"Brexit has failed": James O'Brien reacts to Nigel Farage admission | LBC

[@davidbarnard2716]

Whilst we are busy blaming people I believe Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for, not only concerning Brexit but for the awful culture in American and global politics too.

[@netgirljimi3225]

Yep Murdoch is a cancer on us all. Love from the US

[@MyBlargh]

This. Murdoch has so much power over the UK and US. Whatever policy he wants to pass, he can literally accomplish it with the help of his Daily Mail and Fox minions. It’s actually scary to wonder how long he has been manipulating the West. And where we could be without this partisan world we live in.

[@jameshblack]

Rupert Murdoch is a very dangerous man and has been so all his life , scumbag

[@glaisterwilliams8461]

Murdock supported both sides which was always going to be win win . He with his media decides who is going to be the next government ask people like Tony Blair. It’s a game of manipulation that he controls.

[@Quebecoisegal]

@@chrisj9700 So did the Mail on Sunday (I know, not Murdoch owned) but in the event the Dacre's of the world convinced the weak minded.

[@robfricker2574]

Conning people is easy, you just need to overcome their intelligence. But convincing people they have been conned is much harder because you need to overcome their pride.

[@davidpryle3935]

James O’Brien cons people every day. He pretends to be left wing, while he perpetuates the class system, by sending his children to private school.

[@rotnem0017]

What a brilliant say that really puts it into prospective 😂

[@martinshillitoe4735]

What an excellent way to put it

[@Music-oi2nf]

This is absolutely correct. I was discussing Brexit with a leaver the other day who says it’ll all be for the better eventually. But he was unable at this point to suggest how that might happen. He just doesn’t want to face up to the fact he was duped and made a bad decision.

[@rfurdaylee]

@Music-oi2nf Yes he was duped NOT by Sir Nigel Farage, but by your Tory government. FACT!

[@peterheath7960]

Don't send him to Australia, we're done with your criminals.

[@chrissanders1027]

You are our criminals😁

[@nopants4259]

I'm sure He wants to live in BongoBongo Land😟

[@chrissanders1027]

@@K-Dot94 read a history book

[@chrissanders1027]

@@CoroDan I’ve been,lots of aussies have a sense of humor , but it appears not all

[@DT-hg7te]

One of yours (Murdoch) is half the reason for the mess we're in.

[@inspectit210]

😂😂😂 As an American, I love your desrved, condescending criticisms of your country's so-called "conservatives". Just like here, all they can do is cause and create problems for which, they NEVER have any solutions for. Just more complaints about.

[@kasegiyabu5030]

Problems? Did US right-wing cause fuel prices to rocket? Left-wing Obama started the problems at the southern border. Left-wing Congress exacerbated it, by refusing funding for the right-wing solutions. There are a myriad of problems caused by the left-wing, who shift the blame onto their convenient bogeyman.

[@stephanosuk78]

See the Democrats are doing a sterling job 👏 Bidens approval is 38% (did he ever get over 40) and 54% of Democrats don't want him to run next year. Many of our issue's can be traced back to that administration. Pretty sure he'll clear off to a nursing home in February 2024 and leave the world his stinking mess to sort.

[@ditnooitweer]

Yeah, we hear all kinds of strange news about your future president Ron DeSantis.

[@inspectit210]

@@ditnooitweer Hehehe, that's hilarious!! Yea, there is NO WAY Ron can win the Presidential election!! You'll see. Biden is unbeatable but, the Gaslighting Media will pretend otherwise and skew polls to anger and scare people. Believe it. Biden will be reelected.

[@achandler6583]

@@inspectit210 only as a puppet.

[@kokliangchew3609]

I'm a Malaysian working in Singapore. Both countries are in the Commonwealth and have millions of investment in the UK, but most if not all of them were prior to Brexit. This was due to the familiarity of the language, laws, culture and much more due to being former colonies of the British. In short, we were used to the British and found it easier to invest in the UK because of that, and as a gateway into the EU. Post-Brexit, businesses here are concentrating on investments in the EU directly, and bypassing the UK, despite the different legal systems and languages. Oh, and Malaysia and Singapore are part of ASEAN (Association of South-East Asia Nations), which aspires to integrate their economies like the EU. As for the Brexiter's dream or aspiration of becoming a Singapore-on-Thames, well, Singaporeans are more pragmatic and realistic than Brexiters. They had to be in order to create the modern and successful Singapore that Brexiters want to emulate. Ask them if they want to exit ASEAN or exit the EU if they were part of it, the answer would be a resounding NO. Almost everybody here that I talked to about Brexit thought that it was financial and business suicide for the British. And most if not all, put it down to the UK harking back to the days of the British Empire. It wasn't helped by the fact that many Brexiter politicians and businessmen thought that the Commonwealth and the World would gladly trade with the UK on an individual basis. Why should they? And what advantage is there to trading with the UK when it is not a gateway into the EU? Business is business, and it would always look at the bottom line. Brexiters seemed to have forgotten that, or totally ignored it altogether.

[@verystripeyzebra]

Yes. But you know what would happen if you told all that to a brexlet.

[@ScurvyRascal]

@@verystripeyzebra I tried telling them. I even made the analogy of the UK getting corner shop prices instead of supermarket ones. Their arrogance was too strong for them to listen . The OP is right. It was Empire 2.0

[@LiamBar2010]

Exactly, it's why it did so well with the Boomer generation; nostalgia for their youth, 50s and 60s, blinded them to all the benefits of being in the EU.

[@AnnaHolley-f7y]

Wise words. You couldn't explain it any better.😀👍

[@michaeltagg492]

Absolutely spot on!!!!!

[@---Tre---]

When are Conservative voters going to wake up and realize they are being grifted by millionaires.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

When they stop aspiring in their dreams to be millionaires.

[@christinequinn5355]

@@ArtyFactual_Intelligence Great reply. It is the same deluded reasoning that angry, disgruntled Right Wing Americans use.

[@arnoldhau1]

They always have that is being conservativ

[@mwat22]

Racism blinds cannot let them see things as they are, nor hear the warning bells.

[@firefox1234ize]

They prefer to stand outside a rich man's castle.

[@jimtoye2844]

"If brexit is a disaster I'll become an immigrant in another country", said the man who stands guard on beachy head against immigrants.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

You forgot the word illegal though didnt you.

[@willardmatsaudza3101]

@@sonofsomerset1695 brexit has nothing to do with illegal immigration mate they could come here legally try again. You voted to stop eu migration not World migration. So your comment doesn’t apply here

[@Tao_Tology]

Except all he was really saying was "I can run away and avoid any negative consequences."

[@Krisowy]

Son of Somerset...wait - didn't you guy said once we leave we wouldn't have any problems with illegal emigrations cause we will finally have control?🤦🤣... Muppets

[@bobsurface908]

@@sonofsomerset1695 No, no. Pretty much all of the immigrants.

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

I voted Remain. I did some EU Directives into UK Law. My father and my sister are still fully signed up to Brexit. My sister even said she gets annoyed when people say, that Brexit was racism. So I asked her why she voted Leave, and she replied "Immigration" and then she got upset when I smiled. The irony was lost on her. I really think these people are incapable of thinking.

[@miroslavvitek8855]

Your sister was right and she voted correctly. Thanks to heavens for such people! It´s British politicians who are to blame for immigration and other stuff, not the idea of Brexit per se. As a matter of fact, you Brits are now enjoying a lot more freedom of choice to "navigate your own ship" as a sovereign country in contrast to most of the nations in EU. That´s why you´re so skeptical about Brexit and your own future since you do not face the dictate of the unelected socialist-bureaucratic juggernaut. Incidentally, no one said that Brexit would be easy, plus many powerful people as well as media have done their best to sabotage its outcome because they had never thought that it would end like this. The whole referendum thing was meant to be a farce with only one possible outcome. But it did not work out as the people in the shadows had intended. One way or another, you´re going to profit from leaving the EU, but it´ll take some more time and pain.

[@juliusnorr3041]

@@miroslavvitek8855 the people in the shadows, bruh, sometimes things aren`t that complicated, take a bunch of populists, say conservative politicians and give them the media reach to talk about it all day long and at some point enough people will have gathered that know what they want but not what the consequences are

[@fb9966]

Farage is a criminal he stolen our freedom

[@robertosotovelasco]

@@miroslavvitek8855 ahahahaha

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

@JeffPietersen Thanks Jeff.

[@sumzsaiyan7806]

I blame David Cameron, his weak spine to confront Farage instead of caving to his threats is what put us in this mess.

[@sim.ulationkoyo]

I blame Elon Musk.

[@enablerbro1]

100% but it wasn't confronting Farage where Cameron failed but his inability to be honest about the role the Conservative Party have played over generations in the negative impact on the lives of the majority of Britons. And they keep on trucking.

[@sjones79]

He’s also a coward who got us in this mess and then quit immediately because he didn’t want to deal with it.

[@Ealsante]

Exactly this. He used the fate of the nation as gambling chips in an intra-party dispute, betting that they would not risk burning down the whole house and would fall in line. And when the house did catch on fire, he was the first to run.

[@Sbudre]

Absolutely. David Cameron is a foolish man.

[@marcelloporto4728]

Nigel Farage was one of the reasons the UK had no say in the EU. He sat there, in Brussels earning a fantastic salary, playing his usual ‘everybody wrong but himself’ and was bulldozed by real Politicians, who fought for their country, rather than planning running away, as he also did when Brexit was attained and he lied, he pulled wool over those who believed bus loads of cash would come with Brexit so he could, as he is still doing blaming everybody but himself. Man has no shame.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Did the UK not have Commissioners? Of course they did. We're British judges not on the CJEU ? Of course they were. Wasn't the Advocate General British? Yes, he was. Didn't Britain help to draft every single Directive? Yes, it did. So why would you say " the UK had no say " ?

[@marcelloporto4728]

The UK Commissioners were no match for the EU reps. With the UK’s international history and the creators of world diplomacy, they should have been on par with the other ‘biggies’ which would have made Brexit an illusion. To even witness the farce on exit with the High Salaried Group waving the flag similar to a school outing, ridiculing the nation. Even now it’s Farage & Co chasing every excuse for the mess. Spanish or Farage inquisition?

[@McCRBen]

Silence can be having a say. Farage had a say inside the EU. He said no to the EU and millions followed.

[@stevescoolcollectibles5182]

In case you, like everyone else influenced by the obtuse blinkered views of O’Brien are… didn’t notice…. Farce was not involved at all in the last 6 years of the policy making (or lack of) of Brexit. And he is absolutely right, the country has been failed by remoaners and the govern me who’ve done nothing to work through what Brexit offered. It’s too much work fir them. They know their shelf life is short so why bother. Much better to just twiddle your thumbs for u years, collect a salary and bonuses and hope no one notices you are doing nothing. O’Brien can’t even pronounce Farage.

[@kieranhardy581]

​@@McCRBenbut he didn't just say no, he was always pointing out things that were wrong with the system.

[@markmarkson2666]

Farage claims he knows the type of Brexit that would’ve been great for Britain but he didn’t want to tell anyone or get involved in the process and people still think he’s a serious guy 😂

[@i-love-space390]

A lot like Trump. He always had a "secret plan" for whatever, that is always fabulous. (Just like everything totally theoretical and impractical can be.)

[@goldholz]

​@@i-love-space390or like any populist movement

[@mrror8933]

It's a trade secret.

[@viktorberta4953]

He is a clown. A dangerous one. Like Joker..

[@tonywilson4713]

Yeah - I'm Australian and do you know what I find totally amazing about this are Nigel Farage's opening words. Nigel's own words _"What Brexit's proved I'm afraid is that our politicians are about as useless as the Commissioners in Brussels were"_ Correct me if I misunderstand this: 1) He was elected to the European Commission, which means he's a POLITICIAN. 2) He immediately resigned after the Brexit vote. 3) He refused to be involved in any of the negotiations and left it to others to deal with what he created. *SO WHAT DOES that make him in his OWN WORDS?* By the way he was here in Australia recently on some sort of speaking tour. Can you guys kindly keep this clown in your own country we don't need him here.

[@tomlovin8931]

UK gets brexit and US gets Trump. Not a coincidence.

[@LesPaul2006]

Brexit was way worse for the UK than Trump was for the entire world. The disaster is simply unmitigated.

[@nannersguyaners2745]

💯

[@Hissingsid658]

Both fecked up by lying leftards......coincidence ?

[@rfurdaylee]

LOVE Trump vote Trump ❤️

[@achandler6583]

Trump 🇺🇲🇬🇧 love the directness of Truth

[@CarnaghSidhe]

I'm moving back to Spain in July. This time on an Irish passport. My hair is going grey, and life is simply too short for the UK's rolling psychosis. It is sad, but at this point, all I can do is wish the rest of you the very best of luck. I'm rejoining the EU.

[@dvd100cias]

A hot summer is expected, bring sunscreen and a fan. greetings from a spaniard

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

I congratulate you. As a citizen of USA, my choice would be Finland.

[@PetterssonRobin]

​@@stephendavidbailey2743 how come? I mean Finland is great but they speak funny Sweden is better 😉🇸🇪

[@simplicitylost]

@@PetterssonRobin No, you’re wrong! Denmark is where it’s at! :)

[@fighterck6241]

Smart man. Best wishes. As an American I'm looking at Canada.

[@craigevans6156]

As Farage is not an elected politician, why does he get so much coverage?

[@UdumbaraMusic]

He didn't even turn up to work when he was...

[@melanitex1089]

it's because Farage was one of the loudest voices for Brexit now he's tucking his tail between his legs when asked hard questions about why Brexit has failed to deliver what he and his xenophobic buddies said it would.

[@LyricalDJ]

Sensation drives engagement.

[@paul_isaac]

BBC gave him a lot of coverage.

[@wreckless50]

I've often wondered that too.

[@TheKermit2110]

Wake up Leave voters. This was YOUR man!

[@nick1065]

Was?

[@michaelglass1911]

Still is mate.

[@awtistiaeth4699]

@@michaelglass1911 So you may be interested in rejoining like Farage is?

[@michaelglass1911]

Britain no longer exists anyway - so it no longer matters, Labour will get in allow overseas nationals and kids to vote. change to a PR system and eventually rejoin the EU swamp.

[@johnou.k.3780]

Quiet now frog

[@marcelocipriani308]

The only positive about Brexit is that it killed the idea of leaving the EU in the rest of the EU. All the EU political leavers in Italy have disappeared. Thanks England for jumping first. Sorry you landed on your face.

[@GF_MF]

Remember Farage said he would leave the country if Brexit failed?

[@WolfgangVonKempelen838]

He lied? Surely not

[@kellyjay7448]

He could go to Mar A Lago, where failed politicians go to die.

[@allanburkinshaw]

Brexit has not happened, check the facts.

[@cathairpatrick6341]

​@@allanburkinshawOf course it has. You're living with it. That's what Brexiteers voted for. You've got it. You have to accept that this is the reality of Brexit.

[@rb1062]

Remember all the celebs who said they would leave the country if Leave won??

[@mauriceking3055]

He is one of the main reasons The UK is in a mess. The main voice Leave the EU . ITS all we heard . Farage take responsibility along with your pal Botis

[@nick1065]

Caps lock issue?

[@kudzu01]

Brexit has failed? Who could have seen that coming?

[@AnnaHolley-f7y]

Me 😁😁😁😁👍

[@psibug565]

Anyone with the ability to add one and one?

[@Cbricklyne]

Literally everyone (....else,.....outside Britian)

[@bg1616]

​@@Cbricklyne Scotland voted Remain didn't it?

[@McCRBen]

Let’s leave the large market and trade with our ex colonies. It’ll be great, we can make laws to counteract reality .. What went wrong ?

[@Tarquin2718]

Brexit was one of the best things that could happen for the EU. Get rid of the annoying entitled complaining UK and binding EU members closer together in the process. I hope you will make it out alright and prosper, but I for one am glad you guys are out. Greets from NL

[@MeMyselfAndEyez]

All the best from a Remainer and someone who loves visiting NL. Not all of us think the same way, but fully understand you saying what you do.

[@arbjful]

Why don’t you emigrate to UK then

[@TheJonnyzeus]

@@arbjful….can you read?

[@Chr1st0ph]

I agree about "binding EU members more together", but I am not happy that the UK left, and I hope to see them come back with a new spirit of "not only looking at the benefits, but actually supporting in building a Europe with a bright future, even if it means compromises"..

[@antoniorealperez2710]

​@@Chr1st0phjoder que fumas

[@parster2010]

He promised everyone that they could fly and then when no one could fly it’s not his fault.

[@ABT212]

The failure of Brexit is irrelevant to the die hard Brexiters.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Die Hard would be appropriate.

[@e.abrahamovich8981]

Nigel Fartrage, typical politician, sews the seeds of chaos then blames everyone else.

[@northernpunx1978]

@@e.abrahamovich8981 I’m a Canadian so not 100 on Britains creatures and vampires but this Nigel creep? I despise him with every drop of maple syrup in every bone in my body.

[@GreyWulf-g8k]

Die-Hard Brexiters are the British equivalent of the American MAGAts. They can realize and understand the falsehood or the failure of their position, and yet still refuse to yield ground. 😅

[@petefl1818]

A failure for the UK, but not for the disaster capitalists who were behind it.

[@nni9310]

Mr Farage's German wife and their children have EU passports. They can have the benefits of the EU, but other citizens of the UK can't.

[@AnnaHolley-f7y]

His wife left him, so I don't know if he owns a German passport, as he is a divorced from his wife. 😁👍

[@awtistiaeth4699]

As well as farage's very generous EU pension

[@cerneuffington2656]

@@AnnaHolley-f7y She's not an illegal immigrant 🙂

[@Sv0ltage]

@@cerneuffington2656 we don't want illegal immigration of the uk into the eu

[@trevorberridge6079]

I've pointed this out many times. Funny how Fartarse's followers never mention it. It's almost like they're embarrassed to have fallen for this fraudulent frog-faced conman. (apologies to frogs)

[@ChristopherFynn001]

The damage Farage has done to this country.

[@traceyobrien4505]

I blame the people who voted for Brexit and believed all the lies.

[@simoncox9689]

@@traceyobrien4505 both to blame

[@hubby00n6]

Get rid of this guy and ask him to be accountable for all this mess! So tired of those politicians who are always escaping all consequences! If you fail at your job, you get fired!!!

[@ivan-Croatian]

Not Farage. It was the UK people!

[@lochnessmunster1189]

@@ivan-Croatian What does the EU do, that an actual free market cannot do?

[@northernpilgrim1]

The irony of Brexiters calling opponents of Brexit 'remoaners', when we were desperately hoping that we would be proved wrong, and now they're moaning about the consequences of Brexit

[@octavia2]

I wasn't. The more it fails, the better I'll be pleased. I hope every car worker in the UK loses their job as a result.

[@jordandavies7794]

the irony of remainers is they wouldnt accept a democratic vote. dragged their heels protested kicked and cried until they got what they wanted this is immature when brexit failed they then went haha told you pure children man

[@NonFlyiingDutchman]

@@jordandavies7794 That's democracy. Brexiteers have been moaning and complaining about the EEC/EU for decades and didn't accept the democratic vote we had in 1975. And trust me, what we have now is nothing like what us remoaners wanted

[@paureh9573]

​@@jordandavies7794 Doing a bit of 'Bremoaning' there jordan.

[@realhorrorshow8547]

@@jordandavies7794 The irony of quitters is that they think democracy has to stop at the instant they got what they wanted. Every day more of you die. Every day more rejoiners turn 18. But for some reason you insist we can never have another vote. You got your referendum result. You got your Tory government purged of all remainers. Yet you still concede "brexit failed". So you blame the people who told you your fantasy was undeliverable in the first place? _That's_ immaturity.

[@sekou6800]

What we've learned is that a "brexiteer" will neeeeeever accept any responsibility for their bull.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

No, what we've learned is that sore loser remainers can totally ignore a pandemic, lockdowns and a wr in Ukraine and blame everything on Brexit, but then remainers were always pretty low information people so its not surprising they still are.

[@willardmatsaudza3101]

@@netcurtains yeah cause it’s literally messing up our lives and food prices have increased so much it affecting people day to day so of course we are gonna remind you how dumb this decision was and how it’s failed

[@jaghook]

What we have learned is that a "remainer" that lost the referendum will never accept that we have never been given brexit.

[@willardmatsaudza3101]

@@jaghook what was the brexit you wanted and how would you achieve it realistically

[@LilSebastian_]

The most searched thing on the day of and day after the vote in the UK was, what is brexit?

[@niccolamachiavelli8094]

What Farage really meant to say was, "Brexit has failed, but I'm still receiving my EU pension"

[@goblinwisdom]

EU pension... paid for by the British taxpayer.

[@russellbaston974]

And still out of prison.

[@desertdetroiter428]

Is that true? He really receives an EU pension? I’m a Yank so I don’t know about these things.

[@deetee4403]

@@desertdetroiter428 I want to know as well and I live in UK...if it is true, then the corruption is worse than I feared

[@shaddapforever]

@@chrisj9700 I have seen common people get jail time for spreading false information knowingly. So why should Farage be any difference?

[@riotintheair]

As an American who always thought Brexit was a bad idea from the outside looking in, but I also think the government that implemented Brexit has done a particularly bad job implementing a bad policy.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

I am 77 years old. Most of my life, I was an anglophile. With Brexit, all of my respect and admiration for England and Britain disappeared.

[@rfurdaylee]

Not a particularly bad job. They did a job SO bad it should have been classed as CRIMINAL!!!

[@damianbutterworth2434]

Do you think the USA should join the EU and pay a Value Added Tax on all products that are sold? Plus you pay an annual fee and get 65,000 illegal immigrants every year. You want see the bad stuff on the media.

[@zeitakulobusta]

@@damianbutterworth2434 when even farage is coming out and saying it's a mess....yep total success mate.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@zeitakulobusta this is why we wanted Brexit and not woke Brexit.

[@holgerlubotzki3469]

Nigel Foghorn - "Our politicians are as useless as the EU politicians" Also Nigel - "I was an MEP and I desperately want to be a UK politician "

[@peter_meyer]

Don't forget he wanted to get german citizenship so he wouldn't be hit by Brexit regulations.

[@rfurdaylee]

Our politicians are as useless as YOU!!

[@peterdavies1522]

You are so wrong James , Farage is a far better man for this country , than you'll ever be . Farage dosent want to abondon is country to all those career overpayed beaurocrats .He wants to control the borders so is people are safe . The EU in its initial stages was about the economies of the countries freely trading amongst each other freely with out it getting all to political and the overpayed beaurocrats getting their sticky fingers on it . Less government not more . And those palatal over the top so expensive palaces they hot air in ,waste of tax payers money , bit like you living in posh London not diversifying in Brixton and the like , Oh ! No ! 98% White only areas , what a hypocrite .Your happy to deluge white working areas with mass diversity , Multicultruism, Ethnicitys , Languages , Customs and the odd stabbings , social unrest with bad behaviour etc , etc . Oh No your type live 98% white areas . That's way the normal white working class guy will never ever take the likes of you or your type ever seriously .

[@fredjones7509]

@@peter_meyer He was making sure his two daughters (Born to a woman originally from Germany) Had their German passports. One of them now on a ERASMUS scheme in France. I`m not sure if this makes him more of a tw*t or not.

[@jimnkor]

Nothing to do with having kids by a German wife then?

[@danowat4302]

He was the key architect for Brexit, I don't even think he believed people would vote for it, he had no idea how it would work, but never under estimate the stupidity of the general public.

[@chatham43]

...and you're a prime example.

[@mrwong8584]

@@chatham43

[@aleph8888]

The reaction to Brexit has been deeply reactionary; snotty graduates with a juvenile inability to respect the vote stamping their feet because they don’t like losing some of their privileges and having to fill out a form, well they’re smart; they went to Uni, they can do it, it’s a small price to pay for democracy, but instead they spitefully try and split the country up by supporting Scottish independence and desperately trying to overturn the ballot box and get back into their precious anti-democratic EU. Not only did they get Brexit, they have shot their credibility on voting in the future, just like Trump.

[@petefl1818]

@@chatham43And what way is he a prime example, please explain.

[@letsomethingshine]

stupidity in terms of voting, most people stayed home and didn't care what would happen. If it had been mandatory voting like in Australian national elections, then the outcome of "Brexit" would have been MORE democratic and different. Well, they say people get the democracy they deserve/fight for.

[@ThomasKing19933]

Farage should stand trial for his lies.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Trial by execution too.

[@thomashallam273]

trial for what? what crime / tort do you think he has committed ?

[@Deadlus-p3m]

@@thomashallam273 Lying and looking squinty. That's enough. Lock him up!

[@ln6593]

A class action lawsuit to bankrupt him.

[@laurencefox5884]

@@thomashallam273 Lying about the Brexit benefits...which never existed.

[@todadaniel400]

Obama carefully warned against Brexit! He was very brave to do so because it was tough to delve into another sovereign nations politics but he could not hear it out of a deep concern for the disaster His words were like a prophecy but they were simply common sense

[@lochnessmunster1189]

No. Obama just didn't know that the EU is a layer of pointless bureaucracy which seems to "fix" problems caused by too much government elsewhere.

[@aldon1281]

​@@lochnessmunster1189 Do you know what that even means instead of just repeating things like a parrot.

[@lochnessmunster1189]

@@aldon1281 Oh yes. There's nothing that the EU does, that actual free trade (and allowing freedom of movement) cannot do.

[@ΓιώργοςΒουλγαρέλης-ψ9υ]

As an EU citizen, I will never understand why UK left the bloc. Why leaving the most successful and peaceful family of countries in the history? And, after all, British are Europeans too.

[@craigfowler7098]

100% and I am British

[@brendanbrown3100]

You might be amazed that Norway isn’t in the EU. Would you call them “little Norwegian’s? Of course not. It’s for the UK to decide if it wants to continue to pay for unelected EU commissioners.

[@davidowen2859]

​@@brendanbrown3100 We have plenty of unelected people in positions of power here. Infact we are world leaders in handing power to unelected grifters.

[@brendanbrown3100]

@@davidowen2859 Not really - we have the House of Lords but they just review what the Commons brings forward. Our Monarchy is just a figurehead. EU commissioners can propose laws - not even elected MEPs can do that. That is a messed up system. How many EU commissioners can you name? Do you see them on the tele arguing their case?

[@wfifa199]

Switzerland and Norway have never wanted to join and still don't. It's called democratic choice. What a beautiful thing.

[@Yotsukaido]

For many, Brexit boiled down to ‘immigration an that’.

[@melmatrix8212]

Definitely

[@alansmith4655]

The aul racism 😂 And they will deny it to the hilt.

[@trevorspottiswood985]

And immigration has increased. The man is a fool.

[@edwardcoe7293]

Coming over here, taking our jobs. I had a long discussion about immigration, a year or so prior to the referendum, where a young Royal Navy sailor (in my team) eventually got round to that phrase, even though he was doing a job that an immigrant was literally not allowed to do, and admitted that the most interaction he had with people of colour was seeing them 'walking down the street together'. Sad.

[@christhebritt2231]

I blame the lies from MPs. The red buses and NHS. The idea WE would have more money for public things. Schools, police, fire brigade, nurses, doctors etc. The fact is they havn't and the tory's are pawns of multi million people who don't want public benefit but private greed.

[@radman8321]

I had fallen for his lies right up until 2 weeks before the referendum when I decided to research the EU for myself. Have been a "remainer" ever since.

[@rubberduck2401]

Sad thing is you had to research, why? It was so clear from the start even when JC promise referendum. All you had to do is turn off TV channels from far right side of political spectrum and think for 10 seconds

[@radman8321]

@@rubberduck2401 That isn't true, at least in my case. I have never read right wing newspapers or watched TV news apart from BBC and ITV. Nobody had ever took the trouble to explain how the EU worked and what benefits we got from it. I was six when we joined so never knew anything else. It was something that was just there. People started to say that it was corrupt (accounts not signed off), that EU workers were undermining UK wages, and many other things. Nobody countered that, so I reasoned that accusations have been made, and haven't been rebutted, so there must be some truth to them. Everyone should have done their research before voting.

[@olivierpuyou3621]

I am French and I have to say that our common history has not been strewn with lilies and roses but I am appalled when I see the devastation that Brexit has brought to the UK. How could the English think that we are stronger alone than with many? This remains a big question mark for me.

[@shanrobinson4329]

I dont think the intention of brexit was to segregate Britain from the world

[@pxtokarev]

The real purpose of brexit was to use it as a last weapon to destroy Europe. Luckily it failed. Sir Humphrey wouldn't be amused.

[@remingtonnorman4100]

M. Puyou: the intention was never to separate the UK from Europe, but to free it of the stranglehold of unelected Brussels bureaucracy. Once we gained independence from the EU, we were free to decide for ourselves on which laws, regulations and commercial arrangements suited us. This was not possible whilst we were in the EU. The fact that our government has failed to deliver these benefits in large measure, does not invalidate the reasons people voted for them.

[@shanrobinson4329]

@@remingtonnorman4100 now that makes alot more sense

[@jimmysavage9061]

@@remingtonnorman4100 You've literally just repeated exactly what Farage said. You're obviously a fan, as you take his word that the EU are run by unelected representatives. Well, they are elected, so maybe you shouldn't take what Farage says at face value. Judging by the quality of elected British ministers, the UK would definitely be better off if they remained. Look at the state of the place now

[@ATHLDN]

Priti Patel, Braverman and Farage need to be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda.

[@thedude9014]

I think Rwanda has suffered enough

[@mabelmbonye9784]

😂😂

[@доктор-вонючая-морковь]

Just put them in a dinghy and cast them adrift in the middle of the North Sea

[@donroyjames6118]

Yeah send them all too rwanda please 😅

[@zog97xy]

Thrown overboard with concrete boots would be preferred.

[@petejenkins5574]

'This government is as useless as the commission in brussels were' ---- says the guy who was supposed to be a member of the EU fishing commission, and only turned up to one out of 42 meetings.

[@johnrussell3961]

How had he not noticed it in all the years before? He wants us to think he only knew ….after the vote.

[@edcleverley9333]

That was the Fisheries Committee, the Commission are each states' representative of their elected government

[@mdb4michele]

That is because he spent all his time at Wetherspoon or equivalent in Belgium

[@petejenkins5574]

@@edcleverley9333 OK. I appreciate the clarification. He was a lying lazy grifter on the fishing committee and a lazy lying grifter as part of the UK delegation to the EU Parliament. He never reached the position of a UK European Commissioner

[@Howdy1957]

An important factor to remember is that, the loudest person is not necessarily right. He’s a loud mouth, speaking without an understanding of how the EU was working.

[@markscott4420]

Its time to stop giving these people compassion. They have cost the country over £100 BILLION, and by extension, part of that money was mine. Would you forgive someone who took 5 grand out of your wallet and flushed it down the toilet. No you wouldn't. You would punch them in the face. I feel no pity for them at all. They were told a million times what would happen and still let the wiff of racism control which box to tick.

[@sergduchini7299]

A wise man often has doubts. A fool is always certain.

[@macwis_gang7309]

I'm stealing that line thanks 😂

[@gilbertcuoco]

Yep. That one's mine, thanks👍

[@lochnessmunster1189]

What's the EU needed for, that a true free market cannot do?

[@green-user8348]

I tell you, as an American I feel the same way. How did Trump get to destroy American politics?

[@thedivinemrm5832]

How? A systematic and comprehensive all-out assault across social media using bot networks. From "lock her up!" to "the EU is corrupt!" - the real crooks spent heavy utilising every trick in the book to demonise the opposition and if enough right-wing talking heads repeat the claims in old media, the game was up. Yet Hilary is still a free woman and the EU hasn't crumbled. Reality doesn't matter when the public's emotions are manipulated as the Right has done.

[@TheEclecticDyslexic]

Pretty much the same way. Though I would argue he didn't, it was already broken he just pushed it another inch. Basically the formula is simple: - disproportionate media support through ties to wealthy media owners to stand to profit by the corruption opportunities inherent to Trump/Brexit. (If you wonder why they did it, look no further than the huge number of brexiteer politicians that shorted the pound before Brexit. Guarantee their media contacts did the same.) - lie constantly, even if you contradict yourself... And never own up to it. - have an opposition that is genuinely uninspiring - appeal to the xenophobia of the aging right wing - suppress the youth vote through a life long campaign of telling young people that they need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and if they can't live on wages (that they conveniently don't mention haven't followed inflation since before they were born) then it is a moral failing of theirs and obviously their opinion shouldn't matter because clearly they are incompetent. That is, if they can even find the time to vote given their Malthusian existence.

[@teddypicker8799]

@@TheEclecticDyslexic At least us "remoaners" didn't claim voter fraud though. Every US election is going to be the same nonsense now

[@tixien]

But did he, or did he just harvest some fruits of a decades-long process? The head of Reporters Sans Frontière (RSF, better known in English as Reporters without borders, a NGO monitoring press freedom across the world) was invited on a European TV News channel a few days ago (they just released their annual report) and he reminded the dismantlement of US media regulations started under the Reagan administration. Requirements for balanced news are long gone now and here you are, stuck between two huge propaganda machines. Without access to fairly decent information, politics can’t go very far. Might not be the only root cause of all root causes but it looks like it.

[@Veeger]

I guess narcisism rubs off on supporters?

[@marcelrenes2435]

Everybody outside the UK said leaving the EU was the worst thing to do. And this was in the time before the UK could vote for it. Also in my country, The Netherlands, we were very surprised a part of the UK actually did vote for Brexit. Later on we learned how they were persuaded to vote to leave. Simply with lying and a bad campaign from the remain side.

[@danmayberry1185]

Everybody outside the US said electing Trump was the worst thing to do. Here's the trick: nationalists' attention stops at their own border.

[@danowat4302]

Lots of people, 48% infact, in the UK also said leaving the EU was the worst thing to do.

[@marcelrenes2435]

@@danowat4302 You are absolutely correct. ❤ That's why we wanted a soft Brexit as possible. But we knew it still would hurt the UK very bad. Sadly it became a hard Brexit and the remain people also suffer from it. This breaks my heart, really. Just a minor victory from the Brexiteers, caused all of you to fall into the abyss. 😥 You are our friends and we only wish the best for you.

[@Sv0ltage]

@@marcelrenes2435 we in the EU are fine without the united kingdom which is constantly opposing and without farange in the european parliament. we don't want the uk to retrace its steps, if we really have to then it must join the euro as well.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

@@danowat4302 Only about 37% of voters in UK WANTED to leave. That should have been the democratic rejection of the Leave Campaign.

[@jack.p]

I feel sorry for everyone that knew how bad Brexit would be. But especially the people now aged 24 yrs and younger who didn't even have a say in it, and are now in their 20's with distinctly less oppurtunities for NO BENEFIT

[@keithgriffiths9864]

And half the old codgers who voted for Brexit are deceased now.

[@rfurdaylee]

@keithgriffiths9864 well I'm not deceased and I would DEFINITELY vote for Brexit again!!!

[@InfernapeFan1228]

That would be me! All of it. Three months too young to vote in it.

[@kagang8959]

@@rfurdaylee You are in an ever decreasing minority (or is that increasing minority,...a group that gets smaller is what I mean). Britain will eventually rejoin the EU as a super-majority of the population will demand it once the younger generation displace the older one. The younger generation are more for inclusion than exclusion, rejoining is inevitable.. The best thing about Brexit was that it sent a warning to every other country considering leaving as it showed what a catastrophic mistake it would be, but also made the EU look at some of its flaws, thereby strengthening it.

[@cartoonerystudios]

@@rfurdaylee Your commitment to stupidity and failure is comical!!!

[@anneporter123]

Don't send him here to the US! We've got enough of these guys.

[@NotTheRealRogerMurdock]

Well said

[@noelpucarua2843]

He will try to deny he said it. He said that Putin is the world leader he admires the most, and he now tries to deny that. He'll try to say its the Tories fault. But remember, and never forget, it was Farage who ran away from the last general election so that the Tories could win a huge majority, and get Brexit done.

[@globalist1990]

Imagine someone that over 20 years, their only job was trolling the European Parliament, with absolutely nothing done for the benefit of anyone. Meanwhile pocketing a nice wage and benefits and a very comfortable pension for life. And then, worse of all, calling him for an interview... 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣💀

[@geraldbeard856]

Nigel Farage made his career out of saying we should leave the EU...(UKIP) and now he's saying that brexit hasn't worked......his career has been a waste of time then hasn't it

[@MrPhobart]

Not totally. By dodging the EU finance regulations he gets to keep more of his money.

[@elipa3]

Not for him. He got lots of money.

[@niallcasey2057]

Well said James . As an Irish person I was hoping that Britain would stay as part of the EU . The sad thing is that NF and his like have destroyed the way of life in the UK

[@lochnessmunster1189]

What does the EU do, that an actual free market could not do?

[@BuIIetBiII]

Imagine the kind of disconnect from reality you have to have for you to claim brexit was a failure, but then still somehow claim that it wasn't brexit's fault...

[@sonofsomerset1695]

Imagine the kind of disconnect from reality you have to have for you to claim brexit was a failure, ignoring the effects of a global pandemic, lockdowns and a war in Ukraine when you have a Ukraine virtue signal flag in your profile. While also ignoring that Farage was not part of the Brexit deal in anyway yet is still blamed for it by dumb bitter remoaners like O'Brien here.

[@101cheekie]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Well said

[@maartenaalsmeer]

I'm going to plagiarize this comment quite a few times 😃

[@jeanbergeron6451]

Sad to see that the people who lied have no consequences for their actions.

[@allenmontrasio8962]

They're profiting from them, which was their plan all along.

[@syriacchristianity9007]

Hopefully gbnews folds and he will be out of a job

[@LesPaul2006]

Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?

[@Mark-12-31]

Since Brexit has not achieved the promised outcome, should we start a fundraising campaign to help Nigel move out of Britain?

[@LesPaul2006]

@@Mark-12-31 PLEASE.

[@lynnlovattjones4171]

So....as he's a man of integrity!!!! He'll be leaving the country won't he? Hurrah! At last a Brexit benefit!!!

[@inesdamonteines3985]

He should not be allowed to live in any European country. Everyone happy 🎉

[@Veeger]

He's a born liar. That was a lie. We won't be seeing him keeping his word by leaving the uk. Unfortunately. Really, unfortunate.

[@enosger]

Farage moving to Europe

[@lynnlovattjones4171]

@@enosger There's irony?

[@davidbaker6157]

I remember a man of similar integrity telling us across the pond that if he lost the election we’d never see him again; I wouldn’t hold your breath…

[@usha4345]

Anyone with any sense would not have voted to leave !!!!

[@tonycook1624]

Just over half had no sense whatsoever

[@fergusmoloney5259]

Nigel Farage will probably never visit Ireland again. He was arrogant enough to think he could get away with trying to con the Irish viewing public while being interviewed on the number one current affairs programme on Irish TV. The interviewer rounded him for insulting the intelligence of the viewers and said he would not get away his spiel on her channel, nor any of the other Irish TV channels. His only response was to insult her. The channel got thousands of messages saying that, in a land of a thousand welcomes, he should not dare to show himself in Ireland again.

[@jamesbedwell4715]

Didn’t know that, wanna dig that up now :)

[@davidpryle3935]

Was that on the state controlled channel, RTE ?

[@fergusmoloney5259]

@davidpryle3935 Currently, about 43% of RTE income comes from advertising and sales, with the remaining 57% coming from the License Fee. There is no more financial support from the government other than the from the license fee. I would argue it is less dependent on the state than the BBC.

[@davidpryle3935]

@@fergusmoloney5259 Thanks for the breakdown, but I was really referring to the government control of RTE. You could argue some sort of a case about the BBC being independent, but you certainly couldn’t put any case at all in favour of RTE. The presenters know exactly who butters their bread, and will never deviate from the “consensus” when it comes to controversial issues like Brexit. In fact, almost the entire Irish mainstream media are part of this “consensus”. There are hardly any independent journalists left in Ireland. I’m reasonably familiar with the Irish media, and I can’t think of anyone since the “retirement” of Kevin Myers.

[@JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.]

​@@davidpryle3935 maybe they "know who butters their bread and thus won't deviate from the consensus" or maybe they all agree on those things, because they have like 5 brain cells between them and can realize that it's the correct position to take? Just because there aren't 20 Alex Jones' doesn't mean the journalists can't be free. Not saying you're necessarily wrong, just that correlation isn't always causation.

[@pittarak1]

Brexit: when the UK shot itself in the foot.

[@tetchuma]

Then stuck a knife in the wound, and twisted it…

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

And called it only a flesh wound as the leg rotted.

[@derekbiggs6648]

@pitterak1.Both feet and one hand

[@mono2ie]

Didn't shoot themselves in the foot they shot themselves in the HEAD

[@wfifa199]

Are Switzerland and Norway shooting themselves in the foot? Or are their politicians just better than British politicians?

[@Loki_Yogi]

The comparisons with Trump cult here in the States is truly remarkable and I'm sure that historians will be studying this for quite some time. 🙏

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Sadly the populists are benefitting from social media.

[@grennsiwel2344]

That's if the world survives this sh*tstorm.

[@BrianJohnson-du6pj]

If you voted for Brexit and you're unhappy, blame YOURSELF!!!!! You fell for a grift!!!

[@mattharris8622]

Cameron, Farage & Johnson should be held accountable for what they've done!

[@paulgarfield4196]

I have brexit supporting friends, proudly displaying their new Irish passports. 'Only for work' . The hypocrisy, grinds...

[@somtoo1]

This is comedic 😂😂

[@bosoerjadi2838]

If that's their character, hypocritically only looking out for themselves, while striving to spoil it for everyone else, are you sure you can still call them your friends?

[@HoneybeeAwning]

@@bosoerjadi2838 I mean exactly, what does that say about the OP if this is the type of people they call friend?

[@benmcgurk1]

It's disgusting. Ireland spent years fighting for freedom. Now an integral member of the EU as a free and independent country abusing it's passport in this context makes my blood boil.

[@stephenlitten1789]

@@benmcgurk1 There's probably a birthright loophole they're exploiting. Every country has them

[@knowme4iam326]

Ahh Brexit....What a great idea....Conservatives prove again how weak isolationism is....We need each other....No country can go it alone....

[@darrylweathers6764]

Yeah but… come on! Take back control! 350 million a week for the NHS! Sunlit uplands! Etc etc…

[@kbeesmot9928]

Ah you a brexiteer that wants to blame the the Tories and you think that Labour could make brexit work? Why blame the tories, NO political party could make brexit work.

[@JohnRowsell]

@@darrylweathers6764 Least we can get high powered vacuum cleaners and cheap fish fingers

[@knowme4iam326]

@KBEES Thanks for the observation....No I'm not scapegoating. I too believe that Brexit was a poor idea and a load of hogwash to begin with...Cheers

[@cerneuffington2656]

Japan have successfully done it 🙂

[@kudos1729]

As a Canadian, I never understood Brexit, we are all stronger together

[@CarolynMaxwell-x6k]

You can't talk you live under the dictator

[@lochnessmunster1189]

The EU is pointless and meaningless bureaucracy which interferes with free trade, not "enables" it.

[@pearsehall1049]

Nigel should be in jail

[@arthurpewtey]

This. A million times, this.

[@22pcirish]

In solitary, on a very, very remote island.

[@5688gamble]

Just put him in stocks outside a milkshake shop- would help a small business out!

[@saltwell]

Probably. Farage certainly shouldn't be given a platform (as he frequently is) by the BBC or, for that matter, any sensible media outlet.

[@Angeljames.308]

And halal should be banned

[@87vortex87]

The whole Brexit issue was clear from the start. Everything would have been clear from the start for everybody with just one hour of education. The remain campaign spent thousands of hours trying to explain.. some people are just not fit for education.

[@uwewinkler2820]

simply have no capacity

[@theraven6836]

Interesting that both in the UK and the US, the right wing is always wrong but is never called out on it. Ever.

[@ronny-lb1cr]

They should consider to call them out every time they are wrong for the sake of their countries

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Always wrong is overstating it. Nearly always wrong is more accurate lol

[@TrueYellowDart]

@@bipolarminddroppings I generally agree with more measured statements but I’m honestly not able to think of any examples in the last 20 years where they’ve been right. At least in the US. I’m more than happy to hear suggestions.

[@AKAtAGG]

@@bipolarminddroppings they are always wrong on most subjects. And they ARE called out on it, often, by what those right sided people call the 'wokerati'.

[@garyclarke5417]

I think it's obvious that the left wing are always wrong as well, we've had the tories doing a really bad job of everything for some time but they still haven't beaten them in a general election throughout all of it, people don't trust labour and if they do win the next election it'll be because of the need to get the tories out not the need to get labour in

[@kjensen7819]

Farage has never been more than a old car sales man ... How the British never could see this is a huge mystery to me.

[@Trikipum]

It is the english mostly. You know, they are more xenophobic than smart.. and it shows in that thing called "brexit"...

[@sasserine]

The purposes of Brexit were: to keep UK out of the pending EU anti-tax avoidance rules. weaken the EU economy, to aid Russian Tory donors. weaken the likely military aid to Ukraine, ahead of the Russian invasion. On those terms, it was successful.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

RT drove euroskepticism Russia Today was the main reason UKIP got enough of a signal boost

[@Purewalite]

That's a nonsense conspiracy theory. The UK had the 5 laws in the EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive years before the EU and made immaterial amendments to existing legislation to align in 2019. Since Brexit, the EU has weakened legislation in this area. The UK hasn't.

[@hackett152332]

But we’re aiding Ukraine more than ever ?

[@martycarter8203]

Tinfoil hatter

[@sasserine]

@@hackett152332 The UK government is only aiding Ukraine, after performing a U-turn, following public backlash at their inaction. Ukrainian refugees were treated with the same contempt as those from Syria, Afghanistan, etc, until public backlash. And even when they allowed Ukrainians to come, they had to jump through a series of hoops, like needing a sponsor who had all their personal data. Aid for families hosting a refugee runs out quickly, putting strain on the hosts. Almost none of the Putin associates named last year have had the promised sanctions applied. Instead, they have had a year's warning, to move their assets. This is because they fund the Conservative Party.

[@Greedygoblingames]

I very nearly voted for Brexit, until the morning of the vote when I had a moment of clarity and realised my only objections to the EU were based on silly conspiracy theories (and therefore not grounded in fact or reality).

[@petersamson5407]

What made you understand those were conspiracy theories? Most people with that mindset today, seem to think they are the only ones in contact with reality.

[@Greedygoblingames]

@@petersamson5407 I don't know tbh, just took a moment to step back and think critically. I think there's a certain excitement with these conspiracy theories about "knowing" things aren't all they seem which is probably what hooks in many folk... that and a sense of belonging to a "special" group/gang/family that makes them feel smarter. The rest is just plain old brainwashing.

[@savannahglebe5165]

Of course you did…. 🙄

[@robertcottam8824]

​@@savannahglebe5165 It's a pity that you still haven't.

[@savannahglebe5165]

@@robertcottam8824 Still haven’t what??

[@Paul-eb4jp]

Brexit was always destined to fail but it hasn't failed Farage it's made him a fortune, it's been his career and he's got a hefty MEP pension heading his way.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

It was always destined to fail with people that didnt believe in it in charge yes, blaming Farage that had no influence on how it was done at any stage is a joke, just shows how bitter O'Brien is.

[@AnnaHolley-f7y]

How very true 😁👍

[@steverafferty4114]

Brilliant James, well said. It was a grift and he was one of the lead grifters

[@lochnessmunster1189]

No. What does the EU do, that a free market cannot do?

[@davidrose213]

Farage is just a professional critic. He enabled this Tory Government. He’s never had any real responsibility, just shouting from the sidelines. He’s got to protect himself over Brexit because he was one of the main promoters.

[@dodgytrump9868]

Nigel Farage obviously failed Economics 101 not to mention International Economics 101.

[@that_heretic]

He's the epitome of f&%ck you, got mine. He doesn't care about everyone else.

[@sarahbarrett1247]

Not to mention failed Basic Human Being 101. I’d love to watch him read out his genetic results and realise he’s not exactly the pure English man he tries to convince people that he is 😂

[@flyingpanhandle]

I put it to Farage, that our politicians aren't at all comparable to the commissioners in Brussels he finds useless. They've managed to out manoeuvre our government at every single step. We can only dream of having politicians that competent. If we did, we would never have had brexit to begin with.

[@operationgoldfish8331]

The Commissioners aren't politicians. They're civil servants and, as such, have zero decision making power, as hat power rests with the elected representatives in the EU Parliament and Assembly. They were allocated decision making power during the covid pandemic, in order to streamline the EU's strategy, but this was an exception and even that was made due to a democratic decision. The EU didn't need to out maneuver our government, who were quite successfully doing this to themselves. All the EU had to do was stand its round and uphold international law.

[@SenorSol]

Very true!

[@chrisgray4651]

​​@@operationgoldfish8331 very true, but it suits farages agenda to call them commisioners as it reinforces his unelected commisioners claim.

[@edricaldones9639]

And that was while the commissioners were trying to be as nice as possible to the UK.

[@verystripeyzebra]

Who'd have thought it. One of the best negotiating teams on the planet, up against Lord frost.

[@neilhardy8211]

It’s all his fault. Camaron went for brexit in a pathetic attempt to shut Farage up

[@markdoyle6414]

He was happy to stand his party's candidates down to let the Tories in. If he was so sure about how to make Brexit work then he should have had the back bone and conviction to put up his candidates, but he probably didn't have a clue just like the Tories didn't.

[@vilebrequin6923]

Very true!

[@mact6365]

This is the real gripe for me this guy conned everyone and then just walked away. Like convincing someone to poke their eye out then walking away after they've done it.

[@rknape]

Farage, Tories, all them lot should hang their heads in shame

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

_they do not experience shame._

[@kamilomar9134]

The question is - 'does Farage know what shame is!!'

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

You mean: Farage, Tories, all them lot should hang.

[@terryloftus3207]

They cant because THEY have no SHAME

[@susanmorgan3104]

They have NO shame / shameless.

[@kingcurry6594]

Farage has a lot in common with Putin: both seem to be able to create an alternative version of history which means that their catastrophic mistakes are never their fault.

[@jaeldartey1380]

Please leave putin out of this

[@tinamurray5610]

And Trump he even spoke at Trump Maga cult rally!

[@KeiKAndLies]

​@@jaeldartey1380what, did it hit a tender part of where the reality and truth processing part of your brain was.😅

[@knyghtryder3599]

​@@jaeldartey1380 said every moronic putler fan boy ever

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

Keep coping and lying, saxon.....you got yourselves into this mess, not putin....

[@tonywilson4713]

I'm Australian and do you know what I find totally amazing about this are Nigel Farage's opening words. Nigel's own words _"What Brexit's proved I'm afraid is that our politicians are about as useless as the Commissioners in Brussels were"_ Correct me if I misunderstand this: 1) He was elected to the European Commission, which means he's a POLITICIAN. 2) He immediately resigned after the Brexit vote. 3) He refused to be involved in any of the negotiations and left it to others to deal with what he created. *SO WHAT DOES that make him in his OWN WORDS?* By the way he was here in Australia recently on some sort of speaking tour. Can you guys kindly keep this clown in your own country we don't need him here.

[@mrror8933]

He was elected to the European Parliament. He was on the fisheries committee of the European Parliament and never bothered to attend the meetings. He would just turn up at the plenary sessions to prance about.

[@tonywilson4713]

@@mrror8933 Thanks. It still comes back to some odd questions. What's his goal? What does he want? Why was he here in Australia on a speaking tour? Brexit isn't our issue so why was he even here? Other than wanting attention I can't see much else. 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

[@combatwombat2134]

Well, I do agree with him on one thing. Our politicians are useless.

[@shinankoku2]

Winner!

[@kumasenlac5504]

Certainly compared to our bureaucrats - Yes Minister ? The Blob was never going to allow Brexit to happen.

[@milsub59]

The Government you clown

[@PopularesVox]

It would be hard not to agree with that. Anything else that comes out of his opiniated mouth, really isn't worth listening to, as many others on channels like this.

[@fishmanfairclough7530]

@@PopularesVox Unfortunately he is positioning himself very much like Trump these guys are useless, I wonder who he will promote as an alternative?

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Brexiteers...We want Sovereignty...You know The Sovereignty they never lost to begin with. 🙄

[@mullingar365]

The Sovereignty the individual never had in the first place!!

[@carlarthur4442]

Go and have another look at what T Blair signed away to the E U .

[@christinequinn5355]

@@mullingar365 With a hereditary billionaire Monarch, to which they are legally "subjects", an unelected House of Lords, an exclusionary vicious class system and a NON democratic Electoral System - you are CORRECT.

[@olearyma57]

@@mullingar365 The Individual has even less of it now. Nicely divined. You seen my taxi lately.

[@JohnRowsell]

@@mullingar365 We are all subjects of the Saxe-Coburg Gotha Mountbatten family.

[@devroombagchus7460]

I am old enough to have been against De Gaule, except his decision to withdraw from Algeria and his veto to let the UK in. I am still convinced that England, not the UK, can only function in any union if they are in charge. It was funny to observe the bewilderment of English pensioners in France, Spain, Portugal to find out that after their beloved Brexit, the authorities treated them as if they were from e.g. Paraguay.

[@ZakhadWOW]

Combine the English Remainers with the other 3 countries and they outvote the English leavers.. and yet, only that one segment of total UK population was allowed to force this nightmare on everyone else. England has forever been the source of nearly all evil tied to the "UK" umbrella, ever since they forcibly annexed Wales/Ireland and backdoored their way into controlling Scotland. I say this with clear acknowledgement of around 65% ENGLISH ancestry, with a bit each from SCO/IRE (out of the British Isles portion of genetic code). I'm not particularly proud of English history and the global harm/damage as a result. Remember it wasnt the Scottish MPs in 1770s that drove the American COlonists away.. it was The *English* ones. Sigh.

[@jonasholzhausen2801]

I’m German and I remember the big new of the referendum. From here looking in it was a shock, it felt as if I had missed some thing completely.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

I am one to admit I fell for the lies of Brexit back in 2016, and accept all anger or replies I deserve.

[@georgethepatriot2785]

List oif lies please

[@jonlinin9682]

Well you had a lot of people lying to you, including nearly all of our press. Hopefully, one day, you will be able to vote to rectify the situation. Best wishes, a remoaner

[@Tas17.4]

​@@georgethepatriot2785 if you don't know by now, you are one Thick clueless Muppet

[@davidnorthrop2298]

You are forgiven.

[@davidnorthrop2298]

@@georgethepatriot2785 they were written on the side of a bus....where were You.

[@freakygoblin3068]

Not my fault says Farage. It wasn't that I promised the undeliverable. What amazes me is the amount of time media gives him instead of people who actually could be constructive.

[@danhodson7187]

Unfortunately constructive doesn’t generate clicks and ad-revenue. In this modern post-truth world we live in, the more inflammatory, divisive, controversial, ‘hot take’ you are, the more air time you will be given. At least that’s how it seems to me. ‘They’ don’t really care what is broadcast or streamed or printed, so long as they earn from it.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

So remind us when Farage was the Prime Minster again, or even in Government or ANY position to control how Brexit was handled? Oh yeah he wasnt, so jog on you sore losers with your dumb accusations.

[@alanhynd7886]

It would not have been undeliverable if the Houses of Parliament had respected the vote.

[@freakygoblin3068]

@@alanhynd7886 Which version of deliverable brexit are you talking about as brexiteers couldn't even decide amongst themselves what brexit meant. Still cannot. 80 seat majority in parliament for Boris with his "oven ready deal" and brexit failed because "parliament didn't respect the vote" is your argument. Really....

[@olaa5534]

Guys like Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees Mogg don't own up any negative outcome. It is always somebody else fault and not a result of their decision making or government policies. I can't wait for the next General Election to see how the nations will vote (in particular the English Counties).

[@susanwaite1187]

Elections used to be every four years until weasel Cameron and Lib Dems in coalition changed it to five.

[@sonofsomerset1695]

I cant wait to see how morons like Labour ruin the country even more, no doubt you'll still be blaming Farage who at no stage had any power to do the things they wanted

[@fluentpiffle]

Why would they do something as idiotic as ‘voting’?

[@simplywanda1065]

American here, Mr. O'Brien I like your level headedness and willingness to point out stupidness when you see it. Stay safe and healthy and keep on speaking truth.

[@lochnessmunster1189]

What does the EU do, that true free trade couldn't?

[@simplywanda1065]

@@lochnessmunster1189 Where does "true" free trade exist that hasn't been corrupted by greed?

[@lochnessmunster1189]

@@simplywanda1065 If we, the people, understand the benefits of free trade (not the nonsense version like the EU) we can put pressure on politicians to actually implement it. Get rid of tariffs, protectionism, minimum wage laws, quotas and subsidies. None of these things are needed, and actually cause problems.

[@honestcommenter8424]

2:34 "If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad, I will go and live somewhere else". That doesn't make sense, if it became a disaster he should stay and live the disaster he created not escaping it.

[@catherinefraser8177]

Then Nigel Farage will be an immigrant. Let's hope he will not be entering the country of his choice on a small boat

[@allip4226]

Makes perfect sense - he was promising to dodge responsibility for his failures, as usual!

[@MrFunjaby]

Something that was never achievable is now someone else's fault. This guy has made a mug of the people in this country. Unforgivable

[@batcollins3714]

If the EU is so bad will he hand back his EU pension

[@andrewhamilton6677]

Agree.....totally and utterly unforgiveable. And the worst part is we, as a country, have to live with it for decades to come.

[@InternationalBrit]

He wanted it, he started it, he meddled in the vote. He is responsible.

[@nick1065]

For what?

[@FBECapital]

Refreshing to hear so much logic being freestyled so effortlessly and accurately.

[@razorwireclouds5708]

Fascists NEVER take responsibility for anything. James really needs to stop being too scared to use the word. They are fascists and should be treated as such.

[@NoContextRDH]

Oh grow up

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

@@NoContextRDH But there is a resurgence of fascism in the UK that needs calling out, and then ROOTING OUT.

[@reeling-in]

Britain is being gaslit by those idiots in London!

[@rfurdaylee]

Its called democracy you schmuck!!

[@opinion3742]

@@NoContextRDH Because fascism is a thing of the past and has only one look?

[@Threxis]

It's really difficult to adopt the "contempt for the conman, compassion for the conned" When half the country was screaming from the rooftops that this was a bad idea, and that remoaners/rejoiners like me have been dragged out of the EU kicking and screaming

[@LordBillington42]

Amazing how turning such a complex issue into a yes/no question caused problems. Who would have thought.

[@gravyblue]

Much easier to turn them into left/right issues.

[@matthewmattkirk7841]

Just like joining the EU (or it's forerunner) in the 1970s...a simple 'yes/no' referendum.

[@KB_13247]

when nigel farage says "we mismanaged this horribly." then isn't he just saying HE mismanaged this horribly? cause he was one of the people responsible for this and was offered power back when it happened.

[@theobserver9131]

I think most of the world could see this coming.

[@commentsarefree4311]

We did. No surprises

[@maxharbig1167]

Anyone that expects a con man to admit that he has conned you is living in cloud cuckoo land..

[@Krisowy]

Spot on...he's exactly like Trump - once the con is discovered just double down on lies, never admit guit, switch the goal post, blame everyone else, and move on to another mark...gammons and maga Muppets are perfect marks for sociopaths like this.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

.....getting the conned to accept they were conned, is far, far more difficult.

[@maxharbig1167]

@@genghisthegreat2034 I would have said just as difficult. Much of a Muchness.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

@@maxharbig1167 the conned have to admit something to themselves, about their own judgement. The conman only has to admit something of no consequence, to people he didn't think much of to begin with.

[@georgec7899]

REGREXIT IS ALIVE AND WELL

[@ianh2389]

Never heard of this James guy until this video but very astute and pretty much says it all. Not just about Farage but the parties and where we have ended up.

[@PaulB58]

Brexit is like opening a local shop and telling everyone in a 10 mile radius they have to fill in a 40 page document for every item they buy Every person I know stopped buying from the UK because of taxes and paperwork it effectively cut off 350 million customers

[@Aegmog]

The EU do like their paperwork. They insisted we fill out your forms.

[@csharpe5787]

​@@Aegmog will we didn't have to fill it out as part of the EU.

[@Aegmog]

@@csharpe5787 With Brexit, the EU lost one it's largest contributors.. do you think they would make things simple and easy? Of course they will insist we fill out the 40page forms, it gives you the opportunity to complain.

[@markmoran916]

@@Aegmogare you a bit simple?🙄

[@Aegmog]

@@markmoran916 The logic is simple. Do you not understand supply and demand?

[@angeldc54]

I live in Spain and we miss you guys, we were stronger together 😢

[@grahamfunnell5590]

Miss you too. ❤

[@rubberduck2401]

You are renting apartments I see. No we don't miss you, finally laws and trade agreements are a getting faster implemented without GB special partnership. You know for every EU trade agreement there was special negotiation because of them. Pls stay there as a reminder for rest of right wing parties and voters in the EU

[@normanchristie4524]

Don't forget that it was the EU Commission's intention to examine 'Off shore finances' that fired up the Tories.

[@gaptaxi]

Yes, it was Cameron that suddenly wanted to save his overseas accounts. If you could drain that swamp then everybody in the UK would be really well off! But the City of London runs them.

[@verystripeyzebra]

And historically they were pro Europe and Labour sceptical. This flipped on the inclusion of the social chapters at the inception of the single market. So the tories cooled when minimum paid holidays and max working weeks were introduced. They are still itching to get rid of these particular bits of eu "red tape" as they call it. There's a reason they call it red tape and not workers rights.

[@iainpattison903]

Farage has done the right thing in criticising the Conservative Party regarding Brexit.