"Before it happened, we didn't know what was going to happen. While it happened, we didn't know what was happening. After it happened, we didn't know what had happened." Brilliant.
This is EXACTLY why Ian and Paul put on their Liberal/Leftie hat, as befits Multi-Millionaires and that to deflect what he was saying. They did not succeed....:)
@@Isleofskye yes, even though he was commenting about some of the stupidity of Brexit from both sides , they didn't want him to say the bits that ridiculed the remain campaign .....
@@kevinmassey7675 I am almost shocked at how blindingly obvious this was, and how stupid I must've been voting remain. I am so glad that the majority voted leave the last few years (and especially since the beginning of coronavirus) has really exposed the EU for what they really are.
Merton is a fucking arsehole, only time he has ever been funny was when n Deayton was ripping the piss out of him. He always interrupts another comedian if that comedian is on a roll and getting laughs.
Merton will take his ball home if he is not the star. On JaM Parsons always awarded him a bonus point every time he opened his mouth to make sure he won and didn't sulk for the second recording that day.
I'm getting sick of Merton, I used to love this show but now not so much now. He can't not look at the audience every two seconds for approval for a shitty gag
@@SGADRM Most of the time Merton just looks bored now. I stopped watching ages ago because of their endless knocking of Brexit which ceased to be funny. I really like this description of the ERM by Giles though. I remember it well. it cost us around £2000.
Coming from Sweden I can only say that I have a tremendous respect for Gyles. I really miss these educated people in Sweden nowadays. A long time since we saw them last...
This clip sums up the show completely. You have 4 panelists and a host, each chipping in with their contributions to the point where nothing is allowed to flow. No-one gets to the end of what they start and it just falls apart as everyone cuts each other off.
He has an autobiography called "Odd Boy Out" which is excellent, plus a volume of his diaries ("Something Sensational To Read on the Train") and his diary of his time as an MP ("Breaking the Code") - all very well written and engaging.
He actually started on an autobiography in 1974. Apparently he'll be finished writing it within the next few decades. He plans to release it volume by volume under the title, "À la recherche du Gyles perdu."
I've just read the part of John Major's autobiography that explains the UK's exit from the ERM and it is exactly how Giles explains it but in more depth. Worth a read.
The punchline was actually clever and funny, but Merton messed it up by interrupting and making those stupid weird sound effects. Judging by his facial expression at the end, you can tell he completely missed the joke because he was too busy trying to be funny but failing.
there's a narcissistic streak that comes out in Merton if he doesn't respect the host or his teammate (it also tends to rear its ugly head as a bit of misogyny)
Brandreth was just droning on and on and on at that point. The first part, about the referendum was brilliant. The second part, about Britain leaving the ERM was desperately tedious apart from the final line about not knowing what was going on before, during or after.
@@beeble2003 This clip is under three minutes long and would have been even shorter had it not been for Merton's constant rude interjections. Merton behaved like a spoilt child desperate for attention, lacking the basic manners to shut up while someone else was speaking, and with no regard for those interested in what Gyles had to say. Even the most casual of viewers can see that he despises other people getting laughter and audience approval. He detested Angus Deayton, which came as news to Deayton after he left, as he had shared many of what he thought were friendly after-show drinks with Merton, which further shows what a phoney and resentful little man he has been.
@@elvisleeboy If you watch the video, you'll see that Brandreth wasn't getting any laughter and wasn't getting any audience approval, so Merton's supposed hatred of people getting those things can't be the reason for his interruptions. Brandreth starts his ERM story at 1:03. The audience doesn't laugh at a word he says until 1:57. They don't laugh again until 2:13 and even then, it's not clear whether they're laughing at him or Merton, and Merton's first interruption isn't until 2:19, when the anecdote was almost over, and by which time Hislop had already interrupted twice. Conversely, when Brandreth was getting laughs, at the start of the clip, Merton and Hislop were just engaging in conversation and everybody was laughing with everybody else. The evidence of the video suggests that, actually, Merton doesn't like it when somebody talks for almost a minute and a half (more than 5% of the show's content) without getting a single laugh from the audience. Oh noes, commedian wants comedy show to be funny -- what a bastard!
@@beeble2003 Except that Brandreth at no point talked for anywhere near a minute without being interrupted. It was perfectly clear that, as with most jokes, this was leading to the laugh we got in the end - A laugh we would have reached far sooner had those interruptions not occurred. Unless there was a substantial amount cut in the edit, or that this was late in the show, based on this clip alone, Merton's comment about Brandreth's 'one man show' makes little sense. If someone tells you a joke, and you keep interrupting them before they get to the punchline and then blame THEM for taking so long to get there, then you are being an arsehole. What you have failed to take into account is the overwhelming evidence that Merton hates it when the attention is not his. You are also being deliberately disingenuous by making out that Brandreth spoke solidly for over a minute without those incessant interjections ruining his flow.
@@elvisleeboy But it was Ian Hislop who was interrupting the anecdote! Merton only spoke once in that minute and he wasn't interrupting anyone at that point. Brandreth was completely failing to be funny at that point.
I think Merton believed he is reading the crowd and they are bored by Giles, but he was off the mark because the story and conclusion were great. No one was bored.
For anyone on the other side of the channel looking to understand the UK this might help add some light. If not hopefully they will have had a chuckle.
Thanks for that explanation Gyles, it reminds me of when as a Brit I googled around to find out the rules of baseball and Abbot and Costello's 'Who's on First?' routine came up, and now everything is perfectly clear.
When Gyles started talking recent history, you could literally hear the ignorance amongst the rest :) When a man of supreme intelligence ..wipes the floor with the ignorance around him. Loved Gyles since I was a Child. He was always the funniest face on TV (bright and witty). And, he still is ..without even trying!
I have to totally agree. I have books, kindles, listen to all his podcasts, and find everything I can on youtube and JAM that he's taken part in. I always thought he wasn't well liked by many, but I'm noticing many people really do like him and that's nice.
Merton is really obvious when he's jealous, it's cringy sometimes and you just think wow how can you have such little self esteem to feel upstaged by part timers on the show.
At least on QI they have the decency to let Gyles give his- always excellent- monologues. They still lampshade it of course, but the flow is never ruined like this.
Brillians summation by Brandreth. Merton, who normally sits there looking bored out of his skull, cannot BEAR it if anyone else gets any laughs and goes into attention-hogging overkill, desperately trying to kill the other person's laughs. A little bit pathetic really. Well done to Gyles for powering through.
I agree. Brandreth is a good storyteller and a funny guy, and he was as he said actually an MP and when ERM happened was actually there. He had a great account and a valuable insight, but Paul Merton just kept interrupting and butting in. He should have just let Giles speak. There is a possibility that this was down to the editing, that maybe we didn't see bits where Giles did drone on and Merton was justified in interrupting, but what Giles was saying her should have been heard. What is the point of inviting knowledgeable and articulate guests on and then not letting them speak?
It still makes a pretty good summary of Brexit. We don't know what's happening and once it happened we still don't know what happened and when someone tries to explain, he's interrupted by a clown.
A bit like life. At the beginning we don't know what's going to happen. While its happening, we don know why its happening, after it happened, we don't know why it happened.
The ERM was not difficult. What happened ended was widely predicted and the reasons well known. Linking weak currencies from countries with little or no fiscal -control -to strong currencies that exercised, at least some level of fiscal control. Was always going to cause a meltdown as the weaker currencies were inflated past their citizens ability to pay for basic goods and services... while deflating strong currencies. Destroying exports and making anything that was made for export substantially less profitable, in fact driving many products to a loss. Gordon Brown insisted that should another attempt be made that all countries involved follow six specific fiscal guidelines to prevent this from happening. That never happened. Now the affluent Northern Europe is destroying the poorer Southern Europe. Propping Southern EU nations up with loans they can never afford to repay. With freedom of movement all the young, wealthy and entrepreneurial citizens of these poorer nations are leaving them to work in Northern Europe meaning that their future as poor relations in a never ending cycle of increasing debt is set in stone. When you try and play a game of absolute equity from a starting position of a total lack of equity... this is what happens. It surprised no one who understood the basics.
Couldn't have put it better myself! Then they compounded the error by creating the Euro, with a centralised monetary policy dictated by the ECB whilst individual countries formulate incompatible, but politically expedient fiscal policies. Another guarantee of disaster.
The thing about Gyles for me is its not the destination its more about the journey. Yeah he is a rambler but its a fun ramble even if I don't always agree with him. Two on this panel did the same thing to Reginald D Hunter just kept talking over him and trying to go for cheap laughs.
Gyles: "While I was having supper with Pope Gregory the Ninth, Genghis Khan kicked open the door and shouted -" Merton: "Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?"
@@smg7602 it's going absolutely fantastic! As a Dutch citizen i would like to thank the UK for giving us the EMA, a huge chunk of your stock trading market, and pretty soon a large chunk of the 50 billion pound legal industry. You can have the fishing rights, the UK companies that have regained them are wholly owned by Dutch fishing companies anyway.
At the beginning they had no comprehension of what was going to happen, during the event they had no comprehension of what was happening, and at the end they had no understanding of what had happened. Sounds like government in general, unfortunately. Ideally we would get public officials who were motivated by a desire to serve, and chosen by an informed electorate based on honest information. Unfortunately, what we actually get almost every time are public officials who are motivated by a desire for power, and chosen by an inflamed electorate biased by manipulative disinformation.
An honest politician, whatever next? We're several days into Brexit Britain and apart from 60 odd new trade deals nothing dreadful seems to be happening. The MSM are depressed.
@@saltspringrailway3683 Absolutely. It's too early to call, and obviously the pandemic has skewed things a bit. I heard a chat with an American who was pretty worldy wise. Understood Geopolitics. And he said this (paraphrasing) "things will change, it will be better in some ways and worse in others. But at the end of the day it's the UK and they aren't about to completely collapse and become a basket case. They'll adapt as required" The UK IS the only country that had the financial/independent clout to leave and who wanted to. The Germans and French don't want to. The Dutch are unlikely to, though that may change when their contributions have to rise to fill the void left by the UK. Italians and Spanish cant afford to.Obviously the states that get hand outs from the EU, unsurprisingly are very in favour of the whole thing. Of course the EU can now continue on their path to what they want without the UK forever holding them back from further integration. We are no longer holding on the brakes. So surely this is a win for the EU in the long term.
Its a comedy show and its to make people laugh. Hence why its on friday nights, after a long stressful week just eant to sit chill get ready for the weekend with 30 minutes of laughs, jokes and delightful mockery of politicians, sports stars, celebs it doesnt matter everyone is fair game. It must work for the show to still be on the air now and we have seen how bbc has been getting rid of people and shows. So it shows just how good the show is
The haughty laughing up the sleeve, after all the messages of history, is f-ing depressing. I hope they at least get Cameron for corruption, he's guilty of so much more.
Merton thinks: "Oh my god! Someone is engaging on a subject and talking about the news! I'd better distract the audience and make it all about me.....again". He's an annoying reptile of a man these days.
strikes me, why vote on something so important if everyone doesn't fully know the details and consequences the other side. Seemed a bit of a blind decision. Should have got a deal on table first, then had a vote on that deal. Bit like New Zealand voted to change flag in 2015. They decided what alternative would be first, then voted on that rather than blindly voting to change flag and arguing on design after.
We were told the details; In or Out. Unless you have the ability to predict the future using a time machine, there is no way of having full details on exactly what will be the consequences such as something as simple as a flag. When you're dealing with the unknown, which is what the future is, all you can do is let both sides predict the best and worse case situation they can imagine and go from there, which is what they did. And it turns out the public made the right call, since nearly everything the Remain side predicted if we left, didn't happen. And nearly everything the Leave side predicted if we left, did happen.
@@ionlyfearphobophobia So increased turbulence in Northern Ireland, a surge in Scottish nationalism and a significant decrease in seafood and certain other exports were things that people were being urged to vote for??
@@trickygoose2 Nobody voted for a border in the Irish Sea. That turbulence is because the government didn't have the balls to bring back the Irish border. Scottish nationalism is actually decreasing, though that's not as much Brexit as much the incompetence of the SNP. Exports from the EU are currently as high as they were before we left. And we now have legal control of our own fishing waters, which will eventually kick out those EU fleets slowly after a few years when their government has given them time to adapt. So I don't know what shortages you're talking about. As for our exports, are oversea exports just took over our exports to the EU. In just one year we've managed to get all the over sea trade deals we had in the EU, plus a few they've spent decades trying and failing to get such as India. We're about to join the CPTPP, talks of a trade deal with the US are going well, and CANZUK is bound to happen within the decade with overwhelming support between all 4 countries. Where is this apocalypse of stock market collapse, bankrupted airplane industry, and super-gonorrhoea? None of it happened. They lied.
@@ionlyfearphobophobia I'd like to see some sources and figures for those statements. Personally, I am glad that my country's Government didn't have the balls to break a prior agreement. Imposing a hard Irish border would go down like a lead balloon with the USA at a time when relations with significant non-European trading partner are very important.
@@trickygoose2 I'm sure you would. I don't think the Americans would care. American Presidents are just puppets to their top 1% at the end of the day, with everything they say not catering to them never meaning shit in practice.
Stephen Hawkin says it's bad for scientific discovery.. A tory MP says that's just project fear... the former head of MI6 says it's bad for security, a tory MP says that's just project fear. A leader in the banking sector says it's bad for national finances, a tory MP says that's just project fear. The BBC put Gyles Brandreth on to say no-one knows the way it's going to be and Michael Gove to say we're all sick of the experts. Now it's becoming project nightmare.
The only problem is we *did* know exactly what would happen if we left, you *could* have known if you put effort into it, and yet millions still voted to cut off their nose to spite their face
Yup, without a plan, in the middle of a global pandemic. Relying on a vaccine that was very hastily put together, barely tested, and developed by the number one greediest pharma company in the world. Yup, things are just great arn't they :D
"Before it happened, we didn't know what was going to happen. While it happened, we didn't know what was happening. After it happened, we didn't know what had happened."
Brilliant.
That gorgeously summarizes the legislative process in the US.
A great passage for teaching senior English classes about tenses. :-)
Of course, he's not describing the EU referendum, but the activity behind coming out of the ERM.
@@roadwarrior144 For some, others know what’s what. I suppose it is the same everywhere.
Quoth Sir Humphrey Appleby,
GB in full flow showing his literacy and humour all in one. Just brilliant.
The difference being Giles isn't trying to be funny , he's just being himself . He is naturally engaging .
its a shame he was having this discussion on a comedy programme i was actually interested in what he was trying to say.
This is EXACTLY why Ian and Paul put on their Liberal/Leftie hat, as befits Multi-Millionaires and that to deflect what he was saying.
They did not succeed....:)
@@Isleofskye yes, even though he was commenting about some of the stupidity of Brexit from both sides , they didn't want him to say the bits that ridiculed the remain campaign .....
@@kevinmassey7675 Exactly. They knew what they were doing, my friend.
@@kevinmassey7675 I am almost shocked at how blindingly obvious this was, and how stupid I must've been voting remain. I am so glad that the majority voted leave the last few years (and especially since the beginning of coronavirus) has really exposed the EU for what they really are.
@@ea9167 yes it has hasn't it.......there are still some "" EU are mafia like " deniers though , amazingly !! ?
Merton can't let anyone else have the spotlight can he?
It's a panel show and Merton, along with Hislop, are regular staples.
Why not fuck off and watch Michael McIntyre if it upsets you?
Merton is a fucking arsehole, only time he has ever been funny was when n Deayton was ripping the piss out of him.
He always interrupts another comedian if that comedian is on a roll and getting laughs.
Grey Area
Oooo, we are very cross today.....
@@greyarea6688 Quite true which means we hear and have heard plenty from them over the years.
I know what you mean. He is very much like that, and has been for as long as I can remember.
Its not that he can't stand the attention, he can't cope with the lack of attention!
Well done GB!
He said “can’t stand the tension, what happened..?” But indeed, he wanted nothing more than to say LOOK AT ME NOWWWWWWW
maybe he thinks it's a bit too heavy
Paul Merton's career. 'Am I not talking? Why am I not talking?"
Utter respect for Giles - zero for everyone else.
Merton often spoils the flow. Just cannot help himself.
Totally agree. My least favourite on this show. And he's been on it from the get go.
He’s a twat! Hislop I can forgive... just about!
Trouble is nobody has the guts to tell him he aint funny !!!!!
Merton kind of underminned this, Gyles was interesting and funny and his clowning around was annoyingly distracting
Yes that's Merton acting smug, it's called stealing someone's thunder,
Merton will take his ball home if he is not the star. On JaM Parsons always awarded him a bonus point every time he opened his mouth to make sure he won and didn't sulk for the second recording that day.
I'm getting sick of Merton, I used to love this show but now not so much now. He can't not look at the audience every two seconds for approval for a shitty gag
@@SGADRM Most of the time Merton just looks bored now. I stopped watching ages ago because of their endless knocking of Brexit which ceased to be funny. I really like this description of the ERM by Giles though. I remember it well. it cost us around £2000.
@@roberthayes9842 agreed
Giles is just wonderful. What a dinner party guest! Clever man.
Coming from Sweden I can only say that I have a tremendous respect for Gyles.
I really miss these educated people in Sweden nowadays. A long time since we saw them last...
This clip sums up the show completely. You have 4 panelists and a host, each chipping in with their contributions to the point where nothing is allowed to flow. No-one gets to the end of what they start and it just falls apart as everyone cuts each other off.
ive always loved watching gile brandreth...hes good for tv, quality....and very funny.....this is just brilliant....
End of 2020 proves that he was exactly right. Everyone in charge still knows absolutely nothing.
Oh they know something. They know their off-shore accounts are now safe.
@@peterclarke7240 Ok, yes, I'll give you that! :D
And, for the little people, everything IS collapsing.
@@TheArgieH And now everything can be conveniently blamed on the pandemic.
Most Googled question in England the day after the vote: "What will it means if the UK leaves the EU?" Second most: "What IS the EU?"
I just love Gyles Brandreth
Giles Brandreth marvellous. Can't watch this because of Merton
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100% correct me too !!!!
Hopefully Giles has written an autobiography where he explains all this without idiots getting in the way.
brightest man the the room by far
He has a podcast, called "something rhymes with purple" with Susie Dent
He has an autobiography called "Odd Boy Out" which is excellent, plus a volume of his diaries ("Something Sensational To Read on the Train") and his diary of his time as an MP ("Breaking the Code") - all very well written and engaging.
I've never heard Ian Hislop called an idiot before, citations please?
He actually started on an autobiography in 1974. Apparently he'll be finished writing it within the next few decades. He plans to release it volume by volume under the title, "À la recherche du Gyles perdu."
I love him in 3rd Rock From The Sun
I've just read the part of John Major's autobiography that explains the UK's exit from the ERM and it is exactly how Giles explains it but in more depth. Worth a read.
The punchline was actually clever and funny, but Merton messed it up by interrupting and making those stupid weird sound effects. Judging by his facial expression at the end, you can tell he completely missed the joke because he was too busy trying to be funny but failing.
"look at me, look at me, oi you've not looked or laughed at me for 20 seconds, look at me" just like that? Lol
there's a narcissistic streak that comes out in Merton if he doesn't respect the host or his teammate (it also tends to rear its ugly head as a bit of misogyny)
Merton always does that when he is upstaged.
Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
They are friends and often do Just A Minute together
Merton, like a child, is disruptive because the subject is not all about him, and therefore totally uninteresting.
Brandreth was just droning on and on and on at that point. The first part, about the referendum was brilliant. The second part, about Britain leaving the ERM was desperately tedious apart from the final line about not knowing what was going on before, during or after.
@@beeble2003 This clip is under three minutes long and would have been even shorter had it not been for Merton's constant rude interjections. Merton behaved like a spoilt child desperate for attention, lacking the basic manners to shut up while someone else was speaking, and with no regard for those interested in what Gyles had to say. Even the most casual of viewers can see that he despises other people getting laughter and audience approval. He detested Angus Deayton, which came as news to Deayton after he left, as he had shared many of what he thought were friendly after-show drinks with Merton, which further shows what a phoney and resentful little man he has been.
@@elvisleeboy If you watch the video, you'll see that Brandreth wasn't getting any laughter and wasn't getting any audience approval, so Merton's supposed hatred of people getting those things can't be the reason for his interruptions. Brandreth starts his ERM story at 1:03. The audience doesn't laugh at a word he says until 1:57. They don't laugh again until 2:13 and even then, it's not clear whether they're laughing at him or Merton, and Merton's first interruption isn't until 2:19, when the anecdote was almost over, and by which time Hislop had already interrupted twice.
Conversely, when Brandreth was getting laughs, at the start of the clip, Merton and Hislop were just engaging in conversation and everybody was laughing with everybody else. The evidence of the video suggests that, actually, Merton doesn't like it when somebody talks for almost a minute and a half (more than 5% of the show's content) without getting a single laugh from the audience. Oh noes, commedian wants comedy show to be funny -- what a bastard!
@@beeble2003 Except that Brandreth at no point talked for anywhere near a minute without being interrupted. It was perfectly clear that, as with most jokes, this was leading to the laugh we got in the end - A laugh we would have reached far sooner had those interruptions not occurred. Unless there was a substantial amount cut in the edit, or that this was late in the show, based on this clip alone, Merton's comment about Brandreth's 'one man show' makes little sense. If someone tells you a joke, and you keep interrupting them before they get to the punchline and then blame THEM for taking so long to get there, then you are being an arsehole. What you have failed to take into account is the overwhelming evidence that Merton hates it when the attention is not his. You are also being deliberately disingenuous by making out that Brandreth spoke solidly for over a minute without those incessant interjections ruining his flow.
@@elvisleeboy But it was Ian Hislop who was interrupting the anecdote! Merton only spoke once in that minute and he wasn't interrupting anyone at that point. Brandreth was completely failing to be funny at that point.
Every guest who is entertaining ,merton always spoils it with his me me me show
"Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?"
Davies does the same on QI. Goes for stupid laughs at the expense of actually learning something.
I think Merton believed he is reading the crowd and they are bored by Giles, but he was off the mark because the story and conclusion were great. No one was bored.
Sounds like an outbreak of Yes Minister
For anyone on the other side of the channel looking to understand the UK this might help add some light. If not hopefully they will have had a chuckle.
Why did Merton have to keep interjecting him like that?
Because someone else was getting attention instead of him.
Because that's what the script writers wroe
Egotist ! and there was also the now age old, BBC weighted panel and audience meme of lets laugh and point fingers at the evil, incompetent Tories.
Because it's Giles. If you just let him talk it could go on for hours.
Because he (Merton) is an insufferable prick.
My favourite Brandreth bit, except when he was on QI recently, explaining how his ancestors invented everything.
"Is it a dolphin in a bath tub?"
Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
Scooter-dolphin-boy !
Thanks for that explanation Gyles, it reminds me of when as a Brit I googled around to find out the rules of baseball and Abbot and Costello's 'Who's on First?' routine came up, and now everything is perfectly clear.
Brilliantly put. All he needed to add was. The politicians will never allow it
Utterly brilliant.
When Gyles started talking recent history, you could literally hear the ignorance amongst the rest :)
When a man of supreme intelligence ..wipes the floor with the ignorance around him.
Loved Gyles since I was a Child. He was always the funniest face on TV (bright and witty).
And, he still is ..without even trying!
I have to totally agree. I have books, kindles, listen to all his podcasts, and find everything I can on youtube and JAM that he's taken part in. I always thought he wasn't well liked by many, but I'm noticing many people really do like him and that's nice.
Merton does exactly the same thing on Just a Minute on Radio 4
He’s jealous of Brandrith who is bar far the better orator
So is Stephen Fry though, he doesn't do it to Stephen.
Little unfair: Hislop did a fair bit of interrupting too. I think it’s actually what the two of them are paid for.
Both Merton and Hislop are extremely boring and just love interrupting to sound relevant!
@@brad_8711 true!
Merton is really obvious when he's jealous, it's cringy sometimes and you just think wow how can you have such little self esteem to feel upstaged by part timers on the show.
Can't they just let him speak
All these years later he got it mostly right
At least on QI they have the decency to let Gyles give his- always excellent- monologues. They still lampshade it of course, but the flow is never ruined like this.
14th November 2019 is today's date and he's pretty much nailed that one
How many months later no one still has any idea what is happening
21st of December 2020 and he's still bang on
Very yes minister this anecdote
Good to hear that its not just the ones voting that don't know what's what
Brillians summation by Brandreth. Merton, who normally sits there looking bored out of his skull, cannot BEAR it if anyone else gets any laughs and goes into attention-hogging overkill, desperately trying to kill the other person's laughs. A little bit pathetic really. Well done to Gyles for powering through.
I agree. Brandreth is a good storyteller and a funny guy, and he was as he said actually an MP and when ERM happened was actually there. He had a great account and a valuable insight, but Paul Merton just kept interrupting and butting in. He should have just let Giles speak.
There is a possibility that this was down to the editing, that maybe we didn't see bits where Giles did drone on and Merton was justified in interrupting, but what Giles was saying her should have been heard. What is the point of inviting knowledgeable and articulate guests on and then not letting them speak?
@ ?????
It still makes a pretty good summary of Brexit. We don't know what's happening and once it happened we still don't know what happened and when someone tries to explain, he's interrupted by a clown.
@@Pandemonis We may never know the full story of deceit.
Listen to those two on 'Just a minute' - the feelings are mutual and the actions are the same
Brandreth just summed the tories up in a nutshell there !
Love how he directly talks to Katherine here because the ERM stuff is all new to her.
I wish they would just let him explain
"Already Barbra Windsor has committed suicide on Eastenders! 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We're not on the One Show, you can use bigger words hahahahaha
A bit like life. At the beginning we don't know what's going to happen. While its happening, we don know why its happening, after it happened, we don't know why it happened.
Oh that is just brilliant - a true star
Brilliant!!
Ironically, after we left badly, both of Giles' suggestions sort of happened
2:16 Merton’s inferiority complex kicks in. Its been at least 2 mins since he was the centre of attention.
The ERM was not difficult. What happened ended was widely predicted and the reasons well known.
Linking weak currencies from countries with little or no fiscal -control -to strong currencies that exercised, at least some level of fiscal control. Was always going to cause a meltdown as the weaker currencies were inflated past their citizens ability to pay for basic goods and services... while deflating strong currencies.
Destroying exports and making anything that was made for export substantially less profitable, in fact driving many products to a loss.
Gordon Brown insisted that should another attempt be made that all countries involved follow six specific fiscal guidelines to prevent this from happening. That never happened.
Now the affluent Northern Europe is destroying the poorer Southern Europe. Propping Southern EU nations up with loans they can never afford to repay.
With freedom of movement all the young, wealthy and entrepreneurial citizens of these poorer nations are leaving them to work in Northern Europe meaning that their future as poor relations in a never ending cycle of increasing debt is set in stone.
When you try and play a game of absolute equity from a starting position of a total lack of equity... this is what happens. It surprised no one who understood the basics.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Then they compounded the error by creating the Euro, with a centralised monetary policy dictated by the ECB whilst individual countries formulate incompatible, but politically expedient fiscal policies. Another guarantee of disaster.
Rare excellence in the TH-cam comments section, thank you - and I totally (totally) agree
Like he said nobody knows anything, they just think they know better than everyone else
Great argument against the planning of the EU
Paul Merton isnt a patch on GB , " Is it a dolphin in a bathtub ?"
Wish Merton and Hislop would shut up and let the man finish his piece jesus
They should be replaced now or the prog just taken off !!!!
What? And allow a relatively articulate figure of the right to shine?
They're never going to let that happen again.
The thing about Gyles for me is its not the destination its more about the journey. Yeah he is a rambler but its a fun ramble even if I don't always agree with him. Two on this panel did the same thing to Reginald D Hunter just kept talking over him and trying to go for cheap laughs.
Following Liz Truss it's amazing how good the prediction for Brexit was.
Currency crashed, war on the continent...
and... apparently a million people are trying to invade us in "Small Boats".
2016 hmmm he was not toooo far off ,,, and yet love the analogy ,,, and irony ,,,,
TV Gold right there.
"The truth is, nobody knows anything" I concur.
That's a pro-Brexit stance, I believe.
Gyles is a definite National Treasure.
Gyles: "While I was having supper with Pope Gregory the Ninth, Genghis Khan kicked open the door and shouted -"
Merton: "Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?"
What a really wonderful, intelligent, funny, entertaining show HIGNFY would be without Paul Merton.
Trouble is, we had a pretty good idea of what would happen. And now it's happening
2021: “No one knows if Brexit is a good thing”
“it might have been a mistake”
Well we all know now that Brexit was the best thing the UK could do
@@smg7602 it's going absolutely fantastic!
As a Dutch citizen i would like to thank the UK for giving us the EMA, a huge chunk of your stock trading market, and pretty soon a large chunk of the 50 billion pound legal industry. You can have the fishing rights, the UK companies that have regained them are wholly owned by Dutch fishing companies anyway.
no regrets,i don't want to be dictated to
They should give Paul a ear peiace to tell him to shut up sometimes
I'd love to know what always triggers Paul Merton's short attention span. It's always something off camera to his immediate left. 😒
great stuff
What a delightful man
At the beginning they had no comprehension of what was going to happen, during the event they had no comprehension of what was happening, and at the end they had no understanding of what had happened. Sounds like government in general, unfortunately.
Ideally we would get public officials who were motivated by a desire to serve, and chosen by an informed electorate based on honest information. Unfortunately, what we actually get almost every time are public officials who are motivated by a desire for power, and chosen by an inflamed electorate biased by manipulative disinformation.
An honest politician, whatever next? We're several days into Brexit Britain and apart from 60 odd new trade deals nothing dreadful seems to be happening. The MSM are depressed.
What say you now.🇮🇪🇪🇺
@@derekmulready1523 Let's give it a yr or two before we make a decision.
@@saltspringrailway3683 Absolutely. It's too early to call, and obviously the pandemic has skewed things a bit.
I heard a chat with an American who was pretty worldy wise. Understood Geopolitics. And he said this (paraphrasing) "things will change, it will be better in some ways and worse in others. But at the end of the day it's the UK and they aren't about to completely collapse and become a basket case. They'll adapt as required"
The UK IS the only country that had the financial/independent clout to leave and who wanted to. The Germans and French don't want to. The Dutch are unlikely to, though that may change when their contributions have to rise to fill the void left by the UK. Italians and Spanish cant afford to.Obviously the states that get hand outs from the EU, unsurprisingly are very in favour of the whole thing.
Of course the EU can now continue on their path to what they want without the UK forever holding them back from further integration. We are no longer holding on the brakes. So surely this is a win for the EU in the long term.
@@rych7852 I agree with a lot of your analysis but think the EU has run out of money and is doomed in the long term.
2021 & they all still have pretty much no clue
“When we came out of the ERM”
Katherine Ryan: 🗿
Its a comedy show and its to make people laugh. Hence why its on friday nights, after a long stressful week just eant to sit chill get ready for the weekend with 30 minutes of laughs, jokes and delightful mockery of politicians, sports stars, celebs it doesnt matter everyone is fair game. It must work for the show to still be on the air now and we have seen how bbc has been getting rid of people and shows.
So it shows just how good the show is
The haughty laughing up the sleeve, after all the messages of history, is f-ing depressing. I hope they at least get Cameron for corruption, he's guilty of so much more.
And made a tidy profit
Amazingly how close this was if we voted out 😂
How right he was.
"is"
Merton thinks: "Oh my god! Someone is engaging on a subject and talking about the news! I'd better distract the audience and make it all about me.....again". He's an annoying reptile of a man these days.
Oh dear, poor Merton didn't like the attention being taken by somebody funnier than him, which to be fair, is most of the guests...
Aw bless, a time when HIGNFY was funny and intelligent.
Do they really know what is and Do they understand.
I wish I could speak like him.
'Leave' actually caused all the bad effects assigned to both outcomes ... 🤦
strikes me, why vote on something so important if everyone doesn't fully know the details and consequences the other side. Seemed a bit of a blind decision. Should have got a deal on table first, then had a vote on that deal. Bit like New Zealand voted to change flag in 2015. They decided what alternative would be first, then voted on that rather than blindly voting to change flag and arguing on design after.
We were told the details; In or Out.
Unless you have the ability to predict the future using a time machine, there is no way of having full details on exactly what will be the consequences such as something as simple as a flag.
When you're dealing with the unknown, which is what the future is, all you can do is let both sides predict the best and worse case situation they can imagine and go from there, which is what they did.
And it turns out the public made the right call, since nearly everything the Remain side predicted if we left, didn't happen. And nearly everything the Leave side predicted if we left, did happen.
@@ionlyfearphobophobia So increased turbulence in Northern Ireland, a surge in Scottish nationalism and a significant decrease in seafood and certain other exports were things that people were being urged to vote for??
@@trickygoose2 Nobody voted for a border in the Irish Sea. That turbulence is because the government didn't have the balls to bring back the Irish border.
Scottish nationalism is actually decreasing, though that's not as much Brexit as much the incompetence of the SNP.
Exports from the EU are currently as high as they were before we left. And we now have legal control of our own fishing waters, which will eventually kick out those EU fleets slowly after a few years when their government has given them time to adapt. So I don't know what shortages you're talking about.
As for our exports, are oversea exports just took over our exports to the EU. In just one year we've managed to get all the over sea trade deals we had in the EU, plus a few they've spent decades trying and failing to get such as India. We're about to join the CPTPP, talks of a trade deal with the US are going well, and CANZUK is bound to happen within the decade with overwhelming support between all 4 countries.
Where is this apocalypse of stock market collapse, bankrupted airplane industry, and super-gonorrhoea?
None of it happened. They lied.
@@ionlyfearphobophobia I'd like to see some sources and figures for those statements.
Personally, I am glad that my country's Government didn't have the balls to break a prior agreement. Imposing a hard Irish border would go down like a lead balloon with the USA at a time when relations with significant non-European trading partner are very important.
@@trickygoose2 I'm sure you would.
I don't think the Americans would care. American Presidents are just puppets to their top 1% at the end of the day, with everything they say not catering to them never meaning shit in practice.
Stephen Hawkin says it's bad for scientific discovery.. A tory MP says that's just project fear... the former head of MI6 says it's bad for security, a tory MP says that's just project fear. A leader in the banking sector says it's bad for national finances, a tory MP says that's just project fear. The BBC put Gyles Brandreth on to say no-one knows the way it's going to be and Michael Gove to say we're all sick of the experts. Now it's becoming project nightmare.
The only problem is we *did* know exactly what would happen if we left, you *could* have known if you put effort into it, and yet millions still voted to cut off their nose to spite their face
As much as Giles never gets to the point of anything quickly he was actually a decent mp.
It always took twenty shoots to do an ad lib.
Brilliant analysis! :-)
Paul Merton isn't funny. Which means he's a BBC employee for life!
Any one remeember the Viz HIGNFY board game when you got to spin the wheel of smugness.
I would watch a show of just Gyles. BBC do something right for once and give us The Giles Programme.
I haven’t watched HIGNFY in years. Because the final straw for me was when the first 3 answers were :-
1 - Orange Man Bad
2 - Boris Bad
3 - Brexit Bad
All true, so what's your problem?
Politics were created to give us all laugh.
the impartial BBC ladies and gentlemen. i not having ago at Gyles but the other folks and the recorded clapping. funny clip thought
Thank god we’re out shortly 👍🇬🇧
Yup, without a plan, in the middle of a global pandemic. Relying on a vaccine that was very hastily put together, barely tested, and developed by the number one greediest pharma company in the world. Yup, things are just great arn't they :D
Yep the only good thing to come out of 2020... except my veg patch... that really shone this year especially the spinach. :)
Kind of funny... kind of prophetic. Let's see 😄
George Soroa happened, look it up
Merton was VERY quiet when The Guvnor was on.
He didn't try to be clever when Bob Monkhouse was on. Bob would have made mincemeat out of him.
Who are you referring to by "The Guvnor"? It can't be Bob Monkhouse, surely?
The only "Guvnor" I remember wasn't on HIGNFY.
la plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme...
like spinning your wheels trying to get out of mud