Down the pub with Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey

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  • The RMT's Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey join PoliticsJOE for a pint and a chat, covering Keir Starmer's ineptitude, the Daily Mail's sinister influence on Britain, and whether or not they're about to start a political party.
    Thanks to The Harlequin for hosting us. Go there, they serve delicious pints.
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  • @PoliticsJOE
    @PoliticsJOE  ปีที่แล้ว +496

    How to join a union: www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

    • @futures2247
      @futures2247 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      good discussion - the internal market in the NHS is awful - much of the time you see buildings and staff wearing NHS badges and its just a logo with a private firm behind it

    • @Caddy666
      @Caddy666 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Pity Mick Lynch isnt PM.

    • @fedyno4reviews
      @fedyno4reviews ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The only reason the conservatives are going so far to the right is because every institution has decided to go left when they should be behaving politically impartial.

    • @Andyreally
      @Andyreally ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@fedyno4reviews hmmm….. nah, I don’t think so.

    • @W1DO
      @W1DO ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@fedyno4reviews give me 3 examples and I will consider changing my mind.

  • @MrOlympuse410
    @MrOlympuse410 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    the weirdest part of this was hearing Mick and Eddie speak without being interrupted or talked over. The mainstream media is a circus, there's no room for real discussion there - thank you for this

    • @everready800
      @everready800 ปีที่แล้ว

      In fairness msm won't have 1hr to talk to Mick.

    • @myce-liam
      @myce-liam ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@everready800 fairness... lol!

    • @pex3
      @pex3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well they were interrupting and talking over each other (but in a cordial way)

    • @sultana1486
      @sultana1486 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@everready800 ….MSM don’t want to talk to Eddie and Mick!

    • @stormytempest6521
      @stormytempest6521 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@pex3 Its called conversation, regards.

  • @tbone7822
    @tbone7822 ปีที่แล้ว +1777

    These two men put all our whole government and opposing political parties to shame! They should run this country.

    • @0w784g
      @0w784g ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They would never try to run for office. Why give up a cushy union pay packet and almost zero scrutiny for a job that pays less and non-stop scrutiny.

    • @lindacurrie8817
      @lindacurrie8817 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      @@0w784gThey earn every penny of their salary. Nothing cushie about battling to provide all workers with a decent wage and working conditions.
      There is plenty OK Jack's.
      Nothing worse when good people do nothing.
      I would like to think there is enough good people that do something.
      Sadly workers have to take on this battle and win.

    • @theworldaccordingto4555
      @theworldaccordingto4555 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@lindacurrie8817 Hear! Hear! Well said!

    • @0w784g
      @0w784g ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lindacurrie8817 Lynch in top 1% of earners. More than the PM. More than the leader of the opposition. Sitting down in a pub on a thursday afternoon drinking and chatting with people who agree with him and half-heartedly spectulating on the revolution is graft? Not much better than the beret-wearing French academic plotting La Republiques union with the Soviets. I wonder if his next brilliant act of solidarity will see him campaign that his members are as well off as he is? Unless you think union leader is more worthy of high pay than cleaner or factory worker? How very Tory.

    • @NTL578
      @NTL578 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0w784g What are you on about you nut bag? He's not on any where near at much as the corrupt Boris. Even if here were, which he's not.. I would far rather a good man fighting for the majority of working people on a lot of money, than a corrupt scum bag of a man who works against almost everyone in this country everyday, on less.

  • @aodanoscaithghil7303
    @aodanoscaithghil7303 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    I've only heard Eddie Dempsey a few times, and he is a very impressive speaker, and there is no doubt when expresses an opinion. But it is Mick Lynch talking about solidarity across different strata of industry, economy, and society that just blows me away. He is the best speaker I've heard from across the pond in the last 20 years. One cool customer.

    • @garymct6860
      @garymct6860 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder will this union make it a policy that white people are fired before POC.

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Each working class hero such as Mick and Eddie learned their craft and absorbed knowledge the hard way, through working, sweating and suffering hardship. No politician since Attlee (worked as a social worker in the slums) has first hand know,edge of real work, although l believe Angela (deputy leader) worked as a care worker. Not Johnson, Mogg, Truss, Sunak et all. Get them all out digging holes, etc., no, not for that reason!

    • @TomNoles007
      @TomNoles007 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@elaineedgar2913 Very well said, I think there's a real solid foundation to that theory (no pun intended) and we BADLY need men and women like this in politics.

    • @ridanann
      @ridanann ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah that's cos there's Irish people talking the English spend oh best part of 600 years trying to kill every Irish they come across and when they stop the voice is still there reason that dreadful voice talking circles of sense in its own language back at it. and England has no sword or gun England is trapped down a well oubliette now they're stuck forever we're coming out of the walls we have come to overwhelm the red dragon overcomers white yet again surely anybody with an eye to history knows all of this happens go Bragh. To the English their history is a ripple of conquest turn the Celtic Vision it is simply an asteroid hitting the Earth it's time to clean up the mess and carry on with history that is why a couple of Irishman can so easily disarm the entire British government as the kids would say built differently.

    • @richc848
      @richc848 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@elaineedgar2913 To be fair, Truss and Kwarteng are definitely digging some deep holes now.

  • @pritch9317
    @pritch9317 ปีที่แล้ว +813

    Just when Eddie Dempsey couldn’t get any more relatable, he packs a Guinness away in 10 minutes

    • @theefishlippedone
      @theefishlippedone ปีที่แล้ว +6

      that mate

    • @codeinehq
      @codeinehq ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And....... Did they say he supports Millwall!? It's a winner 🦁

    • @terryfinnie2146
      @terryfinnie2146 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Where I from, would have been a minute.

    • @PH5221
      @PH5221 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@terryfinnie2146 Calm down big man. Its not a competition.

    • @terryfinnie2146
      @terryfinnie2146 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@PH5221 That's called humour 👍🍺🍺🍺

  • @Michaellipmanactor
    @Michaellipmanactor ปีที่แล้ว +1154

    Every politician I listen to makes me want to bring my dinner up. These two make me want to buy them dinner.

    • @xxxxOS
      @xxxxOS ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I've ordered a RMT hoodie and I'm not even in their union! Lol

    • @Steventrafford
      @Steventrafford ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Comment of the day

    • @_____alyptic
      @_____alyptic ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@xxxxOS If there were ever a union to bring together every union I'd want them to be the ones to make it,
      I agree that when crap hits the fan we need to stand together

    • @SJPDurham
      @SJPDurham ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Totally agree there.

    • @simongigney2138
      @simongigney2138 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly, that's like perfect description lol

  • @ysgol3
    @ysgol3 ปีที่แล้ว +636

    Thank you, Mick and Eddie, for everything you do to give us some hope.

    • @bobstar6837
      @bobstar6837 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for nothing, this bald twat has cost my business thousands and thousands of pounds in lost revenue. And there will be more to come.

    • @annenunney9907
      @annenunney9907 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bobstar6837 your lucky you have thousands and thousands of pounds the people they represent need to be payed a decent wage I hope you are paying your employees decent wages and that they are not having to go to food banks for help or take tax credits to top up their wages

    • @herpsmaltwatta
      @herpsmaltwatta ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bobstar6837 You've still got lurpack in your dish though?

    • @ynwa3476
      @ynwa3476 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bobstar6837 Blame the thieving Government!

    • @louisw466
      @louisw466 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bobstar6837 reading that your company has lost thousands and thousands of pounds has made my week.

  • @cazwalden1497
    @cazwalden1497 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    Just when i had lost all hope and thought we had no where to turn, Mick and Eddie came out of the blue. Thank you both for standing up for the working class and shining the light in the tunnel we are all now walking in.

    • @deepzepp4176
      @deepzepp4176 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      “Out of the blue”? They’ve both been around years. They both supported leaving the EU, too.

    • @fang_xianfu
      @fang_xianfu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deepzepp4176 The good fortune they have as union reps is they don't have to be right about everything. They can be wrong about some stuff, and they're wrong about that, then. Doesn't mean they're wrong about what they were talking about here.

    • @deepzepp4176
      @deepzepp4176 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fang_xianfu Woah. Genius alert.

  • @andrewwheatley9128
    @andrewwheatley9128 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    I'd vote for Mick Lynch for PM if he ran for it in a heartbeat. Whatever they say about not wanting to replace labour, these two gents embody the working class ideal that the labour party was originally founded on.

    • @rabmcnair4488
      @rabmcnair4488 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly if he were to run, the full force of the media would crack down on him and demonise him, just like they did with Corbyn.
      Until people wake up to the realisation that their "consent is being manufactured" by the corporate media, it is hard to make real changes in our society.

    • @aries6776
      @aries6776 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'd happily vote him in over Keir Starmer.

    • @rabmcnair4488
      @rabmcnair4488 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aries6776 Totally agree and the fact Sir Keir Starmer is even the leader of the Labour Party, is incontrovertible proof that our political system is controlled by large corporations, as the man (and many in the party) have zero labour values.

    • @M2Mil7er
      @M2Mil7er ปีที่แล้ว

      They're not doing that because they'll get absorbed, and overthrown by the corrupt system. C*rbyn broadly had the same message (Lynch endorsed him, after all) but mainstream parties function as proxies for corporations and foreign powers, and simply won't allow radical reformist programs to flourish. They've learned they need to build a consensus with workers outside of the rotten system, then pressure the parties from outside of it. UKIP was never going to win an election, but they produced enough pressure to move the Tories further right, and towards a harmful version of Brexit, designed to allow tax avoiders to escape the closing of EU tax loopholes. This is strategically similar, but for real people, real prosperity, not the pretense of representing ordinary people.

    • @rabmcnair4488
      @rabmcnair4488 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@karlwilliams2703 Did you have a point?

  • @taz454
    @taz454 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    These guys are a problem for the establishment, if they're not they should be.
    Well done PoliticsJoe for giving them a platform

    • @nickross4307
      @nickross4307 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      wonderful - but they are correct....

    • @deepzepp4176
      @deepzepp4176 ปีที่แล้ว

      A problem for the establishment? Is that why they’re constantly interviewed by the establishment? And is that now why the liberal establishment are now trying to take down Dempsey because he supported leaving the EU?

  • @smudgey46
    @smudgey46 ปีที่แล้ว +439

    I'm a RMT member, work for Network Rail and these 2 make me feel proud to pay my union membership. Keep it up guys, we're proud of you.

    • @maxpowerii7368
      @maxpowerii7368 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Has to be said (as great as Mick and Eddie are) there are still thousands of other trade unionists who are just as exceptional and committed to improving conditions of British workers. Sarah Woolley for example is a fantastic General Secretary of the Bakers Union.
      You just don’t see them in the media as much since their unions are either not on strike or are but getting a fraction of the media coverage that the RMT has had.

    • @TheYopogo
      @TheYopogo ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Total solidarity with you. Most people support the action you're taking; keep it up!

    • @gotocov
      @gotocov ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was going to but the same thing. Will be on the picket line and will show everyone this comment because of how ture it is. Sandwell and Dudley NWR

    • @roaming.spectre.
      @roaming.spectre. ปีที่แล้ว

      I just want my train to turn up so i can travel, so get on and do the job you signed up for

    • @gotocov
      @gotocov ปีที่แล้ว

      @@roaming.spectre. prick, there is people in the graveyard who give me my term's and conditions, health and safety, I'm not going to give them up with out a fight.

  • @littlestone1541
    @littlestone1541 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Honestly, it does feel great to hear real labour politics being discussed again. After years of Blairite neoliberal word-salad.

  • @stormytempest6521
    @stormytempest6521 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My late Grandad would be proud of you lads, He was a principled Liverpool Docker and top UNION man from way way back, quietly spoken and kept his dignity during hard times, regards.

  • @hideshiseyes2804
    @hideshiseyes2804 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Listening to these two I feel like I’ve been gaslit my whole life and I’m just now hearing someone tell the truth for the first time.

    • @xxxxOS
      @xxxxOS ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Thats because you have. 🫂

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      What Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are doing isn't that remarkable; they're providing clear and articulate explanations. It's an indictment of our media and politicians that a couple of union leaders actually answering questions has become groundbreaking.

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stalinists

    • @xxxxOS
      @xxxxOS ปีที่แล้ว

      @@flannelsykes0 You are a neoliberal. Which is the western economic philosophy, neoliberals are literally robbing the working and middle classes blind and funnelling our tax money into the pockets of nationless global corporations and bankers. Nothing is more pathetic than a neoliberal who isn't a billionaire. Are you a billionaire?

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@xxxxOS So go move to a socialist utopia and stop pushing this dinosaur ideology on everyone else. I'm as working class as you can get and I've seen enough bullshit leftist agenda to last me a Soviet Union lifespan. Unions are as capitalist as the capitalists they so despise.

  • @janehale4402
    @janehale4402 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    Their experience, their knowledge, their intelligence , makes this conversation a pleasure to listen to.They care ,they speak such common sense.This conversation needs to be heard by everyone who has the vote,the Labour party has a lot to learn from them.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit,
      they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working
      conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make
      its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the
      workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same
      argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten
      sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike
      back then?

    • @janehale4402
      @janehale4402 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DrMontague It is the one issue I would love to question them about,Corbyn made a speech prior to the referendum ,saying he believed that staying in the EU was the right thing to do ,but it needed progressive reform .That speech never got much of an airing,the lies and misinformation did, so I assume they were duped like many others in this country and once the majority accepted the flawed referendum result, there was precious little anyone could do to stop the appalling mistake.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      @@janehale4402 Corbyn argued for a second referendum because there were so much misinformation by the brexiteers . i argued with nugget head working class that capitalism was the real problem not the EU. I argued with them that they should vote for Corbyn because socialism was what we needed, that Corbyn would come down on the capitalist scum like a ton of bricks. The arse holes including many of my friends mocked and jeered at me, I told them if they voted Boris they were making a rod for their own back. They have.. Now when the arse holes whinge I mock them. I tell them you voted the scum in , you take the fcukin consequences. What have they got now Tory Starmer. I am enjoying watching them squirm. My god I hope they have sense frozen into them this winter.

    • @ConCon75
      @ConCon75 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DrMontague you keep posting this copy paste under every comment, tory bot.

    • @ciggy_
      @ciggy_ ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DrMontague leaving the EU has given you the possibility of nationalizing the railway, which is illegal in the EU, The European Union is just a way to push neo liberal politics onto it’s members

  • @56postoffice
    @56postoffice ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Mick Lynch I've known about a long time. Formidable character. Eddie Dempsey I've only just known recently but man, what a star and equally as astute as Mick. These two have given me so much hope and it's not just the rail on strike. The scales have fallen from a lot of people's eyes and strikes are happening everywhere, including Amazon staff! And coming from someone who works in Royal Mail! Remember, we were known as *"key workers"* during the pandemic. Regardless, this is solidarity. ✊ Great interview.👏✊

    • @mistermerlin8917
      @mistermerlin8917 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes but you've got these guys who are great and then you've got the nutty woke Labour Party. Gawd, what's the solution? Answers please? I'm begging you.

    • @56postoffice
      @56postoffice ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mistermerlin8917 What is "woke" about Labour? Do you even know what "woke" means? Because I do. So enlighten me.

  • @joebaldwin3507
    @joebaldwin3507 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Truly astounding vocalists of the issues that us as working class people are being shamefully abused by. Time for change and right behind these two mavericks of our time. Up the workers!

  • @SuperBenjiZero
    @SuperBenjiZero ปีที่แล้ว +247

    These two should be leading the country.

    • @patrickholt2270
      @patrickholt2270 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That would require a revolution. But you're right, they should.

    • @uttaradit2
      @uttaradit2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      they already are.....

    • @PastaSauce.
      @PastaSauce. ปีที่แล้ว +9

      New party ‘New Labour’ and put these guys on top.

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@PastaSauce. A new ILP...an Independent Labour Party. How many Labour members would 'change platforms'?

    • @mattiemclean9882
      @mattiemclean9882 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@uttaradit2 No they aren't

  • @MN-kp2lm
    @MN-kp2lm ปีที่แล้ว +439

    About time some working class hero's hit the scene. When these guys tell it like it is there's no misunderstanding. You know what time it is.

    • @fedyno4reviews
      @fedyno4reviews ปีที่แล้ว

      It'll never happen the left has to much of a problem with straight white males.

    • @sukotu23
      @sukotu23 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Time for a general strike. If that doesn't work, time to riot. The people at the top (bosses, shareholders, politicians) need a reminder about who holds the power - the working class.
      They also need a reminder that peaceful protest is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the doors of bosses and beating the shit out of them in front of their family, and/or getting the guillotine out.

    • @jordank1489
      @jordank1489 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Exactly how I feel. We're finally starting to represent ourselves, and telling our paternalistic middle class keepers we don't need them or their misguided opinions about us.

    • @Househead1200
      @Househead1200 ปีที่แล้ว

      Clocking off time?

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely, they're a breath of fresh air.

  • @fredcfc638
    @fredcfc638 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Well done Joe, for letting Mick and Eddie get their points across without interruption

  • @Alex-cs9ty
    @Alex-cs9ty ปีที่แล้ว +52

    In a world of Liz Truss’s and Rishi Sunak’s, we should all try our best to be a Mick Lynch or a Eddie Dempsey. They make me feel proud to be British.

  • @kevinmfstewart
    @kevinmfstewart ปีที่แล้ว +206

    Mick and Eddie are absolute legends

    • @FCBayernGaming21
      @FCBayernGaming21 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are absolute clowns they want the strikes to go ahead🤦‍♂️🤡🤡😡

    • @serenahansen2394
      @serenahansen2394 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@FCBayernGaming21 They don't want the strikes to go on, they want a settlement that doesn't shaft their union members in favour of profits for rich shareholders.

    • @owenoastler101
      @owenoastler101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FCBayernGaming21 Did you even watch the video?

    • @FCBayernGaming21
      @FCBayernGaming21 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@owenoastler101 yes

    • @owenoastler101
      @owenoastler101 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FCBayernGaming21 Must’ve hurt

  • @jonlivesley
    @jonlivesley ปีที่แล้ว +227

    This is incredible. Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey speak such down-to-earth sense. Need to get as many people to listen to them as possible.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit, they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike back then?

    • @lukemullan636
      @lukemullan636 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DrMontague they had valid reasoning to do so. Tony Benn, perhaps the most prominent and inspiring leftist in british political history, opposed EU membership because of the ease that businesses and employers can outsource to other employees who take temp contracts because of the strength of the pound (at the time) and the chokehold that unions have had placed on them since thatcherites put them in one. The points they list on the website are pretty much what was promised by vote leave and if you look at their position objectively then you can see that they do have increased leverage post-brexit due to the lack of outsourcing to migrant workers. I personally don't and didn't support brexit but I can see their reasoning and beliefs behind supporting leave.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lukemullan636 Their reasoning was flawed from the outset. capitalism demands the exploitation of human labour to make profit. Whether it's a migrant from over seas of an Englishman (who could be your own brother) agrees to work more hours for less money then you, then you still have the same scenario i.e. capitalists want cheap labour to make profit and not just make profit but to increase profit. Working class fucktard cannot see this, they simply want to hate, kill, watch the foreigner drowned in the channel. Now imagine you are working on the trains and you are doing reasonably well. Your brother is unemployed and scrimping and scraping each week to make ends meet. He that fcked off with his life he decides he will work for 50p an hour less than you, from his perspective it's better than dole money. The employer is quite happy with this as he sees that he will increase his profit. You are enraged because your brother is putting you out of work, you want to kill your own brother., want to drown the bastard in the channel. From your perspective your scumbag brother is the problem. The capitalist has you two hating each other. He laughing his cock off. Conclusion When we were in the EU we were in a capitalist EU. We are no longer in the EU but we still live under the yoke of capitalism. So when the fcktard leadership of the RMT were advising their member to leave the EU they were simply cutting the cloth at one end and sowing it on the other , believing this was the solution to job security, better living standards, better working conditions etc. I argued for socialism, I voted for Corbyn who wanted to come down on the capitalists like a ton of bricks. The RMT leader ship were pro brexit,.pro Boris. They had the chance of electing a good socialist PM and fukin blew it. The P&O workers I can infer were pr brexit, pro Boris. They found out the hard way that Bojo is pro the capitalist exploiters and that bojo only gave them crocodile tears when P&O bosses sacked the lot of the cunts. the story could have been very different if they had elected Corbyn. so let us cut the shit of how wonderfully intelligent union leaders are.

    • @alexarosa632
      @alexarosa632 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DrMontague watch the last two minutes of the video, it explains very clearly why a general strike cannot be called.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexarosa632 Watched they are full of shit. This is what I have commented to them.
      From what i have read the RMT advised their members to vote brexit,
      arguing it would give them job security, better pay, better working
      conditions, pensions etc. Well this has turned out to be a sick joke! I
      can assume therefore that many of your members voted for Bojo GET BREXIT
      DONE! and stabbed Corbyn in the back! Nurses and care workers cannot
      strike for ethical reasons i,e, people would die, operations cancelled. I
      very much doubt that the RMT and other unions will strike in support of
      nurses and care workers. At the end of the day your union members are
      only concerned about themselves. If you won't strike to support nurses
      and care workers then stop bull shitting you are for the workers. Break
      capitalist laws. Nurses and Care workers have to pay high energy
      prices too.

  • @thirdeyeblind6369
    @thirdeyeblind6369 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Former RMT member, So proud of these two going for it as hard as they can!

  • @Areflection4
    @Areflection4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you for hosting these 2 men. It is about time we heard the thoughts of working class leaders who absolutely articulate my views. Thank you.

  • @leonmorgans4250
    @leonmorgans4250 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    I needed this. I'm a trade union rep and all I get is "what have the unions done for me"? Very disheartening, this has given me a kick!!

    • @jayr9952
      @jayr9952 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We're in the fight of our lives.

    • @ianhoward4246
      @ianhoward4246 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Leon , respect,most people are so blinkered or scared stiff, they think a union is a bad thing ..I think we've been so divided since fxxxxxx Thatcher, where we went from Love thy neighbour to...Shop thy neighbour ☹️

    • @leonmorgans4250
      @leonmorgans4250 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I've always been a left of centre person but I'm drifting and fully believe for a host of reasons that nationalising is the only way out. Mick and Eddie are spot on. Eddie also touched on strike action is not the only way as will probably be the case in my profession. Up the workers!

    • @End-Result
      @End-Result ปีที่แล้ว

      Automatic response for those dickheads is: "Do you enjoy your weekends? How about not being forced to work when you're pregnant? Or being made to slave away for more than 8 hours a day? How about that sick pay (assuming you have any)?"

    • @LovingAllLife
      @LovingAllLife ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You have my greatest respect

  • @alexandermorton1432
    @alexandermorton1432 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    It’s shocking how little the public know about trade unions. Mick Lynch has done a fantastic job in educating people and counteracting corporate media and the Tory propaganda machine.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว +2

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit,
      they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working
      conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make
      its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the
      workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same
      argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten
      sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike
      back then?

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's why they gave thatcher a state funeral. Class is everything in Britain, but they made it a taboo word.

    • @ConCon75
      @ConCon75 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@DrMontague why are you trying to muddy the water here do you not agree the situation is dire at the moment?

    • @abazely2743
      @abazely2743 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is not too keen on Ukraine .

    • @maxpowerii7368
      @maxpowerii7368 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ConCon75 be a neoliberal remainer who thinks they are convincing as some kind of supporters of trade unionism. Might as well be getting criticised by out and out Tories.

  • @johnharkness9404
    @johnharkness9404 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is such an important conversation. Says everything I’ve personally thought since 1979! I really wish we could vote for Mick and Eddie - even if they’re clear they don’t want to be politicians. Well done

  • @loopycyclist3028
    @loopycyclist3028 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The more I watch and listen to Mick the more respect I have for him and his ideas.

  • @MrJohndory111
    @MrJohndory111 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    The absolutely dire political landscape in this country really needed these two. They give us hope

    • @PastaSauce.
      @PastaSauce. ปีที่แล้ว

      We needed them

    • @SwissCheese112
      @SwissCheese112 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thanks to tony blair youll never see them in the labor party

    • @jeremywestern7067
      @jeremywestern7067 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah get labour in see how long it takes to bankrupt Britain

    • @SwissCheese112
      @SwissCheese112 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeremywestern7067 lmao britain is already bankrupt with or without labour

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes but what are we going to do with that hope? Just chat and carry on with our lives? We need to join as a community (a dirty word according to the not missed Thatcher) to bring this government down. It doesn’t matter that the opposition is useless.

  • @velvetunderpants44
    @velvetunderpants44 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I saw Keir Starmer congratulate the Women's football team for winning the World Cup in a tweet
    The reply was priceless- "So you've finally found strikers that you can support"
    He's an absolute disgrace
    It's about time that these gentlemen had a platform to tell people how it actually is
    When will people finally vote for their own interests and not the interests of the rich, which are almost always in conflict with their own..

    • @xxxxOS
      @xxxxOS ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hope they come to parts of Central Scotland. I'll be there to support 100%

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was the Euros.

    • @kevinforde2555
      @kevinforde2555 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gold ,

  • @jordanwood3150
    @jordanwood3150 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I love how these guys explain their ideas in such an easy to understand way for the average person. I've loved watching their media appearances over the past few weeks.

    • @fang_xianfu
      @fang_xianfu ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Shows what a pisspoor state our politicians are in that these two working class blokes can do a better job explaining their political views.
      Since watching these two speak I notice more and more that so many politicians, especially Grant Shapps and Mark Harper but lots of others too, just don't say what they believe in. They do believe in things, you can tell from what they do, but they won't own up to it. They seem to treat every conversation like a game that they win by saying the most words and making the fewest actual points.
      Whereas Mick and Eddie just say what they believe in. And you can take or leave that, agree or disagree, but you know where you stand with them and I have huge respect for that.

  • @gnothiseauton8684
    @gnothiseauton8684 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you lads- we are soooo proud of you and with you and your members all the way. These men are the example that we want running our country- real genuine descent human beings.

  • @Dan-xf5fz
    @Dan-xf5fz ปีที่แล้ว +183

    The discussion around 15:30 - 17:10 brought a tear to my eye. I recently had to leave the care job I loved because I just could not carry on with that wage. It tore me apart to have to move on and leave the patients which I cared for as if they were my family, but it is impossible to survive on the pay carers are offered. I think about my former colleagues that are not able to find other jobs and it just makes me so sad. Everyone says how grateful they are for carers after covid but I can't pay my gas bill on goodwill alone. Thank you Eddie and Mick for bringing this up. Everyone I know in healthcare is at breaking point.

    • @carmel4378
      @carmel4378 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Bless you, I'm sorry to hear you had to leave. I'm a carer, am fortunate to have regular night shifts currently but I am constantly worried if I loose that call/patient (I'm in the community) There's no way I could live on the wage doing the general rounds, especially on foot and public transport. I often bitterly joke about our pay rise in the form of applause so it was awesome to hear Eddie make a comment on that. Solidarity, I hope you find something you love doing.

    • @martinevans1427
      @martinevans1427 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thank you Dan. What a comment on how one of the richest countries in the world is run - and who it's run for.

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dan truly wish I could help you guys in healthcare. God knows l and my husband are going to need people,like you soon as we are both in our 80s. Thank you for everything you have done. Wonder if you could work privately or as a self employed care worker? Think about it.

    • @debbiewright8452
      @debbiewright8452 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The govt has launched a survey across Care Homes for older people and Domiciliary care to identify 'the fair cost of care' due for submissin in October 22. But if the councils aren't then allocated sufficient funds to pay it, we are back to unsustainable services that cannot recruit or retain staff. Then what?

    • @TomNoles007
      @TomNoles007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I feel very strongly that carers should have been given above inflation pay rises for at LEAST the last 10 years. Disgusting the way society is upside down in this regard. Wishing you well in the future mate.

  • @thomaswhite9078
    @thomaswhite9078 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Victory to the RMT

  • @thomaswhitehead5496
    @thomaswhitehead5496 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Such a relief to hear two people talk so much sense. The fact that some people don't agree with them is mildly terrifying. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a much needed shake up in this country

  • @nikhattariq9906
    @nikhattariq9906 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fantastic, the voice of the 99% is growing louder. Anyone who stands for looking after children, elderly and their communities I will support. More power to the unions. Enough is enough.

  • @hilaryporter7841
    @hilaryporter7841 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Wisdom from Mick Lynch "I want to kick the Labour Party into a position of Enough is Enough".
    Wisdom from Eddie Dempsey who described perfectly the socialism that only the rich benefit from, they drive wages so low that workers have to go to the state just to live, but the rich have their profits which they have made by benefiting from what can accurately be described as socialism 'only' for the rich.

    • @wendyjones5853
      @wendyjones5853 ปีที่แล้ว

      Their whole evil agenda is to drive the masses into poverty ? That's their plan ,surely we cannot deny this ,? So that we will all have to rely on the State , which suits them fine it's about control , but United we stand , divided we fall is was the Labour Party mantra ? If we stand together they brick it , safety in numbers ?

    • @stephenjon3502
      @stephenjon3502 ปีที่แล้ว

      Socialism seemed to work for nearly 12 million when they sat in their gardens for best part of a year on ' free ' money.
      Only when it suits....

  • @mazzsilver8557
    @mazzsilver8557 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Two Real Working Class Heroes. Cheers🍺 Solidarity!

    • @chriswood3252
      @chriswood3252 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'd also love to see informal banter interview over a G&T with Grant Shapps. 🤣 He'd be a rabbit in the headlights.

    • @Funglutton
      @Funglutton ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd love to see Grant Shapps stuck between a Gorilla and a Tiger too!

  • @_Andy_A
    @_Andy_A ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Keep it up gents, two of the rare voices in politics talking sense at the moment. Side note - I love how 7 mins in and Eddie's already demolished his drink lol.

  • @tonychorley4936
    @tonychorley4936 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is simply brilliant , these guys give me hope that we can change the mess this country is in. I do so hope there will be lots more of these discussions. As everyone here has commented, they speak so clearly, and make such sense, they deserve a huge audience.

  • @cgavin1
    @cgavin1 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    I despair that men like this never get anywhere near government in this country.

    • @stephenroche5107
      @stephenroche5107 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They are the Brian Cloughs of political life and for those that do not know what I mean imagine the England mens football team if it had been manged by Brian Clough exactly.

    • @thepodbaydoorshal
      @thepodbaydoorshal ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the real sickness that runs through this country. We keep looking towards posh Eton boys and the upper class to help us when it's never in their interests to do so!

    • @reallivebluescat
      @reallivebluescat ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But we need good outside pressure. Government means assimilation

    • @JWB86
      @JWB86 ปีที่แล้ว

      They won't! The political system is designed in such a way where people like these two will get hushed out the backdoor!

  • @lincslegend6936
    @lincslegend6936 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    These two gents give me hope that people power can and will work.
    Keep going lads most of the working class are behind you and your members.

    • @crissieroserose
      @crissieroserose ปีที่แล้ว +6

      absoloutly

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit,
      they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working
      conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make
      its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the
      workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same
      argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten
      sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike
      back then?

    • @lincslegend6936
      @lincslegend6936 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DrMontague don't know 🤷‍♂️

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lincslegend6936 This is the reason I don't jump on the band wagon and state what a fantastic job they are doing. That they are so intelligent. If only they were MPs etc. The RMT will not come out on strike to support the nurse of care workers who cannot strike for ethical reasons i.e. people would die, operations cancelled etc. If they win the depute they will simply say thank you to those who have supported them. They will simply turn around to the care workers and say' you really can't expect us to come out on strike to support you, but we do wish you good luck!'.

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 ปีที่แล้ว

      If that were true, there would never be a tory government.

  • @666fcachiangmai
    @666fcachiangmai ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Fantastic interview,if only these guys were politicians,real straight talking men,great respect to both of them,They are gaining support from most working class people.

  • @rebeccataylor4809
    @rebeccataylor4809 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I've worked as a carer and I'm so glad to hear this being publicly expressed at last. It's a scandal! People are suffering substandard care, workers exploited and profits ferreted away abroad.

  • @lindacurrie8817
    @lindacurrie8817 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    Keep it going guys we so badly require your hope. Do not let media, press, journalists and the heinous Tories try to push you out provide no platform for voice to be heard.

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 ปีที่แล้ว

      Linda Currie - tell the brain cell deficient, the old people who have the Daily Bile as their bible, not to let the media push them into having their perceptions manipulated and when they take notice do,please let me know and I will double my subs to UNITE. These people do not want to THINK about their children and their grand children’s futures. They don’t care.

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rather a Tory than a gulag supporter

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@flannelsykes0 please define ‘gulag supporter’

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@elaineedgar2913 In the big book of internet trolling it comes under "Use ad hominem remarks". They're to be used when curtains are drawn and darkness doth hide a veil of solitary tears that indeed, moisten the redden cheeks of an unwell individual. Although it may also cometh under "Claims of a fondness for Stalinism" which could lead to Gulagism from the Gulaggers who dwell in the towers most Ivory. The free marketers who market most freely could claim to market their freedom in the duplication of goods arriving from the Jupiter staircase recently built by Sir Winalot Pie and his slave labour brought in from a Tesla manufacturing plant. In essence and very much in keeping with the digital age, words, slogans and their very meaning have a negative capability to ensure the non progress of a cat with extra furry ears.

    • @elaineedgar2913
      @elaineedgar2913 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@flannelsykes0 um…..pardon?

  • @cliffordmarkland2624
    @cliffordmarkland2624 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm a civil servant and I wish these two where unison leaders ✊

  • @markgarrod4436
    @markgarrod4436 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    WOW. Thanks PoliticsJoe and all the team for bringing this to TH-cam and thanks to Mick and Eddie 👍👍👍👍 So refreshing to hear and normal. No Gaslighting or waffle. More please. 👍👍👍👍

  • @grahamjohnson8842
    @grahamjohnson8842 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    We need to get behind these guys and get things moving. A great insight into the crisis that is coming.

  • @murrayeldred3563
    @murrayeldred3563 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    Excellent analysis of the situation by Mick Lynch.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit,
      they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working
      conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make
      its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the
      workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same
      argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten
      sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike
      back then?

    • @iiwii8622
      @iiwii8622 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DrMontague Which still doesn't diminish what they're saying.
      Billionaires, the media and Tories are scum 🙂

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iiwii8622 What about the scum working class who put the scum in power? Most working class arse holes I tried to debate with would fight tooth n Nail to protect them. I never forget workers queuing up to buy Rupert Murdoch's SUN tabloid. Those selling the Socialist Worker couldn't give their papers away! I wonder how many RMT union members and sacked P&O workers bought the Sun on their way to work each morning? Even after the Hillsborough football disaster and the lies the Sun tabloid wrote about the Liverpool supporters the arse working class continued buying his tabloid.

  • @Mr---mr4ll
    @Mr---mr4ll ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The dailymail’s worst nightmare this. And those scum dirty GB news.
    Well done lads. All the honest hard working men and women in the country are completely on you’re side. Do yourselves proud

    • @J4CK4L7
      @J4CK4L7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      GB News like Mick and Eddie, they're based hard brexiteers

    • @Mr---mr4ll
      @Mr---mr4ll ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@J4CK4L7 trust me I know that they are but what I’ve noticed since 2016 this is the first and only time I think the working class on both sides of the political isle have come in sync. Fuck it. Let’s take advantage of it.

  • @johnrothery3683
    @johnrothery3683 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Watching from NZ.
    There is hope for Britain with these two.

  • @burnttoast8646
    @burnttoast8646 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Haven't enjoyed an interview this much in a long time, they have to be the most relatable people in the country.
    Enough is Enough.

  • @jamieashton3835
    @jamieashton3835 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Just joined enough is enough thanks guys the fight is on against these corrupt evil fascist tories

    • @xxxxOS
      @xxxxOS ปีที่แล้ว

      AND Labour. Labour is essentially a second tory party at this point. Both parties serve the same economic agenda which is ruining our nations on behalf of global corporations and billionaires. They control our governments, democracies, media, intelligence agencies and now most of the internet. Labour no longer supports Labour, it supports Wall-Street. We shouldn't give either party our votes until they give us something to vote FOR. 💪

  • @hailstone2554
    @hailstone2554 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Yet again these guys explain how these Companies rip the heart out of the working class, guys you are excellent at representing your membership and the working class as a whole. 👍👍👍

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit,
      they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working
      conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make
      its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the
      workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same
      argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten
      sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike
      back then?

    • @hailstone2554
      @hailstone2554 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DrMontague If you are lied to every single time you put your head above the parapet to ask a question, then it becomes incredibly difficult to tell your membership anything other than what you were told was going to happen. Even though 'though project fear' was the one telling you the truth.

  • @J-D69
    @J-D69 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I’m a network rail rmt member and im proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with not just my fellow railway family but all workers this is just the start the ceo’s are pleading poverty whilst giving themselves 7-35% pay rises, bt was 35% I believe and nwr boss Andrew Haines gave himself 7 so what is that about when there’s apparently no money now 🤣🤣

  • @michaelrichard9640
    @michaelrichard9640 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I seriously Thank God for these two
    Guys .. Brilliant

  • @LP-zk4xr
    @LP-zk4xr ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I’m a nurse and I would love these two to represent us. RCN and unison have had weak positions during every set of negotiations since I qualified 12 years ago. Time for change.

    • @patcampton7163
      @patcampton7163 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's up to the members to push the RCN and unison.

  • @russellcalladine2027
    @russellcalladine2027 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I'm 67 now I'm a pensioner when I was younger and I don't know if it's still the same if you went into a Working Man's Club on a Sunday afternoon there was more common sense spoken how to put the world to rights in a Working Man's Club than in Parliament as long as you went in early on

  • @CAPTINKING
    @CAPTINKING ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I hope conserv voters see this. Thank you for making this Interview!

  • @walterreynoldsmusic
    @walterreynoldsmusic ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Could watch these two all day, honesty and integrity. Working class heroes.

  • @craighicksartwork
    @craighicksartwork ปีที่แล้ว +64

    FOLLOW THESE MEN. We have truly forgotten the power we have as workers.

  • @robertreid9079
    @robertreid9079 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I have so much respect for such honest and committed guys.Stand up, stand up.Enough is enough👍

    • @Dynasty1818
      @Dynasty1818 ปีที่แล้ว

      A whole load of what they're talking about is just uninformed, opinionated whining, not actual FACT.

    • @terryhaircastle5702
      @terryhaircastle5702 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dynasty1818 oh f off. Your empty putdowns aren't going to work

    • @robertreid9079
      @robertreid9079 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dynasty1818 We all have the opportunity to research whether what we believe to be true is actually true. In the words of Bertrand Russell “ the whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,and wiser people so full of doubts”.

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dynasty1818smarmy middle class people and class traitirs not welcome here. Read your tory graph or something.

  • @glynnettleton9900
    @glynnettleton9900 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oli this is perhapse one of the very best TH-cam debates on politics I have ever seen mate 😁. This should be shiwn in every high school in the UK to give our kids & grandkids a crash course in social history & make them aware of how it relates to the 'here & now'! Bloody well done team 🙃

    • @djdinosaur
      @djdinosaur ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wont happen bro ,the wastemonter govt wont allow it , pity tho cause these two guys say how it is for real in workplace britain , more power to them

    • @maryburke2680
      @maryburke2680 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well done guys for your honesty decency and integrity.❤

  • @marceloschmidt116
    @marceloschmidt116 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best ever British political debates I ve ever seen, long live the RMT

  • @andyheavyside
    @andyheavyside ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Keep going guys. Solidarity with all strikers ✊

  • @rogerward9684
    @rogerward9684 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Really enjoying this, love to see it as a weekly event.. Cheers

  • @lcuk99
    @lcuk99 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Props to the barworkers, great job while being broadcast to a quarter of a million people

  • @tommy_truesk8
    @tommy_truesk8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    thanks PoliticsJoe, this is what I wish we were seeing on the mainstream media

  • @glennhenden2622
    @glennhenden2622 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    What a glorious pair, we need dozens more like them in every country!

  • @blagzster6255
    @blagzster6255 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Fellow Brother and Sisters of our Motherland. Listen to these Men, they speak the truth and nothing but the truth. Unless the changes they suggest are realised, the future for common folk is bleak.

    • @bombercountyblues
      @bombercountyblues ปีที่แล้ว

      I 100% agree with your sentiment here mate.. but in a world where the right wing media use communistic terms to trigger people,, language like "brothers and sisters of the motherland" probably isn't gonna help....

    • @liamK1916
      @liamK1916 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds like a religion

    • @mb7290
      @mb7290 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Dionysos640 Nationalists usually talk like that lol

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      You really think unions are in it for the common folk?

  • @erictk869
    @erictk869 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fantastic from these two. Join a Union.

  • @alextilson9741
    @alextilson9741 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love that the table behind them are just silently listing in and enjoying the live podcast.

  • @andrewharlow84
    @andrewharlow84 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    That was a brilliant conversation, really inspiring.

  • @tonyskoyled5949
    @tonyskoyled5949 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Marvellous genuine working men who are leading their unions
    Fantastic

  • @alidawson6118
    @alidawson6118 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Every worker in the country should be made to sit down and watch this, especially the working class S#n readers who are bad mouthing those workers brave enough to strike.

  • @ianbrown_
    @ianbrown_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mick Lynch is a breath of fresh air….we all wish to hear plain talking like this from politicians

  • @circleofmoonmusic9743
    @circleofmoonmusic9743 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I'd absolutely love to go for a pint with those guys. As a care worker I was moved to hear them talk about the care industry. Solidarity guys. Keep up the good work.

    • @carmel4378
      @carmel4378 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me too, it's so nice to hear them talk about the care industry with passion. The best we get from most of the politicians is vapid sound bites and rounds of applause. I definitely buy them a round!

  • @madtingsadting
    @madtingsadting ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Absolutely great chat. Great ideas put forward and lots of wisdom shared. Eddie can sink them mind 😂👏🏻. Solidarity, CWU member about to take action in Royal Mail ✊🏻

    • @56postoffice
      @56postoffice ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Another RM worker here.✊

  • @robertshaer6603
    @robertshaer6603 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks Politics Joe for sitting down and chatting with the only effective oposition we have in this country. Nice work, and solidarity to all the strikers doing what they need to do to esure all workers have a fair deal.

  • @MrPX207
    @MrPX207 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Finally a constructed interview where alternative questions are proposed and answered without school ground politics. Well done Oli

  • @LuffyDaGoat
    @LuffyDaGoat ปีที่แล้ว +134

    It was a joy listening to Mick and Eddie.

    • @FCBayernGaming21
      @FCBayernGaming21 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it wasn't

    • @ianwatson5605
      @ianwatson5605 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FCBayernGaming21 aww...its a shame you didn't see the funny side.

  • @BangTC69
    @BangTC69 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    They both speak a tonne of sense. We need more like them in Labour or just set-up a new political party/movement. Solidarity!!!

  • @chrischoules2284
    @chrischoules2284 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The RMT and CWU are showing the British workers the only way forward, take the fight to the greedy

  • @hackedoff736
    @hackedoff736 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember the French CGT visiting our community about 10 months into the miners strike. UNION, ACTION, SOLIDARITY! Keep going, you're an inspiration.

  • @timwoodger7896
    @timwoodger7896 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Love the fact these guys are popping up everywhere and spilling some truth in a way that people can understand.
    If they get any more popular they will be celebrities in their own right.
    Just imagine these two with a hit in the charts 😂 the establishment would destroy themselves just out of frustration. 🥳

    • @ethelmini
      @ethelmini ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think Mick already is. Piers Morgan unwittingly did him a massive favour with that Thunderbirds jibe.

    • @andrewgora3672
      @andrewgora3672 ปีที่แล้ว

      A hit in the charts doesn't change people's lives!

    • @deepzepp4176
      @deepzepp4176 ปีที่แล้ว

      When the establishment start giving certain people air time, you have to ask yourself why?

  • @openshutterfilms
    @openshutterfilms ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This is great, thanks for giving these leaders a voice when most of the politicians couldn’t care less about the working class.

  • @lisastickytuna8668
    @lisastickytuna8668 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Three of my favourite advocates for non-millionaires, working people and for much-needed change.
    Never even *thought* about becoming a union rep until listening to Eddie and Mick. I am now!
    Would utterly love politicians like this - I’d be proud of the UK again.

  • @martinbegley
    @martinbegley ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We must collect. Dempsey and Lynch are voices worth hearing. Fight the good fight, people

  • @b62boom1
    @b62boom1 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    That's the most sense I've heard spoken in years. There's a reason the powers that be are constantly trying to divide us, and that's because they're terrified of us uniting, and they're really good at it. It just takes people to wake up. We are all in this together, and those that put us in this position are not on our side, they don't represent any of us.

  • @witters182
    @witters182 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Love the coverage these two men and the RMT are getting. Mick lynch and Eddie dempsey are doing a fantastic job and inspiring many people . Myself included I am a RMT member and proud

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      Get them to support the bog cleaners that the NHS underpays.

    • @witters182
      @witters182 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@flannelsykes0 They support them aswell as they support everybody who is underpaid and should be paid more . But there union represent transport workers

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@witters182As a tax payer I think Consultants should be paid less. That'll cover the costs for the poor lowly NHS folk who never get a mention when it comes better pay.

  • @thomasstewart729
    @thomasstewart729 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    30 mins in and Dempsey's on his third Guinness. That's our working class guy 👍

    • @richmondene0413
      @richmondene0413 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      thats a normal irish man.

    • @JeffPower-dv3zl
      @JeffPower-dv3zl หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@richmondexcaxley😊ene0413

  • @JeffPower-dv3zl
    @JeffPower-dv3zl หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks Mick and Eddie 😊

  • @keithashley6298
    @keithashley6298 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    These two men speak more sense than any politician alive today, they give us hope. 👏 Bravo!!

    • @captricharddee3634
      @captricharddee3634 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's the least I would expect earing six figure salaries.

    • @DrMontague
      @DrMontague ปีที่แล้ว

      However the Union leadership advised it's members to vote for brexit,
      they argued brexit would give job security, better pay and working
      conditions, that it was better the for the British government to make
      its own decisions!! So we can assume that a large proportion of the
      workforce voted for Boris and stabbed Corbyn in the back. The same
      argument applies to the sacked P&O workers. The soon forgotten
      sacked P&O workers. Why didn't the unions call a national strike
      back then?

    • @traceyomalley3797
      @traceyomalley3797 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      brilliant the only way for change is for everyone to share this and stand together we are a lot more powerful than we think thankyou for this

  • @LA_Coaster
    @LA_Coaster ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I've been waiting 35 years for a movement like this to gain traction in this country. I'll work , volunteer or fight for it if necessary at the drop of a hat.

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's been here all along, but the tories have sidelined the trade unions, and they are starved of publicity.

    • @flannelsykes0
      @flannelsykes0 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 70s were a disgrace. Why the fuck do we want to return to totalitarian Unionism?

  • @SvalbardSleeperDistrict
    @SvalbardSleeperDistrict ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What an awesome opportunity to see these two talk about the big questions as well as their life experiences, all in an informal setting. Beautiful.

  • @Stuieeisonfire
    @Stuieeisonfire ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Chicken Shop Amelia pulling pints and the dad behind disregarding his family whilst trying to listen are the best parts of this video

    • @scrimmy45
      @scrimmy45 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought the actual discussion was much better .

  • @nigelbaker2717
    @nigelbaker2717 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    These two guys are so on the right track. I've said before, Mick for PM!
    I've already signed up to Enough is Enough.👍

  • @markrhoden68
    @markrhoden68 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Killing it guys, calm relaxed and on point.
    The big boys hate you but can't do anything to stop you, we stand with you 💯

  • @1050cc
    @1050cc ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "That'd make the mafia blush" 🤣🤣🤣 Eddie Dempsey 👊👍👏 What gives ME hope is decent, intelligent people like Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey !!! They're our beacon of light 🤗