Is Musk trying to buy U.K. politics?

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  • @VladVexlerChat
    @VladVexlerChat  5 днів тому +17

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    • @sirrodneyffing1
      @sirrodneyffing1 5 днів тому

      Vlad..you're living in a Liberal fantasy mate. A great majority of the British people want this mass immigration/woke rubbish stopped. They want it STOPPED, they want it stopped dead, and they want it stopped NOW!. And, I'm sorry; what "problem"? - you mean just how fast Farage can eradicate Liberals from the British establishment/Civil Service/Acedemia/Media? That's a problem, well, a challenge; because there are just many of them dug in so deep it will take monumental effort to weed them all out. But it has to be done.

    • @soniaforrest9984
      @soniaforrest9984 5 днів тому +1

      Check what they say about him on led by donkeys 😅😅😅

  • @LucasDimoveo
    @LucasDimoveo 5 днів тому +118

    3:15 In this way Musk and his ilk have learned from modern Russian destabilization techniques

    • @GeorgeGeorgeOnly
      @GeorgeGeorgeOnly 5 днів тому +17

      Of course. It's probably his Russian friends who have persuaded him to do it.

    • @Yutani_Crayven
      @Yutani_Crayven 5 днів тому

      @@GeorgeGeorgeOnly They don't have to. Musk is a true believer in his own insane delusional world views. He's been so captured by his own X algorithm that he fully lives in an alternate, made up reality that does not really exist. Because of that, he's extremely deluded and paranoid.

    • @Yutani_Crayven
      @Yutani_Crayven 5 днів тому

      @@GeorgeGeorgeOnly And also malignant.

    • @HoboHabilis
      @HoboHabilis 5 днів тому +4

      Chicken first or egg?

    • @benghiskahn3673
      @benghiskahn3673 5 днів тому

      ​@@GeorgeGeorgeOnly I'm fairly certain that the whole MAGA movement intends to go the way of Putin and United Russia. That's their blueprint. It appeals to Trump because someone like Xi or Putin is as close to a deity as anyone can be; they are immune from public prosecution, they have the power of life and death, they have absolute unmitigated control over their nation. Why wouldn't Trump want that? This is a man who cares about only himself and his ego and who absolutely hates being challenged... no doubt he wants what Xi and Putin have and I suspect Putin has been whispering in Trump's ear about how great it is....
      "Oh Donald, I'm so sorry to hear about all these legal troubles you're having. I wish I could say I know how you feel but I never had these kinds of problems in my country because I abolished independent judiciary. Oh Donald, how awful those free media outlets are saying all those mean things about you. I wish I could say I know how you feel but I removed all the free media in my country so I don't have that problem."

  • @davidanderson911
    @davidanderson911 5 днів тому +61

    Man, you're sounding SO much stronger! Whatever you're doing, it's working!

  • @emuevalrandomised9129
    @emuevalrandomised9129 5 днів тому +91

    Musk should be careful with trying to bring about the Russian way of things. In our part of the world oligarchs still retire in peace, in Russia and countries like that they often get retired through gravity. Not sure he'll like the world he's trying to bring about.

    • @patrickdonohue530
      @patrickdonohue530 5 днів тому +8

      He believes the Tech Bros can do it better.
      However, Black Swans will always be with us.

    • @pantalaemon
      @pantalaemon 5 днів тому

      @@patrickdonohue530 the arrogance of people like musk is going to get us all shittified if we're not careful

    • @jbcola74
      @jbcola74 5 днів тому +1

      with united health, it seems to start in the US too, really bad evolution

    • @pantalaemon
      @pantalaemon 4 дні тому +3

      @@jbcola74 how bad it is is kinda in the eye of the beholder imo. but yeah, i also don't see this going in a direction that will turn out well for anybody long term...

    • @playlisttarmac
      @playlisttarmac 4 години тому

      @@patrickdonohue530your comment is doubly troubling as I go past a black swan in Perth Australia.

  • @truthwizard
    @truthwizard 5 днів тому +147

    Musk has a God complex in its unbothered form. He thinks he knows best in everything.

    • @0nFoot
      @0nFoot 5 днів тому +10

      That sounds like Trump. Birds of a feather...

    • @silvasdamata
      @silvasdamata 5 днів тому

      You’re being too considerate. Musk is only partly ignorant of his own mediocrity, the thing is that he’s also aware of his lies and distortions of reality, and forwards them regardless, out of malice. Don’t believe that any “post truth” politicians are naive.

    • @PjRjHj
      @PjRjHj 5 днів тому

      Or every socialist ideologue that draws breath

    • @karmauturn
      @karmauturn 5 днів тому

      apartheid epigenetics have done their job. complex trauma, sociopathy, a touch of psychopathy, and some mazochism, etc etc. they are all the same!

    • @memirandawong
      @memirandawong 5 днів тому +4

      @@0nFoot Turkeys of a feather. ;)

  • @brianfreeman8290
    @brianfreeman8290 5 днів тому +38

    Thank you for addressing this, Vlad.

  • @markusgreger
    @markusgreger 5 днів тому +59

    Tackling democratic decline will be a really uncomfortable process for lot of people who are very happy with the current state. I hope it can be done.

    • @JackRMason
      @JackRMason 4 дні тому +2

      What if the issue is bigger than democracy? What if the brutal truth is that there are simply too many human beings on the planet, from a purely ecological point of view? As I get older, I see more and more the limits of rationality to guide events. I can't see myself believing in an actual old man in the sky puppeteering us to entertain himself. But I can see a certain hardwired biological imperative overriding our ideas about impeccable logic.

    • @emanuellandeholm5657
      @emanuellandeholm5657 4 дні тому

      @@JackRMason I think so too. The core issue is overshoot. We can only have nice things like religious freedom, democracy and human rights when there is an abundance of resources. High EROEI fossil fuels drying up and climate change has put a stop to our progressive experiment. The last century was very atypical for human history. It's been named the carbon pulse, and that pulse is now over. I fear that we're all heading in the direction of resource wars, oligarchs/warlords, fascism. The West is shrinking.

    • @ImperialDiecast
      @ImperialDiecast 4 дні тому

      @@JackRMason if india can deal with too many people per sq km while keeping the peace, then we have no right to even think of this topic.

    • @JackRMason
      @JackRMason 3 дні тому

      @@ImperialDiecast I think you missed the point--it doesn't matter what anyone thinks. It's not about thinking. It's about there simply being too many people.

    • @Anthonystark63
      @Anthonystark63 2 дні тому

      ​@@JackRMason well, consisting the birth rate issues in several countries(including Russia and China), that may self correct

  • @Zonaskiosk1
    @Zonaskiosk1 5 днів тому +32

    Hello from Amsterdam Vlad, I am glad to follow you and how can enlighten us. Thank you 🙏

    • @JusufBideovic
      @JusufBideovic 5 днів тому +2

      wel deprimerend om te kijken :P

    • @VladVexlerChat
      @VladVexlerChat  5 днів тому +7

      @@Zonaskiosk1 grateful to have you.

    • @satyr1349
      @satyr1349 5 днів тому

      @@JusufBideovic Indeed, we need the liberal democratic political parties imagine further - to change peoples views and minds, or else we will fall into a far right populist continent (including the the UK).

    • @sperzieb00n
      @sperzieb00n 5 днів тому +1

      @@JusufBideovic yep, nederland moet ook waakzaam zijn, de grootste partij heeft al geprobeerd het parlement buiten te sluiten (zie noodwet), heel slecht voor de bestuurbaarheid van het land.

  • @FRM101
    @FRM101 5 днів тому +33

    I can tell you this about Farage - when Trump started his political journey, in 2015, no one took it serious, even him. And he just received 77 million votes.

    • @stevendurrant1724
      @stevendurrant1724 5 днів тому

      And the bourgeois commentariat helped them get there by swooning for them both.
      Farage was massively boosted after the 2009 crash when his party was on a similar level to The Greens.
      Now they and the Greens have a similar number of MPs, the LibDems have many more.
      Commentariat never stops going on about him, and barely starts with the others.
      Proposing a reactionary and fake alternative when the establishment is in crisis is a standard bourgeois move since the dawn of fascism.
      It writes itself and the shot-munchers swallow it whole.
      Foreign elites will fund politicians who say they oppose foreign elites and millions won’t blink an eye.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 5 днів тому

      ​@@stevendurrant1724Basically Musk is everything the right claim George Soros is.

    • @alantyndall85
      @alantyndall85 5 днів тому +8

      Farage has been in politics since the early 90s.

    • @rosschops9509
      @rosschops9509 5 днів тому

      And the bellend doesn’t even take himself seriously

    • @Hexanitrobenzene
      @Hexanitrobenzene 5 днів тому

      Damn, I thought Farage was politically dead after time has shown that Brexit was a disaster for UK economy...

  • @jeremygibbs7342
    @jeremygibbs7342 5 днів тому +22

    Nigel Faraj is even worse than Trump in my opinion.

    • @barmalini
      @barmalini 5 днів тому

      It doesn't take a genius, you know

    • @mustafasaed7766
      @mustafasaed7766 3 дні тому

      My 15 month old daughter says he is a racist.

  • @DavidJBurbridge
    @DavidJBurbridge 5 днів тому +8

    What is Musk's interest? Why now? He has never been a citizen of our nation and has never had a personal fascination with the UK until recently. But suddenly, in his 50s, he's all concerned about our freedom (particularly in ways that limit his ability to use X as his personal outlet) and trying to put his finger on the scale. It's hard to see this as anything more than a self-serving move that's part of a business strategy. It's like if an itinerant "doctor" suddenly showed up at my door professing deep concern about my health. I'd wonder why he is trying to get me to take his medicine.

    • @JackRMason
      @JackRMason 5 днів тому

      That's true, but I think -- as an American-- that UK voters are probably like US voters, who don't care about any of that. They don't see politics as capable of producing anything positive. It's just a game of punishing somebody. And to that extent, they see Musk as a vehicle for punishing the insincere, inauthentic bureaucrats that do nothing but make life difficult for them.

    • @patrickdonohue530
      @patrickdonohue530 4 дні тому

      @@DavidJBurbridge it is about the global of the Most Wealthy to kill democracy wherever it exists.
      Because only democratic governments can say, “No” to them.
      Democracy is the only check on their power & can legally take their wealth via taxes.

    • @JaneSoole
      @JaneSoole 3 дні тому

      Totally agree. I posted something similar yesterday on Vlad's channel, but it has been wiped and I wonder why.

    • @JaneSoole
      @JaneSoole 3 дні тому

      It's all about money,money, money...lots stashed in offshore accounts...Check it out!

    • @biggiouschinnus7489
      @biggiouschinnus7489 2 дні тому +1

      For me, it feels like an ego trip. Musk is a terrifyingly self-centred man, with an insatiable desire to be on top, to be the best, and to be in control. He won't be happy until... ever. He's the world's richest man, and it's just not enough for him. Nothing ever will be. The moment he's achieved one thing, he'll be going after something else.

  • @colBe-ex9re
    @colBe-ex9re 5 днів тому +43

    “Ideologically bloated emanation of the very cause…” marvellous. Thank you.

  • @fgadenz
    @fgadenz 5 днів тому +8

    What a brilliant and intelligent and informative video, dear professor.
    You help me so much on making intelligible to friends and family the caveats democracy are facing in these crazy times!
    Thank you so much!
    Lots of love from the beautiful techno-banana republic of Brazil 🇧🇷

  • @paulihuxfiel
    @paulihuxfiel 5 днів тому +21

    I always appreciate it when Vlad offers advice on how to deal with these post-truth populist threats but in my experience they're ineffectual for the intended demographic. There's simply no reasonable discourse to be had if people are no longer tethered to reality. The very act of honest discourse is unbearable and toxic for these people.

    • @marymoloney5784
      @marymoloney5784 5 днів тому

      They are the mob of the French revolution.

    • @paulinemasters9125
      @paulinemasters9125 5 днів тому

      what do YOU think should / could be done about expressing or engaging on these issues- any good ideas?

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 5 днів тому

      Many who are tethered to reality are his audience, but they won't act as they want this outcome. Who are they? White liberals

  • @tertrathore5886
    @tertrathore5886 4 дні тому +2

    musk also endorsed AfD. absolutely insane

  • @sundrenched6248
    @sundrenched6248 5 днів тому +8

    I'm just dumbfounded Farage has any credibility left with the masses. No one did more to bring about Brexit than he did, and the majority agrees it has been a bad decision. So why believe him now?

    • @JackRMason
      @JackRMason 5 днів тому

      I think the US and UK voters may have some important similarities in this regard. Speaking as an American, I think US voters don't care about any of that. They've given up on the potential for politics to achieve anything positive ages ago. All they want is a chance to punish the bloodless, time-serving bureaucrats who brought the country to this state in the first place. Sure, Farage is no more sincere than them, but you can't say that he is exactly 'bloodless', or a part of the traditional power structure.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому +4

      He had nothing to do with the actual process of Brexit, he just campaigned for Leave, disappeared for a few years while the Tories destroyed themselves over it, and his fans have doubled down saying Brexit would have been great if only we weren't betrayed by remainers who didn't believe hard enough.

    • @JaneSoole
      @JaneSoole 3 дні тому

      Agree with every single word. Why are GB News and others speaking vilely about the Labour party....

  • @greatwhiteflash1645
    @greatwhiteflash1645 5 днів тому +5

    If the threat of a Putin>Trump>Musk>Farage led UK does not lead to an independent Scotland, then frankly I am not capable of imagining a kind of threat that would. Farage is LOATHED in much of Scotland - particularly the urban areas at least. Where he comes across as an ideological child of the still hated Thatcher. Even if he does not talk about the same things that she did - he FEELS like he comes from the same species.

    • @joelogjam9163
      @joelogjam9163 4 дні тому

      I often refer to Farage as Thatcher without the balls.😂

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому

      Its amazing how despite both kickstarting the neoliberal age, Thatcher is despised whike Reagan is fondly remembered

  • @janronschke7525
    @janronschke7525 5 днів тому +46

    I wish i could take Musk less seriously, but his immense wealth makes it impossible as there are countrys that have less revenue than him... what a nerd, and in his case i actully mean that as an insult.

    • @georgeholloway3981
      @georgeholloway3981 5 днів тому +4

      What do you mean that he has "revenue"? I think he actually has a lot of equity in his companies, and takes out loans collateralized by that equity.

    • @janronschke7525
      @janronschke7525 5 днів тому

      @@georgeholloway3981 Revenue as in income... What do you refer to as equity?

    • @Ukie88
      @Ukie88 5 днів тому +2

      Is he really that wealthy? Or is it just on paper..like trump financial waffling.

    • @UkraineJames2000
      @UkraineJames2000 5 днів тому +3

      Elon is a proper dork. No amount of money can hide that fact.

    • @patrickdonohue530
      @patrickdonohue530 5 днів тому

      @@georgeholloway3981 exactly!

  • @DarkestAlice
    @DarkestAlice 5 днів тому +14

    Thank you, Vlad, for talking to us. Hope, the chair will not lead to rebound. All the best for your health. Lots of love to you and to the Beautiful Community. 🤗

  • @xmoose9
    @xmoose9 5 днів тому +14

    Vlad you seem to feel better and stronger hope it's so at least! Thank you very much for taking your time, this should be pointed out for sure. The last words about Musk though so on point, it was clear a while ago that he doesn't understand anything in russian history or politics either but he seems to believe that he knows about everything better than anyone, very much like Trump btw, this is dangerous cause such unintelligent people can be easily manipulated :(

  • @singlechannelstuff8666
    @singlechannelstuff8666 5 днів тому +3

    I have been watching your videos for some time now and becoming increasingly impressed with them. Your analysis of the disengagement many ordinary people feel with the political process is spot on. I have many times felt that if the British public spent as much effort on politics as they do on football or fashion. Then most of the politicians over my lifetime, at least, would have been out on their ear.

  • @trleith
    @trleith 5 днів тому

    One of your best, Vlad, at least I think so.

  • @Hexas87
    @Hexas87 5 днів тому +59

    Elon Musk is buying his fiefdoms around the world until he can crown himself The Doge.

    • @col0342
      @col0342 5 днів тому +3

      Those were _elected_

    • @el52
      @el52 5 днів тому +10

      Interestingly enough, "Doge" is, I kid you not, is a political position, meaning the Head of the Republic of Venice, in the Medieval and Early Renaissance times. I think they're elected by fellow nobles.

    • @Hexas87
      @Hexas87 5 днів тому +10

      @@el52 that's true. He uses his wealth the same way the Medici family used to do. Minus the arts.

    • @el52
      @el52 5 днів тому

      @@col0342 But that doesn't mean votes can be bought right? 😁😁😁

    • @billmclean5431
      @billmclean5431 5 днів тому +3

      And no one will like him still.

  • @audreyw8521
    @audreyw8521 5 днів тому +15

    Thank you for defining neoliberalism for me. I may also need you to define what you mean by technocratic speech. I love your talks, Vlad!

    • @some_phantom2599
      @some_phantom2599 5 днів тому +3

      Further down in the comments, I saw technocrats equated with tech bosses, so we definitely need a definition. I thought Vlad was shooting at any attempt to model the likely effects of a mix of policy tweaks whether to reduce carbon emissions, immigration or the budget deficit. Without magical thinking these problems can only be solved at a cost to what is available on the kitchen table and unless the general public offer informed consent to the actual best estimate cost and effect of such policies then democratic legitimacy will continue to decline. To some extent the technocratic language is going to have to nibble away at the kitchen table discourse. How else are you going to explain that there are various external scenarios, such as tariffs and foreign endorsement of green transition and wars, that can change forecasts and necessitate further policy changes?

    • @desolatemirror3006
      @desolatemirror3006 5 днів тому +3

      You could say technocratic speech is speech by experts using expert jargon. This speech is fine if it is used when talking to other experts but runs into some problems when you use it with the average person
      Political experts such as policy writers, lifelong politicians, lobbyists, etc. can use this jargonistic speech between themselves, but when used for the average voter you have a disconnect, it exacerbates the 'opaqueness' the average voter feels to politics.

    • @paulinemasters9125
      @paulinemasters9125 5 днів тому +2

      @@some_phantom2599 thank you for putting this in some form of context that I can cogitate upon

    • @some_phantom2599
      @some_phantom2599 5 днів тому

      @@desolatemirror3006 you are probably right, but where is the threshold between everyday speech and technocratic speech? Also, do all the experts fully understand the terms that they are using? Thinking of the topic of tariffs in the recent US elections, which are neither a fee paid by foreign exporters nor a sales tax, I was puzzled by the failure of the press to explain what tariffs actually are and what effects they are likely to have. Just deeming tariffs a technocratic term and coming up with invalid analogies, as both parties actually did, seems to me to promote the very opaqueness that avoiding technocratic speech is supposed to reduce.

    • @dojelnotmyrealname4018
      @dojelnotmyrealname4018 3 дні тому

      Technocracy is thinking that things will be solved if you put smart enough people at the top to work it all out for you. Social problems are just a math problem that's too hard to fix for most elected officials.

  • @suzannstrohmaier2578
    @suzannstrohmaier2578 5 днів тому +6

    Thanks Vlad and Happy Holidays 😊 to you and the Beautiful Community 😊

  • @PjRjHj
    @PjRjHj 5 днів тому +7

    They don't just feel betrayed, the HAVE been betrayed

  • @Nemo59646
    @Nemo59646 4 дні тому +2

    Rational explanations help ease troubled minds. Thank you.

  • @ashiesmum
    @ashiesmum 5 днів тому +8

    Thank you. Though depressing i found this talk enlightening and positive. Sometimes if i accidentally hear Farage or Trump on the radio i turn to you to disinfect my confused mind of their rhetoric.

  • @G0ldfingers
    @G0ldfingers 5 днів тому +2

    These huge amounts of money spent on Political Campaigns are ridiculous, when you consider how many are starving in this world etc.

  • @tonib5899
    @tonib5899 4 дні тому +8

    From the U.K. Thank you for covering this. Hope you are ok. Happy Christmas Vlad.

  • @Ginover6
    @Ginover6 5 днів тому +14

    Because Brits just luuuuuuve when outsiders try to influence their politics.

    • @GeorgeGeorgeOnly
      @GeorgeGeorgeOnly 5 днів тому

      So much for "Taking Back Control" of our "Sovereignty!"🙄

    • @bluetoad2668
      @bluetoad2668 4 дні тому +1

      That depends what the outsider is saying. In this case he's saying just what certain people want to hear and he has Farage as his front man.

    • @Ginover6
      @Ginover6 4 дні тому +2

      @bluetoad2668 it makes me wonder, about farage. A big chunk of his platform, leaving the controversial stuff aside, had always been independence. How is supplicating himself to America First Trump and a South African billionaire help him make his case? And where does the rupert murdoch fit in? Brexit was an act self harm borne from often very toxic rhetoric, achieved by a very small margin that's prety much gone now. And that was the heyday of divisive politics, aren't people now slowly realizing that Farage is ultimately all about Farage?

  • @adrianvintila5077
    @adrianvintila5077 4 дні тому

    I loved those long format videos with images where you narrated in the background. You have a very calming voice.
    If you ever fancy making anymore of those types of videos about historical periods in Europe and Russia.. that would be nice

  • @Kevin_Street
    @Kevin_Street 5 днів тому +6

    Thank you for a very interesting video! There's a lot to think about in there. I agree with you that my country has similar problems to the UK. The names and organizations are different, but there's the same kind of populist frustrations underneath, and the same apparent cluelessness by the political parties. All the Western democracies seem to be going through the same thing right now. The US was just the first.
    But I'd like to focus on one thing you talked about that I don't understand. You said that Prime Minister Starmer and his Labour Party (and by implication similar politicians in other nations) needs "to break the mold of his technocratic self understanding." I think you mean he has to learn how to communicate with the people of the UK without sounding like a technocrat, to make it more likely they'll listen to him. But I'm not sure what this would mean. Would that mean focusing less on economic or free market solutions and talking more about the things people are feeling? Trump is always talking about how horrible things are now, and how he's going to fix everything. He almost never talks about solutions, but spends a lot of time telling people that he understands what they're feeling and feels it too. Is that what Starmer would need to do?

  • @paulyoung4422
    @paulyoung4422 5 днів тому +30

    I wouldn't let Farage, judge a Clacton Knobbly Knees Contest.

    • @Teach59
      @Teach59 5 днів тому +5

      🤣😂

    • @fredx3764
      @fredx3764 День тому

      He’s not qualified to do knees only milkshakes

  • @DavidGwynnJones
    @DavidGwynnJones 5 днів тому +3

    I don't know much about UK politics but here in Australia an embittered billionaire poured the equivalent of £60 million into his party and won one seat.
    In the US Dems had much more money and lost.
    I'm not sure money helps, greater presence can mobilise people to not vote for those with deep pockets who bombard voters.

  • @tamasgyorffy1
    @tamasgyorffy1 5 днів тому +5

    The "table kitchen" image was excellent. Adopted. Thanks Vlad as every each occasion you hit the mic.

  • @orionandersen9333
    @orionandersen9333 5 днів тому +7

    Vlad, I’m a great fan of clothes and fashion, and I can’t help noticing that you always wear such lovely jumpers!

  • @memirandawong
    @memirandawong 5 днів тому +2

    Receipts are impossible in a post truth discussion. They'll tell you "what receipts? We don't need no stinking receipts!"

  • @davidlloyd1526
    @davidlloyd1526 5 днів тому +3

    There are plenty of non-Tesla EVs that are pretty sweet. Must is good at marketing, but BWM engineering still is better.

  • @jwwebnaut7045
    @jwwebnaut7045 5 днів тому +3

    Here in Germany, donations to a political party by aan allen are punishable by law. What about Britain?

    • @astranger448
      @astranger448 4 дні тому +1

      In Germany the constitution is written down, everybody who wants can go and read it. In the UK, the constitution is NOT written down. Makes it both harder to implement and easier to make stuff up.

    • @JaneSoole
      @JaneSoole 3 дні тому +1

      Quite so. I looked it up yesterday and while there are rules...there seem to be WHOPPING loopholes...and hiding places.

  • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
    @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 5 днів тому +1

    Thank you for joining up the dots. This was really helpful.

  • @Julia-Richter
    @Julia-Richter 5 днів тому +8

    Hello beautiful Vlad 🌻💙🌻

  • @n.b.1267
    @n.b.1267 5 днів тому +1

    Hi Vlad, thanks for that piece - interesting in regards to the state of English/British politics but going much further and concretising on how to answer post-truth politics.
    Other question: Can you point out some other content creators/ analysts you would recommend to watch? I know you like Anders Nielsen and Mark Galeotti regarding the russian war against Ukraine. Anyone else you want to recommend?

  • @daveking-sandbox9263
    @daveking-sandbox9263 5 днів тому +1

    When was the last time you had your piano tuned?

  • @samedwards6683
    @samedwards6683 5 днів тому

    Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.
    Heroyam Slava. 💙💛 🇺🇦

  • @wytchend
    @wytchend 5 днів тому +3

    Successive UK governments have failed to carry out the will of the people. What did they think was going to happen?

  • @GafferBob
    @GafferBob 5 днів тому +5

    Looking Good Vlad.Good points. It seems that Musk sees himself as a citizen of the world,so he wouldn't think of it as foreign interference. Also Labor needs to learn from the Democratic Party (US) failure and the style and appeal of Bernie Sanders, who knows the language of the average voter or the iconoclast.

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 5 днів тому

      It's not difficult- all it requires is someone with integrity or a spine

  • @carpenanne
    @carpenanne 5 днів тому +3

    This was interesting.. Thanks Vlad

  • @AllistairNeil
    @AllistairNeil 5 днів тому +12

    Message to Eelon: MYOB

    • @rachelatwood9555
      @rachelatwood9555 5 днів тому +6

      @@AllistairNeil when has he ever?

    • @AllistairNeil
      @AllistairNeil 5 днів тому +4

      @@rachelatwood9555 Before he bought twitter. More or less. He literally went pearshaped after that. I'm a geophysicist and I was gung ho on the Mars thing, but this stuff he's doing now is interfering in other people's lives.

    • @puretone4970
      @puretone4970 5 днів тому +4

      @@AllistairNeil He was spewing propaganda before buying Twitter, it got worse afterwards.

    • @Ukie88
      @Ukie88 5 днів тому +2

      I would add an F in there.

    • @AllistairNeil
      @AllistairNeil 5 днів тому

      @Ukie88 DF as in MYODFB

  • @donnastillwell1683
    @donnastillwell1683 5 днів тому +17

    I am so glad Iam at the end of my life as the world is going to shit, Iam sad that Iam leaving this world in this state 😢

    • @acey457
      @acey457 5 днів тому +3

      come on old chap its not that bad, good luck for your voyage

    • @bob-yd8xv
      @bob-yd8xv 5 днів тому +1

      The world has always been going to shit but weirdly things improve at the same time.

    • @golagiswatchingyou2966
      @golagiswatchingyou2966 5 днів тому +4

      you got to enjoy the good years, imagine growing up in this mess.
      state pensions will be removed in time, hopefully all the old people will be gone or powerless by then.

    • @moritamikamikara3879
      @moritamikamikara3879 5 днів тому

      I wish this had not happened in my time, so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide

    • @whalefish83
      @whalefish83 5 днів тому

      And you'd end it believing the likes of this imposter. Double sad.

  • @paulgilbert9346
    @paulgilbert9346 5 днів тому +5

    If only Reform was actually a political party with voting members. However it is a limited company that is controlled from the top and the “members” have no vote over policy or in candidate selection.

    • @tamasgyorffy1
      @tamasgyorffy1 5 днів тому +1

      This seems not to be a problem in populist authoritarian/anti-democratic...eee.. organisations. This same modus operandi applies for the Fidesz of Hungary, the Georgian Dream, to have only these two examples spontaneously. Probably also goes for russia, not well informed enough.

    • @olavl8827
      @olavl8827 5 днів тому +1

      Something similar with the Dutch PVV, the "party" of Geert Wilders (you may have heard of him). Political parties in the Netherlands must be associations, to promote some measure of internal democracy. But this association has only two members: Wilders himself, and his foundation of which he is the only board member. And new membership registration is closed. So no one gets a say except the boss himself.
      It's as if all these populist rightwingers follow the same instruction manual on how to gather and consolidate power. I don't think it's a wild conspiracy theory, seeing that they do communicate extensively. Wilders loves travelling to Hungary, Israel etc.

  • @nkosipwl
    @nkosipwl 5 днів тому

    Thank vlad you just got my thoughts put right

  • @GSicKz
    @GSicKz 5 днів тому

    Looking strong vlad, keep em coming! Comment for the algo, let's go! :)

  • @mauritsbol4806
    @mauritsbol4806 5 днів тому +1

    love to see you in the chair. proverbially bidding for your recovery

  • @GrandadGuitar
    @GrandadGuitar 5 днів тому +2

    Reform UK are not a political party, they are a plc, this is why they publish a contract and not a manifesto. This also means they would have to go through several admin hoops before bidding for power.

  • @lynleybreeze3283
    @lynleybreeze3283 5 днів тому +1

    Hello Vlad. I write little essays of your views. This helps me to understand with more clarity.

  • @WeekdayProductions
    @WeekdayProductions 4 дні тому

    Galbraith talked about the technostructure in the sixties I think and James Burnham’s “the managerial revolution “ was published in 1942. This is a longstanding trend

  • @laleluleilo
    @laleluleilo 5 днів тому

    Hey Vlad!😊

  • @valipunctro
    @valipunctro 5 днів тому +1

    The million dolar question is : is there a way to fix the issues the people have without creating more problems that will make them more angry. Because i dont see how you fix those things without taxing more( the problem labour have with balancing the budget ),and adrressing demografic decline without doing the same.

  • @laurencelockwood6209
    @laurencelockwood6209 5 днів тому +1

    Reference “Patriotic” statements about Farage.
    He is so unpopular that a foreign state has to support him financially.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому

      If he ties himself to Trump, he may be cooked should the Trump admin prove to be a disaster.

    • @JaneSoole
      @JaneSoole 3 дні тому

      Appreciate your roundabout way! So true.

  • @Gintonics2
    @Gintonics2 5 днів тому +1

    Do you have a new camera? You look amazing 😊🎉

  • @matthewmorgan6814
    @matthewmorgan6814 5 днів тому +4

    In what respect is Reform more "post-truth" than, say, the Labour party?

    • @golagiswatchingyou2966
      @golagiswatchingyou2966 5 днів тому

      they are only post truth in that they aren't actually right wing and more containment for real rightwing parties.

    • @alantyndall85
      @alantyndall85 5 днів тому +4

      Even if I squint, I can't see how you conclude Labour are "post truth". Vague and disseminating, for sure, but not untethered from truth.

    • @GlasPthalocyanine
      @GlasPthalocyanine 5 днів тому

      ​@@alantyndall85 Labour avoids any discussion on subjects they don't want to talk about. Maybe "post-real" would describe them better.

  • @MrThe247enigma
    @MrThe247enigma 5 днів тому +3

    at this point i think even mr blobby would be an improvement, lets give reform a chance

    • @nigelgarrett7970
      @nigelgarrett7970 5 днів тому +1

      If I lose my faith in Labour, I haven't lost my marbles. Let Reform bring out a fully costed manifesto before they are a credible alternative. As soon as I think privately educated millionaire former bankers can solve Britain's issues I'll let you know.

    • @grodesby3422
      @grodesby3422 5 днів тому

      ⁠You need someone with enough of a mandate to rebuild the bureaucracy from scratch

  • @stilltoomanyhats
    @stilltoomanyhats 5 днів тому +1

    Doesn't the UK have somewhat reasonable laws around monetary contributions to politics, at least compared to the US? Or are they toothless and full of loopholes enough that even someone with the subtlety and eye for detail of Elon Musk can get around them? Or will he just break campaign finance law out in the open with no consequences?

  • @barryoverson4988
    @barryoverson4988 5 днів тому +1

    MUSK had ambitions to work with Russia in starship development to ditch the problems with restrictive policy's in the U.S.A.

  • @JaneSoole
    @JaneSoole 2 дні тому

    Yes, to your headline.

  • @RichardEricCollins
    @RichardEricCollins 5 днів тому

    For decades the UK politicians have looked for support from media. Musk and X is just an extension of this. We should be talking about the press's involvement in politics in general. Also. The UK people are angry about illegal immigration. Most are fine with legal migration.

  • @tiaretsnyheter6026
    @tiaretsnyheter6026 5 днів тому +5

    I have more experience integrating immigrants than most. It is very hard and tasking, and it is not a question of liking cuisine, that is a caricature of the existential challenge in traversing cultures.
    You're writing off the agency of Farage's voters Vlad. It is not their inexperience or opacity with institutions which lead them to vote against immigration. It is likely their visceral existential confrontations with failing integration, and seeing through that institutions have no plan, and are counting immigrants as numbers for cheap labour, and not the vaunted humanist's holy grails on slender feet.

    • @mat3714
      @mat3714 5 днів тому

      That's just false.....and you probably liked your own comment or one of your other account did it ?

    • @tiaretsnyheter6026
      @tiaretsnyheter6026 5 днів тому

      @@mat3714 Good one. I respect Vlad's core message of civility and the proper value of institutions, but I do not fool myself that holding back criticism of a public intellectual is doing any favours! I appreciate the forum is a bit dampened by Vlad's very sad misfortunes in health, but that doesn't mean he can't take it like a philosopher!

    • @mat3714
      @mat3714 4 дні тому

      @@tiaretsnyheter6026 -A. This was directed at you....not vlad.
      -B. This isn't about having a plan or integration, this is a simple recurring human réflexe. Scapegoating and good old intolerance. People don't care about plans, they don't even follow politics, they check headlines and convolve their feelings into a simple magical solution that begs to be exploited.
      -C. We don't need cheap labor, we need labor and replacement levels or everything we experience right now will get much worse and it might already be unavoidable at this point.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому

      Theres an unspoken rule that in a democracy, voters are blameless and can never be wrong. If they vote for horrible policies that screw them over, it is always the opposition party's fault for failing to convince them and failing to stop it

    • @tiaretsnyheter6026
      @tiaretsnyheter6026 4 дні тому

      @@thesenate1844 I think I see what you're writing: As "In marketing, don't blame the customer", and "In public relations, don't blame the public". Then Vlad's recently said, it's our job to denounce unspoken rules like such, and not treat politics as a consumer good?

  • @pgr3290
    @pgr3290 5 днів тому +5

    So many grifters

  • @rbettsx
    @rbettsx 5 днів тому +3

    To invert a phrase, no representation without taxation. As UK law currently stands, Musk could only direct a company contribution from the division of Twitter incorporated in the UK, whose profits run at about £8.5M... way off the speculated $100M

    • @GeorgeGeorgeOnly
      @GeorgeGeorgeOnly 5 днів тому +1

      What if he setup a shell company, or even a SPACs in the UK, and then funded that from the US to the UK? Or would that count as money laundering?

    • @rbettsx
      @rbettsx 5 днів тому +1

      @GeorgeGeorgeOnly Quite. As I understand it, The Electoral Commision is right now calling for a tightening of the law to foil this kind of trick.

    • @GeorgeGeorgeOnly
      @GeorgeGeorgeOnly 5 днів тому

      @@rbettsx We should certainly hope so, Robin. But can it be enacted in time?

    • @rbettsx
      @rbettsx 5 днів тому

      @@GeorgeGeorgeOnly We can only wait and see. At least any contribution will be highly visible, and as Vlad suggests, its effect may be marginal, for an already popular party. (Under first past the post, ‘marginal’ can be ‘decisive’.) Even if the short-term political battle is decided unfairly, though, IMO, it’s more important to hold steady, for the long-term constitutional war.

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 20 годин тому

    As someone who is helping to pay an elderly relatives heating bill, I cannot see any way forward with a Labour government. Not saying Reform is the answer but neither labour nor conservatives are an option either.

  • @alexdevitry7842
    @alexdevitry7842 5 днів тому +4

    Happy to see you today Vlad

  • @Elaiyel
    @Elaiyel 5 днів тому +1

    @Vlad Vexler: What do you think of this seemingly global lurch to the right one can’t but help notice everywhere. Not just governments, but electorates in various countries. Would love to hear your thoughts. Was there no way to avoid this global outcome? Thx, in advance.

    • @jordanbell4736
      @jordanbell4736 5 днів тому

      Yeah, it was caused by the globalization of capital and human movement from the early 2000s. Immigration in one word

    • @VladVexlerChat
      @VladVexlerChat  5 днів тому +8

      Historically it is a kind of return to normal in part, certainly in Europe. It is also about liberalism giving up on the welfare state and on emancipatory politics in the second part of the 20th C. It is of course also the 4 causes of distrust I often discuss. And much more. We shall talk about this in greater depth.

    • @golagiswatchingyou2966
      @golagiswatchingyou2966 5 днів тому

      not letting in millions of people from the third world would have certainly postponed it for at least 20 years.

    • @Elaiyel
      @Elaiyel 5 днів тому +1

      @@VladVexlerChat Thanks again! 😃

  • @MusicaAngela
    @MusicaAngela 5 днів тому

    Is there a politician from a major party who is not an "ideologically bloated emanation"?

  • @user-cl1ew9ki5i
    @user-cl1ew9ki5i 5 днів тому

    ❤❤❤from Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺

  • @JaneSoole
    @JaneSoole 3 дні тому

    YES. to your headline question.

  • @perimetrfilms
    @perimetrfilms 5 днів тому +1

    The British people won't elect Reform UK. They will split between the Conservative and Reform. The others will mostly vote Labour.

  • @hardoak-t1d
    @hardoak-t1d 5 днів тому +1

    Musk can provide data from X to identify the grouping of the population and the correct marketing to apply to each group, the targeting advertising to each group dependent on that groups concerns will give Reform a high probability of performing well in any election, they can also feed the dissatisfaction of supporters of other parties to reduce their vote. This can be done without breaking any election rules as reform could pay a token amount for the service.

    • @albertmcnamee8155
      @albertmcnamee8155 5 днів тому +1

      Agree. Remember how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook's release of customer analytics to more effectively target customers' vote. Jared was spearheading that psychological profiling used in targeted ads, Trump 2016 campaign.
      Musk has other influencers tout his abilities to underpin his "genius" at everything. And Musk participates in Bro culture forums, then craps on "establishment" on X... to aid Trump and, now, Farage.

  • @tisFrancesfault
    @tisFrancesfault 5 днів тому +8

    The biggest issue I have with what's happening, is the fact that that the state isn't contesting foreign powers direct political influence.
    Like the UK is a in a genuine position, paying enough dollars, MP would vote to dissolve the state to whomever paid enough.
    And people are confused why people vote for "ultra nationalists". Yes, a lot of ultras are in the pocket of foreign powers , but those are considerably likely to be shot.

    • @prismpyre7653
      @prismpyre7653 5 днів тому

      Neither did the USA Obama whimpered about it then the GoP politicized it and they stopped saying anything. UK and USA are both just big auction houses where all is for sale to the highest bidder-- the people, the state, public resources, government functions... absolutely everything.

  • @RaedanWulfe
    @RaedanWulfe 5 днів тому +6

    May not be the worst timeline (or point thereon apparently) - but dear lords, it's certainly making a run for the most stupid one... 😮‍💨

    • @golagiswatchingyou2966
      @golagiswatchingyou2966 5 днів тому

      this is the second worst timeline, the worst one is where we had a nuclear war during the cold war and lost to the commies.

    • @rachelatwood9555
      @rachelatwood9555 5 днів тому

      @@RaedanWulfe perhaps it's time to release Idiocracy II. I don't know what Luke Wilson is up to, but Maya Rudolph's workload is a lot lighter than she (and many of us) hoped it would be a couple of months ago

  • @polomis27
    @polomis27 5 днів тому +1

    This may be the first time Vlad has fully engaged on the economic causes of democratic decline. It reminds me of David Gray, who similarly, forecasts the inevitable western decline, was asked if taxes were realigned to "New Deal" levels, if this would change the inevitable, he said, of course, but that is impossible.... Increasing taxes is more difficult than allowing dictatorship...sad😢

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому +1

      Is this just the logical end point of neoliberalism?

  • @jamesaston410
    @jamesaston410 4 дні тому

    I can’t believe Farage would allow that, especially since he is on record multiple times saying
    “We must keep overseas billionaire money out of UK politics”
    If he accepted $100 million, from an overseas billionaire that would make him a hypocrite …we all know politicians are not hypocrites! 😊

  • @tonychan647
    @tonychan647 5 днів тому

    Thank you for your political and philosophical insights. It gives me an anchor in the storm of the Ukraine war.
    You look very strong today. May you receive greater improvement every day.

  • @greatwhiteflash1645
    @greatwhiteflash1645 5 днів тому

    Just when I thought this cesspool couldn't get any more revolting.

  • @Kicklighter.A
    @Kicklighter.A 4 дні тому

    No one would give a toss about immigration, woke, the EU etc if people felt they were getting richer, their standard of living was improving and the social contract wasn’t broken. By which I mean they were getting the services and infrastructure their taxes were paying for.

  • @IusedtohaveausernameIliked
    @IusedtohaveausernameIliked 4 дні тому

    Calling it "post truth" is pretty much legitimizing dishonesty. Why can't we call out politicians as inveterate liars if they are so? Enough with the kid gloves.

  • @he1ar1
    @he1ar1 5 днів тому

    My first thought was what are the clowns planning to do next? Are we not already a circus. Doesn't matter if the circus is led by technocratic management, the adults in the room, more clowns, or clowns with different stripes. It still is a circus with punch and judy rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.

  • @climatecypher
    @climatecypher 4 дні тому

    What can people do to stop this? Any solutions or we all just roll over and take it up the a?

  • @G0ldfingers
    @G0ldfingers 5 днів тому

    Foreign Money should never be allowed to influence the British Political System.

  • @Squire-t1i
    @Squire-t1i 5 днів тому +1

    A positive start but then you carefully tread around the issue of what should be done about immigration. Farage is not post truth, he's straight to the point. A point you avoid.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому

      Farage has not promised anything specific, hes just running on vibes at this point.

  • @roberttuck4768
    @roberttuck4768 5 днів тому

    The biggest problem I see is if Farage is allowed to accept 100M USD then this starts a political funding arms race, where we end up like the US where you need an enormous amount of money to compete in elections.
    We will end up with a 2 party system because there will not be sufficient donors to support anything more.
    The UK economy is not big enough to have that many big donors so inevitably parties that solicit money from foreign donors from places like the US China and middle east will dominate and so we will end up like the US with a political system entirely captured by corporate interests.

  • @noonecaresaboutgoogle3219
    @noonecaresaboutgoogle3219 5 днів тому +1

    Politicians need to be honest with the public that falling birth rates necessitates rising immigration to prevent an aging population from bankrupting the country. They also need to realize the public would be more accepting of higher migration if infrastructure and housing construction kept pace and uninvited arrivals promptly deported.
    The dialogue around immigration lacks nuance, and both sides are guilty of telling half a story.
    Talk to the public like adults and present trade offs to them.

    • @JackRMason
      @JackRMason 5 днів тому +2

      I wouldn't go there. That argument is not likely to be received the way you think it will. These people are going to hear about a worker shortage and wonder why they can't get a job that pays a living wage. It just doesn't pass the smell test.
      I know you could cite like a million individually small qualifications that support the consistency of your position with market forces, but really, they all add up to immigration subsidizing billionaire lifestyles at their personal expense.
      I'm not saying that you don't have a point, at least with regard to certain specific sectors--like medicine, where certain countries with high rates of out migration subsidize education, and therefore produce a comparative advantage for its natives. I'm just saying the situation is way more complicated than you're portraying, and I don't think you want to lead with complexity in these highly charged debates.

    • @noonecaresaboutgoogle3219
      @noonecaresaboutgoogle3219 4 дні тому

      @JackRMason These debates are always complex and need simplifying. I'd urge you to look at the long-term impacts of a birth rate below 1.5. It's far worse than climate change. This is the elephant in the room that hasn't been communicated to the public.

    • @JackRMason
      @JackRMason 4 дні тому

      @@noonecaresaboutgoogle3219 I think you missed my point. You can be right, or you can be effective. That's your choice. Because I promise you absolutely nobody cares about what you are talking about, even if they should. I promise you.

    • @thesenate1844
      @thesenate1844 4 дні тому

      Convincing people to have kids to save the very economy that is screwing them over? I cant see that going well. We'll have to see how South Korea does, bad as the UK is, it has nothing on them

  • @stephendixon8575
    @stephendixon8575 3 дні тому

    Brilliant to hear you talk in more detail about UK politics, which is something I’ve been wanting you to go over in a long time. As a UK Citizen myself I recognise all of what you describe and agree with your point of view. However, while I appreciate this was not the direct point of this video, what I feel we need to hear more from you about is how (especially in the UK, but elsewhere too) we regain more responsible and trustworthy journalism and trust in our media (to scrutinise and hold politicians to account - ie system of checks and balances), when the organisations they work for are either owned by billionaires, or otherwise tarnished with distrust and political bias.
    The unashamed admissions that were made by those who no longer had to play along with the Conservatives, when their near electoral annihilation looked on the cards, and like rats jumping ship how they now needed to cosy up to their new ‘masters’ was frankly revolting and revealing of the reality how ‘client media’ works here 🤮
    This is especially important in a world where more and more people get their diet of ‘news facts’ from non-journalistic sources on social media, both eroding the platform for responsible journalists and mainstream media, and enabling irresponsible and malign forces to peddle lies and misinformation.
    That also brings into focus the importance of the scandal going on around the sale of part of one of the last remaining self-claimed ‘independent’ newspapers to a dodgy new owner, who has no good reason to own (probably several bad ones though) or knowledge of how to run a media organisation.
    Point is politics and media are in reality inseparable, and we cannot rebuild trust in democracy without balanced, independent and responsible media that allow proper journalists to do their job with integrity. I know that’s an idealistic view that we’ve never completely had in reality, but in a world of ever shorter attention spans, deluged by crap on social media, it’s something we desperately need 🤞❤

  • @Ukedc259
    @Ukedc259 5 днів тому +1

    Much needed level headed assessment of the Uk situation. I am both repulsed by Farage’s schtick but also have come to quietly tolerate/respect the widespread sentiment of disenfranchisement that has upturned our politics. This anger hasn’t appeared as if by magic. We need to stop performing high handed morality and get real. A new discourse is needed. Until the centre or left find one, Farage gets the pitch to himself.

    • @nigelgarrett7970
      @nigelgarrett7970 5 днів тому +1

      Question to you. Why has this widespread sentiment of disenfranchisement appeared? What has caused it?

    • @Ukedc259
      @Ukedc259 5 днів тому

      @nigelgarrett7970 1) politics from both Left and Right has failed to make a positive difference to average people’s lives for some time. 2) as Vlad has said more eloquently than I, the failure to deliver in practical terms while carrying on riding the neoliberal wave of laissez faire economics and “doing transnational” deals at v high levels has compounded the sense of politicians being in it for themselves, drifting ever further from everyday concerns. It’s been a perfect storm for voter alienation. Then … enter Farage … he’s going to mop up. Unless professional politicians raise their game, the con man will win.

    • @GlasPthalocyanine
      @GlasPthalocyanine 5 днів тому

      ​@@nigelgarrett7970 the cause is the notion that there is a class of people who think they know better. This isn't the 1950s. That's not appropriate in a democracy.

    • @Ukedc259
      @Ukedc259 5 днів тому +1

      @@nigelgarrett7970 Left and Right alike have demonstrably failed to make a positive difference to people’s lives. And at the same time as offering precious little by way of opportunity they have blithely ignored people’s concerns. Ignore voters at your peril…

  • @piernikowyloodek
    @piernikowyloodek 5 днів тому

    Not sure why but this Musk-Farage news just tipped me over into depression. Will there be even 1 responsible person to stop an outright purchasing of British politics by a wealthy oligarch.
    I know I shouldn't but I'm overcome by the desire to disintegrate and disappear, or at the very least check out.

  • @toxic-o1u
    @toxic-o1u 4 дні тому

    Fighting for free speech is the good democratic fight. Hating free speech is antidemocratic.

  • @NeilForshaw
    @NeilForshaw 5 днів тому +3

    Nigel Farage.... getting into power.... is a scary thought 😭 I suppose the term "Correlation does not equal causation" comes to mind when talking about if Farage is in the pocket of the Kremlin. The fact that he recently spewed Kremlin slopaganda isn't evidence enough that he's being made to do it. 🙃

  • @scimatarpictures
    @scimatarpictures 5 днів тому

    I don’t think too many people mind if your street in East London is populated entirely by Syrians Vlad; we’ve become used to London being this way. People are nervous about their small market towns and villages in the shires changing beyond recognition.

  • @the_grand_tourer
    @the_grand_tourer 5 днів тому +4

    It’s not Reform party alone who use immigration as leverage with disengaged voters, Conservative and Labour also play the same card. The disengagement is the disconnect with what they all say and the reality (since their beloved Brexit immigration has gone up). Fauxrage leaning against the end of the bar whispering in the ear of the common man like a 1940’s black marketeer spiv is better at making the bridge. Immigration is a not the biggest issue of our time, but that doesn’t matter in the travesty theatre of our time.

  • @G0ldfingers
    @G0ldfingers 5 днів тому

    When Political parties run an election campaign, can we setup a limit for all parties that can be spent, that is checked fervently by a Independent institution during the campaign, and monitored during the term. Political Parties should not win based on how much money they are supported with but upon their policies.