The West has ‘lost its legitimacy’ over Israel-Gaza | Grace Blakeley

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • Grace Blakeley joins Hugo Rifkind to discuss her new book, 'Vulture Capitalism.'
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Комментарии • 355

  • @rogston39
    @rogston39 2 месяца назад +8

    The collective failure of ALL the mainstream parties over Gaza has been utterly utterly SHAMEFUL.

  • @lornahuddleston1453
    @lornahuddleston1453 5 месяцев назад +15

    She is spot on about the hypocrisy of the US, about Ukraine and Israel. Netanyahu is taking advantage of Israel's "special relationship" with the US, and seriously threatens to dilute our assistance to Ukraine.

  • @kerrynewnham8946
    @kerrynewnham8946 5 месяцев назад +13

    Who looks at Keir Starmer’s response to Gaza and thinks ah , that’s some canny political manouvering there 😢

  • @robertgoodinson6907
    @robertgoodinson6907 5 месяцев назад +6

    The reason Starmer gets criticised for his lack of morality on the Gaza issue is that nobody expects the Tories to have any morality on any subject. So the party that should be taking a moral position gets the blame.

    • @nealmctaggart7229
      @nealmctaggart7229 5 месяцев назад +2

      No the reason is because Starmer actually said on film that he agreed with Israel stopping food and aid entering Gaza. Therefore he is supporting genocide. That and not supporting a Ceasefire.

    • @robertgoodinson6907
      @robertgoodinson6907 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@nealmctaggart7229 Agree

    • @brianc7023
      @brianc7023 4 месяца назад +1

      It might be because he supported Israel's collective punishment, the supporting of which is also a crime in International law.

    • @robertgoodinson6907
      @robertgoodinson6907 4 месяца назад

      @@brianc7023 So did everyone else. History will look very badly on western politicians over their support for Israel's conduct. Corruption works apparently. Politics in the West has turned into a choice of right wing political parties.

    • @liamoconlocha3264
      @liamoconlocha3264 2 месяца назад

      Too simple

  • @chrisrussell5690
    @chrisrussell5690 2 месяца назад +1

    I've never heard of Grace Blakeley before. Amazing communicator.

  • @chrisjames1924
    @chrisjames1924 5 месяцев назад +14

    Anyone else noticed YT’s massive cmment cnsrship upgrade?

    • @anab0lic
      @anab0lic 5 месяцев назад +4

      yeah, its gotten so bad I barely even bother posting anymore. YT comment section used to be a good place for interesting discussions and debates, not anymore.

    • @Youbetternowatchthis
      @Youbetternowatchthis 4 месяца назад +2

      @@anab0lic it is getting overrun by bots and they are trying to fix it, but I don't see it working very well

  • @jithenin
    @jithenin 2 месяца назад +1

    Thank you HUGO for this conversation with GRACE ❤👍

  • @Max_Jenkins
    @Max_Jenkins 5 месяцев назад +8

    ‘I voted Remain then changed my mind.’ Not many people in Britain nowadays brave enough to say that. Respect.

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад +1

      That’s cause nobody else did. I don’t know if you’ve notice but Brexit’s not going great.

    • @terjeoseberg990
      @terjeoseberg990 5 месяцев назад

      @@liamcragin, Gaza attacked Israel. How exactly did Gaza expect Israel to respond?

    • @KevenHutchinson-gt1nn
      @KevenHutchinson-gt1nn 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@liamcragin What do you mean, It's going great no more wonky carrots.

  • @heathdavid2540
    @heathdavid2540 Месяц назад +1

    beautiful and socialist, i read her book yesterday, fallen in love with her

  • @worship568
    @worship568 5 месяцев назад +13

    That was a great conversation very well conducted by Hugo Rifkind. While you can tell that Blakely and Rifkind come from different political worlds, Hugo gave Grace space to articulate the ideas in her book.
    It is also obvious that most of the people in the comments do not have the capacity to understand the discussion.

    • @kiriakoz
      @kiriakoz 3 месяца назад

      how dare you. Customers of Murdoch publications are very smart. That's who he appeals to, smart people.

  • @kincaidwolf5184
    @kincaidwolf5184 5 месяцев назад +14

    Grace Blakeley went to one of the most expensive private schools in the UK... nothing worse than a rich socialist

    • @leonpaul9443
      @leonpaul9443 5 месяцев назад +3

      You can tell,a very eloquent speaker and highly educated money well spent

    • @kincaidwolf5184
      @kincaidwolf5184 5 месяцев назад +3

      @leonpaul9443 There is nothing worse than a rich socialist

    • @leonpaul9443
      @leonpaul9443 5 месяцев назад

      @kincaidwolf5184 if she were instead a poor obese single mother from a council estate speaking in a broad regional accent she would be treat with scorn and contempt by the tory right and murdoch press the fact she is not and can engage them on there own intellectual level means she is far more beneficial to socialist cause. Kudos to her

    • @garethjones7677
      @garethjones7677 5 месяцев назад +1

      More socialite than socialist?

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад

      Ridiculous. Many good Socialists have had swank education - and a great many proles still vote Tory for some reason! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

  • @RichardTLDR
    @RichardTLDR 5 месяцев назад +12

    If she wants to prove her point then she will debate with someone the calibre of Yaron Brook. Otherwise her argument will not convince.
    I’m not convinced.

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад

      She never seems to debate anyone of any heft. All the clips I can find on RUclips are people of the caliber of Piers Morgan and lightweight conservative commentators. I would love to see her debate somebody who knew what they were talking about and could challenge her about her Marxist beliefs.

    • @terjeoseberg990
      @terjeoseberg990 5 месяцев назад

      @@liamcragin, Gaza attacked Israel. How exactly did Gaza expect Israel to respond?

  • @-bret
    @-bret 5 месяцев назад +21

    Constantly hearing people say, 'Starmer supports a ceasefire,' while sounds positive like all UK media ignoring the context. Where was he and the government for the previous five months? Most people were killed in the first 3 months and now that there is practically nothing left to bomb in Gaza, portraying him as some sort of saint now that he is calling for a ceasefire-the bare minimum-after 30,000+ are dead and over 70,000+ are injured, just isn't the political capital the interviewer thinks it is.
    Moreover, the manner in which he approached the ceasefire is highly suspicious. His probable only real victory was to delay calling for one for so long while concealing UK war crimes from the official parliamentary record.

    • @AB-zl4nh
      @AB-zl4nh 5 месяцев назад +1

      I had respect for Grace until she refused to come to terms with the fact that JC and his allies in leadership became unpopular. Having good ideas is not enough even in a Fair Voting system, especially in our unfair voting system where swing seats need to be won to form a government. Cameron backed same sex marriage, but many Left and Centre-Leftist wouldn't vote for the Conservative Party with him being leader. The refusal to address this from the UK Left prevents them from rethinking who they choose to lead their relatively popular ideas. Also, not demanding the Left puts Fair (PR) Voting at the top of their agenda is extremely self-defeating.

    • @jackduane5555
      @jackduane5555 5 месяцев назад

      Israel has the right to defend itself. Sorry it upsets you that the Jews won't allow another holocaust against them

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад

      I’m not sure why it matters. Isn’t it good that he reversed his stance even if he did so so late? Israel wasn’t going to enact a ceasefire even if Starmer had advocated it from day one.

    • @terjeoseberg990
      @terjeoseberg990 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@AB-zl4nh, Gaza attacked Israel. How exactly did Gaza expect Israel to respond?

    • @hilaryporter7841
      @hilaryporter7841 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@liamcraginIt matters because it affirms what Starmer had already told us when he was impressing his paymasters; he is a Zionist without qualification. He had to allow thousands to suffer genocide before he issued his weak call for a ceasefire and he only did that because many of his possible voters were taking to the streets.

  • @allenmoses110
    @allenmoses110 5 месяцев назад +15

    And do you think that the Nazis didn't have their reasons for attacking Britain, where they felt they were perfectly justified for invading Europe and bombing England? If course they did, just as the Palestinians see the October 7th atrocities as fully justified. But civilization must win, and if this means conducting a war where there is collateral damage done to civilian populations, then so be it. Millions of civilians in Japan and Germany were killed by the Allied armies in WW2, and now these once fascist countries are democratic and civilized. Hopefully this will be a moment of truth for the Palestinians as well.

    • @RichardTLDR
      @RichardTLDR 5 месяцев назад +2

      Precisely

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 5 месяцев назад

      Britain declared war on Germany as it was heading East completely in the opposite direction to us.
      We were OURSELVES occupying a quarter of the World.

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 5 месяцев назад

      Democracy is over. Globalisation created a international oligarchy. Civilisation is over.

    • @epicphailure88
      @epicphailure88 5 месяцев назад

      Nazim was a product of Western civilization. Western civilization has always looked like Fascism when they forced their ways on to other countries. Liberalism is just Fascism with a smile. Only reason US and Britain ended up fighting Fascism is because they were the competition. Nothing to with morals.

    • @epicphailure88
      @epicphailure88 5 месяцев назад

      @@RichardTLDR Western civilization is just Fascism with a smile.

  • @grahamwalker2312
    @grahamwalker2312 5 месяцев назад +5

    I worked in the Water Industry for 26 years both pre and post privatisation. There were many organisational changes in an attempt to reduce operating costs. These processes were painful for both blue and white collar workers in the industry. For example casual overtime wherever possible was reduced. Productivity payments were were revised. Voluntary and then compulsory alongside the cost savings over the 26 years I worked there. There were no easy solutions for this most essential of services. Competing factors included the need for massive capital investment in new assets, the impact of inflation on pay during the late 70s and early 80s, resistance to change, political doctrine in both government and the TU's, lack of trust between TU's and management and sometimes self interest. These problems are still ongoing with compliance, the ongoing needs for investment, openness and accountability issues and profits in a privatised industry.

    • @robertgoodinson6907
      @robertgoodinson6907 4 месяца назад

      Their solution was no capital investment and massive dividends for stock holders?

  • @galacticambitions1277
    @galacticambitions1277 5 месяцев назад +4

    There is no theory here. If she doesn't want revolution then it's not Marxism but if it's not Marxism then what is it?

    • @TheMarcusrobbins
      @TheMarcusrobbins 5 месяцев назад +8

      We have a failing system, that is common sense. What the solution is up for debate.

    • @AeromaticXD
      @AeromaticXD 5 месяцев назад

      Huh?

    • @AeromaticXD
      @AeromaticXD 5 месяцев назад +4

      You absolutely can adopt Marxist ideals without being a revolutionary, also you really think she’d admit to being a revolutionary in the press??

  • @ronkrate609
    @ronkrate609 2 месяца назад +1

    And the East Has None

  • @sexynelson100
    @sexynelson100 5 месяцев назад +15

    All those criticizing this woman cannot counter any of her claims.. because they can't.. thats why they personally insult her

  • @kayedal-haddad
    @kayedal-haddad 5 месяцев назад +5

    What about the argument that we actually don’t have a free market but rather an Oligopolistic market made up of only a handful of players and if we did have a truly free market, inequality etc., would be far less?

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад +1

      She SAID that! 🤔

    • @brendansullivan3408
      @brendansullivan3408 14 дней назад +1

      We canbe a better free market for sure. She seems interested in breaking the unhealthy government/industry bond. Nothing wrong with that .. get government out of the way. (see California regulation). But, of course, her socialist schemes are fanciful and damaging to society and freedom. And likely require a revolution of sorts. What could go wrong? Maybe some anecdotes will help us feel better. Have at it Grace.

  • @2370mchal
    @2370mchal 5 месяцев назад +23

    “I kind of go into this in the book”…… champagne socialist talking points not based in any facts or understanding of a world economy we’re now in.

  • @gregoryadair3223
    @gregoryadair3223 5 месяцев назад +15

    I wonder what Grace Blakeley thinks about American intervention in the 2nd World War in Europe? She wants to subsume all of American "intervention" into a Marxian concept of empire; will her marxist theory allow for exceptions? Apparently in her theory, Ukraine is like a weird, untraceable anomaly. Hmm, maybe a different theory would serve, or concrete history. What about American battles with Britain (an empire) before 1820 or so, did she study those? And when Americans went to Britain (for example my father, over there as a bomber pilot in 1944) to save Britain and Europe from fascism? Was all that an "intervention" on behalf of an "empire"? Whose empire? Or was that something else e, historical, gray, concrete, susceptible to uncertainty? I find Marxism intellectually boring, and shallow. I used to know a guy at Uni (Berkeley in the US) who said he thought that marxists, in order to be allowed in to debates, should be made to wear stove-pipe hats and beards. :))

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад

      She probably would’ve been fine with it once the Soviet Union joined in.

    • @terjeoseberg990
      @terjeoseberg990 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@liamcragin, Gaza attacked Israel. How exactly did Gaza expect Israel to respond?

    • @MrBenjaminCole
      @MrBenjaminCole 5 месяцев назад

      Amen. Your father's bravery is why this little twit Blakeley has freedom of speech. Which she uses to defend Muslim terror.

    • @nk-gp1ml
      @nk-gp1ml 5 месяцев назад

      @@terjeoseberg990 Israel attacked Gaza several times before 2023 with mass civilian casualties and destruction. It has closed off Gaza by land, sea and air for over 15 years and that was a crime against humanity. It is a population from whom it stole their land and homes making them refugees in 1948. ‘Gaza attacked Israel…’ is a statement ignorant of history and facts.

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@terjeoseberg990 I never mentioned Israel or Gaza

  • @PolicyFailureIsExpensive
    @PolicyFailureIsExpensive 5 месяцев назад +41

    Ms. Blakeley, watch the October 7 footage. Ask yourself, how would I respond?
    What makes your moral stance more legitimate than others?

    • @whysoserious8666
      @whysoserious8666 5 месяцев назад +14

      Was Oct 7th authorization to cleanse Gaza, or just the pretext?

    • @Crouchy232323
      @Crouchy232323 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@whysoserious8666beheaded babies, babies cut from wombs, babies burned in ovens. People actually believe this, because they are led to believe it is true. If the decent Israelis knew the truth, the whole settler project would crumble. There are of course those who deep down know the truth, but it is too horrific to confront what is being done in their name. Just like post ww2 Germany.

    • @salemalnuaimi602
      @salemalnuaimi602 5 месяцев назад +13

      What about the massacres in the west bank????

    • @idonthavealoginname
      @idonthavealoginname 5 месяцев назад

      I'm sure she wouldn't be bombing innocent children you melt.

    • @RichardTLDR
      @RichardTLDR 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@salemalnuaimi602I’m not going to weep for people who live in and support their terrorist state. This is the awful awful consequence of their totally unrepentant actions.

  • @StyledObject
    @StyledObject 5 месяцев назад +22

    It bothers me that when we get people like this on these shows they never address the fact that billions of people rely on the current system we have and how manking fundamental changes to that system could easily result in chaos and starvation for hundreds of millions if the new system doesn't work as expected.
    These systems are more complex than any one person can fully understand so to claim that you can implement a fundamentally better system just seems naive.

    • @m0ckingB1rd42
      @m0ckingB1rd42 5 месяцев назад +7

      Exactly. They care about feeling good about themselves not doing good

    • @stevenevans8449
      @stevenevans8449 5 месяцев назад

      Exactly. The theoretical analysis of one man working in a library 180 years ago vs 40 million dead in the Great Leap Forward, etc., etc. Grace Blakeley is the face of evil.

    • @gregoryadair3223
      @gregoryadair3223 5 месяцев назад +2

      As often as not they are low-level academics buffing a resume or hawking a book.

    • @nickhobbs6514
      @nickhobbs6514 5 месяцев назад +2

      I don't think anyone advocates imposing an economic ideology from above. Liz Truss tried to move the needle a notch too fast and look what happened.
      What you can do is empower local economies, reduce reliance on global supply chains, encourage resource sharing. All that kind of thing that's not really political but just common sense. It doesn't need a radical name or need be antagonistic to Left or Right. Just empowering people to manage their own needs before the profit chasing systems end up draining entire countries of resources, as is the status quo.

    • @AeromaticXD
      @AeromaticXD 5 месяцев назад +4

      People are already starving on-masse, quit the moralising!

  • @user-pt6oy7kf7d
    @user-pt6oy7kf7d 5 месяцев назад +13

    It seems she doesn’t care of Ukraine’s independence
    Shameful
    This thinking of hers is hypocritical in itself

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад

      @SillySausage2024They both are anti-war and in always seeing the USA as the causer of wars are blind to who is actually the villain in this case ie: the Russian authoritarian regime.

    • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
      @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 5 месяцев назад +2

      Self centred totally

    • @lornahuddleston1453
      @lornahuddleston1453 5 месяцев назад

      Is she fluffy on Russia? She has it right about Israel and the US. She sees the obvious hypocrisy. 🤔

    • @TheMarcusrobbins
      @TheMarcusrobbins 5 месяцев назад

      If you accept the west's narrative that is true. But if you listen to Russia's narrative it is false. Do you know the history well enough to discern the truth amongst the propaganda of both sides?

    • @SuperStella1111
      @SuperStella1111 5 месяцев назад +1

      @SillySausage2024 If New Mexico split off, or joined Mexico (it was invaded by the US, after all, in the 1840s), the US wouldn’t allow it. And it wouldn’t allow missiles on Cuba, or be sanguine about Russia funding the New Mexico separatists and sending weapons. Why would Russia tolerate that type of interference?

  • @Rtg5637
    @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад +22

    She explains well how imperfect capitalism is yet not able to prove that there is a system less imperfect

    • @CelticKnight
      @CelticKnight 5 месяцев назад +7

      This is such a dumb argument. Do you seriously think that historical/political-economic progress stopped 200 years ago with Capitalism and that there is no conceivable system that is superior to it?

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@CelticKnight Prove it without a revolution that demands untold human suffering

    • @CelticKnight
      @CelticKnight 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@Rtg5637Capitalism killed over 100 million people in colonial India alone my dude. Weird how your system is allowed to unleash suffering but not any others.

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@CelticKnight Wrong. It was the barbarians invasions with a new religion that did that way before capitalism arrived in India.

    • @CelticKnight
      @CelticKnight 5 месяцев назад

      @@Rtg5637Are you dumb? It was the famines resulting from capitalist/colonialist policies. Open a history book. When capitalism kills hundreds of millions, it's not capitalism. When Communism kills far less people in comparison, it's Communism. You people never have any logical coherence.

  • @Rtg5637
    @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад +60

    She slept well through the nightmare of Syria for the last 13 years and WOKE up on Oct 8 skipping Oct 7 too

    • @epicphailure88
      @epicphailure88 5 месяцев назад

      Israel and US wanted regime change in Syria. Thankfully they failed.

    • @MrBenjaminCole
      @MrBenjaminCole 5 месяцев назад +11

      600,000 dead in Syria

    • @epicphailure88
      @epicphailure88 5 месяцев назад +12

      @@MrBenjaminCole Thanks to the US and Israel. They supported ISIS in Syria too.

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@MrBenjaminCole That's 20 times more than the Gaza claims if they are true

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад

      @@epicphailure88 Another Muslim legend to deceive infidels. They had nothing to do with ISIS forming itself. Only after ISIS was created with the inspiration of Quran the US took care of that.

  • @RoyalBlue292
    @RoyalBlue292 5 месяцев назад +5

    Who's she? I really enjoyed this interview.

  • @dave4deputyZX
    @dave4deputyZX 5 месяцев назад +5

    I'm loving the angry right-wing comments below this video 😄

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 5 месяцев назад

      I don’t think being skeptical of advocating Marxism, seeing its track record, is particularly right wing.

    • @machsimillian14
      @machsimillian14 5 месяцев назад

      The hasbara comes out in droves

  • @JasonMDC
    @JasonMDC 5 месяцев назад +2

    Virtue signalling

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад

      An envious spiteful smug comment and typically petit bourgeois. 👺🤔"Green Fire", IngramSpark, geoff nelson hill )🌈🦉

  • @scottmuir5773
    @scottmuir5773 5 месяцев назад +3

    For a while now I've thought she should be in politics, can you imagine if we had poiticians who knew anything about ANYTHING?

  • @gullygullible9774
    @gullygullible9774 5 месяцев назад +2

    Hugo is a raving war Monger "we don't want to hear a nuanced view on Gaza" No Hugo just you and your neighbours Yuk 😊

  • @David1701G
    @David1701G 5 месяцев назад +36

    All those who have joined the antisemitic movement over the horror of October 7th , those who accepted the Hamas rhetoric without question over what has happing in Gaza without any objectivity. Will in time be shamed forever for their behaviour

    • @salemalnuaimi602
      @salemalnuaimi602 5 месяцев назад

      Hamas started in 1988
      Occupation 1948
      No Hamas in West Bank
      Nice Try anymore debunked bull

    • @JSavage101
      @JSavage101 5 месяцев назад +12

      wrong

    • @ironwoodworkman4917
      @ironwoodworkman4917 5 месяцев назад

      I live on the other side of the world. They tax us into poverty to pay for this BS. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANY OF IT. IT IS NOT MY FIGHT.

    • @David1701G
      @David1701G 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@JSavage101 how so?

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад +2

      Absolutely true

  • @simondebrun
    @simondebrun 5 месяцев назад +2

    "Inequality tops Torsten Slok's 20 risks to markets in 2020" . You know we have systemic problems when market earnings are threatened by rising inequality

  • @sparks1792
    @sparks1792 5 месяцев назад +4

    That’s fine end the UN. We pay the most anyway and most of us don’t like it. Please do tired of sending my money off

  • @liamoconlocha3264
    @liamoconlocha3264 2 месяца назад

    10 million companies using material from nature means just one thing.....doom

  • @jackduane5555
    @jackduane5555 5 месяцев назад +7

    This chick has no idea what she's talking about. She doesn't know anything about this conflict or the region or the history of the region

    • @christyshka
      @christyshka 5 месяцев назад +3

      She doesn’t care . She has zero knowledge about socialism either.
      She is topical woke hypocrite.
      She speaks slogans , like Russian communists in 1917 . They used words to confuse people.
      “Land to farmers , factories to workers “
      And guess what , they lied ))
      Now is the genocide slogan .
      And guess what , they lie .
      And still they don’t care .

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад +1

      TOSH!

  • @alanjones4333
    @alanjones4333 5 месяцев назад +2

    Grace is certainly someone who can talk ... KPMG story at the end says it all... the irrelevance of Think Tanks...

  • @AB-zl4nh
    @AB-zl4nh 5 месяцев назад +5

    I had respect for Grace until she refused to come to terms with the fact that JC and his allies in leadership became unpopular. Having good ideas is not enough even in a Fair Voting system, especially in our unfair voting system where swing seats need to be won to form a government. Cameron backed same sex marriage, but many Left and Centre-Leftist wouldn't vote for the Conservative Party with him being leader. The refusal to address this from the UK Left prevents them from rethinking who they choose to lead their relatively popular ideas. Also, not demanding the Left puts Fair (PR) Voting at the top of their agenda is extremely self-defeating.

    • @tomtheeagle1
      @tomtheeagle1 5 месяцев назад

      Jesus Christ himself, after his resurrection, would have become unpopular after the onslaught of abuse, smearing, character assassination and the personal persecution onslaught that greeted Jeremy Corbyn when voted overwhelmingly for by the membership of the (soon to be) largest political party membership in Europe. I'd have him back tomorrow now faced with Starmer, Streeting, Reeves, Lammy, et al.

  • @roger7341
    @roger7341 5 месяцев назад +15

    Opinions are a dime a dozen.

  • @carrerau7138
    @carrerau7138 5 месяцев назад +3

    A socialist and capitalism hater.
    Thank God with no influence.

    • @EnglishroG
      @EnglishroG 5 месяцев назад +1

      "No influence," yet Times Radio grants her a respectful and well conducted interview. Your definition of "no influence" is strange indeed.

  • @Alex0Hamilton
    @Alex0Hamilton 5 месяцев назад +3

    (A small tech problem with the sound volume put out too low). That was a fascinating and unusual interview for Time Radio. A mesured well augued crit of the system. I suspect this is, but hope its not, a one off.

  • @OgreMan-cg6ok
    @OgreMan-cg6ok 5 месяцев назад

    The key problem with socialist ideas, union power and so on, Unions are just another system of hierarchy. Socialism needs active real policy making democracy to disband the tendency to hierarchy, replacing one boss for another. Participatory democracy and disbandment of party political power with proportional representation.

    • @michaelel650
      @michaelel650 4 месяца назад

      What you are describing is essentially anarcho-syndicalism, which Chomsky outlines in principle in the book 'American Power and the New Mandarins', and which was tried in the NHS and worked really well but many of the medical consultants and the managers undermined it precisely because it was more effective than the fixed hierarchies that they benefitted from personally.
      All the best.

  • @bzxshor67mpts
    @bzxshor67mpts 5 месяцев назад +3

    Materialism has replaced a spiritual connection with our and the health of the planet. That's why we are in this mess

  • @andrewmottram2273
    @andrewmottram2273 5 месяцев назад +1

    Very good interview. Enjoyed it immensely etc.

  • @trueman2542
    @trueman2542 5 месяцев назад +1

    In the shadow of fading freedom and democracy, where the compass of conscience seems lost and humanity's principles hang in the balance, a dire question looms: are we descending into an age of barbarism under the sway of a select few leaders? Once, Western civilization illuminated the path to liberty and prosperity, yet the stain of genocide in Gaxa now dims that beacon. The suffering of the Palestinian people is not theirs alone; it reverberates through the collective heart of humanity. Witnessing the unspeakable horrors inflicted upon civilians, particularly the most vulnerable-women, mothers, children, and toddlers-evokes a profound anguish. We are all fellow inhabitants of this shared planet, transcending notions of right and wrong. Our humanity demands that we honor and nurture it, for true happiness cannot be built upon the blood and agony of others. The yearning for freedom among Palestinians is not merely their struggle; it echoes the fundamental principles cherished by Western society. In this 21st century global village, where moral obligations transcend borders, we are duty-bound to extend care and support to one another. Palestinians must be liberated from occupation, for their aspiration for freedom resonates with the very essence of our most cherished values....

  • @RonBerg1
    @RonBerg1 5 месяцев назад +10

    A few failures of capitalism does not negate the billions of events that support the freedom and life style it has created.
    Really a simpleton view of the system using verbal diarrhea.

    • @gregoryadair3223
      @gregoryadair3223 5 месяцев назад +1

      Yes. Welcome to "Marxism 101", where we teach you a few outdated concepts, cool antiquated terminology, and then use them to explain most of human reality.

    • @jugo1944
      @jugo1944 5 месяцев назад +1

      A few failures. Lol, talk about a simpleton's view. There's a complete stagnation of mobility under capitalism at this precise moment that's leading to political instability around the world. And it's far from the first time it's happened, it happens periodically

    • @RonBerg1
      @RonBerg1 5 месяцев назад

      @@jugo1944 The Palestinians, Muslims and Russians are the source of most problem today. Last time I checked they have nothing to do with capitalism.

    • @jugo1944
      @jugo1944 5 месяцев назад

      ​​@SillySausage2024 I mean, most socialists today don't believe in centralized command economies anyways, because the Soviet experiment was so unsuccessful economically. if you look at what Vietnam is attempting, at least, it's full integration into the world economy while keeping industries under state control. I don't know how different that is fundamentally from the Scandinavian countries. There are major differences I'm sure, but also similarities. I'm American, so the people that call themselves socialists here are often mainly advocating for minimal level social services like healthcare. I don't assume many of us want to nationalize every company in America. Though I personally do think certain sectors should be nationalized (health care, military arms, energy).

    • @jugo1944
      @jugo1944 5 месяцев назад

      ​​@SillySausage2024 It's definitionally not. Laissez faire economics is an essential part of classical liberalism and I'm advocating for state control and ownership over entire sectors of the economy.

  • @ronkrate609
    @ronkrate609 2 месяца назад

    Her Vocal Fry Makes It Hard To Listen.

  • @SP-cx2qi
    @SP-cx2qi 2 месяца назад

    We are in the "crisis" stage of The Forth Turning, happens in cycles every 80 to 100 years. Expect a volatile decade ahead.

  • @lou.yorke.x
    @lou.yorke.x 5 месяцев назад

    Ok ... but none of this makes Hamas righteous.

  • @millrace32
    @millrace32 5 месяцев назад +14

    she's such a clown

  • @matthewkelly2399
    @matthewkelly2399 5 месяцев назад +6

    She probably lives in a 3 million pound home with servants.... because she has to.

    • @christyshka
      @christyshka 5 месяцев назад

      Topical Marxist )) every ex citizen of USSR can tell that all this ideology is a huge scam . This “nice guys” took our freedom , property, money and possibilities.

    • @EnglishroG
      @EnglishroG 5 месяцев назад +4

      She doesn't live in a 3 million pound home and she doesn't have any servants.

  • @brianprice5152
    @brianprice5152 4 месяца назад

    Interviews is pro Isreal pro big business part of status quo

  • @tancdiscovery9432
    @tancdiscovery9432 5 месяцев назад +6

    10000% true. Well said Grace.

    • @AB-zl4nh
      @AB-zl4nh 5 месяцев назад

      I had respect for Grace until she refused to come to terms with the fact that JC and his allies in leadership became unpopular. Having good ideas is not enough even in a Fair Voting system, especially in our unfair voting system where swing seats need to be won to form a government. Cameron backed same sex marriage, but many Left and Centre-Leftist wouldn't vote for the Conservative Party with him being leader. The refusal to address this from the UK Left prevents them from rethinking who they choose to lead their relatively popular ideas. Also, not demanding the Left puts Fair (PR) Voting at the top of their agenda is extremely self-defeating.

    • @terjeoseberg990
      @terjeoseberg990 5 месяцев назад

      @@AB-zl4nh, Gaza attacked Israel. How exactly did Gaza expect Israel to respond?

  • @geoffreynhill2833
    @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад +2

    Give more money to the regions! 🤔(Green Fire UK) 🌈🦉

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад

      PS: KPMG? IPPS? ISFA! ( I suffer from acronymitis! )

  • @hariowen3840
    @hariowen3840 5 месяцев назад

    Although this episode is a kind of 'refresher' - that ship has sadly well and truly sailed!

  • @scottaustin7237
    @scottaustin7237 5 месяцев назад +2

    Fascinating woman. I look forward to reading her books.

  • @Havardr_Ash_Kenaz
    @Havardr_Ash_Kenaz 5 месяцев назад +7

    Grace Blakeley is fascinating to listen to and speaks the most profound truths. The more we amplify the voices of people like her the better off we will be in the future. My greatest concern is the rise of authoritarian regimes throughout the world. I fear that the more we fight for progressive policies the more the wealthy will force western conservative politicians towards authoritarianism.

  • @davidmccullough7977
    @davidmccullough7977 5 месяцев назад

    The narrative may have new words and devices, but the dialectic is unchanged.

  • @Kim-J312
    @Kim-J312 5 месяцев назад +6

    Typical Times Radio leftist woke 🙄🙄🙄 Not surprised

  • @drpudding47
    @drpudding47 2 месяца назад

    Speaks a lot and says nothing of value.

  • @mokitalounge8299
    @mokitalounge8299 5 месяцев назад +2

    when did chloe grace moretz start talking economics nonsense. Can someone provide me with the bullet points of what she was speaking about because it none of it made any sense

  • @billytollerton4220
    @billytollerton4220 5 месяцев назад +2

    This girl has the game well and truly uncovered 100% ,👍💪💥

  • @MrBenjaminCole
    @MrBenjaminCole 5 месяцев назад +4

    This girl read some sociological monographs

  • @paultaylor7947
    @paultaylor7947 5 месяцев назад

    its the laws surrounding their so called policies such as keying in the tax reasons and why its taken forever for me to find my best typo app

  • @thomasmclean1361
    @thomasmclean1361 5 месяцев назад +2

    We humans are all palastine ❤

    • @victormeidan1062
      @victormeidan1062 5 месяцев назад

      No humans side with the Civilized man - NOT Jihadis.

  • @GRD211
    @GRD211 5 месяцев назад +6

    Poster child for champagne socialism.

    • @AB-zl4nh
      @AB-zl4nh 5 месяцев назад +1

      Socialism isn't just for working class people. This is like a person thinking feminism is just for females. Don't be silly. An ideology that talks about transforming the economy and society is for everyone.

  • @fatfeline1086
    @fatfeline1086 5 месяцев назад +3

    How sweetly anachronistic. Did not know there were any marxists left. This little ditz made me smile.

  • @D_isco_D_ancer
    @D_isco_D_ancer 5 месяцев назад +6

    HOLY CLICK BAIT BATMAN!!!!

  • @CVB_1111
    @CVB_1111 5 месяцев назад +1

    Interesting. Thanks.

  • @Ofasia777
    @Ofasia777 5 месяцев назад +3

    What little of it was left.

  • @davidcooks2379
    @davidcooks2379 5 месяцев назад +3

    Capitalism hasn't actually been failing, it's the third way, regulated capitalism with huge taxes that has been failing. Capitalism is prospering

  • @terjeoseberg990
    @terjeoseberg990 5 месяцев назад

    Gaza attacked Israel. How exactly did Gaza expect Israel to respond?

    • @chrisjames1924
      @chrisjames1924 5 месяцев назад

      Gaza is an open air prison camp. In 18 years, up until Oct 6th, 96% of all lives lost in the conflict, were Palestinian. This did not start on the 7th.

    • @victormeidan1062
      @victormeidan1062 5 месяцев назад

      @@chrisjames1924
      "Prison camp" with mean life expectancy of 74 years.
      Most people die from western, obesity-related conditions like mature-onset Diabetes.

  • @gregoryadair3223
    @gregoryadair3223 5 месяцев назад +2

    In connection with Grace Blakeley's take on the Israeli war in Gaza: Could Ms. Blakeley comment on Britain's historic role in locking the borders of the British Mandate to Jews during the Holocaust? Can she she imagine a world in which moral responsibility has accrued to Britons -- and her -- to support the survival of a Jewish state? Israel faces an enemy sworn to annihilate the Jewish State and all Jews: does she agree with this?

    • @oblomofff
      @oblomofff 5 месяцев назад +1

      Lie!

    • @leonpaul9443
      @leonpaul9443 5 месяцев назад

      How can they possibly annihilate the Jewish state ? The Jewish is a NUCLEAR power let that sink in how can a mob hiding out in tunnels armed only with ak47s and RPGS annihilate a nuclear power with the world most advanced military? Yes the have said they want to annihilate the state of israel but that is just a utter fantasy that is totally beyond there capabilities any idiot can see that

    • @stevenevans8449
      @stevenevans8449 5 месяцев назад +1

      The Allied victory at El Alamein probably saved the Palestinian Jews from genocide. Without that victory, Israel would probably never have existed as a state. Include all the facts when talking about history...

    • @EnglishroG
      @EnglishroG 5 месяцев назад

      "...imagine a world in which moral responsibility has accrued to Britons -- and her -- to support the survival of a Jewish state?" Fortunately such a world doesn't exist. Be happy with the Balfour declaration, Israel's birth certificate.

  • @JAHLEADINI
    @JAHLEADINI 2 месяца назад

    OP title, sheesh, also known as "the Apocalypse of society"😢😅😊 ....I'm kidding 🎉

  • @nathanwilhoit7077
    @nathanwilhoit7077 5 месяцев назад +1

    Saw comments wont even bother watching. She looks like she does not have a clue that is for sure

  • @mrbigolnuts3041
    @mrbigolnuts3041 5 месяцев назад +35

    Grace is exceptional at explaining her career promoting woke left socialist conspiracy theory bla bla bla

    • @whysoserious8666
      @whysoserious8666 5 месяцев назад +3

      What do you mean when you say “woke”?

    • @FaceFcuk
      @FaceFcuk 5 месяцев назад

      ​@whysoserious8666 blue hair , pronouns, shape-shifting blokes turning into lippy wig dress, far left... the list goes on.😂

    • @ironwoodworkman4917
      @ironwoodworkman4917 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@whysoserious8666 What do you mean when you say? What do you mean?

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@whysoserious8666hypa Liberalism, open borders, identity politics and degeneracy. All actually driven by late stage Liberalism.
      The Left are just useful idiots for the current regime

    • @livingtribunal4110
      @livingtribunal4110 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@whysoserious8666 When people say ´woke´ they also mean ´weak´

  • @francescahamilton6856
    @francescahamilton6856 4 месяца назад +1

    Well done Grace for leaving the Labour Party. We need action for real change, where real change takes place. First stop migration. We are Full Up. Correct re decentralising Power, providing those in charge - know what they're doing. I've lived in two countries where real Socialism exists. I paid 52% in tax. I can assure you that day2day living is not what you think.

    • @patcampton7163
      @patcampton7163 2 месяца назад

      In thev60s anc 70s we paid income taxes between 30 % and 90% plus national insurance. We had a decent health service, public transport, local jobs and increasing equality. It was democratic socialism and a mixed economy. It worked well

  • @davidalexander9873
    @davidalexander9873 5 месяцев назад

    The interviewer basically saying 'how dare you question our system'

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад

      Your system is highly hypocritical and disingenuous

    • @davidalexander9873
      @davidalexander9873 5 месяцев назад

      @@Rtg5637 exactly. And the interviewer is a typical stooge who cannot handle criticism of the system

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 5 месяцев назад

      @@davidalexander9873 it's about the imaginary system you support

  • @flovv4580
    @flovv4580 4 месяца назад

    “Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius

  • @hansjensen2829
    @hansjensen2829 5 месяцев назад +3

    She should read books, not write them

  • @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg
    @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg 5 месяцев назад +2

    Grace in name only.

  • @bruceferguson8030
    @bruceferguson8030 5 месяцев назад

    No make up and tragic teeth ❤

    • @sexynelson100
      @sexynelson100 5 месяцев назад +1

      she doesn't need it.. she still looks so fine.. and she's right what she is saying

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 5 месяцев назад +2

      Such a powerful & far-reaching analysis ! 👺

  • @live--now
    @live--now 5 месяцев назад

    Lol 😂

  • @livingtribunal4110
    @livingtribunal4110 5 месяцев назад

    The West.
    ´Legitimacy.´
    😂

  • @shtuny7795
    @shtuny7795 5 месяцев назад

    What about the murdered Syrian children or Yemen children? Don't you care about them?

  • @videobyredjade
    @videobyredjade 4 месяца назад

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Blakeley