As a Englishman born in 1972 just before we joined the Common Market now EU I apologise to New Zealand for what our then government did and our stupidity for voting to stay.We were wrong and I hope when we leave the EU we get a bloody good deal with New Zealand which benefits us both.
No need to apologise Trade is a 2 way street and unfortunately New Zealand together with other Commonwealth nations were no longer buying British and so it was imperative for us to seek new markets hence Macmillan's decision to join was a no-brainer
We were WARNED about this BEFORE we joined. This was the TRUTH. It's a great tragedy that NO ONE listened. Only a very FEW of us suspected what would happen. We we RIGHT to be concerned.
I hear you! The 1975 referendum was my first ever vote and I took it very seriously but naively voted yes. Since then especially when the document document was released after the 30 years confirmed this I have watched as the UK has made after mistake. And yet the brexiters were accused of being uneducated?!? The whole thing beggars belief!
We only had a referendum after we joined. Heath was a German agent who knew full well what would happen in the next 30 to 40 years. People believed it was a free trade association, although we were being warned by Powell and Shore, I think there was a crisis of confidence at that time. It seemed like the continental countries were doing better than us and the empire had largely gone, therefore people thought this was a way forward.
They obeyed 'The Sun' instead Just like they obeyed 'The Sun' wanting us to leave If people can't be arsed to research do they really deserve a good outcome?
I suppose a lot of RICH land owners saw the CAP as a way to make even more money from ever decreasing effort. The aristocracy in this country have never given a shit about ordinary people, hence why the ReMoan campaign was overwhelmingly middle and upper class. Higher food prices and job losses are irrelevant, when you have more than enough to weather the storm. And if you have land that isn't paying its way, then EU subsidies at tax payers expense will ensure the land is kept in the family, for generations to come. This country is STILL in need of a revolution, despite Brexit. We need to ensure that we are never taken down that road again. We need to asset strip these traitors for trying to sell us out, so they no longer have the power to dictate government policy. And make sure that the government works for the good of the WHOLE nation, not just land owners and their cronies.
Because it was in our interest, you dumbass. Leaving the Single Market - which of course Margaret Thatcher joined - has been one of the stupidest decisions we made in foreign policy terms since the 1930s. At least that charlatan Johnson has been ejected. Nasty little liar.
The Common Market/EU was an agreement between Germany and France to enable Germany its power and economic aspirations in return for protection and subsidy of French agriculture. That could only work properly if other markets (the smaller countries) for French produce could be drawn into the "community". For all the other countries, it was one big con. An entire generation of politicians in the post-war period thought they were paying (that is, their populations were paying) a "reasonable price for peace". Unfortunately since then they have conned many young people, who do not remember life before the EU, into supporting a federal system which does not benefit them and which they do not understand. It's a political tragedy.
I tucking loved Kwik save and bejams. I loved in there streatham branch in one of the freezer cupboards for over 25 years next to my favourite cottage pie.
I hope they get what they want, then maybe we can "Build a wall" if they rejoin. I can see it now, ship building returning to the Clyde, as they will need more boats to travel between Scotland and mainland Europe.
Associate member.. Lol Whats that codswallop? In or out. Look up " andrew neil vs andrew wilson snp on You tube.. Thatll show you the thought process and whats involved.
We joined the Common Market about the time I started my first paper round and read the papers as I went. I didn’t think it was a good idea then and, as my political opinions changed wildly since, I never stopped thinking it was a bad idea. I can only think that our rulers at the time saw it as a bulwark against the USSR and those within our country who would have had us aligned with that system.
Same here. I read the papers (in the rain) and remember reading letters to the editor of the Telegraph complaining about the loss of sovereignty. Then pushed through the letter box a soggy Telegraph🤣
You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. The economic consequence of Brexit has been to deprive us of our closest market, and ironically to increase bureaucracy. No wonder public opinion has swung against it. We should have joined the EEC much earlier and influenced its development.
When you find out the amount of subsidy Italians received for there olive trees. It’s works out some thing like 4 olive trees per square meter over the whole country? Where are the people living?
George Job Yes it was bad ? Just like jumping out of frying pan into fire. People in Italy deserve better than this. Like country’s in Europe been under communist rule for years now they are in Eu !!!!! Through it was going be their salvation and have slowly found out that it is as bad as being under Communist rule. Britain must show Europe you can leave with a clean slate NO TIERS. THEN YOU WILL see bureaucratic fascist EU collapse.
Look at it this way since we joined it cost this country 100 Billion pounds, just to stay in. It’s now gonna cost another 100 Billion pounds when we leave.
I was the age of the kids in the video at the time. I remember the local grocers and even a family selling their vegetables from an allotment. This has all gone. I agree with the Golden Delicious apple quote. But in the early 80's Sainsbury's came to town replacing Kwik Save and suddenly it seemed we had it all. Was the real end brought on by Thatcher or the EEC? Are standards less now. The food seemed bloody awful in the 1970's. Food for thought from this video in any case.
EU membership has been problematic but it’s NOT the reason the country has a failing education system, broken social security system, housing crisis, low productivity, anaemic economic growth, over reliance on big state, inability to outcompete and outsmart the USA, Japan, Germany, Korea and generally adapt to a changing world.
Note that the USA dropped the ball for China during the War on Terror kicked off 15 September 2001. By 2004, of the industrial added value created by all state-owned industrial enterprises and non-state industrial enterprises with annual turnover exceeding five million yuan, state-owned and state stock-holding enterprises accounted for 42.4 percent, collectively owned enterprises 5.3 percent, the rest taken up by other non-public enterprises, including enterprises with investment from outside mainland China, and individual and private enterprises. In 2004, of Chinese enterprises ranking in the world's top 500, 14 enterprises of China's mainland were all state-owned. Of China's own top 500, 74 percent (370) were state-owned and state stock-holding enterprises, with assets of 27, 370 billion yuan and realizing profit of 266.3 billion yuan, representing 96.96 percent and 84.09 percent respectively of the top 500 corresponding values. Some governments invest in war, others invest in unassailable and comprehensive growth prospects 🤷♂️
pay the farmers not to farm, penalise fishing, yeah now we want to leave where are you going to farm ? on the flats weve been building, going to fish in the fished out seas from french and spanish trawlers. does anyone know how to farm, or fish.
Everything in EU is extortionately expensive. In central Europe you can pay 20 pound for a cup of coffee and the same for a pint of beer. Its a racket, a complete tyranny. Its simply unacceptable for a self respecting people to be part of.
Biased in favour of fairness. Nothing wrong with that! But yes, it DID pay off, in the end. 44 years too fucking late, in my opinion. Try not to cry, as you may find that your salty ReMOANer tears have dried up.
They way they describe how expensive things are in Holland, is the way they will be talking about the UK in years to come... Brexiteers what have you done
Well said Nobody noticed that all those pushing it kept their wealth offshore of course when sterling tanked their betters automatically became even more their betters 🙄
the fishermen were ripped off
6:00
8:43
All these dire predictions came true. Time to go!
@Ted Zeppelin Yes the predictions have now become reality.
Especially those of Enoch Powell!
We've left now. Celebrate good times , come on , let's celebrate 🍾 💪.....
Complete nonsense... Lamb exports increased from 10k tonnes pa in 1970 to over 100k tonnes in 1990 with the EU being our largest customer.
As a Englishman born in 1972 just before we joined the Common Market now EU I apologise to New Zealand for what our then government did and our stupidity for voting to stay.We were wrong and I hope when we leave the EU we get a bloody good deal with New Zealand which benefits us both.
Ever thought they might have rigged the vote .
No need to apologise
Trade is a 2 way street and unfortunately New Zealand together with other Commonwealth nations were no longer buying British and so it was imperative for us to seek new markets hence Macmillan's decision to join was a no-brainer
where's the deal with new zealand??? brain dead brexiter
Well, this comment didn't age very well 😂
Is it my imagination or did we have a better quality of politician back then.
better quality of people all round
We were WARNED about this BEFORE we joined. This was the TRUTH. It's a great tragedy that NO ONE listened. Only a very FEW of us suspected what would happen. We we RIGHT to be concerned.
I hear you! The 1975 referendum was my first ever vote and I took it very seriously but naively voted yes. Since then especially when the document document was released after the 30 years confirmed this I have watched as the UK has made after mistake. And yet the brexiters were accused of being uneducated?!? The whole thing beggars belief!
Mr. Enoch Powell must have despaired like I am today. Jesus... I won't allow history to repeat. Rest in peace, Sir.
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
A stitch up from the start.
How our membership was an overwhelming success
Should've listened to us Kiwis! Lol
Should have brought more stuff
from us so we wouldn't need to join
That lady hits the word "socks" with a sledgehammer.
Why didn't the British people listen to these guys?
The vote was rigged!
We only had a referendum after we joined. Heath was a German agent who knew full well what would happen in the next 30 to 40 years. People believed it was a free trade association, although we were being warned by Powell and Shore, I think there was a crisis of confidence at that time. It seemed like the continental countries were doing better than us and the empire had largely gone, therefore people thought this was a way forward.
They obeyed 'The Sun' instead
Just like they obeyed 'The Sun'
wanting us to leave
If people can't be arsed to research do
they really deserve a good outcome?
He even had a little sign over his right shoulder.
RIP.
How did the UK ever get suckered into this bizarre - perverse - economic system.
I suppose a lot of RICH land owners saw the CAP as a way to make even more money from ever decreasing effort. The aristocracy in this country have never given a shit about ordinary people, hence why the ReMoan campaign was overwhelmingly middle and upper class.
Higher food prices and job losses are irrelevant, when you have more than enough to weather the storm. And if you have land that isn't paying its way, then EU subsidies at tax payers expense will ensure the land is kept in the family, for generations to come.
This country is STILL in need of a revolution, despite Brexit. We need to ensure that we are never taken down that road again. We need to asset strip these traitors for trying to sell us out, so they no longer have the power to dictate government policy. And make sure that the government works for the good of the WHOLE nation, not just land owners and their cronies.
Because it was in our interest, you dumbass. Leaving the Single Market - which of course Margaret Thatcher joined - has been one of the stupidest decisions we made in foreign policy terms since the 1930s.
At least that charlatan Johnson has been ejected. Nasty little liar.
19:13 .
I think there was never a more damning indictment of the common market than this video. Well done.
I wonder what New Zealand did wrong to have British Leyland's output inflicted upon them in exchange for butter and lamb?!
because the common market was a protection racket....
Yep, a protection racket for the French and the French alone.
The Common Market/EU was an agreement between Germany and France to enable Germany its power and economic aspirations in return for protection and subsidy of French agriculture. That could only work properly if other markets (the smaller countries) for French produce could be drawn into the "community". For all the other countries, it was one big con. An entire generation of politicians in the post-war period thought they were paying (that is, their populations were paying) a "reasonable price for peace". Unfortunately since then they have conned many young people, who do not remember life before the EU, into supporting a federal system which does not benefit them and which they do not understand. It's a political tragedy.
their time has come, they will fall like dominos
Lmaoooo
Who was the economist at 9.34 talking about industry?
I tucking loved Kwik save and bejams. I loved in there streatham branch in one of the freezer cupboards for over 25 years next to my favourite cottage pie.
Love the introduction! A shopkeeper arguing about the disadvantages of the Common Market whilst standing in front of boxes of New Zealand apples!!
That was our Prime Minister at the time, Keith Holyoake.
Enoch powell was 100% correct
That racist was wrong about this, and indeed about most other things, especially Europe.
Lol@@Dbdbe1
Scotland Now Needs to Apply for Associate Membership of the EU.
I hope they get what they want, then maybe we can "Build a wall" if they rejoin.
I can see it now, ship building returning to the Clyde, as they will need more boats to travel between Scotland and mainland Europe.
Stupids , let them go they will become a second greece
Associate member..
Lol
Whats that codswallop?
In or out.
Look up " andrew neil vs andrew wilson snp on You tube..
Thatll show you the thought process and whats involved.
We joined the Common Market about the time I started my first paper round and read the papers as I went. I didn’t think it was a good idea then and, as my political opinions changed wildly since, I never stopped thinking it was a bad idea. I can only think that our rulers at the time saw it as a bulwark against the USSR and those within our country who would have had us aligned with that system.
Same here. I read the papers (in the rain) and remember reading letters to the editor of the Telegraph complaining about the loss of sovereignty. Then pushed through the letter box a soggy Telegraph🤣
You were wrong then, and you're wrong now. The economic consequence of Brexit has been to deprive us of our closest market, and ironically to increase bureaucracy. No wonder public opinion has swung against it. We should have joined the EEC much earlier and influenced its development.
The French were the architects of the common agricultural policy, which contributed towards the decline of agriculture in Europe.
Don't understand the fuss about butter back in the 1970s and 80s
10:50 - Greece, Italy, Spain?
If we couldn't run and manage our OWN affairs, why would we EVER THINK that Europe could.?
When you find out the amount of subsidy Italians received for there olive trees.
It’s works out some thing like 4 olive trees per square meter over the whole country?
Where are the people living?
George Job
Yes it was bad ? Just like jumping out of frying pan into fire.
People in Italy deserve better than this.
Like country’s in Europe been under communist rule for years now they are in Eu !!!!!
Through it was going be their salvation and have slowly found out that it is as bad as being under Communist rule.
Britain must show Europe you can leave with a clean slate NO TIERS.
THEN YOU WILL see bureaucratic fascist EU collapse.
What were you talking about?
By the way it's Nazi ussk the lne collapsing
Our fish pre common market was fantastic .
Look at it this way since we joined it cost this country 100 Billion pounds, just to stay in.
It’s now gonna cost another 100 Billion pounds when we leave.
Those are nice round figures, where did you dig those up from?
I was the age of the kids in the video at the time. I remember the local grocers and even a family selling their vegetables from an allotment. This has all gone. I agree with the Golden Delicious apple quote. But in the early 80's Sainsbury's came to town replacing Kwik Save and suddenly it seemed we had it all. Was the real end brought on by Thatcher or the EEC? Are standards less now. The food seemed bloody awful in the 1970's. Food for thought from this video in any case.
i bet the people who work in amazon fulfillment centres are laughing at this. ah enoc powell for the voice of reason about foreigners ;) lol
The BIGGEST MISTAKE we ever made.
Not quite.
1. Transatlantic Slave Trade
2. Imperial colonialism and empire
3. Entering World War 2
4. Ignoring Margaret Thatcher
🤷♂️
EU membership has been problematic but it’s NOT the reason the country has a failing education system, broken social security system, housing crisis, low productivity, anaemic economic growth, over reliance on big state, inability to outcompete and outsmart the USA, Japan, Germany, Korea and generally adapt to a changing world.
Note that the USA dropped the ball for China during the War on Terror kicked off 15 September 2001.
By 2004, of the industrial added value created by all state-owned industrial enterprises and non-state industrial enterprises with annual turnover exceeding five million yuan, state-owned and state stock-holding enterprises accounted for 42.4 percent, collectively owned enterprises 5.3 percent, the rest taken up by other non-public enterprises, including enterprises with investment from outside mainland China, and individual and private enterprises.
In 2004, of Chinese enterprises ranking in the world's top 500, 14 enterprises of China's mainland were all state-owned. Of China's own top 500, 74 percent (370) were state-owned and state stock-holding enterprises, with assets of 27, 370 billion yuan and realizing profit of 266.3 billion yuan, representing 96.96 percent and 84.09 percent respectively of the top 500 corresponding values.
Some governments invest in war, others invest in unassailable and comprehensive growth prospects 🤷♂️
pay the farmers not to farm, penalise fishing, yeah now we want to leave where are you going to farm ? on the flats weve been building, going to fish in the fished out seas from french and spanish trawlers. does anyone know how to farm, or fish.
Egg and chips twice love darling. No spaghetti hoops😠 the devil's work
Complete nonsense... Lamb exports increased from 10k tonnes pa in 1970 to over 100k tonnes in 1990 with the EU being our largest customer.
Look how well we lived back then .
I completely agree.
At last it looks like Enoch can Rest In Peace.
Not quite yet! Brexit is just the beginning.
Simple they changed the goal posts
All these dire predictions did not come true, but some of these people can be forgiven for being worried at the time.
Everything in EU is extortionately expensive. In central Europe you can pay 20 pound for a cup of coffee and the same for a pint of beer. Its a racket, a complete tyranny. Its simply unacceptable for a self respecting people to be part of.
Total rubbish.
You're a moron it's nothing like that I have an apartment in Spain for over 20 years food and drink is better and it's cheaper
Even as a kid I could there was problems with the eu.
Egg and chips 🍟 twice love.😉
Scotland Will be an Associate Member .
All those babies that you see have like 50-60 years old now
Enoch Powell speaks at 14:10
I guess 50 years of biased reporting like this paid off.
Biased in favour of fairness. Nothing wrong with that!
But yes, it DID pay off, in the end. 44 years too fucking late, in my opinion.
Try not to cry, as you may find that your salty ReMOANer tears have dried up.
Win win for Europe
It was then. And Brexit will also be a win win for all, as the catalyst for the collapse of the EU.
@@hermanmunster3358 Win win for Europeans and Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish, as it will sink Nazi ussk crime syndicate Titanic
EEC TO EU very Bad Naughty UK LEFT BYE BYE EU
NEVER REGRET THE BREXIT 😍😍😍, BREXIT IS BREXIT
Why? It makes you feel like the times you were able to have sex?🤣
Because its good that Britain is now poorer and weaker because of it? What an idiot
They way they describe how expensive things are in Holland, is the way they will be talking about the UK in years to come... Brexiteers what have you done
You aren't serious are you?
Well said
Nobody noticed that all those
pushing it kept their wealth offshore
of course when sterling tanked their
betters automatically became even
more their betters 🙄