Labour's landslide win | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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  • @spring_in_paris
    @spring_in_paris 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +190

    From the bottom of my heart I genuinely hope things will get better again for the people of the UK.
    With love from Germany ❤

    • @Bowden99
      @Bowden99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I'm glad that all of Europe doesn't hate us after the debacle of the last 14 years. I wish we could be one again.

    • @jakehowie442
      @jakehowie442 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      How do you view the UK right now as a German?

    • @Razzmatazz99
      @Razzmatazz99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂😂😂 get better? It’s going to be the same labour and Tory are the same

    • @spring_in_paris
      @spring_in_paris 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @jakehowie442 Please keep in mind that I am just a bystander. I think it will take a long time and a lot of patience and commitment on the part of the people to correct the damage that has been done. I have been to your beautiful country several times over the last 35 years. Most recently in 2023 and I was shocked by the prominent poverty. But I think a lot will be gained by reversing the harshest social cuts and implementing an effective economic program that is geared towards benefiting the majority and not just a minority. And, if the majority of Britons want it, back into the EU. However, this time without a special agreement.

    • @missaj5623
      @missaj5623 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thanks that is really kind of you. With love from the UK

  • @ReadMoreHistory-v9u
    @ReadMoreHistory-v9u 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    Watching from Singapore by way of America… watching with relief and hope. Once again in history, with the far right on the march, Great Britain stood alone and said NO! No to lies. No to indecency. No to hate . As I watch with enormous terror at the events of my own country, this has fortified me to continue the fight. Thank you UK voters… and also to James for continuing to call out the lies and deceit and indecency at every turn instead of allowing them to proliferate unobjected as they do in America. Im am so grateful to this program. There are so few voices I can trust anymore. ❤ 🇬🇧🙏

    • @thedeadmoneyallstars
      @thedeadmoneyallstars 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Don't get too far ahead of yourself, we've got a lot of work to do over here still. 2029 is going to be the real showdown between the centre and the fascists, hopefully the left don't fall into horseshoe theory.
      But for now, there seems to have been a collective sigh of relief before we get back to it

    • @twelvemo1
      @twelvemo1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thedeadmoneyallstars What will be happening in 2029?

    • @gregchew8225
      @gregchew8225 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@twelvemo1next general election.

    • @ryanp3649
      @ryanp3649 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Less than 20% of people eligible to vote, voted Labour.

    • @simongiles9749
      @simongiles9749 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Iran, of all places, have voted in a progressive over a hardliners. Probably relative, but still...

  • @powderedtoastfacekillah734
    @powderedtoastfacekillah734 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +193

    Congrats guys from Brooklyn, NY!
    🇬🇧🤜💥🤛🇺🇸
    Hopefully we can keep our conservatives out of the White House this November

    • @shellbelz
      @shellbelz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Thanks mate, and we wish you the best of British on your side of the pond

    • @MiškoM-t4i
      @MiškoM-t4i 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Regrettably, just as the British populace began to embrace a more open-minded perspective, the United States is on the cusp of electing additional Republican representatives to their government.

    • @SunofYork
      @SunofYork 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have UK/US passports and live in Wisconsin... It's wonderful that the UK has put a stop to the far right assault on Europe. Now we have the US to safeguard, and I am doing my best in Wisconsin... As an ex-European I know all about 1933 in Germany.

    • @HollandN54
      @HollandN54 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Cheers dude!🎉💪🫡🇬🇧🇺🇸

    • @mjtigerfang
      @mjtigerfang 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What conservatives? They were Lib Dem’s

  • @onceuponadime978
    @onceuponadime978 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Greetings from the other side of the pond. Congratulations! 🎉 Now please let us all hope that we can keep democracy alive one more time here. Wish us luck. We r gonna need it...

    • @bannjaxx
      @bannjaxx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'm genuinely terrified for the US and the world if Trump gets in - I'm pretty sure he's going to try and abolish elections.

  • @SciFi2285
    @SciFi2285 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +226

    Former PM Liz Truss being slow clapped onto the stage to hear that she has lost her seat. And then shuffling off defiantly without saying a word to her constituents is surely the proper coda to this miserable 14 year Tory government.

    • @JohnGauld
      @JohnGauld 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Pork futures?

    • @peterb5
      @peterb5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The reason why she was tardy was because they’re told the poll results just before they go on stage, sounds to me like she heard of her loss and wanted to leave as fast as she could 😂

    • @annphillips1086
      @annphillips1086 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt and say maybe she was temporarily overcome by emotion and had to compose herself before appearing on stage. But I have a hard time imagining her having any kind of normal human emotions. Plus the lack of even a quick mumbled "thanks to my team for their hard work" sort of nod to decency suggests she just cba.

    • @fozzarooo
      @fozzarooo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The way she stud there, staring into the crowd... she's definitely giving off robot vibes and is currently being shut down

    • @annphillips1086
      @annphillips1086 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@fozzarooo To be fair, it's past time; she's been glitching for ages.

  • @GrumpyYank26
    @GrumpyYank26 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Hooray for all you Brits!!! So so so glad you all have taken a new direction toward sanity. I’m green with envy. - old yank who is truly scared, seattle.

    • @ItWasAcceptableInThe80s
      @ItWasAcceptableInThe80s 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Don't lose hope my friend. This election has been a hard time coming for the most vulnerable in our society ❤🎉

    • @mickreaddin4979
      @mickreaddin4979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I do hope the decent people of America will be able to avert their country from becoming a dictatorship under Trump. Best of luck to you all.

    • @GrumpyYank26
      @GrumpyYank26 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mickreaddin4979 thank you. We need to learn a lesson from you all. I’m not optimistic however.

    • @mickreaddin4979
      @mickreaddin4979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@GrumpyYank26 It only took us 14yrs, Brexit and a ton of corruption to see the light. I have to admit, I don't envy your choices. Perhaps stick with old as opposed to crazy?

    • @GrumpyYank26
      @GrumpyYank26 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mickreaddin4979 Biden is competent and kind. No question who gets my vote. The scary thing is how popular tRump is. Mass mental breakdown. Dems still believe in civil society which the right doesnt even pretend to accept. Its going to get worse, imo. I’m REALLY encouraged that Brits look to be turning it around. Hats off to you all, even if there is a lot of work tb done. Income inequality and policies that create that are the cause, imo.
      Just rambling…over and out.

  • @Dragonsitter
    @Dragonsitter 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    I wept at his speech in Downing Street. I knew I was relieved but didn’t know how hopeless I have felt until it was over! At 78+ I was SO wound up and I finally let go my anxiety! Which I didn’t realise I felt!😘
    Don’t agree about Hunt! He’s as SELFISH AS THE REST! His treatment of NHS has been atrocious and a dereliction of duty. Ruthless landlord!

    • @lynclarke6184
      @lynclarke6184 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He’ll probably be their next leader. Awful eh? It’s gets worse and worse.

    • @jeremygough1387
      @jeremygough1387 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I haven't heard it yet but forget that, I'm just pleased you are feeling better.

    • @Dragonsitter
      @Dragonsitter 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jeremygough1387 thank you. I’m recovering a bit lol

    • @spike5873
      @spike5873 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I don't know how anyone can accuse Hunt of respectability after his stint as health secretary, he's a garbage human!

    • @tamaliaalisjahbana6849
      @tamaliaalisjahbana6849 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Take heart. You have had Britain’s dark shadow side in control but they have been voted out. I truly believe things will get better.

  • @jasonboyd5867
    @jasonboyd5867 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +143

    What a shame that Sunak waited until his resignation to actually show Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability...

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      He's nae bothered, green card in hand, mansion sorted - he's off to Uncle Sam.

    • @dermolado3351
      @dermolado3351 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂 😂😂

    • @spike5873
      @spike5873 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jasonboyd5867 professional words are relatively easy, accountability only counts if someone is held accountable no?.... sauntering off with pockets full of money and no consequences of note? hope someone "holds me to account" like the Tories were soon

    • @DGE123
      @DGE123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yes he is an example of the modern choice completely incompetent but some decency or some ability but completely amoral , canada is in the same boat ready to elect the far right bc people are angry that there is no tax for the government to keep its services, bc the politicians refuse to raise the marginal tax rate back to what it needs to be, google that and bretton woods, the fascists cannot win, solidarity brother! get yanis varoufakis on your programs come on!!!

    • @robertshepherd-mo9vw
      @robertshepherd-mo9vw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      More than Johnson did.

  • @algebraworks
    @algebraworks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    Britons resoundingly voted to put an end to 14 years of Conservative rule, and deliver a landslide victory for the Labour Party.

    • @richardloach610
      @richardloach610 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No they didn't, they voted for Reform who are even further to the right than the Tories. Labour only got an extra 0.5% of the vote

    • @jakehowie442
      @jakehowie442 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Labour got a 33% vote with a 58% turnout…your maths must be very bad.

    • @allip4226
      @allip4226 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@richardloach610I see the far-right are still living in an alternative reality! Reform has 5 seats, they have as much political relevance as the DUP. Cope and seethe. 😂

    • @JfK--OBJECTivE
      @JfK--OBJECTivE 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@allip4226 Lets see how the far left within Labour behave in this government, I'll get the popcorn ready LOL.

    • @spike5873
      @spike5873 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@allip4226 he's right though, labour have a large majority with low voting numbers and it's because the Tories lost votes to reform. we can be hopeful that a labour government will put the work in and improve people's lives but in some ways this isn't a big win, it's a big loss for the Tories which benefits us all as it handed an easy solid win to labour

  • @timthegallant
    @timthegallant 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    So trump congratulates farage and not starmer.i think hes laid his cards out.would love new government to have the courage of their convictions and deal with trump as we will have to if he wins but not pretend that their values align.

    • @peacheswilliams4539
      @peacheswilliams4539 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Trump congratulates the hate party who won 4 seats and says nothing to the working Labour party who won 412 seats.....Evil supports it's own Evil...

  • @steelers6mk
    @steelers6mk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    I hope America will vote sensibly in November. Congratulations to the U.K. JOB well done.

    • @danielgrunwell6026
      @danielgrunwell6026 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Voting sensibly for a corpse?

    • @RD210
      @RD210 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yup, Mexicans for Trump!

    • @KoffieConvos
      @KoffieConvos 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@danielgrunwell6026funny you actually realize and ACKNOWLEDGE that Joe Biden is the sensible choice!

    • @lordvadertheleftie9703
      @lordvadertheleftie9703 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You guys are going to have Trump win by 10 million+ votes unfortunately

    • @dh1380
      @dh1380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They have a similar election coming up - Voting for the most part not for who they want but who they hate least.

  • @dh1380
    @dh1380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I think Sunak and Starmer have amutual respect for each other which was probably tested during recent months. I think Sunak's speech was excellent. Starmer did just as well. This is how civilised democracy should work. We should be proud of this.

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Didn't KS before 2015, used to be H I n H with the govt via his role in CPS ¿?
      Ie, part of the ruling party's tree...

  • @ElemennoP
    @ElemennoP 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    I just hope voters remember to keep the Tories out the same length of time they been in, it's staggering the damage they done to this country and this economy
    .

    • @TrixiLovesYou
      @TrixiLovesYou 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      They have to, because it's going to take more than five years to get the UK back on track.

    • @ac-ss8ln
      @ac-ss8ln 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂😂😂 wait for it - you ain’t seen nothing yet

    • @sergeistepanov114
      @sergeistepanov114 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You must be new to democracy

    • @degsbabe
      @degsbabe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't worry , Labour will do the same......and more..

    • @ArnoldFlibble
      @ArnoldFlibble 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean Labour vote was less than it was in 2019. Despite the size of the seat majority it is a very fragile one. Governments tend to lose votes not to gain them so Labour are going to have to actually do something significant. If they keep to the there isn't money to do anything and that the private sector will save us just like the Tories have been saying since 2010 they are finished next election.

  • @stevendurrant1724
    @stevendurrant1724 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    Never forget what they did. Horrific.For me it is the widespread grinding poverty that drove many vulnerable people to suicidal despair. They vermin didn’t give a toss.

    • @sianparker6235
      @sianparker6235 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Ever since my working life (I have had the Tories as leaders since I turned 18). I have consistently been living pay check to pay check, any meagre savings always have gotten swallowed up due to changes in things like benefits etc. then I finally got into a position where I was able to save far more, then inflation went up, my energy bills spiralled. I sit with £15.00 in my bank after I have paid all my bills etc. I am hoping labour help me not be constantly on the cusp of going into debt.

    • @UnknownUser-by4le
      @UnknownUser-by4le 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@sianparker6235 labour will give you more of the same, sorry

    • @timthegallant
      @timthegallant 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you put your faith in an elite group of people that the tories are who dont understand the lives of most people then thats what you get.

    • @joojoo9758
      @joojoo9758 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@UnknownUser-by4le You don't have to say sorry for things you can't be sure about.

    • @ItWasAcceptableInThe80s
      @ItWasAcceptableInThe80s 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      THEY'RE OUT!!!! The people struggling can now breathe a sigh of relief. We've earned it ❤

  • @jamessteel9016
    @jamessteel9016 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    The show we’ve been waiting for 👏 the Tories are gone, and labour are in

    • @Mouldhead
      @Mouldhead 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No

    • @ac-ss8ln
      @ac-ss8ln 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As long as he is home for6pm 😂😂😂

  • @sianparker6235
    @sianparker6235 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I'm of the generation that has never in my working life lived under a different party. I am so incredibly hopeful that under Labour my financial situation improves, that the cost of living falls, that my child has better opportunities and schooling. Mostly i am hopeful that the country can just get behind the current leadership and give them a fair chance.

    • @liamcooke1859
      @liamcooke1859 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well I'm similar. I left school In 2009 and I had a job of sorts during that same year so I guess I spent a year under the labour party but I wasn't really into my full working life so it wasn't memorable in terms of pay I was just happy to earn money back then 😂 but since going into a full time job I'm now hopeful that my situation improve especially since me and my colleagues are embroiled in strike action as of now.

    • @MI-ci5hg
      @MI-ci5hg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It won't, read this in 4/5 years. I wish you well but it won't.

    • @MsPeabody1231
      @MsPeabody1231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Your cost of living will be the same however hopeful your child's schooling and the health service should start to get better. Under the last Labour government I went through two recessions so was on the dole twice but my nephews and nieces schools weren't falling down, hospitals weren't falling down, the health service waiting lists were shorter, and the police and criminal justice system worked. Oh and while being on the dole I could afford my energy bills and eat 3 simple meals a day.

    • @Vegansharks
      @Vegansharks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They'll be no change, 5 years from now and all will be the same, just another million people living in the UK which is going to be the real problem ...

    • @ryanp3649
      @ryanp3649 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cope.

  • @jonathanshaw7355
    @jonathanshaw7355 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    The race has been won but the work hasn’t even begun. We haven’t won anything apart from the opportunity to do something of worth.

    • @annphillips1086
      @annphillips1086 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well put. It remains to be seen what use is made of it. Hope is back, but euphoria isn't really appropriate (yet?).

  • @w-james9277
    @w-james9277 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    This is what happens when a party treats the electorate with contempt.

    • @maggieedwards3951
      @maggieedwards3951 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That there 👈🏽

    • @arseniyonline1234555
      @arseniyonline1234555 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      There weren't any parties, okay there were parties but I didn't know. Ok I knew but I didn't go. Ok, I went but didn't know it was a party, got ambushed by drinks...

    • @celticsole7542
      @celticsole7542 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You what?! EVERY party EVERYWHERE in the world treat the “electorate” with contempt, but they still participate in the charade…imagine what would happen if the electorate held the government in the contempt they deserve?! this is on,y the beginning

    • @independent-ts6ys
      @independent-ts6ys 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And when they do nothing for the electorate 👍

    • @djd8305
      @djd8305 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@w-james9277 eventually...

  • @jeremygough1387
    @jeremygough1387 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Finally we have adults in charge.

  • @KoffieConvos
    @KoffieConvos 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    This opener is fire 🔥!
    I only hope us (U.S. citizens) can play the same song Nov 5th

  • @fuzzstar7878
    @fuzzstar7878 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Starmer speech was outstanding, and full of hope.

  • @mrhappyfoot
    @mrhappyfoot 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    My daughter is an austerity baby, she's never been able to look at her country's leaders and feel anything but revulsion. Now my baby girl has hope.

  • @davidharness1507
    @davidharness1507 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    They can start by getting our money back from Mone et al. I am one of 3 million freelancers who got no help during the pandemic currently fighting for compensation.

  • @user-em6ie2be7x
    @user-em6ie2be7x 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn & The Green Party for snagging 4 Seats.

    • @dh1380
      @dh1380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The anti-nuclear green party makes no sense to me at all, just like the "net 0 immigration, all in on fossil fuel" agenda of Reform. Both parties are walking contradictions

    • @suzyqualcast6269
      @suzyqualcast6269 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      5, total, actually.
      As with reform - 5.

  • @Berndr
    @Berndr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    How do you fix politics without having a constitution that prevents the lies of politicians, and allows encouragement of far-right and hate politics! I want Keir to address the truth about Brexit, and tell the truth about lies and propaganda that led to it!

    • @Petticca
      @Petticca 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A constitution is only worth as much as the people elected to uphold it, hold its value to be.

    • @kierancarter8369
      @kierancarter8369 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As we're learning in the U.S.A., a constitution is only as powerful as the integrity of the parties sworn to uphold it...

    • @Delred1
      @Delred1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly !

    • @niallmacrae6016
      @niallmacrae6016 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A committee of political auditors, randomly selected from qualified individuals, sort of like jury duty, to serve for a year investigating politicians for corruption/profiteering

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Starmer should:
    1. Abolish and repeal the Rwanda gimmick.
    2. Ensure corporate tax avoiders pat their fair share of tax.
    3. Restore the NHS.
    {:o:O:}

  • @NeedsaLift595
    @NeedsaLift595 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    That's the sad part isn't it. Their crushing defeat changes nothing really. The damage is still there. Now Starmer has an enormous job to do and wont be given 14 years to try and fix it.

    • @peacheswilliams4539
      @peacheswilliams4539 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The sad part of all of this is people are going to expect results OVERNIGHT, It took 14 years for Tories to destroy the Country. They will expect Labour to fix it in a week...😂😂😂😂

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@peacheswilliams4539How is that funny?

    • @fionaetienne1693
      @fionaetienne1693 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It did not take them that long. They cut public spending immediately and austerity was well on the way by 2012y​@@peacheswilliams4539

    • @redlightmax
      @redlightmax 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Their crushing defeat changes plenty. Tories are no longer in government to make things worse, and Labour has a chance to make things better.

  • @nrouth619
    @nrouth619 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I agree. I’m utterly wrung out and just want some decency and normalcy. I feel I can breathe, at last.

  • @paulneedham3608
    @paulneedham3608 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Life long Labour voter in Lincolnshire which always seems to be Blue. Which i have never understood. Alot of low paid jobs. I an hoping things go well for Labour and the UK had enough of lies corruption and not to care about people.

  • @SingingBee422
    @SingingBee422 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    A fresh start, hopefully it’s for the betterment of the country

  • @TheAegisClaw
    @TheAegisClaw 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It's relief rather than euphoria. Relief to have the grown-ups back in charge.

    • @stevenshepard3495
      @stevenshepard3495 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’m an American! watching from across the pond, and hope our election in November will be as hopeful as yours. I’m soooo glad to see Nigel Farage will have to slither away and go back under the rock from which he came. Farage reminds me of trump so much!! But I’m excited to see all the great things the Labour government will do!!

  • @blossomyoung9615
    @blossomyoung9615 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    It's the feeling you get waiting for the next clap of thunder after the storm has dissipated. A feeling any abuse victim knows well.
    We've been abused by our government- normalcy leads to adrenaline crash.
    It will pass, but only once we believe we're safe again.
    It's hard to believe after so long rolling from one attack to the next.

    • @deborahjones3896
      @deborahjones3896 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Excellent analogy

    • @blossomyoung9615
      @blossomyoung9615 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@deborahjones3896 thanks. Unfortunately I recognised it.
      National PTSD.
      We've been moved so far, to accept so much, it'll take a while to stop tiptoeing.
      But we ARE safer now. I recognise that bit too. 😉❤🎉

    • @deborahjones3896
      @deborahjones3896 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@blossomyoung9615 ❤️‍🩹

  • @johndewhurst6609
    @johndewhurst6609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I have one thing I am grateful for Rishi Sunak for one thing , he called the election for July 4th. So I woke up up on my birthhday July 5th to see they had finally gone, great birthday present.

    • @MsPeabody1231
      @MsPeabody1231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Happy Birthday 🎉🎉

    • @johndewhurst6609
      @johndewhurst6609 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MsPeabody1231 Thank you😀

  • @dougstorky3223
    @dougstorky3223 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    James, please now come to the U.S. to help save us from trump

    • @peacheswilliams4539
      @peacheswilliams4539 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The American people have to save themselves...They just have to open their eyes for what the future may hold if they don't....

  • @AlbertSquareAfterDark
    @AlbertSquareAfterDark 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    We’re not out the woods yet by a long way… but we may have just found one of the breadcrumbs we dropped on the way in.

    • @AName-pp8di
      @AName-pp8di 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Very nice

    • @MV-se4di
      @MV-se4di 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My two favourite TH-cam channels collide

  • @vivburgess4300
    @vivburgess4300 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Parties come in on a wave of euphoria and hubris end up going out in abject humiliation. I'd rather Labour came in quietly, worked effectively, achieved more than expectated and go out as a respected government. We've had enough of hooray henrys.

    • @jennyg-uf1uo
      @jennyg-uf1uo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That is exactly what Kier has done. Let’s hope he can deliver although it will take time.

  • @Al_Camino77
    @Al_Camino77 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In 1993 in Canada our Conservative Party went from a majority govt of 156 seats to 2. They eventually merged with the Reform party which was basically a western Canadian grievance party that courted social conservatives, right wing religious nuts and alienated white people that hated Quebec. All for the worse.
    Hopefully this doesn’t happen to you folks.

  • @PuzzledlifeTV
    @PuzzledlifeTV 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I, like many many others, are not euphoric at the great news of labour displacing the tories and can be best explained by analogy:
    For the past 14 years i lived next door to a group of hooligans that constantly burgled the neighbourhood, stole everything they could get their hands on, loud parties, bullying anyone that questioned them. Now, I'm just relieved they're gone. Now we have to repair the damage they've done, recover our losses, and reinstalled a normality. The reason for the lack of general celebration is that we only have a vague idea of the people that will replace them, what kind of neighbours will they be...?

  • @diligentmindz
    @diligentmindz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Low voter turnouts. Who do you hate more, the politician who puts themselves forward even when their views are awful, or the voters who are too f***ing lazy to stop whining and vote!

    • @annphillips1086
      @annphillips1086 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To stand up for the lazy voter, the message "what's the point, they're all the same" has been spreading for a long while. I'm suspicious of its origins (have you noticed the word Uniparty making the rounds? The first time I heard it used was by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the US) and have a big problem with the implication that accepting societal norms and expectations of government is daft, stultifying, or somehow immoral. It works though, because all too many people are just ground down and depressed by daily life to believe dragging themselves out to make a pencil mark on a piece of paper is more than just another pointless chore for no reward. I'm not in that situation but can quite understand people who are. I'd be grateful if they'd stop moaning about the choice of government though, if they didn't help to make it.

  • @MrGrantSloan
    @MrGrantSloan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Yet Jeremy Corbyn got more votes in 2019. Than Starmer last night. Isn't that archaic FPTP wonderful.

    • @jeddgangman4502
      @jeddgangman4502 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It’s actually about who people wanted in constituencies to represent them. The problem is very few constituencies wanted Jeremy Corbyn labor to represent them, and many people supported the conservatives over him

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Once Farage was splitting the right, labour were always going to win .
      That gave those on the left the freedom to vote green.
      Labours support went down by 5%..

    • @lcg8220
      @lcg8220 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      There was a record number of tactical votes this election, very clear if you look at this year compared to 2019.
      Yeah it's not so much a Labour win as it is a Tory defeat, but that defeat had a significant amount of the electorate behind it intentionally voting that way well aware that Labour would get in.

    • @MrGrantSloan
      @MrGrantSloan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@jeddgangman4502 no, it was a vote to get the tories out.

    • @andrewstevenson118
      @andrewstevenson118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah, I've glad we (New Zealand) went to MMP. Everyone's vote count equally, regardless of what "type" of seat you live in. Plus you get more parties in parliament. Not a huge fan of our current government, but they got the most votes. and I still like the system.

  • @deni8611
    @deni8611 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It will be very hard for Labour to deal with all the mess the Tories have left behind and change takes time and it will be a tough road ahead but well done Labour and well done to the British public! You make us proud anywhere we are in the world! Wish I was there to be part of this historic voting!
    James, thank you for standing up for the truth and keep up the great work!

    • @mickreaddin4979
      @mickreaddin4979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I agree, the mess the country has been left in will be difficult to deal with, unfortunately Labour will not be given time by the right-wing msm. Their focus now will be on Farage and Reform(plc).

  • @ElizabethWilliams-i8m
    @ElizabethWilliams-i8m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Keir could talk to Biden so there is a combined effort to tax the super rich.

    • @JfK--OBJECTivE
      @JfK--OBJECTivE 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Problem with lefties is they have no clue how finance works. Taxing the super rich will solve everything LOL.

    • @shaunpowelluk
      @shaunpowelluk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately, Biden and his current administration aren't that type of government. Beanie Sanders would have been open to the idea though.

  • @TracyWells-cf7gi
    @TracyWells-cf7gi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think that was an incredibly dignified exit speech. However that is the first time I have seen that dignity from him so makes me wonder why he can achieve that when he wants to why he hasn’t shown that dignity while leading the country?

  • @grahamhavercroft4203
    @grahamhavercroft4203 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Wonder if the people of Clacton will ever see nigel farage???

    • @MsPeabody1231
      @MsPeabody1231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You mean like the people of Rochdale, the people of Bow and the people of Glasgow never saw Galloway before that?
      I suspect in the next election 30p Lee, who knows how to be a constituency MP, will be reelected but Farage won't.

    • @redlightmax
      @redlightmax 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MsPeabody1231 "I suspect in the next election 30p Lee, who knows how to be a constituency MP, will be reelected but Farage won't."
      I suspect 30p Lee will leave Reform before the next election - Farage's bloviating will drive him away.

  • @KlausT
    @KlausT 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Lack of euphoria = PTSD

  • @marshaden817
    @marshaden817 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    all i can think is if starmer does as he says he is going to then we have HOPE

  • @chrisleneil
    @chrisleneil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Been counting down the hours to this broadcast!
    Congratu-very-lations!!! 💜🌈🇬🇧

  • @andrewstevenson118
    @andrewstevenson118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    Sorry to be a New Zealand chauvinist, but the UK should go to a system of proportional representation like we did.

    • @beaulieuc8910
      @beaulieuc8910 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i agree

    • @andrewstevenson118
      @andrewstevenson118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@paulaa.8586 Meh. She saved a lot of lives. Unlike the US and UK leaders. Fools.

    • @toontonic
      @toontonic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many in the UK clearly agree.

    • @andrewstevenson118
      @andrewstevenson118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@toontonic The problem is you need someone in power to want change. And unfortunately if you're in power, why would you want change? MMP works quite well. Everyone's vote counts, you still get local MPs and "minor" (say, 10%) views can be represented in parliament.

    • @jakehowie442
      @jakehowie442 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Unfortunately the ruling class and their supporters in Britain are not modernists or real progressives…as shown with Reform fringe party the only performing social media campaign

  • @davidharness1507
    @davidharness1507 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Well done team LBC, James and Carol.

  • @KathleenMayotte
    @KathleenMayotte 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So incredibly happy for the UK from northern Michigan US!!!!!! Hoping to soak up your positive energy!!!!!

  • @legendrides
    @legendrides 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi James thank you for your work, the hollowing of public standard and disruption of norms. I pray you are right.

  • @carlishiggins
    @carlishiggins 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    rich get richer with labour too, pay rise for doctors from rich parents BMA junior doctors, Keir Starmer creating wealth for rich doctors who come from rich parents family background but No wealth creation for the poverty line minimum wage working people ? Keir Wes Streeting MP

    • @MsPeabody1231
      @MsPeabody1231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Not all doctors have rich parents.

  • @mickreaddin4979
    @mickreaddin4979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Starmer didn't want Corbyn to win.

  • @BillyBombastic
    @BillyBombastic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    8 years of listening to James O'Brien has paid off🎉 O'Brien love you mate. Love from 30p Lee's Constituency.😂

  • @genesis1765
    @genesis1765 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The negative from the TV press is biblical that only 33% voted for labour 😂 😂 😂 it's a landside it's a majority let's move on as a country

  • @romanclay1913
    @romanclay1913 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    LBC's loss of David Lammy is the UK's gain.

    • @dlamiss
      @dlamiss 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not really

    • @haggishighways
      @haggishighways 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@dlamiss I completely agree. Most of Starmer's cabinet is questionable. But at least it's better than Sunak's

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@haggishighways Question them and they have answers.

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Starmer should recognise Palestine as a sovereign nation state.
    {:o:O:}

    • @belindamay8063
      @belindamay8063 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir. Is that really your priority ?

    • @mickreaddin4979
      @mickreaddin4979 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Never gonna happen! Starmer is knee deep in Israeli lobby money.

    • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
      @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@belindamay8063
      No, I had a list of 5 and it kept getting deleted. So I did them all one by one to try and work out what was triggering the YT Auto-Delete Algorithm.
      {:o:O:}

    • @Liverpoolboy01
      @Liverpoolboy01 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@belindamay8063absolutely!!!

  • @therealbettyswollocks
    @therealbettyswollocks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This and the Jonathan Pie video was the post-election catharsis we all needed.

  • @Chancer02
    @Chancer02 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love our James O'Brien community ❤️

  • @treyhouk
    @treyhouk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    congrats to y’all Brits.
    From Florida.

  • @Dean-kg2py
    @Dean-kg2py 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brexit Hard man Steve baker 😂😂😂😂😂 kills me everytime. 😂😂😂 you really should do comedy james. Great stuff even when being deadly serious.

  • @jcanyiam8309
    @jcanyiam8309 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm very Very optimistic about this Country now, after 14 years of HURT made worse since the BREXIT REFERENDUM. I now hope and support England to go all the way and WIN THE EUROS FOR ENGLAND!!!

  • @Spriggan83
    @Spriggan83 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    James you are by far the best troll ever. Love it

  • @ursulakavaliauskas4463
    @ursulakavaliauskas4463 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love love LOVE the intro! Goosebumps!

  • @rr1309
    @rr1309 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You nailed it mate , best first 8 minutes … 👍🇬🇧💪

  • @askdr.m3440
    @askdr.m3440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Congratulations from the US! Pray for us!

  • @heem6619
    @heem6619 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Reform votes - 4.1 million; Reform seats - 5
    Lib Dem votes - 3.5 million; Lib Dem seats 71

    • @andrewstevenson118
      @andrewstevenson118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The UK should go to a system of proportional representation like we did. (New Zealand.) Much fairer.

    • @leechowning2712
      @leechowning2712 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Much like here in the US, where it does not matter how many thousand votes you get... just where you got them.

    • @andrewstevenson118
      @andrewstevenson118 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@leechowning2712 Unfortunately the US has one of the worst forms of FPP. Combined with some gerrymandering, it seems pretty bad.

    • @christinecaldwell4514
      @christinecaldwell4514 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s not about the total numbers it’s about where they are?

    • @RichieBedfellows
      @RichieBedfellows 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tbf, Labour used FPP to its definite advantage by targeting and taking safe tory seats while knowing the so-called 'Red Wall' would take care of itself in reverting back to Labour or lurching further to the right with reform. Either way, tories would be losing out.

  • @hamazonuk
    @hamazonuk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope it is for the better.

  • @benandrew21
    @benandrew21 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What I'd love to see most from any, ANY government in power is just simple, frank honesty. If they can't afford to pump more money into the NHS for example - just TELL us why! And tell us if you're gonna try in the future if circumstances change. If they won't change a certain policy, be honest about it rather than obfuscate details.

  • @jeanettewilliams7995
    @jeanettewilliams7995 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Relief and EXHALE. NO euphoria for sure. We are all still processing it😅

  • @annepoitrineau5650
    @annepoitrineau5650 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We have been waiting for so long, I am now scared that we can only be disappointed.

  • @gabriel82030
    @gabriel82030 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    JO -when I think of Britain, I think of you as a broadcaster.

  • @brendasalem3069
    @brendasalem3069 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is there hope for American, hope that we won’t see a return of Trump.

  • @johannafreeburn3061
    @johannafreeburn3061 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    NOT a landslide win, but a LANDSLIDE DEFAULT position

  • @steveprior4720
    @steveprior4720 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    thank you James ,its been a long long time x

  • @calumlambert
    @calumlambert 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Love the opening ❤🎉

  • @paulgibbons2320
    @paulgibbons2320 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Anyone else remember some call about 'Tyrany of the Majority' just after brexit.
    Came from alot of these persons in the labour camp just before they campaigned to over turn the brexit referendum for 7 years. 😂
    Doubt we will hear such such comments anymore. 😂

  • @robmoon6442
    @robmoon6442 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Superb stuff. Love this channel. Growth????

  • @maggieedwards3951
    @maggieedwards3951 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What an intro 🎵🎶😅exhale, if they understood the impact they have had on the couuntry,
    the seats they held are the same people as them, entitled ,dismissive out of touch ,contemptuous people, these Tories have no right governing peoples lives,
    plenty of positives ,its a new dawn ,and these people are gone.

  • @vikaspai1591
    @vikaspai1591 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Jeremy Corbyn will provide the balance... at least 30% of labour MPs are still aligned to him and would switch sides when cornered... Especially when Corbyn proving that he can win inspite of no labour support and media venom

  • @GeldardtheGrey
    @GeldardtheGrey 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The relief and thankfullness that 14 years of Tory regime is at an end reminds me of one of the final scenes from The Return of the King when the four hero Hobbits return back to the Shire after the war and have a quiet, reflective tankard of ale- there is no dialogue, but the looks on their faces says 'It's over, the horror that we've been through is finally over- but we can't process it yet.'

  • @keithrodgers1030
    @keithrodgers1030 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Music was apt nice choice.

  • @paulrose8967
    @paulrose8967 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Labour already gunning for pensioners

  • @tamaliaalisjahbana6849
    @tamaliaalisjahbana6849 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So is Rees-Mogg joining Reform party? It would suit his views perfectly.

  • @flyagaric23
    @flyagaric23 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    after 14 years of black-mirror science-fiction tory-dystopia, we're finally back, back to the old "rent a ghost", "come on down" universe.

  • @scottadam2653
    @scottadam2653 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Never more has the country been yes or no, On or off, black or white. I think that mindset started with Brexit. The country and it's residents can't seem to agree 2 things can be correct at the same time. Just because you prefer 1 doesn't immediately make the other the devil. That's the biggest issue the Labour party face imo

  • @TristanMeadows-s4m
    @TristanMeadows-s4m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Prime Minister is paraphrasing Yeats
    'Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
    Enwrought with golden and silver light,
    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
    Of night and light and the half light,
    I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  • @weareallbornmad410
    @weareallbornmad410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:05 Comparing Jacob Reese Mogg with Jeremy Corbyn is simply ridiculous. Regardless of what you think of Corbyn otherwise.
    It's hard for me to believe that James doesn't realise this. Is it better if he's dishonest or this badly biased?

  • @AndrewAwad-l9j
    @AndrewAwad-l9j 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i love Nina Simone: "Ain't Got No"

  • @stephenrodwell
    @stephenrodwell 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh, happy days.

  • @pesmerga4862
    @pesmerga4862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    yay britain i’m happy for you guys. NOW UNDO BREXIT YOU FOOLS

    • @weareallbornmad410
      @weareallbornmad410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They can't. There are 26 countries that will vote on it, and they have to all agree, _because EU is not a dictatorship, actually._ They will not agree. And UK doesn't pass the bar for membership anyway.

  • @DGE123
    @DGE123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Congrats from CANADA looks like we are ready to make the same mistake you guys did , i sure hope not but it looks likely !

  • @emomo7146
    @emomo7146 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Congratulations 🇬🇧
    ❤🇨🇦

  • @TracyWells-cf7gi
    @TracyWells-cf7gi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the first caller ❤

  • @tonyroy8123
    @tonyroy8123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Best country in the world..." hahahaaaa

  • @christinasibley2791
    @christinasibley2791 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On a par with Penny Mordant 😂😂😂

  • @AnkhGirl
    @AnkhGirl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice touch starting with Nina!🎶☺👌🏾

  • @xavierhucklenbruch1798
    @xavierhucklenbruch1798 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is your victory James!!!

    • @keithwarburton9610
      @keithwarburton9610 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Really? Not those who made the effort to vote, or the party workers, or canvassers, or strategists?

    • @kathleenroberts6931
      @kathleenroberts6931 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is a victory for Democracy & Democracies around the world 🌎 ❤ Yes❤Thanks, James O'brien, and everyone who voted for the Labour Party 🎉 😊

  • @adill375
    @adill375 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well deserved break James for everyone after 14 years of chaos and wildness.

  • @CaroleFurniss
    @CaroleFurniss 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    True