Why I voted to Remain in the EU as a Eurosceptic

Why I voted to Remain in the EU as a Eurosceptic | Exit Interviews

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3 ай бұрын

“I said to a colleague, could you have your chemotherapy on a different day?”
Outgoing Conservative MP Sir Robert Goodwill tells Matt Chorley about the perils of being a party whip, why he's a Eurosceptic but voted Remain, and how he was won over by David Cameron’s lasagne.
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@LaurenceBoyce 3 ай бұрын

So sad to be losing all these people that I have never heard of.

@tho4747 3 ай бұрын

GB had the best EU deal of all EU countries, but now it’s gone for ever.

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

I agree

@georgesdelatour 3 ай бұрын

What does it say about the EU if the best deal is the one with the most opt-outs?

@nicks4934 3 ай бұрын

Ask him what has improved in the last 14 years???? Complacent or what?

@mattbooth307 3 ай бұрын

Ha, no, in other jobs, you can be simply let go if you've worked there less than 2 years, cancer treatment or not.

@user-bi7lr7tt5t 3 ай бұрын

Blokes a dosser. Br😅ken every promise to my local electorate and was full behind lying to our late Queen.

@god1971b 3 ай бұрын

Now we produce less food and food inflation and security has weakened.

@thomasbootham2707 3 ай бұрын

You got any evidence for your claim?

@samhartford8677 3 ай бұрын

Only a British exceptionalist can talk about getting a 'fairer' deal when he talks about the UK demanding even more beneficial terms of membership in contrast to others. Greetings from the EU.

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

Completely agree!

@nigelwildman9653 3 ай бұрын

86,000 and "Expenses".

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

6:45 : That was your job also!

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

So glad this “remainer eurosceptic” has left. Cherry picking, exemptions, exceptions … for the English only? This ship has sailed!

@guyhancox4246 3 ай бұрын

I was feeling vaguely neutral until he said he felt sorry for Liz Truss...

@hecter3008 3 ай бұрын

I am sick of these people complaining that 86000 a year is not enough to live on. The average salary is 30000 a year.

@thomasbootham2707 3 ай бұрын

If you live in London 80k a year ain’t a lot of money it’s that expensive

@davidpaterson2309 3 ай бұрын

Do you really want someone who only merits the “average salary” making the law? Frankly we might be better off if we doubled the pay but had minimum experience and education qualifications and a prohibition on external earnings.

@hecter3008 3 ай бұрын

@@davidpaterson2309 no. I want smart people who care about the country and work to make this country a great place to live and great public services. The MPs we have are totally useless have trashed everything in this country and destroyed all the public services and these creatures never shut up complaining about their 86000 a year income plus the expenses they steal from. Do you think this country is in a better place now than it was in 2010. The Tories have trashed everything and cry about how little they are paid. This Tory MP has been topping up his income with tens of thousands from the CAP and still complains.

@hecter3008 3 ай бұрын

@@thomasbootham2707 yes, and millions in London are on nothing near 86000 a year and the MPs do not give a dam about them. Don't forget they stole millions from the expenses system as extra income and got poor people to pay for their houses, wives,girlfriends and lovers all on the public purse. He also gets a very nice pension paid for by the taxpayer while the Tories trashed the pensions of other people in the public sector.

@kathrynhobbs8874 3 ай бұрын

@@thomasbootham2707hmmmm as a life long Londoner I would like to ‘suggest’ that statement is nonsense

@vulgar_scabby_beaver 3 ай бұрын

Translation: He "enjoyed the grift money while it lasted while knowing all along that brexit was a huge mistake".

@geoffcropper1410 3 ай бұрын

I voted to leave the EU because I didn't want to be ruled by unelected people in Europe. I now find myself being ruled by an unelected government in my own country. It stinks.

@god1971b 3 ай бұрын

But thats what you voted for. Look at who you were supporting.

@gavinsmith9564 3 ай бұрын

You could vote for an MP in the European parliment, it was another Brexit lie that they were unelected. Our civil servants aren't elected, nor are the Lords, or the King, and we've had multiple unelected Prime Ministers, who all bypass Parliment now anyway.

@spookyt8692 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Geoff you made the country stronger, healthier AND global :D edit: also idk if you’re smart enough to realise but the royal family have not been elected we have always been ruled over by the unelected haha

@mwd331 3 ай бұрын

We were never ruled by the EU, that was the lie you bought. Now we have no say whatsoever in the EU, or any of the trading or travel benefits or high standards they demand.

@laurentdrozin812 3 ай бұрын

@@spookyt8692That is true everywhere, always been.

@alberthead4806 3 ай бұрын

interesting, voted for remain for the 30 pieces of silver, that's not very democratic self interest

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

A nation of shop keepers

@johnbriggs3210 3 ай бұрын

You would think when the Filey buss stopped running due to retirement, MP & councillors for Filey would be on it straightaway knowing that pensioners in their 70s 80s 90s would be stranded, here we are months later in winter & still no BUS? If you ever needed a reason to sack your cancelers & MP, in the next election vote them OUT it’s that easy. Filey BUS There is an agreement, if it’s not possible to bring a group together then the bus will be sold & the money given to charity. In other words, they don’t want to fund the little Filey BUS. Selling the BUS & giving money to charity is adding insult to injury, where is the charity for pensioners that have paid into the system? Is the reason the Council cannot afford to run the Filey little BUS, because migrants are now being thrown out of hotels & Councils have a duty to house homeless migrants?

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

8:40 A fairer deal??? The EU should’ve never give in to UK’s incessant demands for exceptions, opt-outs and even opt-ins for opt-outs.” It was never enough and it would never be enough because other demands were to follow. The UK viewed the EU as a free trade zone to exploit, not as a political project it ALWAYS has been. Greetings from Belgium, EU.

@peterfireflylund 3 ай бұрын

The "rebate" Thatcher got was actually quite reasonable. Most of the budget was spent on (dumb) farming subsidies and the UK paid a lot and received little.

@louis-philippearnhem6959 3 ай бұрын

@@peterfireflylund Just before 2016, the UK had the best deal with even more exceptions and opt-outs but it was still not enough as Cameron wanted yet more and more exceptions.