He is articulate reasonable and utterly naive and wrong. His naivete has served the carpet baggers that want to asset strip Britain really well unfortunately.
By his own admission he is an Irish Republican by choice if not by birth. Why is he allowed to be instrumental in closing down this country with his boss Mick 'the Mick' Lynch. Surely there are problems to solve in their own country!
@@Gooseplan All parents are Irish. Eddie was a member of an Irish emigrant association at one time. Mick supports Irish unification and visits relatives frequently. That makes them Irish to me! P.s. of not "if"
The RMT were right not to trust the Labour party, evidently. The scale of snobbery and anti-socialism in the PLP and the party HQ was and remains sickening.
They even got the voters convinced that thanks to Jeremy Corbyn there was anti Semitism rife through the party and that ensured they would never be elected with a proper socialist as leader. What are Labour meant to be? We've got enough right wing parties in UK politics as it is
The problem with the 'Leave' situation though Eddie, is that if we have a Govt free of the 'EU' work legislation, we could end up with, as we do now, a Far Right Govt who basically want to tear up any 'worker rights'; smash the Unions and leave ordinary workers in such a perilous position that they will be cowed into submission. This was the situation for my Grandfather in the 1920's which he said were terrible times for working people. 100 yrs later and we seem to be going back to those times'
Seems to talk a lot more sense than than any MP. Before I retired I paid my staff a fair wage for hard work with good conditions and training and I worked with them at all levels. They repaid me with good work, loyalty and enthusiasm for the team. You reap what you sow. It didn't cost me to be fair, it helped the business to succeed. Someone once told me that every fiver I put in the staff's pockets was a fiver out of mine. So not true!
This has been a real 'eye-opener' for me. Considering Eddie Dempsey's lack of 'formal education' (you wouldn't think it from this) his depth and breadth of knowledge on the subject, and his ability to articulate this into language that is understandable to most, is impressive.
Seriously impressive. Can you imagine what this country could be like with men of character like this in charge? It's actually quite painful to even hope for anything close to that these days. 💪💪
We European working class citizens support your strike action Mr. Dempsey. We are with you all the way. Please do not try to divide us away from you in Britain, we also have demands, the same as yours but we are not as badly treated as you are in the UK, because we have some protections that you have given up for the right wing image of Brexit that you have believed, and is not true.
I have a lot of respect for Eddie and his boss Mick Lynch. However, it's not true that the EU would not allow re-nationalisation. Deutsche Bahn is owned by the German government, SNCF is owned by the French government. The French government also owns Air France and partly Renault along with other companies. The "fourth package" he speaks about is inspired by the 1993 Railways Act in the UK, so it was law in the UK years before the EU. The EU was never the enemy, the Tories are the enemy. Germany has betriebsrat, works councils that companies have to have in Law, Unions work with the employers. I know from personal experience that this system works well. The Tories are the problem. Allowing the Tories to scapegoat the EU for decisions made HERE by a TORY government is a bit disingenuous on Eddies part. I'm all for Unions, I think they do a great job and certainly a better job that Labour are doing at the moment to oppose a Tory Government that moves further right every day. However, leaving the EU was a mistake that we are now all paying for and will be for years to come. The pros outweigh the cons. The EU is by no means perfect, but WE helped shape what it is today. Nothing in the EU happened without the UK governments approval, since we had the veto. And who elected the UK government? Well, that would have been you. I'll add as an aside that the EU used a lot of the money we paid in for regional development and infrastructure projects. For example, Between 1994 and 2013, the people of Liverpool, Merseyside and the wider north-west of England benefited to the tune of £1.3bn from successive funding programmes, with a further £450m agreed up to 2020. If you think the Tories would spend this money, you're out of your mind.
France and Germany have the strongest work unions in Europe. It is always a battle against one's national banks. Pity we left the EU, we are now an open goal for the far political establishment right of England. Come on girls, win tomorrow early evening tomorrow, fk all this despite. I am Welsh BTW. 😎🏴🏴🤪
Those companies you refer to have always been publicly owned. I think Eddie's point is companies that were privatised in the UK cannot be Renationalised under EU rules.
Thank you, found it very odd seeing a clearly smart guy like Eddie get done completely by the lies. Especially bizarre considering the EU consists of left leaning countries with far stronger unions than we have!
Absolutely spot on with everything he said...the working classes have been shat on for too long... labour is lost- don't think I'll ever trust them again. Time for a new party to represent us, with people like Eddie fighting our corner
@@fredatlas4396 How do you know? Often the mere existence of a Union stops employers from worsening terms and conditions and pay. Those without a Union are most vulnerable.
@@adrianmacgrath5814 You’re missing the point, the EU is a neoliberal institution and not democratic. Maybe you should listen to interviews with the late great Tony Benn, because he saw what the EU project was and had the same concerns are people like Eddie and myself. No one is saying the EU is to blame for all of our woes, but many of the suggestions made by politicians like Jeremy Corbyn such as rail nationalisation wouldn’t have been allowed had we remained in the EU. Many people working class people throughout the EU are being shit on, hence why we had the Gilets Jaunes Yellow Vest movement. Ursula Von Der Leyen is also going to make life miserable for millions of people in the EU too thanks to her behaviour towards Russia. What else do we see happening within the EU, a stagnant economy in Germany with next to nothing growth. I’m sorry, but I don’t like the way the EU behaves, and I’m glad to see MEP’s like Clare Daly from Ireland calling them out, because they’re morally corrupt. www.ft.com/content/c00d8684-788c-11e9-bbad-7c18c0ea0201
I had some sympathy with current industrial dispute. It is possible to nationalise industries, the French are renationalising EDF. SNCF is a French government company. The most damaging policies to unions has been 44 years of Thatcherism. Ireland declined to collect €19bn tax from Apple, and €bns from Google. Have to say that the £240bn cost of brexit has had a grave impact on the working class.
What a wonderful speaking voice with a wealth of knowledge of the working class (heroes) and the problems we have with the European Union. Great work Eddie and Mick you guy’s should be knighted. 👍🏴✊✊
So... workers in Germany, France, Netherlands, Findland, Sweden, Italy and other countries have more rights than UK workers but it is EU's fault. He is well infromed and I agree with many of his points but worker rights (maybe not union but workers overall) are currently under threat because UK is no longer part of EU. EU has enforced food standards, safety standards, required competition on the market, established consumer rights, all of these things make life easier, safer and cheaper. Is it all a lovely fruit basket of joy, maybe not but they have held their end of the bargain a lot better than Tories or local politicians so far. There is no country in EU where the workers have less rights than in UK as UK government had fought hard to be as deregulated as possible, and at the end this is somehow EU's fault. European Working Time Directive set minimum rest period and maximum working time for employees, the UK govenrmnet were the only ones who opposed it, it went through nevertheless and afterwards in UK you could be required to sign a paper which acted as an exception from that directive. The Directive was voted in 2004 (Blair time - not blaming Labour but Tories don't carry all the fault in history), so... how is this EU's fault. Again, I agree with most of the points he is making and happy to hear this side of the story but some of the conclusions give me the impression of the classic tactic of screwing things at home while blaming EU.
The EU is a technocratic mechanism..it will do everything that Eddie has pointed out in this peice.Yes it has codified a lot of legislation for working hours and food standards etc,but this is legislation that we can implement and bring into our own parliament.We have to have control of who we elected to do our bidding,not to unelected civil sevants who do not represent us and will do everything they can to srip nations assets and create laws to block our rights to challenge thier polices..backed up by a judiciary that will always back them up.
@@mikipiediaelburro7588 Nigel Farage, elected by the British people to represent UK in the EU parliament was part of the EU fisheries committee, the joined 3 or the 42 meetings, there's your voted official doing his job. As for un elected civil servants and their influence, any capable country is managed by unelected civil servants because if UK would be fully dependent on the elected oficials to continue working we would be in deep shit. We had the control of whom we elected to do our bidding, the problem was that they didn't do shit and blamed EU for their incompetence.
@@varcoliciulalex You think the EU is so great...then why the fuck did British electorate think differently..you sad loser ..you don't think like us Brits at all do you..and that's why you lost...do us a favor and get on your bike across the Channel. Good bye and good ridance
@@mikipiediaelburro7588 First, you are wrong to assume that Tories would keep any of those rights and protections that the EU gave us. This is a Tory Brexit. Secondly, we never lost control of our borders or our sovereignty while in the EU. This was a lie put forward by the likes of, Johnson, Mogg and Farage. Thirdly, we elected our MEPs just like all other EU members. It's just the sad fact that no one bothered to vote so you ended up with fkwits like Farage UKIP being our reps, who btw check out Farage's voting record, shocking doesn't come close, he never bothered turning up to veto anything! Now you have a Brexit Tory government who have publicly waged a war on workers and the British public (Plebs, Serfs and the poor of the hoi polloi), Truss & Sunak pledging to destroy strikes, unions and have a bonfire of your rights, right to protest, right to legal representation, working rights, human rights. But hey, you got a blue passport and the right to be outright xenophobes & slaves to the ruling classes! Win win, eh!
I’m not a “leaver” but for once I hear cogent reasons why some folk have a problem with the current EU legislative structure and rules. Once again…thank you Eddie Dempsey.
@@SGC90-t5y You are correct. I think the untimely death of Eddie’s old general secretary at the RMT, the legendary Bob Crowe, was a big loss to the left leave campaign.
For some one without formal education, Eddie is very well informed. I learned a lot from this. At the time of the first referendum in 1975 I voted to stay out. The left wing position at the time was that the Common Market, as it was then known, was a capitalists' club. For 4 decades neo liberal policies have been a disaster for ordinary people.
@@aninjatuna8576 Google those dates and it should be obvious. The EU was established to promote friendship and co-operation which is what socialism is supposed to be about.
Incredible talk Eddie, Good on you bud, you should run for prime minister. the way you explain all you know is amazing, this country needs a leader like you, who knows what is going and can speak for the working class, the people who truly build this country, the conservatives have no clue...it's also true about what you say on labour the hierarchy has been lost and do not understand the working class.
Cracking interview. Made all the points I've tried to make over and over again on social media, and actually pointed out a few things I wasn't even aware of. Thanks for this Eddie and Labour Leave. I'll share widely.
The thing is the EU holds member states to a certain standard of liberal capitalism. The right wants to leave to strip workers rights, liberals want to remain because they agree with the EU, the left wants to leave to give worker more power. I think we should be out of the EU but not on the terms of the Tories.
The right wanted to leave to protect their tax havens and maintain the City's position as the global laundromat. I recognise all the criticisms of the EU made by the left but voted remain since I thought that, on balance, it was the lesser of two evils, nothing that's happened since has made me question that analysis. We have global problems that require cross-border solutions.
@@nicholasdickens2801 Wow my comment was two years ago. Eddie Dempsey spoke out for the Palestinian people, for which he got hammered by the usual suspects. ED and ML are top class in the media atm.
I'm a Labour voter and I agree with re-nationalising the railways, energy and water. But leaving the EU hasn't worked out very well so far to say the least. It just appears to have given the tories more power to take away our rights etc etc. And it seems to be damaging our economy and has taken some of our freedoms away. So far nobody appears to be able to come up with any real genuine benefits of leaving the EU. While the tories remain in power things can only get worse for the majority of people. And as for the problems Greece has faced since the GLOBAL financial crisis. Well the Greek government spends more on defence per head of population than any other country, top of the range German tanks & submarines etc etc And loads of military personnel. Plus they spent billions on building a railway network all over Greece, up and thru mountains etc And it's costing them shed loads of money to run & maintain it, yet hardly anyone uses it. Also a lot of people in Greece not paying enough tax. So this was literally a disaster waiting to happen, a problem of Greece's own making not the EU
So you loke unelected beuracrats in Europe writing your laws and dictating to you.You like elected officials not being accountable due to blaming EU law.You like Communism do you
Leaving the EU has done nothing for working people other than push them further into the clutches of deregulated bandit capitalists. And I agree pinning all Greeces problems on the EU is a bit rich.
No. It was the fault of successive Greek governments willingly implementing the suicidal & criminal will of the TROIKA AND the EU threatening to destroy Greece if it dared default on its loans (as per Varoufakis).
The EU wasn't neoliberal enough for the Tories who will now make the EU business club look like moderates. As for Greece, 1/3 of the Greek Debt was private debt which was made sovereign debt. The Irish debt was all private debt for private profit between private entities and was made sovereign because of ECB threats and Irish political incompetence.
If Eddie and Mike (RWT) where to become MPs and then leaders of the Labour Party..... The Labour Party would landslide to victory. The last time i voted for the Labour Party was the first time Tony Blair came to power.... But if these guys where in charge ..... YOU GOT MY VOTE (and I'm not the only one) ...... Save my country guys.
The UK government is at fault, not the EU. There is nothing in EU law that says the UK government cannot make things better for its people. Our problems in this country are, always have been and always will be, the conservative party. QED
You really need to read a few books on economics. It just doesn’t work that way sadly. The power, the wealth and control and influence flows up. Up to everyone that aren’t the middle class or working class people.
He is talking a lot of sense, he's honest about his Brexit stance and his feelings about the EU stem from his own lived experience which I totally respect. Not being funny but we in Britain have a fine tradition of smashing unions, with or without the EU, especially since Thatcher. We're not in the EU now, yet Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak want to introduce legislation to outlaw strikes - or at least make them extremely hard. And if it really was about privatisation of different industries, then why would the Tory Party campaign to leave the EU? That's the bit I don't understand. Because what the government is continuing to do now is... privatise industries and public services like the NHS! And if the EU Court of Justice always comes down on the side of corporations, again I ask, why did the Tories campaign to leave? Tories are notorious for representing corporations and the very rich. On the EU austerity package he's not wrong: they treated Greece abominably. What surprises me is the Tory government's entrenched obsession with austerity ever since, they've adopted that policy and imposed it on the British public since 2010. We are in 2022 and things couldn't be more worse: wages falling, hyperinflation, the cost of living out of control; meanwhile the government persistently represents billionaires making them richer which means the rest of us become poorer. The government ensures the corporations keep their profits intact with tax breaks, subsidies and placing the burden on ordinary workers to make all the financial sacrifice. That may be something the EU likes- but so does our own government! I love his passion and his empathy towards his fellow workers. God bless him.
Do you mean because of the many manufactured crises which are designed to make people think that our only option is to be part of the disgusting undemocratic vile institution known as the EU? It is totally the enemy of socialism and the friend of globalism.
Probably the same. British trade unionists have been supporting Brexit since the 1950s. Today’s issues are problems with whose elected in Westminster not Brussels.
I really enjoy listening to Eddie Dempsey. I respect and agree with a lot of what he says and I am a conservative voter. Those two things don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
I think he might be making the same mistake of writing off the remain voters. I was very much remain at the time of the vote because I saw that the Tory's would roll back human rights and the lack of European immigrants would take an axe to many of our industries and the NHS leading to many unnecessary deaths (all of which happened) what I didn't realize is that it would strengthen the unions by blocking people like the train companies from bringing trained people in to break strikes and I didn't even know the EU blocked socialist policy. If I'd heard this before then I'd have been up for the gamble that we might push back against the Tory's. So far they're making more and we're making less because of it but if the RMT can win the battle the tory party has chosen I think we might just be in with a chance.
Not true, many EU services are nationalised or only part private investments. The Tory Brexiteers are the ones who want to break strikes, in fact they want to outlaw them altogether as well as banning protests etc. The Tory Brexit is a disaster. I'm not saying that the EU is perfect, far from it. But now we have no influence whatsoever! Anyone who thought a Tory Brexit was going to be beneficial to the plebs of country, were frankly off their heads. Now we are living in a failed state, a fascist state that favours only the few not the many.
@Trevor Unfortunately the basics don't really cover the full story. I get the idea that wages and conditions would improve, but in the real world they're falling. unemployment rates also seem fairly consistent but it's hard to see with corona. If anything more labor movements are happening in the USA which hasn't had any huge changes in immigration numbers.
@Trevor I think you're confusing the movement with the party, not that I agree with your reasoning but since the party is refusing to stand with the movement I'd say the labor party is redundant
@Trevor There's always an issue of employers threatening to bring in new people if workers strike, it's why we have laws around it (for now) but that doesn't mean those workers are the enemy. You can start by wanting rid of foreign workers, but where do you stop? Is your in-group your country, your county, your city, your house? But yes, I think I even said in my original post here that not being able to bring trained workers in would give unions more leverage to a degree, that doesn't stop the fact that our industries have had an axe taken to them by stopping free travel. The British economy has long relied on foreign workers. We should have used the profits they created to reinvest in our economy instead of letting the rich siphon it off so we could all enjoy it (including them) but either way as of yet it hasn't done us any good to be suddenly stuck without them in an economy that relies on them. I'm guessing that if you feel qualified to say that the labor movement doesn't represent the workers you're working class yourself so I don't understand how you can see other working class people as the problem.
I agree with many of Eddie’s views and he is currently an articulate and able communicator in the RMT’s industrial action. He is however wrong on the EU - there is nothing in the EU rules that prevent nationalisation, in fact the rules protect member states rights to decide on the ownership of property. Art. 345 TFEU states “The Treaties shall in no way prejudice the rules in Member States (MS) governing the system of property ownership”. The Railway Package that he refers to still allows governments to award contracts directly where they can make a case that this would mean better quality of service or cost efficiency, on condition that contracts include performance and quality targets. Additionally, it is naive to believe that immigration did not loom large in many peoples mind when they voted in the referendum - this was not confined to the working class. Widespread polling showed “concern” over migration and this was ruthlessly exploited by the Leave campaign to ramp up a xenophobic populist narrative that blamed all our woes on freedom of movement within the EU.
Well said my man.. And what saddens me is many of my working class 'comrades' still see nothing wrong with brexit. So, people get what they deserve. It'd be interesting to see what he thinks now. Bearing in mind he's part irish...
Exactly. Eddies' view hasn't stood the test of time. I'm a strong supporter of Eddie and Unions in general. I have been and will be, a Union member all my life (and shop steward at one point).. But, he's very wrong in the belief that the EU was hindering nationalisation. I'm surprised he has made this very basic error. The proof is there in writing. Any EU member can nationalise whatever they deem fit for the good of the country. But they won't because that costs government vast amounts of money in losses mainly because governments are genetically incapable of running anything properly & efficiently and so they pass it off to the private sector and let them sort it. And as is clear to everyone now, Brexit ensures that nationalisation will never happen. And worse, the way is now clear for the NHS to be predated by the private American companies who will ensure that only the fully privately insured will receive treatment as is the case in the states. And they are definitely not democratically elected either. So be prepared to pay £500+ per month in insurance if you want cover or pay thousands to get a few stitches on a cut. Everything is now for sale alas. Only the very dim believe the problem was the EU. BS...The problem is always the UK government. His final words about 'Disaster' are correct. But not in the way he predicted. It just shows how many incorrect theories were promoted on both sides of the divide. No wonder the UK is in such a mess now and is irretrievably in thrall to Russian and American moguls. The EU is far from perfect. No one will argue that. But in ten years come back and tell me that being outside it is so much better.
"There has never been a white working class in London" Wtf is he on about, my uncle was white working class and lived in London, with hundreds of thousands of his fellow white working class residents in London
Very, very few 'uhms' and 'ahhs'...might seem like a small thing, but to me it's a SURE sign of honesty, a full understanding of their subject matter and a genuine belief in it.
Eddie sounds like my dad did 40 years ago He was a labourer counsellor and union shop steward for the print union In the late 70s-80s It’s great to see his Legacy is still alive in the hearts of this generation
I'm a remainer, but a big fan of Eddie and Mick Lynch. It's refreshing to hear a reasoned, rational argument for Brexit. I still don't believe the right thing happened, but I do believe there would be some advantages to take IF we had a proper government who works for the people. Under Tories though, Brexit is horrific.
I just wondering if he still holds his EU views today? He sounds confident but lots of miss information he spreading in this interview... Read comments bellow as don't wanna repeat obvious things .
Has he realised the level of xenophobia against citizens of other EU countries increased during and after the Brexit referendum or the fact that Brexit from the start has been a threat to peace in Northern Ireland.
I'm pro EU and I think fundamentally it does benefit the worker. I do agree with Eddie that the EU needs to ultimately change for the better. A reformed EU from a socialist point of view is the only way forward
@@ScottyDog345 well not the Tories who have been empowered by leaving the protections of EU law. Fire and hire illegal in the EU. Restrictions on long working hours, environmental and employment protection, consumer rights, cheaper fuel, support for poorer areas, etc. Next PM plans a bonfire of regulations and attacks on unions. All enabled by Brexit... Always interesting to ask what tangible benefits we'd lose if Brexit reversed.
I think Eddie talks a lot of sense but I wonder if he thinks the referendum was democratic still? Or even as he insists at the start that it won't be the working class that suffers from the consequences of Brexit? It's not like we haven't already had a lurch to the right from the PLP.
The EU has an elected parliament and a council of ministers who elected members of EU state's parliaments So here we have a great example of the lies that led to the disastrous Brexit vote. Never forget that the UK parliament has more members that are unelected than elected due to the House of Lords. As a trade unionist, surely he should know that many workers rights have been EU directives. One of the reasons that many Conservative party members were opposed to the EU
We have gone so far right leaving the EU we are almost falling over the edge. God sakes Eddie, Tories are basically now talking about bringing back slavery. Slavery! EU for all it's faults would never allow that!
Well maybe it’s time for people to rise up and say enough is enough. The EU is a morally corrupt neoliberal institution who I’ve zero respect for. Maybe our Labour politicians should actually start to listen to working class people and stop being influenced by big business.
All the sovereignty talk in regards to a country is insular thinking. As to regards to why the younger progressives dislike more traditional would be Labour voters is simple. The traditional voters have a reputation for being rubes.
@@oscarosullivan4513 Sovereignty is insular thinking? Is having a family or owning a property also insular? Is having a monogamous marriage insular? Is wearing clothes insular?
We once we're together with our labour friends in the EU - we were battling the same battle, then... We have now left ourselves open to be abused by the British far right, Eddy 😐
Does he know how many high positions in the EU UK citizens held. What democratic mandate did Brexit have having been rejected by Northern Ireland and Scotland and the three most important English cities. As for Ireland’s EU membership it has benefited us and the EU insists we take the 13 billion. Also what age does he think we are in. The established middle class is about twenty five percent in the UK and that includes Midwives. Then what do you expect from someone who hung around a war lord.
@@oscarosullivan4513 The bourgeois liberal left may not like it, but Eddie Dempsey is the true voice of the working class socialist left, who have always been opposed to Britain’s membership of the EU.
@@oscarosullivan4513 That may be so. But I’m at a loss to know what it has to do with Eddie Dempsey explaining the working class left’s position on Britain’s membership of the EU.
I am sorry that Eddie Dempsey prefers that young English and German people met in the context of July 1st 1916 and not in social and cultural exchanges funded by the EU.
@@oscarosullivan4513 What an excellent comment which captures it all in such a short sentence. Well done. I met a Leave voter on a walk yesterday who lives in Spain much of the time and said how awkward the Spanish are as she's had to obtain residency....
@@jamesbovington8218 I really don’t understand why you have to be so patronising. There’s no need for it James or Oscar. I understand you’re fed up. But we all are. I was just asking where you heard that in the video because I hadn’t. If you’re extrapolating that from what he actually said in the video then that’s your prerogative. But the fact that you wished to remain part of the EU doesn’t mean that everything he says in this interview has no validity. It kind of proves his point to be honest
So I've got to finally ask, out of pure curiosity: having barely been a teenager when Maastricht got ratified in Westminster, I already at that time, immediately understood it as a loss of sovereignty and national independence. Why do people like you personally interpret it completely the opposite way to me ie no loss of sovereignty and independence, I am genuinely curious?
@Trevor I'm thinking more here about the original Maastricht though. At that time it wasn't such a lowest common denominator situation as today, so I'm genuinely curious why people ever supported such a thing to begin with? You're saying they got sold on loss of sovereignty and independence because they thought it would be racist to consider national sovereignty and independence important?
@Trevor yeah I get you. Although I just remembered there was no referendum neither on signing or ratifying Maastricht, to begin with. Thatcher got voted out in a leadership contest within the Tory party, in order to prevent it from becoming a possibility. Or even a general election which the majority both among working and middle classes, would have jeapordised the whole project. But Thatcher shafted herself enough beforehand, to eventually get into a vulnerable situation that she couldn't get out of.
@Trevor more profoundly she pretty much gutted the country's industrial and manufacturing base, and for a country which is a net importer of raw materials, it was a bad move overall. She marginalised the best of the native working class, they were pretty much patriots by default. That's why I still have a soft spot left for the old Left, even if it happens to resort to retarded postmodern postulates, essentially to keep a voice. And as you correctly pointed out, those europile Tory sellouts that coalesced under Major ended up lavishly buttering leftist popular ideology themselves, to try and reinvent themselves (that went really well eh!) only they ended up alienating the best of both the working and the competitive, enterprising middle classes as a result. Yet despite all that, I still just don't get how someone can look at signing away National sovereignty and independence, and consider it nor to be that, I just don't get the thought process here I really don't!?
I wish I could be uneducated to his level. I’m inclined to disagree on the EU, mind. It is of its members and merely reflects a current neoliberal zeal. It could be something so much better, and better changed from within. Brexit hasn’t exactly served us well.
“I wish I could be uneducated to his level” Ah! The old bourgeois liberal left contempt for the working class that Orwell wrote about in the road to Wigan pier. It’s always been there, but mostly hidden. Brexit has brought it right out in the open. That’s probably a good thing.
Coming out of Europe is causing the vast majority of the issues we are seeing now that are effecting the working classes. The tories and even the labour party are going to ensure companies aren't nationalised. Eddie wants a left wing state in the uk where everything is nationalised. Why would you come out of europe which is the strongest economy in the world and has a number of workers rights laws in place including the number of working hours a worker shouldn't exceed. I would guess eddie wanted european workers sent home to not take jobs away from white uk workers. Look where that has left us, problems at the pumps, problems in staff shortages in the nhs, and problems in harvesting in farming to name but a few. This argument is a con for working people to leave europe. Sounds like he's trying to create a nationlised communist state in the uk external from europe. We need to rejoin europe. Internationalism is the way forward. Peace Andy H
With respect I don't think you understand the farming industry. There was never a shortage of workers before the Easter Europeans were allowed to have those jobs. What would happen is jobs would be advertised in a nearby town and workers would be waiting outside a local pub or meeting place and would be bussed to the fields for the day and then bussed home. Today the foreign workers stay on site in caravans, the caravan is housing! From your wage they take money for rent, gas, electric, water and they often charge you for food from the farm too! A native still has to pay rent and bills at home and the minimum wage won't pay two sets of bills! It would cost a British worker to take those jobs now. It might be that you don't want to believe what I've just told you but I assure you I've told you the complete truth! It baffles me how the modern left have gotten themselves into a position where they defend the employers in these disputes, particularly when we're discussing agriculture in a country in which most of the land is owned by Aristocrats!
@@BigJohnson911 Do not get me wrong I am true union but as an Irish man myself I think its ironic that Eddie can claim both passports. Yet disproves of the E.U while in fact 80% of all Irish people love the E.U.I like Eddie but do not like his stance on the E.U the E.U has made this country one of the richest in the world.
@Trevor Good man Trev , I see recently Poland gave Germany a trillion euro demand for war reparations, wonder how much the bill for the famine is going to cast you Brits ?
@@Vitalclubsport Your precious status quo has ended, do you even question why it was voted for? Seems like theres a layer of society that was very content, while things on the ground were just getting worse anyway. You missed it.
There's a lot of hot air talked about the environment, but one thing we really need is a nationalised railway. It's a vital social service, not candidate for a profitable business. I dream of being able to afford a sleeper train to holiday in Europe. I can't get over the fact the EU Commission is unelected and has scant scrutiny. It's a big red signal.
Lets not Forget What the Conservative Government did to the Coal Miners ''We can't let them treat every British person to something like that again'' Because you can Bet thats the sort of thing those scheming Corrupt Tories have got up there sleeves over the coming months. It really is time for a massive shake up ''Eddie has really done his homework this interview is a real eye opener for me Brilliant so sensible and reasonable .
@Trevor jog on. The sad fact is, you care more about a charlatan, bigot and convicted fraudster than any of those poor children you use like a prop in your slurs.
Funny he failed to mention attacks that occurred on business’s and institutions associated with the countries of origin of most of the EU migrant workers after the Brexit referendum.
So close Eddie, anyone telling you to turn right, should make you immediately ask 'why, what is on the left?' , especially if you are being told by a Tory.
Any of the pro remain clowns who to be fair supported Jeremy Corbyn should have listened to Eddie Dempsey and his masterful exposition that the EU is nothing but a rich man's club- this was the firm belief of the late great Tony Benn. Well done Eddie Tony Benn would have been proud of you!
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k Well if Tony Benn or even Jeremy Corbyn had been prime ministers they would have tried to gradually dissociate Britain from Nato and so for one thing we wouldn't be funding the Ukraine war to kill mostly Ukrainians and a few Russians. We wouldn't have soaring energy bills and our utility companies would be in public hands not French companies subsidising French energy users. But this is all by the by. Britain is firmly in the orbit of the EU and will share its fate even though it is technically out of the EU. The British public is apathetic convinced voting changes nothing. All these things are ripe for someone with the guts to come on to the stage and forcibly take power. And the only people with guns in the uk are the military. This latter point may seem fanciful and certainly the present military Top brass are spineless clowns waging wars in foreign lands so that a train of human misery can come back to our shores to seek asylum. But I would encourage you to read Alexis de tocquevilles great book Democracy in America and specifically the second volume where in a chapter he points out why liberal democracies are liable to be overthrown by its own military.
@@andrewgora3672 Rather than making sarcastic comments you'd be better off showing your original statement to your history teacher, they'll help you construct better arguments.
You are 100% right. And Brexit has handed the Tories power to get rid of our rights, right to protest, right to strike, working rights, human rights... all now being dismantled by Brexit Tories and their hard right fascism.
The guy makes some good points -- but how can on get 18 Million workers to get their voice and be able to effect change?... one may need a new party that working class people CAN identify with and cast their vote...and know that their vote matters...The current Labour party is like a balloon that has been punctured too many times led by practitioners of the limp handshake, wishy washy middle ground.
I think he is a good union leader for the working person. I'm also from South London but left the UK over 30 years ago. Why because I couldn't make a life worth anything. I have lived in France since and only earn 1800 euros a month but have two houses and a small holding( not with credit!!!) So if Europe ain't democratic and the UK is democratic I'll take ain't democratic. I could have worked my socks off in the UK and would never have what I've got here! The Unions were a scam 30 years ago in the UK and now listening to this man he's got it weighed off but he is not well travelled as I believe he doesn't understand Europeans and how they see and protect their rights, the joke is workers rights in the UK. But stick it to the Conservatives, unless you can bring them to their knees, you are wasting workers time!! You've got Europe wrong mate, well forget Europe we are now history for you. Get UK working for the great unwashed or do something else. Democratic!!! Well your next prime minister ain't been elected!!!!!!!!!!
It *could* have been good alright, if we had a functioning state capitalist / social democratic government. But we don’t and we’re not getting one any time soon, so you’re obviously deluding yourself.
It really depends on who you are. If you’re working class it means less competition for jobs, less downward pressure on wages. On the other hand, if you’re a bourgeois liberal, it makes it a bit more difficult to maintain your holiday home in Tuscany, or send your daughter to university in Vienna, or wherever.
It's just a pity he showed support for some of the views expressed by the EDL & Tommy Robinson. Plus I think Eddie & Mick are wrong about the EU. They've given us a Tory Brexit, which is already proving disastrous for small to medium businesses as well as handing the Tories all the power they wanted to be able to strip us plebs of all our rights, working rights, human rights etc. And this will also allow the Tories to take away your rights to strike and to protest (Truss & Sunak have already said they are going to beat down on unions and strikers as well as Priti Patel already putting through new laws to arrest protesters etc). I back the strikes and Eddie and Mick with a lot of what they say about the Tories and their rights to strike etc and I would prefer to keep our democratic rights & human rights etc. Unfortunately Brexit voters have flushed these down the toilet, and they'll float away with all the excrement and effluent into our waterways. Who the fk wants to got to our beaches and rivers on holidays or buy our fish and shellfish that are swimming in Sh!t?
@@theworldaccordingto4555 I was going to let this go, but then I thought... 1. 16:00 "that a lot of the people who are SADLY turning out for demonstrations for the likes of Tommy Robinson". 2. 17:40 "Not because I am in any way in favour of supporting Tommy Robinson. I (E.D) spent a decade chasing him around London trying to keep him out of it". 3. It is only possible to make decisions on issues that you can foresee and understand. Do you think any voters (Brexit OR Remain) could have foreseen the extra excrement that was produced by 'Leaving'? - Did you?
Funny how this video just surfaced in my feed, and its from 2019. I wonder if seeing Eddie taking a side on such a divisive issue might help divide the peoples support of him. I wonder who could benefit from that?
At least he voted leave the right reason that make sense. But as we have seen leaving the EU has been and will continue to be a disaster. Especially if the tories strip all the great EU Laws and legislation that protect workers rights. Some times its better the Devil you know than the devil you dont.
Good man. I'm proud to be a union member and on the left. I voted leave without hesitation. He needs to be Labour leader instead of that clueless ball less Tory they've been lumbered with since they dumped Corbyn. Did you see him getting slapped down in Liverpool? He just sat there and said NOTHING. Why didn't the police do us all a favour and fine him?
@@oscarosullivan4513 How did I? The protocol is there to protect and strengthen the GFA. No hard border on the island well aside from the one that's been there since 1921
@@petergreen2552 That is the whole point we couldn’t stick a customs border on a border with the most crossings in Europe so it had to go in the sea. Brexit supporters in Northern Ireland have been wailing about it. Clearly should have been known that Brexit would resulted in having to find a way to comprise the GFA as little as possible.
No because 🤡's like you used all the power of the banks, big business, media, courts and the corrupt political class to ensure we weren't allowed to meaningfully break free of all antidemocratic EU diktats... Mong.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. (Clarence Darrow)
I think what Eddie Dempsey hopes for by leaving the EU depends on who is in government. The Tories will use any freedom to reduce workers rights and human rights and quality and safety standards. Labour could use them to protect and enhance those rights and renationalise the railways. Given the state of the economy, the cost of living crisis and the compensation Labour would have to pay to companies when reniationalising, I don't think renationalisation would be at the top of their agenda. They will also be aware that the next Tory government could undo nationalisations with an asset giveaway, wasting all the public money spent on it. Sad, as renationalisation would make for a more joined up, less expensive, less bureaucratic rail service with a better cheaper fare structure.
@@trytellingthetruth.2068 Why? If you listen to the transport select committee interviewing the ASLEF representative you'll realise why pay negotiations can be complicated and slow even when they are going well. Each private rail company may pay different rates and there has to be a separate negotiation with each one within an overall framework drafted by the Union and agreed nationally with the companies. That's not to mention the benefits to passengers that would accrue from having a single public railway with a common and simpler ticket structure that would offer cheaper prices and more flexible travel across the network. It costs the public purse a lot more to maintain a private system, money which could be invested in services. Just think how many bureaucrats could be cut under a simpler public structure rather than many companies having to be consulted and agreeing things and many accountants for the cross accounting systems and the contracts and contracts monitoring and the periodic re-franchising. Cheaper fares and lack of having to lose money in the way of profits, would also increase passenger traffic and raise more revenue. There would even be money to continue and complete the electrification of the railways.
@@heliotropezzz333 I'm not talking about negotiations etc, I'm talking about a nationalised rail service which will operate the way it did back in the 70's, 80's. Late/cancelled trains and strike after strike. No thank you
@@trytellingthetruth.2068 Unlike now when we have no strikes of course! I remember the service in the 70s and 80s and I've experienced more cancellations under privatisation than then. In fact the service failed on the last 2 trains I caught this year. The compensation system could be kept to encourage a timely service. The previous public service did not have as much subsidy as the current privatised service, and if that money was invested in a public service you could then do a proper comparison but cheaper tickets and not having to support private companies' profits would increase revenue, as it would encourage more use of the railways as well as being a more environmentally sound policy. The money not wasted on profits could also be used to continue the electrification of the railways. Also think how many fewer bureaucrats would be needed for complex timetabling, contract drafting, contract management, contract monitoring, and cross accounting.
@@heliotropezzz333 I agree with you when it comes to subsidies being given to private companies, but don't kid yourself if you think nationalising the railways will result in cheap fares. The continued demand for higher pay, resulting in strikes if workers don't get them, failing to streamline, when technology dictates the need for a smaller workforce, all add up to why it was such a pain to use the service,and cheaper fares has never encouraged more people to use the trains. As soon as I passed my driving test, I never used public transport unless it was absolutely necessary. There are services that should never have been privatised. Water, Gas, Electric, mail service, but my experience using the trains years ago has always left a nasty taste in my mouth .
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Eddie speaks for millions of traditional left voters, the idea that it is only the right are against the EU is absurd.
Like I say 1st July 1916 and 6th June 1944 best way for working class youth to meet?
He is articulate reasonable and utterly naive and wrong.
His naivete has served the carpet baggers that want to asset strip Britain really well unfortunately.
@@jamesbovington8218 please elaborate.
@@jamesbovington8218 Battle of the Somme & D-Day?
@@YCFCfollower i think he is trying to say that without the EU we would be in another world war? I'm baffled tbh
Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey, straight talking people, should be running the country
Except he's not straight talking is he? Claiming there is no white working class is straight up bullshit
This guy is a clown who claims the white working class don't exist. This country was 95% white up until the 1990s
By his own admission he is an Irish Republican by choice if not by birth. Why is he allowed to be instrumental in closing down this country with his boss Mick 'the Mick' Lynch. Surely there are problems to solve in their own country!
@@terrencehook2031 Neither if them are Irish. They just agree with Irish unification.
@@Gooseplan All parents are Irish. Eddie was a member of an Irish emigrant association at one time. Mick supports Irish unification and visits relatives frequently. That makes them Irish to me!
P.s. of not "if"
The RMT were right not to trust the Labour party, evidently. The scale of snobbery and anti-socialism in the PLP and the party HQ was and remains sickening.
They even got the voters convinced that thanks to Jeremy Corbyn there was anti Semitism rife through the party and that ensured they would never be elected with a proper socialist as leader. What are Labour meant to be? We've got enough right wing parties in UK politics as it is
That was excellent. Articulate, reasoned and full of common sense observations based on the real world around him.
He's a lightweight
Eddie is the most important figure within UK socialism today.
The problem with the 'Leave' situation though Eddie, is that if we have a Govt free of the 'EU' work legislation, we could end up with, as we do now, a Far Right Govt who basically want to tear up any 'worker rights'; smash the Unions and leave ordinary workers in such a perilous position that they will be cowed into submission. This was the situation for my Grandfather in the 1920's which he said were terrible times for working people. 100 yrs later and we seem to be going back to those times'
Seems to talk a lot more sense than than any MP. Before I retired I paid my staff a fair wage for hard work with good conditions and training and I worked with them at all levels. They repaid me with good work, loyalty and enthusiasm for the team. You reap what you sow. It didn't cost me to be fair, it helped the business to succeed. Someone once told me that every fiver I put in the staff's pockets was a fiver out of mine. So not true!
Eddie n Mick are what this country needs
This has been a real 'eye-opener' for me. Considering Eddie Dempsey's lack of 'formal education' (you wouldn't think it from this) his depth and breadth of knowledge on the subject, and his ability to articulate this into language that is understandable to most, is impressive.
My thoughts exactly. Found this really informative.
Seriously impressive. Can you imagine what this country could be like with men of character like this in charge? It's actually quite painful to even hope for anything close to that these days. 💪💪
Enjoy the cup final and the Derby courtesy of these "men of principle"
this man needs to be Prime Minister
exactly my thoughts, what a great country it would be for its people
Not sure, France has a much better rail network and wider transport system than the UK.
Dempsey for Labor Leader!
That would be amazing
He would face forces of compromise inside the political system.
Labour with a U
Great stuff Eddie. I’m an SDP member, but you are the true voice of traditional Labour & hopefully future Labour too. Good man
We European working class citizens support your strike action Mr. Dempsey. We are with you all the way. Please do not try to divide us away from you in Britain, we also have demands, the same as yours but we are not as badly treated as you are in the UK, because we have some protections that you have given up for the right wing image of Brexit that you have believed, and is not true.
I have a lot of respect for Eddie and his boss Mick Lynch.
However, it's not true that the EU would not allow re-nationalisation. Deutsche Bahn is owned by the German government, SNCF is owned by the French government. The French government also owns Air France and partly Renault along with other companies. The "fourth package" he speaks about is inspired by the 1993 Railways Act in the UK, so it was law in the UK years before the EU.
The EU was never the enemy, the Tories are the enemy. Germany has betriebsrat, works councils that companies have to have in Law, Unions work with the employers. I know from personal experience that this system works well.
The Tories are the problem. Allowing the Tories to scapegoat the EU for decisions made HERE by a TORY government is a bit disingenuous on Eddies part.
I'm all for Unions, I think they do a great job and certainly a better job that Labour are doing at the moment to oppose a Tory Government that moves further right every day. However, leaving the EU was a mistake that we are now all paying for and will be for years to come. The pros outweigh the cons. The EU is by no means perfect, but WE helped shape what it is today. Nothing in the EU happened without the UK governments approval, since we had the veto. And who elected the UK government? Well, that would have been you.
I'll add as an aside that the EU used a lot of the money we paid in for regional development and infrastructure projects. For example, Between 1994 and 2013, the people of Liverpool, Merseyside and the wider north-west of England benefited to the tune of £1.3bn from successive funding programmes, with a further £450m agreed up to 2020. If you think the Tories would spend this money, you're out of your mind.
France and Germany have the strongest work unions in Europe.
It is always a battle against one's national banks. Pity we left the EU, we are now an open goal for the far political establishment right of England. Come on girls, win tomorrow early evening tomorrow, fk all this despite. I am Welsh BTW. 😎🏴🏴🤪
Those companies you refer to have always been publicly owned. I think Eddie's point is companies that were privatised in the UK cannot be Renationalised under EU rules.
Thank you, found it very odd seeing a clearly smart guy like Eddie get done completely by the lies. Especially bizarre considering the EU consists of left leaning countries with far stronger unions than we have!
True, but the point Dempsey was making is that industries in the UK, previously nationalised, cannot be renationalised under EU laws.
@@davidpryle3935 Beat me to it.
Absolutely spot on with everything he said...the working classes have been shat on for too long... labour is lost- don't think I'll ever trust them again. Time for a new party to represent us, with people like Eddie fighting our corner
So have you joined a Trades Union?
@@heliotropezzz333 I used to be in the GMB, but to be perfectly honest it was a waste of my money and time
@@fredatlas4396 How do you know? Often the mere existence of a Union stops employers from worsening terms and conditions and pay. Those without a Union are most vulnerable.
The working classes being shit on had nothing to do with the EU.
That's the problem with this thinking
@@adrianmacgrath5814 You’re missing the point, the EU is a neoliberal institution and not democratic. Maybe you should listen to interviews with the late great Tony Benn, because he saw what the EU project was and had the same concerns are people like Eddie and myself. No one is saying the EU is to blame for all of our woes, but many of the suggestions made by politicians like Jeremy Corbyn such as rail nationalisation wouldn’t have been allowed had we remained in the EU. Many people working class people throughout the EU are being shit on, hence why we had the Gilets Jaunes Yellow Vest movement.
Ursula Von Der Leyen is also going to make life miserable for millions of people in the EU too thanks to her behaviour towards Russia. What else do we see happening within the EU, a stagnant economy in Germany with next to nothing growth. I’m sorry, but I don’t like the way the EU behaves, and I’m glad to see MEP’s like Clare Daly from Ireland calling them out, because they’re morally corrupt.
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I had some sympathy with current industrial dispute. It is possible to nationalise industries, the French are renationalising EDF. SNCF is a French government company. The most damaging policies to unions has been 44 years of Thatcherism. Ireland declined to collect €19bn tax from Apple, and €bns from Google. Have to say that the £240bn cost of brexit has had a grave impact on the working class.
What cost if Brexit.Fuck off with your fucking Commu EU shit
What a wonderful speaking voice with a wealth of knowledge of the working class (heroes) and the problems we have with the European Union. Great work Eddie and Mick you guy’s should be knighted. 👍🏴✊✊
So... workers in Germany, France, Netherlands, Findland, Sweden, Italy and other countries have more rights than UK workers but it is EU's fault. He is well infromed and I agree with many of his points but worker rights (maybe not union but workers overall) are currently under threat because UK is no longer part of EU. EU has enforced food standards, safety standards, required competition on the market, established consumer rights, all of these things make life easier, safer and cheaper. Is it all a lovely fruit basket of joy, maybe not but they have held their end of the bargain a lot better than Tories or local politicians so far. There is no country in EU where the workers have less rights than in UK as UK government had fought hard to be as deregulated as possible, and at the end this is somehow EU's fault. European Working Time Directive set minimum rest period and maximum working time for employees, the UK govenrmnet were the only ones who opposed it, it went through nevertheless and afterwards in UK you could be required to sign a paper which acted as an exception from that directive. The Directive was voted in 2004 (Blair time - not blaming Labour but Tories don't carry all the fault in history), so... how is this EU's fault.
Again, I agree with most of the points he is making and happy to hear this side of the story but some of the conclusions give me the impression of the classic tactic of screwing things at home while blaming EU.
EXCELLENT COMMENT!!!!
I wonder if Eddie still hold currently these twisted views about EU...
The EU is a technocratic mechanism..it will do everything that Eddie has pointed out in this peice.Yes it has codified a lot of legislation for working hours and food standards etc,but this is legislation that we can implement and bring into our own parliament.We have to have control of who we elected to do our bidding,not to unelected civil sevants who do not represent us and will do everything they can to srip nations assets and create laws to block our rights to challenge thier polices..backed up by a judiciary that will always back them up.
@@mikipiediaelburro7588 Nigel Farage, elected by the British people to represent UK in the EU parliament was part of the EU fisheries committee, the joined 3 or the 42 meetings, there's your voted official doing his job. As for un elected civil servants and their influence, any capable country is managed by unelected civil servants because if UK would be fully dependent on the elected oficials to continue working we would be in deep shit. We had the control of whom we elected to do our bidding, the problem was that they didn't do shit and blamed EU for their incompetence.
@@varcoliciulalex You think the EU is so great...then why the fuck did British electorate think differently..you sad loser ..you don't think like us Brits at all do you..and that's why you lost...do us a favor and get on your bike across the Channel. Good bye and good ridance
@@mikipiediaelburro7588 First, you are wrong to assume that Tories would keep any of those rights and protections that the EU gave us. This is a Tory Brexit.
Secondly, we never lost control of our borders or our sovereignty while in the EU. This was a lie put forward by the likes of, Johnson, Mogg and Farage.
Thirdly, we elected our MEPs just like all other EU members. It's just the sad fact that no one bothered to vote so you ended up with fkwits like Farage UKIP being our reps, who btw check out Farage's voting record, shocking doesn't come close, he never bothered turning up to veto anything!
Now you have a Brexit Tory government who have publicly waged a war on workers and the British public (Plebs, Serfs and the poor of the hoi polloi), Truss & Sunak pledging to destroy strikes, unions and have a bonfire of your rights, right to protest, right to legal representation, working rights, human rights.
But hey, you got a blue passport and the right to be outright xenophobes & slaves to the ruling classes! Win win, eh!
I’m not a “leaver” but for once I hear cogent reasons why some folk have a problem with the current EU legislative structure and rules. Once again…thank you Eddie Dempsey.
Same. He spoke really well. This point of view was marginalised in the MSM during the Brexit struggle.
@@emil_rainbow as to be expected…we all know what you really think Nigel. Don’t play coy.
@@SGC90-t5y You are correct. I think the untimely death of Eddie’s old general secretary at the RMT, the legendary Bob Crowe, was a big loss to the left leave campaign.
Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey keep fighting for your members for a fair deal ..great interview 👍☘☘☘☘
For some one without formal education, Eddie is very well informed. I learned a lot from this. At the time of the first referendum in 1975 I voted to stay out. The left wing position at the time was that the Common Market, as it was then known, was a capitalists' club. For 4 decades neo liberal policies have been a disaster for ordinary people.
Remember 1st July 1916 and 6th June 1944. Is that what you prefer for handsome young men in their late teens?
@@jamesbovington8218 no, only for uggos
@@jamesbovington8218 what on earth are you on about?
@@aninjatuna8576 Google those dates and it should be obvious. The EU was established to promote friendship and co-operation which is what socialism is supposed to be about.
@@jamesbovington8218 the EU isn't socialist.
Incredible talk Eddie, Good on you bud, you should run for prime minister. the way you explain all you know is amazing, this country needs a leader like you, who knows what is going and can speak for the working class, the people who truly build this country, the conservatives have no clue...it's also true about what you say on labour the hierarchy has been lost and do not understand the working class.
Cracking interview. Made all the points I've tried to make over and over again on social media, and actually pointed out a few things I wasn't even aware of. Thanks for this Eddie and Labour Leave. I'll share widely.
The thing is the EU holds member states to a certain standard of liberal capitalism. The right wants to leave to strip workers rights, liberals want to remain because they agree with the EU, the left wants to leave to give worker more power.
I think we should be out of the EU but not on the terms of the Tories.
That’s my take as well mate.
The right wanted to leave to protect their tax havens and maintain the City's position as the global laundromat. I recognise all the criticisms of the EU made by the left but voted remain since I thought that, on balance, it was the lesser of two evils, nothing that's happened since has made me question that analysis. We have global problems that require cross-border solutions.
@@pfunnell70 100%. I voted remain, and Brexit so far under the Conservatives has been a mess.
One of the most articulate voices on the real left at the moment. Why is he being deplatformed?
You know why. He’s a threat to the likes of Kier Starmer.
@@nicholasdickens2801 Wow my comment was two years ago. Eddie Dempsey spoke out for the Palestinian people, for which he got hammered by the usual suspects. ED and ML are top class in the media atm.
I'm a Labour voter and I agree with re-nationalising the railways, energy and water. But leaving the EU hasn't worked out very well so far to say the least. It just appears to have given the tories more power to take away our rights etc etc. And it seems to be damaging our economy and has taken some of our freedoms away. So far nobody appears to be able to come up with any real genuine benefits of leaving the EU. While the tories remain in power things can only get worse for the majority of people. And as for the problems Greece has faced since the GLOBAL financial crisis. Well the Greek government spends more on defence per head of population than any other country, top of the range German tanks & submarines etc etc And loads of military personnel. Plus they spent billions on building a railway network all over Greece, up and thru mountains etc And it's costing them shed loads of money to run & maintain it, yet hardly anyone uses it. Also a lot of people in Greece not paying enough tax. So this was literally a disaster waiting to happen, a problem of Greece's own making not the EU
So you loke unelected beuracrats in Europe writing your laws and dictating to you.You like elected officials not being accountable due to blaming EU law.You like Communism do you
Leaving the EU has done nothing for working people other than push them further into the clutches of deregulated bandit capitalists.
And I agree pinning all Greeces problems on the EU is a bit rich.
@@hastekulvaati9681 are you European are you
No. It was the fault of successive Greek governments willingly implementing the suicidal & criminal will of the TROIKA AND the EU threatening to destroy Greece if it dared default on its loans (as per Varoufakis).
The EU wasn't neoliberal enough for the Tories who will now make the EU business club look like moderates. As for Greece, 1/3 of the Greek Debt was private debt which was made sovereign debt. The Irish debt was all private debt for private profit between private entities and was made sovereign because of ECB threats and Irish political incompetence.
If Eddie and Mike (RWT) where to become MPs and then leaders of the Labour Party..... The Labour Party would landslide to victory. The last time i voted for the Labour Party was the first time Tony Blair came to power.... But if these guys where in charge ..... YOU GOT MY VOTE (and I'm not the only one) ...... Save my country guys.
Labour's dead and finished.
Having former Union leaders running the country would result in strikes after strike,, just like the 1970's.
Not sure that's true
The UK government is at fault, not the EU. There is nothing in EU law that says the UK government cannot make things better for its people. Our problems in this country are, always have been and always will be, the conservative party. QED
You really need to read a few books on economics. It just doesn’t work that way sadly. The power, the wealth and control and influence flows up. Up to everyone that aren’t the middle class or working class people.
I wonder if he still thinks leaving the EU was a good idea
@@kevingrant7098 it IS still a good idea - but the execution is piss poor
@@kevingrant7098It obviously wasn't.
He is talking a lot of sense, he's honest about his Brexit stance and his feelings about the EU stem from his own lived experience which I totally respect. Not being funny but we in Britain have a fine tradition of smashing unions, with or without the EU, especially since Thatcher. We're not in the EU now, yet Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak want to introduce legislation to outlaw strikes - or at least make them extremely hard. And if it really was about privatisation of different industries, then why would the Tory Party campaign to leave the EU? That's the bit I don't understand. Because what the government is continuing to do now is... privatise industries and public services like the NHS! And if the EU Court of Justice always comes down on the side of corporations, again I ask, why did the Tories campaign to leave? Tories are notorious for representing corporations and the very rich. On the EU austerity package he's not wrong: they treated Greece abominably. What surprises me is the Tory government's entrenched obsession with austerity ever since, they've adopted that policy and imposed it on the British public since 2010. We are in 2022 and things couldn't be more worse: wages falling, hyperinflation, the cost of living out of control; meanwhile the government persistently represents billionaires making them richer which means the rest of us become poorer. The government ensures the corporations keep their profits intact with tax breaks, subsidies and placing the burden on ordinary workers to make all the financial sacrifice. That may be something the EU likes- but so does our own government! I love his passion and his empathy towards his fellow workers. God bless him.
Honesty is the best policy in the long run. If Corbyn, as a staunch anti-EU MP, didn’t change his stance on Europe, he would have won.
I wonder how he feels today about Brexit and workers rights?
Do you mean because of the many manufactured crises which are designed to make people think that our only option is to be part of the disgusting undemocratic vile institution known as the EU? It is totally the enemy of socialism and the friend of globalism.
No different and rightly so. We haven't been allowed to break away from all EU diktats meaningfully.
Probably the same. British trade unionists have been supporting Brexit since the 1950s. Today’s issues are problems with whose elected in Westminster not Brussels.
@@maxpowerii7368 yes but now there are no workers rights at all and no European Court to complain to. So Brexit has hosed us.
@@bigdee1216 I imagine he feels more strongly about the Tory government responsible for using Brexit to water down workers rights than Brexit itself.
It's a crying shame that the Labour Party has gone so far to the right that it won't support the Workers Strike.
I really enjoy listening to Eddie Dempsey. I respect and agree with a lot of what he says and I am a conservative voter. Those two things don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
I think he might be making the same mistake of writing off the remain voters. I was very much remain at the time of the vote because I saw that the Tory's would roll back human rights and the lack of European immigrants would take an axe to many of our industries and the NHS leading to many unnecessary deaths (all of which happened) what I didn't realize is that it would strengthen the unions by blocking people like the train companies from bringing trained people in to break strikes and I didn't even know the EU blocked socialist policy. If I'd heard this before then I'd have been up for the gamble that we might push back against the Tory's. So far they're making more and we're making less because of it but if the RMT can win the battle the tory party has chosen I think we might just be in with a chance.
I find your angle on this to be very interesting
Not true, many EU services are nationalised or only part private investments. The Tory Brexiteers are the ones who want to break strikes, in fact they want to outlaw them altogether as well as banning protests etc. The Tory Brexit is a disaster. I'm not saying that the EU is perfect, far from it. But now we have no influence whatsoever! Anyone who thought a Tory Brexit was going to be beneficial to the plebs of country, were frankly off their heads.
Now we are living in a failed state, a fascist state that favours only the few not the many.
@Trevor Unfortunately the basics don't really cover the full story. I get the idea that wages and conditions would improve, but in the real world they're falling. unemployment rates also seem fairly consistent but it's hard to see with corona. If anything more labor movements are happening in the USA which hasn't had any huge changes in immigration numbers.
@Trevor I think you're confusing the movement with the party, not that I agree with your reasoning but since the party is refusing to stand with the movement I'd say the labor party is redundant
@Trevor There's always an issue of employers threatening to bring in new people if workers strike, it's why we have laws around it (for now) but that doesn't mean those workers are the enemy. You can start by wanting rid of foreign workers, but where do you stop? Is your in-group your country, your county, your city, your house? But yes, I think I even said in my original post here that not being able to bring trained workers in would give unions more leverage to a degree, that doesn't stop the fact that our industries have had an axe taken to them by stopping free travel. The British economy has long relied on foreign workers. We should have used the profits they created to reinvest in our economy instead of letting the rich siphon it off so we could all enjoy it (including them) but either way as of yet it hasn't done us any good to be suddenly stuck without them in an economy that relies on them. I'm guessing that if you feel qualified to say that the labor movement doesn't represent the workers you're working class yourself so I don't understand how you can see other working class people as the problem.
I agree with many of Eddie’s views and he is currently an articulate and able communicator in the RMT’s industrial action. He is however wrong on the EU - there is nothing in the EU rules that prevent nationalisation, in fact the rules protect member states rights to decide on the ownership of property. Art. 345 TFEU states “The Treaties shall in no way prejudice the rules in Member States (MS) governing the system of property ownership”. The Railway Package that he refers to still allows governments to award contracts directly where they can make a case that this would mean better quality of service or cost efficiency, on condition that contracts include performance and quality targets. Additionally, it is naive to believe that immigration did not loom large in many peoples mind when they voted in the referendum - this was not confined to the working class. Widespread polling showed “concern” over migration and this was ruthlessly exploited by the Leave campaign to ramp up a xenophobic populist narrative that blamed all our woes on freedom of movement within the EU.
Well said my man.. And what saddens me is many of my working class 'comrades' still see nothing wrong with brexit.
So, people get what they deserve.
It'd be interesting to see what he thinks now. Bearing in mind he's part irish...
Nailed it. Working class solidarity should not be confined to state boundaries.
Exactly. Eddies' view hasn't stood the test of time.
I'm a strong supporter of Eddie and Unions in general. I have been and will be, a Union member all my life (and shop steward at one point).. But, he's very wrong in the belief that the EU was hindering nationalisation. I'm surprised he has made this very basic error. The proof is there in writing. Any EU member can nationalise whatever they deem fit for the good of the country. But they won't because that costs government vast amounts of money in losses mainly because governments are genetically incapable of running anything properly & efficiently and so they pass it off to the private sector and let them sort it. And as is clear to everyone now, Brexit ensures that nationalisation will never happen. And worse, the way is now clear for the NHS to be predated by the private American companies who will ensure that only the fully privately insured will receive treatment as is the case in the states. And they are definitely not democratically elected either. So be prepared to pay £500+ per month in insurance if you want cover or pay thousands to get a few stitches on a cut. Everything is now for sale alas. Only the very dim believe the problem was the EU. BS...The problem is always the UK government. His final words about 'Disaster' are correct. But not in the way he predicted. It just shows how many incorrect theories were promoted on both sides of the divide. No wonder the UK is in such a mess now and is irretrievably in thrall to Russian and American moguls. The EU is far from perfect. No one will argue that. But in ten years come back and tell me that being outside it is so much better.
Eddie Dempsey spitting some serious truth here!
"There has never been a white working class in London" Wtf is he on about, my uncle was white working class and lived in London, with hundreds of thousands of his fellow white working class residents in London
UK had the power to change it. NOT run away, or at least not leave to profit the cronies here.
Very, very few 'uhms' and 'ahhs'...might seem like a small thing, but to me it's a SURE sign of honesty, a full understanding of their subject matter and a genuine belief in it.
He's naive
Eddie sounds like my dad did 40 years ago
He was a labourer counsellor and union shop steward for the print union
In the late 70s-80s
It’s great to see his Legacy is still alive in the hearts of this generation
I'm a remainer, but a big fan of Eddie and Mick Lynch. It's refreshing to hear a reasoned, rational argument for Brexit. I still don't believe the right thing happened, but I do believe there would be some advantages to take IF we had a proper government who works for the people. Under Tories though, Brexit is horrific.
I just wondering if he still holds his EU views today?
He sounds confident but lots of miss information he spreading in this interview...
Read comments bellow as don't wanna repeat obvious things .
His views on the eu are not mine I wonder if he still thinks leaving the eu is a good idea
Why would they have changed? (Not being facetious, just trying to understand your position)
Oh dear no...
And you think Britain is more democratic?
Hope you've changed your thinking, Eddie.
This video aged like milk.🤣😂
@@BigJohnson911
So old it has turned into Liz Truss' cheese. 🙂👍
Has he realised the level of xenophobia against citizens of other EU countries increased during and after the Brexit referendum or the fact that Brexit from the start has been a threat to peace in Northern Ireland.
@@oscarosullivan4513Where has he done this, share a link.
Well said Eddie . These are the type of Men that should be running this great country of ours 👏
I'm pro EU and I think fundamentally it does benefit the worker.
I do agree with Eddie that the EU needs to ultimately change for the better.
A reformed EU from a socialist point of view is the only way forward
And who are socialists today.?
Labour?
I'm on Eddie's side. Anyone who isn't.Can do one
@@ScottyDog345 The voice of the uneducated...
@@ScottyDog345 well not the Tories who have been empowered by leaving the protections of EU law. Fire and hire illegal in the EU. Restrictions on long working hours, environmental and employment protection, consumer rights, cheaper fuel, support for poorer areas, etc. Next PM plans a bonfire of regulations and attacks on unions. All enabled by Brexit... Always interesting to ask what tangible benefits we'd lose if Brexit reversed.
@@ScottyDog345 more of them with a voice in government in the EU than the UK, notwithstanding Wales and Scotland
Good points but way too many cons of leaving EU, away from Rail.
I think Eddie talks a lot of sense but I wonder if he thinks the referendum was democratic still? Or even as he insists at the start that it won't be the working class that suffers from the consequences of Brexit? It's not like we haven't already had a lurch to the right from the PLP.
This guy is a working class hero
Not long till they start painting him as a racist homophobe then
The EU has an elected parliament and a council of ministers who elected members of EU state's parliaments
So here we have a great example of the lies that led to the disastrous Brexit vote.
Never forget that the UK parliament has more members that are unelected than elected due to the House of Lords.
As a trade unionist, surely he should know that many workers rights have been EU directives. One of the reasons that many Conservative party members were opposed to the EU
We have gone so far right leaving the EU we are almost falling over the edge. God sakes Eddie, Tories are basically now talking about bringing back slavery. Slavery! EU for all it's faults would never allow that!
Well maybe it’s time for people to rise up and say enough is enough. The EU is a morally corrupt neoliberal institution who I’ve zero respect for. Maybe our Labour politicians should actually start to listen to working class people and stop being influenced by big business.
If you need to take away sovereignty to protect against slavery then you don't believe in democracy or the people. Complete nonsense.
All the sovereignty talk in regards to a country is insular thinking. As to regards to why the younger progressives dislike more traditional would be Labour voters is simple. The traditional voters have a reputation for being rubes.
Well Eddie did stand in defense of some of the beliefs held by Tommy Robinson's EDL far right.
@@oscarosullivan4513 Sovereignty is insular thinking? Is having a family or owning a property also insular? Is having a monogamous marriage insular? Is wearing clothes insular?
Changed my mind…needs sharing lots
We once we're together with our labour friends in the EU - we were battling the same battle, then... We have now left ourselves open to be abused by the British far right, Eddy 😐
True
Does he know how many high positions in the EU UK citizens held. What democratic mandate did Brexit have having been rejected by Northern Ireland and Scotland and the three most important English cities. As for Ireland’s EU membership it has benefited us and the EU insists we take the 13 billion. Also what age does he think we are in. The established middle class is about twenty five percent in the UK and that includes Midwives. Then what do you expect from someone who hung around a war lord.
@@oscarosullivan4513 The bourgeois liberal left may not like it, but Eddie Dempsey is the true voice of the working class socialist left, who have always been opposed to Britain’s membership of the EU.
@@davidpryle3935 For us as a country the European Community weaned us off dependency of your country.
@@oscarosullivan4513 That may be so. But I’m at a loss to know what it has to do with Eddie Dempsey explaining the working class left’s position on Britain’s membership of the EU.
This man is so young he will be a thorn in the side off the Tory’s for many many years to come
Don't think I disagreed with one word. Excellent interview!
EDDIE DEMPSEY FOR PRIME MINISTER
I am sorry that Eddie Dempsey prefers that young English and German people met in the context of July 1st 1916 and not in social and cultural exchanges funded by the EU.
Time stamp?
@@BillyHayes79Music World war one
James Brexit was/ is an exercise in insularity
@@oscarosullivan4513 What an excellent comment which captures it all in such a short sentence. Well done. I met a Leave voter on a walk yesterday who lives in Spain much of the time and said how awkward the Spanish are as she's had to obtain residency....
@@jamesbovington8218 I really don’t understand why you have to be so patronising. There’s no need for it James or Oscar. I understand you’re fed up. But we all are. I was just asking where you heard that in the video because I hadn’t. If you’re extrapolating that from what he actually said in the video then that’s your prerogative. But the fact that you wished to remain part of the EU doesn’t mean that everything he says in this interview has no validity. It kind of proves his point to be honest
He's what Labour should be. Used to be.
Absolutely spot on .. and complete common sense talking…!
I agree with on a lot of things, but leaving the EU.
So I've got to finally ask, out of pure curiosity: having barely been a teenager when Maastricht got ratified in Westminster, I already at that time, immediately understood it as a loss of sovereignty and national independence. Why do people like you personally interpret it completely the opposite way to me ie no loss of sovereignty and independence, I am genuinely curious?
@Trevor you mean it's the only thing which makes it permissible for them to act (IE take up the anti-discrimination mantle)?
@Trevor I'm thinking more here about the original Maastricht though. At that time it wasn't such a lowest common denominator situation as today, so I'm genuinely curious why people ever supported such a thing to begin with? You're saying they got sold on loss of sovereignty and independence because they thought it would be racist to consider national sovereignty and independence important?
@Trevor yeah I get you. Although I just remembered there was no referendum neither on signing or ratifying Maastricht, to begin with. Thatcher got voted out in a leadership contest within the Tory party, in order to prevent it from becoming a possibility. Or even a general election which the majority both among working and middle classes, would have jeapordised the whole project. But Thatcher shafted herself enough beforehand, to eventually get into a vulnerable situation that she couldn't get out of.
@Trevor more profoundly she pretty much gutted the country's industrial and manufacturing base, and for a country which is a net importer of raw materials, it was a bad move overall. She marginalised the best of the native working class, they were pretty much patriots by default. That's why I still have a soft spot left for the old Left, even if it happens to resort to retarded postmodern postulates, essentially to keep a voice. And as you correctly pointed out, those europile Tory sellouts that coalesced under Major ended up lavishly buttering leftist popular ideology themselves, to try and reinvent themselves (that went really well eh!) only they ended up alienating the best of both the working and the competitive, enterprising middle classes as a result. Yet despite all that, I still just don't get how someone can look at signing away National sovereignty and independence, and consider it nor to be that, I just don't get the thought process here I really don't!?
Good guy. Shame he's a Brexiter.
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I wish I could be uneducated to his level. I’m inclined to disagree on the EU, mind. It is of its members and merely reflects a current neoliberal zeal. It could be something so much better, and better changed from within. Brexit hasn’t exactly served us well.
Spot on, though I am glad of EU membership for Ireland.
“I wish I could be uneducated to his level” Ah! The old bourgeois liberal left contempt for the working class that Orwell wrote about in the road to Wigan pier. It’s always been there, but mostly hidden. Brexit has brought it right out in the open. That’s probably a good thing.
I agree with his views of the 'liberal left' .
Coming out of Europe is causing the vast majority of the issues we are seeing now that are effecting the working classes. The tories and even the labour party are going to ensure companies aren't nationalised. Eddie wants a left wing state in the uk where everything is nationalised. Why would you come out of europe which is the strongest economy in the world and has a number of workers rights laws in place including the number of working hours a worker shouldn't exceed. I would guess eddie wanted european workers sent home to not take jobs away from white uk workers. Look where that has left us, problems at the pumps, problems in staff shortages in the nhs, and problems in harvesting in farming to name but a few. This argument is a con for working people to leave europe. Sounds like he's trying to create a nationlised communist state in the uk external from europe. We need to rejoin europe. Internationalism is the way forward.
Peace Andy H
With respect I don't think you understand the farming industry. There was never a shortage of workers before the Easter Europeans were allowed to have those jobs. What would happen is jobs would be advertised in a nearby town and workers would be waiting outside a local pub or meeting place and would be bussed to the fields for the day and then bussed home. Today the foreign workers stay on site in caravans, the caravan is housing! From your wage they take money for rent, gas, electric, water and they often charge you for food from the farm too! A native still has to pay rent and bills at home and the minimum wage won't pay two sets of bills! It would cost a British worker to take those jobs now. It might be that you don't want to believe what I've just told you but I assure you I've told you the complete truth! It baffles me how the modern left have gotten themselves into a position where they defend the employers in these disputes, particularly when we're discussing agriculture in a country in which most of the land is owned by Aristocrats!
We have one of the highest minimum wages of the G20.
Eddie gets an Irish passport if he wants and will always be part of the E.U, good on you Eddie .
Thought the same mate. Eddie can still keep 1 foot in the EU and take away the benefits of being in EU from the rest of us.
@@BigJohnson911 Do not get me wrong I am true union but as an Irish man myself I think its ironic that Eddie can claim both passports. Yet disproves of the E.U while in fact 80% of all Irish people love the E.U.I like Eddie but do not like his stance on the E.U the E.U has made this country one of the richest in the world.
@@BigJohnson911
Think Eddy larves Lahndahn, mate, Sniff 👍
Practice what you preach
@Trevor
Good man Trev , I see recently Poland gave Germany a trillion euro demand for war reparations, wonder how much the bill for the famine is going to cast you Brits ?
Still think Brexit is the best way forward for the working class?
It's a start.
@@sprobablycancr4457 The Start of an economic disaster, as we can all see, sure.
@@Vitalclubsport Your precious status quo has ended, do you even question why it was voted for? Seems like theres a layer of society that was very content, while things on the ground were just getting worse anyway. You missed it.
@@sprobablycancr4457Explain how it's going to benefit this country please?
We need more Eddie Dempsey's and Mick Lynch's in this country
We need them about as much as we need the Tories. They're all self centred.
There's a lot of hot air talked about the environment, but one thing we really need is a nationalised railway. It's a vital social service, not candidate for a profitable business. I dream of being able to afford a sleeper train to holiday in Europe.
I can't get over the fact the EU Commission is unelected and has scant scrutiny. It's a big red signal.
Lets not Forget What the Conservative Government did to the Coal Miners ''We can't let them treat every British person to something like that again'' Because you can Bet thats the sort of thing those scheming Corrupt Tories have got up there sleeves over the coming months. It really is time for a massive shake up ''Eddie has really done his homework this interview is a real eye opener for me Brilliant so sensible and reasonable .
"I spent a decade chasin' the geezer, tryin' to keep him out of London".
I'd love to see Eddie take Robinson to task.
@Trevor jog on. The sad fact is, you care more about a charlatan, bigot and convicted fraudster than any of those poor children you use like a prop in your slurs.
I wonder how he would vote now?
Bacause of what? (Not being facetious, just trying to understand)
I'm sure he'll vote to rejoin, when that referendum happens.
Love you pal but you're wrong on brexit
Funny he failed to mention attacks that occurred on business’s and institutions associated with the countries of origin of most of the EU migrant workers after the Brexit referendum.
Staggeringly so
Get into politics now...we really need people like this to run our country, we need to stop selling our souls to the ultra rich
Republican revolutionary bullsxxt.
So close Eddie, anyone telling you to turn right, should make you immediately ask 'why, what is on the left?' , especially if you are being told by a Tory.
Any of the pro remain clowns who to be fair supported Jeremy Corbyn should have listened to Eddie Dempsey and his masterful exposition that the EU is nothing but a rich man's club- this was the firm belief of the late great Tony Benn. Well done Eddie Tony Benn would have been proud of you!
Let's see how you feel over the next 5 years, do you honestly believe we're going to do better then the other G7 members?
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k Well if Tony Benn or even Jeremy Corbyn had been prime ministers they would have tried to gradually dissociate Britain from Nato and so for one thing we wouldn't be funding the Ukraine war to kill mostly Ukrainians and a few Russians. We wouldn't have soaring energy bills and our utility companies would be in public hands not French companies subsidising French energy users. But this is all by the by. Britain is firmly in the orbit of the EU and will share its fate even though it is technically out of the EU. The British public is apathetic convinced voting changes nothing. All these things are ripe for someone with the guts to come on to the stage and forcibly take power. And the only people with guns in the uk are the military. This latter point may seem fanciful and certainly the present military Top brass are spineless clowns waging wars in foreign lands so that a train of human misery can come back to our shores to seek asylum. But I would encourage you to read Alexis de tocquevilles great book Democracy in America and specifically the second volume where in a chapter he points out why liberal democracies are liable to be overthrown by its own military.
@@andrewgora3672 What a load of DRIVEL.
@@user-sf7kl9uh7k Thanks for your reply and your reasoned argument. I will try to profit from your sage words.
@@andrewgora3672 Rather than making sarcastic comments you'd be better off showing your original statement to your history teacher, they'll help you construct better arguments.
support the RMT on there strike but not on there EU stance simple as that
Wrong.
Brilliant stuff!
Sadly this is not true - it is possible to nationalise the railway within the EU. Brexit caused so much destruction based on false understanding
You are 100% right. And Brexit has handed the Tories power to get rid of our rights, right to protest, right to strike, working rights, human rights... all now being dismantled by Brexit Tories and their hard right fascism.
The guy makes some good points -- but how can on get 18 Million workers to get their voice and be able to effect change?... one may need a new party that working class people CAN identify with and cast their vote...and know that their vote matters...The current Labour party is like a balloon that has been punctured too many times led by practitioners of the limp handshake, wishy washy middle ground.
I think he is a good union leader for the working person. I'm also from South London but left the UK over 30 years ago. Why because I couldn't make a life worth anything. I have lived in France since and only earn 1800 euros a month but have two houses and a small holding( not with credit!!!) So if Europe ain't democratic and the UK is democratic I'll take ain't democratic. I could have worked my socks off in the UK and would never have what I've got here!
The Unions were a scam 30 years ago in the UK and now listening to this man he's got it weighed off but he is not well travelled as I believe he doesn't understand Europeans and how they see and protect their rights, the joke is workers rights in the UK. But stick it to the Conservatives, unless you can bring them to their knees, you are wasting workers time!!
You've got Europe wrong mate, well forget Europe we are now history for you. Get UK working for the great unwashed or do something else.
Democratic!!! Well your next prime minister ain't been elected!!!!!!!!!!
Still a good idea to Leave Eddie? Do you have an EU passport via your Irish family Eddie???
Great idea. Thank funk you clowns didn't get your way. 🙏🏻
He’s convinced me that brexit was a good thing
It isn't, believe me.
It *could* have been good alright, if we had a functioning state capitalist / social democratic government.
But we don’t and we’re not getting one any time soon, so you’re obviously deluding yourself.
It really depends on who you are. If you’re working class it means less competition for jobs, less downward pressure on wages. On the other hand, if you’re a bourgeois liberal, it makes it a bit more difficult to maintain your holiday home in Tuscany, or send your daughter to university in Vienna, or wherever.
@@End-ResultHow on earth was Brexit ever going to achieve that?
This man is a true phenomenon - he has the voice of Fred Kite (as played by Peter Sellers) and the I.Q. of Albert Einstein.
It's just a pity he showed support for some of the views expressed by the EDL & Tommy Robinson. Plus I think Eddie & Mick are wrong about the EU. They've given us a Tory Brexit, which is already proving disastrous for small to medium businesses as well as handing the Tories all the power they wanted to be able to strip us plebs of all our rights, working rights, human rights etc. And this will also allow the Tories to take away your rights to strike and to protest (Truss & Sunak have already said they are going to beat down on unions and strikers as well as Priti Patel already putting through new laws to arrest protesters etc).
I back the strikes and Eddie and Mick with a lot of what they say about the Tories and their rights to strike etc and I would prefer to keep our democratic rights & human rights etc. Unfortunately Brexit voters have flushed these down the toilet, and they'll float away with all the excrement and effluent into our waterways.
Who the fk wants to got to our beaches and rivers on holidays or buy our fish and shellfish that are swimming in Sh!t?
@@theworldaccordingto4555 I was going to let this go, but then I thought...
1. 16:00 "that a lot of the people who are SADLY turning out for demonstrations for the likes of Tommy Robinson".
2. 17:40 "Not because I am in any way in favour of supporting Tommy Robinson. I (E.D) spent a decade chasing him around London trying to keep him out of it".
3. It is only possible to make decisions on issues that you can foresee and understand. Do you think any voters (Brexit OR Remain) could have foreseen the extra excrement that was produced by 'Leaving'? - Did you?
So real Labour is simmering away somewhere. Good stuff.
Well spoken young man.
Funny how this video just surfaced in my feed, and its from 2019. I wonder if seeing Eddie taking a side on such a divisive issue might help divide the peoples support of him. I wonder who could benefit from that?
At least he voted leave the right reason that make sense. But as we have seen leaving the EU has been and will continue to be a disaster. Especially if the tories strip all the great EU Laws and legislation that protect workers rights. Some times its better the Devil you know than the devil you dont.
If the devil is sitting in the house of commons he can be voted out, if he is unelected and simply appointed to the EU then he can't be touched!
Funny thing is, we have the highest rate of inflation of the G7.
I love Eddy. For a guy with no formal education, he's sooooo well informed and clear in his thinking...
His views on Brexit show zero understanding of history and realpolitik.
He is just as smooth brained as your government
@@jamesbovington8218Disturbingly so, he sounds as young as he looks.
Love this guy he's so original if he was a food he'd be a bacon sandwich 🥪
Does anyone have any links to the Secondary picketing ruling?
Good man. I'm proud to be a union member and on the left. I voted leave without hesitation. He needs to be Labour leader instead of that clueless ball less Tory they've been lumbered with since they dumped Corbyn. Did you see him getting slapped down in Liverpool? He just sat there and said NOTHING. Why didn't the police do us all a favour and fine him?
Thanks for helping to threaten the Good Friday Agreement
@@oscarosullivan4513 How did I? The protocol is there to protect and strengthen the GFA. No hard border on the island well aside from the one that's been there since 1921
@@petergreen2552 That is the whole point we couldn’t stick a customs border on a border with the most crossings in Europe so it had to go in the sea. Brexit supporters in Northern Ireland have been wailing about it. Clearly should have been known that Brexit would resulted in having to find a way to comprise the GFA as little as possible.
The railways are horrid now.
You’ve opened my eyes Eddie. Thankyou👍
Really? Even with hindsight?
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this is conservative's doing this
Brexit going well isn't it..... mong
Possibly because it’s been executed by a mong
No because 🤡's like you used all the power of the banks, big business, media, courts and the corrupt political class to ensure we weren't allowed to meaningfully break free of all antidemocratic EU diktats... Mong.
@@kyfawkes you ok hun
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. (Clarence Darrow)
Eddie is excellent
I think what Eddie Dempsey hopes for by leaving the EU depends on who is in government. The Tories will use any freedom to reduce workers rights and human rights and quality and safety standards. Labour could use them to protect and enhance those rights and renationalise the railways. Given the state of the economy, the cost of living crisis and the compensation Labour would have to pay to companies when reniationalising, I don't think renationalisation would be at the top of their agenda. They will also be aware that the next Tory government could undo nationalisations with an asset giveaway, wasting all the public money spent on it. Sad, as renationalisation would make for a more joined up, less expensive, less bureaucratic rail service with a better cheaper fare structure.
Renationalising the railways.
You must be joking?
@@trytellingthetruth.2068 Why? If you listen to the transport select committee interviewing the ASLEF representative you'll realise why pay negotiations can be complicated and slow even when they are going well. Each private rail company may pay different rates and there has to be a separate negotiation with each one within an overall framework drafted by the Union and agreed nationally with the companies. That's not to mention the benefits to passengers that would accrue from having a single public railway with a common and simpler ticket structure that would offer cheaper prices and more flexible travel across the network. It costs the public purse a lot more to maintain a private system, money which could be invested in services. Just think how many bureaucrats could be cut under a simpler public structure rather than many companies having to be consulted and agreeing things and many accountants for the cross accounting systems and the contracts and contracts monitoring and the periodic re-franchising. Cheaper fares and lack of having to lose money in the way of profits, would also increase passenger traffic and raise more revenue. There would even be money to continue and complete the electrification of the railways.
@@heliotropezzz333
I'm not talking about negotiations etc, I'm talking about a nationalised rail service which will operate the way it did back in the 70's, 80's.
Late/cancelled trains and strike after strike. No thank you
@@trytellingthetruth.2068 Unlike now when we have no strikes of course! I remember the service in the 70s and 80s and I've experienced more cancellations under privatisation than then. In fact the service failed on the last 2 trains I caught this year. The compensation system could be kept to encourage a timely service.
The previous public service did not have as much subsidy as the current privatised service, and if that money was invested in a public service you could then do a proper comparison but cheaper tickets and not having to support private companies' profits would increase revenue, as it would encourage more use of the railways as well as being a more environmentally sound policy. The money not wasted on profits could also be used to continue the electrification of the railways. Also think how many fewer bureaucrats would be needed for complex timetabling, contract drafting, contract management, contract monitoring, and cross accounting.
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I agree with you when it comes to subsidies being given to private companies, but don't kid yourself if you think nationalising the railways will result in cheap fares. The continued demand for higher pay, resulting in strikes if workers don't get them, failing to streamline, when technology dictates the need for a smaller workforce, all add up to why it was such a pain to use the service,and cheaper fares has never encouraged more people to use the trains. As soon as I passed my driving test, I never used public transport unless it was absolutely necessary.
There are services that should never have been privatised. Water, Gas, Electric, mail service, but my experience using the trains years ago has always left a nasty taste in my mouth .