Labour's landslide win | James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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From the bottom of my heart I genuinely hope things will get better again for the people of the UK.
With love from Germany ❤
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
I wept at his speech in Downing Street. I knew I was relieved but didn’t know how hopeless I have felt until it was over! At 78+ I was SO wound up and I finally let go my anxiety! Which I didn’t realise I felt!😘
Don’t agree about Hunt! He’s as SELFISH AS THE REST! His treatment of NHS has been atrocious and a dereliction of duty. Ruthless landlord!
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.
Never forget what they did. Horrific.For me it is the widespread grinding poverty that drove many vulnerable people to suicidal despair. They vermin didn’t give a toss.
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 ❤
Congrats guys from Brooklyn, NY!
🇬🇧🤜💥🤛🇺🇸
Hopefully we can keep our conservatives out of the White House this November
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
Watching from Singapore by way of America… watching with relief and hope. Once again in history, with the far right on the march, Great Britain stood alone and said NO! No to lies. No to indecency. No to hate . As I watch with enormous terror at the events of my own country, this has fortified me to continue the fight. Thank you UK voters… and also to James for continuing to call out the lies and deceit and indecency at every turn instead of allowing them to proliferate unobjected as they do in America. Im am so grateful to this program. There are so few voices I can trust anymore. ❤ 🇬🇧🙏
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...
Former PM Liz Truss being slow clapped onto the stage to hear that she has lost her seat. And then shuffling off defiantly without saying a word to her constituents is surely the proper coda to this miserable 14 year Tory government.
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.
Britons resoundingly voted to put an end to 14 years of Conservative rule, and deliver a landslide victory for the Labour Party.
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
Hooray for all you Brits!!! So so so glad you all have taken a new direction toward sanity. I’m green with envy. - old yank who is truly scared, seattle.
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.
Greetings from the other side of the pond. Congratulations! 🎉 Now please let us all hope that we can keep democracy alive one more time here. Wish us luck. We r gonna need it...
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.
What a shame that Sunak waited until his resignation to actually show Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability...
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.
Congratulations to Jeremy Corbyn & The Green Party for snagging 4 Seats.
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.
So trump congratulates farage and not starmer.i think hes laid his cards out.would love new government to have the courage of their convictions and deal with trump as we will have to if he wins but not pretend that their values align.
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...
I just hope voters remember to keep the Tories out the same length of time they been in, it's staggering the damage they done to this country and this economy
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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.
Liz Truss will be remembered for her awful lack of grace which is fitting.
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
I hope America will vote sensibly in November. Congratulations to the U.K. JOB well done.
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.
This is what happens when a party treats the electorate with contempt.
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...
I think Sunak and Starmer have amutual respect for each other which was probably tested during recent months. I think Sunak's speech was excellent. Starmer did just as well. This is how civilised democracy should work. We should be proud of this.
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
The race has been won but the work hasn’t even begun. We haven’t won anything apart from the opportunity to do something of worth.
Well put. It remains to be seen what use is made of it. Hope is back, but euphoria isn't really appropriate (yet?).
The show we’ve been waiting for 👏 the Tories are gone, and labour are in
No
As long as he is home for6pm 😂😂😂
I'm of the generation that has never in my working life lived under a different party. I am so incredibly hopeful that under Labour my financial situation improves, that the cost of living falls, that my child has better opportunities and schooling. Mostly i am hopeful that the country can just get behind the current leadership and give them a fair chance.
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 ...
Finally we have adults in charge.
A guy who doesn't know what a woman is and Rayner, ... these are the adults? Ok then.
How do you fix politics without having a constitution that prevents the lies of politicians, and allows encouragement of far-right and hate politics! I want Keir to address the truth about Brexit, and tell the truth about lies and propaganda that led to it!
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
They can start by getting our money back from Mone et al. I am one of 3 million freelancers who got no help during the pandemic currently fighting for compensation.
"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. .
That's the sad part isn't it. Their crushing defeat changes nothing really. The damage is still there. Now Starmer has an enormous job to do and wont be given 14 years to try and fix it.
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.
My daughter is an austerity baby, she's never been able to look at her country's leaders and feel anything but revulsion. Now my baby girl has hope.
Yes, she has hope💯
Starmer speech was outstanding, and full of hope.
This opener is fire 🔥!
I only hope us (U.S. citizens) can play the same song Nov 5th
It's the feeling you get waiting for the next clap of thunder after the storm has dissipated. A feeling any abuse victim knows well.
We've been abused by our government- normalcy leads to adrenaline crash.
It will pass, but only once we believe we're safe again.
It's hard to believe after so long rolling from one attack to the next.
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 ❤️🩹
Life long Labour voter in Lincolnshire which always seems to be Blue. Which i have never understood. Alot of low paid jobs. I an hoping things go well for Labour and the UK had enough of lies corruption and not to care about people.
A fresh start, hopefully it’s for the betterment of the country
It's relief rather than euphoria. Relief to have the grown-ups back in charge.
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!!
James, please now come to the U.S. to help save us from trump
The American people have to save themselves...They just have to open their eyes for what the future may hold if they don't....
I agree. I’m utterly wrung out and just want some decency and normalcy. I feel I can breathe, at last.
*Normality
Normality !!!
The Conservatives have only just begun to tear themselves apart.
Starmer should:
1. Abolish and repeal the Rwanda gimmick.
2. Ensure corporate tax avoiders pat their fair share of tax.
3. Restore the NHS.
{:o:O:}
We’re not out the woods yet by a long way… but we may have just found one of the breadcrumbs we dropped on the way in.
Very nice
My two favourite CZcams channels collide
In 1993 in Canada our Conservative Party went from a majority govt of 156 seats to 2. They eventually merged with the Reform party which was basically a western Canadian grievance party that courted social conservatives, right wing religious nuts and alienated white people that hated Quebec. All for the worse.
Hopefully this doesn’t happen to you folks.
I, like many many others, are not euphoric at the great news of labour displacing the tories and can be best explained by analogy:
For the past 14 years i lived next door to a group of hooligans that constantly burgled the neighbourhood, stole everything they could get their hands on, loud parties, bullying anyone that questioned them. Now, I'm just relieved they're gone. Now we have to repair the damage they've done, recover our losses, and reinstalled a normality. The reason for the lack of general celebration is that we only have a vague idea of the people that will replace them, what kind of neighbours will they be...?
Keir could talk to Biden so there is a combined effort to tax the super rich.
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.
Low voter turnouts. Who do you hate more, the politician who puts themselves forward even when their views are awful, or the voters who are too f***ing lazy to stop whining and vote!
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.
I have one thing I am grateful for Rishi Sunak for one thing , he called the election for July 4th. So I woke up up on my birthhday July 5th to see they had finally gone, great birthday present.
Happy Birthday 🎉🎉
@@MsPeabody1231 Thank you😀
Congratulations 🎉💯
Yet Jeremy Corbyn got more votes in 2019. Than Starmer last night. Isn't that archaic FPTP wonderful.
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.
LBC's loss of David Lammy is the UK's gain.
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.
Parties come in on a wave of euphoria and hubris end up going out in abject humiliation. I'd rather Labour came in quietly, worked effectively, achieved more than expectated and go out as a respected government. We've had enough of hooray henrys.
That is exactly what Kier has done. Let’s hope he can deliver although it will take time.
Lack of euphoria = PTSD
Wonder if the people of Clacton will ever see nigel farage???
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.
The relief and thankfullness that 14 years of Tory regime is at an end reminds me of one of the final scenes from The Return of the King when the four hero Hobbits return back to the Shire after the war and have a quiet, reflective tankard of ale- there is no dialogue, but the looks on their faces says 'It's over, the horror that we've been through is finally over- but we can't process it yet.'
Been counting down the hours to this broadcast!
Congratu-very-lations!!! 💜🌈🇬🇧
all i can think is if starmer does as he says he is going to then we have HOPE
It will be very hard for Labour to deal with all the mess the Tories have left behind and change takes time and it will be a tough road ahead but well done Labour and well done to the British public! You make us proud anywhere we are in the world! Wish I was there to be part of this historic voting!
James, thank you for standing up for the truth and keep up the great work!
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).
i cant imagine having only 5 years to fix what people destroyed in the last 15. What a heavy task.
I don't think Labour is expected to fix everything in 5 years - people just want to see significant improvements.
I think that was an incredibly dignified exit speech. However that is the first time I have seen that dignity from him so makes me wonder why he can achieve that when he wants to why he hasn’t shown that dignity while leading the country?
Sorry to be a New Zealand chauvinist, but the UK should go to a system of proportional representation like we did.
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.
8 years of listening to James O'Brien has paid off🎉 O'Brien love you mate. Love from 30p Lee's Constituency.😂
Jeremy Corbyn will provide the balance... at least 30% of labour MPs are still aligned to him and would switch sides when cornered... Especially when Corbyn proving that he can win inspite of no labour support and media venom
congrats to y’all Brits.
From Florida.
The Conservative party needs the next 10+ years to rebuild and discover what it means to love their country and it's people.
I sincerely hope Labour are able to repair at least some of the damage done to the 99% of us. I'm not sure what will happen with the Tories after this but it will certainly be interesting.
Congratulations from the US! Pray for us!
Relief and EXHALE. NO euphoria for sure. We are all still processing it😅
The Welsh parliament proposal of making lying by an MP ilegal is the way to go.
Well done team LBC, James and Carol.
after 14 years of black-mirror science-fiction tory-dystopia, we're finally back, back to the old "rent a ghost", "come on down" universe.
We have to wash our underpants to rid ourselves of the sticky brown skidmark that is Clacton
I missed the "Life of Brian" reference (c. 12:30) to "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" the first time I listened to this.
As an American, this gives me hope for November as media outlets refuse to report on the criminal Trump and the threat he poses to our democracy by legitimizing Project 25 and Agenda 47.
Fine Sunak for covid partying proportionally to his wealth.
You nailed it mate , best first 8 minutes … 👍🇬🇧💪
Loved the intro. One can now breathe with relief, that politics will again be about management, instead of corruption of principals and lying por personal gain and self preservation. In reflection, it’s sad we have reached this conclusion. Government should have been dissolved even before Liz Truss. These elections should have happened over two years ago.
Great song James. The legendary Nina Simone. Perfect choice.
How does he fix it? Appoint qualified individuals to high positions. Make it about merits and not cronyism.
Never more has the country been yes or no, On or off, black or white. I think that mindset started with Brexit. The country and it's residents can't seem to agree 2 things can be correct at the same time. Just because you prefer 1 doesn't immediately make the other the devil. That's the biggest issue the Labour party face imo
Kier Starmer must listen to John Smith. The most decent man who never made it to the highest office in the land.
Couldn’t agree more. We must never, never forget that extraordinary man. Taken from us so cruelly and with such exquisite timing.
Now if only we could do the same here in the US ... but I'm not hopeful. 😕
I'd love a strong left(ish) British government seeking a deeper partnership with the left on the continent, working together driving back the far right in all of europe. It might sound fantastical but there's hope in me.
This and the Jonathan Pie video was the post-election catharsis we all needed.
The JP one was epic 😂😂
Youve given us hope in the US. A glimmer, at least.
Snp isn't dead. We are lending you our votes. Didn't take it for granted.
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.
The euphoria is muted because we realise the scale of the challenge we face, but here in Kettering we have elected Rosie Wrighting the youngest female MP ever who has Lucy Rigby (Northampton North) and Gen Kitchen (Corby and East Northants) as her neighbours.
I have only subscribed to LBC today I’m a member of the Labour Party I will most definitely be joining in the posts in future. I would like to say that the lack of euphoria is replaced by relief and happiness that the UK is going to be in safe hands with Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party he is going to hopefully guide the country forward into a more democratic and prosperous future for all.
Crime prosecutor vs The Criminals, that's why he's won. He's been stoic, professional, composed. He allowed the world to underestimate him. And allowed the Tories to Bury themselves. There will be some tough decisions. I feel ready for them with a Labour government 🎉
Nice touch starting with Nina!🎶☺👌🏾
What a way to open the show!
Brandilonis Law is what makes Political Commentary so Exhausting. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
thank you James ,its been a long long time x
No one has mentioned the amazing TWells voting in a Lib Dem MP… a block of orange surrounded by a sea of blue in the south east. Brilliant.
I have family members who contributed to that result. So proud 😊
I think something like signing the Ministerial Code into law (or thereabouts) would help. Make lying to the House a crime, rather than a resigning matter, and MAKE MPs correct the record.
So it's a ship shipping ship shipping ship shipping ships? 😂
Starmer has asserted that his Labour government would only action policies that were ‘country first’ and would reject all policies considered were ‘party first’. He is focused on restoring the trust in politicians and ensuring that MPs work to serve their constituents rather than looking out for their own self interest!
Could listen to you all day long,let’s hope labour doesn’t disrupt the private pension scheme,IE the 25% cash tax free withdrawal,because labour did say that they don’t agree with it and said they will reverse this if they got in power and also reverse brexit and revert back to the European British passport,peace to you🙏🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧
I think the reason for the lack of euphoria is that it feels like the Tories lost more than Labour won. Starmer's Labour will be a kinder, gentler machine gun hand, but they won by default rather than by inspiring the electorate with a vision of the future and hope. The relief is also tinged with trepidation by the advance of the far right. It destroyed the tories this time in icarus-esque irony, but it's easy to see it defeating a centrist Labour party from the right much like Trump followed Obama and Le Penn will likely follow Macron.
The man who said it was like coming out of an abusive relationship is right. In these last years its as though Britain has been facing its shadow side.
🌹 Euphoria requires an expenditure of energy driven by hope. The public has no hope and has completely lost confidence in any government to help them. The reality of that has sunken in. It is an intellectual conclusion. All the energy remaining is directed to dealing with the fact that one-third of our fellow citizens are terrible human beings. Knowing there is a contingency of crazies waiting in the right wings to destroy society again is exhausting.
Thank you, James and team 💞🙏🏼🌟 Breathing a sigh of relief for you all. There’s hope 🕊️ 🌏🌍🌎
Yeah, yeah! I hope & pray for you all.
James must be laughing inside againt Nick Ferrari and Ian Dale.
Ferrari called Rishi "D-Day Dodger" so he didn't like him either.
It is about the people.
I’ve heard so much about Tories soul-searching after their collapse. The only soul they have has an alternative spelling! They all thought the Sun shone from it.
14 years too late! Now it's time to get to work!
Campaign to give Natasha a better potato to film with
To those who believe that tactical voting is a reason to believe the worse could get in if they change the system, no because voter just wouldn't send a message via this method anymore, many did this time. We were all stressed voting this time and after just a sense of relief......PHEW! breathing again.