James May admits he ‘weeps’ about Brexit’s impact on television
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- “I do occasionally have a slight weep about it.”
Brexit was a “terrible idea” and has made filming abroad far more difficult, says James May.
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I'm still waiting to see a single tangible benefit of Brexit.
They sell wonky carrots in Morrisons.
Blue passports.
@@Gift0r
"Blue passports"?
Croatia had BLUE PASSPORTS before they joined the EU back in 2013.
Croatia STILL has Blue Passports, having stayed in the EU, and joined the euro(€) and Schengen.
Brixit wasn't just a waste of time, then?
It has been demonstrated, practically, that it was a bad idea.
Surely not the sort of benefit you were asking for, but a learning experience nevertheless, and learning is always good.
It was badly implemented.
Tesla only drives on the far right.
😂
Not far right but not far wrong
I did nat zee zat kommen.
Was he given it in exchange for his cybertruck review? The one where he didn't say a single negative thing about it...
@@IMelkor42 Nah, he's owned it for years. There's something niggling in the back of my mind that this is his second Tesla, even.
Completely agree and understand about not wishing to line that individual's pockets, but it's not morally treacherous to admit that the cars produced by the company that Elon's wealth purchased have been a moderate success on some fronts.
Boris Johnson’s ‘“Get Brexit Done” has caused us all “Being Done by Brexit”!
Didnt the hamster almost wound himself.
Time to Get Brexit Undone
Swasticars
separation is always costly
You deliberately miss the point. We do not have Brexit because the ruling class do not want it.
James May is such a decent man.
Yeah, was struck by the thoughtfulness with which he speaks on things. Very grounded and multi-perspective.
And it is that sort of 'decency' that is bringing about the downfall of our civilisation. We live in a world where 'decency' is taken advantage of, we have to protect our way of life ( though it is probably too late now).
@@bobbysox897 I think you'll find its not having decency that will bring all our downfall.
@@bobbysox897 So, by your estimation, it's doing what is the very definition of civilisation, being civilised, that is the end of civilisation ?
Interesting... I suppose that you think that to save democracy we have to make sure only the people with the right opinion get the chance to vote ?
How long have you known him?
Dump the Tesla James (in solidarity with sane Americans)
In solidarity with any one on the plaint agents Fascism Musk and Trump needs to be Jailed.
Yes please! James!!!!
You mean the lunatic fringe of America...
Tesla = supporting nazis and dictators who hate freedom.
Yes, get rid of the swasticar....
Need more like May to shout about the disaster called brexit
It's not called Brexit, that was a vote taken years ago. It's called British Independence. Don't hide behind an untruth to cover for what you really dislike.
I know they spoke out against Brexit before the referendum, but for years before that Clarkson's anti-foreigner gobshite encouraged the mindset that wanted Brexit.
@charlesjw2 Disaster. LOL. What a silly thing to say.
@@DoggleBird Behave numpty.
@ I am behaving - like a rational person and calling out the silly crybabies.
brexit has been a complete disaster for all of us and those to come
Not for the democratic majority of the UK who voted for sovereignty, independence from a corrupt, anti democratic, unaccountable, declining, protectionist, mafioso organisation run by a bunch of childish, vindictive, self serving, gravy train riding, free loading parasites. Leaving was about self governance, empowering the UK to make its own decisions. It does not set in stone what those decisions must be, it's back in the hands of the UK public and not in the hands of or shackled to Brussels.
The UK electorate never voted to join the EU and the EU was never democratically accountable to the UK electorate.
So it is working as they intended.
We voted for it Get over it.
@@99672no. We want to change it. Get over it.
@@99672 These people like democracy when it suits them, when it doesn't, 'it's wrong'.
Driving a Musk car - embarrassing.....
And there was no need for him to admit it, you couldn’t tell. I’d have lied.
Embarrasing only for loony lefties like you
Felon
He's had one since before Musk went completely off the rails
Not as embarrassing as his long grey hair.
Brexit was a terrible idea. There were no upsides and there are no benefits.
It was a great idea sabotaged but don't worry! When Reform comes in we will properly get out
That's because you closed your eyes a long time ago. one benefit, btw, considering it's James May, is that we haven't imposed tariffs on Chinese cars. That means the UK consumer will save £8,000+. Is that a benefit?
If the UK being independent was such a bad idea more than 500 people would have attended the 2024 national rejoin march...
@@Iazzaboyce most people who who finished school, didn't think in the slightest it would happen. why would a country leave a free market with no tarrifs. now be pay tarrifs on everything
@@bengreatrex1364 Do you mean people that begin sentences with capitals, don't write words twice and use question marks?
Brexit - a solution to a problem that never existed.
Wrong, it was a genuine problem: too many people wince when they hear foreign accents in the shops, and can't handle the competition from better skilled and more reliable tradespeople from Eastern Europe. To the point where they voted to deprive themselves of their own freedom of movement, in the hope that warm nostalgic memories of the empire in the former colonies would be enough to compensate for loss of access to the Single Market.
Gotta disagree. The problem was the Tory party, although Brexit was never going to solve that feckin mess.
Television is such a minor player with regards to foreign travel. The music industry has been devastated by Brexit. The music industry brought in many millions each year (before Brexit), far more economically significant than fishing, although it never got a seat at the negotiation table. Apart from the great songwriters and artists the UK produces, before Brexit the UK was the centre of European touring, with world class tech support staff (aka roadies, plus lights, sounded security), trucking companies, bus companies. All of whom have been badly degraded or sent abroad by Brexit.
See also: Fashion. The entire creative industries in the UK have been shafted by Brexit.
And the Leave voter / rights answer. Music is woke. Acting is woke. If it were up to them we'd be watching Jim Davidson on repeat in our Union Jack pants.
@@davidcjupp LOL
Oh my heart bleeds for u you poor thing get over it since brexit wages for unskilled labour has gone up loads get over it we voted out we don’t care about u rich lot that got inconvenienced by a democratic vote
@@MrTangolizard Immigration from India, Thailand etc has gone up massively. Those are your well paid unskilled workers.
Normal people saw this a mile off. Funny how some only admit it when it impacts them personally.
Both Clarkson and May were always remainers.
@margaretbloomer9001 that's probably because like most remainers they seen the madness of brexit
@@margaretbloomer9001 Many people just saw through the nationalist BS.
Ditch the swasticar James!!
Why should he if he likes the car- he's not a mate of musks , hes a car nut, he doesn't even have to share your view or your politics, his car , he paid for it, he likes it
So mind your own.
Relax
@@paulbrut Okay... So... Do you think there are good reasons for a boycott then?
Is that one of those far right-hand Teslas?
To be fair, he got it before we all knew he was a fan of the funny moustache'd Austrian painter. At least before it was in your face blatantly obvious. It's good to know he can get from Berlin to Warsaw on a single charge though.
With arms as indicators
Swasticars!
Yeah well, guys, the rest of Europe DID warn you that the UK would be committing political, social, and economical suicide in slow motion. Didn’t we?
@ChristianCelinder "political, social, and economical suicide" 🤣 (do grow up)
@@DoggleBird Pretending that Brexit is great seems a bit juvenile given the reality of how it has worked out.
@@Geffo555 Brexit is great because we are no longer a member of the EU, which is exactly what I wanted. People witter on about it being a "disaster" but produce no evidence of that assertion beyond a few minor niggles.
@@DoggleBird Cornwall alone has lost millions in EU funding. Our businesses are now snookered behind a trade wall. So where are the actual plusses? And I mean real practical things. No one gives a ( ) about ideological claptrap.
@@DoggleBird What you, whoever you are, "wanted", is beside the point.
Brexit was a terrible idea.
Yet some people still want reform .. people really are clueless
Blame Cameron that only bothered about London & the South East if he got out around the country he would have found out that the remain landslide he expected was not going to happen.
@ancietman his campaign was dire.
@@ancietman Blame Cameron for giving in to the UKIPERs and the referendum not requiring a 70% majority. Then blame all the Brexit evangelists for convincing half the country that leaving the EU would make them better off.
@nickdoughty518 Brexit was a brilliant idea.
Brexit is literally the UK's Trump 2.0 except it happened first... and also trumps style of politics and influence helped significantly in getting it through the gates.
Same time and putin has been linked to both, as a way of weakening the west causing damage undermining and normalising the feelings of hopelessness. Strangely Steve bannon was connected to both and he's connected to the ush for the far right in Europe
Barring a miracle the UK's Trump II is going to happen in a few years time when Nigel Farage becomes PM. Horrendous time line we are living in. The US is the canary in the populist mine. We will follow.
Except Brexit is permanent . At least they get rid of Trump permanently in 4 years time. Unless he goes full dictator, deletes the US constitution and runs for a 3rd term or indefinitely like his buddies in Russia and China.
I spent nearly six years hitch hiking and working my way around Europe. I enjoyed my youth, that lifestyle has been taken away from youth today. I am ashamed of what they talked us, as a nation into doing. WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK. By whatever means necessary.
How many British people go on walkabout around Europe? You can't expect everyone to give up UK independence so a handful people can work in Europe.
@@Iazzaboyce What independence do you think you've gained by cutting yourself off from the EU? Perhaps you can give some examples of how you've become more independent now the UK is out?
@@bobohare4825 All UK laws are made in UK.
@@Iazzaboyce except nearly all are retained EU laws which we still follow and over which the European Court of Justice still has influence. Yeah right that was really worth losing 100 billion a year GDP on, not to mention the tripling of legal immigration because all the EU workers whom we relied on for our NHS, construction and hospitality industries amongst others went home. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster and a recent pole revealed only 11% of those who voted for it still think it has been good for the UK, guess you're one of those.
@@Iazzaboyce🤡🤡🤡
Dump the Tesla James.
It's practically worthless. A second hand car is only worth what potential buyers are willing to pay. Tesla is a toxic brand, and is a target for vandalism.
The "Swasticar".
How have things got to the point where the cheapest car in Britain is £16000, that is an obscene amount of money and unnecessary
Only mugs but new cars
What are you talking about?? The average salary in 1970 was £1200 a year. The price of a Ford Cortina in 1970 was £1100. A Mini cost around £650. The average salary today is £35,000, 29x more than 1970. That puts a Mini at around £19,000 today using a percentage of average salary. I used to have a 1970s Mini and I never want another. The most basic piece of noisy, rusty tin I ever owned (Although as a 17 year old I loved it of course).
Based on Salary high quality products are incredibly cheap today. Literally the only thing that stops us all enjoying cheap, high quality products is the cost of housing. All the gains we made in cheaper products were taken back, and more, in mortgage costs.
Not only are cars about the same percentage of salary that they have always been, modern cars have levels of luxury and reliability that were just fantasies in 1970. Today that Cortina equivalent practically drives itself while you sit back and listen to Spotify on a 12 speaker Bose system for 200,000 miles, and make telephone calls home.
@ yes we all get that but the point is, cars are unnecessarily expensive, it’s possible to build better cars for less. Ditch a lot of the tech.
@@gohumberto I worked at Longbridge in the 70's as a young man wanting to scrape together the deposit for a first house. Stuck it for a year and it was a real eye opener learning about factory life. I worked just a few metres away from the Mini production line at the point where the roof was put on and the doors fitted ( any imperfections in the roof were filled in by chaps with blow torches and big sticks of lead solder ). I would say the workers were quite skilled at what they did, but you can only work with the materials to hand. Me? I worked on the Allegro production line, and would like to apologise if you had one, and had an issue with the headlight falling out. In my defence I was really rushed for time and sometimes forgot to weld that bit.
@@HighFell Blame taxes. The Chinese have an electric car that's less than 8,000 pounds. When it eventually comes to the UK it'll probably cost twice as much due to all the Tariffs
Boris lied
But didn't remainers lie I seem to remember 50 mile lorry queues at Dover & British planes would not be able to land in EU airports to name two of many.
@@ancietman That was based on a no deal exit.
Britain fell for it
All the time! Boris telling the truth would make world headlines. Still, suckers abound in Blighty.
@@ancietmanyeah he gave us Brexit in name only he didn’t give us a proper Brexit
Imagine a population voting to restrict its freedom,no impossible🤪
When are you off to live in eastern Europe then?
@@pobinr You have to remember that most remainers cannot see beyond their own privilege.
@@Lawrence4000-s3k😂
@@pobinr I quit my job in London 3 years ago to relocate to my wife's hometown in eastern europe in order to raise our kids close to their grandparents: cheaper (and better) housing, we've just bought. Better access to healthcare, dentists on every street, my kids will have *free* university education in Vienna, my wife (now dual citizen with a British passport) still works for her British employer due to the skills shortage in the UK, and I make use of my freedom of movement (I've got an EU passport through my parents) to work as a contractor for businesses needed to operate on the continent, something which UK-only passport holders are not able to do anymore. The differential also means that we'll be able to buy in the UK too thanks to the money we are saving (lower cost of living) Long term it means that if my kids decide to work in London they will do so free of student debt, without having to pay rent thanks to the property we'll buy for them in or close to London, and with 2 passports (hence having free movement for work) which will give them an unbeatable advantage over your kids when applying for jobs. You guys are still in denial over how you shot yourself (and your kids) in the foot, aren't you?
Go and live in France, there are plenty of blacks who want to come to the uk unfortunately
Just imagine driving from Leeds to Southern Germany via France with 10 trucks full of extremely expensive equipment so that an American band can perform an outdoor concert for just one night. The transport company doesn't care about the cost of the ferry. What they care about most is that the lever-arch file of documentation that is the Carnet is filled in completely accurately. Even when it is, both the UK authorities check it before the trucks are loaded on to the ship in Dover and the French authorities check it before the trucks can leave the port at Calais. Both sets of authorities can delay the trucks for as long as is necessary to satisfy themselves that everything is in order. This can literally take days. Now wonder why UK based firms specialising in this type of transport and storage are moving their operations to the Netherlands. "Welcome to the Brexit sir."
Brexit -- first time in centuries a country sanctioned itself.
I love how this man, who once hosted a show where they declared that electric cars would NEVER be suitable for the average driver (high cost, low range, etc.), is doing this interview from his electric car.🤪
He didn't foresee the incredible advances made (and which are still being made) in both batteries and the software for charging / discharging.
Forgive him not being Nostradamus. I think it is admirable that he has changed his mind and is mature enough to admit he was wrong.
Sadly, some people have been brainwashed and conditioned to hate EVs for the sake of hate
@@neilgodwin6531 The three of then failed to realise that "never" is a long time and a huge claim to make. I remember thinking when I first heard them say it, that these guys in times past would look at the first weird little motorized frames and declare "It'll NEVER replace the horse!" 🤣
It was probably Clarkson who had this opinion, and still does. I remember his piece on the Toyota Prius where he tried to show that it was more environmentally damaging to produce than ICE vehicles. Sadly, there are still people regurgitating this bilge as gospel at every opportunity.
I weep about the impact of Brexit on everything. TV is relatively far down the list.
We need a new 'cross-channel customs union.' That would cut a lot of red-tape. Boris' trade deal wasn't worth the toilet paper it was written on.
Shame we didn't listen to the experts beforehand... they were telling you what would happen... and it happened.
Thank you James for actually making a clear statement and not just avoiding the question.
oh, no. television. we all weep about that. not about the lost economic generation, being shuttered out of Europe, losing all those economic markets, losing our power in europe, losing free movement. just good o'l telly budgets. I weep. I guess we got rid of all those brownies, though.
Don't worry about it. None of that will matter in 10 years when the UK is under Sharia law.
We never had any power in Europe what are you talking about / ? Losing free movement > ? people more around Europe no problem Jesus
@@rolandhawken6628 Mate, we had a flipping veto. We were basically the big cheese, because everyone who wanted to trade with Europe had to go through us. Can you imagine if we had stayed in? With the way Germany and France are going, we'd have been the big boss on the bloc. Instead we decided to cut our own nose off and go back to our abusive rel- sorry, I mean "special" relationship with the Yanks, who now own half our economy and don't give a flying what we think about it.
It was Clarkson's whinge, and May downplayed its importance overall.
@ Is that when Reform take over?
Range was rarely discussed for combustion engines because they could be fuelled easily, readily and cheaply - have you seen charging prices in service stations?!?!
£100bn PER YEAR lost from GDP. Our biggest and closest trading partners and we put UP barriers AND we still have to conform to their rules (exactly as you would with any other trade deal).
The greatest loser since Brexit, besides the British people themselves is the City of London, no longer the focus of Europe, but now simply but an offshoot of Wall Street and NASDAQ...
The City of London’s diminished status post-Brexit is emblematic of the broader economic and geopolitical challenges facing the UK. While it remains a significant global financial center, its role as the heart of European finance has been severely undermined. The shift toward greater reliance on Wall Street and NASDAQ underscores its reduced autonomy and global influence. Whether London can reinvent itself and regain its former glory will depend on its ability to adapt to a post-Brexit world and capitalize on new opportunities beyond the EU.
The City of London has never relied on the EU. It's why tax revenues are higher now than in 2016, There's a really big world outside of Europe.
BREXIT IS A HUGE SUCCESS!!!
Brexit as worked exactly as intended.
England can now maintain is tax havens for the rich.
That was the only political intention behind leaving the rules of the common market.
The scrap of EU rules is to guarantee a no easy return path.
The day the EU proposed ending tax havens the English politicians started talking about leaving the EU.
Time Line:
2013 David Cameron asks the EU not to include UK offshore trusts in the EU wide crackdown on tax avoidance , the EU says “NO”.
2014 October Arron Banks donates £1 million to UKIP.
2015 October Vote Leave “let's take back control” formed.
2016 February David Cameron announces a referendum to leave the EU.
2019 EU anti-tax avoidance proposals published.
2019 EU anti-tax avoidance laws accepted by the EU.
2020 31 January 23:00 GMT UK leaves the EU.
2020 01 February EU parliament makes ATAD (anti-tax avoidance directive) EU law, which members have to introduce to national law.
Brexit is complete, the single item on the agenda as been attained.
The rich that paid for the bus have their sovereignty now.
Don´t believe? See this:
The $20T Secret, with Stephen Fry: ua-cam.com/video/_HDFegpX5gI/v-deo.html
www.dixcart.com/moving-to-guernsey-the-benefits-and-tax-efficiencies/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/anti-tax-avoidance-package/
taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/anti-tax-avoidance-directive_en
UK legislation instead:
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/8/section/21
www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlled-foreign-companies-and-eu-anti-tax-avoidance-directive/controlled-foreign-companies-and-eu-anti-tax-avoidance-directive
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/8/contents
@@Lawrence4000-s3k
The global market has always been there and always will be, but the centres of influence are shifting and London is no longer a centre of financial influence as the money moved elsewhere primarily due to Brexit.
@@Lawrence4000-s3k The city is an institution to make and keep money and as you say is not reliant ob Europe as its principles are against the EU principles of everyone paying their fair share of tax. Trust funds and offshore accounts held by the super rich are outlawed in social caring Europe.
Europe's better off for it, too: The City of London essentially got rich through enabling tax avoidance in conjunction with the British Overseas Territories, and there's now one less place for the obscenely wealthy of Europe to hide their wealth.
Still plenty of crooks using it to wash their money, though.
I can't lie the Dacia Spring isn't a bad looking car. If had a Renault badge on it , personne, would be none the wiser. James's is quite, Brexit was a terrible idea. We all knew it would be.
IMO Dacias (and Renaults) are some of the best-looking cars around these days,, not that that's saying much.
@@bobohare4825 I think you're right. The Spring looks good. The new EV Renaults get good reviews and at least they are trying to make interesting, reletively affordable cars. I live in France now, and wouldn't mind an R5, and as I live in Lyon, we have plenty of chargers around. I'm not in either camp anymore, EV vs ICE, but I do believe in choice.
I did a quick search. 2024 models with delivery mileage are going for under £13k. Tempting... I work from home mainly but occasionally need a car. I live in Scotland though, how good are they at heating the cabin? I don't want to have to install a Chinese Diesel Heater!
@ Webasto (Germany) also makes heaters, or it used to at any rate. I had one a while back that could be started remotely, so you could warm up the car and engine before leaving the house in the morning.
@ yes. I have 2 chinese diesel heaters plus a Webasto and a Planar.
If a Dacia was available in Australia I’d buy one purely so I could hear James say Good News! in my head every time I looked at it 😂
I weep about a lot of things, not enough money to heat my house, not enough to buy decent food or eat out, buy new clothes or go on holiday. Got rid of my TV too, so to hear poor James breaks my heart.
Such a nice man
Even as anti-brexiteer and someone, who'd actually welcome UK back in the EU, I think, that the trio would not have been noticeably affected by Brexit... At least as far as the specials went. Even going back to Top Gear, the boys did their best pieces in Africa. Be it crossing the salt flats of Maghadigadi (hope I spelled that right), looking for the source of the Nile, or smuggling silver. All done in Africa, countries of which were not EU members. Sure, there were some common rules with the EU, but these things still happened outside of it.
Seven min of plugging a Dacia before brexit is even mentioned.
Never mind, he got there in the end
Ehhh… here in Denmark we’ve been talking about kilometres per liter for a long time… that’s range, isn’t it?
So have we, though "miles per gallon" because we're a very confused little set of islands that can't agree on something as simple as a universal system of measurements and therefore use a measurement of distance that's made up of 1760 units and a unit of volume that has 160 parts.
That comment was more regarding the "death" of car enthusiast culture, where one in a sense idolised the machines themselves rather than the function they might provide to your life. The same culture just has not evolved around electric vehicles, which are perfectly excellent appliances in their own right: You don't hear people talking about how many windings the motor has, or getting excited in the same way they might once about a 32 valve, dual overhead cam, twin scroll turbo combustion engine.
He weeps for a Brexit which hurts him. How about weeping for the devistation to the economy, exports, science budgets, students, fishing, farming ........?
be fair he was only discussing cars.
Yeah!. Damn right....
James May, whose had a successfully long career in journalism and TV, who is approaching retirement - has a small moan about Brexit and its impact on TV. But never mentions the decline in TV viewing, which is the main contributing factor.
...probably because he pivoted to on demand an online content a decade ago?
"I guess Brexit must make you weep a bit too James....and next let's hear from Nigel Farage for the zillionth time and not bother asking him anything about Brexit"
Right-minded people in the UK should do more than just weep over this, those responsible need to be held accountable, even prosecuted for their actions.
I was fortunate to live and work on mainland Europe for ten years in the early 2000s, with no issues apart from sorting out my income tax return. That kind of opportunity has now vanished, with no real benefit except, according to staunch Brexiteers, the supposed ability to “make our own laws.” This claim is not only nonsense but an outright lie.
Now, in an equally unpatriotic move, the very people whose deception inflicted one of the most self-destructive economic blows in my country’s history are intent on further destabilising it. They cry foul about “two-tier” policies while actively fueling racism and lawlessness at every opportunity as a distraction from the disaster they created.
BREXIT IS A HUGE SUCCESS!!!
Brexit as worked exactly as intended.
England can now maintain is tax havens for the rich.
That was the only political intention behind leaving the rules of the common market.
The scrap of EU rules is to guarantee a no easy return path.
The day the EU proposed ending tax havens the English politicians started talking about leaving the EU.
Time Line:
2013 David Cameron asks the EU not to include UK offshore trusts in the EU wide crackdown on tax avoidance , the EU says “NO”.
2014 October Arron Banks donates £1 million to UKIP.
2015 October Vote Leave “let's take back control” formed.
2016 February David Cameron announces a referendum to leave the EU.
2019 EU anti-tax avoidance proposals published.
2019 EU anti-tax avoidance laws accepted by the EU.
2020 31 January 23:00 GMT UK leaves the EU.
2020 01 February EU parliament makes ATAD (anti-tax avoidance directive) EU law, which members have to introduce to national law.
Brexit is complete, the single item on the agenda as been attained.
The rich that paid for the bus have their sovereignty now.
Don´t believe? See this:
The $20T Secret, with Stephen Fry: ua-cam.com/video/_HDFegpX5gI/v-deo.html
www.dixcart.com/moving-to-guernsey-the-benefits-and-tax-efficiencies/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/anti-tax-avoidance-package/
taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/anti-tax-avoidance-directive_en
UK legislation instead:
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/8/section/21
www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlled-foreign-companies-and-eu-anti-tax-avoidance-directive/controlled-foreign-companies-and-eu-anti-tax-avoidance-directive
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/8/contents
Brexit talk: 7:12
Thanks. Very helpful.
Plain speaking, 👍.
Just make a referendum and come back!
That wouldn't work because the next government would take us out again ... EU ping pong ... anyway the EU is breaking up
The main political parties are too terrified to even mention Brexit. It's now proven beyond all doubt that it was a disaster, didn't even reduce immigration which really was the main reason most people voted for it, they didn't really care about fishing quotas, now it's a taboo subject that no one wants to talk about.
@nomore6939 is it? I heard you saying this 30 years ago 😅
@@nomore6939 How is the EU breaking up? Has any country apart from the UK been dumb enough to leave?
@@nomore6939 BREXIT IS A HUGE SUCCESS!!!
Brexit as worked exactly as intended.
England can now maintain is tax havens for the rich.
That was the only political intention behind leaving the rules of the common market.
The scrap of EU rules is to guarantee a no easy return path.
The day the EU proposed ending tax havens the English politicians started talking about leaving the EU.
Time Line:
2013 David Cameron asks the EU not to include UK offshore trusts in the EU wide crackdown on tax avoidance , the EU says “NO”.
2014 October Arron Banks donates £1 million to UKIP.
2015 October Vote Leave “let's take back control” formed.
2016 February David Cameron announces a referendum to leave the EU.
2019 EU anti-tax avoidance proposals published.
2019 EU anti-tax avoidance laws accepted by the EU.
2020 31 January 23:00 GMT UK leaves the EU.
2020 01 February EU parliament makes ATAD (anti-tax avoidance directive) EU law, which members have to introduce to national law.
Brexit is complete, the single item on the agenda as been attained.
The rich that paid for the bus have their sovereignty now.
Don´t believe? See this:
The $20T Secret, with Stephen Fry: ua-cam.com/video/_HDFegpX5gI/v-deo.html
www.dixcart.com/moving-to-guernsey-the-benefits-and-tax-efficiencies/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/anti-tax-avoidance-package/
taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/anti-tax-avoidance-directive_en
UK legislation instead:
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/8/section/21
www.gov.uk/government/publications/controlled-foreign-companies-and-eu-anti-tax-avoidance-directive/controlled-foreign-companies-and-eu-anti-tax-avoidance-directive
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/8/contents
The people want to rejoin the EU, but political parties (with the exception of the Rejoin the EU Party), will not offer a second vote which means we no longer live in a democracy. Reform will fill the vacuum and we’ll struggle to see democracy again. Is that what we want?
The problem is that we cannot “rejoin the EU”. “Rejoin” infers going back the status quo ante, which is not a possibility and does not exist as a process . We may “apply again to be a member” but the terms on which we might join would not be like those that we so carelessly threw away and might be even more difficult to sell politically (eg in theory, any new member must commit to both the euro and Schengen). And that’s why it’s hard to raise the subject. What we might do, as an interim step to repair some of the worst economic damage, is to join the Customs Union and Single Market (pretty much the Lib Dem position) but even that is pretty fraught - it would reintroduce FOM and we’d be a “rule taker” which is much the same as the “Swiss Model” which both the EU and the Swiss hate.
Whilst still not part of England's "big two" (the bipartisan politics of the UK only applies in England & Wales; In Scotland and Northern Ireland that bipartisan failure of democracy is part of the reason why our politics is not bipartisan!), the Liberal Democrats are also in favour of rejoining the EU.
@ Full membership and the adoption of the Euro. Nothing less
@ Sounds good to me.
BJ was asked about Brexit bonus and he said the vaccine rollout…
Says it all really !
Ps well said James and Jeremy people need to hear the truth
Until the average person in the land is a millionaire we will not be going back
Clearly, you didn't watch or listen to James. To save you the bother, the cheapest new car in Britain is electric.
There, saved you 10 minutes 😂
@@neilgodwin6531what’s it like knowing your children will be serving his children and there children and there children until the end of time
On the Italian market, the most economic car is the Dacia Sandero, 13.850€. With 900€ more you have the LPG version.
The cost and admin of carnets are especially a problem for smaller productions such as 1 or 2 day corporate shoots.
Pre brexit it was common to do a short corporate video shoot in the EU as the only additional cost to a UK shoot would be the cheap flights.
Now it’s just not economical for a UK based production company to work in Europe unless it’s a big job.
'I suggest that brexit makes you weep a little bit too' (please say yes). "Well Jeremy's on his farm, Hammond's in his workshop, i'm doing various things (restaurants etc) but budgets to let us go abroad are a bit tighter". This is pathetic.
In 2022 the amount spent by the UK on energy imports topped £100bn for the first time on record, with DeSmog's analysis indicating that the UK spent more than £125.7bn on fossil fuel imports in the year 2023. As the UK transition to locally produced renewables and EVs this £200+bn will start being spent locally in the UK. Locally produced renewables and EVs are a economic imperative for the UK.
I must admit I wept when I lost my job due to Brexit.
Why has James May stopped calling them "Day-Say-Ah's"?
The Spring sits high not only for fashionable SUV feeling, but also to integrate the battery inside the car. Not making it higher would make the headroom rather tight. It's also based the Chinese Renault City K-ZE.
Dacia Spring = pure chinese car and french rip off when they introduced it here for 3000€ more than in france.
We do not buy Dacia at all anymore - and spring is a worse ev with slow charging speed.
Yes! Let's give 35 billion pounds a year to the EU like we used to, and see if we get anything back ... But don't hold your breath, eh?
Swansea University was literally built with EU money. As were many such institutions. We genuinely got back more than we paid to them, even without considering the benefits outside of the purely financial.
@@TAttiusMaximvsCornwall and the north of England were literally showered with EU money, and Manchester’s tram network was built with EU funds. You lot are really poorly informed aren’t you?
You bought into the lies and disinformation
One thing he didn't say , that Dacia is made in China.
It's made in Romania and Morocco, and based on the Renault platform.
@JillesvanGurp no. It's made in China.
We never got Brexit.
This is as brexity as it gets, it’s a mess but you wanted it.
@@kanderson4417 the UK left the EU in 2020, what other Brexit was there on the menu?
There is no alternative reality where British businesses and workers retain access to the Single Market without accepting free movement to and FROM Europe. You can’t have your cake and eat it! If you want to regain your freedom of movement you’ll have to get used to once again competing with better skilled and more reliable Eastern European tradespeople
No - what you're complaining about is that you got exactly what you voted for, and now you don't like the reality of it. Just admit that.
We got Brexit on 31 January 2020.
@ and immediate labour shortages too, because it turns out Leave voters were keen to get rid of EU workers but not keen enough to take their jobs!
It’s not odd that people want to know the range as you have to factor it into your journey times and plan accordingly.
UKs cheapest car in 2025 at £16K...well five years ago the Dacia Sandero had a RRP of just over £14K and it wasn't the cheapest car on the market at the time. All that has happened is UK car prices have gone up to the point an EV has become the cheapest!
A new Skoda citigo was £9,500…….
Yeah we had a bit of inflation
If you travell in Norway or Denmark you will have NO problem finding a charger!
Or most of Europe.
Brexit severely impacted the better-off bourgeoisie accustomed to their annual skiing holidays and their little cottage in Tuscany. For the vast bulk of the UK population it has made no difference at all. We can still have our fortnight in Shagaluf, Benidorm, Turkey or Thailand and we're still in the Top Ten wealthiest and most powerful countries on the Planet. The message of the disaster that is Brexit clearly hasn't been understood by many foreign nationals who are still willing to pay with their lives to get here in leaky rubber boats.
Our electrician who was a Brexit voter was bemoaning the fact that whenever construction has a down time he could get work in Holland or Belgium, he didn’t like it but it put food on the family table. Brexits cost of £100B a year hurts the poorest in this country the most
Very true. If everyone in the country has a certain freedom which what you deem an insufficient number of people make use of, then said freedom might as well be taken away from everyone in return for absolutely no benefit or upside.
Sound logic that man. 👏
@maxwild1212
Wibble.
@ 🙂
"For the vast bulk of the UK population it has made no difference at all." - as long as we ignore the macroeconomics 😉
best thing i ever did was throw my tv out and havent watched for years its great not being lied to everyday
My PCs are connected to my 65 inch TV.
Your on UA-cam !!!!!!!!!!
@ its not tv
The ONLY time i watch my cable tv is when there's world cup or European cup in football going on, or some other BIG sporting event, maybe a bit of the best Champions League games or Wimbledon and similar. Been like that for YEARS now. Maybe even for the 15 years in my life. I also deleted my Facebook and Twitter FOREVER back in the 2015/16. And NEVER even used the Instagram.
😎👍
Got Spotify and Netflix on my smart tv (got my music, movies and tv shows covered) , got my gaming PC connected to my smart tv via hdmi cable, (obviously for the video games), got Viber on my smartphone phablet, as well as Netflix, and other stuff, using the UA-cam regularly, mostly for my FAVORITE music and documentaries. That's MORE than enough.
You're on UA-cam, which is not regulated. Are you on Facebook and Twitter? More lies there than on TV.
I used to order loads from the UK, now I do everything I can to order elsewhere
A car's petrol or diesel displayed range is generally not completely accurate, meaning it can overestimate or underestimate the distance you can drive on a full tank depending on driving conditions, speed, acceleration, and even weather. Just like EVs. I own an EV & I have never ran out of range.
This is not about the EU. It is about a Dacia.
Why does nobody say about Dacia: they gain value after buying them pretty much
He's decided to pronounce Dacia properly. This is good.
It’s what we chose to do in this country and our politicians don’t have the courage to bring it up as a political issue.
I read James’s article yesterday and enjoyed it as I always do. I get his point but if you don’t want a cheap car and you want something a bit more comfortable then the electric version is still likely to be more expensive than it’s fossil fuel equivalent (for now). So not convinced it’s a game changer but it may point to a direction of travel for the future? Time will tell.
You could make a very small and very cheap EV by attaching wheels, battery and a small washing machine motor to a toilet and call it a car. (I think it will be called 'The Craper' not quite as good as the Hyper Pooper, but that may already be trademarked). This does not mean anyone would want one!
oh yeh, its impact on television was the worst part, how did i not see that?
Oh the heart bleeds
I'm not sure why both the presenter and James think range anxiety "odd". We never talk about range anxiety with petrol / diesel cars because you are always no more than 10 miles away from a re-fueling station in the UK - thus, no anxiety!!
Does James have a “I bought this before we knew he was crazy’ sticker on his Tesla?
Maybe a sticker: "purchased in the Weimar Republic".
The moment he mentioned the Sunday Times, I tuned out. I do not want to engage with the promotion of right-wing misinformation.
Brexit wasn't the problem, it was the lies of Boris in the implementation of Brexit. He opened the flood gates to migration and never had an idea how to implement Brexit. However in the eords of Cicero, " don't blame Cesar, blame the people of Rome, who gave him Triumph".
He couldn't implement Brexit "properly" because there IS no "properly" to this. It was always a promise to have your cake an eat it too, there was no good outcome to this. Farage took the collective anger of the overlooked working class and pinned all of their very complicated issues on one scapegoat: immigration. The immigrants are ruining the country and Brexit will get rid of them, he said. The truth is the UK population has ONLY grown at all in the past 20 years because of immigration, the UK birthrate is declining. In its current state the UK can't sustain itself without the help of foreigners.
We don’t need more people. The country is on its knees
I somewhat agree with James but I would have to say it wouldn't necessarily mean the cheapest car for electric. But a comparable , well designed car for the same price or close to the same as a combustion engine version. The Dacia isn't available in our market but I would hope it is half decent design and build quality. BYD has built out a growing market share here versus Tesla in our market. Similarly I am seeing a few electric MG on the road as well.
Hey James, speaking of Dacia, please tell me. Did the Dacia Sandero ever make it to our shores?
Nothing to do with Brexit and all about a new electric car
Ugh...
The Dacia Spring 100% electric with limited range, especially in winter.
Funny to hear how different the discourse is about electric cars depending on which country you are from. I am from Denmark and here the talk is more about WHEN will everything be electric. Americans I see sound like the will give up their gasolin cars about the same time as they will their guns. In the UK appearently it is "we will see what the consumers say" when frankly that is not an option here.
Do you think, just possibly, that the reason people ‘fuss’ so much about range on an EV is due to the challenges in finding working charging points with no queue, the cost of public EV charing often exceeding buying petrol/diesel, and then it taking an hour to ‘refill’. Do you think if an ICE took an hour to refill the tank with petrol stations being few and far between, being liable to be found not working and might require a looong wait someone else already fuelling, people might similarly ‘fuss’ about petrol (diesel) car range? Just possibly? And 80% of journeys being under whatever range is a pointless argument. The issue is about; So what about those _over_ the car’s range?
I drive my Leaf and get 8 kms per kwh..which is an accurate way to know if your chewing up juice going fast or slamming on brakes rather than letting the regen do it and recharge battery. Up and down hills in ECO mode can actually extend your range...
I miss Man Lab and Toy Stories. James May at his best.
Love James May. He's in national treasure territory now.
As a Yank I remember when we worried about range during the two gas cut offs in the 70s and again in the early 80s. So whether its gas or electric if its hard to get range is an issue.
You can't see it, it's electric!
Boogie -woogie -woogie!
The reson is that wen we voted, both conservative and liebour didn't think the uk would hav voted out . Government and oppersipn did not hav a plan wat to do nxt.😢
mate it's your viewers who voted Brexit
🤣🤣🤣 but they are too daft realise
The “Top Gear/Whetherspoon” venn diagram demographic
No one talks about the ICE range because you can top it up in 2 minutes at any petrol station. Do the same for EVs and people will be interested in other specs. Not that weird really.
The major problem with electric cars is the logistics involved with charging the battery. The power has to be generated , by wind turbines, fossil fuel, solar and nuclear power etc. Then has to be distributed, nationally and the locally to where the cars will be charged. There are problems at each stage.
1) There insufficient power generation capacity.
2) The national grid has the wrong confirmation to collect and distribute power from wind farms etc. It was designed to distribute power from centrally located power stations, that was based on start networks.
3) The substations that distribute power locally and to each house have insufficient capacity to supply, if everyone try to charge their cars at the same time.
4) There are many people that do not have access to convenient chargers.
5) Community charging, on street etc is inadequate and expensive. Fast chargers at motorway service stations are too few in number and are extremely expensive.
6) The batterie are expensive and are contracted using scares eg; rare earth metals, that are obtained in unstable regions of the world and/or are controlled by China etc. As yet these batteries cannot be recycled.
Bring back the VW Beetle.
Dacia Spring had one star in the crash test... no thanks.
"...whether people are ready for electric cars...". Shouldn't this be: "whether electric cars are ready for people"? Apparently, we should continue throwing common sense out the window and, in unison, admit: "We're not worthy, we're not worthy...!"
Oh look a rich man working for the media complaining about brexit
Being rich isn’t a prerequisite of understanding that leaving was a ridiculous idea that has brought no benefits to us whatsoever.
@@mwd331 exactly
Every area of industry is suffering because of the absurd sanctions that we've imposed on ourselves by leaving
@@mwd331 it means u don’t understand why people voted leave as u don’t live the lives that they do,do u seriously think the average working class man who’s seen his wages compressed by mass migration cares one bit that some rich guy who works in the media has a harder time working in bloody Spain
@@peterburry2531 no it’s not at all
Brexit disaster unforgivable !