The most powerful man in politics - who is Morgan McSweeney? | The News Agents

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  • Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024

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  • @togo7022
    @togo7022 17 дней назад +1

    I've worked with Morgan McSweeney before and have to say he is the most upstanding professional operating in the political arena. Labour are VERY lucky to have him on board. The man is a machine a legend and an out and out political operator

  • @mauromatos3124
    @mauromatos3124 Месяц назад +23

    If he's been advising Starmer all along, he's clearly not as smart or wise as the people Blair had around him before following Bush into the abyss.

    • @kevinlongman007
      @kevinlongman007 Месяц назад +2

      That was Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson.

    • @richierich7609
      @richierich7609 Месяц назад +2

      You can't blame him for Starmer's problems. He didn't advise, as far as I know, Starmer to take 30 thousand pounds worth of suits and not only take the Taylor Swift tickets but get his picture taken at the show.

    • @johnmurray5573
      @johnmurray5573 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@richierich7609starmer's final sin is stupidity

  • @Charlie-UK
    @Charlie-UK Месяц назад +5

    Great episode Lewis, understanding the figures around Keir Starmer is important. Whatever we may think, about their political project, direction or it's likely outcome for the country...

  • @Banyan314
    @Banyan314 Месяц назад +42

    It is most worrying to hear that Mr McSweeney is responsible for the watering down of Milliband's Green Policies. Be careful. This country needs educating, incentivising and leadership on these issues. We can't afford the time to just listen to folks who are reluctant to change because it might "cost" them now, as the cost of inaction in the near future will be far, far greater. Starmer needs to lead, political advisors simply advise.

    • @evonne_o
      @evonne_o Месяц назад

      He will not learn even after they lose a LOT of council seats to the Lib Dems and Greens next year in the local elections.

  • @thetragicyouth
    @thetragicyouth Месяц назад +50

    McSweeney = Starmer's Dominic Cummings.

    • @AJM-GariochQuine
      @AJM-GariochQuine Месяц назад +4

      Exactly what I was thinking!

    • @stephenwalker850
      @stephenwalker850 Месяц назад +4

      Bore off you two original thinkers

    • @johnmurray5573
      @johnmurray5573 Месяц назад +3

      Give it three months and he'll get sacked by Starmer's wife

    • @trevcollier8587
      @trevcollier8587 Месяц назад

      What do you expect from a Tory with a red tie. Starmer has told more lies since becoming ;leader of his party (It's not Labour) than Johnson did as PM.

    • @TimesFM4532
      @TimesFM4532 Месяц назад +1

      Yeah but Sweeney can shut his mouth

  • @bonariablackie4047
    @bonariablackie4047 Месяц назад +15

    RUclips, do you think we could watch a podcast without an advert every two seconds? You are making your platform unwatchable. In 9 minutes of podcast we have so far had two adverts.

    • @SamUploads420
      @SamUploads420 Месяц назад +2

      Entirely controlled by the video uploader.

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Месяц назад

      @@SamUploads420 Any video uploader who puts that many adverts, will lose me as a viewer permanently, and I will not subscribe to their channel. The fightback starts here. Anyone who spends five minutes of their video extolling goods and services likewise.

  • @eughrologh
    @eughrologh Месяц назад +8

    You can be all preening, interested and serious and describe Morgan as a mysterious man from the "land of the bogs and the little people". Or you could tell an Everywhere tale of a middle class kid from a well known local business family who was going nowhere as a teenager and has ever since been on a mission to prove himself.

    • @joetotale6354
      @joetotale6354 Месяц назад +1

      Hahaha. Do
      You still read the Beezer?

    • @joetotale6354
      @joetotale6354 Месяц назад

      @@eughrologh Great! Super!

  • @Glasgow_kiss
    @Glasgow_kiss Месяц назад +3

    in charge of starmers leadership campaign and head of highly influential labour together think tank, when starmers campaign was fined for financial misconduct by the electoral commission. no mention of the campaign chief morgan mcsweeney in the report, the one responsible for the whole campaign, including finances.

  • @WakeupAndsmelltherosemarys
    @WakeupAndsmelltherosemarys Месяц назад +10

    The very idea that a regional mayor of an English region is treated by engerland by an unelected official is absolutely disgusting . Total insult to the so called devolved nations . Saor Alba

    • @evonne_o
      @evonne_o Месяц назад +1

      Lambeth is STILL in a mess

    • @CurtalA
      @CurtalA Месяц назад

      The Englanders are desperate to demote Scotland to a region and not a country of itself. They're terrified of the growing support for independence, it is just a waiting game until the younger generation overtake the boomer generations

  • @lesleypatriciajordison4890
    @lesleypatriciajordison4890 Месяц назад +4

    He sounds deeply awful - everything that is wrong with politics across the world. Deeply scary.

  • @nickyd922
    @nickyd922 Месяц назад +3

    The Harris campaign has drifted into the centre too

  • @tribalmattersmtg5532
    @tribalmattersmtg5532 Месяц назад +1

    The more this podcast goes on I feel like he’s an Irish Malcolm Tucker who has an intense way of operating to win but has no ideology once they’re in power. I hope the Autumn Statement casts a strong and vivid narrative that can rebuild the nation but in the first 100 days they look, as Adam Curtis would say, unable to tell stories.

  • @northoftheequator2094
    @northoftheequator2094 Месяц назад +2

    So labour is essentially conservative, all but in name.

  • @zizkidoo
    @zizkidoo Месяц назад +2

    In the description, can you include the guest speakers names?

  • @catrionaskivingtonskivingt4819
    @catrionaskivingtonskivingt4819 Месяц назад

    There’s always people like this in politics no matter who’s in power. I don’t think this merits a full show talking about it.

  • @larbi19
    @larbi19 Месяц назад +1

    Where are those people coming from? As weird as some politicians 😂😂😂 show me your potholes ! 😂😂😂

  • @WillJBailey
    @WillJBailey Месяц назад +5

    So… more nationalism and authoritarianism. Yay.

  • @neilprimrose8720
    @neilprimrose8720 Месяц назад +2

    Fascinating but disrupted by the very irritating RUclips format: get rid of the screen with the microphone, please!

  • @JC-gy3bx
    @JC-gy3bx Месяц назад

    Ugh, this is not journalism or reporting. It's storytelling. There's a difference.

  • @lesleypatriciajordison4890
    @lesleypatriciajordison4890 Месяц назад +1

    And the kibbutz? It only gets better.

  • @chuckstephens7992
    @chuckstephens7992 27 дней назад

    I'm more concerned about why he is in my Country injecting himself into the American political scene. We prefer he mind his own Country's political issues and stay out of ours...

    • @MrNatbatten
      @MrNatbatten 21 день назад

      So would I, seeing as he's from Cork, "The Rebel County", in Southern Ireland.
      He can now destroy the UK in ways the IRA could only have dreamed about, he's already proven himself to be entirely untrustworthy and incredibly vicious, seeing as he made sure baseless accusations of antisemitism against Jeremy Corbyn were amplified to the max in order to ruin him, utterly disgraceful and disgusting conduct, seeing as Mr Corbyn, who I'm no fan boy of by any means, has spent his life fighting all forms of bigotry and oppression, he just hates what the Israeli government does to the Palestinians, he's right too.

  • @BernardMorrey
    @BernardMorrey Месяц назад +7

    Just why should unelected advisors hold sway over a government.

    • @_Stroda
      @_Stroda Месяц назад +3

      So... Politicians should only have elected advisors?

    • @BernardMorrey
      @BernardMorrey Месяц назад

      @_Stroda no, obviously have advisors but they should be restricted in their actions which would include leaking against party members and M.P.'s

    • @stephenwalker850
      @stephenwalker850 Месяц назад

      Like the orange

  • @alexanderfavell
    @alexanderfavell Месяц назад +8

    Surely he can be more helpful to Keir than Seamus was to Jezza.

    • @HomemadeBrownies1
      @HomemadeBrownies1 Месяц назад +4

      Considering he got starter in government, he’s already achieved more than milne ever will

    • @alexanderfavell
      @alexanderfavell Месяц назад +4

      @@HomemadeBrownies1 Indeed, whilst undermining LHQ leading upto 2019 GE. Who is Labour, anymore...

    • @biggmick1
      @biggmick1 Месяц назад

      Wasn't McSweeney working for Boris for 2 years?

    • @alexanderfavell
      @alexanderfavell Месяц назад

      @@biggmick1 nope.

  • @Sean006
    @Sean006 Месяц назад

    It could be a case of 'be careful what you wish for'!
    Hopefully Starmer, McSweeney & Reeve will be able to create an idea of what they want to do whilst in government......there is a distinct lack of a game plan (vision). The promise (pre-election) that they will continue to do what the Tories were doing - only better - isn't going to work imo.

  • @mjc01
    @mjc01 Месяц назад

    Are they fighting "populism"? Or are they conceding to the right in order to win elections? Thus in the end helping them. You need to change the culture in which electoral politics take place not just play triangulation games etc. Of course it was low turnout! People are deeply angry.

  • @mjc01
    @mjc01 Месяц назад

    30:14 "It's about listening to voters". Yeah that's right politics is just like shopping isn't it? Why are all of them so comfortable with this BS?

  • @biggmick1
    @biggmick1 Месяц назад +1

    More gossip than journalism. Certainly what would be described as fact adjacent but not outright lies.

  • @mongoliandude
    @mongoliandude Месяц назад +1

    A deeply concerning individual at best.

  • @tariqhanafi1278
    @tariqhanafi1278 Месяц назад

    Watch the language!

  • @jamesprice4647
    @jamesprice4647 Месяц назад

    He is the Brexir Red Lines man.

  • @MrAlanAllen
    @MrAlanAllen Месяц назад

    Still don't understand what MMT are advocating.

  • @giffgaffnettwork5626
    @giffgaffnettwork5626 Месяц назад +1

    Try and forget that David Cameron was a Tory in 2010, he as a potential PM managed to negotiate an advantagous Coalition and for five years appearing untouchable in terms of integrity. It was LibDem Clegg and the Labour leadership who suffered the most. Even Cameron forgetting his own daughter in the pub was forgiven by the electorate.
    Whoever authored the 2015 manifesto for Cameron, signed up to ending his premiership by the back door, the Brexit referendum damaged the brand and even had he been successful, in terms of remain votes, he would have jumped ship because Johnson, Patel, Davis and Gove were plotting his demise from 2016, on!
    Starmer was Corbyn's right hand man who turned into Brutus and fooled the hibernating nation who had turned into Caesar's mourners. Trust Starmer at your peril, a loner without principles is reminiscent of 1936 Germany.

  • @agmor1
    @agmor1 Месяц назад +5

    The lads got their scalp.
    Rosie Duffield: "The people who made the decisions, the people in the inner circle, the influential staff are the same bunch of young men."
    Lewis Goodall: "Sue Gray is pretty influential!"
    Rosie Duffield: "Yes, but you can see she is having to fight with those young men. We all call them the lads. And they are very influential ... they've been the ones who have briefed against me and other women."
    Shows just how ignorant - or wilfully ignorant - Lewis is when it comes to Starmer.

  • @AntonyFirbank
    @AntonyFirbank Месяц назад +1

    Only heard the intro so far, are his eyesight and hair colour relevant? I ask merely for information.

    • @_Stroda
      @_Stroda Месяц назад

      Why would a readhead care much about the views of the follicularly inferior majority?

  • @SabzeeS
    @SabzeeS Месяц назад

    Hmm British politics is different

  • @mbdlav
    @mbdlav Месяц назад

    Ghastly

  • @bikster7032
    @bikster7032 26 дней назад

    Criminal

  • @biggmick1
    @biggmick1 Месяц назад

    This is pure fantasy pretending to be political journalism.

  • @BeaniethemanMixes
    @BeaniethemanMixes Месяц назад

    "he used to wear loose jeans"
    The dialogue is painfully out of touch

  • @WakeupAndsmelltherosemarys
    @WakeupAndsmelltherosemarys Месяц назад

    The new slithering Cummings

  • @robertanderson3905
    @robertanderson3905 Месяц назад

    SO MENY WITH THE Z LENS

  • @Birdman7456
    @Birdman7456 Месяц назад

    The most powerful man in politics? From zero to hero?

  • @casualobserver2000
    @casualobserver2000 Месяц назад

    anyone who think starmer is his own man is a fool. Labour have always answered to union heads and you could tell that from their day 1 actions - we have a 22bn hole in the budget but were going to give unions literally everything they ask for.

  • @tonymccann1978
    @tonymccann1978 Месяц назад

    What an absolute load of waffle. I know less after listening to this.

  • @WakeupAndsmelltherosemarys
    @WakeupAndsmelltherosemarys Месяц назад

    You make me sick

  • @veryswede1576
    @veryswede1576 Месяц назад

    Interesting video Lewis.. when did you become the MILK TRAY MAN…

  • @stephenwalker850
    @stephenwalker850 Месяц назад +2

    In the signing off the presenter states that the current Labour Party will never have ah 1997 style political world , true , but this notion also applies to any current and future Tory / orange party they will never again enjoy ah political world that saw thatcher shift from the most unpopular PM ever ( at that time ) to the years that gave rise to all the Tory philosophies that prospered for ah time until they began to rot our society over the long term