Didn’t vote for any of the alternative candidates, your comment is what’s wrong with the voters in the U.K. they’re mentally stuck with a 2 party system so if they don’t like either the Tories or Labour the majority don’t vote - total stupidity.
@@My_Old_YT_Account Reform grew bc of a mix of extremist views, large funding and policies which were outright ridiculous - how do you think taxes in this country would work if we could work tax-free up to 20k a year? (I wouldn't mind that, but it doesn't really add up). I doubt they'd 'tax the rich' and by Farage's benefits proposals it feels like he's trying to follow the US blueprint of forcing ppl to work to the grave and pay healthcare out of pocket without the promise of their insurance policy covering their full costs.
If there’s one thing I learned from watching this channel is that trying to predict UK politics is like trying to predict the exact location of a quantum particle.
Idk maybe you should listen to Novara media instead then. They (and others on the left tbf) predicted this from way before the election even. I’m not surprised this comes as a surprise after watching liberal media like TLDR
I imagine it's because he and his party, who got a 33% vote share on a 59% turnout, keep announcing policies which seem purposely designed to piss people off
I remember when Sunak first joined mainstream politics as Chancellor and was immensely popular simply because he handed out shed loads of cash via furlough for people to sit at home on their sofa's. Voters are extremely fickle. Lots of people enjoy smoking and call it "the nanny state" when they are warned of the dangers of smoking. But then they want the NHS to treat them for the diseases they get from their smoking habit. In the same vain their are approx 10m pensioners in the country and Age UK say approx 2m are in need of winter fuel payments. So by that metric 8m pensioners don't need winter fuel payments so it should be means tested but everyone shouts about the 2m that do.
@@westrim Locking up people for saying 'bad things' on Twitter. Outside smoking ban that will destroy pubs and other venues. Will raise inheritance and capital gains tax- we take on all the risk but they feel they can take our profits. We have another 4 years of this madness.
The political logic of announcing a heavy-handed and intrusively authoritarian smoking ban ahead of a painful budget, after promising change and to tread lightly on people's lives, truly genius, masterful gambit from the Labour Party
@@BlyatimirPootintypical point scoring nonsense that leaves us with the shitshow of politics we have in this country. Who gives a monkeys what the tories said or what labour said. Bad governments should be called out for being bad and implementing stupid draconian laws.
@@oraz. I don't think encouraging the burning of religious buildings and inciting murder can be described as, "a political statement". That's completely diminishing what was actually said and you know that.
@@delbroox It's not a matter of your or mine opinion of whether it's an issue or not. Polls are just like marketing - _perception is king._ And, as the fine print/follow up questions clearly show, many of those participating in these polls have this perception of Starmer and vote accordingly and that's what counts/contributes to polling results.
@@sbam4881 you said it right, "Perception". None of this is based on sound, critical thinking. It's always about how people feel when they wake up in the morning. Not about knowledge and observation of what actually happens in a complex system like a country's economy. That's why politicians gets crappier, people get poorer and don't understand why, so they trust easy explanation and easy promises of success as well as easy scapegoats for their misery like "immigration".
@@delbroox That gaslighting bs isn't cutting it, we know the truth of what's happening to our own towns because we see it first hand. In the form our local areas being less safe, we SEE the reality of the proliferation of unpleasant and aggressive people on our streets - they harrass or victimize us for no good reason - every person i know encounters crime annually and hears about sometimes weekly, the political and religious mobilizations including but not limited to a new vicious antisemitism that we constantly observe around us and strongly disagree with leave us deeply uncomfortable. You're probably some rich kid whose never even lived within 5 blocks of the problems you claim don't exist; give us a break, your arrogance is the problem, not our working class inability to not believe our lying eyes...
@@9n3- It is designed for two parties and two parties only. You may have noticed that there are more than two parties in the UK. It is outdated and not fit for purpose in a functioning democracy.
Objectively "think before you post" is a good sentiment to express. But the way it's gone about from Two Tier Kier stinks more of a headmaster reading the riot act to the school he's the leader of just to show who's in charge, and less of trying to inculcate a society that has better critical thinking skills and more nuanced discourse IN PERSON rather than perennially online.
@@kamranrachlin2769 They don't even lock people up for 3 years if they are caught committing a knife crime or having a zombie knife on them. It's insane.
Playing down what’s happened to protect your biased position only goes to expose you for just how biased you are and weakens the position you’re attempting to defend by demonstrating you can’t defend it on merit alone but only through deceit. Starmer did not say “think before you post” Starmer said “you better not think that else you’re going to prison” there is no difference between speech and thought.
@@WhatyourAncestorsknewExperimental Economics that almost collapsed fucking everything and worsened inequalities during a cost of living crisis is to you less egregious than a month old government logically trying to fix things and maybe limiting people‘s ability to put poison in their lungs.
I don't like Starmer, but Im not certain what you'd have preferred him to do. If you're upset about rioters going to prison, then that's your own fault
@dansomething7742 What Starmer needed to do was say rioting is not good, you will be arrested, but he also needed to acknowledge the concerns of the British people that have been simmering and lead to this explosion of violence. Instead he went full attack dog on anyone seen as being on the right of the immigration debate. Completely disregarded their concerns and seemed to be given preferential treatment to foreigners. He has earned the nickname Two-Tier Kier. This was after he campaigned on addressing the high levels of immigration into the UK.
Let us be clear about this - Starmer DIDN'T win a massive majority - as a result of the 'First Past the Post' system, he managed to secure the majority of the seats but only a third of the votes. In fact, looking at the low turnout he only had 20% of registered votes. So his popularity in the country was low to start with.
@@tarqinquentinsson-obviousl957 I mean 10 million votes is more than any other party- got the largest vote share and under FPTP a thumping majority. As I said, the same logic applies to previous Tory wins and Brexit.
He did win a massive majority of the seats. That you can do that with rather few votes is just a problem with your broken electoral system. It's also not unique to stamer. The Tories have profited from the same thing as well. So let's be clear, don't blame stamer for a system that has been there for quite a while. He didn't cheat, he followed the rules and won. unsatisfied? Change the system. You could change to pr, but most of you don't like that either. Some of you want ranked choice, but that is just a slightly less broken version of what you already got. Veritasium recently did a video showing all first past the post and ranked systems are basically broken and unfair. And he included the mathematics to prove it. Mathematics that have been known for centuries. Proportional representation is the only fair and truly democratic system. Every vote counts and has representation in the government. Yes you get coalitions, but only if they people are strongly divided in opinion. If they are the government should reflect that as everybody gets representation. You have to work out a solution together. Unlike the Brits that suffer tyranny of the minority, be they Tories or labour.
He has no empathy for the public and has lost the publics trust in only 6 weeks. Anyone who has followed politics for more than five years knows how this will end.
the people simply want Easy fix and want someone who reassures them saying everything will be great. LIke Boris did, Like Trump did in the US. They don't have a real critical opinion on him. He says things like they are. Tough. The truth is that it's early to say how he'll do, and if things do improve for people, they'll suddenly like him more.
Riiight, it was definitely because of his actions and not because the entire media establishment in your country is owned by a handful of right wing billionaires like Rupert Murdoch who are VERY invested in shaping public opinion, the same who tore down Corbyn as being “antisemitic” because he tried to take them on. It seems the propaganda is too ubiquitous for any change to happen.
No empathy for public? Like not handing out winter fuel payments which most pensioners don't need (pension is plenty) ? We don't have the money to spare...where tf should he get it? Printing money? Even if he could - you'd then complain about inflation. Theres no winning with ya'll. Running a country is a mess of tradeoffs.
well will you go out and force everyone to vote? they won out of the people who voted, like it or not, out of all who voted they had the highest, doesnt matter how many voted. If you didn't vote and complain about the outcome. Thats your fault.
@@pevebe you can keep doubting. That won’t change the facts. If you looked at facts instead of opinions you’d realise it. I’m not stating anything extraordinary. That’s just how it works, I encourage you to do a bit of research
An entire video about why Two-Tier Kier is unpopular, without once mentioning his arrogant and high-handed attitude to the disturbances. He appears to hate the British, and the British are responding in the same way.
Nothing will be fixed in the long term after fptp is replaced either, because the UK needs radical change and no democratic process creates that, only general strikes do.
Yeah, both major parties love FPTP because it guarantees they'll stay entrenched indefinitely (barring like, a political cataclysm) and don't have to compete with other parties. It's enough to be the Less Shitty Party(TM), instead of actually being good. When every party with any chance of seizing power likes something detrimental to the majority of citizens, it's a dictatorship on that subject matter.
@@S3lvah Luckily, FPTP is keeping far-right cancerous party's, like the failed Brexit Party 'Reform,' at bay. If those nutjobs come into the power, the UK is finished.
@@robertmartin6800 Ah, yes, the arguement of 'we aren't in Austerity' because... no one *added* to the pre-existing Austerity that has lasted more than a decade in the last... what, two years? Truly, if one moves to Spain, stays there for a deacade, they aren't in Spain. After all... they didn't *go* to Spain recently. Britain never left austerity, and until we do, the damage done won't go away. But hey, keep lying to yourself.
@@Iltazyara Adjusting for inflation, public spending in the UK has more than doubled in the last twenty four years. I'm sorry, but I refuse to accept your claim that the UK's problems are the result of any _reduction_ in public spending, when no such thing has occurred. They've _never_ cut spending, but even if they had, the difference between what they've supposedly cut and what they've actually added is still _very_ positive, so no, there has been no austerity.
I am not happy with his authoritarian stance. His stance calling protesters far right extremists, arresting 11 year olds,along sentences for facebook posts and outside smoking bans. Just to give foreigners a snap of government priorities, big pay rises for public sector workers whose unions are sponsors of the party, this meant there was no money for pensioners to heat their homes. Some police forces have not resolved a burglary in years but they seem to dedicate lots of resources to social media monitoring.
What about the community leaders that support Palestine? What if they became disillusioned by the government and the police? Starmer is saving this country from chaos
He refuses to listen to the public and their demands, he just labels everyone who disagrees with him as far-right and replaces criminals with them instead
@@full__tiltModern UK has nothing to do with tribal warfare in the middle east. People of the UK want immigration to slow, and have done for at least a decade. The riots are the result of the indigenous population not being listened to.
@@madthough2298 just imagine if you were in the position of a leadership role in the police force. If the community leaders were disgruntled, the best, they will lobby to fire you. At worst there can be terror and chaos for the wider community. Neither is good anyone
@@full__tilt good incentive to follow through on promises as big as reducing immigration. Bit too late now though, just consequences to face. Looks like they are turning to authoritarianism
So nothing to do with effectively labelling anyone concerned about immigration as far right? Nothing to do with completely ignoring the issues mass migration causes?
No, because these issues are a smoke cover for everything else that was going back. Just like the EU was blamed for everything now it's immigrants. You could've got rid of all of them today and the fundamental problems would remain.
Could also be be people are too thick to question what they are spoon-fed by GeeBeebies, Talk TV, Daily Mail, Express etc. Nobody has said questioning immigration is a bad thing.
How? It's not like you can implement registered knife control. Any moron with a piece of metal or a sharp rock and duct tape can make a knife, it's a weapon that's been around since the stone age.
Because despite his campaign rhetoric of unity, service, and economic renewal. He's immediately pivoted to divisive elitist authoritarianism, austerity, and disingenuous excuses.
Not to mention the whole schtick of "Blame The Tories" has gotten old REALLY FAST. Like, we get it Two Tier Kier, Tory bad, that's why the UK voted them out so devastatingly in July. Now that Labour is in power with a majority bigger than the one won by Boris Johnson in 2019, what are you going to do to fix things that isn't performative in nature and actually worth burning political capital for?
@@Nelsonwmj And I'm skeptical they really couldn't have known about the £22bn shortfall. I heard multiple people predicting that situation (and the inevitable excuses) before the election. Besides, £22bn is not even that much when you look at what they're allocating to their pet projects. The cuts are not unavoidable. They are an ideological choice which reveals their priorities.
@andybrice2711 7 billion overspend from housing illegal migrants and I believe another 9 billion from their bribes to the unions. That's nearly ¾ right there alone
Starmer has had to release certain prisoners to make room for rioters" another way of saying that might be, "Starmer has released violent sex offenders to make room for people that posted memes on facebook that he doesn't like" Can't imagine why his approval rating might have dropped.
It's _almost as though_ there isn't enough of a difference between the two parties for people, and they've become disillusioned with all the lofty promises politicians make.
Yes there's not much between the parties, but a big difference is the Tories would tell the people what they want to here but do nothing. Now Labour won't pretend. They won't pretend things will get better and they won't even pretend to like the public.
@@chesterdonnelly1212 Completely agree. Tories let the country turn to shit, but wouldn't admit it had turned to shit. Labour are, for the moment and possibly since it's not currently their fault, willing to admit that the country has turned to shit. Most people are too stupid to realise that the country has turned to shit, so are horrified when the government admits that the country has turned to shit.
What exactly has he done to handle it? Because all actions taken by the police were done according to laws set by previous governments. Tories literary made it illegal to protest in a disturbing way and the new government had no time to change any law yet.
@@zlamanit Starmer called the rightfully angry protestors racists and far-right extremists to ignore the problem they are protesting and rioting against as a whole. This isn’t a very good look.
Who’d have thought that swinging around the judicial system like some kind of authoritarian police state might tank your approval rating. Especially when you’re releasing actual criminals to make room for them
What's worse is that the people you are aiming the judicial system at are part of your voting block. The media can label the protests as 'far right' as they want but the reality was that it was anger from members of the working class at a ruling class (both Tory and Labour) who are only interested in appeasing the Liberal elite and upper middle class.
Democracy especially of the First Past The Post kind has ALWAYS been about popularity contests more than anything else. Win 50+1% of the vote, and you can effectively act with the tyranny of the majority mob and the minority doesn't count or matter.
@@Bushflarecapable and popular can coincide you know... If society as a whole would look more at actual accomplishment, accomplished people would be popular. So yes it's a popularity contest. But you can change or influence what makes someone popular with the population.
@@Bushflare democracy guarantees you can go to the polling station and vote for anyone who appeals to you. It doesn't guarantee that you won't be jailed for memes or taxed to no end tho'.
Point 1 The public voted to get rid of the Tories Point 2 This meant people voted Tactically Point 3 Starmer is not a Socialist and has got where he is by dispelling Socialist from the party Point 4 Starmer has lost the traditional labour voter. Point 5 His supporters were expecting him to attack the Rich (which he may do) but instead he has gone for pensioners and smokers Point 6 He has been economical with the truth He states he had no knowledge of the 20 Billion black Hole . I knew, if I knew he certainly did. There is no wonder opinion of him is plummeting.
In fairness on the black hole, they definitely knew there was one, but they probably didn’t know exactly how big it was. The Tories DID intentionally obfuscate some figures and the OBR has confirmed as much.
Most of the public are not on board with socialism but they are not on board with austerity either Labour should be to the left of Starmer but to the right of Corbyn
Because in official statistics only parties with 6 or more MPs are counted. RefUK have 5. Same reason the greens are excluded despite having more votes than the SNP.
@@Anonyomus_commenter Fair enough. Just another example of why FPTP is ridiculous and the UK isn't a proper democracy. 3rd most votes total, ~4million, and they get so little parliamentary representation that they don't even show up in official statistics. "Riots are the language of the unheard" MLK.
The British working class is sick of immigration. Especially illegal immigration, specifically muslim immigrants. It's the biggest issue of our time, throughout Europe too. People feel ignored, and whereas the Tories used to pay lip service to dealing with immigration, Labour don't. As with other European and Scandinavian countries, this marks the beginning of a massive shift to the right. That's where all the votes both "center" parties have gone.
Not really, Scholz is in coalition. Thanks to the broken election system in the UK, the majority is ruled by a minority, that can get the majority of seats. For 5 years labour can do whatever he wants. Unlike scholtz, who needs to keep a coalition together to stay in power.
Difference is that Scholz has to deal with two other parties in his coalition (the Greens and the FDP) while Starmer has absolute control in the government So if he screws up his five years in office (hopefully he doesn't), it's all on him and the Labour party, with excuses like "Those damn Torries/LibDems/Farangists keep deadlocking my government" never working
In Germany they have coalitions, and they keep their bickerings inside closed doors, until bits of it leak. I think the coalition approach is better for the German electorate. There's talk to introduce tax measures to boost the economy. I've not noticed tax changes on my file and the tax free amount still applies for everyone, as tapering it, is unconstitutional to the Germans.
The real issue that’s being missed here is the huge disconnect between the approach Labour promised and what they’re actually doing now. Many people feel like they were completely misled-almost gaslit-during the election. It’s left a lot of voters frustrated and wondering if they can trust anything they were told.
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv One of the main thrusts of their campaign was tackling public spending by boosting the economy, not adding more taxes... yet the first thing they did was hike taxes on education and pensioners.
@@Nerdy4Life Wasn't it specifically no extra taxes on working people? You can't expect to clean up a mess which has been piling up for more than a decade in less than half a year.
@@mariatheresavonhabsburg That's a classic lawyer's cop-out (which, let's be honest, suits Starmer). The real point they kept making was that they aimed to boost spending primarily through growth, rather than relying on Labour’s usual, but unpopular, Tax & Spend approach-especially with the tax burden already at a historic high. But what's the first thing they did? Raise taxes. And so far, their policies seem more likely to stifle growth than encourage it...and the idea that they didn’t know the state of the finances is a blatant lie-they’ve always had access to the books. It's pretty clear this was their plan all along; they just weren’t upfront about it. And no, the economy was performing at the European average and showing improvement, as the Q1/2 figures indicate. If they genuinely wanted to boost spending through growth, they would’ve introduced growth-friendly policies from the start, instead of immediately resorting to taxation.
@@Nerdy4Life So is the complaint that they although they are remaining consistent with their manifesto policies, they aren't doing some things that you'd hoped they would do? Or that in the 3 months since the election they have not created significant growth in the economy?
Well I'm not sure if you guys watched the opening day of parliament but starmer and rishi were both acting very snuggy and friendly with each other, I sense a bit of collusion there
Starmer essentially calling low income non-londoners racists for being concerned about the stabbing and mass immigration and rioting due to the government’s own incompetence on the situation took a pretty big hit to his polling if i had to say
It's the way the system is, almost no party has ever gotten over 50% of votes. People only complain when it work against them. While I personally feel a new system would be better, there is no perfect system, every type of voting system has some kind of mathematical flaw that allows for "this doesn't feel fair." Fact is though, every party knows the rules, every voter knows the rules and Labour got the largest share, much larger than any of the other parties, so it's not like any of them can claim victory instead.
First past the post is fair because it produces stable governments without backroom deals that people didn't vote for. It breaks down when the two party system that it favours breaks down and thus 3rd parties split the vote. The two party system breaks down when they become so centralised that rival factions are not allowed to form within the two parties. Thus a robust primary voting system is needed to keep the two party system stable by allowing rival factions within parties.
It works like the US house of Representatives, there are a certain number of seats, each one is ostensibly meant to represent an equal number of people, but who gets the seat is determined by _local_ single-winner elections, i.e. whoever wins the most votes in each constituency is given the seat, rather than seats being given out in proportion to votes won in nation-wide elections. This means that a party may win a majority of seats in the legislature without winning a majority of votes across the entire electorate.
The real reason for their unpopularity is the Labour government's dishonesty. Also their total refusal to deal with uncontrolled mass immigration. Wish Starmer would just disappear.
He's ignoring it cos he thinks immigration is a right wing issue, when actually everyone left or right knows it's a massive problem, they just disagree about how to solve it.
But they weren't just making room for rioters when they were freeing the thieves and violent criminals, they were also making room for people who posted views that their government didn't like. The fact that the UK has jailed more people than Russia for political speech should terrify everyone.
The riot laws have been in place in the UK for a very long time. (The Riot Act was passed in 1715!!) It is ridiculous to blame Starmer for people throwing bricks at police and not the idiots breaking the law. Besides which Russia send their prisoners to the front line to be shot at so probably not the best comparison.
@BlyatimirPootin Eh? The incident was falsely portrayed by media to burst the already overinflated anti'immigration bubble. There were peaceful protests as well as kids smashing windows. Not recognizing and acknowledging the importance of number 1 reason for brexit among your electorate is stupid. Discrediting and calling ordinary people as far right after persuading the majority to vote for actual far right ideas is like the frezezer blaming water for becoming ice.
Hm, it's almost like believing an unverifiable claim about a murderer being a Muslim migrant, as an excuse to go out and protest the Muslim and general immigrant communities, there by terrifying them, let alone the rioting and attempted murder of multiple migrants, makes one far right.
Firstly Labour didn't win the election, the SNP & Reform did that for them. Starmer started his premiership by labelling his majority of Labours core constituency (working class white people) as 'far right' because they have concerns over excessive immigration and shared some of the same concerns as the rioters. He then essentially followed up this by reinforcing their fears that white British people are being ignored and gagged by simultaneously reinforcing the belief of a 2 tier policing / justice response and making them feel like his was attacking their ability to voice their opinions.
Serious question. How are donations legal when they are essentially long term bribes? If someone truly wanted to do something to end corruption in politics surely this would be an obvious way to start
Calling everyone who has a concern about immigration racist and far right thugs probably didn’t help, then sending 13 billion abroad to help fight climate change then at the same time saying the country is skint topped it off with the smoking ban 🤦♂️
How is an outdoor smoking ban necessary? 😂 the country is broken. Everything needs fix then yet we prioritise a smoking, your crazy if you find this necessary.
yes, it isnt strictly necessary but it is pretty easy compared to other things tbh, and i hate smokers cuz its a pain to have to hold my breathe when outside
There's a logic to it. Labour's approach to fixing the NHS is to improve people's health throughout society and thereby reduce GP and hospital visits. If people smoke less, it reduces the burden on the NHS. Prevention rather than cure.
The thought process is that it was benefit the NHS. It's definitely not the most impactful thing for the NHS, and it's more of a benefit over time than a sudden drastic change, but it's also fairly easy and very cheap to implement.
@@robertmartin6800 Ah, yes, the logical argument of 'we cut everything to the point it is non-functional, and never put anything back after our "temporary" measures became permanent, but because no more cuts to services already destroyed happened *recently* that means Austerity ended!' Except, you know, it didn't. Because we're still running on Austerity 1.0's damage while trying to implement Austerity 4.0 Britain has been *in* austerity for more than a decade. Just because we didn't recently increase the amount of austerity doesn't mean we ever left; that'd be like saying because you moved to Spain a decade ago, despite still being there, you aren't in Spain. After all, you didn't *go there* recently!
Because it was an MP graph first and they got a very small number of MPs. They kept the columns in the same place and scaled the bars to show the vote share.
Don't forget peeps, this is a government of service and a return to politics. But importantly, "my dad's a toolmaker and my mum's a nurse". That is the most important thing :-)
i'd rather have someone in power who actually lived like a normal person, than the constant eton prep boys who have zero idea what it's like to think about how much they need to spend on food a week so they have enough left over for the electric
@@Silverwidows "I would rather vote for a class traitor who should know better." The Tories never pretended to not have contempt for the working man. Starmer's every other sentence is trying to feign solidarity whilst he's still twisting the knife. No matter where the Tories end up in hell you can be sure Starmer'll be at least one ring deeper.
@@Bushflareyou find a working class person, give them a full political education and put then in number 10. after they make a single policy decision you disagree with you'll be calling them a class traitor.
@@DreZato12 I don't think Starmer's attitude to the working class comes from having a political education. I think that's something the cosmos tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about being classist.
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv well what I mean is it seems like Labour are just as keen as the Conservatives when it comes to austerity, raising taxes and creating laws that restrict people's freedoms and civil rights. if the fiscal policy and political philosophy of the two parties is almost identical if not completely the same, then what "change" are Labour realistically going to offer other than an empty slogan. The only thing they offer is a false sense of security among the population when they think "well they can't be any worse than the tories" when the only difference between is comparable to coca cola and Pepsi, the change in government creates false class consciousness, a false sense of democracy where people think "change is coming" except it isn't because Labour are following the same tired script as the tories with the same level of dishonesty and corruption. Keir starmer is a Liar and a spineless coward. People knew he was a crook but voted him in by the smallest margin ever and he only won bcs the tories were voted down. Keir starmer is a right wing Conservative pretending to be centrist, he's publicly admitted that he "doesn't care" if people think he's a Conservative, because that's exactly what he is, he doesn't care about the NHS and will cut public services just to keep the elite British establishment happy, you know, the ones who secretly own and control everything and use politicians as puppets to befit their own agendas.
@@jamesmulrooney3309 Labour manifesto, none of which are Conservative policies, or direction: 1) VAT on private school fees 2) agree wages rises on public sector 3) reform HoL 4) end Rwanda scheme 5) speed up asylum claim processing 6) privatise railways 7) state owned British energy 8) rebuild relationship EU 9) tougher regulations on water cos 10) windfall tax on energy companies 11) grants for nurses and Dr's 12) 40,000 more Dr appointment 13) end non dom status 14) free breakfast clubs 15) stay in ECHR Labour are demonstrably different to Tory. In regards to the economy, the Labour Party have the same economic position as the Conservatives left.....you seem to be conflating that as though it means they are the same. By the way Clement Attlee imposed tough austerity measures
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv All things that probably won't be implemented or are bare minimum policies which don't do enough to distinguish themselves from the centre-right.
Calling *Thames Water* a public service is, at the very least, misleading. According to Wikipedia, this is a *private utility company* with a monopoly and shareholders that are getting paid substantial dividends while the company has taken out loans accumulating 14 billion in debts.
Thames water company is a privately owned entity which I found surprising due to their financial troubles and issues with faulty equipment and sewage leaks. But I did some digging and it seems that even though they are privately owned and the water market was privatized by Margaret thatchers government the state has involved themselves in the water market The government has used its powers of legislation to make Thames water a regional monopoly meaning that no one is permitted to start a competing water company which means that Thames water has no incentive to keep prices low or have high quality service or to be financially responsible because there is no alternative to them, the people of London cannot switch providers which has made Thames water inefficient. The government has also put a cap on the prices Thames water can set so in effect they are manipulating the market heavily by creating a monopoly and setting price caps which could and is hindering the companies profits. The state has manipulated the private market which has lead to a failing water monopoly created by the state and the state will now have to give Thames water a large check of taxpayer money to keep this inefficient and irresponsible company afloat or the labor government can use this as a pretext to nationalize the water market effectively making the whole of the water market a state monopoly so in the eyes of the socialist labor government the fix to the problem the state created in the first place is to increase government control over the water market. I just can’t imagine a scenario where the labor government would decrease government regulation.
It's a private company that absolutely should be a public service and it's the same with all the water companies in the UK. They should be public services and at one point they were public services but now they are all private companies.
@@pinkdiamond1847 they should all be fully privatized with no regulation of manipulation from the government. They are failing at the moment because of state manipulation in the water market
@@pinkdiamond1847 Thames water company is a privately owned entity which I found surprising due to their financial troubles and issues with faulty equipment and sewage leaks. But I did some digging and it seems that even though they are privately owned and the water market was privatized by Margaret thatchers government the state has involved themselves in the water market The government has used its powers of legislation to make Thames water a regional monopoly meaning that no one is permitted to start a competing water company which means that Thames water has no incentive to keep prices low or have high quality service or to be financially responsible because there is no alternative to them, the people of London cannot switch providers which has made Thames water inefficient. The government has also put a cap on the prices Thames water can set so in effect they are manipulating the market heavily by creating a monopoly and setting price caps which could and is hindering the companies profits. The state has manipulated the private market which has lead to a failing water monopoly created by the state and the state will now have to give Thames water a large check of taxpayer money to keep this inefficient and irresponsible company afloat or the labor government can use this as a pretext to nationalize the water market effectively making the whole of the water market a state monopoly so in the eyes of the socialist labor government the fix to the problem the state created in the first place is to increase government control over the water market. I just can’t imagine a scenario where the labor government would decrease government regulation.
@@FireElemental_FD surprised my comment is still here. Davos is the elephant in the room. A lot of people have no idea what Davos or Whitehall is which makes understanding politics and the current climate next to impossible…. Yet this channel and many of others never speak on them and wipe comments mentioning them.
Tldr he immediately went full authoritarian big brother (pick any other boogeyman, they all apply) and appears to hate the native people of the country he claims to serve.
Hmmm it maybe that calling pretty much every native english male a racist for wanting england to remain english is a pretty certain way to get the english (that did or didn't vote for you) to go from apathy towards you.... to outright hatred towards you.....
I think his policy of letting rapists and murderers out of prison early to make space for thought criminals wasn't the crowd pleaser he hoped it would be.
Polling means nothing now the next election is 5 years away. Also for the people dismissive of first past the post you have to take consideration that under proportional representation negotiations can take months or even years resulting in gridlock and having caretaker government in place. Also porortional representations also is no guarantee of the government having the majority of the votes. Spain for example is having a minority government and technically the opposition won the popular vote but it didn't matter.
True point on the next election being 5 years away but Scotland and Wales have national elections in less than 2 years, and Labour are fighting to be the party of Government in both. Bad polling impacts them as well. Tony Blair's unpopularity contributed to Scottish Labour losing in 2007.
Smoking helps the nhs more than fat people do. It helps lose weight and boost productivity, obesity helps you claim disability and 50 different ways to claim pip
I actually agree with you here not that smoking is good for you The first part of your sentence was well. To put it politely. I think you yourself should be claiming pip for your mental handicap but the second part obesity is a problem that isn't being taken seriously enough by any government and the only government that actually attempted to make a dent in the crisis was actually the conservative government and it's one of the only things I actually agree with the conservatives on. Unfortunately, I believe that the fast food industry and the sugar industry has The government in its back pocket so the only policies that can be made to target obesity are very light touch and surface level stuff like putting a small tax on sugar which the government has already done and encouraging exercise in schools (They probably could and should encourage exercise for employees in the public sector as well) I think if any government was to go right in and ban fast food not only would there be a lot more backlash than they're currently is with the smoking ban that they're talking about (something I also disagree with even though I myself don't smoke or vape) But the economy will also be even more ruined Then it currently is I think a surprising amount of our economy is actually fuelled by the junk food industry and we would probably become a third world country without it. We are already on the border of becoming a third world country as things currently are . I suppose a good start would be to stop giving out pip to anyone who was simply obese with no other problems, but the chances are that people who are obese also have a myriad of other problems that you can't see and that's more likely the reason why they get pip. They probably don't get it for being obese but They get it for of a disabilities that contribute to their obesity, but you only see an obese person and find out that they're claiming benefits and automatically assume the government's paying them to be fat but assuming that you are correct and that people really are being given free money for being obese and having no other problems, the government definitely needs to stop doing that.
No, Labour have not tried to reign in public spending. Yes, they have made a single cut. They have also paid off their union donors with massive pay increases and the train drivers, who are paid £70k for a 4 day week for a job that is literally on rails, are still fucking striking after a 14% pay increase. This offsets any savings they have so far made several times over.
Exactly. The so-called '£20 billion black hole' is mostly just gaslighting, a cover for political decisions they were going to make anyway but didn't want to admit to the public.
His approval rating spiked! at zero. Well okay then, reached the point were I despise every politician of every party. If a MP told me it was Tuesday I would assume it was Saturday
labour didn't win because they were voted in but because people didn't vote for the Tories.
Didn’t vote for any of the alternative candidates, your comment is what’s wrong with the voters in the U.K. they’re mentally stuck with a 2 party system so if they don’t like either the Tories or Labour the majority don’t vote - total stupidity.
@@paullewis2413 you think an alternative party could win with a first past the post ...... thats total sstupidity
@@paullewis2413Reform grew massively, even if it didn't correlate to many seats
@@paullewis2413 This comment makes no sense. The minor parties did better than ever.
@@My_Old_YT_Account Reform grew bc of a mix of extremist views, large funding and policies which were outright ridiculous - how do you think taxes in this country would work if we could work tax-free up to 20k a year? (I wouldn't mind that, but it doesn't really add up). I doubt they'd 'tax the rich' and by Farage's benefits proposals it feels like he's trying to follow the US blueprint of forcing ppl to work to the grave and pay healthcare out of pocket without the promise of their insurance policy covering their full costs.
If there’s one thing I learned from watching this channel is that trying to predict UK politics is like trying to predict the exact location of a quantum particle.
Idk maybe you should listen to Novara media instead then. They (and others on the left tbf) predicted this from way before the election even.
I’m not surprised this comes as a surprise after watching liberal media like TLDR
No because in quantum mechanics you can at least know the chances.
Propaganda is always incorrect. Plenty of others predicted this
That's the dumbest comment I've read for a while. Congrats.
I was going to say, human dynamics are amongst the most complex things to predict in the known universe.
I imagine it's because he and his party, who got a 33% vote share on a 59% turnout, keep announcing policies which seem purposely designed to piss people off
Such as?
I remember when Sunak first joined mainstream politics as Chancellor and was immensely popular simply because he handed out shed loads of cash via furlough for people to sit at home on their sofa's. Voters are extremely fickle. Lots of people enjoy smoking and call it "the nanny state" when they are warned of the dangers of smoking. But then they want the NHS to treat them for the diseases they get from their smoking habit. In the same vain their are approx 10m pensioners in the country and Age UK say approx 2m are in need of winter fuel payments. So by that metric 8m pensioners don't need winter fuel payments so it should be means tested but everyone shouts about the 2m that do.
@@westrim Locking up people for saying 'bad things' on Twitter. Outside smoking ban that will destroy pubs and other venues. Will raise inheritance and capital gains tax- we take on all the risk but they feel they can take our profits. We have another 4 years of this madness.
You can't say it better.
@@westrimtwo tier kier?
The political logic of announcing a heavy-handed and intrusively authoritarian smoking ban ahead of a painful budget, after promising change and to tread lightly on people's lives, truly genius, masterful gambit from the Labour Party
Jailing people for political statements and threatening the public about it might be part of it.
@@oraz.Nothing to hide nothing to fear, I believe is what the tories used to say
@@BlyatimirPootintypical point scoring nonsense that leaves us with the shitshow of politics we have in this country.
Who gives a monkeys what the tories said or what labour said. Bad governments should be called out for being bad and implementing stupid draconian laws.
@@oraz. I don't think encouraging the burning of religious buildings and inciting murder can be described as, "a political statement". That's completely diminishing what was actually said and you know that.
@@timsyoutube6051 bet you didn't say any of this over the last 14 years.
Dodged mentioning the "Two-Tier Keir" issue completely.
there should be two tiers, both sides arent equal in regards to action.
because it's a none-issue
@@delbroox It's not a matter of your or mine opinion of whether it's an issue or not. Polls are just like marketing - _perception is king._ And, as the fine print/follow up questions clearly show, many of those participating in these polls have this perception of Starmer and vote accordingly and that's what counts/contributes to polling results.
@@sbam4881 you said it right, "Perception". None of this is based on sound, critical thinking. It's always about how people feel when they wake up in the morning. Not about knowledge and observation of what actually happens in a complex system like a country's economy. That's why politicians gets crappier, people get poorer and don't understand why, so they trust easy explanation and easy promises of success as well as easy scapegoats for their misery like "immigration".
@@delbroox That gaslighting bs isn't cutting it, we know the truth of what's happening to our own towns because we see it first hand. In the form our local areas being less safe, we SEE the reality of the proliferation of unpleasant and aggressive people on our streets - they harrass or victimize us for no good reason - every person i know encounters crime annually and hears about sometimes weekly, the political and religious mobilizations including but not limited to a new vicious antisemitism that we constantly observe around us and strongly disagree with leave us deeply uncomfortable. You're probably some rich kid whose never even lived within 5 blocks of the problems you claim don't exist; give us a break, your arrogance is the problem, not our working class inability to not believe our lying eyes...
I think as a final decision, before he goes, lary the cat should be given the role of PM. He's been there for a while and deserves it
Unfortunately Larry isn't likely to make it much longer...
Larry would be a lot more popular that Keir.
Probably one of the few of us who haven't had a go yet!
or Mr Bean.
Because larry is an elderly cat. that eventhough tough Is getting older & maybe not ideal...
Larry would do a better job too no doubt than any of his PM's have so far.
His party got 33% of vote out of 55% voter turnout, they aren’t very popular to start with
Only two countries in Europe have first-past-the-post system: UK and Belarus.
@lcoyle1998 every 5 years.
@lcoyle1998
Meither does the UK.
@@9n3- It is designed for two parties and two parties only. You may have noticed that there are more than two parties in the UK.
It is outdated and not fit for purpose in a functioning democracy.
FPTP and forcing ppl to vote are two different things completely
Saying things like "think before you post" doesn't help your approval rating I think.
It's thought police, like in Orwell's 1984 or in Soviet Union, or in North Korea actually
Objectively "think before you post" is a good sentiment to express. But the way it's gone about from Two Tier Kier stinks more of a headmaster reading the riot act to the school he's the leader of just to show who's in charge, and less of trying to inculcate a society that has better critical thinking skills and more nuanced discourse IN PERSON rather than perennially online.
It’s a good sentiment from a friend, to stop you getting kicked out of a social group, not a PM to stop you being locked up for 3 years
@@kamranrachlin2769 They don't even lock people up for 3 years if they are caught committing a knife crime or having a zombie knife on them. It's insane.
Playing down what’s happened to protect your biased position only goes to expose you for just how biased you are and weakens the position you’re attempting to defend by demonstrating you can’t defend it on merit alone but only through deceit. Starmer did not say “think before you post” Starmer said “you better not think that else you’re going to prison” there is no difference between speech and thought.
He is literally doing everything he can to make people dislike him
He is a natural at doing that, an ideologue with no personality.
@@davidfoster2006yeah let's get Truss back in charge
please be specific
@@BlyatimirPootin I'd rather have experimental economics than more of the same but worse, that's not what the UK vote for.
@@WhatyourAncestorsknewExperimental Economics that almost collapsed fucking everything and worsened inequalities during a cost of living crisis is to you less egregious than a month old government logically trying to fix things and maybe limiting people‘s ability to put poison in their lungs.
You conveniently left out Starmer's atrocious response to the Southport stabbings and the ensuing riots.
Did your cousins get locked up?
I don't like Starmer, but Im not certain what you'd have preferred him to do. If you're upset about rioters going to prison, then that's your own fault
I thought
Starmer's eventual response to the riots was one of the only good thing he has done in office.
@crayontom9687 were you recently unemployed and fired from your job?
@dansomething7742 What Starmer needed to do was say rioting is not good, you will be arrested, but he also needed to acknowledge the concerns of the British people that have been simmering and lead to this explosion of violence. Instead he went full attack dog on anyone seen as being on the right of the immigration debate. Completely disregarded their concerns and seemed to be given preferential treatment to foreigners. He has earned the nickname Two-Tier Kier. This was after he campaigned on addressing the high levels of immigration into the UK.
Let us be clear about this - Starmer DIDN'T win a massive majority - as a result of the 'First Past the Post' system, he managed to secure the majority of the seats but only a third of the votes. In fact, looking at the low turnout he only had 20% of registered votes. So his popularity in the country was low to start with.
You could say the same about Cameron's wins, May and *even* Brexit.
@@blazzz13 exactly, he has even less of a mandate
@@tarqinquentinsson-obviousl957 I mean 10 million votes is more than any other party- got the largest vote share and under FPTP a thumping majority. As I said, the same logic applies to previous Tory wins and Brexit.
@@blazzz13 sure, great system 👍
He did win a massive majority of the seats. That you can do that with rather few votes is just a problem with your broken electoral system. It's also not unique to stamer. The Tories have profited from the same thing as well. So let's be clear, don't blame stamer for a system that has been there for quite a while. He didn't cheat, he followed the rules and won. unsatisfied? Change the system. You could change to pr, but most of you don't like that either. Some of you want ranked choice, but that is just a slightly less broken version of what you already got.
Veritasium recently did a video showing all first past the post and ranked systems are basically broken and unfair. And he included the mathematics to prove it. Mathematics that have been known for centuries.
Proportional representation is the only fair and truly democratic system. Every vote counts and has representation in the government.
Yes you get coalitions, but only if they people are strongly divided in opinion. If they are the government should reflect that as everybody gets representation. You have to work out a solution together. Unlike the Brits that suffer tyranny of the minority, be they Tories or labour.
He has no empathy for the public and has lost the publics trust in only 6 weeks.
Anyone who has followed politics for more than five years knows how this will end.
the people simply want Easy fix and want someone who reassures them saying everything will be great. LIke Boris did, Like Trump did in the US. They don't have a real critical opinion on him. He says things like they are. Tough. The truth is that it's early to say how he'll do, and if things do improve for people, they'll suddenly like him more.
Riiight, it was definitely because of his actions and not because the entire media establishment in your country is owned by a handful of right wing billionaires like Rupert Murdoch who are VERY invested in shaping public opinion, the same who tore down Corbyn as being “antisemitic” because he tried to take them on. It seems the propaganda is too ubiquitous for any change to happen.
No empathy for public? Like not handing out winter fuel payments which most pensioners don't need (pension is plenty) ? We don't have the money to spare...where tf should he get it? Printing money? Even if he could - you'd then complain about inflation. Theres no winning with ya'll. Running a country is a mess of tradeoffs.
@@The_Reductionist Twenty councillors quit Labour in Starmer protest.
Google the story it is on the BBC website.
So a prime minister only 20% of the country voted for is unpopular, who would have thought?
So, you want a PM that even less voted for?
Still makes him the most popular out of all the other contenders.
14.4% 😬
well will you go out and force everyone to vote? they won out of the people who voted, like it or not, out of all who voted they had the highest, doesnt matter how many voted. If you didn't vote and complain about the outcome. Thats your fault.
Yet over 30% of voters
Another issue is his full embrace of two tier policing
No mention of the riots at all. Bravo. Great unbiased coverage here, guys.
because if things to improve I bet that people will forget entirely about that in a few months. People have generally a VERY short memory
@@delbroox DOUBT
@@pevebe I don’t unfortunately.
@@delbroox DOUBT
@@pevebe you can keep doubting. That won’t change the facts. If you looked at facts instead of opinions you’d realise it. I’m not stating anything extraordinary. That’s just how it works, I encourage you to do a bit of research
An entire video about why Two-Tier Kier is unpopular, without once mentioning his arrogant and high-handed attitude to the disturbances. He appears to hate the British, and the British are responding in the same way.
Yeah, I really hoped the TLDR quality slide wouldn't continue, but here it is.
Twitter bot!
@@nickhalden4759God forbid someone states an opinion you don't like
@@nickhalden4759 I take it that you're a tribal Labour drone who cannot comprehend your latest Dear Leader ever being less than perfect? Moron.
because little girls get stabbed and he arrests people who complain. Any other explanation is wrong.
Starmer went out in the streets to arrest people?
And since when did complaints come in a form of bricks thrown at the police?
Didn’t they just arrest the rioters? I never saw any news about people getting arrested who didn’t participate
Disinformation. Rioters throwing stones at police, looting and attacking immigrants were arrested
I don't want to upset you, but the fella who did the stabbing was also arrested
@@4m4n40just look up all the people arrested for social media posts or the 11 year old that was arrested for posting.... Two tier Kier.
I think jail sentences for tweets a bit much
It's all coming to the USA if that woman gets in. Expect it to happen week one.
Even if that tweet led to violence?
@@Anonyomus_commenter it can be anything. Even sending people to prison for years, just for looking at a riot. I'm not joking. Just looking.
@@limpethead I’m gonna want a source for that. And no the telegraph, Fox and GB news don’t count
@@Anonyomus_commenter Shut.up.
Because he dislikes English people
native English people.
Well done, you've found something I agree with Keir Starmer on. He still likes racists though, so most English people are going to be fine.
@@johnbehan1526 crazy that you say you don't like a people and call others racist in the same post
One word and that word is 'twat'@@johnbehan1526
@@johnbehan1526 that would include you
No mention of two tier policing. Typical TLDR. Missing the mark again!
They didn't mention the lizard race, the illuminati or the aliens that built the pyramids either.
@@gartut200 "just the facts, ma'am"
TDLR deals in facts, not GeeBeebies fueled innuendo
Referred to reform as "other" at the start too.
@@EchoBeach501sure immigrant
nothing will be fixed in the long term until fptp is replaced
Nothing will be fixed in the long term after fptp is replaced either, because the UK needs radical change and no democratic process creates that, only general strikes do.
Which Starmer is refusing to do because he is taking that majority for granted.
Yeah, both major parties love FPTP because it guarantees they'll stay entrenched indefinitely (barring like, a political cataclysm) and don't have to compete with other parties. It's enough to be the Less Shitty Party(TM), instead of actually being good. When every party with any chance of seizing power likes something detrimental to the majority of citizens, it's a dictatorship on that subject matter.
@@jackmonaghan8477no he refuses to do so as fptp benefits him
@@S3lvah Luckily, FPTP is keeping far-right cancerous party's, like the failed Brexit Party 'Reform,' at bay. If those nutjobs come into the power, the UK is finished.
"We're not going back to austerity"
Proceeding to announce austerity
I wonder why
Labour aren't doing austerity. Neither have any of their predecessors, but that's beside the point.
@@robertmartin6800 Ah, yes, the arguement of 'we aren't in Austerity' because... no one *added* to the pre-existing Austerity that has lasted more than a decade in the last... what, two years?
Truly, if one moves to Spain, stays there for a deacade, they aren't in Spain. After all... they didn't *go* to Spain recently.
Britain never left austerity, and until we do, the damage done won't go away. But hey, keep lying to yourself.
@@Iltazyara Adjusting for inflation, public spending in the UK has more than doubled in the last twenty four years.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to accept your claim that the UK's problems are the result of any _reduction_ in public spending, when no such thing has occurred. They've _never_ cut spending, but even if they had, the difference between what they've supposedly cut and what they've actually added is still _very_ positive, so no, there has been no austerity.
@@robertmartin6800Did you forget to mention everything costs more and people can’t save money because they’re one mistake from homelessness?
@@4m4n40 If the state were less reckless with it's spending, we wouldn't all be getting poorer.
I am not happy with his authoritarian stance. His stance calling protesters far right extremists, arresting 11 year olds,along sentences for facebook posts and outside smoking bans. Just to give foreigners a snap of government priorities, big pay rises for public sector workers whose unions are sponsors of the party, this meant there was no money for pensioners to heat their homes. Some police forces have not resolved a burglary in years but they seem to dedicate lots of resources to social media monitoring.
What about the community leaders that support Palestine? What if they became disillusioned by the government and the police? Starmer is saving this country from chaos
He refuses to listen to the public and their demands, he just labels everyone who disagrees with him as far-right and replaces criminals with them instead
@@full__tiltModern UK has nothing to do with tribal warfare in the middle east.
People of the UK want immigration to slow, and have done for at least a decade. The riots are the result of the indigenous population not being listened to.
@@madthough2298 just imagine if you were in the position of a leadership role in the police force. If the community leaders were disgruntled, the best, they will lobby to fire you. At worst there can be terror and chaos for the wider community. Neither is good anyone
@@full__tilt good incentive to follow through on promises as big as reducing immigration. Bit too late now though, just consequences to face. Looks like they are turning to authoritarianism
So nothing to do with effectively labelling anyone concerned about immigration as far right? Nothing to do with completely ignoring the issues mass migration causes?
No, because these issues are a smoke cover for everything else that was going back. Just like the EU was blamed for everything now it's immigrants. You could've got rid of all of them today and the fundamental problems would remain.
Could also be be people are too thick to question what they are spoon-fed by GeeBeebies, Talk TV, Daily Mail, Express etc. Nobody has said questioning immigration is a bad thing.
Starmer picks on easy targets.......OAP's + Smokers......What about stopping Knife Crime.
How? It's not like you can implement registered knife control. Any moron with a piece of metal or a sharp rock and duct tape can make a knife, it's a weapon that's been around since the stone age.
he's a fucking paedo protector, what did you expect ?
Because despite his campaign rhetoric of unity, service, and economic renewal. He's immediately pivoted to divisive elitist authoritarianism, austerity, and disingenuous excuses.
Not to mention the whole schtick of "Blame The Tories" has gotten old REALLY FAST.
Like, we get it Two Tier Kier, Tory bad, that's why the UK voted them out so devastatingly in July. Now that Labour is in power with a majority bigger than the one won by Boris Johnson in 2019, what are you going to do to fix things that isn't performative in nature and actually worth burning political capital for?
really though anybody who believed it is braindead. Try nationalist vote next time.
@@Nelsonwmj And I'm skeptical they really couldn't have known about the £22bn shortfall. I heard multiple people predicting that situation (and the inevitable excuses) before the election.
Besides, £22bn is not even that much when you look at what they're allocating to their pet projects. The cuts are not unavoidable. They are an ideological choice which reveals their priorities.
@andybrice2711
7 billion overspend from housing illegal migrants and I believe another 9 billion from their bribes to the unions. That's nearly ¾ right there alone
@@andybrice2711 Plus that £22 bn represents less than 2% of government spending. So not so much a 'blackhole' as a pothole.
It's the immigration, dude.
Arresting people for social media posts expressing dissent with government policy or expressing 'offensive' opinions? Including an 11 year old.
It also doesn't help Starmer calling everyone he disagrees with as far right.
This is why I will vote REFORM at the upcoming opportunities
The 11 year old was at the riots. And the social media posts are specifically for inciting violence, not disagreeing with the government
Though Keir Starmer didn't direct those arrests personally.
Reform is just reactionary populism lead by a conman
£10.000,000,000 to Africa.
£ 3.000,000,000 to Zelenski.
But, Means testing British Pensioners to save
£ 1 Billion doesn't wash. Son
Starmer has had to release certain prisoners to make room for rioters"
another way of saying that might be,
"Starmer has released violent sex offenders to make room for people that posted memes on facebook that he doesn't like"
Can't imagine why his approval rating might have dropped.
It's _almost as though_ there isn't enough of a difference between the two parties for people, and they've become disillusioned with all the lofty promises politicians make.
Yes there's not much between the parties, but a big difference is the Tories would tell the people what they want to here but do nothing. Now Labour won't pretend. They won't pretend things will get better and they won't even pretend to like the public.
Different parties
Same economic problems
🎯
@@chesterdonnelly1212 "Labour won't pretend..." That is definitely not going to age well.
@@chesterdonnelly1212
Completely agree. Tories let the country turn to shit, but wouldn't admit it had turned to shit. Labour are, for the moment and possibly since it's not currently their fault, willing to admit that the country has turned to shit. Most people are too stupid to realise that the country has turned to shit, so are horrified when the government admits that the country has turned to shit.
His handling of the riots was a disaster.
Many core labour voters felt they were being directly attacked.
What exactly has he done to handle it? Because all actions taken by the police were done according to laws set by previous governments. Tories literary made it illegal to protest in a disturbing way and the new government had no time to change any law yet.
@@zlamanit Starmer called the rightfully angry protestors racists and far-right extremists to ignore the problem they are protesting and rioting against as a whole. This isn’t a very good look.
"Marcon just became an unpopular mess? Let me swim to europe to shake his hand! "- Starmer
Also Germany - people are sick of continuity liberalism
Putting people in prison for words and memes, no matter how spicy the words/memes are, isn't going to win you friends among the general public.
Oh, it couldn’t be because they are doing a terrible job and all their announcements are bonkers…
Who’d have thought that swinging around the judicial system like some kind of authoritarian police state might tank your approval rating. Especially when you’re releasing actual criminals to make room for them
What's worse is that the people you are aiming the judicial system at are part of your voting block. The media can label the protests as 'far right' as they want but the reality was that it was anger from members of the working class at a ruling class (both Tory and Labour) who are only interested in appeasing the Liberal elite and upper middle class.
These modern times Government boils down to a popularity competition, nothing to do with getting "the job done" any more.
Boy, the day someone explains how democracy works to this guy his mind is gonna explode.
Daily knife attacks, pensioners stripped of heating rebate and 11 year old kids being arrested for protesting knife attacks
Democracy especially of the First Past The Post kind has ALWAYS been about popularity contests more than anything else. Win 50+1% of the vote, and you can effectively act with the tyranny of the majority mob and the minority doesn't count or matter.
@@Bushflarecapable and popular can coincide you know... If society as a whole would look more at actual accomplishment, accomplished people would be popular.
So yes it's a popularity contest. But you can change or influence what makes someone popular with the population.
@@Bushflare democracy guarantees you can go to the polling station and vote for anyone who appeals to you. It doesn't guarantee that you won't be jailed for memes or taxed to no end tho'.
Point 1 The public voted to get rid of the Tories
Point 2 This meant people voted Tactically
Point 3 Starmer is not a Socialist and has got where he is by dispelling Socialist from the party
Point 4 Starmer has lost the traditional labour voter.
Point 5 His supporters were expecting him to attack the Rich (which he may do) but instead he has gone for pensioners and smokers
Point 6 He has been economical with the truth He states he had no knowledge of the 20 Billion black Hole . I knew, if I knew he certainly did.
There is no wonder opinion of him is plummeting.
This sums it up nicely, good job.
exactly. the honeymoon period thing sounds like an oversimplification but it's not.
In fairness on the black hole, they definitely knew there was one, but they probably didn’t know exactly how big it was. The Tories DID intentionally obfuscate some figures and the OBR has confirmed as much.
and that's just the left wing perspective.
Most of the public are not on board with socialism but they are not on board with austerity either
Labour should be to the left of Starmer but to the right of Corbyn
0:12 what the hell TDLR! The 3rd most popular voted party is Reform UK. Why make the choice to remove them?!
Because in official statistics only parties with 6 or more MPs are counted. RefUK have 5. Same reason the greens are excluded despite having more votes than the SNP.
Leftists like to selectively omit statistics they find contradict their politics.
@@C.I... See my above comment- I assume that’s what you mean :)
@@Anonyomus_commenter Fair enough. Just another example of why FPTP is ridiculous and the UK isn't a proper democracy. 3rd most votes total, ~4million, and they get so little parliamentary representation that they don't even show up in official statistics. "Riots are the language of the unheard" MLK.
The British working class is sick of immigration. Especially illegal immigration, specifically muslim immigrants. It's the biggest issue of our time, throughout Europe too. People feel ignored, and whereas the Tories used to pay lip service to dealing with immigration, Labour don't.
As with other European and Scandinavian countries, this marks the beginning of a massive shift to the right. That's where all the votes both "center" parties have gone.
Starmer seems to be aiming to replicate Scholz's situation in the UK
And just as AfD is reaping dividends in the eastern parts of Germany, so will Reform and Nigel Farage come 2029.
Not really, Scholz is in coalition. Thanks to the broken election system in the UK, the majority is ruled by a minority, that can get the majority of seats. For 5 years labour can do whatever he wants. Unlike scholtz, who needs to keep a coalition together to stay in power.
Difference is that Scholz has to deal with two other parties in his coalition (the Greens and the FDP) while Starmer has absolute control in the government
So if he screws up his five years in office (hopefully he doesn't), it's all on him and the Labour party, with excuses like "Those damn Torries/LibDems/Farangists keep deadlocking my government" never working
In Germany they have coalitions, and they keep their bickerings inside closed doors, until bits of it leak. I think the coalition approach is better for the German electorate. There's talk to introduce tax measures to boost the economy. I've not noticed tax changes on my file and the tax free amount still applies for everyone, as tapering it, is unconstitutional to the Germans.
And yes I'm a Brit out, having a beer by a river
The real issue that’s being missed here is the huge disconnect between the approach Labour promised and what they’re actually doing now. Many people feel like they were completely misled-almost gaslit-during the election. It’s left a lot of voters frustrated and wondering if they can trust anything they were told.
What disconnect?
What manifesto policies have they ignored?
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv One of the main thrusts of their campaign was tackling public spending by boosting the economy, not adding more taxes... yet the first thing they did was hike taxes on education and pensioners.
@@Nerdy4Life
Wasn't it specifically no extra taxes on working people?
You can't expect to clean up a mess which has been piling up for more than a decade in less than half a year.
@@mariatheresavonhabsburg That's a classic lawyer's cop-out (which, let's be honest, suits Starmer). The real point they kept making was that they aimed to boost spending primarily through growth, rather than relying on Labour’s usual, but unpopular, Tax & Spend approach-especially with the tax burden already at a historic high. But what's the first thing they did? Raise taxes. And so far, their policies seem more likely to stifle growth than encourage it...and the idea that they didn’t know the state of the finances is a blatant lie-they’ve always had access to the books. It's pretty clear this was their plan all along; they just weren’t upfront about it.
And no, the economy was performing at the European average and showing improvement, as the Q1/2 figures indicate. If they genuinely wanted to boost spending through growth, they would’ve introduced growth-friendly policies from the start, instead of immediately resorting to taxation.
@@Nerdy4Life
So is the complaint that they although they are remaining consistent with their manifesto policies, they aren't doing some things that you'd hoped they would do? Or that in the 3 months since the election they have not created significant growth in the economy?
he is trying very hard to revive the tories
He is a Tory
@@david030491 behave he is a trotskyist
@@david030491 Tory was just a slow version of Labour. Congrats, you got the normal speed now.
Well I'm not sure if you guys watched the opening day of parliament but starmer and rishi were both acting very snuggy and friendly with each other, I sense a bit of collusion there
Like how Reform's substantial vote share was put into 'Other'
Starmer essentially calling low income non-londoners racists for being concerned about the stabbing and mass immigration and rioting due to the government’s own incompetence on the situation took a pretty big hit to his polling if i had to say
He's responsible for draconian sentences for relative minor crimes. For that, there's no forgetting or forgiving!
I am not a great expert of the British electoral system but it seems to be unfair that with the 1/3 of the votes you get the 2/3 of the seats.
It's the way the system is, almost no party has ever gotten over 50% of votes.
People only complain when it work against them.
While I personally feel a new system would be better, there is no perfect system, every type of voting system has some kind of mathematical flaw that allows for "this doesn't feel fair."
Fact is though, every party knows the rules, every voter knows the rules and Labour got the largest share, much larger than any of the other parties, so it's not like any of them can claim victory instead.
First past the post is fair because it produces stable governments without backroom deals that people didn't vote for. It breaks down when the two party system that it favours breaks down and thus 3rd parties split the vote. The two party system breaks down when they become so centralised that rival factions are not allowed to form within the two parties. Thus a robust primary voting system is needed to keep the two party system stable by allowing rival factions within parties.
Lib Dems tried to get it changed but we, the public, rejected a move in that direction. We preferred FPTP, it seems.
It works like the US house of Representatives, there are a certain number of seats, each one is ostensibly meant to represent an equal number of people, but who gets the seat is determined by _local_ single-winner elections, i.e. whoever wins the most votes in each constituency is given the seat, rather than seats being given out in proportion to votes won in nation-wide elections. This means that a party may win a majority of seats in the legislature without winning a majority of votes across the entire electorate.
Politics isn't a popularity contest
The real reason for their unpopularity is the Labour government's dishonesty. Also their total refusal to deal with uncontrolled mass immigration. Wish Starmer would just disappear.
He's ignoring it cos he thinks immigration is a right wing issue, when actually everyone left or right knows it's a massive problem, they just disagree about how to solve it.
Because he is showing his true authoritarian colours - attack on working class people who dont support him
They only had 37% of the vote to begin with. Let’s not pretend that he had some sort of mandate.
Why have you listed Britain's third largest party by vote share, Reform, as "other" but SNP get shown?
Noticed that as well. Thats obvious manipulation
But they weren't just making room for rioters when they were freeing the thieves and violent criminals, they were also making room for people who posted views that their government didn't like.
The fact that the UK has jailed more people than Russia for political speech should terrify everyone.
The riot laws have been in place in the UK for a very long time. (The Riot Act was passed in 1715!!) It is ridiculous to blame Starmer for people throwing bricks at police and not the idiots breaking the law. Besides which Russia send their prisoners to the front line to be shot at so probably not the best comparison.
This whole comment is a lie
Because he is bringing England to its knees
Immediately becoming a tyrant doesn't help
6:00 there is a long list of things the government should take care of first, rather than focused on banning smoking.
Calling your own people far right, then hoping for popularity? GG EZ
If the boot fits? The majority of people don't agree with using the murder of children to smash things up, would you believe.
@@BlyatimirPootin most did not.
@BlyatimirPootin Eh? The incident was falsely portrayed by media to burst the already overinflated anti'immigration bubble. There were peaceful protests as well as kids smashing windows. Not recognizing and acknowledging the importance of number 1 reason for brexit among your electorate is stupid. Discrediting and calling ordinary people as far right after persuading the majority to vote for actual far right ideas is like the frezezer blaming water for becoming ice.
Hm, it's almost like believing an unverifiable claim about a murderer being a Muslim migrant, as an excuse to go out and protest the Muslim and general immigrant communities, there by terrifying them, let alone the rioting and attempted murder of multiple migrants, makes one far right.
Truth hurts, doesn't it?
Two words; Two, tier.
Firstly Labour didn't win the election, the SNP & Reform did that for them. Starmer started his premiership by labelling his majority of Labours core constituency (working class white people) as 'far right' because they have concerns over excessive immigration and shared some of the same concerns as the rioters. He then essentially followed up this by reinforcing their fears that white British people are being ignored and gagged by simultaneously reinforcing the belief of a 2 tier policing / justice response and making them feel like his was attacking their ability to voice their opinions.
I imagine Starmer won't be cutting any of the 8.5 billion that is spent on migrant services... In fact, that will most likely increase.
Serious question. How are donations legal when they are essentially long term bribes? If someone truly wanted to do something to end corruption in politics surely this would be an obvious way to start
You seem to bave missed mentioning the public sector pay rises that Labour have just been rolling over for
I don't think public sector workers getting a pay rise has anything at all to do with it.
Calling everyone who has a concern about immigration racist and far right thugs probably didn’t help, then sending 13 billion abroad to help fight climate change then at the same time saying the country is skint topped it off with the smoking ban 🤦♂️
How is an outdoor smoking ban necessary? 😂 the country is broken. Everything needs fix then yet we prioritise a smoking, your crazy if you find this necessary.
yes, it isnt strictly necessary but it is pretty easy compared to other things tbh, and i hate smokers cuz its a pain to have to hold my breathe when outside
They are just desperately looking for something smoking-related to ban (apart from just outright banning smoking).
There's a logic to it. Labour's approach to fixing the NHS is to improve people's health throughout society and thereby reduce GP and hospital visits. If people smoke less, it reduces the burden on the NHS. Prevention rather than cure.
The thought process is that it was benefit the NHS. It's definitely not the most impactful thing for the NHS, and it's more of a benefit over time than a sudden drastic change, but it's also fairly easy and very cheap to implement.
@@Johnjohnson2695 Banning alcohol and sugary foods would probably help the NHS a lot more.
Almost as if releasing people from prison early and cutting winter fuel payments for the elderly are things that the public isn't in favour of.
Who ever voted labour need to take a long Look in the mirror 🤬
Subtext: "Maybe austerity will work this time, only time will tell..." 🥴
Try trading even less with your nearest neighbours. Surely prosperity will come from protectionism
Pay increases for public sector workers is not austerity
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv There are more parts of a country than just the NHS and the railways.
What austerity? Public spending hasn't decreased in _years,_ there's been no austerity.
@@robertmartin6800 Ah, yes, the logical argument of 'we cut everything to the point it is non-functional, and never put anything back after our "temporary" measures became permanent, but because no more cuts to services already destroyed happened *recently* that means Austerity ended!'
Except, you know, it didn't. Because we're still running on Austerity 1.0's damage while trying to implement Austerity 4.0
Britain has been *in* austerity for more than a decade. Just because we didn't recently increase the amount of austerity doesn't mean we ever left; that'd be like saying because you moved to Spain a decade ago, despite still being there, you aren't in Spain. After all, you didn't *go there* recently!
2:49 why did you leave Reform UK out of the graph despite their vote share being higher than that of Lib Dems and SNP?
Because it was an MP graph first and they got a very small number of MPs. They kept the columns in the same place and scaled the bars to show the vote share.
The taxes coming our way will cause more issues for him.
If Labour didn't nuke their own candidate last time..
You said "had to free prisoners" mate he released serial sex offenders to put your mates grandad in a cell because he was loitering at a protest.
He was never that popular in the first place.
Don't forget peeps, this is a government of service and a return to politics. But importantly, "my dad's a toolmaker and my mum's a nurse". That is the most important thing :-)
i'd rather have someone in power who actually lived like a normal person, than the constant eton prep boys who have zero idea what it's like to think about how much they need to spend on food a week so they have enough left over for the electric
@@Silverwidows
"I would rather vote for a class traitor who should know better."
The Tories never pretended to not have contempt for the working man. Starmer's every other sentence is trying to feign solidarity whilst he's still twisting the knife.
No matter where the Tories end up in hell you can be sure Starmer'll be at least one ring deeper.
@@Bushflareyou find a working class person, give them a full political education and put then in number 10. after they make a single policy decision you disagree with you'll be calling them a class traitor.
Well Two Tier Kier certainly did get one thing right.
The son of a toolmaker is turning out to be one of the best tools ever created.
@@DreZato12
I don't think Starmer's attitude to the working class comes from having a political education. I think that's something the cosmos tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about being classist.
I hated him b4 he became pm because I knew he was a blue Labour sycophant who was going to continue austerity and promote autocracy
What you mean is the UKs economic situation hasn’t changed when the govt changed….so you are blaming Labour for being honest
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv well what I mean is it seems like Labour are just as keen as the Conservatives when it comes to austerity, raising taxes and creating laws that restrict people's freedoms and civil rights. if the fiscal policy and political philosophy of the two parties is almost identical if not completely the same, then what "change" are Labour realistically going to offer other than an empty slogan. The only thing they offer is a false sense of security among the population when they think "well they can't be any worse than the tories" when the only difference between is comparable to coca cola and Pepsi, the change in government creates false class consciousness, a false sense of democracy where people think "change is coming" except it isn't because Labour are following the same tired script as the tories with the same level of dishonesty and corruption. Keir starmer is a Liar and a spineless coward. People knew he was a crook but voted him in by the smallest margin ever and he only won bcs the tories were voted down. Keir starmer is a right wing Conservative pretending to be centrist, he's publicly admitted that he "doesn't care" if people think he's a Conservative, because that's exactly what he is, he doesn't care about the NHS and will cut public services just to keep the elite British establishment happy, you know, the ones who secretly own and control everything and use politicians as puppets to befit their own agendas.
@@jamesmulrooney3309 Labour manifesto, none of which are Conservative policies, or direction:
1) VAT on private school fees
2) agree wages rises on public sector
3) reform HoL
4) end Rwanda scheme
5) speed up asylum claim processing
6) privatise railways
7) state owned British energy
8) rebuild relationship EU
9) tougher regulations on water cos
10) windfall tax on energy companies
11) grants for nurses and Dr's
12) 40,000 more Dr appointment
13) end non dom status
14) free breakfast clubs
15) stay in ECHR
Labour are demonstrably different to Tory.
In regards to the economy, the Labour Party have the same economic position as the Conservatives left.....you seem to be conflating that as though it means they are the same.
By the way Clement Attlee imposed tough austerity measures
@@RobinHarris-nf4yvfor 6) didn't you mean Nationalise Railways?
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv All things that probably won't be implemented or are bare minimum policies which don't do enough to distinguish themselves from the centre-right.
Calling *Thames Water* a public service is, at the very least, misleading.
According to Wikipedia, this is a *private utility company* with a monopoly and shareholders that are getting paid substantial dividends while the company has taken out loans accumulating 14 billion in debts.
Thames water company is a privately owned entity which I found surprising due to their financial troubles and issues with faulty equipment and sewage leaks. But I did some digging and it seems that even though they are privately owned and the water market was privatized by Margaret thatchers government the state has involved themselves in the water market The government has used its powers of legislation to make Thames water a regional monopoly meaning that no one is permitted to start a competing water company which means that Thames water has no incentive to keep prices low or have high quality service or to be financially responsible because there is no alternative to them, the people of London cannot switch providers which has made Thames water inefficient. The government has also put a cap on the prices Thames water can set so in effect they are manipulating the market heavily by creating a monopoly and setting price caps which could and is hindering the companies profits. The state has manipulated the private market which has lead to a failing water monopoly created by the state and the state will now have to give Thames water a large check of taxpayer money to keep this inefficient and irresponsible company afloat or the labor government can use this as a pretext to nationalize the water market effectively making the whole of the water market a state monopoly so in the eyes of the socialist labor government the fix to the problem the state created in the first place is to increase government control over the water market. I just can’t imagine a scenario where the labor government would decrease government regulation.
It's a private company that absolutely should be a public service and it's the same with all the water companies in the UK. They should be public services and at one point they were public services but now they are all private companies.
@@pinkdiamond1847 they should all be fully privatized with no regulation of manipulation from the government. They are failing at the moment because of state manipulation in the water market
@@pinkdiamond1847 Thames water company is a privately owned entity which I found surprising due to their financial troubles and issues with faulty equipment and sewage leaks. But I did some digging and it seems that even though they are privately owned and the water market was privatized by Margaret thatchers government the state has involved themselves in the water market The government has used its powers of legislation to make Thames water a regional monopoly meaning that no one is permitted to start a competing water company which means that Thames water has no incentive to keep prices low or have high quality service or to be financially responsible because there is no alternative to them, the people of London cannot switch providers which has made Thames water inefficient. The government has also put a cap on the prices Thames water can set so in effect they are manipulating the market heavily by creating a monopoly and setting price caps which could and is hindering the companies profits. The state has manipulated the private market which has lead to a failing water monopoly created by the state and the state will now have to give Thames water a large check of taxpayer money to keep this inefficient and irresponsible company afloat or the labor government can use this as a pretext to nationalize the water market effectively making the whole of the water market a state monopoly so in the eyes of the socialist labor government the fix to the problem the state created in the first place is to increase government control over the water market. I just can’t imagine a scenario where the labor government would decrease government regulation.
Starmer getting the government was like a coup d’etat. Voted by almost no one.
Why do comments on Davos get deleted from this page?
Because in Europe there is censorship and you can not write about Davos and migrants.
@@user-xd5fl3my6l regime propaganda, dissent not tolerated
comments with words "white" and "european" also get deleted everytime
@@FireElemental_FD surprised my comment is still here. Davos is the elephant in the room. A lot of people have no idea what Davos or Whitehall is which makes understanding politics and the current climate next to impossible…. Yet this channel and many of others never speak on them and wipe comments mentioning them.
@@FireElemental_FDwell clearly they don’t
Tldr he immediately went full authoritarian big brother (pick any other boogeyman, they all apply) and appears to hate the native people of the country he claims to serve.
Hmmm it maybe that calling pretty much every native english male a racist for wanting england to remain english is a pretty certain way to get the english (that did or didn't vote for you) to go from apathy towards you.... to outright hatred towards you.....
Thank God you left Europe. Things are going really well 😂
And fellow brits, that's why you NEVER give up your Guns
I think his policy of letting rapists and murderers out of prison early to make space for thought criminals wasn't the crowd pleaser he hoped it would be.
This seems anti establishment, recommend taking this down before they find it.
TLDRNews committed suicide with 2 shots to the back of the head after being found guilty of anti-establishment rhetoric
Starmer consistently get caught lying 😊
Like what? Jk you won’t answer lol
@@sirgo0se97 Like when he said he never supported Israel cutting off the water supply to Palestinians.
Have you just called Keir Starmer a dictator?
Just wait until the October review. Hold on to your seats.
People voted for him to fix housing and the cost of living crisis, not arrest 11 year olds and racist boomers on facebook
Simple! Hes a complete fraud!
Why? After all, he said Davos was more important to him than Westminster.
Typical WEF golbalist who doesn't care about people just GDP
the presenter is doing his best. trying to make a living on youtube.
My comment relates to our
Illustrious pm not the heroic
you tuber
Illustrious hagaha
@@karo2090 so true!
2 Tier Kier
KERR STALIN
Polling means nothing now the next election is 5 years away. Also for the people dismissive of first past the post you have to take consideration that under proportional representation negotiations can take months or even years resulting in gridlock and having caretaker government in place. Also porortional representations also is no guarantee of the government having the majority of the votes. Spain for example is having a minority government and technically the opposition won the popular vote but it didn't matter.
True point on the next election being 5 years away but Scotland and Wales have national elections in less than 2 years, and Labour are fighting to be the party of Government in both. Bad polling impacts them as well. Tony Blair's unpopularity contributed to Scottish Labour losing in 2007.
Funny, the guy who defends migrants over children being stabbed has a low popularity rating. Who knew that?
@jakebeaudry3888he's still a foreigner, he certainly isn't Welsh
4:19 he is not delivering what the people want.
What do the people want?
Starmer and the Labour have given a good kicking to the electorate that voted for them...
Labour have told the public the truth, unlike the Tories who just lied
They literally just started. If you keep changing every time you don’t like something your country will sink
Two tier Keir
Brits: What do we regret? BREXIT!
Brits: Who do we forgive? REFORM AND TORIES!
Smoking helps the nhs more than fat people do. It helps lose weight and boost productivity, obesity helps you claim disability and 50 different ways to claim pip
Smoking gives you cancer my guy.
I actually agree with you here not that smoking is good for you The first part of your sentence was well. To put it politely. I think you yourself should be claiming pip for your mental handicap but the second part obesity is a problem that isn't being taken seriously enough by any government and the only government that actually attempted to make a dent in the crisis was actually the conservative government and it's one of the only things I actually agree with the conservatives on.
Unfortunately, I believe that the fast food industry and the sugar industry has The government in its back pocket so the only policies that can be made to target obesity are very light touch and surface level stuff like putting a small tax on sugar which the government has already done and encouraging exercise in schools (They probably could and should encourage exercise for employees in the public sector as well) I think if any government was to go right in and ban fast food not only would there be a lot more backlash than they're currently is with the smoking ban that they're talking about (something I also disagree with even though I myself don't smoke or vape) But the economy will also be even more ruined Then it currently is I think a surprising amount of our economy is actually fuelled by the junk food industry and we would probably become a third world country without it. We are already on the border of becoming a third world country as things currently are .
I suppose a good start would be to stop giving out pip to anyone who was simply obese with no other problems, but the chances are that people who are obese also have a myriad of other problems that you can't see and that's more likely the reason why they get pip. They probably don't get it for being obese but They get it for of a disabilities that contribute to their obesity, but you only see an obese person and find out that they're claiming benefits and automatically assume the government's paying them to be fat but assuming that you are correct and that people really are being given free money for being obese and having no other problems, the government definitely needs to stop doing that.
Smoking can lead people to become overweight and obese.
@@pinkdiamond1847 not reading any of that. Get a job
No, Labour have not tried to reign in public spending. Yes, they have made a single cut. They have also paid off their union donors with massive pay increases and the train drivers, who are paid £70k for a 4 day week for a job that is literally on rails, are still fucking striking after a 14% pay increase. This offsets any savings they have so far made several times over.
Exactly. The so-called '£20 billion black hole' is mostly just gaslighting, a cover for political decisions they were going to make anyway but didn't want to admit to the public.
Below inflation pay rise is not massive
The govt were funding costs of strikes so the extra cost probably doesn’t amount to much
His approval rating spiked! at zero. Well okay then, reached the point were I despise every politician of every party. If a MP told me it was Tuesday I would assume it was Saturday
As an outsider the UK seems a mess. But then as a Canadian, I should not be calling the kettle black. Oh western world, what has become of ye?
Reform 🇬🇧
This is and was predictable.