In June 2016 Tories voted for Brexit. In October 2021 Tory MPs voted to ditch EU clean waters law, the bill, intended to revamp the UK’s environmental regulations post Brexit, allowed raw sewage to be discharged into the country’s waterways. Coincidence? I think not..
Some tories voted for Brexit, as did some Labour. However, the Tories officially campaigned to remain, that was the party policy decided on by Cameron. Perhaps you feel they shouldn't have been permitted a free vote on the subject? After all, the Remain position is based on the principle of leaving others to make decisions for you.
Britain was told in 1956 that its 19th century empire was over. Its just taken 68 years for them to come to terms with that reality. Unfortunately. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
A dead empire and brexit pissed o the last of the embers. Over 60 countries celebrate independence from Britain. Not one single country has asked to come back
@@taffyman6089Exactly. If you pay attention to the surveys, the needle has barely moved since 2016. The people who regret voting Brexit are people who were non-believers, and only did so as a means to stick it to the Tories because they thought it was never going to happen. The true Brexit believers haven't changed their minds at all. They just think Brexit wasn't made properly due to incompetence from politicians, malice from the EU or both.
oh, it helped a lot...really a lot.. to show how dumb you need to be, to break your own country... and its a great example to the rest in the EU, you can see what you lose... the EU just lost the Brits but gained so much.. we dont need to listen the the UK anymore...no special deals for the UK.. that time is over!
I am a Brit who has spent a large amount of time overseas, lived in 4 countries and can speak 4 languages including English, so I can see Britain from the 'outside looking in' . My impression is that the Empire is dead and anyone who thinks Britain is 'exceptional' and Brits are somehow different (by that I mean better) than anyone else is dreaming. Britain is still respected in many countries, we have shot our selves in the foot with Brexit and deliberately isolated ourselves from our European neighbours. With calls to further isolate the country by exiting the ECHR so that the right wing can 'remigrate ' legal migrants and their familes is a recipe for complete disaster. Turning Britain into a right wing version of North Korea off the coast of France is sheer lunacy. Britain should embrace it's remarkable history warts and all, not to try and return to a 'golden past' that never really existed.
No but they are in trading blocs. The larger the bloc the more clout you have when negotiating. This is all primary school level trading principles. Probably why you’re having difficulty with it.
@@paulsaunders6536 I am not having difficulty with it. If only the EU had abandoned its idea of being a political union, we'd surely still be it. I understand there was some noble intention behind it ("Never again" and so on) but it was a mistake. It should have remained a trading bloc. One thing - if remainers hadn't insulted Brexit supporters, like you just have, again I think the vote could have gone the other way. Many people love Europe, European people, European culture (indeed, we are European) while disliking the EU - but they really hate the remainers who would insult them as thick and so on. I think people like you actually blew the chance to thwart Brexit or have a 2nd referendum.
Dislike EU as I dislike GB. EU is our family and it is not just a trade block. Thank you for leaving. Now the obstacle has gone. And please note that if your majesty continue blaming our family for everything you caused yourself we will also change. Enough damage caused to us. Worst partner ever existed stay in your palace
Brexit was always going to be a disaster. My 90 year old father was tempted to fall for the "recreation of Empire" BS in 2016, but I talked him out of it. Too bad more people were not told the reality. I grew up in Britain but left in the bad old days of the 1970's with its strikes and rolling electricity blackouts. Businesses could only work 3 days a week! The IMF was running the Treasury. People forget how poor Britain was before the EU and Margaret Thatcher brought it into the modern world. I have been a proud Canadian now for decades and wouldn't dream of going back to Britain. Canada is as dependent on the US economy as Britain should be on the wonderful, huge EU market. We know that dealing with the US is tough - they use every unfair means to exploit their size that they can. A US/UK free trade agreement would take a decade to negotiate and Britain would have to open up its markets to the force of American competition. Lots of British companies would go bankrupt under such competitive pressure, so make sure you know what you are getting into before you let it happen. As for the Commonwealth - lots of the former colonies remember the exploitation and cruelty which Britain doled out to them. Ask Australians what they think of Winston Churchill - the man who tried to refuse to let Australian troops go home to defend their own country from Japanese invasion! Churchill also planned the disastrous slaughter of Australian and NZ soldiers at Gallipoli in WW1. India was denied the chance to use its cotton to make cloth - it had to be done in Lancashire. African freedom fighters were often tortured to death. British history books are largely fiction when it comes to describing the empire. The best option for Britain and its young people is to go crawling back to the EU and beg for the best re entry deal which they will give you - it won't be what you had before. Anyway, good luck!
Have you taken a look at what Toronto and Vancouver look like? Canada is collapsing, and a colony of India these days lmfao. You got your empire, you're under Indian rule now.
Canada has a trade agreement with the US, import volume is 50% (UK 1.3%), export volume is 78% (UK 1.9%) Singapore trades mostly with its Asian neighbours and USA. Singapore is also member of ASEAN that attempts to emulate the EU's structures. Wasn't it Daniel Hannan who said 'Nobody is talking about leaving the Single Market'?
and the EU has 9 out the 11 members of CPTTP including Canada and Singapore for long time while the UK was member of the EU it was 7 member countries and 4 trade associates and since Brexit the EU completed 2 FTA(full trade agreement) with Canada and New Zealand the only 2 trade associates still in negotiation with EU are the Aussies and Brunei so gained nothing from CPTTP membership in essence it lost more without the weight of the 550 million consumers in the EU market and its only 70 million consumer market and also the cPTTP is not A union like the EU but loosely trade associations that includes Canada Mexico and Chile which the EU have A FTA with and some other South American countries ,and the commonwealth countries are independent countries and do not care what the England thinks about them as in Africa is developing their free trade in model of the EU its called the African continent free trade area, and the Asean also is an other free trade area including Malaysia Singapore and the rest of South east Asia , in the 21st century all neighbours of Geographic close countries are coming together to form their own trading block so they do not have their most volume trade with their neighbours and not far away places but still making trade deals with the EU US the rest of the Americas and Africa .greetings from EU Citizen.
But Brexistan will ....as a muslim country though. Replacing Polish plumbers and italian waiters with hordes of Pakistanis and Nigerians was a genius move.
@@antoniotorcoli5740 The E.U. intends to disperse it's illegal immigrants . German , Hungary , The Netherlands and Poland want to opt out of the regulations governing this . The trickle coming across the channel is nothing in comparison to the millions upon millions entering the E.U. The U.K. left just in time . Forgot , god help Italy .
An awful lot of the old coffin dodgers who wanted to take back control have finally had their date with the coffin and left their grandchildren a hellish legacy
The beneficiaries of empire couple probably be named individually. The Vast majority of brits worked and lived in abject poverty and shared nothing of the often brutal plunder of the empire. 1832 the Slave compensation scheme began ( compensation to the slave owners not the slaves ) this was paid in 2005 or 2015 I think. From this one move some “ the Few “ cornered British education establishments and industry. Meanwhile the average Britain still didn’t even have the Vote never mind and wealth at all.
That's not true. Think of the enormous amount of people who served in India or other colonial post. People who never would have been successful at home, but we're able to achieve high social status and compensation abroad
@@davidwestwater2219 - Only if they went to the right schools and had connections. To the working class, it meant nothing. Most colonies already had enough workers and didn't need any from the U.K.
And Britain is now on the receiving end of the results of two centuries of colonial exploitation in the form of in migrants, the clear majority of whom are streaming in from countries formerly occupied by the British in Africa, Middle East and Asia. England, especially, is deteriorating under the impact of overpopulation, overcrowding and associated excess waste, pollution and generally lowered living conditions.
Bob Geldof articulates well the thinking behind Brexit. At the end of the day, it was a combo of nostalgia for lost empire and a pragmatic need to protect the very current money laundering biz in London. The EU were in the process of writing rules to curtail money laundering which had implications throughout Europe, and the UK in particular. The money men in London were desperate to protect their franchise. This is not the only driver behind Brexit, but it's a key one , and under reported. Ppl ask who benefited from Brexit? IMO just two sectors. Money laundering and tourism, boosted by the devalued pound, persistently down 20% since 2016.
I wouldn't come to England as a tourist anymore. As an EU citizen, I must have a passport for this. Otherwise, a personnel ID card was sufficient. From April 2025, I will also need an electronic travel authorization for 10 pounds every time I would enter the UK. I'd rather go to Paris, Madrid or Athens and don't have these problems. Brexit is a disaster.
The fundamental issue is that Britain needs the Commonwealth more than the Commonwealth needs Britain. Brexiteers promised a fairy tale wherein Britain would resume it's former place as the heart of a global trade empire. Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and many, many others simply laughed because they could make their own trade deals without the British Monarch sitting at the head of the table. Indeed, without Britain at the table at all. The Brexiteers who preached about "freedom" and "sovereignty" failed to understand that the Commonwealth nations also want those things - from Britain.
It's a joke to suggest that the Commonwealth in any represents the future of British trade and economic growth. I say this as a Canadian who supports our ties with the UK. Canada has dozens of free trade agreements with other countries. Our agreement with the US is the most successful bilateral trade agreement in the world. But we have very little trade with the UK, and there are few opportunities to expand it. The irony of this erroneous idea that Canada and other Commonwealth economies represent an untapped opportunity for Britain is that the UK would have free trade with Canada right now if it had stayed in the EU. The EU/Canada FTA, called CETA, was concluded after Brexit.
As an older Australian, I have always regarded "The Commonwelth" as a con job, a PR non-event, of no consequence except as a glorified reminder of the British Empire under which most members suffered, were invaded, and/or were exploited. The Commonwealth is an orgnisation with no wealth held commonly. It's a joke, yes.
@@davidwestwater2219 - Highly doubtful. Trump raged against NAFTA during his 2016 campaign, calling it "the worst trade deal in history". He threatened to tear it up or force a major renegotiation. His declared his intention to renegotiate soon after he was sworn in. This began in August 2017 and was concluded by the end of 2018. Little was changed in the agreement and the US did not get any major concessions on manufacturing, resources or intellectual property. The name was changed to USMCA, which for some reason, Trump boasted of as a big win. He was a shitty negotiator anyway - he blustered, threatened to end NAFTA, and issued ultimatums. Then the adults would go off and talk about real issues. The issue is closed. Trump has never once mentioned continental free trade during his current campaign , because to do so would mean he failed the first time around.
Not that long ago, I saw an Australian news clip where they were quite literally laughing about their trade deal with the U.K. - because the U.K. needs more from Australia than it needs from the U.K. Especially now that so many formerly British-owned companies have been acquired by parties from other countries with whom the Australians can trade directly.
@@daniels7907 Not only Australians, but people around the world were laughing, aghast - the laughable trade deal in which the UK sold itself (especially its farmers) out. Poking affectionate fun at the "Poms" and the "mother country" is ingrained in Australian culture. But I'm not sure now whether we should laugh or cry - it's not really funny anymore to see the present state of the UK, its economy and politics, after the deliberately self-harming arrogance of Brexit. The UK used to inspire a lot of respect and admiration around the world, and I reckon it's sad, not funny, that it's quickly turned itself into a bit of a joke not only in Australia and Canada/USA, but here in the EU where I'm now living, too. And it will get worse before it gets better, I fear. Poverty levels and the state of the NHS in the UK are alarming nowadays 😢.
The Commonwealth cannot be the basis of trade. It has been looked at over and over and there is nothing there. Commonwealth countries go to war with one another, are already in various different trading blocks, or are not open to deals with the UK. Europe is here, joined by Tunnel, 22 miles away or joined to Ireland, with very low transport costs, the same business day, low cost travel, similar countries with lots in common.
will never forget: in a European gremium, a Polish person asks, well Britain, if we don’t empty your bins, you will have to get people from Pakistan or India. UKIP answer: yes, but these people know where their place is……I rest my case. Babbling Hannan thinks Australia, who came though was Pakistan.
@@Bramfly I would be more interested in the quality of the average Singaporean, relative to the Average British person. Whoever has a better life is better governed as well! Of what use is 'freedom' and 'democracy' if you have nothing to eat, no work, nowhere to call home and no life and no way to change any of these as is the case with many of you in Britain?
Not least because Singapore's wealth comes from their strategic location between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, which makes them an ideal transshipment port for the world's most populous region. The U.K. was a viable port for exactly one region - Europe! Unfortunately, Europe has other ports.
I was at that March in 2018. The first and last time. I now live in Spain under my Italian passport. The EU gives all its citizens the same right wherever they live or work
So many people from the UK unknowingly have this leftover from their days of empire. Recently I met with some British tourists in Galway City and they to;d me that they had a friend who was an ex-pat here in Ireland. On further questioning it transpired that they meant that their friend was here as an immigrant. I then asked if they had Irish neighbours back home if they regarded them as immigrants. They said yes and I said nah! they are Irish ex-pats which left them looking at each other while I smiled.
Hannon, the pipskeak forgot to say that Singapore also has very strict laws, no corruption, and a public safety net that would make the Eton Elites like himself cringe if ever applied to the UK....
@@AlexGys9 That's Australians, and it referred to the kind of people who went to Oz from Britain on what was called "assisted passage". At least get your facts straight - or is that asking too much?
the southeast voted against it while northern England wales and the eastern parts ( mostly unionist ) of Northern Ireland voted for it . Brexit was against a London centric economy
Not only that but Thatcher set out to undermine the working classes by destroying industry and manufacturing. Our infrastructure was sold off to private and foreign interests. Capital was thereby transferred to London and the South East or abroad. North Sea Gas was spent instead of creating a sovereign wealth fund like ,say, Norway. The Home Counties /London area was given a sense of exceptionalism and entitlement reinforcing this need for post imperial nostalgia. However Brexit has not gone as well as they had hoped. We have ended up with an economy of taking in each other's washing and living on tick.
Brexit was an attempt to implement a purist free-market ideology that was out of touch with economic realities. This delusion has cost the country dearly, and the economic data is now bearing that out. The point of Brexit was deregulating the financial sector. Despite the government's assertions of wanting to improve economic competitiveness through Brexit, their real aim was to enhance competitiveness and regulatory efficiency in the financial sector. They chose to ignore the fact that post-Brexit deregulation in the financial sector, alongside a fragile economy lacking decades of public investment, would lead to the disastrous consequences Brexit Britain is facing right now.
@@normanchristie4524 plus Blairism ... In 1997, the rich installed Tony Blair in the Labour Party as a Trojan horse. Successfully on their behalf, Blair transformed the Labour Party into a neoliberal party that completely betrayed workers' interests. Cynically, they called the betrayel: ‘New Labour’.
*"Brexit was an attempt to implement a purist free-market ideology"* - Which is ironic because the Single Market is literally as pure a free-market as you can achieve. Unfortunately, even the architects of Brexit don't understand economics enough to realise that.
Brexit is rarely talked about as the UK existential crisis that it was. Britain never admitted it wasn't quite relevant any more. First, let's be honest, this was about England. It's always about England's dreaming. The Empire was the English flagship dragging an ambivalent Scotland and a furious Ireland in its wake. The UK was England and cohort. After the First World War, the UK refused to admit it had lost its place at the center of the world. It stubbornly went on as an Empire. In World War II, it faced Germany as if it were still a world power. After the war, it was broken down and miserable. It lost India, became a third rate power, but it stubbornly went on. It became America's liaison in Europe in the fight against the Soviet Union. It exported culture and imported finance and joined Europe. After some rough decades, it still punched well above its weight, but all along there was a creeping feeling in England's dreaming. What was the point of the UK anyway? After the financial crisis in 2008, England lost its confidence. That creeping feeling in England's dreaming came to the surface. When Cameron's austerity struck at the working classes, someone had to be blamed. Blame immigrants! Blame Europe! The UK, well, England, well, no, London -- the point is: it was the country upon which the sun never set, never mind the rain. Was the sun finally setting? Was Britain finally facing the diminished place in the world that France and Spain and Portugal and the Netherlands faced? Was the UK relevant any more? Of course it was! England lashed out at Europe, dragging a reluctant Scotland in its wake. England could be great again. Without Europe, Little England could finally be left alone and at the same time London could be the center of the world again -- Singapore on the Thames! -- this, essentially, is what a Leaver is. A Remainer is someone who accepts that England will never be great again, that the UK will continue to devolve, but the future of Britain or England or London -- however the case may be, the future is with the European collective. The Remainer is delusional and the Leaver is resigned. There is no sense of victory, here, no sense of resolve, only dismay. And Starmer creeps on, just trying not to break anything else.
Brexit, Covid and Ukraine were the last nails to the coffin ⚰️ of 🇬🇧 "great" britain ... it's a small, third word like island. Great history, for sure, future no.
@@abbofun9022 I didn't say the UK was THE biggest supporter of Ukraine. We are advocating using storm shadow behind the lines, which US and Germany are not doing
@@stevejones2310stupid Poland has taken million of refugees. Ireland had already taken thousands of before borris suddenly turn around ok so I said no to any refugees or any help, but it mad us look so pathetic we ll start given arm.
0:29 The Garden of England has been concreted over for lorry parks queuing for post brexit border checks . Post brexit it’s globule Britain not global Britain 😡
Don't think the GDP of most commwealth countries compared well against EU member countries. You need customers to thrive. This Singapore on the Thames thing. Singapore financial services industries is heavily regulated. That's why it's successful, it can be trusted.
Re " ...the Commonwealth, all of which are territories of the British Empire...". Should't that be ' countries of what was the British Empire'? Sehnsucht nach dem Kaisereich? Historic? My great grandmother was born within living memory of the guillotining of Louis XVI. My grand mother was born in 1870. And im still here!
The British Empire was when those colonies were 'toddlers' and Britain could do whatever they wanted with them. In the Commonwealth, Those 'toddlers' have grown and some have even surpassed Britain! It's a whole different ball game! Can you imagine Britain ordering India around? Then you've never listened to their foreign Minister Dr Jaishankar!, which I will strongly recommend. He's an absolute 'nightmare' for any would be 'bossy' person or country!
Global Britain ended at Bretton Woods in 1944 when the Dollar became The World's Reserve Currency. Although some say it ended when the Brits wrote a cheque to Poland they couldn't possibly cash five years earlier. A question for economists and philosophers, perhaps. But I do know this - Brexit has doomed the economy. Once the EU gets clearing out of London it's over. Short Sterling and retire early. Here endith the lesson.
That's actually an improvement over earlier centuries. But it does reflect how the class system was designed to keep land in the hands of the upper class.
We may have closer ties with New Zealand than Bulgaria, but we have closer ties with France and Spain than New Zealand. Very few UK citizens have ever been to NZ, but many spend a week or two in continental Europe. I can't just drive onto a ferry and end up in the antipodes. 3:55 "Fifth largest economy in the world". How's that gone since Brexit? Are we now 4th? 3rd? Second? What is that? We were bound for future wealth, so we must be top.
Very sad that the UK is so much lost. They failed to define an updated appropriate role for them in this more and more chaotic world . After leaving the team it is too late now. They had been warned by their own experts and siencetists.
I am appalled. I am a past academic economist who made economic geography research during 15 years. I am appalled by the poor knowledge of basic modern 'new economic-geographic’ principles (Paul Krugman) on the side of Brexiters, either political brexiters or even more appalling business Brexiters. This Commonwealth dream : this is insane ! How irrationality can guide important political decisions...And seemingly some of them still believe what they said about Brexit... this is ofteen called 'cognitive disonance' ... I call it 'stupidity'. From the continent: good luck.
Kent voted for brexit and got Lorry Parks, roads full of traffic for miles trying to get through customs and trees full of bags of shit thrown out of lorry windows. Kent can do one!
boris johnson and nigel farage really fucked the UK with all this brexit b/s. the UK 1% may be enjoying it, but for the commoners, it is obviously a disaster. well, there is no going back, so get on with it, and do your best.
They bang on about creating Singapore on the Thames, don't they realise THEY ALREADY HAVE. Singapore population 5.7 million GDP per Capita $82,000. London population 9 million, GDP per Capita $85,000. In fact our 'Singapore' is nearly twice the size of the real one. The reason Singapore is so successful is because it divorced itself from Malaysia. Population 34 million, GDP per Capita $12,000. The only way we can have Singapore on the Thames is to have Malaysia on the Mersey!!!! I hate that no reporter has ever put this to the Brexiteers idiots when they say we want Singapore by the Thames, answer should be 'already done mate'
The dozens of videos a week I see from the uk showing boarded up high streets, trash everywhere, caravan cities, abandoned and rotting estates, zombies strung out on who knows what and very high crime look nothing like Singapore…
I was just in London a week ago and I noticed since the last time I was there before Brexit that the Thames is filthy, there are so many homeless people on the streets and the housing prices and let prices are through the roof
And why not? In today's world they are more strategically located than the U.K. They have easy access to the Pacific and Indian oceans. That's aside from the fact that their domestic industries have matured to the point where they don't need U.K. goods shipped through such inconvenient nautical routes as around Africa or through the Suez Canal. The majority of the world's population is more easily accessible to Australia and New Zealand than it is to the U.K.
They held a " huge " Rejoin march in London last weekend . !I About 2,000 people showed up...! So., yeah.....the idea of Rejoining is really popular..😂😂😂
When UK left the EU was the 2 globally, still is now , when the UK left EU was 5th largest economy, now is only the 6, EU still the 2, behind US, China 3. can join the BRICS, next to China, Iran, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and India as the 5 largest economy, and UK only the 6 largest economy. I let you guess who is the Junior in this deal? At least is not political union lol 😅, and have more “historical connections”
In fairness, people are still struggling with the idea that Charles is King. Actually, they're struggling with why they even need a King or Queen except to support the tourist industry. They have systematically stripped the Monarchy's powers to the point where it's just a sentimental museum piece used to remind them of the days of Empire.
As a Canadian I can tell you first-hand that I know NO-ONE who feels any impact on their daily life of being part of the Commonwealth, nor it is anything we ever talk about. We just don't care.
It baffles me how supposedly intelligent people can be so utterly deluded and stupid; this video highlights particularly how moronic such people like Daniel Hannan and Steve Baker are...
This was posted only 7 Days ago. How old is this video for it to say Queen Elizabeth is the head of the Commonwealth when King Charles has been king for a while now?
“When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” (sung to the tune of Where Have All The Flowers Gone). Britain, take your medicine, admit you made a mistake, and rejoin the EU.
Is "this" the end of global britain?! Sorry to break it to you but global britain ended half a century ago. Britain, now, is just one of the less important english speaking countries.
What is most interesting is the criticisms of the Commonwealth could be applied to Europe too. The world has changed, perhaps we all need to change with it.
It was reported yesterday that Boris Johnsons new book is not being sold in the EU..... BREXIT will not allow it. Not sure if this is karma. Buts it's very funny
Re 4:10 Singapore has a good socialist backbone. Funny how he fails to mention this. Singapore has government run healthcare and the majority of people live in government managed public housing, great public school system and government grants for university.
I think it’s a great opportunity for the UK. With all the current dissatisfaction with the EU, they could spearhead a new organization of European states to promote free trade amongst themselves.
Always loved Britain, went to Norwich for a semester and Edinburgh for a Masters. Love(d) English beer, accents, people. Never understood why even with younger generations this reverence for the monarchy has still not been left in the past, where it belongs. Yes, kings and queens, and nobles and heroes are part of our history, but we are not living in the Middle Ages any more. Britain was one of the great powers back then, especially at sea. Today it is, well, just another island that still seems to have a hard time being part of a greater union. And even if they want to go it alone, fine, I just wish they'd be able to find better leaders, and I am talking as much about traditional parties as about moronic outliers like Farage. And how on earth does the Commonwealth still exist, when it was never about the "common wealth" for everybody, but only England at the time?
THE LONGER WE DONT GET CLOSER TO EU THE MORE EXPENSIVE THINGS WILL GET, DEALING WITH FAR EAST IS A NIGHTMARE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE SELLING TO THEM CHINA INCLUDED, PLUS OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT WILL BE VERY HIGH,EU IS JUST ACROSS OUR LITTLE POND
@@etoiledenoundi EXACTLY THEY HAVENT A CLUE ABOUT TRADE BREXITERS ARE DIM, YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH WEIRD GOV RULES, MAFIAS AND UNIONS WHICH THE GOVERNMENTS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN DOIN TRADE DEALS, CADBURY FAILED IN BRAZIL AFTER 10 YEARS OF TRYING,TESCO FAILED IN USA AFTER 2 YEARS OF TRADING AND OTHERS FAILED TOO
@@2msvalkyrie529 MOGG SAID NEXT DAY THAT FOOD CLOTHES AND OTHER GOODS WOOD BE CHEAPER , AND ALL THE OTHER BREXIT GRIFTERS SAID THE SAME,DUDNT MAJE US ENOUGH MONEY TO HELP US WITH COVID DUD IT PAL?? PLUS WE MIGHT HAVE SAVED 20 BILLION IN EU FEES FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS BYT COST US 100 BILLION IN TRADE, DUMBO'S I DEED LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂
In June 2016 Tories voted for Brexit. In October 2021 Tory MPs voted to ditch EU clean waters law, the bill, intended to revamp the UK’s environmental regulations post Brexit, allowed raw sewage to be discharged into the country’s waterways. Coincidence? I think not..
you need sovereignty to swim in your own shit...
the dont have that here in Germany, we dont swim in our shit, its just you!
They did make it shitty! 😂😂😂 so sad that country can destroy itself from the inside out ! 😢😢😢😢😢😢
@@Arltratlo No, you have other shit, in the millions, you let in. And swim in now. Pot, kettle.
@@AA-yc8yr Oh, are calling people "shit"? A thousand times them than you.
Some tories voted for Brexit, as did some Labour. However, the Tories officially campaigned to remain, that was the party policy decided on by Cameron.
Perhaps you feel they shouldn't have been permitted a free vote on the subject? After all, the Remain position is based on the principle of leaving others to make decisions for you.
Britain was told in 1956 that its 19th century empire was over. Its just taken 68 years for them to come to terms with that reality.
Unfortunately.
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A dead empire and brexit pissed o the last of the embers. Over 60 countries celebrate independence from Britain. Not one single country has asked to come back
We have not come to terms with it even now. Imperial nostalgis is more English nationalism than British.
@@taffyman6089Exactly. If you pay attention to the surveys, the needle has barely moved since 2016. The people who regret voting Brexit are people who were non-believers, and only did so as a means to stick it to the Tories because they thought it was never going to happen.
The true Brexit believers haven't changed their minds at all. They just think Brexit wasn't made properly due to incompetence from politicians, malice from the EU or both.
It’s extraordinary how so many people could have believed that Brexit would have helped anyone in the UK
People also believe in Santa Claus. Until they are 7 years old.
Except the Torys who made a fortune out of shorting the pound. Very patriotic.
@@grateberk6435 not paying attention to the Euro crashing then
@@stephenpockley5665seems you forgot about Sterling dropping 20pts the day after the referendum which affects the cost on all our fuel.
oh, it helped a lot...really a lot..
to show how dumb you need to be, to break your own country...
and its a great example to the rest in the EU, you can see what you lose...
the EU just lost the Brits but gained so much..
we dont need to listen the the UK anymore...no special deals for the UK..
that time is over!
I am a Brit who has spent a large amount of time overseas, lived in 4 countries and can speak 4 languages including English, so I can see Britain from the 'outside looking in' . My impression is that the Empire is dead and anyone who thinks Britain is 'exceptional' and Brits are somehow different (by that I mean better) than anyone else is dreaming.
Britain is still respected in many countries, we have shot our selves in the foot with Brexit and deliberately isolated ourselves from our European neighbours. With calls to further isolate the country by exiting the ECHR so that the right wing can 'remigrate ' legal migrants and their familes is a recipe for complete disaster. Turning Britain into a right wing version of North Korea off the coast of France is sheer lunacy.
Britain should embrace it's remarkable history warts and all, not to try and return to a 'golden past' that never really existed.
Many countries are neither in the EU nor lead an empire. You don't need to have an empire to trade with other countries.
No but they are in trading blocs. The larger the bloc the more clout you have when negotiating. This is all primary school level trading principles. Probably why you’re having difficulty with it.
@@paulsaunders6536 I am not having difficulty with it. If only the EU had abandoned its idea of being a political union, we'd surely still be it. I understand there was some noble intention behind it ("Never again" and so on) but it was a mistake. It should have remained a trading bloc.
One thing - if remainers hadn't insulted Brexit supporters, like you just have, again I think the vote could have gone the other way. Many people love Europe, European people, European culture (indeed, we are European) while disliking the EU - but they really hate the remainers who would insult them as thick and so on.
I think people like you actually blew the chance to thwart Brexit or have a 2nd referendum.
Oh with people like Putin about, a political union of sorts like the USA lite might also be a good or at least pragmatic idea.
Dislike EU as I dislike GB. EU is our family and it is not just a trade block. Thank you for leaving. Now the obstacle has gone. And please note that if your majesty continue blaming our family for everything you caused yourself we will also change. Enough damage caused to us. Worst partner ever existed stay in your palace
Brexit was always going to be a disaster. My 90 year old father was tempted to fall for the "recreation of Empire" BS in 2016, but I talked him out of it. Too bad more people were not told the reality. I grew up in Britain but left in the bad old days of the 1970's with its strikes and rolling electricity blackouts. Businesses could only work 3 days a week! The IMF was running the Treasury. People forget how poor Britain was before the EU and Margaret Thatcher brought it into the modern world. I have been a proud Canadian now for decades and wouldn't dream of going back to Britain. Canada is as dependent on the US economy as Britain should be on the wonderful, huge EU market. We know that dealing with the US is tough - they use every unfair means to exploit their size that they can. A US/UK free trade agreement would take a decade to negotiate and Britain would have to open up its markets to the force of American competition. Lots of British companies would go bankrupt under such competitive pressure, so make sure you know what you are getting into before you let it happen.
As for the Commonwealth - lots of the former colonies remember the exploitation and cruelty which Britain doled out to them. Ask Australians what they think of Winston Churchill - the man who tried to refuse to let Australian troops go home to defend their own country from Japanese invasion! Churchill also planned the disastrous slaughter of Australian and NZ soldiers at Gallipoli in WW1. India was denied the chance to use its cotton to make cloth - it had to be done in Lancashire. African freedom fighters were often tortured to death. British history books are largely fiction when it comes to describing the empire.
The best option for Britain and its young people is to go crawling back to the EU and beg for the best re entry deal which they will give you - it won't be what you had before. Anyway, good luck!
everybody should and understand this
Have you taken a look at what Toronto and Vancouver look like? Canada is collapsing, and a colony of India these days lmfao. You got your empire, you're under Indian rule now.
@@erge-px8upReally? Like the EU? The British and their dreams......
@@craig3916but they don't and don't want ti. They prefer their flying pigs
Canada has a trade agreement with the US, import volume is 50% (UK 1.3%), export volume is 78% (UK 1.9%)
Singapore trades mostly with its Asian neighbours and USA.
Singapore is also member of ASEAN that attempts to emulate the EU's structures.
Wasn't it Daniel Hannan who said 'Nobody is talking about leaving the Single Market'?
just to add.....Business for Britain operated out of 55 Tufton Street...
All of them said they would stay in the Single Market, even Rees-Mogg only changed his tune after the referendum.
and the EU has 9 out the 11 members of CPTTP including Canada and Singapore for long time while the UK was member of the EU it was 7 member countries and 4 trade associates and since Brexit the EU completed 2 FTA(full trade agreement) with Canada and New Zealand the only 2 trade associates still in negotiation with EU are the Aussies and Brunei so gained nothing from CPTTP membership in essence it lost more without the weight of the 550 million consumers in the EU market and its only 70 million consumer market and also the cPTTP is not A union like the EU but loosely trade associations that includes Canada Mexico and Chile which the EU have A FTA with and some other South American countries ,and the commonwealth countries are independent countries and do not care what the England thinks about them as in Africa is developing their free trade in model of the EU its called the African continent free trade area, and the Asean also is an other free trade area including Malaysia Singapore and the rest of South east Asia , in the 21st century all neighbours of Geographic close countries are coming together to form their own trading block so they do not have their most volume trade with their neighbours and not far away places but still making trade deals with the EU US the rest of the Americas and Africa .greetings from EU Citizen.
@@henna6126 Ever heard of the term 'punctuation'?
And both Canada and Singapore have trade agreements with the EU, just like most CPTTP members...
Britannia rules the waves?... your 'avin a lauf... Brexit Britain can't even rule a pond.
But Brexistan will ....as a muslim country though. Replacing Polish plumbers and italian waiters with hordes of Pakistanis and Nigerians was a genius move.
@@antoniotorcoli5740 polish plumbers fine but Italian perverts... no thanks.
@@antoniotorcoli5740 The E.U. intends to disperse it's illegal immigrants . German , Hungary , The Netherlands and Poland want to opt out of the regulations governing this . The trickle coming across the channel is nothing in comparison to the millions upon millions entering the E.U. The U.K. left just in time . Forgot , god help Italy .
@@johnwilkes7624 Millions upon Millions? Disingenuous nonsense
@@antoniotorcoli5740 Don't worry, Europeans are fading out too!
The commonwealth reborn? As a Canadian I can say nobody under 75 gives a timbit about Britain!
Anyone that voted Leave in 2016 was gullible, naive and easily fooled but anyone that still supports it is just plain thick. 😂
An awful lot of the old coffin dodgers who wanted to take back control have finally had their date with the coffin and left their grandchildren a hellish legacy
@@tomricketts7821 True. 👍😂
Have you ever met anyone who said they got the brexit they wanted! And before the referendum told you they knew exactly what they were voting for?
@@John-yi1mk I've met all sorts of deluded weirdos in my time.. Your point?
The beneficiaries of empire couple probably be named individually. The Vast majority of brits worked and lived in abject poverty and shared nothing of the often brutal plunder of the empire.
1832 the Slave compensation scheme began ( compensation to the slave owners not the slaves ) this was paid in 2005 or 2015 I think. From this one move some “ the Few “ cornered British education establishments and industry.
Meanwhile the average Britain still didn’t even have the Vote never mind and wealth at all.
Until 2015.
That's not true. Think of the enormous amount of people who served in India or other colonial post. People who never would have been successful at home, but we're able to achieve high social status and compensation abroad
@@davidwestwater2219 - Only if they went to the right schools and had connections. To the working class, it meant nothing. Most colonies already had enough workers and didn't need any from the U.K.
And Britain is now on the receiving end of the results of two centuries of colonial exploitation in the form of in migrants, the clear majority of whom are streaming in from countries formerly occupied by the British in Africa, Middle East and Asia. England, especially, is deteriorating under the impact of overpopulation, overcrowding and associated excess waste, pollution and generally lowered living conditions.
Well said
Bob Geldof articulates well the thinking behind Brexit. At the end of the day, it was a combo of nostalgia for lost empire and a pragmatic need to protect the very current money laundering biz in London. The EU were in the process of writing rules to curtail money laundering which had implications throughout Europe, and the UK in particular. The money men in London were desperate to protect their franchise. This is not the only driver behind Brexit, but it's a key one , and under reported.
Ppl ask who benefited from Brexit? IMO just two sectors. Money laundering and tourism, boosted by the devalued pound, persistently down 20% since 2016.
I wouldn't come to England as a tourist anymore. As an EU citizen, I must have a passport for this. Otherwise, a personnel ID card was sufficient. From April 2025, I will also need an electronic travel authorization for 10 pounds every time I would enter the UK. I'd rather go to Paris, Madrid or Athens and don't have these problems. Brexit is a disaster.
@@Toddel1234567 Good, we dont want you anyway!
The fundamental issue is that Britain needs the Commonwealth more than the Commonwealth needs Britain. Brexiteers promised a fairy tale wherein Britain would resume it's former place as the heart of a global trade empire. Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and many, many others simply laughed because they could make their own trade deals without the British Monarch sitting at the head of the table. Indeed, without Britain at the table at all. The Brexiteers who preached about "freedom" and "sovereignty" failed to understand that the Commonwealth nations also want those things - from Britain.
And the irony is Germany does more trade with the Commonwealth than Britain does, in fact Belgium does.... "global Britain" indeed. 😂
It's a joke to suggest that the Commonwealth in any represents the future of British trade and economic growth. I say this as a Canadian who supports our ties with the UK.
Canada has dozens of free trade agreements with other countries. Our agreement with the US is the most successful bilateral trade agreement in the world. But we have very little trade with the UK, and there are few opportunities to expand it.
The irony of this erroneous idea that Canada and other Commonwealth economies represent an untapped opportunity for Britain is that the UK would have free trade with Canada right now if it had stayed in the EU. The EU/Canada FTA, called CETA, was concluded after Brexit.
As an older Australian, I have always regarded "The Commonwelth" as a con job, a PR non-event, of no consequence except as a glorified reminder of the British Empire under which most members suffered, were invaded, and/or were exploited.
The Commonwealth is an orgnisation with no wealth held commonly. It's a joke, yes.
If trump gets back in, I think there may be some adjustments to the american canadian agreement
@@davidwestwater2219 - Highly doubtful. Trump raged against NAFTA during his 2016 campaign, calling it "the worst trade deal in history". He threatened to tear it up or force a major renegotiation. His declared his intention to renegotiate soon after he was sworn in. This began in August 2017 and was concluded by the end of 2018. Little was changed in the agreement and the US did not get any major concessions on manufacturing, resources or intellectual property. The name was changed to USMCA, which for some reason, Trump boasted of as a big win. He was a shitty negotiator anyway - he blustered, threatened to end NAFTA, and issued ultimatums. Then the adults would go off and talk about real issues. The issue is closed. Trump has never once mentioned continental free trade during his current campaign , because to do so would mean he failed the first time around.
Not that long ago, I saw an Australian news clip where they were quite literally laughing about their trade deal with the U.K. - because the U.K. needs more from Australia than it needs from the U.K. Especially now that so many formerly British-owned companies have been acquired by parties from other countries with whom the Australians can trade directly.
@@daniels7907 Not only Australians, but people around the world were laughing, aghast - the laughable trade deal in which the UK sold itself (especially its farmers) out.
Poking affectionate fun at the "Poms" and the "mother country" is ingrained in Australian culture. But I'm not sure now whether we should laugh or cry - it's not really funny anymore to see the present state of the UK, its economy and politics, after the deliberately self-harming arrogance of Brexit. The UK used to inspire a lot of respect and admiration around the world, and I reckon it's sad, not funny, that it's quickly turned itself into a bit of a joke not only in Australia and Canada/USA, but here in the EU where I'm now living, too. And it will get worse before it gets better, I fear. Poverty levels and the state of the NHS in the UK are alarming nowadays 😢.
"5th largest economy in the world", but lower than 20th per capita, and wealth concentrated in a very small group of people... a third-world country.
Nailed it.
The Commonwealth cannot be the basis of trade. It has been looked at over and over and there is nothing there. Commonwealth countries go to war with one another, are already in various different trading blocks, or are not open to deals with the UK. Europe is here, joined by Tunnel, 22 miles away or joined to Ireland, with very low transport costs, the same business day, low cost travel, similar countries with lots in common.
will never forget: in a European gremium, a Polish person asks, well Britain, if we don’t empty your bins, you will have to get people from Pakistan or India. UKIP answer: yes, but these people know where their place is……I rest my case. Babbling Hannan thinks Australia, who came though was Pakistan.
Mugged.
Comparing the tax haven city state of Singapore to the UK is laughable 😂
Not considering the fact that Singapore is not exactly free and democratic to say the least.
@@Bramfly that too, it's not far off a dictatorship.
@@Bramfly I would be more interested in the quality of the average Singaporean, relative to the Average British person. Whoever has a better life is better governed as well! Of what use is 'freedom' and 'democracy' if you have nothing to eat, no work, nowhere to call home and no life and no way to change any of these as is the case with many of you in Britain?
Not least because Singapore's wealth comes from their strategic location between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, which makes them an ideal transshipment port for the world's most populous region. The U.K. was a viable port for exactly one region - Europe! Unfortunately, Europe has other ports.
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Paths to success:
--- 19th Century: Empire !
--- 20th Century: Trade Alliances !
--- 21st Century: ( no idea at all )
U.K. is suffering from post-Empire traumatic syndrome - PETS.
I was at that March in 2018. The first and last time. I now live in Spain under my Italian passport. The EU gives all its citizens the same right wherever they live or work
So many people from the UK unknowingly have this leftover from their days of empire. Recently I met with some British tourists in Galway City and they to;d me that they had a friend who was an ex-pat here in Ireland. On further questioning it transpired that they meant that their friend was here as an immigrant. I then asked if they had Irish neighbours back home if they regarded them as immigrants. They said yes and I said nah! they are Irish ex-pats which left them looking at each other while I smiled.
Hannon, the pipskeak forgot to say that Singapore also has very strict laws, no corruption, and a public safety net that would make the Eton Elites like himself cringe if ever applied to the UK....
4/5ths of the food exported to Britain on a daily basis comes from Ireland. And pritii Patel wanted to Starve Ireland.
I don't believe you. You better give the source
Patel, Farage, the Tories and Starmer Labour, the whole Parliament. are useless and incompetent politicians.
Them day's are gone now Mr Hannan its little Britain nobody gives a shite about us, brexit the gift that keeps taking.
The commonwealth likes you.? Maybe because they smile? I wouldn't be so sure
Yes they throw the rest of the commonwealth under the bus after they join the eec… 😮
Yes, sorry about the ancestors .
Yeah, the Commonwealth attitude towards the Brits is perfectly illustrated by the nickname they use for the Brits: "the whinging poms.
@@AlexGys9 That's Australians, and it referred to the kind of people who went to Oz from Britain on what was called "assisted passage". At least get your facts straight - or is that asking too much?
@@tommymorrison6478the Australian view is shared by many fellow Commonwealth citizens
It was and is all about England and in particular the South East of England.
the southeast voted against it while northern England wales and the eastern parts ( mostly unionist ) of Northern Ireland voted for it . Brexit was against a London centric economy
Brexit may have been "against" a London centric economy but it's done precisely the square root of FA to make the economy LESS London centric.
@Udhdhfufuf and now they get a London centric economy.....
Not really. It's complicated
Not only that but Thatcher set out to undermine the working classes by destroying industry and manufacturing. Our infrastructure was sold off to private and foreign interests. Capital was thereby transferred to London and the South East or abroad.
North Sea Gas was spent instead of creating a sovereign wealth fund like ,say, Norway.
The Home Counties /London area was given a sense of exceptionalism and entitlement reinforcing this need for post imperial nostalgia.
However Brexit has not gone as well as they had hoped.
We have ended up with an economy of taking in each other's washing and living on tick.
Brexit was an attempt to implement a purist free-market ideology that was out of touch with economic realities.
This delusion has cost the country dearly, and the economic data is now bearing that out.
The point of Brexit was deregulating the financial sector.
Despite the government's assertions of wanting to improve economic competitiveness through Brexit, their real aim was to enhance competitiveness and regulatory efficiency in the financial sector.
They chose to ignore the fact that post-Brexit deregulation in the financial sector, alongside a fragile economy lacking decades of public investment, would lead to the disastrous consequences Brexit Britain is facing right now.
Just Thatcherism in another name.
@@normanchristie4524 plus Blairism ... In 1997, the rich installed Tony Blair in the Labour Party as a Trojan horse. Successfully on their behalf, Blair transformed the Labour Party into a neoliberal party that completely betrayed workers' interests.
Cynically, they called the betrayel: ‘New Labour’.
*"Brexit was an attempt to implement a purist free-market ideology"* - Which is ironic because the Single Market is literally as pure a free-market as you can achieve. Unfortunately, even the architects of Brexit don't understand economics enough to realise that.
When Boris voiced the idea of "Globular Britain" he was looking in a mirror. 😀😀
Brexit is rarely talked about as the UK existential crisis that it was. Britain never admitted it wasn't quite relevant any more. First, let's be honest, this was about England. It's always about England's dreaming. The Empire was the English flagship dragging an ambivalent Scotland and a furious Ireland in its wake. The UK was England and cohort. After the First World War, the UK refused to admit it had lost its place at the center of the world. It stubbornly went on as an Empire. In World War II, it faced Germany as if it were still a world power. After the war, it was broken down and miserable. It lost India, became a third rate power, but it stubbornly went on. It became America's liaison in Europe in the fight against the Soviet Union. It exported culture and imported finance and joined Europe. After some rough decades, it still punched well above its weight, but all along there was a creeping feeling in England's dreaming. What was the point of the UK anyway?
After the financial crisis in 2008, England lost its confidence. That creeping feeling in England's dreaming came to the surface. When Cameron's austerity struck at the working classes, someone had to be blamed. Blame immigrants! Blame Europe! The UK, well, England, well, no, London -- the point is: it was the country upon which the sun never set, never mind the rain. Was the sun finally setting? Was Britain finally facing the diminished place in the world that France and Spain and Portugal and the Netherlands faced? Was the UK relevant any more? Of course it was!
England lashed out at Europe, dragging a reluctant Scotland in its wake. England could be great again. Without Europe, Little England could finally be left alone and at the same time London could be the center of the world again -- Singapore on the Thames! -- this, essentially, is what a Leaver is. A Remainer is someone who accepts that England will never be great again, that the UK will continue to devolve, but the future of Britain or England or London -- however the case may be, the future is with the European collective. The Remainer is delusional and the Leaver is resigned. There is no sense of victory, here, no sense of resolve, only dismay. And Starmer creeps on, just trying not to break anything else.
If you remove London the UK has a similar GDP per capita to Mississippi, that’s not a good thing.
I doubt your statement is factual
And London is mostly unproductive illusory paper wealth. Outside London it is becoming a third world country or lower.
Worst team players in Europe.
Brexit, Covid and Ukraine were the last nails to the coffin ⚰️ of 🇬🇧 "great" britain ... it's a small, third word like island. Great history, for sure, future no.
The UK has done more to support Ukraine than nearly any other country on a per capita basis
@@stevejones2310 so it shouts but it’s not true, look at the Baltic states.
Agree
@@abbofun9022 I didn't say the UK was THE biggest supporter of Ukraine.
We are advocating using storm shadow behind the lines, which US and Germany are not doing
@@stevejones2310stupid Poland has taken million of refugees. Ireland had already taken thousands of before borris suddenly turn around ok so I said no to any refugees or any help, but it mad us look so pathetic we ll start given arm.
0:29 The Garden of England has been concreted over for lorry parks queuing for post brexit border checks .
Post brexit it’s globule Britain not global Britain 😡
Don't think the GDP of most commwealth countries compared well against EU member countries. You need customers to thrive.
This Singapore on the Thames thing. Singapore financial services industries is heavily regulated. That's why it's successful, it can be trusted.
Re " ...the Commonwealth, all of which are territories of the British Empire...".
Should't that be ' countries of what was the British Empire'? Sehnsucht nach dem Kaisereich?
Historic? My great grandmother was born within living memory of the guillotining of Louis XVI.
My grand mother was born in 1870. And im still here!
The British Empire was when those colonies were 'toddlers' and Britain could do whatever they wanted with them. In the Commonwealth, Those 'toddlers' have grown and some have even surpassed Britain! It's a whole different ball game! Can you imagine Britain ordering India around? Then you've never listened to their foreign Minister Dr Jaishankar!, which I will strongly recommend. He's an absolute 'nightmare' for any would be 'bossy' person or country!
Why isn't the US on that Common Wealth list? Oh! Right. The US learned early and dropped Britain eons ago.
Global Britain ended at Bretton Woods in 1944 when the Dollar became The World's Reserve Currency. Although some say it ended when the Brits wrote a cheque to Poland they couldn't possibly cash five years earlier. A question for economists and philosophers, perhaps. But I do know this - Brexit has doomed the economy. Once the EU gets clearing out of London it's over. Short Sterling and retire early. Here endith the lesson.
Apparently 1% of the population own nearly 50% of the land in England fun fact.
Bit bad when Blair is right .
How much land does Tony Blair own? He has a 40 million pound property portfolio-not bad for a socialist!
That's actually an improvement over earlier centuries. But it does reflect how the class system was designed to keep land in the hands of the upper class.
When you're down everyone rushes in to get the boot in. What fun.............
First nation to ever sanction itself. Brilliant.
We may have closer ties with New Zealand than Bulgaria, but we have closer ties with France and Spain than New Zealand. Very few UK citizens have ever been to NZ, but many spend a week or two in continental Europe. I can't just drive onto a ferry and end up in the antipodes.
3:55 "Fifth largest economy in the world". How's that gone since Brexit? Are we now 4th? 3rd? Second? What is that? We were bound for future wealth, so we must be top.
I thought it was 12th. No worries. It will become 12th.
Stay out!
Rot In Peace.
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How pathetic,perfect example of why so many people wanted out!
@@martinrye712 So many people wanted out because someone is a bit of a d**k? I'm glad you've got your priorities straight.
British, thankfully with Irish heritage, lived in Italy for 15 years. There is no point in renewing my British passport. It has no use.
Very sad that the UK is so much lost. They failed to define an updated appropriate role for them in this more and more chaotic world . After leaving the team it is too late now. They had been warned by their own experts and siencetists.
I am appalled. I am a past academic economist who made economic geography research during 15 years. I am appalled by the poor knowledge of basic modern 'new economic-geographic’ principles (Paul Krugman) on the side of Brexiters, either political brexiters or even more appalling business Brexiters. This Commonwealth dream : this is insane ! How irrationality can guide important political decisions...And seemingly some of them still believe what they said about Brexit... this is ofteen called 'cognitive disonance' ... I call it 'stupidity'. From the continent: good luck.
Kent voted for brexit and got Lorry Parks, roads full of traffic for miles trying to get through customs and trees full of bags of shit thrown out of lorry windows. Kent can do one!
Global Britain? These people had the delusion that they still had the British Empire, which died in 1947.
boris johnson and nigel farage really fucked the UK with all this brexit b/s. the UK 1% may be enjoying it, but for the commoners, it is obviously a disaster. well, there is no going back, so get on with it, and do your best.
They bang on about creating Singapore on the Thames, don't they realise THEY ALREADY HAVE. Singapore population 5.7 million GDP per Capita $82,000. London population 9 million, GDP per Capita $85,000. In fact our 'Singapore' is nearly twice the size of the real one. The reason Singapore is so successful is because it divorced itself from Malaysia. Population 34 million, GDP per Capita $12,000. The only way we can have Singapore on the Thames is to have Malaysia on the Mersey!!!! I hate that no reporter has ever put this to the Brexiteers idiots when they say we want Singapore by the Thames, answer should be 'already done mate'
Singapore on the Thames would actually be if London left the UK...
The dozens of videos a week I see from the uk showing boarded up high streets, trash everywhere, caravan cities, abandoned and rotting estates, zombies strung out on who knows what and very high crime look nothing like Singapore…
Not for that much longer...Euroclearing is coming home!
Then the shady deals will become more visible.
@@Hauke-ph5ui I think that's what I said.
Exactly how democratic is that police state ?
The self delusion is staggering, the arrogance is pathetic, the stupidness is visible for everyone; except the Brexiteers don't see it...
I was just in London a week ago and I noticed since the last time I was there before Brexit that the Thames
is filthy, there are so many homeless people on the streets and the housing prices and let prices are through the roof
As bad as the Seine?
The rest of the world is so far away, the EU is 22 miles away. The goods need to off shipped in the EU not uk.
what goods, what cant the EU buy fron others the UK is producing??
The Empire still exists, but its not Conservative anymore. 🇨🇦
Brexit was an unwise move, brought to us by racist Tories.
They were queuing up to make deals - because they knew they had the desperate UK over a barrel.
the Aussies and Kiwis pulled the UK a 3rd leg!
And why not? In today's world they are more strategically located than the U.K. They have easy access to the Pacific and Indian oceans. That's aside from the fact that their domestic industries have matured to the point where they don't need U.K. goods shipped through such inconvenient nautical routes as around Africa or through the Suez Canal. The majority of the world's population is more easily accessible to Australia and New Zealand than it is to the U.K.
They held a " huge " Rejoin march in London last weekend . !I
About 2,000 people showed up...! So., yeah.....the idea of Rejoining is really
popular..😂😂😂
When UK left the EU was the 2 globally, still is now , when the UK left EU was 5th largest economy, now is only the 6, EU still the 2, behind US, China 3. can join the BRICS, next to China, Iran, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and India as the 5 largest economy, and UK only the 6 largest economy. I let you guess who is the Junior in this deal? At least is not political union lol 😅, and have more “historical connections”
0:49 At its head sits the Queen of England! How old is this film?
In fairness, people are still struggling with the idea that Charles is King. Actually, they're struggling with why they even need a King or Queen except to support the tourist industry. They have systematically stripped the Monarchy's powers to the point where it's just a sentimental museum piece used to remind them of the days of Empire.
Don't they know she kicked the bucket a while ago
As a Canadian I can tell you first-hand that I know NO-ONE who feels any impact on their daily life of being part of the Commonwealth, nor it is anything we ever talk about. We just don't care.
It baffles me how supposedly intelligent people can be so utterly deluded and stupid; this video highlights particularly how moronic such people like Daniel Hannan and Steve Baker are...
I'm sure India, which is forecast to be the third largest economy by mid 2030, will be laughing in the corner 🤣
The Garden of England is now the Lorry park of the U.K. 😬
nobody loves the smell of piss more than the people in Kent,
they voted for it, so they really must loving it!
A very well manured Lorry park.
This was posted only 7 Days ago. How old is this video for it to say Queen Elizabeth is the head of the Commonwealth when King Charles has been king for a while now?
she died three PMs ago
Deluded doesn't even cover it! Pathetic living in tne past
I hope this helps you sleep at night. The former colonies are just that - colonies. They remember what Britain did to their lands and cultures.
Singapore was a founding member of the WTO in 1995, so they have agreed to minimal tariffs from countries that are not in a trade agreement
Dreaming of the old Empire days …
“When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?” (sung to the tune of Where Have All The Flowers Gone). Britain, take your medicine, admit you made a mistake, and rejoin the EU.
Is "this" the end of global britain?! Sorry to break it to you but global britain ended half a century ago. Britain, now, is just one of the less important english speaking countries.
The country that gave the world English in the first place.
How does Farage presume that former colonies are well disposed to this country.
What is most interesting is the criticisms of the Commonwealth could be applied to Europe too. The world has changed, perhaps we all need to change with it.
"Change or Go": a masterwork of fiction.
I would love to see a rerun of the itv 2016 brexit debate.
6:46, I guess the whole family cuts their own hair
Yes Brexit has done so much damage
It was reported yesterday that Boris Johnsons new book is not being sold in the EU..... BREXIT will not allow it. Not sure if this is karma. Buts it's very funny
They are clearly the victim!
They started it and now they have to endure the consequences, as i had to.
We are the victims and the only victims!!!
Empire delusion. Well summed up.
I can remember the Dutch being a superpower in the 17th century and the Brits being so jealous fighting 4 wars against them.
Re 4:10 Singapore has a good socialist backbone. Funny how he fails to mention this. Singapore has government run healthcare and the majority of people live in government managed public housing, great public school system and government grants for university.
So. They wanted out, they are out and now they complain about it??? Funny 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Incredible Jeff, Boris Johonson's sister just looks like him! 😂
Brah the empire died a 100 years get over it, it’s never coming back
This did not age well….
"Brexit" not satisfying your cravings?
Try "Triscuits!"
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Why does Farrage increasingly remind me of toad from the wind in the willows
The pied piper that is farage .
So how is it the SiNGA[PORE model isn’t working in the UK?
I don't believe Brexit has gone far enough. England should also separate itself from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
This really shows, just how truly delusional they are. And out of touch with reality.
I think it’s a great opportunity for the UK. With all the current dissatisfaction with the EU, they could spearhead a new organization of European states to promote free trade amongst themselves.
it will benefit the USA first.
Since this film was made we've dropped to 6th.
It's like supporting Man u
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What the hell is global britain 😂😂😂
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@ what is global britain 😅😂
Britain wanted to be a single fighter, now they are singlefigthers surrounded by comunities. Thats it!
I wonder what Britts thought will happen when they were voting for Brexit?
With a guest appearance of Tony Blair. The biggest problem with Tony Blair is that he is a liar.
he wasn’t saying anything untrue in this interview
How can you not say that Brexit is not a success, it’s been incredible
Incredibly stupid! All the World knows it!
@@davidjohntough9115 the rich 0.5%
have made a fortune, that is what Brexit was about! Every other metric does not mater
Always loved Britain, went to Norwich for a semester and Edinburgh for a Masters. Love(d) English beer, accents, people. Never understood why even with younger generations this reverence for the monarchy has still not been left in the past, where it belongs. Yes, kings and queens, and nobles and heroes are part of our history, but we are not living in the Middle Ages any more. Britain was one of the great powers back then, especially at sea. Today it is, well, just another island that still seems to have a hard time being part of a greater union. And even if they want to go it alone, fine, I just wish they'd be able to find better leaders, and I am talking as much about traditional parties as about moronic outliers like Farage. And how on earth does the Commonwealth still exist, when it was never about the "common wealth" for everybody, but only England at the time?
THE LONGER WE DONT GET CLOSER TO EU THE MORE EXPENSIVE THINGS WILL GET, DEALING WITH FAR EAST IS A NIGHTMARE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE SELLING TO THEM CHINA INCLUDED, PLUS OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT WILL BE VERY HIGH,EU IS JUST ACROSS OUR LITTLE POND
What exactly do you think you can export to the Middle East, which they cannot easily get from somewhere else?
@@etoiledenoundi EXACTLY THEY HAVENT A CLUE ABOUT TRADE BREXITERS ARE DIM, YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH WEIRD GOV RULES, MAFIAS AND UNIONS WHICH THE GOVERNMENTS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN DOIN TRADE DEALS, CADBURY FAILED IN BRAZIL AFTER 10 YEARS OF TRYING,TESCO FAILED IN USA AFTER 2 YEARS OF TRADING AND OTHERS FAILED TOO
er ..yeah ..? The EU doesn't import anything
from China....?? 😂😂
Thanks for that dazzling insight.....
@@2msvalkyrie529 MOGG SAID NEXT DAY THAT FOOD CLOTHES AND OTHER GOODS WOOD BE CHEAPER , AND ALL THE OTHER BREXIT GRIFTERS SAID THE SAME,DUDNT MAJE US ENOUGH MONEY TO HELP US WITH COVID DUD IT PAL?? PLUS WE MIGHT HAVE SAVED 20 BILLION IN EU FEES FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS BYT COST US 100 BILLION IN TRADE, DUMBO'S I DEED LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂
If only we(Germany)would be allowed to trade with the rest of the world,wouldn't that be awesome.