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AndrewJB

Vegas, is it your contention that America since the day he took office has been running without a healthcare policy and people are just doing what they want because there is no policy? This is the same answer to every other Governmental department that requires a policy. I can see not being happy w...

AndrewJB

What I am finding increasing frustrating is the distrust the public have in the NHS. Doctors and Nurses are being accused of lying and scaremongering by simply stating the numbers of people in ICU. Nurses and Doctors have no axe to grind and would much rather not be dealing with this virus. 940 hea...

AndrewJB

Stowaways are a major problem all over the world. Especially for ships leaving port at night.

AndrewJB

The question of “what did she do for Burnley” isn’t about her voting record and whether she followed the party whip or voted in the way her constituents wanted, which isn’t necessarily what she is obligated to do. For example, Birtwistle is always claiming to have secured a lot of inward investment...

AndrewJB

I’ll save my empathy for families missing out on a lot more than a Florida holiday Andrew because I am standing on my feet and not my head . If voting against ‘feeding hungry children’ as you dramatically describe it brings about more of the great community spirit I’ve read about in recent times th...

AndrewJB

He did not inherit the issues where he decided to change how war would be conducted, he did not decide to finish those wars, he just decided to fight them a different way, I liked Obama but attacking Trump on war and military and saying how good Obama was is just plain rubbish. Obama had an economy...

AndrewJB

Hi Andrew, take a look at this link: www.icao.int/Security/FAL/PKD/Pages/ePassportBasics.aspx ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialised agency of the United Nations, is the body that defines passport standards "that are treated as recommendations to national governments," incl...

AndrewJB

I've had this conversation with you several times and in some ways you make good points about the press attacks on Corbyn by the MSM but you also know i think you simplay cannot blame them for the fact Labour failed so badly. Now you carry it further and blame social media. I don't know if you have...

AndrewJB

Andrew you are encouraging people taking out loans to take their kids to Florida instead of saving the money because it’s quicker and the kids might miss out otherwise, Encouraging people to go into debt for such reasons is grossly irresponsible. Will such children be at a disadvantage if they don’...

AndrewJB

Just since the cold War?? Vietnam is worth a mention, plus the money they poured into Afghanistan to ensure they could fight back against Russia (ironically this invasion led to Bin Laden joining the Mujahideen and being on the same side of the fight as the USA) I picked the end of the Cold War to ...

AndrewJB

U.S. military forces have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. Obama slashed the number of U.S. troop...

AndrewJB

As per my answer to Sid the USA has had to register as can the UK. What is unclear is what the terms of the registration is but until the UK apply and agree to the terms like the US have done then they cant use the system just like the US didnt used to be able to The question remains, does the gove...

AndrewJB

Note how apparently its EU law that restricts who can use e-gates, yet we have been letting none EU citizens use them for a while... I don't recall the UK facing punishment for this, can anyone confirm either way? Screenshot_20201024_234613_com.android.chrome.jpg That quote was in the blog I saw. I...

AndrewJB

what_no_pies wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 24, 2020 6:56 pm
Thanks for the correction.

It was Reagan who bombed Libya. Several times

AndrewJB

???? Is there an article about border controls and passports? My question about "Cummings wanting to change" GDPR was because someone said that was what made the EU block UK passport holders from using EU e-gates. If you have a link to the "right" article, I'll be pleased to read it. I’ve looked bu...

AndrewJB

Andrew , kids don’t have to go to Florida for a holiday so there is no ‘the clock is ticking’ about it. Such a wet way of looking at this and typical of this entitlement attitude that exists in today’s society caused by the recent and current generation There’s entitlement in every generation. In f...

AndrewJB

I’m surprised about social media as that is normally a medium that’s dominated by Labour. What would you say are Julie Coopers top 3 achievements for Burnley? I don’t live in Burnley, so I can’t speak with first hand experience. When I saw the campaign against her I looked up her voting record, and...

AndrewJB

Well she was useless and as above her behaviour at the count was a disgrace. Useless is such an elastic term. Whenever I asked people I know who called her that what she’d done wrong, I was told (with one exception) that “she haS done nothing for the people of Burnley.” That’s as far as I was able ...

AndrewJB

Hi Andrew, there's nothing in the Guardian's article about passports and entry and egress by a UK citizen to the EU, nor the equivalent for EU passport holders passing through UK border controls. What has any proposed changes to UK data protection laws got to do with passports and people travelling...

AndrewJB

Is there any positive reason why the EU would like their citizens to be inconvenienced in travel to the UK? I don't see any benefit to the EU in saying that the UK has left so we will make it less convenient for our citizens to visit the UK. There is a good reason for the EU to do this: https://www...

AndrewJB

Trumps tax cuts for rich Americans have added to an already large deficit. It’s strange that when governments like this and Johnson’s pile up debt, the rightwing media are strangely silent. But when a party suggests doing things that benefit everyone - like free and fast broadband, funded university...

AndrewJB

He makes a valid point, that you don’t agree with. He was linking vouchers and how some people use them for other means If you are going to pretend that every voucher is used properly by the recipient then more fool you. He invited Rashford to a school, and that invite was then politicised by a sch...

AndrewJB

Not everyone but plenty do, it’s the lifestyle choices SOME make, if you’ve got a massive monthly shop & a chest freezer & all the tubs & labels & a marker pen & the latest cookbooks & throw in a microwave Vs the latest iPhone/Samsung model, they’d be no contest regarding the choice with SOME peopl...

AndrewJB

That's up to the EU. I doubt they are hoping to go through the whole of Brexit without changing any laws. Besides, why wouldn't they change it? If by changing the law so that the UK is to be treated the same as Switzerland at passport control - not a hugely difficult change, I wouldn't have thought...

AndrewJB

I’d be interested to know what Brexiteers did expect to change once we left the EU? It seems from some on here that they thought the EU might allow us to keep all the advantages, drop any disadvantages and pay no money! That was the promise: All the advantages, without the disadvantages. Most of ou...

AndrewJB

He won't leave Leeds. He has to put his heart and soul into a club and the city before joining them. He is incredibly loyal. His managerial record doesn’t bear that out. In just five more games with Leeds, he’ll have equalled his managerial record with Ath. Bilbao - 112 games. Otherwise he seems to...

AndrewJB

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:38 pm
Except Burnley

I don’t think our season will be a disaster. Dyche has pulled us out of more critical positions. Lawro predicts we’ll beat Spurs, and I trust his professional eye to see beyond the gloom we sometimes have as fans.

I think Dyche will relish playing against Bielsa.

AndrewJB

You'd think as a wannabe Tory candidate, giving him Burnley was probably seen as quite a tall order when he was put in. When voters actually voted him in, I remember him saying that a constituency like Burnley would benefit from having an MP that could go an knock on the PM's door to get things sor...

AndrewJB

Financial discipline. Unfortunately never learned by many. An article on the BBC website today highlighted the heartache experienced by a couple, with 2 kids, who had remortgaged their house in order that they could book a 2 week holiday to Florida. The problem was in getting their refund, not that...

AndrewJB

It’s looking like anyone can beat anyone this season.

AndrewJB

I never mentioned liver. Roast chicken was my dish of choice. And why exaggerate the price of milk and bananas? Bananas are 8 for £1.10 at Sainsbury's, which I know because I got some yesterday. That's 14p each. And the porridge for 10p already had milk in it, half milk half water. Milk costs £1.50...

AndrewJB

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tory-trustee-for-feeding-britain-votes-against-feeding-britain/22/10/?fbclid=IwAR132cyVM3dE8jC-yzAqT9Y6lNLEj2kLU_vfXIhTEDXYfK31eEuZGL3_OsU Apparently yesterday’s vote was just “headline grabbing.” I’m sure this will fill hungry children with reassurance, if...

AndrewJB

If you think Mr and Mrs Average on furlough live of avocadoes and rioja, then it's perhaps no wonder you're stuffed to the gills with class envy. Is that what it's about - furlough people living off the fat of the land while people on benefits (most of whom, you tell us, are excellent at managing t...

AndrewJB

Peter Pike was decent enough back in the day, and he at least had links in the community, and probably still does even now, that Usher woman was a blatant carpetbagger, and it was no surprise that her tenure led to Labour losing the seat for the 1st time since the 1930's, Birtwistle was never going...

AndrewJB

I'm not the one making moral or other judgements on parents who don't feed their children. Marcus Rashford is the one saying these hungry children should be given food rather than giving more money to their parents. My own view is that of the 820,000 (according to one report quoted above) children ...

AndrewJB

I agree with you to an extent, the test and trace has been a disaster from start to finish costing far too much money. As I said I am fully behind the movement to feed school children through this pandemic. However, the UK is one of the best welfare States in the world offering a number of differen...

AndrewJB

I think this is a short term fix, but no child should go hungry in the UK in this day and age. However, I am a big believer that people need to be educated about the costs involved with having children. It is a disgrace that an estimated 2.2 million children (prior to Covid) depended on school meal...

AndrewJB

Or why for example they pay Robert Jenrick thousands each month for his second home allowance when he owns 3 homes all worth several millions of pounds each ? Pigs with their snouts deep deep into the troughs Jenrick has already been caught out with things that in previous years he would have been ...

AndrewJB

Because people assume that the hungry children are the children whose parents are on benefits. I have no moral concern about people who are feeding their children, are spending the rest of their money. Now, you may be able to produce statistics that say there is a problem with children of parents o...

AndrewJB

So when people on the Antony Higginbotham thread say things like the below (I paraphrase)...what is it you suppose they mean ? These comments are hardly cryptic ! People are soft today and the sense of entitlement They just need to get on with it and stop complaining We did not complain when we wer...

AndrewJB

I fail to see how that would help. The suggestion on here is that children should be given free food because they are going hungry, and that the best way to ensure children get that food is to give it to them direct. I don't see how stopping people from drinking wine is going to help hungry childre...

AndrewJB

The answer to all this is food in its form, be it opening schools for meals in holidays or food huts that family's can go to, the worst option is just to keep giving parents more and more money in the hope they then decide to buy food with the extra money given. Should the furlough pay also be paid...

AndrewJB

Complains that I defend everything whilst you are simultaneously bitching about anything and everything they do. Out of the population of 65 million, how many used the furlough scheme? We already know it won't be the full 65 mill, as that includes kids. As for the free school meals thing, if you ca...

AndrewJB

Obviously the first lockdown didn’t kill the virus outright, and it’s said that we locked down too late and allowed the virus to spread too widely, resulting in 20k additional deaths. Had we a working track and trace system, then reopening could have been managed a lot better. When so many other cou...

AndrewJB

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/21/government-covid-contracts-britain-nhs-corporate-executives-test-and-trace?__twitter_impression=true The interconnectedness of it all is such a coincidence, anyone could be forgiven for wondering whether they were all working together to fleece t...

AndrewJB

I wasn't let go, I work 13 out of every 14 days with 2 jobs and that carried on throughout the lockdown. The system looked after very nearly everyone, I think your real issue is the gov in charge who put this in place. They did something you didn't expect them to do and it worked fairly well. The f...

AndrewJB

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:22 pm
People have been convicted of murder more than two years after committing the crime.

I’m talking about evidence. And the ability to get rid of it within two years.

AndrewJB

Complains about fraud but thinks its a good idea to pay everyone across the country a flat rate that covers London living costs... Just give it up, your idea wasn't workable, the gov method did the job. A flat rate for food and utilities isn’t fraud. For a lot of people what is fraud is some people...

AndrewJB

They found no evidence at the time and that was confirmed, again, a couple of months ago. It was a 3 year investigation! https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2020/10/08/cambridge-analytica-did-not-influence-brexit-referendum/amp/ They raided them two years after the re...

AndrewJB

Banks are operating 24 hrs a day, around the world. The money going in is needed, if you stop that money then you'll run the risk of ruining the banking system. That might be acceptable to you, but not for most of us. Weren't people able to suspend mortgage payments? As for fraud, every system ever...

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