PoliticsJOE reacts to PMQs

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[@bilvis1985]

Like your channel very much. As a builder with a wasted economics degree, I disagree somewhat that if private housebuilders and developers build more homes, that will lead to better affordability. It just won't. Good quality new 'council' housing, including repurposing existing commercial spaces for this use, is the only way to address the problems we have. It's the nature of the housing, not the numbers that are the fundamental issue imo

[@Imperial_Squid]

Very informative point!

[@daftjunk2008]

Yeh. This 💯

[@susanwallis7249]

@Bilvis Completely agree

[@BatsAndBadgers]

fully agree! theres sooo many new builds going up in my area....but nobody can go buy a car to live in a suburb which is ruining an areas nature. we need better ideas for housing...not housing models from the literal 1950s

[@Adeleisha]

Excellent comment - proving your economics degree is definitely NOT wasted!

[@MegaPedro1975]

There has to be a better way to debate these issues. Instead of being in that stupid room, grown adults shouting and screaming. It’s embarrassing to say the least.

[@susanb4816]

That is the purpose of committee which is where the work is done Parliament is performative not functional Meant to engage the public on issues so they deliberately turn folks off so they will not engage Works for the most part when you look at the numbers of people not voting

[@josephturner7569]

New building. Every MP gets their own seat. Like Holyrood.

[@carolkelly5578]

Oli and Ava? 🤣

[@Zeerse_Chef]

@@josephturner7569 I've watched a couple of Scottish Parliament question times. They don't shout at each other like children but they seem to be an equal waste of time. Someone asks a question, it's not answered in any way. They both sit down again.

[@yddraigoch]

Did the boi Guido Fawkes have the right idea and was he ahead of his time...... 🤔 ?

[@1_5RCBiker]

PMQs has been an embarrasment for years. Moron, Mayday, Distrusst, Bozo and Richie rich have debased it to infant school insults as they have nothing else so I reply with the insults they deserve. In the meantime, the UK needs adults leading and answering. GE now!

[@GerryT.]

Hurling insults doesn't really suit Norman Wisdom Sunak with his short trousers(surely his wife should tell him all of his trousers are 3 inches too short). And if he thinks the public are daft enough to accept the pathetic interests register with no dates whatsoever as to when anything was registered,then he's wrong. Labour will want more info on this,and I'm sure the committee will want an answer to the same question....why is there no date as to when the supposed interest was made. Its not a register, ots just a piece of paper if there's no dates.

[@zigzagnemesist5074]

So you want Labour who are even worse and will send the country into a crime ridden emerging market. If you lefties got your way then my goodness we would be in trouble.

[@goblinwisdom]

It's always been like this, but we didnt have such obvious liars

[@businesscat380]

Rishi Sunak looks like Will from The Inbetweeners, talks like Will from The Inbetweeners, is about as likeable as Will from The Inbetweeners - and at the end of it all, acts like a badly written sit-com character

[@chrisleerichardson2097]

It's called prime minister questions because we'll never hear prime minister ANSWERS.

[@nickdunse]

The village I grew up in has doubled in size in the last 3 years because Oxfordshire decided to build most of their allocation there. I'm talking about a village that's now about 8k people! Not a single new school, shop, drs. It's mad. Nothing wrong with building new homes, but who is planning this stuff!? And whilst I'm at it (I live in London), councils love having 2 bed flats built (because they know that they are low impact on council services), so now there are empty flats all along the river. What we need is houses for families. Great content, thanks guys

[@Loundsify]

That's greedy councils for you. No foresight into anything. I'm currently renting a 2 bed flat that's a new build and the council approved 2 blocks of rental flats of 18, so 36 with 1 parking space each, it's a nightmare and the road outside has a 3hr limit for parking.

[@nickdunse]

@@Loundsify Yeh I feel you. I've been in my London flat for 11 years and I'm still not allowed a parking space! As a key contributor I can't believe I'm squeezed out. I over look a housing estate that has gardens and many many empty parking spaces. 🤪

[@runklestiltskin_2407]

Pmqs was disgusting today, such a waste of time

[@AM2K2]

It was brilliant, Starmer got REKT

[@WinchesterProds0]

​@@AM2K2 🙄

[@blazzz13]

@@AM2K2 Are you also benefiting from the corruption dearboy to have that warped view?

[@AM2K2]

@Ambidextrose Sir Softy is fuming 💀

[@petyrkowalski9887]

The format and rules need to change so that the PM is actually held to account to actually answer the questions posed. As it stands, he and other ministers dodge, obsfucate, lie then attack the record (long ago) of the long distant opposition.

[@tomdudley5314]

This is needed so desperately, no accountability or intent of action to resolve issues. It would help if the speaker had stats and display assistants to show the legimatcy of raised concerns etc.

[@ukmaxi]

To be honest, according to the data, there are a lot of empty homes. So, building new homes is not the only solution we should be aiming for. We need to consider improving the rental market as well and not just focus on home ownership.

[@matthewhewitson80]

I really enjoy these sit-down discussions, more please! (and thank you!)

[@PoliticsJOE]

There’ll be more on the podcast

[@Aranel_Alasse]

Tories 2020: NHS doctors and nurses are superheroes, let's clap for them while they work in bin bags because we gave our mates millions for PPE that doesn't work. Tories 2023: NHS doctors and nurses are supervillains willing to let innocent people die unless we give in to their demands. We will refuse to listen to their valid concerns about patient safety and refuse to negotiate with them so that we can continue to put patients at risk by underfunding and understaffing the NHS, but this way we can blame it all on the doctors and nurses (and labour of course!)

[@nidgemills1617]

Genuinely enjoy your videos & analysis. Keep holding all of them to account.

[@GeorgeI996]

I cannot wait for the live leadership debates to kick off next year, when Sunak will have to face the public, who have suffered the NHS carnage, had to visit foodbanks, have been victims of crime and are working 80 hours a week and still can’t live, with a presenter who will fact check all answers and call out the BS, unlike Speaker Hoyle. Bring on the GE.

[@freppers2666]

This spouting of the Hippocratic oath really gets my goat. Has anyone actually read it? If so, they’d know that it includes the promise not to charge for medical education, yet new doctors graduate with £100k in student debt! It also includes the commitment to adopt one’s lecturer as a father figure, the promise not to provide abortions, and prayers to ancient gods . Most medical schools in the UK haven’t required graduates to take this oath for years. It doesn’t contain the words “first, do no harm”; the only reference to harm is the promise not to actively harm a patient, linking to the next sentence about not poisoning them. Not does this oath contain a promise that we must continue to work for crap pay in a failing health service! It is utterly irrelevant in this industrial dispute. “I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract: To hold him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to be a partner in life with him, and to fulfill his needs when required; to look upon his offspring as equals to my own siblings, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or contract; and that by the set rules, lectures, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to students bound by this contract and having sworn this Oath to the law of medicine, but to no others. I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art. I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft. Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves. Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private. So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.” www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html

[@freppers2666]

Oh yes and it promises never to perform surgery on patients. I forgot that bit 😏

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

How do all those foreign doctors the nhs keep foisting on us understand that nonsense, they’re utterly hopeless most of the time

[@mrdaveythebaby]

I think 'Sir Softie' is Sunak's way of saying to the far right ' I hear you' because he's just repeating the rumours and insults from their websites.

[@Zero_Ninety]

His home secretary repeats EDL talking point so why shouldn't he have a go as well?

[@heathersaxton5914]

Hi folks. Same with Faslane in Scotland, No one wanted it on their doorstep, so we got it. This UK Government!!! I've never witnessed such Pantomime in my 66yrs. Saddened their breaking our NHS, basically 'Your getting Nothing, so get back to work, or don't.' NHS finished unless we......? NM✌️❤️👍

[@tbe3124]

The SNP always brings it on probably the best opposition there ✊

[@zigzagnemesist5074]

They are literally the most corrupt and naive party in British politics, they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, they want to turn Scotland into a communist state.

[@izzytrue8630]

We the PEOPLE are angry...will nobody speak out for us!!!

[@Charmander943]

I hope you continue to inform the younger generation of the horrendous nature of this government! Everyone needs to vote in the next election to get these people out...

[@AntoRoberts]

I hope that's enough, Starmer's policies don't exactly indicate any notable change. Less potholes and nuisance calls, get in lads

[@applejuice5272]

Love Ava's hair! 😍

[@susanb4816]

Snp multiple arrests and searches zero charges looks like persecution to me

[@eightiesmusic1984]

The media hysteria over the SNP will in the long run fuel the cause of independence. The law of unintended consequences will apply.

[@jod7633]

Spot on. Where are the forensic tents outside mones House or the numerous others that have defrauded the taxpayers?

[@roryhand6650]

​@@jod7633considering plenty of folk left the SNP over the financial issues 2 years ago, there's clearly something fishy going on with Sturgeon et al. But you won't hear that from this channel.

[@jod7633]

@roryhand6650 thing is their accounts have been published and audited by the electoral commission or whoever and found to be in order, this investigations been going on for a couple years now but no evidence found and no arrests made. It smacks of smear campaign to me. Happy to change my opinion if evidence is ever found tho.

[@susanb4816]

@@Jimmy_Cream lol the rich run everything, not political parties. Follow the money.

[@cestrian5294]

You should get Wes Streeting on to say he's not here to pluck figures out of the air and not answer the questions as he did with Laura Kunsberg.

[@RichieBedfellows]

What Wes Streeting correctly said was he was sick of being asked how he, as a Labour spokesperson, would fix the tory's problems. He was absolutely correct in saying that when we bear in mind the Constitutional role of the opposition is to hold the government to account, it isn't to offer the government ideas on a way out of a specific situation that the opposition wouldn't have created in the first place.

[@raymondharper]

The ones putting in all the planning applications are large companies of house builders who have the knowledge and the resources to finance their building plots. However, they are building three or more bedroom houses that make them the most profit. Not flats and one-bedroomed homes that are so badly needed. Leasehold laws are a joke, there is less demand to own flats. We need to give the councils money, just as was done in the 1950s, to build cheap affordable housing to rent or buy

[@bluecarpettiles]

Nice to see the House of Commons laughing and jeering as the rest of the country struggles to deal with their godawful decisions. They are so out of touch with real people it’s embarrassing. Just want to tell them to grow up, take some responsibility and do their job or quit so someone else more capable can.

[@Dazzerthegooner666]

It’s the government with the majority with the power to change things but they are also responsible for this suffering… roll on the GE

[@steveaga4683]

There MUST be a way to force answers to the questions during these sessions! Hoyle always pipes up that constituents want the questions to be addressed, but no-one has to power to force the participants to actually ANSWER the questions. WE MUST BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING!

[@TheTwinn]

I've always thought that each and every MP should be under oath and pain of perjury while inside parliament. The fact we allow for any type of word mixing inside our government bodies is asinine.

[@wjfletcher]

Love these kind of videos, it's always interesting to hear your guys thoughts about the goings-on in politics. However, I think NIMBYISM is often used as a very sweeping statement, but not necessarily understood from the perspective of people living in these areas. I've found that it's often born out of frustrations with poor planning, the stupidity of local councils and greedy councils/developers. The village I'm from was battling against planning permission for 60-100 houses to be built. Of those 60-100 houses only 4-5 were pegged as being 'affordable housing' the rest were £300,000+. It's currently a village of about 300 people, a fair few of which are actually 2nd home owning Londoners, so it would almost double in size if such a site went ahead. It's not in an area with many jobs, resources, or much infrastructure. Public transport is non-existent, schools and doctors are stretched pretty thin, local supermarket is a 15 minute drive away and is a Co-Op slightly bigger than a sainsbury's local. It just fundamentally makes no sense to build there when the local eco-system can barely cope with the number of people living there already. Add to that, the fact that the local market towns have already doubled in size with the amount houses being built, a large number of which are just sat empty. I believe the parish council also went back to the developers and said that there was a case to be made for in-fill along the boundary of the site and existing houses (about 10 houses with 3-4 being 'affordable') and suddenly the developers were no longer very interested. Locally at least it also tends to be a cross-party issue, though these areas do tend to be pretty blue in the overall political spectrum.

[@joetrent4753]

I don't watch PMQs because of Rishi's bare faced lies and Keir's inability to ask him about real pressing issues. These reaction videos are always worth watching though. Nice to cut through all the bull.

[@Dazzerthegooner666]

Keir does ask pressing issues but the tories just either lie or deflect

[@Dazzerthegooner666]

You never hear the government commit to look into any of the criticisms

[@Dazzerthegooner666]

Rishi “but labour this and labour that” stop talking about labour and actually what you fucking government is going to do about the issues

[@HerpilyDerp86]

"Fuck me" brave comment to say when I face 98.4% of getting away with that 😂😂

[@rhysbutler3036]

Liking the format

[@TheRaptorXX]

All power to the podcast!! Good piece by the way.

[@roystonellis6909]

Ian Blackford was also very good.

[@jakehyams8659]

Scottish boar

[@MaisieSqueak]

Bringing Keir down to Sunak's level, with regard to childish insults, is blatant opportunism. Just how is the statement of "sticking plaster politics" in ANY way as cheap, and childish, as "Sir Softie"? Kier may not be your perfect Labour leader but if you KEEP taking pot shots at him we'll struggle all the more to get voted in come the GE. So grow up and fight for our corner.

[@Ali-ey9sz]

The slightly awkward way you open these videos always makes me smile. Then the tragic state of my country makes me sad again lol

[@italifacts1461]

_The Hippocratic Oath, is optional. Also, the phrase "do no harm" does not exist in the original oath._

[@michaelkennedy2790]

You can instantly call out the misinformation of Sunak, why TF can't Starmer!!!????🙄🤦‍♂️

[@scottlewis2665]

SNP arrested and released without charge with no case to answer. PoliticsJOE should reiterate this point

[@anguswilson3130]

The biggest damage to the SNP imo was the leadership election. The fact that Kate Forbes almost got in with some of her views which are stuck in the 1800s makes me question the party at large. The recent 600k scandal is bad but honestly it's pocket change in the political world to put into context that's equivalent to a few years expenses for a lot of individual Westminster MPs (not just Tories btw) which comes straight from the taxpayer. Let's not forget to mention the billions wasted on dodgy PPE contracts too. That being said at the next GE while I'm more more indifferent to SNP after the leadership election I'll still be voting SNP mainly because Stephen is my local constituency MP and I think he does a good job.

[@JoshLikesFuzz]

Setting my thoughts on Starmer to one side; for me there is something very ill about one of the most privileged and wealthiest men in the country calling someone whose mother was a nurse and dad a tool maker ‘sir softy’. Why on earth would those of us from ordinary backgrounds want to enter politics just to be condescended to by some rich twat?

[@peterwales4509]

I mean staffing issues may not be the junior doctors problem but the BMA does hold some responsibility here. In 2008 they voted to cap student numbers and stop new medical schools. Whilst I agree we do need to pay doctors more, and it is good that since COVID they have argued against a cap, it would also help to have trained more of them over the last 15 years especially as it takes so long to get people through the system.

[@anomalousresult]

the bma is there to protect the profession, you can't have too many doctors else it drives the salary down. this is why they are against more student spaces and they were cut last year.

[@christinefiedor3518]

Agree but we also should not so reliant on immigration and this perpetual poaching that’s been going on for decades.

[@teaj4422]

Increasing medical school places will not increase the number of future consultants or GPs unless you also increase the number of postgraduate training opportunities, which are largely remaining stagnant and creating a huge bottleneck that the conservatives refuse to address.

[@robbieshand6139]

Stephen Flynn is quite good on PMQs and his approach today and at other times has been quite astute. Which makes his god-awful Question Time appearance even more baffling.

[@JRattheranch]

Lauding it up, indeed, with a smirking grin on his face! Despicable...

[@doreensoutar5130]

Enjoying the work you are doing very much. I like these discussions too. It is unusually pleasant to find Stephen Flynn talked of in positive terms...he is as sharp as a tack and looks to have a stellar career as a master of debate (careful). I find myself having to listen to him closely to make sure I understand the complex questions, and waiting for the cutting punchline 😅

[@beefybreaker]

Oli , shining a light 🙌

[@goblinwisdom]

People don't want more homes WITHOUT the necessary INFRASTRUCTURE that the government will not fund.

[@davidty2006]

Gotta have atleast a corner shop nearby and a bus stop minimum. Idealy more.

[@goblinwisdom]

@@davidty2006 I think we have to start out demanding the maximum infrastructure and then accordingly accept the better level that's negotiated down to. This government will take our minimum and offer even less.

[@comradeozzbug]

I’ve always wanted an honest review of PMQ’s! 👏

[@BosskV2.0]

Lol not having the vocab to insult each other yet reminds me of the following argument I once heard in one of my primary school classes (as a teacher)... Child one: "your breath stinks of poo" Child two: "no its doesn't because I don't even poo"

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

were you teaching a young Starmer and Sunak?

[@BosskV2.0]

@@Matthew-bu7fg ...god forbid

[@01karmacop]

Flin to head the SNP .watching from Scotland peace and love to all

[@Tonino_O]

Since English is not my first language I actually had to look NIMBYism since it hasn't appeared in my radar before but it really opened my eyes and gave a different insight to past conversations with British people about this topic (housing), people doesn't believe in raising the floor but instead, they want to keep the ceiling very low where it's right now for fear of loosing health care, spaces, etc. The answer is not building less, the answer is growing, more houses, more schools, more jobs, more everything.. just lift the ceiling so everyone can grow.. anyway.. just my 2 cents on the topic

[@paulwebster4499]

I absolutely agree with the toddler's commet. Food inflation is the highest ever, why isn't Starmer going for the jugular, rather than talking about what he did as chief of the CPS

[@orraman5427]

Arrested or detained for questioning? There is a difference, and the absence of any charges against either Murrell or Beattie would tend to indicate that they were detained for questioning and not arrested as reported in the press.

[@col.hertford9855]

You have to arrest someone to detain them for questioning. It also means they are read their rights.

[@tomthumb2361]

The doctors have a responsibility to their patients, but the government has no responsibility to engage with workers who have seen their real-terms incomes fall, make sure waiting lists are reduced etc.

[@happinesstan]

intereting choice of words. Mortgages are "soaring" but rents are only "rising".

[@sgbh8874]

PMQs ought to be on live at a time when all people can get to see it.

[@col.hertford9855]

Main issue here is they keep building homes and not upgrade infrastructure. They need to do both.

[@Yawgrimas]

As someone who's been fighting local developers (for 8 years now) who keep insisting they build on a field that floods, without the support of the local water company who say they can't guarantee anything, it's not NIMBYism to demand that planning actual consider DECENT building sites for local housing rather than the local farmer who's willing to sell the developer land on the cheap because it's trash. There were like 10 other sites in the area that were more suitable but because this farmer had "friends" in the right places etc this was the only plot they wanted basically, over all the objections. Thankfully the committe did note the concerns we raised about the field being unsuitable for housing (it floods and we documented this over several years and I have a background in Earth Science so took apart their "experts" report on how the land was "fine"), and the developer refuses to put any flood mitigation plans into writing on their plans (due to costs I imagine) so the planning commitee keeps throwing it out because they aren't doing it. This was also backed up by the local Flooding agency with the county council who were concerned about the area. Remember if they don't put anything in writing the developer can do whatever they want still, they can lie through their teeth in the planning meeting, as long as it's not in writing they have no commitment to keep to their word, which is what the planning pinned them on. I'm sure they'll try again in a few years, and we'll be there to remind planning of the reasons the field is still not suitable for housing. Many will say we're just being NIMBY's but we want houses in the village, just the selected site is unsuitable for development, it's barely able to produce any crops (which is why the farmer had it fallow for many years but since our complaints has begun cropping it to prove its a working field - we applied for a village green grant). They are now building on one of the other more suitable sites in the village at least. Still it's ridiculous that local planning doesn't have a better review process for sites other than just "trusting" the land owner in many cases. There's no planned development any more, which is what is needed here, we need citiies supported by planned Satellite villages, with public transport links being available, shops, schools, and other facilities being built. We need someone who actually has ideas for these kinds of plans. How to create new hubs for communities. Not just expect them to magically appear.

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

Ballot paper came through today. Conservative, Labour or Green. No prizes for guessing which way I went. Quite frankly, had the alternative been Liberal Democrat - and I can't stand them - I'd have probably voted them as the alternative over Conservative and Labour. We need to stop thinking that there's a binary choice between Labour and Conservative.

[@avalanche816]

Good for you, the Green party are the only party who recognise the very real climate emergency.

[@davidty2006]

The system says otherwise. All we need is the tories to loose.

[@decimal1815]

We need to build 90,000 homes for social rent. The government know this, because they commissioned the report. Over 1 million households are waiting for social homes. Last year, 29,000 social homes were sold or demolished, and less than 7,000 were built. Since 1991, there has been an average annual net loss of 24,000 social homes because of 'right to buy' policy introduced by the Conservative governement.

[@LAD907]

The only stand out positive thing the Tories have achieved for society with a forward looking outlook is same sex marriage and that was way back in 2014

[@Coelacanth1]

And I bet the current crowd rue the day their party did that

[@beardlesshobo]

yeah enjoying this type of open ended breakdown :) thanks i wasnt sure about flyn before , but he seems to be exactly what id hoped - as you said , SOMEONE needs to actually point out / ask Questions that are hard to answer. seems parliment is happy to talk the small stuff - but noone actually asks the hard Questions. so many items have been struck from public record or kinda hidden away.

[@Anigmama]

Living in London the horizon is a sea of cranes. People object to green spaces disappearing , when there are so many empty properties that most people can’t afford. Time for compulsory purchase before building on wild spaces, playing fields and parks.

[@philspencelayh5464]

You mention housing and Nimyism. Where I live in the North East we have a lot of ex industrial land being turned over for housing 4 big estates. I have observed a few things, we live in a three bed semi and the cheapest of the new builds cost about twice what our house is worth so no help to people at the bottom of the "ladder". There have been no new schools, shops or medical facilities (our doctors practice is being knocked down to build new houses, we are promised relocation) and probably not connected is the bus service is less frequent or perhaps it is connected I would guess people who can afford expensive houses aren't the target users for buses. I suspect the net result is that the builders get richer and few homeless people will get a nice new house.

[@JamesBrown-zu8iv]

Stephen Flynn on course 6:28 🐣

[@jamesbond7107]

Before I forget when will Gbnews invite Politics Joe on to the obnoxious Dan Wootton show that I want to see.

[@leeedsonetwo]

Starmer has a huge arsenal of opportunities to beat up the Tories but fails to do so. Please remember that the Tories do not want to build as keeping house inflation is in their supporters interests. Sadly Sunak is a much better speaker.

[@joetrent4753]

Sunak just claims things that are blatantly not true and calls Starmer names. He's just as bad as the blonde oaf.

[@toriesdontgettazered7464]

Taken in for questioning released without charge after a near 2 year investigation ..

[@TheBurdenOfHope]

Loads of Politics Joe content today! It’s like The Young Turks but with pints of lager and swearing.

[@andressanchezcasado4433]

The King is naked

[@Paperbaby-v5q]

Ava, I have a nice bag of haribos here... Let's get married! I'll put the sweetest ring on your finger 🤞

[@lcdc27]

Shame too many still don’t realise… Whole Tory Parties a joke! You’re in charge and what a bang up job’s being done!!

[@tommaxwell7759]

Bad leaders care about who is right, good leaders care about what is right

[@HaHa-yl1kj]

You made a promise Ava, which you've not fulfilled! I'll forgive you though and tres bien Ava, tres bien.

[@markcassidy2202]

My interpretation is of the 1% rape cases that are prosecuted, 60% of these end in conviction. So its 0.006% of reported rapes that end in conviction? Is that correct?

[@billybeck]

We should be building shards everywhere! 22nd century, environmentally conscious, affordable housing matching the needs of the towns and cities that need them. We're decades upon decades behind due to capitalism.

[@evelbsstudio]

The construction materials prices have shot up since brexit, then again covid etc, we get most of our wood and materials from abroad and extra time stuck in customs at ferry terminals, import tax, fuel prices have all pushed up prices. It's OK building houses but no one can afford them especially young first time buyers.

[@Gumballrocks]

Easy way to build new homes and please the NIMBYers. There are nearly 3000 golf courses in the UK. In a study recently carried out in 2021 it stated that there was 5.2 million people who play golf. That out of a 67.1 million population (as of 2022 so might be higher now). A simple solution is take half of those golf course and use the land that they occupy to build houses, on shore wind turbine/solar farms, whatever is left over leave to be rewilded.

[@oxfordfumble]

I normally enjoy your channel and the reactions from your team, but in this case, I’d like to encourage you to do better next time… There are plenty of people (some of them in the comments here) who will rely on the short clips of PMQ you chose to show, rather than watch the full thing themselves. They will have missed Starmer’s come back to Rishi Sunak, where starmer completely obliterated Sunak by highlighting Teresa May’s own positive assessment of his performance as dpp. You know about this, because you show the exchange in another video! Keir Starmer spent his questions hammering the government on the deterioration of living conditions in Britain under the Tories (they broke the nhs, broke education, broke social care, broke the justice system), notably highlighting the very issues (lower prosecution rate under the Tories and increased insecurity) that Oli himself was characterising as abhorrent a couple of videos ago. Yet Oli describes him as one of two toddlers fighting over a pacifier? Dude, it’s ok that Starmer isn’t your ideal candidate (he isn’t mine either), but you’re doing everybody a disservice by putting him in the same bag as Sunak. Have some perspective.

[@headhunter_4209]

No PMQs It’s more like watching two parents arguing what’s best for their child, oblivious to the fact that the child walked into the road and is about to be hit by on coming traffic

[@greggbisgrove7499]

What happened to “helping the police with there inquiries “ to now been arrested,The two people have been released with no charge .

[@nuggetsandclide]

Seems like there's a perfect spot in between the tubelights to put the video overlay while you react to it. Would stop Ollie being covered up during the reaction, and would balance the shot better.

[@Coops5361]

When Thatcher came in 1979 she gave 25% pay rise for public sector & 45% rise for police.

[@davidty2006]

Police one sounds like a way for her to get them to co operate.

[@stuarthardy8202]

Firstly we need to bring back the conversation to why is there a housing crisis? I'm 56 years old never own a home grew up in Southampton in a council house my parents brought in 1981 for 9k they sold it for 164k 6 years later after their divorce My question is two fold what was the population of the UK in 1981 & now? Because I'm confused I seen more housing built in this time then I can easily count in my area but at a pure estimate I say we are looking at 200k extra housing within an 8 mile radius. Today I rate a 1 bed flat for 600 pcm. To afford this I work two jobs working 60 hours a week. I say what the .... is happening? Bare in mind my parents had excess to a council at age 23 mother & 26 father

[@Bdoc76]

It's always been the case but right back to Cameron's "Call me Dave" and hugging hoodies you could tell we were in for a special type of screwing.

[@footballfumb5495]

Your point about - how do the country gain more housing, if it is not in nimby out of town areas : Thatcher sold off the Council stock. Since then population has increased massively. The Councils` are weaker due to Central Government. The housebuilders` prefer to build on greener sites - it is cheaper hence more profit. The easy answer is many building underused now such as offices need to be converted into housing. Secondly, the population has to reduce.

[@troytigwell]

I don't trust MPs, probably never will, but how can anyone expect the country to grow and be governed effectively when they insist on insulting each other most of the time? On the housing point, if I was to pledge a commitment at work and didn't fulfil it, I doubt I would a have a job to return to. Yet, time and time again, MPs across both major parties consistently let the public down. There has to be a better way

[@dandominare]

I know it's a serious issue and I feel bad for laughing, but "your mum can't convict rapes" might be the best line I've heard so far this year.

[@ukulelelab4219]

PMQs is just theatrics. No real debate allowed here

[@FullMetalLuffy]

Oli perfectly describing how i feel watching (or not as i cant stand this era of PMQs) the two toddlers calling each other poo faces and saying whose dad can beat up whose dad. the Clown show of clowns every week.

[@andrewharpin6749]

You don't solve the manufactured housing crisis building more houses, you solve it by reintroducing rent control and regulating holiday let's. We may need some more houses in certain areas, of course, but most of this is due to buy to let is so lucrative.

[@facelessvaper]

I don't do podcast platforms, I am too old & cba, any chance of the "pubcast" being shown on youtube in full?

[@peterscott6818]

They do the insults because that’s what’s expected of them. Sound bites which show a point scored. Complaining about it won’t change it. We have to demand change of this partisan nonsense.

[@indricotherium4802]

PMQs - lie as much as you want. The only rule - don't call each other liars. There are no proper rules of exchange so it's a completely undisciplined charade.

[@qlnbd]

Obviously you build them on the moon - the mare unicornus has some lovely sun lit uplands.

[@michaelscarface]

On the rape conviction manipulation, why on earth is Starmer not absolutely nailing that? He just constantly fails to put the ball in the back of the net.

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

Local planning objections can always be overruled. Have a word with Jenrick. Don't forget to slip him a bung.

[@hg82met]

How can you 'react' to a zoo with the Tory backbenches braying like animals simply to drown Starmer out, whilst Rishi delivered a new nickname for Starmer without answering a single question. If you conducted yourself like this in any other job - let alone a profession - you'd be out of a job. What an embarrassing spectacle. British politics, like every other aspect of this country, is a basket case.

[@paulmcgrath3248]

Bojo finished the tory party

[@Ineedanewbrainwashagent1.]

Politicians taking us for fools, have you only just realised ? 😂

[@tobyalan8874]

Haven't the Conservative Party had 2 MP's investigated for alleged rape?

[@sweetrensarmientorenee]

it is not hypcorisy... its is the government is bankrupt since 2008... ie...for local councils funders is foreign search for golden oakes flooring ltd.. see if ur local council is listed there too..

[@sfshinz]

This episode got past me for months, but leads me to observe: can’t Politics Joe find more comfortable chairs? Or do the uncomfortable chairs lead to sharper banter?

[@discontentedcitizan6046]

They said the barge would be located on /docked at Portland in Dorset. The site of a prison and disused quarry which is still in use as a young offenders prison for over 18s . So why he was complaining when there is a prison there already