Regardless of who is in your local council, Labour or Conservative, the funding for that region comes directly from the sitting government. That is presently the Tory party. Why cant people understand this. Secondly, the cost of living crisis is not restricted to one area. Those saying its better in the south are not paying London rates, rents, council tax etc. London rates spread across 4 counties outside of London especially regarding house prices as they are trying to attract people moving out of London and commuting. rents and house prices are much higher per salary regardless of how much higher the salary is north/south.
And the Tories, since 2010 have reduced the central grant to local government by up to 80% and also tied local government's hands more. They love to centralise power. Some funding is raised locally via council tax but there are central caps on that.
@Don Doodat that's because they vote tory in the south west and the central demographic is seniors who like their house prices as high as possible, which is why the tories typically block social housing developments, doesn't change the rest of what I said, you'll find far more commercial development and investment down south vs the north.
I came down south for work in Reading. Very expensive, my money doesn't get me far. Aiming to go back up north in a couple years once I've got more experience under my belt, so I can push for a good job. I'm half slumming it atm because I'm in a good team that I can learn a lot from at this early stage of my career, but if it weren't for that, I'd be moving northward
Lee Anderson represents the mindset of voters in this constituency quite well. That is social conservatism, reactionary politics and the like. Lee would have won his seat with ease had he not started being an idiot with the 30p a day meal thing, he would win quite easily, even he was the only Tory left. Yet he's pretty sealed his fate. But ah well. He's got a future moaning career on GB News lined up so he'll be ok.
@@colinbaker3916 To be fair, I think the majority of England believed the lies about Brexit, not just the people in Ashfield so let's give them some credit.
That old boy is a hoot, harps on about a Tory MP that did sterling work for 18 months back in the 1970s, then goes onto blame it all on Labour... I do hope someone is mashing his food up before he eats it.
The standard of critical thinking - no, just THINKING - in most of the UK is absolutely shocking. This country needs education. Tony Blair was right when he said "Education, education, education" just a shame he didn't actually achieve it.
@The Gent I'm not sure that's completely true you know I left school In 98 and there was a massive push for modern apprenticeships something I personally benefited from
i just don't get it.... Everything has gone to shit,,,, it's all labours fault.. Cant trust any government even though this government for over a decade has overseen the largest decline in living standards in living memory... But bring back Boris... these people deserve everything they get in my opinion.. its just a shame we all have to suffer along with them...
Neither do I. These people are ignorant and believed the Tories and Johnson government lies about how Brexit was going to help them. The tories were just lining their own pockets, which is known as corruption. Now you can’t complain about living standards when Brexit was nothing but an immigration ideology that has stunted growth in the UK because we have a labour shortage to do the jobs to enable growth.
Some pretty ignorant comments from these people largely because they are not very well informed. The media in Britain is overwhelmingly right wing and these people are a reflection of that. They have been captured and there is no escape. They should be out on the streets like the French but instead we have northerners pining for Boris Johnson. The UK is finished.
no better years ago back to the 1980's when Margaret Thatcher was in power and that other muppet,John Major,Riots where often kicking of,Way things are going now days,Could end up going back to the 1980s again,More Riots kicking of
I was confused at first, because I thought this was going to be Sutton in Surrey. The accents quickly made it obvious it’s Sutton-in-Ashfield, where I hope the good folk will put right their mistake of 2019.
I’ll vote for anyone who promises to sort out the housing costs. We need harsh policies that stop people from using housing as a form of investment. They’re homes for the next generation ffs. It’s time millennials got a break and housing became affordable for everyone again.
Never happen the entire British population and wider economy is leveraged against our high property values. If you actually crashed it properly the outcomes would be pretty bad for everyone.
@@elliotsimpson1148 I disagree, it’s an unhealthy economy that’s destined to crash anyway. By bringing in policies that favour first time buyers it will only improve the entire economy because millennials/gen z can start having children and start using their spare money, that would’ve been spent on rent, to propagate the economy. The only ones missing out will be landlords who will have to invest their money elsewhere other than property. So no, with the correct policies it will only be bad for landlords who have been leeching off everyone for too long.
@@Stuark54 interventions such as that rarely works especially as the root issue is a shortage of housing, a solution could be to loosen planing permission restrictions which would increase housing supply and push down the price.
Some folks thought being out of the European Union would resolve key issues close to their heart. Years later, what's changed? Nothing. I wondering if the proposed adjustments to the investment banking legislation goes through or not. The original legislation designed to stop a repeat of the 2008 crisis. 😩🤔
@Lloyd Jones So on that basis then, the braindead automatons within this clip should all be fully entitled to fly a plane, undertake surgery, become a teacher, etc. - all without having the basic understanding of what they are doing; AND without any subsequent regard for the potentially catastrophic repercussions?
Unfortunately, we have so many ignorant people and even though they are cold and hungry, they still believe those in power about labour, and how they will destroy the economy, the one that they have just destroyed themselves.
People keep saying that they want politicians to stop arguing and to work together. That sounds like the coalition governments that often result from proportional representation as is common in many other countries.
Why don't you test them to see if they have a grasp of how the country is actually run in terms of where the money goes, where the money comes from and who ends up with the money? Your current questioning is about as valuable as asking everybody in the street do they know how to change a head gasket, or what they think about the bulge in the centre of the galaxy. All their lives they've been manipulated by the handful of rich people who own the media. It's like being at school and given textbooks that are full of lies And then expecting those "educated" people to have a clue what's going on. Ask them if they know what's going on. Ask them to explain it.
That doesn't make for a video with many comments and opinions. RUclips won't think it's popular if we don't argue in the comment section and drive up views so they can sell adverts and give Joe a few more pennies. Pitchfork vs Torch Bearers.
This is journalism done right, you get the opinion on the ground. The truth is the UK is politically inept and we need to fix that be improving socail mobility.
Totally. It’s not Politics Joes fault people are idiots and I get they have to be semi impartial when interviewing, but they 100% need to challenge those who either lie to themselves or preach the Tories’ lies on their behalf. Education is the solution
@hohoho hehehe Tories have obviously done a good job, their era is over with, not long before these old patriots sleep for good, they need new ways to bring in votes, wala GB news and far right media, even BBC is under tories, they are doing it.
Perhaps the people who consented to be interviewed are not those with the most considered opinions or the most representative of the people of Sutton. The general sentiment seems to be one of mistrust and being neglected though.
@@nathanaelsmith3553 I was in Sutton in Ashfield yesterday and I wasn't interviewed! I wouldn't vote for Lee Anderson if he paid me to. I have recently decided to make a choice to join the Green Party as some of us in Sutton have still got a few brain cells
I'm 60 and I agree. Today's actions (or lack) determine the future, and I'd be happy to see young Council members and MPs agree on a direction and take charge. We have taught them what not to do.
@phillip franks I don't generally favour Winston but he was right in that quote. Name a system that works better for its citizens, that is not a democratic one.
Well said MPs are overpaid for the jobs that they do nobody else recieves additional expenses they don't need a second house just buy one hotel or build a new one in London the 4 days a week they can stay there.
We pay these private water companies to not maintain the lines like they should, and they make some nice tidy profits/bonuses. To blame the council on-top of this is unbelievable. Don't worry though they'll dump the waste into the rivers, and lakes killing ecosystems. In other countries is safe to swim in lakes, in ours we have to avoid at all cost... The whole system is broken.
"we just need to tighten our belts... we're used to ration books" - after a WORLD WAR. We're not just after a world war, there's no reason we should have to tighten our belts when the amount of billionaires has increased.
Corbyn could of accepted the result of the Referendum, he was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.
"We've got to suffer for a bit". No we haven't, we need to get back the £37Bn we gave to Dido Harding and the other billions fraudulently claimed during COVID and there would be NO cost of living crisis.
0:59 this is the problem with FPTP; we are constantly voting against something, rather than for something. The result is stagnation and no progress in society. Exactly how conservatives and the elite like it.
Harold Wilson was the Labour Party Leader from 1963-1976 and she really thinks that's the last good Labour Leader, so the last 50 odd years have offered her no viable alternatives? Baffling that people draw so much from the past, when we need to look at the current options not hark back to the rose-tinted good old days 50 years ago.
@@ep1929 Well even more to the point if that's the same view as this lady holds. I don't know how many leaders the Labour Party has had since 1976, but it just feels odd that nobody has fitted the bill for her. I think people need to use the Political Compass site more often (I can't put a link or it would block my post). This gets past the blind spot that might make somebody choose a party, and instead looks at the policies to see where you really sit.
@@ep1929 The compass doesn't tell you how to think, it tells you where you stand based on actual policies, rather than voting either being party based "I've always voted for XXXX" or being swayed by someone being 'charismatic' when their policies don't match up to their swagger in the media. It could actually help remove the herd thinking, not create more of it.
As a POME living in New Zealand, I meet lots of British tourists (at my workplace). I was talking to a lady - in her 60s- who said she regretted voting for Brexit as "the politicians lied to us". Mate, caveat emptor, since when have politicians represented Honesty, integrity and trust? 😒
Somebody down below called those who were interviewed "thick". But I think the average Brit is not thicker than the average German. My British cousins just lack political education and most of all critical thinking ! Unfortunately the price they paid for that is very high !
Amazing how the common voter can still be manipulated into thinking the tories have done anything for them other than crushing them further into poverty
Let's hope we don't find out. I for one am glad I live in a country where people vote rather than take to the streets to bring about change. Once we've lost the rule of law we've lost everything. These morons who like to take to the streets over anything and everything have given the Government all the excuse it needed to introduce draconian laws against civil liberties.
Too be fair, these are the average people walking through the precinct during daylight in Sutton. Bottom 10% you say? Maybe that’s why someone like 30p Lee gets elected there.
Are you saying that the UK is full of such folk ? Or are you saying that the UK is unable to deal with them? Either way you ought to go back to school.
Scotland was voted best educated in Europe this year Google it... English teenagers came bottom of a league table of 23 developed nations for literacy wow
There should really be a short questionnaire with every ballot. Get less than 5/10 and your vote is just burned. e.g. during the referendum; "what does 'E.U.' stand for? is it a) Europe Untied, b) European Union c) straight bananas d) Enny Unions
UK has a real problem and it's that we're woefully politically inept. However I do think alot of that is to do with the lack of real socail mobility in the UK. I'm working class but i'm from a good northern city, I've got mobility, I can work myself into the middle class. Other towns and cities have never had that. Middlesbrough, Hull, etc... are all places that are forgotten and are the places that are easily fooled by a promise of a better tomorrow. They're politically inept because as a whole we don't care about our own.
People's problems are due to not preparing for this turmoil. Getting up to the eyes in debt for a house they could not afford. Hooked on low interest rates for the past 12 years - they wrongly assumed these would last for ever.
I know Sutton-in-Ashfield quite well as I was born there. It really has become a ghost town full of druggies. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, it was a decent place to live. Plenty of shops were open, things to do. Still had an active market. It was quite nice and pleasant. But these days it's so full of hopelessness. Last time I was there a few years ago, I remember seeing a "Jesus Saves" banner. Now this is a formerly atheistic socialist town and you know when Jesus is out, it's doing quite bad.
@@ChrisSmith-mu1we you know it's funny but my Dad told me that some of the local villages near Sutton and Alfreton were like true armpits. The old pit villages. Like every night, someone would get thrown out of the pub window! This was back in the 70s and 80s. Places like Sutton and Alfreton were seen as glorious places to live. Fast forward 40 years later and those former coal mining villages are growing and even thriving. Alot of middle class people moved into them due to wanting to escape to the country and for more peace and safety. Housing construction has been booming in them. They have become nice places to live. Sutton, Mansfield and Alfreton though have instead taken a reverse turn and have become basically huge benefit and druggie towns. No industries, no jobs, no economic prospects. They literally are like prisons of hopelessness. Any population growth they have is from the large council estate families in the area and that's about it.
@@Ksim3000 I know. I grew up in one of those villages. Went to school there. Got my first job there. Lived in SIA for 10 years. Left 2 years ago. The towns are grim.
Privatisation, brexit, curruption, and shareholders' profits sucking the life out of the country. "Right.. I need to blame the council or give precise dates in the early 2000s of problems when there was a labour government 🤦♂️
It’s so sad to see people not happy with the government things should be fixed and delt with not just all talk no action they should be looking after there country instead of spending money on other countries that’s the problem we have today.
Some folks thought being out of the European Union would resolve key issues close to their heart. Years later, what's changed? Nothing. I wondering if the proposed adjustments to the investment banking legislation goes through or not. The original legislation designed to stop a repeat of the 2008 crisis 😩🤔. Trusting these investment bankers with our public finances is risky business; a little bit like investment banking 🤯. Local, but on national level is where the money needs to go (if that makes sense). For starters the 400 a month gas and electricity bills needs dramatically looking at ASAP. I'm sure companies like 'Shell energy' (who provide 100% renewable energy) are "fairly charging" people...
Left or right red rosette or blue or yellow , guaranteed your bills will increase substantially and will do year on year , your wages will stay the same , we will say we can't afford a pay rise while we enrich ourselves at every opportunity. yours sincerely MP 's & government & council's
Winston Churchill said something to the effect that democracy was the worst form of government except for anything else. Sounded good then, I'm having my doubts now.
Suttons problem is obvious to anyone who can be bothered to look. Turkish barbers and take always take up every unit. Put a stop to that and bring back actual shops like Horace burrows etc.
Equal paying jobs for everybody? What? If this happened no one would take more responsible and stressful jobs. I would rather work in easy job that I leave at certain time of a day, than work as a manager in corporation 12 hours a day with my head at stake for the same pay. That is the most ridiculous idea I have heard.
well,Ive seen so many changes over the years,It not got any better,Cost of liviing is going straight through the roof,I even hate think what its going to be like by the time April gets here,My rent is also going to go up,All seem to keep on doing now days is really cutting back on so much expence and saving to the very last penny all the time
Watching these videos and the ‘breadth of political knowledge’, or otherwise, by the interviewed public has gone a long way to explaining to me why the English voted for Brexit. For that alone, thanks.
He did so much in that 18 months that I can't remember who or when it was...!
Back durin' da war!!!
People are idiots 🙄
Since we gone back with Labour....nothing.. Who the fxxks in power you twxt... Some really are devoid of any logical thought.
And "we are back to Labour" now!
Also the MP doesn't do local work that's the councils job.
Regardless of who is in your local council, Labour or Conservative, the funding for that region comes directly from the sitting government. That is presently the Tory party.
Why cant people understand this.
Secondly, the cost of living crisis is not restricted to one area.
Those saying its better in the south are not paying London rates, rents, council tax etc. London rates spread across 4 counties outside of London especially regarding house prices as they are trying to attract people moving out of London and commuting.
rents and house prices are much higher per salary regardless of how much higher the salary is north/south.
@Don Doodat when people talk about the north south divide they are talking about investment and development, not peoples rates.
@left_blank it doesn't work like that
And the Tories, since 2010 have reduced the central grant to local government by up to 80% and also tied local government's hands more. They love to centralise power. Some funding is raised locally via council tax but there are central caps on that.
@Don Doodat that's because they vote tory in the south west and the central demographic is seniors who like their house prices as high as possible, which is why the tories typically block social housing developments, doesn't change the rest of what I said, you'll find far more commercial development and investment down south vs the north.
I came down south for work in Reading. Very expensive, my money doesn't get me far. Aiming to go back up north in a couple years once I've got more experience under my belt, so I can push for a good job. I'm half slumming it atm because I'm in a good team that I can learn a lot from at this early stage of my career, but if it weren't for that, I'd be moving northward
That older fella is a walking stereotype.
Which one?
@@ecos889 The one who blamed Labour
Bet if they brought up 30p Lee he’d respond ‘bring back ‘angin’
The Conservatives reliey on a degree of voter ignorance and apathy and Lee Anderson was certainly helped by this 😔
Spell check required, Jesus
Lee Anderson represents the mindset of voters in this constituency quite well. That is social conservatism, reactionary politics and the like. Lee would have won his seat with ease had he not started being an idiot with the 30p a day meal thing, he would win quite easily, even he was the only Tory left. Yet he's pretty sealed his fate. But ah well. He's got a future moaning career on GB News lined up so he'll be ok.
They also believed the lies about Brexit, and that Labour wanted to stop Brexit, despite Corbyn wanting it more than the Tory leadership.
@@colinbaker3916 To be fair, I think the majority of England believed the lies about Brexit, not just the people in Ashfield so let's give them some credit.
@@Ksim3000 Agreed. I speak from one of the few bits of London that voted Leave.
That old boy is a hoot, harps on about a Tory MP that did sterling work for 18 months back in the 1970s, then goes onto blame it all on Labour... I do hope someone is mashing his food up before he eats it.
It was honestly such a notable period of time for him. Just don’t ask him the persons name or what they actually done
He also is for the death penalty in another clip! And 30p Lee
@@tangaz5819 yeah I’m sure he also said prisoners are treated like royalty
These people shouldn't be allowed to vote
If it was the old boys son getting hanged, he would soon change his tune.
The standard of critical thinking - no, just THINKING - in most of the UK is absolutely shocking. This country needs education. Tony Blair was right when he said "Education, education, education" just a shame he didn't actually achieve it.
Too focused on getting people into Uni than blue collar trades.
Well, you can't polish a turd.
@The Gent I'm not sure that's completely true you know I left school In 98 and there was a massive push for modern apprenticeships something I personally benefited from
Whenever you wonder why the uk has an economic productivity problem, just watch interviews with the general public. Ahhh yep, that’s why. 😂
They don’t need education. They need a cheaper living situation. They need more money.
i just don't get it.... Everything has gone to shit,,,, it's all labours fault.. Cant trust any government even though this government for over a decade has overseen the largest decline in living standards in living memory... But bring back Boris... these people deserve everything they get in my opinion.. its just a shame we all have to suffer along with them...
Neither do I. These people are ignorant and believed the Tories and Johnson government lies about how Brexit was going to help them. The tories were just lining their own pockets, which is known as corruption. Now you can’t complain about living standards when Brexit was nothing but an immigration ideology that has stunted growth in the UK because we have a labour shortage to do the jobs to enable growth.
Some pretty ignorant comments from these people largely because they are not very well informed. The media in Britain is overwhelmingly right wing and these people are a reflection of that. They have been captured and there is no escape. They should be out on the streets like the French but instead we have northerners pining for Boris Johnson. The UK is finished.
1:36 The old fella does know who is in power, right?
Ignorance is not a barrier to having strong opinions about any subject for a lot of people.
Probably thinks Ted heath still pm.
Probably doesn’t know what day of the week it is.
Yes Jeremy Corbyn...🤣
Services always go to shit when conservatives are in government.
no better years ago back to the 1980's when Margaret Thatcher was in power and that other muppet,John Major,Riots where often kicking of,Way things are going now days,Could end up going back to the 1980s again,More Riots kicking of
heineken
I was confused at first, because I thought this was going to be Sutton in Surrey. The accents quickly made it obvious it’s Sutton-in-Ashfield, where I hope the good folk will put right their mistake of 2019.
That woman who grew up after the war and supports Boris Johnson looks absolutely great for 80!
Get a room
@@danielcraig4974 I didn't fight in two world wars and live on rations to be spoken to like this.
She fought in the war so that you could have the freedom to say that. Which war? All of them!
I’ll vote for anyone who promises to sort out the housing costs. We need harsh policies that stop people from using housing as a form of investment. They’re homes for the next generation ffs. It’s time millennials got a break and housing became affordable for everyone again.
The problem is people like Boris will make the promises as he knows that's all it takes for people like you to vote for him.
Never happen the entire British population and wider economy is leveraged against our high property values. If you actually crashed it properly the outcomes would be pretty bad for everyone.
@@elliotsimpson1148 I disagree, it’s an unhealthy economy that’s destined to crash anyway. By bringing in policies that favour first time buyers it will only improve the entire economy because millennials/gen z can start having children and start using their spare money, that would’ve been spent on rent, to propagate the economy. The only ones missing out will be landlords who will have to invest their money elsewhere other than property. So no, with the correct policies it will only be bad for landlords who have been leeching off everyone for too long.
@@Stuark54 interventions such as that rarely works especially as the root issue is a shortage of housing, a solution could be to loosen planing permission restrictions which would increase housing supply and push down the price.
I read in the Netherlands, it's illegal for housing to be used as an investment..
Sad for the ex Labour voting lady who's been conned by Boris Johnson and still supports him.
Labour had been conning her for
decades to.
@Evola’s Sunglasses Tony Blair is not Labour. He is an evil man, and most people agree with this.
@@evolassunglasses4673 how so do you have provable information on this claim
I doubt she ever voted labour in her life
Some folks thought being out of the European Union would resolve key issues close to their heart. Years later, what's changed? Nothing.
I wondering if the proposed adjustments to the investment banking legislation goes through or not. The original legislation designed to stop a repeat of the 2008 crisis. 😩🤔
😶 God help us
That was truly painful. Forget Photo I.D. in order to cast a vote, it needs to be an I.Q. Test instead.
Then clearly the people of that town won't get the vote! I've never seen or heard such basic views loaded with inaccuracies.
Democracy and rights for a select few would set us back by hundreds of years.
Democracy should be for everyone and an absolute non partisan matter.
@Lloyd Jones So on that basis then, the braindead automatons within this clip should all be fully entitled to fly a plane, undertake surgery, become a teacher, etc. - all without having the basic understanding of what they are doing; AND without any subsequent regard for the potentially catastrophic repercussions?
@@lloydjones7925 democracy only works with honest politicians and informed voters, we have neither.
@@LambsyLamb How the hell do you think a gorilla like Anderson gets elected!😂 Man of the people, he is!
Unfortunately, we have so many ignorant people and even though they are cold and hungry, they still believe those in power about labour, and how they will destroy the economy, the one that they have just destroyed themselves.
People keep saying that they want politicians to stop arguing and to work together. That sounds like the coalition governments that often result from proportional representation as is common in many other countries.
Why don't you test them to see if they have a grasp of how the country is actually run in terms of where the money goes, where the money comes from and who ends up with the money?
Your current questioning is about as valuable as asking everybody in the street do they know how to change a head gasket, or what they think about the bulge in the centre of the galaxy.
All their lives they've been manipulated by the handful of rich people who own the media. It's like being at school and given textbooks that are full of lies And then expecting those "educated" people to have a clue what's going on.
Ask them if they know what's going on. Ask them to explain it.
amen brother
That doesn't make for a video with many comments and opinions. RUclips won't think it's popular if we don't argue in the comment section and drive up views so they can sell adverts and give Joe a few more pennies. Pitchfork vs Torch Bearers.
This is journalism done right, you get the opinion on the ground. The truth is the UK is politically inept and we need to fix that be improving socail mobility.
It’s shocking how inarticulate everyone is. That’s what happens when you have generations believing The Sun and the Mirror are newspapers.
Totally. It’s not Politics Joes fault people are idiots and I get they have to be semi impartial when interviewing, but they 100% need to challenge those who either lie to themselves or preach the Tories’ lies on their behalf. Education is the solution
I've always said that the problem is not the government : it's the electorate.
So you think the Tories have done a good job?
@hohoho hehehe Tories have obviously done a good job, their era is over with, not long before these old patriots sleep for good, they need new ways to bring in votes, wala GB news and far right media, even BBC is under tories, they are doing it.
@@Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter They've done an appalling job.
But the ELECTORATE voted for them.
@sdrawkcabUK Like all the viable candidates we've had in the office of PM in the last 13 years?
Do me a favour! 😆
@@steveturner7885 only 30% of the vote tho. hardly a rousing win.
"Since we went back to Labour, nothing happened" + "I quite liked Boris Johnson"....Oh dearie me :-(
You can see why 30p Anderson got voted in by these people most sound as thick as him.
Perhaps the people who consented to be interviewed are not those with the most considered opinions or the most representative of the people of Sutton. The general sentiment seems to be one of mistrust and being neglected though.
@@nathanaelsmith3553 I was in Sutton in Ashfield yesterday and I wasn't interviewed! I wouldn't vote for Lee Anderson if he paid me to. I have recently decided to make a choice to join the Green Party as some of us in Sutton have still got a few brain cells
@@kathrinedavey8772 he would only pay you 30p
"I don't swear, however I do carry more cognitive dissonance on my shoulders than everyone who voted for brexit and still thinks it was a good idea".
there was really only one youngish person interviewed...could we get more young people please...
Young people are at work keeping this country going.
@@superhumantrueman so true! They are still hated by many Mail reading gammons though.
They're all at work when they're out interviewing people
He did a lot of spasmodic shrugging
I'm 60 and I agree. Today's actions (or lack) determine the future, and I'd be happy to see young Council members and MPs agree on a direction and take charge. We have taught them what not to do.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again... democracy simply doesn't work!" Kent Brockman, 1995.
'Democracy is the worst system except for all the other systems'. Winston Churchill.
democracy is nothing but a word and idea of illusion when we live in financial fascism
@phillip franks I don't generally favour Winston but he was right in that quote. Name a system that works better for its citizens, that is not a democratic one.
Eye on Springfield
3:18 exactly the same in Tyne and Wear mate... roads and all! This government are a joke!
Well said MPs are overpaid for the jobs that they do nobody else recieves additional expenses they don't need a second house just buy one hotel or build a new one in London the 4 days a week they can stay there.
4.09, the place has gone down hill since the miners have gone, well you can blame Thatcher, the Tory Party and the Scabs that broke the strike
We pay these private water companies to not maintain the lines like they should, and they make some nice tidy profits/bonuses. To blame the council on-top of this is unbelievable. Don't worry though they'll dump the waste into the rivers, and lakes killing ecosystems.
In other countries is safe to swim in lakes, in ours we have to avoid at all cost...
The whole system is broken.
"we just need to tighten our belts... we're used to ration books" - after a WORLD WAR. We're not just after a world war, there's no reason we should have to tighten our belts when the amount of billionaires has increased.
wow how can you move from labour to voting for Boris
Conditioning, the press. They control people emotionally.
@@daftdigital add into it Boris has the papers and BBC in his pocket to spin any tripe he says ,
Corbyn could of accepted the result of the Referendum, he was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.
Brexit was a factor, too.
Didn’t know Boris’ former constituency was in Sutton
Where does it says we have to put up with self-serving criminals?
I’m not aware it's written anywhere.
"We've got to suffer for a bit". No we haven't, we need to get back the £37Bn we gave to Dido Harding and the other billions fraudulently claimed during COVID and there would be NO cost of living crisis.
No hope for these people.
The electorate doesn’t get the government they need, they get the one they deserve…
60% of voters voted against the tories, yet the tories win. our system is fked.
Bring back Corby.
0:59 this is the problem with FPTP; we are constantly voting against something, rather than for something. The result is stagnation and no progress in society. Exactly how conservatives and the elite like it.
Harold Wilson was the Labour Party Leader from 1963-1976 and she really thinks that's the last good Labour Leader, so the last 50 odd years have offered her no viable alternatives? Baffling that people draw so much from the past, when we need to look at the current options not hark back to the rose-tinted good old days 50 years ago.
The rest of them wasn't labour, they had the badge but they were closet Tories - look at Blair for example.
@@ep1929 Well even more to the point if that's the same view as this lady holds. I don't know how many leaders the Labour Party has had since 1976, but it just feels odd that nobody has fitted the bill for her.
I think people need to use the Political Compass site more often (I can't put a link or it would block my post). This gets past the blind spot that might make somebody choose a party, and instead looks at the policies to see where you really sit.
@@videogalore don't need a compass to tell me how to think, I can see the detrimental effect the liblabcon have had on this country.
@@ep1929 The compass doesn't tell you how to think, it tells you where you stand based on actual policies, rather than voting either being party based "I've always voted for XXXX" or being swayed by someone being 'charismatic' when their policies don't match up to their swagger in the media.
It could actually help remove the herd thinking, not create more of it.
@@videogalore exactly what I've just said, the compass direction is seen every day in real life.
Its pretty clear, that these people are politically remote.
Can you do a video "Asking Croydonians about the 15% council tax hike during the cost of living crisis"?
As a POME living in New Zealand, I meet lots of British tourists (at my workplace). I was talking to a lady - in her 60s- who said she regretted voting for Brexit as "the politicians lied to us". Mate, caveat emptor, since when have politicians represented Honesty, integrity and trust? 😒
Your comments are lies.
Sunlit uplands, bask in 'em.
The joke is on the public that thinks politicians will solve the issues they created
1:47 I despair!
Somebody down below called those who were interviewed "thick". But I think the average Brit is not thicker than the average German. My British cousins just lack political education and most of all critical thinking ! Unfortunately the price they paid for that is very high !
You'll never see formal political education on the syllabus as long as the tories get a say. They'd never get in again
Average Germans are pretty thick and completely unaware.
I agree with harsh deterrent
There's nothing new or old about it but in justice, not only for the peasants.
Lived their whole life in Sutton... not trying to be horrible but why would you do that?
Geographical/ occupational immobility perhaps. Family ties?
My thoughts exactly.
Lack of imagination and financial velocity?
Because it’s a truly special place…
Amazing how the common voter can still be manipulated into thinking the tories have done anything for them other than crushing them further into poverty
Jesus! What does it take for people to get angry enough to revolt?
Let's hope we don't find out. I for one am glad I live in a country where people vote rather than take to the streets to bring about change. Once we've lost the rule of law we've lost everything. These morons who like to take to the streets over anything and everything have given the Government all the excuse it needed to introduce draconian laws against civil liberties.
Who can help?
"The government"
Its their fault to begin with
PoliticsJOE once again working hard to interview the bottom 10% of the IQ range 💪
This is very much how this compilation comes across.
Probably the top 10% of the ignorance range, rather than the bottom of the IQ range - might be the same thing to be fair
Too be fair, these are the average people walking through the precinct during daylight in Sutton. Bottom 10% you say? Maybe that’s why someone like 30p Lee gets elected there.
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You wouldn’t want to walk through the precinct after 6.
Sadly, they seem a pretty typical cross section of the population. Look up the national educational average and be prepared for a shock.
what a wise grandma in 7:10... I wish my grandma's still alive..
...it's not a 'Cost-of-Living' Crisis...it's a Political Crisis...nigh on Constitutional...
Did any of them finish school? The UK is stuffed with this level of education!
Are you saying that the UK is full of such folk ? Or are you saying that the UK is unable to deal with them? Either way you ought to go back to school.
Scotland was voted best educated in Europe this year Google it...
English teenagers came bottom of a league table of 23 developed nations for literacy wow
@@britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 How many teenagers were in that report? Don't you Scots know anything?
@@alphalunamare what are you on about silly 😜
Wots skool?
Ask them if they would like Mick Lynch as PM!
I would!
There should really be a short questionnaire with every ballot. Get less than 5/10 and your vote is just burned. e.g. during the referendum; "what does 'E.U.' stand for? is it a) Europe Untied, b) European Union c) straight bananas d) Enny Unions
Whilst we have this FPTP system nothing will get better, Real power needs to be given to the Northern Councils & Devolved Governments
Frightening 🤣
Why does JOE only interview boomers?
Everyone else is at work.
why categorize people, everyone's views are valid.
Often in these small towns all the y oung people have left
@@VectorTracker Everybody's? You sure about that? I'm not generalising & neither should you.
@@1inchPunchBowl yes I'm sure. We live in a democracy so unfortunately they are valid.
I will vote for any government who will promise to replace all the lead water pipes in Sutton.
Labour are not Labour anymore
Was hoping for sutton coldfield lol
Guy complaining that the Tory was great but current Labour MP is rubbish when he has a Conservative MP.
Clueless. But lots of opinions that, to him, are facts.
I used to live in sutton. A very simple area lets just say that. xD
@sdrawkcabUK Everywhere is, but sutton is relatively cheap.
I’m in Kirkby 😂
The level of political awareness is nonexistent, even in this thread.
UK has a real problem and it's that we're woefully politically inept.
However I do think alot of that is to do with the lack of real socail mobility in the UK. I'm working class but i'm from a good northern city, I've got mobility, I can work myself into the middle class. Other towns and cities have never had that. Middlesbrough, Hull, etc... are all places that are forgotten and are the places that are easily fooled by a promise of a better tomorrow. They're politically inept because as a whole we don't care about our own.
Agree with the woman at the end, we definitely need a general election.
People's problems are due to not preparing for this turmoil.
Getting up to the eyes in debt for a house they could not afford.
Hooked on low interest rates for the past 12 years - they wrongly assumed these would last for ever.
How would you suggest they got a house then? There's no social housing, and even renting is prohibitively expensive.
@@alwhyte6533 buy a more modest house, seen too many people become very overstretched when buying houses.
I know Sutton-in-Ashfield quite well as I was born there. It really has become a ghost town full of druggies. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, it was a decent place to live. Plenty of shops were open, things to do. Still had an active market. It was quite nice and pleasant. But these days it's so full of hopelessness. Last time I was there a few years ago, I remember seeing a "Jesus Saves" banner. Now this is a formerly atheistic socialist town and you know when Jesus is out, it's doing quite bad.
It’s a shit hole. Armpit of the East Midlands. Alfreton is still the festering crotch though!😄
@@ChrisSmith-mu1we you know it's funny but my Dad told me that some of the local villages near Sutton and Alfreton were like true armpits. The old pit villages. Like every night, someone would get thrown out of the pub window! This was back in the 70s and 80s. Places like Sutton and Alfreton were seen as glorious places to live.
Fast forward 40 years later and those former coal mining villages are growing and even thriving. Alot of middle class people moved into them due to wanting to escape to the country and for more peace and safety. Housing construction has been booming in them. They have become nice places to live.
Sutton, Mansfield and Alfreton though have instead taken a reverse turn and have become basically huge benefit and druggie towns. No industries, no jobs, no economic prospects. They literally are like prisons of hopelessness. Any population growth they have is from the large council estate families in the area and that's about it.
@@Ksim3000 I know. I grew up in one of those villages. Went to school there. Got my first job there. Lived in SIA for 10 years.
Left 2 years ago. The towns are grim.
Ration books??? Wartime footing? This is tory nonsense
Privatisation, brexit, curruption, and shareholders' profits sucking the life out of the country. "Right.. I need to blame the council or give precise dates in the early 2000s of problems when there was a labour government 🤦♂️
Makes you question democracy a bit
You should not use 'Sutton' unqualified unless you are talking about the largest Sutton by far. South London!
Mans from PhoneShop feelin the pinch out here
Ask them who they voted for!!!!
These people are much better then some people who call into lbc though
This video highlights the education deficiency in the UK and why we are in position we are in.
20 million march on Parliament kick them all out Globelist all of them root and branch reform the only hope for this Nation
Anderson out!
Starmer needs to watch this , then resign and Angela should take over ...!!
If there’s a CEX it’s a labour area 😂
Isn’t Sutton a London borough?
No you're thinking of Slutton in Surrey
its midlands, north of nottingham
The full name is Sutton in Ashfield.
There is a Sutton on Trent, Sutton Colfdfield. Sutton Cum Lound.
@@johngodley256 Well certainly they had interesting accents for south London.
Doing something would be more than has been done up to now
Those old farting bags.......
I tell you all this for free: there is NO WAY, as God is my witness, I would risk my life to defend this country, so long as the tory party exists.
I voted Boris Johnson, I used to vote labour - literally says it all about people in this country.
It’s so sad to see people not happy with the government things should be fixed and delt with not just all talk no action they should be looking after there country instead of spending money on other countries that’s the problem we have today.
Some folks thought being out of the European Union would resolve key issues close to their heart. Years later, what's changed? Nothing.
I wondering if the proposed adjustments to the investment banking legislation goes through or not. The original legislation designed to stop a repeat of the 2008 crisis 😩🤔.
Trusting these investment bankers with our public finances is risky business; a little bit like investment banking 🤯.
Local, but on national level is where the money needs to go (if that makes sense). For starters the 400 a month gas and electricity bills needs dramatically looking at ASAP.
I'm sure companies like 'Shell energy' (who provide 100% renewable energy) are "fairly charging" people...
On the bright side we have the coronation of King Charles to look forward to. I understand he'll be wearing a billion dollars worth of bling.
Yip, the Social Contract is on its rear end.
Brits done over by Brits. But they told you it was some other country doing bad things...classic.
Left or right red rosette or blue or yellow , guaranteed your bills will increase substantially and will do year on year , your wages will stay the same , we will say we can't afford a pay rise while we enrich ourselves at every opportunity.
yours sincerely
MP 's & government & council's
Wot no Dan Bostock? That would have been epic.
Water rates ?!?
Where is this place?
Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
England’s armpit.
Winston Churchill said something to the effect that democracy was the worst form of government except for anything else. Sounded good then, I'm having my doubts now.
One of the interviewees has no less than 3 hoodies on.
It’s not just cutting, it’s giving their mates millions. The hierarchy of these companies who are not performing are still getting bonuses. Why?
Suttons problem is obvious to anyone who can be bothered to look. Turkish barbers and take always take up every unit. Put a stop to that and bring back actual shops like Horace burrows etc.
Equal paying jobs for everybody? What?
If this happened no one would take more responsible and stressful jobs. I would rather work in easy job that I leave at certain time of a day, than work as a manager in corporation 12 hours a day with my head at stake for the same pay.
That is the most ridiculous idea I have heard.
well,Ive seen so many changes over the years,It not got any better,Cost of liviing is going straight through the roof,I even hate think what its going to be like by the time April gets here,My rent is also going to go up,All seem to keep on doing now days is really cutting back on so much expence and saving to the very last penny all the time
Watching these videos and the ‘breadth of political knowledge’, or otherwise, by the interviewed public has gone a long way to explaining to me why the English voted for Brexit. For that alone, thanks.