The Life and Philosophy of Alastair Campbell | Interview
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Alastair Campbell ruminates on Labour, Brexit, and the death of political culture.
But does he ever want to go back to the beating heart of government?
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Alastair Campbell came to public prominence as Tony Blair's Director of Communications. Seen by friends and critics as hugely influential, he was a successful journalist before joining the team at No 10. Since retiring from front-line politics, Campbell has become editor-at-large at The New European, launched with Rory Stewart the most successful political podcast in the UK, 'The Rest Is Politics', and authored the acclaimed book, 'But What Can I Do?'. But what has really driven his life and his beliefs? Find out in this compelling exploration of his extraordinary life and philosophy. Hosted by Philip Collins.
#ukpolitics #labour #labourparty
00:00 Introduction
00:07 The power of politics
01:50 Forecast for British politics
04:07 US politics
06:34 Destruction of political culture
07:39 Boris Johnson
09:44 What should accountability look like?
10:45 Brexit
13:19 Return to politics?
14:14 The power of fame
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No decent person would ever agree with that vile man. Shame on you for promoting him and allowing him to spew his nonsense in front of an audience of sycophants.
This guy should be on trial for crimes against humanity.
"I just feel he's (Boris Johnson) not been properly held to account"
Alastair Campbell 2024
Exactly. The man is a hypocrite, liar and venal war criminal responsible for the deaths of millions. Anyone remember David Kelly?
Staggering hypocrisy. Utterly deluded.
Doesn't it make any civilised person's skin crawl when this man calls his ex boss and fellow WAR CRIMINAL 'Tony?'
It is sooooo rubbish switching to a web page. CZcams doesn't stop, the webpage does. CZcams has video, the we page doesn't.
I don't want to sign in. I don't want your app. I cM comment on here as I wish and read others comments. I have committed to CZcams. I'm not wasting my time listening to partial interviews on here and then switching external locations and or apps. Life is too short!
The most important way to change politics is to switch to a voting method that counts all of the head-to-head majorities. Primitive voting methods count only one majority (or plurality), which is often a coalition of minorities on different issues. That undermines majority rule, destabilizes policies, and empowers extremists by making their supporters' votes needed by the rest of their coalition. Counting all the head-to-head majorities would create a strong incentive for politicians to support majority-preferred policies on many more issues.
Yeah we need Proportional Representation. The Workers Party of Great Britain are proposing PR. I know Galloway is problematic (to say the least) but their manifesto is mostly excellent.
>bryanbadonde9484 : No, we do NOT need proportional representation (PR). It's inferior to the voting method mentioned in my comment -- counting all the head-to-head majorities -- because PR fails to create the strong incentive for politicians to support majority-preferred policies, and because it empowers extremists by making their votes important to the rest of their coalition. PR actually behaves similarly to Plurality Rule, because governing power is nearly always awarded to the party that received the most votes. (That party nearly always succeeds at assembling a majority coalition, occupies the most important government ministries, and controls the agenda of the legislature.) Because PR behaves so much like Plurality Rule, it produces two large parties that compete for the most votes, plus several small parties that hope to gain some power by becoming part of the majority coalition. The majority coalition is equivalent to a "big tent" party, just like the "big tent" parties of a two-party system except that the PR tent is assembled _after_ election day, too late for voters to have their say about which big tent they prefer.
Also, PR is a non-starter in the U.S. It would require a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the Presidency and make Senate elections proportional, and it would require an act of Congress to make House elections proportional. Neither of those is plausible because both of the large parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, can be expected to strenuously oppose PR. (I presume PR is also implausible in the UK for a similar reason: the Tories & Labour prefer the two-party system and won't consent to PR.) But compelling some states to switch to a voting method that counts all the head-to-head majorities would be straight-forward, thanks to citizens' initiatives.
To be clearer about the voting method I advocate: The order of finish should be constructed by processing the head-to-head majorities one at a time, from largest majority to smallest majority. Each majority's more-preferred candidate is placed ahead of their less-preferred candidate in the order of finish. The winner is the candidate who leads the completed order of finish.
The banality of evil.
Campbell gets a lot of stick, but he has spoken openly about his struggles with depression and anxiety and he gave an example of his mental health being a jam jar that gets full and then overflows. I don't think he keeps the blood of innocent Iraqis in the jar though, I think he meant it is a metaphor.
Alistair Campbell called Boris Johnson a liar. He then talks about accountability. He then suggests he should be in prison. Well yes. SO SHOULD YOU CAMPBELL. You are a fellow liar. Is this guy having a laugh? Have you heard the people laughing in the audience - not laughing at Campbell - but LAUGHING ALONG WITH HIM? Who are these people?
Sickening isn't it? Smug, arrogant pseudo intellectuals.
How can I attend these talks?
Come to HowTheLightGetsIn!
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I think you should read the comments in this and tell us why you gave this vile man a platform.
Alastair Campbell: war criminal and career liar.
Nope.
Agreed, these people are whitewashing their crimes by promoting their brand
India might throw you a surprise .what the media tells you is very different about ground reality. I pray I am correct !
No. Just no.
Very Very Bad person.... FACT