2: The Art of War (The Alexei Sayle Podcast)

[@ICDarkly]

There isn't enough criticism of the Labour right by well known voices. That leaked report should of been an international scandal.

[@preservedmoose]

*should have

[@oneoflokis]

#Forde

[@DJCoachCookie68]

I love Alexei, he takes me back to my Yoot! He has engaged me in Politics by keeping it real and by being his honest self, plus being funny! Vote for Alexei of the Rovers innit! 💪🏻💚 Nice People are Nice!

[@amandaloebner8169]

Thank you Alexei, it's so lovely to hear this. Keep it coming please.

[@hayley7090]

I joined the Labour Party because of Corbyn and I left because of Starmer. Back to being politically homeless...🙄

[@alexharrison9340]

A setback Hayley, as you know, life doesn't always go in a straight line to social justice. As a good man once said ''things can and they will change.''

[@davidrobinson2776]

They couldn’t buy Corbyn so he was out of their control. We will rise again, comrade.

[@mr.dalerobinson]

Too many people are aware that our leaders are not representing the interests of the people. The problem is that we are collectively apathetic towards our problems. “For the triumph of evil a good man needs to do nothing”

[@MrBootoob]

Brilliant stuff. Such a good listen. I look forward to when you further delve into the failings of British comedy during a time when it could've been the last word in truth for the masses. It's penchant for sticking the boot in on a thoroughly decent human being in Jeremy, only to receive 2 pieces of silver and a lick of the boot has only shown it up for what it is. Thank the gods for people like yourself, Alexei. From one Scouser to another. Great work.

[@robertdarbymusic]

Excellent piece of luck . I searched you on youtube, only to discover you'd started this podcast. I'll share you as much as possible. Rob in Australia.

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

Hi,Rob in Australia Do you know Wendy & Darrell in Perth WA They live near a Shell petrol station and a Farmer Jack's supermarket?

[@robertdarbymusic]

@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe Funny you should mention it, um, no. However, I should say that I share my 1 bedroom flat with 8 kangaroos.

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

@@robertdarbymusic Hope you've got a Big shovel and a Good Airfreshener

[@robertdarbymusic]

@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe Well what's the point of sharing with kangaroos if I did that?

[@robertdarbymusic]

@@Berry-fr5wj Yes, but sometimes they are ungrateful.

[@andrewcoley6029]

Only just discovered these podcasts - great content. Also just finished Stalin Ate My Homework really really enjoyed it, made me laugh out loud. I'd definitely vote for the Nice People Party.

[@jurysout1]

George Lansbury wasn't deposed. The party voted against disarmament as it looked clearer what was going to happen within a few years and he resigned as leader. It's well known that his granddaughter is Angela Lansbury but less well known that his grandson was Oliver Postgate, the genius behind Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor The Engine.

[@newforestpixie5297]

The first time I saw Keir Starmer a year ago I couldn’t believe he actually looked like a Ted Heath x with an Estate Agent . But Alexis’ “ Why Does Starmer Look Like A Thunderbirds Puppet ? Because his strings are Pulled by The Establishment ! “ Is an actual fact 😂😂😂🏴❤️

[@tuckwatsellers]

Sir Keith is indeed a tiny tiny little man.

[@redemrys5342]

3 months later after the Labour Conference & Keith has labelled Boris "a trivial man" . A few sniggers were audible.

[@oneoflokis]

Isn't he just! 😏

[@themonkeyofiron9250]

Thanks for the martial arts stuff, very funny and interesting 💯💯☺️

[@fluid0]

What a wonderful treat

[@lanehewitt7685]

Loving these podcasts. Since lockdown I've been taking part in an international lefty podcast recording and office hours ran by award winning comedy writer David Feldman. I ran an idea past the other punters about names for a new party. How about we rebrand communism as communityism and socialism as societyism first? It seems those old terms post cold war have been tarnished so much its created the biggest stumbling block to having good guys run stuff.

[@chriskinsley4922]

Never thought you were this politically astute Quite surprised to be honest I enjoyed listening to your ramblings Keep up the good work comrade

[@wbafc1231]

Great Podcast. Never thought about it that way...attack them on their strenghts.

[@philipthompson924]

I think the left was too nice and allowed the right to walk all over us. What about “Nice But Viscious”. Love the podcast - look forward to the next one.

[@cormacjordan7173]

I was loitering in the booth as my friend was DJing at a rave a couple of years ago. I started wetting myself laughing as a t-shirt in the crowd caught my eye. It read: " Surely not EVERYBODY was Kung Fu fighting

[@martinshort1247]

Another great show.

[@suzannemolyneux2357]

Great stuff Alexei! Keep them coming

[@FriedEggTV]

hi Akexie love your work sad i never met you in Soho back in the day but I lefft London to go to Africa from Holloway Road overland cos I got pissed off working in the film industry and Punk died plus the influx of heroin. so refreshing to watch all your old stuff. Brilliant you need an Oscar! uumm five mixed race daughters I used to teach members of the ANC, was big into Rock against Racism back in the day But Hey Ime a film maker since 14, first film was a transvestite Vampire film, shot in school playground, just won a couple of awards for a film about Ken Saro Wiwa, but your work is such a TONIK

[@lloroshastar6347]

Alexei you're absolutely right about comedians of the past 20 years (perhaps longer), and only in the past 10 months or so have I begun to realise how much of a coward I've been for so long as well. It's funny but it took some good friends and listening to African Americans during the BLM protests last year to wake me up. I pretended to not support Corbyn out of cowardice of what other people thought, I didn't want to speak up about my views because I was worried about what other people thought. Centrism is a lie, cowardice I'm ashamed to say I was a part of, and I say this less than a day after I witnessed a modern day Munich Putsch, an attempt by fascists in the US trying to stage a coup after years of complacency over the right going further and further right, and instead of reacting the so called left-wing parties move along with them because they've now decided this is what the people want, this is the 'will of democracy'. It's time to take the gloves off, we can be the nice party, but we need to be aggressive in our nicety, nice has to apply to everyone, and that's why we can't simply tolerate anti-democratic extremists in our midst any longer.

[@TheWi11ow]

Hey Alexei, I've been looking for and reading many a rule list for lock down, but can't see if it's just an ostrich three people can meet in a pub with. or would I get away with my Nan's budgie. Loving the podcast and always been a fan since The Young One days, when I used to sneak my TV on in my bedroom before going to primary school the next day. Most comedy pales in comparison.

[@debiclark4362]

I enjoyed this. We are all going mad 😆

[@jamesevansmusic231]

Nice podcast, "Thatcher is a Bastard!"

[@alexharrison9340]

Ha, 'Human rights lawyer, Sir Keir Starmer', ''bar worker, Adolf Hitler.''

[@RocklandsArtBeat]

its time for #TheNicePeople

[@mattiethemongoose3rd]

Hello, just listened to this and I'm sorry my YT channel name is so hard to pronounce, my name is actually Martha and the name is because I do Martial Arts stuff on my channel. I practice a style of Kung Fu called Choy Li Fut and Hung Sing is a traditional name for Choy Li Fut schools, I put them together because I thought it would work better for searching. It was a bit of a mistake because I subsequently learned that Hung Sing Choy Li Fut is a name for a particular branch of Choy Li Fut but it was a bit late to change the channel name by that time. I do have that in my lineage, but my lineage is really messed up so it's not really accurate. I put Lady in because I didn't want to use my real name because I've had a few problems with people and my name isn't well known in Martial Arts anyway, and because I want to be clear to people in Martial Arts that I am a woman. There is a problem with women being sort of erased and I know of at least one who has been really quite ashamed of being a woman. She used to troll me using just the name Choy Li Fut and appeared to be a man, but eventually I worked out who she was. She subsequently started trolling me using an obviously female gendered name on Instagram instead, and now uses that to post about women doing Martial Arts so I think I made progress there. I do get that the BBC is not a monolith, my history of being involved in activism kind of made me not like the BBC that much anyway. I was one of those who mostly listened to Radio 4 but was getting fed up with Woman's Hour and the programmes where a woman spent half an hour telling us we really should not use the word mansplaining because it was very upsetting for teenage boys, and another telling us that Millenials are immature because they buy houses later and get married later and have children later, ignoring the fact that their material circumstances are somewhat different these days. I find it hard to switch on for individual programmes and never really got into using the iPlayer, and actually haven't bought a TV license for years because I don't watch TV anyway. I'm not going to judge others for continuing to consume BBC content or for creating it, it's just not something I can really manage any more.

[@FromaTwistedMind]

I love Alexei's thought processes ramblings political speil as well as his ... When life goes wrong l go... Bmmm bum wukka wakka ikky ekky bleurgh Urghh err Eurm & other ridiculous noises & somehow everything makes sense & as a proud Socialist in these harsh times of austerity & rising inflation & rising food & fuel costs, knowing that as a proud Socialist living in a country that voted for both Brexit & Boris the Clown 🤡 l know that ALL of my efforts in combating & exposing the inequalities we now found ourselves living in since the 1950's makes me Dub dub dub dub dub...... wake up 6 hours later to dub dub one banana, 2 banana, dub dub dub Dub dub the Bush kangaroo have a banana ooooh ooooh Nuts ooooohooh hazelnuts Conservatives take em & they pop them up orifices. I thank you.... I'll get my coat. Woof Bark.

[@thearno2885]

What are your thoughts on Adam Curtis and his documentaries?

[@zaygezunt]

Yes, count me in for The NIce People Party - We're left and we're right and the right are wrong!

[@RealinDealer]

Any more Sandwich bars in the offing?

[@stephengriffin4525]

Isn't Mrs Blair a Human Rights Lawyer? Go figure that!

[@onanysundrymule3144]

George Galloway's Worker's party of Great Britain will do just fine for me.

[@lizwaddingtondruyoga2855]

Alexei for PM 🙏

[@FireMoon42]

Your natural home is with the Erisians. Our strength is our sticking apart.

[@jasongallagher1185]

you say the head of bbc comedy cares about talent, so why does mrs browms boys continue to get prime time slots?

[@wbafc1231]

Bar worker Adolph Hitler.....that's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

[@anthonymichael5078]

During my entire life, I can honestly say I only ever voted Labour once. Growing up in a socialist household under Foot (Michael NOT repression from a right wing regime....oh hang on can I mean BOTH of these things?) Then the Kinnock years , I was then briefly emboldened when John Smith came along and my voting life began but sadly he left us too soon for fucking Tony Blair and it is to my eternal shame that I blundered into a voting booth fuel by D ream cool Britannia and a wealth of media hyper and voted for a Blair government after the immensely pleasurable demise of Thatcher( only once mind! They only fooled me for a very short while,but fool me they did!) Eventually I created my own political party the PRF Preston Revolutionary Front....each time I went to the polls I would draw in my box add my name and vote for myself, it didn't really take off but it made me feel much better for my earlier errors.....I only really got empassiioned again under JC but that was always going to end in tears! Thanks for these Podcasts!!! Missed Alexei Sayle in the media!

[@deangriffiths3618]

Hi Alexei. Regarding the 'Nice People Party' idea; how do you feel about the possibility of a 'Peace and Justice Party'?

[@richierobbo]

Luv it Lex, The Terribly Nice People would be a great name for a new radical socialist party.

[@zindi1138]

Hi im subbed..thanks for all your insights

[@stuartaxon2898]

Yes, most comedians were despicable in the last 5 years... it's ruined so much TV for me as I can't forget their cuntery.

[@salparadise1220]

The need persists. If only Mr Corbyn would give up on Labour as the utterly lost cause it is, and start a new Socialist Party. I think membership would swell rapidly and British politics would receive the grand slam bomb up its rear end that it so richly deserves. But then the media would never let any mention of said Party pass without going on about utterly bogus anti-semitism claims, and would certainly not allow debates about fairness, inequality, economic coercion and rampant corruption (having run interference for said issues for the last 25+ years).

[@pauloneill9880]

Looking for that podcast Yannis varoufakis was on that you mentioned, but can't seem to find Pod Amos anywhere.

[@Solaar_Punk]

I'm convinced

[@sloot69x]

George Lansbury grandfather of Angela Lansbury.

[@palmereldritch8277]

5:53 - "Keir Starmer... he was a human rights lawyer for a BIT, for a lot longer he was Director of Public Prosecutions and then an MP. It's like, Hitler worked in a pub but they don't call him, 'bar worker Adolf Hitler vowed to crush the forces of the Allies as they invaded Europe'... I also want to talk, at some point, about the fact that ... a lot of the most virulent forces on the Right started off on the Left..." He's not really left-wing, y'know. He just does it to appear more sophisticated.

[@mattelliottmusic]

Love these podcasts I only have one doubt about the name of your party. In my experience anyone who has self defined as 'nice', has normally actually been the opposite ;) :D

[@alexwood3251]

Interesting question about people from the left moving to the right.

[@stephengriffin4525]

Is it a pushbike or a motorbike?

[@jasongallagher1185]

i think you should highlight the fact that boris tried to have a journalist beaten up. the press have never picked up on it and he admitted it on have i got news for you. id like to ask if you are a fan of mark kermode

[@unchattytwit]

Yes you've gone mad - haven't we all. And comedy's definitely gone right wing liberal puntish including the BBC.

[@nevem5010]

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[@daverich3352]

Given this is youtube, how about producing it with a video, show us your bookshelf!

[@reasontruthandlogic]

Starmer is about the same height as King Charles and 1" taller than president Macron, but he probably has the shortest distance between the eyes.

[@kennduemortensen5496]

I thought studing chinese martial arts meant alexei had taken up wing chun or something similar. But i guess just reading about it is a form of study to :p

[@AlexeiSayleOFFICIAL]

nah, he does it too mate.

[@kennduemortensen5496]

@@AlexeiSayleOFFICIAL I`ve done wing chun peutty much fanaticly from 1996 - 2011 I would love to see some forms or basic training. while on holliday in amsterdam i was doing my siu nim tau (first form in WC) and a tv crew showed up. i gave an interview and let them film me from the back while i did the form , i will never forget that :) They will probally never forget the weirdO that took his shirt of and procited to do alot of strange movements with his arms , but there we are :)

[@kennyallen946]

You remind me of my Dad when he was younger.. bold head ,big mouth,socialist but your a lot funnier. I remember you done a program on t.v back in the day where you revisited some of your old drinking holes including the hospitality bar on a train from Liverpool to London.. funny and fascinating. I've been a fan of yours for years and It feels like I've not heard from you in a long time.. welcome back.. I'm listening to your pod cast through my Alexa speaker thingy and sometimes when you say your name it pings and is listening for your command.. it can be a bit annoying..have you thought about changing your name or using an alternative? Just a thought. Stay safe..

[@g.pmoore4293]

Met Tom Watson's aunt a while back , she is a very nice lady but i did tell her how much i dislike the man .

[@craigthomable]

BBC. BBC Four is also part of the problem: it is stuffed full of reactionary history programmes, masquerading as "documentaries" (a word that connotes seriousness and professionalism). The series fronted by a posh woman with a blond bob who works at Hampton Court consists in 50 parts entitled "Isn't The British Monarchy Absolutely Marvellous" is particularly nauseating. So the problem goes beyond the News Division which, as you rightly say, is colonised by fucking Tories and who have used it to further the aims of the Conservative party, not least by producing a seemingly unlimited number of lies and smears about Jeremy Corbyn for over four years.

[@alexwood3251]

Blair didn’t result from Kinnock. Blair became leader following the death of John Smith. Smith was a decent guy as far as I can make out; possibly not a socialist but not as right wing as Blair.

[@Georgieastra]

I get very annoyed at people who sing Kung Fu Fghting when they meet a martial arts expert. Personally I prefer to use the theme from Hong Kong Phooey.

[@johnhodge1263]

LABOUR is finished as a party for the people. They are heading towards the Corporate model of Governance as Biden's.

[@willford8475]

I think Johnson should have read The Art of War by Sun Tzu instead of fucking BUNTY!

[@gepmrk]

What happened to your Labour Party is no different to what happened to 'our' Australian Labour Party. This isn't a coincidence. The capacity and ultimately willingness of parties that historically had some form of social agenda to pursue that agenda world wide has been diminished by the Corporate sector and their agenda is uninterested in anything other than the welfare of rich slobs.

[@daphoebster]

They should run a left party the way Alcoholics Anonymous is run. Sticking to 12 traditions and no one in charge. Taking turns to do jobs and rotating different jobs every few months

[@fuschia555]

you are a good man but ostrich??? surely badger is the way to go

[@jackharry1646]

Another waste of time but I’ll hang around to see how bad it can get…

[@keithlane4705]

Needlessly indecisive & convoluted extremist !

[@MichaelFitzpatrick-b9e]

As for the lock down and masks and injections you were wrong

[@gmonkman]

I am disgusted at the way JC has been treated however, there really is no option but to support Labour if we want get the Torys out.

[@mr.dalerobinson]

Compromised political choices. That sounds familiar. Internationally.

[@brucejones1123]

The only person in history allowed to make foolish Kung Fu sounds and inane chops is Peter Sellers and only Peter Sellers.

[@bobgodytube]

Unfortunately if you are against labour you are for the conservatives

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

No

[@Mrbambony]

That's very simplistic. You can vote Labour in the hope the Tories will be toppled knowing it remains part of the problem

[@richardbrayshaw570]

Transition from left wing views to right wing views isn't necessarliy selling out. It's synonymous with just growing old and is considered perfectly natural, mainly because the elderly have very little stamina and upper body strength - both of which are pre-requisites if you want to defend your stuff in the teeth of a society that really fancies the contents of your allotment when all the imported Egyptian strawberries are stuck in a container at Felixstowe. Let's not rule that out when evaluating a politician's motives. Getting all right wing and generally pissed off with everything and everybody is probably just a manifestation of the realisation that the Tragedy of the Commons holds sway and that nobody is going to give you their last Malteser without demanding a blowjob first.

[@andrewburridge5958]

Funny how all those other comedians realised Corbyn would result in a massive Tory majority, was an antisemite, and you didn't. Given I don't want a massive Tory majority or to illegally harass Jews MAYBE THEY WEREN'T THE ONES WHO WERE DESPICABLE.

[@LaNwamNi]

The usual disingenuous garbage from Mr Burridge, the bald sex pest.

[@jethrinenc]

Fruity and spicy

[@andrewburridge5958]

@@LaNwamNi sorry you've got a shit life Nigel. It's not my fault ;)

[@KenPurchase]

But that's exactly what you did want, isn't it Falco old mate? You wanted Labour to lose so you could point to Corbyn and "the left" as the reason for that failure, and you actively worked towards that goal for the entirety of JC's tenure as leader. You've no business labelling anyone else as despicable given your own history.

[@ians691]

@@KenPurchase Falco, when Alexei talks about people on the right of the Labour party being horrible bastards, you did realize that we was talking about the likes of yourself?

[@RealinDealer]

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