The Secretary of State who thinks the Tories are still winning | The News Agents
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- We have a real live Cabinet Secretary with us in News Agents HQ today - David TC Davies insists the election still winnable for the Conservatives - and says if you want to see what Labour would do in power, then look at the mess unfolding in Wales. Is he missing something or are we?
Later, Peter Conradi - author of Who Lost Russia - takes us gently through all that is unfolding right now in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and why - despite the Western sanctions - it all speaks to a resurgent Putin.
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" All 30mph roads in Wales are now 20mph " - err I live in Wales and NO they're NOT. Typical minister for disinformation !!
Yes, I live in Wales too and I'm happy with the 20 mph and with Labour govt. I want more powers devolved (and funding), hopefully under Starmer we'll get that.
Do these people ever stop gaslighting? They should each have a toxin warning…
Smug, arrogant, deluded.....those are the nice things I can say about the bloke.
He's probably going to step down as an MP to become a Police & Crime Commissioner!!
Jesus wept, this guy. Gaslighting on a whole other level.
He’s so rude, like every nightmare boss I’ve ever had
Tories are so deluded. They must be drinking from the same coolaid as Little Rishi
Don’t the Welsh parliament get their funding dictated by the Government?
Yes they do and this one is a disgusting tory
Exactly.... And the Tories are going out of their way to underfund areas they don't control.
This is just another aspect of an ongoing tory policy. Local authorities in England that the tories don't like have been underfunded for years. Their objective is to discredit such as the Welsh Government, Notts and Birmingham councils while they strangle them with funding cuts and pile ever more responsibility on them.
yep the barnet forumla which desperatly needs changing to be needs based funding rather than the current per capita funding, the lords in 2009 released a report advising government that they should change it and they were ignored and the government know if it was moved to needs based the senedd would be able to do their job properly.
@MegaWelshpanda I get so angry, I live on the North Wales coast, we have hundreds of thousands of wealthy English retirees who vote tory and voted for brexit. They take up Hospital beds, appointments, need operations ,take up GP appointments, social care etc, we don't get extra money for them, our local hospital was built 50 years ago and was plenty big enough, hundreds of thousands of houses and posh apartments have been built since then, not affordable for locals and these people think England keeps Wales and that they are doing us a favour coming to live here and spending their money.
The Welsh government haven't got the money, Westminster takes it all and gives us a pittance back.
Tata didn’t buy the steel plant with it loss making to the extent it is now. Brexit and Tory industrial policy has led to the end of steel production in the UK. Steel desperately needed by our defence industry….
and building industry
Sorry, but you breached the Ministerial Code you can't complain when you've been caught about people complaining about it. It will come as a surprise to him that 20-mile speed limits are common in Conservative-controlled councils because shock horror they are popular with the electorate. There has been a Labour Government in Wales for twenty-five years because the welsh have voted for them.
He is vile
Agreed
I hate the Tories, I hate this guy, I hate Tory Britain.
Tory times are always hard times.
You really need to put these videos out within 24 hours
Seeing him telling us how great the tories are reminded me to check the UK National debt clock, and it is now over £3 trillion. (£3,000,720,225,454).
“Look i’m here to talk about Tata not my breaking of the ministerial code”. Nothing to see move along
To me his anger at the questions is constantly just below the surface.
Words fail..! Who is he trying to kid? You couldn't make it up!
This man it's very very very dangerous
Use the £300billions of Russian frozen assets!!!
Say's an ex Policeman that's being investigated for breaking the ministerial code 😂
David TC Davies looks like a robot that has been sent back to the manufacturer for malfunctioning 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The shitbot needs a reboot
😂😂😂
Probably the same factory that John Rdwood was made in.
I cant think of anything worse for our country ..give the tories a second chance and see if they can destroy the country completely next time..
Obnoxious liar. Typical Tory.
Correction: Never underestimate the ignorance of the public and cowardly fear mongering from the Tories after all the Tories have been voted into power for the last 14 years on lies in general but specifically Brexit lies and non delivery. Name a government function that has not come in for major criticism for non delivery of its core function.
Average UK reading age is 11.
I have a pint water infected with Cryptosporidium that says your wrong
I dont really understand why he keeps pointing out the PCC results. Labour made a net gain of 9 PCC's in the 2024 local elections.
The reason the Tory's won so many Police & Crime Commissioner's (They didn't win more than Labour, that's a lie), is that the PCC's they won are in more rural areas that have far smaller populations than the PCC's that Labour won in the major cities. For example London has almost twice the population of the East Midlands yet it has only 1 PCC and the East Midlands has 5. If they were allotted by population size London would have 9 PCC's. And even with this massive disparity in representation Labour still have more PCC's in the East Midlands than the Tory's. So the real question is, is David TC Davies a fool or a liar? There is also a 3rd option.
Ex police. Explains the defiant, bullish manner even when he’s very, very wrong.
What drugs they on
Living in Wales I wonder who this man thinks he represents. Hardly anybody voted for the PCCs. He supported austerity - Wales has a high proportion of public service workers.
Untrue about 20 mph. We don't have lower educational standards on Wales - perhaps poorer results and more poverty -years of Westminister underfunding.
A bit sad that the Secretary of Wales appears to do it down - ever trots out a party line- the Conservatives in Wales are a force of negativity.
Hopefully he will soon be gone.
So the Labour councils in Wales are doing badly has absolutely nothing at all to do with chronic underfunding from Westminster? right...
I had a deeper look into council funding and a big part of the problem is statutory services, child services are higher in poorer more urban areas as is housing support.
Last year 20 billion was spent on housing support this is after years of right to buy reducing housing stock.
Also councils lost the rent that these houses generated so 20 billion in additional cost + what 10-15 billion in lost rents
“Police and crime commissioners…police and crime commissioners… police and crime commissioners..” 🙄
And don't forget "Police and crime commissioners!"
The Irony is, it's not true. Labour won 22 of the 42 PCC's and the Tory's won 19.
Awe... Poor Mr Tory. It's Labour's fault of course.😅
Delusional seriously
I think this guy might be the worst one.
Says the Welshman who would gladly give all the power back to Rishi Sunak.
Deluded lol
The Tata giveaway is Strategic Stupidity!! Particularly when the country needs to be gearing up in arms manufacture!!
The poor Welsh were persuaded to vote leave so they can hardly complain if steel making ends in the UK. It's exactly what they voted for at the behest of the Vote Leave campaign.
All the wealthy English retirees in Wales voted for brexit and vote tory.
@@lindapenlington1730 How many of them can there be? Wales is no substitute for Spain!
@@marksimons8861 25% of the population of Wales were born in England, IIRC. There’s certainly parts of Wales where retirees from England make up a significant part of the community. That’s great in many ways - I love the way people come from all over the world to live here. With it being 25% (and rising, I imagine) It undoubtedly has an impact on the politics though. I’ve read various analyses on the impact on Brexit
The tories have no chance why doesn’t he realise that
TC is Deluded 😮
I can save anyone who hasn't watched this yet some time. The interview is 25 minutes of David TC Davies saying "...but Labour!"
Davies keeps going on about the Tory's winning more Police & Crime Commissioner's than Labour but it's a lie.
There are 42 P&CC's in England & Wales Tory's won 19, Labour won 22 & Plaid Cymru won 1
So another lie?
Tories literally can’t tell the truth, ever!
Challenges of Brexit was your own make secretary (Conservative)
“Come down to South Wales and talk to people with me on a Saturday”
We know how that works, look how that went for Lee Anderson.
Don't know about his coffee, but Tory Kool-Aid's flowing...
I would like to know how much a properly run country costs. Health, police, prison, military, transport, benefits, welfare. Schools, education for adults .
This ain’t it.
Dai TC Davies = "diawl arall yn ein plith, ych a fi"
Fabulous interview as ever! Clear quetions! Got to hand it to him, without mentioning gross government underfunding of Wales, he points all failures to the Socialists. Enjoyed this!
This guy Davies never stops embarrassing himself. His appearances on BBCQT were hilariously awful
Who votes for PCC's? I inagine the retired, who dont have to make time in a busy day, and overwhelmingly vote tory anyway.
Sadly the capitalists that own British industry are not singing from the same hymn sheet that the capitalists who own the banks and financial services are.
Tata!! As trustworthy an Indian Manufaturer as Rishi Sunak & his Tories are a Government!!
Allocating freeport status to anywhere is a road to ruin for the area and local community. Look at how they work across the world, great for the huge businesses terrible for everyone working and living there.
The government controls how much money Wales receives. In a time where councils are going bust because the funding has been cut to the bone while statuatory requirements have increased year on year.
DD talking about reductions in standards whilst the funding has meant hospitals and schools have had to close. Not a big shock.
Him saying they can still win. He’s absolutely deluded. 14 years of decline and decimated services. Leaving us less able to deal with the world as it is. Neo-liberal capitalism has failed. The path Thatcher set us on was one of destruction.
Never under estimated the public and some fear mongering from the Tories after all the Tories have been voted into power for 14 years.
Why does he keep referring to PCC elections?
So few people vote in them and for different reasons.
All elections for MPs and Cllrs have been a Tory car crash.
He must be on something...
His level of delusion is extraordinary
TC standing for Tory see you next Tuesday
But the police and crime commissioners... 🙄🙄
These are intelligent, article people with a huge network to inform them. It's not delusional, its pure spin and gaslighting
Another tory scandal....let's move on please!!! 😂😂
Oh he’s an ex BT Copper.
That explains a lot.
David Davies may represent a small constituency in Monmouth, however, in South Wales and everyone else I have spoken to in Wales, torys are finished
Opinion polls suggest that Monmouthshire may well kick him out as well.
Frank Hester said he apologised for being rude but his comments had nothing to do with gender or colour of skin. That is not an apology. Keep telling us that he has apologised and Diane Abbot wouldn't take apology call is gaslighting of the nth degree
Freeports... (smh). Welcome to Serf City
Not waving but drowning.
Come and campaign at my house
This chap is an excellent performer. Articulate, no ums or ahs, kept on pushing his message. I wonder why they are wasting him in Wales? Obviously he is bending the truth to breaking point, but he does it very convicingly!
Terrifying levels of delusion on display in this interview. The only thing worse than Tories when they lie is the terrifying void you see when a Tory tells you what they really think.
A strange tick I noticed was how, on each of the times he was challenged after saying something dubious, he would pick up his coffee.
Why am I thinking about the film, 'I'm Still Here' (2010)?
PISA scores for England for English, Maths and Science have also fallen since 2010. And Wales has always had lower performance, probably because of higher levels of deprivation. Why study when there are no jobs and no role models showing the success earned through education?
See IFS report “Major challenges for education in Wales”.
He's the Tory who wanted to pull children's teeth out to verify their age.
completely deluded.
This guy is the definition of 'dont look up'
8.25 he says wales has longer waiting lists... so does england and scotland. How can we take the Tories seriously when all they do is throw mud and gas light
bookies offering about 14:1 on a Tory win, so he can be a very wealthy genius after the election 🤣
Lucky the Tories have legalised copium
He is a pratt.
Arrogance personified
The electorate voted for these people for 16 years
Although no one voted for Sunak
When?
What a bunch of morons voting them in for 16 years.
@@sarahjparnell You vote for a party, not an individual . It's the core of our democracy. Anyway, what difference would another Tory make ??
@@garyh1572 Love a mansplain
This guy doesn’t even live in wales. Obviously not everyone will agree with me but the majority think the Welsh government do the best they can with the money they are given. Problem is that it’s not enough. We don’t get given as much as we are taxed.
Only thing he said that was true is that the 20mph is the most unpopular thing ever. It will be reversed though.
In wales it’s not a binary choice. We would vote everyone but Tory unless you live in the places that are heavily populated by rich English people.
It really is time that news platforms STOP soft peddling with members of government like this. At multiple points throughout this interview he is telling blatant lies and using misinformation. It's sad that otherwise reputable journalists don't challenge lies.
PCCs are not MPs.
"Tata's UK subsidiary Tata Steel UK Ltd figures for 2021/2022 show pre-tax profits of £83m and post tax profits - thanks to large tax credit - of £208m. That means final profit earnings of £570,000 a day." - Unite 22 Jan 2024
No surprise, all the bright Tories were kicked out by Johnson, there are only idiots left.
Jon Sopel also looks a bit like General Gwyn Jenkins.
Deluded 😂😂😂
I really like this guy
to be as far away from me as possible
So Sopel looks like DeNiro and Maitlis is Dana Scully
This guy talks incessantly about Wales and yet Wales hates the Tories,
This guy looks like he's been mummified.
This gas bag is always slagging wales off
It’s abundantly obvious the Tories have lost their dignity, their credibility, their integrity. It’s just a matter of time until they lose their majority and their jobs. Describing someone as a Tory has become slang for Loser 😂
PCCs?? Is that it... that's the basis of your electoral hopes and smoking gun pointing towards some off polling 😂
Davies seems to think hes absolutely nailing this 🤨
Alastair Campbell weirdly thinks the Tories will win too.
Bizarre as it is 46% to 19% in the polls.
Look at history, given the chance england always votes tory😢
@@GovanmaulerUnlikely now.
We've had Tory governments for 32 of the last 45 years and it has been disastrous.
And 32 years of gaslighting
A lot of potential Labour voters won't turn up to vote, thinking it's in the bag.
The Tory smear machine has barely begun churning.
And gerrymandering means it takes more Labour votes to get an MP, than Tory votes.
So he's right to urge everyone in Labour to campaign like they're five points behind.
If you were old enough to remember the election of 1992 you’ll remember that Labour were high in the polls and the Conservatives still won, nobody should be complacent about elections, especially Labour. Victory isn’t won until the last vote is counted.
TC = Total Clown
pcc went from 30 tory, 8 labour before the election to 19 tory and 17 labour and labour won the popular vote by 150,000. I would not describe that as a great result
You're forgetting the PCC's that are also Mayors (London, Manchester, and the 3 Yorkshire Mayors), That puts Labour up another 5 to 22 out of the 42 total in England and Wales. So surprise, surprise another Tory lie.
Yet the latest English insanity.
This gammon is a little....salty 😂