Day 1, we need media reform, they are the unelected opposition.

The NHS had a Pandemic Response Unit. It went into operation as planned for a few weeks until Boris Johnson (the well known journalist) stood it down saying, "Let the bodies pile high."

Go after the grifters (PPE, test & Trace, tax avoiders ) and then they start to get some cash to fix the issues.

We need to change the board of the BBC

If Truss, Braverman and Badinoch lose their seats I will be ecstatic

Change the political appointees in the BBC and produce content documenting the full story of Brexit; also publish the Russia report.

First - build more prisons, a lot more. Each cell already has a Tory name assigned to them, hundreds of names.

Phil, I would never have guessed you don't like the orange one or Farage. Shows you have good taste.

It doesn’t matter, it’ll just be nice to have a government with ANY priorities other than lying, theft and corruption.

" Is Jeremy Hunt dead?"....I laughed, out loud....x

That’s what happens when you give an Indian company a nationally required industry but then that’s been the problem with the national sell out by Westminster and their successive parties who supposedly run the entire Island 🙄very badly

I’m voting Green in Bristol Central to hopefully get rid of Thangam Debbonaire but 100% for climate change and environmental reasons. Bristol has a particularly large number of environmentalists, cyclists and hippies. I expect Gaza is a minor factor to help the Greens here too but personally I’d guess climate and people being on average more left wing than current Labour has several times more to do with it.

It's ALL emergencies!

You mentioned the make up of the shadow cabinet, if LD were choosing who to appoint couldn't they instead appoint shadow minister from the SNP, Greens, Plaid, SDLP or Alliance.

SUBJECT: *Speaker Hoyle - should he be replaced..?* IMO definitely Hoyle should be replaced, not only because he wasn't nearly robust enough in dealing with the Tories, but because he sometimes went against Parliamentary Procedure in order to accomodate the wishes of Keir Starmer. In other words, he has been partisan, and the Speaker is *supposed* to remain impartial. The words *'As useless as a chocolate teapot'* spring to mind with Hoyle. I suspect that Starmer will want to keep him, because of him having been 'helpful' to Starmer and because he's 'One of us.'

SUBJECT: *Electoral Reform.* I disagree with Phil about the way Starmer is likely to view the abandonment of FPTP in favour of PR. IMO Starmer will see things EXACTLY as Blair saw them. Starmer will get a MASSIVE Parliamentary majority on 4th July, and just as Blair did in 2019, Starmer will decide that he REALLY, REALLY likes having a massive majority. Therefore, he will dig his heels in and stick with FPTP. Although the vintage comedy series Yes Prime Minister was fictional, the truths about how the PM will view any major changes to the way things have always been done before is clear to see from this. The moment Jim Hacker thought that any given course of action would result in him losing popularity or even losing the next election saw him dropping whatever proposal came his way like a hot potato.

If the Tories are beaten into third place we should be thoughtful Tories are vampires. Just when you think vampires have been defeated they bounce back. It's critical Tories cannot make a comeback. PR is a MUST.

Does anyone think that social media talk shows are keeping people away from getting out there and protesting?

Streeting MUST be ok or Starmer wouldn’t put his trust in him Phil‼️

Lack of nhs dentists!

Darren Jones is possibly the Blair without the ego. Perhaps the most comfortable MP in the media I've ever seen, easy to like, and his work on select committees and TV show him to be a fearsome, clued-up debater. He's my tip for the next leader/PM.

I'm worried that Labour's planning reforms will be in direct conflict with biodiversity- eg building on ecologically diverse land.

Love these long form vids. Thank you philandglad to see you feeling a bit better ✌

I feel personally affronted that Phil doesn't want his 191k subscribers to join him at the pub for Sunday lunch

Australia has had Proportional Rep for a 100 years and we seldom have weak governments.

To clean up the Tory mess.

Tell Labour to make it big on announcement when a point is crossed off. Make them brag with achievements because the newspapers and some TV stations will not.

Tata has made a deal with the Netherlands that all virgin steel production will take place in the Netherlands by the end of August, so the blast furnisis will close

It makes perfect sense to develop a pay strategy for public services that seeks to restore their relative spending power to pre-Tory levels over a number of years. This is necessary to address the workforce shortfalls in NHS and Social Care. If this is done carefully, it could support both the cost of living and tax revenue challenges also.

I wonder will the media entertain, and provide platform, For the inevitable Tory outcry of fowl play post election...

For people who get my goat, my statement is, 'your actions cause my reaction'. Works well on adult and kids.

I think the saddest part of Stephen Flynn being in a fight for his seat in Scotland is that he has probably been one of the most effective parliamentary speakers over the past number of years !!

My real concern is that what we need is a Labour leader who is radical. Starmer comes across as too cautious to take the radical steps that are needed to rebuild the country. We would need the Anti Thatcher. Somebody who will reshape the entire country to the benefit of everybody. Not just propping up failing infrastructure, but building new schools and hospitals. Not just talking about electoral reform but actually putting in proportional representation. Not just chatting with unions, but making sure we can get back all those medics that have left the UK. Not just putting in monitoring of water companies, but threatening make them publically owned so they lose all their dividends. Then tell them to clean up their mess and put the money they paid themselves into improving the sewers. Removing flammable cladding and recouping the money from the companies that lied and caused Grenfell. That money can go into removing their dangerous cladding. Sorting out RAAC once and for all. This costs money, but that is called taking the required action. Not convening expert panels, followed by citizen panels, followed by reports and inquiries, followed by too expensive, let's park it for the time being. We have had 14 years of nothing being done. Labour cannot make the same mistakes.

I hope and pray that you are right on the majority of your thoughts, l just worry about the right wing press.

Can somebody tell me why Wes streeting took 15k from a private healthcare company please?

Part of your electoral reform should be having elections on a Saturday so more working people can attend without losing wages.

Phil, what happens if 2 parties (after Labour) get the same number of seats. Which one will be official opposition?

The problem with popularity is that we equate a good politician with a good performer. Yes, every country in the world has had popular, pragmatic politicians who have been good politicians and been excellent performers but that's not what we should expect from our leaders. I want politics to be boring again, all over the world

You local pub’s applied for an extended licence ‘til 3am of the 5th… (I think it’s gonna be better than the celebration party the Tories tried to organise for Brexski, anyway)

So many Tory fires to put out.

Instituting proportional representation? So we never get faced with painful strategic voting again? Make it a societal obligation to prosecute pre-election bare faced lying by candidate parties and their members?

The point is…Starmers language on first past the post doesn’t exactly set him up for the case for electoral reform should it come down the line.

Re join the EU

First past the post does not guarantee a coalition government. We've had proportional representation through a single transferable vote longer than our independence in 1964 (Malta) and we had multiple parties but what happened was the parties grouped up into two super parties, bit like the US. So our conservative party has centre right but also centre left politicians and a smattering of right wing politicians and our labour party has also got a handful of centre right members and a smattering of left wing members. This is the result of PR over time.

I couldn't find anything on Stop the Tories website on electoral reform. After putting in postcode a page comes up headed What's Your Top Issue? NHS, Cost of living etc nothing on PR.

Honestly I am very cynical regarding Labour's current approach regarding trans issues because assuming they're going to make the significant culturally-contraversial changes needed: Self-ID Desegregation of the healthcare system into an informed consent model. assumes that they are either lying or weasel wording when they discuss their position. Which is frankly not great even if true.

There arre no expert recomendations in the Cass reviw.

Did you saw the report of Tony Blair having a visit to Starmer? Also I think he is giving him how to speak in public better...

Strange how many of my pro-Phil comments disappear from here, while Reform-loving trolls make it through 🤔

I know a couple of ex-teachers. One left to manage a pub and the other went roof tiling.. Both sighted money as the main reason. 🤷🏻‍♂️ (I half know a third one, and he left to become “An Internet Gobshite”.. ; )

btw still no adverts on for the playback. EDIT: Sorry there's an advert at the start if that's what counts, I was expecting afew in the middle.

How many shadow ministers are needed?

First order of buisness is to rescind the anti protest bill.

Volume still too low.

What to fix first? The right wing media. Turn the English OFF right wing extremism.

Panacotta lotta Rhubarb ice cream. You only live once 😊

I feel there isn’t any safe seats

So Hoyle is not being sacked?

im so sad to hear you dont like Wes!

raise the marginal tax rate back to 1966, make a minimum which must be paid despite deductions. Give the government its real share or value to pay for all those degraded services. Be like Denmark. Be smarter

I can't imagine elections under PR with Reform around. They would get far more seats under PR wouldn't they?

Iff the _wonderful thing happens_ & Tories are [at least] third could a member of Lib Dems have a place in Cabinet to A] show direction _OR_ B] rub Tory noses in 'it 😂 😂 😂

If we rejoined fully, we would be "forbidden" to renationalise our transport and some utilities which should explain Labour reluctance to rejoin for anything other than trading. Unrelated, sort of, tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, why? If we want Net Zero, we need these imports because our and European manufacturers are not producing enough vehicles cheaply enough for the "average " motorist. Hope you continue to feel better .

immigration

Brexit 😃

vote labour get the tories out

FDR couldn’t dance as well as Biden!

1. Anti Semitism 2. NHS 3. Immigration 4. there 6 steps

As a left wing supporter I still think Starmer belongs in the Tory Party

democracy has failed at every level, from local through national to international, democracy has failed at every level.

Vote labour = get the red half of the establishment

You're not sure about Streeting's 'behaviour'? seriously? For once in ages, he's a labour politician who's all over his brief (which you rightly acknowledge), who is able to talk, without muttering or stammering, in a positive manner whilst also explaining how crap the tories have been. Frankly I rate him highly. ps I was a teacher for 37 years until 2023, so I can judge people as well as you can.

Who thinks the Cass report is transphobic? Aside from activists.

Who cares?

Most of the general public don't actually frequent the internet and those that do don't research things on the internet, at most they do a bit of family and friends social media and never delve into anything else and that's why people are voting Labour, because they don't like the Tories and they're oblivious to what Labour is all about so Labour is their alternative vote, but I can guarantee you after 5 years of a Labour government the general public wont need the internet because they'll be able to see themselves with their own 2 eyes and hear with their own 2 ears how Labour destroys this country and after 5 years of the people seeing the light there will be a Reform government in 2029. Mark my words.

Oh dear Phil, Labour won't achieve anything significant.

Sort Wales out after Labour destroyed it

Read the fucking tealeaves Phil, this is 1992 all over again.

Labours ‘priorities’ are the same as the Tories and all the other EU/UN/WEF/ECHR/WHO bootlicking parties. Vote Labour if you want to be shafted just the same … serious Reform is needed ❤

The majority of the British people voted to leave Europe! And they will be voting for REFORM UK, help to reclaim your country this year vote for REFORM UK.

You're comments on how the anti genocide Green vote affects dosmetic poltiicians is deeply offensive, misguided, and frankly racist.

Vote Reform get Labour out.

Vote Labour to "decarbonise the National Grid by 2030". Expect frequent blackouts and a flight of whatever industry is left.

Starmer will be every bit as bad as Tories.

Vote Labour and to get "change" = more of the same BS, with woke.

We definitely haven’t had a pro Brexit parliament they’ve done everything within their power not to leave so stop lying😮

TO BOW DOWN TO ISLAM.