Alexei Sayle on Starmer - and if he'd run against him

Founder of Alternative Comedy, Alexei Sayle, speaks about Keir Starmer and political comedy today.
Includes an excerpt from 'Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar'

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  • @kgtm1962
    @kgtm1962 Жыл бұрын

    Spot on Alexei.

  • @julielevinge266
    @julielevinge266 Жыл бұрын

    Frankie Boyles been brilliant”Starmer has so much charisma even automatic doors won’t open for him!”😂😂😂

  • @martinwatson9615

    @martinwatson9615

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah frankie Boyle was great when he had David baddiel on his New World Order tv show to shit on Jeremy Corbyn. Boyle even joked about corbyn ignoring anti-semitism.

  • @michealkelly1414

    @michealkelly1414

    Жыл бұрын

    Frankie Boyle Is a watery sellout Pro Slavia barstewart as well.

  • @DSimonJones

    @DSimonJones

    Жыл бұрын

    Frankie Boyle slated corbyn on his show.

  • @michealkelly1414

    @michealkelly1414

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DSimonJones yes, he's a establishment fake Socialist, any so called socialist that supports Fascist Ukraine have exposed themselves as Ill-informed not having a clue or fake .

  • @JayGriffinblaze

    @JayGriffinblaze

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DSimonJones Boyle slates everyone.

  • @MrFastrhino
    @MrFastrhino Жыл бұрын

    I never liked his comedy in the 80s but I have a new found admiration for his unflinching commitment to his beliefs. He is a national treasure for not selling out !!

  • @MancunianDrummer4hire
    @MancunianDrummer4hire Жыл бұрын

    Alexei has never strayed from his beliefs, and has always been on point. I love him so much, plus he was the funniest of the comic strip gang, and never sold out to the lure of glib sit coms, et al

  • @bandolero5068
    @bandolero5068 Жыл бұрын

    The thought of a Starmer Government is quite terrifying.

  • @vordman

    @vordman

    Жыл бұрын

    It would be an utter shambles. They literally have no big-hitters. Totally out of their depth, the lot of them. Indeed, we're only even discussing the possibility of a Labour government because they're not the Tories. That it. That's all they have.

  • @pukahuroad3967
    @pukahuroad3967 Жыл бұрын

    It is so refreshing to hear Alexei Sayle's frank assessment of Keir Starmer and the establishment. History (when told truthfully) will be harshly critical of the British Labour Party and this era of revolting actors who organised the annihilation of Jeremy Corbyn. The right wing neo liberal philosophy over the last 40 years has completely overtaken the BLP and has culminated in the appointment of Keir Starmer. Enjoyable interview.

  • @alanhat5252

    @alanhat5252

    Жыл бұрын

    The Israel Lobby has been in Parliament since ~1750 (before Israel existed, before Zionism was named) & it's across all English parties but nobody has ever brought it to the fore like Labour did in trying to oust Corbyn, it genuinely is treason.

  • @archiebald4717

    @archiebald4717

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you will find that Corbynski annihilated himself.

  • @stephenholmes1036

    @stephenholmes1036

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol the remainers destroyed Corbyn

  • @chasleask8533

    @chasleask8533

    Жыл бұрын

    @@archiebald4717 I believe you're right .

  • @lyndonbrown6999

    @lyndonbrown6999

    Жыл бұрын

    History will always show that Corbyn led the Labour Party to its heaviest ever defeat. You must all show a little maturity and move on.

  • @AjarnDeeTeesut
    @AjarnDeeTeesut Жыл бұрын

    "Weasely little f**k" had me in stiches. Brilliant to hear from Alexei.

  • @graemeraw8894

    @graemeraw8894

    Жыл бұрын

    Grown up politics, eh

  • @MissBlennerhassett876

    @MissBlennerhassett876

    Жыл бұрын

    @@graemeraw8894 What's that supposed to mean, Graeme?

  • @therespectedlex9794

    @therespectedlex9794

    Жыл бұрын

    Does he go on about Cat Weasel Corbyn?

  • @smon4164
    @smon4164 Жыл бұрын

    Alexei's take on Starmer was brilliant. Keir Starmer has always reminded me of the "Chartered accountant who wants to be a lion tamer" sketch from Monty Python haha.

  • @kafkaspen

    @kafkaspen

    4 күн бұрын

    😝 Whereas Corbyn always reminded me of the lead character from Viz’s ‘Real Ale Tw@ts’ 😂😂.

  • @michaelrch
    @michaelrch Жыл бұрын

    When Imaginary Sandwich Shop came on R4, it was like a breath of fresh air. The funniest thing on bbc radio for ages. Tbh I'm amazed it's still getting commissioned. Good on Alexei.

  • @blazingday8596

    @blazingday8596

    Жыл бұрын

    Indeed - I share little with Alexie Sayle politically but His 'Imaginary Sandwich Bar' is superb and I regard him as the funniest person in the UK!!

  • @protopigeon

    @protopigeon

    Жыл бұрын

    Soup, swoop, loop de loop

  • @TomMayhew
    @TomMayhew Жыл бұрын

    Chuffed with that little shout out. Love this man.

  • @ethelmini
    @ethelmini Жыл бұрын

    I really think somebody could effectively stand against Starmer because it is such a safe sea there's little risk of it being lost to the Tories. For my money it should be somebody from JVL who's been a victim of his putsch and can make it about him personally. Naomi Wimborne Idrissi springs to mind. You should do an episode on the campaign, I'd happily contribute.

  • @Gentile340

    @Gentile340

    Жыл бұрын

    Would have given a thumbs up if I knew what JVL is or had heard of Naomi Wimborne Idrissi. I know I should google it/her but have a fear of rabbit holes.

  • @nickjanczak9665
    @nickjanczak9665 Жыл бұрын

    Another great show! Thanks.

  • @jak6326
    @jak6326 Жыл бұрын

    When you're laughing during the intro . . . thanks to both of you, brilliant and funny! xx

  • @clifforddowler5765
    @clifforddowler5765 Жыл бұрын

    My old dad always used to say we would be better off if the Westminster tea ladies were running things.

  • @christopherrogers9243
    @christopherrogers9243 Жыл бұрын

    Great that Alexi sticks to his guns and is still funny today, his politics are cool too. Currently enjoying Alexi in Selling Hitler, an excellent showcase for his talent.

  • @christopherrogers9243

    @christopherrogers9243

    Жыл бұрын

    @@binanocht6110 Its a 1991 4 Parter focusing on the Hitler Diaries forgery of the mid-80s, very funny, lots of well known actors and Alexi has a central part. Watch it if you can.

  • @an-alternative-contrarian5047

    @an-alternative-contrarian5047

    Жыл бұрын

    Great to hear Alexei's familiar accent again. It takes me back to being a child/teenager/young adult in the destitute and barren Liverpool of the eighties and early nineties. Crummy YTS schemes and not a lot else for council estate riff-raff like me. But we still had our laughs.

  • @stephenholmes1036

    @stephenholmes1036

    Жыл бұрын

    Living in Bloomsbury and a champagne socialist hes not the man he was. Starmer is nothing all useless

  • @stephenholmes1036

    @stephenholmes1036

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@an-alternative-contrarian5047 Alexi Sayle had long left Liverpool before the 1980s do your homework. He went to Southport, then Chelsea and finally Roehampton.

  • @stephenholmes1036

    @stephenholmes1036

    Жыл бұрын

    @bina nocht Do you know him then? Personally? He did leave Liverpool in the early 1970s im not for or again him and by reverting to foul language because somebody disagrees with you? That shows either youve lost the argument or a lack of vocabulary and im working class, self made like yer man out of a large family, Who wore patched clothes, Sat on the free dinners table and couldn't afford new school uniform had to use the swap club. Im fed up with all 4 parties Lab,Con,LD and Green all establishment, all despise the working class. We need working class politicians as only 2% of MPs have ever done blue collar work. We need democracy and good politicians now more than ever but cannot see many. Thats dangerous as the 2 extremes will breed both have red flags and both are highly dangerous. Corbyn was destroyed by his own middle class supporters who woildnt not accept the decision of a democratic referendum and wanted a second as those working class oiks didnt do as we told them. Read the front page of the Guardian the day after the referendum and im a private eye reader. Starmer is just a void.

  • @trevorstephenson5766
    @trevorstephenson5766 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this Crispin -we need people like Alexei to turn their guns on Starmer as well as keep the pressure on the Tories-been a fan for years and its amazing how alike we now look beard and all!!(good looking fellows we are Alexei !!)

  • @waynepatterson6167
    @waynepatterson6167 Жыл бұрын

    Alexi is a legend oh how times have changed give me the radical comedians from the eighties any day

  • @marklanahan7289
    @marklanahan7289 Жыл бұрын

    No one on my council estate was ever called Jeremy and had a brother called Miles.

  • @rationalroman3705
    @rationalroman37057 ай бұрын

    How can you not love Alexei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mandymckenna4393
    @mandymckenna4393 Жыл бұрын

    Yes even Jonathan Pie put the boot into Corbyn in a live show in Norwich. I heckled him and got slapped down!

  • @minsapint8007

    @minsapint8007

    Жыл бұрын

    Did not know that - good for you for the heckling.

  • @Lincoln_Bio

    @Lincoln_Bio

    Жыл бұрын

    He does lean a bit shitlib at times eh, also likes to both-sides the "culture war" like it's an actual thing rather than entirely manufactured by the reactionary right and astroturfed by billionaires.

  • @elthamo

    @elthamo

    Жыл бұрын

    One of the many extreme disappointments in the entertainment world when it came to Corbyn.

  • @LouiseBrooksBob

    @LouiseBrooksBob

    Жыл бұрын

    EVEN Jonathan Pie the centrist, JK Rowling supporting, ex Russia Today comedian, who once worked with Andrew Doyle?

  • @adamrose3262

    @adamrose3262

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LouiseBrooksBob I just had a look at his Wiki page as I had never heard of him. It is interesting to some extent for his political views " Doyle describes himself as left-wing and criticises political correctness and identity politics. He is a Brexit supporter.[19][20] Doyle supported Jeremy Corbyn during the 2017 United Kingdom general election.[21] " .

  • @bluenorsky4391
    @bluenorsky4391 Жыл бұрын

    As Alexi was saying ,with journalists, MP's , etc cosying up to each other ,we used to say ' they all piss in the same pot'. Another great saying we used to say was 'we 're all mushrooms' Kept in the dark and fed shite.'.

  • @easytoassemble54321
    @easytoassemble54321 Жыл бұрын

    Alexei not only summarises so well why the Starmer (and Blairite) leadership is so odious, but also why so many middle-of-the-road voters also act surprised when you point this out to them. It's the disease of centrism to come along in the disguise of warming, lovely liberal values, when the damage it does is anything but that. Those voters can't see past all the flags they've jammed into their social media profiles, to notice what's actually happening. But, besides all that, Alexei continues to be genuinely hilarious as a comedian, never mind the added bonus of his skewering political commentary.

  • @julielevinge266
    @julielevinge266 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this, brilliant, made be feel a lot better😂

  • @yes-me6yg
    @yes-me6yg Жыл бұрын

    This was top notch

  • @monkeyfunk8371
    @monkeyfunk8371 Жыл бұрын

    A vote for Starmer is a vote for the status quo and a vote for the status quo is akin to saying these tory policies are ok. We need a visionary not just another tory in a red tie

  • @geoffpoole483

    @geoffpoole483

    Жыл бұрын

    People don't want the sort of society Alexei Sayle promotes. They've been tried and failed.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    Nonsense. We need a competent administrator. Politics isn't religion.

  • @5wift
    @5wift Жыл бұрын

    Alexi's explanation of why he should not stand against Starmer is exactly why he should stand against him.

  • @dabay200
    @dabay200 Жыл бұрын

    Even if somebody tries to unseat Starmer he is protected by the establishment in the Labour party who will do everything in their power to change the rules, smear or stop them.

  • @joananthony6323

    @joananthony6323

    Жыл бұрын

    But he would be standing against him as an independent or for another party not challenging him as leader of the party

  • @meljen8592

    @meljen8592

    Жыл бұрын

    Surely you mean the alternative Conservative Party,they are no longer labour,there’s a fag paper between them.

  • @matt_cummins28
    @matt_cummins28 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent piece, thank you very much.

  • @colinbrigham8253
    @colinbrigham8253 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Alexie and Crispin 😊 you have to think to be a socialist, back stabber Starmer certainly is not one,,,,,, comedian Sam Avery is worth listening to.😊

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting.

  • @adultmoshifan87
    @adultmoshifan87 Жыл бұрын

    After all the shit we've been through since late 2021 alone, I feel we NEED Alexei as OUR NEXT PRIME MINISTER! Sunak and Starmer CANNOT be allowed to ruin our lives ANYMORE!

  • @adultmoshifan87

    @adultmoshifan87

    Жыл бұрын

    @sock If you need to ask that question, you’ve obviously been living under a rock since the beginning of the decade

  • @jamescooke6032

    @jamescooke6032

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@sock you won't get a reply.. Rational arguments aren't these people's strong points

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095

    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095

    Жыл бұрын

    *_"we NEED Alexei as OUR NEXT PRIME MINISTER! Sunak and Starmer CANNOT be allowed to ruin our lives ANYMORE!"_* Grow up. {:o:O:}

  • @easytoassemble54321

    @easytoassemble54321

    Жыл бұрын

    @sock Well, I'll have a go. He's colluded with the Tory government, either directly, or by being too scared of focus groups and Murdoch to offer a direct opposition. Blairites - of which I suspect you are one - constantly contradict themselves. In one breath, they assert that Labour is "not a protest party". Yet, in another, they (literally) protest "do you want 4 more years of the Tories?". Weirdos. Gaslighting, venal centrists only appear to be "winning" because the Tories continue to drop the ball, and are fighting amongst themselves. When that streak ends, Nu Nu Labour will realise they have not seeded the ground enough. It's all pretty simple. Don't chirp on about "the hard Left", then complain when voters desert you, because you were unwilling to offer them the radical solutions they needed.

  • @Harriet-Jesamine

    @Harriet-Jesamine

    Жыл бұрын

    I would vote Alexei in a heartbeat.

  • @Skylark_Jones
    @Skylark_Jones Жыл бұрын

    Love Alexi Sayle, he's laugh out loud funny.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    So do I but I like Starmer as well.

  • @mick947
    @mick947 Жыл бұрын

    Telling it like it actually is!

  • @vordman
    @vordman Жыл бұрын

    That rant on Starmer was brilliant. I don't quite have Alexi's skill with words but he voiced exactly what I was thinking myself.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    Lexei Sayle would make a terrible politician. Who do you call in an emergency? A Left Wing comic or an ambulance? Who do you call if you're sick? A Left Wing comic or a doctor? Who do you call to run a country? A Left Wing comic or a middle-of-the-road, rather tedious politician? Think about it. We don't want charisma, we don't want excitement, we want a fair country, a healthy NHS a functioning Welfare State.

  • @vordman

    @vordman

    Жыл бұрын

    @@brianbell3836 Of course, but if you think Starmer can deliver those things you're going to be sorely disappointed. He's dreadful.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vordman Worse than the last 13 years?

  • @meljen8592
    @meljen8592 Жыл бұрын

    Alexei has stuck to his guns for decades,whatever your political point of view,he’s a very intelligent,entertaining man,he is in fact a national treasure,cheesy I know,but true.

  • @chrischadwick
    @chrischadwick6 ай бұрын

    I love Alexei all over again!

  • @telsutton
    @telsutton Жыл бұрын

    I think Alexi would be the first to admit that Tony Allen was also integral to the birth of 'alternative comedy'. I love this new rant. It's perfect.

  • @oneoflokis
    @oneoflokis Жыл бұрын

    Alexei Sayle is great!! 🙂🙂👍👍

  • @annenunney9907
    @annenunney9907 Жыл бұрын

    I think Alexei is absolutely right about the public Taking the mick out of people running the country it use to be like that comedians use to always have a go at the government and people laughed and it was more easy going this country has change beyond reconciliation and it is the fault of the tories and the people that are silly enough to vote for them Alexi is also right about the media

  • @monicacruz4407

    @monicacruz4407

    Жыл бұрын

    And you don’t think the Blair years had anything to do with it? Blaming the tories is simplistic, no?

  • @Jack-fs2im
    @Jack-fs2im Жыл бұрын

    Dave Allen was years ahead of all of them

  • @tim13354
    @tim13354 Жыл бұрын

    My affection for Alexei Sayle is certainly not done any harm by the fact that the picture on his wall is crooked!

  • @barrybrownless4704
    @barrybrownless4704 Жыл бұрын

    What a star, not giving an inch after all these years l totally agree 👍 . Keep it up Alexei & carry on wearing your Dr Marten boots!!!!

  • @lloroshastar6347
    @lloroshastar6347 Жыл бұрын

    There is a poetry to Sayle's stand up.

  • @rogerevans9564
    @rogerevans9564 Жыл бұрын

    His early Autobiography, Stalin ate my homework on audio book is genuinely the funniest early life story.

  • @haberjennings475
    @haberjennings475 Жыл бұрын

    Can’t take anything seriously when it matters. But happy to be serious from the side lines. Well done Alexei. Thanks a bunch

  • @julielevinge266
    @julielevinge266 Жыл бұрын

    Almost?? Certainly is a National Treasure, no doubt about it!👍

  • @BoomTVTing
    @BoomTVTing Жыл бұрын

    Mark Thomas did some great jokes about Starmer at his show in Sheffield last year

  • @haydoncooper3744
    @haydoncooper3744 Жыл бұрын

    Bring it on let’s all have a bloody good chuckle.

  • @mexicanroadsweeper
    @mexicanroadsweeper Жыл бұрын

    The ‘National Treasure’ that is treasured so much, he’s practically a Big Issue seller.

  • @user-xt7pp5yy9w
    @user-xt7pp5yy9w Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @jiminycrint
    @jiminycrint Жыл бұрын

    Alexei Sayle is an amazing man. Hats off for this video

  • @bobsteele1199
    @bobsteele1199 Жыл бұрын

    A piece of hotel art made man..... beautiful. Fucking genius Alexei

  • @23715

    @23715

    Жыл бұрын

    Multi millionaire Marxist genius.

  • @jillfryer6699
    @jillfryer6699 Жыл бұрын

    Alexei Sayle has said everything I would say about Starmer if anyone ever asked me.

  • @jean-lucpicard5510

    @jean-lucpicard5510

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd say it to Starmers's face.

  • @auserofyt

    @auserofyt

    Жыл бұрын

    Okay keyboard warrior.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jean-lucpicard5510 Brave man. You can't even use your real name.

  • @lizziestevenson1908
    @lizziestevenson1908 Жыл бұрын

    You've plenty left Alexi, bloody love ye!! Keep it coming, yer brilliant ! Xxx

  • @kingKong-fd7wm
    @kingKong-fd7wm Жыл бұрын

    I worked in Bournemouth early 1980s , a scouser had a tape with a Liverpool band Cook the Books on one side and Alexei Sayle the other , it was the first time id heard Alexei Sayle & the band, loved the band but Alexis Saelle is crazy funny, I wish I'd gotten a copy of that tape. Love the description of Starmer and BBC shits.

  • @marylinsainsbury9497
    @marylinsainsbury9497 Жыл бұрын

    My pub quiz team last week was called Keir Starmer is a Liar and a Hypocrite. We came third.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    What a stupid thing to say.

  • @anthonymcnamee6297
    @anthonymcnamee6297 Жыл бұрын

    Spot on

  • @andrewwalsh2755
    @andrewwalsh2755 Жыл бұрын

    As Kier Starmer said to a journalist recently... he HAD to lie to the Labour Party members... otherwise, they wouldn't Vote for him. Similarly, during party gate, when he said he had Honesty, Integrity and Patriotism... Who will vote Labour at the next election if he admits he is Dishonest, Without Integrity and Backing Israel? ... (even when Israels own fighter pilots disagree with Israels current govt)...

  • @andrewwalsh2755

    @andrewwalsh2755

    Жыл бұрын

    I think Starmer is already being written out... It's just too blatant that he's a wrong'un...

  • @falsum2701

    @falsum2701

    Жыл бұрын

    Wait when did he say that? Got a link?

  • @andrewwalsh2755

    @andrewwalsh2755

    Жыл бұрын

    @@falsum2701... During Kier Starmers 5 Missions speech, Chris Mason (BBC News), asked him a question about corporation tax, followed by question about his broken leadership pledges. His convoluted reply, justifying his broken pledges, amounted to: I had to lie, or you won't get a Labour govt with me as leader. When I unravelled his words, that's the message I heard. The fact is, he can't justify his lies and deceit, telling Labour membership he isn't a Zionist, and making & breaking pledges to get fraudulently elected, can he? This begs the question: Is Kier Starmer going to tell Another pack of lies, to dupe UK voters at the next General election, the way he duped the Labour membership? Kier Starmer also said he has Honesty, Integrity and Patriotism... When will the lies end?

  • @PortilloMoment

    @PortilloMoment

    Жыл бұрын

    @@andrewwalsh2755 "When will the lies end?" Well, he sits on the twin horns of being both a politician and a lawyer. With a background like that, anyone expecting 'honesty and integrity' is bound to be disappointed.

  • @andrewwalsh2755

    @andrewwalsh2755

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PortilloMoment... I'm guessing that Labour Party members expected honesty and integrity from him... Personally, I think the next PM should be competent and trustworthy... I don't think Kier Starmer ticks any of these boxes...

  • @alang7846
    @alang78466 ай бұрын

    I thought for a moment they were trying to get Alexei to put himself forward as leader of the Labour Party. Raising the intriguing possibility a few years out of the UK's main parties being led by Alexei Sayle and Nigel Farage. We could have a Cult of Personality and make the theme from "Sayle's Stuff" the new National Anthem. "Who's the leader of the gang that's great for you and me..."

  • @NeilHippieKiller
    @NeilHippieKiller Жыл бұрын

    Does Roger Waters have a house in Holborn? He said he wants to take out Starmer, maybe he would run against him?

  • @primitivo4604

    @primitivo4604

    Жыл бұрын

    Great idea, another anti Semitic Putin apologist that would gift the election to the tories.

  • @Gentile340

    @Gentile340

    Жыл бұрын

    Living locally is not a bar to standing for parliament.

  • @padbrit
    @padbrit Жыл бұрын

    My dear old Grandma would have referred to Starmmer as "A greasy littul spiv".

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    That barren old hag?

  • @mikeharvey9811
    @mikeharvey9811 Жыл бұрын

    More Alexei please. Barb

  • @gordy83
    @gordy837 ай бұрын

    I love Alexei. Saw him live a few years back and he brought me to tears! I have to say, as a conservative, right winger (with mostly leftie friends), I found hearing these two left wingers complaining that comedy isn't left wing enough even funnier than Alexei himself....Really?? Right wing/ conservative comedy is rarer than the Dodo...I barely make it 2 mins into any comedy nowadays without switching off...same old lame, tory bashing. Labour supporters never seem to be happier unless they have a loser leading them. They'll probably get a landslide (we Tories deserve to loose) and still not be happy 'cus they're not getting everything they want! Still...I wish Alexei well, he stills makes me laugh more than most, despite my disagreeing with just about everything he says 😀! ❤

  • @RosalindBurridge-dg6cy
    @RosalindBurridge-dg6cyАй бұрын

    Alexei has stuck to his guns. I still have Paris on dvd. Very underrated sitcom.

  • @Sotangy247
    @Sotangy247 Жыл бұрын

    Great video man. Used to see Alexi cycling past my place along Brecknock, Tufnell Park back in the day. He's a principled guy like Corbyn and more relevant today than ever. And what a brilliant comedian.

  • @Twirlip2
    @Twirlip2 Жыл бұрын

    As acknowledged in the credits at the end of the radio programme, Alexei's rant is an adaptation of "I hate Keir Starmer" by Tom Whyman.

  • @chrisread2895
    @chrisread2895 Жыл бұрын

    It actually seems to me that Starmer's actions only seem to more and more confirm Corbyn's integrity, and Starmers own lack of ... feels to me like a tide is starting to turn ... fantastic journalism again thankyou x

  • @jamescooke6032

    @jamescooke6032

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but he might win an election.

  • @chrisread2895

    @chrisread2895

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamescooke6032 i would worry about that ... he's gonna privatise the nhs

  • @jamescooke6032

    @jamescooke6032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisread2895 what viable alternative is there?

  • @chrisread2895

    @chrisread2895

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jamescooke6032 corbyn & greens?

  • @jamescooke6032

    @jamescooke6032

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisread2895 corbyn doesn't even have a party. So he is not gonna win a general election at all... The green party has 1 mp. Meaning they would need an impossibly large swing to be in government. Point proven.

  • @theo610
    @theo610 Жыл бұрын

    I really wish he would run against starmer

  • @joechapman8208

    @joechapman8208

    Жыл бұрын

    I suspect he knows that it's not good enough to simply topple Starmer, because there are people's lives on the line after the election. It's easy to be a bad MP, not care, and keep the job but if you believe that everyone deserves an MP as good as Corbyn then it's beholden upon you to deliver that standard.

  • @georgebodley8068

    @georgebodley8068

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@joechapman8208 I'm sure he could

  • @joechapman8208

    @joechapman8208

    Жыл бұрын

    @@georgebodley8068 He certainly wouldn't be worse

  • @jonnobloggs8642

    @jonnobloggs8642

    Жыл бұрын

    He is a paper tiger and knows he would not stand a chance .Come on Alexi put your name in the hat and give all hard working centre left Labour voters a proper laff 😂

  • @23715

    @23715

    Жыл бұрын

    He has the money. Net worth over 5 million pounds. Come the revolution.

  • @forestpump
    @forestpump Жыл бұрын

    Geoff Norcott did a brilliant impression of Keir Starmer at the Edinburgh Festival last year tbf

  • @hariowen3840
    @hariowen3840 Жыл бұрын

    It's the modern version of the one party state where democracy has been neutered by generic politics - whereby the concept of it don't matter who you vote for the government always wins has actually materialised.

  • @Harriet-Jesamine

    @Harriet-Jesamine

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely👍

  • @leopard36cat
    @leopard36cat Жыл бұрын

    Nice one Alexei! .

  • @andrewroberts4736
    @andrewroberts4736 Жыл бұрын

    I love Alexi Sayle. Very funny and stuck to his principles.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    Easy to stick to your principles when you're financially rewarded for sticking to your principles. Mr Sayle just said that but you weren't listening.

  • @23715

    @23715

    Жыл бұрын

    He a multi millionaire who lives in Bloomsbury. Come the revolution.

  • @AdamCHowell
    @AdamCHowell Жыл бұрын

    I was just thinking of Alexei Sayle after binge watching Colin Baker era dr who.

  • @Harriet-Jesamine

    @Harriet-Jesamine

    Жыл бұрын

    I've been there😂👍

  • @johnaiken457
    @johnaiken4575 ай бұрын

    I'm with Alexei Sayle

  • @bikingviking3984
    @bikingviking3984 Жыл бұрын

    Oi, took me right back to The Young Ones!!!

  • @ghengis430
    @ghengis430 Жыл бұрын

    Hotel art. Anyone who believed his promises failed to see his face at the LP conference when Corbyn spoke. As everyone got up to applaud,he looked like a grumpy teenager being forced to kiss his nan. Alexei spots every detail, brilliantly.

  • @michaeldillon3113
    @michaeldillon3113 Жыл бұрын

    The media were very complacent over Starmer saying that he would rather be at Davos than Parliament !

  • @johnwright9372
    @johnwright9372 Жыл бұрын

    Whose portrait is on the wall behind Alexei?

  • @LexCameron
    @LexCameron Жыл бұрын

    Why do you not see comedians ripping Keir Starmer on Legacy MSM (when Corbyn was ripped to shreds constantly), there's few people that have so much comedic content value attached to them? The answer: 'Greater Apartheid' Comedians are living in FEAR, 'separated' from considering normal comedic material, afraid to use their speech/rights, persecuted to various levels, victims of 'Greater Apartheid', they've seen what's happened to Corbyn etc's careers, and naturally can't afford their careers to go the same way. In Ukraine the Nazis don't need to have a position in government, they have veto by violence, and by this point they don't need to do violence anymore as they've shown what they're capable of. The Establishment/Starmer Labour have shown what they're capable of. This is the really dire sorry state Britain's got into...

  • @russelldean2085
    @russelldean2085 Жыл бұрын

    I saw Alexei Sayle’s standup twice, once in London, another in Perth, Western Australia, the former at the height of his powers, the second when he was seemingly falling out of love with standup. A very funny bloke. It felt marvellous to hearing an articulate, angry working class individual speaking insolent truth to a range of targets including the execrable Thatcher. Some of the anger seems to have diminished over time and I found some of this interview a bit self-serving - e.g. I couldn’t care less who ‘created’ alternative comedy, or Sayle’s legacy. The incessant ‘you knows’ was also irritating but nonetheless his rented diatribe against Keef Sturmer was commendable.

  • @alfamonk
    @alfamonk Жыл бұрын

    got back into Alexi listening to the sandwich bar. He's so good - mellowed a bit, but wiser, and funnier. Love him.

  • @fibanacci8
    @fibanacci86 ай бұрын

    Fine content..

  • @adriftinaboat3452
    @adriftinaboat3452 Жыл бұрын

    I’ll vote for Alexei-only trouble I live up North.

  • @23715

    @23715

    Жыл бұрын

    And he's a millionaire who lives in Bloomsbury. Couldn't make it up.

  • @adriftinaboat3452
    @adriftinaboat3452 Жыл бұрын

    All under Blair’s New Labour’s watch was the case of Jean Charles de Menezes-one of the most brutal and barbaric case in the United Kingdom, where Jean Charles de Menezes was shot shot 12 times in the face by the anti-terror police, who mistook him as one of the suspects of the suicide bomber who attacked London’s transport system the previous day. The Brazilian victim was spied on by undercover officers before the murder. The surveillance procedure and poor police equipment’s failed to match the photos leading to rushed assumptions and actions at the Stockwell Tube station. Blair created the ASBO Starmer will be as authoritarian as Liar Blair.

  • @bierce1220

    @bierce1220

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah Dave Spart agrees it was Starmer's fault!

  • @jananilcolonoscopu4034

    @jananilcolonoscopu4034

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bierce1220 Hi Cherie Blair, fancy meeting you here

  • @waynehiltz6352

    @waynehiltz6352

    Жыл бұрын

    His name should be "Bliar".

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    You're all over the place, mate.

  • @alansealey3899
    @alansealey3899 Жыл бұрын

    in my humble opinion, Alexi is possibly the most important satirist that this country has ever produced.

  • @celestecanyon
    @celestecanyon Жыл бұрын

    Alexei is completely right in everything he said

  • @Swat-ed5bt
    @Swat-ed5bt5 ай бұрын

    Love Alexei ❤

  • @edwardkeough5123
    @edwardkeough51236 ай бұрын

    Yes have Kevin Bridges as Chancellor, I heard him admit he has retail expereince.Yes your country needs you Alexei.

  • @CharlottePetersRock
    @CharlottePetersRock Жыл бұрын

    Decline? Pity! I have a vision of Alexei Sale in Parliament. He'd clean the place out!

  • @mikeharvey9811
    @mikeharvey9811 Жыл бұрын

    How about Dr. Bob Gill to stand against Keith? All the nhs would vote for him….I’d move to vote for him. Barb

  • @joananthony6323

    @joananthony6323

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd definitely donate to his campaign and support him online

  • @jennyeyles9596

    @jennyeyles9596

    Жыл бұрын

    Good idea!

  • @steveellerby6986
    @steveellerby6986 Жыл бұрын

    😂 would be even funnier if it wasn't so true. Alexi is spot on .😂

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 Жыл бұрын

    #Keith has always reminded me of a very duplicitous head boy, at my grammar school. The haircut, the full shebang.

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    That says more about you than him

  • @hariowen3840
    @hariowen3840 Жыл бұрын

    That's it! that's whose voice it is - it was Starmer who did the voice-over for Rainbow's Zippy?

  • @Dogboy73
    @Dogboy73 Жыл бұрын

    Kier Starmer - "A piece of hotel art made man" 😀

  • @christopherrogers9243
    @christopherrogers9243 Жыл бұрын

    Forgot to add, like Alexi I hate Keith and the centrists as well and won't vote Labour ever again, was fooled by Blair so never again.

  • @silondon9010

    @silondon9010

    Жыл бұрын

    Is that Blair that won 3 elections???????

  • @bierce1220

    @bierce1220

    Жыл бұрын

    So be a tory enabler. Thanks a bunch.

  • @MyKharli

    @MyKharli

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bierce1220 I won`t vote for squirrely stalin starmer to avoid being a tory enabler

  • @falsum2701

    @falsum2701

    Жыл бұрын

    @bina nocht Green is probably the best shot at the moment.

  • @falsum2701

    @falsum2701

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bierce1220 Voting for Starmer is just enabling a different group of Tories with a different colour of rosette.

  • @ianhannant7497
    @ianhannant7497 Жыл бұрын

    Hello John gotta new motor... Love you Alexei

  • @StratsRUs

    @StratsRUs

    Жыл бұрын

    That's a work of genius.Truly

  • @brianbell3836

    @brianbell3836

    Жыл бұрын

    Great record

  • @Crusoe40
    @Crusoe40 Жыл бұрын

    Anyone know the title and author of the book about Starmer that Alexei cites?

  • @alanconway94
    @alanconway94 Жыл бұрын

    From 'Stuff': "Think about your boss ... Isn't your boss an absolute knob-end, eh?!" True 35 years ago. Still true now. Especially if you work in the civil service.

  • @skyblazeeterno

    @skyblazeeterno

    Жыл бұрын

    I recall a sketch which had a boy with a wooden head.

  • @neilcolley25
    @neilcolley25 Жыл бұрын

    good man

  • @dodruaidh9146
    @dodruaidh9146 Жыл бұрын

    Wow. Alexei back on form there. 😅