The Big Brexit Debate: What does the UK really think? 

A second people's vote with a big leave victory would be hilarious if nothing else

18:50 His customers are in the EU, his supply chain is in the EU and he believes in free movement. Can anybody else see an easy solution to his problem here?

This is a complete embarrassment of a debate. However, it is a debate produced by Channel 4 s one's expectations were quite low to begin with. Enough said.

And they said on the day of the Referendum that Remain had a 10% lead!

I think Brexit is going to improve things in long term. The situation will get so bad, and with no EU to blame, the British public might start to demand that parliament start to actually pass bills that will change people's lives for the positive.

Why are they comparing referendum results to a poll? Wouldn't it be better to compare their poll to the pols in the lead up to the referendum? I think if they did that the change would be much less noteworthy.

Exactly the same as the BBC. In theory 48% of that audience were remainders. At a guess I would say 78%

It is a perception that British people just don't want Johnny foreigner. It's fine to raid other countries but not them do the same.

34:35 "Birmingham is the most diverse city in the UK" London: Sure. 😂

No Brexiteer in the debate apart from Nigel Farage... Kinda one sided. Jacob should have been one of the panelist.

You should see all the homeless in Caroline's constituency

Worst episode of Top Gear ever.

I just did a poll to i just asked Brexiteers and we got 100% leave vote , WOW look at that it's a miracle

I used to think that movies about the zombie apocalypse were a joke. Then I met Brexiteers.

Why will anyone want to stay in the EU? - Do these people travel into Europe to see what is going on there? The UK do not need a deal. The EU NEEDS the UK. It is the EU that needs to be trying to make a deal with the UK. The UK simply needs to leave and take back control of its own destiny.

I thought the Green Party were about environmental concerns, not keeping us in an undemocratic dictatorship.

"What does the UK really think?" It really thinks we should leave, which is what we voted for!!!

Someone said below. The UK will cease to be. Quite understandably. There is no United about it and Scotland and Ireland have had a gutful.

As if 20k is a big enough poll to predict any change.

A pool of 200 people.. and a ridiculously misleading question on immigration.. 😂 behave

49:25 Keep your eyes on the old man to the right of the man speaking.... Keep looking......

Won't even bother to look at chanel 4. I bet they picked up the audience from the remainers march last week

Yes, you can vote but if we don't get the answer we want we will stall argue and cry until we get our own way. Its breath taking how people are easily manipulated.

The referendum came at a time of public disillusion in politics. The remain campaign, including the EU explained barely any benefits of membership. The leave campaign chose very emotive topics to campaign on. It was a perfect storm to get a leave vote. I genuinely believe years of governments blaming the EU for rules, no matter how sensible, led in part to the vote. But so did French farmers burning British livestock to death to prevent its import, or not trading British beef after it was declared safe following BSE, and failing to clear the Calais Jungle. And Germany holds a balance of trade surplus against EU rules but hasn't opened up all its insurance market to free trade. Nor do most EU ccountries pay their NATO commitment. That makes a mockery of the rhetoric 'you have to be in the club to get the benefits'. If that is the case almost all EU countries should be kicked out of NATO. There are so many contributing factors to Brexit, but resolution of just a few could have changed the vote. All European political leaders should look at their contribution to this vote. If they don't there will be more similar votes.

well goodbye democracy it was good while it lasted!

Remainer argument “17,400,000 million is only 27% of the population and isn’t enough of a mandate” Also remainer argument “look, most of the 20,000 surveyed want remain, let’s cancel Brexit” They’re nothing if not inconsistent

About time a member of the public told the MPs that, during the referendum, they the MPs had no idea of the complexity and expense of leaving and were thus unable to to communicate that fact. Many of them are still ignorant of the facts. The MPs keep marking their own homework, by doing that they can deny their responsibility in a disastrous referendum campaign by both sides.

Watched this and realised that channel 4 really has lost the ability to construct balanced debate . Totally appalled by this repugnant piece of propaganda.

Dear Channel 4 not a SINGLE leave voter will vote remain. I will put £1000 of my own money on a bet that if there were a second referendum the LEAVE vote will be MUCH higher. We've seen nothing but a political class spectacularly fail on leaving the first time and now our wills are like iron. You failed to do it properly the first time and we will absolutely WRECK you if a second referendum comes.

If we have another vote it will make a mockery of our political system and i will never vote again.

That was the most one sided debate ever full of remain bias. Very desperate C4

Farage is right. They did win, and remain has continued to plow money into campaigning since. No deal is the only acceptable deal.

Reasons to be a Remainer? . The following support Leave: 1.Putin 2. Trump 3.Corbyn 4. Farage 5. BNP members Judge a man by his friends, judge a policy by its supporters.

22.09 Sorry Caroline, not going to buy into that one - so we stay in a united states of Europe government (even though the people were never consulted) because there will be some temporary instability and a cost. If we look at this over the centuries this will be a minor blip - the EU is a cumbersome, slow moving incompetent lame money wasting institution. The world is fast changing and the ability to adapt and change than be under this protectionist racket is a great opportunity... Tony Blair, John Major and Gorden Brown arrogantly signed treaties that changed our constitution by signing us up to higher governments and courts - something they had no right to do. That is why we are now in this mess and people are so wound up by it all.

More unadulterated rubbish from c4 what nonsense next. Sorry but i don’t believe in sandaclaus or the easter bunny c4 think they are being controversial. We voted leave time to leave without the BS

The Metrolibs still can't get over that they lost to the working class. The scale of Free Movement SANK Remain with the working class. Both Left and Right will NEVER NEVER vote for an OVER supply of cheap labour.

Give that Lady at 20:00 a medal! Spot on!

The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, also known as the EU referendum and the Brexit referendum, took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to gauge support for the country either remaining a member of or leaving the European Union (EU) under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 and also the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. The referendum resulted in a simple majority of 51.9% being in favour of leaving the EU. It’s called democracy 17,410,742 51.89% Voted out of Sm and Cu and Eu and total return to control of laws etc The United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. Leaving both the Single market (Sm) and customs union (Cu) were part of the discussions leading up to the Uk vote over two years ago.

It feels odd listening to educated people in background talking about leaving. and also disheartening. And blaming EU seems so odd

This kind of format for a televised debate show is so dated and awful.

Be interesting to see this debate repeated in a year.

The level of debate about Brexit is atrocious. This "big debate" is a display of breathtaking ignorance from start to finish. Ignorance of the members of the public, ignorance of the presenter, ignorance of the panelists. No wonder Britain is in such a mess.

I agree with farage, how is this a debate with a room full of remainers, the presenter pulls the microphone away every time a brexitier makes a good point, the government are using platforms like this and even tv shows like Doctor who, supergirl ect to try to slyly get there agenda

Here is the reality of their survey. Timed to coincide with the so called 'Peoples' Vote' as if the original vote was not enacted by people. Also timed to coincide with a low point during negotiations. But worst of all, unforgivable, they only interviewed 20,086 people. Even compared to the 33.5 million who voted in the Brexit vote, it is totally laughable that this survey represents the "nation". In addition, they have not released the dataset with the questions other than a completely goofed up .xls from which little sense can be made. But from what I can gather, is the question "should we remain in the EU" was never asked. Instead there were various questions on the nature of a second vote, which is not the same. So even the conclusions they arrive at are plucked out of thin air. Worthless. .

Nigel cannot calculate, it's worse than 100 or 200 in Sunderland. 20,000 people nationally on average means only 30 per constituency .

The host bias is absolutely disgusting!

This programme is so biased I thought it was the BBC

I'm sad for the Brexit as the UK is part of all of us but the connection in our hearts won't ever break. Love from Germany

This poll is lies BREXIT wins again 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The stats here don't seem right????

Whilst I really respect Caroline Lucas, calling the vote to leave the EU a 'betrayal' is not helping. The referendum was one of the biggest acts of democracy I've seen on these islands in my adult life. We can discuss the role of the politicians as to their trustworthiness and the role of the media in their heavy bias and maybe the role of misinformation of the people, but I don't think it's right to accuse those who voted to leave of 'betrayal'. She's let herself down there.

Well actually a final say when it's clarify the deal to everybody it wouldn't be so absurd, if the british people are really happy with, it wouldn't be hard to win that again.

Such a balanced program, one brexiteer Vs 3 remainers, loaded Questions & 90% of the audience on the remain side- nice one channel 4................

Isn't this Top Gear?? Where are the cars??

This is bs. I don't really care about FoM, but when I saw the stats saying people want freedom of movement to continue @68%, the show lost a lot of credibility. If you're going to make it biased, at least make it believable!

Channel 4 haven't got a clue what British people think. Outside of their Westminster London bubble. 29 March 2019 " V "

in all debates in the UK i have seen sofar, a single problem keeps coming up: whatever Britain decides to do, there is no reason why the EU should go along with that british plan, simply because that is what the brits want. for some reason, brits keep pretending that the EU needs britain to stay afloat.

'Brexit' otherwise known as 'Regrets-it'.

How many Brits honestly have ever thought about working in Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia etc.

Are there any unbiased Brexit debates anywhere?

Flush the parliament, get new people in politics across the spectrum. New parliament with all new faces.

The Tory and Labour MPs almost look related!

46 million people are eligible to vote in the UK and the survey was for 20,000 that’s 0.04% of the population. That is so statistically insignificant anybody who understand statistics would reject it as totally inaccurate. I think this is more about influencing on social media the population to drive towards anti-Brexit thinking...

The Asian Curry shop Brexiter 😅😅😅 it's like He thinks, White people voted Brexit to have more Brown and Black people here 😅😅

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, your first premise is so wrong. Asking 200 voters in Sunderland and expecting to get a comparrable, fair result for the basis of your program is so amateurish . But you are known for your sentiment. I could choose any road in any part of UK and be certain of any result. And so could most people across the country. For your 50 / 50 split you just have to find a road with residents who have secure jobs, children at the local private schools, mix this with a road with residents who have insecure jobs, who send their children to the local comprehensive and hallelujah.I am surprised Sir John Curtice didn't say anything. Nigel Farage found these independent voters, who slipped away from David Cameron's Conservative party. They are the same voters Margaret Thatcher found when she gave everyone the right to buy their council houses. They are not racists, they are self motivated, independant voters who will change their vote to suite their self interest.

Sooner the UK breaks up, the more accountable, responsive the government will become to its people.

Europ should push away England and welcome others which want to stay !

leave and negotiate later when german car workers have to export via norway or usa!

It's sweet how Farage cares for Mediterranean countries (irony off).

By leaving the EU we become part of the world market not just tied up with Europe being told what and what we can't do

I never got asked in this poll, but just how many did.

The UK should not be allowed to stay on the same terms as Brexit has led to much uncertainty in EU countries

49:35 - leave dude still talking, presenter cuts him off and walks away

Where's Scotland in this fiasco?

I am surprised negatively by channel 4. It was time to bring some truth to britons, as bitter as it is. Economically there is no way the UK can be better off outside the EU and the people in the room downplayed the importance of this crucial factor. I think britons deserved better than this.

SECOND REFERENDUM IS INEVITABLE!!!

Everybody for their own interests, the Asian business is rooting for Asian migrants to have easier access to come over to Britain as economic migrants. They voted heavily for brexit because they're simply envious of Europeans coming over to Britain which is an European country.

The question for this debate should have been: Have we done enough scare mongering to make you change your mind?

Nigel is our Donald

laughable programme so biased

Aren't we all fed-up with propaganda dressed up as debate..? Bullshit polls, and biased presenter. If TV was genuinely open to competition, you guys would be unemployed.

Most important things in life 1 Food 2 Sovereignty Globalism is poison

Everyone was told we would be worse off following brexit, but we still voted leave, because we don't want unelected dictators in the EU making our laws. Especially as we know they get lobbied by big business, to create laws which benefit them, at the expense of the working/middle class.

The big Brexit debate: What does Channel 4 really want?

Mainstream Proper Gander

I agree with living and working in eachothers countries but not free movement they're completely different things

"A house divided against itself… Is better than this." - Lego movies 2014

Brexit Britain Makes Britain Great Britain Again 🇬🇧

and so ends the party political broadcast for remain.... Only one problem, Mrs May and now Jeremy Corbyn have said, Brexit wont be stopped, No second referendum... So im glad the remain crowd had a good night out, but nothing will change..

Nigel Farage given a grand total of about 5 minutes in a 52 minute debate about Brexit. Surrounded by remainers, and still managed to come out on top.

The Irish border problem? Get Ireland to have an EU referendum. If they vote out, problem solved: Ireland becomes part of the UK. Border no longer needed. Forget the history. The Irish should be UK citizens anyway. We live on the same pair of islands for Christ's sake!

Isn't this the guy who pissed off Robert Downey Jr?

that Bangladeshi restaurant GUY has get into an apron himself, because there is not going to be any relaxation of laws for immigration. VOTING TO LEAVE IS NOT GOING TO GET YOU MORE PEOPLE FROM BANGLADESH.

i did my own poll, i personaly asked 5.000.000 people in the uk what they thought and every single one of them said 'we should leave', now how much more evidence do you need, i mean i really did ask all those people, honest!

What gets me is the assumption that the poll showing about people living and working across Europe, it has nothing to do with Free Movement of People. Post-Brexit Britain, people can still live and Work in Europe without needing Freedom of Movement, it's called having a visa.

What does the UK think? Man I had no idea there was only about 200 people in the UK and they're all in this audience.

The problem is that Brexit is like a group of people chained to a bigger group of people deciding to jump; taking everyone else down with them without even bothering to ask if they wanted to jump. Now some are confused and scared about hitting the ground, but they didn’t vote or pay attention to speak up about, or stop it, and now it’s too late to regret. It’s too late to turn back. This conversation should have happened before the referendum.

The fact people really think immigration is the issue for their economic problems, and not the incompetent government, is shocking to me. It's clear as a day. Then they think, they'll get better deals through leaving the EU with EU? You guys are heavily underestimating politics and the EU's stubbornness to not bend their backs for the UK, because why would they? The EU is trying to make an example of the UK so that the EU can remain strong. You guys will be leaving with no deal. That's your only outcome.

Is so sad to see that the quality of the debate didn't change since the vote.

What a bunch of clowns. Just get on with it and leave.