Rory is a true Statesman and we need his honesty and talents back governing this country. One of the problems is that those of the public who are interested in politics are totally disillusioned with those we see running this country , of all parties. We need you back Rory and more like you!

Great pins. Thanks.

I think the way that British politics changes from the left to the right and then back again is what actually keeps it moving in roughly the right direction.

Rory is an incredibly intelligent person. What he has to say regarding the state of politics is so true. I never did like the guy. However, I don't mind admitting how wrong I was. Whatever he chooses to do - and I believe he's considering standing as an Independent for London Mayor, that he succeeds.

Very good and very enlightening - so unusual to hear the TRUTH about how we are REALLY GOVERNED !???

Brilliant. Thank you. Best that you work hard Rory. There is so much work that needs doing.

Excellent interview. Get it on mainstream TV.

I don’t know where to start…

Brilliant interview, well done 👍🏽 Thank you!

@razaqghani3816

8 ай бұрын

Excellent great man.

Hi!! Spaniard here!! This guy is great. He confirms the fact that no one is really in charge. By the way, this is what I always has been suspecting. The journalist thinks that politicians are in charge, politicians think that the economy, the electorate and what not is in charge, some conspirationist think that dark powers run our life. I think that this, the world, is too complicated to be runned by one, two, 3 etc entities, and what prevents chaos are the rules, the believe that if you don´t pay taxes for example, som nasty letter from the IRS will arrive etc.

@sararichardson737

8 ай бұрын

Yes its conceptual theatre - an illusion.

@lutherblissett9070

8 ай бұрын

The system is designed this way to allow for infinite buck passing.

I've ordered the book for later on today and after this preview, looking forward to a good read.

@ruinerblodsinn6648

8 ай бұрын

Reading it right now - very interesting and often maddening

@Wob-rt1sc

6 ай бұрын

It’s a brilliant read.

The $64 billion dollar question is where are the other Rory Stewarts? I refuse to believe that he is unique. There have to be others who also see through the system. Our system is absurd from top to bottom. And yet as Rory says our society runs well enough to satisfy a very large percentage of the population. Maybe at the end of the day it is the people and not the system that counts and maybe that is the reason that it is so important not to allow a clown like Johnson to get into power. I suppose we have to be grateful that our system spat Johnson out although it took 3 years. This interview should be seen by every sensible person in the UK.

I don't agree with all of Rory's views but he makes some excellent points. I think the last few years has hammered home how useless and clueless politicians really are and media makes it worse. Where does that leave us?

@DJWESG1

7 ай бұрын

So why did he join the party that made all the problems happen??

@stevesmith3990

7 ай бұрын

@@DJWESG1Labour would have done exactly the same (except they would have done Brexit in name only) but with even more lockdown and even more financial ruin.

It's not that I'm into populism, but if Rory can nibble on biscuits in an entertaining manner, I'll vote for him.

I'd love to see Rory back in politics myself.

@chrishyde1216

8 ай бұрын

He still is in politics, just not as an elected politician. He'd probably agree that he is more influential now that he ever was as an elected MP.

@jake751

8 ай бұрын

Millions wouldn't

@PeachesandCream225

8 ай бұрын

why?@@jake751

He says that this is a universal story, but as a Bolivian (that has also lived a few years in the UK) I can't help but see this as a very British story. While I do see some similarities with Bolivian politics when he talks of politics as a public performance, the relationships between the electorate, politicians, the media, civil servants and the law are completely different to those I see in the UK. I see the Bolivian people are generally much more engaged with politics than the British, but we tend to do it through various middlemen that stand between the political parties and society (e.g. unions, pressure groups, "neighborhood federations", guilds, etc.) while the media has a relatively peripheral role. There's much less of a pretence of acting for the good of the country or to uphold morality, whereas in the UK I see the people as being a lot more detached, and those who are more engaged often come together through ideology (as opposed to the naked self-interest that I see in my countrymen), and vent their frustrations through the media, and also by writing to their MP, by answering the questions of polling companies, and ultimately by voting. Bolivians are much, much more prone to use those middlemen I mentioned to create chaos when they don't get their way. The more disturbance they have the capacity to create, the more likely they'll be able to get the government's ear, and the more influential they'll be. There's much less need for ideology or institutional solutions. Ministers are appointed through chumocracy, proximity to the middlemen, or both, and our Presidents don't have as much appreciation for differences of opinion within their cabinets (compared to UK PMs), there's usually very little expectation among ministers that, if they raise their media profile high enough, they could some day be promoted to a higher ministerial position, let alone the Presidency (which seems to be pretty standard in UK politics).

Be horrible for Rory to find out he was on the wrong side all along..

DAVID Rymell

When he described the reasons he become a conservative, for example to protect what we have, there was an obvious response; if science now tells us that how we do things is a threat to our future, surely it is necessary to change. If the threat is accelerating and needs attention fast, how can you avoid the case for radical and rapid change?

@th8257

8 ай бұрын

I think he would say you have misunderstood what he's said. He wants to conserve, which means changing what we do so that things can be conserved.

@PeachesandCream225

8 ай бұрын

The Tories have literally teared this country apart, literally via their destruction of public services and morally through their scapegoating of anyone powerless

@DJWESG1

7 ай бұрын

​@@th8257 he's been learning from a Campbell

A brilliant and very depressing book. Thanks Rory

The point he makes about how absurd it is that Liz Truss made PM is the most important point to note of most of what has gone on in UK Politics, especially since 2019. Its very important to consider how Truss and other front benchers in the Tory party even got there.

I've seen his voting record and it's discusting.

@elizabethsproule5227

8 ай бұрын

If you read the book, it's clear he's not happy about it either. He explains how the system means that if you vote according to your conscience, you never become a minister.

@PeachesandCream225

8 ай бұрын

still how many lives should you vote to destroy in your pursuit of power@@elizabethsproule5227

@jonathanbowen3640

7 ай бұрын

Your comment is disgusting. Three line whip means that most MPs vote in line with the party. Hes explained this several times. When he voted against the party he got hammered and ignored for four years damaging his career.

Pretty much shows how accurate Yes Minister was - except Jim Hacker was probably far more competent than Boris Johnson ever was.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POLITICIANS ONLY CARE ABOUT POWER AND PLEASING THE MASSES.

I really wish this very noisy minority that are currently slandering him for saying he basically respected Jeremy Corbyn wouldnt get so much airtime, the majority of people can see through it but simply arent as self-righteous and self-victimised as those noisy lot.

I’m sorry he is part of the problem

@l3eatalphal3eatalpha

8 ай бұрын

We all are.

@DJWESG1

7 ай бұрын

​@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha no, we are all not.

Rory Stewart is an excellent politician with a very acute and accurate sense of what is wrong with our dysfunctional politics in the UK. However, he fails to mention one very crucial aspect of the system which is under immense stress but which is one of the most towering and important legacies of the 19th century to the 21st century: a highly competent, uncorrupt and meritocratic civil service. Without it politicians would be even more at sea and irrelevant than one would gather from Stewart's book. As it is the civil service accounts for 95% of the positive in our Governmental system. Stewart should know that ... I think he does know it ... But for some reason it isn't mentioned in this interview and its role and actual and potential benefits are poorly understood by the media and the public and also, it seems, by many politicians themselves.

@elizabethsproule5227

8 ай бұрын

Not sure about that. I think he's quite critical of the Civil Service also.

@DJWESG1

7 ай бұрын

Kind of blind to neoliberalism and his parties ideology..

@DJWESG1

7 ай бұрын

​@elizabethsproule5227 of course he is.. its a faceless folk devil that can be blamed for everything rhe tory party does and has done. They're pretty low

oh ellie mae hagan ex novara corbynite is in with jolyon maueux good law project how embaeressing

@PeachesandCream225

8 ай бұрын

you didnt even spell embarrassing correctly... of course you are anti Corbyn LOL

@johnreid9959

8 ай бұрын

@@PeachesandCream225 slang is a dog. Of being anti Corbyn ?

@heycidskyja4668

8 ай бұрын

@@johnreid9959 What are you trying to say?

We don’t need Stewart or his views, he’s a failed politician whose ego cannot let go.

@michelebaffo5741

8 ай бұрын

Who is we? Or is that just Brian?

@jonathanbowen3640

7 ай бұрын

Who do you thing is better Brian?

@JupiterThunder

5 ай бұрын

​@@michelebaffo5741 Brian is quite right. Rory Stewart is a Blairite leftist - it's his politics that has wrecked this country. And he's a deluded arrogant creep. nobody wants to listen to his garbage.

@JupiterThunder

5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanbowen3640 Farage

@jonathanbowen3640

5 ай бұрын

​@@JupiterThunder Farage can't lead or manage tho.

This guy is nothing more than a conning wordsmith who will flip flop onto anything in order to remain relevant. He talks of truths and the spoken word? He treated the British silent majority with treachery and has absolute disdain for democracy.

@elizabethsproule5227

8 ай бұрын

He thinks that democracy is not working well because people are not properly informed by the press. The older I get, the more I give weight to the old adage that democracy is a dreadful sort of government but better than all the other kinds. As we found out from Hitler, and Putin, an elected extremist can be the worst option of all.

@PeachesandCream225

8 ай бұрын

You sound mad

@elizabethsproule5227

8 ай бұрын

@@PeachesandCream225 In what way?

@robinj6137

8 ай бұрын

Ah, the old self-proclaimed Silent Majority. You must mean the people who DON'T bang on about 'woke', asylum seekers, Meghan Markle...

@DJWESG1

7 ай бұрын

​@@PeachesandCream225 if he was it would called for. The dude voted for welfare cuts. Thats not very British is it..