To give him his due , John Harris is one of the only Guardian journalist who is not afraid to say what he sees , and not stuck in some metropolitan bubble !!

@mickc7388

5 жыл бұрын

The EU backed Guardistan like the rest of our fake media BBC, C4, Yahoo, the Dependant/ Idependant are a lot to blame for us not leaving & destroying democracy full of fake scare stories.

I'm 31 and I've never had an MP, prospective MP or councillor knock on my front door.

@stephporter1184

3 жыл бұрын

I'm nearly 34, lived in stoke all my life and I've never had a knock at the door from anyone like this either and neither has my mum

@staycalm88

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephporter1184 I've had the council electorates knock on once or twice but never an MP. Funny During the 2019 GE i had hundred of leaflets through the door...not one from Labour and I'm a northerner who in a constituency that's part of the "red wall" that turned Tory after X amount of decades always being red. The Labour MP wasn't even local she's was a stand in.

This is what the guardian should have been doing for the last 20 years instead of Blairite pandering.

5 жыл бұрын

Blair hasn't been PM for 12 years you tosser.

@JayJay-nc7pr

5 жыл бұрын

Seán O'Nilbud yet the guardian still parrots the blarite view

@villageintheshire

5 жыл бұрын

@ you're not very bright, are you!

5 жыл бұрын

@@villageintheshire I am very bright, looks like you're wrong yet again.

@Anthony-xd1lj

Жыл бұрын

@ blair WAS in 13 years then brown took over and he lost his job as PM for calling gillian duffy "A BIGOTED WOMAN" live on mic because she dared to ask about EU immigration under labour. You could not do that because it was their plan to rub the right's nose in diversity and allow mass immigation from the third world and the EU Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett. so you can call people tossers but if you knew anything then you would not call anyone a tooser

For the record: "Dudson went into administration on 4 April 2019" wikipedia

Surely if her constituency is massively in favour of leave, why dosn't she represent them? Wonder why Labour done so badly at the election...

@KodiAndroidTV

8 жыл бұрын

bit late but it's her party, Jeremy wants them to support remain.

@davidskitmore1567

7 жыл бұрын

nail on the head

@saundyuk

7 жыл бұрын

Totally the nail on the head. It's what's wrong with politics in this country. MPs should be reflecting their constituents' views in Parliament. Instead, they all seem to expect constituents to reflect MPs' views.

@Project-Masculinity

5 жыл бұрын

I voted Leave I’ll never vote Labour and Tory again

@waltermcphee3787

5 жыл бұрын

Because she knows that Brexit is like self mutilation and the cuts will cause real damage to Stoke.

Lived in stoke for a while, lots of great friendly people. Here's a little fact though, there are more immigrants/asylum seekers in stoke than in all the town's on the south coast, because it's cheaper to house them in stoke. Perspective starts with where you live.

The working class have largely been abandoned these past few decades. Globalism and then the EU has forced them to compete with labour willing to undercut their pay and conditions, whether we are talking outsourcing or immigration, and the official figures reflect that. Take home pay has stagnated and working conditions are increasingly precarious. The middle and upper class like their cheap goods, like their cheap services. So when the working class come to the political establishment and say we're struggling, we need help. They turn to them and yell racist, talk to them like idiots. Demonize them when they're unable to compete and end up on the doll. The working poor are constantly being undermined, if not by exploitative work then kept in a permanent state of insecurity with welfare sanctions and forced unpaid labour through the work programme. Insecurity has become a form of entertainment for the country. Endless "on benefits" programmes were people from once proud working class communities struggle for the amusement of others. Pay has been pushed so low that people in work are a bigger welfare recipient than jobseekers, that people who have jobs are having to visit food banks. The political establishment abandoned them and thought they could just ignore them. Then when these people decided enough was enough, if no one will help them they'll take action and vote for what they perceive to be the solution to their problems. The establishment freak out, they demand that they vote the way they want them to... You must be joking? You think you can tell these people what to do now? Even if their actions turn out to be totally wrong, everyone has lost the right to tell these people what to do.

@JCJW101

8 жыл бұрын

I've been saying this for ages and the Labour advisor to Tony Blair openly admitted they used EU migration to lower working class wages. He's interviewed in the immigration documentary broadcast in December 2015. The Irony of Labour fucking over it's core voters is coming home to roost for them and they deserve everything they get.

@derekgriffiths3368

6 жыл бұрын

Spot on

Its about time the Guardian started to report on the rest of the country and NOT those living in the London centric bubble and that London,to most Britons, is a foreign Capital full of people not representative of the UK.

8:02 “The Labour doesn’t control my mind” haha, loved it!

These leave supporters, UKIP and ex-Labour, would vote Trump if they had the chance. Their argument: "Life has been crap for years, it must be the EU's fault".

@connord9164

8 жыл бұрын

Hurr durr muh evil Trump

@z4k4z

8 жыл бұрын

President Trump would be catastrophic for the U.S. and the rest of the world. No matter what people think about Clinton, she's by far the preferable candidate.

@z4k4z

8 жыл бұрын

+CJTaylor 87 Would anyone in their right mind want Trump to have a say in any kind of national and international affairs? The nuclear launch codes? Your belief in a post-Trump "new age" for America is a comforting dream, but the outcome is more likely to be collapse of the union.

@gug1970

8 жыл бұрын

If you're prepared to accept one plate of shit when offered two plates of shit it rather shows why you're pro EU.

@rareads

5 жыл бұрын

@@z4k4z Bet you are gutted now! Guess what its 2019 and America is doing fantastically with good job and economic figures

Watched this and read the comments with interest. I lived there for 15 years leaving in 2013. If I am honest I'm not sure if a brexit will be good for stoke or not. It was painful to watch the city decline at a staggering rate so I can understand why people are so angry and disillusioned. I live in Budapest now and there is a similar mindset here. I hope whatever the vote result is that Stoke recovers, the people there deserve so much more than they are being offered. Overall itbwas a fair and balanced article, however seeing Mohammed Pervez will always send a shiver. Good luck.

watching it almost 3 years later, it doesn't feel like these people have an understanding of the situation, all I can say is that they had it coming

@alftupper9359

5 жыл бұрын

stephan S They had what coming?

@stephans5694

5 жыл бұрын

@@alftupper9359 being even more left behind, their vote have been used, and the powerful and populists after feeding them decades of eurosceptic lies won't care much for them

@alftupper9359

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephans5694 You might not have noticed but 'the powerful' are the ones most upset by our voting to leave the EU. They want a Europe free of nationally elected governments so that they can control totally and they will punish anyone who gets in their way. It formerly went by the name 'totalitarian' By 'populists' you mean the popular vote, yes? As in, the majority?

@stephans5694

5 жыл бұрын

@@alftupper9359 the same ones who actually benefit from trading outside of EU laws, the ones who earn more money as the value of the pound plummets like the Jacob rees Mogg, like the Farage who as commodity traders will earn big as tariffs will be reinstated ?

@stephans5694

5 жыл бұрын

@@alftupper9359 and also the likes of Trump in the US who are just hoping that other countries will follow the UK 's choice, as they want to see the biggest trading bloc disappear , for fact no viable trade deals yet , and stock piling on some products, that will make those rich and powerful healthier as they control it's availability and price ... welcome to free market

Stoke voted tory in 2019

@staycalm88

3 жыл бұрын

Its more accurate to say Labour lost that the Tories won. Tories gained 7% and labour lost 14.3% ...so where did the other 7.3% go? Mostly to the brexit party who gained +6% . Thing is next GE there wont be a brexit party....will be an interesting watch....my bet hung parliament again in favour of Tories.

We are already a warehousing site!!! All the jobs we have are warehouses I've been working in Stokes warehouses for the past 9 years since I left school!

"I want my country back" How many people said that during the days of the British empire?

@brianjones9345

Жыл бұрын

And the German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and even AmericanEmpires. Iy seems as though you're another one who thinks only Britain had an empire. The British is the only one that broke up with almost no wars and that a lot of those countries that did leave joined a commonwealth.

Of course Stoke's working class are now minted after Brexit.................lol.

I live in this city the mo Tristan hunt pops up now n then I asked in at a surgery about issues relating to our local park .. He didn't even know where it's was I pointed out of the window to it . Labour were strong here two generations ago but slowly ppl are either dying or waking up that the Labour Party are out of touch with this once great city of ours

Some people think that leaving the EU would fix all the things that are going wrong in Britain.

@micoforion

8 жыл бұрын

Most ignorant ppl do, sadly. Totally clueless mesas

@micoforion

8 жыл бұрын

***** You're an idiot.

@gug1970

8 жыл бұрын

Just in case it pisses you off. I've made a special effort to let you know that I'm voting out too. So is my partner. So are my parents. I'm an upper working class higher rate tax paying skilled englishman who lives part time in france. Dont choke on your latte will you.

@gug1970

8 жыл бұрын

Someone is desperate to keep us in the EU. Now of course, anyone that wants out will be painted as a gun toting nut and supporter of idiots like edl and britain first. This is one of the things that worries me.. If you ignore the electorate , fascism inevitably rises. The last thing we need is idiots like this and this is exactly what the EU is breeding.

One common theme is near total ignorance about what the EU actually is, what it does, how it operates, why it operates, its history and purpose, its contribution to economic activity, its importance in geopolitics, and so on. What an incredibly stupid thing to have a referendum about. Theresa May's Brexit plans are neoliberal globalisation on steroids because the only way to succeed is to massively deregulate, globalise and open ourselves to the world (as supported by 'economists for brexit')... and there's a fair chance it will still leave us worse off overall, whilst at the same time completely fucking over the poor and increasing inequality. Their end goal is the UK becoming a low tax, light regulation, little welfare, offshore free market hub. Goodbye workers' rights. Goodbye environmental protections. Goodbye British industry. Goodbye NHS. The majority of people who voted for Brexit will get the opposite of what they actually want. Whether they realise or not (or admit it), and THEY are going to be the ones hit by Brexit more than anyone else. People have voted against something they're unhappy with (whether right or wrong) and they are only going to get EVEN MORE of it thanks to their vote. It's a fucking shambles.

@brianjones9345

Жыл бұрын

A load of big words that mean nothing.

3 and a half years later, All 3 Stoke seats have gone Tory as well as Ashton

Typical modern career politician. Out to impose party line views rather than represent the needs of constituents. The Labour Party is an utter disgrace.

@clarkeysam

4 жыл бұрын

The needs of her constituents is to stay in the EU, despite what they thought 3 years ago, and that's what she campaigned for!

@baders087

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, she did support triggering Article 50 in line with what her constituents voted.

Dudson went into administration on 4 April 2019.

And now all three constituencies of this "Labour Heartland" have Conservative MPs

shows that the disconnect is not in fact between Corbyn and labour voters but the center MP's who have turned their backs on him

That is one buxom lady.

@MrMmnngghh

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I shouldn't be thinking about what it would be like to gently bend the lady over when there are far more serious issues at hand; but sometimes, just sometimes, game overrides shame.

And now, 2 years later?

@rareads

5 жыл бұрын

Still vote leave of course

She needs to be elected out. She doesn't represent her local constituents and instead wants to force her views on them.

@baders087

4 жыл бұрын

I am from the future. She has now been elected out.

This video gave me hope

@rrjohnboy

8 жыл бұрын

Me too :) maybe the people for once will be heard. However if the EU track record is anything to go by if we do vote to leave they will force us to vote again... But lets just hope that its a big enough win to leave the EU, that it will be impossible even for the EU and LibLabCon to ignore.

@videogamenostalgia

8 жыл бұрын

Hope that we don't even need to wait 500 years for idiocracy to take effect.

Breaks my heart it does. From Stoke, moved to America 1960. Lived in Gary, Indiana which became murder capital per capita population in the world. Steel mills finished and city is virtual ghost town. Now to hear of my birthplace being in the dumps. My home was torn down on Gillman. Very sad. Dad and Mum worked in the potteries. Family, what's left still in Stoke. This Yank has a Brit heart. Saddened.

ukip, brexit, leave, own laws, get rid of human rights for our own, we had 40 years of complete mess.

when you have nothing, you got nothing to lose. I love this, spoilt middle class students telling the poor/working class what to do Lol the battle was lost before it even started

@Korschtal

4 жыл бұрын

Trouble is, people who vote in a certain way because they "have nothing to lose", tend to find out that they did have something to lose. Sadly, they usually find this out too late.

7:54 "What happens if it ruins Stoke." LOL Stokes already ruined xD

Save Brexit leave means leave without deal

What have their grievances got to do with the EU?

@32446

3 жыл бұрын

Everything!!

@kayem3824

3 жыл бұрын

@@32446 Robots will increasingly replace humans. That's a fact of technology, and businesses will outsource. These aren't EU decisions.

The worst thing about Stoke is that disgusting accent

Going on about the ceramics industry, it's gone. I live in Poole and we had a pretty big pottery business here years ago but it's all gone as well. I don't know why we can't make it profitable though, the clay is in the ground everywhere in East Dorset, you soon realise that when it rains. It's all gone to China, but to be fair though that's where the industry started in the first place.

This is pretty stereotypical, I'm an affluent, middle class guy who loves immigration and hasn't done a decent day's work in his life, and I'm voting out.

Everything is clearer in 2022.

Gorgeous Dudson Pottery. WOW !

@kawsper

2 жыл бұрын

They are now bankrupt and 390 people lost their jobs.

Vote Leave folks. A Brexit vote is a left wing matter as well.

@Tonyisnotonfire

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Evansout government is right wing so....

ASK THEM WHY THEY VOTED AND THE BENEFITS?

turkeys voting for Christmas. Well, they got it!

love these vids

Revoke article 50, we have had enough of these fools in Parliament.

@Darkwintre

5 жыл бұрын

Bollox, we voted to leave so leave. WTO.

Brilliant! Stay in the EU to protect jobs... This has helped when EU money (yes taxes I have paid), has assisted Cadbury, Twinnings and Ford to relocate to other parts the world... I think I know how i'm going to vote now...

NO MORE FREE TRADE......

Labour heartland 😂😂😂 not any more

If I go to Stoke-on-Trent wearing my Rammstein T-shirt, I'll probably have beer poured over my head. Same if I go to Boston, Redcar or Grimsby.

I came here to read Guardian-reader types' comments sneering at the working class. Delicious irony.

@jeanhodgson1152

5 жыл бұрын

bob niblitt 5u

How you leavers feeling now?

I'm a hipster, I drink craft ale, have a nice beard and I'm absolutely outraged at Brexit.

@richardfox6595

5 жыл бұрын

You need to get over yourself. It's a matter of opinion, like voting Labour or Conservative, or maybe Lib Dem. Are you "outraged" when someone doesn't vote for the same party as you? Or do you understand that people have different priorities, different experiences, even different grudges?

@MrLondonGo

4 жыл бұрын

B Williamson ha ha ha, nice troll dude.

WOW same words and sentiments in the US...globalization at work.

the way i see it: leave = more connections across the oceans stay = more connections w/ mainland either way, it's just a change in market for the uk

@micoforion

8 жыл бұрын

Nonsense, no connections across the oceans, UK would need to ,England would need to negotiate deals on its own , and try to get a bargain, wait and see how tories flog TTIP to all UKIP idiots who voted for leave. NHS, public services and everything else you hold dear all sold off to the highest bidders or lowest bidder if they're tory party donors. Germany and France already said no to TTIP. UK wants to sign TTIP, I mean England wants to sign it, Scotland will leave the UK if we leave the EU, same with Wales and NI. End of the UK.

@micoforion

8 жыл бұрын

***** Oh I see my bad, sorry he is a multi-millionaire, worth around £6.6 million.

@georgeyau98

8 жыл бұрын

just a perspective, jeez =___=

@Philrc

5 жыл бұрын

yes, you see that simplistic i.e. wrong view is because you're an idiot

@dinglebeey

5 жыл бұрын

EUROPE IS THE BIGGEST TRADING BLOC IN THE WORLD BY FAR.

Three words 0ut,,,out,,, out!!! Dont they understand!

🤣🤣🤣🤣 they voted Brexit and Tory so now they getting it twice worse 🤣🤣🤣

dudson factory now gone talk about turkeys voting for chritmas

Vote Leave.

Anyone notice the Remain campaigner point blank lied at 5:10 when all the staff at the pottery said they are voting Leave at 8:06

The Labour Party was clearly on the wrong side of the argument.. it won't be easily forgiven for that betrayal.

A disaster : (

WORK HARD AND STOP SPONGING OFF MY TAXES

Look at the colour of the students jackets RED

@rareads

5 жыл бұрын

red = danger

Smoke on Trout

@bartomalatesta5652

3 жыл бұрын

I personally prefer to Smoke-on-Salmon

8:26 you can hear michael jackson in the background

2:50 you need to have a connection to the area? Nonsense. There are 350,000 coming in every year and most don't speak English. What connection do they have?

Amazing that these people blame the EU

@rareads

5 жыл бұрын

What's amazing about it? The EU is waste of money and keeps us from being an independent trading nation

@commonsense31

5 жыл бұрын

rareads okay, keep believing in your fantasy!

@christinedennison7770

4 жыл бұрын

@@commonsense31 you obviously don't have any

LEAVE ❌

@victorialinnell1541

5 жыл бұрын

Out. Out. Of. Corrupt. Eu.

This should be fun. I wonder how many utterly Ignorant Stokies will use soundbytes from the Sun, the BBC, Sky and the Daily Mail?

1:28 "This is quite heartening." Great objective journalism, Guardian. Go Lexit!

@WilfChadwick

4 жыл бұрын

What's Lexit?

@NuisanceMan

4 жыл бұрын

@@WilfChadwick Left exit = Brexit from the left wing

@WilfChadwick

4 жыл бұрын

@@NuisanceMan ah, ok, I don't live in the UK so maybe that's why I've not heard it. My colleagues and clients (asylum seekers) didn't understand how I could be left and support Brexit, until I explained the reasons the refugees presumed I was racist.

@boboboborific

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, lexit has worked out so well for us now eh?

Wow this Labour Mp is so so false.

Scammed

I'm out our out out out

No tumberlweed blowing down the street ? Yet ?

DISCHARGE

tellement sordide !!

Brexit table - workman's bench, remainers table - picnic anyone? I'm a stupid, racist brexitier but I'm sure there's a message there. 4:35

I worked as a BBC journalist here in 2006 Stoke and Hanley were diving to the bottom then...... under EU rule........so where was the European money then to rebuild the INFRASTRUCTURE... of SOT

we need those people

Vote for Tommy for a future for England!....leave didn't mean leave where is democracy gone.??????? You lost ! What do you want ?best out of 3

Has anyone seen it today, 2024?

As a Leaver, this journalist says it as he see's it. Hats off to him

VOTE UKIP

@bartomalatesta5652

3 жыл бұрын

No

of course majority want out and it will increase TIME THE BRITISH PEOPLE WERE PUT FIRST

And this video exemplifies why in 2019 Ruth the labour mp joined the unemployment queue

Just seen one comment, homes are there for people coming into the country. It’s hard to see that a new person let into this country getting 30k in benefits in the first year with all the homeless around. There may organisations that help immigrants CAB, immigration houses etc. When we all know there half a dozen leaving on the streets locally.

your done for

Remainers remind me of Jehova's Witnesses.Hahahahahaha

Labour has become disconnected with its core voters and have become totally irrelevant in this referendum, as they will in national and local politics, they lost my vote many years past.

@jjfojfsoihsfhfih4982

8 жыл бұрын

good stuff! they refused to stand up against big business and sent out search parties for cheap labour. its unforgivable. even looking at the labour leadership election 3 of the candiates were fake as fuck

@SI-cd7xs

8 жыл бұрын

immigrants largely vote labour and are keeping them relevant.

They're voting YES for teeth veneers.

Lifelong labour member I voted out. Free movement is stupid and anti British working classes, it’s a scandal that free movement will stay in place.erm and I live in social housing the vast majority of which is occupied by non British people.

@brianjones9345

Жыл бұрын

But service men and women go to the back of the queue after having served for years while an immigrant fresh of the boat is housed immediately and this is not central government's fault but local councils, mostly Labour led, who are ignoring the Forces Charter.

we're fucked

@serjthereturn

8 жыл бұрын

+Vote to Leave we'll see how things turn out when the economy takes a nose dive, because blaming immigrants won't wash next time

@serjthereturn

8 жыл бұрын

+Vote to Leave have we ever had a vote on corporate globalisation and our economic system too? Cos that's a major factor of people moving around.

@serjthereturn

8 жыл бұрын

Vote to Leave fair question. I guess it doesn't really arise because I haven't seen large marches protesting against multi-culturalism. A million people marched to stop a war and it still went ahead, for example. On the other hand, our multi-cultural society exists because we had an empire that dominated the world, ditto other former colonial powers. How far back do you want to go? We are where we are, for better or worse. I think for the most part it's been a good thing.

@serjthereturn

8 жыл бұрын

***** "Because there are laws against Racism" that doesn't stop you protesting against a multi cultural society, it just so happens many racists get involved and do stupid things. You would only be arrested if you incited hatred or violence. Of course we're multi cultural because of empire. How can you deny that???! Look at the demographics of the immigrant population (not including EU cits)- Pakistani, Indian, Jamaican, African... the British Empire. Bloody ironic that those that loved the empire are always moaning about it's consequences. There are loads of benefits to multi culturalism. Food for one. Music, literature, philosophy, fashion... an improved genepool. But I suppose you don't care for that...

@serjthereturn

8 жыл бұрын

***** what a sad, bitter person you are.

fucking hell that woman is lying to the people in that factory on the end

DAILY MAIL READERS....

Watch Tony Gosling “What the BBC wont tell you about Brexit utube The roots of the EU .Its all about power for Germany

I supposed it’s improved now life after Brexit and farage ukip highest immigration since Brexit 😂

Im not voting labour ever again

All vote brexit party,what have you got to lose,nothing,they will put it right,proper loyal people

@anthonyperkins7556

5 жыл бұрын

I certainly will be doing

Thatcher's paradise ! The richest 1000 Tories wealth increased 183% from £256bn to £742bn in ten years. This is what we get !

@kevster1007

5 жыл бұрын

Wealth and Capitalism creates employment - there is no alternative system that has ever worked

@gordonbradley199

5 жыл бұрын

@@kevster1007 " Worked " ? 4,200,000 kids in poverty. ? 13,000 homeless veterans.? 3,500,000 kids destitute ? 120,000 austerity deaths ? 1, 332, 952 food Bank parcels ? 124,000 kids homeless ? And the bloated rich get fatter ? This is what you call a racket that is " working " ? What would call a " catastrophic failure " ?

@MrMmnngghh

5 жыл бұрын

@@gordonbradley199 Well expressed, Gordon. The same issues are growing here in Australia...and that's without the absolute bugger - mess of an inconclusive "vote" that you're having to deal with over there. I have immediate family living in Britain, so I'm genuine when I say that I truly hope for a peaceful and progressive outcome for Britain's citizens. Elimination of the ruling elite would be a great start, but apparently there's laws against that kind of thing, more's the pity.

@rareads

5 жыл бұрын

@@gordonbradley199 Just look at Venezuela as an example of your socialist system working. Socialism always fails when it runs out of other peoples money, not that your comment has anything to do with brexit at all anyway

REMAIN

uk WOOTED TO LEAVE eu NOW uk IS OUT SO YOU SAID LOUD AND CLEAR THAT YOU DONOT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH rEST OF eUROPE. OK YOUR CHOICE i AM NOT BRITISH I AM DANISH WE STAY IN EU WE HAVE A LOT MORE ADVANTAGES STAYING IN EU IMMIGRATION SURE POINT FINGERS AND 3 WILL POINT AT YOU