Idiotic Tory MPs lack intelligence, ideology and purpose | Simon Heffer interview

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  • @sparkyinsertnamehere6673
    @sparkyinsertnamehere6673 10 месяцев назад +98

    I do not think Simon Heffer is remotely understanding the level of anger against the tories about mass immigration and the fact that the tories have quite clearly shown that they have no intention of stopping it other than idiotic fantasist nonsense about Rwanda. There is no way back for them.

    • @martinslocombe2288
      @martinslocombe2288 10 месяцев назад

      There is no love for Labour I think the tory voters will opt for Reform or stay at home which will hand the election by default to the socialists

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      The Tories are long gone. They no longer exist. The current record replacement level of "legal" immigration is punishment for Brexit voters for daring to pull us out of the dry run for unelected globalist tyranny, the entire political establishment (a handful of (genuine) Tory rebels aside) tried their best to stop Brexit. So now they are simply watering down native British votes to the point where our views are irrelevant such they can have another referendum (which won't be in Labour's manifesto) and join up to the EU again but with total integration including the Euro and all the 2030 Lisbon stuff that hands over a country's natural resources to the unelected Eurocrats - this will be in the LibDem manifesto which no-one reads but will be used as justification under the forthcoming LibLab coalition. The speed they ousted Truss and installed a WEF puppet was staggering - she had the audacity to try and actually implement a popular centre-right (unlike the party) manifesto, the manifesto that got them elected in a landslide - that will never do! All of this is a matter of political will and replacing us IS their will - all of them, they being the captured globalist political class - LibLabCon.

    • @rickadkinson6539
      @rickadkinson6539 10 месяцев назад

      it didnt start under the tories, bliar started this crap, free votes for the woakes

    • @kamapublishing9949
      @kamapublishing9949 10 месяцев назад +12

      OK, but why default to the morally and economically bankrupt Labour Party, which started the problem in the first place, and will be just as bad?

    • @fredjones234
      @fredjones234 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@kamapublishing9949vote reform

  • @margaretpitts5462
    @margaretpitts5462 10 месяцев назад +94

    We didn’t vote for Sunak and we don’t want him

    • @jumblestiltskin1365
      @jumblestiltskin1365 10 месяцев назад +6

      I don't understand the man doing this job at all, or politics for that matter. He is one of the 0.001% who have fantastic wealth and access. I can only think there is more to his motivations than meets the eye.

    • @miras2222
      @miras2222 10 месяцев назад +3

      shame for those who voted for Boris the Clown

    • @brockit79
      @brockit79 9 месяцев назад

      @@jumblestiltskin1365 a trade deal with India is imminent I hear.

    • @culaterw41pr
      @culaterw41pr 9 месяцев назад +1

      Remember his current full job title is
      "The First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Union, and Minister for the Civil Service and the Unelected Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
      Emphasis on the unelected...

    • @simongleaden2864
      @simongleaden2864 9 месяцев назад

      In the British parliamentary system the prime minister is never directly elected by the public. The voters elect a House of Commons. Usually, the leader of the largest part in the Commons becomes the PM: it is up to that party to choose its leader, not the general public. BTW, I don't want Mr Sunak to be PM and I'm keen to see him go.

  • @micksmithson6724
    @micksmithson6724 10 месяцев назад +28

    The difference with Major and Sunak, is Major was elected and had a mandate, no one voted for Sunak and he has no mandate.
    He's weak, he doesn't seem to have a grip.
    What is better now than it was in 2010?
    National debt in 2010 was £800Bn its now £2,600Bn.
    NHS waiting lists are 8 million.
    Ring an ambulance and a pizza and the pizza will probably arrive first.
    Tax is far higher than its been since WW2
    Crime is out of control, judges are being told not to jail people.
    Americans now think we aren't a top tier military power.
    The economy is in the doldrums.
    Nothing works in Broken Britain.

    • @Ruda-n4h
      @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад

      We don't elect Prime Ministers.

  • @kaneclements7761
    @kaneclements7761 10 месяцев назад +18

    Lots of people are having a really hard time and the Conservative government are making no attempt to improve the lot of ordinary people.
    If Labour win the next election IMHO it will be a consequence of large numbers of people looking at the government and not liking the character of those in power. Party gate, PPE scandal and a raft of other acts of dishonesty, self serving behaviour, incompetence and excess deaths in the pandemic have changed the public mood.

    • @macflod
      @macflod 9 месяцев назад

      It’s because Tories believe in trickle down. They think that tax chts to the rich will improve ordinary people’s lives - like they will get the crumbs from the table eventually

  • @petermartin5030
    @petermartin5030 10 месяцев назад +40

    Problem is their fundamental values. Relying on greed and self interest to drive the economy is hopeless.

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      No the problem is none of the parties work for us any more. They are all orchestrated by the billionaire elite - ditto across the water. Which is why Trump and Truss were replaced by force - our unelected masters won't tolerate outbreaks of democracy.

    • @Omanjack
      @Omanjack 9 месяцев назад +1

      That's literally the basis of a capitalist democracy though. That is modern conservativism.

    • @tdtm82
      @tdtm82 9 месяцев назад

      @@OmanjackThere's a difference between social democratic capitalism and extreme capitalism which is what the Tories enjoy. Greed is Good is their mantra.

  • @enemywithin1295
    @enemywithin1295 10 месяцев назад +119

    I think a lot of this stems from Austerity. We were told in 2010 that we all had to tighten our belts and put up with essential public services being cut, but assured that it would be temporary and we would be back stronger as a nation. This never happened. Every single facet of British life has gotten worse, and these crooks are to blame. They couldn't organise a bumming in a barracks.

    • @chaosflower4892
      @chaosflower4892 10 месяцев назад +15

      we barely make anything...
      we can't even build a tunnel or railway...

    • @enemywithin1295
      @enemywithin1295 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@chaosflower4892 Very true. Our infrastructure is atrocious. Obviously foreign investment is less likely to happen when the PM changes every couple years and there’s no cohesive strategy.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 10 месяцев назад +18

      @@chaosflower4892 Because of Tory deindustrialisation and the spiv casino economy

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 10 месяцев назад

      Yep, the party of "personal responsibility" has spent 14 years getting their spiv mates in the City off the hook for a financial crash which cost this country £3 trillion in bailouts and lost growth. They tried to blame the doubling of the national debt on excessive spending by Labour but the truth was it was because we saved the bondholders who'd made bad bets
      And even now, when all their paper wealth is still propped up by our taxes, still the Tories refuse to do anything about the tax havens, the rent seeking parasites who are running our public services into the ground, the vast costs of structural unemployment / mass immigration
      It's almost as if they're organising some sort of collapse which is designed to leave only the super wealthy standing

    • @acw7120
      @acw7120 10 месяцев назад

      Every country should "mind their own business". Wish they would then... Imagine.@@chaosflower4892

  • @lee11991964
    @lee11991964 10 месяцев назад +5

    20:25 There is no recession, and there isn't going to be a recession...it was announced today the last quarter of 23 the economy shrunk by 0.3% putting us in a recession.

  • @richardabbot8724
    @richardabbot8724 10 месяцев назад +33

    All roads lead to 1997. There hasn’t been a Conservative party since then.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 10 месяцев назад +5

      Why not? The Tories are the party of big money and the corporations have been rampant since before 1997. It was Major who signed GATT / Maastricht - Blair just happened to be assigned the role of implementing all the social liberalism that globalisation demanded

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      Correct. Or an independent civil service, police force and education system. It was a globalist cultural revolution that swept all - including the so called Tories with it.

    • @Ruda-n4h
      @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад +2

      It started in 1970 and that includes Margaret Thatcher.

  • @trixiepickle8779
    @trixiepickle8779 10 месяцев назад +40

    'Sunak doesn't radiate incompetence'. Must be a different Sunak I've been watching!

    • @miras2222
      @miras2222 10 месяцев назад +2

      Johnson and Truss do radiate incompetence for sure

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      He radiates corruption.
      Tax evading wife.
      India trade deal to sell out UK interests.
      All covid embezzlement went through him.
      He doesn't want it investigated, or pursued...wonder why?

    • @simongleaden2864
      @simongleaden2864 9 месяцев назад

      He radiates the effortless superiority one might expect from a former Head Boy of Winchester College.

  • @fen0000
    @fen0000 10 месяцев назад +27

    They should have learned. But they serve a different authority to the people of our nation.
    If they wait until November, many won't go out to vote if the weather's bad.

    • @TheMatthooks
      @TheMatthooks 10 месяцев назад +2

      That's what they hope for. Because the Tories benefit from a low turnout.

  • @WilliamCoward-vo1xg
    @WilliamCoward-vo1xg 10 месяцев назад +18

    He's wrong about King Charles, every time he opens his mouth he alienates me further.

  • @jameswarrington9402
    @jameswarrington9402 10 месяцев назад +30

    Mr Heffer says the electorate have very short memories. Well mine and many others memories keep getting jogged as I walk around my city and I see the results of thirteen years of Tory gov failure everywhere I look many of whom are dressed from head to toe in black shrouds following dark looking males with beards. If the Tories wish to live in Pakistan or Africa they should move there instead of moving it here.

    • @DaveStuart-n8i
      @DaveStuart-n8i 10 месяцев назад

      Don't blame the immigrants, blame those dumbass politicians from both parties for years allowing unchecked immigration and did not develop our services and housing sectors.

    • @Ruda-n4h
      @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад +3

      It's terribly sad to see how delusional he has become in his support even now, for Sunak and the Conservatives.

    • @rickadkinson6539
      @rickadkinson6539 10 месяцев назад +3

      It's been happening over many decades, NOT the last 13 years.

    • @Ruda-n4h
      @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@rickadkinson6539 Very true.

    • @jameswarrington9402
      @jameswarrington9402 10 месяцев назад

      @@rickadkinson6539 we are all aware of that but the Tories were given an eighty seat majority on a slogan to get Brexit done and protect our borders. They did neither but on our borders they opened them wider than they have ever been in our history. I am told during the last thirteen years they have imported six million immigrants. They have excelled themselves and done more damage to our country and culture than the appalling Blair ever dreamed of. Their Rwanda nonsense is just a smokescreen a lie. Eighty seat majority gave them carte blanch to change laws close our borders and quit the ECJ.

  • @sallycushing9138
    @sallycushing9138 9 месяцев назад +1

    Tony Blair should be locked up for the rest of his life after the harm he has done the British Isles

  • @philipbrooks402
    @philipbrooks402 10 месяцев назад +49

    Good to see John Major being called out for the weakling and incompetent that he was.

    • @derekrushton1705
      @derekrushton1705 10 месяцев назад +3

      Not according to Edwina Currie 😮

    • @KKTR3
      @KKTR3 10 месяцев назад

      2016 and he popped back up and as not gone away again since

    • @JupiterThunder
      @JupiterThunder 10 месяцев назад

      John Major used to be a circus clown before going in to politics. He left school with no qualifications whatsoever, a complete failure.

    • @bryangeake5826
      @bryangeake5826 10 месяцев назад

      @@JupiterThunderYour comment is illogical, he left school and educated himself and got to the highest public office in the land, how was that failure, he didn’t come from a privileged background but was incompetent like Johnson!!

    • @_Stroda
      @_Stroda 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@JupiterThunder Left school with 'no qualifications whatsoever' (asides the three O-levels he gained) and went on to become a 'complete failure'... By ultimately becoming the Prime Minister.

  • @gtaylor178
    @gtaylor178 10 месяцев назад +37

    Austria is about to have 48% less electricity costs than Britain. If Mr Sunak sorted the greedy opportunists in the electricity market he may just win the election if Britain's electricity prices were returned to 2020 prices instead of in the pockets of the French Insurance markets who own it.

    • @adamshatwell
      @adamshatwell 10 месяцев назад +1

      But his & other MP's shares would go down

    • @danielearley5062
      @danielearley5062 10 месяцев назад +5

      If he had allowed fracking when he said he would, it could have come online months ago and we not not have to import natural gas, we could export it. If we did not have destructive taxes on energy production or industry, through the Climate Change Act, the cost of living would be much lower. If we did not subsidise wind and solar then our energy bills would be lower as well.

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      It doesn't matter what his policies are - NOBODY is going to vote for Sunak - we all know he was a plant as part of a WEF coup against Truss who was actually trying to implement a landslide-winning centre-right (unlike her party) manifesto. But then nobody is going to vote for Starmer either - however this will work against us because the LimpDumb's manifesto will no doubt call for a second EU referendum (which Labour wouldn't dare put in theirs) and the LibDems will get that as part of the deal to form the forthcoming coalition required for a majority government - and as we have been displaced by mass-immigration at a staggering rate of over 1% PA since the last referendum (intentionally to water down the native vote) it will go the other way next time - only once they've had the "right" answer it will be the last say on the matter - and of course we will join as full members - Euro and all - including the 2nd stage 2030 Lisbon stuff that hands over all member state natural resources to Brussels.

    • @rjy8960
      @rjy8960 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@danielearley5062 Petrochem companies are not charities - they sell to the highest bidder. North Sea, fracking etc. will only serve a global market and not be kindly donated at cut-down costs to the local market. Shareholders for a start would not allow it.

    • @danielearley5062
      @danielearley5062 10 месяцев назад

      @@rjy8960 There are four main international markets for gas, European, North American, and Central and South American. Just because there isn't an internal market for gas in the UK right now, does not mean there cannot be one. Additionally, the laws of supply and demand mean that increasing supply of a product means that the price will drop. That would be a condition for allowing fracking. That's not to mention the additional business, which shareholders will like, the jobs, which the local area will like, and additional taxes, which HMRC will like.

  • @MikeNewland
    @MikeNewland 10 месяцев назад +10

    I gave up when he said how capable Blair is! Capable of destruction of Britain?

    • @jumblestiltskin1365
      @jumblestiltskin1365 10 месяцев назад +1

      I suppose capability doesn't pick sides,only results.

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      They're all Blairs now.

    • @MikeNewland
      @MikeNewland 10 месяцев назад

      Not anything just careerists@@LondonSteveLee

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      @@MikeNewland They are all complicit in what's going on - there is little to no resistance amongst the political elite of any stripe.

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      @@MikeNewland Just following orders? Where have I heard that before?

  • @markstanton63
    @markstanton63 9 месяцев назад +4

    20:26 "There is no recession, there isn't going to be a recession, let's forget that" ....Really?

    • @bbbf09
      @bbbf09 9 месяцев назад

      Just about sums up the 'wisdom' of Heffer

  • @sasserine
    @sasserine 10 месяцев назад +5

    Heffer spent decades, slamming Charles, as Prince.
    Now he's praising him, for decades of service, cool hand on the tiller, principled leadership...
    Someone's grovelling for a gong, I think.

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 10 месяцев назад +13

    The winner, this time, is going to be abstention, None of the Above.

  • @danielearley5062
    @danielearley5062 10 месяцев назад +16

    What an excellent video, I am going to have to pay more attention to Simon Heffer. He had some great lines there too, one in particular sticks with me, 'Whatever is good for the country should be possible'. It's interesting to hear his views on some of our current crop, especially when compared to greats such as Enoch Powell and Thatcher. Either would wipe the floor with almost anyone in the HoC today.

    • @billyb6043
      @billyb6043 10 месяцев назад +3

      Enoch Powell and Thatcher great? Jesus wept.....

    • @LondonSteveLee
      @LondonSteveLee 10 месяцев назад

      Heffer is an idiot - he thinks the Tory party still exists. We have three globalist Social Democrat parties who work for the WEF. The last 13 years had proven that manifestos are empty words to fool people - we had a government elected by a landslide on the back of a centre-right manifesto, a government who once in power carried on being New Labour. They ramped already eye-watering immigration levels to a staggering 1%+ PA population displacement level - a deliberate policy/punishment to wipe out the power of the native Brit vote ensuring the next EU referendum (oh it's coming) goes the other way. The entire political class is captured - voting is pointless.

    • @tombristowe846
      @tombristowe846 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@billyb6043 The definition of great is not "someone I agree with or whose politics I like".

  • @jm9673
    @jm9673 10 месяцев назад +5

    An interesting and insightful interview. Simon Heffer brings his historian’s trained mind to bear on the current political mess in Westminster. Very enjoyable.

    • @Tyronepeader
      @Tyronepeader 5 месяцев назад +1

      He also brings a vastly complacent and blinkered set of prejudices to the matter of British politics. Apart from his vague notion of an inevitable but relatively painless Tory defeat, he's hardly foreseen a single development that's transpired this year. 🤭

  • @stephenraw8772
    @stephenraw8772 9 месяцев назад +4

    Simon Heffer is part of the problem he is so remote from what the country is thinking he’s option is irreverent ……. He sings to his masters

  • @JamesStrock
    @JamesStrock 10 месяцев назад +10

    Excellent interview. Simon Heffer's historical insights are fascinating and thought provoking.

  • @simongleaden2864
    @simongleaden2864 9 месяцев назад +1

    A very good interview with a very sound Conservative. The only thing Simon Heffer said that I really disagreed with was that the year of the last general election was "Two Thousand and Nineteen": it was "Twenty Nineteen".

  • @Abidification
    @Abidification 10 месяцев назад +20

    The journalist is very well spoken and extremely knowledgeable in history and politics. A very highly educated and well read man.

    • @hittitecharioteer
      @hittitecharioteer 10 месяцев назад +1

      Steven Edgington is excellent.

    • @Ali_T_London
      @Ali_T_London 10 месяцев назад

      These are right wing hacks who are out of touch with the UK public.

    • @masoodahmed2041
      @masoodahmed2041 10 месяцев назад +1

      I agree Heffer is an incredible journalist a political heavyweight which very few people realise, another one is Peter Osborne.

    • @Ruda-n4h
      @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад

      @@masoodahmed2041 I used to like him and although he speaks a lot of sense he's not what I thought he was. Nowhere near as good as Peter Hitchens. He doesn't understand how radical Blair was and Starmer would be, and he never said anything against the lockdowns at the time. He also doesn't realise that Cameron was one of the reasons why the Conservative Party has become so liberal.

  • @tjd18
    @tjd18 9 месяцев назад +3

    I like the fact that he says there isn’t going to be a recession on Thursday. The United Kingdom entered the technical recession meaning there has been a recession.

  • @jonathanwheeler194
    @jonathanwheeler194 10 месяцев назад +12

    Steven clearly enjoyed that interview. It was a pleasure to watch, as well.

  • @jonathanbrewer7072
    @jonathanbrewer7072 10 месяцев назад +3

    Love to hear Simon. Refreshingly honest and blunt.

    • @Tyronepeader
      @Tyronepeader 5 месяцев назад +1

      Totally tribally and myopically Tory. 😮😏

  • @andym.6141
    @andym.6141 10 месяцев назад +11

    37:00 >> I’m often incredulous about how little some of today’s politicians seem understand about delivering something in the real world. The idea of UKCA being a case in point.

    • @rjy8960
      @rjy8960 10 месяцев назад +1

      Complete stupidity. How long would it take to craft a completely new set of all -encompassing standards to cover all of the exiting EU (a lot transposed from UK legislation) essential requirements and standards only to act as a further barrier to trade with the UK? The only reasoning for it as I see it was to allow us to lower our standards and allow products that do not conform with current EU standards into the UK market. That would go down from a consumer and trade position to the EU like a lead balloon.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@rjy8960
      Exactly.
      All the EU standards are *minimum* standards, that any member has always been free to exceed.
      The only reason Tories would ever want to change them, is to reduce standards.

  • @ronanmcw
    @ronanmcw 10 месяцев назад +3

    This guys a fool if he thinks Sunak isn't dishonest. The guys a career liar.

  • @russellnixon9981
    @russellnixon9981 10 месяцев назад +3

    Enjoyed this frank conversation of some of the failings of our politicians and how unfit they are to hold office.
    Excellent interview..

  • @tonysadler5290
    @tonysadler5290 10 месяцев назад +4

    Heffer is talking crap. I live in South Wales. I was diagnosed with a complex hernia in November '22 saw a consultant within two weeks, underwent open abdominal surgery in August'23. I can generally get a GP appointment within a day (on the day if I call early enough).
    Yes some surgery will take longer depending on the type, but most straight forward operations are quicker than England.

  • @JerzyFeliksKlein
    @JerzyFeliksKlein 10 месяцев назад +8

    Always fun to hear some Telegraph delusions

    • @Atamanxxxvii
      @Atamanxxxvii 9 месяцев назад

      What are the delusions?

  • @just_another32
    @just_another32 10 месяцев назад +24

    a handful of extremists? try visiting a university ... and I dont mean the students!

    • @MarkJVSomers
      @MarkJVSomers 9 месяцев назад +1

      What nonsense. Just a random remark.

    • @Atamanxxxvii
      @Atamanxxxvii 9 месяцев назад

      Yes, it's shocking just how chock-full of radicals unis are now. All with joke PhDs, spouting nonsense views that would make a flat earther blush.

  • @tonymaries1652
    @tonymaries1652 10 месяцев назад +4

    Interesting listening and it is a long time since I heard a Tory talking any sense about Scotland. I visit Scotland regularly and Labour as a political force in Scotland is dead and buried. Politics in all UK is still relatively tribal and the sight of Labour in coalition with Tories to run councils in Stirling and Edinburgh sticks in my craw and anyone else I have spoken to in Scotland. Labour will not be winning the seats it needs in Scotland to get a landslide majority at Westminster, and while they might win more than the one seat they currently hold I would be astonished if they win more than a handful.
    Intelligence, ideology and purpose is also a good title to introduce the problem with the political class. University followed by working as a political assistant for an MP before becoming an MP is no substitute for having a proper job before entering politics. My local MP is a Tory who was an army officer before entering politics and he has shown undoubted expertise as a junior Defence Minister, even if I disagree with him on almost everything else.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад +1

      I think Callaghan was the last PM to see active service.
      Other jobs are also valuable experience.
      I agree on the need for MPs to have proper jobs, a PPE degree doesn't cut it, on its own.

    • @dovesk1
      @dovesk1 9 месяцев назад

      What a shame, as a vote for the SNP, is a vote for the Tory party in a two party system and has basically split the left vote in the UK, allowing the Tories to devastate the countries of the Union for the last 14 years.

    • @tonymaries1652
      @tonymaries1652 9 месяцев назад

      @@dovesk1 The Labour Party is basically dead in Scotland and has been for many years, even before the Tories returned to power in 2010. Look at politicians like Mhairi Black and Stephen Flynn, they are basically the people who would have joined the Labour party in a previous generation. Present day Labour has even joined in coalition with the Tories on Stirling and Edinburgh councils. No chance that anyone in Scotland still regards Labour as a left-leaning party.

  • @tillthewheels
    @tillthewheels 10 месяцев назад +5

    The idea that the hospitals in Wales, tfl, and knife crime in London aren't the effects of Tory austerity is bizarre double think. The Tories weaponise budgets against anyone that wants a better country.

  • @Paulkazey1
    @Paulkazey1 10 месяцев назад +5

    Labour in 1997 opened the floodgates of migration and they've never been closed.

  • @clivefrear1784
    @clivefrear1784 10 месяцев назад +4

    It’s difficult to think why anyone would vote Tory or Labour. But it’s up to other parties to state their claim if the much needed change is to come. As it is, most folks will probably stay home or vote for either of the aforementioned to try and stop its main opponent winning… carpe diem!

  • @macflod
    @macflod 9 месяцев назад +2

    I don’t get why Fox hunting is a left right thing. I don’t see how thats a bone to the left.

    • @russellwhite1581
      @russellwhite1581 9 месяцев назад

      Many rightish people opposed fox hunting.

  • @lrye-xyz
    @lrye-xyz 10 месяцев назад +18

    I agree that the Tories are thick. Sadly, the only thing that will change with Labour is that the average IQ will drop 20 points.

    • @MikeNewland
      @MikeNewland 10 месяцев назад +1

      Must be the fight against elitism.

    • @jumblestiltskin1365
      @jumblestiltskin1365 10 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed, whatever Heffer thinks about the Tory deficiencies, the Labour party cabinet incoming is going to make it look intellectually stellar.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@jumblestiltskin1365
      They won't have such intellectual powerhouses as Nadine Dorries or James Cleverly, that's for sure.

  • @drc4563
    @drc4563 10 месяцев назад +11

    He is so good! Very clear and so true. On the quality of our recent PMs and MPs…This is excellent!

  • @LordOfLight
    @LordOfLight 9 месяцев назад +3

    This guy doesn't live in the real world. Does he really imagine that Tory promises would make a difference at this stage? The electorate have a short memory, as he says, but it's not THAT short. They'll remember Johnson's lies and Truss' ineptitude and vapidity for a long time.
    There's been a fundamental change in the British voter's perception of the Tory party imho.

  • @davidphilips5543
    @davidphilips5543 8 месяцев назад

    Love listening to Simon Heffer - almost like having a mini history lesson!

  • @liborsionko
    @liborsionko 9 месяцев назад +6

    What tosh regarding SNP voters.
    There is no more 'tribal' a vote than the Tory vote.
    And the notion that SNP voters 'particularly hate the English' is offensive, condescending and a convenient way to demean a legitimate alternative - more Tory traits.

  • @yalmahond2813
    @yalmahond2813 10 месяцев назад +3

    Many of Simon's critiques seem very out-of-date.

  • @johnke7
    @johnke7 9 месяцев назад +2

    Nearly 23 minutes in before a mention of the pandemic. Will he mention the 70 000 excess deaths in 2023?

  • @just_another32
    @just_another32 10 месяцев назад +9

    nice long interview! thanks

  • @KimSE4
    @KimSE4 9 месяцев назад +1

    I'm afraid I don't buy the criticism of Labour in Wales - the country has seen a massive ingress of older English people who retire there and a flight of younger people. Schools are closing, and there are whole communities that have never recovered from the closure of the coal mines - no industry replaced them. Wales has crippling health and care costs and not enough taxpayers to cover the expenditure. The only way to resolve this is to stop paying for the care of old people - would a Tory government do that?

  • @kamapublishing9949
    @kamapublishing9949 10 месяцев назад +2

    His thoughts on Fishi Sunak don't chime with the consensus...

  • @MrBigSeanno
    @MrBigSeanno 10 месяцев назад +4

    Painful listen this, the telegraph are worse than the express nowadays, genuine extremists.

  • @kevinloughrey5135
    @kevinloughrey5135 10 месяцев назад +10

    The tragedy is that the alternative is even worse than those deposed. Britain is lost unless they elect candidates from something like the Reclaim Party.

    • @bewilderedbrit8928
      @bewilderedbrit8928 10 месяцев назад

      And even then, Reclaim is controlled opposition. Voting is IRRELEVANT.

    • @russellwhite1581
      @russellwhite1581 9 месяцев назад

      @@bewilderedbrit8928 Is that why Andrew Bridgen didn't stick with them?

  • @sniwashitu
    @sniwashitu 10 месяцев назад +8

    This guy does great interviews....deserves the best jobs

  • @Richard.HistoryLit
    @Richard.HistoryLit 10 месяцев назад +18

    Wonder if Mr Heffer might ever consider giving a tour of his book shelves. That would be some #booktube video(s), and a (proverbial) half, hey?!!

    • @philipbrooks402
      @philipbrooks402 10 месяцев назад +4

      Seconded.

    • @Richard.HistoryLit
      @Richard.HistoryLit 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@philipbrooks402 Don't know if that is the sort of thing famous people do? Natural change however.

    • @danielearley5062
      @danielearley5062 10 месяцев назад +1

      It's a library, not his private collection I'm afraid.

    • @heycidskyja4668
      @heycidskyja4668 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@danielearley5062 It's obviously his private collection.

    • @PhilBaird1
      @PhilBaird1 10 месяцев назад

      Yes. Looking at some of those book spines, that's definitely Simon's collection. @@heycidskyja4668

  • @marymochrie3471
    @marymochrie3471 10 месяцев назад +2

    I agree with placing VAT on school fees. A first step to abolishing private schools which give unfair advantage and cause society division. Same with private medicine.Yes it is very much a class war and time to shift the balance in favour of average working and lower middle class people. Kemi Badenoch would be a disaster. She is extreme right wing. And The Monarchy is a throwback to a feudal age of unfair priviledge and wealth which has no place in our modern world.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад +1

      The problem with Badenoch isn't (just) her politics, which would probably morph into whatever she thought expedient on the day, but the fact she's thick as mince, lazy as a slug, doesn't read her briefs, yet has the absolute arrogance that she's the most intelligent and experienced person in the room.
      A walking example of the Dunning-Krueger Effect.

  • @sophiaisabelle027
    @sophiaisabelle027 10 месяцев назад +5

    We will always support this channel. They're always one of the best.

  • @ianmansbridge3646
    @ianmansbridge3646 9 месяцев назад +1

    As Simon Heffer sais, the conservatives do not have any ideology, well what is left in the way of rational for this flacid thinking? The economics I was so blithely taught in the 1980s which fed conservative thinking is largely debased now. I feel events have left conservative historians behind, the next election is going to be Tories vs everyone else who cares what sort of Britain we live in. I used to admire Mr Heffer, perhaps I still like his mild manner. Feel sorry for what has been lost in the party because of populism.

  • @jumblestiltskin1365
    @jumblestiltskin1365 10 месяцев назад +2

    Much i disagreed with here, much i agreed with. An interesting conversation. Cheers for doing it.

  • @RobertSharp-z3p
    @RobertSharp-z3p 10 месяцев назад +3

    It's a very conceited middle class London view that the SNP core vote is based on simple hatred of the English. Do the English hate European Union countries and was it that made Brexit possible? It's more about wanting to control your own economy, countries / regions / communities rarely benefit from giving up political control to a disconnected third party .

    • @Ruda-n4h
      @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад

      It's true. Half my family come from there.

    • @robertclive491
      @robertclive491 10 месяцев назад

      We've heard what SNP supporters say about the English, and we've heard what Brexiteers said about Poles and Romanians.

  • @ordesolomons9545
    @ordesolomons9545 10 месяцев назад +3

    I'm so glad he didn't think Stalin and Mau weren't genocidal maniacs.

  • @nicholassimpson518
    @nicholassimpson518 10 месяцев назад +7

    YEAH. I THINK I'LL GO AND READ SIMON HEFFER... ON THE VERANDAH.

  • @petergardner760
    @petergardner760 9 месяцев назад

    Simon Heffer is indeed very fortunate to have Kemi Badenoch as his MP. I have Hunt.

  • @jeffswingdancer8302
    @jeffswingdancer8302 9 месяцев назад

    In a democracy the people get the government they deserve, as they voted in the representatives. The citizens of the UK must stand before a mirror and state: "we have met the enemy, and it is us."

  • @DavidJones-mo9sj
    @DavidJones-mo9sj 10 месяцев назад +9

    I'm not a Telegraph reader or Tory supporter so it would be churlish to pick at Simon Heffer's view except he is wrong on the economic outlook. Recession is here and UK business conditions will become harsher as 2024 goes on.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 10 месяцев назад

      He's a Thatcherite... they just can't accept that its neoliberalism which has brought us to this point. Right wing Tories can moan all they want about Blairism - they were the ones who signed GATT, Maastricht etc. They've always imported more immigrants than Labour (look at the 1950s), their friends in the investment banks were always behind the equalities agenda, women in the work place etc.

    • @Ali_T_London
      @Ali_T_London 10 месяцев назад +4

      I'm not a Telegraph reader and I know why now.

  • @dariusdoodoo
    @dariusdoodoo 9 месяцев назад

    “Not enough idiots”, he got that right.

  • @garymitchell5899
    @garymitchell5899 10 месяцев назад +8

    I guess it's possible we could build a million houses by November

  • @jonh7054
    @jonh7054 9 месяцев назад

    It seems to me there is little difference between any of the parties (Lib, Lab, Con) who are more interested in sucking up to those in the World Economic Forum, WEF and intoducing laws to satisfy the WEF rather than protecting the citizens of this country.

  • @brockett
    @brockett 10 месяцев назад +1

    Voting for Starmer is a vote for no change. He's just a Tory in a pale Labour suit. Wealth is created by manufacturing and trading. Having left the EU we have no one to trade with and having given up manufacturing in the UK in favour of importing from China we have no way of creating wealth. Public services must be cut to balance the income from taxation and taxation must increase to provide funding for essential public services. There is no way this economic decline, that began in the 1980s, can be turned around in four years or maybe forty years. A Starmer goverment will lead to a disappointing four years followed by another 20 years of Tory incompetence.

  • @user-bo3mp8un6c
    @user-bo3mp8un6c 10 месяцев назад +14

    Reform is essentially the only option now

  • @Ruda-n4h
    @Ruda-n4h 10 месяцев назад +4

    Voting for Kemi Badenoch is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      Like slamming your testicles in the deckchairs on the Titanic.

  • @georgestein8211
    @georgestein8211 10 месяцев назад +4

    Just when this guy says something that seems to make sense, he comes out with a manifest lie about Brexit, or praises Badenoch. And he will still vote Tory ... luckily, his generation will be the last to do so, and the Tories will hopefully never be in power again.

  • @crzxr
    @crzxr 10 месяцев назад +2

    Simon Heffer is clearly suffering from Turning-into-Edward-Heath Syndrome. Yes.

  • @valthirteen
    @valthirteen 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great interview Stephen, with a sagacious commentator.

  • @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841
    @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841 9 месяцев назад

    Cons, Labour. No difference between the pair of them anymore. It's vote for a further kicking or vote for a right good drubbing.

  • @dalereynolds7638
    @dalereynolds7638 10 месяцев назад +2

    Heffer makes some true points but he still has not overcome his classical Tory prejudices.

  • @nickdoughty518
    @nickdoughty518 10 месяцев назад +5

    Very interesting interview. History, assuming it is objective, does matter. I agree that the Tories have been hopeless, but equally, I don't see how Labour can get us out of this level of debt and stagnation.

    • @tolhumexy6706
      @tolhumexy6706 10 месяцев назад +3

      Impossible for Labour because so much damage has been done.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      Halting the daily embezzlement of public funds, and jailing the perpetrators, and seizing their assets, under the Proceeds Of Crime Act would make a start.
      Anyone know of an experienced prosecuting lawyer, who heads a political party, by any chance?

    • @ianmansbridge3646
      @ianmansbridge3646 9 месяцев назад

      Investment buddy, something this current generation of Conservatives doesn't understand. That's where their shortcomings lay.

  • @richardwalker4966
    @richardwalker4966 10 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting talk

  • @stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682
    @stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 9 месяцев назад +2

    Did they discuss Brexit?

    • @bbbf09
      @bbbf09 9 месяцев назад

      22:17 - he still 'passionately' believes in his little pet project - despite the evidence

    • @stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682
      @stevenpeaketrainsandstuff3682 9 месяцев назад

      @@bbbf09 I must have switched off by then. i was amazed how they were already blaming the Labour Party for perceived future failures in government.

  • @DeeFibbs
    @DeeFibbs 10 месяцев назад +1

    Karma for the Tories

  • @georgewaters6424
    @georgewaters6424 10 месяцев назад +2

    pish, wrong on just about every point. I'll be buggered if I'm gonna hang around to listen to any more of this nonsense. Cameron was never a centrist. A party that allied itself with AfD and Front Nationale can NEVER be centrist. David Cameron is about as centrist as I am a tortoise!!! Byeeeee

  • @SteveeeeeeeeeeeeeFB
    @SteveeeeeeeeeeeeeFB 10 месяцев назад +3

    I doubt austerity impacted Simon Heffer the same way it impacted my community.

  • @peterwatson3944
    @peterwatson3944 5 месяцев назад

    Chamberlain had to avoid war as long as he could to allow the build-up of the British military

  • @bewilderedbrit8928
    @bewilderedbrit8928 10 месяцев назад +2

    Only clowns participate in the red/blue team pantomime.

  • @jonathanbrewer7072
    @jonathanbrewer7072 10 месяцев назад +1

    Super interview. Very impressed with Stuart.

  • @timg5tm941
    @timg5tm941 10 месяцев назад +1

    Kemi is first rate 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      A first rate example of the Dunning Krueger Effect.

  • @petergardner760
    @petergardner760 9 месяцев назад

    "There weren't enough idiots so he [Cameron] put some of those on his A-list as well." Classic Heffer and dead right.

  • @jumblestiltskin1365
    @jumblestiltskin1365 10 месяцев назад +2

    Found the section about chamberlain enlightening, I'd not considered the point of view before that Heffer makes on the 1938 decisions.

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc 10 месяцев назад

      Apparently during what Mel Brooks would call "the bunker scene", a certain German chancellor could be overheard ranting that Neville Chamberlain's concessions at Munich were all a plot, a case of Perfidious Albion delaying the war so they could build up the RAF in order to win it when the time came. So according to him, Chamberlain was the guy won the war! (Then this same commentator poisoned his dog and shot himself.)

  • @markwalters2927
    @markwalters2927 10 месяцев назад +1

    Steven Edginton is a very impressive young fellow. I wish him the best in his future career.

  • @davidevans5955
    @davidevans5955 10 месяцев назад +8

    Liz truss would not of got my vote but she didn't even get a chance

    • @elvishprincess321
      @elvishprincess321 10 месяцев назад +3

      Her ideas were correct she just didn't have the ability to pull them off competently.

    • @osric1730
      @osric1730 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@elvishprincess321 Loading up offshore bank accounts with money looted from the public purse in unfunded tax giveaways whilst public finances are in freefall is just plain stupid. Not even the markets, never ones to look a gift-horse from their pals in government in the mouth, recoiled in horror. Its was a moronic policy implemented by a moron.

    • @31Blaize
      @31Blaize 10 месяцев назад

      She had her chance. She wiped £30 billion off the economy in one day.

    • @RAFchurchlawford4469
      @RAFchurchlawford4469 10 месяцев назад

      "not of got" 🤔

  • @dadananda
    @dadananda 10 месяцев назад +1

    In 1917 the UK's defense budget was 50% of GDP. Does Simon Heffer propose that Churchill should have kept it there instead of tapering off to 2% by 1930?

    • @KKTR3
      @KKTR3 10 месяцев назад

      Where is that information from

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 10 месяцев назад

      It's always the ones who look like they were picked last during PE class, who want conscription, national service, and endless war preparations.
      For other people, of course.
      Him and Mark Francois could make a side hustle, cosplaying live action versions of Penfold from Dangermouse.

  • @sgordon8123
    @sgordon8123 10 месяцев назад +2

    Some people do very well at school and university, at least these days, simply by having great memories. They can't think for themselves. The recent inflation problems were not caused by the common causes but rather the exceptional situation of a choked supply chain in the pandemic. Hence a chancellor who appeared clever tried the wrong cure.

  • @Isclachau
    @Isclachau 10 месяцев назад +4

    Dear oh dear. This guy is out of touch with reality

  • @phillipc3286
    @phillipc3286 10 месяцев назад +7

    There is a recession now

  • @giolag5593
    @giolag5593 10 месяцев назад +3

    A Telegraph "journalist" interviewing another Telegraph journalist 😂 😂

  • @jonb5493
    @jonb5493 9 месяцев назад

    "They won't vote for us loonies coz we're not loony enuf" .. as all these Torygraffers refrain .. oh and their pal Jezz Steptoe.

  • @sasserine
    @sasserine 10 месяцев назад +2

    Still lying about Scotland being subsidised by England?
    I'm English, and know the reality is the opposite.
    It only appears that way, to English media, because Scotland has to send all their tax revenue to Westminster, and receive a fraction back.

  • @tjd18
    @tjd18 9 месяцев назад

    After watching this interview, I have a feeling that the times wish that they never put this person on

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones 9 месяцев назад

    Has anybody told poor Simon Heffer he's the wrong shape?
    It's just weird. What does he think he's doing, insulting his parents maybe?

  • @bumblebee9337
    @bumblebee9337 10 месяцев назад

    Not enough Heifers in parliament.

  • @Drew-b9p
    @Drew-b9p 10 месяцев назад +1

    'Most men'..... Don't menstruate?!?!?? None do

  • @geoffreynhill2833
    @geoffreynhill2833 10 месяцев назад

    Make the Tory Party history ! 👺