And here’s why Rory got fed up with politics, an excerpt from his latest book….”I went on to speak - according to Hansard - 400 times in Parliament. And tried to speak much more than I was called. I had travelled to Syria, I think, more than anyone in the chamber but I could not get the Speaker to call me in a Syria debate. I had visited Ukraine straight after the Crimea invasion, and been on the front lines, and had crossed the southern border to enter Tripoli the day Gaddafi fell, but I struggled to speak in the Russian or Libyan debates. I was proud of my careful speech, limited by the Speaker to four minutes, on intervention; my hour-long speech on why we should remain in the European Court of Human Rights; and my speech on why Scotland should remain in the Union. But the only speech which seemed to achieve any public prominence was a ten-minute speech, delivered at ten at night in an adjournment debate, on the subject of hedgehogs. This was watched by six people in the chamber and over a million times on social media.”
The fact that he makes such a passioned and freakishly well-informed speed about hedgehogs to a mostly empty audience shows what an amazing person he is.
Oh Rory, you crack me up, I was Rory's head of security in Nassiriya, Iraq when he was attached to the Coliition Provisional Authority, we were bombed to bits over four nights and escaped after the USA sent in a Spectre C130 gunship. A time seared in my memory. You are a one of a kind my dear friend.
Yeh he took the whole legend told to him by an elder of his species that *_”say the name of that which you wish to sexually interfere with 90 times and thy will be done”_* far too seriously (just as he does his chances of being Prime Minister!!!
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never roll over and become a ball of pricks.
No meaningless waffling cod-Latin gibberish. No sad quotes from American movies. Simply a master class in articulacy and love of the small precious things to which we owe so much.
Once in a while you get great orators coming into parliament from all the political spectrum and Rory Stewart is one he is one who holds your attention
@@bjornopitz6561 To be honest, I'm leaving the country and no longer bother paying attention to UK news. It's sad, but I no longer feel invested in the country I was born in. So perhaps ask someone else :/
@Carnophobe 4yr on from your original comment, I hope all is well. Alas anyone but the last 3 PMs would have been welcome, but Rory more so. I've only discovered this guy today but feel like we'd have been safer in his hands
Magnificent. He knows the subject, is articulate and thoughtful. Can you imagine Andrea Leadsom or Dominic Raab (or the rest) speaking about anything at all with such authority?
@@thegrandmuftiofwakanda actually the idiot is pro-fracking, so as much as he's sounding off about hedgehogs, if you're a hedgehog from say lancashire for example, then he doesn't really give a s**t....i don't believe people can watch this rubbish and think the guy's genuine....anybody who believes that when the public voted for brexit that it was actually going to happen can forget that too if he's p.m, as he's another pro-e.u anarcho-capitalist, tonyblairalike tool..and very possibly mi6.
If nothing else, Stewart's speech is a masterclass in rhetorical and oratory ability. The litany of facts and philosophical ruminations about the hedgehog is a bonus.
I live in the city bottom floor flat and currently have a family of hedge hogs livening just beyond my balcony .. I leave a little bowl of dog food and a water for them each night and like clockwork about 9pm 3 piglets and 2 parents come and have a feed ... they recognise my smell now and even come up close and give me a whiff.. lovely little animals
😊 You are so lucky! They are beautiful little critters ❤👍 I used to see them all the time growing up in the 70's and 80's but have not seen a wild one since then so I thought they were almost gone, so your story cheers me up 😁
Pseudonayme 77 there proper cool little creatures throw some dog food out and see if they come, they could always do with some safe food rather than going through all those sharp cans and such
Rory Stewart is surely a great man. He may not have proved it yet to the world's satisfaction, and he may never, but he is engaged and should the need for his sort of greatness present itself, he is there. My ancestor emigrated from Cumberland to the colony of Virginia late in the 17th century. Penrith was his home. But for that decision i might be in the position to vote conservative, something I would never do in my country but would have been glad to do in support of Rory Stewart.
I went to Croatia earlier this year and I seen more hedgehogs in my first day in a city than I have in England in my whole life. We are obviously doing something wrong. It was good to hear Rory Stewart talk about and stick up for wildlife, shame he never got into premiership.
@@rahuldahoob I know, it’s gutting and that’s my point, I have found more in a city than in the countryside, it just goes to show our management of the countryside and our farming practices are destroying the natural world.
“Hedgehogs are a prickly issue” 😂 “The minister has just made one of the best speeches I have ever heard in the chamber”. I am in absolute awe. Get that man back into parliament, back into government!
Why is this man still languishing in the backwater that is Westminster - the talent spotters of Just a Minute must wake up and elevate him to loftier heights
If you sound so politics you deserve dictatorship and you will get it, if not for yourself, then for die descendents. Don't be too lazy to preserve democracy.
Blimey - this is absolutely wonderful. I don't know about his chances in the leadership race, but this man is remarkably edifying on the subject of the hedgehog!
I'm not a Tory voter usually, but I really like this guy. He's intelligent, motivated and driven by social causes. I have a lot of respect for someone like this.
Hi @@denemessina8601 thanks for the heads-up on that one. I was unaware of his voting record and 'm quite surprised. I still wonder though whether there was an element of sound reasoning behind his decision-making, particularly on the bill of human rights... he always seems so moral and driven by social injustice... may be there is an issue within the bills he voted for/against that lead to his decisions?
@@sarahashleytaylor3199..hello there, thanks for listening.. ..issue?: hmmm...mostly i'd say money: don't forget that these are politicians and looking like nice, moral and just people , whilst serving themselves and their pals behind the scenes is pretty much their job description ..i know that it's easy to forget that when you look at the likes of bojo and the donald,( who appear to have forgot half of said job description) but the more i look into the man the more he disturbs me, as he reminds me strongly of blair and i fear that because of fear of becoming trumpified we'll all be so relieved if boris isn't p.m that somebody even worse could sneak in..really, not knowing the chap personally, as a potential p.m, all i can do is look at his voting record because voting and lobbying is the mainstay of what a politician does and the only real c.v we have to judge him on as an applicant for an important job... well: apart from some neither confirmed nor denied links with mi6 and a term as a , i think , governer in iraq after we illegally invaded it, both of which worry me especially the former as once we let the secret service into government then we are not in a good position...why do i get the feeling that one day i'm going to be missing theresa may?
I have to say, Thankfully Bojo and Trump are easy to see-through in terms of self-interest and right-wing predilections but Rory struck me as different... until you pointed out his voting history! Perhaps its wishful thinking that the job descriptions for MPs includes possessing an acute sense of justice, democracy and morality! Alas....@@denemessina8601
@@sarahashleytaylor3199 It shouldn't be wishful thinking though should it? I think those times are long gone.. i like to believe that once upon a time we did have one or two great leaders and principled politicians, but we have, it seems degenerated from a democracy into an ogliarchy..having said that, maybe these things swing like a pendulum and events will go entirely the other way eventually..as it stands there isn't a single statesman/woman that i believe is trustworthy amongst our current crop, and i mean that for all of our political parties..and i dont think i'm alone on that either..a sad state of affairs, but one that i hope will change one day.
Not sure how I got here but glad I did. Rory is a treasure and the person who made me believe that a Tory could be decent. How different things could be now if he had become PM.
One of the best speeches ever heard in British Parliament...says one colleague at the end of this extraordinary good speech about the HEDGEHOG ! It is about knowing the place of different species in our world. Our pet cats...do not have a place...should not be given space...in the natural ecosytem where they do not belong and in fact decimate it. Cats are an invasive species that humans introduced that proliferated due to human love of pet ownership in ecosystems that they do not belong to. Keep them indoors is the only fair way to keep them. Poetry written about hedgehogs quoted in the UK Houses of Common ! Extraordinary ! this man has talent...one of the best speeches ever heard in the house some colleague says at the end of this speech ! A SYMBOL of the RESSURECTION ! THE HEDGEHOG ! RORY STEWART FOR THE NEXT PM of the UK ! Brexit sense is possible with such a man who has taken the time to read more than 500 pages about hedgehogs ! He is anti NO DEAL having read the details lol ! The hedgehog is a symbol of the state of our environment someone says in this speech in the houses of commons... SO TRUE ! This speech is MONUMENTAL ! Hedgehogs are down from 30 to 1 million only today in the UK...animal agriculture has destroyed them the most. GO vegan to save the urang utangs and hedgehogs and the planet ! Aristotle talked about Hedgehogs !
@Philippe Demptos i just thought it a superbly researched speech ! unlike bojo the next likely pm who as foreign secretary did not inform himself but said some british woman in iran was lecturing rather than on holiday there so got her jail assured....the melon faced people for Africans etc statements boris johnson lol must be permanently high on something like power and money or whatever to make such statements non stop lol not me. ps after being called a racist in the houses of parliament recently he no doubt will root for calling members of the opposition that liberally rather than himself too.
oh this Rory Stewart is a shit...just like the rest of the tories...supports fox hunting for sport. facebook.com/siann.kilcoyne/posts/330783344512020?comment_id=331964341060587¬if_id=1561123542723219¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
Though it may have had a near empty chamber, those sitting and speaking filled it with serious and heart felt feeling and concern for the hedgehog population.
The majority needs to hide under the false assumption that there is such thing as important and negligible things. This speech is an act of humility, a powerfull demonstration that the care one does take to a thing defines the seriousness of our actions. All voters regard themselves as important, relevant and essential. Here is an MP that does know how to embrace a subject and see all its sides.
Yes, be born to a wealthy family in a British colony and go to massively funded schools where you can make friends with CAPITALISTS who can help you career.
I was born and grew up in reasonably-rural (yet technically small-town) Cornwall, and I now happen to work at a wildlife conservation charity very interested in the plight of the hedgehog for many reasons (I work in IT; don’t at me for details!), and I very belatedly applaud this video! 👏 Maybe the plight of the British hedgehog seems like the perfect figure of ridicule for some kinds of people… but this is very definitely actual *thing*, and should be listened to and not derided.
Not only cares but by God does show a genuine love for what he has learned about it. A true example of the incomparable benefit of learning not for information sake but learning for edification.
he doesn't...why would he be pro=fracking and pro-selling of national forests if he was? It's just the cheerful and hypocritical sociopathy of an etonian at debating club...
if you want to see what a politician cares about look at their voting history, not a speech about hedgehogs. Rory has consistently voted against measures to prevent climate change, he clearly does not care about the environment.
@@cameron5795 Exactly. If he had a choice between saving the hedgehog for free or squashing them with a bulldozer for profit, he would instantly choose the profit, such is the warped nature of conservatism.
Save our hedgehogs oh precious green A part of England never seen Time to help our spiky friend Come together and start to lend Dont let him disappear As is happening now I fear
Hear! Hear! Were I British in anything more than just a name, I would join the throng who should be bearing this man upon their shoulders to the nearest place of refreshment in glad celebration of this speech! Hear! Hear!
Well, he's running for leadership now... :) And I agree, hedgehogs are cute. I saw one recently, curled up and obviously protecting itself. I left and came back 5 minutes later and the wee thing had scuttled, not far, but away to find food.
This mans erudition and memory is amazing, straight from the hip, no need of written notes, obviously wrought from a lifetime of reading and the sheer joy in first class articulation of human knowledge and endeavour. Wow I am so very impressed! At 2:57 we get serious and may I suggest that municipal spraying of margins, lamp posts, path edgeways etc rob the hedgehog of a valuable food source. Of course no-one witnesses any of their feeding habits, it all occurs at night, however unfortunately diversity as much as it is lauded is being robbed constantly by municipal spraying. On reflection I wonder a little of this brave monologue, methinks in parts possibly tongue in cheek so to speak ... but all the same bravo .... Rory is the man!
I think Rory will enable the UK start mending its divisions. I’d never vote Tory, but in the national interest, give him the crown. Long live the hedgehog.
Brilliant. One is reminded of John Lodwick's school friend, Pearson, who had designed his own royal arms (orchids with hedgehogs couchant) - [The Asparagus Trench p43].
I only know one thing about hedgehogs... The hedgehog can't be buggered at all. I acquired this profound knowledge from the brilliant author Terry Pratchett from the song of the same name as sung by Pratchett's character "Nanny Og". A short sample of this historic song: "You can bugger the bear, if you do it with care, in the winter, when he is asleep in his lair, Though I would not advise it in spring or in fall-- but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all. If you're feeling quite coarse, you can bugger the horse, or the palfrey, the jennet, the stallion (with force), You can bugger the donkey, the mare, or the mule, Though to bugger the pony is needlessly cruel. You can bugger the ox (if you stand on a box) And vulpologists say you can bugger the fox, You can bugger the shrew, though it's awfully small-- but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all. Herptologists gasp you can bugger the asp, Entymologists claim you can bugger the wasp. If an insects your thing, man, then just have a ball-- But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all."
We need to get this man elected as PM. The past 3 days i've been reading Rorys tweets, articles that run on and on about Rory as he has a wealth of experience that this country needs and can benefit from. And after watching this video (although I am bias as I love hedgehogs!) I know now who I want as PM, I have never been as energised like this before about any politician until this man has come out of the woodwork. He is someone who can reach out to all people with his kind and gentle heart and possibly who can heal this nation. #voterory
His intelligence and knowledge, and judgement are reasons too. I don't think you need to be wealthy to qualify. (He's obviously spent some time researching hedgehogs and now wants it all to go on the record.) If he becomes P.M he won't have so much time for hedgehogs. I wonder how Brexit will affect hedgehogs. Maybe they should have their own referendum.
Edith King pointedly described the little beast as follows: The hedgehog is a little beast Who likes a quiet wood, Where he can feed his family On proper hedgehog food. He has a funny little snout That's rather like a pig's, With which he smells, like us, of course, But also runts and digs. He wears the queerest prickle coat, Instead of hair or fur, And only has to curl himself To bristle like a burr. He does not need to battle with Or run away from foes, His coat does all the work for him, It pricks them on the nose.
What’s the difference between a hedgehog and the House of Commons? With hedgehogs, the pricks are on the outside! Not directed at Rory Stewart. Or indeed the minority of intelligent, well meaning and honest MPs therein.
Say what you want, and I don't think he'll get the job, but Rory is incredibly intelligent and experienced. He'd make an excellent PM. He just doesn't quite have that leader look unfortunately.
@@neoepicurean3772 it's unfortunate that you judge him on looks. Even vicariously. Humans tend to favour familiar things. I believe your aversion to his looks would be cured simply by familiarity.
@@ed1726 I think he looks like a fine leader. I was only basing that statement on empirical evidence, the '6 foot factor' etc. I was saying it was unfortunate that others judge people on looks rather than ability.
And here’s why Rory got fed up with politics, an excerpt from his latest book….”I went on to speak - according to Hansard - 400 times in Parliament. And tried to speak much more than I was called. I had travelled to Syria, I think, more than anyone in the chamber but I could not get the Speaker to call me in a Syria debate. I had visited Ukraine straight after the Crimea invasion, and been on the front lines, and had crossed the southern border to enter Tripoli the day Gaddafi fell, but I struggled to speak in the Russian or Libyan debates. I was proud of my careful speech, limited by the Speaker to four minutes, on intervention; my hour-long speech on why we should remain in the European Court of Human Rights; and my speech on why Scotland should remain in the Union. But the only speech which seemed to achieve any public prominence was a ten-minute speech, delivered at ten at night in an adjournment debate, on the subject of hedgehogs. This was watched by six people in the chamber and over a million times on social media.”
I wish I could super upvote this because it's so important, and so ignored
"Nobility is not something one is born into. It is something one earns by one's actions." - Robin Hood (Costner)
@@kristjanpeilbut he literally just said his actions should have granted him a debate but didn't. it's a comment on the system not the man
I’m reading his book now. Loving it. That’s why i came here to see him talk
@@JasonEyermannsame
The fact that he makes such a passioned and freakishly well-informed speed about hedgehogs to a mostly empty audience shows what an amazing person he is.
I think he's got the hedgehog vote sewn up.
It’s a nonsense issue, so let’s spike it.
im a hedgehog and i cant stand it when people pander to us like he does, its cringe, he wont be getting my vote
They are a prickly bunch
I'm not sure, he's quite disparaging towards the end.
CZcams:
2017: nah
2018 : wait for it..
2019: HEDGEHOGS!
Gotta go slow
Oh Rory, you crack me up, I was Rory's head of security in Nassiriya, Iraq when he was attached to the Coliition Provisional Authority, we were bombed to bits over four nights and escaped after the USA sent in a Spectre C130 gunship. A time seared in my memory. You are a one of a kind my dear friend.
What a memory! Thanks for sharing.
He spoke for 13 minutes without deviation , repetition or hesitation . Paul Merton eat your heart out
Paul Merton can eat pies without deviation, repetition or hesitation for far more than just 13 minutes, the fat unfunny BBC arsenugget.
But he was interrupted
He repeated hedgehog like 90 times at least
Yeh he took the whole legend told to him by an elder of his species that *_”say the name of that which you wish to sexually interfere with 90 times and thy will be done”_* far too seriously (just as he does his chances of being Prime Minister!!!
Billie Piper’s Teeth wish he would take as much time over his appearance. Always looks a right scruff
Does he actually just spent 13 minutes straight talking about hedgehogs in parliament?...
Yes, yes he does...
And completely without looking at notes, including reciting the Thomas Hardy poem.
They're heading for extinction in the UK
Joseph Hill but that happens all the time
Sam Ashby I’ve not seen one since...forever. I used to see them as a child. Same with robins and red squirrels.
@@andrewmartin6445 all the things that are important
I just spent 13 minutes listening to Rory Stewart talk about hedgehogs.
I regret nothing.
I have watched this at least 5 times since I discovered it
Great speaker and very interesting man with principals.
Could be worse ….
😂😂😂😂
Thank god a politician has finally made their policy on hedgehogs clear. Youve got my vote rory
+2
This video was worth it just to hear someone say that "We've established that hedgehogs are a devolved matter."
A man with more talent than Cameron, Johnson and Truss put together.
And Rishi too
I may not agree with him 100% of the time but I certainly wouldn’t be complaining with him as PM.
A very low bar, but he could have been a Parliamentary titan in another age
That's actually an insult 😂😂😂
I'm sure you have to
'The hedgehog is a very prickly issue'(10.40)says Rory.
Just imagine. The tories could have chosen this guy as our PM. Someone eloquent and full of positivity. Instead we got mophead.
True. I'm not a Conservative but I'd have far more respect for the party if this man was PM
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never roll over and become a ball of pricks.
Haha your comment really did make me LOL..
lol!
lol
Oh that was classic
No meaningless waffling cod-Latin gibberish. No sad quotes from American movies. Simply a master class in articulacy and love of the small precious things to which we owe so much.
Amen
I want Rory Stuart to win the Tory leadership and then spend every parliamentary session talking for 15 minutes straight about hedgehogs
A splendid notion!
Lol
Spock From Star Wars whoever wins it would be quite nice for the Conservative party to collapse completely and never recover - one can dream, eh?
“The hedgehog is a very prickly issue” I wonder how long he was waiting to say that😂
For once CZcams gets the recommendation right...
This is quality content, right here.
Nice use of parliamentary time. Just think how much time could have been used to discuss hedgehogs if we didn't have Brexit
Fuck Brexit
I liked the bit where he talked about hedgehogs.
I heard he spent years in Afghanistan hunting down Dr. Eggman
Goo goo, goo jube.
Thought this would be a funny video. Turned out to be absolutely amazing.
Shame the chamber was so empty. Must have been an adjournment debate.
Utterly superb - I can see no other serving MP at this moment worthy of becoming our next PM other than the RH Rory Stewart *****
Absolutely well said.
Simpleton.
Ok
Couple of fucking morons 😂
Yeah, we really need another far right ideologue in power. It's served us so well in the past(sarcasm) 🙄
"and the reason why this is such as prickly issue".
Rory Stewart must have won the Internet with that line, shurely?
£79k of public money
Don’t keep calling me Shirley
Once in a while you get great orators coming into parliament from all the political spectrum and Rory Stewart is one he is one who holds your attention
It's a shame that some of what he believes in is just either insane or downright wrong. Such a waste.
Tams80 such as? Care to elaborate?
I have been an admirer of Rory Stewart for a long time. This speech endears me to him even more.
This guy is too good for the Government! All those who vote for Boris are an insult to Rorys intelligence! He should form his own party!
He should be head of the Lib Dems, then they may have a chance!
Look how well he knows his subject.... he’s busy working hard on his subject. This man I like 👍
we can all read wikipedia
@sirvidia But we cant all write and deliver a speech like that...
@@its_me_dave i thought it was fatuous. There is real work to be done. This is school debating club.
@sirvidia lighten up my friend, sounds like you could do with some fatuous-ity in your life...
@@its_me_dave sure, man. Thank God for Bojo, eh?
If this guy ends up as our prime minister, even a cynic like me can still hope there's a chance for our fair country.
Corbyn is better
@@ShubhamBhushanCC Won't find me disagreeing. Rory was just the best of the options for the Conservative leadership contest.
@@Carnophobe So what now?
@@bjornopitz6561 To be honest, I'm leaving the country and no longer bother paying attention to UK news. It's sad, but I no longer feel invested in the country I was born in. So perhaps ask someone else :/
@Carnophobe 4yr on from your original comment, I hope all is well.
Alas anyone but the last 3 PMs would have been welcome, but Rory more so. I've only discovered this guy today but feel like we'd have been safer in his hands
I've no idea what has just happened but I was so enthralled that I felt like giving him a standing ovation at the end 😂. Priceless!
Magnificent. He knows the subject, is articulate and thoughtful. Can you imagine Andrea Leadsom or Dominic Raab (or the rest) speaking about anything at all with such authority?
He's definitely a great orator which would be a breath of fresh air, what with May and Corbyn stuttering their way through everything.
Shame that he is a globalist sellout
@@domzbu He says, on a global video platform using technology for all across the globe.
Globalism already happened, your too late.
@@domzbu And then there's th Turquoise Moun tain Trust
No
If you ever bump into Rory, whatever you do, never ever mention Hedgehogs.
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it
Very impressive how Rory barely looks at his notes ..... 'Tour de force' just about covers this .... Glorious and warm-hearted history. Love this man!
One dislike...yep...that's Boris Johnson
lol
Hands down the best thing I’ve ever watched
The hedgehogs will be fine. They will have no trouble crossing the Irish Border.
Brian McHugh they will if it’s a hard border
@@assborgor It's more of an on going prickly border
Ok. After this there is still hope for the UK.
Yeh, if you’re a fucking hedgehog.
@@thegrandmuftiofwakanda actually the idiot is pro-fracking, so as much as he's sounding off about hedgehogs, if you're a hedgehog from say lancashire for example, then he doesn't really give a s**t....i don't believe people can watch this rubbish and think the guy's genuine....anybody who believes that when the public voted for brexit that it was actually going to happen can forget that too if he's p.m, as he's another pro-e.u anarcho-capitalist, tonyblairalike tool..and very possibly mi6.
No one:
Rory Stewart: thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; come not near our fairy queen
Omg this made me cry hahaha
What an impressive speech. A real treat to watch such oratorical skill and erudition!
If nothing else, Stewart's speech is a masterclass in rhetorical and oratory ability. The litany of facts and philosophical ruminations about the hedgehog is a bonus.
And that spikey pun . Chefs Kiss on that! 🤌
Just the man we need to be in charge of this unhinged society !
I live in the city bottom floor flat and currently have a family of hedge hogs livening just beyond my balcony .. I leave a little bowl of dog food and a water for them each night and like clockwork about 9pm 3 piglets and 2 parents come and have a feed ... they recognise my smell now and even come up close and give me a whiff.. lovely little animals
😊 You are so lucky! They are beautiful little critters ❤👍
I used to see them all the time growing up in the 70's and 80's but have not seen a wild one since then so I thought they were almost gone, so your story cheers me up 😁
Can I buy them from you?
£10 for the adults and £5 each for the Hoglets.
Pseudonayme 77 there proper cool little creatures throw some dog food out and see if they come, they could always do with some safe food rather than going through all those sharp cans and such
Dmcc Mac I can’t there wild aniiim... hold on you will give me a fiver a hoglet .... dm bro
Hoglets
Congress doesn’t deserve a raise. This guy does
Rory Stewart is surely a great man. He may not have proved it yet to the world's satisfaction, and he may never, but he is engaged and should the need for his sort of greatness present itself, he is there. My ancestor emigrated from Cumberland to the colony of Virginia late in the 17th century. Penrith was his home. But for that decision i might be in the position to vote conservative, something I would never do in my country but would have been glad to do in support of Rory Stewart.
check his voting record and then say that....
2:42 "Now, I want to be serious for a moment" lol
13 minutes and Rory Stewart said 'Hedgehog' literary 69 times. Finally, A Conservative running for leadership that I can get behind.
Source: I searched for the word through the transcript and removed the three times that the other MPs said Hedgehog.
@@itsmikemccall 😀🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔……………………🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔…………………
I went to Croatia earlier this year and I seen more hedgehogs in my first day in a city than I have in England in my whole life. We are obviously doing something wrong. It was good to hear Rory Stewart talk about and stick up for wildlife, shame he never got into premiership.
We have unfortunately killed off most of our wild life
@@rahuldahoob I know, it’s gutting and that’s my point, I have found more in a city than in the countryside, it just goes to show our management of the countryside and our farming practices are destroying the natural world.
“Hedgehogs are a prickly issue” 😂 “The minister has just made one of the best speeches I have ever heard in the chamber”. I am in absolute awe. Get that man back into parliament, back into government!
Why is this man still languishing in the backwater that is Westminster - the talent spotters of Just a Minute must wake up and elevate him to loftier heights
So he can keep voting for fracking and against environmental protection measures as usual? Lets hope they don't 😐
Him and Paul Merton together. Wow
Am I the only one here because I just like hedgehogs 🦔 and not politics!
If you sound so politics you deserve dictatorship and you will get it, if not for yourself, then for die descendents.
Don't be too lazy to preserve democracy.
Hedgehogs are much more important than politics.
You must admit though it is an odd topic for politicians to be talking about!
@@fuckfannyfiddlefart Don't be too lazy to preserve the English language!
Rory Stewart running for PM and Hedgehogs getting their own road sign, perfect time to watch
Blimey - this is absolutely wonderful. I don't know about his chances in the leadership race, but this man is remarkably edifying on the subject of the hedgehog!
I'm not a Tory voter usually, but I really like this guy. He's intelligent, motivated and driven by social causes. I have a lot of respect for someone like this.
no he isn't.. go check his voting record, please.
Hi @@denemessina8601 thanks for the heads-up on that one. I was unaware of his voting record and 'm quite surprised. I still wonder though whether there was an element of sound reasoning behind his decision-making, particularly on the bill of human rights... he always seems so moral and driven by social injustice... may be there is an issue within the bills he voted for/against that lead to his decisions?
@@sarahashleytaylor3199..hello there, thanks for listening.. ..issue?: hmmm...mostly i'd say money: don't forget that these are politicians and looking like nice, moral and just people , whilst serving themselves and their pals behind the scenes is pretty much their job description ..i know that it's easy to forget that when you look at the likes of bojo and the donald,( who appear to have forgot half of said job description) but the more i look into the man the more he disturbs me, as he reminds me strongly of blair and i fear that because of fear of becoming trumpified we'll all be so relieved if boris isn't p.m that somebody even worse could sneak in..really, not knowing the chap personally, as a potential p.m, all i can do is look at his voting record because voting and lobbying is the mainstay of what a politician does and the only real c.v we have to judge him on as an applicant for an important job... well: apart from some neither confirmed nor denied links with mi6 and a term as a , i think , governer in iraq after we illegally invaded it, both of which worry me especially the former as once we let the secret service into government then we are not in a good position...why do i get the feeling that one day i'm going to be missing theresa may?
I have to say, Thankfully Bojo and Trump are easy to see-through in terms of self-interest and right-wing predilections but Rory struck me as different... until you pointed out his voting history! Perhaps its wishful thinking that the job descriptions for MPs includes possessing an acute sense of justice, democracy and morality! Alas....@@denemessina8601
@@sarahashleytaylor3199 It shouldn't be wishful thinking though should it? I think those times are long gone.. i like to believe that once upon a time we did have one or two great leaders and principled politicians, but we have, it seems degenerated from a democracy into an ogliarchy..having said that, maybe these things swing like a pendulum and events will go entirely the other way eventually..as it stands there isn't a single statesman/woman that i believe is trustworthy amongst our current crop, and i mean that for all of our political parties..and i dont think i'm alone on that either..a sad state of affairs, but one that i hope will change one day.
Not sure how I got here but glad I did. Rory is a treasure and the person who made me believe that a Tory could be decent. How different things could be now if he had become PM.
Utterly brilliant, what a speaker he would make at PMQs
Diana White Yes! That prospect is lost to us now!!
Imagine him on Opium! I bet he's an absolutely psychedelic dude.
opium is not a psychedelic drug
@@midas4057 Yup, he'd just fall asleep.
Best comment of all time
He already looks like iy
Opium? God I miss the 80s, the 1880s!
Wow... that’s just... well, I don’t know what it is... but its riveting nonetheless.
.. a politician, UK can be very proud of ...
No. He is another fraud.
That'll be the day
Even their mothers disowned this lot
@@TheCasualObservers why
One of the best speeches ever heard in British Parliament...says one colleague at the end of this extraordinary good speech about the HEDGEHOG !
It is about knowing the place of different species in our world.
Our pet cats...do not have a place...should not be given space...in the natural ecosytem where they do not belong and in fact decimate it.
Cats are an invasive species that humans introduced that proliferated due to human love of pet ownership in ecosystems that they do not belong to.
Keep them indoors is the only fair way to keep them.
Poetry written about hedgehogs quoted in the UK Houses of Common !
Extraordinary ! this man has talent...one of the best speeches ever heard in the house some colleague says at the end of this speech !
A SYMBOL of the RESSURECTION !
THE HEDGEHOG !
RORY STEWART FOR THE NEXT PM of the UK !
Brexit sense is possible with such a man who has taken the time to read more than 500 pages about hedgehogs ! He is anti NO DEAL having read the details lol !
The hedgehog is a symbol of the state of our environment someone says in this speech in the houses of commons... SO TRUE !
This speech is MONUMENTAL !
Hedgehogs are down from 30 to 1 million only today in the UK...animal agriculture has destroyed them the most. GO vegan to save the urang utangs and hedgehogs and the planet !
Aristotle talked about Hedgehogs !
@Philippe Demptos i just thought it a superbly researched speech ! unlike bojo the next likely pm who as foreign secretary did not inform himself but said some british woman in iran was lecturing rather than on holiday there so got her jail assured....the melon faced people for Africans etc statements boris johnson lol must be permanently high on something like power and money or whatever to make such statements non stop lol not me. ps after being called a racist in the houses of parliament recently he no doubt will root for calling members of the opposition that liberally rather than himself too.
oh this Rory Stewart is a shit...just like the rest of the tories...supports fox hunting for sport. facebook.com/siann.kilcoyne/posts/330783344512020?comment_id=331964341060587¬if_id=1561123542723219¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic
Dear algorithm, this speech has to be heard. Only speech in house of commons that I was able bear listening to.
Brilliant speech Mr Stewart! I really enjoyed it!
Ill never forget looking out of my window as a child, early hours of the morning and seeing a hedgehog cross the street. Etched in my brain forever
It is a sad reflection of these times that this subject is not being taken seriously. An almost empty chamber SHAMEFUL!!!
TBH that's actually on the busy side for the commons. Apart from question time it's rare to see more than a few dozen MPs.
Though it may have had a near empty chamber, those sitting and speaking filled it with serious and heart felt feeling and concern for the hedgehog population.
The majority needs to hide under the false assumption that there is such thing as important and negligible things. This speech is an act of humility, a powerfull demonstration that the care one does take to a thing defines the seriousness of our actions. All voters regard themselves as important, relevant and essential. Here is an MP that does know how to embrace a subject and see all its sides.
This is just wonderful. A lesson in how to articulate.
Yes, be born to a wealthy family in a British colony and go to massively funded schools where you can make friends with CAPITALISTS who can help you career.
@@fuckfannyfiddlefart Better than making friends with SOCIALISTS who seek to make everyone in the world equally poor, I'd say.
@@monsieurboks So stupid. It's just the norm now for conservatives eh?
@@fuckfannyfiddlefart What is wrong with how or who he was born to?
I was born and grew up in reasonably-rural (yet technically small-town) Cornwall, and I now happen to work at a wildlife conservation charity very interested in the plight of the hedgehog for many reasons (I work in IT; don’t at me for details!), and I very belatedly applaud this video! 👏
Maybe the plight of the British hedgehog seems like the perfect figure of ridicule for some kinds of people… but this is very definitely actual *thing*, and should be listened to and not derided.
Nice to see a politician who cares about wildlife
Not only cares but by God does show a genuine love for what he has learned about it.
A true example of the incomparable benefit of learning not for information sake but learning for edification.
he doesn't...why would he be pro=fracking and pro-selling of national forests if he was? It's just the cheerful and hypocritical sociopathy of an etonian at debating club...
if you want to see what a politician cares about look at their voting history, not a speech about hedgehogs. Rory has consistently voted against measures to prevent climate change, he clearly does not care about the environment.
@@denemessina8601 Spot on Dene 👍
@@cameron5795 Exactly. If he had a choice between saving the hedgehog for free or squashing them with a bulldozer for profit, he would instantly choose the profit, such is the warped nature of conservatism.
Save our hedgehogs oh precious green
A part of England never seen
Time to help our spiky friend
Come together and start to lend
Dont let him disappear
As is happening now I fear
"I want to be slightly serious *for a moment*"
Extraordinary.
Hear! Hear! Were I British in anything more than just a name, I would join the throng who should be bearing this man upon their shoulders to the nearest place of refreshment in glad celebration of this speech! Hear! Hear!
I learnt something today. I'm not sure what, but I think I liked it.
Rory must be PM someday! A brilliant mind. Plus, I love hedgehogs....they are so cute.
glennis3 maybe?
If only Hedgehogs had a vote
Well, he's running for leadership now... :) And I agree, hedgehogs are cute. I saw one recently, curled up and obviously protecting itself. I left and came back 5 minutes later and the wee thing had scuttled, not far, but away to find food.
He's far too nice to be PM.
He's an evil bastard.
I love this so much. How much I have learned in one speech?! more parliamentary FACTUAL speeches PLEASE!!!
He is clearly pandering to the hedgehog population😒😒😒
Edit: how did i get so many likes????
A Misnomer hahaha
Hedgehogs have taken over CZcams and are seeking out comments such as yours :D
greetings from the edgehog population - just befor hibernation yawn.
I didn't think I'd watch the whole video, then I did. I enjoyed every second.
Brilliant. He's a genius. He's got my vote.
Oops
We DEMAND REFERENDUM on HEDGEHOGS !
Let people decide !!!
@Strofi Kornego: I agree with you in principle . . . but fear it'll just end 52%-48% with Parliament not implementing the result.
If that happens - 2nd referendum will solve the issue.
Rory would prefer a peoples assembly that can be more easily manipulated and then blamed. After the largest mandate ever he now wants the smallest.
This mans erudition and memory is amazing, straight from the hip, no need of written notes, obviously wrought from a lifetime of reading and the sheer joy in first class articulation of human knowledge and endeavour. Wow I am so very impressed! At 2:57 we get serious and may I suggest that municipal spraying of margins, lamp posts, path edgeways etc rob the hedgehog of a valuable food source. Of course no-one witnesses any of their feeding habits, it all occurs at night, however unfortunately diversity as much as it is lauded is being robbed constantly by municipal spraying. On reflection I wonder a little of this brave monologue, methinks in parts possibly tongue in cheek so to speak ... but all the same bravo .... Rory is the man!
Your comment is the most important addendum to his eloquent speech.
I think Rory will enable the UK start mending its divisions. I’d never vote Tory, but in the national interest, give him the crown. Long live the hedgehog.
You will vote Tory. It has been prophesised thus and it shall come to pass
If this guy cares about the UK as much as hedgehogs I hope he's the next prime minister!
If we must have another Tory Prime Minister, please let it be him...
I don't care. Nothing pleases me more than watching UK go down the shitter
Light Yagami shut up you pigeon
Inspector Jacques Clouseau crying omfg
D C Jealous of what??....😬
my guy has an amine profile pic 😂😂😭😭
Brilliant. One is reminded of John Lodwick's school friend, Pearson, who had designed his own royal arms (orchids with hedgehogs couchant) - [The Asparagus Trench p43].
I only know one thing about hedgehogs... The hedgehog can't be buggered at all. I acquired this profound knowledge from the brilliant author Terry Pratchett from the song of the same name as sung by Pratchett's character "Nanny Og".
A short sample of this historic song:
"You can bugger the bear, if you do it with care,
in the winter, when he is asleep in his lair,
Though I would not advise it in spring or in fall--
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
If you're feeling quite coarse, you can bugger the horse,
or the palfrey, the jennet, the stallion (with force),
You can bugger the donkey, the mare, or the mule,
Though to bugger the pony is needlessly cruel.
You can bugger the ox (if you stand on a box)
And vulpologists say you can bugger the fox,
You can bugger the shrew, though it's awfully small--
but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
Herptologists gasp you can bugger the asp,
Entymologists claim you can bugger the wasp.
If an insects your thing, man, then just have a ball--
But the hedgehog can never be buggered at all."
brings a proud tear to my eye
LMFAO! Oh Nanny Og!
We need to get this man elected as PM. The past 3 days i've been reading Rorys tweets, articles that run on and on about Rory as he has a wealth of experience that this country needs and can benefit from. And after watching this video (although I am bias as I love hedgehogs!) I know now who I want as PM, I have never been as energised like this before about any politician until this man has come out of the woodwork. He is someone who can reach out to all people with his kind and gentle heart and possibly who can heal this nation. #voterory
His intelligence and knowledge, and judgement are reasons too. I don't think you need to be wealthy to qualify. (He's obviously spent some time researching hedgehogs and now wants it all to go on the record.) If he becomes P.M he won't have so much time for hedgehogs. I wonder how Brexit will affect hedgehogs. Maybe they should have their own referendum.
He is a fraudulent bastard.
@@TheCasualObservers Nicely backed statement, with references, and a bibliography which really helped me fact check your response to prove it correct.
Edith King pointedly described the little beast as follows:
The hedgehog is a little beast
Who likes a quiet wood,
Where he can feed his family
On proper hedgehog food.
He has a funny little snout
That's rather like a pig's,
With which he smells, like us, of course,
But also runts and digs.
He wears the queerest prickle coat,
Instead of hair or fur,
And only has to curl himself
To bristle like a burr.
He does not need to battle with
Or run away from foes,
His coat does all the work for him,
It pricks them on the nose.
What’s the difference between a hedgehog and the House of Commons? With hedgehogs, the pricks are on the outside!
Not directed at Rory Stewart. Or indeed the minority of intelligent, well meaning and honest MPs therein.
I read this in Rory Stewart's voice.
His ‘selfie’ video wasn’t particularly honest.
Daniel Tester I think it says a lot about his character when something as trivial as that is used as an example of his dishonesty 😂
This is critical, why is this not being discussed on the rest is politics, there is no end to Rory's knowledge
... not in any other parliament would you get this sort of quality!
Well my hedgehog will be voting for him.
Rory, you are amazing!
Rory, the UK needs you.
Hearing this speech was very well received in the hedgehog community
We need this man
Say what you want, and I don't think he'll get the job, but Rory is incredibly intelligent and experienced. He'd make an excellent PM. He just doesn't quite have that leader look unfortunately.
It is unfortunate that you think that.
@@ed1726 Hey Ed, care to explain why? I'm really open minded and would like to know if I'm wrong or misinformed.
@@neoepicurean3772 it's unfortunate that you judge him on looks. Even vicariously. Humans tend to favour familiar things. I believe your aversion to his looks would be cured simply by familiarity.
@@ed1726 I think he looks like a fine leader. I was only basing that statement on empirical evidence, the '6 foot factor' etc. I was saying it was unfortunate that others judge people on looks rather than ability.
I thought you meant I was wrong about him being intelligent and experienced.
56 million years on and we (some of us) still love the "thorny hedgehog". The hedgehog as an important environmental indicator.
Breathtakingly virtuosic performance from Rory. Love the muted response! Applause is frowned upon in the commons.
Sadly though, Rory didn’t adapt well to that appalling BBC debate. Live and learn I guess...
He's amazing! What a contrast to the present PM!!
I'm not a Conservative but Rory Stewart has my support for Prime Minister.
exactly
Eton debating society massive.
Big up!!!
Rory you get the vote of all us correct thinking herissons (French for hedgehog)