History Shows Blair Was 💯 Right On Brexit & Farage!

[@sarahbarrett1247]

That’s because, whether you like Blair or not, he actually has a huge knowledge of how the EU works.

[@51bikerboy]

Not only about the EU but also how international trade works! Not like Boris Johnson and the other crooks they only know every think about being corrupt by laying and cheating!

[@theresenydahl9531]

He's also a great politician who knows how power in general works.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Who likes Blair? Don't forget he's the man who lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime). And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@theresenydahl9531Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime). And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

[@markmerry1471]

Not you as for normal. As I can remember when you and your EU loving crying babies told us that if we left the EU we could be going in to a big black hole but we are still here. Then if we don't take up the euro we will go into the big black hole but we are still here.

[@WLatu-kz7se]

Brexit is beneficial as an experiment - it shows the value of the EU and how much we should appreciate what we have. Thank you Brexiteers! Greetings from the happy, peaceful, and prosperous EU!

[@ukbloke28]

peaceful other than the huge far right uprising...

[@MathildeHennecke]

😎

[@alanpreston2129]

@@ukbloke28 good point - this is an alarm bell for the EU officials, that adjustments in EU politics are necessary right now to preserve unity and peace

[@allytank-itykitty7417]

unfortunately... most people still do not see it as a mistake, most people cling to this idea that it was never delivered... which is sad.

[@Philip-x3d]

its not an "experiment." World Trade has been going on for centuries, thats how the world economy grew. Thats how we got to know about different produce and cultures.

[@Jacobus666]

I'm Dutch and i would like to say i'd be happy to have you guys back in. The EU is far from perfect but let's fight together to change it for the better. 🤗

[@jamesmaxwell3933]

Let's just dissolve this utterly pathetic institution. We are friends and don't need Guy 'Brad Pitt' Verhofstadt to stop us holding hands.

[@bolajilaurance6359]

i am happy to work with the neighbours but no shared sovereignty

[@D4NDYSW0RLDF4N0]

And how does that work EU wil never be America get over it

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@@jamesmaxwell3933 You have no idea what the EU is.

[@MM-uv6kb]

Frenchie here..... we'd love you back. 🇪🇺

[@annyjayableful]

I’m a Canadian. It still amazes me the UK left the powerhouse that is the EU. Boris Johnson should be ashamed of all the lies he told and the people who didn’t vote should be as well. No economist but come on, the UK would always be better off as part of the EU. It’s unfortunate it can’t be undone.

[@maximillianphoenix9374]

I think saying I’m a Canadian explains a lot 🤔

[@macflod]

It could be undone if UK was not a slave to the media billionaires.

[@chion918]

speak for yourself. Canadian are not particular smart when it comes to who to elect for Prime Minister.

[@johnsmith-de9wv]

So if you feel that way join the US of A vote to join ,push for it ,tell your countrymen they would be stupid not to but its not about being a bloody poiwerhouse is it , there's a couple of thousand years under my feet ,I feel it and strangely so do many people coming to live here and that will drain slowly away if blair gets his way

[@iaingraham7586]

@@johnsmith-de9wv The deal David Cameron negotiated to stayi n the EU would have ensured Britain's Eurozone exemption continued. He negotiated an exemption for Britain from the Lisbon Treaty's "Ever Closer Union" clause. In short, Britain had EU membership, access to all its oversees trade deals, its political bodies; and an agreement for more autonomy in the EU. He didn't put that agreement on the ballot question, but in any case; Britain wasn't facing any prospect of political union with the EU in 2016.Leaving the EU was a strategic mistake for Britain. When Britain was a member of both the EU and NATO; she had direct access to decision making in both bodies. Britain has given some of that access up. That twin access (to both bodies) made it easier for Britain to be part of European Global trade deals that include Britain's overseas and European allies.

[@andersbjorkman8666]

I am Swede currently living and working in Denmark due to finding my wife here. Before Brexit I would spend thousands of pounds each year buying electronics, supplements, foods and spices, board games etc from the UK. Now I have to pay import fees and extra postal charges after Brexit. I couldn't believe it when Brexit happened. The British empire became great through trade, so I could not believe that a few well-spoken populist neo cons could dupe a people whose economy is based on trade and international economical services would leave the biggest free trade ø zone in the world in the world, where it had negotiated the sweetest deal of any member state. Now the money I spent on UK products goes to Germany, since they cannot compete price wise. It is sad.

[@DB-qw6xq]

First and foremost, Brexit was about taking back our complete sovereignty for the sake of the integrity of the United Kingdom. The EU was, and indeed has become even more so, a semi-autocratic body where its members have partially allowed their sovereignty to be dictated to by a quasi-elected committee for the sake of money and wealth. We have thankfully been freed from that by leaving.

[@johnnydarmech619]

That was an anti Brexit government and an anti Brexit EU that created that problem, not Brexit in it self. When commerce can start negotiating without politics things will improve naturally.

[@jjjjjjo839]

@johnnydarmech619 like the trade agreement with the United States? You clearly miss the point. Politics plays a huge role in trade agreements. Why is the EU obligated to play by your terms? Why would they do that?

[@k.schmidt2740]

@@johnnydarmech619 Don't be silly: international commerce does not exist without politics. Not even a millennium ago was there some kind of "natural" state of international trade! That trade is based on politics and ALWAYS has been - either wise or foolish. Since Brexit, British politics has been foolish, and its trouble in international trade reflects that 1:1. I hope Labour can correct at least some of that, anyway.

[@frze5645]

Your comment shows exactly the problem with Europeans... they are very casual about their sovereignty. The EU took control of each countries trade and used this to make each EU country obey rules that unelected officials created... crazy. Had each country kept control of their own trade they would be much better off. It is amazing how the Europeans have lost control of their destiny and they have hardly noticed. The EU is a globalist agenda in which selected officialdom dictate. The UK has restored its sovereignty but the Europeans have lost theirs and not even noticed.

[@CiprianCindea-b1w]

UK: Hey EU! Do you bet that I can shoot myself in the right foot? EU: What? Why would you do that? UK: Because I want to show you that I can do whatever I want, to show you that I'm independent! BANG (BREXIT) 8 years after EU: Hey UK! Is that you behind? UK: It's your fault that I'm behind! I'm crippled because of You!!

[@bbell1549]

👍😀👏

[@saulcomish4759]

What does 100 mean?

[@bluestream50]

wake you pal you're dribbling.

[@rosskrizevac9777]

The union itself will collapse soon, its combined GDP figures are pathetic and getting worse. 20 years ago it had 44 corporations in the top 100 list, now there are less than 15, the union does not have a single worthwhile tech company. Whilst the developing world is about Innovation, entrepreneurship and technology, the EU is fixated on migration, regulation and diversity. Britain needs worthy partners if it wants to progress, the old mindset has to change.

[@Maximiliano896]

It was a delusional mind that brought forth Brexit. Utter delusion

[@davesy6969]

Blair/Brown fecked up on a few issues. Cameron/May/Johnson/Truss and Sunak fucked up on everything.

[@andrewcooney2387]

You are correct in what you say about this sadly things are going to get massively worse due to the tories government now actively trying to destroy the Irish state by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland via the north, the British government has decided to wipe out the the only nation on earth that the UK trades with which is hugely profitable to the people of the UK. Hollywood film writers could not make this up. Where is the British insanity going to end.

[@bbell1549]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Totally agree!

[@JimTimber]

I can't believe Cameron is back.. the smell of fartz hits the room again

[@SuttonianBoy]

Oh not to mention that Brown left this country nearly bankrupt and sold off most of the gold reserves!!

[@mikethebloodthirsty]

Blair fked up on a LOT of issues and ended up giving advice to Eastern European dictators on how to cover up murders of their own striking citizens.

[@Xtraq100vet]

Hopefully Farage will be history he has done so much damage to the UK, similar to what Trump has done here in the USA, looking forward to the UK rejoining the EU and to finally close the chapter on Farage and Trump when Kamala Harris is hopefully elected! Glad you elected Labour, now there’s hope for the UK rejoining the EU! Blair was 💯 right!

[@tubeit365]

I'm voting for Harris.

[@Philip-x3d]

so by "damage" you mean something you disagree with ?

[@Ajay-pz9ms]

​@@Philip-x3ddemonstrably

[@Arnaud58]

Mostly correct in my opinion, but you forgot one key point. Yes, Farage instigated the whole, but the voters were the ones making the decision.👴🤔

[@annebokma4637]

Rejoin won't happen. EU doing fine without England

[@snowman2970]

Not just Tony Blair, Michael Heseltine, Ken Clarke, John Major, Mark Carney, indeed anyone with at least half a brain!

[@lizwebstersbf]

I have paid tributes to Heseltine, John Major and David Lammy with similar videos. Today is Tony’s turn. Here’s heseltine’s History Shows Heseltine Has Been Consistent On Boris & #Brexit kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGmvnapuq6-tZqM

[@DJWESG1]

None of those ppl you mentioned listed a finger to stop ot happening, and arguably laid the paving blocks of brexit in the years leading toward it.

[@RazorMouth]

​@@DJWESG1huh? They were all warning. Were you not listening?

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@lizwebstersbf "Tony"? You're hilarious!

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Michael Heseltine: "They are not going to allow us, by our own doing, to endanger their overall vision of a united Europe". Ken Clarke: "I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe". Any more traitors you care to mention?

[@hape3862]

18:14 As a left-leaning German, I have to say that I have always blamed Jeremy Corbyn most for Brexit. His tacit agreement with the Brexiteers left the British without a strong voice for remaining in the EU. All the Brexit lies could so easily have been countered with facts and positive emotion towards the EU, but through Corbyn's complicit inaction, the British people were almost betrayed more by the Labor Party than by the stupid Tories.

[@lizwebstersbf]

I agree. Corbyn was the handmaiden of Brexit.

[@hgvbish6606]

As a left-leaning elderlyBriton I feel exactly the same and desperately unhappy for my country

[@tonyb9735]

"almost" ... but not actually.

[@erniefu1610]

And now he is out of the party. He helped BoJo win the last election.

[@DrJRL]

I see the character assassination of Corbyn will continue way beyond his ability to affect any such issues. Rank hypocrisy from people who will hold Blair up as an example of anything other than a War Criminal.

[@pierrewilliams1533]

I'm half-English, half-French. I'm a former reporter on Tory-supporting tabloid newspapers. I was twice interviewed for the job of Communications Director for Vote Leave. Let me assure you, Tory tabloid owners and the handful of individuals who instigated Brexit haven't the slightest interest in Britain's future. Their only interest is in themselves.

[@petergaskin1811]

It was always about the European Tax Directive. Far too many sweetheart "non-dom" tax deals enjoyed by Newspaper barons in England.

[@sauermaischeyahoo7834]

The "Leave" campaign gained traction because unrestricted immigration from eastern Europe was undermining the workman's collective bargaining position and the tradesman's pricing power. Those adversely affected complained to the government and asked for protection. The government replied that it could do nothing, because the EU wouldn't let it. So the people being impoverished by immigration demanded that the government get Brussels to change its rules. David Cameron went to Brussels to ask the EU to change its rules on free movement of labour. He was told to go forth and multiply. This left those who care about the living standards of ordinary Britons no alternative, if the EU wouldn't change, then the UK would have to leave. Those who support the UK's membership of the EU are the people who don't care about anyone other than themselves. They don't give a damn if workmen are being impoverished, they are completely self centred.

[@Sujki19]

@@sauermaischeyahoo7834 how has that worked out for farmers and fisherman?

[@richardfothergill8090]

@@sauermaischeyahoo7834your point is valid. And the only reason I would have voted leave is the control immigration. But alas to get a free trade deal with India, we have to give up a load of Visas for Indians want to work the Uk. This is what’s happened and immigration is higher than ever.

[@nigelmartin2254]

Your comment interests me. Being half French and half British must have torn you quite badly. I actually campaigned for Brexit. I would describe my political leanings as a Christian Democrat. I was a newspaper boy on the day Edward Heath took us into the EEC on 1st January 1973, and I vividly remember reading the front pages. I worked in Africa and Australia, returning to the UK in 1993 after my father died. I was shocked at the changes with our traditional trading partners, and shocked that the European Union Commissioners are not subject to the ballot box. That smacked to me of autocracy, benign it might be. They had powers to promulgate extension of the Acquis Communautaire. I did an A level in Government and Politics to gain greater clarity of our relationship with the European Union - as it was now called. I was pretty annoyed with the Money Creation and Society Debate which can be viewed on You Tube. Precisely half way of the 2 hours 30 minutes debate, where it describes how money is created. A bank official depresses a computer keyboard and a loan is created out of "thin air". My response to all of this is in a paper I wrote dubbed the "Table Mountain Housing Finance Model". It is available on line. go well!

[@plunder1956]

Britain will have to change drastically to be allowed to apply for membership again, but I hope we do. Whenever Farage heads for America again, I really hope he never comes back.

[@simonsadler9360]

They won't rejoin , oh dear & have our £ trillions taxed !Hope Scotland becomes independent in the E.U then they will take back oil production that "We are a grandmother ' privatised My village of Gaianes had a €2 milllion E.U grant to renovate its major road , in Summer holidays no cars in the village so the children play safely & paint the streets !! Ì

[@patty4349]

Good God, we don't want him. We've got an idiot of our own!

[@makelvin]

Uhh... No Thank you. You guys can keep Farage where he's at and we will even through in a Trump or two as a bonus gift. 😁

[@pobinr]

@@plunder1956 it was the worst trade deal on the planet. Our whole nation compromised for free trade flow on EU trade that's only 10% of our economy. Very naive of you to think it was a free trade deal. The EU is about more & more centralised control via insidious political union. Whilst pretending it's little more than a trade deal. And people like you are so dumb you fell for it 🤔 It never bothered you such an awful deal. Then as Brexit approached you starred worrying about us getting a good deal. How come the dreadful EU deal we'd had for years never bothered you? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIOVYZKsh8eoe68si=XIDRv4oV9CmZEYke

[@johnusavage3051]

Only if in return we can export a few million MAGAs.

[@robertcaldwell2994]

Brexit being a failure was a no-brainer for everyone except those sitting in parts of UK.

[@rosskrizevac9777]

Leaving an union that does not work is a wise decision, , its combined GDP figures are pathetic and getting worse. 20 years ago it had 44 corporations in the top 100 list, now there are less than 15, the union does not have a single worth while tech company. Whilst the developing world is about Innovation, entrepreneurship and technology, the EU is fixated on migration, regulation and diversity. Britain needs worthy partners if it wants to progress, the old mindset has to change.

[@Sjb-on5xt]

Brexit hasn't been a failure, though it will take time to reverse much of the hollowing out. Adopting Net Zero during the Blair and Brown government accelerated the deindustrialization of the UK, handing China virtually all our manufacturing. By 2012 it was all gone. Ironically it was the EIB that gave loans to UK based companies to relocate abroad, while member of the EU. By 2016 looking around at all the wastelands that were once factories, we had nothing to lose by leaving.

[@zazz63]

did you even watch the video?

[@mikearcher6568]

Brexit has made immigration worse, our financial situation is worse. Brexit prevents our companies from accessing the largest market in the world& only benefits Nigel’s friends friend’s with supermarkets who did not want the tight food standards & employment controls. Old Turkeys voted for Christmas roast dinner…. Idiots The far right conservatives showed us their true colours greed 🥵🥵😣😣😤

[@grahammorgan3858]

@@robertcaldwell2994 or the bone lazy expats. In sunnier locations wanting to have their cake and eat it for ever

[@eltamarindo]

For those of us who only visit Britain as a tourist, who want to keep the cost of our stay low, and who want fewer cars on the road, and fewer tall building to spoil the view, . . . I must say that Brexit has been marvelous.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

Nigel, promising free money, ought to have been the reddest of red flags to anyone.

[@CHUTNEX]

He cares solely about the money going into his pockets for his collusion nobody else.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

Like free internet?????

[@genghisthegreat2034]

@@damianbutterworth2434 exactly. A kind of voodoo fiscal WiFi on a red bus.

[@damianbutterworth2434]

@@genghisthegreat2034 Labour will import more voodoo. Might ship them in from Haiti. :)

[@willacarr6746]

FARAGE IS YET ANOTHER RAGING NARCISSIST- GADFLY- BARFLY-TALL TALE TELLER CONVINCING ONLY THE UNEDUCATED- GULLIBLE-STUPID....🎉

[@BlissLovePeace]

Greetings from Germany. I was really sorry that the UK had decided to leave the EU. I have followed the debate long before the referendum, and the very morning right after the referendum I wrote my very first online comment on a British Newspaper (The Telegraph): "You geniuses just started a trade war with an 800 pound gorilla." ... It was absolutely clear to me that this decision would have major negative implications for both parties, but certainly the UK being the much weaker party was going to be battered to pieces in the process, and so it was, both economically as well as politically and not even talking about what it did to society as such. In hindsight, given the problems we have now in the world, we should remember, that we (EU member states) and the UK are not enemies! We share fundamental values and culture and we should realign to strengthen ourselves. The threats do not come from Europe, I hope that much is clear meanwhile!

[@stephencaswell7452]

Brilliant Tony Blair. Contrast his arguments with Farage.

[@williampatrickfagan7590]

And the Con Pms since Blair.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Blair has no arguments in favour of the EU that are worth listening to. Nobody has.

[@pip1723]

The more I've listened to farage the less I'm impressed with him.

[@handarokadath1515]

​@@SJG-nr8ujThe thing is Sj , that most people just see Brexit as a massive disappointment.

[@leviathon2]

​@@SJG-nr8ujyou are Russian troll

[@NickAskew]

From my position within the EU, I look at the UK and wonder what it is doing to itself. I am sure we can all agree that the right wing in the UK seems deluded and determined to scupper the UK, but I see too that the left wing are also unwilling to address the elephant in the room. When Labour comes to power, they are suddenly going to find themselves in a damaged economy with a right wing press that will blame them for everything. To me it is as clear as daylight that the Labour party need to talk about the damage brexit has inflicted on the UK.

[@theresenydahl9531]

The problem is that Labour is not much better at the moment, only a similar alternative. Bring Blair back if you want change.

[@NickAskew]

@@theresenydahl9531 I have to agree. I think Labour are sadly portrayed as the saviours that will rescue the UK. Well I'd prefer to live under them than the Tories but Labour are clearly not actively promoting undoing brexit.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Bu Starmer is a wee timorous beastie and is afraid of scaring the voters. People are so fed up with the tories that they would go with a more radical agenda, but he is...a wee timorous beastie.

[@fredatlas4396]

​​@@NickAskew I think they are scared that if they start talking about undoing brexit, rejoining the EU they will lose votes. And if the Labour Party doesn't win the election outright they can't do anything. Sadly I still hear a lot of people blaming our problems on immigration, too many people coming to the UK. The state of the NHS and roads etc is apparently down to immigration not brexit & the tories policies since 2010 🙄

[@trident6547]

@@NickAskew It cannot be undone. UK is a third country in the eyes of EU. It has left the union in 2020. If you by "undoing brexit " mean some closer relations with EU UK already has the TCA wich is as good a trade deal a third counry can get. There is no more room to wiggle in any concessions from EU in that nor is there any will in EU to create any precedents for other third countries. In 2025 brexit will more or less be done from the perspective of EU, when the Euroclearing leaves London for good.

[@eckhenderson8036]

farrage should be jailed for all the lies he has told.

[@Anton-ji4td]

Just like Bozo should.

[@brettreynolds6652]

What Lies exactly..! That we were giving some idiots in Brussells' £39 Billion a year' to go out and have nice Champagne Dinners on.!

[@beverleymcghie787]

All who believed what Nigel told them should wear a dunce cap.

[@jamesdouglaswhittaker4612]

I don’t really think he lied - at least no more than any politician does . Trouble is Farage had no say on the final agreements .That was in the hands of Politicians - which as expected, guaranteed failure , proved fatal.

[@evalee6708]

Don’t forget Dominic Cummings, Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson….

[@LonnieHalouska-c2w]

The U.K. is stuck with Brexit, for better or worse. Should the U.K. ask for readmission to the single market, it will be refused. Neither Germany nor France will allow readmission of Britain on any terms, certainly not on the in and out special basis on which the U.K. was allowed to join back in the 1970s. Unanimous consent of the EU membership is required for entry. If, for no other reason, Britain would not be allowed back in because the country is so sharply divided over EU membership. As to a meaningful deep trade agreement with the U.S., it hasn't happened and won't. The real U.K. economy is too small to interest a U.S. that, frankly, doesn't need U.K. exports. And even with such an arrangement, the U.S. being strictly a mercantile nation, Britain would be required to import far more to the U.S. than its exports to the U.S. In time, that would exhaust Britain and impoverish the economy even further due to lack of trade balance savings. Most of all, the U.S. already owns much British industry. It can extract what it wants in terms of British capital and profits even without a trade deal. In short, the U.S. and other major countries already own Britain. The British people should never have listened to Farage and his enablers in the old British establishment who bank rolled his propaganda campaign. And Tony Blair is quite right in his premises and conclusions in the video.

[@Anton-ji4td]

I remember staying up all night for the blair 96 landslide and the feeling in the morning of hope. Now look at this country 14 years of tory chaos.

[@simonsadler9360]

Obviously I speak Spanish & my friends are appalled at what is happening there now , we care for each other here ,wonderful free health system .All polite & helpful !

[@simonsadler9360]

In Spain now & with 17 million Britons living abroad were denied our rightful vote re Brexit ,tied via gov email gives me request denied !

[@advocate1563]

Little did you know you'd elect a war criminal.

[@nigelbenn4642]

97

[@snipermagoo]

Oh come on. Gordon Brown was literally the worst chancellor this country's ever had. Blair was the one who threw open the doors of mass migration and set the stage for this entire mess. Both parties are absolutely useless.

[@garyarnold3141]

You're doing a great job in exposing Brexit. Blair is right, choosing to walk away from the biggest market on our doorstep should never have been an issue of debate.

[@fortuner123]

You are so wrong.

[@tonyb9735]

@@fortuner123 "You are so wrong." Oh really? Given that the damage that it has done to our economy is now readily and obviously apparent, please explain how you expect us to benefit from putting trade barriers in between ourselves and our biggest customers?

[@Philip-x3d]

So...if "the shop next door" is charging you more than other shops, will you still go there to shop because its "next door" ? If "the shop next door" says you CAN shop here, but in return WE will tell YOU what you can or cant do in your own house, would you still shop there ? Not a very well thought out reason that, is it ?

[@Noel-r4f]

I left the UK 30 years ago, now living in Ireland, although we maybe not perfect, but what I see we are far better off than the British Just the other day I was speaking to my sister, living in Essex and Sadly she is a Farage voter

[@tr3vk4m]

I'm so sorry.

[@exitar1]

When you’re head is empty it can be filled with anything…..

[@julesvahrman8852]

How could anyone have looked at the major Brexit proponents - Johnson, Farage, Gove, and believed a word they said??

[@sic_transit_gloria_mundi]

People love skillful demagogues.

[@roseanncampbell3168]

Because they are big dummies they believed him because they told them to

[@tonyb9735]

And even now they still choose to believe Farage, it is agonising to me. Are these people actually incapable of learning?

[@1983pety]

economics, trade, borders are all complicated things. Saying that it's the EU's fault or the immigrants is much easier so they believe the easy thing. People like Farage know this and they use it.

[@willacarr6746]

GOVE ALONE IS & WAS NOT A DIRTY ROTTEN SCROUNDREL !

[@zeljomirtanackovic1529]

Nigel is like bad smell, just lingers around, I just wonder when people will just open the windows and get rid of bad smell.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

[@serinadelmar6012]

@@SJG-nr8uj😂 oh dear.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@serinadelmar60121. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.

[@someoneno-one7672]

@@SJG-nr8uj Yes, it’s a scam that stopped wars in Europe and idiotic border disputes. And watch, the European countries that aren’t in EU or not associated with EU are Putin’s pets (while Putin is making his own country a colony of China). And yes, U.K. is now priestly a bantustan at the North Sea. Nothing to reconcile with.

[@79EasyE]

@@SJG-nr8uj what a lod of bullocks.

[@applemanuk]

The one single factor for me is the huge problem of English exceptionalism. How can we ever be part of a European collective built upon shared values of peace and prosperity when such a toxic view of the rest of the world permeates English consciousness. The prevailing view that we are fed daily, is that all we have to do to solve our economic problems is to wave our Union Jack flag more furiously and shout louder. The EU & the rest of the world will then sit up & take notice. Until such time as the zeitgeist changes, coupled with the acknowledgment that Brexit was a catastrophic mistake, will result in us forever languishing as the poor man of Europe.

[@theresenydahl9531]

Great point.

[@jackpayne4658]

Absolutely. My own parents were not extremists of any kind - sceptical Labour voters, with a deep distrust of both Tories and trade unions. And yet, their English exceptionalism was blindingly obvious, even to me as a child. That attitude doesn't die with one generation.

[@henriikkak2091]

🎯

[@markperrin8098]

So the UK wants to trade with the rest of the world and wants equal immigration from the rest of the world, while the EU refers to any country outside its borders as a third country and tarrifs them blind, and the English has the toxic view of the rest of the world? Wow.

[@markperrin8098]

So the UK wants more world trade and even immigration from around the world, while the EU calls anyone outside its border a third country and tarrifs them into oblivion, and were the ones with a toxic view of the rest of the world? Wow.

[@RickBonner1]

Everyone should listen to this, its the blunt, stark, hard truth.

[@qeitkas594]

He is also right about the fact that it will be very difficult to go back into the EU. The UK will have to negotiate from a position of weakness and therefore the UK needs to change first into a position of strength before starting any rejoining discussion. Hence this will be very far in the future. The good news is that those old idiots who caused this disaster will not be there anymore. The under 35 will bring the UK back into the EU. That is 100% going to happen and they will not look back positively on those responsible for Brexit.

[@theresenydahl9531]

Maybe feeling the steel while watching the EU prosper will change the UK.

[@karenhopwood891]

Too late for me unfortunately

[@Cheeseatingjunlista]

How long will it take these under 35's to get their hands on the levers of power? What makes you think in 20/30 years time the EU will want a bitter weak sad old UK back in?

[@MartinBarlow-n2p]

Not all older people. I’m glad to see things as the young do.

[@andrewcooney2387]

​@blauewaffel1469even Wales will be gone, also the isle of mann and Jersey, and the channel islands will have moved on to a better place

[@rory7590]

When Tony Blair was in power, the UK was the 4th largest economy in the world, had a bespoke membership of the EU as the second largest European economy and London being effectively the financial capital of the World. They also sat in the G8, was a member of a strong NATO, a primary member of the Commonwealth and enjoyed a ‘special relationship’ with the USA. While not being a superpower, they were one of the richest and most influential countries in the world. Now? They have removed themselves from the EU, collapsing public services and have a weak economy in general. They are, at best, around the 6th largest economy in the world and falling as other nations like China and India rise. NATO is under existential threat, the Commonwealth is no longer relevant to many countries seeking to be Republics and the relationship with the US is also rocky. The UK decline in just 20 years is astounding. Blair will always be tarnished by his policies on Iraq, but say it quietly, he was also the last true statesmen who sat in the UKs Prime Ministerial office.

[@hgvbish6606]

And some of the old. I was 80 at the time and many of my friends of a similar age were equally appalled by the result. Don’t run downall us oldies

[@DY-cq3qd]

Well that's the EU for you! Making the bad worse.

[@marvinc9994]

"When Tony Blair was in power" He ALSO eviscerated a constitution it had taken centuries to create, lied to Parliament (for which he should have resigned) over WMD (but who cares about maimed Iraqi kids, eh?), opened the floodgates to a tidal wave of Third World riff-raff (WHAT a benefit to the property market and an already-overstretched NHS!), and fractured the unity of the United Kingdom. Some 'statesman'. As for: " London being effectively the financial capital of the World" It still is! "member of a strong NATO" Now a member of an even stronger NATO. Your point here? "sat in the G8" So what? Just another globalist talking-shop, and about as much use as all the others (WHO, UNO, World Bank, IMF, IPCC etc etc etc). God, but you're naïve: do you know ANYTHING about the REAL world of Geopolitics (as opposed to the PR version fed to you via the MSM)? "collapsing public services" What - if true - has THAT to do with the EU or Brexit? "the Commonwealth is no longer relevant" Really? Then it's high time we mended fences - having kicked the Old Commonwealth in the teeth when, at the behest of crypto-Globalist (and toilet-trader) Heath, we were deceived into joining this wonderful new Free Trade area called the _Common Market_ . The fact that it was about eventual POLITICAL union was essentially hidden from the British Public. "No essential loss of sovereignty', Heath assured us - and over thirty years later, over 80% of OUR laws were being made for us by the Commission (and rubber-stamped by the phony, fig-leaf (LMFAO) 'European Parliament'). If you really want to get some idea of the colossal mendacity of the European Project, you should get yourself a copy of the late Christopher Booker's (and Richard North's) _Castle of Lies_ . You should but you won't, of course. "a ‘special relationship’ with the USA." As far as the American PEOPLE are concerned, that's still the case. And America needs US as much as we need it. Biden's coldness towards us (not shared by Trump) derives from both his misplaced Fenian angst, and his Globalist puppet-masters within the Democratic Party: remember when Big Ears Obama presumed to tell US how to vote? Now why do you think that was? Answer: because it upset the plans of his Globalist Masters. The European Project WAS a CIA-funded, ACUE-backed project of Anglo-American Establishment, after all; it was THEIR baby. But you already knew that - didn't you? "The UK decline in just 20 years is astounding" Well, since Brexit only _effectively_ happened a mere SIX years ago - why so impatient? Some short-term turbulence was expected (even without the spiteful manoeuvrings of the EU, the absurd Theresa May, and our Quisling civil service). As to your twenty-year perspective, you must therefore have been an ardent admirer of Margaret Thatcher's - the lady who saved our nation from the permanent ruination threatened by the maniacal state socialism of the Labour party? Assuming you were old enough to vote in 1979, that is! Sadly, even she only saw through the European Project when it was too late. Plainly, you haven't yet reached _that_ level of Euro-Enlightenment. Sweet dreams!

[@albal156]

5 words and 2 things sunk New Labour 2008 Financial Crash, Iraq War. Also in the end Labours refusal to reform Thatchers consensus on economic policy cost us more in the long in the end. We were very exposed to the crash and it damaged us and showed us our eonomic model was toast. Then austerity came along and stopped any recovery.

[@abale1729]

Not to mention Gordon Brown sold of most of the gold which made Britain more vulnerable after the crash.

[@dallasguy236]

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

[@janicebrowningaquino792]

I’ve always agreed with Tony Blair. Leaving Brexit was foolish. I am an American Anglophile that cares deeply about what happens in Britain. The delusional situation made be sad for Britains.

[@peterclarke3020]

I know what you meant, even though you phrased it badly. Quote: ‘Leaving Brexit was foolish’. You meant: Doing Brexit, leaving the EU was foolish.

[@hauskalainen]

"Leaving the EU" is the political error.

[@Nicksonian]

The illogic behind Brexit is based in hubris, as is the American right’s pursuit of trade wars and American exceptionalism.

[@teesman61]

It made me realise how many stupid right wing a holes we had in the country.

[@vienogola1421]

Espanol.... English is obviously second language.

[@raymondwebb4179]

Excellent post liz, but they ain’t listening,

[@karylhogan5758]

What’s ironic is so many brexit supporters getting Irish passports. Including the unionists!!! What a bunch of hypocrites, including tommy, the brit.!!!!

[@frze5645]

You have a vivid imagination. There was no requirement to get an EU passport - what for... Brexiteers did not want to live in the EU and travelling there is not restricted in any way.

[@vernonsmith6965]

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[@Finderskeepers.]

@@frze5645 You are factually incorrect. British passport holders now require work visas and tourist visas are restricted to 90 days in a 180 day period. That doesnt suit those that like to winter in warmer EU climates. 10% of Irish passports issued in 2022 were 1st time British applicants.

[@sarahbarrett1247]

@@frze5645 the amount of applications for Irish passports increased the day after the referendum and huge Brexit supporters encouraged people to get them if they had criteria too. Including hardline Unionists like Ian Paisley Jnr (that noise you hear is his dad rolling in his grave). Farage, Johnson and Johnson Snr also applied for European passports. They may not be wanting to live abroad but they do like freedom of movement for them. Not for you though, chump.

[@seanfox4551]

You don't know what you are talking about bud , go and do some research

[@brendanpowell6043]

Texas could learn something from what the UK has done with Brexit. As lefty as people call unions the reality is that unions have power that isolated individuals don’t

[@LoneWolf-yn5kl]

If texas secsde from the union it will become just another mexico

[@annereinig7876]

Watching Brexit and the time after from Germany I can't help but think of a toddler having a tantrum..."I want, I want, I want", followed by banging doors and screaming while leaving, followed by "it's all your fault and I want back in...and I still want my chocolate"... Go ahead, rejoin. But no more special treatment.

[@verttikoo2052]

I could not be happier that Fartage will never be a member of the European Parliament again 🥳

[@jackkruese4258]

Yes as a Brit seeing him and Widdicombe waving those little Union Jacks at the end was the height of embarrassment.

[@Purple_flower09]

Only a tiny group of people in the UK would disagree.

[@SlamSector]

​@@thetruth9210 Half! Are you using 2016 numbers?

[@DavidEdwards-uf5lg]

@@jackkruese4258 not half as embarrassing as being part of that pile of shit EU, that's for sure.

[@DavidEdwards-uf5lg]

@@SlamSector it doesn't matter if it's half, or the whole fucking lot, we're out thank fuck, never to return hopefully,

[@andrewfanning3280]

Took the fight to the Tories and won. He made a mistake but gave us so much. The Tories gave us Brexit they should never be forgiven.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Gordon Brown forced our departure from the European Union, because neither he nor Blair were man enough to stand up to the EU on the European Constitution/Lisbon Treaty.

[@davidtaylor4815]

It wasn’t the Tories that gave us Brexit it was the people.

[@iandennis7836]

​@@davidtaylor4815the Shitties, oops sorry the Tories, gave a large bunch of semi illiterate xenophobes an opportunity to f*** the whole country over cos they didn't (and still don't) like furriners ....and surprise suprise, they took it in both hands, lied like legends and got their way.

[@johnday6392]

Are you starving pal? Do you know anyone who is? This country ruled itself quite well for 1000 years without being told what to do by people we either can't elect or de-select. My Father went up the D Day beaches to uphold that principle!

[@BobK5]

War monger, mass murderer is not a desirable trait

[@paulturner8254]

Both my children now have Irish passports. I have explained to them that they owe the UK nothing and to become proud Europeans. Also to make their lives abroad in the European Union.

[@usainengland]

I refuse to become a British citizen because having a British passport would not help me. I can do everything I need with an American passport and a residency permit. Before Brexit I would have considered citizenship because I want to travel in the EU. I wish you and your children happiness wherever you live.

[@markperrin8098]

Good riddance.

[@someoneno-one7672]

Do they owe nothing to U.K.? Why then one would write here? 🤔

[@andrewcooney2387]

You are welcome to Ireland and the EU, sadly the British government is now trying to destroy the island of Ireland by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland from the north, the tories have pinned all on the collapse of Ireland in order to prove that the EU is finished. Ireland may well be destroyed by the British government but the EU will take its revenge on the UK for this. A very bad era in European politics has begun, caused by the British government, they have sowed the seeds of the destruction of the the British Isles. Sunack will have done the damage before the people of the UK can get rid of him.

[@markperrin8098]

Good riddance.

[@Greego-z1z]

well done Tony,,,,,,,Farage should be put behind bars and use as entertainment and I am from the normally staunch right

[@erikzoe1]

Agreed. And of course, that is prison bars, as opposed to the kind of bars that he already spends most of his time propping up.

[@Reiner.Zufall]

Wait a minute. I don't quite understand. Didn't you vote for Brexit yourself back then?

[@SlowPursuit]

As a lifetime Tory voter (prior to Brexit), I never would have believed that Tony Blair would be an outlier speaking the truth. How did this happen?

[@garlicbreath7259]

Blinkers ?

[@michael1345]

Have you ever heard the story of the frog and the scorpion? Tories are the scorpion and it is in the nature of Tories to act as Tories.

[@SlowPursuit]

@@michael1345 What a bigoted comment.

[@garlicbreath7259]

@@michael1345 bit like leopards then

[@AkiraNasuki]

David Cameron was his only rival, when Blair left the stage, Brown was never in the same league as Cameron. Cameron political mistake was to hold the referendum for Brexit and when the results wasnt a major clear cut divide for leave, he bailed this just turned into a self interest power struggle. One Tory clown after another Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Sunak made the mistake in hosting the general election early thinking the nation loves him.

[@GaryV-p3h]

It was also very rightly pointed out by many of us that we got back a lot more than the 350 million per week we paid in in trafe alone coming back into the economy. We paid out 350m per week = 19.2 billion per year but since leaving the EU brexit has cost the nation 100-140 billion per year.

[@marinusvos]

The UK paid approx. 11BN a year on membership of the EU.

[@RazorMouth]

​​@@marinusvoscloser to 8bn after rebates etc. about 150m per week.

[@davesy6969]

From the Treasury's own figures, the UK paid in £137 million per week, and what we got out was worth £2,600 per week.

[@RazorMouth]

@@davesy6969 but the UK doesn't now have to follow those pesky EU regulations..... Ohhhh wait, it does 🤦‍♂️

[@epincion]

With rebates the amount the UK paid in per year was around 10 billion and that gave so much and most of all it it meant seamless borderless full free trade in in both goods and services in the worlds largest single market. Even with a full fit for purpose comprehensive FTA the best that a third party nation can have with the EU is as smooth as possible trade in goods only (not services) but that trade in goods is not seamless and borderless as that’s only for members. The EU-UK TCA is not even close to a comprehensive FTA.

[@mikeb6389]

So much short sightedness on the British people. For it is ALWAYS true: United you’ll stand and divided you’ll fall.

[@khookeekeng]

British people should have listened to a seasoned leader😢

[@tonyb9735]

But the brexiters had had enough of experts .....

[@snipermagoo]

Tony Blair led the UK into national bankrupcy. A lot of people voted Brexit just because the leadership types didn't want them to.

[@MSDosPrompt]

​@@tonyb9735yeah because we should always do what experts tell us without question😂 because they always get it right don't they

[@Sjb-on5xt]

He's a war criminal.

[@Reiner.Zufall]

But that would have been smart and foresighted! Since when has man been clever and foresighted? No, people only learn from their mistakes! Unfortunately, you can't do without them. That would be something completely new. What did you expect?

[@FixUp.LookSharp]

Legend. So sharp. I remember how good we had things in this country up until 2009

[@FixUp.LookSharp]

Cheers. You won as a 2016 Brexit voter. And we are all the much poorer for it. But I'm open minded that it may all come good, in about 50 years

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@FixUp.LookSharp And here's what you would have won. 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.

[@MrPatch25]

oh dear tell that to the people who lost loved ones in Iraq over a lie

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@FixUp.LookSharp The EU is heading straight for its own self-destruction. The only reason you don't know this is because you have never paid attention. There are four possible ways in which the European Union could collapse, all of which the EU is heading straight for, due to its own arrogance and megalomaniac stupidity: 1. Revolt by its member states' politicians, for example against fixed migrant quotas. Poland, Hungary and the Netherlands have already told the EU to get stuffed on this issue. 2. Revolt by its member states' peoples, against the imposition of a federal government they can never vote into or out of office. There is absolutely no democratic mandate for this, but the EU wants economic union, the final stepping stone before political union, complete by 2027. This could lead to rioting, violence and wars of independence. 3. War with Russia. Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military defence of a member state under attack. And the EU wants Ukraine in by 2030. 4. The Islamification of Europe, orchestrated by the European Union (per the Euro-Mediterranean Project, in effect since 2010). These are all coming straight down the track, and one or more of these will cause the demise of the EU within the next few years. The EU is a dead man walking.

[@FixUp.LookSharp]

@@MrPatch25 yes indeed. A very small % compared to the poverty and mental health deaths due to Tory/thief policies of the past 14 years. But every wrongful death is wrong

[@cool2zip]

Believe this or not my father was 92 years old when he died. He was a spokes man for the Conservative Party. And I am a Labour party supporter. My father said the best place for the UK was in the EU. He disagreed with Brexit and he told me it would an impact on the country. The Tories from 2010 to 2013 created 100 billioners in the UK. David and George defended the dodgy banks in Brussels. The bad investment they attracted to divert us from dipper recession caused an explosion in high price house rentals and utility bills. Domestic utility energy should have been renationalised back into public ownership. Labour had some good ideas. Look at our country now. Homelessness quad tripled. Divorce quad tripled. Teenage stabbing at an unprecedented high. Please kick out the Tories and their propaganda media come July 4th. It beggars belief what has happened to the UK. No they are using immigration as a tool to vote Tory a shameless Party deciding the country, when you should be uniting the country.

[@geraldbroadnax2992]

Are the Tories Brittain's version of Republicans?

[@kiuk_kiks]

@@geraldbroadnax2992 Yes

[@willacarr6746]

TOTALLY INTO BEING DIRTY ROTTEN SCROUNDELS - TOTAL AIM : TO DRIVE UP THEIR SHARE OF THE NATIONAL PIE . HUGE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT ARISIG FROM THE ENTITLEMENT ELITISM CULTURE OF MOST FEE PAYING SCHOOLS.

[@frze5645]

So which part of our 47 years in the EU do you blame for any of your examples? The truth is, Britain would have been much better had it never joined the EU.... prior to us joining we were a prosperous nation - then the investment funds were switched off to deliberately create the circumstance to justify us joining... it was a trap create and driven by MP's who were paid to talk Britain down and talk the EU up.

[@tdzk7099]

​@@geraldbroadnax2992 Not really, the republicans are somewhat smart compared to the conservatives. Plus, the republicans tell you on their sleeve exactly what dumb nonsense they want to achieve but the conservatives lay it under many layers of poop tasting vanilla ice cream covered with puke and an edible smiley face icing on top

[@SINGFIN1964]

Well said , sir. It is such a shame half of the UK did not follow this.

[@gerhardaigner5108]

And if you think that Farage is still parading himself like a peacock on the political stage after creating the Brexit disaster there are lots of questions to be asked why this man is still popular.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

The reason is simple. Farage knows that the EU is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam. Increasingly, so does the British electorate too, proving that Farage was right all along.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

People do not have the headspace to fact check or reflect. They like simple solutions that they are able to understand...even if they make no sense. I seem to contradcit myself so I will explain: people are able to understand the concept of low pay. People have economic problems. There are immigrants. The UK used to be rich and have an empire. All these things are familiar. Linking them makes no sense, but it does not matter: it is all part of a familiar universe so a lot of people go with it.

[@paulbird3235]

Because just like his sidekick Donald Trump, he is a bull-shitter isn't he!.

[@sarahneedle8308]

Yeah you are right we should have been ruled by Brussels because they would rule better than English politicians

[@glumonion1454]

@@sarahneedle8308we were never ruled by Brussels, that was just another one of the many lies.

[@theresenydahl9531]

Brilliant compilation, thank you🌷🌷🌷🌷I particularly enjoy how forcefully Blair spoke in the clip from 2005.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

[@trident6547]

@@SJG-nr8uj You would fit invery well with the MAGA crowd in USA. They are also deluded beyond hope and actually believe the crap they hear and what they spew out in congress and social media platforms.

[@DarkResonance]

As forcefully as he should’ve been thrown in prison.

[@chocolatesugar4434]

British pride has come before the fall

[@Staronqueen]

Boris reminded me of the kid in grade school who had a hard time understanding how to solve a math problem. However, he pretended that he understood to save face. Brexit to Boris was and still is as clear as mud. Boris is very good at fooling too many people in several different situations.

[@PetronelaStelaAnca-White]

Big mistake of Britain to leave Europe!

[@fortuner123]

You are so wrong.

[@PetronelaStelaAnca-White]

@@fortuner123 you are wrong, not me...one day people as you will understand

[@rayc9539]

Leave the European Union*. We are still very much part of Europe.

[@trident6547]

Well you are wrong because Europe is a geographical entity. EU is a union of European countries and UK, as an European country, was once a member of EU.

[@GV-xx7vh]

WE ARE A LAUGHING STOCK, BUT POO-TIN IS VERY HAPPY !!

[@markperrin8098]

You certainly are.

[@femibabalola4057]

As a bremoaner, it is refreshing to hear Tony Blair speak the truth on Brexit. He who has ears, let him listen.

[@relativetimeworx8459]

Whether in the UK or the USA, the vast majority of the general population is simply unable to grasp the macro implications of the things the vote for. That doesn't mean they lack intelligence, it means they lack the time or the interest to truly research anything. They take an adolescent-level understanding and attitude (complete with short-sighted rebelliousness) into the voting booth and then question what went wrong when things fall apart. Brexit is a path to irrelevance for the UK. The Empire of the 19th century is not coming back, but too many still see the UK as having that level of significance on the world stage. Blair is on point citing the EU being an equalizer for its member nations in negotiations with world powers. Imagine self-defense if Trump gets back in the White House without collective cooperation in Europe.

[@christopherspavins9250]

Excellent editing and interesting context. " It's a disaster. "

[@ramaswamyadisesh6848]

I have listened to Tony Blair several times. He makes perfect sense. I would even say that he is a visionary.

[@jondoyle4398]

He's a prick !

[@mrbufffo2450]

I am from a Nordic country inside EU. We nordic really miss GB. It is a catastrophe for you and us that we are not together.. Lets come together again and make the greatest pulling power

[@bluestream50]

not a chance.

[@peturolsen2109]

I think I will be right, everyone makes mistakes, it’s just a small pill to swallow.

[@johnsmith-de9wv]

yeah lets' have a free market consisting of brits,danes, finns and swedes that way we don't have to put up with bullshite rules from germany and france ,Oh yeah and the poles

[@dirkbodschard3961]

Even I am not the biggest fan of Tony Blair, the recent years in Britain teach a very fine lesson of what happens to a country when you listen to populists like Johnson and Farage. After all, nobody listened to economists and experienced politicians who warned of the consequences. You ignored it, you voted, now you see what you got. And you can't claim that you never saw it coming.

[@jamesmilne2455]

Blair talks more sense than all these Brexit politicians put togeather

[@Trylobyte]

He should be talking that sense from a gaol cell for what he did to Iraq and for what he did to the NHS (see John Pilger on the latter, esp on the "Private Finance Initiatives" introduced by that govt)

[@TheQuietGuyAtTheBack]

Say what you like. The older politicians were real politicians, Blair, Brown, Blunket, Heseltine, Ashdown. The current batch across all parties are very poor politicians. Boris being the King Idiot.

[@mnizammasood]

​@@Trylobyte Tony Blair was wrong about Iraq. But this is a separate topic. He cant be right in all decisions he made. He should be judged in each topic of the discussion. Just because he should be trialled for Iraq, doesnt mean he was wrong about Brexit. What can Britain do to fight the rising influence of China and India? Or even Indonesia?

[@lionelcox9119]

I hope American's wake up before it's straightened out too late

[@erikramaekers63]

Farage is to blame

[@bonnieyingliu]

He was just right. Why doesn’t Starmer have the guts to reverse Brexit now???

[@paulds65]

Even if he does there is no way that the EU would agree to it. The UK will serve as an example what happens to a country if it decides to leave the EU.

[@HeverCastle-u6p]

What does that tell you then about the EU. Who wants to be ruled by non elected dictators . What's wrong with you folk !! listening to Bliar.

[@rayc9539]

Because he is a puppet to brexiters. We all know that deep down he prefers us to be in the single market - he campaigned for a second referendum as Labour Party chancer, anyway. He's just playing politics and being weak. Not to mention he is wishy washy.

[@mak5963]

Because if he reserves it, there are obligations this time, including ditching the £ pound and starting using €euro. Chnage immigration system and enter the schengen zone and visa etc etc

[@rayc9539]

@@bonnieyingliu because Starmer is a puppet

[@Sat-Man-Alpha]

What a raw ride through history ….how can one nation fuck it self this monumental…

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

[@jjnen3118]

​@@SJG-nr8ujPlease allow me to tell you that you are completely wrong and don't know what you are talking about. When did you become such an expert on the EU and what do the European people think? The Swedes, Finn's, Dane's are proud of their identities, languages and heritages and would never allow themselves to be erased. They are happy to be a part of the EU and be working together side by side with the rest of Europe.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@jjnen3118 Please allow the European Union to tell you what you should already know. 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.

[@Sat-Man-Alpha]

@@SJG-nr8uj i‘m really sorry for your complete misunderstanding of the EU/Europe Situation. Your are a victim of tory and brexiteer propaganda. We are better off now than ever …. I‘m a severly handicapped pensionier but i don’t have to fear for the Future auf my Kids👍🎉🤓

[@SJG-nr8uj]

@@Sat-Man-Alpha You people are hilarious! Will you please stop lying through your teeth, because we've had enough of it. You did enough of that in 2016 - we've seen through it now. I report on the EU's treaties, documents and declarations, as follows: 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). Generally speaking, you Germans are not surprised by the thought of a federal European state and are actually looking forward to it. Why? Because, according to Helmut Kohl: "The future will belong to the Germans when we build the house of Europe." So stop the ridiculous lying.

[@richardsimms251]

Mr Blair was certainly very correct.

[@HeverCastle-u6p]

😂😂. Nooo

[@bluemandarin701]

please do not come back.. Brexit is Exit Forever, ever , ever ..

[@edwardanthony8929]

I am impressed by the fact that Nigel’s children are all European.

[@theresenydahl9531]

He tried to become German with the help of his brother-in-law 4 years ago, all quietly of course but he was found out by a German journalist.

[@elipa3]

He tried to get a german residence permit, but was refused. Obviously, he doesnt reside in Germany.

[@paulbird3235]

There brains must have come from their mother!

[@GaryV-p3h]

Everyone of us born here in the UK is European.

[@paulbird3235]

@breathe3146 Thatchers Britain my friend, and yours. Eton I presume!.

[@willieodea83]

I would challenge any pro Brexit individual to point out one thing that T.B. has said that is incorrect..

[@peternicho]

How about taking the UK into a war with his american buddie.

[@iandennis7836]

Really REALLY don't hold your breath......when, and only when those old farting xenophobes are dead will we see change.

[@edthompson9337]

Didn't he say something about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!?😂

[@paulmiller6188]

Are you insane, or merely evil?

[@willieodea83]

@@edthompson9337 in this video clip..re.brexit

[@Rem-n7m]

The shocking thing for me is how people want to vote farage after he literally got them into the shit

[@mlee6136]

England also wanted to name a beautiful ship Boaty Mcboatface , England deserves everything they want.

[@Rem-n7m]

@@mlee6136 it wasn't that beautiful..... And it wasn't a ship... I remember that shit on the news

[@ongkimchoon7383]

Thank you for the video. Britain had no real plan upon leaving how to be a renew trading economy around the world. It was back to before the joining, which by now, the world had change as well as in business. It continued to have political upheavals, change in government, hoping the next one does better than the previous but again no real plans. It reminded me of the times when she leaves Southeast Asia, there was also no plan for those countries, how are they going to survive on their own? Those plan than was to leave, that's it.

[@MarcLawson-m6q]

I didn’t agree with Tony Blair on everything and never voted for him. But Farage is nowhere near in the same league as him!

[@DB-qw6xq]

Farage hasn't taken us into a totally un-ethical war where 100s of thousands of people have died!!!! First and foremost, Brexit was about taking back our complete sovereignty for the sake of the integrity of the United Kingdom. The EU was, and indeed has become even more so, a semi-autocratic body where its members have partially allowed their sovereignty to be dictated to by a quasi-elected committee for the sake of money and wealth. We have thankfully been freed from that by leaving.

[@frze5645]

I agree - Farage talks truth to power... Blair told lies on behalf of power - he took the money to do their bidding.

[@annewalden3795]

​@@frze5645Blair had an excellent understanding of how to run a country as complex as the U K. Farage has little knowledge but a giant ego.

[@HeverCastle-u6p]

I cannot stand listening to liebour hype..from him ... Farage is far superior.

[@deven.oauditx7547]

The problem with the UK is empire mentality. They don't understand that the world has moved on.

[@cassamoalibadrudinocassamo3247]

By the grace of God, Labour has a great majority, so they can decide how to guide the country. Sunak was a very powerful businessman, but I can't understand his thinking that being alone is more important than being in a group.

[@spd28237]

Anyone who had a little intelligence could figure out Brexit would be a ruddy disaster!

[@smellslikethinice1107]

But when people are asked to vote on "feelings " rather than intellectually, then here we are, a sad little island that is destroyed from within.

[@pipins3616]

Oh suck it up and get on with your life rather than whinging, in fact just get off these shores if you don’t like it.

[@pipins3616]

WOMD eh

[@annfraser2441]

If Parliament had not been full of traitors we would be well ahead now, you would be in prison not globetrotting filling y our pockets. You certainly do not represent the decent people of the U. Do shut up

[@macflod]

@@smellslikethinice1107yeah and voting for ridiculous governments after Brexit never helped

[@Keyboardnut99]

Brexit makes me furious the most divisive thing ever! So much damage for no gain......

[@JamesAidan-s7o]

Compare Tony with Rish!, Cabbagehead and the Lying Lump of Lard and we see how wonderful it is to get the Tories out.

[@simonmcglary]

We had so many allowances, helped by playing such major roles in drafting of procedural documents and we were very close to the start and development. So much was set up for smooth movement from goods, to animals as part of conservation breeding programmes and rewilding projects. The European standards that Brexiteers wanted out of are still there if you want to deal with the EU, only now you have no say in it!

[@antoniotorcoli5740]

He was right about Brexit. He was wrong about illegally attacking Irak.

[@ikeze]

Man was right about a lot in his political career, got Iraq wrong obviously but been the smartest British politician in over 30 years!

[@CG-or1re]

although it ended in disaster in many ways, i entirely sympathise with his decision to join the americans in liberating iraq from the most monstrous dictatorship. the idea that it was this mendacious illegal attack is grossly simplistic.millions of Iraqis are grateful for the intervention, and millions more who despise it.

[@jiminverness]

@@CG-or1re People also keep overlooking that Iraq annexed Kuwait, and the US and UK liberated that country, not to mention creating conditions where the Kurds could have some slice of full autonomy, relatively free from Saddan's constant atrocities.

[@solomonobihan9465]

He probably did that to maintain the UK's alliance with the United States. It was in British interests. Sucks for Iraq though.

[@bluesque9687]

He or any British Prime Minister has to obey United States's directions. And United States has to obey to Isreal's directions. UK can't say to US or Isreal that they will not join in their abhorrent wars!!

[@JohnScrace]

I've always said it's the worst thing we could ever do , the last nail in my coffin before I leave the now un great Britain. Tony Blair for once we agree ,,

[@LaRuta-sk8rr]

Brexit won based on lies, fears and nostalgia for a past that is long gone and will not come back.

[@buzzukfiftythree]

I have my complaints against Blair, but he was spot on where the EU is concerned. It was absolute madness to leave the EU. Even more madness to believe the Tories were capable of managing the chaos that has resulted from Brexit. The only reason that the Tory wealthy wanted Brexit was to avoid too much close scrutiny of their overseas investments.

[@sic_transit_gloria_mundi]

It's surprising that this argument (tax havens) is rarely coming up in the Brexit debate.

[@BeataBeata-j1c]

Putins work.

[@pierrewilliams1533]

It's true tradesmen benefitted from reduced competition from EU workers - plus the covid payout sugar rush. But now the money's run out and with Britain poorer for not being in the EU there'll be less for our tradesmen than there was before Brexit. Brexit is for life, not just for Christmas. And it is a dog.

[@bekisiphotshili2566]

The Brexiters were thinking about the old Empire when they led the effort to leave the EU... I know because they soon after put in place Boris Johnson who had authored an editorial about re-colonizing Africa...

[@Colinmills-o9q]

Farage has no place in the history books he will be long forgotten about before Tony Blair

[@JohnRice-vb2ze]

Farage is a giant of British, European and global politics. Blair is a war criminal and a liar who sold his country out.

[@davidrobertson9271]

I’m fortunate to have lived and worked all over the world. I took Danish residency before Brexit and am currently working in Germany. Most of the world now laughs at us; the Danes don’t, they feel sorry for us. Farage should keep clear of lamp posts!

[@jefflittle8872]

You neglect to mention the number one clown and liar that became pm

[@toxictony4230]

And where are we now? From my prospective there are empty shelves in the supermarket and some medicines cannot not be obtained for love nor money. The Tories can go on saying this is not our fault, it's this, it's that, but at the end of the day Brexit has put the country into a weaken position and we are paying for this folly now and for years to come. The only benefits I've seen for Brexit are that bankers can now have unlimited bonuses and the Water Companies can pump sewage into our rivers and sea when ever they want.

[@SlavaUkraini-g1k]

Nigel Farage, the greatest British politician of our time.

[@patrikfloding7985]

Blair was right, I was right, pretty much every Remainer was right.

[@patrickporter1864]

Remember 70 million turks all ready to up sticks an move to the UK. There are only 70 million turks in Turkey why would they all move to the UK.

[@paulkearsley9509]

Great speaker who is speaking the truth

[@CloudhoundCoUk]

It is a shame Blair's brand is perceived by many as damaged. He would have been able to counter Farage & Bojo lies. If Blair had led the EU to remain campaign rather than Cameron the UK may, not have, had to experience the worst government to date. Liz a good presentation.

[@johnmurray5573]

This channel is for people who think Blair is not toxic with the public it seems, they have no clue here

[@californiadreamin8423]

@@johnmurray5573. Evidence to support what you say , be a good chap.

[@johnmurray5573]

@@californiadreamin8423 just look at the 4 leaders of the Labour party

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

[@californiadreamin8423]

@@johnmurray5573 Corbyn was a disaster for Labour but infinitely better than Liz Truss. Keep trying.

[@ianbynoe6515]

Just go back. Rejoined! Tell the European union you are sorry and you made a mistake. What's the big noise? 😅

[@peterhannaford460]

Of course Blair was right on Brexit. But I blame him in large part as the root cause of it. Promised a vote on the 'EU Constitution' then denied it for political reasons, which only helped fuel Euro skepticism. Then didn't take the 7 year moratorium on immigration from Eastern European countries when they joined the EU (France and Germany did) further enraging Euro-skeptics. (And Brown then weaseled out of a vote on the Lisbon treaty [80% of EU constitution was included] stating is 'was a treaty so didn't count'). The painful road to Brexit was set in motion ....

[@Bardneybybike]

Absolutely correct, the suppression of semi and skilled labour rates was the reason so many Labour voters went for Brexit. Wonder if Blair and Brown have any regrets in that regard?

[@Ali_T_London]

Liz, totally on your side. We must keep fighting to rejoin!

[@JohnRice-vb2ze]

And i will keep fighting you and exposing your propaganda and gaslighting

[@maxspeakman1093]

Ive always said history will remember the brexiteers as traitors who waved a flag !

[@StephenBeale]

Interesting, thanks. I'd like to see the full interview of Blair that you start showing at 1:30 - you put the caption 'History Hit TV', which I know well, but it does not seem to be on their channel, yet it has a watermark that looks like that of The Independent newspaper, but it doesn't seem to be on their channel, either - any tips? Thanks.

[@GaryV-p3h]

United we stand, divided we fall.

[@andrewcooney2387]

It's the UK and Ireland that will fall.

[@brigold3352]

@@andrewcooney2387 what has Ireland to do with the UK apart from the CTA and GFA?

[@amandag5072]

Well said, Tony Blair. Why do we no longer have any politicians who speak so coherently.

[@BobK5]

Thank God Blair is not in power, how many more unjustified unprovoked wars would he started, he’s a maniac.

[@rrickarr]

Because the people voted for the people they voted for---Boris!!!!!!

[@BobK5]

@@rrickarr no they didn’t, ‘the people’ had waited decades to have a say on the EU and would have voted leave without any hype from Johnson or Farage, the EU sealed their own fate when they secretly shifted up from an economic community to a political autonomy, ‘people’ didn’t want that, they didn’t ask for that, it was forced upon them and at great cost too. As soon as ‘the people’ had the chance they voted and would vote the same today. ‘People’ who say they’ve changed their minds are Remainers pretending to be Brexiteers hoping to stir up movement back to the EU.

[@ayoadebowale3291]

Well done Liz. People need to see these old videos. Where are the 17.4million who voted for Brexit? Most of them complaining and regretting I imagine.

[@SJG-nr8uj]

Why do people need to see a lying, warmongering crook again? To be taken in again?

[@vasilispatsalidis5683]

Blarenstein. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@daniellimo4087]

It's funny there are people still listening to Farage

[@thoraero]

It's funny that people even listened to him in the first place.

[@Crystal-nl7qy]

I agree why listen Farage he only does or says anything for gain to himself. Can't stand the man.

[@pobinr]

@@daniellimo4087 Perhaps you Remainers ought to acquant yourselves with just how insidious & undemocratic the EU is before you deride the man who did is a huge favour with Brexit. Love these old vids. Thank you Nigel for exposing the sinister dark side of the EU from within kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIOVYZKsh8eoe68si=XIDRv4oV9CmZEYke

[@macflod]

It be if it wasn’t so sad but then media give him a huge platform that he doesn’t deserve, other parties with as much popularity come voting time do not get the air time Farage gets.

[@Pekka.Pekka.1296]

He was openly Putin’s puppet. The guy was a joke. With braindead fans.