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  • Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
  • The left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire has pulled off a surprise victory in the French election, beating back the far right.
    Plus: Rachel Reeves' first speech as chancellor; and a controversial appointment to Starmer's cabinet.
    00:00 Intro
    00:51 The Left Win In France
    17:35 Rachel Reeves Speech
    43:07 Keir Starmer's Cabinet
    With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 485

  • @purplecrown505
    @purplecrown505 11 днів тому +350

    The most terrifying words in the English language:
    "We're from the private sector and we're here to help."

    • @marsfalcon9250
      @marsfalcon9250 11 днів тому +37

      "Corporations have 80 lobbyists, 30 lawyers, 12 tax exemptions and is collecting government subsidies on four non-existing R&D divisions. And they're collecting deregulation on their safety and quality standards. They've got SEC immunity, getting fat profits from stock buybacks, and they're collecting tax breaks under each of their LLCs. Their tax-free cash income alone is over 1 trillion quarterly."
      - Ronald Reagan, Jan 1976, Asheville N.C Campaign Trail Speech, *If he'd identified the reality instead of declaring war on the working poor and 'Welfare Queens".*

    • @rapier1954
      @rapier1954 11 днів тому +2

      Most people are employed by the private sector.

    • @marsfalcon9250
      @marsfalcon9250 11 днів тому +27

      @@rapier1954 That would explain why the overwhelming majority of people on Earth cannot afford a simple, few hundred dollar emergency. Explains why so many live below the poverty line while working full time jobs. You just explained *so much* with that one statement. I agree with you, the private sector need an overhaul.

    • @robinmerrill1176
      @robinmerrill1176 11 днів тому +6

      I see what you did there 😂. Perfect

    • @Itravelbackintime
      @Itravelbackintime 11 днів тому +1

      I don't buy it. I once was homeless and am successful. No owes you anything. Get out there and start a business. Do something.

  • @sailyousuf
    @sailyousuf 11 днів тому +79

    Starmer is a living proof of liars prosper .

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +4

      He is not a liar

    • @sailyousuf
      @sailyousuf 11 днів тому +20

      ​@@RobinHarris-nf4yv I guess you don't remember Starmer's pledges during his leadership campaign .

    • @jaymareachealee3351
      @jaymareachealee3351 11 днів тому +3

      Bonkers Boris is a better living proof closely followed by Fartage the Kermit lookalike..

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +2

      @@sailyousuf I do, most of them are in the Labour manifesto…If you disagree, I can go through each one
      Those that aren’t have had to be dropped due to economic changes.

    • @jake751
      @jake751 11 днів тому

      ​@jaymareachealee3351 it's not a competition.

  • @jasonchrist2172
    @jasonchrist2172 11 днів тому +148

    Wow. They stood down to help each other beat the far-right.
    Viva la resistance

    • @reality_pls5696
      @reality_pls5696 11 днів тому +1

      Manipulated election. Let's the problems France face simmer a bit longer. Every election le pen gets more votes... Every election the left play games and stoke fear in the later rounds to deny her and the voters what they actually want. Next cycle shit will hit the fan properly.

    • @nicolaablett7790
      @nicolaablett7790 11 днів тому +5

      WELL PLAYED PEOPLE as well as parties

    • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
      @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому

      The left did, not clear that Macrons centrists did though?

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 11 днів тому +5

      V for Victory!

    • @zigziar
      @zigziar 11 днів тому +1

      @@jasonchrist2172 and the infighting begins, because there is little they actually agree on... Sounds democratic huh.

  • @djdrogs
    @djdrogs 11 днів тому +41

    "We're not going to be in the business of building social homes." -Your Labour government 2024.

    • @jake751
      @jake751 11 днів тому +14

      Labour in name only. They are centre right now not social demorcrat

    • @stumagoo2395
      @stumagoo2395 11 днів тому

      The LabLibCon alliance want house prices to grow every year and are always willing to implement coercive initiatives to encourage buyers to borrow way beyond their means just to put a roof over their head, They and their MSM friends have convinced the masses that ever increasing house prices will make them wealthier and getting on the property ladder is the only option.

    • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
      @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому +2

      @@jake751precisely! Good to see you’ve been paying attention, so many on Twitter talking of Corbyn’s Labour in power🙄sadly nothing could be further from the truth!

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 11 днів тому +5

      Not my "Labour" government! SHAMEFUL!

  • @roseannemain9957
    @roseannemain9957 11 днів тому +26

    Appointment of Timpson is one of the very best things I have heard from Starmer. Absolutely agree that probably 2/3 of the people in prisons should not be there. Many of them are people with learning difficulties/disabilities and mental health problems. Punishment does not help people learn how to be part of the society we expect them to contribute to posituvely when they are released. Prison is not economically sensible or viable and socially it is a completely backward step.

    • @riverside471
      @riverside471 11 днів тому +1

      Agreed. Was disappointed that Ash dismissed him as a 'liberal'.

    • @tancreddehauteville764
      @tancreddehauteville764 11 днів тому

      Would you release violent criminals? Sweeping statement to say that 2/3 of prisoners should not be there. Certainly, people guilty of financial crimes only should probably not be in prison.

    • @riverside471
      @riverside471 11 днів тому +4

      ​@@tancreddehauteville764 Did you listen? Timpson talked about three broad groupings of current prisoners, a third of whom, who'd include the violent offenders, do need to be in prison.

  • @jamesdunn8968
    @jamesdunn8968 11 днів тому +85

    I voted Green in South Norwich. ❎❎They came 2nd in 42 Seats. We are coming for Labour!!!!

    • @KapnScumdreg
      @KapnScumdreg 11 днів тому +5

      Waaagh! Da green horde iz comin'

    • @djdrogs
      @djdrogs 11 днів тому +5

      Would you be open to a new left coalition? Including explicitly revolutionist orgs? We all feel the current system falls far short of democracy, and serves only the ultra wealthy and corporate greed.

    • @crhu319
      @crhu319 11 днів тому

      ​@@djdrogsGreens make deals with sovereigntist, autonomist and secessionist parties especially if it breaks up a nuclear power. If it gets rid of a corrupt shitlib party, Greens may tactically ally with the center right.
      Greens are not part of the "left" as such because workers rights are subordinate to the biosphere. So no protecting coal, nuclear, war industry, fracking or mining jobs.

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi 11 днів тому

      If you can explain to me how being FOR mass and illegal immigration is Green, as a British Islander, in massively overloaded, over-developed little England, I'll paint myself Green (like local Chinese officials do to entire dead mountain sides and fields so they look green to CCP drones, so they get their CCP handout). Communism is not the answer.

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi 11 днів тому

      The non-fake Green Energy equation = fewest Watts per square meter... human nature destruction equation (in all senses) = average, min and max number of humans per square meter.

  • @LeftKinect
    @LeftKinect 11 днів тому +82

    Wanted to say that your team at Novara Media, represents what journalism and news should be. Even from the states, I can tell you have empathy and compassion for the people, rather than corporate greed. Well done. Thank you. Cheers 🍻

    • @zigziar
      @zigziar 11 днів тому +1

      All the while parroting main stream media on this narrative, hmmm.

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi 11 днів тому

      They're not really objective, as they're Far Left as far as I can tell, like Le Pen. They believe in Nationalised Industries, like Le Pen. The neo left seem to be obsessed with replacing their national workers with foreign workers, while Le Pen is Trad Left so more like China, North Korea, The S.U. immigration-wise (but she's 10x more liberal on emigration rights).

    • @T.E.S.S.
      @T.E.S.S. 11 днів тому +2

      *Novara
      You love it so much you can't spell it right, on one of their videos. Amazing.

    • @PrivateSi
      @PrivateSi 11 днів тому

      Censorious Hyper-Governmentalists.. AKA Leftists.

    • @LeftKinect
      @LeftKinect 11 днів тому +1

      @@T.E.S.S. oops. Fixed. Thanks 😊

  • @jacques-antoinegaudin2439
    @jacques-antoinegaudin2439 11 днів тому +8

    Whilst the result of the election is positive for the French left, let's not forget that the far-right has gained 50+ MPs, and the funding that goes with it. It's not over unfortunately.

  • @sofialiguori4868
    @sofialiguori4868 11 днів тому +101

    Thanks France ❤ for showing that a real bold left program can make it, and the only alternative is not the right or this "center left" which is still right - same economic politic, same immigrants politic.
    Well put Ash on the cheap / spending distinction
    Please @novara media don't forget Palestine - so much has happened please bring it back to your agenda

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому

      No Labour don’t have same immigrants politic

    • @djdrogs
      @djdrogs 11 днів тому +5

      @@RobinHarris-nf4yv you mean Labour saying stop the boats?

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +1

      @@djdrogs Labour want to stop smuggling gangs letting people cross in dangerous boats.
      What is wrong with that

    • @Shadowman4710
      @Shadowman4710 11 днів тому

      @@RobinHarris-nf4yv They also want to stop Trans people from existing. What's RIGHT with that?

    • @johnnibaz6883
      @johnnibaz6883 11 днів тому

      It isn't that bold to be fair but at least it's winning. Now we wait for the socialist party and the green to betray, cause that's what they do here in France.

  • @MB-rq4ss
    @MB-rq4ss 11 днів тому +10

    Alice Cappelle, Why are Melanchon Bashing ? Melanchon is the reason we have a left party actif in France.🇫🇷 I am a Melanchon supporter the same way I am a Corbyn supporter! The Melanchon Bashing is regarding his supporter for Palestine 🇵🇸 !

  • @ProDemocracy01
    @ProDemocracy01 11 днів тому +11

    Stop the genocide 😢

  • @johnnyfast1461
    @johnnyfast1461 11 днів тому +55

    Emily Thornberry is just vile.

    • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
      @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому

      Yes have to agree 100%!
      After she backed Starmer’s comments that Israel had a right to commit the war crime of collective punishment of 2.2million Palestinian civilians.
      Then when questioned by Ash said “ I thought they were just gonna turn the lights out for a little while!”
      Absolutely vile! This is Israel she was talking about! She’s well aware of the constant war crimes of this rouge state!

  • @goonerboy9991
    @goonerboy9991 11 днів тому +49

    Oh Jeremy Corbyn oh Jeremy Corbyn ohhhh Jeremy Corbyn

    • @nicolaablett7790
      @nicolaablett7790 11 днів тому +7

      AND JEREMY CORBYN
      He will continue to make a difference

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 11 днів тому +6

      Having attempted to get rid of him - they cannot succeed. For Jeremy is the man we need!
      To mis-quote The Jam

    • @RugbyPass81
      @RugbyPass81 11 днів тому +4

      It's just a shame he likely doesn't have much time left in politics. He's an old man, and I don't mean that in a bad way, because I am a huge Corbynite, actually I'm an outright socialist.
      I'll be absolutely gutted when he does retire; Honest voices are difficult to find in politics, always have been, but more so now.

    • @gaiagreen2690
      @gaiagreen2690 10 днів тому +1

      ​@@RugbyPass81 There is still lots of fire in Jeremy.

    • @RugbyPass81
      @RugbyPass81 10 днів тому +1

      @@gaiagreen2690 There is, I absolutely agree and I'd like to believe he'll go for another general election before handing his cards in.
      I think he'll do one more GE, but after that? I suspect he'll leave work as an MP and focus on campaigning in an alternative manner.

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle 11 днів тому +41

    I am quietly delighted that Ed Miliband is back and in government. Like him or not, sticking with it after his bacon sandwich ordeal and failure as Labour leader is what the UK is all about !!

  • @donnafalconer8158
    @donnafalconer8158 11 днів тому +18

    EmilyThornberry is no hero and at least The Lawyer has form for a decent position on gaza .Whatever her motives she did a bad thing

    • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
      @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому +4

      Condoning the war crime of collective punishment is about as bad as it could get!

  • @howmanybeansmakefive
    @howmanybeansmakefive 11 днів тому +16

    People go on about the concrete council monstrosities, but the quality of so many of these new builds are absolutely dire, not just aesthetically but in terms of the actual construction, sprawl, workmanship and literal structural stability. The whole construction industry has been incentivised over decades to be as cost-cutting and negligent as possible, and skills have degraded with it. I really hope Labour doesn't just call on these cowboy corporate developers. I 100% would prefer state built housing, but if they really are allergic to public housing, I hope at the very least they form new public/private shared corporations with majority public stakes, procurement, negotiations, local apprenticeships, warranties, and muscular legal enforcement of duties.

    • @pippatandy4797
      @pippatandy4797 11 днів тому +2

      See Patrick Wright, A Journey through Ruins: The Last Days of London. I think it's here that he points out that a lot of the towers were built by Tories to keep the lower orders out of the Essex countryside. Didn't want them spoiling the Home Counties fantasy of England.

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 11 днів тому +1

      Just a little negative there. For what is to stop tenants from joining together and calling on the Govt to invest in decent, modern, lower-cost social housing? Instead agreeing any more stock transfers, is it not time to defend council housing - by pushing for the Fourth Option?

  • @lemondayz
    @lemondayz 11 днів тому +14

    I agree that we need to build lots more housing, but you do have to add clarifications to that. We recently had a local campaign to save our local field (the council was labour run!!!). The field is in an area where loads of people don't have gardens and if it was built on it would become a major flood risk (it already is one so that is a big problem). It is a rural town, but this vital space is so important to our working class community. The conversation about these issues needs more nuanced by Novara in its reporting and analysis.

    • @Alice-go2nc
      @Alice-go2nc 11 днів тому +6

      This is so important. Where I live in Kent there are lots of lego towns being built on our wildlife lands. They lack social and institutional infrastructures. They are on unadopted roads. They are not affordable housing. They are developments for profit that are destroying forever what little green spaces we have left.

  • @AlexMitchell-mr2rp
    @AlexMitchell-mr2rp 11 днів тому +56

    We love Ash!! 🤩

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +2

      She is a Corbyn cultist

    • @johnnyfast1461
      @johnnyfast1461 11 днів тому

      @@RobinHarris-nf4yv she is a communist, just ask her and she will confirm. The more interesting question is what's your obsession with JC.

    • @T.E.S.S.
      @T.E.S.S. 11 днів тому +19

      @@RobinHarris-nf4yv alright Keir, calm down

    • @rafaeldegiacomoaraujo8778
      @rafaeldegiacomoaraujo8778 11 днів тому +8

      Jeremy!

    • @christopherwhittaker2620
      @christopherwhittaker2620 11 днів тому +4

      @@RobinHarris-nf4yvabsolute tosh
      Drama queen much

  • @guillaumejeremia8779
    @guillaumejeremia8779 11 днів тому +32

    The Macronists are not the center, they're the new right, they absorbed many leaders of the "old" right (LR) whose remains have had a hard time finding a place between the Macronists and the far right, which is why some of them (along with LR's president!) joined the RN in the end.

    • @forianproductions6113
      @forianproductions6113 11 днів тому +4

      There's also former members of the Socialist party in Macron's party, including Gabriel Attal. They shouldn't be lumped in with either.

    • @adrien5834
      @adrien5834 11 днів тому

      @@forianproductions6113 They're all neolibs. the finer distinctions between them are irrelevant in my view.

    • @sebpatu
      @sebpatu 11 днів тому

      Macron is center of 3 blocks in a whole system drifting to the right

    • @adrien5834
      @adrien5834 11 днів тому +2

      @@forianproductions6113 Damn. My post was removed simply for calling them all neolibs...

    • @guillaumejeremia8779
      @guillaumejeremia8779 11 днів тому +2

      @@forianproductions6113 true, but these guys are the most rightist of all, calling for more "authority", law and order, and attacking Muslims. Attal's first law as a minister was forbidding the abaya in schools (not even a religious dress but it looked too Arab and Muslim to them).

  • @akumasdeception
    @akumasdeception 11 днів тому +62

    Left is best, thank you 🇫🇷 ♥️

  • @mrdan3019
    @mrdan3019 11 днів тому +9

    Starting my PhD this year - a specific public service related neoliberal critique 😅 thanks for that particular thought train Ash! Very insightful indeed 😂

  • @timrowland9422
    @timrowland9422 11 днів тому +4

    Time will be your teacher. Without you realising it, all your freedoms will be taken away from you, unless you do exactly as you’re told. Don’t say you weren’t warned…!

    • @7QHook
      @7QHook 11 днів тому +1

      yes. and it is so so obvious too.

  • @mysterymaverick1982
    @mysterymaverick1982 11 днів тому +33

    More privatisation because thats worked out well so far ask the water companies or more so ask the people with 💩 in their water 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +2

      It’s not more privatisation

    • @mysterymaverick1982
      @mysterymaverick1982 11 днів тому +8

      ​​@@RobinHarris-nf4yv Yes it is are you not listening? This is also going to be the case for NHS too, mark my words. What did you think the private sector are going to build houses and hand them over to the government 😂😂😂. It's tried and tested we've been doing this now for years and what have we got a housing crisis. Public housing is an investment and the money and assets go back into government and the economy to rebuild the country money going to private landlords landowners etc does not it goes into an account somewhere and nothing ever gets put back into the country. Look at the empty high rises built by the private sector with no one living in them because they are expensive and not fit for purpose as far as building regs go.

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +1

      @@mysterymaverick1982 the private sector have always built houses to buy.
      The public sector never have.

  • @krystalhafesji
    @krystalhafesji 11 днів тому +7

    Ash is 🔥🔥🔥

  • @jake751
    @jake751 11 днів тому +30

    France has seen the light. Unfortunately we have 5 more year's of neoliberalism 😢

    • @christopherwhittaker2620
      @christopherwhittaker2620 11 днів тому +1

      It’s to early to judge
      Don’t get me wrong I’m with you and what you say but I’m also open to have my mind changed. It’s a fact that Labour have inherited a broken country and it’s going to be extremely difficult to fix it. So to speak.

    • @tancreddehauteville764
      @tancreddehauteville764 11 днів тому

      Still better than Tory neoliberalism.

  • @duncanmclean6416
    @duncanmclean6416 11 днів тому +14

    Just lost my vote just showing their hands. No council housing built by the government. All profits to the private sector. In one day they’ve confirmed what I thought.

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +1

      They haven’t talked about social housing
      It’s obvious houses to buy are built by the private sector

    • @user-tf3dt6wv3g
      @user-tf3dt6wv3g 11 днів тому

      It's just more of the same feeding the public statistics they can't really use or care nothing for. 10 houses here and there 10000 it's just a broken record controlled by a mental parrot. If the government said something like iso containers or pods 3d built or quansic type American shelters even concrete sprayed tent style then at least then some ears might prick up. But it's numbers.

    • @stumagoo2395
      @stumagoo2395 11 днів тому +1

      The country is crying out for affordable housing and nothing offered by the private sector is remotely affordable to buy or rent unless you are on above average earnings. Building mass social housing for those stuck in expensive private rentals would improve 4 million households lives to the detriment of private landlords and those that see a house as an investment. None of the 3 main parties will dare tackle the UK's housing problem in fear of the reprisals from MSM and the markets.

  • @TedThomasTT
    @TedThomasTT 11 днів тому +21

    1:03 wish I could get this feeling from a UK election, will probably never happen 😐

    • @mrD66M
      @mrD66M 11 днів тому +1

      So you want to have Reform almost winning a GE?

    • @jake751
      @jake751 11 днів тому +5

      ​@@mrD66Mno we want neoliberalism out. Do you honestly think uk would vote in farage? He's a novelty act/ protest vote.

    • @mrD66M
      @mrD66M 11 днів тому

      @jake751 what happened in France only happened because of the loonies LePen/NR, so it seems the left needs to be scared of something to unite...

    • @TedThomasTT
      @TedThomasTT 11 днів тому

      @@mrD66M it's not just about that, it would be like the greens getting 30% of the vote

  • @sebpatu
    @sebpatu 11 днів тому +3

    Very good sumup from Alice.
    Very fair, much more than mainstream medias

  • @freedom4639
    @freedom4639 11 днів тому +5

    Big change in British politics oh no worries.
    Big change in France oh no worries.
    No change there then back to things as usual never changes.

  • @jamestoday2239
    @jamestoday2239 11 днів тому +15

    Just to remind you guys when talking about throwing ourselves into building houses, wind farms etc to fix social problems, we are in the midst of an extinction event. Saying we might be "disturbing some of the birds" by building wind farms seems to show a rather flippant and devil may care attitude to the nature crisis?

    • @marsmotion
      @marsmotion 11 днів тому

      its not humans that are going to be the reason its the sun. and thats something your windmills etc wont change. and its a carbon credit wall st slave system. youve been had...

    • @mightymqb4800
      @mightymqb4800 11 днів тому

      Why do the left hate nature so much?

    • @jackreacher8858
      @jackreacher8858 9 днів тому

      Im sure birds will learn in time will just fly around or above . It call the Darwin theory see

  • @jillallan8985
    @jillallan8985 11 днів тому +8

    buying a house is not all what it cracks up to be. We felt like slaves to the state. Also, I don't agree building on the green belt. As well as people I care about threatened species. The list is many. Of course there has to be a happy medium and compromise+ studies. We cannot abandon nature just like that. We have eco systems. I am not a nimby btw. With the extra houses of course, you have to supply additional services like drs surgeries, school's, school teachers etc. My husband worked in construction and he came across many places and big houses owned by rich people not being lived in because they lived abroad. I think we need to look at what waste land we have too. 3story houses might be a good idea.More houses less land. The drainage system needs to be looked at too. We need to get that in order before housing. It's crazy.

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 11 днів тому +1

      It’s better than endlessly paying rent!

    • @charlieg2262
      @charlieg2262 11 днів тому +2

      Like the other commenter has said, it beats paying rent forever. I’m currently stuck in the rent cycle where I’m having to move all of my belongings every year or so to a new more affordable area and it’s paralysing not being able to ever settle down in my own “home”

    • @charlieg2262
      @charlieg2262 11 днів тому

      And I’m sure many feel the same as us (renters)

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 11 днів тому

      @@charlieg2262 I hope things get better for you.

    • @KGG2
      @KGG2 11 днів тому +4

      Completely agree on protecting nature.

  • @BrianFace182
    @BrianFace182 11 днів тому +9

    Reeves is like a teenager refusing to do her chores 🤣 The private sector hasn't filled the gap for the last 45 years, why on earth does she still think it's going to happen? She needs to get back in that office and plan some goddamn council housing and if she doesn't do it she's grounded. She's such a petulant little baby

  • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
    @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому +2

    Glad Thornberry has been passed over! Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
    She’s learnt first hand that making a disgusting statement to back up Starmer doesn’t mean a thing he’s more than willing to let her be thrown under the bus for it!🤣👍

  • @BadgerMcblasty
    @BadgerMcblasty 11 днів тому +2

    Definitely a shock considering the ‘Far right’ got the most votes but the least amount of seats in parliament. Almost as though the bureaucracy simply didn’t allow for the democratic process to function correctly, it gets messy when there are paper ballots....
    It’s like labor’s win in the UK, less votes than Corbyn in 17’ and 19’, but apparently those were abysmal failures but the latest election was a resounding success. Interesting how media paints failure and success.

  • @ahguitar1
    @ahguitar1 11 днів тому +3

    Michael's opinion on building on green space is as awful as always - for both housing and energy. Private developers and pro-privatisation Labour/Tories are going to select sites based on maximum profitability. Not minimum impact to ecology.
    Everytime Michael speaks about this he's basically saying 'yeah, private companies, build wherever you want. I'm up for it.'
    Both uninformed and informed only by London living. Britain is a big country. Try visiting some of it.

  • @geoforamorio
    @geoforamorio 11 днів тому +2

    I'm so happy for the New Popular Front coming on top and also for the Greens of France, as they more than doubled their seats. Had 15 MPs and now they have 33 MPs in the new Assembly! Also, it would be great to see a Green PM, as it's more possible to get elected with the abstention - or even votes - of the Together Coalition MPs!
    👏🗳️💚

  • @mc-ft1um
    @mc-ft1um 10 днів тому +1

    I was surprised and shocked to hear Michael Walker say its 'ridiculous' that local communities will resist the destruction of 'empty' fields from faceless housing estates built by the private sector, which will of course depend on home ownership and 4 & 5 bedroom houses for their profits. Meanwhile the majority of households in the UK already live in under occupied houses, second homes lie empty, rents are sky high, and we are in a climate, biodiversity and ecological crisis. This reliance on big business hardly differs from the Tories and has not yet solved the housing crisis -- but will instead increase inequality, promote expansionism and destroy nature.
    Ironically, while you celebrate the success of the Nouveau Front Populaire in holding back the far right, and the Independents and Greens in our own election, this laissez faire attitude tramples all over the progressive agenda that helped them to this success.

  • @jimisoulman6021
    @jimisoulman6021 11 днів тому +2

    Personally the most concerning thing about the French elections is they had to use under hand measures (tactical voting) to avoid Le Pen's party winning a democratic election. I mean seriously... anyone not concerned about this?
    The Left needs to address the concerns that draws people to the right if they want to really earn a democratic mandate.

    • @Lala-kc2fw
      @Lala-kc2fw 10 днів тому

      They have the potential to be under a communist coalition. So, many people will become more right leaning now.
      And yes to answer your question, that is strange

  • @nicolaford7510
    @nicolaford7510 11 днів тому +3

    We do have protect nature Michael. And I think you shoukd be sent to live in bone of those soulless housing estates where you need a car to get to the shop. Never mind a pub or a cinema.

  • @adamlucas4968
    @adamlucas4968 11 днів тому +4

    Another great show, thank you. I'm in France at the moment and it's been really interesting seeing what's going on here. On the issue of the national govt in the UK building more social housing and infrastructure generally, govt has lost the legal contracting, design, engineering and construction expertise it once had between the late '40s and '80s under neoliberal and austerity policies which therefore requires rebuilding the civil service over many years in the UK to 'do stuff' - I'm all for it but don't know about Labour under Starmer. To its credit the Albanese govt in Oz has been doing this to some extent after years of conservative rule and their contracting out a huge proportion of core govt responsibilities but there's no appetite for rebuilding infrastructure project implementation and construction capabilities in Oz or the UK it would seem.

  • @ValQuinn
    @ValQuinn 11 днів тому +1

    James Timpson is a really good appointment and is making me a lot more hopeful I have to say. Justice reform is something I care a lot about and is never being talked about. Haven't liked Starmer's Labour but they didn't have to do this. Praise where praise is due.

  • @rooks4ever
    @rooks4ever 11 днів тому +15

    Labour are party first and country last mentality

    • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
      @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому

      Exactly the same as the Tories & what got us into this mess!
      So no solution in next 5 years.

  • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
    @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому +1

    Farage will need to turn up in Parliament?

  • @stormyweathers9887
    @stormyweathers9887 11 днів тому +5

    How about removing the right to buy the property for council tenants? 😁

    • @johnworrall169
      @johnworrall169 11 днів тому +3

      40 years too late with that one

    • @stumagoo2395
      @stumagoo2395 11 днів тому

      LabLibCon will never remove right to buy or BTL mortgages as it goes against their neoliberal agenda,

  • @djdrogs
    @djdrogs 11 днів тому

    Thanks Novara team

  • @guyfrancis6833
    @guyfrancis6833 11 днів тому +2

    'the books are a mess' = spending cuts and broken promises

  • @PeterSzeto-es6em
    @PeterSzeto-es6em 11 днів тому +1

    What 'win'? Did you call a hung parliament a positive result in France!?

  • @nicolaford7510
    @nicolaford7510 11 днів тому +3

    You can't rip up planning regulations. Regulations are there for a purpose. New buildings are spriging up like mushrooms and most of it has nothing to do with providing good affordable housing...soulless housing estates with no infrastructure.
    We need very carefull and properly regulated planning to provide desirable social housing.

    • @Lala-kc2fw
      @Lala-kc2fw 10 днів тому

      They might become communist. So like, they're going to do anything whether the citizens or laws agree with or not

  • @bruisedviolets
    @bruisedviolets 11 днів тому +5

    Enjoyed this segment!

  • @bigred8438
    @bigred8438 11 днів тому +2

    So does this indicate that the Euro parliament may likewise make smart decisions re Russia and NATOS overreach?

  • @maddogbg7571
    @maddogbg7571 11 днів тому +10

    The National Rally actually got by far the most votes yesterday and yet it came third, so it can hardly be said that French people rejected the "far right", being that they had almost 40 percent of the vote yesterday

    • @T.E.S.S.
      @T.E.S.S. 11 днів тому +9

      watch Le Pen crying again and have a think

    • @DavidBagshaw
      @DavidBagshaw 11 днів тому +2

      @@T.E.S.S. If only for the lulls.

  • @laserprawn
    @laserprawn 11 днів тому

    "Our country is about to experience democracy"

  • @WernerEdgar
    @WernerEdgar 11 днів тому +19

    Alice is an absolute champ and I'm happy to see her more recognition in left-wing media, now mainstream next. ;)

  • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
    @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому +1

    Macron as a typical centrist may well give the far right another throw of the dice!

  • @bobjones-ns4bv
    @bobjones-ns4bv 11 днів тому +19

    Reeves, opening with the excuses first is not encouraging.

    • @mysterymaverick1982
      @mysterymaverick1982 11 днів тому +2

      That's all Liebour know it's always the Tories this the Tories did that but no plans for what they will actually do.

    • @jameskent9759
      @jameskent9759 11 днів тому

      Well, the Tories have been royally messing things up for 14 years. Things aren't going to be rosy on day 1. ​@@mysterymaverick1982

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 11 днів тому +3

      @@mysterymaverick1982 did you listen to the speech?

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 11 днів тому

      @@mysterymaverick1982bot

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +2

      They aren’t excuses

  • @gui_p_mello
    @gui_p_mello 11 днів тому +1

    If the strategy is to say Mélenchon will do nothing and have no power, the French left is completely doomed, we had similar things happening here in Brazil. I believe Mélenchon must get more popular without being any less "radical", without conciliation with the bourgeois.

  • @heredianna2496
    @heredianna2496 11 днів тому +1

    E.Macron can't call for a new election for a full year. So for one full year it might be chaos at the assembly unless E.Macron resign (he can do it anytime) and we get an early presidential election.

  • @jillallan8985
    @jillallan8985 11 днів тому +2

    We used to live in a lovely council house built properly in the 50/60s

  • @GraceCanadaful
    @GraceCanadaful 11 днів тому +7

    I feel so sorry for all young people. They lost their minds and will not see tomorrow. So sad.

  • @freelancingtobe
    @freelancingtobe 11 днів тому +1

    against all odds....

  • @gs8099
    @gs8099 11 днів тому +1

    Navara on its own or at least Ash must take over 10 am and be a permanent guest on 6 and 7 PM LBC program if we need people of this country learn to understand what's happening in politics generally, develop the skills to analyse matters without being emotionally driven or simply act as a sychophant to Starmer! I am not asking too much, LBC can keep the rest to exercise its right to manipulate minds but they will gradually and hopefully learn to follow a more sensible approach than having too many just talking cheap. The reason i didn't mention TVs or BBC, etc is because i am hoping that Navara takes over a public news channel if possible.

  • @Stoddardian
    @Stoddardian 11 днів тому +1

    Most NFP voters aren't even French.

    • @phiscz
      @phiscz 11 днів тому

      and? french people have shown themselves incapable of self-governance

  • @tancreddehauteville764
    @tancreddehauteville764 11 днів тому +1

    It's time for Labour, LibDems and Greens to unite to fight off Reform and the Tories. If the French can do it, why can't we?

  • @chrissearle2055
    @chrissearle2055 11 днів тому

    This was not a shock! No way the French would allow the far right to gain power.

  • @7QHook
    @7QHook 11 днів тому

    "Dhimmis pull off shock win in France as normal people beaten back"

  • @BettBeat_Media
    @BettBeat_Media 11 днів тому +20

    Why did Novara Media stop reporting on the genocide in Palestine? It is still ongoing and this silence is kinda disgusting.

    • @pizaclatonddd3081
      @pizaclatonddd3081 11 днів тому +1

      Bruh why do you think we're happy with this France can now Vote for a Palestinian State.

    • @BettBeat_Media
      @BettBeat_Media 11 днів тому +2

      @@pizaclatonddd3081 I agree, but that's a different discussion bruv.

  • @daciogutierrez4132
    @daciogutierrez4132 11 днів тому

    At 14 min. Macron by law has to wait a full year to call a new legislative election.

  • @Robservations
    @Robservations 11 днів тому +1

    Are those empty fields you're talking about or are they not used for farming?

  • @FitzroySymisterArt
    @FitzroySymisterArt 11 днів тому

    This is how bad it is in France 🇫🇷 😮😅😅😅😅

  • @johnslavin2270
    @johnslavin2270 11 днів тому +3

    Houses though are built by individuals as well as by developers. Planning authorities specify a house's design, build and materials as well as holding a veto over the siting of a new build. Planning authorities have withdrawn from public site the guidance they used to publish on what they allow and what they don't. The citizen is obliged to seek their permission by trying to fit their own idea into the authority's online procedure. The authority will not meet an applicant nor will they speak on the phone. One is allowed only email contact with a non decision maker.
    Alternative and DIY housing should be allowed and not stopped. They approve some dreadful builds, poisonous materials, poor designs, dull building.

  • @Surestart106
    @Surestart106 11 днів тому

    Beware of the silent majority.

  • @sharenwhitlock7737
    @sharenwhitlock7737 11 днів тому +13

    Couldn't even listen to droning on from Reeves, such a boring voice, very Theresa May. Bores you to death.

    • @sarahjaneross2918
      @sarahjaneross2918 11 днів тому

      She's all nasally like Starmer. I switch them both off. 😅

  • @UTubeISphere
    @UTubeISphere 11 днів тому +1

    Great interview guest (Alice Cappelle)!

  • @mrD66M
    @mrD66M 11 днів тому +4

    Never had seen Bardella before but before I saw his name on the screen I just had a creepy vibe from him

    • @mta1
      @mta1 11 днів тому +1

      He is a would be Mussolini and so void! His school results were appalling!

  • @ynysmones3816
    @ynysmones3816 11 днів тому

    People should bear in mind that the Popular Front is the french version of an alliance between Corbyn Labour, Starmer Labour, and the Green Party.

  • @Zaaggastkich
    @Zaaggastkich 11 днів тому

    Its important to keep in mind that Marshall aid was to be withheld if the French were to let communists run campaigns let alone run parts of the government by our dear Stars and Stripes

  • @claudemadrid4950
    @claudemadrid4950 11 днів тому +2

    Aliiiiiiiiice ! 🙂

  • @user-gt2pn4vt4j
    @user-gt2pn4vt4j 11 днів тому

    1) organised left 2) prepared to vote right to remove centre

  • @Ser3456
    @Ser3456 9 днів тому

    It is so nice to see Alice Capelle! I really enjoy your commentary Alice😊

  • @Donkeater1
    @Donkeater1 11 днів тому +3

    Good video as always guys but as a development exec (renewables and some housing) with a lot of experience with the planning system, it was evident you don’t really know much about the planning system. The changes they’ve hinted at will make a very big difference if they are followed through well. It cannot be overstated how much the NIMBYs run the planning system and how broken that system is.
    Of course I agree it would be good to have public housing but you downplayed the planning reforms too much without really understanding it and its challenges.

    • @RobinHarris-nf4yv
      @RobinHarris-nf4yv 11 днів тому +1

      I believe planning for things like renewables can take 12 years and more.
      Sizewell planning application 300,000 pages and told to resubmit as too short.

  • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
    @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому

    I live in Barnes, so much land here not built on?
    Have fields with one or two incredible expensive houses in it?
    Commons should be protected but empty fields along with rising homeless is appalling!

  • @TheBananaLoverorignal
    @TheBananaLoverorignal 11 днів тому +4

    Alice accent is amazing, love the french accent so much.

    • @KGG2
      @KGG2 11 днів тому

      Why? Its so cliche

  • @MattyFerguson-k9u
    @MattyFerguson-k9u 11 днів тому +1

    Why is there always so much focus on building new homes when we could be focusing on legislating to properly use the existing stock?

    • @isabelcooke3476
      @isabelcooke3476 11 днів тому

      Probably more profit in new builds.

    • @MattyFerguson-k9u
      @MattyFerguson-k9u 11 днів тому

      @@isabelcooke3476 100%, so why are novara so obsessed with it

  • @facelessvaper
    @facelessvaper 11 днів тому

    So the way we fix the Tories fiscal irresponsibility is by sticking to the Tories fiscal rules🤔

  • @terriej123
    @terriej123 11 днів тому +1

    No friends in politics I guess

  • @user-xd7dk3oy3q
    @user-xd7dk3oy3q 11 днів тому

    Money government receives has never been higher, so what happens to all that cash?
    Surly government could borrow on that guarantee & start to replace social housing?
    Loss of social housing has been disastrous!

  • @zigziar
    @zigziar 11 днів тому +4

    Why on earth are all main stream media and now you, an 'independent' media source singing from the same hymn sheet... there was no shock about it, everyone other than RN colluded for the win, it was known days before, there was no surprise... get a grip.

    • @marsfalcon9250
      @marsfalcon9250 11 днів тому +5

      Crypto-fasc coping and seething everywhere on the interwebs. Sad stuff.

    • @zigziar
      @zigziar 11 днів тому +3

      @@marsfalcon9250 Read up on this concept I'm guessing your unaware of, it's termed objective reality. Now go look at the headlines of 99% of media outlets, then look at this, then realise that they are objectively nigh on identical. Buhbye

  • @Welcome_The_Revolution
    @Welcome_The_Revolution 11 днів тому

    If you're going to judge Labour on it's first 100 days, please try to be fair and bear in mind most governments are elected in May whereas this government has both the Summer recess and conference season within it's first 100 days. Not to mention Sunak blocking the civil service discussing plans with Labour as the official opposition (breaking the norm in order to salt the earth). I am hopeful that they will still deliver in their first 100 days but if you're going to compare with previous governments, you need to understand how this election was very different.

  • @IssacBrewell
    @IssacBrewell 11 днів тому +1

    18:12 think maybe having to lockdown the globe had an effect on the economy

  • @vayres7512
    @vayres7512 11 днів тому +8

    Donald Tusk said everything in few words: Moscow is not happy.

  • @gaspode505
    @gaspode505 11 днів тому

    Racist in Paris 😂 Place is more diverse than London

  • @anniesearle6181
    @anniesearle6181 10 днів тому

    I don't think people understand that despite how much the planning industry is reformed, the archaeological industry does not have the capacity to expand as things stand. A housing development that's given the go ahead to get started today still won't be able to start for at least another year or two, if not longer. Before this we needed a third more archaeologists than we have, and the companies that exist can't hire that many more people

  • @steinanderson9849
    @steinanderson9849 11 днів тому

    dude, buy a new pen, that's disgusting

  • @nicolaford7510
    @nicolaford7510 11 днів тому

    Aviation industry needs more regulation, not less. Housing is different...but what is affordable housing? And what about banning buy to let? Building proper council homes. Rachel Reeves is a neo liberal

  • @heshmatmohamadi4699
    @heshmatmohamadi4699 11 днів тому

    This is not left this is new generation looking at the video you can see they are all young people

  • @csharpe5787
    @csharpe5787 11 днів тому +1

    To be fair, Emily Thornbury went out to bat for Kia Starmer, she was peddling his beliefs. Maybe it’s a bit of rebranding.

  • @lunabasoledad372
    @lunabasoledad372 11 днів тому +1

    Expect France for more Palestine refugees

    • @jake751
      @jake751 11 днів тому

      No Palestinians want to stay in there own country called Palestine.

  • @tezza2294
    @tezza2294 11 днів тому +2

    Mélenchon says all the right things but has never delivered

    • @adrien5834
      @adrien5834 11 днів тому +3

      He was never in a position to deliver. And he still isn't.

    • @tezza2294
      @tezza2294 11 днів тому

      @@adrien5834 he's been in nearly every left political party since the 70s, he may just be ineffective then

    • @adrien5834
      @adrien5834 11 днів тому +3

      @@tezza2294 I don't feel like expending a lot of energy defending Melenchon. Many find him abrasive, and so do I. Still, I think it's unfair to say that he has never delivered as if he had been in a position to do so and chose not to.

    • @tezza2294
      @tezza2294 11 днів тому +1

      @@adrien5834 I don't mind the abrasiveness at all, I'm just worried he will do the wrong deals. Hope the others like Rima Husain? keep him honest

  • @stephen_pfrimmer
    @stephen_pfrimmer 11 днів тому

    Thank you Michael, Alice, and Ash. Some good news.

  • @OldTiredFat
    @OldTiredFat 10 днів тому

    Not really a shock, they've been doing it for two decades.
    However, it's interesting that no matter how angry people are getting with government, none of them are suggesting solving the problems, or even addressing the issues that the people are angry about.
    This means only one thing. Career politicians are working for someone else.