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Americans who voted Trump don't seem to understand how tariffs work, They think other countries will be paying them when they send their goods over there. That's not how it works. it will be the American consumer who will foot that bill when the price of everything goes even higher.

Aussie here, I’ve always said that even though our “Labor” Party is more centrist than left, many members of the Democratic Party would struggle to find themselves at home with the Labor Party, but would rather be at home with the right wing Liberal Party. Interesting fact too, the Australian Labor Party’s neoliberal turn in the 80s under Bob Hawke was the inspiration for the UK Labor Party removing Clause 4 and moving to the centre under Blair.

Bruh you're point about the media attacking Trump is so bang on the head! They continue to use the same tired for over 5 years now and they're continue to use it for who knows how long. They will definitely do it even when he's out of office and it's the main reason why I'll continue to avoid seeing the news.

The problem with Trump is everything he embodies. For many, he's legitimised hating women, trans people and minorities. They have sold out their women's rights for the promise of cheaper gas which they probably won't even get.

When there's no meaningful difference between the parties all that's left is rhetoric. It's not even Coke vs Pepsi, it's Coke vs Diet Coke with the primary goal of both being to keep water off the table.

New small leftist youtuber? Yes please! And a fellow Brit! ❤

Finally an analysis that isn’t either propaganda or part of an echo chamber. The only criticism I have is that the terms “left” and “right” are largely meaningless at this point. Look up statistics on how many Bernie voters switched to Trump in 2016 and 2020.

I agree the libs absolutely paved the way for trump to take power but... project 2025 is a conspiracy theory because trump said it had nothing to do with him? you're just taking that at face value? 25 out of 30 chapters were written by people who worked under trump also... like... project 2025: "GENDER POLICY COUNCIL (GPC) The President should immediately revoke Executive Order 1402041 and every policy, including subregulatory guidance documents, produced on behalf of or related to the establishment or promotion of the Gender Policy Council and its subsidiary issues. Abolishing the Gender Policy Council would eliminate central promotion of abortion (“health services”); comprehensive sexuality education (“education”); and the new woke gender ideology, which has as a principal tenet “gender affirming care” and “sex-change” surgeries on minors." trump: "on day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called 'gender affirming care.' Ridiculous. A process that includes giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance, and ultimately performing surgery on minor children. Can you believe this? I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age. I will then ask congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures, and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states." project 2025: "Setting education policy on the right track long term would require sunsetting the U.S. Department of Education altogether. Doing so would not result in fewer resources and less assistance for children with special needs or from low-income families. Rather, closing the federal behemoth would better target existing taxpayer resources already set aside for these students by shifting oversight responsibilities to federal and state agencies that have more expertise in helping these populations" trump: "one other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C. and sending all education and education work and needs back to the States. We want them to run the education of our children, because they'll do a much better job of it." project 2025: "Attacking the Accreditation Cartel For a college to participate in federal financial aid programs, it must be accred- ited, but accreditors have been abusing their quasi-regulatory power to impose non-educational requirements and ideological preferences on colleges. l The Secretary of Education should refuse to recognize all accreditors that abuse their power. l New accreditors should also be encouraged to start up." trump: "The accreditors are supposed to ensure that schools are not ripping off students and taxpayers, but they have failed totally. When I return to the White House, I will fire the radical Left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist Maniacs and lunatics. We will then accept applications for new accreditors who will impose real standards on colleges once again and once and for all." the heritage foundation have had a pretty huge amount of sway within the republican party for a long time now and, while I doubt all of project 2025 will happen (I doubt they'll ban porn), he is absolutely working from their playbook, regardless of what he says

Hi mate. I don't know if you'll see this - but you're absolutely right. There is a dissmisal of an alienated class that was abandoned when the left shifted centre with blair and clinton. My PhD studies the role of conspiratorial reasoning in that regard, but an overwhelming amount of things have found are people that basically compare the status quo Vs 'something" that might be different. People just want change. What's interesting is that a lot of people I've spoken to (admittedly in the UK) totally hate the idea of neoliberal policies, and yet will vote for someone who is a representative of the kind of people that will benefit from them (ie trump, Johnson, Farage). Your channel is great and covering stuff like that! Please continue.

the part about ashworth brought me to tears of laughter 🤣

Shit, don’t get Johnathon Ashworth to help you run a car park.

The Democrats created the monster Trump. Since Clinton in 1992 they have abandoned their core vote in the rust belt and then act surprised and indignant when the ultimate con man fools enough people into voting for the most right wing shift in American politics since Reagan was elected in 1980. His mission was to reverse the post war consensus by shrinking the state, cutting taxes for the rich, smashing the unions and privatisation. Just like Thatcher in Britain. Both succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in transferring wealth from the majority to the rich and converting the left to neoliberalism. Thatcher described 'new' Labour as her greatest achievement. The Democrats sold out the white working class and more recently black and hispanic voters yet are set to remain in denial until 2028 ( and beyond) blaming anyone and anything except themselves for the disaster they have authored. The party of blue collar labour transformed into the party of white collar liberal professionals opened up the space for MAGA extremism to take the neoliberal wrecking ball to new heights. Ayn Rand and Hayek would be delighted if they could see America in 2024.

Yeah I blame Ashworth

fundamentally as you said the people can't see money in the pocket and rising costs for food and gas plus trump being backed by a elon twitter ad overdrive. Sad reality is futher dissolution is ahead with trump eco policies

Cut taxes and print more money,very clever economics if his last term was anything to go by..Apathy towards the democrats policies was their biggest enemy,not the progressive left and AOC.The right wing is far better at right wing politics than democrats are

Like you say, It's a bipartisan issue really. Neither party are going to push back significantly against the interests of the big financial institutions/corporations that provide billions in funding to both parties. To enact a bernie Sanders style set of reforms and regulations is just a non starter- political suicide. The working class and those in poverty are suffering from the illusion of choice- The house always wins no idea how unions amass power and incite reform without some serious, awe inspiring change in the US. I get the feeling the country (and, by association, the world) is in for some serious pain over the next 10 years because once those at the bottom realise Trump wasn't the answer, there's going to be those who feel forced to take drastic measures.

You're quite correct

So glad this channel has found me. I have no idea how the algorithms work, but I've seen my TH-cam recommends page turn into a wall of fascist propaganda, and I'm just a bit of a lefty who's into history, comedy, and motorbikes. Luckily I'm able to realise what's happening and try to ignore it, but I can see how so many people can get sucked in - like any cult, you start off slightly interested by some seemingly innocuous interview about eg TV licensing which seems to make some valid points, and before you know it you're being told all the reasons why Tommy and Nige are our saviours. When I tried actively looking for an intelligent view from the other side I found nothing, so I'm not sure why YT is recommending this channel to me now, but I'm very happy it did!

I think this makes me even more nervous when we see how willing this labour government is to say one thing and do another. Even if they promise something good, we can't trust them to follow through with it at all and it all just adds to the frustrations i think most people have with our current situation. I know farage isn't perfect, and i can't trust him either, but at the moment, a new political party becoming popular like reform is a good thing for ordinary voters, we need to have a more competing parties in the uk to drive competition, i think this could be an interesting way forward.

This is brilliant, good to hear someone with an intelligent, honest take on this absolute hypocrite. You can take the boy out of the Daily Express, but you can't take the Daily Express out of the boy...

I identify as left. But this video is a little frustrating. You spend the majority of the video telling us why you disagree with the politics of these podcast hosts. I don't disagree with you, but why is this relevant? Unless you're advocating that only podcasts that agree with you are valuable (which you claim you're not), then I don't particularly care whether you dislike Rory Stewart, Ed Balls, etc. The value of these podcasts comes precisely because many of us find value in hearing opinions from those who have decades of working experience in politics. Rather than listening to endless 20-something year olds pontificating on topics on which they have little or no real-world experience. I also think your distaste for these hosts' politics is clouding your judgement on whether the commentary they provide is valuable or not. On TRiP, you say "the solutions are never there, avoiding deeper, actionable insights". What do you mean by this? From when I've listened, both hosts are more than happy to criticise politicians/policy and offer what they would have done differently. Of course, you or I may or may not agree, but I cannot criticise them for not giving opinions. Of course, you can always say you want deeper critique. But then why are you listening to a current affairs podcast? Similarly, another place where I think your bias shows is when you say that opinions on TRiP are treated like objective truths. I disagree. These podcasts are the modern evolution of the newspaper opinion column. It is a given that the statements within are opinions. I could write more, but I think I've written enough. I think the main point is that we disagree about the fundamental purpose of these kinds of podcasts. There's value in listening to those we disagree with. Despite the above, I don't disagree with many of your points on these hosts themselves.

I better get my hearing tested,I swear I heard the word compassionate coupled with conservative

Very excited for this watch! We need to talk more about think tanks

This video came up in my recommended last month and I forgot to add it to my 'watch later' play list. I've been searching for days and couldn't find it. This just was recommended again! Thank god!

i do a level politics and i don't agree with everything you say but these videos are really insightful :)

Another great video! congrats on surpassing 2.5K and thank you so much for covering this topic! :)

There was never a golden age for working class education, it was more about conditioning kids to work in factory environments. I think a more holistic approach is better where education is more than just working life, as so many pensioners are sitting around waiting to die only educated for work. You're confident on the subs goal mate, are you planning a "How I escaped the Alt- right pipeline"video.😂 Just been exposed to one of these,seems like a common grift, though tbh who gives AF when the privileged now insert themselves into left spaces thinking they're the voices to lead some crusade to save others from the same mistake.great content here again Dr...

rlly great video !! was so happy to have a socialist perspective of british tv on my feed :))

I find it funny he was exiled like napoleon to am island😂

When you say the 'academisation' of schools, let's be clear, it's privatisation. Local authorities have been forced into selling off the education 'business' to private investors. The aim was purportedly to raise standards, thinking that private companies (for that is what academies are) could somehow raise educational achievement through the market-place. The result of privatising schools is that arts, language, music and sports education has been slashed in order to focus on the Science, Technology, English and Maths agenda to boost exam statistics. Schools have become exam factories. The Blair years were actually pretty good, there was a lot more money in the system for Summer Schools and extra-curricular activities and projects. But Blair proved to be a tw*t eventually. And a war-monger and war criminal. Yes, I was on those marches. As a public employee, I never had a problem with accountability and I was more than willing to be observed, coached and guided by my peers and superiors. But Ofsted was, and still is, a complete failure. They kept moving the goalposts, year after year, based on varying theories which took no account of 'best practice' and without consultation with the teaching profession. You know, those professionals and experts. Peter Vardy, the car salesman, got into the educational cash-cow of school academies, with an agenda of teaching an alternative version of the 'Creation' story as opposed to Darwin's wisdom and scientific research. Vardy eventually handed those schools back to the local authority, presumably the profit margins weren't worth the effort and cost. I hope he made use of the 'additional extended warranty' clause on his purchase. Ofsted's first leader was Chris Woodhead, a very average teacher at best by all accounts, who had a sexual relationship with one of his previous sixth-formers. Hypocrisy and potential criminality. (The rules are different for teachers). What an unpleasant man. The Gove era was a disaster. I'm going to leave it at that for the sake of my mental health and blood pressure. I sincerely hope I never see him in Sainsbury's. That would be a long conversation. My last Headteacher was on over £120k a year (that was more than ten years ago) and within two years the brand new school was in Special Measures. Not value for money. Incidentally, that brand-new school was utterly jerry-built. It took eighteen months to correct major leaks, plumbing and electrical issues. The build quality was worse than my home-made brick barbecue. Guess what, it was built by a private company. It's so annoying. My own children are all grown up now and doing well, but I seriously fear for my grandsons (and another one on the way) educational prospects. I might have to 'un-retire'! 'Public money going to Private hands'. That's my beef with recent Governments. It's endemic. From Education to Covid. Plus all the Utilities. And more. 'Bent a nine-bob note' as my Dad used to say. Love and peace.

I think its too late tbh. The country is only going to keep declining and nothing will improve. The vultures have picked at everything worthwhile. Eventually theres only gonna be scraps for the wolves to fight over. Its like theres no effort or education worth pursing to be passionate about or careers worth a damn. We're all gonna be like those elderly Walmart workers who just keep going with nothing until we drop.

we neeeed to stop specialising so young, choosing the wrong gcses makes it annoying later to try and get into other subjects if they will even let u in at a level, also some schools dont offer e.g. Triple science during school hours so kids who cant take that option are super disadvantaged at A level, same for maths/further maths, i got an A in my maths gcse but because everyone else in my a level maths class had taken further maths gcse (not available to me) they had already covered most of the topics so the teacher taught to them :(

I went to the school that had the head teacher on the news for her offstead suicide. Mrs Perry. Something needs to change so this doesn’t happen this again. Strangely ironic that this teaching tragedy happened in a town called Reading.

One of the biggest drivers of the teacher exodus ( over 44,000 of working age in each of the last two years and it will be a similar figure when the next figure is released) is bullying. Toxic work environments without the guardrails in the corporate sector are leaving staff in many schools at the mercy of dictatorial management. Without exaggeration, staff are petrified with nowhere to turn. The unions are ineffective, there is no solidarity in teaching so you are on your own if targeted and the weakness of the law means there is little redress except in cases of discrimination regarding protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. Even then proving a case is not easy, which is why people vote with their feet to protect their mental health or accept settlement agreements ( three months pay and a good reference with an NDA). Sky News did a report on bullying in education two weeks ago and it is on its website- until there is a national reckoning over bullying and the poor quality of management is addressed, the exodus will not stop. No surprise that the focus recently is on extending maternity rights to persuade women in their thirties to stay in teaching. Worthy and correct though this is, the number of women in their thirties in the 44,000 figure is about 10,000. Staff may leave for more than one reason but bullying will account for many of the departures and the colossal waste of talent it represents.

Does anyone still go to school 😅?

Brilliant analysis mate; so impressive👏

Oh no, you used the word 'reimagine' 😱

My wife is a teacher, in Indonesia.you should do a video about that awful Burrbell-Singh character.

My eldest lad went to college to do bricklaying. I think he had anout 8/9 months of classroom/ workshop training and no help to organise apprenticeship. No second yr offered and as theres no money in apprenticeships only firms taking them on were just after piss cheap labourers as taking time out to teach them costs money for pricework gangs. 2 years later hes cutting grass for minimum wage . Total fkn joke

It's more than that the ENTIRE system is broken from the top down perspective YOU PAY TO WORK -degrees are WAY too expensive for what they are meaning you have NO chance to pay them back which causes student debt which is a net negative to the country. -Qualifications can run out which is stupid like your CSCS cards your ACMES all have so many years before they're useless. -So many useless degree's if you want to take an "arts master degree" you should have to pay that out of your own pocket because it's useless in society. -Experience<qualifications it honestly doesn't matter you have X degree because 99% of firms want is "X amount of experience". -High bar of entry to get into uni you need credits most useful qualifications DON'T have many credits meaning if you wanted to go to uni (such as myself) you can't enter it story-from my time working i have 32 different qualifications 4 level 1's & the rest all level 2's in four different sectors of engineering (mechanical, electrical, CNC & welding) all from all from highly saught after boards with experience to back it up, shall i tell you what they said to me "we aren't accepting you because you need atleast ONE level 3 qualification" HUH!? I'm more qualifified & have more REAL world experience than most of your Professors have so why? they responded with "we can see that Mr X, that your an established engineer with the qualifications to prove it so we'll offer you this special deal heres this top up course for your level 3 qualification". so i did what i was asked signed up for it, only till i read what the subsections of the engineering course & i was honestly shocked 90% of the ENTIRE course was just bloat so i asked about it got no response & canceled the course & told them to stick that course where the sun doesn't shine since the only wanted to do my bachlors in mechanical engineering is so i can claim chartered welder status because it's higher than my coded welder status & don't run out like my ISO's & ASMEs XD. The main issue is BLOAT which bloats the time & price of the courses which makes them unpayable by normal people if the Uni's cut the bloat then the price drops it's that simple & they should remove ALL restrictions so you don't have to waste 9 years just to get accepted.

Very informative (and infuriating) video. I hope and pray that we start seriously demanding to take everything back into public ownership, and properly fund schools and the NHS. Surely the general public are united on this... Aren't we?

'48.4% of grades in independent schools were at A/7 or higher, up from 47.5% last year. In contrast, at academies it rose slightly from 21% to 21.2%, and at comprehensives 19.3% to 19.4%. This means the gap between independent and comprehensive schools rose from 28.2 percentage points to 29 percentage points. Grammar schools similarly saw bigger rises than non-selective schools.' (data for 2024) Yet another sector in which the gap between rich and poor is being solidified, private healthcare being another huge one. This country is broken, it's not just the education sector

watching this on my phone i thought the light up globe was the eye of sauron

"Made-ley", not "Mad-ley" Not a criticism, but the only thing more irritating than the man is hearing his name wrong :)

The BBC should pay average wages. Nothing special. If a presenter gets popular then fine, move to ITV. Public money in the order of hundreds of thousands should not be lining the pockets of presenters, if anything the BBC should be a stepping stone to better pay elsewhere. All the while TV Licensing are chasing vulnerable people for their licence fees and taking them to court for it, they should not simultaneously be paying any presenter the equivalent of three and a half thousand licences every year just to do a very basic and easy job. There are no doubt thousands of people who would do that job for almost a minimum wage. The idea that Gary pissing Lineker is worth over half a million of anybody’s money is an absolute joke, and the BBC should be held to account for such shocking a waste of our money.

So the rises in minimum wage,will this mean working families will no longer need to visit food banks remains to be seen.Nothing for the unemployed or disabled,Pensioners whose pitiful private pensions take them a couple of quid over the pension credit qualifying amount can continue to worry about putting the heating on this winter.The UK financial market has seen business flooding to US markets since our incomprehensible decision for Brexit,given the incredible deal we had managed to broker with the EU,so good luck trying to convince them to return..Good critique btw,I watched your video yesterday where you talked about subscribers demanding what content they want to see.But excuse me if I'm mistaken, you did ask a couple of videos back if there were any topics we would like covered ,how about the current US policy in the middle east, their efforts to bring the saudis and Israel together and how things have escalated since China the worlds current biggest consumer of oil,was brokering talks between the Saudis and Iran very successfully last year..worth looking into imo

the budget stunk of a desperate attempt to stand with one one foot in the water and the other on land. inconsistent half measures that don't resolve the problems we face as they had to be curbed to allow for some corporate interest to flourish. i can't see how any of this would create a better situation for the people, its the same shit different story once again and it's deeply frustrating

I'd rather have UBI and cooperatives than nationalising everything. Cooperatives democratise the economy by putting the power in the hands of workers and communities. UBI insulates people from poverty and provides security against capitalism's coersive elements. Nationalising puts all the control in the hands of the hierarchical state, which is going to act in its own interests that may not necessarily align with the people's interests. The state may also sell public services to the private sector, which is much less likely to happen with cooperatives.

It honestly pisses me off that we get MORE taxes every single tax they've increased you guessed it hurts us at the bottom of the barrel of the working class & even the middle class, making the poor poorer & the rich richer this is going to drive us into a HARD recession because people will stop spending, all these business's that have had minimum wage & NC contributions increased will just fire one person & keep the other 10 & any extra costs will be passed down to the purchaser making it more expensive making it worse for them. This isn't all when the Cons were in they capped the income tax bands till 2029 meaning you'll be pushed into higher bands aka paying MORE tax. overall this entire budget is stupid the goverment SHOULD be cutting the useless fat off the govermental services making them cost less meaning less taxes to run them why TF am i paying more for less. the entire pension ponzi scheme should also be completely reworked before it fails to be based on economic growth aka when you pay into your pension that money is used to upgrade country services & infrastructure that then you profit off of when you retire, not "workers now pay off the pensioners because reasons" because ALL ponzi schemes are doomed to fail in the end & we're just seeing the cracks of it. Personally this is just showing HOW incompetent these politicians are with OUR money costs should be dropping not increasing XD.

I disagree with much of your analysis on Meloni. I did an essay on her at uni this year and read numerous of her speech transcripts. She’s got an unfortunate skill of seeming respectable and credible, while sneaking in dogwhistles to her base. Her interactions with the EU and support for Ukraine has given her tacit leeway in pursuing right-wing migration policies. She has also outmanoeuvred all of her political opponents, and managed a stable government as neighbouring EU govts are in freefall. I fundamentally disagree with her and her policies, but wouldn’t underestimate her or her electoral skills.