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Consolidated wealth is destroying the buying power of income. Rory's a jolly nice chap, and a floppy cloistered ignoramus. If it was anyone else you'd assume they were lying.

Come on, challenge him when he dismisses wealth taxes with the widow example! £10 million in assets isn't a poor old widow!

Eddie Redmayne should stick to acting.

I am very disappointed in you Rory, I will be generous and call it a slip of the tongue but do not accuse Alistair Darling of pursuing a osbourne policy. The 2009 budget was 671 Billion as against the tories 2010 budget of 548 Billion.

Please don’t run no one likes your flip flops and no ones wants red conservatives

why is your podcast not named pod save the king i'm so angry about this

LOOK AT HIS VOTING RECORD before you decide you want Rory as PM. And stop idolising people as leaders just because they fucking smile occasionally.

Just because he's somewhat charismatic and plausible doesn't mean it's OK to forget that Stewart is entirely a Tory.

🤔The conservatives campaign and watching sunak's speeches you see the five stages of grief in his delivery. We've had denial and anger I think we're on begging? 😅😅😅

Either way is Nish

I don't see any way to stop this inequality. Even a shift from capitalism would change nothing. Someone also wants more. Greed is part of the human condition.

Another liberal useless podcast

"They [Labour] think that the problem is that the Tories screwed up the country because they were nasty people who were out of touch. The fantasy seems to be that if they bring in nice, good-willed people from difficult backgrounds, everything’s going to be fine. I don’t feel that they have yet taken on board just how difficult government is … So I’m very, very worried that this is going to be a very stale, inactive government that’s going to be using class warfare as a cover for inaction." Stewart made this comment recently, filled with nasty classist tropes and fear mongering. More centrist and left wing people should think twice before giving him so much love because he hated Johnson. Still seemingly a nasty eton boy at heart. Not heard anything as patronizing as "nice, good-willed people from difficult backgrounds" in a while

Everyone keeps forgetting Liz Truss wanted to borrow whilst simultaneously broadly reducing taxes, which is like saying give me more Im not going to pay back any of what I owe right now though. If you borrow with the messaging of deep investment in the economy and leave tax alone aka increased yield with fiscal drag from the money being pumped in then no one would have blinked. Then ten-twenty years later you're getting more corporation tax yield from the investment anyway. Borrowing to just hand the cash to the rich is never an argument anyone is going to buy bonds for. Id say Rory was quite disingenuous presenting things that way.

Much respect for the Ugandan president with this approach

That God for the “do not recommend this channel” button.

Bit Ironic that some of these Politicians talk about the centre ground - the centre ground in our system is LibDem… Does anyone else find that slightly amusing?? They’re putting a punt on the LibDems getting 50 seats, but they are the bigger threat to the Tories than Labour and a greater threat to Labour than the Tories. A lot of people don’t like Sunak or Starmer and so they’re looking more at the LibDem’s than previously.

Rory is looking to the future, the new Labour Government is to create a platform to allow everyone the opportunity to grow the UK and improve their own lot in life, we need can-do, positive, optimistic approaches, we're about to witness a new dawn, let's not squander it. This isn't a spectator game we all need to be players aiming for a win.

Leaving aside party politics, Rory Stewart has always seemed (from a distant outside view) to be a reasonable, intelligent, and basically decent person. It is important for democracy to have strong and ethical opposition, and I don’t see the Tories as meeting that ethical qualification. Perhaps there are individual members who do have the national interest as their primary concern, but most of those in the public eye - as with our Australian right-leaning Liberal-National coalition - do seem to put their personal interests first and foremost. If your Lib Dems meet the ethical requirement and they get enough seats then there should be no issue to them becoming a credible opposition party.

Credits were endless

But think of nestle ceo's grand-grand children, they need castles and yachts of their own they can't possibly share!

The gulf in intelligence felt pretty wide in this one.

When a Tory dresses like Han Solo, you have to take him seriously. Total respect for this bloke ❤

I've just stumbled into this Podcast. It's almost the definition of an 'echo-chamber'. Bit painful to listen to as it feels so unbalanced. Reading the comments and it proves the point. This is breeding the polarization, please try and work together to bring people together. I'm just hearing your hate for others while you are professing love for your own. From a song by Tim Minchin: Pick up your pitchfork and your torch We'll go hunt the monster down But keep an eye out for uneven ground We'll turn on you if you stumble Don't need perspective or a heart Leave humility at home Welcome to the glasshouse, hope you brought your stones Are you ready to rumble? I am scared to write Anything that might Upset my own tribe

It dosnt tricke down they just greedier.

These people would rather have horrific innocent blood shed every day by monsters than have someone that finally stands up and says “no more”. It’s because they are spoiled, safe and secure Americans that probably live in a gated community. Clueless

The thing about Reform and FPTP is; look at the French results from yesterday. In a PR system, a centre-left coalition would be the most likely result here. As it is, the far right party is on for a big majority after winning about 34% of the vote. Now, if the coordination of the second round goes well enough we could still see that, but the pollsters seem to think otherwise. France's 2 round system does mean its easier for new/small parties to get on the ladder but Britain is not immune to a swap or Tory/Reform merge, and once they're in they're more baked in than in France. Similarly, it's the lack of a two party system in France that has allowed for the left wing coalition to take second place to the far right. Here we have a situation where the right wing are willing to take some years of Labour to try and boost reform up, but the left are (understandably) too afraid of the Tories to deviate much from Labour. So with Tories chasing Reform votes and Labour chasing Tory votes, Reform are essentially pulling the strings of politics without even being elected. In france Macron is very unpopular he simply can't hold them off alone - in our system, should Labour go the same way we have no defenses against them. Point is there's no system that guarantees the far right never get power, ultimately if thats what people vote for then it is, but I think it's a mistake to fall into the trap of thinking that rigging the system against them is the best way, because ultimately if they break though or manipulate it the way they have, then we've rigged the system against ourselves too.

I blame porn for distorting young men’s idea of what sex should be

Seems to me that Rory is insisting that the left wing growing more left-wing must inevitably cause the right wing to grow more right-wing in response. On the contrary, we've seen around the world that the right wing growing more extreme has only caused the left to become more centrist or even explicitly right-wing. Frankly if there's a healthy, effective left wing majority in a fair system I would expect the right wing opposition would have to rise to their level, not sink even further.

'Would I run for leader of the Tory party? Yes, if I thought I could make a difference.' A slithery critter, this one!

Thanks guys - really good to see Rory on your podcast.

Unlike the rest of the Tories, Rory was always a good egg, but if he really wants to help Britain, he should find a different political party. The party of the Plutocrats needs to be repudiated and dismantled, not resuscitated.

Did Rory respond to Coco’s point about ‘not debating with hate’? The edit stopped there and honestly would like to hear his response if one was offered. I like him but the need to avoid polarizing people is so strong with him it’s somewhat blinding to why this polarization may arise.

They broke britain britain because of views like obrien has. Thats why everythings screwed

these racist figures fill you with disgust

PMSL rory isnt even a conservative. Dont know why he just doesnt vote labour or lib dem

im voting reform. im bored of the main parties

Yeah, I'm voting for the Reform party. 👍🇬🇧👍

I was literally watching Rory's podcast yesterday thinking he should visit this one.

How do people forget that Rory Stewart is tory scum so easily? All is forgiven now despite all the terrible things he was part of? Shame on you for hosting him.

Its a hard truth for us lefties that Conservative governments built twice as many social houses as Labour, defeated Fascism, took us into Europe, preserved the NHS and oversaw long periods of prosperity. To stop extremism we need to not destroy the centre right. That means listening to Rory Stewart.

if he is centre left why is he in the tory party? and why did he vote for all their hard right policies? libs and labour are in the centre at the moment FFS

I don't mind RS as he was a more moderate Tory who is out there keeping moderate ideas alive. The issue with a supermajority came from the Tories becoming completely lazy and degenerate and focused on culture wars. They would not make a decent opposition, it would be a pantomime. Labour would not be challenged properly anyway. You need a moderate Tory party to challenge effectively. I'd prefer a sensible opposition and if that is the Lib Dems so be it.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "SUPER-MAJORITY" IN UK POLITICS! JUST STOP!

Rory has his Gilet on... he means business.

You made a good point on PR then didn't give Rory the chance to respond. Is there an extended version of this?

There’s a difference between a comfortable majority and such an enormous majority that all the other parties lack space in parliament for talented and intelligent people to make the case for a different way of doing things. If the right-wing is better represented in the press than in parliament, Starmer will have to react to that instead of the established parties, which I don’t think is good for intelligent debate.

Rory is wrong about wealth tax. You could possibly argue that there might need to be a structure for owning properties, that won't hurt people without other resources, that haven't invested in a property as a way of shielding their wealth. But you do need wealth tax, as the richest people mainly become richer by other means than income. Some do invest in properties, but mostly it is stocks. And the way they can borrow against their stock portfolio means that they can have access to money that isn't taxed. And regarding national debt. As long as the borrowing is for actually investment in growth of the economy, or to deal with climate adoptations (save the economy), there is no issue with debt. What he said about Truss was completely misleading, she wanted to borrow for things that would not grow the economy. Britain, like sweden need a lot of housing investment, to drive down cost, and thus provide housing near the hubs of economic growth. Britain also needs to invest in energy efficiency upgrades of houses. And large part of Europe need to climate adopt housing, including energy efficient heating and cooling, as that is health related, and done right, also helps with dealing with energy issues, in terms of price and planning.

Please vote for the most Left candidate you are comfortable with. Particularly if FRA can rally around their Left to fend off RN. If you two are Lefty govts, then there is hope for the American Left to rally despite ol' Joey B. If either or both of you go Right, then the US is going to go Right. If we all go Right then the world is going to be looking at Nationalism, the world is going to be looking at conflict. We always have to be as cooperative as possible and work w/ our neighbors even when they are being cunts.

2019 was a 2nd referendum on Brexit and completely skewed party loyalty and other important policies.