Jonathan Pie: 'It's 50 Shades of Beige.' Meet Britain's New Prime Minister. | NYT Opinion

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  • @worldofdoom995
    @worldofdoom995 4 місяці тому +3933

    "when the system fails the people, the people support politicians who promise to burn the system to the ground" brilliant!

    • @vamboroolz1612
      @vamboroolz1612 4 місяці тому +52

      Unfortunately it’s true, though.

    • @neilburton8131
      @neilburton8131 4 місяці тому

      it makes a change from the politicians burning the country to the ground

    • @Professicchio
      @Professicchio 4 місяці тому +53

      That's why we keep an eye towards the US in 4 months.....

    • @kurt479
      @kurt479 4 місяці тому +37

      Of course they do. It’s called scorched earth. You’re better off starting again than trying to fix something that can’t be fixed.

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz 4 місяці тому +12

      @@kurt479The people are smarter than the politicians

  • @danmayberry1185
    @danmayberry1185 4 місяці тому +185

    "Strong language" warning for the American audience, followed by the cleanest Pie rant ever.

  • @SoulTonicLife
    @SoulTonicLife 4 місяці тому +40

    From my dark little corner in Africa It is always a pleasure to hear your scathing synopsis of British politics. It makes us feel kind of normal.

  • @fenukii
    @fenukii 4 місяці тому +1913

    Yep. Jonathon Pie is no longer a comedian. He's the best journalist currently in the UK. Not one single lie was told in this video.

    • @larsg.2492
      @larsg.2492 4 місяці тому +17

      Are you gunning for Ian Hislop?

    • @SirButtz
      @SirButtz 4 місяці тому +21

      He's definitely right but he's not an actual journalist, he'sa reporter. He get's all his information from actual journalists.

    • @lordvadertheleftie9703
      @lordvadertheleftie9703 4 місяці тому

      ​@larsg.2492 Hislop got caught in in the Corbyn antisemitism smears. We know who pays him

    • @jacobconcannon4677
      @jacobconcannon4677 4 місяці тому +12

      @@SirButtzhes a journalist, he does his own research and does not have someoen feeding him info

    • @innerpeach
      @innerpeach 4 місяці тому +51

      Nope, still a comedian - I would not go down the American path of confusing one with the other.
      It is not pretty.

  • @johnbaldock6353
    @johnbaldock6353 4 місяці тому +3631

    Did you Hear that America? The UK gets Just 6 WEEKS of Canvassing before the Election! Not 3 Bloody Years!🤣

    • @TheVortexGaming
      @TheVortexGaming 4 місяці тому +60

      This is the way 🇺🇸 🦅

    • @sodiumlights
      @sodiumlights 4 місяці тому +61

      Reminds me of that Charlie Watts quote about the Stones; "5 years work, 20 years hanging around"

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 4 місяці тому +8

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @alundavies1016
      @alundavies1016 4 місяці тому

      @@johnbaldock6353 and the vote was yesterday, and the Government changed today. None of this “let’s give any potential coup-plotters a couple of months to try and usurp democracy” bollocks.

    • @Smoogster
      @Smoogster 4 місяці тому

      And they announce and accept the results immediately, and the new government is formed just 3 days later on Monday, with Parliament beginning in 7 days.
      Take note USA. It is doable. You don't have to wait 3 months while the loser tries to burn down the country.

  • @MindovermatterQED
    @MindovermatterQED 4 місяці тому +111

    MY FAVOURITE JOURNALIST IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!! Please, give us someone like that in France, we are so chronically depressed and we need a high dose of fearless and humourful commentaries. Brutal, sharp, and actually uplifting despite the painfully comical reality of our times!

    • @kparker2430
      @kparker2430 4 місяці тому +4

      please, if you like political journalism, of international perspective, delivered as satire - search juice medias honest government ads.

    • @Philoyouknow
      @Philoyouknow 4 місяці тому +6

      He's a comedian

    • @Theravadinbuto
      @Theravadinbuto 4 місяці тому +4

      @@PhiloyouknowAre you quite certain of that? When telling the truth sounds like comedy, and lying sounds like politics as usual, it might be time to elect a comic.

    • @PiedmontBlues
      @PiedmontBlues 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Theravadinbuto that's exactly what Ukraine did, and it worked for them, even in the face of Russian aggression.

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 4 місяці тому

      ​@Theravadinbuto Ukraine did that
      And look at them now

  • @mdog111
    @mdog111 4 місяці тому +1962

    For anyone across the pond who watches this....This is the most accurate assessment of the UK election result you will see anywhere.

    • @brotherbuzz1070
      @brotherbuzz1070 4 місяці тому

      No it isn't, you muppet

    • @JOHNTHEWHISK
      @JOHNTHEWHISK 4 місяці тому +55

      anyone who voted labour who is celebrating, know that it wont last longer than a head of lettuce

    • @mdikeee4817
      @mdikeee4817 4 місяці тому

      @@JOHNTHEWHISK that was Truss

    • @alistandco
      @alistandco 4 місяці тому

      @@JOHNTHEWHISK Rotten potato

    • @sacredgeometry
      @sacredgeometry 4 місяці тому +29

      Accuracy isn't really his forte he is a comedian. Try not to take your news from entertainment channels. It is like the Americans learning it from FOX news.

  • @saturdayplayer2492
    @saturdayplayer2492 4 місяці тому +1718

    I don't want characters in the job. I want capable , honest people showing integrity.

    • @janepage3608
      @janepage3608 4 місяці тому +61

      Yes. A capable, hard working person who cares about the little people and I don’t give a toss if he hasn’t got charisma. And if Jonathan Pie is going to slag him off before he’s even started then I’ve gone right off JP.

    • @DefaultMale_
      @DefaultMale_ 4 місяці тому +19

      Well let's be honest, Starmer isn't a character nor is he capable. I do think he's honest though. He's about as politically neutral as they come and whilst he's a step in the right direction, Labour as a party is too economically right leaning and honestly is started to head that way socially as well (Lib dems are starting to become the new left, they actually want to introduce STV to replace FPTP.)
      Edit: Grammatical error

    • @DefaultMale_
      @DefaultMale_ 4 місяці тому +44

      @@janepage3608 He's getting slagged off because he's got little in the way of plans and its concerning. Jonathan has a really good reminder for us and it's a wake up call. If Starmer doesn't do a good job and change the country for the better in the short 5 years he has to undo the conservative's mess, they - or worse yet Reform - are going to take over.

    • @louisirving588
      @louisirving588 4 місяці тому +50

      ​@@DefaultMale_
      The problem is that Starmer *isn't* honest. He's broken every promise he's made since he became leader. Just put the words "starmer broken promises" into your search engine of choice. It's grim reading.

    • @sbef
      @sbef 4 місяці тому +17

      It's gonna be a massive shock to learn that neither the boring politicians nor the buffoons will be able to improve anything in this country. Yet every election people believe "things are gonna get better." Must be your first time around

  • @michaeljohn7398
    @michaeljohn7398 4 місяці тому +45

    Mate, you are Spot On. You absolutely nailed it. Cheers from Michael. Australia.

    • @kavic1234
      @kavic1234 4 місяці тому

      I will be sending a reply in three months when the Labor government shows that they are pure crap.

  • @sweepingtime
    @sweepingtime 4 місяці тому +326

    It's always amazing how austerity measures all over the world target the least wealthy and most hardworking people first.

    • @Relugus
      @Relugus 4 місяці тому +36

      It's also amazing how the 1% are treated, being given the biggest and most generous welfare handout in human history.

    • @lamoinette23
      @lamoinette23 4 місяці тому +14

      The wealthy are too wealthy to pay..

    • @Smoogster
      @Smoogster 4 місяці тому

      @@sweepingtime not amazing at all. That's the entire point of those measures. It's yet another way of transferring wealth to the top 1% and keep the rest of us in debt so we won't rebel.

    • @anmolt3840051
      @anmolt3840051 4 місяці тому +11

      "only" not "first"

    • @bobibufi1389
      @bobibufi1389 4 місяці тому

      wealthy have the government in their pockets, they won't go against their own interests..useless eaters on the other hand..

  • @happyspaceinvader508
    @happyspaceinvader508 4 місяці тому +1305

    “Emperor Palpatine’s cleaner” 😂😂😂

    • @cerealkiillar
      @cerealkiillar 4 місяці тому +25

      Made me spit my coffee out 💀💀💀

    • @president2887
      @president2887 4 місяці тому +10

      😂😂😂

    • @pbure94
      @pbure94 4 місяці тому +12

      This one got me lol

    • @madmage4207
      @madmage4207 4 місяці тому

      Same, absolute cracker that one 🤣🤣

    • @Relugus
      @Relugus 4 місяці тому +15

      Lets hope Emperor Palpatine's Cleaner doesn't return.

  • @sleekitwan
    @sleekitwan 4 місяці тому +59

    As Lord David Cameron has been mentioned, let me give insight as to the sort of people we have just removed from the UK governing position…Mr Cameron and wife, had a severely physically-challenged son. They cared for him of course, but early on in his premiership, having backed NHS to the hilt, and citing his son, the poor kid passed away. I turned and said to my daughters: ‘Let’s see how long it takes now, before cuts are made to the NHS, particularly in the areas previously of importance to the Cameron family.’ How long did it take? Less than 6 months! It’s that see-through. The selfishness of this lot is unbearably obvious. Within months of the Cameron family not needing a particular specialism from the NHS, the de-funding started! We are well-rid, so well-said Jonathan Pie/Tom Walker. Take care all. Healthcare is not an optional extra, and everyone ought to be glad to contribute so an enormous blight like SARS-2 doesn’t come along and rob you of your wealth, that took 50 years to earn. Universal health care, protects your wealth, think about it that way.

    • @rutessian
      @rutessian 4 місяці тому +5

      Where's the defunding? NHS spending only increased less during tory governments than labour, but it always increased. with huge bumps in 2021 and 2022

    • @murdock6450
      @murdock6450 4 місяці тому +2

      You are not rid, they are all in the same club. Do keep up.

    • @hareecionelson5875
      @hareecionelson5875 4 місяці тому +1

      @@rutessian in line with inflation?

    • @rutessian
      @rutessian 4 місяці тому

      @@hareecionelson5875 Yes
      "NHS spending plans and reality over the past 10 years" - look up this article.

  • @izzibreezes68
    @izzibreezes68 4 місяці тому +786

    Well done NYT for putting Pie on your platform.

    • @twittertwice
      @twittertwice 4 місяці тому

      New York Times has sold out… Far right billionaires buying up USA major media electronic and print platforms to try to move America right… bring your Brits home

    • @sgtlucifer6883
      @sgtlucifer6883 4 місяці тому +8

      NYTimes should sign him up permanently.
      - any American media company would make tons if they have him on.
      - perhaps Comedy Central should sign him up as their UK's Jon Stewart.

    • @britishloveugandandance
      @britishloveugandandance 4 місяці тому +4

      Yeah I follow jonathan pie, I was like wait what how is this on The New York Times LOL

    • @ericdunn555
      @ericdunn555 4 місяці тому +6

      ​​@@britishloveugandandance
      Not his first appearance in an NYT Opinion video
      - his character assassination of ex-PM, ex-MP Johnson was a delight.

    • @flaminmongrel6955
      @flaminmongrel6955 4 місяці тому +3

      well he is always critical of the right so why is it even surprising?

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 4 місяці тому +332

    Sunak made his money speculating against the economy as a Hedge Fund banker in 2008. He wasn't elected, but selected by the MPs.

    • @JelMain
      @JelMain 4 місяці тому +9

      @@jtaylor8606 Well, if you call upwards of £800 million pocket money, I don't see what you're complaining about.

    • @Knowbody42
      @Knowbody42 4 місяці тому +1

      A vote for the "Conservatives" was a vote for Labor.

    • @johnmurray1044
      @johnmurray1044 4 місяці тому +3

      Who had their orders from other places. The people who run this country are in "The City of London" and Whitehall not The House of Commons, they are just the front.

    • @fumbleBumble82
      @fumbleBumble82 4 місяці тому

      True, at least we have a prime minister who was actually elected by the public again, instead of one who was elected by a small group of snooty old resentful degenerate baby boomers.

    • @JelMain
      @JelMain 4 місяці тому +1

      @@johnmurray1044 In fact, that dates back to the Crusades, when Richard I unwittingly made an enemy of an Austrian Duke. Travelling to and from the Holy Land was supposedly under Papal protection, which wasn't much use if you suddenly disappeared without trace into an Austrian dungeon. He was eventually located and a ransom paid, approximately the entire asset base of the UK, and from then on in the City was autonomous - until the turn of the Century, when it was paid off, until 2008 when the City held HMG ransom with the retail banking sector at risk.

  • @Abominatrix650
    @Abominatrix650 4 місяці тому +5

    Thank you, Jonathan! I can always rely on a clear understanding of things from you

  • @FrostekFerenczy
    @FrostekFerenczy 4 місяці тому +746

    I want boring politicians - politicians who just get on with the job.

    • @1984-z6h
      @1984-z6h 4 місяці тому

      80% of the British people did not vote for labour. democracy does not exist.keir starmer is morally corrupt repulsive WEF owned cancer.

    • @Katy-sh3ru
      @Katy-sh3ru 4 місяці тому +29

      Unfortunately, it looks like Starmer is going to get on with the Tory's job. He'd better not, or we'll risk Farage, as Pie rightly says.

    • @invalidopinion5384
      @invalidopinion5384 4 місяці тому +27

      Their job is protecting the interests of capital above all else. Sometimes that means the odd concession to workers to calm them down, but it typically means screwing them. Starmer is little more than a more sensible manager of the decline of Britain than the Tories were. He will simply polish the same turd. The conduct and character of the Tories is awful, but their ideas are just as bad, and Starmer is not against those. The collapse may slow down a bit with him at the head, but it ain't stopping

    • @asingh7874
      @asingh7874 4 місяці тому

      Starmer and Rachel at Davos/...Lammy at Bilderberg..you reckon they will look after the pleb. Their actions will be based on divide and conquer and transferring more wealth from those at the bottom (with the bar rising) to those at the very pinnacle.

    • @kevanbodsworth9868
      @kevanbodsworth9868 4 місяці тому

      "The job " at present is screwing the bottom third or so who are just there to wipe your feet on in Tory minds , Starmer has promised to continue down that path ,,So be happy .If you are not in the bottom group .. The Roght always screws up when bottom third have no more to spare and they start sucking everything out of the next thirty percent , You in that group ? Look out ,

  • @jpopelish
    @jpopelish 4 місяці тому +735

    Labor's manifesto: We are going to try, really hard, to not make everything even worse.

    • @patrikfloding7985
      @patrikfloding7985 4 місяці тому +112

      It’s a good initial ambition, given what they were left to work with.

    • @danielgoring1328
      @danielgoring1328 4 місяці тому +27

      @@patrikfloding7985 They'll be a lot worse

    • @devilhunter1555
      @devilhunter1555 4 місяці тому +24

      except while privatising nhs and selling weapons and sending aid to the israeli gov. labour cant be trusted really

    • @AA-yc8yr
      @AA-yc8yr 4 місяці тому

      @@devilhunter1555 Just go away with that inane bulshit.

    • @eddjordan2399
      @eddjordan2399 4 місяці тому +9

      @@danielgoring1328 just look at the facts

  • @SebeastMr-zh4px
    @SebeastMr-zh4px 4 місяці тому +135

    I learned more about the British government in this video than I have in all of my years of living

    • @SebeastMr-zh4px
      @SebeastMr-zh4px 4 місяці тому +4

      I’m american

    • @beepositiveforever971
      @beepositiveforever971 4 місяці тому +11

      It's his opinion.. take it seriously, more fool you 😆

    • @70AD-user45
      @70AD-user45 4 місяці тому

      You learnt nothing. This is a commentary from a looney liberal progressive whose religion is woke insanity, and he probably thinks there's a hundred genders. Like the political elites, he's all for globalism, corporatism, war, mass illegal immigration, and abortion. The insanity of the political establishment is what Europe is rejecting, with Marine Le Pen in France, the AfD party in Germany, the Reform Party in the UK, and President Trump in the US. New York Times readers are as demented and senile as their leader Biden. It's time to restore traditional, conservative, and Christian values back to the UK and Europe.

    • @dommoore
      @dommoore 4 місяці тому +14

      You've learned one very biased point of view about the British government.

    • @teerex4626
      @teerex4626 4 місяці тому +7

      It’s a very metropolitan liberal elite view. Champagne socialist, if you will.

  • @randomz5890
    @randomz5890 4 місяці тому +779

    Incredible summary of the state of UK politics! Today has never felt so good yet so bleak.

    • @JOHNTHEWHISK
      @JOHNTHEWHISK 4 місяці тому +28

      I dont feel good at all. I dont like starmer. i dont trust him. and eventually monsters like farage will become PM. that is where we are heading. too many hateful people. compassion out the window. it's dire.

    • @richy69ify
      @richy69ify 4 місяці тому

      @@JOHNTHEWHISK
      People like you are shilling for big corporations. People like you are also paid to to spread the smear words about alternative parties. It's hilarious seeing liberals on their iphones pushing for cheap labour and establishment control over working classes. Older voters still think Labour are for the working class. This will come to an end in 4 years.

    • @danielgoring1328
      @danielgoring1328 4 місяці тому +13

      @@JOHNTHEWHISK Farage isn't afraid to go against the establishment. Starmer is the definition of the establishment.

    • @CatDee99
      @CatDee99 4 місяці тому

      ​@@danielgoring1328 Farage IS the establishment 🙄 Christ the night

    • @ForelliBoy
      @ForelliBoy 4 місяці тому +37

      @@danielgoring1328 farage is the definition of restoring an older establishment that didn't work but is romanticized in retrospect anyway

  • @nordnavigator
    @nordnavigator 4 місяці тому +505

    Censor-beeping a speech of Jonathan Pie should be punishable by law!

    • @gaddyfree1085
      @gaddyfree1085 4 місяці тому +28

      Exactly there is a warning of strong language at the beginning but then it’s bleeped wtf

    • @bigpauliep6992
      @bigpauliep6992 4 місяці тому +8

      This is what selling out sounds like.

    • @seidenweberin
      @seidenweberin 4 місяці тому +8

      Just hop over to his own channel, and enjoy the original sound ;-)

    • @vermilliongecko
      @vermilliongecko 4 місяці тому +6

      That's the American market for you.

    • @leonrobinson8180
      @leonrobinson8180 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@@bigpauliep6992 He isn't "selling out" you little edgelord. It's not his channel, so he has to play by their rules. If you get off on cussing, go to his channel.

  • @ChristiansPlaymo-Ecke
    @ChristiansPlaymo-Ecke 15 днів тому +5

    "Starmer should be aware, as should Joe Biden, that "just being the other guy" isn`t enough"
    These words were prophetic.

  • @sodiumlights
    @sodiumlights 4 місяці тому +246

    Tom Walker's a genius.

  • @clarecollins2547
    @clarecollins2547 4 місяці тому +171

    Liz didnt leave straight away because she couldnt find the door!

    • @stevenosimpson
      @stevenosimpson 4 місяці тому +4

      Boris only found a door to a fridge

    • @TheImperfectGuy
      @TheImperfectGuy 4 місяці тому +2

      she dove in to covertly assassinate the queen and then out at the earliest possibly criticism
      outstanding move

    • @samjesse9524
      @samjesse9524 4 місяці тому +1

      @@stevenosimpson ohhh that gave me a good giggle

    • @maxdamagusbroski
      @maxdamagusbroski 4 місяці тому

      You should read up more on Liz. She was stitched up.

  • @Truffle_Pup
    @Truffle_Pup 4 місяці тому +12

    2:45 "Emperor Palpatine's Cleaner" - That line has no business being so accurate.

  • @col.hertford9855
    @col.hertford9855 4 місяці тому +420

    Britain at its best. Long live Count Binface!

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 4 місяці тому +9

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Nova2Yung
      @Nova2Yung 4 місяці тому +37

      lmfao, Count Binface the greatest pm we never had

    • @kennybevan11
      @kennybevan11 4 місяці тому +13

      ​@Nova2Yung I can just imagine him at the dispatch box with the Dalek contender as his deputy PM next to him

    • @Nova2Yung
      @Nova2Yung 4 місяці тому +1

      @@kennybevan11 😂

    • @jeffreylewis8019
      @jeffreylewis8019 4 місяці тому +5

      @@Nova2Yung Is he the same as Lord Buckethead?

  • @designbus
    @designbus 4 місяці тому +920

    Liz Truss: Populism on smack 🤣🤣🤣

    • @michelleneeds4165
      @michelleneeds4165 4 місяці тому +38

      That explains that gormless vacant stare of hers eh?

    • @adriandenton6637
      @adriandenton6637 4 місяці тому +36

      She's now been released back into the wild.

    • @folkme3042
      @folkme3042 4 місяці тому +44

      @@adriandenton6637 What has the wild ever done to deserve that lol ?

    • @lordvadertheleftie9703
      @lordvadertheleftie9703 4 місяці тому +31

      ​@folkme3042 my mortgage is £160 per month more. I hope the mountain lions find her

    • @FallenPhoenix86
      @FallenPhoenix86 4 місяці тому +14

      @@lordvadertheleftie9703
      £185 for me, best we can do is a Scottish Wildcat, or perhaps we could dress her as a seal and feed her to a passing Orca?

  • @angelasmreiki
    @angelasmreiki 4 місяці тому +4

    That was a masterpiece ❤

  • @iamdmc
    @iamdmc 4 місяці тому +501

    He's a national treasure
    I just hope the next 5 years gives him so little fodder that he'll have to turn away from political comedy
    Seriously we could use a break

    • @thecashier930
      @thecashier930 4 місяці тому +52

      Not gonna happen. Just from our experience in Germany I can already tell you what's going to happen: Labour is going to do generally the right thing, but far to little. And some things won't happen the best way possible. People will be displeased and the torries will shamelessly criticise labour for mishandling problems the torries either created or ignored. Satire won't be needed less, but be very painful. Because one side will be incompetent and the other will be maliciously incompetent.

    • @aclark903
      @aclark903 4 місяці тому

      @@thecashier930#Tories*

    • @ilesalmo7724
      @ilesalmo7724 4 місяці тому +14

      Lets hope next 5y satirists like him can go back to doing satire.
      Last years they've been unable to do comedy-exaggeration-shows of real politics when all we had to do was turn on the news and watch real politicians go beyond what comedy-writers could imagine and actors could act.

    • @happyspaceinvader508
      @happyspaceinvader508 4 місяці тому +6

      Well, Reform have 4 seats in parliament… so there’s that.

    • @kinngrimm
      @kinngrimm 4 місяці тому +2

      In that sense bleak, bland, uninspired and without concept currently elected labour party seems to be on track AND may not be half bad.

  • @markuser-punkt6222
    @markuser-punkt6222 4 місяці тому +311

    Liz Truss' only achivement was to serve under to two (2) royals...

    • @flygrace
      @flygrace 4 місяці тому +33

      Oh yes, she killed the Queen, didn't she.

    • @WinstonSmith19847
      @WinstonSmith19847 4 місяці тому +10

      @@flygrace Yes that's what Pie said in one of videos that she swooped in and killed the Queen 😂

    • @KayTea4tea
      @KayTea4tea 4 місяці тому +4

      @@WinstonSmith19847I loved that.

    • @KayTea4tea
      @KayTea4tea 4 місяці тому +6

      … that he said that!

    • @londonalicante
      @londonalicante 4 місяці тому +13

      As Paul Merton pointed out, if all Prime Ministers lasted as long as Liz Truss, the Queen would have seen 560 of them in her 70 year reign.

  • @A-Negative
    @A-Negative 4 місяці тому +5

    The Tories were not populists they weren’t even conservatives they were the net zero uniparty with no answers to any problems - that was why they got kicked out and Reform came in second many races. Labour got the job by default. All Hail Keith Starmer Mr Personality.

  • @paultapping9510
    @paultapping9510 4 місяці тому +418

    I thought I would be elated to finally get rid of the Tories. Instead, I just feel... nothing. Completely flat. Schadenfreude alone cannot sustain a man.

    • @stevenh6376
      @stevenh6376 4 місяці тому +8

      You may be, at heart, a Tory then

    • @paultapping9510
      @paultapping9510 4 місяці тому +72

      @stevenh6376 what an unintentionally scathing commentary on our broken system. No mate, I voted green.

    • @Malc180s
      @Malc180s 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@paultapping9510yeah, but you're probably a Tory. Most people are.

    • @paultapping9510
      @paultapping9510 4 місяці тому +54

      @Malc180s I was a card carrying member of rhe labour party for years prior to corbyn being ousted. I left because they became too similar to the tories, but have fun imagining people to argue with I guess.

    • @johnmg88
      @johnmg88 4 місяці тому +26

      Same, I'm delighted they're gone but that's about it.
      In '97 I was sat in front of the telly, celebrating like my team had scored a goal every time another seat fell.
      I miss the enthusiasm (and the knees and eyesight and waistline) of my youth.
      This time I waited for the exit poll, tweeted an insult at Reese-mogg and went to bed.
      It feels like being handed a free concert ticket only to find out it's for Francis Rossi's solo acoustic show and there's no bar.

  • @claireedwards8606
    @claireedwards8606 4 місяці тому +152

    I love Jonathan Pie, cracks me up! 🤣🤣🤣 Everything he says is hilarious and it's scarily true!!

    • @terryboland3816
      @terryboland3816 4 місяці тому

      Hi Tom.

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase 4 місяці тому +1

      Firstly, Boris is hardly right wing, let alone populist. He just jumped on the Brexit question and nothing else. Also, nothing wrong with populism. What, as opposed to elitism? Because career politicians are not what i would call a utopia

    • @heresjonny666
      @heresjonny666 4 місяці тому

      @@internethardcase 'He just jumped on the Brexit question and nothing else.'
      ...So he's a populist.
      'nothing wrong with populism'
      Except the average joe isn't equipped to deal with the complexities of statecraft and so doing nothing but appealing to what the average joe wants is a recipe for disaster. Leading means making difficult decisions to benefit the country despite the masses protesting because they don't understand it.

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase 4 місяці тому

      @@heresjonny666 then you don't believe in democracy, you believe in technocracy. And I think that's just another form of oppression. And look at the nations with career politicians at the helm. These neoliberal disasters are tearing the economic and social fabric of every western nation apart right now. Populism only emerges from elitist arrogance. When a problem that needs to be addressed gets ignored. A populist nationalist solution can only be a net benefit compared to the declining status quo

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase 4 місяці тому +1

      @@heresjonny666 so the "experts running the UK for decades despite the party has done a superb job so far? London is minority English. The very nation state itself is under threat, let alone statecraft

  • @steve4296fred
    @steve4296fred Місяць тому +3

    Where are you now Jonathan Pie - time to start criticizing Keir Starmer & his car crash policies and reputation issues!

  • @mcdibbern9919
    @mcdibbern9919 4 місяці тому +227

    Funny but frighteningly accurate.

  • @threethrushes
    @threethrushes 4 місяці тому +51

    From PM to MP and then nothing.
    Liz Truss is one of the people of our time.

    • @scene2much
      @scene2much 4 місяці тому +2

      underrated post

    • @maxdamagusbroski
      @maxdamagusbroski 4 місяці тому

      She'll be remembered as someone who tried to make a difference, an actual change for the better. The bank of England, Labour, the mainstream media and backstabbing Conservatives punished her for it. Listen to her interview on Lotus Eaters. That so many of the public believe the nonsense they read about her, just shows their absolute ignorance.

  • @boardmandave
    @boardmandave 4 місяці тому +3

    I was in hospital all through lockdown and rarely watch the news so I find the summary of the last few years extremely informative and entertaining thank you very much

  • @MatthewDLDavidson
    @MatthewDLDavidson 4 місяці тому +71

    He hasn’t lost it! The most incisive and hysterically funny political commentary anywhere! Where is our Jonathan Pie for the US or Canada?

    • @dresmends
      @dresmends 4 місяці тому +1

      Bill Maher?

    • @leonrobinson8180
      @leonrobinson8180 4 місяці тому +8

      ​@@dresmendsHell no! Jon Stewart more like.

    • @MiniM69
      @MiniM69 4 місяці тому +4

      John Oliver?

    • @TheAndy25026
      @TheAndy25026 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@MiniM69Pie writes his own work, Oliver has a whole team of people write for him, and it's painful.

    • @biggusdickus5986
      @biggusdickus5986 4 місяці тому

      ​@@MiniM69Olivers English, he was a middling scruffy comedien how he got picked as an American late show host l can't even fathom.
      You can see him in MOTW repeats if you can be bothered to search.
      I couldn't l just came across him whilst watching repeats on good old UA-cam.

  • @keystohellanddeath
    @keystohellanddeath 4 місяці тому +72

    Was waiting for the Jonathan Pie OP-ED. This was literally uploaded as I was rewatching his videos. Great as always

    • @TheWorldofFilara
      @TheWorldofFilara 4 місяці тому +3

      Literally the same! Came here straight from his channel

  • @tienf6642
    @tienf6642 4 місяці тому +28

    At this point I've watched more Jonathan Pie than myBritish friends and I won't apologize for it.

  • @The_Bean_Head_Men
    @The_Bean_Head_Men 4 місяці тому +46

    Thank you for bringing on our Jonathan, he's a national treasure

  • @stinkinhippy1724
    @stinkinhippy1724 4 місяці тому +16

    As a brit I lose sleep over the terror of possibly hearing the phrase: "Somehow, Emperor Palpatine's cleaner returned".

  • @donnacorbett7575
    @donnacorbett7575 4 місяці тому +1

    Love this dude ...❤

  • @HarryFlowerrs
    @HarryFlowerrs 4 місяці тому +307

    America, that’s how a transfer of power is done!
    NO BS!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍😀
    Ps. Jonathan is one of our great exports!

    • @RolanTheBrave
      @RolanTheBrave 4 місяці тому +15

      Exactly. I can understand a 2+ month wait to change presidents in the 19th century due to the sheer size of the US, but not in the 21st century.

    • @connie473
      @connie473 4 місяці тому +4

      @@RolanTheBraveParliamentary systems like the UK have shadow ministers. That means that Labour had a PM shadow each minister and they knew what goes going on. It makes transferring power much easier and it's why they can do it within a day. In the US, the 2 months might be able to be cut down to 1 month, but because elections are in November that would put the transfer around the holidays which I think, most citizens want to have their holidays in peace and not with political news. In the US, you also have a much longer process because there are a lot more votes to count (the number of voters in the US is like 161million, in the UK is less than 25% of that) and certify, then electoral college has to meet and then Congress has to approve what the electoral college decided. This basically adds several weeks to the process.

    • @MysteriousFigure
      @MysteriousFigure 4 місяці тому +11

      @@connie473 Well it wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have the arcane electoral college process in the US and just simply made it a direct vote, save a good 2-3 weeks or so of weird bureaucracy and milling about (along with not making the vote state by state for a single country wide position)

    • @RolanTheBrave
      @RolanTheBrave 4 місяці тому +3

      @@connie473 it would be easy to speed up, at least a fair bit - votes counted, each state then declares results - no electoral college middle man needed - all the votes then totted up and hey presto we have a result. all non elected positions can be non-partisan like the UK civil service, so they're there on day one to advise the politicians. Also campaigning starts months and months before voting, so plenty of time to put a potential team together if the candidate wins.

    • @connie473
      @connie473 4 місяці тому +2

      @@MysteriousFigure I totally agree with you that the electoral college should got.

  • @Durgenheim
    @Durgenheim 4 місяці тому +231

    The Tories seemed to take a page out of the Republican playbook: cause as much damage to the country as possible before leaving office, then start blaming the slow recovery on the party that took over.

    • @dan_hitchman007
      @dan_hitchman007 4 місяці тому +22

      That's the plan, Stan.

    • @gdutfulkbhh7537
      @gdutfulkbhh7537 4 місяці тому

      They've left Labour with a very cleverly crafted poison pill. What happens over the next few years will be... interesting.

    • @A3racada3ra
      @A3racada3ra 4 місяці тому +37

      This is exactly what happens in Germany right now. We had 16 years of conservative government (with a lot of cuts in public spending, missed investment opportunities, neglecting infrastructure ...) and now all the problems are blamed on the current government which is in power for just 2 1/2 years. The sad truth is that most people don't have the ability to see through this ...

    • @dan_hitchman007
      @dan_hitchman007 4 місяці тому

      @@A3racada3ra And this is why the Nazi adjacent political parties are gaining power all over Europe. People have not waken up to the fact that it's not just the U.S. that is in trouble.

    • @ForelliBoy
      @ForelliBoy 4 місяці тому +10

      And then set up for something even worse, which will inevitably happen

  • @hushhana4022
    @hushhana4022 4 місяці тому +2

    Thank you Jonathon

  • @teddyboysdontknit810
    @teddyboysdontknit810 4 місяці тому +97

    Brilliant and all so true.

  • @ColinMcNulty
    @ColinMcNulty 4 місяці тому +130

    Chatting to a nurse today, she's ecstatically looking forward to the big pay rise she's expecting from a Labour gov't who've been moaning for years that the NHS staff aren't being paid enough... I think she's going to be very disappointed!

    • @wolfyoogames
      @wolfyoogames 4 місяці тому +21

      I mean they spoke to the Unions on day one, whereas the Tories haven’t for a year. The unions literally fund the Labour Party.
      You can have a go at them for plenty, but sorting union pay rises is not one of them.

    • @wolfyoogames
      @wolfyoogames 4 місяці тому +12

      It’s a bit odd your imaginary nurse didn’t mention this in your imaginary conversation with her.

    • @ColinMcNulty
      @ColinMcNulty 4 місяці тому +8

      @@wolfyoogames you can pretend I'm making it up if you want, if that makes you feel better about your world view, it bothers me not what you think.

    • @ColinMcNulty
      @ColinMcNulty 4 місяці тому +5

      @@wolfyoogames I notice the the British Medical Association are starting talks with the gov't too, and they've repeatedly said that they think a 35% pay rise is fair for their members. Let's see how that goes shall we?

    • @michaelmartin9022
      @michaelmartin9022 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@ColinMcNultyRemember the firemen? How long until until the word "Scargillian" gets dragged out again?

  • @SDDT24
    @SDDT24 12 днів тому +2

    Aged poorly starmer has been an unmitigated disaster

  • @rhodamaria
    @rhodamaria 4 місяці тому +101

    Wish I could give this four thumbs up. This is the most fun ‘opinion’ piece I come across about UK’s politics. And I’m not even from there!
    C’mon Canada, you can do better!

    • @hannahdyson7129
      @hannahdyson7129 4 місяці тому

      Isnt Canada turing right though?
      The fella at the helm seems a peace of work

    • @rhodamaria
      @rhodamaria 4 місяці тому

      @@hannahdyson7129 yes, yes, as is everywhere else except, apparently, the UK. I think we’re in the cusp of the apocalypse.

    • @stevenpyne1994
      @stevenpyne1994 4 місяці тому

      @@hannahdyson7129 PP does seem to have some issues, but our current PM is no prize either, what with his "fancy-dress" tour of India, innumerable scandals embroiling the Liberals, and him personally, and his seeming lack of concern for ordinary Canadians. Add the fact that he has been around for too long, and is getting the blame -- rightly or wrongly -- for Canada's economic woes, and he will be probably be ejected sooner or later.

    • @hannahdyson7129
      @hannahdyson7129 4 місяці тому

      ​@@stevenpyne1994Yeah old olly boy ain't the answer

  • @highlandgnome
    @highlandgnome 4 місяці тому +34

    Mr Walker, thanks for yet another gem of comedy genius. This particular monologue should be aired on every TV in the UK. Once again, Genius.

  • @YenDiki
    @YenDiki 4 місяці тому +2

    LOVELY.... JUST PLAIN LOVELY!💥💥🤩🤩😁😁😂😂🤣🤣😜😜❤❤🍀🍀👍👍

  • @velisvideos6208
    @velisvideos6208 4 місяці тому +115

    Brilliant analysis of the UK political system and situation. Funny and sad. How low has the country fallen.

    • @michaelleaver1766
      @michaelleaver1766 4 місяці тому

      ​@simulationkoyo That's because the same "owners" you have in the US are the same pulling the strings here.......World Syndicate Inc. your one stop solution to ruin the lives of ordinary people,on call 24/7 365.

    • @hannahdyson7129
      @hannahdyson7129 4 місяці тому +8

      We were always low . Look at Thatcher

    • @FallenPhoenix86
      @FallenPhoenix86 4 місяці тому

      @simulationkoyo
      Not really, we've been doing this for longer than the US has existed.

    • @mirfjc
      @mirfjc 4 місяці тому

      @simulationkoyo I think it's a bit more in sync. All the way back, Thatcher led Regan by about a year. Brexit led Trump by just a little less. Things got out of sync on the party-in-power when Major was able to hold on in 1992, but Clinton got in in the US.

  • @veronicamaine3813
    @veronicamaine3813 4 місяці тому +23

    I think at this point we just want someone who does the job not a showboating pony. Boring, it turns out, is the preferred characteristic of a competent politician.

    • @fakecrusader
      @fakecrusader 4 місяці тому +2

      We need more than "competent", things are way off kilter.

    • @susettemclachlan8765
      @susettemclachlan8765 4 місяці тому +1

      Compétent yes, but sadly that’s not what we get with this new package.

  • @tridentmusic5570
    @tridentmusic5570 4 місяці тому +1

    Good to have you back, Tom ! (The worrying thing is How many "Stateside" will think you're a real reporter - the "give away" , Americans, is that Tom's character is FAR more accurate than ANYONE on "Real" media ! )

  • @DTWTheWanderingMuzungu
    @DTWTheWanderingMuzungu 4 місяці тому +17

    That's an insult to potatoes, they give us crisps, chips and vodka. Some of the best things in life a vegetable can provide.

  • @gamestech9016
    @gamestech9016 4 місяці тому +26

    boris combed his hair with a desk fan

  • @noraelliott7304
    @noraelliott7304 4 місяці тому

    Jonathan Pie, this is my first time seeing you and I think you are Brilliant!!!

  • @Bigjohn277
    @Bigjohn277 4 місяці тому +38

    Tom Walker AKA Jonathan Pie is once again on the money with his analysis.

  • @FatNorthernBigot
    @FatNorthernBigot 4 місяці тому +30

    He looks bleary-eyed. That's commitment to the "bit", right there. 😂

  • @kellyannpage1469
    @kellyannpage1469 4 місяці тому +1

    Brilliant ❤

  • @tonygreen6185
    @tonygreen6185 4 місяці тому +8

    As vanilla as you can get..
    Russel brand commented that all the contradictory remarks Starmer had made where he said yes to one question on policy and then No to the same question months down the line wasn’t a personal slur on him but more alarmingly the fact he clearly has no opinion or belief of his own.
    Another WEF puppet was brands insightful opinion.

    • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
      @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 4 місяці тому +1

      The Facts call you out. You're just repeating Sunak's claim that Starmer had no plan. Well he's been in power 3 days, and he and his cabinet are doing things, not just talking about doing things.

  • @Pyriold
    @Pyriold 4 місяці тому +66

    Interestingly, labour really did not win a lot of votes, the tories just lost a ton, mostly to the other parties. In a system where you only need a plurality in every district, this can already look like a landslide, while in reality they just gained less than 2% i think.

    • @2curlicue4u
      @2curlicue4u 4 місяці тому +7

      They gained in Scotland, this election was a big hit to the SNP

    • @johnmartinez7440
      @johnmartinez7440 4 місяці тому +18

      Labour were smart, and used the Tories' tactics back at them.
      The beautiful irony is seeing all the right-wing loonies crying about it online, saying the voting system needs reform - when they were all too happy to benefit from it in 2019 (and vote against changing it in 2011).

    • @williamdiffin28
      @williamdiffin28 4 місяці тому

      Yes. The rabid reactionary middle class Little England backbone of Tory voters simply abstained or protest voted, against their Government's failure to follow through on their promise to liquidate all poor people and throw all brown immigrants to the lions. But they haven't actually gone anywhere or changed their minds about anything.

    • @DemonDethchase
      @DemonDethchase 4 місяці тому +19

      Starmer actually got less votes than both of Corbyn's runs, which makes one wonder if Starmer won purely by default, due to not being the Tories.... or not blue ones anyway.

    • @Joker-yw9hl
      @Joker-yw9hl 4 місяці тому +4

      @@johnmartinez7440 just tell them to get over it and then brexit means brexit ;)

  • @syed_mamoon99
    @syed_mamoon99 4 місяці тому +2

    The legend Jonathan Pie strikes again!

  • @kenmckell
    @kenmckell 4 місяці тому +22

    I always love a good slice of (Jonathan) Pie 🥧🥧

  • @Nova2Yung
    @Nova2Yung 4 місяці тому +160

    Giving Farago the title of an unlicensed butcher is accurate 🤣

    • @Runclimblift
      @Runclimblift 4 місяці тому +7

      Or admiral akbar in human form...

    • @Nova2Yung
      @Nova2Yung 4 місяці тому

      @@Runclimblift 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @peterbonham5540
      @peterbonham5540 4 місяці тому +10

      Tan described him as the turd that won't flush. Spot on

    • @karadan100
      @karadan100 4 місяці тому +2

      He's the kind of guy who has a wrist collection.

    • @f0urstr1ng
      @f0urstr1ng 4 місяці тому +2

      Uniquely bad smell 😂😂😂

  • @trudysellers3644
    @trudysellers3644 4 місяці тому

    Such clarity. There’s everything here. And nothing to disagree with in my book. Doomed!

  • @artistglyn
    @artistglyn 4 місяці тому +8

    Brilliant Tom. Nailed it as usual. I know it's comedy, but it's so bloody accurate.

  • @DuncanPlant-px4tu
    @DuncanPlant-px4tu 4 місяці тому +211

    Daily Mail readers are drowning in a pool of their own tears.

    • @BoyeeSmudger
      @BoyeeSmudger 4 місяці тому +26

      Indeed! Not forgetting the plethora of others... telegraph (daily and Sunday), express, gb news, talk TV, the times, Sunday Times, the sun. Have I forgotten any?
      I did, lord lebodevs paper.

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 4 місяці тому +15

      Good.

    • @coppershark1973
      @coppershark1973 4 місяці тому +18

      HURRAH! Don't send any lifeboats, it wouldn't be 'Daily Mail form' to try and help the drowning.

    • @jackwaycombe
      @jackwaycombe 4 місяці тому +17

      Not in my largely rural constituency in S.Scotland. Once again my neighbours - many on minimum wage and/or benefits - have doffed their caps, tugged their forelocks - and returned a Tory. Pathetic.

    • @PortilloMoment
      @PortilloMoment 4 місяці тому +10

      Do lizards cry?

  • @TommyHoughton-m2w
    @TommyHoughton-m2w 4 місяці тому +1

    Great video. I've been following it

  • @cerealkiillar
    @cerealkiillar 4 місяці тому +21

    "Just not being the Other Guy isn't enough" needs to be on tee shirts, in sky writing, on milk cartons, on billboards spanning countries, and written on lew walls EVERYWHERE.

  • @Sunny-Side-of-the-Street-39
    @Sunny-Side-of-the-Street-39 4 місяці тому +55

    This man needs to be in charge of the bbc! He is bang on. Doesn’t miss

    • @JZsBFF
      @JZsBFF 4 місяці тому +4

      That's not what makes the BBC hop; there's only room for backscratching, cronyism and clientism-politics.

  • @ozzbow3507
    @ozzbow3507 3 місяці тому +1

    I like the Johnathan pie characatur.. Cracks me up! It's how I invisege a genuine independent political analyst/ reporter should voice the news! Pity it's posted by the New York Times, though.

  • @JamesCampbell_JAHC
    @JamesCampbell_JAHC 4 місяці тому +8

    Simply brilliant! Fact and humour combined.

  • @franosborne8198
    @franosborne8198 4 місяці тому +8

    Absolutely brilliant. The inimitable Jonathan Pie at his finest.

  • @Raven-nx8dr
    @Raven-nx8dr 4 місяці тому +19

    Farage is like a bloody boomerang or a bad smell you can't get rid of. Or vermin that you called an exterminator for but somehow it survived and came back.

    • @davidnayr301
      @davidnayr301 4 місяці тому +3

      You can't barrage the Farage!
      So long as a politician has supporters, why would he go away? And so long as Farage sticks to his main issue, the topic of immigration that was conveniently left out of this video, he will always have a significant following.
      I suggest you get used to him, or better yet, listen to him for a change.

    • @sbf2557
      @sbf2557 4 місяці тому

      ​@@davidnayr301immigration was literally in the first populism rant in this video and he has a whole video himself explaining why reform are a load of racist fuckwits.

  • @jaffarbh
    @jaffarbh 4 місяці тому +23

    It's a question of "which lunatic should run the asylum", whether in the UK, the USA, or pretty much any country in the world these days!

    • @realismatitsfinest1
      @realismatitsfinest1 4 місяці тому +1

      I don't know about that ... I'm looking forward to our new PM-in-Waiting, Pierre Poilievre, here in Canada. Polling at 45% to Trudeau's 18%, unlike all other world leaders, this- anti-Woke, anti-WEF, anti-Net Zero, pro-freedom leader will bring sanity back to our country. Common sense solutions and common sense policies. That's all we Canadians want after 10 years of socialism, verging on Stalinism, under Trudeau.

  • @Gabykk
    @Gabykk 4 місяці тому +51

    Not shooting blanks here

  • @mypointofview1111
    @mypointofview1111 8 днів тому +1

    I wonder how Pie feels about his beloved Labour party today? They make hitler & Mussolini sound like reasonable people

  • @JasonEwing-x1q
    @JasonEwing-x1q 4 місяці тому +33

    Truth speaker ❤❤❤❤

  • @marilyn8490
    @marilyn8490 4 місяці тому +5

    Could not wait to hear Jonathan Pie after a rather depressing 4th of July here in US!

  • @darthvader822
    @darthvader822 4 місяці тому +44

    I think the "Starmer is boring" argument - one literally no one cares about-distracts from the fact he is essentially a tory in all but name with slightly different branding.

    • @beepositiveforever971
      @beepositiveforever971 4 місяці тому

      You couldn't be further from the truth... Starmer is a self confessed radical Trotsky-ite.. Just like Blair. The Fabian Society who co founded the Labour Party, still going strong today are what George Bernard Shaw called them.. 'Bolshevism became Fabianism, that became Communism.

    • @primaryesthethicinstincts4832
      @primaryesthethicinstincts4832 4 місяці тому +1

      Everything is permitted’: Israeli soldiers attack Palestinians indiscriminately
      Oren Ziv, a journalist at +972 Magazine, interviewed six Israeli soldiers who described being authorised to open fire on Palestinians indiscriminately.
      Soldiers from six different units who were in Gaza at different times, said they executed Palestinians who strayed into “no-go zones”, and that there were “no limits” to what and whom they can shoot.
      “What we learned is the open-fire regulation was not very strict, they didn’t even get proper orders from their commanders,” Ziv told Al Jazeera.
      “They could fire almost at everything”, including schools, hospitals, as well as public institutions. Some required pre-approvals which were always granted, Ziv said.
      Some testified they were shooting “out of being bored, or just for fun”, he said.
      “The general feeling the soldier described is, that there was a big sense after the October 7 attack of revenge … they told us everything is permitted.”

    • @tomwinterfishing9065
      @tomwinterfishing9065 4 місяці тому

      He’s a globalist.

    • @davidnayr301
      @davidnayr301 4 місяці тому

      That is really interesting, because the right-wing discussion around the election is that the tories are lefties in all but name, which is why Reform could gobble up so many of their voters.
      Perhaps we can somewhat agree on the state of things, if not policy.

  • @Radagast-
    @Radagast- 4 місяці тому +20

    50 shades of beige: Captain Whitebread"!
    This is the impression he leaves. I'm reminded of synthetically-flavoured vanilla ice cream that was so disappointing that it's been left to melt in the bowl... The political equivalent of Aldi Weetabix.

    • @gdutfulkbhh7537
      @gdutfulkbhh7537 4 місяці тому +3

      Perhaps better than a "character" you remember for all the wrong reasons.

    • @Radagast-
      @Radagast- 4 місяці тому

      @@gdutfulkbhh7537 We wanted Brian Clough, but after the chaos of Don Revie's reign, we get Ron Greenwood.

    • @Relugus
      @Relugus 4 місяці тому

      He's kind of a diluted, budget version of Asquith.

    • @CharlieTheSupersaurus
      @CharlieTheSupersaurus 4 місяці тому +1

      After the absolute shitshow tempest of madness, mismanagement and malicious incompetence we've had for 14 years, we need some boring normality. I'm being optimistic and hopeful in saying that the Tories set the bar so low that Labour can't possibly be worse and that I'll take well meaning incompetence and boring normality over deliberately malicious and spiteful incompetence (but I'm hoping Labour will be more competent).

    • @JM-The_Curious
      @JM-The_Curious 4 місяці тому +1

      I always leave my ice cream to melt in the bowl a bit until it's like eating a thick shake with a spoon. Boring is my preference for PM, it's not the Eurovision song contest, it's about running a country.

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby 4 місяці тому +37

    Jonathan Pie is an international treasure

  • @Hackr3552
    @Hackr3552 4 місяці тому +1

    Great video

  • @MichaelLloydMobile
    @MichaelLloydMobile 4 місяці тому +84

    Congratulations on electing your potato!
    I'm from the United States, and I pray everyday we reelect our potato for four more years.

    • @BlankeeStarcraft
      @BlankeeStarcraft 4 місяці тому

      Your potato is such in the most braindead sense and the public has finally woken up to the fact post debate. Emperor has no clothes moment. Biden’s wife runs the presidency, but not for much longer.

    • @riversguy92
      @riversguy92 4 місяці тому +13

      Your potato is sprouting roots and barely managing to not dribble on himself, it seems

    • @ThOmAsSs4563q
      @ThOmAsSs4563q 4 місяці тому +5

      For the sake of ur international image i think u should rethink the atual corpse u have in power rn ☠️

    • @Mercurystars4202
      @Mercurystars4202 4 місяці тому +11

      @@riversguy92 Still better than some billionaire grifter after a tax cut for himself and his social class.

    • @riversguy92
      @riversguy92 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Mercurystars4202 sadly, I agree. Not a nice position for your electorate to be in nonetheless. Godspeed

  • @kerrydevlin
    @kerrydevlin 4 місяці тому +15

    In Scotland and i should be happy that the Tories are out! But I'm not because Keir has said that he is going to do exactly the same. No change here.

    • @gdutfulkbhh7537
      @gdutfulkbhh7537 4 місяці тому +3

      Be glad the SNP thieves are no more, at least.

    • @cptrelentless80085
      @cptrelentless80085 4 місяці тому

      Loads more Tories in Scotland now, and LibDems

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase 4 місяці тому

      That latest "hate speech" law from the SNP is just straight up tyrannical. Up to SEVEN YEARS. I'm sure that had to scare some Scots away from them, at least

    • @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841
      @KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841 4 місяці тому

      ​@@gdutfulkbhh7537The fact remains it is mostly Labour up here. It's a hollow tactical victory.

  • @raulbluesman9463
    @raulbluesman9463 4 місяці тому +2

    The dystopical irony of the UKs most trusted and truthful journalist being a character played by a comedian.... well done Tom, well done.

  • @johnsimpson8893
    @johnsimpson8893 4 місяці тому +12

    We've given a huge amount of power to a bunch of maniacs. This is nothing to celebrate.

    • @geoffreytoomey682
      @geoffreytoomey682 4 місяці тому

      This has always been their plan! Stunning Globalist Monster's success in Britain, I wonder whose Country is going to fall next? Infiltrate, Migrate, populate and dominate, that's the success of the Islamic cult teachings, brilliant really.
      What a surprise years of Islamic migration into Christian Countries? Where and why did they come from? Apparently just a global mystery? The mass migration organised by the Globalist Monsters to destroy the national identity or love of one's Country,
      "Individual Global Citizens" or IGCs are totally controlled by their overlords in their district, which is also why the family unit has been under attack for the past 20 years, (divide and conquer), patriots will not be required in "their New World Order" now called “their GREAT RESET”

    • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
      @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 4 місяці тому +1

      You are really out of your depth.

    • @johnsimpson8893
      @johnsimpson8893 4 місяці тому +3

      @@CuriousCrow-mp4cx This is the most bizarre comment I have ever received.

    • @fakecrusader
      @fakecrusader 4 місяці тому +1

      Unfortunately, a comment that could have been applied to every possible outcome. These guys are the new incarnation of the original pre-Norman monarchs, i.e. gangsters.

    • @jadeothen6057
      @jadeothen6057 4 місяці тому +3

      WEF puppets

  • @vulturesmusic1617
    @vulturesmusic1617 4 місяці тому +5

    This perfectly sums up the mood in the UK right now. Everyone is happy the Tories are gone, however there is very little optimism for Starmer due to his pretty nothing, bland, unseasoned policy platform. He basically ran a campaign of “we are not coloured blue”.

    • @CuriousCrow-mp4cx
      @CuriousCrow-mp4cx 4 місяці тому +1

      And that meant he could head the Tory client journalists off at the pass. They couldn't stick a finger on him, as he gave them no oxygen. But once in the saddle, he's not just talking. He executing his plans. Scrapping Rwanda and trying to get back some of the £310 million spent by the last lot on that crackpot scheme, means he's probably been on the phone to the Rwandan president. If he got back anything significant, that's a win. Less talking, more action. That alone is a win.

    • @beepositiveforever971
      @beepositiveforever971 4 місяці тому

      We're actually very concerned for his self confessed Radical Trotsky-ism, like his master Blair. Anti-working class, pro privatisation & pro champagne socialism... The state will own everything, including you.

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 4 місяці тому

      ​@@CuriousCrow-mp4cxYeah more Africans coming to the UK what a win😂😂😂

  • @infeedel7706
    @infeedel7706 4 місяці тому

    Mr. Ross, you never fail to entertain the truth... Thank you from the antipodes.

  • @aurelie4628
    @aurelie4628 4 місяці тому +8

    Love it !! 👏👏

  • @Twag-yh8xc
    @Twag-yh8xc 4 місяці тому +23

    Started out funny, then got very serious.
    You want politics and politicians to be boring. When they are not, carnage ensues.
    Best wishes from the former colonies.

    • @JacoWium
      @JacoWium 4 місяці тому +1

      Agreed. It's like the ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times".

  • @mrstrangesupremedevsolut-tf1dw
    @mrstrangesupremedevsolut-tf1dw 3 місяці тому +2

    This guy should become the next prime minister

  • @nmarks
    @nmarks 4 місяці тому +20

    I am so very happy and grateful to have survived to see the end of that rotten Conservative government. To have seen them get what they absolutely deserved. Between the 2015 general election and now I lost my friend, my brother and my Dad. I won a life-or-death court case in Indonesia (beating an old Australian Mafia figure in the process) and now Labour's win this week means some sanity has been restored in British politics. I am truly thankful to God to have survived, but I wish they were still here.
    I know what I have to do now. I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

    • @pevebe
      @pevebe 4 місяці тому

      Reform will come soon, don't get too excited

    • @beepositiveforever971
      @beepositiveforever971 4 місяці тому

      What non sense are you grifting for, or is this satire😄.. WTF has Indonesia got to do with the UK ???

  • @tadasblinda9425
    @tadasblinda9425 4 місяці тому +12

    Those are excellent predictions. Unfortunately, I have low hopes for Stalmer, and my fair is that after five years, the UK will head towards populism.

    • @Eekyellie
      @Eekyellie 4 місяці тому

      That's what Nigel Farage is counting on.

    • @tadasblinda9425
      @tadasblinda9425 4 місяці тому

      @@Eekyellie, so do the far right in Europe and the US, and they're correct, as corporates never support the far left, but they do not have a problem with the far right.

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase 4 місяці тому +1

      good

    • @tadasblinda9425
      @tadasblinda9425 4 місяці тому

      @@internethardcase@internethardcase Yes, it is good for the fascists, but not so much for the working class or the rest of the world.

    • @internethardcase
      @internethardcase 4 місяці тому +3

      @@tadasblinda9425 lol

  • @boterberg278
    @boterberg278 4 місяці тому

    Awesome. Keep on the good work.
    Cheers !

  • @Mcgiver699
    @Mcgiver699 4 місяці тому +20

    Starmer is Britain's Macron and that's worrying.

  • @Kate_Short-For-Bob
    @Kate_Short-For-Bob 4 місяці тому +50

    Yet again this fella hits the nails firmly on their heads.
    5 years really isn't much time to even start sorting 14 (or actually 45) years of decimation of the country started by Thatcher.

    • @jenswetter251
      @jenswetter251 4 місяці тому +2

      Your comment reminds me of digging into the past to understand the presence. We have to look further back ... further ... even further ... aaaaah!
      Female conservative leadership introduced strict measures of austerity
      Hire and fire, no social security, and with losing your job you had no place to live, which opens the gates for extortion which is the direct consequence of the influx of cheap labor ...
      😬😥🙄

    • @jenswetter251
      @jenswetter251 4 місяці тому

      The dire situation is captured vividly in a contemporary play:
      Termination
      "Baldrick, you're fired"
      Replacement
      "So, young man, you've got yourself a job. What do they call you?"
      ...
      No severance pay
      "Sorry, Baldrick-Any reason why you're still here?"
      Justified claim
      "I got nowhere to go, M'Lord"
      Utter Cruelty
      "Surely you'll be allowed to starve to death in one of the royal parks"
      Extortion
      "I'd like to stay and do the same job for no wages"
      And all that because of-Bobbb!
      A young girl suffering from gender dysphoria who finds out that, with gender being a spectrum, a shift on the line defining the opposite poles can be used to gain individual advantages including a rise in social status, until the contact with a stereotypical male leads to the identification with the gender attributed at birth 😳

    • @pinda6402
      @pinda6402 4 місяці тому

      lol he's not. He's just a fraud alongside the mainstream journalists pretending to be some kind of "enlightened centrist" when in reality he's just alongside the rest of them.

    • @penfro
      @penfro 4 місяці тому

      Have you erased the 70s from your memory? The country was decimated long before Thatcher, where the vast majority of coal mines had already been closed before she got there, where milk to school children was removed for the over 11s, where rubbish piled high on the streets.
      Leftists conveniently don’t mention the decimation of mine numbers under Wilson and Callaghan and the removal of milk provision for the over 11s by minister Edward Short, the ‘Milk Snatcher’.
      We don’t hear about Edward Short the Milk Snatcher because most of the news and entertainment the British watch is provided by the BBC.

    • @DazzasBoxing
      @DazzasBoxing 4 місяці тому

      Absolutely no chance Labour even intend to

  • @user-uh2cr9so8l
    @user-uh2cr9so8l 4 місяці тому

    Can always trust Jonathon Pie to deliver an honest and accurate political assessment!
    As much as it seems bleak, lets hope Starmer and Labour government really do make an effort to make this country better, and they have the strength and competence to carry it out

  • @TheSlugstoppa
    @TheSlugstoppa 4 місяці тому +41

    I sadly predict that in Five years time there will still be too many people needing foodbanks, too many Homeless and too much sh*t in our waters.

    • @jeremymanson1781
      @jeremymanson1781 4 місяці тому +3

      And I'm hoping that preducting things is not your forté.

    • @TheSlugstoppa
      @TheSlugstoppa 4 місяці тому +2

      @@jeremymanson1781 'Preducting' What as in Sticky tape ?

    • @kevinsmarts9953
      @kevinsmarts9953 4 місяці тому +8

      Even before the Tories got into power and there were 4 foodbanks in the UK it was too many. A single homeless person is too many and any untreated sewerage is too much.
      These things may well still be a problem but they will not be as bad and the path towards fixing them will be laid out.
      That is more than the Tories would ever dream of attempting.

    • @megaduck7965
      @megaduck7965 4 місяці тому +1

      That’s what’s coming next up zero seats for the other big player in the uni party

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper 4 місяці тому +1

      Yeah it’s going to get quite worse under Starmer