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Rory Stewart, co-host of The Rest Is Politics and author of ‘Middleland’, speaks to Newsnight about Britain, political polarisation, …
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Dear Newsnight.
No one takes Rory seriously anymore. We only tune in to see how wrong he turns out to be.
It’s a shame he didn’t win the Tory leadership race.
Actually, in the last year of the Labour Government in the 1970s, there was a growth of 3.7% GDP. This is a figure we can only dream of today
Thatcherism was the genesis of the huge cleavage in inequality, which I presume Rory supported. Monetarism destroyed our manufacturing sector and caused an over reliance on the financial sector in London
The man who tried his best to overturn a democratic vote is calling the people who thought it should be respected fascists? You really couldn't make it up.
We pulled out of Afghanistan far too quickly instead of ensuring the job was done!
Then people cry out about troops losing their lives, but what about the innocent civilians there now?
I remember under the prior regime a beautiful young woman having her nose cut off, because she was accused of having an affair.
The problem is Rory Stewart, as I've been saying for decades… the internet needs to be regulated, it's full of lies and disinformation, and it's "polarising" arguments!
The internet at it's 'best' is a wonderful thing, but when we allow it to be abused?
But Rory, you don't compromise on the basis of "lies!" And Brexit was a lie… people realised they had made a mistake, so having a second referendum was not wrong.
And in respect of Donald Trump "tearing up the world, "whether it is Brexit, or President Trump… people vote for extremes too often, due to the false disinformation on the internet!
And this has to be addressed, the internet needs to have regulation as does all media to ensure it is fair.
I agreed with Rory on 'everything' here until he said about a second referendum.
The referendum was based on lies…. as the results show. The right thing to do was have another second referendum, rather than impose the 'lie' of Brexit on people!
The problem is Rory Stewart, as I've been saying for decades… the internet needs to be regulated, it's full of lies and disinformation, and it's "polarising" arguments!
The internet at it's 'best' is a wonderful thing, but when we allow it to be abused?
Victoria Darbyshire comes across as carrier hungry and insincere…
The rich richer and consequencially everyone else poorer.
Economic dysfunction causes social fracture and social fracture causes economic dysfunction. Both sides of the same coin.
Your Tory politic is resposible for the brutality because the far right thrives on social fracture.
Your lot didn't tax the billionaires and Labour are too frightened to tax the billionaires
and far right Reform wants social fracture because they have nothing but their blame game of scapegoating 'them over there'.
The cure ? * Tax The Billionaires *
The far right thrives on social fracture.
Its he and his fellow travellers that have lead to this state of affairs. Not all cultures are equal – the woke 'liberal' ideology doesn't take reality into account sadly
This smiling fascist complaining about fascism. There is no difference. Labour – Tory – Reform – all neoliberal monsters. Look at Rory’s voting record, he is as bad as the rest of them. Crocodile smile.
Why doesn’t the interviewer point out the OBR has calculated 80% of migrants are a net cost to the tax payer of £450K each? Oh it’s the BBC isn’t it.
For someone is suppposed to be a bit smart ,you need to have a chat with tommy and then you will get the best education you ever had …spoilt i call you
Very much would wish Rory was PM. Having an adult in the top job would be nice.
Edit: Scottish too but not gonna claim any braveheart glory hardly speak to my direct cousins not deliberately. "Allowed" to wear Fife tartan have I ever? No couldn't give less of a fuck, Rory is from a Clan I'm from a family unless there was a neighbour some point down the line where could be English (actually DNA says boring Scottish AF, Dad half Irish (which he neglected to mention until got the results), which I'm sure they all really care about.
Why do we give him a platform? All his big calls have been wrong.
He does sound Scottish!
I have watched at least 60 hours of tommy Robinson and the accusations here are wrong
Tommy states that immigrants from Islamic countries that are illegal are involved to excess in violence .. so if you need workers get from sources that are proven more successful
That is commonsense..
Secondly tommy says increase pride in being british by culture ie folk music arrange guides for nature walks with explanation on wildlife and history pride of national history
As for break of contract of people from hong kong ect who gave settled successfully one cannot see tommy criticism against that nor of sikhs. Buddists
Islam is not a problem eg see the achmedis
but islamism eg via Muslim Brotherhood has. Been proven to be
If only Rory Stewart was the Prime Minister the UK might have a better future…..
Centrist dad unable to deal with the reality of the streets.
Rory Stewart is the voice of reason he should be on TV a lot more
Heres the facts tony blair started opening the flood gates tories left them open and labour then opened them wider with more perks for illegal immigrants so the fact being Labour has allowed all this to happen.
Vote reform 👍🙏
The problem is weak idiots like Rory Stewart he sits there like a snake hissing a load of crap 😂
Who is this mug anyway? Where has he been when tommy uncovered the Telford grooming gang cover up wjich was covered up by police and local government?
Basically Rory Stewart is a paid pawn selling his country out for money like starmer.
Just face the truth eh Tommy Robison is bang on with his views this guy is so pathetic the public can see what’s going on also what the problem is god bless the uk and the true brittish public❤️💯
Rory had completely lost touch with the real world. The so called ‘far right’ a response to decades of uncontrolled mass immigration from mostly Muslim countries and the people never consented to this and it has destroyed whole areas of the country including those who have even lost their lives because of it. Globalists like Rory are so brainwashed by ideology they cannot fathom the sense of national identity and rootedness normal people feel towards their country. It’s OURS. We refuse to become an Islamic state or a globalist mush. He just doesn’t get it.
One of the best descriptions of modern politics I've come across is in Martin Wolf's 'The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism'.
As a royalist, he supports peado protectors, so like many royal supports their opinions have no value.
He make sense to me 👍
This man wants open borders for Britain. He thinks we should bring millions of Afghans here. He is the danger, not tommy
So border control is extremist but clamping down on free speech, demographic replacement and digital ID is not?
Got it 👍🏻
Please go away, Antarctica perhaps. Live in an igloo for a while. Just do something else because no one is listening to you
This is the most frank and honest conversation I’ve heard for many years
Old Etonian entitled white dude who had power and
…..is he still relevant? As well as entitled.
Simplistic critique of Tommy Robinson will backfire. The debate is not about race or even culture, its about values. A population can't operate when values become fragmented.
‘Why is Tony Blair involved?’…….Power and money
He self diagnoses moderately correctly: admits he was working against rather than for anything, while he was a government MP. He had a duty, while there especially, to do positive, actual, developmentally useful, good, things. And he didn't, or didn't do enough of them, or the party he was responsible for–and was elected on the back of–didn't do enough to build the alternative. You have to sell and actually promise something, not just be some pure, naive backward-looking objector.
Doesn't this guy live in a secure and safe, mostly white neighbourhood. Damn, he sure is "embracing" the immigrants. Hypocrite!
How should we willingly embrace another growing culture within ours that has very different values and does not integrate and has a very long violent history of replacing Christian cultures and is their mission given to them by their prophet that dishes out atrocities and terrorism on that hellish journey they impose on others?
About migration. It's really really simple. Instead of justifying it by saying we need younger people over to work in sectors struggling when it's poor pay and conditions forcing our young uns to be on the dole. So it doesn't solve the problem and only causes more unarrest within communities and doesn't tackle the welfare bill. This is why I hate the country I'm born from because it's corrupt and goes against the British people every time
Call it what it is….nazionism
Wow, the edit scheme of that naff introduction is an absolute disgrace. The BBC has fallen soooo far.