Thatcher had nothing to do with the potteries. It's globalisation and sweat-shop labour in the 3rd world that did it.

Well, in general, people are stupid.

It was Boris and Brexit really. A one off in time .

@@sfactory8253 And was it the correct choice or a stupid one?

Hammered by Blair you mean, get your facts straight. Oh you don't allow inconvenient facts I forgot.

Second that brother

100%

Down the road from stoke and stokies deserve better

​@@matty7758He only won his seat because of Brexit.

👍🏻

Aw come on... Wouldn't it be funnier if they won five or six? And one of them was Sunak's? Then we could all enjoy watching them file miserably back into the commons to take up their seats on the shitty end of the opposition benches next to Jeremy Corbyn. So fun.

Labour voters are so dumb they don't even know its been a uniparty since 2008, at least most former Tory voters have worked that much out.

shame corbyn isn't in the prime minesterial seat ​@@kallisto9166

@@leonardochapman4736 It was because of Corbyn that the Tories had the landslide victory.

@@Dellboy56 corbyn had 1% less votes than starmer is predicted, and that's not the case anyways. The problem is that the right wing media performed a smear campaign against corbyn. Everything he said about Israel has been proven true time and time again, from it's creation 73-ish years ago, until today

It shows what a joke the majority of the people of stoke on trent are!

The UK is essentially a feudal society and the master/serf dynamic has never really been broken.

@@pjl8119it was 2019 and was the best of a bad pair. Boris or Corbin. Ewww. 😊

@@pjl8119 rode in on johnsons coat tails . Booted out with sunak .

Back to the classroom, oh those poor pupils.

@@DRobbo7798 that won't get Rid of them 😃😃😃👍

Oh they are going away .......

@@sfactory8253 nye bevan didn't call the Tories lower than vermin for nothing 😃

Similar to Bill Clinton on Monika Lewinsky's dress. 😂

@@jasoncooper9391 You have only got to look at the typical tory to make you not vote for them,Osbourne was a case in question

Agreed . and same goes for Labour , they shit on the working man when Blair came to power and dismantled parliaments powers to so called unelected quango's

Slugs for Salt mate

Absolutely mental...my jaw dropped. Perhaps he's one of those undercover millionaires?

Traitors the lot of them

Generally, because they don't have much information beyond the Mail and Express and they blame everything on a migrant bogeyman--or because they've bought into the culture war that's the last refuge of every right-wing party.

They voted for them because the Tory party used to promote the idea that hard work could elevate your social class. To an extent that used to be true, but 21st century that dream has all but fizzled out.

Misguided ideas around aspiration I reckon, speaking as a working class lad.

Doubtful. Most of these sort of people like the idea of punching down on others. Disabled people, immigrants, people on benefits. Doesn't matter how bad their lives are as long as they can point at others who are worse off and tell them they deserve it.​@@MBedford1

I am from Newcastle Under Lyme and we have a lot of Working Class Tory's that still vote Tory or say they will vote Reform who are all ex-Tory MPs. I am 52 so remember Thather what she did. Never forget and never forgive. Labour is for me. Kier Stramer is not a Tory. He is centre right socialist. But he let slip some of his lefty socialist show I'm him and he needs to be very careful or the Tory voters will run.

Immigration.

I wish I had your optimism.

@@Believe-you-me- Facts don't require it.

@@NeonVisual their is an army of boomers that turn up to vote. They always win.

What toffs is that then? Former human rights lawyers who love to swan around in Davos and tell us we have to pay a £15k fine after 2027 if we want to sell our house and it isn't EPC C rated or higher. Or do you mean Mayors who swan around the world on money gouged out of workers with ULEZ charges, or former multi millionaire Labour boys like Blair, Mandellson and the Kinnocks. At least the genuine working class feather bedders had the decency to retire from the circus on their winnings.

@@rogerbennett9641 Cry harder Toff.

Freedom of speech. Emailing these Tory bastards, if they get enough complaints and put downs then maybe one day they will resign with shame or stress, wish I'd have done that, but voting tomorrow so let's get them all out. Are you sending a gloating email? So satisfying.

It also highlights how distant people are becoming from politics.

@@MephitisUK To be fair I have no idea who the hell my local MP is (I know the party they are a member of but the actual person no idea) and I am pretty interested in politics. Hell I would need to check what the name of my actual constituency is lol.

To be fair I think that says more about the guy than Gullis

His local office is literally down the road from where they were standing so I was quite surprised to hear that.

@@Deimos2k5 totally, he just spouts "they're all the same" crap. I bet he pays no attention at all.

he's on 160k + expenses for now. he will when he loses.

​@@kanedNunable completely agree

He will when he loses.

Reform don't take uniparty socialists gassy.

He will do if elected again. The hole that needs filled in is his potty mouth

Me too, he's number one on my shitlist 👌

That’s right up there. I’m not sure a more unlikeable MP in general. Perhaps if Sunak loses his seat.

Surely Jeremy Hunt loosing his seat would be the one to look forward too. Probably the creepiest man in politics.

@@alexwright3301it’s going to be a good show - probably best not to turn each Tory loss into a drinking game! 😵‍💫

Him and Lord Snooty are top of my 'stay up and laugh when they lose their seat' list

labour have been grooming them

@Ayeright ... I think it is worth noting that since the start of the 1970's the UK economy and actions of the various governments, poltical persuasion immaterial, have been guided by the ever burgeoning thrust of the 3rd Industrial Revolution. The 2nd Industrial Revolution was all about poorly educated people digging holes of various sizes and pushing buttons. All for quite substantial wages. However the 3rd Industrial Revolution which started effectively from the end of WW2 changed the economic landscape .. The 3rd is all about automation. Now we have AI and that will lead to ever greater automation. Indeed within the next 50 yrs c. 80% of ALL work presently completed world wide by humans in developed nations will be completed by computers, AI and robotics. In 80-100 yrs time, the developed nations masses will no longer be allowed to freely breed, because they will be entirely economically surplus to requirements. That is just a couple of the headlines ... To explain it all would be pointless, as I know it ... but cannot understand it for you. The reality is that your Margaret Thatcher had no options. Blair had no option either, he had to allow Brown to sell UK gold reserves and worse .... push the RBS into the ABM Amro deal in the hope of cheap credit for the Uk government .... That deal caused the almost total collapse of the UK economy in 2008 .... AGAIN ... Because the UK economy was only saved by the IMF. That was just 32 yrs earlier in 1976, with the largest loan the IMF has ever made ... That's EVER made, before or since. The UK was previously the British Empire but that Empire peaked around 1900 ... After two world wars the UK was entirely bankrupt, which it has never recovered from. By 1963 the literal £Trillions the Empire had created for the British was gone ... Dead. Along with the money _went all the geopoltical power._ In fact the UK had returned to being a nothing spec of land off the coast of Europe at the end of WW2. Maybe you should read some books? Start with the Yalta conference, 1945. P.S. I do not live in the UK, though I know English well enough .... My wife is a Dr of Psychology and our daughter a Dr of Sociology, both of whom advise various governments on social policy. Myself I am a political scientist & economist, plus multiple business owner. We all vote socialist. Ergo, I am not protecting the UK Conservative party ... merely trying to point out the issues which the UK has are myriad. Much of problem is about the UK and it's people, psychologically they are still in the death throes/convulsions of losing their empire. Brexit obviously is the perfect example of the extreme self inflicted harm and damage which the UK has been about for the past 55yrs plus. It seems the lower classes of the UK are always far happier to accept a simplistic lie, than attempt to understand the complex truth.

@@Kaisan-vc8fw Oh, I read books alright. Books like Martin Bell's 'A Very British Revolution ', concerning the institutionalised fraud with regard to MP's expenses. The Tories have been the most corrupt government in UK history. May I suggest you watch Jonathan Pie's KZfaq post he made 3 days ago entitled, '2024 Election Special. 4. The Conservatives'. You won't find any of the facts he tells you in the books you are reading.

@Kaisan-vc8fw Oh, I read books alright. Books like Martin Bell's 'A Very British Revolution ', concerning the institutionalised fraud with regard to MP's expenses. The Tories have been the most corrupt government in UK history. May I suggest you watch Jonathan Pie's KZfaq post he made 3 days ago entitled, '2024 Election Special. 4. The Conservatives'. You won't find any of the facts he tells you in the books you are reading.

@@Kaisan-vc8fw 'A Very British Revolution ', by Martin Bell is a good book that you should read. Also, 'What Really Happened In Wuhan', by Sharri Markson. Jonathan Pie's KZfaq post (3 days ago) entitled, '2024 Election Special 4. The Conservatives. You won't find anything he says in any of the books you are reading.

Very much like James Cleverly.

I imagine they will have to be creative with what they have done for at least the last 5 years.

​@@l3eatalphal3eatalphacrime and lies?

@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha Or 14...

Exactly my thoughts . But they actually did. Sadly . Without any shame too.

@@fordism.01 Weird. Why would anyone 'poor' seek to elect a Tory?

I've never voted tory, never will but Labour are no different!

@@benhopwood5321 They are very, very different, Ben. Labour look after people. Tories are just a collection of get-rich-quick merchants. Look at how they exploited the Pandemic. Michelle Mone's husband made £80,000,000 profit on a government contract. No Labour politician would have robbed us so casually.

Send him to Rwanda 🇷🇼

@@jasoncooper9391 Send him to the nearest food bank.

@@jasoncooper9391 . Best idea I’ve heard in ages 🤣👍.

He's a Tit 😃

A bit thick is being incredibly diplomatic! He's thicker than pigshit

Gary this man was a teacher can you believe he was in charge of children's futures.

Looks like he stinks as well.

yeah, one of the things i dislike about the tories as well as their callousness is that they tend to be thick

Yes Tories gutting local councils to the point of collapsing is a fact. It's really horrendous what the Tories have done to communities and the country. Have to ask where the money the Tories siphoned off has went?.....Oh silly question.

Many are more or less bankrupt!

Sadly ,he's predicted to win.

Am always astonished that working class people vote for a party that openly wants to destroy them, only interested in promoting the wealthy & increasing the cash at the top!

@@johnburrows3385 He don’t seem to know which side he bats for,it could be a obnoxious party next.

Have the main parties or media ever spoken about British made things? Compare with NHK World (507 on Sky or freely on their website) Japanese TV. The themes on BBC (other than Poirot etc) are Neo Marxist themes of the parasite who wants regulations to stop the winners and live off the effort of the others: "man oppressing woman"; "Anglo-Saxon oppressing other races"; "Man damaging Nature"; "Family unit disenfranchising the gay person" (and other varieties). All of these are what the media, and all parties with the exception of REFORM UK talk bout constantly. How can we not vote for REFORM UK? Some of you wont but I and my other three family members with vote REFORM UK with GREAT PLEASURE. I have a vid on my channel with intellectual reasons to vote reform (other reasons) if you have 15 minutes to watch it.

Most Conservative politicians get money from JCB. It's in their register of interests, under various names and groups related to Lord Bamford

Now, now, that's highly unfair, what have clowns done to deserve being equated with the Tories?

​@@MephitisUKA chimpanzee would have won that seat had it supported Brexit.

Wait till Kneeler Starmer the Toolmaker and Gumby Rayner get in power, you'll see what real clowns are like, Labour will destroy what's left of this country within 12 months.

@@MephitisUK nye bevan called them Rats 🐀 😃😃 insult to Rats 🐀

Vote Labour vote a party who can’t identify a woman and welcome whoever the hell wants to enter this country illegally and lowering voting to mere children! No credibility whatsoever! I’m not voting Tory by the way!

Oh yeh I’ve heard the same. Happened at multiple schools.

I heard that a pupil photoshopped his head onto a seagull and pinned it up on a wall. Gullis was furious about being depicted as a seagullis.

The kids are alright :)

I was a teacher for over 36 years. Gullis was a teacher in 4 schools in 7 years. A red flag to any head of a school who reads his letter of application. From what I read on social media , from people who worked with him in schools, they said he was crap. If he loses his seat, a school would have to be pretty desperate to employ him.

@@drusuth5915 a student who was taught by him said in the corridor another teacher confronted him and told him to stop bullying the students, Gullies started screaming and crying demanding that the other teacher get the sack . absolute monster apparently

Gordon Brown cost us 21 billion UK pounds. in seconds

@@ThePhilkid Yes, and who did he give it to? THE BANKS

401 tons of gold.

@@ThePhilkid at market value ...that what you do with an asset you sell it at market value 🤡

What 'people'?

@@coolperson962the people who live there, what a dumb question

@sparklingwater1430 Bit prejudiced, judgemental, and stereotypical but sure...ok.

@@coolperson962 it’s prejudiced to say the people who live in an area voted for the MP that represents that area, do you hear yourself? 😭💀

@@sparklingwater1430 Ermmm, yes, because not everyone in that area voted for that MP. That's literally like saying.... that all Arab people are Muslims because Islam is the most popular faith in the Arabian region. Now, that's small minded generalisation, isn't it?

Probably wanted to get out quickly before he was recognised...

​@@billseymour-jones3224Labour’s 2nd Referendum gaffe won that clown the seat.

Gutty Gullis feeding his Gullet.😂

I went to Keele university a few years back and would have loved to stay in Stoke, lovely town with some lovely people but rent where I was living was way too high and there were no real job opportunities about to keep me there. I've lived in 5 different cities in the UK and Stoke was one of my favourites. It still has that community feel even now.

Yes, I lived in Stoke many years ago and that reporter needs to do some proper research!! Incidentally, I am so sorry to hear about your friend.

Bugger... you beat me to it 🤣 Always gets my back up when they forget about poor old Fenton. It's all down to that Arnold Bennett writer bloke you know, what with his fancy-pants "Bursley" an' all! 😉 57 years a Stokie and still here to tell the tale; Cheers 🍺

Closet reform voter

@@philipriley2253 I can’t blame him really. Probably much happier life when you ignore politics altogether

@@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo You absolutely can. If he cant even be bothered to take part of the democratic process, even if to cast a blank vote, then he has no right to an opinion on politics at all. Or rather, his only valid opinion would be one of tacit support of the incumbent. Because that's what he does.

​@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo This is true.. when I was young I just ignored politics entirely, I didn't even watch TV, so I didn't hear any of the other news either, and I don't remember being bothered by anything.. Now, I'm irked daily by the injustices I hear about.. ignorance truely is bliss, I guess.

He knows enough not to vote Tory though

Stoke fan for sure

Lol better looking though

@@eatthisvr6 Yea, I mean look at that green gradient, phwoar.

Too right there, every worker should vote Labour and kick the other parties out. When that's done, make Starmer increase taxes for the overpaid.

he's a millionaire? how he's shit

The modern version of the high-street was complete rubbish anyway, all just selling rebranded Chinese crap. The rock bottom rents have been the best thing to happen, some really cool little places have opened (in Hanley specifically) because of it.

There are other things. More sensible business rates - an awful lot of councils are trying to recoup lost central funding, but just end up pricing businesses out and leaving empty shops. See also parking fees being hiked up by some councils - it doesn't bring them more revenue because it discourages people from coming in the first place. Reduce parking fees would definitely help high streets, as would ensure that parking space is actually available. For all that Oli and the polJOE crew deride supposed NIMBY complaints about car parks being built on, High Streets do actually need them if people are going to come shop. Opening hours that actually coincide with when people are available rather than at work would help too, but that's more on businesses than local or central government.

@@sockwithaticket agree with the parking, though they also seem to over correct like with the HUGE car park thrown at the bottom by the Hanley Hilton; it’s completely out of place. And opening hours…you are absolutely preaching to the choir, but I have no idea how you push that given that everyone affected has already gone online instead.

The way forward is to tax those that don't earn their money, those that sit on company boards and say they work hard. They've no idea what work is. Profit, profit, profit. How about investing in rebuilding GREAT BRITAIN, re-open manufacturing here, instead of importing goods from China, Bangladesh, India, Turkey, Germany and all the other countries that selling goods to us.

@@sockwithaticket . AFAIK a lot of the car parking has been outsourced to companies like National Car Parks and UK Car Parking Management Ltd. They operate the car parks for many organisations like railways, hospitals and other industries. Therefore parking becomes a revenue stream, not a service. The penalties and enforcement seem to be a perfect opportunity for profiteering and price-gouging. When you go to visit a relative in hospital, you have little choice but to pay the extortionate fees. Lobbying by these very wealthy companies ensures little is done to curb their rapacious greed. When councils have their funding cut by Westminster, they are forced to sell off their assets, i.e. their parking, to private business. Thus on-street parking, rather than providing revenue for local development, becomes another way for the wealth of an area to be extracted by corporate raiders.

Twisted gob. He definitely has a slanted gob. That’s why he grew a beard to disguise the slant

I've had them twice in my life, they know nothing about their parties manifestos. Just "vote ............" Your missing nothing

Im from Stoke and i love Gullis!

@rogermoore-gd9do gullis burner right hear !

was about to add that myself😃

And why walk and shop around when the Internet makes it a few click and arrives the next day. No need to risk being robbed or stabbed.

Try soonackered overseas bank accounts.

mates companies fat margins

The Labour Council wont spend it, of course if you were local you would know that.

At least they can still bet on election date.

its one place though, still got jobs down the A50

@@rollthetape88 like what...warehouse jobs

Generous assessment.

it's good he's not voting, really

absolute chad

@@hachi. You can’t even spell the guy’s name right, you’re not being very convincing.

He possibly said two words to them, and the second one would be 'off'

They have done several documentaries of towns in decline due to tory neglect.

they're are all the same though he's right about that.

Completely untrue. Just shows a lack of knowledge.

@@rollthetape88No. The most basic 2 minutes worth of googling will tell you that they are not all the same. 'They're all the same' is lazy thinking and a wholesale swallowing of a trope started and spread by political extremists.

If the torys cum again win there'd be even more shoplifting, Sunknack wants to reduce benefit payments, if they hadn't caused factories and industry to close down, there'd be much less crime.

It's the shithole time forgot 😂

@@eatthisvr6 no need for that mate. We invented fire last year 👍🏻

@@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo fire? What herecy is this? Next youl be telling me we have things called wheels. Absolute madness

It's the industrial towns that time forgot.

Receiving backhanders from cronies

This is part of the problem, we're so used to seeing larger-than-life characters that we love to hate like pantomime villains, that we lose sight of the people who genuinely care about their community, and are willing to put the effort in. You don't have to agree with their politics, but in places like Stoke, there needs to be someone who actually steps up and gets their hands dirty.

Labour will finish stoke off..vote reform

@@Tigger-roo1234 exactly ! some people like donkeys wear blinkers. Reform

@@Tigger-roo1234those racists have already finished with this country with Brexit.. no thank.. no more detached delusional right wingers in charge.. we need compassionate people who care about the average Joe

​@@Tigger-roo1234were screwed who's ever in