@@routeman680 PFI was introduced to get private funding to help build hospitals. It didn't work, but when the Tories came to power in 2010, private healthcare providers began springing up, mainly American, and began charging the NHS exorbitant prices for basic healthcare, aided by the promotion of American Healthcare professionals onto the boards of NHS trusts. We have a shortage of nurses and doctors, yet thousands of them are working in the nhs through agencies, who charge up to 20x the hourly rate for weekend and emergency cover, and 10x the hourly rate for normal hours. The nurses and doctors working for the agencies are often being paid 2x what they could earn with the nhs. Until this changes, the NHS is going to swallow more and more of the budget, some tough decisions will need to be made, I doubt Labour will do much, and the Tories are quite happy because this is what they want, the end of the NHS. Your statement is incorrect, the profitable parts of the NHS have been privatised, just very quietly.
@@wolfen210959 I work in the NHS, agree with everything you've said and have always thought that dependence on agencies was insane. I didn't know they charged 10 or 20 times the hourly rate of NHS doctors and nurses though, could you tell me where you've got these numbers please?
Your right....But turns out the 'extremists aligned with the majority of the British Public. Turns out the party then spent years suppressing the will of the people. Boris promised to align with the electorate...But the party hated that. Rory Stewart was one of the majority Tories...that hated the decision of the people that elected his party. As a life long Tory...I now see them as my enemy.
@@ascgazz You know what, I think he is okay, neither far left nor far right works, ever, anywhere. I can identify with some of his values and respect him. The screaming comments from both sides are actually ignored by over 60 million people😂😂 The centre ground with far left and far right outliers are what makes Britain a nice place to live. I like weird religions being here, I like different cultures. i dont like those cultures trying to turn Britain into their own failed cultures and nations. I respect religions but have no interest and believe that religion has NO place in western politics. at. all.
Bright yes, which most of them aren't. And honest and capable of long-term thinking. But still ideologically a Tory, which becomes clear when you look at his idea of how to reform the NHS - apparently by confronting (= reducing pay) of junior doctors and other staff. He's right in that the current mode of health care isn't sustainable, but if his idea of reform is the classic Tory cutting of wages, he hasn't looked deep enough, clouded by his ideology (and generational concerns obscuring the bigger picture, I dare say.)
I don't think losing your seat can be described as escaping a cult. He was rejected and has suddenly realised that he has a penchant for stirring it on a left wing propoganda channel.
Why would anyone want to "take on" junior doctors? They`ve had a 35% cut in wages over the last 20 years. Would you be happy to be in that situation? Why not take on politicians who have made sure their pay keeps pace with inflation. Hypocritical, or what?
My sister is a doctor. The NHS fundamentally has a staffing issue. They don't have enough doctors to match the work. This end up costing them more. They fill posts (sometimes for long periods) with locum (temporary) doctors, which charge much higher rates. They overwork their normal full-time doctors which puts them off, making them turn to part time or lucum work or quitting. The number of doctors being trained is controlled by the government. It's a problem they have caused, on purpose. Get rid of the Tories!
@@tai31415 Yet the NHS has taken on 50 percent more staff since the lock down and we the public cannot get an appointment. So what are they all doing for the money?
@@kevin9sc yep but as the NHS has taken on 50 percent more staff since the lock down ----- what are they doing and what are their qualifications. Have they taken on 500,000 (NHS has more than 1.5 million employees) woke diversity advisors? You should be worried about this, its your tax money as well as mine so don't defend it unless you're an alphabet person of no interest to the rest of us.
"Lord Cameron". I still can't get over those words. The man who is responsible for so much of the misery we are facing today in this country is in the house of lords.
The Tory party didn't turn 'bad' in 2019 - they have been rotten, toxic, selfish and unfair for as long as I can remember ... David Mellor, Selwyn-Gummer, Tebbit , Ted Heath - the list of nauseating characters is endless.
The Tories always put party first, country second - Camerons panic over UKIP led to a referendum on Europe - leading to the destruction of the Tory Party - the only upside of Brexit.
All true. But once given the opportunities afforded by Brexit, they blew it. They don't know how to run an independent country. We kow-tow to Europe on trade and admin and ride on the US coat-tails on foreign policy. We have lost all sense of being a coherent country, that's also why we seem intent on using foreign trained labour to run our services. We are in a very sorry state. We must learn to stand on our own two feet and make our own future.
I'm guessing that you were not with the majority that voted Brexit....Just like Rory and the majority of the his party. Turns out the party then spent years suppressing the will of the people. Boris promised to align with the electorate...But the party hated that. As a life long Tory...I now see them as my enemy. Why...because people like Rory and the majority of the party felt they knew better...They despised the people that gave them an 80 seat majority. Bringing back Cameron was worse than leaving the D-Day event....Inept and out of touch.
Rory is a class act. Just finished his book, a great read illustrating how rotten the Tories are, says an ex-Conservative voter. Another question, why is the unelected Cameron in government?
4 out of every £10 to the NHS? Yeah, but that is being funnelled into the private sector which his party encouraged. A slightly sensible tory is still a tory.
@@aleph8888 And why not! They sacrificed their health and some of them their lives to defend us from a pandemic and the government returned the favour by clapping and not paying them nearly as much as they are worth whilst dismantling the NHS around them!
The NHS is a shambles. We could spend every penny we have on it and it wouldn't work. Scrap it and start again. Of course we have too many people in the country to start with.
The NHS model simply doesn't work in 21st century. No wonder no other OECD country has it. It's high time we move to a European model. People who can afford should pay into various private insurances.
My beloved mother died in that period at least partly perhaps wholly because of the war when I was two years ten months. My father fired the Steam Engines through the Blitz once running over three bombs sabotaged by the workers in Germany, then the side driving rod came off when passing over a bridge, luckily the trailing one, then missed being fire bombed because his Engine was 'thirsty' etc. My Uncle on my mother's side shot down 13 aircraft before he was shot down. My Uncle on my father's side lost his leg fighting in Italy. First Uncle on my step-mother's side was tail gunner on a Lancaster Second Uncle fought through Burma behind the lines--a Chindet. My Engine Driver Ron was in the rear guard at Dunkirk to escape with his mate Big Sam to walk across France to get out & fight in the Eighth Army. Big Sam also became an engine driver. Other Drivers I had fought at Dunkirk across Europe into Germany. Sunak's apology is a non-apology. God's sake people do not vote for this clown or his Party the CONS who have destroyed this UK of ours so many fought & gave their lives for & to remove the Monsters from the Continent with many from the Commonwealth, America & elsewhere
"comical, dishonest buffoon" I knew immediately from that title that he must mean Boris Johnson but before Johnson we had Cameron and Osbourne putting us through years of austerity brought about by the actions of hedge fund managers like Rishi Sunak.
Amiable enough character but personal expectations still wrapped up in an outdated sense of inherited entitlement that conveniently masks the only too obvious greed at the heart of Toryland.
Rishi appears to hold the belief he is above answering to anyone, especially the electorate. Petulant and arrogant. Both clearly on display in the latest interviews.
@blazzz13 I love the way conservative voters try to lump all MP's in with CONservative MP's. No, my dear, CONservatives are simply disgusting and always have been.
Agree, but he isn't incorrect that that was the Tory strategy which had worked relatively well over the past 50 years or so. The Tories have always been dogshit, but they have a history of winning through that kind of messaging.
He is a very sensible person, and if you really do think you could listen to him all day, and aren't already following it, I highly recommend watching The Rest Is Politics - there are some excellent discussions on that channel, and while there is certainly a healthy rivalry (one person former Labour, one person former Tory), overall, it very much feels more like the sorts of discussions that were a hallmark of British politics under John Major. I find it very informative and enjoyable.
Meh. He was ok with Thatcher, Major, the short baldy, the tall baldy, & Cameron. He was a fully paid up member of the nasty party and should apologise for his role and then quietly leave public life.
Stewart is the living embodiment of why our system is broken. Losing a serious, capable politician in favour of self serving careerist idiots who have no vision or ability. The system has to change, we are being left behind.
Sunak the D-Day Dodger, left our veterans on the beaches of Normandy and never had the grace to show respect to our American allies by visiting Omaha Beach. I wonder how that will be received when he scuttles off to America after the election. VOTE TACTICALLY to get them out
Would Biden (or any American president for that matter) bother to visit Gold, Juno, or Sword Beaches? I sincerely doubt it. Americans do not care about their “allies”.
Rory Stewart would have served the National with integrity and honour had he not have been torpedoed by Boris Johnson. Rory was a credible threat to his leadership bid.
Rishi is the country's number one priority, at least in Rishi's idiotic mind. Welcome to Brexit Britain. Rory always comes across as decent while admitting he was part of this mess. This mess started 14years ago. You can't keep propping up the well off at the expence of the poor which is the conservative party way.
I am a socialist but Rory is a descent man and tells the truth about the decline of this country brought on by this right wing Tory brexiteer party. We need people like him in politics
I have great respect for Rory Stewart I'm neither tory nor Labour but Rory would have been a far superior leader to Johnson, Truss or Sunak. Missed opportunity 😮 PEACE to palestine 🇵🇸
Don't agree with Stewart's comments on junior doctors, but unlike most of the current Conservative party, I do respect the man. Wish we could get back to a political system where we can disagree, but have MPs that are worthy of respect.
Rory Stewart (his father was second in charge of MI6) would have been a far better PM than Johnson, Truss, or Sunak he has that Scottish intellectual deep thinking brain.
@@Graham_Shaw I do accept he is different, but I am frankly resentful of his attitude towards the NHS and junior doctors in particular I am relieved he is not in charge when I hear that Tory s**t from his mouth
There are new estates going up everywhere where I live and where I travel for work. I dont know what world you are living in but if anything there are too many houses being built.
@@deco2132 Proof you can't think outside your immediate bubble. What you perceive as 'too many' is still too few for the fact that there are 70 million living here. First time ever young people are more likely to live at home than move out.
Had Rory been chosen as leader instead of Johnson, the Tories would have won this election. The moderates like Gauke, Grieve, etc wouldn't have been kicked out and the right wing wouldn't have taken over. Instead the Tories are going to get the biggest kicking I've ever witnessed
Biggest laugh I've had all day! He'd be removed quicker than you can say Boris Johnson if that ever happened, anyway he's a socialist who never belonged in the Tory party, a total disgrace of a man
@@mesolithicman164 Both bowed to the right wing of the party. Patel, Suella got into the cabinet. The ERG held power around Brexit. Johnson kicked all the moderates out in 2019, then determined who could stand. He has zero idea about what was in the Brexit deal, he didn't care, so fell in line with the right wing. Sunak has been scared shitless of the right of the party ever since becoming PM. I'm not wrong
There is a lot of wrong with NHS, including spending money on external contractors, and very specific companies - when the job could have been done internally (and has been done for many years). But no, suddendly we need to spend more for something like TT, or even now Epic, and at the same time cutting a lot of people, and spending money for some extra certifications in Epic (even basic training course can be like 2K British pounds per person). Yeah, somebody is making money our of that. I wonder if people know what there have been a lot of redundancies and fireing people last year, November-December time, across various NHS Trusts. Probably not, as it wasn't in the papers at all (and there is a reason for it)... It was brutal, unprofessional, and the way it was done was completely wrong. But I guess, who cares, as it wasn't in the papers.
@@covfefe1787 So long as it doesn't devolve into the horrors of the american system. Given how much profiteering there already is I don't trust that it wouldn't.
Ask yourself Rory just WHY 4 out of every 10 £ is going to the NHS? So much due the funneling of money to the private sector by your beloved Tory party!
Could it be the same reason why houses are unaffordable, you can't see a doctor and schools are oversubscribed? When you bring in millions of immigrants all wanting to use services most of them have never contributed to, you can see why so much taxpayer money has been diverted to the NHS to try to deal with the overload.
@@mesolithicman164 'millions of immigrants'? Firstly, how do you know that 'most haven't contributed to'? Secondly, take overseas students, they pay far more than 'indigenous' students, (I used that word as it's probably the kind of you might use) they, along with overseas workers pay an NHS premium on top of their visa. Given their ages they are far less likely to need the services of the NHS. You sedm to have fallen for the classic 'don't blame those in charge (who are the ones that haven't invested in much needed infrastructure!) blame 'them'.
@@mesolithicman164these immigrants are the people who run our NHS and treat you when you get sick! The Brexit boys chased away my dentist of 14years standing and now I can't get an appt with the private agency dentist who only works 1 day per week.!
@@supernoodles91 "What are the UK's latest migrations statistics? The latest estimates on migration from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that in 2023: 1.2 million people migrated into the UK and 532,000 people emigrated from it, leaving a net migration figure of 685,000.24 May 2024" In one year 1.2 million. It will be a similar amount this year. That qualifies as "millions" in my book. And the ones leaving, tragically, is a very high percentage of young well educated Brits moving to Australia and other countries where they can start a life and afford a property. "Where do people emigrate from the UK? Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand are major English-speaking countries where UK citizens emigrate. Britons don't need a visa to travel to these countries."
I like Rory but the moment he says “Labour have to take on the Unions” he shows like all Tories he understands nothing. Unions are the lubricant between management and the work force. You cannot implement change without the unions to help implement that change and bring the workers with you
I really recommend watching The Rest Is Politics if you enjoy listening to him and his thoughts, he and his cohost there have some excellent conversations, and the discussions can be very thought provoking. While there's a healthy rivalry between the two co-hosts (his co-host was formerly with the Labour party), the two are really quite cordial and friendly, even when they don't agree with one another. Well worth looking up. To me, Rory Stewart very much feels like the old style of Conservative, along the lines of John Major, and I do think that, if the Tory party is to survive, it perhaps needs to look at what had made it successful in its past - something which I believe Rory Stewart was alluding to in this interview.
@@KidarWolf The Tory Party has to rely on cleverness to survive. It’s run by very few , whose interests it represents. When the working-class ( men only ! ). won the right to vote in the 1870s, one MP stood up in the Commons and said, “ Gentlemen, we must now educate our Masters”. They knew exactly what he meant. And they’ve been doing it ever since.
@@lesliehall7683 Sure... that'll be why the leave campaigns in France, The Netherlands and Italy have all gone quiet... because they're all about to emulate Breaksh!t...
I don't know what the labour party stands for anymore. The only difference I can see between them at the moment is that the prospective labour party hasn't proven itself to be incompetent and corrupt. But they haven't yet had the chance to
@richybatty. He found his conscience far too late to be making his appeal now. Technically, he is deserting when his side was facing certain defeat. He has never addressed this. And nobody has even pressed him on it. He may be sincere now, but men of his privileged class see no need to say sorry for my part in what happened. It wouldn’t occur to them.
His conscience is so strong he happily voted for all the austerity measures taken since 2010. His standards were so high he voted for Johnson over Corbyn because if there's anything a Tory hates more than idiocy, it's socialism and losing their wealth and social status.
Sunak can't govern, he can't campaign, he can't even lie competently and now he hasn't even got the common sense to stay where he was for a few hours instead of going back home for a largely pointless interview. For all our sakes, get rid of this silly little man and the Party behind him, VOTE LABOUR on July 4th.
@@voice.of.reasonwhy should people vote for a, uhm, "party" (in many countries such legal structure as the one of ReformUK, established as an Ltd, wouldn't be allowed to field any candidates) without a democratic process to elect its leader?
@@agt155 mabye not as big but middle lane voters - he would have won. Tories think more people are far right than actually are. So they keep giving us this far right content and these far right candidates. THE PUBLIC IS NOT THE SAME AS TORY PARTY VOTERS. And that’s why he may have won a majority because even Labour people could get behind him. Soon as Tories go into that far right territory…. Most voters are not actually interested in them and find those ideologies to extreme.
Disappointing that the normally astute Rory Stewart parrots the old cliche about the NHS costing more and more because of lack of reform, rather than the unnecessary reforms brough in by his government which allows money to flood out to shareholders and the tendering process, rather than delivering healthcare in house, which is always most cost-effective.
Rory Stewart is so right. Until Liz Truss, the Conservative Party was the only one that many voters could trust with the economy. After Liz Truss, those same voters believe that the Labour Party's economic management could not be any worse!
To be fair it's only right to judge someone on what they voted in a free vote. Mostly they are under the instructions of the whip and have to vote one way or the other.
It is an "untory thing to do" to be caught up in ideologies? Really? The Tory Party has always been ideologically driven! "Small government", "low taxes", obsession with the private sector, etc.
Heath was the first to say Empire had gone and the world doesn’t owe us a living. We need to look to a different future, which many might say wasn’t a Tory future.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Ideology is definied by Cambridge Dict. as "a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based". I suppose "classical capitalism", as one example, would fall into that. ["Small government", "low taxes", obsession with the private sector, etc. are just individual items of a "set"] Ideology and dogma are sometimes used interchangeably in the media, though that might not be strictly correct as perhaps you are suggesting. I'm not disagreeing with you as I don't have the expertise there. I don't have a dog in the fight. 🙂
Choosing Boris over Stewart really was where the modern Tory party opted for disaster. As a life long Labour voter (in the last election through gritted teeth, a real case of bad vs absolutely terrible) I would have opted for a Stewart led Tory party over a Corbyn led Labour Party.
Rory is light years ahead of the rest of the tories I would not vote Conservative but I would vote for Rory because he is a decent human being and bright
More woe is me talk from Stewart - he voted on plenty of heinous things when he was an MP, so that’s just him throwing in the towel - also his centre right ideologies are what enables the far right by extension, how can he not see that
I am still a bit amazed by Rory's discourse about simply rejoining the single market. To me, it reflects a pre-Brexit disillusion that we can just rejoin without understanding that there is no political will or advantage for the EU to accept the UK back without imposing conditions that the UK would likely reject. This might explain why neither party is offering this as an option. Rejoining would reopen issues like immigration (free movement) and EU laws and regulations, which would be unpopular with the media and some portions of the population. Rory, it would be ideal, but you have to consider the full picture. In the short to medium term, this is not possible, as the EU's demands would be unacceptable for the UK (unless you believe in UK exceptionalism).
Most on hear have either selective memories or are politically backward Rory Stewart voted against lifting the pay cap for Public sector workers. He certainly united the country with his Right wing Ideology.
Very true! To be elected as an MP you need to be endorsed by one party or the other Nd both parties have been "hired"by big business and the Corprotocracy to protect their wealth
Rory has a lot of books. Is there one that explains how he became a Tory MP and stuck with them for so long? Hindsight is a fine thing and he is the living embodiment of it.
Rory, I respect in large part what you say, on many issues. Regarding the NHS (at 7:40), do you think the problem with the NHS is junior doctors asking for reasonable recompense for their hard work, long training, difficult and expensive exams, and antisocial hours worked, having chosen healthcare over other well/better paid career options? Healthcare is expensive and perhaps becoming unaffordable via the current funding method. Should we try to make it affordable by underpaying and undervaluing the hard working staff who provide it?
you was all mugs voting tory ever. I'm 55 never voted tory ever. they have done damage to this country that will never get put right. I didn't support brexit either total disaster
@jdg9999 Funny how nobody has a defence for the Tories except "but Labour... " Saying Labour will be bad is hypothetical. A prediction with very little basis. Whereas we have 14 years of evidence to see just what a disaster the Tories have been 🤷♂️
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the people who said Brexit was the reason he left early are right. So the theory goes, he stayed for the UK-centred part of the commemoraitons but, as soon as the European nations came in, he or his team felt that part wasn't relevant to the UK and so he was entitled to leave. It seems like the kind of incompetence he's capable of.
Cameron threw Sunak under the bus by not telling him leaving the D Day ceremonies was going to be an error, of course he did this for his own future ambition, that is to regain the leadership of the party after Sunak has gone.
Rory who created the NHS originally and built all the council estates labour. Tired of you doing the media rounds because you got the sack! Give it a rest.
Yes. The ideas he spouts in this interview are not insane but neither are they grounded in reality. Journalists should be a lot more critical and catch this nonsense.
Rory is a decent fellow, but he is way too quiet on major issues in this world of ours. He is very much an establishment figure. The fact he does a pod cast with Alistair "weapons of mass destruction" Campbell tells me all I need to know. I find him a little naive at times.
Tutor to Harry and William. Father something very senior in the security services. Eton. Oxbridge.Probably also himself in the security services. How much more Establishment could ANYONE get? Under the surface they are all the same.Highly privileged.
He followed this up with an apology then said his diary was more important. Then Johnny Mercer the veterans secretary accused people of fake outrage. Following day Sunak was questioned by a doctor about policy. He laughed at her.
First of all reverse the privatisation of the NHS. The NHS exists to look after the sick NOT shareholders
Nor is it a job creation scheme for left-wingers
It hasn't been privatized. But PM Blair introduced the Private Finance Initiative, if that's what you mean.
nd solve it's problems by doing what ?
@@routeman680 PFI was introduced to get private funding to help build hospitals. It didn't work, but when the Tories came to power in 2010, private healthcare providers began springing up, mainly American, and began charging the NHS exorbitant prices for basic healthcare, aided by the promotion of American Healthcare professionals onto the boards of NHS trusts. We have a shortage of nurses and doctors, yet thousands of them are working in the nhs through agencies, who charge up to 20x the hourly rate for weekend and emergency cover, and 10x the hourly rate for normal hours. The nurses and doctors working for the agencies are often being paid 2x what they could earn with the nhs. Until this changes, the NHS is going to swallow more and more of the budget, some tough decisions will need to be made, I doubt Labour will do much, and the Tories are quite happy because this is what they want, the end of the NHS.
Your statement is incorrect, the profitable parts of the NHS have been privatised, just very quietly.
@@wolfen210959 I work in the NHS, agree with everything you've said and have always thought that dependence on agencies was insane. I didn't know they charged 10 or 20 times the hourly rate of NHS doctors and nurses though, could you tell me where you've got these numbers please?
Surely the slow collapse of the Tories began with Cameron and the call for the Brexit referendum to appease the extremists within the party?
It began with 6yrs of austerity, that led to the rise of UKIP, which in turn led to the Brexit vote.
Your right....But turns out the 'extremists aligned with the majority of the British Public.
Turns out the party then spent years suppressing the will of the people.
Boris promised to align with the electorate...But the party hated that.
Rory Stewart was one of the majority Tories...that hated the decision of the people that elected his party.
As a life long Tory...I now see them as my enemy.
How can the choice of the majority of the voting population be equate to 'extremists' in any rational sense?
When over half the voters supported leaving, is that extreme?
It actually began with Thatcher just as the republicans began with Regan
Rory escaped the cult , far too bright for that lot.
Never , never, never or ever vote Tory
Brighter than many tories yes.
Still a Tory, even if not fully paid up.
@@ascgazz You know what, I think he is okay, neither far left nor far right works, ever, anywhere. I can identify with some of his values and respect him. The screaming comments from both sides are actually ignored by over 60 million people😂😂 The centre ground with far left and far right outliers are what makes Britain a nice place to live. I like weird religions being here, I like different cultures. i dont like those cultures trying to turn Britain into their own failed cultures and nations. I respect religions but have no interest and believe that religion has NO place in western politics. at. all.
Bright yes, which most of them aren't. And honest and capable of long-term thinking. But still ideologically a Tory, which becomes clear when you look at his idea of how to reform the NHS - apparently by confronting (= reducing pay) of junior doctors and other staff. He's right in that the current mode of health care isn't sustainable, but if his idea of reform is the classic Tory cutting of wages, he hasn't looked deep enough, clouded by his ideology (and generational concerns obscuring the bigger picture, I dare say.)
I don't think losing your seat can be described as escaping a cult. He was rejected and has suddenly realised that he has a penchant for stirring it on a left wing propoganda channel.
Sunak's probably already booked his one-way flight to California.
hopefully he stays there.
@@savirahyeit is a - one way - flight 🙃
Tel Aviv
Will Rwanda not take him?
No doubt
Why would anyone want to "take on" junior doctors? They`ve had a 35% cut in wages over the last 20 years. Would you be happy to be in that situation? Why not take on politicians who have made sure their pay keeps pace with inflation. Hypocritical, or what?
As I cannot see any doctor then yes I want all doctors to have there pay stopped until they start seeing the sick.
My sister is a doctor. The NHS fundamentally has a staffing issue. They don't have enough doctors to match the work. This end up costing them more.
They fill posts (sometimes for long periods) with locum (temporary) doctors, which charge much higher rates. They overwork their normal full-time doctors which puts them off, making them turn to part time or lucum work or quitting.
The number of doctors being trained is controlled by the government. It's a problem they have caused, on purpose.
Get rid of the Tories!
@@witsend236Have you considered this is because of Tory’s, not doctors?
@@tai31415 Yet the NHS has taken on 50 percent more staff since the lock down and we the public cannot get an appointment. So what are they all doing for the money?
@@kevin9sc yep but as the NHS has taken on 50 percent more staff since the lock down ----- what are they doing and what are their qualifications. Have they taken on 500,000 (NHS has more than 1.5 million employees) woke diversity advisors? You should be worried about this, its your tax money as well as mine so don't defend it unless you're an alphabet person of no interest to the rest of us.
"Lord Cameron". I still can't get over those words. The man who is responsible for so much of the misery we are facing today in this country is in the house of lords.
And Stewart voted along with camoron and the rest of them!
I really think the term "House of Lords" tells you all you need to know about British politics.
I'm no Tory but I like Rory Stewart.
What about his voting record?
He's no tory, he's a clown
I think he gives his honest opinion - just a pity he's so misguided.
@@Deano14397 Yes I wonder did he speak up for disabled and unemployed during the time of cruel welfare sanctions?
@@Deano14397You took the words out of my mouth, his voting record is as bad as the worst Tories around. He’s no Mr Nice Guy.
The Tory party didn't turn 'bad' in 2019 - they have been rotten, toxic, selfish and unfair for as long as I can remember ... David Mellor, Selwyn-Gummer, Tebbit , Ted Heath - the list of nauseating characters is endless.
Awful human beings since 1834. The word Tory means outlaw or robber and they wear that badge with pride
Same Labour party and Reform party also unfortunately 😢😢😢😢
@@MasrurMia-e6q labour arent close to this corrupt
How can you forget Thatcher? 😮
@@MasrurMia-e6q All the same, blah, blah, blah. This cliche needs to die. Human rights lawyer vs hedge fund manager - they're not the same
The Tories have always been bad, but they've truly destroyed themselves now.
So, the Tories have become self-destructing black mold?🤔
@@PauloAdriano-zo2ng Yep, basically.
@@ThomasKing19933 😂👍🏻👊
and in the process, the country too.
And labour have always got into debt where the tories have to reign in what Labour have spent(bar this time round)
Comparing David Cameron to black mold in the bathroom is a subtle touch.
The Tories always put party first, country second - Camerons panic over UKIP led to a referendum on Europe - leading to the destruction of the Tory Party - the only upside of Brexit.
"SELF" First !!!
Party Second !
Country Third !
Self first, party second, ef the country!
All true. But once given the opportunities afforded by Brexit, they blew it. They don't know how to run an independent country. We kow-tow to Europe on trade and admin and ride on the US coat-tails on foreign policy.
We have lost all sense of being a coherent country, that's also why we seem intent on using foreign trained labour to run our services.
We are in a very sorry state.
We must learn to stand on our own two feet and make our own future.
Nailed it
I'm guessing that you were not with the majority that voted Brexit....Just like Rory and the majority of the his party. Turns out the party then spent years suppressing the will of the people.
Boris promised to align with the electorate...But the party hated that.
As a life long Tory...I now see them as my enemy. Why...because people like Rory and the majority of the party felt they knew better...They despised the people that gave them an 80 seat majority. Bringing back Cameron was worse than leaving the D-Day event....Inept and out of touch.
Rory is a class act.
Just finished his book, a great read illustrating how rotten the Tories are, says an ex-Conservative voter.
Another question, why is the unelected Cameron in government?
4 out of every £10 to the NHS? Yeah, but that is being funnelled into the private sector which his party encouraged. A slightly sensible tory is still a tory.
Well, NHS staff have been on strike since Covid.
@@aleph8888 And why not! They sacrificed their health and some of them their lives to defend us from a pandemic and the government returned the favour by clapping and not paying them nearly as much as they are worth whilst dismantling the NHS around them!
The NHS is a shambles. We could spend every penny we have on it and it wouldn't work. Scrap it and start again. Of course we have too many people in the country to start with.
@@aleph8888 and the doctors have been under paid since 2011.
The NHS model simply doesn't work in 21st century. No wonder no other OECD country has it. It's high time we move to a European model. People who can afford should pay into various private insurances.
My beloved mother died in that period at least partly perhaps wholly because of the war when I was two years ten months. My father fired the Steam Engines through the Blitz once running over three bombs sabotaged by the workers in Germany, then the side driving rod came off when passing over a bridge, luckily the trailing one, then missed being fire bombed because his Engine was 'thirsty' etc. My Uncle on my mother's side shot down 13 aircraft before he was shot down. My Uncle on my father's side lost his leg fighting in Italy. First Uncle on my step-mother's side was tail gunner on a Lancaster Second Uncle fought through Burma behind the lines--a Chindet. My Engine Driver Ron was in the rear guard at Dunkirk to escape with his mate Big Sam to walk across France to get out & fight in the Eighth Army. Big Sam also became an engine driver. Other Drivers I had fought at Dunkirk across Europe into Germany. Sunak's apology is a non-apology. God's sake people do not vote for this clown or his Party the CONS who have destroyed this UK of ours so many fought & gave their lives for & to remove the Monsters from the Continent with many from the Commonwealth, America & elsewhere
Yep, Sunak doesn't care about you or anything your family has done. He just cares about himself and his money.
He has made it clear he is an Ayn Rand fan so yes.@@ThomasKing19933
I agree. Vote Reform.
@@routeman680Reform are poundshop fascists, avoid
Well said.
The generation who fought the war might be leaving us, but we should keep their memory alive and what they stood for and died fighting for.
"comical, dishonest buffoon" I knew immediately from that title that he must mean Boris Johnson but before Johnson we had Cameron and Osbourne putting us through years of austerity brought about by the actions of hedge fund managers like Rishi Sunak.
Each time I listen to Rory, I realise how much the current Tory party has gone down
‘A comical, dishonest buffoon.’ Come on, Rory - stop sitting on the fence!
I'm not a Tory fan, but I really do like Rory Stewart. The man talks sense, seems intelligent and appears empathetic towards the UK population.
Ml6 man, like his dad.
That’s because he’s not a Tory.
Amiable enough character but personal expectations still wrapped up in an outdated sense of inherited entitlement that conveniently masks the only too obvious greed at the heart of Toryland.
I like him but look at his voting record - just imagine if he had been PM when Covid hit ? x
Seems intelligent???
He speaks more languages than meals I can make.
Rishi appears to hold the belief he is above answering to anyone, especially the electorate. Petulant and arrogant. Both clearly on display in the latest interviews.
Well said. Exactly this.
He clearly learned from Johnson.
You are mirroring the last 4 years of the Labour party last time they were in power
CONservative MPs priorities: personal wealth, mates and donors wealth, lies, power 🤬
Labour MPs' priorities: personal wealth, mates and donors' wealth, lies, power for trade unions, quangos, activist groups and themselves.
@@routeman680 Name a scandal similar to PPE when Labour was last in power- tens of billions to the likes of Mone. *Just one*
@blazzz13 I love the way conservative voters try to lump all MP's in with CONservative MP's. No, my dear, CONservatives are simply disgusting and always have been.
@@routeman680Stupid reply
@@routeman680 That is far more reflective of the Tory modus operandi than Labour.
Rory's problem is he didn't leave the Tories soon enough.
He is still a Tory
@@benwilson6145 Yes!
Rory voted for the cuts and damage the Tories did now he suddenly forgets
He's a Liberal with a posh accent. Cut from the same cloth as Johnson and Cameron.
He didn't want to lose his salary
Which Buffoon was that? They have chosen so many!
The blonde one , oh wait
😂
3:00 the tories were never a reliable bank manager their core ideology is economically and politically illiterate
Agree, but he isn't incorrect that that was the Tory strategy which had worked relatively well over the past 50 years or so.
The Tories have always been dogshit, but they have a history of winning through that kind of messaging.
They are corrupt.
❤Precisely well said and well OBSERVED
Opposed to what? Socialism lol?
@@jdg9999 did you mean to send this comment to me
As a Labour voter - I could listen to Rory all day 🤣🤣
Impressionable ? Moi ?
He is a very sensible person, and if you really do think you could listen to him all day, and aren't already following it, I highly recommend watching The Rest Is Politics - there are some excellent discussions on that channel, and while there is certainly a healthy rivalry (one person former Labour, one person former Tory), overall, it very much feels more like the sorts of discussions that were a hallmark of British politics under John Major. I find it very informative and enjoyable.
@@KidarWolf I will do that - thanks! It's essential we keep listening to each other.
@@CartoonrBOY The Rest Is Politics is essential viewing.
His latest book is brilliant. A must read. All your worse fears about the system , Tories and government confirmed.
Rory Stewart is one of the very few sensible Tories left. We could have had him instead of Johnson. It's all just really sad.
Meh. He was ok with Thatcher, Major, the short baldy, the tall baldy, & Cameron. He was a fully paid up member of the nasty party and should apologise for his role and then quietly leave public life.
He left the Tories years ago.
It wasn't sensible to join them in the first place but at least he's learning from his mistakes.
Take a look at his voting record
He gleefully voted along with all the destructive austerity policies which have lead us to this mess of a country. Disgrace of a man.
Stewart is the living embodiment of why our system is broken. Losing a serious, capable politician in favour of self serving careerist idiots who have no vision or ability. The system has to change, we are being left behind.
@mattinweb. He was free to leave at any time. But serious penitents are always welcome.
Sunak the D-Day Dodger, left our veterans on the beaches of Normandy and never had the grace to show respect to our American allies by visiting Omaha Beach. I wonder how that will be received when he scuttles off to America after the election. VOTE TACTICALLY to get them out
Not only that he's a criminal with a record I thought people like that weren't allowed into the US
@@stevetaylor6714
Not to worry, some of our politicians have felon on their CVs.
Would Biden (or any American president for that matter) bother to visit Gold, Juno, or Sword Beaches? I sincerely doubt it. Americans do not care about their “allies”.
Vote Reform.Simples.
@@j.4332😂 yeah and they are more of the same just connmen
Push for PR. Get rid of FPTP.
Rory Stewart would have served the National with integrity and honour had he not have been torpedoed by Boris Johnson. Rory was a credible threat to his leadership bid.
Rishi is the country's number one priority, at least in Rishi's idiotic mind. Welcome to Brexit Britain.
Rory always comes across as decent while admitting he was part of this mess. This mess started 14years ago. You can't keep propping up the well off at the expence of the poor which is the conservative party way.
@alistermunro. He never actually admitted any wrong-doing. Or any wrong thinking on his part.
@@belindamay8063 He admitted being part of the conservative party that caused all of this mess. You are either in or out.
If I had any embarrassment left in me at this point, I'd be embarrassed for us Brits.
I respect Stewart for refusing to be associated with Johnson.
I am a socialist but Rory is a descent man and tells the truth about the decline of this country brought on by this right wing Tory brexiteer party. We need people like him in politics
I have great respect for Rory Stewart
I'm neither tory nor Labour but Rory would have been a far superior leader to Johnson, Truss or Sunak.
Missed opportunity 😮
PEACE to palestine 🇵🇸
Check his voting record. Talk is cheap.
@@billgreen576 He has covered this before - whips are massively powerful and he'd end up like JC sidelined and unimportant for being a rebel.
No true socialist could ever be in favour of membership of the neoliberal European Union.
lol why would you admit being a socialist
"NATO was born in the blood soaked sands of Normandy" well said.
NATO and the EEC/EU.
How? It wasn't formed until 1949?
@@johnnevada46 LOL.
He summed up Bozo completely.
Don't agree with Stewart's comments on junior doctors, but unlike most of the current Conservative party, I do respect the man. Wish we could get back to a political system where we can disagree, but have MPs that are worthy of respect.
Rory is too intelligent and honest to be an MP - sadly.
I usually like him but I think he’s being dishonest here . The AI within NHS is exactly what Wes Streeting has planned to use , reform etc… to save
He's a prize clown!
Not the @@voice.of.reason
Rory Stewart (his father was second in charge of MI6) would have been a far better PM than Johnson, Truss, or Sunak he has that Scottish intellectual deep thinking brain.
Pity his ‘three things’ couldn’t include redressing inequality, starting with taxing the grotesquely rich corporations and individuals.
Bless him, Rory is the product of a bygone era.
An bygone era when politicians actually had a shred of decency, and some respect for the office they held. But I'd agree, that's all gone now.
Indeed
But too much like Mogg for my taste
@@timwilliams113 He might dress and talk a bit like Mogg, but believe me, he's nothing like Mogg at all, they practically polar opposites.
@@Graham_Shaw I do accept he is different, but I am frankly resentful of his attitude towards the NHS and junior doctors in particular
I am relieved he is not in charge when I hear that Tory s**t from his mouth
It’s not just that he’s honest and truthful, it’s the content of what he says that is always so bracing and insightful…
We could build houses by letting the councils take out mortgages and build.
Like they did 1945 to 1975.
There are new estates going up everywhere where I live and where I travel for work. I dont know what world you are living in but if anything there are too many houses being built.
Councils too busy spending on pet projects which fail especially Labour controlled councils
@@deco2132
Have you ever visited Earth?
@@deco2132 there are also too many new humans being born and an increasing demand for replacement housing where substandard concrete boxes stood.
@@deco2132 Proof you can't think outside your immediate bubble. What you perceive as 'too many' is still too few for the fact that there are 70 million living here. First time ever young people are more likely to live at home than move out.
Had Rory been chosen as leader instead of Johnson, the Tories would have won this election. The moderates like Gauke, Grieve, etc wouldn't have been kicked out and the right wing wouldn't have taken over.
Instead the Tories are going to get the biggest kicking I've ever witnessed
Dont think so. The pandemic destroyed Boris. Not forgetting the lefty civil servants who stiched him up.
Biggest laugh I've had all day! He'd be removed quicker than you can say Boris Johnson if that ever happened, anyway he's a socialist who never belonged in the Tory party, a total disgrace of a man
So the socially Liberal Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are both Right Wing zealots?
That is one of the funniest takes I've ever heard.
@@mesolithicman164 Both bowed to the right wing of the party. Patel, Suella got into the cabinet. The ERG held power around Brexit.
Johnson kicked all the moderates out in 2019, then determined who could stand. He has zero idea about what was in the Brexit deal, he didn't care, so fell in line with the right wing.
Sunak has been scared shitless of the right of the party ever since becoming PM.
I'm not wrong
Mesolithic Man. Nominative determinism?
Sorry Rory, on the NHS, you are wrong: the junior doctors and unions deserve their payrise.
There is a lot of wrong with NHS, including spending money on external contractors, and very specific companies - when the job could have been done internally (and has been done for many years).
But no, suddendly we need to spend more for something like TT, or even now Epic, and at the same time cutting a lot of people, and spending money for some extra certifications in Epic (even basic training course can be like 2K British pounds per person). Yeah, somebody is making money our of that.
I wonder if people know what there have been a lot of redundancies and fireing people last year, November-December time, across various NHS Trusts. Probably not, as it wasn't in the papers at all (and there is a reason for it)... It was brutal, unprofessional, and the way it was done was completely wrong. But I guess, who cares, as it wasn't in the papers.
going private is better. Abolish the NHS its dead anyway. the french system is better.
@@covfefe1787 So long as it doesn't devolve into the horrors of the american system. Given how much profiteering there already is I don't trust that it wouldn't.
Ask yourself Rory just WHY 4 out of every 10 £ is going to the NHS? So much due the funneling of money to the private sector by your beloved Tory party!
I think you are missing Rory's point. This is not now the Tory party he joined all those years ago.
Could it be the same reason why houses are unaffordable, you can't see a doctor and schools are oversubscribed? When you bring in millions of immigrants all wanting to use services most of them have never contributed to, you can see why so much taxpayer money has been diverted to the NHS to try to deal with the overload.
@@mesolithicman164 'millions of immigrants'? Firstly, how do you know that 'most haven't contributed to'? Secondly, take overseas students, they pay far more than 'indigenous' students, (I used that word as it's probably the kind of you might use) they, along with overseas workers pay an NHS premium on top of their visa. Given their ages they are far less likely to need the services of the NHS.
You sedm to have fallen for the classic 'don't blame those in charge (who are the ones that haven't invested in much needed infrastructure!) blame 'them'.
@@mesolithicman164these immigrants are the people who run our NHS and treat you when you get sick! The Brexit boys chased away my dentist of 14years standing and now I can't get an appt with the private agency dentist who only works 1 day per week.!
@@supernoodles91
"What are the UK's latest migrations statistics? The latest estimates on migration from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that in 2023: 1.2 million people migrated into the UK and 532,000 people emigrated from it, leaving a net migration figure of 685,000.24 May 2024"
In one year 1.2 million. It will be a similar amount this year. That qualifies as "millions" in my book.
And the ones leaving, tragically, is a very high percentage of young well educated Brits moving to Australia and other countries where they can start a life and afford a property.
"Where do people emigrate from the UK? Australia, Canada, the USA and New Zealand are major English-speaking countries where UK citizens emigrate. Britons don't need a visa to travel to these countries."
I like Rory but the moment he says “Labour have to take on the Unions” he shows like all Tories he understands nothing. Unions are the lubricant between management and the work force. You cannot implement change without the unions to help implement that change and bring the workers with you
Unions shouldn't be helping management with anything! Their job is to ensure the best deal for their members.
What a nice guy. Talks sense, can't believe he's a Tory!
Want to buy a bridge ?
If you have trouble believing he is a tory, just check out his voting record.
I really recommend watching The Rest Is Politics if you enjoy listening to him and his thoughts, he and his cohost there have some excellent conversations, and the discussions can be very thought provoking. While there's a healthy rivalry between the two co-hosts (his co-host was formerly with the Labour party), the two are really quite cordial and friendly, even when they don't agree with one another. Well worth looking up. To me, Rory Stewart very much feels like the old style of Conservative, along the lines of John Major, and I do think that, if the Tory party is to survive, it perhaps needs to look at what had made it successful in its past - something which I believe Rory Stewart was alluding to in this interview.
Well said @@anglonorse2943
@@KidarWolf The Tory Party has to rely on cleverness to survive. It’s run by very few , whose interests it represents. When the working-class ( men only ! ). won the right to vote in the 1870s, one MP stood up in the Commons and said, “ Gentlemen, we must now educate our Masters”. They knew exactly what he meant. And they’ve been doing it ever since.
Rory spot on as usual
The madness of Brexit forced the Conservatives to appoint Johnson. The party was then entirely divorced from reality and became magical.
Have you any idea what is happening in Europe,in a few years time more countries will have left the eu
@@lesliehall7683
Sure... that'll be why the leave campaigns in France, The Netherlands and Italy have all gone quiet... because they're all about to emulate Breaksh!t...
Exactly
By the way things are going in the EU, the British cultural right wing will be clamouring to rejoin in the not too distant future.
Magical? Farcical more like
I'm a dyed in the wool Labour supporter . Rory is a Tory from a different age . And a politician with a conscience and standards .
I don't know what the labour party stands for anymore. The only difference I can see between them at the moment is that the prospective labour party hasn't proven itself to be incompetent and corrupt. But they haven't yet had the chance to
@richybatty. He found his conscience far too late to be making his appeal now. Technically, he is deserting when his side was facing certain defeat. He has never addressed this. And nobody has even pressed him on it. He may be sincere now, but men of his privileged class see no need to say sorry for my part in what happened. It wouldn’t occur to them.
He's an old Etonian
His conscience is so strong he happily voted for all the austerity measures taken since 2010. His standards were so high he voted for Johnson over Corbyn because if there's anything a Tory hates more than idiocy, it's socialism and losing their wealth and social status.
Sunak can't govern, he can't campaign, he can't even lie competently and now he hasn't even got the common sense to stay where he was for a few hours instead of going back home for a largely pointless interview.
For all our sakes, get rid of this silly little man and the Party behind him, VOTE LABOUR on July 4th.
Well said.
And watch the UK get even worse when Labour take over. No- vote reform for real change
Labour are no better these days
@@voice.of.reasonwhy should people vote for a, uhm, "party" (in many countries such legal structure as the one of ReformUK, established as an Ltd, wouldn't be allowed to field any candidates) without a democratic process to elect its leader?
He's the best of us on the center right, and it makes me so sad that Britain wouldn't be able to see him at Westminister
So in the 9 years that Johnson wasn’t Prime Minister everything was peachy-talk about re-writing history
@@Achies31397 I think you need to learn to comprehend
Boris Johnson wasn't Prime Minister for rather longer than 9 years.
@@Achies31397No, I think the above commentator actually agrees with you.
The last 14 years were not easy - personally I think some of the steps were needed. That being said, Johnson and Truss were the last drops.
I'm not a Tory but… wth is wrong with Tory voters! Why didn't they choose Rory over Boris
You think the tories would have won 2019 so big with Rory?
@@agt155 mabye not as big but middle lane voters - he would have won. Tories think more people are far right than actually are. So they keep giving us this far right content and these far right candidates. THE PUBLIC IS NOT THE SAME AS TORY PARTY VOTERS. And that’s why he may have won a majority because even Labour people could get behind him. Soon as Tories go into that far right territory…. Most voters are not actually interested in them and find those ideologies to extreme.
@@problemsolverthinktank859 You think Johnson was far right?
Disappointing that the normally astute Rory Stewart parrots the old cliche about the NHS costing more and more because of lack of reform, rather than the unnecessary reforms brough in by his government which allows money to flood out to shareholders and the tendering process, rather than delivering healthcare in house, which is always most cost-effective.
Excellent analysis Rory!
Rory Stewart is so right. Until Liz Truss, the Conservative Party was the only one that many voters could trust with the economy. After Liz Truss, those same voters believe that the Labour Party's economic management could not be any worse!
From what I understand truss was an economic illiterate and utterly devoid of any common sense
The Tories have been moving towards the far right since 1975.
How's Rory's voting record?
To be fair it's only right to judge someone on what they voted in a free vote. Mostly they are under the instructions of the whip and have to vote one way or the other.
Perfectly in line with the "Nasty" party he was all too happy to go along with until Bojo was just "Oh so unsavoury."
"Don't politicise my decision to play politics on d-day!"
It is an "untory thing to do" to be caught up in ideologies? Really?
The Tory Party has always been ideologically driven!
"Small government", "low taxes", obsession with the private sector, etc.
Heath was the first to say Empire had gone and the world doesn’t owe us a living.
We need to look to a different future, which many might say wasn’t a Tory future.
Not ideology.
Dogma.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Ideology is definied by Cambridge Dict. as "a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based".
I suppose "classical capitalism", as one example, would fall into that. ["Small government", "low taxes", obsession with the private sector, etc. are just individual items of a "set"]
Ideology and dogma are sometimes used interchangeably in the media, though that might not be strictly correct as perhaps you are suggesting.
I'm not disagreeing with you as I don't have the expertise there. I don't have a dog in the fight. 🙂
The Country would have been in a much better place if Rory had been made Tory Leader 😢
Choosing Boris over Stewart really was where the modern Tory party opted for disaster.
As a life long Labour voter (in the last election through gritted teeth, a real case of bad vs absolutely terrible) I would have opted for a Stewart led Tory party over a Corbyn led Labour Party.
@johnbowen. I’d have looked at his record.
Rory Stewart should join the Libdems. He's clearly not a conservative.
Rory is light years ahead of the rest of the tories I would not vote Conservative but I would vote for Rory because he is a decent human being and bright
A Tory who talks sense-- who’d of thought!
Rory, you spoke out about being brave. Fifteen years of failure by this government WHY not give Labour a try, can they be any worse?. 🙂......
They ALL knew it was a bad idea, but they let him do it, and they all knew he would fall on his sword, and sat back and laughed in private.
Rory Stewart is the only person that talks any sense anymore
NATO wasn't anything to do with D Day! The Allies were fighting against Germany!
NATO came from the Cold War Coalition.
More woe is me talk from Stewart - he voted on plenty of heinous things when he was an MP, so that’s just him throwing in the towel - also his centre right ideologies are what enables the far right by extension, how can he not see that
I’m not a conservative but I do think Rory does speak some sense. Bet he is so glad he left these clowns.
Check his voting record.
Matt Frei - what a coup for LBC. He's a fantastic broadcaster
I am still a bit amazed by Rory's discourse about simply rejoining the single market. To me, it reflects a pre-Brexit disillusion that we can just rejoin without understanding that there is no political will or advantage for the EU to accept the UK back without imposing conditions that the UK would likely reject. This might explain why neither party is offering this as an option. Rejoining would reopen issues like immigration (free movement) and EU laws and regulations, which would be unpopular with the media and some portions of the population. Rory, it would be ideal, but you have to consider the full picture. In the short to medium term, this is not possible, as the EU's demands would be unacceptable for the UK (unless you believe in UK exceptionalism).
"take on the junior doctors" - Clearly Rory doesn't have a problem with junior doctors being poorly paid and leaving the UK in their droves.
Most on hear have either selective memories or are politically backward
Rory Stewart voted against lifting the pay cap for Public sector workers.
He certainly united the country with his Right wing Ideology.
Rory, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. NO PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
ASAP.
THAT IS MORE DEMOCRATIC.
David Baxter.
Taunton School.
Parties should just be banned, period. Both in the UK and in US.
Very true! To be elected as an MP you need to be endorsed by one party or the other Nd both parties have been "hired"by big business and the Corprotocracy to protect their wealth
For goodness sake . How haven’t we got someone like Rory. But he s intelligent. Conservative don’t understand that word. You’re brilliant Rory.
I love listening to Rory Stewart, a serious and well informed man.
I'm very left wing but I'm quite fond of Rory.
Rory has a lot of books. Is there one that explains how he became a Tory MP and stuck with them for so long? Hindsight is a fine thing and he is the living embodiment of it.
Rory, I respect in large part what you say, on many issues. Regarding the NHS (at 7:40), do you think the problem with the NHS is junior doctors asking for reasonable recompense for their hard work, long training, difficult and expensive exams, and antisocial hours worked, having chosen healthcare over other well/better paid career options? Healthcare is expensive and perhaps becoming unaffordable via the current funding method. Should we try to make it affordable by underpaying and undervaluing the hard working staff who provide it?
They didn’t understand how dangerous it was to lose trust with the British people
Why would a government need to 'take on' junior doctors? They're incredibly underpaid. Pay them. That's the cost of the NHS.
Rory is at least a honest and thoughtful Tory
@ejc. Honest is as honest does.
The member for Delhi has blown the whole thing out of the water with his actions at the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
I'm baffled why anyone would vote Tory after everything they've done. They've taken us for mugs.
you was all mugs voting tory ever. I'm 55 never voted tory ever. they have done damage to this country that will never get put right. I didn't support brexit either total disaster
As opposed to Labour lol
@jdg9999 Funny how nobody has a defence for the Tories except "but Labour... "
Saying Labour will be bad is hypothetical. A prediction with very little basis. Whereas we have 14 years of evidence to see just what a disaster the Tories have been 🤷♂️
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the people who said Brexit was the reason he left early are right. So the theory goes, he stayed for the UK-centred part of the commemoraitons but, as soon as the European nations came in, he or his team felt that part wasn't relevant to the UK and so he was entitled to leave. It seems like the kind of incompetence he's capable of.
Cameron threw Sunak under the bus by not telling him leaving the D Day ceremonies was going to be an error, of course he did this for his own future ambition, that is to regain the leadership of the party after Sunak has gone.
I think so too..
That ship has sailed. Cameron can't be PM again. He's in the House of Lords. He's not even an MP.
Rory who created the NHS originally and built all the council estates labour. Tired of you doing the media rounds because you got the sack! Give it a rest.
Rory Stewart's voting record as a Tory exposes him as just another chameleon politician. The news media's lack of critical thinking is depressing.
Yes. The ideas he spouts in this interview are not insane but neither are they grounded in reality.
Journalists should be a lot more critical and catch this nonsense.
Have always liked Rory and I have never voted tory. He's always come accross as sane, sensible and caring. Genuine man. 👍😄
Rory is a decent fellow, but he is way too quiet on major issues in this world of ours. He is very much an establishment figure. The fact he does a pod cast with Alistair "weapons of mass destruction" Campbell tells me all I need to know. I find him a little naive at times.
Tutor to Harry and William. Father something very senior in the security services. Eton. Oxbridge.Probably also himself in the security services. How much more Establishment could ANYONE get? Under the surface they are all the same.Highly privileged.
He followed this up with an apology then said his diary was more important. Then Johnny Mercer the veterans secretary accused people of fake outrage. Following day Sunak was questioned by a doctor about policy. He laughed at her.
One of the few men who could talk sense and had any morals. Shame he is not back in Parliament!
Rory is a tory I would vote for and I hate the tories
Kick private business out of the NHS and stop blaming me for the junior doctors and unions.
Stewart is a Tory through and through!
Come on Rory, even after everything the tories have done, you still won’t vote labour???