JOHN MAJOR'S BREXIT WARNING

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Jon Danzig

Jon Danzig

Ай бұрын

→ What the former Prime Minister warned BEFORE the referendum
𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥'𝗦 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 - 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟬-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
Exactly 8 years ago, on 5 June 2016 - just three weeks before the EU referendum - former Prime Minister, Sir John Major warned that the Leave campaign was “fundamentally dishonest” and “verging on the squalid.”
On the BBC Andrew Marr Show, Sir John accused Brexit campaigners of feeding to the British people “a whole galaxy of inaccurate and frankly untrue information.”
“And what they have NOT done,” he added, “is to tell us what would be the position if we were to vote to leave.”
Sir John said of Brexit, “I think it would be chaotic and damaging and I think the people who would suffer most would be the everyday man and woman in the street.”
Andrew Marr put it to Sir John that Leave campaigners claimed Brexit would create an extra 300,000 jobs, “because we would be free to strike our own trade deals with America and Australia and China and other countries.”
“Well, it’s fantasy,” responded Sir John.
“We would lose a huge amount in terms of national income through trade,” he said, pointing out that businesses would sell less to the #SingleMarket if we left the EU.
He added, “I am angry at the way the British people are being misled.”
The former Prime Minister was right, wasn’t he? What a shame his warnings were not heeded.
Watch the video and judge for yourself.
▪ Transcript of full John Major interview: news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/h...
© Report and video compilation by ‪@JonDanzig‬ Video clip from the BBC.
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@JonDanzig
@JonDanzig Ай бұрын
→ What the former Prime Minister warned BEFORE the referendum 𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥'𝗦 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 - 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟬-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 Exactly 8 years ago, on 5 June 2016 - just three weeks before the EU referendum - former Prime Minister, Sir John Major warned that the Leave campaign was “fundamentally dishonest” and “verging on the squalid.” On the BBC Andrew Marr Show, Sir John accused Brexit campaigners of feeding to the British people “a whole galaxy of inaccurate and frankly untrue information.” “And what they have NOT done,” he added, “is to tell us what would be the position if we were to vote to leave.” Sir John said of Brexit, “I think it would be chaotic and damaging and I think the people who would suffer most would be the everyday man and woman in the street.” Andrew Marr put it to Sir John that Leave campaigners claimed Brexit would create an extra 300,000 jobs, “because we would be free to strike our own trade deals with America and Australia and China and other countries.” “Well, it’s fantasy,” responded Sir John. “We would lose a huge amount in terms of national income through trade,” he said, pointing out that businesses would sell less to the #SingleMarket if we left the EU. He added, “I am angry at the way the British people are being misled.” The former Prime Minister was right, wasn’t he? What a shame his warnings were not heeded. Watch the video and judge for yourself.
@JamesGary-lz7pu
@JamesGary-lz7pu Ай бұрын
And now Nigel Farage is coming back to potentially govern the country not John Major.
@basilmcdonnell9807
@basilmcdonnell9807 Ай бұрын
​@@JamesGary-lz7puFarage entering the election has certainly delivered a huge boost to Reform! According to projections they stand to win three seats. Just 323 to go!
@danganbeg7225
@danganbeg7225 Ай бұрын
​@RemoanersRtossersYes! Support Putin!
@gtlindley74
@gtlindley74 Ай бұрын
I remember at the time of the referendum, that I was too outraged at all the dishonest information, and that I could not make an informed decision,which is why I voted remain.
@williampatrickfagan7590
@williampatrickfagan7590 Ай бұрын
@RemoanersRtossers Look at the stats. When inflation is taken out of the equation UK exports have fallen. Only thing that flatters is exports have increased in pounds sterling, but strip out the inflation the stats tell a different story.
@feralmode
@feralmode Ай бұрын
"nonsense on stilts", "pet hamster with a hungry python"... love it. never knew major was so eloquent with his insults.
@mbriet
@mbriet Күн бұрын
“Copper-bottomed nonsense” 😂 Brilliant.
@machidaman
@machidaman Ай бұрын
This aged far too well.
@holycannoli64
@holycannoli64 Ай бұрын
How so?
@machidaman
@machidaman Ай бұрын
@@holycannoli64 he was bang on.
@holycannoli64
@holycannoli64 Ай бұрын
@@machidaman bang on in what way?
@machidaman
@machidaman Ай бұрын
@@holycannoli64 I assume you are being deliberately obtuse.
@holycannoli64
@holycannoli64 Ай бұрын
@@machidaman no, I don't recognise what Major said as being prophetic in any way. To attribute everything that's happened to Brexit is to ignore the economy-wrecking policies that everyone enthusiastically supported during the covid hysteria.
@nice_challenge
@nice_challenge 10 күн бұрын
The greatest benefit of Brexit is making sure no country is trying to do something as utterly stupid as the British did.
@OnlyGrafting
@OnlyGrafting 5 күн бұрын
Ive said this before but Theresa May was onto something and she was lampooned for it
@spicy7302
@spicy7302 Күн бұрын
Don't forget Nigel Farage's claim that Brexit would cause a massive revolt within the EU and that every nation would follow in Britain's path of exiting. 😂
@richardfox1325
@richardfox1325 Күн бұрын
They are 😂😂😂
@anonymoustosh4471
@anonymoustosh4471 Ай бұрын
Spitting Image lambasted him as the grey man when he was PM because he made his decisions based on boring analysis and consideration of the consequences both for and against. So come the referendum the majority don't even hear what he is saying, preferring to follow the pied pipers of Brexit with their catchy slogans, entertaining presentations and unattainable promises. Moral of the story, politics is boring and so it should be because when it stops being boring that's when bricks get thrown, damage is done and people get hurt.
@user-pt1ow8hx5l
@user-pt1ow8hx5l Ай бұрын
So well written. Thank you. "Catchy slogans, entertaining presentations and unattainable promises'.
@neildee9834
@neildee9834 Ай бұрын
He won after Thatcher, a very surprising victory to many, but he was the soapbox hero, the champion of the Blue Rinse brigade, and unafraid to speak honestly and confront the Euro Sceptics (or Bastards as he later called them) or Thatcher herself, with whom he won many arguments. The Tory Party were cock-a-hoop with the victory, but those Right Wing Euro Sceptics soon realised he wasn't 'Their Man' to be easily controlled and had his own mind........So they destroyed him. The Media was used as a weapon, and fools as we were, The Public fell for it. Newspapers, television, radio and scandal were wielded to portray an image we fell for. And who do we think controls most of those media vessels??
@user-pt1ow8hx5l
@user-pt1ow8hx5l Ай бұрын
@@neildee9834 Murdoch! With the Sun. And the Sky network. And the public school people. With the BBC and other broadcasters. All eager to poach fun at Mayor whilst giving their own a free ride. To ansver your question.
@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229
@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229 Ай бұрын
Well said. I may quote you 😊🤔
@Hugh_Morris
@Hugh_Morris 28 күн бұрын
The "grey man" system, it the best system of government for running a country
@Calvin23
@Calvin23 Ай бұрын
Doesn’t everyone miss the time when we had sensible competent politicians???
@srjwari
@srjwari Ай бұрын
Its rare... thats why.
@orsoncart1547
@orsoncart1547 Ай бұрын
Too boring for Farrage & Co. They can all gripe about migrants again like that's not what they do all the time, and what Brexit was supposed to fix by 'Taking Back Control '.
@mw8653
@mw8653 Ай бұрын
And the cheating on his wife speaks much of his moral fibre.
@davidk7262
@davidk7262 Ай бұрын
@@mw8653just like Nigel and his multiple infidelities.
@bestbehave
@bestbehave 29 күн бұрын
@@mw8653do you know something, I couldn’t give a fack. Deliberately crashing and eviscerating Britain, and being responsible for thousands of deaths, dismantling the nhs, the deliberate lies over Brexit, the decimating of our citizens rights kind of puts having an affair into perspective
@PKWeaver74
@PKWeaver74 Ай бұрын
Takes me back to an era when i only fundamentally disagreed with a Tory Prime Minister rather than fundamentally hate them and believe them to be evil
@cardinalnight3883
@cardinalnight3883 Ай бұрын
Absolutely. My parents instilled into me during the 80s that Tory MPs were wrong. But just wrong. Not evil, deluded, deranged, hateful, spiteful criminals they are now.
@markwgoldsmith
@markwgoldsmith Ай бұрын
I agree.
@petergreen5337
@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын
Point HAMMERED 😂
@micklowrey1522
@micklowrey1522 Ай бұрын
He’s a nice enough bloke. You never hear about him because he’s more interested in cricket
@peterfeltham5612
@peterfeltham5612 Ай бұрын
Very well put.
@williampatrickfagan7590
@williampatrickfagan7590 Ай бұрын
A man with measured words. A man of wisdom who spoke the truth.
@colinsmith1288
@colinsmith1288 Ай бұрын
I never liked the man. But on the brexit issue he was correct. But he left the Uk impoverished and broken and that is why people did not heed him at the time.
@PifflePrattle
@PifflePrattle Ай бұрын
I'd never thought of myself as particularly wise. Thanks for the compliment. No, I'm not J. Major but if what he said then was words of wisdom then I, like many other people also spoke the truth and exercised wisdom. Unfortunately, we were in a minority.
@josephhenry4725
@josephhenry4725 Ай бұрын
Alas....Another wise man...brought low by a Curry.
@williampatrickfagan7590
@williampatrickfagan7590 Ай бұрын
@@josephhenry4725 Cryptic reply. The Egg lady?
@noelfleming3567
@noelfleming3567 Ай бұрын
Edwina😂
@gregmaitland7051
@gregmaitland7051 Ай бұрын
Since John Major, the Tory PMs have focused on the 'Con' rather than the 'Serve'
@mobilephil244
@mobilephil244 Ай бұрын
John Major ? You mean Mr. IR35 ? Mr. Smash-the-self-employed ? Mr. worst-recession-in-financial-history ? Mr. Health-and-safety small-business-wipeout ? Mr. smash-everyones'-savings-to-join-ERM ? Mr 16% interest-rates ? Mr. "What-recession" ? Mr. Every-driveway-had-a-car-for-sale ? Mr. every-shop-doorway-had someone-sleeping-in-it ? Mr. Had-to-limit-the-number-of-estate-agents-signs-allowed because nobody could sell a house ? Need I go on ? John Major was the most evil, anti-British Euro-leftie of all time.
@brightonduder
@brightonduder Ай бұрын
No - since Thatcher
@bestbehave
@bestbehave 29 күн бұрын
Major was ok by comparison, but only by comparison. He was still on the same Tory spectrum
@brightonduder
@brightonduder 28 күн бұрын
@@bestbehave dross
@bestbehave
@bestbehave 28 күн бұрын
@@brightonduder they are
@markelvinstudio
@markelvinstudio Ай бұрын
I never liked John Major when he was Prime Minister, however had I known of the values of the conservatives in the 21st Century, I would have thought differently about John Major. At least he had principles and was honourable.
@ulrikof.2486
@ulrikof.2486 29 күн бұрын
After having seen Trump I now believe that Ronald Reagan was an honorable man 😂
@chrisdawson8517
@chrisdawson8517 22 күн бұрын
He stabbed thatcher in the back… the man was a snake… ok a boring one!
@lizroberts1569
@lizroberts1569 17 күн бұрын
Hindsight is a wonderful thing
@petergaskin1811
@petergaskin1811 17 күн бұрын
@@lizroberts1569 At least he was talking about this BEFORE the referendum.
@petergaskin1811
@petergaskin1811 17 күн бұрын
Relatively honourable.
@itnaklipse1669
@itnaklipse1669 Ай бұрын
there was a time when politician's weren't clowns yet..
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
Long before John Majors time.
@andrewthomas695
@andrewthomas695 Ай бұрын
But the British people chose to vote for clowns. Why? Because the politicians of the day are merely a reflection of the people of the day.
@wout123100
@wout123100 Ай бұрын
they always have been, do a bit of research. very very few really cared for the public .
@321bytor
@321bytor Ай бұрын
Just 'politicians'.
@ignaciom8906
@ignaciom8906 Ай бұрын
Yeah. I remember. It makes me so angry listening to the current ones
@PifflePrattle
@PifflePrattle Ай бұрын
We were right. Dear old John Major, much too polite a man to call B.S. Johnson a damned liar.
@petergreen5337
@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын
❤well said and well OBSERVED.
@peterfeltham5612
@peterfeltham5612 Ай бұрын
Polite or just plain gutless.
@Stand663
@Stand663 Ай бұрын
Oh behave yourself. Boris was always a Eurosceptic when he was a journalist. He used to write articles about how ridiculous Eu rules, diktats and regulations were. It turns he was correct all along . The establishment were mad at him, because he campaigned with the traditional working classes and they won.
@scooby1992
@scooby1992 Ай бұрын
@@Stand663 Lol . Good one . He allegedly had 2 letters written and he waited to see which way the wind was blowing . Boris Johnson ' with the working class ' , that is a good one .
@mobilephil244
@mobilephil244 Ай бұрын
John Major ? You mean Mr. IR35 ? Mr. Smash-the-self-employed ? Mr. worst-recession-in-financial-history ? Mr. Health-and-safety small-business-wipeout ? Mr. smash-everyones'-savings-to-join-ERM ? Mr 16% interest-rates ? Mr. "What-recession" ? Mr. Every-driveway-had-a-car-for-sale ? Mr. every-shop-doorway-had someone-sleeping-in-it ? Mr. Had-to-limit-the-number-of-estate-agents-signs-allowed because nobody could sell a house ? Need I go on ? John Major was the most evil, anti-British Euro-leftie of all time.
@martinhommel9967
@martinhommel9967 Ай бұрын
Most of John Major’s points have been proved correct.
@noelfleming3567
@noelfleming3567 Ай бұрын
I wonder how many were thinking like him but went with party policies in fear of reprisals from d tory mob
@br5380
@br5380 Ай бұрын
@RemoanersRtossers we're poorer and NHS Waiting Lists are the longest ever - need more? Oh, how about Johnson resigned because his lies were proven?
@danny1977
@danny1977 Ай бұрын
Job losses wrong! ....no trade deals wrong! , no extra money on the NHS wrong! 😂 he's an idiot
@Ground_Dee
@Ground_Dee 3 күн бұрын
This is antisemitc
@br5380
@br5380 2 күн бұрын
@@Ground_Dee what is?
@jasonc5413
@jasonc5413 Ай бұрын
The last decent Tory Prime Minister. I didn't agree with his policies, but I still respected him.
@I_Was_Chrispy_Kreme
@I_Was_Chrispy_Kreme Ай бұрын
100% one of the last decent tories who believed in this country and weren’t out to fleece it for everything they can get.
@user-pt1ow8hx5l
@user-pt1ow8hx5l Ай бұрын
He most certainly wasn't an Etonian. Yes, a fundamentally decent man. His win in 1992 was well deserved. And, mind you, one of the biggest upsets in political history.
@SimonFrack
@SimonFrack Ай бұрын
Not Theresa May?
@markdrea7563
@markdrea7563 Ай бұрын
He's proven right
@Daniel-ug5rx
@Daniel-ug5rx Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@SimonFrackTheresa may cut the police force by a third!
@patrickmcgrath7493
@patrickmcgrath7493 Ай бұрын
His crystal ball was definitely in good working order that day for sure.
@wanderschlosser1857
@wanderschlosser1857 Ай бұрын
That happens when you take conclusions and make predictions based on actual facts. And when you stop telling populist phrases you know the others like to hear.
@borisj
@borisj Ай бұрын
Or common sense?
@Dan-TechAndMusic
@Dan-TechAndMusic Ай бұрын
Remember, he took over as PM when Thatcher went off the deep end about the soon to be formed European Union. He's well experienced on the subject.
@holycannoli64
@holycannoli64 Ай бұрын
Hardly. Did he predict that the government would shut the whole economy down for a common cold repackaged as something dangerous and put us in hundreds of billions in debt? Was that because of Brexit too? 😂
@mobilephil244
@mobilephil244 Ай бұрын
John Major ? You mean Mr. IR35 ? Mr. Smash-the-self-employed ? Mr. worst-recession-in-financial-history ? Mr. Health-and-safety small-business-wipeout ? Mr. smash-everyones'-savings-to-join-ERM ? Mr 16% interest-rates ? Mr. "What-recession" ? Mr. Every-driveway-had-a-car-for-sale ? Mr. every-shop-doorway-had someone-sleeping-in-it ? Mr. Had-to-limit-the-number-of-estate-agents-signs-allowed because nobody could sell a house ? Need I go on ? John Major was the most evil, anti-British Euro-leftie of all time.
@jackgreene5663
@jackgreene5663 Ай бұрын
It certainly stands up to being broadcast now.
@petergreen5337
@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын
Exactly
@oldcaptainjack
@oldcaptainjack Ай бұрын
He's right about all of it. And not enough people listened. People voted based on lies and with their instincts rather than reason. Now look at the mess. We will suffer for 50+ years because of it.
@mobilephil244
@mobilephil244 Ай бұрын
John Major ? You mean Mr. IR35 ? Mr. Smash-the-self-employed ? Mr. worst-recession-in-financial-history ? Mr. Health-and-safety small-business-wipeout ? Mr. smash-everyones'-savings-to-join-ERM ? Mr 16% interest-rates ? Mr. "What-recession" ? Mr. Every-driveway-had-a-car-for-sale ? Mr. every-shop-doorway-had someone-sleeping-in-it ? Mr. Had-to-limit-the-number-of-estate-agents-signs-allowed because nobody could sell a house ? Need I go on ? John Major was the most evil, anti-British Euro-leftie of all time.
@trevorberridge6079
@trevorberridge6079 28 күн бұрын
Even the monocled snake Jacob Rees-Mogg admitted that Britain would not recover for 50 years. But, he doesn't care because he invested in concerns that benefit from Britain's demise.
@chazparvez4970
@chazparvez4970 28 күн бұрын
Yup. Project HERE.
@stevecarter8810
@stevecarter8810 27 күн бұрын
The remain campaign was lazy, none of us believed leave was a serious threat, and the referendum was non-binding. Public discourse is broken because the media are owned by the aristocratic elite. The biggest contribution we could make to this country would be to break the elites' stranglehold over the mainstream media
@davewolfy2906
@davewolfy2906 27 күн бұрын
Correct, in 1973 and 1975.
@radarr5345
@radarr5345 Ай бұрын
Never mind TV debates just put this interview on replay 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@decimal1815
@decimal1815 Ай бұрын
Someone should play this back to Sunak to demonstrate what a real PM looks like: someone who cares more about their country than themselves.
@davideyres955
@davideyres955 Ай бұрын
If he cared about this country he wouldn’t have signed the Maastricht treaty without a referendum. He has no mandate for it and signed away this countries sovereignty on the dream of a federal Europe. The EEC was the right idea, the EU is not. We do not need more power in the hands of the political class. The EU is a bureaucratic nightmare of corruption and incompetence.
@mobilephil244
@mobilephil244 Ай бұрын
John Major ? You mean Mr. IR35 ? Mr. Smash-the-self-employed ? Mr. worst-recession-in-financial-history ? Mr. Health-and-safety small-business-wipeout ? Mr. smash-everyones'-savings-to-join-ERM ? Mr 16% interest-rates ? Mr. "What-recession" ? Mr. Every-driveway-had-a-car-for-sale ? Mr. every-shop-doorway-had someone-sleeping-in-it ? Mr. Had-to-limit-the-number-of-estate-agents-signs-allowed because nobody could sell a house ? Need I go on ? John Major was the most evil, anti-British Euro-leftie of all time.
@universalthinker3807
@universalthinker3807 Ай бұрын
I totally agree, looking back at John Major now I see a very intelligent and articulate man who cared passionately about this country way more seriously than the fools who conned everyone and sold Brexit as a prize . Won't see the likes of Mr Major again sadly.
@johnbrooks3832
@johnbrooks3832 29 күн бұрын
This from a PM who called those Tory MPs who disagreed over Maastricht utter bastards
@trevorberridge6079
@trevorberridge6079 28 күн бұрын
Major failed to save his party from defeat when he became PM because the bad actors in the Tory Party were pulling against him attempts to equalize society for the good of all. I was no big fan of Major, but I didn't hate him either. He represented a party I did not support, but he was actually trying to do his job. That kind of Tory is VERY thin on the ground now and we have no-one trustworthy left in the Labour Party to oppose them.
@JohnSmith-bx8zb
@JohnSmith-bx8zb Ай бұрын
John Major this statesman love or hate him, was the last true conservative PM.
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
God give me patience.
@JohnSmith-bx8zb
@JohnSmith-bx8zb Ай бұрын
@@rufanuf1 who would you prefer then, Johnson, Truss or Sunack
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb None of them
@Mjbeswick
@Mjbeswick Ай бұрын
I saw an interview ahead so where John Major said when he was in government and realised they were going to lose the next election, they used it as an opportunity to focus on what do they could do in the remaining time. The current government seems to be doing the opposite!
@mci6830
@mci6830 23 күн бұрын
No, that was thatcher, who he blatantly destroyed with a stab to the front and back. Then handed our nation to the EU.
@andersfalk1276
@andersfalk1276 Ай бұрын
Extremely interesting. I just bursted out laughing when he says (7:10) that "the NHS is as safe with them as a pet hamster with a hungry python"!
@aidanmasterson50
@aidanmasterson50 Ай бұрын
It’s scary how right he was about almost everything.
@noelfleming3567
@noelfleming3567 Ай бұрын
He said he was at d top table he knows how d eu works Boris or nigel were only concerned with glory for themselves but hadn't a notion of d consequences
@Purple_flower09
@Purple_flower09 Ай бұрын
​@@noelfleming3567 he wasn't right about about the Cones Hotline or Little Chef.
@Tridhos
@Tridhos Ай бұрын
The sad fact is that May, Johnson and Truss never believed in Brexit it was just a vehicle to become PM. Once they saw that opportunity their principles went right out of the window. Two men who desperately wanted to become PM were Heseltine and Clarke but can you imagine either changing their minds on Brexit just to get that top job.
@AndrewWilsonStooshie
@AndrewWilsonStooshie Ай бұрын
There never was a good brexit
@rodneylowe9526
@rodneylowe9526 Ай бұрын
May never changed her views, but had the integrity to try and uphold the will of the people. Sadly, the ERG and it's similar thinkers would not support a Remainer trying to deliver Brexit. They instead chose Johnson and Truss.....nuff said.
@rayc9539
@rayc9539 Ай бұрын
​@rodneylowe9526 I remember how passionately she spoke about the future she predicted after brexit. Unleashing Britain's potential, making us a global Britain, making us a proud sovereign nation. She painted a beautiful picture of our lives as non-EU members. Let's not forget that she hastily triggered article 50 without a deal even being in place. "Brexit means brexit" to her. "No deal is better than a bad deal". She also outright turned down the EEA proposal - which would have been far less damaging.
@wout123100
@wout123100 Ай бұрын
@@rayc9539 but how can you believe those words, are you all daft? the brexit voters i mean ofcourse.
@rayc9539
@rayc9539 Ай бұрын
@wout123100 I personally didn't believe the statements. This was after the vote came through, by the way. Brexit is a very ambigious event - people had different interpretations as to what it would entail. Arrogance and delusion can be damaging. I would prefer us to be in the single market in the future. It is the logical thing for this country.
@Brink1957
@Brink1957 Ай бұрын
Well, I voted remain and all I can say is Sir John was absolutely right.
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
Of course he was right. he was instrumental in its design, as are all career politicians interested in ever bigger government.
@danganbeg7225
@danganbeg7225 Ай бұрын
​@@rufanuf1What???
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
@@danganbeg7225 Yes
@thegrandmuftiofwakanda
@thegrandmuftiofwakanda Ай бұрын
If he was right, then where, for example, are these 10% tariff barriers?
@sepocon
@sepocon Ай бұрын
​@@thegrandmuftiofwakanda Are you serious? I live in Ireland and if I order anything from Britain I get charged 10% tariff as well as VAT and fees. I used to be charged nothing before Brexit. Nobody here buys from Britain now unless they have to.
@ludoboyludoboy3797
@ludoboyludoboy3797 22 күн бұрын
As an outsider from Australia I can say it was blatantly obvious that Brexit was a sham. The majority of people wanted to believe it was true because it was based on racism, arrogance and hubris. Sometimes you get what you ask for and deserve. I wasn’t a fan of “grey” John Major but he tells it as it is and has real empathy for the average Tom, Dick and Harriet. Kudos to him.
@cleverclogs2244
@cleverclogs2244 17 күн бұрын
Racism? How so?
@lizroberts1569
@lizroberts1569 17 күн бұрын
Exactly Brexit disaster, you throw away your largest, closest market and that’s exactly what happened, but those who voted leave are still saying it worked because they realise they believed a blatant lie.
@ruialexandre6197
@ruialexandre6197 10 күн бұрын
​Need someone to you draw a picture? ​@@cleverclogs2244
@davidfearby9200
@davidfearby9200 9 күн бұрын
Couldn’t have said it better my self it’s because of Brexit that I’m utterly ashamed of being born British and 8 years on not surprisingly I haven’t seen any evidence that the UK has faired better since Brexit and it never will
@user-gl8yv1du5u
@user-gl8yv1du5u 5 күн бұрын
@@cleverclogs2244really???
@jogreeen
@jogreeen Ай бұрын
Ouch! no wonder Sunak doesn't want to talk about Brexit.
@ctraltescape
@ctraltescape Ай бұрын
Neither does Starmer, Brexit is central to the Election the economic growth of the UK and it’s Citizens. If they cannot speak of it why not make a Royal Commission inquiry. If the Politicians will not be honest & stand up for the country who will?
@Chris47368
@Chris47368 Ай бұрын
​@@ctraltescapeThe reason why starmer can't really talk about Brexit much atleast(like many of his plans) is that he will get attacked by our right-wing media...Hopefully this changes when he becomes PM...we will see...
@peterwill7116
@peterwill7116 Ай бұрын
Don’t worry, Brexit will be right back on the agenda two years into the next government whoever that will be…
@rayc9539
@rayc9539 Ай бұрын
​@@Chris47368Haha remember he wishes to "Make brexit work"... Despite the right wing tories failing to make it work, he expects a centre left labour government to make it work. I don't have much faith in him as a prime minister. His wishy washy approach is alienating.
@Chris47368
@Chris47368 Ай бұрын
@@rayc9539 Again he has the wishy washy approach because of our media, he really cannot afford risking to give them much ammunition to give them... You know how brutal our media are to anyone who appears to be remotely left leaning by now, surely? If I was running as a leftist prime minister in this country, I would also be as vague as him but would turn the tables in my approach once in power...it is the only way to gain power, unfortunately.
@owenedwards9807
@owenedwards9807 Ай бұрын
Can you imagine if any of the tory prime ministers of the past two decades had an ounce of this man's class and morals.
@BobK5
@BobK5 Ай бұрын
You’re talking nonsense, while he was presenting himself as a man of morals and family values he was busily knocking off the idiot egg woman behind his wife’s back, behind the egg woman’s back and the whole country, man of honour indeed!
@crustyzimmerman3324
@crustyzimmerman3324 Ай бұрын
Do you remember when the press called him the worst Prime Minister in history? I bet a few would vote for him in July now…
@BobK5
@BobK5 Ай бұрын
@@crustyzimmerman3324 he was busy making whoopee with the egg woman while pretending to be a family man with high moral standards.
@scooby1992
@scooby1992 Ай бұрын
@@BobK5 Not a patch on Johnson's indiscretions though .
@mobilephil244
@mobilephil244 Ай бұрын
John Major ? You mean Mr. IR35 ? Mr. Smash-the-self-employed ? Mr. worst-recession-in-financial-history ? Mr. Health-and-safety small-business-wipeout ? Mr. smash-everyones'-savings-to-join-ERM ? Mr 16% interest-rates ? Mr. "What-recession" ? Mr. Every-driveway-had-a-car-for-sale ? Mr. every-shop-doorway-had someone-sleeping-in-it ? Mr. Had-to-limit-the-number-of-estate-agents-signs-allowed because nobody could sell a house ? Need I go on ? John Major was the most evil, anti-British Euro-leftie of all time.
@piotrwojdelko1150
@piotrwojdelko1150 Ай бұрын
In 2016 as a Pole remember how it was sad for me about the upcoming referendum .I didn't realise how much bad consequences it can bring .He predicted it very well .We now know that Brexit had far more fetched consequences combined with covid and war it is disastrous .I'm a pharmacist and on my eyes NHS is colapsing ,pharmacies closing down ,decreased diversity of drugs,quality of treatment going down ...One big chaos and I suffer as well..I could earn less than in 2016
@wout123100
@wout123100 Ай бұрын
but all the warnings were there...this is what keeps puzzling me. as a pharmacist you are not he average dumb man and you still got sweettalked with wrong arguments.
@mikev343
@mikev343 28 күн бұрын
Tbh the uks population went up far too much over the past 20 years due to immigration. Furthermore frankly the nhs is bot fit for purpose and it needs to made emergency only and everyone else can utilise private health.
@junkers66
@junkers66 24 күн бұрын
​@@wout123100 Huh?
@Sonsequence
@Sonsequence 5 күн бұрын
​@@wout123100 he didn't say he voted for it. He said he's Polish and was sad after the vote but even he didn't realise quite how bad it would be.
@NicolaW72
@NicolaW72 Күн бұрын
@@Sonsequence Indeed.
@peterdeij9388
@peterdeij9388 Ай бұрын
John Major, a politician with vision and integrity. We Europeans were hoping at the time that Major's clear analysis would prevail. We got it wrong.
@jackn4853
@jackn4853 Ай бұрын
Not much integrity ask his wife about Edwina Currie.
@colinsmith1288
@colinsmith1288 Ай бұрын
I agree. Plus he left the Uk in a bad state.
@archiebald4717
@archiebald4717 Ай бұрын
No, the EU got it wrong.
@MegaKapo12
@MegaKapo12 Ай бұрын
​@@jackn4853who cares?? Boris and Farage did worse you didn't care¿
@halfdome4158
@halfdome4158 Ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@raypickles537
@raypickles537 Ай бұрын
I have watched this many times over the years and everything he and all remainders said was right. Denounced as project fear
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
It was and still is project fear. The problem with the UK is its full of career politicians. A phenomonem largely created by the EU. Now politcians get a chance to play god forever.
@adski71
@adski71 Ай бұрын
If only the BBC had given John Major as much airtime as it gave to Farage!
@brianeduardo1234
@brianeduardo1234 23 күн бұрын
Well said
@danielc6106
@danielc6106 20 күн бұрын
And the press.
@tonyb9735
@tonyb9735 Ай бұрын
He might have been a very gray man, but he was the last British Prime Minister with integrity.
@durrcadurk
@durrcadurk Ай бұрын
Gordon Brown had integrity
@tonyb9735
@tonyb9735 Ай бұрын
@@durrcadurk "Gordon Brown had integrity" Yes, ok, I could go along with that.
@matthale6563
@matthale6563 Ай бұрын
​@@durrcadurkhe sold all the countries gold reserves.
@durrcadurk
@durrcadurk Ай бұрын
@matthale6563 that's true, but still had integrity. Also helped save the economy from being completely fucked in 2008
@tonyb9735
@tonyb9735 Ай бұрын
@@matthale6563 "he sold all the countries gold reserves." Yes, he was useless, but he acted in what he thought were the best interests of the country, and he was absolutely not corrupt. Probably the last Prime Minister we can say that of. He had integrity. Since then, they have all been just as useless (or even more so), but also corrupt and have acted purely in the interests of themselves, their Party and their chums.
@renetelle3611
@renetelle3611 Ай бұрын
And here's the reason for the disaster that followed. The application of reason to defend a position, where instead the slogan, lies of gold and silver and trigger words were to be used to demand a remain vote.
@timothyphillips7576
@timothyphillips7576 Ай бұрын
One of the last decent individuals in the Tory party. Someone who held genuine beliefs (that I don't agree with) but basically a decent man trying to do what he thought was best for our country. To think that he was revilled when we compare him to the procession of chancers and liars and loons that fill that party now makes me sad. I thought many ill thoughts about him, Hessa, Clarke and others and I regret the passing of their normalcy. How the hell do we get back to normal from here?
@LeonLShaw
@LeonLShaw Ай бұрын
you don't!
@Purple_flower09
@Purple_flower09 Ай бұрын
​@@LeonLShaw the Tories became a party of radical change - the wrong sort of change. Starmer is sensible and tedious. The madness will stop accumulating and in a way he is a conservative. The UK will be preserved like larks' tongues in aspic. We can't go back, but we can stand still. And most will be grateful for that. UK Politics will become criminally boring. Thankfully.
@golangismyjam
@golangismyjam 26 күн бұрын
​@@Purple_flower09we can go back, there's nothing really stopping us from rejoining the EU, Scotland is hell bent on getting back in. The reason why no party will try is because the EU will give them a really shit deal to rejoin and it will make their party look bad. So fuck everybody in the country and let them suffer.
@eighteenfiftynine
@eighteenfiftynine 23 күн бұрын
​@@Purple_flower09if you don't think change is coming under Starmer then you're not paying attention. Labour want to finish what Blair started. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see the removal of the Lords and a written constitution.
@clansey1973
@clansey1973 10 күн бұрын
⁠”Decent Individuals” don’t tend to cheat on their wife with Edwina Currie……..
@Sudique1
@Sudique1 Ай бұрын
John Major made his point and didn't fall into any of the interviewer's traps. JM took and maintained control of this interview. LOVED it!
@danyoutube7491
@danyoutube7491 4 күн бұрын
The interviewer wasn't trying to trap him, he was asking questions and putting forward the claims of the Leave campaign at appropriate points in the interview to allow Major to explain why he thought they were wrong.
@morphyon
@morphyon 5 күн бұрын
I like how the interviewer wants to get some clickbaity headline out of him and Sir John is having none of it. What a beast of common sense!
@patentblack
@patentblack 24 күн бұрын
It's such a pity that politicians aren't this honest when in power.
@jimweights8908
@jimweights8908 Ай бұрын
Highly prophetic and completely obvious at the time
@NataliePine
@NataliePine Ай бұрын
Crazy to think that "Is Boris Johnson a liar?" wasn't a settled question in 2016
@ClickBeetleTV
@ClickBeetleTV 3 күн бұрын
I think the way Major resisted being pulled into the interviewer's trap questions of personalities that would make the politics of the next 24 hours more salacious is precisely what let Major tell the actual truth over what was going to happen over the span of years
@abenaid11
@abenaid11 Ай бұрын
All the ministers who persuaded people to leave, are now leaving Not to be held to account. I think they should be prosecuted as private individuals,
@LeonLShaw
@LeonLShaw Ай бұрын
the Conservative government of the day never wanted the UK to leave and campaigned to remain. Leave won because of clever tactics that they used in the campaign. In most voting situations those people who do not bother to vote are ignored, simply beacuse they do not vote. However, the leave campaign bucked the trend by focusing on those who do not vote and persuading to go out and vote, hence why they won.
@ichbinbluna3504
@ichbinbluna3504 Ай бұрын
There is no provision for this in British criminal law.
@lewismacdonald1516
@lewismacdonald1516 24 күн бұрын
The public also have to take accountability - they voted for it
@danyoutube7491
@danyoutube7491 4 күн бұрын
@@LeonLShaw Johnson, Gove and others were key figures in the Leave campaign. Gove, for one, was a minister at the time.
@LeonLShaw
@LeonLShaw 4 күн бұрын
@@danyoutube7491 collective responsibility works in goverment, whatever their personal views were the government line was to remain in the EU. Much as it may displease you, you cannot blame the Conservatives for the result of a democratic vote.
@Marklovesdrama
@Marklovesdrama Ай бұрын
What articulate, passionate and detailed comments by John Major.
@slartybartfast1
@slartybartfast1 Ай бұрын
Boris was the worst minister and person to ever hold the prime minister s office. 😢
@TheLuminousOne
@TheLuminousOne Ай бұрын
Nutsak second.
@rufanuf1
@rufanuf1 Ай бұрын
@@TheLuminousOne John Major third perhaps? He di after all sign the Maastricht Treaty.
@SimonFrack
@SimonFrack Ай бұрын
Truss?
@slartybartfast1
@slartybartfast1 Ай бұрын
@@SimonFrack we would never have had Truss if we never had Boris, your correct to point out just how bad Truss was. 😂
@slartybartfast1
@slartybartfast1 Ай бұрын
@@rufanuf1 personally I couldn't even put John Major in the same frame, Major at least engaged with the EU and had British interests at heart. I'm not a Tory fan but what we have now isn't even Torres
@karenbartley7721
@karenbartley7721 Ай бұрын
He was spot on!
@timsimmons5953
@timsimmons5953 Ай бұрын
How right he was.
@tobylynch
@tobylynch Ай бұрын
Shows how right John Major was and how wrong Brexit was
@archiebald4717
@archiebald4717 Ай бұрын
Utter nonsense!
@thedon8772
@thedon8772 Ай бұрын
​@@archiebald4717oh my goodness another deluded Brexiteer who is unable to accept that he was conned. You are an idiot sir.
@buntyjoy1800
@buntyjoy1800 Ай бұрын
​@@archiebald4717Yes the leave campaign was all lies.
@noelfleming3567
@noelfleming3567 Ай бұрын
Like he said he was at d top table for 7 yrs he knows how d whole system works
@RazorMouth
@RazorMouth Ай бұрын
​@@archiebald4717 Why is UK trade when inflation is removed then below what it was before the UK left the single market? When at the same time everyone else's in Europe is either stable or above the same time period? EXPLAIN !!!!!
@henriikkak2091
@henriikkak2091 Ай бұрын
The host was trying to be "balanced" by repeating the lies of the Leave campaign. Being balanced is about getting as close to truth as possible, not arguing against truth.
@danyoutube7491
@danyoutube7491 4 күн бұрын
He WAS being balanced, he was putting it to Major that Leave was saying such-and-such, and asking Major why he thought those things were untrue.
@dogwithwigwamz.7320
@dogwithwigwamz.7320 Ай бұрын
Of the 18 million that voted to leave the European Union I`d wager that 90% of them are all the worse off them having their way. All Brexit has `achieved`for the vast majority of Britons is made trade more difficult, travel more difficult and more expensive, and escape from this over-populated and sinking isle virtually impossible. I know a young woman whose ambition for her son ( who is rather good at Science / Physics and Mathematics ) was that he would earn a job working at CERN researching Wave - Physics and she voted Brexit ! This is not going to help her lad.
@dogwithwigwamz.7320
@dogwithwigwamz.7320 Ай бұрын
@RemoanersRtossers You`ll be telling me next that it`s easier for Britons to work in the European Union, shit-kicker !
@Hvantmiki
@Hvantmiki 27 күн бұрын
Everyone who voted are likely worse off. Nobody in the UK is better off because of it. Unless they mostly have assets outside UK and are not affected that much by UK economy or politics and don't live in the UK.
@golangismyjam
@golangismyjam 26 күн бұрын
I travel to about 5 different countries a year as a freelance software developer because the UK is a shit hole. I would give my right arm to go back to being in the EU so I could just take a £50 flight to the continent and live permanently without any hassle in a comparative paradise. I would argue most of the people that voted leave would want that too if they had ever actually travelled to Europe and realised that they weren't voting to end immigration from Pakistan.
@mr_reborn
@mr_reborn 23 күн бұрын
So why are you worse off? Why is it more difficult? Is it because you returned to how things were before the inner market, or is ot because the central planners are punishing you for wanting out from under their administration and control?
@Hvantmiki
@Hvantmiki 23 күн бұрын
@@mr_reborn nobody punished the UK other than themselves.
@nikolaslarson6891
@nikolaslarson6891 Ай бұрын
Poor man... So thoroughly right, so honestly appalled and so desperately ignored. Why did nobody listen to him at the time?
@jmolofsson
@jmolofsson Ай бұрын
Nobody listened to him because he was tainted by neoliberalism (just like Blair, Brown, Cameron and all who worshipped Thatcher & Reagan). The 2008 crisis proved Neoliberalism to hurt huge swats of Britons. And in 2016, very few outside of London felt they could trust the establishment, including John Major.
@LeonLShaw
@LeonLShaw Ай бұрын
for the reason that you don't listen to the likes of him today... because he's Conservative.
@martinshephard6317
@martinshephard6317 Ай бұрын
It’s bloody hard to find a Tory like him, the good, honest professional politicians that can benefit all of us either in power or out of it, have been pushed out and replaced with self seeking, ignorant sycophants. I can’t remember the last time I heard a politician make a commentary like this. Like it or not it’s a plain message well delivered and I wish there were more like him now, Tory or Labour.
@chuck1804
@chuck1804 Ай бұрын
It wasn't well publicised at the time. It should have been. I seem to remember it was this interview that galvanised me to vote remain. My one disagreement is that the European Commission are for the mostpart unaccountable, and they have an almost unblemished track record of railroading, coersing and blackmailing leaders of member states into giving up sovereignty for a monopolised and globalist agenda. They are far from a benevolent council.
@davidvestey6014
@davidvestey6014 Ай бұрын
I did
@californiadreamin8423
@californiadreamin8423 Ай бұрын
And central to the Leave campaign, we now have the resurgence of Farage.
@heyabusa1
@heyabusa1 Ай бұрын
And three cheers for that say I.
@billbo7630
@billbo7630 Ай бұрын
​@@heyabusa1 yes, just maybe we can get Brexit started.
@gaiahunter3863
@gaiahunter3863 Ай бұрын
Yes, yes dear comrade, communism is great it was just never implemented properly. Just like Brexit...
@californiadreamin8423
@californiadreamin8423 Ай бұрын
@@gaiahunter3863 I don’t believe in communism. I know what occurred under Stalin….and I know what occurred under Hitler. I know I’m poorer since Brexit, and I’ve lost my freedom of movement because of Brexit, and I know that grifter Farage pushed Brexit . Anything else you need to know ?
@californiadreamin8423
@californiadreamin8423 Ай бұрын
@@gaiahunter3863 If Brexit was implemented “properly“, what benefits would you want ?
@NexPutax
@NexPutax Ай бұрын
Definition of prescience. Salute to Mr. Major🫡
@charliechaz1982
@charliechaz1982 Ай бұрын
He went right up in my estimation around this time. He made me realise the sea change difference of what a Tory minister or prime minister used to be like and what they are like now. Much more principled than any of the current lot. Ironically Keir Starmer is probably the closest to him both politically and personally.
@paullewis2413
@paullewis2413 Ай бұрын
Cameron was a coward in resigning, the result was fairly close and not binding. He could have remained as P.M. and convinced many of the leavers as to the errors of their ways but he ducked the responsibility. BoJo, forever the opportunist, was a disaster as the Tories are now finding out.
@sj6986
@sj6986 6 күн бұрын
I am not sure he was being a coward for calling the referendum. I think he overcounted his political chicken. I think he sought to consolidate his power by holding a referendum, which he thought would be defeated soundly, putting to rest any noises about Brexit and in turn doing away with the Brexiteers amongst Tory ranks. I think it was a (mis)calculated move to gain complete control of the Tories and it backfired rather badly (but only in the long run). Maybe the Tories will eventually whitewash over Brexit and make a come back or maybe this is what sinks them for good. The British are mad with rising costs, reduced services and an economy that isn’t keeping up. They will believe anything or anyone that promises better times.
@henriknielsen1662
@henriknielsen1662 Ай бұрын
John Major, the last rational and honest British conservative
@selectedworks9253
@selectedworks9253 Ай бұрын
What happened to our politicians ?
@mickeymaus1
@mickeymaus1 2 күн бұрын
The people started to vote for clowns and populism but that’s a problem around the world not only in the UK.
@selectedworks9253
@selectedworks9253 2 күн бұрын
@@mickeymaus1 very true !
@peterwill7116
@peterwill7116 Ай бұрын
And to think that this was all branded as project fear…
@user-kk6zo7lq7x
@user-kk6zo7lq7x Ай бұрын
The simple fact that the Leave campaign came up with that perjorative term as a way of dismissing legitimate concerns of the Remain campaign, sums up what politics has become: undignified and superficial. Unfortunately we live in an age where propaganda and disinformation can run rife (and ruin lives) thanks to social media and the internet.
@mrmanch204
@mrmanch204 Ай бұрын
Well, there's you go, tory supporters must have seen this at the time, so they did know what they were voting for.
@ichbinbluna3504
@ichbinbluna3504 Ай бұрын
John Major's reputation was very poor in 2016. Few people looked at it. They didn't believe his words.
@SimonFrack
@SimonFrack Ай бұрын
You never get this kind of clarity and honest thinking with modern politicians. I suspect it’s to do with the nature of politics… they all have advisors who want to get their buzz words in, making everything sound artificial and forced. I wish we had more interviews of this kind.
@iiredeyeiiredeye1569
@iiredeyeiiredeye1569 Ай бұрын
The last politician that I actually trusted...and how right he was. Honestly can't see myself voting again.
@noelfleming3567
@noelfleming3567 Ай бұрын
Know d feeling their all crooks nowadays it's money nothing else
@nigellacey559
@nigellacey559 Ай бұрын
People cant say they were warned.
@byrnedes
@byrnedes 18 күн бұрын
Not a fan, but he is so impressive and so correct. As a non-Brit, it’s stunning to see how the quality of GB Politicians has declined.
@Theworldasitistoday
@Theworldasitistoday Ай бұрын
We going to make deals with countries on the other side of the ocean and turn our backs to countries right by our side...😬
@worldoftanksaveragaplayer
@worldoftanksaveragaplayer Ай бұрын
​@RemoanersRtossers which Exports??
@basilmcdonnell9807
@basilmcdonnell9807 Ай бұрын
As a Canadian I sat over here watching Leave people saying they would get these wonderful trade deals with for example, Canada... and my thought was, no you won't. No. You. Won't.
@danganbeg7225
@danganbeg7225 Ай бұрын
​@RemoanersRtossersWhat exports, bananas?
@Theworldasitistoday
@Theworldasitistoday Ай бұрын
Some people just don't want to understand how the world turns in these days.
@gdsongwriter
@gdsongwriter Ай бұрын
@RemoanersRtossers Facts (take USA out of the equation and the majority of UK exports are sold to EU countries) :- £billion 1 United States 191.5 22.1% 2 Germany 60.8 7.0% 3 Ireland 57.4 6.6% 4 Netherlands 53.6 6.2% 5 France 45.0 5.2% 6 China 31.5 3.6% 7 Switzerland 31.2 3.6% 8 Belgium 25.9 3.0% 9 Spain 19.9 2.3% 10 Italy 18.5 2.1% N/A EU1 357.2 41.3% N/A Non-EU1 507.4 58.7% N/A World1 864.5 100.0% (Source: Trade and investment statistics for goods 2023 - Dept of Trade and Industry) Furthermore, I can't take anyone seriously whose user name seems to have been plucked from the kind of juvenile name calling that is rife in a school playground, and who obviously has a pathological incapacity to even try to be impartial.
@Chris47368
@Chris47368 Ай бұрын
John Major was PM before my time really (born in 98) - but he seems quite a wise man...must have still had his issues as a PM(especially being a tory, lol)...but he is a far long-shot from any of the PM's we have had as of late...that's for sure...lol
@hughtempleton8640
@hughtempleton8640 Ай бұрын
Well i never thought i would see the day. That i would agree with john major. 👍
@philipparkinson7650
@philipparkinson7650 Ай бұрын
I have no time for the man yet I must say that I agree with every word he spoke in this interview. Philip P.
@josemadrid2913
@josemadrid2913 11 күн бұрын
This was actually a great interview
@TwinPotMan
@TwinPotMan Ай бұрын
Andrew Marr was clearly out of his depth with John Major. The aim of his whole interview was to personalise the referendum rather than listen to and understand John Major's wisdom and words of warning. It's very poor quality red-top journalism and shameful. It's because of these types of journalists, which the BBC seemed to have/has a lot of, that the British public continues to be duped on really important issues.
@marcd6897
@marcd6897 Ай бұрын
I was about to say the same, very very poor performance by Andrew Marr.
@Smyez
@Smyez Ай бұрын
@@marcd6897 or maybe a very good one, in that he took the leavers positions and looked like an idiot as a result
@TheDandelionMind
@TheDandelionMind 21 күн бұрын
I just thought he was giving Leavers arguments, so John Major can crush them one by one...?
@danyoutube7491
@danyoutube7491 4 күн бұрын
@@Smyez He wasn't taking the Leave position, it isn't a conversation between two people. He is there to put forward the counter argument to Major's views, that allowed Major to counter them in turn. That's the interviewer's job and it worked well, we got an expanded explanation by Major on various fallacious points that the Leave campaign was basing its message on. The point that TwinPotMan makes is valid though; the insistence on trying to get an explicit, adversarial statement about Johnson being a liar was arguably not useful and Major was adamant that he didn't wish to paint his position that way because it sensationalises the matter, whereas he was being deliberately precise about what he was saying about the issue and his statements were unambiguous, so there was no good reason to try and extract a "Johnson is a liar." from Major.
@Smyez
@Smyez 3 күн бұрын
@@danyoutube7491 this is just a long-winded version of exactly what I said, yet you're making it to be the opposite? Putting forward the counter argument is literally taking a position., in this case, the position of the leave campaign. And he did it really well.
@imperialclaims
@imperialclaims Ай бұрын
Wow. Never seen Sir John Major as direct and as motivated on anything before. How so very very right he's turned out to be. I'm sure he'll be incredibly sad to have been proven right. Respect to you Sir John Major.
@curragh2840
@curragh2840 Ай бұрын
Don't worry people Nigel Farage has very generously put himself at the service of the British people and promised to sort all this out. No worries then.
@gsxrinfrance5827
@gsxrinfrance5827 Ай бұрын
Farage, the guy who holds German residency, lives in Germany married to a Germany, that Farage
@ichbinbluna3504
@ichbinbluna3504 Ай бұрын
@@gsxrinfrance5827 In contrast, the facts: Farage is divorced from his German wife. That is why he was not granted German citizenship, which he had applied for. He also does not live in Germany.
@ulrikof.2486
@ulrikof.2486 29 күн бұрын
How clearsighted he is! When I compare him to the last three prime ministers the UK has had, I wonder how they ever got to this position.
@neecierussell595
@neecierussell595 Ай бұрын
Share it across your social media accounts, and tag in Starmer, Sunak and Davey. I think a little reminder wouldn't go amiss
@basoon87
@basoon87 Ай бұрын
Andrew Marr comes off looking pretty bad here. I know it's his job to be oppositional in an interview like this, but he was clearly just repeating Leave Campaign arguments as if they had some basis in reality, just another perfectly valid point of view, and you can see John Major getting fed up with it. The BBC did an awful job here.
@daves4026
@daves4026 Ай бұрын
The BBC is the Tory mouthpiece. Hopefully Labour will reset its board and out some controls in
@noelfleming3567
@noelfleming3567 Ай бұрын
But it showed Marr up he did his best but he met a clever man fair play Mr major
@ChrisSmith-yh9bq
@ChrisSmith-yh9bq 28 күн бұрын
John Major talks utter common sense. His arguments are cogent and reality-based. What a great loss to an utterly discredited party of arrogant, entitled, incompetent and self-serving liars and thieves.
@TheDandelionMind
@TheDandelionMind 21 күн бұрын
Really? To me it looked like Andrew Marr was playing Devil's advocate by getting John Major to convincingly crush leavers arguments (well😅)...
@danyoutube7491
@danyoutube7491 4 күн бұрын
He is presenting the purported views of Leave, allowing Major to explain his position, he could hardly have gone "Yep John, you're right, the Leave campaign is full of the proverbial, no need for us to delve into the arguments for-and-against to examine just why you say they are lying and wrong about it". If you don't delve into it then the viewing public don't get to hear Major explain why the Leave claims were nonsense.
@leangrypoulet7523
@leangrypoulet7523 28 күн бұрын
From the very start of his career as a Cabinet member and then PM, Major used to befuddle journalists and interviewers alike, by ACTUALLY answering the question they asked. No lies, no obfuscation. This led to often boring answers, technical, logical, honest. No opportunity for 'gotcha' moments. It is this reason why he was portrayed as 'grey'.
@cpuuk
@cpuuk Ай бұрын
There will be no convincing the sheeple with facts and reason.
@timelwell7002
@timelwell7002 Ай бұрын
John Major was (and still is) 100% correct in every detail. It's a tragedy that more people didn't listen to him at the time.
@NordicOpinion
@NordicOpinion 22 күн бұрын
I stayed in London for a year due to a high paying job in the City. As a Nordic citizen, I found it depressing how a UK"bloke" told my family and I to get the H out of the Uk and how Brexit was coming. The irony? We were in a lift visiting Ikea😅 Anyway, I was quite happy to get back home.
@entropybentwhistle
@entropybentwhistle 18 күн бұрын
You know someone is seriously effed up by being angered Scandinavians, the world’s most innocuous people, are in their country and should get out. The blinkered and broken synapses of a Brexiteer right there.
@robertclive491
@robertclive491 Күн бұрын
Made up story
@AndrewWilsonStooshie
@AndrewWilsonStooshie Ай бұрын
Even if Turkey did join the EU the vast majority of Turkish people would stay in Turkey.
@aidanmasterson50
@aidanmasterson50 Ай бұрын
Personally I can’t ever see it happening.
@wanderschlosser1857
@wanderschlosser1857 Ай бұрын
And there would also be a lot of other EU countries to go to. Why so many British always think that all migrants are just heading for the UK? Just ridiculously funny. France, Germany, Italy or Spain took and take more migrants. And if you compare migrants per capita probably every Western and Northern (and probably southern, too) EU country took more migrants in the last 20 years than the UK.
@barrybarry6592
@barrybarry6592 Ай бұрын
The French electorate will almost certainly block Turkey from joining under any conditions.. They will not be alone.
@AndrewWilsonStooshie
@AndrewWilsonStooshie Ай бұрын
@@wanderschlosser1857 I genuinely think that, being an island, changes the way its inhabitants think. Most other European countries have had regular border changes over the centuries. The UK thinks it can stand in "glorious isolation"
@erixxon74
@erixxon74 Ай бұрын
many EU countries have a huge demographic challenge coming their way. they might soon be begging for anyone to come
@Newsopathy-gf2ug
@Newsopathy-gf2ug Ай бұрын
A few few caveats here. For all his perceived shortcomings, John Major was the last prime-minister to leave the British economy in much better shape when he left it than when entered it. He always made an effort to be honest, something we've rarely seen in a prime minister since. His prediction that turkey would not become an EU member was correct. However, his prediction that Brexit would cause unemployment to rise did not materialise. In fact it's at 1.5% less than it was in 2016. Whether the effects of Covid 19 and the Ukraine war have elcipsed any temporary-shock effect of Brexit will long be argued.
@busterrabbit
@busterrabbit Ай бұрын
The whole Brexit issue was brought up by David Cameron who was scared of UKIP, so he decided to "out UKIP" UKIP. There was no positive campaign on the benefits of being in the EU because Cameron thought the Leave campaign would never win, because no sensible person would vote for it. That left an almost monopoly of anti-EU lies to propagate unchallenged and Leave won. Now we are paying the price, and will be for the foreseeable future, just because Cameron wanted to save his own arse!
@colingibson7324
@colingibson7324 Ай бұрын
Shame on the British public that they believed Boris Johnson rather than this honest man. Johnson played to their meanness and their greed.
@user-pw2bo5hg8t
@user-pw2bo5hg8t Ай бұрын
Boris tapped into the low minded selfish ones and succeeded.
@roppa789
@roppa789 Ай бұрын
A minority of the public believed Johnson et al. Sadly that minority was greater than those that made a positive remain vote. 37% of the electorate voted leave. It won the vote. 63% didn’t feel that strongly.
@wout123100
@wout123100 Ай бұрын
dumb people vote on dumb politicians..what else?
@Purple_flower09
@Purple_flower09 Ай бұрын
​@@roppa789 yes Johnson simply exploited a situation. Having no actual beliefs or compass, he was a shameless opportunist. Others created the situation that he greedily seized upon for his own purposes. How ironic that he wanted to be compared to Churchill, a man with many faults, but one who did have genuine convictions.
@danyoutube7491
@danyoutube7491 4 күн бұрын
Meanness and greed? The people conned into voting for Brexit were, apart from older people remembering better economic times before the EU, people in impoverished areas who had been sold the lie that the EU was responsible for many of their ills. It was desperation and protest at the status quo that caused a Leave vote to be popular.
@polygonalmasonary
@polygonalmasonary 19 күн бұрын
American news, like CNN could lean a lot about pushing back and asking mature questions in a political interview. If any Republican was put under this pressure they would fold. Hats off to John Major for his knowledge and wisdom. 🙏🇬🇧♥️🌈💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
@mattutes
@mattutes Ай бұрын
Chilling how much he got right in this interview.
@rpfs2691
@rpfs2691 Ай бұрын
In '92 I was unhappy he won. In '97 I was overjoyed he was booted out. And in 2016 it turns out Major is more trustworthy than Corbyn ever was.
@jmolofsson
@jmolofsson Ай бұрын
This is the kind of bitter experiences one can never imagine - until it happens. 🥺
@wout123100
@wout123100 Ай бұрын
@@jmolofsson it comes form ignorance.
@stevecarter8810
@stevecarter8810 27 күн бұрын
You hated major because the media stitched him up. The same reason you hate Corbyn.
@JackJohnson-lp9jr
@JackJohnson-lp9jr Ай бұрын
Marr was so accommodating to the Leave BS
@izmarsel
@izmarsel 9 күн бұрын
I am Spanish. I remember John Major as Prime Minister. It’s been a complete pleasure to listen to him argue concisely, providing specific proof points, defending them, and putting such personal belief and stamina to defend them. I do agree with him completely. Now and eight years ago. The UK had the best arrangement possible: on one side having its own currency which allowed it to become competitive from one day to next just devaluating the pound. At the same time they were a competitive nation on certain industries. Immigration was a problem true but then the UK should’ve vetoed the entry of eastern countries. They could’ve past internal laws to favour the assimilation of immigration coming from those countries. I admit it was a hard problem but the alternative, the Brexit, was a worse one by far.
@br5380
@br5380 Ай бұрын
And some folk are still believers, they just 'believe' its' implementation failed...
@samuelburleigh1895
@samuelburleigh1895 Ай бұрын
Too sad to watch, like trying to talk down a jumper, unsuccessfully.
@scottyk200
@scottyk200 Ай бұрын
He covered every base here. But the media and comedy did such a hatchet job on Major when he was in government that he lost a lot of respect, the residual effects of which were still in play at the time of the campaign. He was given brutal treatment by Spitting image and the like.
@billbhein2949
@billbhein2949 13 күн бұрын
John Major. Absolutely on point and correct. Boris Johnson and Michael Gow should jailed for what they have done to this country..
@pricejoss
@pricejoss Ай бұрын
John Major is a good man. How I wish we had politicians of his calibre and principles today
@1967deek
@1967deek Ай бұрын
He was spot on
@DavidFlockhart
@DavidFlockhart Ай бұрын
I wish Keir Stammer would have a look at this interview and pluck up the courage promise to end Brexit.
@Mouta77
@Mouta77 4 күн бұрын
Amazing video! Sad to see that the Major's point of view was so accurate
@sergiotarita7414
@sergiotarita7414 Ай бұрын
Everything he spoke about is coming to pass....the man had a Cristal ball, that's for sure..
@danganbeg7225
@danganbeg7225 Ай бұрын
​@RemoanersRtossersI'm betting you don't have a coherent argument?
@jasperkemp9025
@jasperkemp9025 Ай бұрын
Nonsense, Nonsense on stilts!; haven't heard a better comparison yet
@Brentboy111
@Brentboy111 Ай бұрын
Can you imagine a Conservative Party being like John Major? It will never be like him ever again.
@brianduffy5193
@brianduffy5193 Ай бұрын
Just seen this for the first time, John Major interview was fantastic, and so true.
@TechboyUK
@TechboyUK Ай бұрын
John Major was 100% right. He repeated this message on many interviews and political hearings. The UK is in such a dire situation now - and it's getting worse...
@GiancarloPosch
@GiancarloPosch Ай бұрын
The NHS is about as safe with them as a hamster with a hungry python…true words
@jacafren5842
@jacafren5842 20 күн бұрын
John Major for PM 🇬🇧 we love the UK on “the continent” and we need you back in the EU with politicians like John Major leading the way - honesty, vision, wisdom and courage. Love and respect from Denmark 🇩🇰
@robertclive491
@robertclive491 Күн бұрын
You don't love the UK
@iraceruk
@iraceruk Ай бұрын
"The ordinary, everyday man and woman in the street". This just shows what what most politicians really think of their fellow Humans.
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