John Bercow: ‘I do not believe Jeremy Corbyn is anti-Semitic’ | British GQ 

Lol you should listen to bojo.

@@F-J. hahahahah :)

@@Natashahoneypot I listen to that comedian/ activist ex hubby of Katie Perry to enrich my vocab. Lol

Read a thesaurus. I recommend Roget. It isn't much of a story but they do explain every word.

If you are a loquacious type a large lexicon can be a boon

Or do history documentaries

lol

Not politics tho clearly

our history is biased enough i hope he gets anti arsenal referees and football is a game politics are real life

Absolutely!

Staged!

@@jasonkingshott2971 The truth can only be established by the evidence at hand. In the case of Johnson Against the people. The truth is complete, Johnson is a liar

Yes, and interestingly the one thing that did make the headlines was his view on Brexit being one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in recent history, which will just help those who didn't like him to begin with.

But it is a ridiculous policy mate..

@@George-bb9kr don't I know it!

Of course not as it contradicts the opinion of the billionaire owned media.

I don't believe Jeremy Corbyn is antisemitic. I think he's weak and unable or unwilling to take a hard stance on it in the party. Ultimately the party has handled the issue extremely badly. People who were dragging labour's name because of their idiotic comments 2 years ago are still doing it now because the party hasn't dealt with it effectively. Ultimately he has to take responsibility for what happens under his leadership. That's what leaders do.

Funny

Thank you Kick biker!

Yes. Pay no heed to the guy helped orchestrate war crimes. He's just an ordinary punter like you, or me, or Donald Rumsfeld, or himmler

@mjt1658 So you watched it all & that's your opinion? OR you didn't & just decided to throw in your penny's worth!

@@AndrewEdwardBaileyYou watched the whole 1 hour plus clip & you came to THAT conclusion? I don't believe you. You've looked at the title & called it. It's an interview on John Bercow & his background.

Temple of Ridicule Agree....Looks like he’s a brown envelope man to me.

Close enough to give him a slap in the face!

Me too, but I'd probably need my dictionary ;)

@unitedwestand WE the readers and commentators must be careful? This magazine told us Saddam had WMD and we'd better invade Iraq. That chaps comment was based on as much evidence than GQ, or the msm ever use. I imagine it wouldn't have been an envelope anyway but a position on the board for 4 days a year. Perfectly rational question to make, in the absence of a genuinely investigative media.

Alexander Trauzzi You wouldn’t get a word in Alex

Whoever it was actually called him 'Berkov' (59:29). And I agree with you, at 59:53 he also seems to be saying that the Tories should be careful about trying to suggest the problem is only within Labour.

There is an actual problem with right-wing antisemitism and racism as a whole. It's primarily a tory problem.

Very fine forensic analysis. I would like to add: - The person is/was a male. ("...he replied... both") - The person is/was most likely a Tory. ("...lower class or jewish?" ... "both": this implies the person was of a higher class i.e. a Tory) - Antisemitism exists/existed in the Tory party too. ("people should be careful about casting aspersions on other political parties") - Bercow is pauses at 59:12. Therefore Bercow did not expect antisemitism to come from that individual or Bercow is hesitant to talk more about this event. - The individual knew Bercows real name was Berkowitz because Bercow emphasizes the "vf" sound in "Bercovf". - From the tone Bercow is deeply disturbed by this event and doesn't want to talk about it. - You can tell that Bercow is honest when he says that Corbyn is not antisemitic.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I think the part where he talks about anti-semitism at 57:20 is quite telling: 1. He mentions that he has never received anti-semitic remarks from the Labour party 2. He mentions that he has never received anti-semitic remarks inside Parliament 3. He then recounts of a time where he did receive anti-semitic remarks outside of Parliament. However, the way that he talks about the remarks makes it clear that it came from someone that works inside of parliament or is an MP / Lord. eg. "If I had my way, people like you Berkow, wouldn't be in this place". 'This Place' being the key point in his sentence as this word is used to describe Parliament when one is working within it, not outside of it 4. The fact that he doesn't want to say who it was, therefore means that it is someone the public would know 5. Taking the fact that he's never received anti-semitic remarks from the Labour party, one can only deduce that the anti-semitic remarks he did receive outside of Parliament, came from an MP or Lord from one of the other parties 6. Considering he was not well-liked by many of his own party, (the Tories) one can only surmise, with some certainty, from which party member the anti-semitic remarks came

That could have saved me an hour of my life...

Well of course because that's all that matters to the disgraceful defenders of Mr. Corbyn.

@Blue Star Are the anti Zionist Jews also anti semitic?

@Blue Star Anything better to do than troll on RU-vid, anonymous troll? OK maybe not.

@Blue Star ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ednKK8GlvwI.html

I agree and of Ken Clarke too . He had them both down to a tee. I wish he had of done more . I want Alastair to interview Bernard Jenkin now , not to talk about politics , but just to hear his impressions .

Brad West 46 seconds ago (edited) I believe JB when he says that Steptoe is not an antisemite, but he has fostered the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment in Labour. He has attracted the hard-left filth that Kinnock and Blair expunged from our party, and have now wormed their way back in, This is instructive, medium.com/@ericblairite/paranoia-panorama-my-part-in-the-downfall-of-the-labour-party-

No the problem with politics is there is a need for politicians and parties to keep us uninterested in the innermost workings of the state.

I agree with your assessment of Bercow. Not perfect but rattled the cage. I like the changes he made in the house of commons. I think a sign of a good speaker is that he is criticized from all sides.

@@chrisspencer6502 I think those are both valid problems with politics.

I think there's a third problem which is that in the olden days democratic leaders used to respect the decisions of their parliamentarians, at least in public, but nowadays there are all sorts of populist demagogues in positions of power who masquerade as democrats so as soon as the parliament goes against their wishes they go nuts and try to pit people against the parliamentarians as we are currently seeing.

"Bercow may be far from perfect, but he encouraged MP’s in general, and backbenchers in particular to be just that: representatives of the people and their interests" This is the crux. Unfortunately those elected MP chose to ignore how their constituents voted and facilitated their ignoring of the people.

you in favour o fall the things corbyn said then? a lot of jews were kapos so you're in a tradition

@@boliussa on what planet does "there was a smear campaign against Corbyn" translate to "I agree with everything Corbyn ever said"?! Only a small minded person sees people as being always wrong or right :/

It's important for them to maintain the antisemitism slur, even when there's someone who doesn't believe it. Just mention it continuously is the idea for the msm

jebango i agree and it nearly stopped me from watching it as so clearly that

Dulce periculum good point

It got you here though, didn't it? :)

He's a neo-Liberal parasite! And; you're a bootlicker!

@@connorcook6171 You are, of course entitled to your opinion. Personally I disagree with you. I would also mention I'm so confident of my opinion I feel no need for ad hominem attacks, generally this implies an inability to counter the actual argument or statement at hand . A pity you can't say the same. x

@@ricardobimblesticks1489 "I disagree with you and I feel so confident in my opinion, that I feel no need to use ad hominems". What opinion?? LOL. Try to work out what you're actually disagreeing with me on, before attempting to counter me - It shows a lack of intellectualism on your part.

@@connorcook6171 'He's a neo-Liberal parasite!' that dear Conner is an opinion, ofc I assume it's yours and not just something you are parroting.

@@ricardobimblesticks1489 "Bercow being neo-Liberal is just your opinion" - Yet, Bercow served high office in a neo-Liberal system, LOL. Also, you're supposed to use qoutation marks to qoute someone, not an apostrophe.

I disagree. Speakers are to keep order not bring biased politics.

Disagree also because he was biased and loved the sound of his own voice. Boothroyd and Hoyle are better.

@@Rayblondie he wasnt biased. That's just your opinion.

@@BigLebowski2000 Yes it is my opinion because I read deeply about it. Jeremy Corbyn was genuinely anti Semitic. In plain English a Jew hater just because they were Jews..

@@Rayblondie Your entitled to your opinion, no problem. I just see them as that and not as facts.

It looks like he's lost weight as well.

Remind me why it was illegal?

@@adamrc6279 Because it was based solely on (deliberately) fabricated and flawed "evidence".

That's your opinion, Will. The evidence was clearly wrong in several ways. But going from that to prove that he or anyone knew it was untrue is a big leap that nobody has been able to prove. Not even a senior judge conducting an in depth enquiry.

@@VeeSeven700 no it's not an opinion, the whole thing was false, there never was WMD's to start with, it was never about that, Gordon Brown said not long back that the Pentagon knew, of course they bloody knew and so did Blair & Co, Saddam Hussein said no to the petrodollar, that's what it was about, No different to Syria, Assad said no to Saudi who wanted to run a pipeline through. It's the case every time, Sarkozy wanted Gaddafi's gold, there was never a reason to go to war and as bad as those people were/ are they held bad bigger evils for what we're seeing today

@@VeeSeven700 in-depth enquiry lol, that was a farse. Look at May, she committed an act of War against America which is Treason and the 99.9999% are none the wiser ffs

@@jamesrichards3183 Thank you for stating what''s true and right. Wish there are many people like you James - Don't change x

cheers, bercow is also jewish. i believe that when he was the speaker, bercow felt some sympathy for corbyn, maybe not initially, but he could see that this mild mannered man was being wrongly persecuted by tories on one side & some in the labour party as well. if you have watched pmqs in the past, there had always been respect shown by both corbyn & bercow towards each other - the kinder politics that corbyn had hoped all mps would display towards each other, despite what party they belonged to. corbyn is probably the most verbally abused politician today & yet, like somebody else with the same initials as himself, he has refused to condemn those abusers. ps, hopefully there will be a lot of 'snow flakes' on december 12th. all the best.

i like to give a different, truthful view about something which is a lie but is accepted as truth.

anybody can see that corbyn is not anti semitic, unless they are a zionist, a tory or a blairite; there has been no semblance of anti semitism by corbyn, either on film or the written word; corbyn persecutors have failed to find any proof, so they perpetuate a lie, either through the press, media, synagogues & other jewish outlets.

King Brilliant you’re a ‘brexieer’ I suppose?

You are clearly delluded. Hindsight is easy to use when a matter's been decided in a way you couldn't forsee the consequences of when you were making the choices.

Jimmy Green Yes, in fact I remember as far back as the very first speaker in 1376. Back then of course there was no tv, just a bugler who would ride to every town and tell people what was said. Admittedly some of the impact of the parliamentary address could have been lost in this manner, but the bugler tried his best, doing all kinds of funny voices and everything.

Another vote for Betty B. Bercow is nothing more then a clown

At the very least he's the most entertaining!

I suspect he must

unitedwestand infinitely more honourable that he knowingly entered us in to a war over false premises that he knowingly was aware would cost unimaginable money and result in huge loss of life. Infinitely more honourable you say.

Josh Charlie Did he though?

Ian Gascoigne to which point are you referring

Josh Charlie Was he told that Saddam did not have WMD’s because everyone else is being wise after the event. Did he knowingly lie? Have you got evidence that he did?

Ian Gascoigne www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tony-blair-misrepresented-intelligence-on-weapons-of-mass-destruction-to-gain-approval-for-iraq-war-a6713401.html

Not to me

@@elbobinho Every single fibre of Alistair Campbell, is wrong! The man should spend the rest of his life looking at four walls, for the destruction in the middle easy that has been consequence of his actions.

Past is past this is present. We currently have a lying PM !

Exactly

Campbell is not a liar, this was proven

Until you call him out on it and then he goes really shy.

He definitely has a talent for it!

Wonder what team he supports. By looks I'll go he's an Arsenal fan.

It's called Politics..

Might also be because he's been the speaker for so long, so he's had these patterns of speech to remain impartial.

It could also be that he recognizes that sweeping, generalized statements about political opponents from politicians gives people reason to believe that there is no reason to respect or even entertain opposing opinions, which is what has got us to this place where MPs resign due to death threats, or even worse, are injured or killed by political violence (Congressman Steve Scalise and Jo Cox MP). Sad to say, but Congressman Scalise hasn’t internalized that lesson, despite his brush with mortality, because he is still a solid Trump supporter, who has gone far out of his way to insult, libel, and threaten everyone with whom he disagrees.

Yes, I believe Jeremy Corbyn is a mossad puppet, whom would never be "anti-semetic".

@Adam On the contrary I know many people who both care and agree. I take it you don't.

awol2602 I agree. He has a good reputation amongst those who know him and those who he meets as being the opposite. He is anti-racism.

Needs waxing. Soft wax on a lolly stick. Let it dry. and PULL !!

I can't take my eyes off it, and I have lost a lot of respect for myself for that fact. But I really can't look away.

Not missed by the people who he bullied.

they know he's a disgrace to the office and a traitor

His memory is borderline Eidetic. He could recall every MPs name, birthday, constituency, what happened on dates etc.

He's a d***head. Thanks heavens he's gone.

Shanjan Usman well one things very apparent,he is a much more intelligent man than you

but... but... he was supposed to be impartial.

@unitedwestand You DON'T think the Speaker is supposed to be impartial?

sure, bds until they start obeying UN resolutions ok with you?

@@plasticpaddy5278 Sounds great!

No, we can't risk the antisemitism. ALL speech on Israel must be regulated by an Israel-friendly state. The sensible left and the sensible right will agree to this.

Just most.

He was going to defect to Labour. He was in the wrong party.

Alastair is not a liar. It's ludicrous to suggest this

Alistair did lie and is a spin doctor who at least stretches the truth

@Openside 7 well at least he didn’t sex up a dossier that led to war. As for Patterson the inquiry was not completely fair. How is Starmer doing with his GBP100k in extra earnings??

Don't they say that you need one to see one? It should be even more damning coming from him then.

True, but let that blind you from the original point. What-about-ism doesn’t add anything to the debt and doesn’t change the fact that Johnson is an unrealistic, unreliable and pathological liar which makes him very very dangerous.

@@Harihar_Patel what

Hi I think the issue is people who want to show their disgust for the treatment the Arabs (Palestinians) in Israel & Gaza face, without getting to grips with the context or understanding the language that surrounds it. Words like Zionism, Israel etc. are used all to easily and with little understanding of the nuances and how misusing those terms can be deeply offensive and hurtful to people who may identify with those terms and also hold strong views about the treatment of the Arab population. Anti-Semitism is ingrained across or society and our culture and needs to be educated against. I do think AS has been used to shield the Israeli state in recent times from criticism of their increasingly hardline against the Arabs, and this is muddying the waters. I fear this is not a good thing for the fight against racism of all schools, nationalism is on the rise and that should frighten all decent people everywhere.

The entire Jewish community thinks he’s an anti-semite.

@@billcoleman4258 Not all of them: www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/statement/ehrc-investigation-into-the-labour-party-evidence-of-jewish-voice-for-labour/

Don't speak for everyone I beleive he is anti semetic.

As far as I am aware, he is about as secular as they come. He’s Jewish by ethnicity (his father or grandfather came from Romania and changed the family name from “Bercowitz” to “Bercow”), but from all appearances is not practicing. Who knows if he’s even a Bar Mitzvah. I don’t care one way or the other: a person is Jewish if they are of Jewish ethnicity, practice the Jewish faith, or both. I am actually a convert to Judaism; I was born Catholic, but that faith didn’t work for me.

Tom Sanders I’m not even sure what that means...

@Mr Spoon His mother converted when she married his father, both his parents were Jewish, but only his father was born a Jew

sounded like Ken Clarke

ABC - Anyone But Corbyn.

The fact that he had all that memorized, just 👏👏👏

David Garvin and what about all the right wing Islamic Policies?

@@violinstar5948 such as....

I'm a bit surprised that this is even a question. I don't think there is any evidence whatsoever to support the assertion that Jeremy Corbyn is personally an antisemite. The question is whether he has been slow or ineffectual to address the issue of antisemitism in the wider party. Only those who wish to smear Corbyn personally would fudge the issue by implying that he himself stands accused of antisemitism.

@@SaintSwithinsDay exactly. There is no evidence that Corbyn is an anti semite, but his and the Labour leadership's dealing with the issue of anti-Semitism in the Labour party has been less than adequate.

@@SaintSwithinsDay then why not say so he cant stay on the fence about every issue our government interfering started the problem. There are great divisions between socialist and the different versions of socialism and the jewish group between 1905/1917 in Russia these groups fought each other for power. i find it difficult to beleive that anyone with a modicum of intellect would beleive he dislikes ppl for religious or ethnic reasons but he is quite happy to use insult instead of policies as are all the parties it seems that the truth is getting harder to find as respect for the veiws of any one else are sneered at.How are these ppl the best leaders we can find

You heard about the time he threw a mobile phone at someone's head, how it narrowly missed them and smashed against the wall into tiny bits?

​@@anncothromoir1018you heard about the time that was actually proven? Me neither

Eeerm... it was one of the findings of the bullying inquiry - you know that one that had 35 complaints against him by various former colleagues?

So Campbell is calling boris a liar? Bit rich coming from the man who was instrumental in helping the war criminal blair decimate the middle east sending thousands of British service personnel to their deaths and creating the unstable threat to the safety of the entire world that the region has become. " I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons of mass destruction". Liar and traitor. Stange that the death penalty for high treason was repealed by blair?

@@sambrooks7862 Boris Johnson was in favor of the Iraq war. So a weak defense for the liar in chief.

John Hobbes yeh I’m with you. And tbf hate his decision to invade or not, I think it’s unfounded to say he lied. The Levison Inquiry didn’t find anything about lying so your kinda just spouting opinion rather than fact if you call him a liar. And war criminal is just ludicrous and conspiracy theorist

@@tommycundy ok so why did the Chilcot enquiry, which took 17 years, find that he (blair) knew beyond doubt that there were no weapons of mass destruction, although Chilcot stopped short of using the word"liar" it amounts to the same thing. And to say boris was in favour of the war is a pathetic, weak argument. Most of the house were in favour based on the so called evidence put forward by blair and his co conspirators. Evidence that we now know was a Web of lies. Besides I bet you can't name a single serving mp who has never been called out on a lie? The whole house is bent it's just a question of which way they bend.

@@tommycundy also bare in mind that the supreme Court (which was commissioned by blairs chums) only said that trying him for war crimes would not be in the public interest. A far cry from saying that he is innocent.

Bercow does like to reiterate the point that he's already obviously made

You're probably best off voting SNP. I just hope England and Wales recognise what the tories will do the their people and give Labour a majority. I can understand your dilemma. 👍

Hi One man: Attacked his neighbouring country using chemical weapons leading to 500,000 deaths. Attacked another neighbouring country and then refused a UN demand to retreat from the country. About 1,000 civilians were killed and more than 300,000 residents fled the country.[68] Attacked Israel using guided missiles. Attacked his own people, using chemical weapons killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Tortured and murdered thousands of his own people. His actions bespeak a tyrannical despot who stopped at nothing to punish those who opposed him. Repeatedly violated sixteen United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) designed to ensure that his country does not pose a threat to international peace and security. On November 5, 2006, he was found guilty of crimes against humanity in regards to the reprisal against Dujail. After an unsuccessful appeal, he was hanged on December 30, 2006. The other man: Helped to get rid of the first man to free his country from severe dictatorship and giving his people a chance of democracy and to save the middle east from further disruption He has been vilified for acting illegally. The Chilcot inquiry stated that the United Kingdom and the United States had undermined the authority of the United Nations Security Council and that the process of identifying the legal basis was "far from satisfactory", and that a war was unnecessary. If you consider the above you can only come to one conclusion.If this war was unnecessary then WHAT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO TO GO WAR

@@gibsonagg the agreement of China and Russia

@@davidcooks2379 Apart from that

I would bet good money on it being someone within his own party. Considering the added information of the person not wanting lower class people in Parliment (59:34), and what Bercow adds afterwards at 59:53.

Jacob Rees Mogg

@@blackpage3729 I dislike him, but he doesn't seem to be the kind of person to say something like that, even if he thought it. Maybe I'm wrong. Whoever it was, I think it would ruin their career.

Bercow has natural dignity and as a speaker ensured that also prevailed in debate ! Big fan. Different political persuasion party wise ! But a principled adversary is due respect ! Especially when they put that aside to referee efficiently and fairly ! His popularity in my view, is well deserved !

‘People like you “ Bercow are a credit to our country and deserving of the respect and affection which many of us hold you in ! Sincere thanks and best wishes !

See a Doctor immediately.

but... but... he was supposed to be impartial.

Funny that he was the "speaker", and this role does involve saying too much, but not too much of substance

There is a well told story of Dennis Skinner being asked to retract when he said ' half the Tories are liars ' and he said , 'OK , half the Tories are not liars ' or something like that !

Interesting chat. Perhaps Campbell could let his guest finish their sentence before jumping in.

Listeners in Iraq cannot download this because they're dead unfortunately.@@leslie_rogers

lol, yeah. It is distracting ;) Still a very good interview; of the man (any hairs included).

There are means and ways of extracting the audio from YT videos, worth a google

www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-RU-vid-to-MP3-Converter.htm One way of doing it, is by using this program. It converts an MP4 file to an audio only MP3.

Put your phone down and just listen.

Agree