Aaaahhh!

Nick vd Kroon look at this graph (chord changes to minor)

Its a good graph

made me laugh out loud, Mr. Foreman is very funny

Nick vd Kroon I was expecting Nickelback

@@etekweb be annoyed at everything.

I'm annoyed at the public's inability to hold politicians to account. The media is just a self serving institution. All the facts are out there, often staring people in the face -- but either they are not interested enough to look, or can't even see facts that are under their noses (or are often too busy and exhausted from their jobs).

@@gnuPirate or apathetic to someone claiming their husband's porn on expenses.

The media is influenced and created by the people

Basically because anything they say can and will be used against them and means their unemployed. But if we just keep firing everyone who is wrong at one point or another we will never get any work done so we play a stupid game of avoidance

Oh wow !hello!

Oh hello

I never would have understood the complicated points being made in this video without that graph.

So long and thanks for all the graph

He stole that graph from Apple.

I miss the days where the big news story of the week was when Edd Milliband made himself look stupid when eating a bacon sandwich. **Sigh**

@Robert B He did look hilarious though

I'd yeet them out their job.

Yeah, nowadays they would just say "Sorry, but that was unintentional and won't happen again" and get off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

Or EVEN years!

"*Points up*" ...puts the adress below.

he's an actual person with an actual website

Back in my day you used to have to phone websites with dialup

You got the joke, nice

@@black_wink1649 don't make me feel old, I'm only 20 😭

Rafael Hide same

Rafael Hide agreed

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It really is

1000th like.

Jacob Dawson don't forget the word leadership 😂

Well, seeing the results that's better not to use those words 😂

That's INCREDIBLE

Coombe Junction reference.

Even better is the phrase "Brexit means Brexit ".

Which one? I don't think I even knew that.

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Spoon is still an MP. He used to be leader of the Culinary Party, but he was ousted in 2013 as the other party members felt that Knife would be a sharper leader. Spoon is now the Lib Dem MP for East Kettering and Corby Bypass where he scooped out a marginal victory. Incidentally, the Culinary Party was shaken to it's core in 2014 after an incident where Knife attacked a back-bencher, leaving the whole party in disarray, and they disbanded altogether when Teacup was dropped and Dish left to join Spoon. (Side note: Dish is still a member of the Lib Dems, but has yet to gain any real support in her constituency in Stoke.) The other members of the party didn't fare so well: Plate was shattered, Fork was found in a road, and Bowl was taken to hospital after being found caked in a substance which was later discovered to be dried Weetabix.

@@leopold7562 shows you how broken the country is. Im voting salad bowl in the next election, hopefully their entrée into the house of condiments will change the situation

@@LOLquendoTV I was going to vote for Ketchup in December, but then I heard his views on Brown-Sauce and, frankly, I've got no time for that. So now I'm a floating voter.

I mean 2 of those 3 people have been in the cabinet within the last couple months 😂😂

Nixitur Possibly because they have got fed up of the question-duckers.

American politics and British politics are very different, albeit they are both shitshow in their own right, but British house of commons is at least passionate.

The reason being, the propagando machine is backing them. Actually not a rocket science. 1000 times spoken lie gets into a true statement. If you get challenged every time you lie at an interview...just imagine.

Josiah Kaminski fake passion bud. Yelling and jeering in chamber =/= true genuine passion. But it’s good at looking like it

It's better to have a liar then someone who has nothing to say and no transparency. We can sort through the liars when they fuck up. They're being voted in so we can take them down instead of having a monstrously corrupt system that can't be penetrated because no one says fucking anything about what they're doing, which makes court cases and tribunals against them impossible. You have to fuck the risks and have stupid idiots take the stage, they take others with them by making these mistakes. Sorting through the corrupt causes chaos, and so be it. It's the only option at this point. People are fine with it because they want them to burn on stage, corporate schemers destroyed this country.

38,000 is pretty decent if you ask me.

+otocan Without doubt. It takes a shit ton of work and dedication to even get there. I'm just saying that it is sad how some channels get millions of subs for uploading shit, while others like this are the ones so few people care about. It's sad, but I assume this is how it is, however...

Some demographics are larger than others.

dkMM there's more idiots on KZfaq than you realise. just look at the comment sections...

I am afraid you are totally right....

turns out politics is a popularity contest and the truth isn't actually popular

Who, Jay?

Laurendahl Gaming Well, that won't happen any time soon...

*D I D Y O U T H R E A T E N T O O V E R R U L E H I M ?*

When the goblin scrotum that is teresa may leaves officd

when he leaves the Green Party

Haha. Sometimes there isn't a solution

This field doesn't have solutions, only problems. The Latin for politics being "shit storm", I think we can adjourn to mapmen.

@@goodpeopleoftheworldunite you’re wrong about the politics in latin thing

@@Sophiebryson510 Nah, you're wrong about that. You must be from parliament.

Underrated comment

Iirc, post-presidency Bill Clinton was being interviewed as part of the release of his memoir, but the interviewer shifted topic to some past attempt to capture Bin Laden. Clinton shut him down HARD and they had to go back to the main topic

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY NO? yes

Sounds like a politician with a backbone, a notion as insane as a Margaret Thatcher who cares.

It's because politics is basically the same everywhere. They only has different faces.

*have

@@Rolando_Cueva It* actually

Tuuli Senja same for me, but the media and political opposition will always twist it to make you seem weak, dishonest or “flip-flopping”

What Sultanare said. You'll just look weak if you openly change your mind like that, and there's plenty of people out there would never vote for a "weak" politician.

Never mind being weak, when half of political scene praises obscurantism, anti-progress, hates science, and advocates being stuck 4 centuries ago, actually reading anything, never mind changing your mind, is utter heresy...

Tuuli Senja Politics is a game of hide and seek, and if you're found, you're out.

Unfortunately, people would respect you more if you took a shit in public and stood by it, rather than coming forward and saying the shit was a bad idea. Because then you look weak or look like you can't commit. Because politics makes smart people dumb.

[visible confusion]

Can I get a link to that

@@emporioalnino4670 I saw it live. I couldn't find a clip that included the q&a part of the event, only the main lecture. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMqHlJtoxsmqoIE.html

Somedays you gotta miss KRudd

+liam smalley "existS/exist"

Oops

Jay Foreman I don't get the joke....

+Globe Globber Thats becauase you're too stupid to understand, so let me explain it simply.

This man exist. Several more like him exists.

If they loose their job, they wont be able to do it efficiently

The only sentence in the video I disagreed with. In order to define if a job is being done effectively, we have to define what the job is. This will vary from politician to politician depending on what their aims are. Let's take the most ideal definition, that the job of a politician is to represent and serve the public. If someone is confident enough to run for office they clearly have a conviction that the policy platform they are standing on, even if they don't agree with it all, is at least better then the platform put forward by their opposition, if they were following our ideal definition. For such people, their job security, and of their party colleagues, is intrinsically linked to serving the public. If they blunder in an interview they help their opposition who if you remember they thought had a worse policy platform. In order to serve the national interest at such a moment, they must serve their own interests. The two at that moment are in alliance. By covering their own back they are doing everything they can at that moment for the country and as such are at least in their own ideological world view doing their jobs the most effectively they possibly could be.

@@Pilgrim1st The issue is that elected representative are chosen by the same people that will boo at them as soon as they aren't shown doing only the great stuff they promised to do. People are too stupid to realize why there's always a difference pre- and post- election. They want perfect ideal parental figures but all they get are real people.

@@Ezullof Didn't your mother ever teach you not to break your promises? Or not to make promises you can't keep? The voters have every right to be angry when a politician's promises (The promises that got them elected, mind you) turn out to be empty words.

@@dragonslair951167 The electorate doesn't like honesty, the electorate likes being told what they want to hear. Elections throughout history have shown us that pandering works. So if your opponent is pandering, you can either let him win or pander yourself.

Issue: The ones responsible for the education system are the ones in power. Improving the education system makes the general population less gullible. The ones in power are the ones profiting from the people's gullibility. Thus, The system is very unlikely to improve without outside intervention.

Very good point. Probably more important than any of the reasons we gave. Wish we’d mentioned that.

Good stuff anyway!

It is. Jeb Bush's "Please clap" moment will haunt him forever. So will Hillary's "basket of deplorables." The problem in US is that the political climate became so hostile towards governmental power and so extremely polarized that voters started to love dumb but radical-sounding soundbites like "Build the wall!" or "Defund the police!"

​@Posiman ah, but neither of them had the job yet at the time.

perhaps they'd ignore you

Peter Roberts i hope that there will be something left for after-Trump

Peter Roberts But Trump doesn't commit to.anything, aswell.. he just does it the populist way

Primo Zerajo He does, but he lies and then changes his mind!

This is about british politics.

cookieface80 trump had an influence on politics worldwide

Besides the without asking permission first part, of course

YodaWithaSkoda lol

Whats a Brexit ? I live on the Moon and been away, have I misssd anything ? 🤣

Brexit, that is turning out well isn't it... NOT!

media has finnaly shut up about it.

Ha. Yup. Can't disagree with you there. We all keep encountering people who observe our current political system, how much of a messy trainwreck it is, get angry, ask "who's to blame?" ... and start pointing fingers at the current crop of politicians. Nah. It's our fault. Us voters. The electorate. Most political issues are messy and multidimensional and deep and time-consuming. How many voters put in that much time and attention and energy? Very few! I sure didn't. When certain politicians, call them Group A, attempt to communicate these messy multidimensional issues, it just goes over just about every voter's head and Group A members get nowhere. Meanwhile, these politicians' neighbours, Group B, spout vaguely positive crowd-pleasing fluff ... and voters flock to them. And Group A members die a little inside. Similar with publicly admitting mistakes. No-one's perfect! I'm sure not. Just as political issues are messy and multidimensional, so are people. If someone from Group A attempts a public, nuanced, thoughtful confession of their mistakes, a member of Group B will immediately smell blood, lead a mob and launch a witch-hunt, and the voters who'd put in little or no effort to truly understand A's issues will lap up that nonsense. A major reason so many politicians appear so soulless is because so many voters have already weeded out the non-psychopaths. There are other reasons too, naturally, but that's a biggie.

@@pineutrino Can agree. Stopped reading at similar mistakes and I just got lost reading OP's comment because I dodgy sleep yet (failed to type OP 4 times).

I gotta agree here, if a politician of any sort shows a mistake or admits they did something and apologize for it, it’s already too late, people are so eager to jump on politicians that it’s really a chicken or the egg situation at this point

Being honest, politics are toxic because people are toxic. People love to claim that "all politicians are corrupt" and that "all politicians are the same". Say something inaccurate or wrong and you'll have hordes of people exaggerating it as if you were Hitler reborn. With such a stupid and toxic approach to politics society has, it's not surprising politicians just resort to saying nothing and trying to keep their work as far away from the public view as they can. Because it doesn't matter if your work is good or bad, people will love to claim you are just another corrupt, useless politician.

I felt that "Monsanto corporation representatives"-hint... ;-)

Sir Humphrey is a master indeed but in this area of handling interviews, the maestro is the Rt Hon James Hacker as he doled out this same advice to Bernard Wooley in Yes, Prime Minister S02E02 “Official Secrets”. See the KZfaq clip “Bernard Talks to the Press”.

Meanwhile in India, our prime minister hasn't even held a press conference, and he still has 200 million supporters because temple

Lying by omission is still lying xD there are many types of lying, are ALL the others illegal?

@@cibo889 the spirit of the times. Like, prevailing ideas and attitudes people have at the moment.

@@cibo889 According to LeRnaud it is. I'm not sure whether they're referring to Switzerland or the whole world there.

Ich hätt ned dänkt do en Schwizer z träffe XD

So you would like food ? No. So you like a sixteen course meal ? Yes Are you sure ? This Country needs more people like you, hardworking people, serving people. I like some lunch please.

Just get rid of politicians and govern ourselves

@@pacotaco1246 Reject humanity. Return to Monke

@@pacotaco1246 isn't that just replacing politicians with... politicians?

What, a fat green baby?

And so do i

Seconds

every Venezuelan wet dream

Average Australian Prime Minister

CNN

@@thatsawrapstudios2674 and FOX. The Onion remains America's only reliable news source.

@@dtmcgmcgr9081 that and the Babylon Bee.

@@dtmcgmcgr9081 You forgot about memes. They are WAY more reliable than cable.

notsyort Liam here, I helped to write the series. Really glad you enjoyed! We've only got five episodes for now. However, we're open to suggestions for future topics. (And yes, I think I speak for all of the team when I say that we don't mind you sharing the shit out of this)

Angry Flat Cap How about a show for foreign viewers, listing off each candidate and what they stand for, of course with a comedic splash. We could simply look it up, but where would the fun be in that?

Angry Flat Cap I'd love to see more from this channel.

Eric Cornwell there are literally thousands of candidates, that would take years.

TheScholesie09 Sorry, I had no idea.

Or Gladys Berejiklian's "I find that offensive".

because if you dont have the job you cant do the action because you dont have the job

There are really only 2 solutions to this problem: Make governing a side-gig so that nobody has to worry about losing their job, or establish a dictatorship where nobody has to worry about losing their job. Neither option is very appealing

@@rymdalkis or press censorship, which i think oc is implying.

How? And what?