A Tory wipeout? | spiked podcast
Timandra Harkness - author of Technology is Not the Problem - joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the Conservatives’ disastrous polling, the great smartphone panic and Just Stop Oil’s assault on Stonehenge.
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For god sake VOTE REFORM. We need reform in this nation
@adamleese1714
Ай бұрын
😂
@ph8077
Ай бұрын
Apathy & laziness is not an option.The Left will be mobilised & motivated. Get out & vote....take steps to register if needed. Your nation needs you.
@PaxTemplar
Ай бұрын
@@ph8077 ROFL, little people with little minds with little idea that there's more to the world that their polarisation. labour left? they have moved right of centre if anything and have purged a load of the left. drama queens like yourself who have fallen for farage's utter shit make me both laugh and feel sad that people are gullible enough to fall for that complete and utter shite. he's even simped for putin on the campaign trail LOL
@frankkelly207
Ай бұрын
@ph8077 , wholeheartedly yes. Nigel F is not the only member of Reform UK. Get off your backside and vote. Your country & the world needs you. Remember your voter ID
@PaxTemplar
Ай бұрын
@@frankkelly207 all reform are pretty much liars. Their candidates are hilariously unvetted with blatant Nazi supporters and Putin apologists.... Farage spent 21 years in the EU parliament and caucused with parties who were actual fascist and there was a Russian money scandal with that caucus group. Fuck reform
Torys deserve ZERO SEATS !!!
@Elizabeth-jd3mn
Ай бұрын
And so do the woke culturally deranged Labour Party.
@scottanderson3967
Ай бұрын
You got there first .. zero seats..
@JagdgeschwaderX
Ай бұрын
Zero Seats!
@L9MN4sTCUk
Ай бұрын
The Tories are aiming for zero seats. Pays good oods at Ladbrokes.
@JagdgeschwaderX
Ай бұрын
@@L9MN4sTCUk 250/1 - I couldn't resist 😂
The problem is, Labour's win will be regarded as a huge endorsement of their policies rather than the punishment beating for the Tories that it actually is.
@61chickens
Ай бұрын
Perhaps, but only by Labour themselves.
@horace9341
Ай бұрын
Labour are going to have a lot to live up to, so perhaps we have to suffer for a little while longer. At least until the election after this election. I won’t say when that is, because it could be sooner than we think if they make a hash of it as many expect they will.
I totally understand why Trump was voted in now. The desire for anything but the status quo
@billybones6137
Ай бұрын
Trump was elected because he managed to convince working class people that he would represent them - when everyone ignored them.
Question: What do the Conservatives want to conserve? Answer: Every Labour policy.
@pm_ordinarychap
Ай бұрын
Exactly
@JupiterThunder
Ай бұрын
The only difference between Lab and Con is how fast we get to total communism. Go fast with Labour or slightly slower with the Tories. But the end is non-negotiable.
@PaxTemplar
Ай бұрын
@@JupiterThunder what a load of utter shite. What your hand fair is absolutely fucking moronic
@PaxTemplar
28 күн бұрын
@@JupiterThunder you haven't a clue what communism is or are too stupid to realise that labour have moved more to the right than the lib dems, Farage is a liar who moans about the "political classes" when he was an MEP for 21 years(i year short of a full military career) and this is his 8th attempt to get elected to westminster after 7 failed attempts. Farage also caucused with actual neo nazis and fascists in the EU parliament and there was a Russian money scandal with some of the Italian groups he was connected with. And now he's spouting russian talking points along with other extreme right wing parties/blocks around europe ALL with russian connections.... and he calls himself a patriot? my aching anus
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of globalists.
@timfox8957
Ай бұрын
To be replaced by a bigger bunch of globalists
The word that describes the political elites today is “hubris”.
@BonusHole
Ай бұрын
Their future = Gaddafi
@briancrellin2441
Ай бұрын
Nope the word is -"Bought".
What is the biggest immediate crisis the west faces currently? The environment? Housing? Migration? World War III? Based on the state of UK politics I'm going with COMPETENCY.
@aclark903
Ай бұрын
Makes you realize & respect just how hard Thatcher worked to keep on top of things. No recent leader has matched her.
@samcad-ho3ze
Ай бұрын
@@aclark903we didn’t know how lucky we were with that diamond.
My guess is that they only placed £100 bets in the belief that that amount would go under the radar.
@andrewhotston983
Ай бұрын
Or that they just heard a rumour, rather than definite inside information, and didn't want to risk losing serious money.
@PaxTemplar
28 күн бұрын
@@andrewhotston983 They placed a series of small bets on what the date of the election that together add up to hefty betting with hefty rewards should those bets win. it will be interesting to see what the bets were. there's no excusing them for it and for them , these bets aren't that much of a cost and provide a decent return.
Not at all convinced by the smartphone discussion. Brendan O'Neill had Jonathan Haidt on his podcast recently to talk about his latest book 'The Anxious Generation'. He makes a very convincing argument for the combination of 'helicopter parenting', risk-adverse childhoods and the unsupervised usage of smartphones and social media by very young people as having had a catastrophic effect on Gen Z in the period following 2012. He provides plenty of data which seems pretty incontrovertible.
@circattle
Ай бұрын
Your argument doesn't work. What Timandra is saying it is not the technology, but the fault of the parents, government and teachers. Lockdown had way more of an effect than smartphones, but it is an easy scapegoat for politicians who are pushing the globalist agenda to control and censor the Internet.
What this country needs is REFORM! And Reform is who I'll be voting for.
@clovermark39
Ай бұрын
Voted for Reform already.
@butthead8083
Ай бұрын
Why?
"Human windsock, Keir Starmer." That's the best description of the man I've ever heard. Thank you. I'm going to remember that one!
I heard the protest group Stop stone henge poured paint on an oil rig 😅
It's weird that the best point that I heard about JSO's attack on Stonehenge was made by the leader of the British Druids: he pointed out that the monument was built as a guide to planting crops and was a product of a Civilizational shift from hunter gatherer to a settled farming society that had to plan its activities. It seems to tell us all we need to know about JSO's hatred of humanity and civilization that this should be their target.
You've had the Labour "B" team for the last 14 years, make way for the Labour "A" team!
@tonycooper4141
Ай бұрын
'Long Corbyn'
@andrewcheadle948
Ай бұрын
Brace yourself!
Fishing and farming are STILL heavily influenced by the EU - that's why they've leaned on it.
Tory campaign slogan is "More of the Same. Trust Us".
Yes, but television WAS used to destroy the family. Sometimes Spiked utterly fails to get it.
@platypups
Ай бұрын
More often than not, lately...
The minister went off on his paid holiday because he knew there will not be another chance. Ever
I bet there are still masses of older generation people who will still vote for the cons, no matter what they do, although I really hope I am wrong
@Land-of-reason
Ай бұрын
Nonsense.
@Elizabeth-jd3mn
Ай бұрын
They certainly won't vote culturally deranged Labour if that what you mean, I know a lot of older voters and Gen Z going Reform because they don't want either. I'm in Sunak's constituency and the only people with Vote Conservative signs up so far are the old guard Tory farmer mafia.
@Elizabeth-jd3mn
Ай бұрын
Lots of older people and Gen Z here in Rishi's constituency have gone to Reform because they don't want either of them. We certainly won't go to the woke culturally deranged Labour Party.
@mctea2033
Ай бұрын
All the old folk in my life are saying they plan to vote for Reform so far...
@MinskUK
Ай бұрын
Nope. As an early gen-x, they have all had their time and failed this country and the normal working majority over and over. Labour offer nothing but more of the same sh1te. Time for something else whatever as we have nothing to loose at this stage.
Anyone but the tories or labour, everyone must vote for either independent or reform!
Really enjoying Spiked. ❤ Keep up the excellent commentary and retain your humour… it’s a breath of fresh air.
Vote Reform. Yes I know, but there is no alternative as the lady said 😃
Lady, i think your wrong you maybe surprised
Human windsock 😂 brilliant never heard Stamer summed up so succinctly
@andrewcheadle948
Ай бұрын
Jelly Johnson could be summed up the same. Bizzare to me that he's still got supporters! 🤪
We're literally in the game of choosing the least worst option. They're all pants.
@ph8077
Ай бұрын
We need to reverse the extant cultural Marxist revolution.... Reform - best of a bad bunch.
How many flipflops in the next 5 years can Keir get away with?
@tommyrotton9468
Ай бұрын
is he borrowing the flipflop shoes from Diane Abacus?
@johncasewell4019
Ай бұрын
To be fair, he is a real lefty so can only do flipflips
@andrewcheadle948
Ай бұрын
Depends on how many Blair tells him to do...
@socratesrocks1513
Ай бұрын
@@andrewcheadle948 Yes, like Biden he won't be in charge, Bliar will be. That man has done more permanent harm to this country than any single politician in history. For that alone, he should be kicked out of the country and banned from ever returning or having anything whatsoever to do with politics in this country ever again.
Surely the focus on identity and how they're seen is a function of social media and phone use?
They want to lose.
Keir will hike up taxes to pay for ridiculous state spending
Was not expecting a contrarian turn to "social media is great actually." But was less surprised that this was basically all they had to say in support of their views, except apparently noting massive increases in teen depression and social contagion are just the same as saying Batman will destroy the youth in 1951.
Somehow they pushed tons of votes to both Labour, Reform and Lib Dem.
They are not "fossil fuels", oil isnt made from fossils, its mineral fuels, the term fossil fuels was invented by oil companies so they could keep prices high.
No personality. No commitment to the electorate. Wow!
“I don’t like Farage.” Yeahhh we could tell just looking at you. You look the type.
@JagdgeschwaderX
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@johnhopkins4012
Ай бұрын
VOTE REFORM PARTY AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. LABOUR WILL BE A DISASTER AS THEY WILL DESTROY OUR ECONOMY AS USUAL, AND WILL FLOOD MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS AND IMMIGRANTS INTO OUR COUNTRY. UK IS FULL UP AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CANNOT TAKE THESE NUMBERS. IT IS LABOUR WHICH FIGHTS TO KEEP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS and terrorists IN THIS COUNTRY. A VOTE FOR LABOUR IS A VOTE FOR AN ISLAMIC TAKE OVER. IMMIGRATION IS NOW KILLING THIS COUNTRIES INFRASTRUCTURE BUT THE WITLESS CHAMPAIGN SWILLING LEFTIES CANNOT SEE IT. VOTE REFORM PARTY AND TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK. Stammer has destroyed this country and the lefties have destroyed this country and they were not in power. They work behind the scenes killing this country. Wake up the British Patriots and vote REFORM PARTY.
Perhaps "Technology is not THE Problem" but it seems to be part of the problem, maybe a significant part. That's the analysis of Jonathan Haidt in The Anxious Generation, anyway.
Well,from afar,worse is to come unless you vote Reform.
"a little machine that can show you messages from your friends" how about "24/7 unrestricted access to free pornography", this woman is out of touch
Betrayalparty.
The emperor has no clothes
Thank you
Spot On Guy's 😷
Tom Slater continues to rise in my view. I am tempted by Timandra's book
@ejc636
Ай бұрын
You must have the same IQ. That of a 30 watt bulb
British people need to VOTE! Don’t give it a pass this year, please. It does help other countries when reform happens in the political class. It gives everyone momentum for change and confirms that the little people can do something to preserve our values.
When are you going to apologise to Andrew Bridgen for your condemnation of his truth on the jabs Chubster ?
Re cellphones: follow the money.
Somebody really needs to sort out that Barry from Eastenders hair cut.
Just Stop Oil really seem to be going out of their way to make themselves the most hated campaign group out there even with people who might otherwise agree with their cause to some extent.
One can hope. They are not conservative
Incoherent on the smartphones - the lady said “it’s not the tech” and in the very next sentence said “of course social media is going to make you anxious”. Then you had a whole conversation about how bad it was as to give a child a smartphone and criticised parents who couldn’t control your child. So you agree it is bad - you just think parents should take responsibility. So say that!!! It is down to weak father syndrome - who are trained to be weak
We gave you our votes to do a job you promised to do you gave us two pms we didn't elect and made the problems worse than when you arrived why do you expect us to ever trust you again ?
Our politicians are drawn from our society. The problem is that most people are a bit thick. We will soon find out that Labour are at least as hopeless as deluded as the Tories. And the problem is definitely technology - smartphones have made us less wise - the evidence is everywhere.
yes and its their own Fault
At least offer voters a clear choice.
You missed tights and an orange😂
CHANGE POLITICS FOREVER, VOTE FOR THE REFORM PARTY UK 🏴🏴🏴👏👏👏❤️
Anyone out there been polled?
5:05 Tom with yet another hilarious quip 😂
She's wrong about phones.
Anyone that knows anything knows that. (Dr Gonzo)
If we thought Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak were bad wait until we've had to endure five or ten years of Starmer, the man who was unable to answer the question "what is a woman?" Buckle up everyone, we're going to be in for a very rough ride for the next five years at least. I hope that Reform might be able to pick up a few seats here and there but the first-past-the-post system doesn't help. Andrew Bridgen MP has done a brilliant interview on a channel on here called GB Resistance but it will probably get taken down. Censorship is everywhere now. Personally I agree with Jonathan Haidt about the damage smartphones are doing, he has studied this whole issue in great depth. Some of the younger generations have not learned critical thinking in school and have been brainwashed into believing certain woke ideologies. So they will believe what their smartphone is pumping into their newsfeed. It is very damaging for boys and girls. Suicides amongst teenage girls have rocketed up in the USA since smartphones came out around 2010.
Read Mathew Parris’ article in this week’s Speccie. If I ever doubted my decision to vote Reform that convinced me. 100% Blue Labour.
Must be plasticplants. Those to blokes couldn't keep them like this.
I don’t like Farage but…. The policies are … This is the response of a virtue signaller who is in the media circus, “ I don’t want my publisher to think I might have non mainstream views” It’s the response that indicates herd think, she is afraid of potential peer rejection, and since she’s got the idea this is some form of presidential system ( personality politics is what got us here) someone needs to get this clarified when this is spoken in this standard of podcasting. Could it be she never gave up EU ideals and the dislike was the result of his campaigning against the “empire”?
Tories out reform in
Timandra Harkness seem rather nice & very sensible. I am concerned, however, that she risks being cancelled by saying "The World is NOT about to end." 🤣 "Climate denying journalist (funded by Big Oil) appears on 'Far Right' podcast? PMSL 🤣
Ukraine is losing. Stop the war.
@marumaru6084
Ай бұрын
Russia offered a reasonable deal but the Elites want war!
@jimbodimbo981
Ай бұрын
Ukraine have more territory than it had lost, at the start of the war, and trade land for Russian blood. So no.
@natpalazzo8833
Ай бұрын
@@jimbodimbo981 Spin it how you want. Ukraine isn't getting its land back.
@itsallfunandgames723
Ай бұрын
Not really the UK's decision, now is it?
@jimbodimbo981
Ай бұрын
Is that so? Russia will fall for a third time in just over a century and it will lose still more of its Empire..tick tock….tick tock.
Putting ads in the middle of your video is the worst thing. Instantly unsub each time it happens.
Talk to your friends, family and anyone who will listen about reform🙏🏻🇬🇧🫡 we cant just be in an echo chamber!