Our current government is the worst we've ever had, EVER!

He'd turn milk wishi ríshi ffs

I think ken was like most people rather surprised that tory pensioners would vote for someone who is quite so ridiculously stupid

wouldn't have happened if the members had had their say. They even picked Truss over Sunak. They would pick Larry the cat over Sunak.

@@stevenhoward3358 And thats exactly the problem... if you allow the members to 'have their say' you end up with people like Jeremy Corbyn or Liz Truss... far left or far right who nobody normal wants as PM. Better to leave it up to MPs and the electorate to choose.

@@WH-hi5ew Which begs the question why would a party have members if that membership cannot elect its leader.

This Brexiteer didn’t

Admittedly I voted to “Remain” in the EU, but he was always honest with his opinions, good and bad. I think it’s better to unite rather than divide.

She was not brilliant..

So you're unaware that Gloria has EU Grandparents, same as EU-Lover Clarke.

She was in his Gaff..Can hardly be a hard interrogation...

@@notrut There is nothing wrong with having EU - ancestry. It often gives people a better insight into current affairs.

@@countfosco8535 There is. If you think the UK is better off in the EU then you are simply too stupid to be an MP or have any position of authority

I agree! Ken Clark was a proper politician with real values that shone through in his personality. Like you, I'm not a Conservative voter but always listen to what he said and valued his opinions. I sort of wish he wasn't a Tory MP, But that's just me being naive, and stupid. He is a great politician who is interested in outcomes rather than ego. This country needs more of his ilk! Whichever party they are from...

@@MineshShah His memoirs are entitled Kind of Blue. This says alot.

@@aaropajari7058 I did not know that...

Hang on. He was in the Bildeberg mob. He's no better than the present lot.

me too

This was indeed a lovely interview..I'm not a tory voter but have always had a soft spot for "Genghis Ken" as one wag amusingly called him. I would just say that, empathetic though she was, the interviewer cannot be compared to "the others" : Laura Kuenssberg, Beth Rigby et al as this was more of a verbal memoir rather than extracting answers and explanations on the terrible state of things today from front benchers on both sides, where they have to be far more pushy and hard-nosed to satisfy the viewers.

@@francisfox9171 Those that you describe are more interested in presenting their own persona. I doubt they have ever managed to get to the knub of anything!

She is a former Labour MP.

@@alastairharris1866 I think you're right there, although they are hampered by the same problems that MPs face in the commons and PMQs every Wednesday: senior ministers and the PM are primed with rehearsed statements on any possible topic that have been carefully crafted to give nothing and largely consist of rhetoric. This in turn is down to the fact that they know that everything they say will be forensically analysed and compared to previous statements from themselves or colleagues on that issue. Any deviation from the original line will be jumped upon. The earlier generations of interviewers [David Frost, Brian Walden] had to do the hard yards of research to catch them out..nowadays social media and the internet generally makes the monitoring and comparison of speeches much easier.

@@alien4422 Gloria de Piero

and tell us more or dont you like him cos hes brown

Are you a gammon?

Boris elevated him on the grounds he wouldn't present a threat. I think we can see what Boris was getting at!

Much worse but he's a slick talker, just like Blair and that's the worrying bit.

A lot like Therese Coffey when he was health minister, with the cigars.

That party has trashed the country.

That he is slightly to the right of the current mob is one of the reasons we are in such a mess!

they're all WEF!!! including Liz Truss too.

​@@disaffected_malcontent Something folk point out, but others don't want to know. Say that about Penny Mordaunt as well, and you get mocked or ignored. The truth really hurts.

@@commandingjudgedredd1841 yep, you can't be a sheep you need to know this shit for yourself. and in fact I'm a major Sunak supporter, I think he's done great things, I think his policies are great and any other vote, or lack thereof, is a defacto vote for Labour. I think Sunak is good, I wish others saw this.

But he said not to vote brexit fiasco. Hope you followed his advice

Frank hes not most peoples kind of anything really because he wasnt generous towards working class people he was a Nottinghamshire man that didnt back his own communities during the biggest strike in this country ever he was a extremely stubborn denier of poverty his budgets with his drinking at the same time became s standing joke ,, he was sort of the matt hancock of covid during the miners strike he could have done a lot to halt the Thatcherism but like Michael hesaltine he chose not too...

perhaps get a room?

The electorate didn't get a vote?

Truss wasn’t chosen by the uk electorate.

Yes and she’d have got her arse handed to her at the election

@a basketboy you must be having a laugh if you think she would have garnished any kind of success at the next GE. She was an atrocious politician and any sane person should be glad she is gone. That however does not been her successor is in any way a good politician.

@@abasketboy772 she was awful in her cabinet positions. Take the daily Mail out of your arse and see the reality.

I agree, a fundamentally decent man if perhaps a little misguided.

There's a big difference between interviewing a politician in his dotage and a current one. She didn't challenge him at all (and there's plenty she could on).

Was there any explanation for the weird seating arrangement?

@@ktkee7161 She drew him out about his late wife -- revealing a very human side of a not-always-loved public figure -- in a way that a male interviewer likely couldn't have done. She LISTENED, and her empathy was obvious.

@@ktkee7161 Dotage is too strong a word.Kern can still speak rationally and with sense even if one sometimes disagrees . Retirement would be a more suitable word. But the point is that Ken Clarke is no longer making policy or in the government . This interview was not required to be challenging. or aggressive. It was, as another contributor says, a kind of memoir . But we do need interviewers to ask really challenging questions and also to follow them up when talking to a minister currently in office.

Indeed, Ros. SHEER CLASS.

Good. She was corrupt.

​@@steveturner6770 And Kenny wasn't?

He was a EU loving prat!

​@@davidwilkins683 I knew there was a reason I liked him.

Do people actually like politicians? Very strange idea!

@@davidwilkins683 Hows being outside the EU going for you?

Didn't stop Brexit, though, did he, so what are you worrying about?

@@MS-19 he would have if that was possible, and he has certainly being scheming

He's a cunning canny pragmatist. Of course he's a remainer.

@@alastairharris1866 good for him

She's a Labour MP so that's why she knows the questions to ask and how to let him speak. Though, like Ken she's a socialist.

It’s called ‘make up’

@@sircxx8621 Even taking that into account, she looks great. I think she keeps herself in shape. She posted a video the other day where she was doing a headstand.

@@ppuh6tfrz646 Yep, I totally agree. I would!

@@sircxx8621 but she probably wouldn't

😂😂😂 You don't know Kenny, then?

Are you MAD!? Ask Clarkey about his Communist Grandfather ... oh, and his British American Tobacco Company shares, and their Black Market activities.

Yep. If only because he's a remainer.

How can you have respect for remainiacs

@@whysa4 What's a "remainiac"? Remain in what?

@@whysa4 Because I have a brain in my head!

One of the best politicians this country ever had. Very brave man when he voted against the Iraq war, for example.

You honestly think that Bildeberg puppet cared? Was full of integrity and honesty? No wonder we are in a fine mess.

He is still a bitter remainer and an EU fanatic. Anyone who holds the view that we should be in the EU and tried so hard to stop brexit is simply too stupid to be an MP, and that's an fact.

Char-siu, sui-yaw, sui-knap-fahn. Mai-dan, umm-goy...

They wanted Thatcher 2.0. I would have thought Ken would be in support.

if he was the best chancellor ever, then the talent pool hasn't exactly been deep. Oh, and he was a crap Health Secretary. Remember the Labour election posters? 'What do you call a man who doesn't listen to his GP? Kenneth Clark.'

Best ever. If you listen to his self-promotion, you might think Gordon was the best ever one. This Clarke fellow left the job with the country in a better place.

Tom Jackson. Clarke was a Remainer though and fought against the Refetendum. Perhaps you think that is O.K.

@@valeriedavidson2785 I do. Show me one concrete benefit of Brexit. It’s an economic disaster.

@@tom5216 Absolute rubbish. It is the best thing this country ever did. After Brexit on January 1st, almost immediately we had the covid pandemic. Just getting over that and Russia went to war with Ukraine. We have hardly had any breathing space. Add to that the fact that we now have globalist remainers in charge of our government at the moment. This country has succeeded in obtaining many trade deals around the world since Brexit. The energy crisis showed us just how stupid it is to rely on other countries and we have been able to secure supplies from other parts of the world because we are free to do so since Brexit , although extremely expensive. Successive governments over the years in Britain have made terrible mistakes mainly not making ourselves energy independent. This of course is because of the obsession with net zero. Added to this the government since Brexit have not begun to take advantage of the opportunities we now have. This is not a Conservative government they are socialists and the sooner we get some capable people elected the better. Eventually we will reall reap the benefits of independence. Roll on the next election. There is nothing good to be said for the EU.

He is a loathsome tobacco baron.

@@peterjohnston377 you prissy childish little creature.

@@terencefield3204 I watched my father die an agonising and protracted death from lung cancer. Anyone who has had his snout in the trough of profiting from that kind of suffering is a piece of scum. Fact.

Because the right wing media, GB news included, backed her all the way and said her policies were brilliant, funny how that seems to be forgotten now.

Those Tory party members are the same as her. Have you ever heard them being interviewed? They are nuts. Since they were actually let have the final say on who became PM the pound tanked and pension funds were within hours of going insolvent with £30bn flushed down the drain over night. That’s the reality when these people are allowed take serious decisions.

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 We learned that it's not the voters, not the wealthy or even the business class, but international investors and the money markets who have the final say. If they believe you will hurt THEIR pockets you have to go.

@@faithlesshound5621 enough with the conspiracy theories, it was Tory MPs under pressure from the public who forced her out because she tanked our economy and raised our mortgages, she should never have been PM in the first place.

@@testudohorsfieldii7052 MPs under pressure from the public may have wielded the axe, but that was under pressure from the Market, which punished the country the only way it can. The financiers reacted to their expectations of what the outcome of her and Kwarteng's policies would be, before any tax cuts had taken effect.

Of course you're pro-EU ... Herr Frankenberger.

And don’t forget Neil Oliver I can not bear to listen to him either

Yeah because brexshit is such a roaring success.....it’s easy to see why over half the English population are well below average intelligence

Don't compare him to Kim Philby, there's a HUGE DIFFERENCE between someone who has a different view from you (however objectionable) about what is best for the people of the country, and someone who literally BETRAYS it, for the sake of another country.....

In years to come you will find that Boris was the one who betrayed the country.

How do you reckon that?

@@steveturner6770 I don’t ‘reckon’. I KNOW.

At least he hasn’t ‘touched anybody up” that’s cool for a Torie guy

By the look on his moosh he's not enamoured by you right-wing, Reform voting, fruitcake loonies.

He was also against the sinking of the Belgrano in the 1982 War. He’s a nasty piece of work.

@@djdoolittle1315 they are all the bloody same on the make and on the take kens no different to Blair Cameron may brown etc etc etc

@@djdoolittle1315 Big Cyril Smith awaits you in Heaven, or was that Chris Bryant in his budgie smugglers. What a three ball. Just make sure you provide your own KY jelly. Now where's my pillow?