Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. So because you were poorly paid and lived in poverty, everyone should? While the richest 1% got £600 billion richer during the last 2 years? Are you crazy?
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  2. And a liar. Blaming the cost of living crisis on the war in Ukraine is re-writing history that was only 3 months ago!
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  3. Western countries still have sanctions on Syria that are preventing aid getting through.
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  4. This speech got almost no coverage on the BBC of course. They touted it as an attack on China. So much for public service broadcasting. Thanks for proper coverage C4, again 🙏🏻
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  5. Amen brother
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  6. Angela Rayner seems to have missed the fact that Labour doesn't have a majority. In this weird situation. MPs get to pick the PM directly. The party system and leadership is basically moot. Sorry Jezza.
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  7. St Michael I'll take rigorous analysis by the WHO before anecdotes and scare stories thanks. 30 million people in the USA have no access to healthcare apart from the ER. They die of curable illnesses because they can't afford basic medication like insulin. Many thousands of others are bankrupted by the cost of their care every year. Doctors make a fortune in the US, that's true. But I don't see how that is a great outcome for patients. The stats show that patient outcomes in the UK are better. And the system costs 50% as much at the same time.
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  8. They just don't want to get a 7% real terms pay cut while their bosses get a pay rise and shareholders take home profits. Can you blame them?
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  9. Supply and demand, and the industry doesn't get the massive billions in subsidies that the meat industry does.
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  10. He promised party unity and ten policy pledges that kept the best bits of Corbyn/McDonnell then promptly threw Corbyn out of the party, threw everyone from the left out of cabinet and installed a bunch of bland and uninspiring people in their places. Then he proceeded to sit back and watch as the Tories oversaw the death of 126,000 people with one of the worse death rates on Earth. All while presenting absolutely no alternative vision and ignoring the rapidly advancing climate crisis to boot. He is a complete waste of space and his leadership is tragic.
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  11. Elvynd Only the US oil majors are allowed to exploit Iraqi oil.
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  12. Oof. Dark...
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  13. It's ok. There are still Jim Davidson DVDs in the 3 for 99p bin down at Asda...
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  14. Producing meat and dairy consumes 77% of agricultural land produces a mere 17% of the calories we eat. If we cut of meat consumption in half, we could free up an area of land twice as big as the USA and feed everyone comfortably. It's a no brainier. Please cut you meat and dairy consumption today. Try it. It's easy peasy, it's good for your health, good for your wallet and it will have a big positive impact.
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  15. Because on its face it discriminates against Muslims. Gandhi died for a secular India. And now bigots like you want to throw it away. Shame.
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  16. It’s not the left. It’s everyone who care about the economy, the NHS and who recognise the benefits of the EU and the huge damage to the country that is coming if we leave without any withdrawal agreement.
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  17. "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." We have to change that reality. Capitalism is a cancer. It's time to help people understand that, and that we can (and must) do much better.
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  18.  @Dave-gn4yt  I left the UK a few years ago. I now pay higher tax than I would in the UK both from my work and from income from my company. And also from the value of my property. I pay income tax ON ALL MY INCOME at a rate of about 42% - no lower rate for dividends or capital gains. I pay for health insurance on top of that. I pay about 0.7% wealth tax every year. And it's worth every single penny. The public services are excellent. The transportation system, both in my city and around the country, is world class. The public facilities like swimming pools and sports grounds are either free or cost next to nothing to use. And no one is on the streets. And I mean no one. The reason for this is that rich people here, understand that they have a responsibility to their communities. They cannot just get rich and let the rest of their country go hungry. Paying taxes is still seen as a patriotic thing to do here. So yeah, I'm a millionaire and I advocate for higher taxes on the rich. In the UK they would work wonders given how little tax the rich currently pay, and how much unearned wealth they have accumulated. Just remember this. During COVID the government spent about £600 billion to keep the economy afloat. That is £10,000 per person. So if you arent £10,000 richer than before then someone else has your £10,000, and I can tell you who that it. It's the 1% who own your house, or who own your mortgage or who own the company that you work for, or the company your pay your energy and shopping bills to etc That's why the number of billionaires shot up during COVID. It was an absolutely bonanza for the very rich.
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  19.  @crown9413  You are factually wrong on subsidies. In fact oil and gas receive by far more subsidies- about $60 billion in the US each year On the materials, you are comparing mining for materials that can be used in batteries indefinitely with limited fossil fuels that can be used once. It's absurd to say that fossil fuels are in any way sustainable. As for cobalt, firstly the cobalt being mined in the Congo by children is about 0.4% of the global supply, but here is the kicker. Most of it is used and consumed by the petroleum industry in refining gasoline!! So go complain to Exxon! You have clearly swallowed every bullshit taking point from the fossil fuel industry hook line and sinker. It's really time you came blinking into the light and learned about their lies. https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/06/30/exxon-climate-change-undercover/
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  20.  @crown9413  There is a lot of cobalt coming from Congo but only a fraction of it is "artisanal" - ie involves child labour. Re the subsidies, that figure of $62 billion comes from a study in PNAS. It's correct. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fossilfuel-subsidies/u-s-drillers-miners-would-be-out-billions-if-paid-climate-health-costs-study-idUSKBN2BE2TS And as I said, if you are so worried about cobalt, then you should not be buying petrol/gasoline. More than 50% of the worlds supply is used AND PERMANENTLY CONSUMED in the refining of petrol. Did you ever give a toss about cobalt until you heard the oil companies using it in their propaganda? As for batteries being replaced, again, you are misinformed. Batteries built now will be in service in one form of another for at least 30 years. After which they will be recycled. When was the last time you bought a recycled litre of petrol? Also you might want to ask yourself, why you are so attached to technology that is ancient, dirty, expensive and dominated by a few very powerful very corrupt global corporations, when you have the choice of choosing a new technology that is cleaner, safer, less polluting and uses energy that you can literally generate yourself? Why the big love affair with oil? It's old and filthy.
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  21. I feel bad for the people involved personally, but their industry has wrecked the oceans. We have lost more than 80% of biomass in the oceans in the last century. And it keeps getting worse. So far Brexit has been the best thing to happen to the fish and sea life populations around our coasts in decades. That is worth celebrating. If there is one thing we are learning it's that we can't live without a healthy natural world. We cannot forget that our oceans are a vital part of that picture.
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  22. Exactly. The solution to social breakdown isn't more police. It's a more just, fair and equitable society.
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  23. Jesus. The climate denying trolls are out in force tonight aren't they.
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  24. What an appalling state of affairs that this man had any power to govern the country.
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  25. The columnist that said that Nish is "biting the hand that feeds him" is Matthew Parris.
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  26.  @titteryenot4524  you are hilarious. Someone who has been dead 200 years has no property at all. Also never mind that politicians don't copyright their speeches FFS. Genuinely. This is a great bit you're doing.
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  27.  @paulfairbairn1066  Indeed. That capitalism for you.
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  28. Corkey If there is no border in the U.K. side then you will have no control of anyone or anything in the EU entering the U.K. in unlimited numbers and completely untracked. That is an open invitation to vast smuggling of goods and people into the U.K.. I thought Brexiteers wanted to "take back control"?
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  29. @channel 4 News Great piece. Very informative and well presented. More on this please.
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  30. I suspect northern Labour voters will rue the day they gave the keys of #10 to Johnson. He has no interest in them whatsoever. He knows which side his bread his buttered and that's the billionaire donors and media magnates that keep the Tories in power. Working class voters better cross their fingers that the new king Boris looks on them with some mercy.
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  31. This is a World Cup I will be giving a miss.
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  32. The people most likely to get shot are people who own guns. And often they die at their own hands.
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  33. And when you license chicken and dairy farming at ever increasing levels with no way of dealing with the waste. Animal ag is a plague on our waterways.
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  34. Right to buy and the replacement of social housing with landlordism across the board. Renters are fodder for a machine of capital accumulation by the rich.
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  35. Paul Cockram And as for the NHS being overwhelmed by foreigners as you imply, this is xenophobic scaremongering hogwash. Health tourism was estimated at most at about £250M a year, which is 0.2% of the NHS budget of £115 billion a year. https://fullfact.org/health/health-tourists-how-much-do-they-cost-and-who-pays/
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  36. What Tories by "radical" is privatisation. Not complicated. We are losing our NHS right before our eyes. And Starmer and Wes Streeting are onboard with this.
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  37. Kaveh Zoghi So it wasn't just me that heard that! Johnson is a clown 🤦‍♂️
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  38. Goodbye capitalism. Hello techno feudalism. The only solution is collective ownership. Private ownership of power like this is the death-knell for a free and fair society.
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  39. Decades ago, scientists predicted more climate change would bring higher average temperatures. Check. Decades ago, scientists predicted more climate change would bring more droughts. Check. Decades ago, scientists predicted more climate change would bring more fires. Check. Decades ago, scientists predicted more climate change would bring more powerful storms and more flooding . Check. Decades ago, scientists predicted more climate change would bring melting ice caps. Check. Decades ago, scientists predicted more climate change would bring sea level rise. Check. We have done the experiment. The scientists were right. And yet millions are still believing propaganda from the Koch Brothers that there is no man made climate change 🤦‍♂️ We are so fucked.
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  40. That's what a hurricane, supercharged by climate change, does
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  41. Johnson is a clown and a shyster. We are about to be treated to the international humiliation that the US has been suffering for the last 3 years. Tories, look at you have done to the country and it's reputation.... SMH.
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  42.  Nisr Masry88 𓅓𓁺𓄿𓁼𓃭𓎦𓏭 𓂝  The polish government literally told them to form a militia and go back to Syria to fight against ISIS.
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  43. They were asylum seekers fleeing Uganda. Such people would be turned away under her rules.
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  44. Dolphins: good, save them Fish: who cares. Kill them. Sea lions: good, save them Sharks: who cares. Kill them. This is madness. We don't need to eat any of these animals. Let's just stop supporting this horrible trade, and leave nature to recover.
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  45.  just ask  What. So the discussion can be dominated by ignorant fools like you who have swallowed every fossil fuel lie hook line and sinker? My phone isn't causing an existential climate crisis. Burning billions of tonnes of fossil fuels every year is. And until you realise just how horribly to have been lied to, and just how much trouble we are in right now, you are going to have to keep hearing about it from people like me. And AOC. And Greenpeace. And Arnie, etc
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  46. Go check the comments on the Sun's version of this. Tragic craven reverence and unconditional gratitude to their cult leader. 🤮😢
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  47. BeGood 2Me Britain was still the colonial ruler of India in 1946. The world has changed since then and countries don't buy and sell their territories, and their populations with them, like chattel anymore, not the civilised ones anyway. It was an absurd idea from an absurd man. He said it was a mere "real estate deal". He doesn't even notice that the people of Greenland would suddenly be ruled by a totally different government, one with a completely different culture and different objectives. Believe it or not, most of the planet would actually hate to be ruled by the US government with all is corruption, greed and callousness.
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  48. This is the kind of crisis that makes change possible. We have to make sure it's a change that works for ordinary people. Enough is Enough. #eiecampaign
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  49. When it's time to stop talking and start delivering, our governments prove themselves either completely pathetic or psychopathic.
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  50. Correct. Fear of foreigners. Fear of people stealing jobs or attacking women. Fear of invasion. Fear of terrorists. On and on. All to divert attention from the real causes of our problems - a wealthy corporate elite that own the media, own our data and increasingly own our governments with their "political donations" = bribes.
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