David Starkey: How New Labour Trashed The British Constitution 

I have never heard so much common sense spoken about politics in 50 yrs. David, like you. I'm a Lancashire lad, only I'm from Bolton, not Oldham. We have county courts, city, town, and village halls, all for the purpose of locals debating and agreeing to how the city, town, or village should proceed with any given set of circumstances or needs. Think of how Birmingham would be right now if it were responsible to itself and its citizens and not central government. I feel that education, local services, law, and bylaws often ignored today should be topics locals have a say in, where money goes, i.e., which dept, etc. The issue is that central govt wants the authority to create a homogenous society, to dilute localities into the bigger pot, to give cause and reason to funnel ever increasing funds to central govt to be divided up. This inevitably increases costs across the entire nation, whereas traditionally, any losses were carried locally, not nationally. Bad councillors were dismissed and new ones appointed. To repair damage, poor councillors caused. The healthier, better managed councils paid lower rates and had better services and attracted better prices for property take Cheshire as an example 60 yrs ago it was a great town well run compared to other areas nearby. It therefore attracted money and grew wealthier, and property increased in value. We need independent MPs in the House of Commons, not parties and local councils, to be independently run and self-sufficient again, cutting cloth to their ability to provide things, and their desire to improve them where needed.

well it was quite obvious after 911 that they were planning to take away all our freedoms, I might have been young, but all those new anti-terror laws on the news made things quite clear to me. I kept saying "what is a terrorist exactly?" I was very concerned with how little regard they had for human life after a stunt like that, I was worried when all the news stations all clicked together and all started asking the same irrelevant questions. I was worried that they started calling scientists and experts extremists. I was worried that 1 plane was recaptured by the passengers and shortly after, 1 building was completely demolished after a small fire. I was worried that George bush called those who question these events unpatriotic. I was worried that all those terror laws were designed for us! I have spent my life waiting for the trigger, I have always known that everything they put into place was perfect for use against us in the event of almost any emergency. When the jet streams broke down they had their perfect excuse 7 years ago. But that whole subject is garbled and confusing by design! Both sides lie in different ways, but they both lie for the same reasons - they want it to happen, they want us ignorant, they want to take full advantage & they want us to be grateful suffering slaves as the new world order takes its shape on a changing world. Wouldn't be the first time!

The fact that one of BLiar's actions upon becoming Prime Minister was to try and do away with the Death Penalty for TREASON speaks volumes about his intentions , also BLiar is aiding , abetting , pushing and enabling the WEF agenda ...... the WEF is a Foreign unelected unaccountable organization which seeks to subvert and abolish ALL PERSONAL and NATIONAL Sovereignty I the UK ..... therefore ALL supporting the WEF agenda are committing TREASON and should be dealt with as such.

Hilarious! 'The British Constitution' does not exist in the traditional sense of the word, and if you actually look up the definition of 'Constitution' online you get "Britain lacks a codified constitution" as an example of its use in a sentence. As an English Libertarian Centrist Nationalist the British legal system is a nasty, fat mess. I wouldn't wipe my backside with it, although it's so bulky you could wipe practically every Englishman's bottom and still have a few pages left over for their wives.... no joke! -- If we actually had a proper constitution (simple, easy to understand rules & rights that frame and limit laws) it could be protected by Constitutional Direct Democracy. 66.6% absolute majority of all Nationals needed to change or suspend level 1 rules & rights, 51% for level 2, level 0 set in stone.

Instead he has police protection paid by us the tax payer, plus he gets a knighthood.

No, the Pope will look after him.

Hung

Electric chair.

We can throw Sturgeon and his boot of a wife in with him for company.

An evil one.

A three times elected popular PM is an evil monster ? I bet you think he's a lizard.

Evil twisted narcissist.

You (and others here) should reflect upon the nature of a mental illness that affects your reason and your whole existence.

@@--legion What you have said makes very little sense.

...yet.

Let us hope there is still time. Blair is not dead.

I believe there shojld be wanted posters put up for all who in the top tear of government are selling our country out. Tyrants.

@@lewishamilton9577 He did - he repealed the Treason laws - one of the 1st things he did! Either he knew what was coming (today), or he had a crystal ball. I'll vote for the former.

Both labour and Tory’s are treasonous ever since ted heath signed us into the common market because heath knew what it was to become

The absolute worst. Everything that man touched we are paying for today.

Shut up Miranda

Couldn't agree more. A truly dreadful man.

agree 100%

If i stand by my beliefs it may well be because i havent considered openly the merits of other thats the social media tendency. ... mirroring our own views rather than seeking those of others and considering them thoughtfully

Your comment says more about you than any electrodes attached to the cabbage between your ears ever can.

He was a Trot at university, and just masked up to infiltrate and gain power His ugly letter box wife is the same.

Not structurally or in loss of British lives but in destroying our culture and democracy, definitely. What Hitler destroyed structurally has been replaced but the damage to Britain by Blair will never be put right.

With his illegal war in Iraq and his open door immigration policy, he probably did more .

​@@--legionWere you with the Pride march.

The damage he caused is so great i don't think it will ever be repaired, not in our lifetimes anyway

A Hitchens fan I see 😉

Did he really say that??

@wendywolfman everything I know about politics is filtered through either Christopher or Peter Hitchens ... best thinkers on the planet

@@VincentRE79 Peter Hitchens heard it first hand

No, that's too quick. Dig a big pit, fill it with the excreta of forty million migrants (easy to find, they're everywhere) drop him and his Party into it so they drown in it. Together with family members. Post armed men around it so nobody escapes.

I couldn't agree more. This evil man deserves worse.

Feet first, ...s.l..o..w..l..y into a vat of scalding oil,so his screams may be heard as far as Antarctica,...or is that too kind ??? ..

​@@johnbennett7065Way too kind!

Vote Kier Scammer get creepy Blair.

Too true.

You can thank the influence of Mrs Blair for that disastrous decision .

Ahhhhh Mrs Blair the Human Rights Lawyer making millions while married to the socialist prime minister who single handedly ruined Great Britain !

Why, every one has a get out clause " except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others" Its the so called rulings using this as an excuse "we cannot do that because of the human rights" total bull

@@WorksopGimpWho do you suppose is the arbiter? That’s the whole point. The judiciary, save in extraordinary circumstance, should not interfere with the will of parliament. With the HRA, the executive cannot action the will of parliament because of the will of judges who are asked to decide on political matters under the guise of judicial ones.

Cameron hand it in his hands and bottled it like a typical Etonian. He's as much a war criminal as his hero.

@@bertiescunsbutch9323 Cameron was complicit in it. He openly admits in his biography that after Miliband took Labour leftward, Cameron decided the Tories should be the inheritors of Blair's project, and the Tories have been going to him for 13 years, even going to his institute to write legislation. This is why the Tories must be destroyed, Blair may have left office, but he's been running the country for 25 years.

And taken out

One can only imagine the Tories thought the system could work for them also, they found out otherwise. I'd imagine getting rid of all this now would be like trying to extract ticks from a dog using oven mittens.

I fully agree.

Yes he did.

Good luck with Biden.

The American system is even worse you buy your way in with money. Then you have sponsors who back you and want something in return for that backing. What is needed is direct Democracy.

Because you were taught to or due to proper philosophical consideration?

HAHAHAHA Biden

All our rotten politicians have been coerced and bought by the WEF and Soros .

The Con-servatives.

There's no conservatives anymore. What's there to conserve?

@@zoompt-lm5xw It looks like we're being sent on a one-way into the abyss, from which there is no return.

They told us we must become diverse. Every gov since has made it happen.

History is not to transmitted culture, its to analyse it from all sides, hence the inclusion of marx and other writers.

Blair hated the system that fined him £500 at Bow St Magistrates Court for solliciting young men in a public toilet. He is also a friend of Cliff Richard, you may have noticed. And Savile. I wonder what was going on there.

@@susannamarker2582 proof? Haha ur crazy

@@jamesbyrne9312 Read the court records. Blair gave his name to Police as Charles Lynton and didn't appear in Court.

@@jamesbyrne9312 Debate properly or get off the post.

LOL

well it is a proper horror story that stands up against the classics .

She had all the best lines!😆

I think it is known as COMMUNISM!

I’m an American and I love that quote.

And anyone who thinks government provides greater efficiency is denying the reality of repeated experiences world wide.

"Until our wishes count for nothing". That raised the hairs on the back of my neck.

Most certainly, traitors are awarded knighthoods and honours so easily these days. Compare people like Sir Douglas Bader with a traitorous wimp like Blair.

By the late Queen too .

more than a million signed a petition Objecting to it .

@@pippaneil4632 Question is why did the late Queen do that .

@@pippaneil4632 I was one of them!

Blairs mess would be easy to undue if only we had a real conservative party with the will to do it.

For how many years you have a conservative government now ? Real or less real ? Incredible amount of ministers and prime ministers...... When leaves fall in the autumn, it is probably not a good idea to glue them back on again. Better to let winter quietly pass and wait for the next spring. @@elvishprincess321

Agree. There is nothing left to Conserve. We need a new party incorporating the small right wing parties (Reclaim, Reform amd Heritage) - eg. Restore UK. Reclaim the power Reform the laws RESTORE our Heritage and our Nation.

Can't we have both ?

@jamesbarbour8400 No. Blair has already got his revolution. We want to COUNTER it.

No urge to micturate?

I’d hand him a heavy weight.

I'd crack open a bottle.

​@@swadersOn his head to crack both open?🤔🤣

Labour destroyed the British system of government, and that is the reason why we are in the state we are now in - utter twaddle. The reason why we are in the state we are in, is because the bankers crashed our economy in 2008, and before the economy could recover fully, we got landed with 14 years of Tory governments, each one sliding down the scale of competency as each one entered, ending up with a PM who was completely clueless, who lied every time he flapped his lips, and who put a government in place based on loyalty to him only. Talent, experience and competency were undesirable traits, where as arse licking was a necessity. Starkey is a right wing nutter, who would see the UK decline back in to a Dickensian era all over again, perhaps even going back even further! I wish for once these nutters would take responsibility for their own failings, Blair lost me when he went in to Iraq, but the mess we are facing now as a country is a fault of this lot entirely, so they should suck it up, and play the adults and take responsibility for their own fluff ups!

We almost have that in certain respects today !

It just shows how Stupid British people were, and still are. Neither of the main party deserve a single vote, Yet at the next election, they will get millions.

The changes were so subtle that we didn't get the full impact of them until years later, by which time Blair had resigned.

@@johnwilson5637 Bring them in like a Trojan Horse.

The reason he was re-elected was because the young darlings didn't appreciate the harm he was doing, and the opposition offered no credible alternative policies.

And Sad Dick Kant.....they both know why they're in the firing line.....

If any of those bodyguards had any morals they would say no, he's responsible for the hundreds of deaths and thousands of disabled of they're brothers in arms.

I’ll be his bodyguard ! Happy to

I doubt that !

What the hard working tax payer funds...

I note this, often.

Father of the House Tam Dayell repeatedly called out the interesting connection between the members of the cabal who surrounded Blair. Douglas Murray deliberately avoids all mention of that whilst dissing Blair. But he works for them too, just controlled opposition.

The wheel has not yet come round and kicked Blairism out of the system. I fear the struggle is still not fully understood. He still thinks he is marvellous i think he has a screw loose. Now he has retreated down and he is pushing Beefburgers can kill he killed more than beefburgers ever will. I can see through Blair every time.

Blair's malign legacy is the quango state. We are now ruled by utterly unaccountable bureaucracies who act only in their own self-interest.

The Conservative gov't under Sunak/Truss/Johnson is a disgrace. There are no worthy leaders in either party who have a vision for the country and concern for the people's overall health and welfare since Jeremy Corbyn. And we all know what happened to him.

The problem with the conservatives is that they get complacent and then corrupt. John Major’s government became complacent and corrupt and people had enough of them and voted “New Labour”. The problem was that New Labour stayed in power too long. 1 term should have been enough to teach the tories a lesson and get their act together and they didn’t. It took 2008 to get rid of Labour. Even then we ended up with the coalition and the increase in tax free allowance was dumb in the extreme, cost the most did the least. It reduced the tax take so we don’t have enough tax coming in and have hit the middle class who are the people who fund the economy. (They buy the stuff they don’t need). Too many people taking out more than they put in. The thing Labour did well was rescue the banks in 2008 (they caused the problem tbh) but they didn’t think how to recover from that so we are still suffering from it. The tories didn’t resolve it either when they got in and ignored the problem and now we are in inflation mire because of it. When Labour get in this country is likely to be finished and it will take another Mrs T or Churchill to sort it out. God help us.

Sunaks quality😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 nearly pissed myself😮

Yes the young all think labour are brilliant but they grow up mostly I'm old now butvall my voting life I was never tempted to vote labour

it wasnt capable of winning elections post the industrial collapse and the resulting destruction of its base vote...

but the media here still love him we should stop giving him oxygen

This absolutely needs to happen. What we've been subjected to is effectively a coup by degrees.

Statute laws passed by government without public consent are invalid to all outside government employment. Parliament under the Constitution has no power to make law. They are there in Parliament Solely as public servants ,although they have contrived to convince the public to believe the reverse it the case.

@@chamberpot969 The problem is it won't. They had their plan, but unfortunately the opinion of the British people weren't included in it.

It’s so they cannot be held accountable for them in Parliament.

For hundreds of years governments have tried to reform the Lords. For hundreds of years governments have 'politicised' the Lords. Learn history before accusing people of 'evil'.

And he will be back seating a Labour Government under Starmer and he is more slimey than Blair.

@@craigtomkinson2150 that is true

Yes very good. But all blindingly obvious. Been saying this for years. Most (older) people (who think) fully aware.

We did, those years are still fresh in my mind as if they were yesterday, his rotten legacy still echoes down the decades and will for decades to come.

I saw it coming.

​@@astra-rb6szi didnt sorry i was sucked in shame on me

@@richardlewis7498 You are forgiven Blair and New Labour were, are, the most expert deceit machine I have ever witnessed.

We were amply warned: "New Labour - New Danger"

Excellent😂

What one expects from a senior Fabian..

dont do this to me its a painful reminder that i was dancing and cheering when it waa clear he was going to win. I Apolgise to you all.

Smile, they said, things could be worse, so I smiled, and things got worse

You now know what it must of been like living in the Soviet Union or the Communist eastern bloc..... Not nice is it.

I knew he was a grinning idiot then .

"We" did know. For example devolution was in his manifesto. Some people chose to ignore the warnings.

Ah, but who were "we"? And why weren't there enough of you to stop the wanker from winning by a landslide? Hindsight is a great thing, but f***ing useless 26 years later. And don't forget who he was defeating. John Major, a nobody who has spent most of the last 20 years trashing his own reputation. And devolution was probably the least of his bad ideas. Gordon Brown was the worst@@davidagnew6191

His cancellation made him to produce these videos.

@@user-ij1nv8be3i Yes. David Starkey has proved he has both a fine intellect and a real spine.

why would blairites undo blairs laws? same reason they just passed an anti free speech bill into law, another tony blair wet dream delivered by the tories...

I’m guessing you’re in your 20s ?

Still suffering now.

@@markglover3840 True.

It is ironic that the word "sage" can mean "wise"!!! "Wise" is not a description of that unelected mob of useful idiots! We still don't know who these morons actually were......we probably never will.

He's not done just yet.

@@GimpSlayerGeneral I know, he has his underlings embedded all over the judiciary, the civil service and on all sides of both the upper and lower chambers

I'm not sure he is evil, he is just incredibly dim.I've always wondered how many digs I could get in if I saw him on the tube before the goons pulled me off but it would be a rather futile gesture. It would be like kicking a brain damaged puppy for pissing on the floor.

Not Fabian then?

​@@GimpSlayerGeneral Nazi Germany is the only bit of history she has heard of.

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Unfortunately how exactly is that any different than the useless Tories? At least Labour would be upfront about saying that is what they want unlike the Conservatives who pretend to oppose those things.

"Take back control"...didn't you vote for that? And you got what you deserve.

Both are bad , but Labour need special treatment for their hatred of our own people, the most potent poison should be applied to them for their treachery.

​@@robertreynolds6072why do we deserve our country to be invaded .?

​@@robertreynolds6072Lampedusa, is that what EU Italy deserves?

I agree with you on that 👍

Well it took a long time… and really the honours list is compiled by the standing PM, not actually the Monarch so…

@@michaelwhitley2081 No actually you are wrong . Blair was made a knight of the garter by the late Queen, only the monarch can do that not the PM .

@@astra-rb6sz nope that’s not correct… this… “The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is responsible for the Order and nominations should be made to them. Someone will receive an 'honorary award' if they have given service to the UK and they're not British or a national of a country where The King is Head of State.”