Alexei Sayle: the censorship of the Left

Alexei Sayle speaks about the censorship and no platforming culture that is threatening the Left.

[@ysgol3]

The Tories are awful because they always are, Starmer's Labour is far far worse because it's taken away all hope of better times ahead.

[@toomuchadvice]

I'm nearly 70 years old and I've never known a time when we were not allowed an anti War movement.

[@grtcara8386]

You mean the let Putin massacre everybody movement

[@DJWESG1]

​@grtcara8386 the torys killed more ppl with austerity, but I can see why you mentioned poots being a tory himself, its all sort of the same growth via surplus mentality.

[@rtk3543]

Go and try to protest outside the Kremlin, here you can stand in the road and make other people suffer at your will.

[@grtcara8386]

@@DJWESG1 Stop the war movement doesn’t want to arm Ukraine therefore your solution to stopping the war is to let Putin massacre Ukraine, you have no solutions except raise the white flag for Putin to do as he pleases. Your movement is a comedy act

[@James-hd6ez]

Iam from Socialist Liverpool and I will always protest this proxy war against Russia 🇷🇺 started by fascists in the west in 2014 but planned years before,people need to wake up! No to Nato No to war!

[@casteretpollux]

Sue Gray , appointed by Starmer to run the Labour Party has been widely discussed in the main stream media as having "a spooky background " and having been "the most powerful person in Westminster" exercising a veto over Tory cabinet appointments on behalf of the Security Services. It is not possible for Starmer to have been unaware of this in giving her the top job in Laboir. Starmer is indeed acting for the State Forces who have always been deeply hostile to trade unions and the left. He and Gray are systematically destroying Labour's political and organisational class base. Starmer openly said to the media he prefers unelected Davos to elected Westminster 'as its easier to get things done'. He now parades himself in a black shirt without irony. In effect Labour is now top down 100% a captured opposition run by some of the most ruthless and right-wing forces in the UK State.

[@lizshephard2964]

Well said!

[@icdgyixify]

He should change his name to O'Brien.

[@NAR-wv3sl]

Bravo:- and I’d suggest the terms right and left no longer mean anything. The resurgent the state authoritarianism gaining traction in the West is oppressive, revolutionary, elitist and anti- democratic.

[@icdgyixify]

@@wolfgangvonlichtenstein5222 When they live in million pound mansions in Islington, why would they give a toss about the working class?

[@stevemitchell1454]

Working people in the UK have no political representation any more.

[@Jimmie16]

We're doing OK in Scotland thanks keep the UK comments for England.

[@Alexpage1111]

then leave labour, and get corbin to start his own party

[@RR-yh6le]

Corbyn certainly didn't represent working people.

[@stevemitchell1454]

Sheer boneheaded nonsense. His record speaks for itself. His constituents love him because he takes up every unjust cause when others are content to draw their salary and sit in the Commons quietly doing nothing but work for re-election. Career politicians who believe in nothing. The Party is a democratic socialist party. It says so on every membership card. The leaders are not and never have socialists of any stripe. They are entryists. They should be honest and go somewhere else.

[@rozzgrey801]

@@Jimmie16 Yes, the SNP are a roaring success, at least when it comes to embezzling everyone and confusing people about what a woman is.

[@patcampton7163]

Excellent piece. It is about demoralising and makes people fearful.

[@californiadreamin8423]

I thought Glastonbury was a music festival , not about Corbyns dubious virtues ?

[@johnwright9372]

Alexei's analogy with Invasion of the Body Snatchers is spot on. You could not make this madness up.

[@alwhyte6533]

I'd have compared it to They Live...when you put the shades on, you see the skulls and the signs saying "OBEY!".

[@californiadreamin8423]

You Zombies watch too much TV to make intelligent comments.

[@saintdon4461]

@@californiadreamin8423 big leap there you absolute muppet

[@progpuss]

I've been saying it for years , and I'm surrounded by Tories who just laughed at me. It is obvious as starmer back stabber took over and moved the labour party to play to the Murdoch tune

[@grtcara8386]

Corbyn is a clown good riddance

[@annenunney9907]

I agree

[@tarlochankaliroy1030]

Blair moved new labour to the right after he had stabbed labour to death in 97. Starmer is continuing the rightwards momentum.

[@californiadreamin8423]

Knuckle draggers……why did Corbyn aid and abet the Tories make you poorer and take away your freedom of movement ? Think Article 50 and his 3 line whip to support a minority Tory government !!!

[@terencefield3204]

Sectarian utter drivel

[@jasonmendelli6023]

When labour appointed a Sir as leader, it was clear what was coming. Keep the faith and keep speaking out 👌❤️👊

[@billbhein2949]

The film needs to be uploaded on to KZbin asap so everyone can see it..

[@patcampton7163]

I agree up to a point but I think showing it live has more impact and we need to keep pushing venues to show it..

[@zippymufo9765]

@@patcampton7163 They won't make any money from it if it's uploaded for free 😂😂😂

[@billbhein2949]

@@zippymufo9765 They can attach some adverts to it and get some money back that way..

[@ko6el]

Upload 👍🏻

[@jake751]

@@zippymufo9765 they aren't charging pr*ck 😒

[@reddirtuk]

Get it out there, Showed in Uxbridge recently, full house standing room only 👍✊

[@TheDagda1000]

Same in Portsmouth - and repeats!

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

What's it called? How can I see it?

[@regvarney5582]

I guess Uxbridge is full of middle class bedwetters then!

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

Sayle represents the best of the old left, dignified and stoic.

[@douglasmacari8707]

Why "old left"? That is THE left.

[@lizshephard2964]

He's good, but if he dismisses the Zionist lobby and the military, he hasn't seen the whole picture.

[@hilaryporter7841]

Not old left, 'new' reinvigorated left for the future of our democracy and the thinking people of our planet. It's time for corporatism to take a back seat. We need the wisdom of the left like never before, to literally save our planet from the corporate parasites who are gobbling it up.

[@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191]

Even Sayle is new left. The old left is term designated to when there was different factions within communism - Trotskyism, Leninism etc.

[@BuJammy]

@@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 He is New Left, but Old Left is a catch all term that just means "before the New Left", not really to do with communist factions.

[@HBFaash]

We refer to, 'Relative poverty', to describe the relationship of an individual to the distribution of wealth in a society. Now, this can be extended to the concept of, ' Relative democracy', where we watch the relative decline of our freedoms in relation to what we had, (and fought for).

[@elizabethrobb8620]

Im getting on also and ive never thought we would live in a facist state ... and here we are. 😡

[@sirgaymeerkat1994]

this man needs a Cape! what a hero!!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

A short fat, comedic super hero!

[@ko6el]

No, Crispin

[@icdgyixify]

Alexei Sayle is the sort of person who ought to be leading the Labour Party. He would run riot at PMQs.

[@MichaelGorniak]

Surely the censorship goes against the ECHR ? Freedom is speech is a right . There must be a process available to make a case .

[@AndyJarman]

I left the Left when Blair started spruiking the neo Marxism of Social Justice. I have been watching centrists for the past ten years. It's fascinating to hear from old time left wingers like Sayer. I'm surprised the left's abandonment of the class struggle, replacung it with postmodernist minority oppression politics seems to have gone unnoticed by Alexi, he appears to still think there is a left and right wing? There's Managerialism vs Conservatism. There's no mileage in looking after "the workers" Herbert Marcuse's "New Man" essay of 1965 identified "the ghetto classes" and the spolit university brats of the oost war nouveau riche as Marxism's last chance. And here we have it, Managerial middle class children of the 1960s stirring up migrant minorities into a frenzy of resentment. All while the working intergenerational poor are mocked and overlooked.

[@ppetal1]

How did you get your head through your legs in the first place?

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

Politics isn't your strong point is it?

[@wesleyashworth5061]

Spruiking ?

[@skintslots]

We have the US system now of two parties who represent big business and no parties who actually represent the people. This is a genuine reaction to a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party creating a genuine opposition with policies that benefit the people and not big business.

[@Lord.two.a.penny.]

Brilliant post. Hung on every word. Alexei Sayle telling it like it is. He should do more "no safety net" talks. His despair at the current political situation is very apparent.

[@unemployablegraduate]

The Tories may be loathsome, lacking compassion and obsessed with personal wealth and self-interest, but at least they don’t make much effort to disguise that; and now, they seem to have lost interest in actually governing anything. But I actually fear an incoming Starmer government because they’re already giving off a real ‘thought control’ vibe. It should be possible for Labour members to take a critical position on the Israeli government without being erroneously labelled as ‘anti-Semitic’, for example.

[@pauldurkee4764]

That can be applied to the political class everywhere, there is no difference, and its going to get a lot worse.

[@kwakkers68]

There are 2 embassies in London which should have been shut down a long, long time ago!

[@Michael-zg8qw]

Oy vay....

[@paulevans3663]

Correct. Chianese. Russian. Belarus. Saudi. Iranian. Venezuela. Somalia. Chad etc etc etc. Oh sorry were you just focusing on the worlds only Jewish state again.

[@Hide_and_silk]

@@paulevans3663 poodle woof woof

[@Way827]

US and Israel right?

[@englishsteve1465]

@@paulevans3663 Did your mum never tell you that 6 wrongs don't make a right ? (I don't include Venezuela because what we are told about that country is pure US horse shit to discredit a freely elected left leaning govt and replace with a puppet, but you obviously don't know that) btw, France is the worlds only French state, your fee fees are hurt but you should still be able to differentiate between a people and the abhorrant govt that presides over them, do you see ?

[@mikeharvey9811]

How can we vote for someone who’s capable of selling out to the establishment and reneging on all his promises to us. Barb

[@geraldbutler5484]

The alternative is horrendous. Let’s hope the party can bend Starmer or that he is laying low until he is elected.

[@mikeharvey9811]

Sadly, if/ when he is in power he will think banishing the left is what won him the vote and he’ll continue in the same fashion, we are lucky here in Bristol, voting green won’t let in a Tory. Barb

[@geraldbutler5484]

@@mikeharvey9811 I hope he’s not stupid enough to think he’s Mr Wonderfull. The Tories are so fecking awful any man and his dog could win the next election. I think they are still terrified of Murdoch the monster and the right wing propaganda press.

[@patcampton7163]

Sayle is spot on that it is to still the voices on the lef, nothing to do with AS. . I have always seen my self as a bit centrist but im not anymore.

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

There is no left or right! It's all made up, just right or wrong.

[@lat1419]

The party moved away.

[@patcampton7163]

Basically many of us feel we can't speak out as we will be accused falsely of anti semitism..it's very worrying.

[@elaineedgar2913]

I was told some years ago that there is ‘ a hub’ of Jewish individuals, in EVERY village, town and city who target anyone who speaks out against Israel. I have lost precious friends who l now know are of this faith who have shunned me when they have been told by these little groups, of my speaking out. Yes, I’m scared but l have not done anything of which to be ashamed. I am of little consequence, not rich, powerful or in the media and very old now.

[@superted6960]

​@@elaineedgar2913What crap. Same old, same old. Give it a rest

[@paulevans3663]

​@@elaineedgar2913and you don't think the sentiments you just said are racist. Try your statement again with the word Muslim instead of Jew.

[@paulevans3663]

Of course people should be able to speak out on Israel. The irony is your now feeling what many people have felt for years that to share an honest and reasonable concern will be mett with howls of racism.

[@casteretpollux]

Oppose real fascist anti semitism then it gets easier.

[@timroberts1261]

“Lifelong anti racists being called racist by racists!” Spot on description of that madness! X

[@blatherskite3009]

I think the most clever trick that's been played is to redefine what "the Left" even means. To me, being on the political Left means socialism, trades unions, the NHS, keeping private profit motives away from the provision of essential services, etc. It's about the interests of the many over the interests of the few. But "the Left" has been redefined to what feels more like an American interpretation, where it's basically a dirty word that carries connotations of weirdy radicals and rabble-rousers trying to make life less profitable for those nice capitalist gentlemen who only want what's best for all of us. America doesn't even have a "Left" of course; it only has a choice between Extreme RIght and Centre Right, and no actual option that's recognisably on the political Left. And that's where the UK is headed with Starmer's so-called Labour Party.

[@casteretpollux]

There is a left in the US struggling to be born/reborn. You could start listening to Glenn Greenwald and you'll find others.

[@lat1419]

Very true. The USA vesion of left as a slur and part of the whole globalist agenda, China, etc. It is a deliberate psyop of course. Just like some other events today, probably.

[@ghengis430]

Blair was hardly a revolutionary, we only briefly had a left there. The LP in government is usually sticking plasters on gangrene.

[@abody499]

that's where Britain already is, not where it's heading.

[@lizshephard2964]

Starmer's modelling his one idea on the US 'Democrats' and has links with them. He's about the Americanisation of our NHS along with Streeting, for a start.

[@daveharriman2756]

I love Alexei Sayle and this is a great intervew, brilliant points made condemning this distopian society that we seem to have got now

[@KenFullman]

I was a fan of Alexi Sayle back in the day but haven't seen anything of him for years. If he's now supporting Corbyn that surprises me because I regard Corbyn as a despicable character that wines and dines terrorists while pushing for the persecution of our own soldiers. Nevertheless I'd be interested to see the film that has caused all the fuss. Even if I don't agree with it's content (I don't know yet because I've not seen it) I don't believe it should be banned. I'm totally sick of this cancel culture, but I must confess, it makes a change when the left are the victims of cancel culture, rather than the perpetrators.

[@chutney-h3o]

I recall the left wanting dystopia in 2020, 2021 and 2022 with pro lockdown and berating those questioning the vaccines. Just reading the guardian and independent was dystopian!

[@DiarmuidOhibicin]

I so want to see Alexei back on our TV screens.

[@DeanJuvenal]

Since its inception, the Labour Party has been an uneasy alliance between Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism. Under Blair, Brown and now Starmer, we see both those streams rejected along with all every semblance of the core principle of DEMOCRACY and democratic accountability within the party. Sic Transit Gloria (the) Labour Party

[@markbrown6978]

I met Alexei Sayle about 35 years ago in Soho, I went up to him, completely uninvited, and spoke rubbish. So as much as I like him, I always feel very uncomfortable when I see him on any media! A true ledge!!

[@buelligan1964]

The germ within the labour party is mandelson, he is the link between Blairs new labour and starmers new blue labour. He's the one pushing buttons behind the scenes.

[@ianjones7266]

Absolutely Alexi, I couldn't agree more. Where has Starmer come from? Who does he represent? Not I lelum pie! Inspired to rejoin the Labour Party by Jeremy C ... now I feel totally unrepresented by The Party. Should I leave and join The Greens? Why should I? What a mess, what a kerfuffle, but hey, IT'S OUR FUTURE!🏴‍☠️✊

[@fidomusic]

Great show. Thanks Crispin and Alexei.

[@thomaswaite5576]

Why isn’t ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn, the Big Lie’ not on youtube or elsewhere on the internet?

[@zantas-handle]

Exactly. Let's make this film available without any discrimination, including those of us who are physically unable to get to a screening.

[@jimmyrich4675]

I think it is if you look

[@VasManHorrorLivesMatter]

You're next!! YOU'RE NEXT!! The body snatchers analogy is spot on👍🏽👊🏽.

[@theLukedishwasher]

It was the youth that got Corbyn his success in 2017. As Alexei says, it’ll be the youth again. Hence the efforts to get it stopped at Glastonbury.

[@yvonnehayton6753]

Glastonbury is a music festival and should not be polticised. And of.

[@yvonnehayton6753]

End of

[@peteredwards7760]

Glastonbury? Packed with middle class clowns calling for mass immigration while safe behind a 30 foot fence.

[@blatherskite3009]

Ironically, the film Alexei refers to (the original 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers") was itself "censored" to neuter that powerfully downbeat ending with the man who's speaking the truth and trying to warn everyone being dismissed as a raving loon. It had wraparound scenes added to reassure audiences that an offscreen event had conveniently verified his story, so he _was_ believed and everything will be fine. The original downbeat ending is probably closer to what would happen in reality.

[@frankshailes3205]

By the 1979 remake he's still running and warning "they're here!".

[@womba68]

i terminated my labour membership the other week. the cancellation process didn't even involve asking me why i was leaving. i was shocked for a moment and then not shocked at all. starmer doesn't want to know what people think. especially what they think about him.

[@pablolowenstein1371]

All captured globalist businesses, political parties, NGOs, institutions etc are bankrolled by the globalists.. Underwritten if you like. This is why woke busniss boycotts don't work..they are guaranteed money. We have zombie businesses, zombie institutions and zombie parties, artificially kept animated with one purpose only.. Control and indoctrination. All long planned of course using the most perfect of trojan horses... What used to be called, 'the left'.

[@tonytroughton-smith5465]

Make sure you stop your payments or they'll keep taking them regardless ❤️

[@roadwarrior7401]

@@tonytroughton-smith5465 what ?! people pay these people ? !!

[@insaneworld2012]

Can the film be shown at miners gala? The biggest left wing get together.

[@rmurphy911]

Good idea

[@4imagesmore]

Not if UNITE the union has any say in it. Theyv'e proscribed it.

[@lat1419]

​@@4imagesmore😢

[@stan4723]

Don't forget The Red Knight's links to the bastion of neoliberalism the Trilateral Commission.

[@colinbrigham8253]

Thank you Crispin and Alexie

[@lat1419]

At the height of all the smears about AS being embedded in the party I saw one of our elderly 90yo members crying standing by the newspaper display in our local shop. I asked - she wept "am I anti semite? I never thought I was. I dont want to be one. Am I anti semitic?" That broke my heart.

[@krashd]

Alexei Sayle was embedded in the party?

[@lat1419]

@@krashd 600,000 were "embedded" in the party. Many like this lady had been in the party for decades. Your point about Alexi?

[@dansonthetube]

Great to see Alexi here! 👏 I hope it is a turning point, but, frankly, I think we have a way to go yet! 🙈🙊🙉

[@mick947]

While all this was going on I bought a book on McCarthyism, it should be interesting to compare that era with now.

[@karlkerr7348]

It stuck because Jeremy didn't push back hard enough against the accusations

[@abody499]

Yep, if only he had the wit of Mick Lynch. Shouldn't have to be so, but most people dont do rational discourse.

[@paintingtosser3814]

He allowed himself to become a punchbag. He was not able to fight back, because he lacks a sense of humour and possibly, he was always a punchbag. If you are constantly being bullied and you don't fight back, you get crushed.

[@abody499]

@@paintingtosser3814 yeh blame corbyn for corbyn being targeted

[@paintingtosser3814]

@@abody499I was probably being a bit hard and cruel on Jeremy. All the smears, lies and false accusations against him. It was relentless, ruthless, and coordinated by the media, intel, and his own traitorous party members. There was no fight in him. He never came back at them. I was disappointed that he just folded so easily.

[@abody499]

@@paintingtosser3814 I hear you. I was frustrated by certain things, too, but not nearly as frustrated as I was with the right wing campaign against him. That's what they do though - they make us frustrated and lead us to bicker with each other. Got to stay ahead of their game, friend.

[@zantas-handle]

I grew up with the irreverent political commentary delivered by the likes of Alexei. I didn't always agree with his view, but boy did he make me think! What a golden time that was when we could all be challenged into re-thinking our views.

[@markriding1267]

His Majesties Opposition says it all....the clue is in the title 😂😂😂

[@DrWrapperband]

Also, Sire Beer Starmer, similar title.

[@johnwright9372]

The proper title is: His Majesty's LOYAL opposition.

[@jme2310]

While we have air in our lungs let's scream NO!

[@Coneman3]

If only we had a government of people like Alexei!

[@bulletsdodger]

Marxist?

[@Coneman3]

@@bulletsdodger Zionist?

[@rjb10101]

Red or Blue,,,, They work not for you......

[@tommackling]

✊️ Cheers! It's a tough battle sure, and some will see heaven before they see justice, but it's always darkest before the dawn. Don't despair, we'll win in the end.

[@danieladams9950]

Alexei the voice of common sense. Articulate and erudite.

[@frankshailes3205]

His books are brilliant reads, too.

[@Swat-ed5bt]

Love Alexei ❤

[@johnrider3749]

Starmer and Labour have turned off the light at the end of the tunnel and ive never felt as pessimistic as i do today,

[@grahamjohn678]

This video has been restricted by my workplace so I'm listening on my mobile phone. Sickening.

[@jake751]

Christ who do you work for mi5

[@timg1246]

Your workplace targets censorship at particular videos on youtube ? Next time try saying something remotely believable. More likely they want you to do some work. Nasty, those bosses.

[@grahamjohn678]

I'm not lying. @timg1246 - stick to politeness in future. Sarcasm isn't the best way to introduce yourself to someone. My workplace has "restricted mode" on You Tube. I work for a local authority in a pretty bog standard job and often listen to Not the Andrew Marr show whilst I'm working at home. I'm guessing it's flagged as "conspiracy theory" . The Kit Klarenberg video was also blocked. The Gray Zone is blocked. It sometimes blocks a lot of Novara Media's content.

[@timg1246]

@@grahamjohn678 So I was right. They want you to do some work. Be polite to your bosses and make up the hours you wasted on youtube.

[@grahamjohn678]

Go away troll

[@johnmorsley]

Love me a bit of Alexei!

[@yellowgreen5229]

VoteGreenSaveBritainAndTheWorkersParty

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

I am with you at the next G E

[@axelbruv]

The Green Party? That sounds like a wasted vote in most parts of the country.

[@casteretpollux]

Greens are right wing warmongers in Germany and Ireland.

[@andrewstringer5900]

Here in Suffolk greens are outright running the council no vote is ever wasted if its for what you want.

[@paulshubsachs4977]

According to The Trilateral Commission's website, Starmer is no longer a member. I wonder if that is because too much linkage with the international banking and business professions (and Henry Kissinger!) would tend to highlight his Blairist tendencies.

[@jake751]

Jeffrey Epstein was a member when keir starmer was

[@lat1419]

Hotel Califoria. You can never leave.

[@ko6el]

Read Silent Coup:How Corporations Overthrew Democracy by Claire Provost & Matt Kennard Just out, freeports, special economic zones ......................

[@kwakkers68]

Media role is critical - without their function public understanding could be much higher. State ed. > which cynically withers Critical Thinking, destroys the scope for intellectual self-defence. Thus, Media and State Ed., Education generally, must be core elements in any drive for real change. Drive for #BoycottBBC #BoycottCorporateMedia #BoycottUSA #BDS #FreeJulianAssange

[@yellowgreen5229]

SaveOurNHS TakeBackBBC GeneralStrike2023 TakeBackLabour VoteGreenSaveBritainAndTheWorkersParty

[@luigibizzarrro8831]

The false optimism of the left, I can say I disagree, but it's still depressing to think about. Good luck to the younger generation, they'll need it for sooo many reasons. Thanks for this video, always great to hear Alexei Sayle

[@perlefisker]

Many people compare the present to 1984, and with good reason, some to the first Cold War with likewise good reason. But I see even further back - one hundred years exactly. In 1923 people in the West were happily joking, partying as if nothing was at risk, totally unaware of the unimaginable terrors to come. And they even had an oppositional press. Feel free to imagine the world ten years from now. I'm unfit to advise anybody, having long ago lost all hopes in this dystopian nightmare. However, if anyone puts hopes in the young people, know two things about the Left: - we are way too few. Even after a revolution (which will inevitably come), real socialists will be below ten percent. - The Left has shot itself in the foot by being absorbed in narcissistic identity politics, having completely lost the greater picture, and especially lost interest in global affairs and geopolitics. Of course I wish you all good luck, anyhow.

[@abody499]

Nah, the left didn't shoot itself in the foot at all - it just wasn't ever intellectually developed enough to see the problem, which was a result of the design of education by elites. I say the left just to use your words, but I really mean the working class.

[@abody499]

the phuh king YT comment nat se algorithm is incredible

[@abody499]

nah...

[@abody499]

the left didnt do that thing to itself that i'm not permitted to repeat

[@abody499]

it just wasn't ever intellectually capable of seeing the problem, which was a result of the design of education by elites

[@lanochevolar2401]

"It's an extraordinary time..." Sure, when has anyone ever said things were ordinary? Things are always 'extraordinary' and 'unprecedented'. Today never happened before!!

[@72rmboyd]

You don't need a dictatorship to have fascism. You just need all your main parties and acceptable to the establishment parties to represent private wealth, corporations and capital. The liberty of a democracy is not safe if people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. Franklin D Roosevelt

[@honorhonor3352]

And his was discussed 10 months ago. It’s spot on.

[@jimmymcguire8217]

As a working class man living in London I say shame on Labour for giving the Conservatives free reign to squeeze the life out of us hard working foke, SHAME ON YOU!!!

[@tonyves]

"us hardworking folk"? Bizarre. We all work - even those whom you dislike. Essentially, you have no right to speak for the rest of us. Back in the box Jimmy.

[@jimmymcguire8217]

@@tonyves sorry if you were triggered

[@madmun376]

"Tchoi" i loath Corbyn anyone who wears a corduroy Jacket with those little leather patches on the elbows deserve everything they get.

[@logiemink]

For instance the excellent writer Colin Todhunter was a contributor to the Morning Star for over 10 years but during covid they refused to publish his articles because he warned of famine in India if lockdowns were imposed etc

[@chutney-h3o]

Did he warn of UK economy crashing and cost of living crisis too? As I recall, the left loved lockups and repeated boosters and vilified anyone who questioned their rights being taken away. Many of my left friends left the left at this point.

[@abody499]

It's impossible to have a discussion in these comments due to the platform censor algo. Utterly impossible

[@malarki5]

Alexi Sayle one of the best comedians ever!

[@chrisstevens8505]

🥺

[@owainevans1846]

The Leftfield 'activist' tent at Glastonbury was weird. My sons first time at Glasto... and he kept asking to go there (it was quite quiet and shaded and he learned absolutely nothing). The poutine chips were great though really enjoyed it! My sis is a maternity matron in Manchester. She went to the NHS debate, which was a joke. The panellist first question about what they'd like for the NHS was 'spa treatment'. True story. Sis went a bit red and shouted wtf. At least everyone had a great vibe thanking the BSL interpreter. Who of course was great, like the sound engineers or people who put the tent up. Still. Thanking the BSL interpreter was basically the best bit of content I saw.

[@casteretpollux]

Thanks for the report but most workers can they even afford to go to Glastonbury? We need to rebuild in workplaces and on the streets.

[@davidwiltshire6188]

Keep it up folks, but you have a long uphill struggle.

[@alanhowse9213]

I’ve always hated graffiti, but today is the first day I was proud to see in Edinburgh princess, street in big red letters in dripping red paint Gaza written in one of the shops

[@susanmason6476]

We need to rise up ✊🏻 we need to take back our country . We will not be brow beaten , we will fight back .

[@PurpleWhirple]

Well, it's made me want to see the film. Thanks to you both.

[@clarewillison9379]

Speaking of raising issues in comedy settings, where are the current gens’ talents like The Comic Strip? Remember “GLC: The Carnage Continues”? Would it get screened today?

[@banedon8087]

I'm not politically tribal and I find both parties not deserving of election, full of identitarianism and thoroughly untrustworthy and lacking competency. There has always been a measure of these things, but things have gotten to a level where I wonder where our country is going. My bet is deeper authoritarianism under the guise of "think of the children". If that happens, it wont matter which flavour it is - we'll all suffer for it.

[@arthurmoore8521]

If you read these comments, Crispin, could you please tell your audience how they can buy a copy of the film? Somebody must know. Thanks.

[@jake751]

Fantastic man x

[@michaelbailey8729]

When the 80s left are troubled by it then things are bad. The problem is the comedians from the 80s helped bring all this about constantly ranting on about the right and thinking they were so virtuous. It influenced the easily led which has opened the door to people who wish to control us.

[@Apollyon-sz9sn]

The old left are now seen as ultra right wing 🤯

[@560smr4]

Labour isn't the party for the working man.. Starmer doesn't even know what a woman is..

[@BionicRasta]

It was Corbyn in his naivety who appointed Starmer into a prominent cabinet position. Despite having took part in the coup where in a letter he made clear he could not support him. As shadow Brexit minister (as an arch remainer) it gave him the platform to raise his profile to become leader, after he stood on a leftwing platform to win over the Corbynistas in the membership & a majority voted for him. You reap what you so.

[@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191]

"When life gets you down, don't drink a vat of sulfuric acid, relax, make some stupid noises!"

[@jo044o]

I do n't feel quite as crazy and alone from listening to this !! Thank you

[@abody499]

we all got to find ways of making face to face forums to discuss all these issues. Online is completely rigged. I think there are many more of us than it seems when seeing the rhetoric on the internet and in the media.

[@thecrispinflintoffshow]

Glad to hear that!

[@southpaw786]

What a legend ❤

[@herbert9241]

Yes Alexei - citing the source. Throughout my long dalliance with Yotube's jejune algorithms, I've stood my corner in just about any and every echo chamber bar my own. Never demoralised in the face of spineless wonkers - because I'm their antithesis. I think it means they went sheep-shagging with my grandparents or something like that. I'm not really given to care about the sundry carnal fetishes de jour, to be honest: I'm an old fashioned 'lezdom gymnastics and opera glasses' kind of guy. I recall, back in 2017, committing to challenge head-on the illiterati consensus which unwittingly parroted the state-sanctioned blitzkrieg on our Jezza's character. My aim was to encourage them to reflect on the source of their opinion but they tended to become strangely churlish and obtuse about thinking off-piste. If it's not on the bullet point crib card, it's not up for discussion. And then triumphantly Rumplestiltskin-esque when I asked their voting intention. A full tacit confession, your honour. Checkmate, ker-plunk, without a cluedo. Credit where due, Yotube's algorithms have improved in the last year or two - presumably since the algae have evolved beyond relevance of the spotty-ersed wenises who conceived them. An apolitical vague conspiracy exhorter uploaded a vlog last year in which he cited (effectively) 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978) as the original. Donald Sutherland's fine in his own unique way but ... Alexei: circumspect. (No lazy stereotypical assumption intended.) Ironically (in light of Alexei's citation), the leading thesp in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956) is a fellow by the name of McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy. Shaken, not snatched.

[@dolceanstar]

Starmer is putting in the work towards his retirement home on the West Bank, a luxury pad sandwiched between his cute neighbours, Priti Patel and Lucretia Borgia. Little Zion is such a boisterous young lad!!!

[@britpackdog4545]

Reject the uniparty become politically homeless. This all needs to change

[@BuJammy]

Corbyn aided this current climate, tremendously.

[@zantas-handle]

Let's make this film available without any discrimination, including those of us who are physically unable to get to a screening.

[@paulharrion3398]

I read an article donkeys years ago that claimed that the UK was a decade behind trends in the USA. Looking at our politics now it seems truer then ever!

[@jfro5867]

I’ve voted Labour, I’ve voted Conservative so I’m sort of in the middle really but nowadays jeez, there is no difference and tbh I can’t see voting makes any difference because we get the same no matter what. Starmer is awful and as slippery as anything, that ‘Labour Files’ series showed me what goes on, all behind closed doors. Corbyn was stitched up, deffo.

[@IanPritchard]

Paul Mason is an intelligence services operative. This came out when he colluded with them to no-platform The Grey Zone

[@antonrudenham3259]

He comes complete with a Lenin full set!

[@breohtbrusmid489]

Labour became tory party #2 decades ago. I still say with total conviction that í will not vote for any Labour mp again until it starts working against the banks and corporations, not with them. In fact I see no point in voting general anymore. Vote local if you feel you must, at least at that level you get a handful of mps who really care and havnt had their heads turned yet by the westminster classes.

[@andylucas1175]

The following tract, Mouseland, is a parody of a political fable, known as the “Story of Mouseland”, adjusted to express the view that the British political system is flawed and thereby offers voters, by utilising the First Passed The Post (F.P.T.P.) system, a false dichotomy: mainly the choice between two parties, neither of which fully represents the electorate’s interests: "The mice voted in blue cats, which represented the Conservative Party, subsequently they found out how hard it was to simply exist in life. Next they voted in the red cats, which symbolized the Labour Party, things were different but still not good for mice; because the government was still run by cats, albeit wearing different coloured coats. The story continues and a mouse gets an idea that perhaps mice should run their government, not the cats. This mouse was accused of being a Socialist and subsequently vilified in the mass media." The truth is that in reality democracy doesn't exist, it never has existed, it is purely a dream state of the mind. People need to wake up to the fact that The Establishment wholly control the government; when a handful of influential people have greater power over the lives of the nation’s people than they, the people, have over their own lives, it demonstrates that the political system needs to radically change. The electoral system itself is worthless, the ballot paper has become the toilet paper of the masses.

[@gillymccyber1927]

No comedians or public figures right of centre get censored. So unfair.

[@julielevinge266]

♥️Alexi Sayle 😍 #Solidarity✊☮️♥️

[@andychapman3100]

The film is due to be made fully accessible on YT following the last of scheduled cinema viewings - likely Sept.