Brexit was a waste of time! David Starkey 

David Starkey is an attention-seeking right-wing wanker. Can he tell us how Ringo is getting on...?

Hi David love your talks but can i ask to do flip side of what the EU Benefited against our own. A side by side analysis

@CODA834 I admire your emoji usage. A+++

I think what Jefferson meant by "all mean are created equal" was equality before the law. This is a notion that goes back to the Bible, and is what distinguishes Mosaic law from, say, the code of Hamurabi (where you can find formulations superficially similar to some in the Pentateuch, but in Hamurabi the social status of a person determined what benefit of law or otherwise a person was entitled to). Equality before the law does not mean that all men are symmetrically equal such that one may be substituted for another and no one would notice the difference!

David Starkey, here is a hard truth, your entire life has been a waste of oxygen.

No worse than Liebour.... However, unemployment and national debt would be both a lot higher!!! Under Liebour...

Except it was the left that created the hole that the Tories fell into. Blame where its due.

​@@TheJon2442You've been brainwashed. They're two cheeks of the same arse.

Both were lower under Labour, and up till 2010 the UK economy was 4 times the size of China's - after 13 years of the Tories it's 7 times smaller than China's. That's the work of the Tories for you!@@TheJon2442

@@TheJon2442 Liar.

Just think for a few moments about what he said. You are not going to get back your precious imperial empire, because the rest of the world will crush it like stepping on a repugnant slug on the way to the cabbage patch. Have the reality to see yourselves for the insignificant slimeballs you have aspired to become.

That's why he was demonized.

I agree completely

I think the British patriotic colonial mindset is what screwed Britain over. Any idiot who voted for Brexit doesn’t have a basic understanding of how economics and international business works. Britain is the definition of arrogant and complacent. They’re a laughing stock because they let populism and years of poorly implemented policies happen then blame everyone else except themselves.

He is fighting against evil voting for Brexit. He can't be that brilliant. Whitewashing some mythical past diesn't require much intellect. Any nationalist is capable of doing that.

Who is "They?"

@@acw7120" Who are "they" " is the correct form of that sentence.

Liar, Twain never said that he said precisely the opposite: In a 1905 interview in Boston, he told the press: “In this country we have one great privilege which they don’t have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That’s the finest asset we’ve got - the ballot box.” Still you attracted 70 or so fools to like your lie and that’s what it’s all about isn’t it. What are you? An ultra left anarchist or a far right fascist? It’s not easy to tell nowadays.

⁠@@robertdavidson8028the man posts a lie and attributes a quote to Twain which is the opposite of what the man thought and said and you correct someone’s grammar.

how tired and hackneyed of you to quote that; well done.

Ukraine wants to join the EU

​@@specialized500some political figures who have been imposed on Ukraine want Ukraine to join the EU

​@@stevenjackson6360some political figures voted into office by Ukranians you mean. Ukranians who are now sacrificing their lives fighting for their right to keep doing so.

@@hiramhackenbacker9096 if you call being conscripted to fight an unwinnable war under the most corrupt military staff in history, sacrificing their lives then so be it. They are literally using western mercenaries as border battalions a la Stalin.

​@@hiramhackenbacker9096 👍👍👍

Back to 1612 ? In 1612 the Church of England was burning people like David at the stake

Living in the past.

@gra… A better past.

@@tonycoxall7370 What was better in the past ? Outside toilets or polio?

@@SunofYork Plastic pigs roaming the streets.

David is quite bizarre.

Exactly...

They supported it in the belief that it would never happen.

So without it you are a member of the globalist elitist WEF run EU?

Horrible WEF man.

100% spot on.

Every country is exceptional. The question is how and in what way.

What is skirting around. He is been quite direct ? What are you talking about

@@patrickchilds2987 Mixing his basically mysoginistic blather into a tale of daring-do. Hanging the the label of courage on, of all people, Nigel Farage.

​@@jananders1351Farage is not courageous because he tried to apply for German passport which was denied but now he has a French girlfriend so perhaps in future he might apply for French passport

Lives in the past only.

That ‘woke’ is ‘feminine’ and the manifestation of the Magnificat’s raising up of the victim is very provocative and astute. It doesn’t mean he is right, and there is plenty of room for debate. What do you choose to go after? His qualifications. However, if there is an objective way to determine such a thing, he passes and then some.

He's a fool

Not whole, while. Autoincorrect.

You nailed it. That is what has happened.

Your guess is as good as mine. We are being governed by people not clever enough to run a country. This prime minister and his cabinet are weak and feeble in political terms and thick in intellectual terms.

We have been royally done over, they are all traitors to the British public. Shameful!

Our "betters" never thought they would lose, so never readied any plans for extrication. They thought their easy lives on the gravy train of Brussels would never end, so now are simply planning to take us back in. It's far too bothersome to undo all the accumulated rules, ministries and quangoes and re-establish the infrastructure pre-1972.

the brexit was meant to pass, think about it: why else would they set threshold at just 50%, allowed fresh off the boat Indians to vote while refusing same to long settled EU citizens, and then jumped to implement quickest and harshest Brexit possible, when the referendum was meant to be advisory? the myth that establishmnt did not want brexit is just that - a myth.

​@bigbarry8343 And you repeat the remainiacs myth that the Referendum was meant to be advisory. Cameron categorically stated that the result would be honoured, although he fully expected it to be a win for remain. Further, no foreigner who is not a British citizen, and whether here for a short or long term, should have a vote in any election. Oh, and you talk of a harsh Brexit, are you bloody kidding. We are still tied to EU rules and regulations, while a part of our country is actually controlled by the Brussels mob. Brino not Brexit, which is what our cowardly, duplicitous, self-serving politicians gave us as the next best thing if they could not get the whole Referendum result overturned. Starkey is right about our political system being a farce, ruled over by bureaucrats, but we certainly do not need a foreign organisation running our country, while we pay through the nose for the privilege

@@bigbarry8343 I don’t believe that.

Democracy is frivelous, populism is doomed to fail. The sooner people realise that elites OUGHT to rule, the sooner we can find elites worth taking over. Our current system incentivises the replacement of native and ethnic brits, this is why populism is flawed. Cant get the desired answer? Do it anyway while herding in in excess of a million a year in the past 4 years and multiple hundreds of thousands before that. Didnt win the next time? Continue to increase the pool of workers so much so, that we are all being paid nothing while we compete with the third world for skilled work and changing the outcome of elections in the future. The politicians care about 2 things. 1 obtaining power. 2 retaining power. Somewhere along the 10th position is "care about the public".

Dominic Cummings used the NHS in campaign posters to get them "onboard" his vote for the Brexit bus; I saw him accused of it at the enquiry. The man accusing him held up a poster;l if you saw it you can see exactly what is at play. Unless you do not notice things. Enough for it to be brought to light at the Enquiry. Cummings was asked if he could not see how this could be seen as misleading or "coercive". He denied what is plain obvious. The poster made it look like the NHS supported Brexit and the posters were ALL OVER THE PLACE. Do they not all act, grin and walk away, safe in the knowledge that they get off Scot free for misleading the public? Some talent with no consequences for their actions. Even with court trials or enquiries, they do what they hell they like when they like and shady or not, no one cares or upholds anything. Even people that talk about "Anti Brexit" people insult HALF THE COUNTRY OR MORE. Big mistake. Almost like they have bi polar personalities. They do not know or care they have been LIED TOO. they only need the employees of the NHS to WIN anyway - who cares what WE think? They are the UKs biggest employer? So yeah. SHADY DODGY and SLEAZY but are the UK not always bottom of the leader board when it comes to sleaze? The poster held up deliberately set out to mislead; as it was obviously misleading. The NHS is the UKs biggest employer so he used that to get votes. Shady. Why do they not win FAIRLY. What do you think the King will do when he finds out his government are making him look bad? Watch out for that INK PEN. Rumour has it, his secretary is so fast at typing that they call her the Octopus. She works 8 days a week. As well.

It wasn't a waste of time. It was the biggest unnecessary fuck-up of modern history.

Nothing beat an anachronistic imperial bureaucracy. Maybe the imperial nostalgia. And privileges. Privileges beat everything.

And one far less competent.

So because we have a homebread quango class that scuppers the democratic will of the electorate, we should have kept another layer of supranational quangos? 😂

@@jackjones9587 that Murdoch induced will of the electorate? Very democratic. Let`s scrap all regulations. No taxes. No quangos. Then try to get a police officer or firefighter for your emergency. Or maintain the infrastructure. [privatised railways works so well] Or try to get paid holidays or ask for a minimum wage. Sometimes people are their own worst enemy.

(We spearheaded the ECHR.)

@@Voidwurm1701 And now the UK wants to leave it.

I..as a German..miss the Brits.

Totally agree. Just an old man wallowing in nostalgia for a time and place that never really existed. In other words, he's talking pure shite.

He wants progress, he is against stuffy CofE Conservatism and he warns of the stagnation that overly bureaucratic government brings. You clearly weren’t listening. If you want to understand the present, you need historical analysis. The Year Zeroists want to depict the past as universally evil and dark so they can have free reign to push forward their revolution. It is not new as any historically informed understanding of our world would reveal.

@@tonymcfadyen8302He thinks some aspects of the past can be used to fix problems in our present. He doesn’t want to return to the past because as an historian he knows that is impossible and undesirable. Maybe we can learn from the past? You should stop worshipping the youth. There is nothing superior about the 18-24 generation.

@caratacus6204 who is worshipping anyone? What a strange take from my comment. Every generation thinks the younger generation are lazy, feckless and stupid. So it has been and so it always will be. Each generation is no worse/better than the last. It's one thing learning from history and another looking back with dewy-eyed nostalgia at the 'good old days', when politicians were trustworthy and young people respected their elders.......

No it is not it is stupid people pretending to be clever. They will never admit they are wrong. That is why they are out of control and dangerous.

Sharkey?

@@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd Sarccy more like - or snooty, or paranoid or just plain patronising and disrespectful I seem to recall, from past TV debates in which he's taken part.

@@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd "Assoom Away" as Zero Mostel (as Max Bialystock) said to Gene Wilder (Leo Bloom) in Mel Brooks' 1968 comedy " The producers" after GW had said that "Assuming you were a dishonest man, you could make more money out of a flop than a success" - that is - I don't give a monkey's ---what you think, to be perfectly honest with you. Good Morning to you, old bean!

eg the NHS

To whom?

Christianity is highly overrated. But it is essential and important to the stupid who believe it's true, and the powerful who know it's useful. It's only the wise who are not fooled by it. @@tsuchan

Christianity is anti the lifestyle David enjoys with young men. That's probably why he doesn't like it.

No,we have to believe in the old gods like Odin again!I always pray to Odin and it helps a lo!

Michael Palin would have been better. He can get it done quicker and is more likeable. And anyway. he can get around the world in 80 days as he has proved it. Proof is in the Pudding. Can Lord Dave get around in 80 days? Does lovely David Sharkey really want to be PM when actually, it would be not like running Eton, but Borstal or St Trinians. Who would want to take over a ruined out of control school where not one listens or has any respect for law and order?

How?

It's failed because of the government and Parliament, not the thing itself

More a case of it only being half done. As was said here, we split from the EU but retained the EU-legislative structure within our institutions of governance. So we left the dining room but remained in the house, so to speak.

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You are in Europe you muppets! And you had a privileged position in it too! The empire is gone, finished. If you want to trade with Europe, it is Europe that dictates the rules, otherwise trade with Australia and Indonesia, that is going to do so much good to your economy...

@@albertopendola2201and I suspect that your wife dictates rules to you

Their whole schtick is to destroy our nation. There will never be a referendum on immigration and the boats will not stop. We lost control of our nation a long time ago.

@@Buckets1000I'll remember yr comment when the next financial crash comes & the Paddy Republic's economy collapses like the wet paper bag it really is.

@@Buckets1000 Yeah, because calling it BREXSHITLAND makes your point seem so much edgier, so much more coherent, so enlightened and so mature. Bellend

@@Buckets1000 We'll see who laughs last Paddy.

@@Buckets1000 A Kingdom can't allow itself to be nationally steered by a few short-term business interests of firms that depend on European continental sales for their bottom line. We haven't missed them fiscally or economically, yr welcome to them.

yes its clear to see its all bad :)

yes, this guy speaks a lot of complete trash, and makes it sound learned.

But... what have the Romans ever done for us... 🙂

@@willdon.1279 Right on! "Well, they did build our first roads and gave us our first real legal system.... "yeah but what else have the Romans done for us?"

He said ideas not inventions.

So you fucked up the country for all of us because you hadn't the foresight of the bleeding obvious that anybody who gave it the slightest thought worked out for themselves.

I can't believe 20 people agreed with something so absurd.

@@Telcontar1962 I can't believe you couldn't even attempt to explain why you thought it was absurd. Maybe you need more time to think about it.

@lesigh1749 you should read what I have commented elsewhere under this video. Maybe you should reconsider who actually needs more time? Or was that really a plea for a history lesson?

@@Telcontar1962 You presume I have time to trawl the comments to find your opinion? You think a bit highly of yourself there. it was an appeal for nothing, it was a dismissal of your sneery-toned comment. You made a witless remark trying to dismiss someone else's comment as absurd, you failed to provide any explanation for it and now you look...absurd.

How did the EU "undermine our own democracy"?

Are you serious??? The EU with its proportional representation is far more democratic than the UK. . If what you say is correct, why does no other country in the EU want to leave ? Also the Eurosceptic parties in Europe are all very right wing, clearly true democracy is anathema to them.

@@Test_Card_Tom Because no one voted to join the EU.

@@howarddavies8937 Lots of countries want to leave, but the EU has them trapped in debt. The Netherlands will leave this year. Your scam is over. No one wants to be in your Mafia anymore, because you didn't treat the members well and wanted to take all the money for yourselves and destroy Europe in the process.

@@InglebertHumptyDump Not sure what point you're making. I asked how the EU undermined UK democracy - If no British person voted to join the EU then how is that the EU undermining the UKs democracy? The EU didn't force the UK to join. Surely the UK undermined their own democracy by joining without asking the British people?

You really don't understand what he is saying here 🙄 The debacle is not the Brexit but the way these traitors use the Brexit. These bureaucrats did not change their policies for the wellbeing of the people but continued the false European policies.

Recent?... Almost 500 years of a multicultural and multiracial empire and you now talk about "demographic change"... How ironic.

Poor sod. Europe has been a place of constant migration since the Neanderthals set foot here. The UK has had wave after wave of immigration for a couple of millennia, before that there was hardly anybody in these islands because the palaeolithic technology that existed after the Ice Age can't support large populations. This idea that the UK has some native population of sorts is silly, the same goes for Europe. Really old native populations of humans are found only in Africa (they are so old that there is more genetic diversity between neighbouring areas cut off by geographic accidents in Africa than between any Europeans) and in Australia, proof of this is that when Europeans have family with people from other ethnicities the children have more characteristics of the non European parents. The archetypal European is very recent and probably will become rarer not by virtue of any sinister replacement project but by nature of how humans like to move around and the truths in our genes.

@@Tzctplus Love your comment. Very informative.

It's inevitable in a country with a two party system and one party governments for ages. A class society doesn' make it any better either. What goes around comes around. I had to add I believe Labour cannot be as corrupt as the Tories.

No - Incompetence is and always has been the problem in politics.

Dear Clavers1369: EU membership is REPUGNANT to the British Constitution! No foreign magistrate/politician has nor ought to have any legal or political jurisdiction within England!

Welcome to London 😮😊.

​@RemoanersRtossers it was a waste of time. The UK gained nothing of value from it.

This is poetic justice for the people, send this to Westminster!

Don't give up your day job

You have to, when your retired 😃@@hiramhackenbacker9096

There was a bee upon a wall It made a buzz and that' was all

That is supply catering for its demand.

He's not that clever.

It includes the European Union. Good riddance.

For a country dependent on trade that would be very interesting.

We have to ban mosques...that is taking this great nation back to its sovereignty..they may want it but WE do not...other countries have mosques and you are welcome to leave...this REALLY should not be a debate...but as it will be then it's important to decide for yourself what you actually want... intolerant England or tolerant mongrel state....

Britain supported and promoted the establishment and growth of these organisations. I guess you'd like their replacement with the old British Empire. The rest of the world might have a problem with that.

@@hiramhackenbacker9096 No, I favour very small states, where power is contained locally. That it is more accessible to the local population, and there is less room for corruption.

Exactly!

Under our constitution no parliament can bind a future parliament, so such a law could simply be reversed.

Like the USA after Suez, you mean? The usual right-wing fake "freedom" bollocks

Absolute rubbish, referring to the comment by barrygriffiths3592

Wasn't there something to that effect from the 13th Century that the Heath government were concerned about when they signed us up to the EEC? IIRC it came out under the 30-year rule

@@ttenvironmentalltd5098 It's always been treason for a British government to surrender law making power to a foreign power. Churchill authorised a number of auxiliary units, one of which was a sleeper unit tasked to assassinate any government officials who attempted to negotiate a surrender with germany. I believe Tony Benn may have been a member of the unit but it was mostly made up of doctors, barbers and any civilians known to be able to gain access to govt officials.

Yet

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Change doesn't happen overnight certainly. With what is happening in Europe the years ahead may show what a good idea it was to leave, despite the current issues and disappointments.

@@blackbaron0 By simply voting leave, we changed the entire political landscape, and as in times before, once again Britain stands alone as the shining light to guide people away from tyranny and slavery. Italy will follow France who will follow the Netherlands when they Nexit. Funding and supplying Ukraine in its suicidal futility adventure as dictated by NATO has bankrupted the EU. They are now quietly arranging the infrastructure for a rapid switch to a CBDC when the collapse of the euro happens.

And still even more obviously true than they were then. But this time you decided to try it out and crashed the economy, just like you were told it would.

Brilliant People like David Starkey don't get knighted, only actors, sportsmen, singers and comedians etc etc. A knighthood means very little these days when we observe the people who actually have them!

Just lives in the past.

I was clear in my own mind why, when given the opportunity, I voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

@@michelcharron4633Why make this statement if you’re not even going to include a single one of those reasons?

@@equinesound I made the 'statement' to refute MajiSylvamain's unsupported and wild assumption that those who voted to leave the EU "were duped by misrepresentation". I think what is at play is a pretty clear case of 'projection' ie he/she "didn't understand what I was voting for" and subsequently after the event reaches the conclusion that they were led up the garden path. Clearly if that's what happened to them then that's what happened to everybody.

​ny benefits yet?

The liars told you what to do.

A party with no policies.

It was a bureaucratic here-and-now attack on proper values.

It saved Europe from the nazis

Spot on. People believe anything Starkers tells them.

Yes thank you so much David. So many people have always enjoyed your programmes, books and talks.

Brexit not a failure, it's only wrecked our economy. What reality do you live in ?🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

Not reclaiming our heritage is part of why there are problems in Westminster. The morons steering the ship have no point of reference, so we must show them the way.

We're not free of it yet. What has actually occurred is BRINO, to use the well known abbreviation. The latest news about the EU is that Brussels is really pushing the boat out now, to ensure every Country ceded to the EU does as it's told, going forward, and any form of dissent will simply not be tolerated. This latter matter takes the form of removing an individual Countrys' power of veto, if Brussels does something said Country does not agree with. A huge, huge mistake on the part of the various Countries that supposedly voted for this measure. Must have been some massive financial 'sweeteners' getting passed around, when the vote on that was taking place ! Countries' 'Leaders' selling their Country and its citizens down the river without offering a referendum to the people, to see if said measures are actually what they want, rather than simply being what their leaders want. Where Britain is concerned, regardless of who wins the GE next year, this Country will be dragged, kicking and screaming, back into the EU, by either Cameron or Starmer. Undoubtedly since they took it rather badly when we stopped contributing to the central pot of money, once we're back in hock to them, what's the betting that the proportion of money we are then liable to pay said coffers will be much higher than before. In effect, we'll be paying more because of the years we 'missed' in the interim period. This time around, we too, will have no power of veto, like other EU Countries. The EU can then pretty much mandate any measures it sees fit, without having to worry about any potential backlash from any member states. In addition to this, there is to be a vote, if not already taken place, of ceding all matters medical, in an emergency, to the WHO, who can then mandate more poison jabs for the population of any (more than likely, all !), Country, without having to await the outcome of a vote of any individual Countrys' by its Government. Essentially then, all Governments will in fact just become place holders, with basically no power to Govern any more, going forward. If this does indeed take place, we, as taxpayers, will effectively be paying MPs in our Government for doing nothing. But they'll still take our money regardless. Need to get shot of Whitehall, House of Commons, House of Lords and the EU, WHO and UN. These people all bleed us dry, with their multiple layers of bureaucracy in every one of those organisations. It has to stop !

@@jamesbarbour8400Disagree, we're out of the eu.

​@Horizon344 No we aren't. Over 4,000 unnecessary EU laws have NOT been removed from OUR Constitution. JRM listed them & they should have been removed. The blob and Remoaners say " oh no we NEED this one" & keep them in the statute books. No-one challenges the EU blob that are the civil servants nor the Remoaners. 🙈