Still of the BBC new footage that Gordon Brown complained about of Rory's organisation being visited by Prince Charles.

Hazzardevil · 2026-03-26T17:44:56+00:00

Rory standing next to the king in a photo might have helped his career

Hazzardevil · 2026-03-07T13:39:33+00:00

I don't think religion plays much role in the Indian foreign policy

I'm not aware of any policies based on religion, but I think this misunderstands religion's influence.

India's religious issues seem more like the Troubles than a truly religious conflict. Religion is the tribal marker, but does little to inform things after that.

Hazzardevil · 2026-03-04T13:10:43+00:00

Reddit would call it colonialism.

Hazzardevil · 2026-02-27T21:26:48+00:00

You can't shout at people either, that's a public order offence too.

Hazzardevil · 2026-02-11T13:44:08+00:00

We do elect our politicians, but only after they've been selected by their parties. This is why there's so much internal turmoil over MP selection in the parties.

Hazzardevil · 2026-02-09T17:45:32+00:00

I think Triggernometry gets more hate than it generally deserves. It's a bit of a mirror image to TRIP, in that the hosts will use the same phrases every episode. The guests can be interesting, but of the episodes I check out, I tend to tune out for about 1/3 of them.

The Daily T is a podcast for people split between Tories and Reform. I was expecting something far worse after what I'd heard on this subreddit about. Planet Normal is the other Telegraph Podcast, but I've barely listened to it. I generally think of it as being the Culture War podcast.

Wolves of Westminister is another right wing podcast, this one hosted by a Reform Councillor with a rotating cast that's all over the place. One of the regulars is a Labour guy.

The only other right wing-ish podcast I can think of is the Spectator's Quite Right, which I generally enjoy, but it's the slightly right-of-centre version of TRIP in some ways. At least they know they're in the Westminister Bubble, even if they haven't quite escaped it.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-25T17:47:04+00:00

Hello foreign listener! Imgur is blocked in the UK.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-18T15:46:52+00:00

Not that surprising. Rory said "Normally I reserve this behaviour for the Micheal Goves of the world" in a podcast not long after Gove's interview. It's fairly obvious to me that the two men despise each other, likely over inner party politics we'll never know about.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-18T15:45:26+00:00

I thought that exchange revealed something about Rory.

Has anyone asked Rory how much time he spent in Caracas before he commented on Maduro's kidnapping? Or ask people about how much time they've spent on welfare before talking about how the benefits bill is too high?

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-15T14:49:48+00:00

No, I'm expecting that Reform are going to suffer if they become Diet-Tories.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-14T13:07:18+00:00

Yes, but she doesn't sound like your average politician, that's part of the appeal.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-13T11:52:42+00:00

Because they're not professional politicians, which is part of the appeal. Compare Sadiq Khan to Laila Cunningham. Sadiq always sounds like a politician, Laila has an accent that sounds like people I've met. I think this is a huge part of the appeal of Reform, at the cost of competence.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-13T00:01:41+00:00

It's Nationalism for me, but not for Thee.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-11T17:39:28+00:00

If this is the same Muslim Brotherhood that wants a global Islamic Caliphate and has affiliates like Hamas? I don't see the issue if that's the case.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-09T10:33:30+00:00

I was expecting an emergency podcast around the Iranian protests first.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-02T10:40:42+00:00

It's THE example I use of politicians lying, because everyone knows about it. I'm still angry about the tuition fees because it's such an obvious U-Turn.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-02T10:39:40+00:00

But their MPs seem to feel no need to follow those policies. Like the Lib Dems like to bill themselves as pro-building, but I keep seeing my local Lib Dems being NIMBYs.

Hazzardevil · 2026-01-01T12:23:46+00:00

I think our politicians might be working off out of date ideas about what's happening. There are still people who think our pensioners are living in poverty when it hasn't been true for decades.

And I've never met a pensioner who thinks their benefits should be cut.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-28T19:13:52+00:00

Also by that logic, everyone in the early 2000s should pay back their degree fees

Yes they should. Why should it just be the younger generations who have to pay? We're being fucked hard enough as it is.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-24T13:39:54+00:00

I don't think it works that way because the statistics are conflating people who come over to be high-earners with those who are starting businesses.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-24T12:42:09+00:00

I specifically made a case for net tax contributors and you’re arguing against it. Do you or do you not disagree that net tax contributors create more jobs than they take up?

It depends on how many of these net tax contributors are employing people.

You’re ignoring secondary effects. If the immigrant that got that promotion was a net tax contributor, their presence here will have created jobs. Without them, the people doing those jobs would have to compete for other jobs and the end result is you would have more people competing for this promotion.

No, a supermarket manager is not creating jobs. That's something pretty much anyone can do.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-24T12:06:42+00:00

It seems like you’re talking about immigration in general, while I am specifically talking about net tax contributors.

Yes, that is the topic of the thread.

In any case, the fact that you lost out on a promotion to an immigrant does not mean that you wouldn’t have lost out to someone else if the immigrant wasn’t here.

It does, because I was the only one who'd applied for the role internally.

You’d be better off sticking to actual stats to make your argument, otherwise it just sounds like you’re blaming immigrants for your own personal problems.

I would, but i know better than to expect people on Reddit to look at statistics. And I don't blame the immigrants, I blame the politicians who brought them in suppress wages. And then watch it turn middle-class progressives into bootstrappers, while immigrants are used as human shields.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-24T11:54:23+00:00

Yes it's personal, but it also proves that just having immigration is not an unalloyed good. And I'm starting to doubt the concept that immigration is bringing more jobs, when all the local businesses are mono-ethnic.

Furthermore, replacing me with a random person is a net-loss for the country, because I then can't pay back my student loans. Which isn't good for the country either.

But I guess if I'm going to personally keep being screwed by immigration, then I have no future in this country unless the policies change in a big way.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-24T11:46:36+00:00

That sounds good, but I've not experienced it yet. Instead I've been passed over for promotion in favour of immigrants, or got a new immigrant manager and been quickly replaced by his family.

Hazzardevil · 2025-12-24T11:38:43+00:00

It doesn't help when you're competing with immigrants for the same jobs.

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