BORIS JOHNSON RESIGNS

[@iandyckhoff7553]

You guys are an absolute delight to listen to. Keep up the good work. Thank you.

[@richardbarnes5976]

These excellent conversations show that Left and Right can talk to each other and reach some agreements if there is mutual respect and a willingness to listen to each other. It does not have to be one spin operation trying to drown out the other. Well done guys.

[@ThePereubu1710]

neither of them are "left" or "right" really, they are both centrists. OK, Stewart is right of centre and Campbell is left of centre but neither of them are to the extreme.

[@rorykeegan1895]

O'Brien's plug got me here .... good stuff. Well done chaps.

[@mariusburneckis]

Same. Heard about the podcast on LBC and was surprised at the number of subscribers. Will increase from today on….

[@teuchterapple]

Likewise. I am so glad I found this podcast. It's superb.

[@peterkazmierczak7273]

Likewise. This podcast thingy definitely needs a wider audience. Have pressed the "subscribe" button.

[@MrBileDuct]

Rory, everything you said and understood about Johnson's cheating, lying and megalomania is finally laid bare for all to see. Even his 'coat-tail' friends have to admit the 'emperors new clothes' are both translucent and what's left is not a pretty sight'! I wish you were still in Westminster to add a sense of reason, logic and compassion at this time.

[@leemoldon]

Just watched a Rory Stewart with james o'brien interview and found out about this podcast! I'm labour, but admire both these guys immensely! The fact that Alistair is happy to work with Rory (and vice versa) says a lot about both of them professionally and personally! If only our government worked the same way!

[@sempressfi]

That's how I found out about them too! American here but align with labour and yeah, this podcast is a bright spot in all the craziness. I think the UK is going through a lot of the same things we are just obviously in different ways and these two are giving me ideas/hope for how we can hopefully all make it through

[@leemoldon]

@@sempressfi couldn't agree more, good luck!

[@icecoldcabbage4329]

Me too

[@nickbarton3191]

Just found your channel. What a delight to listen to two voices of reason.

[@misswarda78]

Great to see you guys working together and regaining the centre ground in British rationality, integrity and progress.

[@johnferriter8265]

Well done you 2. Keep up the great work.

[@teuchterapple]

Superb podcast guys. It should be required listening to all the halfwits in government and anyone who is eligible to vote. Rory - you gotta get back into politics.

[@JamesG2758]

Just found you fellas here tonight, great.will listen and follow.

[@djblairsmith6]

Campbell...Stewart.... Gentlemen..... Please.... START YOUR ENGINES!!! You are both needed more than ever. God Speed.

[@charlesgrimshaw5204]

Absolutely great (and informative) discussion. Thanks!

[@sharronwood2823]

Refreshing. Well done both of you

[@derekglasspool946]

Excellent, thank you chaps

[@davebento1548]

Wouldn't it be great if Rory was tory leader and Alistair labour leader ! Remember listening to a cabinet of liars and crooks that Rory knew Johnson was a liar and crook and had the integrity not to serve in Johnsons cabinet. I think that makes Rory the only option for Tory leader. Alistair is straight talking in a way no one in labour is, thats why their message gets lost.

[@byrnemeister2008]

Labour could certainly do with getting Campbell back. As you say straight talking and clear. There are some in Labour who can compete but we will need all the people we can muster come the next election.

[@scroggins100]

If only we had more like these two. Coalition would be a great idea, in these sad days and re-kindle some faith in UK Politics.

[@williamj8349]

Rory, I Understand the hurdles but this country desperately needs a moderate conservative leader with experiance, culture, pragmatism, statesmanship, integrity. …. Know anyone? 🙄

[@kentendo6453]

The podcast I really didn't know I needed

[@twocardtarot6479]

Run in Uxbridge, Alistair!

[@db7541]

Will Campbell ever bring himself to criticise Blair fairly? Rory manages it with Tory PMs he served under, so why can’t Alastair even bring himself to try?

[@dddz961]

You may have to do another episode with this exact title a month from now.

[@billparsons2702]

Listening to this, and others, I think you should revisit your old podcasts to see whether you still stand by your analysis and whether you can now answer the questions you raised.

[@HaggardPillockHD]

Great podcast

[@henrysnowdon7563]

42:09 ALAISDAIR SAW THE FUTURE😂😂😂😂

[@gavincutler8889]

I’m beginning to feel that the light at the end of the tunnel may have flickered back on……

[@matchbox555]

Alistair MUST run.

[@idleishde6124]

As a Non-Conservative voter (not Labour, 3rd party), I'd vote Rory. Need more moderate Cons in parliament. I could get behind the Mod Cons.

[@NeilBlaiberg]

There aren't any. Johnson kicked them all out

[@shacklock01]

Very bizarre that as a 'young' socialist about to hit his thirties, my antipathy for Blair and Campbell has mellowed into almost sort of missing them. Suppose they look good in retrospect of the mixture of dross, sleaze and corruption we've had since. Also would very much vote for Rory cos at least hes a proper British politician of the type we used to have in decades past. Knowledgeable, pragmatic and possessed of some knowledge and respect of the former colonies commonwealth and the concept of the union.

[@ferris5150]

interesting to read your comment, especially the praise for Rory who i feel is quite far from a socialist ideology. I wonder whether the failures of candidates on either far sides of the spectrum, Johnson and Corbyn has mellowed voters on their respective political sides. Say Rory runs in your constituency, would he win your vote over a labour candidate?

[@shacklock01]

@@ferris5150 Considering labour is floundering under Starmer and will till it finds an authentic and confident working class character again, i'd have no problem voting for a proper one nation tory, anything is better than useless neoliberal 'populist' demagogues that are sending us hurtling toward being the pathetic rump gammon state of the Kingdom of England and Wales (bloody rubbish name who wants to be that country). That said, will have to swing behind labour fully if Rayner gets to the top chair. I'd have to give a fellow stopfordian that went Avondale a crack at running the country, even if just for that phrase alone (and for all the actual reasons that she came up through mechanisms that were the better policies of Blairism and understands grassroots upward socialist politics and actually has some charisma unlike Starmer that manages to make what should be emotive speeches make me want to fall asleep)

[@shacklock01]

@@ferris5150 My calculus is also changed somewhat by the pragmatic response to the Red Huangdi and his client-partner lil tsar putin. In times of war one has to accept the western/american/whatever you call it system is the best one we've got and the emperor/hegemon we have is better than the alternative which is a resurgent chinese empire thinking it has returned to its proper place as the middle kingdom and center of the universe. So naturally my choice of candidates changes from idealistic socialism to what is good for the general western community/the european project/surviving being wedged between two/three empires, all that fun stuff we face going into this century proper. Its time to think in terms of the great game etc. etc. So I may not be the best testcase but eh, hahaha.

[@ferris5150]

​@@shacklock01 interesting, candidates such as Rory may just be able to bring either side together then, possibly. Thanks for your response!

[@davesy6969]

Silly point- but don't we have a deputy prime minister as stand in?

[@ImNotHereEither]

Is the Conservative party as we knew it dead and gone? And what is in its place now? The upcoming leadership race will be who can out “right wing” each other and ride the wave of Boris’ particular style of populism and what kind of government will we be facing once this shakes out? I fear this is a stepping out of the frying pan moment.

[@alastairstewart5527]

You both sound like decent people who should be directly involved in politics.

[@fortuner123]

You obviously know nothing about them.

[@TheSynthnut]

I think Johnson's actions and words clearly demonstrated that he was living out his childhood fantasy of being "king of the world"

[@tomthumb2361]

The referendum rules were appalling. There should have been a 'super majority' for such a significant change to the then current settlement. I've been voting for electoral reform for much of the last 47 years, and both main parties have put their narrow self-interest above democracy. The total dominance of politics by big money and other narrow interest groups is one of the consequences of this lack of focus on democratic legitimacy.

[@Bingpot_Cowabunga]

The two smartest people in politics. PM and Deputy PM?

[@markendicott6874]

Thank £#ck!

[@edwardhudson9851]

Rory mate,you throw yer hat into the Leadership ring and Alastair will be your Comms guy,its a political marriage imo.Sth London expat Thatcherite following from Edmonton Canada.Keep up the good work you two :0)

[@townsendv58]

He will need the money as as Wifred (Carrie's) demanded a £250k tree house and another for Romy (Carrie's daughter).

[@icecoldcabbage4329]

I grow so incredibly worried about our country, how easily lead people are nowa days is beyond belief, also there’s a huge element of society who are genuinely nationalist borderline racist, the fact they got the turkeys to vote for Christmas to leave the eu, then they got people on benefits to actually vote Tory lol talk about turkeys voting for Christmas, and over the last 10 years they have mismanaged and gifted their mates billions in contracts all the while having a complete idiot at the wheel of the country and what gets him in the end is a party and not noticing he appointed a predator, why rnt we storming parliament asking for our billions back they gifted their mates why isn’t anyone angry about that. This country has become a tax haven, with 70-80% of the cash flowing through the south east meanwhile wales/nireland and the north get completely shafted

[@icecoldcabbage4329]

I forgot to add he appointed an ex kgb members son into the f’ing House of Lords he should be strung up for that alone

[@pluckypanda9937]

I find it strange how you two are on the same page much of the time, while the two movements you are from are polar opposites

[@FRM101]

Alastair's condemnation of Boris Johnson's lies when he (Alastair) was responsible for the 'dodgey dossier' which took his nation to war, and caused a suicide, is an impressive feat of mental gymnastics.

[@NeilBlaiberg]

Shows how bad it is when Jeremy Hunt is the best choice

[@onecupof_tea]

In Europe referendums must have minimum 20% majority, so clear popular support. Not crawling over the line, like brexit referendum.

[@tomcochrane56]

Johnson's not gone he's nearly gone but not quite. I never heard the word resignation, or that other word resigned thoughts?

[@mandymckerl4548]

Caretaker?😂😂 Care, Boris has no idea unless it's about is own interests. Taker, that's his default position.

[@RichardAnderson-zt8mq]

Please guys - if you can face it, get back into direct governmental politics. You both belong to a party that does not exist as yet - somewhere in the middle but rational. Your country needs you!

[@petergaskin1811]

Or does he?

[@kayfountain6261]

I'd hate to see any of the current bunch of crooks get cabinet positions in the new cabinet. But as a general position I worry about people with little or no experience of cabinet posts getting substantial jobs. Might that make things even worse? (I know that assumes the crooks understand their jobs when they generally dont).

[@OfficialRyanx]

“There will be people fanatically attached to him” Correction: there is one person fanatically attached to him.

[@SL-sd3sg]

Lining his mates pockets still!

[@andypeutherer4218]

Putting just ran out of 🍿

[@TalonAshlar]

When he wakes up the morning first thing to do... Bye Johnson

[@mjc8281]

Don't get me wrong I'm not a fan of Johnson... but its fair to say Rory Stewart "We need to pin down that he is the very very worst Prime Minister we have ever had" really didn't age well!

[@andyrichards3614]

Never mind Boris..what is to be done about Klaus Schwab and his ilk..?!!

[@kieranoconnor4334]

An 'Unwritten Constitution' does have any de jure significance.....I.E. its NOT a constitution. British exceptionalism shares a delusional parity with American exceptionalism, along with the 2 party system. PR not only, factually and practically , makes the 2 party system an impossibility, it also makes a media dominated by singular ideological stance impossible.

[@kieranoconnor4334]

@Marie Falmouth Really....I only wish!

[@icepee9252]

A question asked was how did we get here. My recollection from the time was people were getting tired of the left and right of politics focusing on what I like to call the muddy middle. People really couldn't put a fag paper between the Conservatives and Labour. They wanted a bit of conviction politics. People left the middle ground and drifted towards much more defined positions. This was a problem for the two hosts of this podcast, being in the middle of politics that they are. But, the pendulum swings and we are returning to the middle ground, again. I, for one have a bad feeling about this.

[@markashdown1314]

Penny was a sad miss.

[@georgeferguson7114]

I wonder if he would stay if WW3 came about. Shock horror!

[@jooeyunu]

GGooB :)

[@jamesriley3760]

Very interesting. Rory, please stop mispronouncing words with d's instead of t's. Thank you! [edited lol].

[@daviddevoy2197]

I don't know about God but Plato did not think much of democracy.

[@fortuner123]

Rory Stewart enjoying a chat with a Labour chum. Showing his true colours. I think they should get married.

[@rishispewcack5745]

Meanwhile Bojoke will be having drinkies with his Russian backers and finding even more ways to fill his pockets.

[@康奈尔威廉]

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