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  1. The people raising the issue are those looking to make a deflection and discredit Labour. Your contribution above is a case in point. Here it is again: "It would also be put at risk if a Labour government levied windfall taxes on the oil companies, caved in to the trade unions asking for huge pay rises and, therefore, couldn't handle inflation so in turn would raise benefits in line with inflation." Yes, it's a public forum, but as you may have noticed, from time to time the moderators intervene when they judge that a thread has gone off track. Whether they will in this case makes no difference to your contention that this forum, being public, allows for deflections.
  2. What's actually sad is that some people believe that their necessarily limited personal perspective on a large complex problem has any dispositive value.
  3. Actually Lacessit used the words "I am not aware." And it's a silly and stupid trick to use a truncated quote (or in your case misquote} as a rebuttal.
  4. So you take a lack of comment from others as some kind of endorsement? Really? And just because you're not intentionally telling falsehoods, doesn't mean you're telling the truth. There's lots of psychological phenomena that account for that.
  5. Even if that's the case, you think it's a significant distinction that they left because of the Brexit vote but not because of Brexit? That's like saying that people left their homes because of the hurricane warnings but not because of the hurricane. Whether or not that hurricane struck, you would say that it was immaterial to their leaving?
  6. Whether they are Brexit supporters or allegedly neutral, I've noticed their heavy reliance on anecdotal evidence. I don't understand why they think that such unconfirmable assertions are a valid way to support a case.
  7. I think this is the significant sentence in that article: "It became one of the many projects he's lent his name to and made money from, even without hands-on involvement." Back then Trump's endorsement was still on balance positive. Not so much anymore. Trump Product Endorsements Drive Consumers...Away https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-product-endorsements-drive-consumers-away-n744301
  8. Not long ago he was a professional comedian. Maybe he's being competitive? After all, it's now Putin who's getting most of the laughs.
  9. I'm puzzled by its decline against the dollar, too, That said, if a big worldwide recession is coming, then a commodities exporter like Australia can expect to suffer. But that possible future doesn't explain what's happened in the past. Still, over the past 5 years it's up against the euro, the pound, and the yen. But down against the yuan.
  10. Well, your comment is certainly no less relevant than iamfalang's.
  11. It's not enough to declare articles of faith. Provide some actual evidence that Labour has treated the NHS the way that the Tories have. Given the the NHS is one of the sources of electoral strength for Labour, your assertion makes no sense. But maybe it's enough to make it the basis of a minor religion.
  12. And what does any of this hero-worship have to do with the ongoing financial disaster that is Truth Social?
  13. "Remember 150,000,000 in America ALONE might have voted for him, with other fans worldwide." This is an amazing number when you consider that the total vote in the 2020 election was about 155.5 million. Does that mean that Biden only got about 5.5 million votes? This speaks to an astonishing level of election fraud not even posited by Trump. Well, at least not yet.
  14. Well, I guess if you believe that the NHS would be in the same dire straits under Labour as it is under the Tories you have a point. But that seems very unlikely.
  15. Your comment leaves you with none. But let me put it to you as a statement. The UK was not the only nation to experience economic distress from covid. To assist you in the understanding the point of this statement, here's a question: why is its performance since Brexitworse than that of other economically developed Nations?
  16. Because it was only the UK that experienced economic distress due to covid?
  17. No matter how hard you try, you're not going to succeed in making this mess about Labour. Give it up already.
  18. Quite right. The original premise of this investigation was to expose the FBI conspiracy to get Trump. Instead, Durham is now portraying the FBI as dupes. That approach failed in the case of Sussman who was acquitted.
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