.. should be having these kind of guys in the Labour Party.. Oh no, there is an all women short list that keeps men like this out.. Harriet harmens husband wak OK though, so was Angela raynors bo.. what a joke
Yeah, but...We've had way more people like this speaking for every working person in this country, plenty of them over my 70yrs in this Realm...and not that far off of every working person refused to listen, time after time...in exchange for a personal pretty penny in most cases. Read on through the comments here & it's 100% support....but how many of the commenters here I wonder were commenting on vids about Jeremy Corbin.....that he was a Commie, an anti-semite, lunatic proposals, economy wrecker, last one leaving Britain turn the lights out shyte? A good many I'd wager...& `those` working people have no care nor appreciation for the collective, for the betterment of all...they are here..now..because they're personally being screwed rather than previously having the luxury of ignoring the many others being screwed. Or in short...Eddie & Mick may well prattle on about every working person but most every working person doesn't give a toss 'til it suits.
I've been fans of the RMT guys like Bob Crowe and Mike Lynch, but this guy has a very shady past. All the smears that are normally made against Union leaders - being communists and extremists - are completely true about Dempsey. The stuff he used to post on Facebook circa 2015 was very extreme. His ideology was very much based around completely idolising the Soviet Union. I'm left leaning myself and used to be friends with him on FB. He seemed to be far left, clearly socialist, which is fine but then he started posting some very extreme stuff that 100% venerated the USSR and he absolutely did hook up with Pro-Russia separatist militia.
Because over the decades we've been educated to believe a man that sounds like him, a normal working class man, can't be intelligent or articulate and we are indoctrinated to voting for the same upper middle class faces because they have the BBC approved accents and dialects.
I’m a BT worker who was on a picket line yesterday, and there really IS public support for industrial action. So much. It was a real experience to witness firsthand people expressing it. We’ve all had enough, all of us.
This is four weeks later Matthew and there is still plenty of support for all of you out on strike. I haven't spoken to anyone yet who has voiced opposition to industrial action. Mind, I've only spoken to other working class people...
@Matthew E. I'm not working class, but fully support the strikes and visited my local picket. As a health care worker, I understand that this race to the bottom with wages is just an expression of corruption and it can't be allowed to continue. I am reliant on trains and the strikes made my commute 3 hours long. But I consider that a minor inconvenience when we are dealing with the right to a fair days pay for a fair days work.
I find it extraordinary that everyone I've heard from the Unions has been articulate, unscripted & passionate in their beliefs. The flip side of the coin to our esteemed politicians with their sound bites & u-turn policies, that flounder like landed fish at the mere thought of answering*anything* truthfully. The British public deserve better & I, for one, hope the Unions carry on fighting for the "common man"(us) & force change in every way. Bring on the General Strike!
Agree 100% These guys have such good command of the facts and arguments, and they aren't afraid to make them. They expose just how bland and vacuous the Labour Party rhetoric is these days.
Yep, totally. Because they've come up through a structure where they are accountable to regular people and other union officials, and regularly have to explain themselves and get complicated points across simply.
@@bobzilla211 they're also mostly accountable to who they're representing which are the RMT members unlike the political parties who are playing this weird game of PR management while trying to push as much corporatist policies and tax money into private corporations as possible. Shows what an organization that is actually representing their people can actually be
Well unfortunately id like to be optimistic, but, I'm afraid I can't be, it's, well, just so you know of course 100% I agree with you, but now that that twat boris is gone, and I don't often swear but sometimes in my opinion it's appropriate, but now we are gonna have the bloody tories in power till 2025, ill be 37, but we are gonna be left with the dam chancellor or Mrs trust who of course NO BODY should trust(RE EDIT JUST FOUND OUT SHE IS CALLED MRS TRUSS NOT TRUST) , quite ironic that that's her surname, it's like they think the British public are fools, so,, but what can we do,?? Apart from strike,, so bloody good on them, of course as he says inflation goes up and the poor always pay, I'm a poet a few of mine have been published and at the end of one of my poems called (crushed by the Cutts) it's ends like this, but sadly it comes down to class, the poor has always wiped the rich man's arse, it always has done, and it always will, let's just hope one day the rich will pay the brunt of the bill!!!,, so,, fingers crossed,
@@joebarrett4353 because his (Starmer’s) priority has to be winning the next election. Eddie is hugely impressive and I agree with him 100%, but in First Past The Post electoral system Labour need to be disciplined to get elected. We need Proportional Representation so these political games don’t need to be played, until then Labour need to play the game.
Two years ago if you googled "how much money is in UK off shore accounts" the first hit was from Barclay's advertising their services! Cameron's father was a major player in this field. Official its stated that 845bn is held in British accounts off shore but the true estimate is closer to 11 trillion dollars..this was also available on google but is now subverted...people used to laugh at me thinking I was conspiracy nut but this is not becoming accepted fact. The levels of greed are mind boggling, the city of London is essentially a principality which is used as gateway to the tax havens.
@@dagnut it’s really scary isn’t it. And much of that greed is linked with people who also seek out power in order to manipulate the world for north wealth and more and more power. Utterly depressing 😣
You obviously do not understand how large investment banks work. Each bank contains a series of teams of workers all highly trained and specialists. The products they trade on cover all market eventualities eg ice cream and umbrellas. When one team does well another will not. The bonus works as a transferable wage. It works to retain workers in hard times and keep them from being poached in good times too.
@@dagnut you sir are a fool. The City of London is an international finance centre. The financing it receives is from the whole world, and the returns are paid to the whole world. The financing structures are built in this way so that international investors can invest their money offshore and receive their return free of taxation. If that person lives in a domicile subject to tax he has to pay tax on that money, if not not. If the deals were not structured in this way they would lose possible investment from people and corporations who live in tax free domiciles.
Eddie Dempsey is a top man. He is able to put complex concepts into simple terms so that they are easily understandable. If only the politicians would do the same.
@@nicholasszegho6768 read Owen Jones’ “The Establishment and How They Get Away With It’. Neoliberalism has an ideological and technical structure, which targets particular policies and uses the media to push them. Politicians and media misrepresent who the policies will benefit, or deflect with divisive tactics like ‘culture wars’. The majority of them absolutely know what they are doing and choose to mislead the public.
As an nhs nurse I am 100 percent behind the RMT members, I have seen countless journalists and MPs trying to pitch nhs staff, teachers etc against the RMT, in reality we are in solidarity with them and other trade unions who will fight to the bitter end for better pay and conditions for their members. Its about time every hard working man and women started fighting back against the scrouges of our country.
When I first heard about the strikes I was thinking it’s just a load of people being unreasonable and greedy, but the more I see and the more I listen to the discussion, they are 100% right. The media is trying their best to create divisions between the working class and make these people out to be what I originally thought, but their clear and educated responses are there for all to see. We as the working class need to support them, regardless of whether it causes us some inconvenience, because in the long run they’re trying to help us all. Keep up the good fight, you have my support.
There’s power in people United that’s what they fear more than anything else if everybody United they would be finished in a couple hours! BLM the division between white and black! False narrative propped up by the media! Mask wearer vs non mask wearer! False narrative propped up by the media! Pro vax vs no Vax! False narrative propped up by the media.. Russia vs Ukraine! False narrative propped up by the media.. It’s all designed to keep people in fear so that they don’t think for themselves basically their in control of us.. where as it should be the other way round!! Until people wake up and see, look around themselves and talk to people instead of looking at their social media (another form of control) We as a nation are lost!
Never underestimate the deviousness of the rich. They'll say and do anything for money and would sell us all into slavery if they could get away with it.
We need more people like yourself to approach the anti-union ideology with scepticism. It makes me happy to see stats suggesting that it is a dying ideology (increasing interest in Union membership and socialism)
Actually you're not quite right with this statement, albeit admirable! Let me amend it this. True hero's of the nation's workers that actually make the country what it is! This winter is going to be very interesting aka our modern version of the Tolpuddle Martyrs! 🤔😉😉
@@JRattheranch Not quite sure which bit you are trying to 'amend', John - unless you are trying to drive a wedge between workers and Working class? The TMs were the forefathers of modern day unions, which at least one of the Con-servative Party leadership candidates have openly admitted they will criminalise if they are PM...
@@ScottyDog345 Now the 'conspiracy' theorists appear... The original policies of the 'Left' (Labour Party) are unlikely to win many General Elections in modern times (Post-WW2) for 2 reasons - the Right-wing monopoly of mainstream media, which demonises the Left as Communists and Bolsheviks despite far worse humanitarian atrocities having been committed under the banner of the Right, and the comparative prosperity of the Working class since the turn of the 19th/20th Century, before which they were regarded as near slaves by the 'landed gentry'. Not coincidentally, this relative improvement in the fortunes of the Working class coincided with the beginnings of the Labour Party!
@@ScottyDog345 "... could go into examples" - Please do! I'll give you a few BIG 'crumbs' to start - Public Services - EVERYBODY, including the super-rich, fictitious 'Middle class' etc needs their garbage removed, sewage dealt with, roads and pavements maintained, fires extinguished, crime dealt with, emergency medical treatment... but the Con-servatives want you all to pay for it 'through the nose' on an ability to pay basis - if you can't pay when you need it, tough!
Finally we hear someone talking about the actual economics underpinning the problems in the country, rather than scapegoating powerless groups and othering parts of our society. Refreshing, and I hope the message gets heard.
They have been interviewed by tory toadies (including the BBC) who trot out the tory lies but these two have shot them down every time on account of telling the truth in a very straightforward manner.
If you work or are retired from work, you are a member of the working classes. You give your labour for hire, whether in a classroom or a coalmine, in a bank or a courtroom or in a ticket office. Eddy and Mick and all their union members are fighting for YOU, for all of us. I take my hat off to them! They have given an old lady hope to hear truth at last being spoken to power so clearly, peacefully, steadily and honestly. Thank you. You have my wholehearted support. God bless you
This is the crux of the matter. What the tories and ruling classes and their backers in the media has been successful at is persuading the salesman on £50K that he isn’t a member of the working class. That he’s somehow middle class and part of the ruling class club. As you say, if you’re being paid a salary each month by your employer and paying PAYE at source, you’re a worker! The accountant, salesman, retail manager, all paid monthly by salary is in the same boat as the rail worker, fireman etc. We’re all providing our labour for a wage by our employer who keeps all the net profits for the shareholders.
I could watch these two RMT fellas all day, the way they speak, the message they're delivering to this country. Frankly, it's inspiring! It's about time that the people of this country realise we shouldn't be shaking the finger at those better represented by unions, and instead we should be shaking our fists at multi national trillion dollar corporations, who have been carving out the guts of our economy for the last thirty years, whilst not paying their fair share, and expecting normal working class families to put up with it. Enough is enough. Change starts now!
Yes. All the media supported by those rich CEOs want to divide us. While we all have the same incentive - decent wage, and better life. Teachers, civil service, nurses, and any other workers.
there are politically fuelled reasons why not all groups have representation .. no representation, no voice .. it's unfathomable that people don't see that the only groups with any clout are the unions .. there is literally no voice left. Politics has been bought on every level, as he points out.
Strange that this brought a tear to my eyes. Wonderful seeing and hearing this at last . A vocal for the working people that is getting attention and not being brushed under the carpet .Stunning
Bravo, good point. Many in the EU were heartily sick of the UK holding up or critising "progressive" social measures, ie, minimum wage. It would be great to see a UK the envy of Europe on social criteria.
I know I would, I m French, and I live in France, but one has to realize that the EU is the weapon corporations are using to destroy all that was gained through strikes and demonstrations in the past. It is sad you had to leave EU, but at least you're behind the wheel now, and you can sack the politicians who aren't doing what you aim for.
@@GuiR3X Then why did oligarcs and the money laundering crooks help pay for the Brexit campaign? The fact that these dubious caracters were behind Brexit was enough to convince that the intention was not to improve the lot of the lower classes. I will be really pleased, however, if the outcome they did not expect comes to pass, ie, the working class benefit.
Eddie and Mick you are saying exactly what the vast majority of people in this country are thinking. It's time for us all to stand up and be counted. Enough is Enough.
Yes, perhaps we should roll up the current tax system into a single tax on the monopoly of land and other commonwealth resources, i.e everything that existed before mankind, that has always been there for people to discover, and which is the communal property of all, which could include things that have been patented, like the formula for life saving drugs, for example. That way, in addition to properly funding our society's needs, we could also be returning all that excess, and clearly unearned economic rent, that the 1% currently accrue, back into everyone's pockets, by way of a citizen's income. My point being that we would be relieving the burden of tax from the productive sector of our economy, by shifting it onto the parasitical sector, which would be a huge stimulus for genuine businesses, providing goods and services that people actually need. Whilst, at the same time the cost of housing and rents would come tumbling down to affordable levels, and, with their citizen's income, workers in the gig economy would suddenly find themselves very much in the driving seat for a change, when it comes to negotiating better pay and conditions, since they would be in a comfortable position to tell their employers to stick it. Anyway, just a thought, but that could be one way of doing it, since there would be no way of avoiding, or evading that tax, simply because, if you are monopolising something, in order to extract rent from it, then you either pay that money back, or lose the right of ownership, and Tolley's tax guide would go from so many thousands of pages, to about two 🙂
And it just for this reason that the powers that be engineered our exit from the EU to avoid forthcoming financial regulations that would challenge tax havens and financial secrecy.
@@stephendavies201 Yes, very true, though perhaps that highlights their typical shortsightedness and inability to see past the next round of dividends and bonuses, as Brexit also potentially opened the door for far greater reaching reforms and re-nationalisation programs than would be possible for an EU member state. Oddly enough, TH-cam have seen fit to include a link to another interview Eddie did, over 5 years ago, titled "Eddie Dempsey, RMT, speaks to Labour Leave", in which he outlines much of this. It seems to me like the Tory Brexiteers are gambling on keeping any real socialists out of power indefinitely, which is foolishly arrogant, but that's just how they roll. OK, for the time being, they've lucked out with compliant neoliberal Kier Starmer, leading the Labour Party, but that could always change, and the Rees-Moggs of this world could find this a very lonely little island, in the long run.
Absolutely love Eddie and Mick Lynch, clear, articulate and straight talking. It's time people stood together instead of being taken for a ride. Keep fighting the cause
What a clever and articulate young fella Eddie is...like his boss. RMT are lucky to have those guys. The need for workers to stick together has never been stronger.
We in Australia like in the UK are now seeing the results of the demise of the union movements. Loss of ability for people to negotiate for wages and conditions. Companies can screw down the workers and thereby increase their profits. This is the end result of globalisation. I just hope that the youth of countries around the world finally start to wake up. Good on you Eddie. Keep fighting.
V proud of you Eddie Dempsey. ✊✊ My father, his parents and grandparents were all involved in Trade Union and Labour Movements. My grandmother and her father were involved in the Jarrow Marches of 1936 and in the same year my great grandfather started the first Trade Union (T&G) at Avon Rubber after 10 years of struggle for recognition. ✊ I myself was active in both movements. I hope the wider populis will support members and listen to Eddie Dempsey's words. 👍
@@stephanguitar9778 Exactly mate. To see Starmer sack Sam Tarry for standing on the picket line with workers is a truly shocking indictment of the Labour Party today under Starmer.
Absolutely brilliant. Eddie succinctly articulates the massive issues with our rampantly neo liberal, free marketeer Conservative government. Not that Labour under Blair were much different mind.
Mick and Eddie are giving the boys in the city nightmares! 💯 percent behind you all. Let’s hope you get the result, which will open the gates for the rest of the country. Well done all 👍👍
I can't emphasize how incredible it is to hear real Truth Telling and in such clear, rigorous terms. Dempsey is amazing. Support the strikers. Support workers.
This interview needs to get liked and shared as much as possible, we need as many eyes on this as possible. What he manages to get across is perfect . We dont want a lot just the basics.A good wage, a roof over your head and to be able to retire with dignity not working until 70 to then sell your house for social caring that's inadequate.
What brilliant orators Mick and Eddie are. They are a breath of fresh air! Such a good command of the facts and the arguments. The Tories and the wealthy know how dangerous this is for them 😁
If only Labour MPs spoke with this clarity, articulation, fluency, passion and vision and were as committed and responsive to the needs of the people at this most desperate of times. Utmost respect to you Eddie. You and Mick Lynch are National Heroes.
Eddie and Mick are modern day heroes. I love these guys, Starmer sacks someone for standing up for Labour values?? Put Eddie and mick in charge of the party and I'll vote for them
Nothing but well informed, pure integrity and pure class, nothing but fantastic, everyone that’s the 99% that aren’t rich, should stand behind these people, this has to be the future or we and our children will have little to live for
EVEN I am STUNED I have been impressed with Mr Dempsey and his General Secretary Mr Lynch, but this interview is the best I have seen yet given by this excellent young man, he is a massive asset to his union and his members. Well done this channel for the best set of questions and the way you handled his responses. 👏👏👏
Great that he's presenting the wider context of these struggles.He puts the case with great clarity and force. All power to him, Mick Lynch and all the others who are facing up to Wild West capitalism
They would get the PR people to work on him. Kinnock talked like this once, but they turned him into a wishy washy type, and his persuasive power and personality went with it.
He is so so right it's about time the workers got paid a decent wage in all sectors. How can it be right for companies to make huge profits ,avoid tax and yet be subsidised by working tax credit from the government? No one mentions how companies like Amazon etc are allowed to get away with it ?
Telling the truth about capitalism at last. We need a mass movement of people taking the fight to capital. It's the only hope for our rights as workers, our democracy and our planet. ✊🌍❤️
@Medieval peasant Everyone lives off capitalism. We have no choice! All main patents that power modern smart phones were developed in publicly funded labs. And so was all the tech behind the Internet from TCP/IP and Ethernet to HTML, HTTP and DNS. I also work in IT and comms and am old enough to have learned about these technologies as they were being developed in the academic sector, going right back to Mosaic and before that Lynx and Gopher. The point isn't that capitalism doesn't produce things. It obviously does. But it doesn't do so in a way that serves society generally. It serves capital accumulation by those with capital. And if anything gets in the way of that, then it's too bad. Even if that means, say, permanently trashing our climate and the habitability of the planet to enrich the fossil fuel industry and its investors in the short term.
@Medieval peasant Capitalism isn't the ability to start a business. It's the differentiation of the class with capital who own the means of production with those who actually do the productive work in the economy. It means that those with capital own and control all the work that workers do. There are several alternatives. One that no one really pushes any more is widespread state ownership of industry (although that does make sense in natural monopolies like railways, energy, water, etc) The better alternative for most other businesses is that they are owned and run by the employees not a separate set of people with all the resources, who do no work for their income and wealth accumulation. This would be better for the vast majority of people who are actually doing the work AND it would be better for the economy because it would distribute more money to people in the economy who actually spend it into the real economy. Plus worker coops like this are at least as productive as top-down capitalist corporations (this has been studied fairly extensively). The only people who lose out are the tiny elite people, the 1% or 0.1% with all the capital. And sapping their of their financial power also saps them of political power and their control of the media, meaning we have a shot at a working, well-informed democracy.
@Medieval peasant > So what if someone owns capital ? Perhaps they came up with a better idea and can manage money better than other people. That is a giant assumption, that is mostly wrong. Most capital, or the opportunities to get it is inherited. The idea that the poor are just bad at running their finances is insultingly wrong. It is nothing more than a right-wing talking point used to demonise the poor and shirk any social responsibility. I have been poor. I have been wealthy. I well understand both of sides of this btw. > Perhaps they invest in the company, perhaps they know when to pull back spending, perhaps they have a vested interest in the success and longevity of the business which benefits everyone including employees who can trust the owner to continue providing a stable income and employment opportunity Firstly, you have to understand that the capital class doesn’t work. It invests its capital. The workers do the work. But sure, let’s say someone has a good idea and starts a business. Then who actually makes that idea into reality. Let me tell you, because I have started a business, yes, you do some work on the idea but the people who make the idea a reality are workers. It is the workers that turn the idea into reality. People with conservative economic values say they value hard work. They actually don't. They value the capital that can buy that hard work much more. Which is why there is a massive gulf between the income of and wealth of those who own and deploy capital vs those who work for a living. In the extreme case, no idea alone is worth the $300 billion dollars that Elon Musk is worth. Indeed, the idea that we should accept a society where one person can own billions while others are starving and cannot afford clothes and shelter is outrageous.
> Not everyone is cut out for owning a business. It’s not as simple as sitting back watching money pile up whilst employees do all the work. That’s not how business works - any one who does that will fail With respect (not just saying that btw), you don't know what you are talking about. First, you thinking about how a capitalist business is run. Sure, not everyone is ready to manage a team or do the finances, but not everyone has to do that. You have specific people with specific skills to do those jobs. What you don’t have is people being told that to do with no say in the matter. Nor that they work all day and that the surplus value of their work is then all siphoned off to owners who do no work at all. Think about it. We use democracy to run countries. We wouldn’t dream of returning to monarchies or dictatorships. Why are you so keen that we spend all our working hours in a private tyranny where what the boss says goes regardless. If the boss says your job is being moved to China tough. If the boss says you being given a 10% real terms pay cut while the company is profitable, tough. If the boss says you only have 5 minutes for a toilet break every 4 hours, tough. This is a terrible way to treat people, for the people as individuals but also for our society, but it is the one that makes a tiny elite most money. So that is the one we have. > There are companies with employee ownership, they often fail. So I don’t understand how that’s a better alternative They fail LESS often that capitalist businesses. As I say, this has been studied by researchers. They also have better pay and lower staff turnover. > The best option for a business depends on their plans and goals. Ownership structure can often be a tricky situation. It really comes down to the type of business and what they want to achieve. Capitalist businesses want to achieve one thing. Profit. Sure, you will find things like B-corps who try to have a broader range of agreed goals, but if they cannot make a profit, the other gaols are jettisoned. > Your living in a total fantasy world. I literally part-own and run a business. I suspect I have a better grasp of this than you think. I also highly recommend a book called "Consequences of Capitalism". It’s a series of lectures from a couple of professors at a US university, Noam Chomsly and Marv Waterstone. It’s available as an audiobook, normal book and as a free PDF is you search for it. It explains the downstream effects on our society and our planet of the workings of capitalism. The most dangerous one that we face right now, by far, is the climate emergency. BTW that is why I am anti-capitalist despite actually running a business. The logic of capitalism demands constant and insatiable growth and profit no matter the external consequences. And the scale of the system means that those consequences are now threatening the habitability of the planet within a few decades. Put aside all the issues of justice and democracy. Climate makes the case against capitalism on its own.
@Medieval peasant Elon Musk didn't do that. He was at the head of a team of tens of thousands of workers who did that. And buying and selling retail stocks is gambling. It isn't the actual practice of capitalism. The practice of capitalism is to take capital, but materials, machinery and labour power, then produce output products at a higher value than what you paid for the inputs. That necessarily means that you pay workers less than the value of their labour, otherwise you would make no profit. Then you take the new money you have generated and do if over and over and over again, accumulating ever more wealth. Also, the first you heard about the alternative to the capitalist model of business ownership was when I told you about. You thought that the alternative to capitalists owning enterprises was for states to own them. Can I suggest that before you reflexively criticise any alternative to capitalism, you actually take some time to understand what if you are defending and what it is that you are opposing when I suggest alternatives. Let me tell you this as someone older than you (you describe yourself as a young person and I, regrettably am not). Capitalism does not value you further than it can exploit you. If you think you are one of the winners in this system, assuming that you aren't already rich, then your chances of becoming one are extremely slim. Thanks to who I mixed with at uni, I personally know the kind of people who run banks, law firms, private equity houses, venture capitalists etc. These are the guys who run the economy. The fact that they are causing a climate catastrophe is just boring to them. The fact that millions are struggling to pay their food bills is meaningless. They think is just the proper working of the system. This isn't a class to aspire to. Capitalism has your future in its crosshairs. The future habitability of your planet is in the balance right now. Capitalists don't give a flying f--k.
Watch our interview with fellow RMT chad Mick Lynch: th-cam.com/video/AYSiND5FVNg/w-d-xo.html
Did Eddie & Mick vote for Brexit?
@@tiggtiggs yes but on a Lexit basis i.e to escape EU neoliberal policy and implement democratic and socialist policy in the UK
@@algrthm Cringe.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 power to the people! We stand behind you.
.. should be having these kind of guys in the Labour Party.. Oh no, there is an all women short list that keeps men like this out.. Harriet harmens husband wak OK though, so was Angela raynors bo.. what a joke
Eddie and Mick are just fantastic. We need way more people like this speaking for every working person in this country.
If Parliament was full of people like them, our lives and trust in politicians would sky rocket.
Because they are on OUR side.
Much love to you mate
Because the politicians are all talking sh1t
Yeah, but...We've had way more people like this speaking for every working person in this country, plenty of them over my 70yrs in this Realm...and not that far off of every working person refused to listen, time after time...in exchange for a personal pretty penny in most cases. Read on through the comments here & it's 100% support....but how many of the commenters here I wonder were commenting on vids about Jeremy Corbin.....that he was a Commie, an anti-semite, lunatic proposals, economy wrecker, last one leaving Britain turn the lights out shyte? A good many I'd wager...& `those` working people have no care nor appreciation for the collective, for the betterment of all...they are here..now..because they're personally being screwed rather than previously having the luxury of ignoring the many others being screwed.
Or in short...Eddie & Mick may well prattle on about every working person but most every working person doesn't give a toss 'til it suits.
I've been fans of the RMT guys like Bob Crowe and Mike Lynch, but this guy has a very shady past. All the smears that are normally made against Union leaders - being communists and extremists - are completely true about Dempsey. The stuff he used to post on Facebook circa 2015 was very extreme. His ideology was very much based around completely idolising the Soviet Union. I'm left leaning myself and used to be friends with him on FB. He seemed to be far left, clearly socialist, which is fine but then he started posting some very extreme stuff that 100% venerated the USSR and he absolutely did hook up with Pro-Russia separatist militia.
“They should wear their sponsors when they go into parliament they’d look like Formula 1 drivers” Classic ✊🏻
Really well said and true
Love this so true
Bill Hicks said this about American politics in the 80's
This bloke has been more articulate, competent, honest and impactful in one interview than I’ve seen any British politician be for at least a decade
Because over the decades we've been educated to believe a man that sounds like him, a normal working class man, can't be intelligent or articulate and we are indoctrinated to voting for the same upper middle class faces because they have the BBC approved accents and dialects.
It's mental. It's honest descent and banging. The bollocks we been fed over the years. This boy is sound.
We should form a new party
@@emil_rainbow don't start that second hand bollocks with me. I hate buying cars off people or garages they're all dodgy
Everything he said was spot on. Simple as.
I’m a BT worker who was on a picket line yesterday, and there really IS public support for industrial action. So much. It was a real experience to witness firsthand people expressing it. We’ve all had enough, all of us.
This is four weeks later Matthew and there is still plenty of support for all of you out on strike. I haven't spoken to anyone yet who has voiced opposition to industrial action.
Mind, I've only spoken to other working class people...
Because unless your one of the elite we are all in the same boat
@Matthew E. I'm not working class, but fully support the strikes and visited my local picket. As a health care worker, I understand that this race to the bottom with wages is just an expression of corruption and it can't be allowed to continue. I am reliant on trains and the strikes made my commute 3 hours long. But I consider that a minor inconvenience when we are dealing with the right to a fair days pay for a fair days work.
Theres some people out there living comfortably. I saw a guy driving a masarati yesterday, im living in the dirt
I find it extraordinary that everyone I've heard from the Unions has been articulate, unscripted & passionate in their beliefs. The flip side of the coin to our esteemed politicians with their sound bites & u-turn policies, that flounder like landed fish at the mere thought of answering*anything* truthfully.
The British public deserve better & I, for one, hope the Unions carry on fighting for the "common man"(us) & force change in every way.
Bring on the General Strike!
Agree 100%
These guys have such good command of the facts and arguments, and they aren't afraid to make them.
They expose just how bland and vacuous the Labour Party rhetoric is these days.
Yep, totally. Because they've come up through a structure where they are accountable to regular people and other union officials, and regularly have to explain themselves and get complicated points across simply.
@@bobzilla211 they're also mostly accountable to who they're representing which are the RMT members unlike the political parties who are playing this weird game of PR management while trying to push as much corporatist policies and tax money into private corporations as possible.
Shows what an organization that is actually representing their people can actually be
Well unfortunately id like to be optimistic, but, I'm afraid I can't be, it's, well, just so you know of course 100% I agree with you, but now that that twat boris is gone, and I don't often swear but sometimes in my opinion it's appropriate, but now we are gonna have the bloody tories in power till 2025, ill be 37, but we are gonna be left with the dam chancellor or Mrs trust who of course NO BODY should trust(RE EDIT JUST FOUND OUT SHE IS CALLED MRS TRUSS NOT TRUST) , quite ironic that that's her surname, it's like they think the British public are fools, so,, but what can we do,?? Apart from strike,, so bloody good on them, of course as he says inflation goes up and the poor always pay, I'm a poet a few of mine have been published and at the end of one of my poems called (crushed by the Cutts) it's ends like this,
but sadly it comes down to class, the poor has always wiped the rich man's arse, it always has done, and it always will, let's just hope one day the rich will pay the brunt of the bill!!!,, so,, fingers crossed,
Abso-bloody-lutely!
Very well said
Eddie and Mick are inspiring a lot of people to stand up for what is right. Good on them!
*YES YES AND YES* a lot of people are finally sitting to stand up and say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - we need to stick together as WORKERS"
and why isn't Starmer saying all this?
What fuelliing inflation and stopping people getting to work. Marxist bastard.
@@joebarrett4353 because his (Starmer’s) priority has to be winning the next election. Eddie is hugely impressive and I agree with him 100%, but in First Past The Post electoral system Labour need to be disciplined to get elected. We need Proportional Representation so these political games don’t need to be played, until then Labour need to play the game.
@@joebarrett4353 Because him and most of his band of clowns are Tory Lite.
As an RMT member, I’m glad we have this fella standing and speaking for us. The truth 🙌🏻✊🏻
Imagine if our politicians were of the same calibre as this guy, eloquent and knowledgeable and honest
The 4 big UK banks
paid out £4 billion
in bonuses alone
last year..
Remember that
before you call
someone who cleans
a train greedy!!!
WELL Said
Two years ago if you googled "how much money is in UK off shore accounts" the first hit was from Barclay's advertising their services! Cameron's father was a major player in this field. Official its stated that 845bn is held in British accounts off shore but the true estimate is closer to 11 trillion dollars..this was also available on google but is now subverted...people used to laugh at me thinking I was conspiracy nut but this is not becoming accepted fact.
The levels of greed are mind boggling, the city of London is essentially a principality which is used as gateway to the tax havens.
@@dagnut it’s really scary isn’t it. And much of that greed is linked with people who also seek out power in order to manipulate the world for north wealth and more and more power. Utterly depressing 😣
You obviously do not understand how large investment banks work. Each bank contains a series of teams of workers all highly trained and specialists. The products they trade on cover all market eventualities eg ice cream and umbrellas. When one team does well another will not. The bonus works as a transferable wage. It works to retain workers in hard times and keep them from being poached in good times too.
@@dagnut you sir are a fool. The City of London is an international finance centre. The financing it receives is from the whole world, and the returns are paid to the whole world. The financing structures are built in this way so that international investors can invest their money offshore and receive their return free of taxation. If that person lives in a domicile subject to tax he has to pay tax on that money, if not not. If the deals were not structured in this way they would lose possible investment from people and corporations who live in tax free domiciles.
Eddie Dempsey is a top man. He is able to put complex concepts into simple terms so that they are easily understandable. If only the politicians would do the same.
It's difficult when you have to lie through your teeth...
They could if they weren’t essentially employees of big corporations
The majority of politicians don’t WANT us to understand. If people did, they wouldn’t vote for them…
They’re not that complex. The media and government want you to think they are.
@@nicholasszegho6768 read Owen Jones’ “The Establishment and How They Get Away With It’. Neoliberalism has an ideological and technical structure, which targets particular policies and uses the media to push them. Politicians and media misrepresent who the policies will benefit, or deflect with divisive tactics like ‘culture wars’. The majority of them absolutely know what they are doing and choose to mislead the public.
Eddie talks more sense and with more honesty than the whole of parliament. Him and Mick are modern day heroes.
As an nhs nurse I am 100 percent behind the RMT members, I have seen countless journalists and MPs trying to pitch nhs staff, teachers etc against the RMT, in reality we are in solidarity with them and other trade unions who will fight to the bitter end for better pay and conditions for their members. Its about time every hard working man and women started fighting back against the scrouges of our country.
When I first heard about the strikes I was thinking it’s just a load of people being unreasonable and greedy, but the more I see and the more I listen to the discussion, they are 100% right. The media is trying their best to create divisions between the working class and make these people out to be what I originally thought, but their clear and educated responses are there for all to see. We as the working class need to support them, regardless of whether it causes us some inconvenience, because in the long run they’re trying to help us all. Keep up the good fight, you have my support.
I was exactly the same as you....feel bit silly for falling for MSM narrative....but now I've seen this guy.....all has become clear....
There’s power in people United that’s what they fear more than anything else if everybody United they would be finished in a couple hours!
BLM the division between white and black! False narrative propped up by the media!
Mask wearer vs non mask wearer! False narrative propped up by the media!
Pro vax vs no Vax! False narrative propped up by the media..
Russia vs Ukraine! False narrative propped up by the media..
It’s all designed to keep people in fear so that they don’t think for themselves basically their in control of us.. where as it should be the other way round!!
Until people wake up and see, look around themselves and talk to people instead of looking at their social media (another form of control)
We as a nation are lost!
Never underestimate the deviousness of the rich. They'll say and do anything for money and would sell us all into slavery if they could get away with it.
Its not your fault when 99% of the media is run by millionairs! You have to look beyond their bullshit!
We need more people like yourself to approach the anti-union ideology with scepticism. It makes me happy to see stats suggesting that it is a dying ideology (increasing interest in Union membership and socialism)
Eddie Dempsey and Mick Lynch - true heroes of the Working class... the Tolpuddle Martyrs would be proud!
Actually you're not quite right with this statement, albeit admirable! Let me amend it this. True hero's of the nation's workers that actually make the country what it is! This winter is going to be very interesting aka our modern version of the Tolpuddle Martyrs! 🤔😉😉
@@JRattheranch Not quite sure which bit you are trying to 'amend', John - unless you are trying to drive a wedge between workers and Working class? The TMs were the forefathers of modern day unions, which at least one of the Con-servative Party leadership candidates have openly admitted they will criminalise if they are PM...
I think they (the Tolpuddle martyrs) would be horrified that we're still fighting for a decent days pay for a decent days work.
@@ScottyDog345 Now the 'conspiracy' theorists appear...
The original policies of the 'Left' (Labour Party) are unlikely to win many General Elections in modern times (Post-WW2) for 2 reasons - the Right-wing monopoly of mainstream media, which demonises the Left as Communists and Bolsheviks despite far worse humanitarian atrocities having been committed under the banner of the Right, and the comparative prosperity of the Working class since the turn of the 19th/20th Century, before which they were regarded as near slaves by the 'landed gentry'.
Not coincidentally, this relative improvement in the fortunes of the Working class coincided with the beginnings of the Labour Party!
@@ScottyDog345 "... could go into examples" - Please do! I'll give you a few BIG 'crumbs' to start -
Public Services - EVERYBODY, including the super-rich, fictitious 'Middle class' etc needs their garbage removed, sewage dealt with, roads and pavements maintained, fires extinguished, crime dealt with, emergency medical treatment... but the Con-servatives want you all to pay for it 'through the nose' on an ability to pay basis - if you can't pay when you need it, tough!
Absolute legend. I work in healthcare and we do deserve to grow old with dignity.
More than that, we deserve to live in dignity
Finally we hear someone talking about the actual economics underpinning the problems in the country, rather than scapegoating powerless groups and othering parts of our society. Refreshing, and I hope the message gets heard.
@Medieval peasant what do you know? you're just a medieval peasant. Oh wait, the Tories are implementing the same medieval hypocrisy and control !
Imagine ever seeing an interview like this on a major news channel
They have been interviewed by tory toadies (including the BBC) who trot out the tory lies but these two have shot them down every time on account of telling the truth in a very straightforward manner.
Yes. Shameful
TG for You Tube.
He said some of this on a show with Ann Widecombe (almost verbatim) but it was panel style so he didn't get a chance to expand which is a big shame.
@@alexanders7569 Yes and he shut her up when she sang the old wage price spiral song!
exactly what I was thinking
If you work or are retired from work, you are a member of the working classes. You give your labour for hire, whether in a classroom or a coalmine, in a bank or a courtroom or in a ticket office. Eddy and Mick and all their union members are fighting for YOU, for all of us. I take my hat off to them! They have given an old lady hope to hear truth at last being spoken to power so clearly, peacefully, steadily and honestly. Thank you. You have my wholehearted support. God bless you
This is the crux of the matter. What the tories and ruling classes and their backers in the media has been successful at is persuading the salesman on £50K that he isn’t a member of the working class. That he’s somehow middle class and part of the ruling class club. As you say, if you’re being paid a salary each month by your employer and paying PAYE at source, you’re a worker! The accountant, salesman, retail manager, all paid monthly by salary is in the same boat as the rail worker, fireman etc. We’re all providing our labour for a wage by our employer who keeps all the net profits for the shareholders.
Hear,hear. !!
Such a good speaker. Genuinely inspiring to listen to. Wish we had more people like him in politics.
"a three card trick designed to keep people skint" absolute gold
Wow. Such a lucid, no bullshit argument. I hope as many people see this as possible.
They aren't condescending or treating anyone with contempt or making lame jokes. Rather refreshing.
I could watch these two RMT fellas all day, the way they speak, the message they're delivering to this country. Frankly, it's inspiring!
It's about time that the people of this country realise we shouldn't be shaking the finger at those better represented by unions, and instead we should be shaking our fists at multi national trillion dollar corporations, who have been carving out the guts of our economy for the last thirty years, whilst not paying their fair share, and expecting normal working class families to put up with it. Enough is enough. Change starts now!
Exactly! This is the real reason they are getting smeared in the media. To try and stop them inspiring the working class and working people
ALWAYS Punch up, do NOT let them divide you and distract you with the guy next door, PUNCH UPWARDS, where your problems have always lain… ✊
Yes. All the media supported by those rich CEOs want to divide us. While we all have the same incentive - decent wage, and better life. Teachers, civil service, nurses, and any other workers.
@@kasiakasia742 people from diverse walks of life of all colours and backgrounds.
there are politically fuelled reasons why not all groups have representation .. no representation, no voice .. it's unfathomable that people don't see that the only groups with any clout are the unions .. there is literally no voice left. Politics has been bought on every level, as he points out.
What a legend. We need people like that at the top
Strange that this brought a tear to my eyes. Wonderful seeing and hearing this at last . A vocal for the working people that is getting attention and not being brushed under the carpet .Stunning
Imagine Eddie and Mick running the country. Europe would want to join us!
Unlike Starmer pissing around the edges, ie very direct and honest.
As a EU national, I totally agree with you! With them in power, the UK could become the envy of Europe.
Bravo, good point. Many in the EU were heartily sick of the UK holding up or critising "progressive" social measures, ie, minimum wage. It would be great to see a UK the envy of Europe on social criteria.
I know I would, I m French, and I live in France, but one has to realize that the EU is the weapon corporations are using to destroy all that was gained through strikes and demonstrations in the past. It is sad you had to leave EU, but at least you're behind the wheel now, and you can sack the politicians who aren't doing what you aim for.
@@GuiR3X Then why did oligarcs and the money laundering crooks help pay for the Brexit campaign? The fact that these dubious caracters were behind Brexit was enough to convince that the intention was not to improve the lot of the lower classes. I will be really pleased, however, if the outcome they did not expect comes to pass, ie, the working class benefit.
How refreshing to hear some truths about our country for a change.
Well done Jack Dempsey, and Mick Lynch. 👍
Eddie. Jack was a boxer wasn't he?
Yeah it's Eddie Dempsey - though both of them deliver knockout punches!
Excellent summary provided by a passionate, articulate person. United we stand divided we fall.
Eddie and Mick you are saying exactly what the vast majority of people in this country are thinking. It's time for us all to stand up and be counted. Enough is Enough.
Well said .
We really need to find a way to destroy the tax havens & make the parasitical billionaires pay their fair share of the tax burden.
Yes, perhaps we should roll up the current tax system into a single tax on the monopoly of land and other commonwealth resources, i.e everything that existed before mankind, that has always been there for people to discover, and which is the communal property of all, which could include things that have been patented, like the formula for life saving drugs, for example. That way, in addition to properly funding our society's needs, we could also be returning all that excess, and clearly unearned economic rent, that the 1% currently accrue, back into everyone's pockets, by way of a citizen's income. My point being that we would be relieving the burden of tax from the productive sector of our economy, by shifting it onto the parasitical sector, which would be a huge stimulus for genuine businesses, providing goods and services that people actually need. Whilst, at the same time the cost of housing and rents would come tumbling down to affordable levels, and, with their citizen's income, workers in the gig economy would suddenly find themselves very much in the driving seat for a change, when it comes to negotiating better pay and conditions, since they would be in a comfortable position to tell their employers to stick it. Anyway, just a thought, but that could be one way of doing it, since there would be no way of avoiding, or evading that tax, simply because, if you are monopolising something, in order to extract rent from it, then you either pay that money back, or lose the right of ownership, and Tolley's tax guide would go from so many thousands of pages, to about two 🙂
And it just for this reason that the powers that be engineered our exit from the EU to avoid forthcoming financial regulations that would challenge tax havens and financial secrecy.
To paraphrase Kevin Bridges: invade the Cayman Islands. Wtf are they gonna do about it.
That's the key reason the rich fought so hard for Brexit - to stop UK finances being put under greater scrutiny through EU financial laws.
@@stephendavies201 Yes, very true, though perhaps that highlights their typical shortsightedness and inability to see past the next round of dividends and bonuses, as Brexit also potentially opened the door for far greater reaching reforms and re-nationalisation programs than would be possible for an EU member state. Oddly enough, TH-cam have seen fit to include a link to another interview Eddie did, over 5 years ago, titled "Eddie Dempsey, RMT, speaks to Labour Leave", in which he outlines much of this. It seems to me like the Tory Brexiteers are gambling on keeping any real socialists out of power indefinitely, which is foolishly arrogant, but that's just how they roll. OK, for the time being, they've lucked out with compliant neoliberal Kier Starmer, leading the Labour Party, but that could always change, and the Rees-Moggs of this world could find this a very lonely little island, in the long run.
Fantastic. Great to hear a proper argument with clear reasoning. Not the sloganising we hear from the politicians. Well done.
Absolutely love Eddie and Mick Lynch, clear, articulate and straight talking. It's time people stood together instead of being taken for a ride. Keep fighting the cause
What a clever and articulate young fella Eddie is...like his boss. RMT are lucky to have those guys. The need for workers to stick together has never been stronger.
Again Eddie, a powerful and fantastic interview, thank you and PoliticsJOE!
First time I've really heard Eddie speak - I'd vote for him.
Nothing but respect for these lads for standing up for the people of the UK.
Love love love this man, Mick Lynch and of course the man who inspired many to fight the greedy corporations and elite, Jeremy Corbyn ❤ ✊✊✊
Eddie and Mick are absolutely brilliant. We need them now more then ever, we workers have been exploited for far too long.
I’m behind you 100 percent !!
Put this interview on main stream media. So much truth spoken. Refreshing change.
We in Australia like in the UK are now seeing the results of the demise of the union movements. Loss of ability for people to negotiate for wages and conditions. Companies can screw down the workers and thereby increase their profits. This is the end result of globalisation. I just hope that the youth of countries around the world finally start to wake up. Good on you Eddie. Keep fighting.
V proud of you Eddie Dempsey. ✊✊ My father, his parents and grandparents were all involved in Trade Union and Labour Movements. My grandmother and her father were involved in the Jarrow Marches of 1936 and in the same year my great grandfather started the first Trade Union (T&G) at Avon Rubber after 10 years of struggle for recognition. ✊ I myself was active in both movements. I hope the wider populis will support members and listen to Eddie Dempsey's words. 👍
Liking Eddie more and more every time I see him . Power to the people !
Everything Starmer should be but isnt.
@@stephanguitar9778 Exactly mate. To see Starmer sack Sam Tarry for standing on the picket line with workers is a truly shocking indictment of the Labour Party today under Starmer.
I’d vote for Eddie or Mick if they ran for office.
It’s amazing how easy it is to appear competent, honest and likeable when you talk sense, tell the truth and stand up for people 🤷
Something tells me we’ll be seeing a lot more of this man
Great lads thank you for standing up for us, you guys give us hope for our future. 🙏
Absolutely brilliant. Eddie succinctly articulates the massive issues with our rampantly neo liberal, free marketeer Conservative government. Not that Labour under Blair were much different mind.
Mick and Eddie are giving the boys in the city nightmares!
💯 percent behind you all.
Let’s hope you get the result, which will open the gates for the rest of the country. Well done all 👍👍
We all need more people like Eddie Dempsey.
this man seems a lot more sensible than all the politicians put together ❤
Thank goodness these two men are speaking and standing up for the working man .
Resolute, courageous , eloquent and right 👍
Left
I would 100% vote for this man!!!! We need more people in politics like this gentleman 🙂
Full support for mick and Eddie. About time we all took a stand and told them to shove it.
He couldn't of given his interview ANY BETTER,, SPOKEN PERFECTLY, WHAT A LEGEND,!!!
Excellent stuff, Joe! Keep them coming! 🤜
Thanks for laying it out for us Eddie,more power to your elbow 👍👍👍
Well spoken , Eddie Dempsey. Your clear speaking is impressive to hear. And finally the media needs listen more 👍👍
I can't emphasize how incredible it is to hear real Truth Telling and in such clear, rigorous terms. Dempsey is amazing.
Support the strikers. Support workers.
We have our future Prime minister and Deputy Prime minister in these two gems.
I wish.... But they'd be so good for our country as a whole.
Lol
Great interview we need to rise up against these greedy people and show them what it means
Outstanding! We need a whole lot more stories like this in the media and then action on it.
Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them. - Robin Williams
Very applicable to the current filth sitting at high table in parliament.
Apparently Prince Charles crown would have Osama Bin Laden lmao that is hilarious and sad
100%
Oh my days, finally someone with the stones to stand up, call them out and say the way it really is...... like a breath of fresh air
Brilliant.
I agree, well said.
This interview needs to get liked and shared as much as possible, we need as many eyes on this as possible. What he manages to get across is perfect . We dont want a lot just the basics.A good wage, a roof over your head and to be able to retire with dignity not working until 70 to then sell your house for social caring that's inadequate.
What a refreshing change. Honesty, truth, calm burning passion. More please.
What brilliant orators Mick and Eddie are. They are a breath of fresh air!
Such a good command of the facts and the arguments.
The Tories and the wealthy know how dangerous this is for them 😁
So refreshing to hear Eddie and Mick telling it exactly how it is. Wish both of them the best of luck on top of my support
I've never heard so much common sense and truth being spoken in the last 40 year's as I have in the past month ,well done Eddie and mick 👍
If only Labour MPs spoke with this clarity, articulation, fluency, passion and vision and were as committed and responsive to the needs of the people at this most desperate of times. Utmost respect to you Eddie. You and Mick Lynch are National Heroes.
Wow! They never showed this on BBC news. Stay safe Eddie, thanks for being brave enough to speak up!
A brilliant mouthpiece for the working class.
Actually, for the middle classes too.
Eddie is just fantastic. Plain speaking. Just like Mick.
A breath of truthful fresh air. So much value in what this man has to say
So impressive. Thank goodness there are still people out there fighting for us.
Love this guy and love Mick. This teamster from the US is with you!💪🏻 Get the truth out.
Smart, eloquent, informed, to the point - brilliant.
Wonderful to hear Eddie, real truth from real people.
Excellent! About time. Very refreshing.
Eddie and Mick are modern day heroes. I love these guys, Starmer sacks someone for standing up for Labour values?? Put Eddie and mick in charge of the party and I'll vote for them
Nothing but well informed, pure integrity and pure class, nothing but fantastic, everyone that’s the 99% that aren’t rich, should stand behind these people, this has to be the future or we and our children will have little to live for
Mick and Ed. Just so good. Speaking pure facts!
Great speaker. Man is making some sense. More sense than truzz and Shunakz . Make this man PM. The public are waking up. Power to the people.
You forgot Mike Lynch
The public are behind you. Proud of you for speaking out.
EVEN I am STUNED I have been impressed with Mr Dempsey and his General Secretary Mr Lynch, but this interview is the best I have seen yet given by this excellent young man, he is a massive asset to his union and his members. Well done this channel for the best set of questions and the way you handled his responses. 👏👏👏
Great that he's presenting the wider context of these struggles.He puts the case with great clarity and force. All power to him, Mick Lynch and all the others who are facing up to Wild West capitalism
Mick and Eddie drop in and kick ass like a pair of unionised Avengers.
Unions Assemble ✊
He should run for labour leadership
Damn right. Never voted in my life, but I probably would if he was in
They would get the PR people to work on him. Kinnock talked like this once, but they turned him into a wishy washy type, and his persuasive power and personality went with it.
Great interview, nice to see Eddie being able to talk without being cut off.
It’s refreshing to hear someone saying exactly what I’ve been wanting to hear for years
Great interview. These unionists are spot on
Very well said, Dempsey and Lynch are voices that we've needed for years in the UK.
One of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam, I'll be sharing this 👍🏻
He is so so right it's about time the workers got paid a decent wage in all sectors. How can it be right for companies to make huge profits ,avoid tax and yet be subsidised by working tax credit from the government? No one mentions how companies like Amazon etc are allowed to get away with it ?
Utterly fucking brilliant! It is uplifting in the extreme to hear these points articulated so brilliantly well. Power to the people.
isn't it refreshing having someone talking sense for a change .
I pray that everyone in the UK see's this and can see the truth this man is speaking and stand up for the working class
Brilliant. I stand with any strike action. Workers in this country have been taken for a ride and I won't let my son grow up in a country like this.
Just got to love the message and the delivery of the facts. Well done Eddie and Mick.
Telling the truth about capitalism at last. We need a mass movement of people taking the fight to capital. It's the only hope for our rights as workers, our democracy and our planet. ✊🌍❤️
@Medieval peasant wrong.
Both are the products of publicly funded academic research which was then handed over to private corporations for free.
@Medieval peasant
Everyone lives off capitalism. We have no choice!
All main patents that power modern smart phones were developed in publicly funded labs.
And so was all the tech behind the Internet from TCP/IP and Ethernet to HTML, HTTP and DNS.
I also work in IT and comms and am old enough to have learned about these technologies as they were being developed in the academic sector, going right back to Mosaic and before that Lynx and Gopher.
The point isn't that capitalism doesn't produce things. It obviously does. But it doesn't do so in a way that serves society generally. It serves capital accumulation by those with capital. And if anything gets in the way of that, then it's too bad. Even if that means, say, permanently trashing our climate and the habitability of the planet to enrich the fossil fuel industry and its investors in the short term.
@Medieval peasant
Capitalism isn't the ability to start a business. It's the differentiation of the class with capital who own the means of production with those who actually do the productive work in the economy.
It means that those with capital own and control all the work that workers do.
There are several alternatives. One that no one really pushes any more is widespread state ownership of industry (although that does make sense in natural monopolies like railways, energy, water, etc)
The better alternative for most other businesses is that they are owned and run by the employees not a separate set of people with all the resources, who do no work for their income and wealth accumulation.
This would be better for the vast majority of people who are actually doing the work AND it would be better for the economy because it would distribute more money to people in the economy who actually spend it into the real economy. Plus worker coops like this are at least as productive as top-down capitalist corporations (this has been studied fairly extensively).
The only people who lose out are the tiny elite people, the 1% or 0.1% with all the capital.
And sapping their of their financial power also saps them of political power and their control of the media, meaning we have a shot at a working, well-informed democracy.
@Medieval peasant
> So what if someone owns capital ? Perhaps they came up with a better idea and can manage money better than other people.
That is a giant assumption, that is mostly wrong. Most capital, or the opportunities to get it is inherited. The idea that the poor are just bad at running their finances is insultingly wrong. It is nothing more than a right-wing talking point used to demonise the poor and shirk any social responsibility. I have been poor. I have been wealthy. I well understand both of sides of this btw.
> Perhaps they invest in the company, perhaps they know when to pull back spending, perhaps they have a vested interest in the success and longevity of the business which benefits everyone including employees who can trust the owner to continue providing a stable income and employment opportunity
Firstly, you have to understand that the capital class doesn’t work. It invests its capital. The workers do the work.
But sure, let’s say someone has a good idea and starts a business.
Then who actually makes that idea into reality.
Let me tell you, because I have started a business, yes, you do some work on the idea but the people who make the idea a reality are workers.
It is the workers that turn the idea into reality. People with conservative economic values say they value hard work. They actually don't. They value the capital that can buy that hard work much more. Which is why there is a massive gulf between the income of and wealth of those who own and deploy capital vs those who work for a living.
In the extreme case, no idea alone is worth the $300 billion dollars that Elon Musk is worth. Indeed, the idea that we should accept a society where one person can own billions while others are starving and cannot afford clothes and shelter is outrageous.
> Not everyone is cut out for owning a business. It’s not as simple as sitting back watching money pile up whilst employees do all the work. That’s not how business works - any one who does that will fail
With respect (not just saying that btw), you don't know what you are talking about. First, you thinking about how a capitalist business is run. Sure, not everyone is ready to manage a team or do the finances, but not everyone has to do that. You have specific people with specific skills to do those jobs. What you don’t have is people being told that to do with no say in the matter. Nor that they work all day and that the surplus value of their work is then all siphoned off to owners who do no work at all.
Think about it. We use democracy to run countries. We wouldn’t dream of returning to monarchies or dictatorships. Why are you so keen that we spend all our working hours in a private tyranny where what the boss says goes regardless. If the boss says your job is being moved to China tough. If the boss says you being given a 10% real terms pay cut while the company is profitable, tough. If the boss says you only have 5 minutes for a toilet break every 4 hours, tough.
This is a terrible way to treat people, for the people as individuals but also for our society, but it is the one that makes a tiny elite most money. So that is the one we have.
> There are companies with employee ownership, they often fail. So I don’t understand how that’s a better alternative
They fail LESS often that capitalist businesses. As I say, this has been studied by researchers.
They also have better pay and lower staff turnover.
> The best option for a business depends on their plans and goals. Ownership structure can often be a tricky situation. It really comes down to the type of business and what they want to achieve.
Capitalist businesses want to achieve one thing. Profit. Sure, you will find things like B-corps who try to have a broader range of agreed goals, but if they cannot make a profit, the other gaols are jettisoned.
> Your living in a total fantasy world.
I literally part-own and run a business. I suspect I have a better grasp of this than you think.
I also highly recommend a book called "Consequences of Capitalism". It’s a series of lectures from a couple of professors at a US university, Noam Chomsly and Marv Waterstone. It’s available as an audiobook, normal book and as a free PDF is you search for it.
It explains the downstream effects on our society and our planet of the workings of capitalism. The most dangerous one that we face right now, by far, is the climate emergency. BTW that is why I am anti-capitalist despite actually running a business.
The logic of capitalism demands constant and insatiable growth and profit no matter the external consequences. And the scale of the system means that those consequences are now threatening the habitability of the planet within a few decades.
Put aside all the issues of justice and democracy. Climate makes the case against capitalism on its own.
@Medieval peasant
Elon Musk didn't do that. He was at the head of a team of tens of thousands of workers who did that.
And buying and selling retail stocks is gambling. It isn't the actual practice of capitalism.
The practice of capitalism is to take capital, but materials, machinery and labour power, then produce output products at a higher value than what you paid for the inputs.
That necessarily means that you pay workers less than the value of their labour, otherwise you would make no profit.
Then you take the new money you have generated and do if over and over and over again, accumulating ever more wealth.
Also, the first you heard about the alternative to the capitalist model of business ownership was when I told you about. You thought that the alternative to capitalists owning enterprises was for states to own them.
Can I suggest that before you reflexively criticise any alternative to capitalism, you actually take some time to understand what if you are defending and what it is that you are opposing when I suggest alternatives.
Let me tell you this as someone older than you (you describe yourself as a young person and I, regrettably am not).
Capitalism does not value you further than it can exploit you. If you think you are one of the winners in this system, assuming that you aren't already rich, then your chances of becoming one are extremely slim. Thanks to who I mixed with at uni, I personally know the kind of people who run banks, law firms, private equity houses, venture capitalists etc. These are the guys who run the economy. The fact that they are causing a climate catastrophe is just boring to them. The fact that millions are struggling to pay their food bills is meaningless. They think is just the proper working of the system. This isn't a class to aspire to.
Capitalism has your future in its crosshairs. The future habitability of your planet is in the balance right now. Capitalists don't give a flying f--k.
Well said Eddie ! We need more of this and much much, much less of what the media wants us to think . United we stand 💪