dictatorship, that is.
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  49. The public will slowly come to realize that the UK government is acting in Russia's interests instead of its own...
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  50. ​ @johnproton259  "They presumed the EU would always behave reasonably" I think it is perfectly reasonable to confront a bad-faith negotiator with a foretaste of the consequences.
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