Totally morally corrupt too, just like the others with trotters in the trough. Steal from pensioners who have paid all their taxes through their lives and give it to train drivers already living like we can only dream of doing.
@stevencook163 Free gear Kier is supposed to be worth around £7.7M no wonder he needs to score so much free stuff. But Lord Ali won't want anything in return, will he? No, of course not.
@@iggysfriend4431 I would think not Seems like such a clear cut nice fellow The way he really takes care of our vulnerable ie. Pensioners it’s truly eye opening
He is right but still manages to declare, "I am a socialist". Once he realises that socialism is inherently authoritarian and that he's a part of the problem, his ascent to rationality will be complete.
@@SarastistheSerpent No mate, he's a self serving, virtue signalling leftie who is too cowardly to stand and do proper journalism such as going to Gaza and report real FACTS. As well as being cowardly he didn't want to go to Israel because he would see the actual truth.
Owen and Rosie would be more at home in the SWP . Unfortunately they prefer the Old " entryism " technique favoured by Militant Tendency .Time for another clear out..!?!?
@@2msvalkyrie529 Thankyou :) Anytime someone speaks up in support of the SWP we all get an object lesson in how braindead you have to be to support the SWP.
@fodsaks Every single time I see O'brien, he's just the angry, shouty, opinionated moaner. His entire career is about being loudest negative person going.
Owen i owe you an apology because when you started criticising the Labour party i thought you were talking nonsense,now i know you were right so please accept my whole hearted apology and credits to Rosie.
I had the same belated experience when I believed the lieing msm about Jeremy Corbyn, a man of integrity and humanitarian principles. It is all linked and the same issue.
@@Greenpoloboy3 The man was so humanitarian, he said he wouldn’t arm Ukraine for defense as Russia was bombing their civilians. His compassion is very selective.
Well done Rosie, for standing by your convictions and huge respect...other Labour MPs should be ashamed of themselves...We have unfortunately voted in a heartless Keir Starmer autocratic government...
@@RogerSmallwoodnever thought i'd see the day when a Labour PM would be jetting off to Davos mingling with billionaires. Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, and John smith must be spinning in their graves.
LOL you didn't vote for anybody, it was all just ceremonial, the baton was passed from Rishit to Sdummer. Welcome to "freedom and democracy", the best systems that money can buy!
Bullsh*t. 3 months and we haven't even had the first budget yet. There's a lot of right-wing journalists and commentators screaming out with their fake narratives because they are in mourning, bereaved, over the destruction of their beloved Tory party. Their fake narratives will be forgot in a few months just like the Donkey field, Pizza Gate, Rayner's Capital Gains tax spoof story etc etc
Well said. Rosie Duffield has struggled with the Labour front bench for sometime. She's right on the sleeze issue because we expect higher standards in public life from so-called social Democrats. Personally, I've changed my allegiance to the Liberal Democrats
Why when it was found out that Sunak was a illegal immigrant was he not banned from parliament .He had indian passport and as Biden said a green card so not allowed in parliament!
@Hans-k9j A party full of multi millionaire Socialists. What does that tell you? Why do you think they get teachers to brain wash kids? Because adults know what la la land is. They should be called The Filthy lucre party. That works.
No, it's Labour. Time you all accept it. You are just repeating what Labour voters said after Blaire and Browne "nooo, that wasn't real Labour! They're just Tories in disguise". Labour for the past 30 years have been there to support the unemployed and, whichever minority group will get them votes. If you're a British working man, you exist purely to pay tax. So, to act surprised, ashamed or, betrayed by this government just shows you haven't been paying attention.
@@dolmen6613 He can't find a Party that reflects his political values. I'd say that would be his reason for not standing. Either that or he see himself making the change he would like to see using his voice as a journalist and presenter. Maybe that's another reason. But why don't YOU stand? What's wrong with you throwing your own hat in the ring?
Ed ballup asked his best mate george osbourne if he could borrow his dodgy austerity spreadsheet to give to rechel reeves she will be using it after October.
@@UKArchives-2024 the UK, like the west, is controlled by globalists. So you will be poor AND happy. Labour is a continuation of what the Tories did, and Reform will continue it after Labour. The west is on its decline and has been for some decades.
As a life-long Labour voter, i am so happy that i voted for Workers Party of Britain, in the last general election. Keir Starmer is Tony Blair 2.0. A self-serving, greedy, grasping warmonger.
So you voted Galloway, who will support any war waged against the West and anti Western dictatorship. He openly praises Cuba, Iran and North Korea and completely ignores how they treat their own people. Honestly, you people.
I'm truly amazad that people in Britain are only realising this now - after the election. The same is happening in Germany ( my country)where many people voted for the SPD (the so called Social Democrats) uninformed folk, who voted for the SPd because they are called Social democrats. The same applies to the German Greens who have nothing to do with Green anymore. If voters choose to be uninformed and allow themselves to have plenty of wool pulled over their eyes they deserve this kind of government. I only pity those who looked through it right from the start
I was a Liberal Democrat because where I lived when much younger they and the SDP/Liberal Alliance before it stood more chance of winning there than Labour did. Then it became a habit to vote for them. But I moved to a constituency where Labour stood more chance of winning than the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats could only win council and Welsh assembly seats where I live. Then they formed a coalition with the Conservatives so couldn't vote for them anymore. Now they have moved to the left again with Ed Davey as leader.
@@10gimp39 You were doing well, but there is no alternative and we would have been in the same mess. Our only option is to vote for people who use the present "system" to further the interests of those who control the system. People on the left and the right can see it, it's not about left and right its about right and wrong.
I can't believe that LBC would allow someone to criticise Starmer like this. James O'Brien must be PURPLE with rage. I have vast respect for Owen Jones speaking up like this. Well done.
I was a life long Labour, but no more, Starmer is leading just another Tory government, Owen is so correct. We desperately need a new party that will truly represent the interests of ordinary working people.
I had voted Labour all my life but in the last elections I just couldn't vote for Starmer. I knew what sort of man he was after his treatment of Jeremy. So I didn't vote.
Not particularly bad. Owen Jones has a history of going for Starmer (and "New Labour" types in general) at the slightest hint of an opportunity, whilst he let the ineptitude of Compo Corbyn and Old Mcdonell's leadership go virtually unchallenged.
@@johnrussell3961 What guy are you talking about? Me? I worked my backside off to get Labour in power this last summer. You must be another clueless propagandist being paid for by Starmer HQ.
@@nazb1982 One enormous difference is that, thanks to the mismanagement of the economy over the past 14 years, this Government has far, far less money at its disposal than Cameron ever had. And, thanks to the madness of Brexit and the knee-capping of trade links to a huge market on our doorstep, Starmer has fewer options with which to generate economic recovery, let alone economic growth. Of course, Corbyn and Macdonnell were secretly in favour of Brexit, and did their best to undermine the Remain campaign, despite nominally (and hypocritically) being part of it.
Even the Liberal Democrats didn't do as badly when in Government as they were in a coalition. There were only around 50 Lib Dem MPs compared with around 300 Conservative MPs so they weren't going to have much say in Government policy between 2010 and 2015. Labour have no other party to blame but themselves.
Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn both gave us big clues to this tyrant. Rosie has to be applauded and the other brave MPs that are going to follow. If we want Socialism, this is Totalitarianism of the worst kind! Agree with Owen on most oints too!
This is why socialism has never and will never work, once in power Keir succumbs to wealth and power as they all do, like the politburo with their own lanes on Moscow motorways. Some are more equal than others.
I don’t understand why people don’t agree with Owen Jones. He has not changed his stance regarding the L.P. I wish there were more of his ilk in the party.
I don't always agree with Owen Jones, however, on this issue he is absolutely right. This Labour government lack not only leadership but simple human decency. Well said Owen.
I could never vote Labour and disagree with Owen's politics. However, I respect his consistency and integrity by calling out the Labour leadership hypocrisy
Owen Jones has never changed his stance regarding anything, unlike Keir Starmer who U turns every 10 minutes. People who say "I havve never liked him in the past" are almost certainly tory voters.
Likewise, I feel like I am in the twilight zone sitting through one of his interviews. It is only because we both hate the current labour government, I am sure you and I will soon be back to disagreeing with him, haha
I’m not sure how this could be the first time you’ve agreed with him when he’s just saying the same stuff he usually says. Perhaps you decide whether or not you agree with someone based on who, rather than what, they’re arguing for or against. Much like a football supporter supports their team no matter what.
Starmer not only lied to the people before the election , but it would seem to his own party members too ! I'm a pensioner who's had to save-up to get a new pair of glasses , while he gets a selection of glasses for nothing from his rich little friends which is rather strange , as he's a millionaire . Is this because he's more equal than me ? Your Resignation please , Mr Starmer .
Remember how he claimed to be the prime minster to us everyone. Then actually almost immediately after he was elected he turned on the weakest in society and gave them no chance to avoid hardship. It is beyond draconian, it’s evil.
Being old you probably have a short memory, the last lot did the same and would still do the same if they'd been re-elected. Perhaps you expected real change in the way politics is done in this country from Labour, sorry they disappointed you.
Naive to think things will get better after the budget. Labour has hit the weakest hardest. Stop calling people right wing for speaking up for the weak.
this really is the kick up the backside the british people need..................STAND AND FIGHT FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. neither labour, nor tory represent us, the people.
Starmers lack of charisma is matched by his lack of principle and common decency. Such arrogance from a government elected with only a third of the vote.
This is not a Labour government, they are Tory Lite. We now have a single transferable party, as Chomsky said, they want a very lively debate within very narrow parameters.
conservatives And Labour failed the country and the poulation On Border controle And billions spent on failed immigration contole, labour need the Tax payers fees to fund THE huge financial deficit they are creating. And ignoring what the voters ,voted for and insisting on the voters to fund there failings.
Corbyn was the leader of the opposition. Most Labour MPs did not support him because most of them are actually Tories themselves, just like Kier Starmer.
She has no principles, and she's only doing this for self-serving reasons, but the fact that she's pulling the curtain back on the "Labour" Party now is the only thing of any worth she has ever done. Mind you, I bet now she'd all but guaranteed a 5-year job, she won't do the decent thing and call for a new local election while standing as an Indy.
I dont usually listen to this man, but in this case he talks sense, starmer is disgusting, his close followers are the same. Reeves rayner, Lammy. Phillips. OUT..
But Starmer doesn't care about your children... He's too busy arranging for his own children to get freebies - but even they have to wait behind him, as he dips into the troughs presented to him😕
We're not in the top twenty richest countries in the world,stop believing the hype , and I respected Owen Jones,but not anymore, somebody else who talks socialism and then snipes from cover .
This also goes about Brexit: OF COURSE the EU wants Britain back. No economic bloc on their right mind would reject a country this rich that's already culturally and militarily integrated. Anti-rejoin propaganda is insane.
Owen has always spoken sense. Labour has been taken over by the rich right. Take a look at the Green manifesto (the reason I left Labour and voted Green) they are closer to the Labour ideal than Labour.
The Greens are a clown circus and very few of their policies are actually Green so you can argue they have also lost their way in the same way as Labour. The country needs a new party with old school Labour values.
Where's the "truth" in the assertion that Starmer accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations whilst removing the Winter Fuel payment, when the vast bulk of those donations were actually received - and _declared_ - before he became PM?
Owen Jones is not a patriot. He's spent the majority of his career condemning "populism" and, mocking the British working class. He is right with a lot of his criticism of the current government but, he was amongst the many to pave the way for such an uncaring, authoritarian government.
@@reson8 Not in the slightest - I'm just getting the facts in the right order, which is more than Duffield or Jones bothered to do. They assert that Starmer was accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations WHILST he was removing the Winter Fuel payment, which is demonstrably false.
Couldn't say it better. It is nauseating. A huge con - nothing to do with the aspirations of the millions of people who voted for change which the labour party promised. Sickening.
Several dozen labour MPs need to resign their posts and start an avalanche of by elections . Then they can start their own party . 80% of the electorate didn’t vote for this black comedy clown show . Starmer and the Daleks must resign . The unions must stop funding labour now , and go on strike for the pensioners .
She was the first to resign but not the first to be fired. She had plenty of opportunities to use her position as a Labour MP to walk the talk and she didn’t. Quitting over donations while not voting against the things she’s complaining about is just her having her John Terry moment
@@Johnnie-dh1westarmer is obsessed with corbyn.according to starmer the only reason labour lost the 2019 election was corbyn.nothing to do with get brexit done or friends of isreal labour mps not wanting to be able to critise isreal whatever they did but rather having lardy boris than a labour goverment. E
Owen, I haven’t always agreed with everything you say, but, you are eloquent and,I would implore you to take James O Brien to account….. A conversation that would be worthy of all LBC listeners tuning in for Bravo !!!!
Maybe he will change something in this country. I agree he is a legend and he is totally dedicated. A great man we will respect more and more as time goes on. Any doubters here change your minds over him.
I don't understand why anyone would have voted for Labour in the first place. To me personally, it has been as plain as the nose on your faces what Starmer was about. Oh well, we can all now suffer together. Perhaps in time this country will unite and finally vote in a peoples party for the people! I do hope so.
Half a million fewer voters voted Labour in the 2024 election than did for Labour in tge last one on 2019 under Jeremy Corbyn who, far from winning a landslide, *lost* the election. Starmer actually lost Labour votes! Labour are in power because the Conservative vote collapsed. The number of votes cast for the Tories + Reform taken together was 4% greater than Labour's popular vote. Under electoral systems of most other countries, Labour would not be governing today.
I'm a pensioner (and Labour Party member... still...).and during the election campaign I was bombarded with emails from Labour asking for financial contributions. I made a number of (small, because I'm a pensioner) contributions and I'm now completely gobsmacked by the amount of wealthy donors etc donating all kinds of stuff to Starmer etc. The bad taste in my mouth is getting worse. I may yet resign... So disappointed so far...
I never liked you much, Jones, and we are poles apart politically, but you’ve seriously gone up in my estimation. I don’t mean to sound condescending or patronising, but well done. Stay true. Much respect and best regards.
Well I must confess, I too am miles away politically from Mr Jones but I can't disagree with a single word he is saying here. I feel the world has been turn upside down in such a short period of time by this new government.
If you close your eyes, you would be thinking Owen is talking about the Tories, not it's about Labour. " They don't have a soul politically speaking " 😢
@@powderandpaint14 No thank you. It seems like he’s as fickle and self-serving as most political commentators. He professes to be a crusader for the working class, yet doesn’t know what it’s like to live in impoverished conditions. This is a man that has the utmost contempt for the very system that allows him the platform to espouse his extreme liberal view. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. He’s a hypocrite and no better than the rest of them. Apart from that he’s alright☺️
James O'brien must be having a heart attack that LBC allowed someone to criticise Kier Starmer.
James O'brien is a narcissist
Kier Starmers doesn’t want wealthy people to pay more taxes because he is a wealthy person
Steve! Steady on! Be fair! Poor Kier is down to his last measely £7 million! How dare you mock the poor and the afflicted!
@@Johnny-sj9sj no wonder he’s only given £6000 back
😂😂
Totally morally corrupt too, just like the others with trotters in the trough. Steal from pensioners who have paid all their taxes through their lives and give it to train drivers already living like we can only dream of doing.
@stevencook163 Free gear Kier is supposed to be worth around £7.7M no wonder he needs to score so much free stuff. But Lord Ali won't want anything in return, will he? No, of course not.
@@iggysfriend4431 I would think not
Seems like such a clear cut nice fellow
The way he really takes care of our vulnerable ie. Pensioners it’s truly eye opening
I knew Labour would be bad, but they've exceeded my fears.
@@LAMF24 why what is so bad
@@specialized500everything are you blind to the problems they have created
@@TeresaWatts-v1k and the past 14 years? 🤦🏻 Where was your outrage then?
@@bigprob8744plenty of outrage over the tories but Labour told us they would be different. They are not
@@ZzzZzz968the Tory's gave us 3 cost of living payments up to £900 and people forgot that!
This is not what Labour is supposed to stand for.
@@Bigbkw 💯
Except it's all it does stand for, or Owen Jones opinions, not a world I'd want to live in!
@@Bigbkw CONLAB aka the UNIParty. Don't know who the actual socialists can vote for the right at least have Reform
Whatever you think of Owen Jones, he's 100 percent correct in everything he says here.
He is right but still manages to declare, "I am a socialist". Once he realises that socialism is inherently authoritarian and that he's a part of the problem, his ascent to rationality will be complete.
Well said, Owen ❤
And thank you, rosie Duffield ❤
First time I have ever agreed with Owen Jones
Same!
Same here.
You should listen to him more, his career is built around making life better for working people
I'm sure he doesn't care about what you think. He has over 1 million followers who agree with most things he says.
@@danielmoir13well said 👏
Can't believe I'm agreeing to Owen Jones
Why? Jones is practically always right
@@SarastistheSerpent No mate, he's a self serving, virtue signalling leftie who is too cowardly to stand and do proper journalism such as going to Gaza and report real FACTS. As well as being cowardly he didn't want to go to Israel because he would see the actual truth.
Me too …
@@SarastistheSerpent 😂
Owen Jones or someone like him should be the leader of the Labour party.
Owen Jones not normally a fan of yours but extremely well said.A true and honest opinion respects,
Owen and Rosie would be more at home in the SWP . Unfortunately they prefer the Old
" entryism " technique favoured by Militant
Tendency .Time for another clear out..!?!?
@@2msvalkyrie529 Thankyou :) Anytime someone speaks up in support of the SWP we all get an object lesson in how braindead you have to be to support the SWP.
@@segue2ant395excuse my ignorance but what is the SWP?
@@2msvalkyrie529Not sure you are looking at this clearly. It is not long ago that Rosie Duffield was rumoured to be joining the Tories.
@@valerieallchin4851Socialist Workers Party.
STARMER IS AN AUTHORITARIAN…HE HAS TO GO..HE HAS LET US DOWN..HE IS UNPRINCIPLED, UNETHICAL, UNCARING, UNWANTED!
Well done, Rosie Duffield!
James O'Brien is going to be fuming
@@superrrnova1986your right, he is such a Starmer sycophant.
She literally took £12,000 in personal donations earlier this year.
@@cozimo64 thank you Starmer!
@@cozimo64also abstained on the pensioners winter fuel allowance. Broke lockdown rules to spend the night with a married man.
Can't wait to hear how James O'Brien tries to spin this.
Don't listen to that joker.
@@malcolmmitchell6529 Monumental ,hypocrite of the worst kind 😂Ibrien ,not you 😂
@fodsaks Every single time I see O'brien, he's just the angry, shouty, opinionated moaner. His entire career is about being loudest negative person going.
he'll blame Brexit
He will claim mental issues,
Labour MPs applauded their vote on pensioners winter fuel cut...... appalling cruel and disgraceful
Well said ,the monsters who fist pumped the winter fuel payment vote through ,need to be named and shamed .
Apparently one even punched the air, nice person 😮
@@AmberPanda😂 punched the air? Fabrication
@@bigprob8744 Prove it...
@@AmberPanda yes you prove that someone punched the air? 😆 Sounds very made up to me
Owen i owe you an apology because when you started criticising the Labour party i thought you were talking nonsense,now i know you were right so please accept my whole hearted apology and credits to Rosie.
I had the same belated experience when I believed the lieing msm about Jeremy Corbyn, a man of integrity and humanitarian principles. It is all linked and the same issue.
@@Badgerbearddon’t kid yourself.
Apology accepted Kevin. Thanks
@@IamDude2 Explain - I am all ears.
@@Greenpoloboy3 The man was so humanitarian, he said he wouldn’t arm Ukraine for defense as Russia was bombing their civilians. His compassion is very selective.
People voted to get the Tories out, not to get Labour in.
Lowest turnout for decades. Lowest vote share for "winning" party.
The system put labour in , not the voters.
Owen Jones is a complete nightmare 😂
Lowest turnout ever
I voted to get Labour in 👍
Well done Rosie, for standing by your convictions and huge respect...other Labour MPs should be ashamed of themselves...We have unfortunately voted in a heartless
Keir Starmer autocratic government...
Power hungry Starmer is simply a Dictator.
@@RogerSmallwoodnever thought i'd see the day when a Labour PM would be jetting off to Davos mingling with billionaires. Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, and John smith must be spinning in their graves.
@@mattansell8275 Blair and Mandy were keen Davos acolytes. (Still are, obviously)
Yeah, the Tories were so much better at this. Bet you’re missing them already
LOL you didn't vote for anybody, it was all just ceremonial, the baton was passed from Rishit to Sdummer.
Welcome to "freedom and democracy", the best systems that money can buy!
Pride comes before a fall . Starmer is arrogant
Stami
Nah he's just well trained by Blair and the WEF.
Bullsh*t.
3 months and we haven't even had the first budget yet.
There's a lot of right-wing journalists and commentators screaming out with their fake narratives because they are in mourning, bereaved, over the destruction of their beloved Tory party.
Their fake narratives will be forgot in a few months just like the Donkey field, Pizza Gate, Rayner's Capital Gains tax spoof story etc etc
He's doing as he is told.
Well said. Rosie Duffield has struggled with the Labour front bench for sometime. She's right on the sleeze issue because we expect higher standards in public life from so-called social Democrats. Personally, I've changed my allegiance to the Liberal Democrats
Animal Farm being played out. Poor Boxer. This wind mill had terrible foundations.
A certain weekday LBC presenter is resembling Squealer..
@@lewisgreen1633Would that be O'Squealer? 🙂
Why when it was found out that Sunak was a illegal immigrant was he not banned from parliament .He had indian passport and as Biden said a green card so not allowed in parliament!
Could LBC put Owen on with James O'Brien on the same show? Get Owen wouldn't get a word in
He is so right. Labour doesn’t deserve that name anymore. Has got nothing to do with laborers, it’s just conservatives 2.0
Dealing with reality has always been a quality of wining labour leaders . Atlee had it in spades.
@Hans-k9j A party full of multi millionaire Socialists. What does that tell you? Why do you think they get teachers to brain wash kids? Because adults know what la la land is. They should be called The Filthy lucre party. That works.
No, it's Labour. Time you all accept it. You are just repeating what Labour voters said after Blaire and Browne "nooo, that wasn't real Labour! They're just Tories in disguise".
Labour for the past 30 years have been there to support the unemployed and, whichever minority group will get them votes. If you're a British working man, you exist purely to pay tax.
So, to act surprised, ashamed or, betrayed by this government just shows you haven't been paying attention.
Modern Labour are the opposite of the traditional Labour party. They cynically use the brand name.
Haven't ben Labour since Blair got elected.
I’ve never liked Owen Jones…. This is astonishing! But I applaud him today 👏👏
like all whinging Lefties he hasn't the guts to stand for election himself
@@dolmen6613 There are plenty of whingeing "righties" who haven't stood for election either.
@@dolmen6613
He can't find a Party that reflects his political values.
I'd say that would be his reason for not standing. Either that or he see himself making the change he would like to see using his voice as a journalist and presenter. Maybe that's another reason. But why don't YOU stand? What's wrong with you throwing your own hat in the ring?
Austerity for you, freebies for me. Sir Kid Starver.
And Rayner ...the working class MP 😂
You can drop the "sir" for a start
@@chutney-h3o She reminds me as the female on the bench seat at the pub. Just waiting on someone to notice her and offer to buy her a drink
@@peterbaker3429. How about 'Cur'?
@@Johnny-sj9sjThat's more like it!
Bet James O’Brien avoided listening to this
Obviously!
He never listens to anyone
Who is Jim O ‘ Brian ?
Starmer should be stripped of his knighthood!!!
I didn’t vote for five more years of Austerity!
Labour is finished!
@@moshudoduwade219 you did if you were content with lockdowns and destroying the economy for 2 plus years.
Ed ballup asked his best mate george osbourne if he could borrow his dodgy austerity spreadsheet to give to rechel reeves she will be using it after October.
@@UKArchives-2024 the UK, like the west, is controlled by globalists. So you will be poor AND happy. Labour is a continuation of what the Tories did, and Reform will continue it after Labour. The west is on its decline and has been for some decades.
As a life-long Labour voter, i am so happy that i voted for Workers Party of Britain, in the last general election. Keir Starmer is Tony Blair 2.0. A self-serving, greedy, grasping warmonger.
So you voted Galloway, who will support any war waged against the West and anti Western dictatorship. He openly praises Cuba, Iran and North Korea and completely ignores how they treat their own people. Honestly, you people.
I'm truly amazad that people in Britain are only realising this now - after the election.
The same is happening in Germany ( my country)where many people voted for the SPD (the so called Social Democrats) uninformed folk, who voted for the SPd because they are called Social democrats. The same applies to the German Greens who have nothing to do with Green anymore.
If voters choose to be uninformed and allow themselves to have plenty of wool pulled over their eyes they deserve this kind of government.
I only pity those who looked through it right from the start
I was a Liberal Democrat because where I lived when much younger they and the SDP/Liberal Alliance before it stood more chance of winning there than Labour did. Then it became a habit to vote for them. But I moved to a constituency where Labour stood more chance of winning than the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats could only win council and Welsh assembly seats where I live. Then they formed a coalition with the Conservatives so couldn't vote for them anymore. Now they have moved to the left again with Ed Davey as leader.
Harold Wilson would not be amused .He tried so hard to improve the needs of children .
LOL so you voted for George Galloway! astonishing I think you should go get a scan on your head and quick.
As a Labour voter, I can not vote for them again. As for Kier Starmer I think there are plagues that are more popular than him.
He doesn’t care. Just there for the grift. Uni should be free and means tested in rent etc
You say vote for them again you shouldn’t have voted for them in the last election then maybe we would not be in the mess we are
@@10gimp39 So after 14 years of tory corruption, the Labour party are to blame for the mess we are in? Staggering.
@@10gimp39 You were doing well, but there is no alternative and we would have been in the same mess. Our only option is to vote for people who use the present "system" to further the interests of those who control the system. People on the left and the right can see it, it's not about left and right its about right and wrong.
Lol!
I can't believe that LBC would allow someone to criticise Starmer like this. James O'Brien must be PURPLE with rage. I have vast respect for Owen Jones speaking up like this. Well done.
Pity it took him most of his adult life to do so. This is what happens when people grow up - they have learned to hate Labour.
Stammer is Labours Liz Truss
James criticises Labour too. I've never seen him turn purple.
He's just not a socialist. I am.
@@mandyharewood886well I've never heard him criticise Labour
😂
Keir Starmer is a coward he attacks the old and the weak who cannot fight back instead of dealing with the rich and powerful.
He won't even end the non-dom tax dodge now! Suppose Lord Alli didn't want him to..
Just like every tory PM before him.
😫🥱@@oneoflokis
I am old & weak but still fighting....
@@sarahosman4933 👍 yep ' whining is for the waek minded
I was a life long Labour, but no more, Starmer is leading just another Tory government, Owen is so correct. We desperately need a new party that will truly represent the interests of ordinary working people.
China decided the best interest of ordinary people was to create a rich superclass who would drag them out or poverty.
Vote SNP.
ReformUK
The Workers party with George Galloway is the only brave fighter for the majority of us.
I had voted Labour all my life but in the last elections I just couldn't vote for Starmer. I knew what sort of man he was after his treatment of Jeremy. So I didn't vote.
Self advancing careerists. Thats a great analogy.
How bad does a government have to be to unite Owen Jones and Rosie Duffield in their (justified) contempt?
Not particularly bad. Owen Jones has a history of going for Starmer (and "New Labour" types in general) at the slightest hint of an opportunity, whilst he let the ineptitude of Compo Corbyn and Old Mcdonell's leadership go virtually unchallenged.
This guy will only be happy when we have labour out of power. Then he can criticise.the Goverment without a guilty conscience..
@@johnrussell3961 What guy are you talking about? Me? I worked my backside off to get Labour in power this last summer.
You must be another clueless propagandist being paid for by Starmer HQ.
@@ftumschk can you tell me what the difference is on economic policy between Starmer’s Labour and Cameron’s Tory party because I can’t
@@nazb1982 One enormous difference is that, thanks to the mismanagement of the economy over the past 14 years, this Government has far, far less money at its disposal than Cameron ever had.
And, thanks to the madness of Brexit and the knee-capping of trade links to a huge market on our doorstep, Starmer has fewer options with which to generate economic recovery, let alone economic growth.
Of course, Corbyn and Macdonnell were secretly in favour of Brexit, and did their best to undermine the Remain campaign, despite nominally (and hypocritically) being part of it.
I never thought I’d see Labour going after the poorest in society. They’re Tories 2.0.
Blair did but he was a red tory like starmer.
They always do .
@@BroughPaul they are the UNIparty
Even the Liberal Democrats didn't do as badly when in Government as they were in a coalition. There were only around 50 Lib Dem MPs compared with around 300 Conservative MPs so they weren't going to have much say in Government policy between 2010 and 2015. Labour have no other party to blame but themselves.
@@BroughPaul they are the UNIParty can't you see it?
Starmer, same as the last lot.
Neo liberal Grifters. Different rosette!
Neoliberalism is a disease. We need mass investment and public ownership
Cobblers
@@philipwookey599they were shoe repairers?
Nah, they’re grifters.
@@philipwookey599Why
Establishment plant is what he is.
Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn both gave us big clues to this tyrant. Rosie has to be applauded and the other brave MPs that are going to follow. If we want Socialism, this is Totalitarianism of the worst kind! Agree with Owen on most oints too!
Even Owen Jones has issues with them. Never thought I would see the day.
Even Owen Jones? He'd have a problem with anyone who isn't Corbyn
Owen hasn't supported Labour for some time now.
He left the party earlier this year.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Not many socialists support the Labour Party anymore, because it is no longer socialist.
What do you mean 'even'? Hes been very consistent in his views and left Labour when they stopped aligning with them
Also, doesn't Starmer have brothers and sisters that his kids could have done their gcses at, instead of a flat of a multimillionaire? Disgraceful!
I studied at my local library.
It was a lie, the dates don’t match up, the deception is real.
I so agree with Owen jones and Rosie Duffield are correct
This is why socialism has never and will never work, once in power Keir succumbs to wealth and power as they all do, like the politburo with their own lanes on Moscow motorways. Some are more equal than others.
@@billuk1413Starmer was never a socialist not even a social democrat anymore just a Tory at least on economic policy
Errrrr Owen Jones is a Noncer. Who defended Huw Edwards
@nazb1982 Tories wouldn't have caved to the unions at the expense of pensioners.
The last Tory government weren't even real Conservatives either
@@billuk1413ffs keir starmer is not a socialist and neither is 80% of the mps.
James O'Brien needs to hear this
That would mean he would have to admit being wrong.
Which is impossible for extreme narcissists like him.
That guy needs a psychiatrist
He would need to write a new book "How to be wrong".
He will probably call him a bigott
Who?
@@williekp1Quite obviously Owen Jones 😂
At last. A Labour mp with the courage of her convictions
Don't forget the ones Starmer has already kicked out for daring to speak up !!
Convictions like extreme transphobia and hatred of experts?
Is that the one who voted against the winter fuel payment?
@@Grimfang999 hardly extreme from what i witnessed of the affair
@@Grimfang999 I can get behind the former conviction; there is no evidence of the latter conviction.
I don’t understand why people don’t agree with Owen Jones. He has not changed his stance regarding the L.P. I wish there were more of his ilk in the party.
I don't always agree with Owen Jones, however, on this issue he is absolutely right. This Labour government lack not only leadership but simple human decency. Well said Owen.
Because he is a socialist - someone who steals the honest work of others.
I could never vote Labour and disagree with Owen's politics. However, I respect his consistency and integrity by calling out the Labour leadership hypocrisy
Owen Jones has never changed his stance regarding anything, unlike Keir Starmer who U turns every 10 minutes. People who say "I havve never liked him in the past" are almost certainly tory voters.
moral clarity/moral consistency , powerful combination.
First time I have ever agreed with anything Owen Jones has said...at least Labour are uniting the country........against Labour!
Yah not the best to start a government
Likewise, I feel like I am in the twilight zone sitting through one of his interviews. It is only because we both hate the current labour government, I am sure you and I will soon be back to disagreeing with him, haha
I’m not sure how this could be the first time you’ve agreed with him when he’s just saying the same stuff he usually says. Perhaps you decide whether or not you agree with someone based on who, rather than what, they’re arguing for or against. Much like a football supporter supports their team no matter what.
All this guy does is state what a lot of us think. He speaks the truth. I’m not sure why any Labour Party supporter, would not agree with Owen Jones.
@@coreyc1685 facts
Starmer not only lied to the people before the election , but it would seem to his own party members too ! I'm a pensioner who's had to save-up to get a new pair of glasses , while he gets a selection of glasses for nothing from his rich little friends which is rather strange , as he's a millionaire . Is this because he's more equal than me ? Your Resignation please , Mr Starmer .
Remember how he claimed to be the prime minster to us everyone. Then actually almost immediately after he was elected he turned on the weakest in society and gave them no chance to avoid hardship. It is beyond draconian, it’s evil.
Being old you probably have a short memory, the last lot did the same and would still do the same if they'd been re-elected. Perhaps you expected real change in the way politics is done in this country from Labour, sorry they disappointed you.
Still free specs in Scotland . Extra for non reading ones .
Only if you're on benefits@@MyKharli
@@sheenamcleod3386 oh yep !
Hé is absoluutly right. Carry on Owen, you are marvelous!
Starmers built his ivory castle on shifting sand, and the money from children, working class and pensioners is being used to shore it up
Naive to think things will get better after the budget. Labour has hit the weakest hardest. Stop calling people right wing for speaking up for the weak.
What are you on about
Reight-wingers hate those they perceive to be weak. That is why they go after them first.
Stop conflating private school boys like Tice and Farage with speaking for the weak.
Nobody in their right mind would call anybody right wing for speaking up for the weak!
Socialism is all about speaking up for the weak, so no, people won't get called right wing for that.
this really is the kick up the backside the british people need..................STAND AND FIGHT FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. neither labour, nor tory represent us, the people.
I definitely share his views 👍🏻👏
Starmers lack of charisma is matched by his lack of principle and common decency. Such arrogance from a government elected with only a third of the vote.
Could you tell us when the last time was that a government won more than 50% of the vote?
wow, this is the first time I have ever agreed with Owen Jones. Strange times we live in.
This is not a Labour government, they are Tory Lite. We now have a single transferable party, as Chomsky said, they want a very lively debate within very narrow parameters.
Tory lite would actually be an improvement. What he has brought forward is tory-heavy.
conservatives And Labour failed the country and the poulation On Border controle And billions spent on failed immigration contole, labour need the Tax payers fees to fund THE huge financial deficit they are creating. And ignoring what the voters ,voted for and insisting on the voters to fund there failings.
Never been a fan of Owen but I have to agree with him
Ditto
Did you agree with him when he defended Huw edwards?
Never side with a mincer
Leftist mincer. Like Wes
Ditto.
Maybe we need to start a new party because it's been hijacked
Be careful what you wish for, Corbyn might just grant it!
Corbyn was the leader of the opposition.
Most Labour MPs did not support him because most of them are actually Tories themselves, just like Kier Starmer.
@@reson8as the Quakers say “hope so”
We’ve got it, it’s called Reform, or what Starmer called “the light at the end of the tunnel”.
@@ziggurat-builder8755 that’s a new right wing party. We want real old labour socialism and social liberalism. Not soft neofascism
Owen, bang on the money.... 👍
Well that's a first...
@@FraserBailey-jm5yzactually, he’s been right most of the time.
@@FraserBailey-jm5yzit’s really not. Quite the opposite actually
@@FraserBailey-jm5yzit really isn't
Spot on Mr Jones 👍
Well done Rosie someone with principles... Do right... 👍👍
😂😂😂
She literally took £12,000 in personal donations earlier this year.
She has no principles, and she's only doing this for self-serving reasons, but the fact that she's pulling the curtain back on the "Labour" Party now is the only thing of any worth she has ever done.
Mind you, I bet now she'd all but guaranteed a 5-year job, she won't do the decent thing and call for a new local election while standing as an Indy.
no, just a spoilt brat not getting her own way
Hardly, she abstained in the WFA vote
100% agree with him disgusting
I dont usually listen to this man, but in this case he talks sense, starmer is disgusting, his close followers are the same. Reeves rayner, Lammy. Phillips. OUT..
But Starmer doesn't care about your children... He's too busy arranging for his own children to get freebies - but even they have to wait behind him, as he dips into the troughs presented to him😕
Well said Owen
How can there be families in poverty in the 6th richest country in the world? Because the entire political system is corrupt 😢
Preach.
Precisely. The main reason poverty exists in this country is corruption. Not because people are bad with money.
Erm we rank 21st
We're not in the top twenty richest countries in the world,stop believing the hype , and I respected Owen Jones,but not anymore, somebody else who talks socialism and then snipes from cover .
This also goes about Brexit: OF COURSE the EU wants Britain back. No economic bloc on their right mind would reject a country this rich that's already culturally and militarily integrated. Anti-rejoin propaganda is insane.
Owen Jones at his best , simply!
So far lost the pensioner vote. Lost the disabled vote lost the long term sick vote lost the are they drinking fron the braveman cup
And now they're hiking up student fees. They might want a rethink on lowering the voting age to 16...
Student fees been raised too
I never thought I’d see the day I would be agreeing with Owen Jones.!
Starmer, so glad I didn't vote for them.
Me neither. The polling card went straight in the bin.
And me 71 years old always voted Labour but not this time never liked the look and the cut of Starmer, saw right through him
We should change to a pr system of voting which should probably be compulsory but with a box for none of the candidates.
Me too ✋
@@sg-zd8ebyou are part of the problem.
I really like what Owen Jones is saying. Bang on.
Never thought I'd say respect to Owen Jones. He's so right.
Owen has always spoken sense. Labour has been taken over by the rich right. Take a look at the Green manifesto (the reason I left Labour and voted Green) they are closer to the Labour ideal than Labour.
Absolutely agree with you.
The Greens are a clown circus and very few of their policies are actually Green so you can argue they have also lost their way in the same way as Labour. The country needs a new party with old school Labour values.
The greens are as compromised as the labour party. I speak as an environmentalist
The green party is as compromised as the labour party. I speak as an environmentalist
Owen Jones speaking truth to power yet again - a true patriot! 🇬🇧✊
Where's the "truth" in the assertion that Starmer accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations whilst removing the Winter Fuel payment, when the vast bulk of those donations were actually received - and _declared_ - before he became PM?
Owen Jones is not a patriot. He's spent the majority of his career condemning "populism" and, mocking the British working class.
He is right with a lot of his criticism of the current government but, he was amongst the many to pave the way for such an uncaring, authoritarian government.
@@ftumschk Are you contradicting yourself?
@@reson8 Not in the slightest - I'm just getting the facts in the right order, which is more than Duffield or Jones bothered to do. They assert that Starmer was accepting hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations WHILST he was removing the Winter Fuel payment, which is demonstrably false.
Hilarious! 😂
Myself friends and family will continue to vote reform. Never ever again trust the treacherous lying tories or Labour
Well done Rosie. A politician with honour and scruples. Very brave. Now let's see a few more labour MPs resigning.
Thanks Owen. Very clear as usual.
She literally took £12,000 in personal donations earlier this year.
Hardly, Duffield abstained in the WFA vote
Well done Owen Jones. He speaks truth to power
This bloke's finally understood what labour is......even thickos eventually get it.
Labpur only by name. Respect Rosie Duffield
THE MOST vulnerable are the elderly and children..
Today’s elderly are the boomers of the 80’s. The lot who elected Thatcher for tax cuts.
Stop seeing them as innocent.
This guy is an absolute legend wish we had more Owen’s 😅
They need to clone him. Get this thing cleaned up quick
😂
@@Chris-w2q😂
I don’t normally agree with Mr Jones but he is spot on
Well explained Owen..
Couldn't say it better. It is nauseating. A huge con - nothing to do with the aspirations of the millions of people who voted for change which the labour party promised. Sickening.
Well said, Owen.
Several dozen labour MPs need to resign their posts and start an avalanche of by elections . Then they can start their own party .
80% of the electorate didn’t vote for this black comedy clown show . Starmer and the Daleks must resign .
The unions must stop funding labour now , and go on strike for the pensioners .
Brilliant!
💯 "Starmer and the Daleks" - I like it! 🙂 (Keiravros? 😏)
She was the first to resign but not the first to be fired. She had plenty of opportunities to use her position as a Labour MP to walk the talk and she didn’t.
Quitting over donations while not voting against the things she’s complaining about is just her having her John Terry moment
You've gained a fan. Well said.
Well, I never thought I would agree with Owen Jones!
Well said Owen.
Owen is bang on
Gotta say, it's bad if Owen Jones wants out.
Owen Jones left the Labour Party ages ago. Way before the election.
@Johnnie-dh1we Yeah, but who would have thought it would happen?
@@johnmaurer2035 he's been against Kier Starmer for the last five years. So it's no surprise at all. He's obsessed with Jeremy Corbyn.
@@Johnnie-dh1westarmer is obsessed with corbyn.according to starmer the only reason labour lost the 2019 election was corbyn.nothing to do with get brexit done or friends of isreal labour mps not wanting to be able to critise isreal whatever they did but rather having lardy boris than a labour goverment.
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He's already left the labour party a while ago.
Owen, I haven’t always agreed with everything you say, but, you are eloquent and,I would implore you to take James O Brien to account….. A conversation that would be worthy of all LBC listeners tuning in for Bravo !!!!
Why only 8
minutes for owen?
Owen is a legend !❤
Maybe he will change something in this country. I agree he is a legend and he is totally dedicated. A great man we will respect more and more as time goes on. Any doubters here change your minds over him.
I can't believe it but is little Owen finally growing up?
Gosh for once I agree with Owen Jones 👏
Labour Party have no idea what they are doing, there was never any manifesto never mind saying it was all costed, can’t answer any questions.
I don't understand why anyone would have voted for Labour in the first place.
To me personally, it has been as plain as the nose on your faces what Starmer was about.
Oh well, we can all now suffer together.
Perhaps in time this country will unite and finally vote in a peoples party for the people! I do hope so.
Half a million fewer voters voted Labour in the 2024 election than did for Labour in tge last one on 2019 under Jeremy Corbyn who, far from winning a landslide, *lost* the election.
Starmer actually lost Labour votes!
Labour are in power because the Conservative vote collapsed.
The number of votes cast for the Tories + Reform taken together was 4% greater than Labour's popular vote. Under electoral systems of most other countries, Labour would not be governing today.
Never thought I may like this twerp, but, he speaks the truth👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
I'm a pensioner (and Labour Party member... still...).and during the election campaign I was bombarded with emails from Labour asking for financial contributions. I made a number of (small, because I'm a pensioner) contributions and I'm now completely gobsmacked by the amount of wealthy donors etc donating all kinds of stuff to Starmer etc. The bad taste in my mouth is getting worse. I may yet resign... So disappointed so far...
Pleased you now realize that labour only cares about themselves and how much they can get from the trough.
I never liked you much, Jones, and we are poles apart politically, but you’ve seriously gone up in my estimation. I don’t mean to sound condescending or patronising, but well done. Stay true. Much respect and best regards.
Well I must confess, I too am miles away politically from Mr Jones but I can't disagree with a single word he is saying here. I feel the world has been turn upside down in such a short period of time by this new government.
Not sure what you disagreed on before, this is always what he's been about
Another great summary from Owen Jones. Don't like him, but he's talking a lot of sense..
If you close your eyes, you would be thinking Owen is talking about the Tories, not it's about Labour.
" They don't have a soul politically speaking " 😢
They want to poorest to pay more; for their crazy ideas.
what a load of old tosh
@@AndrewWoods-sm9vx is that you 2TK?
First time I’ve heard any sort of sense from Owen Jones
You should listen to him more often.
He's always been like this! I have no idea why so many people are only just starting actually hear what he's about
@@powderandpaint14 No thank you. It seems like he’s as fickle and self-serving as most political commentators. He professes to be a crusader for the working class, yet doesn’t know what it’s like to live in impoverished conditions. This is a man that has the utmost contempt for the very system that allows him the platform to espouse his extreme liberal view. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. He’s a hypocrite and no better than the rest of them. Apart from that he’s alright☺️
@@powderandpaint14 - no thanks.
We have too much on him from over these past years
@@mcharrisment4765
Agreed 👍
sire kid starver brings shame on my country. Human Right's lawyer ????????
Human rights only for the rich and powerful.
Rosie Duffield the only labour mp with grit , determination and common sense.
What about the likes of Zarah Sultana who have been suspended already for opposing things like the two child benefit cap?
Hardly! She abstained in the WFA vote