Is politics stranger than fiction? Michael Portillo on the new world order
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- A former Defence Minister under Margaret Thatcher, Michael Portillo turned to writing and broadcasting since leaving politics in 2005. A regular on TV and radio, his repertoire includes hosting This Week on BBC One, Great British Railway Journeys and The Moral Maze on Radio 4.
Outstanding political thinker and speaker. Outstanding train rider and travel guide.
"Outstanding train rider" best compliment ever.
@@itsgub Wrong about Boris Johnson.
@@zooropa33 He wouldn't have known in 2017 the absolute chaos that was to turn politics on its head and give Boris a thumping majority.
Michael Portillo is so wise but we did need a referendum, it was well overdue. The EU only goes one way and many people are becoming sucked into its clutches. It was now or never and we voted to leave the clutches of the EU.
Saw him at Warwick Uni in 2012, always gives good value Michael.
He's just brilliant
absolutely wild how much has changed in less than four years
So your saying
So many comments on here praising Portillo, I couldn't disagree more strongly, he's not normal, what makes him tick? He's got no kids, he's strange.
I agree, his gay lover over a period of 8 years says he is economical with accounts of his homosexuality. He is obnoxious and not what he seems 100%
Portillo another has been who took the big wage yet achieved F/all at the time, now he is into trains working for the BBC. I wish he would stick that Bradshaw's book up his jacksie. His father would be turning in his grave, given he was a left wing political Spanish exile.
flawless presentation
He should have made PM, bring him back. Great front man who is switched on upstairs.
As ever always bang on. Theresa May would benefit from listening to Michael as he has no political agenda that she would deem threatening.
The irony.
Irony is like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
Mr Portillo, I would vote for you for PM in a heartbeat!!!
Tengo mucho respeto por ese hombre. I was one of those who danced in the street when he lost his seat but what he's done since is remarkable. Everyone deserves a second chance.
truly brilliant speach
Where is this?
I'd as soon listen to Portillo as anyone
Bring him back. Sensible conservative.
This guy is the substitute speaker, who's Lord Dobbs?
I think the man at the front who kept shouting out "Dubs" should keep a lower profile. I think the compere was absolutely correct in saying Lord "Dobbs" and not "Dubs". Michael Dobbs is a Conservative Life Peer, and novelist. Whereas Alf Dubs is neither.
A wonderful person to whom I very much admired and respected in his working political day's, but also a person that I very much admired and also respect in his post political life, only wish with his experience he has gained post political career meetings so many people and social life challenges, could now be used to guide along with advice today's challenging world, so many politicians who today like Michael would use their time in political power more usefully given that opportunity
CoOl ViD..! 👍
Was this recorded before or after Dr Peterson stumped Cathy Newman? Just look how intolerably smug and conceited she is....sooooo pleased with herself.....for one example see 58:14 UGH!! Watch her smirk and grin at her own supposed "gotcha" question.
Mr Portillo the government needs you know.
The best PM the UK never had
Mr Portillo….a voice of reason…
As a kid I did not like him. I wish he was Prime Minister now.
The guff around 20:00 about differential experience of WW2 overlooks IRELAND. The elephant in the room now, at the time of this speech, and in the 2016 referendum. I said so at the time, too. When will the insular English Brexiteers get it and face it?
Very true.
@@markcronin2857 The one country in the UK that voted almost unanimously to leave the EU was Wales. The English result was more divided.
35.00 absolutely correct, present and previous governments has failed to deal with this large group of unemployed who will not work and have abused the system. the consequence of this has led to low skilled labour being brought in from former Warsaw pact countries who keep wages down.
Michael you really don't make sense, on the one hand you claim that the EU is not democratic then go on to list a number of major decisions made by the British electorate while we are members of the EU. In no case did the EU tell us that you cannot do that. As for one big superstate, can you imagine the Germans being any less German or the French any less French in 20 years from now and that applies to every single member of the EU. Scotland has been tied to England now for some 400 years, are the Scots any less Scottish, have they lost their identity? Just go to Cardiff Arms Park and tell me the Welsh are any less Welsh and yet they have been part of the UK for even longer than the Scots.
Tridhos careful! ... they tried, and didn't succeed because you're not in the eurozone otherwise things would have been very different with uks special membership, If you want examples, look at the Netherlands. Being in the EUROZONE is not bad.. been eaten by the eurozone slowly and utilizing monetary policy and obscure financial games to dis-member sovereign governments is very dangerous.. And that is what the eurozone has become.. And within its cusp is the ECB the commiaion and the eurozone council of ministers
Tridhos I meant in the *Euroarea at the begining ... lol bloody corrector
You misread his argument. He's stating decisons made by the EU lack democractic accounability, that doesn't preclude national decisons, only that there is a flow toward Brussels and away from national capitals as the process of _ever closer union_ continues. He's not arguing that national identity is diluted, but that many people _feel_ that it is, that the Brexit vote for both sides was more about feeling than facts presented by either side.