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The above news wasn’t difficult to find. Interesting you have not a bad word to say about yet another vile stunt of theirs.

What is a radicalised bee anyway? Like a jihadi wasp?

Oh I get you now I missed a letter out. My large thumbs and I only have one eye.

I do apologise for having to keep pulling you up on being consistently factually incorrect, but MP's do not set their own salaries. They are set by an independent body which means it is not possible for politicians to "increase their own salaries". 

OK which one of you is Jeremy corbyn. So you're guessing you know my political following one thing I don't need to guess your's. I am pretty sure if I make a mistake one of the gang will pick me up on it. Do they have no option to refuse pay rises or do they just vote to accept them. I have told you before I have voted for every party in my time. I don't blindly follow any one party just because somebody tells me to. Sorry I don't like comrade jezzer so I can not vote for his party and nobody will change that this time.

Remember that container stopped in Essex with Vietnamese bodies in the back a few weeks ago? This government is charging the families of the dead £2,000 to repatriate the bodies. Let that sink in.

Why are you getting offended about being picked up on being factually incorrect? Or are you happy to live your life blissfully spouting fake news? MP's don't vote on their salaries either - as I've explained, they're set by IPSA, an independent body whose recommendations are automatically implemented. 

For what it's worth, there are a number of Labour candidates standing in this election, such as Nadia Whittome in Nottingham East and Jane Aitchison in Pudsey, who have committed to either only taking a 'workers wage' or 50% of the salary. I'd hazard a guess that not a single Tory, Brexit Party or Liberal Democrat candidate has made such a commitment. 

Who has told you this about the two thousand pounds. I know hey paid between 20 and 30 k each to come here uninvited. Perhaps the Irish lads should pay the two thousand. You can't hang everything on this government. Hang on you can and you do.

Why would any body envy me. 79 years old got one eye prostate cancer and only get the state pension.

So why would you vote against your own interests? I’ll ask again, which Labour policy has you so angry? I’m not dictating at all, you’re making either factually incorrect statements that I’m picking you up on, or personal opinions that I’m asking you to back up with reasoning. That’s debating.

Thought I'd do a bit of independent fact checking on Farage's claim this morning that China is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than "the United States, the whole of Europe and Japan combined".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions

You can see from the link above that China is responsible for 27.51% of global emissions. The US (14.75%), the European Union (9.33%) and Japan (2.99%) total 27.07%, so he's marginally correct. Saying that, he seems to have confused the EU with "the whole of Europe". For example, we can see from that list that Ukraine (in Europe but not the EU) is responsible for 0.83%, so that alone tips the total above China's.

So technically, he's wrong already, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt. I mean, he's only been campaigning against the EU for 30 years, so you can forgive him for not fully understanding what it is.

More importantly, he’s overlooking the crucial fact that generally speaking, countries with large populations should be expected to be larger producers of greenhouse gases, shouldn’t they? After all, it is people that create them. So isn’t it fairer to look at what countries are producing in relation to their population?

If we do that, we can see that China has a population of over 1.4 billion. That dwarfs the population of the EU (513m), the US (327m) and Japan (126m), which even combined doesn’t reach a billion. So China’s population is about 50% greater than the total of the region Farage compares it to, yet he’s criticising it for contributing a greater portion of the world’s emissions by a piffling 0.44%.

That’s before we get on to the argument that a big contributor to greenhouse gas emission is industry and manufacture. Is China just manufacturing goods for itself? I’d hazard a guess it’s manufacturing a lot of them for, let’s say, the US, the EU and Japan. You can’t ship manufacturing jobs off to China to take advantage of cheap labour, and then point out that China’s greenhouse gas emissions are too high!

Besides, who cares what China is doing? If Farage is truly proud to be British and wants the country to be seen as some kind of shining example for the rest of the world to follow, shouldn’t he be keen for us to take a global lead on climate change rather than resorting to Homer Simpson’s “can’t someone else do it?” policy. No, he’d rather argue that we’re “less than 2% of the problem”. Well, Nigel, we’re less than 1% of the population, so that means we’re twice the problem we should be

And lastly, why are people like Farage, who are obsessed with immigration, so dismissive about climate change? Does he have any idea what’s predicted to happen over the next 30 years in countries like Bangladesh, where 25 million people are expected to lose their homes to rising sea levels? Where does he think they’re going to go? Who will rehouse them? Because with just 0.36% of the world’s emissions to take responsibility for, I’m not sure it should be Bangladesh!

Have you read the manifesto? It’s fully costed, so it’ll tell you where the money will come from. Also why don’t you like the idea of women being cheated out of their pensions being recompensed, why don’t you like the idea of accessing free superfast broadband? If you’d rather pay for a lesser product than have a better product for free, why?

By the way, our rail is nationalised - the Tories sold it off to the governments of Netherlands, France and China whose taxpayers reap the benefits of our rocketing rail fares.

Tories have borrowed more in 9 years than the combined total of every Labour Government in history and all we have to show for it are massive tax breaks for the already obscenely wealthy.

Labour governments borrow less and pay back more.

Funny that because Tony Blair by his own volition said something totally to the contrary.

Keep spouting your absolute nonsense it’s a great laugh.