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Why do you feel the need to lie about Warren? It's not as if others can't use Google. "Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far," she added. "This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone." https://www.foxnews.com/media/elizabeth-warren-says-killing-unitedhealthcare-ceo-warning-you-can-only-push-people-so-far

'Eat the rich' is a bit of an over simplification, but when the levers of power have been seized by immoral people, the avenues avaliable for bringing fairness to a system can be hard to find. Desperate times might, in some people's eyes, call for desperate measures.

Ironic, isn't it, that someone who was born into wealth and privilege should care about the struggles of those less fortunate than himself, whereas someone who actually grew up in a much more regular, working class environment would help perpetuate, and actually glorify the inequality and unfairness of the system that pays him millions of dollars whilst killing thousands and putting thousands more into poverty.

You made a statement without substantiating it. Forum rules require you to provide evidence to back up your statements. North Korea is officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Do you consider it to be a bastion of democracy? So not a socialist /Marxist then. It would have been much quicker for you just to write that you are unable to back up you claim. But you have a good day nonetheless.

Then please provide evidence that the current PM is a socialist / Marxist.

You should stop reading the Mail on Sunday. It's not good for the soul. Keir Starmer, Trotskyism and Pabloism "By the time, Starmer got involved with Socialist Alternatives, despite Pablo’s past, the IRMT had dumped Trotskyism and developed a form of Red/Green politics"

If you think that Starmer is either a socialist or a Marxist than I can say, with confidence, that you don't know what either term means.

Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think we should pay our politicians significantly more. If we want to be led by the best, most qualified people, we need to offer competitive salaries. Otherwise you get people like Jonathan Gullis or Jared O'Mara in positions of power, and nobody could surely want that.

I know, and that's the infuriating aspect of it. Johnson deserves nothing but scorn and opprobrium for the rest of his days, so for Starmer to hand him an opportunity to play the victim is such a schoolboy error.

I am no fan of labour, but have you forgotten the seemingly endless run of appallingly poor, weak and incompetent PMs we had after Cameron, not that he was any more than a dull witted toff? Starmer's government is simply another clown show in a long running series of clown shows, and there is no prospective source of statesmanship waiting in the wings either.

There are so many valid reasons to despise a man so utterly amoral and selfish as Johnson; it is beyond belief that someone seemingly as smart as Starmer could allow the charlatan to play the victim.

Then it's got nothing to do with politics but states clearly that the sitting president has no confidence in the impartiality of his judiciary. That's a hell of a message to send to the country and the world.

The event hasn't happened because common sense led to the decision to do the opposite to what you seen to be wishing for. How does economic theory become out of date?

If people, quite rightly, object to Trump evading justice, the same outrage should be expressed towards Biden Jr. Biden has lost any moral high ground he may have held and cheapened his legacy.

Bear in mind that this is a one off payment, not a regular allowance. To set up a team of people to vet the nation's pensioners for a one time payment surely seems, from any perspective, to be administratively wasteful. But if you aren't convinced, try this: Universal Benefits Are Actually Cheaper Than Means-Tested Ones

Maybe because they like it's antonym, the gammon?

It's cheaper than means testing - that's the only factor that matters.

This is a World News post and all should feel welcome to comment on all topics. I wouldn't let self appointed gate keepers try to tell you what topics your contributions are welcome on. Please feel free to add to the mix.

The Romans didn't invade the UK. They conquered what they called Britannia and is now called England and Wales. England and Wales are not the UK.

The cost of means testing it would exceed any savings made. This way the Scottish government can ensure that all pensioners get vital help next year.

That's true to an extent but I am skeptical that they can produce key components - compressor bearings, dry gas seals etc. Even the rail network is at breaking point because of the lack of availability of high integrity bearings. These types of items seem relatively trivial in isolation but they are all critical components of an integrated system. At the extreme end, think why Taiwan is so critical to chip manufacturing - if it was easy, the Chinese would have copied it years ago

I don't claim to be a Russia expert but I lived in Eastern Russia for 8 years, working on a Russian /European multi billion dollar oil and gas joint venture. The largest Russian content contribution to the project was... concrete. Everything high tech or precision engineered came from abroad. They may have a space program but I bet it relies heavily on imported technology and components.

That's great if the supplier trade only within BRICS, but in a global economy, that's unlikely. As for commodity trading, not many non government actors have the means to deal in oil. Precision engineering, aircraft parts, high spec bearings, electronics - all the things that Russia is incapable of manufacturing domestically and must be procured from international players.

Russia still needs to buy imported goods - triangular arbitrage means, if my memory serves me correctly, that the value of the rouble against the Tenge, Yuan or whatever currency they wish to trade in will still reflect the USD value. Imported everything will be more expensive.

Your gaslighting is getting boring now.