Bravo, Richard. None of our politicians seems to want the simplest goal of government: that everyone should live a secure, happy life free from the fear of poverty, disease and homelessness. We cannot continue to neglect the happiness of our children growing up with insecurity and poverty stalking their lives.
He's old enough to have lived through the 70s, when his crackpot ideas reached their zenith, Britain's economy collapsed and the country was a failed, 3rd world state. He clearly learned nothing from the 70s.
If you are concerned about “the happiness of our children” then stop terrorising them with the toxic, techno-totalitarian, terrifying, twaddle of the apocalyptic doomsday cult of Climate Catastrophe.
Fantastic speech, which highlights just how far the political discourse has been sliding into empty, far right nonsense. If you managed to implement even a fraction of this it would still be more than the ambitions of this government (and the last).
@@tancreddehauteville764 "wokeness" doesn't affect the economy, the corporate capture of power, the undemocratic influence of lobbyists. "When the public are apathetic and easily diverted , the wealthy can do as they please" Noam Chomsky
To be fair, Starmer does believe in the redistribution of wealth. But it's the redistribution of wealth from indivdual members of the parliamentary Conservative party, to individual members of the parliamentary Labour party.
He's trying to redistribute the wealth from poor families and pensioners so it trickles up into the hands of millionaires who can buy his wife pretty dresses. Did he ever mention his dad made a massive tool once?
His own pension scheme has no limit on what can be paid into it without tax. Meanwhile he is actively destroying everyone else's pension. He even has a special law for his own pension scheme - quite literally one rule for him and another rule for everyone else.
Ever since Thatcher posited that a country's finances should be run like a household's, we have this constant 'balance the books' mantra, the latest was last week from the Labour chair, saying 'I can remember my mum at the end of every month getting her credit card bill and having to go through her bank account really, really carefully matching everything up, making sure there was enough left at the end.' What Richard needs to do, again, is explain the difference. Until the general public understands this difference 'common-sense!' will be sited as to why we need cuts
Richard is a leftist, espousing the usual left-wing ideas that have been shown to fail over and over again. Ideas like "debt doesn't matter" and "inflation doesn't matter" are leftist fantasy. Britain is now paying out over £110 bn in debt interest , which is twice the defence budget. Debt and inflation will destroy the UK.
Wow Richard, there's no politician born in Engerland who would have the intelligence to give a speech like that! Maybe look at Scandinavia and you'd find one. Its so comprehensive and humane. It takes not only expertise but compassion and a generous spirit. A realisation that equality in a society brings enormous rewards as does the right attitude to incomers. Who could you find with this kind of vision? I would like to know. Since Thatcher the byword has been look after yourself first, second and last.
He wouldn't have to go as far as Scandinavia... Everything he said is part of the vision of an independent Scotland with a wellbeing economy at its heart. The barrier to our aspirations lies in Westminster's determination to hold on to its golden goose. What Richard Murphy describes is mostly what the Scottish electorate aspire to. Our values are the polar opposite to those of the English electorate... Tick tock Independence is coming perhaps sooner than you think🏴🥃🦄🦌🇪🇺
@@JupiterThundernot at all. A major overhaul is desperately needed and as an economist professor he's right about the choices he stated. Where did you get your economics degree because when I studied economics at university he's right about the flow of money. Austerity will never create wealth
It's horrifying to look at the vacuum at the heart of this new government. We expect the Tories not to have any governing purpose, but we voted for change. Starmer and co trot out a load of incoherent same old same old rubbish that leaves us bewildered. Anything remotely like Richard's pitch would be way beyond the intellect of today's uniparty politicians.
@@ohboyz222 Vision and the Starmer Party definitely don't belong in the same sentence. They will destroy the Labour Party and open the gate for even scarier things. We desperately need thinkers in the world of political discourse today.
I will share this model answer to the Government and Politics essay question, 'You are the Prime Minister of Britain. Write a speech for your party's conference including 5 mission statements, giving reasons why you chose them.' Present your speech to an audience... This is a wonderful speech, the kind of speech ordinary people yearn for! 😢 Top marks, Richard. I wish Keir Starmer could hear it and learn from it. I wish he had made it. But then, it would mean they would have to prioritise the needs of the majority of people above their rich donors: we can't have Labour govt ministers being deprived of the money and goods they get from them, otherwise Starmer won't be able afford to look smart in Parliament on his meagre £167,000 a year plus perks and expenses income and £8 million wealth.😉
As AI replaces people more and more, a basic universal income is going to be needed. Now would be the time. Those who earn more would simply be taxed at a higher rate on the amount they earn up to a certain level, just introduce different bands. You won't have to tax the rich, putatively just fairly
The Labour Party once stood for the principles underpinning this. Alas, no longer. That ship has sailed and replacement is needed. Maybe we can aim for this when we get independence in Scotland.
This is good stuff. Not so much radical as rebalancing an out of balance system. Unfortunately Starmer and his mob won’t touch any of it with a barge pole.
A great speech outlining a transformative manifesto. Growth would be an automatic by-product. The danger is in the pushback from Londongrad and the financial markets, currently pulling the strings. The good fight would be hard, but worthwhile for the benefit of society and the survival of the planet. The neoliberal establishment would resist because of pure greed. If Starmer even made a start on this, I would see a ray of hope.
I do believe this would’ve been the speech Jeremy Corbyn roughly would’ve made the leader of this country sorely needed. Instead mediocre leader we have now.
Jeremy would never have gotten elected so would never have had the chance to deliver this speech. Sorry but this country isn’t ready for a lurch to the left like that.
@@jameswlong Jeremy Corbyn would’ve been elected. If it wasn’t for the smear campaign please look back Jeremy Corbyn would’ve been elected. It was the insiders in the Labour Party and mainstream media that destroyed Jeremy Corbyn’s credibility. We have been denied the leader of this country that we need. That is my opinion and your opinion I believe is wrong, but it’s your opinion and you are entitled to it.
@@jameswlong You are right regarding England especially. Not so much in Scotland as people are less inclined to be impressed by public schoolboys, the landed gentry or royalty etc. All the best.
I disagree. On the basis of the trends in the Popular Vote - which partirs individual voters actually voted for - since 1945, the country has always been more left wing than First Past The Post allows in seats in Parliament. That's the problem. A rigged system that negates one's vote is arguably democratic in name only. It arguably smug that the country that gave PR to West Germany after World War II to prevent another rise of Nazism, never thought to give that to its own population. Yes, British lawyers drafted West Germany's constitution. Yet that same country's leaders ignored the warnings of Lord Hailsham only a generation later about the emergence of an elected dictatorship which was intent on hoarding power to itself. Really smug, and we are suffering the consequences of that. So no real reform can take place without constitutional reform, beginning with PR and evolving more power away from Westminster to the Regions. England needs devolution, and local authorities needed to act not as Aunt Sallys, with decreasing power to respond to their local problems, but as real local governments with the power to deal with their problems. That with economic reform, will provide not only more responsive government, but a more responsive and growing economy that doesn't ignore market failures, but actively works to avoid them.
If you have a plan to guarantee "survival" and "sustainability", you deserve to be elected PM at least, if not President of a world government, if only that existed. Your arguments are short, succinct, and correct.
Beautiful and inspiring Richard…much wisdom and many gems. My question is : Is being locked in to societal failure inevitable? Let’s all try and do whatever we can to mitigate against that possibility.
Starting with the aim of allowing everyone to lead happy and fulfilled lives instead of allowing rich people to get richer and you inevitably end up with more reasonable, rational and humane policies. Sadly it only goes to show how far our politics has fallen.
I wish this was what he said in his speech. It’s very fair for rich and poor, it could effectively address our dwindling country and it would regain a hold of the reins and finally control its direction.
🏆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙇🏻♀️ 🍻 @RichardJMurphy 🏴✊🏻🏴 It's the very reason I want Scotland to be a currency issuing independent country - When success is achieved the rUK will see & do the same
It's ironic that everyone will be talking about your great speech Richard and not Keir Starmer's, its only justice. If only we lived in the democracy your great imagination and astute brain has imagined for us. We must not lose hope.
I truly despise Starmer, Reeves and Streeting, and many of their cronies in and out of the party: The antithesis of what a Labour politician and supporter should be.
I wish this was the speech he gave. Listening to this has made me feel that change is possible, and highlights how abysmal and static Starmer's policies are in comparison.
The government, any government, are just the dog being wagged by the tail that is "the super-rich, and powerful"! * This needs to change * I would whole-heartedly back your plan/speech. 👏
Well, certainly meets the ‘Change’ moniker of the Labour conference backdrop. Didn’t agree with all items but would like to see the Govt try some of these policies. The noise that the media and possibly the financial institutions would generate would be deafening. Good speech though… and no mention of meat based products😀
Wow! Starmer will never be able to do this. He doesn't care to understand governance of a country, neither does his cabinet. The skills, ideals and aptitude of governing was lost during the Thatcher years. 😢
Great speech and much to like! Survival is definitely at the top with less than 5 years to bend emissions down before tipping points become self enforcing. A cost of previous inaction is the need to future proof our rivers and catchment areas against the excessive rainfall over short periods. For our Electricity to be carbon free we must consider massive off of Solar Panels to households and businesses whilst speeding up the deployment of onshore wind! This will reduce bills, give us true energy independence and lay the foundation for the electrification of the rest of the economy!
This is the difference between someone beholden to donors and lobbyists and someone who looks at the problem from the standpoint of what's good for the people and the nation.
I am more and more convinced that criticism, well made arguments, and speech will not change anything. it seems like only money or directly try to get their place might change something.
Kier has to wait for the likes of BlackRock, the Banks, Hedge funds etc etc to tell him what they want him to do first. Then he can tell us what he is allowed to do
The first issue to overcome is to prevent UK democracy and weak politicians from being corrupted but this requires the leadership of an honest politician, someone a bit like May or Major perhaps (even though they batted for the wrong side). Stammer is unfortunately corrupted and evidently easily bought so we are stuck.
The slightly cynical, but realistic truth is politicians will look after whoever they depend on to be reelected If that's the press (and those who fund the press), then that is who a politician will prioritise. We need politicians who rely mainly on grassroots support, as then even the most cynically mercenary among them will look after the grassroots, as the politician needs their support
Labour leadership has made clear it will not take a lead on replacing FPTP and that it's up to we the people to organise ourselves, identify the PR system we need and drive that change. It is the only way because if you let Westminster lead on it, you will get nominal reform only, a system that allows the two main party machines to go on operating in the two-party way they know and love.
38:28 This sounds like a great proposal, and certainly worthy of consideration. I hope there is a way to share it with the government somehow. This could be perhaps through the civil service if they have an inbox of some kind, or failing that a suitable thinktank which is known to advise the labour party and/or the government of the day.
I personally agree with a lot of what Richard thinks and says and I enjoy his videos immensely. However I take a totally different view regarding climat change but will still watch his channel.
"Instead, neoliberalism has given us a market-power economy, driven not by competition but by anti-competitive behaviour. The recipe for success in this world is not to make a better product that inspires demand, but to persuade investors that you will be able to form a monopoly in which demand is irrelevant. Companies such as Amazon and Uber can go for a decade without making a profit, so long as they “scale” to the point where their market power is unopposed."
I hope you sent a copy to Starmer
Starmer needs thousands of copies of this 'real' conference speech sent to him.
Bravo, Richard. None of our politicians seems to want the simplest goal of government: that everyone should live a secure, happy life free from the fear of poverty, disease and homelessness. We cannot continue to neglect the happiness of our children growing up with insecurity and poverty stalking their lives.
He's old enough to have lived through the 70s, when his crackpot ideas reached their zenith, Britain's economy collapsed and the country was a failed, 3rd world state. He clearly learned nothing from the 70s.
If you are concerned about “the happiness of our children” then stop terrorising them with the toxic, techno-totalitarian, terrifying, twaddle of the apocalyptic doomsday cult of Climate Catastrophe.
Fantastic speech, which highlights just how far the political discourse has been sliding into empty, far right nonsense. If you managed to implement even a fraction of this it would still be more than the ambitions of this government (and the last).
Ambition, from this labour party? You're taking the piss, mate. 😏
@@tancreddehauteville764 "wokeness" doesn't affect the economy, the corporate capture of power, the undemocratic influence of lobbyists.
"When the public are apathetic and easily diverted , the wealthy can do as they please"
Noam Chomsky
Faaaaar right? 😂
Stop licking his crack…
To be fair, Starmer does believe in the redistribution of wealth. But it's the redistribution of wealth from indivdual members of the parliamentary Conservative party, to individual members of the parliamentary Labour party.
😂😂😂👍 Labour are much happier now they're in govt: the trough they've got their snouts in is much bigger than when they were in Opposition😂
Yes, it's Starmer's Labour; that now has its place, at the dodgy state-contract and freebie-trough.
He's trying to redistribute the wealth from poor families and pensioners so it trickles up into the hands of millionaires who can buy his wife pretty dresses. Did he ever mention his dad made a massive tool once?
Grow up!
@@johnwright9372 explain
Isn't the reason he wanted to be PM perfectly clear: he wanted more power and wealth for himself?
His own pension scheme has no limit on what can be paid into it without tax. Meanwhile he is actively destroying everyone else's pension. He even has a special law for his own pension scheme - quite literally one rule for him and another rule for everyone else.
@@JupiterThunder . He hasn't touched anyone else's pensions at all..
Now this kind of speech I can get behind. Thanks for mentioning clean air
We already have clean air.
Ever since Thatcher posited that a country's finances should be run like a household's, we have this constant 'balance the books' mantra, the latest was last week from the Labour chair, saying 'I can remember my mum at the end of every month getting her credit card bill and having to go through her bank account really, really carefully matching everything up, making sure there was enough left at the end.' What Richard needs to do, again, is explain the difference. Until the general public understands this difference 'common-sense!' will be sited as to why we need cuts
@@fylbike the creation of money by banks and how the system works completely different to household budgets needs to be taught in schools
Richard is a leftist, espousing the usual left-wing ideas that have been shown to fail over and over again. Ideas like "debt doesn't matter" and "inflation doesn't matter" are leftist fantasy. Britain is now paying out over £110 bn in debt interest , which is twice the defence budget. Debt and inflation will destroy the UK.
Wow Richard, there's no politician born in Engerland who would have the intelligence to give a speech like that! Maybe look at Scandinavia and you'd find one. Its so comprehensive and humane. It takes not only expertise but compassion and a generous spirit. A realisation that equality in a society brings enormous rewards as does the right attitude to incomers. Who could you find with this kind of vision? I would like to know. Since Thatcher the byword has been look after yourself first, second and last.
Malmo.
He wouldn't have to go as far as Scandinavia... Everything he said is part of the vision of an independent Scotland with a wellbeing economy at its heart. The barrier to our aspirations lies in Westminster's determination to hold on to its golden goose. What Richard Murphy describes is mostly what the Scottish electorate aspire to. Our values are the polar opposite to those of the English electorate... Tick tock Independence is coming perhaps sooner than you think🏴🥃🦄🦌🇪🇺
Richard's ideas would destroy pensions and savings. He's a far-left extremist. No doubt he would exempt his own inflation-proof DB university pension.
@@JupiterThundernot at all. A major overhaul is desperately needed and as an economist professor he's right about the choices he stated. Where did you get your economics degree because when I studied economics at university he's right about the flow of money. Austerity will never create wealth
@@JupiterThunder how would it destroy pensions and savings?
Or are you just saying something without any evidence whatsoever?
Bravo, this is more like it than the robotic bilge that we hear from technocrats like Sir Keir Starmer!
It's horrifying to look at the vacuum at the heart of this new government. We expect the Tories not to have any governing purpose, but we voted for change. Starmer and co trot out a load of incoherent same old same old rubbish that leaves us bewildered. Anything remotely like Richard's pitch would be way beyond the intellect of today's uniparty politicians.
@@ohboyz222
Vision and the Starmer Party definitely don't belong in the same sentence. They will destroy the Labour Party and open the gate for even scarier things.
We desperately need thinkers in the world of political discourse today.
Thank you, Richard
Congratulations and thank you Richard for your clear, coherent and cogent speech and for all its recommendations. Moving.
Exactly what's needed but unfortunately not what we will get☹️
Bravo.
Excellent
I will share this model answer to the Government and Politics essay question, 'You are the Prime Minister of Britain. Write a speech for your party's conference including 5 mission statements, giving reasons why you chose them.' Present your speech to an audience... This is a wonderful speech, the kind of speech ordinary people yearn for! 😢 Top marks, Richard. I wish Keir Starmer could hear it and learn from it. I wish he had made it. But then, it would mean they would have to prioritise the needs of the majority of people above their rich donors: we can't have Labour govt ministers being deprived of the money and goods they get from them, otherwise Starmer won't be able afford to look smart in Parliament on his meagre £167,000 a year plus perks and expenses income and £8 million wealth.😉
Bravo. A standing ovation for this.
Fabulous. Why can't we have politicians who understand this?
Government of the people for the people. It was done by Atlee with a much worse backdrop. Good governance for the many is truely the only way forward.
6 hour standing ovation 👏
As AI replaces people more and more, a basic universal income is going to be needed. Now would be the time. Those who earn more would simply be taxed at a higher rate on the amount they earn up to a certain level, just introduce different bands. You won't have to tax the rich, putatively just fairly
We certainly don't need Westminster to provide clean water for us in Scotland. In fact the further they are from our water the better.
❤ keep up the good work ❤
Absolutely marvellous Richard, if only it could be put into practice.
I would like this spech spoken in Parliament SOON 😊👍
Thanks and 🎩 off and wish you great weekend ✌️
Well said 👏 👌
The Labour Party once stood for the principles underpinning this. Alas, no longer. That ship has sailed and replacement is needed. Maybe we can aim for this when we get independence in Scotland.
🏴✊🏻🏴
It's the very reason I want Scotland to be independent - When success is achieved the rUK will see & do the same
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 standing ovation 👏👏👏👏 now to get you in no.10.
Wonderful Richard!
Right on Richard! I wish you were prime minister if not of Britain but of Canada. We need your kind of thinking!
This is good stuff. Not so much radical as rebalancing an out of balance system. Unfortunately Starmer and his mob won’t touch any of it with a barge pole.
A great speech outlining a transformative manifesto. Growth would be an automatic by-product. The danger is in the pushback from Londongrad and the financial markets, currently pulling the strings. The good fight would be hard, but worthwhile for the benefit of society and the survival of the planet. The neoliberal establishment would resist because of pure greed. If Starmer even made a start on this, I would see a ray of hope.
Richard Murphy for Prime Minister AND Chancellor of Britain!😉😂
One word - bold.
I wish you were PM
Or Chancellor of the Exchequer!
I do believe this would’ve been the speech Jeremy Corbyn roughly would’ve made the leader of this country sorely needed. Instead mediocre leader we have now.
Jeremy would never have gotten elected so would never have had the chance to deliver this speech. Sorry but this country isn’t ready for a lurch to the left like that.
@@jameswlong Jeremy Corbyn would’ve been elected. If it wasn’t for the smear campaign please look back Jeremy Corbyn would’ve been elected. It was the insiders in the Labour Party and mainstream media that destroyed Jeremy Corbyn’s credibility. We have been denied the leader of this country that we need. That is my opinion and your opinion I believe is wrong, but it’s your opinion and you are entitled to it.
@@jameswlong You are right regarding England especially. Not so much in Scotland as people are less inclined to be impressed by public schoolboys, the landed gentry or royalty etc. All the best.
Most of Richard's spech was already used by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald when they were in opposition.
I disagree. On the basis of the trends in the Popular Vote - which partirs individual voters actually voted for - since 1945, the country has always been more left wing than First Past The Post allows in seats in Parliament. That's the problem. A rigged system that negates one's vote is arguably democratic in name only. It arguably smug that the country that gave PR to West Germany after World War II to prevent another rise of Nazism, never thought to give that to its own population. Yes, British lawyers drafted West Germany's constitution. Yet that same country's leaders ignored the warnings of Lord Hailsham only a generation later about the emergence of an elected dictatorship which was intent on hoarding power to itself. Really smug, and we are suffering the consequences of that. So no real reform can take place without constitutional reform, beginning with PR and evolving more power away from Westminster to the Regions. England needs devolution, and local authorities needed to act not as Aunt Sallys, with decreasing power to respond to their local problems, but as real local governments with the power to deal with their problems. That with economic reform, will provide not only more responsive government, but a more responsive and growing economy that doesn't ignore market failures, but actively works to avoid them.
If you were running for office I’d vote for you!
Loved all of this great summary of what you have to say on the really necessary programs, our governments should pursue. 😎🙏🇩🇪
If you have a plan to guarantee "survival" and "sustainability", you deserve to be elected PM at least, if not President of a world government, if only that existed. Your arguments are short, succinct, and correct.
You should be prime minister! You have more intelligence than all the current parties combined…
You missed an 'S' word: sausages !
Richard for PM!!
Move out Starmer Richard has a plan we all want
Very good speech. I'd vote for you! (Maybe drop the "dis-ease" line though!) 💚
@@fburton8 "Yes, that was an academic's flourish too far." I know it's a trivial point, but he really should correct that "Sufficincy" howler.
Richard For Leader!
Beautiful and inspiring Richard…much wisdom and many gems. My question is : Is being locked in to societal failure inevitable? Let’s all try and do whatever we can to mitigate against that possibility.
Huzzah
Until FPTP goes we are stuck with pseudo democracy.
This is a Labour party that would have been worthy of my vote
I would vote for you to become prime minister, if I was not German 😉👍🏻🇩🇪
Cor. Well, I'd vote for you.
Starting with the aim of allowing everyone to lead happy and fulfilled lives instead of allowing rich people to get richer and you inevitably end up with more reasonable, rational and humane policies. Sadly it only goes to show how far our politics has fallen.
@@lnfopublishingsecrets1887 Always puzzling when ordinary people defend the wealthy.
Yes. The difference is that your speech is guided by Labour values. That does make a difference!
I wish this was what he said in his speech. It’s very fair for rich and poor, it could effectively address our dwindling country and it would regain a hold of the reins and finally control its direction.
Brilliant - if only
Richard for PM
🏆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙇🏻♀️
🍻 @RichardJMurphy
🏴✊🏻🏴
It's the very reason I want Scotland to be a currency issuing independent country - When success is achieved the rUK will see & do the same
It's ironic that everyone will be talking about your great speech Richard and not Keir Starmer's, its only justice. If only we lived in the democracy your great imagination and astute brain has imagined for us. We must not lose hope.
Thank you Richard. You must be disappointed at some of the puerile, ad hominem comments here.
I truly despise Starmer, Reeves and Streeting, and many of their cronies in and out of the party: The antithesis of what a Labour politician and supporter should be.
Right on the spot. You always tell us, what I've thought for 40 years. Finally I found someone, who doesn't tell me the usual sh*t.
Don't assume that Starmer would change even if this manifesto was inserted where the sun doesn't shine.
I suggest we vote ❎for Richard as next PM.
Brrr.....been another cold damp summer, think i might write to my MP, can UK cant do more to combat global warming?
Scotland already has complete control of our water (2002) and therefore is considered a statutory corporation.
@@catherineclark8589 Only domestic water though……
I wish this was the speech he gave. Listening to this has made me feel that change is possible, and highlights how abysmal and static Starmer's policies are in comparison.
It really does come down to good governance.
MMT doesn’t kill people!
Politicians do!!
sincerely wish you were Prime Minister of any party!
You have my vote!
GDP is a yardstick; by which, no measurement can be made!!
The government, any government, are just the dog being wagged by the tail that is "the super-rich, and powerful"!
* This needs to change *
I would whole-heartedly back your plan/speech. 👏
Well, certainly meets the ‘Change’ moniker of the Labour conference backdrop. Didn’t agree with all items but would like to see the Govt try some of these policies. The noise that the media and possibly the financial institutions would generate would be deafening. Good speech though… and no mention of meat based products😀
Wow! Starmer will never be able to do this. He doesn't care to understand governance of a country, neither does his cabinet. The skills, ideals and aptitude of governing was lost during the Thatcher years. 😢
I don’t believe Blair had a clue either . Both have got in on the back of people fed up with Tories
Brilliant out of the neo-liberal-box thinking!
Excellent. But would 'the markets' make it impossible to implement these policies. They seem to have control?
Great speech and much to like! Survival is definitely at the top with less than 5 years to bend emissions down before tipping points become self enforcing. A cost of previous inaction is the need to future proof our rivers and catchment areas against the excessive rainfall over short periods. For our Electricity to be carbon free we must consider massive off of Solar Panels to households and businesses whilst speeding up the deployment of onshore wind! This will reduce bills, give us true energy independence and lay the foundation for the electrification of the rest of the economy!
This is the difference between someone beholden to donors and lobbyists and someone who looks at the problem from the standpoint of what's good for the people and the nation.
Starmer is a unionist so will never permit a independence referendum for Scotland, not while he is the PM.
Promises are kept or broken, not failed
Why do politicians show such low levels of intellect?!
It's kinda sickening to hear what we could have if we had a leader who actually cares for the working class
All we need is support from the Press barons and those who feed the media generally and we’ll be well away. Unfortunately….
I am more and more convinced that criticism, well made arguments, and speech will not change anything. it seems like only money or directly try to get their place might change something.
Kier has to wait for the likes of BlackRock, the Banks, Hedge funds etc etc to tell him what they want him to do first. Then he can tell us what he is allowed to do
The first issue to overcome is to prevent UK democracy and weak politicians from being corrupted but this requires the leadership of an honest politician, someone a bit like May or Major perhaps (even though they batted for the wrong side). Stammer is unfortunately corrupted and evidently easily bought so we are stuck.
The slightly cynical, but realistic truth is politicians will look after whoever they depend on to be reelected
If that's the press (and those who fund the press), then that is who a politician will prioritise. We need politicians who rely mainly on grassroots support, as then even the most cynically mercenary among them will look after the grassroots, as the politician needs their support
If we want to talk about surviving climate change, we need to stop having war as a core component of our national economy.
Finally "sound economics".
I love the music and films of the 70s but not the governments.
Oh dude, I missed the beginning bit…
I went about my business, this afternoon - thinking this is what Kier had said. Man!
Oh well.
Wow. This is quite a manifesto. Why is my brain telling it can't be done...override override override....
Common sense made GB best country in the world....once😢
Labour leadership has made clear it will not take a lead on replacing FPTP and that it's up to we the people to organise ourselves, identify the PR system we need and drive that change. It is the only way because if you let Westminster lead on it, you will get nominal reform only, a system that allows the two main party machines to go on operating in the two-party way they know and love.
Can't we just start a new party based on this manifesto
The policy outlined by Richard should now be published as the alternative Labour agenda of the left MPs who have had the whip. removed.
The alternative agenda should explain why the whip has been removed from certain MPs.
The left should rally round the alternative narrative and vision for change.
How can the left MPs apply pressure on the Labour Government without an alternative to narrative?
Murphy for PM! (and Jeremy Corbyn as Minister for International Development and Deputy PM, and George Galloway as Foreign Secretary)
I enjoyed this, but can already hear neo-liberal-supported goose-steppers calling you a tyrant!
it's simple when you know how :) i think you nailed it. don't forget the shirt and tie next time!
38:28 This sounds like a great proposal, and certainly worthy of consideration. I hope there is a way to share it with the government somehow. This could be perhaps through the civil service if they have an inbox of some kind, or failing that a suitable thinktank which is known to advise the labour party and/or the government of the day.
The speech Keir Starmer should have given = I resign!
A speech for the benefit of us all but painful to hear because it highlights just how far and out of reach those values are.
I personally agree with a lot of what Richard thinks and says and I enjoy his videos immensely. However I take a totally different view regarding climat change but will still watch his channel.
"Instead, neoliberalism has given us a market-power economy, driven not by competition but by anti-competitive behaviour. The recipe for success in this world is not to make a better product that inspires demand, but to persuade investors that you will be able to form a monopoly in which demand is irrelevant. Companies such as Amazon and Uber can go for a decade without making a profit, so long as they “scale” to the point where their market power is unopposed."