The politicians 'named and shamed' by the Privileges Committee | LBC

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  • It is not a coincidence that some of the "profoundly stupid politicians" who were promoted "millions of miles beyond their capabilities" for supporting Boris Johnson are now being called out by the committee for undermining its investigation into the former Prime Minister, James O'Brien asserts.
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  • @fishspoons
    @fishspoons ปีที่แล้ว +389

    Mogg is fascinating because he is so well trained in the aesthetic of the parliamentarian, and truly seems to hold himself in regard through that aesthetic, but his every action is so dishonest, corrupt and self-serving that it's hard not to see him as a sociopath.

    • @coleuk8817
      @coleuk8817 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Fascinating? Nauseating, more like.

    • @russellbaston974
      @russellbaston974 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Rees Mogg proclaims himself Christian, the term "whited sepulchre" , pristine and clean on the outside but corrupt inside, was an analogy Christ used to describe hypocrites, might apply.

    • @lynnezabek
      @lynnezabek ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Exactly

    • @Cam-mo7gq
      @Cam-mo7gq ปีที่แล้ว +42

      All education, zero intelligence.

    • @ex-cursion
      @ex-cursion ปีที่แล้ว +24

      He's not a well human being

  • @ignoranceisbliss6259
    @ignoranceisbliss6259 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    How is it even conceivable that Rees-Mogg gets a knighthood? How?

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      the posher the blag the stiffer the lip

    • @royboy565
      @royboy565 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Moggs nanny does tricks for Johnson as well.

    • @gavinmc5285
      @gavinmc5285 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      you're kudding?

    • @joeduffy3309
      @joeduffy3309 ปีที่แล้ว

      He sells papers, the press love him, the press run the country

    • @i-am-vonnegut
      @i-am-vonnegut ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He believed from the age of 6 he would always get one.... He's doesn't understand why he wouldn't.

  • @NoonanLiam
    @NoonanLiam ปีที่แล้ว +23

    As an Irish man living in the USA for almost 20 years, I love your commentary. I fear for the world right now. You voice is much wider than you may think.

  • @jamesscurr571
    @jamesscurr571 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    They all realised that in 2016 there was an open opportunity to make billions from the coffers of the Treasury. An open door to the biggest Bank Vault in the world.

  • @poguemahone5476
    @poguemahone5476 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    If you've never changed your mind, do you really have one?
    Sadly here in Hampshire support for Tories is unwavering. They simply didn't go far enough cutting undeserved public services, and everything that's gone wrong is because of the EU or Labour undermining their valiant and honourable efforts. It's like some kind of twilight zone here among people that have never set foot in an NHS hospital. Or housewives that ship their offspring to boarding school and spend their days pampering themselves, yet look down with utter disgust at the lazy tradesmen continuously renovating their properties.

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The British way stiff upper lip d common people are only there to serve not to judge their betters

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      So glad I left Winchester in the 1980s. Now I wish I had left the UK (but I cannot now).

    • @poguemahone5476
      @poguemahone5476 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@johnjephcote7636 I'm from Bristol area originally, moved abroad for a few years then got stuck in the UK when I came back for Xmas right before COVID. Hampshire has very few multi generational locals. Everyone around here is from the city and moved here when they made some cash to pretend they're country folk. The amount of times I hear them calling people "townies" is unreal. Um, your from Essex and walking your designer dog in £200 Barbour wellies and £700 Bellstaff jacket. You couldn't be more "townie" if you tried. 😂

    • @af7782
      @af7782 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why on earth didn't we have a revolution like France, complete with guillotines & knitting crones.

    • @AugenblickAerial
      @AugenblickAerial ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Tory support in Hampshire is because those people in Hampshire have brains.

  • @jaspal201
    @jaspal201 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Sir Philip Green, the common thief still adorned with honours. Says it all.

  • @Ettrick8
    @Ettrick8 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    The party of Law and Order has fallen so far that I don't trust any of them

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz ปีที่แล้ว +54

      They were never the party of law and order they were the party that said they were the party of law and order and that was it. We should always keep in mind actions speak louder than words

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were the party of whatever the powerful media said they were.

    • @MazzaEliLi7406
      @MazzaEliLi7406 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Alex-cw3rz Well said.

    • @anthonymaughan6103
      @anthonymaughan6103 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yepp , their ALL corrupt fella

    • @Andyreally
      @Andyreally ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@anthonymaughan6103with some notable exceptions

  • @antonyhitchmough1792
    @antonyhitchmough1792 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They are supposed to answer to the electorate.
    But as Dorries admitted, they actually answer to the Billionaire Donors, which is why society in this country has broken down and a completely different approach is required.

  • @mufccharliemufcglazersout
    @mufccharliemufcglazersout ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Named and shamed should all be sacked and never to be MPs Again

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz ปีที่แล้ว +280

    Disgusting levels of corruption

    • @AKHill-gj2uy
      @AKHill-gj2uy ปีที่แล้ว

      When elected representatives are also working as journalists there is nothing but corruption.

    • @dboulding
      @dboulding 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Disgusting levels of corruption from the Priviliedges committee which has acted as judge and jury in its own case in a way that is contrary to all legal practice.
      The committee has contradicted the police’s own findings - setting itself above the law.

  • @jsmith5199
    @jsmith5199 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    All of them named need to be removed from parliament and have any peerages privileges removed

  • @johndennison3140
    @johndennison3140 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    They should resign immediately or be kicked out of office and be made to hand back any honour bestowed on them.

    • @gillianpope9039
      @gillianpope9039 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not going to happen! The tory back benchers will not allow sanctions!!

    • @djmarti7773
      @djmarti7773 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Totally agree.m

    • @patricaomas8750
      @patricaomas8750 ปีที่แล้ว

      Resign, you're living in a pre-Trumpian world.

    • @amcc5887
      @amcc5887 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      💯 %👍 👍 👍

    • @mrgzola25
      @mrgzola25 ปีที่แล้ว

      They govern themselves so they will do nothing

  • @twoonswig3667
    @twoonswig3667 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    "Let us presume they were once honourable"
    Priti Patel used to be a lobbyist for the Tobacco and Alcohol industries. Just an example.

    • @russellnewton6660
      @russellnewton6660 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I’m surprised they never made her the Health Secretary, they wouldn’t see the irony.

    • @JOEFABULOUS.
      @JOEFABULOUS. ปีที่แล้ว +42

      While reporting to her Israeli handler

    • @i-am-vonnegut
      @i-am-vonnegut ปีที่แล้ว

      That's because like others they are prostitutes to their own ego's

    • @davebannister323
      @davebannister323 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JOEFABULOUS. PROOF - Opps you dont provide it .

    • @royboy565
      @royboy565 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@davebannister323She was sacked because of promising govt help.

  • @jezcorrigan651
    @jezcorrigan651 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    They’re all shameless, corrupt fiends. If they weren’t MP’s they’d be in jail

  • @SweetBabboo13
    @SweetBabboo13 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    How?
    Greed, Power, and having Narcissistic tendencies...They only care about themselves. NO ONE ELSE!!!

  • @ThomasKing19933
    @ThomasKing19933 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    It is quite frankly staggering what's been done to this country by these rule breaking charlatans.

    • @davebannister323
      @davebannister323 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you talking about STARMER , Hmm i wonder !

    • @ThomasKing19933
      @ThomasKing19933 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@davebannister323 Change the record.

    • @BadgerBoy59
      @BadgerBoy59 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@davebannister323 ...what? 😂 After having these charlatans in power for the last 13 years and with the state of the country, is deflection to the opposition party really the hill you're willing to die upon? 😆

    • @davebannister323
      @davebannister323 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ThomasKing19933 least i have one , labour ( your mates no doubt ) have NONE

    • @ThomasKing19933
      @ThomasKing19933 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@davebannister323Your Tories have destroyed this country in every way.

  • @paulschonewald4735
    @paulschonewald4735 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    They may have been named but the idea that they would feel any shame at all is not something that would cross their minds, totally shameless.

  • @RichardWilliamsowdrick
    @RichardWilliamsowdrick ปีที่แล้ว +62

    The issue is James, that the people concerned didn't, and still don't accept they actually did anything wrong; and are still supported in their nefarious behaviour by many members of the Tory Government, and the Conservative and Unionist Party.🤬

    • @agt155
      @agt155 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They should be banned from eating cake for the rest of their lives.

  • @rabidbigdog
    @rabidbigdog ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Socio-paths believe they have all the answers and should not be questioned.

    • @nathanfurnival8724
      @nathanfurnival8724 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lefties?

    • @royboy565
      @royboy565 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      ​@@jonathanboam5409It means Nathan's brain cell needs charging.

    • @b62boom1
      @b62boom1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ​@@jonathanboam5409he's the resident goblin. He doesn't understand much.

    • @sarakinnear6535
      @sarakinnear6535 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@b62boom1 The even sadder thing is , in his mind , he thinks
      he's Einstein and Oscar Wilde rolled into one .

    • @EricIrl
      @EricIrl ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sarakinnear6535 Yeah - but Einstein was a lousy humourist and Oscar Wild knew f-all about physics.

  • @steveoconnell3228
    @steveoconnell3228 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Simple really, self interest, by far the worst government in our history and that includes John Majors bunch

  • @stevenbarton2398
    @stevenbarton2398 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    straight out of the D. Trump playbook.

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ' Moving Closer to America '

    • @MrCsifan55
      @MrCsifan55 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You are so right. The same stuff is going on in the US as we speak. And this lot think we don't know.

    • @moniqueshannon8442
      @moniqueshannon8442 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are copying catting Trump pathetic for the Americans that followed him and staggeringly shocking and pathetic for people all the way across the pond to be doing it too!!! 🤦🏽🤣

    • @c.michellesparks2925
      @c.michellesparks2925 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      This is worldwide. There are many countries involved. Let us hope this is the last gasp of a dying breed.

    • @GordonWlocksport
      @GordonWlocksport ปีที่แล้ว

      and Biden is 100 times worse!!

  • @waynewal971
    @waynewal971 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    It is truly disgraceful and undermines our parliament, they where elected to the institution to represent the electorate, not to undermine the system they are privileged to be positioned to represent! Shocking.

    • @VolrinSeth
      @VolrinSeth ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What's even more disgraceful is that people kept voting for them.

    • @bluetoad2668
      @bluetoad2668 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@VolrinSethwas probably the fault of the press. It's powerful.

  • @trevorhutchings4941
    @trevorhutchings4941 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Whatever happened to the British sense of fairness?, I'm 77 years old and was brought up to show cosideration and respect for others whatever nation they come from or whatever age or colour they are. I'm so ashamed of the fall in standards of my country. It is so hard to find anything that is right in this country now, I could weep and I'm not ashamed to say I have at how our statndards plummeted to an all time low. Getting back on track after the Boris wrecking ball will not happen in my lifetime.

    • @Formakiwi
      @Formakiwi ปีที่แล้ว

      It was always a myth designed to disguise the baked-in corruption of a system that has always served the interest of a very small number of powerful people. Like the culture of deference, it's a social construct which is supposed to keep the masses compliant, servile and quiet.

    • @bluetoad2668
      @bluetoad2668 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're not alone.

    • @TheMixCurator
      @TheMixCurator ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The British sense of fairness never existed - it was always a mere allusion. The British have this way of saying one thing and meaning another that I've never encountered anywhere else. I think this two facedness is actually what lies behind the veneer of "fairness"

    • @trevorhutchings4941
      @trevorhutchings4941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheMixCurator It's a shame you don't post using your real name , I might have take more notice of you comment.

  • @Coelacanth1
    @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    So really this is Britain's ' Trumpian ' period

    • @sarries1
      @sarries1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Has been for a while now.hopefully things improve however I am not hopeful 😢

    • @seanpatrick1243
      @seanpatrick1243 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just as with Trump, Борис was just the logical conclusion to a decades long process of a wholly corrupt party desperately trying to cling onto power while refusing to advance policy out of the 19th century.

    • @GordonWlocksport
      @GordonWlocksport ปีที่แล้ว

      this level of corruption is more on a par with the Biden family!!

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sarries1 Things only stand to improve if the voter/consumer can cause the media to make a big noise about it for politicians fear the media.

    • @connclissmann6514
      @connclissmann6514 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are the Conservatives heading for a Goebbels period? Propaganda and all that...

  • @user-em6ie2be7x
    @user-em6ie2be7x ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Much like with Donald Trump here in The US, everything Boris Johnson touches either Dies, or gets Corrupted.

  • @anneankaspilling
    @anneankaspilling ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Thank you for speaking out you really are saying how I feel about these clowns, thank you 🙏

  • @hastyhalfwit6637
    @hastyhalfwit6637 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Named - yes. Shamed - I suspect not. Absolute bunch of cow boys. It makes me genuinely despair.

  • @lorenzbroll0101
    @lorenzbroll0101 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Its only going to stop when some of these characters start being sent to prison.

  • @MichaelMyall
    @MichaelMyall ปีที่แล้ว +288

    For me you ARE the main media. Stuff the others. I laud your commentary and accurate interpretation of the current situation in the UK. THANK YOU, James.

    • @madmax2506
      @madmax2506 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      hear hear !! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

    • @JRHartley.
      @JRHartley. ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂

    • @weezer5442
      @weezer5442 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well said, and SPOT ON! Thank you!

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He is a mouthpiece for Russia, nothing else.

    • @TheFallofTheEleventh
      @TheFallofTheEleventh ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@lestrem11that is probably one of the most nonsensical comments I’ve ever read. I actually lost brain cells reading that…

  • @harveysmith100
    @harveysmith100 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "Hold your nerve."
    "Let them eat cake."

    • @bumblingborisbuffoon6259
      @bumblingborisbuffoon6259 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You forgot ; we just need to accept being poorer.

    • @iainmunro438
      @iainmunro438 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don’t forget to eat turnips as well as hold your nerve.

  • @chrisstones1249
    @chrisstones1249 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    James ,I wonder how deep this pit of despair this nation is in, there are people in prison for doing less than these cretins , my heart weeps for my nation,how have we come to this .😞

    • @hughwoodford
      @hughwoodford ปีที่แล้ว

      agreed, we should lock some of these people up because we have let them get away with too much for too long.

    • @pathfinder303
      @pathfinder303 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      13 years of Tory rule that's how !!

    • @chrisstones1249
      @chrisstones1249 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pathfinder303 👍👍👍

  • @timelwell7002
    @timelwell7002 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Here's the problem:
    These 8 far right (and far from bright) MPs have always found it necessary to have a convenient scapegoat to blame both for failures in government + failures in their own lives and careers. And because the Privileges Committee found their hero and guru, mendacious con artist Johnson was guilty of deliberately lying in Parliament, these 8 MPs couldn't accept that they could have been wrong.
    Therefore they blame the Privileges Committee because it's easier than admitting - even to themselves - that they made an error of judgement by choosing to believe Johnson's proven lies.

  • @derekwarner6898
    @derekwarner6898 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Absolutely on the button with these observations!

  • @Superfantastictop10
    @Superfantastictop10 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    This is utter BS. There have never really been consequences for politicians

    • @royboy565
      @royboy565 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All we can do is not vote for them.

    • @AlexWorrell
      @AlexWorrell ปีที่แล้ว +11

      True, but in the past there was always a "gentleman's agreement" that if you got caught doing something bad you resigned quickly in order to not drag the party into disrepute. Those days appear to be gone.

    • @dace48
      @dace48 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@AlexWorrell 100% This. Corrupt politicians used to get caught by the press then would resign in disgrace. Now they openly laugh at us while doing it again and the press defend them.

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People used to Sense of themselves, if they did wrong they owned up and moved on. Tory MPs used to have respect for themselves and for Parliament, now they believe they can lie their way out of it.

    • @steveholmes11
      @steveholmes11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Politicians make the laws. They have taken great care to ensure the neither they, not their friends in the media, are bound by them.

  • @glenjones6980
    @glenjones6980 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    We live in a world where you need a dozen qualifications and certificates to use a floor scrubber as part of your employment but need absolutely no qualification whatsoever is needed to stand as an MP.

    • @miakeogh6844
      @miakeogh6844 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Glenjones don’t agree entirely qualifications needed to be an MP
      1. Ware a suit men and women
      2.know how to lie while looking totally sincere.
      3 look humble and sorry while laughing inside at the idiots who voted for you.
      4. Never ever answer a question but just keep going round and round in circles until the journalists give up. ( in England this is rather easy)
      5. If caught out blame everyone except yourself while showing total outrage as to why anyone could possibly think it was your fault.
      6 being a torie helps with all of the above.

    • @glenjones6980
      @glenjones6980 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@miakeogh6844 They are more like traits than qualifications though, red flags that point out they are someone not to be trusted.

  • @mattt1212
    @mattt1212 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I just worry about how much more damage this Govt can do to our country before the next election.

    • @samb3783
      @samb3783 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're deliberately setting traps for future governments to use a political weapons down the track

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They will do a lot more damage...😮

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz ปีที่แล้ว +21

    What they did should get them suspended from the house

  • @stanmiggins
    @stanmiggins ปีที่แล้ว +105

    Couldn't agree more with you James, it's a disgrace this has been allowed to carry on. Well done for calling this out my friend

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ...he's not your friend..

    • @garriejackson9551
      @garriejackson9551 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@chatham43you back trolling?Muppet

  • @markrhoden68
    @markrhoden68 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

  • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
    @ArtyFactual_Intelligence ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You have to hand it to the Tories. Just when you thought they couldn't be be more repulsive than Thatcher , they come up with JRM,
    Patel and Braverman in quick succession.
    Impressive pursuit of the ultimate.

  • @jamescairns6413
    @jamescairns6413 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These are crimes and are very serious! They should be taken to court over their lying and misrepresentation (and not judged by someone whose pockets they might fill).

  • @davidfranco8716
    @davidfranco8716 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    James,
    Love you and your work. Keep it strong!
    🇵🇹

  • @petejenkins5574
    @petejenkins5574 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Rees Mogg has always had contempt for democracy and parliament.
    When he was first selected for a conservative seat, it was for Central Fife in Scotland. (1997) - it was a labour stronghold but, at age 27, the safe conservative seat would not be handed to Jacob until he had done the rounds.
    He went to Fife - driving around the council estates of Leven, with His nanny. He had nothing but contempt for local conservative party workers - he would not even shake a few hands - and even more contempt for the local people, struggling on unemployment benefit - who he considered "The Scourge of the Earth" [Direct Quote].
    He did little canvassing, because he was not interested. he only did the play-act so he could be handed a safe seat, later.
    he got 9% of the vote in Central Fife - which just goes to show that some people would vote for a soiled stick if it had a blue rosette stuck to it

  • @davidwilson5381
    @davidwilson5381 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Fabric*nt doesn't have a knight hood, it's a straw wig!

  • @jamien134
    @jamien134 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    i swear when i came back to the UK after 15 years away I thought Fabricant was a harry enfield skit! you couldnt make these clowns up if you tried! somebody dust off Chris Morris, we need you more than ever mate!!

    • @silversurfer640
      @silversurfer640 ปีที่แล้ว

      jamien134
      A right bunch of vile weirdo's .

  • @youtoucan2312
    @youtoucan2312 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This should be a criminal charge and they should face court / prison.
    They should also be sacked, along with a loss of their golden pension and any other privileges.

  • @Aussiemarco
    @Aussiemarco ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Now that they’ve been named as maligning the institution of Parliament, shouldn’t they be stripped of their Honours? Since the official reason for getting their Honours was “Services to Parliament”?

    • @mollycuddle9990
      @mollycuddle9990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Praise be!

    • @Jack-bs6zb
      @Jack-bs6zb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Forget ‘service to Parliament’ and be concerned with service to the electorate, who put them there after being fed non-stop lies known as ‘promises’.
      It is this parliament ignoring the continuing excess deaths resulting from their lockdown obsessions. The same people using the Ukrainian people as collateral wastage in their vendetta against Russia.

  • @juffjaff
    @juffjaff ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Surely the time for well-meaning and progressive human beings to be in charge has now come?

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      .....if you can find them...

    • @taefravis
      @taefravis ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chatham43 We can but you can not find a soul as you habv none.
      KEEP CRYING

    • @Celtictribes
      @Celtictribes ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you mean Labour ? They are even more corrupt than Zelensky

    • @allip4226
      @allip4226 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@chatham43There are plenty of them, just not in the Conservative Party. General election now.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...but where...you seem to be struggling...

  • @joebloggs1574
    @joebloggs1574 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What boiled their brains? They've all been riding the gravy train. Boris put them on it, and they don't want it to end.

  • @phillipimran7377
    @phillipimran7377 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I think the people who voted for the Tories are ultimately to blame as well. Imagine electing a Tory government for the fourth time in a row despite all their failures and the abysmal state of the country at the time thanks to austerity. And now look at how bad things have gotten, everytime the Tories have been elected, the state of the country just keeps getting worse and this is just the beginning. Things will get even worse by the time a GE happens. If the Tories get back in, I think that will be me, I'll be looking to move out the country.
    Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me.

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders ปีที่แล้ว +3

      With Brexit moving to another country has become so very much harder!

    • @spacebound1522
      @spacebound1522 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SusannaSaunders With BREXIT, lots of things have become nuch harder. Even just living!

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My father used to say Labour gives then the Tories take away. We have had 13 years of taking away and nothing getting better. Now they are trying to improve the NHS etc whether that works just because of a looming election a while away but still on the distant horizon.

  • @slacker2101
    @slacker2101 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    The worst part of this is that the attempt to influence the committee was carried out while the committee was deliberating, before the report was completed or published.

    • @scottgardner6976
      @scottgardner6976 ปีที่แล้ว

      100% agree time we set an example of these corrupt self serving f*cktards. If this is true they have tried to undermine democracy and should therefore be judged unfit to ever hold public office again. Lifetime ban if found guilty. We truly are living through the Trump style politics overtaking the UK.

  • @stephenburke7612
    @stephenburke7612 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Mogg and his colleagues should be made available to answer questions about their disgusting behaviour and resign immediately

  • @neavius
    @neavius ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brilliant analysis ….what a word smith you are Mr O’Brien

  • @WhatInTheDeepestShadeOfFeck
    @WhatInTheDeepestShadeOfFeck ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The most staggering part of all is that none of those involved will ever really be punished, and even those that lose/do not receive peerages will still go on to high paid and quite likely influential jobs when their Parliamentary careers have drawn to a close.

  • @bishwatntl
    @bishwatntl ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Some would say suspend them from the commons; cancel their honours, but what else could be done? Clearly naming and shaming would have no effect as they have no concept of shame. This is Johnson's legacy - and it's behaviour learned from the orange baby across the pond.

    • @jameswarner5809
      @jameswarner5809 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Send them to Rwanda!

    • @af7782
      @af7782 ปีที่แล้ว

      Life imprisonment in a moated tower with nothing to eat or drink but cake & champagne for ever.

    • @charanjitsidhu4733
      @charanjitsidhu4733 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @bishwatnti • WELL SAID .👏👏👏

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Suspend them from something,,I will leave the rest to your imagination...😢

  • @albertbrammer9263
    @albertbrammer9263 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    But again, if Sunak had any real ability, he would remove the whip from them all.

  • @fergusmoloney5259
    @fergusmoloney5259 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Have you noticed how JRM is increasingly reminding the viewing public about his Catholicism? Last week on his show, he had a priest in to discuss St. Thomas Moore. Today, as he was hounded by Sky News, he said he was off to church. A deliberate attempt to project a holier than thou image. What a bad example of Christianity he is!

    • @lazslostpierre9951
      @lazslostpierre9951 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Ironic too that his Brexit bedfellows are the DUP, with their historic views on Catholicism.

    • @albertbrammer9263
      @albertbrammer9263 ปีที่แล้ว

      JRM has links with the White, "Christian" Nationalists in the USA. Listen to the people talking at NatZ. They are starting culture war efforts because all their policies have crashed and burned. They fear people will start to question why the richest have got richer whilst our nation sinks.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Oh he can't be such a bad person, he's a practicing Catholic!"
      That argument might have been seen as legit 50 years ago- but then so were: "Oh he's quite harmless, he's a DJ on the BBC", "an MP wouldn't dare do a thing like that" or "a banker has to look after his customers' money, they can't just act like it's the 1920s all over again."

    • @bumblingborisbuffoon6259
      @bumblingborisbuffoon6259 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He wouldn’t last two minutes in N.Ireland, and that’s in the catholic community.

  • @henry6451
    @henry6451 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is a proud moment illustrating the propriety of the British parliamentary system.
    A Tory majority committee thoroughly condemning their own party colleagues.
    The contrast with the US could not be more dramatic.

  • @sasserine
    @sasserine ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There is a cell, under the Commons chamber.
    And the Sergeant at Arms has the right to put people in it.
    And a sword, in case they get obstreporous about being escorted there.
    If we're going to have medieval customs and traditions, in our Parliament, they should see some use.

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Imagine if after a meeting with your boss at work you started slandering them on twitter how long do you think you'd be in that job for 20 minutes at most. And you aren't running a country, they need to be severly punished they need to see that their actions have consequences. I know children understand this but these incredibly unimpressive human beings don't.

    • @ubilozberossus1579
      @ubilozberossus1579 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Honest Q: Isn't there a law for this? I've wondered about this as well. Shouldn't pollies and journos be held to higher standards? Is it not a crime to use your position and high tech sophistry to spread hate and lies to the people, thereby delivering a huge chunk of the population to penury? Truly interested to understand how this works in a democracy because you're right: An individual would face heavy consequences and penalties for this but not people who should be held to higher standards.. That doesn't seem very democratic...?

    • @TomSmith-jp1es
      @TomSmith-jp1es ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Children are human beings

    • @martinradcliffe4798
      @martinradcliffe4798 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ubilozberossus1579 I think the term "Parliamentary Privileges Commitee" gives us a fair indication of how these people view themselves and their relationship with the law.

    • @ubilozberossus1579
      @ubilozberossus1579 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@martinradcliffe4798 That's true... Thanks for pointing it out. 👍

  • @Traceva
    @Traceva ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Zac Goldsmith lost the position of being Richmond Upon Thames MP to the lovely Sarah Olney (Thank Goodness! I like in Barnes) and then was immediately made a Lord by Boris Johnson
    Goldsmith has been paying for Johnson and his Wife’s holidays and holiday homes ever since
    Quid Pro Quo
    Always

  • @AndyZE123
    @AndyZE123 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It can surely only have been a competition to see who could stoop the lowest? There must be an end of term prize.

  • @lllordllloyd
    @lllordllloyd ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Grifting corrupt MP: "The committee is a kangaroo court"
    BBC: "Tonight: is the privileges committee a kangaroo court? We look at both sides of the debate!".

    • @SorbusAucubaria
      @SorbusAucubaria ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Bbc is also outrageous when it even asks that question. Bbc should be making headlines that tory politicians starting smear campaign against bipartisan commitee investigating corruption of politicians.

    • @patrickfox-roberts7528
      @patrickfox-roberts7528 ปีที่แล้ว

      BBC confuses 'lack of bias' with bending over backwards to find a dickwit to express a counter opinion - they did it during the brexit debate when they could easily find experts in opposition but had to dredge the depths of charlatans to find a supporter

    • @jimboakimbo54
      @jimboakimbo54 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@SorbusAucubariaagree. It infuriates me how their so called commitment to impartiality just turns into straight up failing to hold the government accountable. There’s a clear difference between just telling the truth and calling them out for corruption and maintaining impartiality.

  • @petefl1818
    @petefl1818 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What has been shown is that personal integrity is no long sufficient to keep the system from being corrupted. Rules with slapped wrists and stiff talking to's, named and shamed, for rule breakers are no longer a deterrent and should be replace by laws with real sanctions for those who break them.

  • @michaelspencer6171
    @michaelspencer6171 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "If they at some point once understood the importance of of parliamentary democracy" OR ........"If they at any point had any basic humanity". There is no doubt that most, if not all of them, had the privilege of being well-educated (or at least being in the school / college/university environment which delivers such), so understand they do. That would mean that they were SPECIFICALLY promoted beyond their capabilities BECAUSE they had the same hallmark irrationality, cruelty and thirst for power as their narcissistic boss to roll out the dubious policies to further their vile and desructive goals

  • @kleedhamhobby
    @kleedhamhobby ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Impugning the process itself was bad enough, but might, to some degree, be dismissed as 'politics' (no matter how inappropriate). But, inasmuch as the activities of these individuals can be seen as explicitly lobbying and applying pressure to the members of the committee, it should be clearly seen as criminal, and should be punished as such.

  • @daviddevoy2197
    @daviddevoy2197 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Once people could be persuaded that their lives would be better outside the EU, all links with reality were gone.

  • @highspeedgaz
    @highspeedgaz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Without a strong watchdog institution ,Inpunity becomes the very foundation upon which systems of Corruption are built

  • @russellharris5314
    @russellharris5314 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They should have been taught the difference between right and wrong when they were children, but i doubt they that ever were. Not challenging them over the years and encouraging their behavior for more clicks on a website or an increase in sales of newpapers is why they have gotten worse. Then when they saw Boris be accused of his lies and his accusers thrown out the house of commons they were inspired. They wanted to be able to abuse the rules just like him but finally punishing Boris for his behavior was a threat to their aspirations to be able to manipulate the system, their only option is to protect Boris to protect themselves. The really sad thing is for the things I have mentioned they are not alone, these individuals are just the ones too stuipid to not turn on Boris as that was the best way to protect themselves, thats what the rest of the Tories did.

  • @russellnewton6660
    @russellnewton6660 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    It’s like a poor version of what’s happening to the Republican Party in the states, Poundland Johnson and his cronies.

    • @robertdaley1194
      @robertdaley1194 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Rouble Johnson?.

    • @henry6451
      @henry6451 ปีที่แล้ว

      The difference is that the tories will be pummeled at the next election.
      .
      They will then be out for a decade or more until they revamp themselves.
      The UK system works, the US one does not.

    • @woodyforest7308
      @woodyforest7308 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Poundland Johnson wow that is really smart putdown I'm in ore of your wit.

    • @Chiefmucka
      @Chiefmucka ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@woodyforest7308 in *awe

    • @henry6451
      @henry6451 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@woodyforest7308 I guess he meant pound land trump but got the joke mixed up.

  • @clivedavies5618
    @clivedavies5618 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So what actual disciplinary action is to be taken against them ?

  • @abody499
    @abody499 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    There are no rules. That's the problem.

  • @ilokivi
    @ilokivi ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They identified the weaknesses in Parliamentary governance. They recognised an opportunity. And they exploited it ruthlessly, repeatedly, pushing to see how far it was possible to stretch the limits of tolerance while pursuing self-aggrandisement with no regard for the facts, for laws, treaties or international conventions. At no time did the welfare of the citizens whose protection intrude into their conscience. At the centre of this web of filth sat Johnson, out for himself on a scale not seen since Aethelred paid off Viking raiders to buy peace. Until the next raid. The full damage is still not known.

  • @johnhodkinson2063
    @johnhodkinson2063 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What happened? They pushed the boundaries and were not punished for it, so they pushed harder and further and still nothing happened. Although too late some punishment needs to be meted out to these people to show others that i]actions like theirs will no longer be tolerated. Without them being punished there will be no end to the abuse that these people and others like them feel able to pile on others

  • @acrodave9287
    @acrodave9287 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, is it possible to impugn a parliament that hasn't been pugned for over a decade?

    • @johnbriggs3916
      @johnbriggs3916 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Would Terry Pratchett really have said something so idiotic? (If the word "pugn" really existed, it would mean the same as "impugn" -- just like "flammable" and "inflammable".)

    • @acrodave9287
      @acrodave9287 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnbriggs3916 If you're in a hole, stop digging.

  • @tranquilmoments
    @tranquilmoments ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If this is how much respect they have for our parliament and its processes, they should not be allowed to be part of it.

  • @Jimmie16
    @Jimmie16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It happened because England kept voting for them.

  • @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922
    @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Roll on Scottish independence it can't come soon enough

  • @elloco1996
    @elloco1996 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The rest of the world is not surprised; they've always known the UK parliament is a freak show, its only task to maintain the 500 year old feudal status quo.

  • @fluentpiffle
    @fluentpiffle ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is a crumbling society because corruption is endemic within it..
    I just had my facebook account suspended for discussing truth in a philosophy thread..!
    We are so far down the road of self abuse, it will be almost impossible to redeem ourselves..
    😢

  • @mike747436
    @mike747436 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Shakespeare summed it up: 'Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive".

    • @martynaustin8073
      @martynaustin8073 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think you'll find it's Walter Scott!

    • @mike747436
      @mike747436 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@martynaustin8073 Correct! I've learned something today...!

    • @martynaustin8073
      @martynaustin8073 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mike747436 I thought it was Robbie Burns until I checked, lol!

    • @mike747436
      @mike747436 ปีที่แล้ว

      👍😁

    • @royboy565
      @royboy565 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought it was Spider from Coronation street.

  • @fergusstevenston
    @fergusstevenston ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Promoted to the point of incompetence

  • @rs1389
    @rs1389 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Politicians have huge responsibilities....therefore the punishment to be just as big. They are literally playing with peoples lives therefore they need to be punished accordingly

  • @samb3783
    @samb3783 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As an Australian living in London I've never been so happy to have dual nationality.

  • @stevennpitt
    @stevennpitt ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As an American, I'm truly shocked how corrupt the much vaunted 'mother of parliaments' in the UK appears to be. Tell me... are you following us here in the colonies? Or are we really following you? (After all, we are more or less your 'spawn'-it could be either way)😂

  • @chrisearle1542
    @chrisearle1542 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've got no idea how his honours list still gets passed.

  • @avrilevans1737
    @avrilevans1737 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    James I agree with your every word you are a "truth warrior"

  • @alansmith3733
    @alansmith3733 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Shame is dead. It died about ten years ago tbh. From the expenses scandal things just got worse exponentially

  • @GeoffMorrisdrive
    @GeoffMorrisdrive ปีที่แล้ว +3

    James is always spot on, tells it like it is !!!

  • @annebarr4908
    @annebarr4908 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s wonderful to hear you speaking about this as I’m so annoyed about this government preaching this all the time- nothing is their fault it’s always someone else. I have never voted for the Tories however growing up (I’m 73) they were decent people.

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence ปีที่แล้ว

      Anne, I remember my dad, as a socialist who fought in WWII, also saying that people like RA Butler can be worked with.
      Since Heseltine they are all DEAD.
      It's become more an more important to educate the young on what Thatcherism did to this country.

  • @vinnythewebsurfer
    @vinnythewebsurfer ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you’re the ones in charge and see that power slipping away by sheer inevitability of the pendulum swing, why wouldn’t conservatives decide to break everything and give their opposition nothing. That’s what they’ve always done.

  • @markgolding71
    @markgolding71 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There's a phrase that keeps popping up in my mind whenever I read stories leaking out from the great hermetically sealed halls of power, 'It's a club and you ain't in it'. The fact that the public ain't anywhere near enough, let alone 'in' the club, to be able to bring it's members to some regular form of accountability without the assistance of investigators tells us a lot about the political system we have inherited from the days when the country was run mostly by the privileged class.

  • @IlHansenIl
    @IlHansenIl ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The entire UK collectively shrugging their shoulders and sending thoughts and prayers to solve their problems.

    • @pollytickle8346
      @pollytickle8346 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thoughts & prayers??????

  • @MrCsifan55
    @MrCsifan55 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Power! "With great power comes great responsibility" Isn't that what Uncle Ben said in all the Spiderman films?

  • @SuperBenismail
    @SuperBenismail ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Boris Johnson wouldn't have been around for so long had it not been for these apparatuses!

  • @Paul-fq9pj
    @Paul-fq9pj ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best summary’s I have heard in a very long time ..

  • @harveysmith100
    @harveysmith100 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hubris. That is what happened.

  • @charlienairn783
    @charlienairn783 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Keep at it James. You’re doing an important job for us all. Thank You!

  • @scooble
    @scooble ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SOVEREIGNTY 🇬🇧...SOVEREIGNTY 🇬🇧...SOVEREIGNTY 🇬🇧...
    No....not THAT kind of sovereignty!

  • @clarecollins2547
    @clarecollins2547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They clearly have broken parliamentary rules.