I live in France amongst a rather big number of Brits. Some of them voted leave because of uncontrolled immigration. When asked if perhaps they themselves could be considered immigrants by the French, they reacted quite surprised and irritated. Immigrants? Us? We're expats, that's different. By the way, we are talking about an area in France where you can find fish & chips shops, British builders of any kind, a pub, you can join a cricket club, enjoy a full English breakfast, and go to a British hairdresser. You can also sit on any terrace listening to the Brits around you complaining about French bureaucracy, French builders, shops closing between 12 and 14, the fact that restaurants aren't open all day and that so few people speak English. It's a shame that the word hypocrisy also exists in French, because I could have sworn it's a British invention.
I to live in France, but thankfully there are not to many Brits in the area. I was absolutely 'gobsmacked' when I heard that a large number of Brits now living in Southern Spain, actually voted LEAVE ! Sadly, I understand that part of Spain is now called "England on the Med". With much the same attitude & facilities as where you are. TBH, various things I have heard or read, makes me ashamed & embarrassed to even admit I'm English!
I also live and work in France full time. I do think a decrease of Brits moving to France or Spain is underway. Resident permit is stopping people using their homes as a six month winter stop over, also reducing people working on the black, I am all for it. Take your choice, you can’t have it all your own way.
I’m from Texas. I really respect the humility of the man who said he voted to leave but now feels he was wrong. It takes integrity to be honest and self reflect.
@@User_Name26speaking from my experience in California, they’re some of the most hypocritical people left in the US. We see them all the time in CA with a Texas license plate and nobody gives them any issues, but god forbid you drive through Texas with a CA license plate. Mind you half of them want to secede from the country. I genuinely wish that could be possible and they would learn instantly just like Brits are learning from Brexit.
@@edwardfletcher7790yeah , you mean ignorant decision making. White Republicans don't like Mexicans, yet Mexicans want to vote for them. I hope Mexicans make a better choice 11/5/24.
@@nick260682 It's without a doubt not the first time a country leaves an economic block for political reasons, imposing de facto sanctions on itself. It's true that britain has done it, but it's something fairly common in history
@@igorsagdeev7881 it literally can't be repaired, they can't get into the EU with the same exclusions and rights they had previously in the EU even if they got back into it... you couldn't be further from the truth
with regards to the classic line “they’re getting X,Y,Z and we’ve got homeless people on the streets” street homelessness has much more to do with mental health rather than housing supply. You cant just hand someone the keas to a flat and expect it to work out. You need a comprehensive package of education mental and physical health support and sheltered accommodation, the issue is that these same people who complain about migrants will complain about “benefit scroungers” and vote for politicians who promise to “be tough” with them!
That blonde woman doesn't want Europeans to come to England for paid holidays and benefits. She is still glad her husband who is a farmer got "lots of gifts available to farmers" from Europe. She genuinely sees no contradiction there.
Farmers nowadays are heavily subsidized, wined and dined by politicians, yet still have a chip on their shoulder that their work is more important than anyone else’s. Part of the strategy is to affirm their victim status
You didn't listen to her, did you - she did not support her husband's viewpoint. In the end, they did not vote because their votes cancelled each other out.
@@wotreplays8896 That lady was in no way a Karen (nor were her lips particularly thin) ... you must be one of the lucky few who have never had the misfortune of an encounter with a true Karen, a Karen never finds herself lying in a field in Glastonbury, a Karen never encourages people to treat each other better, a Karen never speaks articulately. The stooge with the misguided facial tattoos whining (or was he whinging?) about "coked up posh boys" was more Karenesque than she (and had thinner lips)
@Marcel_Audubon she is very bias to say the least. Imagine having a conversation with her trying to prove your point of the argument, if she didn't even managed to get on the same plate with her husband when they ware voting to remain or leave lol
"I voted for Brexit to keep foreigners out of Britain, not to make it harder for me to holiday in Spain!" screamed a woman at the employees in a London travel agency. She actually said that. The lack of self-awareness of the Brexiteers is almost as breathtaking as that of America's MAGA Republicans.
@@RichardABW Tell that to the Brexiteers who were living on the Costa del Plenty and forgot to register to remain. They didn't think for one minute that Brexit cut both ways.
Where did you see that? I'd love to watch it. Obviously if World Cup game is on, watch that first. We've got to support our Media and Footballers who are playing on the graves of migrant workers. I'm a massive fan of Gary Linekar as he supports migrants and stands against racist Brexiteers. Don't get me wrong, making money off of Qatar whilst ignoring the deaths of migrant workers and being in someone else's country, taking their money but disrespecting their culture is slightly hypocritical. However Its to educate us ordinary people, so all good.
yes..Britsh apathy towards the EU over the years or viewing it simply as a joke meant they felt they could leave, consequence free ...they never did the "due diligence" at any level from top to bottom and are now stuck in spledid isolation from their nearest and by far their most important trade partner !
Unlike the vast majority who are brainwashed into thinking it was Racism they were fighting, by voting to stay. Why does every single person whom voted to stay, infer racism to those who voted to leave? I'm sure they factored in all the other factors, unlike those thick, racist Brexit voters.
Not really an answer to what I said, is it? So what proportion of people who voted to leave are racist? Can you tell me whom they are racist against? Given the vast majority of EU workers are white are the white Brexit voting racists actually racist against white people? That's confusing...
So If I'm white and voted for Brexit I'm assumed to perhaps be racist by those who voted to stay? So due to my skin colour...race and my democratic vote, I'm possibly racist or I side with racists? That my friend seems, eh racist...
it actually makes more sense that anything else they've offered. The rest is just dripped in not racism but really racism, wanting things to improve as a nebulous idea without any real plan sort of thing.
@@maneesh77 that's bollocks though and doesn't help the situation, and your attitude is most likely the reason we're in the situation we're in. You can't just call everyone you disagree with racist. That lady saying "come over here to work, don't come over here to simply claim benefits", takes some real mental gymnastics to claim that's racism.
Why of course all Turks are crazy just like his ex wife. Not to mention the entire population of Türkiye is waiting in line for the country to join the EU so that they can ALL emigrate to the UK.
Still doesn't want to actually solve the homeless problem. Same thing happens here in the US. The only time homeless vets get attention is when immigration comes up.
Well... back on the voting day, if your accent, skin tone or simply your face looked less than 90% English , you would've been met at the entrance with a disgusting hostility and pushed away , cussed at and told to f off to your country as you're not allowed to decide for the "proud bri'ish". Police looked the other side if you needed them so everything was well orchestrated. That's why many COULDN'T vote. Useless to explain that you had the legal right to do it as an EU citizen, just like they were EU citizens. There were so many factors that led the brits to the official title of "most stupid in the world" in those days. But a choice is a choice, can't be judged .
I think that the British working class have been and still are used and betrayed by the upper class. It is not the EU who caused their relatively poor living conditions, it's their own politicians. Every time I am in England I feel like the average person there is much worse off than in Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria etc. and it is not because the UK is poor. There is enough to go around, but it doesn't.
Thatcher began. Uk is in a way similar to U.S. that it thinks poor are poor because they are lazy and rich are rich, because they are smart and hard working. Most of the time it is that the rich were already rich, lucky and are lazy and the poor were already poor and hard working. I doubt the rich elite do the night shifts and 12 hour work days on their feet, with barely enough time to eat lunch or go to the bathroom.
LOL. You should see the US. Voters keep voting for people who cut taxes on the rich while cutting services for the working class. You can't fix stupid.
Bingo, nail meet head If you’re anywhere outside of London and you’re not upper class, things are a struggle Those who earn 1000 a day are telling us that those who earn 10 a day are the problem
We definitely weren’t the problem with the marriage tho they needed us more than we needed them if Europe wants us to fund them why don’t they ask to become dominions?
Totally agree with you. I am from Colombia but I live in the UK from 5 months ago. At Latin America happens each time we have elections, we vote using emotions, not brain. We are repeating the same mistake done by the British over and over. I hope that the UK citizens have learned.
Yes, not making decisions based on emotions is ideal but it's almost never done that way. There are perfect examples in almost every country, majority of the humans alive simply make decisions irrationally based on greed, fear, grudge, hate, insecurity and even jealousy. The more humans come together and form groups, the more vulnerable they are to these feelings taking over their decisions. Human beings are simply arrogant and dumb.
Top marks to the interviewer. No leading questions, no trickery, leaving the contributors all the time in the world to express themselves. Nice piece of work.
All he showed was remainers speaking at length about something he agreed with which is fine but let's not pretend this guy's videos are impartial that's nonsense
@@grai I never said nor implied that the interviewer was impartial. The point is that he was able to get those Brexiters to admit they'd been had, without putting words into their mouths. To be impartial on Brexit would be weird. It would be like being impartial on burglary 🤷♂️
Seems very selective in the people interviewed. The best he could really get was someone who voted leave because his ex wife was Turkish. There is no doubt in my mind that there were people who voted leave and said they were happy with the decision using coherent and educated answers that were left out.
@@JD-pp6gx - fair point. You never know how many interviews have been discarded in the process. That said, the results are roughly in line with what you'd expect. Apart from the "true believers," there seem to be very few people in real life with a positive view of Brexit. Even those who voted for it think it's been badly done.
@@nellyboot I do not agree with the second part of what you said. It in many ways highlights my point. Over 17m people voted for it, and saying it is "roughly in line with what you would expect" is a very broad comment to make. We forget the number of voters who said they would vote remain and were voting leave all along. Fundamentally you can't read someone's mind. Remember all the 'polls' before the 2019 election that everyone had changed their mind, then Boris Johnson won a landslide and the Lib Dems (who offered to overturn the result) got hammered and their leader lost her seat. When you ask a divisive question, people are more likely to tell you what you want to hear than give you an honest answer because they don't want the hassle. The media are peddling that everyone has changed their minds and choose to back the narrative that it was bad. This is the same media that was vehemently against Brexit back in 2016. I do not take any side in this debate and have no agenda other than to point out how absurd and one-sided the media is on this subject. It serves to get clicks and create more division.
"I was duped really" at 4:40 is so strong. It takes a lot of courage to say you made a wrong decision. We need more of this. Con-artists rely on our shame to admit we were duped. But we all sometimes are.
The remainiac cult in full swing, and as with all cults the rules are the same. You can't leave the cult. If you do leave the cult you are insane, only the cult tells the truth, only cultists can make inane propaganda videos that just so happen to reflect their prejudice. You fanatics are different to scientologists or Moonies .
@@Flotter-Flo I never voted on this. I still live in the EU and that was a quote. Your reaction shows what makes it so hard for people to admit to a mistake. I get your anger. But why are you talking like this to people? Without even reading what say had to say in the first place?
76% of those who voted. Which was in fact only 26% of the country/Union who actually vote. No minimum limit was ever set. You should at least need to meet a minimum voting requirement for such an important issue. And then there is the validity to the claims most people made as a justification to leave to EU. Which have all been shown to have been a load of bollocks. In my own country only 5% voted to leave the EU, yet we got dragged out because of the English. Who sell their shitty houses for hundreds of thousands of pounds then come up here and buy up our housing stock for far less. Our imigrants don't come in a dingy, they're the bloody English.
It was a high turn out. but, of , only 37% voted to leave - I think that if you wanted out, you'd definitely go and vote that way. But, if you wanted to stay in, it's possible you'd not bother to vote believing it would never happen. There should have been required ,an absolute majority (greater than 50%) of all POSSIBLE votes to leave before removing other peoples, other businesses EU status. 'Take back control' was never intended to give any more power to the people. Politicians just 'butter us up' when they want their way every few years with 'populist ideas', then promptly forget us for the next few years.
Lived in London for 15 years. Worked legally for Hackney Council as a dustman (many Poles work waaay under their qualifications in the UK). I was qualified as "settled" by the day England would make its way out of the EU, therefore I could stay in UK after brexit. But I have decided to move back home to Poland. The reason was that I never felt like England is my home. Never felt respeceted and welcomed. Although I had some friends, they were almost only foreign, I felt lonely in this huge city. Englishmen tended to feel better about themselves only because of being British. I moved back to Poland in 2019. And it was the best thing I could do really. I met my wife here, our daughter has been born in 2021, got myself a good office job. And finally feel like life is good. Sorry England, U thought me a lot about life. But I regret that I didn't leave U earlier.
The point about feeling lonely in a huge city is not only happening in London but basically everywhere if you are an inmigrant. I can guarantee you many foreigners feel the same way in Warsaw.
For those of you who don’t know anything about immigration legislation of your own country, people who apply for any visa, student, work, spouse, entrepreneur, or whatever, their visa condition explicitly stated “no recourse to public funds”. They can’t claim any benefit, not until they get their permanent status (ILR). And when they apply for visa, they need to pay something called Immigration Health Surcharge, which is £624 per year. So if they apply for a two year working visa, they are paying £1,248 of health surcharge while they are also paying NI and tax. So they are not getting medical care for free either. Home Office are making millions through visa fees and Immigration Health Surcharge. I wonder if those money is actually going to NHS.
@@edjohnson8017 I don’t need to explain anything. If you have passed sixth grade, then you should be a grown up and go to government website and check the immigration rules yourself instead of asking people to explain why you yourself have certain opinion.
I don't like immigrants. There, I've said it. I'm Dutch and have no time for sugar coating. I'm too busy pillaging what's left of the The British empire.
@@FrankHeuvelman well yeah but you're dutch, it's expected of you. That's why so many decent dutch live abroad, you're a small country and yet most EU young inmigrants I meet in Madrid are dutch 🤷
Asking a Tory councillor what would improve residents’ lives in her town and she says “erm… smiling?” is such a perfect illustration of the Conservative Party in 2022. They’ve jumped the shark and now they’re just flopping about with no aims and no momentum. A government without purpose.
Labour will do the same. Brexit hit, but so did Covid and Ukraine. We cannot separate out the effects. People are in denial that WE HAVE A WAR GOING ON. They think Covid is over and expected the NHS to return to normal when large numbers of staff have got long Covid or retired early due to stress and some have died or left to look after sick family members, and the big bills we ran up during Covid have (along with Ukraine) caused recent high inflation. Those problems do not go away just because we change government. NEITHER party has solutions. Politicians are just people, many of them trained in law, the classics, or whatever. Many are sociopathic or psychopathic. Few have a clue about how to run a high-tech nation but some of them manage to create a facade, a charisma, with nothing behind it. If you are waiting for a new government to wave a magic wand, you are in for a long wait.
@@LPVince94 they know they're probably going to loose the next election, and it's every man for himself, and dig your face as far in to the trough as you can
Smiling matched with compassion and curiosity along with convening spaces to connect across difference could be the start of a process of people powered building of a society which works for 100% and the planet. I liked what the person with ski jacket said about the polarised all or nothing views brexit bad, EU good and vice versa. As citizens we need to unlearn passivity and looking outside ourselves for solutions. The ex union person talked about collective action enabling collective bargaining. Perhaps we need to do some visioning too on what encompasses a good life. Step outside the neoliberal narrative of what success is and how the world works. It’s a powerful story which has destroyed us.
chef from portugal work here 16h a day probably pay more tax than some british people. work in some of the finest restaurants in london, zuma le pont de la tour, city social and so on and on. i tell you this, very few british poeple working 16h shifts in the kitchen. i wonder why???too much work??? there are positions available and we are understaffed so why don't brits come and get a job? my back fucking hurts as i'm doing the work of 3. nevertheless, portugal is filled with rich british people and expats that drove the rents up and we portuguese people cannot afford to live in our own country. sadly ironic
No european citzen have moral to make that assesment. Sou brasileiro, amigo. Até hoje colhemos desgraça da colonização portuguesa. E o ódio dos portugueses contra brasileiros só aumenta em território europeu. Em 2020 o Alto Comissariado para as Migrações (ACM) de Portugal disse que 65% das novas empresas abertas naquele ano foram criadas por brasileiros. A presença criando empresas, novos empregos, etc é notável. Mas xenofobia e racismo também...
Used to work as a chef in Glasgow and all accross UK for 10 years,real hard work and real hard time in that type of work,used to pay 150-200 just taxes a week (was better to work less getting more money,nvm....) but i was happy because i was part of a welcoming community .After i heard from british friends they wanted so bad this stupid brexit i felt bad tbh ,didn't feel that welcome anymore.Left UK just before they voted.Give them what they want so bad , a Britain for britons only.However UK remains the most welcoming country and friendly to me .Had an amazing time with high value people which from i've learned alot.May God bless UK and it's people.Much love from Romania
To play the devil's advocate: If your competition is taking benefit, you must do the same or your business will be uncompetitive. Doesn't mean you have to like it.
Where does this perception of great benefits even come from? The dream to collect £50 a week under extreme scrutiny? Immigrants are the ones willing to work more jobs than Brits born there.
Well, the difference is that government benefits can not exist for anyone in the world that wants them, as the pie is just not big enough. It's not hypocritical to want government to use tax funds to look after its own citizens first.
Have we all forgotten about the erstwhile British Empire so soon? Not to mention that Britain is still holding so-called "overseas territories" far away from its European borders!
@@haizee2330 I don't know if you're trolling or simply uneducated, but I'll say this regardless, those facilities were not made for the NATIVES but for the COLONIZERS, and infrastructure was built to extract raw materials and wealth from the colonised lands, perhaps this wasn't taught in your English history syllabus (assuming you are English); also the post colonial countries should also thank Britain for the racism, communalism, destruction of their society, forceful conversation to Christianity, loot of their ancestral wealth, and the best of all - planned ethnic cleansing/genocide. Try to look at things from the other side; rather than seeing developing countries as "shitholes" learn why they became this way, and more often than not you'll find a European or American behind it!
@@sirianofmorleyyou literally had a special rule that you had to pay less money than ever members☠️ What better deal could there be? Among lots of other priviliges that the uk got themselves(like not having to adopt the euro, which other countries are required to do) I mean I don't really care. When the uk reenters we will be Happy about it but it will be treated like any other country. No special treatment anymore
Obsessed with immigration. I get it, it's the narrative they want us to worry about but it's keeping people fixated on race rather than a class war, of which there is a real disparity in this country. The Tories don't want that.
Couldnt have said it better. Blame immigrants and once we're out of the EU and the same problems still arise - who are they going to continue to blame?
@kyanamaaf6314 invasion hasn't stopped you moron. It didn't even stop when the country was incarcerated on their own homes by the million. The reason you make such stupid comments is because you have no understanding of Parliament at all even when they are shouting it at you.
The idea that Britain is the only place in Europe that people want to come because it’s a ‘soft touch’ is nonsense. Brexit took the UK away from the negotiating table regarding the control of cross channel migration, and left us making very dodgy trade deals with other countries outside the EU that involve making immigration to the UK easier. Personally I think that immigration has enriched the UK over the centuries and I embrace it. The reason why our economy is currently in a worse state than our European neighbours is Brexit.
What was stupid was that they could've just changed their own laws regardings subsidies, benefits and immigrants instead of leaving. They basically blamed EU for their own laws.
@@FoobsTon EU can't change each country laws. They give guidelines, but each country has their own. Do you see the EU changing Turquia or Italy laws? Italy just passed a law that cuts subsidies to those who can but won't work. I have the same problem in my country, too much subsidiodependentes and the government lacks the courage to fix it because it could cost them votes. But that is not the EU problem. Even if the EU highly suggested "receive x amount of refugees" how you receive them, how much you spend, how you strive to make them productive, it's internal, it's each country decision.
Exactly, same with "Ohhh we don't want 40 EU regulations on pillow cases so we gonna leave!" Problem is a huge majority of trade is with EU countries and if you want to still sell to them you have to adhere to the norms anyways....
@@safy907 by turquia I assume you mean turkey? I understand mentioning Italy but why would the EU change laws of a non EU country? it's a weird thing to bring up as an example? EDIT: and technically EU "can" change a country's laws by passing regulations that they are forced to accept and supercede national laws (although as far as I know they are EU wide laws so they can't have an EU law that applies only in one country)
That is what they are seeking when they cross the English Channel, yes. If they weren’t then they would seek refuge on the continent or even closer to home.
You’ve twisted his words massively, they’re heading to the UK not to escape war and conflict, they could stop off at many European countries should they care about simply leaving conflict, his point is about the proportion that directly choose to come to the UK
@@thebristolbruiser Many go to certain countries because: a) better migration/asylum seekers laws b) already had a family member there or someone they know that can help them
Around 4:10, the Latvian woman talks about hearing "go back to your own country" directed at other people, but not at her personally, and it gave her a feeling of not being welcome indirectly. I can relate. I am living in another country and I've had that experience. It can make the people around you seem really unfriendly, even if they're telling you, "No, not you. You're the good kind of immigrant". Like they don't like immigrants generally, but they'll make an exception for you because you blend in. It can feel like a dubious honor, and it makes you wonder if they'd remember you were a "good" immigrant if times got bad and they needed someone to blame for it.
I had the same experience living in Germany. People will talk about how much they hate immigrants, so I would ask: " You mean immigrants like me?" And they'd backtrack "no, not like you! You speak German!" So I would ask: "so it's fine as long as the immigrants learn German?" Which they also weren't happy with. Made me feel real welcome. Not.
@@chronicreader I'm from the US too, and from a part of it where it's so rural that people from anywhere else were outsiders, even if it was from two counties over or another state. Someone from another country was just too much for them. So I get it, but I didn't really get it until I experienced it for myself outside of the US. It made me seriously respect anyone who moves to another country and tries to make a life there, because it is not easy. It takes an enormous amount of grit.
@@annalang5687 ""no, not like you! You speak German!"" WOWS! When I was young (10-20) I always had an image in my head about germans like they are super smart and educated people, yet some of them can't really speak english as well as I do, while I'm quite bad at it. Funny times... I also experienced it time to time they just did not want to speak in english in calls (while they could, maybe not easily, but puttig in the effort was maybe too stinky for their majestic class 🧐), and I had no idea what is going on, they just spoke with each other in german about nothing and there was effectively 0 progress between us. 🤣👌
That's why it's a poor idea to have uninformed, under-educated people making generational-affecting decisions. And especially on a simple majority -- & also without a participating voting threshold of at least two thirds of the country.
The problem wasn't the simple-majority referendum: the problem was that there was never a referendum on the final deal. Brexit was already unpopular a year after the vote, and was by a large margin in 2019.
Bullshit, this false narrative that the Brexit vote was due to stupid racists who know nothing is another contemptible lie promoted by the media. The Brexit vote was about much more than immigration. It was about the working classes getting screwed over for decades on jobs, housing and social and political mobility. Just look at Britain in the 1960's and compare it to the sorry state of the country today. I voted leave and would do so again tomorrow. I do not want to be ruled or dictated to by an unelected council of globalist and corporate puppets/shills. But if that is what you want. there are boats and planes leaving every day. And I did look at it in depth.
@@edaindaimhin6009 We weren't ruled by unelected people. The EU is actually more democratic than the UK - it has a fairer voting system and the UK also had a veto on any legislation it didn't like. The "unelected beurocrat" line was one spun by the right wing press for over a decade and was swallowed up by the credulous masses. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster and the only beneficiaries are the ultra rich and disaster capitalists.
As someone in the EU, I used to order things from British web stores quite often. That includes expensive musical instruments. Now I rarely order anything because of how shipping from outside the EU works.
Indeed, Amazon UK and eBay offered the most competitive prices and availability. They also served as a conduit for acquiring items from the USA and India more conveniently and affordably.
I don't order anything, just because i don't know if there will be customs fee. But to be honest all sellers from UK, started selling from EU shops...didnt order much though maybe up to 500 eur per year.
Politically, it has always been easier to blame the ‘outsiders’ for our problems rather than look inward. It has been a tactic for hundreds of years and sadly worked again for the referendum.
Funny im from inner city brum we had a lovly st quiet friendly , now hmo full of drug taking prostitution rubbish dumping immigrants , women are not safe we have had five fatal stabbings this year and a shooting ,,, 30 years ive lived here this is the first time ive felt unsafe
@Simon John this is such cope 💀 he clearly outlined why he voted leave and why he regrets the vote. If the reason you would have left is different than his then that's one thing. But if you're pretending as if voting to leave has been a good thing for the British people and not just a satiation of the British racist class, you're either delusion beyond help or high from sniffing your own farts.
@Simon John "how is leaving the EU racist? We're all European race" -that right there is a beautifully hilarious statement LOL. Well first I didn't say the act of leaving is what's racist -its just dumb and dangerous. What's racist is the *motivation* many ppl had to leave. That being to keep Britain white. The second half of that statement makes no sense. How do you figure "European" is a race? Did you mean ethnicity or something? The rest of your comment is you pointing to either non issues or real issues with actual policy solutions that exist but then being mad at the ghost of migrants. Buddy, head on over to your local university economics department or better yet, just open up Google, and search "does immigration improve the economy"? I assure you, the vast vast majority of information iseither very positive of immigrations impact on things like your labour market, housing, etc. I'm not wasting my time arguing immigration when it's a settled debate. The immigrants are not the cause of any of these issues, if anything they're the ones keeping your ship still running. But you know what has been disastrous for your economy? Pulling out of the biggest trading block in your region and eating billions in losses then shifting it onto the cost of living crisis! You fucked yourselves just to say "fuck you" to immigrants. This hyper fear of immigrants is *exactly* the racism I'm describing Edit: grammar
@@simonjohn6156 sure right, its not like you guys are in complete crisis right now, consequence of isolating yourselves from your closest economic block Everything is fine
@Simon John No one is arguing that the referendum result wasn't a valid vote (i.e. more voted to leave). However, arguing that someone made the right decision without understanding their decision, or understanding what they were voting for is A) Trolling? B) Completely partisan? C) Dishonest? D) A comment showing a complete unwillingness to acknowledge anything except the word 'Brexit'. So, no problem with voting 'Leave', but then there can't be any complaints or regrets for voting 'Leave'. Brexit has to be accepted, regardless of what it actually involves.
@@funoff3207 You're right that oftentimes the real reason is racism, or at least low-key xenophobia, but I don't think that's the case with that particular lady. She seems pretty open to immigration.
We've been betrayed on all levels, so what are we going to do about it? Traitors all from top to bottom. Simple solution in less than 4 minuets ruclips.net/video/MOTWkQZKELU/видео.html all it needs is for enough to take responsibility by showing their support and things are put right. Plain and simple. Evidence: FCO 30 1048. Article 61 (Lawful Rebellion) invoked in 2001, and ignored.
My niece, who is white and English, grew up in Boston. When she was in her teens, she went on holiday to Greece for a week, came back with a sun-tan, and was told: Get back to your own country!'
Giving the uninformed braindead a vote is never going to work out. I'll bet you anything, that if we don't annihilate ourselves, in a distant future your voting rights will depend on you passing a test on FULLY understanding what you're voting for.
We were only allowed to have a referendum at all because Remainers (mp’s) voted to let us have one. Have a word with some of them and ask “why did you vote to let us have the choice and then after the result, change your minds and start with the fearmongering”.
@@stephenhartley2853 "person is rich because their dad/ grandad etc was succesful" - How is this proof that capitalism isn't a meritocracy? All you've done is highlight another way someone can be rich. Last time I checked, you can also become rich through merit of your hard work....
They choose to be lied to by Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson. There was enough true information and politicians giving them the real facts. But these pro brexit people ignored them because it didn't coincided with their own racist views.
When UK left, it was really relief for the rest of the EU. It was really nightmare to listen UK Non stop Complaining and asking for exceptions. Please stay out.
The Brexit referendum was played as if it had been to sort out all Brits’ problems. I Brexited back to Poland right after the referendum and it was the best decision of my life.
@@thenetworker1773I've emigrated to UK in the year of referendum (but b4 it) because of the salary and life conditions. I've left after 3yrs and went first to Netherlands, now 2nd year in Belgium and it's a lot lot better than Poland and UK when it comes to life standard, opportunities etc. Or maybe I'm just lucky.
Wrong? Why do you think the majority of traditional labour representatives wanted out of and warned against EU membership? From Dennis Skinner and Jeremy Corbyn to Tony Benn. To say its "wrong" to have independence is to imply there are no reasons or advantages to obtaining it. Do you believe there were no valid reasons whatsoever for becoming an independent country? I'd wager if you thought about it you'd agree there are. And respect to the man who admits he was wrong.
He didn't say he was wrong...but after the vote it wasn't handled as it should have been...so he's now not happy! They should have got on with it. Trouble is they didn't know how to..... PROBLEM.
Guy at 0:42 is hilarious about the Turkey lie, but on a real note as someone from Turkish heritage it was one of the most pig ignorant things I heard throughout the Brexit campaign. The fact that Turkey, a country with a long list of human rights abuses over the years and one that would need at least 50 years of continuous human rights progress to even qualify for EU membership, was on the verge of joining us. Not to mention how many countries would veto them joining even if it got to that point. It was an absolute crock of shit - equal to the NHS magic money bus, but it worked. Unfortunately we are now weaker, poorer, have worse healthcare, trade, food quality, energy security, infrastructure, global power than we did before and under the most pro-Brexit, right wing government in UK history have record levels of migration. Brexiteers were masterfully duped into making their country a shadow of what it once was.
But all the billionaire Brexit leaders are making bank on rolling-back worker and environmental protections while rolling-around in illegal Putin cash, so... yay?
calm down snow flake. He was making a joke about his ex-in-laws, and a playful jolt that the current immigration policy conveniently keeps them from coming here to be around him. Everyone in England sooner or later makes a joke about something that (at least keeps the In-laws away). Storms, hurricanes, Covid restrictions..
I dont think ive met a foreign person who is just here to claim benefits, majority are some of the hardest working people ive ever met. On the other hand i have met hundreds of brits who do nothing but sit on benefits drinking and smoking and have never worked a day in their life. Some of these people are/were so delusional
That's why democracy is idiotic! most people are not competent in various matters, but they have the right to make decisions that will make it worse for them!
I'm torn. I voted leave because the EEC that we had signed up to had morphed into a pseudo superstate led by Germany and France and loads of faceless bureaucrats telling us what to do and robbing the UK blind. Adulterating lying Boris, his crooked friends and successors made such a mess of it all, we are now much worse off led by a pathetic wimp and a failed, corrupt government. Can we turn the clock back to '74 and start again?
Yes, and the little Englanders who voted Brexit seemed to think that this would magically be reversed by leaving the EU. WE ONLY JOINED because this was already a reality in the 1970s
No!, the population did not have any empire, in fact the ruler's had their hand's on those countries and they used their unwashed Masse's to do their dirty job. As always the lesser mortels will forever do their masters bidding any where in the world and history have shown it.
The amount of vitriol and hatred expressed during the vote was despicable. The same people were yelling "Go back to your country", "England for the English" etc etc... I mean this was against workers from Poland and other eastern bloc countries who were doing a lot of menial jobs that the English wouldn't do. Now, go do all that work. EU should never let UK back.
No, please do not ever let the U.K. back. The greedy rich politicians may want to come back into membership with the Eu but the UK people do not. We prefer just to be a free and independent sovereign nation and good, friendly neighbours with the member countries but “ not” ruled over by the Eu. or subject to them
No, please do not ever let the U.K. back. The greedy rich politicians may want to come back into membership with the Eu but the UK people do not. We prefer just to be a free and independent sovereign nation and good, friendly neighbours with the member countries but “ not” ruled over by the Eu. or subject to them.
Immigration is capitalism importing an over supply of labour in. Conservatives love mass immigration as its cheap labour and future consumers for capitalism.
@@evolassunglasses4673 Not really. Most conservatives want to increase salaries within the country for obvious reasons, strengthened domestic consumer market, higher tax revenues etc. The mass immigration from EU was chosen by UK and Ireland whiles many other EU nations like Germany implemented policies that were allowed by the EU that reduced it when the eastern Europeans joined. That was all under a labour government. Most conservatives surely would want the cheap labour to remain overseas and use it there. Not here. That's if profit is the motive. Cheap labour in UK can be a little bit usefull domestically but conservative theory is more global than this and about competitiveness internationally speaking.. Labour philosophy is also to have a well payed populace and increase consumer demand so that the activies can be taxed rather than profit led. Anyway either way you're wrong..
That's the government. The people would come together had their spine not been weakened by the WEF and CCP insurrection and the decades long propaganda from the left and it's intersectionality politics and culture war. I stand with our people. We were right to leave Europe. We didn't lose all those lives in WWI and WWII only for the nazis to get in by the backdoor.
I'm so pleased my daughter is a dual national and is brexit-proof. I don't think I'll ever stop being salty though. So many people voted for ridiculous reasons.
Duped by what ? Most people had a pay rise straight after Brexit as it was harder to get staff which proves that mass immigration was driving down wages. The Labour party finally admitted that they messed up and totally underestimated how many people would come from Eastern Europe after 2004. The real issue in this country is the property market has been allowed to run wild for 20 years so now with even the minimum wage at £11.40 it barely covers the cost of living. Mass immigration didn't help that either.
3:05 She has no clue about how unnecessarily difficult it is to move to the UK to work after Brexit. Because of this, the relative attractiveness of the UK, even in the eyes of Eastern Europeans, has declined substantially. Eastern Europe has also seen consistent and rapid economic growth in recent years. For example, Poland's GDP grew from $470 billion in 2016 to $811 billion in 2023. That's an increase of almost 73%, or about 8.1% per year. Unemployment in Poland is very low at around 3%. The region is picking up speed and developing.
Good, maybe you can tell my Polish neighbours to go back home, since they've lived down my street for 12 years and cannot speak a single word of English still (and neither can their daughters and grandchildren.) Just shows what they think of us, doesn't it?
As a Polish person living in UK for 20 years, I watch this video and I am hopefull because it shows that brexiter does not necesarily mean evil or racist. It also means being lied to (by polititians and some media) or not having enough knowledge when making an important decision, or both. I've been here for 20 years. I think I've only managed for so long because Scotland has so many good lads. booosh
It's impossible to get benefits as a new immigrant. And if you can, they are some 30% of what you need to survive. So this entire thing was never such a huge problem to begin with.
Unfortunately people take right-wing propaganda on face value without actually talking / meeting these immigrants. There are some disadvantages to being in the EU, but also a lot of advantages. Yes, the EU is not perfect, but if you look at actual achievements their track record is pretty good. There has not been a war between any of the EU countries since their early beginning.
@@frituurvliegEU is far from good but there is no alternative, uk is too small to compete with china, us and india in the future. Look at inflation they did a mess with huge expansive programs like Recovery Fund, they didn’t listen to economist and end up augmenting the % on loans so rapidly without cutting expansive measures
@@robertjones2053 Maybe I should come to Crewe. Because I AM an immigrant, went to University in Manchester, speak fluent English. I've needed job-seeker's allowance twice for the 12 years I've been here. The first time I got it and was £50 a month. The second time they sent me my letter with appointment date AFTER the appointment date and voided my application. If I can't get benefits despite being an established, valuable member of society, idk what benefits people who just turned up got!
@@aloppa7691 What utter rubbish. Britain wasn't too small to rule one quarter of the world not so long ago. I am not suggesting Britain would wish to do that now but we are a powerful country and far more important than you think. Joint biggest financial centre is London with New York. Best professional military force, only European nuclear power, 6th biggest economy in the world - and you think we are unimportant?, Think again.
Turkey lol cannot believe you fell for that one. They will never get in the EU with their record and also like Russia, they illegally occupy one 3rd of my adopted country of Cyprus, we will always vote against them until we get our whole country back.
If you look at this collectively- it’s all emotive based on their frustration with poor quality of life in the UK. The capital class from Eton were very effective at laying blame for the UK’s decline with foreigners, when in reality it was bad governance and corruption causing the problems (which are now coming to light).
Bang on, how did i have to scroll so far for the correct answer. The country has been paving over big issues with cheap foreign labour which is now causing new issues. Small wins, no long term planning. These people are frustrated and don't know who to blame so the easiest targets are offered up, which were all brought here to keep the NHS, pensions and benefits afloat. The ruling class will always exploit the working class
Great comment. I’d recommend anyone who watches this goes and listens to Anand Menon’s Grisham College lecture on Brexit. He has an excellent section on the class warfare that’s exists currently
Except the Conservative Prime Minister at the time, who attended Eton, opposed Brexit and resigned over the referendum. Meanwhile the Labour leader was himself a Eurosceptic. Brexit was never as simple as you make it out to be.
As a german , i understand the value of immigrants to an extent . The huge number of students come here for free education end up working their prime life here and contribute to their field of work in germany . We get the expert workers and they get the free education . We are both happy .
I voted Brexit not because of EU citizens, I voted against the centralised nature of the EU and the way the EU was handling immigrants that ended on the French coast. Brexit and France hasn't solved the problem with the illegal immigrants.
@@chrisjones6351 Why not vote for a govt that would use the british veto to control the centralised nature of the UK, instead of remove yourself from the equation altogether and watch the EU integrate tighter and tighter with no input, while you will have to comply with that integration from the outside if you want the money. So not only have you caused a more centralized EU, one that you have to deal with, not only has it not fixed migrants, but you have added financial difficulties and limited future prospects, and ended up with a govt that has been freegliding for years and blaming the EU for everything and forgot how to run a country. I mean the multiple prime ministers is a bit embarassing, the infaltion, Ireland doing better than the uk, its all just a bit embarassing
@@MrXyzasdf when you give something for free it hurts less that there person taking it has brothers, sisters, parents and ancestors who contributed to the system. There is no reason why a brand new migrant to your country should be given anything at all. When these things were brought in it was thought you'd have a few migrants every year. It was never meant for people to march across your country saying no to every country that offers them nothing to get to the ones that will treat them like a native and give them money. Look at France they give the migrants nothing so they pile up trying to get to UK and Ireland. Why? We all know why. I'm not English but I can see their logic, and I can see that logic spreading among countries who are starting to panic that they simply can't afford to house the poor of the world
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" thats from Churchill
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" Churchill
My family in Liverpool are still convinced they chose right by voting Leave. Now they are happily unemployed and those who do have a job have a badly paid one. I think they were nostalgic of post war Britain.
I lived in Boston for over a decade and it is definitely a troubled town. There is a big divide between the English who were born and raised there and the immigrants who come to work in the fields and factories. The town is a ghost town of run down buildings, empty shops and rampant crime which has only seemed to get worse over the years. Leaving that town was the best thing I ever did.
In my Nottingham days, before the Referendum, I drove, by chance, to Boston. It was a pleasure for me to order food in Lithuanian in the Lithuanian eatery, etc., but I realised at once how unhappy the English residents should be. I instantly called the town Eurobirmingham. Of course, the locals in Birmingham have to shut up and put up, but here they got a chance, and they used it to mess up their country :(
All the people here saying "we've got poor people here- we need to look after our own" almost certainly wouldn't lift a finger to help "our own". "I'm a business owner and wanted to take back control" - people are just so easily manipulated against their own interests
"People are just so easily manipulated against their own interests", agreed, EU-ophiles are easily manipulated. Oh, its only people who you disagree with politically are easily manipulated? Dimwit.
Brexit supporters: We have to stop people coming to this country to keep them from living off the dole. Also Brexit supporters: We have to stop people from coming to this country because they'll take all of our jobs.
@@superjohnnygamble6328 which is most jobs, just go to the School gates and you can see what the British white people bring to the table, its usually disabled children and sliders
I believe that's called Schrödinger's immigrant - someone who simultaneously steals your job and your unemployment benefit. Of course, it's a crock of shit spouted by racists.
What infuriated me about Brexit at the time (and still infuriates me to this day) is that the majority of reasons why people voted to leave were to do with solving problems that have almost nothing to do at all with the EU. Yet, BoJo and his ilk sold Brexit to the disillusioned public as a cure-all. The reality that I could see however was that leaving the EU was absolutely not going to make life any better because these problems were almost all caused by our own government or global situations that required a concentrated response from several nations. They were not the fault of the EU. And now, almost five years after we have officially left, leaving the EU has solved very little. It has not solved the crisis of people risking their lives in unseaworthy rubber boats. It has in fact gotten worse. Brexit has not made life easier for farmers or fishermen, they now work harder than ever for less than before. Brexit has not saved money for the NHS which, after years of Tory austerity, is in a dire state. The people were lied to. Plain and simple. The sad thing is, they've realised it far too late.
i give farage and bozo their due, they knew a good portion of british working class were thick as treacle, and they could get into their heads. the same crew are trying it again with reform. you can see now why putin helped fund the brexit party, to split the uk from europe, weakening europe, whilst isolating and badly damaging the uk.
I'll give credit to the bloke who saw the nature of the mistake. Good man for admitting it. The EU isn't perfect but we had the second largest voice in there, we could have done far more to shape it if we had not had a party who's sole policy was: "we don't want to be here" representing us
I just loved the guy who said "it doesnt affect me, so I voted leave". That kind of fuckwittery stands in stark contrast to the guy who could admit it was the wrong choice.
I mean, we could've elected anyone else. UKIP fairly won their seats and got the highest share of MEPs. It really shows that none of the major parties gave a shit about the EU, because they hardly contest the european election cycle, allowing a fringe third party to win the highest vote share from us.
I remember when brexit happen some of the british said that "the EU will no longer exist because we have keeping the EU with the benefits etc" but what i can see is that the EU is going in right direction and the UK is not
EU is not going in right direction, the EU has too much power. EU should be only about economy and no restrictions on what cars to drive. As a 🇩🇪 i dont want this EU. EU needs a reform
As a Norwegian, i dont want to be a part of the EU at all, becausw of the EU were forced to sell our power to the rest of europe or we’ll be sanctioned
- Did you vote to leave ? - Yes ? - Are you happy ? - No UK in a nutshell, if I was a Europe official and it were up to me i'd embargo the whole Kingdom and just forget about it. One thing is sure though, we'll never take you back even if you beg on your knees crying and starving.
5:42, this man is honestly a great guy, admits he was wrong, admits he was duped, union rep, actually has an understanding of what he's talking about in terms of collective bargaining. Honesty and strength of character in spades.
Not really. You'd think as a union rep he would recognise how the EU was used to undermine trade union collective bargaining agreements across the EU. British trade unions are more active now then they ever were under the EU. Now they actually do something. Whereas before it was harder because of the rules under the EU.
@@acousticguitarcrazy6385 the EU didn't introduce those policies. Our workers rights were built up across decades and ultimately drafted and written in by Parliament. The only EU laws that applies to workers rights were the European 6, as they are commonly known. These were just refinements to our already excellent health and safety legislation which originated in 1974 and has had various additions to it over the decades. As for the minimum wage. This wasn't an EU policy. It was a Labour Party policy brought in under Tony Blair in the late 90s. So don't lie.
“i am a business owner - I voted to leave”. I am Swedish and I used to buy from a few online UK businesses and as of Brexit there was import tax added to pay and it became expensive and a pain in general so I stopped ordering from them. I am quite sure I wasn't the only one that stopped ordering from UK businesses.
That is the experience of so many businesses here. Those of us who voted to remain just cannot understand how people, whose businesses were dependent on exports, voted to leave and place economic barriers between themselves and their customers. Part of the problem is too many people trusted what they were being told - that they could leave the EU but retain all the benefits of membership. Those who thought about it could see it was impossible, the way it was being sold to the public.
Speaking as an American, I am impressed by the the honest viewpoints of the people interviewed here. My impression is that the interviewer chose people of different social backgrounds and I think that’s reflected in the quality of the responses here. Folks are conflicted and some understand the need to diversify, whereas others remain skeptical of those who they perceive as the “other.” thanks for presenting a very fair view of a very complicated topic.
calling this complicated is just wrong because the main reason for people to vote leave was their racism which the rich and their politician puppets used to get rid of EU worker protection and other market limitations. And now the poor is screwed, the middle class has vaporized and the rich are getting richer. There never was a raid of asylum seekers in the UK, nor was there ever a threat of it. But the people got played by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. The latter two have no empathy and are driven by their greed of power and they stop at nothing. They are disgusting. But that fits a LOT of politicians. The prior though didnt do their job properly in a democracy. They didnt educate themselves about the decision they had to take, instead they gambled the future of the nation on a wild stomach fluke they had for a few weeks. You cant run a succesful democracy like that. When the people with the voting rights are so mindless and easily manipulated that all you need are a few letters on a couple busses and some clowns in front of cameras, the media is ruling the country. And thats exactly whats happening in the UK and in the US. And the rich own the media. Brexit or no Brexit was never hard to answer, to stay was the only logical solution. But the rich didnt want to stay and so they got the people to vote against their own interests. again. And now the people are crying again that they got played. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ... Yes there is a limit to that, if you dont have access to non-manipulated info like in the third Reich, then you get a lot more slack because you dont know half of whats going on and the rest is just propaganda. But the UK and the US for that matter are both VERY far from that. The people are still able to educate themselves and to get trustworthy information. They are too lazy to do so... And then you get a "class war". I read that so often. This isnt a class war. This is the ruling party gifting control to the greedy fucks our ancestors took the power from. And these idiots cant be asked to use google for 30 mins for the only referendum in the history of their goddamn country. And as youre american, let me tell you, you have the same problem. And your nation aswell as the UK has lost it long ago, you can just watch the ride and put up a fight to extend the transition period. The US is going full dictatorship propably sooner than later. And the UK is happily following the path of doom. Look at any political issue in the US for the last 20 years and watch its effects on the poor and middle class and you will see that the democractic position was nearly alwaays preferable for the vast majority of your people. Still a big minority vote against their own interests because they happily swallow the lies in the media and dont think for a second. They are driven by hate and as long as the GQP keep fueling the hate these people are mindless puppets. And damn are they good at fueling the hate. And one day the puppet army will be big enough. As a german I know how this works. Ive studied how this has happened to my grandparents and parents. I see the patterns. Honestly they arent hard to spot at all, a lot of people do. But why listen to scientists, thats so complicated, you have to think. Listening to the Nazis is easy, you can turn your brain off, they tell you who to hate, to vote and who to kill. Ez life. Good luck with your civil war, Im trying to stop the same happening here and its not going too well. So if you thought the germans are better educated, they should know - nope, my people are as retarded as your people.
I really just want to give some of these people a hug and tell them "yeah you fucked up, but you recognize that fact and won't do it again, yeah? Good on ya for not digging in your heels."
A cultural shift has also happened. You can tell in the rest of the EU countries that British people almost feel and are treated like Americans, they've been gone from EU rules and laws that it's much rarer nowadays to find them working or living outside the UK (apart from summer holidays lol). They really feel like the outsiders in Europe now.
I feel that being viewed as an outsider is to some extent self-imposed to the Brits. I think they secretly like being considered separate from others, even the ones who voted "Remain". Maybe it has something to do with most Anglosphere countries being islands and/or occupying entire continents? Britain and New Zealand are islands, Australia is a continent, and Canada and the US make up two thirds of North America. If we ignore Gibraltar, the US is the only Anglosphere country that shares a land border with a non-English-speaking country.
I graduated as a Eastern European (czech) in the UK and lived & worked there for 13 yrs. I have never been told directly to leave the country but I could feel that it was the main agenda for voting to LEAVE. I was visiting UK this year and I could see and feel that something has changed. Not sure whether it was Brexit, Covid, War but streets had different energy. I left UK in 2019. Still love good British banter. I think what noone realized at that time was that having those citizens from eastern block was actually not that culturally different.
People from UK are unable to let go of its colonial past,unlike European partners. These people seem completely unaware that Brexit has been a total disaster for the UK? Seem completely ignorant oh of the privileged position we held in the EU, able to veto whatever we didn’t like hence we still have Stirling. When eventually we get on our knees to be allowed to try to get back in,that’s all gone! Hint “ single market” the only market to trade in Europe? Not rocket science is it!!!!
I moved from Eastern Europe to the UK 9 years ago. In our street, all immigrants are working while about half of the British are home on benefits 🤔 I've managed to save up for a mortgage down-payment while they are all council tenants... But since Brexit, it's been a massive downhill. So I will be taking my funds and move back to Europe to a more open minded, cleaner and less crowded country. The UK is nowhere near as great as it appeared previously. Best of luck sorting out the darkness in people's minds 😬👍
@@lincolnshirepoacher8651 I guess it depends a lot on occupation, pay and quality of live. Those who aren't successful will make room for new immigrants.
@@peterhutlas3572 Britain has much more opportunities than Czech Republic though. And nobody really wants to immigrate to Poland, it's too conservative.
I mean that's usually the case with things like this. People with issues in their personal lives want change for change's sake, hoping somehow that'll alleviate that issue. Even if it's unrelated. And the media will try its hardest to prey on that.
@@Kurruchi but it sad to see not only the media using it a weapon to get there sound bite but also the politicians who prey on such people due to their emotional concern. I don't want to over reach but to honest that was what brought people like Hitler and Trump into power.
Honestly that was a big part of it. Towns like Boston, things have been going downhill for them, they feel left behind. They see the immigrants coming over and trying to make a life for themselves, they see the support that the Government provides them and they feel like they're just being left to get on with it alone. That sense of abandonment boiled over into anger for many people who then voted Leave on the simple premise that it would force the Government to focus on its own people for a change, instead of Europe.
Now the UK has "full sovereignty" again. But the downside is that now the UK is completely at the mercy of its own leaders, who unfortunately seem to be rather incompetent and self-centered. The British people can't appeal to the EU anymore when British politicians make bad or corrupt decisions.
As an Italian who was raised in a British school, I find the way the U.K. people perceive their own society as profoundly skewered. Let's ignore their questionable pride in a long dead empire. Let's ignore the fact that they are against impoverished immigrants getting a couple of hundred pounds per month. The fact that, on the other hand, the average Briton has to pay massive inheritance taxes, and yet nobody seems to mind that the new Duke of Westminster paid basically nothing on the billions his father left him is astonishing to me though.
And there’s a whole generation who defends that shit, if you ask me, a citizen of a former British colony, the royal family needs to be eradicated emotionally speaking but also logically now, the new generation need to act fast and get on with modern times
The dislike towards foreigners is founded from years of migrants coming to the country and taking from the system all while never contributing to it. We should be helping our own before worrying about others.
As someone who lived in italy for 6 years i can tell you that Italy is a much much more intolerant place than the United Kingdom , Neither is particularly great but Italy was far worse for non natives. I couldn't care less about the monarchy because they probably bring in as much in tourism as they spend.
@@kieranhendyforeign workers and immigrants have always brought a net plus to Britain of around 2 billion pounds a year. Never have immigrants taken more than given in Britain… ever.
Dude's a bigoted fool, but at least he's honest about it. That's not much, but it's something, and more than we got from basically any other interviewee in this piece.
@@jamesmccaul2945 the only thing personal about his argument is the limited sample size. He anecdotally explains how he thinks all Turkish people are crazy based on experience with his ex-wife and her family
@@michaelccozens Later in the video the same bloke praises the Eastern Europeans for many Boston a vibrate town, I think his first answer was a bit of a joke.
If you strip away the reality of the lies, the dude who voted to leave because he was scared of his ex-wife is hilarious! He could have easily been a character from a David Michell skit! :D
People shouldn't be allowed to vote. Do we elect improperly qualified neurosurgeons into thei jobs, or airline pilots based on their talking ability? Would we allow people with no qualifications to decide if we should have a medical operation? No! Yet we allow idiots to vote for BREXSHIT
@@jannetteberends8730 and they give these kind of people the power to vote for the country's future. I am in ex Brits colony and seriously in our country UK is a huge joke
"We're a small country, a has-been empire..." Love the honesty but I think EU has had enough of UK's chronic grumbling, grandstanding, gaslighting and just sheer lack of integrity (i.e, Johnson and Co) since it joined the union in the early 70s.
I’m originally from Boston, moved away to go to university to do a degree and PhD, I voted remain. The guy that said Bostonians voted Brexit because it’s a low intelligence area, to then go on to say he voted brexit to keep his ex-wife’s family out is a complete an utter fool.
That regret wave will get bigger every day. Because every day we are outside of the EU, we will lose a little bit more of our competitiveness. That's why Russia was so happy to see the UK leave the EU. He wants to see it happen everywhere.
Before UC was introduced, you had to have lived in the UK for 5 years as a EU national before being able to claim certain benefits. It boils my blood that so many British citizens think you can just walk in and get benefits. You just can't.
That’s absolute nonsense . There was a place in my town where polish people would go to get advice on what to claim . Her job was literally to get people to come over and claim and pay her for it
@@kaitlyn__L are you calling me a liar ? I also knew a polish woman working in a McDonalds living here for less than a year claiming single parent for a flat and getting over 1k a month for a child that still lived in Poland with her father .
And then goes on to praise Eastern European immigrants for reviving Boston, so he's clearly very intelligent and knew rightly that immigration was positive for his city. I know quite a few people who voted leave because they were sure majority will vote "stay" so they looked at it as a protest vote to make the government listen to their concerns. Wonder if the result had been different if joke votes and protest votes had been removed.
Dumbest shit I've read all day. Politicians have statistically done worse. Not to mention, the reason why "ordinary people" caused Brexit is because they were manipulated by Politicians. A well functioning democracy requires an informed public. We need smarter "ordinary people." Unless you want feudalism to return and y'all have no say in how your lives go...@@patrickgallagher8886
4:37 !! “I didn’t really look at it in depth”. Exactly. You didn’t. I didn’t. Nobody did. Nobody could have done. We’re all normal people, with normal lives, lives that keep us busy, with jobs, family, whatever. Asking the public to make a decision that directly and deeply affects every aspect of an entire country is totally irresponsible.
So glad I’m Irish and I’m not limited to this windy miserable island. I can live and work anywhere. It’s a shame it’s robbed everyone else of their eu citizenship and rights especially the young people.
Europe us no longer an easy place to settle, you will always have the visa issue hanging over you. Rules can change and if you manage to settle in an eu country and that country changes its mind over the rules that allow you to be there then your stay visa will be removed and back to Britain you must come. Its BS, brexit has tricked so many and my generation and the next will suffer for it.
Don’t see the problem with that. Countries should have some say as to who they allow in. And what do you think happens if there are no jobs available and an influx of immigrants come? They will inevitably become part of the welfare system since there’s no work.
The way she phrased it doesn't do justice to the point made. I think everyone will agree that having leech immigrants gaming the system on benefits that do not contribute to society is an undesirable thing. Thing is, this issues could have been fixed without the Brexit.
“Don’t come here for paid (payment) benefits and holidays.” So, basically she’d invite them in as long as they provide cheap labor with no benefits. It makes so much, sense now.
obviously, dont just want more and more people here if theyre not going to work or pay taxes like the rest of us, why should we be shamed for wanting people who want to work and turning away people with no intention of it
@@joeroberts7298 Here's the problem with this sentiment and the way the woman in the video phrased, she did not use a general argument about this issue, she specifically said paid benefits and holidays. Which in many countries, you cannot receive unless you are working. She specified the reasoning behind her choosing Brexit and her husband as a farmer was against it. Because, it literally hurt his business for whatever reason. It assumes that many, most, or nearly all immigrants will not work, if they come to the UK, which is a very dastard lie. Because, if you aren't refugee of war or political instability, it's hard to get into countries as an individual alone. It's a process that is heavily controlled. Everyone who lives in country will pay taxes in some shape or form, just by simply buying goods, earning wages, or habitat in a n home or apartment. Even, in guaranteed income, the government still taxes you, regardless. Most of that money goes right back into the system or private industries, who especially are the one group who can pay little taxes from many business protections. Guess who loves to hire immigrants -- Big businesses, because they work cheap and often don't have labor protection. It's not their fault, if a country allows them to work for a given company, because that's how the system is designed.
@@pluto545 however in this country people coming over on boats who we have no idea who they are get £175 a week allowance and get housed in 4 star hotels..
I talked with one Brit I met who complained that Brexit didn't work because, as she said, "you see more of them now than before!" Meaning people who looks different to her. A lot of businesses lost workers and had to get new ones, and many of the new ones came from commonwealth countries, so when the Poles left and South Asians and West Indians came in to replace them she got offended because to her that made it look like there's more immigrants now. I tried to explain this and that Brexit is the reason she _sees_ more 'foreigners' now, but she refused to even try to understand it. Brexit just meant less people looking like foreigners to her, and it really bothered her.
" Meaning people who looks different to her. " That is wild one . I migrated to another country close to 60 years ago. By now in 2024 29.7% of the people in the country are foreign born. I think there must at least some people from every country in the world living there. I don't even notice it that people look different to me . Well fair enough some are women and I am a man which is different. I hope this woman doesn't travel the world. She would get a shock because she would come across so many different people.
I think this is partially what colonialism made and is getting rocket back, but this unfortunate, countries like India or China are highly populated and if even 1% of each arrive to GB, that’s so bad for Brits.
There is a right way to do a referendum. The 'Leave' plan should have been the alternative to remaining. Instead, there was no plan at all, and 17 million people voted for 17 million versions of mutually exclusive Brexit paradises that existed only in their heads.
I live in France amongst a rather big number of Brits. Some of them voted leave because of uncontrolled immigration. When asked if perhaps they themselves could be considered immigrants by the French, they reacted quite surprised and irritated. Immigrants? Us? We're expats, that's different.
By the way, we are talking about an area in France where you can find fish & chips shops, British builders of any kind, a pub, you can join a cricket club, enjoy a full English breakfast, and go to a British hairdresser.
You can also sit on any terrace listening to the Brits around you complaining about French bureaucracy, French builders, shops closing between 12 and 14, the fact that restaurants aren't open all day and that so few people speak English.
It's a shame that the word hypocrisy also exists in French, because I could have sworn it's a British invention.
Never understood that!
I to live in France, but thankfully there are not to many Brits in the area. I was absolutely 'gobsmacked' when I heard that a large number of Brits now living in Southern Spain, actually voted LEAVE ! Sadly, I understand that part of Spain is now called "England on the Med". With much the same attitude & facilities as where you are. TBH, various things I have heard or read, makes me ashamed & embarrassed to even admit I'm English!
I also live and work in France full time. I do think a decrease of Brits moving to France or Spain is underway. Resident permit is stopping people using their homes as a six month winter stop over, also reducing people working on the black, I am all for it. Take your choice, you can’t have it all your own way.
Bordeaux
Big difference between a Brit who goes to France and invests his money and an Albanian who rocks up in a dinghy and holds his hands out for welfare.
The worst is “i am a business owner - i voted to leave”. Boris really sold a fridge to eskimos
@@koschmxgood for you 🤜🤛
Practically sand to the Bedouins that is.
Unfortunately, Britain is a pretty low IQ society so people have to accept that they made their choice like it or not.
Imagine going to whats marketed as therapy so you sound like shit to William. Thats what that quote sounds like to me.
Inuits, not eskimos. It's a slur
That man basically just said he voted no bc he didn't want his inlaws popping over 🤣🤣🤣
Okay that is based
that was so funny 😝😝😝🤣🤣
I would admit. That is a great reason.
Baring in mind that Turkey is not an EU country, this guy makes no sense! 😂
Then proceeded to denigrate the less intelligent people for voting leave lol.
I’m from Texas. I really respect the humility of the man who said he voted to leave but now feels he was wrong. It takes integrity to be honest and self reflect.
You’ll probably think that about trump😂
what is with texans and saying they’re from texas before starting a sentence. Being from texas has nothing to do with anything
@@User_Name26speaking from my experience in California, they’re some of the most hypocritical people left in the US. We see them all the time in CA with a Texas license plate and nobody gives them any issues, but god forbid you drive through Texas with a CA license plate.
Mind you half of them want to secede from the country. I genuinely wish that could be possible and they would learn instantly just like Brits are learning from Brexit.
@@User_Name26It's an acceptance that he's from a place where people notoriously use emotional decision making....
@@edwardfletcher7790yeah , you mean ignorant decision making.
White Republicans don't like Mexicans, yet Mexicans want to vote for them. I hope Mexicans make a better choice 11/5/24.
BREXIT marks the first time in history a democratic country has put economic sanctions on itself.
Accurate
Nah
@@Solon_2 This isn’t something you can agree or disagree with. It’s just a fact. Your opinions don’t count in the face of facts.
I love that phrase. Unfortunately, Napoléon did the same with his Mercantile system.
@@nick260682 It's without a doubt not the first time a country leaves an economic block for political reasons, imposing de facto sanctions on itself. It's true that britain has done it, but it's something fairly common in history
I have to say, people regretting their choice and admitting a mistake infront of a camera, that does not happen everywhere. Kudos
Well its useless isnt it. The damage is done
@@HonestMan112Brick by brick, it can be repaired.
@@igorsagdeev7881 it literally can't be repaired, they can't get into the EU with the same exclusions and rights they had previously in the EU even if they got back into it... you couldn't be further from the truth
@@pinkyfloyd7712 Exclusions, alas, will have to go.
They dont admit their "mistakes" / racism , they are the type of people that always cry about everything.
That classic "we should be looking after our own" followed by not looking after their own
with regards to the classic line “they’re getting X,Y,Z and we’ve got homeless people on the streets” street homelessness has much more to do with mental health rather than housing supply. You cant just hand someone the keas to a flat and expect it to work out. You need a comprehensive package of education mental and physical health support and sheltered accommodation, the issue is that these same people who complain about migrants will complain about “benefit scroungers” and vote for politicians who promise to “be tough” with them!
Imagine the nerve of saying "we should be looking after our own" and then voting Tory.
And then vote Tory...
🤣👍
@Dog boy no, that's Torys.
As a Brit trying to immigrate to Belgium I am right fucked off with Brexit. What good has it done, fuck all
Emigrate to Belgium. Smart move.
Stay away from eu!
😂😂😂😂😂
I am Belgian. Please stay away.
@@1959Berre Remember that when Putin's tanks are rolling down your street my Belgian chum.
That blonde woman doesn't want Europeans to come to England for paid holidays and benefits. She is still glad her husband who is a farmer got "lots of gifts available to farmers" from Europe. She genuinely sees no contradiction there.
Farmers nowadays are heavily subsidized, wined and dined by politicians, yet still have a chip on their shoulder that their work is more important than anyone else’s. Part of the strategy is to affirm their victim status
You didn't listen to her, did you - she did not support her husband's viewpoint. In the end, they did not vote because their votes cancelled each other out.
@Marcel_Audubon well, when you live with Karen thin lips what can you expect?
@@wotreplays8896 That lady was in no way a Karen (nor were her lips particularly thin) ... you must be one of the lucky few who have never had the misfortune of an encounter with a true Karen, a Karen never finds herself lying in a field in Glastonbury, a Karen never encourages people to treat each other better, a Karen never speaks articulately. The stooge with the misguided facial tattoos whining (or was he whinging?) about "coked up posh boys" was more Karenesque than she (and had thinner lips)
@Marcel_Audubon she is very bias to say the least. Imagine having a conversation with her trying to prove your point of the argument, if she didn't even managed to get on the same plate with her husband when they ware voting to remain or leave lol
"I voted for Brexit to keep foreigners out of Britain, not to make it harder for me to holiday in Spain!" screamed a woman at the employees in a London travel agency. She actually said that. The lack of self-awareness of the Brexiteers is almost as breathtaking as that of America's MAGA Republicans.
Do you know what an anecdote is?
@@RichardABW Tell that to the Brexiteers who were living on the Costa del Plenty and forgot to register to remain. They didn't think for one minute that Brexit cut both ways.
Where did you see that? I'd love to watch it. Obviously if World Cup game is on, watch that first. We've got to support our Media and Footballers who are playing on the graves of migrant workers. I'm a massive fan of Gary Linekar as he supports migrants and stands against racist Brexiteers. Don't get me wrong, making money off of Qatar whilst ignoring the deaths of migrant workers and being in someone else's country, taking their money but disrespecting their culture is slightly hypocritical. However Its to educate us ordinary people, so all good.
@@RichardABW It was in the FT.
@@NZobservatory So what?
"I didnt really look at it in depth" Sums up the entire situation
yes..Britsh apathy towards the EU over the years or viewing it simply as a joke meant they felt they could leave, consequence free ...they never did the "due diligence" at any level from top to bottom and are now stuck in spledid isolation from their nearest and by far their most important trade partner !
Unlike the vast majority who are brainwashed into thinking it was Racism they were fighting, by voting to stay. Why does every single person whom voted to stay, infer racism to those who voted to leave? I'm sure they factored in all the other factors, unlike those thick, racist Brexit voters.
@@rowalan1 not everyone who voted to leave is racist but every racist voted to leave.
Not really an answer to what I said, is it? So what proportion of people who voted to leave are racist? Can you tell me whom they are racist against? Given the vast majority of EU workers are white are the white Brexit voting racists actually racist against white people? That's confusing...
So If I'm white and voted for Brexit I'm assumed to perhaps be racist by those who voted to stay? So due to my skin colour...race and my democratic vote, I'm possibly racist or I side with racists? That my friend seems, eh racist...
"We voted to leave, but we didn't want the consequences! Waaaah waaaah waaaah!!!"
voted leave to stop his crazy exes family coming over has to be the most bizarre/funny thing I've ever heard
it actually makes more sense that anything else they've offered. The rest is just dripped in not racism but really racism, wanting things to improve as a nebulous idea without any real plan sort of thing.
Most rational brexiteer
It’s actually a rational reason though
@@maneesh77 that's bollocks though and doesn't help the situation, and your attitude is most likely the reason we're in the situation we're in. You can't just call everyone you disagree with racist.
That lady saying "come over here to work, don't come over here to simply claim benefits", takes some real mental gymnastics to claim that's racism.
Why of course all Turks are crazy just like his ex wife. Not to mention the entire population of Türkiye is waiting in line for the country to join the EU so that they can ALL emigrate to the UK.
"They have to listen to us." Did you vote? "No." Now, there's some logic.
Still doesn't want to actually solve the homeless problem. Same thing happens here in the US. The only time homeless vets get attention is when immigration comes up.
Well... back on the voting day, if your accent, skin tone or simply your face looked less than 90% English , you would've been met at the entrance with a disgusting hostility and pushed away , cussed at and told to f off to your country as you're not allowed to decide for the "proud bri'ish". Police looked the other side if you needed them so everything was well orchestrated. That's why many COULDN'T vote. Useless to explain that you had the legal right to do it as an EU citizen, just like they were EU citizens. There were so many factors that led the brits to the official title of "most stupid in the world" in those days. But a choice is a choice, can't be judged .
I think that the British working class have been and still are used and betrayed by the upper class. It is not the EU who caused their relatively poor living conditions, it's their own politicians. Every time I am in England I feel like the average person there is much worse off than in Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria etc. and it is not because the UK is poor. There is enough to go around, but it doesn't.
Thatcher began. Uk is in a way similar to U.S. that it thinks poor are poor because they are lazy and rich are rich, because they are smart and hard working. Most of the time it is that the rich were already rich, lucky and are lazy and the poor were already poor and hard working. I doubt the rich elite do the night shifts and 12 hour work days on their feet, with barely enough time to eat lunch or go to the bathroom.
LOL. You should see the US. Voters keep voting for people who cut taxes on the rich while cutting services for the working class. You can't fix stupid.
Still a class based society.
Money ends up in the pockets of people like Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Bingo, nail meet head
If you’re anywhere outside of London and you’re not upper class, things are a struggle
Those who earn 1000 a day are telling us that those who earn 10 a day are the problem
This is sad. It’s like being determined to get a divorce and then realizing afterwards that you were the problem in the marriage.
We definitely weren’t the problem with the marriage tho they needed us more than we needed them if Europe wants us to fund them why don’t they ask to become dominions?
@@Insanepie "they needed us"
Do not flatter yourself, your glory has long ago faded
for good.
@@lichtloperwe are one of the biggest global powers that just sounds like cope from you boss
@@InsanepieWho again? India? USA? China?
@@kryyto6587 you think India is a global power hahaha dude knows nothing. India can’t even veto the UN 🤡
I'm not British but what I learned through your Brexit experience is to never make decisions based on emotions.
They thought this is vote without consequences to their life .
What's even mad about the British is that they're all over Mick Lynch who voted for Brexit. This country is confused and messed up.
Totally agree with you. I am from Colombia but I live in the UK from 5 months ago. At Latin America happens each time we have elections, we vote using emotions, not brain. We are repeating the same mistake done by the British over and over. I hope that the UK citizens have learned.
Yes, not making decisions based on emotions is ideal but it's almost never done that way. There are perfect examples in almost every country, majority of the humans alive simply make decisions irrationally based on greed, fear, grudge, hate, insecurity and even jealousy. The more humans come together and form groups, the more vulnerable they are to these feelings taking over their decisions. Human beings are simply arrogant and dumb.
You're watching propaganda - the majority of UK people want Brexit.
Top marks to the interviewer. No leading questions, no trickery, leaving the contributors all the time in the world to express themselves.
Nice piece of work.
All he showed was remainers speaking at length about something he agreed with
which is fine but let's not pretend this guy's videos are impartial that's nonsense
@@grai I never said nor implied that the interviewer was impartial. The point is that he was able to get those Brexiters to admit they'd been had, without putting words into their mouths.
To be impartial on Brexit would be weird. It would be like being impartial on burglary 🤷♂️
Seems very selective in the people interviewed. The best he could really get was someone who voted leave because his ex wife was Turkish. There is no doubt in my mind that there were people who voted leave and said they were happy with the decision using coherent and educated answers that were left out.
@@JD-pp6gx - fair point. You never know how many interviews have been discarded in the process.
That said, the results are roughly in line with what you'd expect. Apart from the "true believers," there seem to be very few people in real life with a positive view of Brexit. Even those who voted for it think it's been badly done.
@@nellyboot I do not agree with the second part of what you said. It in many ways highlights my point. Over 17m people voted for it, and saying it is "roughly in line with what you would expect" is a very broad comment to make. We forget the number of voters who said they would vote remain and were voting leave all along. Fundamentally you can't read someone's mind. Remember all the 'polls' before the 2019 election that everyone had changed their mind, then Boris Johnson won a landslide and the Lib Dems (who offered to overturn the result) got hammered and their leader lost her seat. When you ask a divisive question, people are more likely to tell you what you want to hear than give you an honest answer because they don't want the hassle.
The media are peddling that everyone has changed their minds and choose to back the narrative that it was bad. This is the same media that was vehemently against Brexit back in 2016.
I do not take any side in this debate and have no agenda other than to point out how absurd and one-sided the media is on this subject. It serves to get clicks and create more division.
"I was duped really" at 4:40 is so strong. It takes a lot of courage to say you made a wrong decision. We need more of this. Con-artists rely on our shame to admit we were duped. But we all sometimes are.
Yeah I was impressed with that guy. Had the courage to admit he’d done something stupid.
aye, good on him.
The remainiac cult in full swing, and as with all cults the rules are the same.
You can't leave the cult.
If you do leave the cult you are insane,
only the cult tells the truth,
only cultists can make inane propaganda videos that just so happen to reflect their prejudice.
You fanatics are different to scientologists or Moonies .
How were you duped? Tons of people pointed out how this was a bad move. You just didn't listen. Stop trying to rationalize.
@@Flotter-Flo I never voted on this. I still live in the EU and that was a quote. Your reaction shows what makes it so hard for people to admit to a mistake. I get your anger. But why are you talking like this to people? Without even reading what say had to say in the first place?
76% of those who voted. Which was in fact only 26% of the country/Union who actually vote. No minimum limit was ever set. You should at least need to meet a minimum voting requirement for such an important issue. And then there is the validity to the claims most people made as a justification to leave to EU. Which have all been shown to have been a load of bollocks. In my own country only 5% voted to leave the EU, yet we got dragged out because of the English. Who sell their shitty houses for hundreds of thousands of pounds then come up here and buy up our housing stock for far less. Our imigrants don't come in a dingy, they're the bloody English.
It was a high turn out. but, of , only 37% voted to leave - I think that if you wanted out, you'd definitely go and vote that way. But, if you wanted to stay in, it's possible you'd not bother to vote believing it would never happen. There should have been required ,an absolute majority (greater than 50%) of all POSSIBLE votes to leave before removing other peoples, other businesses EU status. 'Take back control' was never intended to give any more power to the people. Politicians just 'butter us up' when they want their way every few years with 'populist ideas', then promptly forget us for the next few years.
@@Warhead-haggis Warhead you are right and David Cameron ought to be ashamed of his role in this ridiculous situation.
"It is easier to fool someone than to persuade them they have been fooled" Mark Twain
You are right!
That is why the dictatorship state of the EU unfortunately still exists
Listening to all the justifications given for the Brexit, looks like they deserve the consequences..
"dictatorship state of the EU", right. get a grip and form coherent sentences with the right words.
@@peternielsen2156 You're the fool.
Unfortunately, Mark Twain, credited with nothing but great wisdom, never existed. At least credit the author of sayings instead of being lazy
Lived in London for 15 years.
Worked legally for Hackney Council as a dustman (many Poles work waaay under their qualifications in the UK). I was qualified as "settled" by the day England would make its way out of the EU, therefore I could stay in UK after brexit. But I have decided to move back home to Poland.
The reason was that I never felt like England is my home. Never felt respeceted and welcomed. Although I had some friends, they were almost only foreign, I felt lonely in this huge city.
Englishmen tended to feel better about themselves only because of being British.
I moved back to Poland in 2019. And it was the best thing I could do really. I met my wife here, our daughter has been born in 2021, got myself a good office job. And finally feel like life is good.
Sorry England, U thought me a lot about life. But I regret that I didn't leave U earlier.
We have a lot of Polish in Ireland, hard working decent people, always admired their attitude. Glad you're doing well
@@davediesel90 ❤
Well done!!!! Człowieku tu jest trumna Europy w tym kraju. Bardzo dobrze zrobiłeś. 🎉
The point about feeling lonely in a huge city is not only happening in London but basically everywhere if you are an inmigrant. I can guarantee you many foreigners feel the same way in Warsaw.
I am 15 years here I have no english friends
For those of you who don’t know anything about immigration legislation of your own country, people who apply for any visa, student, work, spouse, entrepreneur, or whatever, their visa condition explicitly stated “no recourse to public funds”. They can’t claim any benefit, not until they get their permanent status (ILR). And when they apply for visa, they need to pay something called Immigration Health Surcharge, which is £624 per year. So if they apply for a two year working visa, they are paying £1,248 of health surcharge while they are also paying NI and tax. So they are not getting medical care for free either. Home Office are making millions through visa fees and Immigration Health Surcharge. I wonder if those money is actually going to NHS.
Explain why half of my tower block in London doesn’t speak English and isn’t white.
It’s council owned
@@edjohnson8017 You need to ask your council. What he said is so true.
@@edjohnson8017 tower block full of tax payers is better than half block of tax payers
@@edjohnson8017 you do realise that most of those migrants are non EU
@@edjohnson8017 I don’t need to explain anything. If you have passed sixth grade, then you should be a grown up and go to government website and check the immigration rules yourself instead of asking people to explain why you yourself have certain opinion.
To be fair, even though many voted for BREXIT, credits to them for admitting they were wrong.
A lot of them have a long-winded way of saying 'I don't like immigrants'.
I don't like immigrants.
There, I've said it.
I'm Dutch and have no time for sugar coating.
I'm too busy pillaging what's left of the The British empire.
@@FrankHeuvelman
Why? Isn't the Netherlands a multicultural place?
@@FrankHeuvelman well yeah but you're dutch, it's expected of you. That's why so many decent dutch live abroad, you're a small country and yet most EU young inmigrants I meet in Madrid are dutch 🤷
@@FrankHeuvelman
Too busy pillaging lmao 😂
@@FrankHeuvelmanyeah u rather cheer on and defend national diddlers
Asking a Tory councillor what would improve residents’ lives in her town and she says “erm… smiling?” is such a perfect illustration of the Conservative Party in 2022. They’ve jumped the shark and now they’re just flopping about with no aims and no momentum. A government without purpose.
Labour will do the same. Brexit hit, but so did Covid and Ukraine. We cannot separate out the effects. People are in denial that WE HAVE A WAR GOING ON. They think Covid is over and expected the NHS to return to normal when large numbers of staff have got long Covid or retired early due to stress and some have died or left to look after sick family members, and the big bills we ran up during Covid have (along with Ukraine) caused recent high inflation. Those problems do not go away just because we change government. NEITHER party has solutions. Politicians are just people, many of them trained in law, the classics, or whatever. Many are sociopathic or psychopathic. Few have a clue about how to run a high-tech nation but some of them manage to create a facade, a charisma, with nothing behind it. If you are waiting for a new government to wave a magic wand, you are in for a long wait.
So what's the difference between the tories now and like 5/10/20 years ago?
@@LPVince94 they know they're probably going to loose the next election, and it's every man for himself, and dig your face as far in to the trough as you can
Smiling matched with compassion and curiosity along with convening spaces to connect across difference could be the start of a process of people powered building of a society which works for 100% and the planet. I liked what the person with ski jacket said about the polarised all or nothing views brexit bad, EU good and vice versa. As citizens we need to unlearn passivity and looking outside ourselves for solutions. The ex union person talked about collective action enabling collective bargaining. Perhaps we need to do some visioning too on what encompasses a good life. Step outside the neoliberal narrative of what success is and how the world works. It’s a powerful story which has destroyed us.
@@LPVince94 Marge gave them a solid foundation and they fucked it up
chef from portugal work here 16h a day probably pay more tax than some british people. work in some of the finest restaurants in london, zuma le pont de la tour, city social and so on and on. i tell you this, very few british poeple working 16h shifts in the kitchen. i wonder why???too much work??? there are positions available and we are understaffed so why don't brits come and get a job? my back fucking hurts as i'm doing the work of 3.
nevertheless, portugal is filled with rich british people and expats that drove the rents up and we portuguese people cannot afford to live in our own country. sadly ironic
Same here in Spain 😔
No european citzen have moral to make that assesment. Sou brasileiro, amigo. Até hoje colhemos desgraça da colonização portuguesa. E o ódio dos portugueses contra brasileiros só aumenta em território europeu. Em 2020 o Alto Comissariado para as Migrações (ACM) de Portugal disse que 65% das novas empresas abertas naquele ano foram criadas por brasileiros. A presença criando empresas, novos empregos, etc é notável. Mas xenofobia e racismo também...
@@rafaelrp07 a minha familia vem de mozambique manon, nao me fales de racismo
Brits can’t cook with a few exceptions
Not enough labour, plain and simple
Used to work as a chef in Glasgow and all accross UK for 10 years,real hard work and real hard time in that type of work,used to pay 150-200 just taxes a week (was better to work less getting more money,nvm....) but i was happy because i was part of a welcoming community .After i heard from british friends they wanted so bad this stupid brexit i felt bad tbh ,didn't feel that welcome anymore.Left UK just before they voted.Give them what they want so bad , a Britain for britons only.However UK remains the most welcoming country and friendly to me .Had an amazing time with high value people which from i've learned alot.May God bless UK and it's people.Much love from Romania
" I don't like my life so I voted leave" - echoed thousands of times across the country. And it just wasn't the answer. Fools be fooled.
An uninformed public given a vote is the definition of insanity.
Truth
😂😂 keep crying
I.Y.O. not everyones
That’s politics full stop. The perennial promise of jam tomorrow only if you vote for me.
The farmer's wife who admonished anyone wishing to come to Britain for a DSS meal ticket whilst grabbing every freeby the Gov had to offer.
She was so stupid and clueless.
To play the devil's advocate:
If your competition is taking benefit, you must do the same or your business will be uncompetitive. Doesn't mean you have to like it.
Where does this perception of great benefits even come from?
The dream to collect £50 a week under extreme scrutiny?
Immigrants are the ones willing to work more jobs than Brits born there.
Well, the difference is that government benefits can not exist for anyone in the world that wants them, as the pie is just not big enough. It's not hypocritical to want government to use tax funds to look after its own citizens first.
@@niikasd True.
Brits telling others "go back to your country" is the most ironic statement ever 😂
How so
Are you trolling or is this a serious question?
Have we all forgotten about the erstwhile British Empire so soon? Not to mention that Britain is still holding so-called "overseas territories" far away from its European borders!
@@deepisaddictedtoyt you're welcome for all the schools, roads, hospitals, train lines and scientific theory.
@@haizee2330 I don't know if you're trolling or simply uneducated, but I'll say this regardless, those facilities were not made for the NATIVES but for the COLONIZERS, and infrastructure was built to extract raw materials and wealth from the colonised lands, perhaps this wasn't taught in your English history syllabus (assuming you are English); also the post colonial countries should also thank Britain for the racism, communalism, destruction of their society, forceful conversation to Christianity, loot of their ancestral wealth, and the best of all - planned ethnic cleansing/genocide. Try to look at things from the other side; rather than seeing developing countries as "shitholes" learn why they became this way, and more often than not you'll find a European or American behind it!
If 76% want to leave they should leave and go somewhere else
Ha what? At least make your comment make sense.
The UK had the best deal of any country in the EU. Most of the regulations they complained about was their OWN rules the insisted on having going in.
So what's the problem then ?
@@rjhtrucking5429populist arm of the tories wanted to sieze power by duping the unwashed masses
And we still left.
Just because its the best deal doesn't mean its a good deal.
it was a good deal better than you are now
@@sirianofmorleyyou literally had a special rule that you had to pay less money than ever members☠️ What better deal could there be?
Among lots of other priviliges that the uk got themselves(like not having to adopt the euro, which other countries are required to do)
I mean I don't really care. When the uk reenters we will be Happy about it but it will be treated like any other country. No special treatment anymore
Obsessed with immigration.
I get it, it's the narrative they want us to worry about but it's keeping people fixated on race rather than a class war, of which there is a real disparity in this country. The Tories don't want that.
Exactly.. exactly i hope more people wake up to this
Couldnt have said it better. Blame immigrants and once we're out of the EU and the same problems still arise - who are they going to continue to blame?
@kyanamaaf6314 invasion hasn't stopped you moron. It didn't even stop when the country was incarcerated on their own homes by the million.
The reason you make such stupid comments is because you have no understanding of Parliament at all even when they are shouting it at you.
You're obsessed with immigration - please don't ascribe your problem to Brexiteers.
The idea that Britain is the only place in Europe that people want to come because it’s a ‘soft touch’ is nonsense. Brexit took the UK away from the negotiating table regarding the control of cross channel migration, and left us making very dodgy trade deals with other countries outside the EU that involve making immigration to the UK easier. Personally I think that immigration has enriched the UK over the centuries and I embrace it. The reason why our economy is currently in a worse state than our European neighbours is Brexit.
What was stupid was that they could've just changed their own laws regardings subsidies, benefits and immigrants instead of leaving. They basically blamed EU for their own laws.
Or the EU could have changed theirs. They were given the chance.
@@FoobsTon EU can't change each country laws. They give guidelines, but each country has their own. Do you see the EU changing Turquia or Italy laws? Italy just passed a law that cuts subsidies to those who can but won't work. I have the same problem in my country, too much subsidiodependentes and the government lacks the courage to fix it because it could cost them votes. But that is not the EU problem. Even if the EU highly suggested "receive x amount of refugees" how you receive them, how much you spend, how you strive to make them productive, it's internal, it's each country decision.
Exactly, same with "Ohhh we don't want 40 EU regulations on pillow cases so we gonna leave!" Problem is a huge majority of trade is with EU countries and if you want to still sell to them you have to adhere to the norms anyways....
@@safy907 by turquia I assume you mean turkey? I understand mentioning Italy but why would the EU change laws of a non EU country? it's a weird thing to bring up as an example?
EDIT: and technically EU "can" change a country's laws by passing regulations that they are forced to accept and supercede national laws (although as far as I know they are EU wide laws so they can't have an EU law that applies only in one country)
An eu country cant change alot of their own laws regarding freedom of movement because it contradicts EU law
Did that guy seriously just describe people fleeing war and travelling across the sea in a dinghy as an "easy ride"?
That is what they are seeking when they cross the English Channel, yes. If they weren’t then they would seek refuge on the continent or even closer to home.
You’ve twisted his words massively, they’re heading to the UK not to escape war and conflict, they could stop off at many European countries should they care about simply leaving conflict, his point is about the proportion that directly choose to come to the UK
@@thebristolbruiser Many go to certain countries because: a) better migration/asylum seekers laws b) already had a family member there or someone they know that can help them
That's what right-wing propaganda does to you.
Aren't people allowed anymore to decide who joins or doesn't join their countries? Stop the emotional blackmail.
Around 4:10, the Latvian woman talks about hearing "go back to your own country" directed at other people, but not at her personally, and it gave her a feeling of not being welcome indirectly. I can relate. I am living in another country and I've had that experience. It can make the people around you seem really unfriendly, even if they're telling you, "No, not you. You're the good kind of immigrant". Like they don't like immigrants generally, but they'll make an exception for you because you blend in. It can feel like a dubious honor, and it makes you wonder if they'd remember you were a "good" immigrant if times got bad and they needed someone to blame for it.
I had the same experience living in Germany. People will talk about how much they hate immigrants, so I would ask: " You mean immigrants like me?" And they'd backtrack "no, not like you! You speak German!" So I would ask: "so it's fine as long as the immigrants learn German?"
Which they also weren't happy with. Made me feel real welcome. Not.
Yeah felt the same way in Germany I feel like wether we are good or bad we are all categorized as one
@@chronicreader I'm from the US too, and from a part of it where it's so rural that people from anywhere else were outsiders, even if it was from two counties over or another state. Someone from another country was just too much for them. So I get it, but I didn't really get it until I experienced it for myself outside of the US. It made me seriously respect anyone who moves to another country and tries to make a life there, because it is not easy. It takes an enormous amount of grit.
@@annalang5687 ""no, not like you! You speak German!"" WOWS! When I was young (10-20) I always had an image in my head about germans like they are super smart and educated people, yet some of them can't really speak english as well as I do, while I'm quite bad at it. Funny times... I also experienced it time to time they just did not want to speak in english in calls (while they could, maybe not easily, but puttig in the effort was maybe too stinky for their majestic class 🧐), and I had no idea what is going on, they just spoke with each other in german about nothing and there was effectively 0 progress between us. 🤣👌
Heartbreaking - how many "go homes" does it take to shame a nation?
"I didn't really look at it in depth" - and that ladies and gentlemen is the problem.
That's why it's a poor idea to have uninformed, under-educated people making generational-affecting decisions. And especially on a simple majority -- & also without a participating voting threshold of at least two thirds of the country.
The problem wasn't the simple-majority referendum: the problem was that there was never a referendum on the final deal. Brexit was already unpopular a year after the vote, and was by a large margin in 2019.
You hit the nail on the head 👏
Bullshit, this false narrative that the Brexit vote was due to stupid racists who know nothing is another contemptible lie promoted by the media. The Brexit vote was about much more than immigration. It was about the working classes getting screwed over for decades on jobs, housing and social and political mobility. Just look at Britain in the 1960's and compare it to the sorry state of the country today. I voted leave and would do so again tomorrow. I do not want to be ruled or dictated to by an unelected council of globalist and corporate puppets/shills. But if that is what you want. there are boats and planes leaving every day. And I did look at it in depth.
@@edaindaimhin6009 We weren't ruled by unelected people. The EU is actually more democratic than the UK - it has a fairer voting system and the UK also had a veto on any legislation it didn't like. The "unelected beurocrat" line was one spun by the right wing press for over a decade and was swallowed up by the credulous masses. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster and the only beneficiaries are the ultra rich and disaster capitalists.
As someone in the EU, I used to order things from British web stores quite often. That includes expensive musical instruments. Now I rarely order anything because of how shipping from outside the EU works.
Indeed, Amazon UK and eBay offered the most competitive prices and availability. They also served as a conduit for acquiring items from the USA and India more conveniently and affordably.
Same here!!
I don't order anything, just because i don't know if there will be customs fee. But to be honest all sellers from UK, started selling from EU shops...didnt order much though maybe up to 500 eur per year.
I can’t even order a perfume from All Saints store
, they wrote me they can’t send it to Italy
i baught my guitar while leaving in UK and brought it back to LT
I'm Turkish, I didn't know we had such an impact on British people 😂
Erdogan openly said he wanted to use demography to colonize the EU. Its reason enough to be wary.
Politically, it has always been easier to blame the ‘outsiders’ for our problems rather than look inward. It has been a tactic for hundreds of years and sadly worked again for the referendum.
That's it
The fact that people at large keep falling for the blame the immigrant game doesn't speak well of us as a country.
@Tadaaaa My statement stands. Money and corruption is what we are up against. You are a fool.
Funny im from inner city brum we had a lovly st quiet friendly , now hmo full of drug taking prostitution rubbish dumping immigrants , women are not safe we have had five fatal stabbings this year and a shooting ,,, 30 years ive lived here this is the first time ive felt unsafe
@Tadaaaa What's your point?
4:24 I have respect for this man. It takes a lot of guts to openly and fully admit that you were wrong
@Simon John this is such cope 💀 he clearly outlined why he voted leave and why he regrets the vote. If the reason you would have left is different than his then that's one thing. But if you're pretending as if voting to leave has been a good thing for the British people and not just a satiation of the British racist class, you're either delusion beyond help or high from sniffing your own farts.
@Simon John "how is leaving the EU racist? We're all European race" -that right there is a beautifully hilarious statement LOL. Well first I didn't say the act of leaving is what's racist -its just dumb and dangerous. What's racist is the *motivation* many ppl had to leave. That being to keep Britain white. The second half of that statement makes no sense. How do you figure "European" is a race? Did you mean ethnicity or something?
The rest of your comment is you pointing to either non issues or real issues with actual policy solutions that exist but then being mad at the ghost of migrants. Buddy, head on over to your local university economics department or better yet, just open up Google, and search "does immigration improve the economy"? I assure you, the vast vast majority of information iseither very positive of immigrations impact on things like your labour market, housing, etc. I'm not wasting my time arguing immigration when it's a settled debate. The immigrants are not the cause of any of these issues, if anything they're the ones keeping your ship still running. But you know what has been disastrous for your economy? Pulling out of the biggest trading block in your region and eating billions in losses then shifting it onto the cost of living crisis! You fucked yourselves just to say "fuck you" to immigrants. This hyper fear of immigrants is *exactly* the racism I'm describing
Edit: grammar
@Simon John so 6 years on that'll be all of those issues sorted right? What's that? Many of them are worse?!?
@@simonjohn6156 sure right, its not like you guys are in complete crisis right now, consequence of isolating yourselves from your closest economic block
Everything is fine
@Simon John No one is arguing that the referendum result wasn't a valid vote (i.e. more voted to leave). However, arguing that someone made the right decision without understanding their decision, or understanding what they were voting for is A) Trolling? B) Completely partisan? C) Dishonest? D) A comment showing a complete unwillingness to acknowledge anything except the word 'Brexit'. So, no problem with voting 'Leave', but then there can't be any complaints or regrets for voting 'Leave'. Brexit has to be accepted, regardless of what it actually involves.
Interesting that the lady in business didn’t quantify what she gained from a leave vote but was able to define what her remain farming partner lost.
Normally they are so desperately skirting around it but it's just normally good ole racism
@@funoff3207 no it isnt lol
@@funoff3207 You're right that oftentimes the real reason is racism, or at least low-key xenophobia, but I don't think that's the case with that particular lady. She seems pretty open to immigration.
Also, has she never heard of a postal vote? I was in Sweden on holiday on the day of the referendum but had voted before I went away!
We've been betrayed on all levels, so what are we going to do about it?
Traitors all from top to bottom.
Simple solution in less than 4 minuets ruclips.net/video/MOTWkQZKELU/видео.html all it needs is for enough to take responsibility by showing their support and things are put right. Plain and simple.
Evidence: FCO 30 1048.
Article 61 (Lawful Rebellion) invoked in 2001, and ignored.
...When you realize problem is not Europe but yourself.
My niece, who is white and English, grew up in Boston. When she was in her teens, she went on holiday to Greece for a week, came back with a sun-tan, and was told: Get back to your own country!'
Oh
Yeah that’s what Aussies call an “English Lobster” 🦞😂
@@earthsign99
Blimey
What a hot take
Oh my god 😂
Brits with a sun-tan? They always look like fiery red lobsters or a baboon's behind.
"I'm a business owner and voted leave." Well... You tought that through.
And the woman's partner is a farm who wanted to stay. Smh.
Giving the uninformed braindead a vote is never going to work out. I'll bet you anything, that if we don't annihilate ourselves, in a distant future your voting rights will depend on you passing a test on FULLY understanding what you're voting for.
further proof that capitalism isnt a meritocracy. person is rich because their dad/ grandad etc was succesful.
We were only allowed to have a referendum at all because Remainers (mp’s) voted to let us have one. Have a word with some of them and ask “why did you vote to let us have the choice and then after the result, change your minds and start with the fearmongering”.
@@stephenhartley2853 "person is rich because their dad/ grandad etc was succesful" - How is this proof that capitalism isn't a meritocracy? All you've done is highlight another way someone can be rich. Last time I checked, you can also become rich through merit of your hard work....
That guy at 4:46 deserves a lot of credit because people were lied to and it takes a lot of strength to admit to that.
They choose to be lied to by Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson. There was enough true information and politicians giving them the real facts. But these pro brexit people ignored them because it didn't coincided with their own racist views.
yes admitting your thick as champ
We should also give more than a lot of credit to the people who realised the lies were lies in the first place.
The only lies are the ones told in favour of the closed and bankrupt market , commonly referred to as the eu.
The only lies were project fear.
When UK left, it was really relief for the rest of the EU. It was really nightmare to listen UK Non stop Complaining and asking for exceptions. Please stay out.
The Brexit referendum was played as if it had been to sort out all Brits’ problems. I Brexited back to Poland right after the referendum and it was the best decision of my life.
🇧🇷❤️🇵🇱
my friend lives in Poland and has done very well over there.
left England because the British voted against immigrants to a 99% white country...
Pretty sure that brits don't miss you.
@@thenetworker1773I've emigrated to UK in the year of referendum (but b4 it) because of the salary and life conditions. I've left after 3yrs and went first to Netherlands, now 2nd year in Belgium and it's a lot lot better than Poland and UK when it comes to life standard, opportunities etc. Or maybe I'm just lucky.
Respect to the man who admits he was wrong
If you wore a mask, followed lockdown rules and supported pharmaceutical companies to inject children with unnecessary drugs, will you do the same?
Wrong? Why do you think the majority of traditional labour representatives wanted out of and warned against EU membership? From Dennis Skinner and Jeremy Corbyn to Tony Benn.
To say its "wrong" to have independence is to imply there are no reasons or advantages to obtaining it.
Do you believe there were no valid reasons whatsoever for becoming an independent country?
I'd wager if you thought about it you'd agree there are.
And respect to the man who admits he was wrong.
He THINKS he was wrong.
He didn't say he was wrong...but after the vote it wasn't handled as it should have been...so he's now not happy!
They should have got on with it.
Trouble is they didn't know how to.....
PROBLEM.
EH? And how has leaving the the EU impacted in your daily life 🤔. pray tell ?
Guy at 0:42 is hilarious about the Turkey lie, but on a real note as someone from Turkish heritage it was one of the most pig ignorant things I heard throughout the Brexit campaign. The fact that Turkey, a country with a long list of human rights abuses over the years and one that would need at least 50 years of continuous human rights progress to even qualify for EU membership, was on the verge of joining us. Not to mention how many countries would veto them joining even if it got to that point. It was an absolute crock of shit - equal to the NHS magic money bus, but it worked. Unfortunately we are now weaker, poorer, have worse healthcare, trade, food quality, energy security, infrastructure, global power than we did before and under the most pro-Brexit, right wing government in UK history have record levels of migration. Brexiteers were masterfully duped into making their country a shadow of what it once was.
But all the billionaire Brexit leaders are making bank on rolling-back worker and environmental protections while rolling-around in illegal Putin cash, so... yay?
calm down snow flake. He was making a joke about his ex-in-laws, and a playful jolt that the current immigration policy conveniently keeps them from coming here to be around him. Everyone in England sooner or later makes a joke about something that (at least keeps the In-laws away). Storms, hurricanes, Covid restrictions..
Well Turkey did give the UK Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
Bloke in the red anorak at 9.00. Incoherent cliche ridden talking nonsense idiot. Final answer? I don’t know! Well done mate
Not to mention that officially, they still militarily occupy another EU member state.
I dont think ive met a foreign person who is just here to claim benefits, majority are some of the hardest working people ive ever met. On the other hand i have met hundreds of brits who do nothing but sit on benefits drinking and smoking and have never worked a day in their life. Some of these people are/were so delusional
I have respect for the people that admit their mistake.
me too
I have respect only if they do something that could prevent them from making similar mistakes in the future.
That's why democracy is idiotic! most people are not competent in various matters, but they have the right to make decisions that will make it worse for them!
Too little too late
I'm torn. I voted leave because the EEC that we had signed up to had morphed into a pseudo superstate led by Germany and France and loads of faceless bureaucrats telling us what to do and robbing the UK blind.
Adulterating lying Boris, his crooked friends and successors made such a mess of it all, we are now much worse off led by a pathetic wimp and a failed, corrupt government.
Can we turn the clock back to '74 and start again?
"We're a has-been empire." Bro speaking truth.
And killed more people then Hitler and mao
Yes, and the little Englanders who voted Brexit seemed to think that this would magically be reversed by leaving the EU. WE ONLY JOINED because this was already a reality in the 1970s
Taken foreign landscapes and it's people by force.
Yes, but the number of deluded people aiming for the "old days" is huge.
No!, the population did not have any empire, in fact the ruler's had their hand's on those countries and they used their unwashed Masse's to do their dirty job.
As always the lesser mortels will forever do their masters bidding any where in the world and history have shown it.
The amount of vitriol and hatred expressed during the vote was despicable. The same people were yelling "Go back to your country", "England for the English" etc etc... I mean this was against workers from Poland and other eastern bloc countries who were doing a lot of menial jobs that the English wouldn't do. Now, go do all that work. EU should never let UK back.
No, please do not ever let the U.K. back. The greedy rich politicians may want to come back into membership with the Eu but the UK people do not. We prefer just to be a free and independent sovereign nation and good, friendly neighbours with the member countries but “ not” ruled over by the Eu. or subject to them
No, please do not ever let the U.K. back. The greedy rich politicians may want to come back into membership with the Eu but the UK people do not. We prefer just to be a free and independent sovereign nation and good, friendly neighbours with the member countries but “ not” ruled over by the Eu. or subject to them.
Wow… amazing to see how people have been brainwashed into thinking globalization and mass immigration from the 3rd world is good for them.
“We need to stop immigration and look after our own..”
Our own: we need help
Government: f*ck off
You missed “release the hounds”
Immigration is capitalism importing an over supply of labour in. Conservatives love mass immigration as its cheap labour and future consumers for capitalism.
@@evolassunglasses4673 Not really. Most conservatives want to increase salaries within the country for obvious reasons, strengthened domestic consumer market, higher tax revenues etc. The mass immigration from EU was chosen by UK and Ireland whiles many other EU nations like Germany implemented policies that were allowed by the EU that reduced it when the eastern Europeans joined. That was all under a labour government.
Most conservatives surely would want the cheap labour to remain overseas and use it there. Not here. That's if profit is the motive. Cheap labour in UK can be a little bit usefull domestically but conservative theory is more global than this and about competitiveness internationally speaking.. Labour philosophy is also to have a well payed populace and increase consumer demand so that the activies can be taxed rather than profit led. Anyway either way you're wrong..
"Our government's not helping us, it must be cause of those bloody immigrants. Coming over here taking our jerbs, our wamen!"
That's the government. The people would come together had their spine not been weakened by the WEF and CCP insurrection and the decades long propaganda from the left and it's intersectionality politics and culture war.
I stand with our people.
We were right to leave Europe. We didn't lose all those lives in WWI and WWII only for the nazis to get in by the backdoor.
I'm so pleased my daughter is a dual national and is brexit-proof. I don't think I'll ever stop being salty though. So many people voted for ridiculous reasons.
voted for ridiculous reasons - to remain
Ridiculous lies even
@@creightonjasonLOL. Ah a brainless brexiteer detected eh?
@@creightonjasonRemain is intelligent and inclusive. Leave is a 19th century colonial notion.
And immigration increased lol
"I was duped". Well at least some can acknoweldge their mistake.
The next step will be to finally grow up and take the responsibility for their own decisions…
Well, it if useful to notice that brexit propaganda was pushed by the same people who are pushig pro Russian propagada right now
How was you duped, There is always 2 sides to every story, and I always like to hear both
Have you been asleep? How can you ask how they were duped?
Duped by what ? Most people had a pay rise straight after Brexit as it was harder to get staff which proves that mass immigration was driving down wages. The Labour party finally admitted that they messed up and totally underestimated how many people would come from Eastern Europe after 2004. The real issue in this country is the property market has been allowed to run wild for 20 years so now with even the minimum wage at £11.40 it barely covers the cost of living. Mass immigration didn't help that either.
3:05 She has no clue about how unnecessarily difficult it is to move to the UK to work after Brexit. Because of this, the relative attractiveness of the UK, even in the eyes of Eastern Europeans, has declined substantially. Eastern Europe has also seen consistent and rapid economic growth in recent years. For example, Poland's GDP grew from $470 billion in 2016 to $811 billion in 2023. That's an increase of almost 73%, or about 8.1% per year. Unemployment in Poland is very low at around 3%. The region is picking up speed and developing.
Try to rent a house in poland then. In uk I pay less than my polish tenants pay for my own house in Poland every month.
Good, maybe you can tell my Polish neighbours to go back home, since they've lived down my street for 12 years and cannot speak a single word of English still (and neither can their daughters and grandchildren.) Just shows what they think of us, doesn't it?
As a Polish person living in UK for 20 years, I watch this video and I am hopefull because it shows that brexiter does not necesarily mean evil or racist. It also means being lied to (by polititians and some media) or not having enough knowledge when making an important decision, or both.
I've been here for 20 years. I think I've only managed for so long because Scotland has so many good lads. booosh
You mean the same Scotland full of nationalists?!?!
@@NN-sl7vk Like the Korea full of democratic republicans?!?!?!?
@@NN-sl7vk you will find bastards even in your own familly.
@@NN-sl7vk They're anti-England so it's alright, no problem here...
No one asked the Scottish people about the sausage rolls coming over here
It's impossible to get benefits as a new immigrant. And if you can, they are some 30% of what you need to survive. So this entire thing was never such a huge problem to begin with.
Unfortunately people take right-wing propaganda on face value without actually talking / meeting these immigrants. There are some disadvantages to being in the EU, but also a lot of advantages. Yes, the EU is not perfect, but if you look at actual achievements their track record is pretty good. There has not been a war between any of the EU countries since their early beginning.
@@frituurvliegEU is far from good but there is no alternative, uk is too small to compete with china, us and india in the future.
Look at inflation they did a mess with huge expansive programs like Recovery Fund, they didn’t listen to economist and end up augmenting the % on loans so rapidly without cutting expansive measures
You’re right, really hard to get hotels, bicycles, clothes, mobile phones, £100/wk in fun money, and all your meals made & paid 😅
@@robertjones2053 Maybe I should come to Crewe. Because I AM an immigrant, went to University in Manchester, speak fluent English. I've needed job-seeker's allowance twice for the 12 years I've been here. The first time I got it and was £50 a month. The second time they sent me my letter with appointment date AFTER the appointment date and voided my application. If I can't get benefits despite being an established, valuable member of society, idk what benefits people who just turned up got!
@@aloppa7691 What utter rubbish. Britain wasn't too small to rule one quarter of the world not so long ago. I am not suggesting Britain would wish to do that now but we are a powerful country and far more important than you think. Joint biggest financial centre is London with New York. Best professional military force, only European nuclear power, 6th biggest economy in the world - and you think we are unimportant?, Think again.
guy who voted for brexit because he's scared of his ex-missus' family turning up from Turkey cracked me up
Turkey lol cannot believe you fell for that one. They will never get in the EU with their record and also like Russia, they illegally occupy one 3rd of my adopted country of Cyprus, we will always vote against them until we get our whole country back.
Absolutely wild
Turkey . He'll no.
Its true tho we dont want turks
what a legend. my in-law get to come over or I tank the national economy? guess that is not a choice at all.
what was the fella in the ski jacket actually trying to put across. I don't think he had anything coherent to say. just brick by brick
Seems like his brain tumor did some damage. Poor guy.
If you look at this collectively- it’s all emotive based on their frustration with poor quality of life in the UK. The capital class from Eton were very effective at laying blame for the UK’s decline with foreigners, when in reality it was bad governance and corruption causing the problems (which are now coming to light).
Bang on, how did i have to scroll so far for the correct answer. The country has been paving over big issues with cheap foreign labour which is now causing new issues. Small wins, no long term planning. These people are frustrated and don't know who to blame so the easiest targets are offered up, which were all brought here to keep the NHS, pensions and benefits afloat. The ruling class will always exploit the working class
Great comment. I’d recommend anyone who watches this goes and listens to Anand Menon’s Grisham College lecture on Brexit. He has an excellent section on the class warfare that’s exists currently
Except the Conservative Prime Minister at the time, who attended Eton, opposed Brexit and resigned over the referendum. Meanwhile the Labour leader was himself a Eurosceptic. Brexit was never as simple as you make it out to be.
As a german , i understand the value of immigrants to an extent . The huge number of students come here for free education end up working their prime life here and contribute to their field of work in germany . We get the expert workers and they get the free education . We are both happy .
I voted Brexit not because of EU citizens, I voted against the centralised nature of the EU and the way the EU was handling immigrants that ended on the French coast. Brexit and France hasn't solved the problem with the illegal immigrants.
@@chrisjones6351 Why not vote for a govt that would use the british veto to control the centralised nature of the UK, instead of remove yourself from the equation altogether and watch the EU integrate tighter and tighter with no input, while you will have to comply with that integration from the outside if you want the money. So not only have you caused a more centralized EU, one that you have to deal with, not only has it not fixed migrants, but you have added financial difficulties and limited future prospects, and ended up with a govt that has been freegliding for years and blaming the EU for everything and forgot how to run a country. I mean the multiple prime ministers is a bit embarassing, the infaltion, Ireland doing better than the uk, its all just a bit embarassing
As a german your used to invasion etc
Is there a reason inhibiting the local Germans from doing the very same thing as the immigrants?
@@MrXyzasdf when you give something for free it hurts less that there person taking it has brothers, sisters, parents and ancestors who contributed to the system. There is no reason why a brand new migrant to your country should be given anything at all. When these things were brought in it was thought you'd have a few migrants every year. It was never meant for people to march across your country saying no to every country that offers them nothing to get to the ones that will treat them like a native and give them money. Look at France they give the migrants nothing so they pile up trying to get to UK and Ireland. Why? We all know why. I'm not English but I can see their logic, and I can see that logic spreading among countries who are starting to panic that they simply can't afford to house the poor of the world
“The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
The best argument, against oligarchy is a conversation with the rulers.
@@alexandrostheodorou8387dumb
Plato.
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" thats from Churchill
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" Churchill
My family in Liverpool are still convinced they chose right by voting Leave.
Now they are happily unemployed and those who do have a job have a badly paid one.
I think they were nostalgic of post war Britain.
I lived in Boston for over a decade and it is definitely a troubled town. There is a big divide between the English who were born and raised there and the immigrants who come to work in the fields and factories. The town is a ghost town of run down buildings, empty shops and rampant crime which has only seemed to get worse over the years. Leaving that town was the best thing I ever did.
In my Nottingham days, before the Referendum, I drove, by chance, to Boston. It was a pleasure for me to order food in Lithuanian in the Lithuanian eatery, etc., but I realised at once how unhappy the English residents should be. I instantly called the town Eurobirmingham. Of course, the locals in Birmingham have to shut up and put up, but here they got a chance, and they used it to mess up their country :(
Rampant crime!
@@igorsagdeev7881😂
@@Demetri450if you think that’s bad, you should see colonisation.
Yep because that foreign labour was never needed. Hasn't anyone ever asked who was doing that work before the migrants?
All the people here saying "we've got poor people here- we need to look after our own" almost certainly wouldn't lift a finger to help "our own".
"I'm a business owner and wanted to take back control" - people are just so easily manipulated against their own interests
They completely fail to understand that it's their own government causing them the problems, not the lot in Europe.
ikr? they say that and then keep voting for the people that strip them bare of their wealth
"People are just so easily manipulated against their own interests", agreed, EU-ophiles are easily manipulated. Oh, its only people who you disagree with politically are easily manipulated? Dimwit.
@Robert Wallace they can't hear you (the people in the video).
"we should help our own" - person who has never given a penny to a homeless person in their life
Brexit supporters: We have to stop people coming to this country to keep them from living off the dole.
Also Brexit supporters: We have to stop people from coming to this country because they'll take all of our jobs.
🤔🤣🍵 We need better immigration controls, not less trade with the EU and more Indians here, whose nation they all tell me is great.
@@Gary-bz1rf Well who then is going to do the jobs that Brits don't want to do.
@@superjohnnygamble6328 which is most jobs, just go to the School gates and you can see what the British white people bring to the table, its usually disabled children and sliders
I believe that's called Schrödinger's immigrant - someone who simultaneously steals your job and your unemployment benefit.
Of course, it's a crock of shit spouted by racists.
@@Agadoom95 oh god don’t use terms like that. They won’t know what that means 😂
What infuriated me about Brexit at the time (and still infuriates me to this day) is that the majority of reasons why people voted to leave were to do with solving problems that have almost nothing to do at all with the EU. Yet, BoJo and his ilk sold Brexit to the disillusioned public as a cure-all.
The reality that I could see however was that leaving the EU was absolutely not going to make life any better because these problems were almost all caused by our own government or global situations that required a concentrated response from several nations. They were not the fault of the EU. And now, almost five years after we have officially left, leaving the EU has solved very little. It has not solved the crisis of people risking their lives in unseaworthy rubber boats. It has in fact gotten worse. Brexit has not made life easier for farmers or fishermen, they now work harder than ever for less than before. Brexit has not saved money for the NHS which, after years of Tory austerity, is in a dire state.
The people were lied to. Plain and simple. The sad thing is, they've realised it far too late.
i give farage and bozo their due, they knew a good portion of british working class were thick as treacle, and they could get into their heads.
the same crew are trying it again with reform. you can see now why putin helped fund the brexit party, to split the uk from europe, weakening europe, whilst isolating and badly damaging the uk.
Eu has nothing like nhs its dyer because managers misuse funding
Every analysis by competent economists said the UK would be poorer after Brexit. And so it came to pass.
Lol they weren't lied to, you guys just didn't want to see the truth, two different things..
The British should graduate better schools, read good papers and stop thinking they live in Empire.
I'll give credit to the bloke who saw the nature of the mistake. Good man for admitting it. The EU isn't perfect but we had the second largest voice in there, we could have done far more to shape it if we had not had a party who's sole policy was: "we don't want to be here" representing us
I just loved the guy who said "it doesnt affect me, so I voted leave". That kind of fuckwittery stands in stark contrast to the guy who could admit it was the wrong choice.
I mean, we could've elected anyone else. UKIP fairly won their seats and got the highest share of MEPs. It really shows that none of the major parties gave a shit about the EU, because they hardly contest the european election cycle, allowing a fringe third party to win the highest vote share from us.
I remember when brexit happen some of the british said that "the EU will no longer exist because we have keeping the EU with the benefits etc" but what i can see is that the EU is going in right direction and the UK is not
LOL yeah that's why Europe is all voting for populist parties
Sorry but eu isnt goin in right direction its clearly false fed
EU is not going in right direction, the EU has too much power. EU should be only about economy and no restrictions on what cars to drive. As a 🇩🇪 i dont want this EU. EU needs a reform
Halt die fresse du afd wähler ohne die eu würde deutschland sich selber komplett ficken genauso wie es die briten getan haben 😊@@Gengchen82
As a Norwegian, i dont want to be a part of the EU at all, becausw of the EU were forced to sell our power to the rest of europe or we’ll be sanctioned
- Did you vote to leave ?
- Yes ?
- Are you happy ?
- No
UK in a nutshell, if I was a Europe official and it were up to me i'd embargo the whole Kingdom and just forget about it. One thing is sure though, we'll never take you back even if you beg on your knees crying and starving.
5:42, this man is honestly a great guy, admits he was wrong, admits he was duped, union rep, actually has an understanding of what he's talking about in terms of collective bargaining. Honesty and strength of character in spades.
when a leader gets it wrong it is the sheep that suffer
Respect to that guy indeed
And how has leaving the EU impacted in your daily life..pray tell,?
Not really. You'd think as a union rep he would recognise how the EU was used to undermine trade union collective bargaining agreements across the EU.
British trade unions are more active now then they ever were under the EU. Now they actually do something. Whereas before it was harder because of the rules under the EU.
@@acousticguitarcrazy6385 the EU didn't introduce those policies.
Our workers rights were built up across decades and ultimately drafted and written in by Parliament. The only EU laws that applies to workers rights were the European 6, as they are commonly known. These were just refinements to our already excellent health and safety legislation which originated in 1974 and has had various additions to it over the decades.
As for the minimum wage. This wasn't an EU policy. It was a Labour Party policy brought in under Tony Blair in the late 90s.
So don't lie.
“i am a business owner - I voted to leave”. I am Swedish and I used to buy from a few online UK businesses and as of Brexit there was import tax added to pay and it became expensive and a pain in general so I stopped ordering from them. I am quite sure I wasn't the only one that stopped ordering from UK businesses.
Almost all used cars in Cyprus from 1963 until Brexit were UK imported. Since Brexit, everything is imported from Japan & Singapore.
They're dumb.
That is the experience of so many businesses here. Those of us who voted to remain just cannot understand how people, whose businesses were dependent on exports, voted to leave and place economic barriers between themselves and their customers. Part of the problem is too many people trusted what they were being told - that they could leave the EU but retain all the benefits of membership. Those who thought about it could see it was impossible, the way it was being sold to the public.
I agree, i don't buy from the UK or send stuff up there due to post brexit delays, duties and taxes have made it non viable.
Me too
Many of these businesses have now closed down.
Speaking as an American, I am impressed by the the honest viewpoints of the people interviewed here. My impression is that the interviewer chose people of different social backgrounds and I think that’s reflected in the quality of the responses here. Folks are conflicted and some understand the need to diversify, whereas others remain skeptical of those who they perceive as the “other.” thanks for presenting a very fair view of a very complicated topic.
calling this complicated is just wrong because the main reason for people to vote leave was their racism which the rich and their politician puppets used to get rid of EU worker protection and other market limitations. And now the poor is screwed, the middle class has vaporized and the rich are getting richer.
There never was a raid of asylum seekers in the UK, nor was there ever a threat of it. But the people got played by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. The latter two have no empathy and are driven by their greed of power and they stop at nothing. They are disgusting. But that fits a LOT of politicians.
The prior though didnt do their job properly in a democracy. They didnt educate themselves about the decision they had to take, instead they gambled the future of the nation on a wild stomach fluke they had for a few weeks. You cant run a succesful democracy like that.
When the people with the voting rights are so mindless and easily manipulated that all you need are a few letters on a couple busses and some clowns in front of cameras, the media is ruling the country. And thats exactly whats happening in the UK and in the US. And the rich own the media.
Brexit or no Brexit was never hard to answer, to stay was the only logical solution. But the rich didnt want to stay and so they got the people to vote against their own interests. again. And now the people are crying again that they got played. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ...
Yes there is a limit to that, if you dont have access to non-manipulated info like in the third Reich, then you get a lot more slack because you dont know half of whats going on and the rest is just propaganda. But the UK and the US for that matter are both VERY far from that. The people are still able to educate themselves and to get trustworthy information. They are too lazy to do so...
And then you get a "class war". I read that so often. This isnt a class war. This is the ruling party gifting control to the greedy fucks our ancestors took the power from. And these idiots cant be asked to use google for 30 mins for the only referendum in the history of their goddamn country.
And as youre american, let me tell you, you have the same problem. And your nation aswell as the UK has lost it long ago, you can just watch the ride and put up a fight to extend the transition period. The US is going full dictatorship propably sooner than later. And the UK is happily following the path of doom.
Look at any political issue in the US for the last 20 years and watch its effects on the poor and middle class and you will see that the democractic position was nearly alwaays preferable for the vast majority of your people. Still a big minority vote against their own interests because they happily swallow the lies in the media and dont think for a second. They are driven by hate and as long as the GQP keep fueling the hate these people are mindless puppets. And damn are they good at fueling the hate. And one day the puppet army will be big enough.
As a german I know how this works. Ive studied how this has happened to my grandparents and parents. I see the patterns. Honestly they arent hard to spot at all, a lot of people do. But why listen to scientists, thats so complicated, you have to think. Listening to the Nazis is easy, you can turn your brain off, they tell you who to hate, to vote and who to kill. Ez life. Good luck with your civil war, Im trying to stop the same happening here and its not going too well. So if you thought the germans are better educated, they should know - nope, my people are as retarded as your people.
Yeah in the us we would just act like we voted to stay Evan if we did vote wrong you know lie
@@lilianehuggett1564 the patriots lost to the vikings so there embarrassed
They're all peasants!
I really just want to give some of these people a hug and tell them "yeah you fucked up, but you recognize that fact and won't do it again, yeah? Good on ya for not digging in your heels."
A cultural shift has also happened. You can tell in the rest of the EU countries that British people almost feel and are treated like Americans, they've been gone from EU rules and laws that it's much rarer nowadays to find them working or living outside the UK (apart from summer holidays lol). They really feel like the outsiders in Europe now.
I feel that being viewed as an outsider is to some extent self-imposed to the Brits. I think they secretly like being considered separate from others, even the ones who voted "Remain". Maybe it has something to do with most Anglosphere countries being islands and/or occupying entire continents? Britain and New Zealand are islands, Australia is a continent, and Canada and the US make up two thirds of North America. If we ignore Gibraltar, the US is the only Anglosphere country that shares a land border with a non-English-speaking country.
I graduated as a Eastern European (czech) in the UK and lived & worked there for 13 yrs. I have never been told directly to leave the country but I could feel that it was the main agenda for voting to LEAVE.
I was visiting UK this year and I could see and feel that something has changed. Not sure whether it was Brexit, Covid, War but streets had different energy. I left UK in 2019. Still love good British banter.
I think what noone realized at that time was that having those citizens from eastern block was actually not that culturally different.
You can indeed feel that the energy has changed. The economy has clearly plummeted.
People from UK are unable to let go of its colonial past,unlike European partners.
These people seem completely unaware that Brexit has been a total disaster for the UK?
Seem completely ignorant oh of the privileged position we held in the EU, able to veto whatever we didn’t like hence we still have Stirling.
When eventually we get on our knees to be allowed to try to get back in,that’s all gone!
Hint “ single market” the only market to trade in Europe? Not rocket science is it!!!!
I thought Czech Republic was Central Europe. It's literally next to Germany.
@@SilasonLinuxit is but in UK they all referred to CZ as eastern europe i think it is mainly cultural thing rather than location in eu
@@peterinvestor imperial measures of reality
I moved from Eastern Europe to the UK 9 years ago. In our street, all immigrants are working while about half of the British are home on benefits 🤔 I've managed to save up for a mortgage down-payment while they are all council tenants...
But since Brexit, it's been a massive downhill.
So I will be taking my funds and move back to Europe to a more open minded, cleaner and less crowded country. The UK is nowhere near as great as it appeared previously. Best of luck sorting out the darkness in people's minds 😬👍
Ah yes, back to the great bastion of tolerance that is Eastern Europe with a sack load of cash. Guess you found what you were looking for in the UK.
@@lincolnshirepoacher8651 Poland and Czech Republic getting stronger and stronger year by year
Get British citizenship before you leave though.
@@lincolnshirepoacher8651 I guess it depends a lot on occupation, pay and quality of live. Those who aren't successful will make room for new immigrants.
@@peterhutlas3572 Britain has much more opportunities than Czech Republic though. And nobody really wants to immigrate to Poland, it's too conservative.
It seems like most of them voted to get out of the EU due to their personal insecurities
I mean that's usually the case with things like this. People with issues in their personal lives want change for change's sake, hoping somehow that'll alleviate that issue. Even if it's unrelated. And the media will try its hardest to prey on that.
@@Kurruchi but it sad to see not only the media using it a weapon to get there sound bite but also the politicians who prey on such people due to their emotional concern. I don't want to over reach but to honest that was what brought people like Hitler and Trump into power.
Honestly that was a big part of it. Towns like Boston, things have been going downhill for them, they feel left behind. They see the immigrants coming over and trying to make a life for themselves, they see the support that the Government provides them and they feel like they're just being left to get on with it alone. That sense of abandonment boiled over into anger for many people who then voted Leave on the simple premise that it would force the Government to focus on its own people for a change, instead of Europe.
its incredible how they were so focused on the EU as the bad guy, they never looked at their own politicians and missmanagment on their own side
Now the UK has "full sovereignty" again. But the downside is that now the UK is completely at the mercy of its own leaders, who unfortunately seem to be rather incompetent and self-centered. The British people can't appeal to the EU anymore when British politicians make bad or corrupt decisions.
As an Italian who was raised in a British school, I find the way the U.K. people perceive their own society as profoundly skewered. Let's ignore their questionable pride in a long dead empire.
Let's ignore the fact that they are against impoverished immigrants getting a couple of hundred pounds per month.
The fact that, on the other hand, the average Briton has to pay massive inheritance taxes, and yet nobody seems to mind that the new Duke of Westminster paid basically nothing on the billions his father left him is astonishing to me though.
And there’s a whole generation who defends that shit, if you ask me, a citizen of a former British colony, the royal family needs to be eradicated emotionally speaking but also logically now, the new generation need to act fast and get on with modern times
The dislike towards foreigners is founded from years of migrants coming to the country and taking from the system all while never contributing to it. We should be helping our own before worrying about others.
@@kieranhendytalking utter shite. Everything you’ve said had been debunked
As someone who lived in italy for 6 years i can tell you that Italy is a much much more intolerant place than the United Kingdom , Neither is particularly great but Italy was far worse for non natives.
I couldn't care less about the monarchy because they probably bring in as much in tourism as they spend.
@@kieranhendyforeign workers and immigrants have always brought a net plus to Britain of around 2 billion pounds a year. Never have immigrants taken more than given in Britain… ever.
Lol FFS, "my ex wife is Turkish and her whole family coming over is a bad idea", my man, that's an exceptional answer.
Dude's a bigoted fool, but at least he's honest about it. That's not much, but it's something, and more than we got from basically any other interviewee in this piece.
Genuinely legendary answer, more power to him!
@@michaelccozens I don't think it had anything to do with them being turks, more he just can't stand her family lol
@@jamesmccaul2945 the only thing personal about his argument is the limited sample size. He anecdotally explains how he thinks all Turkish people are crazy based on experience with his ex-wife and her family
@@michaelccozens Later in the video the same bloke praises the Eastern Europeans for many Boston a vibrate town, I think his first answer was a bit of a joke.
If you strip away the reality of the lies, the dude who voted to leave because he was scared of his ex-wife is hilarious! He could have easily been a character from a David Michell skit! :D
And his wife was Turkish, and Turkey is not in the EU. So it didn’t matter at all. A bit of a misted brain.
People shouldn't be allowed to vote. Do we elect improperly qualified neurosurgeons into thei jobs, or airline pilots based on their talking ability? Would we allow people with no qualifications to decide if we should have a medical operation? No! Yet we allow idiots to vote for BREXSHIT
@@jannetteberends8730 the #CambridgeAnalytica targeted adverts were saying millions were standing by the ferries...
@@jannetteberends8730 and they give these kind of people the power to vote for the country's future. I am in ex Brits colony and seriously in our country UK is a huge joke
Thats brilliant, but we can all sympathise. The idea our inlaws could arrive enmasse and want to live in the spare room :)
"We're a small country, a has-been empire..."
Love the honesty but I think EU has had enough of UK's chronic grumbling, grandstanding, gaslighting and just sheer lack of integrity (i.e, Johnson and Co) since it joined the union in the early 70s.
The man voting to leave so his in laws wouldnt come is the most British thing ever
I’m originally from Boston, moved away to go to university to do a degree and PhD, I voted remain. The guy that said Bostonians voted Brexit because it’s a low intelligence area, to then go on to say he voted brexit to keep his ex-wife’s family out is a complete an utter fool.
He's just proving his point, mate.
actually, he's giving you reasoning as to his answer
For a "PhD, your English is appalling. Especially if you're going to slam people from a "low intelligence area".
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do you have any doubt that majority of the population of any area (excluding Oxford, Cambridge) are stupid? I don't.
What the hell has Turkey to do with the EU? Oh yes Farages lies..
That regret wave will get bigger every day. Because every day we are outside of the EU, we will lose a little bit more of our competitiveness.
That's why Russia was so happy to see the UK leave the EU. He wants to see it happen everywhere.
Anti Russian hysteria.
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Putler is propping up nationalism everywhere in the hopes that the EU will fall apart. He understands what needs to be done to weaken Europe.
@@evolassunglasses4673 Its well deserved. Litvinenko or Salisbury ring any bells?
Russia's goal from the beginning was to divide Western societies, and Russia was (unfortunately) quite successful in doing so.
The man talking about refugee seekers from OUTSIDE Europe has completely missed the point.
Before UC was introduced, you had to have lived in the UK for 5 years as a EU national before being able to claim certain benefits. It boils my blood that so many British citizens think you can just walk in and get benefits. You just can't.
Actually this is what the locals think in every country.
@@vinujk2405 and they think their country has the most generous benefits.
That’s absolute nonsense . There was a place in my town where polish people would go to get advice on what to claim . Her job was literally to get people to come over and claim and pay her for it
@@billymabum3514 look up no recourse to public funds Bill
@@kaitlyn__L are you calling me a liar ? I also knew a polish woman working in a McDonalds living here for less than a year claiming single parent for a flat and getting over 1k a month for a child that still lived in Poland with her father .
"So I voted to destroy the economic future of my country bc I was afraid of my in-laws."
Wow. I have no words.
And that is exactly why the "ordinary person" shouldn't have been given the power to make such a decision!
And then goes on to praise Eastern European immigrants for reviving Boston, so he's clearly very intelligent and knew rightly that immigration was positive for his city. I know quite a few people who voted leave because they were sure majority will vote "stay" so they looked at it as a protest vote to make the government listen to their concerns. Wonder if the result had been different if joke votes and protest votes had been removed.
Dumbest shit I've read all day. Politicians have statistically done worse. Not to mention, the reason why "ordinary people" caused Brexit is because they were manipulated by Politicians. A well functioning democracy requires an informed public. We need smarter "ordinary people." Unless you want feudalism to return and y'all have no say in how your lives go...@@patrickgallagher8886
Part to blame is the fact a lot of these people read the Daily Mail and the Sun newspaper
Is that a fact or an assumption?
@@rorz999 assumption. Not a smart one, either. Yet they call leave voters thick.
That's a fact
ignorance , prejudice, xenophobia and emotion are to be blamed
As Fletcher from porridge once said. ' while you're down the shops get me the Sun, oh and something to read as well' 🤣🤣🤣
4:37 !! “I didn’t really look at it in depth”. Exactly. You didn’t. I didn’t. Nobody did. Nobody could have done. We’re all normal people, with normal lives, lives that keep us busy, with jobs, family, whatever. Asking the public to make a decision that directly and deeply affects every aspect of an entire country is totally irresponsible.
So glad I’m Irish and I’m not limited to this windy miserable island. I can live and work anywhere. It’s a shame it’s robbed everyone else of their eu citizenship and rights especially the young people.
I think you should go and live somewhere else.
Oh dear you're a bit miserable yourself
They still can live and work abroad its just a bit harder.
....and yet you choose to live and work here 🤷♂
Europe us no longer an easy place to settle, you will always have the visa issue hanging over you. Rules can change and if you manage to settle in an eu country and that country changes its mind over the rules that allow you to be there then your stay visa will be removed and back to Britain you must come. Its BS, brexit has tricked so many and my generation and the next will suffer for it.
Interesting how that one lady says "Everyone has the right to look for a better life" but then restricts it later to "If we need you"
She was the biggest hypocrite. Wants to have her cake and eat it.
It is her country. She is right to say that
@@xxxq226 She's right to contradict herself?
Don’t see the problem with that. Countries should have some say as to who they allow in. And what do you think happens if there are no jobs available and an influx of immigrants come? They will inevitably become part of the welfare system since there’s no work.
The way she phrased it doesn't do justice to the point made. I think everyone will agree that having leech immigrants gaming the system on benefits that do not contribute to society is an undesirable thing. Thing is, this issues could have been fixed without the Brexit.
“Don’t come here for paid (payment) benefits and holidays.” So, basically she’d invite them in as long as they provide cheap labor with no benefits. It makes so much, sense now.
I'm willing to bet she's okay with Brits moving to Spain for their retirement, taking up properties and resources the locals need
Slave drivers
obviously, dont just want more and more people here if theyre not going to work or pay taxes like the rest of us, why should we be shamed for wanting people who want to work and turning away people with no intention of it
@@joeroberts7298 Here's the problem with this sentiment and the way the woman in the video phrased, she did not use a general argument about this issue, she specifically said paid benefits and holidays. Which in many countries, you cannot receive unless you are working. She specified the reasoning behind her choosing Brexit and her husband as a farmer was against it. Because, it literally hurt his business for whatever reason.
It assumes that many, most, or nearly all immigrants will not work, if they come to the UK, which is a very dastard lie. Because, if you aren't refugee of war or political instability, it's hard to get into countries as an individual alone. It's a process that is heavily controlled. Everyone who lives in country will pay taxes in some shape or form, just by simply buying goods, earning wages, or habitat in a n home or apartment. Even, in guaranteed income, the government still taxes you, regardless. Most of that money goes right back into the system or private industries, who especially are the one group who can pay little taxes from many business protections. Guess who loves to hire immigrants -- Big businesses, because they work cheap and often don't have labor protection. It's not their fault, if a country allows them to work for a given company, because that's how the system is designed.
@@pluto545 however in this country people coming over on boats who we have no idea who they are get £175 a week allowance and get housed in 4 star hotels..
They're vote to leave and blame the government. What a joke
I talked with one Brit I met who complained that Brexit didn't work because, as she said, "you see more of them now than before!" Meaning people who looks different to her.
A lot of businesses lost workers and had to get new ones, and many of the new ones came from commonwealth countries, so when the Poles left and South Asians and West Indians came in to replace them she got offended because to her that made it look like there's more immigrants now. I tried to explain this and that Brexit is the reason she _sees_ more 'foreigners' now, but she refused to even try to understand it. Brexit just meant less people looking like foreigners to her, and it really bothered her.
" Meaning people who looks different to her. " That is wild one . I migrated to another country close to 60 years ago. By now in 2024 29.7% of the people in the country are foreign born. I think there must at least some people from every country in the world living there. I don't even notice it that people look different to me . Well fair enough some are women and I am a man which is different. I hope this woman doesn't travel the world. She would get a shock because she would come across so many different people.
RUE BRITANNIA
@@davec8730 Britany street?
This woman would not do well in the United States.
I think this is partially what colonialism made and is getting rocket back, but this unfortunate, countries like India or China are highly populated and if even 1% of each arrive to GB, that’s so bad for Brits.
Referendums are cop out. Cameron thought he could solve the Euro split within his party and it royally backfired
There is a right way to do a referendum. The 'Leave' plan should have been the alternative to remaining. Instead, there was no plan at all, and 17 million people voted for 17 million versions of mutually exclusive Brexit paradises that existed only in their heads.
Cameron should be strung up.
@@gavinw3277 Spot on.
He expected people to do the right choice, he should know better.. one shouldn't overestimated his countrymans.
Exactly. This was a greatest political train crash in history.