The End Of Indifference | William Clouston documentary

Join SDP leader William Clouston in exploring how and why Britain's economic order is failing us all, in his documentary covering the findings of the SDP's new green paper - The End Of Indifference.
Read The End Of Indifference in full on our website: sdp.org.uk/the-end-of-indiffe...

[@pwcfuster]

Excellent diagnosis from Mr Clouston, and a clear, viable set of actions to revive our own manufacturing, support families, ease crippling debt, and face the future with a multi-skilled workforce, and pride in our production.

[@crawford1083]

You see I disagree! There is nothing I have heard from Mr Clouston on concrete practical ways to reindustrialise our country! Could not argue with any of your post or his analysis but how to generate more industry?

[@crawford1083]

@@EJS1972 I wish I knew! Short of government-funded businesses and anti-free-trade tariffs on imports, I can't see how to do this! Obviously we need the skills and Mr Clouston's ideas for retraining and reskilling are vital, but we are heading towards Steptoe's National Investment Bank proposal at the last election which I think would be disastrous. But I can't see any other way other than government funding of start-ups and smaller businesses that would need in turn to be protected from larger takeovers from overseas sompanies or Private Equity firms like Carlyle and Blackstone.

[@browncow7113]

@@crawford1083 You should take as a model the policies pursued by the fast-industrialising Asian Tigers in the 90's, or in fact the early Germany or United States when they grew their industrial might. Basically, what you say in your first sentence: you have some idea of which sectors will constitute the big industries of tomorrow, and you "pick winners" - you help to grow successful businesses and protect them from competition for a period. Alongside a more general integrated industrial plan that serves these sectors. You'll reply that protectionism will invite retaliation from trading partners, but whilst I am no expert in these matters, I believe there are plenty of ways to indirectly help certain sectors (and even particular "champions") that wouldn't fall foul of free-trading rules. Basically, just comprehensive industrial policy, that embraces everything from R&D expenditure to the exchange rate.

[@apt155]

Finally some commons sense, in a world were everyone seems to be embracing the 'so-called' benefits of free trade.

[@StylusDrop]

I think the SDP is set to have a major growth spurt. It is just what this country needs at the moment.

[@tomlarpins7889]

i am a university student and everything that he has just said makes sense and is something I was querying aswell.

[@mogznwaz]

I'm 50 and I hope there are more young people like you to carry the torch for common sense

[@kayedal-haddad9294]

Very informative and thought-provoking!

[@williamwimbourne856]

Really nice video thank you for posting.

[@MrGraemeb2022]

I'm with you on this Bill, and Mark Conway is right. We need to train and encourage our own young people to do the jobs necessary in this country. Not rely on bringing in people from elsewhere. How can it be right that we have vacancies available, and young people without the required skills to fill those vacancies? It is morally questionable that we bring valuable medical staff from third world countries( that desperately need them ) to fill gaps in our NHS that past governments have been too negligent or short sighted to fill.

[@brianterry8317]

We need an alternative to the big 3 A pro-brexit party of the centre

[@mogznwaz]

Any party that is pro Brexit, anti mass immigration and stands up against Islamisation will be tagged as far right

[@freedomwatch3991]

I’m not a social democrat, but I consider William to be a breadth of fresh air.

[@anothersteven4664]

While we can debate policies, the S D P seems the opposition party the country needs so desperately.

[@darthbader6506]

This is excellent, I shall be sharing it!

[@jameshazelwood9433]

They need to start confronting the liberals on these thing instead of going after the easy low hanging fruit of the identity politics students

[@seanmoran6510]

How do you do that with a public that embraces liberalism

[@jameshazelwood9433]

@@seanmoran6510 I disagree that the public embrace liberalism as when liberalism was thrown under the bus with the lock downs there was very little backlash. The problem is the political elite is completely sown up with liberal fanatics and the SDP big guns are far to cowardly to debate the likes of say Daniel Hannan much easier to give a few 18 year old trots a kicking over some ridiculous Cultural movement

[@pov_music]

@@seanmoran6510 Yeah but they don't embrace what you would call 'wokery' at all. It's all manufactured by Twitter on one hand and morons like Piers Morgan in the MSM.

[@flip-phone_becky4655]

Excellent. That was what I was going to instinctively put here. When I looked, I saw many people saying the exact same word.

[@barrydown1938]

What's happening now is not working.Need invested in our own industries.We over reliant on foreign imports,and as impact on the climate.Many shopping centre show the impact of deindustrialisation,empty shops everywhere.Put pressure on the communities and families.This services based industries are short lived.

[@jumblestiltskin1365]

You and your ideas are severely under rated William. I met you at the new culture forum event in Birmingham in 2023 recently. I was impressed with your "seriousness".

[@tomlarpins7889]

i want to see this party thrive, f the dominant two parties

[@seanmoran6510]

I completely agree with you William But what about the Unions we can’t have the likes of Len McCluskey demanding beer and sandwiches again. These people seem to be wedded to ideas that have never worked. I’m all for unions, just not militant unions with there own agenda The key word there is Militant

[@brianterry8317]

Perhaps the militancy of Trade Unions is due to the only route of frustration many can use against the corruption,incompetence,hypocrisy and lack of democracy that can be seen within Britain Many say the Brexit vote was a backlash against the establishment. Its all fine and well condemning human discontent; but the real value and usefulness is in the specifics of why discontent is widespread.

[@elkpaz560]

Universities are also indebted to foreign (mostly Chinese) students.

[@seanmoran6510]

They have become indoctrination centres

[@crowbar9566]

I'm voting SDP

[@annette2653]

How to ward off those who want no industry because of *carbon*? I know we could make a better job of looking after the environment than China but there's so much hysteria. Very difficult with so much censorship.

[@ryanfinnerty6239]

Superb video.

[@MrRooibos123]

Very sound reasoning, I wish the Labour Party would refocus its aims on these issues rather than waste time on 'culture war' nonsense.

[@johnreid9959]

Good stuff

[@adamslowikowski3085]

Well done William!!! A brilliant assessment of the vital importance of rational productive economics for the good of the majority of the people, not the present day neo liberal free market model that favours parasitic, speculative bankers!!! The SDP should link up with the Larouche movement in America and the twin sister organisation, the Schiller Institute!!! They have exactly the same policies for industrial and productive economic development, that is the American economic model of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, inspired by German philosophical genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz!!! The Western world would be a different place if America and Britain pursued such a progressive Franklin Roosevelt humanistic approach!!! 🙂🌞🌻💛🙏

[@hwdeburgh5149]

This is what Britain needs! A politician who knows what's wrong and how to right it, who will put his country before personal career or party prejudice.

[@crawford1083]

Fine words and excellent sentiments. But no indication of how this country would re-industrialise short of government subsidies and protectionism! It is all well and good to say that we need to retrain our people but without businesses for them to go into, and industries that are thriving, it is all pie-in-the-sky! Any tariffs and protectionism would be met by other countries in kind!

[@ColdWaterEconomics]

I think the thing you've got to get your head around is that despite everyone's commitment to 'free trade', the major world economies are engaged in truly massive and escalating trade 'lawfare' right now. You don't see it because it's not done through tariffs, it's done through ''Non-Tariff Barriers' (NTBs). At end-September this year, the US, the EU, China and Japan between had in place 14,470 NTBs, and they add approximately 60 new trade barriers every month. Now, the British have. . . 75 at the moment, which means effectively that when people advocate for a 'free trade model' for Britain, they are advocating the commercial equivalent of unilateral disarmament, with the victims being principally our manufacturers. It's sad, because the theory of 'free trade' is one of the most beautiful in economics. But that's not what we've got - we've in the late stages of the 'tragedy of the commons' as far as trade is concerned. We either wise up or go under.

[@mogznwaz]

For certain industries surely a degree of protectionism is warranted??

[@crawford1083]

@@mogznwaz Problem is, protectionism cuts both ways. "Protectionism" usually involves tariffs on imports, and if we impose tariffs on some imported products, other countries may impose tariffs on our exports. Or if protectionism involves government subsidies to certain businesses and industries, they can become too reliant on subsidies. And also other countries would know which of our industries are receiving subsidies and may see that as unfair trading and impose restrictions or tariffs! Its all a bit "ifs" and "buts" but my point was that the SDP as much as I admire them don''t have a lot of flesh on the bones.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Every time I listen to a spokesperson for this party, I come away thinking that they have the right ideas and should be in government. Sadly that will never happen.

[@thomascullimore9693]

Fantastic appraisal of Britain, atlast a politician who talks some great sense.

[@deeannh17]

Makes sense.

[@seanmoran6510]

Needs more views Unfortunately It will take a crisis of the magnitude of 1914 for a shift to happen

[@seanmoran6510]

@@dannyblanchflower1882 Well I’m wary of That UKIP and Farage but I think I get your point.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Liberal Democracy is completely captured by international finance and the forces of open borders Globalisation. Liberal Democracy is just rule by the International Merchant class.

[@rogerthomson9461]

Wise words - many thanks for this. A few thoughts though- if we go back to manufacturing will we also go back to militant trade unions? Will we really be able to compete in price with the developing world? Are there enough young people who want factory careers? Keep up the good work . I would really like to see the back of the tories and Labour, maybe a new duality of Reform uk and SDP.

[@janicegarwood1753]

Hubby and I have been saying this for years!!

[@FionaIngrid]

It seems to me that the average person doesn't know what social democracy is .. or the difference between that and a democratic socialist (I had to find a youtube video to explain). I was really surprised when I did an online test to see this party came up as the one that most represented my views - I didn't even know it existed and assumed it was something like communism. I'm quite relieved as I thought that where I stand on immigration had meant that I had shifted from centre left to conservative. The most important issues I care about are animal rights and I would normally want to vote green or for the Animal Welfare party but I like the way that Denmark is solving immigration issues.

[@proudtobegrumpy4969]

If ever there was a time for a Party Political Broadcast it's now, surely?. Why hasn't it been done?. The New Declaration - at face value at least - looks pretty coherent and an interesting alternative to the political status quo. I'm neither a member or supporter (having watched a lot of related material on here, I have a nagging suspicion that there may be something of a right-wing Trojan horse lurking within). But that said, at a time when many British people feel completely disenfranchised from politics, I think this offering might well find itself appealing to a lot of people.

[@navydonald]

"Marinated in progressive wokery" !

[@swarming1092]

Some valid points made, but I won't vote for anyone who unironically uses the word "wokery"

[@leesteven9514]

It wasn't just the Governments to blame for this - the Union's need to take some responsibility, their demands and constant strike threats made a lot of industry unfeasible in this country. Thats why most production left to countries where the unions did not have a choke hold on the companies and workers.

[@Glenfunnyman]

Common sense arguments and obvious conclusions to anyone who is sane.I worked for British Rail when it was privatised and the guts were ripped out of it. SERVICE, SERVICE, SERVICE, BECAME PROFIT,PROFIT,PROFIT.I hope the SDP can grow to a size that gives them a real chair at the Governmental table. The UK needs them, in my humble opinion.

[@kayedal-haddad9294]

How does the SDP differ from the Social Democrats within the Labour Party?

[@juneslater63]

We need to bring manufacturing home, train apprentices and get back to basics instead of these elitist trying to be important in the world stage.

[@davidp4456]

Common sense pragmatic policies that will serve the whole country instead of the corrupt interests of a few. Why I haven’t I heard of SDP and Mr. Clouston? I have only done so today by checking who’s standing in my area. Most people won’t have heard of you and won’t vote for you. You need to do more to raise awareness.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

So much more attractive than Farage's wreckers.

[@vatsmith8759]

Sorry, but it's no good talking sense, if you want to succeed as a politician you're going to have to learn how to talk bollocks like the rest of them.

[@seanmoran6510]

That’s the last we need But your comment goes straight to the heart of modern day political parties and there members

[@chrisdavie8163]

And fluff your papers whilst saying "forgive me". How could not read the script right in front of him? The guy went to Eton College! It was a pure Boris-ism for the cameras.

[@plechaim]

We need to end the dumbing down of society and lowest common denominator argument or we go back to the stone age, albeit a very technologically advanced one..