Labour's landslide win | James O'Brien - The Whole Show 

I'm glad that all of Europe doesn't hate us after the debacle of the last 14 years. I wish we could be one again.

How do you view the UK right now as a German?

😂😂😂 get better? It’s going to be the same labour and Tory are the same

@jakehowie442 Please keep in mind that I am just a bystander. I think it will take a long time and a lot of patience and commitment on the part of the people to correct the damage that has been done. I have been to your beautiful country several times over the last 35 years. Most recently in 2023 and I was shocked by the prominent poverty. But I think a lot will be gained by reversing the harshest social cuts and implementing an effective economic program that is geared towards benefiting the majority and not just a minority. And, if the majority of Britons want it, back into the EU. However, this time without a special agreement.

Thanks that is really kind of you. With love from the UK

He’ll probably be their next leader. Awful eh? It’s gets worse and worse.

I haven't heard it yet but forget that, I'm just pleased you are feeling better.

@@jeremygough1387 thank you. I’m recovering a bit lol

I don't know how anyone can accuse Hunt of respectability after his stint as health secretary, he's a garbage human!

Take heart. You have had Britain’s dark shadow side in control but they have been voted out. I truly believe things will get better.

Don't get too far ahead of yourself, we've got a lot of work to do over here still. 2029 is going to be the real showdown between the centre and the fascists, hopefully the left don't fall into horseshoe theory. But for now, there seems to have been a collective sigh of relief before we get back to it

@@thedeadmoneyallstars What will be happening in 2029?

​@@twelvemo1next general election.

Less than 20% of people eligible to vote, voted Labour.

Iran, of all places, have voted in a progressive over a hardliners. Probably relative, but still...

Ever since my working life (I have had the Tories as leaders since I turned 18). I have consistently been living pay check to pay check, any meagre savings always have gotten swallowed up due to changes in things like benefits etc. then I finally got into a position where I was able to save far more, then inflation went up, my energy bills spiralled. I sit with £15.00 in my bank after I have paid all my bills etc. I am hoping labour help me not be constantly on the cusp of going into debt.

@@sianparker6235 labour will give you more of the same, sorry

If you put your faith in an elite group of people that the tories are who dont understand the lives of most people then thats what you get.

@@UnknownUser-by4le You don't have to say sorry for things you can't be sure about.

THEY'RE OUT!!!! The people struggling can now breathe a sigh of relief. We've earned it ❤

Thanks mate, and we wish you the best of British on your side of the pond

Regrettably, just as the British populace began to embrace a more open-minded perspective, the United States is on the cusp of electing additional Republican representatives to their government.

I have UK/US passports and live in Wisconsin... It's wonderful that the UK has put a stop to the far right assault on Europe. Now we have the US to safeguard, and I am doing my best in Wisconsin... As an ex-European I know all about 1933 in Germany.

Cheers dude!🎉💪🫡🇬🇧🇺🇸

What conservatives? They were Lib Dem’s

Pork futures?

The reason why she was tardy was because they’re told the poll results just before they go on stage, sounds to me like she heard of her loss and wanted to leave as fast as she could 😂

I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt and say maybe she was temporarily overcome by emotion and had to compose herself before appearing on stage. But I have a hard time imagining her having any kind of normal human emotions. Plus the lack of even a quick mumbled "thanks to my team for their hard work" sort of nod to decency suggests she just cba.

The way she stud there, staring into the crowd... she's definitely giving off robot vibes and is currently being shut down

@@fozzarooo To be fair, it's past time; she's been glitching for ages.

They have to, because it's going to take more than five years to get the UK back on track.

😂😂😂 wait for it - you ain’t seen nothing yet

You must be new to democracy

Don't worry , Labour will do the same......and more..

I mean Labour vote was less than it was in 2019. Despite the size of the seat majority it is a very fragile one. Governments tend to lose votes not to gain them so Labour are going to have to actually do something significant. If they keep to the there isn't money to do anything and that the private sector will save us just like the Tories have been saying since 2010 they are finished next election.

No they didn't, they voted for Reform who are even further to the right than the Tories. Labour only got an extra 0.5% of the vote

Labour got a 33% vote with a 58% turnout…your maths must be very bad.

@@richardloach610I see the far-right are still living in an alternative reality! Reform has 5 seats, they have as much political relevance as the DUP. Cope and seethe. 😂

@@allip4226 Lets see how the far left within Labour behave in this government, I'll get the popcorn ready LOL.

​@@allip4226 he's right though, labour have a large majority with low voting numbers and it's because the Tories lost votes to reform. we can be hopeful that a labour government will put the work in and improve people's lives but in some ways this isn't a big win, it's a big loss for the Tories which benefits us all as it handed an easy solid win to labour

I'm genuinely terrified for the US and the world if Trump gets in - I'm pretty sure he's going to try and abolish elections.

He's nae bothered, green card in hand, mansion sorted - he's off to Uncle Sam.

😂 😂😂

@@jasonboyd5867 professional words are relatively easy, accountability only counts if someone is held accountable no?.... sauntering off with pockets full of money and no consequences of note? hope someone "holds me to account" like the Tories were soon

yes he is an example of the modern choice completely incompetent but some decency or some ability but completely amoral , canada is in the same boat ready to elect the far right bc people are angry that there is no tax for the government to keep its services, bc the politicians refuse to raise the marginal tax rate back to what it needs to be, google that and bretton woods, the fascists cannot win, solidarity brother! get yanis varoufakis on your programs come on!!!

More than Johnson did.

The anti-nuclear green party makes no sense to me at all, just like the "net 0 immigration, all in on fossil fuel" agenda of Reform. Both parties are walking contradictions

5, total, actually. As with reform - 5.

Don't lose hope my friend. This election has been a hard time coming for the most vulnerable in our society ❤🎉

I do hope the decent people of America will be able to avert their country from becoming a dictatorship under Trump. Best of luck to you all.

@@mickreaddin4979 thank you. We need to learn a lesson from you all. I’m not optimistic however.

@@GrumpyYank26 It only took us 14yrs, Brexit and a ton of corruption to see the light. I have to admit, I don't envy your choices. Perhaps stick with old as opposed to crazy?

@@mickreaddin4979 Biden is competent and kind. No question who gets my vote. The scary thing is how popular tRump is. Mass mental breakdown. Dems still believe in civil society which the right doesnt even pretend to accept. Its going to get worse, imo. I’m REALLY encouraged that Brits look to be turning it around. Hats off to you all, even if there is a lot of work tb done. Income inequality and policies that create that are the cause, imo. Just rambling…over and out.

Trump congratulates the hate party who won 4 seats and says nothing to the working Labour party who won 412 seats.....Evil supports it's own Evil...

Voting sensibly for a corpse?

Yup, Mexicans for Trump!

@@danielgrunwell6026funny you actually realize and ACKNOWLEDGE that Joe Biden is the sensible choice!

You guys are going to have Trump win by 10 million+ votes unfortunately

They have a similar election coming up - Voting for the most part not for who they want but who they hate least.

That there 👈🏽

There weren't any parties, okay there were parties but I didn't know. Ok I knew but I didn't go. Ok, I went but didn't know it was a party, got ambushed by drinks...

You what?! EVERY party EVERYWHERE in the world treat the “electorate” with contempt, but they still participate in the charade…imagine what would happen if the electorate held the government in the contempt they deserve?! this is on,y the beginning

And when they do nothing for the electorate 👍

@@w-james9277 eventually...

Also for finishing off the Queen, breaking the UK financially, and lasting less time than a lettuce.

She will be remembered as being outlasted by a lettuce!

​@@paulaa.8586 I remember where I was when the lettuce won!

@@TubbsFarquhar She didn't win - there was no election - it was a leadership change decided by 100,000 party members, but nice try

@@TubbsFarquhar she didn't win - there was no election - she took over as a matter of internal Tory nonsense

Didn't KS before 2015, used to be H I n H with the govt via his role in CPS ¿? Ie, part of the ruling party's tree...

Except that Sunak never showed such integrity during his time in office or the election campaign he ran

Well put. It remains to be seen what use is made of it. Hope is back, but euphoria isn't really appropriate (yet?).

No

As long as he is home for6pm 😂😂😂

Well I'm similar. I left school In 2009 and I had a job of sorts during that same year so I guess I spent a year under the labour party but I wasn't really into my full working life so it wasn't memorable in terms of pay I was just happy to earn money back then 😂 but since going into a full time job I'm now hopeful that my situation improve especially since me and my colleagues are embroiled in strike action as of now.

The cost of living won't fall per se, prices won't come down. What you can hope is that wage growth over the term is higher than inflation and real wages increase. On top of that, help and opportunities for the poorest along with essential public services being improved will make things better beyond the real wage level.

It won't, read this in 4/5 years. I wish you well but it won't.

Your cost of living will be the same however hopeful your child's schooling and the health service should start to get better. Under the last Labour government I went through two recessions so was on the dole twice but my nephews and nieces schools weren't falling down, hospitals weren't falling down, the health service waiting lists were shorter, and the police and criminal justice system worked. Oh and while being on the dole I could afford my energy bills and eat 3 simple meals a day.

They'll be no change, 5 years from now and all will be the same, just another million people living in the UK which is going to be the real problem ...

"fighting for compensation" - is there a class action? I'd love to join. I paid myself in dividends, paid a boat load in taxes in 2019 and got nothing over COVID because I never bothered with the first 12k tax free on payroll. And at the time I said I'd be royally fhucked again when inflation hits as I watched my neighbour sipping wine in his garden on 80% salary paid from thin air. LABOUR - clowns. "CONSERVATIVES" - clowns. .

A constitution is only worth as much as the people elected to uphold it, hold its value to be.

As we're learning in the U.S.A., a constitution is only as powerful as the integrity of the parties sworn to uphold it...

Tell the truth about Brexit? What part? That the "CON" liars failed to implement it?

Exactly !

A committee of political auditors, randomly selected from qualified individuals, sort of like jury duty, to serve for a year investigating politicians for corruption/profiteering

The sad part of all of this is people are going to expect results OVERNIGHT, It took 14 years for Tories to destroy the Country. They will expect Labour to fix it in a week...😂😂😂😂

​@@peacheswilliams4539How is that funny?

It did not take them that long. They cut public spending immediately and austerity was well on the way by 2012y​@@peacheswilliams4539

Their crushing defeat changes plenty. Tories are no longer in government to make things worse, and Labour has a chance to make things better.

A guy who doesn't know what a woman is and Rayner, ... these are the adults? Ok then.

Yes, she has hope💯

The American people have to save themselves...They just have to open their eyes for what the future may hold if they don't....

*Normality

Normality !!!

Excellent analogy

@@deborahjones3896 thanks. Unfortunately I recognised it. National PTSD. We've been moved so far, to accept so much, it'll take a while to stop tiptoeing. But we ARE safer now. I recognise that bit too. 😉❤🎉

@@blossomyoung9615 ❤️‍🩹

I’m an American! watching from across the pond, and hope our election in November will be as hopeful as yours. I’m soooo glad to see Nigel Farage will have to slither away and go back under the rock from which he came. Farage reminds me of trump so much!! But I’m excited to see all the great things the Labour government will do!!

Very nice

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To stand up for the lazy voter, the message "what's the point, they're all the same" has been spreading for a long while. I'm suspicious of its origins (have you noticed the word Uniparty making the rounds? The first time I heard it used was by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the US) and have a big problem with the implication that accepting societal norms and expectations of government is daft, stultifying, or somehow immoral. It works though, because all too many people are just ground down and depressed by daily life to believe dragging themselves out to make a pencil mark on a piece of paper is more than just another pointless chore for no reward. I'm not in that situation but can quite understand people who are. I'd be grateful if they'd stop moaning about the choice of government though, if they didn't help to make it.

Happy Birthday 🎉🎉

@@MsPeabody1231 Thank you😀

Congratulations 🎉💯

Problem with lefties is they have no clue how finance works. Taxing the super rich will solve everything LOL.

Unfortunately, Biden and his current administration aren't that type of government. Beanie Sanders would have been open to the idea though.

It’s actually about who people wanted in constituencies to represent them. The problem is very few constituencies wanted Jeremy Corbyn labor to represent them, and many people supported the conservatives over him

Once Farage was splitting the right, labour were always going to win . That gave those on the left the freedom to vote green. Labours support went down by 5%..

There was a record number of tactical votes this election, very clear if you look at this year compared to 2019. Yeah it's not so much a Labour win as it is a Tory defeat, but that defeat had a significant amount of the electorate behind it intentionally voting that way well aware that Labour would get in.

@@jeddgangman4502 no, it was a vote to get the tories out.

Yeah, I've glad we (New Zealand) went to MMP. Everyone's vote count equally, regardless of what "type" of seat you live in. Plus you get more parties in parliament. Not a huge fan of our current government, but they got the most votes. and I still like the system.

You mean like the people of Rochdale, the people of Bow and the people of Glasgow never saw Galloway before that? I suspect in the next election 30p Lee, who knows how to be a constituency MP, will be reelected but Farage won't.

@@MsPeabody1231 "I suspect in the next election 30p Lee, who knows how to be a constituency MP, will be reelected but Farage won't." I suspect 30p Lee will leave Reform before the next election - Farage's bloviating will drive him away.

Not really

​@dlamiss I completely agree. Most of Starmer's cabinet is questionable. But at least it's better than Sunak's

@@haggishighways Question them and they have answers.

That is exactly what Kier has done. Let’s hope he can deliver although it will take time.

I don't think Labour is expected to fix everything in 5 years - people just want to see significant improvements.

i agree

Yeah and you had Ardern - no thanks

@@paulaa.8586 Meh. She saved a lot of lives. Unlike the US and UK leaders. Fools.

@@andrewstevenson118 Yeah - no thanks. We don't need tyranny of the minority by Farage - so nope not going to follow that system

Many in the UK clearly agree.

I agree, the mess the country has been left in will be difficult to deal with, unfortunately Labour will not be given time by the right-wing msm. Their focus now will be on Farage and Reform(plc).

The JP one was epic 😂😂

Yes, maybe people can learn to agree on policies that HELP all, SNP included instead of just the very wealthy who have done nothing but enrich themselves and watch everyone else suffer.

I have family members who contributed to that result. So proud 😊

Couldn’t agree more. We must never, never forget that extraordinary man. Taken from us so cruelly and with such exquisite timing.

Ferrari called Rishi "D-Day Dodger" so he didn't like him either.