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Can Alastair please give CCHQ the rough time on election night he gave Adam Boulton in this classic 14 years ago💪🏽 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bqqehMaAlp3ZiY0.htmlfeature=shared I can see the headline: LABOUR LANDSLIDE, LIB DEM WATERSLIDE in the South and TORIES SLIDE everywhere - full stop.❤️

I like Rory and he'll always have a pot to p ss in, (2 even)unlike a lot of people under 14 years of Tory Mismanagement.

Why did Rory really not want to speak about legalising pot though? He shut it down very quick. Alastair was like, I think it might be in the Lib Dem manifesto? And Rory is like, “yeah probably, anyway…” 😂

I thought the pots were cooking pots you'd put on the stove. These are completely unexpected

You can do what 50% of americans are doing, worry about Trump winning again. Only 4.5 more months of anxiety left! With chances of 4 more years of existential dread!

Breathe free knowing that the 14 year old nightmare is over

Frfr im using this as my pre study for a level politics next year

I know what I’ll be doing, celebrating with a beer and a curry.

I'll be A VERY HAPPY 70 year old former NHS Nurse IF LABOUR take a BIG majority...And I know WHAT you mean about loss.....but its going to take a whole lot of time and energy to MAKE what the TORIES took 14 years to BREAK! Suppose We can console ourselves just watching and Enjoying the Wretched Tories just slowly (or rapidly) Disintegrate and UTTERLY Fall Apart! 😊 and Alistair and Rory can keep us informed......

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Same but then I think that's the minority. Because when you're at uni you forget 50 percent of the population don't get good enough A levels or even GCSEs to get into uni. Those rich kids just had good schools that taught them how to pass exams, apply to unis and write personal statements.

The base level intelligence and life lessons and most of all CONFIDENCE provided by private schools is such an advantage.

I know what you mean, when I served in the Army in the 1970's the officers were as thick as two short planks, except the ones who came up through the ranks !!!

It also depends on what Uni. E.g. durham is where the less able but very wealthy kids go. And I doubt you'll find many rich kids at my alma mater, which was an ex-polytech.

Jacob Rees-Mogg - thick as mince.

Omg you were severed!

Class is a Prison, well no idea what you are on about. Class has no bearing on how I live my life.

What does class is a prison even mean? My father was a poor immigrant and became very successful in the UK. Does this provide a counter example or do I not understand what you mean?

@@joshyman221 He thinks you are imprisoned by your class. But as your Father was an immigrant he didn't understand the concept. In contrast the concept of class is often more extreme in the poor, 'I'm working class and proud of it'. Whereas the middle classes are the ones who less understand the concept. Of course there are the upper classes but actually these people are very few in % terms and mostly have inherited wealth. For example the royal family. But if anyone is imprisoned by class, it is likely themselves doing the imprisoning. It's a thing, no doubt, in Britain but mostly it is the working classes who are making it last. But is it your accent holding you back, yes sometimes. But accent has changed for example in the London area, my Grandmother was a cockney but now today you rarely hear that accent. In fact her accent had notably changed because of moving outside London, as would be obvious to me when hearing her Cousin Sarah (or was this my Grandad's Cousin) but anyway Sarah was a died in the wool Cockney. And in fact was funny for my family when hearing the accent. But today we have an inner city accent in London. No one needs to have this accent, and it is I think caused by a lack of education rather than class. For example most Footballers and virtually everyone that I have heard under the age of 50 saying them when they mean those. 'Them people instead of those people'. My Grandparents would never have said that, and if I'd have said that my parents would have corrected me. But regional accents are another thing, I wouldn't expect people to change their accents to a Southern BBC type English and can well see how some jobs may not be open to you. This is unfortunate. But simple if you want to be middle class, you will never be upper class so don't try, talk properly and try to talk like you are educated even if you are not. Being born in Welwyn Garden City to working class parents on a Council estate that comes easily to me as my accent was pretty good. And in fact at school, most people had the same accent, close to a BBC English accent. As close as you could get on a Council estate. My Dad, working class and proud of it, but his accent didn't show that at all. He left school at 14 but loved books. I left school at 16 without an O level, most at my school only had CSE's and yet when I last worked in a warehouse I was the go to person for any info on politics or news or history. The ignorance of some people frankly astonished me, just because you are working class doesn't mean you don't listen to the news and educate yourself. Easy to do that now, with the internet. Hope all that helps.

You mean between 2018-2020 when the software they were using was not working correctly? That was patched up 3 years ago. Although they are still looking to replace the system.

All of them

AliceHutchinson Thats right the Chief Constable managed to hang onto his job following some serious errors made to do with the Manchester bombing but had to fall on his sword over a technicality in counting crimes (same offender/victim and crime type after a period of time counts as multiple crime) You have to wonder given the above if we have our priorities in order but the big take way is number mean more than people

If anything Labour are priortising business over people.

Tell me your a labour activist without telling me your a la our activist

@@ianbanks3016 Without Business you will have NOWT!

@@Garwfechan-ry5lk Without the people, businesses have NOWT.

@@ianbanks3016 I do believe that is blindingly obvious, otherwise we would all be living in Caves!

They needn't have put all those red lines re: Europe in the manifesto. Given that so much of what they intend to do is predicated on a level of growth which would be ambitious even within the context of the EEA and is frankly impossible in a post-Brexit environment, it's going to haunt them.

@@zangtt The reality is a good number of Brexiteers would vote for a potato if it protected Brexit. Messing with that side of things is not somewhere Labour needs to go during this election. The only thing it would do is push people toward Reform. Perhaps after this election cycle we will be in a different place, but right now we are not. And the EU aren't in that place either.

​@@hustlinmagicThe Right are causing trouble EVERYWHERE......Allways feared would happen once the Generation that Fought the Last Lot in WW2 died out. My Dad (wartime RAF) would be HORRIFIED IF HE could SEE how things are boiling up again now.....

@@hustlinmagic that is a sensible explanation for not committing to an eventual rejoining of the EU. But the red lines that they drew were massive. I'm for voting for pro-Europe potatoes, to keep the balance. LibDem, Green, SNP. Still hoping that a hung parliament and a coalition will sand those Brexity edges off the Labour manifesto. SNP will probably position itself as the Europe party now.

I’d love to know how much you pay.

i’ve been saying this to everyone. the “scary” £2000 figure sunak is touting is £40 per month when you divide it over the four years it’s actually based on. that’s exactly what i gained when they lowered national insurance in april. i feel no better off since gaining that £40, and i would much rather they take my £40 per month and i get to live in a functioning society where i can access a GP and don’t have to witness horrific scenes of deprivation and poverty whenever i need to nip into the city centre.

Agreed. I'd consider that a great deal.

@@sillygoosegoose I don't think it is scary. They should have owned it, instead they called Tories liars for the process they chose to achieved the figure. Well that's not the point. The point is why do they replicate the Tory plans, I assume they now won't as Tories say 6% NI. But when they say no increases in NI they should be talking of 12% NI as that is what we had recently. Still, you feel no better off despite getting £10 PW more. This is exactly the issue, give anybody anything they feel no better off. But they are. Not just now, for all time. some people, are not just grateful people. Put it this way, take it away, most people will be moaning. We have to get a life here, you want spending up (in NHS, defence, helping the poor etc) then someone has to pay for it. They still appear to believe they can do all that on squeezing the rich until the pips squeak. We all know that doesn't work. All this talk of the tax burden being the highest since WW2, well good. Because we haven't been taxing enough. We can see that from the debt we owe. But why is the tax burden high, an interesting point as tax allowance is more than it was (allowing for inflation) than what it was under Labour in 2005-10. Must be the higher band where you pay 40% as this is now frozen for years. On that, people paying into a pension when they are taxed 40% get 40% tax relief. It was said by Andrew Neil yesterday that they might scrap that. That would be a good thing. Make it 20% tax relief for everyone. If they were honest (if they will do that) they would state this in their manifesto. But not honest. Are the Tories right when they said a £500 bill PA for everyone, must be (minimum). But Labour should own that. We all hear in polls that people want more tax, so let them have more tax.

​@deeingalaplike To be fair, that's how political parties ought to be. Whipped lockstep is unhealthy and bad for the country.

Because running a political party is hard work, and what would be the point? Just look at Reform and LibDems. Doesn’t matter how much the UK public support you, the system ensures voters remain unrepresented.

@@ruthmebit’s easier to run a party when you don’t have people stabbing you in your back politically because they have slight differences to you despite agreeing on 90% of things as can be seen on the far left or the reform right

With respect I'm not sure Campbell is a by-word for honesty, and as much as I like Rory his political leanings would create lots of the same failed policies. Hardly likely to create a "decade of national renewal"

they really have pulled the wool over your eyes

The problem with that is that in order to reform the system you need to risk the tories having more power. This election may be a unique situation where everyone knows labour is going to win so you can vote for the lib dems if you want electoral reform. Normally if the election is even moderately close you can't risk not tactically voting for whoever is likely to win in your area.

I agree, I know Alistair and Rory are really only interested in Labour and the Tories but would be nice to have more focus on the other party manifestos. I thought this was going to be more of a discussion about all party manifestos.

Spotted the Liberal Democrat 🕊 ;)

@@At0micFruitthey’re not really manifestos though, they’re just booklets of ideas that they know will never be implemented so they don’t worry about it making sense or being costed etc

It's fantasy economics from both.

Not really, it's largely all an illusion. Both parties bought and paid for by the rich and the information disseminated to the electorate also largely comes from billionaire-owned news media. The end result is there is very little to choose between the parties - both work for their super rich paymasters and in fear of attacks by the media. Take off the veil and it's a dictatorship by the rich!

We don't need any new house building. The market needs regulating.

@@FireflyOnTheMoon Regulation helps nobody apart from the wealthy. We need enough social housing to influence and force private rent to drop. This will then release housing for first time buyers and hopefully lower house prices.

@@michaelwhiting3282 uh no lol, what are you saying? regulation is absolutely pivotal to battling the wealthy. this isn't to disagree with building more housing but it is absolutely not the only lever that can be pulled

@@turquoise7817 How would you regulate? In my area we have major issues with holiday properties and 2nd homes. No government would regulate to limit 2nd, 3rd, 4th homes because they would be limiting there own wealth gains. Our local council have proposed doubling council tax on 2nd homes for the last 3 years. Nothing has or will happen. If you buy a second home you can most likely afford 2 or 3x the amount anyway. It is a difficult problem which will not be solved in the next 10 years+. My children will and are suffering the consequences and I see nobody willing to attempt a fix.

@@michaelwhiting3282 ok, you said "regulations help nobody apart from the wealthy", and now you're saying "they'll never introduce regulations because it would affect the wealthy too much"? what gives?

You seriously think he'll get elected and then suddenly become a radical? Boy, you're in for a HUGE disappointment.

For god’s sake’s . Don’t mention elephants.( in the room or out ) . Fictional weapons of mass destruction don’t go away with mass hypnosis and any talk of that type ain’t helping any .

Well this may be a more Budget announcement

​@@adamgrimsley2900 Hope so! I feeling like both parties use this a 'black hole' for grabbing money out of nowhere all the time.

Agree totally.Britain has a myriad of loopholes or exemptionsfor both corporations and millionaires which is great for our Accountants but loses the nation billions in taxes. Taxing the poorest levels of society may be easier for HMRC but it is inequitable and needs urgent action.

Aren’t you worried about immigration?

@@schofield4836I know I’m not the person you asked but since it’s the point of this space, I’m going to contribute as someone who also plans to vote Labour but hopes they continue to improve as a party. Frankly, simply trying to “control” immigration doesn’t work. Historic trends show us that generally net migration into the UK goes up when things are going well and it goes down when things are going very badly. The reality is we’re experiencing a labour shortage and for whatever reason may be the case per individual job, not enough people already in the country can be found to fill those roles. The asylum system under the Tories has become an absolute shit show, so we can’t even find the people who don’t have legitimate claims and sort them from those who do. “Deterrents” like the Rwanda scheme don’t work because people will just come anyway and chances are we can’t even get any significant number of people sent there (even leaving aside the morality and the money it’s wasting). Funnily enough, for all the right hates the issue, if you’re worried about immigration, you should really be worried about climate change because as parts of the world become increasingly inhospitable because of floods, droughts, temperature extremes, etc, more people will be looking for somewhere to relocate to. We have to address the root causes of the multitude of problems we face as a nation and as a world. People like Sunak/Braverman/Farage are all about superficial proposals that don’t actually fix the real problems.

Where did Rory buy his mug from?

He borrowed it 😜

@Simbad.. they are only talking of State Pension. Not all the pensions this group may have earned.

Exactly! One of the reasons I hope weed will never be legalised. I am very happy my weed is tax free, it actually makes it affordable to have a great night with your mates. If it is ever legalised the price would triple.

@@MrShikaga yep it's one of the only things that hasnt gone up in price lol

@@MrShikagaactually in Netherlands the government introduced there own grown and regulated weed in the last two weeks and it undercut the price of dealers , so clearly the stuff is still getting marked up like crazy by dealers if the government can undercut while still taxing.

@@uiscahammond3171 cheers, that is really interesting. To be clear, what is a dealer in NL? The coffee shops? Yeah, you are probably right, it is just that alcohol is so expensive in the UK. A typical pint costs about £7, which is more than a joint costs, and while a single joint will list you all night, a pint will barely last you an hour. But to be fair, 20 cigarettes only costs £12, so I guess it is just that pints are a real waste of money. I quit alcohol a while back and have never smoked. For me weed is just such a better, happier time.

They did and lost the AV referendum vote

As above, this is exactly what happened in 2010. Unfortunately, the naïve LibDems thought that the Tory supporting media would actually publicise such a thing… Which of course, they didn’t. Meaning that most people didn’t even know it was happening, hence it had a tiny turnout.

​@@PhilAinsworth-qy4nsI'm starting to feel old. That was the irst referendum I voted in

It could just result in political stagnation where nothing gets done.

No being in the death throes of the empire were why we joined the eec in the first place. What we've got now is a small nation having a stroke. And just like a stroke, the damage will be worse and last longer if we don't recognise that quick enough and seek treatment.

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I love you Alistair ❤