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

  1.  @cinderball1135  He literally just ditched one 24 hours ago. Nationalising the energy suppliers. And on uniting the party, he set about dividing the party and eliminating the left from any positions of power and influence from day one. Which is why the membership is in free fall. And as for effective opposition, well that has clearly been a massive failure. He personally is way behind Johnson in the polls and the party is pretty much always behind the Tories as well. And note, when it comes to polling, that his support started to collapse AFTER he kicked out Corbyn from the PLP, not before. He will never be PM. Though I truly hope Labour can turn it around somehow because the £28 billion on climate is actually a good policy. He has kicked members in the teeth and they are leaving in droves and he will never get the press on board unless he sells out completely and the Tories somehow get on the wrong side of Murdoch etc, so no one will be there to campaign for him when the time comes.
    8
  2. You mean they are going actual news instead of Hasbara?
    8
  3.  @AgentGreyFox  starmer's labour are indistinguishable from Cameron Tories.
    8
  4. Those arms manufacturers are greedy. They want all the wars they can get.
    8
  5. Great reporting C4. If they want jobs in Whitehaven they should be investing in clean energy projects which have a future, not technology from the 1700s that is literally killing the planet.
    8
  6. Self-serving self-deception
    8
  7.  @joeblogs6598  Texas has a highly deregulated energy market dominated by fossil fuels. Did you see what happened when they had a cold snap a couple of years ago? Due to low standards for weatherisation (protection from severe weather) which the energy companies had lobbied government to scrap, about a tenth of the system went offline overnight. People were being charged literally tens of thousands of dollars per day for power which they had no choice but to buy to avoid freezing to death in their homes. Grow up, Markets aren't the solution to every problem. Life isn't that simple.
    8
  8. I hate to be the bearer of bad news C4, but halving emissions by 2030 is now no longer enough to hit 1.5C. That ship has already sailed when we didn't cut emissions in 2019 and 2021. Even the emissions cuts in 2020 due to COVID weren't actually fast enough.
    8
  9.  @californiadreamin8423  This isn't pragmatic. It's a takeover by the right wing. It's blue team red team politics. What's the point in voting Labour when they go so far right that they aren't substantially different to the Tories? What's the point when they represent the same oligarchic interests as the Tories. That is the New Labour playbook. It's centrist mildly SocDem rule with a rose tacked on. I was perfectly happy with the pitch that Starmer made during the leadership election. But he has gone back on that almost in full now. Do you expect everyone that he lied to and let down to just suck it up? If his pitch is competence and integrity, then he ends up much less popular than Johnson AND breaks his promises, then what's the point of him? He is a lying loser.
    8
  10.  @Praylak  You're not wrong. But they can be stopped. IF we are out on the streets and striking to demand radical change. That's why I am with XR, but there are other groups that you can join. We are the massive majority. The economy cannot function without our labour. Time to use those facts, get organised and get very serious about this fight.
    8
  11.  @dragonfly6908  for making a stupid comment in a newspaper which she immediately apologised for. She didn't steal your taxes.
    8
  12. No. You just don't be able to buy food reliably. Or get clean water reliably. And your house might get flooded. Or burned down. Or you might die of heat stress in a 40+C heat wave. Or you might contract dengue or limes disease from invasive insects. Etc etc.
    8
  13. "We could go a... bit further." - Kwasi Kwarteng, 2019 🤦‍♂️
    8
  14. Martin The fact that the idea that we should save civilisation and not kill off hundreds of millions of people strikes you as "radical left" maybe tells you that the right is evidently insane.
    8
  15. I support saving the lives and homes of Ukrainians. That is not achieved by fighting Russia "to the last Ukrainian" as the Americans have said they want to.
    8
  16. I read an article in the LA Times that described finding out how serious the climate emergency is being like Neo taking the red pill in The Matrix. Once you have seen the reality of it, you cannot unsee it, and the world forever looks very different. It's a profoundly uncomfortable truth, but one that we have to fully accept and then drive action to respond to.
    7
  17.  @Dubya-i3v  nice to see that full blown misanthropy in all its repellent glory. Don't hide your hatred of people. It makes your ideas all the more easy to reject.
    7
  18.  @psps2034  They got record pay under the last Labour government. Their pay has fallen 10% since 2010.
    7
  19. Talking to colleagues in India, they still support Modi. It's unbelievable. Frighteningly like people's senseless support of Trump 😢
    7
  20. Hard to argue with that...
    7
  21. Livestock farming is the most destructive industry on the planet. It causes the large majority of deforestation, habitat loss and species extinction. And if we don't cut back on animal agriculture very substantially, we cannot deal with the climate crisis. Farming plants is 6-10x more productive than livestock agriculture so you need a fraction of the land.
    7
  22. The only decent coverage in U.K. MSM. Thank you.
    7
  23. Matthew Cunningham And yet he plead guilty to the offence. Either he had a very bad lawyer or he should be appealing.
    7
  24. This is the last chance to stop the climate crisis running out of control. 🌍🔥😢 The Climate crisis is a bigger issue than Brexit by 100x. Brexit will be forgotten in 100 years. The climate crisis will be still be feeling felt in 1000 years. Literally. Now is genuinely our last chance. We must stop the Tories being given control of our climate because they will wreck it.
    7
  25. Anecdotes aren't data. Grow up and accept the fact that the violence by men against women, usually that the men get away with Scott free, dwarfs anything women do to men.
    7
  26. The RCN and GMB have made a huge mistake by recommending this offer to their members. I really hope the members see through the spin and vote down the offer on the table.
    7
  27. Solidarity with the workers ✊💪🏼
    7
  28. It's partly that but it's mostly the price of lining the pockets of the fossil fuel industry. So along with destroying the planet, they are now bleeding you dry. Oh, and they pay no tax. Hate them yet?
    7
  29. Asking the First Nations people of Australia wont help much. Mankind has never been on a planet with CO2 at 415ppm and Australia is experiencing the worst heat and drought on record. The world is hotter now than at any time that humans were in Australia.
    7
  30.  @gweilo965  Lol. I'm guessing your next favourite is Roy Chubby Brown. What happened to the greats eh? 🤣🤣🤣
    7
  31.  Johnny Caruthers  I guess you are addicted to pro-corporate, pro-establishment, pro-Tory propaganda then. Sad.
    7
  32.  @zfuzzballer  He chose to lie. He chose to take the money. He chose to be part of a system of mass deception which he knows is wrecking the environment and seriously threatens the future of human civilisation within the lifetimes of his kids. He is deserving of blame. There is A LOT to go around. Also, as a matter of framing, it's a bit of a false distinction so cleanly separate corporations from government. Corporations fund and control the political system, and there is a revolving door between corporations and government. It's acts like one system of power more than it acts like two distinct systems of power.
    7
  33. No. Same taxes. Same refugees. Labour offer nothing different.
    7
  34. The right wing press has done a job on you haven't they. They love it when they see workers fighting like cats in a sack, while the rich walk off with more and more of our money.
    7
  35.  @CmdrTobs  have you looked at affordability of rentals in those countries though? In Germany, rent is on average 27% of income. In the U.K. it's 33%, but that is the mean and hides the extremely high rents in cities like Manchester and London. Those countries also have much better conditions for renters with far better protections. In any case, comparing against Germany which is suffering from the effects of neoliberalism as well is hardly useful. Germany also has a decades long housing crisis! Oh and I just checked. Home rental is the highest percentage of income in two decades.
    7
  36. Enriching billionaires while people starve, all the while creating a climate catastrophe, is generally considered "a bad thing" by normal functioning human beings, yes.
    7
  37. And here was me expecting a discussion about the ethical, environmental and health impacts of the food system. Apparently Jay Rayner has no interest in these central issues.
    7
  38. Well said. This is the underlying issue that very few people, including on the left, have any idea about. It's not an accident that our society is racist. It was a deliberate project of divide-and-rule class war and it goes back centuries. It's as plain as day when you actually learn the history, but of course, it's not history that is taught in schools because capitalists have so entrenched their power that such "radical" knowledge is effectively taboo now. This is one of those areas of society and culture where, if you want the unvarnished horrific truth, look at the example of America. Our system is very similar to theirs in very important ways - the biggest difference is that our wealthy elite class is much more discrete and subtle in how it monopolised power for its own interests.
    7
  39. It's best for the Tories and their corporate cronies. Not the people.
    7
  40.  @robertsandiford6223  yes representative democracy on its own can be improved upon. So have citizens assemblies as well. I would suggest more referendums like in Switzerland but in the U.K., the billionaire media is far too effective as skewing those votes. Once the media is reformed though and people have something approaching an accurate understanding of issues with which to make decisions then you could add in some direct democracy that way. But first things first. Fix the criminally unfair way we elect our representatives in parliament.
    7
  41. Change the record buddy. It's 2022.
    7
  42. This attack is supposedly in response to an attack on US troops in Iraq. That attack was by an IRAQI militia albeit with Iranian backing. This has nothing to do with that attack and everything to do with Iraq planning to kick out US troops and oil majors out of Iraq, costing the military industrial complex and the US oil majors billions.
    7
  43. MusbCrazy80 This was reported by The Sun weeks ago.
    7
  44. Labour will lose Hartlepool, a seat that they even won under Corbyn. Starmer has failed. Too vague. Too bland. Too empty and too weak. And frankly, a turncoat given all the promises he made to the party before his election as leader. If he had done what he promised, Labour would not be on the verge of making history by losing an opposition seat in a by-election to the sitting government.
    7
  45.  @brianarnone933  it is not illegal to seek refuge in any country that has signed the UN convention on Refugees. Like all the EU and U.K. What is illegal is denying people the right to do so.
    7
  46. Or your can just avoid 100% of the environmental destruction, carbon emissions, damage to your health and senseless cruelty, and go vegan 😀 At least cut out beef and lamb. How hard is that really?
    7
  47. That's not a question. The science concluded many years ago that 100% of warming science 1850 was attributable to human activity.
    7
  48. If this is being decided in a U.K. court then it's a sure thing that they will get away with nothing more than a slap in the wrist.
    7
  49. Does it concern you that the app stores are carrying apps that say they are secure but actually have back doors that the government can use? Sounds pretty Orwellian to me.
    7
  50. Nice try at hyper-normalisation there bro 🤣
    7