This man is the turning point in our society.

@hilaryporter7841

2 жыл бұрын

Millions of us hope so.

@maverikk521

2 жыл бұрын

I hope so. He speaks for the general population much more than our current government ever has.

@thomaspalmer36

2 жыл бұрын

I just hope he doesn't get sniped like Corbyn.

@stevenvater8720

2 жыл бұрын

I really hope not!! Listen to Yuri bezmanov , and soljenitsyn !!

@nickross4307

2 жыл бұрын

jeez - I really hope so...

Really like this guy. It's incredible how poorly the national media drones cope with a bloke with a regional accent who is unflappable, knows his stuff, and uses that to stick up for working people.

@jayarava

2 жыл бұрын

Almost everyone now commenting on economics today was educated in the monoculture of the neoclassical synthesis. This includes economists, politicians, and journalists. It's very difficult to break out of that straitjacket.

@geeman.8081

2 жыл бұрын

I kept saying this, I didn't vote for brexit and Mike Lynch did. But Mike could convince me his reasoning, unlike the fake patriots in government.

@richardhoward1200

2 жыл бұрын

@@geeman.8081 Yeah I know what you mean. I disagree with him on that issue, and I thought his comments about Ukraine and China in that New Statesman interview were crass (though not as compromising as I'm sure the media will try and make them). I admire what he's doing regardless.

@Mcfreddo

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@aluisious

Жыл бұрын

@@jayarava The economists, politicians, and journalists have not been educated at all. They've been indoctrinated. Education is extremely rare in modern society, because it inherently threatens the dominance of the wealthy elite.

Mick Lynch has made absolute mincemeat of the right-wing media and I am totally here for it! 👏👏👏

@stuartbrown3070

2 жыл бұрын

"right-wing media" 😂😂😂

@mikeeroony6683

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartbrown3070 it is a majority right wing media you bell piece

@countycricklewood

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Unfortunately some 🤡 Brexshitters and Sun, Telelaugh, Daily Fail mouth breathers, are unable to decipher/compute that how right wing the BBC and so called journalists like Matt have let them get away with it, Marr along with Ms Kuesenberg sucked up to Pinocchio

@tiggtiggs

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartbrown3070 Yes RW media, govt & muppets who support the greedy rich & don't know the difference between Left & Right.🙄

@noone2964

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartbrown3070 yes calling the BBC “right wing” 😂

Mick Lynch should start his own party. Labour has failed us. I would vote for him.

@bigmoose1961

2 жыл бұрын

As would I

@johnm2012

2 жыл бұрын

Once proportional representation has been established feel free to do that. Until then all you'd achieve is splitting the left of centre vote and letting Truss win the General Election. At the next election we all really need to vote for the person most likely to defeat the sitting Tory in their constituency.

@bigmoose1961

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnm2012 I fully understand the logic and pragmatism of what you are saying. However, Keir Starmer continues at pace to expel all dissenters from the Labour party and won't even support the unions who are only standing up to achieve fairness for their members who have been screwed for the past decade. I don't want to see the Tories replaced by another right wing government that happens to be called Labour. I am an idealist, but I believe an opposition party should be exactly that, an antidote to the current situation. The chance for real change. If that makes them unelectable, then perhaps the electorate haven't suffered enough yet.

@johnm2012

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigmoose1961 I used to be an idealist. I'm old enough now to realise that idealism is just a dream. I've now evolved into a pragmatist because all the idealism in the world amounts to nothing if you remain in opposition. I'm not looking for a Labour landslide. I just want a non-Tory government and proportional representation. Once that's achieved I don't really care what happens to the Labour party. It can split in two if it wants to - I'll leave that to the idealists to decide. The point is that on issues that really matter to the country they'll probably agree anyway. Edit: I hope you're listening to James O'Brien's show at the moment.

@alphamikeomega5728

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigmoose1961 >"Perhaps the electorate haven't suffered enough yet." Do you honestly believe that there has to be more suffering?

All I'm hearing is people not listening. Not one single one of those journalists took on board what he said. Just twisted it and rephrased what he was saying to fit their agenda.

@jcardboard

2 жыл бұрын

That's what passes for journalism now.

@janewright2800

2 жыл бұрын

Totally! They can't hear truth or sense any more if they ever did!!!

@bazzfromthebackground3696

2 жыл бұрын

There's no such thing as a journalist anymore, only talking heads and story tellers.

@mariogmajner6549

2 жыл бұрын

@@janewright2800 No

@jcardboard

2 жыл бұрын

@@bazzfromthebackground3696 a lot of them treat it as just fun gossip.

When I retired in March 2014, for that last year, I finally made £10 an hour. I was a qualified mobile crane operator, a qualified banksman slinger and held an hgv 1 licence. My wages without overtime were just £20280. WITH OVERTIME, I finally earned £30,000. And my work pension? Zero. I am now expected to live on a state pension of £10,000 a year. Mick Lynch is spot on.

@gerardhampson9089

Жыл бұрын

I can see where you are coming from i was an h g v class 2 driver ,i never made ten pounds per hour untill i drove a van on multi drop in 2020 , doing over 100/150 drops per day you never stopped.thank god im retired .

@Steve-in-the-uk

Жыл бұрын

@@gerardhampson9089 our hgv drivers have some of the worst pay and conditions in the UK. Without them delivering everything this country would stop dead.

@SusanneCape

Жыл бұрын

That is abhorrent.

@raphaelandrews3617

Жыл бұрын

Yf you cut pension and cut wages what will people do when they have to retire. They will only have state benefit to liver on costing the state tax payer more NOT less

@baljchima

Ай бұрын

HGV drivers are on £50k a year these days? Crane drivers £25 an hour ?

Once again, Mick shows what a legend he is; once again, "journalists" show what bellends they are.

Journalists is a strong word for these muppets

@YouTube-are-Tory-Toilet-Crud

2 жыл бұрын

They’re use to rehashing Tory press releases as fact, never fiction. Anyway, who watches the BBC now anyway? Channel 4 News, with Sky - YES, Sky, no longer Murdoch’s mouthpiece, has been reborn. Praise be to independent news!😉👍

These people are the 'top' political journalists at our public broadcaster. Depressing.

@martinmcdonald4207

2 жыл бұрын

Fucking light weights.

@hilaryporter7841

2 жыл бұрын

I think it may be dawning on them, they are not.

@thecheesefactor

2 жыл бұрын

They all seem to have drunk too much of the Tory Kool-Aid.

Mick Lynch is the only person pointing out the real problems that Britain is facing.

@Sdakouls3

2 жыл бұрын

Labour are pointing it out constantly, but people don't listen.

@paulwood6048

Жыл бұрын

He's never mentioned IMMIGRANTS

@pastorofmuppets8834

Жыл бұрын

Everything he says applies worldwide

And if Starmer won't say it Mick Lynch will!

It's unbelievable how the media in this country just tow the Tory party lines of politics. Great to see someone challenging the agenda 👏 again, well done Mick. Keep up the great work.

@mwangikimani3970

2 жыл бұрын

The Labour Party is simply the Tory Party in drag. The Americanization of British and Australian politics has been happening since Thatcher, where both parties are merely tools of the capitalist oligarchicy cheered on by a corporate MSM.

@coolmum

2 жыл бұрын

And yet the Tories want to rid of the BBC...as do the left. Funny that

@MrLawnboy71

Жыл бұрын

That's because murdock & soros own media & sleeping with the globalists and own our govenments All an agenda to Rob the fecking lot of us and turn us into slaves!

@jimtomo9207

Жыл бұрын

All 🇬🇧 media is left wing

@coolmum

Жыл бұрын

@@jimtomo9207 Are you sure? GB News? The Express, The Telegraph? The Sun? The Daily Mail? TalkTV?

I'm so happy this man is the head of the RMT union, they need someone like him

@micklovegrove5243

Жыл бұрын

With the greatest respect its not just the RMT who need him we all need him to attempt to explain to all those who doff their cap at the elitists running this Government that they have had it too good for too long, serious change is needed

@johng1181

Жыл бұрын

certainly do let's strike

Can Mick Lynch be the Leader we as the people need? I'm watching....

@Anon-xd3cf

2 жыл бұрын

He IS THE LEADER of the RMT Union, democratically elected by Union members. Funny that, ordinary working people coming together and choosing a leader from among themselves to represent them on a larger platform and broader scale. Hmmm

Mick Lynch, man of the reality and person who is protecting the public (labourers and people with low wages) also he is a real a British for Future of Britain.

How utterly vacuous those three young BBC journalists were - they assumed that they must be intelligent, attractive and 'professional' (and more intelligent, attractive and professional than a mere railwayman), and that they possessed certain knowledge as well as the ability to think even as they trotted out the same tired talking-points that one has been hearing again and again from every interviewer on the broadcasting media.

@Martin-sp4zf

Жыл бұрын

Yes and the three journalists worked in a rehearsed fashion like kids mastering a trampoline. When Mick knocked one down the other two jumped in to pick him up and get him bouncing again.

I enjoyed this on novara first time round. The point on corporation tax re-investing in staff is spot on, never understood the fear at corporate level of investing In people

@michaelrch

2 жыл бұрын

Not fear. They are just profiteering and making short term decisions to maximise profits now. F the future. As far as they are concerned, presumably we will all be living in a burning hellscape in the future...

@stuartbrown3070

2 жыл бұрын

How many companies have you run?

@Skaterstee

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartbrown3070 if people have more expendable income, would they spend more in the economy?

@joeleaton8752

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartbrown3070 I haven’t - however I have been in a low pay yet profitable high margin organisation that was made up of two divisions. Having seen the discrepancy between the R&D, Marketing and Training spend across the two divisions and the impact that has had I am confident that what Mick Lynch is saying isn’t far off the mark.

@stuartbrown3070

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeleaton8752 You amaze me! Someone pontificating about what someone else must do that has no experience of having that person's role. You assert your statement is justified because you were employed in a company with 2 divisions without equitable division of resources - were you privy to the business case or even basic reason for this pattern of investment?

Well said Mr. Lynch. Since the 1970s power has shifted from workers to shareholders, the obsession with creating shareholder value has given us a rentier economy where if you’re lucky enough to own property and shares you have disposable income to burn without having to worry about wages. We need to start taxing wealth, not income. The UK is unique amongst rich countries in not having an ownership tax, a tax where those who own property in places like Kensington for example pay a much higher tax than someone living in say Blackburn where property is much cheaper. This is a tax that cannot be avoided by the rich who normally find a way around paying it through clever accounting and offshoring.

@alphamikeomega5728

2 жыл бұрын

Based and Georgist

@Swindonboy56

2 жыл бұрын

@@alphamikeomega5728 What does that mean?

@stevelee4952

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh. Straight off the TUC/Labour manifesto. And do you know the sad thing? Only saps like you believe it and will hand the Tories another term in office. Start thinking for yourself.

@bestbeloved2704

Жыл бұрын

@@Swindonboy56 It might have something to do with the window tax levied during the Georgian Era in the 1700s, where the tax increased on the amount of windows you had, idea being richer people had more windows, ergo they would pay more

@jaredgarbo3679

Жыл бұрын

@@bestbeloved2704 Its kinda like that but based on land value instead of windows.

Mick lynch is a delight to watch 👌

I've never seens this man caught off guard once.

A man willing to speak the truth and break the media narratives 👏

@DarrenPearson

2 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

I don't think they got it even after being educated!

@davidjones500

Жыл бұрын

They just pretend to be smart and understand the magical religion of 'economics' and its natural laws like every other media pundit and stooge in this world

Oh he’s sooo good! Put the three Tòraì bots, straight back into their box and taught them basic economics. Hilarious!

@Martin-sp4zf

2 жыл бұрын

Tá an ceart agat. Tuigeann sé gur is grá leo na Toraigh. Alba Abú! You are correct. He understands that they love the Tòraì. Up Scotland.

This man talks total sense , unlike the majority of self centred politicians.....👍

Wtf happened to BBC journalism?

@davidjones500

Жыл бұрын

Thatcher

@joannanorma

Жыл бұрын

@@davidjones500 she was the worst PM for the commoners everrrrrrrr.

@pj1909

Жыл бұрын

It's not a new phenomenon

I would seriously do my homework if if I was a journalist faced with mick lynch.

@snsn7251

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@margaret3606

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the "journalists" seem to be dancing to their employers tune.

It's pure logic this man is talking.

Mick Lynch is an absolute legend! He's a better representative for labour than the leader of the Labour Party...

So measured and calm. He absolutely destroys the journalists and the main stream media.

Mick Lynch , the voice of reason ..Shame that Tory believers don't believe rather than keep reading their Big Brother Press .

What is going to happen is the media will stop interviewing mick lynch and his like minded to keep the working class voice quiet

Mick is fantastic but to be fair the journalists did a pretty good job of making fools of themselves without Mick's help !!!

I will never tire of this man's honest straight-to-the-point speaking. He's calling out the endemic corruption we have become accustomed to!! :)

Mike Lynch talks so much sense about fat cats bleeding this country dry.

Totally agree with Mick, nobody wants these Boris Johnson’s 🤡🤡

Mr Mick Lynch successfully explaining his job role and that of Sir Keir Starmer’s. Where has the Labour leader been all these years? Hiding from worker disputes and happily accepting the Tory Press Barons characterisation of underpaid workers as inflation boosters, depriving fellow workers of a decent quality of life? Wow! Just Wow!

@michaelswan8357

Жыл бұрын

He s been waiting for Labour to get a 15 point lead in the opinion polls.

Utter tosh. Great interview, Mick and newscast show why we need people asking questions without agendas

These "journalists" have no understanding of the basic concepts they are debating!

They realised they can't take him on one-on-one and win, so now they're speaking over him and attacking his ideas in threes now. Pathetic.

Mick Lynch for Prime Minister. Here is a man I would trust to do things for the people.

Damn Mike Lynch is whooping the right wing media ass! They act like he's stupid but unfortunately for them he's not!

When Mick says re- balance...I say re volution 👍👍👍

@stevelangsdon2998

2 жыл бұрын

Like the French revolution

Every time I listen to this chap, my confidence in society is a little more restored.

Loved the section where he inferred they were not the real media. He really put them in their place .

Three clowns, and one unbought fella telling the truth 👍🏼

Mick lynch isn't just speaking for rmt members he's speaking for us all and right wing media doesn't know how to respond to him

Why on earth is Mick not running for PM ffs?!

Can this man please start a new political party so we have a genuine option at the ballot box.

Ben Kentish: "Quite a lot of experts saying this"??!! Do me a favour, Ben!! Way to go Mick Lynch, you're a star!!

Thank god for Mick Lynch and others , speaking up for workers

I love this man (😍 Mick Lynch), even though he is a Brexiteer (😞). Should not be the Labour Party raising these issues on the media? He will be the right leader for the LP and not the (right wing) of Stamer.

@Peelerville

2 жыл бұрын

So he is a thick gammon if we believed the screaming from remainers for last 6 yrs…👍🤡🌍

Well said Mick Lynch, 👏 continue to speak the truth 👍

Try 20 years at least for below inflation salary increases for the working class! It's not greed why folks want higher wages; it's need!

I totally disagree with your obnoxious headline. Mick didn't try to make fools of antibody I don't think he's that sort of bloke. The 3 BBC radio interviewers had questions that Mick answered honestly and by doing that he eventually got them on his side. I believe Mick can teach a lot of folks how to be a gentleman with his demeanour and honesty.

Those are the points that politicians who are supposed to be representing the people should be making. Starmer should take notes.

Well said!

Can we have him as prime minister?

What a brilliant man

The argument that paying workers more would increase costs of living is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, even though it probably is true. It's the stupidest argument to say prices may go up if we give workers raises when prices have been going up anyway without pay raises.

Thank you to Mick Lynch and thank you for the video 👌💪😊

You've got, three of them,trying to catch him out, trip him up. They can't! Why? because, he has,values!!

They'd pay the worker nothing if they felt they could get away with it? I was hoping Lynch's answer was more "It's the choice between what flavour shit sandwich you want?" But i'll take his actual answer. 😂

Mick Lynch needs his own TV station and political party.

Love how the first clip was just the rest of the panel holding up the rhetorical version of crayon drawings of him saying ludicrous things.

It says a lot about the BBC journo that he is surprised at the current government being described as “hard right”. The current cabinet act like fascists.

@geoffteece265

2 жыл бұрын

That struck me immediately. How can any informed person be surprised by a description of this government as hard right?

Mick Lynch is fantastic, keep on knocking um out the park chap ❤️

Well said Mike ... stick it to them!!

I'm always amazed at how Mick keeps calm and factual regardless of the number of times he's baited, ignored, lied to, belittled. He's a fantastic example of how to win an argument.

Even when they go at him mob handed, he still hands them their asses!

The man talks absolute sense. 👏

What do you call a million Tories chained together at the bottom of the sea? A blooming good start.

Bravissimo Mick👏🏽

Don't they ask questions in such a manner to elicit good answers?

@ftumschk

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's a key part of the interviewers' job to challenge the interviewee, so we get a fuller representation of what the latter has to say. It's not a competition, and to characterise such interviews as if they are is entirely missing the point.

Politics is such a soap opera. Absolutely fuelled by programmes like this. Good on you Mick for sticking it to them.

I really hope Mick and Eddie are taking good care of their health. Aware of how high stress can severely affect one’s heart. They are taking on such tremendous responsibility on their shoulders, for every worker, not just their railway union members.

@TheNemocharlie

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. Shades of the tragically untimely death of John Smith.

tax may be higher HERE than it has been for a while .... but it is NOT higher than other countries that have the kind of services that we should have and could afford if politicians weren't so swivel-eyed and fetishistic about tax being a bad thing. It isn't. Lynchi is correct.

More eloquent than Keir has managed once

The guy speaks so much sense. The media and government don't know what to do with him 🤣

Mick Lynch has the patience of a Saint. Every day he patently and courteously (and with humour) explains clearly the truth and facts. This absolutely confuses the tory forelock tugging journalists.

@coolmum

2 жыл бұрын

So why are the Tories desperate to get rid of the BBC?

Imagine if the Labour Party was run by a man with micks common sense

Mick Lynch could actually be the next Labour prime minister. He has all the qualities !

@stephanguitar9778

2 жыл бұрын

The proper ones, not pandering to Wetherspoons brexiteer thugs, nor to corporate scumbags as Starmer is doing.

@2DRonaldo

2 жыл бұрын

He just has to get past the Neo-Liberal Gate Keepers in the Party and we all saw what they did to Corbyn when he managed to get one on them and be voted in.. Twice, because they didn't like the result and demanded another election to which Corbyn beat them even harder. But Mick Lynch could save the Labour Party, if he wanted to be leader? But the Party will make him out to be the next Adolf Hitler, like they did with Corbyn.

@stuartbrown3070

2 жыл бұрын

He could be the next Labour leader to lose an election, sure.

@josephbovington4468

2 жыл бұрын

They'd never let him anywhere near, look what they did to Corbyn because he was anti-establishment

@maxpowerii7368

2 жыл бұрын

@@stuartbrown3070 says the Tory…

Mick is the only one who really understands and totally in touch.

Am I a conspiracist or why have we not seen him on main stream media or anywhere on the MSM papers anywhere recently?

"But the government says.." is a sentence for wankers. its time for a bit of the old ALL OUT!

1:18 that nerdy bloke used to have a much stronger accent, I'm sure of it. Seems the years at the BBC have unfortunately hammered it out of him

He's far too intelligent for these BBC goons!

"Inflation is caused by the accumulation of profit" - "we need low pay transformed into reasonable pay" - sounds both true and reasonable to me! 👍

Fukkin legend.

Love Mick

I read a lot of good and positive comments about Mick Lynch with respect to his handling in interviews, i.e. media. He's calm, very knowledgeable and says it how it is. The media is indeed to polite (bar a few) to properly question politicians and I can see why. If youre employed by them and you give, in this case, tories a hard time, you may well face the end of your career. However, Mick is not part of that club and he is so impressive. I hope we all get the chance to support him in some way or another. He does not just speak for the RMT but for the country!!

Maybe we should all be self employed and avoid as much tax as the rich do

@stevelangsdon2998

2 жыл бұрын

We pay at least 20% tax on 100% of our wages anyway, there should be no income tax for under £25000 earnings

If he was Labour leader, I'd actually vote Labour. I will not, under any circumstances vote for Labour while Sir Keith Starmer is leader.

@craz666

2 жыл бұрын

Well then you are to effectively supporting the Tories as it's a 2 party system in the UK with FPTP. This division is the reason why the Tories keep winning and we are in the situation we are in.

The RMT supported Brexit. They got the government that did Brexit to us. The RMT know what they voted for. Who looks foolish now?

@gHGhej

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why a union would support going out of a business protection racket? 🤔 And no one that voted for Brexit had a vote on how it would be done, funny that.

HOPE THE ENERGY COMPANIES GET THE SAME GRILLING ON THE MASSIVE PROFITS.

The most arrogant thing I ever heard was , " The Unions are being greedy".

Mick Lynch Very Irish sounding name, could that explain his super high intelligence ☘️🇮🇪

At some point, somone needs to actully listen to this man

Well done Mick ew are all with you the working class

"Those of us that are on P A Y" 🤣 That's great, that's going in my back pocket for later.

@MegaRiprock

Жыл бұрын

p a y E is what he said or PAYE as its known. Pay As You Earn tax system. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGqEqq6jlZTAkZc.html

I really really admire Mick’s approach, reasoning and delivery. So refreshing.