The EU is a house, in which we live with 28 countries. Now one of them leaves the house and throws away the keys. You are then outside, in the cold, rain, snow, wind etc. Why would you do that???
I'm a card carrying Libdem but the SNP are pretty damn clear (they'd get my vote in scot where under FPTP they'd be most likely to win). And so are the Greens. So it's not just my party. And we all need to work together 1. Get the Tories out. 2. Get PR 3. Get the ppl of Scotland a second Referendum on independence (nb I really want them to stay so as to get trapped in a small Tory Wangland). 4. Continously with all that work on the process of returning to the EU, which will be far from easy.
Every week I’m more aware of your intense anger and frustration that I share 100%. I met David Davies MP ex-Brexit secretary one to one and he was unable to articulate a single benefit of Brexit. It’s becoming clearer to me that as Brexit was never defined in terms of outcome, people like him and other politicians say this isn’t the Brexit they voted for. What we’ve actually done is set fire to the house (got Brexit done) and we’re now living in the garden shed and pretending it’s all better. It’s utter madness.
Another brexit fact which no one is talking about is the brexit divorce settlement which is now at 51 billion pounds and not the 37 billion pounds we was led to beleive . This is the equivalent of the UK paying into the EU for the next 15 years with nothing in return , we might as well stayed in we would've been much better off .
@@sharonwashington8150 he didn't expect to win! he just wanted to be "World King" and use the Anti European back benchers to vote him into office as PM, so shockingly he had no plan for the Country, he is a despicable individual. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Loved the guy on Question Time this week who shouted Brexit down at such length that even Fiona Bruce had to utter the "B" word. Keep up the good work, Michael!
So sorry for concerned people like yourself Michael. Decline is the new norm and where that will take Britain cannot be good. So many politicians are in denial with no sign of seeing sense anytime soon.
There's another very worrying aspect to Brexit and that's the removal of our basic human rights since it happened. I don't remember the Leave campaign talking about that. A dictatorship is not far away.
Many think a dictatorship is already here. Look at the political choice on offer. Just like on the US, UK voters are presented with a choice between two cheeks of the same neoliberal arse. Our politicians are all clowns or actors. Our once beloved Beeb is now nothing more than a ventriloquists dummy. Our newspapers hav been biased uncritical junk for decades. It's simply a dump!
You watched Question Time. Ian Blackford was the audience favourite, applauded and cheered with every answer. Why ? Common sense and reality. It was an English audience agreeing with the Westminster Leader of the SNP.
Not talking about Brexit doesn't remove the elephant from the room. Brexiteers need to get over Brexit failures and accept rejoining is the only solution to the UK's political-economic disaster. Micheal second a rate front bench. You are too generous. They are the worse of the worse.
Brexit is so important but I think there's much more, which can not easily be fixed. Our universities are profit driven so they educate foreigners leaving Britons lacking in basic education to be engineers, doctor's, nurses, police professionals etc. We have to resort to police helpers with a weeks training, immigration officers with a week's training, lorry driver's with fast track licences and and and. The system is rotten to the core. We don't manufacture anything any more which means importing goods from people that do. We've sold off the silver to foreign companies, water, transport, property, energy and are in the process of selling the NHS. I'm not an economist but if you owned the electricy company, you would only pay for the production costs. But if the electricy company is owned by foreigners, you still have to pay for the production costs but also have to pay profits to the owners. If the owners are foreigners, all that profit goes overseas as a negative export. The British workers are no longer working for Britain but are working for foreigners. It's one thing to say that we need foreign investment but it has gone too far. When the government can't balancecits books, it sells off the silver and squanders things like our north sea oil. Does our army and navy still belong to us? Who actually owns the aircraft carriers, jets and Polaris submarines? I wonder how much we can get for the crown jewels?
32% think Brexit was a good idea. Still the shareholders that divide the spoils of UK plc will not allow to have the discussion, so 32% is now an overwhelming majority.
Hi Micheal, I truly appreciate your excellent videos. You're a fantastic source of knowledge and wisdom on this issue (Brexit). I'm so glad you're speaking your mind, negative or not - people need to hear this.
Comparing the Brexit vote as a dad telling their children they are going to go to Disneyland is both hilarious and scarily close to what actually happened. How little normal folks know of international trade becomes really clear when you look at UK fisherman who just thought leaving the EU would be great for their catching quota's but were never told and never considered the fact they would lose half their customers in the process.
As ever, your voice rings out with its message of the utter mess Brexit has wreaked on the nation. You're so right about the conspiracy of silence around the B word. Trying to bring it up in social conversation meets with blank looks. The nation is being gaslit on a grand scale by politicians and people follow like sheep. You're right, too, in claiming that political figures must call this madness out and try to steer the ship back in the right direction. Thanks, Michael, for keeping up the momentum about this vital message. It may be depressing to hear, but it's the necessary medicine against the head in the sand disorder.
I emigrated from England to Australia in 2015 and watched in shock from afar as the Brits voted in favour of financial suicide. Australians would always ask me what on earth my fellow countrymen were doing. Even on the other side of the world they could see the clear folly of Brexit. On a personal level I am relieved to be out as what is happening there is shockingly bad. We are feeling the effects of the pandemic lockdowns, the restrictions in movement/tourism etc that brought, rising energy prices etc but Australians are saying ‘it could be worse, you could be in Britain’. Britain is becoming an example of how to screw things up properly.
Scottish exports to Europe were projected to drop by 9% due to Brexit. The people of Scotland did not vote for Brexit because it was going to be catastrophic to the economy. Westminster says Scotland must do as England does. The predictions were an underestimation, exports from Scotland are down 13%. Sinking ship, what to do ?
North of Ireland 25% corporation tax, republic of Ireland 12.5% corporation tax I know where I'll be investing, another Brexit benefit, for Ireland that is .
I live in Sweden, and as an anglophile I am (with the exception of my like-minded father) one of very, very few individuals residing here who would like to live in the UK for some part of their life. This has been the case for as long as I can remember and thus has little (if anything) to do with the current British predicament. Swedes are generally fond of British people and culture and enjoy coming over as tourists, but are not impressed by their living standards and the ways in which their society is governed. This usually comes as a complete surprise to (mainly) English people (in stark contrast to ppl of many other nationalities who tend to idealize Swedish society), and I have long felt that there is an unfortunate tendency among the English to underestimate the world around them/overestimate themselves in relation to others. Am I far off in suspecting that Brexit would never have happened had the English had a more realistic view of themselves? The analogy in this episode illustrates this nicely, I think. The overrepresentation of the upper classes, so pervasive throughout British establishment, must have contributed to this unfortunate and misleading streak of self-aggrandizement. Sweden isn't and has never been a perfect society, but it is a damn decent one. The Swedish working classes organized and educated themselves over a century ago, took over government and create the so called Swedish Model of a welfare state that has survived until this day and, although flawed, has been a true blessing to grow up in. The sense of gratitude and reverence towards the establishment is enormous. How I wish for the UK to experience something similar. This, combined with British culture, would make the UK irresistible to the Vikings who I'm sure would then want to invade the British Isles all over again.
You are spot on, that's the problem (for the 27% of the UK population that voted to leave at least). The rest of us have no such illusions, and miss our friends in Europe
A good analogy for Brexit is this: Sitting at a table with a beautiful meal in front of you, and the waiter says "Would you like to trade it for this mystery meal inside this box?". You say yes and open it, and it is just a stale loaf of bread. Yes, the majority of referendum voters voted for Brexit, but, come on now; NO ONE knew what Brexit was.
@@harveybrown37 You mean the Generation that saved us from the Nazis....ok then. The same generation that voted Churchill out and helped form the postwar welfare state, give them some credit.
@@harveybrown37 my father who was a navigator on Lancasters did! Maybe he was a delusional halfwit Gammon, who just happened to risk his life for us all.
Agreed, but they do not actually believe this stuff, their job is to fool Daily Mail readers into thinking that they believe it. The tory party is entirely based on lies.
The main problem with Brexit is that the world knows about it. Putting two fingers up to 45% of our entire export economy is not going to go un-noticed. All other countries are going to see it and exploit our position.
I like it when you used the children analogy, whether the guy should leave his job. Ken Clark said that if you gave the public the choice between the National Gallery and Alton Towers theme park, guess which they would go for!
Sorry, but do you seriously think that the EU would have us back after the complete fools this government have made of us? We are the pariahs of Europe. Rejoin the single market and free movement are the absolute best we can expect, at least in my lifetime (I'm 67).
You cannot join the single market. It is only for members EEA = EFTA+EU. You are a third country outside of these two organisations and as such cannot be in the single market and will not have any agreement to let you into the single market only.
The first step to solving a problem...Acknowledging that it exists
And the fact that any mention of Brexit has been barred from the Labour party.
It's just ridiculous.
When did this happen, and from whom?
Got to secure the Red Wall first I guess !
The best explanation of the Brexit disaster that l have listened to.
BREXIT IS AN ENGLISH TRAUMA.
The EU is a house, in which we live with 28 countries. Now one of them leaves the house and throws away the keys. You are then outside, in the cold, rain, snow, wind etc. Why would you do that???
Because you are British and grave your sovereignty.
@@springchicken893 a fine epitaph for the UK's grave stone.
The blatant lies one hears on a daily basis from politicians and their hangers on is staggering. Your honest and common sense analyses are so welcome…
So far, only one party is consistently honest about Brexit from day one that is Lib Dem Thanks, Michael you are spot on with your analysis.
Scottish National Party and the Greens.
I'm a card carrying Libdem but the SNP are pretty damn clear (they'd get my vote in scot where under FPTP they'd be most likely to win). And so are the Greens. So it's not just my party. And we all need to work together 1. Get the Tories out. 2. Get PR 3. Get the ppl of Scotland a second Referendum on independence (nb I really want them to stay so as to get trapped in a small Tory Wangland). 4. Continously with all that work on the process of returning to the EU, which will be far from easy.
Every week I’m more aware of your intense anger and frustration that I share 100%. I met David Davies MP ex-Brexit secretary one to one and he was unable to articulate a single benefit of Brexit. It’s becoming clearer to me that as Brexit was never defined in terms of outcome, people like him and other politicians say this isn’t the Brexit they voted for. What we’ve actually done is set fire to the house (got Brexit done) and we’re now living in the garden shed and pretending it’s all better. It’s utter madness.
The UK was never a good member of the EU and they deserve this. De Gaulle was right !
They will be keeping a very sharp eye on whatever we, in future, beg of them.
The Tories are 100%too blame
Well, Nigel Farage (multi-millionaire hedge funder) is more to blame. He scared the Tories into Brexit. #TraitorFarage
You are spot on Michael. Totally correct on every point. When will people listen?
In a sane world, for Brexit and Covid , the Tories should face charges of treason.
Another brexit fact which no one is talking about is the brexit divorce settlement which is now at 51 billion pounds and not the 37 billion pounds we was led to beleive .
This is the equivalent of the UK paying into the EU for the next 15 years with nothing in return , we might as well stayed in we would've been much better off .
Depressing but too true. God save us all.
Right you are, Mr Lambert. We need big changes now more than ever.
The only political leader who is crystal clear about the need to rejoin the EU is Nicola Sturgeon. The rest all appear to have lost their minds.
We seem to have leaders who seem to think the country is their personal plaything.
All horribly true - thank you, Michael, you should be PM!
Thank you Mr. Lambert for the brilliant content, you help us keep our sanity in a world gone mad.
Less than 2 years after the transition period ended, and we are literally swimming in sh*t. Well done, btexiteers.
Blame Boris! He was the LIAR who promised and DIDNOT deliver!!
@@sharonwashington8150 he didn't expect to win! he just wanted to be "World King" and use the Anti European back benchers to vote him into office as PM, so shockingly he had no plan for the Country, he is a despicable individual. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
It was the Tories that "got it done" according to Johnson and his abysmal party.
Loved the guy on Question Time this week who shouted Brexit down at such length that even Fiona Bruce had to utter the "B" word. Keep up the good work, Michael!
Should add that the audience supported him all the way!
Glorious common sense!
we need more people willing to speak uncomfortable truths. like michael .
Once again a very accurate summation of this catastrophic government.
Brilliant and honest assessment, Mr. Lambert.
Excellent as always. Thank you
Exactly Mr Lambert 👍. thanks very much for your video 👍👍👍
What we need is a "Dig for Brexit" then we would have cabbages on the table as well as in the cabinet.
So sorry for concerned people like yourself Michael. Decline is the new norm and where that will take Britain cannot be good. So many politicians are in denial with no sign of seeing sense anytime soon.
Spot on.
Mr Lambert, please keep going, your analysis and methodology is correct.
By the way - thank you Mr Lambert for shining your lantern into this darkness - appreciated
Brilliant as per usual Michael.
sad, but necessary video. cheers, michael, thank you
TQ Michael for saying it how it is for all our sakes. Always appreciated.
There's another very worrying aspect to Brexit and that's the removal of our basic human rights since it happened. I don't remember the Leave campaign talking about that. A dictatorship is not far away.
Many think a dictatorship is already here. Look at the political choice on offer. Just like on the US, UK voters are presented with a choice between two cheeks of the same neoliberal arse. Our politicians are all clowns or actors. Our once beloved Beeb is now nothing more than a ventriloquists dummy. Our newspapers hav been biased uncritical junk for decades. It's simply a dump!
Well said Michael, the truth will endure... the government will not
Don't apologise!
More people should be speaking it as it is.
You watched Question Time. Ian Blackford was the audience favourite, applauded and cheered with every answer. Why ? Common sense and reality. It was an English audience agreeing with the Westminster Leader of the SNP.
...the Conservatives are only interested in the Conservatives...not Britons...
Not talking about Brexit doesn't remove the elephant from the room. Brexiteers need to get over Brexit failures and accept rejoining is the only solution to the UK's political-economic disaster. Micheal second a rate front bench. You are too generous. They are the worse of the worse.
Brexit is so important but I think there's much more, which can not easily be fixed. Our universities are profit driven so they educate foreigners leaving Britons lacking in basic education to be engineers, doctor's, nurses, police professionals etc. We have to resort to police helpers with a weeks training, immigration officers with a week's training, lorry driver's with fast track licences and and and.
The system is rotten to the core.
We don't manufacture anything any more which means importing goods from people that do.
We've sold off the silver to foreign companies, water, transport, property, energy and are in the process of selling the NHS. I'm not an economist but if you owned the electricy company, you would only pay for the production costs. But if the electricy company is owned by foreigners, you still have to pay for the production costs but also have to pay profits to the owners. If the owners are foreigners, all that profit goes overseas as a negative export. The British workers are no longer working for Britain but are working for foreigners.
It's one thing to say that we need foreign investment but it has gone too far.
When the government can't balancecits books, it sells off the silver and squanders things like our north sea oil.
Does our army and navy still belong to us? Who actually owns the aircraft carriers, jets and Polaris submarines?
I wonder how much we can get for the crown jewels?
Keep ‘em coming, Mike!
32% think Brexit was a good idea. Still the shareholders that divide the spoils of UK plc will not allow to have the discussion, so 32% is now an overwhelming majority.
Completely agree. Sleep walking into... god knows what... interesting times.
Hi Micheal, I truly appreciate your excellent videos. You're a fantastic source of knowledge and wisdom on this issue (Brexit). I'm so glad you're speaking your mind, negative or not - people need to hear this.
Caroline Lucas, green party challenged Hunt on Brexit he deflected the criticism
We appreciate your perspective and work, Michael. Thank you.
Comparing the Brexit vote as a dad telling their children they are going to go to Disneyland is both hilarious and scarily close to what actually happened. How little normal folks know of international trade becomes really clear when you look at UK fisherman who just thought leaving the EU would be great for their catching quota's but were never told and never considered the fact they would lose half their customers in the process.
You keep me sane ,Thanks 👍
As ever, your voice rings out with its message of the utter mess Brexit has wreaked on the nation. You're so right about the conspiracy of silence around the B word. Trying to bring it up in social conversation meets with blank looks. The nation is being gaslit on a grand scale by politicians and people follow like sheep. You're right, too, in claiming that political figures must call this madness out and try to steer the ship back in the right direction. Thanks, Michael, for keeping up the momentum about this vital message. It may be depressing to hear, but it's the necessary medicine against the head in the sand disorder.
Dam those Russian’s taking our 20th spot 😂😂😂
You're right - we must declare a foolhardy war against one of our neighbours
Sleep softly, Belgium
😂😂😂
I emigrated from England to Australia in 2015 and watched in shock from afar as the Brits voted in favour of financial suicide. Australians would always ask me what on earth my fellow countrymen were doing. Even on the other side of the world they could see the clear folly of Brexit.
On a personal level I am relieved to be out as what is happening there is shockingly bad. We are feeling the effects of the pandemic lockdowns, the restrictions in movement/tourism etc that brought, rising energy prices etc but Australians are saying ‘it could be worse, you could be in Britain’. Britain is becoming an example of how to screw things up properly.
MICHAEL LAMBERT FOR PRIME MINISTER....REPRESENTING THE MINISTRY OF COMMON SENSE....
Michael I have links with the 🇬🇧 I live in Dublin and I am staying here. Not perfect, but a great place to live ,in no small way thanks to the E.U.
Thanks for posting this Michael, It's clear you have empathy for people, like you I really feel for the future generations,
Spot on Michael. Please do keep pointing at the elephant in the room until we are no longer the 19th worst performing economy in the G20.
Right, the early winter months of 2023 are probably going to be very tough, no matter what the weather.
Excellent Michael!
Scottish exports to Europe were projected to drop by 9% due to Brexit. The people of Scotland did not vote for Brexit because it was going to be catastrophic to the economy. Westminster says Scotland must do as England does. The predictions were an underestimation, exports from Scotland are down 13%. Sinking ship, what to do ?
Gordon vote for independence Saor Alba
Thank you once again Michael for another accurate Examination of the current state of affairs in post Brexit Britain.
North of Ireland 25% corporation tax, republic of Ireland 12.5% corporation tax
I know where I'll be investing, another Brexit benefit, for Ireland that is .
Ireland was the top country that is going to grow the most next year. There will be dinghy's full of Gammons landing on Irish and French beaches soon.
You only speak the truth Michael no need to apologise .Its the clowns like Reese Mogg and and that dispicable Farage that should be apologising
Well said
You keep smashing it Michael. X
Many folk really enjoy your videos! They’re so good, dry sense of humour.
Thank you Michael.
Thanks for this look at the reality of our declining economy. Things look bleak.
Alarmist I must say. I must also say rightly so. It is sickening to see what politicians in the UK are inflicting on people.
Spot-on as usual - sadly the people who need to hear this won't be tuning in.
This had me on the floor, you are funny as hell😂🤣😂 I love you Micheal. You speak 100% facts by the way. ❤️
NOWAYUK Don’t let them back. They spent years insulting the finest & Wealthiest trading block in the world.
If no one has any money we have no economy
One of the 5 people live in poverty in the UK now.....
Caroline Lucas of the Green Party called out Brexit in Parliament so that's a start. The Tories seem to be going for managed decline.
Well done. Keep it up.
The talk about Basil Faulty remind me of the sketch "What have the Romans (aka the EU) ever done for us" in Monty Python's movie "The Life of Brian."
analogy of Basil Fawlty is excellent..
I live in Sweden, and as an anglophile I am (with the exception of my like-minded father) one of very, very few individuals residing here who would like to live in the UK for some part of their life. This has been the case for as long as I can remember and thus has little (if anything) to do with the current British predicament.
Swedes are generally fond of British people and culture and enjoy coming over as tourists, but are not impressed by their living standards and the ways in which their society is governed. This usually comes as a complete surprise to (mainly) English people (in stark contrast to ppl of many other nationalities who tend to idealize Swedish society), and I have long felt that there is an unfortunate tendency among the English to underestimate the world around them/overestimate themselves in relation to others.
Am I far off in suspecting that Brexit would never have happened had the English had a more realistic view of themselves? The analogy in this episode illustrates this nicely, I think. The overrepresentation of the upper classes, so pervasive throughout British establishment, must have contributed to this unfortunate and misleading streak of self-aggrandizement.
Sweden isn't and has never been a perfect society, but it is a damn decent one. The Swedish working classes organized and educated themselves over a century ago, took over government and create the so called Swedish Model of a welfare state that has survived until this day and, although flawed, has been a true blessing to grow up in. The sense of gratitude and reverence towards the establishment is enormous.
How I wish for the UK to experience something similar. This, combined with British culture, would make the UK irresistible to the Vikings who I'm sure would then want to invade the British Isles all over again.
You are spot on, that's the problem (for the 27% of the UK population that voted to leave at least). The rest of us have no such illusions, and miss our friends in Europe
@@mikebarry229 absolutely. Fully agree.
As an ex-brit, now living in Sweden I agree.
The BOE talked about Brexit damage this week.
Macbeth/Brexit! Brilliant summation.
There is a new Silicon Valley. It's in Shenzhen (not Basingstoke).
Thankyou sir.A voice of reason.I know how much you care.
Stand for parliament.
A good analogy for Brexit is this: Sitting at a table with a beautiful meal in front of you, and the waiter says "Would you like to trade it for this mystery meal inside this box?". You say yes and open it, and it is just a stale loaf of bread.
Yes, the majority of referendum voters voted for Brexit, but, come on now; NO ONE knew what Brexit was.
I am always looking forward to your videos and I am never disappointed.
The moral of the story is to never ask ‘the children’ about any important or you’ll just get Boaty McBoatface or in this case Brexit !
Children? No. All exit polls show Brexit was voted by aging gammon. The same post war cosseted idiots that keep the Tories in power.
@@harveybrown37 You mean the Generation that saved us from the Nazis....ok then. The same generation that voted Churchill out and helped form the postwar welfare state, give them some credit.
@@scienceistruth1924 No. The war generation who fought and voted Labour in 1945 did not vote forBrexit. The post war generation did.
@@harveybrown37 my father who was a navigator on Lancasters did! Maybe he was a delusional halfwit Gammon, who just happened to risk his life for us all.
Brexit or the Union, England? You ticked the wrong box.
Pursuing a policy that is destroying the economy- Brexit. Very good analysis.
The man is brilliant!
Brilliant analysis Michael but as time goes on more and more people are realising that Brexit was a con.
Hunt's 'Next Silicon Valley' fantasy was hilarious, the absurdity of which you had covered in a previous video
Thank you Michael 👋. I notice the trolls are sounding more and more desperate in trying to justify their beliefs. 😄
Agreed, but they do not actually believe this stuff, their job is to fool Daily Mail readers into thinking that they believe it. The tory party is entirely based on lies.
@@ohgosh5892 Well said 😁. I see the tory mp's no longer try to conceal lies told to the general public.
The main problem with Brexit is that the world knows about it. Putting two fingers up to 45% of our entire export economy is not going to go un-noticed. All other countries are going to see it and exploit our position.
Love your content Sir, a crucial contribution in these dark times.
I like it when you used the children analogy, whether the guy should leave his job. Ken Clark said that if you gave the public the choice between the National Gallery and Alton Towers theme park, guess which they would go for!
Many thanks!
Sorry, but do you seriously think that the EU would have us back after the complete fools this government have made of us? We are the pariahs of Europe. Rejoin the single market and free movement are the absolute best we can expect, at least in my lifetime (I'm 67).
You are spot on mate unfortunately
You cannot join the single market. It is only for members EEA = EFTA+EU. You are a third country outside of these two organisations and as such cannot be in the single market and will not have any agreement to let you into the single market only.
WE NEED THE TORIES GONE ! 👍
So is Labour going to save you from Brexit?
@@robduncan599 I don’t vote Labour. Or conservatives, or any of the others. Why you obviously vote for the Tories, have you no shame ?
@@robduncan599 Not from brexit, as it is done. But maybe from some consequences of it. Can anyone do worse?
Thanks!