My late father used to get up at 5.30 am every day, having gone to bed at about midnight. And this continued throughout his life even when he didn't have to get up at 5.30 (to go to his manual labour job). It is what you get used to, but (like Churchill ) he would have a cat nap should the opportunity present itself. I like at least 8 hours unbroken sleep myself.
One good thing about Croydon is it’s where I was born! Also where I saw many a good band at Fairfield’s Hall, including the first band I ever saw, The Who in 1965!
I am an American from South Carolina who currently resides in New York but Islington has become my second home in the UK as I've been the composer for three! musicals at the Almeida Theatre there. You'll have to guess which ones, but I digress. You two lovely gents missed one of the best things about Croydon that even I know and I don't think I've ever even step foot in its radius 😉. Thomas Dolby (he of the "She Blinded Me With Science" song among others) has a song on his second album called Screen Kiss, his best in my humble opinion. In it there is the following lyric: "Miller Time at the bar where all the English meet/She used to drink in the hills/only now she drinks in the valleys/Where every road has a name like Beechwood Avenue/A CROYDON girl ..../could really hope to find a home/with a thousand miles of real estate to choose from/you begin too see the value of your freedom". Since it is a song about a Croydon girl getting lost in Los Angeles I doubt even Thomas Dolby himself could have foreseen the Irony of that last line. Regards, love your show!
What a pitty that we lost as our partners in the EU this British common sense and wit - of which the two of you are such marvellous beacons of these traits - . I nourish my hope of Great Briton´s return by watching your podcast regularily, from Germany. (By the way, I can help you neither on Jürgen Klopp nor on Angela Merkel. I only met the latter once personally for a dinner (when she had rrecently become party leader). I was the youngest and the only dissenting member in a small group of metals industry leaders, who treated her very in a most domineering way and and afterwards laughed the idea off of her ever ascending to her later role as Chancellor. They at least honoured the bet I had won on that question. Keep my fingers crossed for both interview guests.
@@simonwinter8839 I wouldn’t write Rory Stewart off yet - still relatively young and quite obviously looking for something to get his impressive teeth into. The podcast is a huge success and doubtlessly very lucrative - I believe each of them earn £70K a month from it - but my feeling is he’d drop it like a hot coal if a suitably attractive role came up, whether political or societal. I find both of them very impressive - whatever his politics Alistair is a brilliant communicator.
10:26 I'm an expat who lost my vote in 2021 when I'd been out of the country over 15 years, I have never voted Tory and don't see any reason why I ever would. But thank you to the Tories for giving me my vote back - I appreciate it. I'll probably vote Green because in the Brighton Pavilion constituency, where I was last registered, they have a strong chance, being the incumbent party. Before I left Britain I only ever voted Lib-Dem (probably never again), Labour (mainly tactically) or Green, depending on the election and issues.
I'm a Labour supporter, not against immigration, but the alkaline throwing immigrant guy who was given permission to live in the UK in spite of a conviction for a sex offence, is exactly the kind of event that could cause an increase in Tory vote before an election.
A person convicted of sexual offences should not be granted asylum, or allowed into the country. The UK should also aim to be compassionate when it comes to immigration. The sad thing is the extremes on both wings will use it to serve their arguments.
@@robthorpemusic I think wealthy people often fail to understand that those without money are reluctant to apply for documentation, either because it frightens them to engage with the state, or they feel that things like that are 'just not for us'. And many people don't have smart phones, computers or bank accounts, which makes active citizenship very difficult.
@@jon-y6x People on benefits can apply for help to pay for ID. If you're earning too much to be entitled to Universal Credit then you can afford to pay for ID.
Well put. I'd personally make it mandatory. Voters would be welcome to spoil their papers if they didn't feel inclined to any candidate, but at least there'd be an official tally for the disaffected. Ultimately, though, there should no impediment to voting, at all.
Rory - what about the people who didn't even turn out to vote because they knew, or believed, that they didn't have the right ID. This is obviously anecdotal, but I know of at least 5 individuals in my tiny village for whom this applied last time. I also witnessed an elderly chap who was sent away because his driving licence had expired, but wasn't recorded as refused a vote, because he said he'd try to find his passport and come back. He never did.
Spot on Rory. From my experience the planning system isn't really the biggest obstacle, the real problem is that our model is profit driven, which massively skews where and what type of housing gets built, e.g. gluts of 1 & 2 bed flats in some places and huge executive homes and no small family homes in other places. Proper affordable family homes and retirement stock like bungalows always miss out. Personally, I think design and planning for development sites should be community led via local authorities, then developers bid to deliver construction to a planning consent. The winner being the one that will deliver the development to the specification defined at the lowest retail price for the housing units.
Yes, and I don't think the developers should be allowed to decide which houses are built as 'affordable housing' and that they are picked at random by the local authority after the place is built: Developer requests permission to build x many houses 10-15% or whatever the current percentage is must be sold as 'affordable' but only the LA decides which ones these are, drawn from a lottery perhaps to avoid corruption, and that way all of the houses are built to the same standard instead of skimping on the affordable
What a relief to hear two moderate voices from opposite sides having a considerate conversation rather than the polarising squawks of current politics.
On the subject of funding for think tanks I do think it's quite concerning. I used to work at one of the larger international security think tanks in london and if you look behind the curtains some of the stuff you'd see would be extremely concerning. While they are listed as a "charity" they do get the funding from obscure places.
Rory, when you talked about being a prison officer, you described being a police constable but without the progression opportunities (and being in what’s effectively a trap if things go wrong).
I am not just against photo ID to vote, I am against the mandatory carrying of ID full stop. I am not a fan of postal voting either. The safest voting system is each voter putting a cross in a box in person. This is the voting procedure that is least likely to be corrupted or disputed.
Well i live overseas, I'm old, I'm relatively wealthy, I've voted Tory but not next time, I'll always vote centre whoever is nearest and.....most trustworthy
The tiny percentage of people who were rejected when they turned up is a bit of statistical red herring - far more people didn't go because they didn't have an appropriate form of photo ID, and guess what, the demographic of those who cant afford a passport or driving license (and if you are an older person, then you need to go away and re-examine how much stuff costs for younger people if you think those are a given. I know other professionals who cant afford driving lessons and I personally didn't renew my passport recently because our mortgage is so much), anyway, the demographics of those who cant afford photo IDs are not neutral. I wont say what they were when I last looked them up as its a moving target and would be untrue in the future, but the fact is they are not ever going to be neutral, so the best thing is to not introduce barriers to fix a non-existent problem. The number of electoral fraud issues due to a lack of ID is vanishingly small and massively less than the number of people who don't vote because they dont have ID (but are perfectly legitimate).
@@semicolonenthusiast135480 seat majority will shut down any debate. The Tories knew/know exactly what the impacts are. Why do you think they want it, and have bigged it up in their toady press?
I'm a re-enfranchised Brit abroad. Many of my fellow countrymen think I shouldn't vote on the basis of residency/non-residency. Nobody has been able hitherto to explain to me at what point I became non-British. I shall be voting. My three children have been advised that they can apply for the franchise. Thanks to both of you for what you do.
I mean as long as you have a British passport and citizenship then there will be government policy that affects you so I can’t see a problem. People often can’t see the issues others may have that they personally haven’t experienced, so I think opposition to it is a product of ignorance more than anything. Or xenophobia, whatever…
But if you've chosen not to live in Britain, you presumably think you have a better life elsewhere. Why does that give you the right to decide on a Government who will make decisions which affect our lives every day?
@@wastag9412 Presumably the only government policy that affects non-residents would be foreign-policy. In which case, that could apply to anyone in the world?
Just a note to the audio mixer/s - could you turn up the volume? No doubt the gains are relatively low on both mics for ease of use, but compared to some of the other videos on YT the audio is really quiet.
Why should the mayor of London be allowed to sell tfl land. Tfl exists to provide a transport service and that land is an asset which supports that. It's not a private fund for a mayor to disburse as they wish. Tfl should make those decisions and tfl should keep all the money
Interesting discussion as always. Where housing is concerned I totally agree with Rory; we do need government to invest directly in the building social housing. Large private developers always baulk at providing a proportion of 'affordable' housing as part of a development. Their objective is always profit maximisation.
I have to say I recently stumbled across your podcast have to say it's excellent well done both. A question I would like to have answered how many doctors, nurses, porters are employed throughout the entire NHS but more importantly how many Managers are employed. I believe the NHS is overburdened with too many Managers. Plus why doesn't the NHS buy its products as 1 entire body not as an NHS Trust. Plus medical drugs which are no longer under patent why doesn't the NHS make there own drugs and cut out the drug companies.
The Governor-General of Tuvalu is H.E. The Reverend Sir Tofiga Vaevalu Falani GCMG MBE. The UK does not have a High Commission in Tuvalu. Instead, consular services are the responsibility of the High Commission in Suva, Fiji.
My all night essay writing food was Pepperoni & Frito sandwiches, washed down by a 6 pack of beer and a hot shower at 5am. Relatively certain my professors thought I was a maniac
Am happy to be able to have a UK vote at last, despite paying tax there. It’s been promised for many years but too late for the vote that really affected our overseas lives, that of Brexit.
And how much holiday do MPs have when Parliament is closed? June-September, sure you can catch up on it then, let alone Christmas, Conference season and Easter recesses. Heart bleeds. Try earning min wage and six day weeks, starting at 6am!!!.
As an emigrant, we were promised a vote before brexit. That was piecrust. British in Europe has been pushing for our rights, and yes, many, many of us are over 50, white and privileged. Those of us who really, really care about voting, rights, and voting rights are probably the ones who signed up on day one. Was it the right call to bank on getting our vote in return for 'granting' it? Time will tell.
As an aside on Tuvalu, Australia recently signed an agreement to provide a pathway for residents to live work and study here. China has been courting many of the Oceania countries for obvious reasons as Australia increases it foreign aid in the region.
As an expat who moved to Europe during the days of Freedom of Movement like many, many others. I think the assumptions about the way expats might vote are perhaps quite wrong. We moved under the premise we could keep our British citizenship under EU rules. We lost out a lot by Brexit and had no say in that vote. If you have concerns about 700 people being denied their right to vote why are you not concerned about 2 million Brits not being allowed to vote anywhere?
I enjoyed this quite a bit, but I would have liked a differentiation between Unions and Business owners as sources of funding that exert undue influence. I would not go as far as to argue their funding acts differently in function regarding the bias and exertion of power over policy, more that Union money, which is often sourced from thousands or tens of thousands of small donations from individuals as opposed to a business donation, which reflects one or a very small group of donators, is, therefore, less of an issue?
I think in about 03 my dad had me enter our fantasy football teams over the phone. Took an age typing out and correcting the numbers etc. Mum went through us at the end of the quarter, "Who had a £44 call to Tuvalu!!!!??????"
re the photo id's. Isn't it the case that the figures were taken in the polling stations, but many stations had people outside turning voters away who didn't have the correct id- or at least telling them that they wouldn't be able to vote? If that is the case, then there could have been a lot more who didn't vote because of the id.
Corrupt is the correct word about UK politics. Spelt Corrupt....what if another country were able to buy a seat in the legislature....we are blind to the disgrace because we are 'special' but we are rotten to the core. Brexit is only one example...
I am an expat, just given back my vote by the Tory government, which I despise and will definitely vote against. I find Alistair Campblll's remark that this move is "a bit gerrymanderish" deeply offensive. Expats have a constitutional right to vote, which has been denied for too long, and I will say the same even if most of us vote Conservative. How partisan can you get? The UK was a democracy last time I checked. Maybe he should also check.
34:00 RE Housing - Thanks to the Tories in the 1980's we now have a skewed housing market, instead of viewing property as a long term investment for people to live their lives in it is now seen as a commodity to be speculated on like any other financial commoditised investment. For the past 40 years both Tory & Labour governments have put to much reliance & emphasis on the private house building sector which is largely at the heart of our current housing crisis. House builders will build what makes them the most money for the least cost which is why keeping property prices high through demand outstripping supply is crucial to their business model. This has to be corrected not by trying to encourage more house building by the private sector but by central government stepping in and funding house building projects on a national scale not seen since the end of WW2.
Everyone protests against new housing projects near them. Everyone wants the countryside and everyone wants their house value to keep increasing. Everyone wants several kids and the population doubles every 35 years. Everyone wants homeless people to be "moved on".
Not me. I don't want kids, I want people who are homeless to be cared for, my house is ridiculously over-priced. I vote for a total moratorium on house building.
I think that when a prime minister resigns or steps down of office, there should be a general election so that the voters can vote, for a new prime minister, the current system of the party almost choosing a prime minister in the middle a parliamentary term i find this to be undemocratic.
Regards the voter ID percentages. The only people who are recorded as being turned back are the ones who made it in the door. If you got checked while waiting to go in it didn't have to be logged. The number is totally unknown
What a great idea around 37 minutes regarding social house building. Yes in London but the methodology is fantastic. Me khan is too busy puffing himself up and also looking after his ridiculous ULEZ scheme. It is about time this man is brought to task.
My hypothesis was the November date was a ruse to make ReformUK take the slow road to vetting their candidates. Rishi must be hating being a Conservative MP and just wants to go back to California.
There is nothing wrong with having a photo ID as proof of wanting to vote, when the electoral commission requests some prove of ID, during election cycle or period.
My brother moved to France ten years ago and he and his wife are happily and permanently settled there, but I don't see why they should have any say in the governing of the country. Possibly, if they retained a property and paid some measure of tax in the UK, then yes I could see the logic in that, but otherwise no. My personal take is that, compared to other countries, we might have been constitutionally out of step, but I can't recall it being raised as that much of an issue previously; and yes, I do believe this Conservative government has only engineered the reform to go in search of extra votes. Another commenter in this space considers AC's assessment of 'gerrymanderish' as 'deeply offensive'. Why so, it is all but the truth. However, it may well backfire on them, especially among the UK immigrants across the EU, for whom Brexit has created all sorts of difficulties. What I do believe was utterly wrong was the exclusion of EU/UK residents being denied a vote in the EU Referendum. They'd not only payed their taxes here for years, but they had married UK citizens and were raising UK children.
Tuvalu .......come on guys and you Rory as an ex military man, the importance of Tuvalu is the same as the UK in WW2, it's an unsinkable aircraft carrier and that's the beginning and end of China's interest.
IMHO - I believe successive governments need a massive council flat building programme of well built, but otherwise relatively modest - mainly one-bedroom - council flats (at least 1,000 per constituency or local authority area, in many places, twice or three times that). In the short term, homelessness, refugees and the destitute. But longer term, the ticking time-bomb of generation rent. When millions begin to reach retirement age, having never owned their own home, always renting, the potential housing benefit payment bill would cripple the economy - if they had to continue living in the private rental sector on a pension. An abundant supply of well-built, modest flats will be a national necessity (a national emergency). Fix the roof while the sun shines. Don't wait for the crisis and be forced to respond in haste. Start building now (or crash the economy from around 2040 onwards).
MPs will never do anything about housing as its full of people who own houses and they'll keep making building difficult and will keep the money printers going to prop up the housing market.
I agree with Alastair Labour should not assume the election is won. A minority of voters determine election wins. Largely because of Tory's constituency gerrymandering.
Apart from the excellent content, this is worth watching just for Rory’s facial expressions
Do you think that Rory Stewart is proof that British dental care has improved since the 1970s? He loves to show off his choppers. 😬😬😬😬😬
Yes. His facial muscles have their work cut out trying to manage his enormous intellect. The breadth of his knowledge is astonishing.
@@philipmulville8218 why is it chimpanzees form similar expressions then
You both have very calming voices, to listen to. Love your podcasts for your humour and your engaging honesty.
One of those calming voices started an illegal war that costs the lives of hundreds of thousands of men women and children….😔
@@g.p616didn't know George W Bush was on it
I’ve always listened to the podcast . It’s a totally different experience to watch the pair of them discuss these issues on video! This is great!
My late father used to get up at 5.30 am every day, having gone to bed at about midnight. And this continued throughout his life even when he didn't have to get up at 5.30 (to go to his manual labour job). It is what you get used to, but (like Churchill ) he would have a cat nap should the opportunity present itself. I like at least 8 hours unbroken sleep myself.
One good thing about Croydon is it’s where I was born! Also where I saw many a good band at Fairfield’s Hall, including the first band I ever saw, The Who in 1965!
Thank you both, you make politics interesting and entertaining. A hard job to do!
Nice to see two top political figures on both sides of the spectrum being friendly and respectful to each other. Top stream. 👍👍
I am an American from South Carolina who currently resides in New York but Islington has become my second home in the UK as I've been the composer for three! musicals at the Almeida Theatre there. You'll have to guess which ones, but I digress. You two lovely gents missed one of the best things about Croydon that even I know and I don't think I've ever even step foot in its radius 😉. Thomas Dolby (he of the "She Blinded Me With Science" song among others) has a song on his second album called Screen Kiss, his best in my humble opinion. In it there is the following lyric: "Miller Time at the bar where all the English meet/She used to drink in the hills/only now she drinks in the valleys/Where every road has a name like Beechwood Avenue/A CROYDON girl ..../could really hope to find a home/with a thousand miles of real estate to choose from/you begin too see the value of your freedom". Since it is a song about a Croydon girl getting lost in Los Angeles I doubt even Thomas Dolby himself could have foreseen the Irony of that last line. Regards, love your show!
What a pitty that we lost as our partners in the EU this British common sense and wit - of which the two of you are such marvellous beacons of these traits - . I nourish my hope of Great Briton´s return by watching your podcast regularily, from Germany. (By the way, I can help you neither on Jürgen Klopp nor on Angela Merkel. I only met the latter once personally for a dinner (when she had rrecently become party leader). I was the youngest and the only dissenting member in a small group of metals industry leaders, who treated her very in a most domineering way and and afterwards laughed the idea off of her ever ascending to her later role as Chancellor. They at least honoured the bet I had won on that question. Keep my fingers crossed for both interview guests.
I literally just picked "Why we Sleep" off my bookshelf the EXACT moment Rory mentioned it.
It must be the Matrix.
Watching videos of two has been's does it for me zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
@@simonwinter8839 I wouldn’t write Rory Stewart off yet - still relatively young and quite obviously looking for something to get his impressive teeth into. The podcast is a huge success and doubtlessly very lucrative - I believe each of them earn £70K a month from it - but my feeling is he’d drop it like a hot coal if a suitably attractive role came up, whether political or societal. I find both of them very impressive - whatever his politics Alistair is a brilliant communicator.
@@philipmulville8218 Time will tell but I'd rather you hadn't woken me up to tell me !!
@@simonwinter8839 Apologies, Simon. 👍
Always get my Tuvalu-based news updates from here, cheers guys, x
10:26 I'm an expat who lost my vote in 2021 when I'd been out of the country over 15 years, I have never voted Tory and don't see any reason why I ever would. But thank you to the Tories for giving me my vote back - I appreciate it. I'll probably vote Green because in the Brighton Pavilion constituency, where I was last registered, they have a strong chance, being the incumbent party. Before I left Britain I only ever voted Lib-Dem (probably never again), Labour (mainly tactically) or Green, depending on the election and issues.
I'm a Labour supporter, not against immigration, but the alkaline throwing immigrant guy who was given permission to live in the UK in spite of a conviction for a sex offence, is exactly the kind of event that could cause an increase in Tory vote before an election.
A person convicted of sexual offences should not be granted asylum, or allowed into the country.
The UK should also aim to be compassionate when it comes to immigration.
The sad thing is the extremes on both wings will use it to serve their arguments.
He was given that permission under a Tory government
@@-JLC Doesnt matter, logic will not play a part. These kinds of events will boost Tory support, sometimes drastically.
@@juliangilbert5465logic doesn’t play a part in voting Tory , couldn’t agree more
Surely the problem with photo ID is not that people are turned away, but that people are discouraged?
I thought that - the stat completely misses the number that didn't even try to vote, because they knew they couldn't.
@@robthorpemusic I think wealthy people often fail to understand that those without money are reluctant to apply for documentation, either because it frightens them to engage with the state, or they feel that things like that are 'just not for us'. And many people don't have smart phones, computers or bank accounts, which makes active citizenship very difficult.
@@jon-y6x People on benefits can apply for help to pay for ID.
If you're earning too much to be entitled to Universal Credit then you can afford to pay for ID.
Well put. I'd personally make it mandatory. Voters would be welcome to spoil their papers if they didn't feel inclined to any candidate, but at least there'd be an official tally for the disaffected. Ultimately, though, there should no impediment to voting, at all.
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Rory - what about the people who didn't even turn out to vote because they knew, or believed, that they didn't have the right ID. This is obviously anecdotal, but I know of at least 5 individuals in my tiny village for whom this applied last time. I also witnessed an elderly chap who was sent away because his driving licence had expired, but wasn't recorded as refused a vote, because he said he'd try to find his passport and come back. He never did.
Very important comment!
There’s many with no photo ID
Spot on Rory. From my experience the planning system isn't really the biggest obstacle, the real problem is that our model is profit driven, which massively skews where and what type of housing gets built, e.g. gluts of 1 & 2 bed flats in some places and huge executive homes and no small family homes in other places. Proper affordable family homes and retirement stock like bungalows always miss out.
Personally, I think design and planning for development sites should be community led via local authorities, then developers bid to deliver construction to a planning consent. The winner being the one that will deliver the development to the specification defined at the lowest retail price for the housing units.
Yes, and I don't think the developers should be allowed to decide which houses are built as 'affordable housing' and that they are picked at random by the local authority after the place is built:
Developer requests permission to build x many houses
10-15% or whatever the current percentage is must be sold as 'affordable' but only the LA decides which ones these are, drawn from a lottery perhaps to avoid corruption, and that way all of the houses are built to the same standard instead of skimping on the affordable
I live in Croydon and Im proud of that! Should be a city in its own right!
What a relief to hear two moderate voices from opposite sides having a considerate conversation rather than the polarising squawks of current politics.
On the subject of funding for think tanks I do think it's quite concerning. I used to work at one of the larger international security think tanks in london and if you look behind the curtains some of the stuff you'd see would be extremely concerning. While they are listed as a "charity" they do get the funding from obscure places.
I really do love this podcast along with the Osborne and ed balls podcast, helps with my politics degree, would you ever consider a joint episode?
Rory, when you talked about being a prison officer, you described being a police constable but without the progression opportunities (and being in what’s effectively a trap if things go wrong).
I am not just against photo ID to vote, I am against the mandatory carrying of ID full stop. I am not a fan of postal voting either. The safest voting system is each voter putting a cross in a box in person. This is the voting procedure that is least likely to be corrupted or disputed.
Please don't change guys. Entertained and informed. Doesn't get better than that for me.
Well i live overseas, I'm old, I'm relatively wealthy, I've voted Tory but not next time, I'll always vote centre whoever is nearest and.....most trustworthy
Lucky you to be living overseas! Anything but the British weather!
The tiny percentage of people who were rejected when they turned up is a bit of statistical red herring - far more people didn't go because they didn't have an appropriate form of photo ID, and guess what, the demographic of those who cant afford a passport or driving license (and if you are an older person, then you need to go away and re-examine how much stuff costs for younger people if you think those are a given. I know other professionals who cant afford driving lessons and I personally didn't renew my passport recently because our mortgage is so much), anyway, the demographics of those who cant afford photo IDs are not neutral. I wont say what they were when I last looked them up as its a moving target and would be untrue in the future, but the fact is they are not ever going to be neutral, so the best thing is to not introduce barriers to fix a non-existent problem. The number of electoral fraud issues due to a lack of ID is vanishingly small and massively less than the number of people who don't vote because they dont have ID (but are perfectly legitimate).
I'm very surprised this kind of critique didn't come up. This is certainly the main criticism I've heard whenever the topic comes up.
@@semicolonenthusiast135480 seat majority will shut down any debate. The Tories knew/know exactly what the impacts are. Why do you think they want it, and have bigged it up in their toady press?
Hurrah for Rory - great thinking on housing.
I'm a re-enfranchised Brit abroad. Many of my fellow countrymen think I shouldn't vote on the basis of residency/non-residency. Nobody has been able hitherto to explain to me at what point I became non-British. I shall be voting. My three children have been advised that they can apply for the franchise. Thanks to both of you for what you do.
I mean as long as you have a British passport and citizenship then there will be government policy that affects you so I can’t see a problem. People often can’t see the issues others may have that they personally haven’t experienced, so I think opposition to it is a product of ignorance more than anything. Or xenophobia, whatever…
But if you've chosen not to live in Britain, you presumably think you have a better life elsewhere. Why does that give you the right to decide on a Government who will make decisions which affect our lives every day?
@@wastag9412 Presumably the only government policy that affects non-residents would be foreign-policy. In which case, that could apply to anyone in the world?
@@elainelight THE LAW gives him (and me) the RIGHT 😮👍. Duuuh?!
@@elainelightAnd yes, I DO have a better life elsewhere 😂🎉.
Love listening to you both. So many topics yet to discuss and guests to invite
More about Tuvalu please
Just a note to the audio mixer/s - could you turn up the volume?
No doubt the gains are relatively low on both mics for ease of use, but compared to some of the other videos on YT the audio is really quiet.
Why should the mayor of London be allowed to sell tfl land. Tfl exists to provide a transport service and that land is an asset which supports that. It's not a private fund for a mayor to disburse as they wish. Tfl should make those decisions and tfl should keep all the money
Interesting discussion as always. Where housing is concerned I totally agree with Rory; we do need government to invest directly in the building social housing. Large private developers always baulk at providing a proportion of 'affordable' housing as part of a development. Their objective is always profit maximisation.
Funding for any party, organisation or a group should be transparent and never be done through dodgy back room deals or through corrupt methods.
67 is an crazy age for anyone to be waiting for a state pension. It should be reduced back down to a more realistic age.
Problem is a more realistic age is 70+ .
I have to say I recently stumbled across your podcast have to say it's excellent well done both. A question I would like to have answered how many doctors, nurses, porters are employed throughout the entire NHS but more importantly how many Managers are employed. I believe the NHS is overburdened with too many Managers. Plus why doesn't the NHS buy its products as 1 entire body not as an NHS Trust. Plus medical drugs which are no longer under patent why doesn't the NHS make there own drugs and cut out the drug companies.
What a great podcast
Rory Stewart the only Tory i like
My new hobby: using a VPN to listen/watch via obscure Pacific island nations in the hope that it gets mentioned.
The Governor-General of Tuvalu is H.E. The Reverend Sir Tofiga Vaevalu Falani GCMG MBE. The UK does not have a High Commission in Tuvalu. Instead, consular services are the responsibility of the High Commission in Suva, Fiji.
My all night essay writing food was Pepperoni & Frito sandwiches, washed down by a 6 pack of beer and a hot shower at 5am. Relatively certain my professors thought I was a maniac
Sarah Jane Smith was from Croydon, well South Croydon.
Am happy to be able to have a UK vote at last, despite paying tax there. It’s been promised for many years but too late for the vote that really affected our overseas lives, that of Brexit.
Not in my case: I'm living abroad as I fled Brexit!
And how much holiday do MPs have when Parliament is closed? June-September, sure you can catch up on it then, let alone Christmas, Conference season and Easter recesses. Heart bleeds. Try earning min wage and six day weeks, starting at 6am!!!.
The polls 2017 and even slightly 2019 underestimated the labour vote …
As an emigrant, we were promised a vote before brexit. That was piecrust. British in Europe has been pushing for our rights, and yes, many, many of us are over 50, white and privileged. Those of us who really, really care about voting, rights, and voting rights are probably the ones who signed up on day one. Was it the right call to bank on getting our vote in return for 'granting' it? Time will tell.
As an aside on Tuvalu, Australia recently signed an agreement to provide a pathway for residents to live work and study here. China has been courting many of the Oceania countries for obvious reasons as Australia increases it foreign aid in the region.
Arguably the UK's best custom bicycle frame builder of his time, Chas Roberts, was in Croydon. So not all bad 🙂
I wish these two guys could run the Shop. perhaps they should form their own party The common sense party perhaps
As an expat who moved to Europe during the days of Freedom of Movement like many, many others. I think the assumptions about the way expats might vote are perhaps quite wrong. We moved under the premise we could keep our British citizenship under EU rules. We lost out a lot by Brexit and had no say in that vote. If you have concerns about 700 people being denied their right to vote why are you not concerned about 2 million Brits not being allowed to vote anywhere?
Wonderful podcast!
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Checked if my VPN had a Tuvalu option. Weirdly not. They're missing a trick there.
Be interesting to see George Monbiot on, last time i heard him he was praising nuclear power over renewables.
We were relying on the market. Just about sums it up doesn’t it?
I enjoyed this quite a bit, but I would have liked a differentiation between Unions and Business owners as sources of funding that exert undue influence. I would not go as far as to argue their funding acts differently in function regarding the bias and exertion of power over policy, more that Union money, which is often sourced from thousands or tens of thousands of small donations from individuals as opposed to a business donation, which reflects one or a very small group of donators, is, therefore, less of an issue?
An expat friend of mine was incensed that he was not allowed to vote during Brexit...!!!!!
Tuvalu might be small, but the US and China are in competition over the Pacific so it's important to that
Whenever Rory shows his broad smile and massive perfect teeth it always reminds me of 'Wallance and Grommet'.
I think in about 03 my dad had me enter our fantasy football teams over the phone. Took an age typing out and correcting the numbers etc.
Mum went through us at the end of the quarter, "Who had a £44 call to Tuvalu!!!!??????"
Who is the Classical Chinese official/Emperor in Roy’s background?
I’m guessing Emperor because of the Royal Yellow - but what’s the story there?
re the photo id's. Isn't it the case that the figures were taken in the polling stations, but many stations had people outside turning voters away who didn't have the correct id- or at least telling them that they wouldn't be able to vote? If that is the case, then there could have been a lot more who didn't vote because of the id.
The only time I've been burgled was in Croydon 😅
Corrupt is the correct word about UK politics. Spelt Corrupt....what if another country were able to buy a seat in the legislature....we are blind to the disgrace because we are 'special' but we are rotten to the core. Brexit is only one example...
On the back of this cast can I ask how would you both fix the uk because it is broken and I don’t see anyone fixing it .
I am an expat, just given back my vote by the Tory government, which I despise and will definitely vote against. I find Alistair Campblll's remark that this move is "a bit gerrymanderish" deeply offensive. Expats have a constitutional right to vote, which has been denied for too long, and I will say the same even if most of us vote Conservative. How partisan can you get? The UK was a democracy last time I checked. Maybe he should also check.
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34:00 RE Housing - Thanks to the Tories in the 1980's we now have a skewed housing market, instead of viewing property as a long term investment for people to live their lives in it is now seen as a commodity to be speculated on like any other financial commoditised investment. For the past 40 years both Tory & Labour governments have put to much reliance & emphasis on the private house building sector which is largely at the heart of our current housing crisis. House builders will build what makes them the most money for the least cost which is why keeping property prices high through demand outstripping supply is crucial to their business model. This has to be corrected not by trying to encourage more house building by the private sector but by central government stepping in and funding house building projects on a national scale not seen since the end of WW2.
If Rory had become Tory pm think I could of voted for them
Go Tuvalu!
What about the Immigration Office in Croydon? Sandra , Letham
It's such a pity that Rick Mayall is no longer with us.
B'star would be having an absolute field day right now.
Everyone protests against new housing projects near them. Everyone wants the countryside and everyone wants their house value to keep increasing. Everyone wants several kids and the population doubles every 35 years. Everyone wants homeless people to be "moved on".
Not me. I don't want kids, I want people who are homeless to be cared for, my house is ridiculously over-priced. I vote for a total moratorium on house building.
I think that when a prime minister resigns or steps down of office, there should be a general election so that the voters can vote, for a new prime minister, the current system of the party almost choosing a prime minister in the middle a parliamentary term i find this to be undemocratic.
Regards the voter ID percentages. The only people who are recorded as being turned back are the ones who made it in the door. If you got checked while waiting to go in it didn't have to be logged. The number is totally unknown
What a great idea around 37 minutes regarding social house building. Yes in London but the methodology is fantastic. Me khan is too busy puffing himself up and also looking after his ridiculous ULEZ scheme. It is about time this man is brought to task.
My hypothesis was the November date was a ruse to make ReformUK take the slow road to vetting their candidates. Rishi must be hating being a Conservative MP and just wants to go back to California.
Get them Tories out now ..we need a change
36:30 RUN FOR MAYOR, RORY! I'LL VOTE FOR THAT!
There is nothing wrong with having a photo ID as proof of wanting to vote, when the electoral commission requests some prove of ID, during election cycle or period.
Sleep is very important in our lives, lack of sleep can cause problems or having sleep deprivation is not good for body and mind.
How do you submit questions?
Would that colleague of Rory's, who threatened to punch him, have made that threat if Rory was built like Jack Reacher? 😂
Croydon was the Canary Wharf of the 60s and its a shame its economy has fallen so far in that time.
Trade Union funding is not quite the same as ultra wealthy / oligarch funding though is it? Not a fan of the false equivalence.
Come on rory run for pm !! Your the best ....
My brother moved to France ten years ago and he and his wife are happily and permanently settled there, but I don't see why they should have any say in the governing of the country. Possibly, if they retained a property and paid some measure of tax in the UK, then yes I could see the logic in that, but otherwise no.
My personal take is that, compared to other countries, we might have been constitutionally out of step, but I can't recall it being raised as that much of an issue previously; and yes, I do believe this Conservative government has only engineered the reform to go in search of extra votes. Another commenter in this space considers AC's assessment of 'gerrymanderish' as 'deeply offensive'. Why so, it is all but the truth.
However, it may well backfire on them, especially among the UK immigrants across the EU, for whom Brexit has created all sorts of difficulties.
What I do believe was utterly wrong was the exclusion of EU/UK residents being denied a vote in the EU Referendum. They'd not only payed their taxes here for years, but they had married UK citizens and were raising UK children.
Sunak as the Spanish Inquisition fear and surprise
Housing: There is an obsession in England in particular about owning your own house rather renting
Tuvalu .......come on guys and you Rory as an ex military man, the importance of Tuvalu is the same as the UK in WW2, it's an unsinkable aircraft carrier and that's the beginning and end of China's interest.
IMHO - I believe successive governments need a massive council flat building programme of well built, but otherwise relatively modest - mainly one-bedroom - council flats (at least 1,000 per constituency or local authority area, in many places, twice or three times that).
In the short term, homelessness, refugees and the destitute.
But longer term, the ticking time-bomb of generation rent.
When millions begin to reach retirement age, having never owned their own home, always renting, the potential housing benefit payment bill would cripple the economy - if they had to continue living in the private rental sector on a pension.
An abundant supply of well-built, modest flats will be a national necessity (a national emergency).
Fix the roof while the sun shines. Don't wait for the crisis and be forced to respond in haste.
Start building now (or crash the economy from around 2040 onwards).
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Please use time stamps
BBC should be independent, unfortunately some MP's who are connected with some some influencial people indirectly influence or interfere with the BBC.
Didn't mention Croydon's skyscrapers caused vast debt, current and past politicians in denial of their failings, time for real change
Thatcher said “ I only need 2 hours sleep at night”
True, she really didn't believe in it, but I think it was four hours, she said.
Rested politicians, doctors, nurses - better decisions for everyone.
MPs will never do anything about housing as its full of people who own houses and they'll keep making building difficult and will keep the money printers going to prop up the housing market.
It’s Shortbread - not Shortbread biscuits
Add first morning light to improving sleep
Cheers Huberman🤣
I agree with Alastair Labour should not assume the election is won.
A minority of voters determine election wins.
Largely because of Tory's constituency gerrymandering.