Michael Portillo | Cambridge Union

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  • @mc-tv7uu
    @mc-tv7uu ปีที่แล้ว +5

    very interresting and he would be a valued member of the British parliamentary system again. Britain needs people with such qualities

  • @christinelivesey9077
    @christinelivesey9077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    In the 80/90s I couldn’t bear to listen to this guy but now I admire and indeed agree with so much of his views.

    • @Steve-gc5nt
      @Steve-gc5nt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yea, most people get more right leaning as they get older and wiser.

    • @rodjones117
      @rodjones117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He's become a better and more likeable person since he left politics imho.

    • @PhilBaird1
      @PhilBaird1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Michael has matured into a person well worth listening to and he just gets better with age. I couldn't stand him in the '80s but now I'm a real fan of everything he does and says. I think we've both changed for the better.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PhilBaird1 Because you matured as he did.

    • @maria-agneswarenits1649
      @maria-agneswarenits1649 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rodjones117 0

  • @Stand663
    @Stand663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I honestly like listening to this man. I recently came across him on GB News where his calm rational explanation on current affairs was not only incisive but it was educational. People need to just stop and listen. It’s a good thing to hear a different viewpoint.

  • @PhilBaird1
    @PhilBaird1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Really enjoyed that. Thanks Michael and Cambridge Union.

  • @robert3987
    @robert3987 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A wonderful gentleman.

  • @offaofmercia3329
    @offaofmercia3329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Could listen to choo choo all evening. Still think This Week was a winner of a show too. Long may he train.

  • @adrianhough5059
    @adrianhough5059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    What a thoughtful and interesting interview…..thank you for sharing on TH-cam

  • @michaeld.5699
    @michaeld.5699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is a great program very informative for people who travel 👏

  • @MatthijsRColenbrander
    @MatthijsRColenbrander 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Possibly the best I like about Portillo is his highly colourful wardrobe ... bordering on the "daring" just as I like it too ... 🤩

  • @alanpreston292
    @alanpreston292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Eaxcellent! Very enlightening and thought provoking.

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I met Michael last year at a book signing, before he went on stage to tell his life story, I asked him if he'd ever consider going into Politics again, and he loudly exclaimed NO, NEVER !

  • @jodalinkus5538
    @jodalinkus5538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Years of politics and involvement in public life has allowed M. Portillo to gestate an impressive osmosis. To expound the state of current affairs with a remarkable historicity.

  • @richardcoleman3425
    @richardcoleman3425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! Michael Portillo had a poster of Harold Wilson on his bedroom wall, when he was a kid!!
    I had Galen from the Planet of the Apes TV show...
    (wish I'd had a poster of Keir Bradwell though...)

  • @Dude0000
    @Dude0000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow, what he said about the MP’s needing Boris is amazing. He hates the guy…or used to.

  • @j.wwilson4866
    @j.wwilson4866 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Michael is my second uncle he’s a very wise and generous man.
    Also a relation to Paul o Grady so it’s a sad time for my family at this moment.

  • @philiprice6961
    @philiprice6961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a great dresser. Just exudes confidence!

  • @spennie3607
    @spennie3607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hated the Tories during the 80's (soldiers dressed up as police to beat the shit out of miners - a cousin in the Royal Scots included) and when he lost his seat to Twigg I laughed like many. Years later he turned up on a C4 programme where MP's lived with a family on benefits for a week. Turned out he seemed to have a heart. I remember he hit it off with a little girl (around 6 or 7) helping her with her homework. I often wondered if it was all just for the camera, but years later on one of his train docs he had arranged to meet her as she was studying at Liverpool Uni. He had kept in touch. He is a decent guy and a good listen.

  • @janenoble6889
    @janenoble6889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Very enjoyable listening to MP. I will have to vote for Boris again as his is the only party that knows what a woman is.

  • @khanduraj
    @khanduraj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I congratulate the Cambridge Union on getting to interview Michael Portillo. This is in contrast to the Oxford Union decision to invite Christopher Steele. Indeed a poor advertisement for a disreputable institution. I had the opportunity to serve in the Conservative Party's 2001 general election campaign launch by Michael Portillo. I advised him to fight the election on the single issue of saving the pound. Portillo did indeed do that. There was probably no saving the Conservative Party from defeat in the election. The stand saved the country which indeed made it possible for the UK to extract itself from the EU. Portillo was more significant to British politics than he even realises. The question of power is relative to the concern of the politician in question. It is often sufficient for insignificant politicians to achieve the pinacle of office with little interest in any program of government. They would enjoy the trappings of office as power. A politician with definite objects of government would be aware of many limitations on his capacity to perform. A great leader is one who despite such limitations achieves great objectives despite difficulties and challenges. That person would have exercised power in the real sense of the word. Constitutionally, a British leader is hobbled by the limitations on the Prime Minister and of his office. Government and responsibility is devolved to the great offices and departments. We saw the Prime Minister hobbled when the country was poorly prepared for Covid by the mismanagement of the NHSS leadershp. Many of the challenges today facing the UK arise similarly. Wastage of public funds in the billions over which the Treasury has oversight. The Energy crises arises from lack of oversight and failure of policies. Ministers come and go. The departments they oversee do not always rise to the challenge when a Minister fail. The list is endless. It would be better for the country to have the legitimate power of a directly elected President, a role the monarchy once performed. The Hindus had the concept of an elected monarch, one who had proved himself with prowess and conquests. This is what the British monarch approximated to in history. As the Quuen Elizabeth era draws to a close, Prince Charles was not entirely wrong to want to be a more hands on monarch. As he has mellowed, he has stated that it is no longer his objectives. Prince Charles falls into the category of people defined by Plato as someone who has had to grow and undergo tests to establish his credentials as leader. If it seems that the country has a dearth of the leaders needed to take it through present day challenges, should the country be non-challent that it has allowed its one potential leader is forced or allowed to fall by the wayside? Plato's test has determined that one sort of leader he should not be: someone who panders to interests that are inimacle to the interests of the UK and the Commonwealth.

  • @johnnycomelately6341
    @johnnycomelately6341 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I do know of one boarding school where the students picked the bed up with student ensconced and placed on footy field, such was the depth of sleep

  • @stmatthewsisland5134
    @stmatthewsisland5134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In July 1935 Clem Attlee was challenged to a duel by Captain Finelli an Italian Fascist, he had taken exception to some disparaging remarks Attlee had made about Italy in the House of Commons in the course of a debate on the Abyssinian crisis.The Times reported ‘that Attlee, deputy leader of the Labour party at the time, declined the challenge as a barbarous and obsolette way of settling quarrels. He laid stress in his reply of the continued freedom of speech in England’ How times have changed…….

    • @stmatthewsisland5134
      @stmatthewsisland5134 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @PrestonSartorius As Michael Malice says 'conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit'

  • @grahamcooper6476
    @grahamcooper6476 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good. Very good !

  • @michaelpeacock6360
    @michaelpeacock6360 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A top bloke

  • @revbenf6870
    @revbenf6870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Ireland was not factored into the British consideration of Brexit". As someone with a NI background, having lived in England for over 40 years, I consider myself as British first, I did factor it in, along with concerns about the impact on the Union generally, especially Scotland, and other places like Gibraltar, and voted to remain. I was surrounded by friends who all voted to leave, who took an entirely English position.

  • @wormsnake1
    @wormsnake1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Could have been prime minister. Seems a fair minded chap, great stories and mellowed with age.x

  • @moneywithian2852
    @moneywithian2852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Portillo is very articulate

  • @duckbizniz663
    @duckbizniz663 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love hearing Michael Portillo speak. I think Michael is an intelligent man. I really enjoy watching his travel programs. I am disappointed that Michael blamed the EU for causing the financial crisis in Greece. It is unfair and false. The British government refused to adopt the Euro as their currency because the British government did not want to have the responsibility for helping out an EU member who had irresponsible monetary and fiscal policies. In the EU the big three, namely Germany, France, and Britain, would have to lead Europe and enforce responsible monetary and fiscal practices among EU member states. The big three are the big three because they are more developed and know how to govern a modern, open, and industrialized state. This would insure a stable single European market and a stable Europe. The British government did not want to share this responsibility with Germany and France, and opted out of the Euro. When the Hellenic government was spending more money than it was taking in Germany and France had to impose austerity measures on Greece. If Greece refuse to make the necessary changes then the EU would not bail Greece out of their financial troubles. Of course, the Hellenic people complained but if Greece wants free money from the other EU members then Greece must start running its finances responsibly. It was the EU who helped Greece. The EU did not cause the financial crisis in Greece. When the British refuse to adopt the Euro the UK showed they did not want to be a responsible guiding light in Europe. The UK wanted the benefits of the European single market but it did not any responsibility to guide the less developed countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Would have a made a terrific Prime Minister

    • @andrewcooney2387
      @andrewcooney2387 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes the UK would have left the EU much quicker under portillo,
      Scotland would have grown a pair and become an independent nation in the EU, the North would be back in the EU and Ireland doing even better than Ireland perhaps, and England would be a much smaller place with zero standing globally. And Wales.............. God only knows.

  • @jamesburke2094
    @jamesburke2094 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    also worth bearing in mind regarding the EU, that Portugal were denied the government which successfully won the election, due to their lack of favour chez the EU

  • @philippankhurst6680
    @philippankhurst6680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a loss to everything the ending of This Week has been...

  • @kingpartridge3373
    @kingpartridge3373 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    one clever cookie whatever you think of his politics..great listening

  • @Paul-dv4dr
    @Paul-dv4dr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The interviewer at the end! : D

  • @unlokia
    @unlokia ปีที่แล้ว

    All the intellect and brains in that place, and yet they appear clueless about how to setup a decent camera.

  • @johnmulvey5121
    @johnmulvey5121 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting the difference in speech between the older people (Portillo and one of the questioners ) and the younger . The former speak words individually, with varying intonation. The younger are more monotone, flatter and meaner with the words, less pleasant to listen to.

  • @pearl1606
    @pearl1606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If there is no border in Ireland then there is no Brexit. How can there be? Brexit is about Britian.

  • @jookingstudio5292
    @jookingstudio5292 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He's an expert on the letter b. He was one of John Major's "bastards"

  • @nikc888
    @nikc888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I thought he was very average when he was an MP, and he was really, but compared to the clown world of today he would have been a giant. So sad what became of Britain.

    • @russellmiles2861
      @russellmiles2861 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel Michael Portillo is a wonderful tour guide.

  • @Tridhos
    @Tridhos 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wonder what his opinion would now be about Boris having seen him in the top job and making a complete b***s up of it.

  • @johnnycomelately6341
    @johnnycomelately6341 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would it hurt to put in the year, normally it is an important part of the date, being cambridge and all.
    And if you do I will spell it with a capital C

  • @ravarga4631
    @ravarga4631 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For bad or good Boris has the ability and habit of winning elections .

  • @petergoose8164
    @petergoose8164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    His comments on free speech are apposite. He might have added truth speech. I watch his travelogues not only because of a shared fascination with trains but because he speaks truthfully about the harm done by colonialism.

    • @petergoose8164
      @petergoose8164 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JupiterThunder Very droll. Built to plunder a country which had done the Brits no ill.

    • @petergoose8164
      @petergoose8164 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JupiterThunder Colonialism was thinly disguised philanthropy? Of course you learned that at school so it must be right. In 1700 India was the worlds richest country. Confirming that is easy. By the time the Brits left they had taken $45 trillion and ruined the economy with superficial pursuits such as tea and opium growing.

    • @petergoose8164
      @petergoose8164 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JupiterThunder The points I made are easy to confirm using Wikipedia and many other sources. Your knowledge of world and India's economic history may be expanded.

  • @kevemu
    @kevemu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    he is interesting

  • @philippankhurst6680
    @philippankhurst6680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a loss to politics this man is/has been...

  • @sandracreighton9049
    @sandracreighton9049 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dear micheal , i was reading you could see no reason for beleiving in God the Lord , i was a christian from birth but married a atheist , after troubling years , i lay in bed looking towards the bedroom closed curtains and wondered if there was something there i couldnt see , i prayed to God a while ,and recieved a vision, in the middle of the day , i saw the Lord in outline in bright shining white /silver light , this is the word of the LORD(( I AM COMEING) ,THE WORD OF TRUTH )WAS WRITTEN ON MY FOREHEAD , by THE LORDS POWER, AND WHEN ST Paul writes HE IS WRITTING THE LORDS COMMAND,

  • @rjohn4143
    @rjohn4143 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Most interesting - the "This Week" incident MP refers to at the end can be seen here: th-cam.com/video/S5lbvNtea0c/w-d-xo.html

  • @chonnerone2964
    @chonnerone2964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love Portillo but it's a shame he doesn't care much for the Great Reset or mention the World Economic Forum. As a fellow Brexiteer, Mr Portillo ought to understand the WEF and their Great Reset agenda. The questioner might have wanted to point out that Biden, Trudeau, Jacinder etc. all parroting the WEF terms.

  • @frankbrennan1619
    @frankbrennan1619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Is there ever a time when Mr Michael Portillo is not worth listening to?

  • @johnthompson354
    @johnthompson354 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ditto

  • @JohnnyNorfolk
    @JohnnyNorfolk 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Johnson will be remembered for puting us all under house arrest.

  • @shalinitrivedi4166
    @shalinitrivedi4166 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like your sofa but it must be white colour

  • @gregalexander8189
    @gregalexander8189 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fact is stranger than fiction. On Talos Four the natives are allergic to violence. In reality the aliens died from the truth bug.

  • @rosenjohn7026
    @rosenjohn7026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What makes Portillo wear a blazer that’s not in sync with the colour of his trousers?

    • @craigdgriffiths6206
      @craigdgriffiths6206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s called personality, individuality and style.

    • @rosenjohn7026
      @rosenjohn7026 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@craigdgriffiths6206 while you maybe theoretically correct, there’s such a thing as being appropriately dressed especially when one is a public personality. Some aspects aren’t mutually exclusive.

    • @charleswade-smith7263
      @charleswade-smith7263 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@rosenjohn7026 ... skies of blue upon fields of gold... perhaps ?!

    • @brianaustin5467
      @brianaustin5467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The colours of the Ukranian flag. Rather apt considering the time of recording.

    • @freebornjohn2687
      @freebornjohn2687 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's probably colour blind.

  • @TT_1221
    @TT_1221 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He has done some very interesting documentaries. I'm very surprised he appears to be against the Northern Ireland Protocol, post Brexit. Given that the Belfast Agreement signed in '98 is an International Treaty and central to it is no tangible border in Ireland and given that Brexit is itself an International Treaty (The Withdrawal Agreement) then I don't understand how he could justify breaking an existing International Treaty in the process of implementing Brexit - another International Treaty. His reasoning that a traffic light system for the movement of goods neither respects the UK or EU border. And there's no question of the Irish Republic having to "absorb a million UK unionists who don't want to be a part of it" as Irish unity needs to have the support of a majority North and South. He is more than a little disingenuous. He wasn't questioned to explain these inconsistencies.

    • @benphilips9918
      @benphilips9918 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Read or listen to Lord Frost on the subject of the NIP. The scales will surely fall from your eyes when you understand the nature of the NIP. It is a treaty like no other, signed under duress and one that both sides have explicitly stated from the outset is temporary.

    • @TT_1221
      @TT_1221 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@benphilips9918 Johnson signed it under duress? You can't be serious. :) He understood it and sold it as an oven ready deal to get elected. He got elected so now in the world of grown ups international law holds him to account.

  • @sandracreighton9049
    @sandracreighton9049 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know there is a heaven and a hell ,I WOULD BE SO SAD TO SEE SOMEONE GO TO THAT HORRIBLE PLACE, THIS IS a CHANCE FOR ALL THAT READ ABOUT THE VISION THE LORD GAVE ME , TO SAY THE SINNERS PRAYER or any prayer FOR GODS HELP ,AND TURN ROUND QUICKLY AND COME TO CHRIST AS I BELEIVE THAT DAY IS NEAR WHEN CHRIST WILL COME FOR HIS CHILDREN , MAN CANNOT COME TO CHRIST BY REASONING , THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT MANS REASONING IS FALLEN , GODS WISDOM IS WHAT WE NEED AND SHOULD PRAY TO RECEIVE
    ,

  • @kevingrant7098
    @kevingrant7098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to enjoy watching Michael Portillo’s train journeys on BBC Two. He was on GB news the other day talking about Brexit he is a supporter he was talking absolute rubbish I will not be watching him on BBC Two train journeys again

    • @russellmiles2861
      @russellmiles2861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh the train show is great. I went to the Duro Valley because I saw it on his show. But he was a political prat. His own mob turfed him and he lost his own seat.
      He ought to have been a travel guide. He is good at that way.

    • @chonnerone2964
      @chonnerone2964 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you're admitting that you write a person off because they voted to leave the European Union. What a bigot! I would never write someone off because they voted Remain.

  • @smellslikethinice1107
    @smellslikethinice1107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just like Hollywood, a group of extremely privileged people congratulating themselves on a job well done. It would be laughable, if it wasn't so sad.

  • @mikewalsh6168
    @mikewalsh6168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good to see the rows of empty seats for this irelevance

    • @Dude0000
      @Dude0000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah, an incurious fascist, I see.

  • @yorkiebuck
    @yorkiebuck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes he speaks very well as always but does speak from a privileged position.
    1/ He and those who did not like the Covid lockdowns were not at the front line when
    the emergency wards were practically full. The lockdowns and the awful rules were essential
    in 2020 and early 2021 to contain and buy time for the medical advances to ensure that the 1%
    mortality rate was never met.
    2/ I regret that we left the EU but do accept that as an organisation it was flawed in trying to push through an integration when it should have been allowed to evolve. As a race we are going to have
    to learn how to do this, and quickly, as the distinctly unfunny unravelling of the planetary mechanisms occur, in order to survive.