Brexit & Trump - Voters Choose Decline & Chaos

[@alexanderromanov737]

Unfortunately Britain is flat broke, The whole UK is just about on its backside. State schools are underfunded by about 50%, our kids are growing up thick as mince, no languages, music no school trips, even the buildings are falling down. Councils, who have to provide services for the needy have been underfunded annually by 50%. No housing for 12 million low earners, all because large groups of greedy xenophobic halfwits,, farmers, fishermen, car workers, steel workers and old people were the big Brexit voting groups, all voted to cut off 450 million wealthy customers that live just one days lorry ride away from our farms and factories. Now, they want to be compensated for thier stupidity. Tax them hard, I say, let them bleed, they broke the country, and ruined life for the other half of us, that told them how stupid they were being. Now they want tax breaks. Are they having a laugh? Someone will have to pay for this catastrophic Brexit

[@robsucher9419]

How dare you call those particular Brits halfwits! That way overstates their cognitive abilities.

[@joecesa1013]

I'm an American (don't hold it against me!), have followed British news for the last couple decades. I really appreciate your opinions and perspectives--and think you're spot on. It makes sense to me, I don't know what others are seeing. Thank you.

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

Do you need Asylum in Europe?

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you Joe 😊

[@sc3pt1c4L]

Following the mainstream media is your problem.

[@Brexit_Buccaneer]

@@joecesa1013 ML is spouting the usual, chagrinned, anti brexit twaddle. This is the same Ilk of rant that the remain campaign vomited up at the UK is during the referendum purdah. And we ignored that swill, too.

[@alexanderromanov737]

@@Brexit_Buccaneer Firstly, I'm waiting to hear what the UK has to offer, I can't think of anything, maybe they could offer BMW to not pay a royalty for using the Union Jack in the Mini car tail lights, or maybe they could agree that the Polish makers of the best tasting Worcestershire sause should be able to use the trade mark 'Worcester Sause' instead of the Indian owned factory in Worcester. After all, most banking is slowly moving EU side and that will accellerate next year, most manufacturing has had to relocate to the JIT friendly side of the Iron Curtain the Brexiters built allong the shitsmeared side of La Manche, UK car production is down 1 million cars since before Brexit, so there's not much to offer there, all the regulatory departments, like chemicals, drugs etc. have all moved back inside the EU for protection from well spoken English spivves with a greedy, selfish agenda. And worst but not least, all the skilled healthy, motivated, young highly productive Polish, Portuguese, Latvian, Italian workers have all gone home or to another place where they will, this time, be valued. So this new reset negotiation will look a bit like one side of the table, the EU, with a million benefits to swap for .... on the other side the UK, a completely empty basket of beach sewage, closed and derelict shops and factories and a skip full of lies, unkept prommises and a loud whining sound. . Good luck Kier

[@binkyboobosh1]

It's nice to have the grown ups back in charge. Sadly, the UK public can be very childish and accepting that Brexit was an utter mistake is a bitter pill to take....

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

Excellent as always Michael 👏👏👏 Keep up your great work ✊

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thanks you Andrew 😊

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

@MichaelLambert1 You're most welcome indeed Michael. I always like to let you know just how much your weekly words of wisdom are appreciated 👍

[@alexanderromanov737]

@@andrewmaccallum2367 Me too, I like the facial expressions, my daughter says I'm just like Michael, but with much more swearing.

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

@@alexanderromanov737 😆 👍

[@mostlyindica]

Thank you Michael, have a great week.

[@davidwright8432]

To expect any warmth for Britain from the EU is laughable. In as direct, if demotic, terms, their attitude is likely, 'You wanted out. You're out. On yer bike. Piss off.' As to any chance of readmission (zero, I think): how many divorces from he same partner can a relationship survive? Even if in full contrition, the UK said 'We do repent us of our act; please accept our apology and readmit us', the reply would be, 'Even taking that at face value from your government, what guarantee could there be that your successor wouldn't reverse the reversal? None. So, no. Good riddance to bad rubbish.'

[@davidbrisbane7206]

BREXIT is the gift that keeps on taking and so, it's quite right to continue to point out the folly of BREXIT and hope that enough people never forget this and do something about it when the opportunity arises.

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@davidbrisbane7206 and when will that be? 😅😅

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@davidbrisbane7206 assuming they haven't all been institutionalised by then. 😅😅

[@davidbrisbane7206]

@SuperRipper1888 It's more likely that they just switch off from politics and think it doesn't matter what they think, the people with lobby groups and the most money will prevail.

[@DavidCarrol-i2q]

Britain is a poor country getting rapidly poorer. This could be November 2016 or 2024. It was never going to work.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

it´s not a poor country, it´s a rich country with a horrendous wealth distribution. We´re not getting poorer so much as we aren´t getting richer.

[@AnnLeitch-v5r]

" A slow puncture" what a good way to describe it!

[@michaeltagg492]

@@AnnLeitch-v5r more like trying to drive with a trailer attached all of the time.

[@AnnLeitch-v5r]

@michaeltagg492 a trailer with 2 slow punctures!

[@cormackeenan8175]

Mr. Lambert, your comment regarding your relationship with the royal family gave me a laugh-out-loud moment during what can only be described as a new dark age.

[@lorenzobianchini4415]

" I can re set my relationship with the Royal family but it doesnt mean am going to go round for tea"😅😅😅😅.

[@ilonabaier6042]

NB: trupie does NOT care for the US - ONLY for himself.

[@LANCSKID]

@@ilonabaier6042 who is ‘trupie’?

[@tonycollyweston6182]

​@@LANCSKIDTrump

[@martinburn]

This is the die hard brexiteers belief that the UK being independent will be first in the queue for Asian deals and USA deals as if the EU with it's trading power will not be able to do much better deals with these trading blocks, just deluded, great talk Michael, absolutely spot on.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thanks Martin 😊

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@martinburn so why haven't they?

[@martinburn]

@SuperRipper1888 ?

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@martinburn made those Asian and US deals.

[@martinburn]

@@SuperRipper1888 the USA and EU have the biggest bi lateral trade deal on the planet, as for brics well I suppose you know who are the founders, Russia, China, and India, so the wars at the moment are influencing factors in trade negotiations, no, I think that's what your getting at.

[@xcastille6161]

I have no problem at all to admit the EU is far from perfect. It's not easy to find common ground between 27 countries, some with opposing interests. Life expectancy reflects how a society is thriving. It covers healthcare, hygiene, nutrition, education, research, the environment, the economy, elder care, infrastructure, ... . When comparing to whatever other part of the world not a lot of countries would decline to become a member of the EU.

[@xcastille6161]

I'm really curious how BRICS will evolve. Varying levels of economic development, governance structures and political ideologies can lead to disagreements on key issues, potentially diluting the effectiveness of the group on cohesive decision making.

[@globalismoblackman]

100% Correct 👍

[@petervanderwoude6316]

​@xcastille6161 brics is a dead on arrival thing. Not a single of those countries trust any of the others. A common trade currency, they can't even trade among themselves. No one trusts the rubble, rupi or renmimbi.

[@Irish780]

So keep out then and have no trade is that a progress then

[@michaeltagg492]

Need to get back towards the EU asap. Not going to happen overnight but the journey needs to start.

[@fintonmainz7845]

Half a century at least

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@fintonmainz7845 😅😅😅😅

[@Jay...777]

Read Marx if you want to fix your economy. Your cost of living is way way too high to be competitive. More debt is not the answer. War only makes you a lot poorer.

[@philbraithwaite1316]

You’re correct with regards to Badenoch Michael. PMQs was cringeworthy.

[@uweinhamburg]

When the country needs giants, it got dwarfs...

[@Azmodaeus49]

Badenoch is a Tory placeholder, she's indirectly basically going to prepare for her successor (tory successor). She hasn't got that leadership skills to even be his majesty opposition at all, she's crap. I'm no fan of Starmer either, but I don't mind him taking a political chunk out of her every month for the next 5 years

[@davidmcculloch8490]

President Chump and his MAGA-MORONS will prove to us the stupidity of brexit.

[@amcc5887]

Good-morning micheal ☘️

[@paulinegibson7010]

We need to rejoin the EU urgently !

[@abbofun9022]

Sorry, UK can’t, no fast track re-entry process exists in the EU.

[@neilbower9052]

@@abbofun9022 besides they have got a lot more done for the EU has a whole since the whining self-serving english left

[@fintonmainz7845]

We don't want the whining poms in Our Union.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Brexiteers still think he will help Britain

[@danielcraig4974]

*Brexitards

[@kieranmclaughlin8920]

Thank you, Michael. Peace and love. 🙏 x

[@raymondcandys869]

Awful mess. Michael's economic analysis is 100% right, and as a moderate Labour voter, all agreed. But this problem must evolve beyond economics, and wash up in the muddy bath of Realpolitik, and realistic options. I would bet £1,000 that the Labour front bench [and our old fashioned, now defunct moderate Tories] also agrees with Michael's analysis, but then there's the rub, not only with the great British public - many of whom are still in denial about it, and our cautions[despite them being with an aire of "I know obviously you wouldn't be daft enough but....], and even a Government leaflet on every doorstep also cautioning them in 2016.... but also the sticky legal issues of going straight back, and the optics on the world stage if we did. Not to say we absolutely must, but practically...please - any experts in European Consituitional Union law around?

[@dougposkitt1690]

The EU is a rules based organization. Its rules for third countries apply uniformly to ALL such countries. There's no special deal to be had for the UK. We cannot "reset" anything; rather we can just be more polite and genial in our relationship with the EU. That's all. Brexit is a reality - a very sad one - and the UK will have to suck up the consequences. Brexit is a terminal error and we are and will pay the price. The UK can apply to join, but acceptance is far from certain and in any case would take the best part of 10 years. We have well and truly tucked ourselves up in an awful manner. To all those idiots who couldn't see past the lies and deceit of the Leave campaign ... you morons have wrecked our long term prospects for nothing more than a bit of flag waving.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

Brexit´s not a terminal error, it´s an error. And countries make them all the time, i.e look at Germany and their energy policy, that´s really screwed their economy.

[@johngamble967]

Very true.

[@civis.revixit]

Article 8. 1. The Union shall develop a special relationship with neighbouring countries, aiming to establish an area of prosperity and good neighbourliness, founded on the values of the Union and characterised by close and peaceful relations based on cooperation.

[@civis.revixit]

​@@Minimmalmythicist brexit is the verdict of the UK electorate on EU membership. It is not "an error". There was no mistake.

[@michaelmckelvey5122]

6.19 It was not Johnson who destroyed our place in Europe, it was david Cameron who called the Brexit vote in the first place.

[@SuperRipper1888]

A remoaner then.

[@abbofun9022]

@@SuperRipper1888 time to come up with a new one. Talking about ‘remoaners’ in 2024 just shows your utter lack of arguments and imagination.

[@simonfernandes6809]

​@@SuperRipper1888I see brexiteers are still churning out the same old tired tripe.

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@abbofun9022 it's a fact. Own it.

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@simonfernandes6809 you think cameron was a leaver? You thick as mince oaf. 😅😅

[@davelevalley6511]

Speaking from across the channel here. It looks like you painted yourself into a corner there folks. Re-joining the EU? Errr, too much trust lost and damage done I am afraid, still, good luck going forward.

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

Ahh. The French. One of our greatest allies! I think not!

[@davelevalley6511]

@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb being presumptious can end up in you looking like a right tw@t

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

@@davelevalley6511 Or even a tw@t that's right.

[@sc3pt1c4L]

Thank you, keep up that attitide to help ensure we never re join.

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

@@davelevalley6511 I think you mean a tw@t that's right.

[@liamgaynor3576]

Great take on Brexit

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thanks Liam 😊

[@EricaNernie]

A Nigerian who is rude and aggressive? How could that be?

[@pjsd7069]

Regretfully 'English' pride blocks to admit what's obvious, Brexit has been just wrong decision, which doesn't give any prospect to achieve what it dreamed about, but the pride of politicians and still some people who all are noisy enough to tune on the national pride tone prevents to admit 'the emperor is naked here, he doesn't have any clothes'

[@sc3pt1c4L]

It has barely had a chance. Was the EU perfect after a couple of years? It still isn't!

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

@@sc3pt1c4L where is the roadmap to the sunlit upland's we were promised?

[@abbofun9022]

@@sc3pt1c4L the EU will never be perfect and we now it, but you will be hard pressed to name even 1 measurable benefit of Brexit beyond empty phrases around sovereignt.

[@sc3pt1c4L]

@@abbofun9022 1. Not having to fight wars on Europes behalf . 2. No conscription into armed services. 3. not paying billions of GDP for 'free' trade. 4. End of freedom of movement for undesirables. 5. Ability to make independent trade deals. 6. Ability to deregulate excessive red tape in business and manufacturing 7. Independent procurement of medicines and vaccines. 8. Own territorial fishing waters. 9. Ability to subsidise manufacturing in the short term during recessions to maintain vital sectors. 10. Ability to set our own (higher) standards of safety and environment. Oops, you said I would be hard pressed to find one - there were 10 in 1 minute.

[@abbofun9022]

@ the list is so incredibly laughable it just beggars believe you actually wrote that down, none of the items mentioned have materialised and most have even gotten worse after Brexit.

[@seanworrall-s7i]

Good to see you agen Mr Michael lambert excellent video

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you Sean 😊

[@AlanPhillips-l6m]

As always Michael A brilliant analysis of Trump and his cronies. I still can’t believe the stupidity of the American voters

[@rashomon351]

As long as they see themselves as the Brexit party, every possible Tory leader will soon be recognized as a "there's nothing there"-leader and fall from grace. Because there's nothing in Brexit that could ever make anything substantial to stand on. If there were any Brexit benefits, somebody would have discovered them in the last 8 years. At this point it merely became a sort of a religious thing: if you'll only believe hard enough, you'd maybe be greeted by a Union-Jack-wrapped Nigel at the gates to Brexit heaven.

[@Risingtide930]

James O’Brien came up with a good analogy yesterday regarding Labour’s idea of not rejoining the single market or the customs union but instead “resetting” our relationship with the EU. “It’s like someone cancelling their membership of a leisure club and then coming back and saying, I don’t want to rejoin but can I have 10 minutes in the spa?”

[@margaretnoakes9868]

Good one ! Resetting ? My arse.

[@allonwne]

Or may I use your toilet!

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

What if I cancel my membership at that leisure club, because it's full of sneering, arrogant, pompous S-libs, who hate my guts, and instead, join one that isn't?

[@MrJudge51]

@@Risingtide930 No such as ressetting. Yur in the game. All of it. Or you are not.

[@frankriley845]

The power of a lot of stupid people is great said George Carlin he was right

[@brucster99b2]

Ever heard the phrase, "A dog tucking its tail between its legs"? Very apt comparison for the U.K./EU fiasco. Well done Boris! Who's a good boy then...🐕

[@gottagowork]

The ultra far right achieving their goals after years of russian influense, to me, is more like the dog who finally caught the car and don't know what to do with it.

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

Agreed, Micheal... We cannot,and must not, sweep Brexit under the carpet.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I don´t think it needs to be swept under the carpet, however I do think if you want to improve things for the better in the UK, it is necessary to make a coalition and driving a culture war isn´t going to help do that. I could live with a government that didn´t do much on Brexit, as long as it did things like increase the income tax and invest money in building more social housing etc.

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

I doubt you've ever swept anything under the carpet. You probably rely on cheap, foreign labour to do it for you.

[@kieranmclaughlin8920]

Most simplistic.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Thank you.

[@chiccabay9911]

Thanks Michael..have a good week end.

[@Brexit_Buccaneer]

@@chiccabay9911 he can't. He doesn't have two positive synapses to rub together.

[@AM-fs1je]

Turmp would never keep his word or his side of any bargain.

[@daveball137]

At least they have started to call Brexit out and the taboo of mentioning Brexit may start to diminish.

[@chiccabay9911]

They want you to stay dumb..first they fascinate the fools,then they muzzle the intelligent.

[@abbofun9022]

I like your positive attitude, a touch naive maybe but far better than the continuous nonsense of immediate rejoining as if that’s even possible.

[@MrJudge51]

As a Dutch, .. i kept saying again and again, from the very first Initiative to split up. This is foolishness. A Shakespeare's drama. Nevertheless,the brits, took it for granted. Its not. Its not granted .

[@andrewrobinson2565]

Excellent video ❤👍+1.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you Andrew 😊

[@Brexit_Buccaneer]

@@andrewrobinson2565 only if you are a dour, morose depressive, looking to get sectioned.

[@romansUK]

“Going for growth” but throws 4.5% GDP down the Brexit drain.

[@garthlyon]

Voters to choose to ensure a lot of other people are made as poor and blind to/deprived of opportunities as they are.

[@leo1961berlin]

Michael, never ever stop talking about Brexit. It is the worst calamity to befall the UK since the Second World War. However, I've always said that nothing, absolutely nothing is set in stone or should be deemed to be irrevocable. No territorial borders (unless you live on an island) remain totally unchanged over time, nor political systems, nor treaties and alliances. So Brexit too will go the way of all batteries: eventually it will run out of juice, but talking about it over and over again means it'll use up essential energy faster than would otherwise have been the case. However, I disagree that there are more encouraging signs from Starmer and his acolytes. It's all window-dressing. He's wily enough to keep putting out feelers and talking about re-sets, because that way he can pacify most of his parliamentary party, who are much keener on the EU than he is. If Starmer had genuinely wanted to start repairing some of the damage he's been complicit in, he'd have taken up the EU's offer of freedom of movement for 18-35 year-olds. In any case, what on earth would he have to offer the EU as a bargaining chip in any genuine "re-set" talks? He says no to everything. Try that approach in a business negotiation and see how far you'd get.

[@ab-ym3bf]

There has never been an offer for FOM for 18-35 year olds. Other than that, agree. It wasn't just the constant refusal to agree to a youth mobility Programm, but also him not filling the positions for the UK part of the commission overseeing the TCA says enough about his willingness to have an actual "reset".

[@jamesgravil9162]

"It is the worst calamity to befall the UK since the Second World War." I would say the Battle of Hastings, but technically there wasn't a UK back then.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I think Brexit is bad, but it´s a symptom of the worst thing to hit Britain, namely Thatcherism. It was a second harrying of the North.

[@ilonabaier6042]

Where will the growth come from? Answer: just like Alice, the UK can grow and grow and grow.

[@springchicken893]

To those who say ‘shut up about Brexit’ I say ‘change channel.’

[@marinusvos]

And to those who keep whining and moaning all the time I'd say "next time think before you vote"! O, joining the EU will take the UK at least 20-30 years. So stop whining and moaning and start working on being able to apply! At the moment the UK can't do the latter, because she doesn't qualify!

[@sfactory8253]

@@marinusvos no point until the main opposition party also wants to rejoin. But the rate things are going that could be the lib dems soon. With reform hovering round the tories like a bad smell that puts the kibosh on any thought of it at the present time . I'm afraid there's no going back any time soon .

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@sfactory8253 liebour don't want to rejoin so what are you prattling on about?

[@fintonmainz7845]

Giving orders. I never tire of telling Brits that they are unwanted in the EU

[@SuperRipper1888]

@@fintonmainz7845 we fucked you off remember? You can't bin someone after they've binned you. 😅😅

[@GeorgeDale-bm5us]

The USA and UK have been in decline for many years. They don't need any politician to worsen things.. Who was the last competent President or PM?

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I think we desperately need someone who can make a coalition to make the necessary changes. We need another Atlee/Roosevelt.

[@chiccabay9911]

Right.They had a film star in the USA..now a reality star, twice.You can´t make it up. The stage with the Drumpfs looks like Mdm.Tussauds. Now there is Elon,first lady.

[@treyquattro]

there's an article in The Atlantic that I tend to agree with: Trump is to America as Berlusconi was to Italy. An Italian friend was bereft at the time when Berlusconi was running Italy (into the ground, I might add). I think there's going to be a lot of Americans with the same outlook. The really bad thing is that such leaders cause despair, depression and disaster. What will America look like in four years time? Will the few remaining good and intelligent Americans be able to get their democracy back? I sincerely doubt it.

[@derekarnold3665]

Good post.

[@Sausage1958]

If Trump does place tariffs on goods there will be a very bad recession.

[@alexanderromanov737]

You may have believed the .Gov statistics that we had .0001 % growth, well, if you did, I have a gold Rolex to sell you for 75 quid if you act fast, it has a 10 year guarantee, makes toast at the weekend and tells you the time you want accurately and assures that the rest of the world fits in. Hurry. BRITAIN IS ALREADY IN A SEVERE DEPRESSION, WORSE THAN RECCESSION because a recession can be carefully corrected and improvement can be built on the basis of some economic progress. Britain has a declining economy, more firms are closing than opening, more skilled people are leaving than are coming or being produced, our jewel in the crown is relocating to preferable trading regeoins, with no new opperations coming on line to replace them, farming is now impractical, cheap food slurry can now be imprted from tha waste that Australia would otherwise have shitcanned, No new rock bands are on the way up, like they allways used to be, very little of the new tech is remaining in the UK, it's all going to Poland, USA and Asia, where the investors are. I'm sorry to say, that not one sector comes to mind for growth, UNi's no, farming, no, banking no, manufacturing, no energy, no, shipping no, you name it it is on it's arse in the UK but growing everywhere else. Jump ship, start searching for a way out now, it won't be long before any opportunities all dry up, for the Brits to move, and then you'll be feeding your children cardboard soup.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

I'm going to shut up about Brexit in 2026. In 2016 I had a bank account in England. Now I don't... 😊

[@jackliv23]

excellent as always Michael...its about time the English people,and I stress English people owned up to the catastrophic decision that is brexshit........

[@Tom_murray89]

They are giving labour an easy pass the winning the 2029 election.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thanks Jack 😊

[@CthulhuInc]

UK: look how we destroyed ourselves with brexit! USA: hold my beer...

[@desertdetroiter428]

😂

[@sc3pt1c4L]

EU: Where did treasure island go? Now Germany is stalling, we're f**ked!

[@desertdetroiter428]

@@sc3pt1c4L wishful thinking? Germany will be fine over the long haul. Britain will NOT!

[@SuperRipper1888]

​@@desertdetroiter428delusional be thy name. 😂😂

[@desertdetroiter428]

@@SuperRipper1888delusional or not, we both know that Germany will do whatever it has to do to protect its citizens from the worst effects of any economic downturn. Britain will most certainly NOT do anything to protect its citizens no matter what. The British government doesn’t care if Britain becomes fully Dickensian again as long as the oligarchs stay rich. And you’re not in the oligarchic class.

[@nigellacey559]

People need to keep going on about brexit. It's the only way to get things changed

[@julianshepherd2038]

You think at some point the 27 will ask us back to insult them and wreck things some more ? I'd give it 30 years before they are interested.

[@marinusvos]

@@julianshepherd2038 "the 27 will ask us back" We, the 27, don't ask!

[@fintonmainz7845]

We do not want you back. Whine as much as you want

[@SonOfViking]

In the absence of an FTA between the US and the UK, under GATT/WTO rules concerning MFNs, then the UK cannot be "exempted" from tariffs imposed on imports by Congress (not the president as even Trump seems to believe). If, simply to escape this measure, the UK successfully persuades the US administration to negotiate even a very basic FTA in which tariff exemptions are stipulated (presumably for a quid-pro-quo relief from tariffs in the opposite direction), then the UK will have (yet again) breached its "level playing field" commitments defined within both the Withdrawal Agreement and its current Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU. However, compared to its existing breaches which are all motivated by the understanding that to implement all the measures to which it is legally committed would impose even more economic self-harm upon itself, this one would be fatal to the TCA as it would be the UK openly declaring itself to be a hostile and criminal competitor to the EU on its own doorstep, a competitor moreover whose continued trade with the EU under TCA terms would now constitute a direct assault on the viability of the Single Market itself - not to mention declaring itself to be a country openly violating international law in relation to the Vienna Conventions on Treaties which would preclude any possibility of even trying to "diplomatically negotiate" a "solution" to this highly illegal unilateral redefinition of the UK-EU "relationship". In such circumstances the EU retaliation would be immediate and severe, involving not only a dissolution of the TCA but the imposition of embargoes and levies on exports to this hostile third country posing a real threat to the EU's own economy. If these extend to food exports, as they surely would, then be prepared for a very different "supermarket experience" for years to come. If you think things are bad now, in other words, then just wait.

[@andrewchurch8237]

ignorant gibberish.

[@ab-ym3bf]

​@@andrewchurch8237thanks for the well argumented reply, I'm totally convinced by you and are in awe of your level of knowledge.

[@andrewchurch8237]

@@ab-ym3bf agreeing a us trade deal doesn’t breach the level playing field commitments. It’s ludicrous to pretend it does.

[@SonOfViking]

@@andrewchurch8237 Any departure from agreed common rules, practices and standards that any such "deal" would accommodate, especially a departure which lends you artificial competitive advantage over those with whom you previously agreed such terms, is the very definition of what breaking level playing field commitments means. I must assume from your ignorance in these matters (while calling whoever attempts to educate you ignorant) that you are very probably British. However, as recent years have demonstrated, adopting a disdain for reality does not exempt you from the same reality, no matter how British it might make you feel.

[@andrewchurch8237]

@@SonOfViking and yet your example was simple FTA with just elimination of tariffs. Fucking moron.

[@3bebles]

Thank goodness there are voices that keep the insanity of Brexit in the forefront! Please, keep denouncing it and looking at alternatives.

[@stevenmulholland4601]

Michael I've commented on your channel before please keep talking about the madness of Brexit. I and my family are Scottish and as you know didn't vote for Brexit unfortunately when we travel to Europe because we speak English albeit with a harsh accent we were still considered English.

[@angela8858]

You make some really interesting points, Michael. What is going to be a nightmarish ride, the unflappable way you depict it somehow offsets the horrors to come. Thank you.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you Angela 😊

[@petergibson2318]

Britain was a constant pain in the ass in the EU. It never entered into the spirit of things. Always griping even though only Germany had more power in Europe. The EU is the new “Hanseatic League” but 90% of the British have never heard of it. (The German Airline “Lufthansa” means “The Hanseatic League of the Air.”) Not many Europeans want the UK back.

[@robsucher9419]

I was born in UK. By allowing the thick racist kids in the class to take UK out of EU, UK betrayed our family and future generations. UK has fcked itself. The only reason I give a slight damn is because we, in mainland Europe, don't want the failed state 26 miles from French coast

[@nmarks]

You're a good man, Michael.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I think he´s sincere in his views. One thing I think he gets wrong, is he thinks ending Brexit will solve the problems, when they actually existed pre-Brexit. Brexit was in part what I call a "vote of despair", I.e angry let down people wanting to lash out. I think what those people don´t need is a lecture, they need someone to actually improve things.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you 😊

[@seandoherty925]

"Chaotic collection of oddballs and misfits"😂😂❤

[@jethrotull2142]

Your assertions are absolutely home on Brexit and Trump but I like to add 1 thing that the Arab Americans wanting to "punish" Democrats for Joe Bidens actions in Gaza have literally "shot themselves in the foot" by selecting a far more anti-Arab and Muslim candidate not knowing he would be far worse something I reminded them time and again but they didn't heed and now they're over their heads with "Trumpism". Sometimes you gotta be cool and don't let it hit you which was a clear overreaction to people in the UK against foreigners which cost them several times over spurred by unethical cretins like Nigel Farage. Reminds me of an old saying "Cutting your nose to spite your face" which nosedived their own ego!

[@garethvalentineMusic]

Anyone tells me to stop debating that famous cadaver, Brexit, strengthens my resolve. Thanks for flying the flag! 🇪🇺

[@DoggleBird]

@garethvalentineMusic We had a referendum, the Leave side won. We left. Brexit is irreversible. There is nothing to debate.

[@garethvalentineMusic]

@ Jesus Christ died 2000 years ago but it’s still a hot topic x

[@DoggleBird]

@@garethvalentineMusic LOL!!!! Thanks. That gave me a laugh.

[@melvinpenman1102]

The UK is a dead parrot and ex bird, tot, kaput. and a clown show. Fantastic one more Michael, keep well and stay safe.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thanks Melvin 😊

[@paulashields6239]

Uk was a big fish in a small pond in the Eu along with France and Germany now they are a small fish in a big pond.

[@robsucher9419]

For my sins, I had to return to England for a few days. Gawd what a toilet it has become.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

not everywhere.

[@rogerbeesley-lo5tj]

Some years ago I flew into Gatwick from the USA. It had been a long flight and I had urgent need to use the waste disposal facility. Every stall I checked was full to the brim with previous travellers visiting cards. Welcome to the 3rd world.

[@des_smith7658]

Keep out of the sea also

[@annepoitrineau5650]

@@rogerbeesley-lo5tj This sounds awful. It could be that the plumbing had a very big airport wide failure.

[@jackpayne4658]

For me, the unanswered question remains, 'Just how much power do the Sun, Mail, Express, and Telegraph have?' Some commentators claim it's still a large amount, others that it's hardly any. Tragically, the UK's medium-term future might depend on the answer to that question.

[@Irish780]

I watch they news from outside Europe and also my friends and it's a whole new ball game America is not great anymore we see what thee doing in they middle east they just got called out

[@jamesgravil9162]

Look on the bright side. We could all be dead this time next year, the way the world is going.

[@DavidCarrol-i2q]

Threads is on the iPlayer for another 11 months.

[@puoesseremostrato1584]

... indeed ... always a silver lining ✨️

[@GiulianoLorenzetti]

I find it incredible that anyone in his right mind should vote for a man like Trump. What does 'MAGA? really mean ? It is a senseless, meaningless slogan and yet people fell for it ? I am slowly but surely beginning to understand why the world is so upside down!!!!

[@TuerlingsTim]

Taking responsibility for your own decisions is not easy, when we look at the status lot of rules are not Implemented in the UK but done in the EU. It was not a childish game the UK played so now they like to return based on the same privileged conditions. Wake up EU is a bit done with this attitude.

[@barbaraarndt5293]

Brits for some reason still have this attitude. Being exceptional and arrogant is misplaced. Empire is gone.long.ago and the.late.Queen's pretence that it is.not is.a joke. Commonwealth,. really?

[@thefrecklepuny]

Out of what was not even a frying pan but a fairly comfy hotel into the fire. And when we saw the wood being gathered and the firelighters being lit!

[@neorich59]

"These are crazy people!" 🤣🤣 That's Trump and his cronies all wrapped up in one sentence. I know a person shouldn't laugh at these loons, but what else is there left to do? It is _indeed_ a "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!"

[@DFermain]

You are right. 100 per cent. I see someone commenting that you might be upset by Trump. I did not detect it, you were just holding the mirror up, I think its others who want to forget who are upset. Its hard being made to look at your mess. And the Brexit mess is hidden that way.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I think the problem is moralising lectures don´t really work at improving things or getting people onboard.

[@DFermain]

@@Minimmalmythicist On board with what exactly? He Is not moralising. In every video he does he states fact after fact after fact. That is all he ever does. When that becomes moralising and here is another fact for you, something is wrong.

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@DFermain He does it all the time, he keeps whining "wah wah Brexiters are idiots".

[@RobertSmith-di5ll]

In my opinion we should forget USA as a great trading partner - our values are not the same , we are far closer to Europe; alas we are muddledin our allegiance - schizophrenic?

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

@@RobertSmith-di5ll Brexit was always a Atlancist project.

[@edwardanthony8929]

Good vid. By all means make a few comforting predictions, the idea of Trump in perpetuity is beyond depressing.

[@RealMash]

How can he do that? On what grounds? what are positive developments? He has no cause to do them.

[@alexanderromanov737]

Firstly, I'm waiting to hear what the UK has to offer, I can't think of anything, maybe they could offer BMW to not pay a royalty for using the Union Jack in the Mini car tail lights, or maybe they could agree that the Polish makers of the best tasting Worcestershire sause should be able to use the trade mark 'Worcester Sause' instead of the Indian owned factory in Worcester. After all, most banking is slowly moving EU side and that will accellerate next year, most manufacturing has had to relocate to the JIT friendly side of the Iron Curtain the Brexiters built allong the shitsmeared side of La Manche, UK car production is down 1 million cars since before Brexit, so there's not much to offer there, all the regulatory departments, like chemicals, drugs etc. have all moved back inside the EU for protection from well spoken English spivves with a greedy, selfish agenda. And worst but not least, all the skilled healthy, motivated, young highly productive Polish, Portuguese, Latvian, Italian workers have all gone home or to another place where they will, this time, be valued. So this new reset negotiation will look a bit like one side of the table, the EU, with a million benefits to swap for .... on the other side the UK, a completely empty basket of beach sewage, closed and derelict shops and factories and a skip full of lies, unkept prommises and a loud whining sound. . Good luck Kier

[@paullarne]

Who is paying you to post this nonsense?

[@alexanderromanov737]

@@paullarne Which bit is nonsense Pauline? let me know with the details and I'll correct it.

[@paullarne]

@@alexanderromanov737 All of it. Withdraw or be a certified liar. Your choice.

[@robsucher9419]

​@@paullarneand that from the full-time village idiot. Laughable!

[@paullarne]

@@robsucher9419 I seem to have this bot rattled!

[@billywhizz6483]

Starmer has nailed his colours so hard to the Brexit mast (no return to SM/CU in his lifetime) that he'll have to resign and a new party leader/PM will be in place before long... especially as Trump's destruction takes hold, the EU builds stronger coalitions (especially in defence) and the UK will be out in the cold. How Starmer (a staunch remainer and generally savvy operator) can't see it or say it is mystifying.

[@RealMash]

He can not promise anything that is not up to the UK to decide. You are not even fit to apply. It will take 35 years min, if the UK really puts its back behind it. And he will be dead by then. He was just realistic.

[@rogerbeesley-lo5tj]

@@RealMash The people who think there is even a remote chance of Britain rejoining the EU in anything less than many decades are delusional. By then why would the EU want to admit a poverty stricken dysfunctional island with nothing to contribute?

[@JohnSmith-bx8zb]

Just to add, the post brexit Japan / uk deal, the EU also did a deal with Japan and needless to say the EU has the better deal. Also the EU / NZ is much better than the uk/ NZ, and with the EU / Australian deal the EU walked away as it would damage EU farmers

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

Fact check. False!

[@dooley-ch]

@@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb You need to learn how to fact check. It's complicated, you'd have to actually read the agreements. If you ever do, which I doubt you'll find an interesting clause in the EU/Japan, EU/Canada and any new deals they do, it prevents Canada, Japan etc.. from giving any other country including the UK a trade deal better that that given to the EU, without the approval of the EU. The have you by the short and curls and you don't even know it.

[@AndrewWilliams-ry6tb]

@@dooley-ch All those agreements are renegotiable. You really think the Japanese would permanently tie themselves to deals that were not in their interests?

[@romansUK]

If Cameron can call a referendum why can’t Starmer?

[@michaeltagg492]

Because the EU will not countenance an application unless the main political parties are pro EU.

[@fintonmainz7845]

We in the EU decide who joins OUR Union. A referendum in the UK wouldn't interest us.

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

A state alone can declare its withdrawal but not its accession. This is declared by the 27 members. No British referendum, no British government.

[@Granuaile1]

I’m reminded of that Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”!

[@anthonypert574]

Johnson sounds awfully like trump he also cannot complete a sentence without lying

[@shaneheff5244]

He lies even when he doesn't need to because he loves the idea of getting away with it. A truly horrible human being.

[@daveball137]

The Tories and reform think that he who shouts the loudest, wins the argument. We saw bad examples of this during the last election. Unfortunately, that’s the of people these parties appeal to. The same goes for the US and maybe other countries too.

[@philwilson56]

Thanks for the vid.

[@isabellesmith5253]

Hello Michael Thank you for this clip. You are 100 % right...the UK has no friends now...out of the EU and trump diesn t care about this place....what a fiasco.... I hope starmer will change his mind soon and get closer to the EU otherwise we are doomed. Have a great weekend xx😊

[@jondarbyshire-s7k]

The UK believed that it was still a power with a global influence, what influence it had was via being a member of the EU. Now it reminds one of Austria in the 1920's, with a large head and a little body and the establishment lived in a world that had long gone.

[@ga21351]

UK is fighting debt with more debt. Now there will be hyperiflation. I feel sorry for UK but how could not be hyperinflation now? Trade and budget deficit stay with UK since 2008 crisis and before. UK economy is debt piramid. Is it Thatcher starts this double deficits economy?

[@erikamustermann6783]

I don‘t understand Starmer. He could put the blame for Brexit entirely on the Tories and seek, if not full membership a closer relationship with the EU through reentering the single market and customs union. I am sure the EU would be open to that. Trump‘s America is not an option. They will give you a deal if „you‘re not a socialist economy like the rest of Europe.“ What does that mean, except chlorinated chicken and selling off the NHS? It‘s time for Britain to face reality.

[@Korschtal]

"I am sure the EU would be open to that." Except that the EU has repeatedly said that they aren't open to the UK cherry-picking. Specifically, they aren't open to the UK joining the CU and SM without being part of the EU.

[@erikamustermann6783]

@ I am sure there is room for negotiation there. Especially because I think it would be mutually beneficial.

[@Korschtal]

@@erikamustermann6783 How many more times does the EU have to say "this is not an option" before people in the UK listen? This shows how little the UK, even Pro EU people in the UK, actually understood the EU.

[@abbofun9022]

@@erikamustermann6783 there’s no benefit for the EU, we don’t need the UK, so why would they break all sorts of internal rules and bend over to accommodate the UK?

[@erikamustermann6783]

@@Korschtal I am an EU citizen and I beg to differ.

[@ga21351]

UK have two choices here. First austerity. Spending cuts in order to fix balance of payments, no more trade and budget deficits. This has to be minimum 15%-20% GDP spending cuts more than Greece in 2008. London financial centre would be over. Recession would be minimum 20 - 30% UK GDP. Second do nothing and try to keep running trade and budget deficit during world depression. Total size of trade and budget deficit will be mimumim 20% GDP or more. This has to end with hyperinflation and then recession would be 50-60% UK GDP. What UK will do?

[@davidpearn5925]

The interweb has delivered facts and nonsense in equal part. We go to school to separate the two....... but working out which is facts seems to be far too difficult in Murdoch land.

[@gavinturner5565]

The WHOLE point of talking about BREXIT Michael as you are doing is fantastic!!!! WE as a nation can't move on because of BREXIT. No matter what the government plans to do , WE CANT MOVE FORWARD without including the EU. Our economic prosperity will NEVER improve except continually spiral downward because WE Aren't PART OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD in our trading relationship with the EU!!! Trade has fallen through the floor. Inner investment is completely stifled because there's no market to sell beyond our shores and as we all know our shores are full of excrement!!! There's NOTHING to support what even this government thinks it can promise to the UK public. Challenges, the word, isn't the correct word to describe "what's going on"/"what's happening." Education, NHS, Water&Sewage ANY public service domain is collapsing and people aren't getting the message!!! Keep telling it how it is Michael👍👍 Cheers mate and well being to yourself❤️🙏🕯️☕

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you very much Gavin 😊

[@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k]

EU exports to UK have collapsed. Germany and France flatlining.

[@michaelrobins8037]

Thank you Michael. Once again your voice is a beacon in these dark days, both in World and outside in the UK. I am like you, hoping (I would pray but I am a little older now) that Trump falls over his ego like Johnson and is gone soon. Given his age, it may be even sooner. We need to get back in the EU, no question in my mind. Keep on about it till they listen!

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you Michael 😊

[@bjrnhjjakobsen2174]

I am sure that many of the Brexit voters would feel very comfortable amongst the MAGA’s on multiple levels so they will give anything for closer ties with the US like a trade deal (on US terms).

[@Minimmalmythicist]

I don´t think so and plenty of Brexit voters don´t vote for Farage and co. I think the issue is, that we haven´t actually solved the problems in the UK rust belt and there are a lot of "votes of despair". Also constantly calling people idiots doesn´t work very well at winning them over.

[@bjrnhjjakobsen2174]

@ have you read todays Times🤓

[@Minimmalmythicist]

@@bjrnhjjakobsen2174 is that aimed at me? To your point, someone like Farage does want to sell the UK to the US, but many of his potential voters don´t. There is a Labour-Reform swing vote out there, i.e people who want more social justice but are socially very conservative on some issues. I think it´s wise to bear that in mind.

[@chiccabay9911]

USA food..baby food was tested a few weeks ago..60% of it is not fit.They eat "Scheiße" over there.This from a USA news source..not FOX and Friends,,of course.;)..oh,Drumpf is planning to even LOWER the food standards...I have watched USA news channels for 3 months..so know ;)

[@Ant.Gib.]

Thanks, Michael.

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you very much Ant 😊

[@ilonabaier6042]

I hope you are right about trumpie but remember we are dealing with a cult leader and cultists and they worship their leader as being beyond sin and next to God.

[@margaretnoakes9868]

Thanks

[@MichaelLambert1]

Thank you very much Margaret - much appreciated 😊

[@margaretnoakes9868]

@MichaelLambert1 Happy to contribute as I do enjoy your blogs.x

[@deadandburied7626]

Badenough won't last long indeed. 😂

[@Anonymos321]

Does the UK want to cherrypick again?

[@SuperRipper1888]

No. We want nothing more to do with your fascist shitshow.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

Hegseth is purported to have white-supremacist tattoos which prevented him from JOINING the military 🪖😮.

[@rogerbeesley-lo5tj]

He holds the rank of Major in the National Guard.

[@andrewrobinson2565]

@rogerbeesley-lo5tj Are you also saying he doesn't have white-supremacist tattoos? Has he washed his hands yet?

[@rogerbeesley-lo5tj]

@@andrewrobinson2565 Please be more specific in describing "white supremacist tattoos".

[@andrewrobinson2565]

@rogerbeesley-lo5tj I have no idea. You seem to know about him.

[@rogerbeesley-lo5tj]

@@andrewrobinson2565 Then WTF are you talking about.

[@jimgraham6722]

Thanks Michael. Interested in hearing your thoughts.

[@davidbrisbane7206]

Trump is Benito Mussolini with an undefeatable army. What could go wrong?

[@JohnnyinMN]

Hyperbole seems to be your strong point. Pass whatever it is you’re smoking or drinking. Surprised you didn’t use the ‘Hitler’ mantra that the liberals did here in the U.S.

[@NimmiCat]

Absolutely: any deal with US will screw Britain. Beware. I am worried about your military's. Maybe rebuilding it could help economically but also you need to be a force to reckon with. ❤

[@sc3pt1c4L]

No, keep talking about Brexit, the misery it brings you feeds my soul. Any mention of how Germany is having its economy destroyed by deindustrialisation caused by quitting Russian gas? (which it is actually still buying, but at a marked up price by buying it off India, but pretending they aren't still supporting Russia's economy.)

[@stevewilliams2691]

To be honest you feed me in a way you wouldn't understand. I have always believed that bŕexretards were some form of intellectually changed cretins. Your comments reassures me I am correct. You see it reinforces that I and many of my friends were in fact right when we voted remain. Thx for confirmation

[@sc3pt1c4L]

@@stevewilliams2691 Echo chambers give you that impression. We still won though eh? Where did your superiority complex get you? Nowhere. You denigrate other people's intelligence, but use childish language like "brexretards". It speaks volumes. Keep festering loser. A smart person and their friends might have tried to persuade us to vote with you, did you consider that? Nah. I note you didn't address the questions I posed.