POWER PLAY: WHO REALLY RULES TODAY? 

Matt Goodwin is head and shoulders above the rest in awareness !

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. Georges Pompidou.

"they want to give power away because they don't really know what to do with power themselves"

Great panel and discussion. Claire as always the best chair. EVER! Uplifting. Thank you all.

Great video! Good start to a really interesting weekend

Matt Goodwin = = I like and understand his analysis.

Matt - great brain and great communicator. A step or more ahead of the others.

Thank goodness for Matt and the others in the room,I feel there are still many sensible level headed youngsters around that can save the day.

First keynote of the season. Indicative of more great BoI videos to come!

Matt. Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great debate and diverse range of views on why this country is so broken. The problem I have witnessed for decades is that these talk shops keep talking about where we are going wrong as a society, but absolutely nothing is actually done to stop and reverse it. For me, the answer to inequality and unchecked mass migration comes down to one simple truth. That truth is the want to concentrate wealth into a tiny minority at the top, by those at the top. Globalisation became a thing when it was realised manufacturing could be shipped over to low wage, low workers rights countries like China. This would massively increase profits for the rich, and the working poor doesn't matter. Now flooding the UK with migrants means they can work in our country on low wages and the British working poor doesn't matter. The problem with what they have done is plain for us all to see, and it has accelerated the decline of the West and allowed China to become a super power with cultural views and ways of running a society at odds with our own. If much of our working class had been seen as the asset that it should have and been invested in with skills needed to build a successful economy. If people were paid enough to not only afford cost of living, but also had disposable income to invest and buy more goods and services then we would be in a very different place. Printing trillions in various currencies quickly ends up in the hands of billionaires, while the debt gets put on the rest of society. The billionaires use the cash to buy assets, which forces up the asset prices, while the currency gets devalued. So working people's wages does not rise anywhere near as fast as inflation. This leads to an exponential growth in wealth at the top, while everyone else gets asset stripped and poorer. People at the bottom can no longer afford to buy a house, so have to rent. Again, this is another way workers are being forced to hand more wealth to the rich. The deeper you go down the rabbit hole, the more you see how corrupt and broken the whole system is. When politicians leave office they do all seem to say the same thing. They see what needs to be done, but if they try and fix something the whole system is there to stop them from bringing about change. Our country is like a tree that has rotten from the inside out. It won't take much of a breeze from the outside to knock it over and I fear that time is coming soon, unless we are able to make some radical change.

Pamela Dow’s reference to Lee Kwan Yew was priceless. A gem.

very interesting!

Harry nails it. If you don't start by following the money you are pursuing a red herring.

Fantastic, I wish we had the quality of intellectual discussions in Germany. Great speeches! I hope there will be more of them soon, and I'm especially interested in the part Harry Lambert discussed regarding the economic aspects, his ideas on taxation, and what counterarguments the other participants might have. Particularly, I'm curious about the risk of the wealthy relocating elsewhere and potentially further harming the economy.

Great debate. Really enjoyed listening to all on the panel

I was impressed by the New Statesman guy until he said "the political class in our country don't want immigration". Come on lol, Labour openly loves it for "diversity" reasons, and the Tories pretend not to love it, but make it as high as possible for their big business buddies.

Who rules? A certain tribe that we can't mention.

“Experts”, what a joke they all are !

Can anyone follow Matt Goodwin? Matthew is a great surgeon in dissecting the body politic.

Inflation didn't hit after the global banking crisis of 2008.

Yes, but it’s not a “NEW elite” though.

Red Rupert simples.

Why is this woman standing all the time?

Nothing on God!!!

This panel was too diverse. I know Matt Goodwin is fairly unique in being clever and conservative-minded but I can't help wondering if his being 'white' and a man isn't a contributory factor in his having those first two characteristics.

Agreeing with the son of an immigrant. Mat Goodwin's analysis is correct BUT we have never seen a golden age.. perhaps we would need to see a radical overhauling of Capitalism and Wealth distribution. Mankind has a whole lotta practice at running the Nation State but presently it has run its' course. We need to talk about Corporate Power.. how come JP Morgan is still in the hands of the family for over 100 years.?? No excuses no intellectual legal garbage speech please.

How refreshing to hear ideas cogently formulated and clearly delivered within a spirit of genuine debate. Congratulations!

The only people that have made sense of what is happening are to the right of the Chair with Matt being the outstanding speaker

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how can a politicians life be more difficult when they successfully instituted avoidance of responsibility laws and qangos?

Matt Goodwin got it right, but Frank Furedi explained why. Politicians are responsible mostly for infrastructure projects and management, yet few have any Business or STEM knowledge to speak of, so cannot make any judgement themselves: they live in a vacuum. Taxing wealth 'created' by inflation would discourage work and wealth creation even more. What the young need is opportunities to learn useful skills, and use them for wealth creation. Too many get degrees that make them less employable!

Growth isn't impossible to generate, it just requires doing things people don't want to do, like hard work in the real world, long term thinking & commitments & saying 'No' & applying due Praise & Punishment when it's unpopular with people who currently hold power & influence.

Did I just miss it or did Matt Goodwin brazenly dodge the question on reform of the Economy? (Cowardly bad form if he did).

Pamela Dow's a babe