UK Is Weaker Because of Brexit, Says Ex-British PM Tony Blair
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- "For #Britain to be absent from #Europe is a real problem for us" Former Prime Minister #TonyBlair says the #UK is in a weaker position geopolitically because of #Brexit, but it can still carve out "blocks of cooperation" with the #EU -- #politics #worldnews
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Send this war criminal to jail
The only crime there was over Iraq was not finishing the job off properly first time round - I don't care what the UN said, we should've taken Saddam out when we had the chance!
He was suckered into the Iraq war by GW Bush and his gang of venal, military industrial complex fanatics. It badly tarnished his legacy.
Yawn. Irrelevant. This isn’t about Iraq.
@@robertcottam8824 Put it this way, even a broken clock is right twice a day!
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz
Quite.
The deaths of 100s of 1,000s on his hands. The man has no soul
Arrest this war criminal immediately
He shouldn’t be given the chance to say anything. Stop interviewing him.
Why isn't this man behind bars?
Money and corruption. He is a joke.
Because he hasn't been convicted of a crime
Why are you wearing that old hat? It’s utterly dated and a bit silly.
@@robertcottam8824 What hat?
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz
1) Metaphor’ - Google it
2) ‘Old hat’ - Google it.
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Stop giving this killer air time
Don
Yeah, I agree with what he's saying but he's also a war criminal and should be tried and (hopefully) arrested
What he said wasn't wrong though
People like you believing in his technocratic “centrism” lead to the deaths of 1mn Iraqi children.
Yea but this killer works for illuminati.
This man belongs in prison.
He is the reason we are in the mess we are in today
He is THE BEST PM EVER LOL THE UK WAS THE BEST WHILE HE WAS RUNNING IT
@@teresabenson6087 Your slip is showing😂. He’s unashamedly a globalist that doesn’t care about jot about the country he lives in. Cut from the very same cloth as Sunak and Starmer.
14 years of Tory corruption is why the UK is in a mess.
Ban Blair from politics!
And just how will you do that, poppet? 🤩
It looks bad when he's given air time .
No one should be silenced. Disagree with him all you like and dispel his points but cancel culture is eroding our democracy as much as any corrupt politician.
Yes Tony blood on his hands ✋️ how dose he sleep at night my god
@@KevinMire-up7ko
Who’s this ‘God’ person, poppet? Perhaps you should have a word with ‘im.
I’m minded of Ferré/Rigault’s response to Darboy:
“Occupation?”
“Servant of God”
“Address?”
“He is everywhere”
“Note this down: Lackey of one ‘God’ - a vagrant”
Don't let this man forget he killed millions in Iraq.
Millions? 🤣 a couple of hundred thousand at best.
200k mostly due to insurgence. Stop crying
@@B1GK1NGthe US and UK killed plenty.
Oh we did that? Oh well...gotta break a few eggs ya know.
@@AfterEarthHuman hopefully the few eggs will be your family next time.
Tony Blair is the last person who can talk about weakening the UK after starting the immigration crisis.
Details please.
Your absolutely right Tony Blair agreed to the Social charter and agreed to and adopted an open door policy! which Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime Minister would never agree to and resented and she vigorously defended that decision when she was Prime Minister to in its entirety! as she knew it would have future implications and put further pressure on Housing, public service's, School's Hospital's etc! etc! and in reality the United Kingdom as a nation and country now look what's happening now illegal migration! 🧐
Immigration is a net benefit to the economy, but a cultural drawback. You've bought into the false narrative that it weakens the economy. Go watch Jacob Rees Mogg's recent interview with The Times where he confirms it is a net benefit - using that as the reason why governments have allowed mass immigration, where he sees it as causing cultural rather than economic harm. Your comment paints a picture though, are you aware of the Dunning-Kruger effect? :P
@@pressuredrop6173I'm assuming he's talking about TB (how very apt 😂) and Jack Straw deciding to not exercise its right to restrict EU immigrants coming into UK in 2004 when the block of 8 joined, Poland etc. Germany and France did but the dynamic duo decided it would be unfriendly and they massively under estimated the amount of people who came. Leading ultimately to ill feeling in some parts (the ones most affected by it) and a backlash against the concept of open borders. A Brexit vote and global immigrants coming in now from France - although why being in the EU would stop it baffles me. Everywhere else has the same problem incl. Ireland and Germany too who are now cracking down hard, after 'everyone welcome'.
At least I think that's what he was referring to.
I personally think TB should keep quiet and preferably be arrested for war crimes.
@@gail9299 The UK never had open borders. Open borders is a reference to Schengen. The Uk was not a Schengen member.
One of the most corrupt individuals ever.
That’s every Brit
@@bobsingh5521Oh wow. Racist being racist. Not like corruption isn't rampant in your part of the world...
@@SunbathinginAntarcticadon’t bother with it. It will only think it’s clever
Oh the war criminal has opinions 😡
Yes he has - the wrong ones.....again !
And he's right!
The iraqi war warrior.
@@jamesbarbour8400
But if you were daft enough to vote for Brexit-Götterdämmerung, one would have thought that you know very, very little of international relations or economics…
Best if you restrict your comments to soccer, darts and television programmes, don’t you think? Far safer ground.
@@robertcottam8824 what if your priority isn’t economics or international relations?
Do you foresee that maybe some people don’t share your interests
An embarrassment to Great Britain.
Send this man to jail
Send him to jail!! Along with Bush!!
And Campbell
And Aznar
You do know that someone has to be convicted before you can do that?
Well, if you like it or not, he's absolutely right about UK and EU.
to punish blair would be stupid as the whole of parliament decided to declare war he didn’t use his perogative
He's been the biggest problem we have ever had.
Damaged the country, then ran away.
.
yea I mean who wants average wage growth of +25% and well funded services over a decade.
Give me a lower standard of living and Austerity any day the poor Billionaire class how where they supposed to survive during Labours Britain
😂 your just out of university then..
From an outside perspective I agree with other dude, Blair was popular, Iraq was fucked tho, but I can see if he were a skilled domestic politician, him making a mistake on foreign policy.
@@SlowhandGreg He did it with debt.
No! I wasn't even here during his premiership but no one can match the selfish tory beasts for that honour.
He ought to feel embarrassed appearing in public, given the blatant hypocrisy. In a country like Britain, known for its rule of law, he should face legal consequences instead of flaunting his carefree attitude on television.
We want politicians to have less centralised power not more. They are too corrupt for that.
Go away Blair!
He can’t hear you poppet. Why not howl at the moon, instead. It’ll be far more cathartic for you.
Here! Have a shiny sixpence and ten seconds more attention for your trouble.
@@robertcottam8824And who do you think was listening to the 'national rejoin march' - Santa Clause? I call it 'a march' - it looked more like a queue for information on where to find a march - lol!
@@Iazzaboyce
Eh? What’s that got to do with this comment thread?
@@robertcottam8824 What do you have to do with cognisance?
@@Iazzaboyce
An interesting question. But I gather from your random application of ‘cognisance’, that either you’ve been a victim of the dreaded ‘auto/correct’ or that you have no idea what it means.
I’ll leave that to you.
Pip pip!
The smug look on his face when he explains things is evil
That's not snugness that is confidence!.
What he said wasn't wrong though
@@20quid Possibly the most effective politician the modern UK has seen yet he has been demonised by many there and this unjustified view towards him is unfortunately reflective of the state the UK has allowed itself develop into.
Possibly a psychopath: such people often rise to the top, like scum on a liquid
@@None-zc5vgAgreed
Jail him and make his family poor
By telling a truth?
This guy is a criminal and needs to be put away, not interviewed.
Doesn't change that what he said was right. Brexit was the result of dum dum economic nationalists and protectionists who have no idea how international economics work and are stuck in the year 1845.
Blair should be behind bars.
Then so should those who voted for it. Every single tory.
Take Brown,Mandelson with him. and that press secretary whatever his name was.
I can se him pouring a terrible pint
If there was any justice this war criminal would have been hanged a long time ago.
The death penalty is against the European Convention on Human Rights
This guy has changed England forever and for the worse !
Yes, limitless immigration and multiculturalism forced on us.
He was PM of the United Kingdom, not just England.
Lies lies lies
Lock this guy up!
He is a weapon of mass destruction.. jail him !
I'm sorry, I don't take lectures from war criminals.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day!
Putin ?
@@marjan8888nope he’s invading a country from neo-Nazi led regime who are ethnic cleansing russians in the east park of Ukraine, Zelenskyy clapped for a Nazi in Canadian parliament what a comedian😂 Blair needs to be in ICC but we know that’s not happening
@@Kurdhyper123Two questions: What did you take? Why you didn't share?
Must be a funny life with that stuff!
Blame. Him for all the illegal in this country as he was the one who signed the freedom of movement act….
Tony Blair - ECHR ACT 1998 and he invited the first Muslim into parliament
Jail him
This person needs to be arrested and stripped of all his criminal money.
Should be in jail
For the final time. We did NOT leave Europe, we left the EU. Huge difference!
Semantics. In reality, the EU is Europe.
@@samhartford8677in reality the EU is a fascist dictatorship but then that suits Blair down to the ground.
No, there isn't.
@@mobsiesixsixsix9785There is. One is geography.
What a truly stupid answer, has to be a leaver trying to come with the disaster that is Brexit.
If there was justice in the world, this murderer would be in prison.
Why isn't that miscreant in jail?
Why isn’t this criminal in jail ?
Because he hasn't been convicted of a crime
He is not from Africa or Eastern Europe.... too many Western criminals ,to list here, roaming free ..
@Inkyminkyzizwoz That's because he's protected by his elite chums, not because he's not guilty of war crimes. Chilcott, who headed the inquiry, was barred from making any verdict against bLiar. In his summary, Chilcot stated that the whole thing was 'inadequate' in the planning and execution. Chilcot went on to say that bLiar had not 'exhausted all other alternatives to war' - that's a war crime, whether you like it or not. bLiar also incriminated himself in his (disgraceful) book. Asked if the invasion of Iraq would have been stopped if parliament had voted against it, he replied 'No, I would have found another way'. bLiar should have been hanged until dead, which was why he went out of his way to end the death penalty for Treason. He knew exactly what he was doing & had done...
@@johnmurphy9550 *Blair
Because he is a white ex politician
Really!!! Let’s all believe Tony 🤡
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
😂😂😂😂
War criminal should be heckled everywhere he goes for being a stooge to Bush.
Blair the war criminal. This man should be I jail
Blood on his hands. An intellectual lightweight with an ego problem.
Yes for sure I agree with you
Hey, I've got a great rejoin slogan.
"Let's rejoin the EU under worse terms than the ones we already rejected"
😂
But better than the current mess voted for by the lumpenproletariat.
@@robertcottam8824 Do you think democracy should be abandoned and our decisions made by elites?
@robertcottam8824 the EU is in recession. .
@@byroneckhardt4131
You are fooling yourself if you think that EU countries are going worse than the UK.
What is your source for this nonsense? Errr… it’ll be some bloke off the internet… You don’t trust mainstream media🧐
@@byroneckhardt4131 The EU, to the untrained eye, looks like a union that is purposely destroying itself.
Lock this man up. Absolutely disgusting how he’s still walking around a free man.
Doesn't change that what he said was right. Brexit was the result of dum dum economic nationalists and protectionists who have no idea how international economics work and are stuck in the year 1845.
Its not Europe, its the European Union. These are two different things.
Lock him up and throw away the key . Or better yet drop him off in the middle of Iraq
Best advice ever
i would happily contribute to the price of doing it.
He better disappear early. Many dead souls are waiting for him.
I bet he sees them every night
He is literally the reason for every single problem we have in the UK today. Every single one.
The conservatives have had 14 years of government, tony hasn't been in power for the best part of 20 years, surely the conservatives are to blame for at least some of our issues 😂😂
@@Chilam.Labour opened the floodgates and wrapped any law changes up so much in red tape, no government for years to come could change things fully to meet the democratic demands of 17.4 million people. The biggest vote for anything in the UK’s history. Maybe jump on board rather than keep crying because if you’re negative about anything, it won’t work because of your attitude.
Literally renowned for being a great PM who’s reputation was tarnished by the decision to invade Iraq
@@Chilam.I agree, but unfortunately you aren't going to convince those who only hear what they want to
@Chilam. Tony Blair is Conservative, and Margaret Thatcher said she was proud of him.
Tony Blair should be in Prison and anything he says should be ignored
He should be put on trial, however, what he says here is the objective truth and we should take note.
Since when have you people given a crap about Islamic lives?
Tony is the best PM the uk has ever had and people forget the really great things he did.
The most detestable has been
Crawl back under a slime covered rock, and take Campbell with you - not the soup variety either.
Toni …. the UK is doing so poorly because of YOUR open border policies !!!!!
The UK never had an open border policy. It was never a Schengen country. Please try to keep up.
Nasty war criminal should be in jail
Blair started the rot in 1997.
Blair was great! The rot starts when Tories get into power!
Yes all started with him
@@tonycruzman162in what way?
@@indibhart5731it is a bit more nuanced than that. Blair and Brown were good at the start when they continued the successful policies of Major which had set the country on the right path. But as time went on and Blair focused on military adventures Brown started to duff up the economy. This meant that having taken power when things were on the right path, they left a big mess for the Tories to clean up in 2010. The Tories then proceeded to create their own mess with the shambles of Brexit and the disaster of Johnson. I don’t envy Starmer taking power with a super majority.
No it was John Major that signed Maastricht, though Neil Kinnock was also part of that stitch up by not offering the public any alternative in the 1992 general election.
He started the East European immigration tsunami.
The Clinton’s started that when they took out gadaffi. He bragged to the UN that if he was ever touched, Europe would turn black, America killed him just after that.
And then Brexit started a Nigeria, India tsunami. What a win! You must be thrilled those terrible Eastern-Europeans are gone and are now earning money in their own native country. Win - win.
Nothing wrong with the Eastern Europeans tbf
... and introduced P.F.I., loading hundreds of millions of debt onto the economy.
The immigrants were mainly from Central Europe, and they are going back home.
On this he is right. We were insane to leave Europe.
Childish nonsense! 😂
What use is a customs union to an economy that's 82% Services?
10 times worse than Boris ever was, but the media have always given Sir Tony Blair an easy ride 😂
Astonishing comment!
At least Blair did some good stuff in power. Johnson?? Erm, Brexit, the bad response to COVID, track and trace, eat out to help out, partygate...
Factual !
🧢
Doesn't change that what he said was right. Brexit was the result of dum dum economic nationalists and protectionists who have no idea how international economics work and are stuck in the year 1845.
He sold his country out.
To who?
Isn't it about time that Blair was arrested and sent for trial to the Haag?
Yes for sure
Remember that since the haag called for Netanyahu’s arrest it is no longer to be trusted 🤡 and it is so corrupt that it believes in human rights for people pushed out of their home countries 😵
Jail him now
War monger should be in jail, why give this LAIR airtime, you can’t believe a word he says
Doesn't change that what he said was right. Brexit was the result of dum dum economic nationalists and protectionists who have no idea how international economics work and are stuck in the year 1845.
Hades awaits this vile being
He’s a great man
This criminal should not be at liberty shooting his mouth off.
War criminal
Send him to jail
Why is he still walking free
Britain should sit alone and let every other country get on with it.
Problem is Britain’s didn’t leave any country alone!
He needs to shut his gob
The biggest Blight upon humanity !
He's right
Immigration immigration immigration
Just a hint
So Brexit has nothing to do with it, poppet? No?
How’s Brexit going?
@@robertcottam8824 I think it’s irrelevant as the entire world is going down hill. Especially the EU.
Did you see the German-Russian gas line bombing. Terrible business that wasn’t it?
@@karlosthejackel69
The world is certainly in the process of realigning. It always is.
The first real period of ‘globalisation’ was the British Empire, then it was the American Empire.
Soon, hegemony will have to be shared. The Americans will remain in situ but will have to share with China (obviously) and the India. A powerful, united Europe could conceivably occupy a fourth spot at the table.
Those four - +Russia - will be the five seated at the UN Security Council table in the Global Chamber.
We just have to adapt as best we can and prepare. For instance, my two sons are learning Mandarin. And our country is not short of either Hindi speakers and Indian goodwill.
Pipeline? Don’t give a monkeys who did it. Don’t know who did it and neither do you.
We WILL be rejoining Europe within the next fifteen years, by the way, whether you like it or not. I’d like it to happen for the sake of the young but ultimately, I’ll be pushing up the daisies.
Pip pip
How’s Brexit going?
As somebody who voted for Brexit and would have no hesitation in doing so again I have noticed no difference whatsoever. There have been external factors which have changed things such as COVID and the war in Ukraine. But old Blighty is still old Blighty.
@@clmclmn21
A comedian! Hahahaha!
Brexit is existential. The cost of transition is the price we now pay for having had elites choose the wrong future with little or no mandate for over 30 years.
Britain would have another 40 million African immigrants, if not for brexit.
Should have been arrested for war crimes jailed for life
His wife’s side of family don’t really like him
😂😂😂
This man has no idea. He said we would be bankrupt with in a year. He’s the one that left no money in the bank plus he did a deal with the eu so our farmers were told to stop producing food. Thank god he’s not in government
Unsound. Simply has no concept or interest in the idea of sustainable national interest for a sovereign british nation state.
This guy should be in jail for war crimes, and yet....
If there is one thing we don't want it is too be lectured by a ruthless warmonger.
This man has caused mayhem around the world and in our country and is not in prison.. how???
Go to prison Blair.
He's not wrong, but he should also be in the hague
Yeah, it’s like when the villain in a superhero movie has a completely valid and correct point. We should learn from and listen to him, but just make sure good people do what he says instead of giving him the driving seat.
@@AndoCommando1000 Exactly!
Absolute evil
Why is this man not in jail?
this man is to blame for the state our country is in now .
No 13 years of Tory ideological dogma has got us into this mess
Explain
@@bobsingh5521 no
@@gdsuperstar5657
You can’t talk shit and not give a reason. Was he a shill for the American agenda?
@@davemartin5794 It all started with Tony Bliar. Those who followed have simply continued the poisonous, suicidal, policies.
I dont buy this argument. Norway and Switzerland both operate successfully outside the EU, we are not alone in being a wealthy country without EU membership.
Absolutely.
Norway is in Efta-yu stiffed them before-thwey will not accept you back in, Switzerland is in the middle of the EU and has special trade deals/ has to adhere to EU rules. You simply are either uninformed or the arguments are consciously insidious.
Neither country has EU membership. And could you please learn to type correctly?
They both have great standards of living too.. this country doesn’t anymore
Norway and Switzerland have associate membership of the EU and enjoy far better trade arrangements with the EU than the UK, Norway and Switzerland are nimble sophisticated productive modern economies and both show consistent growth, the UK economy is unproductive with little or no growth and rests on the laurels of it's legacy. Norway and Switzerland are twice as wealthy as the UK in relative terms so comparing the UK to these countries is naive furthermore Norway will ultimately join the EU and it is possible that Switzerland will do so also.
Once a liar always a liar he should be speaking through a screen
These people amaze me.
They don't seem to understand that they were voted out and we have no want nor need for their opinion..
And yet here you are desperate to comment on him because he triggered you
A truly disingenuous man.
War criminal
Take Nigel farage to Justice and jail.
One of the best PMs we ever had. That's why the British people elected his government 3 times. The US would have gone into Iraq with or without Blair's backing. So the war would have happened anyway. Those Blair years in the UK were a darn sight better than the miserable rotten Tory governments we've all suffered under these last 13 years that's for sure.
Left before plunging us into the worst recession in modern times record unemployment and left brown to deal with it. Blair was one of the worst pms made a lot of false promises
@@leemccccccc999 Blair left office in 2007. The global recession you refer to happened as a result of the banking collapse in the US financial industry in 2008.
What a weird comment to write
look! It's blah blah blah Blair. can't blame Hitler for bush and Blair.
Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England admitted that claims made during the negotiations after the referendum - about the UK economy crashing because of Brexit and people being poorer as a result - were all wrong.
He said: "If you go back to the period after the referendum, there were pretty dire predictions about the consequences of Brexit for the financial services world, for the City of London. And I think so far those effects have been smaller.”
Brexiteers knew this all along !
Uk business has been unnecessarily damaged by Brexit. That’s fact.
Regardless of future politics we had a referendum and decided to leave. Yes it upset the global rich elites but so what . If you don’t like it feel free to leave Blair.
How any person can believe him is beyond me.
I'm glad he mentioned damage, he did us untold of the stuff.
The butcher of Baghdad is still walking free.
Saddam is dead, wtf are you talking about
He was right. Britain’s doomed.
The traitor needs to be in prison and his assets stripped.
CRIMINAL. LOCK HIM UP !
I think trump would call him bony tony
How about Baloney Tony 🤭
You can attack Tony Blair as much as you want, but what he's saying in this video is accurate.
A tiny island like the UK has very little relevance in the world nowadays, and Brexit was the most stupid thing ever.
Just like Norway is😂
What a miserable sod ! He'd be in jail instead he's still around saying a lot of bull shit ! He's no respect whatsoever for people's vote !
This sub human should be in jail, he did more damage to this country than anyone could dream.
You just hate that he’s right.