the end of the conservatives- the rats begin to jump

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[@malcatron]

They're upset they lost, but they are not the least bit upset about the misery they have caused and the mess they have left this country in.

[@ironsights9448]

Why would they be it doesn’t effect them in the slightest

[@malcatron]

@@ironsights9448 Well a decent, honourable person would be, which is my point.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@ironsights9448 affect

[@zephyr8072]

@@gpw203 Taxes have risen exponentially for the poorest among us under the Tories. Shut up.

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@gpw203 Ooh. You are a clairvoyant it seems. Give us some lottery numbers please or a tip for the horses. By the way the congestion charge is the responsibility of the recently re-elected Mayor of London, not the Prime Minister or the government.

[@markosullivan4095]

Good god Tim, I was horrified that you regretted voting ! I can understand regretting voting for a particulat candidate, but regretting voting ? That's the paved road to hell for democracy.

[@Imperator_Prime]

It's nonsensical to talk about the end or the demise or the downfall of a democracy that you *do not have.* "Western liberal democracies" like the U.S. and U.K. and Canada et al are vapid theatrical productions, distractions, beholden to the aristocrats and capitalists who've comprised their ruling class since their inception. They're unrepresentative of their electorates' interests; their electoral mechanisms ensure that they can *remain* unrepresentative; and if a supermajority swell of class consciousness actually arose, snapped people out of their propagandized insane stupor, and expressed itself in a sweeping victory of an explicitly socialist left government, the defeated rightwingers would trust their imperial allies in the *other* states aligned with them to call the election illegitimate and intervene to overturn it. The position of the American/capitalist-imperial establishment is manifestly that the people couldn't be trusted with democracy-- which is *fundamentally undemocratic*-- if they don't like a result that upends the paradigm they'll collude to negate it. And if they aren't colluding to negate it, then your latest "change of government" isn't paradigmatically upending shit, it's just another term under some legislative proxy for the capitalist hegemons.

[@problemsolverthinktank859]

Steve bakers episode on gmb and attack on George Osborn and lbc interview with Nick - absolutely ridiculous cry baby behaviour

[@padraigohooligan8363]

Brexit Hardman Steve Baker is an evangelical Christian who behaved abhorrently for years over Brexit, but now wants the public to think he's really a good guy.

[@AnthonyBrown12324]

@@padraigohooligan8363 He is basically a lunatic , like Dorries and many others > the so called Christians are a joke disregard everything Christ taught . Even George Osbourne was in disbelief in how mad this man is . Thankfully he is GONE

[@Lynnefromlyn]

I watched his interview- it was shocking! Never seen such a moaning minny! Bitter and twisted. Whinging and whining. Blaming everyone else - typical Tory.

[@Mitjitsu]

@Darren-pq5oc Personally I'd blame it on the Old Age Pension Act of 1908 😉

[@blauewaffel1469]

@@padraigohooligan8363 it wouldn’t be a bad idea for the government to conduct a financial audit of these ‘evangelical christian’ types while in parliament - see if there’s been Heritage Foundation or Russian money slushing around somewhere

[@junehargreaves6837]

Hard to believe how many people voted for the conservatives after what they put us through

[@annishilcock4587]

So while all this squabbling and hand wringing and whinging and your reporting of it goes on, Starmer and his cabinet are quietly getting on with the job.Such a refreshing change to have some adults in the room.

[@nickdoughty518]

Forget Labour's share of the vote and instead focus on their share of MPs which will allow them to govern for five years, without distraction.

[@annishilcock4587]

@@nickdoughty518 Quite.This narrative is just and attempt by the sore losers to try and invalidate their success and legitimacy.

[@marlecmarine5393]

Never interrupt your enemy when they are destroying themselves, they are becoming politically irrelevant with every passing day, they are group of bald men arguing over a comb. The Labour Party now need to bring prosecutions against the PPE thieves who stole £billions.

[@caleyhook4091]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Lukeandrewscarnivore]

I resent the bald remarks as a balding man myself. 😂 However you’re bang on about the ppe thing.

[@marlecmarine5393]

@@Lukeandrewscarnivore You have more hair than l do....lol

[@richardboldbrooker6327]

Rishi really was the gift that kept giving.

[@graemebell8585]

Looking forward to the COVID Enquiry and the pursuit of those involved in dodgy PPE Contracts and the recovery of the tax payers monies!

[@pokerformuppets]

Agree with what you say about FPTP, but Labour *did* get significantly more votes than the Tories. 42% more, in fact!

[@johnclements6614]

Yes Labour got 34% of the vote, Tories 24%; far more.

[@johnm2012]

It's the number of seats that counts. The Tories stacked the system in their favour and still lost. They could have introduced a different system but choose not to. Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind.

[@mickmiah7605]

This is a perrenial problem in politics. Parties in opposition demand Electoral reform but once the old system delivers a huge majoriy via its flaws there is a less pressing need for Electoral Reform and on the cycle goes. Neat huh?

[@StarboundUK]

@@mickmiah7605 In 2005 Howard got more 72K English votes than Blair - Blair got 90 more English MPs than Howard due to superior vote distribution. Even after that The Tories didn't want PR at that time. They figured that they would just out wait Blair & that once Labour had lost their Middle England vote whisperer they could find their way back...

[@alanmusicman3385]

@@mickmiah7605 Indeed. This is why - despite my extreme dislike for the odious Farage and his fellow travellers - I see the emergence of Reform and the reurgence of the LibDems as a positive development in electoral terms. FPTP has handed unopposable power to either Labour or Conservative for far too long and that tidal back and forth is very damaging. Until there are enough people prepared to use their vote to put sufficient numbers of people into Parliament who are NOT from one or other major party we can never change that. With any luck, the Tory party will fragment which will also help that process.

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

No mourning- nor indeed morning- for the Tories here. They brought a plague of locusts upon us.

[@sophieross5874]

…and the conservatives will never be in power again… you say the sweetest things Tim ❤️👌

[@Mitjitsu]

Saw an episode yesterday of "Who broke Britain". The PM who it blames most for what happened over the last 14 years was David Cameron.

[@Christine-ry1qq]

Austerity & Brexit Yep, he gets my vote as the worst.

[@pip1723]

Yep austerity Dave he now sits unelected in the lords...

[@davidodonovan2885]

​@Christine-ry1qq And let's not forget his risky dice roll on Scotland

[@wanderingfool6312]

For me and many, the worst scandal of the whole sorry previous government, was sending the overspill from nhs hospitals, when they knew a proportion of which were infected with covid and they were warned about, into retirement homes around the country, killing tens of thousands. I remember the story of the retirement home manager who heard what was happening and blocked an ambulance from entering the car park in front of the home, in spite of the complaints because he new it would mean death. That’s what grinds my gears when I see a Tory try to gaslight us and the terrible history we experienced.

[@beaulieuc8910]

very true and the denial that masks were any good

[@TheUrbanmeister]

I think this is the first time I've seen you so outraged. Justifiably so. Thank you for this, nailed it.

[@blauewaffel1469]

The most obvious sign in the beginning in 2010 that the Conservatives had no interest in people with aspiration is when they scrapped the Education Maintenance Allowance that teens from disadvantaged backgrounds relied on to support them through college, including people I knew. I will probably never trust them for my lifetime.

[@johnclements6614]

And the consequence of that is we can not supply enough of our own skilled workers. Then they blame the people coming to do the jobs rather than paying to train people so we do not need them.

[@Jim90117]

I remember getting EMA in 2007 at college, if i remember correctly it was only like £30 a week but it really helped out with paying for the likes of bus fares and equiptment for study, it was a comforting addition to your part time job wages whilst in full time higher education.

[@samuelsmith6281]

I thought that in 1997, the election of Tories (albeit with the help of the Lib Dems) in 2010 proved the public do have short memories and will vote Tory again despite their past protestations that they'd never do so again. All it needs is a good attack line at an opportune moment (like blaming Labour for a world wide banking crash) and a Tory Party desperate enough to do anything to win including putting in a "wet" in as leader and attempting to bury their much loved (amongst themselves) "nasty party" reputation with stunts like the hug a hoodie campaign line to get them back into government.

[@davidharness1507]

Put the 90,000 asylum seekers waiting to be processed to work. That would shut Farage up. They could tidy our streets, help the elderly, work for charities etc. And they do want to work.

[@janeslater8004]

Listen to brigitte gabriel on what happened in lebanon 1975 with islam immigrants. Illegal immigrants are here illegally and should be sent back or we will end up like lebanon did.learn from.history

[@stop-the-greed]

Many many well be medical staff ❤ .

[@RichardDKneller]

With you 100% but also would mention Brexit as a major cause of the real Tory party’s decline.

[@heliotropezzz333]

What scares me is that if Labour fail (I hope they don't) and the Conservatives merge with Reform or vice versa, the country could swing to the far right in the next election.

[@colinmorgan8624]

Farage will be like Nick Griffin of the BNP ,the more people scrutinise him the more he will be exposed as a con artist like his hero Trump. I have faith in the centre ground of politics,extremism has never prospered in Britain,even Moseley was defeated by East Enders inthe battle at Gardners Corner

[@anthonystanbury5537]

Little has changed in the Conservative party. 2 wrnt on kuensburg this morning parroting each other about not the time to talk about leadership. Utter garbage. I hope they never get in again.

[@clairduffy60]

Sounds good to me.

[@beaulieuc8910]

they have endless narcissistic snakes, they are all bad

[@mda5003]

@@gpw203 They've started already by announcing an increase in London Congestion Charge for EVs (electric vehicles). Next year their charge will rise from £10 to £15 the same as diesels and petrol cars!

[@carolinerosecholmodeley.6864]

Conservative 😂🤣😂 it’s been rebranded; nothing conservative about them .

[@brianparsons9368]

​@@gpw203never mind eh😂

[@goelnuma6527]

Since 2019 it was all about the Tory ministers serving themselves

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Since 2010 you mean.

[@Hellsiepwn]

It's all they ever did mate, not just beginning in 2019.

[@clairduffy60]

Not one of them said sorry to the people. They were all just incredibly sorry for themselves, then the party.

[@Irishgui83]

Which makes it even more confusing that they gained at many votes as they did.

[@mickmiah7605]

I think G that I might be older than you- These f's have been doing the same thing since 1979. After that for us sane people the world went mad and has that way ever since. I hope for better times.

[@david-pb4bi]

Why is everybody ignoring the impact voter ID had on the Labour vote.

[@grahamnewton4381]

‘The Conservatives lost because they moved too far to the right’ !!!!! What!!! So why did Conservative voters vote for Reform? I haven’t spoken to a single ex Conservative voter who thinks the Conservatives are now too right wing. Every single one either voted for a different party or didn’t vote at all because the Conservatives were too LEFT wing. If the Conservatives move any more too the left they will be left of Labour! I would agree that the Conservatives need to break up and decide what sort of party they want to be but those MPs wanting the party to be more left wing might as well join Labour which is where they should be anyway.

[@lostgleammedia]

These current younger Conservatives who grew up in a time of massive freedom and prosperity, now want to be Fascists.. it is unreal

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Consider the military cemeteries full of those who fought against the Nazis. What exactly did they die for ?

[@ExpressoMechanicTV]

@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Exactly. My father (who is now 100 years old) fought against fascism in the second world war and now we have people wilfully bringing it to our shores.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

@ExpressoMechanicTV You are wrong. You need to read some history. Seriously. It has ALWAYS BEEN on "our shores" as you put it. Hitler didn't fall out of a tree. More importantly, his rise to power was aided and financed by seriously rich people. Hitler in 1920 was a nobody. An unemployed wounded war veteran with a grudge. People with serious money helped him to power and PAID the expenses involved. An interesting book I'd recommend as a starting point is the biography of George H W Bush by Webster Tarpley. The Harrimans, Bushes and Walkers, amongst others, were the money men. Hitler's financing came out of Wall Street and London. You can't do ANYTHING without money.

[@chrisfox3161]

You should thank your student for making you vote.

[@starmersbarber]

I would certainly not have been at all impressed if you hadn't voted Prof. You certainly have your student to thank!

[@philipnesbitt3334]

@@starmersbarber Agree. What right would prof have to comment on politics when he did not take part in the process!

[@stevenhoward3358]

Yes, sage student educates errant professor

[@ashroskell]

You should not regret voting ever. You have only attained the right to talk to us about politics, AND be taken seriously, BECAUSE you vote. The day you stop voting, is the day your words don’t matter.

[@mickmiah7605]

No Brother. I sympathise with your anger- I have my own too but now we have won we must uphold Democratic and Lawful principles. Wifey, called me Fash this morning because I said Prime Minister Starmer should elevate every member of the Labour and Liberal, Green party's to the HoL. I was thinking we could all pop down to hob-nob with the nobs, vote on an proposal or two, grab a quick dinner and bottle of wine all subsidised by the state and do it all again next week. And I am wrong?

[@ianlayton6949]

​@@gpw203 The outstanding feature of post war UK politics is that the people have never taken to the streets (with the partial exception of the anti-Tory poll tax riots) - and God knows there's been enough provocation. There will be no uprising.

[@ashroskell]

@@mickmiah7605 : I’m not angry.

[@ashroskell]

@@gpw203: No they won’t, Vladimir.

[@patrikfloding7985]

@@gpw203that was funny!

[@MyTv-]

This right wing madness will kill the Conservative party. Tim is right, this is not conservatism, it’s fascism. Conservatism isn’t might is right, it’s noblesse oblige and trust in traditions and institutions.

[@user-ld6ik5qm4m]

A very good description of what was wrong with the CONservatives when they lost the election.

[@anthonyseye]

They’re still talking as if they had never been in power. Remarkable

[@philipnesbitt3334]

Well they never acted like they were!

[@stevieb6368]

Kier Starmer is on manoeuvres starting with his trip to Scotland to see John Swinney and he will also visit Wales; I'm not sure if Northern Island is also on the itinerary. This is a positive start, I feel, to see if they have any common ground. No matter what people think of that, the other Parties - apart from Reform - have to come together to do this to ensure that the broken Tories never return to full strength ever again! This has to be the future! The Tories must never be in a position to rule over us ever again!

[@domm1341]

I imagine a bunch will go to the LibDems and the rest to Reform.

[@SadiqFerretUpGammonTrowzaaah]

And neither will be electable. I'm 60. I'd be shocked if there was another Conservative government before I'm 75.

[@zog97xy]

@@SadiqFerretUpGammonTrowzaaah I'm 70 and hope I never see another before I go.

[@davidpowell6098]

@@SadiqFerretUpGammonTrowzaaah I'm 64, and I hope I go to my grave with the Tories consigned to history, and I never hear their name again.

[@glyngreen538]

@@SadiqFerretUpGammonTrowzaaahhave you seen the stats on how younger generations are no longer turning Conservative as they age? In people under 50 only a single digit figure vote Conservative. Partly due to young and middle aged people mostly not being able to afford their own home any more. It’s possible the Conservative party simply continue to decline and never recovers.

[@clairduffy60]

I'm 64 and I voted cons in '79. Never did or will make that mistake again.

[@advisorsandy2068]

I could not vote for them. Johnson got rid of the decent,pragmatic,hardworking one nation conservatives, and instead we had that lot.What the he'll did they expect?

[@raymondpenn1066]

May was as bad as Johnson. She poisoned the right-wing thinkers in to demonising legal immigrants from the Caribbean, went full-on megalomaniac and grabbed the chance to take over from Cameron knowing that she wasn't strong enough to face down the Brexiteers. She went on to call an unnecessary GE, in the lea of which she formed a minority Government without Royal consent. She wasn't around quite as long as Johnson but she damaged the Conservative brand massively among members.

[@michaelnoonan352]

If Frost and Cruella think that the Tory defeat was brought about by the party not being too rightwing and extreme enough then why were rightwing Tories like Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg voted out?

[@alexperriman9298]

Imagine being Liz Truss at Waitrose in King's Lynn... a mere mortal in the queue.. was it all worth it? 😂

[@michaelnoonan352]

@@alexperriman9298 Indeed. I suspect that lettuce might be off the menu as far as she's concerned.

[@JHatLpool]

@@alexperriman9298 Good point.

[@johnm2012]

Truss and Mogg were just the more ridiculous ones. Patel, Braverman, Badenoch and Jenrick all kept their seats, white the slightly less hideous Buckland lost his.

[@michaelnoonan352]

@@johnm2012 Indeed, it's been a mixed bag. I can envisage a vicious dogfight in the party between the ideologues and the more centrist politicians, with people playing the blame game and trying to settle old scores. It should be interesting to watch.

[@nigelh3253]

The Conservatives seem to have gone up Pickle Street - and are stuck there. Why didnt they see this coming over many years? Its a lesson for politicians who take their eye off the ball and let problems build up. A tough lesson!

[@mickmiah7605]

They cannot "see" failure. Their elite schooling teaches them that they cannot fail. That was the point of Kipling's line "If you can meet Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same". Their education makes does not make Engineers or Doctors, or Nurse Practitioners- people who evaluate consequencies but ideological warriors who push ahead regardless of the consequences without accruing blame to themselves and knowing their is always a lucrative hand up/out from thier friends. It is "Socialism for the Rich" according to their values. They are our debilitated raised to govern over us. It is we who should mature and make better choices and we have- we are Godwins lunatics who have walked out of the asylum.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

The Tories have become so insane, that it looks like it's a lesson they are incapable of learning. Truss said that the reason they lost is because they weren't "tough enough" on immigration. There should have been far more flights to Rwanda, because that's what THE PEOPLE "wanted." That's what they will continue to believe, as long as the voices in their heads and the headlines in the Daily Mail speak to them.

[@Ralphs-House]

I smiled all the way through this one. Even now the Conservatives don't seem to have grasped why the electorate ejected them. They became a cringe worthy pantomime horse which came apart at the seams.

[@beaulieuc8910]

i agee, it was not just their policies but they were highly unprofessional in office

[@Simply1ism]

Really please to have voted liberal democrats to get Labour in and the Conservatives out :)

[@GilliMarieMoody]

“The remaining conservative rump”, LOL😆.

[@JimmyM205]

A split of the conservatives may be needed. Currently there are 3 or 4 "left wing" parties (Labour, lib dems, greens and snp) who split the vote. This has been a massive advantage for the conservatives and one they've desperately tried to preserve. We've seen this with them making deals with ukip on a referendum and now a battle with farage on how far right it can be. They may now have to accept that a split is necessary.

[@user-qk2rv6qv2f]

Labour has a long road ahead but good luck 🤞

[@Mia19836]

The first past the post system is never questioned when the Tories win. Just a thought!

[@davidsbain4687]

Heres hoping Starmer can deliver, or this country is doomed.

[@mcgruff3309]

They said the same thing with Blair 🤣

[@jackn4853]

This Country? Do the other 3 members of the UK not matter?

[@davidsbain4687]

@@jackn4853 Read it how you want, I`m not splitting hairs.

[@pauljeffrey1181]

Deliver what exactly?

[@davidsbain4687]

@@pauljeffrey1181 Pizza, what do you think? 🤡

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

We do not need an "Effective opposition", we do need political conversation. All governments need people to say hang on a minute. To make them think again, to present alternatives, to question priorities. That is just good management.

[@ianblyth8760]

Spot on prof.

[@JupiterThunder]

Labour actually got many more votes than the Tories: 9.6m v 6.7m. However, Corbyn got 10.2m in 2019 and 12.8, in 2017. Only 20% of registered voters voted Labour, yet they got 63% of the seats. So FPTP has perpetuated the uniparty establishment.

[@padraigohooligan8363]

The system is what people wanted, as per the 2011 referendum.

[@jonm7272]

So if everyone in London voted one way, and everyone in Wales or Scotland voted completely differently, the choice of London should prevail because more people live in London? Yep, sounds like a great way to ensure the continuation of the UK.

[@johnm2012]

The Tories have considered the first past the post system to be sufficiently adequate while it favoured them. They even changed the rules for the mayoral elections *to* first past the post in order to favour themselves, but it didn't work for them. They just don't like losing the game whose rules they wrote and kept tweaking to favour themselves.

[@infinitecurlie]

This was really interesting to watch since I'm American lol, and I reaallly hope other Americans are watching videos like these and that they also reject the far right.

[@jamesburrell8782]

I am quite happy that Reform didn’t win many seats - horray for our unfair system.

[@stevenhoward3358]

It's quite something when the first past the post electoral system comes under fire when it doesn't suit those on the losing team. I do agree that some form of PR would be far better, but every time I mentioned it in the last 30 years, it was met with a wall of silence.

[@patrickfox-roberts7528]

incompetence, greed .... you forgot blatant corruption, Prof.

[@bigtony4829]

I remember the back streets of Naples Two children begging in rags Both touched with a burning ambition To shake off their lowly-born tags,

[@clarecollins2547]

And we don’t want such appalling behaviour.

[@andyd3955]

Well said, no integrity or honesty in the conservative party, just their individual ongoing self interests sadly...

[@davidharris5736]

Talking of crime .How about a commission and bringing some of them to trial?

[@peterfindlay2756]

I agree with you wholeheartedly. My great fear is that the Conservative Party will continue with their lurch to the right, dress it up, and make it appear to make sense to an electorate that cannot see what it means, essentially to democracy itself.

[@justinquinn5780]

Frosty the no man

[@davidpowell6098]

Top comment, well done, hilarious.

[@badbooks476]

👍

[@Dav1Gv]

They did move to far to the right in my view but they also caused a lot of suffering and chaos in their fourteen years of misrule, lies, dishonesty.

[@chickenbites8877]

I’ve been saying for years, the Tory party in its current form reminds me of 1930’s Germany

[@johngiffen7262]

I applaud you sir , the truth ,the whole truth the uncomfortable truth for the Tories well said sir ,we are all well rid of these nasty evil deceitful people. I hope we are heading for a brighter future with a touch humility and honesty then perhaps we can hold the country and society together.

[@juliadavistodd8351]

Have to tackle the, mostly absent, owners of the principal newspapers, who pay no taxes in this country, yet shape the agenda of the government, in their favour…as witness the silence on Gaza and the state of the NHS and the poverty overwhelming an increasing number of our citizens.

[@barrywest2170]

Fair shout to your student who encouraged you to vote Professor people in the past have sacrificed greatly to secure our democratic right to cast our vote

[@JohnC-nl5xs]

The Tory party split during the Brexit debate and has never recovered !

[@kjr2868]

Again Prof Tim is on point in his analysis!!! He explains it so simply and leaves me with a better idea of the big picture around this!!! Just proves that the main stream media are not necessarily telling us the whole story!!!

[@user-qu6mb2uk4q]

It's Monday morning here Prof and your metaphors are giving me optimism for the week ahead...Good to see you in good form.

[@simongoodwin926]

Dear Professor, voting is a right and a privilege, pleade don't regret it.

[@erykmozejko3329]

One of the conservative MP’s on the night was giving his views on the degree of their loss. Listing off the expected reasons. But afterwards he sounded more upbeat with the comment “we’re the natural party of government.” That one comment sums up the foundation of a lot that is wrong with this Conservative Party. Holding on to a believe that you are predestined to be the government; which creates the arrogance needed to land you making the same inane errors as before.

[@raymondpenn1066]

I think that the danger of the Tory party splitting is somewhat overstated, simply because the few MPs that are left as "Conservatives" would then face the ignominy of being removed as the official opposition. In order for Farage to achieve the vaunted heights as leader of the opposition might be mathematically possible with enough defections, but the LibDems would quite happily form a mini coalition with the Greens, Plaid Cymru and maybe even the SNP just to put Ed Vasey opposite Kier Starmer.

[@StevenPringle54]

Our North Dorset MP should be greatful, not to the voters, but to the low turnout, or we would have no Tory MPs in Dorset.

[@Ifas13]

Well done prof I love this take❤

[@jananders1351]

I saw Marcus' little statement, it just struck me as pathetic. The so-called moderate Tories had the numbers to squash the right wing loonies long ago, but did not find the spine to do it. Whining about it now he's been ejected from the gravy train is just ridiculous, he was as complicit in creating the "unelectable" Tory party as the rest of the gutless wonders.

[@clarecollins2547]

You’ve hit the nail on the head! We dont want fascim!

[@ivanconnolly7332]

"Fish a jumpin and the weather is fine"

[@Crmsnraider]

This is why I hang out with ya Professor, use and appreciation of common sense; well thought out perspectives. *thumbsup* *waves* 'till later

[@robertreid7221]

Chomp, chomp, chomp,😂😂😂 Tim you da man, ✌❤ Bob.

[@john-r-edge]

Subtle callback to Peter Starstedt's song "Where do you go to my lovely?"

[@michaelgoss9606]

Thanks Tim.

[@paolomargini7904]

With continental Europe going back to the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna with its Metternichs, will UK have the same role of the 1800s when all political refugees like Mazzini, Marx, later Lenin, and many many others had to flee to its island?

[@user-uh2bv9rh9y]

When the enemy continues to make mistakes, don't point it out. Just let them continue.

[@user-ww4fc4mn4n]

I totally agree with this Professor, he’s absolutely correct, and what he’s saying the Tories are A bunch of scumbags

[@SeanTube2099]

I will 100 percent support Starmer.

[@joegroup1]

It’s hard at this point in time, whether the Tories will go on a sojourn to the hard right for a small number of years, to realise that they need to have centre right policies to regain relevance with the general public, or they’ll stay on the hard right and wither on the vine, never to regain power ever, maybe even the dissolution of the Tory party. The Tories attack on vulnerable people, be they unemployed, ill, disabled or asylum seekers was despicable, and turned the Tories party from the nasty party to the evil party.

[@davidcooney3100]

When you mentioned the back streets on Naples, I was expecting you to burst into song 🎵 "where do you go to my lovely"

[@LeoDragon34]

A bit surprised that the Professor doesn’t know that the correct term is “champing at the bit” even if “chomping at the bit” is more widely, and incorrectly, used.

[@lloydr.6271]

I confess I voted in the best way to unseat the tories after voting for them in 2019. Their actions since then made me feel dirty and ashamed for allowing myself to be so conned . I just pray that Starmer has a hat full of workable solutions and has the guts to start making the most difficult decisions to sort out the mess we are in. If not Ella could be and aspires to be the UK clone of Le Pen , lets hope they don't let her play with matches near any books.

[@nolslifegren]

Stsrmers just conned you again

[@user-qk2rv6qv2f]

Tim ur my hero well said

[@ianfryer8386]

What is deeply frustrating is that the Tories, their client media and the swollen ranks of the right wing commentariat keep acting like the Conservatives are the natural party of government. That this election result is some kind of freak incident and it would be better if the Tories could just rule without the bother of five-yearly votes. They have learned nothing.

[@janebuckland737]

Go Tim… I love it when you tell it like it is… no holding back 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@chickenbites8877]

Btw that was a SUPERB Farage-Piranha impression 🐟🤭🤭🤭

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Regretting to have voted? NO. People died for that right.

[@tessjuel]

1:38 "A nasty, vicious, unpleasant individual" - that used to be the requirements for getting a Lordship back in the olden days. Frost is just the latest representative of a long tradition.

[@davidpowell6098]

I wonder who Sunak will send to the Lords, Johnson for one?

[@davidr1431]

Boris Johnson redefined what words like “honourable” and “Lord” mean by removing any implications of integrity and replacing it with assumptions of superiority and entitlement.

[@nickhtk6285]

Ben Wallace leaving months ago was a stroke of genius. For a remainer the fact he stuck it out as long as he did was commendable.

[@songscoops4205]

Rats in politics....Rats in life...all eat at the same table...

[@beaulieuc8910]

haha very true

[@user-sg1uu1wq3p]

Thank you for being honest Professor nice to hear someone talking sense for a change.

[@beaulieuc8910]

Their Government was soiopathic , absolutely appalling behaviour, what were they thinking, they had zero accountability, they even choose a PM who was stinking rich, so out of touch

[@janeslater8004]

Sir keir starmer is also rich and knighted for services in getting sir jimmy saville off the hook.even more out of touch

[@badbooks476]

⁠@@janeslater8004Total Lies, the Conservatives knighted Savile & Sunak is richer than the king

[@indoora]

No matter who you voted for I'm glad you voted.

[@kenhorlor5674]

I was in a laundromat in Naples once, with a bunch of Sri Lankans, Pakistanis and Afghans. Then along came a Russian who was simply obnoxious, so we threw him out. Everyone then went back to getting along well.

[@mike8631]

The conservatives have left the UK in a disastrous position, almost as bad as the state the last Labour government did. Shocking.

[@manuelhung7571]

The state of this nation left by the Tories is far worse than anything Labour have ever done, arguably an exponential.

[@mike8631]

@@manuelhung7571 Hardly mate, Labour left the UK bankrupt in 08-10.

[@manuelhung7571]

@@mike8631 There is bankrupt......... £Zero Left. Then there is £2.5 Trillion in debt! I know which one I prefer. £2,500,000,000 - 2.5 Thousand Million Pounds Tory Mayhem balanced against a Labour Bankruptcy - i.e. the exchequer is empty - £Zero Left.

[@joebloggs1574]

The backstreets of Naples…. Did you used to be Peter Sarstead? 😜

[@chriswright3179]

Marcus Fish and David Frost,.Are these Tories fishy or frosty? Rats in the back streets of Naples. How colourful, how louche!

[@davidmarkwort9711]

Frost is like this; “His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.” And Shakespeare knows a fool when he sees one.

[@shelleylyme6402]

Yes, I can remember when Alex Belfield started referring to other people as "rats" and "cockroaches".

[@mykeskingdom]

I haven’t seen professor Tim so animated

[@jonlilley9288]

You are right to call out Cameron and May as well as the other suspects to highlight that it has been 14 years of unrelenting malice, incompetence and morally unacceptable behaviour that has condemned the Tories to the catastrophe that they now face.