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4 hours ago, nauseus said:

Freedom of the press? No, can't have that no more. 

The so-called newspapers concerned have abused the freedom of the press by turning into propaganda sheets for extreme right-wing views.

6 minutes ago, grumpy 4680 said:

     That's one angry pro European candidate, with a picture to suit.

So all this corruption is OK with you?

3 hours ago, Loiner said:

Barnier's "open and fair competition" or equally deceitful "level playing field" are both EU doublespeak for tying the UK back to the very rules that contributed to our Brexit.

As if we didn't know, why does Barnier think the little old UK fishing grounds are so important, compared to those massive 27 other nations fish stocks?

 

Well if that's all there is, it's more than just unlikely, so roll on No Deal. Not long to go now.

What contributed to brexit was a load of lies from people who still lie every time they speak. What rules do you think the brexiters had in mind? The ones that stop big pharma from overcharging us for medicines? The ones that mean we don't have to eat chlorinated chicken? More likely non-existent ones invented by a so-called journalist to amuse his right-wing readers.

On 6/3/2020 at 6:01 PM, YetAnother said:

sure they will; same as they caved to the mainland china in the 1997 'negotiations'

23 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Whilst I don't normally support these "Labouresque" policies of throwing around vast amounts of taxpayers cash, I think that due to the Corona Virus the Keynesian approach is probably the right move to get the economy moving again after the disastrous start to 2020.

 

At least Boris and Rishi will put the money in mostly the right areas, unlike the loony leftists Corbyn, Abbott, Long Bailey et al. would have done.

 

 

Johnson's pledges are meaningless. He's basically a not very honest journalist who can think only as far as the next snappy headline, and no further.

Presumably you're happy about all the taxpayers' money he's throwing at his cronies who then seem incapable of doing what they're supposed to?

The left have a better record at managing public finances - don't believe the lies in the Daily Mail - and would be unlikely to have made such a mess of covid, and certainly wouldn't be threatening a disastrous no deal brexit, poisonous food, dearer medicines and all the other "delights" we'd be saddled with under their ghastly US trade agreement.

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Well that depends on the deal doesn't it. We want a simple free trade deal that helps trade on both sides and respects each others status as a sovereign nation. Like all free trade deals.

 

If they want a deal that involves us subjugating ourselves to EU rules and the European Court of Justice, then they can forget it. No other free trade deal involves such stipulations and once again proves the lack of good faith that the EU has been demonstrating since we opted to leave their protectionist racket in 2016.

 

Your comments on one of Boris' advisors is juvenile so I won't stoop to that level to respond.

You mean like the deal with the US where we have to agree to buy poisonous food, pay more for medicines to swell the coffers of big pharma, etc etc? You don't understand trade agreements at all. EU rules, like not importing poisonous food, are sensible and good for us.

The Cummings comment was spot on. The other thing you don't understand is how our government is supposed to work. An "unelected bureaucrat", to use a brexiters' favourite expression, is not supposed to be in charge. In prison would be better.

4 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

Civil serpents don’t appreciate scrutiny, more clearing of the swamp please.

Carry on Dom.

The job of top civil servants is to advise ministers. The advice is confidential. The politicians are in the public eye; civil servants are not supposed to be. Which is one of the reasons Cummings is part of the swamp. Along with most of the present incompetent and irresponsible government.

13 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

But wait a minute!  The US has made the cleanup of human rights violations the cornerstone of their foreign aid policy.  

 

Does this mean that the UN will withhold US funding unless the US follows their guidelines?

 

????

US uses human rights to bash people they don't like, but ignores violations by its friends - and by itself. Hypocrisy. They don't care at all for human rights as such.

20 minutes ago, kingdong said:

The world health organisation,who since the virus started have done more u-turns than an uber driver with a broken sat nav.Trump had their card marked when he stopped their funding.

I'm no expert but covid has changed at times and presumably the WHO changed their advice accordingly. As Keynes said.....And world famous expert-on-everything Trump, supervising the world's biggest number of covid deaths, shouldn't be allowed to mark anyone's card.

26 minutes ago, terryw said:

Dr Kluge is probably giving some cautious advice, whilst the Guardian being an anti UK government newspaper is putting an exaggerated spin on what he has actually said.

I see no difference between the headline and what Dr K said. And of course the incompetent government doesn't yet have a system that works and the people chosen to operate it seem no more competent than the government.

12 hours ago, vogie said:

Not according to the residents that live there, is that an answer to everything, if you don't like it, pull it down. You have never been keen on the ballot box have you chomper.

What residents? And what have ballot boxes got to do with it? It's time the British came to terms with their role in the slave trade. A lot more to it than the abolition bit.

15 hours ago, samran said:

It wasn’t all lease. HK island and Kowloon to boundary Rd was sovereign UK territory in perpetuity. 

But sovereign UK territory taken by force, ie stolen. And anyway dependent on the leased bit for eg water. Guess who owns the tap?

And in case no-one has noticed BJ seems intent on wrecking the UK economy with his no deal brexit; why would anyone want to come?

19 hours ago, JWRC said:

The whole response to this is so typically English, Whinge and complain about everything, go on and on and on about it. I agree with the guy who said it's time to move on, the transgressor, if indeed he actually was, is far more value to Boris as a senior adviser. The British public are being whipped into a frenzy by the media and are too gullible and easily aroused.

What it's really time for is for this incompetent irresponsible government to move OUT.

The so-called adviser is dangerous and no value to the PM or to the British taxpayers who have to pay for him. If the PM can't stand on his own feet at least he should get himself a decent pair of crutches.

14 hours ago, BillStrangeOgre said:

...until they do i see no evidence that Cummings did anything that any other parent wouldn't have done

Nonsense. Lots of parents stuck to the rules. Cummings can't even stick to the rules about how advisers should behave. He's dangerous - some sort of fascist plant trying to turn the UK into trumpland. See P Cadwalladr.

31 minutes ago, fulhamster said:

But if you turn up in an overloaded rubber dinghy, no quarantine and you're given a house and benefits????????

More anti-immigrant rubbish.