Ken Loach absolutely DESTROYS Keir Starmer

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[@raygooch]

Ken Loach absolutely DESTROYS Keir Starmer is a dreadful strapline, really makes what Ken Loach says look juvenile until you listen to it. A better caption would be Ken Loach explains Keir Starmer Brainless jargon makes DDN look idiotic. The video is good, change the caption.

[@ExiledGypsy]

But he is arguing against his own points saying that Jeremy should have been ruthless because the other side was. He is admitting that he was naive and yet he is criticizing the so-called ruthlessness of Kier Starmer. I wish he would see the contradiction in his own argument. Besides Jeremy lost badly. He was/is a good person but he had too much baggage (association with IRA and Hamas) and was not a leader. Politics is a dirty business whether you like it or not. It is more about marketing than about truth and Jeremy was lousy at that. That is the truth on the ground. Now you can either accept that or sit on the sideline and keep dreaming of an impossible utopia.

[@patm6704]

@@ExiledGypsy The full facts about the 'troubles' will never be officially revealed because they would be much too devastating to the Establishment i.e. British Intelligence role in 'the troubles', including the top politicians who authorised the collusion with loyalist death squads and their role in the many murders, bombings due to their paid informants in all the paramilitary groups. UK state broadcaster BBC used a Panorama program to pin the blame for collusion on a retired army general who was the top army general at the time. Utterly absurd of course that such a massive operation could have operated without knowledge, authority and instructions from Downing Street, Thatcher, etc.

[@ExiledGypsy]

@Bentcop . biz His contradicted his own argument. He is a dreamer and only in our dreams, we can contradict our own arguments without consequence. Reality is very different.

[@four-stix8633]

@@raygooch Although I agree with your sentiment regarding childish clickbait titles, you imply that Ken is childish (unless it is a typo). Everything he says is valid and pertinent.

[@JulesCreativityPersonified]

Two years later Ken was spot on. Starmer is a narcissist.

[@bieituns]

He's a tyrant

[@alanfurlong-drummer4419]

A malignant one

[@Oceansgreen]

@@JulesCreativityPersonified yes he but I would say he’s a covert narcissist.

[@brendaroseblade2858]

Yes but he’s a fan of Corbynchov and McDonald! 😮

[@heatherhinde6544]

I'd agree with that.

[@Baresi-Unico-Capitano]

A year on, and his judgement of starmer is even more accurate.

[@stellaoneill6579]

Sickening

[@juliewake4585]

Very prescient I think.

[@mhkpt]

2 years one, even even more. The guy just criticised Tory spending/taxing plans as "Corbynite". He uses Corbyn's name as an insult - the guy he claimed to support so he could climb to power, only to stab in the back (bad enough), and now even publicly insult. A total snake.

[@harrycaul2494]

2 years on , 100% accurate

[@mart71]

And look at it now!

[@johnfarley4201]

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING STARMER

[@williamford8027]

blair2.o

[@patmackenney9786]

To my mind a lying traitor like Starmer is worse than the very worst tory. Will never vote for Starmer, a monster with no personality.

[@Jwg13]

Excellent comment, starmer is traitor, needs tried for high treason

[@vincentl.9469]

@johnny71c It's not a Labour party at all...certainly no party for working people-aside from those in unions. Just look at them. I hope something happens and they are forced to call an earlier election. Two months is bad enough. Imagine four years ..

[@brennadickinson2920]

Heartless and soulless.

[@racheldiamond2457]

The uni party is in control now. You've been letting down the working class for years. And Kens left wouldn't do anything for poor working class iether.... Its all a grab for power to help only those who agree with them.

[@billrowell2919]

....bit unfair to monsters that....

[@DianeRandall-q8b]

Ken Loach’s opinion of Starmer is as true and relevant now - In July 2024 when Starmer is now P.M. - as it was two years ago.

[@jahanmoh]

Ken loach cut through all the crap, and said it like it is. THANK YOU.

[@martmarriner6793]

loach=jeremy corbyn fanboy

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

He always does.

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

Cutting though all the crap is his great talent ,

[@FoxyUSAx]

😅spot on Ken !

[@geniemarie7977]

He is a Judas they all are stammer even said he's a remained 😂 what a double headed snake

[@OyVeh3734]

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

[@danremenyi1179]

Loach is absolutely right.

[@floppydog4879]

What the national press, BBC etc did to Corbyn must never be forgotten.

[@sharonwashington8150]

And that is true.

[@annenunney9907]

@Carey Ostrer you are so right

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

The BBC avoid national current affairs almost entirely while the Tories are in totally in disrepute, ,, Very vulnerable on the floor and left to recover, ..The nation will fall for the mass medai propoganda and here we go again, another round with those pillaging a nation,

[@pebbleface2]

and the traitors, the sabotaging melts from within the party. This tory chaos is in no small part on them too

[@susansherlock6934]

And the Tories!

[@SilentReports]

Thank you Ken Loach for explaining the intricacies of the left and right politics. Mick Lynch has the credentials.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

I'd vote for him.

[@robertheap2911]

Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are the sound of what the Labour Party once was. Jeremy Corbyn didn’t lose because of his policies to help ordinary people. The establishment felt threatened and he had to go.The only way to sort this out is for a change in the electoral system . FPTP is a tired electoral dictatorship. We need a system where each vote truly counts. If for example 60% voted for left wing or anti establishment parties. Then they would have 60% of the seats. That won’t ever happen under the current system. And the conservatives only need about 36% to have a huge majority.

[@philipthomas3629]

donkey

[@dannylaing5585]

“Mass media is or enemy” well said sir , time to stand up and be counted

[@omp199]

12:42 "The mass media are our enemy. They've declared war, and we know whose interests they represent."

[@kevanbodsworth9868]

I attack the media in nearly every post I have written for years now, That is the key,

[@tomoreilly5803]

As it turned out, he was spot on

[@LouisLinggandtheBombs]

Absolutely spot on. Mr Loach is a legend.

[@hilaryjames9718]

Exactly right Ken Loach. When will people wake up? Probably not for another 20yrs. I despair.

[@puravidadew7031]

In 20 years the country will be filled with labour camps, and the poor will be the ones working for the rich. If there is a world at all.

[@Whitesilver1970]

We are in this position because people are just brain dead.

[@andylucas1175]

They will wake up when the media tells them to and sadly not before; don't hold your breath.

[@lamueldagon7618]

Actually people are waking up, its just being covered up and its getting harder for the rulers to do so with good reason

[@willpushback4874]

Young people see the truth.. Sadly older people see fear and lies as truth..

[@cliffhughes6010]

This is what a man with integrity and honour looks like. When he speaks, we should listen.

[@ascgazz]

I don’t know this guy from Larry, and I’m not arguing one way or the other so calm down. Not being funny but how do you come to your conclusion and why should I believe it? This just looks like another political attack and frankly, political attacks always have a motive.. What’s the motive here and is it a reasonable outcome to follow?

[@petersmith9530]

Very well said.

[@petersmith9530]

@@ascgazz A cursory search on the internet will quickly inform you who Ken Loach is and why he is described as a man of integrity and honour.

[@xavierhucklenbruch1798]

He is a has been.. the world has moved on.. maybe it's time to win labour.. not live in the beardie past and lose!!!!

[@cliffhughes6010]

@@ascgazz Ken Loach has been a Labour party activist since I was at primary school (55 years ago) and is famous for making films such as "Cathy Come Home", "I Daniel Blake" and "Sorry we Missed You" which are overtly political and highlight the problems of working class people and their oppression by the capitalist system. He is a friend and supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and left the party recently under threat of expulsion. If you don't know him, you really should.

[@chrisdanks6447]

I'm here two years later and damn everything he said was spot bloody on !

[@planetdisco4821]

Ken, as an Aussie construction worker can I just say you're a bloody legend.

[@mrkalm58]

Ken ,as an Iraqi construction worker, I too say you are bloody legend.

[@NicholasWarnertheFirst]

As a not so humble London Bus Driver I say go Ken!!!!

[@colinbrigham8253]

So is john pilger sadly like ken age will take them rail rail against the dying of the light,

[@gerryhouska2859]

As a retired blue colour leftie in Australia, I'm with you. Our ALP is run by the right faction, too.

[@planetdisco4821]

@@mrkalm58 Maaaate! I work in the outback! We are brothers of sweating our arses off in places way too hot for any person in their right mind to live or work. lol. Respect from Australia... 👍

[@neilthomas9244]

Ken Loach, still a shining beacon of truth in a dark and muddy world.

[@pippipster6767]

Takes excoriation to a shining new level.

[@robertknight6606]

Ken Woach. Looks good, talks b*llocks.

[@tonyclarke9269]

I come from a red wall area , I always voted labour but never again , both party’s are the same now , what’s the point eh ? Money always wins

[@tonymac1257]

@@tonyclarke9269 Money wins because you stop voting and, therefore, you stop fighting

[@tonyclarke9269]

@@tonymac1257 so do we vote for then ? The whole system is corrupt to the core now

[@paulcrewe6765]

Peter Mandelson, is there a more cynical, amoral, self serving slimeball in Politics ?

[@jamsheadaziz3999]

Yes. The entire tory cabinet. Blair and all those British politicians who are aligned with friends of Israel group.

[@lsmith992]

Blairs right hand man.

[@fatfrreddy1414]

the mere sight of little lord mandelson makes me gag...

[@robplazzman6049]

BorisJohnson ?

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Kier Starmer.

[@pauldean8638]

He done great tv shows that showed what hardship our British families faced in tough times.

[@PWMoze]

One tends to forget that people like Ken Loach are still around, talking sense, still committed to sound political values and still fighting the good fight through their work.

[@scotchegg3419]

He makes poverty porn.

[@lemsip207]

@@scotchegg3419 No he doesn't. Channel Five and Channel Four do. ITV started it with the Jeremy Kyle show.

[@paulreed3009]

Cathy come home we talked about it in the workplace. It was debated in Parliament.

[@PWMoze]

@@scotchegg3419 He has made (and still makes) films that sensitively and accurately reflect lives as lived by people who are not usually depicted in the mainstream. 'Kes' is my favourite but: 'Up The Junction', 'Cathy Come Home', 'Raining Stones', 'Poor Cow', 'Riff Raff', 'I, Daniel Blake', 'Bread and Roses' are all worth checking out too. Just to mention a few. They are as far from 'porn', as you put it, as you could possibly get, as porn is simply voyeauristic and doesn't have compassion. They do deal with poverty of course, with empathy and accurately and that is the point.

[@MrSatnavatron]

that is exactly why he has been blacklisted

[@rlmtrelomatt7390]

Nobody could have said it better. Thank you Mr Loach

[@philipthomas3629]

Stalin said it in a similar way

[@nickdavison9771]

If every politician had the same amount of integrity as this guy, the world would be a better place.

[@drmontague6475]

It's the working class who got rid of the left . They stabbed Corbyn in the back and voted in Boris. If you want to get elected in England you have to become right wing, if you don't you become UN-electable. The intellectual left fail to understand that the majority of working class people love tho struggle financially. . They feel sorry for the multi billionaires who nare having a hard time of it.

[@nickdavison9771]

@@drmontague6475 It's not that you miraculously become "unelectable", it's that the establishment will do everything in their power to prevent it, and since they are devoid of basic decency, morals, and respect for law, no act is too low. I assure you, there is absolutely nobody in this country who enjoy being unable to feed their family and having to rely on food banks, even though they are in what the tories would call "gainful employment". How are the billionaires having a hard time of anything? They are paying corp tax at a rate of 1.87% whilst those already under a burden of debt have just been billed for the shortfall, come on...

[@moonshine9902]

Or even a fraction would make a difference.

[@prestoncrewnarrowboaters8619]

The politics in the UK is such a mess, reform are not as safe as some think, but the rest of the members of Parliament are so anti the UK people, there's such a disconnect between them and the people who are the country. And let's not forget that the police are lost to us, now being used against all who want true justice and the truth, you cannot make it up.

[@joseph1845]

There is no democracy in the UK. The leaders are selected and placed into power so the people can think they voted them in. They work for globalists interests, as the detriment to the people, Starmer has even said he thinks more of Davos than parliament.

[@victorbest8318]

Ken Loach--an amazing man--Highly thought of in Ireland

[@manoshez]

Jeremy Corbin was a shining light and great hope, not only for the people of UK, but deprived peoples all around the globe. It was sad to see him targeted in a vicious campaign which forced him out. Perhaps he was too straight, honest, fair minded and unbiased for the British power circles and the public equally.

[@Fa-uk5fb]

Problem with corbyn was he never going to be PM. He was Honest Thought mostly of the public and not the top 1% Worked with dignity Stood up for what was right and against what was wrong in society and the world Against racism Was anti war. And so on He had all characteristics which made him a bad politician and would never had become PM. Starmer has all the traits (none of the above) which makes him a good candidate to become PM. This political system is protected by the elite and we’re programmed by mainstream media. Our votes don’t count. If they did , corbyn would be PM today.

[@manoshez]

@@Fa-uk5fb What appalls me is the gullibility & stupidity of the common man, media campaign notwithstanding. How could they reject a man like J Corbyn & choose a clown, & that too with such a thumping majority? Time has shown the sheer stupidity of their choice and no wonder they are paying the price of that choice today.

[@terryhorne2582]

Also a communist whose party have ruined the UK with open door immigration. He supported to many bad people & couldn't possibly have become primeminister. I will never vote Labour again. Reform UK 🇬🇧 is the party.

[@elaineedgar2913]

Corbyn was destroyed largely by The weaponising of anti-semitism. Get the book if you can.

[@mariacrouch7109]

@@RedScotland I think people should vioce what is going on here and demand something be done about what happened to Jeremy Corbyn and election and other MPs fired resighned I for one have been called a Tory because I don't recognise the Labour party any more or it's policy's am I the only one apart from your self ?????? I can't support something I don't believe in or don't recognise or even trust

[@eileenclark7744]

Brilliant man and compassionate too Ken Loach

[@hadror13]

lol. You confuse the word compassion with something else I think

[@benedictmarshall7031]

You’re a great man, Ken. I wish to goodness you could persuade Jeremy to start a new socialist party to counter Labour and the Tories. Britain needs an opposition that represents the working class.

[@petersmith9530]

Agreed

[@smith5796]

100%.

[@Notveryimpressed]

I think Ken supported Left Unity until JC took over Labour.

[@infrasleep]

I wish he would then Labour will be shot of all the posh public school/sheltered middle class left that have infested and destroyed the party and can start concentrating on issues that concern the working class (which ISNT the clapped out 19th century drivel from your posh school's politics classes.)

[@Notveryimpressed]

Wake up.

[@ifiva]

Two years down the line, this sounds prophetic, doesn’t it

[@TessTearoe-zp5xv]

He wasn’t the only one who told you who Starmer was! Fight, email your MPs, write the paper, anything but whimpering on your backside. My god grow some backbone!

[@pauladams1829]

The smear campaign should be treated as a criminal offence and the perpetrators brought to justice.

[@KimSenior]

And if found guilty, hung!

[@DrMontague]

get real it was the working class that stabbed Corbyn in the back

[@philipthomas3629]

I think Stalin would have said something similar

[@ChrisPatrick-q6k]

You Communist's are dangerous

[@geordiedog1749]

Shows how much they were scared of what JC stood for.

[@xavierhucklenbruch1798]

But he lost.. time to move on and win..

[@jangomoonstomp]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 nope, democracy doesn't end with one defeat by your enemies, which is what the blairites are.

[@geordiedog1749]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 Win by standing for what? Tony Blair II?

[@petergilkes7082]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 Xavier, the breadth of your commenting is a wonder. As in, "I wonder when you'll try a change?"

[@helmhurst]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 TROLL FO!

[@mattthecomposer]

I left the Labour Party two years ago exactly because of this. It hurt me so much to tear up my membership but I just couldn't support Starmer. He tells us to unite as a party, but has no idea what a broad church is. I've since joined the Green Party and am a lot happier, but hope for significant transformation in the Labour Party.

[@harrydavey9884]

Did you support Blair? 😕

[@babymonalisa]

My story exactly.

[@shaniholland6918]

Me too, left Labour and gone Green. Shame after 50yrs 😢

[@Meld61]

Good friend of mine did too

[@margerycummings8158]

I did too. What they did to corbyn broke my heart

[@friedaelizabethchorlton8654]

The Guardian is a disgrace.

[@Prodrive1]

Radical left 4u

[@SamWilkinsonn]

They are, but not as disgraceful as the other MSM

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

@Prodrive1 The Guardian ? "Radical" left ? Are you joking ? They crucified Corbyn, yet his party manifesto was at most bog standard social democratic like most west European democracies. He was hardly a raving Trot, notwithstanding what he might have been in his youth. The Guardian is an establishment rag. It's hardly an improvement on the Daily Mail. I'm not even sure that it is an improvement. At least the Daily Mail doesn't keep begging for money or censoring comments like the Graun. They are both comics.

[@shughy1]

It's mostly very young "journalists" with zero life experience, all emotion and no balance

[@chrismee3083]

the media in general is an absolute disgrace.

[@M2Mil7er]

a sweet, good, and intelligent man. Everything the establishment hate. It's to our nation's detriment that we don't elevate people like this to the highest office.

[@infrasleep]

How much an hour do they pay arse lickers these days ?

[@timcomley3241]

🙈

[@susanpatricialewis5862]

Thank goodness we don't give him much credance.

[@oneoflokis]

They only want evil people in the high positions!! 😏

[@Garthdon]

People chanted Corbyn's name. That shows you how much people liked him. Starmer gets a limp handclap at best. He doesn't know how he has already lost.

[@greenwoodorganics4681]

The far left's problem is they have 20% support at most, and they think they can win anything by calling the remaining 80% names.

[@laurenceritchie]

He's not there to win. Just to keep things stable for the rights

[@KozmykJ]

Stammer is there to make sure the interests of the monied and the interests of apartheid Israel are not jeopardised. He doesn't have to win a General Election to succeed in his mission.

[@archvaldor]

@@greenwoodorganics4681 Like Starmer is doing any better.

[@ChrisPage68]

@@greenwoodorganics4681 Who is talking about "The Far Left"? Corbyn was never Far Left anyway. He is only Far Left to the Far Right.

[@AyeAyeAye19]

Ken Loach, a fantastic man that has always stood up for the working class community in Britain. I'm Irish, but my heart breaks for the socialists of the Labour Party, betrayed by the right in the party. Seeing Starmer's Purge of socialists in the party hits a nerve. The biggest mistake Corbyn ever made was to not show the same contempt that the traitors in his party showed him.

[@chillitotes]

You see it's hard, left wingers believe in justice you won't sink to the same level. But yes we should have seen this coming.

[@lemsip207]

We don't have free speech in the party anymore. Anytime somebody on the left becomes a CLP chair, a Momentum branch chair, stands for election to the NEC or NPF or becomes a council candidate they get suspended. Then they will go for the members who don't do anything in the party other than attend branch and constituency meetings and fundraisers, knock on doors and deliver leaflets.

[@AyeAyeAye19]

@@lemsip207 Yep, Starmer has went full Tory plant on this one. Purge the party of any left leaning MP's, replace them with centre right ones, then tell Labour members they have no right to vote and then the new right leaning MP's can continue the status quo.

[@paulies5407]

@@lemsip207 You don't have free speech because when you do you embarrass the labour party by constantly yammering on about pro nouns and other nonsense that no cunt in the real world cares about. Stop placating every fringe element of our society going and you'd actually be in with a chance.

[@TheBanana93]

@@paulies5407 Tell me you are a transphobe without saying you are a transphobe ^

[@sbgandalf5946]

This has aged very well.

[@BunnyUK]

chillingly well

[@nb9797]

If you're forbidding Labour MPs from joining pickets, then why on earth are you leading the LABOUR party.

[@ryand141]

Power.

[@hilaryporter7841]

"The interests of the ruling class have to predominate". Ken Loach, no wonder you are so famous, you can tell the truth in one sentence. Your utter goodness seeps out of your pores. The people MUST recognise this. I don't want people to leave Labour, I want the people to demand their party back from the same corporate interests that already run the Tories. I want democracy to be wrestled from the vicious teeth of the corporate oligarchy.

[@fmj9346]

New party needed urgently. No point in reviving the current Labour Party. It’s dead. J

[@NANA-kf1cs]

@@fmj9346 No point in a new party without proportional representation, as it won't get anywhere. You can fight for PR outside of the Labour Party by helping organisations like Make Votes Matter or push for it from within.

[@s1050]

Well said. Although the whole system needs radical reforms

[@miaschu8175]

I agree with all of you. I want Labour to be a left-wing party that fights class injustices and strives for equality. But I think that it's too late. I have hope, but it's fading fast. I've left Labour. My membership seemed to endorse the current position of the party and I couldn't do that. I don't know who I'll vote for next. I live in a strong Tory seat, atm. No other party has a chance of getting in, so it never feels as if my vote counts. I desperately want PR. The Greens will probably get my vote. I wish that it could help them to have a louder voice in parliament. And I wish that the current Labour leadership would adopt more green policies. But they're just wishes :(

[@NANA-kf1cs]

@@miaschu8175 You could help support and campaign with Make Votes Matter for PR. Also, if you join an affiliated trade union you'll still be able to vote in future Labour Party leadership elections.

[@JimMelonWL]

We're seeing what Ken said about Starmer truly coming to the fire now

[@jeanjohnstone4384]

mr loach has put things in perspective, a kind of man you'd trust.

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

The gentleman has got it spot on. Fair play to him.

[@lisaball1747]

Kier Starmer showing us what it truly means to be a traitor.

[@richardgrimbleby7853]

Quisling

[@ryand141]

No, a dictator more like.

[@Jason-rq1gw]

Can't believe this comment was 9 months ago!

[@michealhand1001]

​@@Jason-rq1gwVery insightful and has come to pass.

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

.....6:14...yes look at the raging hypocritical Body Language here.

[@Anduril1974]

Christ... you couldn't disagree with a single word said. What a wonderful man! Bravo!

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

I grew up with him. He's been able to grab the conversation, through art since I was a small boy.

[@DrMontague]

The working class aren't interested hence 287K views in a year

[@Fulton-Sheene...]

Christ Is King... ❤❤

[@motiveintentionsincerity]

Join the future of a new era, Vote for The Workers Party of Britain, or if there is no candidate for the workers party in your area, then vote for the best independent candidate. Get these two transparent corrupt main parties out of politics !!!

[@martyndormer]

I joined the Labour Party in order to support the leadership of conviction politician Jeremy Corbyn. I resigned when ‘Sir’ Keir Starmer succeeded him. Ken Loach is a thoughtful and clear-sighted individual and also a Bath City supporter, so I may see him at Twerton Park tomorrow.

[@Baresi-Unico-Capitano]

same here. I left the moment Starmer was elected. And fortunately/unfortunately, his actions since has showed that we made the right choice to leave.

[@tubbytown6545]

At the moment, Jeremy Corbyn is the only MP providing Labour opposition. Any time he turns up to a demo he makes a speech criticising the Govt.

[@xavierhucklenbruch1798]

He lost .. time to move on.

[@shamanahaboolist]

He and RLB always were the only ones.

[@shamanahaboolist]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 No where to move to.

[@sososoprano1]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 - by becoming the most right wing the Labour Party will have ever been? No thanks. I was a fool to think Starmer would be an okay leader. I’m appalled by how he has behaved.

[@tubbytown6545]

@@xavierhucklenbruch1798 Long past time to show some opposition !!

[@kennethlumsden877]

The Guardian used to be independent but now is another "establishment " media "news" paper.

[@electron8262]

What paper should I read instead?

[@syriacchristianity9007]

Read the holy Bible

[@mysterymaverick1982]

​@@electron8262none

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@electron8262 NONE, OR TV.

[@davidlee6720]

None. They are always a day late anyway - by the time you read the press, sometimes events have already moved on. Watch the news?

[@user-vs9cq2zo2t]

This is rare, and painful. A man of integrity. Well done sir!

[@christinanorridge1750]

Inspirational, as ever, thanks Ken. So glad you are on our side.

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Paul Mason must be tripping balls if he still thinks Starmer is going to emerge from his cocoon a socialist hero.

[@paulbattenbough1002]

Paul Mason has been bought, wealthy but morally bankrupt, the Mephistopheles trade off.

[@Naughtymrpixels]

It certainly appears Paul Mason is either several sandwiches short of a picnic...Or just another shitehouse.

[@matthewotooleis]

Excellently put

[@ChrisPage68]

@@Naughtymrpixels I used to think he was serious.

[@matthewotooleis]

@@josemengelez6947 a pal of mine had a theory about people who’s eyes are too close together.

[@robertwinslade3104]

British politics is in a terrible state right now; forced by our out-of-date FPTP system to have to choose between the cruel, corrupt, and incompetent Tories, and Kier Starmer's Labour. To think just a few years ago Labour felt like a decent alternative. Now look at them

[@hayleyannamathieson7261]

I know...sad.😖

[@starnostras]

@@hayleyannamathieson7261 Don't be sad. As was said, be complimented. The attacks have only intensified because the danger to the status quo was genuinely threatened. Organise.

[@-The-Darkside]

It may hurt some but you know where you stand with tories, and as it is right now I'd find it hard to vote Labour. We have a Tory MP for the first time, and if the candidate is full on Starmer they won't get my vote at all.

[@normanchristie4524]

The problem is....that we need to change the electoral system.

[@drmontague6475]

It's the working class who got rid of the left . They stabbed Corbyn in the back and voted in Boris. If you want to get elected in England you have to become right wing, if you don't you become UN-electable. The intellectual left fail to understand that the majority of working class people love tho struggle financially. . They feel sorry for the multi billionaires who nare having a hard time of it.

[@patl709]

I think everyone is beginning to see that Ken Loach’s comments of two years ago are true. Starmer is now doing to the country, as PM, what he did to the Labour Party.

[@TessTearoe-zp5xv]

Look in the mirror, yup, you let Starmer do this, you were told! Now fight, March, email, but don’t sit there bleating

[@divergencefilms]

A living legend. Great person and film director unafraid to speak out.

[@LunaPaul77]

I left Labour, I’m not funding that shit show with my hard earned cash - to be channeled off to the right of the party, sod that I rather be politically homeless

[@lemsip207]

I only stayed to vote for a better leader should Starmer resign.

[@markpub]

Such a cop out.

[@eleanorwalmsley635]

Absolutely

[@TessTearoe-zp5xv]

Stop being sheep, you had the greens and independents, so suck it up and vote for good people. Such cowards.

[@TariqRahman-dt3hn]

Well said, Ken. Time to take Britain back from foreign & vested interests.

[@SuperJohntoo]

Yes, but it won't happen under Starmer

[@jamessones4044]

Mr Starkey is the same. Speaks the truth.

[@Chiara-fh4op]

How without waiting 5 years for the next election and by then what will have happened to the UK?

[@AlanLambert]

@@SuperJohntoo or corbyn

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

Well said Mr Loach. Thanks for your truth speaking.

[@ianian2502]

what a wonderfully worded expose by a man oozing intelligence and integrity.

[@alishanty]

The only mistake Jeremy made was being too nice, too compassionate and he didn’t play dirty. Too sincere and principled. Which is why many liked him. Sadly, the centrists took advantage of this and didn’t play by the same rules. Absolutely disgusting.. I can never vote for the Labour Party after this.

[@alishanty]

Oh and also, he should’ve got rid of people like Margaret Hodge and the rest of those toxic players (Mandy) who weaponised anti Semitism as a tool to get rid of them.

[@alishanty]

@@engleblerthumferlumpadinck6536 yes true with the Luciana stuff. I think JC would’ve dealt with the pandemic a whole load better than BJ and co.

[@miaschu8175]

I agree but that would have been reactionary and would have gone against him. It would also have run counter to his integrity. I have the utmost respect for Corbyn, but he isn't politic. He is a good person - he often reacts out of emotion, rather than having a cool head. Yet, he thinks about things and sees how we need to listen and compromise with others. He's definitely complicated. But above all, he's a decent man and refuses to play the game. He was always going to be open to mendacious attacks. I wish that he'd had a better strategist on his side, to help him counter those who twisted his meanings and tarnished his reputation. He wasn't the man for that fight.

[@stumagoo2395]

@@miaschu8175 To me has always a poor mans Tony Benn. Whether right or wrong, both shared very similar principled values and stood for what they believed in (which often mean't disobeying the party whip). Benn and his family also succumbed to constant vile attacks by the right wing media in the 1970's, with headlines like "The most dangerous man in Britain" - all because he campaigned against our common market membership which ironically the Tories and right wing media all supported back in the day.

[@drmontague6475]

It's the working class who got rid of the left . They stabbed Corbyn in the back and voted in Boris. If you want to get elected in England you have to become right wing, if you don't you become UN-electable. The intellectual left fail to understand that the majority of working class people love tho struggle financially. . They feel sorry for the multi billionaires who nare having a hard time of it.

[@bugsygoo]

This is why the UK needs proportional representation.

[@christiaantheron9080]

Is there a party whose policy is proportional representation?

[@andylucas1175]

You're correct but no party will offer a vote on it unless they know it won't succeed. The Establishment will never give up their power base for democracy.

[@christiaantheron9080]

@@andylucas1175 There is the problem. There is no movement towards proportional representation.

[@NANA-kf1cs]

@@christiaantheron9080 The Greens and the Lib Dems support PR. There is also the organisation Make Votes Matter which is cross party.

[@gerryhouska2859]

Sortition for Australia!!!

[@user-qh8nh7oe6d]

Ken Loach has now been proved 100% right.

[@TessTearoe-zp5xv]

So true, but it was there for everyone to see!

[@janet5820]

Here is a genuine honest intelligent good man 👏👏👏👏

[@graham.a.phillips2811]

Well said Ken. Maybe you should do a film about a dictatorial leader like Starmer and how he's subverting democracy.

[@lemsip207]

He is definitely a Stalnist figure. I shared the meme of him merged with Stalin and the Eurofanatics in the Progressive Alliance took exception to it. Progressive my foot. What unites them is opposition to brexit but most aren't left wing and some are very socially conservative. They only wanted a progressive alliance in Parliament in 2019 provided Jeremy Corbyn stood down as Labour leader.

[@markpub]

Oh please grow up.

[@Thirdfish]

Great idea.

[@graham.a.phillips2811]

@@lemsip207 I'd love to see that meme. There's no coincide that Starmer and Stalin sound similar.

[@graceomalley4]

Oh dear Lord. Starmer like Stalin? Hyperbolic

[@robertpulman9186]

What a brilliant analysis by Ken Loach! How sad a situation!

[@geordieceltic2]

Probably, the most honest and true 13 minute statement spoken in the past 2 years. Voted Labour for 40 years and ex member. Yesterday, voted for an Independent Candidate with Social Justice and Equality, being his priority.

[@lauramartin5579]

Ken Loach is a diamond.

[@mokarol5852]

Absolutely spot on. Well said. This man had the good for the common man who stands firmly against those who support the interest of ruling elite.

[@leeives9109]

This is why I left. He's absolutely right .

[@andylucas1175]

Me too, democracy is dead.

[@Nine-Signs]

@@andylucas1175 Given we live under an economic system we call capitalism, that prevents democracy in 70% of life most spend at work, and incentivises the corruption of what little democracy we get when we leave work, for the betterment of few before many, I am continually surprised at people presuming we had a democracy worth spit to begin with.

[@NANA-kf1cs]

If you've left, plan on leaving or are not a member of the Labour Party for any reason, the best option is to join an affiliated trade union so you get a vote in future Labour Party leadership elections.

[@johnnyroadcrew3841]

Please re-join Lee, fight from within.

[@markpub]

You'll be sorely missed....

[@janetharris7763]

Thank you Mr Loach summed it up perfectly 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@fader1912]

Corbyn was always the answer. Every time I think of that election I get upset

[@annenunney9907]

Me to

[@kiwi0019]

Me too

[@elaineedgar2913]

See my comment above, Corbyn was destroyed largely by the weaponising of anti-semitism.

[@pebbleface2]

I was campaigning for Labour in the last two elections and helped turn a tory seat into Labour on the back of Corbyn and the hope we all had. Imagine how we all felt when realising that right wing Labour and their centrist supporters were working against a Labour government and social justice. We haven't gone away. This Labour Party is here to destroy the hope. We scared them in 2017 and can do it again but more organised.

[@standalby6949]

All GE’s are rigged so don’t be fooled & get upset about it , we’ve got to fight the hood fight come what may

[@juliewake4585]

Thanks so much for this Ken. I joined Labour having been inspired by Corbyn’s message of hope and it was the first time I’d never been a member of a political party. I’m afraid after their treatment of Corbyn I couldn’t face been in and I left. It’s just got worse since then.

[@antonioross9006]

I did the same as you Julie and I would only ever help fund a party that had Jeremy Corbyn in it. Anything else is Tpry light and we had enough of that with Tony Blair!

[@juliewake4585]

And I love what Ken said about Johnson, two years ago.

[@MattScottMusic]

Crossing Ken Loach was Starmer’s biggest mistake. One of our greatest film makers and a direct voice that resonates through the decades for millions of us. Knuckle dragging numbskull centrists will laugh, but their Change UK New Labour 2.00 is going nowhere.

[@peterh1353]

Coming to an arthouse theatre near you!

[@invernessfan3017]

The centre left want the left to win power. There is no point in having far left leaders who get slaughtered by the far right. We need moderate peace loving, human rights respecting centre left Labour leaders.

[@67lionsoflisbon37]

Oh dear. 2 tier being called out. When a man like Ken speaks out. I listen.

[@MostafaTamer89]

Ken Loach is one of the most honourable and honest human beings to ever walk the earth.

[@brennadickinson2920]

I remember 'Cathy Come Home'! Late 60s?

[@maureennewman905]

Characteristics sadly lacking in most MP ‘s today

[@sharondowney1725]

Such a great man is Ken, listen to a decent honest man, And amazing film maker,

[@Willsey]

I enjoyed listening to him but like Corbyn he is a dinosaur

[@MimiYouyu]

Ken is a decent human being, and a great director.

[@ep4360]

I applaud you Ken Loach 😁💐🌹 Everything he says is so true and delivered with such eloquence. Share as much as you can 👍

[@BenTower17]

This is the best interview and most accurate i have seen. Watch it fully. This is dictatorial Britain today and we all need to worry.

[@TessTearoe-zp5xv]

You all need to be smarter

[@BenTower17]

@@TessTearoe-zp5xv we are smart. Its really not that complex living with a labour dictatorship.

[@TessTearoe-zp5xv]

@@BenTower17 Really? What does your dictatorship say regarding Israel firing on UN peacekeepers? Their explanation of cutting winter fuel allowance and giving the Royal family a raise over 50 million after the family had profit of 1.1 billion £? They were cold?

[@nicholasbethell2921]

I have given Starmer a chance; now I am convinced he must go.

[@jcleaverchamberlinjr]

Agreed. I was done with him the second he threw his own deputy under the bus for the Hartlepool loss. He lied and he knew it

[@Bdoc76]

The solution for the Labour Party was never going to be found via someone who's name is preceded with the word"Sir". Loach nails the nature of Starkers labour Party here.

[@williamcampbell9335]

We should rename Starmer to Judas

[@shamaselahi5606]

Too late damage done

[@jackitcovitz1816]

I betted him to be the next leader prior to the end of corbyn He was up against no one. These women now on the front bench have proved that. Incompetent and bungling buffoons. Oh just like Doris.

[@kittyodonoghue430]

Jesus, how depressing. Yep, JC was our only hope. Yep, saw the same thing with Tony Blair. He was already attending Bilderburg meetings before he was voted in.

[@mattowensrees5888]

It was James Callaghan, a LABOUR politician, who initiated primre ministers attending Bilderberg!!

[@harrydavey9884]

Id have voted for Corbyn if he didn't have pathetic pandering ads running referring to him as "Uncle Jezzer" with black youth actors pretending they were voting for him. When somebody signs off that sort of shallow, manipulative promotion, it's hard to believe that they're coming from a place of honesty.

[@DrMontague]

get real it was the working class that stabbed Corbyn in the back

[@lisalisker2659]

Is Bilderberg similar to the Trilateral Commission, which Starmer belongs to?

[@berylwelch3526]

And starmer prefers DAVOS

[@jazzyfrosty]

This gives me hope that we have someone speaking the truth in this awful environment of ruthless right wing rule.

[@susanpatricialewis5862]

Who gives a damn what old Ken Loach thinks?? He is history.

[@peterh1353]

What truth? His opinions mean little against the last election result! That is a truth!

[@peterh1353]

@@susanpatricialewis5862 I always think that people who think the 70's might be coming back are blessed. Keeping them going. Reality would kill them.

[@anitasandall]

So very true: strikes even more of a chord two years on …

[@geoffreyparsons4353]

Jeremy and John was a fleeting moment in history when a modern exciting future was possible but big money said noooo .

[@angusmarch1066]

Even I got suckered by the media lies about Jeremy Corbyn. I consider myself to be pretty smart so I feel like a bit of a mug for not supporting him.

[@yarkmates3409]

The media is a well oiled machine, glad you were able to see through it 👍

[@burner9147]

As a rule I take a look at the Tabloids and do the exact opposite.

[@annenunney9907]

You are not a mug I am so glad you realise what they did

[@AK-np4rp]

At least you have the intellectual honesty to admit you were wrong.

[@RenegadeMaster137]

Fair play though Angus, most folk tend to double-down on bad ideas rather than admit they called something wrong, even though we all make errors of judgement based on the information we have at the time.

[@hedyg]

Thank you for speaking out so honest and unforgiving. You are and have always been a beacon of hope and light in dark times. Great artist and human being.

[@lucybeckmann1378]

Wow, Ken, you are really seeing this now. These are of course, difficult times, but it is also the great awakening of the world.

[@simonjohnson6581]

Well said Ken!!! There are not enough people like you left in the world sadly.....love eternal

[@tonymingo179]

Ken Loach articulates everything perfectly, a great man, the labour party under Corbyn gave hope, and now under starmer it is finished.

[@markpub]

So there's nothing about the Labour Party that you could vote for?

[@claireowens2884]

@@markpub No, NOTHING.

[@markpub]

@@claireowens2884 bit shouty. And like a child throwing a tantrum.

[@markpub]

@@willpushback4874 Willy, you've used a horrible slang term for a woman's genitals as a term of abuse. Do you think that's acceptable?

[@tonymingo179]

@@markpub no

[@neiljones7715]

Ive been a labour voter all my life... However, now ive become a none voter... No one in any party is worthy of my vote..... We need a total new political system..🙏✌️✊

[@kevinadamson5768]

Vote reform or heritage then don't waste your vote. 😊

[@TheSkunkyMonk]

@@kevinadamson5768 Not looked into Herritage but why Reform? Farrage has already made it clear he wants us to move to private health care system and will sell off the NHS the first chance he gets.

[@SusanGeyer-l4k]

I applaud your comment.

[@jacquelineithell307]

It’s there , but hidden dictatorship and manliutaion over the years has numbed people , 2 parties , take your pick , the people on voting day have the power of the country at their fingertips , but will as always follow like sheep FACT

[@Dinvadbhatmarathi98]

Your none vote leaves the Tories and labour in power use the vote ,Vote for the independent working class party let's get Jeremy Corbyn or George Galloway

[@tassos9290]

Couldn’t agree more.👍🏾 Big respect comrade ✊🏾✌🏾❤️🇵🇸

[@musopaul5407]

Everything he said two years ago has been shown to be absolutely true. A great man!

[@fullmooneve1651]

I'd say it's worse. Labour is now the u turn party and couldn't find it in their hearts to rebuke a genocide when it's right in front of them.

[@adampeters7947]

Above all, I lay the blame for the UK not having a Corbyn government, at the door of The Guardian.

[@Grandude77]

Ken hits the nail on the head here and that nail is electability. The establishment knows it cannot maintain 1 party control forever, especially a party that taxes the many to enrich the few. So the goal is to mould the opposition into something tolerable.

[@Naughtymrpixels]

Correct...Well that an a couple of other influential in all the right places "liberal" corporate media outlets... As described beautifully in the book Propaganda Blitz. They could easily have made the difference...Certainly in the run up to 2017 general election. Democracy genuinely died in this country as soon as real opposition and a better way of governance was on the table.

[@iqbaltimol2676]

I was in the UK when the disgusting smear campaign against Jeremy was in full swing. The media is Zionist controlled. Even more disgusting were some members of the LP gleefully cheering Labour’s loss at the election.

[@s1050]

The Guardian is a disgrace

[@markpub]

😂crank

[@shishabell1]

Thank-you….For the truth 🙏

[@chockaday1]

Started listening, thinking 'nah', ended knowing 'YES!'. He has nailed it.

[@edsherejee6124]

This man is poetry in motion and deserves much respect. He covered it all n that's years of dedication to uncover the complex spider's web of deception collusion and absolute corruption Thankyou Sir God bless you and your peaceful followers

[@AlexeiRamotar]

I wonder if the Murdochs are advising Starmer like they did Blair

[@teresawilliamson9377]

Or is it just Blair, the warmonger dripping in the blood of children in the middle East & the global South , advising dear Kier. 🤪😡😱🤮

[@elaineedgar2913]

Of course they are eg Mandelson

[@Prodrive1]

100%

[@Sadie3023]

It Blair and Mandela on pulling his strings and he happy as long as he can look powerful and stand at a podium. Whether Murdoch behind them I don’t know but WEF definitely.

[@jimmymcdonald426]

@@Sadie3023 b 🎯

[@SheilaMoyers-l3x]

Thank you sir well said

[@rongray655]

So good to hear everything I feel said so well.

[@peterh1353]

Pretend it won the last election if it helps!

[@mperks8912]

Always loved Ken, a man of honesty and integity and above all compassion for the poor. / Ken you have done so much for the poor in Society we thank you / you will live in our hearts forever.

[@ysgol3]

That was as brilliant as any of your work Mr Loach, thank you so much for a much needed boost.

[@stephenbates4987]

All this has now happened , Labour used to be for the working classes , now exactly opposite.