Unpacking the Government’s DISASTROUS Mini Budget

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  • @johnadey9464
    @johnadey9464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +934

    I saw a homeless family today sitting on the street outside a bank, I was so moved I had to dash inside and give the bank manager £100 I'm sure it will trickle down to them quickly and stimulate the economy at the same time!

    • @azizcammioneur7311
      @azizcammioneur7311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      You've explained the absurdity of the situation so well!

    • @itookallthenames
      @itookallthenames 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      “They’ll just spend it on drugs” what do you think I was going to spend it on?

    • @tonyryan1574
      @tonyryan1574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Like the band aid money 🤑

    • @janewright2800
      @janewright2800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      🤣it's not funny but great point made

    • @phil3038
      @phil3038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@itookallthenames don't be so judgemental, they might just spend it on special brew! 😂

  • @harrygoad329
    @harrygoad329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3164

    I'm more a fan of "Pinata Economics", where instead of fruitlessly waiting for wealth to trickle down, simply beat the rich with blunt instruments until the money flows.

    • @mcfcguvnors
      @mcfcguvnors 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      my next house after eviction is a nice tory 3rd home in the country

    • @charliebradford4369
      @charliebradford4369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I'd pay good money to try this

    • @davespanksalot8413
      @davespanksalot8413 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      🤣🤣 Piñata economics! Love it!!

    • @josephdavey7182
      @josephdavey7182 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Not all millionaires or billionaires are bad or evil though and it's not their job to help you

    • @duck6100
      @duck6100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +171

      @@josephdavey7182 nah you don't get that rich without exploiting low income workers it's literally impossible. The principle of amassing wealth within a consumerist, capitalist society requires that some people work for very little money. Poor people are very profitable as long as you keep them poor.

  • @srvaughan2502
    @srvaughan2502 2 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    Trickle down:
    Buy the wealthiest guy in the restaurant a meal and hope to lick his plate after he's done.

    • @monamohammad3494
      @monamohammad3494 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Very brilliantly said!

    • @ACE-gl4fo
      @ACE-gl4fo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      His arse more like after he’s been

    • @mc-rn8ro
      @mc-rn8ro ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Except that same wealthy bell-end is then given the power to snatch the plate away and shatter it on the ground because “life shouldn’t come with HAND-OUTS!!”

  • @Palemagpie
    @Palemagpie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    "millionaires don't need help"
    Truer words were never spoken

    • @60secondpages
      @60secondpages 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They clearly need help with greed.

    • @skiddymae
      @skiddymae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'll help them get that money back into the economy

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Millionaires who run businesses need incentive not help. Incentive to invest.

    • @Palemagpie
      @Palemagpie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mogznwaz lol mate. Same millionaires who keep getting caught out literally funneling money out of this country to avoid paying tax on it?
      Nah mate. You don't bribe a parasite to get it to stop feeding on you.
      You don't get rid of rats by putting better food outside your house.
      If anything that just brings in more rats. And trains them that the worse they act. The more they're rewarded.

    • @sjwslayer844
      @sjwslayer844 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everyone seems to forget that all these whining lefties, including Russell himself are ALL millionaires too!

  • @Daithai96
    @Daithai96 2 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    Probably the best explanation of "trickle down" economics I've ever heard. My economics teacher told me it was bollocks 30 years ago. But he wasn't that catchy - really wish he been 🥰

    • @trevormillar1576
      @trevormillar1576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Woody Guthrie summed up trickle down economics 90.years ago,
      "The more you eat, the more you crap."

    • @martynblackburn9632
      @martynblackburn9632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your economics teacher was wrong. Trickle down is not 'bollocks', it is a misinterpreted criticism of supply side economics.

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@martynblackburn9632 So in other words... bollocks?

    • @martynblackburn9632
      @martynblackburn9632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TalesOfWar No. Not bollocks. Supply side economics is real and we've been doing it for decades.

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@martynblackburn9632 And it hasn't worked in those decades.

  • @Connor-ONeill
    @Connor-ONeill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    I recently heard someone use this to describe Truss "She's so dense, light naturally bends around her"

    • @jmwturneruk
      @jmwturneruk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that's a Malcolm tucker line from the thick of it

    • @juicy.em_
      @juicy.em_ หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Thick Of It!

  • @terrysham4940
    @terrysham4940 2 ปีที่แล้ว +971

    I'd pay good money to see the king do a backflip

    • @clinton8421
      @clinton8421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Shame it all went towards some rich ostrich's monocle.

    • @TheFirstCalled.60.A.D
      @TheFirstCalled.60.A.D 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes off a cliff.

    • @manueldg5177
      @manueldg5177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They already paying him to do bullsh

    • @By-Fun-Jokes-Guitars
      @By-Fun-Jokes-Guitars 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      King ??? It wasn't sooo funny ..... Your PM is genius ????? A Hero smile 😁

    • @SSK-AK47
      @SSK-AK47 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cost u more than a pound 😆

  • @IR._
    @IR._ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +701

    What I find hilarious is that no one benefits for Truss’ mini budget. Higher income earners do indeed save some tax money but their pensions and savings are being wiped out simultaneously (assuming these are invested in foreign markets which most are). So in reality, the people she’s meant to be helping are actually more worse off despite the tax cut. Hats off to her. I didn’t think it was possible to introduce a policy that helps exactly 0 people in the country.

    • @davekelly1021
      @davekelly1021 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Well, Truss does have history. She promised to build 200,000 houses in her previous portfolio, and built EXACTLY ZERO.

    • @miakeogh6844
      @miakeogh6844 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I.R the rich have private pensions and so much money it really does not matter

    • @tin-n-tan
      @tin-n-tan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @SG for.

    • @greenredblue
      @greenredblue 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's actually a continuation of a fascinating trend in "conservative" economics. Policies that explicitly benefit the rich generally harm the middle class, which has a knock on effect of shrinking the number of buyers in any consumer level market. When everything contracts, the _overall_ amount of wealth that can be made is smaller. Overall effect: the rich get a larger _percentage_ of the wealth, but since there's less wealth to be made anyway, their overall earnings can _shrink._
      So then what's the f-ing point of benefiting the rich?

    • @alan_davis
      @alan_davis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If they are invested in foreign markets then they made money... if they were invested in the UK then you're right.

  • @hyphencubed
    @hyphencubed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +520

    when someone tells you the UK is a democracy, tell them this:
    "We have an unelected head of state (king Charlie) and a PM who was voted in by 0.2% of the population"

    • @EightThreeEight
      @EightThreeEight 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      The king is a constitutional monarch with very little actual political power.
      Our governments are still chosen by general elections (admittedly with a terrible FPTP voting system).
      We are not Saudi Arabia.

    • @caseyjones9716
      @caseyjones9716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes.

    • @iffracem
      @iffracem 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@EightThreeEight Our (Australia) 2 party preferential system doesn't get any better results.

    • @kimgrattage6049
      @kimgrattage6049 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Another plus for Charles is that he is a man, despite his faults is a genuinely kind man who does a lot to save Industry. We have a Pot Bank in Burslem, Staffordshire that he saved from going under and helped to make it a success, it is now a thriving business that employs local people. It has it's own shop selling it's wares and a museum. It has also been seen on the Drama Peaky Blinders as the building and the canal fitted the time period it was set in. It is also home to the show The Great Potteries Throw Down seen in many counties now around the world and has a massive fan base.He still comes to visit to see how things are progressing and the people who work there say he takes time to speak to them all about how they are and what projects ts they are working on. Not many people would take a interest like he does? That Andrew would'nt and neither would the narcissistic Harkles H&M who
      care only about themselves and what's in if for them, they hate the common working class as they call us. I can see William and Kate taking over the visits when Charles gets a lot older and unable to do so. They are very popular and caring and are only too happy to speak to everyone working there. Won't find William and Kate shunning people like his brother, uncle and their gold digging families.when the time comes William and Kate will make a wonderful King and Queen Consort. Reckon it's time for King Charles to follow in the footsteps of Queen Margerite of Denmark and remove the titles off all none working senior roles and grandchildren who are not in line to the throne like William, George and Louie when the children are of age. Princess Chaotte is in line to be The Princess Royal should Anne die as Charlotte is growing up. Our late Queen has already made arrangements for this to happen when her beloved daughter joins her and her father in Heaven. A lot of Royal's will be very unhappy and we all know which ones they are, H&M, their kids, Andy, Beatrice and Eugenie and a lot of other hangers on. I reckon Charles will wait until Harry's book comes out, wrote by HER as he lacks the intelligence to go think for himself. That's when they won't know what's hit them and they can't do a thing about it. After the way the gruesome twosome and lardy ass Andy treated his parents and Harry his treated his grandparents they deserve everything they get and only themselves to blame for bring greedy,jealous,lying hypocritical parasites, have no sympathy for any of them.

    • @yellowstalk6653
      @yellowstalk6653 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EightThreeEight Except for the fact that they can shut down other people's funerals because they want the whole country to focus on their own, they can spends billions of taxpayer money on their house and on bailing his pedo relatives and friends out of prison. They've got enough power to abuse the people still, even if it's not politically.

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    Never thought Gordon Brown making the Bank of England independent would save the nation from economic collapse in 2022

    • @mijicmugendo
      @mijicmugendo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Most modern western democracies have an independent central bank

    • @deborahwarren6710
      @deborahwarren6710 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Labour’s first job, almost day one in 1997, was to give the Bank of England independence
      The Tories used interest rates as a political football before, I know I bought my first house in 1985

    • @jamiejosh96
      @jamiejosh96 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can’t seriously be this uninformed.
      We have never recovered from the debt labour put us in you muppet

    • @dannygmtg
      @dannygmtg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @Moonraker repeating what? Facts?

    • @jamiejosh96
      @jamiejosh96 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dannygmtg how is it a fact that it’s saved us from economic failure…. Go on make me laugh. Show me how there independence has helped…. Oh regardless of the boi we aren’t even in recession…..

  • @chessswarm
    @chessswarm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    Russell. On Friday Tory Mp Will Quince came to visit my college and our politics class quizzed him on the government budget and other government doings. We completely brutalized him and had him rattled in such a state where he could not actually answer them and had a complete meltdown. He was trying to defend the undefendable as most Tory MPs do.

    • @tommykiryu777
      @tommykiryu777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Good fucking job

    • @lily4813ds
      @lily4813ds 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      the sad thing is that he'll continue to believe in these stupid policies even after being completely debunked. This is proof that the only thing tories are interested in is lining their own pockets

    • @scrummpybear
      @scrummpybear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One issue, ALL mps do even labour, greens or any politcal party. And no, you didnt have him come see you at school. His diary is public you know. Qlso why tf would anyone listen to kids who think they know thw world 😂😂 pipe down

    • @prcxiale1124
      @prcxiale1124 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@scrummpybear i mean, a "meltdown" insued, so tell me what you think about TaxGate

    • @scrummpybear
      @scrummpybear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@prcxiale1124 i think they should all be sent to mental institute cause they aint thinking right. Doesnt mean this kid was telling the truth. Kids know nothing about a mortgage, or energy bills, so how would they break anyone?

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    Their reasons for the tax cuts as well are economically illiterate, it doesn't stimulate economic growth if you cut taxes on the rich they just save that money as they already have savings to spend money on stuff. Whereas if you give the poor a tax cut they spend 100% of the money as they need to live some will spend more than 100% (small businesses loans, mortgages etc). It's called Marginal Propensity to Consume and is basic economics.

    • @6chhelipilot
      @6chhelipilot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why would anyone bother to do a job that's taxed at 60% if you can earn a bit less and be taxed at 20%? You will also get these high earners going to other countries where tax is less, so you'll have a 'brain-drain' to also contend with.

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@6chhelipilot four things 1. We have the evidence when we drop tax people don't flood in, the tax revenue drops 2.
      it's not 60% 3. what countries top tax rate is 20% that you'd like to live in? 4. I don't think you know what a progressive tax is, judging by your comment.

    • @wellwell7950
      @wellwell7950 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@6chhelipilot can you tell me a tax cut that has increased revenue that was 45% to 40%? Also do you know what a progressive tax is? Also what country that is good has a 20% top tax rate...

    • @KarMicFox11
      @KarMicFox11 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The reason they actually made the tax cuts was because it suits liz, she is a narcissist that can’t think past herself.

    • @gileswood9622
      @gileswood9622 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes it does stimulate growth - it is a proven evidenced fact

  • @shahliker1095
    @shahliker1095 2 ปีที่แล้ว +327

    Educational and hilarious at the same time - Howard is very underrated.

    • @Thawhid
      @Thawhid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @The Yorkshireman Reacts elaborate? Also why are you here?

    • @shahliker1095
      @shahliker1095 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Thawhid I was thinking the same lol. It's pretty normal to come across weirdos online nowadays though so tend to just ignore it.

    • @Thawhid
      @Thawhid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@shahliker1095you're right I should ignore these creatures. But sometimes I'm curious as to why they're so sad and toxic.
      Even when I'm feeling really low I never click on a video or topic I dislike. Why t f would i waste my time on something I dislike? It confuses me mate ygmygmygmygm

    • @drozycoder2007
      @drozycoder2007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Honestly the humour is pretty mediocre

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Russell is an effing genius and really speaks for us who have no control over the gov’t. Yeah, you get to vote, but they NEVER tell the truth of what they’re really going to do. you go, Russell - you are the absolute best! :) 🌷🐶✨

    • @Kat-mu8wq
      @Kat-mu8wq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I suggest you have a watch of "Jonathan Pie" its satire, but its also news thats true

    • @liamnehren1054
      @liamnehren1054 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There really needs to be a law that holds politicians to their campaign promises say: withhold all payment for their position, no government pension and their accounts combed over for any bribes or other forms of corruption until they complete their promises.

    • @GeorgiaGeorgette
      @GeorgiaGeorgette 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@liamnehren1054
      Absolutely! Well said.

    • @RadiantStar8997
      @RadiantStar8997 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@liamnehren1054 That's unrealistic. They're politicians.

    • @archiewall124
      @archiewall124 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@liamnehren1054 who’s gonna pass that law through? Yeah… that’s not happening.

  • @EveningSoother
    @EveningSoother 2 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    "Is it gonna work?"
    "NO!"
    The way he said it had me in stitches. Then I cried a little. Because it's not even 3h after midnight and my smart meter is already at £0.85.

    • @IR._
      @IR._ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Can we get an update on that meter reading 🥲

    • @EveningSoother
      @EveningSoother 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@IR._ In episode 2 of The Meter: Roughly 12h later after the first reading, the meter reaches £2.19. Are things going to escalate further? Probably! I just come back home and I'm about to start cooking. 😬

    • @WiseWik
      @WiseWik 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@EveningSoother keep us posted mate

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@EveningSoother Your meter GAINS money over time as you use electricity? I would like a meter like that, mine goes down.(so does yours)

    • @EveningSoother
      @EveningSoother 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@pseudonayme7717 I don't know what meter you have, mate. Mine counts the daily consumption of energy/gas and relative expense for said amount. So the numbers go up throughout the day.

  • @qtscorpkid
    @qtscorpkid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Thank you for that wonderful lesson on Reaganomics if anyone in Britain is curious as to seeing trickle down economics work in the exact way it's not supposed to please look at the us we've been trying to do it for 40 years

    • @trevormillar1576
      @trevormillar1576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If trickle down worked. Victoriana Britain would have been a paradise,not the mixture of hell and Belsen that it was.

    • @qtscorpkid
      @qtscorpkid 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      See Britain and the USA have a lot more in common than most people think. We are both run by idiot government.

  • @ivo4357
    @ivo4357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    the PM knows she's not gonna be there long, so she's gonna do everything to make herself and her friends richer. In a few months she'll say it didn't work out so good and leave the cesspool to the next PM.

    • @davespanksalot8413
      @davespanksalot8413 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Exactly, I consider it to be a form of extreme insider trading.

    • @sunshynea5151
      @sunshynea5151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I literally said something similar and then saw your comment. That's exactly what she's doing.

    • @keithpanton7486
      @keithpanton7486 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also, screw the country then blame labour a day after they get into power. Also, Labour will have to do unpopular things to stop total collapse.

    • @ginasmith8569
      @ginasmith8569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And drum roll 🥁 🪘 SHE GONE 🎉

    • @joshuacampbell1625
      @joshuacampbell1625 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This man was a Prophet holy shit😂

  • @ruinfox4108
    @ruinfox4108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    im so glad your back in the studio making these Russell, you are a saint and needs to be protected for all of time haha.

  • @TheFirstCalled.60.A.D
    @TheFirstCalled.60.A.D 2 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    It took Thatcher 5 years to crash the pound...
    It took Liz Truss just 2 weeks.
    An outstanding achievement 👏🏻

    • @NeilBlaiberg
      @NeilBlaiberg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Technically it was about 3 days due to the national mourning period

    • @gmai5178
      @gmai5178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      A Guinness world record right there

    • @chinapig71
      @chinapig71 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except it didn't crash at all. It rallied back to trend within 3 days.

    • @NeilBlaiberg
      @NeilBlaiberg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@chinapig71 it totally crashed and needed the bank of eng to borrow 65 billion to shore it up...

    • @chinapig71
      @chinapig71 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NeilBlaiberg ....and rallied back within 3 days . LIKE I JUST SAID.

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    What a lot of people don't seem to understand is that this is exactly what Truss and her Chancellor knew would happen, and wanted.

    • @danielleisabellabanyard9968
      @danielleisabellabanyard9968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Agreed. Foreign investment nonesense.

    • @pablosaintmarr3223
      @pablosaintmarr3223 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I predicted she would be elected as their PM, not because she is any good, but because she will do what she is told and her competitor was not white enough. her chancellor and her sponsors[the obese investment guy and Mogg] have coined it in to the tune of £100's of millions.
      And this Dizzy cow is their patsy.
      It is a massive con job and needs investigated by some serious policemen[wearing suits and with brains - not uniformed clowns].

    • @IR._
      @IR._ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No I actually disagree. I don’t think they had the slightest clue this would happen. And that’s the problem. They’re so incompetent.

    • @PtolemyJones
      @PtolemyJones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@IR._ it is all laid out in her book Britannia Unchained.

    • @disavowalf3351
      @disavowalf3351 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      PtolemyJones…well, quite…tank the economy: all their money & their donors' money is safely off-shore. The Tories have always been a bunch of mendacious shitlords but this is what happens when they scrape the bottom of the bottom of the barrel for ERG puppets…we are so f*cked! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @mikespicer4827
    @mikespicer4827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    So good to catch up on the show need a good laugh and you've always delivered, couldn't be more spot on with the whole situation we're in... they fucked it!!

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I would also point out the point of the cap was a reaction to the 2008 crisis to make it less likely to happen again

    • @tytzup5397
      @tytzup5397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Did the banks ever payback the bailout?

    • @alan_davis
      @alan_davis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The cap was pointless, gesture politics. Banker just got pay rises to their base instead and still get large bonuses (just not as significant a multiple of salary as previously) - most bankers loved it.

  • @cheguevara7478
    @cheguevara7478 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It trickles down when poor people get pissed on. That’s the trickle

  • @brianmeek5236
    @brianmeek5236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    The US tried this several times since 1980 , it gave us Bezos and Musk

    • @brendanwallace4661
      @brendanwallace4661 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And two wars decimating the lives of millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan. economic collapses in the US heartland, fentanyl epidemics and Trump.

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      To be fair emerald mines in apartheid South Africa gave us musk.

    • @JameZayer
      @JameZayer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The LNP quoted it and was instantly voted out by Australians... was soo proud of my country.

    • @ernesthill4017
      @ernesthill4017 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trickle down economics was a lie in 1980, and it's still a lie today. The truth is wealth trickles up, and always has.
      Leaders like Reagan are proof that charm and deceit will always profit more than hard work and integrity

    • @pratomokoesoemodigdo9662
      @pratomokoesoemodigdo9662 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      At least Musk made a working rocket

  • @bobbates797
    @bobbates797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That bloke who tried jumping the sign now has 3 Adam’s apples 😂

  • @Spotofgardening
    @Spotofgardening 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My fiancé just said she looked like emperor palpatine when laughing 😂 I love her

  • @auntiejenjen886
    @auntiejenjen886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I think they should bring down the retirement age to 55 and put up the pension wage. The pensioners then spend and enjoy there hard earned rest, while new jobs for the younger generation are created.

  • @GummyBearWA
    @GummyBearWA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Trickle down economics destroyed America. Resist it at all costs!

  • @xtheamazingax
    @xtheamazingax 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    King Charles doing a backflip? I WOULD love to see that. But I fear not… lol

    • @berniethekiwidragon4382
      @berniethekiwidragon4382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A super fit monarch that could do back flips would be pretty cool.

  • @chikawowwow
    @chikawowwow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Trickle down and austerity measures are known as ‘zombie-economics’. Ideas that have been proven not to work but refuse to die

  • @mwest3191
    @mwest3191 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As an American peasant w/an economics degree, I can’t hear the term ‘trickle down’ without my eye twitching a little 😅

  • @majorsheen
    @majorsheen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The pound plummeting wasn’t a disaster for hedge fund managers. Lovely stuff.

    • @alan_davis
      @alan_davis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hedge fund managers don't pay income tax...

  • @keithhobbs1
    @keithhobbs1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Reminds me of black adder explaining ww1. "There was just one tiny flaw with the plan, it was bollocks."

  • @Kitanical
    @Kitanical 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The pub is actually called Gordon Bennetts, which is still rather fitting 😂 And there is actually a pub around the corner called The Grapes.

  • @richardv9648
    @richardv9648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Man I have never laughed so much at politcal comedy since John Stewart. Thank you.

  • @foxymanaic5934
    @foxymanaic5934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    At the time of writing this comment, this is #1 on trending. Good job Russell!

  • @narutoshippuden3228
    @narutoshippuden3228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    She is not bothered about being unpopular because technically she was not voted for or elected by the public was she?

    • @mickys8065
      @mickys8065 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      nope, she is technically the 3rd PM to be forced upon us since Cameron rage quit.

    • @coreyfinn5532
      @coreyfinn5532 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We may have the shortest term length of a prime minister that has never been seen before in British History

    • @davespanksalot8413
      @davespanksalot8413 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Technically she is extremely popular....amongst the people financially capable of buying up and consolidating smaller operators into their portfolios when the economy tanks. That's what happened in 2008, those with the means just bought more of the monopoly board....

    • @sunshynea5151
      @sunshynea5151 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She knows her term will be short, she's laying the foundation for herself so afterwards the rich people she's helped would sort her out financially

    • @acolli777
      @acolli777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      PM's pension + police protection for life, plus probably a couple of cushty jobs on the boards of energy/services industries. Laughing all the way to the bank

  • @RustyLightningPhoto
    @RustyLightningPhoto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    When comedians know more than politicians.

  • @dijjidog
    @dijjidog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the fact this was #2 on trending

  • @cazzabojangles
    @cazzabojangles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Can't wait for "ding dong, the witch is dead" to top the charts again

    • @AnotherSoldier
      @AnotherSoldier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If my memory serves me right, BBC did played that song (maybe by mistake) sometime around Thatcher funeral

    • @cazzabojangles
      @cazzabojangles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AnotherSoldier whOops!

  • @manojkakaya9267
    @manojkakaya9267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He is always spot on!

  • @caseyjones9716
    @caseyjones9716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    When Reagan tried this in the '80s, it was called VOODOO ECONOMICS.

  • @phil3038
    @phil3038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When Liz somehow became PM
    How you get up there Liz?....
    "I fell" 😂

  • @glazierblue573
    @glazierblue573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Liz is prepared to be unpopular. Well that's good. Shes made herself unpopular, FOREVER! Well done.

  • @spike178
    @spike178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Like to see the King pay his taxes, not a backflip.

  • @dtaafe2857
    @dtaafe2857 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    'Trickle down' just means; still getting pissed on. But from a greater height.

  • @jameshickey1294
    @jameshickey1294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Russell smashs it every time- brilliant

  • @tegsmonks
    @tegsmonks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nice blend of activism and comedy 👌

  • @ur22much2
    @ur22much2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Trickle down economics is like filling the top of a bucket before you fill the bottom, which is impossible unless you find a way to suspend the water at the top of the bucket.

  • @MaxFPSGamer
    @MaxFPSGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:52 Love to randomly see my old hometown and local butcher make an appearance on the news. lol Good ol Sherburn Starkeys.

  • @somebloke2238
    @somebloke2238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I love how unrealistic that gun sound was

    • @davespanksalot8413
      @davespanksalot8413 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I reckon it was supposed to be cartoonish because it's a comedy show delivering depressing AF news...

    • @W1gglePuppy
      @W1gglePuppy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's the gunshot sound from goldeneye!

    • @JargonMadjin
      @JargonMadjin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@W1gglePuppy Someone in the studio was fairly cultured then

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@W1gglePuppy It's the gunshot equivalent of the Wilhelm scream.

  • @pierrelindgren5727
    @pierrelindgren5727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Imagine Trickle Down Economics as a Golden Shower for those on a lower socioeconomic status.

  • @blackdragoncyrus
    @blackdragoncyrus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Glad to see new uploads.

  • @mallow173
    @mallow173 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man you make a lot of sense!! And in such a wonderful way!

  • @Snowflakes89
    @Snowflakes89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Missed your hot takes! Brilliant as always. Devastated by the economy right now, whrn you live to just exist it starts to feel pointless.

  • @amberlance3221
    @amberlance3221 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Truss: "Some might say I'm a bit relentless.. mwahaHAHAHA"
    The people: 😳

  • @madwisdom4929
    @madwisdom4929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    *Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace*
    Ministers were asked if money earmarked for schools, hospitals and low-income families could be used to meet soaring fuel bills. What will King Charles want from his subjects?
    Robert Verkaik
    Friday 24 September 2010 00:00

  • @beckynelson6786
    @beckynelson6786 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great !Russell nails it.

  • @passiveaggressive6175
    @passiveaggressive6175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I’m no Tory but Rishi warned that the market would tank

    • @Chubby_Lemon
      @Chubby_Lemon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      it was a choice of getting him who would fuck the poor because he's a scumbag or liz who fucks the poor because she's incompetent. lose lose

    • @TalesOfWar
      @TalesOfWar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was one of the few people in government who was actually competent, but beyond that he's still a typical Tory.

    • @Juliukas101
      @Juliukas101 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We don't care whether or not you are Tory. We couldn't care less!

  • @kyleanuar9090
    @kyleanuar9090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can't believe they're still using the "trickle down economic" which has been used in countless jokes

  • @lukebarnes8097
    @lukebarnes8097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That Lewis Capaldi clip had me in tears. Bloke really doesn't give a shit.

    • @ENYDOLAC
      @ENYDOLAC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He does actually suffer from Tourettes

  • @virgilbiggs6525
    @virgilbiggs6525 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That chess player really pulled some of his moves out of his ass by the sound of it 😉👉💥

  • @scottjackson2196
    @scottjackson2196 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Should we revolt? I am sick of the elites greed. Who’s in?

  • @ceceliagrant-peters2496
    @ceceliagrant-peters2496 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Russell's my go to guy for current political commentary!!!

  • @johnnyhellfire6
    @johnnyhellfire6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey we had something like this happen to us in America, it was called the Regan administration lol

  • @ralph007silver
    @ralph007silver 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb, absolutely spot on .
    Never a truer word said than those words said in jest, as they say.

  • @cassandrakarpinski9416
    @cassandrakarpinski9416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That first clip of the girl is peak aussie chaos. So proud

  • @challenger2031
    @challenger2031 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The government honestly doesn't have a bloody clue

  • @alanmorgan2152
    @alanmorgan2152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The pub is actually called Gordon Bennetts. The bunch of grapes is just a 2 minute walk away.

  • @arfurdaley6399
    @arfurdaley6399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of the funniest clips EVER !!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @crypticTV
    @crypticTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:03 cheese gromit
    4:20 trickle down economics
    9:34 chess cheat

  • @francisarmitage8142
    @francisarmitage8142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The funniest thing I've seen today! Subbed.

  • @nbarnes6225
    @nbarnes6225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Ok but now I want monocled ostrich socks.

  • @mark5694
    @mark5694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Money cannot " Trickle Down " when it is in a Off Shore Account !!!!!!!

    • @Juliukas101
      @Juliukas101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's "offshore" actually. Please learn to write.

  • @stephenhumphrey4748
    @stephenhumphrey4748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m 69 and sometimes I get a trickle down my leg 😂

  • @michelleshava1477
    @michelleshava1477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My abs are hurting from laughing so hard

  • @KingKhan-vo9og
    @KingKhan-vo9og 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    08:41 that laugh though😬💀

  • @lorencarlin2087
    @lorencarlin2087 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, it is kinda comforting that the UK is nearly as crazy as we here are in the USA. Actually, if you go down a few rabbit holes, the whole world has gone off it's collective rocker. Won't be long before we are all throwing our poop at each other!

  • @shamansi3383
    @shamansi3383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Absolutely brilliant as always brother 🙌

  • @aaronjohnson2215
    @aaronjohnson2215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I loved Louise's answer. Stupid joke from that woman, great and smart answer from him xD

  • @GreenSkye42
    @GreenSkye42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Damn that woman puts Voldemort to shame with that laugh

    • @AnotherSoldier
      @AnotherSoldier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chucky Bride (aka lizard truss) can scare the bejesus out of Voldemort any day. People have stopped working night shift @ number 10

  • @dancorpe3945
    @dancorpe3945 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love you Russell ❤😂

  • @mariaharrison7228
    @mariaharrison7228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bless you, however bad I feel you always make me laugh, you are amazing, thank you so much for being you.🙂

  • @ComboFood
    @ComboFood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that “Liz Truss” sounds like “distrust”

  • @LabRat6619
    @LabRat6619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Truss is doing excellent job working for her bosses.

  • @tylerwilliams1399
    @tylerwilliams1399 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    that is the Laugh of emperor Palpatine 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jandesmedt5333
    @jandesmedt5333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That mini budget maxed out quickly.

  • @mantas6540
    @mantas6540 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes yes I am... I ready to push the red button...

  • @paulharrion3398
    @paulharrion3398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Liz Truss just can't stop lying.
    "Some of my friends think I'm relentless".
    She has no friends...

  • @damarh
    @damarh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She did say a rim, but we're all suppose to pretend she was trying to say ROOM :)

  • @deanj2487
    @deanj2487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Lewis capaldi an absolute legend🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

  • @Steaky007
    @Steaky007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I went to high school with Lewis capaldi, weird seeing him everywhere now. But good to know he still kept that West Lothian humour 😂😂

  • @l.zalesgon958
    @l.zalesgon958 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    9:01 Liz Truss looks like Chucky

    • @goldenoriole11
      @goldenoriole11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Makes sense since her work as pm is child's play

    • @pratley6026
      @pratley6026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@goldenoriole11 greatest comment in the history of TH-cam

  • @mrmentality8456
    @mrmentality8456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Cracking nob cheese, gromit"

  • @masonfindlay3452
    @masonfindlay3452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    At this rate we’ll have to start using the rouble to buy bread

  • @MySelf-mg5oq
    @MySelf-mg5oq 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE THE WAY YOU CONVINCE THE AVERAGE 90 I.Q. MUGS OF ENGLAND THAT YOU ARE FUNNY.
    Where do you get your material?

  • @tonyb9735
    @tonyb9735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think "evil" is just about the best description of her. Actively evil.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's a saying that you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence...but at some point, the difference between them becomes impossible to detect.

  • @samfoston4231
    @samfoston4231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s not the political commentary we need, it’s the political commentary we want.

  • @ajmagic111
    @ajmagic111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In 2019
    The European Banking Authority (EBA) found that 3,519 bankers working in the UK earned more than €1m-a-year last year - more than seven times as many as those working in Germany which has the second highest number of €1m-a-year bankers.

    • @BernieTheBoxer
      @BernieTheBoxer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So? The German financial services system is provincial at best, the UK has the second largest global financial centre only just behind that of New York. The UK has the highest number of footballers earning more than £1M per year but you aren't bashing them for kicking a plastic ball around a pitch are you...

    • @ajmagic111
      @ajmagic111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      WE have never had to bail out any of the footballers earning more than one million pounds a year but tax payers did bail out the city in 2008 @@BernieTheBoxer

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BernieTheBoxer You seem to believe Londongrad is something we should be proud of, rather than a nauseating oligarch's playground and money laundering nexus.

  • @spookyspoon6589
    @spookyspoon6589 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love you Russell ❤