Am I your problem, Kemi Badenoch?

Kemi Badenoch has made clear that she thinks that university-educated people who might challenge what she wants to do to this country are high on her list of the enemies of society. I, on the other hand, work at a university, seeking to produce the people who might hold her to account. Does that make me Kemi Badenoch’s problem?
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[@downshift4503]

George Carlin had a similar take, that the desire is for people to be educated just enough to operate and maintain the machines (of production), but not where they can exercise critical thinking. They want "obedient workers".

[@Oligodendrocyte139]

If you think the ridiculous expansion in higher education has driven an upsurge in graduates with critical thinking skills then you don't work within the system.

[@downshift4503]

@@Oligodendrocyte139 Being educated is a good thing. Whether or not the higher education system could be better is something else. It is not ridiculous to expand higher education.

[@chriswills9437]

´´Just think how stupid the average American is, and imagine that half of them are more stupid than that´´.

[@Oligodendrocyte139]

@@downshift4503 It has been ridiculous to expand the UK system beyond its capacity to properly educate the numbers of students shoved through the system.

[@downshift4503]

@@Oligodendrocyte139 What is the capacity limit to " properly educate the numbers of students shoved through the system", and how do you know it? What is "properly educate"?

[@RS-cr9vb]

When asked how Fascism starts, Bertrand Russell once said: "First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."

[@davidashton5901]

Your quite right, using university education as a way to fascinate the fools is genius.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

​@@davidashton5901You're, not your. However, you are correct in pointing out that you'd expect the university educated would not be 'fools', generally speaking.

[@deltadawn2376]

This is happening in Trump's USA

[@charleswindsor1184]

Amen Richard, keep being her problem. I shall try to be her problem as well.

[@Skylark_Jones]

I _don't have a degree_ so clearly I am not Badenoch's problem; that doesn't mean I can't think critically. Anyone without a degree can if they are willing; I expect there are many who do. In true Trumpian fashion Badenoch loves the "poorly" educated believing they are more easily hoodwinked and manipulated: they value unquestioning obedience. However, the largely privately educated Tories prove that having the best education money can buy is no shield from ignorance and stupidity.

[@ltmund]

Or she actually wants to help them. That should be a consideration.

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

@@ltmund By denying them education?

[@ltmund]

@@BillDavies-ej6ye Denying who education? Only the rich can afford it right now. Education has become a way for the wealthy to protect their wealth.

[@Skylark_Jones]

​@@ltmund yep. The way she and her wealthy Tory colleagues want to help the poor 🤡🤔🤦🏻‍♀️

[@tarquin161234]

An assumption is commonly made that the uneducated voted for Trump because they're dumb and haven't been taught critical thinking, but there's another possibility: they were less exposed to extreme left ideology. Maybe the root of Badenoch's contempt for universities is not their academic teaching role but rather because they tend to have a leftist influence on the students. Young people tend to want to distinguish themselves from their elders, and the first way they do that is by homing in on failures such as historic discrimination and the environment.

[@JulieCawthra]

I'm a 64 year old woman without a degree but fortunately I had a coalminer dad, enough said.

[@RalphFreeman-ok5of]

I have worked in several R&D departments where the management hated the fact the Engineers were free thinking and would question and satirise sub standard edicts. So what they wanted were creative " yes men". Can anyone spot the problem with that?

[@nickjcresswell]

I remember Alexi Sayle saying a few years ago his main recollection of Thatcher's Britain was 'predjudice'. Seems that hasn't gone away. I think what we are witnessing is politicians becoming less and less relevant and desparately looking for ways to assert influence. Good video.

[@hilaryporter7841]

Brilliant and sound reasoning Richard. An educated 'masses' will not be trodden on by the privileged and entitled. Kemi Badenoch needs to get that message loud and clear, but after Labour's rise in tuition fees so does Labour. The young people are this country's future and their tertiary education tuition fees should be free.

[@o2johnnybravo]

This is his warped wealthy socialist take on it. Ergo, deeply biased.

[@hilaryporter7841]

@o2johnnybravo Your sort of mind conditioning for the trodden down masses doesn't work any more.

[@theotherandrew5540]

Every citizen should be entitled to 18 years of free education (that includes kindergarten) to take when they choose it. Let secondary compulsory education end at 16, and public schools be taken over and repurposed as sixth form colleges. Apprenticeships and technical training should be similarly included. How to pay for all that? Massively revise the tax system and dump political vanity projects like HS2, refurbishing the ridiculous Palace of Westminster, and posturing “defence” spending on unusable nuclear submarines and vast aircraft carriers for American aircraft …

[@PeterBullard]

@@theotherandrew5540 that all sounds great to me (except HS2 which I am a bit mixed on). The public schools repurposed bit though sounds very tough to implement, I dunno maybe its possible slowly over a secondary school generation.

[@lenanderson753]

But if everyone goes to university and has a degree then they will become worthless ( as thousands of people are finding out)

[@Orwic1]

Thanks for this - I can definitely agree, the more do because I’ve spent a lot of my career in universities, helping students develop their powers on independent thought and critical analysis. Her views are depressing, though not surprising; should she ever gain power, we will be heading down a very dark path.

[@marianhunt8899]

She's an Imperialist, plain and simple.

[@desperatefortuneproduction3296]

And how ironic that is!

[@user-xu5vl5th9n]

The polytechnic era was the high point of British Imperialism, I'm sure.

[@Tunji-dp1tu]

@@desperatefortuneproduction3296 ...i hear you...ironic indeed, considering her colonial antecedents...perhaps for her, this particular episode/subject matter represents an immediate phase towards 'Making Britain(and it's Conservatives) Great Again' in a manner somewhat reminiscent of the Thatcher era (lol), enroute what the Tories were long before that...quite reactionary if that's the case, but then i guess it's the reason why nothing is exactly new under the sun...things or people never really change...

[@holgre3470]

More than that. As a believer in eugenics in whatever form she is worse than an imperialist. Look out for her rhetoric on benefits and life choices for the severely mentally ill anf the disabled. If they can't contribute through work, they don't deserve the benefits of society. In fact, it is a marker of a great civilisation as we know it that those less able are cared for. Margaret Mead said the first indicator of human civilisation was a healed femur. Someone must have cared for that individual until the femur was healed or they would have died.

[@theeventhorizon-valebridge9512]

Spot on as usual Richard. Thank you for what you do: helping the population understand realities through critical thinking and enlightenment. You are a YT gem in a post-truth world.

[@MaureenDunn-g1n]

Well said, Richard! Grimly, the world is on a Right-wing swing along with aggression, hatred, violence and vitriol, not to mention genocide. As you allude to, 'socialism' is a dirty word for a huge swathe of people; conspiracy and distrust alive and well

[@tarquin161234]

Aggression, hatred and vitriol. Yes, Trump voters, such terrible people. Thank god we have the righteous left here to guide us. Yes, we need moderators and censorship because we just don't know better. Yes, we constantly need reminding that we're wrong about immigration. We're the ones that are racist, not the people on the left who praise everybody except white men.

[@peterweston1356]

I think this video has made me think hard about how I should think about disagreeing with the points made by someone as opposed to using the input as a platform to bring up my dislike of the individual. I am trying to become more forensic in how I deal with ideas from powerful people that I don’t agree with. It’s not easy !

[@normaparfitt2614]

You mentioned Eugenics and my ears pricked up. Badenoch is young and enthusiastic but she's a fascist and I'm wary of her.

[@brianellis4964]

What a breath of clean fresh air. We need some of this through the houses of parliament.

[@michaelmayo3127]

The problem for Badekoch; with those that have a higher education is, they have a tendency for asking awkward question, thus they have been trained to challenge any given information and its source. So the practice of trying feed lies, to the enlighten, becomes more than complicated.

[@angelenaboden]

Well said.

[@user-xu5vl5th9n]

Maybe she is the one asking awkward questions about education and those who think they are superior are triggered by that?

[@michaelmayo3127]

@@user-xu5vl5th9n " they are superior" To whom; Badekoch? no, that can't be!! Because that she has asserted.

[@ValeriePhillips-lp3mx]

Just found your platforn Richard. Excellent analysis on the Conservatives new in house leader. Thank you for the update information on KB agenda on back to illiteracy education. I will encouged other to tune into your transparent space.

[@desperatefortuneproduction3296]

IMO one of the biggest factors in the erosion of working class quality of life, materially, politically and culturally has been the imposition of financial barriers to education.

[@samhunter1205]

Partly true, but I think the demolition of meaningful working class sources of education, especially political education and class consciousness, is just as key. I find it especially disgusting that the working class are continually being defined as being uneducated, and encouraged to think that anyone educated can't be working class. It is a gross anti-intellectualism that seeks to trap the working class in an identity that disempowers and neuters it.

[@desperatefortuneproduction3296]

@@samhunter1205 I agree with you on that point. It also angers me that we no longer build council housing or that such of it that still exists is seen as something associated with a feral, uneducated underclass rather than just ordinary working people having a secure home. 'Social housing' has been stigmatised as a kind of ghetto as opposed to a respectable and reasonable provision for the community.

[@samhunter1205]

@@desperatefortuneproduction3296 A very good point. I think both of these phenomena are a symptom of another problem. I try to conceptualise it using the idea of 'cultural means of production', which, like other means of production, the working class don't own. This means that the working class typically only ever sees itself as portrayed by the upper social classes. At best this is usually ignorant, and at worst deliberately pigeon-holes the working class or important facets of working class life in the ways we have been describing.

[@tarquin161234]

Conversely, a big problem has been over-education. Where previously GCSEs or sometimes A levels would suffice to demonstrate ones ability, now the bar has been raised and everybody must lose three working years and spend huge sums of money, most of the time achieving nothing as most people don't even use anything from their university education. But at least the universities have made a mint.

[@desperatefortuneproduction3296]

@tarquin161234 I see your point and I agree that degrees aren't, and shouldn't be, necessary for everybody. Personally I think there's a lot to be said for targeted vocational training that equips people with particular skills. But I meant my comment more in terms of freedom of access so that those who desire more academic knowledge can obtain it. I view knowledge and education more in terms of a service to the individual rather than as creating human 'parts' for industry.

[@russellsage8518]

I think you are spot on with this analysis. You describe a true Conservative. Conserve power and wealth in the hands of the few. That is why the Conservative Party exists. To convince enough fools to vote for them in order that they can conserve.

[@skyblazeeterno]

Conservatives do have a few good ideas namely small government and low taxes

[@petshark1]

Kemi Badenoch is carrying Yoruba beliefs that most people are there to be exploited for the benefit of the elites.

[@liminal-m3g]

Well said! 👍

[@neil5877]

The uneducated are easier to control. THOMAS J. 1787.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Trump loves the uneducated. He has said so. So easily manipulated. Farage has same ideas as Trump. People need to learn.

[@davidbickle8145]

Always a pleasure. Thank you

[@inguzwulf]

Once again👏. I'd definitely vote for you if you ran (can we elect you despite yourself?).

[@hugemoose101]

I heard from a friend who works there that, on the first day of her reign as Business and Trade secretary, the FIRST THING she did was order the removal of all the gender neutral toilet signs in the building. She was rabid with hatred for literally just toilets for people to use. Such is her misunderstanding of equality (she was also Women and Equalities minister!) and her petty obsession with culture wars. From this and your analysis here the Tories are manifestly marching towards outright authoritarianism

[@skyblazeeterno]

@@hugemoose101 the Tories are NOT in power. Why be remotely bothered?

[@idonthavealoginname]

As opposed to Labours obsession with Trans rights ,toxic Woke and DEI at the expense of meritocracy ?? ffs,you need to get out more.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

@@skyblazeeterno No need for capitals. People can read. There is little standing between the red Tories who have destroyed the Labour Party ( only one in five voted for Labour in the election) by slavishly following Thatcherism/ neoliberalism and a Conservative return in 2029, most likely in alliance formal or otherwise with Reform. You would do well to read what Liam Byrne has been saying about inequality- he is associated with the right of the Labour Party. Even some Blairites may peel away from the Starmer project when the realise two years away from the election that Labour could well lose. Pay attention.

[@ACameronUK]

@@idonthavealoginname Surely trans rights are human rights? 🤷‍♂️ they’re pretty important.

[@hugemoose101]

@idonthavealoginname what evidence is there that trans rights and equality and diversity come at the expense of merit? I expect you're one of those people who assumes that all trans/disabled/black people in jobs got there because of EDI, and don't for a moment consider that they might ALSO be the best fit for the job 🙃

[@sarahwhiting325]

Oh wow I need to get a copy of this pamphlet 😮

[@ellentewkesbury5936]

A great talk! Thank you.

[@BertWald-wp9pz]

I am a person with professional qualifications and career and postgrad qualified from a prestigious University. This does not mean I have to identify myself by this. Anyone who thinks their identity is so determined, is seeing a very blinkered version of the world. My experience is we all have little self serving egos and that includes people of all levels of education. I have also encountered many very clever but not formally educated people and in my experience they are often far more liberated and pluralistic than those educated or sometimes es re-educated at institutions. In my profession a good 90% of the knowledge I take to be most useful was gained at work not college and by following my own line of thought. Let’s not get tribal over this. Michael Foucault would probably agree with the drift of this talk in that it is all about a sort of relativism in which there is no Will to truth only power. I admire Foucault but think he is wrong. Niklas Luhmann Sociologist and Systems Theorist argued that as surviving organisms, organisations had to be self sustaining and self perpetuating. This gives them emergent properties that have both positive and negative effects. I think this is a better way to frame the analysis.

[@joesoy9185]

She would say, "Baydenoch, if you please". I say Bad Enoch, as in Powell.

[@stevenhoward3358]

I broadly agree. I can't her leadership as being anything but turbulent and it will simply be a matter of time before she is ousted. The question is how much damage will she leave in her wake.

[@PeterBullard]

I haven't read the document you reference. Would it be good to have a link? I probably agree with you, Richard, but I am concerned that she is seeking a wider audience, and therefore you could be promoting her views by merely mentioning them. She clearly has a "weave" with words. Hang on, I guess that might be why you haven't referenced the document!

[@Nemo59646]

She wants to party like its 1812 as 1832 is far too progressive.

[@victoriavelvet3689]

We are the problem! I like that tagline.

[@JanePeryer-hp7ic]

Thanks Richard. And when you do one on mental ill health please don't use the recently changed definition of an illness. They cancelled it. We are people with mental health problems/difficulties. I can assure you mental illness is very real and the language of illness needs reinstating as it reduces to dust people's suffering. Thanks ❤

[@MarkGrindell]

Given that conservatism always had problems with algebra (i.e. the rules of arithmetic) and physics and biology (the ideas that they seem fixated on, for instance, the magic money tree), I would be surprised if folks with a couple of O-levels are not seen as the "enemy within". It was just the same with Thatcher.

[@o2johnnybravo]

Evidence-free bs.

[@MarkGrindell]

@@o2johnnybravo Conservatism was always - at least since the Reagan era - a "religious" system of axioms and failing at each iteration. You have seen a stream of right wing nonsense that demolished most of the institutions, weakened social structure, and suffocated education. The reason why you don't have Intel and AMD investing in the USA as much as you would like is that they can't afford it. And in this, they are behaving exactly as you would intelligent industrial capitalists to behave - which is a good thing and I agree with them. Coming up with educated people outside of the Taiwan/Japanese/European models is getting to be laughably impractical.

[@caxzrockz]

Doesn't she have a degree

[@Tunji-dp1tu]

...interesting question...very relevant and valid, too! of course everyone knows the answer...

[@MrMejIT]

Hates her reflection in the mirror therefore

[@JohnPichard]

No one takes Badenock seriously. Thankfully, she is the death knell of the Tory party

[@luke7708]

That was my initial thought during the leadership campaign. But seeing Donald Trump being re-elected irrespective of the facts and logic not to vote for him, I am now very concerned about Badenock. Western economic ideas are no longer working in an unstable and insecure world, and the same uninspired politics is causing people to vote for despots and autocrats. With the Conservatives tweaking their system so a vote of no confidence is harder to achieve; I think either she or a Nigel Farage led Tory party will win the next election. Labour are the new 'soft' Tory party and have already lost the trust of swathes of the country.

[@theotherandrew5540]

I hope, really hope you’re right. I am appalled that there is even a single Tory MP after the utterly shameful support those MPs gave the their lying, corrupt, incompetent leaders.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Beware what you wish for, you just miggt get it. Remember, you can't always control what will rise up in its place. There's a lot of money riding on it.

[@ParacolidingDanni]

That is a mistake. She is dangerous.

[@Tunji-dp1tu]

@@ParacolidingDanni ...lol...taking her seriously now, are you? btw, just curious, are you by any chance a LP supporter?

[@theotherandrew5540]

As ever, the Conservatives are looking backwards to conserve some mythical glorious past, when the common people knew their place.

[@richardhooper2700]

Cheers Richard!!

[@musicmikemn]

"there are some who are naturally entitled to prosper. And the rest are destined to serve." This is the logical conclusion of what it actually means to be right wing versus left wing. The true definition of right wing is a belief in natural heirarchies, whereas the left does not.

[@adam999walker]

I looked at the pamphlet ready to scoff at it, actually I though it wasn’t so bad. I recommend a quick read of the summary after watching this video. That would be the educated thing to do.

[@desperatefortuneproduction3296]

Hostility towards those in poor mental health and towards academics. Aren't both of those known hallmarks fascism?

[@ianbird8617]

What all politicians seem not to be learning, even if they are educated to degree standard. You must tell the truth, represent your electorates needs and achieve some of your main manifesto pledges. Simples……few achieve this and get replaced.

[@isabellesmith5253]

I totally agree with all you said in this clip 😊

[@RobertJohnLangdon-author]

Well-spoken, my friend! 🤓

[@michaelcousins2177]

looking forward to your video on the disabled. Currently I feel with both major (and some smaller) parties on a crusade against the disabled I expect public hatred towards this group to be on a par with illegal immigrants.

[@victoriavelvet3689]

That’s exactly what they want to do like Trump I guess. The change that some people will think they want.

[@gordonwilson1631]

Look at the USA.

[@gj55223]

Will you please stop using the word ‘hate’? People who disagree with you, or hold different opinions to you, do not hate you. If Badenoch believes too many people have degrees, that doesn’t mean she hates people who have degrees. The word ‘hate’ is bandied around far too much these days, as are the words ‘far-right’ to anyone who holds a different opinion, asks questions or, in some cases, simply states facts. There are many other words such as ‘detest’ and ‘despise’ if you really do want to convey that meaning. But ‘hate’ is far too strong. When you hate someone or a group of people you want to do something about it. You want to destroy them. So please don’t use ‘hate’ unless that’s your actual meaning.

[@marianhunt8899]

Detesting and despising something is hating something.

[@gj55223]

@ I disagree. You can despise someone but still tolerate them. If you hate someone you need to do something about it. It’s an important distinction.

[@ltmund]

The truth is that its the left that hates. It justifies its hatred by projection. Its OK to hate them because they hate...

[@marianhunt8899]

​@@gj55223the Oxford dictionary disagrees with you.

[@gj55223]

@ Fair enough. All I was trying to say though was that I’m fed up with the word hate being bandied around. If I question the need for gender pronouns for example it means I hate LGBT+ people, which I don’t. Like the massively overused ‘far-right’, the word no longer has meaning. As for the other words, Oxford can say what they like, but if I was told someone despised me I’d try to live with it, if I was told someone hated me I’d put another lock on the door.

[@Baxwell.]

Governments can own things that could turn a profit but don't have to. Some people would rather own those things instead so they they can generate profit from them. The only way to take them from the government is to gain control of the government. Sell off our national wealth to those that can sell it back to us for a profit.

[@tygraig2721]

She is shaping up to really be " Britain Trump".

[@Tunji-dp1tu]

...you don't say..lolol...

[@Freesurfer688]

It's not just the Conservatives and Kemi. It's the whole political class that's the problem. You mention that Kemi dislikes people with mental health issues, but in my experience it's not just people who are conservatively minded, but liberals and some socialists too. Labour want 'assisted dying' for people who are terminally ill and to ease pain. However, other countries started with this and ended up inviting people who are mentally ill and depressed for assisted dying after some years. I don't like where Western political systems are going and I'm not voting.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

It is better to light a candle, than sit cursing the darkness. And not voting is just cursing the darkness. Nothing you want or need will happen unless you ask or work for it. Voting is not a sign of approval or satisfaction. Rather is showing that you recognise you have skin in the game, and whether the road to getting what you want is short or long, smooth or rough, you want something. You have to turn up to be counted, because not being counted means you don't matter, because everything that matters is counted.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Sorry, but some people who were depressed asked for it. And unfortunately, people who are depressed often end themselves without any interventiin from the state. I'd rather blame the state for providing something that some one wants - because they don't "invite" you for assisted dying. You have to go through an onerous process of approval for it to be done. And realistically, the once existence of the Liverpool Pathway emphasises that most people ended by doctors without their consent, were never asked to give it. That is completely different for those who ask for it, and these should not be conflated. That too is a disservice to those involved. Your approach is the slippery slope, and is reasonable. But in any case, safeguards to weed out the cases that need not suffer by staying alive - need to be clear and unambiguous.

[@clivebroadhead4381]

"Big daddy" Badenock"!

[@georgesos]

Coconut, nice fresh coconut...( bitter inside though)

[@chrisjudd-uc7sh]

The common factors in the western world making many societies unhappy seem to be lack of national pride and community cohesion as individuals feel threatened by woke culture, high immigration, global warming and the high cost of housing be it rental or purchase. Also, societies values seem to have degenerated seeing systems of governance untrustworthy and self-serving, again making the individual feel less secure. Overriding this is a general weakening of community spirit as the values of materialism seem to be prevalent with moral virtue diminishing. Hope for a better future has declined. The answer surely is not to send in the storm troopers beat up those section of society we don’t like and expect to live in a happier world. Immigration control is an ever increasing imperative we must still promote a global world but with other mechanisms rather than just open borders. We must reduce inequality, foster an inclusive society and promote a more balanced value set that marries wellbeing and moral virtue to materialism. This has to include an overhaul of our archaic and moronic party based political system. Starmer, Farage Trump, Badenoch are simply not up to the job and most of us know it.

[@richardbrophy3968]

What she wants is small government. What is the smallest government, no Government. If no government then no bureaucracy. Then you can reduce tax. Problem solved

[@martinwilkinson3959]

I don't like to comment on something I have not read and so I went to the pamphlet in question written by Badenoch. The only quote on Universities that I saw was: "The growth of pointless degrees pushed by government so that a middle-class job requires a greater millstone of debt, funding a growing university administrative class." I am afraid you have fallen much in my estimation because of the way you have interpreted this statement. The wilful distortion of what is actually written is so disappointing.

[@shaunmiller7370]

So she wants to take us back to the 18th, 17th century, though, when only a certain echelons were allowed in power who had great Swedes of land and serfdom later, and became dependent on the landowner for their livelihood when power resided in the few over the many

[@roberthuntley1090]

OFF TOPIC - I would welcome a video about the likely effect of the Trump presidency (tariffs, US inflation and borrowing etc.) on the UK. Thanks in advance.

[@coloaten6682]

Charter Cities will need a lot of servants. Badenoch wants to create those.

[@nulloxis1638]

"Conservatism in Crisis, The Rise of the Bureaucratic Class" Sounds like a Star Wars Film.

[@joannedoyle-bu3mu]

I was told in education that I did not have a voice and no right to question those I was studying as I was not as educated and established as those I was being taught about. In my opinion and experience there are not many lecturers or persons in higher positions that want us to question the narrative or even question it them selves; therefore leading to a society of educated people actually being the most uneducated around yet holding the power to establish the rules. We would need a whole society of people like your self in education and the workplace to change our situation and we just do not have that. We have trusted so called educated doctors that they know and have studied what is best for illness yet they are NOT educated they are indoctrinated and given false elite inflated egos and shit all over us. The doctors are only one example of the educated being uneducated and forcing the wrong narative. To take on a 50 grand debt to be educated in docrination is exactly why I encoureged my daughter NOT to go to university and for me to have NO respect of the labelled educated. Hope my waffle makes sense and thank you for your vids

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Pink Floyd's "The Wall"?

[@gavinwhite9743]

Whilst I admire the sentiment of legions of independent thinkers springing from University, I hope you can step back and see what is being produced. Armies of Woke sheeple, scared to have opinions for fear of offending some minority. Thought police crushing any right wing agendas as dangerous. Double standards, preaching tolerance whilst insisting on acceptance of their view of the world. Lecturers who have job security and golden pensions, who are happy to burden generations of students with debt. A degree has become big business, as corrupt as any bank or energy company( couldn’t think of anything more corrupt) Disagree? How many students would dare say, a woman should have ovaries? Or that the British Empire also brought many benefits? Or even that we should take pride in our efforts to end slavery. It doesn’t matter if you agree with those statements, but the culture that would allow for a healthy debate has been removed, for fear of cancellation.

[@Jaymark-gk4li]

Exactly 💯 excellent points 👉 👈

[@jimshelley8831]

Wokes you gammon? What benefits did the British empire bring, it bought misery,slavery , death and torture . How about the 45 billion we stole from India and the million of Indians Churchill starved towards the end of WW2. Gammon boy.

[@jimshelley8831]

Take pride in our efforts to stop slavery lol. Compensation of billions was paid to the slave owners not the slaves you gammon.

[@petermcfarlane6749]

Utter nonsense. Anyone who doesn't follow a right wing agenda is apparently 'woke'??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Calm down, dear. They're only horses.

[@karendarrenmclaren]

A men to that

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

Well here is another paradox. In the time where half the people have degrees, how is it the broadcast TV is now so unintelligent compared to say the 50s to 70s period? Repeat the question for newspapers, or even the complexity of music. IT projects is another one. How come the post office could not fix a few simple bugs with their computer? Also how about the blood scandal, covid etc . We have all these degrees, but no brains to run the country.

[@dlawrence3187]

Educated people aren’t the problem. Clever people aren’t the problem. A bloated further education system with a colossal social sciences branch of no real use in the dynamic world is the problem. Professors in this sphere enjoying the career long safe income while indoctrinating future generations and condemning them to useless qualifications.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

You obviously don't recognise that Economics is a Social Science, but you like good economies, right? Or history? Or psychology? Prejudices are no proxy for real knowledge or wisdom. They run contrary to the dictum of the Delphic Oracle "Know Thyself", which is the the Dictum of the Social Sciences. Why? In anyone's life, there is only ever one person who is always present: oneself. By understanding better who we are as humans, and what shapes our collective and individual action, we are nothing but Bulls in a China Shop, or hairless apes. We are the source of civilisation and studying it and analysing how we are as a species and as societies is the key to the lock of our true potential. Not understanding ourselves fully has bought us to yet another Bull in A China episode in human history. The paralells are clear. We have bern here before, and we'll probably wreck the joint yet again until we all acknowledge that we are still hairless apes who haven't evolved that much, and perhaps should pay attention to the limitations that imposes on us indivudualky abd collectively. That knowledge and hopefulky wisdom is our true legacy to those whi might follow us, if we can stop being cadidates for a Darwin Award. Have a nice day.

[@mikeonb4c]

I've loved your videos, but this one leaves me unsettled. I've watched my son and his mates get nowhere in todays workplace with their degrees. So many degrees now don't count for much in terms of getting a good, well paid job, and many I suspect don't even deliver the critical thinking skills you (and I) value. Whatever, what results is too often an angry disengaged person with (unrealistic0 expectations that are not likely to be met. In contrast, and despite both our parents being doctors, me and my three brothers never went to university. Neither did many of my contemporaries, although one notably went to university after a few years of being apprenticed and qualified as a skilled welder (he went on to be very successful, making things that we all need and use today in the energy sector). There was not the same expectation then that everyone would go to university, even if from a 'middle class' (whatever that is) background. And you are an accountant by background I think? And an educationalist? I recall a saying for each: the first understands the price of everything and the value of nothing, the second teaches because they don't know how to 'do'. Both these comments were heard often. I don't think either is really fair, but so often it is perception that matters. I've always thought that (proper) employment linked training/apprenticeships has a lot to offer when linked to the promise of proper job prospects. My friends and I back circa 1970 loved to make stuff and we had interested minds. We didn't go to Uni because it sounded boring and we had no idea what we might want to do there. The route to engaging young people with the world of work is not necessarily via university. So without taking a view on the new Conservative leader (I've not paid her much attention yet, but no doubt she is appealing to base instincts and ignorance to pull voters her way), I think it is important not to overmake the case for universities and degrees, some of which are peddling worthless degrees and ruining the expectations of the young. And that is bad news indeed.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

It's understandable to feel unsettled right now, as the reality of our current system may differ significantly from what we once assumed. If we take the excitement surrounding AI at face value, there's a real concern that many white-collar jobs could be eliminated under capitalism. So, what can we do about this? It's crucial that we encourage our children to work to live, rather than live to work. They should learn to think strategically for themselves, rather than relying on external sources for what they cannot provide. The opportunities that existed in the 1970s are fundamentally different from what we see in the 2020s, and this economy is unlikely to return to those times. Therefore, we need to prepare our children to be adaptable and independent thinkers rather than trying to force them into rigid roles that no longer fit. If their sole focus is on securing employment, it’s important to note that self-employment stands as the only truly guaranteed path to lifelong work. However, the journey of self-employment is not without its challenges; it demands self-discipline, foresight, curiosity, and courage. While success or wealth isn’t guaranteed, the foundation of employment is still there for many. With the right priorities in place, a fulfilling life is indeed within reach, as it is these priorities that enrich our very existence. What is more significant than the external chaos is what brings meaning to our lives. This journey also encompasses taking responsibility for yourself and your loved ones. Although a job may offer less responsibility, we must acknowledge that true security is becoming increasingly rare, as capital continues to replace human roles with automation. The jobs that remain may be those beyond the reach of AI or robots, and there are valid concerns about whether they will provide a living wage. Thus, even within this context, we ought to approach our circumstances with an open mind; harbouring resentment over these changes can often be a futile exercise. Until humanity finds a way to either reform or replace capitalism with a more sustainable alternative that meets our material and other needs, we must learn to adapt to the pressures of the current system.

[@mikeonb4c]

@CuriousCrow-mp4cx Lots of good points here, all accepted. A bit of me worries though that this is an issue like climate change. Do we just accept it and expect/hope humans (en masse) can accommodate the changes. Or do we have to be concerned that certain fundamental human drivers mean we need to try and reverse certain things, such as consumerism, selfishness, loss of security and belonging etc. I'm inclined towards the latter view, but I realise I may be like King Canute trying to hold back the waves. I'll keep trying though, because as a man of 72 who is nearer the exit than the entrance, I believe it is what I must do regardless. But not to the point of worrying about it though!

[@ozziepilot2899]

Here here :)

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

Half young people have degrees now. How many are academically rigorous?

[@andymoore9977]

When I graduated 4 folk out of 40 got a 1st or a 2:1, 10%. Now the same university has 60% graduating with a 1st or 2:1 and no one seems to fail or even kicked out. 40 years ago we must have been so thick!

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

@andymoore9977 I'm my class of 1986, there was one 1st and one 2:1 out of 10 students.

[@Tunji-dp1tu]

@@andymoore9977 ...let's hope your sarcasm's not lost on them (the y2k generation), lolol...their brains are apparently inside their mobile phones (no shade intended but it seems that bad nowadays!!!)...frankly, i think generally what you say has already kicked in for most people today even before that educational stage (university) is reached...a spoon-fed generation for whom things have, academically speaking, been dumbed down and the internet, good and useful as it is, has not been innocent in this regard...without dismissing the hard work of very able students in this generation, i marvel for instance at how prevalent the cases are of A's, A*'s in current era A-level results, like it's being handed out almost free...very different in my time, decades ago... also, in my days at university (this was pre-internet), you needed (had to!!) understand and be able to derive concepts from first principles...nowadays, oh well...about a decade or so ago a pal shocked the living daylights out of me while narrating his encounter with a student who'd just finished A-level exams...he said their casual discussion revealed this ex-student was virtually clueless, and simply stared at him when he mentioned pythagoras...smh...

[@Seagreengoat]

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[@angelaoliver2750]

Why is she hateful with people who have degrees , as I'm in the process of getting one . Is she going to dislike me as well😅😅😅

[@desperatefortuneproduction3296]

Johnson, Truss, Starmer, Patel and Sunak were bad enough. Is Kemi Bad-enough?

[@ParacolidingDanni]

Bad Enoch was the cruelty behind Truss / Johnson & Sunak

[@glynnwright1699]

There are 132 institutions that classify themselves as universities, yet postgraduate research is concentrated in no more than 40 of that total. Whatever they call themselves, they are, de facto, teaching colleges. The idea that this group is uniquely positioned to hold others to account, because they choose to call themselves universities, is risible. They function as businesses, mostly providing mediocre standards of education and little support for the personal development of the students that they fleece.

[@fatfrreddy1414]

there's educated...and there's EDUCATED..Degrees are meaningless,if current Media Coverage is any indication...

[@Tunji-dp1tu]

...wow...that's brutal...so cold-blooded and factual...smh...

[@bisqvis]

How can she hate people with degrees when having a degree herself???

[@dirksteinkrug3499]

I think she is saying we need fewer lawyers and accountants and more plumbers and electricians. She is saying that universities are spending too much time inculcating students with nonsense like Critical Race Theory. I think she is right.

[@fylbike]

A degree may be in a 'useless subject' , as you see it, but what any degree gives you is the ability to think clearly and understand problems, not just accept the orthodoxy

[@jamesgeorge8915]

Wonderful but do you want to pay £35,000 for that, when you could learn it for free?

[@joanneburslem4330]

Trouble is many people with degrees are thick as a plank, no common sense at all.Our governments have encouraged lots of people who shouldn't go to uni to go to uni. never known so many people want to be marine biologists in my Life!

[@frankcooper6118]

Surely that is dependent on the quality of your teachers and their ability to disassociate themselves from their own biases and present a variety of points of view.

[@jamesgeorge8915]

@@frankcooper6118 im not interested in spending £35,000 to be impressed by someone else's critical reasoning and ability to counter their own bias, good or half bad. My own critical reasoning skills tell me that.

[@frankcooper6118]

@@jamesgeorge8915 I agree with you, but my point was that if education is to give you 'the abilty to think clearly and understand problems' as suggested by the original comment then teachers should present a variety of views, allow free discussion and allow their students to reach their own conclusions, otherwise it is merely indoctrination.

[@physiocrat7143]

If 50% of an age cohort has a degree, the content of the course must be seriously degraded compared to what it was when only 5% went to university, and perhaps another 10% had the opportunity later on to study as mature students. Thus we have a generation of young people with worthless degrees and a shortage of competent artisans and tradesmen, who have to be imported from Eastern Europe.

[@bigbarry8343]

I am from EE and I resent that. Britain is a racist country after all.

[@skyblazeeterno]

Prove the skills gap. It's a myth

[@skyblazeeterno]

@bigbarry8343 people are racist and to imply that Europe doesn't have racists is a little silly

[@downshift4503]

It's not the content that is necessarily degraded, only that a larger percentage of the population becomes educated. That, in itself is a good thing. Nothing wrong with people moving around to find work if there are better opportunities elsewhere.

[@skyblazeeterno]

@@physiocrat7143 define a worthless degree

[@72rmboyd]

She does sound like she has lifted some pages or all of the pages of the far right playbook

[@Mitjitsu]

The current education system is very much rooted in conformity. If you're not a conformist you're not going to get good grades.

[@daveansell1970]

The current far right is quite good at identifying problems, though their solutions generally make things worse. There is an issue that this country doesn't seem to be able to get real things done at a sane cost these days. Look at HS2 or Hinckley point 2. Probably a big part of the issue is people in offices absorbing most of the money and not getting things done. And education does tend to teach people that writing reports is productive, rather than an enabler of productivity. Her solution as ever is not going to help, but there is a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed. There are probably a lot of bits of solutions, ranging from how government contracts work, their size, reskilling the civil service, allowing pensions to be invested in UK businesses, and many other small things.

[@CuriousCrow-mp4cx]

Too simplistic appoach here. And if british banks in the present aren't willing to invest in british industry, why is that? Pensions aren't capital, they are savings for the future for people who will lack capacity to earn more in their retirement. Pensions should be off limits. Entrepreneurs should find their own capital from capital markets, and leave pensions alone.

[@daveansell1970]

@CuriousCrow-mp4cx pensions should be capital. As your can't save for retirement, all the things you need in your retirement are provided by future workers. At which point, especially with an aging population we need to invest in productive assets that will increase productivity of the workers that are left so there are more resources available as a country /planet to look after the old people. It shouldn't be invested in Ponzi schemes, but it should be invested in factories, wind turbines etc. Following your policy will make us poorer as a society, at which point the money you have safely saved will be worthless.

[@g.p616]

Classic ‘Straw Man’ monologue. Interpret what someone has said; State your opinions as facts; Dismantle those ‘facts’. The result is that people who haven’t been paying attention or didn’t actually read her original are convinced by your ‘argument’ rather than recognising it as a piece of propaganda. But why are you producing this propaganda?

[@davidmcculloch8490]

I suspect that Kemi is more afraid of critical thinking than education per se.

[@iansinclair8905]

With respect to I think you are simplifying a complex problem There is a gulf of opportunities and life chances between those with advanced degrees and those without And, the national bureaucracy which helps many of us, also and understandably looks after its own Additionally, we are all, in the UK, getting poorer It’s complicated, and global money and the selling of UK assets to global offshore interests are making things worse We need to find ways to listen to each other- and some different solutions from left and right

[@kirstymctear5030]

She has fascistic tendencies and I believe she looks at Putins Russian oligarchy and sees this as a model for government. Power for the few.

[@olivermiller3090]

This is rather slippery isn’t it ..

[@briskyoungploughboy]

Not sure why the Tories don't stop mincing around and just go back to the 'good old days' before the various Reform Acts- after all, that's what they really want, so why don't they just say so? Perhaps they might favour a persons 'voting power' being allocated according to net wealth? Should be well possible in the electronic age, and would disincentivise the hiding of wealth in offshore accounts and trusts.

[@briskyoungploughboy]

Btw, I'm trying to be...ironic?

[@markantony530]

I think you will find its not that she does not like young people having degrees, its that a lot of young people get degrees in media studies, interior design or theatre studies, and then find the job market does not value their qualification. Her stance has more nuance than you are presenting. Does that bely an undercurrent which is that you feel negative towards conservative values?

[@strandedstarfish]

This is the right wing MO. You're not allowed to live your life, you have to love their life as they know what's best for you.

[@andymoore9977]

It all depends on the "education". Folk in Russia, China and even North Korea are educated to some degree. Many Russians, it seems, clearly believe that Russian imperialism and state terrorism is a just and rightful thing. Who decides the curriculum? .Is education in the UK monitored to ensure it is free of bias and personal agenda? Yet how do you define "free of bias". I never cease to be amazed what is being taught nowadays as "fact". But I suppose that is my bias kicking in. The key issue is what is "change for the better". My version of "better" will be different to yours. I am the product of 65 years of life experience graduating in the 1980s. "Better" for a 35 year old exposed to different influences will be different.

[@michaelillingworth6433]

If you can't read and write, you are unable to find things out for yourself. Maybe she just wants a country of yes people.

[@roc7880]

a black woman defending the power of the white gentry is something from Monthy Python.

[@Tensquaremetreworkshop]

The only way to greatly increase the number of people with a given qualification (university degree in this case) is to reduce the standard. Who benefits from this? When interviewing recent graduates, I was stunned at how narrow their knowledge was. Any large organization that has existed more than ten years, and is not subject to market forces, will be riddled with inefficiencies. Universities fall into this group. They are, in general, not fit for purpose.

[@barrydwyer2039]

A lot degrees that are being undertaken are virtually worthless. Sending people to uni's for the sake of it doesn't produce well educated people. This is/has been used to put people in debt for no reasonable return and also used to massage the unemployment figures. Most of the MP's currently sitting are degree educated, whilst the degree they lack most is common sense. Common sense comes with life experience and this shower have none that I can see. Sending the wrong people to UNi's is a waste of their time and eventually our money as they look at it as a 3 to 5 year sabbatical from earning a living and having debts they can never repay. What seems to have been churned out of Uni's lately are a bunch of idiots that what to protest about everything modern and drags us back to the dark ages where we have hemp sandals and sackcloth to wear. I could say more but what would be the point. As you yourself point out the economics of the mad house are at large and the taxpayers are on the hook for the follies of these half-wits for the next few decades.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Does she not have a degree herself? Talk about pulling the ladder!

[@minimalist279]

she is a reader of scripts, writer of pamphlets etc...of ideas formulated by her clone handlers

[@dboynette]

Wow, all these comments and non one appears to have read the document! Not appropriate to just suck up the narrative of a third party, why not make your own judgment based on her words?

[@tobyroy336]

I'm not convinced by the Blairite view of education for everyone as a deliverable mandate, and I certainly don't for one minute believe that we need 50% of the population being educated to degree level. The profitable colleges and universities may survive at the expense of this ideology, but it will only prove that the last 20years was a mismanaged experiment that would have been better served by apprenticeships and part-time sponsored engineering degrees meeting the needs of an evolving techno-centred economy. Does my viewpoint, reading between the lines of what I've written, suggest I want power structures to shift? Yes, but towards the people, not the elites. I want an economy that actually works, preferably for as many people as possible. But a large student population doesn't necessarily help the economy. A large student population simply defers the responsibility of secondary education. We need real education to begin in our schools. We do not need universities filling that gap. We need better alignment (and governance) of technocratic structures, but what we don't need is Trump and his crooked band of cronies coming into fill that void because we have failed. This is what I'm worried about. Kemi Bad-Enoch is a cynical product of the bureaucratic left. A bureaucratic left that has failed to deliver the economy we deserve. In the last 20years, the top companies in this country are still the banks, mineralogy and oil companies. We have not evolved one tiny bit. We are behind the rest of the world, and despite so many people going to university, we have a large under skilled population failing to meet the needs of most modern workplaces. We cannot see what is over the horizon because we are so wrapped up by our entitlement to be "educated" without really knowing what that means!

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[@charleswillcock3235]

The only way forward for the UK is with a highly educated workforce. However if we then paralyse ourselves such as The application process for the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) cost £295 million, and overall spending before construction began was over £800 million. This includes the cost of technical surveys and land purchasing. The LTC is a 23 km road scheme that will connect Kent and Essex and include the UK's longest road tunnel. The project is estimated to cost around £9 billion and take about six years to build. The LTC is intended to: Reduce congestion on the Dartford Crossing, Provide a new transport route, Help the UK economy grow, and Improve journeys for millions of people each year. The LTC was the longest planning application ever, with 359,866 pages spread across 2,838 documents. Who will ever read an application with 359,866 pages? Yes, as a society we need to debate and investigate projects, but for me, spending this much money before building work actually starts is more than excessive. If the Victorians had spent money like this much less would have been built. The balance has of bureaucracy in some if not a lot areas has tipped too far towards blocking progress.

[@angelaoliver2750]

I gess i am her problem to then😅😅😅