The Backstory With Andrew Neil - Episode 5: Ash Sarkar | FULL EPISODE

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Episode 5 Show Notes
Andrew Neil talks to the left-wing writer and contributing editor at Novara Media about why she’s “literally a communist”, her support for Jeremy Corbyn and how she deals with the abuse she gets on Twitter.
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[@RaBBy1875x]

It blows my mind that this doesn’t have more views. Incredible interview

[@davidmurray2964]

Little silent gem

[@Egriega-bv7vx]

Andrew Neil was surprisingly respectful.

[@davidmurray2964]

Really good little gem of a smart communist and a heavy weight conservative who is an objective ish interviewer

[@jonathancole833]

I’m surprised that it appears no-one has yet commented on this video.

[@whitepanties2751]

Intelligent and interesting interview with an intelligent and interesting person who holds some mad beliefs that would be harmful if implemented. She never did properly answer the question as to whether Communism had ever worked anywhere. She said Cuba partly, but thousands of Cubans go to great lengths to escape from that island, and an independent news organisation like the one she works for, even if left-wing, would not be tolerated there, nor could the Cuban people vote the Castro family out of power.

[@cameronbrown4961]

Love Andrew Neil. Ash think you are a great human don’t agree with you but your heart is in the right place

[@cameronbrown4961]

Great interview

[@benedictcowell6547]

I am a former member of The French Communist Party and remain Ethically a Communist and thus indebted to Kant rather than Hegel, and also subscribe to Karl Popper whose 'Open Society' is systematically related to the same Authors 'Conjectures and Refutations' and Popper considered himself ethically on the the left because Science is Ethically Dialectical Materialism. Christianity and Communism and Liberalism and even Conservatism as distinct from reaction are Universal and Individualist. Republican's idea of Woke is civilisation. I think Peel did his best to ameliorate the Potato Feminine and divided the Tory Party as did Catholic Emancipation. From Communism to Marxism are not binary, they are a spectrum. It would help if these two watched the Wondrium Great Courses course which compares Communism and Capitalism with Professor Stewart [a Texan]

[@saj2318]

If the best example you can find is Cuba....oh dear. Her response to every challange is the capitalism is worse, but she cant find positive examples of her ideas in practice

[@mumitm8212]

CUBA IS A SUCCESS

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

I like Ash, but the vision of society she espouses (whatever its merits) is not communism in any form most Communists would recognise.

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Why do you say that? Contemporary communists don't necessarily have the same vision of a communist society as those of 100 years ago.

[@jamescooke6032]

I don't want any communism we've ever seen.. I want a new one.. That works.
The "real communism" 😂

[@richiethepooh6878]

Well yeah because the only communism we've seen has been implemented by fascist dictators

[@mattliamjack3293]

Old hacks can't learn new tricks 😂😂😂😂 vote green 💚🌍🍏👍🏼💚 it's getting late.

[@lockhartflawse1225]

I suppose she's on because there isnt really anyone else they can find to propose Communism as a realistic solution to anything at all. She's a lightweight and will persuade no-one.

[@benedictcowell6547]

Communists saved your liberty, do not be so condescending and so damn ignorant.

[@mattliamjack3293]

Right wing nonsense from neil. So stuck in old discredited views. Time to let go of the past , the youth will change things.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

I thought that 60 years ago. About time they got on with it.