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Neil West
United Kingdom
Приєднався 1 вер 2020
Don't get too excited...
Year in Review - Year 3
My thoughts after 3 years on UA-cam.
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Відео
Should Brexiteers be worried about a Labour Government?
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It took 50 weeks, but here we finally have it: two sides of the Brexit debate. Thank you to Robert and Jennifer for their remarks in this final week of vox pop interviews. 'Labour leader Keir Starmer said this week that he wishes to stay closely aligned with the EU in several key areas, with Conservative Chancellor Jeremy Hunt suggesting that those who voted for Brexit may worry as to the appro...
Should the UK Government discourage people eating unhealthy foods?
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Two ideas on discouraging unhealthy diets were proposed this week, and so I thought I would ask about both of them. Thank you to Cornel for taking the time to film with me. 'This week, health campaigners have pushed for the government to nudge the public away from unhealthy eating through hard-hitting emotional adverts, while former Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested that regulations, such as ...
How much should politics rely on statistics?
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Inaccurate statistics have led to inaccurate narratives being drawn about the UK's economic performance in recent years. Do statistics really have that much influence on determining how people feel about the economy? Or are people more reliant on their own experiences, with broad-scale data being something of an afterthought? These are the kinds of questions I had on my mind when I spoke with K...
How do Brits feel about warmer weather coming in September?
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Warm weather may be on the way, and so I took this opportunity to chat about whether this was an unmitigated good, and to evaluate the impact that the weather can have on people's moods in summer. Thank you to Mark for taking part and being this week's interviewee. 'Many parts of the UK have experienced a cooler and wetter Summer than usual thus far, although there are some suggestions that tha...
Can Lucy Letby's victims feel they got justice?
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Lucy Letby is only the fourth woman to receive the most severe sentencing option in the UK, the life sentence with a whole life order, due to the extreme cruelty of the acts she was found guilty of and for showing a lack of remorse when reflecting on the killings. Thank you to Penny for taking the time to talk about some of the details of the justice system which have come back in to the public...
Should the political views of comedians impact their careers?
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It's kind of surprising to me that it has taken 45 weeks of doing these interviews for this topic to come up! It almost feels like there's an entire subgenre of comedians now who's focus is squarely on pushing back against venues and activists who oppose them, so an interesting conversation to be had about where they might have a point and, conversely, the extent to which venues should be able ...
Is the British high street dying?
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While Wilko is still searching for a buyer, it's outlook is becoming increasingly bleak. Thank you to Lisa for her passionate and nuanced response. In our interview we spoke about Wilko itself and the broader conflict between in-store and online shopping. 'Wilko has this week become the latest high-street retailer to collapse into administration. What would your response be to this news?' Self-...
Should facial recognition be used to fight crime?
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Shoplifting has seen a resurgence recently, with members of the Government mentioning a number of different ways of responding to the situation. Thank you to Chris for stopping to talk about that response. 'In an effort to crack down on shoplifting, repeat offenders will now be subject to time in prison, with some suggestion that facial recognition software could be used on CCTV footage to help...
How effective have campaigns against sexism been?
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Sadiq Khan's 'Say Maaate to a Mate' campaign has been the subject of some debate this week. I used that as a jumping off point to discuss gender issues more broadly with the people of Sheffield. Thank you to Sarah for being kind enough to stop and say yes to my request for an interview. 'In an effort to combat misogyny, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has unveiled a campaign encouraging men to push bac...
Does everyone need to go to university?
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The term 'Mickey Mouse degree' is a fairly broad, non-specific term, but is generally thought to be a knock against universities which run courses which are less rigorous, from an academic point of view, while still offering people an opportunity to have the broader university experience. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's perspective was that these are a 'rip off', and don't make sense economically ...
Was The Sun right not to name the BBC presenter?
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This week looks specifically at the role of The Sun in the BBC presenter scandal. Despite knowing the name of the presenter when the story came in, The Sun did not put the name out there, so I felt that opened up an interesting discussion around how open the media can and should be when these kinds of accusations are made. Thanks to Mike and Łukasz for engaging in that topic with me. 'The Sun n...
Was outrage over London hosting a black-only theatre performance justified?
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Even before it's London premiere, the play 'Tambo & Bones' was making headlines by announcing the Black Out night performance which took place this week. I've not seen any coverage of it since it actually happened, but I definitely wanted to discuss it, and as the conversation in this video proves, it certainly gets people talking. Thank you to Grahame for the interest in this project and for g...
Is 'debanking' a problem?
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Nigel Farage is inarguably one of the most influential and recognisable political figures in modern British history, and so his announcement that he has been 'debanked', with his provider of over 40 years closing his account, has triggered a conversation over how much power banks and other corporations have in British politics. Full respect to Anne, who hadn't heard about the story prior to our...
Should supermarkets use ethical suppliers?
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Few stories all along the same lines this week, so I figured I'd roll them into one and make it more of a theme. Thank you to John for the interview. 'Several stories this week have highlighted potential issues with supermarket suppliers. In one case, it was revealed that security guards at a major supplier of pineapples in Kenya had killed and injured trespassers, leading Tesco to suspend orde...
Was the Counter-Disinformation Unit given too much power during the Covid-19 pandemic?
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Was the Counter-Disinformation Unit given too much power during the Covid-19 pandemic?
How important are meetings like the G7 summit?
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How important are meetings like the G7 summit?
Are climate activists damaging to their own cause?
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Are climate activists damaging to their own cause?
Should the civil service be politically neutral?
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Should the civil service be politically neutral?
Does the UK need to build more housing?
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Does the UK need to build more housing?
Should the UK implement a 'tourism tax'?
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Should the UK implement a 'tourism tax'?
Will Boris Johnson be able to make a comeback?
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Will Boris Johnson be able to make a comeback?
Was Jeremy Hunt's budget an improvement for the Conservatives?
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Was Jeremy Hunt's budget an improvement for the Conservatives?
Anyone can show up, you have no choice. Terrible idea.
Nice to see the body building worked out for you 😂😂😂
Not funny
the list is out of date The UK has its "frugal" royal family (that the BBC NEVER allows readers to comment on ) exempt from paying income and inheritance tax, and its medals order of the British Empire (OBE), and MBE, for an empire that no longer exists
Promo'SM 🍀
But it's not is it
nice doc i cant believe you didnt get thick neck guy to do it with you
We get *most* of our food - from apples to potatoes, to salad to sausage, from the EU. If we lower standards, all we will do is prevent our farmers from selling to the EU, which they already struggle with, since we left the EU, and have the EU import tax. The UK hasn't implemented it's import tax because it would increase food prices dramatically, so "taking control" will never be possible - unless "taking control" means INCREASING the price of our food. The "EU" isn't a person, it's a set of rules that we mostly wrote (we wrote or approved 98% of the laws), as part of that, those rules make life easier for EU members to trade - and non-EU members *harder*. We wrote those rules, and now we are getting the impact of that. Democracy means if we most people want to re-join the EU, we should rejoin, obviously. At the moment, BREXit has made everyone poorer, with more food banks, less money and lower standards (like 20% too few people working in nursing homes, 10% vacancies in the NHS etc.). At the moment, only millionaires (like Ferage & Rees-Mogg) have profited from BRExit - which is funny, it's almost like the rich control the media that lies to the masses.
That last interview you did on Brexit was a catastrophe. The gain to human knowledge inhered presumably in its documentation that Brexit supporters are each of them somewhere in the descent to full dementia. That guy you interviewed: "really, really, really ..." Count the occasions. Useful I suppose to the historians of the 2110's researching the strange mental derangement of the British electorate 100 years ago, and seeking evidence for this (= your interview), but neither enlightening nor entertaining for us today.
Looking forward to seeing you further grow your content and channel. Best wishes
The revised statistics to enforce the narrative…
Robert is a dimwit
Poor Robert is clearly a man without the remotest grasp on core Brexit issues. He doesn't even understand the questions.
As a Brit/German (originally born in UK) I have experience from both sides of this argumentation. The Uk alignment to EU policies is about exporting to the EU, if the UK no longer wants to export to the EU, then dont sell into the EU. Eu doesnt care anymore for leaving, EU has moved on as is busy discussing about Green energies, Digitalization, Brexit only comes up when the UK wants to try cherry pick the EU.
The most selfish generation in history!
An overgrown schoolboy who was dead chuffed that he got to be head prefect 🙄
"I'm old now and I've been eating British food all me life". Yeah, right, and for 50 odd of those years that food has been kept wholesome by EU food regulation, that's why you're still alive and kicking mate. Duh!
More uninformed Tory gammon feeding on red meat served by the Tory client media, what hope does this country have?
What a stupid question nearly as stupid as we have too many experts .
Clueless brextard !
What used to be a short, unhindered drive away, there are countries with much smaller GDPs whose social welfare societies work. The standard of living is now lower than ex Warsaw pact countries. For example the tories trumpet how rich the country is with the world's 6th largest economy by GDP; however as soon as public sector workers ask for wages that aren't real term pay cuts, suddenly there's no money. The tories have ensured the rich get richer at the expense of the poor. The tories have reduced the world's best health service to a service worse than any country in Europe. One in nine is waiting for hospital treatment. The inequality of life expectancy is obscene. Austerity has killed 330,000, a similar number die every year waiting for treatment and 48,000 die every year waiting for ambulances. And the covid death toll is probably 4× what it should have been, mostly lower demographics. It's called Social Murder. Meanwhile Austerity has more than doubled national debt, exactly what the tories said it was supposed to address. The uk has more millionaires than any European country, and 20% are in poverty ( one in five) 27% of children are in poverty, and there has been a resurgence of disease caused by poverty like rickets last seen in victorian times. The lower demographics in the uk have a standard of living 20% below the equivalent demographic in Slovenia. This obscenity is all the work of the tories. Shame!
Who cares what they think - they had their chance and it was a massive f*ck up
Who cares who win's the next election, its called democracy something Brexiter's claim seem to be strongly in favour of.
Robert's comments are a combination of befuddled waffle and recycled Daily Mail headlines. He is an 24 carat gold example of why reducing the immensely complex issue of EU membership to a Yes/No vote was a terrible idea. It's not a matter of agreeing with him or not, he just has no clue what he's talking about.
Lol, what fucking opportunities, which trade deals will replace the huge loss of trade we've lost with the EU, Brexiteers are fucking hilarious...
Sooner this boomer generation is gone the better
Really Robert? Really, we didn't all vote to get out really, and doing so has been a disaster really, and we lost control of our borders really, there were no small boats arriving before that vote really because we had a returns agreement, and even legal immigration has gone through the roof really.
Robert was never going to vote Labour. Robert probably reads the Express, Torygraph or the Daily Mail so therefore cannot think rationally.
OMG lowering standards has allowed sewage in our rivers so let's drop the high EU standards on food, what could possibly go wrong?! "We" voted out so that has to remain forever because that was democratic and reviewing any aspect of the relationship is undemocratic...
I thought age was meant to bring wisdom?...clearly not! 😂🏴🇪🇺🌎
One has to want to gain wisdom but many are happy in their bubble and never look outside.
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Hopefully so
Great interview 👍
An interesting encounter
How much is a house to buy there ?
Why ?
You are a nice and well educated lady!with a nice hat!🌹
Cool channel concept! Glad this video came up in my feed!
I would put Blackpool as englands poorest town now ! How do you fancy doing a documentary on that place ?
As Andrew Lawrence has it, offence is not given, but taken. There is actually quite a subtle argumentation behind that, which would here only become TL;DR (if it fit into the box, which I've never tested to the limit).
UK is done let alone the High Streets! Next 5 years most of the third world be there and its society will cease to exist. Cause rest assured it ain't gonna stop!
they borrowed at low rates, when the rates rose their margin disappeared. all they were really doing was stealing a fake lending rate. thats why all these corporations are failing.
Are you related to Nat West ?
Long lost cousins...
People dont go into centres like they did because they dont recognise anyone when they get there ! ✌️✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧
Can't understand a word she's saying and I'm english
Foreigners
Aye Up Chuck! Nowt fartin bout.
It’s already dead.
Is it dying,?. It died decades ago.
As are the native British people and their culture, history, traditions and ethnicity.
Actually there is more of them, their culture, beliefs, traditions than there was in the past or ever before. Why must you lie and play with everyone's feelings? Being a patriot is a very beautiful thing, however most people today corrupt it and use it to make others hate. Hate hate hate, that is all you want to do, and I can't help but be sorry for you.
It's being killed by design, you know, the new normal, cameras going up out side people's houses migrants the convid plandemic, digital id incoming
The high street has died. Supermarkets were the miraculous new employer creating new jobs. Well that's gone well hasn't it .😡
Well if it hasn't and the High Street was a race horse, they would shoot it.
Time to hit back at the councils perhaps? You simply ask for a contract, no contract no pay!! work it out people!!! Local government act 1888 section 79 Incorporation of county council. (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F75 (2) All duties and liabilities of the inhabitants of a county shall become and be duties andliabilities of the council of such county. (3) Where any enactment (whether relating to . . . F76 bridges, or other county purposes,or to quarter sessions) requires or authorises land to be conveyed or granted to, or anycontract or agreement to be made in the name of, the clerk of the peace, or any justiceor justices or other person, on behalf of the county or quarter sessions, or justices ofthe county, such land shall be conveyed or granted to, and such contract and agreementshall be made with, the council of the . . . F77 county concerned.
How could this stop businesses like the Wilkos from becoming closed.
@@Davserban dunno.... www.local.gov.uk/topics/finance-and-business-rates/local-taxation-council-tax-and-business-rates Local taxation: council tax and business rates Council tax and business rates together make up local authorities’ largest source of income. Central government has a significant degree of control over both council tax and business rates in England and sets the policy framework in which both operate.
The enforced lockdown, business tax and parking charges are killing our High Streets. Sounds like a plan!