Pint of milk protest: Charles Walker's surreal Commons speech
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- 'I want to talk about milk,' begins Charles Walker. 'I am going to walk around London with a pint of milk on my person, because that pint will represent my protest.' In a convoluted speech, he concludes that unless you cherish freedoms, you will lose them. 'Unless you fight for freedoms, every day they end up being taken away from you'
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They extended emergency powers because if they didn't it would no longer be an emergency and then the vaccine would no longer have approval.
Did you hear the "Whoosh" sound as it went over your head?
He's acting like we're not even allowed to voice our disagreement over lockdown measures.
@@Competitive_Antagonist that’s he opposite of what he was getting at. He was encouraging it
@@stevewager3861 Lol! There's too many "whoosh's" out there. You'd think by now people would've at least bought half a clue🤨
The point he is making is people have freedom to protest over whatsoever they want to, irrespective of whether its covid restrictions being too much or too little, or milk costing too much or little, and that freedom is to be protected at all costs.
Never suggest people should be banned from protests you disagree with because you'll lose your freedom to protest what you believe in.
He has a point, he is making it weirdly, but any protest at all can now be prosecuted, so he would in theory be liable for prosecution.
@サンゴ礁 Yeah he did. He voted against the extension of the coronavirus act which makes peaceful protest illegal.
@サンゴ礁 So he's spineless. He's a Tory so no shock at all.
@サンゴ礁 He did vote against it. It's easy to check.
@@vmcyam64 Well then please check. You will find out he didn't, no Tory voted against.
@@gareth6326 From the Evening Standard: Mark Harper, Pauline Latham, William Wragg, Steve Baker and Charles Walker, were among the Tory MPs who voted against the legislation.
35 voted against according to the press.
His point is if we all walk about with a pint of milk will they tell the cops to arrest us because we are protesting the price of milk ---- with a pint of milk.?.that's how crazy it's got...
We're allowed out to go shopping so a pint of milk disarms coppers
@Anon Omous He is trying to describe the difference between a freedom and a right. 4 years of gender studies or 40 years of reading The Gaurdian will get you no closer to any such understanding.
@Anon Omous ah yes, all 5 versions of himself so far on the comment before you said he liked his own comments, meanwhile no one liked yours. How fitting.
@@SyGardner Did you know that free actually means nothing.
Gratis, as in gratitude/grateful means for nothing.
I didn't learn this from a geography teacher trying to teach me history, but I did learn, by an English teacher, that ostentatious means showing off.
Here is a picture of an elephant which is not a lion 🐘
@@SyGardner Also I'd like to add that Old McDonald may well of had a farm (germ farm), and on this farm...
While we still have people like Charles Walker we still have hope.
He didn't vote against the very bill he is complaining against....
I bought a 6 pint bottle.... Does that make me an extremist? 🤔
Buy = bought
Bring = brought
😉
are you part of a milkitia?
You're going to prison for lactocide
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@iainphillips3725 Radicalactose intolerants.
Thank you Charles Walker...
@@avocadoman8510 why do you say that?
He is 100% right if you don't fight for your freedoms you will have none, finally someone stands up to challenge those without dignity, empathy or decency
How did he vote last week on the policing bill that criminalizes peaceful protest? 🤔
@@whorefortheman he’s voted against the lockdowns every time
@@florafremantle5806 wasn’t my question. But your answer speaks volumes. Words are pretty. Votes are where the real courage sits.
@@whorefortheman he was against it last week encoraging others to change their minds about the bill, while priti patel and everyone else through him daggers, if you ask me his actions last week and in recent endeavours speak volumes. And for the record he didn't vote for or against the bill get your facts right he was one of 3 not to vote but the only one with the drive to take action
@@godblessyou9743 Voting against something like this means a lot more than abstaining though
I love how he had to check his notes at the words "that pint will remind me..."
Amazing, this is about how I imagined Britain was ran tbh.
My toilet is blocked.
@@darrenjamieson9711 Barry said he'd be at yours to sort it soon mate
The smear begins all because he defended a 90 yr old woman who was arrested for being outdoors.
Persecute British MPs for being British in Britain. Is Britain British anymore? (All toungtwister phrases unintended).
@@chrisdeep8417 How do you know he is not Irish (which is classed as The British Isles).
Er...NO. Only Northern Ireland is part of the British Isles, not the whole of Ireland.
@@vermilliongecko Well, actually N. Ireland is part of Great Britain. Geographically Ireland is part of British Isles.
Not that you care or even remember!
@@darrenjamieson9711 I hope you find your way in the right place of N ireland and say that, Mr know it all.
I'm gonna get arrested tomorrow for coming back from the supermarket with a protest in my hands.
😂
Don't wear a loud shirt or stand in anyone's path and you might be okay
You rebel!
Take up the cry "THE CONSERVATIVES ARE REVOLTING!" Every time you buy milk.
Never heard it called that before.
The milk is an abstract metaphor for FREEDOM OF PROTEST.
.
His point is that such freedoms, even if they are absurd, are vital to democracy.
But he should have added Freedom to Protest with my fellow protesters to home in on the point. And too many "Madam deputy speaker".
@@deccanqueen2036I'm not saying you're ungrateful, a div, a loser, a dosser, or anything but if you want FLeeDom go live in France. I'm Imperialist myself 🇬🇧🦁
@Anon Omous And you are just thick
@Anon Omous
Wrong.
True, gentleman, really love this guy and is one of the very few who have given me hope in lockdown and any confidence in politics, I wish I had the compassion this guy has 🙏
How did he vote last week on the policing bill that criminalizes peaceful protest? 🤔 Words are pretty, but votes take courage.
@@whorefortheman well? How did he vote?
@@whorefortheman Your right, like all the votes he's taken to say no to coronavirus regulations that restrict liberties not of just a small number of protestors but the whole nation. He is in deed a man of courage. Let's not judge a man on one measly bill that he did not vote on, he may not have done it for many reasons such as was not available to vote that day due to other commitments to his constituents. Do your homework before commenting.
Sir Charles Walker, always speaks up for us, one of the few! Thank you Sir Charles , lead the way. Wish you were Prime Minister.
Same here, man of integrity
Sir Charles is the only one I can connect with
He is the only one that is thinking straight
And talking sense
Div
@@darrenjamieson9711
Wait is that you trying to pretend you can rap ?
And that youre gangster hahahahahahahahah
You utter pleb hahahahahahHhahH
Thanks for the laughs my wee Scottish doeboy
@@stickykitty My dad, who was Pink Floyd and a Rolling Stone and his mother 'Princess Alice' (whose maiden name just so happened to be Humphreys), said, "We're English we are", being as I'm a Londoner born in London, which is in England.
You can check Google maps if you don't believe me. .
Have you been here long?
Here is the ace of spades already ♠️
How did he vote on the policing bill last week which criminalises peaceful protest?
Oh, he couldn't be bothered to vote on it. Excuse me if i think his words are hollow
@@michealhunt5557 Exactly that's how much he stands up for what he believes in.
The milkman of human kindness.
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@JJerem I already know where I live!
@JJerem What the reference to end um (my Nan, 'Princess Alices's maiden name: Humphreys), is claiming he knows us.
Like I said: I already know where I live.
@JJerem How do you step away?
@JJerem Not a very nice thing to say about my nan (whose maiden name was Humphreys), who endured the blitz in WWII is it?
Man claiming that he knows us.
She said, "She chooses to forget"!
It’s like he’s trying to reach a word limit
he sounds like he's playing 'Just a Minute'
@@beny6224 REPETITION!
Need to see more of this man!
A decent Mp. Rare these days.
no such thing as a decent tory
Decent'ed from Ireland...
Compare and contrast with Nadia Whittome etc.
@@nizzla12 Smart Water Stickerman!
He deserves prime minister seat
He's not in the gang
Offer excepted! You tell Johnson to go!
I like milk
Philosophers rarely attain high office.
@@michaelkavanagh5947 Which is strange isn't it? Especially based on the fact that Philosophy is the Mother of all Science! And I mean all - from nature science (Math, Chemistry, Physics, etc.) to Humanitarian Science (Sociology, Psychology, Law, etc.), and of course the cross over from all - Economics.
What a brilliant human being, I had never heard of him before this. Psychedelic protest business... This man has the funk, more funk, dare I say than the rest of that house put together!
Sir Desmond Swayne is also a brilliant speaker of common sense and fairness...................
Walker for PM!
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@@darrenjamieson9711 Yet he has 60 likes and you have precisely non.
No, but I am the actual rules ♠️😂
Here is a picture of the world's most famous cretin Stephen Hawkings. 🤪
This guy can talk till the Cows come home....
@Anon Omous 😂😂
😂😂😂
I think most people relate to plain speaking. That's why Trump resonated with so many.
@@gmc9451 Woosh. Went right over your head.
Too many big words for you?
Makes more sense than bojo...
You said D'Johnson made more sense than Corbyn
Did he just say he’s gonna protest? That a nuisance to me so is he gonna get 10 years?
@Anon Omous aww
How very intolerant, lactose intolerant you might say... 😁
Thats the point he's making. Hes been speaking in the house of commons regularly about The right the protest
I’m offended by his milk. Non crime hate incident !!!
@@TheExtraClassic Maybe he is. I'll be honest, to me it's the only way this would make sense. But he isn't saying this in a debate about that bill. He's saying it in a debate about extending Covid lockdowns and makes no reference to the crime bill.
One of the very few in the house that isnt a sell out & retains his dignity & self respect
Yes, but Thatcher took away my daily half pint of protest when I was 7.
Correct me if I'm wrong but did he say.
The people will not know.
Of the things.
With the little ornate raffier work.
They left behind.
The knight before.
Bout eight o'clock?
And Harold Wilson took it from secondary school children before her
if it was yours she couldn't take it from you
Just being picky now but it was a third not a half pint. Ours was always warm in the Summer and many didn’t drink it, fridge, fridge what’s a fridge? Happy days all the same🥛🥛👍😃😃
And you're still whining about it now?
Sir Charles Walker is our true Prime minister
If Labour had MP's like him they'd might win an election
You mean people who were outspoken and open about what they believed in? Like Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Benn?
@@lukemullan636 I think he means people who speak with some common sense and rationality, something Corbyn and Benn desperately lacked
@@bena7519 you mean like breaking ranks to oppose the Iraq War? What kind of tory are you to say that Tony Benn had no sense or rationality?
@@bena7519 Seeing through the pandemic why it wasn’t sensible and rational to get for everyone free broadband? As everything going on virtual and those who doesn’t have, they left behind... but surely for you it doesn’t matter. I’m guess you have broadband. Daddy pays for it’s.
@@bena7519 you answered that perfectly for me 👍
Brilliant, thank ypu Sir Charles
Is he the milkman of human kindness? Should we leave an extra pint?
Nice reference, well said :)
This man should be PM. Has more intelligence, charisma and eloquence than Boris and all his cronies put together.
@@chrisdeep8417 Ostentatious
Why has this guy never reached prime minister
He still has time
Truthful 👌👍
@Mr G oh yes you reminded me he isn't trying to take a country for a ride and destroy it
@@nathanhaldane3834 By claiming he knows us?
Probably because he's only in his second term and he's in a marginal constituency, not a safe seat.
Surreal or cereal 🥣
The milk is an analogy obviously. If people in the commons can't see that they shouldn't be in the job
An analogy for what?
It's no analogy. It is ridiculing people who are banning carrying a pint of milk.
Milk is just part of an emerging political landscape
@@ellwill5709 hahahah
👏👏👏👏 All hail Charles Walker MP. The rightful King Of England
Div.
As far as most MP's go, he is pretty decent, the rest are beyond useless.
@@lynncameron9977 How long has he been here in Great Britain?
@@darrenjamieson9711 who? Charles Walker? He is British.
@@lynncameron9977 Republican 🌈 from Ireland 💐🍀
Legend
Claims he knows us
brilliant speech this, a great way to get a difficult point across
Sadly this very British speech will go way over the heads of the likes of Boris and his cronies.
A speech with flowery words is all it is
He couldn't be bothered to vote when it came to the police bill last week which criminalises peaceful protest
I love this guy
Yes Sir Charles! Unfortunate that the Guardian is trying to diminish the point he's making. Intentionally surreal to highlight how insane the current behaviour of The House of Commons is....You didn't get that?
This guy is a legend well done sir
You are right ‘The Guardian’, actual critical thinking does seem quite ‘surreal’ nowadays doesn’t it?
How did he vote on the policing bill last week which criminalises peaceful protest?
@@michealhunt5557 copy/ paste under every comment 🖕
@@michealhunt5557 did he vote for it? Words can't say how disappointed I'd be if he had.
@@bluehazeburnout He abstained.
@@zexal4217 thank you, not what I wanted to hear but if that's the truth then so be it. How disappointing.
Fantastic.
Couldn't watch the whole thing properly. Had to semi-skim watch it.
How dairy.
You shouldn't have let any of that past yer eyes
Got to admire the man's bottle!
@@DomingoDeSantaClara Milking it
@@user-si7ig6ul7l Love all the pinta puns intended on here, you are so all do clever! 👏👏
refreshing elegance
brilliant
with you all the way mate! we understand exactly where you are going! well done.
Thank You Charles Walker
I will be joining your protest
for Milk be it to expensive or to cheap.
Thank You so much for speaking out.💯🥰
That man should be prime minister!
An udderly ridiculous speech. He's milking it.
😆😆😆
A truer word never said.👏👏👏🔥🔥👏🔥👏🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏👏
Great video. He left the punch line right to the end.. Great statement..
Here's what I want you to do for me.
At last a politician who speaks sence
Claiming he knows us
Surreal but not without poignancy
You absolute f.cking wierdo!
Get yer pints lads it’s walking time
Brilliant man great idea milk bottle protest it is
Pity we have so few MPs with his appreciation for freedom of expression.
Watch out, watch out!
Sir Humphrey's about!
What ? Do you mean to say that's there's a minister loose in the building !?
Is it a coincidence that was my Nan's maiden name. Claims he knows us?
Great speech making a point more important than any other. Our right to freedom that is being eroded. Terrific guy with guts.
That pint should remind me..then he checks his notes to remind him...is it a picture of a pint of milk
Legend you are
I wonder if my litre of oat milk would be an acceptable alternative, as I also want to protest...I shall be carrying my litre of oat milk every time I'm out on the streets. Anyone going to join us?
NO! NEVER!
@@ummerfarooq5383 hahaha
I’m pretty sure the milk is a reference to Anthony burgesses a clockwork orange and the totalitarian society. Alex’s character who rejected societal standards greets the reader in the korova (sounds like corona) milk bar
He does a fair point even if he makes it in an eccentric way. I would be more impressed if he apologised for his support for an increasingly fascistic Government.
Adam Powell...re your comment...he should apologise for his support of his government??.... if you check his previous parliamentary speeches, he has consistently challenged the government’s lockdown policies and removal of our freedoms since the beginning of Lockdowns....this man believes in Conservatism but deplores the actions of those in power acting under the name of the Conservatives
@@churchviewwishart8873 Or maybe he likes to be the centre of attention?
Bravo 👏 what a great human being. I wish Charles Walker was PM.
The day i see people walking the streets with a pint of milk in their hands is the day i die of laughter
*their not there
@@TheExtraClassic why feel the need to correct someone people like you are very annoying
@@TheExtraClassic cool say no more 😂
I think you missed the point he is making
What, you are not already dying of laughter seeing covidiots wearing masks in the fresh air? Who have been ‘vaccinated’ ? 😂😂
Hopefully my children will still want to see me 🤣🤣🤣
Not if he's got the same pint of milk sitting on his table 10 years later, imagine the smell
@@nibncabc2737 🤢.....😅😅😅
Well done Charles Walker!!! Brilliant speech, a great way to get a difficult point across
👑 Milkvolution revolution, I am in ‼️ ‼️ ‼️
Misleading title, glad to finally see some British MPs still left in parliament.
Gaelic isn't British 🇩🇪
Britain has quite literally descended into the plot from "V for Vendetta".
Al still be sitting at my dining table 20years later still looking at my pint of milk!
Hopefully not the same pint!
Which will go to butters.
@@chrisdeep8417 By then al call it sterilized Protest!
Love him!!!
It's surreal if you don't the point. He makes his point at the end of his speech and it is a very valid point.
He is amazing, just think of how many people are now talking about this few minute speech - it's irrelevant whether they think they understand it or not, the point is he's made people talk and think about it. And perhaps that was his point? To make people think as critical thinking seems less common nowadays especially around covid and vaccine etc topics. Bravo!
Barking mad, but I see this as a dig at Preti Useless over the bill to limit protest.
Bingo! You're the only person to have figured it out so far in this comment section.
A real dig would have been to vote against the police bill, which no Tory MP did
@@gareth6326 Actually, two did. This MP and the MP for Newton Abbot
@@ate1o I believe he abstained. Half and half.
@@ate1o Nope, no Tory MP voted against. Three Tory MPs didn't exercise thier right to vote, but none did anything to stop it
Make this guy PM
Thatcher the Milk Snatcher becomes Walker the Milk Stalker.
i do hope his voice gets heard whilst the hideous delayed bill waits in the wings to take away our freedoms
Well said Charles once again!! I think you would be a great replacement for the scarecrow Johnson!!
What a hero along with the other 78 freedom fighter's who voted against the caronavirus bill
78 is that how many rejected it this time?
I'll remember the 125000 dead
He couldn't be bothered to vote on the policing bill last week which criminalises peaceful protest
Hero?, Freedom Fighter?......dont make me laugh
@@MegaKapo12 125000 redesignation of deaths.
I thought this was a metaphor for protecting our right to protest, the milk is just a tool to generate intrigue and reflection.
I replied to a comment, explaining how I perceived his comments:
Ignore the milk. Ignore what he does with the milk. He is stating his ability to protest (his pint of milk) and others ability to protest (they may also have a pint of milk) is a shared freedom, even if they hold completely intention (my protest is about the price of milk) (they may have their pint of milk because the route out of lockdown is too slow)
I believe he's using the pint of milk, because it is an absurd idea, which will catch people's attention. I shall try to de-metaphor his speech and you'll see how short it is and likely to be ignored.
People have the freedom to protest, they can protest about different things, if these greater restrictions on people's ability to protest come to pass, then it will inhibit an important social function. I hope to one day look back on my protests, and be proud that my country protects our freedom to do so.
Freedom is a human right
Live free
We're really f@#£&% aren't we?
Sir Charles Walker is the only politician worth listening to 👍
FACTS. been waiting so long for someone to say this
Where do I sign up?
Nicely framed by the Marxist Guardian..."surreal".
@The Dao Did you mean to start your reply with "sigh"...or did you mean to type "soy"?
These milk puns are Pasture their best
Milk is waycist , walk around with a pint of Guinness.
First seeing the video without knowing the context: "This is an insane man"
After googling and reading the context: "this is a sane man responding to insane circumstances".
This guy should be PM
"HE NEED SOME MILK!!!"
this really tickles my soul.
A man chased me today with a block of cheese in one hand and a pint of milk in the other hand and I thought...
" HOW DAIRY!/DARE HE! "
I would've stood STILLton
OUR HERO
Best speech ever by a Tory MP! He made me laugh and he pointed out that the act of protest is a freedom. Shame he's a Tory.
Such a great speech... as a dairy farmer's daughter though please also discuss the actual price large supermarkets are paying small family high welfare British farms ... one small family dairy farm a day sells up in this country. For cheap factory farmed less environmentally friendly substitutes
I can't decide if it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard or quite possibly the most profound.
Empires in decline are as farcical as they are frightening.
R.I.P. Benny Harvey man, he always loved his pints of milk.