Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! VOL 2

[anonymous-user]

Andy 308GTB said:

Calm down, dear.

But she is right.

[Not-The-Messiah]

fk me this is painful,

I tell you what we could do something about it and we will have less parent grieving with dead kids but they will be visiting far more of their kids in prison.

[bingybongy]

Simple. Yes it should be mandatory.

[paulw123]

Allow the police to do their job, people complain (stop and search)
Stop the police doing their job, people complain (stabbings). Let’s all blame the government eh!

[anonymous-user]

Lots of boxes ticked in the audience tonight.

[Cupramax]

OpulentBob said:

Lots of boxes ticked in the audience tonight.

Unsurprising being in Tottenham.

[Le Controleur Horizontal]

Well some idiot slept with her, god that is two with those genetics....

[bomb]

It depends upon what you mean by mandatory........


Did she really say that out loud ?

[uk66fastback]

Someone should have asked the black women and her mate in the audience who went off on a rant, what have they done over the years ... cos it hasn't worked has it, and they're your kids & grandkids ...

[Not-The-Messiah]

With vaccinations my view is if you choose to not have your child vaccinated and then if your kid then dies from something preventable you go to prison for child neglect.

[Le Controleur Horizontal]

uk66fastback said:

Someone should have asked the black women and her mate in the audience who went off on a rant, what have they done over the years ... cos it hasn't worked has it, and they're your kids & grandkids ...

It would take her weeks, she has 14 !

I have had a st day....thank you A Niel, Two suicides, Barry Gardener.....Pissed myself...off to be happy

Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Thursday 20th June 23:45

[gooner1]

Le Controleur Horizontal said:

uk66fastback said:

Someone should have asked the black women and her mate in the audience who went off on a rant, what have they done over the years ... cos it hasn't worked has it, and they're your kids & grandkids ...

It would take her weeks, she has 14 !

I have had a st day....thank you A Niel, Two suicides, Barry Gardener.....Pissed myself...off to be happy

Edited by Le Controleur Horizontal on Thursday 20th June 23:45

He's been on form all day.

[simoid]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

<edit> Tim Martin has hit on a very important point, regarding tariffs. Within the EU we enjoy tariff free, frictionless trade. Goods from outside the EU attract gopping great tariffs.

If anyone remembers about 12 years ago the price of chocolate went through the roof; we were 'told' it was due to poor cocoa harvests. Prices didn't drop.

It was due to EU tariffs. Compare a bag of Tate and Lyle sugar to a bag of sugar from Lidl. T&L is about £1.60; the lidl sugar from Latvian sugar beet is 64p.

Er... isn’t the price difference predominantly because T&L is a brand and Lidl is a discount supermarket with its own brand?

[Norfolkit]

simoid said:

Wiccan of Darkness said:

<edit> Tim Martin has hit on a very important point, regarding tariffs. Within the EU we enjoy tariff free, frictionless trade. Goods from outside the EU attract gopping great tariffs.

If anyone remembers about 12 years ago the price of chocolate went through the roof; we were 'told' it was due to poor cocoa harvests. Prices didn't drop.

It was due to EU tariffs. Compare a bag of Tate and Lyle sugar to a bag of sugar from Lidl. T&L is about £1.60; the lidl sugar from Latvian sugar beet is 64p.

Er... isn’t the price difference predominantly because T&L is a brand and Lidl is a discount supermarket with its own brand?

Who the fk pays £1.60 for a bag of sugar, T&L is around 60p in our local independent shop.

[berlintaxi]

Not-The-Messiah said:

With vaccinations my view is if you choose to not have your child vaccinated and then if your kid then dies from something preventable you go to prison for child neglect.

Yeah,'cause living with the guilt that your own stupidity killed your child just isn't enough.

[berlintaxi]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

We send billions of pounds of aid to Africa, we raise millions through comic relief. The only way those communities will improve is through trade; if we buy their cocoa, buy their sugar cane and not have whopping great import tariffs so we can sell at a reasonable price and buy at a reasonable price, then their communities will improve. That is how the UK can help impoverished nations. But we can't, because the EU actively prohibits free trade with developing nations by imposing massive tariffs.

How would this work, no deal Brexit? if so it is complete nonsense, under WTO terms if we allowed african nations zero tariffs on their sugar cane we would have to allow the same to every other country so the US would flood the UK with their sugar cane, how would that help the african nations?

[Dr Jekyll]

berlintaxi said:

Wiccan of Darkness said:

We send billions of pounds of aid to Africa, we raise millions through comic relief. The only way those communities will improve is through trade; if we buy their cocoa, buy their sugar cane and not have whopping great import tariffs so we can sell at a reasonable price and buy at a reasonable price, then their communities will improve. That is how the UK can help impoverished nations. But we can't, because the EU actively prohibits free trade with developing nations by imposing massive tariffs.

How would this work, no deal Brexit? if so it is complete nonsense, under WTO terms if we allowed african nations zero tariffs on their sugar cane we would have to allow the same to every other country so the US would flood the UK with their sugar cane, how would that help the african nations?

Under WTO we could have an agreement with an African nation not to tax their sugar cane, we can't do that if we are in the EU or in the EU's customs union as part of a deal.

[Scrump]

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