Asking Glaswegians about the cost of living crisis
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2022
- Speaking to the good people of Glasgow at this week's Enough is Enough campaign rally.
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The Young English guy just made the perfect analogy of our government of the past 30 years "It's like we've had just one Prime Minister for the past 30 years. The Ghost of Margaret Thatcher." Absolutely spot on 👌
Honk if Thatchers deid!
@@Kazza_8240 HONK
So true! Really no change over the decade's
Load of fucking bollocks. Trust me I hate the Tories, hate all politicians. Why is this happening globally then? It is global! It is all part of the Elites plan, please wake up and do some research and don’t be so lazy!!
We're Doomed...
santa claus schwab....
''Eat zee spiders
eat zee Bugs....bon Appetito !! ''
DR Billy Gates bought 289,000 acres of farmLand !
As an English person I love the Scots - you have so much more sense of social justice and community and the protection of the whole population, and the advocation of a progressive society for us all. Love to my fellow human beings.
i think you will learn to hate them after they are back into the EU and you still stuck with Tories in little England!
@@Arltratlo Of course I wont hate them, I will be happy for them.
@@barrykrishna9981 dont tell your family or friends.... they will think you are not patriotic enough!
Scotland has the worst performing school system in the UK. Their caring, progressive leaders obviously don't care about education.
We’ll be lucky if we are even allowed to vote on independence.
I'm lucky enough to have worked my way out of poverty wages to a point where I can afford a good life for me and my family but the people around me don't know what it's like to be poor. I'm surrounded by people who basically stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it because "hey, I'm OK Jack". What pains me is this message, isn't getting carried to those who have. Only amongst those who have not
At least you admit it and have a conscience.
I'm ok Jack
I always thought it was “I’m alright Jack”.
Same boat. My kids won't know what hungry is. They won't ever need to wear anything from a charity shop. And even with everything costing more they will have more at Christmas this year than I ever did.
I worked hard to get where I am for my family, but I got DAMNED lucky too. Please Liz, tax us MORE. 8 hour waits at A&E are unacceptable, a choice between heat and food for anyone is unacceptable, anyone sleeping on the streets in 2022 is Unacceptable.
Profit shouldn't be a naughty word, but war profiteering and profiting on the suffering of your own employees should be!
Get the tories out
Just over half the tory membership, around 80,000 people, got to choose who runs the UK. That's bloody outrageous.
Outrageous, but they'd lose a general election, so it's best to cut anyone that's not a far-right lunatic out of the decision!
Make that max a few dozen people or so. They elect who actually gets close enough to power to be a candidate in the first place.
Well the only people to blame for that are the voters that put their mark against a Conservative candidate's name in the last election.
Better than a few thick wasters from the Labour Party.
@@lestrem11 give your head a wobble mate. Do you honestly think anyone on the tory party has your best interests at heart?
Would you honestly rather shoulder the burden of unplayable electricity bills, and then the price of capping them for decades, rather than see the hundreds of billions of excess profits made by energy companies taxed?
Love the Scottish people, 👍👍✊✊👌👌🇬🇧
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@@2000bhoy 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This is honesty from normal, upstanding people and the government needs to listen.
No, they are a bunch of thick weirdo’s who have never done a days work in their lives.
Since Brexit (2016) I got the feeling the Tory government wants to eradicate the middle classes and generate a large gap between poor and wealthy.
The thing is, a lot of people I know, what earn 40k+ / year are actually hit hard because they bought into the idea of have a mortgage, a new car (on finance), an expensive phone, live off credit cards aso.
Some have a few thousand in savings but not a lot - despite they working in good jobs.
Just because someone drives a 2020 Mercedes or BMW doesn't mean they have money.
So, this people, who earn between 35k to 65k / year and have family, they getting right now dragged down.
@@ldorman As Starmer has identified with Brexit ( eventually), this means Lib Dem. Is your only voting option.
@@lestrem11 forget about fighting to get back in, it is so far into the future and right now it is not the main problem. Splitting the opposition in this FPTP system is just going to keep the Cons in power.
Why would they ever listen? They've been making good money so far from not listening. If it's not broke don't fix it. The only solution is revolution, but the people haven't been made to uncomfortable for that.
Not forgetting that most of the UK's privitised utilliy companies such as electricity, gas, water, domestic waste, trains, telecoms and health care are based offshore and pay no UK corporation tax on their annual profits?
this is the privatization in a nut shell, i would also add that government is subsidizing these companies where in reality they can run them directly there is no need for middle man, especially if a corporations are monopolistic by nature.
@@tomaszwida People need to wake up and realise that the reason that both general taxation, and the UK's national debt are rising each year. Is due to the none taxing of both these company's, and individual's who are using the offshore system to avoid their payment of UK tax?
VAT, National Insurance, PAYE tax and Green Levys etc; have all been raised and brought in to make up for the loss of those uncollected Offshore tax revenue's which amount to over £80 Billion per annum. And all of these additional tax and Levy rises, effect the UK's poorest most?
Get the tories out
All essential services should be nationalised.
@@rosem5041 Yes, then everything will be free😂😂😂
I lost my job in finance (financial news editor) as a result of COVID. I was in amongst the rich and money obsessed. One evening I accompanied a sales rep to a dinner attended by London bigwigs, CEOs and some Saudis. They laughed openly about the state of the country, belittled the working classes and spent money like water. The bill for dinner (paid by the Brits) came to £25,000, more than I earned in a year. Most of it was spent on alcohol, with several crates of champagne purchased simply to show off to the restaurant owners. It left me feeling sick.
Devastating
Sick with jealousy no doubt.
@@lestrem11 I guess, he was disgusted by this hybris. Heartless people will have an awakening at their deathbeds for sure.
Well you shouldn’t have drunk so much.
@@lestrem11 no sick with the waste of good wine on a bunch of twats
Tories are vampires, every single one of them.
plaese stop slagging off vampires. They're not that bad.
Proof and I mean concrete proof to back up your enlightened trump style statement
Most of Labour is equally bad. Corbyn was the best you had since ages.
Tory’s are Parasites.
They always come out with that great line We are going to have make some hard decisions, For us not them,and there huge wages and expenses.Energy bill free
and shares in all the big Corporate companies.No not a good recipe for given them a X.So beware next time round what you vote and wish for.
The lady in the green jacket had it right. We need a government that works for all of the people of the UK, not just a minority of the rich and well-connected.
the scots get 12% more money per person ,than the rest of the uk. What has sturgeon done with your money.
@@philgeorge6613The amount of exchequer funding you claim the Scots benefit from has sqrt/fa to do with the issue of fuel costs. Plus, my original post quite clearly stated “all of the people of the UK”. Even then, that differential has far more to do with the devolution agreement, Scottish generosity and English austerity. A far bigger question regarding what has happened to the money, is that, during the last 12 years of tory Nasti Party austerity, during which the Westminster government introduced one spending cut after another, the UK national debt grew from £500 billion in 2010, to £2,365,4 billion - as near as dammit £2.5 TRILLION. That’s nearly £28,000 for every person in the UK. What has happened to THAT money? Plus. All that happened while ROW was ploughing money into their economies.
And, of course, Mavis Wilton-Truss, rather than impose a windfall tax on the energy companies, like the rest of Europe, is simply deferring the debt and piling it into the National Debt fior us to pay back, plus interest, of course. Meanwhile, the energy companies saunter off, so far this year, with £170 billion in profit - that’s well over £6,000 for each of the UK’s 27.8 million households.
So please, do tell us all what the tory Nasti Party have done with OUR money! At the same time, perhaps you’d like to reveal other racist sentiments beyond the Scots?
The protection of profits has become so normalised. It's never brought up that even when a company makes record breaking profits, they still have to maximise those profits - so they cut staff, and give no pay rises or bonuses. Only the shareholders and executives see that. Shouldn't they share those profits to those that helped earn it? No matter what happens in the world, be it a financial crash, a natural disaster, we're told through their actions that profit is more important than people. People may argue that, well, that's just how corporations operate. So why do we give corporations so much power over our society? Why does so much tax payer money go to protecting these sociopathic corporate monsters? There's a lot to be said about political corruption and the regressing of our rights and freedoms but few want to talk about the control corporate greed has over our lives, and the influence they have over our freedoms.
Without a successful business then nobody would have a job. Do you live on the moon?
@@lestrem11 "corporations good. Low pay and long hours good. human rights bad." Average tory spotted.
@@lestrem11.
"Successful" or exploitative. ?
Don’t complain, go and start a business. No business gets taxpayer protection. More profits means more tax. No point looking at multinational companies. Most tax is taken from SMEs. Also income tax rates are the prescribed minimum. Individuals are completely free to pay more tax if they want to. So if you want companies to pay more tax why not set an example by volunteering to pay more income tax (bet you don’t)
@@kokojambo4944 Average is better than stupid, keep up.
Time to stand up to theses clowns. 😡
I'm from England and have never thought it would be a good idea for the union to split up, however I feel for the likes of Scotland that they have to endure the cons despite the majority of Scots never voting for them, doesn't seem right.
The majority of people in England didn't vote for the Conservatives either, you need to pay attention to your voting system.
@@kevinluby4783 who did the majority vote for then?
Appreciate you not coming up with the old canard about Scots voting Tory in 1955. Labour got by far the most votes of any party. The Conservatives did not stand as a parliamentary party in Scotland. Some of these small parties (they were pretty much like the DUP, sectarian dinosaurs) - they took the Tory whip when they went down to Westminster. They knew their days were numbered, and by the next election some of these splinter-Liberal parties amalgamated with England's Conservatives, hence “Conservative & Unionist Party”.
Wikipedia was a few years ago, first the Scottish Tory page and then other oages, to claim that somehow the very clear majority win in Scotland by Labour was Scotland “voting Tory.”
ONLY if you add up all the various independent right wing/unionist parties and independents (most of which were LIBERAL party splinters) and then count them IN RETROSPECT as “Conservative & Unionist” candidates, could you say that. But they do. The first time the Conservatives stood in a Westminster election in Scotland was 1965.
@@lincslegend6936 ... Other parties. It's the way the voting system works that puts parties into power without the majority of people voting for them.
@@lincslegend6936 it's the first past the post voting system which is the problem you need to have Proportional representation in order to get true democracy.
I lived in a cold , mouldy, damp flat. I wore 5 layers of clothes, gloves, hat and 2 hot water bottles to watch TV. I was still freezing. It is a very miserable existence. Edwin Currie says put on an extra jumper. She's in dreamland
I've been there - condensation on walls - mould - collapsed ceilings - always cold. I've squatted, rented and now own a property. The squats I lived in were of a better standard than some of the properties I rented legally. Some of those were hazardous to health because of structural problems, damp and mould. Slum landlords and poorly insulated properties need looking at closely and acting on in addition to energy prices.
Like Jesus you fail to understand it's the poor who are the problem
@@Billythecatvseverything like a twat you blame the victims of exploitation
@@Billythecatvseverything ok lets expand on your post , and ask who created the system of rich and poor ?
Yes, people who have never gone without heating have no clue what that does to a house. People who don’t even realise that there are people living in homes built in the last 30 years with built-in bathroom and kitchen extractors - who keep them permanently switched off because they can’t risk the meter running out. You can put on as many jumpers and hats indoors as you like, but you can’t stop breathing. And you can’t stop winter being 95%-99% humidity. Flats get mouldy and damp in the UK for a reason.
The Truss Tax is all we need to know about the Tories. I've never known a party as corrupt as this in over 50 years.
to be perfectly honest some labor members are very happy about this tax cut. after they ousted Corbin its the opposite side of the same coin
@@tomaszwida Well said, Tom. The Labour Party, Tories and the SNP are all in it for themselves. Right now the working class are politically homeless. It comes to a point that in Scotland you're more likely to see a burka than a kilt. That is how much these traitorous bastards have changed this country.
@@tomaszwida same side of the same coin just dipped in red paint
2 party systems are non progressive and not on the interest of the people. But like you say its back to a 1 party system again which is a dictatorship in any other country.
^^^ That kid is 12 ??? how did a 12 year old move to scotand ALONE ???
The Scottish can see the BS of the toff Tory party so why can't the Red Wall?
Sadly they were sucked into voting Tory because of the brexit issue, also they bought the usual Conservative lies and fear mongering that is dragged out at election times with the help of the Tory supporting press.
Silver, the scots vote SNP thats why the tories are in power, the red wall aint big enough.
@@BeltandBraces doesn’t matter how we vote…England gets what England votes for…our population has no bearing…ps we haven’t voted tory since 1955😂🏴
@@josephferguson3839 Exactly👍
@@Lee-dk4qd They have the SNP a third party worth voting for while in England it's the same old same old on repeat year after year after year.......
I am a single Brit living in a small flat in the South of France. My annual costs, which include energy, taxes, TV, water, telephone and insurances
has increased by 20€, 579€ a month. This doesn't include the increase in my pension and the abolition of TV licence. If France can do it why is England incapable?
one reason the UK isnt in the EU anymore, thinking only about who pays the highest bribes is their only concern in #10!
The Tories are allowing the windfall profits for the energy companies to continue without repercussions. It's not that the UK can't figure it out, it's 100% on purpose.
You do realise that England or English people subsidies French energy companies?
@@melindagallegan5093 i would call that a cool move from the French, because the Brits left the EU, the French can charge them world market prices, not the lower EU price...the Brexshit is still giving it to the right people..
@@melindagallegan5093 Of course I do and I am extremely grateful. Pity your government didn't have your population's interest in mind when establishing energy contingents.
Young lads bang on. 👍👏
“0.2 percent of the population got to take part in a vote to decide who the next prime minister was.”
You vote for your MP, whatever party he/she happens to represent, majority makes the government party, you do not vote for the prime minister/leader of the party.
Guaranteed they looked after their own interests in surviving the winter.
The guy at the beginning was 100% spot on.
I like the old Russian Leninist Jew at the end. No wait a minute, I hate him.
Not really. He clearly doesn't know how a democracy works. "0.2% of the country voted for her" no, you vote for your MP and therefore your party. Not the person who will be PM.
@@stuffmcstuff399 do you actually genuinely believe the UK is democratic?
@@therespectedlex9794 Am the guy at the end. I found this hilarious. Zero from three, but thanks for the laugh!
@@jackiebarlow2679 We had a local politician who wanted us to have our own town council called Jacqueline Barlow.
Profits of energy companies should be taxed by 60% and distributed to poor for living cost
Only 60%?
They are taxed at 65%...
Same as the monies for funding endless independence referendums should go to the poor and those with drug problems.
Personally, I think they need to do something to stop them from being able to make such obscene profits in the first place. Reduce their monopoly/more regulation/renationalisation. Windfall taxes are a bandaid that doesnt address the core problem
@@seandavies5130 completely agree.
Well spoken /educated people , feeling stress and worry from this cost of living crisis that been completely orchestrated by the Tory party ,, Saor alba about time Scotland was independent
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Just shameful, one if the richest economies in the world and people will starve or die of hypothermia this winter.
It was said Corbyn would take us back to the 1970’s - I think I might settle for that now. We’re going to go back a lot further than that.
The Tories have been in power for 90 of the last 125 years.
The word 'revolution' was mentioned, I fear it may come to that because the tories won't change their evil ways and the Labour Party is seemingly impotent. People will be forced to take things into their own hands.
Just a revolution will not suffice. Only a genocide of the ruling class will do.
Because you can depose the rulers, but as long as the grifter ideology, neoliberalism in a capitalist system, continues there will be others taking their place.
a revolution is just a word meaning change and you need not fear it , it can be relatively peaceful if the forces of counter revolution are not an issue as happened in 1917 in october in russia , the state could not call on the armed forces to crush the revolution as the armed forces were part of the rtevolution
Get the tories out
If that's what's needed, so be it. Viva la revolution.
@@tomfinney3416 The october revolution was followed by a civil war, so that was not so not violent. Peaceful revolutions never last without massive help from abroad.
I’ve wanted to live in Scotland for a large chunk of my life; the people there seem, at large, more moral and selfless than in England. Unfortunately, I don’t have the balls to uproot and leave all my family and friends.
Grow a set. You only live once 😁👍
Come up help us gain our independence and make a better future for all of us.
@Alex: You’re right and you should move up here. :)
It is hard. Back in the Thatcher years when yoof were scolded and portrayed as almost enemies of the state for being unemployed, I went to southern England just to get a job in a shop. I did have one or two friends there, after having volunteered for medical research (near Salisbury plain. In old military barracks!) as the price of a free week or two in the country. But it was a different world there. Even though I stayed a few years I couldn’t get used to the complacent mentality of “I’m all right, Jack!” People there were angry at the “greedy miners” and you couldn’t even tell them that miners were striking in protest at the industry being shut down - the6 thought it was wage rises. Came up to visit family and there were posters and stickers EVERYWHERE in support of the miners. When a relationship fell apart, I came back. I’ve lived and worked in other countries, but nowhere did I feel as out of place, as foreign, as in the comfortable shires of England. People in Scotland are NOT more moral or more selfless than people anywhere else. They just understand that society is reciprocal. They also understand that a human being’s worth has no necessary connection to their social status. It was a real shock to me to find in England that outward status is taken so very seriously there.
At least consider it and look into it. The tide is changing and Scotland is going to be a very welcoming place to people looking to liv a better life.
England is moving further and further right. Scotland is not.
Thatcher done nothing for Scotland son
the 6th richest country on the planet, WHERE IS ALL THAT MONEY? offshore bank accounts by any chance????
they have actually just found a brexit benefit,,, bankers are about to be awarded huge bonusus, brilliant! it makes you feel proud to be British,,
The way things are heading their bonuses will be worthless anyway as the pound crashes!
Nothing to do with brexit 🤦♂️
@@drama772 don't tell me that, tell the tory MP who's been boasting about it,
@@drama772 Hi - I don't believe its a done deal yet but the cap on banker bonuses introduced by the EU after the collapse 10yr ago, may be rescinded.
Bankers you mean wankers
Damp and mouldy homes,takes me back to my child hood ,62 years old and we are going backwards.
Enough is enough!
England determining what the future is for our countries (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) is so so dire. I’d love for a Republic of Wales and other independence and hope to one day see us freed from the idiocy of the Tory English. 🏴
As an Englishman, I agree with you and hope that you get independence. Westmonster (spelling correct) is awful.
Honestly don’t blame you, I live in a very red constituency in the North East and am very sick of constantly living under a Tory horror show we didn’t vote for too. If independence from Westminster was an option for us I think we’d want it, too!
Are you APPEALING - to resurrect the spirit of 'WILLIAM WALLACE'? 🤔
@Don´tbehasty Scottish Independence is nothing like Brexit. Westminster is an abject failure for every country in the UK.
@@joelgoldsmith4747 yeah, he was a mad bloody Australian 😂😂😂
Well said the people of Scotland are outstanding.
Love that guy at the end, this is what we need right now….
@Paul D: Yes!
Thank you! Appreciate it.
Feel exactly the same as the young guy 33 here and never felt like Ive had a say in anything. I don't believe we have democracy anymore than the countries we've invaded to bring so called democracy. Also big rep to the guy who's touting a revolution I'd never die for my country but dying to give people a better future is very noble.
The only revolution worth carrying out is getting a VISA and leaving. It's true we don't have a functional democracy and it's being maimed further by the cabal in power, but society is the cause of that symptom. If I get my electrical engineering degree I ain't looking back. I'm 32 now and all I've known in this country is destitution. Sure as fuck ain't gonna change once I'm 64.
You are so Wright!
Our Governments are run by WEF
As the guy "touting" a revolution- thank you. I would hope it doesn't come to that, but if that's what it's going to take then so be it.
Please volunteer Greg, this country does not need childish muppets like you.
@@jackiebarlow2679 I’ll stand beside you
We had a once in a lifetime to vote for someone who spoke for us,yet people voted for a 3 word mantra Get Brexit Done
Who Keir Starmer? The empty suit? LOL!
These people look far too calm for the situation. No government will pay attention to something so placid. Why aren't we all protesting together outside parliament and number 10 constantly?
The clock is ticking. Protests, civil unrest not come about as yet.
As Liz Truss said nothing wrong with profit plenty wrong with profiteering. Capitalism when implemented correctly should trickle down as all workers provide the making of profits. We do not have capitalism we have corporatism huge difference.
As for Tories left to Market forces hyperbole. Market Forces are not some planet or galaxy far away it has a name it is CEOs. Humongous greed and they feel no shame that their greed has caused humongous poverty, gig economy and low wages.
Liz Truss is going to lift benefit cap re bonuses for the above and provide a tax cut. Nothing will trickle down can bank on that
Millions will have to choose between eat and heat
Vile government
The oil companies lost a lot of money when the world ground to a halt during the pandemic, so they're trying to reclaim lost profits. Which is the base reason for everything going up, despite corporations making bumper profits. It's also a good way to get rid of a lot of poor people... Cost of living crisis? cost of capitalism reality!
no they didn't lose money what are you on about
@@Onur-ng7cz The world ground to a halt, most shipping, transport, airlines, petrol stations did virtually nothing for a year. The price of fossil fuels plummeted to less than a third of what they were. Don't bother typing if you lack the intellect of even a syphilitic, crack-addicted rabbit...
No, the base reason is Putin has cut off gas supplies, and you have an elected govt who is a heady mix of gross incompetence and simply not giving a shit and a market that puts profits over people.
@@bfg3890 lol it started before Putin was rejected by the EU regarding the pipeline. Russia only supplied less than 3% of our gas so how do you explain energy prices going up over 400% in less than 2 years?
Fossil fuels plummeted to less than a third of the price during the pandemic. The facts are free for anyone with a modest intellect and basic reasoning skills.
About as much use as a rubber beak to a woodpecker...
@@steveparker8065 Other countries get much more of their gas from Russia. It becomes a bidding war. The shortage of fuel on the continent has made the prices rocket, especially of natural gas. Putin has been preparing for this war since at least 2019 when he got Trump to cancel Ukraine’s defence loan.
I need to move to Scotland like a friend of mine has in the last couple of years. England is doing my head in.
The idea of moving should be to better your situation. You might want to choose a different destination
you should, it's braw here
@@booshting3520 scotland is better than england though.
Will become even better once scotland gets independence from the dictators in england
Same here, sick of disaster capitalists imposing their failed right-wing policies on us. If it looks like Scotland is going to get independence I would seriously consider moving there. I’d much rather have Nicola Sturgeon fighting for my interests than Liz Truss fighting for the interests of robber corporations.
Bye then
That English guys comment on Thatcher's ghost was absolutely spot on.
Honk if Thatchers deid!
@@Kazza_8240 We're Doomed...
santa claus schwab....
''Eat zee spiders
eat zee Bugs....bon Appetito !! ''
DR Billy Gates bought 289,000 acres of farmLand !
“Why do we never discuss profits” a truly great question
Respect to Scotland from the North of England we know what it's like to struggle not like the corrupt tories
Well done Glasgow
In a democracy a general election should be called immediately she has no mandate from the country.
Thank the Lib Dems for helping the Tories institute five-year mandatory terms.
Yeah, but this is no democracy, if it was a real democracy each persons vote would count individually.
That Banker Dave ruling needs to go replaced by one that states should you be in power and change leader an election must be called and held within three months.
Democracy, they don’t even huv ah functioning parliament in failed state NI , this position is sanctioned by British government , the British isles hus an illusion of democracy at best
The young man from the South hit the nail on the head. Maybe there's hope after all. 🤔
Sweet young fella, I wish him all the best.
Is this the lad that’s 12? He said the tories have been in his entire life! Poor lad, looks old for his age. Isn’t it a bit of an insult that he moved north for one reason only.. because it’s cheap 😂😂. I lived in Edinburgh and Glasgow for 3 years or so, cracking places with cracking people.
See Scotland, we’re not all bad.
@@0101UnknownUser Whatever his initial reasons, I'm sure he's aware of all the other good things now. 😊
@@stevebartley8902 I still remember my first time getting pie and chips in a Glasgow chippy. They asked me if I wanted my pie wet.. they explained that it’s dipped in the frying oil before serving 😜 the only time I have ever been asked this in a chippy. Had my first and only deep fried Mars bar in Edinburgh too.. not sure my body would take it these days 😂😂
Heartening to hear these voices.
To echo many of the views shared in this clip, the energy & cost of living crisis is a crisis many decades in the making.
Ever since Thatcherism which sold off every essential utility to the lowest bidder, the current position was exacerbated by Tory corruption and complicit lax regulation made even worse via lobbying. Failing privatisation market economics, and the resultant failures of many energy companies (often run by new / entrepreneurs wanting in on the energy gravy train) is paid for by adding this to the many, by means of increased tariffs (via rocketing Standing Charges).
This combined with excessive corporate greed and toothless regulation has led to this point in time where millions of UK families will be plunged into fuel poverty and rely on Foodbanks to get by.
When will this country wake up to the conclusion that the Tory ethos and ideology is, "make those who can afford the least, pay the most and those who can afford the most, pay the least".
They are the enemy of any working, middle class "normal" tax payer, as they mismanage and subtly funnel off to their party donors; money from the public purse and then insist that the Tax payer pays foots the bill; whilst the corporations get tax breaks.
The #TrussTax is the latest incarnation of this, where £120 Billion of Taxpayers money will cap fuel / energy prices and you and I will be paying this off for a decade, whilst the unexpected windfall profits reaped in by the energy companies will be kept by a few faceless corporations and distributed to shareholders and corporate CEO's (plus their lobbying pals)
Get the tories out
Thease profits are going to shareholders some of which are foreign governments, If the French can own EDF AND EDF OWN OUR NATINAL ASSETS WHY DONT WE
BECOUSE M THATCHER SOLD THEM .
it's like a pantomime we sold our only cow for a cup of coffee HOW BLOODY STUPID ARE THE TORYS.
Are you sure that wasn’t Gordon Brown who gave away all our Gold….
@@lestrem11 I wasn't talking of gold I was talking of gas electric water , now the profits go to share holders and not to provide the service for the people who pay the bills.
Spot on mate
You have to love the Scots
Aye, if ye don't, we'll cut ye.
That last guy im with him 100%
We are sick of being shafted.
You do a weeks work i expect my wages in a successful firm to pay me more than enough for me to live off cover my bills and no need for top ups or food banks or handouts and I expect a government to look after the intetests of the people not the billionaires in these profit hungry compsnies
Enough is enough.
I think the streets will be heaving once the dust has settled on H M s funeral.....
Love Scottish people they always talk sense.
one reason, they are not English, that helps a lot!
"This is our Winter of discontent"
Replacing Boris Johnson with Liz Truss is like shitting your pants and only changing your trousers...
FFS people wake up!
Now that is an accurate, and vivid, metaphore.
I wonder if all the working class people who voted for Brexit and the Tories at the last election have realised where the smell is coming from?
These views are shared by many people in the US..those of us who are paying attention and are not obsessed by the ex-president. Thank you Politics Joe. So glad I found you.
As the lady said, Scots do care for their own, what a contrast in England, its just so sad and pitiful, though there are a small exceptions to the rule,south of the border it like no one cares for each other.
Bit of romantic thought there, i have worked in both and found no difference at all people tend to get closer in times of stress and most people are or can be very kindhearted, MT and LT do not represent a whole people also if you look into the background of some believed English politicians you might get some shocks.
A total romantic illusion there no difference between life in Scotland or life in England, Britain is orange , it is ah curse
AS a disabled persons in an all electric apartment I'm absolutely scared to death of winter. Tory's don't care and never will unless you're a big corporation you'll get all the tax breaks whilst breaking the backs of minimum wage earners. Its tory dogma and an unhealthy obsession with Maggie who's favourite hobby was hurting the poor.
Ah Maggie, well at least she'll be warm this winter, roasting in hell.
Honk if Thatchers deid
I hope you can get heat one way or another. Going to try where I am to get a warm drop-in place going.
Labour don't care for the proles either. It's a total sham.
I’m in the same position Im disabled physical n mental… I felt alone with this all as everyone has gas n no one suffers ibs or ptsd or anything else. I get flashbacks due to abusive environment which was freezing all year round n all the abuse n torture I went through while being forced to live there. I’ve been getting worse suicidal tendencies when my flat got colder. Now I have my heater on n things have calmed down…. even got a plan now how to go about it but it’s calm for now again but I know it won’t be when Winter comes around n when soon cost goes up again…. And I get triggered n take panic attacks n am isolated without family or much support in the dead of winter. I have an old tenement drafty flat n all electric flat no gas n cost is already 190 a month. I had a quick shower today n metre went down by 1.50. Daily it’s up to 7 pound a day. Scottish power claims I’ll be paying 40 per cent more in October when I top up my metre plus I owe 194 so 5 week will come off my metre too. Online claims it is only to go up to 27 per cent so not sure what’s going on there.
I’m terrified to see what the new cost is… later in October… more afraid of winter… not sure if cost n Heater nice will be enough. Costs more to put it up n probably a lot more with the rise in October. Then there is the problem of the night storage heating system is already up as high as it will go n still runs out while off before the day is up. How will it keep me warm in winter n not set off my anxiety panic disorder n ptsd flashbacks n suicide thoughts.
Jimmy "Yosser" Hughes from Alan Bleasdale's 1982 (written in 1978) television series Boys from the Blackstuff, set in Liverpool. Nothing seems to have changed apart from one current leader trying to impersonate the then leader. Maggie or Liz, both are killing investment, encouraging us all to hate the have nots & those that ask for help. DWP still the department built to stop claimants.
#EnoughIsEnough #GTTO #NHSpay15
Get the tories out
Indyref2 now PLEASE!
I live in Newcastle, the closest big city to the border, and nearly everyone would love to unite with an independent Scotland. England can swivel!
Yes Deena! Imagine how good the parties would be!
Can Manchester join you please?
@@tomcas411 My ex was Scots, still good friends, and just two of could party hard 😁
@@nickcrowney2320 Nah....you southern Sassenach 😉
@@nickcrowney2320 I'm mancunian born! Bring it on!
Doesn’t Scotland have oil&gas and lots of renewables to keep all people warm in winter?
This sound a bit like Irish starving while harvesting potatoes for the people across the Irish Sea.
The Empire is not gone. It just concentrates on what’s left as colonies.
Scotland is Orange , we wur the only country to be oil rich and cash poor , now its gone
The Thatchers ghost comment was spot on, she and her Government created rifts in society that continue to exist to this day. Blair's Labour failed to heal the wounds, a missed opportunity.
Honk if Thatchers deid
Tony Blair was and is fully on the side of the global corporate cartel.
Much admiration for the Scots. They are survivors.
Great content. So few media outlets are talking to the normal working people these days and we all know why. Keep up the good work in giving the majority a voice!
To all those who voted no in 2014 thanks you swallowed the "Better Together" crap and now we are going down with SS Englandshire.
There’s no point in being bitter that people were timid, or naive. If they have learned from their mistake, there is nothing to lose and everything to gain by welcoming them. And if they have not yet learned, it is better to help people on their “journey to Yes” than to castigate them. We can ONLY move forward in life by learning from our mistakes.
Me, for instance, believe it or not, I voted Liberal once because I could not abide Labour policies or, as it happened, the idiot, arrogant Labour candidate. There was no other candidate going to touch Labour in my constituency anyway. But when the Liberals teamed up with the Tories AND helped them institute five year minimum terms AND became as enthusiastic about bashing the poor as the Tories, I was livid that I’d ever voted for them. Also ashamed.
2014 was before all the brexit shit kicked off.
Now the brexit shit happened.
As to voting with yes and going down with SS European/Franco German Dictatorship? Bit like changing deck chairs on the Titanic no?
Well i am from Englandshire and my cheque from the EU must have got lost in the post--joking apart being from the North east of England at the time of joining the EU a powerhouse we should never have joined but today when it is most certainly not after years of Westminster attacks a powerhouse maybe we should not have left as for ending the union why not we will be ok and there would not be the need for endless anger.
Being in EU would not have made a difference on this issue. Get a job, get two jobs, get three jobs stop moaning !
One lady summed it up for me when she said, ‘what is government doing to help ordinary working people?’
It bothers me no end that no one is talking about proportional representation. The Tories won a landslide majority on less than half the popular vote. More than anything else, this should be the issue everyone is talking about. Our electoral system is broken. You aren't going to change the hearts of the Tory MP's and you certainly aren't going to overthrow the parliamentary system in any kind of a revolution. But we can have PR if we all demand it.
you are complaining that the Tories won the largest share of the vote?
Thats called democracy...
I lived in Glasgow for a decade, watching this from abroad makes me really sad. I wish something could be done
If I did my job this badly I'd be sacked. It's been over 30years since this country made any profit?
Without Scotland’s oil, it would have been closer to 60 years. Say what you like about Thatcher, but she understood that without the EU, HMS UK would be sunk.
Everyone has forgotten the socialists, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were in power between Thatcher and the recent Tory run…
@@liztoth4324 YOU forget that Thatcher called the Brown-Blair years her greatest achievement. She had moved the “Overton window” so far right that their actual applied policies were often further right than any of hers. They deregulated banking and finance more than she ever dared to (though Cameron was still calling for more deregulation after the 2008 crash) they built fewer council houses than she did, they continued state selloffs, their welfare “reforms” and were more draconian than she had dared. You seem to also have forgotten that Blair explicitly repudiated socialism as Labour philosophy, that they were “intensely relaxed about getting rich”, that Labour politicians jumped into peerages and directorships and lobbying consultancies for the arms industry, private health companies etc - and into home-flipping landlordism at taxpayer expense - with both feet: and that Labour never went back in that.
Eh… so a different government is not the whole answer - only partial success. I, rightly or wrongly, admire the Austrian system. Social housing is of a decent average quality, available to most earning less than €39,000, £30,000. Benefits are of a better level. Consequently people have stable lives. Crime, homelessness and drug addiction is lower.
Orange Britain at work
Makes you proud to be a Glaswegian
That woman with the red hair is an absolute gem, respect from the Irish!
I am used to seeing 20-something college students or old communist intellectuals (mostly French ones) talking about a revolution. I don't think I ever saw someone of working age talking about it. I guess it is spreading.
It's a good Day to watch V for Vendetta 💪❤️🏴
Well said to the people who spoke in these interviews 👍🏼
My family has been struggling since the mid 2000 crisis, not the extent to today in the Uk in the worst cases though, some years ago we went through a pretty cold winter, for a spanish winter, and we couldn't afford heating everyday, so we heat the house for like a day every week, and we had to use extra blankets just to stay around during the day. I don't even want to imagine what's going to be in northern england and scotland.
This is thatcher’s legacy and the only way is down
The neoliberal political consensus and the subsequent reactionary backlash has been a disaster for the western working class.
❤ to the people of Glasgow.
Best summing up I've seen
To keep warm in winter occupy the local Tory constituency office. After all, taxpayers are paying for the heating.
Imagine a Republic of Scotland. Using their own energy reserves. Could be a wealthy and self sufficient. I can’t imagine it’s taken this long. Hopefully you do and join single market. Go for it
Yes but sturgeon has made you bust before you even start .
@@paulwainwright6903 Comically IGNORANT! Scotland gets a fixed budget (allegedly the same per capita as England says it spends per capita on itself) dribbled out from week to week: and Sturgeon gets a list of things she is allowed to spend it on. That is all.
@@paulwainwright6903 It is literally illegal for a Scottish government to spend more than Westminster decides. And they never have. My god, go and learn some high-school civics before you embarrass yourself any more.
@@eh1702 no but she has totally wasted it all and the country is in trouble that's why she keeps coming back for more . Don't you watch any news or the politicians? Or more importantly the people of Scotland? So don't come to me with your high handed attitude.
@@eh1702 they get twice as much per capita as the rest .
I did a masssive interview study in the 90s on the experiences of Glaswegians born in 1932 and 1952. The childhood AND adulthood levels of deprivation shocked me. Their kindness and resilience and humour and sense of community and sheer bloodymindedness and history and mainly tbh their kindness will carry them thru this crap. I’d never lived in a more antiEnglish place. And I grew up in ireland 🇮🇪 ffs. A third of Glaswegians are of Irish descent. From Irish Famine times. They’ve faced it all. In comparison to the past, this will be a walk in the park for them.
It might be okay for most, but it's the GenZ I'm worried about. Those little entitled turds have never done without. Now they'll need to put on a extra jumper. Not sure they have the emotional intelligence to deal with the burden.
I was brought up in Co Durham next door was a Irish family one of the lads was my best friend but there was always an atmosphere the mother in particular hated the English, now if i hated the Irish which i dont i would never ever live in Ireland as that would be two faced and by the way this was the 1950s long after 1922 daddy could not get a job in the free state but got one here.
@@davidmcintyre998 the hatreds between the four countries of ireland England Scotland and wales deserve some researching. I grew up in Northern Ireland at height of ‘Troubles’. As a Catholic. We felt no antagonism or animosity against English people. Most of my relatives who migrated to England married English people. And Welsh and Scottish people. Our issue was with the power of the British state. It imposed internment without trial, juryless trials, denied human rights. Shot dead civil rights marchers. Supported the anti Irish anti Catholic bigotry of the Stormont regime from 1922. When I lived in Scotland from 1996-2002, I was horrified by the antiEnglish feeling. I knew of English family members of friends of mine brutally attacked in Aberdeen pubs solely for their distinguishing accents. The majority of cases at that time which were dealt with by the Equality Commission in Edinburgh were not immigrants from Africa or South Asia, but English born Whites. I worked in a university. Among university employees it was almost de rigueur to hate the English. I argued many times with Glaswegians about this. As someone born into an Irish Catholic family, they I was treated to Glasgow’s sectarianism. It’s actually tbh anti Irish racism. Read what the Church of Scotland synod had to say in the 1920s about the shite Irish intermarrying and polluting the pure Scottish Protestant gene pool. Scotland has an evident problem with racism in all its myriad possibilities. Irish people living in England post WWII were tortured by the prejudice of the English. No dogs, No Blacks, No Irish was not outlawed til Race Relations Act 70s. But still here in Ireland 🇮🇪 we still know it’s not individual English ppl who are the problem but a top down State issue which ultimately, as ever, only favours the rich, the racist, the right wing, etc
You do realise that half the population of Ireland were slaughtered by Cromwell..
Then the lack of aid during the potato famine did the same again.
I wonder why they hate the English.
@@patriciathewisher2315 Peterloo
It was good to see people who are actually clued up to the problem rather than make excuses for it.
I've been fighting my whole damn life... why stop now. Viva la revolution
If you can use lawyers an accountants to avoid taxes then you know damn well you should be paying more taxes. Vast wealth seems to be inversely proportionate to morality.
On the opposite side of that try not using an accountant to pay taxes.
HMRC will just end up with fine for you on top of a load of tax.
In business you have to use an accountant.
@@TheWebstaff Yes, accountants are absolutely essential for anyone running a business but my point was about using them for tax avoidance.
Are you talking about my window cleaner, he always insists on cash. ( just like my mobile mechanic ).
@@lestrem11 I don’t know if they need accountants or not. I’m not aware of their accounting skills. I was referring more generally to people with vast wealth which is spread over multiple income streams. I’m guessing your window cleaner isn’t making so much money he wants to avoid taxes. In fact I’m going to assume that he’s an honest hard working individual who pays his fair share of taxes. Maybe he has an accountant and maybe not. Has that addressed your pedantry to a sufficient level or is there anything else you’d like to nitpick to try and start an argument?
@@matthewdevalle404 Taxes are for everyone, not just ‘the rich’. When you start work you may pay some. Until then, best to just shut up.
That fella at the end. Right there with you pal. I'm way past debating these people. Now I just want them gone, even if it costs my life.
They can't jail us all.
The guy at the end gets it.
No he doesn't!!! Revolution is NOT the answer.
@@missasinenomine It most certainly is.
@@-The-Golden-God- Nonsense. He's calling for anarchy. That's evil. We don't need embittered hard-bitten miserable destructive types like him making inflammatory speeches. He will never be happy.
@@missasinenomine What on earth are you wittering on about? If you're looking at the world in terms of good and evil, then you're far too immature to even be involved in the discussion.
@@-The-Golden-God- Do you realise what you've just said? It's hard to believe anyone could say that. Quite astounding in fact. As for the gibe "immature". On the contrary! But I won't stoop to such depths ............I simply don't believe you know what you're saying., but I'll just give you one single example. Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? It WASN'T caused by high gas prices! No joke.
Like Kevin Bridges said on Thursday - 'the queens no gonnae be the only old wumman dying this winter'
Our Scottish brothers and sisters could play a major role in bursting the Westminster bubble and showing the rest of the U.K. what lives we could be living if we can just get Westminster off our backs and be able to bring in progressive policies.
The British people needs Scotland to stand up and vote against Westminster and go independent
Just to prove there is another way other than the Westminster scam.
Scotlands independents would be the beginning of a new future for the whole of Britain.
Im curious how Scotland would be funded without money from Westminster though.
@@liztoth4324 I think in the future, one of our most valuable commodities will be fresh water, we have gallons of it as it rains most of the time up here. It is also very windy hence the amount of wind turbines. Where I stay I’m surrounded by the things but they constantly turn and produce power. We also have great food (meat/fish), whiskey, fossil fuels. Scotland has a very small population compared to England, we have the materials and tools, probably more than we need, for basic survival. Does England?
34bally sounds just perfect. I don’t understand the politics of Scotland being independent though…surely you enjoy these wonderful assets now. . Does Westminster take more from you than it gives? Down here in England we have a mix of agriculture, cities of course and much the same problems as Scotland. The corruption in terms of wealth is complex. WEF attempts to control us all. Foreign investors who live offshore in tax havens…
@@liztoth4324 we should enjoy these things we have as should you but the majority of us (the sheeple) are being conditioned, through covid, racism, Ukraine, crisis after crisis, to turn on one another and hate each other while as you mentioned, the elite, WEF laugh at us from above. The timing of the queens death was probably the best news this government has had this year as the public is now distracted with her death and again fighting amongst each other over it, while the sh*t show rolls on. We in Scotland are told, through the biased media, that England are our providers, and that we are an ungrateful lot when we moan about it. We are a hard working bunch who do contribute taxes to the treasury as well as resources from our land and sea, so it’s only fair our English masters in Westminster give us some of that back. I’m absolutely dead against independence but the more this United Kingdom of ours rips itself apart, the more I’m beginning to lean towards it with the “we can’t be any worse off going it alone” message ringing in my head.
34bally the wealth of the U.K. is only held centrally at Westminster. It’s preposterous to consider the idea of Scotland somehow contributing less, I never heard this expressed down here. I truly believe the leaders insular attitudes are no different towards us all. Those in work are now having to rely on food banks here in the south. Supermarkets have less choice due to shortages for many reasons, inflation is crazy. Personally I believe our leaders, of all political persuasion, are totally lost. They don’t have the answers, other than quick fix solutions to keep them in their jobs for now. Seems to be a lot more good common sense in Scotland, so maybe we need more input from there - otherwise I will relocate 🤣
What lovely people...
I think a great question to ask a Politician is who is the poorest person you know?
Till you know someone in trouble or with a health issue people just don't generally care.
The further from the bottom you are the more insulated from the world you become, it's why as we become older our political views change.
I'm not saying it's right but it's human nature.
Like that young lad, I would strongly consider moving out of England if I could pry my wife and kids out of east anglia, I just don't have any respect or pride in my own country and property is insanely expensive.
As a proud Scot, fae glasga
Watch until the last man!👏
Revolutinary spirit alive and well in Glasgow. Up the workers!
The Scottish Government needs to be very sure that it's doing everything it can to help the people at this stage - this is not the time for party political shenanigans at any level. No point scoring. A suggestion would be help (a price cap) for those forced to use LPG or kerosene heating oil , the latter which has quadrupled in price where I live. And help with the cost of wood for log burners. My rural Scottish village has no gas. The extortionately priced ground source heat pumps are beyond the means of many.
Great interviews wih real articulate citizens.
No body ever mentions the standing charges that are added to our gas, electric, phone bills etc, these companies all make billions of pounds in profits every year, why do they need to add a standing charge 🤷♂️ ???pure greed, and it should be abolished, it would go a long way in saving the average family a few pounds,
I’ve not put money in my gas meter in over 2 months and it’s currently in debt because of the standing charge fee for the so called privilege of having one installed.
Well done, Scotland NW England here we love you and remember never ever vote tory!!!!
time to tax the big companies
No fridge &/or freezer is a big deal. It means you can only buy small quantities of food, and often. And this is expensive. But of course what all this is about, is “respectable” people whose OUTWARD SOCIAL status is unchanged - discovering how 10-15% have been living since about 2008.
Scotland needs its true independence but only on the grounds it’s takes Liverpool with it too.
Manchester wants in on this. The red wall been firmly rebuilt and I hope the Tories are wiped at next election.
And we have Edwina Curry on GMTV telling us to use tin foil behind our radiators. God help.us.
Bless their hearts
They double our bills and we are meant to be grateful.