Is the Tory deputy chair about to lose his seat? | Stoke-on-Trent report

Jonathan Gullis' seat of Stoke-on-Trent North is in Labour's crosshairs for July 4, meaning the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party could be out of a job.
We went to Stoke-on-Trent to get a lay of the land, and find out why the people there are ready to swap out the Tories.
The full list of candidates in Stoke-on-Trent North is:
Karl Beresford: Reform UK
Jag Boyapati: Independent
Jonathan Gullis: Conservative and Unionist Party
Josh Harris: Green Party
Lucy Ann Hurds: Liberal Democrats
David Williams: Labour Party
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[@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo]

I’m from stoke and can’t wait for this berk to be voted out 👍🏻

[@benadams6019]

Second that brother

[@EGGY6227]

100%

[@matty7758]

Down the road from stoke and stokies deserve better

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@matty7758He only won his seat because of Brexit.

[@catherinemartin6258]

👍🏻

[@darthlazurus4382]

Hammered by Thatcher, and they still voted Tory. *slow clap*

[@JupiterThunder]

Thatcher had nothing to do with the potteries. It's globalisation and sweat-shop labour in the 3rd world that did it.

[@joperhop]

Well, in general, people are stupid.

[@sfactory8253]

It was Boris and Brexit really. A one off in time .

[@darthlazurus4382]

@@sfactory8253 And was it the correct choice or a stupid one?

[@rogerbennett9641]

Hammered by Blair you mean, get your facts straight. Oh you don't allow inconvenient facts I forgot.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Torys deserve ZERO SEATS.

[@kallisto9166]

Aw come on... Wouldn't it be funnier if they won five or six? And one of them was Sunak's? Then we could all enjoy watching them file miserably back into the commons to take up their seats on the shitty end of the opposition benches next to Jeremy Corbyn. So fun.

[@rogerbennett9641]

Labour voters are so dumb they don't even know its been a uniparty since 2008, at least most former Tory voters have worked that much out.

[@leonardochapman4736]

shame corbyn isn't in the prime minesterial seat ​@@kallisto9166

[@Dellboy56]

@@leonardochapman4736 It was because of Corbyn that the Tories had the landslide victory.

[@leonardochapman4736]

@@Dellboy56 corbyn had 1% less votes than starmer is predicted, and that's not the case anyways. The problem is that the right wing media performed a smear campaign against corbyn. Everything he said about Israel has been proven true time and time again, from it's creation 73-ish years ago, until today

[@mickbear413]

How the heck can a working class man vote Tory???? It's beyond me.

[@lozcb1]

Agreed . and same goes for Labour , they shit on the working man when Blair came to power and dismantled parliaments powers to so called unelected quango's

[@Eightball69]

Slugs for Salt mate

[@auxlen]

Absolutely mental...my jaw dropped. Perhaps he's one of those undercover millionaires?

[@neilgraves5069]

Traitors the lot of them

[@paulgibbon5991]

Generally, because they don't have much information beyond the Mail and Express and they blame everything on a migrant bogeyman--or because they've bought into the culture war that's the last refuge of every right-wing party.

[@jasoncooper9391]

Tories are a stain that won't go away 😂😂

[@DRobbo7798]

I swear by 'vansh'...

[@jasoncooper9391]

@@DRobbo7798 that won't get Rid of them 😃😃😃👍

[@sfactory8253]

Oh they are going away .......

[@jasoncooper9391]

@@sfactory8253 nye bevan didn't call the Tories lower than vermin for nothing 😃

[@tobyalan8874]

Similar to Bill Clinton on Monika Lewinsky's dress. 😂

[@dontgetgaslighted]

I'm always surprised he hasn't defected to reform yet 🤮

[@kanedNunable]

he's on 160k + expenses for now. he will when he loses.

[@DW-indeed]

​@@kanedNunable completely agree

[@kindgrinds]

He will when he loses.

[@rogerbennett9641]

Reform don't take uniparty socialists gassy.

[@kennylogue7947]

He will do if elected again. The hole that needs filled in is his potty mouth

[@gideanet]

That guy who doesn't know who his local MP shows how bad Jonathan Gullis has been

[@MephitisUK]

It also highlights how distant people are becoming from politics.

[@spikeychris]

@@MephitisUK To be fair I have no idea who the hell my local MP is (I know the party they are a member of but the actual person no idea) and I am pretty interested in politics. Hell I would need to check what the name of my actual constituency is lol.

[@Deimos2k5]

To be fair I think that says more about the guy than Gullis

[@pugsterjosh7925]

His local office is literally down the road from where they were standing so I was quite surprised to hear that.

[@NeonVisual]

They're ALLLLL going to lose their seats. STOP THE TOFFS!

[@Believe-you-me-]

I wish I had your optimism.

[@NeonVisual]

@@Believe-you-me- Facts don't require it.

[@Believe-you-me-]

@@NeonVisual their is an army of boomers that turn up to vote. They always win.

[@rogerbennett9641]

What toffs is that then? Former human rights lawyers who love to swan around in Davos and tell us we have to pay a £15k fine after 2027 if we want to sell our house and it isn't EPC C rated or higher. Or do you mean Mayors who swan around the world on money gouged out of workers with ULEZ charges, or former multi millionaire Labour boys like Blair, Mandellson and the Kinnocks. At least the genuine working class feather bedders had the decency to retire from the circus on their winnings.

[@NeonVisual]

@@rogerbennett9641 Cry harder Toff.

[@colinbrown7305]

I'm always baffled when people in these communities that have been destroyed say that they are traditional Tory voters and are undecided on who they will vote for. Have a look around where you live and ask yourself why you voted Conservative. The conservatives, since Thatcher have done exactly what they said they would and we can all see the results. Why any "working class" person would consider a vote for Conservative is mind blowing to me. I can't make any sense of it.

[@MBedford1]

They voted for them because the Tory party used to promote the idea that hard work could elevate your social class. To an extent that used to be true, but 21st century that dream has all but fizzled out.

[@christopherjohnson8896]

Misguided ideas around aspiration I reckon, speaking as a working class lad.

[@neonshaker9312]

Doubtful. Most of these sort of people like the idea of punching down on others. Disabled people, immigrants, people on benefits. Doesn't matter how bad their lives are as long as they can point at others who are worse off and tell them they deserve it.​@@MBedford1

[@AdrianMcMasterGaming]

I am from Newcastle Under Lyme and we have a lot of Working Class Tory's that still vote Tory or say they will vote Reform who are all ex-Tory MPs. I am 52 so remember Thather what she did. Never forget and never forgive. Labour is for me. Kier Stramer is not a Tory. He is centre right socialist. But he let slip some of his lefty socialist show I'm him and he needs to be very careful or the Tory voters will run.

[@tobiastrier]

Immigration.

[@TwelveTwelveEightTwo]

I emailed Gulles a couple of months ago asking what he wanted to be when he grows up. He hasn't responded yet.

[@dennisbuckley]

So staying up to see Gullis get the boot, no matter how late it takes. He could well be my “That’s it, job done. I’m off to bed” Tory. #portillo24

[@Eightball69]

Me too, he's number one on my shitlist 👌

[@kaesmith2893]

That’s right up there. I’m not sure a more unlikeable MP in general. Perhaps if Sunak loses his seat.

[@alexwright3301]

Surely Jeremy Hunt loosing his seat would be the one to look forward too. Probably the creepiest man in politics.

[@dennisbuckley]

@@alexwright3301it’s going to be a good show - probably best not to turn each Tory loss into a drinking game! 😵‍💫

[@madmags969]

Him and Lord Snooty are top of my 'stay up and laugh when they lose their seat' list

[@paulbrightwell3621]

He's always got this sneer on his face which exudes contempt and arrogance.

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

I hope the entire Tory party have their C.V.s up to date.

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

I imagine they will have to be creative with what they have done for at least the last 5 years.

[@leonardochapman4736]

​@@l3eatalphal3eatalphacrime and lies?

[@Evan490BC]

@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha Or 14...

[@DanAndLewOfficial]

This is a fantastic video highlighting the disrepair of the towns and the absolute lack of action from our so-called MP, get Gullis out the pleb.

[@Ayeright.]

The Tories have been ripping the hearts out of communities the lenght and breadth of the UK since I can remember in 1979.

[@colinmelling6369]

Stoke used to be a brilliant place to visit and shop . What a bloody shame politicians have killed it.

[@stevendenny7260]

I'm from just outside Belfast and worked in Stafford for a couple of years, and used to go up to Stoke at the weekend and for some matches at BET365. Great people and a once great city and industrial engine room that has been let go to the dogs... by who... the Tories. They destroyed the manufacturing sector as part of a political strategy and did not give a toss about the human impact and cost to the community and society. I am amazed why working class people would even consider voting for the Tories...

[@dm9078]

I’ve noticed in the last year or year and a half that people in the press are finally beginning to admit what an un mitigated disaster thatcher and adventurism has been for the people.

[@jasonw7992]

Same problem for Lee Anderson, hopefully the Ashfield voters kick him out too

[@johnburrows3385]

Sadly ,he's predicted to win.

[@user-xd7dk3oy3q]

Am always astonished that working class people vote for a party that openly wants to destroy them, only interested in promoting the wealthy & increasing the cash at the top!

[@alfching2499]

@@johnburrows3385 He don’t seem to know which side he bats for,it could be a obnoxious party next.

[@DrDanielHoward]

Have the main parties or media ever spoken about British made things? Compare with NHK World (507 on Sky or freely on their website) Japanese TV. The themes on BBC (other than Poirot etc) are Neo Marxist themes of the parasite who wants regulations to stop the winners and live off the effort of the others: "man oppressing woman"; "Anglo-Saxon oppressing other races"; "Man damaging Nature"; "Family unit disenfranchising the gay person" (and other varieties). All of these are what the media, and all parties with the exception of REFORM UK talk bout constantly. How can we not vote for REFORM UK? Some of you wont but I and my other three family members with vote REFORM UK with GREAT PLEASURE. I have a vid on my channel with intellectual reasons to vote reform (other reasons) if you have 15 minutes to watch it.

[@garywilson1235]

Gulliss always comes across as being a bit thick. When he’s under pressure, he talks really fast and sounds like a pound shop auctioneer.

[@jasoncooper9391]

He's a Tit 😃

[@Eightball69]

A bit thick is being incredibly diplomatic! He's thicker than pigshit

[@user-ng8uu2tt7r]

Gary this man was a teacher can you believe he was in charge of children's futures.

[@PastaSauce.]

Looks like he stinks as well.

[@krisinsaigon]

yeah, one of the things i dislike about the tories as well as their callousness is that they tend to be thick

[@eamonnpotts5063]

I’m Tunstall born and bred and had my wedding reception in the Sneyd Arms in 1995 when it was owned by Maureen Flowers and a very nice venue. Tunstall was thriving also at that point too. I live away from the area now but was totally shocked at Stoke on Trent voting in the tories. And look at what that has achieved! The JCB donation comment sums up Gullis, who has achieved millionaire status in 5yrs! Not bad for a local MP eh!!

[@rollthetape88]

he's a millionaire? how he's shit

[@win7sony]

Jonathan Gullis is someone who is in fact accurately described by the term "human animal".

[@user-hh8tf4tb9q]

When he loses he will move over to Reform and stand in future election, fits in perfectly with what Reform stands for.

[@imbonkers3629]

Unlike grooming gangs Labour Party 😮try searching every labour town n city for grooming gangs

[@nathangriffiths6218]

Jonathan Gullis was born in Salisbury, went to private school in Warwickshire and was a Tory councillor in Stratford-upon-Avon. That he has somehow ended up as the representative of the people of working class Stoke-on-Trent shows what a joke the British political system has become.

[@robertandrews5640]

GOODBYE GULLIS YOU WILL NOT BE MISSED OR IMVITED TO THE CELEBRATION WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR SEAT

[@jasoncooper9391]

Send him to Rwanda 🇷🇼

[@alfching2499]

@@jasoncooper9391 Send him to the nearest food bank.

[@GarethMachin-rb2sg]

Gullis used to be a teacher apparently he was appalling and the kids used to take the mick out of him.

[@kaesmith2893]

Oh yeh I’ve heard the same. Happened at multiple schools.

[@hastekulvaati9681]

I heard that a pupil photoshopped his head onto a seagull and pinned it up on a wall. Gullis was furious about being depicted as a seagullis.

[@petewilliamson6512]

The kids are alright :)

[@zenoelea8239]

Good question Ava, "Did Gullis receive money from JCB to keep quiet about their move" ?

[@alfsmith4936]

Most Conservative politicians get money from JCB. It's in their register of interests, under various names and groups related to Lord Bamford

[@timeoftheyear5230]

Despicable Tories

[@MacrobianNomad]

The fact that the Tories have been gutting local councils for the past 14 years isn’t mentioned enough honestly. It’s crazy how some of them even continue to function and not declare bankruptcy!

[@lindacurrie8817]

Yes Tories gutting local councils to the point of collapsing is a fact. It's really horrendous what the Tories have done to communities and the country. Have to ask where the money the Tories siphoned off has went?.....Oh silly question.

[@user-xd7dk3oy3q]

Many are more or less bankrupt!

[@WreckheadAdam]

Seen a video of Gullis feeding his face in McDonald's. Never seen food downed so fast!

[@billseymour-jones3224]

Probably wanted to get out quickly before he was recognised...

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@billseymour-jones3224Labour’s 2nd Referendum gaffe won that clown the seat.

[@colinsmall8170]

Gutty Gullis feeding his Gullet.😂

[@alancoates4531]

Come on Stoke do the country a favour and vote him out.

[@BanterRanterr]

Ffs he is horrible person and is a friend with H dealer 😔

[@jasoncooper9391]

Get Tories Get clowns

[@MephitisUK]

Now, now, that's highly unfair, what have clowns done to deserve being equated with the Tories?

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@MephitisUKA chimpanzee would have won that seat had it supported Brexit.

[@JupiterThunder]

Wait till Kneeler Starmer the Toolmaker and Gumby Rayner get in power, you'll see what real clowns are like, Labour will destroy what's left of this country within 12 months.

[@jasoncooper9391]

@@MephitisUK nye bevan called them Rats 🐀 😃😃 insult to Rats 🐀

[@daryllightfoot5130]

Vote Labour vote a party who can’t identify a woman and welcome whoever the hell wants to enter this country illegally and lowering voting to mere children! No credibility whatsoever! I’m not voting Tory by the way!

[@ArcaineOne]

I went to Staffs University in Stoke in '93, really enjoyed my time there and ended up staying and working there afterwards. So sad to see how the area has declined since then.

[@PickledPianoKY99]

I went to Keele university a few years back and would have loved to stay in Stoke, lovely town with some lovely people but rent where I was living was way too high and there were no real job opportunities about to keep me there. I've lived in 5 different cities in the UK and Stoke was one of my favourites. It still has that community feel even now.

[@Peckingbird]

"I thought it was written into the bible that JCB couldn't move." 😂

[@brianferguson7840]

THESE PEOPLE VOTED HIM IN. F.F.S. THEY GOT WHAT THEY WANTED. LIKE BREXIT.

[@coolperson962]

What 'people'?

[@sparklingwater1430]

@@coolperson962the people who live there, what a dumb question

[@coolperson962]

@sparklingwater1430 Bit prejudiced, judgemental, and stereotypical but sure...ok.

[@sparklingwater1430]

@@coolperson962 it’s prejudiced to say the people who live in an area voted for the MP that represents that area, do you hear yourself? 😭💀

[@coolperson962]

@@sparklingwater1430 Ermmm, yes, because not everyone in that area voted for that MP. That's literally like saying.... that all Arab people are Muslims because Islam is the most popular faith in the Arabian region. Now, that's small minded generalisation, isn't it?

[@geeksworkshop]

That guy at the end was a bit worthless. Thinks they are all the same, not going to vote and doesn't know who his own very famous local MP. Worth getting his opinion..

[@peterkirby2771]

Gullis is a big mouth kick him out of stoke

[@gubbins1622]

Save yourself 11 minutes, yes he is 👍, goodbye to the missing link.

[@tinniswood2577]

Undesirable tory twaddle.

[@darlik1]

I'm from the south but worked in the potteries for a couple of years (Royal Doulton). Four years later i went to visit friends there and was amazed at how much damage Thatcher had done. Very sad.

[@ocher8931]

He’s a disgrace.

[@andybeans5790]

Communities need building from the bottom up, the Tories have turned poorer areas into social "swamps" and then blamed people from not being able to rise above them.

[@Colcop]

Obviously couldn’t find a Tory safe seat to run away to like Richard Holden…. what a shame

[@philipriley2253]

The last guy, what an embarrassment. He's not going to vote because he doesn't trust any of them & doesn't even know who the local MP is..

[@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo]

@@philipriley2253 I can’t blame him really. Probably much happier life when you ignore politics altogether

[@serebii666]

@@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo You absolutely can. If he cant even be bothered to take part of the democratic process, even if to cast a blank vote, then he has no right to an opinion on politics at all. Or rather, his only valid opinion would be one of tacit support of the incumbent. Because that's what he does.

[@thomasmanning477]

​@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo This is true.. when I was young I just ignored politics entirely, I didn't even watch TV, so I didn't hear any of the other news either, and I don't remember being bothered by anything.. Now, I'm irked daily by the injustices I hear about.. ignorance truely is bliss, I guess.

[@stevenfountouris8029]

He knows enough not to vote Tory though

[@MrArthurdog]

Stoke fan for sure

[@m.j.nicholls]

Not sure that guy at the end knows what politics is

[@deanlolxd]

Incredible Ava is almost as tall as a jcb warehouse

[@eatthisvr6]

Lol better looking though

[@ehuremovic526]

@@eatthisvr6 Yea, I mean look at that green gradient, phwoar.

[@petermoss2373]

With him and Holden it's no wonder the Tories are bombing.

[@serendipity1046]

“not voting” “don’t know who the local MP is” “voting Labour ‘cos I hate the conservatives” oh dear,oh dear. don’t complain in five years time then.

[@scallamander4899]

The problem is mainly economic inequality. We have to lessen it.

[@richardhowlett4097]

Too right there, every worker should vote Labour and kick the other parties out. When that's done, make Starmer increase taxes for the overpaid.

[@jasoncooper9391]

Big Gob Guills 😂😂😂

[@kennylogue7947]

Twisted gob. He definitely has a slanted gob. That’s why he grew a beard to disguise the slant

[@TheWebstaff]

Tunstall, we used to own a thriving potteries there. "Lingard webster" Forced purchased to make way for a roundabout and car park. 👏👏👏

[@albertbrammer9263]

Helping the High Street? Only way is to tax online shops much more.

[@weeksy79]

The modern version of the high-street was complete rubbish anyway, all just selling rebranded Chinese crap. The rock bottom rents have been the best thing to happen, some really cool little places have opened (in Hanley specifically) because of it.

[@sockwithaticket]

There are other things. More sensible business rates - an awful lot of councils are trying to recoup lost central funding, but just end up pricing businesses out and leaving empty shops. See also parking fees being hiked up by some councils - it doesn't bring them more revenue because it discourages people from coming in the first place. Reduce parking fees would definitely help high streets, as would ensure that parking space is actually available. For all that Oli and the polJOE crew deride supposed NIMBY complaints about car parks being built on, High Streets do actually need them if people are going to come shop. Opening hours that actually coincide with when people are available rather than at work would help too, but that's more on businesses than local or central government.

[@weeksy79]

@@sockwithaticket agree with the parking, though they also seem to over correct like with the HUGE car park thrown at the bottom by the Hanley Hilton; it’s completely out of place. And opening hours…you are absolutely preaching to the choir, but I have no idea how you push that given that everyone affected has already gone online instead.

[@richardhowlett4097]

The way forward is to tax those that don't earn their money, those that sit on company boards and say they work hard. They've no idea what work is. Profit, profit, profit. How about investing in rebuilding GREAT BRITAIN, re-open manufacturing here, instead of importing goods from China, Bangladesh, India, Turkey, Germany and all the other countries that selling goods to us.

[@curmudgeon1933]

@@sockwithaticket . AFAIK a lot of the car parking has been outsourced to companies like National Car Parks and UK Car Parking Management Ltd. They operate the car parks for many organisations like railways, hospitals and other industries. Therefore parking becomes a revenue stream, not a service. The penalties and enforcement seem to be a perfect opportunity for profiteering and price-gouging. When you go to visit a relative in hospital, you have little choice but to pay the extortionate fees. Lobbying by these very wealthy companies ensures little is done to curb their rapacious greed. When councils have their funding cut by Westminster, they are forced to sell off their assets, i.e. their parking, to private business. Thus on-street parking, rather than providing revenue for local development, becomes another way for the wealth of an area to be extracted by corporate raiders.

[@chinesewhispers1]

Blaming Gullis for not knowing he's your local MP isn't his fault, it's your fault for not taking an interest in your community. Then saying you won't vote because they're all the same and there's nothing in their manifesto, when you've just admitted you don't even know who your local MP is just enforces the idea that most voters make their decision based on what they've read in their right wing rag of choice.

[@SuzanneJones-qy3zh]

This guy made me laugh about a tory knocking on his door he wont do it again he said

[@macsmiffy2197]

I’ve lived in my current house for 18 years and in all that time, I’ve not once had anyone canvassing at the door for my vote. I live on a large estate in a fairly big town.

[@user-sx3pc4dj3r]

I've had them twice in my life, they know nothing about their parties manifestos. Just "vote ............" Your missing nothing

[@akaski777]

They all fell for the lies and happy to vote Boris in 2019 And ukip

[@Donteatyellowsnow-]

6 towns not 5! Poor Fenton. (Stoke, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Fenton, Longton) I grew up in Stoke and them voting Tory was a shock, Stoke is everything the Tories hate… depressing to see my beautiful city reduced to this broken mess. My youngest sibling won’t walk home because stabbing is on the rise. My friend was murdered there a few years ago, abhorrent what’s happening.

[@Altashheth08]

I love Stoke-On-Trent… this was an excellent piece….. made me nostalgic for the potteries dialect 👍

[@36thurlow]

Grew up in Stoke, moved away for Uni amd never went back, it was never great but its so sad to see how bad its got

[@Ritte13]

I can see him going to Reform 😂😂😂😂

[@user-ng8uu2tt7r]

With 30p Lee what a pair . They will fit like a glove in Reform. Frogage Tice Bull Habeeb and the rest of the absolute no marks.

[@jakehowie442]

JCB is moving out that is the end of Stoke…only have Bet365 left 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

At least they can still bet on election date.

[@rollthetape88]

its one place though, still got jobs down the A50

[@jakehowie442]

@@rollthetape88 like what...warehouse jobs

[@eatthisvr6]

Its the land that time forgot

[@colinb9183]

It's the shithole time forgot 😂

[@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo]

@@eatthisvr6 no need for that mate. We invented fire last year 👍🏻

[@eatthisvr6]

@@JoeWedgwood-ik9zo fire? What herecy is this? Next youl be telling me we have things called wheels. Absolute madness

[@richardhowlett4097]

It's the industrial towns that time forgot.

[@TerryJC1971]

Well done PJ - actually interviewing balanced people to get a real feeling of how its going in Stoke. Not the extremes just to get some extra views.

[@Jourifouler]

>Says he would regret knocking on his door again >Doesn't elaborate >Walks away

[@feltfrog]

absolute chad

[@hachi.]

⁠​⁠@@feltfrogGulis you mean

[@feltfrog]

@@hachi. You can’t even spell the guy’s name right, you’re not being very convincing.

[@richardhowlett4097]

He possibly said two words to them, and the second one would be 'off'

[@davidthomas450]

Ask Gullis how he is now apparently worth £5 million pound FFS what’s he been up to?

[@josephkolodziejski6882]

Receiving backhanders from cronies

[@Martin-bx1et]

It's SIX towns (not five) that make up "Stoke" (on Trent)!

[@PaulWilliamsPJWillxx]

was about to add that myself😃

[@plumduff3303]

Excellent journalism well done..there's some good people in Stoke.

[@tomtheeagle1]

Tax Denise Coates properly and spend that money on the city. She is the country's richest woman and she could rescue the area single handed!

[@PTSTEH20]

That guy at the end was IQ 21

[@billseymour-jones3224]

Generous assessment.

[@a1white]

it's good he's not voting, really

[@Garbageman28]

Gullis is a great example of how if you fill your heart with contempt and rage it’ll pour out of you. He just seethes with disgust and hate.

[@SpideyGin]

How can people, especially those who live in his constituency not know who Gammonathon Gulis is? I wish people would try and have a basic political knowledge.

[@murglebinter]

The Labour guy seems like a solid, decent bloke

[@merseyviking]

This is part of the problem, we're so used to seeing larger-than-life characters that we love to hate like pantomime villains, that we lose sight of the people who genuinely care about their community, and are willing to put the effort in. You don't have to agree with their politics, but in places like Stoke, there needs to be someone who actually steps up and gets their hands dirty.

[@Tigger-roo1234]

Labour will finish stoke off..vote reform

[@serendipity1046]

@@Tigger-roo1234 exactly ! some people like donkeys wear blinkers. Reform

[@pcndo16]

@@Tigger-roo1234those racists have already finished with this country with Brexit.. no thank.. no more detached delusional right wingers in charge.. we need compassionate people who care about the average Joe

[@CarlBland-l8l]

​@@Tigger-roo1234were screwed who's ever in

[@jasoncooper9391]

Shoplifters everywhere 😂😂😂😂Tories 1980s style

[@richardhowlett4097]

If the torys cum again win there'd be even more shoplifting, Sunknack wants to reduce benefit payments, if they hadn't caused factories and industry to close down, there'd be much less crime.

[@anthonycheetham9546]

Best MP we have ever had & the 1st Tory in my working life, I have already had a tax rise by the Labour run council & Starmer is not even in Downing St yet.

[@edicarlos4704]

Isn’t that so sad, I feel for the community. Places likes this is everywhere in the north and mid of the country, but in the South is like paradise, why the north is again being destroyed.

[@rollthetape88]

london centirc politics. do you know in the '60s Birmingham was so sucessfull as a centre, huge international companies from Japan wanted to setup factorties there the goverment past a law to prevent this because they were terified london would loose its domminace, so they offered alternative sites not in birmingham, the companies ended up not taking the offer and went to germany instead, so it was a lose lose. The uk is the only country in Europe where the 'second city' is less than 50% the size of the captial city, this is abnormal, and that is directly because of goverment policy strangling progress.

[@DW-indeed]

Thug life Gullis. Waste of air.

[@hardnormalcoyle]

More documentaries like these! Nice work

[@richardhowlett4097]

They have done several documentaries of towns in decline due to tory neglect.

[@occamraiser]

There really aren't many tories who can be sure they'll have a job next month.

[@delsmith5327]

Wonder where that levelling up money went?

[@JohnPark-xf2gq]

Try soonackered overseas bank accounts.

[@glenisold79]

mates companies fat margins

[@rogermoore-gd9do]

The Labour Council wont spend it, of course if you were local you would know that.

[@JT-nr2ss]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="308">5:08</a> this guy touched on something that's actually missed when trying to understand the decline of high streets. Over the past 50 years, the move towards a car-centric society, and the social conditioning of moving people houses out of town centres and into suburbs has killed off many high streets. Out of town retail centres with free parking have accelerated this. Many town centres were demolished to make them car-friendly. I live near Oldham and that's a prime example.

[@TheWebstaff]

And why walk and shop around when the Internet makes it a few click and arrives the next day. No need to risk being robbed or stabbed.

[@gillbrown4077]

Shops can't survive if people have no money

[@dancecommando]

I went to Stoke for uni and stayed afterwards, spent 8 years there. Miss it loads and the people there who are so friendly... but there's just no jobs. Kept an eye on houses and you can get a lot for your money there, presumably because noone wants to live there. Sad to see Stoke and Newcastle's decline. Hope it picks back up, Gullis out first 🤞

[@yogihaughton7646]

That first guy, brilliant

[@FoghornLeghorny]

Brilliant work! 👏🏻

[@DRobbo7798]

Fingers crossed..

[@mattcam200577]

Otherwise known as Smoke On Trendy. The problem with Labour is that stoke was a safe seat and labour did nothing for stoke for years . No JG actually goes out and fight for his seat and is very proactive, love him or hate him he's way better than the previous MP's.

[@rogermoore-gd9do]

Yes very true people cant look around and blame the Conservatives when Labour have been in control there 99% time.

[@macmachine]

The whole British political nachine needs reforming. So maybe it needs Reform.

[@kathleenswift7979]

The homeless people have been thrown out of the George hotel, all staff have been sacked.

[@ChristopherBell-u6o]

Six towns me duck, not five.

[@southney7211]

That glimpse of Stoke is pretty much how Coldwarsteve depicts Tory Britain.

[@paulmoorby2297]

Needs Investigating, How Did He Get £5Million Quid !!!!!

[@Josh-rg6pe]

Apparently he's friends with a local dealer.

[@TheWaveGoodbye-Music]

I'm from newcastle, in fact ST5 as the man making the shirts said. Ive lived in scotland since I was 8, been 20 years now. sucha shame to see whats happened to it, was last there just before covid and didn't think it could get worse

[@CarolynFWallace]

Love this guy!

[@gent3284]

some mps are unskilled.

[@richardhowlett4097]

Sorry to correct you, but it's most of them. Like, ask anyone how many MPs work in parliament and the answered be about 10% of 'em.

[@ManGoatHamburger]

Gullis will be so devastated if he loses that his mouth will turn itself the right way up.

[@dianeirvine7624]

Protect the high st shops , police on the streets and a deportation policy

[@miller2624]

I'm from stoke and I hate gullis .

[@rogermoore-gd9do]

Im from Stoke and i love Gullis!

[@miller2624]

@rogermoore-gd9do gullis burner right hear !

[@thehealinggame]

We have a name for people like Gullis around here, but i couldn't possibly repeat it I'm afraid

[@Cumberland_swasige]

Cnut is the word you're thinking of.

[@Dannington]

Props to Alan Tudyk for making an appearance

[@josephkolodziejski6882]

lol