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Yes, and that's why in the UK, a lot of people think the poor are undeserving, idle and should be dispised. While we, the well off, are derserving, in...

Have you seen the movie Wall-e. It's a kind of satire of a future where robots do most things.

I can't remember where I saw it, but I watched an article on how some Norwegian people became depressed, or were loosing motivation because a lot of t...

I can't pretend to know about finance, I don't. But it seems to me that you can bend the rules provided everyone agrees to it. Getting everyone, whoev...

That's quite a reefer he's smoking.

A wise man in Australia is called a Nostradamus, In Aussie it translates as knows his Shielas Nostra = nose damus = shielas P.s. Love Courtney Barnett

If all the countries stand in line with their debt written down and all agree to cross off an agreed number of noughts, what's so wrong with that. It'...

One should look out for those hands that wave, or for sleight of hand.

Weasel words.

Are you talking to the hand? I didn't think I'd tried that approach yet :lol:

Oh no it's the other side who do it, not our side, what we say is ok.

That would be my choice. Why should all nations suffer in debt together, just let each other off the hook.

If you're on the right it's a very steep slope until your head is in the clouds like Rees Mogg. If you're on that slope anything left of Johnson or Ca...

I agree with your comments on small business support. The Tory's have often said that themselves, and they have tried but failed to deliver. Your prej...

Yes as fdrake says they have to minimise the spending on social welfare etc, so they can capitalise everything and compete on the global free market s...

Ok, I can go with the idea that the EU is in a sense a socialist project. Which justifies why you would want to leave the EU. So what is the alternati...

Yes, there is a big issue with Labour losing its heartlands, but not due to the financial crisis specifically. What I was focusing in on was is the wa...

Yes we had the best of both worlds. But there were still problems, they were internal to the UK though, not due to our membership of the EU. Our faili...

I have a slightly different take to fdrake on what the Conservative party is up to. It is only a minority of the party who are true Brexiters. But fro...

And quoted in the same article, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization It is a house of cards and when the house falls ordinary workers and ...

You brought it up, by labelling us as middle class academic elites. Suggesting that salt of the earth working class know better. Really come on, your ...

I agree with fdrake on this. The degree of coup depends on how far one delves into possible conspiracies about the divisive nature of parts of the Con...

We've asked Chester what tangible benefits there are to leaving the EU, what we have to look forward to and he has drawn a blank. He can only tell us ...

Psst, there's a liberal left conspiracy to pack you all in like sardines before the sea levels rise above your dikes. So you must leave the EU.

Prove your background is more working class than mine? Or anyone's for that matter?

It will drift to the left, the "loads of money" days of the Tory's are over. The public has seen through their wheeze about keeping the population dow...

I didn't accuse you of anything, I simply pointed out that the failings of the EU you mention are mythical. You can google each of them and find out y...

"the're ain't nobody here but us chickens, there ain't nobody here at all" The mass slaughter of chickens is normal, I recently tried to rescue a few ...

If we're talking predictions, I predict the UK death toll to top 60,000 by the end of May, or certainly by the end of June. The graph shown on yesterd...

This is a typical populist straw man argument. Oh, look at those looney left over there in the corner, it's all their fault. Not our fault who have be...

As you're interested in the back story here, I happened to watch an interesting programme lastnight by my favourite TV historian Michael Wood. In whic...

All your criticisms of the EU are myths peddled by anti EU activists, or rumour amongst friends. I know because I briefly became hoodwinked by them in...

There have been many worrying reports about maternity units and midwifery over the last few years in the UK, including many unnecessary deaths of newb...

Yes I'm sure a Labour government would have taken the threat seriously right from the beginning and locked down at least a week earlier. Corbyn would ...

As to whether Brexit will remove some toxicity in UK politics is a very hard question to answer because there are so many different angles to this. It...

Good point, Channel 4 did a good expose on all this manipulation, which essentially amounts to electoral fraud.

There is a deep seated fear, one which goes back in history to the time when foreign powers did come and conquer the country. Principally in 1066 when...

Interesting the use of social media grooming ( minute17) and the way he lays into criticism of the Tory party at the end. Exposing the disingenuous mo...

A combination of a tribal fear of becoming a state in a united Europe and rightwing wealthy privelidged classes wanting to hold onto their wealth and ...

The shit has hit the fan in the UK, the growth of the virus in care homes is still growing rapidly and will probably outstrip the deaths in hospital r...

You've got a lot of that mixed up there. Careful you'll be spitting teeth next. You've got what you want, politically, we're set to leave the EU witho...

I don't think the whole Brexit thing was timed in this relation to the EU's actions, but rather the opportunity arose and the fanatical anti EU Tory g...

You are in a tiny minority, a hard Brexiter who is not wealthy, appears to be politically informed and place yourself where Rees Mogg is on the politi...

An interesting angle in regard to point 6 is the legislation which would limit the tax avoidance gravy train of the billionaire backers of the Tory pa...

So the EU is a gravy train, well you'd better hold on tight because we're in for Trumpian scale gravy now that people like you voted these clowns into...

The corruption card is a populist red herring. You'll have to do better than that

The right said bring it on, now they realise their own economies have been undercut by it, they are putting up the barriers. The left certainly in the...

Where have you been the last three years, I need someone to debate with. Brexiters are thin on the ground around here. I wonder why that is?

All thanks to a country where capitalism reigns and any kind of welfare state is an after thought. Even in Britain which is heading in that direction,...

Trump's modus operandi is the political equivalent of the psychological disorder known as Munchausens syndrome by proxy. TDS is an extension of this a...