James O'Brien's furious row with Brexiteer over 'EU corruption' | LBC

[@54tisfaction]

"The EU stole our Car industry!" "Do you have any evidence that it was actually the EU who did this?" "Well yes, it's not there anymore!" Monty Python wrote this skit.

[@jyvben1520]

and his example "ford granada", doh, Ford is an American car producer. Honda Toyota foreign owned, who sold the mini to Germans, probably due to a bankruptcy ...

[@simonmoore8776]

I laughed at this bit. Has he not heard of the Nissan factory in Sunderland. They were producing record numbers of cars and exporting them to the EU until recently. Brexit has ruined the 'Just In Time' supply chain and now the levels of production are a fraction of what they were. It's only a matter of time now until Nissan pull out of the UK. All thanks to complete muppets like Andy. Thanks a lot Andy, you're a legend.

[@chatham43]

.it was the stroppy greedy unions who destroyed our car industry....nothing to do with the EU....I'm with James on this...

[@nigelhopkinson6614]

Saved it more like

[@noelwaters6564]

Definitely Pythonesque.

[@AidPast]

I guess we’re not alone in the US in having an epidemic of folks who are ridiculously easy to fool into thinking literally anything.

[@onomatopoeia162003]

This is what happens when you say "I love the poorly uneducated"

[@MiigsMusic]

Yeah here in Germany they believe the Weimar Republics constitution from 1919 is still in effect and the German state is an "illegal corporation" lead by "the elites in the corrupt EU" everything else is "Fake News" or "Lügenpresse" . In the end I think a lot of it is started/fired up by russian propaganda, Trump us Putin's biggest hope after all .

[@utethornburg7715]

Ain’t that the truth. Trump fans for one

[@hughmacfarlane9662]

Mmm ? No . I think the U.S. are the un-disputed world champions , but we are trying hard to get the title .

[@ryanedwards7487]

@@hughmacfarlane9662 honestly, I think us in the US, you guys in the UK, and Australia, all all in a dead heat. And I blame Murdoch and all the new Hearsts like him. May they all enjoy their fiery eternal rewards.

[@antonydevadass4856]

This guy is the epitome of what one Italian commentator once said, and I quote, "this guy is more confused than a chameleon in a box of smarties".

[@quixotiq]

Ooh love that

[@alexmarie960]

that is brilliant

[@JessicaMiller-pc4dj]

I'm stealing this and I'm not even sorry 🤭.

[@antonydevadass4856]

@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj why should you be? I stole it, but did give credit to the originator.

[@peterfalk5739]

😂😂😂

[@Laytown]

Guy can barely string together a sentence. These folks are everywhere in the UK.

[@vijayafernando1]

o'brien is not much better. He is going on about the economy. The word has no relevance

[@Laytown]

@@vijayafernando1 literally everything O'Brian said makes sense. What are you on about?

[@columquinn2615]

UK education system is a shocker

[@Laytown]

I obviously meant the other guy haha...not JoB..

[@patrickyorke3028]

And the worst thing is that he's qualified to put an X on a ballot paper.

[@mar2540]

It's hard for someone to understand your thoughts when they struggle to understand their own.

[@Dynasty1818]

Moto for everyone voting Labour

[@Blorp_]

@@Dynasty1818 🤡🤡

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

@@Dynasty1818 When your irony meter is set to 10, where else have you got to go? 11.

[@alistairmonaghan6515]

Nice...I'm using that

[@tommaynard8509]

​@@Dynasty1818 Oh dear, you really need to read more.

[@elfedhiggins3423]

Not only do they walk amongst us but they're allowed to vote

[@davidfoster2006]

Sanctimonious no all remain loser.

[@pauls3204]

And they are allowed to phone in to live radio and tv shows in order to remove all doubt that they really really are thick

[@davidcorbett4882]

@@pauls3204 Apparently LBC called him 🤣🫣

[@khacemlouisditsully9114]

Yes!

[@willblack2306]

And stealing valuable oxygen!

[@liamcallus1969]

It's like talking to a 5yr old😓

[@salamisfamagusta2918]

Please don’t embarrass the five year old

[@alanmetcalfe831]

I’m better off after Brexit because I moved to the EU

[@nickjgunning]

Aw c'mon, many a five year old has the mind of an Einstein in embryo. This guy has the mind of someone whose brain has been washed by the Daily Mail/ToryParty/Faragist mind controllers- or maybe something he ate a a youth rearranged his brain...

[@zacchariaturnbull5322]

I know. He's kind of sweet actually.

[@paulbale3872]

sorry that’s insulting 5 year olds

[@ThePereubu1710]

"We never sold cars in the single market" - in 2019 51% of UK-manufactured cars were exported to the EU "Germany failed to support Ukraine" - Germany's humanitarian aid to Ukraine has been nearly 10 times that of the UK, including accepting over 1 million refugees

[@mabdinur85]

Those Ukrainian refugees being coders, mathematicians, nuclear scientists, doctors, etc... I hope they get back to their country once there is peace but it's the type of brain drain that cements an economic lead for decades if they stay and integrate into the economy. That UK is not even equipped or prepared because in a moment of a labour shortage they call asylum and refugee seekers invaders has got to be top shelf economic self sabotage. This guy distrusts leaders for their incompetence then proceeds to vote for the very same people he just called incompetent without the slightest hint of irony.

[@mustrumridcully3853]

When you argue with an idiot, they will win, they have had more practice. What scares me is he is a coach driver, he transports people and cant even seem to focus on a single thing.

[@subcitizen2012]

And if UK didn't support Ukraine, UK would be "weak like Germany." 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@darrylrotrock7816]

You beat me to it! Just one more observation" How would this caller react to a million refugees arriving on UK soil? Yeah, didn't think so. So much for "supporting Ukraine".

[@silversurfer8278]

If you really want to upset a Brexiteer, using facts and accurate statistics is a great way to do it!

[@errorswillmultiply1697]

In a few years people like this man will be saying, 'Why did the EU _let_ us leave if they knew all this would happen?' with a completely straight face.

[@OrontesRM]

don't give ideas for daily mail's headlines ...

[@tnightwolf]

Facts!😆

[@wills4794]

Very scary but depressingly true .

[@sigiriya5149]

@@OrontesRM In a few years I expect the headline in the Daily Heil "UK was forced out of the EU"

[@jblake1]

I doubt it hahaha

[@richybatty234]

And this ladies and gentlemen is why we are in the mess we are in ... 🙄

[@supersuede91]

These 'tards are the reason the Tories have been able to gut the UK the last 13 years and counting.

[@amcc5887]

💯 %👍

[@wthomas5697]

Over here they're known as trumptards.

[@williamlumb1710]

Absolutely.

[@dmkrugermusic]

Exactly this.

[@chrisreed3929]

Unfortunately, I do not think it was Andy's turn to borrow the family brain cell 😂

[@comrade171]

wot!🤣

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

Perhaps you could borrow your family brain cell to think up an original witty comment, instead of just copying other peoples jokes.

[@yuna1971]

@@Dale_The_Space_Wizard troll

[@chrisreed3929]

@@comrade171 I may have to watch it again, nearly wet myself laughing. Andy is comedy gold, but he does not know it. Hope he is a better coach driver 😂😂

[@FatNormanCoathanger]

Chris R. The best giggle today.

[@Pondjumper1]

This guy undoubtedly went down the pub that night and bragged that he put James in his place. Ignorance really is bliss.

[@awedsgtsvfcgtre7269]

Russian internet propaganda farms made brexit possible. Half of brexit votes was based on information propagated by internet "truth seekers" . Just search "Russian web brigades" and you will know

[@alainott]

😂

[@bleedingpepper]

I wouldn't trust Andy to run the hot tap to be honest...

[@juvix40]

😂😂😂

[@blueodum]

As an aside, it freaked me out when I discovered that you have separate taps for hot and cold water.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

Clearly you must be so dumb yourself to need somebody else to run the hot tap. Which makes Andy better than yourself, considering that he does not need to ask somebody else to run the hot tap.

[@markwelch3564]

Andy is responsible for a big heavy coach on public roads. Anyone else terrified?

[@jackc3205]

Brexit was the largest most successful rage farming operation ever to occur. They riled people up about the bogeyman EU, using pithy easily digestible slogans. And when people are angry, they don't stop and look for facts. And Andy is the poster boy of that.

[@andersolsen1478]

Mark Twain said it best: “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

[@sallysmith920]

@@TheBirdLovingMan Yes, of course you do.

[@hayuseen6683]

I also agree, that this that and the other is very true, he’s not a lover of Boris, and my favorite part of leaving was leaving.

[@ryanseager123456789]

@@TheBirdLovingMan what did you agree with him about? He didn't actually say anything

[@ryanseager123456789]

@@TheBirdLovingMan Yeah, most of what he was trying to say, like what?

[@trentrock3210]

The truth requires facts, evidence, which the caller couldn't deliver.

[@slammsonite1]

"What has the EU done for us... ?" Brexit has turned into a Monty Python sketch.

[@shanewilson2484]

What have the Roman's ever done for us?

[@dribblywildman7744]

​@@shanewilson2484 apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

[@rfurdaylee]

No, Bojo turned Brexit into a Monty Python Sketch. Bet you won't vote Tory again lol!!!!

[@billysastard8779]

@@dribblywildman7744 Blessed be the cheesemakers.

[@paulmessenger9836]

Maybe for you my advice is game up

[@joeschmoe3665]

It's like a conversation at the local pub

[@gingedss]

He's the fella who nobody else listens to so he's screaming into the void

[@sandragill9916]

After 10 pints 😂

[@theseusblackwell5252]

Remember, this caller is allowed to drive.

[@helenalexajustwhy]

And vote, which is precisely why we are were we are now

[@stuartjudd1531]

...and drive a coach at that!!!

[@sheilaroddick5853]

I'm walking everywhere from now on.

[@alexanderstefanov6474]

He's allowed to breed and vote, which is more worrying

[@George-hs2zm]

Yes and a bus as well, must have been the driver on Boris's big red brexit bus.

[@NinoBaggins]

As frustrating as this is to listen to, I think it’s important to understand that people like this are VERY common in the UK.

[@lynnecartercatone2129]

Too many people in the Uk are politically indolent for there to be any hope of change in the near future, Andy is a prime example of someone who believes he has worked it all out, but in reality he's just been reading, and parroting Tory propaganda for years! Undisturbed indoctrination of the easily swayed!

[@rayslez8455]

Absolutely correct.

[@Albanach-je1nk]

I think from the outside this is mainly England.

[@shellovski]

Millions 😔

[@TheVicar]

Big Dave in most pubs agree with this caller

[@neilgrundy]

This is what happens when you operate, intellectually, on nothing but emotions. His feelings are so strong that he can't even countenance that they could be wrong. Then, when he tries to communicate them, he finds that there is nothing there.

[@bodybalanceU2]

isnt that how the brits who voted to leave the EU based their vote solely on emotions including fear of foreigners - nothing to do with rationale or facts - regardless of country all conservative parties base their policies on irrational emotions that will always win at the voting box even the people that continuously vote against their own interests because delusional fear always outweigh rationale

[@ScandalUK]

Usually if you say something like “it’s all the lies and stuff”, everyone is going to nod and agree. They all have opposing views but there’s no denying the fact that lying is no longer scandalous for any politician.

[@MIEJ4]

And these are the people that we need to persuade to change their minds. Sadly.

[@matthewfindlay9010]

Believing our house shortage, school places and NHS struggles would be helped by free movement is hardly intellectual. I would say the majority of people are just a mouth piece of the very people who profit from a supply of labour that outstrips demand. Where we are now cannot be completely contributed to us leaving the EU. Which by the way is also in a recession and also includes the US.

[@AndyTomlins]

@@matthewfindlay9010 We don't have enough builders, teachers and nurses. Cutting off the supply of workers is hardly going to help that. Also in modern supply side economics the supply of labour is always the limiting factor. Increasing costs due to labour shortages is hardly going to help the people at the bottom that are hit hardest by the cost of living crisis. Thats why we introduced a minimum wage so labour supply cannot drive down wages of the lowest paid. Labour shortages driving inflation will whack them though. The US isnt in recession its economy grew 4.4%. Neither is the EU. Ours shrank .8%.

[@MsHarpsychord]

I can't believe these people are allowed to vote

[@DanielWhite-v4e]

❤

[@keithmoore8702]

As Donald Trump once said " I love the uneducated"

[@michaelinhouston9086]

I guarantee this mope has a maga hat lol

[@thepatriot4076]

As the house of Windsor once said “we love the uneducated peasants of Britannia”

[@wmd1520]

"poorly" educated

[@Traitorman..Proverbs26.11]

@@wmd1520 And the “poorly” is important because Traitorman is always thinking about money and how to grift people. If they are poor, he has succeeded.

[@hollib3900]

And we know he loves no one but himself.

[@petermoxham2625]

The spirit of Farage is strong in this one.

[@jyvben1520]

and the iq of truss

[@petermoxham2625]

@Diga a verdade Very easy when you make sure you will never ever have to implement any of your mad proclamations. The pair of them have made our wonderful country a laughing stock.

[@jaxcoss5790]

@Diga a verdade You're hilarious!!!

[@MrLtia1234]

@Diga a verdade Well, we'll never know because he couldn't because he couldn't get elected as an MP. What was it? Eight times?

[@DCDPM]

Really? Farage's Beano comic of a manifesto makes Trussanomics look like sound economic policy.

[@JohnKennedy-lt7nc]

Imagine voting for an embargo on your own Country. That is Brexit.

[@alexsie3012]

Holy heck! As a coach driver that guy must have had a lot of experience driving people around the bend. Imagine being stuck with that on a long trip. It’s very much like the UK’s contribution to the European Parliament: largely vacuous and abusive. As a European citizen I’m enormously relieved we no longer have to put up with it.

[@leod-sigefast]

Of course, he is like a lot of my arrogant fellow Englishmen. The: "We won two World Wars and saved all of Europe!! They owe us!!" type mentality. That attitude drove Brexit in a lot of English. Arrogant exceptionalism. I am afraid we will have to go through a lot more hardship until it is whipped out of us.

[@RolandPeteur]

​@@leod-sigefast the US bailed Britain out of these wars.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@leod-sigefast Those who shout those kind of things the loudest are ones who never did any fighting. They were the children of those who did. Maybe if their parents talked about things more while they were growing up rather than suffering in silence as most did with the trauma of what they'd been through and done the boomer generation would be far less self obsessed and entitled. It didn't help that they got given everything at every stage of their lives too, now they're getting to the end of said lives and they're no longer the centre of attention, but they're still a MASSIVE demographic (hence "boomer", for baby boom") so they still vote in droves and demand to be heard still. They voted their children's and grandchildren futures away just because they felt like they were entitled to more attention. They'll all be dead or dying by the time things get to their worst. Kind of like Cameron setting all of this in motion and just swanning off while whistling to himself, getting away scot free.

[@jenng9899]

Imagine being stuck here still having to deal with it!

[@hugoschkiglitz]

Man, I’d hate to live inside that caller’s mind. Can’t communicate a single coherent thought, can’t remain on point or consistent. Yet he’s convinced

[@twowardrobeswardrobes1536]

It’d be very spacious though.

[@Traitorman..Proverbs26.11]

Being single, living in Mom’s basement does that to people.

[@ljc1520]

Everybody in the German army’s heard of Hugo Stiglitz!

[@wayneford2481]

sounds like a real TORY

[@paulbird3235]

Sound's like Donald Trump's brother.

[@JosephJamesScott]

I'm sure that guy got off the phone and said to himself "Nailed it"

[@giapponerosso]

😂

[@lindacurrie8817]

Nailed his feet to the floor difficult to jog on.

[@abegarfield7030]

I'm sure I recognise his voice. I think he keeps ringing in.

[@stephenreeds3632]

And he'll be the hero down at The Dog and Duck.

[@ivomusician]

🤣

[@John_259]

Well done to James O'Brien for keeping his cool when confronted with this call.

[@AB-zl4nh]

I notice James sometimes confuses the terms, free trade, custom union & single market. They're not the same, each one is a term to describe deeper stages of economic integration ending with fiscal union. The UK has a free trade agreement with the EU but the reason it can not engage in friction less economic exchange it once had is because we left the 3rd stage of economic integration, the single market.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

Well don to Andy for keeping his cool when confronted by the vile propagandist O'Brien spewing forth such lies and hatred.

[@hellojake7684]

@@AB-zl4nh he literally told the caller that the UK has a free trade agreement with the EU, ie the withdrawal agreement, at which point the caller contradicted his original claim by mourning the fact that this free trade agreement is strictly worse for the UK than the free trade terms the UK had when in the EU. So I’m pretty sure you’re mistaken about Brien being mistaken, even if occasionally he might misspeak in a 3 hour daily radio show.

[@bampitony6108]

Your having a laugh.,😎

[@pauldadson3812]

John 259 O'Brien kept his cool to keep his job

[@Anonymous-it6hu]

If this guy drove against a wall, he'd back up and drive into it again. What an absolute tool.

[@AbdelhadiIskizzi]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RichardBeds]

What’s really scary is that this person is not alone. Is there any hope for us?

[@colinireson9339]

No, 'fraid not.

[@Ffish69]

What's even scarier, is that this person has a vote!

[@stephenisom6089]

@@Ffish69 you mean you agree with putin.

[@HistoritorJimaldus]

There’s hope if we get rid of First Past the Post and make the UK a democracy

[@ianoliver3130]

@@Ffish69 think there are 17000 of these people.

[@brianharris7243]

Empty vessels sound loudest...this is terrifying in the callers ignorance.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

Well said comrade. Let us send him for forced re-education, as everybody who does not agree with the NPC cult ideology should be.

[@johnmcdonnell81]

Never a truer words spoken. The worst part is there's plenty more just like him.

[@stephenisom6089]

by the look of the replies big mouth job has got a lot of strangers being rude to his guest ,

[@minermortal1997]

@@Dale_The_Space_Wizardmate by all means have conservative viewpoints and opinions but base those opinions off actual facts and figures. Some of the wealthiest donors to the Conservative party are right leaning think tanks their whole job is to prove that it’s all working as it should…

[@sharkasattack7794]

@@minermortal1997 You are wasting your time with that guy. He blames ‘the Jews’ for everything.

[@PaulPendor]

"I didn't expect to be on here" "Did we ring you, sorry mate" 🤣

[@jonwestera6657]

Imagine putting a decision like Brexit on the hands of this caller. Lord have mercy. This country is thick

[@armedessential]

😂😂😂😅

[@mrgzola25]

Totally agree. It's insane.

[@newcastlewatson9370]

Your instantly jumping to insults is the cause of people like this. So congratulations.

[@newcastlewatson9370]

@Simulation L again I think he’s one of those callers who doesn’t follow politics. But listened to a well rehearsed story that is back up with some highly funded propaganda and has been fooled by it. And that he doesn’t fully understand what was asked and the outcomes of it. I feel the cheap name calling and degrading of this individual is the cause of the remain side losing the vote.

[@RankinMsP]

@@newcastlewatson9370 yeah, makes sense... because his stupidity did not come before the comments. 🙄

[@halfwaydillitante3041]

The way this man can carry a conversation with someone he strongly disagrees with is incredible. Need more people capable of that!

[@enlightendbel]

He reminds me of the oldschool Atheist debaters like the people from the ACA and AronRa. Managing to keep a level head and dissecting absolutely insane arguments brought forward by the person they are talking to, hours on end.

[@davewhitely2225]

What is this man smoking 😂

[@davewhitely2225]

He sounds like Rodney from only foals and horses

[@Turtlesism]

He simply takes the option of just letting people who can't stop making fools of themselves talk.

[@adamtzsch]

@@davewhitely2225Only young horses and horses? Never seen it.

[@christophermoore1887]

Gosh, my heart sinks when I hear people like this. No wonder this country is in the terrible state it is. Ignorance is certainly not bliss!

[@tomwilkins9847]

James isn't right

[@naijaman6639]

As I said elsewhere today, we underestimate the population of clowns in the UK. I feel genuinely sorry for these people.

[@Andyreally]

@@tomwilkins9847 just wondering, which bit of James’s dialogue demonstrates he wasn’t right?

[@tomwilkins9847]

@Andrew Reilly I've had to put up with government lies and corruption for so many years...do you actually think government's are actually helping people out...your very mistaken if you think like that....this is manufactured government over people voting out of brexit the one's in charge at the moment is the world economic forum...they are telling every government around the world to follow their BS ...if you think us being out of eu caused all this then carry on...but we actually aren't out of the eu BS..

[@mdc123-v2v]

@@tomwilkins9847 It saddens me that my tax subsidizes people like you.

[@Moneymark1979]

Much Love from Germany 😘

[@w-james9277]

The worst part is I have to share my country with people like Andy.

[@chatham43]

...no you don't....get on a dinghy to France which I believe is in the EU.....😊

[@paulannable3734]

And there’s more of them than there’s of you

[@w-james9277]

@@paulannable3734 Well according to the latest polls the majority have now come to their senses

[@tomgale6535]

@@w-james9277 ^^i wouldn't hold your breath mate🤦^^

[@AnimaMundiMusic]

And Andy can vote. And his vote is as valid as yours. Fun times.

[@pip1723]

The caller couldn't answer a single question and refused to listen to any answers.

[@Nintenmarz]

You’re describing how James O’Brien acts all the time.

[@hayleyxyz]

@@Nintenmarz "I know you are but what am I"

[@TheFounderUtopia]

@@Nintenmarz You literally chose to say this on a video where he does the exact opposite of what you're accusing him of doing. How are you this dense?

[@benmorris118]

@@Nintenmarz wipe the dribble off your chin mate

[@johnrussell3961]

He should be the next Tory leader.

[@spacecakesgoofball]

Wow, this was painful to listen to...and to think there are millions of people just like him walking amongst us

[@gudrunbruemllst4172]

And among wonderful eu countries too.

[@Glasstable2011]

@@gudrunbruemllst4172 which is probably why they don’t put matters of inter-generational importance to popular votes and then let a load of liars and charlatans mislead the public for two years leading up to it

[@handarokadath1515]

It wasn't painful for me it was hilarious , Monty Python, The Office , The Two Ronnie's , One foot in the grave, ...eat your heart out . I'm sure this caller is doing it for a laugh.

[@johnmason5626]

@@handarokadath1515 no, he is serious.

[@TaySplatoon]

@@johnmason5626 unfortunately

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

That was painful to listen to. Great respect for James O'Brian for braving through this and still managing to be this polite. It truly is as the saying goes: "It's easier to fool people than it is to convince people that they have been fooled."

[@benjiviews4300]

This makes me so sad for my country

[@gedrooney9305]

Liar.

[@skyofforest]

Better trade deals , freedom of movement, freedom of work in all of Europe.

[@justRight72]

@Joe Lawrence better trade deals how exactly..explain ??... Freedom of movement when our country is already over populated and NHS is under severe strain...really ???

[@hayleyrees9265]

@@justRight72 my husbands factory employ mainly short term contracts now for people working on the production line. He sees how different it is now since leaving the EU and the obstacles of getting through the supply chain. Obstacles put there by our government

[@onecupof_tea]

​​@@hayleyrees9265 I know someone importing furniture, and their costs have shot up, because the simple and cheap supply chain, with no trade barriers through Europe has disappeared, and costs are passed onto customers.

[@jamalwoods9649]

"Did we ring you?" "Did we take you by surprise?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sandragill9916]

That's alright yeah lol 😂

[@tinaa3459]

Das alraght

[@ScepticalBrit]

Andy is someone who will go on voting against his own best interest because he's beyond help!

[@TheNorville2]

Unfortunately this is little England....

[@verasmith4767]

The same in the states. James has more patience then me.

[@matthewatkinson1092]

He isn’t beyond help, it’s just that he is told what THEY want

[@redboyjan]

Country gets what it deserves

[@sean-hu2fo]

The sad part is, Andy didn't recognize sarcasm, even as James slapped him in the face with it

[@danny1977]

You mean James couldn't win the argument pal

[@kikidevine694]

Andy isn't clever enough to recognise a hand slapping him in the face

[@aabidamn]

@@danny1977 Hi, Andy.

[@aabidamn]

Andy didn't even recognize the negative effects of Brexit, even as they slap and spit him in the face with it.

[@derVilli]

@@danny1977 you are lost!

[@errorswillmultiply1697]

He actually just said, 'Why didn't they give us what we had before?'

[@TyonKree]

The level of ego. Plain and simply expecting that Britain by virtue of being Britain deserves more.

[@Ginkoman2]

@@TyonKree the funny thing is britain already had the best deal of all countries. always having their little extra regulations. the uk right now wouldnt even be allowed back in due to not being democratic enough. afaik the problem is the house of lords.

[@Kevin-lf4xx]

That piece was classic.

[@redboyjan]

That made up time when Britain was amazing

[@redboyjan]

@@Ginkoman2 the problem is people voting tory, not voting and protest votes like the liberals and SNP. Its all deserved

[@willoke8]

"Right? "Right?? He keeps saying that. Be he really isn't

[@lawrencebolt3540]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"

[@jyvben1520]

no doubt on this guy and give that guy a plastic medal, just tell him it is gold, he will believe it.

[@johnjames2397]

We will get 4 more years of tories if this guy is anything to go by. What a dilbert

[@CryWillus]

*5 more years

[@cupguin]

Even his passionate opinion seems to be the Tories are have destroyed manufacturing. I mean I can't follow where making it harder to export will improve manufacturing but I can't follow any of his brexit logic.

[@weirdlytrue]

@@cupguin they managed to do that while still in the EU.

[@beardedbloke2521]

Dilbert is too nice a word

[@Paris.mcdonough]

I hope not

[@CosmicKnight369]

James deserves an award for his patience. I couldn't even listen to the whole clip.

[@individual7922]

Only a few sentences! It is so embarrassing for me! Did you understand?? For me! 😂How can someone be that clueless!!

[@thomas.alexander.]

I believe this man is a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Ignorant people don't know how ignorant they are, and when you question an ignorant person, they have no evidence to support their opinion. But they keep telling you they know what they know!?!?

[@CaminoAir]

​@@mrc391 Your comment appears to suggest any criticism of this caller's comments must come from someone who voted remain and would just react against the caller's 'Leave' position.

[@clivestraw1913]

The EU are as corrupt as NATO un wef

[@armondtanz]

Yes your right james is. Even right at the end he was cherry picking where he wanted to live incase of emergency , Australia & Greece.

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

​@@mrc391 Probably not to destabilise the UK economy as happened.

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

@@mrc391 I didn’t ask you about the Euro but I see you chose a poor whataboutism attempt

[@lynnezabek]

How he even manage to work the phone is beyond me.

[@paulbird3235]

I think his mother should take that phone off of him, bet the police are sick of him ringing them.

[@robinparker8662]

What about the coach he drives with all those people lives in his hands

[@ronthered138]

@@robinparker8662 Hmmm... hard to believe that driving a coach is a skilled job.

[@chatham43]

....mm...taking time to put together a grammatically correct sentence is obviously beyond you too. Unbelievable.

[@adamturowski3765]

Well, according to his own words LBC call in show has called him. You can't make it up.

[@MahkyVmedia1]

"we gotta stop ringing people" I'm dying 😂

[@MsHarpsychord]

And that he was like "oh yeah, I forgive you." Ffs

[@omabdulgani]

I sell health and products internationally from the UK, and since leaving the EU, it's now more costly, and slower, to send a parcel to France than it is to Australia. Utter madness!

[@michaelfawole9974]

In the words of Edmund Blackadder: "the eyes are open, the mouth moves but mr brain has long since departed"

[@johnrussell3961]

1980’s satire has now become reality.

[@michaelinhouston9086]

In the US we have a saying about guys like Andy - the porch light's on but nobody's home lol

[@paranormalpendle5920]

I think he's borrowed the family brain cell for the day.

[@liamfriel8749]

Brilliant! 🤡 9:24

[@samichgrrl]

Love any black adder reference ♥️

[@56postoffice]

I heard this with jaw dropped and a bit sadness knowing this guy is now beyond help. Perfect gammon for the Tory base. This is THEIR level.

[@eddieingalls534]

The Tories campaigned for remain. You are, as quite a few on here, confusing their agenda with and under the referendum with their (and theirs alone) respect for democracy and saying (in the GE) they would respect the vote.

[@RichDoes..]

@@eddieingalls534 I'd respect democracy if the politicians didn't lie.

[@Fanto_Sir]

@Eddie Ingalls is that the advisory vote that didn't hold any precedent to be acted upon that was fervently being driven through the commons so we did exit by 'the will of the people'? That vote?

[@faelirra]

@@eddieingalls534 I would respect the leave vote if judges who looked over accusations of cheating didn't come out and basically say "IF the EU referendum was legally binding we would have nulled it due to leave votes cheating. But since it was unofficial we can't touch it."

[@badarttangent7786]

I think I got dumber listening to that caller attempting to connect the dots. If they had another braincell it would be lonely.

[@melanieporitzsch5775]

Absolutely shocking

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

If you had another braincell, then perhaps you could think of an original comment, instead of copying and repeating that same old tired joke.

[@reiw5802]

It gave me a migraine...

[@redboyjan]

If he had one more he'd be as clever as a donkey

[@BiloLCFC]

It's like listening to a lasagne explaining its own recipe.

[@Seticzech]

Albert Einstein nailed it pretty accurately: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

[@CorvusCorax.]

LOL

[@abr354]

This caller is an absolutely perfect example of why this country is a total mess. At least they got what they wanted, if they even know what they wanted? Now we all have to live with it. Well done James, I don't know how you manage to get through a conversation with people like this.

[@rfurdaylee]

Well as a Brexit voter I wanted Brexit. Unfortunately we never got it.

[@jimbob4217]

​@@rfurdaylee Jesus wept..are we a member of the EU or not?

[@rfurdaylee]

@jimbob4217 No we are not. We voted to leave in 2016. We won the vote ( to leave) but, unfortunately, due to Boris Johnson, we got a bad deal, so it's become Brexit in name only.

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

ask for help

[@fidel681]

I don't know about small gap, this guy has a large empty space where his brain should be😢

[@batjohncomics9549]

Top tip. If you spend a majority of your time in the pub, surrounded by friends telling you that every word in the Mail is true do not ring into a talk show where you will get fact checked.

[@YeahNoTellTheTruth]

Echo chambers are like oxygen if Propaganda was fire.

[@sijcalv]

The Mail was anti brexit you muppets.

[@hmq9052]

@@sijcalv Eh? No it wasn't!

[@bubba842]

I have started using James' tactic of asking for examples of people's uneducated claims. Funny thing is, I get the same awkward silences from the people who spout this nonsense. They claim so much but can't support their arguments with any credible evidence.

[@JonnyUnforeseen]

Chris Morris couldn't write better characters than actual LBC callers.

[@xbabu142x]

Yep amazing how this went from shock to depressing to funny with it's absurdity. "The EU is run by an un-elected group of people" -- Hmmm guess he watches RT for news too on top of the Daily Mail.

[@4OHz]

12:19 He wants to say he hates anything that’s not White or English.

[@thomasbuggle392]

"The unelected dictatorship of the EU" As an outsider looking in having developed an interest in British politics Post 2016 to understand what drove the madness of Brexit, that comment is straight out of the Mail/Express playbook, The British press really is vile

[@aleph8888]

The EU is based on ignoring referendums. Every single referendum that has gone against EU interests has been ignored. In Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Greece, twice in Ireland. Anti-democratic eurotrash don’t like losing some of their privileges. Tough.

[@MegaKapo12]

Yeah and if you see that it comes from a country that has a king and a chamber of unelected Lords.

[@hmq9052]

Also the Kremlin online propaganda machine

[@johnrussell3961]

We dont elect our civil service either, The EU Council give them objectives and go back to running their own counties. In the UK the Cabinet gives the civil servants objectives and fills the rest of the time with parties.

[@morgan.williams76]

​@@aleph8888 whilst the UK has 2nd prime minister no one voted for and an unelected house of Lords making decisions on laws?

[@apx2444]

I listened to this live on Friday. It genuinely made me feel depressed for the rest of the day. The UK has been completely gaslit by Farage and Johnson and Co.

[@J0MBi]

It's brutal.

[@troops1980]

I'm depressed that people like like you breath

[@jimmyzoom1143]

At least we managed to get those safe and effective vaccines quicker being out the EU... Ignore the excess deaths.

[@skarathanos]

and the millionaire press

[@tumblefatboy]

@@jimmyzoom1143 You do know thats a lie right ? We were still under EU rules when we approved the Vaccine and they lied about the approval being fast to the gullible brexiteers to make it seem like a win. It's another gaslite moment that some people believe because they keep saying it over and over again. But it's not true ! I take it your being Ironic !

[@timlester4510]

"Off the top of me head, I can't even think of a single example of what I just tried to argue."🙃

[@sirenuk5887]

IMHO this is typical English people

[@christophergarrard5210]

@@sirenuk5887 no it’s not fool

[@JelloTypeR]

@@christophergarrard5210 yes it is tool.

[@smahier]

"This, that and the other"!

[@QueenRaven911]

I applaud the patience of Brian, he actually ask valid questions and tried to understand the mindset of the leavers. As a Canadian, a third country citizen, it makes no difference for me to enter UK (where I live before Brexit) or Germany (where I live now after Brexit) I guess I don’t feel the heat as much, but I did move to Germany because of Brexit. As a former short-term Londoner, all my friends are remainers. I can almost guarantee you that most people who voted to leave don’t even know what EU is all about. My German partner will tell you that, without EU, the hassle of exchanging currencies, and the restrictions on movement of goods. Considered Germany had one of the strongest currencies in Europe before the EU, the Germans would still tell you that it is better being in the EU than being the outside of it. Imagine all the small European countries having to negotiate separately with all the trade deals, and deal with the fluctuation of the currencies. And if not for the EU, I reckon Russia would invade as many small European countries as they can, seeing the way they strong arm their military. I don’t know, that’s just my guess, but judging by all the superpowers in the world, at least the EU is on a level playing field with the alliance.

[@michelecarbone2896]

This caller is the proof that one can get through life without being able to think.

[@originalbadboy32]

And that basic IQ tests should be required for people to vote.

[@applejuice5272]

...and he drives a 20+ tonne coach without being able to think of consequences

[@PhilippaBeale]

Please may I never have the mischance to get into a coach that this poor idiot is licensed to drive.

[@thomasweir2834]

They often do rather well in life. Seems that being simultaneously incredibly confident, and also ignorant of almost everything; it's the secret to a long and happy existence. Blissful.

[@blackqueen164]

@@thomasweir2834 Your sarcasam is so amusing.

[@simonjohn9525]

This is terrifying! Not only does this bloke have a vote he also drives a coach for fare paying passengers.😱

[@KiwisDownUnder]

He might have kids...thud.

[@bumblingborisbuffoon6259]

Please tell us which coach company so it can be avoided.

[@jimorr5647]

A wise man once said “It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”🤣

[@Bezart34]

I like that quote; can I nick it?

[@tomconnolly7420]

Spot on Jim

[@Diatonic1958]

Mark Twain, I believe.

[@dominicestebanrice7460]

Not to be picky, but it was a wise woman actually....the great British writer George Eliot (Mary Evans) who, I;m sure would despair at the state of our country today.

[@Diatonic1958]

@@dominicestebanrice7460 Thanks.

[@MrSmith130]

The amount of people who ring in to make a 'factual' statement and then, when pressed for evidence, change the subject and become resentful.

[@GrinningWolfGames]

I’m amazed how listeners call in and speak such gaslit bs

[@Dynasty1818]

Because this pathetic runt of a station only lets in people they can walk all over, to paint the country in as worse a picture as possible and let the idiots that follow this channel and the station be so easily manipulated and made even stupider.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

I'm amazed how a radio presenter can speak such gaslit BS on his show.

[@damianjoseph3837]

@@Dale_The_Space_Wizard such as

[@winnkey]

Because they listen to there Echo chambers who say they are spot on and gas 'em up and never question them. Then when they call in all hyped up on gas. Just one direct question and they deflate. As it's not the strawman false response they are expecting..

[@MIGHTYBOOSCH198]

It's not his fault, he had a long drive and rang in by surprise 🤣

[@craighouston1150]

The sad thing is there are hundreds of thousands just like him out there and they can vote.

[@AnimaMundiMusic]

And they vote for people like Nigel Farage. Nigel bloated man shaped sack of ham Farage. And they're aren't just a few of them. There are millions of them. Millions.

[@radboo4384]

Yeah just ship them into marginals

[@redboyjan]

Millions

[@ASBOmarc]

Millions, which does not give me hope.

[@cs4723]

Bit like the girl who voted remain to save the NHS

[@bgtv9024]

I'm impressed with how well O'Brien can stay on topic no matter how disruptive of a conversation he's having

[@tonypaulmcdonald4108]

Yes, he's your comrade.

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

He has the patience of an angel.

[@sachasoorma]

That'll be the autism...

[@johnturnef133]

Simple, it’s all he does

[@gumusluk05]

​@@tonypaulmcdonald4108 you bring nothing to the debate 😵‍💫

[@starseedfilms]

The more I listen to James, the more I realize that the exact same thing that happened in the states happened in the UK after Covid. It's amazing what fear can do to a society.

[@ΙωάννηςΛεονταράκης]

I don't think COVID is to blame. Lack of education though perhaps

[@Cory_Springer]

It's been present for much longer than the Covid pandemic.

[@leod-sigefast]

Unfortunately, it started even earlier in the UK: with Brexit. The anti-EU rhetoric had been building since the 2000s (Farage and his UKIP populist party) but reached a crescendo around 2015 with the announcement of there being a referendum to finally decide our status in the EU....long story short the rightwing populists, which covers most of the British press, and the populist politicians like Farage and Johnson confected a campaign to convince enough disenfranchised to vote against their own best interests and vote to leave the biggest and most successful trading bloc in the world - all to enrich the rightwing elites in the UK, of course. James O'Brien has been trying to hold people to account from day 1....but the populist idiocy, like Trump in the USA, knows no bounds! As you can see in these interviews: "I am right and I don't care about your 'facts'!! My mind is made up."

[@brinjoness3386]

Before putin was searching for Hillarys emails he was messing around in Westminster

[@poweredbygluten]

To paraphrase Andy's call "we were in EU, things were bad, now things are worse because we left the EU but it's still EU's fault".

[@phantasticmrphasma9874]

The dunning-kruger effect

[@duncanbryson1167]

​@@phantasticmrphasma9874 Many people have summited Mount Dunning Kruger 🙄

[@Tom-iv3nd]

Quite your day job, become the next Russell Howard, only even better.

[@Dougal-Mcguire]

@@Tom-iv3nd go back to school and you'll maybe get a day job mate

[@nigelskipping7941]

Well lots of people wouldn't accept Brexit which meant the EU saw that we were divided and took advantage of that in the negotiations.

[@jobeans4760]

Took him 17m 36s to reveal his "DEM IMMIGRUNTZ" stance. About 5 minutes after James visibly died inside.

[@jeffsimon9594]

James died inside a long time ago. He just wants the Blair years back.

[@stephanguitar9778]

Bet he doesn't realise that his Tories have issued 1 million visas in the last year, mostly to Asians and Africans. ie he voted to swap EU people for said Africans and Asians.

[@jonathano.7109]

I should be crying, but I laughed out loud listening to this. It's like trying to sit down and talk to a mad squirrel.

[@bigkdog5091]

That's a bit disparaging about squirrels mate ffs...

[@maynardmckillen9228]

Have the squirrel call in to LBC. I guarantee you'll be treated to more coherent assertions than you get from Andy.

[@MaximilianvonPinneberg]

@@bigkdog5091 yeah but it’s about the transits innit do you know where them is made now?

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

@@bigkdog5091 he did say a mad squirrel, so not an ordinary squirrel.

[@nimoy212]

loool That really made me laugh.

[@Elcore]

"I'm just a humble coach driver." Ahhh so that's why they have that "do not talk to the driver" sign.

[@leokloid1]

Andy, the type of person who walks into a DFS and comes out with a full priced sofa.

[@rolandhawken6628]

They are all full priced in DFS mate the discount is all smoke and mirrors .

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@rolandhawken6628 whoosh…

[@JelloTypeR]

🚀 🙄

[@silivatiseilaa4158]

100% :) and Roland Hawken is the type of person who walks into DFS, blames the customer servant for high prices and discounts being smoke and mirrors.

[@billybeads3328]

@@rolandhawken6628 Or maybe he comes out with a packet of smokes and a mirror

[@SirDannyg1]

This is Paul Whitehouse trying out a new character...

[@ThalassicMeasure]

What an embarrassment these people are. Yet, the unfounded confidence they display is staggering.

[@terryfinnie2146]

This is the perfect example of how thick the electorate is in uk.

[@terryfinnie2146]

@@albefuctivino1488 👍

[@julielevinge266]

Just astonishing that anyone would call a radio station to talk politics without having a clue what there talking about, no facts, no figures absolutely nothing at all!!! Incredible lack of any self awareness at all, whatsoever! Sad, very sad.

[@lorrainelane6583]

Why are you remoners so rude 🙄

[@infinitel00p94]

and yet hes allowed to present radio.

[@zacharybohlman4069]

10:00 sums up the entire Vote Leave debacle. It's disgusting what happened in 2016.

[@quadcom]

Andy is the kind of guy that everything happens 'to'. It's always someone else that is responsible for anything that goes wrong in his life.

[@RobertBoyle11]

All his exes that left him, none of it was his fault bless him...

[@FFM0594]

Andy shouldn't be taken seriously. I'll leave it at that.

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

A description apt of many British voters in truth. Those who blame the EU, the foreigners, the weather, the wildlife, the media for telling them how to vote...

[@SpunkyMonkeyORiley]

We can only hear the caller Andy's voice as its a radio phone in, a "humble coach driver" as he calls himself. Just listen to the accent, the way he speaks, the choice of words he uses, the lost of composure and the lack of basic comprehension of what he is actually saying when asked to back up his statements..........

[@delboy2257]

​@@SpunkyMonkeyORiley Nothing wrong with his accent. Ask Moira Jones family what they think about criminals arriving from the EU ?

[@jujutrini8412]

I have had to talk to people like this. It’s so painful. James has so much patience.

[@jyvben1520]

hope you are recovering well ...

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Trying talking to someone like O'Brien. I find them cultish and verging on passive aggressive fascism.

[@pedrosanchez4035]

@@Neil-Aspinall sure those are words, but what do they mean?

[@you.got.red.on.y0u549]

Me too actually, and not being allowed to hang up!!! Painful, and nothing else 🤣

[@Neil-Aspinall]

@@pedrosanchez4035 Pedro, can't help you if you don't understand............maybe try Google translate?

[@OuttaaaControl]

Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for.

[@Strider91]

Globally. Interpol should lock him up

[@CarlinConnolly]

exactly!

[@l.u.rehuher3714]

Not to you Britain You're small time It's to the US about Fox News and Tucker Carlson

[@toon9359]

Don’t worry he’s very old

[@jnagarya519]

@@toon9359 He has two sons.

[@Spartacus-pq5yp]

How James keeps his cool while listening to idiots, morons and imbeciles is a mystery to me. I want to train myself to do that.

[@PropagandasaurusRex]

He's getting paid to do that. If you get paid for it, you can learn anything. If you want to, that is.

[@catherinefraser8177]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ThomsGN74]

I have heard that British people are polite. But I would never think how far your politeness can go. My greatest respect to James.

[@wfifa199]

Yes, because all people in Britain are the same

[@josemengelez6947]

@@wfifa199 you are.

[@dekai7992]

​@@wfifa199Are you trying to point out that there might be British people who aren't polite? That's probably true, but it doesn't contribute anything to the OC, does it?

[@danganbeg7225]

James O'Brien is an Irish name.

[@tundescope]

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill

[@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan8419]

Well… I don’t know about you but I’m a little more ashamed of my country than I was an hour ago

[@CaminoAir]

The fact that you feel ashamed (and many other people also are) is something to be encouraged by. You haven't become numb to this. You haven't stopped caring. You haven't abandoned values, or facts, or understanding.

[@arghjayem]

I have been ashamed of this country since 2016 and the vote.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

Exactly...It is very shameful that this country allows such a vile propagandist like O'Brien his own radio show. It makes us all ashamed of our country.

[@andreaslamers9535]

not me but I am not English, and the EU never told him, he is right in a way, no one from the EU called him personally to tell him about the budget, and there is a public server where the budget could be downloaded and read for everyone who wants to see it, same with why the GB can not have the same contract like before, because its the benefit of being in the club, the English want to be out, so they now have to prove that their products are on the EU standard, fun fact (and shows how to learn resistant English Tories are) the made in Germany was insisted from England on all German products because the politician was sure the English would only buy English products, bad luck was that the German produced cheaper with higher quality so the made in Germany was at the end not a handicap to buy products it was a benefit

[@robwalker3417]

I have been ashamed of this country since Thatcher helped Reagan and his right wing lackey academic Freidman implement the neo liberal project. Morals and ethics have no place in the neo liberal ideology. Nice comment btw.

[@arnovdk8940]

I felt my brain cells dying as I listened to that man.

[@trudimension2830]

That moderators patience is completely mindblowing

[@paoloantunes1283]

Medal 🏅for him

[@TaySplatoon]

Who is the moderator?

[@paoloantunes1283]

He is a presenter. But he does try to moderate the astonishing level of ignorance displayed by the caller. And also patiently probes for his sources. Although we know the sources… it’s the Sun, the daily express, the daily mail.

[@CarlinConnolly]

always allow them enough rope...

[@carlmar713]

I was amaze by him it was incredible to listen and made sense of it

[@Euroka2000]

My deepest respect for James, for his intelligence, his stamina and his patience.

[@theq86]

I was getting exhausted just listening to this caller. I'd probably have aneurysm if I was talking to him.

[@Teddokrato]

Just because James talks to dullards with James already asking the topic That doesn't mean James is Einstein James show is basically having the question lined up then wait for the calls I reckon they cherry pick the dullards He is a sophist How about he has his shows where it's the punters who set the topics Nope Because those with logic and credible stories and facts would defeat his sophism

[@Teddokrato]

@@bobsmith5441 well on that I concur The biggest own goal and staking everything on the roll of the dice , in British history How Cameron just sauntered off the morning after . The only result Brexit achieved Supermarkets shoving union jack flags on sub standard food .

[@antonychant-bu6hd]

@Q I was getting exhausted listening to how rude, dismissive, arrogant and utterly patronising O'brien was. Typical woke remoaner..

[@andrewgordon1634]

​@@bobsmith5441 oh do🎉 behave yourself,you're acting just like this caller🤡

[@MikesThinks]

Heard this live… all the way through, thinking “this is gonna get clipped”

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

O'Brien should get clipped.

[@alastairs3727]

😂

[@missxsoph1]

Guy didn't even know he was getting the Mickey taken out of him

[@Beans360]

I love how he said he didn't expect to be on the phone after a long drive when he's the phone who called in.

[@oskarrunhaar6607]

It was his last braincell sending a message in despair.

[@subcitizen2012]

The EU made him do it

[@lynnecartercatone2129]

@@subcitizen2012 LOVE IT!!

[@cancangirl2888]

The wonderful part was that James’s sarcasm went right through him like prune juice.

[@nabiljarad812]

The worry is that we have millions of people as muddled as this man. They elected Johnson.

[@gerardflynn7382]

Boris Trump?

[@teddingtonbear3265]

they were hurdled into worse vs worser. They chose worse to put off worser which will be upon us at the next election.

[@lestrem11]

What about the constituents who voted for Rayner?🤪

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

@@gerardflynn7382 Trump might be elected again. Millions there seem to have the longterm memory of a goldfish

[@valcolvera]

"They" didn't elect Johnson. He was chosen by the Tory Party.

[@Eddylatumalea]

As a Dutch (thus an outsider, my apologies)... the most painful thing about this all is that this guy is not alone in this opinion. What these people really bottom line just can't comprehend is that they are blaming "others" "outsiders" "all the bad eu people" for their own problems. BUT they tell themselves daily "we have taking our country back!". make up your mind then... its your country you left... YOU FIX IT. just be clear the EU is not a perfect place, we are humans though just like you. but we are NOT blaming The UK for all our problems. we are trying to deal with them like we should, as they are our responsibility. Start doing that and the UK will prosper WITH or WITHOUT the dreaded EU.

[@katesayshey]

I worked in Ireland and the UK in 2016/17. It’s a bit sad to see how bad this backfired on the UK. A nation needs to have a degree of self sufficiency for isolationism and nationalism to work. Geopolitically brexit wasn’t going to work. Even so it’s still hard to watch the government and brexiteers realize that the UK has far less international power and influence than they thought.

[@adrianmoore3118]

@Eddy Latumalea. The EU is going to collapse because Germany has applied to join BRICS so the Euro will collapse and countries will go back to there own gold backed currencies and there own sovereignty.

[@timmurphy5541]

These attitudes exist in lots of places. I'm from Zimbabwe and it's very much the case there. Blaming outsiders is easier than changing one's own culture and actions.

[@jimmyzoom1143]

Sounds like youve had a booster recently

[@YouWhatMate28]

@@timmurphy5541 Yes I agree I'm looking at this Brexit a bit different now. I actually blame the UK goverment for blaming problems on the EU that they could fix but dident want to. They always told the population they cannot fix this and that because we were in the EU so the nation became angry with the EU low and behold the problems are not fix even though we left lol massive wake up call for the population

[@scottowen3022]

Caller is an absolute weapon

[@paul-ie6wi]

Yeaa rattled James 😮

[@DanielWhite-v4e]

😂

[@Tatey333]

It is genuinely terrifying to think that people like him are actually allowed to vote! Individuals like this are the reason we are in this mess!

[@EIREriddick13]

The UK is Weak that's the problem. Its embarrassing.

[@ahmedjacuzzi5494]

Like here in the US, the conservatives influence voters by appealing to their feelings, and feelings don't require facts.

[@deepthought2]

Presumably you would only want people voting that have same opinion as you?

[@wvmnst]

this is just a poor bus driver still believing the story (lies) he has been fed and they continue to do so today!

[@adrianmoore3118]

@Tatey. The reason why we are in this mess is because of our joke of a government so let's have it right.

[@aleksandrai3973]

I listened through this and was about to throw my computer out the window at least twice in the first minute. James is the most composed man on the planet!

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

I think that your spellcheck has accidentally replaced the word "corrupt" with "composed".

[@malcolmholmes2205]

Alex I too listened to this and I was absolutely speechless. I believe the referendum should never have taken place exactly due to this problem. Too many ignorant, gullible people voting on something so complex as this. I will not be riding on his bus.

[@malcolmholmes2205]

Wake up

[@bigpants6121]

@@Dale_The_Space_Wizard Timewasting Tory Boy.

[@dorsetbigcats6292]

@@malcolmholmes2205 Wake up to what?

[@DracoSuave]

'The EU was unelected' -- people who voted for UKIP in the EU elections

[@rfurdaylee]

What the eff are you talking about?

[@DracoSuave]

@@rfurdaylee Nigel Firage kept claiming that the EU was undemocratic. He was a democratic representative to the EU. Not hard to sort out, mate, it's kinda obvious where the problem is there.

[@rfurdaylee]

@DracoSuave Whether he was voted in ( or not) is by the by, we already have a democratically elected government ( or representatives) in London called the British Government, why do we need another one in Brussels. We really don't need 2. The one in Brussels treated us so badly that Nigel Farage was prepared to put himself out of a job to get rid of them, shows you how bad they were ( and still are)

[@ItsukaShimotsuki]

@@rfurdaylee At least you are admitting that the EU is not unelected. Editing your comment to throw in those "(or not)"s doesn't flatter your personality.

[@isi2973]

To me listening to someone, who is proudly living in a monarchy, complain about the EU being undemocratic, is quite funny. That is not to say, I do not think the democratic processes in the EU cannot be improved. I hate that the EU organs are pretty much able to silence or ignore weaker member states ( in terms of population and economic power), dictateing what they should do in terms of their economy. I hate that direct votes from the population are only present in the EU parlament, while both the commission and the council are only legitimised on the grounds of organisational democracy. But that does not mean I hate the EU. The EU is necessary for keeping the european continent as a whole able ro compete with the USA, China and in a few decades india. The EU basically guarantees freedom and relative stability for the member states, by makeing war economically unviable, which as sad as it is, is the only non violent way of doing this. We canallways talk about how to improve, but to just give up is a cowardly option, an option I find deplorable.

[@jeremybunn8473]

It's unbelievable that our politicians are scared of upsetting people like Andy. I can't believe that our entire country seems to be pandering to clueless & gullible people like this guy. My patience with suffering these people & their nonsense is exhausted, we need to rejoin the tried & tested EU, which we know works, ASAP.