Brexit, World War II And Britain’s Identity Crisis | AJ+
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Do you know what’s going on with Brexit? Does anyone really? Three years ago, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Since then, the country has seen politicians resign, mass protests, deadline extensions ... and ridicule by American comedians.
But one thing that’s hanging over the debate is World War II, and Britain’s recent past. How has Britain’s imperial history, and the myths around the country’s role in the war, shaped the Brexit debate?
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Lots of people still think that the Commonwealth (Empire) will rally round the mother country. They forget that the newly independent nations do not always have fond memories of British rule.
they will buy and sell their goods to Britain direct instead of through the EU and we will make our own agreements with them fond memories do not come in to it as they are populated mainly by immigration and have adopted English as a main language they have systems of law and culture adopted from Britain and a need to trade the politics will change but trade rules politics i think we will find very little difficulty trading we will just be a new customer
@@jamesherold8655 yeah trading is one of the easiest way to do...just the fact you seem to believe that disqualifies you for any further discussions about this topic I'm afraid to say!
@@jamesherold8655 They may speak your language (as much of the world does), but you are kidding yourself, if you think your culture and laws are universal.
@@LadyDoomsingerI was brought up in AUSTRALIA so please do not make assumptions about my culture read a history book and compare the laws and culture of the English speaking parts of the world and do not kid yourself trade rules and always has
@@jamesherold8655 I stand by my original statement.
Russia never gets mentioned for its sacrifice and resilience. They did the heavy lifting on the eastern front, virtually alone. They arguably did more to defeat Hitler than any, one nation in the war.
from a german point of view WWII was the gigantic struggle against the soviet empire on the eastern front, everything else was a sideshow.
Statistics: Wardead WWII UK 300.000 USSR 20.000.000
but let's get out of the past and move on, this was some 70 years ago. It's not our present day reality.
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Soviet gigantic struggle against Finland. That sideshow is so funny that Stalin rather not talk about and the funny part, it make even worst for them(Soviet).
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Is not how many died but how many died by so few combatant and clever tactics. Finland look at the odd of 5-1 which for us not looking good with 5 times the size of the soviet. But in the end good tactic and training win the battle.
When you treat your soldier as nothing more just a thing and using basic tactic of WW1, you are bound to lose a lot of soldiers.
The were not really "virtually alone". Lend-lease was a lifeline and the battle of the Atlantic allowed supplies to reach the USSR. Stalin begged for the opening of a second front in mainland Europe and the other Allies were defeating the Axis in North Africa, Italy and elsewhere. Of course, they deserve a mountain of credit, but do not push the myth that they were "virtually alone".
@@Miquelalalaa I agree with you that the lend-lease was more important than people think. But in terms of manpower, tanks, guns and aircraft involved the USSR really was "virtually alone".
Battle of Tobruk (1941, 52.000 men on both sides)
Operation Barbarossa (1941, 6,4 million men)
Battle of Moscow, (1941, 3,3 million men)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43, 2,2 million men)
Battle of Kursk, (1943, 3,5 million men)
Operation Bagration (1944, 3,5 million men)
Normandy invasion (1944, 1,6 million men - of them 1,3 million allies)
It is not a myth. The truth is that the USSR held the enormous power of the Nazi Germany, fought alone on the European soil for more than three years and virtually won the war alone. In 1944 the USSR would be able in my opinion to defeat Germany even without the opening of a second front.
Do you know the russian series Liberation?
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@Scott learn to punctuate you paranoid cretin.
Boris Johnson is well aware of the fact that Boris Johnson will still be able to buy food no matter how much the cost increases.
Yep, Brexit is a rich man's dream, they will profit mightily during the restructuring and then they will profit mightily again when it crashes down around everyone and the Govt has to bail the country out.
@@1MarkKeller what bollocks.You have no idea what the future will be.Its just your fear that Britain could make a success of Brexit.This video is wrong on its assessment of the British attitude regarding our history.We are all aware of the impact the British Empire had on the world ,some bad but mostly positive.
Before we had anything to do with EEC a jar of hartleys jam in UK 1/9 OR 7pence in Holland 4gullders 24 cent 12/- or 60pence 1967/8 just before we went decimal. that,s why I was dead against joining, that,s why Heath didn,t let us vote, when asked why his reply was he knew we would vote NO. Also vat should stop as that,s an EU imposed tax. mind UK still had valid ration books until 1963. PLEASE NOTE Jam IS 53pence dearer, and in those days most of our food came from country of orogin, hardly anything came from Europe.Mind if we can survive coming out of a war, I think we can survive coming out of a shitty wee union.
@@rogerwoodhouse7945 Name the positive ones!
@@Innoruuk We left a legact of law and order in India for instance and an infrastructure still cherished today.Not to mention the English language.Every African former colony was left in a better state than when Britain first found them.Cant say there has been much improvement since we left.Thats just for starters.There's plenty more if you want but that should satisfy your curiosity for now.
Nostalgia for the past is one of the main reasons nations can’t move forward
define 'Forward mate' nostalgia means a fondness for the past, and a yardstick of ourselves so-far, for comparison.
Is that why you love Trotsky and Marx..comrade. you know Marx got rich off the stock market and sent his daughter to ballet and private school when he got old? Haha
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd i would Bury men like you if king. You are misguided and vacuous. Celtic revival? You are a moron for even linking Brythonic Ans Gaelic culture together. You know nothing of Indo-European paganism and you use Celtic. I'm far right and I'm warning you. We are gonna take over and your type is the same as hiz it Tahir or any Muslim group. Weak and blind,
Learn about Indo-European mythology before you state culture you know nothing of. Even splintering Germanic and Celtic is pathetic
I think this is why Germany has been quite successful in recent years. They have little love for the past, years of a devided nation following an evil dictator will do that for you I suppose
@@TheMagicJIZZ well if that ain't the most incel, 8chan Nazi loving response I've ever seen, idk what is! You nailed it bud!! The world is leaning left as a response to the failed economic practices of the center right, you're a dying breed, dust in the wind.
"Treated their people like subjects, not citizens" reminds me of some workplaces
Isolationism, xenophobia, identity crisis due to shrinking influence, false nostalgia for a time long past. It would seem Brittain have almost exactly the same issues as the US at the moment.
Torbjörn Lekberg yeah uneducated troglodytes like you offering their delusional opinions with ZERO credibility to back it up.
@@naynay1139 It varies greatly depending on the nation in question. There are many eastern and many western nations.
@@mugfish0 And you throw around insults rather then present an argument against my claim. This tells me nothing, besides that I nudged a sensitive spot.
@@naynay1139 China and Russia are just old dictatorships with alot of experience of being dictatorships. They are skilled at being suppressing scumbags, but for how long will that last? Keeping power as a dictatorship is a balance act, wich eventualy will lead to a breakdown.
Iran is not even on their level, being too young and inexperienced as a theocracy to even have their level of relative stability. Ruling only by fear and as self-appointed voice of religion can easily backfire. And if it does, it will do so hard.
Neither of thiese mentioned nations rules wisely. Intelligently, in two out of three cases, but not wisely.
The western nations consist of more then just the big powers. France, the UK and the US are part of this, but so are the smaller nations, and they do not agree with big ones in everything. And the same can be said concerning the east.
@@naynay1139 Predictability is irrelevant in a discussion, if your goal is to get as close to the truth as possible. What matter is if the argument holds up to the counter points or not.
Your response here does not present a single counter point.
So in a nutshell: Make Britain Great Again
@assault and battery depends who you ask
@@lubu2960 Britain was great when Britain didn't exist nor did reality. Reject Modernity. Embrace the never ending void.
@assault and battery when its people invented all of this my friend: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_inventions_and_discoveries
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@assault and battery Britain wants to return to pre-Merkel and Macron calling the shots. That is it.
There's a big difference between wanting control of your own country and wanting control of other countries, and I'm shocked at how this video tries to conflate the two.
Another piece of 'the racists didn't know what they voted for' shenanigans.
History being rewritten to bolster Marxist doctrine and bias.
I want to remain in the eu... however I'm sorry but I literally dont know anyone who considers the British Empire part of their national identity what a load of bulshit and the claims of Winston Churchill being a white supremacist is a ridiculous piece of unecessary slander he did a lot more good than bad.. we all accept the empire happened and many bad things happened no one I know ever celebrates it.. but people forget about some of the good things like the spread of industry and parliamentary democracy to countries that would have otherwise been dictatorship ie many protesters in in Hong Kong want to return to being a British colony as mainland china starts to encroach on their freedoms..
@ZaqueHunzahua some people were saying that.. look it up
@@roro-mm7cc What freedoms? Hong Kong was built on the opium trade well established by the British in Asia that destroyed millions of people's lives in China. Hong Kong then became an important trading hub that thrived on putting a price on other people's goods and labour. Maybe you meant taking away their privileges. Freedom is a very relative concept in this world. Were the British bringing freedom to the Chinese when they were selling them opium?
It’s funny watching the UK as a foreigner. Probably not so funny for them.
As an American I see it as a warning.
We get by! Politics means virtually nothing in our daily lives. Most of us, if we're being honest, just care about local stuff and family and maybe how our favourite sports teams are doing!
@@chome4 Yeeaaah, Brexit in of itself has had very little tangible effect on my life so far. It's more the politics that's slowly seeping into everyday life, e.g: I had to switch to a different driving school because my last instructor wouldn't shut up about Brexit, among other obnoxious things, _cough, I mean, 'not conforming to politically correct dogma'_ by saying that I'm struggling to find a job not because of my lack of experience but because all the people from Pakistan flooding in... ugh, he was insufferable. Anyway, anecdotes aside, apart from things getting a little more expensive, not much has changed... but then again... we haven't actually left yet... the worst is still to come.
If I'm honest not many of us have a clue we have been deceived consistently by our leaders at Westminster and a lot of people are anti-establishment but very patriotic which means Queen and historical victories outweigh all other matters. We do not have a clear clue about how things as simple as data transfers will happen after Brexit. Our Government has been learning on the Job rather than having a plan which is the reason for the mess.
@@4tech69 As an American I see it as our reflection.
As an outsider let me see if I understand....British parliament want to separate from the EU for financial reasons but are using xenophobia and historical nostalgia to sway the population to vote for a separation.
Shard 308 - Ah, that makes sense.
Shard 308 yeah because they dont believe humans should have rights.. they dont believe all people deserve the right be paid for the things they do. they believe white people are above everyone.. Winston hated Indians he spoke about wanting to kill them in mass and they proceeded to put him on the 5 pound note. its okay to be racist if the war wins.
Not at all, not wanting to have laws and Tax decided by a foreign power apparently makes you a white supremacist. When the counter argument is insults it shows there is no argument for remain.
The majority of Parliament are actually pro EU. It's a small group backed by big businesses donors and media giants that basically conned the entire country.
No. That's completely false. This video is heavily influenced by the institutional left bias of AJ+. Don't be so impressionable.
The one lady who says, "I can't do anything but watch in horror at what is happening in this country", pretty well sums up the feelings of all us in the English speaking world.
WW II was not the only reason to start something like the EU. At that point Germany and France had been enemies for generations: the war of 1870/1871, WW I and WW II. Starting a friendly relationship between the two was crucial for peace in Europe.
Germany did not exist until then it was the Prussians that fought France 1870/1871 and dominance of Europe a plan of Bismark one way or the other war failed EU is the next move and it seems we now have a new set of political overlords not the simple trade we joined called the common market Power corrupts and we need to get well clear or get hurt in its collapse
Germany did not exist before 1871 I think you mean the Franco Prussian war when the idea of the EU was first born
@@jamesherold8655 The German Kaiserreich did not exist before 1871, but the North-German Confederation under Prussian leadership already existed since the Austro-Prussian war in 1866 (both rivaling major powers within the German Confederation since 1815), and although only a military alliance at the beginning, the North-German Confederation actually became a federal state with its own constitution in 1867 (in contrast to the German Confederation that was only a loose association of sovereign states).
@@yurigansmith I know one of my ancestors left Saxony rather than prison or death but it is difficult to find much history about it in Britain the gap left in that area from the defeat of Napoleon to the Franco Prussian war is filled with the Victorian and American conflicts and acheivements I would be pleased to get any information on the subject particularly from 1824 to 1871 or perhaps an internet connection to this period thanks
But that doesn't mean everyone should be involved in it since the EU is not just the UK's cup of tea.
I am so glad that I am now German. I've lived in Germany since 1976 and I never once even considered becoming a German. Until brexit. Good Bye England.
What took you so long.Hedging your bets were you?You wont be missed.
Good bye mate 👋
Good for you, but no one cares.
@Cantamusquerbeat. Germans belong in Germany, unless they are tourist, or desire to assimilate into a new culture. Most immigrants refuse to or simply can't assimilate.
Did you support Hitler/EU too?
Instead of tanks, they're using banks.
Yanis Varoufakis
Scotland was taken out of the eu against our will. The English wanted out, not the Scottish.
how about a mock Brexit, just to show Britain's people what it means to leave the EU.
Brexit IS actually what we let happen for everybody to see what are the consequences.
The EU had never been as disciplined as during this time of Brexit negotiations.
It's not a British identity crisis, it's just the English.
Wonder why ?
@@LeedsLyons
Failure to maintain an English culture separate from British. So the Celtic nation's and immigrant communities have a dual cultural identity: Scottish & British; Jamaican & British; Indian & British; etc.
The English don't really have that.
So as the traditional British culture weakens in a global world the English have no other identity to ground a new world view on. So as Britain becomes less important globally the English experience this as a cultural threat, while the other communities just add another layer to their cultural onion i.e. Welsh & British & European & Global.
@@theother1281 Agree to a degree!
English identity is scorned upon by the British aristocracy and the MSM also has played a huge part in eradicating English traditions openly making the English Culture synonymous with some sort of racism always equating it as a show of pride of GB's colonial history therefore making people reluctant to claim such an identity, begs the question really as to why this is? Why do they not want Englishmen & Women to be proud of the achievements of the English peoples, and believe me if people only knew what came out of England they would realise that it is up there with Humanity's most important Cultures.
@@LeedsLyons
Remember the MSM is full of English people who thought of English and British as synonymous and if you look back to the pre millennial period the expression of English Nationalism was largely expressed through cultural racism and political fascism.
Even today those same forces embrace English Nationalism making it more difficult for a more open national cultural identity to evolve.
@@theother1281 I like your points and agree with most of what you write, I must advise that I just writ an essay explaining my thoughts on this matter but seemed to have went off on a tangent! TH-cam is not the place for such discussions, I appreciate your time have a nice evening mate!
Its 2021 and people still downplay the soviet union part in the war.
This is way too oversimplified. There's a lot more to Brexit than this.
@Old Skool Bodybuilding Routines It's propaganda, as the whole narrative is based on the idea of there being something distinctly wrong with being British and Britain itself.
They overlook the fact that unlike the continental countries, Britain has never been invaded as a state, was on the right side of BOTH world wars, the cold war and the Napoleonic wars. Also, we are an older nation too than many major continental powers--- Germany (1871) and Italy (1861) are both relatively recent entities, whereas the British have been united in some form since 1603. We have a great record!
As for the criticism that we were a colonial power, well weren't Germany, France Holland and Spain also colonial powers?
People voted for it and then parliament SHAT on it
No sir the whole thing is shit
No mention of the economic grift by millionaires that underlies the Brexit movement.
Sources plz
Preda Y. Leavers refuse to see that Brexit IS an elite project.
Jennifer Akdemir The only brexiteers I’ve met are white supremacists or blind bum boys of manky teeth Farage.
@@felipe96ification will this do for starters Peter Hargreaves - £3,200,000 Hargreaves, who is now retired having founded the Hargreaves Lansdown financial services company donated £3.2 million to the Leave.EU group. Jeremy Hosking - £1,691,296Hosking made his millions through investment and private equity and is currently a shareholder in Premier League football club Crystal Palace. His net worth is estimated to be £330 million. Lord Edmiston - £1,000,000Robert Norman Edmiston became a millionaire through his company IM Group, . Crispin Odey - £873,288.15Odey is a London-based hedge fund manager who played a major role in funding the Brexit campaign. He voted for Brexit but warned his clients just a few months later to prepare for a recession and higher inflation in wake of the shock Leave vote. Peter Cruddas - £350,000Cruddas is the founder of online trading company CMC Markets. He was at the centre of a political scandal in 2012 when it emerged that he offered then Prime Minister David Cameron donations in return for access to government policy-making. Michael Freeman - £348,000 Brexit donor Freeman co-founded property developer group Argent in 1981. His estimated net worth is £135 million. Sir Michael Hintze - £100,000 London-based Hintze is the majority owner of the CQS hedge fund and has previously worked for Goldman Sachs. His estimated net worth is £1.28 billion. He said in the run-up to the June referendum that Britain had more to fear from staying in the EU than departing it. That’s just a small sample, notice quite a few hedge funds. Sterling’s big short comes to mind. There is also the question of Arron Banks dark money £8 million plus.
Exactly. Brexit is a right wing millionaire movement. Anyone who can’t see that is an idiot. Millionaire Arron Banks funded by Russian oligarchs, millionaire traitor Farage and millionaire clown Bojo
As a NON BRITISH person AJ+ media loves targeting British history ONLY FOR the BAD things the British did and NOT the GOOD the British did and then that's going to cause British guilt FOR the GOOD things the British did and yes I MYSELF believe that WHITE BRITS should be proud to be British,the British do have the right to celebrate their history and indeed the matter of the FACT is the British did play a ROLE in helping SHAPE the WORLD for the good or bad the world had to be shaped in one way or another.
The British deserve to be proud but most of the bad things they have done our being brought to light.
I never knew Churchill was racist. That's some sad news because nobody did anything to him.
@@pauledmondson5654 OH NO, WAS HE? WELL I'M BLOWED, SO, SAVING THE WORLD BY YOUR EVALUATION, STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGHT EH? DEFINE RACISM IN 2019 MATE. HOW ABOUT THE 8 WEST INDIANS I WORKED WITH IN THE 1960'S---WE GOT ALONG FINE, CALLING EACH OTHE DIRTY NAMES AND '''RACIST'' WORDS , MOSTLY FROM THEM ,AS THEY OUT NUMBERED ME---8 TO 1. DID WE GIVE A SHIT? NOOOO, WE LARFFED OURSELVES SILLY. THEY CAME FROM DIFFERENT ISLANDS . AND WERE NASTIE TO EACH OTHER MOSTLY. THANKS TO THE BASTARD MARXISTS IN THIS COUNTRY, THEY HAVE STIRRED ALL THE NONE ''RACIST. SHIT UP.
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@@MrDaiseymay saved the world from what?
As far as your story goes, that's on you.
@@pauledmondson5654 By AJ standards everyone is a racist. Churchill had to make some hard choices on war which was deemed racist. However if you look at his life you cannot see any racism. The country wouldn't celebrate him if he was a racist
I think many London remainers like to think all leave voters were just elderly racist Tories who want to restore the empire, however the truth is far more unconformable. Brexit was won because of people in poor in Labour areas of northern England and Wales hated the elites in London and felt they had been 'left behind'. Tell them that they are racists who want to bring back the empire and you will be corrected very quickly.
Let's see how they sing when their factories close down, direct EU investment disappears, and successive Tory governments impose further austerity on them.
You're saying that people in poor Labour areas of northern England and Wales voted Leave because they hated the elites in London?
@@PrimoStracciatella Yes! Not all of them and maybe they'd state it differently, but that is the underlining reason.
Right, so not racist then. Definitely ignorant and stupid, by that description, but not racist. Got it.
True enough, doesn't change the fact that Leave voters were conned.
The British Empire during its time, mostly sowed chaos and ethnic strife in most of its colonies. E.g. Nigeria, India and Pakistan, etc.
I don't have any sympathies for their self-afflicted home troubles. In fact, I'm relishing the final demise of the "Empire". Scotland will break from the Union, and so will N.Ireland eventually.
Which of them nations existed before the British empire?
@@HaiLsKuNkY I'm going to assume that this isn't a serious question. It can't possibly be.
@@charlesphilips2045 i am serious, non of the countries above existed before the British empire.
HaiLsKuNkY you are correct most of Africa was made of nomadic tribes that still hadn’t invented the wheel or farming and India/Pakistan was split into loads of small states constantly at war with each other. Britain created these countries
So did the French, Spanish, and Portuguese Empires.
While I do not disagree that immigration can bring problems, especially if it is poorly managed.
It is often a scapegoat for politicians and demagogues to not have to take responsibility for the real causes.
The problems facing the UK are not caused by immigration, but by a political structure that keeps those in power who do not act in the interest of the country.
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Just been thinking about Rees-Mogg and his assertion that those who perished in Grenfell were stupid for following Fire Service advice.
He suggests the ‘clever thing to do’ would have been to ignore professional advice and evacuate anyway.
I see him with his family in First Class on a sinking Titanic. They are all in their staterooms while the third class ‘steerage passengers’ in the bowels of the ship are drowning still padlocked below decks.
I can almost see a suited and booted Mogg, who got himself and his family off in one of the first life boats, saying to the press ‘now the clever thing for those steerage passengers to have done would have been to have ignored the crew and got into the few life boats there were for them as the ship was going down fast by the head’
No the REAL ‘clever thing to do’ would have been for K&C to have listened to residents fears, fixed the fire doors, fixed the escape lighting and NOT clad the building in a material that quickly spread what was initially a small fire.
The ‘clever thing to have done’ would have been not to clad the building at all because it was looking like an eyesore to the people in the penthouse expensive rich dwellings opposite.
The really clever thing to have done would have been to not treat poorer people as if their very lives have no value.
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Well said. They despise us. Unfortunately they somehow manage to convinve enough of us to vote them back into power, over and over again. Literally voting for more of the same, voting for more inequality and voting against our own self interest. When will we wake up.
I'd have left, regardless of what emergency services said.
Watching this as a British person....fam its mad how true it is. I mean generalised in 15min but still this is one well thought out explanation on the greater context of brexit
I want to remain in the eu... however I'm sorry but I literally dont know anyone who considers the British Empire part of their national identity what a load of bulshit and the claims of Winston Churchill being a white supremacist is a ridiculous piece of unecessary slander he did a lot more good than bad.. we all accept the empire happened and many bad things happened no one I know ever celebrates it.. but people forget about some of the good things like the spread of industry and parliamentary democracy to countries that would have otherwise been dictatorship ie many protesters in in Hong Kong want to return to being a British colony as mainland china starts to encroach on their freedoms..
@@roro-mm7cc Our country is going to shit man, we need to recover fast. Labour and Tories will kill us as a nation, we need to try the BREXIT party
The Real Bleach a one policy party? Nope. They’ll give up once they get their way. They don’t care past being out of the EU and half of them don’t even know what the EU actually is.
Roman 213 Roman 213 Churchill was absolutely a white supremacist. In 1937 he said, “I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." He believed white people were better than other races. That makes him a white supremacist. He may have changed his views, but I’ve never seen evidence of that. Please share it if you do. But he was definitely a white supremacist for a long time and did terrible things that affected millions of people in that time. It’s not all about WW2, he’d been around a fair while before that. With Hong Kong, who is to say what would have happened without the British interference in China in the first place? Whilst Britain never ruled China, they sure made a mess there.
@@roro-mm7cc lol I feel like many Brits have this type of superficial knowledge of the British Empire. Over emphasizing the good and completely brushing over the atrocities committed and endorsed by the Empire. It's not a primary thought but trust when i tell you this whole idea still influences how we view ourselves especially older people when it comes to our role in the world and more specifically Europe
This commentator hasn’t a clue about Britain, its culture, and its politics.
Provide evidence that proves your claim ?
Wheres your 15 minute video on brexit then?
I want to remain in the eu... however I'm sorry but I literally dont know anyone who considers the British Empire part of their national identity what a load of bulshit and the claims of Winston Churchill being a white supremacist is a ridiculous piece of necessary slander he did a lot more good than bad.. we all accept the empire happened and many bad things happened no one I know ever celebrates it.. but people forget about some of the good things like the spread of industry and parliamentary democracy to countries that would have otherwise been dictatorship ie many protesters in in Hong Kong want to return to being a British colony as mainland china starts to encroach on their freedoms..
@David. The country's called *The UK* actually...
@@sarahann530 He's not one making claims, the people who made the video are. The burden of proof lies with them.
He was not blamed, he was the reason why 3 million of Bengalis parished due to hunger.
Anindya Saha no that’s wrong, he didn’t let them starve he was unable to send resources to India
It was suggested that he did, and he refused.
India was and is a very resourceful country. India as a colony joined hands to fight world war 2. As the requirements of resources began to raise l, India was drained of its resources. Even the reserves were also transferred. Bengal had one of the largest port of the country at that time. So local farm products were targeted without any fallout plans. You would be surprised to know when political leaders wanted to transfer foods from other locations of India which was scheduled to transfer to UK but British government did not do that. Hope this clarifies. I am not saying he planned to murder 3 million people, but he just did not care if we lived or died. I know he was a hero to you but he was responsible for the man made famine.
Absolute rubbish, there is no one alive who remembers an empire. The fact we don't want to be part of tne new German empire is more relevant.
What German Empire?
Ok boomer.
Ok boomer
You don't have to live in the empire to have knowledge of it, there is something called "culture" that transmits the same idea over the the years and years sometimes even centuries. Look no further than China's imperial ambitions.
Actually, it was a computer nerd and the might of America that saved Britain from defeat in World War II. The older Britons who voted for Brexit are like their Trump-supporting counterparts here in the States. They want to live in a world that never can be again as it applies to the two countries.
Yep, countries that never can be again, and never really was, for the majority of it's citizens/subjects.
I think you're undervaluing the effects of the literal wave after wave of men the Soviets sent vs the best the Germans had to offer. +18 million dead, but they ground up the German elites with attrition, and kept forcing them back.
WHEN DID YOU HAVE YOUR SCULL SCRAPED OUT SONNY?---THAT E.U CHIP WILL FAIL SOON
Alan Turing. Ironically, a Brit (not one we treated very well!)
@@user-pg9sw2td7w what happened to him was a horrible injustice. Makes one want to say "Still nostalgic for the 'good old days?' "
Finally! I study history in Manchester, and in between the Brexit rhetoric and what I learn in my course, this correlation between our imperial past and euro scepticism is long overdue
Lol, did really half of the British population voted to leave, believing that they'll get to continue a brittish empire
Nice summary. Unfortunately a lot of people hold on to myths rather than facts. Thatcher is remembered by most as "Rolling back the frontiers of the State" when her government centralised powers that had been those of local government. WE now have a government that is more centralised than it has ever been.
This issues are overstated. Poverty and increasing inequality, the capture of our politics by corporate interests, these things have far more significance but aren’t mentioned once. The exact same issues brought Trump to the US.
That is something most countries suffer from, even in the eu like spain france, poland.... but none of them blames the eu or immigrants, rather each one wants to reform the eu laws to use it later as a tool to help fix their economy, that is legitimate, but to blame the eu for economic problems is a sign of a mental breakdown in the eu politics and media
@@thestatistician6076 Yes they do blame migrants. And as Stu Birchall said, the real reasons for the British wanting to leave the EU are hardly mentioned in the video. Many of us are convinced that the EU, in its current form, is not reformable. It is a fundamentally undemocratic institution run by corporate interests for corporate gain. Life outside the EU cannot be guaranteed to be better, but continued life within can be guaranteed to be worse for Working Class people.... and yes... despite the mad attempts of London to think differently... working class people do still exist, and are not represented in parliament or in anyones plans for "diversity"
@@prettyhowtownprufrock3421 really do they blame them? The only reason why the uk does blame them is because it considers them to be a reminder of its fall from grace, whereas other countries like spain try to compensate for their past crimes and do actually recognize them, your governments do not from the bengal famine to the invasion of iraq that doomed the middle east , or what is left of it after you divided it with no regard to ethnic or sectarian divisions thus plunging into endless wars, to your massacres in south africa... if there was any politician in the uk with some dignity he would have apologized and acknowledged the previous crimes, instead the same stupid british ego thinks that the uk is this invincible superpower that can never fall, and thus you are taking your country to its downfall with your bare hands, fine so be it but if you want to be so arrogant and stupid, then at least don't blame others like the eu or germany or the migrants for your past and current failures, there is a reason why the developping countries even those with no colonial past do take refugees, it is because they have a weak demographic growth, and in some cases even less then zero demographic growth and so they boost it through migration, so that as a result they can keep their economies growing. As for the eu, no one said it is perfect, but it is a true achievement, it quelled the internal european conflicts to a large extent which was the primary reason behind its creation, it lifted much of the trade and financial barries between the eu member states, also abolishing all visa and residence restrictions, uniting most countries under the same strong currency, even though that did harm some countries with a high level of bureaucracy and addiction to debt like italy or greece, and finally strengthened their global position in politics, sure the eu may not be the best for the uk , but it was very beneficial for it through the removal of many restrictions in different fields, and you shouldn't blame the eu for all your problems, you say that the eu takes a lot of money from you and as a result denies you the chance to fund other sectors like the nhs properly, well you should maybe check your own finances, because other countries like france have a similar gdp yet have free healthcare and higher education and even less taxes in general that is while they have a higher population, same goes for germany which has a higher gdp and a higher contribution to the eu, plus is a lender to many weaker eu economies, the problem in the first place is not with the eu, it is with your failing system, but your ego does not allow you to recognize that you are the primary culprit for your current situation rather you simply blame others, i am really happy with the ongoing brexit because it is just a season after the other in which the uk is burrying itself while the world even the most stupid people in it like trump laugh at it , and if you say that your system does not enable an equal represantation, well then that is your problem not the eu's and if you think the eu does not represent you fairly, fine you can leave it if you want and have a status like norway or even turkey, you know that country you mocked and whose economy might one day become larger than yours just because of your own doing. And i want to really know from where did this war speech come ? All of the brexit supportes talk as if they are going to a war while they need to just negotiate a deal.
yanel abdelkader Brilliantly worded and historically correct!
I live in London and although most of London voted to stay we are having to suffer the Neanderthals that voted leave who are predominantly from the ‘White’ Shires and old fuddled alcoholics who bask in bigotry in their treeless green pastures whilst swilling non stop pints of bitter ale
that in turn brews hatred in their shriveled hearts.
If Britain does Brexit in the end then I foresee these same numbskulls crying into their toxic soup and blaming anything and anyone that they can conjure up because these are people who love to play ‘Victim’ as it’s so much juicier than taking responsibility for their own flaws and failures!
@@roro-mm7cc ok first the fact that churchill did something good does mean he shouldn't be held accountable for his crimes or that we should just praise, it is called objectivity. Second Hong Kong wants to simply break from chinese rule not just for the love of the uk, if they have a chance to join with either taiwan or the uk with no threat of invasion from china, they will surely choose taiwan, because they share ties with it and because no one with his brain would return to his colonizer. Second industrialization was going to happen with or without britain wether you like it or not, and the reason behind it was the strong competition between the european powers, just like the renaissance did start in europe out of the same reason. For the parliamentary democracy it would have mattered also because the french revolution never inspried in the first place from the british, in fact there were more enlightenment philosophes from france and germany than from britain, and democracy would have existed today even without britain due to both the american and the french revolutions in addition to the fact that the change of balance of power between the european powers starting from the 18th century favoured this course of action. So you can keep dreaming and making your fantasies about how great and irreplaceable your empire was, but that does not change the fact that it was not, because it was based on sucking the wealth of weaker nations same goes with the french colonial empire, the american one today, the tsardom of russia....
Very good report! One small improvement: It was not the British Empire who mainly took down Nazi-Germany militarily. Even with the colonial forces it wasn't the Empire. The main military burden was taken by the Soviet Union. Then came the USA. They became Empires after WWII, while Britain lost it. However the rest of the report was great!
Too many of you Brits stuck in the 1940s, too many of my fellow Americans pining for the 1950s.
Churchill is a English hero not a Scottish, Welsh or Irish one
@Steve Blundell im not english
Trust me, there’s plenty of English who don’t hero worship Churchill either.
Ive been saying for years and years now "what is our culture "
@धूमकेतु i married a hindu that then divorced me 8 weeks after getting his british passport unfortunately im legally stuck with his surname
What this vid forgets is that thousands have died from ten years austerity, 0hr contracts. Rise of 2parent fulltime working families under poverty line and dependant on foodbanks etc n this has all been blamed on EU somehow -.-
Valley commando I kind of agree to a point but Brexit are going to increase the immigrants from poorer and less educated countries! Nothing to do with the EU! But again Brexit is going to be a shit show of epic proportions and all of those who voted for Brexit who thinks life can’t get worse than this are in for a nightmare of a wake up call!
@@commonsense31 exactly!
No ones noticed weve had increased indian immigrants since 2016 by tory pro leave govs
@Valley commando eu wasnt stopping us from implementing an australian points system
@Valley commando i dont consider blairite labour to be proper labour at all. To me they, like swinson, r tory-lite. The remnants who try to sabbotage n destroy labour from the inside
Valley commando yeah, I know that is what you want! But the smartest and brightest are actually avoiding and leaving UK because of Brexit. So UK will still be at a disadvantage in science and research, The British scientific community has said that from the beginning, of the Brexit referendum!
There are differences between Being the ones running and owning the rights of research and only participating in a scientific research study!
UK will not be able to bid or seek funding for a project! Now they won’t have any say over the projects that gets funding! And in the end the Discovery and all related benefits or discoveries of projects belong to the EU and industries inside the EU!
And you are also forgetting about the thousands of missing labor shortages you are having already to pick the farmers fields and crops!
So while in the ideal perfect world, yes your rational argument does makes sense!
But the tories are the ones who created the whole unlimited immigration from outside of the EU to begin with!
They won’t do any of the things you hope and believe in because frankly UK has a shortage of these low income workers!
As someone from the U.K I can strongly say that we are not taught about the crimes we committed in the empire, in fact the government ran "Operation Legacy" which involved removing all written crimes. I'm glad you make the point of the British empire won the war not the people of the British isles. We need to make it mandatory to teach the real history so people understand how and why we are in 2019.
It is inaccurate to say the British empire won the second world war - they just happened to be on the winning side. The British empire and its allies only just managed to hold the Nazis at bay until the heavy weights arrived - the Russians and Americans.
"The sun never set on the British Empire," - because even God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark.
You're speaking their lingo though...
@@markusass aye.
Or a Scotsman !
I thought the expression was never trust a Cambell
I wonder how many British people have heard of the famine?
7:11 why is a clip of former Taoiseach (Irish prime minster) Bertie Ahern there? Please don’t tell me AJ think he’s a British politician....
Bertie Ahern was the president of the European Council at this time and was the one to announce the addition of the new member states. That's why they've used that clip.
Britain has been in steady decline since WWII and it will end up in the same way it started-tiny. They could have had a positive role in the EU but instead chose to hold onto a Romanticised version of history that never existed.
phoeniximperator I’d be careful with that narrative. It is of course true for some of us British folk, my grandparent’s generation particularly, but you’re not going to explain how just over half the country voted to leave the EU with the nationalistic ideas put forward in this video. It is also the case that the European economy has been shrinking relative to the rest of the world in the past few decades, London is a global Business hub, and that the english language pulls us psychologically further into the mid Atlantic. Indeed for some brexit supporters brexit isn’t about Britain asserting British power, but rather just about being left alone to mind its own business. As for Britain being in steady decline since World War II that’s not strictly speaking true either. Sure, we’re no longer a global superpower, but Britain has arguably been playing catch up since its lowest ebb in the 1970’s when it was a smaller economy than France and Germany. It was ruined almost entirely by the world war (the video here again isn’t exactly fair about the war, the US took its sweet time before it got involved, 4 years in fact, a period where britain was gradually disintegrating). Today it is at least the same size economically as France (another former empire builder albeit with less success) and is a G8 nation with the 6th largest economy in the world. My point is that brexit is complicated, and this video is I think unfair in that it presents only one idea and uses it to explain the entire confused mess.
There was no way Germany let that happen. So I think the best option would've been to leave the EU but over time; minimum of two decades.
I dont want to become a minority in my own country. Is that much to ask?
Why should that matter, can't you just like people for who they are and not worry about how many others are the same race as you
@@willnesbitt1694 a people is deeply rooted in a country's history and culture. Replacement of said population will destroy its identity. Look at London, a minority white area rich with acid attacks, knife crimes and grooming gangs. The safe bits that are anywhere near it are gated communities that are dare I say it, mostly white. Imagine if this happened in any other non European country. Imagine if India lost it's own people for being outbread by non natives.
@@mattuiop identity always changes. Yes there are many rough places in the UK and something needs to be done about that but separation and divide will only further that problem as that will create sides. Oceans may separate some of us but we all live on the same rock flying through space
@@willnesbitt1694 then what about whales? Or any other endangered species? Do we protect those? Nope because by your own logic they don't matter and take up too much room in the ocean. Wouldn't the world by so boring if everyone was the same?
How is Brexit going to stop you becoming 'a minority in your own country'? The UK has always had immigration you'll find.
I don't really have an opinion on "Brexit" as such, but it seems to me that there should have been a comprehensive plan made to leave the EU before a referendum was held. As it stands, Brexit is a shot in the dark. No one knows how it will work out.
One thing that I have learned over a long life is that there is rarely a good reason to act precipitously.
Britain from the time of its dealings in india always wanted to have free trade and avoid paying taxes with whoever was in power in india.,This always led to disputes with the rulers there,Britain thinks that after severing ties with the EU itwill make up for it with trade ties with the rest of the world(preferably free trade deals).Im afraid there are not many takers for this and the UK has itself in the foot ,Imperial nostalgia cannot take the place of present day realities.Youll slowly sink into obscurity and be remembered in history books only like the Roman empire
Stood alone with a billion subjects 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Organic.Mechanic They clearly didnt watch the whole video so dont even engage. Lol
A billion enslaved people.
@alans73 you are a liar choosing to believe that racist nonsense.
@alans73 say that to the 2.5 million volunteers from india. U didn't even have to conscript them.
we stood alone on our island - I dont think they were disregarding the colonies mate, but at the time they tended to defend themselves, so we were mostly the ones who stood alone as we had the capacity and strength of will to fight back; funny historical revisionism there
The sun never sets in the British Empire? That quote was first used by Spain almost two hundred years before
Rapa Nui was not Spain and Chile was ..
@@albinakemet What?
They Are All Actor’s, and Jokes that Don’t Get Nothin Done. Sound like America, and about all politicians. 😖😖
Now, the rulers have become the ruled.
Micheál Ó Coisdealbha nonsense? I beg to differ
Micheál Ó Coisdealbha They weren’t watching out for there own, during times of war, and decisions made then are coming to bite them.
@@michaelcostello6019 Look here everyone: A middle aged man arguing with teenagers on youtube and saying things like 'lolz'.
This is straw man propaganda. This post assumes the upper class elite speaks for us. It doesn't. The working class mostly voted to Leave and it has nothing to do with imperialism or empire or Winston Churchill. It is about the privatisation of our industries (supported by the Tories), and austerity measures (also supported by the Tories). It is about the loss of our industries to European countries within the EU and ultimately the loss of working class jobs as a result. We have an employment and a growing homelessness problem in this country, and the open border policy of the single market is driving down wages and soaking up jobs that would normally be carried out by the lower paid section of our society. Race doesn't come into it, and accusations of racism are being used to shut down the narrative of real unemployment by false statements by the Tories of them providing higher employment in terms of zero hour contracts and the gig economy which barely covers the cost of rent, in some cases not at all. You only have to step outside of London to see the long term results of this. Free market neoliberalism is the reason we wanted to Leave, not some constructed WW2 narrative about empire and supremacy, which the MSM under the instruction of both sides of Parliament wants everyone to believe. The EU is about big business and banking and the free market economy which supports only the rich. Where is the mention of any of that?
There's a huge amount of evidence disproving your claims.
Is Brexit even a real thing or just a British publicity stunt??
They gave the mentaly incapacited sonething to play with
This video is from such a lefty point of view its dangerous
How so?
@@SormonAusPol Calls Churchill a 'white supremacist' which is like saying anybody born before 1960 is one since they don't hold to modern day views, and says he caused the Bengal famine which has been debunked so many times by so many historians its sickening a news source with such far reach could perpetuate such a myth.
@@harrym7544 Even for his time Churchill was a racist and shocked many of his contemporaries. When the Bengal famine happened and British representative kept pleading for him not too divert resources he simply replied "If there is a famine why isn't Gandhi dead yet?" His decision to cause the bengal famine is directly related: www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-churchill-policies-contributed-to-1943-bengal-famine-study Not sure which historian you are talking about.
Moral and ethical standpoints are not left-wing. They are righteous. Many right-wingers can understand morality.
Pranav Rao That article lists no sources and when it does use some it’s from ‘journalists’ not historians. Actual historians like Andrew Roberts note the issue in Bengal was Japanese submarines blocking the British from sending any food, added to this the fact we were fighting in Bengal and it’s next to impossible to re-supply. Churchill asked FDR for assistance but was refused for this reason.
What doesn't make sense about this thesis is that Brexit is not an imperialist move at all: it has nothing to do with colonizing other countries. Even accepting the premise that many Brexit supporters remember the UK's imperial past fondly, the take in the video is only focusing on their mentality and not the actual substance of the action of Brexit. Irrespective of voters' intent I would like to hear an argument that Brexit itself--the proposition that the UK shouldn't have to abide by EU regulations that its people don't democratically support--is somehow wrong or pro-imperialist. Otherwise you're just trading in innuendo.
Could you be anymore bias? The UK is barely the size of Colorado but they’re supposed to admit all Africa and Asia?
Most Scots would like to stay in the EU, “they would like”, in no way is Brexit a deal breaker to stand by their referendum decision to remain in the UK.
Who's asked you to admit all of Africa and Asia?
wtf the whole of Africa and Asia?
0:10: "For the past three years, the country has been divided by one word."
For a moment there, I thought she was going to say: "ORDER"
Same people we have here in the US. People who lived privileged lives solely because they were white (by privilege I mean having access to all of the benefits, not necessarily taking advantage of the access) who are increasingly having to compete on a level playing ground. They opine about "the good old days" as if they could wish them back into existence. Thatcher and Reagan were expert at making people reminisce. Hopefully they will die out like the dinosaur and an new species can take their place.
Ok boomer
This is a very liberal take on why people voted leave. Speak to any of the 17.4 million Brits who did so, and imperial glory and nationalism wouldn't even come up in the conversation. And there certainly aren't 17.4 million 'white supremacists' in the UK. From what I can gather it was a complete dissatisfaction with Brussels as a political project, and pent up frustration and anger over never having a say on whether the nation even wanted the European Union to begin with. Remember, in 1975 Britain voted to join a trading bloc of a few European nations. Decades later it's now a political union of almost the entire continent, with laws and decisions made in Brussels that the UK have to abide by. In short, Britons said "This isn't what we signed up for".
2016 was the first time Britain had a say on the European Union, which was formed in 1993. And as we know, the nation rejected it outright. Perhaps the real disaster is never giving the British people a referendum in 1993, and therefore averting the political upheaval we now find ourselves in. The political class thought they knew best. They clearly didn't.
Here's an idea. Let's take an extremely complicated International financial decision, spread a bunch of misinformation about it, and let a bunch of people vote on it who know nothing about economics.
But tell them that they can banish the brown people to get their vote.
The people don´t have to know much of economics - they have enough to go on with austerity on their plate instead of steak and kidney pie.
As this Brexit desaster is going on for so long , the Europian citizens are almost glad to get rid of the Brits. They are unbelievably desoriented and have completly lost their way.
Its like some sort of collective madness has taken place on the Island.
You know, the UK has the right to leave, so does every other country in the Empire. So there is nothing to be negative about. Maybe the UK needed a new start.
Churchill is half American.
Olando Anônimo no he is half pakistani
Yeah & Australia was dragged in both wars by the UK.
Churchill is a hero to some ( I quote him a lot), no so much to others. I look at the mindset of it being an island nation and laugh. My parents were born British Subjects and I spent yesterday with another person who's family were subjects. The ghost of Britain's old power hangs over my head and the heads of others. Britain needs to let ago of that island mentality because it was almost never alone. Who knows if it would exist without others after Brexit
Anglosphere
Also during ww2 there were governments from occupied nations and thousands of citizens from nazi occupied nations in Britain.
During the Battle of Britain pilots from all over the world defended Britain including Poles, Czecks, Norwegians, Danes, Greeks, Dutch, Belgian, French and even Americans who volunteered to the British Airforce before America entered the war.
Thatcher was certainly frustrated by the EU but haven't her policies been shown to be flawed and actually been a root cause of increased inequality?
Sponsored by Al Jazeera....It makes sence now.
Thank you.
The whole campaign was based on xenophobia and imperialist longing for the past. Also it seems the English people are hypocrites when it comes to Scotland and the question of “better together”. I remember England practically begging Scotland to stay in the UK in 2014 while they took the opposite position on the EU in 2016. This only convinced me further that older Britons are desperate to maintain the last vestiges of the British Empire
Funfact: The first attempt to join the EU had been ended by a french veto in the 1960s. Your brits can be thankfull that the french president is not called Charles de Gaulle anymore, then you would have been kicked out already in March 2019.
The EU didn't exist in 1960...
@@jgw9990 You know what I mean..
@@TOFKAS01 It's important to distinguish the benign Trade zone that Britain joined in the 60s from the dictatorial superstate it has become.
@@jgw9990 Dude, every one who is calling this loose confederation called "union" a "dictatorial superstate" doesnt know a shit what he is talking about.
@@TOFKAS01 people like this J gw are one of the reasons I'd love to see the UK leave the EU.
Just to see them revert to eating humble pie.
Absolutely Pathetic
Churchill was half American by the way.
Mad Machanicest you mean rosevelt was British
@@didid3ksa no. Churchill real was half American on hes mothers side. Tho the idea of Perimeter franklin Roosevelt is and intoresting one. Tho as FDR. Is as important to everything American as Churchill is to everything British. I am glad to have me . to bad ower last good or even competent president died in the 40.
@@didid3ksa roosevelt has dutch ancestry.
Churchill's maternal grandfather was one of the richest men in New York, USA of its time, being worth 1 billion USD in today's money.
Interesting getting the brexit through the lense of the America perspective, as a Scot you done a pretty good summation.
Aj is al Jazeera's. Not american
Qatari perspective mate
The fact that Thatcher criticized the EU for having a loose hold on their economy made my day😂😂
An obviously nasty and damning perspective on Britain and it’s indigenous people, I have no crisis of my identity, culture, history like almost all Brits who wish to keep the United Kingdom, our people and elected government free to decide our future.
Is it me or do Europeans really love to glorify war?
You're right. We should be more like Sudan. 🙄
@@AmieEss nah that's impossible. You can't just colonize your own country. Take shit from it. Then leave it to people with no idea how to govern a country that they share with people they don't like cuz that's how the border war drawn.
Bro stfu no one said be like Sudan. And what I said was true. You Europeans have some fetish for wars, empires, and glory.
And you guys get that glory from fighting each other lol. Just cuz y'all invented machines and dressed nicely don't mean you guys are more "civilized"
@@AmieEss Europe's history is WAY more violent than Sudans history that's for sure lol.
@@AmieEss I mean, I wondered who colonized it!
I would state that the US does the same also!
My ancestors from British colonial era give a double thumbs up. Serve you right.
They shouldn't have left people over 65 vote. Now the ones carrying the burden of their leave vote are young people. By the time Brexit takes place those old folks will be gone.
Politics is way to confusing, and always has issues, and I’m not a fan.
"Uncontroversial figure in the UK" Clearly never been to Scotland
@Scott many n. irish scots(not highlander), welsh and english people have some dna
@Scott I'm sorry but you can't blame the EU for the UK's demographics shift. The largest non-white ethnic groups are all from Commonwealth countries made possible through agreements which the EU had nothing to do with 6.8% of Brits are southasian 3.4 black, mostly from the Caribbean and former colonies in Africa. Only 0.4 are Arab, that's fewer than the Chinese at 0.7%
The vast majority of non-Europeans coming to the UK are legal migrants from outside the EU, the only group the EU really has anything to do with is refugees who make up about 5% of migrants. Schengen allows them to travel across the EU due to lack of border controls, but that doesn't apply to the UK as we have a special opt out, just like we do with the monetary union. We opt in on certain issues regarding Schengen on a case by case basis, it's why the "The EU is forcing us to take in migrant quotas" argument is dishonest, yes I'm sure certain EU countries would love that and they can put out as many declarations as they want, but unless we opt in on the specific legislation, it won't happen. The majority of Syrian refugees are coming in through VPRS which is a conservative government program taking in Syrians from countries surrounding Syria. The truth is while EU policies are screwing over countries like Italy and Greece on the border regions, it doesn't affect the UK in any meaningful way, atleast when it comes to migration. Yes in trade and some judicial stuff we are bound by Brussels but that's a different matter entirely. Also what's your source on the 2066 date? Predicting demographics that far into the future is extremely difficult if not impossible, due to all the variables involved.
Scotland is always negative.
Brris was not a initial supporter, he doesn't care, he sat on the fence waiting to see which would be better to back, he even wrote two different articles for the Telegraph, one pro Brexit and the other anti Brexit, yet published the one he thought would do him best in the long run.
Well, deal with it. Your empire is dead. Move on and stop embarrassing yourself
Don't believe this video, we don't want the empire back, in fact we seem done with empires hence when Britain hears verhofstadt going off about a european empire brexit happened.
@@jacobmilner1099 No, it's a European Union. An Empire means having territory that's not yours, but everything in the EU rightfully belongs to Europe.
Hence, the only empire remaining is China
@@ubermensch5472 How?
If you can't respect Democracy then stick the EU Empire where the Sun don't shine.
Well, the English (and I do mean English, not British) will get what they deserve...things will fall apart. So sad.
Short story: Britain left the eu Because the didn’t want anymore immigrants
That a vary understandable thing to do mass imagrashion has negative effects on economic factors and polectle stability with in a contrary . this effect the lowest class of people most. The economic effect redoneds after 10 yaers but by then the damge is done. The political effect staplaives after 50 -100 yaers.
And
More migration comes from outside the eu.
oh that would be a dream come true, but we all know it's not going to stop.
Because small minded boomers are low key scared and racist but won't admit it
I totally agree less immigration but still that’s the reason why Britain left the EU it doesn’t matter if your pro immigrant or not that’s still the reason why they left
All things, both big and small, must one day come to an end.
I’ve never seen such a load of absolute twisted slanderous defaming rubbish about our history. I’m a 22yr old history grad. and brexiteer, so don’t make us out like we’re all old closet racists who are holding onto some fantasised memory.
So you are a young closet racist, holding on to some fantasised memory.
Good for you.
Yes because I clearly believe in superior races because I’m proud of my history. See how these premises don’t really match up? Just like your argument
AJ is great, as always. One question: who's narrating? Is it the same person that does WatchMojo?
One comment: the UK may have taken the fall of the empire not so well but, AFAIK, it's the the one who took is better.
When all else fails (bring on the clowns) boris
Or Trump. It seems America has a similar problem with Nationalism being passed off as Patriotism.
well DORK-INS--more a case of---BRING ON THE MILITARY
@@1MarkKeller The comparisons are entirely overstated. Politics has shifted so far to the left in the UK compared to America thus why Boris is sometimes deemed to be a populist, but if you analyse his policies and character he is really not.
@@Miquelalalaa Thatcher took the UK so far right, that any move back to the centre is bound to be left. American politics is dominated by big money interests.
@@peteroneill2991 Not at all. Any belief that's slighty right of centre is deemed 'fascist' 'Nazi' or 'far right'. Thatcher hasn't been in power for thirty years, move on. Besides, the legacy of Blair and sucessive politicans is far more apparent (well, in terms of what I am reffering to. Obviously Thatcher impacted industry in this country) in today's politics. You have to remember that there are many different aspects of left and right wing politics. There is literally anti-white racism normalised in society and expressed by many Leftists including Labour politicians, activists and supporters, but they're not even condemned.
What about famine and Holocaust of Iran in 1917-1919 Thanks to United Kingdom ?
8-10 million of 20 million Iranian died. almost half of population.
don't pay Iran the money you own over oil, buy all food inside country and forbid import of food from India and USA.
in WWI Iran take no side but lose half of population, which side of war paid such a Heavy price like Iran?
No longer watching this propaganda bollox
Not 100% accurate. The Bengal famine was mainly caused by the fact that the Japanese were literally on the verge of invading India from Burma. Which is also where the majority of Indian soldiers fought. And as for putting down indipendace moments, that is always going to happen when these events happen during a war. You never know if it is genuine or if it is being done to subvert the war effort. Not an excuse, but you are presenting these events as happening in isolation and that's just not true. I can recommend looming and Knowing Better' s video on the topic
Hopefully Scotland will leave and Ireland will reunite.
Scotland will just become an English client state while Ireland might get some stuff.
Yes, independence and reunification would be the best sollution for scotland and Northern-Ireland.
@@TOFKAS01 No.
Don't know about Britain, but to me EU is a symbol of dictating ridiculous business standards that only make everything more expensive, but not better in any way.
That’s not true though. Lowering trade barriers and homogenising product standards point blank make things cheaper!
There are lots of good objections to the EU but that’s not one of them.
This has got to be the most ridiculous jibe at Brexit I have seen yet...
WhataDubHead It tells part of the story. The jingoism and nostalgia is why old people voted to leave. Not why the poor and working class voted to leave, for them it was a futile protest vote against the establishment and immigration.
Simply..its finally the vote on the Lisbon treaty we were never given!
What's your issue with the Lisbon Treaty?
It is the instrument that enables a Federal European Superstate....we didn't get a say on it. Ireland had a say, and initially voted NO.. Until the EU machine went to work on them, in a similar way to how it is working on the UK now.They then were manoeuvred in to a second vote that resulted in the answer the EU Empire wanted.
@@davidwilkin1202 How does it enable a Federal Superstate?
Ireland rejected the treaty for a variety of reasons. Most significantly concerns for its neutrality, corporation tax rate abortion laws (which it subsequently changed anyway). Legally-binding codiciles were added to the treaty explicitly clarifying and guaranteeing its automony in these regards. How did the EU machine 'work on them'? Ireland was and is overwhelmingly pro-EU.
What are you implying The EU been doing to The UK? The EU has now negotiated 2 WAs with The UK making concessions on both deals.
I give up... out now... the referendum must be complied with
@@davidwilkin1202 so you can't support your claims whatsoever? Quelle surprise.
"Be a good boy!"
Well put! They have an identity. How can one not have an identity. What is identity, you ask? Define identity.
Huh.....I didn't know that the Brexit vote had a racial divide element into it. Thanks AJ+.
Hardly a significant factor in regards to voting behaviour.. don't be so impressionable. It's got far more to do with class outlook.
Indians and Africans fought for the British Empire, yes... and Australians, Kiwis and Canadians too!
And? Thats history. Thats the past. We are now in the 21th century.
@@TOFKAS01 True. When does history start? A second ago? A week ago? A year?
@@mah6183 It starter millenia ago...but its just like that: That some colonised people fought in some wars in the 20th century and then against there colonial opressors is just history, it doesnt matter for brexit.
@@TOFKAS01 reminds me of the scene in Monty Pythons Life of Brian... “what did the Romans ever do for us?! Hmmm, roads, well, yes. Then water. True. Education! Right, education. Overthrow the Romans!”
@@mah6183Except Romans built something, English didn't
The remainers are to blame overall as they've refused to accept the results of two general elections, two euro elections and the referendum.
It's okay, you can say they're racist.
Riddle me this, why is it Japan Australia New Zealand and South Korea are all rich while Poland Czech Republic Slovakia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Croatia Solvenia Baulgeria Cyprus Greece Romania and Malta are all much poorer. What wed call poverty theyd call normality. No one in Poland would consider having £10,000 as poor. Romania has lower living standards than Mexico.
So forgive me if I struggle to buy the notion that we need the EU when half its members are poor.
Exactly, I don't know many in my hometown who would live in Eastern Europe but plenty of them live here
Americans talk some shite.
So we want Brexit because we used to be an empire and can't 'get over it'.. ?
Nothing at all to do with ☻ and friends? Right.. .