BREXIT - A Massive Confidence Trick
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2023
- Brexit was about money. It was about protecting the interests of a small and wealthy sector of the economy concerned with money laundering and tax avoidance The EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive which was due to be implemented in June 2016 would have severely restricted the activities of wealthy individuals and companies to avoid taxes using secretive UK tax havens. 'Taking Back Control' and the promises of cheaper food clothing and footwear were simplistic and dishonest messages which persuaded millions who knew no better to vote to leave the EU
Since Suez in 1956, the UK made a decision to be a money laundering centre. Its why the UK economy is basically a hedge fund. But Brexit was not only motivated by the EU threat, it was that old English fault line about protecting Westminster system, something all MPs had a vested interest in.
I was telling people this in 2015... To this day, it remains the only thing that makes any sense as to why the UK would leave the EU!!
Sadly, the lemmings didn't listen then and they aren't listening now.
That's the one. There is no reason that makes sense or stands scrutiny, other than this one simple reason. Always follow the money.
There are other drivers but most come back to money...even IDS's investment in Byotrol was to make money out of the demise of the NHS
Close down the tax havens.
This has been going on since the end of WWII!
Michael don't forget about the other reason for Brexit, the so-called "opportunities" that the Tories bang on about. The authoritarian, extreme-right Libertarian wing who advocated for Brexit, knew that they could remove human rights, workers' rights, consumer rights, and lower environmental and food standards (thus maximising profits), far easier if the UK was away from EU scrutiny and regulation. So Brexit was essentially about making the rich, richer, and giving more power to the powerful.
Workers were warned that Brexit would herald a bonfire of workers rights, but their hatred of foreigners ran deeper
Rather that than the woke left.
@@infestusinfestis that's so true
More fantasy! Firstly can you show me any of those standards that have been removed? Part of the leave agreement is that we do not lower standards below that of the EU.
EU standards on farming are rather poor and the UK has gone it alone with higher standards than EU for some time.
UK was flooded with poorly paid EU workers, now farms have to pay a proper wage to UK workers. Seems standards have risen to me.
@@grolfe3210 Yes. The Environment Agency gave water companies permission to dump untreated sewage into rivers and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has concluded that the Australian trade deal will allow food to be imported that doesn't meet UK standards. However, it's in the upcoming 'bonfire' of EU-derived laws that we can expect to see the real changes to our environmental and employment protections.
Would you be so good as to enumerate the farming standards where the UK exceeded the EU requirements?
And how are the farmers doing with their new legions of highly-paid native farm workers? Oh, yes - produce is being left to rot in the fields and thousands of pigs carcasses had to be buried because they couldn't be processed into food. (And I thought Rees-Mogg promised us cheaper food after Brexit? How are we going to manage that if the farmers' labour costs go up?)
Michael - I've worked in the offshore finance sector for 30 yrs..10 with the regulator and .recently as a self employed compliance consultant . Here is a list of everything you've got wrong in this video........................... - keep up the great work...
I completely agree.
Michael, how could you have overlooked the obvious Brexit Benefits: Blue Passports! Crowns on pint glasses! You can't say Brussels would have permitted those! And all the money that can now be sent to NHS (just like the bus promised)! Really, Michael, you should ....
Sorry, can't keep this up. It's an f'n disaster, and those who promoted it are either outright frauds or so gullible as to be pitiable.
You’re repeating the same words I’ve been telling people for years. Even before the referendum, it was obvious it was all about getting rid of EU tax directives and worker’s rights. But no, I was constantly abused as a Remoaner (to the point that I left and deleted Twitter) and I had no idea what I was talking about.
I’ve spent years feeling like I’m the only one who can see that the Emperor is naked. But finally, little by little, other people are seeing it too.
Spot on Michael, so very sad that the grifters dominate our politics. However lofty and clever they may think they are they are grubby grifters plain and simple. We should be able to prosecute them.
Nope, politicians unlike any other breed are beyond prosecution however inept their policies. Even if they lie to parliament they still retire on full benefits with a pension beyond your dreams. Fair nope, You have to understand that the old class system has long gone, out with aristos and serfs, in with ex ministers and electorate (serfs). Although aristos have played a long game with interests in Cayman etc. It's a no win for peeps like you and I, win win for politicians and aristos. Let them eat cake, I remind you, although that is apparently an incorrect attribution.......
The super rich have no loyalty whatsoever other than to themselves. Thank you Michael for your excellent videos - spot on as always.
Thank you Pierre
"The purpose of Government is to protect the rich from the poor".
- Adam Smith 1776
It's never more true than right now!
And with along term perspective in mind, Democracy is asset insurance for the Wealthy.
We knew that from the start here in Europe.
I'm in UK and knew that. But half the country believed the media lies:(((
Also here in the UK. We're not ALL stupid
@@stevejones2310 no but it isn't hard to find some 😁
We knew it from the start here in Scotland too.
@@stevejones2310 It would have been nice if more of the non-stupid ones would have bothered to get out and vote in 2019.
Your thesis is 100% correct, Michael.
We've been done like a kipper. Literally.
I agree 100% it actually makes me so angry this whole tax dodging situation, I work for a large company, get pretty crap wages and obv pay my taxes. It isn't sustainable this syphoning of our wealth.
yeah, that's why the plan is in fact for the poor to die early...
I said all this at the time, and was laughed at, and was called a conspiracy theorist. Who's laughing now?
Always great to see you, monsieur Lambert! 😃
And you have exposed the rich and the powerful for the scalliwags they truly are. 🤑
This will take time to sink in for a lot of people. Many people will die believing they did the right thing. Sad.
true
This has been so obvious for so long. Just shows how gullible the vast majority are.
Why would Farage, Moggy etc be so passionate about leaving
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Good question. It's the right starting point.
Keep up the good work Michael 👍
As Stephen Colbert said of Trump and his ilk " If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, why is it goose-stepping".
Exactly that Michael! A Massive Confidence Trick!...that has lost me £30,000 in my pensionless old age of hard work! Scoundrels the lot of them!
I live in Australia and I knew this was the reason before Brexit happened. And don’t forget, to my knowledge, the government was under no obligation to act on the results of the referendum. I do feel sorry for your country. I’m watching all these shows on poverty over there, and I notice that none of them talk about why it’s happening, or give solutions. I read a couple of years ago about Torie supporters praising the government about haw many food banks there are now, and how there were none under Labour. This just goes to show the stupidity of these people, that they think food banks are government funded. Delusional.
Labour just leave huge debt behind them when they leave. Debt generated by pandering to minorities whilst ignoring the needs of the majority. Debt that the next government inherits and has to sort out.
That's where the Tories (and, indeed, all right-wing parties) get a lot of their support - the "low-information" voters. A fifty-year longitudinal study in Canada and the UK compared children's educational attainment to their voting habits as adults and the result (ie the hard data, untainted by any pre-existing theory) was that, to a reasonable approximation, clever children grow up to vote Centre-Left whereas the less academically-capable lean to the Right.
London the greatest money laundry that the earth has ever seen. Made with love by tories.
Thank you Michael for your insights on this subject. The Nation was duped, the rich are richer and the divide between them and the poor widens. If only we could have another referendum the outcome would be much different.
Well done Michael, I’ve been banging on about ATAD being the main reason for the leave campaigners but not a lot of the public were aware of it. I just wish it would be more publicised even though it’s too late to change anything!
i completely agree, michael - it was all about money
The will of the plebs bent over with gusto for Johnson, Farage, and Mogg and the legendary puppet master Murdoch orchestrating the media slogan machine, job done the perfect smash and grab.
Many conservative voters also voted for brexit, especially the older generation. It wasn't just the red zone.
They couldn’t wait to get rid of the anti tax avoidance directive. They cancelled the directive on 11pm on Brexit day. Absolutely the first moment they could.
I have saying that from the beginning. The EU tax laws would have cost the likes of Moggsy billions.
A fantastic video Michael.
I agree with your analysis.
My provocation - though - is that if the English (as opposed to British/UK) Electorate had been less xenophobic and less hypnotised by a sense of English superiority the Confidence Trick would not have worked.
How a few thousands disaster capitalists could manipulate millions of voters to vote against their own interests is what makes Brexit surreal in addition to catastrophic.
I have pity for all the turkeys voting for Christmas, especially for the ones who still maintain Christmas is very good for them.
It's easy. You listen to the voters, and then push the right buttons. Goebbels knew that in the 30's.
@@vullings1968 I agree. That’s why Brexit is a very sad affair.
You're more forgiving than I've ever managed to be towards the xenophobes and morons who cheered on the toffs' Brexit bandwagon.
I knew that this was the case but I didn’t knew how exactly. But now I understand it. Thanks for this clear explanation.
And now I had to go for a long walk with Santo the dog, to get rid of the anger about this.
I suspect that Cameron was just as much in favour of Brexit as his rich financier friends (for the same reasons). This would explain why the referendum had no voting threshold or a requirement for a confirmatory vote once a deal was made, and his lacklustre Remain campaign.
Didn't the Panama papers reveal pointless daves offshore financial dealings.
I think you are right about this . Cameron had a personal and family interest in Brexit which would account for why he set no super majority for such a major change. I used to think he decided on a referendum because it appeared to be a way of silencing UKIP and also what John Major referred to as the "Bastards" of the Tory party. It was to settle a division in his own party. Now I think his other motive played a part as well.
It’s well known that Sir Mogg has companies in Dublin and in the Cayman Islands……
Excellent : I have been on about this forever . The EU directive seeks to forbid the black money racket . Whether it will succeed is debatable . I always reckoned the BIG money was the reason behind the Brexit .
💯 follow the money, as simple as that
I've been saying this since day one - like a voice in the wilderness, nobody pays any attention.
Also Michael it won't be long that we'll be known as a 3rd world country it's coming so bloody corrupt its staggering, keep these videos going please.
I think we've been a 3rd world country for s good many years now, ruled by a money grabbing dictatorship of sorts.
Sadly David, I think it already is. There are so many putting themselves on the line to expose the gibberish and deceit, they are to be applauded, listened to and encouraged.
Not just Brexit, the whole neoliberal project is a con. Trickle down economics is a con, etc, etc, etc.
It was all money and greed 👍👍👍👍
The Times July 23 2020 ".. It didn’t require the intelligence and security committee, in its shamefully delayed report into Russia, to point out that the City has allowed itself to become the money-laundering capital of the world. This has long been the largely unacknowledged dark underbelly of Britain’s economic success."
This video needs to be put on constant repeat.
People like Lord Ashcroft are in charge of matters in the Cayman Islands. That's where the focus should be directed.
I've known this for ages. I'm glad you are letting others know!
Very interesting item! Thanks Michael!
There's a word for people who fall for the nonsense of the rich, powerful and corrupt. They are called sheeple.
Greed is so corrosive. Thank you for your words.
Boris Johnsons mates spring to mind it's very clear now
I can't help feeling the same grift is being pulled with 'Free Ports'. It seems like just another excuse to give big business and investors more tax breaks and deregulation. I'd like to see exactly how this is meant to help ordinary people other than the mythical 'trickle down' effect.
"Freeports" are massive wealth-concentration vehicles via limiting access to freeport-connected arbitraging to the chosen few licensed operators and having the rest of us underwrite this injustice...
Yup, clear and succinct... the level of greed and corruption is mind-boggling, 'government' is rotten to the core...
Absolutely spot on.
ALL ABOUT HIDING THE OWNERS OF OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS
I have been saying this for months. Sadly, so ingrained into the psyche of ordinary people that the rich & powerful are "our betters", so they must be honest, is the response I am met with in almost every case when I try to explain. The "hierarchy" who have sacrificed their own people & country, to protect their own shady (often illegal) dealings are not worth the cost of a bullet. pure scum !
You raise a great point.
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I believe a lot can be explained by the English sense of comparison between “classes”.
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An underlying current of Englishness (as opposed to Britishness) is this constant ability to draw comparisons in which the English invariably come out as the better side, fuelling this sense of exclusivity and superiority that prevents many English people from seeing their place in the world in any form other than Domination.
And - as the times of Domination are over - this attitude is not going to generate anything good at all.
Like Turkey English Voters voting for Brexit Christmas and being happy about it.
We should be content with the abundant Soft Domination that history has given us and that we enjoy to this day: the Beautiful English Language; The Monarchy; The Beatles; Wimbledon; Oxbridge; The Red Buses; The Black Cabs; Cricket; Rugby; Isaac Newton; Charles Darwin; William Shakespeare, etc.
We need to pivot our brains and hearts into seeing England as a Formation Player with Europe, not as “Miss Europe or Nothing”.
I believe our future greatness is with Europe - not against it.
The mounting evidence is that the Young English think so too.
@@f14tomcat37 Beautifully put. The irony is that my generation (I'm 77 ) were raised in the belief that the Germans are arrogant. Genetics prove the English & the Germans are the closest relatives in Europe. But, in my experience of travelling Europe, I have found there is no race more arrogant than the English. As current events & behaviour of our "betters" proves beyond all doubt.
(once proud but now ashamed to be English)
You should not be ashamed to be English. We should act to make the cosmopolitan Englishness prevail. It will take time.
On 28 January 2016 the Commission presented its proposal for an Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive as part of the Anti-Tax Avoidance PackageSearch for available translations of the preceding. Its been cooked since 2012. Bottom line everyone except Brits realized that UK rich minority did not want that. Proper propaganda for the stupid resulted in Brexit. Jacob RM is a happy chap. BTW do you realize, if UK would be in EU now, none of these problems would be happening with labour/energy/inflations etc?
Thjere is no point in preaching to an irredeemably ignorant electorate.
Brilliant Michael great video it has crossed my mind more than once that if things went badly wrong here all the rich would scarper disgusting people how dare they do that to our beautiful country
Take care Michael
Thank you very much Anne
They should at least make sure that the natives of the Cayman Islands are very rich.
Maybe the locals on the Cayman's should just open up their "straight forward" "hand-crafted" "all natural" "tax-optimisation" trades then...
The bus message appealed to those who only had Malaga and movies in their life, they are too stupid to appreciate the damage they have done to their children
Now it makes sense. Criminality ends up as foolishness.
ThNks Michael ! The media never publicise this, do they ?
Same backgrounds, same schools, same clubs, same universities....
From a French perspective, this idea of protecting London's tax heaven was obvious to us from the beginning, as one of the main driver in pushing Brexit up in the press.
Now for those who voted Brexit, I think that they have been misled or fed with so much propaganda for years (I lived in England for a year in 1994-1995 and the EEC was already violently rejected by many people) that they had some trouble to see the hidden truth.
I have some real issues when people think that the other side is composed of utter idiots who vote against their interests. Most of them already have harsh lives, with bad payed jobs, and very little time to think about anything but how they will pay rent and food at the end of the month. The level of economic anxiety in England was an actual shock to me when I lived there. This leaves very little room for anything but fear and angst that taints everything you do, including voting. When medias throw fuel on this anxiety with more fears and threats, most people simply can't reason properly anymore. Those who have steady jobs with time to ponder and think, have no idea how it is on the other side. As we say in French: _la peur est mauvaise conseillère_ .
Le Penn has just increased her seats by 85, perhaps the French is changing its mind about the E,U,R,O
@@johnpugh3348 First it is written: Le Pen, with one "n". Second the people who voted for the Le Pen are exactly the same people who voted for Brexit. They belong to the same social categories. Le Pen even caressed the idea of Frexit for a while, but after the disaster that Brexit was in England, she decided to abandon the idea. These people have been deluded in the same way as people who voted for Brexit, through xenophobia propaganda and fear of economic hardship. Fear is the main trigger in the hand of populists.
Fortunately for France, Frexit was utterly discredited by Brexit, and has completely disappear from most political agendas.
I will never thank the English people enough for the lesson they gave to Europe. We now know how precious the EU is for our protection and our well being. Sorry that you had to carry the brunt of it.
@@johnpugh3348 Also the French parliament is composed of 577 seats. 85 seats represent 15% of the total.
@@lesfreresdelaquote1176 If only everybody was as clever as you
@@lesfreresdelaquote1176 that economic insecurity of the downtrodden masses is now much, much worse. 10million are in utter poverty, unable to heat or eat. They might be too preoccupied with finding the next meal for a while, but there is a breaking point. It's nearly there. Food theft is a massive problem to the point that some Tescos have put packets of bacon and sausages in cabinets that have to be "issued" to customers, and even then are security tagged. Every meat item is now tagged in Morrisons too, other supermarkets are tagging tubs of butter and blocks of cheese.
the UK joined the EU in 1973 for the wrong reason= money! it left in 2021 for the wrong reason= money. if you change from money to priceless PEACE, you can become a candidate again. Thank you Michael Lambert: always great to listen to you.
Apart from the money aspect, I understood that joining the then European Common Market was a tariff free zone for trading goods.
The Politicians then took over.
Enough said.
@@andrewmccaffrey6548 Then I fear your 'understanding' was - and, it would seem, still is - badly in error.
The ECSC (the forerunner of the EU) was founded to prevent any more wars between France and Germany, firstly by integrating their coal and steel industries but with the publicly-declared intention of eventually forming a single European society. That was written down in black and white over twenty years before Britain ever joined the club.
@@gerardjlaw yes but the public were told in 1973 that the EEC was simply a bigger version of EFTA -merely a large tariff free trade area There was never any mention of outside interference with UK Law So either that was a deliberate political lie or the politicians if the day were to useless to recognise the real hidden agenda And as ir Germany and France the Coal and Steel.treaty had nothing to do with peace .What protects France from.a 4th German invasion is their nuclear weapons -their "force de frappe"which can destroy every major German city is less than an hour that has always and still is targeted on Germany -And it has held the peace since it was commissioned by De Gaulle in 1959.The idea that the EU holds the key to peace in Europe is rubbish -NATO determined that or only France and the UK as the only.nuclear armed states. The EU is simply an economic protection.arrangement to.minimize the effect of world trade freedom on Europe and this is actually failing as the EU share if world trade has fallen by a quarter in the kast 22 years Some 93 % of people in the world live outside Europe and economic growth is far greater outside Europe -the future is world trade -not local.
@@ronnieince4568 Let's start with the worst part of your theory.
Actually around 94% of the world live outside of the EU, but about 90% also live outside of America and Japan - and those three economies together control about half the wealth of the entire planet. Most of the world only has enough to get by on day-to-day, if even that.
You can't replace wealthy customers on your doorstep with people in villages in Ethiopia or the slums of Karachi.
NATO maintains peace in Europe? Not that tired old chestnut AGAIN?
Stable and unchallenged peace doesn't come from treaties (cf. Chamberlain & Hitler, Molotov & von Ribbentrop, and even Greek and Turkish forces fighting in Cyprus in 1974). It comes from societies regarding each other as friends.
Were we deceived in the 1975 referendum? I agree that the main selling point was trade but I also remember long arguments with my parents. They voted 'Out' specifically because they opposed - and, indeed, had a xenophobic fear of - closer political ties with Europe, so it WAS already an issue at that time.
Actually, I'd say that although the driving force behind the Leave campaign was certainly money (tax avoidance for the super-rich), the main motivation on which it was sold to the voters was good, old-fashioned, British xenophobia. Depressing, isn't it?
Absolutely true .... It was always about getting rid of European oversight in the City🌼
Well done Michael...once again..👏👏👏..Spot on as always..From one looking from afar, l live in Majorca, my reply was always that the world was too dangerous to go it alone.!!!. Think the world is now confirming this but it's too late as Uk have already" burnt it's boats"..Very sad l'm afraid...til next Saturday Michael..👍
Yes corruption is not just about money, it's about the mindsets of too many people and businesses.
Some of us realised this and tried to warn people about what was happening before the referendum took place. They don't like being reminded of it now.
Every MP should state if they or their families have off shore accounts. NOW.
ah, Transparency can be faked, too :)
They probably don't. But their very good friends who are going to look after them for life certainly do.
To all the people that oppose this video. Cipolla was correct. " you can't teach the stupid "!!!!!!!!
The leave campaign was so incredibly well funded employing the very best advertising strategists that they could have had people believing night was day,so effective was their mantras that you literally heard so many every day people repeating them,it was a total and absolute corruption and perversion of democracy.
As a marketing coup, it has been simple genius! Over all the time, Leave only ever had a small majority over Remain for just two months, and the referendum was bang in the middle of it!
Cummings knew his math and his countrymen...
What they haven't sussed is that 'project fear' has them firmly in the sights. They should be very fearful indeed of the anger of the masses.
@@sardine158 Nobody really likes to be a target (victim) of clever marketing!
Farage, Mogg and Hannan and co. can be very happy that their fellow countrymen are so well-behaved and not more like the French...
You raise a very good point - raised also by many Famous Thinkers from Socrates to Bertrand Russell: as people are so easy to manipulate, you need to be careful with Democracy, and make sure you have checks and balances. Add also that the UK doesn’t have a tradition of Referenda, and that the First-Past-The-Post electoral system makes many voters believe their vote doesn’t count . . . and you have the conditions for a perfect storm.
Great video for the BBC. They won't broadcast it, why, its the truth! Yes, the Eternal Greed of the rich and powerful.
Many of us said this from day 1
How is the “Boris” bus claiming a huge amount of money for NHS after Brexit to be reconciled with current health care worker strikes for more pay?
As my old mum might have said “if it looks like a con, swims like a con and quacks like a con, chances are it’s a con”.
Brexit matches the fours stages of every single con, observe…
Stage 1 - Fabulous prizes. We can have everything we’ve got now, but more trade outside of Europe, higher wages, lower costs, less red tape and…at no cost…immediately upon leaving….the next day, in fact.
Stage 2 - detract better judgment. People are sick of experts, YOU’RE the experts now. Economists? They’re part of the Liberal, Metropolitan Elite. University lecturers? They get paid by the EU. Remain voters? They’re fooled by project fear, those traitors.
Stage 3 - ACT NOW. We have to leave now or we’ll lose our veto. We have to leave so as to avoid becoming the United States of Europe. We have to leave because 100,000 migrants at Calais will flood the U.K. once we vote to remain. If we don’t leave then 90 million Turks will flood the U.K. as soon as Turkey joins the EU.
Stage 4 - Once signed push out the benefits forever. In 10 years time that’s when we’ll see the benefits. No, in 30 years. Brexit is the opportunity of the next 50 years. In 100 years we’ll look back and see that leaving the EU was the right thing to do.
Looks, swims, quacks. Is.
great summary
@@1292liam thanks. I think it needs to be spread. Feel free to copy it and use it when need be, just acknowledge it came from somewhere else.
The sooner people realise this the sooner we can start to reprogram those conned who are still expecting their Spanish lottery winnings even now.
@@emilymcplugger its hard if not impossible to do this, in the face of the brexit media (mail sun tele exprs talk and uk tv etc), who still double down to make sure public opinion doesn't change ..BECAUSE they want to keep it this way for their tax avoidance purposes
Especially Stage 3 - "Do it NOW!"
Remember how desperate Johnson was to get his withdrawal agreement through Parliament without delaying it for any debate?
Any young people should leave the UK as Michael is right, it's heading to disaster. Ten to fifteen years away wouldn't do them any harm, broaden their horizons in Europe or Oz. Come back when these Tories are history and the UK has indicated it wants to rejoin the EU. Sad, but that's the unfortunate truth.
Haha. You think older people are going to stop voting tory in the absence of young people?
@@ecaeas4439 Tories will be out of power for at least 10 to 15 years anyhow. The gammons will just naturally drop off the perch.
@@georgecrothers5618 including eca eas.
I realised this years ago Michael, the Northern Ireland protocol was negotiated in record time and subjected to minimal scrutiny before being passed into law to avoid the latest set of eu anti money laundering laws coming into effect.
At the time the only hold up to the brexit process was the Ireland/ Northern Ireland problem so the NI protocol applied a band aid, the DUP were told it was sorted and it was passed into law and a few years later on it's found to be unfit for purpose and needs renegotiation.
Don't forget the years of careful negotiation by many different nations to finally get the good friday agreement into effect.
The eu sent properly prepared negotiators to work out an agreement in good faith, the UK sent Lord North to get any kind of agreement to get the brexit process moving again.
The only word i can think to call it is Treason.
Handily enough this politician's hedge fund also bets against the pound..
Exactly what I've been saying, too many idiots refuse to see reality!!
Thank you Michael. I fully expect these people, who truly are citizens of nowhere in spirit, to get the hell out of Dodge before long.
Don't hold your breath. Really now...what's changed since Tudor England, and even before?
Totally, agree. Also, Telegraph, Times, Sun, Mail, 75% of UK printed media readership(?) all owned by people exploiting these loopholes, and/or enjoying monopolies which the EU is keen to break up.
Well said re Mail, Express, Sun and Telegraph, their billionaire owners really MEST us up
I meet a guy in Tortola BVI he was flying mail in a small aeroplane from Miami. I said can it not be emailed outcome on American airlines He laughed "these company docs are private"
And?
And to absolutely underline your comment Michael, they want to remove the safe guards put in place after the last financial crash, a crash paid for almost exclusively by the Tax payer… 😤
Absolutely, the EU proposed money laundering legislation back in 2011, and that lit a fire under the likes of rees smug etc to leave the EU
This isn't/wasn't a secret. I said this back in 2016! Surely everyone who wasn't a daily mail reading gammon understood that's what this was all about?!
Make Britain great again .close all the tax loopholes for the rich
It’s not about taking back control, it’s about money…..
Talk about kicking in an open door!
Spot on. I've been saying this for a long time. An example of this is the behaviour of one Geoffrey Cox, MP, now Sir Geoffrey Cox MP. During the deadlock around Brexit (when Theresa May was PM) he famously said that this was a 'dead parliament.' That is because he wanted to see a hard Brexit where the UK left not only the EU but the Single Market and Customs' union as well.
Cox is a large, beligerent, blustering figure who seeks to intimidate anyone standing in his path.
Cox and his Brexiteer buddies got their way, and not long afterwards, he resigned as the Attorney General in order to go to the Cayman Islands in order to advise the super-rich how best to avoid paying taxes.
Cox did so whilst still drawing a salary as a back-bench MP. He was AWOL for at least 6 months, during which time he will have been paid a huge amount of money advising his clients as to how best to avoid paying taxes - including taxes in the UK. Talk about a conflict of interests.
Here's a link to an article in the 'i' newspaper:
inews.co.uk/news/politics/sir-goffrey-cox-tory-mp-accusations-sleaze-row-explained-1293451
I agree, and a significant amount is dirty Oligarch money from RuZZia.
The "oven ready brexit" did not specify publicly who was going to enjoy it or suffer the consequences...
You’re so wise Michael, it was clear all along to some of us what Rees-Smuggy and his oppos were up to, others unfortunately were deliberately mislead .
The best and most succinct explanation I've heard. Well done Michael 👏
Thank you Steven
Well done Michael, spot on as always. Having lived in Europe for some years and following local and UK current affairs I was aware of the Brexiteers fears of the then new, forthcoming, offshore tax avoidance directive.......as, I am certain, did the minister for the 18thC among others of his ilk.
The sad thing about all of this is that it shows how clueless the British electorate is.
Clueless, *and* manipulated. The Think Tanks have been dripping their poison in our ears for decades.
Thank you Michael, have received your book and the small note inside, the book made me smile but also sad as well, as I think our country is going down the pan, also the cartoons were excellent Best regards Brian Coates
Many thanks Brian
Well said, Michael.
My first thought when brexit first appeared was ,,the city is behind this ,
Remain failed to highlight this point at all - The EU Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive of January 2016!
Yes, Cameron and Osbourne perhaps.
Remain had plenty of opportunities to make all of these points before the referendum. It's too late now. Anti Tax avoidance might have been a factor for a very elite few people but it does not explain why 17 million people voted Leave.
@@PJ-om2wq I fully agree that there were many different reasons 17 million people voted to leave. My point is that Remain didn't make this point at all. The general population wants people to pay their fair share and tends to get very angry if they don't. It's not an elite point at all. Having said that, I think the UK will go even further from Europe, exiting or massively altering its participation in the European Convention on Human Rights and likewise its relationship with the Refugee Convention to stop 40,000 a year crossing the Channel, adopting a policy on the Australian model. I also think that because of this the Tories might still shock everyone by winning the next election.
If you are young and motivated and want a rewarding life, pack your bags and move to Australia. Leave the rotting carcass of the old world behind. There is nothing for you there anymore.
Michael, thank you so much for explaining so clearly the real reasons that those campaigners were so keen to promote Brexit to a very unsuspecting public.
In a comment that I made after your last video, I naively queried why the campaigners were so keen to leave the EU when it was clear, even in those early days of campaigning, that benefits were practically non-existent, apart from the infamous and meaningless phrase "Taking back control", which appeared to fool virtually everyone who voted to leave the EU.
The history books of the future will determine how wrong those evil campaigners were, and I am certain that you have put your finger on the real reasons why the vast majority of us ordinary taxpayers stand no chance against the arrogant wealthy "elite" who ride roughshod over the rest of us.
A very illuminating video indeed, and I am so grateful that you have been able to encapsulate the precise reasoning behind the eagerness of these dreadful people to beat the EU's deadline of introducing the Anti Tax Avoidance Directive. My God, I wish these people could be prosecuted for their flagrant dishonesty in duping the decent hard-working, and now long-suffering, population of the United Kingdom.
Thank you William
So any one who didn't vote remain is a stupid/ ignorant / racist buffoon etc. etc. according to your way of thinking . That's a perfect description of so many remoaners . I and so many millions of other people are so glad and grateful that people like you are passing on your instructions to us plebs and serfs and will always be so grateful . Not .
Michael Lambert = the boss.
Yet the people who voted leave will call this rubbish as they are so well trained to be led by the nose by their betters. Oh the joys of a class system and serfdom.
In 2016 I revealed that 'secret' in my Google blog, posted the ramifications of Brexit in dozens more, and bundled all in the book The Brexit Brainwash (Amazon, published in 2021). I listed the consequences of Brexit in the book Brexit A Disaster (Amazon, published early 2022). Both books record six years of UK history. Downing St. tries to rewrite that history.
Willem Kootstra
This is why Labour wants to stay with Brexit.
labour are desparatley pathetic. we need to vote for a fresh party - but try getting this across to the country with the existence of the Sun, mail talk tv etc
Brexit is done. It is not up to any UK political party to undo it. However, Labour does want to align with EU. ATAD might be included.
@@1292liam you are so right
And here we have one of the most profound reasons why the UK won't "rejoin" the EU in the next decades but it's not the only one.
Unfortunately for GB the list gets longer and longer ! Sorry !
Spot on 😂
Normal people have been fooled.. and still they love it.
Next they’ll be happy when NHS is replaced by insurance system
Yes very true Mr. Lamb