History Shows Blair Was 💯 Right On Brexit & Farage!
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- Thanks to the Tories and #Brexit, #Britain is once again the poor man of Europe.
The economy is £140bn worse off as a consequence of Brexit. Our trade is about 15% lower than if we had never left. Far from having a featherbed of extra cash, Britain sinks deeper into poverty with every day in Brexitland.
Blair has been consistently right about Brexit all the way through the last 8 years and Farage continues to harness populism to distract people from looking at reality.
#britishfarming
#foodsecurity
#inflation
#britishfood
#food
#costoflivingcrisis
#tonyblair
#blair
#nigelfarage
That’s because, whether you like Blair or not, he actually has a huge knowledge of how the EU works.
Not only about the EU but also how international trade works!
Not like Boris Johnson and the other crooks they only know every think about being corrupt by laying and cheating!
He's also a great politician who knows how power in general works.
Who likes Blair? Don't forget he's the man who lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime).
And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
@@theresenydahl9531Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime).
And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
Not you as for normal.
As I can remember when you and your EU loving crying babies told us that if we left the EU we could be going in to a big black hole but we are still here.
Then if we don't take up the euro we will go into the big black hole but we are still here.
Not just Tony Blair, Michael Heseltine, Ken Clarke, John Major, Mark Carney, indeed anyone with at least half a brain!
I have paid tributes to Heseltine, John Major and David Lammy with similar videos. Today is Tony’s turn.
Here’s heseltine’s
History Shows Heseltine Has Been Consistent On Boris & #Brexit
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None of those ppl you mentioned listed a finger to stop ot happening, and arguably laid the paving blocks of brexit in the years leading toward it.
@@DJWESG1huh? They were all warning. Were you not listening?
@@lizwebstersbf "Tony"? You're hilarious!
Michael Heseltine: "They are not going to allow us, by our own doing, to endanger their overall vision of a united Europe".
Ken Clarke: "I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe".
Any more traitors you care to mention?
Blair/Brown fecked up on a few issues. Cameron/May/Johnson/Truss and Sunak fucked up on everything.
You are correct in what you say about this sadly things are going to get massively worse due to the tories government now actively trying to destroy the Irish state by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland via the north, the British government has decided to wipe out the the only nation on earth that the UK trades with which is hugely profitable to the people of the UK. Hollywood film writers could not make this up. Where is the British insanity going to end.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Totally agree!
I can't believe Cameron is back.. the smell of fartz hits the room again
Oh not to mention that Brown left this country nearly bankrupt and sold off most of the gold reserves!!
I remember staying up all night for the blair 96 landslide and the feeling in the morning of hope. Now look at this country 14 years of tory chaos.
Obviously I speak Spanish & my friends are appalled at what is happening there now , we care for each other here ,wonderful free health system .All polite & helpful !
In Spain now & with 17 million Britons living abroad were denied our rightful vote re Brexit ,tied via gov email gives me request denied !
From my position within the EU, I look at the UK and wonder what it is doing to itself. I am sure we can all agree that the right wing in the UK seems deluded and determined to scupper the UK, but I see too that the left wing are also unwilling to address the elephant in the room. When Labour comes to power, they are suddenly going to find themselves in a damaged economy with a right wing press that will blame them for everything. To me it is as clear as daylight that the Labour party need to talk about the damage brexit has inflicted on the UK.
The problem is that Labour is not much better at the moment, only a similar alternative. Bring Blair back if you want change.
@@theresenydahl9531 I have to agree. I think Labour are sadly portrayed as the saviours that will rescue the UK. Well I'd prefer to live under them than the Tories but Labour are clearly not actively promoting undoing brexit.
Bu Starmer is a wee timorous beastie and is afraid of scaring the voters. People are so fed up with the tories that they would go with a more radical agenda, but he is...a wee timorous beastie.
@@NickAskew I think they are scared that if they start talking about undoing brexit, rejoining the EU they will lose votes. And if the Labour Party doesn't win the election outright they can't do anything. Sadly I still hear a lot of people blaming our problems on immigration, too many people coming to the UK. The state of the NHS and roads etc is apparently down to immigration not brexit & the tories policies since 2010 🙄
@@NickAskew It cannot be undone. UK is a third country in the eyes of EU. It has left the union in 2020. If you by "undoing brexit " mean some closer relations with EU UK already has the TCA wich is as good a trade deal a third counry can get. There is no more room to wiggle in any concessions from EU in that nor is there any will in EU to create any precedents for other third countries.
In 2025 brexit will more or less be done from the perspective of EU, when the Euroclearing leaves London for good.
I could not be happier that Fartage will never be a member of the European Parliament again 🥳
Yes as a Brit seeing him and Widdicombe waving those little Union Jacks at the end was the height of embarrassment.
Only a tiny group of people in the UK would disagree.
@@thetruth9210 Half! Are you using 2016 numbers?
@@jackkruese4258 not half as embarrassing as being part of that pile of shit EU, that's for sure.
@@SlamSector it doesn't matter if it's half, or the whole fucking lot, we're out thank fuck, never to return hopefully,
He is also right about the fact that it will be very difficult to go back into the EU. The UK will have to negotiate from a position of weakness and therefore the UK needs to change first into a position of strength before starting any rejoining discussion. Hence this will be very far in the future. The good news is that those old idiots who caused this disaster will not be there anymore. The under 35 will bring the UK back into the EU. That is 100% going to happen and they will not look back positively on those responsible for Brexit.
Maybe feeling the steel while watching the EU prosper will change the UK.
The UK has proven itself to be a failed project controlled by aristocratic incompetents. The best future for people on the British Isles would be to put the imperial gremlin to bed and have separate states - a United Republic of Ireland, Republic of Scotland, Republic of Wales and Republic of England, all constituent members in a democratic and strong European Federation with a single market, guaranteed rights for all citizens, and full free movement within, plus a federal military force and independent nuclear umbrella covering every member state. Then, we would never be pushed around by large nations economically, nor threatened with invasion from Russia. Plus we would never have to rely on an unreliable USA.
Too late for me unfortunately
How long will it take these under 35's to get their hands on the levers of power? What makes you think in 20/30 years time the EU will want a bitter weak sad old UK back in?
Not all older people. I’m glad to see things as the young do.
Political power is the reason for the European Union and nothing was wrong with that. The right wing IN the UK cannot accept that. Blair was spot on in his speech at the European parliament when he 'called-out' Farage.
The one single factor for me is the huge problem of English exceptionalism. How can we ever be part of a European collective built upon shared values of peace and prosperity when such a toxic view of the rest of the world permeates English consciousness. The prevailing view that we are fed daily, is that all we have to do to solve our economic problems is to wave our Union Jack flag more furiously and shout louder. The EU & the rest of the world will then sit up & take notice. Until such time as the zeitgeist changes, coupled with the acknowledgment that Brexit was a catastrophic mistake, will result in us forever languishing as the poor man of Europe.
Great point.
Absolutely. My own parents were not extremists of any kind - sceptical Labour voters, with a deep distrust of both Tories and trade unions. And yet, their English exceptionalism was blindingly obvious, even to me as a child. That attitude doesn't die with one generation.
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So the UK wants to trade with the rest of the world and wants equal immigration from the rest of the world, while the EU refers to any country outside its borders as a third country and tarrifs them blind, and the English has the toxic view of the rest of the world?
Wow.
So the UK wants more world trade and even immigration from around the world, while the EU calls anyone outside its border a third country and tarrifs them into oblivion, and were the ones with a toxic view of the rest of the world?
Wow.
Took the fight to the Tories and won. He made a mistake but gave us so much. The Tories gave us Brexit they should never be forgiven.
Gordon Brown forced our departure from the European Union, because neither he nor Blair were man enough to stand up to the EU on the European Constitution/Lisbon Treaty.
It wasn’t the Tories that gave us Brexit it was the people.
@@davidtaylor4815the Shitties, oops sorry the Tories, gave a large bunch of semi illiterate xenophobes an opportunity to f*** the whole country over cos they didn't (and still don't) like furriners ....and surprise suprise, they took it in both hands, lied like legends and got their way.
Are you starving pal? Do you know anyone who is? This country ruled itself quite well for 1000 years without being told
what to do by people we either can't elect or de-select. My Father went up the D Day beaches to uphold that principle!
War monger, mass murderer is not a desirable trait
Nigel, promising free money, ought to have been the reddest of red flags to anyone.
He cares solely about the money going into his pockets for his collusion nobody else.
Like free internet?????
How could anyone have looked at the major Brexit proponents - Johnson, Farage, Gove, and believed a word they said??
People love skillful demagogues.
Excellent post liz, but they ain’t listening,
I would challenge any pro Brexit individual to point out one thing that T.B. has said that is incorrect..
How about taking the UK into a war with his american buddie.
Really REALLY don't hold your breath......when, and only when those old farting xenophobes are dead will we see change.
Didn't he say something about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!?😂
Are you insane, or merely evil?
@@edthompson9337 in this video clip..re.brexit
17.5 million voted for brexit, out of a population of 65+million. That is not a majority, and that was 8yrs ago. Far fewer people would vote that way now they realise the reality of brexit - high costs and fewer benefits for the majority, but gains for the offshore elite.
What gains for the offshore elite?
Decisions are made by those who turn up.
And if you think that Farage is still parading himself like a peacock on the political stage after creating the Brexit disaster there are lots of questions to be asked why this man is still popular.
The reason is simple. Farage knows that the EU is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam. Increasingly, so does the British electorate too, proving that Farage was right all along.
People do not have the headspace to fact check or reflect. They like simple solutions that they are able to understand...even if they make no sense. I seem to contradcit myself so I will explain: people are able to understand the concept of low pay. People have economic problems. There are immigrants. The UK used to be rich and have an empire. All these things are familiar. Linking them makes no sense, but it does not matter: it is all part of a familiar universe so a lot of people go with it.
Because just like his sidekick Donald Trump, he is a bull-shitter isn't he!.
Yeah you are right we should have been ruled by Brussels because they would rule better than English politicians
@@sarahneedle8308we were never ruled by Brussels, that was just another one of the many lies.
It was also very rightly pointed out by many of us that we got back a lot more than the 350 million per week we paid in in trafe alone coming back into the economy. We paid out 350m per week = 19.2 billion per year but since leaving the EU brexit has cost the nation 100-140 billion per year.
The UK paid approx. 11BN a year on membership of the EU.
@@marinusvoscloser to 8bn after rebates etc. about 150m per week.
From the Treasury's own figures, the UK paid in £137 million per week, and what we got out was worth £2,600 per week.
@@davesy6969 but the UK doesn't now have to follow those pesky EU regulations.....
Ohhhh wait, it does 🤦♂️
With rebates the amount the UK paid in per year was around 10 billion and that gave so much and most of all it it meant seamless borderless full free trade in in both goods and services in the worlds largest single market.
Even with a full fit for purpose comprehensive FTA the best that a third party nation can have with the EU is as smooth as possible trade in goods only (not services) but that trade in goods is not seamless and borderless as that’s only for members.
The EU-UK TCA is not even close to a comprehensive FTA.
FARAGE... I am having a hard time, not to throw up when I see that spawn of evil.
He is laughing all the way to the bank. He is lining his pockets with his speaking tours all over the world. people believed him ...
@@janstaes2172 yes, that's the time we are living in. Believe this little demons.
This 🤡 bankrupted the country and left Gordon Brown to sort it out while his wife was buying houses in London.
He betrayed all of us and made millions out of it.
He only cares about number one.
Nigel is like bad smell, just lingers around, I just wonder when people will just open the windows and get rid of bad smell.
Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder.
Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum.
To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost.
The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
@@SJG-nr8uj😂 oh dear.
@@serinadelmar60121. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex).
All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.
@@SJG-nr8uj Yes, it’s a scam that stopped wars in Europe and idiotic border disputes. And watch, the European countries that aren’t in EU or not associated with EU are Putin’s pets (while Putin is making his own country a colony of China).
And yes, U.K. is now priestly a bantustan at the North Sea. Nothing to reconcile with.
@@SJG-nr8uj what a lod of bullocks.
Both my children now have Irish passports. I have explained to them that they owe the UK nothing and to become proud Europeans. Also to make their lives abroad in the European Union.
I refuse to become a British citizen because having a British passport would not help me. I can do everything I need with an American passport and a residency permit. Before Brexit I would have considered citizenship because I want to travel in the EU. I wish you and your children happiness wherever you live.
Good riddance.
Do they owe nothing to U.K.? Why then one would write here? 🤔
You are welcome to Ireland and the EU, sadly the British government is now trying to destroy the island of Ireland by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland from the north, the tories have pinned all on the collapse of Ireland in order to prove that the EU is finished. Ireland may well be destroyed by the British government but the EU will take its revenge on the UK for this. A very bad era in European politics has begun, caused by the British government, they have sowed the seeds of the destruction of the the British Isles. Sunack will have done the damage before the people of the UK can get rid of him.
Good riddance.
How I loathe that Snake oil Salesman Fartage. Blair was fantastic, were he our PM now.
Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime).
And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
FARTARGE. FARTARGE.
FARTARGE. FARTARGE.
ABSOLUTELMENT.
Take off your rose-tinted glasses, Blair was a politician that led the Nation based on deception & lies
He ruined the country. Can you not see.
You support war criminals do you ?
Brilliant Tony Blair. Contrast his arguments with Farage.
And the Con Pms since Blair.
Blair has no arguments in favour of the EU that are worth listening to. Nobody has.
The more I've listened to farage the less I'm impressed with him.
@@SJG-nr8ujThe thing is Sj , that most people just see Brexit as a massive disappointment.
@@SJG-nr8ujyou are Russian troll
What a raw ride through history ….how can one nation fuck it self this monumental…
Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder.
Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum.
To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost.
The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
@@SJG-nr8ujPlease allow me to tell you that you are completely wrong and don't know what you are talking about. When did you become such an expert on the EU and what do the European people think? The Swedes, Finn's, Dane's are proud of their identities, languages and heritages and would never allow themselves to be erased. They are happy to be a part of the EU and be working together side by side with the rest of Europe.
@@jjnen3118 Please allow the European Union to tell you what you should already know.
1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex).
All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.
@@SJG-nr8uj i‘m really sorry for your complete misunderstanding of the EU/Europe Situation. Your are a victim of tory and brexiteer propaganda. We are better off now than ever …. I‘m a severly handicapped pensionier but i don’t have to fear for the Future auf my Kids👍🎉🤓
@@Sat-Man-Alpha You people are hilarious! Will you please stop lying through your teeth, because we've had enough of it. You did enough of that in 2016 - we've seen through it now.
I report on the EU's treaties, documents and declarations, as follows:
1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex).
Generally speaking, you Germans are not surprised by the thought of a federal European state and are actually looking forward to it. Why? Because, according to Helmut Kohl: "The future will belong to the Germans when we build the house of Europe."
So stop the ridiculous lying.
Such a shame that we let ourselves get into such a mess.
United we stand, divided we fall.
It's the UK and Ireland that will fall.
@@andrewcooney2387 what has Ireland to do with the UK apart from the CTA and GFA?
Blair talks more sense than all these Brexit politicians put togeather
He should be talking that sense from a gaol cell for what he did to Iraq and for what he did to the NHS (see John Pilger on the latter, esp on the "Private Finance Initiatives" introduced by that govt)
Tony Blair had his faults, but he could run rings around this Tory party. The Blair years will prove to be some of Britans finest and most economic. Blair will be remembered as a fine statesman long after Farage is forgotten.
What plant are you on
@@user-jv5pt2ni9l NOT cannabis, and You?. 😆😆😆.....
So true.
Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime).
And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
10 year's of consecutive economic growth ,a functioning health service rated one of the best in the world and not a pot hole in sight ....yep the blair and Brown years .
I am impressed by the fact that Nigel’s children are all European.
He tried to become German with the help of his brother-in-law 4 years ago, all quietly of course but he was found out by a German journalist.
He tried to get a german residence permit, but was refused. Obviously, he doesnt reside in Germany.
There brains must have come from their mother!
@@paulbird3235God knows where your spelling came from.
Everyone of us born here in the UK is European.
Apart from Iraq I think TB was one of the best leaders we ever had.
Blair's only mistake was being a lapdog to the US & unfortunately we haven't yet learnt from that mistake & are continuing to do whatever is in the US interests instead of our own.
Well, he is the ONLY British leader whose actions cost the lives of 100,000 innocent Iraqis, so after taking that into consideration where would you put him?
@@user-ol6rd7pl5t Bush was Blair's lapdog just as much as the other way round. The Americans were eternally grateful for Blair's phoney dossiers, used to hoodwink the public, the press, Parliament and the world.
Iraq was awesome fun. The only tragedy is that we left!
@@robertbones326 Not that fun for the more than 300 UK soldiers that died and the more than 3500 UK soldiers that were wounded.
UK: Hey EU! Do you bet that I can shoot myself in the right foot?
EU: What? Why would you do that?
UK: Because I want to show you that I can do whatever I want, to show you that I'm independent!
BANG (BREXIT)
8 years after
EU: Hey UK! Is that you behind?
UK: It's your fault that I'm behind!
I'm crippled because of You!!
👍😀👏
Yes Blair was right, but we cannot just rejoin the single market which is a feature of the EU. The key thing missing is any sentiment in favour of throwing in our lot with EU countries is basically we’re very similar and like minded. Until that changes the EU would be ill advised to allow any closer ties.
That's not going to change
The key thing missing and which prevents the UK from "rejoining the Single Market" is a little thing called "legality". A third country cannot unilaterally subject itself to the court which administers that market (first country) or to a court sharing jurisprudence with that court (second country). You are now, from a legal perspective as viewed from within the bloc, a third country and there is no legal mechanism beyond the EU obligingly scrapping the Rome, Maastricht and Lisbon treaties in favour of one that allows completely unaccountable outsiders to participate within its own institutions which can ever allow you to "rejoin" as long as you remain a third country.
The sooner people in the UK finally get to understand international law, why it exists, how it applies to them and therefore what reality actually looks like, the sooner that effort there can properly be employed in pursuing realistic goals, and not just chasing more of the self-serving fantastical delusions that got you all into this mess in the first place.
When tptb stop showing old ww2 films on telly cos the target audience are DEAD.......then we will be ready to apply.
@@iandennis7836 whatever sick minds you include in the first person plural here, count all decent people out
@@SonOfVikingonly Remainistas dont get it
Ive always said history will remember the brexiteers as traitors who waved a flag !
WE ARE A LAUGHING STOCK, BUT POO-TIN IS VERY HAPPY !!
You certainly are.
I'm half-English, half-French. I'm a former reporter on Tory-supporting tabloid newspapers. I was twice interviewed for the job of Communications Director for Vote Leave.
Let me assure you, Tory tabloid owners and the handful of individuals who instigated Brexit haven't the slightest interest in Britain's future. Their only interest is in themselves.
British pride has come before the fall
Tony Blair is one of the greatest leaders we have ever had……if only people had listened to him. What an embarrassing ‘self inflicted’ mess the UK is in right now!! We have no voice on the world stage, and no-one wants to invest in this country anymore as a gateway to Europe. 😢
Brilliant compilation, thank you🌷🌷🌷🌷I particularly enjoy how forcefully Blair spoke in the clip from 2005.
Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder.
Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum.
To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost.
The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
@@SJG-nr8uj You would fit invery well with the MAGA crowd in USA. They are also deluded beyond hope and actually believe the crap they hear and what they spew out in congress and social media platforms.
The British still thinks they live in the 18th century.
The English sir
And we have some foreigner who thinks he knows what he's talking about.
Why? Any proof of that?
You've summed the pro-EU faction up perfectly with that observation.
Liz, totally on your side. We must keep fighting to rejoin!
Who spent 12-18 months trying to reverse the vote and rejecting every version of Brexit? It wasn’t farage. And what don’t people understand that being able to make one’s own decisions has nothing to do with economics. And here kid the kicker I’m a citizen of an EU country and there are more of my countrymen register at the London embassy now than pre Brexit.
Regarding Iraq...was he not fed BS from George Dubya Bush? Fell for it unfortunately
Wrong. He fed the BS to George Bush. They fell for his dossiers hook, line and sinker.
He was. He behaved very stupidly because of the "special relationship". However, a number of countries also followed (remember the whole discussion about old and new Europe?). Brexit was an act of self-harm, by the UK on its lonesome.
The war wasn’t the mistake. It was the unplanned aftermath that caused the disaster. Dr David Kelly approved of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein even though he thought the WMD argument puerile.
Well he was in good company since the UN general assembly fell for it too and the US congress. If that gives you any comfort that some hundred airheads could not be arsed to question the "intelligence" presented by Secretary of State Colin Powell who appeared before the UN to present evidence that Iraq was hiding unconventional weapons. However, despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service that the source was untrustworthy, Powell's presentation included information based on the claims of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball", an Iraqi emigrant living in Germany who also later admitted that his claims had been false. Powell also claimed that Iraq was covertly harbouring and supporting al-Qaeda networks. Additionally, Powell alleged that al-Qaeda was attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction from Iraq.
USA completely ignored the blatant facts that it was the Saudi princes who funded al Qaida and thus laid the groundwork for the 9/11 attack.
It’s a difficult situation, he was fed bs, but he also exaggerated it at home in order to get the support to go there. The way it was handled by the Americans was nothing short of tragic, but I can only imagine if I was living under the wrath of Saddam, where you have no voice and are killed in the street as a warning to others if you speak against him, I’d imagine I’d want other countries to help remove him.
The WMDs were a lie, Saddam being a violent dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people were not.
As a lifetime Tory voter (prior to Brexit), I never would have believed that Tony Blair would be an outlier speaking the truth.
How did this happen?
Blinkers ?
Blair said it all. 😮
Of course he was right! Nobody who is not out of his mind had any doubts about it!
Blair: "Your choice is between painful and pointless"
It seems that the UK has gone for the painful *and* pointless Brexit.
Not true. We simply had to take an economic hit to escape the EU's giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
Excellent editing and interesting context.
" It's a disaster. "
When people are not in power, they talk sense.
Blair for Prime Minister, he shows just how bad the current crop of politicians really are.
Whenever Blair is mentioned, someone always says, 'Yes - but what about Iraq?' Agreed, that was a huge mistake based on US misinformation - but the Tories were equally keen on going to war, if not more so. I recall the Blair years as generally positive for the UK as a whole. Far from perfect, obviously, but like a lost innocence before populism reared its ugly head.
I am truly sorry that the US lies. It wasn’t misinformation. It was disinformation. It was intentional dishonesty.
Whilst I’d agree the Blair years now seem like a lost innocence compared to the crap that came afterwards he has to be accountable for what happened in Iraq.
The US wanted that war and Blair was too weak to resist. What did Kelly say before he was eliminated. "they barely had enough technology to boil at Kettle"
And where are we now? From my prospective there are empty shelves in the supermarket and some medicines cannot not be obtained for love nor money. The Tories can go on saying this is not our fault, it's this, it's that, but at the end of the day Brexit has put the country into a weaken position and we are paying for this folly now and for years to come.
The only benefits I've seen for Brexit are that bankers can now have unlimited bonuses and the Water Companies can pump sewage into our rivers and sea when ever they want.
If you ask Farrage anytime, you will always get an undispute answer.
Two groups of people voted remain: the young and the intelligent.
Blair led the EU. Tories followed the EU.
You hit the nail on the head with your comments, 60 percent of all EU law was drafted in Whitehall in London that is fact. And still this was not enough for the 17.4 million people who voted for brexit.
No, he didn't.
Yeah, sure! He was a puppet of George W
@@andrewcooney2387 Rotfl the EU issues directives and members write the laws in their own countries like good little non sovereign poodles.
@@andrewcooney2387 Lmao The UK drafted EU directives into it's legal system like every other non sovereign poodle government.
I have my complaints against Blair, but he was spot on where the EU is concerned. It was absolute madness to leave the EU. Even more madness to believe the Tories were capable of managing the chaos that has resulted from Brexit. The only reason that the Tory wealthy wanted Brexit was to avoid too much close scrutiny of their overseas investments.
It's surprising that this argument (tax havens) is rarely coming up in the Brexit debate.
I hope Starmer is listening.
Spot on Tony ❤
Their needs to be another vote on brexit if starmer doesn’t call it if he gets in he should be ashamed
Join labour for europe
Britain should not be allowed to rejoin!!!!!!!
Why another vote? Brexit happened, nothing can be done to change that.
@@ab-ym3bf what might make sense eventually (not now) is a vote to commit to a programme of change that would eventually make the UK eligible.
Starmer is a brexiteer
We had so many allowances, helped by playing such major roles in drafting of procedural documents and we were very close to the start and development. So much was set up for smooth movement from goods, to animals as part of conservation breeding programmes and rewilding projects. The European standards that Brexiteers wanted out of are still there if you want to deal with the EU, only now you have no say in it!
Why is Blair getting the credit like he was the only one?
So so right. Blair is so on the money.
Still whining about not having cheap labour to exploit. Perhaps you should try canvassing on the jetty at Dover.
No whining needed we just get them from Africa and Asia now instead. The difference is they all bring a dozen relatives with them.
No one is perfect. but in terms of my quality of life has gone bad with toris. something is badly wrong. Blair was FAR better. they did look after us. but these current toris they look after them self's only . been working for last 25 years paying taxi's left right centre. for what?
Who actually needs to watch this video to know it was all a disaster?
Traitor. When Fartrage saw the results he went straight to obtain a German passport because while they were still together he could her use her nationality and enjoy Schengen.
I’m fortunate to have lived and worked all over the world. I took Danish residency before Brexit and am currently working in Germany. Most of the world now laughs at us; the Danes don’t, they feel sorry for us. Farage should keep clear of lamp posts!
You neglect to mention the number one clown and liar that became pm
Nicola Sturgeon was right on Brexit. But we Scots don't matter eh?.
I’m Welsh with Scottish, Irish and German/jewish ancestors. Lots of us are European citizens of nowhere.
She was also right about independence for Scotland too.
You got that right.
@@SJG-nr8uj
Why do we need to explain something to the english that was in the treaty of rome even before they whined and sobbed to be let in?
Oh , right , the english never read what they sign because they never intend to honor their signature anyways.
Glad you are finaly out - and even of your own free will, thats so hillarious.
@@Ooze-cl5tx Just report that idiot for misinformation and get rid of him.
I have to say this is the best speech to convince me we should have never left EU if only i could have seen it before we left it would have been easy to know the right thing to do.
Brexit mess
Well said, Tony Blair. Why do we no longer have any politicians who speak so coherently.
Thank God Blair is not in power, how many more unjustified unprovoked wars would he started, he’s a maniac.
Because the people voted for the people they voted for---Boris!!!!!!
@@rrickarr no they didn’t, ‘the people’ had waited decades to have a say on the EU and would have voted leave without any hype from Johnson or Farage, the EU sealed their own fate when they secretly shifted up from an economic community to a political autonomy, ‘people’ didn’t want that, they didn’t ask for that, it was forced upon them and at great cost too. As soon as ‘the people’ had the chance they voted and would vote the same today.
‘People’ who say they’ve changed their minds are Remainers pretending to be Brexiteers hoping to stir up movement back to the EU.
As someone who has voted tory for much of my working life (I'm now 77), I never thought I'd agree with Blair, however the man is so right, it's sheer madness to dream that the UK can stand isolated against the giants of America, China, Russia etc. Within Europe we were part of and had the power of a world trading group, now we are a little isolated island. I have no love for Blair, but he's right, it's NOT 1945, the world has moved on, brexiteers want to go back to "we'll all pull together", like when there's goods shortages and the selfish rush out and strip the supermarket shelves. We MUST REVERSE BREXIT or see the country I love fall behind the world trade blocs.
Spivs are back, which should please their yearning for the good old days. Food shortages will be next.
Your country is going to collapse and you are trying to take Ireland with you by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland via the north, the tories are trying to wipe out Ireland with this filthy type of politics, the tories are trying to make English people totally hated by the people of the EU in order to keep their brexiteers happy, this is an act of insanity and self destruction, not to mention bloody mindedness. The UK election won't come quick enough to prevent this total destruction
Japan, Australia, Canada, South Korea ..... What do these sovereign, independent, developed, democratic countries have in common?
1. They stand isolated against the giants of America, China, Russia etc.. Even though it's not 1945.
2. None of them are expected to hand over their governmental powers to a burgeoning would-be superpower and cease to be sovereign, independent, developed, democratic countries. The citizens of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Malta, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Irish Republic are all about to have their democratic right to self-determination stolen by Brussels. Do you seriously think the Poles and Hungarians will take that lying down? The EU will collapse within a couple of years of economic union, and the EU wants economic union complete by 2027. They are staring at disaster, of entirely their own creation.
Now grow up.
@SJG-nr8uj
The reality is that the world is forming into big power blocs. The EU is one of them, and we were a respected influential member of that. Corporate interests and Putin were working to damage the UK and EU and succeeded with Brexshit.
@@SJG-nr8uj I don't care about those countries, I'm more concerned with the survival and prosperity over the country I love.
You are perfectly free to believe all that rabid jingoistic rhetoric if it makes you feel happy and it obviously gives you a bit of a thrill.
I don't usually correspond with the mentally challenged, but I made an exception in your case.
The EU will be here and stronger as time goes on, keep your head in the sand old timer.
Big mistake of Britain to leave Europe!
To be fair, a lot of us who aren't war criminals also knew about the EU and were right about this really stupid exit from Europe.
Well done Liz. People need to see these old videos. Where are the 17.4million who voted for Brexit? Most of them complaining and regretting I imagine.
Why do people need to see a lying, warmongering crook again? To be taken in again?
Thanks Liz.
well done Tony,,,,,,,Farage should be put behind bars and use as entertainment and I am from the normally staunch right
Brexiters never understood that the 'cost' of belonging to the political union was a price well worth paying for the benefits of belonging to the economic union.
It is a shame Blair's brand is perceived by many as damaged. He would have been able to counter Farage & Bojo lies.
If Blair had led the EU to remain campaign rather than Cameron the UK may, not have, had to experience the worst government to date.
Liz a good presentation.
This channel is for people who think Blair is not toxic with the public it seems, they have no clue here
@@johnmurray5573. Evidence to support what you say , be a good chap.
@@californiadreamin8423 just look at the 4 leaders of the Labour party
Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder.
Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum.
To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost.
The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.
@@johnmurray5573 Corbyn was a disaster for Labour but infinitely better than Liz Truss. Keep trying.
farrage should be jailed for all the lies he has told.
Just like Bozo should.
Farage has no place in the history books he will be long forgotten about before Tony Blair
Economist Adam Posen was absolutely correct about Brexit.
Another great post! LIz Webster, do you know Michael Lambert's youtube channel. The two of you are very coherent people everybody can relate to and I always something valuable watching you.
Of course, I watch a couple of others who are, maybe, doing a sleeker job, or they add humour, but your posts are no-nonsense, factual and really really good. Thank you!
(But I completely disagree with Blair's analysis of Corbyn's time in charge)
Thank you! I’m a learner in editing and, as you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, I’ll likely never be able to compete with the wiz kids. But I’m good at talking and love getting Brexit off my chest!
@@lizwebstersbfOh! I was just going to compliment you on how superbly edited this particular video was
I've lost about 20 percent of my trade to the EU now they have to pay import duty, that's 20 percent less I now spend in the UK. I already ship worldwide so I can not make this loss up. When I mention this to those that voted for Brexit they simply say 'politicians are all the same so I'm not voting anymore' rather than suck up their mistake.
Its hard to admit you were conned, and from what we have seen subsequently of the major conspirators of Brexit they are fanticists or outright conniving liars from the pampered public school Toff bubble of the poitical right. Cap doffing our 'betters' is a deeply ingrained, hammered in from birth, Pavlovian response for the English working class. We will all pay for these lies for many decades
I say tough luck serves you right for supporting multi cultralism.
You can't make up the missing 20% from 27 countries, many of which haven't got a pot to piss in, from the other 170 countries you say you already ship worldwide to, many of which are seeing huge growth?
Sounds like you have a quality or marketing problem, rather than a Brexit problem!
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So are you saying the loss of the world’s biggest market on our doorstep is irrelevant ?
@@jackkruese4258 The world's biggest market? Because you lumped a few countries together, the vast majority of which are recognised as "net recipients" rather than "net contributors" because they are skint and take out more than they put in?
I'd rather trade with South Korea, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Singapore than Estonia, Latvia, Lithiania or Malta, to name just a few!
Now we're part of the CPTPP and on top of that can trade freely with whoever we want to!
I'll let you get back to trading with Cyprus and it's paltry £32b GDP.
Tell me, how many Cypriot products do you have in your home? How much do you think they buy from the UK? Yay for Eu free trade! Muppet.
Brexit disaster
The last decent Prime Minister.
the score now is around one hundred and forty billion. If the euro clearing is completely withdrawn after June 2025, the European bank estimates the loss at around three hundred to three hundred and thirty-five billion per year. To make a comparison, the entire British defense budget for five years is ninety billion.
Like he was right about Iraq? That reptile should be behind bars for a very long time.
Farage is the fart in the elevator. Everyone is affected, but no one is certain who to blame.
Blair encapsulates the hard facts and the realities in simple language. Farage panders to the emotions and misinformation that worked in 2016.
8 years in and I can’t stand anymore to bear witness to the destruction done and live through a forecast that says there is even more to come.
Labour will do no better. Possibly even worse and that would take immense incompetence. But not an impossibility even its record in opposition.
So I leave the U.K. this August. Taking my skills, resources and businesses with me. Should have done it in 2016.
I will never forgive Blair for the Irak war lies. But he says he understands power, so maybe he knew something that I did not. On the Brexit issue though, he is really sharp and to the point.
Blair was the best PM we ever had.
Unfortunately you are a 5th rate little island off the coast of Europe. Im a Brit living in Austria. The EU is not perfect but the only way to change it is from the inside NOT by walking away. Unfortunately that is a lesson you are and will have to learn.
That's nonsense. You can't change it. The EU is working on economic union, the final stepping stone before political unification. You can't stop that. You can't stop the Islamification of Europe, orchestrated by the European Union. You can't stop the reckless expansionism of the EU across Eastern Europe, which puts it on course for a military confrontation with Russia. But this fifth rate little island, which helped save Europe from Nazi tyranny (which you might actually prefer) prefers democracy, autonomy and self-determination.
"Such is the end of Empire". then Prince Charles 1997.
Every EU decision can be vetoed by member states.
Except for:
customs union; competition law; monetary policy (for the Eurozone); fisheries policy; agricultural policy; commercial policy; international agreements; internal market; social policy; economic, social and territorial cohesion; consumer protection; transport; energy; freedom, security and justice; safety and public health; research, technological development and space; development, cooperation and humanitarian aid; protection and improvement of human health; industry; culture; tourism; education, vocational training, youth and sport; civil protection; administrative cooperation; economic policy; employment; social policy.
Once you remove these all that's left is foreign policy and taxation, and their is pressure to remove these too.
Very interesting. perhaps you should look for some help?
We are the 6th largest economy in the world.
Switzerland is a small country and not in the EU and the Swiss economy has never been better, maybe we need zero illegal immigrants like Switzerland.
Yeah you do understand tho that switzerland has hundreds of bilateral agreements with the EU and accepts all the rules of the EU eh? Newsflash made, switzerland will be the only country the EU will ever do this with as this takes too much time and work.
@@skinless333x2 The reason is lack of will due to the effort it would take, the reason is political ill will on the side of the liberal politicians in Brussels. Fortunately this will change as even European countries are realising that their approach has failed leading to Brexit and it is more likely that upcoming more conservative leadership within Europe will align with Britain in the future. The problem with the socialist perspective it that it is entirely shortsighted and focused on short term ends that are already in the decline.
@@geolocations Yes effort equals time and work, exactly what I wrote.
No, I am sorry there will be no alignment with the UK. The UK has to do as the EU says or loses market. Produce at the standards we set and so on, diverge in the slightest and you get hit with barriers that will make the economy struggle even more.
It has nothing to do with socialism, are you not aware that the UK is already being excluded as supply chain by many when it once was the gate to europe? The UK is getting more and more insignificant with each passing day. As there is simply no leverage behind any of it.
Tell me about the great trade deals you managed since you left. Oh right the laughing stock for former colonies, that is how good they are.
You might want to listen to Tony Blair who did very good job explaining how power works and why there is no benefit from the entire process. You are an isolated country with a corrupt government, that wants to abandon the ECHR. No wonder regarding the fact that protest has already been made illegal in the UK.
Time puts everyone in place .Each country in the European EU is sovereign.Stupid!!
Has Tony Bliar found those WMD's yet?
Any day now...
I hope he can before he passes…poor OJ died before he could find Nicoles killer…sad
What does that have to do with a conversation about brexit?
@@iankp5901because he is a professional liar.. that’s the connection
Dont you guys ever stop moaning. Get over it you lost.
The UK is doing pretty well too, Liz just misses her fat unconditional subsidies.
Well the Brexiteers bitched abt the EU for over 40 years so it’s the Remainers turn to do some bitching now.
@@jackkruese4258 Ok I concede that point. Happy moaning the tide of history is against you.
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Ha Ha I didn’t really mean that but I couldn’t help saying it, you might be right we will see.
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I see you’re into your history though, nowt wrong with a guy who loves history, especially Weltkrieg 1.
British people should have listened to a seasoned leader😢
Such a shame more people didn't listen to him.
Blair lied twice to the nation. Just like the Tories currently, no one listened to him.
He must face up to that and apologise.
Jail.
What an embarrassment Blair is. We are still paying a huge price for his huge bugger ups when he was the PM.
Legend. So sharp. I remember how good we had things in this country up until 2009
Cheers. You won as a 2016 Brexit voter. And we are all the much poorer for it. But I'm open minded that it may all come good, in about 50 years
@@FixUp.LookSharp And here's what you would have won.
1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.”
EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.”
Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.”
EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027).
ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”).
From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues:
• A genuine ECONOMIC UNION;
• A FINANCIAL UNION;
• A FISCAL UNION;
• A POLITICAL UNION.
These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.”
In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3.
From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK.
‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment.
The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.”
2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS
Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.”
The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels.
The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”.
It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter.
On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one.
On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above.
In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?”
Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.”
(CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability).
3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia.
4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex).
All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.
Recap: The UK is not a member of the EU. Good luck!
Good!
Eu growth 0.3% uk growth 0.6% its a good job the uk is not in the eu.
@@terryj50One month ago the UK was confirmed as the world’s fourth largest exporter. Exports to the EU are stable and those to non-EU countries are proliferating. Not that Labour wants to hear it…
The International Monetary Fund predicts that the UK will grow by 8.3% by 2029, higher than France, Germany, Japan, and Italy. The UK private sector is miles more confident of a pick up than its European partners at the same time…
We will be back. Just a matter of time.
@@nedgeson326 No, we won't. The EU will be long gone before the UK has gets a chance to re-enter. It's a complete non-starter and it's time you got used to the reality.