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  • @TheNigelrojo
    @TheNigelrojo 2 месяца назад +330

    It's incredible that the March protest attracted very little media attention, yet the press were all over this latest one like a rash. What's different? A different government. Anyone still labouring under the impression that we have an impartial media in the UK?

    • @majesticmythology
      @majesticmythology 2 месяца назад

      Because labour have managed to be absolutely diabolical in 4 months, the tories were just consistently meh about everything

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 2 месяца назад +18

      Spot on.

    • @1Mutton1
      @1Mutton1 2 месяца назад +9

      Yes, a very lift wing media.

    • @chrisnaylor6814
      @chrisnaylor6814 2 месяца назад

      You get 1000s turning out for the rejoin march or the Palestine marches and you see nothing on any form of media about it other than RUclipsrs reporting on it... Get a few 100 misguided farmers being gaslit by the wealthy land owners and it's never off the front pages of the newspapers or interviews with Clarkson on the BBC!! Forget two tier policing (because there isn't any) but we do have two tier journalism!

    • @lucky65strike
      @lucky65strike 2 месяца назад +2

      Sorry, meant to reply to 1mutton1 not top comment.

  • @blaircorral8158
    @blaircorral8158 2 месяца назад +84

    Does anyone else remember the petition which had six million signatures calling for a second Brexit
    referendum 🎉😮🎉

    • @msa-tt4bg
      @msa-tt4bg 2 месяца назад +8

      Yes, i couldn't understand why there was only 6m signatures.

    • @Dan_1348
      @Dan_1348 2 месяца назад +2

      Yes, haha, now JOB can see how ridiculous he looked in our eyes.

    • @markgt894
      @markgt894 2 месяца назад +3

      Imagine going back into the EU and having the financial instability of Germany and political instability of France😂

    • @westleyjohnstone4719
      @westleyjohnstone4719 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@markgt894and we're doing so much better??? 😂 Deluded much

    • @TheYeetusLord
      @TheYeetusLord 2 месяца назад

      I voted remain, but 6 million signatures on a petition that would undo a referendum that the majority of 60million people voted for, isn’t enough for a redo. I’m sorry, but it’s not. Sadly.

  • @maartenaalsmeer
    @maartenaalsmeer 2 месяца назад +341

    What's a Brexiter's favourite slogan? Oh yes: "You lost, get over it!" Goes both ways, innit.

    • @B0M83R25
      @B0M83R25 2 месяца назад +18

      It does, just means those "brexiteers" can now moan for the next 3 years..
      Goes both ways 😉

    • @stuc3195
      @stuc3195 2 месяца назад +12

      But they also get to cry and protest for years and years too right?

    • @bryangeake5826
      @bryangeake5826 2 месяца назад +29

      @@B0M83R25 Remainers never moaned they pointed out the lies and total derogation of democracy to preserve the Tory Party, if that is moaning then we all need to moan more!

    • @geofftoscano6804
      @geofftoscano6804 2 месяца назад +5

      @@B0M83R25’Bremoaners’ I think is the term!

    • @BadgerBoy59
      @BadgerBoy59 2 месяца назад +19

      @@stevendavis2122 It has though, hence why we no-longer have an immigration agreement with France, why freedom of movement of students, workers, and others is restricted, why we now have expensive paperwork for importing and exporting, etc.

  • @geofftoscano6804
    @geofftoscano6804 2 месяца назад +319

    Not many will remember the 1964 election, won by Harold Wilson. The rallying cry at that time (imagine saying it in Wilson’s droll Yorkshire dialect) was “13 years of Tory misrule”. And 13 years of misrule indeed, from Suez, to Profumo, to mismanagement of possible entry to the then Common Market. Labour had introduced the Welfare system during their period in office from 1945-1951 but, as always, the electorate turned on anything that hurt them in the short term and put the Tories back in office in 1951. Labour then introduced really sensible policies, especially the National Plan and the Rent Act, only to be voted from office in favour of a pathetic set of Tories led by Ted Heath. Labour relations were then the downfall of Labour between 1974 and 1979, then of course the Tories held sway from 1979-1997. Labour almost always has short terms in office where it achieves seriously beneficial long term initiatives, which are then put in peril by much longer terms by incompetent and self interested Tories.

    • @shinkansenshinkansend8316
      @shinkansenshinkansend8316 2 месяца назад +19

      Ummm, you've forgotten a general strike, dead unburied, bins not emptied, 3 day week, power cuts, violence from militant left unions towards people who disagreed with them and didn't want to strike.
      Can you explain the benefits of those consequences of Labour please?

    • @geofftoscano6804
      @geofftoscano6804 2 месяца назад +43

      @ I specifically mentioned the disastrous period 1974-79.

    • @thomasmoore1499
      @thomasmoore1499 2 месяца назад +48

      @@shinkansenshinkansend8316 I remember the 3 day week and that was under Heath the Tory PM

    • @juliecroft-w6p
      @juliecroft-w6p 2 месяца назад

      But this present Labour Party and Blair's version of it, are a travesty. They have both betrayed those it was meant to protect...Blair's War, Blair's PPP's for hospitals and schools, Brown selling off half the British gold reserves....The only thing Blair did well well was make loads of money for himself, and master the art of Spin. I was a paid up member of the Labour Party for years but they're all crooks, just like the other despicable party of late. As for Starmer.....there are no words, just in case I get imprisoned by the thought police.

    • @roydavidlivermore4664
      @roydavidlivermore4664 2 месяца назад

      Mr Harold Wilson,probably saved more UK lives than any PM in history ,by not supporting the US in Vietnam.

  • @cmasseylynch
    @cmasseylynch 2 месяца назад +643

    14 years in power getting everything they wanted and they cant handle 4 months without throwing a fit

    • @ibexdnb2879
      @ibexdnb2879 2 месяца назад +48

      You assume only 'tories' signed it. I don't vote and i signed it lol

    • @nelch
      @nelch 2 месяца назад +154

      ​@ibexdnb2879 well what right do you have for anyone to take you seriously if you can't even be bothered to vote?

    • @OJW280483
      @OJW280483 2 месяца назад +17

      “14 years in power getting everything they want”. Could you elaborate on these things please? Seems like a very broad statement….

    • @JimboP3K
      @JimboP3K 2 месяца назад +39

      @@ibexdnb2879 then your say doesnt count. next time, please go and vote, whoever you vote for!

    • @rossallan3585
      @rossallan3585 2 месяца назад

      how about Brexit and the constant shifting of goalposts associated with it? All their precious tax cuts, the burying of the report into Russian interference, chances to shovel as much public cash as possible via dodgy, non-tendered contracts to their mates and donors?

  • @nickmn6108
    @nickmn6108 2 месяца назад +205

    "If you have selfish, ignorant people they will elect selfish, ignorant leaders". - G. Carlin

    • @Nedchilvs
      @Nedchilvs 2 месяца назад +15

      Starmer you mean?

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +5

      @@Nedchilvs Well, everyone in the Common was elected.

    • @jakeforder9435
      @jakeforder9435 2 месяца назад

      Only 33.7% of selfish, ignorant people voted for Labour. The remaining 66.3% don't deserve selfish, ignorant leaders

    • @davidhoyles8595
      @davidhoyles8595 2 месяца назад +4

      @@weswheel4834 the illusion of democracy in a nutshell

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад

      @@davidhoyles8595 Look, large parts of the left have been pushing for a change to the voting system for decades. Nice that you've finally caught up.

  • @sonasp1961
    @sonasp1961 2 месяца назад +78

    14 years… there are teenagers who don’t know a time when you could get GP appointments easily and into University with the help of bursaries. Then you hear this from Badenoch and it shows why the Country fell apart under their party. These are the people who were supposed to be at the top of
    Academia (Eton and so on) and yet these were their results. I don’t know how they stand there and speak without shame.

    • @andrewduhamel4508
      @andrewduhamel4508 2 месяца назад +4

      The politicians you speak of couldnt boil an egg!!

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 2 месяца назад

      they are taught different sets of skills at schools like eton. they do not learn what we are taught. they are taught how to manipulate and distract us while they rob us.

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay 2 месяца назад +1

      @@andrewduhamel4508 why would they even want to learn how to when they can have some peon do it for them?

    • @WilliamSmith-mx6ze
      @WilliamSmith-mx6ze 2 месяца назад

      Your principles are wrong. Our principles are right. Until your principles are right, you can shut up.

    • @rogerphelps9939
      @rogerphelps9939 2 месяца назад +1

      Thickos with rich parents go to the likes of Eton. There they get crammed and emerge into the old boys club.

  • @Chris-f6d5l
    @Chris-f6d5l 2 месяца назад +113

    The Brexit voters never tired of telling us that they won the referendum, mantra
    was " Get over it ". That seems very apt in this case.

    • @Liberty-Jamie
      @Liberty-Jamie 2 месяца назад

      You want people to sexually abuse kids because you lost brexit vote? you are insane.

    • @1Mutton1
      @1Mutton1 2 месяца назад +3

      What does this have to do with brexit?

    • @Liberty-Jamie
      @Liberty-Jamie 2 месяца назад

      @@1Mutton1 The liberals whine about Brexit so much they think everything is related. They like to make the false equivalence fallacy a lot. (A false equivalence or false equivalency is an informal fallacy in which an equivalence is drawn between two subjects based on flawed or false reasoning). They have no reasoning ability.

    • @allip4226
      @allip4226 2 месяца назад

      ​@@1Mutton1The far-right want everyone else to respect "the will of the people when democracy goes their way, but riot and demand a change of government when it doesn't.

    • @medalion1390
      @medalion1390 2 месяца назад +12

      @@1Mutton1 Nothing.
      _Everything._

  • @topman200000
    @topman200000 2 месяца назад +168

    Where was the petition when the Tories advertised during Brexit that we give millions to Brussels and once out of the EU, that money will go back to the NHS!?!?!?.......wasn't it advertised on a big red BUS??????...WHERE WAS THE PETITION FOR THAT!?!?!!?!? HYPOCRITES!

    • @annoloki
      @annoloki 2 месяца назад +9

      Well I think it just said "let's fund our NHS instead", but I don't think anybody who voted to leave did so because they thought words on a bus were a legally binding government pledge... busses generally can't usurp Parliament, it's a weird thing to focus on, rather than the austerity that destroyed the NHS etc

    • @johnsevern739
      @johnsevern739 2 месяца назад +23

      There was a petition to rescind Brexit and that reached 6 million votes !

    • @topman200000
      @topman200000 2 месяца назад +9

      @@annoloki with all due respect it was one of the driving forces to leave the EU.....along with stopping immigration but it's only gotten worse not better but I agree that austerity has near enough destroyed the NHS

    • @davidhoyles8595
      @davidhoyles8595 2 месяца назад

      not enough people would sign it

    • @icarus877
      @icarus877 2 месяца назад +3

      Mmm the sad thing about that bus was that the money we gave to the EU was wrong it should have been way way way way higher to be accurate. It did not include fines and the never ending bailout funding which still continues in the EU to this day. So the numbers were way way to low and the amount of money that was included and printed on the side of the bus and more have been given to the NHS - so I fail to see your point.

  • @highlight9014
    @highlight9014 2 месяца назад +45

    its time for starmer to press the big button.....rejoin the EU and join the Euro. just seeing them all go nuts would be worth it. 😂😂

    • @tattootone68hill78
      @tattootone68hill78 2 месяца назад +6

      You really are deluded

    • @AnalogueGround
      @AnalogueGround 2 месяца назад +4

      It would be worth it to secure our economy; forget the gloating. In the 21st century, manufacturing and resources rely heavily on the cooperation of nations to succeed. The days of Britain as a once significant nation are long gone and some, through ignorance and stubbornness, just won’t accept that. We were desperate to improve our economy in the late sixties and applied to join the common market and were refused membership several times. When we finally joined it was the making of us and get the media spent decades ridiculing the standards and regulations we had helped in creating that upheld quality and protected workers and the environment. We’re witnessing the death of an island in real time.

    • @cush6827
      @cush6827 2 месяца назад

      Nice idea.
      But the EU will not take the UK back, at least not with all the special options it had until it left. Why trust the UK, anyways ?

    • @Bringontheasteroid
      @Bringontheasteroid 2 месяца назад +1

      Calm down, Deirdre, it’s never going to happen.

    • @1983pety
      @1983pety Месяц назад

      he probably would if he had a chance to pull it off. The Eu doesn't want us back. You can't rejoin for the benefits only, you have to share in the philosophy of a united Europe. Chances are the UK will never rejoin.

  • @stevegrim
    @stevegrim 2 месяца назад +12

    The Tories LOST! They should get over it.

    • @TransparencyPlease
      @TransparencyPlease Месяц назад

      They were happy to lose election and hand baton to labour. That was the plan - they are all in it together. That is obvious.

  • @debbiegale9076
    @debbiegale9076 2 месяца назад +50

    A Tory started a petition to get an election because he doesn't think Labour can sort out 15 years of mess in 5 months. It's like if he destroyed his pubs with a bulldozer then expected the builders put the pubs back.together again in a day.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад +3

      Farmers losing their legacy with the inheritance f up, working class poverty line with increasing ni, more weapons to a foreign war, hitting students hard, to name a few issues... he's doing everything foreign forums want the west to be doing, creating distorted classism by erasing middle class, reducing chance and opportunity for those in poverty to get out of it (more debt in university fees, higher ni, high energy costs) and securing high class economy by buying out the little guys who have to sell... such as our self sufficiency in food, so force farmers to sell their farms to let billionaires buy it to then make money buy building more houses, then by fixing house prices with new builds etc which aren't for poverty line or homeless...

    • @Alex-y2r6p
      @Alex-y2r6p 2 месяца назад +8

      ​@@rebeccaconlon9743how wpuld you fix the torymess then mate 😊

    • @Rob-qn6od
      @Rob-qn6od 2 месяца назад +11

      They shouldn't have voted for brexshit then. The farmers were told.

    • @happy.uk.patriot
      @happy.uk.patriot 2 месяца назад

      If you read the actual petition, the reason is expressed there.

    • @Rob-qn6od
      @Rob-qn6od 2 месяца назад +4

      @@happy.uk.patriot Nope.

  • @Mr.Edd3905
    @Mr.Edd3905 2 месяца назад +55

    The anti-Starmer videos on YT never say why they are upset (nor in the comments). It's just tribal hatred.

    • @deesmith4800
      @deesmith4800 2 месяца назад

      Well sometimes they blame him for stuff that was put in motion before he was elected

    • @Jebediahmosiah
      @Jebediahmosiah 2 месяца назад

      I’ll explain. He lied about raising taxes. He hypocritically took loads of expensive gifts when he claims to be representing the working class. He weaponised the justice system and threatened rightly angry working class people. He took away the pensioners fuel allowance. He’s taxing family farms. He put liars in the great seats of government. His budget was a disaster for business and private sector workers. He’s fired missiles at Russia risking a world war over nothing. He’s increased wasteful spending.
      So as you can see we have our reasons.

    • @petefl1818
      @petefl1818 2 месяца назад +19

      It's because Starmer won, and they think only they are entitled to win.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 2 месяца назад +3

      I oppose Starmer because his policies are little different from the tories. I am mostly a Labour voter historically there's nothing tribal about it.

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 2 месяца назад

      Taking away pensioners heat allowance, locking up people for social media posts, covering up key facts about the Southport murders and not stopping small boats of foreigners isn’t enough for you?
      Yes, I know you’re going to report this comment because that’s just who you are. You can’t abide disagreement.

  • @w-james9277
    @w-james9277 2 месяца назад +37

    I signed a petition for a second EU referendum.

    • @Harry-TramAnh
      @Harry-TramAnh 2 месяца назад +4

      That went well for you......

    • @knightsnight5929
      @knightsnight5929 2 месяца назад +5

      So did 6 million others, but......

    • @glennbateman4483
      @glennbateman4483 2 месяца назад +5

      ​@@Harry-TramAnhthat's why this petition is going nowhere

    • @Harry-TramAnh
      @Harry-TramAnh 2 месяца назад +1

      @glennbateman4483 I agree. It's just a way of expressing public opinion.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +4

      @@Harry-TramAnh But we had a big vote a few months ago. And lots of people didn't vote for Labour back then. The fact that some of them are willing to click on a link now, means nothing.

  • @petrichor649
    @petrichor649 2 месяца назад +55

    Several people I work with told me proudly that they have signed the call for a general election.
    When asked why they said ' we can't carry on like this'.
    I give up.

    • @unitysprings3631
      @unitysprings3631 2 месяца назад +10

      1m grrooomed kids aren't enough for you?

    • @limpethead
      @limpethead 2 месяца назад +5

      @@petrichor649 don't worry pal. You won't be working with anyone soon.

    • @Rhyds86
      @Rhyds86 2 месяца назад +9

      How about every manifesto promise broken?

    • @portsanity
      @portsanity 2 месяца назад +3

      ​@@unitysprings3631whats the pope got to do with this?

    • @duncanberrington2254
      @duncanberrington2254 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Rhyds86name one

  • @russellstanford4584
    @russellstanford4584 2 месяца назад +67

    Its amazing how worried the wealthiest are of paying tax.

    • @AndrewWoods-sm9vx
      @AndrewWoods-sm9vx 2 месяца назад +4

      i think you'll find its your everyday person that is worried about losing their job (unless ofcourse in the public sector)

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +8

      @@AndrewWoods-sm9vx In which case, improving the economy and investing in infrastructure would be a splendid idea that we can all get behind?

    • @denz180
      @denz180 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@AndrewWoods-sm9vx what's losing a job got to do with this?

    • @cd1690
      @cd1690 2 месяца назад +1

      NO WE'RE NOT WORRIED AT ALL

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад

      @@cd1690 Splendid, glad to read it.

  • @scottybeck100
    @scottybeck100 2 месяца назад +164

    Brexit voters should sit out elections and let the adults run the country.

    • @ThePixey1000
      @ThePixey1000 2 месяца назад +33

      And that comments shouts Adult 🤣🤣🤣 Delete it you are embarrassing yourself.

    • @salford6
      @salford6 2 месяца назад +11

      Starmer’s out then, guy doesn’t even buy his own clothes 🤣

    • @milohenry1233
      @milohenry1233 2 месяца назад +2

      Lol

    • @stevebaldock4967
      @stevebaldock4967 2 месяца назад

      If this government is an example of adults running the country, bring back the kids!
      And the only bed-wetter I see is James O'Brien, who has still not got over Brexit !!!

    • @SinsofMathetes
      @SinsofMathetes 2 месяца назад +8

      As a European I can say that you know very little

  • @UltimaPowers
    @UltimaPowers 2 месяца назад +55

    The delusion going on in the comment sections of right wing videos (GB News) in support of the petition is hilarious.
    "It's OVER for Starmer!"
    "They can't ignore us! Labour will be out by Xmas".
    Nutters.

    • @pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504
      @pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 2 месяца назад +6

      Actually it's O' brien himself who think that THEY think it's a legally binding document lol. Most right leaning folk, even the publican that started it, are aware it can't really change anything. That's what makes this video funny!

    • @thejaywall93
      @thejaywall93 2 месяца назад

      @@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504right , so they're starting and signing the petition.....why exactly?

  • @liamofyorkshire
    @liamofyorkshire 2 месяца назад +55

    What really is worrying is how easily some people are swayed by seemingly obvious bots

    • @Hentarded
      @Hentarded 2 месяца назад +6

      It's either bots, or old people have discovered RUclips.

    • @liamofyorkshire
      @liamofyorkshire 2 месяца назад +3

      @Hentarded Functionally identical

    •  2 месяца назад +3

      Not bots, you can view the petition data. It's less than 25k signatures from outside UK. Still over 2.5 million. From in the UK

    • @Sam-i4i8m
      @Sam-i4i8m 2 месяца назад +1

      Most use v.p.n cause off starmer and 1984

    • @Fezzy976
      @Fezzy976 2 месяца назад +4

      you never heard of a vpn brother?

  • @vanishingpoint7411
    @vanishingpoint7411 2 месяца назад +1

    James , Why are you not talking about the royals not paying inheritance tax . Or corporation tax.
    Or income tax .
    And making money from charities , army and the NHS from the Dutchess Estates ?????!!!

  • @stevesilverstone1015
    @stevesilverstone1015 2 месяца назад +131

    I listen to james O'brien when i want to experience genuine despair

    • @aneurindavies5943
      @aneurindavies5943 2 месяца назад

      He gets well paid for his "ni droit - ni gauche" totalarian views!

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 2 месяца назад +15

      He seems to mention Brexit a lot.

    • @PercivalBlakeney
      @PercivalBlakeney 2 месяца назад +9

      [ahem]
      "You cannot know true happiness until you have known true despair, otherwise how else would you know the difference?"
      - Alexandre Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo).
      🌹🕊️😌

    • @theoutassociation3644
      @theoutassociation3644 2 месяца назад +5

      @@alien4422 I know right? Did he lose a wager or something? Poor old Jimmy.

    • @barriewilliams4526
      @barriewilliams4526 2 месяца назад +5

      @@PercivalBlakeney Never stand beneath a falling chimney.
      Fred Dibnah (Steeplejack)

  • @jonreededworthy7518
    @jonreededworthy7518 2 месяца назад +24

    Hmm, weird how that farmer's protest back in March wasn't all over my news feed like this recent one was
    I wonder what's changed since then? Could who ever is in charge of social media engagement or the British press have some kind of vested interest in making this recent protest seem like a bigger deal for some reason?

  • @davidmcintyre8145
    @davidmcintyre8145 2 месяца назад +164

    None of the right wing outlets mention the small fact that this petition has been signed by people/bots form 184 countries which is quite impressive as there are only 196 countries on Earth

    • @stephfoxwell4620
      @stephfoxwell4620 2 месяца назад +6

      212.

    • @m5games180
      @m5games180 2 месяца назад +12

      Yea… Brit’s living abroad…

    • @davecooper3238
      @davecooper3238 2 месяца назад +17

      How many bots signed via VPNs.

    • @darkshar100
      @darkshar100 2 месяца назад +3

      @@davecooper3238 i dont know, how many

    • @tombo1984
      @tombo1984 2 месяца назад

      @@davidmcintyre8145 Incorrect.
      It's been signed by British expats abroad.
      The General Election petition for example has been signed by far fewer people in Russia than the People's Vote petition.
      Awkward.

  • @sandfordmerlin
    @sandfordmerlin 2 месяца назад +2

    Off to start a petition as I didn't get the result I wanted in 2010, 2015, 2017 & 2019, oh and also my football team lost last Tuesday night, who's signing? 😆

  • @leoncarney2228
    @leoncarney2228 2 месяца назад +20

    if around 20 million people voted at the recent election and only two and half million have signed the petition, doesn't that reflect a higher level of support for the Government?

    • @embalancer6146
      @embalancer6146 2 месяца назад

      also most of the signitories are from Tory strongholds, which only seems to be an afterthought. "Two Million people signed a petition for a new general election ...... that were probably Tory voters"
      And the simple fact that the Tories have hitched their wagon to this petition is frankly pathetic and opportunist.

    • @a_net5610
      @a_net5610 2 месяца назад

      I voted Conservative but tbh I'd now vote Labour because I detest a bad loser. Get over it and wait your turn in the next one!

  • @SamBrett94
    @SamBrett94 2 месяца назад +34

    Not actually sure what the hate is about, are we worse off than when the tories were in? Weve only had a short stint of labour.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +11

      Yes, but most of the press are upset about it.

    • @FOGSmokebeer
      @FOGSmokebeer 2 месяца назад

      The swamp is annoyed it might have to pay it's share and they own the media

    • @allip4226
      @allip4226 2 месяца назад +23

      ​@@weswheel4834The billionaire-owned mass media are upset that rich people will have to pay more tax?! I'm shocked! 😂

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 2 месяца назад +3

      The problem is that they are an extension of tory government.

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 2 месяца назад +2

      Ask your question again when the winter is over and we have a precise count of how many pensioners have died from not being able to afford to turn on their heat.

  • @IftharArif
    @IftharArif 2 месяца назад +21

    James O'Brien what a Legend

  • @euanthompson
    @euanthompson 2 месяца назад +14

    The last person to originally gain their premiership from a clean win at a general election was Tony Blair.

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 2 месяца назад +2

      Nope Blair got 43% of the vote in 1997 and only 35% in 2005. No government since WWII has had majority electorate support. Attlee came close in 1945 as did MacMillan in 1959 and Wilson in 1966 but with the recovery of the Liberal Party in the late 60s no PM has come close to even 45% let alone 50%

    • @spacebound1522
      @spacebound1522 2 месяца назад +2

      @@gerardmackay8909 He said a clean win, not a majority.

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 2 месяца назад

      @@spacebound1522 what’s a ‘clean win’ ?

    • @spacebound1522
      @spacebound1522 2 месяца назад +1

      @@gerardmackay8909 A win that is free of corruption, coercion, and foul play. Whilst a majority win can also be a 'clean win', the OP clearly made no menion of that type of win.

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 2 месяца назад +1

      @@spacebound1522 well I think you’re reading something into that phrase that wasn’t the intention of the original post. Arguably, since the curse of social media landed on us all 20 years ago, our politics has been polluted by spin and disinformation to its very core. I myself though when I saw the phrase ‘clean win’ interpreted it as a win desired by the majority of those who cast a vote but I see where you’re coming from. With the current 5 party split FPTP is now indefensible but unfortunately I don’t see it going the journey any time soon.

  • @nickstevens7931
    @nickstevens7931 2 месяца назад +35

    Musk seems to have a finger in this petition (supporting the right wing madman representing Clacton - in an absence) why should he (Musk) have any influence in UK affairs … ? -
    I suggest the voters of Clacton create a petition for a by election in their constituency!
    Heaven knows they would be justified given their MP seems to spend this time on anything other than representing them !
    I’m a former life-long Conservative voter - until this year, by the way

    • @Jebediahmosiah
      @Jebediahmosiah 2 месяца назад

      Oh shut up and stop dreaming.

    • @AbsoluteTiger
      @AbsoluteTiger 2 месяца назад

      Facts! Anyone who has paid any attention to what has happened with Musk’s strategy and the rise of fascists and oligarchies of the past can see the obvious, everyone else who love to lick boots will shout you down.

    • @trychaytimewell3987
      @trychaytimewell3987 2 месяца назад +5

      Hear, hear. Farage is unable to cope the demands of being a responsible member of parliament, but he’d be the first to say that he was democratically elected.

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 2 месяца назад

      If that’s what you think of the man from Clacton I can’t imagine what you must think of Ben Habib.

    • @Troubleatmill-h6d
      @Troubleatmill-h6d 2 месяца назад

      "I don't want to spend my Friday evenings in Clacton." Farage.

  • @itcouldbelupus2842
    @itcouldbelupus2842 2 месяца назад +10

    The people who voted Brexit shouldn't be allowed to vote in the next election.
    Let the grown ups have a turn and improve the country a little.

    • @TheOutsider840
      @TheOutsider840 2 месяца назад +2

      "my political opponents shouldn't be allowed to vote"
      And yet you're probably the sort to cry fascism. Unbelievable

  • @GeirRssaak
    @GeirRssaak 2 месяца назад +25

    As a Norwegian friend of Britain, I hope you can elect better politicians!

    • @thomasmoore1499
      @thomasmoore1499 2 месяца назад +7

      We have better politicians now, but some people are a bit slow to smell the coffee.

    • @SAHBfan
      @SAHBfan 2 месяца назад +4

      @@thomasmoore1499 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Better politicians!! Brilliant.

    • @Patty2579
      @Patty2579 2 месяца назад

      Funny guy ​@@thomasmoore1499

    • @colincarr2052
      @colincarr2052 2 месяца назад +5

      With friends like you, who needs enemies?

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +1

      @@thomasmoore1499 Who were you thinking of?

  • @peterdavidson3268
    @peterdavidson3268 2 месяца назад +3

    The fancy up to date name for this kind of nonsense is "cognitive dissonance" - my more prosaic term is "selective amnesia"

  • @macktravels68
    @macktravels68 2 месяца назад +10

    LOVE the Question to ask people who support Trump! Best one I have heard…….

  • @jackhibbins7312
    @jackhibbins7312 2 месяца назад +3

    I would quite like to see a future government as a 5/6 way coalition, which excludes both Conservative and Labour

    • @wolfen210959
      @wolfen210959 2 месяца назад

      Sorry, but that will never happen, at best it will be Labour and the Libdems, the Conservatives will never form a government again, as they do not have the same level of support as the Labour Party, and it is only thanks to their voter manipulation and suppression methods that they've been able to form most governments over the past 60 years. Have you never wondered why the Conservatives are constantly tinkering with the constituency boundaries, but Labour never do?

  • @IMBlakeley
    @IMBlakeley 2 месяца назад +28

    The number of people who have signed that petition is pretty much the same as the flat earthers in the UK, I am sure the Venn diagram of them, GBeebies viewers and the petition signers would be a perfect circle.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 2 месяца назад

      Are there really 2.8 million flat earthers in the UK?

    • @IMBlakeley
      @IMBlakeley 2 месяца назад +7

      @@chesterdonnelly1212 3% of the population so approx. yes.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад +2

      ... I'm and astrophysicist, hate gb news and I signed it because I disagree with a lot that starmer has done and will do... his policies are short sighted and dangerous for the uk

    • @john70689
      @john70689 2 месяца назад

      I know alot of Labour/Green party voters that have signed this petition too.

    • @johnwestwell2241
      @johnwestwell2241 2 месяца назад

      @@john70689 Do you really?

  • @christinemay24
    @christinemay24 2 месяца назад +60

    I remember signing the petition to get the Tories out .

    • @BadgerBoy59
      @BadgerBoy59 2 месяца назад

      Although at least by that point they'd had about a decade in power and proven to have been a cabal of corrupt liars and put the country into a death spiral.
      Labour have only been in power for 4 months, so give them a chance to prove they're the same or otherwise!

    • @TheRip72
      @TheRip72 Месяц назад

      I remember voting at a general election, which is the only valid way to express your opinion about who you want in government.

  • @c5ris620
    @c5ris620 2 месяца назад +4

    More than a whiff of musk about this

  • @andrewhodgkins2292
    @andrewhodgkins2292 2 месяца назад +2

    The tories and their supporters never learn.

  • @BSTJUNKIE-qs1ii
    @BSTJUNKIE-qs1ii 2 месяца назад +30

    James O Gammon crying makes my day 😂

    • @janetoldfield7828
      @janetoldfield7828 2 месяца назад +12

      Crying with laughter at RW idiocy

    • @BSTJUNKIE-qs1ii
      @BSTJUNKIE-qs1ii 2 месяца назад +2

      @ hahah if only 😂 I reckon when Farage becomes PM in a few years it will send him over the edge 😂

    • @blazzz13
      @blazzz13 2 месяца назад +8

      @@BSTJUNKIE-qs1ii DEFORM have barely grown the UKIP vote. Delulu 😂

    • @clairewright332
      @clairewright332 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@janetoldfield7828Brexit was both wings.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад

      ​@@clairewright332anti globalisation and pushing for self governance

  • @Bizle.....
    @Bizle..... 2 месяца назад +7

    Brexit brexit brexit yawn

  • @CarsAndChronometers
    @CarsAndChronometers 2 месяца назад +12

    A redistribution of wealth but not to people who live in this country

  • @julieleah9913
    @julieleah9913 2 месяца назад +1

    I will not sign that petition no matter how much they keep trying too

  • @emcarver8983
    @emcarver8983 26 дней назад +1

    You create so much ffffffng hateful dissonance.

  • @JohnnyF71
    @JohnnyF71 2 месяца назад +8

    If right wingers were able to understand the phrase 'cognitive dissonance' they might be just that little bit closer to comprehending why they so regularly get accused of stupidity.

    • @stevejacobs9320
      @stevejacobs9320 2 месяца назад

      Bit rich coming from the indoctorinated!

    • @itcouldbelupus2842
      @itcouldbelupus2842 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@stevejacobs9320do you know what cognitive dissonance is?

    • @stevejacobs9320
      @stevejacobs9320 2 месяца назад

      @itcouldbelupus2842 Yes, Obrien is the perfect example of someone suffering from the narrow mindedness it causes!

    • @itcouldbelupus2842
      @itcouldbelupus2842 2 месяца назад

      @@stevejacobs9320 Is he? I don't think you could point to a single example of that being the case.
      Sounds like conservative cope, we both know it's the right wing that suffer from cognitive dissonance the most.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 2 месяца назад

      They can't ever examine their own motives. They have to stay all angry all the time, even when they're "winning".

  • @MoonJumpingCow
    @MoonJumpingCow 2 месяца назад +10

    No petitions came my way. Must have been very targeted marketing. That's the thing with petitions; they're biased by nature. They're a demand, not a discussion.

    • @happy.uk.patriot
      @happy.uk.patriot 2 месяца назад

      It's a government e-petition.
      🙄

    • @januarysson5633
      @januarysson5633 2 месяца назад

      Anyone who wants to sign the petition can go to the website and do so. It’s not that complicated.

    • @mattlenton2012
      @mattlenton2012 2 месяца назад

      You didn't look for it did you?

    • @happy.uk.patriot
      @happy.uk.patriot 2 месяца назад

      @@MoonJumpingCow OK.
      An e-petition is vetted by an e-petition team. They are a set format. And the team will check and make sure the format and wording meets the benchmarks.
      You seem to be in the dark about how government e-petitions work.

    • @MoonJumpingCow
      @MoonJumpingCow 2 месяца назад

      @@mattlenton2012 Why would I?

  • @Moscow_Will_Burn
    @Moscow_Will_Burn 2 месяца назад +18

    What people fail to mention is any old foreign bot farm factory can sign the petition. If you need photo ID to vote. You should need photo ID to sign a government petition.

    • @Liberty-Jamie
      @Liberty-Jamie 2 месяца назад

      You are insane if you think it's some russian bot. You are actually mentally ill. It's not since you need to use your address.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад +2

      You need name and address as well as an email registered to that profile. As well as the government has the current census data that is used to compare the details... so... no... not bots

    • @rogerphelps9939
      @rogerphelps9939 2 месяца назад

      @@rebeccaconlon9743 Easily circumvented.

  • @delbroox
    @delbroox 2 месяца назад

    I come here to sooth my spirit. To see that there are people in this country that have some common sense and are not completely swayed by right-wing propaganda. thank you.

  • @joeblogs5163
    @joeblogs5163 28 дней назад

    He would have been better creating a petition, asking for MP's to call a vote of no confidence.

  • @paulwalker797
    @paulwalker797 2 месяца назад +45

    Nothing but Trolls below the line so far. The usual brain dead remarks and emojis. As ever ...no argument.

    • @HarryNottings
      @HarryNottings 2 месяца назад +20

      Genuinely what is it with right wingers and 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 at the end of every post? It's so bizarre

    • @cmasseylynch
      @cmasseylynch 2 месяца назад +2

      Troll

    • @ibexdnb2879
      @ibexdnb2879 2 месяца назад +1

      Trolls because you disagree?

    • @paulwalker797
      @paulwalker797 2 месяца назад +8

      @@ibexdnb2879 There is nothing to disagree with you silly boy. They have said nothing...when they do I might disagree, until then its just trolling. You clearly don't know the difference bewteen a comment and a troll.

    • @nelch
      @nelch 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@ibexdnb2879you couldn't even be bothered to vote, calling you a troll is a compliment

  • @lewisgreen1633
    @lewisgreen1633 2 месяца назад +14

    Since 1997 the Labour Party and Conservative party have been interchangeable and both beyond awful..

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +5

      For the last 10 years, the Tories have been interchangeable with Nigel's party. It has been a disaster.

    • @aldrongrey7070
      @aldrongrey7070 2 месяца назад

      @@weswheel4834 Well you're going to really happy when Farage is either Prime Minister or leader of the biggest opposition party in 2029 then.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад

      The torys and labour are both the same, just one is slower than the other... and people have been played for fools over and over... when they see fit they do something unpopular and then allow for the other to take over... there is no longer any difference between the both. They will bpth harm the uk. Many hold hope with reform and Nigel but I'm not too sure anymore as to what other flavour of oppression we get, national or global socialism... as government will always tend to socialist state

  • @chrisshaw9836
    @chrisshaw9836 2 месяца назад +4

    You are an absolute laughing stock 😂😂😂😂

  • @HarvinGwin-kr1ry
    @HarvinGwin-kr1ry 2 месяца назад +1

    People are incomprehensible. Blind and willfully ignorant of the evil they do. 7:18

  • @GHOST91991
    @GHOST91991 2 месяца назад

    Would Starmer take notice if the 2 million were labour voters?. Him chuckling and saying not many voted labour, tells us everything, he's for the few that voteed labour but not for the many.

    • @Henry-cz6qr
      @Henry-cz6qr 9 дней назад

      Ah yes, I forgot that 3 out of 66 million is the many.

  • @stuc3195
    @stuc3195 2 месяца назад +5

    Parliament will indeed debate this petition now
    Its scheduled for 6 January

    • @allip4226
      @allip4226 2 месяца назад +3

      The debate will be, "You lost. Get over it." End of debate.

    • @stuc3195
      @stuc3195 2 месяца назад +3

      @allip4226 I think there will be a little more depth to the debate.
      But I agree the outcome will be the same

    • @susanwaite1187
      @susanwaite1187 2 месяца назад

      It is in Westminster Hall.

  • @albertbrammer9263
    @albertbrammer9263 2 месяца назад +24

    The Daily Fail, aka the Daily (hate) Mail are now more popular in the USA than anywhere else.

    • @stewmott3763
      @stewmott3763 2 месяца назад +4

      You forgot the 'Daily Heil'.

    • @oliver2629
      @oliver2629 2 месяца назад +1

      @@stewmott3763 You're literally on the wrong side of history, EVERY TIME.

  • @tonykoch1176
    @tonykoch1176 2 месяца назад +3

    Brilliant James 😂

  • @CatherineTerry-z7g
    @CatherineTerry-z7g 2 месяца назад

    The irony of this man! Power to the people unless it doesn't go along with his own ideology.

    • @jekanyika
      @jekanyika 2 месяца назад +1

      What is that supposed to mean?

  • @milkysue5496
    @milkysue5496 2 месяца назад

    We really are living in such a horrible world. I never thought people could be so nasty, and yet still be loved and believed by so many people

  • @LesHentschel-hk2hd
    @LesHentschel-hk2hd 2 месяца назад +14

    We have project fear from Right wing tories , Reform , ukip and other right wing factions and we have project stupidity from exactly the same people.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад +1

      Same could be said on the other side... no use shutting down dialogue as it will prevent you from growing in maturity

    • @paulmcmichael7157
      @paulmcmichael7157 2 месяца назад

      @@rebeccaconlon9743 Do shut up with this nonsense. Labour front bench has more nous in one finger than entire Tory cabinet. Thre is no balanced media and there are so many sheep who lap up Mail/Telegraph etc

  • @jaseface6868
    @jaseface6868 2 месяца назад +2

    Man's a baty boy melt

  • @Neko-z3x
    @Neko-z3x 2 месяца назад +5

    Blaming Brexit on Keir Starmer. Bad run. The cope is real people

  • @TNT-1313
    @TNT-1313 2 месяца назад +2

    The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
    Herodotus

  • @bobnunn4363
    @bobnunn4363 2 месяца назад +1

    There's a huge number of Violet Elizabeth Bott types among Tory supporters, don't you think?

  • @mattd2275
    @mattd2275 2 месяца назад +13

    Does LBC know what irony means? What's ironic about this petition?

    • @AaronOkeanos
      @AaronOkeanos 2 месяца назад +2

      If you still cannot see that you are one of the people James is talking about.

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад

      ​@AaronOkeanos so you have an elitist attitude like you would in a cult

    • @mikewilson8513
      @mikewilson8513 2 месяца назад

      Try this for size.... Rejoin the EU....6 million signatures. Want to do that one first ??
      Get it now ?

    • @mattd2275
      @mattd2275 2 месяца назад

      @@mikewilson8513 No. I don't get it. That's a totally differently petition about a totally different subject. I can see the similarities but still can't understand the irony?

  • @johnnygoz3129
    @johnnygoz3129 2 месяца назад +11

    how does he know most of the people who signed the petition were Brexit voters?

    • @knightsnight5929
      @knightsnight5929 2 месяца назад +22

      Because they are idiots? Just guessing.

    • @jimblamire3312
      @jimblamire3312 2 месяца назад +5

      He knows everything or so he keeps telling us

    • @johnnygoz3129
      @johnnygoz3129 2 месяца назад +3

      @@jimblamire3312 yeah well James is the King of Smugness

    • @acrodave9287
      @acrodave9287 2 месяца назад +12

      For the same reason that if you find molehills you can hazard a guess that the culprits are moles.

    • @johnnygoz3129
      @johnnygoz3129 2 месяца назад

      @@knightsnight5929 maybe, but not a very nuanced take by James. Nothing to back it up, he could do better.

  • @dolmen6613
    @dolmen6613 2 месяца назад +7

    here's a little game for you... When's the last time JOB didn't mention Brexit as the cause of all problems?

    • @jimboonie7088
      @jimboonie7088 2 месяца назад +4

      Here's one for you, name one benefit of Brexit..

    • @django3422
      @django3422 2 месяца назад

      Here's a tip for you... if you're gonna run multiple fake accounts, try to have some variation in what they all say. Having all of them start their comments with "here's a little game for you..." is a big giveaway as to what you're doing.

    • @dolmen6613
      @dolmen6613 2 месяца назад

      @@jimboonie7088 - ability to control our borders( if we had a Govt. with a spine!) , ability to set our own tax policy

    • @dolmen6613
      @dolmen6613 2 месяца назад

      @@django3422 - here's a tip for you.. the EU won't be havin' you back

    • @django3422
      @django3422 2 месяца назад

      @@dolmen6613 Okay. Never claimed they would. Just pointed out that you're a propaganda bot.

  • @Dimebar729
    @Dimebar729 2 месяца назад +1

    I'm sure it's not just brexit supporters James

  • @terrencehook2031
    @terrencehook2031 Месяц назад

    If you are the son of a Southern Irish pair and born in Ireland why wouldn't you wave the flag for the eu?

  • @SheilaCrosby
    @SheilaCrosby 2 месяца назад +24

    The petition has people signing at the same rate all through the night as it does through the day. Which sounds like bots to me.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +3

      No, they could be Americans. (Oh..)

    • @kodi1969
      @kodi1969 2 месяца назад +5

      That isn't what I have observed...the rate updates when you refresh the page....over about an hour I saw quite a lot of fluctuation in the rates.

    • @kennyharris2407
      @kennyharris2407 2 месяца назад

      🥱🥱🥱

    • @hankchinaski4075
      @hankchinaski4075 2 месяца назад +3

      George Orwell - 'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

  • @johnrussell3961
    @johnrussell3961 2 месяца назад +12

    The majority rarely want a government created by FFTP. That’s the system fault , not Starmers..

    • @stewmott3763
      @stewmott3763 2 месяца назад +2

      Yep. A system we had the opportunity to change a few years ago. We kept it as it was, like pillocks.

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 2 месяца назад

      @ It wasn’t PR.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад

      @@johnrussell3961 True, but the majority also used it as an excuse to punish Clegg.

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 2 месяца назад

      @@weswheel4834 He was punished in 2015 for everything he couldnt do in the coalition.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад

      @@johnrussell3961 I did feel slightly sorry for him. He sold out in exchange for Cameron agreeing to the referendum.

  • @autumnsea7848
    @autumnsea7848 2 месяца назад +34

    What? James O'Boring is talking about Brexit? 😄

    • @ibexdnb2879
      @ibexdnb2879 2 месяца назад

      He thinks Elon is bad for the world while Kier meets up with Blackrock who are a massive real estate monopoly. The hypocrisy is rife on LBC..

    • @williampinnock2256
      @williampinnock2256 2 месяца назад +10

      Reminding you of your voting idiocy again?

    • @jacquesdewet2661
      @jacquesdewet2661 2 месяца назад +4

      I call him James O'Cryin'

    • @aleph8888
      @aleph8888 2 месяца назад +5

      Eight years of calling others thick as mince gammon but he still doesn’t know the difference between a customs union and a free trade agreement. 🤡

    • @DanRyan-v5y
      @DanRyan-v5y 2 месяца назад

      ​@@aleph8888 a lot of remoaners don't understand much about what they are pushing for. If you want to know about the EU, don't ask a remoaner

  • @AndrewBISHOP-ii7hs
    @AndrewBISHOP-ii7hs 2 месяца назад

    Well said James

  • @davegaskell7680
    @davegaskell7680 2 месяца назад

    This is a perfect illustration of personal bias affecting a person's perception of reality. Selective amnesia at its best.

  • @JHatLpool
    @JHatLpool 2 месяца назад +4

    Great stuff from James O'Brien here.

  • @TM-yr3pc
    @TM-yr3pc 2 месяца назад +3

    Utterly misleading

  • @RobRyan-c3v
    @RobRyan-c3v 2 месяца назад +13

    Yes, but Starmer wanted a second referendum on the EU, so he obviously doesn't care about the democratic process either.

    • @c5ris620
      @c5ris620 2 месяца назад

      Rhubarb

    • @AaronOkeanos
      @AaronOkeanos 2 месяца назад +1

      So asking people "do you really want to do that now" is not democratic? Grow up!

    • @rogerphelps9939
      @rogerphelps9939 2 месяца назад +1

      Wrong. Brexit was all things to all Brexiteers. Nobody knew what they were voting for. There should have been an intiial referendum to esablish the principle followed by negotiations with the EU to define what Brexit acttually meant and exploraions of ttrade agreemens wih third paries. Then here should have been a confirmatory referendum on the complete package where everyone would have been aware of the consequences.

    • @paulmcmichael7157
      @paulmcmichael7157 2 месяца назад

      @@rogerphelps9939 Well said.

  • @BlyatimirPootin
    @BlyatimirPootin 2 месяца назад +1

    Where are the reform/brexit loons in the comments now?

  • @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
    @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 2 месяца назад +1

    I don't like or support everything Labour does.
    But if anything, small business owners should recognize another General Election so soon after the last one will only create market instability.
    Patriots should recognize it will make this country look weak internationally.
    In recent years, we have had 4 General Elections, 2 divisive Referendums and 7 Prime Ministers! (2010-2024)
    I think it is time for the dust to settle for a few years.
    Badenoch can challenge the PM as opposition leader but before calling for another GE she should focus on making her party electable again.

  • @sandhurstwolves3956
    @sandhurstwolves3956 2 месяца назад +7

    Another sad pointless petition 😪

  • @hikershaulofsurvival4517
    @hikershaulofsurvival4517 2 месяца назад +5

    I absolutely can not stand James O'Briaen!

    • @gdclemo
      @gdclemo 2 месяца назад +2

      Maybe you shouldn't click on the videos with a big picture of his face on then. Just a hint for the future.

  • @MichaelMcNulty-n9x
    @MichaelMcNulty-n9x 2 месяца назад +29

    I'm a Labour Supporter but Starmer is two faced thats the truth.
    Taking money from old age pensioners isn't right.
    £220 per week state pension.
    Most on here would spend that on a night out with the boys.
    The worst pension in Europe.

    • @christopheroreilly4267
      @christopheroreilly4267 2 месяца назад +10

      Pensioners who only get State Pension will get fuel allowance.
      Pensioners with work pensions and private pensions plus the state pension get a very healthy income more than many people working as well as all wealthy Pensioners getting fuel allowance.

    • @MichaelMcNulty-n9x
      @MichaelMcNulty-n9x 2 месяца назад +3

      @christopheroreilly4267Pensioners that only get state pension will get fuel allowance.
      How much do you honestly think that would last in the winter.
      If you filled a tank of oil up say 1000 litres that would cost more than £300.
      Anyhow that would not last throughout the winter months.
      £220 per week state pension.
      The UK is a joke.

    • @prendersmack1643
      @prendersmack1643 2 месяца назад +2

      Can we take a moment to think about the poor, wealthy pensioners losing their winter fuel allowances? No? Diddums!

    • @Drewan-q5v
      @Drewan-q5v 2 месяца назад +7

      Why don't you write and ask the energy companies that are doing really well to give some money back to the pensioners. I'm a pensioner who does not need the money along with the many pensioners paying a thousand pounds a year to go to art class I go to. Or all the pensioners out to lunch or in our restaurants enjoying a meal and a glass of wine. What about the pensioners with their holiday homes abroad.

    • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
      @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 2 месяца назад +4

      What did you do during the previous 14 years? Or what do you say to people who are living on £360 a month? Time to share the pain?

  • @chrismarsh8162
    @chrismarsh8162 2 месяца назад +1

    I always wonder what the country as a whole thinks about this. The petition is only part of a Tory press kerfuffle and do most just not see it because of decreased newspaper sales. Are most people just ignorant of the whole thing.

  • @Marc-Anthony00
    @Marc-Anthony00 2 месяца назад +1

    Its amazing watching a country shoot itself in the foot over and over and still not understand what rhey are doing. And the funny thing is o didnt actually think you guy's could do worse than the tories but but you have managed to actually do so!! 😂🤣😂🤣🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @Rob-qn6od
      @Rob-qn6od 2 месяца назад

      Explain.

    • @happy.uk.patriot
      @happy.uk.patriot 2 месяца назад

      Huh?
      No. It's great news.
      The complacent political bubble are having their cages rattled.
      They'll be stunned when Nigel Farage becomes PM.

  • @bm8516
    @bm8516 2 месяца назад +9

    The irony is outstanding.

    • @SAHBfan
      @SAHBfan 2 месяца назад

      The irony of JOB criticising the petition when he has gone on continually about another Brexit referendum?

    • @bm8516
      @bm8516 2 месяца назад

      @SAHBfan Brexit was also a campaign of lies (which is the argument also being presented re: Labour). That's all I'm saying 🙄

  • @CoolSocialist
    @CoolSocialist 2 месяца назад +12

    *Angry gammons seething in the comments* 🤣🤡

    • @rebeccaconlon9743
      @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад

      Wow... slurrs... you make it sound like you're projecting a bit there. There's no need for us vs them mentality as it makes us all ignorant a holes to eachother, from a center right gammon to a leftist gammon

    • @FitBit-e1j
      @FitBit-e1j Месяц назад

      @@CoolSocialist not as angry as James when he was told he was left on the kerb 😂🤣😂 bet school was brutal for you 😜

    • @CoolSocialist
      @CoolSocialist Месяц назад +1

      @FitBit-e1j 🧂🤣

  • @redjugsba
    @redjugsba 2 месяца назад +5

    Only 20% of the population voted for Starmer.

    • @rabgabro6595
      @rabgabro6595 2 месяца назад

      Ha😂 snowflake. How many voted for Truss and Sunak?
      Boris ?
      How many voted Cameron in 2010 that brought 14 years of pillaging?
      Cameron didn't even win in 2010

    • @michaelswan8357
      @michaelswan8357 2 месяца назад +4

      ONLY 10% VOTED FOR THE TORIES

    • @Jebediahmosiah
      @Jebediahmosiah 2 месяца назад

      @@michaelswan8357 nonsense.

    • @FigelNarage
      @FigelNarage 2 месяца назад +5

      It's a "first past the post system". UK elections are often low turnout, plus you're missing many crucial logical conclusions.
      20% of the population, but 33% of the Vote.
      If you apply the same logic to the Brexit referendum only 23% of the population voted Leave.
      Alternatively you could break the 2024 election down like this:
      65% didn't vote Labour
      77% didn't vote Tory
      86% didn't vote Reform
      You're also wilfully ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Labour voters who gave their cross to the Lib Dems in order to oust the Tories tactically.
      That's how our electoral system works, and we always have minority governments. But the system favours both the major parties so it won't be changing anytime soon.

    • @Jebediahmosiah
      @Jebediahmosiah 2 месяца назад

      @@FigelNarage wasn’t 20% of the population it was less than 15% of the population that voted for Labour.
      “We have never previously had a government starting with quite as low a share of the vote Labour got in July,"
      "It's also difficult to find a government that has slipped as much in the polls as this government has so quickly." - Sir John Curtis to Sky News.
      Starmer is polling now lower than Nigel Farage.

  • @dennisthemenace-z2f
    @dennisthemenace-z2f 2 месяца назад +8

    When he calms down (does he ever calm down?) someone should patiently explain to young James that people elect a government at the General Election, not a president. So, if the individual who is prime minister goes, that party chooses another one (as Labour did in 1976). Without that straw man, this rant could have been about six or seven minutes shorter, leaving James more time to tell us how right he was about something else.

    • @justyhawk1
      @justyhawk1 2 месяца назад +3

      The Conservative party members (paid members) choose a new leader, that is vastly different to a general election where everybody chooses a new leader.

    • @TimMiddleton
      @TimMiddleton 2 месяца назад +1

      Whoosh.

  • @johnfitchie9892
    @johnfitchie9892 2 месяца назад +1

    Can we go one week without mentioning Brexit ffs😮

    • @itcouldbelupus2842
      @itcouldbelupus2842 2 месяца назад

      You want to just ignore the thing Britain did to ruin the country?
      Yes, let's just pretend the majority of people didn't vote to make the economy worse 😂

  • @rebeccaconlon9743
    @rebeccaconlon9743 2 месяца назад

    Can tell people who havent signed a petition ever and think that using a vpn tells the system where its from... the petition asks for personal details such as name and address

  • @coppershark1973
    @coppershark1973 2 месяца назад +3

    Soppy little TORY boys can’t handle REALITY. Hahahaha!

  • @susanparkauntiesuze5447
    @susanparkauntiesuze5447 2 месяца назад +4

    No farmers no food.

    • @I-have-blue-hair
      @I-have-blue-hair 2 месяца назад +7

      Simple slogans for simple minds

    • @mattwilliams9758
      @mattwilliams9758 2 месяца назад +2

      We’ve not been food-independent since the early 1800’s. So “no farmers, no UK produced food” would be more accurate… ironically, when Jacob Rees-Smugg was prattling on about “cheaper food because of Brexit” he was referring to things like Australian beef, which is already undercutting the UK beef farmers thanks to the (rushed) Conservative’s trade deal.

  • @davidroach4370
    @davidroach4370 2 месяца назад +5

    James you spout bile, sleep well 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @eds-egg
      @eds-egg 2 месяца назад

      He's incapable of sleeping well due to the recurring nightmare he has of Jacob Rees-Mogg driving to Balmoral to lie to the Queen!

  • @andyjosh1674
    @andyjosh1674 2 месяца назад +1

    Likes to plug his books whilst on air, most of which sold during the pandemic when there was a shortage of toilet paper.

    • @stocktonjoans
      @stocktonjoans 2 месяца назад

      how many books have you written?

    • @andyjosh1674
      @andyjosh1674 2 месяца назад

      @ 8 in total , 7 of which have beeb published.

    • @stocktonjoans
      @stocktonjoans 2 месяца назад

      @@andyjosh1674 what are their ISBN numbers and what name did you author them under?

    • @andyjosh1674
      @andyjosh1674 2 месяца назад

      @@stocktonjoans 🎣 🧌 W⚓️

    • @stocktonjoans
      @stocktonjoans 2 месяца назад

      still waiting

  • @nicholashanson9508
    @nicholashanson9508 2 месяца назад +1

    this guys mental gymnastics really are exhausting

  • @stuc3195
    @stuc3195 2 месяца назад +23

    Why is the assumption that anyone signing the petition is a brexiteer?

    • @bipolarminddroppings
      @bipolarminddroppings 2 месяца назад +9

      who said that? No one.
      Most? Obviously, but no one has said that everyone signing it is a brexiteer.
      Listen to what is actually being said, instead of hearing what you want to hear.

    • @user-uw1cn9dt6y
      @user-uw1cn9dt6y 2 месяца назад +8

      same reason folks assume water is wet.

    • @stuc3195
      @stuc3195 2 месяца назад +4

      @bipolarminddroppings James o Brien just said it. As has everyone above and below....

    • @ACameronUK
      @ACameronUK 2 месяца назад +4

      I guess the assumption is that if you want Labour out you must want Reform/Tories in, and for the most part they are both very pro Brexit 🤷‍♂️

    • @ibexdnb2879
      @ibexdnb2879 2 месяца назад +1

      ​​@@bipolarminddroppings Lol read the comments. Plemty of people saying it and James has definitely implied such things before.

  • @ted5669
    @ted5669 2 месяца назад +11

    O’Brian using his volume button to get his point across. As a political commentator he should be asking and investigating rather than throw petty insults around. I think people have a right to protest, despite Starmer’s threat to free speech and this petition is just and only that. Labour did lie and they deserve to be embarrassed by it.

    • @lesleylamy
      @lesleylamy 2 месяца назад +5

      They did not lie.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад +3

      Go on, be a bit more specific about what they lied about. Then compare it to what we've had for the last 14 years, or to Reform's lies and ineptitude.

    • @MrRailjunkie
      @MrRailjunkie 2 месяца назад

      Read his book How They Broke Britain as there is plenty of evidence of investigating in it.

  • @bumache
    @bumache 2 месяца назад +7

    Starmer announces Ukraine is his top priority then meets Blackrock. We should all be wetting ourselves.

    • @thomasmoore1499
      @thomasmoore1499 2 месяца назад +1

      Perhaps you haven't noticed he can chew gum and walk at the same time, unlike others.

    • @SAHBfan
      @SAHBfan 2 месяца назад +1

      @@thomasmoore1499 I wonder who gave him the free gum?

    • @ibexdnb2879
      @ibexdnb2879 2 месяца назад

      I wonder if James will EVER talk about the conflict of interest between Starmer and the people he supposedly serves.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад

      @J1465-x4x So how does this conflict of interest work? Are you claiming that he's getting secret backhanders?

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 2 месяца назад

      @J1465-x4x And if he was, don't you think he'd have been a bit quieter about the meeting?

  • @peterfeltham5612
    @peterfeltham5612 2 месяца назад +2

    Well James, just look at the mess the EU is currently in,it's two largest economies in freefall and both of them in political chaos. SOME ADVERT FOR THE EU JAMES.

  • @stevebryant5510
    @stevebryant5510 2 месяца назад

    Just read the comments on the GB news website regarding the petition , pure comedy gold.🤣

  • @karlarcher8773
    @karlarcher8773 2 месяца назад +8

    People want change. The Tories were a continuation of New Labour and this government is just going even harder. The people are simply fed up with another 4 and half years of even more to come.

    • @markbrewin2728
      @markbrewin2728 2 месяца назад

      we just had a election or was you in a coma and the far right will never be in power in this country so id move to the USA if i was you .

    • @listerofsmeg884
      @listerofsmeg884 2 месяца назад

      so you call for change by calling for another election with the same two parties contending, plus a collection of Poundland fascists waiting in the wings? makes sense...

    • @IanDavies-gy4mg
      @IanDavies-gy4mg 2 месяца назад +2

      Well they don't seem to want change or they wouldn't be protesting about every Labour action.