I didn’t undermine anything. I described the views as controversial, which is undoubtedly true. That you, and your cohort, agree with such views is depressingly predictable.

The Great Reset has been routinely misrepresented in these pages as something sinister, which it never was.

It was simply and only a call out to decision makers to view the demands that the pandemic placed upon the world as an opportunity. To try to find positive solutions to long standing structural problems.

We need big corporations and governments to work together. They need each other too. Having organisations like the WEF where the decision makers can meet, understand each other’s problems and try to ways forward is 100% positive. Only conspiracy theorists believe otherwise. The ultimate power will always lie with the governments who control the regulators.

Globalisation in today’s interdependent, interconnected world is not only inevitable, it’s essential. Ensuring that the benefits get distributed throughout society is the job of government and our job is ensure we elect the people who will make that happen and not line their own pockets.

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I read that someone is amused to see Steve Bannon described as “far right”.

His Wiki page uses exactly those words to describe him several times along with him believing in supporting populist politicians in many countries. The latter alone ought to be enough to set off the alarms.

Of course those who hold far right views never consider themselves to be so. They believe they are actually the mainstream silent majority.

Funny how it never works out that way at election time.

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No country can be fully independent. What’s essential is that we don’t rely on untrustworthy sources, as we have done with Russia. That lesson has been learned.

Countries with common standards can bond together and make mutually beneficial agreements. Which is one of the reasons why leaving the EU was so stupid. It’s much harder to make such deals alone.

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I doubt whether current events will make the slightest difference.

I have no idea what part of our “immigration policy” you think could or should be changed.

Do you not want “shortage jobs”:vacancies filled by overseas recruitment? Just imagine the state of the NHS if we did that.

Do you not want spouses and children to be allowed to join their UK citizen partner or parent?

No one wants the illegals arriving by plane or small boat but finding ways to stop this is not easy. If it were, it would have been done.

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Utter nonsense....Doesn't seem to understand the geographics that place most of Russia in Europe. Totally ignroes the fact that Ukrainians and European Russians are slavs and no more less European than each other.

Totally ignores the stupidity of an avoidable cold war with your own economic hub.

Talks of 'Values' yet doesn't have any.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

The apologist for Russia on these pages is posting ever more nonsensical ideas.

Just because most Russians and Uranians share an ethnicity means nothing if their aspirations and politics aren’t aligned. Even less so with us.

We couldn’t trust the Russians under Putin if they were situated in Calais.

The idea that there is a bond between “white” people in Europe which transcends politics, attitudes and behaviour is what I think lies behind this.

I believe this is not just nonsense, it’s highly objectionable dangerous nonsense.

The logic of thinking this way would have seen us refusing to fight the Nazis.

For me being British has nothing to do with ethnicity. If you have the passport, accept the standards, abide by the law, treasure the heritage and respect your fellow citizens then your can be as British as me, whatever ethnicity you happen to have.

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