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  • Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
  • Sue Gray's resignation might have come as a surprise to some but as rumours swirled about mounting hostility towards her inside Number 10, her departure was inevitable. So, what will her exit mean for Keir Starmer? And what does the latest shake up in No 10 reveal about the mood behind the scenes?
    And, 12 months on from the 7th October attacks in Israel, we ask whether we're any closer to peace in the Middle East?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 86

  • @alaninsoflo
    @alaninsoflo 3 години тому +9

    Too much integrity in Sue Gray. She obviously had to go.

    • @somalilandrecognition5413
      @somalilandrecognition5413 Годину тому

      So politics over integrity. That is the name of the game, whichever party is in power.
      All the while it is thus, the country goes to ruin, trust in public life is further eroded and productivity decreases.
      Britain in the 21st century.

  • @glostergloster6945
    @glostergloster6945 4 години тому +11

    Noone needed Sue Gray to see Johnsons role in partygate, there were literally photographs of him drinking wine at gatherings.

    • @simony2801
      @simony2801 4 години тому +1

      Are you serious.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 3 години тому +5

      Also the privileges committee deliberately didn't use any of Gray's findings when carrying out their own investigation. And they still found that he'd done everything suggested, and a bit more.

    • @johnmurray5573
      @johnmurray5573 10 хвилин тому

      There was a photo of beer Kier.

    • @glostergloster6945
      @glostergloster6945 6 хвилин тому

      @@johnmurray5573 So what? He didnt set the rules, Bojo did

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 3 хвилини тому

      @@johnmurray5573 Great example. As with the gifts recently. The Tories do something illegal. Then Labour do something that looks slightly similar but isn’t illegal, and the press make an equivalence.

  • @RogerHyam
    @RogerHyam 5 годин тому +19

    My MP is Ian Murray (I'm in Edinburgh) he represents me at Westminster. He is also Secretary of State for Scotland with a big posh office next to Waverley station and another in London - both with staff. He sits at the cabinet table with Keir Starmer every week when parliament is sitting. What a farce then to have an "envoy" to the nation of Scotland! Presumably Sue Gray's new role can only be to undermine Murray's job along with the roles of the Welsh and Northern Ireland secretaries. Personally I'd be quite happy if we were independent of you lot in London and you really did send an ambassador (the building by Waverley would make a nice embassy) but as it appears to be the will of my fellow citizens that we remain part of the UK it would be nice if we were treated as if we were in the same country rather than some colony. Maybe this episode will help move a few more of my countrymen more to my way of thinking!

    • @Crouchy232323
      @Crouchy232323 5 годин тому +2

      The Scotch have always been the moral compass of the Labour Party and of the UK as a whole

    • @nanabaws
      @nanabaws 4 години тому

      ​@@Crouchy232323 scotch is a drink, bawbag

    • @therealrobertbirchall
      @therealrobertbirchall 3 години тому +3

      ​@@Crouchy232323Scotch is a drink nothing else. Not people nor a nation. We are Scots or Scot0 and our home is Scotland.

    • @Crouchy232323
      @Crouchy232323 3 години тому

      @@therealrobertbirchall it is plural, actually. 1 Scot many Scotch

    • @therealrobertbirchall
      @therealrobertbirchall 3 години тому +1

      @@Crouchy232323 actually how can a singular noun ie Scotch become plural. Next time you are in the land of the gods. I challenge you to call the people 'Scotch'. The plural of Scotch a drink is Scottish which can be Scottish whisky os a Scottish person. I know 'English' is a difficult language which is not properly taught in England of all places.

  • @Trax777
    @Trax777 4 години тому +18

    The media making a dogs dinner out bones and scraps maybe

    • @chrisf3379
      @chrisf3379 2 години тому +1

      100% this. Have a look on news forums in places like Reddit and the same non-stories are being peddled with such voracity it can only be deliberate in its intention to rile people about nothing and make mountains from molehills. I wonder if it is the business of news or the business of propaganda or a rabid mix of both perpetuating this unhealthy nonsense. It gets people riled up and the unsettled feeling we have as a nation continues, all for a few bob for the journos and their bosses.

  • @smoozerish
    @smoozerish 49 хвилин тому

    I like that Starmer saw the writing on the wall and took the decision early regarding Sue Gray.

  • @wordzy
    @wordzy 2 години тому +7

    It hasn't fallen apart, bit of a hyperbolic headline.

  • @DunnoWhatHandleToUse
    @DunnoWhatHandleToUse 2 години тому +1

    "What about Syria? What about Sudan?" One of the under-covered casualties in this war has been the rationality of otherwise respectable scholars like Montefiore and Schama.

  • @Vignanello555
    @Vignanello555 4 години тому +1

    Yes Prof. Montefiore, we were startled decades ago when Al Qaeda called us "Crusaders". Yet that underlying attitude is exactly what has conditioned our actions since Sykes Picot at the very latest.

  • @BernardMorrey
    @BernardMorrey 28 хвилин тому

    While Nero fiddled Rome burnt. This should be the metaphor for our modern political class. Both main parties are more interested with Machavaillian infighting rather than effectively governing. It is ridiculous. They do not attempt to change this failing economic system which simply feeds off the vast majority of us. If we ever end up with some far right extremists in power it's these morons who will be to blame. Labour has failed the working class and it wouldn't surprise me if they desert the party at the next election, probably voting reform as. I certainly will not vote Labour because they appear Conservative light

  • @somalilandrecognition5413
    @somalilandrecognition5413 Годину тому +1

    It can not be a surprise to anyone that Hamas would say on the anniversary of their attack on Israel that they would do it all over again.
    Has anything happened that would make them see Israel in a better light.
    The attack happened because the Israeli government and military were asleep on the job. Netanyahu was caught with his pants down and Hamas exploited this. And of course the longer Israel maintains their position the longer Netanyahu avoids criminal prosecution.
    Hamas attacked Israel for a reason, and those matters need to be addressed because until they do the motive remains.
    Other Arab countries have made reasonable offers to end these brutal attacks and deaths of innocent people.

  • @arthurtaylor2496
    @arthurtaylor2496 4 години тому +2

    I wonder when she will write a memoir.It should be interesting.

  • @THISISSAIGON
    @THISISSAIGON 4 години тому +5

    i get the argument.... but we're talking about 10 years of miss management and how that is fixed.. Your not that dumb to ignore that!!

    • @jakeforder9435
      @jakeforder9435 2 години тому

      Mismangement that began with Blair's installation of a quangocracy

  • @carysnw1
    @carysnw1 2 години тому +1

    I'm disheartened by the rise of McSweeney. Poor behaviour rewarded was allegedly a governing tenet of the Tories, not Labour. Nevertheless, my gut tells me McSweeney and his swaggering gang of petulant lads will fall fast and hard. And I will savour it. I'm already tired of this nonsense.

  • @stevenwilliamson6236
    @stevenwilliamson6236 57 хвилин тому

    The problem with the both right, both wrong argument is that one side is supported by propaganda and also with vast military resources. So if the us said that they will divert funding for Israel into funding for Gaza until the devastation of the past year has been reversed and Israel has to be left alone by Iran etc until that happens.

  • @stephfoxwell4620
    @stephfoxwell4620 4 години тому +1

    Badly led. Badly advised. No real policies.

  • @colincampbell4261
    @colincampbell4261 2 години тому

    All they had to do was pay Gray a smaller wage.

  • @simony2801
    @simony2801 4 години тому

    Amazing this woman was allowed to do an enquiry into the tories and then joined labour. Utterly disgusted.

    • @sasserine
      @sasserine 3 години тому +3

      The Tories literally chose her to carry out the enquiry, because they believed she'd be lenient to one of them.
      They considered her to lean rightwards.
      The evidence against Johnson was simply too damning to excuse.

    • @colincampbell4261
      @colincampbell4261 2 години тому

      Nah - Toryboys are utterly disgusting.

    • @simony2801
      @simony2801 2 години тому

      @@sasserine there was no evidence, it was a clear put up job from a labour planted stooge, she should be in jail.

  • @stevenwilliamson6236
    @stevenwilliamson6236 2 години тому

    And Northern Ireland. She's been in Northern Ireland before. Maybe she'll get Tory Plan Zee to amend his propaedo policy in Northern Ireland.

    • @smoozerish
      @smoozerish 47 хвилин тому

      You should to spell and put proper sentences together

  • @johnvaleanbaily246
    @johnvaleanbaily246 4 години тому +5

    So much for Starmers clean sweep. What a joke British politics have turned into.

    • @marksimons8861
      @marksimons8861 3 години тому +4

      I blame Nigel Farage and 17 million Brits that voted Leave in 2016.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 3 години тому +3

      Because he's changing his Chief of Staff? That is literally just like partygate. (/s)

    • @jakeforder9435
      @jakeforder9435 2 години тому

      @@marksimons8861 What does that have to do with the new government performance to date?

  • @12bigredd
    @12bigredd 4 години тому +6

    lol is it falling apart? lol don't look like that too me lol get ready for this buget rich right wing client media lol

    • @martywest6004
      @martywest6004 3 години тому +3

      I wish this tish would not keep popping in my stream with nonsense attention grabbing headlines, its like the daily sport.

  • @marksimons8861
    @marksimons8861 4 години тому

    Yes, Prime Minister.

  • @brianferguson7840
    @brianferguson7840 Годину тому +1

    Because Israel has the ability to make you believe absurdities. It has the ability to make you ignore atrocities. (To paraphrase Voltaire)

  • @sjt4225
    @sjt4225 4 години тому +2

    Because he's a Tory leading the Labour Party.

  • @pauldockree9915
    @pauldockree9915 4 години тому

    Emily, Jon and Lewis. What are we doing. I at least am not so DUMB!

  • @IB4theAIB
    @IB4theAIB 4 години тому

    Anonymous names?

  • @stevenwilliamson6236
    @stevenwilliamson6236 55 хвилин тому

    You need to explain to Israel that it will be protected from attack but must itself stop attacking.

  • @lordcharfield4529
    @lordcharfield4529 4 години тому

    Delicious 😂

  • @stevenwilliamson6236
    @stevenwilliamson6236 Годину тому

    You do this in Ireland too.

  • @antsly
    @antsly 2 години тому +1

    I noticed their Global colleague James O'brien is uncharacteristically completely silent on this. That's client journalism at its finest.

  • @therealrobertbirchall
    @therealrobertbirchall 3 години тому +3

    Stamer is so weak he can't run his own office nevermind the Kingdoms.

  • @bertiemarshall3391
    @bertiemarshall3391 4 години тому +4

    Where is Emily?… I demand an answer Gentleman!