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So you think the leftist government of Sweden have been completely wrong then? Death rates have to be counted in deaths per million and balanced again...
May 29, 2020 at 08:41
Any blame for this virus lies completely with the CCP.
May 29, 2020 at 08:37
Yeah, but you are clearly treating this virus as a political football...which is pretty disgusting.
May 29, 2020 at 08:36
Deaths per million in the UK is lower than Belgium, Spain and Italy...blanket statements like the UK being the country with the second highest number ...
May 29, 2020 at 08:34
Did you squeal so much when 80,000 Americans died of flu in 2017-18...thought not.
May 29, 2020 at 08:31
Did Twitter get people to fact check when the WHO implied that Covid 19 was not transmittable between people?
May 28, 2020 at 17:13
I think when a social media company gets as powerful as Facebook or Twitter it is only right that they are regulated. Such companies have enormous pol...
May 28, 2020 at 17:09
There's an even easier argument than the OP regarding the soul and free will. A physical , interlocked, universe of causation does not exist. The Univ...
May 28, 2020 at 16:32
I agree. We will always need to import goods, but we will have to start becoming less reliant on those countries that do not have our best interests a...
May 27, 2020 at 14:06
I think you're probably right too...
May 27, 2020 at 08:39
I think you're probably right...I just hope we do rebuild our economy in order to be more self reliant (or at least diversify supply lines ) in the fu...
May 27, 2020 at 08:38
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The real joke here is that the media political class pretend that they are really upset about Cummings breaking lockdown rules whereas the reality is ...
May 27, 2020 at 07:44
The lockdown needs to end before it wipes out the economy. As an example, the roofing firm that I work for has had two large jobs cancelled, one for a...
May 27, 2020 at 07:37
The political left are directly responsible for untold economic misery and the death of millions...but that doesn't mean that I don't believe there sh...
May 27, 2020 at 07:32
I think Johnson is a libertarian. He's a bit of a political shape shifter though ...but luckily he's also a bit of an egoist which , imo, means he wil...
May 27, 2020 at 07:28
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One of my best mates is a bit of a lefty ...he's vegan and pretends to be hard left to his wife (who is hard left lol) ...but typical virtue signallin...
May 26, 2020 at 16:10
So the black death mkII has killed 1 in 1300 people in the UK...over half of which were 80 years+ old and well over 90% had serious underlying illness...
May 26, 2020 at 07:38
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"Punshhh aren't you too good for Southend, being from North Norfolk?" ...and there you see the real face of the left...the left despises the working c...
May 26, 2020 at 07:27
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The British population tends not to blindly obey rules, it's part of our nature...I think Cummings knew that when these rules were applied . We are no...
May 26, 2020 at 07:25
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If it wasn't for the English the Scots would now be living in a socialist hell hole ruled over by a Franco-German empire lol. Thank God for the natura...
May 26, 2020 at 07:16
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There's an old British saying..."Many a true word spoken in jest" . You weren't really joking were you.
May 26, 2020 at 07:13
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Watching the press conference with DC, he's pissing all over them and their 6th form questions. The British media really are a pathetic bunch...hopefu...
May 25, 2020 at 16:37
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Lol, surprising how many labour party members , students, union members and other assorted morons there are...none of whom matter because they never v...
May 25, 2020 at 15:26
In: Brexit  — view comment
That ends up being the left's answer to all the problems it is incapable of fixing...that's why anyone with a brain despises the leftist scum that cra...
May 25, 2020 at 13:42
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It seems that the real story behind the DC debacle is emerging. Underlings within government were attempting to extend the Brexit transition period (o...
May 25, 2020 at 13:36
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But the SNP form of "nationalism" is bat shit crazy...you will end up being a tiny cog in a big franco-german machine rather than a big cog in the bac...
May 20, 2020 at 18:36
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I make a prediction that the EU will buckle (I think they've already conceded on fishing)...they need treasure Island. If they don't ,even better, I w...
May 20, 2020 at 16:30
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I'll make a prediction for you...the jocks will not vote to leave the UK in my lifetime...they are all talk and bluster. I hope they do leave but I'm ...
May 20, 2020 at 16:23
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Lol...I'm sure the EU has enough members that are complete economic wackjobs, what makes you think they want to add Scotland to the list ? I really ho...
May 20, 2020 at 16:15
The post was humorous and Elon Musk is most definitely intelligent, otherwise he wouldn't be where he is. Leftists are obsessed with money, they see i...
May 19, 2020 at 16:29
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The way this virus is playing out the last thing we are going to need are vast numbers of eastern Europeans (or third worlders for that matter) millin...
May 19, 2020 at 16:24
It seems that socialists are obsessed by money, to them it all comes down to money and how unfair it is that some have more than others...whereas peop...
May 18, 2020 at 17:36
You asked why it would be bad not to have a profit motive...money can be seen as a way to store wants, in such a view the will to profit is no differe...
May 18, 2020 at 17:32
Lol, well feel free to go and live in your wonderland...I doubt if they'll have you though mate...they don't like gobby opinionated types.:)
May 18, 2020 at 14:17
The coop helps fund the Labour party...but the coop itself is a capitalist business. My mate's son in law worked for them too...awful business, low pa...
May 18, 2020 at 14:15
Lol, you're not too bright are you old fella! You're at higher risk because over half of deaths involve people over 80 and alcoholism can be seen as a...
May 18, 2020 at 14:08
I only have your word that he is a "professional in the field" , but that aside you notice that the "professional in the field" doesn't say that I am ...
May 18, 2020 at 12:43
Countries that leftists like to describe as socialist are not. Sweden, Germany, Denmark etc are not in any way socialist...they just spend more of the...
May 18, 2020 at 12:39
Socialism is the concept that the workers own the economy. It's a bullshit idea that never works. Also when people point to China they conveniently fo...
May 18, 2020 at 12:35
Teachers are over-rated. Most have very little real world knowledge when it comes to the subjects they teach. As an example a friend of mine had to do...
May 18, 2020 at 12:31
I'm just pointing out that socialists , for all their demands for fairness in society ,have no problem sponging off of those who earn less than them ....
May 17, 2020 at 17:10
I didn't realise that this was a discussion over whether I have misused certain words...a bit of worthless point scoring ...but ho-hum...at least most...
May 17, 2020 at 17:00
I know what they mean...but 90 odd % of people that have died in the UK were already very ill...hope that's simple enough for you.
May 17, 2020 at 16:43
I think talking to leftists is a complete waste of time...they invariably learn nothing from history. The old leftist ideas died for a reason...people...
May 17, 2020 at 16:41
In the UK the left dominate areas of government employment , for instance teaching. I read once that teachers used to be the biggest single group with...
May 17, 2020 at 16:28
"@frank has a medical qualification and is working in a hospital treating covid patients. If he says chronic, it's probably chronic." Ok, let's put it...
May 17, 2020 at 16:15
The basic thing is that the more sociable you are the more you'll probably like work (unless your work is a solo endeavour).
May 15, 2020 at 20:17
No,acute...otherwise they'd be millions dead in the UK alone...
May 15, 2020 at 20:04
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Do'h, I'm failing to make the connection...
May 15, 2020 at 20:02
I brought up the subject of law because I'm sure I read that computer programs are better than lawyers... My wife works in a care home, she has a real...
May 15, 2020 at 19:54