James O'Brien highlights the 'political imbecility' of Brexit amid new food import checks | LBC
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- James O'Brien discusses recent reports suggesting food imports to the UK are at risk in confusion over post-Brexit checks and emphasises how this proves how 'stupid' the idea of Brexit really is. James highlights how people believed the words of a 'proven liar' in Boris Johnson and a 'proven idiot' in Jacob Rees-Mogg, who assured people that 'food would be cheaper.'
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They were bare-faced liars, without a doubt. Put yourself before your country and hedge the market against your country. A winner every time!
Being against brexit is putting yourself before your country. The media, especially obrien are backwards clowns who want to continue the trend of our kids being educated to be slaves to the system.
Well EU is struggling big time have you missed?
@@gnrseanra9070I care more about what is going on in my country rather than obsess about a community I do not belong to.
@@keithpandaWell it's just as bad with inflation and shortages across the bloc. Yes they had COVID too....
There is no question. Deeply, deeply dishonest. But never held to account.
They lied and they knew they were lying.
So the foods have to be tested or checked, was that not happening before ? Why would we not hold up standards imposed on China to the EU just because we paid them a giant fee not to check their standards. It sounds awfully fishy to me. Higher food price is indeed awful.
@@seamuspadraigsanders431 it wasn’t happening before because we were part of an economic bloc and aligned to the same food standards rules, and we contributed to common funds just like every EU member does. So we didn’t “pay them a giant fee not to check their standards”. This change is bad news because introducing checks will mean delays and we import a lot of fresh food from our neighbours. Not something that applies to China.
@@just_some_guy_on_the_internet Yes I did a little research and what I came up with is DEFRA is a mainly pro EU institution by trade, their 200 million check of standards regarding the already extremely checked EU produce is obviously some weird type of attempt to undermine Brexit and make the Brexiteers look bad, considering the current cabinet is 60 per cent remain and the other shadow side of government is over 99 per cent remain I would look there, as it seems to have no justification in any UK law and or rhyme or reason to interfere in standards already well managed.
That what Conservatives have always done, Lie. Why do people never learn?
@@seamuspadraigsanders431O Brian lies and knows he is lying. So what!
« I understood this stuff ». Me too, (and I’m far from being the sharpest knife in the drawer) and I would imagine so did most remainers. Sorry, but I can never forgive the people who voted for Brexit.
You don't have to,just live with the consequences
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@cws And you certainly don't want them returning to Labour!!
Tim Montgomery on Daily Politics today was still defending brexit and playing down what James is telling us about the coming storm.
Brexit was about leaving the joint parliament and freedom of movement which are destroying Europe, NOT small economic issues.
Read Rees-Mogg's father's book. He knew exactly what he was saying. He knew what would happen. It just doesn't matter to him
I have read the book and it really scared me. His dad argues that the best time to make money is when there is blood flowing in the streets.
@@prrrakrrrathat’s true though. Hold your money and wait for a crisis. Or be like most nice people and just try and get enough not to worry about it.
@@prrrakrrra
How do you think the Rothschilds got so bl**dy rich? You need to know this stuff.
@helen No you didn't. Telling fiberoos again? Naughty girl!😊
Come on Helen we heard this before, keep it real please.
Tories want us to revert to Victorian times where the poor are in abject poverty and the rich lord over us. They will be bringing back workhouses soon. People are already struggling to feed their kids let alone with the added expense of paying for these tariffs. 😢
It cant be long now before the try to start on the bill for debtors prisons again after they finish destroying the Benefits system(hate to call it that they are not benefits but come from the public taxes for the public).
Even a Tory MP from the cabinet complaining he cant afford his Mortgage going up from £800 to £2000 on a salary of £118300 a year, take home pay of £6400 a month, pity those on less than that at around £35k a year or less. Stuff the Tories
@@carlosdeferrer3585 Exactly they're entitlements.
I'm growing my own food this year, going to find some chickens and get self sufficient. Then they can't get us working class to bow to them if we don't need them.
No they have put it off 4 times. They'll do it now that Labour are going to be taking over. People will see prices rise and blame them, not the Tories
I work with a bunch of brexiteers. Committed to it.
They are changing though.
I told them that February the 1st was happening and they swore blindly that it wasn’t.
In the next breath they said it happened because Johnson wasn’t the PM anymore. 😔🤷
The “cult of Johnson and Brexit” still stuns me nearly eight years later.
“If Boris in charge we wouldn’t have high prices at the supermarket” etc.
Stunning!
It great to be right all the time. It really is.
Some of them have had problems travelling around the EU. I told them about the visa and they again said “that wasn’t true”. Their little faces when they realised that half their family wasn’t going to get one as they have probation and convictions that are going to haunt them now.
Bognor Regis in March is going to be lovely for them.
We’ll be eating army rations after the checks at the border all but disintegrate trade.
I tried to tell them James. You tried to tell them. We couldn’t cut through the thick layer on the custard.
It’s maddening being right.
The brexiteers have now realised they were lied to.
Their hero’s have fallen.
Boris created high food prices along with the rest of the world through irresponsible lending due to lockdown policy. But I don't see any of you incessant remainers moaning about that, oh no!
Selective argumentation.
It breaks my heart as to the lost opportunity for future generations due to lies peddled by a small number of self serving politician’s.
Bear in mind that both the labour PArty and the Lib eral Democrats promised a referendum vote on the UK's EU membership.
@@LeonLShawJames o biased globalist tool.
Biggest Gaslighting in British history.
@marcopalazzo9349 And my lord there have been a lot!!!!
There was plenty of warning and information out in the public domain. Unfortunately people in the UK just want to read 5 words and parrot other comments.
Yep they gaslight whilst the average citizen can’t even afford real gas. It’s not just ironic but also disgusting of them.
😂 COVID 😂
@@fioredeutchmarkYou're delusional.
Lots of EU suppliers will stop delivering to the UK. It’s not worth the hassle.
So are you just as worried about oil companies not investing in the North Sea anymore now we have a communist windfall tax of 75% there?
I bet you dont care about that do you?
It's not hassle for the eu. It's hassle for the uk. Right? People like me ireland won't buy from UK though as I used to get all my eu things through the UK suppliers who in turn got it from eu I'll just get from eu cos its less hassle
@@Padraigp The hassle will be on the exporters to the UK who now have to meet a load of regulations and paperwork to sell. to the UK (likewise, UK firms wanting to export to the EU). The cost will go on to. the UK customers.
Do you realise we have an £83 billion trade deficit with the EU. If the EU stops supplying we’ll all be much better off.
@@bottleneck4593 and you will get those goods from the where? Unless you propose empty shelves in supermarkets and factories with no components.
Jacob rees Moggy et al should be in prison...minimum 10yrs
🥱 let me guess, we should lock up Orange Man too?
Yes. Trump is a criminal, lock him up and throw away the key
Send the lot to Rwanda!
@@jeffsimon9594 he will be before long, the millions in fines are already starting
@@Warbaman We have all waited 8 years for those steel bar doors to slam shut on him but oh yeah any minute now it'll be happening. Uh-huh.
It's so depressing to witness all this.
I'm a born French who live here since over twenty years and I really hope someone will find a solution to get our country out of this terrible situation our politicians put us in.
"our country" do you meen France? France seems to be ok
Perhaps you should look to your home country within the EU before complaining about this one.
@@jablot5054 by now I'm probably more British than French 😂
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@@CarlWheatley-wi2cl France is doing much better than we are. They have their problems but none of them are as self-inflicted or ingrained.
I see you pointlessly whatabouting and deflecting in numerous comment sections. Do you have nothing better to do with your time?
@@CarlWheatley-wi2cl
France "appears" to be doing fine. It's doing a "relatively" adequate job hiding the rot. It's about "Keeping Up Apperances."
Basic principle: anything Mogg or Johnson said was false.
Go on, use the LYING word. It is much more accurate, even culpable in the House of Commons. As Boris found out....
Hmm, same as the Trump Rule... and the Boris Rule... and the Putin Rule and the Xi Rule... someone trying to tell us something?
I think you are being generous to the likes of Johnson and Mogg. They cannot be ignorant. They are surrounded by civil servants, spads, advisors, savvy journalists, research assistants, and even intelligence services that provide them with briefings and cutting-edge information in real-time. There is no possibility they acted without being fully aware of their political and personal motivations at the expense of the British people, and truth and justice itself. To think otherwise is to fall into a trap of sheer intellectual complacency. Which is precisely how they operate.
Johnson definitely knew.
I'm sure there is a quote years before the referendum, of him stating leaving the EU would damage the UK.
It's all about who is giving them backhanders
JRM earned a small fortune on shorting the Pound. He also wanted to roll back the rights and protections, to make it easier for people like him to take advantage of the ordinary members of the public. BoJo only wanted power and splendour. He would do anything to get it. Both aren’t titans of intellect but they knew. They would reap their rewards and let the ordinary people pay the price.
NB. The same goes for most members of the hereditary British elite. What I cannot understand is why the British people revere them so much.
They have an ability to convince themselves that they are right and everybody else is wrong, hence the Gove claim that we are fed up listening to experts, rather we would rather listen to a jovial clown and a Dickensian pantomime character rather than somebody who actually knows the subject.
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Tory, the clue is in the name.
Tóraigh, Irish gaelic for "Outlaw", "Robber" which the Conservatives took on as a joke.
And again, there is no joy in being right for us who knew that Brexit was going to be a dumpster fire from the off.
How can there be joy when our country is destroyed?
My anger is aimed at the elite Tory/right wing crooks who sold Brexit to the country, purely to enhance their own personal wealth and/or power... regardless of the damage done to our country.
There's no joy in any of it, apart from the 1% who have made money out of it.
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They were absolutely lying. They knew the consequences but they knew they could and would benefit personally from it so they lied and lied and lied some more. These are not ignorant people, these are not clever people, these are ruthless short sighted conmen who's lazy lack of talent lead them to this concieted set of circumstances. They knew better, but chose not to do better. All of them.
lying about what? the vote was stay in or leave the majority voted leave so we left there was no lying involved forty odd years ago we were forced into the eu were never asked so we righted that wrong .democracy eh you dont like it .
100% agree.
@@knoxyish They Lied about the pros and cons using a propaganda and information campaign to convince people to vote against their own interests like the Tories always do.
@@knoxyish I don't like it when politicians lie to win elections. Which is what these people did. It's irresponsible especially since the effect of Brexit has turned the electorate off Brexit. If they hadn't lied people would have voted with possession of better information. That's how democracy should work.
@@knoxyish they lied about the consequences. If the truth had been told Brexit would never have happened.
Lying is not democracy
Just found your channel. I’m from NY, USA and your show is so refreshing to watch. You are fearless.
Nah, he's just bitter he's a loser.
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It's not representative of normal balanced UK citizens
Your better off watching the Muppet Show.
😂 yeah I can see why this helmet appeals to the helmets in NY.
Lying on behalf of their own pockets and also on behalf of a hostile foreign power.
Ha!!! Oh yes... The Russia Report. Needs investigating, with the costs coming from the perpetrators.
I can remember one of the times the checks were postponed and having to watch Mogg on the news championing the delay as some sort of Brexshit benefit.
To be honest I’m just exhausted now, I’m so tired of the lies and the incompetence, tired of a media prepared to lie to their readers and viewers for their political and financial backers. There needs to be some retribution for all this, they deserve to pay.
After the general election in December 2019 Johnson said to the Red Wall Tory voters: "I promise we won't let you down."
Do our voters remember or do they have 20 minute memories?
20 mins, but only on their most lucid days.
10 minutes if you offer a cash reward
Even if they were ignorant, they were still intellectually dishonest for not finding out before selling those lies.
They weren't wrong. They were lying, and They knew it. I knew it.
Yeah they were lying because they were reamainers pretending to do Brexit.
How is the Eurozone?
@@gnrseanra9070what’s the relevance of that question?
Oh, that’s right - none. It is pure whataboutism, though apparently the diligence with which you’ve been spamming the replies to every other comment suggests you think it is some kind of gotcha. Individual EU member states have their own issues that are nothing to do with their EU membership. And sure, some of the issues afflicting the UK have nothing to do with our having left.
The introduction of NTBs on food imports, however, is not among those. It is a direct consequence of our having left - despite the Government having kicked the can down the road a few times, this was always going to become an issue at some point.
Everyone who had been paying attention knew this.
@@just_some_guy_on_the_internetdeflect the question - nice
But you still sat on your rse and Did F ALL ! Moan but never do anything. Gen Z.
Lying Johnson, what else did you expect?
How is Germany the 'powerhouse' of the EU?
@@gnrseanra9070 Germans are more productive than Brits, work less hours and earn more.
@@garryrobson8058 Really? How is that recession going?
We can talk about energy and Clare Daly MEP keeping it real inside EU, I'm all inclusive.
@@gnrseanra9070 UK hasn't much to crow about! ........The Bank of England has warned there is a 50-50 chance of a recession, beginning around the time a spring general election could be held, amid the impact from higher borrowing costs. It expects zero growth for 2024 as a whole.
The biggest tragedy in all of this is there'll be no accountability. These ppl won't be affected politically or financially
Another Tory disaster kick the Tories out we must stop the Tory Dictatorship
That's why everyone with any sense is voting Reform.
While the dumb people will vote for Labour, propping up the corrupt two party system.
we must! then replace it with a lefty dictatorship.......
Everybody, make sure to vote in the next Federal election.
dictatorship? they followed the outcome of the referendum.
I hate the tories too, but to claim its a dictatorship is moronic. Every other party did everything they could to subvert the vote.
Welcome to the new age i guess. where spoiled tantrum throwing adults cant fathom losing and will be totally self righteous and vitriolic in their attempts to get their own way. You still cant fathom it, and tell yourselves lies about what people voted for.
Whatever makes you feel better.....
In hindsight, arguments were never part of the Brexit discussions . It was all driven by vindictive people full of hate, anger and xenophobia.
Tax dodging mate. They used xenophobia as cover
@@skip181sg I'll think that you'll find that it's called _tax avoidance_ 😆
Hate belonged to the uneducated and the rich used that for their own benefits!!
Greed. Don't forget greed. By.the tax evaders and hedge fund sterling shorters.
@@sueyourself5413 Thanks, but we will stick to dodging.
Some people *want* the comfort of being told that there is a simple solution to all their problems. My elderly parents still believe that Brexit was absolutely necessary and that Liz Truss should have been given a chance; they've seen their bills rise, public services fail and their grandchildren emigrate, and are *still* convinced that the Conservatives are looking after the country.
Brexit isn’t a disaster for the wealthy, Brexit was for the wealthy by the wealthy to be paid for by the less well off,
@raymondwebb4179 Of course it was.
@@boota1979 now try to persuade others, because they ain’t listening,
@@raymondwebb4179 By and large people haven't got a clue!!!
So would you let Putin rule the country if everyone was made richer?
@@raymondwebb4179And yet the big banks, the big corporations, the big employers, the CBI, all campaigned strongly for Remain.
James:
High-ranking MPs and ministers cannot ever be allowed to claim they were ignorant or mistaken. All the necessary information was available from a plethora of expert sources!
but we had a government who didn't want experts.
I can already hear the excuses
made by the ignorant believers:
"it wasn't brexit, it was covid!"
"it was the non-torie politicians who
stood in the way of a better deal!"
and similar delusions to that effect.
yeah, because the UK is the only country in the world going through an economic slump at the moment...
Germanys current inflation rate is 5.9%
The UKs is 4.7%
Both are bad. but this is clearly not brexit related. 🤡
The numbers dont lie, but i know you will conveniently forget this piece of information and stick to your tribalistic political view.
Oh right I get it you’re so ideologically blinded by hate you can’t see obvious and apparent facts.
Do you still wear a mask in public by chance 😂
@@fioredeutchmarkOnly wear masks in public to hide the stench of opinions like yours
How is Germany and Eurozone I hear a technical recession, inflation and shortages, we see Protests, riots, strikes and GP shortages across France.
Germany the 'powerhouse' is tanking due to high energy costs and LNG is 3 to 4 times more expensive, Nuclear power has been turned off and burning brown coal, businesses leaving Inc BASF, Siemens and VW to Asia and U.S. and I've just watched on ARTE (German French/production) on YT: The New Poor in Germany and I didn't realise (TAFEL) was stretched to the limit.
I also forgot about the EU budget shortfall of €66 Billion, before you throw stones.......
@@Jakestreet Brexit was for the wealthy by the wealthy to be paid for by the less well off,
"If we leave a massive trading block, in which we are a major player, we will have more and better trading power"
How did anybody fall for that?
How is the Eurozone at the moment technical recession? Budget shortfall €66? Inflation and shortages? Germany protests, France protests,riots and strikes.
@@gnrseanra9070excellent whataboutism, well done on your coherent logical and persuasive argument for...........(looks at what the original comment said)........... having a trade relationship with a large trading power...............yes
@@AndyNicholsonwe have a trading relationship with that large trading block, but our success or failure is not determined by how that block is doing as it was before.
@@0saintclark0 what? You're all completely bonkers.
@@0saintclark0😂🤣🤣🤣🤡
Bojo studied the classics. The classics taught him: 'Promise them anything'. Thanks Pfeffel, and thanks Oxford uni.
Don’t forget Eton and more importantly Johnson’s odious father, Stanley. The Johnson’s as a family are a deeply nasty, Rachael Johnson is another big time grifter.
Anyone with 2 brain cells knew brexit was going to be a disaster
Yeah when remainers were in charge of it, was obviously going to end in disaster.
I still feel that they should pay for it. Why should the rest of us pay for this !
@@sonofsomerset1695 feel better now do you?
I spoke to an amoeba the other day, even "IT" couldn't understand why so many people voted for Brexit despite the clarity of the lies and incompetent statements that were being told ...... and are in fact continuing to be told.
@@angelabrooke5059why should I pay for any of your socialism?
It's like we were being deliberately lied to. 🙄 Where is my unicorn? Is it waiting for me on the sunny uplands?
You would have had your unicorn already if it wasn't for the Brexit desire to ban live import and export of live animals.
Strange you dont mind being lied to about vaccine safety though isnt it, yet O'Brien has convinced you to worry about GDP and food prices a bit higher.
@@sonofsomerset1695 Yeah, but what about whataboutery? Many many more people have died from austerity than any effects of vaccines. Hope your kids have had the Measles vacc.
@tony New material required tony. Your posts are getting tediously repetitive.😊
@@sonofsomerset1695😂🤣🤣🤣🤡
Those two come across as people who have spent so much of their lives spouting their own versions of the "truth" with next to no push back that they can no longer recognise what they say are lies.
So almost as bad James O'Brien then.
@@sonofsomerset1695 except completely the opposite. But hey, here you are.
@@sonofsomerset1695How about some examples?
It's more than just lies. It's post-truth politics
Main findings of the new Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which was presented today by Transparency International.
The UK was one of the top performers in the CPI for years. Since the Brexit vote and its departure from the European Union, the country has virtually plummeted and has reached a new low with a score of 71/100...
The Teesside Freeport scheme probably accounts for a big chunk of that.
Who cares? Certainly not these politicians who've filled their pockets. The people who suffer the consequences do not matter to them!
Britain was smuggler heaven before brexit..
No say it as it is. They LIED!! They knew this wld have to happen, but LIED!!
In 2007 I took a pic of gas prices when they went above $4 (in the U.S.). A few years later a very right wing friend was blaming Obama for gas prices and I showed him the 07 pic with the date. He said it was my fault for buying gas that expensive, COMPLETELY ignoring the fact that I just showed his conservative lords were feeding him lies and making him look like a dope. He just would not make the connection. I think that's what's happened in Britain; concervatives (and most liberals tbh) have gotten so used being lead around and told all their woes come from "the other". Pay no attention to what your government's are doing. It's the fault of whoever the other is. We're greater than the other and it's that greatness that makes us great!
It was never to do with tarrifs, trading, or economics. It was always about not wanting 'foreigners' about the place. This is why rationality and reason were thrown out the window and the UK is now a basket case.
JRM doesn't want any checks, or food standards. Remember how he said that hormone-grown beef from Australia is fantastically yummy?
"Just stuff the plebs' bellies with something cheap that will make them go 12h a day in our factories, who cares about their health? Commoners should work until they die; none of the pensions nonsense..." That's basically what you're left with when you remove all that posh accent and rhetorical flourishes from what these people say. I just can't understand how such a large portion of your population doesn't see it. This ruling class subordination of yours is a terrible affliction, I'm glad that I live in a country where we have a healthy implicit suspicion about how trustworthy any authority is.
The Australian cattle industry don't use hormones thats USA ( they don't play chricket) so you can tell the difference. 😊😊
Thats where the royals come in. A figurehead for all thats rotten and oppressive in the UK.
What factories? They are almost all gone.
@@Albanach-je1nk I'll refer you to pages of Meat & Livestock Australia and their report from 2009 "Hormonal Growth Promotant (HGP) use in the Australian Beef Industry". Check your facts.
Americans play various games, some of them even weirder than cricket (which is quite an achievement :-)). One of their games is chlorinating chickens---perhaps you mistook that for the hormonal treatment of beef. Might get to your tables soon as well... Anyhow, even that is less to be worried about; what I certainly wouldn't want is to open your healthcare sector to American HC businesses (and yes, that's what they are---not care givers, but money takers).
@@johnwright9372 ... because you don't work for our Eastern European wages 12h a day. Not to worry, Tories will get to the workers' rights agenda soon enough, if you just give them a chance.
Don' remember how often I tried to explain the WTO rule of " preferred country rule" to my British cousins......... . Unfortunately a lot are resistant to any facts/information/education !!
Come on LBC do a video of how Eaton has ruined the country!
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Eaton has made a right mess of things...
@@jablot5054 Sweet 😂
Eaton has probably contributed more to the economy than the entire greater Manchester area. The amount of tax payed by the poor is absolutely tiny both as a fraction and as a real number.
Keep hating on people better than you though, it’s a great look. 😂
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Really cheered me up today James! I thought that I was the only one too, for ages but then like you, I knew that I too was right. The confirmation of this was JRM admitting that this would increase costs! I think that they were lying! They are both too well educated to be ignorant!
The people who voted for brexit have to accept some blame. You can't keep on blaming just the politicians.
In hindsight people like me who had no idea what the EU actually does should not have been given a vote in this matter. What are we to do? If one set of people tell you something that sounds believable like "the German car industry needs us more than we need them" and another set of people tell you its not true then you are left to make a decision as to which side is telling the truth. Of course some of us got that decision wrong and im deeply sorry for that error of judgement.
Education travel and interest in what's outside the UK does help.
Learn to read.
Dont believe anyone. Specially on big decisions.
There is no excuse.
What a mess.
Mogg, Minister for Brexit Benefits.
For all of 2 minutes, Brexit Benefits gained by Smugg = 0
Mogg : Minister for silly accents.
Yeah ree smaug
He's still looking for one.
Except for him,of course. @@TelfordO
Just watch as inflation starts going back up again due to these checks costing millions of pounds to importers.
@ac And the cost of the disastrous lockdown which Labour rightly opposed!!
@@Andrew-ti8hi What you're saying has nothing to do with this video nor the subject of my comment.
I share your frustration, James. I was a Senior Customs Officer during the pre-single market days of the 1970s/80s through to the first few years of single market conditions. It was absolutely obvious what was going to happen, particularly after Theresa May's Lancaster House speech when she confirmed our withdrawal from the Customs Union and Single Market. In fact, I was contacted by the authorities to see if I would be willing to return from retirement to help organise procedures as almost no current staff had experience of operating under WTO conditions. ( I refused , BTW ). We didn't have the premises, operational systems, computer systems or staff even to begin this exercise. Since 2016 very little has been done and things are not yet at their worst.
Because all three parties deliberately sabotaged Brexit and the government or leftist NewLabourite-packed civil service didn't prepare for it - intentionally. It's still the political will to make Brexit as painful as possible and the even higher (than Labour) post Brexit record immigration figures are there to water down Brexiteer votes to irrelevance. The next LibLab coalition will hold another referendum to join the EU (with only the Libs mentioning it in the manifesto of course) - and the 1%+ PA population replacement that's happened over the last 10 years will easily push the "join" vote over the line. Only we'll join as new members - no concessions, forced to join the Euro and in line with the 2030 accords that will place all our natural resources in the hands of the unelected Eurocrats. The political class will get what they wanted all along - total alignment with the EU - this was all a clever game.
I remember it well from the other side of the customs counter. Documents in quintuple, customs agents, sheaves of carbon paper and long delays while officers looked up the duty rates on engineering products from Italy or Indonesia. It could take hours through customs.
Systems and procedures which had taken 50 year to build were abandoned in a few year with no plan to replace them.
@@DestroyTeamAvolition And as of today when more detailed checks are carried out on plant products ( including food ), the delays will only increase as will the costs.
@@HoveMania You are right, of course. And now we are back to that but without all the experience of long serving staff and agents who at least had an idea how to do it.
This has been the slowest train wreck in modern history!!
@richardc6269 The largest transfer of wealth in history from the people of this country has taken place during this time, at it's height during a worldwide 'killer pandemic'.
@@boota1979 agreed. It just seems u folks can't get out from under.
I tried pointing out facts at the time but was accused of promoting 'project fear'..... 😢
They were certain because the British Public have not grown out of doffing their cap to the Etonians who lead this country. It will never change until we do away with the Monachy, the Lords and prison sentences for the liars that got us to this point. 9:37
Let’s move forward 👍🏼 Brexit rules
Thanks a lot Brexiteers.
In the COVID Public Inquiry in testimony it was reported that Ministers heard of the tragedy unfolding in Italy in the early days and derided the Italians and believed somehow British exceptionalism wouldn’t allow this to happen in the UK. How did that work out? It's that same delusion that somehow Brexit would work even though 99.9% of experts said it wouldn't and then Gove said we didn't need experts.
Currently we have a government introducing legislation saying Rwanda is safe country even though the courts says its not, and the UK have given four Rwandan citizens asylum over “well-founded” fears of persecution.
Fourteen years of Tory governments not tethered in reality who are so arrogant and ignorant of the facts have brought this country to its knees.
O'Brien still peddling the myth that the leave vote was about economics.
@atomic He is fully aware of that. But he needs to keep his gammon audience happy.😊😊
A proper government should tell you what you need to hear not what you want to hear.
Proper governments are few and far between.
@@Human_Herbivore Labour certainly wont be one.
@@sonofsomerset1695 after the clownshow we have, a rock would be better.
@@Human_Herbivore So you wont mind voting for real change and getting the Reform party then, seeing as Labour have the same virtue signalling negative polices as the tories on net zero and funding war in Ukraine.
@@Human_Herbivore My gran would do better and she's been dead 35 years.
They were ignorant liars. They should be brought to justice for what they have done to this country
Nothing to do with Covid lockdowns of course, that Labour supported, lets just forget that huh, because bitter little losers like O'Brien cant get over losing.
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They knew what they were doing!
@james Absolutely. The effects of lockdown will be with us for generations and it's the poor who will suffer from this the most!
i do not think they were ignorant as they are all supposed to be public school educated,they are all just liars
I learnt a new concept recently.
You cannot reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.
Brexit was unreasonable,and the decision to leave wasn't a reasoned one.
what tosh.
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Oh, so you wanted this kind of thing to happen? You know that’s worse, right?
You can if you can get them to engage their brain. That's how teaching works.
@@GorgeDawes wanted what to happen?
You can't discuss things with zealots. History proves this. The real question I have is if they actually believed the lies they peddled?
So for y'all that still live in the UK how bad does it have to get for the British to realize their mistake and reverse course? how long will that take?
Well done James. Facts, facts, facts.
Here's another fact, you lost.
Get over it. Obvously bitter little James cant.
@@sonofsomerset1695this isn't a team sport. The country lost
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We lost that battle not the war.
The war is on going and it will end when we rejoin and not before .
So get ready to have it reversed.
@@cheezmasta Gaining freedom is not losing, losing is being convinced by some bitter little man on the radio crying about GDP dropping for a while.
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Some bitter little man has more surrport for it being reversed than you ever had to leave in the first place.
That's why it's not over.
Wrong James, we voted for democracy and we got it !
Five year olds shorter on average than they were 14 years ago. Never seen them look so sallow and unhealthy ever.
That's what you get for giving up fat and meat.
A lot of us in Scotland knew this would be a disaster, we didn't just believe the media hype we checked things out for ourselves. Voted to remain and got pulled out anyway, and people wonder why we want independence....
14:30 Ignorance is unacceptable in someone elected to public office. Lying seems a matter of course in my country, but ignorance runs rampant also.
They are willfully ignorant liars.
So when it becomes obvious that the government doesn't have the manpower and can't afford to hire anywhere near the number of people it would take to perform the food safety checks at the border what "well connected" company will get the very profitable contracts to do the work? The money only flows upwards.
Of course... That well old, well old ruse that they think we won't notice....
How many people are looking for work????
Why all these liars are not in jail is what baffles me. Boris Johnson is still spouting his idiocy in the newspapers and Farage is busy making adverts and giving speeches. We the people are the ones bearing the brunt.
You have to wander, Do they feel Proud?
Theyre rich and dont care of their own countrymen so i guess its a yeah 😔
But when the EU did import checks it was fine according to James - Typical bully obrien hypocrisy.
Chaps, there are plenty of nations outside the EU who are very prosperous. Let's be clear, being outside the EU is not the problem per se, the problem is hurried, rushed, botched, incompetent political actions; these are the same legislators harping on about Rwanda, who can't prevent aerated concrete from being a danger to your kids. Our PM thinks government contracts are for his daddy, and not even his biological dad!
Deliberate sabotage of Brexit by the political establishment. 95% of all posters in this channel are conveniently forgetting that all three parties campaigned to remain.
Moaning melancholy Obrien
"Are these men deeply dishonest or simply ignorant?"
Yes.
Phil Moorhouse of the "A Different Bias" RUclips channel has been talking about this for months. Nice that Newsnight are talking about it now.
Is it really safe to go back to Newsnight??? I stopped watching ages ago.
Is Channel4 news still reliable?
I do not watch any UK TV News anymore... I just couldn't stand to.
Phil Moorhouse is brilliant and such a clear and succinct educator. Proving that Teachers do know what they are talking about.
Also: Try Private Eye. I took up a subscription because someone said, in a discussion about the lousy UK News Media: "If you want to know what's really going on, read Private Eye.
Excellent recommendation. Do try it, please. P.S. It also makes me laugh... a LOT!!!
I remember when the Ministry of Plenty increased the chocolate ration from 75g to 50g a week!
We love you Big Brother!
Rejoin now! I planned to retire in Spain in April.
I can only remain 90 days in any 180 because of the offshore tax evaders coup.
@user And you didn't make it up this time! Credit to you.😊
@@Andrew-ti8hi never make things up
A selfish reason then.
@@montynorth3009 what’s selfish about doing what you want in retirement:
I’ve worked since 14:
Also, I lived in Germany 15 years
Spain 4:
I’m a remainer from top to bottom,
It goes to show how poor the Remain campaign was that they couldn't persuade people that these things were going to happen and couldn't counter the "Project Fear" response.
No because the ignorant wouldn't listen
I remember the ridiculous Sun Front page on the day, of Johnson dressed up as Santa with a sack of gifts. The way that rag sold it to the public- as a wonderful gift - was a disgrace; betrayal of their country people over the festive period.
Its not a question of are they totally uninformed about the things they campaigned on or are they just liars the truth is that they are totally uniformed liars.
I disagree. I think they were well informed. They just didn't care about the outcome as long as they benefited. This isn't ignorance, just ruthless con artistry.
And still there are people, who are poorer than they were, who i know, who voted to leave, that say they dont care about these, and other increased costs. Its quite bizarre
They were not wrong. They lied.
They knew exactly what they were signing up for, but they are wealthy enough that it won't massively impact their lives.
However, they wanted to open the gates to whittle away the laws that provide safety nets that protect workers so they and their mates could make more money. It's that simple. And so, so sad.
But who could have seen this coming? Oh that's right, You, me and 48% of the voting public!
You also must have seen Covid lockdowns and the war in Ukraine coming then? You should have warned us!
Banging on about food standards when Canada wants to bring in hormone fed beef
James do your research
They didn't care whether they were telling the truth or not, and didn't bother to check. They were profoundly dishonest in their ignorance.
The thing about them is not that they didn't know (and maybe they didn't... they seems foolish enough but you can never tell if that's just an act) but that they didn't particularly care either way. They had set up their own affairs so that they would benefit, the studied carefully what they had to say to get their way rather than what would happen, they benefitted, and they probably feel that this justifies everything. In their worldview if someone didn't benefit when they did it's their own fault even though they do know that most people would be worse off from their actions and that only their select group of friends could possibly benefit.
"But, but....we knew what we were voting for remowners...stop whinging!" Is pretty much their only response about anything regarding Brexit these days.
Another thing that feeds into this. There is currently a severe drought in southern Spain, an area that supplies a lot od fresh fruit and veg to the uk. They are in discussions with Portugal over shipping clean water from Portugal to Spain to help alleviate this but Portugal themselves are also suffering from the same drought.
It is very unlikely that they will send food to the UK to rot in uk ports when they can easily supply what they are able to produce, paperwork free, within the rest of the EU. The uk boarder checks will just add to the incentives to no longer supply the UK.
Things are starting to be quite elemental for them and a cost they didn't have before, is not one they can afford now.
The worst part is the ignorant Brexiteers who actually believe that this is the final finishing post for them." We have achieved Brexit". Yes and at what cost ?
I would say Total ignorance at first , then when the reality of the truth started to become apparent , Having committed themselves they then stuck to that Lie .
Under UK law, "ignorance" is not an applicable defence. So, liars!
I found it astonishing that our politicians were so uninformed about how the country works, let alone the EU. Like you I felt I was going mad, but there were some beacons of sanity which didn’t change anything but gave me something to hang on to. Political narcissism in the extreme and gaslighting at its most awful!
I don’t think it’s remotely plausible to suggest that ignorance could be an option.
The gravity of what’s happened to our country means that no one who participated in this travesty should be able attempt to claim ignorance as a way of justifying what they’ve done.
These men and women are/were supposed to be the "brightest and the best" who were capable of Governing the United Kingdom....
How far have they fallen???
Should we have been told?
PS Some of us worked it out all by ourselves, that would be a great Poll to take. I would love to see those results.
Taking into account that 'some of them' LIE a lot....
Let’s not excuse the British public, they were wilfully ignorant, the info was presented but they chose to ignore the experts. No sympathy whatsoever for them.
@abbo So you'll leave the country in disgust and leave us in peace?
Its not like you James to cry about Brexit
Its almost like they failed to plan properly.
Johnson, Rees-Mogg et al. should serve time in prison for what they did to this country.
I suspect that you are being overly generous to Rees-Mogg considering him an idiot. This is the man who advised that British Businesses would be OK, while sending his own funds to Dublin!
Our Untruth is called Alternative Facts.