I’m a Brit and I voted remain so I didn’t vote for any of this rubbish. About as dumb an argument as all Gazans being at fault for Hamas because a slim majority voted for them in 2006 (also based on a pack of lies)
I think my favourite part of Brexit was discovering the sectors of British society who voted Leave because they had no idea how it would affect them. Like the British fishing industry, the majority of them voted Leave and then discovered that the majority of their catch (something like 80%) was sold in Europe and the resulting tariffs from leaving the common market would drastically cut into their profits. Small business owners too, with the same problem. Two thirds of British microbreweries are gone because they couldn't sell to EU nations anymore without taking a loss. You'd think that knowing who your customers are would be the bedrock of your business. But as it turns out, British industry and business really is that clueless.
Only if the real intent had eff all to do wiht the country amd was totally about trying to stop argumwnts within your own political party. Total abuse of power by a spoilt little rich boy playing with commoners lives.
people may not admit they're wrong but they do become shy, which is why Britain has changed between several political parties, and even more Prime Ministers over the last 100 years...
@@danbongard3226 I want to disagree but you're right, most people.vote on emotions about the person, not whether they are qualified or the right person for power.
Spoiler Warning: Boris did not go to prison and completely got away with it, making large amounts of money along the way. Most people despise him now, but he's incredibly wealthy and does not care. And Britain has declined even further, you're welcome.
I'm always reminded of the parallels between Brexit and Trump. As the orange oaf promised: "So much winning! You're gonna be sick of winning!" - and then the literal reverse being true. Hey-ho, you can't convert the truly brainwashed...
The first referendum should always have been one to show INTENT to leave and to formalise a concrete deal with the EU if the majority wanted it. And then have a public vote on that. The 2016 EU Ref was like turning up to get married - without knowing who you were getting married to.
How was that different from joining the EEC or about the EEC becoming the EU when we weren't even asked before we joined? You didn't complain then , did you?
It is one of the first things the EU should change in the Art. 50 procedure. You cannot have the absurd situation of spending months or years preparing and negociating the exit of a member, for it to decide last minute that it isn't good enough. Once art 50 notification has been submitted, you are out.
I don't know why people were saying that if the vote had been taken again it would be the same result when the top Google searches after the vote were, What is the EU?, What is Brexit?, What happens if UK leaves the EU?
For what its worth it would not have been the same answer in a second referendum, because a few years' worth of people would have died and a few years' worth of the younger generation that are more remain leaning would be eligible to vote, so the overall result would have likely been remain.
BS, that is pure speculation on your part. Young people are not remainers because they cannot stand free movement driving down their wages and increasing rents to even more unaffordable levels. I should also point out that the margin of victory for leave would have been far greater had that nutcase not shot Jo Cox MP just as the leave campaign was gathering real momentum.
The younger generation is the one that let us down, that caused Brexit to happen - because as always, a considerable proportion of them didn't bother to vote. Youngsters like to have a loud, sometimes destructive and violent protest about this, that and the other, but when they are presented with the simple process of casting a vote they...don't bother. That's why Brexit happened.
@@danyoutube7491 the amount of mental gymnastics you have to make to blame the brexit result on them instead of, like, all of the many other factors, is quite frankly impressive. it's still moronic but it is impressive
I always found the grow more food comment very funny. Growing more food was never an issue, we could if wanted to. But who is going to pick that food??? Oooops, all the people who did that job are no longer allowed into the country. EDIT: We can't even pick what we currently grow!
@@cronykil74I’d like to suggest that everyone up to the ‘millennials’ would have experienced strawberry or hop picking or have an allotment or garden. So, this one’s squarely on ‘Gen Z’.🤔✌️
@@cronykil74 When looking for work a couple of years prior to Covid, and again during the pandemic (not sure if I'd have been allowed given that I was furloughed - having finally found a job in the summer of 2019 - but anyway I was curious as to the options) I could find no information about how to get such jobs via the internet. Do you have to go to agriculturally oriented job agencies, or approach farmers directly, or hang about in a rural pub hoping the topic comes up?
I think we all know people don't know the basic definition of words and terms they use. Or have the brains to understand some people lie amd some people don't.
@@motopeter2409 how do you know people are too lazy to discern between one person's behaviour and another person of the same group behaviour? They rely on old stereotypes.
As an Australian, I rolled my eyes in disbelief at the stupidity of Britain voting to leave the EU. It was the greatest self harm in the history of the UK. The results speak for themselves. And the EU will laugh at you when you try to rejoin, as you will eventually. You are in the worst possible bargaining position now. Good luck Poms.
ostribenius1478 Not English - British. And you just demonstrated why we wanted to leave. The EU treated us like cash cows - and we said No more. There was no solidarity in the EU.
@@mogznwazwe sent UKIP as MEPs and they did nothing. Look at Farage - he was on the Fisheries committee, didn't do anything and then moaned about how useless the EU was. It was the UK that wasn't showing any solidarity.
No no no. UK wont be allowed to come back. They need to comply with the Copenhagen Criteria and that will never happen. Referendums and all that blah blah is irrelevant because they need to comply with the criteria 100%. EU 🇪🇺 will not let the UK to do any of that cherry 🍒 picking.
@@Brinta3 you can say that but more likely is a way to sanitise Boris to rejoin the fascists. Not sure what laws you're referring to that protects someone from what they've done.
Nothing to do with protecting any specific person, it's because at the time that was recorded there was an open case and broadcasters have a legal duty to avoid prejudicing it. When Ayoade said "we're not allowed to say any of that", that's what he meant.
If you do something that turns out to be bad, it's a good idea to try to undo the damage and reverse the effects. Or you could continue to maximise the harm.
@@readerjo Pretty sure that was the Conservative Government under Margaret Thatcher... She was a great supporter of the EU... So was Winston Churchill, he wanted a United States of Europe.
@@readerjo Conservatives signed EU treaty in 1993. Thatcher was against increased federalisation, you are right. They also joined the ERM. Do you remember that? But Thatcher did support the economic union and that makes sense... Why add friction with your biggest trading partners? As for Churchill, if the United States of Europe is a good thing as he suggested why would you not want to be a part of it? Unless you have an empire? I am looking forward to seeing what happens. The EU debate is over now we are gone. I haven't seen any sun lit uplands and I doubt I will... I just wonder who will be scapegoated next... The Muslim immigrants, The EU, benefit scroungers, public sector workers with their pensions, single mothers. I just hope it's not me or you...
@@readerjoNot true actually. It was always about ever closer union. If it's all about sovereignty, do you support Scottish Independence in the future?
Old sketch, far away (in time) from actual (and worse) situation. Just a bit of perspective (when the show was live) from some of British known comedians.
We’re a down trodden nation, EU Legislation has been reported in the press for as long as I remember, unless you’re a wealthy little prick, that’s how the nation decided.
@@MrGeekGamerThe majority of people, weren’t interested in a useless twat constantly dictating to them, how things were getting better, when they’ve only gotten worse.
If they held another referendum on Brexit, remain would win, at least 25% of the leave voters have died of old age, and the young people who are now old enough to vote would vote remain because they see the economic value of England being part of the EU.
If young people going out to vote was common enough then we wouldn't have voted to leave in the first place. The 18-49 cohort was, on average, remain, 50+ was, on average, voting to leave. I don't believe the second demographic is larger than the former, ergo it is the fault of the perennial shirkers of democratic responsibility, the young.
How nauseatingly self richeous. I voted to remain, but at least have the good grace to stand by the result. If they ran the ref again, I would vote leave. Marxist that's at the EU. They HATE democracy.
h -- who colored the prevailing Brexit media narrative, the EU economy is growing 2.3 percentage points faster than the UK’s on an annual basis, with GDP advancing 24% since 2016, compared with the 6% for the UK. During the 10 years before the Brexit referendum, EU GDP lagged behind the UK annually by 12 basis points, since 2000 by 9 basis points and the two decades preceding Brexit, by 149 basis points, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Plliticians just get small fines that are pocket chain to yhem and a pat on the back, "dont do it again" but yet tomorrow will do the same and get away with it.
It genuinely used to be. Years ago they'd attack all sides equally. Labour, Conservative, Lib Dems, Greens. In a past life HIGNFY would have attacked Brexiteers and Remainers equally. And that would have been fine. Sadly, now all we get is Conservative and Brexit bashing. And everyone else is left alone. It's all so woefully tragic
@@rych7852The Cons are in govt, hon. Do you get they have provided comedians with gold for 14 years. You can’t see that the imbalance you describe is just a reflection of the Tories’ performance. And you are so fragile, you get offended by every joke. Rest up, after 4 July it will be Labour’s turn. For decades!
It's been interesting to watch the UK government blantantly ignore the stated will of the majority of their citizens for years, again, because a vocal and influential oligarchical minority opposes it.
I hate to say it, but I think a huge part of it is just incompetence and people not actually believing what they're peddling and just going along with whatever their party says or whatever will benefit their career (and wallet) to say.
It was a very close vote first time around brexit would loose if there was another vote the will of the people? The country was lied to try asking small businesses
@@MikeLawrence-i6r You can say that, but that's completely beside the point I was making and actually sounds a lot like what I remember the remainers saying before the vote- "Of course the majority will vote our way because the other side is lying". There was a vote held, the people had their chance to decide and they decided. Their decision was not the one the oligarchy wanted so they're very obviously ignoring the result and hoping they can delay implementation long enough to just make it go away. It's been almost 8 years now and the refusal of the governmnet to accept the decision makes a mockery of the idea that there is any sort of actual democracy or popular representation in the UK.
@@EliteBladesGaming I'd usually agree with the adage that you should almost never ascribe to maliciousness things that are more likely to be pure stupidity or incompetence, but this in particular is a deliberate act and not incompetence imo.
It's amusing you describe the Remain Vote as 'oligarchical' when the Leave Vote was very popular with billionaires, millionaires and big business; actual British oligarchs. I can only assume you don't actually know what an oligarchy is.
@dogglebird4430. Ha! If there was another referendum tomorrow it would be a landslide in favor of returning to the EU! None of you Brexit clowns even understand why the European countries formed an economic union in the first place! But you will certainly know why if it falls apart! UK = sick man of Europe…….AGAIN!
We in the UK have also moved on, apart from a the globalisation supporting metropolitan elite and the legacy media who disdain the democratic voice of the peoples of these islands. Out of interest (and without Googling it) can you name the seven institutions that constitute the institutional framework of the EU according to Article 13 of the Treaty on European Union? No? Didn’t think so. And yet you are complacently happy to be a part of, support and defend the institutions which govern your lives (primarily controlled by unelected technocrats) without even knowing what they are. Good luck. In the long term, you will need it.
The only advice I gave a younger colleague was we have no real information on weather brexit was going to be good or bad (whatever that means). I said if you feel the country is going in the right direction stay with the eu.
really that's why the German economy is in recession What is the EU economic forecast for 2024? The EU executive forecast at the end of February 2024 that gross domestic product in the 20 countries sharing the euro currency would increase only 0.8% in 2024 rather than 1.2% it expected last November. What is the growth rate in the UK in 2024? In 2023 the gross domestic product (GDP) of the United Kingdom grew by 0.3 percent and is expected to grow by 0.8 percent in 2024 and 1.9 percent in 2025. The slightly stronger growth anticipated in 2025 is expected to continue until 2028, with growth rates of between 1.7 and two percent expected between 2026 and 2028. So the UK expected to do slightly better than the EU in the next twelve month compared to the EU.
@@AzureecosseThe main problem with your thinking is that in the UK we bolt bits together for companies that are owned by those countries in the EU. 0.8% growth will be swallowed up by the huge costs added thanks to Leaving. Germany are like us in recession but it’s a cheaper country to live in hence why the people there have a far higher amount of spare cash to spend.
@@AzureecosseGermany isn't I recession anymore. UK has just been in recession and all data shows that Brexit has indeed had a negative impact on our economy. Just go and read the CEP data from the LSE. Can you provide your growth data link please
@@Azureecosseand what is the forecast for gdp per capita? Right, because that is what matters more. Like the last years, any "growth" in the UK was due to population growth. Without that, the UK has been in recession since early 2022, unlike others on the continent.
Well no matey, that might be thier salary, but they have a higher GDP (do you know what that is), they are sending rockets and similar into space, themselves. The UK can't afford to. They are buying 25 billion roubles worth of defense hardware. Sure there's a lot of inequality in India and that's bad. They are paid low which is bad, but the only hope is that thier prices are low by comparison 🤔. But thier government, whether legitimately or otherwise have more cash to spend than we do, and that true of Europe too.
25 billion roubles is ~217 thousand pounds. "For the financial year 2023-24, total government spending is expected to be £1,189 billion." [Government spending in the UK] 136,681,000,000,000 roubles. 136.68 trillion roubles. They have spent less than the average cost of a house in the UK on defense hardware, according to you.
@@matthewrice3432Now made in Poland after the government gave the contract away from a British company that has been in business for 180+ years and putting 260 people on the jam roll. You could not make this shite up.
“Taking back control”😂😂😂 For who? Certainly not for brainless fools who voted for it! Farage and co wants us to be just like the US…..so we can be taken back control of and an end to any idea of egalitarianism!
I don't see the issue about being out of the EU, it's a breath of fresh air. Our economy like many others only suffered due to Covid and European insistence that we help Russa by buying all our gas from there. It's that conflict that made things worse for us. So we havnt had chance to see the benefits of coming out of the EU. Consider our road and rail infrastructure , it's appalling, but look at most Eropean countries, with brilliant infrastructure, they bled us dry. And that is only one example - I could tell you of hundreds of more examples. It hasn't stopped us from trading with the EU or going on holiday there but we can trade as and when we like. A true free market economy (although too much money goes upwards I would agree). Universities are stronger coming out of the EU - students can still exchange with other countries, but they chose thier own destiny. Brussels was a mad mix of people who dislike England, made very odd and unreasonably complex rules, so there wasn't really any free trade around the EU. They were mad because they could no longer take our money. That's why they gave Teresa May the constant run around. There's nothing to stop us doing anything with the EU now we are out, and we can free trade with other developing countries, for example India have become wealthy so we are trading with them , as and when we want. All allies still work together with Nato. I could go on and on. It's really daft to think we wanted to stay in the stranglehold of Brussels and the EU. We are becoming more stable due to our own efforts. I love European people and we can still go on holiday there, and they can come here on holiday too so that hasn't changed. You remainers just watch- we will be far stronger and wealthy which now recovery from covid has started we have shown we have ridden the storms and we are OK. The cost of living crisis would have been worse by far if we remained, we wouldn't have much money left to help support people by £900 in a year and so on. It would have been dictated by Brussels and again we would be bled dry by them. They don't care economically about us - that's the leaders not the general European public. You will see the difference really soon. Be brave. God bless you all in the Ukraine, Europe and England have a lovely happy life.
@Madkid73 I ain't no tabloid reader buddy. Actually I don't read any papers I think they tell stories now that can't really be substantiated. That's an assumption certainly of yours that I read papers at all. I'm assistant chief communications engineer at Manchester University and Media City, after having obtained 2 degrees in IT and engineering at Leeds University. I can verify that too. I pick up during my travels through work with "non tabloid readers" what's actually going on. My brother is works in London as chief medical officer for the dwp, I can verify that too. My niece has started work in the Foreign Office, my Dad was a wing commander helping to protect the Freedom of people like your good self. I could write and show you the results of everything I've said, so I can substantiate my comments. Can you do the same, could you show me anything. But seriously - I don't read newspapers even the broadsheet papers are not to be trusted. I get my facts from what I know and see . I do travel a lot through my work here and around Europe. Why you can't see that there are so many potholes in our roads it's a crisis. I'm sure there are some similar roads in Europe but it's unusual to see any. Mostly they are near perfect- like the trains. I see it with my own eyes. Your only lever in your debate is try and say something you know nothing about - you don't know me. I hope you don't read and believe what any papers say!! Cheers anyway matey and enjoy your evening.
Hahahahaha 😂 snowflakes really don't like people laughing at you. Cancel Culture at its best. Snowflakes already got rid of Mock The Week from BBC coz it upset your feelies. Awwwww. 😂
Well, i suppose somebody has to... look at the f***ing mess we're in thanks to not being educated about the foolishness of leaving one of the world's largest trading blocks...
@@ChrisShawUK They're there to tell you what is an acceptable opinion to have. If you are the type of fart-sniffing toff that thinks there's any wisdom to be found on the BBC than you deserve it. Good luck, you're going to be utterly stunned by what the next couple of decades has in store for you and yours.
@IntelligentArtefact I really would. I can see now that we need more control over our own country. There were several reasons I voted remain. (1) Everyone seems well off, I was earning far more than I spend and I didn't want to rock the boat (2) I saw the EU as the Mafia, when you're in, you're in. I knew they would punish us for leaving (3) I liked the fact I could go on holiday abroad whenever I liked, and could stay for months if I wanted (4) I knew that if we couldn't get EU workers, the Tories would make it far easier for Africans and Asians to get in (and they did)
@@Bobisalive So, in 2014 36% voted in the UK/EU election and in 2016 50% of those voters must have voted to leave the EU. So, that gives us 18% in 2016, since when the Tories and Labour have changed policy on EU membership and we have actually left the EU, so probably less than 10% still moaning about the UK not being in the EU. So, that's where a figure greater than 90% comes from🤣😂🤪.
Ironic that they were making fun of growing your own food like in WWII, but because of the Victory Gardens, the British people were better feed and healthier during the war than they were before it.
That's not even slightly true. Because of shortages, sizeable numbers of British citizens were actually malnourished and as rationing continued until 1955, it produced a generation of Brits who were notably smaller and leaner than the rest of the developed world. My father (Born in '47) was six inches shorter than his father ('19) and grandfather (1892) both of whom were over six feet tall while his sisters were likewise smaller than their mother. They were middle-class. During the 60s British fashion models (Like Twiggy) were sought after because of their waifish builds brought on by this malnourishment. Victory Gardens were usually tiny. They produced enough vegetables for maybe two to four weeks worth of meals for a family of four every year. The main value of Victory Gardens was to distract people and let them feel they were contributing to the war effort. They were effective morale boosters.
@@DomWeasel two to four weeks worth of meals for an entire family, multiplied many times, was contributing to the war effort. It meant others that couldn't produce could still eat. Not starving is not a distraction, it's literal life or death.
@@MrGeekGamer Being able to feed your family with garden produce 2-4 weeks out of 52 is less than 10% of your yearly needs. Urban dwellers (of which the majority of Britain's population at the time were) did not have Victory Gardens. Only the middle class in the suburbs could make them and the middle class were not the majority in the war years. Allotments were popular but still represented a fraction of the requirements of a single family, let alone a whole nation. Maybe you watched the Good Life and thought that it actually was possible for a couple to sustain themselves, chickens, two pigs and a goat in a back garden not much bigger than a tennis court; it's not. My family used to grow food in the back garden. It was a big garden out in the countryside but the amount of peas, carrots and potatoes we got out of it did not go far between six people, or last long. And we could never get the carrots to grow large; they were always babies. After eating our own potatoes for less than a month, it was back to the supermarket.
The living fact is, the majority of the UK voted out of a Federal run European state, facilitated by corporate payrolled buearocrats, the indicative nature of business, isn’t one I wish to permeate in society, anymore than it already has.
@@TransdermalCelebrate but you just said you voted out of a corporate payrolled bureaucracy. There only one shitty place in the universe that matches that description .
@@jcvastgoed1490 there’s more than one, we’re fortunate, but it doesn’t make it any less harmful, If you’re defending our statutory, it’s a whole bigger picture.
matthewrice .. no, it only shows how a heavily biased bunch of left wing whingers and whiners, can't get over the fact they can't always have their way, and get over it .. 😢😂
The vote is secret, you could still weasel out of admitting you are a dork and were duped because of your ignorance, by voting stay and telling your friends and family you voted for Brexit.
We could be a duplicitous turd like yourself but many of us actually have the courage of our convictions and don't vote simply to hurt the other 'team'.
