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@tims9434

Жыл бұрын

No I think you'll find Tony Blair started all this by not actually being Labour. The government hasn't changed since then. I'm unsubscribed from your channel but KZread likes suggesting your videos to me. I don't watch you anymore because you don't know how to communicate with other people and I just give you a thumbs down 😘

@saragonmcenany6229

Жыл бұрын

Watch Clegg standing in for PMQs he revelled in Osborne’s talking points. Brilliant breakdown Owen 👍🏽

@Nine-Signs

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism over time wrecked Britain, Osbourne was just another member of the political establishment elected to manage that decline due to the utter gullibility of a majority of boomers and a little over half of GenX, who outnumbers cohorts millennials and Genz, 2 to 1, at a minimum. I cant blame Osbourne for doing as capitalism incentivised him to do, I can blame everyone who elected him to do so however.

@nocash7550

Жыл бұрын

@@tims9434 If you 'right-click' on thumbnails, you get a list of options, one of which is "don't recommend videos from this channel." Hope this helps.

Let’s not forget the hand the 57 Lib Dem mps had in pushing the austerity agenda. They’d like it if we all forgot about their total complicity

@mariewhatley455

Жыл бұрын

I have emailed the libdem leader already and told him me and my family won t be voted for his party as they concocted with the Tories during Cameron Osborn and Cleggs time to put the pension age up stealing £50K from each woman born in the 50s.

@silversurfer640

Жыл бұрын

keen cyclist They would, but I never will.

@silversurfer640

Жыл бұрын

@channelsixtyeight068 Absolutely. All those deaths just brushed under the carpet. The Tories definitely have blood on their hands. A lot of it.

@keencyclist6134

Жыл бұрын

@channelsixtyeight068 over 330,000 the Glasgow uni study showed as a direct result of austerity policies. Pretty much genocide.

@keencyclist6134

Жыл бұрын

@channelsixtyeight068 it was a clear plan to remove 335,000 citizens off the books permanently and it worked. No one noticed. They’re not in jail for their actions and are planning austerity 2

A prime minister with work experience in PR and the chancellor with experience as a towel folder. A true indictment of how broken Britain is. How could these people have been in any position of political power is astonishing.

@bigpants6121

Жыл бұрын

They had chums in the right places.

@benmadill4848

Жыл бұрын

@rolandscriven6060 Look what's happened since though! It's a race to the bottom in the style of the neverending story! Osborne and Cameron were woeful. But the sequels have set an entirely new president of depravity in Government!

@alisdairmclean8605

Жыл бұрын

Eton.

@1705louloutte

Жыл бұрын

Because they have been taught at school to present well, to sound more clever than they are, to be so confident that you believe they are great. A bit like I have often been disappointed by over confident people at work.

@paulwebster4499

Жыл бұрын

And a chancellor who was a teacher and a marmalade salesman. Obviously he say the right things to the 1922 committee puppet masters

Not just him.That whole Party is to blame😡😡😡

@macflod

Жыл бұрын

As i said before- Tories are a nations cancer

@paulireland9899

Жыл бұрын

👌💯

The bedroom tax was particularly cruel as well - forced families to leave their homes - I saw this first hand.Horrible.

@sharenwhitlock7737

Жыл бұрын

Still paying the bedroom tax 😔

@universallemon6631

Жыл бұрын

The rules about how many people can live in social housing has had a devastating effect on families, who are now living in overcrowded mold filled properties........

@robskibulletmovement8998

Жыл бұрын

I had 3 bed room council house I had to pay £30 per room which was £60 out of £146 jsa.... And I'm still in debt today! Ps I'm a self employed plasterer now before I get the usual "go get a job" 😭

@jujutrini8412

Жыл бұрын

@@robskibulletmovement8998 The vast majority of people who claim benefits are working.

@paulathornton8858

Жыл бұрын

I have heard that if no beds in the spare rooms and it used has storage you don't have to pay the bedroom tax. Not sure how true it is but worth a look

Osbourne, Hunt, Boris. Some of the most treacherous characters to have ever misgoverned the country.

@annenunney9907

Жыл бұрын

They truly were

@davidwarnes1636

Жыл бұрын

Boris was a numpty . But way less eliteist .

@sarabevan3468

Жыл бұрын

And all of an ilk...ie their insular education system 😒.

@gazza595

Жыл бұрын

@@davidwarnes1636 Johnson was less elitist! Wow that’s some statement, you do know that Johnson, like Cameron, was a member of the Bullingdon club . They simply do not come elitist than that shower of excrement.

@jennyjohn704

Жыл бұрын

@@davidwarnes1636 Are you for real? They don't come much more privileged/elite than Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

You've got it in one. Lack of accountability is a real problem. They are all protecting each other to the detriment of the rest of us. What to do? How to change this abuse of power?

Every leader since Cameron/Osbourne has been merely the consequence of the damage that Osbourne committed.

the Cameron Osborne years were truly terrible people have forgotten how bad those years were

@bigpants6121

Жыл бұрын

Apart from Lex Greensill and the Chinese!

@macflod

Жыл бұрын

They forgot because it got worse since- Cameron Osborne were just laying the foundation, setting us on course for what happened after

@yt.personal.identification

Жыл бұрын

OK Boomer

@janecroft4896

Жыл бұрын

I agree Owen, Osbourne was the architect of our decline and now he’s out of government it’s all forgotten. It was hell then, a truly awful time.

@ChristopherFynn001

Жыл бұрын

@@janecroft4896 Not out. Sunak and Hunt are taking advice from Osborne.

What Britain needed in 2010 was the exact opposite of what George Osborne did. We needed a massive program of public works to stimulate the economy.

I have been talking about George Osbourne and his policies being detrimental to this country for the last five years and hear Owen say the same is vindication. Osbourne’s policies were cruel, divisive, and unpleasant. Him and Cameron face no criticism for their horrendous austerity measures & as Owen has labelled they have had their lasting effects on today’s society.

@thecheesefactor

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Osborne should be marginalised for what he did, not paraded on talk shows like some economic sage! He is quite the opposite. He and Cameron should be held accountable as the figureheads for the policies that brought us to where we are today. Architects of austerity, Brexit, and a weakened NHS. Hundreds of thousands have died as a result of their policies.

@mariacrouch7109

Жыл бұрын

So very true and don't forget Ian dunken smith as well

We MUST not ever allow another Government to pursue Austerity again. It's time to tax the corporate class fully and highly or the people must take power to prevent a catastrophe

@HelenaMikas

Жыл бұрын

They have done it and how and still the public say 'what can you do' rather than demand an election .England is a catastrophe and dictatorship Problem being most believe such matters only happen in other countries .Take a look at what has been robbing the taxpayer whilst limiting freedoms -

@stewartashling

Жыл бұрын

They're doing it now

@catherinemartin6258

Жыл бұрын

@@stewartashling yeah with no mandate and none of us want it

@kirkhunter146

Жыл бұрын

Problem is they are doing it again. Second problem is "we the people". There is no "we the people" in the UK. The BBC, Sky News and Murdoch press set us all against each other with made up trivia.

@jackkruese4258

Жыл бұрын

No we need to invest more far more in he UKs infrastructure so the economy can finally start growing, something we ve totally failed to do for far to long.

I remember Ian Duncan Smith blaming Osborne for all the cruelties of the reforms to benefits, but I don't know if I can believe anything IDS says.

@yesyoureright

Жыл бұрын

Yea he blamed him then created the cruelest system that literally starves and harrass people to death. Universal credit, you literally don't understand it until you're actually on it.

@bigpants6121

Жыл бұрын

IDS oversaw Universal credits! What a shambles that was.

@davidbaker5561

Жыл бұрын

You can tell when Tories are lying. If you look carefully, you can see their lips moving!

@annenunney9907

Жыл бұрын

I d s was involved

@robotjin

Жыл бұрын

Ian Duncan Smith eh, I can't even believe his name, oh wait 🤔

Totally agree Owen,,. him and Cameron,, Austerity was a complete lie!!!

Austerity horrified me and I remember the despair I felt when the Tory’s won the 2015 election after imposing such destructive cuts.

Totally agree, I too have often felt that it was Osborne more than anyone who poisoned politics in the UK

When you have privileged privately educated lawyers, solicitors and all round business/ corporate people getting into politics, that's the problem. When they push their own narrative in government roles, that's the problem! When parliament allows people, with no experience or qualifications to take ministerial roles (such as, minister of education); yes, that's the problem! When parliament allows minister roles to have no accountability, you guessed it, that's the problem!

DAVID CAMERON SET IT OFF AND WALKED AWAY. I CALLED IT AS SOO AS HE WAS VOTED IN. DON'T FORGET HE STARTED THIS!!!!

@elpirata2685

Жыл бұрын

He will go down in history as the man who enabled the break up of the Union. Scotland will get out, and Ireland will be reunited. So it's not all bad.

@richluke24

Жыл бұрын

@@elpirata2685 he's an utter scumbag as soon as he was voted in as Prime Minister I called it that he would be the ruin of the country. I have never seen someone so transparently self serving, almost to the point of being psychotic. Yet he's walked away scot free and is forgotten when apportioning blame, in favour of more obvious clowns such as Johnson.

I was starting to think I was the only person who had Osbourne in the frame - great video ,, thank you!

You can add Nigel Lawson as the founding father of this system, who then did trojan work organising cl8mate denial

The UK public have a very short memory, otherwise the likes of Osbourne and Thatcher would always be talked about with distain.

Osborne, Cameron and Duncan Smith had one intention. Punish the poor, sick and working class in general. What they would not do, is punish the guilty one's. I. E. Bankers. No, not in a million years.

@peterdockrill9653

Жыл бұрын

They also punished savers and pensioners by implementing 0% interest rates. They printed 500 billion for the bankers, created out of thin air backed by nothing.

*....and the editors of the Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Express and Star......*

I still can't get over the nastiness and cruelty, of austerity and was dumbfounded by everyone believing the bs, I honestly tell people him and IDS should be in prison .

@biffa1234100

Жыл бұрын

AND SO THEY SHOULD

@TalesByTheRiverBank

Жыл бұрын

@@biffa1234100 should Callaghan and co be in prison as well? What we were subjected to back then was far, far worse than now. In the 1970s inflation hit 25%, mortgage interest rates were at 11.75% (and soon to rise much further). Everyone in the world was on strike and unlike today there were no jobs at all available. Winters were very cold compared to now, but we did not expect anyone to pay our bills for us (or even part pay our bills) and noone did.

@silversurfer640

Жыл бұрын

kelly hawkes Absolutely. Duncan Smith should be in jail for corporate manslaughter.

@ThickRedPaste

Жыл бұрын

@@TalesByTheRiverBank so that maenads that no one should ask for help when there is an abundance of support

@ronniesimpson9141

Жыл бұрын

@@TalesByTheRiverBank Ted heath Tory was PM 1970 to 1974 and had the three day week, under Callaghan there were one million on the benefits, under Thatcher there were four million on benefits, and record house repossessions and our utilities flogged off cheaply to their cronies, and our manufacturing decimated, and mortgage rates as high as 15 per cent.

George Osborne scared the hell out of me. I have cerebral palsy and worked for Remploy before my factory was closed in 2008. George Osborne, said: "Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits."

@janetmalcolm6191

Жыл бұрын

He was a nasty piece of work for sure in politics.

That working class people cast their votes for ex members of the Bullingdon Club (Cameron, Osbourne, Johnson….etc.) never ceases to amaze me. Leopards don’t change their spots. These are ultra-eltists who have the same regard for the lower orders as they would for farm animals. Perhaps less.

Osbourne, was one of the reasons that every British citizen had to work longer until they received their pensions. Obviously his wealth will allow him to retire early

@rachelhoward334

Жыл бұрын

He stole up to £46k from those of us women born in the 50s, he said it was the easiest money he had made, we are still fighting to get that money back.

@paulwebster4499

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelhoward334 Excellent anology more Tory theft from the less well off

Well said.

I'm glad you brought up the subject of Osborne. Wasn't it under his tenure that China was allowed to lease two of our most productive oil fields (with eye watering conditions imposed by the Chinese), wasn't it under his tenure that Centrica were allowed to dispose of our gas reserves? 🙄. They must never be allowed to impose such failed ideas as austerity on the UK ever again. 😡

@silversurfer640

Жыл бұрын

Michael Kimber He also privatised royal mail.

All the people that died because of his austerity no equipment for doctors nurses and carers in homes he should be shamed

You are so right; no accountability for anyone of means in our society

I thought the Cameron/Osborne period would never end. It felt like it was deliberate punishment for not working harder than we do.

What happens when you have complete immunity or no accountability in HOP HOC HOL , do what you want break any laws & at the very worst you'll be asked/forced to resign & sit on the backbenches on a full salary pension expenses intact , here lies the problem everyone else would be sacked never to work in that profession again

Hello Owen, I have watched you on the Jeremy Vine Show and thought you were just a young hothead. After watching your video this afternoon, I have completely changed my mind. You talk so much sense. I will pay you a lot more attention in the future. With young men like you, there is hope for us yet. Stay strong. What do these Hooray Henry’s with their snotty noses know about government ?

We live in a country of I'm all right Jack, two bob millionaires who fail to see that they are a breath away from losing everything because of their own selfishness and lack of humanity.

Agree. A lot of Brexit votes were because of dissatisfaction with the state of the nation, caused by Osbourne, Cameron, Hunt and Gove. May was useless throughout, missed the immigration target year upon year.

Gidiot was the one who made it possible for tax avoidance on an industrial scale .

@PurityVendetta

Жыл бұрын

Remember when this little shlt sold the Osborne and Little factory site and immediately moved the millions of pounds into an offshore trust tax free, and I believe that might have been when he was chancellor.

We are in a bubble that keeps repeating itself . Would be interesting to do a video of all this PMs explaning how we need to be in austerity all the time . Bet the message and words all the same . Uk just have a very short memory span and this problems are on a role since the 90,s .

Honestly, I love these videos Owen is making - one of the few people in the media that speak with crystal clear sense.

@audreymcgready4329

Жыл бұрын

And Femi.

@mhtbfecsq1

Жыл бұрын

He sure does.

@mhtbfecsq1

Жыл бұрын

@Great whyte Knight yo mr laughing emoji (as all embarrassingly childish right wingers love to do) your far right government has overseen the creation of a rogue police force full of dangerous people which lead to the Sarah Evarard tragedy and a lot more shocking scandals like that.

@mhtbfecsq1

Жыл бұрын

@@RC-9 Oh really, I have a strong feeling you can't explain how.....

@uniteddreamer

Жыл бұрын

@@RC-9 how much did selling off the gold reserves cost Britain then? Bearing in mind the national debt is well over two trillion pounds. 🤡

Owen, what a great history lesson, I have been witness to all this but you linked all these disturbingly farcical facts in in a very comprehensible cause-effect timeline. Hats off to you for being the sharpest pencil in the box. Thank you. ❤

If pay wasn’t so bad then benefits wouldn’t even be seen as needed so it pretty bizarre how many people bought that at the time.

Well said Owen, thankyou for talking sense

Ah, the Grim Reaper. I had forgotten about him. Thanks to him hundreds of thousands of people died prematurely in the last decade.

Austerity lead to Brexit, without the effects of Austerity which caused resentment amongst the general public and lead to the EU being blamed for a Home grown problem

@tonycollyweston6182

Жыл бұрын

You are 100 percent correct.

From here in Australia, I notice some worrying similarities among our politicians with yours; politicians holding positions for which they are totally unsuited for. For example, why did Osbourne hold the important financial position of Chancellor of the Exchequer when he only has a degree in Modern History? Absolutely bizarre!! It's just like our state (NSW) minister for Education having a degree in International relations ..... and she seems to think that she's qualified to tell teachers how to teach!

They get rehabilitated purely because someone worse comes along afterwards. Its amazing really.

When are the links to the WEF going to be highlighted ???? Any politician with ties to that organisation will NEVER look out for their own nations' interests !!!!!

ive always blamed Osbourne/cameron i work for myself and in my bit of spare time i pick litter for the council as a vounlteer since Osbourne cut funding to councils in 2010 Litter has got so much worse, just one of the problems the conservaties have caused

The greatest myth at the heart of the last generation was There Is No Alternative.

Thank u Owen, this was v revealing for me as a young person only having been politically aware during the chaos years - always knew Osborne was a nasty character, didn’t know much of the detail. Smashing it as always, keep it up ✊

Absolutely spot on analysis

You are so right about this

I have only ever agreed with one thing Osbourne said or done, and that is when he said the SNP Budget was too draconian.

Owen reminds us of NHS underfunding meaning we were very unprepared for the pandemic. True, but social care, housing, social security (self isolate when you're subject to the bedroom tax?) etc. Osbo complained that Labour did not mend the roof when the sun was shining, but it reality he was up on the roof tearing holes in it.

life expectancy has fallen in the last two years after flatlining since 2011.

Don't forget Cameron's "Big Society". He must be immensely proud of all the food banks we have nowadays. Can't be long before the Work Houses return.

Ah, Gidiot the Towel Folder. A man completely unqualified for his position. Zero financial experience or qualifications and gifted the most important financial job in the country. Absolute madness.

David Cameron unquestionably. He didn’t have the backbone to deal with Brexit so he abrogated his responsibility by making it a referendum issue. Gutless.

Thanks for this analysis! I have been wondering where all this started, and now it all makes sense.

💯 no accountability whatsoever They keep coming back and seen as some sort of credible experts. Just look at what’s happening with Matt Hancock 🤬

@thecheesefactor

Жыл бұрын

Hancock should be a social pariah. Piers Morgan tore a strip off him in 'that interview' back when Hancock was still in office. Since then things were going as they should to some degree at least, with him being forced to resign, and recently with Sunak publicly snubbing him. Tory media seeking to prevent this from becoming a precedent by letting him on reality TV. Anyone with a brain should have boycotted the show. Blood on his hands.

Thanks as ever for putting words to it. Makes me feel slightly less mad/gaslit!

Exactly right. Osborne’s policies were diametrically the opposite to what was needed. Government investment should have increased after the world economic crash. Not been cut.

Osbourne has the cheek to show his face every week on Andrew Neil show it's a joke. Should not be allowed any platform to speak.

@PurityVendetta

Жыл бұрын

My thought exactly.

@audreymcgready4329

Жыл бұрын

@@PurityVendetta He sickens my happiness Sophie.

@macflod

Жыл бұрын

They should let him on but only to hold him to account, not as some guru commentator.

you are right, they are responsible for all the crime and knives we see today in London street

But at least all his mates got richer eh?! So, you know, every cloud….. 🤬

As usual Owen, absolutely spot on, nobody is ever held to account

I remember those days, I earnt £180 a week after tax as a full time worker.

"Austerity, The History of A Failed Idea" By Mark Blythe, Professor of Economic Policy at Brown University explains why Austerity never does what it's proponents publicly say it does.

At last, someone who gets it. When people complained about Truss it seems they had forgotten completely about who laid the groundwork for the poverty stricken society we see today. I’m surprised he never got the level of infamy he deserves. As well as austerity don’t forget the housing aspects of his budgets which benefited the homeowner first and foremost, starting the steep upward climb in house prices from 2013.

Maybe a video next about the people who wanted to believe it all and turned on their neighbours ? They are not unthinking sows but people with their own minds; they are every bit as responsible for allowing it all to happen as the person who directed it at the top.

I'd blame Clegg, if Clegg met with Brown and accepted the change to PR as a condition for support, we'd never have had Osborne.

@bambit08

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree - I never understood how Clegg would choose Cameron over Brown ... the worst decision of UK politics in the last 30 years.

I been saying for years the state of the economy affected the referendum. Nice one for calling it out

I have been thinking the same thing.

This is nail on head

They talk about balancing the budget but still spend tens of billions on a train that will save 20 minutes from London to Birmingham.

wait, didn't the credit downgrade cause the cost of borrowing to go UP??

One austerity cut Owen didn’t mention were cuts to disability and sickness benefits. Criteria were narrowed under PIP that replaced DLA meaning less people got help than before. The independence living fund that helped those with high care needs was abolished. ESA that replaced incapacity benefit divided those too sick or disabled to work into two groups. One group supposedly was marked as may be able to work in the future and this group then had their rate of benefit reduced to the same as jobseekers/universal credit despite being too ill to work currently. Also as local government funding was slashed many of those receiving care found their financial contribution shooting up so were able to keep less of their sickness and disability benefits.

I think that dubious honour belongs to Cameron. He gambled the future of the country to secure the future of the Tory party and ended up losing both.

You ARE so CORRECT Mr Jones!!!

"The Decade The Rich Won" on the BBC is an eye opening documentary

It's one of the minor mysteries of political life that people who have held office become 'elder statesmen' even if they made a dreadful mess while they were in office. I wonder why they save their wiser and well thought out comments until they are no longer in office?

Glad to see Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were such shining examples, NOT.

British voted tories and they expected to become richer, ??????????? how where when in history ?

Osborn was rewarded handsomely by his paymasters and continues to be very handsomely rewarded going forward forever👿

Owen, I think you are talking about a key member of the anti-growth coalition. It is a massive force sitting fairly and squarely inside the Tory Party, now coalescing around the supporters of hard Brexit.

Brilliant! So true.

Gideon Osbourne of the Bullingdon Club

Tories shouldn't be walking around free. And you're right GWB the war criminal has no business walking this Earth alive.

given that the MP prior to Osborne was Martin Bell I'm suprised that George became the MP for Tatton

The problem is you can keep going! Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Maggy Thatcher. Tories AND Labour, We desperately need a GENUINE third option.

Liz Truss, seems to come up often here. so here is my take on her premiership. I think she was never intended to last more than a few weeks as PM. I also think she was made PM as a golden handshake for her support for her old boss, BOJO. Lets face it she now has a life long huge pension as well as security. Not bad for a couple of weeks deliberate destruction of the UK economy.

We have the same problem in Australia. The Right Wing parties exploit the General Public's ignorance of National Debt and the Balance of Payment mechanisms. GNP and their Bank Overdraft are not equal. A Personal Bank OD has a time limit for repayment. National debt has no such limit.

Thatcher is to blame for a lot of this mess too

Very well spoken Owen. Osborne's approach was revolting and is being repeated in many ways. I get angry that Gordon Brown is blamed for the last banking crisis, but it was Thatcher and Reagan who started the deregulation of the financial system which ultimately resulted in the 2007/9 crash. No-one ever seems to mention this and Brown led the globe in the response, but is somehow vilified for saving the country. Perhaps you could say something about the effects of the right wing idealogues whose deregulation resulted in the austerity that followed

@peterdockrill9653

Жыл бұрын

1982 reagan abolished The Sherman anti trust act. That spelled the end of economic fairness and competitiveness and the regulation of interstate commerce.

Bang on 👏

Totally agree. He and Jeremy Hunt are my least favourite politicians. So cruel, and so smooth.

@michaelpower4372

Жыл бұрын

Sunak is just as bad He rehired hunt.

Well put Owen!!! Though Osbourne was aided and abetted with some enthusiasm by those around him. Perhaps the whole of the cabinet are jointly responsible for selling the country down the drain..

Owen I agree with most of your arguments here other than your comment about there being nothing perverse about having 3 or 4 kids. There isn't anything perverse about it, biology is biology after all, but I do think we're probably at a stage where people should have less children, and should probably be more aware about the cost of raising children, both financially for the parents, and environmentally for the planet. These are important considerations when you consider that having children is a choice, the state shouldn't support people who want more children when they haven't considered the cost.

Its not just him

On the US point, I completely agree that Bush / Dubya was a worst president than Trump.