The General Election

Discussion in 'U.K. Politics' started by Balbus, Nov 13, 2019.

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  1. Vladimir Illich

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  2. Captain Scarlet

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    Yes but to bring some balance, the Tories are having problems with the Islamic communities .
     
  3. Everyone in the whole world is having issues with that community.
    They have issues with all westerners.
     
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  4. Captain Scarlet

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    In the UK we have some very peaceful Islamic communities .Yes you may get some extremists living amongst them as we have extremists amongst the generic population who join the far right groups .
     
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  5. I am utterly fed up of telling anyone who cares to listen that anti semitism and criticism of the brutal, facist regime that is Israel are NOT the same thing!
     
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    Because the Jews know what really happens when a socialist workers party comes to power
     
  8. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Yeah, but you never see the guys in those far right groups flying to another country then 6 months later holding up a severed head
     
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    What do you think they are even talking about there?

    A free trade deal to get tariff free medicines from US doesnt have anything to do with selling a government health service.

    What documents is Corbyn actually holding up? Where are the ones ready available online

    Stories like this are always suspiciously short of details

    Any company in the world, not just US who manufactures pharmaceuticals isnt going to have anything to do with whether your government sells or leases your hospitals or not
     
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    To bring some balance . You never see Islamic groups marching on towns and stirring up racial hatred and poison like see with far right groups .
     
  11. Balbus

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    VG

    Do you know anything about anything? It seems to me that every time you post you reveal you ignorance on something else – although I’m sure we have touched on this before.

    Ok so it’s not the tariff that is the problem most countries don’t have tariffs on drugs already under the WTO Pharmaceutical Agreement.

    What is feared is that in a US/UK trade agreement the NHS would be tied into buying US drugs at the price set by US pharmaceutical companies in the same way as in the US, which has resulted in drugs in the US been some of the most expensive in the world. This would have a huge impact on the health budget.

    Why prescription drugs cost so much more in America | Financial Times

    US Drug Prices vs The World

    The Tories have had a long history of underfunding the NHS as many neoliberals in it want to privatise it so that increase in spending is unlikely to be match by increased spending under a Tory government resulting the NHS been put under more stress resulting in worst performance and in more calls from neoliberals for it to be privatised.
     
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  12. Balbus

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    Only because there are no places to go and do that at the moment. I mean the KKK were very happy to lynch people and burn them alive not long ago (and probably would do again if they could) and there still are quite a number hate crimes and murders related to people with far right views happening every year around the world.
     
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    Sorry I was wrong corbyn is a dick head your the fucking idiot if you think he was ok in that interview
     
  14. Captain Scarlet

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    There is only one idiot and that is the clown Boris Johnson . Jeremy Corbyn is the mad professor . :)
     
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    I think your lack of education is pretty clear to everyone

    So you didnt even read the article you posted.

    From that financial times article:


    "All over the world, drugmakers are granted time-limited monopolies — in the form of patents — to encourage innovation. But America is one of the only countries that does not combine this carrot with the stick of price controls."

    Besides your own mind, where are you getting the idea that with a UK/US trade agreement the US would somehow be able to force the UK to only buy US drugs, which would somehow include stopping drugs produced domesticslly in the UK


    Total scaremongering horseshit which was also the only tool in the toolbox you had with the brexit argument

    I will let you tell our readers why Australia has a free trade agreement and we buy US drugs cheaper than they cost US citizens


    Another flat out lie, your government spending actually dips when labour is in office
     
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    Something is wrong here if you think a protest marches in the UK are the same as Assad unleashing Sarin gas on his own people, Turkey bombing Kurds, Saudia Arabia and Yemen firing rockets at each other.

    How many people have those far right groups killed in the UK in the last decade?
     
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    The vast majority happen under socialist / marxist influenced rule
     
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    A reminder of the supreme court thing a couple months back.

    Boris gets voted in again, how is that going to look

    Like what ever majority it ends up being didnt take your supreme court seriously?
     
  19. Vanilla Gorilla

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    14 more sleeps until....nothing changes ;)
     
  20. Balbus

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    VG

    LOL as I’ve said every time you post you reveal you ignorance on something or other

    Well I’m not the only person that has had concerns

    The US government and its powerful pharmaceutical industry want the NHS to pay more for their medicines which are much more expensive across the Atlantic. They want to remove the UK’s ability to block American drugs not deemed “value for money” and restrict our powers to allow cheaper alternatives to be prescribed to patients which save the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds a year.

    According to research carried out for the programme, the cost to the UK government could run into the billions, approximately £27 billion,

    Trump’s Plan For The NHS: Channel 4 Dispatches | Channel 4

    The problem is that the UK isn’t in a very strong position when it comes to trade deals the trade deal between Australia and the US took some 4 years to do and Australia could have walked away at any time with no ill effect. The UK might not have that luxury.

    The UK is going to be desperate for deals especially if there is a hard Brexit in which case our position will be even worse I mean come on man we have discussed this before and you have put up no rational counter argument against that prediction.
     
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