One of gonzalos greatest attributes and this contributions was to look at events from unusual and varied angles, a certain spontaneity which really unlocked and firmed the connections between themes and events that one may have initially assumed to be tenuous. He was genius at that.
When a politician says they will decrease something that is a problem, what they mean is they will try to decrease the rate of increase of that problem.
Indeed. When it comes to the great issue of our time -- the movement of people -- I don't know a single politician who would actually advocate reversing the changes that have been made.
To be “conservative” now means to conserve the system. Centrism. That is happening everywhere, Spain, France, England, even USA. The system would not let anything new to upsurge.
We’ve had Thatcherism since 1979 which serves the interests of the wealthy. The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of assets like Thames Water to sell to investors so that they can rip off British consumers. 1.Reduce inequality by taxing the asset wealth of the rich. 2. Stop selling British assets and British companies to foreign control.
We've already got the highest taxes since WW2. Our problem isn't a lack of taxes. Someone needs to take a giant axe to our bloated and inefficient public sector, which has grown far too large for the country to support. Sadly I don't think Starmer is that someone.
First time in my 45 years of voting that I found no available offering attractive and couldn’t vote. Would have voted SDP as a protest but there wasn’t a local candidate.
@@NeilBarratt usually I'd totally agree that Labour will choose printer go brrrr but I think that only works when inflation and the US economy is looking stable.
I'll make the wild prediction that they'll find one way or another to sacrifice the future in order to do expensive stuff in accordance with their ideology right now.
While it is good to know that the war is swifty coming to an end, I would not cheer like that for the complete collapse of a nation, even if its leaders are rotten. A lot of ordinary people there are going to feel it VERY badly when it finally does, and collapsing, when an army breaks, is when the casualties are the worst. Good the war is ending, but it is a dreadfully sobering scenario. God bless
@@BogaSlawa on one hand yes but on the other, when this was clearly orchestrated to destroy the economy of the western world, by wealth transfer, and that this economic effect has killed many by way of poverty in the western countries, and destroyed many lives other than Ukrainian ones, I have to disagree. When will this money be repaid? It won't. Blackrock has LOT to answer for. I wish no harm to fellow citizens of any country. But when will these crooks be brought to justice? When will the money stolen from me be repaid? It's all great reset stuff. All linked.
I just can’t see how Liebour can justify the £Billions for the unelected Zelensky? The real Labour Party has always been sympathetic to the Soviet Union (Now Russia) and peace. BTW Lammy is a total clown 🤡. He will definitely screw up with his big mouth in his new appointment.
It's the price for Starmer to stay on the martini circuit. Most expensive martini in the galaxy and the rocks haven't even been harvested from the Oort cloud, but then again, it's not his money.
There is no real Labour Party. All the old guard are either dead or were purged out. The Blairite neo-liberal agenda will tolerate no dissent. The Labour despise the British working class, who they see as reactionary - ist and -phobes who are only useful if they poor, on benefits and uneducated, in which case they are powerless and natural forever Labour voters, if they vote at all.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia has "hinted" to the European Union that it will sell Western bonds if G7 countries confiscate $300 billion in Russian assets, writes Bloomberg. A source described this as a "veiled threat." The Saudis specifically mentioned debt issued by the French Treasury. The kingdom's holdings in euros and French bonds could amount to tens of billions of euros. While this is not a vast sum, European officials are concerned that other countries might then follow Saudi Arabia's example.
The biggest threat to the new Labour government is the obsession with net zero by 2030. To achieve it means enormous upheaval including the end of private motoring and other CO2 net zero nonsense.
didn't they walk back the net zero promise a long time ago? There is no threat to the labour as they have no real mandate... they've already walked back all their campaign promise. I suggest you read more news instead of nickpicking some outdated green policy that you don't like
The same faux-politics thing applies in the US, of course. Hence the terms "Uniparty" or "deepstate". That's why we should just start a new party. Who cares if we'll split the vote? The vote is already split when you're just voting in two sides of the same group every four years.
Lammy's transformation coincided with his first trip to Bilderberg meeting. At the time there was some strike action in the UK, before he went he was with the strikers, when he came back he was against the strikers. That was a weekend!
@OrwellsHousecat - it pre - dates that. Lammy & many other members of the new Gov spent a short period of time at US universities, time enough to be " recruited " by US assets with promises of wealth and wonder if they" befriend American ways once back home ". ........ It is traditional recruitment methods of spy agencies from the cold war period. It worked on Blair, who opened the doors in GB to US style political corruption as the new norm, which has mushroomed ever since, regardless of who is in number 10. Traitor Blair needs exposing big time.
@nowherepeople3431 Where I live very few followed the rules. You'll always get "collaborators" but the British way is to ignore laws they disagree with. That's why we didn't have it half as bad as some countries and we were one of the first countries baling out of the Covid scare.
Hes being paid by Bill Gates to get the ID cards in but it will be used to manage your social credit score than to stop any terror attacks and it will make controlling truckers and our bank accounts easier. Big payday for Bill.
If the Conservative Party is the most successful political party in history, that says a lot about politics since the French Revolution. All politics is basically about money or capital. Left politics tries to get money to more people. Conservative politics is for people who want to keep their own money. Centrist politics is for bankers and other crooks who want it all for themselves. But the fact that tye Conservative Party is the most successful party in history demonstrates that we've barely even moved beyond the French Revolution, which was many things but not Conservative. Conservatism was born in reaction to the French Revolution and has since been allied with middle class nationalism.
But the Conservatives in Britain are the political wing of international finance capitalism and haven't conserved anything from the Corn Laws. +We have moved beyond the old Left v Right paradigm.
Interresting about Lib Dems winning in South West of England, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire etc their vote only went up by 5-10% reform vote increase was around 15% and of course turn out was lower which benefited everyone but the Tories in England.
I'm surprised Neema thought Lammy was some sort of "far left" figure and really makes me question his understanding of left politics and liberal "progressive" politics. Lammy hasn't reinvented himself. He has always been a Progress/Blairite/opportunist. He was a key figure in parliament in undermining Corbyn, particularly on the People's Vote campaign, which was formed to undermine the left/Corbyn.
Unless their is a majorly significant change in the demographic of the UK population, Labour have 5 years to correct previous errors in judgement. If they don't, this governmental term will be the last for a legacy party.
Didn't (independent) Sue Grays son get parachuted into a safe labour seat and is now in charge of closer integration with the eussr ? the excuse Labour are/will use to bring in digital id is you will need one to be able to use/get access to any government services, so will stop the not entitled from access to health/housing/benefits and the dopey public will fall for it.
Agree with Alexander re Conservative party. The zero seats has deeply hurt them, now they will finish themselves off bickering in which direction they go from here.
I also think that the press about racism in reform had an impact on conservative seats. Reform likely would have taken more seats had there not been a campaign in the press to tarnish them.
"Nations don't believe in sanctions" - I laughed out loud at that comment from Alexander. As if nations have "beliefs" or that nations would turn away from any from actions that benefit them. You can ask these nations if they believe Israel should be sanctioned over Gaza - you may find they are much more amenable to sanctions when they are directed at their enemies.
Re: how Boris managed to hold onto what is now being called the ‘Blue Wall’ (south of England, aspirational, white middle class, voted Remain) and win big in the ‘Red Wall’ (northern/midlands, post industrial, white working class, voted Leave) - BW voters didn’t like Brexit (or even Boris necessarily), but they broadly went Tory in 19’ as a vote for Lib Dems risked letting Corbyn into no.10, which to them far outweighed the perceived negativity’s of Boris and Brexit. Perhaps counterintuitively, one of Starmer’s biggest assets was his lack of, well, anything - bland, boring and inoffensive = not a risk to BWers willing to vote against the Tories.. not the whole story, but certainly a part of the reason for Lab landslide!
Great stream, elite theory is the only way to understand power, let's hear more about it. I would also be interested to hear what some of the other regular guests think in this area. Mearsheimer, for eg. It's a realist topic.
Guys! You must consider a LIVE with Gerald Celente and Greg Mannarino ...both at same time! Dynamic duo in geopolitics/economics/conspiracy "come true"!😊
IMHO, Alexander asked a ridiculous question: is it possible that UK elites will regain control? This question assumes that Starmer and people he leads are outside the elite. My perception is that they are Team B of classic (wet?) Tories, to take over when Team A totally screws up. Once it was clear that Labour will win, Starmer was busy purging candidates from any independently thinking individuals, from what I have seen in editorials, he and his people are fixated on "doing the right thing" even if it costs them votes. Why going for 500 seats in the Commons if they can get rid from all malcontents and even potential malcontents to what they imagine as "the right thing". Which they accomplished with aplomb and elan. The election was timed not to give time leftist malcontents to consolidate and organize, while rightist malcontents left for Reform and Farage. I imagine that both Starmer and Sunak (with friends) are happy. And now Labour can carry the torch until the Tories will get act together, either as they are now, or by fusion with Farage.
That is a ridiculous take, no one is assuming Starmer is outside the elite. You missed the point, he was referring to the fact that both Labour and the Tories, the 2 establishment parties are very unpopular and thus the system is weak and the elites are losing their grip.
You're stuck in the false binary of left-right. That's fine for people drinking in the lake at the bottom of the mountain, but you have to look further upstream to see what's going on
