Comments by "" (@Bungle-UK) on "Professor Tim Wilson" channel.

  1. That fact alone tells you everything that is going wrong with this country.
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  2.  @PlanetaryCitizen  You’ve every right to grumble as the state is paying your fare so the bus company is benefiting from your patronage. However, pass remuneration is a key part of the problem because the money the bus company gets for each pass holder journey is pitifully low, meaning bus fares are often higher then needed to essentially subsidise the pass holders. The whole ‘free’ bus pass system hasn’t been funded properly since it was introduced under Blair. There seems to be a theme that everything the government sticks it’s nose into tends to get worse!
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  3.  @PlanetaryCitizen  Yes, it was fully implemented in 2008. Originally you became eligible aged 60 but it is now linked to the age you become eligible for the state pension. I’ve never understood why buses are so badly neglected - nationally, about 12 times more journeys are made by bus than rail yet buses receive less that 5% of the subsidy trains receive. Poorer people make far more bus journeys and fewer rail journeys, so the taxpayer is essentially heavily subsidising railways for better off people. As ever, it’s all crazy!
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  4.  @ToCoSo  You really need to do some research. Subsidy in the 5 years from 1988 rose from £1bn to £3bn. After an all time low in 1982, passenger numbers rose steadily after that aside from a temporary dip in the early 1990s as the recession affected commuter numbers.
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  5. Surely a simple clause in the contract along the lines of ‘payment issued following receipt of goods made to the required specifications’ would have stopped this? That said, the government and civil service are beyond useless at procuring anything. It’s not just a Westminster disease - see the Scottish ferries.
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  6. Please don’t fall into the left’s trap of using the term ‘LGBTQ’ which promotes a false relationship between the issues of sexuality and gender identity….plenty of gay people, myself included, resent this association with, ironically, a deeply homophobic ideology.
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  7. Family reunions.
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  8. So women in politics are fine as long as they agree with you?
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  9. How would that help? The rail staff would still be highly overpaid and the rot in the university sector started under Blair.
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  10. Beyond parody - why do the left always default to calling people fascists or Nazis?
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  11.  @StickyBud9395  something about selling crisps to poor fat kids?
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  12. So who will pay the bills is the population gets steadily older meaning fewer people working every year? Todays workers pay todays pensions etc so fewer workers means fewer services.
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  13. 😢cancelled my license fee so will have to miss out….worth it to not give the BBC any of my hard earned cash.
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  14. We need to remove the nonsensical ‘green belt’ while ensuring we protect truly important rural landscapes such as national parks, and improving access to them! There’s no point having rules which prevent housing being built where it is needed.
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  15. Average wage for a guard is £30-£35k….that’s more than the starting wage for nurses and rail staff don’t need a degree. They are not poorly paid at all.
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  16. I’ve never worked out why these ‘go fund me’ type things are legal….who regulates them to stop any old fake vicar making up reasons to give them cash?
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  17. He must have expensive tastes….he only got sacked this week and is already begging for tens of thousands of pounds.
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  18. So sorry to hear that, it’s devastating to say goodbye to a loved one but always worth remembering the joy you gave each other.
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  19. To be fair, you seem to be contradicting yourself there by complaining about the state of the infrastructure at the same time as bemoaning work going on to improve it….the railways will always need maintaining and that inevitably causes disruption. As for the staff, the industry is so heavily unionised they knew it’s virtually impossible to get rid of anyone, no matter how useless.
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  20. I guess the prequel to praise for doing a good job is actually doing a good job in the first place….can you see the problem?
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  21.  @JesusHChrist-q9d  It’s a reasonable question given that a sensible government would have a ballpark target and infrastructure/public service service provision to match. By contrast, the approach since 1997 has been to see who turns up and then deal with them. Population growth, whether imported or domestic, should be sustainable and accounted for in future plans. It isn’t ‘racist’ to say a target of say £125k is sustainable.
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  22. If people want safety, what’s wrong with that safe country not being the UK? If your life really is in danger, can you afford to be so picky about your place of safety?
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  23. Every journey on the UK rail network this year will be subsidised by around £7.50….that’s about £11bn for a service the majority of the population never use. Just how high do people think the subsidy should be?
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  24. The rot set in when the BBC launched a 24-hour news channel meaning they went from 30 minute bulletins that reported what had happened to filling airtime with talking heads….they moved from reporting facts to broadcasting opinions.
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  25.  @jackdubz4247 you’re one of those ‘anything to the right of the sainted Corbyn is far right’ nutters 😂
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  26. Genuinely hilarious how anyone who doesn’t support Hamas is now ‘far right’.
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  27. In the UK, the decision was made to have the traveller pay the bill of the cost of the ticket with subsidy focussed on infrastructure. Even now, every journey is subsidised by around £7.50
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  28. Certainly not defending Murdoch, but Owen Jones is one the most poisonous examples of the ‘kind’ hateful left.
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  29. Who knew that ‘common decency’ meant the support of terrorists.
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  30. Mr Blunt is a particularly odious character who tried to defend the actions of an ex-MP who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15 year old.
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  31. How is supporting terrorists a ‘peace march’?
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  32.  @10whiten99  All they need to do is not have person social media, especially Twitter. 80% of the population don’t have a Twitter account, so it’s perfectly possible. Most employers (mine included) have strict social media policies. There was a case at my local BBC radio station of a presenter who got into trouble for his tweets. It was his ‘personal’ account but he used it for work too (promoted via his radio show) and his Twitter handle had ‘bbc’ in it. Clearly the boundary between personal and warm was completely blurred, but his managers had allowed it to happen.
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  33. This whole thing is being whipped into a frenzy by the media, and the police seem to be infected with hysteria. Yet, nobody seems to care who is drifting across the Channel and promptly disappearing.
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  34. Wrongdoing exists in every party….none of them is the home of honour.
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  35.  @Geffo555  I believe more Labour MPs were prosecuted for expenses fraud than any other party. An ex-Labour MP and a current Labour peer have recently been convicted of child sexual abuse. Then there’s the Labour MP who attacked someone with acid. Let’s not forget the nonce Cyril Smith who was a member of both Labour and the Liberal Party. Corruption and wrongdoing exists on all sides.
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  36. Oh, and this scumbag is being paid tens of thousands by the same Channel 4 that’s repeatedly claimed to be a ‘public service broadcaster’.
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  37. Bill the illegals who are spreading their hate in the name of a made up god.
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  38.  @pamela7433 grooming kids
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  39. The daytime often is much more balanced than the evening output - people from the very left wing Novara media are regulars on certain shows.
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  40.  @iangascoigne8231  What are you talking about? The Met faced multiple public protests during the covid era and treated them very differently.
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  41.  @iangascoigne8231  nice to see you ignoring the point that the Met have always made different decisions for different protests. The covid era provides three clear examples, nobody is saying it is still covid time now.
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  42.  @iangascoigne8231  Of course you can. During the covid era the Met treated different protests differently….the arrested people for attending the lockdown and Everard protests, but not only allowed the BLM ones to go ahead but actively joined in. That’s inconsistent policing - exactly what Braverman was pointing out.
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  43. Too many things today are described as ‘racist’ when, in reality, they aren’t and that in turn devalues/minimises real racism. Take immigration, for example. I don’t believe most people with concerns on that issue are racist as it isn’t about skin colour or where someone comes from; there was just as much frustration around the influx of (white) Eastern Europeans 15/20 years ago. Concerns are often driven by frustration and a perceived feeling of unfairness. It’s far too easy for the usual suspects to try and shut someone up by calling them a racist, transphobe, bigot etc rather that actually engaging in a discussion.
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  44. ‘Right wing’ 🙄
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  45.  @maureenmaryconway3718  The basis of his comments were clear, and very anti-white. Only racists like Mr Useless see everything through the prism of race.
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  46.  @mikehutchison4892  So, why do BBC staff have to stand up for me? I’m perfectly capable of doing that myself! You’re suggesting that if BBC staff don’t speak up, nobody will, which is completely illogical.
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  47.  @soundmattersuk  no, you’re right, I can’t stand up for myself without Vorderman doing a weekly radio show 🙄
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  48.  @Ricks_Shorts  ah, you obviously missed the terror campaign run by Irish nationalists for several decades.
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  49.  @Ricks_Shorts  ah, so it seems Dick is a comedian who wants to compare the actions of the British army to the IRA killing civilians en masse without warning.
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  50.  @darrylsugg7230  What freedom obligations does Israel have to a terrorist state that wants to destroy it?
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