There's no probably about it, you will never get those sweet deals within the EU ever again! The Brexiteers wanted to destroy the EU, they thought other countries would follow their madness! That's something the EU won't easily forget or forgive, you're not coming back in, any time soon🤣! And the funny thing is, Britain has not seen the worst of Brexit yet😭🤣!
Brexiteers don't give a damn about the EU one way or the other. They just don't want to be in it. So far it has been a damp squib - no "falling off a cliff" and no "sunlit uplands". A France and Germany have their own problems, there may be a general Western European problem wider than Brexit.
@@AW12-W "How wrong you all are"? Yes dear, of course we are. And you know far more than the OBR, the Bank of England, and practically every economist on the planet, obviously! Do enjoy the fruits of your Brixit victory, no matter how butter they might be!
@@gloin10 And yet the UK has a significantly lower debt/GDP rate than Belgium, France, Spain, Italy - major EU contributors with a faster-growing economy, twice that of the EU in Q2 2024. Go easy on the magic mushrooms. There's a good chap!
Tesco warned about increased prices after Brexit. They were only focused on foreign labour,thats why they voted Brexit Now Europe has the last laugh😂😂😂
So far Brexit has been a damp squib - no "falling off a cliff" and no "sunlit uplands". As France and Germany have their own problems, there may be a general Western European problem wider than Brexit. So don't laugh too soon!
It's also a lesson that democracy has its limits. One shouldn't ask the factory worker what he thinks about the intricacies of trade systems that exist between countries. Especially when so many of your politicians are dishonorable individuals without a proper understanding of the matter themselves.
So far Brexit has been a damp squib - no "falling off a cliff" and no "sunlit uplands". As France and Germany have their own problems, there may be a general Western European problem wider than Brexit. So don't laugh too soon!
When you listen to various UK podcasts you hear that the presenters are happy when something goes wrong within EU and especially it covers Germany or even better France. I am not the only EU citizen who listens to those podcasts and will not promote the rejoin or getting closer project. The UK must start by realising the empire is gone, no room for the British exceptionalism any more, not a world power, massive debt and EU are not eager to embrace the British born to rule attitude, a choice between EU or US must be made and finally to realise how bad the present situation is in the UK. Ukraine is higher on the list to join as they really want to…
This is a very naive observation, and shows a lack of media literacy. We live in a increasingly complex media landscape, dominated by monied interests rather than public interests. To believe that the views of the British public are reflected in corporate media, and then act on that belief is just plain wrong. Try tapping into independent media like the Bylines News Network and outlets here on TH-cam. You'll then have a broader and less one-sided view of reality, rather than of the oligarchs and plutocrats who can afford to startup up their own client media. Better still, make some British friends. You know, real people. Or read blogs. In short, vary your media intake, if you want to better understand. A simple Google search will provide you with plenty of other sources.
In the run up to the referendum, I had more conversations than I can remember with people who insisted we’d just be able to rejoin the EU on the same terms if Brexit was a mistake. It was baffling. That’s not how bargaining works. I had to explain that we were in an exceptional position, that we had exemptions from several things that’d be down the drain if we rejoined later, and people couldn’t grasp why! It was stunning! I was only 18/19 at the time, and arguing with people in their 50s and 60s about how, if Brexit was a failure, and we came crawling back to the EU, we have zero negotiating power in that scenario! They can have us join on any terms they want. People couldn’t grasp it. I’m still shocked now. My ex’s parents were literally in the process of retiring to Spain, and went bloody leafleting for Leave! UNBELIEVABLE.
@@rainmcmey I am Danish and couldn't understand Brexit so I decided to do my research and got a subscription on The Times in 2015 as well as reading more than 12 books about it. The damage is so severe for 97% of the population. The responsible people and their sponsors committed treason according to common sense. So sad.
Tell me what they have with Germany nearly 80 years after the war especially since life for the average German is nowhere near as bad as that of the average Brit. But we do complain a lot. 😁
@@minischembri9893 My theory is that the "born to rule" collides with the fact that Germany is a more succesful economy - so the UK are not asked to rule the EU which may hurt their pride. My theory only...
Thank you for this short summary. There's however a correction, as the Union has put in place all the border checks on day one, only the UK is incapable and unwilling to do so (giving Europeans an additional free competitive advantage). UK still has not met its agreed obligations. Possibly because it is incapable of doing so.
"Giving Europeans an additional free competitive advantage". Really? Why do you use "Europe" and "EU" interchangeably? Isn't the UK in Europe? Or is it a continent all of its own?
@@AlexGys9It's basically the same as people using America when they mean the USA or the British Isles instead of the British and Irish Isles, unless people don't know that Ireland and its 80 islands aren't British.
@@Richard1A2B Possibly, although I rather believe it runs deeper. It seems to me many English know that the UK is geographically in Europe but do not consider themselves to be European. One of the reasons for Brexit, an us versus them attitude, they feel closer to the USA than to the rest of Europe.
To be fair, the majority of Scots voted for Brexit that could be 45% vs 51% in England. (I’m pro Europe btw.) But yes it means Scotland is a bit smarter!
@@robertfry6783Much smarter, rgs from Finland. I am sorry that Scotland isn't with us in the Nordic countries union as well as in the European Union. The Scots belong here in the free world, not in a union where the Scots are not equal members.
@@MRiitta The Scots ARE in a free world. They at least got to vote on their status. You need to ask the Catalans, Bretons, Basques, Corsicans, South Tyrolese, etc., etc., whether they would like a referendum on their status. The EU was not a prison for the UK, but it is for them. As a matter of interest, why did Finland ignore the Aaland Island referendum of June 1919 which voted 96% for union with Sweden? Perhaps EU nationals should set their own house in order first, before lecturing others? Have you posted advocating this on other threads? If not, why not? As the Scots say, "Would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"!
Even as a United State citizen, my 15-year-old daughter could tell you that the EU was ready for the border checks. Attempting to equal things out by continually saying the EU wasn't ready is arrogant and is disingenuous.
The UK has been dealing with border checks for all countries outside the EU for many, many, many YEARS. Why would the UK be in a big, fat hurry to erect border checks when the EU has not gone backwards (except in a few minor points), on the ones they imposed *while we were members?* What, exactly, would be the POINT?
The whole notion that the UK would have some great bargaining position when they left was the dumbest narrative ever. Why would the UK have any leverage at all? I absolutely never understood that bizarre narrative. The Empire's been gone for almost a century now, and it isn't coming back.
The same reason why some old men think they are in with a chance when they try to chat up 20 year olds - delusional arrogance of the highest levels@@andreaslind6338
@@andreaslind6338 Because greed and xenophobia clouded their mind. I would recommend the German Book "Dummheit" by a clinical psychiatrist Heidi Kastner. She sums up the work of some American and Italians working on the issue of stupidity. Explains it all. The people not being able to rise due to the British class society voted for chaos in hopes of a windfall. Sadly they were to stupid to understand that the recipients f this windfalls were already asigned, from the ruling class ;-)
@@andreaslind6338 I think the old folks, who were the biggest demographic who voted to leave, had a weird attachment to the days of empire, even though they happened long ago, because of British propaganda.
The UK is toast, one of stupidest things a country has ever done. Blinding success however for the few super rich that wanted to privatize & deregulate, catastrophic for ordinary people
So do inform us. What exactly has been "privatize" (american spelling) and "deregulated"? You seem to know it all. There is no "catastrophe" except the shared mental breakdown of anti brexiters.
@@happy.uk.patriot also check out the guardian article today “Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit” Suppose you’re happy to have toxic pesticides (ie that give you cancer) in your food? You think stuff like this is good?
Every problem that was predicted by remainers was countered with: "Project Fear". If only that were true. I doubt that the UK will ever recover from Cameron's reckless gamble.
You forgot to mention that Cameron was a Remainer. The capacity for Remainers to shoot themselves in the foot should not be forgotten. In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation.
it was not Cameron's gamble. Every major party had pledged and EU referendum. The UK electorate voted for Cameron and the conservatives *because they had a referedum IN THEIR MANIFESTO.* So you can blame ME. I not only wanted a referendum, I wanted a government that pledged one. And I not only voted to end EU membership. I campaigned for it. Fortunately, I am immune from snivelling, whining, petulant REMOANERS.
@@happy.uk.patriot So Cameron was not responsible for his own party's manifesto? Pull the other one! Referenda are outside our traditional constitution as a Parliamentary Democracy. They have only been introduced because of the EU. They are a symptom of our membership and alien to us. It is great irony that the tools that got us out of the EU (referenda and proportional representation in EU elections that gave UKIP a profile it never had at Westminster) are both a consequence of EU membership.
What's really interesting is to look at TH-cam videos from before the referendum, and especially their comments. There was tremendous confidence among the lower classes that UK was going to strike trade deals left and right, UK would be taking back from the EU what was rightfully theirs, and so on and so forth. The only voices of reason around that time were the actual economists that pointed out that the EU had no incentive to be accommodating. Of course, politicians couldn't help but mold their opinions to that large of an electorate. That just in their nature.
It wasn't "replaced". Wrong. The proportion of EU people trotting over here has gone down. A lot. The UK has a *points based immigration system* and caps set by the parliament. They should be reduced, I grant. 2018 - 2022 Immigration and Social Services Act
@@atilla4352 The UK has a points based immigration system. People are granted entrance on merit. Not on origin, as the EU free movement of people forces.
What else could one expect when a country creates barriers to trade instead of dismantling them. Now Britten is a role taker and has to dance to the EU's tune without being able to influence the `music´.
We have joined CPTPP. That removes many, many, many barriers to trade. Our soon coming FTA with India will also remove MANY MANY MANY barriers to trade. And so will our FTA with Gulf Cooperation Council.
The conservatives legislated for a referendum because *WE, the ELECTORATE DEMANDED it.* No other reason. Other parties had promised an EU referendum but they were far to cowardly to offer one in a manifesto. I assure you, it was the UK *electorate* that demanded a referendum. We gave UKIP a national victory in EU parliament elections to drive the point home.
the video literally starts with 'in _May_ 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union.' and it was added as text to the clip as well. not a very promising start as this most basic fact about Brexit didn't happen in May but on *23 June 2016!* if you cannot get this thing right, why bother at all?
Dear viewers, I am not a UK citizent and what you decide for your country is your own business. I am 40 years old and live in Europe. I studied in London from 2003 until 2007. The first person i met at the University and started a conversation with made it clear to me that this is not Europe and UK is a sovereign country. The incidents i experienced during those four years making it clear to me how non - european British are were numerous. I will never forget that i was denied entry in a pub in Uxbridge and pushed away because of my accent and for being a foreigner. I really regreted that i studied in the UK. I could not understand why i was spending my money in a completely foreign country and i never felt blending with your mentality. The millenians who were at my age (18-24) were very arrogant when it came to the issue of Europe and i always got a sense that everybody thought was superior than other countries. You never had a chance in staying in Europe. Do not blame the brexit campaign. Brexit happened 50 years ago. You held on to your emperialistic mentality for far too long and could not see reality clearly. You are not the super nation you think you are. Times have changed. When i selected EU law at the second year of my studies the professor showed us a few straightforward data during the first lecture. First data was that UK exports 90% of its products to Europe! What arrogance to bite the hand that is feeding you, I thought.
Can someone tell me why the United Kingdom ended up choosing to go through hard Brexit rather than soft Brexit. Please is very important I’m currently doing my dissertation on it
There is *no such thing as "hard v soft" brexit.* That is just propaganda by anti brexiters. There is *ONLY* article 50 Brexit. That is the LEGAL DEFINITION of leaving the EU. Go and read it and find out what *REAL* brexit is.
Interestingly, the EU is the home of masochism. It was first described by an Austrian, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, after whom it is named. Perhaps the UK caught it during its EU membership?.
Do you know which people should say that phrase? Those who benefit financially from Brexit not a poor person like you. This shows ordinary Leave voters were merely blindfolded sheep following Farage, the daily mail etc.
@edwardmiller3859 "We left. .get over it"? The UK did indeed leave the EU. More than four years ago... However, the UK will NEVER "...get over it" The UK will probably not survive the stresses and strains that Brixit has caused.
exactly, now the remaining members can finally get things done. and it has shown the continent the benefits of being an EU member and the negatives of being outside the EU. it's free advertising and it's all in favour of the EU.
The UK is importing a lot less now, ... *from the EU* 😄😄😄 Because the UK is turning to OTHER MARKETS. Which is great news. Because the SM is on its way OUT as a significant player.
@@luckyshaqqq that's just another piece of the stupid Brexit narrative: Switzerland, Norway and Iceland all pay into the EU budget, plus they have adhered to Shengen, plus they have to comply with most of EU's regulations, and in contrast they have little or no say into the EU politics.
These countries are the EFTA. A group that basically was created by the Brits but then they left later as they thought there is more cake to be had in the EU.
Brexit is no "mistake". I went to the ballot box and voted to end EU membership for the UK. That is not a mistake. It is deliberate. It gives me supreme pleasure to announce to you that not only did I vote to leave the EU but I also campaigned for it.
Don't think so. Only the anti brexit PTSD / OCD EU worshipping idolaters have a major axe to grind. 50% "Free movement of people" they think should be imposed on the rest of us, and 50% *pure vengeance and hatred.*
@eddydar "We need to rejoin asap.."? The UK has NO 'rejoin' option. Mainly because EU law has no mechanism whereby an ex-member state can return to the status quo ante! The ONLY route for the UK involves firstly meeting the Copenhagen Criteria, then submitting its FOURTH membership application....
What a load of re joiner rubbish, even Germany are closing their borders and all Europe have suffered skill shortages . the truth about young people is that hardly any of them voted
Yes it was a big mistake . U.K saved Europe in WWII ,we are the same family. It was a gift for Poutine and China. Dont loose your time .Baby come back ! A frenchman who love U.K.
The UK ran away on the first contact with the Germans to Dunkirk. 9 out of every 10 German soldiers were killed by the Russians. The USA killed 7% The rest of the world killed 3% You were defeated in battle after battle in Asia by the Japanese. They don't teach historical reality in British schools, do they? So given that your contribution was to kill 1 or 2% of the German military casualties.... how much exceptionalism do you have to swallow to really and truly believe your claim?
Saved 😂😂😂😂 more like fled Dunkirk to only beg for help from the US if I recall my history book told me it was Russia and the US but everyone outside your little island knows the truth
@@suntzu94 May be - but Great Britain withstand Germany and didn't ccoperate with it long before the US enters the war. Without this little island as base the US would hardly be able to enter Europe. So, yes, thanks to the little island! 🙂
The one issue that wasn't really discussed during Brexit in either London or Brussels was the geopolitical impact outside Europe. It was the first time a major Western country had left a major Western institution set up after WWII. It was, as you say, a gift for Putin and China and was one way point on Putin's route to the invasion of Ukraine.
It wasn’t Brexit that was the big mistake, it was having a system that allowed it to happen on such a slim majority. The UK needs a written constitution and a proportional representation system of government before it is allowed to get back near a European trading partnership. This will be best achieved by dissolving the UK into its constituent parts and starting over.
I don't think it was a big mistake, as the European economy is stagnant and lagging behind technologically compared to China and the US, so there isn't much room for loss for the UK."
The EU economy may be losing ground to China and the US but the U.K. is losing ground even to the EU, with higher inflation, lower productivity, collapsing public services and widespread poverty. Its only technological advantage is in the area of money laundering and tax avoidance.
A fair comment. However, it also doesn't, so far, seem to have done any particular damage to the UK. The main popular complaint is queuing longer at airports. The experts talk of damage to future growth prospects, but this isn't felt because it is notional. No "sunlit uplands", but no "falling off a cliff", either. We shall see.
The denierd are still there unbelievable! The Brexiteers should be taxed (The Brexit Tax) for the damage and financial distress it has caused the country!
And the UK will need to pay off our investments on the continent caused by Brexit, before we even take an application to join ;-) With interest, off course.
Why not tax the Remainers who caused it? The capacity for Remainers to shoot themselves in the foot should not be overlooked. In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation. Perhaps they should be taxed, rather than the Brexiters, who didn't even have a political party representing them at Westminster, where all the decisions were made?
Don’t blame the people who fell for the con, blame the conmen, Farage, Johnson, Rees Mogg etc and the newspapers who gaslit their readership, mainly, Mail, Express, Telegraph and Sun. With a special mention for Cameron who catastrophically put party before country.
Why? many experts have called out the negative effects of Brexit, so instead of the Brexiteers cross examining these effects they solely went for their belief that it will work. The Brexit voters are hugely to be blamed for their arrogance and ignorance, without them Brexit would have just been a joke that have been forgotten by now, but instead the British are now facing it's harsh reality.
What about the Remainers, who caused it? In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation.
@@markaxworthy2508 There is an element of truth to that. There was an arrogance in thinking that the majority of voters are not completely stupid, only to find that they are.
@triumphanttrump1467 "the uk has the most successful trade deal with japan, australia, canada, and on the way to the biggest trading bloc tpp"? The delusional ignorance on display here needs to be preserved as a cautionary lesson for future generations. The UK has NO trade deal with Canada, as Canada has pulled out of negotiations. The UK's trade deal with Japan was a roll over of the EU's deal, with significantly worse conditions for the UK imposed by Japan. The UK's trade deals with both Australia and New Zealand(NZ) are so bad for the UK, and so advantageous for Australia and NZ, that TV pundits in both countries were laughing at the UK's idiocy... EVEN if the UK does become a member of the CPTPP, the effect on its economy over the next TEN YEARS - 0.04% of GDP - will be so small as to be basically unnoticeable....
@AW12-W "2024 Q2 economic growth.... EU = 0.3% UK = 0.6%"? One swallow does not make a summer, and one quarter's statistics do not prove anything. In the MOST RECENT quarter, the UK's economy flatlined. Both UK exports and imports have decreased significantly.. The UK is heading into recession.... The EU is not, on all available evidence.
@@davidjohntough9115 And yet the UK is wealthier than 96% of EU member states, of which only three (3) qualify for G7/G20 membership. Who are you kidding - yourself or everybody else?
£280 per year to be rid of an additional layer of extreme Machiavellian politicking, is reasonable afaic. Such as their ongoing policy of subsidising EU farmers to overproduce, selling it cheap to EU corporates, who sell it in Africa, undercutting the local farmers, damaging their agriculture sector ...which is one of the reasons behind African migration to the EU. I'll never forget and I'll never forgive the harm they've caused my friends.
The food imports that Africa has from the EU are heavily weighted towards production that requires effective infrastructure; the two biggest are meat and dairy. Imports that require less infrastructure are dominated by Russia and Ukraine. Africa is notoriously bad at sustainable infrastructure development; its first biggest problem is not spending enough, typically from half to a third of other regions globally, and secondly due to a pervasive culture of political patronage corruption is rife. The African Development Bank estimates that if Africa as a whole invested similar amounts to other regions in infrastructure that it would increase real terms GDP by 2% a year (i.e. enough to double GDP in under 80 years). And reducing corruption would of course help that growth be sustainable rather than winding up in a few politicians (and their families) pockets.
"Extreme Machiavellian politicking" 5 PM's including a lettuce, you must be kidding old man., Btw starting a war in the Middle East ( 2003) and setting up the biggest refugee crisis since ww2 wasn't a great idea either... But hey, you be gone soon.
Brexit saddens me to the core. Boris and the like told the electorate what they wanted to hear simply to get into power and hang the consequences. These outcomes, especially in relation to immigration, farming and fishing as pointed out, were so obvious from the outset. At least some of the most stupid brexit voters suffered the most, but that's little consolation in truth. The EU wouldn't have us back any time soon due to the potential harm of another exit (and who can blame them). Even if they did, the special privileges (Sterling & financial) would have to be forfeited, making it a tough choice. I guess we'll just gave to soldier on, getting poorer and more irrelevant as each year goes on. Hell of a lesson to learn (which we haven't and won't)
I really would love for the UK to join us again and it is for people like you that I feel sorry that it won't happen anytime soon. Take care, mate, I wish you all the best.
The capacity for Remainers to shoot themselves in the foot should not be overlooked. In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation.
@@markaxworthy2508 I think you make some fair points there, but to me, it's more about the actions of our political leaders. Cameron (who I can't stand) held the referendum to strengthen his position, silencing that irritating Farage once and for all. He was so sure he would win, you could sense at the time he didn't put the effort into campaigning. From memory, I think I recall he came up with some rubbish about excusing himself from the debate as he didn't want to compromise his independence as PM?? I may have that wrong. Regardless, all of them did it for their own personal gain, perhaps with the exception of Nigel Farage, who I do believe is a conviction politician. I respect that, even though I don't agree with many of his views. I can only speak for myself, but my issue is that had the debate been held with integrity and leave had won fair and square, I would have accepted it and moved on. It's the fact that the Leave campaign was based on lies that I find so difficult to accept. Those lies were clear and obvious to many, but to those who were more desperate to believe in something new, they formed the basis for a fantasy vote. Time has proven it wasn't true, but it's now too late. Boris has PM on his CV, the rest of us will continue to get poorer. There is no way around that. Many Brexiteers at the time even said that getting poorer was a price worth paying. That was easy to say then...
@@mattbennett9467 The problem is that BOTH sides were careless with the facts. We have had no Leave-promised "sunlit uplands" any more than we have a Remain-threatened "fall off a cliff". Brexit has proved a damp squib and the value of being in the EU seems to have been overstated.
Post Brexit facts, contained in this vlog, you choose not to mention. 1) The pound fell, making our exports globally cheaper. 2) Imports may have become more expensive, assuming the costs were passed on and that we continued to buy them. EU Imports are down an average £23bn per annum since 2021. Source Aston Uni's excellent trade report published this week! 3) Whilst the whole world may have seen reduced economic growth post Brexit (clue, perhaps it's not down to Brexit) The UK has out performed the eu every year since 2011 with the exception of 2021. 4) You report that the people regret voting for Brexit. You don't however report that there is not a majority that support rejoining, let alone determine what rejoining would look like. 5) A plebiscite is what it is on the date of any referendum. The age demographic point is pathetic and wholly emotive. Young people will one day become old. 6) Like all remoaners you fail to understand that many years ago the UK all but gave up on international road haulage, unable to compete with cheaper waged, cheaper dieseled, less maintained vehicles which means that 87% of all haulage movements through Dover are made by eu vehicles. This means all the delays and grief caused by the supine and inefficient French Douane impact the eu not the UK. There is no shortage of UK lorry drivers now they are earning £50k p.a. since the eu lorry drivers went home. 7) A major Brexit benefit is that the eu use of the UK landbridge has ended 240m lorry miles off UK roads. 8) If our farmers are so stupid to plant crops they can't pick then they deserve everything they can get. Automation will take the good ones forwards the stupid ones can go to the wall. 7) Everybody has a view on migration. Whilst we were in the eu we did not know what levels of migration we had. Your comments are racist on migrant values. We were never able to unilaterally return illegals to France. 8) Scotlands independent sentiment has not been enhanced by Brexit as you claim. The SNP have been virtually eliminated in Westminster and in 2026 the same will happen in Holyrood. Just another load of remoaner lies.
No body is regretting Brexit. The only people who are even paying attention did not vote for it in first place. Brexit simply does not effect the vast majority of people. they don't care about GDP and why should they. The vast majority of British businesses only supply the domestic market. British sales to the EU have never been higher and most British manufacturers do most of their business outside the EU anyway. What the British people have learned is that the boats are still coming with or without Brexit this is their only regret not Brexit itself. This realisation is going to destroy the Labour Party as it has already destroyed the Conservative Party. The will of the British people will not be frustrated for much longer. We are not coming back whether the EU chose to let us or not, indeed we really don't care what the EU does or does not do. The EU is simply not part of the conversation and most of us like it that way. To 99% of the British people absolutely nothing has changed and why should it have done so?
@garypowell1540 "British sales to the EU have never been higher"? That claim is simply untrue, as both the ONS and Aston College have pointed out. In the case of Ireland, imports from Britain, which were 30-32% of all Irish imports PRE-Brixit, have dropped by more than half, and currently account for 13% of Irish exports. The rest of your post is equally nonsensical. You are perfectly entitled to wrap yourself up in your fantastical opinions, but you should be aware that reality does not care about your fantasies.
Mr Draghi is a lifelong evangelist for European integration and always sees the answer as more Europe. But it is hard not to notice that Europe’s decline coincides exactly with the launch of monetary union at Maastricht - and the convulsions that this later entailed - followed by treaty inflation (Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon) and EU encroachment into every nook and cranny of national life. The sovereign states of East Asia are prospering nicely without locking themselves together in a tight union. One might legitimately ponder whether Europe would be healthier today if it had let nations be nations, and had never launched the European project along Monnet lines in the first place. The EU itself is the elemental problem...
That is an almost laughable opinion. It is actually not very hard to notice that the monetary union was a major boost to economic growth. East Asian growth is the result of low labour cost and protectionist measures. The EU countries are not “locked in a tight union”, they are liberated by their membership of the EU. It is the U.K. that has locked itself in a spiral of decline and isolation. But perhaps the EU will one day readmit the UK as a member….
Lol, you're not very good at European Economic History. Or economics really. Haven't you noticed that the dominant economic model is failing to provide and both sides of the Atlantic, as well as anywhere else it has been tried. Folly is like a virus. It doesn't know or care who it infects. It is driven by force it can neither comprehend nor explain. And it cares not whether it's victims are rich or poor. It just breeds. Such is the breakdown in neoliberal economic thought, and so the uni polar global settlement is unhinged in order to bolster the asset wealthy against the inevitable backlash. Maastrict has nothing to do with that. Just the folly of people even the Romans would of recognised as the source of its eventual decline. You should pay attention to those. They are the real enemy inside the gates. Those who exist to turn the suffering of others into gold.
The sovereign nations of east Asia are prospering nicely? Japan? A country that NOW got lower nominal GDP per capita than Italy and Slovenia and a country that now got waaay smaller economy size than Germany and waaay lower GDP per capita than Germany? Or South Korea which is experiencing the same? Or China that got lower GDP per capita than Russia?... Please. East Asia? Japan and South Korea never had WORSE economic numbers than they have today. And China was and STILL is faaaaaaar away from the wealthy, first world country. The rest of the countries there i won't even comment.
The problem with this premise is that it was an entirely economic decision, which is the core inherent problem with every government here - we're just a big economic entity, nothing else. I suspect Brexit would have gone down a LOT better if the people in power actually understood and wanted Brexit the way it was intended
@@hvhvgitaar I think the media focused more on economy than the actual people, who I heard very often say they will accept being poorer for sovereignty in exchange (take that how you will). Less immigration was a big promise and brexiteers were deceived. This isn't an economic argument it's a cultural and safety argument (also a little economic)
Wanted by whom exactly? And why? They got what they voted for, and the fact that those voting for it did not understand its economic import is whose fault exactly? There nowt no more stupid than those who won't learn. And follow people who tell them to ignore experts, all the while being able to bugger off into the sunset when it inevitably goes tits up and get a cushy job on easy street funded by the very rich muppets who needed Brexit to happen.
@@ABombs1 But it does not work like that. You can't just stop immigration. Build as much wall as you want you will never stop immigration. In fact people need to understand that immigration is kind of a necessary thing. It has always existed and will always exist. It's a good way to counter blanced low birth rate, a good way to aquire low skill and high skill workers, attract studient etc... The only thing you can change is how you regulate it, what type of immigration and how they integrate in your society...
There's no probably about it, you will never get those sweet deals within the EU ever again! The Brexiteers wanted to destroy the EU, they thought other countries would follow their madness! That's something the EU won't easily forget or forgive, you're not coming back in, any time soon🤣! And the funny thing is, Britain has not seen the worst of Brexit yet😭🤣!
It was the right decision in the long run. EU is corrupt to it's core and its immigration laws are a total joke. Greetings from Switzerland.
Brexiteers don't give a damn about the EU one way or the other. They just don't want to be in it. So far it has been a damp squib - no "falling off a cliff" and no "sunlit uplands". A France and Germany have their own problems, there may be a general Western European problem wider than Brexit.
Don't want them. Don't need them. The EU can stuff their "goodies" right up their asymptotes.
I'm a Brit who's lived in Germany for over 40 years. No-one here to whom I spoke about Brexit thought it was a good idea. Neither did I.
How wrong you all are.
@@AW12-WBoris Johnson what say you?
@@AW12-W
"How wrong you all are"?
Yes dear, of course we are.
And you know far more than the OBR, the Bank of England, and practically every economist on the planet, obviously!
Do enjoy the fruits of your Brixit victory, no matter how butter they might be!
@@gloin10 And yet the UK has a significantly lower debt/GDP rate than Belgium, France, Spain, Italy - major EU contributors with a faster-growing economy, twice that of the EU in Q2 2024.
Go easy on the magic mushrooms. There's a good chap!
Of course they didn't. The UK was a net contributor to the grifting lot of chisellers.
Project TOLD YOU SO strikes again!
Tesco warned about increased prices after Brexit.
They were only focused on foreign labour,thats why they voted Brexit
Now Europe has the last laugh😂😂😂
I don't think we are finished laughing, but O.K. ....
Since Brexit, no other EU member dares to mention about leaving. Lessons learned pretty quickly.
So far Brexit has been a damp squib - no "falling off a cliff" and no "sunlit uplands". As France and Germany have their own problems, there may be a general Western European problem wider than Brexit. So don't laugh too soon!
I was focussed on getting the UK free from a demonic, federallising *monstrosity* that is consigned to the abyss.
Europe? The UK is Europe. The EU is a scam.
This was no mistake, They were extensively warned about it. This was arrogant stupidity
It's also a lesson that democracy has its limits. One shouldn't ask the factory worker what he thinks about the intricacies of trade systems that exist between countries. Especially when so many of your politicians are dishonorable individuals without a proper understanding of the matter themselves.
So far Brexit has been a damp squib - no "falling off a cliff" and no "sunlit uplands". As France and Germany have their own problems, there may be a general Western European problem wider than Brexit. So don't laugh too soon!
Who cares?
We don't.
Have fun.
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You've got your own problems of far right stupidity in NL. No need to be so smug
When you listen to various UK podcasts you hear that the presenters are happy when something goes wrong within EU and especially it covers Germany or even better France. I am not the only EU citizen who listens to those podcasts and will not promote the rejoin or getting closer project. The UK must start by realising the empire is gone, no room for the British exceptionalism any more, not a world power, massive debt and EU are not eager to embrace the British born to rule attitude, a choice between EU or US must be made and finally to realise how bad the present situation is in the UK. Ukraine is higher on the list to join as they really want to…
This is a very naive observation, and shows a lack of media literacy. We live in a increasingly complex media landscape, dominated by monied interests rather than public interests. To believe that the views of the British public are reflected in corporate media, and then act on that belief is just plain wrong. Try tapping into independent media like the Bylines News Network and outlets here on TH-cam. You'll then have a broader and less one-sided view of reality, rather than of the oligarchs and plutocrats who can afford to startup up their own client media. Better still, make some British friends. You know, real people. Or read blogs. In short, vary your media intake, if you want to better understand. A simple Google search will provide you with plenty of other sources.
In the run up to the referendum, I had more conversations than I can remember with people who insisted we’d just be able to rejoin the EU on the same terms if Brexit was a mistake.
It was baffling. That’s not how bargaining works. I had to explain that we were in an exceptional position, that we had exemptions from several things that’d be down the drain if we rejoined later, and people couldn’t grasp why! It was stunning!
I was only 18/19 at the time, and arguing with people in their 50s and 60s about how, if Brexit was a failure, and we came crawling back to the EU, we have zero negotiating power in that scenario! They can have us join on any terms they want. People couldn’t grasp it. I’m still shocked now.
My ex’s parents were literally in the process of retiring to Spain, and went bloody leafleting for Leave! UNBELIEVABLE.
@@rainmcmey I am Danish and couldn't understand Brexit so I decided to do my research and got a subscription on The Times in 2015 as well as reading more than 12 books about it. The damage is so severe for 97% of the population. The responsible people and their sponsors committed treason according to common sense. So sad.
Tell me what they have with Germany nearly 80 years after the war especially since life for the average German is
nowhere near as bad as that of the average Brit. But we do complain a lot. 😁
@@minischembri9893 My theory is that the "born to rule" collides with the fact that Germany is a more succesful economy - so the UK are not asked to rule the EU which may hurt their pride. My theory only...
Whats scary is that racist farage is still being listened to even now.
Thank you for this short summary. There's however a correction, as the Union has put in place all the border checks on day one, only the UK is incapable and unwilling to do so (giving Europeans an additional free competitive advantage).
UK still has not met its agreed obligations. Possibly because it is incapable of doing so.
Those things are required by WTO rules btw. They break them for a decade now.
Well said, I was going to raise that error in the video also.
"Giving Europeans an additional free competitive advantage". Really? Why do you use "Europe" and "EU" interchangeably? Isn't the UK in Europe? Or is it a continent all of its own?
@@AlexGys9It's basically the same as people using America when they mean the USA or the British Isles instead of the British and Irish Isles, unless people don't know that Ireland and its 80 islands aren't British.
@@Richard1A2B Possibly, although I rather believe it runs deeper. It seems to me many English know that the UK is geographically in Europe but do not consider themselves to be European. One of the reasons for Brexit, an us versus them attitude, they feel closer to the USA than to the rest of Europe.
Sorry when will people get it right the people of England voted for Brexit not Scotland
To be fair, the majority of Scots voted for Brexit that could be 45% vs 51% in England. (I’m pro Europe btw.) But yes it means Scotland is a bit smarter!
@@robertfry6783Much smarter, rgs from Finland.
I am sorry that Scotland isn't with us in the Nordic countries union as well as in the European Union.
The Scots belong here in the free world, not in a union where the Scots are not equal members.
England and Wales! Not Scotland Northern Ireland Gibraltar
@@MRiitta The Scots ARE in a free world. They at least got to vote on their status. You need to ask the Catalans, Bretons, Basques, Corsicans, South Tyrolese, etc., etc., whether they would like a referendum on their status. The EU was not a prison for the UK, but it is for them.
As a matter of interest, why did Finland ignore the Aaland Island referendum of June 1919 which voted 96% for union with Sweden?
Perhaps EU nationals should set their own house in order first, before lecturing others? Have you posted advocating this on other threads? If not, why not?
As the Scots say, "Would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us"!
Scotland is a Country,
And, furthermore, they belong to the UK as an independent country not a colony of England.
Even as a United State citizen, my 15-year-old daughter could tell you that the EU was ready for the border checks. Attempting to equal things out by continually saying the EU wasn't ready is arrogant and is disingenuous.
The UK has been dealing with border checks for all countries outside the EU for many, many, many YEARS.
Why would the UK be in a big, fat hurry to erect border checks when the EU has not gone backwards (except in a few minor points), on the ones they imposed *while we were members?*
What, exactly, would be the POINT?
Brexit…the biggest study in self harm ever.
econumical suiside by the gullable British public.
The whole notion that the UK would have some great bargaining position when they left was the dumbest narrative ever. Why would the UK have any leverage at all? I absolutely never understood that bizarre narrative. The Empire's been gone for almost a century now, and it isn't coming back.
Genuine question: why did so many people believe it? Why did so many think "they need us more than we need them"?
The same reason why some old men think they are in with a chance when they try to chat up 20 year olds - delusional arrogance of the highest levels@@andreaslind6338
@@andreaslind6338 Because greed and xenophobia clouded their mind. I would recommend the German Book "Dummheit" by a clinical psychiatrist Heidi Kastner. She sums up the work of some American and Italians working on the issue of stupidity. Explains it all. The people not being able to rise due to the British class society voted for chaos in hopes of a windfall. Sadly they were to stupid to understand that the recipients f this windfalls were already asigned, from the ruling class ;-)
@@andreaslind6338a reflection on the British education system and a misplaced self-confidence.
@@andreaslind6338 I think the old folks, who were the biggest demographic who voted to leave, had a weird attachment to the days of empire, even though they happened long ago, because of British propaganda.
They don’t regret leaving the EU, they regret being poorer for it. No love lost.
Poorer? The EU spent two decades trying to beat UK to a pulp.
With the UK’s decay we might see Scotland separating. They don’t want to sink into the deep sea with the rest.
The UK is toast, one of stupidest things a country has ever done. Blinding success however for the few super rich that wanted to privatize & deregulate, catastrophic for ordinary people
I would argue that Russia attacking Ukraine was more stupid…
Well, no doubt you won't be coming to the UK then? Happy happenstance.
So do inform us. What exactly has been "privatize" (american spelling) and "deregulated"? You seem to know it all.
There is no "catastrophe" except the shared mental breakdown of anti brexiters.
@@happy.uk.patriot also check out the guardian article today
“Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit”
Suppose you’re happy to have toxic pesticides (ie that give you cancer) in your food? You think stuff like this is good?
Every problem that was predicted by remainers was countered with: "Project Fear". If only that were true. I doubt that the UK will ever recover from Cameron's reckless gamble.
You forgot to mention that Cameron was a Remainer. The capacity for Remainers to shoot themselves in the foot should not be forgotten. In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation.
it was not Cameron's gamble. Every major party had pledged and EU referendum. The UK electorate voted for Cameron and the conservatives *because they had a referedum IN THEIR MANIFESTO.*
So you can blame ME.
I not only wanted a referendum, I wanted a government that pledged one. And I not only voted to end EU membership. I campaigned for it.
Fortunately, I am immune from snivelling, whining, petulant REMOANERS.
@@happy.uk.patriot So Cameron was not responsible for his own party's manifesto? Pull the other one!
Referenda are outside our traditional constitution as a Parliamentary Democracy. They have only been introduced because of the EU. They are a symptom of our membership and alien to us.
It is great irony that the tools that got us out of the EU (referenda and proportional representation in EU elections that gave UKIP a profile it never had at Westminster) are both a consequence of EU membership.
What's really interesting is to look at TH-cam videos from before the referendum, and especially their comments.
There was tremendous confidence among the lower classes that UK was going to strike trade deals left and right, UK would be taking back from the EU what was rightfully theirs, and so on and so forth. The only voices of reason around that time were the actual economists that pointed out that the EU had no incentive to be accommodating.
Of course, politicians couldn't help but mold their opinions to that large of an electorate. That just in their nature.
Who gives a stuff what "economists" pontificate about? They never get *anything right.*
The best thing the UK ever did for the EU! O, stay out! Brexit means Brexit (T. May)!
Brexit simply replaced European Migrants with Indian and African Migrants instead 😂
It wasn't "replaced". Wrong. The proportion of EU people trotting over here has gone down. A lot.
The UK has a *points based immigration system* and caps set by the parliament. They should be reduced, I grant.
2018 - 2022 Immigration and Social Services Act
Its true, i noticed lately a new wave from brazil and s-east asia
@@atilla4352 The UK has a points based immigration system. People are granted entrance on merit. Not on origin, as the EU free movement of people forces.
What else could one expect when a country creates barriers to trade instead of dismantling them. Now Britten is a role taker and has to dance to the EU's tune without being able to influence the `music´.
..and their varmint in the EU parliament had to be repatriated. Their groaning does not carry over the channel, btw.
One reason why the UK left the EU was because IT had increasing protectionist barriers to trade with the outside world.
We have joined CPTPP. That removes many, many, many barriers to trade. Our soon coming FTA with India will also remove MANY MANY MANY barriers to trade. And so will our FTA with Gulf Cooperation Council.
"leave the electorate"; a euphemism if I ever heard one.
But Brexit is chosen by the people's vote and own will, unlike many colonization pacts by UK & her former vassals, like India.
The conservatives legislated for a referendum because *WE, the ELECTORATE DEMANDED it.* No other reason. Other parties had promised an EU referendum but they were far to cowardly to offer one in a manifesto. I assure you, it was the UK *electorate* that demanded a referendum. We gave UKIP a national victory in EU parliament elections to drive the point home.
the video literally starts with 'in _May_ 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union.' and it was added as text to the clip as well. not a very promising start as this most basic fact about Brexit didn't happen in May but on *23 June 2016!* if you cannot get this thing right, why bother at all?
Thanks to Brexit, as an EU non-English speaker, I have learned a new term for the British -. the whinging Poms.
I love it! 😁
You guys really have to stop pining for the EU 😂😂😂 it's a non-issue. Why did the video pop up...
Indeed. It is a bit like the football world cup. You guys won in 1966 and never talked about it ever since.
Because they are OCD. And apparently, anti brexiters suffer from PTSD, like war veterans.
Dear viewers, I am not a UK citizent and what you decide for your country is your own business. I am 40 years old and live in Europe. I studied in London from 2003 until 2007. The first person i met at the University and started a conversation with made it clear to me that this is not Europe and UK is a sovereign country. The incidents i experienced during those four years making it clear to me how non - european British are were numerous. I will never forget that i was denied entry in a pub in Uxbridge and pushed away because of my accent and for being a foreigner. I really regreted that i studied in the UK. I could not understand why i was spending my money in a completely foreign country and i never felt blending with your mentality. The millenians who were at my age (18-24) were very arrogant when it came to the issue of Europe and i always got a sense that everybody thought was superior than other countries. You never had a chance in staying in Europe. Do not blame the brexit campaign. Brexit happened 50 years ago. You held on to your emperialistic mentality for far too long and could not see reality clearly. You are not the super nation you think you are. Times have changed. When i selected EU law at the second year of my studies the professor showed us a few straightforward data during the first lecture. First data was that UK exports 90% of its products to Europe! What arrogance to bite the hand that is feeding you, I thought.
Great coverage on this topic. Nice work.
EU membership offered nothing but decades more of the same BRAVO SIERRA from the EU.
Where's that spanner Cameron
Uk Is Finish Hardbrecing
I am - understand. You are - speak forin lingwage.
weNEVER GOT BREXIT THE POLITICIANS SAW TO THAT WE WERE BETRAYED
You might not be able to have a cake and eat it too...
But at least you can stay hungry while still not having a cake. Worth having a shot.
Cake we've got. However, there were six weeks a couple of years ago when there was a shortage of tomatoes. Didn't last long.
EU cake has rubbish ingredients.
Can someone tell me why the United Kingdom ended up choosing to go through hard Brexit rather than soft Brexit. Please is very important I’m currently doing my dissertation on it
There is *no such thing as "hard v soft" brexit.* That is just propaganda by anti brexiters.
There is *ONLY* article 50 Brexit. That is the LEGAL DEFINITION of leaving the EU.
Go and read it and find out what *REAL* brexit is.
Well, the British have always been a bit masochistic!
No, just anti brexit wankers.
Interestingly, the EU is the home of masochism. It was first described by an Austrian, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, after whom it is named. Perhaps the UK caught it during its EU membership?.
@@markaxworthy2508 Oh no, they already had it long before that!
@@berosmith9041If we had we would have named it ourselves!
@@berosmith9041 Which "bit"?
We left. .get over it
We left, and now have to deal with the consequences, get over it
Do you know which people should say that phrase? Those who benefit financially from Brexit not a poor person like you. This shows ordinary Leave voters were merely blindfolded sheep following Farage, the daily mail etc.
If this vid proves one thing, it’s that we’ll never get over it.
@edwardmiller3859
"We left. .get over it"?
The UK did indeed leave the EU. More than four years ago...
However, the UK will NEVER "...get over it"
The UK will probably not survive the stresses and strains that Brixit has caused.
@@alistairrobinson3865 I like the consequences. Watching anti brexiters whine their silly arses off is a lot of entertainment.
I have listen to one professor, he argues the world pivot 600 years. ie 1400. what was Britain? Little Britain! That is where we are heading to.
Britain was always "little". What is your point?
Pull your stinking head in.
The way the Brits can return
We are still have a chance to keep the present living standard with the condition not follow USA over everything, specially on war.
Lol, 1/3 of all businesses in Britain are American owned. US median income is 73k while Britain is 40k. The colonists became the colonizers.
Fully supportive of Brexit. It was necessary.🙂🍃
In what way? How has it helped the UK?
He's a comedian folks, but the joke is tired.
The EU needed to be rid of the groaners blaming them for everything
exactly, now the remaining members can finally get things done.
and it has shown the continent the benefits of being an EU member and the negatives of being outside the EU.
it's free advertising and it's all in favour of the EU.
@@ChristiaanHW I definitely see how Brexit helped the EU.
Greatest*
The UK is importing a lot less now, ... *from the EU* 😄😄😄 Because the UK is turning to OTHER MARKETS. Which is great news. Because the SM is on its way OUT as a significant player.
You are intriguingly inane . So britltish....
What is Boris Johnson response to this?
He thinks "horses for courses" and supports Ukraine's entry into the EU.
The Swiss, Norwegians and Icelandics are better at doing brexit than the brits.
The Swiss, Norwegians and Icelanders were never in the EU.
@@nettcologne9186 Exactly. All the benefits with none of the drawbacks.
@@luckyshaqqq that's just another piece of the stupid Brexit narrative: Switzerland, Norway and Iceland all pay into the EU budget, plus they have adhered to Shengen, plus they have to comply with most of EU's regulations, and in contrast they have little or no say into the EU politics.
These countries are the EFTA. A group that basically was created by the Brits but then they left later as they thought there is more cake to be had in the EU.
@@Woozerspattrue
Is Monty Python behind this channel about fweedom?
From a deglobalization perspective Brexit is even worst yep.
Its just sad... thats all im gonna say.
Nice
Brexit is no "mistake". I went to the ballot box and voted to end EU membership for the UK. That is not a mistake. It is deliberate. It gives me supreme pleasure to announce to you that not only did I vote to leave the EU but I also campaigned for it.
So.. Bregret?
Non, je ne bregrette rien.
Don't think so. Only the anti brexit PTSD / OCD EU worshipping idolaters have a major axe to grind. 50% "Free movement of people" they think should be imposed on the rest of us, and 50% *pure vengeance and hatred.*
We need to rejoin asap..
@eddydar
"We need to rejoin asap.."?
The UK has NO 'rejoin' option.
Mainly because EU law has no mechanism whereby an ex-member state can return to the status quo ante!
The ONLY route for the UK involves firstly meeting the Copenhagen Criteria, then submitting its FOURTH membership application....
On what terms?
It's never, ever going to happen.
What a load of re joiner rubbish, even Germany are closing their borders and all Europe have suffered skill shortages . the truth about young people is that hardly any of them voted
Yes it was a big mistake . U.K saved Europe in WWII ,we are the same family. It was a gift for Poutine and China. Dont loose your time .Baby come back ! A frenchman who love U.K.
The UK ran away on the first contact with the Germans to Dunkirk. 9 out of every 10 German soldiers were killed by the Russians.
The USA killed 7%
The rest of the world killed 3%
You were defeated in battle after battle in Asia by the Japanese.
They don't teach historical reality in British schools, do they? So given that your contribution was to kill 1 or 2% of the German military casualties.... how much exceptionalism do you have to swallow to really and truly believe your claim?
Saved 😂😂😂😂 more like fled Dunkirk to only beg for help from the US if I recall my history book told me it was Russia and the US but everyone outside your little island knows the truth
@@suntzu94 May be - but Great Britain withstand Germany and didn't ccoperate with it long before the US enters the war. Without this little island as base the US would hardly be able to enter Europe. So, yes, thanks to the little island! 🙂
The one issue that wasn't really discussed during Brexit in either London or Brussels was the geopolitical impact outside Europe. It was the first time a major Western country had left a major Western institution set up after WWII. It was, as you say, a gift for Putin and China and was one way point on Putin's route to the invasion of Ukraine.
The UK is not going to seek EU membership. Don't pin your hopes on it.
It wasn’t Brexit that was the big mistake, it was having a system that allowed it to happen on such a slim majority. The UK needs a written constitution and a proportional representation system of government before it is allowed to get back near a European trading partnership. This will be best achieved by dissolving the UK into its constituent parts and starting over.
So your solution is to change the rules to get the result you want?
If you struggle to fit in then fitting out is the better option.
It is so refreshing to see the Dear Commonwealth Family, pyjamas, exotic beards, and all, instead of those Swarming Polish Migrants!
Errr..... very few of them are from Commonwealth countries.
I don't think it was a big mistake, as the European economy is stagnant and lagging behind technologically compared to China and the US, so there isn't much room for loss for the UK."
true
The EU economy may be losing ground to China and the US but the U.K. is losing ground even to the EU, with higher inflation, lower productivity, collapsing public services and widespread poverty. Its only technological advantage is in the area of money laundering and tax avoidance.
@@hvhvgitaar your wrong we were doing OK until Labour got in
Yeah, right...
Divided, europe will fall faster.
Brexit didn’t do the EU a big favor, we all lost as a consequence. But Brexit certainly didn’t do _any_ favor to the UK.
It essentially killed every other nation's leave campaigns so it did actually.
A fair comment. However, it also doesn't, so far, seem to have done any particular damage to the UK. The main popular complaint is queuing longer at airports. The experts talk of damage to future growth prospects, but this isn't felt because it is notional. No "sunlit uplands", but no "falling off a cliff", either. We shall see.
The denierd are still there unbelievable! The Brexiteers should be taxed (The Brexit Tax) for the damage and financial distress it has caused the country!
And the UK will need to pay off our investments on the continent caused by Brexit, before we even take an application to join ;-)
With interest, off course.
Why not tax the Remainers who caused it? The capacity for Remainers to shoot themselves in the foot should not be overlooked. In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation. Perhaps they should be taxed, rather than the Brexiters, who didn't even have a political party representing them at Westminster, where all the decisions were made?
Don’t blame the people who fell for the con, blame the conmen, Farage, Johnson, Rees Mogg etc and the newspapers who gaslit their readership, mainly, Mail, Express, Telegraph and Sun. With a special mention for Cameron who catastrophically put party before country.
Sorry, everyone with half a working brain cell must have seen that. That was willful ignorance, punished by misery.
Why? many experts have called out the negative effects of Brexit, so instead of the Brexiteers cross examining these effects they solely went for their belief that it will work.
The Brexit voters are hugely to be blamed for their arrogance and ignorance, without them Brexit would have just been a joke that have been forgotten by now, but instead the British are now facing it's harsh reality.
Do blame the people who voted for it and those that didn't vote at all! All the info was there, they chose to ignore it!
What about the Remainers, who caused it? In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation.
@@markaxworthy2508 There is an element of truth to that. There was an arrogance in thinking that the majority of voters are not completely stupid, only to find that they are.
what you mean failed ? the uk has the most successful trade deal with japan, australia, canada, and on the way to the biggest trading bloc tpp.
4.2% of trade is with those three countries while 36% of your trade is with the EU. You guys are _dumb_ 😂😂😂
Disingenuous nonsense! The trade deals are worse than what we had as EU membera
@triumphanttrump1467
"the uk has the most successful trade deal with japan, australia, canada, and on the way to the biggest trading bloc tpp"?
The delusional ignorance on display here needs to be preserved as a cautionary lesson for future generations.
The UK has NO trade deal with Canada, as Canada has pulled out of negotiations.
The UK's trade deal with Japan was a roll over of the EU's deal, with significantly worse conditions for the UK imposed by Japan.
The UK's trade deals with both Australia and New Zealand(NZ) are so bad for the UK, and so advantageous for Australia and NZ, that TV pundits in both countries were laughing at the UK's idiocy...
EVEN if the UK does become a member of the CPTPP, the effect on its economy over the next TEN YEARS - 0.04% of GDP - will be so small as to be basically unnoticeable....
2024 Q2 economic growth....
EU = 0.3%
UK = 0.6%
More Remoaner propaganda bollox.
Really? Great Britain is a third world country compared fo many EU members
@AW12-W
"2024 Q2 economic growth....
EU = 0.3%
UK = 0.6%"?
One swallow does not make a summer, and one quarter's statistics do not prove anything.
In the MOST RECENT quarter, the UK's economy flatlined.
Both UK exports and imports have decreased significantly..
The UK is heading into recession....
The EU is not, on all available evidence.
@@davidjohntough9115 And yet the UK is wealthier than 96% of EU member states, of which only three (3) qualify for G7/G20 membership.
Who are you kidding - yourself or everybody else?
@@davidjohntough9115 ROFL! The UK was a net contributor. MOST EU countries are NET RECEPIENTS.
Bojo is brilliant.
£280 per year to be rid of an additional layer of extreme Machiavellian politicking, is reasonable afaic. Such as their ongoing policy of subsidising EU farmers to overproduce, selling it cheap to EU corporates, who sell it in Africa, undercutting the local farmers, damaging their agriculture sector ...which is one of the reasons behind African migration to the EU.
I'll never forget and I'll never forgive the harm they've caused my friends.
Try £1000 per person per year, and food and drug shortages... Yeah, right.
It's not like the price of brexit is evenly distributed. Some people will be way more affected than others, especially the poorer/middle class.
The food imports that Africa has from the EU are heavily weighted towards production that requires effective infrastructure; the two biggest are meat and dairy. Imports that require less infrastructure are dominated by Russia and Ukraine.
Africa is notoriously bad at sustainable infrastructure development; its first biggest problem is not spending enough, typically from half to a third of other regions globally, and secondly due to a pervasive culture of political patronage corruption is rife.
The African Development Bank estimates that if Africa as a whole invested similar amounts to other regions in infrastructure that it would increase real terms GDP by 2% a year (i.e. enough to double GDP in under 80 years). And reducing corruption would of course help that growth be sustainable rather than winding up in a few politicians (and their families) pockets.
"Extreme Machiavellian politicking" 5 PM's including a lettuce, you must be kidding old man., Btw starting a war in the Middle East ( 2003) and setting up the biggest refugee crisis since ww2 wasn't a great idea either... But hey, you be gone soon.
Brexit saddens me to the core. Boris and the like told the electorate what they wanted to hear simply to get into power and hang the consequences. These outcomes, especially in relation to immigration, farming and fishing as pointed out, were so obvious from the outset. At least some of the most stupid brexit voters suffered the most, but that's little consolation in truth. The EU wouldn't have us back any time soon due to the potential harm of another exit (and who can blame them). Even if they did, the special privileges (Sterling & financial) would have to be forfeited, making it a tough choice. I guess we'll just gave to soldier on, getting poorer and more irrelevant as each year goes on. Hell of a lesson to learn (which we haven't and won't)
I really would love for the UK to join us again and it is for people like you that I feel sorry that it won't happen anytime soon. Take care, mate, I wish you all the best.
@@AlexGys9 ...But at a distance.
The capacity for Remainers to shoot themselves in the foot should not be overlooked. In 2016 a Remainer PM, leading a majority pro-EU parliamentary party in an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament in which every party was pro-EU and UKIP had no representation, called a constitutionally unnecessary referendum at a time of his own choosing which was lost despite Remain originally leading in the polls, despite out-spending Leave 3:2 and despite setting the wording of the referendum. Remainers have yet to accept their share of responsibility for this situation.
@@markaxworthy2508 I think you make some fair points there, but to me, it's more about the actions of our political leaders. Cameron (who I can't stand) held the referendum to strengthen his position, silencing that irritating Farage once and for all. He was so sure he would win, you could sense at the time he didn't put the effort into campaigning. From memory, I think I recall he came up with some rubbish about excusing himself from the debate as he didn't want to compromise his independence as PM?? I may have that wrong. Regardless, all of them did it for their own personal gain, perhaps with the exception of Nigel Farage, who I do believe is a conviction politician. I respect that, even though I don't agree with many of his views. I can only speak for myself, but my issue is that had the debate been held with integrity and leave had won fair and square, I would have accepted it and moved on. It's the fact that the Leave campaign was based on lies that I find so difficult to accept. Those lies were clear and obvious to many, but to those who were more desperate to believe in something new, they formed the basis for a fantasy vote. Time has proven it wasn't true, but it's now too late. Boris has PM on his CV, the rest of us will continue to get poorer. There is no way around that. Many Brexiteers at the time even said that getting poorer was a price worth paying. That was easy to say then...
@@mattbennett9467 The problem is that BOTH sides were careless with the facts. We have had no Leave-promised "sunlit uplands" any more than we have a Remain-threatened "fall off a cliff". Brexit has proved a damp squib and the value of being in the EU seems to have been overstated.
Post Brexit facts, contained in this vlog, you choose not to mention.
1) The pound fell, making our exports globally cheaper.
2) Imports may have become more expensive, assuming the costs were passed on and that we continued to buy them. EU Imports are down an average £23bn per annum since 2021. Source Aston Uni's excellent trade report published this week!
3) Whilst the whole world may have seen reduced economic growth post Brexit (clue, perhaps it's not down to Brexit) The UK has out performed the eu every year since 2011 with the exception of 2021.
4) You report that the people regret voting for Brexit. You don't however report that there is not a majority that support rejoining, let alone determine what rejoining would look like.
5) A plebiscite is what it is on the date of any referendum. The age demographic point is pathetic and wholly emotive. Young people will one day become old.
6) Like all remoaners you fail to understand that many years ago the UK all but gave up on international road haulage, unable to compete with cheaper waged, cheaper dieseled, less maintained vehicles which means that 87% of all haulage movements through Dover are made by eu vehicles. This means all the delays and grief caused by the supine and inefficient French Douane impact the eu not the UK. There is no shortage of UK lorry drivers now they are earning £50k p.a. since the eu lorry drivers went home.
7) A major Brexit benefit is that the eu use of the UK landbridge has ended 240m lorry miles off UK roads.
8) If our farmers are so stupid to plant crops they can't pick then they deserve everything they can get. Automation will take the good ones forwards the stupid ones can go to the wall.
7) Everybody has a view on migration. Whilst we were in the eu we did not know what levels of migration we had. Your comments are racist on migrant values. We were never able to unilaterally return illegals to France.
8) Scotlands independent sentiment has not been enhanced by Brexit as you claim. The SNP have been virtually eliminated in Westminster and in 2026 the same will happen in Holyrood.
Just another load of remoaner lies.
No body is regretting Brexit. The only people who are even paying attention did not vote for it in first place. Brexit simply does not effect the vast majority of people. they don't care about GDP and why should they. The vast majority of British businesses only supply the domestic market. British sales to the EU have never been higher and most British manufacturers do most of their business outside the EU anyway. What the British people have learned is that the boats are still coming with or without Brexit this is their only regret not Brexit itself. This realisation is going to destroy the Labour Party as it has already destroyed the Conservative Party. The will of the British people will not be frustrated for much longer. We are not coming back whether the EU chose to let us or not, indeed we really don't care what the EU does or does not do. The EU is simply not part of the conversation and most of us like it that way. To 99% of the British people absolutely nothing has changed and why should it have done so?
Dumb comment! Brexit is affecting thr British people
@garypowell1540
"British sales to the EU have never been higher"?
That claim is simply untrue, as both the ONS and Aston College have pointed out.
In the case of Ireland, imports from Britain, which were 30-32% of all Irish imports PRE-Brixit, have dropped by more than half, and currently account for 13% of Irish exports.
The rest of your post is equally nonsensical.
You are perfectly entitled to wrap yourself up in your fantastical opinions, but you should be aware that reality does not care about your fantasies.
The main complaint sems to be longer queues at the airport.
Mr Draghi is a lifelong evangelist for European integration and always sees the answer as more Europe. But it is hard not to notice that Europe’s decline coincides exactly with the launch of monetary union at Maastricht - and the convulsions that this later entailed - followed by treaty inflation (Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon) and EU encroachment into every nook and cranny of national life.
The sovereign states of East Asia are prospering nicely without locking themselves together in a tight union. One might legitimately ponder whether Europe would be healthier today if it had let nations be nations, and had never launched the European project along Monnet lines in the first place. The EU itself is the elemental problem...
That is an almost laughable opinion. It is actually not very hard to notice that the monetary union was a major boost to economic growth. East Asian growth is the result of low labour cost and protectionist measures. The EU countries are not “locked in a tight union”, they are liberated by their membership of the EU. It is the U.K. that has locked itself in a spiral of decline and isolation. But perhaps the EU will one day readmit the UK as a member….
@@hvhvgitaar Maybe you know more than Mario Draghi ? I suggest you read his report you will be shocked
Lol, you're not very good at European Economic History. Or economics really. Haven't you noticed that the dominant economic model is failing to provide and both sides of the Atlantic, as well as anywhere else it has been tried. Folly is like a virus. It doesn't know or care who it infects. It is driven by force it can neither comprehend nor explain. And it cares not whether it's victims are rich or poor. It just breeds. Such is the breakdown in neoliberal economic thought, and so the uni polar global settlement is unhinged in order to bolster the asset wealthy against the inevitable backlash. Maastrict has nothing to do with that. Just the folly of people even the Romans would of recognised as the source of its eventual decline. You should pay attention to those. They are the real enemy inside the gates. Those who exist to turn the suffering of others into gold.
Yeah, europe without the EU, what could go wrong ? It had worked so well in the past millenia...
The sovereign nations of east Asia are prospering nicely? Japan? A country that NOW got lower nominal GDP per capita than Italy and Slovenia and a country that now got waaay smaller economy size than Germany and waaay lower GDP per capita than Germany? Or South Korea which is experiencing the same? Or China that got lower GDP per capita than Russia?... Please. East Asia? Japan and South Korea never had WORSE economic numbers than they have today. And China was and STILL is faaaaaaar away from the wealthy, first world country. The rest of the countries there i won't even comment.
The problem with this premise is that it was an entirely economic decision, which is the core inherent problem with every government here - we're just a big economic entity, nothing else.
I suspect Brexit would have gone down a LOT better if the people in power actually understood and wanted Brexit the way it was intended
😂The people who wanted Brexit wanted to escape the EU’s clampdown on tax avoidance and money laundering. They are happy now….
@@hvhvgitaar I think the media focused more on economy than the actual people, who I heard very often say they will accept being poorer for sovereignty in exchange (take that how you will). Less immigration was a big promise and brexiteers were deceived. This isn't an economic argument it's a cultural and safety argument (also a little economic)
Brexit was always intended as a far right project. Of course nobody would be happy.
Wanted by whom exactly? And why? They got what they voted for, and the fact that those voting for it did not understand its economic import is whose fault exactly? There nowt no more stupid than those who won't learn. And follow people who tell them to ignore experts, all the while being able to bugger off into the sunset when it inevitably goes tits up and get a cushy job on easy street funded by the very rich muppets who needed Brexit to happen.
@@ABombs1 But it does not work like that. You can't just stop immigration. Build as much wall as you want you will never stop immigration. In fact people need to understand that immigration is kind of a necessary thing. It has always existed and will always exist. It's a good way to counter blanced low birth rate, a good way to aquire low skill and high skill workers, attract studient etc...
The only thing you can change is how you regulate it, what type of immigration and how they integrate in your society...
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