Let's take a look back at how we got here, and think about where we're probably going. My Twitter: / hbomberguy My Patreon: / hbomb Contributions by Shaun: / shaun_jen
"Will you kill millions, Jeremy? Will you kill millions, Jeremy? Jeremy, will you kill millions? You see, I'd love to vote for you, Jeremy, but, as a Tory voter, I have this unquenchable thirst for blood that can only be satiated with THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON EVER CONCEIVED BY MANKIND!!!!" Probably my favourite quote. Possibly my favourite quote ever.
That is hilarious. Yay rhetorical hyperbole, but it would be more accurate to say "...the greatest weapon ever /created/ by mankind." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_doomsday_devices
Well, its Thursday, 2 in the afternoon, and I don't know any thing about British politics, and politics have been known to tire me like nothing else. But here I am, watching, and very much enjoying myself
What's funnier is after they released that, Labour's vote share went up 5 points. Rupert Murdoch apparently stormed out of a major event after seeing the exit poll showing a Tory majority wipe. Sadly he didn't himself wipe out on the carpet and break his hip.
I thought their entire business plan and mission statement was "never print the facts or news, simply use scenarios to terrify the public into voting for our guys who are actually terrible."
I remember Chairman Mao. He grew up round here. Had a paper round when he was a kiddie. Always on his bike, he was; riding up and down the street to the bus stop and back, ringing his bell. Always on his bike, was Mao. Always on his bike. He was always on his bike. Famous for it in the parish. Always on his bike. His bike. Bike bike bike bike. That’s all he was interested in, was his bike, and talking about his bike. Then he went off somewhere after he’d finished school and nobody ever heard from him again. Had a bike.
Why do so many people believe that the colours red, white and blue are the property of and refer specifically to their own country? Red, White and Blue could refer to the US, who use that phrase a lot, France, the Netherlands, Britian or even Russia, and a huge number of other countries. It's a meaningless statement, every bit as meaningless as all of her other statenents on Brexit.
They’re also called the Pan-Slavic colors, featuring in the flags of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, as well as the flags of several former countries.
@@Badartist888 Actually only blue was the colour of Paris, whereas, red was the colour of the blood of the people fighting for revolution, so the French flag represents the royal house being oppressed by Paris and the bloodshed of the revolution.
Or she means that nation with red white and blue flag have to leave. Sorry Dutch French Slovak Slovenian Croat Luxembourgish Serb and Montenegrin people, your time is up
Red white and blue tends to be linked with America.. which means we are about to become the 51st state. Can't wait to own guns and have a school shooting epidemic.
@@alyssinclair8598 It would be pretty fucking funny to see the US absorb its own mother country as a new state. "Now we are the Father. The Founding Father, that is."
@@alyssinclair8598 hey we also have 500k crimes stopped with guns by private citizens, maybe your crime rates will get lower and not have a knife attack pandemic.
"The phrase is: Speak softly, and carry a big stick. NOT: Threaten everyone who has a stick with you stick and then wonder why everyone has started hitting you" I'M DEAD XDD
i was watching this with (auto-generated) subtitles on and even though its 2019 and nobody cares anymore, i think it is really really important that everyone know that at 6:00 theresa may told me "grexit means breakfast"
You should have mentioned how after Jeremy became leader hundreds of thousands of new members paid to join Labour, and when the Labour leadership race started it was decided that these new members shouldn't be allowed to vote because so many of them supported Jeremy. And despite that he still won by a huge margin. The whole thing is shameful.
Every year since this video was released, I come back to it and compare it to our current situation. Somehow, this video about a very specific time in British politics is utterly timeless. A true masterpiece.
@@xmlthegreat Never thought this'd be replied to, lol. British politics have, somehow, gotten so much worse, and I myself am honestly not doing super great, but I'm taking every day as it's coming. Thanks for the chat!
"Vote Tory, we'll balance the books....... apart from we've actually managed to push the country further into debt whilst also cutting essential public services"
And shorter, and without the major cringe factor of having almost strawmanned feminists winge condescendingly, and the major cringe factor of Sargon wingeing condescendingly about how fucked he thinks democracy is.
it's like a sargon video except the person talking actually knows what the fuck he's talking about, and isn't someone who is just smart enough to know big words without being smart enough to know that knowing big words doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about so yeah, nothing like sargon at all.
Jesus christ its gotten so much worse. Beyond worse. And now we've got a red tory in sheeps clothes as the only viable alternative. If we weren't fucked then we're totally fucked now.
God I wish we had a Corbyn in the US...ohh wait a second, WE DO, and he got backstabbed by the party that the people wanted to support him but the corporates DIDN'T...Sanders and Cobryn both should be in a leadership role, despite any backstabing they get, they deserve it.
And now we can finally see clearly. Even mild social democracy will never be allowed by liberal parties. Even trying to work with rackets like the Democrats or Labor isn't just a mistake, it's a trap to capture radical energy and the desire for change and harmlessly diffuse it in service of capital. These parties are every inch our enemy as much as the conservatives, because they are in fact the same fucking thing.
I've seen this video maybe a dozen times, and at this point I'm pretty sure that a) the thing at 0:55 where HBomb references a bird in the rafters that is scared of him is foreshadowing of the money birds at the end (and also implies that money is scared of him) and b) I'm really stupid for not having noticed that until now. Lmao.
Oh I'm here for that hahahahaha. I'm trying to block out the elections in my own crappy country through vicariously laughing at other countries mess. kill me please.
We have nothing like Fox, luckily. Enough of Corbyn got out that the Tory press's gift was countered somewhat. This bloke said "gotten" surely that's not allowed?
Ennis Skalski I always thought it was like sacfricing someone to lovecraftian monsters, maybe because “cold ones” make me think of the great ones from bloodborne
How was your election depressing? You guys had a choice between a money grabbing smirking international banker-bro and a crazy Nazi psychopath. At least you managed to not elect the Nazi fuck! More than can be said of America!
@@xmlthegreat True! It would really suck if we Americans had a psychopath at the helm of our country at the beginning of a global pandemic, causing 100s of 1000s of preventable deaths, haha.🥶
The more I watch this guy's videos the more I really admire him as a person and am incredibly grateful that there is some thoughtful and well researched discourse on this strange, strange site.
24:55 We have a sorta funny system in Denmark where the parties can decide to team up, so essentially you're just voting between the left and the right, but you also get to decide which specific party on the winning side is going to hold the most power. Imo that seems pretty effective.
hey as an american i dont know anything about british politics but it sounds like things are as scary there as they are here. hopefully the worldwide rise of the right wing will lead to the left ACTUALLY ORGANIZING, cus if not, i worry for the future of humanity
Update 1 year & 3 months on: The situation is dire. The death squads patrol the streets during the day looking for anyone wearing a beard or riding a bicycle, as to them it's a sure sign that they've found a Muslim or a Lefty snowflake. At night they raid people's homes seemingly at random, dragging entire families out into the streets & questioning them on their British heritage at gunpoint - mostly by asking them to name their favorite cast member of Love Island, or whether Farage is pronounced "Faraj" or "Fararge" - death toll currently unknown. The traditional legal court system has been abolished & replaced with public hanging, dictated by mob rule mostly comprising of chavs wearing more secondhand clothing than a Glaswegian Oxfam. Council housing has been entirely abolished & replaced with B&B foodbanks, further fueling the tory belief that the working class is better off than ever, since foodbank usage = a strong community, in the eyes of the right. When the death squads found Lyra hiding in the left-wing sanctuary located underneath her local underpass, they tried to make her an example of by burying her beneath a pile of (long out of print) Guardian newspapers & dousing her with lighter fluid, only to decide not to waste the gas since Great Britain's Kremlin overlords have fuel tariffs set at 2000%, as punishment for refusing to adopt the Cyrillic alphabet & not placing an Orthodox patriarchal cross (☨) atop the Salisbury Cathedral Spire (which extends upwards to a height of 123m, making it a very popular tourist attraction all across Russia!) Making a hasty getaway through the bushes & into the long abandoned local ASDA, she noticed that the George clothing section was left mostly untouched by the Post-Brexit Troubles & the ensuing looting - laying in a pile in the middle of the aisle was a pair of Adidas tracksuit bottoms & a North Face jacket. Realizing that if she didn't want to stick out like a sore thumb, Lyra quickly threw on the gear and headed out towards the rear entrance of the supermarket. However as she pushed the security bar inwards to open the doors outside into the adjacent alleyway, the building's security alarm was triggered alerting the nearby death squads to her position... As the trembling of the death squad's boots hitting the ground approached, Lyra soon realized that she had no chance of survival against such an overwhelming force, and deciding that taking flight would be the best call of action she promptly jumped straight through the window of an old Cash Converters (which in the Pre-Brexit era used to be a bit like a normal secondhand shop, except every item you bought you had a chance of finding a bag of ketamine stashed inside) After suffering only minor lacerations to her arms & face, she picked herself up & began to investigate the darkened derelict building she had found herself in. It appeared to be packed full with old video games & busted up musical instruments, with an abundance of DVD bootlegs of Murder, She Wrote (seriously, why are there so many of those in every second hand shops?) It was after around 20 minutes of perusing that she noticed a section of the shop sealed off with wooden barricades, with a dim light source shining through the cracks, illuminating what appeared to be walls stacked to the ceiling with various models of old bicycles. With curiosity getting the better of her, Lyra began to break down the shoddy wooden planks only to be startled by the faint voice of a man coming from a darkened corner of the room. She stopped dead in her tracks, and listened closely for any sounds emanating from the pitch black. " *_Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour_* " Strangely soothed by the softness & sincerity of the mysterious voice, she was compelled to enter the room & approach the source of the voice. As she approached the perceived location of the voice, she noticed that there was a sideroom off to the left, lit up by a soft candle glow. Turning the corner into the room, she spotted a cloaked man leaning over an old 1950s bicycle, murmuring to himself. " *_I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle_* " Lyra mustered up the courage to speak to the man, who appeared to be an older gentleman of an unimposing stature. "What are you doing here? This city is crawling with chavs & deathsquads, there's no way someone of your age can possibly outrun them" she said nervously. The hooded man looked up from the bike & slowly turned to face her, revealing the man she'd seen before featured on posters, adorning the walls of the now destroyed sanctuary - the man with a greyish white beard, unkempt & scruffy hair - wearing a beige suit, sweater & sporting an old ragged miner's cap. " *_I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK_* " the man confidently replied, and to our protagonist's surprise, this man was none other than the labour leader *Jeremy Corbyn* ... He hands her an armor plated 1970s Raleigh model bicycle, along with a militarized cycling helmet and a 9mm SMG. " *_Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be...addressed_* TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT FOR OUR LEFT WING HEROES, STAY TUNED FOR PART TWO OF: *_GREAT BRITAIN: BOOTLEG BREXIT_*
Second Update: Around 2 years have past by now. Everything fell apart even more. No water from the pipes, food became rare and worst of all: no goddamn internet. And i thought it couldn´t get any worse than "dire". After teaching me in his ways, showing me how to change everything to less shitty, they got him. They impaled him with a peg and hung him in front a hundred burning pictures of Mao Zedong. He made me believe again. And then he left... I really thought we can change everything, if we just tried hard enough. Apparently a few SMGs and bycicles aren´t enough to win a full grown civil war. Worst of all: we are without any help and we propably won´t get any. Chinese agents tried to supply us with more weapons and men, but as soon as they found out..the button was pressed. No more China. We tried reaching the french left through the tunnels, but without any results (we think they got wiped out) and a lots of losses. Our current plan: finding a ship, travelling to germany. We found an old radio transmitter and managed to make contact with their leader. They call him BlasserDünnerJunge and he may be the last hope we have. Ink has also become something very rare too. They don´t want us to write anymore. So updates will be shorter and less frequent. Let´s just all hope this is going to work out. Lyra
Corbyn is absolutely objectively someone you should like and in this election was the objectively better choice if your main concerns are the well being of human beings
He was the furthest left Labour leader in decades. Think of him as a bit like a British Bernie Sanders (but a lot further left since the Overton window in the UK is nowhere near as right wing as the US one)
Watching this in 2020 made me sad. It really seemed in 2017 that the UK was going to get its shit together and start pushing back against the radical right...and then they elected borris Johnson.... twice by 2020...
GreenGraffiti20 at least labour have actual ideas, which they back up with costing and plans etc. The Tories just promise everything without explaining how they'll do it. Other than fucking over the poor and disabled, of course.
As an American, while this stuff is real wild, it still feels more sensible than the politics in my own country. Here it seems like media misinformation campaigns are much more successful.
This video is the kind of thing I would of loved to of shared everywhere and hope that it would reveal the hypocrisy of the Tories, hopefully convincing some not to back them. Unfortunatly it's been released on election day. I'll share it anyway because it's great.
something about "the most powerful weapon ever conceived by mankind!" randomly haunts me. like beyond the obvious reasons just. i will remember that line for no reason and just. aaaAAA.
Aaaah, the good old times when Labour, for a precious few years, was actually distinguishable from the Tories... How young we were back then, how innocent and naive!
@Aubimed To hell with politics. Politicians come and go but nothing ever changes. The west destroyed 3 countries(Afghanistan,Iraq,Libya) and is currently in the process of destroying another one (Syria). It's also trying it's hardest to start war with one more (Iran) with it's recent actions (Bombing the Iranian millitary in Syria which is fighting ISIS). It's always the same. What did Bush,Obama,Clinton or Trump change? They came and they went but nothing changed in the slightest.
True but when you mean to hell with politics you are talking about offical politics, What you mean is to hell with the government and politicians. But Poltics is everywhere, its a social relation not a offical institution. That institution may be political but it is not politics so to speak. You and many people want to engage in politics, you want to be political, you want a say in the running of society, you want democracy. I think that it is telling that Britain had some of its largest demonstrations in its history against the wars in the Middle East but that the voices of those people never changed the decision made by their government. Where is democracy? Did it die or fail? or do we actually not have it yet?
Plenty of reasons for caring about politics exist, and no, it doesn't always have to do with money. Like it or not, what the government enacts into policy has a very real impact on your life. For instance, the amount of governmental funding a empowered party decides to put into single-payer healthcare determines what they can include within the NHS, which actively affects the ability of you and yours to access medical treatment. Whether or not the government decides to provide tuition-free tertiary education will have an economic impact on the nation in 10 to 20 years since a policy like that would actively change the demographics of the workforce, and the talented labour the country has to offer. Voting one way or another is unlikely to result in a catastrophic change the next day, but it does pave a very different future 5-10 years down the line. The problem is that most people forget what they did by then, so they say that the system is "useless/pointless", or that their vote didn't matter. But just because something is forgotten doesn't mean that it never existed, or that it never mattered. It just means its underappreciated.
@Aubimed And don't forget the British Media..and the Daily Mail story said that the national debt would reduce by £4.6 Trillion and Corbyn is pro-austerity.
Oh screw off!! As if the left did not control just about all other aspects of media by a significant majority. Yet you still moan about right wing dominance whilst smearing them to no fucking end!! (By the way: your argument is false.There are quite a lot of left wing youtubers...)
@@alexeistukov433 chill mate. Right wing RU-vidrs have, on average, higher view and subscriber counts. He's not exactly wrong in thinking there weren't any lefttubers
I sure do hope this video will soon become a relic of the past and be rendered obsolete via a sensible improvement to British electoral politics. Oh wait...
6 years old, but this video is absolutely fantastic. It's tremendously insightful, surprisingly poetic and leaves you more thoughtful than you were before.
The whole world talks about what a conservative hellscape The United States is, especially people in the United States, but not enough people talk about what a conservative hellscape The UK is.
20:07 As an American, I've never heard of this until now, that's actually so horrible I can't believe it. Just another way for the rich to inherit more riches...While the poor inherit insane debt. Or, no debt, but no house either! Oh well, they can buy it back for more money. Kill me.
for some reason this has to be my favorite hbomberguy video and i've watched it like 5 times despite me being an american living in the frozen wastes of alaska
I find this rather refreshing as an American. It's still a mess, but at least it's a somewhat competent and policy focused one. Your system is also infinitely better than ours. Everything from the conditions for winning to multiple powerful parties is just better. I'm starting to wonder if we should have ever dumped that tea into the ocean and maybe waited it out to a more progressive and less scummy Britain.
0:44 The year is 2020, three years after the video aired. "Crack open a boy with your cold ones" now has a literal, unironic, legitimate use. All hope is lost. . . . . Also there's like a bad cough or something idk
Watching this video post-pandemic is fucking terrifying as a person living in the UK. Things have actually gotten worse than what we could ever imagined five years ago.
