→ What John Major said in 2019 applies today 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛 - 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 He said it in July 2019, but what former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, said then could be said today. Maybe more so today than then. ▪ Most of Parliament believes Brexit is a disaster that is damaging to Britain - applies today. ▪ MPs feel hamstrung to do anything because of the result of a referendum - applies today. ▪ The British government is allowing Brexit to proceed THAT THEY KNOW will be bad for the working people of this country - applies today. ▪ The primary responsibility of Parliament is to speak for the well-being of the country - applies today. ▪ The country was misled in the referendum - applies today. ▪ We now know the facts of what Brexit means and therefore Parliament should give voters the opportunity to reflect on the decision - applies today. If only the current Prime Minister would say this, and not just a former Prime Minister.
This guy represents what a British member of the elite can also be: very well spoken, interested in facts, very well educated, restrained, calm, with the best intentions for his country, not himself. May I say: leaders like that saved democracy and the free world 80 years ago.
@@normanchristie4524i believe his family were circus performers, and from Brixton, when the poor were ethic white!!! He may be part of the establishment now, and a Conservative, but I have the highest regard for him as a senior politician and a very wise man.
Why? Bunch of ignorants voted to leave🤷♀️ still people don’t learn to research and look for all needed information to take a decision, victims of their own ignorance? 🥺 The ignorants follow the launder’s ones😔🕊🙏🏻
The referendum was a once in a lifetime opportunity and the 1% seized it with both hands! The £million spent on the Leave campaign was very well spent indeed. They are now billions richer.
In my 70 years this has been the biggest disaster of my lifetime. Im afraid I still find it difficult to forgive Cameron for allowing this fiasco! I own up Im left of centre and proud to be so even in todays climate but when the likes of John and Thatcher was against it too I do feel somewhat vindicated in my belief that leaving the EU was wrong!
Brilliant and so well said Mr Major .I once met him at a book launch in Manchester .A very impressive intelligent man of the people .He was anything but dull . His hall mark " he answered each letter himself ..hand written ", .The best PM in many years and he began the Northern Ireland Peace deals (.Blair never gave him credit ) Thanks Jon
His government was ridden with scandals and austerity. He might be "better" than the current iteration of tories but he was still awful as a politician.
@@ecaeas4439doesn't mean he can be right on other fronts. I don't really understand this type of responses from UK posters. It's sentiment, not rationality. If a person is right, he/she is right no matter how awful that person was or is on other topics and what blunders ge/she made in the past. Even Farage can be right on certain things - we just have to wait for such an occasion to ever happen-.
This gave me a newfound respect for John Major. Never having been a Tory, I always regarded him as the more moderate and sensisble kind. He is someone we should have listened to on Brexit, instead of the whinings of Dodgy Dave - the bringer of disaster.
@@ab-ym3bf Or? There is no or. If we have more money we can invest more in future growth. Less money means the competition outpaces us. We have no bargaining power as a small nation, so we'll always get a worse deal than others.
@@cg986 there is plenty of "or". From what I read the tax burden in the UK is at one of the highest points ever. Yet nothing works. Higher taxes don't always result in higher tax revenue. So one has to set priorities. Isn't more important to have a functioning health service and other public utilities, or spend that money on posturing as a global military power that you are still not anyway. Do you need to spend 35b on a non functioning Covid app that others have (sometimes mutually) developed for a few million? Do you need to give tax cuts to specific groups, irniverhaul the whole tax system and close loopholes? Sounds to me there are plenty of "or" to find.
I'm not a tory and never will be. They just seem like rich people looking after themselves but I've always thought John Major said the truth even when he was PM.
Yes - tories have replaced the white Christian Europeans who came to work here with ............ I rest my case; brexit was stupid. MY Freedom of Movement disappeared overnight. I can't forget or forgive that.
Labour are already a refreshing change from the Tories... Labour are moving fast on many fronts which is good. But it's hard to understand why they seem to have a blind spot on EU membership or Single Market. They could have afforded to keep that door ajar rather than permanently slamming it shut.
Keep up the fight Jon, just because the Tories have been defeated does clearly not mean that we will be aiming to rejoin under Starmer’s regime, on top,of which we have to hope that the Labour government doesn’t start to abuse it’s position due to the huge but undeserved majority they now have!
Yes, Brexit is and will remain a disaster. But new business secretary Jonathan Reynolds told Sky News today that trade opportunities could be explored, but constitutional arguments - like Brexit - will not be revisited with the EU. So I'm afraid Brexit won't end for quite a while. Joining the EU will be a process of decades anyway.
In my view, the Conservatives have a better chance of returning to power when they consider policies that will help people, rather than simply handing everything over that many people ask for. It is nice to have a democracy. However, the people that call out and vote, including me, do not have responsibility for bills that are passed through Parliament.
In the referendum, I voted for numerous reasons, not least the effect upon future generations, our environment, international scientific research and our country's best interests. I believe those who voted for Brexit, were failing to take those vitally important factors into their consideration. My racist mother-in-law voted for Brexit but of course she’s an avid reader of the Daily Fascist and she had no clue what she was voting for.
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. (And those people should not be listened to who keep saying 'the voice of the people is the voice of God', since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.) - Alcuin of York (735-804)
Your their to repersent the country no dictate to us. We pay your wages and you work for us no for what you want its what the people voted for .its goverments job to carry out the countries wishes not the other way around.
@@DavidSmith-lg9fy He was just as bad. Mortage at 15%.He wanted to introduce VAT atb17.5% on Gas and Electric.Appalling wages.Cheated on his wife.Destroyed the NHS with chronic underfunding.
So will this Labour government do anything about it..?.....after all they conspired to make it happen... and continued to ignore the issues it has caused......
@ATW2-o1o Have you ever heard the Labour leadership say that Brexit was a disaster & it was wrong? No, they didn't want to upset the Brexiteers & lose another election.
@ATW2-o1o how many times did they abstain ? ie didn't care about brexit...did they even try to convince the electorate of the folly of Brexit.....are they even going to talk about it ?
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→ What John Major said in 2019 applies today
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛 - 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
He said it in July 2019, but what former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, said then could be said today. Maybe more so today than then.
▪ Most of Parliament believes Brexit is a disaster that is damaging to Britain - applies today.
▪ MPs feel hamstrung to do anything because of the result of a referendum - applies today.
▪ The British government is allowing Brexit to proceed THAT THEY KNOW will be bad for the working people of this country - applies today.
▪ The primary responsibility of Parliament is to speak for the well-being of the country - applies today.
▪ The country was misled in the referendum - applies today.
▪ We now know the facts of what Brexit means and therefore Parliament should give voters the opportunity to reflect on the decision - applies today.
If only the current Prime Minister would say this, and not just a former Prime Minister.
This guy represents what a British member of the elite can also be: very well spoken, interested in facts, very well educated, restrained, calm, with the best intentions for his country, not himself. May I say: leaders like that saved democracy and the free world 80 years ago.
The difference is....he did'nt get to Eton, Dulwich or Oxford.
It's a BREXIT opinion.
@@normanchristie4524i believe his family were circus performers, and from Brixton, when the poor were ethic white!!! He may be part of the establishment now, and a Conservative, but I have the highest regard for him as a senior politician and a very wise man.
@@anthonyeaton5153it's not an opinion, he states facts.
@@anthonyeaton5153it's not an opinion it's facts.
I believe the chief brexeters should be jailed for for the damage they have done to are country and its citizens unforgivable
Why? Bunch of ignorants voted to leave🤷♀️ still people don’t learn to research and look for all needed information to take a decision, victims of their own ignorance? 🥺 The ignorants follow the launder’s ones😔🕊🙏🏻
It was pushed through to benefit the 1%, at the expense of the 99% - standard Tory policy, (self-)serving the 1% - (self before) party before country.
Tory=Thief and Traitor and always will.
The referendum was a once in a lifetime opportunity and the 1% seized it with both hands! The £million spent on the Leave campaign was very well spent indeed. They are now billions richer.
In my 70 years this has been the biggest disaster of my lifetime. Im afraid I still find it difficult to forgive Cameron for allowing this fiasco! I own up Im left of centre and proud to be so even in todays climate but when the likes of John and Thatcher was against it too I do feel somewhat vindicated in my belief that leaving the EU was wrong!
Well said that man. We Scots did not vote for it because the FM NS told us what would happen and she was right.
One third of you Scot’s DID vote for Brexit. Own it.
Brilliant and so well said Mr Major .I once met him at a book launch in Manchester .A very impressive intelligent man of the people .He was anything but dull . His hall mark " he answered each letter himself ..hand written ", .The best PM in many years and he began the Northern Ireland Peace deals (.Blair never gave him credit ) Thanks Jon
His government was ridden with scandals and austerity. He might be "better" than the current iteration of tories but he was still awful as a politician.
@@ecaeas4439doesn't mean he can be right on other fronts.
I don't really understand this type of responses from UK posters. It's sentiment, not rationality.
If a person is right, he/she is right no matter how awful that person was or is on other topics and what blunders ge/she made in the past.
Even Farage can be right on certain things - we just have to wait for such an occasion to ever happen-.
This gave me a newfound respect for John Major. Never having been a Tory, I always regarded him as the more moderate and sensisble kind. He is someone we should have listened to on Brexit, instead of the whinings of Dodgy Dave - the bringer of disaster.
We nèed more revenue if we want more tax income. Brexit is shrinking our economic output.
Tax the superrich.
@@ai-d2121who backed brexit
Or, you need to spend what comes in more wisely.
@@ab-ym3bf Or? There is no or. If we have more money we can invest more in future growth. Less money means the competition outpaces us. We have no bargaining power as a small nation, so we'll always get a worse deal than others.
@@cg986 there is plenty of "or".
From what I read the tax burden in the UK is at one of the highest points ever. Yet nothing works.
Higher taxes don't always result in higher tax revenue. So one has to set priorities. Isn't more important to have a functioning health service and other public utilities, or spend that money on posturing as a global military power that you are still not anyway.
Do you need to spend 35b on a non functioning Covid app that others have (sometimes mutually) developed for a few million?
Do you need to give tax cuts to specific groups, irniverhaul the whole tax system and close loopholes?
Sounds to me there are plenty of "or" to find.
Never thought Id agree with a tory! But he was right!
Ken Clarke, Lord Heseltine & others were equally as vocal and knowledgeable.
I'm not a tory and never will be. They just seem like rich people looking after themselves but I've always thought John Major said the truth even when he was PM.
Well said john
BUT THE IMMIGRANTS!!? Just asking for the millions of English women and men who voted for Reform recently.
Yes - tories have replaced the white Christian Europeans who came to work here with ............ I rest my case; brexit was stupid. MY Freedom of Movement disappeared overnight.
I can't forget or forgive that.
Yes, it's a thousand times easier to appeal to prejudice than to persuade someone with logic. As proven by the serial scammer Farage.
Labour are already a refreshing change from the Tories... Labour are moving fast on many fronts which is good. But it's hard to understand why they seem to have a blind spot on EU membership or Single Market. They could have afforded to keep that door ajar rather than permanently slamming it shut.
This goes beyond government. Sinister.
I wondered how brave was Brexit to counter weight 28 European nations?
True - but would have completely impractical.
Pandora box was already long open…
Keep up the fight Jon, just because the Tories have been defeated does clearly not mean that we will be aiming to rejoin under Starmer’s regime, on top,of which we have to hope that the Labour government doesn’t start to abuse it’s position due to the huge but undeserved majority they now have!
Yes, Brexit is and will remain a disaster. But new business secretary Jonathan Reynolds told Sky News today that trade opportunities could be explored, but constitutional arguments - like Brexit - will not be revisited with the EU. So I'm afraid Brexit won't end for quite a while. Joining the EU will be a process of decades anyway.
It will never happen. We are aligning with other future trade partnerships quite soon. The divergence is growing.
Brexit is entrenched by the 2024 election. And Scottish independence is dead.
@@colinsmith1288we are aligning with other poor countries
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb Some are deveolping quite fast. The world is bigger than the eu.
@@colinsmith1288 just a lot poorer and further away
In my view, the Conservatives have a better chance of returning to power when they consider policies that will help people, rather than simply handing everything over that many people ask for. It is nice to have a democracy. However, the people that call out and vote, including me, do not have responsibility for bills that are passed through Parliament.
The Majority of people who voted for Brexit were uneducated knob heads , that's been proven,Little Englanders Essex Chav types. 😂
If the tories considered what was best for the people of this country, they would not be tories. Simple as that.
Thats right
Thank You For The Thruth ❤👍👍
In the referendum, I voted for numerous reasons, not least the effect upon future generations, our environment, international scientific research and our country's best interests.
I believe those who voted for Brexit, were failing to take those vitally important factors into their consideration. My racist mother-in-law voted for Brexit but of course she’s an avid reader of the Daily Fascist and she had no clue what she was voting for.
Facts, facts…
Sadly few people are interested in facts nowadays
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
(And those people should not be listened to who keep saying 'the voice of the people is the voice of God', since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.)
- Alcuin of York (735-804)
Well said John Major....we will return to the EU.
Your their to repersent the country no dictate to us. We pay your wages and you work for us no for what you want its what the people voted for .its goverments job to carry out the countries wishes not the other way around.
Why ask a clueless failure ?
John Major was a disaster. I remember him well. Absolute heartless former Prime Minister. I will take no lectures from him.
So you would sooner take direction from a snake oil salesman?
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb l voted labour.!
@colinsmith1288. Nonsense, Cameron, May, Jphnson, Truss and Sunak were all far worse than Major. Have you been in a coma for the past 27 years.
@@colinsmith1288 I suspect that it will be a one term Parliament though
@@DavidSmith-lg9fy He was just as bad. Mortage at 15%.He wanted to introduce VAT atb17.5% on Gas and Electric.Appalling wages.Cheated on his wife.Destroyed the NHS with chronic underfunding.
So will this Labour government do anything about it..?.....after all they conspired to make it happen... and continued to ignore the issues it has caused......
@ATW2-o1o Have you ever heard the Labour leadership say that Brexit was a disaster & it was wrong? No, they didn't want to upset the Brexiteers & lose another election.
I understand, gowever to "conspire" is a level higher really, not convinced yet they conspired.
That was a Labour Party controlled by Corbyn and his SS officers
Over 3/4 of Labour MPs voted to trigger Article 50 to leave the EU in February 2017. Jeremy Corbyn supported leaving.
@ATW2-o1o how many times did they abstain ? ie didn't care about brexit...did they even try to convince the electorate of the folly of Brexit.....are they even going to talk about it ?