QI | David Mitchell's Greatest Bluff

Where the panel engage in an exciting round of Call My Euro Bluff!
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This clip is from QI Series E, Episode 5, 'Europe' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Phill Jupitus, David Mitchell and Dara Ó Briain.

[@MukulVermamukulverma]

David is really good at this . He should be given a show where he tries to pass lies as truths and thruths as lies.

[@samprizeman4509]

It wouldn’t work

[@panda4247]

I guess Lee Mack would be good at it too, he's a quick witted fellow

[@R.J._Lewis]

Nah, nobody would watch that.

[@Phoenix1664]

Our politicians would rock at that game

[@ShipsKat]

The Unbelievable Truth is a dying breed, of good Radio Comedy.

[@DodderingOldMan]

And QI's greatest bluff is this not being the bit everyone thought it was.

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

Because of your icon I read that in David Mitchell's voice

[@CloudsGirl7]

It's obviously on purpose. (And for that, I LOVE it.)

[@DodderingOldMan]

@Ethan Ansell There's another episode of QI (or maybe it's even from this episode) where David is asked to name the 4,391 (or something) provisions of the... uh... Baal Hertog treaty... (or something, I really can't remember what it was called) and he says it's to do with a flooded sandbank that only exists theoretically, and each of the provisions is for parcels of non-existent land for each of the states of the Holy Roman Empire. It sounds incredibly convincing, and everyone believes him until Stephen Fry says, 'That is absolutely, completely... wrong. Not one thing you said was true.'

[@sayanmondal4570]

@@DodderingOldMan it is the same episode.

[@wolfgangmcq]

@@DodderingOldMan Baarle-Hertog.

[@bretterry8356]

Surely David Mitchell has had greater bluffs on WILTY, but there will never be a greater bluff than Carrot in a Box.

[@dielaughing73]

Except maybe Carrot in a Box 2

[@zapkvr]

Except that wasn't David. It was Jon and Sean

[@zapkvr]

@@dielaughing73 correct

[@swine13]

Im happy enough with saying that Seans bluff (x2) was so good that davids worst bluffs got better as a result... somehow. I guess its a bit like when you go out on the town and you take your more attractive friend to make yourself look more appealing by association.

[@intergalactic92]

David Mitchell is terrible at WILTY. He’s very funny on it, but when it’s his turn he never fools anyone.

[@Inucat]

Isn't David Mitchell's Greatest Bluff when he made up the rules and regulations about that sandbank?

[@DodderingOldMan]

I just assumed it would be that. I can't believe it isn't.

[@cyndrynn]

That is absolutely David Mitchell's greatest bluff.

[@JoelCarli]

I expected this to be about the 5,732 provisions affecting the enclave of Baarle Hertog.

[@463voodoo]

Yes.

[@PianoKwanMan]

@@JoelCarli *Clap* *Clap* "Oh..."

[@lenaoxton3999]

David Mitchell's grestest bluff was explaining the Baarle Hertog enclave, and its 5,732 provisions. You sit upon a throne of lies, QI! That and saying the answer is never the Blue Whale. It has been over four times!

[@esdisaysaloha]

And it was from the same episode as this clip too!

[@RasPutintheGreat]

Yes

[@decodolly1535]

Lena Oxton - His second greatest bluff was when he persuaded Stephen Fry that the store Argos refers to their staff as "Argonauts".

[@OriginalPiMan]

Over four times? So... Five?

[@tores1892]

Over four - would that be five then? 🙄

[@NoodleCollie]

Correct title: Call My Eurobluff, featuring David Mitchell as one of the four participants.

[@lucasc5622]

Your profile picture is actual cancer. Filthy furries

[@FortoFight]

@@lucasc5622 People that randomly bring stuff like that up are cancer.

[@michaelnello9459]

@@lucasc5622 I'm sorry for whoever hurt you, but let people enjoy what they like.

[@CJ-ic5iq]

Yiff me please

[@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin]

@@michaelnello9459 People like what they like, whether it's jellies, jams, or fantasy animal fucking.

[@PunkMonster]

"made up by a journalist in a bar in Brussels." That journalist was Boris Johnson.

[@cquarman]

Aw, wonder where he is now...?

[@swine13]

And that man, was Romanian.

[@CorvusCorone68]

@@cquarman ehh, prolly faded into obscurity by now, certainly hasn't become a household name like say what happens if you become PM

[@paulakennedy2085]

Journalist being a very loose description of Johnson's particular brand of ass gravy. He has been equally inept in all his jobs.

[@eugenelim1436]

The world's definitely become a scarier place when you realise that the leader of a first world country has no prior qualification other than making shit up (definition of journalism)

[@BertGrink]

I have to commend Stephen Fry for his perfect pronounciation of the word "BLØFF" :D

[@ProfX501]

Kiku Futaba That’s because it’s not English you dipshit

[@EterPuralis]

@@kikufutaba1194 the letter is Danish, you absolute plum 😂

[@nonachyourbusiness1164]

There's nothing Stephen's not good at

[@andrea_7194]

@@EterPuralis what did the plum say?

[@egilsandnes9637]

No, let him try blåbærsyltetøy (blueberry jam)!

[@starjake]

"You don't take an interest in how your country is run for just 45 years, and look what happens!" is a rather accurate description of the U.S. right now.

[@swine13]

Western civilisation* at least. And thats only because I cant speak for anyone else. Im pretty sure most countries have kind of flubbed it the last 40 years, aside from China and maybe Germany/some other European countries. The rest of us just sat around watching TV and later, tik tok. Obviously I blame the parents for not raising me like a Spartan warrior from birth. Think of all the abs I've lost....

[@t.c.thompson2359]

The people in the boonies have been lying to each other about how the world is that now that the internet has opened up the world regardless of how much you isolate yourselves, they cannot accept reality because it means their parents spoke horseshit.

[@xoxtoddxox]

The West stopped taking an interest in 1944. When Germany provided the proof of concept with a practical demonstration of Bernays Propaganda, governments started marketing the marriage of profit and power over people as natural. Tanks are no longer needed to impose authority, people choose it willingly.

[@SchwarzeWitwe2]

Huh, I thought it would've been the Baarle-Hertog one.

[@NadiaEldemerdash]

I think we just got bluffed out by the QI KZbin channel...

[@peteroneill5426]

Only one who got it!

[@swine13]

@@peteroneill5426 does it count as "getting it" if it makes you groan instead of chuckle? Cause jokes aren't funny by virtue of their existence - they need to do something novel or entertaining. But (assuming it was intentional) _that_ ? **blows raspberry** 👎

[@davidevans3227]

..very glad there is plenty here on KZbin, call my bluff.. 🙂 x

[@fsfaith]

Kind of surreal watching this now. Knowing how many people fell for it and still believe it.

[@viveladecadence]

Despite the clickbaity and misleading title, this bit has become frighteningly more relevant these days.

[@Ntj2014]

Eh people always think now is the height of stupidity in the world.

[@mitchweiner]

Phil Jupitus’ Eddie Izzard voice always makes me laugh harder than I should!

[@gubbi90]

At this point, “Call My Euro Bluff” ought to become the new name for Brexit...

[@DodderingOldMan]

Bwahaha! Take one of my very rare upvotes. Spend it wisely.

[@caralama08]

gubbi90 🤣😂🤣❤️👍

[@babalonkie]

Whilst the entire campaigns for Remain or Leave were full of trollop... people forget that it was not the build up to the vote that was the downfall... it was the question itself... "Should the UK leave the European Union? The government will implement what you decide and there will not be a second referendum." You are asking a nation should they be run from abroad with no chance of cancelling later... The result was obvious.

[@clickrick]

@@babalonkie The terms of the referendum were never spelt out. It was certainly not binding.

[@babalonkie]

@@clickrick Terms of the referendum were simple... leave or stay. The how, what, why and when were the only questionable circumstances.

[@candyh4284]

Dara missed a PERFECT opportunity to say that british journalists fell for it "hook, line, and sinker"

[@Alex-kt7vh]

That British journalist was Boris Johnson. See also condoms for Italians and many more. Eventually they sacked him.

[@Wodehousean]

Lol, I love Fry’s Robert Robinson impression.

[@luuketaylor]

For the first two times I heard Dara at 0:42 I could have sworn he was saying "I eat utter arse of the highest order" and choked a little bit on my dinner.

[@Mazurecki56]

Truth or bluff: They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is that there are no straight lines.

[@NearlyH3adlessNick]

They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon _isssssssssssssss_

[@swine13]

They say of the acropopo.. they... They SAY...

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

It's something do with the wind!

[@1969Kismet]

Thank you! I've just read your comment and now I'm going to be singing the "Acropolis song" for hours. ; )

[@PlayrAds]

Life was so much better in Europe

[@thehowlingjoker]

We're still in Europe, we're just not in the EU.

[@angmering5899]

Well, this is sobering to watch in 2019. :/

[@Rockblue01]

Yup. Aged very badly, this one has.

[@DunkdaHunk]

@@Rockblue01 it shows how blindly leave voters are willing to be. These facts are all easily research able, you just have to steer clear of leave propaganda and look up EU laws.

[@NaokisRC]

@@DunkdaHunk and most people who you ask about their research is from news sites

[@yojasmagic]

@@DunkdaHunk At least unlike remainers, leave voters have principles to stand on. Also, EC Regulation No. 2257/94 is an actual thing.

[@lukefreeman828]

Rejuvenation principles? Leave voters don’t know what their principles are! 😂 did you even listen to what was said about the regulation you just mentioned? It’s identical to the one we already had... moron.

[@SomeThrillingHeroics]

I've got to agree with everyone else. Right episode, completely wrong bluff - I've seldom seen *anyone* lie so fluently as he did about the 5732 provisions of Baarle-Hertog.

[@dielaughing73]

So you were bluffed?

[@klandalfthewhite9859]

I expect the next video to be titled "David Mitchell's actual greatest bluff", and be David's schpeil about the five thousand regulations

[@rattywoof5259]

0:16 - lovely Robert Robinson impersonation!

[@alexanderjohns1588]

Great stuff

[@ShippiddSocial]

2007 - "I wonder if people will fall for this" 2016 - "Hold my bendy banana!!"

[@ionlyfearphobophobia]

You think the country left the EU because of this nonsense?

[@clickrick]

1984. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn pen a scene in Yes Minister.

[@metalswifty23]

@@ionlyfearphobophobia Not specifically this one lie, but a catalogue of lies perpetuated by the British media. The constant barrage of "the EU is making us do THIS! ITS AN OUTRAGE!" etc. despite the fact that, 90% of the time, the laws the EU were enacting were taken from our _own laws_ that we'd had for years, or were laws that were put forward by/collaborated on by the British government. The opinion of the EU in many parts of the UK was so low because of these lies. Had the truth always been told, the result may very well have been different. In fact, if the truth had actually always been told, the referendum wouldn't have even been a thought to begin with. If a second referendum was rightly called after all the lies and falsehoods (told by both sides, though mainly by the leavers) had finally been revealed, and we _still_ voted to leave, then it would have been a fair and just result. We'd have been complete idiots to vote to leave again with all the facts on the table, but it would at least be fair.

[@ionlyfearphobophobia]

@@metalswifty23 no, it's people just like you is why most people voted to leave. Have you ever actually considered how arrogant your position is that half the country are so stupid that their democratic choices shouldn't be taken seriously to such a degree of demanding a revote because it didn't turn out the way you want? Because seriously, until you have that conversation with yourself, you will never understand why it happened.

[@metalswifty23]

@@ionlyfearphobophobia The last 6 years is all the proof you need for why it was such a moronic thing to do. It was going wrong before the pandemic, then the pandemic made it even worse here than anyone else in the western world experienced, and to top it all off, we've largely had the worst impact out of the western world countries from the war in Ukraine, despite the fact we don't rely on Russia for oil as much as other countries do, so much so that we're projected to be the _only_ western country whose economy will shrink. This is all because idiots decided to ruin the country's future. That's not arrogance. That's simply knowing that it was a stupid decision to leave such an advantageous position, one that pretty much no other EU country enjoyed, nor would it be one that we are ever going to get back again. We tried to warn idiots like you in the run up to the results, we tried to warn you in the years leading up to us actually leaving, but you never quite got it through your thick skulls, nor do you seem to understand it now, despite the turmoil that this country is in. All you people care about is sticking it to the EU for problems of our own country's making. You're genuinely all idiots.

[@upthebracket26]

17 million Brits still think bendy bananas have been banned in the EU.

[@annother3350]

Haha. You underestimate the amount of research us brexiteers did in order to save your arse from the corrupt cash cow that is the eu

[@vegimike]

I bet no one voted leave over regulation 2257/94. But it is strange how the official rebuttal is that a) there never was such a regulation b) and anyway the regulation was perfectly sensible c) and anyway the EU repealed it realizing turning marketing standards into regulations was not such a good idea after all

[@mxplixic]

The real reason for Brexit.

[@bakkels]

Boy isn´t this embarassing in hindsight. Aside from the huge jackets.

[@Szaam]

"You don't take an active interest in how your country's run for just forty five years, and look what happened!"

[@TheLjheuvel]

By far his greatest bluff was the "Name the 5,732 provisions affecting the enclave of Baarle Hertog..." bit Same episode as this, but sooooo much better

[@weirdunclebob]

Loved the video but was puzzled at what David's greatest bluff actually was. He didn't seem to say anything that could've been considered a bluff. It wasn't until I started reading the comments that I realised that QI put the wrong title to the video! Silly people! You confused me! Still, I did learn something quite interesting from my experience down the internet rabbit hole: the Vennbahn!

[@petergoddard262]

Stephen Fry is hilarious. I miss him on qi.

[@Taricus]

I was cracking up when he said, "You don't take an active interest in how your country is run for *just* 45 years and...." LOLOLOL! I think David Mitchell just summed up my frustration as an American, only by using a passing joke...

[@ZiggEnt86]

I'd say the title of this video is a fairly decent bluff, unto itself.

[@ethanlappin]

Some people could have done with watching this before the referendum...

[@joeschmoe21]

Not really. Germans need EU so that they can force third-rate countries in Europe to buy their stuff . Germans are willing to give some cash handouts in return for subservience. The British don't sell much to Europe or Germany, and were paying half of those subsidies. Basically the Germans were making the British pay for their own plan. The British had known about this from the beginning. but propaganda like QI kept most people confused. What gave away German plans was Germany's desperate attempt to prevent Britain from leaving. Once it became obvious, the British (wiser ones) realized why they have to dump German colonial rule. Hence the landslide. Germans (via their Polish frontman) revealed their true intentions. The British are now free to buy better quality at lower prices. Meanwhile, Germans will come crawling back with sweet deals... Merkel has mouths to feed, and the Greeks are not rich enough to make up for the British market (if it is lost).

[@dandavidson4717]

@@joeschmoe21 Nonsense. You really should spend at least a modicum of effort to look up the facts. Not least of which is that the UK exports to the EU amount to 45% of all UK exports (2018, 44% in 2017).

[@annother3350]

Haha! We didn't leave over bendy bananas and fisher and hats!! The EU is a tyrannical cash cow that refuses to say how our money is being spent. It's totally corrupt!;

[@ArcanisUrriah]

@@annother3350 You may not have, but I have little doubt many did.

[@annother3350]

@@ArcanisUrriah Well, looking into the EU I'm only grateful they did

[@francaperotti8343]

Alan Coran, Victoria Coren's dad was on call my bluff

[@tzw001]

3:27 Please tell me that journalist isn't living in 10 Downing St these days?

[@presstodelete1165]

Our current priminister Frances D'piffle was one of those very Journalists - funny how the world likes to come full circle.

[@andygrimshaw7464]

Wasn't the originator of the banana untruth our great leader Shagger Johnson when he was the EU correspondent for the telegraph.

[@clickrick]

No, it dates back to a 1984 episode of Yes Minister.

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

@@clickrick Which itself was merely an exaggeration of actual EU standards on foods and other products that make no sense to the common man. The banana thing is an extreme ludicrous example, but nonetheless the EU did create many silly notions.

[@clickrick]

@@MrJoeyWheeler The scriptwriters parodied attitudes which were prevalent even then among Daily Fail readers, which took completely out of context all sorts of suggestions from the think tanks (including the ones which were floated about regulating various types of fruit and vegetables which were actually aimed at providing consumers with accurate labelling, even across the multitude member states with the added challenge of their many different languages) and took them to ridiculous extremes.

[@mark1891]

Ah, the antecedent to Would I Lie to You me thinks :)

[@MrTohawk]

Call my Euro-Bluff sounds like the game the ERB is playing.

[@tores1892]

Well that title was somewhat misleading 🙄

[@musikSkool]

What was David going to say at 1:30? I want to know.

[@ReegusReever]

He actually finished his question; it was just an existential question from Mitchell

[@ReegusReever]

The answer to that age old question being Dara, of course.

[@tanukiman3855]

Dara hunched over like that really does look like Gru.

[@HOTD108_]

Who?

[@tanukiman3855]

@@HOTD108_ Gru

[@Isenmouthe]

Just like the "EU wil ban liquorice pipes" deal, turned out to be a sham, but by golly was it good publicity for liquorice pipes!

[@gff655]

I wonder why this was posted now considering how old it is

[@ionlyfearphobophobia]

Well the BBC has blatantly broke their own regulations on impartiality via their completely bias pro-Remain/Pro-EU coverage of Brexit for the last 6 years. It's not hard to connect the dots.

[@gff655]

@@ionlyfearphobophobia I don't think the QI production team is BBC run. The production company has made programs ITV, channel 4 and BBC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkback_%28production_company

[@ionlyfearphobophobia]

@@gff655 Their network is the BBC

[@gff655]

@@ionlyfearphobophobia show me how it's run by the BBC. From the Wikipedia page it's not even their only revenue source.

[@ionlyfearphobophobia]

@@gff655 It's on the BBC network. I don't believe I ever claimed it's directly run or owned by the BBC, as opposed to indirectly.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Stephen puts on a different accent during the intro, making Phil laugh. Is it an impression of someone? It must be.

[@gwishart]

It's an impression of Robert Robinson, one of the presenters of _Call My Bluff_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqDMfKJ_j5yqrdE

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

Also, it's an impression of himself in a comedy sketch, about a quiz show, he did in 'A Bit Of Fry & Laury', which in turn was based on Robinson

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@gwishart Belated thanks.

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@samuellawrencesbookclub8250 Thank you.

[@AndrewWilsonStooshie]

That episode should have been compulsory viewing before the brexit referendum.

[@vassman1]

As a European (who has lived in the UK, and look upon the country fondly), what I will miss the most about pre-Brexit UK is thier constant whining about the EU. They still whine, but its less fun when theyre outside.

[@stuartpenman6387]

grow up, it was complaining and justified, like complaining about the weather and getting a decent cup of tea, Brits acknowledge reality and deal it with it, the EU sit and talk about protecting someone's feelings.

[@MuchWhittering]

@@stuartpenman6387 Brits acknowledge reality and then make up lies about the EU.

[@stuartpenman6387]

@@MuchWhittering like what lie?Example please

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

maybe rewatch the clip@@stuartpenman6387

[@nancyanderson5413]

I find Alan Davies gorgeous

[@Alvio64]

It's all fun and games until someone says let's vote on it and enough people believe this shit to vote against it

[@michaelbaker7499]

Don't take an active interest in how your countries run for 40 years and just see what happens. Kind of sums it up

[@Broccoli_Highkicks]

Making up something ridiculous to see if people will fall for it, is how you get all the Brexits and the Trumps 'n' that.

[@kiltymacbagpipe]

The shoulders on those suit jackets.

[@Jivvi]

This is basically _Would I Lie to You?_

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

David Mitchell is channeling his future (late) father in law....

[@TunguskaTerma]

Well, hasn't this aged well...

[@SwillMith16]

Excellent bluff: the UK will take back an extra £350mil per week from the EU

[@michaelocyoung]

Yes unfortunately five minutes snorting over cornflakes in the morning has become five years of lies, unfounded anger and misery.

[@Hugh.Manatee]

Which is going to be followed by 5 decades of struggling to compete with an economy ten times as large for the trade opportunities with two economic superpowers that are also in that ballpark.

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

"That was a party political broadcast, on behalf of the European Union."

[@ShasOSwoll]

"You don't take an active interest in how your country is run for 45 years and look what happens!" EU BTFO

[@NxDoyle]

An unusual title, given that nobody believed David's and everyone believed Dara's. I thought it was going to be the one with David making up all that bollocks about little sand banks in the Heligoland Bight.

[@jamesmcgreevy5781]

Yes, you fell for QI's bluff

[@ClarinoI]

The media didn't make it up, the EU Parliament actually debated whether to regulate the curvature of bananas. The fact that it wasn't passed into law doesn't mean it wasn't given serious consideration. Which is obviously a massive waste of time.

[@g0balot]

I doubt this is true but even if it is, you do actually need to define with a produce is otherwise you'll ask for a banana and be sold a large leaf.

[@ClarinoI]

@@g0balot It's absolutely true. It was debated as part of the regulations concerning the quality of fresh, unripened bananas, and had nothing to do with the definition of what the fruit is. Regulation number 2257/94 if you want to read more.

[@g0balot]

@@ClarinoI This seems perfectly sensible to me. You are aware of course, that the UK had similar discussion about bananas before joining the EEC. "The main provisions of the regulation were that bananas sold as unripened, green bananas should be green and unripened, firm and intact, fit for human consumption, not "affected by rotting", clean, free of pests and damage from pests, free from deformation or abnormal curvature, free from bruising, free of any foreign smell or taste.[1] The minimum size (with tolerances and exceptions) is a length of 14 cm and a thickness (grade) of 2.7 cm. It specifies minimum standards for specific quality classifications of bananas (Extra, Class I, Class II)."

[@colinbaker3916]

I wonder how many recognised the impersonation of Robert Robinson?

[@brydon5721]

This should've been part of the Brexit Referendum, if you fell for 3 out of 5 bluffs about the EU you then weren't allowed to vote because you clearly didn't know anything about it XD

[@stuartpenman6387]

tell it to the fishermen, haulage truckers and farmers

[@MuchWhittering]

@@stuartpenman6387 All of whom voted for Brexit despite it massively negatively impacting them.

[@cwm6203]

@@MuchWhittering Brexit wouldn't negatively impact them though quite the opposite

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

I mean, it has @@cwm6203

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

2:10 When Stephen's not exactly sure if it's good or silly

[@WalterLiddy]

I thought this was going to be that one where he genuinely bullshitted at length about something (something about 100-odd nations, wasn't it?) and seemed very plausible.

[@macsnafu]

How old is this clip?

[@cannastartover1720]

My grandpa calls that starting a scuttlebutt.

[@whazup609]

This is just Would I Lie To You.

[@gwishart]

It's actually based on Call My Bluff.

[@caralama08]

CAPTIONS PLEASE!!!?

[@demonking86420]

Phil Jupiter looks like a British Jay Leno

[@maxresdefault_]

And thus, Would I Lie to You was born.

[@annother3350]

This was based on a 70s/80s show called 'call my bluff'

[@abbiefolksman5307]

Tell you what Sandi is great but I miss Stephen

[@GroovingPict]

well, I fell for QI's youtube team's bluff at least

[@martinmaguire-music6692]

That title is absolute testisticles...

[@Sem5626]

no, that's numberwang

[@phillipjames13]

@@Sem5626 let's rotate the board!

[@-Gorbi-]

14 year olds could, and often do, make much much more fitting / appropriate titles than this

[@ilicarriedoll2843]

can't u just call it "Call My Euro Bluff"? 🙄

[@atrijitdas1704]

a bit of WILTY in QI. Nice

[@decodolly1535]

The programme Call My Bluff pre-dated WILTY by at least 40 years.

[@michael2636]

Conservative "outrage culture" in a nutshell 😂

[@acoustic49]

Pity he Welsh flag on the table is mounted incorrectly

[@steveozone4910]

This aged well 🤣

[@ginge641]

Richard Littlejohn ? That's an unfortunate name.

[@DrZaius3141]

That's why his friends just call him Dick Little.

[@alanj9391]

@@DrZaius3141 They might if he actually had any friends.

[@tonypegler3618]

QI Elves resort to click bait tactics

[@halbyg4291]

Bløff!

[@halbyg4291]

BLØFF!!

[@joealtmaier9271]

Righteous Indignation is a drug, and the public is addicted to it. Oh! I wasn't referring to the clip. Its the other comments here.

[@nicosmind3]

The banana thing annoys me cause French banana growers did get legislation past which targetted Central America, and that legislation didnt apply to African nations where the French were based. And people happily buy into the nonsense that it was all lies, even though legislation is available for all to check Regulation (EU) No 20/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other Basically under the pretence of safegards for central American the EU raised the bar, but for their own growers there was no such legislation past.

[@rorysparshott4223]

This didn't age quite so well

[@bremCZ]

Ha! 3:00

[@alasdairhurst]

Would I Lie to Euro

[@lennonwhitehead1352]

You don’t take an interest in how your country is run for 45 years and look what happens. 🤣🤣

[@JasperJanssen]

Weirdly, call my bluff but without sandi toksvig.

[@thatgaribaldinerd2802]

In the context of Brexit this clip is depressing

[@zJoriz]

"No Hash Tation Pibble"?

[@therussmeister]

I don't understand the banana one. If the EU banana standards are the same as the British standards why did they vote for Brexit?

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Because the standards were agreed upon by the government - the elite, upper caste of society. The common people - the working and middle class - do not approve and anti-EU sentiment has been rife among them with growing intensity for DECADES. Centuries, even.

[@g0balot]

@@MrJoeyWheeler In Brexit Britain, will the definition of an apple be defined in northern working clubs?

[@oleksiishekhovtsov1564]

B L Ø F F

[@jackjensen422]

A poignant repost!

[@upthebracket26]

467 UKIPPERS downvoted this.