The Truth About Brexit: Britain BETRAYED | ULTIMATE DOCUMENTARY 2023

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Betrayed: The Truth About Brexit is a deep dive into the long term factors that led to Brexit, looking further back than just the 2016 referendum and exposing the chaos and challenges it has unleashed in the seven years since then. Travelling around the country, hearing from experts as well as farmers, fishermen and voters, this documentary looks at how our politicians and institutions have betrayed the British public and asks the ultimate question - will the UK ever rejoin the EU?
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[@BylineTV]

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[@smoosview6103]

Brexit was about just one thing, Sovereignity. All else loops back to Sovereignity: ECJ, immigration, trade and EU contributions. Add to that the potential of Turkey joining and the EU army and you have the perfect storm for Remain who's only argument was it would be financialy bad to leave. In the end it hasn't been as bad as predicted, the drop in GDP to date has only been 2.3% and not expected to be any more. UK now has new exciting trade options whilst exports to the EU are at all time highs, new bespoke trade deals that do not protect EU interests and yes immigration is high due to Hong Kong and Ukraine but it is now controlled and would have been worse had the UK remained. This is why only the SNP is the only major party campaigning to rejoin and why the Rejoin EU party is polling less than UKIP and in fact cannot even get anywhere near 1%. This video is purely for Remain voters to feel good about their decision, that they were right after all and the Leave voters were deceived when in fact it was they who have been betrayed, betrayed by the EU taking away their democratic power, betrayed by the Elites on both the left and the right that believed they knew better how to run things.

[@jep1912]

The whole of the UK needs to see this.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

What chaos? You are completely deluded.

[@garethturner4811]

@@VaucluseVanguard open your eyes

[@OptimisticHominid]

@@smoosview6103 You are the proverbial frog in the pan that's getting warm!

[@georgeedgeworth915]

The irony of farmers and fisherman voting for a right wing government and then complaining they can’t get subsidies 😢😅

[@SsspraakForsskkarring]

😂

[@Smulenify]

Honestly it's kinda horrifying how little the average person actually knows about politics and what the right and left actually wants.

[@CYCHIATRIC]

It's ignorance that the right has to foster. They have to or the leaders and policy makers would be held to account.@@Smulenify

[@justinpigaga4462]

As well as exhausting the living hell out of the environment, poluting sea and rivers, overfishing to extreme, destroying entire ecosystem. It's like burning all the chairs in the house to keep warm and blaming a carpenter that there is nowhere to sit anymore. Older generations destroyed everything in their path, took everything to their own benefit, and now are furious that they can't destroy as freely as they used to and gatekeping all accumulated wealth.

[@stemill1569]

@@Smulenify They know it and they knew it. One person in this docu talked about how well done the leave campaign was. It was an emotional campaign. If you can get the hearts of the people you can trick their minds. Or even better. They knew what they voted for was bad for them but they did it anyways. Out of spite, pride, hate, racism, fascism and patriotism. The campaign ticked nearly every box that is important. The result was that those who told the truth...didn't even wanted to believe it themselves. The anti Brexit campaigns had also issues with being ineffective and lazy. It doesn't matter what someone knows. All what matter is what you make them want to know.

[@Cas-Se78.97]

The BALLS to put Alan Turing in an ad about how amazing Britain is on its own. The British government killed that man. Disgusting.

[@rickb3650]

This is a really good example of the real problem. These fools still believe that they won WWII when in fact their greatest accomplishment was to not be completely wiped out at Dunkirk. Russia is the main reason they even exist as a nation and Franklin Roosevelt is the reason they didn't starve to death. It's the 21st century and at least half of them haven't yet figured out that simply being born is no qualification for anything.

[@markgrehan3726]

It's worse than that it was the whole British society not just the Government.

[@la-gl4uh]

Totally disgusting! And now they're blaming Prince Harry and his beautiful wife for everything they can, when all they wanted to do was cut back on some of the "Royal" duties. Totally disgusting!

[@j.dunlop8295]

😮Brexit was about banks and corporations keeping more, with less regulations, from EU, they corporate suits stoked the elderly conservatives with nationalism, and who votes the most? Cilodynamics, study of how civilizations collapse, disparity between the rich and poor, leads to collapse, along with too many entitled elites, and resources collapse! Prof. Peter Turchin! ( Past history England ship the poor off to Amy, Australia, new Zealand or Canada! Relieving social stress!

[@j.dunlop8295]

Brexit was about banks and corporations keeping more, with less regulations, from EU, they corporate suits stoked the elderly conservatives with nationalism, and who votes the most? Cilodynamics, study of how civilizations collapse, disparity between the rich and poor, leads to collapse, along with too many entitled elites, and resources collapse! Prof. Peter Turchin! (Definitely going to get worse and worse, wage disparity!) Rich vs. poor! 3,000 year's of patterns, 400 civilizations! ↘️⬇️ Look at the military, not paid enough to matter?

[@robertyoung7280]

Still have trouble understanding why a longtime fish exporter exporting the majority of fish to the eu was unable to see the obvious looming problem and voted leave

[@mariapilarme]

Nationalists and racism arguments are never beneficial to the general population. As it happens in Germany before the war and now in England.

[@benwherlock9869]

IQ of around 90 or less I should imagine. It's the reason for most foolishness.

[@BurnCKC]

Education. Your average school doesn't promote critical thinking. Most people have to be told how to think.

[@robertpaik]

Britain was so awful to Alan Turing that Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the government for "the appalling way [Turing] was treated". Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous pardon in 2013. Kind of odd to talk about the greatness of Britain with such a dark sad part of it.

[@simonharris4873]

I work in IT. If I were to suggest a major infrastructure change, with questionable benefits, that had never been tried before, costs/impact that were impossible to determine, and was virtually impossible to roll back, I'm pretty sure I'd be fired.

[@rickb3650]

Please consider your cell phone. I worked in IT as computers were first coming into the consciousness of average people. The people who developed every single thing we think of as tech today was invented 40 or more years ago and the people who invented it all warned us of the things we must do, and the things we must never do, to avoid disaster once the power of digital data was loosed upon the world. I've spent the last 20 years watching everything we were warned about being done.

[@simonharris4873]

@@rickb3650 Not sure how that relates to my comment.

[@rickb3650]

@@simonharris4873 It relates to your assertion that "If (you) were to suggest a major infrastructure change... I'm pretty sure I'd be fired." The electronic surveillance devices that have been forced on the entire first-world population, and that literally determine our individual fates, are exactly what you said you'd be fired for proposing. We all now live in a world that has reduced all of us, along with virtually every other living thing on earth, to nothing more than commodities that exist solely for the potential to exploit. Think about it. You didn't say what it is that you do in IT, but whatever it is, nothing that you do will improve the world or the lives of others because the potential of technology has been captured by those who have no interest in improving anything.

[@davidarchibald50]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@moccamixer]

@@simonharris4873me neither🤣

[@paris-panda]

The guy at 28:15 - After describing how brexit has harmed his business, when asked about his brexit vote he says "I voted as a business man. I voted Brexit. If i could vote again as a person I'd vote to remain". Surely he's got them the wrong way around. He acted on greed without understanding his own business. Astonishing :|

[@reiw5802]

I thought the exact same thing. Lol

[@TheMontyfire]

I couldn’t agree more ,surely anyone with one brain cell would know that in the hospitality sector that revolves around European workers making it harder for them to travel will have a massive effect on your business. He actually voted as a person and maybe his bigoted view won over. But our hatred should still be at the salesmen and not the conned

[@Paul-eb4jp]

So many succesful businessmen lack intelligence they just have that one area of knowledge.

[@reiw5802]

@@Paul-eb4jp I disagree, there's a myth that it takes intelligence to run a business TODAY, it really doesn't. Two US examples are Majorie Green and Lauren Bobert. Both ran businesses, both as dumb as a rock. innovation is few and far between, and now it's more about jumping on an existing bandwagon and undercutting competitors.

[@annenunney9907]

I do not suppose for one minute he thought Johnson was lying so badly

[@exohumer3486]

I am German. I believe the issues of the fishermen and others that complain and voted for Brexit were missled in believing that their problem were because of Brussles and that is the mistake. Their problems are homemade and they can be overcome only by changing local politics. Re-Joining will not help at all. Look, in Germany, over a decade we lost 40.000 local farms which all got bankrupt. I could als screem for GREXIT, but I know the issue is not because of Brussles, it is because our own parties in Germany just don't care about small and mid size companies. Their focus is driven by Lobbists from large Industries and large Banks. Same as in UK. As long as you don't find a party that is focusing on the small and mid size companies, which basically holds 80% of the working people, there will be no way out of missery.

[@wonderfulgood2010]

I am American. (My grandparents are from Huddlesfield in Yorkshire UK, County Donegal in Ireland and München in Bavaria.) I think it's all in understanding the compromises involved. We were the first to have large markets and low prices. But we gave up the sense of ourselves as being Pennsylvanians or Marylanders or New Yorkers. Instead, we're all just "Americans" to you. So we're wealthier and vastly more powerful, but we've given to the federal state much of what was initially held by the former states of Pennsylvania and the other 49 that came together to become "America"? We've lost the local control that you maintain. Initially, we did it as a confederation of states, which the EU is really quite similar to. Very quickly, we realized that a confederation provided for only a measure of the economies of scale that a full federal system might allow, so we switched to a federal system. We were willing to give up the past, to obtain a greater future together. Brexit was really more of a sense that local control was being lost...and that it might be regained without losing economically. Obviously, that lesson has been understood that local control may again be had, but at a massive economic cost. Now, poverty is making that choice to regain local control seem rather dubious. I personally, find it fascinating that Europeans cannot simply realize that they'd be so much wealthier and more powerful if they'd just become one federal country? But again. What you do have as Germans or Swiss or Dutch or Norwegians...is a sense of yourselves as being different. It's a sense purchased at a great price, as you lose massive economies of scale that you could have had with one federal state, but that has been your choice. My family chose to no longer be German or British or Irish. In a sense, America was the ultimate statement of being European, as all the immigrants mixed. And now it's the ultimate statement of simply being human. I married a girl whose family were from Germany, Norway and Sweden. Our son is engaged to a girl whose parents are from China and Denmark. One world. One family. As to local business, my knowledge of local needs as an individual is ever so much greater than a corporation's understanding from 200 km away. So I can always out-compete a large corp in terms of local service. Can I outcompete them on producing an auto? Of course not. But you as an individual can always outcompete a corporation on something. It's just a matter of carefully understanding your local market. That's your advantage, and always will be. I wish you Peace.

[@exohumer3486]

​@@wonderfulgood2010 Good point, and are you happy with how your local economy is being ruled by the federal state?

[@wonderfulgood2010]

Honestly, that’s not a question I’ve ever heard here. I don’t perceive that the federal govt exerts any particular control over our local economy. Generally, large corps can undercut local producers on price if they wish to. Locals can outcompete on quality/service or on meeting the desire for a niche item. It’s generally “the market” that determines which businesses survive or fail here, rather than governmental policy.

[@andrewdenby8239]

So we have a German who thinks the UK can sort itself out without free trade with it's closest markets (resuming ASAP please) and an American who clearly doesn't quite understand the difference between EU membership and the Federal US...I think that a thousand years of history has somehow slipped past both of them. The UK electorate need a wake-up call, but not just them... When you have billionaires petulantly demanding $55 billion salaries whilst there are food banks, homelessness, poverty and deprivation all around...just when did we all buy into this cult of greed, just how is it that at every election the people vote for a party that hasn't represented their interests in over 40 years. And that is true the world over... unless you live in Norway... they're doing a great job...just check out the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund...then go and look at their history and understand why they are so different...and it isn't about their resources either...

[@johngrass5888]

You really take the biscuit. You have absolutely no idea that you lost your farms because corupt penpushers saw a way to make it even harder for farmers to survive & when they went broke nicked the farm for a low price & took the land for themselves. You just don't get what the eu has become & I remember living in Germany where many German folk kept on saying to me the eu is okay but they are top heavy with corrupt bureaucrats who are destroying it's intent & here you are writing about farmers. Lojk whats happening to Dutch farmers lately & French Farmers too & did you see that footage the other day of german farmers on tractors in Germany being blocked by the police on the road so they just went round them by way of the field. What you mentioned is still happening. The corrupt ones want land, to stake their claim on.

[@blasphemertheseventh]

It’s remarkable how impoverished Britain felt after a recent visit compared to just 10 years ago. I left the island with complete sadness. However a self inflicted wound is the most painful of all.

[@NeuroEverything]

I'm just sick and tired of everyone absolving the general public from responsibility over the Brexit vote, trying to justify why people voted for Brexit... The fact of the matter is that the Brexit vote was driven by a UK general public who are anti-immigrant, racist, and completely deluded about the UK's place in the world. It is absolutely not worth anyone's time to make excuses for people who are like that. The best thing about Brexit is that it finally revealed how small and irrelevant the UK actually is. Now... we can all sit back and watch the trainwreck that is the United Kingdom of "Great" Britain, as it runs itself to the ground.

[@milesblue638]

Exactly. Absolving Brexit voters of their responsibility as citizens just encourages more magical thinking. When will Brexit voters ever be expected to think and act like adults?

[@DH-nq1mu]

Though I largely agree, some people were absolutely manipulated and lied to. This does not absolve them of blame. Part of reaching adulthood is being able to think critically and identify an obvious lie when presented. But i can sympathise with those who see the errors of their ways. I hope they have learned something. And i hope they pass that on.

[@jakebaba2149]

WELL SAID. ANY CAMPAIGN WHICH SEEMS TO GO AGAINST FOREIGN NATIONS AND FOREIGNERS WILL SUCCEED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON OF BIAS AGAINST ANYTHING FOREIGN.

[@tommccanlis]

An obvious lie like unproven claims of Russian interference...?

[@guru47pi]

To understand why they voted for Brexit is not to absolve of responsibility. People were desperate for a change, and in the end it just made it worse. We liberals can say "I told you so, idiot", or take the time to understand their core problems and work to provide a solution that will actually work for them. We have economics and reality on our side, now is the opportunity and responsibility is on Lib Dems and Labor to come up with something that will work. They were presented with two options: everything stays the same, or try something else. They chose try something else, even they shouldn't have believed in it. People are now more desperate than ever for change, but Lib Dems and Labor haven't offered any real alternative.

[@simonwhite3786]

The British are indeed unique. The only nation in the history of human existence who voted for sanctions upon ourselves.

[@davidpryle3935]

That’s like saying a business which refuses to pay protection money to Racketeers, is imposing sanctions on themselves.

[@tonygange7636]

​@@davidpryle3935 Spot on, EU dopes are clueless

[@davidpryle3935]

@@JM-os1oj Maybe it is a “poor analogy”. But the initial premise of saying Britain voted economic sanctions on itself, without giving any context, is entirely misleading.

[@Cofarl]

And are also actively trying to scrap their own human rights... A ship of fools.

[@pifflepockle]

*English

[@sensationalfailure]

It's truly disappointing to see how many Brexit voters fell for the deceitful tactics of the leave campaign. They were spoon-fed lies and misinformation, yet failed to do their due diligence and verify the facts. The truth was readily available for those willing to seek it out, but their complacency led them down a path of regret and suffering. While they may now realize their mistake, they must bear the consequences of their uninformed decision. It serves as a stark reminder of the importance of critical thinking and informed voting in any democratic society.

[@kevinsysyn4487]

Best example of stupid people thinking they're smart.

[@Necrotic99]

Nah, they can just blame someone else...

[@johnofmalta]

Nah we humans just like to blame others. Not complicated really.

[@kevinathans4191]

This is the exact same thing that happened in the US and it gave us Trump. The people of Britain do deserve a little credit tho...They seem to realize they messed up. Here in the US, those people still haven't figured out they were duped, and continue to become even more radical...

[@Whatreally123]

If adults of a society can't understand the details of such a monumental move and make decisions by emotions, then accept the consequences. It's ridiculous to say they didnt know what will happen.

[@user-kz4ir5ux9f]

Me and some friends are part of a club. We pay a fee to be part of it but then we have certain advantages. Once in a while we go there and we all eat together for free amongst other things. One of our friends who didn’t go there too many times, started feeling annoyed that had to pay to go there. Started saying that wasn’t taking much advantage for himself, and then even started saying some nonsense and tried to guilt trip us. Like he was paying for us to enjoy that club exclusive advantages. The rest of us didn’t really get it. But one day that one friend said he wanted out. He didn’t want to pay our club fees and said he was going better things with that money. Well we really didn’t get it, it seemed like it was just throwing a tantrum but we were all like “ok mate. Do you. Fuck off then.” We haven’t heard from him for a while, but after some time we met at the Club restaurant and he was super upset and frustrated he had to pay for his meal while we all had it for “free”. Go figure. We known him for so long but lately been acting crazy.

[@malcolmrowe5031]

Since when is paying for something free? Most restaurants are free to go in and you just pay for what you eat, I've never heard of a restaurant you pay to be a member of and you just go and eat once every month?

[@user-kz4ir5ux9f]

@@malcolmrowe5031 well while I was just making a joke / analogy of what being part of EU is like, and how UK started complaining, at some point, regarding their feeling of how their contributions were more than what they felt they were getting back, in fact there are certain “exclusive” sort of clubs. That may come in as a membership only sort of deal, or only locals sort of deal, or whatever may be. Restaurant + golf + parking + gym + whatever may be, there are a lot of these type of situations where you pay a fee for a membership right ? And how often you use those services / facilities is up to you right ? And if you go to a gym, let’s say, 4 times a month and your buddy goes 20 times a month, but yall pay the same. Then you decide instead paying a monthly fee, you pay for each time you go coz you think it’s not worth it. Then you realize it’s more expensive for you than it is for all your other buddies. And then you start crying it’s not fair. That’s called Brexit. Anyways, the fact you don’t understand this concept and you don’t know these sort of things, “clubs”, exist everywhere; it’s not your fault. It’s not ignorance. It just means you broke AF.

[@majuli8420]

I'm a viewer from Germany, I've always had great admiration for Britain's cultural achievements and history. Having said that, from an outsiders' perspective, the ruling class of Britain seems uniquely degenerate. I do not understand how and why the British citizenry puts up with it.

[@NimLeeGuy]

Nor do I And I'm English

[@tricoolaz7188]

They brain wash them in school I’ve seen it myself questioning the uk government is like unthinkable to most they are told to get a low paying job for 60 years get old and die that’s all people should expect out of life at least that’s the message I got told many times they don’t teach anything useful to progress in life only things that will keep you poor and ignorant British education should be a human rights violation at least the public schools

[@lauriemayne7436]

Because they're equally degenerate. They lost their gravy train colonies but kept spending as though there was no tomorrow. The chickens have all come home.

[@VONCEIL1]

It's for the children & gullible tourists...they spend alota dosh

[@ankeunruh7364]

Same here, from Germany. I feel reminded of Banksy's "Devolved Parliament" - and Cream's "We're doing wrong". How can it be, that the City of London still has it's own law? How can it be, that the people of the land of the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, the people who are so close to the mining history of Wales, the sad border called "peace line" in Belfast, followed the liar Farage? But more I ask myself, why my European Union did not better, seeing it coming in the years of Cameron...

[@jintarokensei3308]

"I voted like a business, so I voted Exit" Ok mate, if that's how much understanding you have about your business then you absolutely deserve to go bankrupt.

[@agk8361]

Exactly. Such a horrible businessman.

[@anavrogers5132]

I can't not believe a brit who lives in Italy voted for Brexit. This is insane

[@davidperezmedina1886]

An inmigrant (colonialist) complaining about inmigrants.

[@guylancaster2055]

Why? I imagine he is in Italy lawfully…

[@davidperezmedina1886]

@@guylancaster2055 like they are in England, it's about racism, nothing to do with the law...

[@guylancaster2055]

@@davidperezmedina1886 wrong… ehcr tells Britain who to admit…

[@davidperezmedina1886]

@guylancaster2055 ehcr tells italy who to admit... English out of italy.... simple as your racist empty argument.

[@kurtbecker3827]

I was born in Germany, but I lived in many places around the world including the UK and the US. While there are numerous cultural aspects of the UK which I love and which are unmatched anywhere else in the world, life in the UK is only pleasant when you are rich. Even the most basic things are overpriced and underperformed. Even with a decent paycheck (like I enjoyed) you cannot afford anything but the basic things. You are surrounded by amazing things you cannot afford or the small and mediocre I hate. It seems like every political decision made in the UK opt for the smaller and more awkward version. This way no problem is ever solved. Now living in the US (Houston, Texas), at least life is cheap and I have my peace. Brexit was a knee jerk reaction to solve all the problems unique to the UK and had nothing to do with the EU. The Brits will find out that despite Brexit, all the old problems do still exist, plus a few new ones. It was a very bad decision.

[@agk8361]

Genau.

[@TheBezaleel]

The EU wanted to clamp down on tax evasion, Londongrad couldn't let that happen

[@sidensvans67]

Precisely .

[@ScotisticDad]

Conveniently ignoring how a large section of the establishment supporting Remain.

[@ScotisticDad]

Conveniently ignoring how a large section of the establishment supporting Remain.

[@eveb.6568]

indeed

[@lours6993]

@@ScotisticDad Yes, those in the establishment who did real business with the EU were among Remainers, as opposed to those who benefited (and continue to) from offshore Dark Money in UK territories. Try again.

[@sunnysunshine6271]

If you're a vendor trading with the EU, how did you think that leaving the EU would better your business? That thought process puzzles me!

[@theother1281]

They understood their part of the supply chain while remaining ignorant of the rest of the supply chain.

[@jeanmyers1787]

I’m sure Boris would have explained it to him.

[@grahamariss2111]

I agree, but when I was challenging Brexiters they were denying there would be any impact, the famous " leaving the EU does not mean we need to leave the Single Market". Now I knew enough to know that they could not deliver the Brexit many were advocating while staying in the single market, but I was engaged in the debate, if you were not you no doubt could be easily duped.

[@1gerard47]

​@@jeanmyers1787boris couldn't explain the seven dwarfs story to a five year old,the five year old could explain it to him and probably read better.

[@verttikoo2052]

and they still don’t get it 🙄

[@1theredrooster]

You mean “How Tories Broke Britain for their own financial gain”

[@briangraham1024]

52% is too shallow a majority for such a serious referendum. The threshold should have been set at 60%.

[@anhe9127]

It also crazy that it is allowed in Britain to hold such an important vote on a week day, when a lot of working people cannot make it in time to the poll pr don’t bother going because every day responsibilities are of more importance in that moment.

[@RTSFirebatYT]

@@anhe9127 It was all part of the plan.

[@RTSFirebatYT]

This always confused me. only 52% and it wasn't even legally binding, we could have re-done the vote or ignored the result all together. The government know it was going to ruin Britain but did so anyway. @briangraham1024

[@paulhick4042]

So by setting the threshold to 60 percent you give power to 40 percent of misguided population. People who complain about high food prices should shop in the EU and see how much extra you pay.

[@sauermaischeyahoo7834]

The problem the "leave" campaigners faced was not the vote of the "remainers", it was the votes of those who backed the status quo. This was the vote of those who thought that things weren't so bad at present, and that any change might make things worse for them. This was most prominent in Northern Ireland, where there was peace at last, and many people reckoned that it there were political change, evil persons of evil purpose would cause trouble (a prediction that has been proven to have been spot on). Therefore, we know that 52% of the electorate wanted those who ruled over them to be answerable to the public, what we don't know is how many of the 48% thought that authoritarianism was a good idea, and how many just thought that they didn't want any change.

[@jep1912]

The whole of the UK needs to see this.

[@Sifiqueen]

As a german I am not in the position to say "they should have known". But we can learn that lies are often more comfortable to believe....

[@PersonyPerson]

As a Brit who actively has to live through the consequences of the dishonest and malicious actions of the Brexiteers. Brexiteers who complain should have known better. The problem is a lot of Remainers/Rejoiners constantly pretend that these people are rational and that Brexiteers "knew what they were voting for". Imagine if Young Earth Creationists managed to take over the US. The equivalent of that is what has happened to the UK and we're all paying the price for it. We've never truly treated them for the danger that they represent and acted accordingly.

[@kenoliver8913]

The underlying problem of democracy. Humans love those who tell them comforting lies and hate those who tell them unpleasant truths so you can't get people to vote for you unless you tell comforting lies. And boy did the Brexiters tell lies!

[@MikeyJJJ]

As a Singaporean let me say it for you: the brits are idiots 😂

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Thankfully voters in Germany and Holland ARE getting tired of the lies. Rather late but still... German economy in Recession and riots in Dublin ?? er....aren't they members of EU ? We DID tell you so.....

[@Luggaster]

@@PersonyPerson do you now? they are still in government

[@LeojPT]

I mean, when you lose access to a market with 450 million people… what did you expect? Now, whole generations will pay dearly for decades and decades.

[@malcolmrowe5031]

The rest of the world which is billions more you can sell to, just like when my grandparents were alive

[@BurnCKC]

​@@malcolmrowe5031lol, how's that going? We've had no significant new trade deals since we left the EU.

[@Salaas]

Honestly I’m surprised the Guinness book of records hasn’t awarded Farage and Johnson the award for F@@king over the most amount of people in one go.

[@michaelsurratt1864]

Nah Ronald Reagan has got that one

[@andycarr3711]

It's a competitive category.

[@dimitri502]

Those fishermen should have read the "funded by the EU fisheries fund" plaque outside Grimsby fish market before voting.

[@starcrib]

🐟 He can read ? 🇬🇧 🦖 ☄️

[@renebosselaar2198]

Like the farmers had to think of all the funds they received from the EU before voting.

[@davescott7680]

I'm just baffled by the club owner. Spends 5 minutes detailing how leavings fucked his business. "I voted as a business man to leave. I'd vote as a general person to stay" 🤨

[@olavwilhelm6843]

they don't strike me like the big readers !! They are exactly the clientele Boris Johnson needed..... Show up for a few hours in Grimsby ..impress the commoners on the Fishmarket and cash in a few 1000 easy votes :-))) Its almost to easy lol

​@@davescott7680it looks like a businessman is not a person so it would be OK to dehumanize them and refer to them as rats.

[@nickwatson8557]

Love how this whole film comes down to ‘I can’t believe the Punch me in Balls Party punched ME in balls!’

[@DerSteppenwolf1979]

I hope the english people learned something from this: RIGHT WING PROJECTS NEVER BENEFIT THE PEOPLE

[@polo-kf6yh]

I think the rest of Europe watched and learned. You don't here many wanting to jump ship these days. UK were the guinea pigs for the right.

[@sauermaischeyahoo7834]

But at least the warmongering racists were frustrated. We know who the warmongers are: they're the people who, rather than live in peace, wish to live in a new great power on the continent of Europe, which will inevitably behave as great powers do, which will engage in great power rivalry, which will project its power with aggression, which will bully its neighbours, and consequently, which will inexorably take itself to war. We know who the racists are: they're the ones who rejected the concept of a points based immigration system, fair to all no matter where in the world they come from, in favour of giving preferential access to predominantly white Europeans.

[@glorytoamerica6332]

True but the left wing projects only benefit foreigners to begin with

[@mariapilarme]

When politicians talked about nationalism and blame immigrants or another group, just run. They trying to cover up their misdeeds and incompetence.

[@artonio5887]

Unfortunately, lying and corruption isn't exclusive to the right.

[@SivalinPuthery]

As an Indian, it is laughable our colonial master is now a third world country

[@mariapilarme]

Karma?

[@wonderfulgood2010]

I agree. Irony is a drink best appreciated over the years.

[@artonio5887]

As much as I enjoy laughing at the brits.. If the UK is 3rd world, India must be 6th world no?

[@wonderfulgood2010]

@@artonio5887 Modi has over 1B population behind him and substantial "soft power" worldwide. I think we're wise to avoid kicking that lion just before it appreciates its reach.

[@agk8361]

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@HistoryonYouTube]

What I don't understand about the fishing community is why did they expect that putting up trade barriers to their best markets would help them sell more fish?

[@renebosselaar2198]

Because they simply did not uderstand their own business. They only thought of being able to catch more fish if they expelled non British fishermen from UK waters. Ignoring the fact that so much British fishing rights were sold by their neighbour to EU fishermen. Not understanding that even if they could catch more, they simply could not sell it being cut off from their biggest market, the EU.

[@elainekerslake6865]

Because of border delays to outbound fresh fish deliveries, losses are far higher to our exporters. Mass stupidity or gullibility.

[@pabloguevara5438]

Fishermen are not famous for being highly educated people...

[@MeiinUK]

@@renebosselaar2198 : Well.. also.. nobody told them of the mega "big farms" that were already also signed too.. Lots of large farms.. signed to the large supermarkets etc. So then, they sell to the local businesses. They do exist. So.. but they need to find it fast, and build up their businesses slowly. IMHO. A lot of small businesses, are quite multi-functinal? Some even sell their items abroad too. In a smaller quantity.. in many different countries. So for example.. they can now sell to Japan. Or to sell to South Korea... and also into the USA ? A lot, a lot of options. They need to be in touch with the Dept of Trade or other. Cos they were advertising themselves on FB.

[@banagan4604]

Idiots

[@martinburn]

As a working class man I find really baffling how other working class people who are supposed to be street wise fall for Eaton educated self serving toffs, the damage done this time though is I believe irreversible,hope I'm wrong,the brexit pushers though are making fortunes post brexit, let's face it this was their goal, and these voters were their sacrificial lambs.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Austerity measures were blamed on the EU. In fact in wales we had extra Eu funding because of the underfunding.

[@maxflair3946]

Sesame Street wise

[@Morning404]

lol@@maxflair3946

[@theother1281]

Street wise means you understand the street, not international trade and economics.

[@martinburn]

@@theother1281 streetwise means you can also see through a con

[@guysayed3697]

Ich habe als Deutscher 10 Jahre in London gelebt und die Menschen und das Leben geliebt. The Brexit broke my heart.

[@wonderfulgood2010]

Es war eine dumme Entscheidung. Ich denke, das wird sich bald umkehren.

[@barb4645]

So sorry. We aren’t all like that 😢

[@GSteel-rh9iu]

Another way to say this is: don't trust billionaires to solve your problems

[@WillaLamour]

As a very wise woman once pointed out - “We once had a United Kingdom to be proud of. We had a tolerant and welcoming society. We had peace in Northern Ireland. We had relative security and prosperity within the EU. We had freedom of movement. We abided by the rule of law. Then we had Brexit, Boris Johnson. Now we have chaos, financial collapse, rampant hate and bigotry, a culture war, a failing infrastructure ... The UK is dying and likely to break up." An imagined “British exceptionalism”, bigotry, petty grievances and a petulant yearning for the “good ol’ days” was all it took. Combine that with the exploitative nature of conservatives and presto - the EU was blamed for it. But ther fact is, it's the Tories. It’s always the Tories.

[@Rumpelstyltskin]

The bigotry was always there. With Brexit, it just became more pronounced.

[@jewulo]

Breaking up the UK was one of the major goals of Brexit. Turning England into a pure free market state that the Scots nor the Welsh would have accepted for GB is part of the plan. Scotland will leave the UK at the next independence referendum. The protestants in Northern Ireland will soon lose their majority and we will get a United Ireland. The English have never cared about Northern Ireland; if the Ulster men had any sense they will dump their English overlords and join with Ireland purely on Economic grounds. It is the Welsh you have to pity in this. They have got a sizeable retired English pensioner population in their mist that will keep them straddled to England and its incoming free market capitalist state. Maybe that retired English pensioner population will not be as powerful of a force in the near future and allow the native Welsh to do the sensible thing and leave the English alone in their incoming capitalist free market utopia and rejoin the EU. Who knows.

[@pifflepockle]

*English exceptionalism

[@helenaville5939]

When was the UK ever a tolerant and welcoming society? Which century as you referring to? Or which decade.... or year..... or even month? Be specific. It's nothing more than a fallacy that Britons have been brainwashed to believe.

[@dutchuncle3310]

The tragedy is, Brexit isn’t done yet ( 7 years later) so conditions are unlikely to improve, there is no way back ( certainly not in the timeframe Britain needs) especially since the EU as a whole has problems of its own. The EU is hit hard by the war in Ukraine and the increasing tensions in the world causing a downturn in world trade. Germany ( Europe’s leading economy especially) there is no way the EU will take on the additional problems admitting Britain back into the union will bring.

[@MrDesmondPot]

How naive and uninformed do you have to be to think a politician turning up at your place of work with a full media team is there to help you? It is upsetting how thick some people are.

[@theother1281]

Well, half the population is below average intelligence.

[@joegreen235]

Brexit weakened British Imperialism, EU Imperialism and US Imperialism. Reducing their power to bully other countries and reduces super exploitation from abroad by restricting cooperation between Imperialist powers. Brexit is just a step to end the cycle of Capitalist Imperialisms cycle of crisis, war, regime change and exploitation.

[@theother1281]

@@OO-DownUnder Lots of Brits say that, particularly in the North. The politicians don't just turn up; these situations are planned and heavily controlled to make sure they get a friendly reception.

[@liliabird3160]

⁠Longitudinal psychology study proved that only 14% of adult population have critical thinking that’s why Brexit happened😢😢

[@theother1281]

@@liliabird3160 Do you have a reference for that study?

[@TonyZoster]

One can't even pity a country where the majority knowingly shot the country in both feet. There is no defence against stupidity. A quote from a world renown philosopher.

[@sayuas4293]

The fishermen saying its gone after destroying the fish stocks themselves xD

[@user-sb3tv5li8w]

I was there during Brexit. I was in the north of England. And the main reasons for Brexit was this dream of getting rid of immigrants and the promise of a shiny Britain. These politicians should be held accountable.

[@peterpain6625]

Most people don't get that Britain doesn't work without those "immigrants" though. The far right pied pipers lied to everybody about who's responsible for what and led the whole country into the sea while lining their own pockets. I don't get how Farage, Rees-Mogg and Teflon Boris aren't in jail yet. But heyho... Keep stabbing yourself in the gut and blame "immigrants" for everything.

[@Epicurus0]

@@peterpain6625 I feel sorry for somebody such as yourself, as if you understood a modicum of economics you'd know how damaging immigration has been on the UK as a whole. Separate from the complete lack of an attempt to culturally integrate, every immigrant requires £150,000+ a year that the british taxpayer has to provide, while most only providing less than £50k a year into the system. It's a losing game from the fucking ground up and we're now having to pay the consequences of pathetic, illogical liberal policies forced on us by Tories and Labour alike. Scream facist and throw a temper tantrum as much as you want but a new right wing party is required to wipe the slate clean of corruption in the UK.

[@wonderfulgood2010]

I heard the same thing from my relatives in Huddlesfield (West Yorkshire). Everybody just wanted to get rid of the Poles. And they did leave after Brexit. And now try getting your plumbing fixed or a wall straightened? It was simple bigotry and lies (by the politicians and by the people to themselves) that caused Brexit. Happens all over the world. Americans are dealing with Trump lying to them and dealing with Americans lying to themselves about Trump. So none of us are immune from stupidity. It's a human feature, not a British one. But the British will pay dearly for this stupidity for quite a while.

[@moritze.2449]

Nah nah nah WHO would think about the accountability of politicians

[@malcolmrowe5031]

What tosh, I voted Brexit to stop wasting money on another layer of wasteful unelected beaurecracy, the wasteful practices of the common market, (had the common market been all it was I'd have voted stay) discrimination to the rest of the world and snouts in the trough eu beurocrats

[@abstractdrumz]

I have no sympathy for these people. There were lots of experts warning them about the damage brexit was going to do to the economy but they chose to ignore them and believe the Tories. The worst thing about all this is the fact that they'll never learn.

[@rayc9539]

Most people have learnt and admitted it was a mistake. Nigel Farage has even publicly admitted that brexit has failed. That is amazing coming from him - the forefather of the leave campaign...

[@Sophie-hm7yz]

​@@rayc9539it's a funny thing to say that Brexit "failed" because there was never a way for it to go well. It's a bad thing by definition:D

[@rayc9539]

@Sophie-hm7yz Technically, there were many ways for Brexit to be delivered. We could have been EEA members, alternatively to EU members. Brexit was only about EU membership. Nothing else. EEA membership would have secured our place in the single market. Moreover, EEA membership was also proposed to Theresa May during negotiations, but she and her government rejected it. EEA membership would not make the ECJ have jurisdiction over us, pay less to the EU budget, and have better control over our fishery and agricultural legislation. As an island nation, control over our fishery could be a plus? Essentially, EEA would satisfy the economic benefits of the EU. The EU is a political union with a peace project and an ever closer union. The EEA is purely economic and would not require us to participate in the EU project. I am not advocating for Brexit (in terms of not being an EU member), but I am stating that Brexit could have been implemented in numerous ways. Instead, Boris Johnson (the clown) blessed us with a hard Brexit (abandoning the single market, customs union, and Eurasmus exchange programme), without a single thought for how it would affect businesses or our daily lives. People had their own expectations of Brexit. Mind you, I believe the majority of brexiters were delusional in their aspirations of Brexit. The campaign was fraught with deceit and fabrication. As a 26 year old man, I see tremendous advantage of being an EU member. Fortunately, pro-EU supporters are now a majority in the population, and political parties will have to respond. Unfortunately, Kier Starmer (the presumed prime minister in waiting) is uninspiring and inconsistent with his Brexit stance (along with many other factors).

[@ERG173]

The problem is you have to listen to people like Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson you cannot question them because they just lie. Also you hope their peers understand ...... so you trust and you get deceived.

[@aidanknox122]

What an amazing peice of docu journalism. I have to say I cryed at many bits of the Doc, particularly for the German woman who had been in the UK for 28 ys and then is sorounded by anti Migrant messaging, at that time. I apsolutely understand her visceral reaction and wanting to leave under the onslaught. where is her's and her family's home now? Shocking. Personally I think there was so much tension about in the run up to the vote and in the aftermath of the logjamed Parliament. There was an atmosphere of distrust and hate across the whole country and of course it had a significant class and regional aspect. The problems effecting people were not shared equally, either accross the country or in economic class. I have felt for along time that we are a very class polorised nation and those doing well will attribute the distruction of whole regions economically as necessary economic rebalancing and realism. Then when R Mogg, particularly, is offering cheaper imported food to the population, farmers of course are outraged at the potential impact on their livelihoods. But this has been the Tory rationale for decades, but rural areas vote Tory, so we're protected for decades . Not that I am saying that food security and management of land is not important but perhaps so is an industrial base, energy ect.. Brexit was a vision of a better Britain which had somehow been stolen from us and that there was an alternative that would release our full potential, stop holding us back, and to quote John Lennon, it couldn't get no worse. That bit was certainly true. But our political class are so enthralled by global finance, with little Englander neoliberal ideology (if that can even be a thing, which I've often wondered about, but it is what they believe), long disgarded as a credible (full) answer to a nations politics and economics in continental Europe. For Tory politicians their perfect global market model has been shown as ridiculous as they cannot get the trade deals we were promised, nations queuing up to sign. but of course it is in their best interests to follow the whims of the obscenely wealthy who own and control the messaging across all media (and they are so cheap too. A piffeling loan to a posh Eaton boy gets you a nod to be the next DG of the BBC, when faced with a temporary liquidity problem). I think it was probably right to go back to the Weapons of mass distraction as the start of a cynical post truth politics (and it is madness that Alister Campbell cannot accept this) but to say it has gone nuclear since, shows Campbell as a rank amateur. The real end to the story ( to me) is looking at the dead eyes of R Sunak telling us that the real will of the people is to stop small boats. The deflection on why we are so poor has come down to 30,000 migrants fleeing persecution and if only we could stop this then all of that money promised for the NHS and literally everything, would appear. (obvs this is not explicit but implied). It appears that once you have used and fanned the flames of xenophobia you keep going because ultimately, following your world view, there is literally nothing else you can do.. (The Labour Party of course do not sign up to the, nothing can be done, ideology. Unfortunately Rachel's fiscal rules dictate that anything they would like to do is not possible, sorry about that). I do enjoy envisaging Sunak's future cilicone Valley job interview where he says, well I was PM for a small island off of the coast of mainland Europe. And they say, yes but that didn't work so well did it and he responds, yes we'll they were a semi-democratic country with a higher ambition than they were entitled to.. and they say, fair enough.. Clearly membership of the EU is not the answer to all of the nations political and economic woes, I think Jeremy Corbyn was being generous to give it 7 out of 10. Nevertheless being an integral part of the wider European nations looking for the answers to maintaining a happy and functioning democratic society alongside the vital need for investment by an ever shrinking consentration of global wealth ownership and their demands, requires some serious leverage, like 250 million consumers type leverage... Please excuse the rant, not at all preaching, it was all just personal catharsis...

[@nadyadobreva9904]

As a Bulgarian I am gonna tell you why the Brits voted "Leave". It is not the fishermen, it is not the 350 mln euro that would remain in Britain. It is the free job and education movement of people from the Eastern European countries to the UK. The Englishmen detest Eastern Europeans. Not the Pakistanis, not the Indian, not the Srilankans, cause they have fleeced them a lot as former colonies of theirs, but the Eastern Europeans. The English got fed up, especially when the Romanians and Bulgarians joined the Union. It was at that time - 2007 that Farage started speaking about leaving the EU. I can guarantee you thay not a single Bulgarian is on benefits, they pay taxes. They started in the strawberry picking where there was a shortage of workforce, then the women found jobs as home cleaners, and the men- in the constructions. And they have already made money, in Bg these money- are a sum - and now have started to come back to finish their houses and purchase flats. So, there was not any need for you to get scared so much. The guy Farage used you and achieved his purpose - made personal wealth. So, please, be honest at least once, dont be hyporates, say it: "it is because of the Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants." And by the way, your NHS was already very bad when Bg and Rom joined, it was clogged. It has never been easily accessible. You call us 3rd world countries, but dentist care is not expensive, my children get examined the moment I decide to visit a doctor. And I am not talking about a general practitioner- I am talking about specialists - endocrinologist, pulmologist, cardiologist, get blood and urine tests and X rays all on the same day. So, did you really think that the EU was your problem? The EU is doing perfectly fine without Britain, but the British people find it difficult now to move to European countries and live a simpler and healthier life, because of the visa regime.

[@DJHalfbarr]

You have some weird chip on your shoulder if you think the racists gave a shit about Eastern Euros over anyone else, most of them were so dumb they can't distinguish between any of those nationalities you list - but I need to pick up up on your language: It was not 'Englishmen' - that's prejudice no different to that of the people you are criticizing - I voted to Remain, and am currently waiting for my hard working, funny AF Romanian best mate to show up so we can we go for a pint. There is more nuance than your basic take, not just to Brexit, but the whole world - but you appear cut from a similar cloth as those you critique here.

[@kaisahfx1246]

I'm starting to believe that allowing the wealth not only of a nation but of the entire western world/civilisation accumulate in the hands of a very few is not good idea for the masses😅

[@archiebald4717]

That is why the EU is despised.

[@Mucknuggle]

hence the french revolution ...

[@helloim3j]

Yeah, that's why Brexit and nationalism, in general, is idiotic. Whenever you shrink markets or concentrate power, the powerful (rich) always win.

[@wile123456]

Your great great grandfather figured that out in the 1880's too when he went to socialist protests, but the cops beat him with a stick and have done so ever since

[@wile123456]

The EU is capitalist, but atleast there is freedom of movement and the European court. There is also balancing of inequality with poorer countries getting more support. Far better alternative than insane capitalistic nationalists that dominate the far right euroscptic wing. If socialist parties gain a majority in the EU parlament, it will be far easier to create a worker rights union compared to each country doing it on their own.

[@stephengraham1153]

Quote from Statista "the cumulative wealth of the top ten billionaires in the UK has grown from £47.77 billion in 2009 to £182 billion in 2022 - an increase of 281 percent. The cumulative wealth of the top ten billionaires in the UK has grown from £47.77 billion in 2009 to £182 billion in 2022 - an increase of 281 percent...... UK's billionaires have seen a steady, and fairly steep, incline in their wealth." Brexit benefitted some in the country, but not for the overwhelming majority of people who voted for it.

[@ScotisticDad]

Is that not a worldwide secular trend?

[@EcoSailor]

It's obscene.

[@ERG173]

The financial pie is a fixed size. when some get more the rest get less.

[@rickarddiemert188]

I finally as an american, understand what happened, thank you

[@petergriffiths4584]

Thank you for making this programme. I was a UK Civil Servant working in Brussels at the time and it was obvious that this would be a mess. I stood as MEP for Scotland during the last days of the EU to tell this story. The story needs telling and decisions made on how to correct the errors. I cannot say if rejoining would be a good thing, its now so damaged it may not. But for sure the lies and deceit of our politicians must be front and centre of not only how we govern this country but how we partner with Europe. Thank you.

[@wonderfulgood2010]

How can one possibly write "I cannot say if rejoining would be a good thing"? Of course rejoining is a good thing and as soon as is possible. The longer you're out, the worse it will be for you when you either rejoin or just are simply overtaken economically as a vassal state. What was ever so much worse than the actual decision to initiate Brexit was the utter mousy willingness of those who knew better than to simply go along with it. We in America couldn't understand the vote for Brexit. That was a shot in your foot. But continuing along with that fatalistic process as the UK politicians did...was a shot in the thigh and then a shot in the gut and may soon be a shot rather higher up? We're looking at the UK now like an older uncle who just discovered meth...knows it'll kill him if he continues, but doesn't want the publicity of committing himself to treatment. The last thing we thought we could learn from the UK was "better judgment" than what we had in the States. We have been disabused of that last notion too, I'm afraid. Good luck to you to turn this around. But you'd better be quick about it.

[@petergriffiths4584]

@@wonderfulgood2010 Great to hear from you and a good question. That's quite simple to answer. If it was a straight reversal of the conditions at exit getting back everything we gave up then I am pretty sure everyone would welcome reversing the decision and support rejoining. But the unanswered question is would the EC give us back the opt outs. So the question I cannot answer, and all EU rejoiners will need to address at some stage, is the issue of Schengen, the euro, and id cards. As all of these are conditions of EU entry and have been core red lines for UK policy since we became a member. Schegnen we opted out of as it did not fit our border security policies under Margaret Thatcher, and with that comes ID cards to obtain EC services. I had an ID card while I lived and worked in the EC and this gave me access to all services and facilitated travel between states. We do it by stealth using YOTI and other systems to do what the State won't. The euro is obvious do we give up the pound. It was last rejected by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor. So when I see polling data on these core EU issues I can answer your challenge. But based on what I know from working at EC, and UK Govt, it could still be a show stopper. If it was me I would rejoin yesterday as despite all of the EC's failings, and it had loads I dealt with some every day, it is still better than the alternative as we now all know. Thanks for replying.

[@wonderfulgood2010]

@@petergriffiths4584 Thanks ever so much for the specifics as to the challenges of rejoining. I do appreciate the difficulties of the situation ahead. However, one family phrase we've used to describe our own national situation has been "Don't ever waste a catastrophe", as there is always an opportunity for unusual action lying within. It does seem that there is a public reticence to stating the obvious: First that Britain is on the wrong path and Second that everyone on the Continent has been and is already entirely aware of the first statement? Does Fortuna continue to favor that bold politician? I think she does. Whichever party embraces the obvious first may do well in the next subsequent election.

[@peterzapp2091]

Musketeers: "all for one, one for all" Brexiteers: "all for us, nothing for them"

[@stephengraham1153]

That should have been an anti-brexit slogan before the referendum.😂

[@johnmurray5573]

A crap slogan but I agree better than the one that actually was used and failed

[@manuelatreide]

Musketeers (mousquetaires) were French. The Brexit mentality is typically English. That kind of mentality only can work as long as the people who believe in it are on the dominant side of the world. England stopped being dominant a long time ago. Now is the time for bitterness and hatred. Hopefully, it won’t last. After all, british people are still the « keep calm and carry on » people that we, in continental Europe, looked up to.

[@peterzapp2091]

@@manuelatreide Mouseketeers are American, i.e. Disney Club

[@johnmurray5573]

​​​@@manuelatreidethe only bitterness and hatred is from those who are too callow to know losers consent is the necessary component of a democratic system. Some of them will grow up. Others will be sour octogenarians like Michael Heseltine forevermore

[@alanbarker2279]

There are two main reasons behind the mega wealthy and the right wing press fully supporting Brexit, when all of the indicators were that it would be harmful to the British economy and the British folk as a whole. The first is the protection of secrecy jurisdictions in the Offshore Banking Industrty, thus enabling them to continue to avoid paying their rightful share of tax. The second reason was to erode standards. Standards in workers right, standards in the food industry. Any standard in place to protect everyday life was targetted. It was never about taking back control, or improving the lot of the common man - in fact it was the complete reverse...

[@davidpryle3935]

The big banks, the big corporations, the big employers, the CBI, all campaigned strongly for remaining in the European Union. This attempt at rewriting such recent history, is laughable.

[@alanbarker2279]

@@davidpryle3935 Is the owner of the Daily Mail a major patron of the Offshore Banking Industry? Are Russian Oligarchs ( including Putin). Major Patrons of the Offshore Banking Industry. Is Aaron Banks a major patron of the offshore banking industry? Here's an interesting timeline for you: 2013 David Cameron asks the EU not to include UK offshore trusts in the EU wide crackdown on tax avoidance , the EU says “NO” . 2014 October Arron Banks donates £1 million to UKIP . 2015 October Vote leave “let's take back control” formed . 2016 January 2019 EU anti-tax avoidance proposals published . 2016 Febuary David Cameron announces a referendum to leave the EU . 2016 June proposed 2019 EU anti-tax avoidance laws accepted by the EU . YOU WERE CONNED!!!

[@NimLeeGuy]

​@@davidpryle3935except that isn't what he says

[@MrTimg12]

Absolutely spot on . For the owners of capital the EU was a constant thorn in their wealth creation. EU law was a cost to their businesses - now it's gone there's a race to the bottom on all business regulation from workers' rights to the environment and everything in between. Of course the Tory party is their political mouthpiece and puppet.

[@MeiinUK]

If you understood the world.. then you would understand why such moves.. etc etc etc..... Frankly. And it was never fair to begin with. Either. Because if it was fair.. then Germany wouldn't have used "subsidies" in China.. and not in the UK.. or in Europe themselves !!! We would have been able to actually.... build better. If those earlier subsidies were done this way. But instead of that, it was sent abroad instead.. and now, here we are... I came across a very sad FB post about a HK chinese man in London, who have passed over.. and the Greek guy knew him... and was his Sifu. That drew some tears to my eyes. Cos I had not known that some people cared so much. As opposed to some Europeans too... cos they were shielded away from the media before. That guy is from my hometown too... and yet, when I saw the Czech guy ? Or was he Polish? Anyway, he was confused... When I saw him rioted in HK.. I blew my top ! lol.... I had to pretend not to see it. Sorry.... And now the banks are exiting out of HK... lol..... WELL.... If they do. Then I am going to go back and move back then. Permanently.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Little ENGLANDERS are going round in ever decreasing circles READING the DAILY MAIL...😅😅😅😅

[@johnedwards1968]

"I voted as a business man" - Yeah, an incompetent business man

[@Ramschat]

"it doesn't matter how we vote", the man said, after his country voted the same party into power over and over again.

[@catriona_drummond]

Denial of responsibilty. People like that are not citizens, they do not deserve democracy. Being a citizen is a responsibility, not just a passport.

[@NotUnymous]

​@@catriona_drummonddemocracy is about equality. If you want to rob the right to vote from people you personaly think are unfitt you dont have a democracy at all afterwards.

[@manuelatreide]

As a French citizen, I can’t help but feeling sadness and a deep sense of loss over that Brexit thing. Our two countries have a long and tumultuous history but at the same time, we are very close neighbors, friends and even family. I am accustomed to populism, to a political class full of liars and deceivers. French politicians are not particularly honest. But we had this kind of beacon of democracy right across La Manche to look at and we could say (or shout) to our politicians that they should be « more like the Brits ». Brexit has changed that. We have seen an entire country fall for outrageous lies, the kind of which we would never fall for here. Maybe we are more passionate about politics than the British people but lies are often met with popular counter-reactions. It seems to me that British people were caught in the open, completely vulnerable to the lies because they didn’t know how to react. The country that immensely contributed to the liberation of Europe has fallen for the same old tricks that led so many European countries to surrender to monstruous regimes. As a boy, I was taught to pay my respect to English soldiers, whose graves are in the small village of Normandy where two of my grand parents lived, back in the days. I know what the British people of this time did for us. I know that we could have built the European project upon which peace and prosperity is based without the UK. The UK from this past. I also know that if we want to protect and even go on building the European project, the UK cannot be allowed to come again unless conditions are met, strictly. The first and most important one is that the British people finally learn about the EU, get convinced, deeply convinced that they have their place within the project, not only because it will benefit the country, but also because of what they will bring into the project. The second one is the mandatory rebuilding of trust. It has been shattered by years of insults, slurs and utter despicable behavior towards the EU countries and people. These two essential tasks will take time. Brexit was a supernova indeed. The black hole can be avoided. But the « British star » will never be the same. I am not sure British people are ready to face this truth. However, I will never stop hoping.

[@d.a.t.7723]

I couldn't say better my friend,👍🏻

[@bindon4]

Well said. I'm so utterly saddened by Brexit. It was needless and stupid. I'm so proud of my country's contribution to the Eu over the past 40ish years and also proud of our stand against nazism in the 40's that it pains me to see how low we've sunk. PLEASE don't give up on us - we WILL be back in the EU eventually - we never really meant to leave.

[@stuberry1875]

I totally agree. Your point about education about the EU is so important. Too many are totally ignorant. That has to change. Thanks for your comment.

[@BradleyUK58]

Why is France sending thousand of illegal immigrants to the UK?

[@thegoodpimps]

The European Project has always been a French Project. From Napoleon to Degaulle, all the way back to Charlesmagne. The French are wonderful, but the English are different, and if we were part of the European project we wouldn't be ourselves and you wouldn't have the opposition to benefit from.

[@vishnumohannair8506]

It is the fallout of not teaching proper history to generationa in UK. They were taught to look at the British colonists as a benevolent power bringing civilization and development to the colonies than teaching then to see the colonies as a large captive market forced to buy British products at exbortiant prices until the colonies were impoverished but making britain wealthyin the process. This essentially led the British to vote for brexit to bring back the pre ww2 Britain by exiting the largest trading zone without realising how big a part the colonies played jn Britain's wealth. Even the under educated viillagers in India would have seen through that snake oil sold by farage and boris johnson. I know many Indian commentators who held back from explaining this and watched from the sidelines thinking this is the best c revenge for 200 years of colonization and humiliation done at the hand of the Brits themselves.

[@BeFree2BeGrotesque]

Problem was and still is UK trying to be the Captain when its supposed to be a member^^

[@SeithonJetter]

I have utterly run out for sympathy for these people. Led down one garden path after another while putting their fingers in their ears and screaming project fear to drown out everyone saying reasonable things, and then once it's all said and done their response is to shrug and say either "Oh I won't vote again." or "Oh well they're as bad as one another.". They got exactly what they deserved.

[@jakemf1]

Exactly

[@wreckim]

Don't you wish it only affected those that voted to leave though? It affects all. Unfortunately.

[@teacherella1338]

Well, the voter turnout was too low. More people should have voted back then and then Brexit wouldn’t have happened.

[@friendlyninja5048]

Like most things at the time, and even now, there was this willful unseeing of the consequences. People were convinced that they were right and didn't want to listen. The world collectively covered its ears and shut its eyes. Still does to an extent. In fact, I'd argue some places (like my home country of the USA) have gotten even worse

[@kkmardigrce]

Man, I'd agree - but people were deceived. Lied to by leaders they were taught to trust. I wouldn't blame the voters.

[@ignaciozafra1223]

As a Spaniard living in the UK for a long time and lived in Britain after and before Brexit, I am amazed at the people's comments in the video. Almost everyone was dismissive and extremely racist towards Europeans during the campaign, calling us lazy, criminals and attacking people. Both sides were in favour of these comments, making jokes everywhere. Now everybody regrets their vote, saying politicians lied. Well, I disagree. You people allowed racist, rich and classists politicians to lie to you with your own ignorance! The best thing that could ever happened to Europe was Brexit, now Europe can grow and glow without Britain on it

[@schadenfreude6274]

Aren't you Spaniards also very Racist? Heck the Whole Europe are Racists towards Asian People calling them "Covid Virus People" Pot calling the Kettle Black eh? :)

[@Alby_Torino]

100% agree

[@xAce99x]

We don't need The EU

​@@xAce99xwhy don't you go and tell it to those fishermen how well they are off now with their glorious sovereignty.

[@higamato3811]

@@xAce99x So no rejoining? That's music in our ears!

[@richardtierney4617]

So little pity for people who believed the liars and instead of doing any research or investigation went for their own selfish reasons and have hurt all of us

[@turntapeover5749]

Crazy how they're shocked that what everyone told them would happen happened if they voted out and they still did it and now they're complain. Irony at its finest.

[@bernl178]

I remember here in Canada, while all this Brexit talk was going about saying to myself what a major mistake. Well, history is proven me right. When you let billionaires run a country, don’t think they have your best interest at heart.

[@HepatitisBChannelHepatitisB]

The eu is run by billionaires without national or police interference

[@snoopy_peanuts_77]

I don;t know how many times I have to tell working people that billionaires are not your friends....think of them the way you think of hoarders with a mental problem

[@alfonso1501]

@@snoopy_peanuts_77 They think some day they will become rich and they will be part of the elite I call it the 'future millionaire syndrome’ so common here in the states were everybody is sure they will get rich in the near future, that’s why they are oppose to taxing the billionaires or universal healthcare they don’t want pay future taxes, is extremely idiotic.

[@banana1618]

newsflash: billionaires run most countries....

[@BeeBee10]

It's not a major mistake, it's is just what these people think. The EU is heading for federalism, it's not in the UK's interest to be in it.

[@user-PuppyDan]

I'm disabled and all of my medical equipent as in things I need to stay alive are all made in germany. Prior to us leaving my district nurses had no issues obtaining the things i needed. However since leaving they keep running into supply issues to the point we were advised to start sterilising the equipment we had incse I needed to reuse them. These things are meant to be single use only. Thats how bad it's got. All thanks to the people who had no cluer that the laws the EU run by were created by the UK and put into use with the EU. People who were blinded by their hatred of people not like them who wanted to "Take back their boarders." (Something we now have less control over due to the fact we no longer work with the EU). I have had to laugh at the brits living Europe are now being told unless they have the appropriate paperwork they will have to sell up and leave. Lets not forget the welsh farmers who all voted to leave then were shocked when Europe were no longer going to help pay fior their farms. Something the British government were not willing to do but scary EU did. It's like leaving kicking your house mate out but still expecting them to pay their share of the rent.

[@therealrobertbirchall]

I think you'll find that it was English immigrants in Nort Wales who swung the vote for leave.

[@RobbieMeadows-oz4cx]

​@@therealrobertbirchall😂

[@therealrobertbirchall]

@@RobbieMeadows-oz4cx proof Google Professor Danny Dorling.

[@SN-sz7kw]

Pretty sure expats in the EU were solidly remain. What a tragedy - complete upheaval for many of them.

[@Eind_hoven]

No matter: It wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference: The English are the root cause of it all. As always, Scotland got an even harder deal: They actually were deceived by English politicians when the voted in favour of staying in the UK. Guess what, during the 2015 vote Scotland to stay in the EU.

[@rogerstanley7906]

The duplicity shown by our political establishment is breathtaking.

[@espurr3496]

Churchill saving the world is the most hilarious thing I've ever heard.

[@wonderfulgood2010]

It really was a cute statement, wasn't it? That antique sense of British exceptionalism lives on, and continues to be why Brexit isn't ready to die just yet. The gent who gave us Gallipoli also lives on in our imaginations, for some reason.

[@nonnarocks6312]

Brexit has caused a great deal of distress to my English/italian family. I started watching this video then I had to stop as the anxiety ,the stress the ruining of the last 3 years I had with my terminally ill husband. All you people talk about is economics NOT the human cost to families like mine. I had to bring my dying husband back to Italy and I now live here at 75 alone with my elderly dog because it’s so complicated to go back. I feel so much resentment to the people who have done this to me for greed. So the rich might have their practise of stashing their cash off shore. You politicians are vile, selfish, lazy and corrupt. Yes corrupt. Just check out the Covid enquiry.

[@VikingNewt]

im a norwegian born and raised in the uk (norwegian parents) brexit may hgave stolen my rights and contributions. but i'd already left, because the UK was fucking VILE before too.

[@jamiejones8508]

I always think of the human cost - but you’re so right, it really isn’t spoken of enough :-( and I’m so sorry you’ve been so badly affected too :-(

[@upp.social2490]

Yup :( Bon chance mon Ami.

[@reno.zed1]

​@@upp.social2490I'm so sorry for what happened to you. I hope we can just forget what happened, carry on and trying to fix the mess asap, before is too late.

[@spacemonkey200]

You can still come to the UK and use our free NHS healthcare whenever you like. Just like everyone else. 🤷‍♂️

[@robbiethepict2783]

'Brexit' - How the UK voted itself out of existence.

[@annenunney9907]

@@iaincochrane8741you are right

[@annenunney9907]

Spot on

[@blue_jay31]

For sure , so sad but so true! 😢

[@malcolmrowe5031]

No, how the unelected civil service ruined a good chance, Britain was around way before the eu, my parents and grandparents lived perfectly well without being in the eu, the majority of the world survives perfectly fine outside the EU, you've just been fed bs by politicians who made millions out if being in it!

[@Mighty_n]

For as long as the UK was part of Europe I never once heard a British person say 'us' instead of 'they' when referring to the EU. Soon as this bs campaign started the outcome was obvious, thank you mum for my dual nationality. 🖐🎤

[@jackelineferreyra9078]

The tories ripped this country apart sadly 😥

[@njaalsturlasson2351]

I have a few reflections: - Why was there such a distrust of experts? An absolute majority of the economists, the trade experts were clear that Brexit would hurt the UK, and still the UK population chose to distrust those experts. - The safeguards around how to run a referendums clearly failed. So many people didn’t understand what they were voting for or against, which the post-Brexit chaos of trying to figure out what the vote actually meant illustrate. How could the UK allow itself to vote on something that was so poorly defined? - The media and journalism clearly failed in its responsibility vs its audience. How could the media get away with spouting nonsense for such a long time before the referendum with impunity?

[@crayontom9687]

Because centrism / liberal democracy / grown up politics has failed. Anyone connected to the establishment is a liability. The genius of people like Farage and Boris is that they paint themselves as ‘outsiders’ standing up for the little man, which couldn’t be further from the truth

[@scottmorris8585]

"Why was there such a distrust of experts?" Clearly, because it suited the Brexit agenda to not bring into play the considered opinions of those who were truly independent of Brexit! That would have detracted from the Leave message, and would have been respected by the electorate. So, best to ignore experts altogether - except for Gove to be pushed into claiming that no-one believes in experts - (a supposedly "truthful" comment from a still-believed government) and continue the Leave programme uninterrupted! All part of the con process!

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

We voted because we think every nation should control itself through the Govt it's people elects. It's really not rocket science. Why on earth would you choose to have foreigners in foreign lands making decisions for your nation?

[@RobBCactive]

The financial crisis where apparently highly profitable banks turned out to have played games on paper speculation and many were insolvent, caused anger and distrust. What experts say is technical and requires rational thinking, Brexit was sold with simplistic slogans and disinformation, like the one 🤡 Bojo 🤡 says in the film diverting "£365mi/week to the NHS instead", ignoring the negligible amount percentage wise, plus the significant losses caused by if economic harm occurred. Safeguards? Brexit was obviously crazy and EU membership was broadly popular, what could possibly go wrong? Turmoil in the middle east, lead to ugly scenes of mass refugee in Europe. A lot of the media were spouting the nonsense of politicians, newspaper barons want influence and crony politicians they can control, inflaming people with populist rubbish and sensationalist lies sells.

[@TesterAnimal1]

The BBC PUMPED THE FUCK OUT OF BREXIT! They were its biggest fucking cheerleader.

[@thomasley4006]

Yes, it is heartbreaking. And you are inclined to feel sorry for these people. But then you remember that they WERE warned. That people pointed out to them what would happen. I even remember people acknowledging what might happen after Brexit and STILL voting for it. And why? Because they wanted to stick it to the other Europeans, and to foreigners in their own country. To the people who do the work they don’t want to do. „We were promised, we were promised..“ - no, you were warned. But you didn’t want to listen.

[@Kyoto_Ed]

I think the truth is no one thought the vote would go that way. People wanted to make a point but it got out of hand. The next day probrexit voters were expressing shock and regret. It was a fucking stupid idea to hold it. And the average person didnt understand the ramifications. A total shitshow basically. As a Brit living abroad I can probably never go back.

[@shyft09]

Yep I agree, claiming you were lied to is a cop out. Plenty of people were smart enough to recognise the lies. Others just bought the Daily Mail and gleefully joined the pile on

[@donotreplydumbpeople3866]

The most important thing “ppl that do the jobs that you dont want to do”… British entitlement is on a whole different level

[@jacobprice2579]

Yup. The number of people who I KNOW emphatically voted to leave and are now moaning like it’s the end of days is shocking. I just want to grab them by the shoulders and scream I FUCKING WARNED YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. ALL OF IT! As cathartic as that would feel, it’s not the way we should move forwards. We need to be campaigning to rejoin. There’s enough public support to get it through.

[@englishsteve1465]

I think what made the difference in the Brexit referendum, was the technology which organisations such as Cambridge Analytica were allowed to employ. Never before was it possible to bring such forensic, microscopic levels of research data detail to bear. Peoples thoughts and opinions, gleaned from Facebook and other social media engagement made the _targeting_ of the lies and propaganda so effective. I very much fear what AI will do to future campaigns. Sigh.

[@fiole666]

Biggest mistake of the English people ! Shame on you voters for leaving.

[@videos4mydad]

one of the most surprising things about the vote was that a SIMPLE MAJORITY is all it took for the vote to pass. like literally 50.1% vs 49.9% is all that was needed. I would think for something this MAJOR you would need a CLEAR MAJORITY to be in favor of it... something like at least 75% or even 80% to exit.

[@diannewang371]

In australia where I am from, it’s a clear majority in referendums…

[@lenjon7478]

I agree

[@lenjon7478]

But the ones that profit BIG from Brexit did not want to stay in EU as now they have more power to take all they want from the 95% British population that do not have the power.

[@milesblue638]

The beginning of the video trots out the same face-saving excuses for millions of Britons voting Brexit: Austerity and political alienation. The real motivating factors were imperial nostalgia, British exceptionalism, classism, and racism. Tory voters were fine with austerity so long as it hurt those they deemed inferior. Rather than fighting against the billionaire class, they worshipped them. We are all victims of neoliberalism and the curtailment of democracy. Yet, they chose to vote Tory over and over. Time to stop coddling Brexit voters.

[@HShango]

It was a mix of all you said the others as well. It was a bag of toxic pills in my opinion and those that voted for Brexit will be forgotten by the exact same people that they voted for (E.g. Miriam Cates, Kruger, IDS, Cameron, Sunak, Sajid, Patel, Suella literally all of the tories that are MPs and ministers do not care) and if they act like they do (then they're lying, every time a Tory continues to talk, to me.that is clear indication Tories have a evil agenda planned and are lyi g again and again about they will plan to do (usually it means they're all in it for themselves.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I think it's a bit of both. I'm a foreigner, but I've been watching the Brexit drama for years and I remember watching Leave campaign ads and what stood out to me was how little was actually about the EU and how many of the images were debates in Commons. And I remember talking to some Brexit supporters and one of them told me that he was against the woke stuff in universities and on BBC... again, I was wondering what did any of that have to do with the EU? In fact, the only EU politician the ads showed was Guy Verhofstadt. So, a lot of the reasoning included internal discontent. I mean, a lot of the stuff were images of David Cameron and I was thinking... that's YOUR politician. But I definitely agree with not coddling Brexit voters. I know they're often treated as victims, but I see them as co-conspirators who ended up tricked by their own leaders. They all talk about their own pockets, but I've never seen one say: we were wrong about Europeans OR what about Remainer pockets? No. It's just me, me, me. These are people who, if they would have personally benefitted from Brexit wouldn't have cared if anyone around them was starving. But like those character is heist films, who ends up being the scapegoat betrayed by the leaders of his own gang... they got the short end of the Brexit stick. Still... that character did join a gang with the intent to rob a bank or something. Same thing here: Brexit voters did intend to claw their way up the ladder while stepping over the corpses of their fellow countrymen.

[@smoozerish]

Yes, racism had a lot to do with it. I agree. Nostalgia for a racist empire when the British treated everyone else as inferior.

[@danieloliver4558]

The forces that drove Brexit are the same which drove the anti colonial movement. It was all sovereignty and self determination.

[@normanchristie4524]

Lets sum it up 'political ignorance' led by a bunch of lying grifters.

[@menow7903]

"We can't get minimum wage staff from Europe". "I voted as a businessman for Brexit" . Wow, just wow. This is why this country is going to pot. It's these people who never wanted to see the minimum wage introduced in the first place.

[@rudyardganuelas6254]

It’s amazing how someone with a profoundly incorrect understanding of business managed to run a business.

[@barakbarkan7172]

Minimum wage is a economy stagnator. It makes employers not want to hire because they are limited by the salary. If employers can negotiate freely compared to productivity and experience unemployment will go down.

[@ifeoluwaadeoye6557]

@@barakbarkan7172 lmao, what rubbish. Employers would rather not pay anything, you think workers are going to take a job that pays less than it cost them to do the job? Well now that they've chased away the only set of people willing to work at the already ridiculously low wage, I guess the economy is flowing smoothly now? Clown

[@brunsheimmasterbaitwilfrie2811]

@@barakbarkan7172 No. You buy a service or product either if you have to, or if you can afford it for leissure. For the latter you need to earn enough yourself. The lesser people earn enough to spend it that way, the more buisnesses become unprofitable. Besides: If a job doesn't pay your bills but others do, why would you work there?

[@brunsheimmasterbaitwilfrie2811]

@@barakbarkan7172 Bluntly: If you can choose between having a job that doesn't pay for a living, or not having a job with benefits that don't pay for a living: What is the bloody difference? For answers look at the birth rate for the last 40 years.

[@donmorey01]

If there is one thing corruption can count on it's the ignorant masses.

[@luisfernandodossantospinho6336]

Ignorance is to blame! The people's ignorance is fertile ground for swindlers and manipulators!

[@BurnCKC]

Which is why they keep state schools underfunded. Easier to manipulate someone who isn't able to critically think for themselves.

[@SuperCharlesmc]

“Get Brexit DONE” will surely go down in history along with Neville Chamberlain’s “ Peace FOR our time,” piece of paper returning from Munich as the most catastrophic lie ever told to British people.

[@Bran9]

Excellent 👌

[@jimmiller5600]

I disagree. Chamberlain had massively increased military spending, as did France and the US. He knew that every month Britain would get stronger and, with the allies, Germany would get comparatively weaker.

[@duckbizniz663]

You made an excellent point in regards to Neville Chamberlain and other people who were trying avoid war in the 1930s. Many English and American historians blame English, French, and other governments who wanted peace for starting WWII. Of course, that means it was the conciliatory English and French who started WWII. Adolf Hilter, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito were just innocent bystanders who were tricked into attacking, killing, and taking other people's land. I am afraid you have taken a tiny "sound bite" and used it to explain a very large phenomenon. Do you work for one of the major television news agencies in England or the United States?

[@ulfosterberg9116]

​@@jimmiller5600only that is not right. A war starting 1938 would have been von in a couple of months by France and the empire.

[@jimmiller5600]

@@ulfosterberg9116 Nope. The French and British people absolutely abhorred the idea of another bloodbath. Only the Germans, loving their "victimization & glory" were ready to have Big Mistake 2.

[@sidensvans67]

Never before has so much been taken from so many by so few .

[@eveb.6568]

so true

[@annenunney9907]

Well said

[@theother1281]

1066

[@davidpryle3935]

17.4 million …. “so few” 🤔

[@davidpryle3935]

@@JM-os1oj What about the politicians and ideologues who pushed the idea of joining the EEC/EU onto the “average joe” to begin with.

[@rapstar3565]

I was there and very close to the establishment in London: it was all about getting out of the “control” by the EU and THEREBY the Germans...no matter at what cost!

[@jixal]

They swallowed the lies hook line and sinker. Applying a smidgen of rational thought about the consequences would have helped avoid this. It's really tragic that so many people seem to prefer to listen to a media telling them how it is, rather than think for themselves.

[@X420Niko]

Yeah, like taking an untested vaccine. Mental!

[@somecuriosities]

Great to see Byline back - it's been too long! Hope everyone in the studio is well.

[@annenunney9907]

Same here

[@Derestricted1]

Great documentary! The other group who got betrayed who are not mentioned, of which I am one, are the approximately 784,900 British citizens who were living in the European Union in 2017 who suddenly found themselves hung out to dry by the country of their birth. After so much confusion about what it meant, our worst fears turned out to be true; as brits we no longer had the right to live or work in the EU without a visa! An absolute disaster.

[@heldertorres4296]

At what part did you think that was a decision of the British government? UK has left the EU and that is a decision of each country to decide . The UK has no word for European law anymore.. That was not rocket science

[@PersonyPerson]

@@heldertorres4296 When the UK government decided to trigger article 50 and remove freedom of movement. Don't bother attempting to put the blame on the EU, when it demonstrably was not their fault. You'll not succeed.

[@kenoliver8913]

@@heldertorres4296 Isn't that irrelevant? What was not rocket science was that if EU citizens were stopped from moving intto the UK (remember "take back control"?) then British citizens would be stopped from moving to the EU. "Free movement" must cut both ways. Brexiters seemed to think that the EU would just say "of course you can have your cake and eat it too", all while they insulted and lied about the EU in the worst possible way.

[@heldertorres4296]

@@kenoliver8913 what is irrelevant ?

[@user-bp1nc4ug4j]

​@@heldertorres4296your brain is irrelevant, how can you not understand the simple concept he explained

[@quartzbuilderoneminecraft9434]

Describing the British version of trump, terrifying trump might be back in November

[@Bduh2]

A lot of them didn't seem to understand the consequences of: "You're on your own now"

[@beardedgeek973]

Imagine thinking EU treats you badly and then vote Tory.

[@garyparsons8486]

Or liebour or libtards. You're welcome

[@VK6AB-]

Imagine being so stupid to think the British labour Party is of any merit whatsoever, a vile antisemitic organisation that through its former leader (Tony Blair) committed a major war crime by invading Iraq on false pretences.

[@verttikoo2052]

New level of masochism 🎉

[@VK6AB-]

Wait till you experience three day weeks and rolling blackouts under labour and where thinking becomes a crime.

[@paulhick4042]

The EU treats all the people with crass regard, only furthering their own misjudged plans for a centre left super state

[@lindadejonge]

As an EU citizen who came to the UK in 2003, I knew that Brexit was doomed to fail! A lot of British people have trouble letting go of the past and regularly refer back to "the good ol' days".... it's almost as if the citizens are afraid of trying something new! Farmers, fishermen, and more of these crucial industries have been let down by Brexit and are now suffering. And the flow of illegal migrants has increased, because our European neighbours don't offer their support, because we are no longer part of the EU.....the only ones who've profited are the rich!

[@willgaff3183]

Lmao... We dont want to be tied under unelected fools in brussels. You dont speak for us.

[@garyb455]

Do you ever wonder why you feel poorer than you did 10 or 20 years ago ? Its all because of the failure of the EU over decades. Consider how much the EU has already declined relative to the United States. Fifteen years ago, according to the IMF, the GDP of the Eurozone was just under $14 trillion, while the U.S. economy was marginally bigger.Today, the Eurozone’s GDP is just under $15 trillion, a modest rise by any standards. But the U.S.’s GDP has roared ahead to $25 trillion, making its economy 60 per cent bigger than the Eurozone. That’s a lot of relative economic decline for the Euro area in just a decade and a half.The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi. In 1990 America accounted for 25 per cent of global GDP, the EU a little above that. Today, America still accounts for 25 per cent of global GDP but the EU’s share has consistently slipped. It is now just over 14 per cent and falling. There used to be a global consensus that China would overtake America as the world’s largest economy during this decade. Goldman Sachs, which is reliably wrong on such matters, once confidently predicted that this would happen by 2026. Now it suggests 2035, if then. Other forecasters think it won’t have happened even by the middle of the century. America has outperformed the EU on every economic indicator that matters. Since 1990 the U.S. working age population has risen from 127 million to 175 million, a rise of almost 40 per cent, while Europe’s has gone from 94 million to 102 million, a rise of only 9 per cent.

[@leme5639]

@@rinkydinkmcruk it is THE FAILURE!!!

[@davidpryle3935]

How do mean Brexit has failed ? The fact that Britain has left the European Union means it hasn’t failed. We will not know whether its a success or not, for at least 20 years.

[@Bringontheasteroid]

Calm down Deirdre@@leme5639

[@JessJR1983]

The guile to include Turing as a ‘great Briton’ when the government castigated him and made him take female hormones so he became feminised and chemically castrated as a gay man, which lead to his suicide. I say that as a trans Woman but the way they treated him was torture. Beyond cruel. Nothing is beyond government though. I was one of these that said ‘I told you so’ with people who voted leave, now it has gone past that, I feel for everyone. Sold down the sewage filled river.

[@user-oe9fs2fr7h]

Yet the people that lied to them are still lying to them now.

[@lenjon7478]

Because those people made a fortune since Brexit

[@PEdulis]

What a staggering comment by the bar keeper: "Due to Brexit, I can no longer get the staff I need or order the beer I want to sell. How did I vote? I voted as a business man to leave. If I had to vote again, I would vote as a private person to remain." Obviously, he STILL cannot make the connection between his vote and hurting his business. What more needs to happen to open up his eyes?

[@cormackeenan8175]

What a mor😅n

[@ab-ym3bf]

His eyes were and are wide open. It's just that big fat piece of wood in front of his eyes that make him not see what is ahead

[@jamiejones8508]

It’s either cognitive dissonance or he just isn’t very bright.

[@billmartins5545]

There's hundreds of thousands if not more on the dole, why aren't they working in this man's bar?

[@PEdulis]

@@billmartins5545 Most of them will live 100 or more miles away from it and cannot even dream of being able to afford moving there. Most of them are not able to work even if you may claim to know them all personally and to know better than they do if they can work or not. Stop allowing this corrupt government to turn poor people like yourself against even poorer people by telling you that these people were simply lazy and abusing the system which is not true at all.

[@pinkymixology4965]

"I voted for the idiot thing and now I'm all sad at the idiot results!"

[@nancyreid2416]

It has never been allowed to be done , we dont have brexit. We voted for it but never have been allowed to get it by corrupt globilists , many other countrys are trying to leave.

[@SH-bm8yp]

😂

[@thevine2010]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[@j.dunlop8295]

Brexit was about banks and corporations keeping more, with less regulations, from EU, they corporate suits stoked the elderly conservatives with nationalism, and who votes the most? Cilodynamics, study of how civilizations collapse, disparity between the rich and poor, leads to collapse, along with too many entitled elites, and resources collapse! Prof. Peter Turchin! (Definitely going to get worse and worse, wage disparity!) Rich vs. poor! 3,000 year's of patterns, 400 civilizations! ↘️⬇️ Look at the military, not paid enough to matter?

[@sauermaischeyahoo7834]

So you consider being able to hold those who rule over you to account to be idiotic. Isn't that, in itself, idiotic?

[@VISHALNIGAM1512]

This is a great example of Idealogical Politics, claim that all problems can be solved with one thing and one thing only.

[@JoeMarine]

Yet the people aren't making the government review this madness.

[@irminschembri8263]

The poorest Italian in the poorest Italian region is BETTER OFF than the poorest Brit in the poorest British region ! And still the UK calls itself a " rich" country and denies the biggest GAP between the super rich and the super poor in a European country !

[@blue_jay31]

Thank you !

[@MichelleBlessing]

I agree and I'm now living in Italy!

[@joanmariedefrance6565]

@@MichelleBlessing Italians tend to grumble about how everything is badly managed in Italy but they haven't tried worse situations. The NHS in Italy is really good. My children were born in London in 1965 and at that time the UK NHS was great, at that time . . .

[@bikeman9899]

The lady from Germany was particularly insightful. The class system in Britain is so much more obvious and present in Britain than in any other country in Europe. To foreigners, the British royal system, the upper class with their distinctive accents seem like a quirky amusing feature of British society. But, when you consider British politics is dominated by the upper classes, the press is heavily influenced by them and the money laundering people innthe City , there is a toxic mix of narrow special interests that are completely at odds with the broad interests of British ppl. Ordinary British ppl defer to their "betters" inna way that is not usual in other developed countries.

[@davyburns6926]

You are referring to the English class system and English people, Britain is made up of Scotland England Wales and Northern Ireland. I was in Scotland when Boris became the prime minister and the news came out, the news reader on the tv rolled their eyes and the other news readers shook their heads in disbelief !!!!

[@ProfTheWood]

Bullington Club politics. Seen only too well with Cameron vs Corbyn in the house of Commons.

[@veganbutcherhackepeter]

Just take the House of Lords. What an absolutely outdated anachronism. The whole political system in the UK dearly needs a radical overhaul.

[@therealrobertbirchall]

You say the class system in Britain is a problem. Well, it's not a British problem it's an English problem. Most Scots and Welsh people judge a man by the 'content of his character' to quote MLK, not how deep his pockets are nor which school he went to.

[@russellwillmoth9734]

⁠@@veganbutcherhackepeter You obviously think that the House of Lords are those who inherit their positions from the Middle Ages. The overwhelming majority of members of the House of Lords are people who are experts in their fields or elder statesmen. Only 10% are the old inherited titles.

[@geoffreylee5199]

From a HAVE to a HAVE NOT nation.

[@zxy78267]

As an American, I see some parallels in the extreme division in our country. I don't know enough about brexit, so I'm going to watch the whole thing, but so far, I see a situation like ours where people on either side can barely speak to each other, or cannot understand. I'm in the position of wondering how anyone can look at trump and what he's done, and how anyone can still support him, especially after the crimes he's committed. So, hello from your neighbor across the pond, who is also embroiled in division in our country.

[@vicious12394]

The thing that annoys me when talking about foreign interference is that its always about Russia yet our tabloids and a good chunk of our media is owned by Americans and Australians, American special interest groups donated huge sums of money to farage. There absolutely was foreign interference, but most of it came from people you would rather view as your allies.

[@ulfosterberg9116]

And putin has kompromat against murdoch and the other brexiteers. If you look at the leading men in the brexit campaign they all intelligent but vile. The women are all absolutely bonkers. The women didn't go to Moscow.

[@crcurran]

The US is trying to undermine the NHS as a justification to make their own for-profit healthcare look better. I'm saying this is an American. Brexit was a means to help undermine the NHS. An American that hopes you can have another referendum soon to rejoin the EU. There is steength in unity ansd I'm uncertain my country has the morals, unity, and resolve to lead anymore.

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

The remain campaign had Obama fly over and tell the British people to vote remain. He told lies about "back of queue". Yet you people obsess over unproven garbage?

[@olhakalinovska230]

Good observation, respect for your honesty.

[@brngvrn]

UK was the US agent in the EU. EU should put it's interests first and not align itself so closely to the US. Same goes for the UK

[@dondoodat]

Artificial Intelligence is seen as something to fear, but Manufactured Ignorance got us to where we are with Brexit.

[@blue_jay31]

For sure !

[@nlocnil3602]

"People voted for brexit because they were seeking change" ok but what change was presented that was logical and beneficial and how did they think it would work? Jesus christ where is the critical thinking in these people.

[@dr.leftfield9566]

The brexit result genuinely surprised me. I thought it was going to be remain but not outstandingly by much. So what have we learnt? Well, our neighbours do not want Britain fiscally harmed and never had control over us that we could not negociate out or compromise. ........ And keep Westminster (for now) at arms length. What a balls up.

[@MissR-hn8be]

In my opinion the true devastation caused by Brexit is yet to be felt... 😔

[@Bran9]

Correct 💯

[@antoanetaanastasova3946]

You are right.This is only the beginning.😮

[@2msvalkyrie529]

You mean the Mass Unemployment and drastic food shortages / troops on streets of Northern Ireland etc predicted by Remainers ? Zero correct out of three . ? But you still believe it.?

[@jacquelineloaring2438]

Bull

[@ulfosterberg9116]

After some 20 years it will start to pick up.

[@bushyballs]

Brexit did not betray britain. The people that voted for it did

[@therealrobertbirchall]

David Camoron and wee Geordie Osborne betrayed 'Britain'.

[@jamieparry6420]

Some of them did, many were just so desperate that they voted for something new because how could it get worse. Spoilers: It got worse.

[@garyb455]

Do you ever wonder why you feel poorer than you did 10 or 20 years ago ? Its all because of the failure of the EU over decades. Consider how much the EU has already declined relative to the United States. Fifteen years ago, according to the IMF, the GDP of the Eurozone was just under $14 trillion, while the U.S. economy was marginally bigger.Today, the Eurozone’s GDP is just under $15 trillion, a modest rise by any standards. But the U.S.’s GDP has roared ahead to $25 trillion, making its economy 60 per cent bigger than the Eurozone. That’s a lot of relative economic decline for the Euro area in just a decade and a half.The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi. In 1990 America accounted for 25 per cent of global GDP, the EU a little above that. Today, America still accounts for 25 per cent of global GDP but the EU’s share has consistently slipped. It is now just over 14 per cent and falling. There used to be a global consensus that China would overtake America as the world’s largest economy during this decade. Goldman Sachs, which is reliably wrong on such matters, once confidently predicted that this would happen by 2026. Now it suggests 2035, if then. Other forecasters think it won’t have happened even by the middle of the century. America has outperformed the EU on every economic indicator that matters. Since 1990 the U.S. working age population has risen from 127 million to 175 million, a rise of almost 40 per cent, while Europe’s has gone from 94 million to 102 million, a rise of only 9 per cent.

[@CaminoAir]

@@jamieparry6420 If people don't do their best to understand the real issues and causes of those issues, then they will end up manipulated by better informed and more self-serving people. There are no simple solutions. Emotion is not an argument. People have to learn and understand as best they can and they have to exercise genuine personal responsibility.

[@jamieparry6420]

@@CaminoAir Imagine you're a single parent of three young children, the few hours you get to yourself are spent working a difficult minimum wage job. You constantly worry about having enough to feed your children and your landlord is always threatening to evict you. Tell me when you're going to sit yourself down and learn all about the EU, the ECHR, the economic policies of various countries and their respective political systems. Then it's on to British politics, say from the 70s onwards - Health and Wilson, Thatcher's Europhilliaphobia and the concept of neoliberalism (better check out Regan too while you're here) John Major and his Eurosceptic colleagues/political enemies, Blair, Brown and the Euro, Cameron and Clegg (cheeky history of Farage for good measure), Boris/Gove/Cummings and the data mining machiavellian Cambridge Analytica. No worries right?

[@arnabpaul6400]

Simply Brilliant piece of research.