What has happened to our country, James? We are no longer a democracy. Over the years we have become a morally bankrupt idiocracy, and I find it very disturbing.
Extreme greed. Not just the UK. Globalists sleeping with other extremely greedy corporates. They sell their kids into prostitution. They step on each other to get above one another.
I'll just prove O'Brien's hypocrisy with ease: if Starmer said to "Just ignore Boris Johnson!" O'Brien-the-twit would regale that as great wit, but if Truss says it about Sturgeon, oh, the wailing and crying and sobbing, and "how dare the Tories say something like this!". I mean, what has happened to our country, where Leftists are just so utterly dishonest and hypocritical about everything like this? Leftists ARE the Idiocracy (as I have proven above with your idiotic hypocrisy).
@@sknmttn You're not alone, what an absolute horror show, he's only slightly worse than Boris and that's going some. Late stage capitalism is a laugh ain't it? 🥴
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984.
Love the show James, I've just started watching it over the last couple of months from Ireland. From the perspective of somebody not living in the UK it seems like things are getting very surreal over there. The most frightening thing is the normalization of gaslighting the general public.
Hi John, Greetings from Scotland, from the perspective of and English person in exile. Your comments are spot on and the national government is also a reflection of where things are at with local government too. Life in the UK as a whole since the pandemic outbreak genuinely is quite surreal. Glad someone so far away from us, be it only Ireland is attuned so well and taking an interest!
Me to I watching show from ireland also can't believe England has become so bad James u tell it like it is I watched news this morning a dinner lady who was in tears over school dinners and children been hungry no child should go hungry ever
This really does matter. This is not going away for the tories. The tories are utterly incompetent and have no focus on the needs of the country. We need a general election.
Can you name one that isn’t cowardly ,dishonest,hypocritical,our choice of any kind of leader who puts the U.K. first is virtually nil ,they all look to the future and how they can make money on the back of being premier.I personally do not believe a single word they say we have been deceived too many times
I think that the answer to your question "how has this happened" is that the British people have been subjected to decades of propaganda from the most popular newspapers in the country, all backing the Tories. It's propaganda that brought about Brexit and it's propaganda that has desensitised the British people to lies. Anyone who doesn't think propaganda is capable of such things should have a conversation with the German people.
I think you mean English people. In the last general election the Welsh electorate voted in a majority of Labour MPs, the Northern Irish voted away from unionist parties and in Scotland the conservatives lost more than half their seats.
@@saddoncarrs6963 You may well have a point and I freely admit I hadn't thought of it. I would be interested to know your thoughts on what has given Scotland, Wales and NI more immunity to The Sun, Daily Mail et al.
I have believed over many years that a government of 20 people could be randomly picked from the streets of Britain and the resulting governance would be superior than that we have right now.
They would be more likely to listen to the experience of the civil service. With most of the problems, hic up etc of last twelve years, when the details come out, a memo from a senior civil servant comes to light advising against . BoJo et al just rode roughshod over the advise with all the resultant problems. So if your twenty were chosen and listen to the experience, then it might work. One thing for sure, it would be less corrupted. If ministers are not doing it for donations received, then it is for the high paid part time job when they step down.
I like James’s honest take down of the Tory party. They are a party so out of touch and disconnected that I really worry for the future. Neither of them are my Prime Minister, respect is earned and these two haven’t garnered any!
I agree Nathan but what’s the alternative? Kier Starmer who sits on the fence, stands for nothing and doesn’t have much too say other than criticising the Tories? I’ve traditionally been a Tory voter but I’m now politically homeless because I don’t want neither of them as P.M either.. I just can’t see who else we could have?..
As someone who proudly helped out , see children from already poverty hit homes, get breakfasts and an evening meal at there school, I am shocked like many that the public sector "key workers" get threatened with pay cuts, even when my pay is below what I can earn in the private sector. I remember Thatcher taking away school milk , then causing a mess with the Unions. The word Tory comes from the Irish Language for Rogue, it was well chosen.
You must have been living in a parallel universe remember the miners strict ,or the dustman's strike even the baker's went on strike, British Leyland ,you name it they went on strike but at least she hit the unions where it hurt .If you can earn more in the private sector stop talking about it and do it mighty mouth
Thatchers Golden age. Still waiting. Sells off all our assets, to foreign governments and multi national companies. Dismantle the NHS. By stealth. Private sector, worse terms and conditions.
So well said! The Party are rotten to the core. We are NOTHING unless we have a few million in the bank. The class divide is becoming huge, and those who desperatly need help are forgotten. Look what they have done to our NHS. Criminal. I paid my NI all my life, and I cant even get to see my Doctor. The Cons are running it down to Privatise it Truss is fickle and comes across as weak.
I have noticed that Nicola Sturgeon has not commented on or even acknowledged the comments made by Liz Truss this week. Could it be that the Scottish First Minster is "Ignoring" the wannbe Maggie Thatcher that is Liz Truss.🤣🤣🤣
@@nathanfurnival8724 reality contradicts you. But you'd need a couple of connected neurons to get it. Something you clearly lack in the void between your ears
When this bunch of crooks are thrown out of power we need a full investigation into the corruption and people brought to justice. It should not be difficult it has been so blatant and on a vast scale.
I first voted in 1975 and have paid attention to things pretty much since then. I’m now convinced that our system of governance isn’t fit for purpose. The whole political system hasn’t delivered any meaningful and/or lasting improvements in my lifetime. The adversarial party system, the ridiculous voting system and the over reliance on the “market” have left us without any resilience, stability or certainty in the most basic things affecting our daily lives. We need a complete overhaul and rethink about how we proceed or accept that we’re f**cked.
Spot on. This women never met an opinion she wasn’t willing to ditch or do a U-turn on as soon as it got any scrutiny. She merely spouts what she thinks her followers want to hear - completely shallow, unconsidered, clueless, incompetent, dishonest, driven by selfish ambition, no principles whatsoever.
@@daveclarke6481 They happen to be England's present dilemma and are irrefutably the authors of the policies that created same. That's being nice. Hey Dave, maybe you ought to peek out from under your rock!
@@damiendye6623 And Italy too. I have started to lose all hope for humanity and for my actual chances at building a life that i could be happy living. I suppose I'd have to resort to my plan B. Alone forever but alive. Altough I'm pretty sure that at least in my country some things would not be made possible because of our Constitutional Court. And the fact that our governments almost never last for the intended time. But I'm not holding my breath.
As someone living in Canada it's sobering to notice how much more extreme and advanced the rot is in the Anglosphere though, at least if one is comparing to the rest of the G20.
Just listen to her own words - 'i will not be going ahead with..bla,bla,bla.' - which means there was a plan to go ahead with, but she now not going to. So it was clear she had every intention until public opinion quashed it. Sounds like the populous briefly joined a Union!
The question you have to ask yourself is if this is how she is before and when trying to get into power (lying and trying to appeal to her base) how will she be when she ACTUALLY gets into power and doesn't have to u-turn and change her policy and pushed it through? We are fooked.
Apparently we don't see any James O'Brien epic takedowns here and apparently he's never really done any epic takedowns unless inside his bulbous max headroom with a funny nose .OMG his nose what a honker that is.
She is just a figurehead for ERG and their policies do you really think she has the capabilities of leading this country She will be told what to say ,what to do by the ERG who put this country into the mess its in.Brexit is at the centre of it all still
We have to get this woman to 10 Downing Street Immediately . "10 Downing Street, What is it?" It's a cesspit of corruption and liars, but that's not important right now
Remember seeing her clapping for the nurses and now she wants to decrease their already very low pay, when high inflation is occurring. What a vile excuse for a hu man. Bet she voted for MP's pay rise.
I ignore politicians lying about people striking or asking for a decent wage rise. Especially when they haven't had a pay rise that wasn't above inflation for decades.
@Laura UK Maybe they could stop claiming so many expenses then to even things out? Some of them claim literally hundreds of thousands a year when their salary easily covers it. If it's something specifically related to doing their job as an MP, that's fine. But anything else? Pay yourself, like everyone else has to do.
She never said she wants to decrease nurses pay. Strewth. She said over time she was going to bring public sector jobs in line with the private sector so people in the private sector who earn less than those in the public sector for the same type of jobs do not get priced out of the housing market and it was to be phased in over time. You would restructure the public sector so that new jobs would be at the same level as the private sector, phased in OVER TIME.
It was funny watching James's show yesterday just before the show started she announced and even before the show finished 3 hours later she'd already dropped the policy
£9 billion is what all civil servants get paid , remember all their taxes go back to their employer , so that part is not a cost for UK ... people tend to forget that part . So only way to save £9 billion is to cut all public sector workers pay , thats cutting pay for 5,5 mil people , round 17 % of all workers are in public sector . So that would be automatically to lose 5,5 mil potential votes . 2019 Tories got less than 15 mil votes .
Out of the two evils Truss is the worst thing we could possibly want as a PM, she looks up to Thatcher but acts like Boris, what a horrible unimaginable combination.
Where are the masses in the streets calling out these dreadful people for the eternal damage they have done and still doing to this great country? It is beyond my comprehension!
that's why politicians are and will continue to saddle and ride the people the masses should find their backbones and take to the streets they should try to be as courageous as the Sri Lankans and tell the politicians. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
It's been made illegal by this government. Next, taking away the right to strike and the rights of people under Patel's police act which we have forgotten about. For those non this thread claiming that the UK is a democracy, add to that a supine cheerleading media including the BBC which is being prevented by government commissars from mentioning the Brexit word... And democracy in the UK is under suoreme threat. Without truth and justice, Democracy becomes watered down and a virtual one party state. The Conservative party under Johnson, Patel and whoever is next PM, have systematically undermined civil freedoms. The UK is becoming a mere parody of democracy...
Wait do we expect the very people who stood by watching Boris with his lies and antics to be honourable? James, It doesn’t matter to them because they think we are all idiots who will just keep calm and carry on! When will we all say enough is enough?
The barrel that they are scraping has no bottom. Where I live, somewhere on mainland Europe, we gaze in awe at the self-inflicted destruction of the UK and cannot help but wonder if the country has gone totally insane.
I think your name Magyar Brit might be a bit of a giveaway about where you live in mainland Europe! Can’t say I disagree with you about the UK though 😊
What I don't understand is how JRM, Dores and Truss got elected to be MP's? ...do their constituents live in a parallel universe and not see what the rest of the country see?
In a very real sense, yes they do. They live in a bubble of privilege and never look beyond it. The concerns and problems of the rest of society are beneath their notice and either mocked, exploited, dismissed or simply never considered, being too alien for their imagination to grasp.
@@johnjephcote7636 Comfortable landowners voting Tory in their own interests. Poorer people can't be bothered. The time that we knew that Brexit was a possibility was when we holidayed in Cornwall in 2016.
Me?...an average working class British citizen from Sheffield?...i literally feel i don't have anyone to vote for.. never mind an individual i don't even have a party to vote for... traditionally my family is labour but labour these days are about as labour as the conservatives.... and so none of this matters to me any more... and i bet I'm not the only one who feels like this
She's a sock puppet for the ERG. Has always been since the beginning of this parliament. She's along for the ride for whatever it is they want to do, as long as she can be PM. In return they will back her and tell her what policies they want pushing through. They know that ultimately these policies will tank her career, for how unpopular they will be, due to the effect they will have on the wider public, but they simply don't care about that. This is how disaster capitalism works. She is just the fall guy for it.
James, you're going to burst a blood vessel, so before that happens, may I thank you for articulating the despair felt by the thinking parts of the citizenry.
I agree with you,born in 1946,I believe we have really lived through the best era of our lives.I know what’s coming,and am not willing to live a life of tyranny.
I saw Rees Mogg actually 'apologising' for getting it totally wrong when he said that there would be no queues at Dover as a result of Brexit. But wait for it, he added that while he got it wrong, he did so 'for all the right reasons'. This country is ....ed.
The queues in question were the result of the French not manning their booths in Dover fully. As the UK has never been part of the EU open border system even as members of the EU it begs the question why have queues appeared after Brexit. I also wonder why anyone would want to visit France under such conditions.
@@lloydnaylor6113 If the UK was never part of the EU open border policy (which shows that the UK was granted many opt outs and this is one of them) why do the Bexiteers constantly moan that everything was put on the UK by the EU? The answer to your question is that the French considered the UK a EU member and saw no reason to be too strict about UK citizens coming into/travelling to their country even when the British opted out of the agreement. Now the UK is no longer a EU member, so obviously the rules has change. How difficult is that to understand? And saying "who wants to travel to France under such conditions" is trying to put it on the French like Mr Rees-Mogg's feeble and poor defence was when asked the question about the problems at Dover port. Which he later admitted that is was the British government who dropped the ball! The French even suggested to have more booths in Dover but Britain declined. Get your facts right Sir.
You know how terrible a situation we are in when you look back fondly at May and Cameron as politicians who only half lied to us. Truss may do the impossible and succeed Johnson in being the country’s worst ever leader.
Absolutely spot on - not only useless, cowardly and dishonest, but willing to spend a small fortune on wining, dining and jetting off to foreign parts on very expensive chartered flights that the rest of us could only dream about. The sense of entitlement that goes with such behaviour makes her every bit as bad as the rest of the corrupt, lying, incompetent bunch that sit next to her in Parliament. So very depressing that out of the mess that Johnson created the Tories failed to find anyone, just one single person amongst their ranks, with any shred of decency to replace him.
Liz Truss : "The rise in national insurance is morally wrong!" Also Liz Truss : Voted for rise in national insurance. She really votes her conscience, doesn't she?
@@AndyNicholson And yet if EVERY MP just voted on behalf of their constituents, then the tribalism and loyalty shenanigans and garbage sycophancy would cease to exist. But you know, that requires integrity.
@@sinetteiversen9978 The thing about this is, for it to get better, we have to stop voting for these people and the parties have to stop selecting them into leadership positions. I think only when the parties say "This is not what we stand for and it will not be tolerated in our name" rather than doing whatever gets them power can this be solved. We have a problem that many people vote for the party they support and the character of the candidate doesn't matter to them. In short, I think this is our fault as voters
Like Boris, she changes her mind according to which way the wind is blowing. Like him, you can't trust her on (or with) anything. 'Trust Truss for telling the truth?'...I don't think so.
She was a Lib Dem, then switched to Tory. She said she grew up in a Red Wall seat, whereas the seat was held by the Tories from 1955-97. She was Remain, now she's passionately pro-Brexit.
Say something that appeals to the most ignorant members of your base. Get called out be members of your own Party. Say that's not what you meant and it was "misrepresented/taken out of context". It's almost as though Truss is channelling Johnson and his other acolytes...
I'm getting a bit concerned that Loopy Liz is going to blow it, I really want her to become PM because Sir Keir will run rings round her in PMQs, Rishi is just as dishonest but he's actually quite capable, Liz is definitely best for Labour, Johnson is leaving office in disgrace and we need to remind people of that at every opportunity.
@@nathanfurnival8724 okay, we all need a laugh! I enjoyed his lies the most, even more than his partygate law breaking, the magic wallpaper or dodgy russian contacts:) what about you?
Memories are short. The Tories recklessly threw 17 billion pounds at Test and Trace under the Tory MP's wife Dido Harding which was a failure, tens of billions in PPE contracts for supplies which were unfit for purpose and tens of more billions in Bounce Back loans which were not audited and much of which has disappeared down a black hole. If only half of the defrauded money was recovered it would have covered the extra NI contributions and much more.
Absolutely right fully agree, just to add what about the Nightingale Hospitals which were never used. Where on earth did they think the staff would arrive from. They can't even staff hospitals, very few G.P.s shortage of midwives and social care on its knees. This Tory government has no idea, they need to go pronto.
@@susanmorgan3104 This government hate to actually govern, and this country hasn't had a plan (even a flimsy one) for the long term on pretty much anything since 2010.
I watched the bellicose truss wanting to fight Russia over UKR then when the podium fell over cos the interviewer had fainted n truss quivered like a jelly n couldn't move x yup real.brave x all mouth no trousers
It's not possible to take her seriously. She started as Liberal, was a remainer and now performs a spectacular U turn before her reign of terror has even started. This country is screwed.
I liked the comment of one of the dropped out contestants who now backs Liz Truss. Caller her consistent. Huh? This from the woman who backed remain and then saw which way the wind was blowing and she did an about face to became a died in the wool more brexity than the most ardent Brexiteer. As you say she was a Lib dem, and then became a far right conservative because, simply put, it suits her career at present.
Well said James. None of these people have any sense of patriotism left. Her treatment of Nicola Sturgeon was horrendous. Just another example of English nationalism seeking to break up the UK
Just to point out when she claims she never was going to change pay of teachers and nurses, she's l ying and it was an unintelligent lie. She said she was going to save 9 billion the only way to do that without cutting nurses and teachers pay, is by sacking every single civil servant in the country.
Why are we always only just concerned about teachers and nurses? What about all the other public sector workers ie. staff who pay benefits, working in job centres, issuing licences, food standards, tax offices, dvla, agriculture food and fisheries, education departments , etc etc the list is endless and all are classed as civil servants. The country's administration would grind to a halt without these people many of whom are only on admin level wages and many even on tax credits to top them up. This policy from Truss was absolute utter madness and would put thousands of working people in a financial crisis.
@@10beanz Short-sighted politics of anger and hate. What do you think will happen to local economies when local public servants (and we’re talking about millions here) have their disposable income cut?
If you're going to be condescending, try and back your attitude up with some facts. Why is what he says worthy of laughter? Is he wrong? Does caring about these things make him risible? You can disagree, but please add something to the debate rather than just childish comments like this.
biab...well said. Personally, I'll settle for honesty, not a great galloping herd of geniuses, whateva, just a bunch of folks, prepared to get stuck in and work, with the civil service, with the unions, with the police (after disbanding the met )... If they are honest, a lot of issues will be confronted and solved.IF, the worry is about the task in hand and NOT WHERE THE GRAVY GOES as it does today. I personally don't like starmer, too blairy for me, but I do believe he is honest...as the day is long honest. If we get honest, decent people back in charge instead of this bunch o' chantie wrasslers, we might just start to save the uk.
@@howler6490 Completely agree! All the lies and corruption have led to a distrust in any kind of authority. This leads to contempt, anger and even to damaging conspiracy theories!!
It's worth pointing out that whilst the press release specifically mentions Civil Servants it also quotes 8.8 Billion potential savings. As the total wage bill for the Civil Service is 9 Billion its clear that the policy either involves sacking the entire Civil Service or in fact it would apply to the entire public sector.
This regional pay U turn and the Daily Mail headlines are mindboggling issues in England. In Scotland we're trying to get around Liz Truss's comments on "ignoring" our democratically elected leader - and then those comments being followed by a rapturous round of applause. Westminster politics is getting scary.
A bit late to the party I know, but last night I got around to watching 'Don't Look Up' a film that plays more like a documentary than a comedy/satire. Thank you James for helping to keep me sane during these truly insane times.
Liz Truss is the Frank Spencer of economics. You do not cut tax when the country is under hyperinflation and tax money is needed to pay the increased interest to the lenders when interest rates sky rocket to combat the hyperinflation.
100% correct...and Truss knows this...she won't bring in 1% of these so-called tax cuts...she's just following the same strategy as Boris did with his lies about putting money into the NHS if people voted to leave. Problem is that most people are idiots who can't see further than their own circumstances so the promise of tax cuts will get them to vote for her - even if it destroys the country.
I'd totally agree with your assessment of Liz Truss, but let's not get carried away - we are nowhere near hyperinflation territory, and by an order of magnitude. Bouts of hyperinflation are typically characterised by rates of inflation in the 100s, 1000s or 10s of 1000s of percent. We're nowhere near there, and thankfully won't be getting anywhere near it. That's not to diminish the fact that the UK economy is a bit of a sh*show at the moment, with pretty poor mid-term prospects.
The "security issues" over the Tory vote are suddenly quite interesting, now they're not worried abiut postal votes and consider them secure, but supposedly the Security Services have been consulted over "Democracy issues"... It doesn't mention WHEN those security services were consulted, nor about what... Have we had the full report about Russia interfering with the Brexit vote, or doesn't that count as they were major contributors to Tory funds...
In my day (1970s and 80s) people working in london got more pay - an extra on the agreed pay for civil servants - called the London Weighting Allowance. Their pay was increased - not reduction of the pay of everyone else!!
Huge fan of James. Stays on point, always arguing while pointing at facts. Politicians conveniently changing their argument, hoping noone will notice, and then James holds them accountable. Great job, James! We should all hold them accountable.
He supports socialism/ communism. No doubt about it, he is a fan of multi culturalism too . He lives in white leafy Chiswick ( vastly overwhelmingly white) in a multi million pound property. Champagne socialism at its best
@@mazzgoldie9149 So, why is that a problem for you? Guess you'd be happy if he lived in a Tower Hamlets Council flat. Sort out your envy. It's a terrible disease!
Brexit LIVE: EU throws Ireland under bus in £67m fishing stitch up - boats face scrapheap THE EUROPEAN UNION has thrown Ireland's fishing industry 'under a bus' in a £67million stitch up. ooops james o`brien wont mention this pmsl
Keep in mind James, anyone who currently works in the civil service are subject to two pay bands the London Pay band and the rest of the country pay band. Meaning Civil servants outside of London already get paid less.
That was on the basis of London being more expensive. However, lots of civil servants work in London but live outside, still get paid London weighting.
Can someone explain to me why regional pay is not 'levelling up'? Maybe I don't know the definition of levelling up, but if you get paid based on the region you live in - isn't that levelling up? The minimum wage for example, is national. You can live in Surrey and be paid minimum wage where house prices are ridiculously high and you have no chance of purchasing a property, whereas in other parts of the country you can earn minimum wage and afford to buy a property. I believe people who work in more affluent areas should be paid more.
We dont do anything anymore because we are all just so tired! We are worked to the bone for pennies, worked till almost dying age for a lot of people. No one has the energy to do anything we are all just sooo tired... and thats the way they want it.
@@sayitaintso2900 ah yes cause typing for 10 seconds muaters the same energy as protesting for weeks on end with probably no job by that point and nothing would probably even change. Yeah, defo the same amount of energy🤣👌
Don't wave the 'bias' flag every time someone says something you don't agree with. This matters because of the potential power the woman is likely to have very shortly. Question and hold the Government to account, whether left, right or centre. That's our right and democratic responsibility.
Politicians are reflective of the values of the electorate If we don't hold them responsible for transgressions, why do they have any reason not to do so?
James, somebody mentioned this morning Thatcher was responsible for the Falklands war. You told him that was nonsense. I James disagree with you. Thatcher was indeed responsible for that war. She withdrew the regular patrol of HMS Endurance, the artic survey vessel. Endurance regularly called into Port Stanley. During these patrols. Thatcher stopped that patrol. She also stopped the nuclear sub patrols of the area. Began by Callaghan. This of course was noticed by the Argentinians. After a year or two they felt emboldened by this lack of support of the Falklands by the U K. She was also facing a GE defeat. So lets have a war
What do you mean by responsible? Shoddy short sighted budget cuts is very different to “she manufactured it in order to invade and win an election”. Ignoring the fact that HMS endurance was still in Stanley when the Argentines invaded. The Argentines were in fact the ones responsible - and silly tap dances, which try and spin together disparate facts into conspiratorial intent, are just obviously lazy.
The movements and locations of Britain's Nuclear submarine fleet are never announced, for obvious reasons. It's also highly unlikely that a nuclear armed submarines would be be deployed to the south Atlantic, when the targets for a British nuclear strike would have been on Soviet territory.
I can’t see any evidence of a reduction in submarine numbers, following the proposed 1981 Defence Review. In fact it was to include an increase in certain types - with an emphasis on boosting sub-surface vessels generally. I also can’t see an evidence of Thatcher specially withdrawing particular sub-surface vessels. And as I said, Endurance was still in Stanley when the Argentines invaded. What else have you got?
She needs to be shown up with some questions like. Q - Do we think the solution for the disabled, and the low paid is just to work harder? Q - Do you think the poor been poor is their own fault. Q - Do you believe in closing inequality. Q - Do you think the wealthy need the most help on cost of living, if no why are your tax cuts targeting them? Q - Do you have a money tree for your 50 billion of tax cuts?
UK people: you must get organised, per electorate and vote for a candidate that can beat a Tory in the next election. That means getting out clear communications to all in your electorate that the best chance of getting rid of or beating the local Tory is to vote for X (This does mean that some people will need to vote for say Labour instead of Lib Dem or vice versa...). Educate people why, if they just vote normally, then that risks the local Tory to win. Also remember that a vote for Brexit Party or UKIP is effectively a vote for a Tory, because it takes away a vote from Labour or Lib Dem. ORGANISE!!!!!!!!!
What has happened to our country, James? We are no longer a democracy. Over the years we have become a morally bankrupt idiocracy, and I find it very disturbing.
Extreme greed. Not just the UK. Globalists sleeping with other extremely greedy corporates. They sell their kids into prostitution. They step on each other to get above one another.
This is what happens when the most spoiled generation in history make choices out of selfishness unchecked for 30-40 years.
his is how it was in the 70's and 80's Brexit encouraged it.
I'll just prove O'Brien's hypocrisy with ease: if Starmer said to "Just ignore Boris Johnson!" O'Brien-the-twit would regale that as great wit, but if Truss says it about Sturgeon, oh, the wailing and crying and sobbing, and "how dare the Tories say something like this!". I mean, what has happened to our country, where Leftists are just so utterly dishonest and hypocritical about everything like this? Leftists ARE the Idiocracy (as I have proven above with your idiotic hypocrisy).
Carl Beech.
The fact that a person who is so incompetent and useless can become the Prime Minister makes me ashamed to be British.
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I second this.
I've been ashamed to be British for many years now. Welcome aboard!
@@thomashassall96 Donald Trump makes me ashamed to be human.
@@sknmttn You're not alone, what an absolute horror show, he's only slightly worse than Boris and that's going some. Late stage capitalism is a laugh ain't it? 🥴
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984.
Indeed, and all written with an anti totalitarian, socialist view point.
Amen Derek, amen...
Spot on.
And all done by the loony left.
@@S-North You spelt antifascist wrong
Love the show James, I've just started watching it over the last couple of months from Ireland. From the perspective of somebody not living in the UK it seems like things are getting very surreal over there. The most frightening thing is the normalization of gaslighting the general public.
Hi John,
Greetings from Scotland, from the perspective of and English person in exile.
Your comments are spot on and the national government is also a reflection of where things are at with local government too. Life in the UK as a whole since the pandemic outbreak genuinely is quite surreal.
Glad someone so far away from us, be it only Ireland is attuned so well and taking an interest!
Me to I watching show from ireland also can't believe England has become so bad James u tell it like it is I watched news this morning a dinner lady who was in tears over school dinners and children been hungry no child should go hungry ever
Ready to cut £8.8 Billion from the pay cheques of the govt sector workers, yet gave Ukraine £1 billion. No questions asked. PRIORITIES!
This really does matter. This is not going away for the tories. The tories are utterly incompetent and have no focus on the needs of the country. We need a general election.
Give them just a little more rope...
Primarily because your the biggest arshole and only a radio presenter which doesn't require the to have any brains O'Brian you useless coward
To right!
It's not only the Tories have you seen the rest of the bunch ,so who would you pick then??
Anyone other than the worst option...this govt.
"Useless, cowardly and dishonest."
Ideal tory leader then.
Sadly, the facts state that these values are a requirement for all Toxy voters.
Could equally apply to Starmers Labour Party.
@@grahamhollingworth8253 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Toxy party voter🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can you name one that isn’t cowardly ,dishonest,hypocritical,our choice of any kind of leader who puts the U.K. first is virtually nil ,they all look to the future and how they can make money on the back of being premier.I personally do not believe a single word they say we have been deceived too many times
@@grahamhollingworth8253 THEY INVENTED IT VIA BLAIR AND HIS PALS!
I think that the answer to your question "how has this happened" is that the British people have been subjected to decades of propaganda from the most popular newspapers in the country, all backing the Tories. It's propaganda that brought about Brexit and it's propaganda that has desensitised the British people to lies. Anyone who doesn't think propaganda is capable of such things should have a conversation with the German people.
Marketing,..... corporates spend billions on product persuasion.
I think you mean English people.
In the last general election the Welsh electorate voted in a majority of Labour MPs, the Northern Irish voted away from unionist parties and in Scotland the conservatives lost more than half their seats.
Simon Godfrey, well all the propaganda you English were swallowing, had no effect in Scotland, Tories are irrelevant in Scotland.
And the Republicans in the USA TRUMPS CESSPIT awakes for right wing morons
@@saddoncarrs6963 You may well have a point and I freely admit I hadn't thought of it. I would be interested to know your thoughts on what has given Scotland, Wales and NI more immunity to The Sun, Daily Mail et al.
I have believed over many years that a government of 20 people could be randomly picked from the streets of Britain and the resulting governance would be superior than that we have right now.
You wouldn't get many takers!
They would be more likely to listen to the experience of the civil service.
With most of the problems, hic up etc of last twelve years, when the details come out, a memo from a senior civil servant comes to light advising against .
BoJo et al just rode roughshod over the advise with all the resultant problems.
So if your twenty were chosen and listen to the experience, then it might work.
One thing for sure, it would be less corrupted.
If ministers are not doing it for donations received, then it is for the high paid part time job when they step down.
As long as you are not one of the 20 people.
@@sayitaintso2900 Or you sunshine.
@@rodneycooperLMSCoach You mad bro?
I like James’s honest take down of the Tory party. They are a party so out of touch and disconnected that I really worry for the future. Neither of them are my Prime Minister, respect is earned and these two haven’t garnered any!
I agree Nathan but what’s the alternative? Kier Starmer who sits on the fence, stands for nothing and doesn’t have much too say other than criticising the Tories? I’ve traditionally been a Tory voter but I’m now politically homeless because I don’t want neither of them as P.M either.. I just can’t see who else we could have?..
Sir kier is a man of the people, obviously.......
@@terptv710 well he likes too think he is.
As someone who proudly helped out , see children from already poverty hit homes, get breakfasts and an evening meal at there school, I am shocked like many that the public sector "key workers" get threatened with pay cuts, even when my pay is below what I can earn in the private sector.
I remember Thatcher taking away school milk , then causing a mess with the Unions. The word Tory comes from the Irish Language for Rogue, it was well chosen.
Thatcher took a sledgehammer to the foundations of our democracy. This lot want to use explosives.
You must have been living in a parallel universe remember the miners strict ,or the dustman's strike even the baker's went on strike, British Leyland ,you name it they went on strike but at least she hit the unions where it hurt .If you can earn more in the private sector stop talking about it and do it mighty mouth
Why don't you work in the perivate sector ...... Go on be honest with yourself!.
Thatchers Golden age. Still waiting. Sells off all our assets, to foreign governments and multi national companies. Dismantle the NHS. By stealth. Private sector, worse terms and conditions.
So well said! The Party are rotten to the core. We are NOTHING unless we have a few million in the bank. The class divide is becoming huge, and those who desperatly need help are forgotten. Look what they have done to our NHS. Criminal. I paid my NI all my life, and I cant even get to see my Doctor. The Cons are running it down to Privatise it Truss is fickle and comes across as weak.
Its like living in a dream world, You constantly need to ask "did that just happen?"
I have noticed that Nicola Sturgeon has not commented on or even acknowledged the comments made by Liz Truss this week. Could it be that the Scottish First Minster is "Ignoring" the wannbe Maggie Thatcher that is Liz Truss.🤣🤣🤣
Her reply would be the same as always. It all der inglish fault 😢 it all der white man fault 😢 feel sorry for me 😢 give us some more free stuff !
@@nathanfurnival8724 reality contradicts you. But you'd need a couple of connected neurons to get it.
Something you clearly lack in the void between your ears
@@nathanfurnival8724 oh dear....
@@nathanfurnival8724 Her reply will always be Scottish independence. And stuff your money into your behind . Illetrate English
The SNP can’t believe their luck
And then you have Starmer, Oh Dear, Mr O Brien is a really objectional little man.
james speaks the truth whether you like it or not - the tories are useless and corrupt worst than anything labour has ever done
'Mock of the Week' has given up because it can't keep up !
When this bunch of crooks are thrown out of power we need a full investigation into the corruption and people brought to justice. It should not be difficult it has been so blatant and on a vast scale.
...and which bunch of crooks are you going to replace them with? They are all self serving f**kwits......
Unfortunately such an investigation will never happen
@@ES20002 you know it. Everyone has a price.
Starmer used to be Director of Public Prosecutions - I'm gonna bet on an investigation happening.
@@mickeythompson9537 He’ll be just as corrupt if he gets into number 10
Liz Truss = Boris 2.0
When only a lie and blaming the media will do when you get found out.👍
Yep, I've been calling her Lady Boris since before Boris 'resigned'.
All the same
It isn't normal--it's the very Orwellian "new normal." And, no, we cannot afford to get used to it.
Word for word with you and connected to its meaning in a way I don't want to be but have to acknowledge. Public life is the new room 101.
Not only should this comment have the most likes, it should be the pinned comment. Spot on
I first voted in 1975 and have paid attention to things pretty much since then. I’m now convinced that our system of governance isn’t fit for purpose. The whole political system hasn’t delivered any meaningful and/or lasting improvements in my lifetime. The adversarial party system, the ridiculous voting system and the over reliance on the “market” have left us without any resilience, stability or certainty in the most basic things affecting our daily lives. We need a complete overhaul and rethink about how we proceed or accept that we’re f**cked.
Spot on. This women never met an opinion she wasn’t willing to ditch or do a U-turn on as soon as it got any scrutiny. She merely spouts what she thinks her followers want to hear - completely shallow, unconsidered, clueless, incompetent, dishonest, driven by selfish ambition, no principles whatsoever.
Epic incompetence, cowardice and especially dishonesty are prerequisites for a tory "leader"!
Lo0oks like the horendous Liz will get the job then.
Don't restrict yourself to Tory 'leaders'.
@@daveclarke6481 They happen to be England's present dilemma and are irrefutably the authors of the policies that created same. That's being nice. Hey Dave, maybe you ought to peek out from under your rock!
@@weezer5442 I did many decades ago and nothing has really changed.
Not just Tories starmer too. It's not about right and or left anymore it's about elites including musk bezos Schwab blackrock vanguard etc
Wow
It's not just America It's everywhere
Sad time we're in
...nope, a huge chunk of Europe is still sane.
@@swanpride no it's across Europe too look at France for example.
So maybe we should do something about it?
@@damiendye6623 And Italy too. I have started to lose all hope for humanity and for my actual chances at building a life that i could be happy living. I suppose I'd have to resort to my plan B. Alone forever but alive. Altough I'm pretty sure that at least in my country some things would not be made possible because of our Constitutional Court. And the fact that our governments almost never last for the intended time. But I'm not holding my breath.
As someone living in Canada it's sobering to notice how much more extreme and advanced the rot is in the Anglosphere though, at least if one is comparing to the rest of the G20.
It seems that being PM is a low ability, low integrity position.
Disgrace he is
Yes, I'm thinking of Blair.
"Low" covers it.
@@JfK--OBJECTivE I'm labour and I agree that Blair was the blueprint for this madness
I stopped paying for toilet food in the daily mail now I use the daily mail as toilet paper
OB is quiet on the trials and tribulations of the Labour party and the kind have fell off the planet
Just listen to her own words - 'i will not be going ahead with..bla,bla,bla.' - which means there was a plan to go ahead with, but she now not going to. So it was clear she had every intention until public opinion quashed it. Sounds like the populous briefly joined a Union!
The question you have to ask yourself is if this is how she is before and when trying to get into power (lying and trying to appeal to her base) how will she be when she ACTUALLY gets into power and doesn't have to u-turn and change her policy and pushed it through? We are fooked.
Apparently we don't see any James O'Brien epic takedowns here and apparently he's never really done any epic takedowns unless inside his bulbous max headroom with a funny nose .OMG his nose what a honker that is.
You are not f**ked yet, but you soon will be. Are you going to take it sitting down? If so, stock up on the lubricant.
She is just a figurehead for ERG and their policies do you really think she has the capabilities of leading this country She will be told what to say ,what to do by the ERG who put this country into the mess its in.Brexit is at the centre of it all still
@@zuluwarrior1648 Personal insults eh?
@Moni Penny I doubt if anyone would like to go all the way with Truss ,she would not enjoy it unless there was a vote in it
All we need now is for the rest of the cast to keep calling her Shirley and we'll have the perfect comedy disaster movie.
Surely you can't be serious
We have to get this woman to 10 Downing Street Immediately . "10 Downing Street, What is it?"
It's a cesspit of corruption and liars, but that's not important right now
Don’t call me Shirley
@@davelunt6963 Nailed it🤣
Excuse me , stewardess, I speak lies...
James you totally reflect my thoughts and outrage.
Remember seeing her clapping for the nurses and now she wants to decrease their already very low pay, when high inflation is occurring. What a vile excuse for a hu man. Bet she voted for MP's pay rise.
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I ignore politicians lying about people striking or asking for a decent wage rise. Especially when they haven't had a pay rise that wasn't above inflation for decades.
@Laura UK Maybe they could stop claiming so many expenses then to even things out? Some of them claim literally hundreds of thousands a year when their salary easily covers it. If it's something specifically related to doing their job as an MP, that's fine. But anything else? Pay yourself, like everyone else has to do.
@Alex My Filipino neighbour is a band 6 NHS Nurse on 33 grand a year. Newley qualified is 27k
She never said she wants to decrease nurses pay. Strewth. She said over time she was going to bring public sector jobs in line with the private sector so people in the private sector who earn less than those in the public sector for the same type of jobs do not get priced out of the housing market and it was to be phased in over time. You would restructure the public sector so that new jobs would be at the same level as the private sector, phased in OVER TIME.
It was funny watching James's show yesterday just before the show started she announced and even before the show finished 3 hours later she'd already dropped the policy
My wife couldn't drop her underwear quicker than an MP dropping there policies 🤣🤣🤣 what on earth has this country come to?
I commented that Rees Mogg would be the new minister for levelling down based on this policy, looks like he's already lost his job!🤔
£9 billion is what all civil servants get paid , remember all their taxes go back to their employer , so that part is not a cost for UK ... people tend to forget that part .
So only way to save £9 billion is to cut all public sector workers pay , thats cutting pay for 5,5 mil people , round 17 % of all workers are in public sector .
So that would be automatically to lose 5,5 mil potential votes . 2019 Tories got less than 15 mil votes .
She's got her game down for the commons. Just keep changing her mind. Opposition won't know what day it is with her in charge 😄
@@cowardsallaround98 define woke. I don't understand from the definition I've read.
How do you increase efficiency in the NHS when your workers are struggling to live when on full time employment
Get rid of the extra tier of management and make it work more efficiently
@@kevinshields3010 How does this increase the non managerial NHS staff pay?
The NHS has been cut to the bone -there is little left in terms of efficiency gains.
@@adamturowski3765 more for front line workers
@@simonfernandes6809 well I for one have nothing but praise for them after all I have been through
dont give in to the energy of dementia,its exhausting ,being an angry man all your life is a miserable way to die.
Spot on. Thank you.
The Tory High Command should be dragged out of its bunker and forced to stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Lock them up.
OK But first the Labour councils in Oldham, Telford, Rotherham, Rochdale etc who are actually responsible for actual crimes against humanity..
@@sayitaintso2900 Such as?
@@dimitrius-r5sgamingchannel388 When you see a pattern, the same thing repeated over and over, do you close your eyes and cover your ears?
@@sayitaintso2900 No, but you probably do as you didn't answer my question.
Out of the two evils Truss is the worst thing we could possibly want as a PM, she looks up to Thatcher but acts like Boris, what a horrible unimaginable combination.
She will be brilliant
@@paulheath7407 At what?
@@xotan staring blankly
@@xotan at sending you labour supporting mugs into meltdown
Where are the masses in the streets calling out these dreadful people for the eternal damage they have done and still doing to this great country? It is beyond my comprehension!
that's why politicians are and will continue to saddle and ride the people the masses should find their backbones and take to the streets they should try to be as courageous as the Sri Lankans and tell the politicians. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
@@violettefletcher3118 See you on the barricades then?
It's been made illegal by this government. Next, taking away the right to strike and the rights of people under Patel's police act which we have forgotten about. For those non this thread claiming that the UK is a democracy, add to that a supine cheerleading media including the BBC which is being prevented by government commissars from mentioning the Brexit word... And democracy in the UK is under suoreme threat. Without truth and justice, Democracy becomes watered down and a virtual one party state. The Conservative party under Johnson, Patel and whoever is next PM, have systematically undermined civil freedoms. The UK is becoming a mere parody of democracy...
@@jerrypartington3650 maybe not since they’ve taken away rights to protest.
That’s pretty obvious.
EVERYONE SHOULD DO 2YEARS OF NAT/SERVICE TO GET THEM STREETWISE AND TO RESPECT THE COUNTRY THEY LIVE IN 😅🤣😂
Wait do we expect the very people who stood by watching Boris with his lies and antics to be honourable? James, It doesn’t matter to them because they think we are all idiots who will just keep calm and carry on! When will we all say enough is enough?
Well, hopefully, at the next General Election.
They think were idiots. We think they're idiots. One broken society.
The barrel that they are scraping has no bottom. Where I live, somewhere on mainland Europe, we gaze in awe at the self-inflicted destruction of the UK and cannot help but wonder if the country has gone totally insane.
I think your name Magyar Brit might be a bit of a giveaway about where you live in mainland Europe! Can’t say I disagree with you about the UK though 😊
@@marksummers9351 LOL. You may be right, you may be wrong. All I will say is that it is very much better than the UK now.
What I don't understand is how JRM, Dores and Truss got elected to be MP's? ...do their constituents live in a parallel universe and not see what the rest of the country see?
Safe seats.
In a very real sense, yes they do. They live in a bubble of privilege and never look beyond it. The concerns and problems of the rest of society are beneath their notice and either mocked, exploited, dismissed or simply never considered, being too alien for their imagination to grasp.
Last time round they were "voting for Boris/Brexit" ?
I suspect that either the voters in that constituency are utterly Thickey, thickey, thickey, or there has been massive vote rigging.
@@johnjephcote7636 Comfortable landowners voting Tory in their own interests. Poorer people can't be bothered. The time that we knew that Brexit was a possibility was when we holidayed in Cornwall in 2016.
She’s the best present ever given to the Labour Party.
We at the SNP love her already !
Unfortunately there is no Labour Party at the moment. Just New Labour Mk2, or Tory lite.
@@edix1673 yaaaaaaaaawn you lot never give up do you:)
She's the best 🎁 ever given to the SNP.
No. Labour has to earn votes and votes are not automatically given to the second largest party. Lib Dems are like the conservatives but not as crazy.
There is just no shame anymore, James. No shame. Not even attempts to hide the lies.....
Me?...an average working class British citizen from Sheffield?...i literally feel i don't have anyone to vote for.. never mind an individual i don't even have a party to vote for... traditionally my family is labour but labour these days are about as labour as the conservatives.... and so none of this matters to me any more... and i bet I'm not the only one who feels like this
Don't often agree with James O`Brian but he is spot on here. Our political class and leadership is in a very bad place. That means that we are to.
Always agree with James O'Brian.... so glad you have caught up!
Thank you for voicing this. What worries me is who is pulling her strings. She is not smart enough alone.
She's a sock puppet for the ERG. Has always been since the beginning of this parliament. She's along for the ride for whatever it is they want to do, as long as she can be PM. In return they will back her and tell her what policies they want pushing through. They know that ultimately these policies will tank her career, for how unpopular they will be, due to the effect they will have on the wider public, but they simply don't care about that. This is how disaster capitalism works. She is just the fall guy for it.
Vocalioness ¿?
Probably Boris
@@philomenaellard5997 Boris is definitely not smart enough either 💙🏴💙🏴
Whoever it is they’re definitely a half wit!😉
James, you're going to burst a blood vessel, so before that happens, may I thank you for articulating the despair felt by the thinking parts of the citizenry.
So what are you going to do about it? After you finish complaining of course.....
@@sayitaintso2900 I think you should brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
@@sayitaintso2900 non thinking part has spoken.
I'm 81 and I am so glad that I won't have to spend much longer in this sick, sick world.
I agree with you,born in 1946,I believe we have really lived through the best era of our lives.I know what’s coming,and am not willing to live a life of tyranny.
The end game now for the UK.
Feel really sorry for anti brexiters, and those whom have never voted for the Tories.
Yeah. We aren't enjoying it much.
I saw Rees Mogg actually 'apologising' for getting it totally wrong when he said that there would be no queues at Dover as a result of Brexit. But wait for it, he added that while he got it wrong, he did so 'for all the right reasons'. This country is ....ed.
He was apologising that the French were to blame, again.
He ended the speech by still blaming it all on the French.
@@hg82metNot this government's fault surely
The queues in question were the result of the French not manning their booths in Dover fully. As the UK has never been part of the EU open border system even as members of the EU it begs the question why have queues appeared after Brexit. I also wonder why anyone would want to visit France under such conditions.
@@lloydnaylor6113 If the UK was never part of the EU open border policy (which shows that the UK was granted many opt outs and this is one of them) why do the Bexiteers constantly moan that everything was put on the UK by the EU? The answer to your question is that the French considered the UK a EU member and saw no reason to be too strict about UK citizens coming into/travelling to their country even when the British opted out of the agreement. Now the UK is no longer a EU member, so obviously the rules has change. How difficult is that to understand? And saying "who wants to travel to France under such conditions" is trying to put it on the French like Mr Rees-Mogg's feeble and poor defence was when asked the question about the problems at Dover port. Which he later admitted that is was the British government who dropped the ball! The French even suggested to have more booths in Dover but Britain declined. Get your facts right Sir.
You know how terrible a situation we are in when you look back fondly at May and Cameron as politicians who only half lied to us. Truss may do the impossible and succeed Johnson in being the country’s worst ever leader.
I was thinking exactly the same. It has come to this.
Absolutely spot on - not only useless, cowardly and dishonest, but willing to spend a small fortune on wining, dining and jetting off to foreign parts on very expensive chartered flights that the rest of us could only dream about. The sense of entitlement that goes with such behaviour makes her every bit as bad as the rest of the corrupt, lying, incompetent bunch that sit next to her in Parliament. So very depressing that out of the mess that Johnson created the Tories failed to find anyone, just one single person amongst their ranks, with any shred of decency to replace him.
@Laura UK Out of curiosity, what makes Cameron a standout PM for you? Genuinely curious.
@Laura UK poor you,so deluded and naive
I wonder what major eff up she will make?.
Liz Truss : "The rise in national insurance is morally wrong!"
Also Liz Truss : Voted for rise in national insurance.
She really votes her conscience, doesn't she?
The bar has become horrific low.Seeing All this from Denmark I think England deserves better
@@AndyNicholson And yet if EVERY MP just voted on behalf of their constituents, then the tribalism and loyalty shenanigans and garbage sycophancy would cease to exist.
But you know, that requires integrity.
@@sinetteiversen9978 The thing about this is, for it to get better, we have to stop voting for these people and the parties have to stop selecting them into leadership positions. I think only when the parties say "This is not what we stand for and it will not be tolerated in our name" rather than doing whatever gets them power can this be solved. We have a problem that many people vote for the party they support and the character of the candidate doesn't matter to them. In short, I think this is our fault as voters
Like Boris, she changes her mind according to which way the wind is blowing. Like him, you can't trust her on (or with) anything.
'Trust Truss for telling the truth?'...I don't think so.
She was a Lib Dem, then switched to Tory. She said she grew up in a Red Wall seat, whereas the seat was held by the Tories from 1955-97. She was Remain, now she's passionately pro-Brexit.
Please don't call the Daily Mail a "newspaper". A paper it might be - although "rag" might be a better description - but a NEWS paper? No!
Say something that appeals to the most ignorant members of your base. Get called out be members of your own Party. Say that's not what you meant and it was "misrepresented/taken out of context". It's almost as though Truss is channelling Johnson and his other acolytes...
I'm getting a bit concerned that Loopy Liz is going to blow it, I really want her to become PM because Sir Keir will run rings round her in PMQs, Rishi is just as dishonest but he's actually quite capable, Liz is definitely best for Labour, Johnson is leaving office in disgrace and we need to remind people of that at every opportunity.
Bring Boris back
@@nathanfurnival8724 okay, we all need a laugh! I enjoyed his lies the most, even more than his partygate law breaking, the magic wallpaper or dodgy russian contacts:) what about you?
@@billpugh58 little nathan farts from the hot void between its ears
I liked the way he used to bully starmer 😂 captain hindsight, useless bollard, classic. Starmer was like a child, completely out classed
@Laura UK fewer.
Memories are short. The Tories recklessly threw 17 billion pounds at Test and Trace under the Tory MP's wife Dido Harding which was a failure, tens of billions in PPE contracts for supplies which were unfit for purpose and tens of more billions in Bounce Back loans which were not audited and much of which has disappeared down a black hole. If only half of the defrauded money was recovered it would have covered the extra NI contributions and much more.
Someone’s bank account looks very healthy. This is what happened with those billions.
17 billion...nope...37 billion.
Absolutely right fully agree, just to add what about the Nightingale Hospitals which were never used. Where on earth did they think the staff would arrive from.
They can't even staff hospitals, very few G.P.s shortage of midwives and social care on its knees. This Tory government has no idea, they need to go pronto.
@@susanmorgan3104 This government hate to actually govern, and this country hasn't had a plan (even a flimsy one) for the long term on pretty much anything since 2010.
I watched the bellicose truss wanting to fight Russia over UKR then when the podium fell over cos the interviewer had fainted n truss quivered like a jelly n couldn't move x yup real.brave x all mouth no trousers
It's not possible to take her seriously. She started as Liberal, was a remainer and now performs a spectacular U turn before her reign of terror has even started. This country is screwed.
I liked the comment of one of the dropped out contestants who now backs Liz Truss. Caller her consistent. Huh? This from the woman who backed remain and then saw which way the wind was blowing and she did an about face to became a died in the wool more brexity than the most ardent Brexiteer. As you say she was a Lib dem, and then became a far right conservative because, simply put, it suits her career at present.
No. Just a typical politician - of any party, in any country.
Its a grift. Many in US ,especially in media pull the same act. Russell Brand is an example.
She is a reflection of us, and will win two elections.
@@keithhobbs1 WEll'l turncoat is not in it that's for sure!!!
Well said James. None of these people have any sense of patriotism left.
Her treatment of Nicola Sturgeon was horrendous. Just another example of English nationalism seeking to break up the UK
I luv u Lad, keep up the excellent work 💥💥💥💥YNWA ❤️
Its so funny when she says I’m being absolutely honest THAT was the start
Indeed. Likewise, when people say, 'believe me', it's wise to be sceptical about what will follow. Trump used it a lot.
the road to fascism relies entirely on the reinvention of facts, truth and history.
The road to fascism relies on a complacent and forelock-tugging electorate.
The road to fascism often arrives before people realize it's already too late.
Unlike communism. 🙈🙉🙊
Just to point out when she claims she never was going to change pay of teachers and nurses, she's l ying and it was an unintelligent lie. She said she was going to save 9 billion the only way to do that without cutting nurses and teachers pay, is by sacking every single civil servant in the country.
Why are we always only just concerned about teachers and nurses? What about all the other public sector workers ie. staff who pay benefits, working in job centres, issuing licences, food standards, tax offices, dvla, agriculture food and fisheries, education departments , etc etc the list is endless and all are classed as civil servants. The country's administration would grind to a halt without these people many of whom are only on admin level wages and many even on tax credits to top them up. This policy from Truss was absolute utter madness and would put thousands of working people in a financial crisis.
@@sugarbertie1143 and most of which are paid significantly less than nurses or teachers.
@@nickp1548 Too flaming right !! Loads less in many cases and not had a pay rise as such in 10 years.
this is just the government striving to become a minimum wage employer.
Could always get rid of nuclear weapons, the upkeep and policing of Faslane and Coulport would save billions per year.
Time to get James O'Brien out. He's gone woke
you afraid of someone who is actually calling out Tory BS! Don't like it, don't listen.
Only sociopaths have the narcissism, disguised as self confidence, to put themselves out there so hard.
Yes Minister never even had U turns this quick and embarrassing. Satire no longer works with this government
Hence cancelling M0ck the week - reality is 0utstripping the ability t0 satirise it.
The problem is Liz Truss will say not for Teachers or Doctors but then implement for Local Government and other public sector workers.
Agreed. Hopefully, when she's our Prime Minister, it'll be the lot of them. Can't happen soon enough.
@@10beanz Short-sighted politics of anger and hate. What do you think will happen to local economies when local public servants (and we’re talking about millions here) have their disposable income cut?
@@10beanz - for a brain.
@@10beanz Typical bigoted Daily Mail reader. A has Beanz!
They can go out and get a job in the private sector, like the rest of us.@@Elongar
its reassuring that she is the best this 'true blue brexit' government has to offer:)
Liz as got him rattled...
Poor old James, still making me laugh out loud. He should take a deep breath, calm down and go listen to some Mantovani. Bless him.
So do you laugh out of madness and despair at the absolute insanity of our self destruction? Laughing and crying the same release.
If you're going to be condescending, try and back your attitude up with some facts. Why is what he says worthy of laughter? Is he wrong? Does caring about these things make him risible? You can disagree, but please add something to the debate rather than just childish comments like this.
You go James don’t hold back. Fed up of Tory lies and incompetence. It just goes on and on and on……………… this country deserves better
...but where is that better going to come from...ask yourself that question...
Let's hope it's coming to an end soon.
What labour ?? You absolute melt !!
biab...well said. Personally, I'll settle for honesty, not a great galloping herd of geniuses, whateva, just a bunch of folks, prepared to get stuck in and work, with the civil service, with the unions, with the police (after disbanding the met )...
If they are honest, a lot of issues will be confronted and solved.IF, the worry is about the task in hand and NOT WHERE THE GRAVY GOES as it does today.
I personally don't like starmer, too blairy for me, but I do believe he is honest...as the day is long honest.
If we get honest, decent people back in charge instead of this bunch o' chantie wrasslers, we might just start to save the uk.
@@howler6490 Completely agree!
All the lies and corruption have led to a distrust in any kind of authority. This leads to contempt, anger and even to damaging conspiracy theories!!
James O’Brien, I found your research and political analysis very interesting and informative!🟢🟢🟢🟢✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
It's worth pointing out that whilst the press release specifically mentions Civil Servants it also quotes 8.8 Billion potential savings. As the total wage bill for the Civil Service is 9 Billion its clear that the policy either involves sacking the entire Civil Service or in fact it would apply to the entire public sector.
It obviously means police, fire and nursing personnel.
There would be plenty to pay them if Sunak didn't write off £30b in easily proven Covid fraud to cover up corruption. That should be a massive story.
If the government taxed the big multinationals and multimillionaires properly, they wouldn't need to save 8.8 billion.
This regional pay U turn and the Daily Mail headlines are mindboggling issues in England. In Scotland we're trying to get around Liz Truss's comments on "ignoring" our democratically elected leader - and then those comments being followed by a rapturous round of applause. Westminster politics is getting scary.
@@AngloSaxon66
You obviously have no idea about Scotland.
Thank you Mr O'Brien for calling out those barefaced liars
A bit late to the party I know, but last night I got around to watching 'Don't Look Up' a film that plays more like a documentary than a comedy/satire. Thank you James for helping to keep me sane during these truly insane times.
British politics is a joke.... But its on us
Neil, too true, unfortunately.
Isn't it because that's what Brits lean into?
The whole world has been watching the British circus since last five years. Nothing new except There's a change of Four Clowns in Four years.
Get the democratic logic but remove myself entirely from the blame. I always vote against them, thanks!
@@Bizarro69 not brits little english. Scots r not like this.
Liz Truss is the Frank Spencer of economics. You do not cut tax when the country is under hyperinflation and tax money is needed to pay the increased interest to the lenders when interest rates sky rocket to combat the hyperinflation.
100% correct...and Truss knows this...she won't bring in 1% of these so-called tax cuts...she's just following the same strategy as Boris did with his lies about putting money into the NHS if people voted to leave. Problem is that most people are idiots who can't see further than their own circumstances so the promise of tax cuts will get them to vote for her - even if it destroys the country.
I'd totally agree with your assessment of Liz Truss, but let's not get carried away - we are nowhere near hyperinflation territory, and by an order of magnitude. Bouts of hyperinflation are typically characterised by rates of inflation in the 100s, 1000s or 10s of 1000s of percent. We're nowhere near there, and thankfully won't be getting anywhere near it. That's not to diminish the fact that the UK economy is a bit of a sh*show at the moment, with pretty poor mid-term prospects.
I hope you're right. I'd like her to be Britain's shortest serving pm.
@@stephenhill545 I give her 6 months top wack !
Liz Truss the future PM of the Disunited Kingdom. She's saving the truth by being economical with it.
The "security issues" over the Tory vote are suddenly quite interesting, now they're not worried abiut postal votes and consider them secure, but supposedly the Security Services have been consulted over "Democracy issues"... It doesn't mention WHEN those security services were consulted, nor about what... Have we had the full report about Russia interfering with the Brexit vote, or doesn't that count as they were major contributors to Tory funds...
Thank you for speaking my mind.
Useless, cowardly and dishonest are the perfect attributes to be controlled from behind the scenery and beyond the pale.
If the Tories could have saved the £8.8 billion, then they would have done it by now. So, this was just nonsense from Truss all along.
true - and they spent many times this on the track-and-no-trace app for their chums
Chaos was and is the whole intention, the breakdown of a rules based mode of conducting public life.
BTW EU were on the verge of changing the laws governing where Rees Mogg [and cohort] stashes his/their tax-free money, offshore - hence Brexit!
I ask any Tory one question, in the last 12 years tell me ONE thing the Tories have achieved,
In my day (1970s and 80s) people working in london got more pay - an extra on the agreed pay for civil servants - called the London Weighting Allowance. Their pay was increased - not reduction of the pay of everyone else!!
They've always lied to the poor telling them they are intentionally homeless or they left a job without just cause.
Bstrds.
Huge fan of James. Stays on point, always arguing while pointing at facts. Politicians conveniently changing their argument, hoping noone will notice, and then James holds them accountable. Great job, James! We should all hold them accountable.
He supports socialism/ communism. No doubt about it, he is a fan of multi culturalism too . He lives in white leafy Chiswick ( vastly overwhelmingly white) in a multi million pound property.
Champagne socialism at its best
@@mazzgoldie9149 So, why is that a problem for you? Guess you'd be happy if he lived in a Tower Hamlets Council flat. Sort out your envy. It's a terrible disease!
@@mazzgoldie9149 so?
@@mazzgoldie9149 what's wrong with multi culturism? Are you one of those people that bases your life on the theory that 'white is right'?
Brexit LIVE: EU throws Ireland under bus in £67m fishing stitch up - boats face scrapheap
THE EUROPEAN UNION has thrown Ireland's fishing industry 'under a bus' in a £67million stitch up. ooops james o`brien wont mention this pmsl
Keep in mind James, anyone who currently works in the civil service are subject to two pay bands the London Pay band and the rest of the country pay band. Meaning Civil servants outside of London already get paid less.
Correct sir.
Okp
Bingo
The plan was to reduce pay
That was on the basis of London being more expensive. However, lots of civil servants work in London but live outside, still get paid London weighting.
james is back and reinvigorated after his holiday. Down with thatcher! i mean truss
Can someone explain to me why regional pay is not 'levelling up'? Maybe I don't know the definition of levelling up, but if you get paid based on the region you live in - isn't that levelling up? The minimum wage for example, is national. You can live in Surrey and be paid minimum wage where house prices are ridiculously high and you have no chance of purchasing a property, whereas in other parts of the country you can earn minimum wage and afford to buy a property. I believe people who work in more affluent areas should be paid more.
Keep bringing us the up to date topics James.
LBC news is far more informative and relevant than the usual biased news channels.
LBC just wears its biases in the open.
You don’t think o’brien is biased?
@@Ukandy19 Biased but still taking and discussing dissenting opinions
@@ajwright5512 Biases against politicians lying, you mean?
Lipstickle lover
We dont do anything anymore because we are all just so tired! We are worked to the bone for pennies, worked till almost dying age for a lot of people. No one has the energy to do anything we are all just sooo tired... and thats the way they want it.
Yep….welcome to Britain. A country that has never progressed beyond Feudalism and is still inhabited by broken, weak Serfs.
But you can muster enough energy to complain, moan, whine and whinge.
@@sayitaintso2900 ah yes cause typing for 10 seconds muaters the same energy as protesting for weeks on end with probably no job by that point and nothing would probably even change. Yeah, defo the same amount of energy🤣👌
@@deanj2487 Your energy is wasted. Try running a marathon, start a business and pick up all the litter in your city.
@@sayitaintso2900 my brain
labour are laughing all the way to the next election with Truss in No 10 calling her lightweight is a great overstatement 😂
Labour are an even bigger joke than Conservatives are and everybody knows it.
Sure, i can gurantee Tories get more seats.
Starmer 😂😂😂
Doubtful with Starmer.
What a joke just like O'brien 🤡🤡🤡🤡
LBC... Unbiased and impartial as always. Said no-one ever.
Don't wave the 'bias' flag every time someone says something you don't agree with. This matters because of the potential power the woman is likely to have very shortly. Question and hold the Government to account, whether left, right or centre. That's our right and democratic responsibility.
You have to laugh at this guy - he would have Diane Abbot as prime minister- he’s a joke
If Truss gets into no 10 watch her cut public wages after all. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Politicians are reflective of the values of the electorate
If we don't hold them responsible for transgressions, why do they have any reason not to do so?
James, somebody mentioned this morning Thatcher was responsible for the Falklands war. You told him that was nonsense. I James disagree with you. Thatcher was indeed responsible for that war. She withdrew the regular patrol of HMS Endurance, the artic survey vessel. Endurance regularly called into Port Stanley. During these patrols. Thatcher stopped that patrol. She also stopped the nuclear sub patrols of the area.
Began by Callaghan. This of course was noticed by the Argentinians. After a year or two they felt emboldened by this lack of support of the Falklands by the U K. She was also facing a GE defeat. So lets have a war
What do you mean by responsible? Shoddy short sighted budget cuts is very different to “she manufactured it in order to invade and win an election”. Ignoring the fact that HMS endurance was still in Stanley when the Argentines invaded. The Argentines were in fact the ones responsible - and silly tap dances, which try and spin together disparate facts into conspiratorial intent, are just obviously lazy.
The movements and locations of Britain's Nuclear submarine fleet are never announced, for obvious reasons.
It's also highly unlikely that a nuclear armed submarines would be be deployed to the south Atlantic, when the targets for a British nuclear strike would have been on Soviet territory.
@@jerrypartington3650 And the sub that sank the sunk the Belgrano. WAS ? Thatcher also stopped warships entering the area. Frigates and destroyers.
The sub that sank the Belgrano was a nuclear powered sub, not a sub marine carrying nuclear weapons.
I can’t see any evidence of a reduction in submarine numbers, following the proposed 1981 Defence Review. In fact it was to include an increase in certain types - with an emphasis on boosting sub-surface vessels generally. I also can’t see an evidence of Thatcher specially withdrawing particular sub-surface vessels. And as I said, Endurance was still in Stanley when the Argentines invaded. What else have you got?
She needs to be shown up with some questions like.
Q - Do we think the solution for the disabled, and the low paid is just to work harder?
Q - Do you think the poor been poor is their own fault.
Q - Do you believe in closing inequality.
Q - Do you think the wealthy need the most help on cost of living, if no why are your tax cuts targeting them?
Q - Do you have a money tree for your 50 billion of tax cuts?
UK people: you must get organised, per electorate and vote for a candidate that can beat a Tory in the next election.
That means getting out clear communications to all in your electorate that the best chance of getting rid of or beating the local Tory is to vote for X (This does mean that some people will need to vote for say Labour instead of Lib Dem or vice versa...). Educate people why, if they just vote normally, then that risks the local Tory to win.
Also remember that a vote for Brexit Party or UKIP is effectively a vote for a Tory, because it takes away a vote from Labour or Lib Dem.
ORGANISE!!!!!!!!!