Is my mission on Youtube complete?
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Welcome come and join me in my van i am a everyday van delivery driver that enjoys talking politics in my van to share with all of you guys who are kind enough to listen.
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I have a Polish couple for neighbours, few weeks back I helped her back after she tripped and twisted her ankle, she kept apologising that her English wasn't great, she laughed when I said 'Your English much better than my Polish!'. Strange how some are 'afraid' of having forriners for neighbours!
Yeah, I have Indian neighbours and recently a Romanian neighbour two doors down. All these people are great, they all work, they all seem nice they all say hello - what's the problem?
Any meaningful Political commentary doesn't change because a Government has changed. The new Government needs to be held accountable. You have an agenda? Fine. Why NOT share your views? The Tories are still there and need to be challenged. Starmer is potentially in need to having a decent counterpoint to reign in his tendency to be an autocrat. All the things you mentioned about life and how things are have a value and are decent subjects too. Then we come to you simply driving around Brighton and Sussex. I love the presentation and the views out of the van windows. As an ex-Brighton resident (now living nearly 5,000 miles away), those views are wonderful. Keep it going.
Beautifully said.
Van Man Keep Talking.
Continue guy, because you talk sense mate.
Your channel is called "Van man Talks" - nothing to say what you are talking about, so just keep talking because we love it! Also, if you need any proof that you should continue just listen to the last 20 seconds of this video :-)
Your job is never finished. That's half the problem in this country. Those who don't want to get involved with politics should realise that politics is involved in EVERYTHING in their lives.
Keep your videos going, even if it is just driving around the Sussex country side.
I love your journeys and your chat, just go further afield for you content, there is plenty to comment on and your acute observances are brilliant keep it coming
Thanks Kit! Really appreciate that
I’m really enjoying not being stressed and angry about the Tories every day. I’d miss joining you on your drives if you packed it in.
I enjoy your videos, keep them going.
I am the Polish person living next to you - well my partner is from Poland! Im British born of Polish parents who served in the Polish Armed Forces in WWII and then stayed here after the war. So we know all too well the way in which some people regard us as not really entitled to be here. But here we are! Your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to show TH-cam that not all "van men" are stereotypical right wing nutters. Of course should you be caught or captured the Secretary of State will disavow any knowledge of your mission!
Good on you. Solidarnos
And you need to hold Starver to account like you would the tories
No. Liar Starmer needs dragging/guiding to the left. He seems to have lost his satnav!?!
He lost it a year after he became party leader.
In theory yes, but if he had, he would not have become elected, and we would have five more years or Tory disasters.
I very much want the country to more further left and progressive, but to do so we all need to move the Overton window of acceptable public discourse.
Realistically that is going to take some time.
I would love to have seen a LibDem opposition. that would have helped. We really need major press reform. there needs to be some accountability for lies.
I love driving round my home town with you particularly as I don't drive myself. Although we won the election (that was always going to happen in Brighton) politics hasn't gone away and we need to be vigilant whatever side we are on. Keep going. I was watching someone going through a food bank this morning, here in affluent Brighton. There is a hell of a lot to be done in the country. Thank you.
all politicians no matter what party need to be held to account........keep saying it
Please do talk about day-to-day things, I love day-to-day things.
The Labour Party should be a broad enough church to allow a small number of people to disagree on specific issues. They have such a big majority that 7 votes make no difference. By suspending these mps Starmer is cementing the rift which lies within the party.
Not even Blair did that and he had a lot more rebels.
I like your comedy clips lots.
Nice to know what van men are thinking whilst driving around 😊
Glad you enjoyed them 👍
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bravo, encore.
Need I say more.
Bit jell wish I lived in Brighton
I don't to sound soppy but i really hope you continue because you are erudite and I enjoy hearing your opinion. I don't get any company to speak of so your input to my day is BRILLTASTIC.
You have a new mission, keep an eye on this lot.
Keep talking.
Yes, please keep going it makes me feel like home, even though I’m not even English but lived in West Sussex for over 35 years😉👏👏💯😁
Farage and his henchmen are trying to pitch for withdrawal from ECHR . We need folk like you to fight hard to educate people in what a disaster that would be . I get that you need a life, but if you could keep your eye and opinions on the climate . I very much appreciate your videos . Take care .
Yep - absolutely mate!
I live near Brighton in a little village, and love the quiet life! We can tell people who have moved from the big towns / cities as a lot (don’t want to generalise) won’t say anything as that’s what their used to or what they are like a person. I agree with you to have an interest in politics, my views may differ from yours BUT I respect people’s views and think it’s healthy that we can sit here and discuss things in an adult way
I really enjoy watching your videos and listening to your opinions.I lived in Brighton for many years but am now based up North but I love seeing your travels as much as hearing your views hope the guitar is going well
I have neglected it to be honest bud, haven’t picked it up in weeks
@@vanmantalks I am sure the desire will return .If you can manage it please keep posting the vids are fab
Please carry on. I like hearing what you have to say.
First time in my life I heard someone say something so cheesy and yet so genuine 1:54
One mission is complete. Next level. Stay vigilant, the danger is not gone. :P ... Enjoy the life and talk about whatever is on your mind.
Don't give up! I love your channel. Whether you talk about politics or other social situations or even music, I will watch.
My dentist is Romanian. He is a brilliant dentist and so funny. His assistant asked him if vampires are real and he said that in 200 years, he'd never seen one 😂😂😂
I sit in the garden with my djembe and guitar and love my neighbours. When I see them.
Someone said to me, do what you want to and you will find the Subscribers. So, now my channel is going all over the place... 🤷
Keep going, if only to keep highlighting how much criminality and corruption the previous Tory regime had normalised in this country. Independent content creators and journalists are going to be more vital, now the Tories are gone because the UK media is so utterly biased in favour of the right-wing. The Labour government will be scrutinised on a scale that would never happen with the Tories.
As an ex-Pat now living in the USA I enjoy seeing the British towns and countryside, and hearing British accents.
You are one of five different TH-camrs I follow to hear the news about the UK and the political situation.
I'm keen to hear how Labour are doing, and if they are actually reversing some of the Tory mess, or are they going to be a disappointment (e.g. the 2 child tax credit cap)
ex-Pat or immigrant ? Sick of Brits denying that they are immigrants in other countries.
@@trevordavies5486 I'm both. Ex-Pat is from the Latin ex Patria. Patria is the country of one's birth, and as I no longer live there, I'm an ex-pat. I could also refer to myself as an emigrant.
As I'm talking about my relationship to the UK I used the term ex-pat.
If I were talking about my relationship to the USA, I might say I'm an immigrant. More likely I'd refer to myself as a naturalized citizen, since I am now legally a citizen (of both UK and USA).
Glad I was able to clear that up for you.
Keir Starmer, rules with an iron fist. Showed signs of it with Diane Abbott, she was just popular enough to push back, but others not so much. While things work, that iron fist is fine, great even. However! If he does something damaging, could or would anybody have the courage to challenge him, without the fear of being fired, and there will always be news. For me to get to my nearest neighbor it would be a 15-min walk give or take 😁Being within the natural world, is my muse.
Yep.Personalised plates are code for KNOB.😂
I know what you mean. I'm 7 weeks post knee replacement on SSP doesn't cover the utility bills is very worrying for me. Going to be off work at least another 5 weeks and things are hard.
SSP needs an uplift
I’m cheering you on! You will get there Gary 👍
Come back to us I 20 years time and see if you still feel the same about noisy neighbours....especially late at night...😅😅😅😅😅😅
After 20 years in the US I was thinking of retuning to the UK, but then I saw this LAW, this compulsion to only have electric cars from 2035. If the GOV wants to lean on me it can put the tax higher on petrol. BUT a law making petrol cars illegal ? That is fascism.....
Yes yes and yes on the number plates, especially the ones using numbers as " letters " . ( a 5 is not an S ) . Loved the channel from the beginning so carry on man, decent and thoughtful needs to be promoted.
Just seems like the ultimate waste of money to me.
If you have the inclination .. decent minded people will listen. Good Luck!
I join the many saying we want you to carry on,as a non driver, I enjoy seeing the areas you drive in😅. Also, as I’m making this comment/reply, we’ve had big fears realised, by the Starmer government. I & many disabled/chronically ill/poor/living in rented accommodation were wary off, cutbacks, not rowing back on shocking disability changes that the Tories were bringing in.
As a 63 year old woman that’s been denied the state pension until 67, disabled with many chronic illnesses, not been able to work for a long time,I should not be living in fear of what’s going to happen, to my day to day life.
As I have to use the NHS a lot & in recent times, my conditions & severe pain have been worse & I have been at the sharp end of getting real help & support. Nothing is joined up, passed from doctors surgery to 2 departments I’m under at the hospital,and back again. Phone calls made, messages not picked up & much more & has taken months to get an X-ray after falling on concrete, now happening middle of this month. The appointment is at 6.20 pm & apparently I don’t “qualify” for hospital transport😮😡
They're not gone; they're merely in abeyance until they regroup and re-emerge as something 100 times worse! You can't get rid of evil, you can only hold it at bay and keep a careful eye on it. I make no apologies for referring to the Tories and the right wing in general as being evil; by their deeds ye shall know them and the deeds of the Tories and the right have been, and will always be, utterly vile, almost (dare I say it..?) Subhuman in their criminal degeneracy.
I think that you should keep the channel going and whenever Sir Blair Starmer does the opposite of everything he said he wouldn’t do, you can compare it to everything you said he and New Labour v2.0 would do.
Just because Labour are now in charge and haven't gone off the deep end like the Tories. Doesn't mean that they shouldn't be held to account and that everything they do is good for the country and that they always do the right thing. For example, one of the MPs that had the whip removed was threatened by having support for her domestic violence bill removed. That to me is quite frankly disturbing and disgusting. I get that they want the party line held, especially on their first vote while in power. But to threaten to pull support for a bill that helps victims of domestic violence is just wrong. All they needed to say is that they would remove the whip. There was no need for the other threat. Also this thing that i constantly hear throughout my life "you voted for them, so you agree to EVERYTHING in their manifesto" is disingenuous bullshit. Politics is nuanced and it's definitely not black and white. There has been no party where i have agreed with 100% of their manifesto and i suspect that well over 90% of the voting electorate are the same and the people that do are partisan hacks that don't actually believe in anything other than what the party tells them to
Its Labours policy to scrap the 2 child cap, its wasnt in the manofesto as they couldnt say how it would be funded.
Once in power Labour can see what state our econmy is in and if they able to remove the cap. But the likes of the SNP want it scrapped yesterday, but at current they cant say how its going to be funded.
They not like the tories who say theyll do this with no funding. Labour have to be above board with the tax payers money.
Looking forward to new subjects on the channel. Agree with Rebel Labour MP analysis. When possible, could you do a video explaining why Football will only ever have 3 or 4 teams contending for the Premiereship championship and people find that interesting? Canadian fan of the program from New York.
Good idea! Tho I refer you to the 2015/16 premier league season
Agree with your take 100% on this, you're spot on. This isn't about if the cap is right or wrong, labour were elected on a manifesto grounded in fiscal responsibility and they clearly said they couldn't afford to lift the fap. If they had a problem they should have left the party and stood as an independent but they didn't, because then they probably wouldn't have won their seats. Labour will lift the cap when budget allows.
See you won't be able to stop talking politics, expand on to other topics if you want.. when you have in the past its as interesting... but don't please don't stop uploading, I love watching the places you drive being a Londoner born on the south coast
PS: your drives through all the familiar places…
Besides there is always also trouble brewing in the background…😁👍🤟
Please don't give up with holding governments accountable. This whole party whip thing should be removed as it is an extortion in a way, but definitely when votes come, they should always vote with their conscience.
I completely agree👍 .
Not getting rid, that wasn't part of the manifesto.
They were not clear as starmer made it his leadership pledge and then changed his mind. In the run up he said both getting rid of it
It must be allowed for mps to vote with conscience. Only group think and weakness requires otherwise.
Those mps clearly think that the time to get rid of it is now, in line with the non commitment on the issue in the manifesto.
I miss seeing Polish 🇵🇱 people as much in the UK now. I adore Poland! 🇵🇱 They make people of stronger stuff in Eastern Europe. Also Spanish-speakers, which I used to hear all the time in Britain & they didn’t know I could understand them. 😉🤗 Keep giving them Hell!
My street has
South Koreans
Vietnamese
Aussies (x8)
English
Chinese (x2)
Indian (x2)
Italians
South Africans
and a respite house for mentally disabled people.
Most are friendly.
They've made a lot of moves (alongside muting the left of their party) but the devil really is in the detail.
Please continue to ask questions, that's how politics works.
Also, I enjoy the views you drive around.
Either way, thanks and good luck
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Your commentary is always listenable and entertaining... While I am a Labour Councillor and of course support our new Labour government... they will make some mistakes, errors of judgement... and will (even with less frequent YT postings) need to be held to account.
There's no pressure to keep engaging with the discourse in politics and general life and social commentary stuff can be refreshing, but the benefit cap rebellion is a prime example of Starmer's pettiness to still be fighting factional wars, when the Labour left were long beyond it and just trying to coexist with the rest of the party in what used to be a broad church. You think with such a massive majority Starmer as PM would just sit back and tolerate it as that would actually be rising above adult behaviour, respecting that people can have there moral conscience stances (which in any person will be forever more important than party lines as its the bedrock of any good and free society) in a way that would be harmless to the outcome of what passes through Parliament and would show magnanimity in being tolerant of pluralist perspectives within your party and a gesture to bipartisanship in allowing cross-party legislating which Starmer's is happy to gesture at with the Tories as having common ground on issues like immigration but when it comes to the left it's always a different story with him. Instead this suspension of the whip of these 7 MPs from the Labour left reeks of insecurity as Starmer acts as someone who can't move on, so paranoid that Corbynism could come back that he actively enables it by letting the left appear to be martyred - which is frankly idiotic considering Blair allowed numerous rebellions including a letting people vote for a Lib Dem motion to the then Queen's speech as well as a rebellion as large as the one over the Iraq War. There has never been an established precedent in the Labour Party that you always *had* to vote with on the party, and on the contrary the entire whipping system, if it can be said to function at all, is contingent on tolerating a degree of dissident typically when you expect there's no real, or much chance of the rebels winning so historically Whips would let MPs have there conscious votes on measures that were highly likely to pass, so in turn on bills that had tight support MPs who were allowed to rebel previously would be more amicable to voting in favour of more controversial bills. That previously well understood system would be better than the fallacy of politics being a zero sum game, in the sense that you're either on team Starmer or you have no influence at all - when in our Parliamentary electoral system you still really vote for the party not the leader of said party. Starmer may have better stances on policy than the previous administration, but not only has this been coated in spin already but the fact that Labour haven't even put out a Minister to explain the reason for suspending the whip from these principled socialists of the Labour Party really speaks volumes of paper thin the notion that this shows there strength really is - which is already an angle that leans authoritarian, exactly the kind of politics this country needs to escape and campaigning for abolishing the whip wouldn't hurt.
Also, I've recently started watching Luke Beasley on the US mess. Fun channel.
I'v realized i'v stopped fretting /worrying about the Government and what it was trying to do (or not doing) to the country because i know competent grown ups are now in charge ......at long long long f-----g last 🥳
Good point on the private number plates, I fully endorse the idea of taxing them more.
The politics of envy
@@SunofYork Hardly.
Mission complete, +respect and you can now run a seven man gang.
Well, having got totally fed up with the 14 years of Tory failure, we managed to get rid of most of them ( but not enough )... So the message is clear to Labour... You've got 5 years to do SOMETHING to help the people... If you mess about, like the previous nutters, then WE THE PEOPLE , will get rid of most of Labour, as well... The people DO have power....!
there will be more to talk about ,must admit I dont always agree with you but your voice still counts
Unfortunately, just because the faces change, British politics doesn't change. The only difference between the last government and previous ones was how obvious and in your face they were with their corruption. This new one seems like business as usual. All change, and no change all at once. We need PR sooner rather than later, and we need all Media owned by the people, for the people. Every party should have a set amount of cash, and not allowed any more from any source. Politicians should have only One job, serving the country, nothing else. Till all of these are implemented, the politics will never change, just the faces.
Politicians should always vote with their conscience, regardless of which party they represent, they represent their constituents, not the party.
How many voters even know what the manifesto is let alone what's in it so to say that they voted for the manifesto is to put it politely blatantly untrue the majority of voters just voted for anything but the Tories.
No. Keep going. Don’t let bad elements take the place of your voice. Now is the time for those who spoke out against the Tories to up the volume.
Blimey, you can peg it in that van can't ya!
Starmer knows he will have to prove Labour are trusted in government and this is the unknown even though the initial weeks have been positive. What will help Labour is a divided Tory party who doesn't know whether to keep trying to compete with Reform for populist votes or become a more moderate party again. I will be honest though I agree with the cap and as for Starmer suspending those MPs he was right.
As far as Starmers pros and cons are concerned, he's "all business", which is a pro i think.
Also no one would blame you if you devoted more time to your sanity away from politics stories! Give the new government a year?
I don´t believe most Brits know just how bad the mess is that the Tories have left. It will take a long time to turn this around. I do not have great expectations from Labour but at least the performative cruelty is gone.
Absolutely with you, was by far the worse government in our lifetime !!
The leadership contest has started but it is frightening there is no talent whatsoever in the Tories, they are all failed members of the previous government. Why would we want any of them as a leader !! All of them need to go into the abyss.
I so concur around your thoughts on Starmer. At last someone at least grown up, being more professional and I think genuinely wants to do good and for the country, service, not like the last lot all it in for themselves like you say with all the corruption, for profiteering and greed at the expense of the majority, leeching from the poorer and the poor to the already really rich.
ADVERT FOR LAURENCE fox before your podcast lol.
Tories filled the coffin with nails.
Labour is the last nail in the coffin.
Reality is catching up with us all , you and I will not be spared.
Best wishes .
The truth be told we've had a change of government but it feels like a continuation of the previous one , everything is exactly the same apart from a few minor tweaks .
The ending 😂😂😂😂😂
The people in these MPs constituencies want & need help. These MPs are standing up for them. Starmer is just showing that he is a dictator because if anyone dissents in any way then out they go ! What is the point of MP'S discussing what can be done if at the end of the day they have to toe the party line ? Might as well abandon the House of Commons in that case !!
43% of children in my consituency are in poverty (my MP is one of the rebels), so it's very understandable to me why he'd vote that way
Agree on the neighbours having good neighbours is not a thing now. I don't think your mission is complete mate while I maybe a conservative there is no needle from me to you. I like hearing different views it's good whatever direction your channel takes I will be watching
1) The cap is not on child benefit, it is on child support in universal credit.
2) Labour have said they want to lift the cap, but will not do any spending that is not fully funded. (After the Liz Truss fiasco they cannot)
3) The current government is still tied to the previous government spending guides until the next budget, when they can announce any taxes, spending changes etc.
4) The seven rebel MPs are all far left, Corbyn supporters, not fond of Starmer.
5) In Scotland the SNP lost ground to Labour, so it is no surprise, and probably reasonable for them to try and score points against Labour. That is the nature of the game.
6) It was a fiasco, but if Starmer wants to maintain party discipline and not turn in to a rabble like the Tories became, he probably had no choice. It is debatable if he needed to be so severe. That was his choice. MY opinion was that he went too far,. but he was there and I was not.
I love how nieve people are thinking now labour are in power everything is going to be okay.
Mark my words this government in no better and when you see who bank rolled KS bid, you should be very worried who is now holding power.
My, the tufton street trolls are about already. I have experienced enough politics in my lifetime to be WELL aware of the ups and downs of political happenings thanks. No, we're all quite aware that things aren't going to be sorted in no time at all.....only reform numbskulls "fink it orta be sor'ed by nah". Even you should be aware that 14 BLUDDY YEARS of austerity (for the poor) can't possibly be turned around in a few months, so come on, be realistic fer chrissake 🙄
It's NOT a cap on Child Benefit, it's a cap on Universal Credit. Two totally different things.
It's the right wing press pushing the 'Child Benefit' lie.
Give Labour some time.
Please keep posting when you feel the need 😊 remember we still have muppets on GB news that are bound to say something obsurd and bat shit crazy 😂😂 keep tabs on improvements that hopefully will be made with Labour, and there's always the freak show that's Trump which is going to get wild in coming weeks and months (hopefully not year's) 😂😂
You still have issues to keep an eye on, such as holding the water companies to account. And smacking down any attempt by the Tories or Farage to get noticed.
The manifesto doesn't say they won't scrap it, that's the issue. 37 Labour MP's raised an amendment to scrap the cap but Lindsey Hoyle decided to chose the SNP one instead. Was it a favour to our new PM? We'll never know. I'm rather concerned, given the Gaza vote as well that the speaker is treading a bit of a dodgy line.
Nope. Those seven can vote how they like and that should be the end of it. Toleration of views is a strength. Starmer looks weak.
All these people that voted Liebour, It's only a matter of time before you see what you voted for...
Next government will be Tory. This country has a heard mentality. There's not enough independ thinkers to save it and we're doomed to repeat history because of it.
Yep, it's going to be a Mary-go-round. Labour in and Tories out. Tories in and labour out etc...
None of them are different. They all serve the world economic forum.
Youhave fundamentally misunderstood the funnction of MP's. And everything else you said is wrong based off of your original error.
Is your mission complete? NO! Like myself I think you are going through withdrawal symptoms. I open up my computer and my notification bell is reduced to 3 or 4 notifications sometimes only ONE! Having said that I don’t want them returning and they will try. Oh yes they will try. The Think Tanks situated near the media centres funded by big business, Oil Companies etc will double their efforts, we have to be vigilant. Politics is life. From the Greek for the "affairs of the cities”. (Please don’t ask two questions to comment on. Please?)
The Tories were without doubt the worst, I'm pretty sure it'll continue. If you can't see the connection between all the life that you said you're interested in talking about and the operations of political operators then you'll always be behind the curve buddy.
Unless you are a shill for labour you will still be busy, ie labour climbing into bed with Murdoch and kicking leveson inquiry part 2 into the weeds, let's keep 300,000 kids in poverty.
If you're not going to critique Labour then I suggest stopping TH-cam or you will be just the same as other centrist youtubers
Depends what your mission is, all politicians should be held to account and although you finally helped get rid of the cancer that is the Tories shit leaders will always be failing the people...also your videos dont have to be about politics...just riff while youre driving if you feel like it, if its entertaining people will continue to watch...good luck