Richard Madeley: because if you are a Marxist then you're into revolution and into bringing

down Capitalism - so are you or aren't you?

Mike Lynch: Richard you do come up with the most remarkable twaddle sometimes

Richard Madeley: to be absolutely clear you are not a Marxist... fine... (GMB - ITV)

Kirsty Wark: would you be prepared to  negotiate with the Tory government, yes or no?  

Mick Lynch: absolutely (BBC Newsnight)

Mick Lynch: the whole country is suffering and we  have got a membership and a trade union that is

prepared to fight for what we've got. what the rest  of the country suffers from is the lack of power  

the lack of the ability to organize and the lack  of the wherewithal to take on these employers  

that are continually driving down wages and  making the working class in this country poorer  

year on year on year while the rich get richer  and dividends are accelerated and the stock market  

is reasonably healthy we've got full employment  tomorrow we've got full employment and falling  

wages and that is a situation that has never  happened before and it cannot be tolerated  

by working people or by the trade union  movement (BBC news)

Mick Lynch: that's just stuff that's written in conservative central office for backbench MP's to spout  

Jonathon Gullis MP: No sorry to Veterans Mick?

Mick Lynch: i don't want this disruption i don't want people to be inconvenienced (interupted)  

I want settlement of this dispute i can't do that with  a backbench MP who's just learned it off a script

Jo Coburn: Well et him respond to that... (BBC - Politics Live)

Kay Burleigh: No Mr Lynch, I'm sorry if you feel the need to ridicule me but i'm just asking you

what you expect your members to do if agency workers..

Mick Lynch: Your questions are verging into the nonsense, We will Picket (Sky News)

Jenny Chapman MP: Actually Mick you don't know anything about my background or my community

or where i come from... so Mike Lynch: I can't even see you i don't know who you are

Jenny: don't tell me who i am and whether or not i'm  working class or whatever any of those thoughts  

Mike: i didn't say you weren't working class I don't even know your name

Jo Coburn: well shouldn't you Mick? (BBC Politics Live) Mick Lynch: many employers are taking this opportunity

they're using what is a temporary phenomenon Covid  and the temporary phenomenon of people being told  

not to go to work as a smoke screen to get rid  of decent conditions decent pay rates and decent  

agreements and nobody in our community should  tolerate that from this government of billionaires  

who tell everyone else they've got to tighten  their belts while they're raking it in (Sky News)

um i was watching that obviously when um when  he was doing this stuff a couple of weeks ago  

um what what for me as someone who does the  media it's very funny to watch because what  

it really highlights um and i think maybe most  people don't really realise this is basically how  

many of the people you see on the news: the presenters, the panellists, the experts  

the vast majority of those people do not  have any particularly strong knowledge on  

the thing that they're talking about at any given  point in time you know so you saw the presenter  

what is it, the sky news presenter Kate Burleigh  is it? She would have just been given like

a little like flat sheet that morning you know and she would have read that with 10 other  

stories and i mean she's read like she's probably  done like 10 minutes of reading about that okay  

and this guy Mick Lynch it's his job right, its his life he knows everything about these strikes 

right but it's not just her i don't want to like single her out right

if there's an MP, that MP would have done 20-30 minutes reading on that thing you know  

and even when you get like experts who get  called in those experts the kind of ones who go 

on the news they're sort of generic media  commentator experts you know they might have some  

broad knowledge in a particular area but  they don't know anything about these  

particular strikes so what you actually see  when you watch the news and it's kind of  

mad when you think about it is you are watching a  conversation between three or four or five people  

talking about an important issue and none of  those people actually has much understanding  

of that issue and what you've had here is this guy  mick lynch who is a complete expert walking in and  

just being like well that thing's wrong that thing  you said is wrong you're full of nonsense like  

this stuff you're talking is just so nonsense  and um it highlights really this absurd situation  

that we have in the media and the news where the  level of especially in economics i mean economics  

is the area i'm an expert so i can tell you  with absolute certainty right in economics  

almost everything you hear on the news above  like absolute basic level of simplicity is just  

useless you might as well ignore it and often  even the simplest stuff at basic level is wrong  

you know if you look at what's happening now with  the cost of living crisis the government gave out  

450 billion pounds to the rich unbelievably huge  amount of money - £10,000 per person  

so the average rich person is getting  like a £100,000-£200,000 cash

and that was always obviously going to cause  a crash of inflation then the inflation crisis  

happens and everyone's like oh my god how  did this happen you know that can only happen  

when you have a system like we have now which is  basically rotten all the way through where every  

single person in that system has no understanding  and no level of knowledge right um and i think  

that is really ultimately the obvious consequence  of this system economic system we've built how we  

give jobs up which is all the jobs basically go  based on who you know and what your background is  

and nobody's actually considering well  should we get some actual genuine experts  

you know so this guy Mick Lynch, genuine expert knows his stuff, he comes in

and he can just walk he can just wipe the floor with all of these people because they  

have no idea what's really happening you know and uh you know we'll talk about the strikes  

themselves i think it's important people realise  what's happening you know when the government  

prints that amount of money effectively what  they're doing is devaluing the currency and when  

they give it to rich people effectively what they're  doing is massively increasing inequality right  

so then you see this situation where the rich  make an enormous amount of money the fastest  

ever increase in millionaire billionaire wealth  ever in the country and ordinary people can't  

afford to pay the bills right and all the  prices go up you know let's let's be clear  

inflation is coming up to ten percent now and  you know most of the people watching will not  

have received 10 increases in their pay you know i  think most people will be lucky if they're getting  

three or four percent that means in real terms  people's pays fall in six percent seven percent  

at the same time as the billionaires have  never ever ever made more money so it should

in my opinion never in the history of economics  has it been more obvious what needs to be done you  

know the government gave a ton of money to rich  people that is destroying the lives of poor and  

ordinary people you need to take the money back  from the rich people and use that to support the  

lives of poor and ordinary people you know in that  sense we want the same thing but i think more than  

anything what it highlights is that we've created  an economics media which for one of a better term  

is [ __ ] basically and it just takes one guy who  actually knows his stuff to come in and highlight  

how little these guys know and um you know it's  important that people know what's really happening  

because what has really happened is really  really hurt more than every people you know  

that is basically like the mission of this channel  and that's the reason why i decided to start this  

channel you know i was writing i was writing  for newspapers and i was appearing in the media  

and i started to realize like you know this is  this is like a room full of idiots and it's not  

a space from which we can actually tell people  what's really happening you know so you know  

good on Mick Lynch & you know it's nice to see  somebody who i dunno his background but seems  

to be from an ordinary background coming in with a  genuine knowledge actually being given a platform  

for once and you know i wish it happened more um  but it highlights you know how bad information  

people are receiving is and it highlights how  important what we are doing is because i don't see  

anybody else giving genuine reliable information  about the economy to ordinary people and if people  

don't know what's happening people can't stop it  and if we don't stop this it's going to get worse

at the moment these guys are profiting from a  crisis that is going to keep our economy in the  

stump for 50 years there is one other thing  they can do with that mass amount of income  

they can buy your mom's house

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