European Referendum | Kenneth Williams | Daytime | 1985

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  • Опубликовано: 4 мар 2016
  • Britain has always had a difficult relationship with being a member of Europe. In 1985 Thames TV's Debate show ' Daytime' including special guest Kenneth Williams, discuss the UK's place in the EEC.
    First Broadcast 29/01/1985

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  • @RetroGod1982
    @RetroGod1982 4 года назад +163

    Everybody is much more civilised in this debate compared to today. No hatred.

    • @mattfm101
      @mattfm101 4 года назад +15

      Look at the demographics, we didn't seem to realise what made our country great was us. I think the lack of internet helped the naive sentiment we held then that everyone is the same as us and we all want the same thing, when upon retrospect that was a very idealistic way to think, rather than pragmatic. I hope to god our immigration is limited very soon, it makes me upset to see what we use to be, multiculturalism is the death of any people and country, it isn't a good thing.

    • @curryandapint
      @curryandapint 4 года назад +8

      I'm not sure there's hatred - only 30 years of progressive pro-EU propaganda. And people are fed up of it (unless they believe the propoganda)

    • @mattfm101
      @mattfm101 4 года назад +8

      @Martin Baldwin-Edwards It seems the debate skills of the 'intellectual' class has devolved to accusing natives of being racist and little Englanders while ignoring that this is their home, their livelihoods and that this is only a little island. We can't keep bringing people in without destroying the very thing that made our country great, us. There is no debate on this as its based on observable reality. You can't have Japan populated by Indians and still expect it to feel or even operate like Japan.

    • @mbrook6807
      @mbrook6807 4 года назад +3

      @Martin Baldwin-Edwards It's also to do with the fact that conflict sells. People find it more interesting to watch a heated argument. People don't want to know anything, just look at the most commonly viewed youtube videos. That being said there should be more of an emphasis on informing the public by the bbc, itv sky etc.

    • @marknoname3126
      @marknoname3126 4 года назад +1

      @Martin Baldwin-Edwards The pathetic, intellectually vacant recourse of the socialist, racist and Nazi, socialists haven't changed. I suppose you'd have to be mentally deficient to think socialism is a viable governing option despite its 100% failure rate.

  • @davidhawk9678
    @davidhawk9678 4 года назад +149

    a far cry from the type of audience found nowadays

    • @firestormlivingsolutions
      @firestormlivingsolutions 4 года назад

      1985 ....wow

    • @michaeljames87
      @michaeljames87 4 года назад +3

      Just said the same to my friend. No discussion, just finger pointing, screaming and shouting

    • @edmundsveikutis1698
      @edmundsveikutis1698 4 года назад +2

      2 to 1 even then.

    • @rachelkingsley668
      @rachelkingsley668 3 года назад +2

      Shows how quickly our culture has been destroyed ... the long march through the institutions

    • @royhypnol3735
      @royhypnol3735 3 года назад

      @@rachelkingsley668 I love Kenneth Williams, It was him and a great deal of encouragement from my dear wife, that inspired me to become a Homosexual.
      I am a regular in the bushes on Hampstead Heath for the last 52 years!

  • @Simple1Jack
    @Simple1Jack 4 года назад +132

    Kenneth Williams: _”Ooooooh_ Macron!”

    • @locouk
      @locouk 4 года назад

      Matron..

    • @rickdeckard723
      @rickdeckard723 4 года назад +3

      @@locouk ...@Tugg Speedman knew what he meant :D :D XD

    • @rickdeckard723
      @rickdeckard723 4 года назад

      ...LoLoLoL XD :D

    • @Stonka1
      @Stonka1 4 года назад

      Macron is the president of France

    • @scotty20040
      @scotty20040 4 года назад +3

      Green Silver have a day off mate.

  • @michaelmorris2300
    @michaelmorris2300 4 года назад +166

    This was in 1985. Now in 2019, it seems as though labour and conservatives have swapped positions completely!

    • @poleaxed6447
      @poleaxed6447 4 года назад +18

      Interestingly I saw an interview on this site where they said one of the reasons they conservatives ousted Thatcher was because she wanted to have a referendum on whether to leave the EU.

    • @katyb6979
      @katyb6979 4 года назад +46

      Maybe those were the days when labour actually were for the working man (and woman), instead of pandering to minorities and treating the working class with utter distain?

    • @xanderathome
      @xanderathome 4 года назад +4

      Didpends who is the ticket conductor on the gravy train

    • @michaelmorris2300
      @michaelmorris2300 4 года назад +1

      @@katyb6979 pandering to minorities... Explain.

    • @johnstatham6490
      @johnstatham6490 4 года назад +10

      @@katyb6979 good on you girl free speech means we can criticize anyone we like.

  • @jjwebster1
    @jjwebster1 4 года назад +57

    It's good to see the art of having the illusion of having a debate while not actually having one isn't something new on television.

    • @redghost6386
      @redghost6386 4 года назад +7

      Very bad acting in those days from the audience if you ask me.

    • @herrfister1477
      @herrfister1477 4 года назад +3

      MEanME
      Izzard isn’t trans anything!

  • @Sawrattan
    @Sawrattan 4 года назад +90

    Back when French and Italian were the most 'foreign' you got :)

    • @michaeljames87
      @michaeljames87 4 года назад +2

      right

    • @dhalsim-1
      @dhalsim-1 4 года назад

      Still are..

    • @kahyui2486
      @kahyui2486 Год назад +1

      Not true at all. This was 1985. There was already mass immigration from India and Jamaica.
      At least educate yourself 💀.
      There was hardly any French and Italians in the UK.
      Indians and Jamaicans was too busy working as nurses and bus drivers to come to futile debates like this

  • @JurassicPlank
    @JurassicPlank 4 года назад +132

    Back in the day when you had to go to BBC elocution lessons to be presenter.

    • @bossdemon
      @bossdemon 4 года назад +29

      Bring it back, I say. There's a reason for RP English and you see it everywhere these days. Grown men and women are now called "Hey guys". Instead of "You're welcome" it's "No worries, guys" like we're some kind of Australian Aboriginals.
      It's just a basic lack of discipline and confidence in British people. We have allowed standards to slip. It's that simple. And it's a consequence of the economy being so open that we have allowed so many external influences to direct our way of life.

    • @dac545j
      @dac545j 4 года назад +2

      To be "a" presenter.

    • @digitalmediafan
      @digitalmediafan 4 года назад +9

      @@bossdemon it's too much American influence of course. Hey Guys is meant to be friendly but really it's just sloppy American slang we copied along with all their other expressions

    • @anthonyeckersley4190
      @anthonyeckersley4190 4 года назад +9

      Britishness diluted because everybody from OTHER countries ALL wanted a piece of it. If you could bottle Britishness, worth more than gold.

    • @digitalmediafan
      @digitalmediafan 4 года назад +1

      @BrackynMor you litteraly can't understsnd what they are saying?

  • @stub1256
    @stub1256 4 года назад +12

    Seems like a well balanced programme and discussion.I miss that! Hysteria and extreme emotion is the basis of all discussion now.

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P 7 лет назад +118

    Ultimately it makes no difference to most people - we'll still get ripped off by those at the top and the rich will still carry on getting richer.

    • @bens1972
      @bens1972 4 года назад +4

      Steve Powell that's internal politics not the EU

    • @jayh9529
      @jayh9529 4 года назад

      This is how they get a rise

    • @stevkyt2374
      @stevkyt2374 4 года назад +2

      Oh the envy. You seem to have a problem.

    • @jayh9529
      @jayh9529 4 года назад

      stevkyt Epstein

    • @LOTPOR0402
      @LOTPOR0402 4 года назад +1

      @@bens1972 Its the same all over the world .The rich gets richer the poorer get poorer .The minions were never meant to have lots of money.There is no need for people to be earning millions while others are on minimum wage

  • @paulspydar
    @paulspydar 5 лет назад +42

    just look at the audience & how different it would look if this was filmed today, Amazing the change,

    • @eddiesid1149
      @eddiesid1149 4 года назад +8

      Demographics is destiny.

    • @RogerMelodicMusic
      @RogerMelodicMusic 3 года назад +3

      Yes the hairstyles, the clothes, the big spectacles, it all looks pretty awful now looking back on it but it seemed perfectly normal at the time

  • @normannormiemates4844
    @normannormiemates4844 4 года назад +102

    Back in the days when the EEC was just about trade.

    • @craig581
      @craig581 4 года назад +18

      That's what people were led to believe. These remainers who said that we were conned into voting leave, should take a look at this time and understand that they were conned into joining a common market that would later become a union.

    • @GARdotETH
      @GARdotETH 4 года назад +5

      ....and harmonisation 😒 They should have known then what was going to happen. A monster in the making.

    • @CoffeeConnected
      @CoffeeConnected 4 года назад +3

      Interesting though that even back then in the media you can detect a kind of attitude where it's felt as if you ought to be loyal to the EEC (Now the EU).
      Where as you say it was just about trade even here it is implied that it's about more than just trade. They're talking about where you place your loyalties. As soon as you're forced to answer that question it's probably the time to get the hell out of such an arrangement.

    • @GARdotETH
      @GARdotETH 4 года назад +1

      @@The86rick we did get it though! It was created for trade, NOT a Political Union. You can spin it anyway you want, but the people of this country were constantly misled, not necessarily by the EU, but by our own politicians who didn't explain to us at the different stages as it turned from a trading block into a Political Union.

    • @enzinobombolini5369
      @enzinobombolini5369 4 года назад +2

      HOW TO DO THIS exactly. When the UK joined accepted the treaty of Rome , which since the preamble states the political objectives of the EU that the other member states accepted and continue to accept.

  • @deputyvanhalen6386
    @deputyvanhalen6386 4 года назад +33

    "In for me...in for me ...they've all got it in for me!"

  • @Matelot123
    @Matelot123 4 года назад +128

    Kenneth Williams - "We're in for good. You'll never get anyone going backwards on that." How wrong he was.

    • @multiplyx100
      @multiplyx100 4 года назад +9

      Ironically that British stupidity that couldn't see the benefits of the EU wasn't diluted by membership of the EU. People are still as 'British' as they always were. All it took to get us out was a nudge over the edge at the wrong time by a couple of media barons who stood to benefit personally. Some things are very resistant to change.

    • @Matelot123
      @Matelot123 4 года назад +40

      @@multiplyx100 It isn't all about money and the benefits of being a member you know. Some people just don't want it. It isn't about racism or being too thick to see the benefits of membership or xenophobia or any of that crap. Most people who voted Brexit probably did so because like me they would just rather not be in that club and would prefer to be run by us for us with no outside involvement. If it's such a benefit to be in and a loss to us to be out why didn't the EU just let us go?

    • @jumbomills1272
      @jumbomills1272 4 года назад +20

      multiplyx100 A lot of British people were not getting any benefits or subsidies. The greedy people at the top take all the cash.

    • @curiositypiqued6573
      @curiositypiqued6573 4 года назад +1

      Sadly

    • @LOTPOR0402
      @LOTPOR0402 4 года назад +1

      Yeh but was he .Under the impression that if we leave with a deal we will still be tied to EU

  • @CoffeeConnected
    @CoffeeConnected 4 года назад +41

    Even back then they were conflating Europe and the EU together as one singular thing. Although back then it was referred to as the EEC not the European Union.
    Just because you're not in favour of the EU (EEC) that doesn't make you anti-European.

    • @mrsmith9031
      @mrsmith9031 4 года назад +2

      In the end even the most intelectual, anti EU folks, are anti European, Rees mogg said Romanians and Brits "are just not the shame", Boris said, they are not like us, in the end we are far more like the average German or Belgian or Frenchm,an, than the Tory elite, in the end it is all about they are not like us, and in the end it was all about hatred and division, a dreadful step backwards a shameful act by the BRITISH PEOPLE, happily not the Scots,

    • @Urko2005
      @Urko2005 4 года назад +9

      MOST of us leave voters dotn have an issue with European people, we do with a dictatorship political union though.

    • @matthewnevin9156
      @matthewnevin9156 4 года назад +5

      @@mrsmith9031 Bullshit, if you like them so much, then you should leave. We are clearly not like the Europeans. How is it shameful to want to run our own country? The EU has changed a lot since then. The only argument iv'e actually seen from you vile remainers, are baseless ad hominem attacks. Not at any point did you make the case for why we would be better as a united states of Europe, you just tried to pretend it was an inconsequential trading club. Well the British people seen through your lies and there's no shame in that.

    • @derekc6445
      @derekc6445 4 года назад +3

      @@mrsmith9031 Different people's of Europe doesn't mean the hatred of each other. I think people admire each other's cultures enough to visit for holidays. Migrants who expect a countries people to change to accommodate them should be made unwelcome.

    • @derekc6445
      @derekc6445 4 года назад +2

      @M A Being Anti-EU doesn't necessarily mean that you are Anti-european. I like our European neighbours yet I do not like the EU. I have Polish and Spanish work mates who also don't like what the EU has done to their countries.

  • @JoeStudd96
    @JoeStudd96 Год назад +5

    What a brilliant programme, we could've done with this in 2016. I don't say that meaning that I hoped we voted to stay (though personally I voted to remain), but this programming is much more balanced and informative than any shite we've had in recent years. The public nowadays are perpetually afflicted with hyperbolic statements that tell them what to think, rather than give them the full facts and let them make up their own mind.

    • @benwakefield93
      @benwakefield93 6 месяцев назад

      To be fair, from what I remember, the press prior to the referendum was pretty balanced. It was only after the result that it went AWOL.

  • @warricktyler6759
    @warricktyler6759 6 лет назад +24

    A common Market . How much it has changed since this .

  • @JoeRivermanSongwriter
    @JoeRivermanSongwriter 4 года назад +9

    Thank God we're no longer divided on Europe.

  • @christopherwhitehead8946
    @christopherwhitehead8946 4 года назад +22

    This was recorded before the Maastricht treaty changed the EEC into the EU. Big difference. The EEC was an organisation to help all the member countries trade together.
    The EU is a very different political project altogether.

    • @colincampbell3679
      @colincampbell3679 4 года назад +4

      Yes the EU.. is closer to how the Nazi's wish to rule by force over anyone they wished to? Do as we say or else be fined and beaten down. You notice how the Germans are the main controlling one in the EU. sure there's something like that in our history in Europe.

    • @gaycha6589
      @gaycha6589 4 года назад +1

      Good point

    • @madamedellaporte4214
      @madamedellaporte4214 Год назад +2

      @@colincampbell3679 BOLLOCKS

    • @truthlifefishing1730
      @truthlifefishing1730 Год назад

      The EEC was the bait, the EU was the hook.
      Always there, hidden, waiting and deadly.

    • @mickeythompson9537
      @mickeythompson9537 11 месяцев назад

      Nope. Everything was made clear in the 72 referendum.
      Watch did change, however, were the EU anti-money-laundering rules... and that's why our elites dragged us out.
      That, and Putin wanting to split the EU.
      Backfired on him, but well screwed us up.

  • @donaldking6076
    @donaldking6076 6 лет назад +20

    This is what Kenneth Williams wrote in his diary on January 29th 1985: 'Armed with information I went to Thames TV to take part in the EEC debate. Had quite a few facts to counter some of the crap from a Labour Euro MP.'
    Thirty-three years ago, the Labour left were anti-European and the Tories more pro-European.
    Apart from that, the whole European question has and always will be an incredible bore. Whether we are 'in' or 'out' will make a great deal less difference than some people imagine. Here, in 1985, people are discussing the result of a REFERENDUM that was held a DECADE before! Roll on, 2026 - and the 'debate' about Europe will still be running. Like the Middle East question, which started causing wars in Bible days and has not yet been 'solved.'

    • @Iazzaboyce
      @Iazzaboyce Год назад

      I immediately thought '2026' he's an egotist - he chose that year because he was born in 1926. I checked Wikipedia and sure enough, he was born in 1926 (same year as my Dad).
      I've never trusted the word of people who see the world orbiting themselves.

  • @highgreen6452
    @highgreen6452 4 года назад +17

    God I miss 1980s England

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz Год назад +1

      Me too. It was the best time

    • @SelfReflective
      @SelfReflective Год назад

      @@mogznwaz Weren't you young then?

  • @lewisner
    @lewisner 6 лет назад +27

    Williams says "I was active in the referendum should we go in or not". There was no referendum on whether to join the EU. The 1975 referendum was on whether to stay members of the EEC.

    • @johndavies802
      @johndavies802 6 лет назад +2

      lewisner I

    • @andrewmartin6445
      @andrewmartin6445 4 года назад +5

      Correct.

    • @j.dmetalhead7517
      @j.dmetalhead7517 3 года назад +2

      Boy didn't the British public get royaly screwed over that one.

    • @lewisner
      @lewisner 2 года назад +1

      @@j.dmetalhead7517 They allowed themselves to be screwed. Opinion polls at the time suggested there was a majority in favour of leaving the EEC but when Harold Wilson swung the Labour party behind Remain, loyal Labour voters followed.

  • @autobaron2992
    @autobaron2992 6 лет назад +22

    Kenneth an absolute legend. He died 3 years after this debate. RIP

    • @patrick7775
      @patrick7775 4 года назад +5

      He was wrong , and if he was alive today he would admit it .

    • @captainahab2485
      @captainahab2485 Год назад +1

      I always thought he was exaggerating his personality in the Carry On films, he obviously wasn’t! 😂

  • @thomasjones9394
    @thomasjones9394 8 лет назад +48

    What a carry on!

  • @michaelwhite8031
    @michaelwhite8031 Год назад +4

    Hats off to the first lady in the audience.

  • @aaronwalderslade
    @aaronwalderslade 4 года назад +35

    The audience you see here is now invisible. But not at the ballot box.

  • @nativenewlondoner
    @nativenewlondoner 4 года назад +22

    All of these interesting opinions expressed, and not a single one of the people saying like, like, like, like every third word.

    • @naturalbornchiller158
      @naturalbornchiller158 2 года назад +1

      When people were taught how to think. It’s just regurgitation these days.

    • @kahyui2486
      @kahyui2486 Год назад

      @@naturalbornchiller158 people are more intelligent now than then. It's not my opinion, it's a fact.

  • @melvyncox3361
    @melvyncox3361 4 года назад +10

    Good debate,and very elocutely presented by Sarah Kennedy.Thing is,we as a nation have totally lost our identity,and seem to cater to the lowest common denominator.
    Time have certainly changed since this programme was aired...

  • @Phil-yn1er
    @Phil-yn1er 4 года назад +33

    I wonder if the debate would have been different if millions of refugees flooded in the year before?

    • @NLT31
      @NLT31 4 года назад +2

      There have been some poor decisions by western leaders to invade and police some of these countries selectively taking down dictators and leaving a void for militia groups to take control. In turn this has created the situation where people are forced to flee and have partly ended up here some have used it as a way to get in and promote terrorism but the vast majority are people who would rather stay but are desperate for safety. Not everything is black and white that's why responsibility is not all in one place.

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 4 года назад +3

      @@NLT31
      Hear Hear
      Well said.

    • @cakebaker6071
      @cakebaker6071 4 года назад +1

      Maybe Tony Blair should not bomb Iraq and destabilised Middle east, How would you feel if a foreign country invaded and killed 110 ,000 innocent civilians ?

    • @Phil-yn1er
      @Phil-yn1er 4 года назад +5

      @@cakebaker6071 what's your point? Most of the so call refugees are economic migrants that aren't even from iraq... if u are going to debate then at least learn some credible facts instead of regurgitating the same old lefty lines... PS- i was at the anti iraq war protests

    • @Phil-yn1er
      @Phil-yn1er 4 года назад +4

      @@NLT31 Same old tired self lothing leftist lines mate.. Refugees aren't our fault or our problem

  • @NoosaHeads
    @NoosaHeads 4 года назад +10

    Bob Cryer - 1934-1994. Was a strong Eurosceptic.
    He was proven right.

  • @Drobium77
    @Drobium77 4 года назад +44

    Kenneth emphasized that it was a 'trading block' and yes he was right, it 'was' a trading block.
    But now the EU is an empire, and fits that definition perfectly. I'd love for us to be an outward looking trading block, I can't imagine anyone would disagree.
    The EU is doing exactly what the East India company did, first start a trading block, then take more and more control, until the whole country is governed by Britain. And quell any discourse with violence.
    The EU is very much wrong in its approach, and needs to leave it's imperial notions behind, if it's to survive.

    • @ugugmug
      @ugugmug 4 года назад +1

      Drobium77 Ok boomer

    • @Drobium77
      @Drobium77 4 года назад +1

      @@ugugmug OK idiot, i'm not a boomer, i'm an Xennial ..... >

    • @aristeon5908
      @aristeon5908 4 года назад +2

      You're a lying ignorant brainwashed zombie.

    • @aristeon5908
      @aristeon5908 4 года назад +3

      @A A You idiot, there are plenty of reasons to criticize the EU but this right-wing drivel filled with lies isn't. Indeed I'm pro EU, critical of some aspects of the EU, but I can have a decent debate with ppl who actually have reasonable informed arguments against the EU. The EU is not a dogma. But nowadays, it's all conspiracy theories and lies, one could basically use this strategy to attack anything, the EU, the UK, capitalism, socialism, anything, just lie, slander, hate, instead of trying to understand reality and reaching conclusions in a rational way. Indeed, Bojo is the right person to lead this circus of liars that lil' England has become.

    • @curiositypiqued6573
      @curiositypiqued6573 4 года назад

      Drobium77
      So you support violence????
      Whats next??. To make britain america no. 2 and KILL EM ALL?? 🤣 🤣

  • @TheRatlord74
    @TheRatlord74 4 года назад +18

    He said accents won't change, so what happened to cockney?

    • @FACEandLMS
      @FACEandLMS 4 года назад +1

      wot yoo facking toohkin abaa'?

    • @jaypicard6198
      @jaypicard6198 4 года назад +4

      White flight, then replacement, now most Londoners sound black even if they are not.

    • @seaniekay
      @seaniekay 4 года назад +1

      It moved to essex

    • @dhalsim-1
      @dhalsim-1 4 года назад +1

      @@FACEandLMS
      Now it sounds like "Is you axing me questions bruv innit"

    • @ChancellorOfTheSpellchecker
      @ChancellorOfTheSpellchecker 2 года назад

      @@jaypicard6198 But don't forget, the Great Replacement is just a conspiracy theory.

  • @frankdsouza2425
    @frankdsouza2425 2 года назад +2

    Brilliant discussion. I shall have to hunt for the names of the combatants, and read more about them and their opinions. MORE PLEASE.

  • @RoadRunnerLaser
    @RoadRunnerLaser 4 года назад +18

    20:16 - As much as I love Kenneth Williams, he was out and out WRONG when he said that no-one would "come back". I think we've just had a very clear demonstration that the majority do want to "come back".

    • @haydenharris3059
      @haydenharris3059 4 года назад

      RoadRunnerLaser But The result was announced on the morning of 24 June: 51.89% voted in favour of leaving the EU, and 48.11% voted in favour of remaining a member of the EU. After the result was declared, Cameron announced that he would resign by October.
      With respect it was too close to take seriously especially as there was no quantifiable affect.

    • @RoadRunnerLaser
      @RoadRunnerLaser 4 года назад +2

      Hayden Harris - WIth respect, your comment is too absurd to be taken seriously. It was a majority. Such a majority in a general election would not be contested.
      The recent European Parliament elections in which the Brexit Party wiped the floor with the remainers cemented that majority.
      The even more recent general election just slammed that point home because the remainers were given their marching orders.
      How many more elections do you want before you'll take it seriously? Until you get the one which matches your own views?

    • @haydenharris3059
      @haydenharris3059 4 года назад

      @@RoadRunnerLaser would you buy a business without understanding how it works.?

    • @RoadRunnerLaser
      @RoadRunnerLaser 4 года назад

      Hayden Harris - I would hope not. I like to make informed decisions which is why, when the referendum on Brexit was held, I did not vote because I felt at the time that I did not have enough information to make an informed decision. Having seen how the left, the globalists, and the EU have conducted themselves, I know on which side of the fence I sit. Would I buy a business which had sleeping partners which set the rules and would not allow me to make decisions? Almost certainly not. Would you?

    • @haydenharris3059
      @haydenharris3059 4 года назад

      @@RoadRunnerLaser Thanks for your reply.
      Its not with respect how any political actors behave, it's all about the unknown and how that may affect the general public.
      I wish us all luck.
      Merry Christmas
      Hayden

  • @dodec8449
    @dodec8449 4 года назад +28

    "Do you know who your MEP is?"
    "Ma-margaret Thatcher?"
    What are you doing in this studio, boy, go home.

  • @citizen1163
    @citizen1163 8 лет назад +51

    Bob Cryer, the progressive MEP who could see how the Common Market was working, even then, was killed in a car crash in the 90s. Shame.

    • @seanmacdonald4960
      @seanmacdonald4960 7 лет назад

      pamla motown

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder 6 лет назад +18

      Very good man and a rare gem. He was from my hometown of Bradford, West Yorkshire which these days is run by short sighted corrupt cronies, that love accepting money from housing developers to wallpaper Bradford in concrete, and even over natural wildlife habitats used by the local community. Also Islam is infesting the whole place at an increasing rate, and making entire areas no-go for white and black people.

    • @KKTR3
      @KKTR3 5 лет назад +3

      EgoShredder Darkist Howe
      He showed Bradford back in the 90s for the Hell it was for black and white peoples
      He didn't want to he went there to see his muslin Asian brothers and end up at blows with them

    • @KKTR3
      @KKTR3 5 лет назад

      EgoShredder don't for got the steam trains.

    • @pentuplove6542
      @pentuplove6542 4 года назад

      #BobCryerWasSuicided

  • @breadonitsown8950
    @breadonitsown8950 6 лет назад +41

    Where we got it wrong: being European/British/French/German meant we had to consider the idea of being part of the EU. TheEU is NOT Europe!!!!!!!

    • @michaelmorris2300
      @michaelmorris2300 4 года назад +3

      Well it does take effort finding things out by yourself as apposed to being spoon fed.

    • @jfelton4153
      @jfelton4153 4 года назад +4

      Thomas Longrigg - then why are we being force fed to be European. Britain has never been European.

  • @caruthersm
    @caruthersm 6 лет назад +20

    "Are we in for good do you think?" "Oh yes, we'll never go back on that again." How things have changed...

    • @marchowes7872
      @marchowes7872 5 лет назад +3

      Things have changed by 17.4m% lol.

    • @dhalsim-1
      @dhalsim-1 4 года назад +2

      Since then the EU went from bad to worse. Roll on FREXIT

  • @davidviner4932
    @davidviner4932 6 лет назад +41

    Interesting video, the Labour MEP seemed to be the only one talking sense, shame how they are trying to sell us out now

    • @MobinKiadeh
      @MobinKiadeh 4 года назад +6

      Before Blair, Labour was always anti EU. Blair injected this pro EU soft toryism into the party which poisons it to this day.

    • @tracya4087
      @tracya4087 4 года назад

      here here

  • @wakefieldyorkshire
    @wakefieldyorkshire 6 лет назад +26

    We never joined the EU. Just listen to the views of everyone, we joined the common market.

    • @tehf00n
      @tehf00n 5 лет назад +1

      11 months after this comment, people are still confusing it. Im not sure why they tell me I dont know what im talking about and yet they think we joined the EU. its strange how blind people are sometimes.

    • @imdbist
      @imdbist 5 лет назад +2

      Actually it was the EEC (European Economic Community) that we joined.

    • @theplayer2286
      @theplayer2286 5 лет назад

      @@imdbist Yes but the Common Market and the EEC are, in effect, the same thing.

    • @imdbist
      @imdbist 5 лет назад

      @@theplayer2286 just one of the names is wrong.

    • @imdbist
      @imdbist 5 лет назад

      @Paul Gavin but we did vote in a referendum in 1975 to stay in. It's the EU that was forced upon us. Now we've voted to leave it and we're waiting, waiting, waiting for parliament to carry out the peoples democratic decision.

  • @gignetheninj
    @gignetheninj 4 года назад +36

    After watching this. The sooner we are out the better.

  • @ianhowlett4682
    @ianhowlett4682 4 года назад +15

    Kenneth Williams arguing to harmonise matrons across the EEC.

  • @AnthonyMonaghan
    @AnthonyMonaghan 3 года назад +5

    3:19 "I am German but I swing either way" YEE HAW!

  • @ellebhee5045
    @ellebhee5045 4 года назад +4

    Best bit @ 7:39 - Her reaction to a bland suit lol...

  • @sallyb1689
    @sallyb1689 8 лет назад +80

    Frenchman says "you are insular because you want to be yourselves" - there we have it.

    • @Lytton333
      @Lytton333 6 лет назад +2

      The French have made an industry out of philosophical casuistry.

    • @clavichord
      @clavichord 4 года назад +5

      Actually, there's nothing "insular" about invading and subjugating three quarters of the world and crowning a German queen Victoria as Empress of the British Empire. One wonders if many English are not looking in the mirror at their own past when they think they see the E.U. The Scots and Irish have different viewpoints.
      Anyway all the fascistoid English Brexiteer arguments for freeing one'sself from an oppressive union should lead Scotland to full independence shortly

    • @raymondturner1478
      @raymondturner1478 4 года назад +2

      @@clavichord Not every leaver liked the Empire. I think it has caused us more harm than good.

    • @JayJay-nc7pr
      @JayJay-nc7pr 4 года назад +3

      A Koster yeah Scotland is so oppressed aren’t they 😒🙄

    • @pentuplove6542
      @pentuplove6542 4 года назад +1

      @@warrenmarsh5626 the idiots must edit.

  • @ravenhill_firelord_1968
    @ravenhill_firelord_1968 4 года назад +3

    what i would give to go back to 1985.

  • @michaeljames87
    @michaeljames87 4 года назад +6

    This was amazing. I wish presenters still spoke like this one.

  • @pentuplove6542
    @pentuplove6542 4 года назад +49

    Rigged audience. There was no vote to join the community.

    • @SpiritEngine
      @SpiritEngine 4 года назад +3

      There was no vote for Union in 1707 either. England has been trapped under all these constitutional layers, and all but crushed by them.

    • @johnsabini3351
      @johnsabini3351 4 года назад +3

      Same old BBC 2 x Europhiles v 1 x Eurosceptic! Well done the British Pubilc in 2016 & 2019 - "They Don't Like It Up'm Mr Mannering"

  • @mickeythompson9537
    @mickeythompson9537 11 месяцев назад +1

    Witty, funny, elegant, compassionate, intelligent... and, as it turns out, smart as hell.
    RIP Kenneth Williams.

    • @Iazzaboyce
      @Iazzaboyce 10 месяцев назад

      He had the wrong idea about the UK in the EEC - turned out to be a massive waste of time and money...

  • @dariusanderton3760
    @dariusanderton3760 4 года назад +7

    If only it was just about trade, then the EU would be an OK thing. But the Eurocrats truly want "ever closer union", common immigration policy (and we see what a disaster that is), a common military, European courts overruling British courts, a giant bloated bureaucracy and taxation, etc, etc

  • @c7uk
    @c7uk 4 года назад +4

    We had that exact mower - we only cleared it out of my parents garage recently 😁

  • @lucyschoon5585
    @lucyschoon5585 4 года назад +3

    I didn't think I could love Kenny more...

  • @MisterChris1978
    @MisterChris1978 5 лет назад +9

    Mr. Williams died just 3 years later. RIP such a great mind.

    • @dhalsim-1
      @dhalsim-1 4 года назад +2

      @@proclusyellioupolos197
      If he saw what the EU has become now he might have thought differently

  • @madeinengland1212
    @madeinengland1212 4 года назад +4

    Ah Khalid Aziz. Those were the days. The line from good old Khalid to Anjem Choudary was a pretty steep one.

    • @bobbyfischer6786
      @bobbyfischer6786 2 года назад +1

      Aziz was a "token"

    • @brucedanton3669
      @brucedanton3669 Год назад +1

      @@bobbyfischer6786 He used to be on the BBC and then TVS when that was ITV later on. I don't know where he is now though?

  • @bearingthebrunt3650
    @bearingthebrunt3650 4 года назад +33

    Look at that audience back then. Not much *Diversity* then was there

    • @craig581
      @craig581 4 года назад +32

      Diversity wasn't an issue back then. Our politics changed over time. Communities have been demolished and replaced. And what's sad about mass immigration is that the people were never asked if they wanted it.

    • @ChrisKirtley
      @ChrisKirtley 4 года назад +9

      Golden days

    • @ChrisKirtley
      @ChrisKirtley 4 года назад +4

      There was a (South) African😉

    • @josephgibson5493
      @josephgibson5493 4 года назад

      @@craig581 1997/98

    • @liamfoley9614
      @liamfoley9614 4 года назад +11

      Well there was diversity of opinion, that's frowned upon these days

  • @7EEVEE
    @7EEVEE 4 года назад

    That was a brilliantly quick 24 minutes, oh how times change yall

  • @tommclovin4328
    @tommclovin4328 4 месяца назад +1

    Love Kenneth Williams but I wish he could see uk now

  • @xanderathome
    @xanderathome 4 года назад +22

    All the countries of the common market will be reformed and reorganised into the first Galactic Empire!

  • @hauskalainen
    @hauskalainen 4 года назад +3

    The ice cream story is one of the euro myths... well certain Italians may be proud that their ice cream contains only dairy fat but that argument did not hold sway. We still eat ice cream containing non dairy fat. And Sweden and Austria every joined the EU and most Norwegian politicians would join the EU. It is just that Norwegians fear losing their identity.

  • @S7tronic
    @S7tronic 4 года назад +2

    I bet this episode went down well in Wales...

  • @derrickedwards2798
    @derrickedwards2798 4 года назад

    interesting to watch now that we are off!

  • @dariusanderton3760
    @dariusanderton3760 4 года назад +3

    the video seems like such a long time ago, yet I was 19 when this was filmed and I remember when people dressed like this.

  • @fivish
    @fivish 4 года назад +11

    It's taken far too long for brexit to be happening

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz Год назад

      Didn’t get given a chance to Leave before 2016

  • @hatespeach9835
    @hatespeach9835 4 года назад +1

    The British have never wanted, and always opposed immigration (1, 2, 3).
    How is it then that by 2066 the British will represent less than 50% of the population? (4).
    It was forced upon us by a hostile outgroup following the close of WW2, beginning with Empire Windrush (5).
    No, they were neither wanted nor needed, as we had surplus Brits enough to populate Australia with 1.5m to build it up (6).
    Mass immigration began, still against the will of the British in the 90s under Blair who made it Government policy to "rub the Right's nose in diversity" (7).
    In 2000, the UN explicitly named its ethnic cleansing objective of Europe as "Replacement Migration" (8).
    Who are the English? Let Laura Towler explain since you're uncertain (9).
    I will finish with a quote from the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory; "Rising concern about ‘New Commonwealth’ immigration prompted the British Election Study (BES) to begin asking the public about immigration as far back as 1964, although in those early years it did not ask the question to ‘coloured’ respondents. Throughout this period, the majority of people in Britain have agreed that there are too many immigrants in the UK."(3)
    1. bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/british-social-attitudes-29/immigration/introduction.aspx@t
    2. compas.ox.ac.uk/2011/british-attitudes-to-immigration/
    3 migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-of-concern/
    4. standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2016/features-june-2016-david-coleman-demographics-brexit-eu-referendum-immigration/
    5. theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/07/12/jews-the-ss-empire-windrush-and-the-origins-of-multicultural-britain/
    6. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7217889.stm
    7. telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html
    8. un.org/press/en/2000/20000317.dev2234.doc.html
    9. ruclips.net/video/gxryClKouEQ/видео.html

  • @renhoek3851
    @renhoek3851 5 лет назад

    What an interesting debate, Kenneth Williams has gone up in my estimations.

    • @dickcarpenter8947
      @dickcarpenter8947 5 лет назад

      the man died decades ago RIP. When we joined the EU we boarded a Zeppelin and shat on australia and new zealand from 20,000 feet. now we are grovelling to by their mutton again. Globalisation don't you just love it. A bit like New Zealand lamb.(Rowena Blade) LOL

  • @earth2595
    @earth2595 5 лет назад +26

    People should understand that we had a referendum as to whether we remain in the EEC in 1975. The EEC is totally different to the EU.

  • @jonathancooper4914
    @jonathancooper4914 4 года назад +7

    I’ve been trying to tell many a member of my party for some time that we gotta accept we’re leaving the eu. I gave up because they just wouldn’t listen.
    And they still won’t listen. It’s bloody hopeless.

    • @Ajs_1988
      @Ajs_1988 4 года назад +1

      Stop trying to convince idiots, it wont work. Just let them watch it happen

  • @teleaddict23
    @teleaddict23 4 года назад +2

    People look so different back in 85 compared to today

  • @brucedanton3669
    @brucedanton3669 Год назад

    Sarah Kennedy presenting here of course. She used also to be on ITV's Game For A Laugh-made by LWT from 1981 to 1985. And then of course too was on BBC Radio 2's weekday early show until she left some years ago now then too. Thank you though!

  • @botany500kojak
    @botany500kojak 5 лет назад +18

    Seems like there was an agenda back then. One leaver and two remainers.

    • @dodec8449
      @dodec8449 4 года назад +1

      tin foil hat

    • @backwoodsbungalow9674
      @backwoodsbungalow9674 4 года назад

      3 remoaners counting the BBC presenter 😎.

    • @Cartoonman154
      @Cartoonman154 4 года назад

      @Martin Baldwin-Edwards Funny how you call leavers "whining". Today's remainers would be in nappies.

  • @batlin
    @batlin 4 года назад +8

    It seems like the presenters wanted to trap every audience member with leading questions: "do you really believe in Europe first, Britain second?" -- what an unconstructive question.

  • @82pichon
    @82pichon 4 года назад +1

    Amazing to watch a tv discussion programmer from 1985. Not a single black or brown face to be seen and absolutely no one would have noticed

  • @mogznwaz
    @mogznwaz Год назад +2

    Bit of a cheek of the young French bloke to go on about Britain and its empire when France had a major one!!

  • @Jimages_uk
    @Jimages_uk 7 лет назад +14

    EEC is one thing, but the Federal republic of Europe is completely different to what we signed up to. Remember politicians promising us there will be no federal Europe. Lies, lies, lies.

    • @alechsander
      @alechsander 4 года назад +1

      yawn, yawn, yawn. Read the preamble of the treaty of rome, 1956 "ever closer union"

    • @Sawrattan
      @Sawrattan 4 года назад

      Not to mention eastern expansion. Had EU remained West European we wouldn't have had Brexit.

  • @trevorrandom
    @trevorrandom 6 лет назад +5

    What's that clock counting up too... Brexit!?

  • @krisinsaigon
    @krisinsaigon 4 года назад +2

    Europe- trying to make our time in the garden more pleasant by not letting your neighbour have a noisy lawnmower, trying to stop people selling us filler instead of sausage meat and trying to give us nice tasting ice cream

  • @samting2009
    @samting2009 5 лет назад

    how did I get here on the 31st dec 2018? Iwonder what will happen in the next 3 months

  • @andyw386
    @andyw386 5 лет назад +3

    Interesting, so in years gone by, celebrities also thought their opinion on politics was worth a lot because they were famous, just like today. I guess some things never change.

    • @AchtungEnglander
      @AchtungEnglander 4 года назад

      Really - who actually cares what an actor thinks. Most of the time what they have to say is of no relevance. Give me the opinions of a scientist or a entrepreneur any time

  • @pentuplove6542
    @pentuplove6542 4 года назад +8

    Melting pot? Salad bowl.

    • @patrick7775
      @patrick7775 4 года назад

      Funny f--ker , but bang on ,,,, must use that term from now on .

  • @madeinengland1212
    @madeinengland1212 4 года назад +2

    Bob Cryer's had a very ambivalent response to the Bradford grooming scandal when he became MP there. Tried to sort it out quietly with the muslim "community". That failed. And the abuse went on. He founded a nice little political dynasty with his wife and son being MP's too.

  • @davemurphy2020
    @davemurphy2020 5 лет назад +1

    The most militant was the MEP EEC enthusiast, the shape of things to come. I wonder if the talented Mr Williams didn't change his opinions when the EU came into being 7 years after this program was originally aired.

    • @stewartmcrae8007
      @stewartmcrae8007 4 года назад +4

      The talented mr Williams was deceased seven years after this programme originally aired

  • @thomaschad18
    @thomaschad18 4 года назад +7

    Compare this to the Big Questions where everyone shouts over each other

    • @Sawrattan
      @Sawrattan 4 года назад +2

      I came here *just* to write this 😂 the Nicky presenter of Big Question even takes part in the arguments, and keeps cutting everyone off. Wish presenters were more like this.

    • @gaycha6589
      @gaycha6589 4 года назад

      Manners still count, and definitely a 'lost' quality that epitomized beingBritish. Wish they still counted in these ghastly angry times.

  • @MarkBrydondrums85
    @MarkBrydondrums85 6 лет назад +3

    I'd laugh if most of these people who.voted and wanted to be in are the ones now.who voted out.

  • @heathstjohn6775
    @heathstjohn6775 4 года назад

    A great example of why stupendous entertainers should be chosen to speak their views in front of millions just because they're famous ; it exposes their failibilities for the world to see ; hopefully a few might remember to revere them for their abilities without assuming they're endowed with other qualities such as patriotism or the ability correctly to command the future merely by speaking.

  • @antster1983
    @antster1983 8 лет назад

    Ahh, Khalid Aziz, the first face to be seen on Television South, and the launch anchor of "Coast To Coast". I believe he only stayed for two or three years.

  • @tubularbill
    @tubularbill 8 лет назад +19

    Venezuelans?

    • @pps900
      @pps900 4 года назад +4

      They got the wrong bus

    • @dhalsim-1
      @dhalsim-1 4 года назад

      @@pps900
      They got the right bus, but because Venezuela have the world's largest oil reserves the United States of Israel won't let the bus drive

  • @redshift1223
    @redshift1223 5 лет назад +9

    It is against the law of the land to submit to foreign power. Parliament and monarchy is void. That law is immutable.

  • @fritula6200
    @fritula6200 4 года назад +1

    As a people, where does England belong. Remember England is not
    a continent, it's a small island...like Ireland etc. Where does England want to belong to? What good has come out of the EU....it's got filthy richer

  • @daytonahandful
    @daytonahandful 4 года назад

    Love the high tec mower.

  • @bonekolekta
    @bonekolekta 8 лет назад +25

    Why don't people speak clearly like this?

    • @lewisner
      @lewisner 6 лет назад +9

      The rise of the internet, Facebook and textspeak.

    • @mullimulli6259
      @mullimulli6259 5 лет назад +8

      Innit fam

    • @pps900
      @pps900 4 года назад +6

      Because these people are British, not Pakistani British

    • @JonDingle
      @JonDingle 4 года назад +3

      Partly because of ignorance but mainly because of American slang being adoptedby the general media, muscians and social media. I will also cite laziness! It does my head in when I hear made up words like "Specificity" being used by American politicians and the so called "cool" use of making words up.

    • @truthseeker2095
      @truthseeker2095 4 года назад +3

      S P P don't forget there no blacks with 'dem, dat, dose'

  • @dariusanderton3760
    @dariusanderton3760 4 года назад +3

    why are they asking Germans and French something that the British need to decide for themselves.

    • @7EEVEE
      @7EEVEE 4 года назад

      i agree mate but its proper good tv isnt it, interesting to see what everyone was saying then

  • @11Kralle
    @11Kralle 6 лет назад +2

    Joining the common market was a short-sighted attempt to distract from the very effects of loosing the colonies successivly.

    • @24579william
      @24579william 4 года назад

      You are right, as we traded with and sold to our goods to the commonwealth.

  • @teleaddict23
    @teleaddict23 4 года назад +1

    Now we know that the EU is not just about trade, I wonder if these people’s views would differ nowadays. This was before the European project even became the EU and there was less rules imposed on us, no free movement etc. I would have been happy if it had stayed the common market, but I’m not happy with the undemocratic system it has become. I’m glad we are leaving.

  • @Wrz2e
    @Wrz2e 4 года назад +9

    All the men wore ties in those days 👍

  • @MsMesem
    @MsMesem 6 лет назад +16

    Poor Kenneth, he thinks its just about trade. Perhaps it was back then, it ain't now and the harmonisation is conformity.

  • @SpiritEngine
    @SpiritEngine 4 года назад +4

    Who'd hae thoucht that in 40 years the European question would split British opinion so completely, remain vs leave, rich vs poor, right vs left, Scotland vs England.

    • @Incognito1986
      @Incognito1986 4 года назад +1

      Muhammed Ali vs Joe Frasier. Donnie vs Marie.

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 4 года назад

      LOOL

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 4 года назад

      @@Incognito1986
      LOL

    • @apollomemories7399
      @apollomemories7399 4 года назад

      Scotland vs England goes back some 1,000 years at least. Learn some proper history laddie or shut yer geggie.

  • @niamhryan9677
    @niamhryan9677 4 года назад +1

    Love Kenneth Williams here.

  • @andybaker9
    @andybaker9 4 года назад +3

    some true words , makes a change

  • @malcbarrass7090
    @malcbarrass7090 4 года назад +4

    Kenneth Williams the first of the celebrity delusionanists.

  • @lorraineadams2024
    @lorraineadams2024 7 месяцев назад

    Well said Bob Cryer. What insight and foresight into the dreadful 'European Project '.

  • @XalphYT
    @XalphYT 4 года назад

    19:05 I like the guy at this date stamp who explains how the UK got into the EC at the time in 1975.