Not really as Russell put this same clip out months ago! It's months out of date and doesn't cover our current idiots who are killing us and our NHS.

And you just know their going to turn round and say that due to the fact their pay increase was only 3% then nurses, teachers etc can make do with that as well, oh and the money has to come from the already established budget. Independent commission my bum. They haven't failed to give a pay rise yet. Disgusting they have received almost 31% increase since 2010 and during this living cost they get yet another one. They earn over 4 times yearly salary for some (and double london average which is higher than most anyways) yet minimum wage workers don't get one (in just as bad positions as nurses and co as well if not worse, whilst they get free food, huge salary and hundreds of thousands of expenses. Not to mention the House of Lords.

How much longer can this go on? If they talk for a living, can we pay them by words with penalties for not being constructive

I'm always flummoxed as to why people keep voting in the torries then i remember Ruppert Murdoch is good at what he does.

What today?

They're giving money to their rich pals

You, sir, are anarchist and a troublemaker. Unfortunately our World needs as many of you as we can get.😱😩😡

Don't be ridiculous!! You can't give the peasants more money!! Perish the thought!

Absolutely correct. This is what rightists don't understand. It's not politics of envy, it's basic bloody economics. Trickle down is actually siphoning up.

Probably because that's logic. But you know....

Same in the US, no other employees get to decide it. Supposedly they work for us, we should get to decide.

the billionaires keep the politicians in office and the politicians make the tax laws that is the problem. just remember you pay taxes so that billionaires dont have to.

Hacking people on the internet?

I've been saying that for months now. GUY FAWKES WE FORGIVE YOU, COME BACK!!!

Probably buggering children like the catholic clergy....

U should watch v for vendetta

@@TigerLily12345 😂😂😂

Well said. It has been a scam for too long.

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and then they'll complain about kids wanting free meals too

@@nerdychocobo 😩😩😩

@@thomasc6412 well what are you doing to about it then?

@@AllyStrikesBack he's learning English by the looks of it .

I've been hearing that phrase since the mid 70s.

Long before that!!

@@michaelkemp6857 whenever the torys are in power

Corbyn was a bit of a disaster, though. Kept handing the right-wing press easy goals (like the national anthem), then he hard botched the anti-Semitism scandal.

@@paulgibbon5991 Yeah, he made some errors whilst navigating a horrendously aggressive smear campaign by the media. And? Does that make him unelectable? Does that mean he's an immoral person? Does that mean that Boris was the better choice?

@@corison Nope, nope and nope. What it means is finding a politician worth a damn is in itself damn near impossible. I liked Corbyn, he had some good points in his manifesto, you know, he actually had one. Don't blame abstained votes though. We need the abstain so they know none of them are good enough. You have to actually write it on the paper though. I think there was some misinformation, I know shock horror, that lead people to believe the absence of a vote is an abstain when it really isn't. The voting system needs a complete rework as is. Want a fix? Revolution. Once families start losing their children, heads will roll.

Go on, do tell us what would be different if Labour had won in 2019 then!

@@B-A-L I don't have a crystal ball, so I can only speculate, but as Corbyn's entire mantra was based on supporting poor and vulnerable members of society, I can't fathom a reality where he would allow the cost of living crisis to wreak havoc at the scale it currently is. And taking Labour's manifesto into account, Nationalised Railways (helping reduce ticket costs, which are currently extortionate) and a properly funded/managed NHS would no doubt ease the strain for many families.

Must be hard coming up with the number of poor they want to kill off this time...

Send the ******* to Russia!!

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make"

@@MMR_LM Thatcher actually said that in 78 just before she introduced trickle down economics and everyone was ok with it 😂

'we spend more on immigrants than we do on the homeless, why aren't we helping the homeless?' 'okay then, go and help the homeless, invest in public housing' 'why would we do that? what have they done to deserve it?'

That's weird. I live in one of the most deprived towns in the UK and I've never seen that in any shop. The meat just has those metal security tags that make alarms go off

Yeah, there's nothing like this where I live in working class east London. Can we assume from this that rich people are the biggest thieves? 🤔

That they have to lock away meat better put some plant based instead

clearly not that great as the meat on the shelves by me is still there... im gonna guess you live in a shithole.

Just remember, if you see anyone stealing daily essentials from a big chain supermarket, no you didn't.

i would definitely vote for a hard reset on that , especially since the positions they hold are misused to siphon funds into personal buisness schemes which practically means they`re getting paid twice . bring back altruism !!!!

That actually kinda helps us though, cause if it went back to low wage or volunteer work the only people that could afford to work as a MP would be people rich enough to work for no/low pay. So by having a decent wage it means more people can afford to work as a MP.

@@blandoatmeal1273 need to have some sort of balance though, MPs not allowed other income sources and get the average wage. That way MPs would have to work on increasing everyone's wages to up the average

@@Joeink100 absolutely agree that all money (aside from the base salary) should be taken out of politics. Like no second job, insane scrutiny around donations and who MPs are talking too.

@@Joeink100 I like the way you think! Edit: Although maybe not the average. Averages can get tricksy. You can get a very high wage out of a pool of low wages, just by dropping in a few very very high wages. The mean would be better than an average

Kevin Bridges does a BRILLIANT stand-up on that very subject - well worth watching. Typing in 'Kevin Bridges the UK Deficit' should bring it up in a search.

The necessity is staying alive

@@writerinprogress better yet, here's the link for anyone interested: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/i6KXnnqdg2aX2YU.html It's only about 7 minutes long. Enjoy! 🙂🙂🙂

Joe Biden has managed - despite huge opposition from the Republican (ie: Tory) party - has manged to stop trickle down economics during his term and the economy is surging upward.

It's wild how many modern US (and even some international) problems can be traced back the the Reagan administration.

Trickle down isn't an actual theory that anyone advocates for or pushes, trickle down is a straw man of supply side economics. And last time that happened was at the end of WW2. Reagan certainly didn't do it as he increased spending, and then had 2 (maybe 3) bills which increased taxes. What's really ironic about Reagan is by his actions (not his words) the left should love him and the right should hate him. Instead everyone wants to ignore the full story, focus on a fraction pretending it's all that happened, then declare either victory or defeat on that. It's way more about rhetoric with Reagan than anything else

@@nicosmind3 Wow. you need to read some actual history. Reagan Cut taxes on the rich MASSIVELY and raised taxes on everyone else. He spent Gobs of money on the military and cut services for other people. Reagan was the worst, stop sucking off his dead body.

They do love their fancy phrases

Why? So Rupert Murdoch can get his flying monkeys to convince you a moment later that it's a non-issue?

@@nicosmind3 Yes, thanks to Regan, our social security payments are now taxed. Gosh, thanks.

Charity begins at home

the joke is that we are actually in a state of over production of food we have 1.5x the ammount of food we need as a world. we have an extra half of what we need. People are only starving because food exists to be sold, not eaten. The extra food just goes in the bin.

@@lunarose9 So true, I even hate going out to eat only to watch greedy people over order then throw half of it away, especially meat.

Geldof and co are the reason why Africa is so overpopulated now and they are all trying to get into Britain!

It’s not just because of Weatherspoons. We had none near us but at least 15 pubs shut down and been turned into apartments or shops.

@@McfcMancs any theories as to why?

Left years ago when the rigged vote to leave the EU went through - the UK is the shithole of Europe now............. a laughing stock.

@@terranovarubacha5473 high levels of tax, rising bills, low employment / Career opportunities

It started with the smoking ban and then the higher tax on alcohol. Alot of people can't afford to go out drinking like they use too (probably a good thing in some ways lol) and are more likely to have social gatherings with drinks at someone's home instead

I'd prefer Kelly Brook on a plate

You not going to become an MP and get rich with that attitude. :)

Hell if they offered me a Salad a bag of crisps and a mars bar a day for FREE i'd be bloody happy. MPs and Lords have no clue about anything even vaguely normal. A salary at 86k a year, plus claiming for expenses like your rent to be closer to parliament, while letting your actual house out(in some cases) and free food and drink each day.....there isn't a single person I know who wouldnt accept that and they act like its a hard life.

Just give em cheese burgers from McDonald's or soma

You would.. you'd end up with gout!

@randydstone Yeah buddy, same shit different country, the goverment always fucks you whoever is in power,

Not sure how this fits into your numbers but Canadian papers are saying that 45 years ago, a dollar had 8-9 times the purchasing power of a dollar today. This is why my dad could put himself through uni with what he made over the summer - that's all expenses, and he bought a new car! I spent my young adulthood being asked why I wasn't applying myself and only recently have boomers begun to feel these effects themselves as they're retirement will be too expensive for them even after solid saving

To give you an idea of the state of somethings here in the UK. My parents bought a 3 bedroom terraced house in an ok area for around £20,000 in 1986....that same house is now worth between £286,000 and £311,000. My dad had multiple pensions that would have been worth £120,000 to keep him during his retirement. Now if he hadnt have passed away during Covid at the age of 60, and had started pulling his money at 65 and lived till 85 his pension would have been £6,000 a year....He saved as much as he could in to pensions for his working life and it would have been worth £6,000 per year which being honest now wouldnt even cover council tax, heating, electric and water bills. Even with the state pension adding to this he would never have lived comfortably with the way things are going. What makes things worse, is my generation (around 40 yrs old) in a lot of cases were never told how important pensions were, so I didnt start paying in to one at all until I was in my late 20's and even then its basic salary sacrifice as I cant afford to pay in any more because of the expenses in cost of living. The UK is broken, you have old people who worked 40+ years saving as much as they could, not being able to afford to heat their homes or eat. You have people working full time jobs who cannot save for a time when they won't be able to work because of the cost of everything. You have young people just enterring their working lives who won't ever be able to own a house without help or luck. And what makes all of this worse.....is at the top is normally some rich twunt Tory supporter who rents out 4 houses, eats beluga caviar as a snack while drinking expensive Sancerre. I know people from all walks of life and I'll be honest I know more nice poorer people than I do rich.

I can't recall the exact figures or calculations but I saw somewhere recently that if the minimum wage here had kept up with inflation since the mid 70s then it should be around £35 / hour currently It's actually under £10 / hour

@@mazusky7713 In the early 2010s I was cleaning boats for a short time. The owner of the buisness put the price of my jobs up by £25 a boat and I got a 50p an hour payrise. He was offended and said "It's a good job and you're lucky to have it" when I told him to shove his job up his arse too. He actually told me once he needed to charge what he did so he could keep his wife in the manner she was accustomed to and his kids in boarding school. 🤣🤣

It will change ,food riots are not far away, then the proverbial crap will hit the fan because that will affect votes and that is the only thing they care about.

Conservative ideology spreading like a cancer to the rest of the world it seems.

They never give up. It's the definition of insanity. It was implemented again in the US state of Kansas a few years ago and a decent economy was thoroughly destroyed in one governor's term of office. That governor was voted out in a landslide loss. But it can take two to three times as long to recover from an economic crisis than it takes to cause it to begin with. Yet they never learn - because the policies still benefit and enrich the rich whilst everyone and everything else suffers. If it made them enough profit they'd happily burn down the entire society. Why care? They can afford to escape virtually any disaster they cause. That's their attitude about it. They can destroy the lives of most families and remain perfectly content.

It's not free. They pay Duty Free. And guess who sets the duties? A Hunt and a Sunut

Russel's* take ...

Imagine if something, some related act caused the dent in the first place?🤔

I won't even ask how they figured that out

Suction is a powerful tool 😂

They’re levelling themselves up by stealing our EXP candies (money)

I feel like voting for individuals would be better than voting for parties; there would be more room for positive interactions. I'd also like to see an end to pre-election debates; I'd rather see how well they could manage to come together on tricky issues

As another Aussie, I'll just point out that there's a difference between the Torres (strait) and the Tories (crooked) 😉

@@snr0n what's the difference?

@@terranovarubacha5473 My comment was just an opportunity for a silly pun, but it does also already answer your question. I definitely don't mind explaining things when people ask (much better to ask than to pretend you already know it all), but are you sure you don't wanna just take another crack at figuring it out yourself? Reckon that's more rewarding than having me wring all the joy out of it 😅

@@snr0n I was kidding too but good job being patronizing to someone who you thought was asking a sincere question

Vomit* ...

MPs don't do it for the publicity of the food banks. They do it for their own publicity. They know the public is seeing them more and more as the blue blooded parasites they are and want a good photo op where they can look as though they care about the people they consistently vote to starve and demean.

Soon the UK will get the American health care system

bet you don`t love him as much as I do

same situation here. I have no idea how I’m ever supposed to move out and live independently. I’d be on the streets after a month

@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken Honestly I feel like independent living, owning a house and being able to retire one day is nothing but a pipe dream for people my age now (mid 20's). I imagine it feels even worse for students who've been in the final or starting the last few years of their education during the pandemic madness.

@@DRAG0NSPIRIT10 yep at this point I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. I’m 19 next week; I remember being 13 thinking everything was going to be great at my current age. I had plans on moving out, having a good job and being happy in my own space- like everyone I can imagine. now I’m just clueless. I get a job but it only helps me afford necessities. I’d need a second job and maybe a side hustle if I wanted to save up for anything meaningful. ridiculous. how did we get here in 20 or so years? I watch a lot of influencers and they talk about moving to a bigger home to accommodate for their 3 offices while I have no idea how to even move into my first home at this rate.

@@DRAG0NSPIRIT10 That's rough dude. As a millennial in their late 30's only 25% of us have our own places, while the rest of of us are in with family or family properties or renting:( It sucks not being able to be idependant despite earning more than the boomer generation.

You'll he working until you die and yet they'll reanimate your body for zombie you to keep working forever

Guy Fawkes was basically a terrorists. Had his plan worked, he would have killed hundreds of people and destroyed millions worth of buildings. Nothing would have changed and the successors of the politicians killed would have taken even more taxes from the poor to rebuild all the blown-up buildings.

They'll use plastic forks so that it lasts longer

Over a third of the worlds population do not use cutlery to eat food and its a majority including the elites depending on the country, bread in its many forms is the most used food carrier.

Due to cost cutting I'll damn well use a spork for harm as needed!

Striking and rioting is the best option

I don't understand who are the Tories???

@@manujohn99 The Conservative and Unionist Party is the correct name often abbreviated to the Conservatives. Tory is an old name which is still used colloquially. It's the UK right wing party. I suggest you Google the above for more information.

I hate cheese

Dried pasta? Could eat that

@@yippee8570 True!

They ate the lolly pops so everyone else gets stuck with the dry pasta

@@JargonMadjin True!

Only celebrated dwalla festival of lights apparently

British public votes for Tories, because they know BNP can’t win.

@@jamesben1 I wouldn't vote for them either they are just as bad.

I wouldn’t either, my point was that the British public are way more morally bankrupt than the Tory party. They’ll complain when Tories screw them over, but will happily cheer them on whilst they’re screwing over the immigrant family next door.

No they don't. Less than a third of the voting public chose Tories at the last general election.

Most of the country doesn't vote for them. They coast in a small minority of "I'm not racist but--" boomers, because too many people fail to vote. Why do you think the Tories rushed through measures to make it harder for young people to vote? Like the Trumplicans in the US, they know apathy works in their favour.

Recession not avoided. It is coming for most of Europe.

We need a Robin Hood and this one would be a hacker

You could look at Norway, they did something very similar. The results were universally positive for quality of life AND the economy.

not helping weatherspoons much from what i've heard over last few weeks

You can't convince me the kremlin played no part in Brexit.

They're helping themselves

Scared to? Why?

Better just walk them home

@@skootergirl22 there already in their home lol

@@OOK11 oh

Where I am average income is like 12k lol.

Why?

@@tsibris because he speaks the truth

You could get a McDonald's for that much