Ex UKIP Leader Blames Everyone Else For Brexit Failure

[@gordonstrong5232]

Brexiteers: "This isn't the Brexit we voted for!" Remainers: "Well it's exactly the Brexit we voted against."

[@paulbird3235]

The cherry on the cake was control of migrants, and that has failed miserably.

[@johnosullivan3924]

@gordonstrong5232 great comment

[@Ju88327]

It is the Brexit.

[@danielcreveuil]

UETalented "wizard" told you one day: Europe includes Russia. USA rufuses that. Europe, larger, bigger, resources, people free, from Europe. Russia, his the limits of Europe. No USA no more bankers, pls

[@timoakley277]

Or. Remainers. It's exactly the Brexit we predicted. Told you.

[@Jacob-Sa]

If leaving the EU hasn't solved our problems with finding new opportunities, maybe the EU wasn't the problem....

[@mickyg6981]

The EU were never the problem, our crap politicians were, unfortunately the hard of thinking believed them.

[@paulbird3235]

'Try telling that to Farage and Henry Bolton'... 🤔😒.. They are thick as mince!.

[@ColinBarrett001]

@@paulbird3235 Thick as gammon! 😅

[@missizaskun]

Not maybe

[@johnwright9372]

​@@paulbird3235Farage isn't thick. He is an unscrupulous opportunist who never did an honest hard day's work and never will.

[@davidrodger9667]

The failure was listening to clown shoes like Henry Bolton, Farage, Johnson and the rest.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Not really. Bolton, Farage, Johnson and others merely articulated the deep seated, pre-existing "wogs begin at Calais" attitude of the English. It's always been there. England will stand in magnificent isolation. The Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish will do as they're told, like they always do.

[@pennysteam]

Plan was simply to allow them to avoid paying taxes

[@hockeyfanice7371]

That's it in a nutshell. The very wealthy didn't want the EU investigating their tax affairs, it was all dressed up on the immigration issue, and many people voted for brexit purely on that issue.

[@TheHoveHeretic]

The people behind it, not the boneheaded misanthrops who still haven't twigged we're owed an apology for their blinkered exceptionalism.

[@hailstone2554]

Penny you are 💯 % correct, ❤❤❤

[@johnrussell3961]

Brexit hasn’t failed. It working as badly as expected..

[@aleph8888]

If it’s so terrible then why hasn’t it been reversed over the three general elections? It’s not going to be reversed now as PwC analysis suggest that by 2030, the EU’s share of the global economy could be around 12%, based on PPP figures.

[@ben_jam]

Great point

[@daarom4391]

you brits fell for the lies that by leaving europe you would get the imperialist feeling again. take back control? what control? your economy is collapsing and keith starmer is allowed to clean up the mess, while he is totally unfit. do you know what is wrong with your country? and america, canada, australia, new zealand? 2 political parties, there is no more choice

[@pastyman001]

@@paulchambers6537 We all lost because of you. It's your fault

[@andrew30m]

This is the brexiest Brexit they could have and it’s a stinking turd.

[@ArthurShelby481]

50 Brexiters will give you 50 different Brexits

[@daarom4391]

and i give you 1 you brits fell for the lies that by leaving europe you would get the imperialist feeling again. take back control? what control? your economy is collapsing and keith starmer is allowed to clean up the mess, while he is totally unfit. do you know what is wrong with your country? and america, canada, australia, new zealand? 2 political parties, there is no more choice

[@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn]

And one brain cell between them.

[@markbedwell3100]

⁠people who need to insult a strangers intelligence are generally projecting.

[@Music-oi2nf]

@@markbedwell3100 unfortunately it’s an accurate observation though.

[@johnwright9372]

An accurate observation.

[@dagatha3982]

It wasn’t a democratic mandate, it was advisory. Some people didn’t bother voting because they thought it didn’t matter. No one thought it would be considered a binding mandate. There was no plan, because even at the time politicians knew it couldn’t work. Rees-Mogg asked everybody, even the British public, to help him look for opportunities. You cannot find what does not exist.

[@JaneSoole]

Spot on.

[@chriswills9437]

Rees Mogg was Brexit Opportunities Minister - he found what opportunities exactly? In fact his own company ceased trading when investors shifted two thirds of funds after Brexit. Somerset Capital described Brexit as a financial risk in a 2018 prospectus, at a time when Rees Mogg was among the most prominent proponents of a “hard” Brexit in which the UK left the EU’s single market. (Guardian 7.12.23)

[@raymondwebb4179]

Made a shedload out of his company, called Somerset capital,

[@chriswills9437]

@@raymondwebb4179 Mainly betting against the pound on Referendum Night.

[@96qwer]

He moved his company to the EU Dublin to get around the damage that Brexit was causing while pushing in government the most damaging Brexit possible to his beloved country , and some people think he's a patriot

[@raymondwebb4179]

@ yes but people didn’t understand what he had actually done, or didn’t want to, the firm was Somerset capital,

[@bryangeake5826]

@@raymondwebb4179 Shorting the £ on referendum night and off shore-ing the loot to avoid tax. That is all Brexit really meant to Mr Rees Mogg. His time in politics was then more about attempting a de-regulation of the UK, it was the undisclosed Phase 2 that he wanted to be part of!

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

Can you imagine if someone on the Titanic, shouted "Protect the hole in the ship"!

[@philoktoday]

That is script writer potential for sure!

[@martinn6564]

Brexit and Trump. Putin's laughing all the way. It's absolutely the best money he's ever spent...

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

The last of the money he has spent, their economy could well collapse soon.

[@camo68]

RULE BRITANNIA 🇬🇧

[@jaxcoss5790]

​@@camo68Not with the shambles called Brexit. 😂😂😂

[@l000tube]

Absolutely

[@paulbird3235]

@@camo68 "FOOL BRITANNIA" more like, Farage and his elitist's certainly pulled our pants down. 🤣🤣🤣🤣............

[@oliverseitz9215]

Brexiteers do not regret Brexit, they regret that it did not play out as expected. They expected EU would need UK more than UK needs EU, but that's simply wrong. Stupid imperialism and exceptionalism made UK think they could get all amenities without being member. Just advantages without disadvantages. That failed. UK got what they voted for. Cherry picking ended. Project fear became project reality. Learning by pain is best learning method of reality. No rejoin, no swiss style benefits, no extra rules, no excuses, no exemptions, no complaints, no rebate. Out means out. Thank you for leaving EU. UK is a common third country now.

[@danielcraig4974]

* brexitards

[@uweinhamburg]

Most of all, they expected EUrope to break down - in reality it is closer together than ever!

[@LeonLShaw]

when the people of the EU hate us so much then perhaps leving was the best move?

[@andrew30m]

Remember BMW will come running to the rescue, moronic stupidity

[@paulbird3235]

Most Sun readers voted purely to get rid of the migrant workers from Europe, NOTHING ELSE. Murdoch conned them!.

[@hauskalainen]

The idiot actually said "... Of course we should be collaborating on areas of mutual interest". That is EXACTLY the purpose of the European Union which he campaigned to leave! You couldn't make it up! Why do people believe these people? Farage was exactly the same. He never once admitted that the purpose of the EU is to figure out the common interest and align policies to achieve the common aim!

[@EllieD.Violet]

When a rosbif uses the terms 'pragmatism' and 'mutual benefits' he means British cherrypicking and one sided benefits for little brexitannia. Greetings from civilization 🇪🇺

[@rainerzufall42]

When he says "mutual interest", he means "my interest". This kind of cherry picking was part of the problem. But the times of gunboat diplomacy were over...

[@jackpayne4658]

The thing I still can't understand is - what is so incredibly special about the UK, enabling it to uniquely thrive outside the EU? Every European nation has its own particular - but shared - history and culture, its own strengths and weaknesses, and its own record of success and failure. But apparently there is some secret ingredient to Britishness which sets it apart from (and above) all those other nations, from Sweden to Germany to Spain. In an individual, this would be called narcissism - an arrogant but completely unwarranted assumption of superiority.

[@Music-oi2nf]

@@jackpayne4658 ironically that sense of British superiority exists strongest within 20 stone bald, red-faced blokes who use their benefits money to stuff themselves with Greggs sausage rolls and Stella. They actually believe they are part of a superior strain of human being.

[@someoneno-one7672]

While it’s a way of thinking of a sizeable minority in U.K., it is the same in any country. Frexit and Nexit were much more likely than Brexit had ever been numerically (before Brexit happened, of course). And hey, Germany, the EU greatest power, had to learn some lesson in the 20th century alongside Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Hungary (who, it seems, has to do the same school year once again). Is British (English? Scottish? Welsh? Midlands and Cotswold’s?) exceptionalism really that exceptional?

[@AlanFagan-y5l]

Brexiters are having to face the harsh reality that we do need them, more than they need us.

[@rainerzufall42]

A fact, that is mathematically obvious, if you open your eyes...

[@stephendiggines9122]

Face reality 😃😂 like that's ever going to happen

[@lloydbelle3406]

Who's betting that Henry Bolton had a hissy fit when European Council President Donald Tusk hoped there was a special place in hell for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan to carry it out?

[@Driver2616]

😂 Poor Henry…..

[@jeangenie5807]

​@@Driver2616Said with heart 😅😂😂🤣😅

[@jeangenie5807]

Love Donald Tusk 💕

[@dantownsend4246]

Tusk was spot on

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

Their delusion was that people all round the world would be lining up to trade with us. This was a kin to gambling on our future not thinking that if it went wrong many would suffer.

[@lloydbelle3406]

Akin to gambling on our future? Yes. Not thinking if it went wrong? The likes of Farage, Rees-Mogg and Sunak were far too wealthy to care.

[@MrsGardiner]

Delusions of grandeur, post imperial mindset, false estimate of importance in the world? The reality that Britain is a medium sized country, rich, but with huge inequalities, has not set in. Especially the descendants of those who profited so richly by exploiting the colonies, are now exploiting the British tax pot and think it is their right to avoid paying in, but to take out disproportionally. Strangely the former colonies aren't coming to the rescue now post Brexit, as many expected they would.

[@Radchenister]

We. Told. You. We. Warned. You. You. Didn’t. Listen.

[@am4793]

We need to silence those Brexit lunatics.

[@danielcraig4974]

Luigi?

[@am4793]

@danielcraig4974 no Question Time, no news articles and possible arrest for economic sabotage

[@Graham-n2m]

We need to silence those Brexit lunatics! That is straight out of the commies hand book. You only believe. In democracy when people agree with you and when they don't silence them

[@hughbasham4389]

w⚓

[@lloydbelle3406]

On the contrary - we need to escalate these Brexiteer rants on mainstream media, so the public can learn of the true calibre of these dimwits.

[@nickdoughty518]

Henry Bolton in his rant can't offer a plan either, all these years later.

[@raypickles537]

Typical, I didn't crash the car, it was the lamp posts fault, for being in my way.

[@anthonygrayson7753]

If this bloke had actually "done the detail," he would have surely concluded Brexit was a flawed concept. It was precisely because Brexiters like him ignored the "experts" and their "detail" that they were able to believe in it!

[@cathalduffy1618]

Liz , the current English politicians are way below par. If this does not change the UK has serious problems.

[@daarom4391]

you brits fell for the lies that by leaving europe you would get the imperialist feeling again. take back control? what control? your economy is collapsing and keith starmer is allowed to clean up the mess, while he is totally unfit. do you know what is wrong with your country? and america, canada, australia, new zealand? 2 political parties, there is no more choice

[@lloydbelle3406]

You've hit the nail on the head. Who was the equivalent of Robert Jenrick, Lizz Truss, Lee Anderson say 30 years ago?

[@blue_jay31]

Scary but so true! We are so screwed !

[@bindon4]

Quite frankly, what a loomey this bloke is. THERE IS NO VERSION OF BREXIT THAT WOULD WORK! And what opportunities? Name one.....

[@lizwebstersbf]

Only opportunities for sewage with Brexit.

[@paulbird3235]

@@lizwebstersbf We will call it BREX-SHIT then.

[@gloin10]

@bindon4 "Quite frankly, what a loomey this bloke is"? True for you! "THERE IS NO VERSION OF BREXIT THAT WOULD WORK!"? Again, all I can do is nod in agreement.... "And what opportunities? Name one....."? Essentially, the ONLY Brixit benefits are those which accrued to the EU, and Ireland. The most important Brixit benefit is that literally NO ONE in the EU/EEA has the slightest obligation to even pretend to listen to the irrelevant noises coming from the island of Britain. The repatriation of ALL euro-denominated clearing to the EU will be a major boost for our financial services centres. Brixit has massively accelerated Irish unification. Thanks!

[@maxplanck66334]

So annoying to listen to Brexiters like Bolton ranting about it being a failure and blaming everyone else whilst offering not one suggestion as to what might make Brexit work ( because we all know - including him - that there is no way to make Brexit work) and still being unable to shoulder responsibility for his vote .

[@paulbird3235]

" I have a plan Baldrick", our plan is to make them think we have a plan!. 🤫🤔🤭🙄😒...

[@timeoftheyear5230]

Farmers are still welcoming nigel farage as some sort of hero.

[@kevinsheahan5449]

Yes, that's very unfortunate

[@paulbird3235]

Well the majority did support brexshit didnt they, o'h and he wears a tweed cap, wellingtons, and a Barbour jacket. He must be one of us!.

[@johnosullivan3924]

That's why the Farmers have lost the public in large amounts..... letting him be part of farming protests was a huge mistake...

[@hauskalainen]

@@timeoftheyear5230 i don't think they are welcoming to Farage... not many farmers in Clacton.. just working class let down by Tories over the years who have read The Sun too often. Farage's ideal voter.

[@lloydbelle3406]

@@johnosullivan3924At the last farmers' protest they did not let Nigel make a public speech to defend the farmers.

[@Dawkowski]

We destroyed our biggest opportunity

[@paulbird3235]

But look on the bright side, things can't get any worse. Other than a world war!. 🤭🤔🙄😒.....

[@geertstroy]

"Europe is an opportunity"........

[@truebrit3578]

I live in a South American country that was meant to be one of those great opportunities for the UK to export to. Since Brexit way less UK goods in the shops (there are hardly any). Why? The distributors were EU based (Spain and France), the supermarkets had EU owners. Now the local British embassy provides no support to UK nationals because it is ‘focused on trade opportunities’. All to see less than a dozen Range Rovers a year.

[@philoktoday]

Bonnes Notches Viena !

[@TurinStark5]

And yet he also doesn’t have any solutions to get those opportunities… after almost 9 years he still hasn’t provided anything to make Brexit work

[@NckBrktt]

I seem to remember something about "UK being part of the European Economic Area just like Norway" (interview with Andrew Neil in 2016), and from other key Brexiteers (eg Hannan) that "We would be mad to leave the single market" (2016). The only thing that was true was that "There will be winners and losers" - Hedge funders and currency speculators won big time and everybody else lost big time.

[@w47w]

That's what they thought until EU ESMA with EMIR 1.0 and now EMIR 3.0 from 2024.12.24 has struck to full impact, which must be fully implemented by 2025.06. ...The only thing that was true was that “there will be winners and losers” - hedge funds and currency speculators won big and everyone else lost big... EU regulation of all financial products made by EU citizens including those in GB London! GB London has lost a complete 300 billion a year EU market to EU.

[@pabs8345]

He freely admits 'There was no plan' and he endorsed this by voting for it.

[@philoktoday]

"It is official policey - THERE IS NO PLAN"

[@peterschneider7209]

BREXIT - An oven ready deal😂😂😂😂😂😂. UK fell for traitors, and now it seems some are willing to fall for them again - Farage😢

[@hailstone2554]

Unfortunately for us you are 💯% correct .😢😢

[@geertstroy]

Führage...lolll...

[@graemerussell7734]

And what does he think the potential benefits are? As usual, they're silent on the detail.

[@lloydbelle3406]

Henry Bolton's is obviously trying to delude himself that the benefits are the result of plans; hence no plan, no benefits! 😂

[@AldousC]

"Ex UKIP Leader Blames Everyone Else For Brexit Failure". Pot, meet Kettle.

[@LesCollier]

I told everybody that would listen that Brexit was going to be a financial disaster for this Country.

[@philoktoday]

Well done Sir!

[@nickryder9669]

Another brexiteers comment remainers joiners will not leave it alone ! We voted to stay in the Eu in the eventies but the brexiteers wouldn’t leave it alone!

[@lizwebstersbf]

Exactly 👍

[@briancurran5958]

@@lizwebstersbf 100% agreed

[@mrchainanimal3637]

You Brits will never get it. Even the re-joiners like Liz are constantly talking about "financial benefits" of EU membership. If this is all you're interested in, it is good you have left Europe. The EU isn't mainly about financial benefits. Like a wedding should not be about financial benefits only. The people in the UK don't want to be part of the European project (you know, the thing the elected foreign secretary of the UK compared to a Sovjet prison). And the people in Europe (the people the best selling UK newspaper called "EU rats") don't want the UK to rejoin. We are divorced and the UK made new friends in Asia. We should all be happy now!

[@martinburn]

I do

[@daveturner4134]

@@martinburnme too!

[@stephanguitar9778]

The majority do want to be part of the EU. Most brexiteers either imagined what brexit was going to be and/or almost universally had no understanding of what the EU is. They still don't. They just accept the lies of the charlatan in chief, Farrage.

[@daarom4391]

you brits fell for the lies that by leaving europe you would get the imperialist feeling again. take back control? what control? your economy is collapsing and keith starmer is allowed to clean up the mess, while he is totally unfit. do you know what is wrong with your country? and america, canada, australia, new zealand? 2 political parties, there is no more choice

[@jedjones9047]

We're very happy thanks' it's just a few unhappy losers who can't accept reality we left get used to it.

[@samuelsands3267]

Donald tusk was so right those who voted for brexit with not sketch of à plan

[@philoktoday]

Donald Tusk is a narscisistic crook - should we really be listening to this piececof dirt - incouraging Europe to sacrifice a million young Ukrainian men to do Americas dirty work(balkanize Russia and get their grubby hands on Ukrains minerals).

[@imogenharrison3432]

The problem with Brexit is that everyone of those who wanted Brexit had a different idea of what could be achieved and what it would look like. 95% of them got it wrong.

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[@richardtrussell8220]

The very reason I voted to remain was that even if there were Brexit opportunities, I saw nobody in government at that time with the ability to deliver them.

[@TurinStark5]

And there still isn’t anyone in the Government that can

[@richardtrussell8220]

@ And there never will be. King’s new clothes…

[@w47w]

@@TurinStark5 Just ask GBN USER, Farage the new PM will do everything right! Only when these USERs and co see how Farage makes the total crash with GB will GB be open for a new path wherever it will lead. N-Ireland and Scotland are already on their way to the EU. Farage would definitely accelerate this massively after the GB crash!

[@martinwyke]

Projecting blame is the standard operating policy of leavers.

[@paulneedham3608]

8 years on is that not long enough to sort your rubbish Bixit out

[@lloydbelle3406]

Yeah whatever happened to "It's never to late..."

[@rayglover8697]

Starmer, Sunak, Farage - what a team - a well planned splitting of the vote to hand it all over to another useless carbon copy !

[@grimbolyorum6929]

If Henry Bolton was so keen on leaving the EU then why did he not put forward a so called plan of what we could do once we left that we couldn't do as EU members and that would benefit us. Are we talking unicorns?

[@josephmcgivern9671]

Another brexit benefit we got our beaches and where not told about would be full of shi... and you cant swim in the sea thank you British voters 🤣🤣🤣

[@vencik_krpo]

Living on the Moon is such a wonderful opportunity! And don’t tell me it’s impossible and a bad idea! No, all we need is a _good plan_ of how not to need to breathe and drink and eat and shield ourselves from the cosmic radiation and presto, we can all go and live forever happily and sovereignly on the Moon. Why doesn’t the damn government do it? It’s easy, just make a plan! (Brought to you by association for technological borders and promotion of magic.)

[@Driver2616]

The only people that are still talking about Brexit are British people. Nobody else anywhere around the twenty seven nations that hold membership of the European Union speaks about it. It’s not a topic. It’s old news.

[@paulbird3235]

Because they are so embarrassed to even mention it!.

[@suntzu94]

I can attest no one in the US cares or knows about Brexit

[@Driver2616]

@@paulbird3235 . No, wrong there. The reality is that there are thousands more important issues that will command the attention. Brexit just isn’t important.its something that happened a long time ago and people have moved on.

[@paulbird3235]

@@Driver2616 In your dreams my friend!.

[@w47w]

@@paulbird3235 We do long-term analyses with EU citizen surveys and with AI that analyzes EU forums. BREXIT is absolutely no longer an issue for EU citizens! Where there is still discussion, BREXIT is the prime example of implemented stupidity through ignorance, to put it briefly!

[@philipcrossley1279]

I blame everyone who voted to leave for brexit failure because it could never possibly put us in a better position to succeed than we had as members, despite any shortcomings. But playing the blame game won't help. We're stuck in this mess for the foreseeable future and probably a long way beyond. The leavers "won" they'd better get used to it.

[@LeonLShaw]

blaming people for what happened 8 years ago is pointless, as is looking back. It's happemed and it is what it is.

[@philipcrossley1279]

@LeonLShaw Very insightful. Thanks.

[@RealMash]

@@LeonLShaw There is a difference between blame (unjustified) and "having to take responsibility" -> actions have consequences, further actons can be adjusted to work better. Again Brits shy away from being rsesponible for their acts. Pitiful. Except the UK has behaved in a way that no mercy will be given.

[@LeonLShaw]

@@RealMash the UK has not behaved in any way. A few politicians were anti EU but you cannot blame the whole populace of a nation for the actions of a few.

[@MR-intel]

"What are we going to do about it?". The UK cannot join the common market. It's the whole package or nothing. But the EU won't even consider a possible UK application for membership in the next about 40 years. Stop dreaming.

[@northyorkshirechris5735]

I said in 2016 that people were voting for a ‘blank cheque Brexit’ and the only plan people voted for was a 5 word slogan: ‘Vote Leave Take Back Control’. The reasons the Brexiteers had no plan were that: 1) all the Brexiteers would end up fighting over it, division would be evident and they would have lost the referendum; 2) had there been a plan, then this would have set a standard for delivery and laid out objectives and opportunities which they could be held to; 3) it left it wide open as to what Brexit was and what the true intent was. Where was Henry Bolton’s plan? Where is it now? What opportunities?

[@chattyrat3354]

Ironically the Government of Ireland had a brexit plan - preparations for which commenced in 2014 once it became apparent that there could be a referendum. It meant that the Government of Ireland was ready to hit the ground running on the morning of 24 June 2016 while officials in Number 10 were running around like headless chickens wondering how they were going to get the shite back into the horse.

[@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor]

There's none so blind as those who will not see...

[@4bawbees]

"Nobody had a plan." fumes Notlob . And nor, apparently, does he.

[@martynjones8560]

How did that mindless, nasty piece of work get an OBE? If Brexit had had a plan, which had been studied by a royal commission, then Brexit would never have happened - the disaster would have been plain to see ...

[@DavidMoxham957]

First of all Peter Mandelson has been signed up to be Britain's new ambassador to the US, not to manacle us to a comprehensive US trade deal. Secondly, such a trade deal would be in conflict with the contents of the Labour manifesto about maintaining standards. If we can stop a tariff war between ourselves and the US, this will be worthwhile. I know that Starmer has talked about his red lines but ultimately he has to grow the economy or face failure at the ballot box, ergo...he will have to try to negotiate a better relationship with the EU and preferably to try to get back into the fold. He has no choice!

[@danyoutube7491]

Oh right, as long as it's in the Labour manifesto I'm now reassured, it's a cast iron guarantee! You even say he is going to feel obliged to do whatever he can to improve the economy - if he thinks that bowing to US trade demands will help (or, perhaps more importantly, convince enough of the public that it is good for us) then why won't he do that?

[@chattyrat3354]

The UK has left the EU. Therefore brexit was 100% successful. The fact that brexit resulted in a croc of shit is immaterial.

[@stephanguitar9778]

Even brexiteers say that. They don't care about the mess they created.

[@danielcraig4974]

​@stephanguitar9778 * brexitards

[@daarom4391]

you brits fell for the lies that by leaving europe you would get the imperialist feeling again. take back control? what control? your economy is collapsing and keith starmer is allowed to clean up the mess, while he is totally unfit. do you know what is wrong with your country? and america, canada, australia, new zealand? 2 political parties, there is no more choice

[@terryj50]

@@stephanguitar9778we love it. If you don’t leave it’s simple

[@lloydbelle3406]

@@stephanguitar9778 When you refuse to admit your vote was a mistake, this is the nonsense the have to say to save face...

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Imagine living next door to a country that behaves like this, and that had no idea it had a land border with the EU.

[@chattyrat3354]

The government of the country 'living next door' with a land border with the UK did have a brexit plan - preparations for which commenced in 2014 once it became apparent that there could be a referendum. It meant that the Government of Ireland was ready to hit the ground running on the morning of 24 June 2016 while officials in Number 10 were running around like headless chickens wondering how they were going to get the shite back into the horse.

[@gloin10]

@genghisthegreat2034 "Imagine living next door to a country that behaves like this, and that had no idea it had a land border with the EU"? Thankfully, the Irish government, after long years of dealing with 'Perfidious Albion', understood exactly how things would develop, and commenced preparations for Brixit FOUR years before Cameron even announced the referendum date. By 2014, TWO YEARS before the referendum, all the stakeholders in Ireland were working to an 80 page document which essentially listed every possible variant of Brixit and the appropriate Irish response to every one of them. The Department of Foreign Affairs had briefing papers prepared for every scenario, and was able to launch a diplomatic blitzkrieg across the EU when the result of the referendum was announced, ensuring that EVERY ONE of our EU partners understood the Irish 'Red Lines'. The Irish government, at European Council level, made sure that every one of those 'Red Lines' was written into Michel Barnier's negotiating mandate while the UK was still blathering about when to invoke Article 50. When it came to Brixit, Ireland was, as we say here, "Way ahead of you, boyo!"

[@ybkseraph]

Putin thinks Brexit is a great success 😂

[@parmentier7457]

Not only economically, but also socially, the UK is increasingly distant from the EU. For example, hundreds of thousands of EU pupils went on school trips to the UK from the European mainland every year. Now, schools no longer choose London, but Berlin or Rome. The reason is the passport requirement for the UK. In the past, only an EU ID card was sufficient. But not all teenagers in the EU have a passport and schools do not want to burden children with extra costs. In my life, I have been on school trips to the UK twice and have made British friends there who I am still in touch with. But in the future, young people from the UK and the EU will meet each other less often.

[@Harryset1]

Yep, i second that - and "BREXit" also killed the very successful twin city partnerships - all gone --- more then 90 collaborations - went over the cliff.

[@geertstroy]

Can you imagine that they just PREFER Rome......

[@danyoutube7491]

I agree. I never took advantage of the great freedom to easily travel around Europe when I was younger (I've had problems with depression etc. since early teens, otherwise I think I would have done) but I've always thought it's a great idea for all EU people to be able to explore and spend time living and working in foreign countries without a load of red tape and extra expense. Now that freedom has been lost, another negative of Brexit. Everyone's life made a little bit smaller and less free, the benefits to international cooperation and business taking a small hit too because many helpful connections can be made by people getting to know foreigners. All we hear from the Brexit brigade are vague rants about sovereignty (I had no confidence in the Tories delivering anything worthwhile, and there were a lot of good EU policies that were thrown on the bonfire that we can only HOPE, probably in vain, will be replaced with something as good as or better) and moaning about unspecified opportunities (realistically, no opportunity to do anything better than if we'd stayed in, in my view).

[@iamthenomad2k]

If it takes a load of effort to exploit Brexit, maybe it's not worth it

[@DeeFibbs]

Northern Ireland mostly in Single Market and if born there you can get an EU Irish passport, and doing very well

[@philoktoday]

Away widjer!

[@nigellacey559]

Thats true actually. Ive never met anyone who's admitted to voting for thatcher

[@daraorourke5798]

I met one here in Ireland. Couldn't help wondering why he left the UK.

[@Gert-DK]

That guy also suffers from "British Empire Syndrome". He does not realize how big the EU is, compared to the UK. Off course, if you don't wanna cooperate with the EU, you will just have to obey, it is that simple. The UK is too small to navigate the world alone. You need friends. EDIT: Romania and Bulgaria have joined Schengen. I have just seen that it is estimated, it will boost both GDP's with 1%. Take that Brexiteers.

[@geertstroy]

But he has NHS dental " work" to display tho!

[@JaneSoole]

Yet another delusionist then. Or illusionist.

[@iforwilliams2509]

Spoilt little children will always blame others for their errors

[@EllieD.Violet]

All quitterati do, even many deluded rejoinerati like Miss Webster do.

[@simonjohn9525]

What the hell does Bolton think the EU is for other than collaborating on areas of mutual interest with our European partners and friends?

[@Invictus888]

Well said!

[@PaulM_aka_4c21]

What an absolute pillock that bloke is !

[@LesHancock-lu6tb]

Not seen a list of brexit opportunities yet.

[@philoktoday]

That is the plan - with our trousers down the USA can rip us apart !

[@appstratum9747]

Henry Bolton isn't too bright. That's very clear.

[@brianarmstrong3731]

Sad sad man, buyer's remorse exemplar.

[@marksykes1191]

Brexit ! Overwhelmingly supported by farmers Liz . Pay your taxes !

[@philiphowell1505]

At least the idiocy has now balanced out across the pond, brexitards on on one side and trumpists on the other, things will be much better when musk buys the prime ministers role for farage, wont it?

[@petergibson2318]

Farage didn't like the European foreigners interfering in British affairs. Farage loves it when the foreigner is an American billionaire with pockets so deep they are bottomless.

[@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor]

I'm going to start talking bollocks as i want io be on TV, Internet streams, etc.

[@edaleman2758]

Viz Top Tip

[@TheManwithaview]

51.9% isn't a mandate in a binary choice.

[@Phaedra808]

Farage appeals to the idiots who think he has the solution whereas he would lead the country off a cliff rather than admit there is no up to Brexit.

[@alistairbeckett9171]

Brexit hasn't been a failure, nor was it a mistake. Brexit was a well orchestrated, well (illegally) funded, long term act of political sabotage and in that it has been an outstanding success. Semantics always matter with Brexit, failure suggests there was at least a possibility of success.

[@basecamper7504]

What a plonker!!

[@Tridhos]

The chief proponent of it never believed in it for one moment but saw it as a vehicle to get the top job.

[@qo4kh]

Golton shafts his own argument for Brexit, and himself.

[@kennethewan9991]

Bolton confirmed why his political obscurity is well deserved with that rant. He had no plans either for a positive Brexit. I wonder if he still has that racist girlfriend.

[@ralphsebregts3439]

Thx again for another episode of this fantastic british comedy show, always nice to enter the new year with a good laugh 🤣

[@UCVibes]

Great Britain, Maybe the plan should’ve been to not leave the European Union. 🇪🇺

[@paulneedham3608]

Food shopping at farm shops is fine if you can afford the lot higher prices. Plus travelling to one.

[@Rich.H68]

Shouldn't you be driving a Tractor around London to protect a few Multi Millionaires inheritance?

[@philipcrossley1279]

This is what happens when you can't decide if you should run with the hare or hunt with the hounds.

[@paulbird3235]

@@philipcrossley1279 Absolutely!.

[@tonycollyweston6182]

No plan no opportunities.

[@SimonPJohnson]

The EU was a massive distraction from more immediate issues that needed addressing by the UK resulting in a hopeless Brexit

[@missizaskun]

What do you expect from UKIP/Reform/Faridge & Cº?

[@costanza7379]

Good Lord. He's beyond parady at this point.

[@gggmmmxspace]

No Plan and No Details: Idiocy ✍🏼 Looking the Map: Basic Wisdom 🧞‍♂️ Consultive Referendum Procedure: Debatable 📝

[@julianshepherd2038]

It was the countryside and small towns that voted Brexit. We should ban them from anymore voting😂

[@martinhambleton5076]

Are you a member of the Politburo Julian? One person, one vote for them to vote how they see fit. Banning thoughts for anyone has resulted in the biggest crimes in the history of the world. Your thoughts or my own thoughts and freedom to apply them as we see fit doesn't necessarily make either of us right or wrong. However, silenced oppression is 100% wrong in any form.

[@stephanguitar9778]

They always vote Tory too.

[@Graham-n2m]

@@julianshepherd2038 Well spoken, that's how dictators like to work, Job for you in the EU I think

[@LeonLShaw]

not true, Nottingham, Ipswich, 3 london boroughs, Milton keynes, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Coventry, Stoke on Trent and Hull, for example, all voted for Brexit. Rural areas such as the Cotswolds, the isles of Scilly, West oxfordshire, the Chilterns and South Cambridgeshire, to name a few, all voted not to leave the EU. Thus your argument is totally fallacious.

[@kevinsheahan5449]

​@@Graham-n2mno Farage and his mate Putin are keen for us to remain out.

[@philoktoday]

Layers of important regulations within the EU made the food industry in the UK strong and of a high quality - keeping the low food standards and all the cheap food from the USA at bay - I wonder who funded the Brexit campaign. JOINED UP THINKING - not the UK peoples strongest quality !

[@jonen2]

Brexit has zero opportunities. We cry at the insults the Brexiters threw at our neighbours.

[@RealMash]

They were not wasted, they will be remembered every time the Uk asks for something.

[@EllieD.Violet]

Oh, there were and are PLENTY of opportunities for us 🇪🇺 - we profit from Brexit. Greetings from civilization 🇪🇺

[@nevillesenior8706]

Well he would wouldn't he?

[@stephennutt4083]

6.20 in 'it's not too late....' its worse than that Henry day by day the impact of Brexit gets worse and worse. Due to new compliance regulations by the EU SMEs now need a partner in the EU to qualify any goods they produce meet EU regulations - at a cost. That's loads of UK SMEs cut off from the EU. The car industry will be next as companies close shop due to the trade friction.

[@LeonLShaw]

ok, so what's your solution?

[@trident6547]

@@LeonLShaw I think it is up to the governments and the parliament of UK to come up with a solution or solutions. Not a single KZbin commenter. It still seems there is no idea how to handle the situation other than empty phrases like "resetting brexit", "better/closer relations" and " joining the single market and customs union first (not possible at all)".

[@LeonLShaw]

@@trident6547 I agree with your comment about entering the single market and customs union, as you say no chance at all. I do feel that, in the medium term, there is no solution. The obvious one is to apply to join the EU but, frankly, that doesn't have legs at the moment. The view in Europe is that the UK leaving hurt and humiliated the EU and when you put FArage's antics when he was an MEP and how he treated other MEPs into the mix then it is clear that there is no immediate appetite in the EU to welcome the UK back and some of the comments on here lend weight to that view. I am far from being a supporter of the Labour Party, but their policy of better /closer relations with the EU is the only show in town. It will take time for the EU to trust the UK and to build a positive relationship.

[@stephennutt4083]

@@LeonLShaw The only solution is to rejoin the internal market

[@louis-philippearnhem6959]

2:25 There was no plan to leave and there is no plan to join either!

[@lizwebstersbf]

There is a plan to rejoin but there’s no political will.

[@elipa3]

The UK cant rejoin, even if it wants to. Not possible. Its not the decision of the UK.

[@uweinhamburg]

The plan to join again is written in the EUropean constitution and the main EU treaties.

[@LeonLShaw]

a plan to join is not within the gift of the UK, any application for candidacy is totally within the gift of the EU countries.

[@RealMash]

@@lizwebstersbf Join, Liz. No re. The article 49 is the only way to join the EU, there is no way to rejoin. "Re" assumes you get the same treatment as before. That will not happen. Not after the British behavior.

[@caballoloco100]

Someone has to tell Mr Henry Bolton to get over it! Rants are no longer allowed. You had your cake and ate it. The problem is that ... remainers/rejoiners didnt vote for the Brexit mess

[@andresvillarreal9271]

Why don't we demand that this guy map the opportunities that Brexit will provide? He knows that the politicians can find those opportunities, so he must know about some of them already. Or maybe he is as lazy as all of the other politicians who have not found a single Brexit opportunity? When thousands of people have searched for those opportunities and not a single one has been found, it is reasonable to think that there aren't any.

[@ShirlySutton]

Remainers no longer need to debate with leavers , leavers now debate with dissolusioned leavers .

[@brhbrh5572]

Farm shops should be great. As the supermarkets (and other middle-men) have been cut out, the food should be at least 60% cheaper. Right?

[@louis-philippearnhem6959]

6:48 TCA Trade and Cooperation Agreement! Implement it fully first!

[@klausmohr522]

Good morning all and hopefully it will be a prosperous 2025 for all. @ 6:16 "focus on the opportunities....". Did you not have a "Brexit Opportunities" minister (Jacob Rees-Mogg) to do exactly that? Refresh my memories, how many did he find exactly and what was the value of them? "Carry on up the Big Ben". I still love those movies.

[@RealMash]

There is danger in those movies. They took "Yes Minister!" for an instructional video.

[@klausmohr522]

@@RealMash Good one, so early in 2025 :)