Politicians Become Creepy and Dishonest | Rory Stewart on Westminster Politics (Part 1)

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The depressing state of affairs in parliament Rory describes stems directly from FPTP. The dynamic that prevails is the Westminster political class dancing to the tune of the madcap in every respect FPTP system. Without moving to proper PR nothing much is likely to change.

Lol.

I've being fortunate enough to get to meet and know a few politicians at many different levels of government. It's clear that they all go into politics with the same thing in mind: to make life better for their constituents.

But, soon enough, the system begins to change them. Party whips. Donations required. Pressures from party leadership. Influencial lobby groups. The "old boys" network (which includes an increasing number of females, for better or worse).

Soon enough, half your term is over and it's time to start raising funds for the next election.

What started as an honorable attempt to improve people's lives becomes a dance between requirements for donations, fealty to the party boss, managing pressures from influential groups, plus the day-to-day concerns of constituents.

Is it any wonder that nothing really changes

Rory, failure not to succumb to the temptation of becoming what you were is not, is your greatest success. Although you may appear to be lost to the British politics, you never lost yourself! Many politicians haven’t even got the self to lose.

The fact that there is no room for someone like Rory in British politics because of his honesty, is not just a reflection on british politics, but of the system and the British public, who vote for narcissistic populists and the carnage of brexit.

The only politicians I know who become creepy and dishonest are right wing ones who have socially reviled views they feel they can't be open about for fear of losing votes.

This guy is mentally ill

So desperate is Stewart for the limelight he is considering joining the Green far left extremists.

No just you Rory

I don't think that's true at all. Modern politics attracts people who are dishonest and creepy. And yes I include Rory Stewart in that.

Clown once a Tory always a Tory talks about his self all the time Yuk voted with them on policies just making money now tedious

Rory Stewart, you’re one of the most dishonest MPs conservatives ever had

'Politicians Become Creepy and Dishonest'. I don't know how you can show your face so much after a confession like that!

Stewart is the creepy one. Why does he get so much air time? Almost as much as Farage. Ok so he used to kill people for a living. He was a true Tory if you look at his voting record and he now comes back believing the public have absolved him of all his Tory sins. He is a sort of a modern day pound shop Blair.

Stewart is just a failed rubbish politician. Going nowhere doing nothing and will always be a failure.

Who is Tom?

Has anyone else ever seen a politician who is so frank about what politics is like? I am an American. I have never heard someone who has explained publicly what being a politician is like.

Oh dear. 'lurched' and 'populism.' I recommend the Oxford Union debate with Winston Marshall and Nancy Pelosi on the topic of populism. Pelosi revealed the 'liberal' mindset. What 2016 on laid bare was the disparity between the values of the ordinary people of a country and their supposed 'representatives' and a project which is profoundly undemocratic.

A man with actual dignity and the best Prime Minister we never had. My favourite politician

Vote REFORM to bring structure and sanity back to the UK.

I think the interviewee could have added something about how creepiness and dishonesty are related to vocal tone. It sounds like he wanted to say something about political speech and the air in a room.

What a shit opening statement from the presenter regarding RS.. He is no better than all the other arsehole politicians, his record in government is rubbish and did jackshit for the working classes.. IMO.. Tony cuenca

tory politicians especially.
the seemingly incessant borderline criminality, breezy callousness and life sapping narcissism displayed by the public facing members of that outfit leads me to wonder how on Earth anyone not scoring high on the Hare psychopathy checklist can find a way to deal first hand with such a mob in any way, let alone battle it hand-to-hand as it were. . Kudos to Mr Stewart, looking forward to reading his account of it all as part of my look into why it is that such people are currently so damn rare in Westminster.

Rory Stewart a man who helped with the destruction of a once great party.
Although a thank you for the rise of a new party Reform

i'd like him to blow the whistle on specific tory schemes, borderline criminal or otherwise.
i suspect the alibi / cover story of 'blunders' and 'incompetence' so dutifully rolled out by the UK's infamously partisan news media after the discovery of each serious wrongdoing by tory, is over used. Not least because the incidents ALWAYS , by design at least, benefit the same wealthy few in society., tory's financial backers.
Genuine mistakes will not always favour one entity or group, design becomes apparent as the number of 'errors' increases and/or similarities between incidents begin to form a pattern in the 'error ridden' party's MO .

Just to get the ball rolling i'd find it interesting to find out, for example, what was so politically embarrassing about the government's whatsapp message chains related to 'covid' that every MP involved deleted every message from his/her device/s and did so on or around the time that it became clear to them that the contents of those messages would very likely be useful to the parliamentary inquiry into events, such as the awarding of PPE contracts , of that period ?
'democracy' my foot !

no mention of the prison system now (since early-mid 80s) being used to barrack the mentally ill ?
Apparently at least 70% of male inmates suffer from one or more such illnesses with that number rising to some 80-90% of the system's female population !

'care in the community' translates to : ' underfund/defund the mental health services required by the rapidly growing number of folks with such illnesses. Then wait until the sufferer is imprisoned for committing a criminal offence at which point he/she will be magically transformed into a justice system stat and no longer a health system stat'
...folks with mental health needs effectively have no voice in a tory controlled Westminster (with convicted sufferers totally abandoned ) , so, can be dumped elsewhere to keep the numbers down and so lessen the political pressure to increase the NHS budget and finally begin to address the UK's crippling mental health epidemic.
Meanwhile tory slashes the corporate tax rate to reward its donors...shareholders..
'democracy' ? don't be silly !

So says the best mate of Alastair Campbell.
Nuff said.

Tories need Rory if they are to have a future, it seems...

An ergonomically uncomfortable set: terrible chairs and their having to hold mikes looks awkward and makes for inconsistent sound quality.

Take those hand mics away from them and put a lapel mic on them. There is no need for 1950s tech here.

The disparity between the opinion of Rory in these comments compared to his Triggernometry is staggering.

Tell us again how many years you accepted payment from the state for do jobs you knew you were unqualified for?

Rory, YOUR TORY NONSENSE BROUGHT US TO POPULISM!!!!

It was your greed, your institutionalised avarice, your belief in free markets and unconstrained individual freedom that favoured the wealthy and allowed those vampires, like yourself, to steal all the resources and funnel them upwards away from us peasants.

I like Rory, don't get me wrong. I think he'd make an excellent civil servant. But he's a LOUSY politician, because he is utterly blind to the role he has played in our demise.

And there speaks the creepiest of them all.

omg what a treat!! the ret is history X the rest is politics ❤

Rory for PM.

'A haunted Eddie Redmayne, if fashioned by the chaps at Aardman Animation after a long lunch'.

Paddy Taylor.