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- No one really thought the UK would vote to leave the EU. But they did and it up-ended politics in Britain and the EU. When it takes effect it will change many aspects of life for people on both sides of the English Channel.
Leaving the European Union. Leaving all the restrictions, duties, and the benefits of being part of a greater whole.
Leaving behind freedom of movement, simple trade, and hundreds of common rules covering everything from human rights to light-bulb specifications.
DW Correspondents Birgit Maass in London and Georg Matthes in Brussels have had front-row seats at the Brexit process from the very beginning.
They have not only reported from the endless summits and negotiations, but also traveled through the UK and Europe, and even beyond. They met people whose lives will be affected - in some ways that could have been predicted - and in some ways that couldn’t.
As Birgit and Georg look towards the future, they pick out those people whose fates show us what’s going to happen in a Brexit world. The fishing communities who set sail from different coasts looking to make a living from the same waters, and how bitter the fight has become for them. The British farmers who will see their income slashed, and what that’ll mean, depending on how big their farms are. The people who made their lives in Britain but are no longer welcome. And of course those on both sides of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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One of the few times in history when a country voted to put sanctions on itself.
But the UK got sovereignty... right? Now, you are your own boss...
Exactly. Britain has declared a trade war....with itself!
@@i_fuk_religion yeah .... all that for it's own sovereignty aka not to have eu law they signed against anyway and to copy/paste eu law that well .... they need anyway when it come to ban bad stuff, make sure not to ruin they fish reserve (quota) and so on
such a great sovereignty i'm sure all the fisher in uk love it xD
@@i_fuk_religionour country is ruined because of Brexit
Not really, the sanctions were being in the EU, we are now free in the world which is a much bigger market than the EU by a ratio of 86:14.
I'm still annoyed at the statement that UK voted to leave the EU. Scotland and Northern Ireland didn't we were dragged out against our will.
Part of the joys of being part of the UK
We all know it, it's sad... In fact Northern part wanted also to became independent and became part of EU, as they didn't support Brexit...
Be grateful the U.K. had a vote in leaving the EU .
When you are a small population the majority vote counts.
Scots were given the chance to exit Britain but they voted staying with UK, so gotta go with the flow.
There is a one and huge positive effect from Brexit.
Thanks to the brave and quite lunatic step out by UK, all similar voices in EU suddenly shout out. Hope it will remain so for a long time.
There is another positive effect. No more complaining and undermining Brits in the EU. A new win if you ask me.
Greets from NL
Remainer here: I almost fell off my chair when I saw the Brexit vote result. I went on the huge protest marches in London after. Brexit has proved every bit as bad as I feared. Those who voted leave appear to me, to be bashful and shy in proclaiming the joys of Brexit, these days.
Likewise I was on at least 2 protest marches and remain a strong Bremainer.
you should be happy your nhs got all the money sent to eu back... wait it didnt hapen? but the bus! the big red bus said so! :P
@@namonamo494
the NHS has had boosts of far more than quoted
Mostly to cover COVID but lots of hospitals have been expanded and refurbished as a result so
Yes it did happen
Not because of the bull snot on the bus or because of leaving the EU
Not one person here see's any positive reason leaving was good
The amount of EX-bremainers that have told me they feared leaving but afterwards they didn't notice a difference in any area other than inflation which is a result of the sanctions war going on with Russia
And the American economy that biden royally fooked up meaning any that had loans in the USD had inflation on top of other inflation
I work in the takeaway industry and it's NEVER BEEN BUSIER
I'm not talking cheaper places like MC Donalds
It's a cost of living crisis NOBODY HAS HAD CRISIS WITH
During the time you speak of
The living wage and the minimum wage have never been closer. NEVER
THE UK has spent more than any other EU nation on future energy security
Oil refineries have had the largest hydrogen generators worldwide installed to generate hydrogen from excess wind energy currently being sold to France
The nitrogen will then be fed to the many gas power stations we already have because using hydrogen only pollutes the world with water and oxygen
The internet has had a nation BACKED upgrade to fiber to the house saving everyone who upgraded at least £15 a month on line rental that is no longer needed
I went from
30Mbps for £35 PM
to
500Mbps for £20 PM
THE UK HAS MASSIVELY profited from not being part of the anti competition rules from the EU
And relations with individual EU members will only grow now we have less red tape
Regardless to any of that the main reason we have benefited is that our children etc will have a say on the laws that restrict their own freedom and not everyone on the continent that may well have different needs
@@namonamo494 also
Yes it did happen
The NHS is funded by the national coffers
Anything saved by leaving the EU goes where may I ask
The NHS grows every year
The cost grows faster
To upgrade the NHS the funding needs to improve 50% more than the cost of the upgrade
@@davidlally592 so you don't believe in democracy then
It's a consequence of nationalism.
A populism from right or left can cause a big distruction.
It would be interesting to investigate who supported the brexit and from where they got the money, if their aim was to weaken the European Union ???
@@ogathingo8885Russian bots were supporting Brexit because Russia wanted a weaker EU and UK
They lost an Empire….
@@ogathingo8885
A vast proportion of the money/bribery came from wealth & wealthy institutions in the City of London/Londongrad (the financial enclave).
Their agenda was of course to make even more money, achievable through their desired reduction of transparency, regulations and taxes.
Then they all made heavy use of populistic principles and tactics, drumming up voter support with mis- & disinformation, fear mongering ("immigration! shocking taxes! abolition of private ownership (communism)! EU overreach & abolished sovereignty!").
Apparently and unfortunately, too many fell for it, only to actually get costlier living and an even weaker society (public institutions, including schools, NHS, to name but a few).
The right aren't right, they're disgraceful greedy egotists, rarely correct and NOT rarely corrupt. 🦝🤮
That's what happens when you ask people to make decisions based on wrong facts....... Good luck for the fishermen
EU and Scotland is the winner !!!
i saw a comment on a similar video
"Selfish? yes"
"Sell fish? no"
Wrong facts like ted heaths "no loss of sovereignty" as he was giving away UK sovereign waters. 1975 is when the UK was told it is only a shopping area, then outright denied a direct say for 41 years.
Most of the wrong " facts" were made by remain and as of yet not one of their doom laden stories has come true.
@@roywallbank8065 Supermakets have increasingly empty shelves(not due to covid, but Brexit, the shelves arn't empty in the EU), fish and crops are rotting, garbage isn't handled, untreated sewagewater.. Increasing trade deficit and a massive loss of taxincome from financial markets. Loss of freedom of movement. It's indeed coming true and it might even lead to an end of the UK's existence. It's in fact happened and it's happening and isn't getting better, just worse for the UK and it's people.
“Some people aren’t as privileged” coming from the picture of privilege
Look at the public school British cabinet....
@@pyellard3013 can you explain what you mean please
@@enfield7123 In Britain "public school" means a private fee charging school.. (Yes, really..Free schools provided by the government are called "state Schools")... And our government executive (the cabinet) is not only dominated by the public school educated but by members who attended the most expensive of public schools.
@@pyellard3013 doesn't sound very public to me, but thanks for explaining
@@beu9245 yeah.. It should be an Anachronistic term... Goes back to when the private schools were the only schools but open to the public (provided the parents paid the fees)...
Britain has shot itself in the foot. They had a great position in Europe, their own strong currency and full access within the world’s biggest market. Britain as a force in the world is over. I feel so sorry for the children there. Love from Europe.
Save your sympathy for your own children, the EU couldn't even place an order for vaccines in time. A worthless union and certainly not democratic. Hugs and kisses from the UK.😊👍😊👍
@@cletusmorraies7564 what an uneducated comment. The EU has exported 21 million vaccines to the UK. The UK has exported zero. Get your facts straight.
@@ant318 EU would have no pfyzer jab if UK had not exported components to make it.
@@cletusmorraies7564 In fact, the EU ordered their vaccines before the UK did. Maybe open your eyes slightly?
Total agreement Proud to be one of the 48 per cent
Many Brexiters believed that leaving the EU will trigger a domino effect and other countries would follow. The result was simply the opposite. The EU has become more stronger, more united and more trusted. The EU is coping better with the various challenges that have been the Covid, the war in Ukraine and the current inflation outbreaks. However, I feel bad for the people who voted remain.
Teutonic taxpayer tiring of bankrolling likes of Italia, Espana, Griechenland and Portugal. Day of reckoning that’ll make trussonomics seem like a bit tomfoolery.
@@michaelstanley6480 what?
@@RazorMouth doh?
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@@michaelstanley6480 spain is a net payer already
So Paul, why do you want England to leave the EU?
Paul: Fish.
But what about-
Paul: Fish.
@Elize Lancaster
🤣😆😂
And now the fish UK fishermen wanted to export rotts instead....
I mean, he is a fisherman.
Because I -SELL FISH- am SELFISH
As a young person from a deprived background in the north of england, I'm excited to find out how much worse things can get
Miners strike 80s. I was there in wakefield on lupset estate.
In my country, people sais, "things are never bad enought that cant go worse".
Know never know they might get better.
But the world is not what happens to you but how you respond to what happens. The responsibility for our lives is in our hands.
Yoda and just about ever other major source of wisdom know this to be true.
As well as every motivational speaker.
Tony Robins
Mel Robins
Jack Canfield and so on.
You must know what you want a goal an outcome a focus. And then take massive action to get there. And it's most basic.
Yoda said when luke tries to raise the Xwing from the swamp. And Luke says he can't it's to big.
" Don't try, either do or do not !
When Luke fails.
Yoda points out that it's not the size of the object that matters but whether you in truth believe in yourself. That's the hardest part for most people even when they have a clear goal. Have a look at the people I mentioned.
I hope that helps ? Might just be annoying : )
Might change your life. There is only action, do or do not.
whatever you
you do you must believe in yourself.
Shop local, avoid corpos like amazon,nestle, get into robotics or programming languages,and enjoy life
@@FlashdogFul28 Rubbish, the UK has been diminished that's the reality, people will suffer reduced freedoms, economic opportunity and the 1% will now deregulate the UK!! Brexit Britannica will be bad!!
Unfortunately the roots of Brexit are in GB still seeing itself as the head of a colonial empire, an age long gone and no longer relevant. So sad.
While being banned from doing our own trade deals, the UK just wanted free trade access to something more than the protectionist bloc. yes the empire was disbanded so amicably that the nations joined the Commonwealth, a Commonwealth that has 2,4 billion customers over the eu`s 435 million. empire not relevant but the Commonwealth highly relevant. I have to point out that Great Britain does not include Northern Ireland, so it isnt GB for this debate, it is the UK.
Maybe read history book about my country. Then compare it to the dump you have emerged from
Relying on cheap workforce.. 🤭
oh noo...
them gone and no any cheaper is coming..
British jobs for British.. 🤣🤣🤣
@@marksavage1108 please be so kind and calculate the average income of the Commonwealth and compare it to the EU😅,you're a joke for even mentioning that the Commonwealth is relevant. I would like to see selling 100k range rovers to Jamaica or Barbados or another country in the Commonwealth that you so much cherish,and I know you'll throw in Canada and Australia but that's about it with high earning in the "Commonwealth"
The day that EU was looking for offshore bank accounts of english politicans and richest people,( then the UK decided they wanted out EU)
Spot on! That is the one and only reason for Brexit, fish and the rest is just to fool the uneducated and uninformed and it worked out good so far but will it for long?
@@bokhans
The big problem of humanity is that we have a fish brain not a fish problem
(we forget fast)
Well, these rich people also rely on business, they don't get their fortunes out of nowhere. Getting out of the EU will also see their bank accounts income reduced. You can always circumvent these EU laws and protect your money with an army of lawyers, there is an Aljazeera documentary about this.
I think so.
Yes. Farage is a millionaire hedge fund operator. He wanted Brexit to keep his offshore tax avoidance shelters.
He conned the public that he is just an ordinary bloke down the pub. He most definitely is not.
He conned them into voting for something that is already damaging the UK.
I see that as treason.
So sad. But hey, on the bright side, now all those queuing up for jobs able Brits can finally get to put on their favourite veg picking gloves and go to work! Well done.
I have seen some videos where the pale white and drunk EDL were marching.
Now they can finally march out in the fields and get a salary. 🥒🥒🍅🍅🐽🐽
Even with the same salary as pre-brexit seasonal picker? Now that's what you called patriotism
yeah its like the UK is only fruit and veg fields, it had nothing to do with things like the Industrial Revolution. the UK was totally incapable on the international stage until the eec invented all life in 1975.
@@marksavage1108 So which sector has benefitted from Brexit? Genuinely interested because all that's being seen (even on conservative Brit newspapers) is food shortages in Britain, jobs leaving the UK, lower GDP, higher trade deficit, Brits having troubles abroad in the EU and renewed separatism in NI and Scotland.
If I was a Scot, putting up a few customs posts is looking increasingly attractive to return to the world's biggest trade bloc and leaving England to their mess.
For now there is a la our shortage that needs to be adjusted for.
It will be a year or so before that has happened, so for now everything will seem pretty good.
The future generation has a big mess to clean up!
@Dimitry Medrividev we haven't left Europe we have left the EU.
@@anymonkey70 well obviously we cant vote to leave to continent smh...
Correction: generationS, as in decades and decades of repair and struggle to come...
@@jonnysmokesmusic i dont think this is repairable mate, economic, and social terrorisim this whole brexit was as far asim concerned
Thee UK govt would have managed to to move UK to Antarctica if given such opportunity ;-))
You have got your control, of your waters Mu but you have no market for your catch. A Pyrrhic victory. Much good may it bring you.
Well you have less of yours, as the EU has cut down your quotas, but Spain is benefiting, they are better at hiding the quota cheating, hidden fish holds, to help protect the fish stocks 😂 is your fishing fleet getting bigger or smaller? 🤔 Your fish stocks will be.
😂
The fish stocks will be protected against the factory ship's, the fish stocks will be managed by the UK. Looking at the Mediterranean sea, the EU is ignoring the problems, one day the fish stocks will disappear. Moving onto Irish fish stocks next. We'll not be able to sell you any 😂
It was about control of the borders not waters alone. If Cameron had been listened too by Brussels perhaps the referendum would have gone the other way.
The EU is currently over fishing 😂 so eventually you'll have no fish stocks.
The UK fish stocks will not go away, the UK fishing fleet is small. So what exactly are we going to lose?
If the Russians cross the border? Shall we stay at home and let the EU sort out terms with the Russians? 😂
Like bad divorce everyone loses except lawyers.
Europe appears to have benfitted tho
Not everyone...EU its fine without England!! Farewell my friends!!!
Brexit was never like a divorce. The EU kept saying that it didn't want the UK to leave and the EU doesn't have to divide up its assets and give the UK half, so not a divorce going on at all.
Nonsense. Britain loses out, becomes a small insignificant island grouping off the coast of mainland Europe. Europeans are more likely to pity the British than agree with them. As shown in the report, some EU countries have gained from brexit, but what has the UK gained? I'm still waiting to hear/see/read any benefit whatsoever from brexit for the UK. Keep in mind the lies told (no more red tape) and the manoeuvres used (Cambridge Analytica) to accomplish the hood-winking of enough uneducated or greedy or xenophobic brits. What was the real purpose of brexit? In my opinion it was to try to weaken the EU and cause chaos in the UK. It has worked perfectly where the UK is concerned, but I think, as the man said, the UK is a shining example of leaving a good situation and entering a terrible one and therefore an excellent deterrent to any other EU country. It's much better to be in the club than outside the club.
Who’s the lawyer then ? Anyone knows ?
Fish are happy now because fishermen are at Westminter. Winner of Brexit: fish !
That's a bit of a cod
No as UK government betrayed British fishing communities and allowe Dutch super trawlers to plunder UK waters
The Uk Fishermen were quite happy to sell their quotas to the Spanish ,who have easy access to cheap N African labour.It was a win Win situation.
I want to see how old Paul the fishermen is getting on several weeks later 🤔.
😂😂😂 he's floundered
@@LabRat6619 😆
Paul talking about a future he won't have , nor sadly his sons.
EU and Scotland is the winner !!!
He's busy eating his own catch🤣
I still keep wondering what is this long-term benefit people speak of? It’s like Communism in the USSR, it was going to be great when it eventually happened, but nobody could tell you when it would and what form it would take.
@RAY MANNING How is the EU communist? It’s a really free market organisation!)
The main benefit is that the we are a sovereign nation once again and we can make our own laws with no interference from Brussels.
@@vatsmith8759 sure, you keep telling yourself so. Tell me a good law you were prevented in making it, as a EU member. Just one. I, in my country, cannot see one yet, but maybe I am biased and like environmental laws and such.
Joining the EU resulted in the destruction of our fishing industry and almost all of our apple and pear orchards. The EU did not allow us to make laws to protect them.
@@vatsmith8759 No, we are not a sovereign nation. We have obligations in international law to NATO and several UN treaties - that will never change.
so basically all the winners are outside of UK
There are no winners, except those trying to protect their offshore money from EU scrutiny, and they finance the Tory party.
Yes there in ukrain
to be fair, those who lost the less are all out uk (everyone is a looser at first, uk much more then anyone else xD but still everyone)
could become a great win for eu if they manage to move more and faster without uk (wich is quite likely when you considered how uk has always been in but out of eu in a way) but that part aint there just yet
No reason for UK to ever rejoin then.
Getting rid off the City of London was the best element of Brexit. Thank you UK and please keep your fish.
Can't wait for season 2 Brexit 🍿 it starts on January the 1st
Can't wait for Frexit or Italexit. That's the real season 2.
@@deputyVH why do they wanna go?
and it's gonna be a very long season
@@deputyVH dream on
@@XYZ-bi9eb Well debated!
Ah, the most positive thing i noticed, 7 months in, is the European unity and the sentiment that we have each other.
UK hardships that came and will still come years on, only showed that the EU union is a good project.
You are living in fairy land.
@@richardsevern2048 you mea brexitear?lol
the vaccine roll out showed lots of citizens in eu member countries that the eu project isnt so good. France riots every day against macron and his eu single-mindedness. Macron even stated on UK television that if the French were given a leave remain vote, they would follow the UK out. the eec trading union was a good project, the eu political union one is not.
@@marksavage1108 you just forgot to mention that macron made that statement just after the Brexit vote in January 2018.
Second you also left away that hr stated that France would vote leave if it had the same context as the UK did at that time. He added that that was not the case.
So again we see the right wing tactic of spreading misinformation. "Half truths, are the most dangerous lies..."
@@MrMaarten1969 That would be a viable argument if it wasnt for the FACT that France had the vote on the eu constitution and voted NO, the 2005 NO vote pisses on whatever you thought you were going to gain with a basically inept argument. was it a half truth that France has already made its intentions clear but was IGNORED? so where is the misinformation buttercup?
Who could have thought. Could the Brits not see emerging giants like India and China at the horizon? While the whole world is scrambling for alliance, the UK want to leave one the most powerful one…
But the UK got sovereignty... right? Now, you are your own boss...
@@i_fuk_religion your own boss on a tiny island..
At least the fish are happy 😂
I can see more and more people who are British or from British territories have been denied a vote even though it also affects them. I am one of the many EU British residents who have also been denied a vote. Whatever the outcome a basic principal should be to allow all areas where British and British territories exist should have been allowed a vote. A BASIC principal of democracy.I would have voted remain.
As a UK citizen I will now be affected by laws made in the EU - do you think I should be allowed a vote in those debates? No, don't be silly.
The architect of the Leave Campaign, Dominic Cummings, said in a BBC interview that "anyone who thinks Brexit had an advantage must have a screw loose in his brain."
interesting, so why did he do his utmost to push it through? Makes no sense. When and why did he say that? Can we see a clip of that anywhere? Thx.
@@cosmicdebris2223 Step 1: place massive short positions against the pound. Step 2: run a leave campaign. Step 3: pound crashes (as it has), cash in the short positions and make millions.
@@cosmicdebris2223 It make total sense. Brexit was and is a major heist going on in plain sight. The UK tax payer is being robbed blind by Tories and their cronies to the tune of billions of pounds, and it all goes straight to off shore tax havens. They don't care that we are perishing as an important global economy, because they'll be on their mega-yachts, living it up. They essentially had ''insider knowledge'' on the inevitable collapse of the UK economy, which they engineered, and cashed in on it while the people who voted the way they wanted them to, were trying to decide whether to eat or put the heating on for 10 minutes.
@@cosmicdebris2223
Because of self serving money-grubbery.
Qui Bono... Follow the money. 💰
Nothing new under the sun.
The UK has benefited enormously - not just economically but on the world stage - from being a leading member of the EU with special privileges and opt outs and decided to throw it all away instead... Now they got back a few fishes... Speechless...
"Speechless"
No you're not.
An overall trade deficit with the EU in 2019 of £90 billion, and in 2018 the second highest net contributor to the EU budget does not strike me as the UK benefiting enormously.
As for being on the world stage, the UK has just concluded it's 57th trade agreement with a non EU country, the total value of those agreements being £193 billion.
Its hilarious they don't even eat their own fish and yet financial services is 10% of their economy and not a word about it!!! My family holiday every year in Wales, we go across on the boat. We won't be going anywhere this year because of COVID but we are planing our next holiday which will be to France instead of Wales - we'll head over on the new ferry routes to France and it'll be better for us because we won't even have to convert our money any more!
Looking forward to using the direct routes to France when we can 😀
@@loulou2817 Me too and it'll be great for the kids because hopefully it'll get them speaking French which will do them good to know another European language (which I never considered before - an advantage of Brexit for us!)
@Chris Bronson I think you miss the point!!!
Not sure why going to France is easier now there were always direct routes from Ireland to France just more now since brexit
@@miakeogh6844 And from just reading your own comment here you still can't figure out why going to France is easier now - like just read your own comment, you already know why LOL!!!
in the coming years, i think, the people who voted leave are gonna regret every single second of their life for why they voted leave and is gonna be their single most and biggest regret of their lives. the only positive thing of brexit is that the eu has become more stronger, more united, more integrity and more trust. i feel very bad for the people who voted remain back in 2016.
roflmao ask us in 44 years
Correct.Weve been conned....
DON'T THINK SO
JUST KEEP CRYING
We don't! I got pay raise thanks to Brexit protection
England never really bought in to the European Project - EU membership was seen as a transaction rather than a commitment from the heart to mutual security and prosperity. There was a truculence born from a mindset of British exceptionalism - we might have stepped out of 'colonial robes' and status as a super power but not the associated mindset or at least not for oldest third of the population to which I belong. We are now faced with digesting a lot of humble pie and coming to terms with the grim consequences - an embarrassing reversal only achievable over 10 or more years or the disintegration of the UK. A fractious social and political environment is unavoidable.
DeGaulle had it right
And look today news .. British fisherman's are protesting in London?! Crying for help
. Man ain't you have now your control over everything ?! Enjoy your independent life ...
Hahahah yeah right !
Blahblah fisherman can fish much more blahblah.
Yeah they can fish much more to produce fertilizer because the fish is just going to rot !...
As a former American who moved to the Netherlands for love, I look at Brexit and feel so lucky to have met a Dutch wife and not a British one. Learning to speak the Dutch language was incredibly difficult, but compared with the suffering that the UK will endure for decades to come... it makes speaking Dutch seem so much easier.
suffering for decades to come?????, yes, the eu members have just been put into an additional 2Trillion of debts. so in decades when the citizens are still paying this, we will see who is suffering. OH and only750 billion goes to the people, 1 trillion is being given back to the banks they just borrowed it from to pay of previous debts. And you do know that you now live under an anti democratic Netherlands, In 2005 that country voted NO, to the eu constitution. they were ignored.
Brexit was a political decision not an economics decision.
Yup.
Yet economics can break the back of any politics...
As long as the result is the end of the UK
The Uk was the second highest contributor to the EU budget. Politics and economics share a convergent highway
The economic where ignored but they where vastly greater . A Trillon Pound loss since 2K and therefore a near £2 Trillion debt .
I'm so happy to be in the EU! Why on earth would you leave?
@@MENSA.lady2 16 millions people in the UK apparently care?
@coolinjapan so the eu didnt lose the UK contributions, they lost the UK influence, they lost the world standing as united. They lost millions of citizens believing their lies anymore.
@@srisuartini5329 yes the rich who wanted cheap labour for their own greed cared for themselves. the youth who didnt know anything about things before the eu, cared for measly roaming charges. 16 million who didnt care about living in a democracy or not. the 16 million cared for themselves and how it affected them, the 17,410,742 majority cared for the democratic status of the UK. and its future for the youth to be able to grow up with the same powers of the vote we had before the eu started ignoring votes.
@coolinjapan OH so explain the 60+ trade deals done in the 4 1/2 years of transition. yeah we lost influence while gaining 60+ influences into the wider world. the disunited eu will soon fall on its own sword. Macron on UK TV clearly stated if the French were given the same in/ out vote, he said France would follow the UK out. 2005 France voted NO, Netherlands voted NO 2017 Greece vote NO, those ````IGNORED```` no votes show it isnt that unified, it wasnt so unified or the UK wouldnt have voted against it. oh it took the eu 15 years to do a trade deal with Canada, 12 years for Japans, the UK did BOTH and 58 others.
Bad governance by over paid commissioners who cant be voted out
The losers? Almost everyone in the UK
The outcome of almost any event is: RICH WILL GET RICHER.They are the winners. The rest of us are and always will be losers.
Yeah!! thats cool!! Last year I personaly made Bezos richer! I paid him (Amazon actually) to bring me something straight to my home!! That's why he is rich! He has made a great service and folks give him money voluntarily!!! Imagine that :P
Do you have a problem with Jeff? Then don't give him your money! Let me and a billion other people make him rich ;)
Yep, most of the brexiters were not rich lol, so they're in fact the losers 🤷🏿♂️
@@Nevermind301 What a hot take. Wow. What a way to OwN teH LiBs
@@joshuahammelton9357 Tbh I just don't like the whole rich getting richer narrative. It's like... why care?? They make people's lives easier
@@Nevermind301 by ensuring that the system that makes their lives hard in the first place stays intact
This documentary only presents an economic point of view, however it seems to me that a part of the Brexit was caused by political and social issues.
Exactly.
For many of my UK friends and family leaving the EU was a goal in itself. It has/had intrinsic value.
@@lostintashkent I imagine it is, you surely know more about this than me, but I imagine that if EU was a good deal, UK would have stayed...
@@badmojjo They will come back soon enough when they notice how little power they have left
Absolutely. General loss of relevance. So instead of getting down to dealing with the actual structural problems they decided to focus on easy sell sideshow issues to rouse the old spirit of the trenches. It worked a treat! If things go well, they'll still be able to milk those issues into the next election while the country loses out on the "economic point of view".
Before Brexit : Opportunities and ease of access throughout the whole of Europe.
After Brexit :
🤣 you cannot blame brexit for 1. Government inept and 2. The inflexibility of the EU (its not in their interest to make UK trade easy)
@@SwissCheese112 it's not in their remit to make UK trade easy. The EU is also required to treat third countries uniformly, if they do not then the WTO will have something to say. Farage and Johnson did not give a fig for the costs of Brexit so what do you expect? They did not want for instance to join the electronic processes to facilitate trade because to do so would require them to agree to observe EU rules concerning security. The EU is what it is, if you don't want to participate then so be it.
@@tonycook7679 if you know absolutely anything about business it is that rules and prices are never set in stone. The EU is no different. If they wanted harmony for the uk, they would give it. End of.
@@SwissCheese112 Did you even read what you just wrote? If the EU (the scorned party) wants harmony with the UK (a now completely separate country to whom they owe no obligation) then they should give them special benefits (at a detriment to EU business, with significant political cost, and damaging their position on the international stage). No one would take that deal. Furthermore, no one should take that deal, it would be ethically wrong to encourage bad faith trade and diplomacy.
@@SwissCheese112
It makes America now look better than Britain lmao.
The historical significance of 2016, when not one, but two (self inflicted) political bombshells exploded upon the world...
Politics needed something different than the constant push for globalism. one self inflicted desire to live democratically, no direct vote for 41 years isnt democratic. the other was the Americans looking at past corruption of politicians and wanted to risk putting a businessman in to stop the endless wars the globalists created on lies.
The 1st part of the Brexit saga is finished, now the 2nd part has started.
Don't forget the spin-offs: Scexit and Nixit.
@Clec Torres I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.. .... as a child when i believed in Santa and unicorns. So keep dreaming old chap, there's a good fellow!!
@@peabase No one has gone away! lol.
Moan moan moan
This was the 2nd, they started the 3rd
Win or lose, brexit is finally over. Thank goodness. Wish both the U.K. (🇬🇧) and the E.U. (🇪🇺) a very best. Also, Merry Christmas everyone!
It's only starting, actually. But merry Christmas anyway.
[ Leaves the transition period in which everything basically stayed the same. ]
🇬🇧 : _Thank god, it’s over!_
@Jay Tea Do not wonder, dear Jay. We enjoy better education :-) !
Now what for entertainment???
Oh, you STILL don't get it, do you? Brexit is all about horse trading and alignments. It will take years still
Its crazy how the winners are everyone but the UK and it's citizens.
It's not when you consider how ignorant and ill-informed your typical Briton is.
And Sad
There are a number of big businesses and investors who will greatly benefit. Deregulation - a clear aim of Brexit - is almost always a benefit to the "big" players, not the average person. And "trickle down economics" have never worked, they won't either this time.
@@garyfletcher1910 source? Can't get the math in my head to work out on that one.
One aspect is the role of the EU as the scapegoat for UK. The EU was always blamed for the domestic problems of the UK.
Unfortunately this still goes on as many people in the UK do not understand that the rules for 3rd countries apply to UK as well. They seem to have problems to accept that UK has no special status - that UK is not something that should get special treatment.
There was the Christmas deal with UK and EU, showing that UK got anyhow some better conditions than it could have had. The UK avoided horribly bad situation that no deal WTO-level situation would have caused.
Unfortunately many brexiteers do not seem to be able to understand that this is the situation that EU was warning since many years. Instead the brexiteers seems to blame EU for bullying UK. They are not able to understand that the EU is simply following the rules that were written by big influence of UK when UK was member of the EU.
Actually now I hope that the Christmas deal will be dumped and the WTO terms will come in place. Otherwise EU will be the scapegoat for the brexiteers forever.
Better to zero the situation, start from scratch and build a up new relationship from the basics. Some years with WTO terms would show what the benefits of trade agreements are. And the scapegoating the EU for everything might finally end.
Great comment
Paul Joy is happy for us all to suffer - even though many of us voted against having to suffer at all.
My bet is that paul will be eating his words as soon as politicians let people exploit that screw paul by making him compete with mega corporations that have amassed a brit fleet quietly owned by those same dutch guys he was complaining about. 🤷🏽♂️
@@dadsfreetimeclassicgaming1220 You just need to google Paul Joy fisherman. He doesn't seem very joyous now, but hey! as he said, it may take just a little bit of time.
that's in his name
Yes but the majority won deal with it
Am not british but i must say some of their politicians have an African mentality. Everything is political.
Probably something that African politics inherited from colonialism
@@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769so everything colonial is bad? And everything indigenous is good? Or... how does it work?
@@CmdrTobs no it's more like. "what did the Romans do for us situation" there is always something good from empire's but that doesn't excuse the bad. Political corruption is something we breed in Eaton, Harrow and Oxbridge and call it British law. Especially back when empire was ember's in the fire of indipendence and became the commonwealth.
England is a history lesson now, been that way for a while
I'm looking forward to see Scotland leave Ireland to leave to see what happens
Ireland left the UK about 100 years ago
Are you a russian or chinese troll using google translate, or why the hec are you expressing your self so distorted?!
@@g_c6668 1921
For Scotland to leave the UK means setting up their own ``independent`` currency and ``independent`` central bank, that will bankrupt them for about a decade economists have forcasted. the eu will not accept none financially viable countries, so Scotland would have no political or financial back up for up to 10 years. and why would Northern Ireland leave, are you ignorant to the decades of the Troubles?
But they won't
Bought and sold for English gold
In the history books, it will say that the UK traded away Northern Irland for fish in the great Christmas treaty of 2020
lol
Northern Ireland is not going anywhere
@@pfy2k correct, it’s the part not leaving the EU
Fish and MISSED pointing out that 55% of English quota was SOLD to foreign ships to fish.
The english fishermen spoke to were let down by their friends in England. Scottish fishing boats retained 94% of their quota. But all got dragged into this abyss. Control in England means selling for profit to highest bidder, not for sustainable coastal towns.
AT LAST! Someone with a memory and the balls to tell the truth.
You can't sell something and then just take it back. Even under British law there's a word for that: THEFT.
AT LAST! Someone with a memory and the balls to tell the truth.
You can't sell something and then just take it back. Even under British law there's a word for that: THEFT.
You are missing the long game. Those quota contracts were leased out to be returned at the end of their cycle. By that time an infrastructure will be in place to have our own canning factories - hopefully other types to come in the form of digital manufacturing - to compete in the world market, bypassing churlish french fishermen threats
@@estebanpitou7917
So, what you are saying is that robotized canning factories are going to create jobs and canned herring and mackerel is going be such a seller - it compensate the 10% loss of the UK economy that left with the financial services passporting ... hard to see it to be frank
@@heidelbergaren5054 , rule changes will come into place so will new Fintech innovations, I see financial services not being part of the deal as an opportunity, not a constraint.
So Ironic that what England wants, the right to self-govern for themselves is only good for themselves, but on the otherhand they are against a reunited independant self-governing Ireland.
so the Irish fighting amongst themselves for decades should just be ignored, you try to attempt to reunify Ireland and watch the IRA jump back out of the shadows. Without the Irish and Scottish leave voters, remain would have won. voted as the UK, so the UK got what it voted for,,,,,eventually. OH and more Scottish voters voted to leave the eu than voted for the SNP. the eu is playing the usual political tricks with the Irish border, pretending a ``trade`` border would affect the peace made over a ``political`` border. With the CTA policy in place, the trade across the border can be done electronically, so no need to put checkpoints in place.
I'm from England.
I want ROI to embrace Northern Ireland, and pay for it
England has never been offered the chance to leave the UK.
Unlike Scotland and very soon NI
England are fine with self governing provided it is they who are in charge. Precisely the reason they wanted out of EU ; Thet couldn't throw their weight around like they do in UK !!
Do you know what really, really, REALLY, makes me laugh?! My value as an employee as multiplied exponentially since Brexit as all the sectors/businesses that rely on frequent EU travel will now value EU nationals more that UK nationals as, on top of having the same rights as any UK national while in the UK (been granted indefinite leave to stay) I also have all EU rights including and wait for it....FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT. Thank you Brexiteers you just played yourself as you can now say with all the confidence and as loud as you can that we EU nationals are more privileged than you and have more rights than you.... HAHAHAH thank you, thank you. thank you
Now you can have all the Hungarians and Romanians, lets hope they don't mess-up your county
Another Eu worker here with ILR mate, our value has sky rocket 😂.
Thanks for that and hope you hate us more than you do bloody bigot
22 minutes in and this is almost entirely an interview of people unhappy with Brexit. Given that most people voted for Brexit, it’s interesting you managed to sample almost entirely on those who didn’t.
Cannot see your logic to a democratic vote that all united kingdoms augreed to abide yo in first place sad person
@@stevenhyatt7962
so by definition, of the people who voted, most voted for Brexit:
most
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greatest in amount, quantity, or degree.
@@stevenhyatt7962 They even kept the voting booths open for the lazy students and you still lost.
Steven Hyatt lol that was embarrassing
@@stevenhyatt7962 nearly is not a majority my friend, its called democracy !
"Us vs Them" the favourite British Paradigm won.
Favourite English paradigm, that is the point of the video, little England and its parochial outlook. The English outlook was, and is, you are lucky if we come to your land, but stay off our property. Dickheads.
@@clancywiggam I'm British and agree with this sentiment. :-)
100 per cent correct
@@clancywiggam no, dont mistake the GOVERNMENT for the people, ask any citizen and they'll disagree with almost all military involvement anywhere but on out shores
@@stckemup9461 half of them thing colonialism was a good thing
British immigrants are going to have to leave Spain! Awesome!
Over 4 million EU citizens chose to stay in UK. But you won't hear that on stuff like this.
Out of curiosity, how many UK citizens decided to stay in the EU?
@@DG-ew9wb I have know idea, Google it, the point I'm making is these kind of facts just aren't discussed to try and give the idea that everything brexit it terrible. There's good and bad on both sides, just don't believe everything from one side.
@ionut2790 thanks dude😂
@ionut2790 correct...that is why the UK has agreed free trade deals with the EU and other countries.
Of course this has been reported. It has regularly been reported how many people applied for settled Status. But what exactly does that prove? Sure some might be super happy in the UK, but for many it won't be about politics but the fact that over the Last decades the UK has become their home. They have houses, partners, Jobs, Friends, etc. in the UK and it takes a lot to leave all that behind. And yet, many have done just that.
A quote from Douglas Adams,” So long , and thanks for all the fish “
I think you’ll find that was super intelligent dolphins leaving a doomed planet, not a bunch of lemmings leaping off a cliff. I would say Don’t Panic, but under the circumstances, Do.
Omfg DECEASED
@@freedomofspeech4461 🤣
How is your Babel fish translating? ;)
Bruhahaha
This is a mostly negative documentary because the positive effects so far seem to be few.
GDP in the UK is struggling. Unemployment is rising. The pound has yet to recover.
Winners will certainly emerge over the next decades but no one will ever know what would have happened had the UK remained.
The UK government needs to step up and make the UK a place worth investing in.
That's the problem it becomes much more harder when you are outside and have to pay much more for same amount of EVERYTHING, that could be shared in combined effort.
@@Buggylt
Britistani busy bees, sweating away in a Tory made sweat shop for the glory of a 50 hr work week & a 35% income tax rate all in the pretense of sovereignty.
Wot ! Wot !! .. Chaappsss !!!
Pre covid EU unemployment on average doubled the UK LOL
@@MeganoOdles Have you ever looked at what the criteria for being classed as unemployed is in those UK stats? If someone is unemployed but says they are looking for work they are not classed as being unemployed.... The UK unemployment stats are heavily cooked.
@@benghiskahn3673 Have you looked at unemployment per capita per country? and surprise, surprise the figures are broadly the same
Damn this is fkg heartbreaking
Brexit s like committing suicide with a fork
That's a fantastic analogy
Lol that girl looks like she is from a really wealthy family
Glad to see the back of Erasmus +.
Laudable aims but mainly wealthy kids paid for by the tax-payer? Many non-graduates got no opportunity.
And what is wrong with that?
Yeah. The posh English they love brexit
@@davidmichaels8934 yes. Working class doesn't like wealthy people
neaaaah.. she ate only potato all her life...
By "City of London" do they mean London or the weird ancient tax loophole "City of London"?
Second
The tax loophole
The financial aspect of London; ‘the square mile’ traditionally focused around the Bank of England, and the old trading and commerce heart of the former core of Britain’s economy. That small area, stuffed full of Suits and businesspeople and skyscrapers - at least until Covid - is The City of London, with the sprawling other 95% of the city being just London.
The latter where even The Queen needed permission to enter.... lolz
The tax loophole
Apart from bankers and hedge fund managers nobody can point to any concrete benefit from Brexit. Slowly but surely this is becoming more and more obvious to everybody, even the ones who were fooled into voting leave.
Builders our wages have gone up about 25% .
I still don't think it's worth it but yea tradesmen have a lot more money than we had before. There's so many jobs we can be super picky.
Brits seem to be going through "essentially" the same thing as USA , with China and some other countries . There is no way that any individual country will succeed with out helping each other out of this economic mess ,and this coved problem.
You mean the biological war started by the CCP.
@TheNewblackdog pitiful
China, the US, and Russia are the winners, and maybe also Scotland independence.
Non of the above voted for brexit (except Scottish?)...
@@niklas5923 I meant they have no voting power except the Scottish whom are part of the UK. Well, who gain or lose they cannot complain since UK was given a choice & voted (even tho I feel the general public got the decepted by the politians of actual deals).
Not just Independent Scotland include United Ireland.
@@niklas5923 You must be kidding right. China caught up with you and left you behind so far you cant even see them. Whole europe got weak, not just the british and not because of foreign powers.
spijbelkind overtake how?
BREXIT, bluffing method gone wrong
negotiating buddy, both sides did it. Macron did not want to lose French fishing - big publicity at home. Johnson threatening no deal and asking for a lot, helped to get the good deal we got in all issues. Still get more fishing than before BTW. Project fear predictions - came to nothing.
We just saved billions, and the EU vaccine programme? UK has vaccinated more than the whole of Europe. Its a lie stop pedalling it.
@@dotdashdotdash Thats not really due to brexit more just the UK ordered there vaccines first
@@dougo3592 if we stayed in the EU we could not have ordered our own vaccines. The EU is in charge of ordering them for the entire bloc. So BREXIT is the reason our vaccinations are going so well!
@@jamess9232 unfortunately this is not quite correct that we have vaccinated more people - the vaccine is a two stage (two jab) system - Germany in fact has per capita head inoculated (two jab) more people than the UK. Just simple facts that can be easily verified
Uk is a third country for the EU, and as such it is treated, it cannot ask for special treatment.
Uk He has to admit it and soon, for his own sake.
Right. The irony is that some of the rules where put in place by the UK or at least with the UK while they where part of the EU. A lot of media in the UK now has headlines like "because of new EU rules ...". Though 99% of the rules that now affect the UK were in place for years before brexit. They just haven't thought through the affections. Though that's not the fault of the EU.
To summarise
Winners: definitely not UK
Losers: UK
21:33 "Most farmers actually did vote for Brexit". Yet you went and found that one who didn't vote for Brexit to represent the voice of farmers.
Shly Hoit, the point was being made that big rich farmers will benefit from Brexit but smaller family farmers will loose out. Doesn't matter who voted what the outcome does not change.
@@waltermcphee3787 so, majority of the farmers are rich because they voted for Brexit? I’m neither British nor for Brexit, but I am very skeptical when the “news” present only one side of the story. It seems like brainwashing to me. To subvert democracies, simply manipulate the masses by controlling the information they consume, and use social shame and ridicule to shut down dissent. Ever notice that someone who wants preserve European culture are now painted as far right?
@@JackZeroZ the majority of farmers are not rich but voted for Brexit which will harm their business. There was 3 farmers represented.
@@waltermcphee3787 according to DW yes. Has DW gone through the trouble of hearing the farmers voices representing the majority? This is classic confirmation bias.
Once again, there was not just one single farmer who had one single opinion. You were just not listening. Even one who still thinks it was a good move was shown here.
Plus 'most farmers' does not mean 'all but one'. And like often enough was said in the past years, many voted yes according to promises that (supposedly) been made, of which many would have voted differently afterwards and probably even more today.
I don't think I've ever seen and heard so many people who want something for nothing!
All the privileges with none of the costs of membership were promised by the Brexit campaign. Can't blame the EU for not giving what someone else promised that they would on their behalf. EU offer never changed.
@@Hession0Drasha Screw the EU , no vaccine and stuck in lockdown until 2024 oops ...
@@curtisducati If the UK permanently leaves lockdown first, it will only be 2 or 3 months difference. Wait and see. As long as the torries don't have mandatory quarantine at the borders, the UK can be reinfected with a new strain, vaccine or no. No one wins until everyone wins, you have a superiority complex where your country is concerned my friend, because you personally want to feel better about yourself, your group has to be the best at everything, it is childish and pathetic.
@@Hession0Drasha Right now the UK is almost facing another lockdown because they have a Brazil/India variant.
@@Hession0Drasha yeah the ``free`` trade that we `````PAID```` for. the voters didnt want anything eu, it was the scheming politicians. we were also promised " no loss of sovereignty" as they gave away UK sovereign waters. where oh where is the worldwide economic crash just on the vote to leave that osbourne promised?
Thank you for doing this. It's a much better summary than anything I've seen by anyone in the British media. The real tragedy, for me, is that there is no middle ground. You are either leave or remain. It is devastating for social relationships if you find yourself on a different side of the fence to other people, whether they are people you thought you knew or those you're meeting for the first time.
Eventually, of course, we will be back in but at what cost and for what?
Soothsayer
I'm Greek and I would fully support a Bremain but the EU is not only about economy. My country and Cyprus have been bullied by Turkey in the East Mediterranean but since Turkey is a partner of many member states, no sanctions are taken against them. Sod off EU
The brexit Paradox is that any govt capable of delivering brexit wouldn't.
"We are with Europe but not of it; we are linked but not compromised. We are associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.” Winston Churchill
@@2394Joseph the problem with that is britian doesn't have open Sea,s anymore .
@@ryanhuntrajput474 No country has open seas - that's the definition of open seas!
@@2394Joseph One has to understand the context of this quote. At the time the British Navy was the second largest in the world and Britain still had an Empire, both of wich are not curently achived or even achivable.
@@Somajsibere That is not correct. Churchill was speaking both literally and also metaphorically, nothing to do with the navy. The “open sea” meant to have no impediments or burdens and be able to deal with any dangers or situations that may arise within Europe on our terms rather than be tied to them in any way shape or form. That is exactly what the UK has now done.
Thanks cambridge analytica
David Cameron MP, Went down in history as the biggest loser that I had England pulled out out of the EU.
Who else is here after seeing the chaos Brexit is causing in the UK currently.
..."and I kept thinking the only positive thing that came out of this is...that the rest of the EU, will see what the UK is walking away from...and treasure it more" 🇪🇺EU🇪🇺United in Diversity🇪🇺EU🇪🇺
Yes, Treasure your unaccountable masters. Treasure Guy Verhofstadt.
The best thing in all of this is that we won't be shackled down by the UK who were never true Europeans anyway. British people get their Brexit and everyone wins, sort of.
@@icebox1954 There ancestors come from Europe.
I sense something fishy with this deal
This is a day of sadness. Britain’s departure remains a tragic national error. We have expelled ourselves from a union that was good for this country and the world. The role of the anti-European press in making this happen was decisive, so it is somehow fitting that a government led by journalists has slammed the door. But at least the EU can no longer be blamed for our continuing tensions, inequalities and failures of governance.
These tensions cannot be magicked away. Brexit was opposed by majorities in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London and other cities, as well as by most young people and most graduates. None of that is going to change, whatever the overall majority verdict was in 2016 and however tired of the argument we all may be. This is a country divided over Europe. We were divided in the past and we will be divided in the future. Getting Brexit done is a fantasy. It is a supposed solution that only creates new historic problems.
In 2016, many of the most fanatical Brexiters hoped the UK’s departure would trigger the EU’s breakup. Yet two of the most striking consequences of the vote were the unity of the EU27 in the face of Brexit compared with the growing disunity of the UK4 over the issue. The breakup of Britain rather than the EU is now the more likely prospect. It would be a terrible price to pay. But the delusions that fed and fostered Brexit still have much of the Conservative party and press in their grip, as a number of gloating speeches from the Tory benches on Wednesday indicated.
Ask farmers in the Netherlands & France how great the EU is now.
I've got to say, this is an awfully one-sided take on brexit. It's possible to value international coöperation, the vibrancy of diverse languages and cultures, how travel broadens the mind, peace, and many more good things about the EU - without valuing, indeed, while actively rejecting the "institutional pressure", or the political underpinnings of the EU. This piece explored only the perspectives of leave and remain ultras, as if moderate positions don't exist. Some acknowledge the imperfections of the EU but come to differing conclusions, eg to promote reform from within or else to remain in the SM but leave the political institutions.
I continue to hope that we will find rapprochement and find the best of both perspectives, perhaps once the grief inflicted by brexit subsides (and, likely, the fictional benefits that any sort of hard brexit entertained prove beyond all doubt to be illusions), but that rapprochement begins with letting go. This piece doesn't do that. Quite the contrary, it encourages resentment and perpetuation of that grief.
Well said sir!
Perfectly summed up. I would have expected a lot more from DW. This piece was extremely fatalist in its approach.
What do you mean with "the political underpinnings"? The EU was founded in origin to prevent a new world war by connecting with our neighbors rather than competing with them.
The current political implementation is far from perfect. It's very slow and bureaucratic, but that actually helps to distribute the power. New laws need to be agreed by all member states and by a majority in parliament. And apart from making laws, the EU doesn't have a lot of power yet. The big downside is that the EU can't react swiftly to crisis situations. Think about the migration crisis, the financial crisis, or Covid.
There are ways to improve that, like bringing border control or banking under EU command. But that would give the EU direct influence on the citizens, not something everybody wants.
This populist govt will use Brexit as an opportunity to deregulate, with a terrible USA deal. It will continue to gaslight the public with emotive slogans.
Transition has allowed Brexiteers to have false comfort giving plenty of time to entrench ideological stance.
I don't see much rebuilding of EU relationships for the next 4 years.
Longer term though....yes indeed, we will rebuild closer relationship with the worlds biggest customs union on our doorstep.
@@notch7139 We only can hope that after 20 January 2021 things change for better in the WH. But after today explosion in Nashville I’m not so confident... We will see who will be there to deal with.
I don’t have to listen to answer that title, the rich bastards win and the working class lose
It will end the United Kingdom. Scotland and Northen Ireland will leave within five years. Don’t know about Wales.
One of the best programs i have seen on the madness of UK leaving the EU which is now been proven and the reduction of 4% GNP on the ecomony for possibly next 15 years which the leave voters agreed would happen
The UK rich won congrats for them.
Brexit is certainly a great argument against democracy. It's also a great argument for politicians being held accountable for their untruths. Unfortunately, what we now get in the UK is politicians with even more free reign to do whatever benefits them and harms the public.
No doubt the British people or at least a large enough percentage of them will continue to believe everything they are told, no mater what personal losses they suffer as a result of political decisions.
Brexit is actually a good argument for a better, well rounded general education for all and everyone. And for a better and more realistic representation of all political views in parliaments.
Hopefully Brexit will teach other countries the importance of press plurality and education. I can't see things getting better here for a long time now and frankly I struggle to contain my anger at people who have had no idea what voting for Johnson would do. If they can't pay any attention they shouldn't vote.
@@boboboborific Although I'd love to be in full agreement with you, I must disagree on the not-voting part. Perhaps they can recuse themselves, if they aren't interested, but every citizen should always have an inalienable right to vote.
Perhaps we should look at the Swiss model for citizen participation and seek to educate our citizens prior to votes the same way that they do? What we need is more participation, not less. Because when fewer people in total vote, the more motivated extremes have an easier time of shifting national policy.
I think I recognise that border crossing - it looks like Mullan Mill, between County Monaghan (my county) and Tyrone. The BBC newsnight team also showed up there. Haha.
Other countries will leave the EU now.DEcentralising
Yeah right. No one on the continent cares about what the English do.
The winner is the US. Finally the UK is out of the EU. The smaller EU opposes less threat to the US.
The whole brexit chaos brought the member states further together. More people than ever recognise the deep sense of European unity. In my view brexit (together with the surreal behaviour of Trump) did a great job for the ever deeper union. The 21st century will see a real pan-european statehood, rather sooner than later.
The EU was never a threat to the US and now the Americans have lost their conduit and main influencer in the EU. The winners are China and Russia.
@@taintabird23well, I only know that the US has been super supportive to the UK for Brexit.
The US? Do you mean the crumbling empire with staggering wealth inequality?
@@cninusa Trump was super supportive of Brexit. The Republican party see the social democracy of the EU as a threat, while its unity serves as threat to its economic hegemony. The Democrats have a different attitude, and support multi-lateralism and don't identify with the values of Brexit. Biden is a Democrat.
France : " I close border for 48 hours"
Uk : "No no please, i sign deal ,i sign deal"
😄😄
UK: ok... We will hold back french nationals so they have a Christmas to remember... Oh don't blame us, it's France! 😂😂😂
France: "Ze stores have no fresh fish from Anglais!"
Macron: "Alright, release the barriers."
France: "Wot about ze virus?"
Macron: "Need fresh scallops - open ze border!"
This means the deal of punishment and loss for the UK
I thought I was the only one that clocked that move 😂😂😂😂
What did your EU lorry drivers think of France, spending christmas without seeing there loved one's. Especially when Spain idenified this super spreader in September & passed it on to all EU that's why cases were & are rising. UK id it not anyone else in EU 12 weeks earlier where it spread.
Is that what France calls blackmailing UK into signing a deal. EU & UK wont forget Framce
I’m not happy to suffer in the short term because I don’t see any long term benefits. However my brexit voting mum is happy to see me lose my job due to it . Brexit is almost a religion to her and her husband .
How was losing your job due to Brexit? or was it all to do with covid and you are just another pro eu liar
Part of my job involves shipping goods in and out the EU. Some are made in China which incur tariffs when exported into the EU. My company has opened an office in Bulgaria to handle future shipping. My skills can be reallocated but I fear for our full time shipping staff . My mum made it clear that if I did lose my job her precious brexit would be worth it . My skills are not easy to transfer as the industry I work in is small. I will never vote to harm my own daughter’s future as they have done .
aw poor you, what about the Ford Transit jobs that the eu gave a loan to so they could relocate to Turkey? what about thousands of UK citizens jobs undercut by cheap foreign labour. you should do as the lib/dems say and retrain. or you could go live in Bulgaria. and those ``external tariffs`` is one of the reasons that secured the leave vote.
Well a lot of the jobs are now moving into the EU as companies open offices in Ireland , Netherlands, Germany etc to avoid tariffs . workers are losing their jobs and the economy is hurting . Many small businesses that export won’t survive .
@@nickclarkuk the neo liberal corporate globalists never wanted any small or medium businesses to compete. many small businesses that export have already gone bust over the covid scam. otherwise why would you think they would go bust over Brexit, have we not just signed a free trade deal that cost the UK taxpayer £39 Billion, so much for free. you repeat the eu lies because as we see with Northern Ireland, they are not honourable enough to stand by what they agreed to. a lot of jobs lost is not a comparison to have a democratic right to remove those that govern you. as I said ,, retrain.
lets think all uk companies are struggling to employ enough people, business are moving their firms to europe, uk lost great business deals arranged through EU now has to negotiate each from a weaker position, there are no wins for uk here
Things will get a lot better for Britain but it’ll take awhile. I live in Switzerland and I can tell you that I’m grateful to not be part of the EU.
Brexit is a huge win for the EU. Surveys confirm citizens’ steadily growing support for the European Union since Brexit, even Marine "French Farage" Le Pen is now a remainer. Of course we have our problems and it takes a lot of effort to stay United with 27 countries. But hey...the UK is struggling to stay united with only 4 countries speaking the same language!
Level playing field, Free trade and fish were the big issues for the EU and they won it all.
Brexit is history, the EU and UK can now move on.
Excellent post.
Except the UK isn't struggling to stay united at all and only the delusion in the EU grows. Let me know where this level playing field is, or ECJ overruling UK law.
@@0penminds let me know when the UK put itself together, after 3 extensions and 3 PMs since the vote just 4 years ago.
Excellent synopsis
@@lanvin1982 It is together thanks, unlike the small group of consistant remoaners, most people in the UK can accept a result and move on, hence the 80 seat majority the government currently has. We are out of the EU, time to look forward and move on.
I'm ashamed to be British.
Brexit was never going to be a car crash but a slow puncture.
this was shot long time ago and just recasted now
No mask anywhere is selling them short
Looks like it. The girl was signing about Theresa May - she was replaced by Boris in 2019.
maybe it was. Maybe it wasn't. Let's focus on current situation. And with 70.000 dead it does not look great. Add Brexit to it. Is it good??
It's about the history of brexit since 2016 and what will probably come out of it.
To be honest it looked it. Out-dated and a metaphor for the EU.
Honest it parts but at best naiéve in others. Coverage in Scotland and Belfast but surprisingly little in powerful Brexit areas (though perhaps not that surprising as EU then and even still doesn't really understand those areas and perhaps ensured the result. They should have got out of London more).
Even the media-types in tge UK didn't get out of London enough, burying their heads in the earth.
The morning of the Referendum result the price of sterling dropped like a stone. If they had done their homework properly they would have factored it in. Too London-centric by half.
The Labour MP's who saw clearly and were harbingers, Caroline Flint, Gisela Stuart, Kate Hoey and John Mann were dismissed as of no account by the dinosaur Labour Party who had taken their heartland voters for granted too often.
Oh, well...I love DW reports, but this one has to be taken with a huge grain of salt, since it is so biased in favor of the EU.
Can't blame them for their bias, they just lost a huge contributer, the UK will be fine, we will have our sovereignty and maybe Canzuk as well, and as many other trading partners that we can find, no more EU saying no.
@Clec Torres Of course not. We (Germany) wished the UK would stay in the EU and DW is the official international broadcaster of Germany. And of course your outlook is grim, the only deal acceptable too us (the EU) was a deal that would show every other country how important the EU is. And this deal will archive that no matter how much more Boris and the rest of your government will lie about it.
But hey, maybe I'm wrong and there's a magic money tree in the UK. It would be the perfect time for another 350 million pounds a week to the nhs.
What do you mean? Brexit is in favor of the EU. The EU is so much better than it was in 2015 and 2016. Brexit helped the EU.
@@eLeft6 I think your surname says a lot relating to your comment and the dat to support that in the EU.
@@joshualand5330 We are already benefitting and it's only just the beginning. Watch the next few years of growth, of our pre-EU growth rates, the things we do differently, the value of common law over canon law, the value of liberty. Germany dominates the EU at the expense of others, at the expense of innovation in multi-sectors. Now Germany is the insurer for every poorer country around it that has sacrificed themselves for Germany economic dominance. German people deserve better. Anyone can make quasi-socialism work for a few decades. The British system has worked for centuries. Maybe, just maybe, there is a lesson to learn from us there.
The EU is our future. And there is still much to be done to make it a better future.
The lawnmower industry is larger then fishing. Which makes it all quite silly. But what makes it truly ridiculous is that more than 70% of fishing is in Scottish waters. English fishermen aggressively demanding they have sole access to Scottish fishing resources. All resulting in Scottish fishermen getting just a few percent of the fish stocks in their own waters the vast majority going to boats from England.