I have always liked Paul O'Grady, however I see this as a cheap gag. It's okay moaning about cuts, but in my view they are more than necessary. In addition to that, I would much rather have the Conservative party taking care of our economy and country, rather than Labour. A fine job they did....
@adamps16 'in your view'? Ok, we should probably ignore the warnings from IMF and leading economists then. Phew, was starting to get genuinely worried about having no future and stuff. And guess what - I agree with you about Labour. Just a shame people in our country have so little imagination they see that as the only alternative.
@adamps16 Yes but ask yourself why Labour were in in the first place. Because the country was sick to death of the mess the Tories got us into in the previous EIGHTEEN years.
All you having a go at paul o'grady for being rich can shut the fuck up he came from nothing down in liverpool and worked bloody hard to earn his money so he knows very much what its like have no money and live in hardtimes i bet you never had it as hard as he had you clueless wankers
@trickykirk18 Um. we aren't having a go at him because he's rich, I'm not a communist. I just hate this attitude about the tories, that they are rich toffs with no clue, it's ridiculous, like labour haven't made a mess of this country, so I'm not arguing that he's rich, it's just he is hardly affected by the cuts as the average person.
THIS IS A MAN WHO WORKED FROM THE BOTTOM OF A LADDER TO THE TOP GOOD ON HIM TO SPEAK THE TRUTH IT TAKES GAY BLOKE'S LIKE US TO SPEAK THE TRUE ( BARE THAT IN MIND B4 U TALK SHIT ) LIVE PAUL O GRADY X
The fact he's rich is even better, 'cause he could quite easily say, "I'm alright Jack!". But he's not, he's complaining about other less fortunate people being bullied.
@DMaddox2010 a millionaire standing up for the people, yeah, sounds like a wanker to me. i mean, i'd rather see one of those knob head bankers just sit there and show off their money to be honest.
GOVERNMENTS OF SELF SERVING, GREEDY POLITICIANS WHO WORK ONLY FOR THE RICH AND ALLOW BANKING FRAUD TO PLACE THE WORLD IN POVERTY. AS EACH GOVERNMENT IS AN H M GOVERNMENT, MEANING THAT ALL ACTIONS ARE APPROVED BY THE CROWN, OTHERWISE ONE WOULD HAVE HEARD CENSURE. AN ABSOLUTELY APPALLING DEMOCRATIC AND GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM ALLOWED TO FALL FLAT ON ITS FACE IN THE MIRE BY WEAK LEADERSHIP AND FAILED INSTITUTIONS. jsf
i love it when paul kicks off especialy now that his show is on late he can fully kick off and swear and just be himself dose he realise how funny he is when he is angry i wonder?
@MrNath5150 Paul for prime minister, i say. Would do a better job than the gobshite we have at the moment. Failing that, if a large plane were to land on parliament, please. Agree with you Paul is very funny.
@Mzgruesome If they stopped paying out 8 BILLION pounds a year in Foreign Aid they could also avoid these cuts. Last year they gave away 1 billion pound in aid to India and In june of last year Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell announced a £89.3 million free school textbook pro-gramme for schools in Pakistan’s north west Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province and that 300,000 girls will receive a monthly allowance to encourage them to attend school. Bastards.
Things Can Only Get Better or We Are All In This Together - the coalition has the same meaningless cliches as the last Labour government, who, along with reckless greedy bankers, got us to this place. See my take on it on my channel - with apologies to D'Ream!
Typical right wing response. Blaming Labour alone despite this being a global issue! Benifit scroungers? If you want someone to blame about our current financial problems point your finger at the elite and those who commit corporate crime, evading over £100billion in tax. Read a book not the torygraph.
Well said Paul. This was like the Daily Show just better! Cameron thinks he's 'middle class' he has millions in the bank! The Tory ROYAL London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames has the smallest council spending cut while I believe its the Labour Tower Hamlets (one of the poorest boroughs in London) gets the biggest cut in London. Fair? No. It seems people have forgot what Thatcher done to this country. But don't worry! They will be reminded soon.
@tinymacmurph Well he is due to the fact it's seems to be ok for these raving lefties to have alot of money, (Doesn't bother me one bit before you say) but they go on about tories.. are out to harm the poor it's ridiculous.. due to the fact the whole misconception that the conservatives aims are to go out of there way to harm the poor and would see children poorer than labour etc.. it is not true!!
Why is he a champagne socialist? Just because someone from a working class background makes good doesn't mean they have to abandon their political beliefs. Rather someone like Paul than the plastic tories like Cilla any day of the week.
Let's take control of the country back from the banks, and back into the hands of the people. Well done Paul for speaking out in support of the students and the poor.
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Paul O Grady is all talk and no trousers-he has opinions that get him applause but what he believes behind closed doors no body knows-he is one of these nausiatingly vocal Scouse exiles(not even from liverpool) who bleats on and on with the likes of Cilla Black and Ringo Starr and other scouse has beens about how great life was in the Liverpool/Merseyside area......if its so great why have you hardly been back in 20 years. Give it a rest, we who actually live in the area cringe when you speak.
just because you have an axe to grind with all northern people and probably all normal people, too, and because you are obviously stupid enough to vote for the cuts, it doesnt mean you have an excuse to swear and sound like youre a bigot and sort of racist too.
just because you have an axe to grind with all northern people and probably all normal people, too, and because you are obviously stupid enough to vote for the cuts, it doesnt mean you have an excuse to swear and sound like youre a bigot and sort of racist too.
Bulked - He may have money now, but that is a fairly recent thing, before that he was an ordinary person, not like Cameron or Osbourne, who have been wealthy and privelliged all their lives. Also, arent the banks already operating call centres etc from abroad? let them piss off...they wont, cos they need us more than we need them
of course, its easy for someone like him who is rolling in money to be all moral, seeing as it wont affect him one way or the other, but id like to see his solutions-like most people, they are good at criticising but have no solutions other than `tax the banks`-what if we do, then the banks all piss off abroad, putting hundreds of thousands of ordinary bank workers-not multimillionaire bankers, but the branch clerks, the call centre operators out of work.
@bulked Okay, so we won't blame the bastards that got us here (that includes the government of millionaires). Perhaps they should be looking at the richest in the country before striking the poor and the lower middle-classes. After all, as they keep saying 'we're all in this together' (pft)
I think this daft lefty should try running a government before he makes snide comments about those trying to do the job themselves. complete lack of understanding. he has no political qualifications to speak of so i don't think he can rightly make comments like those.
@Sanctum90 Agreed. It's easy to talk of utopias and condemn everything that's wrong in this country, but it's all talk and no action. If you put Paul in charge of the country, we'd be fucked within a week. The system we have isn't perfect by any means, but it's relatively stable compared to what it could be.
Oh by the way, Paul O'Grady socialises with a lot of (mostly Labour) politicians. Including Tony Blair himself. Pretty two-faced, really - unless he only has it in for the coalition.
O'Grady was brought up in grinding poverty, worked in the care system.
While of course, the deficit has to reduce, it was created by having to bail out a reckless, selfish and stupid system that had banks doing too much casino style activities and too little investment.
The last government were culpable, however, anyone else fed up with Cameron and co greatly underplaying the fault of the banks?
£81 billion of cuts, affecting mostly the poorest, the banks? They lose £2.5 billion.
I am not a supporter of any of the corrupt self serving political parties in the UK.There is no difference between any of them.they all do the bidding of the corporate paymasters.screw the weak rip off the worker and put it all on expenses,If the Tory labour and lib dems had the true interest of our country and people at heart they would not take from the wealthy elite and fleece the rest,but work to make this a great place for all
@rosesinthebloom Wasn't it the banks that caused the mess? All other western countries are making cuts too, and i don't think Labour are too blame for those.
@rosesinthebloom Actually it was the BANKS that got us into this mess. When the world recession hit the Labour gmnt was well placed economically to cope with it. When the UK banks hit the wall the Labour govmnt felt they had to bail them out and this is where the deficit appeared. George Osbourne and Cameron bang on about Labour's spending plans but history shows them to be hypocrites since they agreed with Labours plans!
eh? i suspect we're singing from the same hymn book matey. after fourteen years of voting lib dem i'm appalled at what clegg nuts has done, and will continue to do, to sheffield and the country as a whole. i did not vote for this government, and nor, come to think of it, did anyone else in this country.
@thisaresealclub i cant believe the thing they did to sheffield forgemasters =/ was a disgrace that was. !!!! 300 jobs are going plus more. We would of revived the manufacturing britiain, it would have been good for the government too becuase it was a loan meaning they would make money out of it!! yet they spend the money on a refferendum on voting what no one wants ;(
to be fair, it didn't lose any jobs, just stopped the creation of more by not allowing them the necessary funds to take on a MASSIVE new contract building nuclear reactor parts.
this, my dear cleggmoron, is the polar opposite of what we call economic stimulus.
what's worse is that cleggnuts has backtracked on so many of his election promises, particularly in sheff.
forgemasters is still one of the biggest, and most respected, fabricators in the world.
@digger65uk it's his country too he has a platform to say what many are thinking if you don't like what he's saying why don't you leave?Change is what makes the world go around and I hope those that do the doing are going to catch on soon that they have the power to change things in their interests
Well done Paul O'Grady for highlighting what our Narcissistic Elitist Criminal government are up to. Hitting the most Vulnerable while they continue to quaff the finest champagne. While they continue to avoid taxes in offshore tax havens. The bankers and these wankers caused the problems with their GREED. They should be the ones sorting out the mess from their obscene fortunes. Their mothers should have smothered them in their cots. Greedy capitalist scum.
Well done Paul O'Grady for highlighting what our Narcissistic Elitist Criminal government are up to. Hitting the most Vulnerable while they continue to quaff the finest champagne. While they continue to avoid taxes in offshore tax havens. The bankers and these wankers caused the problems with their GREED. They should be the ones sorting out the mess from their obscene fortunes. Their mothers should have smothered them in their cots. Greedy capitalist scum.
Well done Paul O'Grady for highlighting what our Narcissistic Elitist Criminal government are up to. Hitting the most Vulnerable while they continue to quaff the finest champagne. While they continue to avoid taxes in offshore tax havens. The bankers and these wankers caused the problems with their GREED. They should be the ones sorting out the mess from their obscene fortunes. Their mothers should have smothered them in their cots. Greedy capitalist scum.
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Typical thick Scouse cunt who,like most Northerners,has no idea of how politics and economics works and lacks the intelligence to make a sensible comment on this subject.
The cuts are only coming about because those Labour bastards threw all our money at the benefit scroungers up North and created unneeded jobs for the few tossers who do work
Never mind giving Scotland independence,give us Southerners independence so we always get the Government we vote for and not the North's Labour Party
@WinstonThatcher Well, what a middle-class southern bigot you are. It's the fault of people not voting, not the ones who voted Labour. Yes, the North has been a Labour stronghold for a while, but there's a very good reason. Most people lost their jobs down the mines, when Maggie Thatcher closed them all down - there's kind of a thinking that the Tories don't think about the working-class, and it's true. Not everyone in the North is a benefit-scrounger, get off your high horse.
@WinstonThatcher Yes, I did know that. I said that the Northern Working Class don't vote Tory, due to the closure of the mines, which cost many people their jobs.
@digger65uk Your right we need some radical leadership to put us back to being a decent just society. get the people working give them some direction and focus and reason to feel part of something not just a powerless disconnected lost sheep.
@WinstonThatcher Aha! Saying "I'm working class" is something that only a middle class person would say! Its the same thing with posh people. If someone says "I'm posh" then they clearly are not posh, as posh people always deny their poshness.
@LovePsalm1 Why do some people think that if you hate Labour and agree with a lot of the Tories' policies,you must be middle class?
I'll say it again - The vast majority of the working class in the South hate Labour and usually vote for the Tories.
I can go through my life story and talk about my parents and grandparents if you want but believe me,it's unlikely that any of you on here had a poorer and more working class upbringing than I had.
But fuck it, while we're at it: No, you don't have to be middle class to support the Tories policies. You do have to be a fucking idiot with a raging hatred of the poor and possess a firm belief that inequality is a good thing which humanity must aspire to achieve.
@WinstonThatcher You clearly have no understanding about how to deficit occured. It didn't build-up over 13 years, it was when the amount of tax receipts the governemnt received fell due to the global recession. That's why every governmennt around the world now has a large deficit.
@scottyDUK You're half right Labour did spend too much, they were borrowing when the economy was booming, so yes the recession did play a part, but they didn't exactly help matters, and no I'm not a Tory.
@ajuk1 I see your point however no government runs at a surplus. Debt was at an all-time low before the crisis (lower than in 1997). Having a slightly lower deficit (or none at all) would probably have made little difference when looking at how much the government had to borrow (£170 bill+).
@WinstonThatcher Do you actually think that your Kelvin Mackenzie?
And sensibility entails spouting behind a com a load of dogshit about a certain Northerner who doesn't read and parrot a load of misleading and sensationalist bile from Rupert Murdoch's empire of PROVINGLY Torie bias tabloids like a silly naive child with a brain like a sponge, so easy to, manipulate. Furthermore your username's a fucking joke people will think you are a childish right wing crank - just the world ya living in.
@WinstonThatcher so what about the 16 billion pounds of public money lost to tax avation by the very rich compared to 3 billion lost through benefit fraud!
what conservative politics boils down to is knee jerk reactions and scape goating towards groups you make an excelent example with people on benefits and the north!
This is the best response to Gideon's speech yet. So what if he's worth a bob or two. That doesn't dilute his words. Listening to the crowing and guffawing of the backbenches as Osborne delivered his speech should have provoked an outcry. Instead the Tory trolls are on here as on every CIF forum with 'Labour spent all the money'. Ordinary working folk backing these cuts is like turkeys voting for Christmas. Recognise their Tory ideology for what it is FFS. & Pray you keep your job.
OK - he's done well for himself but that doesn't mean he's forgotten where he came from.
Trouble with our Tory toff government they'll never had parents doing low paid manual jobs, making a bit of meat last for three meals or turning sheets sides to middle to make them last longer. None of them are working class.
Anyone who saw or heard the cheering and responses to Osborne's speech of cuts and not been shocked has no empathy with folk less well off than themselves. Well done Mr O'G.
@Burdetski yeah, only the poor can opinions - I doubt his wealth would have little impact on the wholesale financial fu*ckup the goverment/banks/greedy people have created.
@Burdetski yeah, only the poor can opinions - I doubt his wealth would have little impact on the wholesale financial fu*ckup the goverment/banks/greedy people have created.
After feeling desperately hopeless at the state of this country and how people will be affected, this made my day and made me laugh so much. thank you for posting!
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I wonder if the rich Mr O'Grady gives his money away or takes a pay cut to fund poor people or get a youth in work at the TV station where he gets his vast fortune
Exactly when did the coalition abolish wheelchairs and pensions? Anyone who cheered that comment should be confined to a sanatorium, and disbarred from voting ever again. When did POG ever complain about the money THAT lot were spending that UKPLC never actually had? What a one-eyed monkfish.
@plaza249 He is quite right about the disgusting spectacle of the ConDems cheering as the cuts were announced, and the line about abolishing wheelchairs is clearly ironic.
@plaza249 You're quite right, they haven't abolished those things. It's almost as if he's exaggerating for comic effect. I will stop getting my factual news reporting from the Paul O'Grady Show immediately.
@SouthEastFive You might try reading the facts about the financial catastrophe we've been left in by that shower of expense-thieving champagne-guzzling socialists we've just voted out in disgust too. Surely we've all moved on from Ben Elton and his uniquely unfunny brand of left-wing sarcasm? Judging by the pathetic whooping of the meerkats on the POG show, it appears not. When will this electorate grow up? They voted for these cuts, now shut up, and put up. Irony my arse.
@plaza249 Facts eh? You do know that the Tories voted to match all of Labours spending don't you? It would have been exactly the same under them. Also, the debt before the bank bailouts was the same as under John Major. It was only the bank bailouts that has caused the bigger than normal deficit and I don't see the banks paying for much of it now! We didn't vote for these cuts. We didn't even vote for the Tories! The banks caused the crisis and now we're paying for it
@plaza249 sorry mate, but you can't blame the last government for the financial crisis, every country in the world had a financial crisis, it was caused by american investment banks, not Gordon Brown, no matter how much the Daily Mail screams it. And all parties were caught up in the expenses scandle, well except the only party that could (past tense) ever have called itself socialist. And if you think anybody in the POG audience has ever voted you're delusional.
@TxnDigital nope, the initial crash was caused by American banks lending money to people who they knew couldn't afford it. the sub-prime mortage situation. That was the first domino
@frusciante39 According to Ian Duncan Smith the financial deficit in this country was caused by the people on benefits. He was quoted on that when he gave a speech to a newspaper. Nice to know what this government really think of the poor and the sick.
@71TattyTeddy and that's what they say in speeches. Imagine what they say behind closed doors when they can stop pretending they don't all vote BNP anyway
@frusciante39 Exactly right. Complete and utter Bastards the lot of them. I would love to know when they bring in the benefit cuts for the sick and disabled where all the jobs are going to magically appear from for them when their DLA is stopped. ATOS, who have landed the contract for forcing the disabled and sick back into work make the Nazi party look like liberals.
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It just looks like an overpaid ITV star going for the easy target by reading out a script someone else has written for him. But then that's ITV all over - just lazy.
@NickOLarse999 I'm no Tory apologist, but you can't deny that Labour were a shower of shit by nearly bankrupting the country and then just blaming every last bit on "oh, it was a global problem that started in America". No, Gordon Brown, you spent every last penny the country had and then got us in hock for tons more!
@DomSezXL I'm no Labour apologist but... You do know that the Tories voted to match all of Labours spending don't you? It would have been exactly the same under them. Also, the debt before the bank bailouts was the same as under John Major. It was only the bank bailouts that has caused the bigger than normal deficit and I don't see the banks paying for much of it now!
PAUL O'GRADY FOR PRIME MINISTER.
knk1000bike1 1 month ago 2
@knk1000bike1 Couldn't agree more. He'd do a better job of running the country than any tory could. Power to the people!
SnappyPenguins 1 week ago
I cannot stand this man but holy fuck I respect him now!
OriginalSin42K 2 months ago
What a socialist. I love him.
Sleck06 2 months ago
BASTARDS
DMaddox2010 4 months ago
I have always liked Paul O'Grady, however I see this as a cheap gag. It's okay moaning about cuts, but in my view they are more than necessary. In addition to that, I would much rather have the Conservative party taking care of our economy and country, rather than Labour. A fine job they did....
adamps16 5 months ago
@adamps16 'in your view'? Ok, we should probably ignore the warnings from IMF and leading economists then. Phew, was starting to get genuinely worried about having no future and stuff. And guess what - I agree with you about Labour. Just a shame people in our country have so little imagination they see that as the only alternative.
qmcomputer 4 months ago
@adamps16 Yes but ask yourself why Labour were in in the first place. Because the country was sick to death of the mess the Tories got us into in the previous EIGHTEEN years.
CAZZFORDY 4 months ago
I love that my comment has been negatively voted - obviously all raving lefties are watching this!
rosesinthebloom 6 months ago
All you having a go at paul o'grady for being rich can shut the fuck up he came from nothing down in liverpool and worked bloody hard to earn his money so he knows very much what its like have no money and live in hardtimes i bet you never had it as hard as he had you clueless wankers
trickykirk18 6 months ago 6
@trickykirk18 Um. we aren't having a go at him because he's rich, I'm not a communist. I just hate this attitude about the tories, that they are rich toffs with no clue, it's ridiculous, like labour haven't made a mess of this country, so I'm not arguing that he's rich, it's just he is hardly affected by the cuts as the average person.
rosesinthebloom 6 months ago
THIS IS A MAN WHO WORKED FROM THE BOTTOM OF A LADDER TO THE TOP GOOD ON HIM TO SPEAK THE TRUTH IT TAKES GAY BLOKE'S LIKE US TO SPEAK THE TRUE ( BARE THAT IN MIND B4 U TALK SHIT ) LIVE PAUL O GRADY X
leedavuk 9 months ago 2
The fact he's rich is even better, 'cause he could quite easily say, "I'm alright Jack!". But he's not, he's complaining about other less fortunate people being bullied.
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DMaddox2010 10 months ago
@DMaddox2010 a millionaire standing up for the people, yeah, sounds like a wanker to me. i mean, i'd rather see one of those knob head bankers just sit there and show off their money to be honest.
TheGareeh 9 months ago
Im not really a fan of Paul O' Grady but what he says here is 100% true! FUCK THE TORIES.
gifto18 11 months ago 26
GOVERNMENTS OF SELF SERVING, GREEDY POLITICIANS WHO WORK ONLY FOR THE RICH AND ALLOW BANKING FRAUD TO PLACE THE WORLD IN POVERTY. AS EACH GOVERNMENT IS AN H M GOVERNMENT, MEANING THAT ALL ACTIONS ARE APPROVED BY THE CROWN, OTHERWISE ONE WOULD HAVE HEARD CENSURE. AN ABSOLUTELY APPALLING DEMOCRATIC AND GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM ALLOWED TO FALL FLAT ON ITS FACE IN THE MIRE BY WEAK LEADERSHIP AND FAILED INSTITUTIONS. jsf
hotsatsuma2 11 months ago
yer shit on radio 2 as well u tosser
bris5555 11 months ago
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bris5555 11 months ago
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bris5555 1 year ago
i love it when paul kicks off especialy now that his show is on late he can fully kick off and swear and just be himself dose he realise how funny he is when he is angry i wonder?
MrNath5150 1 year ago
@MrNath5150 Paul for prime minister, i say. Would do a better job than the gobshite we have at the moment. Failing that, if a large plane were to land on parliament, please. Agree with you Paul is very funny.
71TattyTeddy 1 year ago
If the condem bastards just made their friends pay their taxes, most if not all of these cuts could be avoided, get out there and protest.
Mzgruesome 1 year ago
@Mzgruesome If they stopped paying out 8 BILLION pounds a year in Foreign Aid they could also avoid these cuts. Last year they gave away 1 billion pound in aid to India and In june of last year Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell announced a £89.3 million free school textbook pro-gramme for schools in Pakistan’s north west Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province and that 300,000 girls will receive a monthly allowance to encourage them to attend school. Bastards.
71TattyTeddy 1 year ago
He's obviously got about as much clue of the ecomonic reality as a three year old crying because there's no more lollies left in the fridge.
fodsaks 1 year ago
Did he say that live on afternoon TV?
ajuk1 1 year ago
Things Can Only Get Better or We Are All In This Together - the coalition has the same meaningless cliches as the last Labour government, who, along with reckless greedy bankers, got us to this place. See my take on it on my channel - with apologies to D'Ream!
songsmith100 1 year ago
Why did Clegg cross the road? 'Cause he said he wouldn't.
SatuWira 1 year ago
Well done paul.... you remember your roots and what a bunch of spiteful heartless people the torys are. You are rightly widely admired..
bkkbound 1 year ago 4
Paul O'Grady for PM! He wouldn't turn his back on his principles just to get some power like a certain Mr. Clegg.
SirHawkeyeWho 1 year ago
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Typical right wing response. Blaming Labour alone despite this being a global issue! Benifit scroungers? If you want someone to blame about our current financial problems point your finger at the elite and those who commit corporate crime, evading over £100billion in tax. Read a book not the torygraph.
narusasuism 1 year ago
Well said Paul. This was like the Daily Show just better! Cameron thinks he's 'middle class' he has millions in the bank! The Tory ROYAL London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames has the smallest council spending cut while I believe its the Labour Tower Hamlets (one of the poorest boroughs in London) gets the biggest cut in London. Fair? No. It seems people have forgot what Thatcher done to this country. But don't worry! They will be reminded soon.
simpletimes222 1 year ago
Thank you Paul, you're a god inmy eyes, he should be a Labour M.P.
SuperPoisonoak 1 year ago
@tinymacmurph Well he is due to the fact it's seems to be ok for these raving lefties to have alot of money, (Doesn't bother me one bit before you say) but they go on about tories.. are out to harm the poor it's ridiculous.. due to the fact the whole misconception that the conservatives aims are to go out of there way to harm the poor and would see children poorer than labour etc.. it is not true!!
rosesinthebloom 1 year ago
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oh yeah... because paul o grady is sooo poor?? bloody champagne socialist!!! he's gone right down in my estimation
rosesinthebloom 1 year ago
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Why is he a champagne socialist? Just because someone from a working class background makes good doesn't mean they have to abandon their political beliefs. Rather someone like Paul than the plastic tories like Cilla any day of the week.
tinymacmurph 1 year ago 4
Let's take control of the country back from the banks, and back into the hands of the people. Well done Paul for speaking out in support of the students and the poor.
alanbuttle 1 year ago 3
well said paul time more were like you this lot have no idea how to run a country sooner theyre booted out the better
ellielovesskye 1 year ago
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mrwho995 1 year ago
Go on, Paul. Making sense for once. Just wish he wasn't so sympathetic about the Queen. 'Flat shoes and a pram!'
sphinxrepairs 1 year ago
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Scouse CUNT
MeanMachine022 1 year ago
well said Paul!
newportcounty91 1 year ago
This is great!
LukeHiggins1000 1 year ago
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All emotion, no intelligence.
gazz12345a 1 year ago
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Paul O Grady is all talk and no trousers-he has opinions that get him applause but what he believes behind closed doors no body knows-he is one of these nausiatingly vocal Scouse exiles(not even from liverpool) who bleats on and on with the likes of Cilla Black and Ringo Starr and other scouse has beens about how great life was in the Liverpool/Merseyside area......if its so great why have you hardly been back in 20 years. Give it a rest, we who actually live in the area cringe when you speak.
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@WinstonThatcher
just because you have an axe to grind with all northern people and probably all normal people, too, and because you are obviously stupid enough to vote for the cuts, it doesnt mean you have an excuse to swear and sound like youre a bigot and sort of racist too.
jmerrington 1 year ago
@winston thatcher
just because you have an axe to grind with all northern people and probably all normal people, too, and because you are obviously stupid enough to vote for the cuts, it doesnt mean you have an excuse to swear and sound like youre a bigot and sort of racist too.
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jmerrington 1 year ago
Good for you Paul! I wish everyone really was brave enough to start a revolution against those bastards!
Ccmcr1 1 year ago 2
Bastards lol lv you paul lol
DMaddox2010 1 year ago
Bulked - He may have money now, but that is a fairly recent thing, before that he was an ordinary person, not like Cameron or Osbourne, who have been wealthy and privelliged all their lives. Also, arent the banks already operating call centres etc from abroad? let them piss off...they wont, cos they need us more than we need them
okmickey232 1 year ago 5
@okmickey232 umm, the biggest banks in the world have their corporate headquarters in London, thats what i mean
bulked 1 year ago
Go Paul :)
HepburnJen 1 year ago
well said Paul!
newportcounty91 1 year ago
of course, its easy for someone like him who is rolling in money to be all moral, seeing as it wont affect him one way or the other, but id like to see his solutions-like most people, they are good at criticising but have no solutions other than `tax the banks`-what if we do, then the banks all piss off abroad, putting hundreds of thousands of ordinary bank workers-not multimillionaire bankers, but the branch clerks, the call centre operators out of work.
yeah, blame the banks...........
bulked 1 year ago
@bulked Okay, so we won't blame the bastards that got us here (that includes the government of millionaires). Perhaps they should be looking at the richest in the country before striking the poor and the lower middle-classes. After all, as they keep saying 'we're all in this together' (pft)
MrsJellyCat 1 year ago 3
I think this daft lefty should try running a government before he makes snide comments about those trying to do the job themselves. complete lack of understanding. he has no political qualifications to speak of so i don't think he can rightly make comments like those.
Sanctum90 1 year ago
@Sanctum90 I love how you used 'lefty' as an insult.
MrsJellyCat 1 year ago
@Sanctum90 Agreed. It's easy to talk of utopias and condemn everything that's wrong in this country, but it's all talk and no action. If you put Paul in charge of the country, we'd be fucked within a week. The system we have isn't perfect by any means, but it's relatively stable compared to what it could be.
Oh by the way, Paul O'Grady socialises with a lot of (mostly Labour) politicians. Including Tony Blair himself. Pretty two-faced, really - unless he only has it in for the coalition.
ska2808 1 year ago
O'Grady is right, and the braying Tories were disgusting.
vanillaorchid 1 year ago 3
Nice to see someone standing up for what they belive in, not seen many Lib Dems doing that lately.
MatthewB1100 1 year ago 2
I've seen Paul 5 times. He hit the nail on the head.This is when he's on fire.
bigbosscentral90 1 year ago 2
PREACH, MOTHERFUCKER, PREACH!
lindsay40k 1 year ago
O'Grady was brought up in grinding poverty, worked in the care system.
While of course, the deficit has to reduce, it was created by having to bail out a reckless, selfish and stupid system that had banks doing too much casino style activities and too little investment.
The last government were culpable, however, anyone else fed up with Cameron and co greatly underplaying the fault of the banks?
£81 billion of cuts, affecting mostly the poorest, the banks? They lose £2.5 billion.
SSCFPA 1 year ago 3
O'Grady for PM!
Fabulous - the spirit of Lily is not dead.
britcomic 1 year ago 5
jesus, i can't believe there are so many people so willing to openly defend this "government".
thisaresealclub 1 year ago 32
I am not a supporter of any of the corrupt self serving political parties in the UK.There is no difference between any of them.they all do the bidding of the corporate paymasters.screw the weak rip off the worker and put it all on expenses,If the Tory labour and lib dems had the true interest of our country and people at heart they would not take from the wealthy elite and fleece the rest,but work to make this a great place for all
peepshow090 1 year ago
@rosesinthebloom Wasn't it the banks that caused the mess? All other western countries are making cuts too, and i don't think Labour are too blame for those.
jamy30 1 year ago
@jamy30 Idiot
digger65uk 1 year ago
@digger65uk yes you are an idiot why do you not offer some suggestions on how to improve things instead of just being negative
peepshow090 1 year ago
@rosesinthebloom Actually it was the BANKS that got us into this mess. When the world recession hit the Labour gmnt was well placed economically to cope with it. When the UK banks hit the wall the Labour govmnt felt they had to bail them out and this is where the deficit appeared. George Osbourne and Cameron bang on about Labour's spending plans but history shows them to be hypocrites since they agreed with Labours plans!
Cutchswife 1 year ago 5
@Cutchswife Idiot...please leave our country
digger65uk 1 year ago
@digger65uk
moron.
thisaresealclub 1 year ago
@thisaresealclub talking through you hat again
peepshow090 1 year ago
@peepshow090
eh? i suspect we're singing from the same hymn book matey. after fourteen years of voting lib dem i'm appalled at what clegg nuts has done, and will continue to do, to sheffield and the country as a whole. i did not vote for this government, and nor, come to think of it, did anyone else in this country.
thisaresealclub 1 year ago 2
@thisaresealclub i cant believe the thing they did to sheffield forgemasters =/ was a disgrace that was. !!!! 300 jobs are going plus more. We would of revived the manufacturing britiain, it would have been good for the government too becuase it was a loan meaning they would make money out of it!! yet they spend the money on a refferendum on voting what no one wants ;(
evertonjf08 1 year ago
@evertonjf08
to be fair, it didn't lose any jobs, just stopped the creation of more by not allowing them the necessary funds to take on a MASSIVE new contract building nuclear reactor parts.
this, my dear cleggmoron, is the polar opposite of what we call economic stimulus.
what's worse is that cleggnuts has backtracked on so many of his election promises, particularly in sheff.
forgemasters is still one of the biggest, and most respected, fabricators in the world.
thisaresealclub 1 year ago
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thisaresealclub 1 year ago
@digger65uk it's his country as well as yours and he seems to have some idea of what to do
peepshow090 1 year ago
@digger65uk it's his country too he has a platform to say what many are thinking if you don't like what he's saying why don't you leave?Change is what makes the world go around and I hope those that do the doing are going to catch on soon that they have the power to change things in their interests
peepshow090 1 year ago
I have just seen the UK's version of the Daily Show and here is its host. The great P O'Grady
SouthbankSteve 1 year ago
he should be a pllitician hes great :)
donnaf630 1 year ago
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Well done Paul O'Grady for highlighting what our Narcissistic Elitist Criminal government are up to. Hitting the most Vulnerable while they continue to quaff the finest champagne. While they continue to avoid taxes in offshore tax havens. The bankers and these wankers caused the problems with their GREED. They should be the ones sorting out the mess from their obscene fortunes. Their mothers should have smothered them in their cots. Greedy capitalist scum.
jigsaw1956 1 year ago
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Well done Paul O'Grady for highlighting what our Narcissistic Elitist Criminal government are up to. Hitting the most Vulnerable while they continue to quaff the finest champagne. While they continue to avoid taxes in offshore tax havens. The bankers and these wankers caused the problems with their GREED. They should be the ones sorting out the mess from their obscene fortunes. Their mothers should have smothered them in their cots. Greedy capitalist scum.
jigsaw1956 1 year ago
Well done Paul O'Grady for highlighting what our Narcissistic Elitist Criminal government are up to. Hitting the most Vulnerable while they continue to quaff the finest champagne. While they continue to avoid taxes in offshore tax havens. The bankers and these wankers caused the problems with their GREED. They should be the ones sorting out the mess from their obscene fortunes. Their mothers should have smothered them in their cots. Greedy capitalist scum.
jigsaw1956 1 year ago
Problem is, many of the audience must have voted Tory.
Shalashaska8636 1 year ago
What a hilarious man, he deserves some form of award for that. Especially the glass and cilla black knocking.
jamieross1991 1 year ago
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Typical thick Scouse cunt who,like most Northerners,has no idea of how politics and economics works and lacks the intelligence to make a sensible comment on this subject.
The cuts are only coming about because those Labour bastards threw all our money at the benefit scroungers up North and created unneeded jobs for the few tossers who do work
Never mind giving Scotland independence,give us Southerners independence so we always get the Government we vote for and not the North's Labour Party
WinstonThatcher 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher Well, what a middle-class southern bigot you are. It's the fault of people not voting, not the ones who voted Labour. Yes, the North has been a Labour stronghold for a while, but there's a very good reason. Most people lost their jobs down the mines, when Maggie Thatcher closed them all down - there's kind of a thinking that the Tories don't think about the working-class, and it's true. Not everyone in the North is a benefit-scrounger, get off your high horse.
frasierfreak92 1 year ago 2
@frasierfreak92 Middle class? I'm as working class as you can get.
You did know that the vast majority of the working class in the South hate Labour and usually vote for the Tories, didn't you?
WinstonThatcher 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher Yes, I did know that. I said that the Northern Working Class don't vote Tory, due to the closure of the mines, which cost many people their jobs.
frasierfreak92 1 year ago 2
@frasierfreak92 ....yea, thank heavens Labour openede up all the pits again. They did so well in that 13 year period didnt they.
digger65uk 1 year ago
@digger65uk Your right we need some radical leadership to put us back to being a decent just society. get the people working give them some direction and focus and reason to feel part of something not just a powerless disconnected lost sheep.
peepshow090 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher Aha! Saying "I'm working class" is something that only a middle class person would say! Its the same thing with posh people. If someone says "I'm posh" then they clearly are not posh, as posh people always deny their poshness.
LovePsalm1 1 year ago 3
@LovePsalm1 Why do some people think that if you hate Labour and agree with a lot of the Tories' policies,you must be middle class?
I'll say it again - The vast majority of the working class in the South hate Labour and usually vote for the Tories.
I can go through my life story and talk about my parents and grandparents if you want but believe me,it's unlikely that any of you on here had a poorer and more working class upbringing than I had.
WinstonThatcher 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher I was having a laugh you miserable sod.
But fuck it, while we're at it: No, you don't have to be middle class to support the Tories policies. You do have to be a fucking idiot with a raging hatred of the poor and possess a firm belief that inequality is a good thing which humanity must aspire to achieve.
LovePsalm1 1 year ago 2
@LovePsalm1 lol well said!
Idattani 1 year ago
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@WinstonThatcher You ignorant fuck.
kezza490 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher, Funny lad. THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN.
SpazzyLoLazzy 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher You clearly have no understanding about how to deficit occured. It didn't build-up over 13 years, it was when the amount of tax receipts the governemnt received fell due to the global recession. That's why every governmennt around the world now has a large deficit.
scottyDUK 1 year ago 71
@scottyDUK you are spot on
evertonjf08 1 year ago
@scottyDUK You're half right Labour did spend too much, they were borrowing when the economy was booming, so yes the recession did play a part, but they didn't exactly help matters, and no I'm not a Tory.
ajuk1 1 year ago
@ajuk1 I see your point however no government runs at a surplus. Debt was at an all-time low before the crisis (lower than in 1997). Having a slightly lower deficit (or none at all) would probably have made little difference when looking at how much the government had to borrow (£170 bill+).
scottyDUK 1 year ago
@scottyDUK Ours is the largest
usainlightning 11 months ago
@WinstonThatcher Wow, could you be any more narrow minded and ignorant
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@WinstonThatcher
you've managed to be more of cunt in a few paragraphs than he's been his whole life
cp1492 1 year ago 6
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jmerrington 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher Your name says it all.
BombDropGaming 1 year ago 4
@WinstonThatcher Do you actually think that your Kelvin Mackenzie?
And sensibility entails spouting behind a com a load of dogshit about a certain Northerner who doesn't read and parrot a load of misleading and sensationalist bile from Rupert Murdoch's empire of PROVINGLY Torie bias tabloids like a silly naive child with a brain like a sponge, so easy to, manipulate. Furthermore your username's a fucking joke people will think you are a childish right wing crank - just the world ya living in.
jpres115 1 year ago 4
@jpres115 well said mate
rupertacdc 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher so what about the 16 billion pounds of public money lost to tax avation by the very rich compared to 3 billion lost through benefit fraud!
what conservative politics boils down to is knee jerk reactions and scape goating towards groups you make an excelent example with people on benefits and the north!
btw im a southener!
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narusasuism 1 year ago
@WinstonThatcher typical ignorant 'southern' know it all
theonlylukepritchard 1 year ago
good for him. at least someone's taking a stand.
litt1egollum 1 year ago 3
@setanta1986 educate yourself instead of reading the lazy sky news/daily mail shit.
philyburkhill1 1 year ago
This is the best response to Gideon's speech yet. So what if he's worth a bob or two. That doesn't dilute his words. Listening to the crowing and guffawing of the backbenches as Osborne delivered his speech should have provoked an outcry. Instead the Tory trolls are on here as on every CIF forum with 'Labour spent all the money'. Ordinary working folk backing these cuts is like turkeys voting for Christmas. Recognise their Tory ideology for what it is FFS. & Pray you keep your job.
88deaddog 1 year ago 6
OK - he's done well for himself but that doesn't mean he's forgotten where he came from.
Trouble with our Tory toff government they'll never had parents doing low paid manual jobs, making a bit of meat last for three meals or turning sheets sides to middle to make them last longer. None of them are working class.
Anyone who saw or heard the cheering and responses to Osborne's speech of cuts and not been shocked has no empathy with folk less well off than themselves. Well done Mr O'G.
88deaddog 1 year ago 3
as an American, this is literal nonsense to me.
babylonian 1 year ago
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@Burdetski yeah, only the poor can opinions - I doubt his wealth would have little impact on the wholesale financial fu*ckup the goverment/banks/greedy people have created.
jaffamonkey 1 year ago
@Burdetski yeah, only the poor can opinions - I doubt his wealth would have little impact on the wholesale financial fu*ckup the goverment/banks/greedy people have created.
jaffamonkey 1 year ago
For a long time I wasn't a fan of Paul O'Grady. He just shot up 500 points in my estimations.
AthleteUK 1 year ago 38
After feeling desperately hopeless at the state of this country and how people will be affected, this made my day and made me laugh so much. thank you for posting!
michelle353 1 year ago 7
bloody awesome!
ArmedAndDangerous 1 year ago
The Queen "she'll be shopping at Lidl by christmas! LOL
GeeGee3374 1 year ago 3
It's all done for comic effect, but when he says "bastards" I get the impression he is genuinely angry.
NickOLarse999 1 year ago 5
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I wonder if the rich Mr O'Grady gives his money away or takes a pay cut to fund poor people or get a youth in work at the TV station where he gets his vast fortune
Burdetski 1 year ago
Exactly when did the coalition abolish wheelchairs and pensions? Anyone who cheered that comment should be confined to a sanatorium, and disbarred from voting ever again. When did POG ever complain about the money THAT lot were spending that UKPLC never actually had? What a one-eyed monkfish.
plaza249 1 year ago
@plaza249 He is quite right about the disgusting spectacle of the ConDems cheering as the cuts were announced, and the line about abolishing wheelchairs is clearly ironic.
NickOLarse999 1 year ago 4
@plaza249 You're quite right, they haven't abolished those things. It's almost as if he's exaggerating for comic effect. I will stop getting my factual news reporting from the Paul O'Grady Show immediately.
SouthEastFive 1 year ago 3
@SouthEastFive You might try reading the facts about the financial catastrophe we've been left in by that shower of expense-thieving champagne-guzzling socialists we've just voted out in disgust too. Surely we've all moved on from Ben Elton and his uniquely unfunny brand of left-wing sarcasm? Judging by the pathetic whooping of the meerkats on the POG show, it appears not. When will this electorate grow up? They voted for these cuts, now shut up, and put up. Irony my arse.
plaza249 1 year ago
@plaza249 Facts eh? You do know that the Tories voted to match all of Labours spending don't you? It would have been exactly the same under them. Also, the debt before the bank bailouts was the same as under John Major. It was only the bank bailouts that has caused the bigger than normal deficit and I don't see the banks paying for much of it now! We didn't vote for these cuts. We didn't even vote for the Tories! The banks caused the crisis and now we're paying for it
monkeyharrison 1 year ago 5
@plaza249 sorry mate, but you can't blame the last government for the financial crisis, every country in the world had a financial crisis, it was caused by american investment banks, not Gordon Brown, no matter how much the Daily Mail screams it. And all parties were caught up in the expenses scandle, well except the only party that could (past tense) ever have called itself socialist. And if you think anybody in the POG audience has ever voted you're delusional.
frusciante39 1 year ago 11
@frusciante39 edit: ALL banks
TxnDigital 1 year ago
@TxnDigital nope, the initial crash was caused by American banks lending money to people who they knew couldn't afford it. the sub-prime mortage situation. That was the first domino
frusciante39 1 year ago
@frusciante39 According to Ian Duncan Smith the financial deficit in this country was caused by the people on benefits. He was quoted on that when he gave a speech to a newspaper. Nice to know what this government really think of the poor and the sick.
71TattyTeddy 1 year ago
@71TattyTeddy and that's what they say in speeches. Imagine what they say behind closed doors when they can stop pretending they don't all vote BNP anyway
frusciante39 1 year ago
@frusciante39 Exactly right. Complete and utter Bastards the lot of them. I would love to know when they bring in the benefit cuts for the sick and disabled where all the jobs are going to magically appear from for them when their DLA is stopped. ATOS, who have landed the contract for forcing the disabled and sick back into work make the Nazi party look like liberals.
71TattyTeddy 1 year ago 11
Holy crap, Paul O' Grady's still funny.
DerArmadillian 1 year ago 2
BASTIDS!
rabbitwho 1 year ago
Spot on
valleyvu1992 1 year ago 50
@valleyvu1992 He could've been less sympathetic about the Queen, but it is comedy.
sphinxrepairs 1 year ago
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It just looks like an overpaid ITV star going for the easy target by reading out a script someone else has written for him. But then that's ITV all over - just lazy.
DomSezXL 1 year ago
@DomSezXL An easy target maybe, but I cheer at any shots fired towards that shower of shit.
NickOLarse999 1 year ago 7
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TopTellyFan 1 year ago
@NickOLarse999 I'm no Tory apologist, but you can't deny that Labour were a shower of shit by nearly bankrupting the country and then just blaming every last bit on "oh, it was a global problem that started in America". No, Gordon Brown, you spent every last penny the country had and then got us in hock for tons more!
DomSezXL 1 year ago
@DomSezXL Agreed. NuLab are also a tsunami of manure.
NickOLarse999 1 year ago
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@DomSezXL I'm no Labour apologist but... You do know that the Tories voted to match all of Labours spending don't you? It would have been exactly the same under them. Also, the debt before the bank bailouts was the same as under John Major. It was only the bank bailouts that has caused the bigger than normal deficit and I don't see the banks paying for much of it now!
monkeyharrison 1 year ago 2
I hope this gets a good response
marcN19 1 year ago 33