Question Time: The next global superpower, a royal panic, and Rory on Austerity
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- How did Rory get stuck in the royal panic room? Why do Labour politicians attend Murdoch parties? Which country will be the next global superpower?
Rory and Alastair answer all these questions and more on today's episode of TRIP Question Time.
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What they should do during these QT sessions is to install a factchecking panel who can intervene in a discussion or comment directly after it. If Redwood claims he never said that the US trade deal was 1 of the big wins of Brexit then confront him with this because now this liar got away with it in front of a big audience.
this is where AI could make a real difference as it would highlight such lies in real time.
Fantastic podcast, as always! I'd like to add a note for Alastair and Rory on the subject of the NHS Workforce Plan. I'm an accountant in a medical faculty at a Russell Group University. In my humble opinion, the risk to the supply chain of the NHS workforce goes beyond the borders of the NHS and should encompass Higher Edcation Institutions (HEIs) as they provide the umbrella and the classroom teaching components of training. I'm sad to say that the price per student that the NHS is willing to pay universities for courses has decreased so much, in real terms, in the last 20 years that courses are on the brink of closure becuase many are running at a loss. To compound the risk further, university staff haven't had an inflationary pay increase in 14 years and are themselves struggling to attract academics and administrative staff with a consequent impact on the quality of classroom teahcing that HEIs can deliver. I would strongly encourage the NHS to work in collaboration with HEIs to address the deeper supply crain risks on fair remuneration for them. Having read the NHS Workforce Plan published on 30th June, it does appear to have been overlooked. On a side note, the starting salary for a newly qualified nurse (a degree profession, BBB at a Russell Group University) is becoming so close to the minimum wage that it's evident, through this year's UCAS applications, that it has never been a less attractive career option (NHS strikes aren't a good marketing tool either). Apologies for the vent!
Brilliant story from Rory.
Thank you.
Re Question Time, both Redwood and Habib claimed that inflation in the UK had nothing to do with BREXIT. However, in an interview on Times Radio, the boss of Tesco said that BREXIT IS one of the causes of food inflation. Who was lying ??
of course its one of the causes of inflation but its a very minor cause compared to the whole country/world being locked down for years and borrowing billions to pay for people to stay at home not working
Companies and corporations putting up prices to claw back covid lack of profits and losses is the biggest push to inflation, then government quantitative easing, they cannot print billions of £s without devaluing the currency, Brexit is a contributor but not major.
Love the programme! Also, love the music, could you tell us what It is please.
We need Umuganda here in the UK
I had a very similar experience to Rory as a child, playing hide and seek at friend's grandparents house (who happened to be the retired LCJ of NI, and as such, had extensive 24hr close protection security). I hid in a cupboard in their bedroom, closed the door and tried several times to turn on the lights - nothing happened; so I thought nothing of it and nestled down in my hiding place. Needless to say, this was their panic refuge and I was quickly "found", not by my 7-year old friend, but by a machine gun-toting policeman.
The bit about the next superpower 19:40
Enjoy this, but most interested when speaking about foreign situations.
The real truth is that the BBC has a duty of care to these intellectually challenged people. They shouldn’t be put in front of a mic.
You have a huge problem in education, in that the best are being excluded because teachers can't cope with kids who are much brighter than them and who may have done the syllabus on their own years earlier. The one-size-fits-all doesn't lift the worst, because you can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it does fail the best, as they trudge along at the speed of the slowest donkey in the class, often the teacher, as those who can, do, those who can't, teach.
In another timeline, incoming Prime Minister Rory Stewart is about to be invited by King Charles to form a government, but the meeting descends into chaos as Charles realises he's the guy who got locked in his panic room.
Alistair, considering today's modern Far Left progressive culture, if you and Tony were to run New Labour of 97 again (precisely the same way as before), how do you think the public would receive it and react? Looking back, it seems to me that Tony was a lot more further right than all the (so called) conservative leaders (Cameron to Sunak) combined. Am I wrong?
Can only be judged how 'far right' someone is is how they treat, say, the NHS, or education, and that sort of thing. These labels are a bit cheaply used. How would you view vicars, or someone in the military? You would think left, and right. Or quick march? Sorry, I digress.
Does any political party in the U.K. besides the Green Party have any policies to remove natural gas and install geothermal district heating with heat pumps? Denmark and other Nordic countries extensively use district heating. One of the companies that supplies industrial sized heat pumps that harvest heat from bodies of water, as well as industrial waste heat, is Johnson Controls from the U.K. It wouldn’t happen overnight, but a strategy of less dependence on imported natural gas might show some political vision.
Yes
@@huwzebediahthomas9193Blair was much tougher on crime especially on stop and search powers allowing officers to discriminate. Tony was much tougher on immigration too.
First past the post promotes two-party politics, with broad-church parties, swing voter tactics, low level propaganda, and new ideas not getting much of a chance.
You two are from the two parties here, Alistair from the right of the left-wing one, and Rory from the left of the right-wing one. Do you accept those descriptions? What can be done to end fptp and YAH BOO politics and lowest common denominator campaigning?
There is also an inbuilt and very much in situ permanent government which can out sit and stymie anything that challenges its status too.
Rory, you say people vote for a manifesto but I don’t think that is the case. They vote for the party that they consider is best for them personally. As a result they may vote because something in a manifesto serves themselves and turn a blind eye to other things in it. The result is that a party can put a few vote winners in the manifesto and something deeply unsettling as well and effectively slip it in under the radar. When the electorate wake up then “but it was in the manifesto” gets rolled out.
did he say prince of wales? like king charles?
Alastair Campbell will never get away from his "Dodgy Dossier lie! He can keep dodging as long as he likes but it won't go away! Until he does that, why should I notice of any thing he has to say?
Redwood has always talked to an audience in a totally patronising manner.
James O’Brien got it absolutely right when he said “contempt for the conmen, compassion for the conned”.
However, anyone who still can’t see the damage seven years on is totally contemptible in my book.
A question in two parts:
Do you think the Tories are the most hopeless government that has ever been seen in world history, and do you think they're actually deluded enough to believe their own policies will help the country or are they using it as a cynical ploy because part of the electorate won't look further than what they're told?
Rory, even though you were a Tory at the time, I think you'd have made a fabulous mayor and I'm sorry your race was torpedoed. We've all lost out because politics do be like that.
All the best,
J (London)
Rory didn't do a very good job with Harry.
Litterbugs do my absolute head in alaistair. Fiona / grace are right to rein you in but... Dropping litter really boils my piss.
Theres not many things from my christian childhood that stuck, but the idea that we're here to look after The Creation (which i picked up from genesis, no idea why the church doesnt make this Rule 1 in sermons) did. As i moved away from faith that stuck because like so many other key messages in the main religions, rationally it just makes sense.
Do you like the park you're walking in? Did you drive all the out here to the hills for a hike?
WELL LEAVE IT HOW YOUD WANT TO FIND IT THEN.
See? Piss. Boiled. :D
Love the Superpower chat, I would say that yes today the UK would t be a member of most of the 'clubs' its in. Realistically its only the establishment who still think the empore still exits ie two bloody great big carrier's to swan around on, ridiculous for a small european country , even Germany a much bigger export economy doesn't use the "keeping shipping lanes open for trade" nonsense.
One of the best broadcasts.Thanks both.
Funny story Rory. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
The saga of the bombproof Highgrove loo door? That information must surely be a need to know.
That's amazing. And so humanizing of His Majesty. Maybe Rory is still in 'the club' but the fact the King formerly known as Prince of Wales instructed the effort to 'rescue' a young Rory is hilarious but heart warming.
Whatever you think of the Royals, they're still people, not dictatorial monsters some on the left paint them as.
This was indeed a very funny and charming story.
Unlike rory I'm very comfortable doing impressions of his maj, like I used to have no problem impersonating Liz and Phil, so I *absolutely* heard the anecdote in the appropriate voice and the idea of charlie losing his patience with rory and telling him "dont be so ridiculous, just turn the bloody key... " Sounds exactly like the spitting image sketch that anecdote deserves to be!
There should be at least 15,000+ medical places available each year. The profession is also very inward looking and elitist; being a doctor is just a job, a very important and responsible job, but just a job and the BMA needs to take a long hard look at itself.
The BMA has represented doctors poorly.
Doctors in the NHS are downtrodden, demoralised and departing British medicine or medicine altogether in droves. Medicine is more than just a job. It's a massive responsibility of societal.importance and if you don't value and nurture your doctors you will regret that decision when you become ill, and find yourself cared for by a second rate NHS.
@@vincentmcdermott3412 definately correct!
Should the NHS be training doctors who then move to the private sector in Oz, NZ and the UK. If so how can the process be managed
For decades the nhs poached doctors from all over the world so its fair that our medics are moving away
Rory's bathroom story is priceless.
These two are so entertaining together
Interesting discussion about collective responsibility..... It's not a constitutional rule....it's a convention.... Which means it's not written in stone it's just something we adhere to as traditional (eg the PM now always comes from the house of commons) ..... And there have been moments when CR has been waived e.g. Brexit....
I'd challenge Rory to say that if he really disagreed with a policy then he'd resign.
It's always difficult as a politician balancing your beliefs and whether you should be a burkean man (follow your conscience) or a mandate man (follow the party line) ..excellent pod as always ❤
And
Should the numbers training for a profession be controlled by the profession, e.g., mechanical engineers?
14:51 Yes. That’s all that matters. Being a member of the Tory government negates claims to decency. And strips bare the rotten foundation of the ‘disagreeing agreeably’ format.
Come on, Rory, an event can’t be ‘very’ unique, can it? It’s either unique or it isn’t.
Rory, the government is the issuer of the currency and does need to 'borrow' it. #MMT
Its a pleasure to hear rory i have enjoyed reading his books
What I observed was old and confused....
Link please to Kyle/Redwood debate?
hahahahah
I'm alright Jack, the 'west' lauds itself about liberal democracy's rule of law freedom of speech mind and opportunity, yet when "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free" reach our wretched shores they meet our hypocrisy not our ethos. Politics serves to divide not unite humanity's consensus with its winner takes all mindset.
That was the Yanks, not the West
@@dexstewart2450That my friend is nationalism, a blight upon our species.
Very good! Never really liked either of these two gentlemen before but I'm warming to both of them...
I'm a regular listener - but Rory still voted through policies that robbed the poorest and most vulnerable, and Alastair's boss should be in jail.
@@dexstewart2450 He should be in jail too.
The mediocre child of medics who lived next door to me got a place at medical school with results that were not as high as those former students of mine had got but had been refused a place. Who you know and knowing how to work the system, presumably. So 'keeping standards up' ha ha!
Stewart on his voting record "I was only following orders"😂😂😂 ffs
Unfair rorys a decent sort which hindered his carrer