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Well I suspect they speak English is one of the first things and they have some type of family already here.
Aren't the Lib Dems the Centrist Party in the UK. If starting your own party is so hard, why not join them instead?
The reason for the European fragmented approach to Israel/Gaza is that these are independent competitive nations and leaders with their own agendas. And, that is probably also where any attempt to make Europe a unified power in its own right that can stand up to Russia, China, the US, maybe India will probably falter. Not sure that has an answer other than a federal Europe, like it or hate it.
I like this podcast but one trouble I find with it is that whilst RS is pretty even handed, AC often comes across as too labour partisan. If you are going to commentate, you need to be totally objective.
The centre stands for nothing and is for people who are not clever enough to distinguish what is right and what is wrong. How can you at the same time agree with completely opposite ends of the spectrum. One is in support of inclusion, rights, and general equality and the other puts emphasis on division, inequality, and decreased bureaucracy (meaning less rights). Centrism doesn’t exist and has ruled the country for the past 15 years with the tories and new labour constantly flipping for whatever group they must win over. It never works.
Nationalisation of core services is the rational decision. Whether these are in the public or private sector we still all pay for it.
Firstly even if you were to take on the full private sector debt, it would be cheaper to service that debt since publiv sector debt is cheaper.
Secondly, profit is an inefficiency in itself which would lead to further price decrease (particularly where marginal pricing is used).
Thirdly, we don't need to take on all the debt. When private sector companies take things over they pay what it is worth, not manipulate the price to fit the existing debt profile. They write off debts through debt restructuring, why should the public sector be any different?
The issue is the majority on all wings of the political spectrum don't understand economics. They are fed flawed analysis and theories of economy but the media, which are just as clueless. Unfortunately, Rory and Alistair are also clueless when it comes to the economy.
Sir Ken Starmer will probably be the PM until at least 2034.
What utter rubbish AC…. "I CARE FOR MY DAUGHTERS SAFETY", you lampoon yet your dictators use exactly the same line for the Online Safety Act!!!! Utter dictatorship selling our country into slavery. The UK is DEAD DEAD DEAD!!!
Oh dear. Still towing the line lads
What is actually wrong with Rory on the issue of asylum seekers?? Does he really not understand that what is in British interests is not necessarily in the political interests of France (or indeed the rest of the EU)?? It's becoming truly surreal and it shouldn't be that difficult to understand. And, Rory, you keep going on about safe countries. The idea of stopping in the first safe country is not an international law thing, it's an EU thing. The UK left the EU so why on earth would it apply? Is the UK going to agree a quota for whole EU asylum seeker arrivals? No? Didn't think so.
Attal, in your interview with him, correctly pointed out that if the UK wants to address the problem a big part of it is changing the rules on entitlements so they are less quick and easy to secure so that the UK is not so much more attractive than other nations. It is not France's responsibility to do your deterrence for you.
Love the channel but the absence of mentioning any centre ground parties from A&R on Jacob's dilemma was gobsmacking. They seemed to suggest a political infrastructure doesn't exist to forge a common ground. Lib Dems and Greens still have a voice thanks.
If that guy wants to vote for a centre party, why doesn’t he vote Reform? There are no far right parties
Corbyn is like our national moral compass, we ignore him at our own peril, the best pm we never had
When will you learn the center is a zombie political block, dead man walkin
Farage or Corbyn? Time to emigrate if those are the options.
Acting like the working class doesnt know big wordss or political theory ignotes the democraticisation of information with the internet, which is why new labour ideas of campaigning will fail
Yes Alistair the FACT there are a lot lower number of asylum seekers in hotels 13.5 months on from Labour being elected into government is because they’ve given so many of them actual bloody homes or they are HMOs etc … that’s even worse!
The center ground has failed millions of people across this country for over 30 years. This is why people are turning towards the more extreme elements of our politics. Both Rory and Alister are part of the center ground failure. Seeing you both criticise the outcome you help cause is laughable.
Rory’s face and lips in the intro are almost as red as the Joker in Batman 😂
Can Alistair please modify his language? It is perfectly possible to make a strong comment without this swearing
Not sure why you wouldn't want to out yourself as far right. Like you're either racist or just a fucking idiot unable to do your own independent research or grasp the bigger picture. Like I'd rather be labeled a racist.
Trying to pull the concerned mother card is embarrassing frankly
Hello. Jacob here from the podcast. I’d like to clear up my criticism of Corbyn. What he pledges is unrealistic. Re-nationalising to the extent he proposes is estimated to cost £120bn and that’s before the increased running costs thereafter. And that’s only in addition to his pledges to reinstate human rights across the world and bring about global peace. This is without any insight into the detail of how he’s exactly going to do that, my guess would be there is no credible plan, especially bearing in mind we are scrimping and scraping just to fill a 20bn black hole currently. That type of politics can’t be taken seriously. The centre ground needs to be bold- undertake democratic reform in the form of a PR electoral system, citizens assemblies and devolution to end unrepresentative micro management from Westminster. We need to re-energise our relationships with Europe, something Starmer can be given some credit for but he must go further and communicate clearer. We can and must engineer meaningful reform from the centre, we don’t have to divide and conquer from extreme ends of the political spectrum. Perhaps the Lib Dem’s are the answer, but unfortunately this electoral system makes voting for them in my constituency about as useful as not voting at all. Put simply, a Corbyn or Farage government leaves many people, who believe in pluralism, totally unrepresented. In 2016 Farage deemed his brexit victory as a victory “for real people” so that begs the question- are the 48% of the country who voted to remain not real? Not people? That underpins his politics- populist, divisive and hateful. Reject it.
Socialism has always been intellectual. Some even call it a human centered science. The morons have done a pretty bad job in the UK from the outside looking in. Why not let educated and intellectual people have a go? China is a socialist country with intellectual leaders and despite the propaganda is doing pretty well when you look at growth in consumption, electricity production, pollution reduction, public education, increasing investment in rural areas (could call it levelling up). If you dont think Xi is an intellectual or a philosopher I would encourage you to check out his books on the governance of China.
Corbyn 👍1000%
i like the show, but this one just proves to me again that as likable and charming rory is, he is not to be trusted ever. narrowly corbyn? really.