@BriannaWu
It can be made very simple if one looks at through a prism of power. The problem is, this is something Liberals are very reluctant to do.
Theories of power, and the understanding of power and how it determines relationships (geopolitical or otherwise), are Kryptonite to Liberals.
@mikegalsworthy
@ShippersUnbound
@HarryYorke1
@cazjwheeler
This is mass fraud. Every single person involved should be investigated, charged, tried, and convicted. With all assets seized and put to good use. I hear we have a health service that needs extra funding.
@lapatina_
What frustrates me about Germany is that it has this limitless capacity to be a force for good. Yet chooses self interest, and does so every time.
@johnharris1969
What puzzles me is that don't they realise how unsustainable this is, even in the medium term? Science doesn't go away, no matter how much propaganda you throw at it.
@GeorgeMonbiot
Do you have any idea what a Labour term would mean? Seriously George, let's look at this in the long term.
Neither party has a clue how to deal with the post 2008 world. Neither party has anything in the way of vision or ideas or the talent to implement it.
@StevenEdginton
It really upsets you doesn't it. Seeing ordinary working people grouping together and standing up for themselves. Worse than that, then seeing because of their efforts, they get fair salaries and so decent standards of living.
@eddiemarsan
I grew up with men like Eddie Marsan. They seemed all in favour of socio-economic reform. Until the moment it looked like it could actually happen.
In reality, they're fine with the status quo. They just want to pretend that they're progressive.
@CowPowMonly
@mena_ganey
@cons_owned
That would be one heck of a project. See who they were, see who their descendants are, and what their 'views' are.
Some things have never been sorted.
@OVargas52
I have a question for to answer but there is a catch. You cannot use the following words:-
NATO
USA
Iraq
Israel
Okay? So here we go.
Do you support Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
@broseph_stalin
The US certainly has its hands full right now. What with:
Bolivia now once more independent
Chile going that way
Colombia rising up to an extent not seen in decades
Brazil seemingly set to go independent too.
The CIA is clearly not the force it once was.
@DPJHodges
You know this is about the ICJ ruling. You know the US (and associates) are lashing out because an international body has dared to step out of line. You know the misery this will cause will be immense.
You also know that to admit any of this risks you all important career.
@DaddyWarpig
The director started reading the book, put it down in disgust. Then decided to make a film that purposefully undermined everything that its source material stood for.
@MichaelRosenYes
@RebeccaFiler
Of course she can. Jo Bird is a Socialist, a Democrat, and views Muslims as human beings. None of which applies to Rebecca. Or New Labour as a whole.
@CerdynJones
@RMTunion
They refuse to have Lynch on because he is handing their backsides to them. So Eddie Dempsey steps up and does the exact same thing. Bit of a trend developing.
@WeAreAllOther
@jacobdharen
I disagree. Iron Man is Elon Musk having been visited by Scrooge's three ghosts on a nightly basis. For three months. Hence he is actually aware of the dreadful person he once was.
@simonjwarner
@OwenJones84
Sure, they are. Which is why New Labour have purged everyone to the left of Augusto Pinochet. I get that you don't want to talk about policies, or the views that drive them.
If you did, you'd reveal what your true opinions were. I.e. unreconstructed Thatcherism.
@TheGreenRob0t
@AaronBastani
Problem is:-
1. There are a lot of them
2. If current socio-economic trends continue, that number is only going to get bigger
So it's up to Macron to pull his finger out. Give the young a reason to support him. I take it you know the kinds of problems Biden is having right now.
@GeorgeMonbiot
Shame that Werner Herzog didn't say "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches"
Because the man had a point.
@JohnLeBrocq
@OwenJones84
Reminds me of Noam Chomsky's comment to Andrew Marr - "You wouldn't be sitting where you sit right now if you didn't genuinely believed what you believe".
@NatConTalk
@Miss_Snuffy
Rule of thumb. The more someone claims to 'love their country'. The less they give a damn about:-
1. The people who live there
2. Its green and pleasant lands
3. Its society and/or economy
4. Its institutions
All these people 'care' about is them and theirs.
@GeorgeMonbiot
Let's be honest here George, Labour doesn't deserve to win. Let's be even more honest. If the 'crisis' that the Labour Right manufactured in order to win back power ends up bringing down the whole party.
This benighted world will have some justice for once.
@BriannaWu
1/ Can't argue with any of those five points. As for Hamas, neither terrorists nor freedom fighters. They are a symptom. An ugly symptom of an ugly situation.
Question is two-fold.
1. what would it take for those in office to say similar things, AND have the policies to back...
@PolitlcsUK
This isn't going down well with the Liberals. Almost as if their man isn't as popular as they had hoped, and that his lead was due solely to the Tories imploding.
@adb0wen
Isn't he some Private Health Care appointee? But God forbid we talk about substance or intentions. Serious question. Are you in favour of the privatisation of the NHS because that's what you believe?
Or because you think it will benefit your career?
@SaulStaniforth
@BBCNEandCumbria
So
@JennyChapman
. So if a political party isn't a place where you do politics, what is it for? What is its purpose? Except being a vehicle where you and your buddies hook up with business interests, and you all get very rich.
At our expense.
@simonjwarner
@OwenJones84
Things were very different prior to 2008, I'll agree. But then The Crash happened, and that was that. You do realise why Austerity was not only cruel and barbaric, but economically moronic, and ultimately counterproductive.
@thotcrime101
@jdcmedlock
That makes sense. The one thing missing on the (radical, possibly extreme) right is some Roman statue or bust. We've all seen them.
@YoungLabourUK
I've just realised, is there anyone in Labour's base that it hasn't actively alienated? Ethnic minorities, working people, the young?
Has no one told them that the urban middle class only makes up a small portion of the country's population?
@fesshole
Personally, this should be a nationwide program. Forget vaccination against Covid. We need something to protect our parents and grandparents against The Sun and the Daily Mail.
Maybe then we'll have a better country.
@abcomedian
If you get called 'A Centrist' by someone on The Left, it usually means:-
1. You're a Thatcherite in denial
2. You dislike Muslims
3. Both of the above
@JewishLabour
You have taken a noble, righteous cause. A cause that I would defend to my dying breath. And have turned it into your personal political football, and for what?
Are your careers that important to you? Is Austerity so in need of continuing?
@AaronBastani
The thing about this Aaron is, I can understand why so much of this country finds your narrative so hard to believe. If you are white, middle class and come from the right areas. They will never even hear of this side, let alone witness it first hand.
Hence why it needs telling.
@KateAndrs
@spectator
Not at all. Being sick is bad enough, but having to worry that you might also go bankrupt? It's almost as if a society is investing in itself.
But I guess if it was private, the people that pay your wages would be happy. They'd be raking it in.
@AlanRMacLeod
Hard what to make of this. On the one hard screw the two-faced hypocrisy of the US etc. But on the other, if you start defending the Iranian government and how it treats its subjects. Especially its female half.
Have a word with yourself.
@guardian
Maybe you should then take them to a Tony Blair Rally. Show them both sides, teach them about 'Start the War' as well.
Then let them make up their own minds.
@OwenJones84
I'm curious. Who actually reads Allison Pearson? What kind of person listens to what she says and agrees with it? It would be helpful to identify this type of person so I can avoid them.
Back in the day it was really easy because they wore these really distinctive brown shirts.