UK Elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

[@laalaa99stl]

As hard John can be on America and its problems, it's nothing compared to the wrath he has for the people that ruined his country of birth and hurt the people who could least withstand being hurt.

[@edwardroche2480]

And it's just a Prelude to what's been happening in America

[@RadicalAntifa]

Yeah that country that still has freaking colonies in Africa!!!

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

​@@edwardroche2480 Its actually worse.

[@larsg.2492]

Mate, it's basic European behaviour to talk shit about politicians, and nobody fucked up harder than the Tories.

[@qwertpoo1]

@@AzadHind572 you hit the nail on the head. the UK is a joke, its not a country. Very soon America wont be a country either since we choose to jail one political side and let the other side get away with the exact same "crimes"

[@sydguitar99]

You're telling me leaving a union based on free trade between countries would make it harder to trade with those countries? Color me shocked

[@tonyduncan9852]

LOL.

[@buzz1ebee]

The only country ever to impose economic sanctions on itself.

[@atlas956]

the brexit should be a textbook example regarding why „swarm intelligence“ is super not a thing with direct voting

[@sydguitar99]

@@atlas956 perfect example of the public doesn't always know what's best for the greater good and it's even worse when the 'expert politicians ' are just as ignorant

[@CortexNewsService]

Who could have seen that coming

[@Purumal1337]

Besides all the shit Nigel Farage has gotten recently, I also think we need to take a moment to appreciate the time a guy called into a show he was on and said "something happened to him" that made the caller support Nigel's political views.. He perfectly baited Nigel into asking him what had happened and he replied he was kicked in the head by a horse.

[@JohnDenverAirport]

That's god-level trolling, brilliant ...

[@Gloriath1]

Beautiful. :D

[@TyroG007]

Epic, had a hearty laugh… made my day! 😂😂😂😂

[@mother2bach]

This is one of my favourites kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaakiaKHZdGoiJYsi=AGZLjhDM-kB57RYR

[@AzadHind572]

UK is a Christian democracy with it's official religion Christianity and has 25 reserved seats for their church of England. How come the world of global democracy overlook this theocractic mixtured democracy of such a powerful country. No other democracies in the world be it USA or India or France has official religion. It doesn't matter conservative or labor wins, why no one changes this theocractic model

[@davidchristie6003]

I live in the UK and my local conservative mp is a man who had murals for children removed from refugee centres because he thought they were too welcoming. He kept his seat in the election. A big problem for the future of this country is many people see the problems as caused by incompetence, rather than deliberate and idealogically driven evil.

[@Deimos2k5]

Jenrick? He's just said people should be jailed for saying "God is great" in Arabic. What a nob

[@davidchristie6003]

​@@Deimos2k5Yep. The worst part being is I don't think even he believes what he says, its just dog whistling for support. He was brown nosing every party leader but had such little charisma they never really noticed. Then finally jumped the far right shark when it was clear the writing was on the wall for Sunak. Oh and his constituency is one of the worst places for social mobility in the country, but his whole pitch boiled down to blame immigrants. Conveniently forgetting he had been a part of the tory govenment and running this constituency for a decade.

[@mikeharrison1868]

Lots of room for both.

[@davidchristie6003]

​@@mikeharrison1868I'm not sure. I think it was with both competence and malice they set about running the country into the ground. The only incompetence was continuing to double down on a demonstrably flawed ideology.

[@baoboumusic]

​@@davidchristie6003 It's a lovely milkshake of incompetence and ideological evil and man, does it stink.

[@laalaa99stl]

"Sunak The Wet: A man who literally doesn't have the sense to come in from the rain." Way to stick the landing, John. Perfect way to end the show and end the cruel Tory regime.

[@AzadHind572]

Why house of lords has reserved seats for Churches? Is this even a democracy where the office religion is Christianity? This clearly makes the country's constitution to do favoratism for one belief which is no way a reflection of democracy rather theocracy. And that is none other than UK

[@pfefferle74]

Reporter: "Sir, your suit is getting wet!" Sunak: "That's okay, I can buy a new one."

[@lenkacfk7155]

Honestly, I was expecting Fatboy Slim playing the violin...

[@kufitop]

​@lenkacfk7155 That is absolutely the only acceptable alternate ending! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@sandormccann2546]

It's not going to end the cruel Tory regime, it's just going to switch it from the Blue Tory bastards to the New Red Tory regime which has promised to continue most of the worst of the Blue Tory's policies, including austerity. Starmer is far to the right of center.

[@KelsomaticPDX]

The woman that threw the milkshake gave an interview: she didn’t plan it, she just happened to be in the area, heard from the crowd that Farage was coming, and spontaneously went and bought a milkshake just to throw it at him. She’s a hero 😅

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

She needs a statue in her honor put up somewhere.

[@shardhoney]

buying a milkshake just to throw at someone is planning it tho lol

[@arp711]

they should put her on the money

[@ihavegymnastics]

[@intomnia3313]

Time to start franchising the “Tar & Feathers” kiosks, worldwide.

[@nadeemb3300]

That person having to sell their cutlery for medication is outrageous, you could sense the genuine anger in John's voice. People keep saying the UK healthcare system shouldn't turn into America's, but it seems it already has.

[@jamielondon6436]

Actually, the US health system seems to be working much better. Sorry, I misspoke: Meant to say, actually GoFundMe seems to be working much better. :-/

[@ajbXYZcool]

Practically. I've heard from other sources that people felt like the Tories were trying to move towards privatizing Healthcare, so, yeah, make it like America's.

[@bargirlbie]

Just FYI: John was using “they/them” pronouns for that person.

[@waytoobiased]

pretty sure that person was not a woman, but yes

[@zining_90]

@@waytoobiased Her condition was heartbreaking to say the least. Poor lady.

[@randyc786]

“No need to force the youth into serving their country; this legend is doing it for free.” I’m giving a slow clap with a single tear of pride rolling down my cheek.

[@hannahcallow6374]

I was thinking about the national service thing. If you pay them, actually give lessons in work 💩 (like tax codes, get them set up on universal credit so it doesn't take so long to open a claim etc), have actual 'urgent need' professions offering tiered work experience and a guaranteed job - it could be a good thing

[@Rowsy91]

@@hannahcallow6374 Yeah, if its reasonable option of things that will help an 18 yr old not only serve their community a bit but also develop ACTUAL useful job skills/connections then I would absolutely vote yes on that idea

[@hannahcallow6374]

@@Rowsy91 imagine if they were able to clock the hours up to have certain qualifications, like open uni. Maybe not degrees until higher level, but certifications, sure. You could rope in industries that need support, like teaching or nursing!

[@SBsam]

Dude literally said 'badhoevedorp', a dutch village with less than 15k residents. Purely for his alliteration joke. MY MAN!

[@Lucywin97]

Is it really a village if there's only 15k people? My hometown had 15k people and also a university

[@sascha1493]

@@Lucywin97 yeah it's a village. in the netherlands cities only become cities when they've acquired 'stadsrechten' (city privileges) and so population size doesn't have much to do with it. for example, the hague technically never acquired these privileges, but there's also teeny tiny towns that did acquire them and are thus considered cities.

[@chrisweed1810]

If he said Bilthoven, I would have had a stroke. 😂

[@chequereturned]

The randomness was the joke

[@Rdlprmpf12]

I don't see the problem, though. They can still drive their tea to Boston and have a party there...

[@a_god8269]

I never understood how strong the UK use of the word "shambles" is. I always underappreciated its severity. Shambolic.

[@rheasilverstorm6366]

anime has ruined. i hear shambles and i immediately think “Room.”

[@AshArAis]

The OED word of the year in 2012 was Omnishambles, used by Peter Capaldi's character in the Thick of It. He played a PR/media advisor to government officials, so it's very apt

[@hermannabt8361]

It’s a proper shambles

[@searchingfororion]

​@@AzadHind572If you want your point to be seriously considered, please stop spamming it on every thread. Otherwise, I will unfortunately have to report you.

[@caramazzola2399]

​@@searchingfororionI'm sorry but "or else I'll report you" is a hilariously low-stakes threat 😂

[@linmiller8147]

Seeing that poor woman laboriously walking down those stairs and hearing how destitute she was, was truly heartbreaking.

[@Widdekuu91]

There's a video called "I, Daniel Blake" on KZbin, it is a movie. You have to get used to a few of the accents, without subtitles, but it is a brilliant movie about similar cases. Take your time for it, don't click through, but sit and watch it. You will frown, smile, laugh, cry, frown, laugh, cry and cry some more.

[@abhishekdev258]

True😢

[@amyjackson8725]

I hope you realize there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the US who are simalarly struggling.

[@Saffron-sugar]

It’s worse in the US. But it’s also incorrect reporting. I am in the UK, we do have issues with the NHS here but “If you have a medical condition or physical disability, you are allowed free NHS prescriptions”. Also, “You are eligible for a free prescription if you are 60 or over, are under 16 or 16 to 18 and in full-time education. are pregnant or have had a baby in the previous 12 months” per the NHS website. Also, all birth control is free to all women. If that person believes they are unable to afford their prescriptions, they need to get help from somebody. I think with that person has peripheral neuropathy and that can affect cognitive function.

[@Mostspecialusername]

@@Saffron-sugar yeah, she's a wanker alright. Instead of asking for help from the government she chose to sell all of her belongings. 🙄🙄

[@GusMcGuire]

What's even more annoying is the number of Brexiters that are still saying "They didn't tell us Brexit would be like this." Except they were told EXACTLY what it would be like, but they didn't like hearing that bit, so they still voted for it anyway. Well done.

[@clothilde1623]

💯% agree. They chose to listen to a proven liar (Boris) because they wanted his lies to be true, and to paint those pointing out obvious truths as ‘Project Fear’. And of course the more xenophobic ones said they would vote for Brexit even if it _harmed_ the country, just so they could get their stupid blue passports and mythical ‘sovereignty’ and keep Johnny Foreigner out. Well hasn’t that worked out well for us. God I loathe them, and Cameron most of all for calling the referendum just to try and save his own career.

[@SideQ-rr6my]

They were "sick of experts" if I remember correctly

[@clothilde1623]

@@SideQ-rr6my Wasn’t it Michael ‘Pob’ Gove who said that? No doubt after a nostril or two of Columbia’s finest. What a quote, eh? Blatant idiocracy. Probably the nadir of the entire Brexit campaign. That and the notorious bus of lies 🚎

[@barneylaurance1865]

Yes the anti-brexit campaigners of course told us that Brexit would be bad. Brexiteers believed the pro-brexit campaigners instead. And at the time the media treated them as if they were campaigning to go into government and in a position to make promises about how it would be, rather than merely campaigning for a certain decision in a referendum with no special authority to say what would happen after they won.

[@justandy333]

There was s*** slinging on both sides. Never in my life have I witnesses such an absolute shambles of a referendum. Lies and mistruths were flying in both directions. All I remember is not wanting to turn on the bloody tv because of all the hostility, slander, venomous attitudes and just being completely ignorant of other people opinions. That 4 years was horrific and I hope to god we don't have to go through anything like that ever again. I feel it needs reiterating, This was happening on BOTH sides of the argument.

[@leohumbarelly861]

100 Billion a year for no more free travel and trade in the EU. Great call Britain.

[@McDJNomi]

But they have 300 million more for the NHS /s ... or something along the lines, according to farages campaign promises... Such a milkshakeable muppet

[@footpad9047]

Speaking as a Brit with strong ties to Europe, it's gutwrenching. The disruption, the heartache, the paperwork... oh god the paperwork...

[@ChantingInTheDark]

Thanks to the fking Tories AGAIN.

[@hydrolifetech7911]

Britain in practice put economic sanctions on itself, the first country in history to do so!

[@Samael1113]

To be fair, there was a way to go about it that would have been less of an issue. Trade would always take a pretty big hit, but it would have been more manageable. All it would have taken was action and responsibility. Instead, they waited like 5 years to green light impact reports, then ignored their recommendations and did nothing. Then they triggered the article that gave a hard "We're out date" and continued to do nothing and ignoring reports of what needed to happen to mitigate the damage. It wasn't until the last like 4 months before the Brexit date that they actually started scrambling to look like they were doing something to prevent the complete fucking of the UK. They still barely did anything. But if they had taken their time before starting the exit process, did thorough studies and took preparatory actions, they could have come out of Brexit in decent standing, as opposed to laughingstock hemorrhaging GDP growth.

[@bobs_sa8480]

Remember in the London 2012 Olympics ceremony when there was a whole segment paying tribute to the NHS? It seems the UK said “thank you NHS we love you!” and then spent the next decade absolutely decimating it.

[@GorgeDawes]

I used to re-watch the 2012 Opening Ceremony every few years but I just can’t face it now. 2012 felt like such a positive thing, as if the UK had grabbed the chance to really show its best side. The ceremony was such a high point, an unapologetically British celebration of our past and present, full of wit, inventiveness and open-minded good humour. It just breaks my heart to think how not long after that we swerved completely in the other direction into petty-minded exceptionalism, jealousy and petulance. What an opportunity wasted. As regards the NHS, the cuts have been a false economy. We are left with crumbling hospital infrastructure which will cost far more to replace now than if pre-2010 spending had been maintained. The economic damage caused by people being unable to work while they wait for treatment runs into billions and the extended wait means those people are less likely to return to work when finally treated. Cuts to social care mean that many people spend longer in hospital than they need to, which is vastly more expensive than the missing social care would have been. Austerity has caused untold misery and has been a total failure in terms of bringing down the national debt, the thing it was supposedly designed to do. I’m not wildly excited at the prospect of Labour taking over but surely, surely they can’t be any worse?

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

@@GorgeDawes I agree with you, but also my heart always sinks when I see anyone use the phrase “surely it can’t get any worse”

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

i have recently seen something that noted doctors and nurses make around 40k a year in the uk and most leaving med school are now getting jobs in australia and the usa

[@richardmh1987]

I´m from Mexico and had the chance to study my Masters in the Uk in 2011-2012. Actually if you look for a video of the olympic torch in Bath you can see me with a friend running behind the torch in the crowd. Felt amazing to just experience all that in my 20's, and actually I did use the NHS while there. The USA being the only foreign country I´ve ever visited before, I thought I would be bankrupt for a throat infection, but to my surprise I ended up paying just 7 pounds for medication and that was it. It really shocked me to see how things went so shortly after I came back to my country.

[@sdfkjgh]

@@GorgeDawes: Austerity has never, and will never work as it it always applied currently: against those already suffering. The ONLY way to make it work is to apply it to those who can afford to lose billions, because they have billions to lose. From those with greatest ability, to those with greatest need, comrades!

[@Fredroc57]

I remember a head of lettuce lasted longer than Liz Truss in office. I was heartbroken to see someone selling off everything they owned to try and get a wheelchair and still didn't have enough. Absolutely gut-wrenching to see a government do something like that to its people.

[@ArtOlson-vr9jx]

If you open your eyes, remove the bias, it’s obvious that the communists have planned this from the beginning. March towards neofeudalism you fools

[@12x2richter]

As an American, it never becomes okay, but it stops standing out after a while.

[@Seigensi]

admittedly, my gut hurts after the laughter.

[@waynetuttle6872]

@@12x2richteras an American, what? Like we are any better. I just watched local free clinics across America shut down, the Feds have given states a set rate for food assistance in 2008 and states are not allowed to use their taxation towards feeding their citizens through these programs. The limited money available does not increase with overwhelming, yet still fabricated, inflation but still manages to give the social workers in charge of these programs 15% annual pay raises just to decrease the qualifiers for said programs. I don’t even want to get started on our healthcare where a wheel chair in Britain cost 340£ but somehow cost Americans 2400$.

[@adamjrusso]

@@Seigensi You ever feel sad when someone has to watch their parents die, slowly, painfully, and think that person didn't deserve it? I don't think anyone'll feel that way about you.

[@goldenbluebellz7461]

I don't understand why this still needs to be said but people deserve to be able to live with dignity. The audacity of that rich monster saying that, 'I worry about benefits becoming a lifestyle choice', is beyond me.

[@tullochgorum6323]

This is the guy who was caught on film boasting that as Chancellor he'd diverted funds from the struggling inner cities to the prosperous Tory shires. Beneath contempt...

[@sandpiperr]

I was so nervous watching that person going down the stairs on crutches. It's king appalling that they can't at least get a stairlift!

[@TalesOfWar]

He also made his millions betting against the sub-prime mortgage hedge funds, so he personally benefitted from the misery of hundreds of millions of people around the world. Then became Chancellor then PM and narrowed his misery infliction just upon the UK. His wife still doesn't pay UK tax.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@sandpiperr I mean ideally they'd be housed in a bungalow or somewhere without stairs to begin with.

[@DimT670]

The lifestyle choice of *checks notes * being able to eat have shelter and medicine. Amazing

[@benhoskins4719]

It's been a pleasure to watch John grow from the akward Daily Show correspondent to the absolute powerhouse of journalism and late night programming. The only person left on TV who will actually do a deep dive on subjects, come back with the facts, and dare someone to sue him for the truth. This is the kind of free speech that America was designed to protect.

[@zizinnnn]

he has a kick-ass team as well❤

[@benhoskins4719]

@zizinnnn Indeed, he does

[@brodebrode]

Was searching for Tractors 🚜 and ended up watching this show for 5 years 😂 don’t tell my dad

[@TurtlesOnIce]

Are ya winnin son?

[@makiss.2597]

Sorry for your loss lol :)

[@Baalaaxa]

I watched this show just once by an accident, but my biggest crime was that I came back and watched another episode, deliberately.

[@kronos762]

Help me rhyme tractors I'm genuinely lost

[@joeduffy3309]

"tractors" Like Neil Parish MP????

[@ivanov093]

I hate politicians that complain about spending on programs that aren't working, when the biggest reason they're not working is that they're being undermined by policy and underfunded.

[@cbpd89]

They know exactly what they're doing. They know that they are the reason it's not working and they are proud of it. If that doesn't make you want to riot, I don't know what will.

[@Marshall_Stacks]

EXACTLY! They break it and say, "Look! This is broken and we cannot continue funding this broken thing." Conservative bullshit is the same on every continent.

[@dthomas9230]

@@cbpd89 GOP and murdoch helped cancel the FICA payroll tax hike by getting 666,000 FICA pensioners to refuse vaccines and die from Covid after CDC told them 80% of Covid deaths are 65 and older. Tucker told them it was a hoax, and he was facing a FICA payroll tax hike. SD killed 107 per 100k from Covid. VT lost 10 per 100k. Australia with 26 million lost 10,000 to Covid. FL with 22 million killed 87,000+, 80% of whom were entitlement moochers. Eugenics of your neighbors is what the pro-life party does.

[@far2ez]

Yeah we should donate infinite amounts of money so every nonbinary 'they' like in this video can get free housing and 7+ free medications while they don't contribute to society. Your requests are insane. We can't support everyone with free money from the infinite pot of cash.

[@Josh-99]

That is LITERALLY the Conservative playbook: 1. Point at a functional government program and declare it fundamentally broken, useless, wasteful, or -- ideally -- all three. 2. Proceed to systematically dismantle the program through underfunding, understaffing, and privatization of critical functions. 3. When the program falls apart, shout loudly that you TOLD everyone the program was fundamentally broken, useless, and/or wasteful. Cruelty, greed, and gaslighting are all Conservatives know how to do. Anyone voting for Conservatives are fools.

[@nigelbenn4642]

John doesn't really do Truss any justice. Let me help you guys out, Truss was in office for 49 days, imagine that just 49 days. During that time she tanked the economy SO badly everyone's mortgage repayments went UP double. Imagine trying to find TWICE as much money each month because blondie was in charge for 49 days!

[@misterthegeoff9767]

For the Americans in the audience I believe 49 days in US units is around five Scaramuccis

[@forgeustiss6667]

And she may have driven the former queen to her death bed.

[@nigelbenn4642]

@@forgeustiss6667 That's irrelevant

[@karlbassett8485]

At the exact same time interest rates and mortgage rates shot up in the USA, Europe, Canada etc. Why do you think rates only went up in the UK? Or do you think the UK is so powerful that Liz Truss' policies made mortgage rates go up all over the world?

[@hjt091]

Prior to Truss, the shortest serving PM in British history was George Canning, who was in power for 119 days in 1827. But unlike LIz he had the excuse of his premiership being terminated by his death.

[@WhamyKaBlamy]

I am a Brit living in America. Watching John Oliver telling the Tories to get stuffed on the 4th of July in a rain storm is the most patriotic I've ever felt. Joking aside, it's really scary for me watching this episode. I think it's a fairly big sign of how bad it is that when he was talking about the situation the laughter completely died off. It really has been that bad. But worse, austerity and brexit kinda broke something in the UK. We had a society that looked after our own, no matter how down they were there was help for them. The Tories took that away, while blaming the people who needed the help the most as benefit scammers.

[@prodigalsorcerer1415]

How the degenerate House of Thatcher sucked dry the bones of a crumbling empire. With a brief interlude by Tony Bliar and his Third Way of fucking people over.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

Sounds like the USA

[@ariesaggressiv7569]

Tbh I don't think it's the politics that did this damage to society. You can observe this in the complete western world, society is falling apart with rapid pace... Well, politics make it worse, but I think it's a combination of sozial media sped up with corona...

[@daveretash9153]

Yes, the commonalities are clear.

[@justybee]

@@SunnyAquamarine2Apple doesn't fall far from the tree

[@Windrunner007]

Tbh the David Cameron pig thing should be brought up in every single exposé about the British government because it’s amazing

[@Pattyobrien3]

Wasn't that a black mirror episode?

[@Windrunner007]

@@Pattyobrien3 That was both a black mirror episode and a real actual thing that happened! Notable differences: in black mirror, the pig is alive, and in black mirror, he is PM at the time of doing it. Neither of those was true for Cameron. 🤢

[@LBPHexagohn]

@@Windrunner007 Maybe he's done both

[@bit0159]

It should be part of the UK flag.

[@SuperAblabla]

So I have a question: what was public first? The black mirror episode or the fact that cameron put his Weiner into a pig?

[@flyingtoastr]

I still remember the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics that featured an entire choreographed celebration of the NHS. Britons were so proud of their socialized healthcare system that they made it a centerpiece of the goddamn Olympics. What the Tories did to the country is straight-up unconscionable. It's wild that it's taken this long for them to get kicked out.

[@chequereturned]

‘Socialised healthcare’ is a very weird American expression for it

[@jordananderson2728]

Populism is easy to sell.

[@davecorry7723]

People voted for them. Democracy. You get the government you deserve.

[@hashbrown4781]

​@@davecorry7723Politicians are known for their honesty and completing projects, and such, they promise before being elected. We should give them sainthood.

[@bradenhue6066]

Voters are not smart

[@ancaoraathasach]

Just became available in the UK. Fun fact: In our language, the word "Suanach" refers to a man who has been caught in the rain. Also, "Tories" derives from the old Gaelic word for "Highwayman".

[@blazzz13]

I heard Tory is derived from the Gaelic word for thief

[@thorneofcardiff]

@@blazzz13 'toraigh', as in the kind of raider that goes out of their way to cause additional harm to the people, rather than just taking their stuff

[@norishimogawa6125]

That makes it extra surprising to me that the tories refer to themselves as tories

[@thorneofcardiff]

@@norishimogawa6125 it's short and snappy and I can't see many of them researching Gaelic lol

[@Lanxe]

@@norishimogawa6125 IIRC it was originally an insult / pejorative which the party then adopted, not unlike other words in modern times for certain groups.

[@Chris-uc7kh]

As an American, I came to watch this after just watching the debate thinking to myself "Maybe we're not the only ones that are f*cked." 1. It's reassuring to see we're not alone. 2. Everything about the way this video was written and produced was phenomenal. Well done!!

[@angelowentzler9961]

Sometimes it seems to me that the USA is where they perfect the fuckups and cruelties, and after that it’s eagerly copied by conservatives elsewhere… so no, the USA is definitely not the only place

[@yuw777]

check out the guys that run Canada and France.

[@hydrocarbon82]

3) reminds me of almost everything Murica has gone thru since the early 80's

[@jenshoefer7944]

Umm, compared to the orange criminal, sunak, bojo and co. are proper democrats though

[@mcmc6621]

Don't worry. We may be thousands of miles apart, but our politicians are in step fast union of being completely and utterly Cack! That bond will never be broken!

[@RobertDuffy-yr4bi]

So basically the Conservative Party made the UK into the USA when it comes to health care. I would riot

[@candacen7779]

Yep. And it was 100% intentional.

[@andrewemerson1613]

somehow even worse.

[@TheDemonarta]

it is still far far from the US health system. The NHS needs vast reform, the NHS is a juggernaut of public spending. Improving it is not a matter of throwing more money at it. There are systematic flaws to the model. There is a reason even the labour party are not claiming to increase nhs spending by alot, because they no thats not the issue. The problem with the health system is everyone is incredibly defensive about it. It is a political posion pill to even suggest that the NHS in inefficient. People will reference 'nurse sally' so on , and how they work super hard. But it not them who are causing the issues, its the insane beuroracy and fluff staff they employ. The NHS is one of the largest employers in the world, the whole thing needs to be refocused.

[@JP_Names]

Also worse than Texas in energy, last I heard. Don't think they ever did anything to address that, but could always be wrong

[@jonathanaman6573]

It fng sucks that the Tories have made the NSA so bad, that Americans opposed to a national healthcare system, point to Britain as evidence of its failure.

[@robertmueller212]

All that mess started with Reagan and Thatcher. Since then lobbyists are more important than the people.

[@candacen7779]

That part. 🎯

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

More like *billionaires* who _absolutely_ don't pay their taxes (ahem Panama papers).

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

The easiest way for rich people to get richer is to steal money from the poor.

[@erickalear7609]

What's absolutely insane is those of us who were alive in the 80s remember how so many people worshipped Reagan as the best president ever. Because stuff. As a child, it was strange to see, because buildings were closing, jobs were being lost all over, and America was starting to look like a forgotten cardboard city, stuffed in a dusty attic corner, decomposing, but THINGS WERE GREAT! It was a total disconnect from reality.

[@8arrows]

Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex. In his farewell speech leaving office. In 1961. Enter Kennedy. Fellow commenter mentions “panama papers”. And both parties have been in cahoots, this entire time. You can trust that a Native American like me, will not trust the government. (Or religious groups) They are running things the exact opposite of what the constitution (& Bible) says. Both sides.

[@Aussieloz1]

People at my work were talking about brexit when it was first announced. One of the girls said she voted the way her mum told her too, and she didn’t understand the fuss. I told her that as an immigrant myself, it could affect my ability to stay in the country. Given the look on her face, I think it was the first time it dawned on her that her choices do in fact have consequences.

[@karlbassett8485]

Every EU citizen living in the UK at the time was given the right to stay. In fact even those who arrived right up until 2020, long after the referendum, had that right to stay. So what exactly were your circumstances that you couldn't apply to stay? In fact then PM Theresa May said, shortly after the referendum, that people's status should not become a political bargaining tool and uncertain for years and she would formally give all EU citizens then in the UK the right to stay effective immediately if the EU reciprocated for UK citizens living in the EU. The EU refused, and so those rights did become a bargaining tool and people like you were left in limbo for several years.

[@Aussieloz1]

@@karlbassett8485 I was in fact able to stay. But there was a great deal of uncertainty, particularly in the beginning. Given that I’d lived and worked in the country for many years, I also believed that I always had a good chance to stay. The point was, I was talking to someone who blindly made a decision because instead of finding out for herself, she just let others tell her what choice she should make. Those choices are now affecting many people.

[@karlbassett8485]

@@Aussieloz1 I could make the exact argument about those who voted to JOIN the EU in the first place without knowing or realising what it would entail. We were told the then Common Market was just a simple free trade free movement deal, and we'd always be able to veto anything we didn't like. Then a few decades later governments gave away those vetos without asking us, consulting us, getting an election mandate, nothing. We agreed to join a nice simple free trade deal and found out a few decades later we were in a political union. Had people in the early seventies better educated themselves and realised what they were voting for chances are we would never have joined.

[@Aussieloz1]

@@karlbassett8485 people have far fewer excuses these days with easy access to information. And given how much the world has since changed since the 70s, would isolating Britain from the continent, really have improved its prosperity? Small businesses have been adversely affected as opposed to large multinational companies who take their profits out of the country, how is that good for the economy? I don’t pretend to understand politics, the economy, nor how the EU operates, I have duel nationality but was born and raised in Australia, I therefore never grew up with it. But I’ve definitely heard a number of stories about people who voted in favour of brexit because of immigration. I’ve also heard immigrants who have lived in and contributed to the country for many years who were approached in the days after brexit by people telling them it was time to pack their bags as they weren’t welcome anymore. How are attitudes like that ever a good reason to vote to leave the EU? As long as they were a part of the EU, Britain had the benefit of being able to affect change. They can’t exactly do that now can they?

[@royw-g3120]

Lots left because the vote made them feel very unwelcome. You can airbrush it all you like but the stench of xenophobia was palpable.

[@yellowskittle73]

The epidemic of punching down to punish the few who abuse healthcare and social benefits just keeps spreading. That video of the person who had to sell their FORKS was absolutely heartbreaking. People who are lucky enough to not know someone with a disability can turn a blind eye to what these cuts do. Society fails when we cannot provide for those who need it the most.

[@katieswenson3426]

Very well said 👏🏻

[@maryrosekent8223]

@@katieswenson3426 I love that a dog emoji is responding to a cat emoji, and now I-a bird emoji (Black-and-yellow Broadbill) am responding to you. I think this might be the quintessential distillation of the phrase “That’s so meta.”

[@octoscorpion2506]

​@@maryrosekent8223 What is this world coming to 😕

[@unicornzombielove]

No one abuses the system as much as the wealthy at least in the US but I imagine it's the same all over.

[@kegsofvomitspit]

@@maryrosekent8223: I don’t think you know what an emoji is.

[@SlavicAlcoholic]

“He looks like he’s a fan of the damp” is the rarest insult I’ve ever seen 😂

[@DocNob0dy]

was the subtle setup for John Oliver ending the show damp 😆

[@Michael-us5qx]

this is partly what comes from having this class system....the king, queen biz needs to go.. it needed to be removed from british life eons ago....the poor/uneducated have been so brainwashed to embrace the lives of those who do nothing but harm to them and the world by re-affirming nonsensical evil.. saudi rabia has monarchy, so do many other countries...if the british would come out of this torpor ..the rest of the world may be able to come out of theirs? bad example in a country that has no excuse really for living in medieval ages....

[@Sebbir]

“Fan of the Damp” kinda sounds like a band name

[@trinafirey1175]

Loved it!

[@julymagnus493]

Ok but whats with your redundant username?

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

John Oliver always does this. He takes a small detail, makes fun of it, then unexpectedly mentions it again, then occasionally comes back to it with gradual evolutions and, surprise, ends the episode with a massive material joke about it. He has done this for years and, yet, he still manages to surprise me, I never see it coming, despite in theory I should.

[@violetlove3580]

He is truly an expert comedian, well deserving of many a praise 🥰🤘👌😁💯

[@dyrnacht]

Just like Dave Chapelle. Both masters of their craft.

[@msszkingkong86]

Much agreed. Him as well as his staff clearly do their research. I trust John before CNN 😊🎉❤🙌✨️🙏🏾

[@abhi739]

thats british character, they can also gaslight, helped them colonize africa

[@spongeintheshoe]

You always know there's going to be a brick joke of some kind at the end, but you never know _what_ it's going to be.

[@ZoomStranger]

this election's been and gone but I just knew this would be richly worth watching. I had real tears of laughter at the end - brilliant!

[@julianmuller7800]

"There is no press here" just killed me 🤣 Was gasping for air for minutes.

[@Sudeep.Manerkar]

😂😂😂

[@randyc786]

Boris Johnson proving that he is definitely NOT a Jedi.

[@V45194]

Classic Johnson. Just like Trump claiming he never said "lock her up"...

[@kwanlinus6999]

Boris Johnson and blatantly lying to everyone even when the facts say otherwise, name a more iconic duo

[@Ilnori]

@@randyc786”this is not the press you’re looking for 👋”

[@laalaa99stl]

"The greatest blunder ever made by a British prime minister." Sunak: hold my non-existent umbrella.

[@hukama6911]

The speaker that blairing (pun intended) Things Can Only Get Better had an umbrella... and the PM doesn't lol

[@GSBarlev]

Eh. Soggy boi doesn't really rise to the level of mop-headed pandemic denier; Russian Roulette: EU edition; or "peace in our time."

[@thatonewriter8043]

He doesn't have an umbrella because someone really is holding it for him.

[@AzadHind572]

UK is a Christian democracy with it's official religion Christianity and has 25 reserved seats for their church of England. How come the world of global democracy overlook this theocractic mixtured democracy of such a powerful country. No other democracies in the world be it USA or India or France has official religion. It doesn't matter conservative or labor wins, why no one changes this theocractic model

[@DevineAbyss]

@@AzadHind572 Trump is selling bibles, the supreme court banned abortions for religious reasons and a state currently wants to have the 10 commandments in every classroom. The US always tries to stay among the top players (:

[@ChronoMoogle]

To run down a previously rich country this much in just about 10 years is quite impressive.

[@eliasb8]

GB is still rich! It remains as the 6th largest economy in the world! The GB people are the ones being screwed.

[@Seigensi]

religion and royalty drag anyone down the stupidity shitter.

[@chrismanuel9768]

The power of Conservatives in office. Look at America. Between Trump and the dry fart that is Biden, this country is in trouble if a Republican gets in this election cycle. We need taxes on the rich and programs to elevate the poor out of poverty, stimulate growth, and get people motivated. The rich getting richer has never, ever, never in history ever, not even once, ever, turned into a successful nation. Every nation with a wealthy elite class quickly collapses thereafter.

[@mnemosftb]

Well they've done a great job lining their pockets, and the pockets of their investors so the welfare of the population was a small price to pay.

[@swazfincklestein1226]

UK is number 6 of the top 25 economies in the world. That's 6 out of 195.

[@maxb148]

As a Brit, it is also funny that the UK election campaign time from calling the election to when it happened was around a month but the US election cycle has been going for like a whole year.

[@doppz]

"it's a pretty bad sign when you're standing in front of a pretty bad sign"

[@Iason29]

I still remember back in the day when this was on the news all outlets were saying her government is literally "falling apart"

[@andrewthomas7109]

Favorite line of this whole episode! 🤣

[@blew319]

Did that sign just tell her to “f off”?

[@michellem4287]

Justice, Healthcare and Education should never be privatized.

[@TheHomerowKeys]

Emergency and Crisis Care as well. The point of a government is to provide services to their citizens. That is what our taxes are SUPPOSED to pay for.

[@OutragedPufferfish]

And oceans.

[@Wes-x9p]

Rwll that to Trump

[@carina9295]

you misspelled privatiSed, mate

[@psychemax]

Nothing public should ever be privatized.

[@RalphSchreuderxX]

Never in all these years would I ever imagine John Oliver stating my little town Badhoevedorp on national television in America

[@scorpsportal]

Is this the first time you've ever heard Badhoevedorp pronounced in not Dutch?

[@maryrosekent8223]

Wild times ahead! Go nuts and dance naked by the side of the road!!! 😁

[@gerbrandlub]

I was mostly surprised he wasn't far off the mark in pronunciation!

[@mattia_carciola]

Not equally surprising, but I'm still pleasantly surprised as well, being a student in Bologna

[@Hugh.Manatee]

Wait, are you saying there are actually people living on the interchange Badhoevedorp? Crazy!

[@xoeyg3084]

I work in the midst of Austerity in Britain with children starving, young people homeless, and the elderly dying lonely and in pain... This is my work and my tool kit is getting thin.

[@sirrebelpaulc3439]

There's £36 TRILLION sitting in offshore tax havens, that's more than the USA's GDP, that's about one third of the entire global GDP. If that doesn't radicalize you I don't know what will.

[@SortofUnpleasant]

Holding back tears watching that story about the disabled person.

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

I hear you. I tried to hold back, but failed.

[@bigjilms]

Me too.

[@scarlettptheoriginal]

Since John consistently used the pronouns "they/them" when talking about them, I don't think they consider themself a woman.

[@Sisteryoda1440]

@@scarlettptheoriginal Good call - I missed that.

[@Sisteryoda1440]

Same - failed utterly at the stairs.

[@Evelina_412]

Lithuanian here, we're not sure why the Tony Soprano statue is here either, but it is huge, it's in our capital's central train station and there's a pretty cool bar beside it. People from New Jersey are more than welcome.

[@MrBeachbum313]

As someone originally from New Jersey, I had never thought about visiting Lithuania before, but now I am actually curious to. Hopefully I'll get out there sometime!

[@ebolahh_same8610]

Fuggitaboutit​@@MrBeachbum313

[@kyledaugherty1609]

"If you build it, they will come."

[@robgriffin4801]

That may be the warmest welcome anyone from New Jersey has ever received

[@Woad25]

You've never actually met people from New Jersey have you??

[@isw_1214]

As an EU resident, I can confirm how many of my friends and I had to stop or significantly slow down ordering from a lot of great UK businesses because of customs fees.

[@paulnewman2000]

As a UK resident, ~ I've had instances where EU based businesses refused to export to the UK, because its no longer worth it for them, and others where you unexpectedly get hit with import duty on top of the standard price, once the item arrives with the UK courier. You pay the extra, or they don't deliver.

[@noseboop4354]

​@@paulnewman2000Isn't this an indication that the UK and EU have subpar policies on imports? Why so much paperwork and fees? Do they not believe in the free market?

[@dairebeare7839]

​@@noseboop4354they did. They had a free trade agreement. The UK voted to leave it.

[@comraderamirez9866]

@@noseboop4354 I can't tell if you're doing a bit or just being a bit dim

[@TalesOfWar]

I have to send a customs declaration for goddamn birthday cards now because of Brexit, even though it's classed as correspondence and shouldn't require any kind of customs note. But it gets sent back otherwise. Then it stays in a warehouse for weeks once it gets to the country it's going to before being cleared.

[@1bornconfused922]

I really hope that, given the far right riots in Britain, John does a deep dive into Nigel Ferage and his part in bringing England to the current situation it's in.

[@misterthegeoff9767]

Hope he covers Tommy Robinson as well and how the EDL and UKIP/Brexit/reform party both have their roots in the BNP.

[@leonrussell9607]

They aren't far right

[@PeterBattpsychoeconomics]

@@leonrussell9607They are

[@leonrussell9607]

@@PeterBattpsychoeconomics having a proper immigration policy isn't far right

[@CMGThePerson]

​@@leonrussell9607Only the Far Right see this as an issue

[@homerj.simpson7562]

"The press isn't here." WTF, what was the plan behind that response?

[@grandmabea6471]

Boris is the kind of bastard who lies reflexively, attempting to bend reality to his desire. Truth, integrity, common decency, these principles of civilised life mean nothing to that pillock.

[@iwonttellmynametoamachine5422]

'Do I look like a guy with a plan?'

[@jiblitin1520]

The perfect response to that would be: you must have your head up your ass if you can't see the press is here.

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

blame it on tibor

[@Iason29]

Dude the worst thing any person can do, is take Boris Johnson seriously.. Just don't he's like Trump. Otherwise you would be left without any IQ. And seriously, plan?? No friend, when someone talks like that he has no plan at all he just said first thing that came to his head which made it quite clear it's literally empty.

[@frankbolt2704]

Not going to lie, as a fellow Brit in America this did hit me pretty hard with both rage and homesickness

[@technopoptart]

also, how long has it been since you heard someone say "numpty" out loud? that was the oddest pang of nostalgia for me

[@almishti]

As an American who lived in Britain (Wales to be precise) and had dreams of getting permanent residency before the pandemic destroyed my chances, idk which country depresses me more. Now I'm just bopping from country to country unwilling to return to the shit show I came from and unable to reside in the one I thought of as a home. Which has also become a shit show. 😢😢😢

[@fizzyridertoo]

@@almishti I'm a Brit that has lived in America for 22 years now and I'm getting the frick out while I still can. Nowhere is perfect but the UK is at least civilised and safe. Final destination will probably be France.

[@almishti]

@@fizzyridertoo agreed, as bad as it is the UK is *still* better than the US. I liked living in a country where I never had to worry about anyone pulling a gun or randomly shooting at me. Which happened to me in America a number of times. I might still be able to find a way back to Wales, but it's unclear how.

[@almishti]

@@fizzyridertoo bon chance to you wherever you wind up.

[@celieboo]

The cuts to the UK's NHS is making the NHS function more like the US's healthcare system. That is not good.

[@danielortman2534]

You spelled Canada wrong.

[@spencers4121]

As planned I'm sure, with the idea of getting the public behind how badly it's doing. And the only thing that will save it is privatizing it. Same thing the right wants in the US, with Social Security and the mail.

[@fizzyridertoo]

@@steveminecraft6353 They are also the party that started the NHS in the first place.

[@daniel11111]

also spelt Irish healthcare.

[@InsiderBoy]

It’s not the cuts, it’s the illegal sand-people flooding in and taking advantage of all the welfare programs. Oh wells.

[@fionaw2103]

Please cover more issues in the UK!! As an American living in the UK, the UK needs journalism like this over here!! Its awful!!

[@pleasy13]

Try watching Channel 4 News.

[@Regnbuesolv]

We don't have free press in the UK so we would appreciate!!!

[@Regnbuesolv]

@slowedndreverb without giving away too much of my identity, I have worked for many newspapers where certain stories are shelved due to being deemed inappropriate by an inspector. Certain stories about the royal family, the BBC, political parties, civil service departments etc have to toe a certain line and someone checks it for you that you have. Also I wouldn't say our press is very free as our rating is about 77/100 which is great until you realise that is behind everyone else in the G20 by some distance at number 26 worldwide. For such an old democracy why don't we have true free press? For an experiment I also suggest starting up your own publication to see what I mean for yourself.

[@KKomalShashank]

Indian Elections, American Elections and now the UK Elections. What a year for John to be on a roll.

[@flaminmongrel6955]

not a good track record since he has already been proven wrong about one election out of one election that took place, 100% strike rate, at being wrong.

[@lnhp5592]

And german elections, which are looking even weireder.

[@anahill2366]

almost half the world has elections this year

[@שחרחיוט]

Dont forget the france election and the iran elections

[@KKomalShashank]

@@anahill2366 The combined populations of the USA, the UK and India IS half of the world.

[@ayamira8589]

I hope John Oliver never retires! One of the best shows out there, and I just love that bit of British-ness that he can't shake even if he wanted to. He's always on point, and manages to sprinkle even the most dire topics with a bit of fun. ❤

[@DavidStewart-v5e]

you have obviously never crossed any border

[@ashley-fk6dp]

well what do you mean britishness he can't shake he has a clear accent of course he is going to seem proper british to Americans

[@Fanacas]

To make it even more crazy, May her deal was better economically for the UK then Johnson his deal. But it would have made UK more connected to the EU. She was undermined by Johnson and hardline Torries, lost her position and then they came with their shit deal.

[@ut4berlin]

A diamond amongst gemstones. John Oliver's pieces are top notch but this one is a masterclass, in relevance, clarity, tragedy, comedy, morals, and urgency. You feel his lifeblood went into this one. GOAT.

[@michaeljohnson6905]

It's cause he has an amazing writing team as well. If you like him, you should check out Behind the Bastards

[@kaleeyed]

The shocked and confused silence from the audience, especially during the Fuckpig episode is priceless.

[@LightningBearer12]

I swear, that clip of Ed Davey doing an interview on the cup ride is something straight out of a Monty Python sketch.

[@USCsteveO]

Thank you Stage Managers, Film Editors, Writers, and John for a spectacular presentation of British politics that will someday be taught about in higher education using this 29-minute video.

[@TheDentedHelmet]

Ah, yes Western Normie, failing to mention the only left-wing Party in the UK, the Workers Party, and Propping up the Pro-Genocide Neoconservative Kier Starmer who just purged the Labour Party off of all its Left Wing Leaders and MPs including Jeremy Corbin, (with the help of Israel and the US)...as the only alternative for you shitlib Normies... ....Truly "a spectacular presentation of British Politics"....no way a dude sitting in Modi's India could've done a better job. The Rest of Humanity can't really expect anything else from you Westerners. 👏 *slow claps* 👏

[@TheDentedHelmet]

Ah, yes Western Normie, failing to mention the only left-wing Party in the UK, the Workers Party, and Propping up the Pro-Genocide Neoconservative Kier Starmer who just purged the Labour Party off of all its Left Wing Leaders and MPs including Jeremy Corbin, (with the help of Israel and the US ofcourse)...as the only alternative for you Normies... ...Is truly a Spectacular job for a "highly educational" video that surely isn't Deep State Propaganda. No way a random dude sitting in Modi's India could have given a better and more informative presentation that didn't border on cringe. 👏 *slow claps* 👏 Edit : And Thank the @KZbin Gods for Auto-Censoring comments. What depths would have the West fallen to if they hadn't implemented that feature to address "Misinformation"...

[@Desert-Father]

Its going to be the worst July 4th for the Tories since 1776.

[@ghostlytavern129]

CONGRATS BRITAIN YOU MADE CHANGE!!!! I’m American and what you did was really eye opening, I like to hate but I’m watching y’all during our own elections. Wish us luck I hope the same happens for us

[@wespeakforthetrees]

Gotta love John Oliver. America is lucky to have him. Like Jon Stewart, he is a truth teller, and a bullshit buster. Keep up the great work John!

[@iRDaBrit]

As a Brit who has lived in the US for the past 25 years, it brought me to tears seeing what my home country has become.

[@WoodyVuko]

@@renemichaelkamerica is a pile of crap. Sorry but look at the divided citizens, the full blown racism, city’s where you’re more or less allowed to steal if you cap it at 1k, the homeless,vets, wars and a million things more.

[@Hatim.13]

Lol, you don't feel the same the emergence of Christofascists (MAGA) in the US? The tories have destroyed the country with austerity politics, and the Republicans in the US want to do the same and even worse...They want to cut all sort of relief to the working people, defund education and healthcare departments and syphon all the money to the oligarch donors, giving them tax cuts and increasing deficit...That is not a bug, it's a feature, that is what they do, and that is their doctrine.

[@ApexOfThrottle]

I don't think that's unique anywhere Most people have a rosy vision of the past and it's the reason maga and much conservative politics works. Ignore the objective truths and complicated analysis of our system...."how do you feel about your world" is basically their arguments. The snowflake irony is great

[@davidyohalem629]

As an American who has lived in Denmark, the UK and Spain for the last 30 years, it brings me seeing what my former home has become.

[@BrewmasterN8-b6t]

Yeah, I'm sorry mate. It is so sad Ireland and France are fucked too It's like everything is happening on a global scale at the same time. Wow, the wef is scarey

[@vilijar9065]

As a Lithuanian living in Vilnius, I did not expect to the random tangent about our healthcare providers and the statue in the train station :D

[@diogeneslamp8004]

Go on then, what’s up with that statue?

[@kitsunefire1]

As an American, I am VERY curious about the statue, please do elaborate cx It just seems so randomly placed

[@vilijar9065]

@@diogeneslamp8004 As far as I know, it's just a piece of a modern art by Donatas Jankauskas from 2009, meant to parody or illustrate "sinful life" that we more easily recognize on TV rather in real life.

[@vilijar9065]

@@kitsunefire1 As far as I know, it's just a piece of a modern art by Donatas Jankauskas from 2009, meant to parody or illustrate "sinful life" that we more easily recognize on TV rather in real life. It travels, Peronas bar is not the only place it spends its time in.

[@tracychristenson177]

@@vilijar9065 I didn't know that statue existed before, but now, I think it's totally cool and unexpectedly deep!

[@idiatico]

I live in the Uk and couldn't watch this video till recently because its region locked.

[@laalaa99stl]

Once again, I wish HBO would upload the whole show. John calling out the hypocrisy of mandating the display of the ten commandments while calling for pride flags to be burned is worth highlighting.

[@a9302c]

They do, I can watch it

[@stellacollector]

They do upload the whole show in this channel. You can go and find it.

[@goplants]

@a9302c Not everywere, it's not up for me for example

[@peetjvv]

they upload the full show as well, but it's geo-locked so you'll need a vpn to watch it

[@edwardroche2480]

On KZbin I watched a segment like this podcast, then I do a little scrolling and usually find the whole show, and that also works for the Bill Maher show. You can't Define some people by the country, they are Universal citizens

[@mkl5448]

Jon Oliver and the whole staff, especially the writers, deserve worldwide recognition for this show. I can honestly say it's one of the most important things on any medium. Actual facts, actual news, and some solutions. Where else do you get that?

[@victorlewis3251]

Hear! Hear!

[@eongoosm]

Well... I can think of few. PBS News Hour. PBS Frontline. Tons of reporting on AP wire should be celebrated. Plus, most government agencies (EPA, NOAA, FDA, etc.) and think tanks (Brookings, Heritage, JSTOR, etc.) have channels as well. Not to mention LOCAL journalism and university based publishing in U.S., all of this is often quite poignantly fact based and yes, I understand the larger entities that are often involved with that news. But still, there's endless ways to find the answers. To be clear I'm not disagreeing with the value of this programming, but there's alot of hard-working people out there. Alot. And I guess I'm in agreement and also broadening the shout-out. On all levels international, national, or local in U.S. there's more than enough factual info available and I hope that even a small dose of curiosity bears that truth out. Ginning it all up for an HBO production is important but don't lose sight of the industry behind this show, as well as the chance to find said-same info out on your own.

[@makerofnoise]

19 Emmy Awards

[@semievilsquirrel]

It's hard to overstate how much of a treasure John Oliver is.

[@Mondfischli]

...to keep the universe balanced, where there is a twitlike Nigel Farage on one side there must be a John Oliver on the other 😂

[@flexygoo1295]

John Oliver is a snarky twat. Even when he has good takes, it's hard to not pull against him because of his knowitall attitude. He could do with a large dose of grace and humility.

[@pepegalego]

fake jewellry?

[@briansimpson4908]

You are 100% correct in your comment.

[@cosmicraysshotsintothelight]

@@pepegalego Gemology is not your forte.

[@vulturesmusic1617]

Thank you for this John. Our country is in tatters, hopefully we can start to make amends soon.

[@ilovelimpfries]

21:37 That man hand was shaking with fury. Lord knows how much he's holding back from socking Johnson right there and then. All I know is I'm not that strong.

[@tommyfox854]

I know for certain that I also don't have the strength to restrain myself like that father was; he was filled with the anger only a good father can feel and not clocking that jackass when, in all do reality, he had the right to do so, is some *SERIOUS* will power. I salute that for his unbelievable amount of will power *not* to punch him; that is a man with real strength. 07

[@zeta0590]

​@@tommyfox854 fr O7 to the man. I wish his child is better now.

[@zeta0590]

@AzadHind572 Does that make any difference? India has BJP solely due to hindu nationalism and USA's GOP is literally allowing teaching of biblical theories of origin of species instead of evolution theory in states like Florida (delete this bloody state already). Religion in UK might be intrinsic to the country but any strongman willing enough can hyperfocus the biggest minority anyway, be it caste, religion, race or whatever. It's the same reason as why america has the 2nd ammendment, India still has reservation based on minority status instead of income.

[@tommyfox854]

@@zeta0590 Oh I sincerely hope they are; I think I would actually cry if his child didn't get better. Which, believe me, I know is seriously weird to shed tears over someone I don't know; but considering just how royally the Tories fucked up The UK. . I think it *might* be justified, or something.

[@zeta0590]

@tommyfox854 It's fine to be emotional for random strangers. As someone who is not very emotive but still feels deep empathy, I am very jealous lol.

[@Chameleonradio]

I read an article on how the UK basically destroyed half of its local libraries for and it filled me with such rage. Truly a lack of appreciation the services they provide.

[@karlbassett8485]

Libraries are run and funded by local councils not the central government. And a lot of local councils are run by Labour, the LibDems, SNP etc rather than the Tories.

[@lucretialiciniagaiaerikaju3204]

@@karlbassett8485 This is _such_ a misunderstanding of local government. Libraries are funded by councils, but a lot of councils' funding comes from the central government, and has been slashed in budget after budget under the Tories, and councils make up the shortfall by cutting back or closing services like local libraries which they aren't legally required to provide. As for why the Tories don't run many councils, that's because Tory councillors kept getting _voted out because their party is wildly unpopular_ !

[@karlbassett8485]

@@lucretialiciniagaiaerikaju3204 The vast majority of funding for councils is council tax, plus business rates. For my council government funding is well under 10%. That is not "a lot" and councils can raise council tax if they think their residents want those services.

[@jamesnclloh1236]

Starting from the trembling hands all the way to the pouring rain in the end, my eyes are constantly filled with tears. John really cares about his own people.

[@AstroGremlinAmerican]

England needs more immigrants to care about.

[@yudithcaron8053]

Indeed. He didn't even comment about this hideous Salvation Army duffel-coat the minister was wearing while explaining that the second time he looked at porn, it was deliberate, but the first one was an accident.

[@karlbassett8485]

John is a typical English "intellectual" in that he hates his own country. George Orwell wrote in The Lion And The Unicorn back in the 1940s that no other country is hated by its own intelligentsia as in England.

[@Banter07]

As of today, this is available to watch in the UK

[@spammalina]

Finally! What a great episode.

[@jeffsmith3550]

It always amazes me how the British are on a whole different level of swearing than we are in the States. It's a gift to hear any British person curse.

[@vinny7114]

So true

[@chrismanuel9768]

Nah, we're just used to it. I've surprised a Brit with my swearing just the same. You really do get a culture shock when you hear different swears. I've gotten pretty inoculated to British swears so they're as bland to me as American swears.

[@tryggveafanga]

It’s not just a British thing. In most European countries “swear words” is a way to enhance the dialogue and using words like (or equivalent to) cunt in a conversation with friends and family is not weird or unusual. I think why Americans react to it is because of religion. Even non-believers in America is still brought up in a mindset, both in life and on tv, that swearing is bad and something you avoid, if not always then at least around your parents and family. Generally in Europe even families likes to make fun of and take the piss of each other.

[@At_the_Garden]

I think it is more than cursing, they are at a higher level when it comes to insults.

[@SoOthersMayLiveandStuff]

I took a screenshot of the list, I liked that part so much. Plan to incorporate them into my vocab… 😁

[@mimimoon9313]

Whenever anyone even mentions having socialized healthcare in America they point the finger at the UK and say how awful it's going for them as if it hasn't been completed gutted by their conservative party

[@Some_Average_Joe]

They have to make national healthcare bad to prove that national healthcare is bad

[@GotInterest]

exactly. They never point to any of the very many rather successful socialized healthcare systems that exist all over the world.

[@Idekwtph]

But that’s the point. It’s a health service paid for entirely by taxpayers, through the government. Said government can be elected and do what the Tories have done for 14 years. Not saying American health care is the answer, but neither is the way the NHS has been treated. Or you could have a system like the NHS, but cannot be subject to government interference. In which case how can you say it’s a representative democracy when there is never a choice by the people on how something run the by government should be operated, nor a choice really to use a different system. That’s largely why we point to the NHS and say “not that”. So I have a definitive answer on what to do? No, but I can see what doesn’t work

[@niello5944]

And ignore every other countries that successfully implement it.

[@niello5944]

@@Idekwtph It's works, but as with every system it depends on the implementation. It's not a matter of "this won't work, let's find a different way," it's "this can work, let's learn from what other countries have done and make a more robust design".

[@caspar9794]

It is so strange the Tories have been repeatedly voted into office by the British population, it is as if people are punishing themselves. And this is not unique to the UK, obviously. There's something there I don't understand at all. It makes me wonder about the idea of free will.

[@candacen7779]

It makes me wonder about the power of suggestion and easy manipulation.

[@MasterShake9000]

The best theory I’ve heard on this is regarding trump voters, and that it’s that the voters believe nobody will actually help them from either side, so the “best” they can do is vindictively drag down everyone else by voting for the candidates that most “trigger” or will actually hurt every other group not like them.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

"...it is as if people are punishing themselves..." Yeah, since Margaret Thatcher. The one thing that baffles me is first-worlder voting *against* their own interest.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

​@@candacen7779people aren't that stupid. The real truth is they don't care.

[@SunnyAquamarine2]

​@@MasterShake9000that is a good theory. That makes a lot of sense.

[@faenorsjewel5618]

It was an extinction event in Wales. The tories have 0 seats in Wales Woop woop

[@kona744]

John simply shows that he has a heart, for his country, for his people, and in particular the weakest ones. God bless him.

[@scott_lego_city]

UK elections, WHERE IS THE LETTUCE!?

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

#DimLizzie went back to her Yankee capitalist funders

[@MCAPrince]

I'm so sad they didn't show the lettuce. It was definitely one of the most iconic things to happen in the last 5 years of Tory rule

[@Flamebeard0815]

Lettuce not be too Hastur there...

[@Souledex]

@@AzadHind572 because it doesn't really affect anything and their entire system is built on respect for tradition and momentum. Much less than other countries like Germany that have explicitly Christian political parties.

[@MCAPrince]

@@AzadHind572 I agree that it ought to be changed. But it is not like the Church or Christianity has an enormous influence on politics. Especially when compared to the USA. Those seats are in the House of Lords, which has multiple other problems with how their members are selected too. The Prime Minister isn't a Christian either, he's Hindu. So on policy it is not fully Christian-dominated either. I would say the UK is a theocracy, a democracy, and a monarchy, but is bad at doing all of the things. Which I think is the case because at its heart, the UK is and has been for hundreds of years, an aristocracy.

[@tweetledd4709]

Farm girl here and hearing John lust after a tractor made my heart grow 3 sizes before breakfast! (One learns to be cautious when using a search containing the word plow.)

[@jamielondon6436]

Oh please, what could go wrong when googling "I need a machine to plow my garden real good"?!

[@tweetledd4709]

@@jamielondon6436 I say something like that almost weekly! That’s how I learned to clear my history😉

[@jamiefrontiera1671]

thanks, I was frustrated that my apparently innocent brain couldn't come up with how he searched tractor and got porn.

[@fpvx3922]

Haha, I got to know the word watching "the last kingdom" and found it hilarious :)

[@sarahshroom]

@@jamiefrontiera1671 corn was my first thought ! cornhub 😭

[@domhuckle]

I love that the election proved Ed Davey's tactics correct

[@RacingAtHome]

Yeah. He didn't lose. His party's strategy got the most seats they'd ever had.

[@davidfearn1052]

As a Lib Dem myself we had fun getting rid of lots of Tory MPs

[@RacingAtHome]

@@davidfearn1052 As somebody who voted for Ed Davey in his leadership campaign, I'm glad to see it going well for him. I align myself less with a party now but the more I hear of Ed Davey, the more I know that I and us eligible made the correct decision.

[@Battle_Beard]

As a machinist who makes surgical instruments and occasionally gets briefed on how they are used, hammering is much more common than you think. Surgery is frequently brutal.

[@brothajohn]

I worked for a surgical device company for a while. We had to watch training videos. This is absolutely true.

[@lindseeziegler90]

exactly

[@FischerNilsA]

Yeah, when I started out in medicine I got to sit in on a bunch of orthopedic chirurgy - synth hips and the like. I was stunned how bodily the process was. Doctors sweating, grunting, lifting and hammering, loud upbeat work music in the OR, tools that look like the ones I use in housing repairs, people lodly declaring and discussing their bathroom needs to coordinate scrub-outs ... Its not as dignified and intellectual as hospital TV shows makes you believe.

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

Just wondering, do you have any successful yet dull children who, when speaking on any topic at all, feel compelled to say 'my father was a toolmaker'?

[@ZenArt2010]

OMG I wish our election cycle was only 6 weeks in the US. I feel like we never get a break here!

[@sevenprovinces]

Marjorie Taylor-Green 2028!

[@elricofmelnibone425]

@@sevenprovincesFor Jail!

[@melody-13]

I know! Here, it lasts well over a year and part of the struggle is reminding people that an election is happening and the day that it’s happening

[@melody-13]

@@sevenprovincesnope.

[@icyknightmare4592]

@@elricofmelnibone425 Hopefully before 2028.

[@successfulmisfire4915]

Looks like John got what he wanted. Congratulations to both you brits and baguettes from America. Hopefully we can follow your example.

[@royalbandit8106]

I highly recommend Britmonkey's "Britain is a Dump" video essay for a more in-depth look at the damage the Conservatives/Brexit caused.

[@AzadHind572]

Why house of lords has reserved seats for Churches? Is this even a democracy where the office religion is Christianity? This clearly makes the country's constitution to do favoratism for one belief which is no way a reflection of democracy rather theocracy. And that is none other than one of the powerful state in the world UK who pretends as if it's a democracy while it's constitution clearly alienating atheists and other non Christians by doing the favoratism

[@artoriastheabysswalker]

Nice to see the original comment. A bot stole it and got four times the likes

[@TheEFRoommates]

I wonder if you'd consider it a compliment that a spam bot copied your post and got triple the likes.

[@ElectricGears]

Your comment was stolen by a spambot kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpykoqp-nqaFY8k&lc=UgyXfnSEj7pmPecinft4AaABAg

[@royalbandit8106]

Did it? Whatever. At least people got the recommendation 👍 Congrats on finding me then.

[@SneakyMuffin]

It's genuinely terrifying how far the UK has fallen in such a short time. As bad as things feel across the pond, things could absolutely be worse.

[@MicheleGardini]

That's the problem about a real idiocracy. It's not like in the movie, in real life when idiocy became the ruler, social constructs would be the first victims, and weak people the first to be swept away.

[@brick31]

This is what happens when you give conservatives power. Idk what people were expecting to happen, but it’s never a good thing when the pendulum swings to the right. Especially when it’s on purpose.

[@JonathanGray_UK]

Honestly, I hate being back in the UK after growing up in the US. UK is super strict on many things, it's just irritating. Driving for example, get caught speeding late at night on an empty motorway in the UK and the police will throw the book at you. In the US my experience was the opposite. Cops will write down a lower number/use a bit of common sense... I.e. not screw you for speeding when it's quiet and there's noone around

[@SolarPlantPrincess]

It's a reminder of what the end state of all conservative politics are in every country in which they are tried. Poor and starving people, imploding economy, but at least the rich get tax breaks.

[@duicic8541]

I remember the UK in the late 90s and early aughties… There was so much positivity and cheer (yes, in Britain!). Scotland held on for longer, but Brexit, that really broke shit. There is an amount of grim resignation that is almost Weimar Republic level.

[@erikiskandermeon9999]

"Actually no press here" says Johnson - to the press. - That's how Johnson works. - And the public is taking it...

[@Jezzebel1313]

Same as Trump. Lie after lie after lie. They know their voters believe everything.

[@johnjuiceshipper4963]

Conservatives can’t help but lie. It’s their default mode: if they talk, they lie.

[@andydyer6591]

That was one of the most revealing episodes about who Johnson is. He's not just a serial liar, he's a compulsive liar. He lies even when there's no advantage to lying, when the lie is completely implausible, when the lie is damaging to him. It's like he gets a thrill out of lying to people.

[@Michael-us5qx]

this is partly what comes from having this class system....the king, queen biz needs to go.. it needed to be removed from british life eons ago....the poor/uneducated have been so brainwashed to embrace the lives of those who do nothing but harm to them and the world by re-affirming nonsensical evil.. saudi rabia has monarchy, so do many other countries...if the british would come out of this torpor ..the rest of the world may be able to come out of theirs? bad example in a country that has no excuse really for living in medieval ages....

[@anarchy_79]

The sole reason he and others of his ilk can get away with this is total control of the media. Mass propaganda, it won't matter how many people see through the bullshit, there will always be enough who don't. Maybe you can't fool all the people all the time, but that's ok if you can fool most of the people every time.

[@BioDieselEstate]

Thank You, Mr. Oliver. We did it.

[@danvasii9884]

Could not leave the screen.. guy is unbelievable. Since I am Romanian/therefore European, I was saddened by both Brexit and the state of affairs of UK. There still are a lot of my conationals there...

[@makiss.2597]

I'm sure your saddened because you won't be able to collect welfare there like the 2million immigrants that arrived. "I am Romanian/therefore European"... debatable.

[@whatsup968]

My aunt was Romanian in the UK! She married my dad's brother. Unfortunately she passed from MS in 2017. But I just wanted to say hello to you My family is from the UK but we live in the US (we are dual citizens). We were also saddened (and a bit angry) about Brexit I hope that one day we/the UK would rejoin you all!

[@princessjello]

I feel so badly for that father in the hospital. The frustration in his voice brought me close to tears.

[@poppyhaze6613]

"Keep calm and carry on" was never published widely during WWII, the government found most Britons thought of the posters like it as patronizing propaganda, they knew the stakes. The remaining posters sat in backrooms before being rediscovered in the 2000s and becoming popular because now we love being patronized to.

[@mikecreed22]

I just realised, Liz Truss's delivery of "My mother took me on protests..." is exactly like Rik the People Poet from the Young Ones. Honestly, the eye movements are spot on.

[@gilbertodemelo]

Wishing a wave of good changes to the UK and its people.

[@MelodicQuest]

I love that John Oliver does a British accent despite having a British accent

[@sinocte]

I'm convinced that there are places in the UK where you can go 10km to the next village over and need a translator. Some British accents are freaking wild

[@rvcx]

"A British accent" is such an American perspective. He briefly dropped into...was it Scouse?

[@chequereturned]

He puts on a specific posh accent. There’s more than one. Same way Jon Stewart puts on a Noo Joisey accent and a Jewish American accent despite being a Jewish American from New Jersey. Or others put on over-the-top “darn tootin’” ‘Murrican accents despite being American.

[@SkateSka]

@@sinocte This. There are FAR too many ways to sound British.

[@Skullhawk13]

@@rvcxno you don’t understand. The world only has two accents. The one you use which is normal and ones you don’t use which are weird. This is a weird human quirk

[@soup-bowl]

There is a huge irony in the fact that this clip cannot be watched in the UK without a USA VPN.

[@marshalbaek5580]

@@soup-bowl oh wow....really? That's terrible...

[@x3janna95]

What? On KZbin??

[@nickademuss42]

cant stop the signal Mal....

[@MarcKloos]

Probably against electoral bias rules to broadcast that in the UK until after the election!

[@manekakapoor1612]

Yep, I have a VPN.

[@raeconteur]

I forgot the last time I heard something positive about the UK, and when I saw the title, I thought to myself 'Don't kick them when they're down John!', completely forgetting that Oliver is British himself.

[@Ech_The_Sentiant]

I cannot begin to fathom how Sunak and the tories keep one upping himself in terms of sheer mistakes at every turn. They are the human equivalent of a cartoon character constantly stepping on the same rake.

[@LobbeWOW]

And yet, they were allowed to occupy the driver's seat for 14 years - which is frankly insanity..

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

The Bart, The Bart

[@AzadHind572]

Why house of lords has reserved seats for Churches? Is this even a democracy where the office religion is Christianity? This clearly makes the country's constitution to do favoratism for one belief which is no way a reflection of democracy rather theocracy. And that is none other than UK

[@daveroche6522]

Just apply the American creed = "Ug very, very rich so that make Ug very, very smart". Assholes.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

They're Bored Aristocrats. They have no idea what they're doing and don't care because they simply assume they'll be in power forever.

[@TeacherTaj]

I love that surgeon's comedic timing. Impeccable!

[@chensexpress9668]

John O, undoubtedly, a voice of truth, justice in the 21st century.

[@zoranblackie5921]

i love the fact that Ed Davey's fun campaign has gone global...

[@BlackSun404]

That ending brought me to very emotional tears. Thank you and your entire team, so much.

[@scoobsmcgee9325]

Shoutout to the crew who had to figure out how to make the rain work without significant electrocution risk, and then clean up afterward.

[@rvcx]

My immediate question: was the water heated? John didn't seem to be shivering.

[@scoobsmcgee9325]

​@@rvcx Water probably wasn't heated, John's just British.

[@michaeljohn1978]

@@rvcx He might've started shivering when it stopped. We'll never know

[@lokijordan]

The spinning teacup ride is *exactly* where Biden and Trump should have done the debate!

[@adelelim3043]

They would have literally died

[@s0rtaananym]

@adelelim3043 all the more reason why the debate should've been in a spinning teacup.

[@cherifurr3935]

Only if Trump were throw. Out of the teacup!

[@tammyjantzen9004]

Biden's a fantastic president, family man, civil servant, patriot, etc.! Vote Blue 💙 in each & every election this year! House & Senate too!

[@HaraldManninga]

What exactly would have been the difference?

[@NicoFerrarini]

Seeing so much support and love here is amazing. Blessings to you all.

[@n3u3rotica]

O.... M.... F.... G.... I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be that much crazier than I am sometimes, but John is the fkn man! He is the perfect combination of brilliance, charm, and lunacy.