Jonathan Pie: 'It's 50 Shades of Beige.' Meet Britain's New Prime Minister. | NYT Opinion
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- The final votes in Britain's parliamentary elections are still being counted, but one thing is crystal clear: After 14 years in power, the Conservative Party is out.
More than that: It’s been thoroughly punished by the British public, reduced to barely 120 seats, the party’s worst result in it’s history. Several prominent figures - including former Prime Minister Liz Truss - lost their seats.
While other European countries are experiencing a rise in right-wing populism, Britain has rallied behind the centrist and sensible Labour Party and its centrist and sensible leader, Keir Starmer, who becomes prime minister.
To understand this huge trend-bucking shift, we once again turn to the fictional newscaster Jonathan Pie, performed by the comedian Tom Walker. In the Opinion video above, he offers his balanced, professional - and definitely not celebratory - take on the closing of this chapter in British political history.
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"Strong language" warning for the American audience, followed by the cleanest Pie rant ever.
"when the system fails the people, the people support politicians who promise to burn the system to the ground" brilliant!
Unfortunately it’s true, though.
it makes a change from the politicians burning the country to the ground
That's why we keep an eye towards the US in 4 months.....
Of course they do. It’s called scorched earth. You’re better off starting again than trying to fix something that can’t be fixed.
@@kurt479The people are smarter than the politicians
From my dark little corner in Africa It is always a pleasure to hear your scathing synopsis of British politics. It makes us feel kind of normal.
Funnily enough he's not even really exaggerating
Did you Hear that America? The UK gets Just 6 WEEKS of Canvassing before the Election! Not 3 Bloody Years!🤣
This is the way 🇺🇸 🦅
Reminds me of that Charlie Watts quote about the Stones; "5 years work, 20 years hanging around"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@johnbaldock6353 and the vote was yesterday, and the Government changed today. None of this “let’s give any potential coup-plotters a couple of months to try and usurp democracy” bollocks.
And they announce and accept the results immediately, and the new government is formed just 3 days later on Monday, with Parliament beginning in 7 days.
Take note USA. It is doable. You don't have to wait 3 months while the loser tries to burn down the country.
Yep. Jonathon Pie is no longer a comedian. He's the best journalist currently in the UK. Not one single lie was told in this video.
Are you gunning for Ian Hislop?
He's definitely right but he's not an actual journalist, he'sa reporter. He get's all his information from actual journalists.
@larsg.2492 Hislop got caught in in the Corbyn antisemitism smears. We know who pays him
@@SirButtzhes a journalist, he does his own research and does not have someoen feeding him info
Nope, still a comedian - I would not go down the American path of confusing one with the other.
It is not pretty.
"Starmer should be aware, as should Joe Biden, that "just being the other guy" isn`t enough"
These words were prophetic.
For anyone across the pond who watches this....This is the most accurate assessment of the UK election result you will see anywhere.
No it isn't, you muppet
anyone who voted labour who is celebrating, know that it wont last longer than a head of lettuce
@@JOHNTHEWHISK that was Truss
@@JOHNTHEWHISK Rotten potato
Accuracy isn't really his forte he is a comedian. Try not to take your news from entertainment channels. It is like the Americans learning it from FOX news.
“Emperor Palpatine’s cleaner” 😂😂😂
Made me spit my coffee out 💀💀💀
😂😂😂
This one got me lol
Same, absolute cracker that one 🤣🤣
Lets hope Emperor Palpatine's Cleaner doesn't return.
Mate, you are Spot On. You absolutely nailed it. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
I will be sending a reply in three months when the Labor government shows that they are pure crap.
Well done NYT for putting Pie on your platform.
New York Times has sold out… Far right billionaires buying up USA major media electronic and print platforms to try to move America right… bring your Brits home
NYTimes should sign him up permanently.
- any American media company would make tons if they have him on.
- perhaps Comedy Central should sign him up as their UK's Jon Stewart.
Yeah I follow jonathan pie, I was like wait what how is this on The New York Times LOL
@@britishloveugandandance
Not his first appearance in an NYT Opinion video
- his character assassination of ex-PM, ex-MP Johnson was a delight.
well he is always critical of the right so why is it even surprising?
I don't want characters in the job. I want capable , honest people showing integrity.
Yes. A capable, hard working person who cares about the little people and I don’t give a toss if he hasn’t got charisma. And if Jonathan Pie is going to slag him off before he’s even started then I’ve gone right off JP.
Well let's be honest, Starmer isn't a character nor is he capable. I do think he's honest though. He's about as politically neutral as they come and whilst he's a step in the right direction, Labour as a party is too economically right leaning and honestly is started to head that way socially as well (Lib dems are starting to become the new left, they actually want to introduce STV to replace FPTP.)
Edit: Grammatical error
@@janepage3608 He's getting slagged off because he's got little in the way of plans and its concerning. Jonathan has a really good reminder for us and it's a wake up call. If Starmer doesn't do a good job and change the country for the better in the short 5 years he has to undo the conservative's mess, they - or worse yet Reform - are going to take over.
@@DefaultMale_
The problem is that Starmer *isn't* honest. He's broken every promise he's made since he became leader. Just put the words "starmer broken promises" into your search engine of choice. It's grim reading.
It's gonna be a massive shock to learn that neither the boring politicians nor the buffoons will be able to improve anything in this country. Yet every election people believe "things are gonna get better." Must be your first time around
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He's a comedian
@@PhiloyouknowAre you quite certain of that? When telling the truth sounds like comedy, and lying sounds like politics as usual, it might be time to elect a comic.
@@Theravadinbuto that's exactly what Ukraine did, and it worked for them, even in the face of Russian aggression.
@Theravadinbuto Ukraine did that
And look at them now
It's always amazing how austerity measures all over the world target the least wealthy and most hardworking people first.
It's also amazing how the 1% are treated, being given the biggest and most generous welfare handout in human history.
The wealthy are too wealthy to pay..
@@sweepingtime not amazing at all. That's the entire point of those measures. It's yet another way of transferring wealth to the top 1% and keep the rest of us in debt so we won't rebel.
"only" not "first"
wealthy have the government in their pockets, they won't go against their own interests..useless eaters on the other hand..
Labor's manifesto: We are going to try, really hard, to not make everything even worse.
It’s a good initial ambition, given what they were left to work with.
@@patrikfloding7985 They'll be a lot worse
except while privatising nhs and selling weapons and sending aid to the israeli gov. labour cant be trusted really
@@devilhunter1555 Just go away with that inane bulshit.
@@danielgoring1328 just look at the facts
As Lord David Cameron has been mentioned, let me give insight as to the sort of people we have just removed from the UK governing position…Mr Cameron and wife, had a severely physically-challenged son. They cared for him of course, but early on in his premiership, having backed NHS to the hilt, and citing his son, the poor kid passed away. I turned and said to my daughters: ‘Let’s see how long it takes now, before cuts are made to the NHS, particularly in the areas previously of importance to the Cameron family.’ How long did it take? Less than 6 months! It’s that see-through. The selfishness of this lot is unbearably obvious. Within months of the Cameron family not needing a particular specialism from the NHS, the de-funding started! We are well-rid, so well-said Jonathan Pie/Tom Walker. Take care all. Healthcare is not an optional extra, and everyone ought to be glad to contribute so an enormous blight like SARS-2 doesn’t come along and rob you of your wealth, that took 50 years to earn. Universal health care, protects your wealth, think about it that way.
Where's the defunding? NHS spending only increased less during tory governments than labour, but it always increased. with huge bumps in 2021 and 2022
You are not rid, they are all in the same club. Do keep up.
@@rutessian in line with inflation?
@@hareecionelson5875 Yes
"NHS spending plans and reality over the past 10 years" - look up this article.
Sunak made his money speculating against the economy as a Hedge Fund banker in 2008. He wasn't elected, but selected by the MPs.
@@jtaylor8606 Well, if you call upwards of £800 million pocket money, I don't see what you're complaining about.
A vote for the "Conservatives" was a vote for Labor.
True, at least we have a prime minister who was actually elected by the public again, instead of one who was elected by a small group of snooty old resentful degenerate baby boomers.
@@johnmurray1044 In fact, that dates back to the Crusades, when Richard I unwittingly made an enemy of an Austrian Duke. Travelling to and from the Holy Land was supposedly under Papal protection, which wasn't much use if you suddenly disappeared without trace into an Austrian dungeon. He was eventually located and a ransom paid, approximately the entire asset base of the UK, and from then on in the City was autonomous - until the turn of the Century, when it was paid off, until 2008 when the City held HMG ransom with the retail banking sector at risk.
@@jtaylor8606 and them making sure Infosys and it's subsidiaries got as many govt contracts as possible....
Incredible summary of the state of UK politics! Today has never felt so good yet so bleak.
I dont feel good at all. I dont like starmer. i dont trust him. and eventually monsters like farage will become PM. that is where we are heading. too many hateful people. compassion out the window. it's dire.
@@JOHNTHEWHISK
People like you are shilling for big corporations. People like you are also paid to to spread the smear words about alternative parties. It's hilarious seeing liberals on their iphones pushing for cheap labour and establishment control over working classes. Older voters still think Labour are for the working class. This will come to an end in 4 years.
@@JOHNTHEWHISK Farage isn't afraid to go against the establishment. Starmer is the definition of the establishment.
@@danielgoring1328 Farage IS the establishment 🙄 Christ the night
@@danielgoring1328 farage is the definition of restoring an older establishment that didn't work but is romanticized in retrospect anyway
I learned more about the British government in this video than I have in all of my years of living
I’m american
It's his opinion.. take it seriously, more fool you 😆
You learnt nothing. This is a commentary from a looney liberal progressive whose religion is woke insanity, and he probably thinks there's a hundred genders. Like the political elites, he's all for globalism, corporatism, war, mass illegal immigration, and abortion. The insanity of the political establishment is what Europe is rejecting, with Marine Le Pen in France, the AfD party in Germany, the Reform Party in the UK, and President Trump in the US. New York Times readers are as demented and senile as their leader Biden. It's time to restore traditional, conservative, and Christian values back to the UK and Europe.
You've learned one very biased point of view about the British government.
It’s a very metropolitan liberal elite view. Champagne socialist, if you will.
I want boring politicians - politicians who just get on with the job.
80% of the British people did not vote for labour. democracy does not exist.keir starmer is morally corrupt repulsive WEF owned cancer.
Unfortunately, it looks like Starmer is going to get on with the Tory's job. He'd better not, or we'll risk Farage, as Pie rightly says.
Their job is protecting the interests of capital above all else. Sometimes that means the odd concession to workers to calm them down, but it typically means screwing them. Starmer is little more than a more sensible manager of the decline of Britain than the Tories were. He will simply polish the same turd. The conduct and character of the Tories is awful, but their ideas are just as bad, and Starmer is not against those. The collapse may slow down a bit with him at the head, but it ain't stopping
Starmer and Rachel at Davos/...Lammy at Bilderberg..you reckon they will look after the pleb. Their actions will be based on divide and conquer and transferring more wealth from those at the bottom (with the bar rising) to those at the very pinnacle.
"The job " at present is screwing the bottom third or so who are just there to wipe your feet on in Tory minds , Starmer has promised to continue down that path ,,So be happy .If you are not in the bottom group .. The Roght always screws up when bottom third have no more to spare and they start sucking everything out of the next thirty percent , You in that group ? Look out ,
Tom Walker's a genius.
2:45 "Emperor Palpatine's Cleaner" - That line has no business being so accurate.
Censor-beeping a speech of Jonathan Pie should be punishable by law!
Exactly there is a warning of strong language at the beginning but then it’s bleeped wtf
This is what selling out sounds like.
Just hop over to his own channel, and enjoy the original sound ;-)
That's the American market for you.
@@bigpauliep6992 He isn't "selling out" you little edgelord. It's not his channel, so he has to play by their rules. If you get off on cussing, go to his channel.
I love Jonathan Pie, cracks me up! 🤣🤣🤣 Everything he says is hilarious and it's scarily true!!
Hi Tom.
Firstly, Boris is hardly right wing, let alone populist. He just jumped on the Brexit question and nothing else. Also, nothing wrong with populism. What, as opposed to elitism? Because career politicians are not what i would call a utopia
@@internethardcase 'He just jumped on the Brexit question and nothing else.'
...So he's a populist.
'nothing wrong with populism'
Except the average joe isn't equipped to deal with the complexities of statecraft and so doing nothing but appealing to what the average joe wants is a recipe for disaster. Leading means making difficult decisions to benefit the country despite the masses protesting because they don't understand it.
@@heresjonny666 then you don't believe in democracy, you believe in technocracy. And I think that's just another form of oppression. And look at the nations with career politicians at the helm. These neoliberal disasters are tearing the economic and social fabric of every western nation apart right now. Populism only emerges from elitist arrogance. When a problem that needs to be addressed gets ignored. A populist nationalist solution can only be a net benefit compared to the declining status quo
@@heresjonny666 so the "experts running the UK for decades despite the party has done a superb job so far? London is minority English. The very nation state itself is under threat, let alone statecraft
Let Pie rip! Who is honestly bothered about so-called "bad" language? It's LANGUAGE for god's sake!!
This is one of Pie's best - so true, so clever, so funny - made my evening - LOL
I thought I would be elated to finally get rid of the Tories. Instead, I just feel... nothing. Completely flat. Schadenfreude alone cannot sustain a man.
You may be, at heart, a Tory then
@stevenh6376 what an unintentionally scathing commentary on our broken system. No mate, I voted green.
@@paultapping9510yeah, but you're probably a Tory. Most people are.
@Malc180s I was a card carrying member of rhe labour party for years prior to corbyn being ousted. I left because they became too similar to the tories, but have fun imagining people to argue with I guess.
Same, I'm delighted they're gone but that's about it.
In '97 I was sat in front of the telly, celebrating like my team had scored a goal every time another seat fell.
I miss the enthusiasm (and the knees and eyesight and waistline) of my youth.
This time I waited for the exit poll, tweeted an insult at Reese-mogg and went to bed.
It feels like being handed a free concert ticket only to find out it's for Francis Rossi's solo acoustic show and there's no bar.
Liz Truss: Populism on smack 🤣🤣🤣
That explains that gormless vacant stare of hers eh?
She's now been released back into the wild.
@@adriandenton6637 What has the wild ever done to deserve that lol ?
@folkme3042 my mortgage is £160 per month more. I hope the mountain lions find her
@@lordvadertheleftie9703
£185 for me, best we can do is a Scottish Wildcat, or perhaps we could dress her as a seal and feed her to a passing Orca?
Brilliant stuff as always.
Britain at its best. Long live Count Binface!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
lmfao, Count Binface the greatest pm we never had
@Nova2Yung I can just imagine him at the dispatch box with the Dalek contender as his deputy PM next to him
@@kennybevan11 😂
@@Nova2Yung Is he the same as Lord Buckethead?
Liz Truss' only achivement was to serve under to two (2) royals...
Oh yes, she killed the Queen, didn't she.
@@flygrace Yes that's what Pie said in one of videos that she swooped in and killed the Queen 😂
@@WinstonSmith19847I loved that.
… that he said that!
As Paul Merton pointed out, if all Prime Ministers lasted as long as Liz Truss, the Queen would have seen 560 of them in her 70 year reign.
Thank you, Jonathan! I can always rely on a clear understanding of things from you
Liz didnt leave straight away because she couldnt find the door!
Boris only found a door to a fridge
she dove in to covertly assassinate the queen and then out at the earliest possibly criticism
outstanding move
@@stevenosimpson ohhh that gave me a good giggle
You should read up more on Liz. She was stitched up.
He's a national treasure
I just hope the next 5 years gives him so little fodder that he'll have to turn away from political comedy
Seriously we could use a break
Not gonna happen. Just from our experience in Germany I can already tell you what's going to happen: Labour is going to do generally the right thing, but far to little. And some things won't happen the best way possible. People will be displeased and the torries will shamelessly criticise labour for mishandling problems the torries either created or ignored. Satire won't be needed less, but be very painful. Because one side will be incompetent and the other will be maliciously incompetent.
@@thecashier930#Tories*
Lets hope next 5y satirists like him can go back to doing satire.
Last years they've been unable to do comedy-exaggeration-shows of real politics when all we had to do was turn on the news and watch real politicians go beyond what comedy-writers could imagine and actors could act.
Well, Reform have 4 seats in parliament… so there’s that.
In that sense bleak, bland, uninspired and without concept currently elected labour party seems to be on track AND may not be half bad.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 he actually thinks Labour will be better, they're the same but with better PR.
The Tories seemed to take a page out of the Republican playbook: cause as much damage to the country as possible before leaving office, then start blaming the slow recovery on the party that took over.
That's the plan, Stan.
They've left Labour with a very cleverly crafted poison pill. What happens over the next few years will be... interesting.
This is exactly what happens in Germany right now. We had 16 years of conservative government (with a lot of cuts in public spending, missed investment opportunities, neglecting infrastructure ...) and now all the problems are blamed on the current government which is in power for just 2 1/2 years. The sad truth is that most people don't have the ability to see through this ...
@@A3racada3ra And this is why the Nazi adjacent political parties are gaining power all over Europe. People have not waken up to the fact that it's not just the U.S. that is in trouble.
And then set up for something even worse, which will inevitably happen
He hasn’t lost it! The most incisive and hysterically funny political commentary anywhere! Where is our Jonathan Pie for the US or Canada?
Bill Maher?
@@dresmendsHell no! Jon Stewart more like.
John Oliver?
@@MiniM69Pie writes his own work, Oliver has a whole team of people write for him, and it's painful.
@@MiniM69Olivers English, he was a middling scruffy comedien how he got picked as an American late show host l can't even fathom.
You can see him in MOTW repeats if you can be bothered to search.
I couldn't l just came across him whilst watching repeats on good old TH-cam.
At this point I've watched more Jonathan Pie than myBritish friends and I won't apologize for it.
From PM to MP and then nothing.
Liz Truss is one of the people of our time.
underrated post
She'll be remembered as someone who tried to make a difference, an actual change for the better. The bank of England, Labour, the mainstream media and backstabbing Conservatives punished her for it. Listen to her interview on Lotus Eaters. That so many of the public believe the nonsense they read about her, just shows their absolute ignorance.
Funny but frighteningly accurate.
In what way?
I was in hospital all through lockdown and rarely watch the news so I find the summary of the last few years extremely informative and entertaining thank you very much
America, that’s how a transfer of power is done!
NO BS!🏴👍😀
Ps. Jonathan is one of our great exports!
Exactly. I can understand a 2+ month wait to change presidents in the 19th century due to the sheer size of the US, but not in the 21st century.
@@RolanTheBraveParliamentary systems like the UK have shadow ministers. That means that Labour had a PM shadow each minister and they knew what goes going on. It makes transferring power much easier and it's why they can do it within a day. In the US, the 2 months might be able to be cut down to 1 month, but because elections are in November that would put the transfer around the holidays which I think, most citizens want to have their holidays in peace and not with political news. In the US, you also have a much longer process because there are a lot more votes to count (the number of voters in the US is like 161million, in the UK is less than 25% of that) and certify, then electoral college has to meet and then Congress has to approve what the electoral college decided. This basically adds several weeks to the process.
@@connie473 Well it wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have the arcane electoral college process in the US and just simply made it a direct vote, save a good 2-3 weeks or so of weird bureaucracy and milling about (along with not making the vote state by state for a single country wide position)
@@connie473 it would be easy to speed up, at least a fair bit - votes counted, each state then declares results - no electoral college middle man needed - all the votes then totted up and hey presto we have a result. all non elected positions can be non-partisan like the UK civil service, so they're there on day one to advise the politicians. Also campaigning starts months and months before voting, so plenty of time to put a potential team together if the candidate wins.
@@MysteriousFigure I totally agree with you that the electoral college should got.
As a brit I lose sleep over the terror of possibly hearing the phrase: "Somehow, Emperor Palpatine's cleaner returned".
And now after 4 months of Labour, nothing has changed.
Thank you for bringing on our Jonathan, he's a national treasure
Mr Walker, thanks for yet another gem of comedy genius. This particular monologue should be aired on every TV in the UK. Once again, Genius.
The problem being that Starmer and his party are just more Tories who continue to inflict austerity on the poorest and most vulnerable. Going even further than Conservatives did, in removing winter fuel aid for OAPs whilst grabbing freebies for themselves from the wealthy. As for the NHS, well Starmer and Streeting both received donations from US healthcare, so don't expect that to improve.
Wish I could give this four thumbs up. This is the most fun ‘opinion’ piece I come across about UK’s politics. And I’m not even from there!
C’mon Canada, you can do better!
Isnt Canada turing right though?
The fella at the helm seems a peace of work
@@hannahdyson7129 yes, yes, as is everywhere else except, apparently, the UK. I think we’re in the cusp of the apocalypse.
@@hannahdyson7129 PP does seem to have some issues, but our current PM is no prize either, what with his "fancy-dress" tour of India, innumerable scandals embroiling the Liberals, and him personally, and his seeming lack of concern for ordinary Canadians. Add the fact that he has been around for too long, and is getting the blame -- rightly or wrongly -- for Canada's economic woes, and he will be probably be ejected sooner or later.
@@stevenpyne1994Yeah old olly boy ain't the answer
Was waiting for the Jonathan Pie OP-ED. This was literally uploaded as I was rewatching his videos. Great as always
Literally the same! Came here straight from his channel
3 months later and Pie's silence is deafening. Ha Ha 😅
Chatting to a nurse today, she's ecstatically looking forward to the big pay rise she's expecting from a Labour gov't who've been moaning for years that the NHS staff aren't being paid enough... I think she's going to be very disappointed!
I mean they spoke to the Unions on day one, whereas the Tories haven’t for a year. The unions literally fund the Labour Party.
You can have a go at them for plenty, but sorting union pay rises is not one of them.
It’s a bit odd your imaginary nurse didn’t mention this in your imaginary conversation with her.
@@wolfyoogames you can pretend I'm making it up if you want, if that makes you feel better about your world view, it bothers me not what you think.
@@wolfyoogames I notice the the British Medical Association are starting talks with the gov't too, and they've repeatedly said that they think a 35% pay rise is fair for their members. Let's see how that goes shall we?
@@ColinMcNultyRemember the firemen? How long until until the word "Scargillian" gets dragged out again?
Brilliant and all so true.
1:40 "rejection of right-wing populism"
That's not what the result say at all. The results just show people are sick of the tories and there's no enthusiasm for labour. Labour only won because people wanted the tories to lose, not because people actually want a Labour government.
🎯
If people wanted a right wing government, reform was an option.
Labour won because the British public have seen what unchecked far-right rule has done to our nation.
As vanilla as you can get..
Russel brand commented that all the contradictory remarks Starmer had made where he said yes to one question on policy and then No to the same question months down the line wasn’t a personal slur on him but more alarmingly the fact he clearly has no opinion or belief of his own.
Another WEF puppet was brands insightful opinion.
The Facts call you out. You're just repeating Sunak's claim that Starmer had no plan. Well he's been in power 3 days, and he and his cabinet are doing things, not just talking about doing things.
Brilliant analysis of the UK political system and situation. Funny and sad. How low has the country fallen.
@simulationkoyo That's because the same "owners" you have in the US are the same pulling the strings here.......World Syndicate Inc. your one stop solution to ruin the lives of ordinary people,on call 24/7 365.
We were always low . Look at Thatcher
@simulationkoyo
Not really, we've been doing this for longer than the US has existed.
@simulationkoyo I think it's a bit more in sync. All the way back, Thatcher led Regan by about a year. Brexit led Trump by just a little less. Things got out of sync on the party-in-power when Major was able to hold on in 1992, but Clinton got in in the US.
I think the "Starmer is boring" argument - one literally no one cares about-distracts from the fact he is essentially a tory in all but name with slightly different branding.
You couldn't be further from the truth... Starmer is a self confessed radical Trotsky-ite.. Just like Blair. The Fabian Society who co founded the Labour Party, still going strong today are what George Bernard Shaw called them.. 'Bolshevism became Fabianism, that became Communism.
Everything is permitted’: Israeli soldiers attack Palestinians indiscriminately
Oren Ziv, a journalist at +972 Magazine, interviewed six Israeli soldiers who described being authorised to open fire on Palestinians indiscriminately.
Soldiers from six different units who were in Gaza at different times, said they executed Palestinians who strayed into “no-go zones”, and that there were “no limits” to what and whom they can shoot.
“What we learned is the open-fire regulation was not very strict, they didn’t even get proper orders from their commanders,” Ziv told Al Jazeera.
“They could fire almost at everything”, including schools, hospitals, as well as public institutions. Some required pre-approvals which were always granted, Ziv said.
Some testified they were shooting “out of being bored, or just for fun”, he said.
“The general feeling the soldier described is, that there was a big sense after the October 7 attack of revenge … they told us everything is permitted.”
He’s a globalist.
That is really interesting, because the right-wing discussion around the election is that the tories are lefties in all but name, which is why Reform could gobble up so many of their voters.
Perhaps we can somewhat agree on the state of things, if not policy.
Giving Farago the title of an unlicensed butcher is accurate 🤣
Or admiral akbar in human form...
@@Runclimblift 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tan described him as the turd that won't flush. Spot on
He's the kind of guy who has a wrist collection.
Uniquely bad smell 😂😂😂
That's an insult to potatoes, they give us crisps, chips and vodka. Some of the best things in life a vegetable can provide.
Jonathan Pie is always brilliant!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He looks bleary-eyed. That's commitment to the "bit", right there. 😂
I think at this point we just want someone who does the job not a showboating pony. Boring, it turns out, is the preferred characteristic of a competent politician.
We need more than "competent", things are way off kilter.
Compétent yes, but sadly that’s not what we get with this new package.
He’s just so good. Can’t wait til he starts ripping on starmer as well
Interestingly, labour really did not win a lot of votes, the tories just lost a ton, mostly to the other parties. In a system where you only need a plurality in every district, this can already look like a landslide, while in reality they just gained less than 2% i think.
They gained in Scotland, this election was a big hit to the SNP
Labour were smart, and used the Tories' tactics back at them.
The beautiful irony is seeing all the right-wing loonies crying about it online, saying the voting system needs reform - when they were all too happy to benefit from it in 2019 (and vote against changing it in 2011).
Yes. The rabid reactionary middle class Little England backbone of Tory voters simply abstained or protest voted, against their Government's failure to follow through on their promise to liquidate all poor people and throw all brown immigrants to the lions. But they haven't actually gone anywhere or changed their minds about anything.
Starmer actually got less votes than both of Corbyn's runs, which makes one wonder if Starmer won purely by default, due to not being the Tories.... or not blue ones anyway.
@@johnmartinez7440 just tell them to get over it and then brexit means brexit ;)
boris combed his hair with a desk fan
LOVELY.... JUST PLAIN LOVELY!💥💥🤩🤩😁😁😂😂🤣🤣😜😜❤❤🍀🍀👍👍
Tom Walker AKA Jonathan Pie is once again on the money with his analysis.
Daily Mail readers are drowning in a pool of their own tears.
Indeed! Not forgetting the plethora of others... telegraph (daily and Sunday), express, gb news, talk TV, the times, Sunday Times, the sun. Have I forgotten any?
I did, lord lebodevs paper.
Good.
HURRAH! Don't send any lifeboats, it wouldn't be 'Daily Mail form' to try and help the drowning.
Not in my largely rural constituency in S.Scotland. Once again my neighbours - many on minimum wage and/or benefits - have doffed their caps, tugged their forelocks - and returned a Tory. Pathetic.
Do lizards cry?
Just reminded myself why I unsubscribed from JP's videos.
This man needs to be in charge of the bbc! He is bang on. Doesn’t miss
That's not what makes the BBC hop; there's only room for backscratching, cronyism and clientism-politics.
It's a question of "which lunatic should run the asylum", whether in the UK, the USA, or pretty much any country in the world these days!
I don't know about that ... I'm looking forward to our new PM-in-Waiting, Pierre Poilievre, here in Canada. Polling at 45% to Trudeau's 18%, unlike all other world leaders, this- anti-Woke, anti-WEF, anti-Net Zero, pro-freedom leader will bring sanity back to our country. Common sense solutions and common sense policies. That's all we Canadians want after 10 years of socialism, verging on Stalinism, under Trudeau.
Where are you now Jonathan Pie - time to start criticizing Keir Starmer & his car crash policies and reputation issues!
My sentiments exactly , where is Johnathans DEI , how can he deny, never here , two tier, free gear , granny harmer Starmer hasnt supplied him enough material in just the first 60 days , at this rate he should be pushing out 6 video's a year and coining in the click bait
Brilliant Tom. Nailed it as usual. I know it's comedy, but it's so bloody accurate.
50 shades of beige: Captain Whitebread"!
This is the impression he leaves. I'm reminded of synthetically-flavoured vanilla ice cream that was so disappointing that it's been left to melt in the bowl... The political equivalent of Aldi Weetabix.
Perhaps better than a "character" you remember for all the wrong reasons.
@@gdutfulkbhh7537 We wanted Brian Clough, but after the chaos of Don Revie's reign, we get Ron Greenwood.
He's kind of a diluted, budget version of Asquith.
After the absolute shitshow tempest of madness, mismanagement and malicious incompetence we've had for 14 years, we need some boring normality. I'm being optimistic and hopeful in saying that the Tories set the bar so low that Labour can't possibly be worse and that I'll take well meaning incompetence and boring normality over deliberately malicious and spiteful incompetence (but I'm hoping Labour will be more competent).
I always leave my ice cream to melt in the bowl a bit until it's like eating a thick shake with a spoon. Boring is my preference for PM, it's not the Eurovision song contest, it's about running a country.
50 shades of magnolia 😳😱
Congratulations on electing your potato!
I'm from the United States, and I pray everyday we reelect our potato for four more years.
Your potato is such in the most braindead sense and the public has finally woken up to the fact post debate. Emperor has no clothes moment. Biden’s wife runs the presidency, but not for much longer.
Your potato is sprouting roots and barely managing to not dribble on himself, it seems
For the sake of ur international image i think u should rethink the atual corpse u have in power rn ☠️
@@riversguy92 Still better than some billionaire grifter after a tax cut for himself and his social class.
@@Mercurystars4202 sadly, I agree. Not a nice position for your electorate to be in nonetheless. Godspeed
34% of the votes somehow produce 65% of the seats.
14% rewards 2%
12% gives you 8%
The UK system leaves millions unrepresented
That is what a winner-take-all election system is designed to do. I suggest you have a look at proportional representation election systems. Those are about being representative.
Funny how the tories never worried about that until they lost an election 😂
@@valleylad7955 totally.
It's not those 2 parties that are suffering
I don't recall any complaints over the last 36 years of this system screwing the Lib Dems but not surprised to see it everywhere when the far-right nutjobs find out the hard way that FPtP is designed to keep the status quo.
Perhaps if people weren't so lazy and actually voted, you would get better representation.
Well, I've put my money in an offshore bank and downgraded my car (not electric). Sold all my shares and bought a small house. Bad times are coming. (yes, even worse than before)
Not possible mate ... just move to Spain.
Absolutely brilliant. The inimitable Jonathan Pie at his finest.
"Just not being the Other Guy isn't enough" needs to be on tee shirts, in sky writing, on milk cartons, on billboards spanning countries, and written on lew walls EVERYWHERE.
bookmarking this one for another few years from now when its opinionated optimism will have aged like milk
From the frying pan (blue) to the fire (red)
Both roads end to the WEF.
Let me guess, under 20?
That's great I support the Water Environment Federation and all they do to ensure everyone has access to clean water. I am glad to hear that both the main UK parties also support this.
Whoever you vote for the WEF always gets in.
Yup. Lot of donkeys here don't realise that.
They think that "The evil Tories have been defeated! Yay we won!"
It's just changing hands, folks. The new guy(Starmer) still works for the same people.
We're in for more of the same, except faster.
@@RichardFraser-y9tProbably only you old idiots still believe Labour is for the working class😂
Simply brilliant! Fact and humour combined.
The Tories were not populists they weren’t even conservatives they were the net zero uniparty with no answers to any problems - that was why they got kicked out and Reform came in second many races. Labour got the job by default. All Hail Keith Starmer Mr Personality.
I always love a good slice of (Jonathan) Pie 🥧🥧
Jonathan Pie is an international treasure
Labour…doing more damage in 4 months than the Tories did in 14 years….Pie has gone a bit quiet…😂
We've given a huge amount of power to a bunch of maniacs. This is nothing to celebrate.
This has always been their plan! Stunning Globalist Monster's success in Britain, I wonder whose Country is going to fall next? Infiltrate, Migrate, populate and dominate, that's the success of the Islamic cult teachings, brilliant really.
What a surprise years of Islamic migration into Christian Countries? Where and why did they come from? Apparently just a global mystery? The mass migration organised by the Globalist Monsters to destroy the national identity or love of one's Country,
"Individual Global Citizens" or IGCs are totally controlled by their overlords in their district, which is also why the family unit has been under attack for the past 20 years, (divide and conquer), patriots will not be required in "their New World Order" now called “their GREAT RESET”
You are really out of your depth.
@@CuriousCrow-mp4cx This is the most bizarre comment I have ever received.
Unfortunately, a comment that could have been applied to every possible outcome. These guys are the new incarnation of the original pre-Norman monarchs, i.e. gangsters.
WEF puppets
“It promises the moon delivers the DVD copy of apollo 13” 2:42 nicceeeeee😂😂😂😂
If these guys ain’t careful, they will end up voting for Conservatives again😂😂
Could not wait to hear Jonathan Pie after a rather depressing 4th of July here in US!
In Scotland and i should be happy that the Tories are out! But I'm not because Keir has said that he is going to do exactly the same. No change here.
Be glad the SNP thieves are no more, at least.
Loads more Tories in Scotland now, and LibDems
That latest "hate speech" law from the SNP is just straight up tyrannical. Up to SEVEN YEARS. I'm sure that had to scare some Scots away from them, at least
@@gdutfulkbhh7537The fact remains it is mostly Labour up here. It's a hollow tactical victory.
Good to have you back, Tom ! (The worrying thing is How many "Stateside" will think you're a real reporter - the "give away" , Americans, is that Tom's character is FAR more accurate than ANYONE on "Real" media ! )
Yet again this fella hits the nails firmly on their heads.
5 years really isn't much time to even start sorting 14 (or actually 45) years of decimation of the country started by Thatcher.
Your comment reminds me of digging into the past to understand the presence. We have to look further back ... further ... even further ... aaaaah!
Female conservative leadership introduced strict measures of austerity
Hire and fire, no social security, and with losing your job you had no place to live, which opens the gates for extortion which is the direct consequence of the influx of cheap labor ...
😬😥🙄
The dire situation is captured vividly in a contemporary play:
Termination
"Baldrick, you're fired"
Replacement
"So, young man, you've got yourself a job. What do they call you?"
...
No severance pay
"Sorry, Baldrick-Any reason why you're still here?"
Justified claim
"I got nowhere to go, M'Lord"
Utter Cruelty
"Surely you'll be allowed to starve to death in one of the royal parks"
Extortion
"I'd like to stay and do the same job for no wages"
And all that because of-Bobbb!
A young girl suffering from gender dysphoria who finds out that, with gender being a spectrum, a shift on the line defining the opposite poles can be used to gain individual advantages including a rise in social status, until the contact with a stereotypical male leads to the identification with the gender attributed at birth 😳
lol he's not. He's just a fraud alongside the mainstream journalists pretending to be some kind of "enlightened centrist" when in reality he's just alongside the rest of them.
Have you erased the 70s from your memory? The country was decimated long before Thatcher, where the vast majority of coal mines had already been closed before she got there, where milk to school children was removed for the over 11s, where rubbish piled high on the streets.
Leftists conveniently don’t mention the decimation of mine numbers under Wilson and Callaghan and the removal of milk provision for the over 11s by minister Edward Short, the ‘Milk Snatcher’.
We don’t hear about Edward Short the Milk Snatcher because most of the news and entertainment the British watch is provided by the BBC.
Absolutely no chance Labour even intend to
Starmer is Britain's Macron and that's worrying.
Farage is like a bloody boomerang or a bad smell you can't get rid of. Or vermin that you called an exterminator for but somehow it survived and came back.
You can't barrage the Farage!
So long as a politician has supporters, why would he go away? And so long as Farage sticks to his main issue, the topic of immigration that was conveniently left out of this video, he will always have a significant following.
I suggest you get used to him, or better yet, listen to him for a change.
@@davidnayr301immigration was literally in the first populism rant in this video and he has a whole video himself explaining why reform are a load of racist fuckwits.
Truth speaker ❤❤❤❤
How are you gonna blame the Tories for 2008? The "unregulated greed of investment bankers" was Labour's fault. They were the ones in charge of regulating at the time.
Yeah, convenient how he draws a line under 2008, and totally forgets that New Labour were in power before this... and made a lot of changes right before things turned bad.
The Tories ARE new labour. Perhaps a more concentrated version, even.
Why do they keep saying there's no money left. There's plenty money for Ukraine, for any conflict in the world, for foreign aid . Plenty of money for everyone except the people living and paying taxes in the Uk
Those are excellent predictions. Unfortunately, I have low hopes for Stalmer, and my fair is that after five years, the UK will head towards populism.
That's what Nigel Farage is counting on.
@@Eekyellie, so do the far right in Europe and the US, and they're correct, as corporates never support the far left, but they do not have a problem with the far right.
good
@@internethardcase@internethardcase Yes, it is good for the fascists, but not so much for the working class or the rest of the world.
@@tadasblinda9425 lol
I am so very happy and grateful to have survived to see the end of that rotten Conservative government. To have seen them get what they absolutely deserved. Between the 2015 general election and now I lost my friend, my brother and my Dad. I won a life-or-death court case in Indonesia (beating an old Australian Mafia figure in the process) and now Labour's win this week means some sanity has been restored in British politics. I am truly thankful to God to have survived, but I wish they were still here.
I know what I have to do now. I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
Reform will come soon, don't get too excited
What non sense are you grifting for, or is this satire😄.. WTF has Indonesia got to do with the UK ???
Clark Clifford (one of Truman's aides) and Churchill were discussing Clement Attlee, Britain's post-war PM. Clifford said of Attlee that he was a very modest man. Churchill responded that, "Yes, he has much to be modest about!".... I think Starmer will provide us with a good parallel.
This perfectly sums up the mood in the UK right now. Everyone is happy the Tories are gone, however there is very little optimism for Starmer due to his pretty nothing, bland, unseasoned policy platform. He basically ran a campaign of “we are not coloured blue”.
And that meant he could head the Tory client journalists off at the pass. They couldn't stick a finger on him, as he gave them no oxygen. But once in the saddle, he's not just talking. He executing his plans. Scrapping Rwanda and trying to get back some of the £310 million spent by the last lot on that crackpot scheme, means he's probably been on the phone to the Rwandan president. If he got back anything significant, that's a win. Less talking, more action. That alone is a win.
We're actually very concerned for his self confessed Radical Trotsky-ism, like his master Blair. Anti-working class, pro privatisation & pro champagne socialism... The state will own everything, including you.
@@CuriousCrow-mp4cxYeah more Africans coming to the UK what a win😂😂😂