So your not going to discuss what a colossal disaster Boris Johnson and Theresa May were? It wasn't Truss, it was 14 years of incompetence, scandal, and weirdness.

The conservatives lost more votes to Liberal Democrates then to reform ! Please focus on that!

Note; the last conservative prime minister, Rishi Sunak, was a city trader who bet against the uk in the 2008 crash and he personally made millions from it.

Immigration would be less of a perceived problem if the Tories had not blamed immigrants for their own decisions not to invest in housing, schools, the NHS, etc.

Austerity didn't balance the books. It was failed political ideology. Our national debt to GDP ratio has sky rocketed since the policies were implemented and all our services have been eroded to the point that nothing works. At the same time, Tory insiders have lined their own pockets and one of our PM's bet against the UK when Brexit was put to a referendum. At every stage, the Tories have demonstrated in very practical terms that the only thing that matters is the inward advantages of political positioning and that the UK and it's people are a vessel for wealth extraction. Con-men who use divisive politics to divide and rule

I'm a Brit, this is one of the best political assessments I've heard. Perhaps you have the advantage of the outsider looking on. Thanks

The answer is in the title "Conservative Rule". Politicians are voted in by the people to SERVE the people. We did not vote them in so they can RULE over us, which is what the Conservatives have done for the last 14 years.

The Liberal Democrats did remarkably well because of widespread and highly targetted tactical voting, namely Labour voters who leant their votes to the Lib Dem candidate in their constituencies where they know Labour couldn't win in order to get the Tory candidate out and vice versa. You could almost say that Labour and Lib Dem votes were interchangeable depending on where you live as the parties are very close on policy and they were both seen as a vehicle for getting the Tories out. I think the "low" Labour vote share has been over-interpreted by the UK right-wing press in an attempt to try and give Conservatives some hope that they may be able to quickly recover. Voters guided by various online tactical voting campaigns used the First Past The Post system against the Tories in this election to a devastating effect.

If an American wants to know.just how bad the UK is, look at it like this: If you remove one city, London, from the equation England has worse economic and poverty outcomes than the lowest performing state in the union Mississippi. All the while Mississippi has the GPD of less than $120bn and the UK has a GPD of over $2 trillion

Not a single thing about the collapse of trust in the Tories after multiple lies and scandals? Not even the slightest mention of how Johnson destroyed the standard in politics to an all time low having a monumental effect? This reporting misses one of the most important factors in why the UK rejected the Tories so decisively.

This is such an accurate assessment of life in the UK . It is not the “world beating” country that the Conservatives would like us to believe.

Tory mismanagement has driven a 20% increase in prices (a mix of ideological austerity damaging the economy, Brexit damaging trade, and Truss' unfunded tax cuts which increased our brewing costs by 8%) resulting in a terrible 'cost of living crisis' - people are having to choose between heating their house or eating.

Dont forget Partygate, when the Tories and Boris Johnson partied during lockdown, when all of us obeyed the lockdown rules

Ended big-C Conservative rule...but not economically neo-liberal rule tho...which is why we're in this mess.

This past week has felt optimistic. Probably the first time since the Olympics ive felt hope in the U.K

US listeners, hearing the difficulties faced by the National Health Service, may not be aware that the Tories have claimed to be increasing funding, year on year, but this is 'Hollywood Accounting'. In reality, NHS treatments have been outsourced to private companies, who are allowed to cosplay as 'NHS' workers, at multiple times what real NHS staff cost. That has allowed the Tory government to launder public money *through* the NHS, to companies owned by their families and friends. They also labelled the £billions embezzled by Boris Johnson, for nonexistent covid protections, as 'NHS spending', meaning the public were paying to be robbed, and the Tories wanted credit and thanks for robbing them. This Tory mismanagement, as well as providing cover for Tory corruption, enables them to misrepresent publicly run services as inefficient, and justify the sell off of more public assets. Remember these facts, when the GOP argue against publicly owned healthcare. The bad examples they will cite are examples of right wing criminality, not left wing ineffectiveness.

The notion of the UK vote not having been for the left is somewhat simple and maybe americanized. There has always been diverse views of "the left", and in Britain The New Left was and still is to the left, thw difference is between ideology inside Labour. It is, and has been the same in nordic and Finnish politics. The left is not homogenic and never has been. BTW, in France the differences are between parties on the left.

Yeah, its nothing to do with open borders, population explosion. Yeah, nothing to do with waiting lists. The NHS is free at the point of use coupled with the population. How do you plan for that.

It is hard to narrow the failure of the Conservatives down to just a few points. Consider the lack of hope many young people have especially those who do not go on to university. We have young men in particular who think a life of crime is their only hope. Crime in the UK is completely out of control. Theresa May as Home Secretary allowed Cameron to cut police numbers with the result that we now have some of he most brazen criminals who having seen people in the US looting shops, think they can get away with the same here. Additionally and uniquely to Britain we have scores of young men on mopeds and motorized bicycles stealing phones off people in broad daylight; plus stabbings on a scale unimaginable. Additionally crimes against women including serving police officers killing women is a significant and worrisome issue. Virtually all of our public services are poor value for money and some are simply close to collapse. NHS Dentistry is a flag bearer. If you work and are between 18 and 65 you have to go private as joining a practice is nigh on impossible and appointments are few and far between leading some to pull their own teeth out. You would think they would be ashamed of the state of it all but they are as brazen as the criminals. The electorate have literally being gullible if not plain old stupid. In 2016 Boris Johnson lied and the electorate swallowed it giving us Brexit. Taking back control of our borders simply swapped white immigrants for brown ones plus hoardes of others. Despite the knowledge that Brexit was a disaster Johnson insisted that he would get it done and in 2019 the electorate gave him a massive majority; cue a complete mess of an exit deal. Simply; the Tories failed. Britain is failing. For more see HS2, corporate tax, Chris Grayling etc., A complete shambles.

I think to explain the election you have to also take into account how the left voted tactically to dump this lot . Usually we split the left vote and the Tories romp in through the middle as they did in Ian Duncan Smith's seat this time. Also worth a mention along with Reforms role in splitting the right vote an exit pole of Reform voters showed only one third would have voted Tory, so joining up with Reform may only get the Tories another one and a half million votes and inevitably some would go to the left.

“The Labour Party performed very well” 😂 only to then mention the fact that Starmer’s Labour received less votes than they did under Corbyn.

Blaming immigrants is one of the oldest tricks in politics

They didn’t really ended conservative rule when the current labour is the most right leaning it has been since the 90s

seats not votes

Lots of us in the U.K feel as if we've woken up from a really weird dream, like how the fuck did that happen? Was Liz Truss really prime minister?

I really don't understand how even intelligent British commentators still cannot understand that their international role has changed fundamentally: They are not in the rooms where things are discussed, so it's pretty difficult for them to lead from the corridor pressing once ear to the door.

All your premises are wrong.

What‘s this „hmmm“ from the host for? Kind of annoying…

Excellent talk and accurate. Same old story. Inadequate work skills and training for " English young prople" because Tory's hate sctual real work. And the working class. So bring in foreign labour. We had European skilled building type workers who did a superb job. Brexit treated them like rubbish and sent them home. Now cost of eating out etc has soared in London. European Doctots and Nurses have left. Alll replaced by Asian and African essentially Muslim immigrants whose own populations are soaring. This is an uunholy irreligious invasion that is going on with no solition in sight. Starmer had better watch out because despite how it dressed up he does not have majority support of the nation. And he had no money otther than oir money. And we the populaion have been screwed. Thank you for pointing out that ourside London we are no more than a Mississippi economy. We are getting worse and worse. Excellent summary your yalk.

Its also the conservatives corruption, PPE scandals etc

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It should be note the Labour Party only won 34% of the vote… yet on 2/3 of seats in Parliament. The reason for the massive win was because the conservative vote was split.

Americans shouldn't discuss foreign politics. No1 The outgoing Tories were hardly small Govt. For example, they gave the UK the highest tax burden in history. In fact the new Labour Govt will be passing even more market friendly reforms. No2 this result hardly signifies the British public shifting Left. Labour got their worst vote total in 20years and still won. The real story of this election was Tory voters either staying home or voting for Farage's far-Right populist party. This election was a thumbs down to incompetent management and Tory sleaze. It was nothing about policy. Starmer has a really short leash here. He'll find he doesn't have enough money to do much about anything. And when the British public find out that austerity is the new normal, and not just an evil Tory plot, I don't expect them to react well to a Labour party that lied to them all these years.

CENTER LEFT. No more cukoo bananas Far Left or Far Right. Please!

Because the people have gotten more right wing than the Conservative Party so the vote split between right wing parties landed with Labour having the most votes

Life expectancy for men in London is ten years more than in Liverpool.

To defeat populism all that needs to happen is people have to feel their lives are getting better, then the populists become nutters again

The primary political issue across the West is mass immigration. More specifically, whether opposing it (as most voters do) is allowable, or whether opposition is considered illegitimate.

They like seeing an Asian doctor in the hospital, but not down the pub or on the street.

That picture looks like an older version of the lead actor of "A Good Girl's Guide To Murder".

I'm Free I don't like to boast, but Communist as I am, I would be a better leader of the Tory Party than any of the touted candidates And I shall explain why! First of all, although I am of German-Jewish and Irish descent I possess a greater real affection for the English than Farage or Badenoch, of Priti Patel or Michael Gove. And I have affection for its culture, and even silly things such as afternoon tea, and the English Breakfast, and even its whimsy and incongruities. I love its landscapes, and its weather, and I love its institutions such as the MCC, and Wimbledon, and its natural life. I do not like hunting, but I can think of arguments in favour of it, better ones than Cameron has produced, and I love its diversity, and I love its literature and its language, one of the richest languages I know. , I have never heard a recent Tory Party politician mention any of that, just ideology of reaction. I love its traditions and I find that I have more in common with Methodist North of England, and the Chapel Traditions of Wales, and I have not a little sympathy with Ireland, and Scotland, which have been badly let down by Unionism. I have a love affair with the UK, and it is built on things you do not hear mentioned. The many different dialects, the interesting ways and expressions that are part of my experience, despite being away from it often, and loving France, and Germany and Italy. You only have to read some of the books which are so British, so totally an ineffably rooted in the experience of all of us. I could honour British Rail more than to sell it off, and the British Police, it is not that any of these are without faults but none the less they have generally a disposition to serve the public, and I admire the fact that they don't have guns. I love the British service uniforms, they are so totally without pomp, I admire its history although I am not impressed by slavery or colonies. There are memories, I love the BBC before it was subverted by Murdoch, the TUC, the eccentricity of this people, but you do not here about that. It is not that I would want no change, no reform, I would strengthen the Privy Council, I would want a Royal Family of the style of Princess Anne, who I adore. As for the incongruities, well if you have been in Science, then you get to know some people of all classes, and actually when you have something in common, there are no classes. The secretary of a Natural History Trust who was a Weaver, and the president who is a duke, and you would not know because their passion is Warblers, or you meet a former foreign secretary, and although we were initially expected to disagree, actually we shared a passion for opera, and cricket, and we forgot the accents, and we forgot the ideology and by the end of the week-end we were friends, and were I to meet him again, I know what I want to say to him. Something I forgot to mention. I recall driving on the Foss way on one of those summer days that English weather produces, and I recalled Ken Russell's film on Elgar and as the sound of the Introduction and Allegro for Strings recaptured the exhilaration of the English landscape a tractor came out of a farm driven by a Sikh, in a Turban, and true to the English nature I did not want to drive him away, I was just exhilarated by the contrasts, this diversity, that David Starkey denies, but it is there, and I want to conserve it, to cherish it, and that is what united those of us that Love England, as part of the UK, not as an enclave of nastiness and resentment and grievance but our all round eccentricity. But I do not hear that from these pretenders, these frauds, that ingratiate themselves with the worst. So if the Conservatives want a leader that can restore their fortunes, old as I am I think I could help and I offer myself, as a candidate. They won't have to worry about my age, or my Yorkshire accent, they won't have to worry if I prefer Beethoven to Delius, or prefer Thomas Mann to Patience Strong,. I took a German woman, one of the many that small men adore as goddess, because they are blonde, and have taste in dress, and... well never mind that is our business; but she said that no orchestra she knew could perform a program of Bizet, Haydn and Tchaikovski in one night and to justice to them all, as a British Orchestra, and she was delighted with even song in an English Cathedral. I took a Russian Colleague to the Barbican to see Turganev's 'A Month in the Country' and he said he had not seen a better production in any language as that. We are good ,actors, good musicians; a Lancashire girl was toast of Europe in the Post war years, but you don't hear of any that from the modern reactionaries, masquerading as Conservatives. They conserved nothing, they dismantled, eviscerated, it was not the immigrants, it was a an alien reactionary ideology that has damn near wrecked the country and almost destroyed the best of England. I want to repeat that what I find invidious in reactionaries is their caricature patriotism, their caricature of principle which when it is tested against behaviour is not only caricature but absurd and hypocritical and I return to that pedantic, strident Anne Widdicombe who storms out of the Anglican Church because she cannot worship her God, if a woman is the celebrant, [Her God, Lee's country, the possessive fear, the paranoia is obsessive, yes! An obsessive fear of reactionaries that pique themselves that their world, their church ,their country is exclusive of any other world or taste and must be defended or recovered come what may, but one wonder about their preciosity when the same woman that could not worship under say Lucy Winkett can join an outfit that endorses and is endorsed by a rapist and a Fraud to say the least, and I find that I do not want Anne's God, or Lee's country , at any price. I find I could not fight for that God or that country they want to protect or recover, and that is why Reform is for me beyond the Ethical Pale and those that succour it, or support it seem to me to be totally bereft of any principle to which I could subscribe and I could wish that none of my fellow country men were not so bereft either. So just call if you want a leader instead of a posture, and empty rhetoric and Ideology. As they say on that television show' I'm free'.

John F Kennedy did a massive tax cut and it led to increased revenue for the US government. (It was LBJ who did it).

This report is so amateurish and just does not understand the UK situation. It is just tropes and cannards.

Labour didn't end conservative rule. They became conservatives and got elected into office with the intent of continuing conservatism.

This guy lost me when he said Trump is the líder of the world’s liberal views. Smh

America needs to do the same VOTE BLUE to bring back Decency, Honesty, and Integrity to the American Politics by Voting out All Republican’s.

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They weren’t really conservative, you couldn’t tell any difference between them and the Labour Party. big government, big spending, open borders for 14 years

The uk economy is not "struggling".

Brexit was only a shock to the silly people who didn't see it coming. I am a BREXIT voter and supporter. We Did NOT CUT TIES with the EU COUNTRIES. We HAVE a Tariff and quota free TCA with the EU. Our economy is doing BETTER than EU countries. This report is a LOAD OF TWADDLE.

Because the Tories were the Labour party with a blue tie. The voters figured it out and punished them. - Thanks for listening and goodbye.

1. Immigration. The fact they did not deal with illegal immigrants. 2. The fact the prevaricated and dragged their feet over BREXIT and DID NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE of brexit. 3. Sheer incompetence.

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The conservatives were not "right wing". They were left. LEFT. Like they all are.

this is not a left wing win. its a reform party win.