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

  1. "I'm sure they will find the best person for the job" REALLY? Have you been living under a rock? I wish I was so naive. It might be nice for a while...
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  2. #DontPayUK Enough is enough.
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  3. Don't be soft in the head. Energy prices are due to quadruple. There is near full employment and wages are falling like a stone. Wake up.
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  4. It's not a cycle. It's an apartheid state persecuting a captive occupied people. This is the judgement of Human rights Watch. It's the judgment of the UN. Until Israel ends its occupation and apartheid, this will never end. As Desmond Tutu said, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. "
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  5. Didn't your mother ever tell you that two wrongs don't make a right?
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  6. What? Nooo! 😢 I will really miss Jon. A broadcaster with genuine integrity. Congrats on a great career as a truth teller in an often deceptive business.
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  7. What do you think it would look like if he WAS the stooge of the rich and the Russians, doing their political dirty work? It seems to me that it would look exactly like this...
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  8.  @thespiritchannelers555  Sadly in reality, just like we work for capitalist corporations, so do politicians.
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  9. He is obviously lying. It's just a distraction. Don't watch what they say. Watch what they do.
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  10. I remember a time when no one had or needed AC at home.
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  11. Yeah because the American presidential system works like a well oiled machine /s 🤦‍♂️
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  12. Good for the climate at least
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  13. #DontPayUK
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  14. When they brought on a farm who farms beef on at the end my heart sunk, but she was actually right in pretty much everything. 👍 The only thing to say is that eating any animal protein is actually a cause of increased cholesterol, high blood pressure and increased the risk of pretty much ever major cause of death from diabetes to cancer to stroke to cardiovascular disease. So a "healthy balanced diet" simply doesn't have animals in it. Eating animals vs a healthy plant-based diet only makes you less healthy.
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  15.  @grahamstobbs6369  As I said, you weren't listening to the analysis at the end of the piece. This extreme weather is not normal. More extreme weather (like this) is a primary result of climate change.
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  16.  @kobayashik3820  They are the LABOUR party, not the Libdems. They were founded by the trade unions. They ought to be on the side of workers against capital. Capitalists have 2 parties to look out for their interests already. That's why the country is suffering multiple crises in the economy and democratic rights. We need the millions of working people to regain their fair share of power in this country.
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  17. Free Palestine
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  18. Boris "don't sweat the details" Johnson 🤦‍♂️
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  19. Christopher Rutherford NI will inevitably be united with the Republic eventually. The existence of NI is a hangover of colonisation. I used to believe the myth of empire but once you peak at the reality, it's just horrible. Unionists are Brits and Brits should not be ruling over the Irish any more.
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  20.  @frusia123  That's landlordism. Thanks Thatcher and her heirs. The Tories see property rental as a very handy way to get working people to buy houses for those who don't work.
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  21.  @alexdiaconu7979  I think you are very confused. The government doesn't have to pay. The rail operating companies should be paying.
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  22. Yep. U.K. railways are twice as expensive per mile as any other major European country. The Tories want you to take the car because they are in the pockets of the oil companies.
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  23.  @psps2034  firstly, NHS pay fell before the current high inflation. It fell all the way through the 2010s and also fell in real terms in 2020. I cannot predict what Labour would do now but they would not have let the system get into this crisis in the first place, and I don't think they would have tried to impose a 7% real terms pay cut.
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  24. If we are going to change course and avoid catastrophic climate change, then we need people who will tell the truth to people in power, not pussyfoot around pretending that it's in hand. It isn't. The people you think are going to save us ARE NOT GOING TO SAVE US. WE have to save us.
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  25. Maybe the NHS shouldn't treat you if you're too daft to get vaccinated. There are thousands of people dying of cancer because they can't get treatment because the beds are full of halfwit unvaccinated COVID patients. Stop being so daft and get vaccinated.
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  26. @ Truss tried to implement idealogically pure neoliberal policy and we all got burned for it.
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  27. That slogan is propaganda. The police are the violent enforcement wing of state power. And state power often doesn't serve the people in that state. The correct version of that slogan would be "Protect and serve established wealth and power"
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  28. Asking a giant corporation to care about people is fundamentally futile. The logic of capitalism dictates that it must care about its profits before people every single time. There will be no solution to climate change without radical change to our economic system. If we as the people don't Figure out how to organise and fight for our lives then we will not solve the climate crisis.
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  29. Emerald460 Gaming And yet he plead guilty. Did his barrister get it wrong? If he has grounds for appeal then why isn’t he appealing?
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  30. Channel 4 having fun with this one 😀
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  31.  @davidmowbray4230  You mean the healthier alternative that don't cause cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes? And since when are soya, coconut and peas waste products of anything?
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  32. Amen
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  33.  @Bungle-UK  what were their best and worst policies?
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  34.  @theSTUNTHAMSTER  Tell me about it 😀 But to be fair, being vegan 60 years ago was not as easy as it is now. So don't beat yourself up 👍
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  35. Exactly. It's pure bullsh*t. The Tories don't even care if it sounds plausible these days. They just rely on a base of blinded and unquestioning support from their political tribe.
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  36. They voted to stay because the SNP had the decency to prepare a full policy document with explicit details of their plans so that the prospect could be properly scrutinised. Unlike the Brexit campaign which was a load of fantasy and bullshit, devoid of plans, commitments or realism.
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  37. It is indeed frustrating but the consequences of NATO going to war with Russia, especially with Putin acting very unpredictably, are too horrific to consider. What is really frustrating is how badly Europe and NATO have played this strategically, both recently but also going back many years. By continuing to depend so heavily on gas, especially Russian gas, we are now unable to really hurt Russia because Putin can deprive Europe of about 15% of its energy supply. And the western strategy of pressuring Ukraine to reject the peace deal Minsk 2 has left the Donbas conflict simmering for 8 years when it could have been ended. Now Ukraine is suffering from Putin's aggression and our inability to really punish him for it.
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  38. Red team's turn. Blue team's turn. Always the same oligarchy's turn.
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  39. Can you imagine Johnson having tbd courage to take meaningful action like that?! Obviously not because he is a vain, dishonest, venal, corrupt, weak and incompetent man whose privilege has allowed him to fail upwards over and over again, He has no strength or courage in him. Neither to most world leaders out there. Our governments are overrun by corporate interests and our media is dominated by free market climate denying propaganda. That is why we need feet in the street. We have to make governments fear the people. Otherwise expect to be trampled on.
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  40. I have no idea why Labour want an election instead of a referendum. Everything shows that they cannot possibly win. So the only possible outcome of an election is the hard Brexit that Labour say they don't want, with all the destruction of workers rights and environmental protection that comes with it. We need a referendum on Johnson's deal vs Remain, and let the chips land where they may.
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  41.  @grahamt5924  I vote and campaign against these sociopaths.I regularly donate to a charity that looks after poor and underprivileged kids. I teach my kids to have compassion for those less fortunate than themselves.
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  42.  @grahamt5924  I own and run a business. I know exactly what it's like. I wouldn't call it brutal. And corporation taxes are taxes on profits. They don't harm the viability of the business because you only pay them when you make a profit after all your expenses and payroll. If anything the government should increase corporation tax to 35% and reduce payroll taxes. Instead, they aim to pay for an expand of social care by raising NI, which falls disproportionately on lower paid workers. I don't expect the government to do everything for people, I expect it to correct for the disadvantages that people have by virtue of their birth and circumstances they can't change for themselves. I was born poor but was given a huge hand up by the state in the form of a state aided place to an independent school, as well as a set of benefits that allowed my family to live with some small dignity. That ladder out of poverty is gone now. And with it much of the social mobility that makes for a fair and dynamic society. I have been successful in life but I experienced a period of severe debilitating disease that almost killed me and has me off work for months, and left me disabled for years afterwards. That taught me that it's very easy to underestimate the significance of people suffering in circumstances that they can't change. And it's very easy to blame people for their misfortune but very often, they inherited that misfortune or suffer it for reasons they didn't have any control over. That has left me with a lot more empathy for people who are not as fortune as me, and a lot more resentment for people who inherited their success and then exploited people to get more and more wealth. And trust me, thanks to the university I went to, I know the kind of people who run the country and major corporations (hilariously, one of my ex friends from uni made front page news for a week a couple of weeks ago) and they are completely detached from the experience of normal people. They are just playing a game of acquiring power and money. This isn't a good society. It's a recipe for widespread suffering, social breakdown and oligarchy.
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  43.  @Kai-tn4yx  In case you haven't noticed, climate change is a global crisis. And the US has the biggest and most powerful oil majors. It also has the biggest capacity to reshape the future of energy. What happens in the US, matters greatly to the rest of the world, and not just now. What happens in the next 5 years on climate will have huge effects literally millennia from now.
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  44.  @oldineamiller9007  The massive body of peer reviewed studies in the scientific literature that has been checked and reproduced literally thousands of times now. Oh and by the way, this is the science that the oil companies have done themselves, in the 1970s and 1980s but which they suppressed.
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  45. B V I don't think you were paying attention Do you know what the original "New Deal" was? If not, look it up. It was a huge programme of breaking up robber baron corporate empires, democratising power and completely overhauling the infrastructure of the USA. It saved the country from the Great Depression. We need the same again, but this time with an overhaul of our energy infrastructure and the broken catastrophe-capitalism that we have been sold. It is not solving society's problem. It is making them much much worse.
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  46.  @wakey87  what does it matter to you? You aren't British. Btw Labour did. respect the Brexit vote in the 2017 election. Did you support them then?
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  47. Oh that is a hotly contested title among the Tories...
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  48. Oh look, capitalism is eating itself again.
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  49. Abu When, not if.
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  50.  @CmdrTobs  or maybe that gender discrepancy is because women earn less than men but still have to have somewhere to live. Yes there is a shortage of homes as well. But the recent transfer of wealth to the rich has undoubtedly had an impact on affordability. It has an effect on real wealth across the whole of the working and middle classes. When there is new money pumped into the economy and most of it goes to the rich, then by definition they now have an even bigger slice of the same pie than everyone else. That is what money does. Money isn't worth anything. It's a token for how much of the real stuff you own. Rich people now own proportionately more stuff and everyone else owns less. And this is seen in significantly higher wealth inequality. The rich have been using their new money to buy houses. And companies. And debt. And public assets. And anything else they can get their hands on. Which means we own less and have to pay more to the rich to use stuff. Or just goes without, as is increasingly the case.
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