Is politics going to be brutal and unacceptable in 2025?

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  • @DjDmt
    @DjDmt 2 дні тому +76

    I know one thing, we will all still be getting screwed

    • @starShadowe
      @starShadowe 2 дні тому +8

      Globally screwed

    • @nettewilson5926
      @nettewilson5926 2 дні тому +3

      But worse.

    • @TraderRobin
      @TraderRobin 2 дні тому

      You're getting screwed because you VOTED to be getting screwed!!

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому +1

      Unless we collectively suddenly learn how to vote I'm afraid you're right 😢

  • @DVSFish
    @DVSFish 2 дні тому +17

    Richard, you are an absolutely fascinating character with a lot of compelling arguments. We need more speakers like you in the public eye to invigorate those that might lead the country in future.

  • @JonotJoe66
    @JonotJoe66 2 дні тому +13

    My challenge for 2025 is to survive all this, as is many others in similar circumstances. We are at the mercy of idiots.

  • @DinmaAbwooli
    @DinmaAbwooli День тому +11

    You just have to keep trying your best. A lot of people keep suffering on how to put food on the table because of the weakness of giving more trial, but trust me it pays the best, i was once a victim of such experience before I met Jasmine Harvey.

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      @SheilaAngus День тому

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      @MayaBen-x5r День тому

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      @MatildaHamish День тому

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      @DinmaAbwooli День тому

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      @MayaBen-x5r День тому

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  • @franzsteinbauer231
    @franzsteinbauer231 2 дні тому +58

    "Americans will always do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities." (Winston Chruchill)

    • @KarlDubhe
      @KarlDubhe 2 дні тому +6

      That statement was made in hope, I do believe. It's more aspirational than accurate.

    • @aileen1342
      @aileen1342 2 дні тому

      As an American, I can say that most Americans that are not controlled by media and therefore likely Democrats, love our allies, especially the UK and Canada. Sadly, we are not the ones in control. The politicians and the corporations are in control, and they have taken it out of our hands. Just know that it’s not a matter of us standing up to Trump, it’s going to have to take something bigger to take him and the corporations down. The millions that voted for Trump in my view were under mind control from the media. They were not allowed to see the truth. Additionally, I have many concerns that 19 million people simply didn’t vote. I truly believe that something happened to their votes, and that most of them if not, all were democratic. As usual, us, Americans and our UK, friends are in this together, and I pray that we all prevail in stopping this madness.

    • @ihdtdd
      @ihdtdd 2 дні тому +4

      Winston Churchill, pouring charm over stupidity like a true diplomat.

    • @gw2780
      @gw2780 День тому

      To be fair....he did say this in a time where there wasn't a religious cult claiming that there are sex trafficking tunnels form children under Washington DC...so the 'all other possibilities' aspect?...no longer exists. There are infinite possibilities ton these cretins

    • @iExploder
      @iExploder День тому +1

      @@KarlDubhe They haven't exhausted all other possibilities just yet. Lol

  • @jamesgravil9162
    @jamesgravil9162 2 дні тому +33

    The worse things get, the uglier and more unacceptable politics will become.
    Look at Europe in the period 1933-1945 for a good example.

    • @TrevorEden
      @TrevorEden 2 дні тому

      Europe?

    • @SennethLawrence
      @SennethLawrence 2 дні тому +1

      A process that took off a decade earlier in Italy.

    • @Manuscriptsdontburn1990
      @Manuscriptsdontburn1990 2 дні тому

      🤞 The good guys win this time

    • @jamesgravil9162
      @jamesgravil9162 День тому

      @@Manuscriptsdontburn1990 I hope you're not implying that the far-right are the "good guys" in this situation. Not that the far-left were angels in the 30s and 40s, mind you.

    • @iExploder
      @iExploder День тому

      @@jamesgravil9162 The Western European far left were the main victims of Hitler, apart from European Jews.

  • @maryl8753
    @maryl8753 2 дні тому +9

    It's already brutal and unacceptable

  • @alanbalcombe4250
    @alanbalcombe4250 2 дні тому +7

    Firstly, we must change that actions by government to improve the well-being of our society are confounded by the so-called ‘establishment’ - representing the rich few and corporate pressure groups - and their media headlining disinformation.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      Do you have proposals for achieving that?

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      Just as plausible an idea is teaching the entire electorate how to vote. No, I have no proposals how to achieve that either.

  • @cumbrianrambler7715
    @cumbrianrambler7715 2 дні тому +69

    An award for this star of youtube. A rarity in this age of idiots - an intelligent, caring gent. Show him some thanks for this free content and subscribe.

    • @aislingmcdonald6778
      @aislingmcdonald6778 2 дні тому +2

      He is spot on! A balanced and thought through point of view.

    • @RichardJMurphy
      @RichardJMurphy  2 дні тому +5

      @@cumbrianrambler7715 Thnk you

    • @Zengardenertiktok
      @Zengardenertiktok 2 дні тому +2

      Well said👍 already a subscriber but it’s a great idea to solicit subscribers to grow the channel!

    • @TheDoomWizard
      @TheDoomWizard День тому

      Go sub

    • @frithar
      @frithar 13 годин тому

      Ok. If you say so.

  • @davidmcculloch8490
    @davidmcculloch8490 2 дні тому +37

    President Moron would qualify as pure comedy if the consequences of his madness weren't so serious. Neoliberalism has failed the majority, as was intended.

    • @valeriebrown6079
      @valeriebrown6079 2 дні тому

      Thatcher and Reagan, or rather the elites who were behind them, have a lot to answer for.

    • @physiocrat7143
      @physiocrat7143 2 дні тому +4

      Meanwhile Labour kicks labour in the teeth with a hike in the Jobs Tax.

    • @karenrock3864
      @karenrock3864 2 дні тому +1

      We need more Luigis

  • @sygad1
    @sygad1 2 дні тому +22

    Is politics going to be brutal in...........YES, every year and the year after that as well. Want to know what is going to be more brutal? The effects felt by the populace

  • @michaelcorrigan4625
    @michaelcorrigan4625 2 дні тому +21

    Inequality of wealth, resources snd opportunity?

  • @celt456
    @celt456 3 дні тому +18

    Thankyou for this excellent site. Calm, rational and informative.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      This is a channel, his site is even more interesting.

  • @Lodberg67
    @Lodberg67 2 дні тому +14

    Happy new year to all.
    We need it 🙏🙏🙏

  • @iancraig6070
    @iancraig6070 16 годин тому

    Since when have politicians cared about whats best for the citizens they represent?

  • @LeicesterMike
    @LeicesterMike 2 дні тому +35

    Well said, Richard. Without a fundamental overhaul of political party funding rules in the UK, it’s difficult to envision how parties with alternative visions, like the Green Party, of which I am a member, can genuinely transform the political landscape.

    • @billB101
      @billB101 2 дні тому +8

      The greens couldn't run a bath.

    • @jeremymanson1781
      @jeremymanson1781 2 дні тому

      ​@@billB101 the Tories couldn't even find the bathroom.

    • @alansdorsetfossils4028
      @alansdorsetfossils4028 2 дні тому

      You are so right. A Labour government that relied so heavily of funding from wealthy supporters is in essence not a government of the people for the people. It’s just another alternative left leaning Tory government. Actually I’m not convinced it’s even left leaning. Politician’s only listen to the people’s voice when there is serious discontent and only then if it results in widespread rioting and damage to property. If you want the proof of this look at the poll tax riots. Is a sad reality and I don’t want riots on the streets but I fear one day in Britain it may come to that.

    • @gordonwilson1631
      @gordonwilson1631 2 дні тому +4

      The funding situation could get worse with”freedom” arguments, as in the USA.
      The Tories already have “Conservatives Abroad” for anyone, anywhere to join via a UK branch and vote in leadership elections.

    • @LeicesterMike
      @LeicesterMike 2 дні тому +6

      @@gordonwilson1631 Yes the association between money and power is getting tighter and foreign money is becoming a bigger issue . I am pretty sure that nobody will in the current government will have the balls to challenge it though.

  • @anthonydevono8833
    @anthonydevono8833 2 дні тому +3

    I really would like to have politicians that told the truth in the manifesto I’m absolutely sick of lying politicians who say one thing to get elected then do absolutely nothing for the people except tax us when they do

  • @Zengardenertiktok
    @Zengardenertiktok 2 дні тому +4

    It is painful as an American to have other countries believe that all Americans are for Trump. Nothing could be further from the truth…..except Trump himself! God save us all!
    Appreciate your content Richard 👍

    • @bernardfox9078
      @bernardfox9078 День тому

      Total rubbish comment. Over half the electorate voted for him

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ​@@bernardfox9078only 8% voted for the credible alternative. 😢

  • @tvfun4516
    @tvfun4516 2 дні тому +3

    I forecasted |Trump, it was obvious. Onlt if the Democrats had put forward Sanders ticket would we have a diffrent outcome!

    • @davidrobinson7684
      @davidrobinson7684 День тому

      Yes, Sanders was the answer. But can you imagine the billionaire fascists and the corporate media accepting that?

  • @machidaman
    @machidaman 2 дні тому +33

    One thing we know for certain - 2025 is going to be brutal and unavceptable for the working and middle classes with those unable to work almost certainly punished the most.

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 2 дні тому +5

      Only if we allow it and don't fight back

    • @machidaman
      @machidaman 2 дні тому +13

      @@Contextualiser16-tn8nd I wish I shared your optimism. We've done a pretty good job of allowing it so far. We have demonstrated an amazing tendency to vote against our best interests in 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2024.

    • @timwoodger7896
      @timwoodger7896 2 дні тому +4

      @@machidamanand the sht show continues…. 😢

    • @snowiecat456
      @snowiecat456 2 дні тому +6

      People laughed at Corbyn. He may not have been so much of a charismatic leader ( mind you looking at the present sh** show which party is?)but his policies were pro-ordinary people. Labour have to make some reforms PDQ. To the press, to the benefits system, to their compliance to the government in Israel, to the electoral system, to the privatisation of our utilities and our NHS.
      Andy Burnham was a better bet than Corbyn but he has ditched Westminster and I don't blame him. We've got a few socialists left in the Labour party but nobody hears them and if they do speak out Starmer finds a way of getting rid of them. I'm 71 now and have no experience in politics but I sometimes feel like making a stand. Marching through the streets. Rousing the apathetic majority who are intent on worshipping the Royals and doffing their caps to the rich, blaming immigrants, migrants, people on benefits, unions, single parents anybody but the establishment and the status quo. Please charismatic leader on the left, whoever you are, stop lurking and come forward. Now is your time. We will support you

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ​@@snowiecat456"we will support you"!?! 😂
      *Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay* have been in full view since October 2021 & their party since 1984, *Arthur Scargill* & his party have been available since 1996, do you need a longer list of candidates you have completely ignored?

  • @mattw9764
    @mattw9764 2 дні тому +2

    It's not the (declining, failing, collapsing) US Empire for nothing. And I'm saying we should start calling it that, instead of tiptoeing around the issue.

  • @st200ol
    @st200ol День тому +1

    I know I’ll get even more annoyed every time the Labour government does anything and everyone moans it’s the wrong thing.

  • @phillane8915
    @phillane8915 2 дні тому +4

    I only seem to now hear “Far-right” and “woke left” - has centrist, Centre left or Centre right politics now a thing of the past? It’s seems we are in an era of hate with each side wanting to destroy the other side. Depressing really.
    Edit: Actually I don’t think it’s hate, but fear. Fear of not feeling like people have a place in society and belong.

    • @philard
      @philard День тому

      Well said Phil.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      Centrist parties stand for election every time, if you choose to accept the mainstream/Establishment narrative that they don't exist that's down to you.

  • @shimmime
    @shimmime День тому +1

    Another great video Richard. I find I'm holding my breath as to what 2025 may bring.

  • @lawrencehawkins7198
    @lawrencehawkins7198 2 дні тому +4

    “Is politics going to be brutal and unacceptable in 2025?“ Is the Pope Catholic?

  • @lliambunter
    @lliambunter 2 дні тому +4

    And people go on about' democracy' ONE MAN makes changes for millions and millions of people ,you couldn't make it up

  • @Pooter-it4yg
    @Pooter-it4yg 2 дні тому +3

    If you didn't consider Starmer being ineffective and tin eared and Trump getting back in as distinct possibilities, you simply weren't paying attention.

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 2 дні тому

      I've been warning about Starmer since the end of 2020. Corbyn isn't the solution btw, he started this mess by supporting brexit, someone with a spine is. There's nothing to stop the plp removing him, reeves and streeting through a no-confidence vote. And no, there doesn't need to be a General Election- look at the tories who went through Cameron, May, blojo, Truss and snake since 2016.

  • @davidwhitehouse2162
    @davidwhitehouse2162 2 дні тому +4

    How brutal do you want? Looking at British politics it is already the lowest imaginable, with a government devoid of benevolence aiming more to self interest and deliberate ignorance of what the people need. The slavish sycophantic actions in deference to a genocidal regime all the while using the name of the British people to support it, shows how disconnected politicians are from the electorate. On the subject of the electorate, they are just as much to blame for accepting the lies of people like Stamer with his ''Changes'' intentions, that turned out to be nothing of what was proffered. Now these voters are falling over themselves to vote for regurgitations from the Tory party promising the same 'Changes', but all for £25 a member. The fact that it's leader is an advocate of Donald Trump carries no warning, and lumps all into the Trump supporter clan. Am I being too brutal, then just cast a view back to the last ten years and try to pick out the culprits that were also lauded in politics only to be now disgraced. Let's not forget the complicit role of the national media with their selective reporting, and the supposed realisation of 'misinformation', the new word for plain lies. How unacceptable does politics need to get?

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      The parties have no need to empathize with the people while the people believe that the 2 Establishment parties are the only option. 😢

  • @deadman746
    @deadman746 2 дні тому +6

    I predict that in 2025 there will be a video about how politics might be brutal and unacceptable in 2026, and so on _ad infinitum,_ because it has been brutal and unacceptable for some years now if not decades.

    • @deadandburied7626
      @deadandburied7626 2 дні тому

      US mid-term election year 😅

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому +2

      It's been getting progressively worse for 4½ decades, I can see why you're not expecting change. 😢

    • @deadman746
      @deadman746 23 години тому

      @alanhat5252 I have truly fantastic news. Truly because I feel a sense of unreality.
      I'm a semi-retired research scientist late of FSU. I am also a political activist.Because of this, the federal government physically tortured me for 3 1/2 weeks and convicted me on a completely bogus charge. The image in the circle is the written death threat they issued me about halfway through. Torture works.
      In political prison, I worked on cognitive linguistics. Now nominally released but subject to heavy restrictions for life, I have been able to code some, and it works splendidly. Imagine the conscious parts that would be in AI if it were any damned good. That's what I do, very well indeed.
      A couple of weeks ago, the second vice-chair of the district Democratic party literally picked me up off the street. She was intrigued and impressed with my case of imprisonment for activism, and we became fast friends. If I had a life, I'd trust her completely with it.
      We spent all the next day together. She drove me 42 miles to a bookstore with a perennial display of banned books. She introduced me all around, as we agree the book I am writing will be the bannedest of all. I am self-publishing so I need pull no punches. There we ran into her best friend, an AI researcher. We talked a bit, and he said I simply had to talk to his crew. She said she had never seen his face light up like that under similar conditions.
      Did I mention I use CL to analyze and correct political speech? My code with a bit of work should be able to analyze all likely interpretations of political speech and, without changing the semantics at all, produce a minimally polluted and pollutable version. With relatively miniscule funding and a staff of a half dozen highly dedicated people, I could do a lot.
      AI already summarizes political speech but in the worst possible way. The glorified Markov chains preserve framing, and from CL framing is everything. My approach has no such problems, as it completely interprets speech into a set of sensemes, applies conceptual blending and gestalt-formation, and produces speech with it's own framing, which can be as unbiased as you set it to become.
      My brain is rattling like a pea in a policeman's whistle. As In This Moment sang, even in these chains you can't stop me.

  • @TraderRobin
    @TraderRobin 2 дні тому +3

    No no.....not to worry......America is 100% FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!!

  • @starShadowe
    @starShadowe 2 дні тому +5

    Will people be able to retain our basic human rights and need for expression ? Find out in the next episode called 'i cant believe a fellon is a president '

  • @clivebroadhead4381
    @clivebroadhead4381 2 дні тому +24

    Carter introduced a climate of peace with Gorbachev, but then the Hawk's, Regan and Thatcher, came in and messed things up.

    • @gw2780
      @gw2780 2 дні тому

      And now...the imbeciles have risen to take us into the next chapter...

    • @starShadowe
      @starShadowe 2 дні тому

      Reagan was the root of this capitalistic greed

    • @stevo728822
      @stevo728822 2 дні тому

      Bullshit. Carter was President between 1977 and 1981. Gorbachev was General Secretary between 1985 and 1991. They didn't meet until both had lost their jobs.

    • @erongi233
      @erongi233 2 дні тому +4

      Carter was President between 1978 to 1982. Gorbachev was President 1990 to 1991. Reagan's message to Gorby was "tear down the (Berlin)wall". ten years later on from Carter. Thatcher said Mr Gorbachev was a man "she could do business with" also around 10 years after Carter. Brezhnev was the Russian President at the time of Carter.

    • @robertreynolds580
      @robertreynolds580 2 дні тому

      December 1979...Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.

  • @TheRealSlimSteve
    @TheRealSlimSteve День тому +1

    The old meme is actually "Fail to prepare, prepare to fail". Great video as usual, but just saying!!

  • @kurisi5563
    @kurisi5563 2 дні тому +3

    Things are gonna get worse, its all downhill from here- far right on the rise, economic getting worse its gonna suck

  • @bernieburrows3731
    @bernieburrows3731 2 дні тому +7

    Surely Reform should not have seats in Westminster, if they are not officially a political party.

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 2 дні тому

      The plp won't do anything about that because they're beholden to similar donors. Why do you think Brexitkier is continuing with this madness other than a feckless racist public?

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      Giving heed or credence to a membership is not a required part of a political party (as Starmer ably demonstrates) all that's required is sufficient funding to stand candidates at elections. Not exactly democratic but it's what we've got.

  • @flunkyminion
    @flunkyminion 2 дні тому +1

    "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" Mike Tyson

  • @erongi233
    @erongi233 2 дні тому +11

    After Canada Panama and Greenland Trump might make an offer for the UK. After all his mother was British. Or anyway Scotland. An offer to Scotland to become a state would really stir things up which is what he likes doing .

    • @blue47er
      @blue47er 2 дні тому +5

      Well many of us believe that the U.S. already owns so much of the UK. How many major British companies are now owned and run by American conglomerates? So many that the US has now effectively secured an economic stranglehold on business in the UK. .

    • @MyKharli
      @MyKharli 2 дні тому +4

      @@blue47er That was probably the reason for brexit also , i bet there is USA involvement all over the place .

    • @mireillelebeau2513
      @mireillelebeau2513 2 дні тому

      One Day Scotland and Ireland Will be with Europe and England and Wale would be the 52nd and 53 rd states of the US. 😢

    • @joancooney7724
      @joancooney7724 День тому

      His mother was Scottish

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ​@@MyKharlithe 2016 & ongoing Brexit & Trump cults are the work of Canadian hedgefund billionaire Robert (& now his daughter Rebekah) Mercer, his tool AggregateIQ (Cambridge Analytica) & his minion Steve Bannon (who has been seen fomenting the right wing across the EU) ably assisted by Russian propaganda & Wagner's St Petersburg "troll farm/factory".

  • @robertreynolds580
    @robertreynolds580 2 дні тому +3

    I'm tempted to suggest nobody can stand for Parliament until they are certificated. So they know how things work and what CAN be done.
    If you want your boiler fixed, you get a trained person who won't cause damage. Yet we vote for fools who cause huge amounts of it...usually have a PPE from Oxbridge.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      PPE from Oxbridge would be the certification. Senior mainstream journalists follow the same route into politics.

    • @robertreynolds580
      @robertreynolds580 17 годин тому +1

      @@alanhat5252 Not doing very well is it?

  • @RahulMehra0361
    @RahulMehra0361 2 дні тому +5

    From my Guess Right Wing People Likes to Hinder Progress , that's what they will do by Crushing the Economy and Creating more Problems , which takes time to solve and till then they will come up with new problems to cause.

    • @imagecollections6665
      @imagecollections6665 2 дні тому

      The 1.7 million unemployed foreigners are crushing the UK. Nobody else.

  • @nickbarton3191
    @nickbarton3191 2 дні тому +1

    Let's see what happens at the midterms. I predict that it won't be pretty for the Republicans.

  • @charleswillcock3235
    @charleswillcock3235 2 дні тому +2

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts you are creating a great Channel.

  • @mohammadsiddiqui3564
    @mohammadsiddiqui3564 2 дні тому +2

    We are not in unknown territory. All you have to do is assume the most ridiculous thing these people can do.

  • @gcvrsa
    @gcvrsa 2 дні тому +1

    Any list of 2024 ruling party missteps also needs to include Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, which was dealt a humbling loss of its majority position after PM Ishiba called for a general election shortly after taking office in October. And dare I even mention South Korea?

  • @neilblackburn6869
    @neilblackburn6869 2 дні тому +8

    It's always brutal, corrupt and self serving and always has been globally. Human nature I'm afraid.

    • @sososoprano1
      @sososoprano1 2 дні тому +3

      So is altruism. Our “human nature,” according to the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, is to be social and engaged and connected to others. We cannot survive without human attachments.
      Recent studies have found that the “default network” of the brain - the part of the brain that’s active when we’re “not doing anything” - is the social network. When our minds have time to wander, we think about other people and our self and our relationships. The huge success of media is an obvious example of our deep need for this connection with others

    • @neilblackburn6869
      @neilblackburn6869 2 дні тому +1

      @sososoprano1 I've seen several of these studies and of course we are social animals so it makes sense. The old adage of 'the devil makes use of idle hands ' also comes to mind as social isolation through poverty, unemployment etc causes huge amounts of crime and mental health problems.

    • @iExploder
      @iExploder День тому +2

      @@neilblackburn6869 Civilization is human nature. The far right appeals to our animal nature.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ​@@neilblackburn6869which is why the right encourages poverty & maintains less than 100% employment.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      "turds float to the top" comes to mind

  • @daviecrocket9160
    @daviecrocket9160 День тому +2

    Going?

  • @ohboyz222
    @ohboyz222 2 дні тому +1

    If we think Starmer's abilities and oratory are dull, imagine Streeting! The one who can talk a packed room out onto the street effortlessly rabbiting, saying nothing. The same one whose comprehensive plan for NHS has yet to be revealed to us, six months after becoming health secretary. As for Reeves, it was pretty daft to woo business...growth growth growth...then to burden them with employer NI. Well, who'd have thought that as a result jobs would go...and when people lose their income they stop spending, which affects the economy.

  • @mishapurser4439
    @mishapurser4439 2 дні тому +11

    I'm sorry but Labour making a mess was easily predictable. Those on the hard left were saying so and explained our reasoning, and we were right.

    • @machidaman
      @machidaman 2 дні тому +4

      You didn't need to be hard left to recognise starmer and his labour for what they were and are. The signs were there for all to see.

    • @JohnPark-xf2gq
      @JohnPark-xf2gq 2 дні тому +1

      The world is not prefect.having got rid of the corrupt tories after 14 years we should have hoped for better things.lnstead of a labour government, we ended up with a tory Tribute Act.

    • @deadandburied7626
      @deadandburied7626 2 дні тому +1

      I did not forecast LABOUR would attack WFPs.

    • @machidaman
      @machidaman 2 дні тому +1

      @@deadandburied7626 not many did, but Reeves was never going to hard after the millionaire/billionaires was she. Bankers are going to get more under her than they were under the Tories (stated a year ago before she was chancellor) and very unlikely to pursue a wealth tax any time soon.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      @mishapurser4439 the "hard left" does not exist in UK politics, don't mistake the shift in the Overton Window for a redefinition of "left" & "right". "Left" is still "for the people" & "Right" is still "for business", all UK parties recognize that "business" is a required part of the economy & don't seek to take more than the "natural monopolies" into State control.

  • @user-lx6pk9os2d
    @user-lx6pk9os2d 2 дні тому +12

    How did you not forecast Trump? What bubble are you living in Richard?

    • @JohnPark-xf2gq
      @JohnPark-xf2gq 2 дні тому +5

      I think people hoped for the best and feared for the worse.

    • @outsidethebox2037
      @outsidethebox2037 2 дні тому +6

      Richard is an out n out lefty. He's intelligent, without doubt, but ignores his own biases when making his videos. I wish he would stick to economics and keep his political views to himself. 🧐

    • @Ace_Jambo
      @Ace_Jambo 2 дні тому +3

      He threw out the words far right without understanding what far right means plainly. Guy pretending to know what he's talking about. Can't believe this guy has a job in Sheffield University.

    • @Ganyersel
      @Ganyersel 2 дні тому

      @@Ace_Jambo He's a professor of 'Accountancy practice', he just likes to pretend to be an economist.

    • @finchbevdale2069
      @finchbevdale2069 2 дні тому +1

      @Ganyersel No. He rightly criticizes most mainstream economists at every turn because they have little understanding of how the economy actually functions. The failing neoliberal economic policies of the Tories, and now Labour, and which were based on the advice of economists in Britain's leading universities are evidence of this. ​

  • @angryanne
    @angryanne День тому

    There’s going to be a peaceful March at the Capitol… Jan 3-5 !
    Spread the word
    Peacefull March to ask Congress to honour their Oaths of Office.
    Come if you can!

  • @puppets.and.muppets
    @puppets.and.muppets 2 дні тому +2

    boomers are going down hard.

  • @c.a.savage5689
    @c.a.savage5689 2 дні тому +1

    "Democracy is the philosophy that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it, good and hard." H.L. Menken

  • @NordicGroove
    @NordicGroove 2 дні тому +1

    I don't have a crystal ball. But it's not difficult to foresee that Trump will do nothing. Nothing with capital letters. He did nothing during his first term in office and this tine he's also 8 years older. You can never beat biology! 🙂🙂

    • @TootlinGeoff
      @TootlinGeoff День тому

      Trump may do nothing but the people around him, who are as nasty a bunch as any we've seen in the past, will certainly try and what they try will be bad.

  • @Sophiedorian0535
    @Sophiedorian0535 2 дні тому +2

    I don’t see any movement towards the right. I see a movement towards the times before Left and Right were even a thing.
    We are moving from the rule of law towards the rule of power.
    Or as we continental Europeans say: we’re going back to the ‘Ancien Régime’. It’s what fascism has always been about: the restoration of pre-enlightenment values.
    We’re not moving into the unknown, but into the once very well known. It may seem impossible to predict the future, unless the future is driven by the gravitational pull of the past.

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 2 дні тому

      Unfortunately, those who to support enlightenment values are hellbent on conveniencing the powerful

    • @Sophiedorian0535
      @Sophiedorian0535 2 дні тому

      @ That is simply not true.

  • @maryquinlan6701
    @maryquinlan6701 2 дні тому +2

    AndyBurnam for Prime Minister!

    • @1292liam
      @1292liam 2 дні тому

      David Miliband

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ​@@1292liamhe's happy being CEO of the International Rescue Committee (& doing a reasonable job of it).

  • @aliceplayer6843
    @aliceplayer6843 2 дні тому +2

    speak for yourself, a lot of us predicted labour were going to be in a mess from the start based on their messaging during the election, kier starmer's lack of political experience and how he got the leadership in the first place, and the late stage capitalism world we're living being unsustainable and reaching its logical peak

  • @shugieshugied2269
    @shugieshugied2269 2 дні тому +1

    As long as Russia continues its hybrid warfare attacks on western democracies, politics is going to be a good bit more confrontational than has historically been the case. Whether you find that unacceptable or not depends on whether you buy into the Kremlin narrative about the Ukraine war.

  • @Divine_Health_And_Fitness
    @Divine_Health_And_Fitness 2 дні тому +1

    I’m so sorry I voted for Harris. I pray that at least he can be useful lesson for other countries to watch and hopefully reject the far right.
    I agree with your assessment. 2025 is all about surviving and from there we can figure out what’s next.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      You had the option to vote for Stein yet you voted for the uniparty the same as all but 8% of your compatriots 😢

    • @frithar
      @frithar 13 годин тому

      Why would you be sorry for voting for Harris?? Who on earth should you have voted for?

  • @DavidLockett-x4b
    @DavidLockett-x4b 2 дні тому

    Kay sara, sara, the future's not our's to see.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ...but taking an educated guess can sometimes avoid nasty surprises.

  • @jackkruese4258
    @jackkruese4258 2 дні тому

    Labour need to start delivering fast because Farage will be the beneficiary if they don’t in 4 years time.

  • @chriswills9437
    @chriswills9437 2 дні тому +1

    In Germany from 1st January 2025 all men reaching their 18th birthday will have to register online for military service. The government hasten to add you may not be called up, but there are fines for non registration. (Reuters 6.11.24)

  • @aileen1342
    @aileen1342 2 дні тому

    Most Americans love the UK, the duped Trump voters are not the majority and their lack of education and lack of being informed, by the truth, encouraged them to vote for Trump. Just know that most of us Americans stand with the UK a valued ally. Let’s all stick together! Just know that the Americans that understand what is really happening, will do whatever they can to support the UK.

  • @chrisjudd-uc7sh
    @chrisjudd-uc7sh 2 дні тому +12

    There are several ways disaster might strike:
    1: A mis-calculation starting a nuclear war
    2: BRICS realise the insanity of having the dollar as a default currency and do something about it.
    3: People become so disillusioned with the political system anarchy arises
    4: Climate change damage escalates
    In my mind we must radically change the political system as under the party system results will always lag necessity. If we are stuck with Labour at least replace Starmer with someone that can communicate.
    Better still we and I mean the world should embrace an accountable, revised form of Communism, I see no viable alternative if we are to survive.
    I suspect we won't and we won't.

    • @maplin007
      @maplin007 2 дні тому

      You missed out a CME takes out the power grid. If communism is the answer we truly are fcuked.

    • @billB101
      @billB101 2 дні тому

      Removing the dollar as the World's Reserve Currency would kill their trade deficit and cause a massive worldwide financial collapse. Love or hate the US I'm not sure anyone would want that.

    • @JSmith19858
      @JSmith19858 2 дні тому +2

      2 has already started to happen

    • @andrewgardiner439
      @andrewgardiner439 2 дні тому +1

      For me, number 4 on your list is at some point going to bite down really hard!! Whether you believe in climate change as a man made phenomena or a natural cycle in the course of geological time….it is happening. It doesn’t necessarily matter now which theory of causation you believe as investment in protective and preventive measures is desperately needed.

    • @WarrenPeaceOG
      @WarrenPeaceOG 2 дні тому

      1. We should live every day as if it's our last. 2. BRICS is de-dollarizing because US weaponized the dollar and the SWIFT financial system, but creating a parallel financial system is slow. De-dollarization is slow. And to de-dollarize, every dollar must return to US, ie. purchase US goods and services. We can think of them as delayed sales. 3. I don't see this happening. Our system runs on apathy and hopelessness. 4. Yeah. Especially if the Atlantic current is significantly altered.
      I see China as a positive model for many of our challenges, but more for a Keynesian mixed economy and energy revolution, rather than for communism: I know it's meant to be more democratic than US or UK, but I don't know enough about it. Agree we need some revised form of communism

  • @thesaltycabbage
    @thesaltycabbage 2 дні тому +1

    Has someone who is probably described as a far-right populist. We don't seek to replace them with anything. It is not the government's responsibility to look after you.

    • @karenrock3864
      @karenrock3864 2 дні тому +3

      Until it's you who needs help

    • @finchbevdale2069
      @finchbevdale2069 2 дні тому

      @thesaltycabbage So you're okay with getting pushed around by wealth and power with no recourse, whatsoever? I think "chump" is a better word to describe your ilk.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      Yes that is *_exactly_* the government's responsibility! 😮

  • @rkclinite
    @rkclinite 2 дні тому +1

    It damn well better be.

  • @TimLoo-w4u
    @TimLoo-w4u 2 дні тому +2

    Extremely bad

  • @LCTesla
    @LCTesla 12 годин тому

    there's still a chance we land in the relatively happy timeline where Trump just golfs for 4 years, crashes in the white house like a washed up hobo and makes gaffes with world leaders that make Biden look like a spring chick and not much further damage

  • @keithparker6520
    @keithparker6520 2 дні тому +2

    Sorry but many people forecasted Starmer would make a mess of it. It’s in his lying nature.

  • @gianpaulgraziosi6171
    @gianpaulgraziosi6171 2 дні тому

    Protect Poland. Build Renewables. Avoid Wetbulb Climate Migrations.

  • @jorgemonasterio8361
    @jorgemonasterio8361 2 дні тому

    The first step to failure is to try

  • @drbalbon7332
    @drbalbon7332 2 дні тому +5

    I dare say 2025 will be a great year for democracy.

    • @jimshelley8831
      @jimshelley8831 2 дні тому

      We don't have democracy just an illusion of it. Shamocrasy is what we have .

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 2 дні тому +3

      If the people decide to fight back against the powerful. Unfortunately, too many have been bought off like James O'Brien.

    • @Contextualiser16-tn8nd
      @Contextualiser16-tn8nd 2 дні тому

      PlutoPhobia-y7r- how about holding the powerful accountable by using the legal system while we still can? Or is that beneath you?

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      ​@@Contextualiser16-tn8ndthe legal tool we have is _"Misconduct In Public Office"_ which risks a minimum £4million per attempt. We saw the case against Johnson thrown out by a bent Judge after the money had been spent & the watchdog just let it go.
      No, legal channels have proven unusable, this leaves us with the traditional "pitchforks & firebrands" approach which we're not yet ready for. Perhaps if another million are killed by government policies?

  • @TheDoomWizard
    @TheDoomWizard День тому +1

    Yes duh

  • @elvwood
    @elvwood 2 дні тому

    Believing politicians to be rational and predictable agents follows inevitably from the basic assumptions of neoliberalism. So if they are not, it also follows that there must be something wrong with those assumptions. Hmm...

  • @f0rth3l0v30fchr15t
    @f0rth3l0v30fchr15t 2 дні тому

    The issue is that forecasters forgot to take into account the simple fact that with the cost of living going up, of course people were going to vote for someone who tells them they'll make things better, over the incumbent who'se telling them that the economy is good, actually.

    • @valeriebrown6079
      @valeriebrown6079 2 дні тому +1

      Given that people generally don’t understand how the real economy works. Unlike the financial version, which can react very quickly, the real economy takes time for changes to work through to the end users.

    • @WarrenPeaceOG
      @WarrenPeaceOG 2 дні тому +2

      The reality is the economic numbers are good, the richest are thriving, and it is only 99% who policies are failing. 'Please sir, I want more GDP growth for the top 0.1% because I am hungry and cold'

  • @asdusty4372
    @asdusty4372 2 дні тому +4

    Fascism has come to the US. Can't get more ugly than that.

  • @SarahWalker-Smith
    @SarahWalker-Smith 20 годин тому

    What I’ve realised about politics is that every policy is a Brexit moment. It’s not about some ideal that you have in your head but the practicalities and the effects . Does this make things better or worse. The VAT on education for instance . Education like everything else has been underfunded and austerity has taken its toll but then I’ve never voted Tory and didn’t vote Labour this time. Whilst the Red Wall was busy embracing the enemy I joined Labour to support Corbyn. I didn’t agree with everything but saw his integrity. Now the multitude seem to have jumped on the bandwagon with taxing education . Meanwhile after bullying , and being pushed to the back of the class and ignored by a series of idiots at state primary we sent our son to a minor private school with at that time unknown learning difficulties. I always seem to be in opposition to mainstream voters. The onslaught of hate and mindless rhetoric about ‘ the rich’ and elite public schools seems to have blinded most people to the fact that ‘ Newsflash ‘-the rich’ can still afford to send their kids to Eton! Those who are going to be affected are the kids like our son who will now have to be found places in the state system at huge cost .The money from VAT will surely hardly cover it. So what exactly has been achieved? This governments MO is going to be’ divide any conquer ‘and mainstream voters are obviously going to fall for it. They don’t have the sense to vote for themselves and can be induced to think anything by the next conman. I can see them queuing up to vote Reform next.Our son now has Masters and just landed a good job in the City . He sends a two fingered salute to all the haters. Don’t bother to reply . We don’t give a damn.

  • @jdickson242
    @jdickson242 2 дні тому

    I give Liz Truss , I mean Reeves until the end of January

  • @KrassimiraJeliazkova
    @KrassimiraJeliazkova 2 дні тому

    I have great respect for your honesty regarding economic forecasting. Not an economist myself l have always felt that economic/financial forecasting should be taken with a few kilos pinch of salt and they are only voiced to lend professional authority to the “specialist” who promote them but what would you do in this climate of unpredictability?

  • @oneoflokis
    @oneoflokis 2 дні тому

    Probably..

  • @martinobrien7110
    @martinobrien7110 2 дні тому +1

    Do Dogs Bark ?

  • @fujivato
    @fujivato 2 дні тому +3

    Politically, 2025 is going to offer a good laugh. The UK is now too divided for the people to follow any singular form of governance, so grab the popcorn and have a watch 😂

    • @catherinemira75
      @catherinemira75 2 дні тому

      No Brexit référendum for this video if Farage were in power. He'd sold the country for a shilling.

  • @robinbeckford
    @robinbeckford 2 дні тому +4

    The 'far right'? Who are the 'far right'?

    • @PMMagro
      @PMMagro 2 дні тому +3

      People to the right of conservatives (the traditional political right).

    • @billB101
      @billB101 2 дні тому +1

      What's your point here?

    • @robinbeckford
      @robinbeckford 2 дні тому

      @@PMMagro Ah. Labels do shift around, don't they?

    • @robinbeckford
      @robinbeckford 2 дні тому +1

      @@billB101 Asking a question, not trying to make a point.

    • @physiocrat7143
      @physiocrat7143 2 дні тому

      Me, I hope

  • @hyhhy
    @hyhhy День тому

    Biden already got massive trade conflicts as well as kinetic conflicts going worldwide, so I don't think you need to fear Trump being worse in that respect.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      there is _plenty_ of scope for more 😢

  • @patrickglenn4038
    @patrickglenn4038 2 дні тому

    'Is' seems like tautology.

  • @nfpnone8248
    @nfpnone8248 2 дні тому +1

    Politics is the mischief of factions and the source of the competitive nature of today’s politics, which leads to division and mutability of government. Government has nothing to do with politics, as the purpose of government is collective decision making. If you think about it all policy is the result of decisions “to do” something, so what we need is a decision making process to make consensus choice, which is a two phase process where one assembly determines the cost benefit relationships and determines scope and cost of matters of interest, and another equal democratic assembly concurs with those choices, which forms an iterative legislative process which is balanced and has checks to protect minority interest. This is why a bicameral legislature is preferred, however, the districts must be determined before you assemble the legislative branches, because the districts must be assembled proportionately in a popular branch and as equals in an equal democratic branch, for the process to function properly, the districts of the two branches cannot separate, and each district must have independent suffrage in both branches which cannot be consolidated or proxied by political affiliation.
    The Party Governing Era MUST END!!!

  • @ΛλρληΛαρλωμ
    @ΛλρληΛαρλωμ 2 дні тому +3

    Very

  • @AM-pleistocene
    @AM-pleistocene День тому

    👏👏👏

  • @TootlinGeoff
    @TootlinGeoff День тому

    There's a certain amount of 20/20 hindsight in the comments here.

  • @davidwhite1982
    @davidwhite1982 2 дні тому +2

    As much as I love your videos, from an economic perspective, it would seem once again that optimism is your greatest failing.
    It was almost predictable, to me at least, that Donald Trump was going to win again. And also that Starmer would prove a great disappointment. And you only have to know your history to understand why.
    Optimism is all very well but cynicism is the only pragmatic way to view the reality of human nature. Stop thinking that most people are as intellectually aware as you. Remember Socrates' warning about democracy. Or Bertrand Russell's take on mass stupidity. Or Asimov on America's 'cult of ignorance'. Or Orwell's Animal Farm. The list goes on. If not, stick to your numbers and don't speak for those of us who know more when it comes to human nature. I'm sick of being told to look on the bright side when I've been warning about this for over a decade.😢

  • @beelikehoney
    @beelikehoney 2 дні тому +1

    @richard can you help Garry' s economics we need to get together to win

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      That would be an interesting collaboration!

  • @user-fs3se3qd2j
    @user-fs3se3qd2j 2 дні тому +1

    Trump is an actor, is any high level politician any different ?

    • @c.a.savage5689
      @c.a.savage5689 2 дні тому

      Trump is not just an actor, he is a reality-show huckster. Greedy, immoral and can't be relied upon to make a rational decision. Most high-level politicians are not in the same league, thankfully.

  • @volkerengels5298
    @volkerengels5298 2 дні тому

    "Hope" has led you to overestimate the insight of Americans.
    "Hope" seduces people to trust demagogues.
    *But "hope" is a good thing...?*
    We hope for co2-removal in the future.
    We hope emissions go down.
    We pray for biosphere....
    So 'holy people'

  • @jamesdean1143
    @jamesdean1143 2 дні тому +4

    “Will he (Trump) try to human traffic 11 million people out of the USA”
    Is this the type of lecturers we are getting in UK universities nowadays.

    • @alanhat5252
      @alanhat5252 День тому

      is there a problem with the phrasing?

  • @TheTrippnotist
    @TheTrippnotist 2 дні тому

    I prefer the analysis over the polemic, but hey!?

  • @shaunmiller7370
    @shaunmiller7370 2 дні тому

    Donald Trump might be a narcissist, but he likes to be liked and I think this will stop him the worst of his traits. I hope that I worded that correctly.

  • @martinpook5707
    @martinpook5707 2 дні тому +1

    If Trump said it, believe that he will at least attempt to do it

    • @c.a.savage5689
      @c.a.savage5689 2 дні тому +1

      Depends to whom he talks to last and whether he's going to benefit. The man is a total weathervane with zero short-term memory.

  • @runna-x5h
    @runna-x5h 2 дні тому +1

    Someone should let this guy know that he was already president

    • @c.a.savage5689
      @c.a.savage5689 2 дні тому +2

      And he wasn't rational or predictable then.

    • @runna-x5h
      @runna-x5h 2 дні тому

      @c.a.savage5689 yeah,that's why it was the only 4 year stretch russ. Didn't launch a new !nv as!on since before clntn and gza was still a place.

    • @runna-x5h
      @runna-x5h 2 дні тому

      @@c.a.savage5689 mark rutte didn't go to Florida for vacation and neither did zelensky

    • @c.a.savage5689
      @c.a.savage5689 2 дні тому +2

      @@runna-x5h ??? I have no idea what you're referring to or even saying. Use vowels and write in coherent sentences, please.

    • @c.a.savage5689
      @c.a.savage5689 2 дні тому +2

      @@runna-x5h And this means what?

  • @cheryllauris545
    @cheryllauris545 2 дні тому +5

    For the Newbie if you are actually trading in the crypto space and you don't have a sound mentor. Then you are certainly going to get liquidated in 90% of your trades. Yeah that's sad truth. I remember when i just got into crypto back in 2019 but later in 2020 i ended up selling it because i have lost alot trading all by myself without a guide. Got back into crypto early in 2024 with $20k and I'm up with $232k in a short period of time

    • @SimmerFerdon221
      @SimmerFerdon221 2 дні тому

      Investing in crypto is planting a tree for your future; with patience, it will bear fruit

    • @AvivaAgnes
      @AvivaAgnes 2 дні тому

      I've tried investing in the crypto market several times but always got discouraged by fluctuations of crypto value. I would be happy if you could advise me based on how you went about yours, as I am ready to go the passive income path.!!

    • @cheryllauris545
      @cheryllauris545 2 дні тому

      Yes true, I have been in touch with a brokerage Advisor. With an initial starting reserve of $75k, my advisor chooses the entry and exit commands for my portfolio, which has grown to approximately $550k.

    • @Cynthiajoy2050
      @Cynthiajoy2050 2 дні тому

      Please can you leave the info of your Investment advisor here? I'm in dire need for one

    • @cheryllauris545
      @cheryllauris545 2 дні тому +1

      Tracy Britt Cool Consulting... has always been at the top of my list.. She is regarded as a genius in her area and well knowledgeable about financial markets. I highly recommend you look her up if you want excellent collaboration.

  • @1292liam
    @1292liam 2 дні тому

    far out dude

  • @imagecollections6665
    @imagecollections6665 2 дні тому

    As if you support Harris over Trump!

  • @dendennis9060
    @dendennis9060 2 дні тому

    DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS OR MAGA 🥳