EU referendum: welcome to the divided, angry Kingdom | Anywhere but Westminster
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- As the big vote approaches and many voices say the EU referendum has whipped up the politics of hate, John Harris and John Domokos go on a five-day road trip from post-industrial Labour towns to rural Tory heartlands.
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In Birmingham, Leave voters cross racial and cultural divides; in Manchester, students uniformly back Remain; while people in the city’s neglected edgelands want out. And one fact burns through: whatever the result, the UK’s grave social problems look set to deepen
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I love how at 3:38 when he mentioned the names of David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn the camera focused on the road sign of a place called 'Three Cocks'.
Good spot!!! Lmao
James Cook brillIant
The most underrated comment of all time
James u r 🌟
It was obviously deliberate
This is probably the best video i have seen about the referendum. Not only does it show both sides equally, it also doesn't stereotype the voters like most reporting video's/articles do. I don't think giving my opinion on this topic matters since i'm from the Netherlands, but it is sad to see the UK in such a bad state at the moment, I hoped that they would have stayed in.
Wow, the EU seems to be cause of all problems in the UK. It's going to be so wonderful if they leave as all these problems will go away.......
@@alexgasshjahdj6075 It feels like a lifetime eons ago.
1. Do you recall David Davies stating that if we voted to leave we would have a trade deal with Germany on the Sunday after the results.
2. Do you recall how we were to spend a NHS windfall of 350,000,000/- million a week, yet we now know we only send 130,000,000/- million a week. The count does not include other benefits like Nissan in Sunderland that exports 80% of the cars to the UK.
3. Do we recall how the EU needed us more than we needed them and how Merkel will never allow the EU to bully us as she will protect the German car industry. We now know that BMW (UK) will close for a month in March 2019 while it assesses the impact of Brexit. All while it is expanding the manufacturing capacity of its factories in Netherlands and Slovakia just in case.
This is too sad i can't continue.....
Alex gasshjahdj nah it should be changed to Afrostanian Kingdom!
LOL u sound so fulll of hope ( not )
Birgit Lorbeer ??
@@michaelotieno6524 how can you export cars to your own country ????
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
-- Joseph Goebbels
Cant believe remain told us the food shelves would be empty and no planes would fly! what a huge lie that was lol! I never was scared by the lies of project fear though so sorry to prove your thesis wrong!
ted heath 1975, no loss of sovereignty,,,,, as he was giving away UK sovereign waters. it was lies from day 1.
Is funny how Jamaicans are against foreigners 😂😂😂
Messias And that’s similar to how the natives brits felt when the first immigrants started to arrive. But there called racist and lazy if they raise any concerns.
Messias Yeah I know, I was just raising a point.
It's natural,nobody likes being invaded.
but they're born in britain so they're british? just cause their ancestors come from jamaica.. where you're ancestors from mate? germany? all im saying is no one from britain is from this island originally by your book.
Bertie bassett.....Exactly!!!
Jamaicans share the same religious beliefs and morals as British people, and didn't segregate themselves like the current flow of immigrants are doing!!
Crazy looking back at this now, in 2023. 4% reduction in gdp attributable to Brexit, various sectors struggling to find workers, highest inflation in the G7 and lowest economic growth forecast in the G20 (below even Russia). Not to mention the potential tearing up of hard fought for workers rights etc.
People seem to have forgotten we've just been through 6 years of austerity.
but not for everyone.
"WE.." Not the Brits... Certainly NOT the Brits. Good job on the brexit!... And hang on! It'll get better!
Abdul Taha How ?
In reply to NRC,nail on the head and the worst thing is that we have,according to JACOB REES MOGG we have another 24 years of it still to come.
Not that it’ll bother him whose made £7 million quid out of us leaving the E.U. His chum Johnson made £4.5 million and we all know how well they did from dishing out money like confetti to their friends in high places.
As for London,during the furlough over 7,000 new companies sprung from nowhere and claimed payments of £473 million,by sheer chance they were ALL REGISTERED to just 5 addresses in the city,dodgy is an understatement.
This was a surprisingly good and unbiased video (I certainly wouldn't usually read the guardian) but I must say this was a very informative video so thank you to those who made it
Who’s watching this in 2019?
me, there is still alot of anger out there
++@Derrick Jensen++ Well I am "Working Class" and have been all my life. I'm retired but am still working because I love my job not because I have to. Any "suffering" I might have encountered over the last sixty odd years has been of my own making rather than anything to do with any political situation so please can you tell me what suffering I am supposedly having to endure now.
++@Derrick Jensen++ Alright, as you say, I can't speak for all working class people, but then neither can you. Your "resounding sentiment" is obviously different to the "resounding sentiment" which I get when I speak to ordinary working class people at, for instance, our local market. They are pleased that they can go and get their car washed, properly and cleaned inside and out by careful, methodical and cheap workers who originated in eastern Europe. Until such people came to this country and saw an opportunity which the average English working man was too idle to exploit nobody did such a thing as hand car washing on such a scale. They did not take an English man's job and do it cheaper. The job did not exist until they came along. That would be just one instance of immigrant workers making the best of their lot. And why pick on the Poles in particular? Some Polish men have been here since the end of WWII and without exception have worked and paid their taxes the same as everyone else. Again they did not take anyone else's jobs, they fitted in to what was available, in the rebuilding of post war Britain. If you are referring to agricultural workers I think you will find the same thing applies. Eastern European working men, and women have taken the jobs which English workers are too idle or too proud to do. I'm sorry to say that in my experience an English man from a village near Boston in Lincolnshire would sooner sit at home on benefits watching telly with his pregnant girlfriend than go out into the nearby field and cut cauliflowers for Tescos. He would in fact be incapable of doing such a task as it would be, to his way of thinking, demeaning.
2021 m8
Who's here after Brexit where the British immigrants are being deported from EU 🤣🤣🤣
good report, thanks for making
They were people who were angry, suffered job loss, wage cuts, austerity. This has been going on for decades. These were the people who were ignored. They didn't care about the pound or economics because they had very few to count.
The lack of sympathy towards these people showed for generations. People who were privileged to receive high educational, job opportunities, prosperous futures due to who they are and what background they came from.
There was, and still is an anger. An anger about inequality in this country. A country that is supposed to be one of the richest economies in the world, yet we still see food banks opening.
Craig Brexit what’s that got to do with Brexit ain’t that our own government fault 🤷🏽♂️
13 billion on foreign aid but yet food banks are open and homeless people die on the streets
And now we're out and imo the best thing that could happen for use . Greater opportunities no EU holding us back to .
They are angry but with the wrong people. It isn't the EU that is responsible for their misery but Westminster.
@@wrestling46nerdoh yeah? How did that turn out
For the record, in 2016 I was applying for jobs and I was broke, zero hours contracts etc, and I voted to remain because I saw through the lies of the Brexiteers. It has made us worse off as a society, have these people's lives Improved? Thought not.
Those wise words of "even the middle class will feel it now" said a day before the referendum has now come to roost as the bank of England rose interest rates to 3%. Enjoy your Brexit or admit you got it wrong
Shutting yourself inside your house seem like a great idea when you feel threatened. Until your house starts burning and you can't get out.
I know what's happening next! We're leaving the EU. Yehheyyyy.👍😀😁😁😀👍👯👯👯
When are Britain going to leave NATO? If having laws and rules dictated by Brussels is unacceptable, then so is having the British armed forces under the command of a foreign (American-dominated) organization. Or is Brexit less about "independence" and more about getting closer to America?
NATO isn't shoving countries down one level. The EU is trying to destroy the sovereignty and identities of every country in the EU. The EU was created just to share a common currency, trade and movement of people. Now, the want to become a country and push existing countries down to state levels. So Presidents of existing countries become nothing more tha Governors with limited power. They getting conquered by paper.
As a german, I'm very sad about the Bristish referendum. It seems as if many people's decision was based on their emotion rather than rational data and political/economical facts. Many people have not considered that the reason for their problems might not be the EU membership, but social problems within the nation itself.
Naja die Briten sind ein Völkchen das sich seit Ende des Empire schwach und nicht Einflussreich in der Welt fühlt, was auch der Grund ist warum sie aus der EU raus wollen, in der sie ein Mitspracherecht haben, aber nicht den gleichen Einfluss den Deutschland und Frankreich haben. Also am Ende läuft is einfach nur auf Chauvinịsmus heraus!
Durch ihre EU-Mitgliedschaft hatten die Briten einen Sündenbock für ihren internen Probleme. Wenn die gleichen Probleme 5 Jahre nach Brexit noch bestehen, wer ist jetzt daran schuld?
You should have a Gexit and have a beer.
Paul you are right!
Right!👍👍👍👍👍
This is my first time watching this. It’s 2022 and the UK is really suffering now. They almost crash their own economy and the pound.
Those students are delusional
Nah they are actually educated and relevant. Unlike jobless crackheads in that welsh town.
"We live in the 21st century, get with it"
Wow, what great, constructive advice for the unemployed in a deprived area. A great example of the out of touch opinions that put those on low incomes off remain
i think he was referring to high skill jobs and automation
its the truth whether you like it or not
Over competition
Jack Black no such thing
@@trustoriakhi5786 lol no such thing. If your bringing in more immigrants than their are jobs and immigrants will work for less, who loses non immigrant population. Every western country should cut immigration back to very strict levels and do not allow immigrants to vote, it will help with the state of jobs. Look at China very successful very low immigration/hardly any immigrant rights, the jobs should go to non immigrant population first. And subsidies should be added for monogomous high child families to encourage internal pop growth.
This is happening because all of the MP's resides in the South and haven't got a clue how the citizens in the north are struggling desperately in getting by. MP's think everywhere is doing great because London is dripping with everything they need, but many outside the London bubble are literally starving and the MP's really don't care. British politics really need a drastic change of different type of politicians, the Brexit vote was a message to these politicians.
The eu has no income of its own, any eu funding grants subsidies etc etc is OUR TAXES.
The problem is that the unskilled workers are being replaced by cheaper foreign labour. The stay was arguing that staying is a net positive. But what good is it if the positive only help the top half of the economic ladder?
@Bri Ba brexit hasn't happened yet. But it could very well be a faster process once we do leave, and going into the future.
I love the way she said I a farmer and we get MOST of our subsides from the EU, i'm self employed I wish I got F ing subsides
Subsidies to kill billions of innocent animals that do not want to die.
A lot of people would like to try their hand at farming. If you run a business yourself I bet you could make it pay without subsidies. That goes for a lot of people out there
As the UK has a net deficit and free movement mostly benefits the poorer EU countries who need UK jobs the EU should pay the UK to be a member. The annual fee the EU should pay the UK should be £200Bn adjusted for inflation.
You know ridiculing is the worst way of "defending" something.
@@markdiablo6560 Logic not ridicule. The EU has its cake and is eating it. Rather like a customer who demands to buy something and have the vendor pay for it - can't go on forever. A few laws from the EU will not make up the balance.
Vote leave make Britain British again
British taxes spent on the British NHS for British that's how it's ment to be no racism involved it's about what's right for the British people end of!
What a thoughtful video, really illustrates different people's reasoning nicely. Even if we lose money leaving, being a rich country hasn't changed the inequality. That's not an argument for or against leaving, just plainly it's the inequality that really needs addressing.
If we leave and GDP shrinks, there'll be fewer jobs. Surely that's not worsen inequality, not reduce it?
GDP is artificially pumped up by population growth, GDP per capita already shrunk & is pretty stagnant as is.
Yeah, better let the rich elite solve the problem of inequality, I'm sure that Eton college has special classes on income redistribution and taxation for the top 1%.
I wonder how many folk now have nightmares about voting Brexit or happy to be miserable.
Then again,I doubt if anyone wants to admit that they made a huge mistake?
I love Wales & the Welsh people, :-)
As a scottish man, let me give a warning to the remainder of the UK. Regardless of the outcome (and I won't be promoting either argument, that's not what my comment is intended for) the post-referendum UK has huge potential to be followed with bitterness and growing hate amongst one another for the foreseeable future unless action is taken immediately. Whatever the outcome, let us agree to move on and live with the result, and take the best course of action for the country for whatever situation we find ourselves in.
After the scottish referendum, my country has never been the same and I blame both The Yes campaign and Better Together for offering nothing but hostility to one another. I don't want this to be repeated; if you aren't living in Scotland you cannot possibly even comprehend how depressing it is. It's heart breaking walking through streets and being ignored by people who were considered friends but now refuse to even look at you :(
Please learn from this
+CJTaylor 87 I think the huge decline of Scottish Labour (particularly in my city of Glasgow) was accelerated by a failure on their part to identify early on what most of Scotland truly wanted. And that was neither full autonomy, nor the status quo. All polls, taken long before both campaigns went into full swing, without fail signalled that over two thirds of Scots supported further devolution.
Of course such an option was not offered to us. We were given a binary choice; Salmond didn't push hard enough for the Devo-max route in my opinion, and this was complemented by Cameron remaining firm that he would only agree to the strict Yes/No question.
But unfortunately I must say that Miliband's Labour missed a trick by choosing to blindly follow suit with this binary setup (subsequently sharing a platform with parties wholly considered to be unpopular amongst much of Scotland; Conservatives and recently/temporally Lib Dems) rather than fighting for a separate vision for a more positive case of greater devolution which very easily could have put the Nationalists and the strict Unionists in their place.
So upon the last week of the referendum when a shock poll showed the Yes campaign narrowly leading, a last minute U-Turn amongst the No side which offered further devolution felt like an after thought and didn't rest well with much of the populace who were crying out for such an option from the beginning. It was kind of too little too late, and now Labour are paying the price. There are other underlying reasons for third decline; complacency over many years due to safe seats and the corrupt labour MPs that subsequently arose from this arrangement clearly had an impact too.
Sorry for the long post. I'm just praying that the EU referendum doesn't end up paralleling the mistakes and future repercussions made during Scotland's referendum.
The level of the debate has been appalling from both sides,given the long run in to the vote all the time they've had to form and present cogent coherent arguments it's just been so disappointing,they've all added to the antipathy towards the political class they so lament .
It was part of their election manifesto last spring and it was on the cards before that,how long do they really need? .
we are in for division whatever we do..the whole mess has been buit deiberately..
I left England and came to Scotland for the same reason. It is the same there. This is being engineered by politicians in the pay of the bankers.
Cheap mobile phones from the e,u ??????
Scotland ❤s the 🌎 apart from 🇬🇧 💩s # 2020 🏴 🇮🇪 🏴 our time is Coming brothers
Lets get out now
Here's a thought, why don't YOU get out right now?!!
Well I end up going home😂😂love his enthusiasm
britain needs to be out of the eu and out of tory rule
Big difference between the educated & the non educated, says it all
even the Indian and black people voted out lol how is leave racist
8:56 She is precisely why leave won. A bourgeoisie detached person who is blind to the issues that affect people who will serve her in retail, clean her house and make her lattes. The pressure on the NHS, Social Housing, EU Directives and cultural supplantation are very much real issues. But, hey, SHE will not be going to a Foodbank any time soon. Probably do a gap year in Vietnam before she returns to work for Daddy's law firm in the City of London.
If only time travel was real!
So they can vote leave again? 🤣
good job we left
I love the people at the end of this video.
Vote Leave, and I promise that things will get better.
We have been in EU for 40 years, and things are not working. People are struggling. Ignore the biased media and biased experts.
Vote Leave and get out of this mess.
How has it been working out for you so far?
What an excellent report. I think we just witnessed a revolution.
When you went to the graduate place I freaked out forgetting this was filmed before the pandemic. I was worried about all the poeple together 😂
You lost Guardian your a minority better start getting use to it.
@@jackmellor5536 So true, sad, but true
The only benefit of Brexit, for which we should all be thankful, is that it will slay the myth of Britain as a major player on the global stage.
this newspaper needs destroying
6:06 that guy was an immigrant.
This Brexit phenomena is the exact same type of shit that is happening in the US with Trump suppoerters
It all turned out right in the end.
Did it....?
7:30 the dude was a clairvoyant.
The Guardian is the new Beano.
How dare you?
60 years ago I was a Beano child.😢
Apologise.
There more dandy than beano
Break the Union England for the English no backstop ,no deal problem solved.
You are crazy.
FREEDOM!!!!!
Thomas Lux ..."" screamed William Walles before he died.
no body like us English so thanks for coming but goodbye' coming out the eu is the best we have played since 1966! we will get our country back and there will be a bright future for us middle class and our children' be proud of yourselfs who ever voted we all made this happen x
2 years later and you are more fucked than ever.
drunkensailor112 And that’s the fault of our government who are majority remain anyways.
how selfish and greedy from those black people and indians who already were granted british passports , dont want to give others the chance that they were given.
Time for the Britt's to come out in force in yellow vests wether your a remainer or brexiteer. If your working or on universal credit we could block the roads and motor ways like when we had the petrol crisis.
The government doesn't have the ability to address these issues as the levers of power have been relocated to Brussels which is too remote and doesn't care. People are all too aware of this so are voting to leave.
The only benefit of Brexit, for which we should all be thankful, is that it will slay the myth of Britain as a major player on the global stage.
Very well done...glad to see you turn stereotypes on their heads
We are right to LEAVE, enough is ENOUGH, we've been shafted from pillar to post by Europe, forced to take in unreasonable numbers of people, being told what we can and can't do etc.
Can you show me an actual law passed by the European parliament that dictates the number of immigrants that must go into the UK?
anthony perkins Oh really? Can you name a law / directive that our British MEPs voted against...that has hindered more than helped the UK?
All decisions made in the EU are made by member states and each member has a veto on any decision they dont want including the UK , if parliament was not sovereign it wouldnt be in such a mess , also westminister has a right to export anyone from the EU that they do not want to live here they choose not to as these ppl pay taxes work in the nhs our schools picking our harvests lthey jobs have always been here we just dont want to do them
‘People don’t want IT’ she said. Doesn’t matter what IT is. Wether it’s the EU, immigrants , Londoners, politicians, the establishment. Discontent breeds anger with a state or circumstance and lashing out will occour - it’s our job to change something first.
"It's just nonsense even though it's a statistically provable fact".
young people , all I keep hearing is "no visas" & "cheap mobile phones" wtf?
yeah and all people that are voting out are old and are ruining for young people.
Not all of us are so narrow minded. I'm more terrified that this has possibly triggered the breakup of the UK
And they couldn't get out of bed to vote!
I did, I drove all my friends to the polling station and we all voted remain. I was gutted.
The young constituents could've swung the vote into their favour but instead the majority of them stayed in bed and bawwwd that they'll need to get visas or something to move around. Then the media will portray the old ones as "evil" because they were responsible enough to vote even though they thought they'd lose. That's why you hear people thinking their vote "would not count."
Instead we got a very loud minority of remain tossers that can't accept democracy. Now they want a second one cause "this time it's for real," unfortunately, the most interested in staying in the EU failed their civic duty. Now deal with your laziness, most millennials are worthless pieces of shit (#notAll) and the fact that their saltyness is so ever present makes my day, every day. Cry more, fuckers.
Watching this now brings a smile to my face that the uk. Opted to leave.
walk 100 metres down the Merthyr Tydfil highstreet and you'll see Polish shops and what have you. didn't want to show that did they. People want Britain to be British not the just the people but are laws more importantly. And it's not opposed to immigrants but we don't want to walk past every few people and hear different languages and what have you. there are too many immigrants
EU lost its great asset now that the UK has decicided to finally leave the failed EU after four decades of committed British membership that has been one of the EU strongest nations. The vote to leave the EU will release the UK from a highly demanding EU membership instead shifts into a total UK focus of efforts, Finances , resources and people that have been previously provided to the EU . The massive annual investments made by the UK can be available for Britains sole benefit which increases the British capabilities to tackle issues, produce wide ranging positive outcomes for British citizens and help the enhancement of uk society in many ways promoting better quality of life for all British people. The UK will also produce returns in benefits, needs meeting and advantages for all people in uk
The kids don't have a clue. Their parents have had their memories erased with 24/7 trivia tv. The kids have nothing to do because they no longer have a reason to live. Every factory in England had 14 year old kids working there. Each factory was a family with a social structure.Many of the kids went to work. Came home, Had their tea. Then went to night school to get their City and Guilds and Higher National Certificates. To become Highly skilled Craftsmen. They built the Britain that became prosperous. Because of their new found knowledge. It scared the +++ out of those that owned our country. The bankers who pay our elected politicians their bonuses as thanks for devising ways to keep the electorate in check. We were lied to regarding how the eu was formed . The evidence is in front of our eyes, regarding the politicians who have prospered from it.
it maybe Tory austerity but it was LABOUR WHO CAUSED IT..
It's only certain people who will blame the lack of jobs within this country what the problem really lays with those who blame the immigrants navigate immigrants who come into this country most immigrants will only take the work what are the British won't even do so let's not blame It on the immigrants' I was one of those who voted to leave that was for one single purpose the EU is turning into something bad the EU is not a democracy anymore it's all about wealth and power.
the whole world has forever been about wealth and power. the struggle is making sure that power and wealth is distributed evenly and fairly. people who dont want that pay big money to keep everyone scared of words like socialism or libertarianism so that no one talks about the reality of our rights and fair share of human prosperity being stolen from us.
People in this commentsection are smarter than me
The media isn't giving these voices enough attention.
why blame the the pm? he did the right thing, giving the people the right to decide what they wanted,right? this democracy guys not communism, the majority spoke.
You were never gonna find many remainers on the street, they don't generally leave the house and see the real world
Any Real Brits here? Guys, is this really happening? And is it the result of being in the EU? Not shockingly, here across the pond we hear literally NOTHING about this...
D F January 31st is when we leave
@@mattg8600 Congrats on finally making this happen, It is a great thing to see our friends across the pond gain their sovereignty back.... Let's hope Boris Johnson delivers on his promises for you all..
stand up for your country pure gold ,vote out.
Put the coloured gentleman drinking Guinness in parliament. Raise the average IQ
You're not doing much for the stereotype of Leave Voters. He's BLACK. That phrase you used belongs in the 50s it is the 21st Century, update your knowledge and language please. You don't get to stand still in a single decade.
EU has prevented UK subsidy of industry under its state aids rules, but has often provided subsidised loans and grants to businesses to set up elsewhere in the EU. UK has seen a spate of factory closures balanced by new and expanded facilities in poorer EU countries. The UK lost van production to Turkey, car capacity to Slovakia, chocolate to Poland, domestic appliances to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic metal containers to Poland amongst others in recent years. In various cases there was an EU grant or loan involved in the new capacity. Between 1951 and 1973 food and drink output rose by 5.6% per year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has fallen by 1% a year. Between 1951 and 1973 textiles output expanded at 2.6% a year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has fallen by more than 6% a year. When the UK joined the EU we had a 45 million tonnes a year steel industry. Today we are battling to save an 11 million tonnes industry. When we joined the EU we had a 400,000 tonnes a year aluminium industry. Today we have just 43,000 tonnes of capacity left. The October 2013 government “Future of Manufacturing” Report shows that between 1951 and 1973 metals output rose 3% a year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has declined by more than 6% When we joined the EU we had 20 million tonnes of cement capacity. Today we have 12 million tonnes. Just before we joined the EEC in 1971 we had a 1 million tonnes a year fishing industry. Today we have 600,000 tonnes. Whilst it may not be fair to blame all this decline on membership of the EU, as there are other factors, it nonetheless shows categorically that joining the EU and helping create the so called single market has not helped us grow and has not saved many of our industries from decline. In some cases EU policies are the main driver of the disaster. The Common Fishing Policy is clearly the main reason for the dreadful decline of our fishing industry, as many foreign vessels were licensed to take our fish. Our energy intensive businesses were often damaged by the high energy prices required by the EU common energy policy. Looking at our huge balance of payments deficit today in goods with the rest of the EU, we can see the long term impact of the EU’s damage to our manufacturing capacity. This April’s balance of payments figures show us in heavy deficit in machinery, vehicles, electrical machinery, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, wood and clothing. Last year our total goods trade deficit hit £85 billion with the rest of the EU. Between 2008 and 2015 our exports grew at 5% with the rest of the world, whilst falling with the EU. Perhaps remain might like to answer the following questions: Why have we suffered industrial decline and closures with production shifting elsewhere in Europe since joining the EEC? Why do trade in surplus with the rest of the world but have such a huge deficit with the EU? Why have we ended up importing fish, electricity, steel and much else when we used to self sufficient?
Omg that’s my Grandad at 6:35 haha jeez my mom told me to watch😂😭
interesting to see all the college grad millennials say stay so they dont need a visa to travel, study or work in Europe and all the working class voting out, so they can get a job at home.
In one word Thatcher. ...
Fascinating time capsule. But it leaves (no pun intended) me wonder what the EU has to do with all of the complaints. It just sounds like austerity and lack of investments is the cause. I mean, no one would be complaining about anything if people had jobs, eh?
yeh the big question is what happens now that were out?
Hows that working out for you
3-years on ... we're still not out and the country is even more angrier than ever!
Good journalism in my opinion. Well rounded perspectives.
Wow! I never realized Birmingham to be so diverse.
This is a turning point for Britain it won't be called the United Kingdom anymore as Scotland will soon be Independent, N Ireland will soon join Ireland so Wales and England will have to be called rUK (rest of the UK) or little Britain.
We want are country back
Tax the media
That woman from Leominster's westie at 4:30 is so cute!!
This is first piece on video that has tapped into the real anger about British membership of the EU . People feel they are second class citizens in their own land and they do not like being ignored whilst mass migration is imposed upon them. They voted leave because they want at least the semblance of democracy back. Under the EU there is no democracy. If Brexit is sabotaged as seems likely by Theresa May that anger will transfer to social unrest or worse. Leave means leave that it.
I hope it is sabotaged just to see those idiots get angry! They're like a bunch of inbreds with simplistic ideas of Immigration and bigoted views! Morons, the lot of them!
Unfortunately I think for a lot of Out people they feel like they have no control or ability to affect their lot and the Out campaign has done a good job selling the magic bean that is leaving the EU could be. If we leave I fear they will just be left holding the beans whilst the country becomes further divided.
Life is very hard in England.
Anyone from October 2018 and the chaos of Theresa Mays deal?
you need immigrants because you didnt make babies but want your pension. someone has to do the work, because you dont want to go back working on the farms.
now after leaving the eu, make a legislation that lets employed immigrants stay and unemployed have to go home. problem solved
4:28 "All our subsidies are paid by the EU."
And where do you think the EU gets the money, to pay you those subsidies?
From the government who WOULD pay it if they wanted to buy they don’t
No such thing as government funded. Its tax funded from the people.
@@woodlandbiker Exactly. Government have no money, other than what they get from the public.
What is wrong with being oposed to your countries money going into an undemocratic bureaucracy. What is wrong with deciding who gets into your country or not. What is wrong with not spending money into countries who spend their money irresponsibly? What is worng with not being joined by the hip to leaders like Berlusconi, Erdogan, Merkel and Holande?
These are not even questions. The answers are clear.
Oh they want him to be part of the EU. Why do you call me a xenophobe. Come with arguments and stop namecalling. Example cant we criticize Islam. Even when we come with examples. Quotes from the Koran or Hadith. Cant we criticize anything without namecalling. Just cut all the content and start insulting eachother by calling names. Yes that will help.
Abdul Taha Thank you. I accept your apology. Maybe I worded my point of view poorly. For you to take offence. And I agree with your point of view of lack of direct democratic accountabiity.
+thijsjong They want Erdogan to be a part of the EU?? NOOOOO. Since 1986 Turkey wants to join but the next 50 years and probably never will they join the EU. Read before spreading lies. Erdogan wants a referendum himself, asking his ppl if he has to go on with the negotiatons with the EU. He knows, it will never happen.
Leaving the EU is a legitimate argument, however the legitimate arguments wouldn't have got the vote out for Leave. They tried them - but they failed, so started drifting into full on fascist territory. And frankly they've politicized people who were best left unpoliticized. The Lumpen Proletariat now see what voting can do - they see they can change the world. Bad precedent.
The Queen?House of Lords?
Welcome to democracy, welcome to hypocracy, welcome to the so called civilized west. LFD
Divided Kingdom? I didn't know that Scotland at last got its independence. WAAAAHHHHHHH Good on you Scotland! Well done! Good luck to the Divided Kingdom. DK instead of UK. (Note: DK does not stand for Denmark.)
Yeah dk as in you Don’t Know what your talking about
@@kurtjappy Independence for Scotland and Divided Kingdom: does it ring a bell? :-) No? Where do you come from? Trump land? You sound like it.
Suremes yes, Scotland is dividing the “kingdom”
@@kurtjappy Independence for Scotland! Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU. Scotland and Northern Ireland are smarter than England. Brexit is a disease dividing the UK. BREXIT is dividing the "kingdom", not Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Suremes oh I agree 1000%
HaHaHa. It's funny when the Indians, the Nigerians and the Jamaicans judge immigration.
Fully agree👍
After reading various opinions, it seems that the reasons given to remain add up to complete economic dependence on this union. It seems that they are willing to allow more and more rule over their own country and lives from Brussels, and trade it for a sense of security and free travel. It seems that the upper economic class are the ones feeling secure about the way things are. The only reason for fear of economic troubles after leaving is if the EU itself will disallow free trade with the UK, and impose some kind of sanction, even if they don't call it a "sanction". So now it's Brussels instead of Rome to dictate what nations may or may not do?
Yes we have left!
Any money gained from EU was paid by UK taxpayers who are then give a small percentage back! The rest is used to keep the Politicians EU Politicians pension bill! It's a guide earner for the elites!