The Establishment of the European Union 

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You're leftist remain views on this video are outstanding. There are sooo many NEGATIVE things about this video it is also outstanding. There are sooo many negative things about the EU it is also outstanding. Quick question (1 of probably 1000 I could ask), why didn't you mention Ireland and the Lisborn Treaty? How they had a referendum and voted against it but the EU made them vote again until the EU had the decision they wanted? Not very democratic of the EU! Why do they have an anthem when they are not a country? I love your videos Simon and the team but for this video and your narrative i have just unsubscribed.

News voice comments section is nothing but right wing trolls, bots and knuckle dragging mouth breathers. 1000x worse than RU-vid comments.

@@mnichols1979 Bots???? Oh, that is the go to response for every comment you disagree with. Knuckle dragging right winger???? Err no, I really do not think so. Oh dear, you really, really do not like anyone who doesn't agree with you do you????

Wait now I am confused. The ad read was for Newsvoice but the end of the video said Ground news and they sort of sound like they do the same thing but are still apparently separate apps and I did not readily see a link between them. What's the deal?

Such a good suggestion!

Absolutely!👍

but it sounds dull

Yeah, Simon, you can definitely do better than the video from the Nation Human Genome Research Institute

@@zeroqp I trust Simon not to make it "dull."

And the UN

I am totally up for this. Also side note: Flattered you mentioned Australia. Generally we assume no one thinks of us. 🤣🤣

@@--enyo-- Us Canadians and you Aussies have a lot more in common than you think sister :P

Legendary legend, that Simon...

I actually think the history behind Australia is fascinating... between the indigenous peoples and the ones who were forced to live there by British rule.

Living

UK left EU not Europe.

@@serchbloc2395 EU and Europe are used interchangably like US and America. And in the EU's case, it makes sense since the dedicated goal is the unification of the entire continent. A union from Lisbon to Vladivostok.

that would be cool.. or the formation of pakistan

@@juantelle1 *laughs in British*

The British or Dutch? But yeah, I’ve been wanting to see this as well.

The Dutch East Indian Company yeah? Still the largest company that ever existed.

@@--enyo-- the Dutch one of course. It was so much bigger and more relevant

Same! In Portugal (as far as i've seen) only the very old people think fondly of the time before the EU

@@saraviegas2141 And i think that might be nostalgia speaking too ^^'

The E.U didn't keep peace in Europe, there was the Balkan wars in the 90s.

Nothing is free....someone always pays, it just may not be you, but someone is

There is no need to listen to older people. They are filled with lies And wickedness!

Definitely a good mini speech. Also, major credit to the writer, Oliver Guiberteau for the speech. Simon read it extremely well, but the words aren't really his to take credit for.

LoN was the predecessor of the UN

@@duncanmcgee13 thats exactly what i said

Yeah, I’d like to see this!

Yeah. There should be a video about this topic, too.

LON was about elitists maintaining control in the newer modern world

yeah - not until you actually know how much efforts Soviet union put to rebuild eastern part of europe being fucking devastated to the core itself unlike US and England. But yeah gulags vodka and nesting dolls.

@@LazyPictures You forgot AK-47, товарищ!!

😂😂😂

@@LazyPictures Oh, really ? Can you enlight us ? You can start with saying where are you from. You know .. I am from Czech Republic. As it happened, leading powers somehow forgot to ask us and we become part of eastern bloc. About post war rebuilding and fantastic soviet effort, hm, where to start .. First they FORCED us to refuse Marshall plan. You know, it would look really bad to accpet help from rotten capitalists. Then we went through epizodes of political murder processes, lockdouwn from outer world, shoting people who just did want to leave, labour camps, political prisoners dying in uranium mines .. Oh, wait, uranium. We were particulary rich in uranium deposits. But hey, uranium is bad, radioactive and such thing, you know .. so soviets saved us from it and yes, that was SOME EFFORT. Trains full of uranium ore heading to the east ... somehow, they did not bother to pay for it. Then they decided that we are in danger, what danger I hear you ask ? You fool, WESTERN INVASION !!! So they invaded us - to protect of course. They literally pillaged places they chose to live. Their military bases ended up as ecological disaster, soil and underground water poluted with oil products, lubricants and who knows what else. Quite expensive revitalisation project, I have to say. Again, not a single coin from russians ... And list goes on. It is already long so I make it shorter. We weren't in such a bad condition after WWII, then we experienced soviets, worse then locusts. They stole, pillaged and destroyed everything they could. After their very unwelcome presence, we ended up in unimaginable worse condition, then we were before. I have to control my self to not being really rude, because imbecilic comments like yours makes me rally angry. Do some actual research, before you write something stupid please. Soviet effort .. yeah, right. I would like to see you to live through fantastic soviet effort and then see what do you think about it ...

@@OslikusPrime Yeah, soviets "helped us rebuild", using our hands, our materials and our money :D As the old people say: "We gave soviets grain and in return they took our coal"

Yes very intresting, another suggestion: Željava airport in the mountains, secret and largest underground airport and military air base in Yugoslavia, and one of the largest in Europe.

that giant iron mine in either norway or sweden might be cool too. the one thats so giant that they had to abandon the town above.

Already covered on several channels. That's how you know about them.

@@clancyjames585 Who said it did?

@Charles Yuditsky Yeah, like requiring you to make up your mind on whether you are a member or not, and not demand use of member facility after leaving.

Everything always depends on the era when the event took place. The era of colonization, for example, was not remembered by humanism at all.

in that way, the US has a lot more in common with the soviet union than it does with the EU, no wonder the EU existing triggers americans so much

@@gregs9210 I would say that is historically incorrect. US was mainly created by voluntary integration

It contributed to peace on the continent. You also forget NATO and the obvious threat from the East bringing Europe together. P.s. The Nobel Peace Prize has lost it's credibility. Any mong can get one these days

NATO brought peace not the EU and where was the EU during the Irish Troubles (1968-1998) that killed 3500 people?

@@plugsocket9432 The EU solves international problems and grievances with diplomacy and cooperation. The Troubles were a domestic issue which was caused by the English with the aggressive cultural destruction for many centuries, also Divide and Rule politics which backfired at the time of Troubles, and London didn't asked for outside help. If you want to blame, blame London parliament and English. They voted on Brexit, against the will Northern Ireland and Scotland. They leave every colony in a mess, like India-Pakistan, Israel - Palestine, African colonies. They don't want to cooperate with no one. They deepened the Irish Famine, like Trump does it today with Covid in US. Hope that Good Friday Agreement's achievements will remain! Hope that Northern Ireland and Scotland will be part of the EU again!

Scotland is already out of the EU as it's part of the UK. They'll have to apply as a new member if they want to join, after leaving the UK.

There's almost 0% chance EU will support Scotland leaving UK given they are already facing multiple potential breakaways across Europe. Spain currently fending off independence from catalonia being the biggest.

@@redghost5705 it's not the same situation... Scotland is an nation, a independent country recognized by most other countries including England... meanwhile, catalonia and other similar regions are not...

@@m0shene I'm aware there very different. Its just my hunch that policy makers are over simplifying it.

@@redghost5705 that was a stupid point you made son

Member States* :P

He is scottish

@@hoffmankipkurgat5949 Try and find a Scottish person that will agree with you lol he's as English as you get.

es español

@@hoffmankipkurgat5949 Simon Scottish, born in southern England...

But perhaps In a completely different way than most organizations. Usually the "committee on committees" norminates people to serve on the committees within the organization.

The EU sounds pretty fucking fantastic

The EU sounds like the best thing ever for us Europeans. Western countries get to become more competitive on the global scale, while Eastern countries get insane amounts of investments, grants, loans, jobs and opportunities.

@@andrasadam8256 unless you are Greece, or Italy or...

No different from most large nations. The council is the senate, the commision the government, the parliament, the parliament, and the supreme court the supreme court.

@Rylee Hahaha! The EU commission is not less elected than the British PM.

@Sociable Netw0rker Is that some sort of role-play? Because I'm not aware of an institution with such a name existing and your comment seemed more appropriate in such a setting

@Sociable Netw0rker hahahaha what a pile of bullshit! Of course the EU has its own problems with tax havens not much difference to UK. But at least it tries to implement legislation to contain them unlike UK. In fact UK always jeopardized such efforts when still in the EU to protect Cayman Islands and the likes. And now some smart asses think it would be a great idea to turn the entire UK into one (Singapore at the Thames?). But the actual point was not that but whether EU authorities are elected. And yes they are, directly (parliament) and indirectly (commission) via the EU governments which on their own are elected. Who btw. did elect BoJo? The people? NOPE! Only his party was elected by the people and they had a party internal election about who becomes PM. A PM in the UK is not even confirmed by a parliamentary vote like in other countries. So please don't play that stupid "unelected EU" record, it starts to get boring but it won't get less wrong!

@Sociable Netw0rker Not sure in which part of my comment I spoke about the Magna Carta. I'm sure you can tell me.

@@wanderschlosser1857 The whole point of the Commission is to be an independent and pragmatic problem-solving entity that proposes legislation. Future EC employees are tested through the EPSO exams before they get a job to choose those applicants with superior reasoning and communication skills. It is up to the elected politicians in the Council to tell the commission what to do, and up to the European Parliament as well as the member states to make the final decision on possible rejection and implementation of proposals. You can't vote for who gets to be a civil servant in your member state either so I never understood why people suddenly get so worked up when the can't vote on specific EU civil servants. Do you really care specifically which lawyers and economists are tasked with drafting, for example, recommendations to the Dutch government on adressing on the Dutch housing market and excessive mortgage debt? Also the commissioners are indeed still chosen through direct democracy anyway.

As beautiful it sounds..as impossible it is. The humanity has the gift to corrupt everything it touches.. The most of it for sure. *:)

Yes! The AT is awesome

Yes, please!

^ this please

Does that mean the Dutch just stood by and watched?

@@TheHarrip Depends on which side you look at it.

@@TheHarrip Why not? Unless dying in trenches is a noble thing.

Would anyone notice if they weren't?

I think he is leaving out countries that were invaded anyway despite of claiming neutrality.

You not learned about the eu why do you think we leaving

@@craigdackiw1877 I'm talking at personal level, not UK. I'm not from UK.

@@craigdackiw1877 So why do you leaving? I could see many promises during Brexit campaign but I am not sure what worked as indented and what is still waiting for implementation...

@@grlt23 lets see 1: to stop unlimited eu people coming over taking jobs and homes off locals 2: to stop eu citizens from claiming child benefits for children not born or living in the uk 3: to stop the eu from making laws in this country 3:to stop eu courts interfering in the uk and finally to take control of our waters and stop eu ships from plundering our fish

@@craigdackiw1877 1. Immigration policy is mortly up to the member state to decide. There isn't much EU could do if UK just turned every asylum seeker away and broke away from Schengen. Like Hungary for example. 2. That's really not a big issue monetarily speaking... 3. Member state's parliament has to pass any legistlation european parloament agrees on. Your elected politicians were part of making and agreed to every legistlation UK adopted because of EU. Another 3(?): Fishing is so small part of UK's economy that I am pretty sure the benefits from other aspects of the union greatly outweight the possible negatives of EU's fishing policies.

That's what I thought too. I have wanted a video on that topic for awhile.

@@CausticLemons7 Will probably be the next video then. They screw up things like this quite often :-)

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 No! Not Simon & Co.! They never make mistakes like that! lol

@@stevedaenginerd Simon's channels are great. I especially like Geo/Biographics. But Megaprojects is I think the one with the most mistakes. Like they have at least 2 video's with a thumbnail in which they mistake "it's" for "its". That is an error you're allowed to make at kindergarten...

@@gueman99 But at least the people had a choice to enter the EU rather than the colonial period when the weak governments spent years wringing their hands in fear that their more powerful neighbours might decide to come and stomp them again.

You probably didn't go to school in the UK. The British are really badly educated on the EU. German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish etc school kids learn all of this at school. Not the British. They're being kept uneducated on the EU and per by the design of the British school system. They're learning more about the totally irrelevant commonwealth than the EU.

I applaud your high school then.

@@rockattack Most Britons don't consider themselves European, at least among the older generations. That permeates all the way through everything and it shows. It's the same generations who have condemned the future ones to no longer benefit from the things they did such as easy, free movement around the place. And cheap holidays. The kind of people who hate foreigners but go to Spain twice a year for several weeks then complain the don't speak the Queens Fucking English! They're either unaware or don't care about their ignorance.

@@TalesOfWar hipocrisy and arrogance or just ignorance about the world around them.at leats they're not flat erthests or any illuminati extremist right_wind or left_wind movement.

You Dutch?

That's not how referendums work.

@@demoniack81 Actually, most of the time they are. The government was just too incompetent to impose any kind of clear majority mandate. The whole thing happened because Cameron wanted to distract his party from fighting amongst itself and had his bluff called. Then he skipped off into the sunset whistling while everyone else had to deal with the shit show he just created. The shit show is ongoing.

@@TalesOfWar A Majority is 50+1%.

Doesn't work that way. Leave won get over it.

@@plugsocket9432 Most referendums have a threshold, say 55%+, anything below and it's a "let's start again". It was far too close to call, but as this government is incompetent with practically everything else (see COVID response) it's hardly a shock they were incompetent with this too.

Sort of...you did allow Corporal Hitler's lot a big say in how you did things, not least participating in his Final Solurion.

And during WWII. Although that didn’t keep Hitler from invading The Netherlands.

Or any really cool Tanks lol how vague am I right

55 thousand to serve half a billion people seems positively streamlined. The UK Civil Service is in excess of 400 thousand, and is desperately trying to hire 50 thousannd *just* to deal with the extra Customs paperwork caused by leaving the EU.

A wonderful idea( l ). Hopefully we've all wised up enough to stand together.. and not to corrupt it. *:)

If Biographics can do King Arthur on April 1, then surely this could become a reality on April 1, 2021.

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Soon there be a new P2 now that would be interesting especially with all the faults they are having to correct from the originals

@@wherethecrowflies1965 I know the guys who are doing it, it's gonna be an interesting machine.

Try "Side Projects" bro, it's another of Simon's channels, that covers projects that aren't Mega😏

@@barendterblanche5634 I'm aware but it could be a mega project based on just the amount of people that worked on it.

the diefenbunkers are more canadian than anything, we just dig holes to deal with nukes

A great achievement with a weird outcome. One great Europe united under a common language called English, which is not European no more. Sad

@Jack Ripper in that case I'm interested, and I hope simon considers it, seeing as he's using "Mega Projects" in a broad spectrum, which is awesome. It gives him the freedom to explore all kinds of wierd and wonderful projects that we wouldn't have otherwise hear of.

Don't forget Rat-onna-stick!

Not going to happen. The UK will be a success outside the EU and that's what their afraid off.

The EU needs to make it as hard as possible to leave otherwise others might decide to go it alone anyone who thought brexit would be a quick divorce knows nothing of politics

@@Thecoincollector. Nah, the UK is messing all over itself all on its own. It doesn't need any outside assistance to make things difficult.

@@MrGlenn442 Indeed. This is what happens when you get career politicians who were born with a silver spoon in their arse like Boris. They've never lived outside of the bubble they currently inhabit so have no idea what their decisions actually lead to for the regular every day folk. Because they've never been one.

@@Thecoincollector. It was clear from the very start, whatever Boris and FaragE claimed (and still do) that the EU would not give the UK a better deal than a EU member. that would be suicide. And it is absolutely common sense and nobody should have fallen for it.

The real chaos has still yet to come, when they are really out

It's not in the cards. Any EU federation would have to be formed after the different countries with differing values. Unlike the US, were the states are modeled after the US federal government you would have to build a federal state from unitary and federal governments with very different laws you can't really integrate into a single federation. No matter how much people argue this would happen (mainly the UK) it just can't happen because of the differences.

Revolut?

@@marsjfields no like EU express card

The moon isnt outer space doofus.

Man, you gotta get all over biographics and geographics... They're like heroin in comparison to this and BB. In any case, if it's a Simon Whistler channel, it's gonna be epic!

@@jpbean I’m not saying that I don’t watch those channels, (I’m subscribed and just like you said, basically addicted, to all of his channels) but I only have the notifications turned on for a couple because I have so many other channels that I have on there that I just don’t have that much time in a day to watch them all. I do have to do some other things like look at least one direction before I walk directly into traffic while being glued to the screen on my iPhone (just like he says on the Blaze, I choose my friends on which brand of phone they’re using. I just don’t have time for those people too poor to be able to FaceTime 😂😂😂😂‼️‼️‼️) and well, FaceTime 👨📲 👦🏾 😂😂😂!!! And I have to make time to take a shower once or twice a month! Then there’s Twitter but they’ll probably block me along with probably 65% of the U.S. for the next three weeks (not sure if you’re from here but November 3rd is Election Day and apparently all of big tech is blocking access to accounts from us libertarian/centrists all the way to the “far right” voters plus even as of two days ago the woman who is literally in charge of the media for the White House. Her Twitter account is being blocked from social MEDIA!!! What’s that about?

They must be blocking twitter to give everyone the free time to watch Simon Whistler 😜. No, I'm from Ireland, but man do I feel for Americans rn. At least if trump won, you know its his last term 🤷‍♂️

That's why I will always defend the EU: it's hopefully the 1st step towards a global government like in Star Trek. I'm not saying the EU is perfect, far from it, but at least we're trying. PS: It's actually more the Federation, Starfleet is the 'military' wing of the Federation ;-)

@@Whitespliff You’re a fool for wanting a global government!

@@Whitespliff global governments are awesome until someone 2000km away tells you you have to give up your home for some refugees. Or that brand new business you saved your whole life to start must be turned over to the government because someone less fortunate wants it.

@Aussie Pom It was project of the right leaning media and ultra wealthy. The average person was and will never get any benefit from leaving the eu. It was always going to be worse than being in the eu.

More like a suïcide attempt.

It is, Europeans do not care about it at all!

Brexit = titanic

@@camocas a titanic that doesn’t even need an iceberg to sink itself