TODAY: UK ELECTION SPECIAL | Former Speaker of the House John Bercow on the future of
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- John Bercow shares his opinion on past Prime Ministers and what the UK needs in these elections.
Do you agree? What will the results of these elections be?
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The longest-serving Speaker of the House of Commons since the Second World War, John Bercow was once seen as on the right of the Tory party, later becoming a member of the Tory shadow cabinet. He moved to the left throughout his political career subsequently becoming a thorn in the side of the Conservative Johnson government. Join him as he outlines his vision for the future and why Britain desperately needs change.
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John Bercow is one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics. As Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, his distinctive bellow for order spanned the tenure of four Prime Ministers and a decade of political turmoil.
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00:00 Introduction
00:15 Bercow assesses Prime Ministers
02:50 Rishi Sunak
05:20 The main opposition party
07:39 Labour platform
10:34 Keir Starmer
12:05 Economic failings
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Do you agree with John Bercow? What are your thought's on today's historic general elections? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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You must be congratulated million times for bringing out a man of integrity, decency and courage. Hats off!
@@tonyroy8123 Bercow has integrity? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@bikes02 Not for people like you who do not like following rules, laws and being disruptive with no substance.
@@bikes02 Oh BTW, did you ever go to school? And learnt any discipline, respect and obedience? 😂😂😂😂
@@tonyroy8123 I'm democratic, unlike trolls like you
From Germany: Jon Bercow, always a voice of reason and of deep understanding. It is people like him, you should listen to, dear Brits.
I think not.
@@AlienatedNortherner Then just move on with the mess you created. I will happily watch from the sidelines.
@ppckrtt If you think that I hold institutional power, you are seriously mistaken.
Germany also looks like a basket case these days.
Well he certainly took a long time to say very little, for his sake its best he spent his career in the public sector - the private sector expects results.
@@ppckrtt 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another nail in the coffin of Conservative politics and politicians.
They're worse than bloody Dracula, every time you think they're dead...
Two hundred years of basically not changing much, kind of goes with their title, conservative.
Hardly needed many nails as the so-called Conservatives have spent the last decade or so hammering the nails in themselves.
If I was a leftist / didn't care about British traditions, I wouldn't be so down on the Tories as you guys are. Is it just your reflexes? Has the country ever been more left-wing? The whole British establishment is left-wing. A million immigrants a year, suicidal net zero, high taxes, blokes in women's prison, coastal invasion, censorship, etc. They are more left-wing than Blair and Brown. They've truly betrayed their voters and you guys seem to be fighting the Tories of the past, the ghost of Maggie.
Bercow is the most articulate and informative speaker I’ve heard in a very long time.
He’s so right about tax evasion. The rich avoid paying taxes to the detriment of all of us.
…and are proud of themselves for doing it. They have no morals whatsoever.
Orderrrrrrrrrrrr; Oh how I miss Bercow, a legend.
Me too, he was really worth listening to as a speaker!
Still the greatest speaker of all time, I really miss him sitting in the chair
For me it's a tie between him and Betty Boothroyd.
Cant believe i am agreeing so much with an ex tori mp. Powerful speech!
he left the torys 15 years ago
Believe it or not, this is what a lot of the tories used to be like if you go back far enough... What they've become is a travesty.
Tax Evasion. Say it again
@@bumberClart1000 insider trading too
Tax evasion. Remix it!
@@jamesyboy4626 now there’s a thought/tune 😆✌️
@@bumberClart1000 now put it in subtitles and slow it down lol.
@@jamesyboy4626 now add the viola’s and soft timbre? Bosh 🎼☺️
Agree or disagree with John Bercow it doesn't matter. the fact is this: It's nice to hear a career politician eloquently express HIS OWN THOUGHTS on a matter. This is how politics is supposed to be.
No telepromptor, no notes, delivered at a steady pace with clarity and wit, full of asides and diversions, but able to turn around on a tuppence back to the main thrust ever closer to his peroration.
Arguably one of the last decent tory MP's.
@@josephjones1093 Is he not Labour now? He would have given Labour a win they earned had he been the Party Leader.
@@earthman6700 He joined Labour after he stepped down (under pressure) as Speaker.
@@josephjones1093 As Speaker for nearly a decade he did not take the Tory whip in keeping with convention. He was quite right wing before.
@martycrow This is new to me though, when I just heard him promoting labour I thought is this AI lmao. Think I will go learn why he switched, thanks.
I ponder why all of the articulate, informed politicians are on the sidelines
they can't compete with the toxic enviroment of modern politics that favour drama, exciting stories and charisma instead of real policies.
Can you tell the difference between sophistry and argumentation, between dialectic and rhetoric? Being articulate is more than simply having a large vocabulary and speaking a lot of words. Berkowitz takes 16 minutes to say what can be said articulately in 5. He loves to hear himself talk. He's a massive egotist and sophist.
@@TPQ1980 Name one piece of sophistry he says here and use as few words per your own standard.
@@TPQ1980 tosh. Voluptuous and poetic vocabulary has its own role to play in rhetoric as Aristotle will tell you. And this is politics not a dispassionate aloof Socratic enquiry, again a distinction firmly observed by the classical writers, Aristotle and Cicero to my knowledge but I expect others too. Bercow is sometimes a bit of a windbag admittedly but at he’s best he’s brilliant precisely because of his exceptional choice of words
These " reasonable" Tories rested on the comfort cushion of colonial/imperialist looting
Well said Mr Bercow. What a delight to hear him talk.
An honest decent man for the nation. He will singe Farage!
@@tonyroy8123 Keep dreaming toxic lefty
tens of trillions are hidden off shore by psychopaths.
You don't how close to the truth you speak my friend. 😜😜
DONT WORRY IF OUR COUNTRY GETS ATTACKED IN THE FUTURE, THEN THEY WILL ALL BE FORCED TO SPEND IT VERY QUICKLY UPON THE NATIONAL DEFENCE OR RISK GOING UNDER WITH THE REST OF US. MY SUGGESTIONS ARE THEREFORE: TO BUY A LOT OF UNDERWATER DRONES 4 THE IRISH COAST IN PARTICULAR, AND TO DIVERSIFY FAR MORE PORT LANDING SITES.
they help to keep the world economy afloat
@@VOLightPortal Surely you don’t actually believe this is what they’re held offshore for?
Why is it hidden offshore not for d good of d British economy 😮
God I love this guy, and I'm not even a Brit! I would pay serious cash to see him and Bernie Sanders discuss working class needs in the US and UK.
He took the words out my very own mouth.
British politics needs people like this.
Conservative politicians went against him because he refuse to grant the invitation of Donald Trump, wow.
John Bercow is one of the greatest politician we have in this country and his trade mark word will stand a test of time “ Order, Ooorder” 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@@LoveLove-bc9np 😎❣️
Tax evasion. Great point
Legendary Bercow .... the best independent speaker of the house ever. Respect "Sir" Mr. Bercow 🫡🫡🫡
White Collar crime is a bigger issue than violent crime or drugs etc. Yet our prisons are full of low level criminals, while the real economic and social villains have little to no impact. This is not by mistake, but by design
This is how a conservative social system works: There is a small “in group” which is protected by law but not bound by it; and there is a large “out group” which is bound by law but not protected by it.
London runs on white collar crime. What are you talking about ?
Bercow is one of my heroes. He singlehandedly denied Trump the stage of a speech to the house, in the early days of his presidency. By doing so he was one of the few to stem the tide.
🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵your such a nelly 🥵
@@cliffrightmove1527you’re illiterate
The best speaker ever with conviction, integrity and courage. Hats off!
What tide? 😂 I voted brexit just to spite wee fannies like you
@@tonyroy8123👍👏👏
Boris Johnston turning up to vote without I.D sums up his tenure as the PM who's Government introduced the requirement.
Hypocrite
Bring Bercow back. Best speaker ever!!
No. That title belongs to Betty Boothroyd
@@derekwhyle1884 That is 100% correct. Bercow is an easy second though. Orrrrddaah!!
Brilliant man and Speaker. Maligned and hounded out of office.
Stitched up - no doubt about it.
For bullying if I recall.
He was awful and bias. Look at the current Speaker and how he’s handling his job perfectly.
@@hus390 🤣🤣
@@hus390 Perfectly? Look at how he buckled under when Starmer "suggested" that he defy convention and allow Labour to hijack the SNP's Opposition Day debate...Hoyle is a weakling.
15.4 billion is paid directly to private landlords.
In Housing Benefit.
We only spend 12.6 billion on Child Benefit.
Why private landlords are on a housing benefit please? Is it legal or misusing of the system? Sorry I am not British, so do not really understand it.
@ncfungirl209 the Tennant claims it. But it goes straight to the Lords.
Then the Lords call the tennants scroungers.
Don't worry. Most British do not understand it either. Or there would be an outcry.
I think that the public schools should be inspected, as rigorously as the state sector.
In 2010 the economy wasn't in bad shape. 14 years later we're on our uppers. Where has all the money gone?
Ask David Cameron where the money has gone.
Refreshing to hear an eloquent politician map out what the country is likely to vote for and the way forward.
Well said John, difficult to disagree with what you are saying. Connected common sense, very refreshing.
I do hope this speech will become a primer for all modern British history students.
Indisputably entertaining and thought-provoking.
I loved this guy as Speaker, I'm glad he can speak his mind now, even if everyone has bullied him out of the parliament
Truss was not even a good member of the Conservative government as a Minister (as Bercow implied) as an ex-civil servant or advisor (can't remember which) said she wasn't even interested in the areas that she presided over as a Minister.
I'd argue that Sunak didn't even start well. Almost his first act was to re-instate a Home Secretary who'd been fired less than a week earlier for a security breach, and a Home Secretary he must have known didn't even vaguely share his world view. From that point on, although the bluster was gone, although the public performance was lacking, I can't think of any substantive actions he took of which I can honestly say "I don't think Boris Johnson would have done that". He promised to be different, but he was more of the same. Perfect example - look at his response when slapped down by the courts on Rwanda (a policy Sunak is known to have thought was nuts to start with). If anything, his response to that setback was even worse than Johnson's response when the Supreme Court did something similar to him.
@@chrispalmer7893 In a previous UK government Braverman would have been sacked for less. Patel, Sunak and Braverman…I often wonder if they’re ex colonials coming back to destroy the UK? Not a popular thought but sometimes I wonder.
@@tomwalsh2244 that seems to be the sentiment of many ex colonial types that I have encountered through my workplace. Here to take what’s rightfully theirs, stolen by the British from their forefathers
@@johnholmes5674 It’s an interesting one. But they’ve shown exactly the people they are. Me, half Irish half Spanish. Live in both. The past is the past and the way things are we will need each other more and more in the future. Build bridges and get over yourself is my philosophy. But Cruella Braverman in particular, a Sorbonne educated person with a mediocre law career. I often wonder how she convinces people to even vote for her let alone actually climb the greasy pole to get her hands on the levers of power.
Begs the question...why were they allowed to continue for so long, when it was so horribly apparent just how bad things had become?
Bad system that wasn't ready for voters being manipulated by techniques brought over by the states
People continued to elect Tories for nearly 3 terms just for the sake of their promise on curbing immigration which never materialised, all that Tories achieved was creating a big financial parity between the rich and the poor
ask yourselves ,,, who owns britain .... there is your problem ... good luck trying to fix that mess
The Former Speaker, displays his intelligence and integrity, it gives me hope that such people exist.
I'm always nervous about eggs being counted before they have hatched. Disappointment has so often been my reaction to past elections.
@@heliotropezzz333 labput are gonna sail through this, my friend
Broken promises 😢
That would be Chickens being counted, surely.
@@garyt.8745 Yes. I thought that and for some reason it didn't sound right to me when I thought it, so I changed it to eggs. It was one of those moments.
Please come to the US and straighten our electorate out!
I miss John being Speaker so much, his replacement is such a damp squib by comparison. He also expanded my vocabulary 😊
His replacement is not fit to hold the office.
He’s such a breath of fresh air ❤️ John Bercow.
I do agree wholeheartedly with John Bercow. The time is long overdue that we had decency and humanity in our politics.
It's time people voted for that!
Underpromise and overdeliver not Overpromise and underdeliver!! Point noted dear Mr. Bercow. A lesson for all politicians across the globe.
The “…disreputable troika…” (Johnson, Truss, Sunak). That’s a wonderfully understated sledge hammer of truth.
I listen to him in awe, at the clear, concise and clinical way he communicates.
Well said John Bercow, a brilliant and truthful summation!
As articulate as ever! Well said, sir!
Bring Back Bercow
I live in the North West, and I guarantee that Farage will do far better than expected, its frightening that people are turning to Reform thinking he is capable of fixing the problems and issues throughout the UK. Its the strangest buid up to an election I've ever known, I don't know anyone , one or two who will be voting for the main two parties. Things look quite worrying, I would vote for the workers party but they don't have a candidate in my town.
So sad how good folk can be so _easily conned_ by the privately educated broker son of a stock-broker, just because he occasionally poses with a pint in one hand and a pie in the other, and openly spouts risqué views on immigration, etc. (Ie. What _they_ think, but are too ashamed to voice). Just sad.
Even Bercow is sounding sensible.
Sensational! All of that!! He has more than charisma but he also has much competence. I very much liked him as Speaker!! What a loss!!! 👏👏👏 Extremely disappointed that the link doesnt let me watch the full talk without paying.....albeit with a spurious free trial offer. x
Hear, hear! Well said that man. Mr. Bercow, you deserved so much better than the hand you were dealt having to deal with the charlatans of the ERG.
40% of people in work are claiming benefits.
Be interested to see if that goes up or down under Labour.
Totally agree and people have to jump through hoops to get the benefits that they’re entitled to
An excellent articulation of Kier Starmer’s widely misunderstood strategy.
I don’t know him but I feel like he’s a good man deep down. Being autistic myself and knowing he has a son with autism only strengthens my respect for him.
He's not a good man.
He is an obnoxious pipsqeak.
Oordaar! Oordaaar!
Well said, that man! What a waste of a great man - great intelligence and intellect, and brilliantly articulate. Pushed out because of some petty grudge. A great mistake.
Sounds like he knows what he is talking about nice to hear logic and common sense at last
This man speaks clearly and concisely . We deeply need this sort of people in power .
foodbanks reminds me of the bread dole handed out to the poorest in city of Rome during the Republic & Roman Empire..........................so they don't riot and rais hell...........................WHAT A STEP .............2000 YEARS BACKWARDS!!!
To think how this all started with a Bullingdon Club toff being spooked by another toff into holding a plebiscite on leaving the EU. The repair needed will take decades.
The best Speaker since Betty Boothroyd .
Get him back on Sky News ✌️
When is this from? It seems to be before the manifesto was released, which was a few weeks ago
The best speaker ever and a shining light for Labour!
If ever anyone despoiled his office, this Speaker did!! Begone, Sir!!
Love this guy!
Tax evasion has always been the biggest problem in the UK if not the world . But no one will ever do anything about it because it's rich people. Way easier to go after people who have little to nothing. The people on benefits are an easy target because they have no voice and no money to buy power and influence
I'm an American but I remember this guy trying to bring order to the fractious Parliament post Brexit. Considering the results of July 4th UK elections he has now succeeded! I've been watching closely because I do consider the results a bellwether for our own in November. Similar players on both sides of the pond. Democracy will prevail!
Hear, Hear!
Bravo! We need this man on this side of the pond.
Well said, Mr Bercow!
He was awful and bias. Look at the current Speaker and how he’s handling his job perfectly.
@@hus390😂😂😂 Hoyle is a limp-wristed milksop, that's why we see so much more of his stand-ins!
Exclent. As always John you are spot on. How we miss your calm authority in the house. May all speakers achieve your prowess 😎
Great Speaker, better than Hoyle!
When was this?
Bercow the Legend. Fearless, and as Speaker always told it how it was.
Even when I was Tory, I always held this guy in high regard - a decent honest man, who always respected the 'rule of law'. Everything he said is absolutely spot on!!!!
Manifestos are just working documents which are never implemented😢
They're a list of things the House of Lords can't reject.
How many would you like me to list that have been implemented ?.....there are many to choose from.
A wonderful insight into the debate from one who was at the very heart of the UK Parliamentary process for many years.
Educatonal and entertaining.
If I remember right, John Bercow's parliamentary pass was withdrawn once he left his position of speaker of the house and he was denied a peerage in the house of lords and subsequently became a member of the Labour party. It will be interesting to know upon Labours succession if things change. All in all he is a significant orator and should perhaps be recognised as such. As and what role if any he would undertake, given he is no longer an active politician I have no idea.
One of the best speeches on British politics I've heard in my lifetime 😊
Brilliant! A perfect speaker. Hope to hear more from him in the future.
Thank you dear gentleman John Bercow!
Seeing Jonn Bercow, a conservative, to American corrupt politicians gives me hope in Great Britain!
It's silly they can not even make up their mind which Tory can be a Brit. PM, keep changing along the way. 😵😵
Yes I agree with him I also want boring politicians who get on with running the country and not ones who crave the limelight and spend more time in TV studios talking on talk shows I want change
From the best Speaker the house has ever had.
What makes him the best ? Plz elaborate.
@@aninda2457 eg. I think that Brexit was a key moment in UK politics. Bercow did his best to restrain the prominent brexiteers and did his job well therefore. Brexit of course has proved to be a disaster.
@@timkbirchico8542 that is a different argument. But not allowing others to speak is not a sign of healthy democracy.
Love this guy especially when he’s calling for order please.
It’s a shame John Bercow hasn’t been appointed as a lord in the House of Lords. As an Italian citizen, I got passionate about British politics thanks to him: I think he has been one of, if not the best speaker in the history of Uk. Unfortunately, however, “nemo propheta in patria”.
If you really care about this country's future then vote Reform!
I see Bercow as a person with integrity and am sure he believes what he is saying. Personally, after the way Starmer treated Jeremy, my trust in the new prime minister is non existent. No decent, moral person would be capable of such behaviour.
this man speaks so much sense..why was he ever a Tory?
Order. Order.
Thank goodness he said: ‘Withdrawing the charitable status of fee paying public schools.’ The press continues to peddle the falsehood - ‘taxing public schools’.
This guy should be Labour Party Leader.
Nice one John 👍🇬🇧
Some very good points
Well he’s certainly speaking plainly with common sense.
Brilliant speech Brilliantly delivered.
Such a terrific speech maker,
I do miss him as Speaker.