Powerful Speech: What Is Freedom?

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Trades Union Congress (TUC)

9 ай бұрын

In this debate with Kenneth Williams, Jimmy Reid asked "What is freedom?"

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@iainb1577 9 ай бұрын

The current Labour party could do with a few people with the integrity and eloquence of Jimmy Reid.

@17henke 5 ай бұрын

The current Labour Party are so detached from the origins of the Labour Party there just Tory’s with a different colour of tie on

@iainb1577 5 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. It's sad. @@17henke

@thequestioner5916 22 сағат бұрын

Indeed they could that's why his granddaughter just got elected to Parliament

@iainb1577 21 сағат бұрын

@@thequestioner5916 It just struck me on thursday that Mhari Black has a lot of his qualities. SNP, I know but I am sad she is stepping out of it.

@geordiedog1749 9 ай бұрын

Brilliantly put.

@Maria-ef5gq Ай бұрын

Why can,t we have a political party led by an empathic man like Jimmy Reid ❤

@MrDesmondPot 9 ай бұрын

Very well expressed. I have a colleague who refuses to acknowledge this point despite me knowing full well they understand it and accept it. Of course, they are right wing.

@peterclarke7240 9 ай бұрын

I've come to the conclusion, over many years of conversations with right-wingers, that it is a form of ideological sociopathy. It gives you a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to caring about anyone other than those you make a conscious decision to care for, while your default reaction is to assume that all misfortune is self-inflicted and self-perpetuated.

@raycroal 9 ай бұрын

no-one is left or right, we are all on the bottom, left and right gives an illusion of choice, but we all go the same way in the end

@kirkegodfrey414 2 ай бұрын

This is such a powerful speech. Resonated VERY strongly with a work i was creating, so i used and credited him with his deeply powerfully delivered speech.

@kirkegodfrey414 2 ай бұрын

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@Maria-ef5gq Ай бұрын

Brilliant . Keep his TRUTHS alive 👍 ✌🏼

@tailofahippopotamus9775 9 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Hannah Arendt's work "The Freedom to be Free"

@seanmoran2743 7 ай бұрын

Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose

@user-gu7dc7jw7d 5 ай бұрын

Love that line

@ford5440 9 ай бұрын

Freedom is not an abstract concept. The Tories famously want a 'small state' ie one which intervenes as little as possible and they pass legislation to enable this. This creates various 'freedoms' eg the freedom to exploit people, to charge exorbitant rents, to restrict worker's rights, and ,for some, they'd like the freedom to hang people. The Press in this country is largely not free as it's owned and manipulated to the agenda of mostly right wing individuals who really don't want you to be free at all.

@The-Anti-Zionist 9 ай бұрын

Spot on and an enlightening description

@FordJG 8 ай бұрын

We have freedom to return the needed people to parliament to make the necessary changes. It is our own failure that we appear unable to do that simple thing!

@Maria-ef5gq Ай бұрын

It's the parties . We don't have enough choice . It is always Tory /Labour like Tennis . I would like a change ! ✌🏼

@theworldaccordingto4555 9 ай бұрын

A great speech!

@stevenmawer2421 9 ай бұрын

So true 👍

@1NOIAM 9 ай бұрын

Make sense.🙏✝️🛐💜💜💜

@jayr9952 9 ай бұрын

Freedom is Abstract

@johnwarner4513 6 ай бұрын

Rip Jimmy, and the truth that he carried

@bombski5657 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting this

@mychaelwozniak1049 8 ай бұрын

We could definitely use that gent in the States.

@BOZ_11 9 ай бұрын

Truth

@patbash5718 5 ай бұрын

Well said

@johnharold1866 9 ай бұрын

Spot on.

@alisonmorris4444 9 ай бұрын

👌💡❤️⚖️

@DaboooogA 9 ай бұрын

Upload more of this old stuff!

@thesoultwins72 9 ай бұрын

I have lived in abject poverty since 2017 - when I was scammed out of my lovely retirement home and all my money. I have lost everything since then including my beautiful wife who left me last year after 16 years of marriage. I don't know how much longer I can carry - every day I wish I was dead. Yes, as Jimmy Reid says - I have my freedom. But it's worthless when you are dirt poor.

@almafrith778 9 ай бұрын

Hugs. 💕Sorry to hear of your situation. It seems that where this present government wants all to be.

@alanhat5252 9 ай бұрын

"The party of law & order" seems to encourage these vile & ruthless scammers. Truly sorry for your losses, in my life the bane is thieves.

@dondoodat 9 ай бұрын

As difficult as it may be you need to put your loss in the past and look to the future. It's done, it's happened, it can't be undone. It may be that because you can't let go of the negativity that you create more negativity which then becomes the spiral. Write a list of what you have that is positive and what you realistically want to achieve. You can't keep looking back.

@fintamaria2429 9 ай бұрын

Hugs,sorry to hear about of your situation

@raycroal 9 ай бұрын

poor you , you have my sympathies, i have doubts about your wife though, she should have helped you out

@dougie6886 9 ай бұрын

Jimmy reid was never ever given due credit.

@markcarballo8195 8 ай бұрын

I feel mell gibson may have seen this. Circa 1994

@dondoodat 9 ай бұрын

Freedom is a state of mind. The most free I ever felt was when I was homeless, jobless and had nothing but the clothes I stood up in and a few quid in my pocket. If you have a boss, a landlord and debt you'll never be free.

@alanhat5252 9 ай бұрын

That was back in the day! Back when you could rely on the Dole to at least feed you most days.

@dondoodat 9 ай бұрын

@@alanhat5252 I never relied on the dole. When I needed money I did enough work to put some money in my pocket and then moved on. It's a great way to see the world.

@raycroal 9 ай бұрын

you are correct but you need health and fitness to live like that,, the older one gets the less able to be free they get.

@dondoodat 9 ай бұрын

@@raycroal Living like that keeps you healthy and fit, it's the home comforts that do the damage.

@raycroal 8 ай бұрын

@@dondoodat I am sure it does but it doesn't stop one ageing , and I am not sure sleeping rough through a Glasgow winter would be good for many people's health.

@alanhat5252 9 ай бұрын

I watched this on telly, it was funny watching Kenneth Williams flounder. Not so funny now a quarter of the population or more is "eating cardboard".

@eaglechawks3933 8 ай бұрын

When someone advocates State control to bring "economic fairness" to the people, I ask them to point out a Country where that has occurred. Poverty increased in Cuba under Castro, while he became the richest man in the country. Poverty and starvation came to Venezuela after Maduro took over, and somehow his daughter ended up as the richest woman in the country. Freedom IS messy, and not all outcomes are equal -- but that does not mean that State control will guarantee a more fair society. If history is our guide, the more state control there is the worse it is for the ordinary people. Can we make our Free Societies better? Why yes we can. Start with things like a tax code that cannot be gamed by lawyers and accountants, and where special provisions cannot be added by politicians seeking donations from wealthy donors. Flat 20% tax after a fixed personal deduction and apply it to ALL income no matter how it is derived? Why not? That still will not mean that everyone will have an equal outcome -- and anyone promising you that is lying to you. What it will do is give you confidence in your country again.

@seanmoran2743 7 ай бұрын

So what’s he’s alternative ? Some sort of Utopian Worker’s Paradise 🙄 I take it he read Animal Farm I wonder if he’s wage was the same as the average person he represented 🤔