I mean he called Binface satirical and then proceeded to do the most serious and in depth analysis of Binface’s policies. I feel like he did a good job here
It's a classic trick of taking a humorous idea and using that as a basis to launch into some interesting discussions. Done right, it works in the classroom and, I think, was done quite well here.
@@tomsixsix do you still have those coins? 2p was my favourite coin 40 years ago, on holiday as a young boy because you could have a whole bag of 'pirate treasure' for only 1 pound. I think we hauled a whole bunch of them back home to keep as play money
While I miss Bamboozle at much at the next guy, Ceefax was dependent on analogue TV signals. Yes, you could introduce some sort of alternative using modern methods - perhaps a means of displaying pages of text with some sort of modern internet protocol - but it wouldn't be the same.
I'm from Hungary and the price cap did indeed cause a shortage of basics like you wouldn't belive. It is very impressive though, how you were able to force Tesco's hand just by a manifesto alone. No wonder you could conquer all those other planets. Who says that the invisible hand of the market couldn't be turned into an intergalactic fist.
@@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682 Let's entertain that thought: The food industry is nationalised and the government increases supply. They need more resources for the increased supply. Where do they get those? Are the butter and flour industries also nationalised? Sure, they are also food so let's go with that. The butter and flour industry is nationalised as is the milk and wheat industry. Where do we herd the additional cows and grow the wheat though? Do we nationalise the land so we can use it? Ok, the government has deep pockets so they can just throw money at it - but that means they are either not spending it on other things or they increase the debt.
To be fair, the "what is a woman" debate was always on somewhat shaky ground, given it could be derailed quite quickly by simply asking "yes, but what does a woman look like, and who in the name of all that is Heavy Metal is volunteering to check everyone's genitals while they're on a hair trigger because everyone's busting for a wazz?"
This was actually really informative. A lot of populism relies on policies that look really intuitive but don’t work in practice, so having the public understand why they wouldn’t work is good.
The public don't listen to a radio programme on statistics. They don't do detail. They just read headlines and regurgitate in their echo chambers... this is how the Tories got in (remember Cambridge Analytica, the psycologists and targeted advertising on Facebook?) and stayed in for 14 years despite blatantly taking our money and selling our assets all to feed the bank accounts of their mates and donors. The public are mostly quite simple folk. And we wonder why the tories always mess education up when they come into power - keep the folk simple and keep them distracted.
It sounds to me that what is needed is croissants uniformly produced to a rigid recipe, a British Standard Croissant, if you will. And that this would have to be done by an organisation that was overseen by, but given modern views on such things, not actively run by, the government. Perhaps we could call it the British Baking Corporation.
A good BSC sounds nice. Maybe something they could do on Europe level 😅... The French probably have had a standard for years. The CSF (Croissant standard français).
@@JJVernig All joking aside, I woudn't be surprised if such a thing already exists. The French are very hot on protecting and defining their cultural icons.
@@JJVernig By law, a regulation French croissant has to be at least one frog's leg long, weigh at least as much as 5 standard snails and has to be inspected by Jacques Clouseau, or his Minky. 😂
Should there be a discount for a double 99 cone? Where do you stand on sauce on ice cream cones with 99 flakes, strawberry or chocolate? Personally I feel that chocolate sauce compliments the cocoa delight of the flake.
There will be croissants that cost £1.10 and then the we'll see the arrival of phonetically-spelled variants such as kwassongts, crassawnts and others at higher price points.
french curly bread ,i mean ffs my nan knows that and she aint ever left the village , stop mithering binny with these daft questions lol french curly bread
@@stephenlee5929 How? Tax is based off of income so unless croissants are currently less then £1.10 and they are going to use this as an excuse to raise prices it shouldn't cost them more in tax. It might cost them in profits without some form of government subsidy but that will actually mean their taxes go down.
To be fair, the BBC refuse to butter up any politician by telling us to take their policies seriously, because so many of them are of marg(inal) value. I can't believe it's not butter, sorry I meant BETTER, to take Binface seriously... he has an honest face.
I am very happy, and it makes me proud to be English, that they have invited a legitimate economist and professor to discuss the pros and cons of Count Binface's manifesto.
It just wouldn’t be Britain without these quality candidates! I say Britain as I don’t think the bin fire that is Northern Ireland has these type of candidates, unless you count the DUP 🦖🦕.
Well done to Count Binface for highlighting a vital issue although I am more of a pain au chocolat addict. Even more applause to BBC 'More or Less' for using it as a prompt to discuss the economics of price caps.
Sounds to me that Count Binface has pinpointed a definite place where the markets were indeed price gouging their customers and when exposed they folded the price down to the price cap he presented. Sometimes the only way to deal with bad behavior by corporations when they are misleading the consumer is to shame them publicly. Thank You Count Binface!
You should try washing your hands in the Thames... that's where you'll meet up again with your recently released bowel content. You might see some representatives of Thames Water floating by too.
Totally agree. I've always thought overpriced croissants should be sent back from where they came from and if Binface comes to power this nonsense will finally end 👍
Yes, but exactly how long does a black market croissant live? Will we have room for them all in our prisons? Will they get mouldy and be released early on compassionate grounds? 😉 Maybe a croissant penal colony? Send them all to Australia... it worked once before. Or maybe cover the evil croissants in snails and send them through the channel tunnel to France. That would really annoy the French. 😂
Got a Monster Raving Loony leaflet through the door the other day (first time ever). Main policy is for mandatory brunch at work between 11:00 and 12:00 each day, sounds good to me.
At Albert Heyn, the nearest Dutch equivalent of Waitrose, the most expensive croissant (with, among other stuff, chocolate praline) is 1.19 euro. All others are way below 1 euro.
It's worth pointing out that the United Kingdom (or at least England) has tried a price cap on the cost of food before - the Corn Laws. The legislation... didn't have nearly the effect that was hoped at the time - just like we saw with the change in the cap on university fees 13 or so years ago.
I'm so pleased you have gotten some serious coverage at last. If you do beat the PM i will volunteer to be your French style yeast risen laminated bread/ pastry inspector! And that is not a joke you dont need to win just beat him! Vote Binface!
That Australian PM was highly successful, he had served three terms in the job, Surely knocking off Rishi with less than half a term under his belt should be far easier? Vote Binface!
Well, clearly he must have been standing, not sitting, otherwise the seat wouldn't have got lost in the first place. Someone swiped it when he wasn't looking! I bet he didn't even put a name tag on it. Seriously, if you can't trust a politician to look after a seat, how can they be trusted with a whole country?
I'm enjoying how Tim Harford has come down hard on the "it's a French word so I'll say it French" side of the argument. He was pluralising croissants with the French accent so it sounded like he was saying croissant.
Imagine: July comes and goes, all the elections are over and in the HoC chamber - the camera pans across a sea of new and old faces... When the camera pans to a solitary Bin - not stationary, NO SIR-NO WAY! - This Bin: Representing his constituency and fighting for common morality and sense. #VoteBinFace
A croissant price cap? Oh the suffering that this would alleviate! No longer would you need to tolerate those nasty little plastic wrapped biscuits with your Colombian fresh-roasted, fresh-ground filter coffee!
He DID just explain the past 14 years of leadership failings by the Tories; it wouldn't be unreasonable to spend a few explaining how a satirical candidate still attracted 20,000 votes in the mayoralty for the capital. (IE Labour's position is muddled and the divide between MPs and Party Leadership continues, the Lib-Dems are a walking joke who mostly differentiate themselves from centrist Tories/Labour by heinous color choice, Reform's views on the economy are demonstrably misinformed and they don't seem to care.)
Nice to see the BBC talking about such pressing issues on politics and erections on the same show. They must be having a laugh right? Tesco right now are selling a multipack of all butter croissants at 25p each. If the coffee shops were so worried about making a loss, they should start shopping at Tesco.
Those multipacks DO use a different formulation, to increase shelf life. It makes them chewy rather than flaky, and I think everyone only makes the mistake of buying them once.
The fact the economist finds it laughable to define a croissant saddens me. Not only do we have relatively strong food safety and labelling regulations we have traditionally had a solution to the USA-style problem of low quality loophole foods: regulation and enforcement.
The croissant market should be nationalised so it truly belongs to the British people, which would allow not just the price cap to be achieved but would also serve to "stick it to the French", which should ensure the nationalisation wins the support of the national media. Ne vous inquiétez pas, mes amis, vous pouvez avoir le « crumpet » en échange.
Labour to announce the formation of "Great British Viennoiserie" to promote innovation in breakfast pastry supply. New Bake Off Secretary Gen Kitchen promises Levelling Up for the North with the launch of the black pudding croissant. Her team consists of Neil Coyle, Minister of State for Danish Pastries; Gill Furniss, Minister for Ovens; Liz Twist, Turnover Tsar; Matthew Pennycook, Food Pricing Commissioner; and Zara Sultana, Junior Minister for Fruited Breads.
alot of the mega industry that is french curly bread making goes in salary to the bosses , so to make this policy viable we got to pay the bosses peanuts but enough to buy some french curly bread
I would like to see the esteemed Count go further and extend this policy to cover the Pain au Chocolat and the humble Sausage Roll. I believe this would broaden his appeal and help garner support for his other policies such as bringing back Ceefax.
learned something new. the government could buy every single citizen one croissant a day and increase total spending by less than 3%. that is surprisingly economical. i could see a roman emperor passing that reform day one in office.
The UK will never change because for the 5 families it actually benefits they see no issue in our suffering, tale as old as time see no problem til its knocking on your door.
There's a serious concern with "what is a croissant" - if you look at american supermarkets, there's a lot of places selling "crescents" which are just really really low quality croissants. If you introduce such a policy you have to define what a croissant is rigorously, and then companies that want to get around the law will just make something similar and name it differently.
They labelled you in one of their reports as a "comedy candidate" well not exactly in those words I am absolutely fuming they have brought dishonour on our glorious leader!
If the Germans can have beer purity laws, the UK should have croissant standards laws, setting the ingredients and size, number of folds of the dough, etc. Once successfully implemented, Count Binface should also consider UK water purity laws. And yes, that means taking the piss.
I do hope your alienofesto in future will fully cost the price of a Croissant cap - I suggest you bring this earthling Prof on board as your Croissant advisor!
"Saturday after closing it was dark, me and Uncle Samuel were lying in the park, toes towards the moonlight, noses in the flower beds, but we know that what we saw, we saw...." John Lennon sang that to Jake Thackray.....
kinda crazy that they assumed that, because you hadn't given a full detailed policy proposal, that you wouldn't have accounted for such things as resizing and reformulating. it would have been less disingenuous to instead: assume that you would think of these things, and discuss how you might implement them.
😅 3:50 stating the bleedin' obvious! "sounds like this may not be an entirely serious policy". Also, remember shops run loss-leader deals all the time to get people into the store, presuming they will mostly buy extra stuff too (which often works, but generally run as limited time seasonal deals unlike what this would be - some permanent ones do exist at least in USA). We have it in UK for services required to be provided and the cap is often decided in conjunction with the sellers/market here, at a rate that companies will survive with (especially if the companies have friends in gov't or are donors to it)
