The Conservatives are Liberals: David Starkey Talks Tories

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[@seanm8030]

One can call the tories whatever one chooses. Liberal is one word, used by idiots who do banking and listen to David Starkey. Imbecile is another, used by everyone else.

[@jeremysmith8035]

interestingly i suspect that David Starkey is a fascist

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I just love listening to Dr. Starkey talk about English history, I always learn so much.

[@oldoddjobs]

The conservative party: always in office, never in power

[@jeremysmith8035]

I suspect that the real problem is that David Starkey is a fascist

[@susannamarker2582]

Read some history.

[@70AD-user45]

The Tories were in office and in power in the 1980's. The Tories today are in office, but have absolutely no idea what to do with the power that goes with. We've ended up with a woke liberal party.

[@josephstevano5905]

This is one of Dr. Starkey's BEST videos. Well worth watching several times.

[@williammunny4679]

Love David. These Tories are truly awful.

[@Ste2023]

Crooks Traitors

[@_BhagavadGita]

When have they ever been good for decent hardworking families?

[@Ste2023]

@@_BhagavadGita Never , even in 80s they wud rather , close down a factory or sell off something for there Rent boyfriends

[@hanson666999]

A wonderful talk David. Thank you.

[@Angl0sax0nknight]

Always a pleasure to watch…

[@derekmills1080]

Always a pleasure to listen to your talks, David.

[@RussiaIsARiddle778]

I just want to say once again, how appreciative I am that you are creating this library of history and its lessons for us today.

[@TC-cd5fh]

Another great talk - from one of the best YT channels available.

[@grandmasterplank]

What would we all do without David Starkey? Thank the heavens that the screechy Left didn't manage to cancel him and that he's now found a much wider and more appreciative audience. Long may he continue to educate us all. A legend in our time.

[@wendyslittleprogram3984]

Labour are woke. Tories are diet woke.

[@grannyannie2948]

In Australia I say the only thing conservatives conserve is bad Labor policies.

[@lokenontherange]

They're as woke. Their conference was horrendous

[@twogermanys]

Clear them all out

[@PaulChapman1bz]

Woka wola politics

[@realitymatters8720]

Woke means aware, how is this a bad thing ? And you seem most likely anti woke, meaning "not aware". That makes your opinions utterly irrellevant ! If you find that your opinions seems relevant in any way you must define yourself as woke.

[@GH-lq9fg]

The country voted massively for a Conservative government and only got a Blairite permissive government that hit the wokies with kid gloves.

[@SlowhandGreg]

if it goes any further to the right it may as well change its name to the BNP

[@wigster600]

@@SlowhandGreg One can dream.

[@chuggermagic]

David cameron was the spiritual successor to Blair/Brown and the conservative party has continued in that vein since

[@honestjohn6418]

Indeed. As far as I am concerned, this essentially means that Britain is not a democracy. It is a progressive one party state and only flipping the chessboard will remove wokery, mass immigration and the racial caste system.

[@twogermanys]

I didn't - I remember the eminent obituarist of Britain Peter Hitchens decrying a vote for Boris as a vote for Blair and I agreed wholeheartedly with that view at the time. I don't wish to be rude but I think Dr Starkey is naive to think that the conservative party can be reclaimed by conservatives. Mr Hitchens may be too black-pilled for even this doomer but he is correct that the party needs to implode so that something new can rise up in the space the party occupies. To put it simply, except for jobs for the boys (and girls) with the school ties, the party exists to gatekeep any socially conservative movement in the country. Notice when the party has public relations trouble they typically resort to juicy cuts of 'red meat' to serve on the public.

[@gblezard2286]

A right understanding of the past is the key to understanding the present .

[@kitty6720]

Dr. Starkey, what an interesting, illuminating conversation. As someone from the outside of the UK, I find your lectures very inspiring and thought-provoking. Thank you for posting this.

[@jeremysmith8035]

you don't think that Starkey might actually be a fascist?

[@kitty6720]

@@jeremysmith8035 Why would you call him a fascist? What exactly in his words has made you think so? Genuinely interested.

[@jeremysmith8035]

@@kitty6720 the only thing more right wing than the most right wing government in uk history is a fascist

[@acm1137]

Dr Starkey is so right. Her Majesty passing away in Scotland was a veritable coup de grâce - and the Scottish Nationalists were spitting feathers.

[@evankant277]

The contemporary issue of the day in Western societies is the deepening division in material, intellectual and ideological terms between working people and the elites. As a matter of fact the feeling of alienation among people is more than manifest in politics. The question is what form this reality will take or how it will be rationalized in structured terms. In any case, unbounded Liberalism, especially since 1989-1991 proved to be a catastrophe for Western societies in economic, moral and terms of internal cohesion.

[@revbenf6870]

Can't help contrasting how much the Crown invested in supporting and upholding the Union, whilst Truss and Co seem to arrogantly be trying to undermine those efforts. Loved the line "It's very easy to destroy things, very very difficult to create them", one of my greatest fears is that many, admittedly flawed, institutions will be torn down, to be replaced with....what? I very very often think of Joni Mitchell, "you don't know what you've got til it's gone".

[@leoroverman4541]

Are suggesting that She and Nikki are allies?😆

[@bobsmith3291]

Just get rid of the crown and truss and keep the Union

[@OldSonyMan]

I'm also minded to say that the 'spread' of 20mph zones in the UK, comes out of the fact that it is something relatively easy to achieve (compared to increasing the safety of any given highway) and totally ignores any negative impacts of its implementation ! (Something has to be done !)

[@mrgoodintent]

@@OldSonyMan Slow down, I'm all for it......Save Human lives!!!

[@kitty6720]

"It's very easy destroy things, very very difficult to create them" is what the late Queen Elizabeth II had said in her Christmas speech. I don't know if these are her own or borrowed words, but I think they are hers, and they've never been more appropriate as they are now.

[@Greylin91]

Fantastic talk by David Stakey. I would like to see what he says when he gets through that entire bottle of red. I get the feeling he's still holding something back!

[@lenwilkinson672]

David Starkey,a very brilliant man. I could listen to him all day.more people should find the time to listento him.they would increase their knowledge.

[@willhovell9019]

At least Dr Starkey is honest in terms of his perspective and his biased lenses. He's in a sense correct about the home nations identities and the Scottish and English love of ritual. Rather than his characterisation of the Tories as " Liberal ', there is no need for an ultra right party , as there is so much room for such opinions firmly within the Tory fold. Entertaining nevertheless,as his omission of corrupt foreign kleptocrats and media owners and their malignant influence on our politics. Highly enjoyable.

[@davidturnage3467]

Love him, or hate him.......what a national treasure starkey is! As an American, I somewhat jealous.... .can't think of a living parallel that we have. He never lets us forget.....but for history, there is no identity.

[@patriciapatricia9040]

Victor Davis Hanson

[@HHM706]

Absolutely bang on, there is very little difference between the parties. It just comes down to who’s better at running a whelk stall.

[@leoroverman4541]

I have to say that whilst I have learned so much from his talks he says so much that I find instictively right. I am a conservative in the Disraeli sense. I want that back.

[@leoroverman4541]

@@leightonwatkins9486 the point reverts to that of the Americans, with no taxation without representation, but as Starkey points out few Kings of England actually had that right. But that taxation was either for war or defence. Even in America the issue is about taxation for social purposes. The Only reason Brown gave "independence" to the BoE was that he couldn't be blamed for mismanagement or interest rate hikes. So, what does Truss do, eases the tax burden! There is sense in that to the extent that where the banks demand more money for their "services" and thus drive-up prices that are already going up-she gives some money back. She can't have the economy growing if the financial sector is starving it. Now we've been here before in the 70's and I remember it.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

56:07 The policy of importing future pensioners to pay for current pensioners is as insane as it sounds. The import of Temporary Guest Workers with cast iron contracts for a limited maximum lifetime years working in the UK and clearly stating that they will never be able to settle in the UK or become UK citizens, never qualify for a UK state pension; may be of assistance.

[@colly7963]

What a typical arrogant first world attitude. From the rest of us - we're not your slaves.

[@MartinWillett]

The problem is that there will always be a Joanna Lumley type who will say we are going back on the deal we clearly didn't make.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

@@MartinWillett You are not wrong. I spent a few years with Gurkha's. The most over estimated soldiers in the British Army. Their Terms of Service were excellent allowing them to retire to their village as one of the most respected and richest men there, was not designed for them to retire to the UK, They are the most expensive soldiers in the British Army even before the change to "Standard Terms of Service", they did very well with benefits that we do not get. The ability to serve past 12 years as a private soldier and retire as a private soldier with an immediate pension at 15 years. They retained this plus medical and dental care for their families at the Medical Centre (which UK soldiers do not get). Extra leave and far higher established strength units. They were shocked to start paying Charge in Lieu of Council Tax while serving in Brunei. They didn't get much more money be they became a hell of a lot more expensive.

[@ingridlinbohm7682]

The aim of immigration is the destruction of the peoples who lived in the British isles before 1945. This has been made much easier by the British refusing to populate the islands that they inherited from their forefathers over the centuries. The love of contraception and abortion has destroyed this society.

[@tasanijanus7092]

Color me flabbergasted that I have heard of John Fortescue... And an American at that.

[@raymondwoods2304]

They are not Conservatives, they're Tories. The only true Conservatives support the English Constitution and these British politicians don't.

[@Westyrulz]

Look how Heath treated Powell when he tried to warn the people.

[@str.77]

They are conservatives and thus they conserve Blair's "Cool Britannia". What's needed are some selective reactionaries.

[@Westyrulz]

@@str.77 There needs to be a rise of reactionaries throughout the West.We might be seeing something happening with the new leader of Italy but only time will tell.

[@str.77]

@@Westyrulz Yeah, but they should be selective reactionaries. Not every change was bad (though I hardly can recall any good ones) and reversing some is not that urgent.

[@Westyrulz]

@@str.77 It goes without saying that not everything will have to be jettisoned but in order for the West to survive much will have to go.

[@BuffaloSoldier1965.]

As much as I love David Starkey, he always comes unstuck when he fails to recall that he too was so freaked out over covid that he advocated vaccine mandates. He's not wrong to say it was insanity but it is disingenuous for him to leave out that he was part of the insanity.

[@shakenator92]

Starkey was/is pro-mandatory vaccination, admitted when he was on Triggernometry a few months ago. Very disappointing from someone who is so intelligent and reasonable.

[@steviebeats9963]

He spoke of courage yet took the jab like a bedwetter.

[@docwhat8370]

In fairness, although it was a position I didn't agree with him on, I think his view on the vaccine being a public health argument is two fold. Firstly he had an intensely personal first hand experience of getting polio as a child and so baulks at, what he considers, the stupidity of those who don't vaccinate their children or themselves against it to the point he backs state involvement. Secondly the state itself, to varying degrees of popularity, has involved itself in public health in an official capacity since the mid nineteenth century and so there's rather a long history of precedence. As I said above, I personally didn't agree on this point but I don't think his argument was based out of fear for his own safety.

[@edwardmannion9403]

He wanted unvaccinated people to be punished. He was absolute in his condemnation of refuseniks. I like him but even he gets it wrong. My body my choice.

[@BuffaloSoldier1965.]

@@docwhat8370 And, for all of us, the decision we made would have been similarly "personal" but he felt his personal decision should be mandated for everyone else.

[@MasimbaMusodza]

I could listen to David Starkey all day!

[@paulhevan322]

His books are pretty good also.

[@palbrvn3737]

I've long thought Baldwin is one of the most underestimated or even forgotten PMs. Very interesting to hear Dr. Starkey's views on this too.

[@jeremysmith8035]

I have long suspected that the real problem is that David Starkey is a fascist

[@shlaag234]

Fascinating as always

[@therealspike5205]

its just been continuity Blaire ever since Blaire left......

[@kg8489]

John Major had pretty much the same ideas. Blair just turned the dial up to 11.

[@lucianopavarotti2843]

It's Starkey's judgements on topical subjects that make me doubt his reliability as a historian. I enjoy his historical lectures but there's always a voice saying "am I listening to a crank?"

[@lydiamalone1859]

The key takeaway is this: does he make you think. I never listen to people in terms of telling me what to think. I often think he has to twist himself into pretzel knots to ignore the cognitive dissonance of Monarchy. I find that even more incredible for an atheist.

[@The_New_IKB]

Long live Starkey!!!

[@jimm7181]

Basically we need to stand on our own two feet. And this why the establishment hate the working class, because we always will survive and thrive if we allowed to keep what we earn. We are the conservative personified

[@jeremysmith8035]

I suspect that David Starkey is actually a fascist

[@jeremysmith8035]

I suspect that the real problem is that David Starkey is a fascist

[@debbielangton8371]

Since the beginning of time❤

[@michaelarchangel1163]

I wonder if Mr. Starkey will vote for Reform UK at the next General Election. The continual back and forth from Tory to Labour is completely and depressingly tiresome.

[@Elizabeth-jd3mn]

Listen to William Clouson of the SDP too. More socially responsible than Labour and more conservative than the Tories.

[@michaelarchangel1163]

@@Elizabeth-jd3mn Yes, I heard his interview on Talk Radio and he does come across as a very sensible man. However, I do worry about fractured voting, particularly between the SDP, Reform and Reclaim. If only they'd all form one coherent party and draw straws as to its leadership. Sadly, ego always plays a part, so I guess that's a total non starter.

[@barefootonasandybeach638]

Thank you Doctor .. good chat.

[@Robert-Downey-Syndrome]

God save the King (He/Him)

[@trevorhubbert8488]

Aka the monarch with a prostate.

[@threethrushes]

Fantastic lecture which provokes thought. I so wish Dr. Starkey had elaborated on his arguments against universal human rights.

[@philipscott2025]

Well said david.

[@michaelbedford8017]

This all seems eminently past its sell by date 2 weeks after its release.

[@EnigmaStar153]

Monarchy - brilliant programme 💕 History Really enjoying this channel Always liked David Starkey 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Pensivata]

David hit the nail on the head when he said "medieval" - there is so much medievalism n our society today - from the Salem witch hunts of çøvid hysteria to the doomsday cult of the climatistas.. it's all straight out of the middle ages.

[@str.77]

Actually witch hunts are not a medieval phenomenon at all, least of all Salem. Nor was there much of a doomsday cult, at least in a way that affected the lives of those that would not agree.

[@stephenrose1343]

So much truth and understanding packed into this, the witticisms, including the observation about RC and Woke transubstanciation are priceless.

[@daviddestefanis2989]

It was the only ridiculous thing I've come across so far. The Catholic Church was around well before England. David Starkey is a "high church atheist". Well, my Church is going to endure. And whatever conservatism David Starkey is talking about is not. There are more practicing Catholics in the UK than Anglicans now. For example.

[@kevinnolan1339]

The Tories aren't Liberals, they're toast. PR badly needed.

[@debbielangton8371]

Our children are precious❤

[@christopherevans6428]

‘She started rather well’ Crikey this hasn’t aged well…

[@merlin_the_great]

The day of the mini-budget, the bank of england announced the UK could go into a recession. Later that day, the mini-budget was presented. The recession announcement is what scared investors and the market, not the mini-budget. But the media planted the responsibility on Truss, and hence she took the blame. To be honest, she was kinda weak as a leader. But her removal was a coup by globalists

[@katherinecollins4685]

This was brilliant

[@tonyscott2164]

Excellent!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I knew of Fortescue, and I’m just an American.

[@lesterbeedell9725]

Charles is a member of the W E F

[@jasonyoung2121]

Because of this, I am politically homeless.

[@quentinnewark2745]

There are millions of us.

[@ratpark5008]

Free.

[@maccagrabme]

Consider Reform for the time being, we need to get change.

[@christopherdew2355]

Informative and entertaining as usual. What was the wine on the table?(!)

[@Tramseskumbanan]

David, Sweden is a nation as well as a kingdom and still Sweden never suffered under any “extreme” nationalist movement in the early 20th century.

[@benjaminaustin9913]

Ummmmm, have you read about 19th century Swedish history? I think you'll find that they did!

[@Tramseskumbanan]

@@benjaminaustin9913 What are you referring to?

[@lokenontherange]

@@Tramseskumbanan Sweden was pretty close to joining Germany at certain points.

[@Tramseskumbanan]

@@lokenontherange Public opinion was strongly oposed joining Germanys efforts in both wars, so that was never a reality.

[@paulhevan322]

Neutral but shipping plenty of iron ore to the Nazis. Sorry but the royal navy had to step in. A few battleships were allowed to lay up in your fjords prior to sinking our merchant ships/convoys which Britain depended on.

[@lydiamalone1859]

I can't believe one can use the words conservative and King Charles in tandem with a straight face. Charles' speech wasn't that different than the typical politician to try and convince people to simply ignore the last 30 years of behavior and pretend it will be erased and he is different now. But I guess the truth is there isn't much you can do about it anyway. He has that magic blood anointed by God.

[@JohnSmith-iu3ui]

8:35 New leader Liz Truss 25:00-28:00 - flaws of universalism 34:50 - dulling progressivism 36:00 40:00 - patriotic working class 44:00 sense of meaning 57:00 failures of Johnson and Truss

[@str.77]

"There is no nation" - Disraeli would beg to differ. Of course, back then it was England from Katherine's Point to Cape Wrath.

[@MartinWillett]

Disraeli had his own nation.

[@debbielangton8371]

My dogs called Winston😂

[@davidmorrison2739]

I don't much like the idea of proportional representation, but our system of preferential voting in Australia (for the Lower House) gives a better idea of what people want than the first-past-the-post system that Britain has. H G Wells thought that preferential system is a good one, but Churchill didn't. H G called the system he was advocating proportional representation, but I think he meant the preferential system. Our Senate, the Upper House in the Federal Parliament, is elected on a complicated proportional representation system on a State basis.

[@lokenontherange]

Australia is just as rigged as Britain is.

[@taniaearle4457]

You are forced to vote else fined, so how is that a people's choice of representation? Is Daniel Andrews what Victorians want? I'm with Churchill I guess.

[@debbielangton8371]

Exactly❤🇬🇧🌹

[@seanpidduck]

I have nothing but contempt for the Tory party. I am a passionate Conservative. How have we won every election since 08 and yet our country is even more Blarite than before? Because of Blue Labour traitors like Gove, May, Sunak etc. Weak people without principle

[@lokenontherange]

Foreigners do that.

[@lokenontherange]

@@leightonwatkins9486 The majority owner of the digital currencies isn't random idiots. It's banks.

[@frankdsouza2425]

Failure to agree with you does not necessarily make them either "weak' or "without principle". Sumjarnah?

[@susannamarker2582]

I loved watching the communists Blair, Brown and Starmer shouting 'God save the King' through gritted teeth. It was a joy to behold.

[@chrisjohnston5411]

I didn't need him to tell me this

[@Telcontar1962]

What no parliamentary political party in the UK, or political parties generally almost anywhere else in the world for that matter, is are a legal democratic organisation. All parliamentary political parties in the UK are totally anti democratic, not just that but staunchly anti British to boot. The country is in the mess its it in, not because the group occupying seat in parliament are incompetent, stupid or mistaken. Such inferences might have been forgivable up to the early 1980's but since John Mahor was APPOINTED PM there is a clearly identifiable deliberate policy by the Westminster regime to crush the British people by any means neccesary including bankrupting that nation and supporting its invasion and the overthrow of their people. There is no democratic consent fir any of this. There never was but its now undeniable the wholly treasonous path this illegitimate and illegal body is now on. I would not vote for any political party, but would support with my life a political grouping of independent MPs that had as their primary goal the overthrow of politucal parties, the execution of these British contingent in Parlianent (for the crime of treason) and the expelling of every single post 1947 immigrant and their descendants from the country. It is quite incredible we have let something so criminal, so destructive of this country go on firvso long without once ever demonstrating any consent for any of it. We lost WW2, we are the product of exactly the same methodology of lies, propaganda and indoctrination the Nazis and Communists were accused of. What has happened to us as a nation is NO DIFFERENT WHATSOEVER

[@Liamneedham29]

That point on Human Rights that he ends on, I believe I have a valid alternative. In school, I was taught about the universal declaration, and nowhere was it mentioned to me that the Soviets were a part of its construction, and nowhere was any alternative offered. These things were held to just be true. Here is my alternative which may be palatable and saleable to a conservative audience and by extension Britain as a whole : Every person is universally human, and ought to be treated as if they are human. That is to say that in terms of general treatment, there is an equality tied to humanity, and no one is to be excluded from humanity if they are human. BUT there are no universal human rights, all are a transaction, paying rights to one while denying another, and all stewarded by state authority and justifying the furthering of such overbearing control. Correctly, there are universal human freedoms, that is in any interaction or exchange, the freedom of both parties to think, believe, speak, survive, thrive, own and win is to be held paramount, because those things are to be held universally for all humans. Feel free to amend and comment if you feel this can be condensed or improved.

[@jedg4746]

The argument is between positive Freedom - which is the false rights of entitlement. And negative Freedom - which the true rights NOT to be imposed on (enslaved) by arbitrary power.

[@ibelieve1468]

Simply fantastic common sense answers. Sadly common sense is not that common at this point in time!

[@j4cksincl4ir]

One party state: Communism Multi-party state: Liberalism (social and fiscal) Starkey's medieval slur: Classical liberalism Answer: Flee the wrath to come

[@Glenn_Ratcliffe]

The liberals r conservatives here in Australia.

[@FiveLiver]

So everything is upside down there.😃

[@workhorse7134]

And they also aren't very conservative and have a lot in common with the British Tories. Pretty much the same in all western countries, soft governments who will go where they think the votes are.

[@user-ol1ib1ss2b]

What do we do?

[@anglodoomer5995]

56:10 underestimating Liz Truss LMAO

[@gblezard2286]

“Man has the right to life” which stripped f all its vain glory and empty promise basically says ‘ No matter what evil I do no evil will come’.

[@bjorsam6979]

I watched this with increasing astonishment, simply by virtue of being Swedish. My country broke almost all of the conservative rules, tenets and creeds he talks about; possibly apart from also lacking a proper separation of powers. By all accounts, Sweden should have failed miserably. From 1936 to 1976 the socialists kept governing. It's a miracle I'm even alive.

[@jez5192]

The Conservatives are no longer Tory.

[@MrCornelius99]

Where was this talk hosted?

[@roygardiner2229]

In the context of the Queen's death, I loved the discussion about the fallacy of a British "nation". What a pity that the new PM and her acolytes have lowered my mood so much. I do not agree with some aspects of David Starkey's talk. Without the struggle and sacrifices of generations of working class people the working class would have been abused and ill-served to this day. David Starkey's description of his "cancellation" was very strong, very admirable. Treachery is always disgusting. As for the insanity of the response to Covid, David is absolutely correct. The insanity continues in certain countries.

[@crownmiura8877]

Yes, but for all the Tory/Monetarist/Trickle down shenanigens of the last two generations, the unions and especially the working classes have also played their part in undoing the hard work and sacrifice of previous working class generations. Among the labour movement, the Co-op is the only one I feel comfortable identifying with now, because they're the only part of the movement who go forward with their founding principles in mind.

[@docwhat8370]

The fallacy of Britishness too. To have your primary identity be that of a dead Empire is madness. Britain and Britishness is finished and I'm not revelling in that fact, just trying to engage with the reality.

[@crownmiura8877]

@@docwhat8370 The fixed fallacy of Britishness for sure. But there'll still be "Britishness" going forward for some time yet in an evolving form. Give me a black kid who finds pride in where they were born and raised over an ungrateful white kid who doesn't, any day of the week.

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Excellent Dr Starkey!

[@debbielangton8371]

Ive lived here in this house 37yrs😂❤

[@susannamarker2582]

Well done Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for dying in Scotland. The look on the face of Nicola Sturgeon was a joy to behold.

[@meredithisme3752]

If I was in UK I would avoid main parties that will force change

[@elizabethdarley8646]

Our great SSPX priests were telling us all this about COVID in 2021.

[@catmonarchist8920]

The problem of first past the post is that a the two parties never get cycled out. Labour or the conservatives can run rampant if their opposition is weak and divided. We've had governments on 35% of the vote which is hard for legitimacy . Every party apart from the Tories want it changed so it will be eventually. We need to have an alternative or compromise to not have disaster. There are middle grounds between first past the post and proportional representation. Ukraine is actually an example where you have two votes with half the seats by first past the post and the other half by party lists. It forces 2 broad factions but allows break away parties to put pressure on in different ways than reducing all of human political thought into two options (Italy is an example of how not to do this because they don't allow panachage).

[@Reven338]

Yes.

[@NZAnimeManga]

They haven't been right wing since 1990.

[@ComMaxil]

as always Dr Starkey talks brilliantly and eloquently. However i wonder when this was recorded as the line about Liz Truss having made a pretty good start has already aged so badly it feels like it was made years ago

[@debbielangton8371]

School were our space station is now ❤

[@debbielangton8371]

And a criminal shoplifter was sent to Australia😂

[@jartotable]

They're weffers but I love the direction the title is going.

[@debbielangton8371]

Lady of the lamp❤

[@str.77]

"Ukraine is only the icing on the cake" - very well said.

[@seanfaherty]

I do believe Mr Starkey’s dictionary and my own have a different definition of Liberalism. He can state subjective things as facts all day long but he should buy the same dictionary as the rest of us. I do love to hear his ideas though, even when I disagree with him . For instance, Mr Starkey’s ideas of the nobility of English property fails to mention that all of that property was first gained by violence. Using his logic, violence to gain property would be valid and then because I stole it fair and square I should have my property protected. I disagree but it does explain that short sighted taxation policies of the Conservative party. Also Proportional Representation with a ranked ballot tends to lead to centrist governments. So if Mr Starkey’s Conservative Party doesn’t want to move to the centre they would be obliterated under that system but it’s their choice.

[@davidmorris3981]

I'm pretty left-wing on some/most issues, but I like the monarchy.

[@Pommy1957]

You're channeling your inner peasant.

[@aaronkrasner6830]

Yoram Hazony is the Israeli author referenced

[@josephgilligan9698]

I'm in Scotland. Wish I were English.

[@debbielangton8371]

I went back to my ancestry 18th century Florentina Bradder ❤😂

[@frankdsouza2425]

That remark reveals more about which end of the Far Right our Davey hails from.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

You think?😃😃😃😃😃

[@str.77]

The idea of a separation of powers is not French at all. Montesquieu took it from the English constitution of the time, one that was however very short-lived.

[@ryanthompson7623]

over a century ago, spencer talked about low liberalism (the sensible old liberalism) was devolving into the new toryism. Now tories are the new tories.

[@debbielangton8371]

Howtswich comes to mind😢😢