Brexit was a 'disaster of my life' | Anthony Horowitz
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2024
- “I will not vote Conservative at the next election.”
Despite Anthony Horowitz’s son working in Downing Street, the author says he’s more inclined to “spoil” his ballot paper than vote Tory.
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Pro Sunak? Oh dear. Cant name one thing he has done other than not being Truss?😂
That'll do though for a start. He does seem like the only normal bloke left in a party of hat stands though. Not that I would vote for him but all the talent were chucked out due to Brexit so him and May were the only two left who were not morons they are though not good enough.
He's got nice teeth
Anthony couldn't think of anyone who could've done a better job thank Sunak. Odd for such a talented author to be so lacking in imagination.
Interesting interview and agree we need to change our political system. Sadly, it grated to hear Anthony describe Sunak as a "decent man" when Sunak is anything but. Remember, it was Sunak, who, when Chancellor and advised schools needed urgent attention due to aerated concrete and requested an increase in budget to repair 400 schools a year, slashed the budget from 100 to 50, then spent hardly anything on schools. Remember too, he ignored the experts and lied about it when introducing eat out to help out. Sunak did nothing to stop the VIP Lane for PPE and has written off millions due to fraud. As for being PM, Sunak is totally inept. We desperately need a General Election.
He achieved net zero.
Net zero progress that is.
His comments on the tone of political discourse seemed to forget that the Conservatives have been setting it for 14 years and have amplified the negativity by promoting some very troubling policies with divisive rhetoric. Many policies seemed to have been to the detriment of disadvantaged groups and any more generous policies have be watered down and often cancelled.
And promoting very troubling and divisive MPs alongside them, yes.
Gay marriage being a policy of the Torys , Oh contraire. They were forced kicking and screaming after the hugely discriminatory vile section 28. Largely due to most of Europe equalising the age of consent and member states implementing equality laws in their own countries. Sunak is weak, being led by the rabid faction of his party lurching further to the extreme right and the constant picking away at progress we have made of human rights. The damage unfortunately for a lot of people has already been done.
I agree. He lost my respect half way through when he skirted the question on his voting intentions. I feel he let himself down badly in blaming politicians generally for Britain’s woes, having just explained his opinion on Brexit, and saying he’s going to spoil his ballot paper. Abrogation of responsibility and a complete inability to hold his own tribe to account for its failings and gross mishandling of things.
Every change of PM, we are reminded people voted for the party, not the person. Here you are defending the person when in fact it’s the same party that has done so much damage and so little good for the country. Blame Covid, Ukraine etc but they have had over a decade and have spent their time squabbling, squandering and dividing. It will take Labour years to sort their mess out unfortunately.
The tories have ensured a labour government for a very long time. Thank you!
finally, the people noticed that they were being pick-pocketed
A mighty landslide awaiting.
Guarantee within 24 months you will be wanting to see the back of New Labour. Ask those of us who voted for them in 1997 and by mid 2ks were voting Tory. Both parties are now a joke.
Brexit has eaten its children, the only benefit of Brexit was the destruction of the Tories and their move to the far right, which the UK has never voted in. The only problem is that with a 150 majority Starmer won't even touch PR.
Tories & Labour are two cheeks of the same backside. Nothing much will change.
I will not spoil my ballot. That’s another way that thé tories can be re elected. I will be tactically voting to remove Michelle Donelan from her seat.
A tad unfair, a 2 second clip that misrepresentated a 13 min conversation....
Thanks for the heads up, you've just saved me 12 minutes!
Totally full of his own self-importance.
Which party broke the political system Anthony? Which one?
Title should be ‘Why I won’t vote Tory EVER again’.
Uk is not united anymore
it never was - convenient only for the aristocracy / monarchy of the times and for us In Cymru/Wales forced upon us
And Scotland. I wish England would wake up and loosen off their shackles.
@@yddraigoch It never was but better communication,like the internet,has enabled outliers to identify with other outliers to form groups.
I’m pretty sure they are united on getting the migrants out.
Is he complaining about neighbours in London not knowing each other? That’s been that way for a very long time.
Absolutely right about Brexit, Anthony.
Absolutley wrong and clueless. Just some middle class posh snob who knows nothing about real working Britain. I wish i could sit around all day writing fairy tales.
Sententious trash from just one more posturing metropolitan bourgeois mediocrity.
But it's the only thing he is right about .
How can you write detective novels and have no idea about what the torys have done to this country in the last 14 long year . Austerity destroyed the british economy and then we got brexit.
Spoil his paper....why bother leaving the desk..
O its all about him 🙄
I love the Brexit Soap Opera, apart from Knife plays over there.
I loved Anthony's James Bond books!
He was a Great Piano Player but He Torks Krap
Isn't Anthony frightfully posh? I never heard him speak before.
So if brexit is so bad, and yet labour won't do anything to fix it. How are they going to make it work it baffles me
Why is he wearing that cap indoors?
My sons love reading Alex Rider books…..I feel very grateful to Anthony for helping them to enjoy reading
I like his literary and TV work, however another apologist who thinks that each Tory PM seems to represent an entirely new government and party. Also not really fully acknowledging the significant connection of one of the biggest disasters in his lifetime (Brexit), with the Tory party. Naive at best. Stick to the writing mate.
What a charmed life!! Fancy being so devastated by democracy...more elitist, patronising drivel...
Gay Marriage! Tories appropriate everything. ‘BORIS’ bikes ffs.
The Disaster of my Life was when we Joined
This guy has spent too much time with his head in his books instead of in reality mixing with ordinary working class people and thats why hes so out of touch with the people.
Has Brexit improved ordinary working class people's lives, then?
Looking good. Another Hawthorne book, fantastic! I think these would be great on telly. If you can do a good job with Magpie Murders, which you did, that should be a breeze. Oh, by the way: please more Pund in book form and on telly! 5 more books to go I believe, even though he's dead (not a spoiler).
I am not at all surprised that you share my feelings on Brexit, I suspect you do on Ukraine as well. Looks like there might be such a thing as a decent Tory lol.
I'll be voting labour as think the EU might be more friendlier with them to the tories
Yes but its Trumps America we need to be friendlier with. Labour and Trump will not get on.
Rishi, as a good guy.
I don't think so.
He made his money as a disaster capitalist.
Said openly that he was taking money from poorer areas to give to wealthier areas in a speech.And this guy thinks he is a decent person.
Lie about Brexit and free port .
Which we had in this country, and David Cameron got rid of them.
It says a lot about this guy.
Is Starmer not a decent man?
Do decent people lie ? About policy, 'friends' ?
He's a Pabloist.
Yes without a doubt we really need to unite the country.
Have to stop the Tories, Reform,Tice, Farage, GBN and Talk Talk their scapegoat, division, divide, anger and hate plus humongous greed before we can't. Grave indeed.
He’s got to be given a chance. It can’t be worse than last 14 years.
@@hosephanerothe1440 What are you talking about?
he sounds like michael mcintyre
Gosh, if only millions of Brits warned millions of other Brits that Brexit was a really dumb idea.
The title is clickbait, sorry.
We don't get to the title subject until 11:44! Don't waste my time.
Correct about Brexit Anthony. It's a great interview, very passionate.
I have zero interest in what this chap thinks.
At least he's light hearted. Better that than the usual celeb "I'm so great pesants" malarkey.
Jog on then!
Rory Stewart would have made a good PM.
But of course Johnson kicked out all the sane MPs in the Tory Party.
Davit Gawk also would have neen a good choice.
I like Times interviews but two things consistently grate:
- please don’t put the most interesting part of the video as a teaser, it just means I know I’ve seen the best bit.
- the clickbait titles are getting extreme, this was a great interview with a fantastic author discussing his great work, not about Brexit.
What do you mean you don't like watching a 30 second clip that's repeated later on in, even in their short 3 min videos?!
I would vote Tory but for Sunak. The man has no respect for this country or its religion. He has enough money to go and live anywhere that his religion would be more in keeping with his beliefs. Leave Sunak and take your family with you.
No need for the preview
we are still getting foyles war , which is really good, here in australia
politically naive person
Yes, spends all his time writing fairy tales. Probably doesnt go out into the real world and mix with ordinary working people.
As one with a Econ background, I attest that a grand total of zero Economists have ever stated:
"For free trade or prosperity, a country must surrender its sovereignty."
Or use the doppelganger method to ascertain profit and loss of a hypothetical membership.
The fact the remainers eat it up and blurt it out as gospel is a chilling example of how dire our education system has become.
Are economists concerned with sovereignty?
Really? What about all those "free" market economists out there? National sovereignty means very little to the very rich. It's the rest of us who are affected by our jobs disappearing to countries where the locals can be obliged to do them more cheaply.
free trade, prosperity and sovereignty are not precise terms, says me as an economics graduate.
@@nigel642 This EU as a political entity is an abomination to Liberty.
Precise enough? :)
As a free trade zone?
Bravo.
Its currency?
The EU got hoodwinked by Greece and a few others, leaving Germany on the hook.
That Greece, Spain and others hurt themselves more than helped via Euro adoption is debatable.
At least the UK told the EU to go self-fornicate with regarding to letting the Pound evaporate into a memory.
Gay marriage wouldnt have happened without the coalition.
Horritzs sounds very British 😂
I''m glad that Horowitz has become a remainder, but really, his scripts are notorious for mangling, distorting and dumbing down other people's novels and plays for the screen. He is a misogynist conservative's idea of a good writer whose stories, strangely enough, mostly involve murders of attractive women ir murderers who turn to be attractive women. Have a look if you don't believe me.
That last bit isn't really true for Alex Rider, the majority of villains and victims are blokes.
Tory party was always Remain.
Doesn’t he know brexiters don’t care.
Brexities neither care nor know about much.
No, we don't; If he loves his totalitarian undemocratic superstate, he is free to move back to Poland. The reason its been a shambles is because of the infestation of remainers doing everything in their power to defy the will of the people.
Absolutely. It's those two communal brain cells that stop them.
@@stevedavidson666 Wipe your tears buttercup.
😊
Infinite levels of soy.
Jeez. First honest Torie I have seen in some time
Well said Anthony. I do think most politicians enter politics with good intentions.
Risi entered politics to make as much money out of it as possible and get an Indian trade deal so he could make even more money with his father in law.
Luvvie nonsense.
Luvvie is better than hateie
Blame it on Nigel Farage and Boring Johnson. Both should be arrested and thrown into prison
Stick to writing.
Go and live in the EUSSR then Anthony. Simple, isn't it?
Did you vote Tory last time? Probably not so your view is irrelevant.
Its a cop out to spoil your paper. Millions of people fought and died to vote
and citizens of UK are encouraged to spoil it.
Very woke indeed this is the first time I have used this nonsensical word then again to spoil your vote is nonsensical.
I agree. One may abstain, or vote for the least worst option. Voting is important, as you point out.
Legalise cannabis. Use the brexit, because you are not bound to EU laws!
Nothing to do with Brexit. The first EU country that legalised cannabis was the Netherlands in 1976. Other EU countries followed suit.
@@AlexGys9 this is completly wrong. The Nederlands did not legalise it. Eu laws prohibit selling of cannabis. Posession must be legal. Shops must open.
@@suki4410 Tell that to Germany, 🤡 they just made it legal
How can he say gay marriage is one of the best things the conservatives have done? That is one of the most unconservative things a government could do. There is nothing conservative about allowing gay marriage. If thats what you want to do fine, but dont pretend to be conservatives when you are not conserving anything.
Conserving Love, I think.
@@richardmorgan8079 Gay marriage is a contradiction of terms. Marriage is between a man and a woman and always has been. To go against that is the opposite of conservative no matter how you try to twist and gaslight with emotions and feelings.
@@richardmorgan8079 Love of what?
Love of other human beings
@richardmorgan8079 So who is saying people of the same sex can't love one another? I've loved many other men in my long life and felt no oppression for doing so. What's the problem?
He is a narcissist, look to the way he talks
Ok mister pop psychologist
What do you mean?
I’m sure you’re qualified to give a psychological and behavioural profile on someone.
Self important shill
You must have a sad life Sonny! Why are people like you so afraid of running your own country? you could always go to North Korea!
In reality it's less sovereignty and less running own country, because the REAL decisions are taken in Bruxelles and Washington.
Globalisation is over, so the fantasy has no resolution.
Probably because the UK can no longer pretend that the world not a global community.
awww bless. does Kim have an ofshore bank account he funnels our money into?
North Korea doesn’t run itself? That’s amazing. I thought it was a supreme example of a state that runs itself.
The fookin irony of your post 😂
Never heard of him. Do I care what he thinks about Brexit? No. We had a free and fair referendum and the leave side won, so we left; It's called "democracy" mate. Get over it.
We know, you keep telling us. The flip side is that people are allowed to talk about it if that is what they want to do. People are also allowed to change their minds. People voted for a Tory government less than five years ago. Millions of them have since changed their mind. It's called democracy, you get over it. BTW, I couldn't give two effs what you think.
Oh how horrid of you, surely cheap wine & champagne are more important than democracy 😊
@@gio-oz8gf "Millions of them have since changed their mind." - Really? When were these "millions" asked? A country can't just hop in and out of the EU as the mood takes it. Even if a majority of the UK public wanted to rejoin - on the new terms including accepting the Euro - the UK doesn't currently meet the Copenhagen Criteria for EU Accession, so it's out of the question.
@@dogglebird4430 NO WE ALL LOST,and now we are the lapdogs of the US china and the EU.A very small island complying to every powerful alliance,and not so ,like australia NZ.We used to have a seat,now we have back servants door
@@dogglebird4430 A recent poll put Brexit popularity at 33%. It certainly won't be a vote winner at the next GE. Most people have just lost interest in Brexit. Probably because it has not delivered one worthwhile thing for the country. Though I'll take that back if the Tories get demolished on election night. They really are up a certain creek. And one of their own making.
I think Brexit has been a success. We were told by remainers that all the big companies & banks would leave Britain, 3 million unemployed, emergency budget after we left, 50 mile lorry queues at Dover, British planes would not be able to land in EU airports, medical & food shortages in Britain none of that happened. I wouldn't mind people still harping on about the EU but they got all the problems we got even worse in some EU countries. The EU got more illegal migrants than Britain, Germany been in recession, farmers protesting across the EU & many EU countries voting in anti EU MEPs.
Brexit has been a success cos loads of these bad things didn't happen that much. Ffs 🤦♂️
There ARE queues at Dover. Or sorry, not quite Dover because they have actually been moved inland but they are still there and going to get worse. And food quality, choice and longevity have definitely declined. If you want a certain brand it’s no longer guaranteed. Before we used to go shopping, buy five or six dinners and not think about when we had them. Now there’s definitely shorter dates so we have to have them before they go out of date, not necessarily when we want them. Brexit has had ZERO benefits.
Typical Gammon logic
Banking has left the UK!?
Huge lorry parks and long lines of lorries and cars......much smaller now because thousands don't even bother to move in and out of the UK.
Nearly everything this chap says is...........wrong!
How does that happen.......well the Nazis were very good at it just before WW2. Now Russia is at it and the UK press is at ot.
It's brainwashing the masses........happens all the time by the rich and powerful who own the media.
Believe your eyes not what you're told.
We're massively worse off and the best excuse you can offer is, 'the roof didn't fall in'? ...Thick as gammon.
Hes a hack but I'll take it