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  • As the big vote approaches and many voices say the EU referendum has whipped up the politics of hate, John Harris and John Domokos go on a five-day road trip from post-industrial Labour towns to rural Tory heartlands.
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    In Birmingham, Leave voters cross racial and cultural divides; in Manchester, students uniformly back Remain; while people in the city’s neglected edgelands want out. And one fact burns through: whatever the result, the UK’s grave social problems look set to deepen
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  • @cookiej2011
    @cookiej2011 8 років тому +352

    I love how at 3:38 when he mentioned the names of David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn the camera focused on the road sign of a place called 'Three Cocks'.

  • @mart284
    @mart284 8 років тому +28

    This is probably the best video i have seen about the referendum. Not only does it show both sides equally, it also doesn't stereotype the voters like most reporting video's/articles do. I don't think giving my opinion on this topic matters since i'm from the Netherlands, but it is sad to see the UK in such a bad state at the moment, I hoped that they would have stayed in.

    • @Dave25892
      @Dave25892 2 роки тому

      It really doesn’t. This is from the guardian which is a left wing Labour Party rag. They’ve deliberately shown interviews of leave voters making irrational comments and withheld proper debate. I’m glad we’ve now got our independence and we’re back on the world stage. 🇬🇧

  • @craig581
    @craig581 6 років тому +43

    They were people who were angry, suffered job loss, wage cuts, austerity. This has been going on for decades. These were the people who were ignored. They didn't care about the pound or economics because they had very few to count.
    The lack of sympathy towards these people showed for generations. People who were privileged to receive high educational, job opportunities, prosperous futures due to who they are and what background they came from.
    There was, and still is an anger. An anger about inequality in this country. A country that is supposed to be one of the richest economies in the world, yet we still see food banks opening.

    • @leonbell5141
      @leonbell5141 5 років тому +5

      Craig Brexit what’s that got to do with Brexit ain’t that our own government fault 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @DanielHarold
      @DanielHarold 4 роки тому +2

      13 billion on foreign aid but yet food banks are open and homeless people die on the streets

    • @wrestling46nerd
      @wrestling46nerd 3 роки тому +1

      And now we're out and imo the best thing that could happen for use . Greater opportunities no EU holding us back to .

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo 11 місяців тому

      They are angry but with the wrong people. It isn't the EU that is responsible for their misery but Westminster.

  • @MartinBluck
    @MartinBluck 3 роки тому +35

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
    -- Joseph Goebbels

    • @oldschoolcockneylover8138
      @oldschoolcockneylover8138 2 роки тому +3

      Cant believe remain told us the food shelves would be empty and no planes would fly! what a huge lie that was lol! I never was scared by the lies of project fear though so sorry to prove your thesis wrong!

    • @marksavage1108
      @marksavage1108 2 роки тому

      ted heath 1975, no loss of sovereignty,,,,, as he was giving away UK sovereign waters. it was lies from day 1.

  • @FintanHynes
    @FintanHynes 8 років тому +46

    Wow, the EU seems to be cause of all problems in the UK. It's going to be so wonderful if they leave as all these problems will go away.......

    • @michaelotieno6524
      @michaelotieno6524 5 років тому +4

      @@alexgasshjahdj6075 It feels like a lifetime eons ago.
      1. Do you recall David Davies stating that if we voted to leave we would have a trade deal with Germany on the Sunday after the results.
      2. Do you recall how we were to spend a NHS windfall of 350,000,000/- million a week, yet we now know we only send 130,000,000/- million a week. The count does not include other benefits like Nissan in Sunderland that exports 80% of the cars to the UK.
      3. Do we recall how the EU needed us more than we needed them and how Merkel will never allow the EU to bully us as she will protect the German car industry. We now know that BMW (UK) will close for a month in March 2019 while it assesses the impact of Brexit. All while it is expanding the manufacturing capacity of its factories in Netherlands and Slovakia just in case.
      This is too sad i can't continue.....

    • @irisha4ka
      @irisha4ka 5 років тому +1

      Alex gasshjahdj nah it should be changed to Afrostanian Kingdom!

    • @rumplestilskinsmum5094
      @rumplestilskinsmum5094 5 років тому

      LOL u sound so fulll of hope ( not )

    • @irisha4ka
      @irisha4ka 5 років тому

      Birgit Lorbeer ??

    • @SNORKYMEDIA
      @SNORKYMEDIA 4 роки тому

      @@michaelotieno6524 how can you export cars to your own country ????

  • @LRC92
    @LRC92 8 років тому +21

    People seem to have forgotten we've just been through 6 years of austerity.

    • @clincpb8903
      @clincpb8903 8 років тому +2

      but not for everyone.

    • @rockmusicornot.1725
      @rockmusicornot.1725 8 років тому +2

      "WE.." Not the Brits... Certainly NOT the Brits. Good job on the brexit!... And hang on! It'll get better!

    • @clincpb8903
      @clincpb8903 8 років тому

      Abdul Taha How ?

    • @tonyhendrix8075
      @tonyhendrix8075 2 роки тому

      In reply to NRC,nail on the head and the worst thing is that we have,according to JACOB REES MOGG we have another 24 years of it still to come.
      Not that it’ll bother him whose made £7 million quid out of us leaving the E.U. His chum Johnson made £4.5 million and we all know how well they did from dishing out money like confetti to their friends in high places.
      As for London,during the furlough over 7,000 new companies sprung from nowhere and claimed payments of £473 million,by sheer chance they were ALL REGISTERED to just 5 addresses in the city,dodgy is an understatement.

  • @paulparis6347
    @paulparis6347 8 років тому +128

    As a german, I'm very sad about the Bristish referendum. It seems as if many people's decision was based on their emotion rather than rational data and political/economical facts. Many people have not considered that the reason for their problems might not be the EU membership, but social problems within the nation itself.

    • @steven03048
      @steven03048 6 років тому +12

      Naja die Briten sind ein Völkchen das sich seit Ende des Empire schwach und nicht Einflussreich in der Welt fühlt, was auch der Grund ist warum sie aus der EU raus wollen, in der sie ein Mitspracherecht haben, aber nicht den gleichen Einfluss den Deutschland und Frankreich haben. Also am Ende läuft is einfach nur auf Chauvinịsmus heraus!

    • @Mishima505
      @Mishima505 6 років тому +8

      Durch ihre EU-Mitgliedschaft hatten die Briten einen Sündenbock für ihren internen Probleme. Wenn die gleichen Probleme 5 Jahre nach Brexit noch bestehen, wer ist jetzt daran schuld?

    • @anthonylangford8575
      @anthonylangford8575 5 років тому +6

      You should have a Gexit and have a beer.

    • @helenesvlogs8893
      @helenesvlogs8893 5 років тому +2

      Paul you are right!

    • @helenesvlogs8893
      @helenesvlogs8893 5 років тому

      Right!👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Preeno
    @Preeno 5 років тому +43

    Who’s watching this in 2019?

    • @BenQotsa
      @BenQotsa 4 роки тому +3

      me, there is still alot of anger out there

    • @JohnSmith-pd1fz
      @JohnSmith-pd1fz 4 роки тому

      ++@Derrick Jensen++ Well I am "Working Class" and have been all my life. I'm retired but am still working because I love my job not because I have to. Any "suffering" I might have encountered over the last sixty odd years has been of my own making rather than anything to do with any political situation so please can you tell me what suffering I am supposedly having to endure now.

    • @JohnSmith-pd1fz
      @JohnSmith-pd1fz 4 роки тому

      ++@Derrick Jensen++ Alright, as you say, I can't speak for all working class people, but then neither can you. Your "resounding sentiment" is obviously different to the "resounding sentiment" which I get when I speak to ordinary working class people at, for instance, our local market. They are pleased that they can go and get their car washed, properly and cleaned inside and out by careful, methodical and cheap workers who originated in eastern Europe. Until such people came to this country and saw an opportunity which the average English working man was too idle to exploit nobody did such a thing as hand car washing on such a scale. They did not take an English man's job and do it cheaper. The job did not exist until they came along. That would be just one instance of immigrant workers making the best of their lot. And why pick on the Poles in particular? Some Polish men have been here since the end of WWII and without exception have worked and paid their taxes the same as everyone else. Again they did not take anyone else's jobs, they fitted in to what was available, in the rebuilding of post war Britain. If you are referring to agricultural workers I think you will find the same thing applies. Eastern European working men, and women have taken the jobs which English workers are too idle or too proud to do. I'm sorry to say that in my experience an English man from a village near Boston in Lincolnshire would sooner sit at home on benefits watching telly with his pregnant girlfriend than go out into the nearby field and cut cauliflowers for Tescos. He would in fact be incapable of doing such a task as it would be, to his way of thinking, demeaning.

    • @radioclash84
      @radioclash84 3 роки тому

      2021 m8

  • @QueenRhaenyra
    @QueenRhaenyra Рік тому +3

    Those wise words of "even the middle class will feel it now" said a day before the referendum has now come to roost as the bank of England rose interest rates to 3%. Enjoy your Brexit or admit you got it wrong

  • @z4k4z
    @z4k4z 8 років тому +113

    None of the recession and crappy life conditions are the fault of EU membership.
    Tory austerity.
    Voting "Leave" is wrong-headed.

    • @SI-cd7xs
      @SI-cd7xs 8 років тому +9

      The recession wasn't the fault of the Torries & austerity is the policy of the people behind the EU, the IMF, it's implemented across western government regardless of how the people vote (See Greece).
      EU membership does contribute to crappy life conditions, do you really think the mass importation of people from poorer countries who undercut & depress wages has no affect on the poor people shown in this video? Give me a break.

    • @FatalFriction
      @FatalFriction 8 років тому +2

      joining the erm caused the recession. EU flavoured austerity is worse than anything UK government has to offer see what happened in greece, they installed a new unelected government. the goal of the EU is to create a federal state ruled by unelected government.

    • @daman426
      @daman426 8 років тому +2

      for the record, the government in Greece was elected...twice within the same year (2015)

    • @spinaway
      @spinaway 8 років тому +3

      +R Price why is it then that the EU are paying British fisherman to scrap there boats, yet are giving Spain a massive grant to build a super fleet,to fish in British waters?

    • @cakesofdeath
      @cakesofdeath 8 років тому +3

      Rebuild Hadrian's wall chuck all the leftie traitors over it.

  • @leeoreilly6797
    @leeoreilly6797 Рік тому +5

    Crazy looking back at this now, in 2023. 4% reduction in gdp attributable to Brexit, various sectors struggling to find workers, highest inflation in the G7 and lowest economic growth forecast in the G20 (below even Russia). Not to mention the potential tearing up of hard fought for workers rights etc.

  • @DailyDoseofScriptureDDS
    @DailyDoseofScriptureDDS 5 років тому +144

    Is funny how Jamaicans are against foreigners 😂😂😂

    • @squirepepe8657
      @squirepepe8657 5 років тому +15

      Messias And that’s similar to how the natives brits felt when the first immigrants started to arrive. But there called racist and lazy if they raise any concerns.

    • @squirepepe8657
      @squirepepe8657 5 років тому +1

      Messias Yeah I know, I was just raising a point.

    • @ashyclaret
      @ashyclaret 4 роки тому +9

      It's natural,nobody likes being invaded.

    • @sameerdodger
      @sameerdodger 4 роки тому +9

      but they're born in britain so they're british? just cause their ancestors come from jamaica.. where you're ancestors from mate? germany? all im saying is no one from britain is from this island originally by your book.

    • @weedyp
      @weedyp 4 роки тому

      Bertie bassett.....Exactly!!!
      Jamaicans share the same religious beliefs and morals as British people, and didn't segregate themselves like the current flow of immigrants are doing!!

  • @tingastar10
    @tingastar10 4 роки тому +7

    This is happening because all of the MP's resides in the South and haven't got a clue how the citizens in the north are struggling desperately in getting by. MP's think everywhere is doing great because London is dripping with everything they need, but many outside the London bubble are literally starving and the MP's really don't care. British politics really need a drastic change of different type of politicians, the Brexit vote was a message to these politicians.

  • @user-sq3ke5nz3l
    @user-sq3ke5nz3l 7 років тому +52

    Shutting yourself inside your house seem like a great idea when you feel threatened. Until your house starts burning and you can't get out.

  • @Crosmando
    @Crosmando 8 років тому +23

    When are Britain going to leave NATO? If having laws and rules dictated by Brussels is unacceptable, then so is having the British armed forces under the command of a foreign (American-dominated) organization. Or is Brexit less about "independence" and more about getting closer to America?

    • @CasiodorusRex
      @CasiodorusRex 4 роки тому +2

      NATO isn't shoving countries down one level. The EU is trying to destroy the sovereignty and identities of every country in the EU. The EU was created just to share a common currency, trade and movement of people. Now, the want to become a country and push existing countries down to state levels. So Presidents of existing countries become nothing more tha Governors with limited power. They getting conquered by paper.

  • @KinchasaurasRex
    @KinchasaurasRex 3 роки тому +4

    Who's here after Brexit where the British immigrants are being deported from EU 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Listman11
    @Listman11 8 років тому +30

    The problem is that the unskilled workers are being replaced by cheaper foreign labour. The stay was arguing that staying is a net positive. But what good is it if the positive only help the top half of the economic ladder?

    • @kingofracism
      @kingofracism 4 роки тому +1

      @Bri Ba brexit hasn't happened yet. But it could very well be a faster process once we do leave, and going into the future.

  • @GHnineteensixtysix
    @GHnineteensixtysix 7 років тому +72

    This was a surprisingly good and unbiased video (I certainly wouldn't usually read the guardian) but I must say this was a very informative video so thank you to those who made it

  • @theshyguitarist4536
    @theshyguitarist4536 8 років тому +23

    As a scottish man, let me give a warning to the remainder of the UK. Regardless of the outcome (and I won't be promoting either argument, that's not what my comment is intended for) the post-referendum UK has huge potential to be followed with bitterness and growing hate amongst one another for the foreseeable future unless action is taken immediately. Whatever the outcome, let us agree to move on and live with the result, and take the best course of action for the country for whatever situation we find ourselves in.
    After the scottish referendum, my country has never been the same and I blame both The Yes campaign and Better Together for offering nothing but hostility to one another. I don't want this to be repeated; if you aren't living in Scotland you cannot possibly even comprehend how depressing it is. It's heart breaking walking through streets and being ignored by people who were considered friends but now refuse to even look at you :(
    Please learn from this

    • @theshyguitarist4536
      @theshyguitarist4536 8 років тому

      +CJTaylor 87 I think the huge decline of Scottish Labour (particularly in my city of Glasgow) was accelerated by a failure on their part to identify early on what most of Scotland truly wanted. And that was neither full autonomy, nor the status quo. All polls, taken long before both campaigns went into full swing, without fail signalled that over two thirds of Scots supported further devolution.
      Of course such an option was not offered to us. We were given a binary choice; Salmond didn't push hard enough for the Devo-max route in my opinion, and this was complemented by Cameron remaining firm that he would only agree to the strict Yes/No question.
      But unfortunately I must say that Miliband's Labour missed a trick by choosing to blindly follow suit with this binary setup (subsequently sharing a platform with parties wholly considered to be unpopular amongst much of Scotland; Conservatives and recently/temporally Lib Dems) rather than fighting for a separate vision for a more positive case of greater devolution which very easily could have put the Nationalists and the strict Unionists in their place.
      So upon the last week of the referendum when a shock poll showed the Yes campaign narrowly leading, a last minute U-Turn amongst the No side which offered further devolution felt like an after thought and didn't rest well with much of the populace who were crying out for such an option from the beginning. It was kind of too little too late, and now Labour are paying the price. There are other underlying reasons for third decline; complacency over many years due to safe seats and the corrupt labour MPs that subsequently arose from this arrangement clearly had an impact too.
      Sorry for the long post. I'm just praying that the EU referendum doesn't end up paralleling the mistakes and future repercussions made during Scotland's referendum.

    • @iroscoe
      @iroscoe 8 років тому +1

      The level of the debate has been appalling from both sides,given the long run in to the vote all the time they've had to form and present cogent coherent arguments it's just been so disappointing,they've all added to the antipathy towards the political class they so lament .

    • @iroscoe
      @iroscoe 8 років тому

      It was part of their election manifesto last spring and it was on the cards before that,how long do they really need? .

    • @3leopardsblue
      @3leopardsblue 6 років тому

      we are in for division whatever we do..the whole mess has been buit deiberately..

    • @briananderson3799
      @briananderson3799 6 років тому +1

      I left England and came to Scotland for the same reason. It is the same there. This is being engineered by politicians in the pay of the bankers.

  • @battles423
    @battles423 Рік тому +3

    This is my first time watching this. It’s 2022 and the UK is really suffering now. They almost crash their own economy and the pound.

  • @idaslpdhr
    @idaslpdhr 4 роки тому +13

    I love the way she said I a farmer and we get MOST of our subsides from the EU, i'm self employed I wish I got F ing subsides

    • @johnnyveganite9141
      @johnnyveganite9141 4 роки тому +1

      Subsidies to kill billions of innocent animals that do not want to die.

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 4 роки тому

      A lot of people would like to try their hand at farming. If you run a business yourself I bet you could make it pay without subsidies. That goes for a lot of people out there

  • @oliveroliver9732
    @oliveroliver9732 8 років тому +28

    good report, thanks for making

  • @adamapple3006
    @adamapple3006 7 років тому +81

    "We live in the 21st century, get with it"
    Wow, what great, constructive advice for the unemployed in a deprived area. A great example of the out of touch opinions that put those on low incomes off remain

    • @MrJason005
      @MrJason005 5 років тому +3

      i think he was referring to high skill jobs and automation

    • @trustoriakhi5786
      @trustoriakhi5786 5 років тому +3

      its the truth whether you like it or not

    • @jacksaysfuk-u4863
      @jacksaysfuk-u4863 5 років тому +1

      Over competition

    • @trustoriakhi5786
      @trustoriakhi5786 5 років тому

      Jack Black no such thing

    • @michaelsinton4102
      @michaelsinton4102 5 років тому +8

      @@trustoriakhi5786 lol no such thing. If your bringing in more immigrants than their are jobs and immigrants will work for less, who loses non immigrant population. Every western country should cut immigration back to very strict levels and do not allow immigrants to vote, it will help with the state of jobs. Look at China very successful very low immigration/hardly any immigrant rights, the jobs should go to non immigrant population first. And subsidies should be added for monogomous high child families to encourage internal pop growth.

  • @paulspydar
    @paulspydar 8 років тому +17

    I love Wales & the Welsh people, :-)

  • @beltingtokra
    @beltingtokra Рік тому +3

    For the record, in 2016 I was applying for jobs and I was broke, zero hours contracts etc, and I voted to remain because I saw through the lies of the Brexiteers. It has made us worse off as a society, have these people's lives Improved? Thought not.

  • @AsyaValentine
    @AsyaValentine 5 років тому +19

    Those students are delusional

    • @fardinahmed313
      @fardinahmed313 4 роки тому +5

      Nah they are actually educated and relevant. Unlike jobless crackheads in that welsh town.

  • @titantic9160
    @titantic9160 3 роки тому +3

    It all turned out right in the end.

  • @Katiewithdaffodils
    @Katiewithdaffodils 8 років тому +51

    What a thoughtful video, really illustrates different people's reasoning nicely. Even if we lose money leaving, being a rich country hasn't changed the inequality. That's not an argument for or against leaving, just plainly it's the inequality that really needs addressing.

    • @dancingfishfilms
      @dancingfishfilms 8 років тому +4

      If we leave and GDP shrinks, there'll be fewer jobs. Surely that's not worsen inequality, not reduce it?

    • @SI-cd7xs
      @SI-cd7xs 8 років тому +4

      GDP is artificially pumped up by population growth, GDP per capita already shrunk & is pretty stagnant as is.

    • @Biohazard1999
      @Biohazard1999 8 років тому +5

      Yeah, better let the rich elite solve the problem of inequality, I'm sure that Eton college has special classes on income redistribution and taxation for the top 1%.

    • @tonyhendrix8075
      @tonyhendrix8075 2 роки тому

      I wonder how many folk now have nightmares about voting Brexit or happy to be miserable.
      Then again,I doubt if anyone wants to admit that they made a huge mistake?

  • @isshoyggdrasil7334
    @isshoyggdrasil7334 4 роки тому +5

    7:30 the dude was a clairvoyant.

  • @naveed4686
    @naveed4686 8 років тому +4

    I love the people at the end of this video.
    Vote Leave, and I promise that things will get better.
    We have been in EU for 40 years, and things are not working. People are struggling. Ignore the biased media and biased experts.
    Vote Leave and get out of this mess.

  • @mediacenterman8583
    @mediacenterman8583 5 років тому +9

    8:56 She is precisely why leave won. A bourgeoisie detached person who is blind to the issues that affect people who will serve her in retail, clean her house and make her lattes. The pressure on the NHS, Social Housing, EU Directives and cultural supplantation are very much real issues. But, hey, SHE will not be going to a Foodbank any time soon. Probably do a gap year in Vietnam before she returns to work for Daddy's law firm in the City of London.

  • @clevercat9774
    @clevercat9774 5 років тому +3

    ‘People don’t want IT’ she said. Doesn’t matter what IT is. Wether it’s the EU, immigrants , Londoners, politicians, the establishment. Discontent breeds anger with a state or circumstance and lashing out will occour - it’s our job to change something first.

  • @SIMBA-gd9xu
    @SIMBA-gd9xu 6 років тому +9

    Well I end up going home😂😂love his enthusiasm

  • @contalei2408
    @contalei2408 6 років тому +20

    Lets get out now

    • @dommidavros2211
      @dommidavros2211 5 років тому +3

      Here's a thought, why don't YOU get out right now?!!

  • @tobeytransport2802
    @tobeytransport2802 4 роки тому +2

    When you went to the graduate place I freaked out forgetting this was filmed before the pandemic. I was worried about all the poeple together 😂

  • @kynchan3332
    @kynchan3332 6 років тому +1

    I also got some straw mixed some mushroom compost into it, sliced up some supermarket mushrooms, mixed those in, sprayed wet the whole lot and a few weeks later mushrooms growing out everywhere. Didn't know it was so easy. Let them grow bigger and harvested away. More mushrooms cut out. More fresh straw mixed in for fuel and more mushrooms a few weeks later. YEAH!

    • @briananderson3799
      @briananderson3799 6 років тому

      This how Westminster grew its present electorate.

  • @kynchan3332
    @kynchan3332 5 років тому +3

    As the UK has a net deficit and free movement mostly benefits the poorer EU countries who need UK jobs the EU should pay the UK to be a member. The annual fee the EU should pay the UK should be £200Bn adjusted for inflation.

    • @markdiablo6560
      @markdiablo6560 5 років тому

      You know ridiculing is the worst way of "defending" something.

    • @kynchan3332
      @kynchan3332 5 років тому

      @@markdiablo6560 Logic not ridicule. The EU has its cake and is eating it. Rather like a customer who demands to buy something and have the vendor pay for it - can't go on forever. A few laws from the EU will not make up the balance.

  • @mksav1
    @mksav1 6 років тому +6

    The eu has no income of its own, any eu funding grants subsidies etc etc is OUR TAXES.

  • @haroldbaldrr3641
    @haroldbaldrr3641 4 роки тому +4

    Big difference between the educated & the non educated, says it all

  • @neilproctor5163
    @neilproctor5163 4 роки тому +2

    3-years on ... we're still not out and the country is even more angrier than ever!

  • @robinbreeds9217
    @robinbreeds9217 6 років тому +2

    EU has prevented UK subsidy of industry under its state aids rules, but has often provided subsidised loans and grants to businesses to set up elsewhere in the EU. UK has seen a spate of factory closures balanced by new and expanded facilities in poorer EU countries. The UK lost van production to Turkey, car capacity to Slovakia, chocolate to Poland, domestic appliances to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic metal containers to Poland amongst others in recent years. In various cases there was an EU grant or loan involved in the new capacity. Between 1951 and 1973 food and drink output rose by 5.6% per year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has fallen by 1% a year. Between 1951 and 1973 textiles output expanded at 2.6% a year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has fallen by more than 6% a year. When the UK joined the EU we had a 45 million tonnes a year steel industry. Today we are battling to save an 11 million tonnes industry. When we joined the EU we had a 400,000 tonnes a year aluminium industry. Today we have just 43,000 tonnes of capacity left. The October 2013 government “Future of Manufacturing” Report shows that between 1951 and 1973 metals output rose 3% a year. Since joining the EEC/EU it has declined by more than 6% When we joined the EU we had 20 million tonnes of cement capacity. Today we have 12 million tonnes. Just before we joined the EEC in 1971 we had a 1 million tonnes a year fishing industry. Today we have 600,000 tonnes. Whilst it may not be fair to blame all this decline on membership of the EU, as there are other factors, it nonetheless shows categorically that joining the EU and helping create the so called single market has not helped us grow and has not saved many of our industries from decline. In some cases EU policies are the main driver of the disaster. The Common Fishing Policy is clearly the main reason for the dreadful decline of our fishing industry, as many foreign vessels were licensed to take our fish. Our energy intensive businesses were often damaged by the high energy prices required by the EU common energy policy. Looking at our huge balance of payments deficit today in goods with the rest of the EU, we can see the long term impact of the EU’s damage to our manufacturing capacity. This April’s balance of payments figures show us in heavy deficit in machinery, vehicles, electrical machinery, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel, wood and clothing. Last year our total goods trade deficit hit £85 billion with the rest of the EU. Between 2008 and 2015 our exports grew at 5% with the rest of the world, whilst falling with the EU. Perhaps remain might like to answer the following questions: Why have we suffered industrial decline and closures with production shifting elsewhere in Europe since joining the EEC? Why do trade in surplus with the rest of the world but have such a huge deficit with the EU? Why have we ended up importing fish, electricity, steel and much else when we used to self sufficient?

  • @jessebarlow1277
    @jessebarlow1277 3 роки тому +1

    7:00 the guy being interviewed here has one of the best, most straightforward commentaries on brexit i've ever heard

  • @saggo1712
    @saggo1712 8 років тому +5

    What an excellent report. I think we just witnessed a revolution.

  • @arron4163
    @arron4163 8 років тому +9

    no body like us English so thanks for coming but goodbye' coming out the eu is the best we have played since 1966! we will get our country back and there will be a bright future for us middle class and our children' be proud of yourselfs who ever voted we all made this happen x

    • @drunkensailor112
      @drunkensailor112 5 років тому

      2 years later and you are more fucked than ever.

    • @squirepepe8657
      @squirepepe8657 5 років тому +1

      drunkensailor112 And that’s the fault of our government who are majority remain anyways.

  • @lanieagoto31
    @lanieagoto31 3 роки тому +2

    Watching this now brings a smile to my face that the uk. Opted to leave.

  • @sbakernyc5761
    @sbakernyc5761 5 років тому +4

    Very well done...glad to see you turn stereotypes on their heads

  • @anthonyperkins7556
    @anthonyperkins7556 5 років тому +11

    We are right to LEAVE, enough is ENOUGH, we've been shafted from pillar to post by Europe, forced to take in unreasonable numbers of people, being told what we can and can't do etc.

    • @MrJason005
      @MrJason005 5 років тому +4

      Can you show me an actual law passed by the European parliament that dictates the number of immigrants that must go into the UK?

    • @nofancypants
      @nofancypants 5 років тому +3

      anthony perkins Oh really? Can you name a law / directive that our British MEPs voted against...that has hindered more than helped the UK?

    • @trishadick3786
      @trishadick3786 5 років тому +1

      All decisions made in the EU are made by member states and each member has a veto on any decision they dont want including the UK , if parliament was not sovereign it wouldnt be in such a mess , also westminister has a right to export anyone from the EU that they do not want to live here they choose not to as these ppl pay taxes work in the nhs our schools picking our harvests lthey jobs have always been here we just dont want to do them

  • @rja421
    @rja421 8 років тому +12

    The government doesn't have the ability to address these issues as the levers of power have been relocated to Brussels which is too remote and doesn't care. People are all too aware of this so are voting to leave.

    • @boldford
      @boldford 4 роки тому

      The only benefit of Brexit, for which we should all be thankful, is that it will slay the myth of Britain as a major player on the global stage.

  • @nick8841
    @nick8841 5 років тому +2

    Good journalism in my opinion. Well rounded perspectives.

  • @jasonarnold7897
    @jasonarnold7897 5 років тому +4

    this newspaper needs destroying

  • @abdulvahid93
    @abdulvahid93 4 роки тому +5

    6:06 that guy was an immigrant.

  • @Fireglo
    @Fireglo 4 роки тому +2

    "It's just nonsense even though it's a statistically provable fact".

  • @GasFinger1
    @GasFinger1 5 років тому +12

    britain needs to be out of the eu and out of tory rule

  • @otisheading
    @otisheading 6 років тому +2

    This is first piece on video that has tapped into the real anger about British membership of the EU . People feel they are second class citizens in their own land and they do not like being ignored whilst mass migration is imposed upon them. They voted leave because they want at least the semblance of democracy back. Under the EU there is no democracy. If Brexit is sabotaged as seems likely by Theresa May that anger will transfer to social unrest or worse. Leave means leave that it.

    • @dommidavros2211
      @dommidavros2211 5 років тому

      I hope it is sabotaged just to see those idiots get angry! They're like a bunch of inbreds with simplistic ideas of Immigration and bigoted views! Morons, the lot of them!

  • @chiii7702
    @chiii7702 8 років тому +1

    I liked this documentary. It helped me understand the Leave vote a bit more

  • @vaultgamer6875
    @vaultgamer6875 5 років тому +1

    Wow! I never realized Birmingham to be so diverse.

  • @dovemendez3132
    @dovemendez3132 2 роки тому +1

    Omg that’s my Grandad at 6:35 haha jeez my mom told me to watch😂😭

  • @michaelbewick6047
    @michaelbewick6047 5 років тому +1

    two way expression without arguments... well done, need more media like this

  • @joshs8704
    @joshs8704 8 років тому +2

    The media isn't giving these voices enough attention.

  • @gregdavidl647
    @gregdavidl647 8 років тому +1

    5:07. A picture that says a thousand words.

  • @sarojakrieg4780
    @sarojakrieg4780 4 роки тому +2

    Life is very hard in England.

  • @thomaslux8671
    @thomaslux8671 8 років тому +11

    FREEDOM!!!!!

    • @worldpeace1822
      @worldpeace1822 7 років тому +2

      Thomas Lux ..."" screamed William Walles before he died.

  • @freeworld1875
    @freeworld1875 5 років тому +2

    Fascinating time capsule. But it leaves (no pun intended) me wonder what the EU has to do with all of the complaints. It just sounds like austerity and lack of investments is the cause. I mean, no one would be complaining about anything if people had jobs, eh?

  • @J03fifaFTW
    @J03fifaFTW 7 років тому +2

    walk 100 metres down the Merthyr Tydfil highstreet and you'll see Polish shops and what have you. didn't want to show that did they. People want Britain to be British not the just the people but are laws more importantly. And it's not opposed to immigrants but we don't want to walk past every few people and hear different languages and what have you. there are too many immigrants

  • @mingocreek5862
    @mingocreek5862 8 років тому +1

    After reading various opinions, it seems that the reasons given to remain add up to complete economic dependence on this union. It seems that they are willing to allow more and more rule over their own country and lives from Brussels, and trade it for a sense of security and free travel. It seems that the upper economic class are the ones feeling secure about the way things are. The only reason for fear of economic troubles after leaving is if the EU itself will disallow free trade with the UK, and impose some kind of sanction, even if they don't call it a "sanction". So now it's Brussels instead of Rome to dictate what nations may or may not do?

  • @nickmuscat2913
    @nickmuscat2913 7 років тому

    Wow He's In Northampton... :)

  • @rc2869
    @rc2869 7 років тому

    Nice one John, got out and met people.

  • @philipvjones397
    @philipvjones397 5 років тому

    those two blokes around 2.50 had it spot on

  • @daviddaywalker3844
    @daviddaywalker3844 5 років тому +3

    In one word Thatcher. ...

  • @benhanslow9041
    @benhanslow9041 5 років тому +1

    Anyone from October 2018 and the chaos of Theresa Mays deal?

  • @KM-eb4yi
    @KM-eb4yi 6 років тому +1

    Weird watching this back now

  • @Pl89uk
    @Pl89uk 8 років тому +2

    It was the perfect time :)

  • @paulspydar
    @paulspydar 8 років тому +11

    young people , all I keep hearing is "no visas" & "cheap mobile phones" wtf?

    • @youtubeuser84848
      @youtubeuser84848 8 років тому

      yeah and all people that are voting out are old and are ruining for young people.

    • @ryangarrett9433
      @ryangarrett9433 8 років тому

      Not all of us are so narrow minded. I'm more terrified that this has possibly triggered the breakup of the UK

    • @edwardrogers5769
      @edwardrogers5769 8 років тому +5

      And they couldn't get out of bed to vote!

    • @tomwhitworth9591
      @tomwhitworth9591 7 років тому

      I did, I drove all my friends to the polling station and we all voted remain. I was gutted.

    • @Bisinski
      @Bisinski 7 років тому +2

      The young constituents could've swung the vote into their favour but instead the majority of them stayed in bed and bawwwd that they'll need to get visas or something to move around. Then the media will portray the old ones as "evil" because they were responsible enough to vote even though they thought they'd lose. That's why you hear people thinking their vote "would not count."
      Instead we got a very loud minority of remain tossers that can't accept democracy. Now they want a second one cause "this time it's for real," unfortunately, the most interested in staying in the EU failed their civic duty. Now deal with your laziness, most millennials are worthless pieces of shit (#notAll) and the fact that their saltyness is so ever present makes my day, every day. Cry more, fuckers.

  • @glenquinn6853
    @glenquinn6853 4 роки тому +2

    The remoners did not know what thay wher voting for leave voter know the truth

  • @poetlorryit
    @poetlorryit 8 років тому +1

    yeh the big question is what happens now that were out?

    • @Robin4
      @Robin4 4 роки тому +1

      Hows that working out for you

  • @henrylechmere5042
    @henrylechmere5042 Рік тому

    Very emotional when you look back at it

  • @mrphucyoo8281
    @mrphucyoo8281 4 роки тому +5

    Cheap mobile phones from the e,u ??????

  • @magaretjuggler9722
    @magaretjuggler9722 8 років тому +1

    really enjoyed watching this...

  • @conorclements5381
    @conorclements5381 7 років тому +2

    That woman from Leominster's westie at 4:30 is so cute!!

  • @SaviolaIsGod
    @SaviolaIsGod 7 років тому +1

    The young people are talking sense!

  • @caleballen6356
    @caleballen6356 5 років тому +15

    The Guardian is the new Beano.

    • @dukadarodear2176
      @dukadarodear2176 5 років тому

      How dare you?
      60 years ago I was a Beano child.😢
      Apologise.

    • @willman692
      @willman692 5 років тому +1

      There more dandy than beano

  • @rossssd4969
    @rossssd4969 7 років тому +2

    Stopped watching after one minute when that lady said she'd be homeless. You've got to be joking.

  • @snakey973
    @snakey973 7 років тому +7

    This Brexit phenomena is the exact same type of shit that is happening in the US with Trump suppoerters

  • @gigahoe42
    @gigahoe42 8 років тому +1

    Unfortunately I think for a lot of Out people they feel like they have no control or ability to affect their lot and the Out campaign has done a good job selling the magic bean that is leaving the EU could be. If we leave I fear they will just be left holding the beans whilst the country becomes further divided.

  • @martincray8909
    @martincray8909 8 років тому +14

    good job we left

  • @martinlanigan9202
    @martinlanigan9202 4 роки тому

    No investment in area

  • @claylee618
    @claylee618 5 років тому +7

    Time for the Britt's to come out in force in yellow vests wether your a remainer or brexiteer. If your working or on universal credit we could block the roads and motor ways like when we had the petrol crisis.

  • @Alex-bf7mc
    @Alex-bf7mc 5 років тому +1

    Really good neutral coverage, cheers.

  • @utwerps
    @utwerps 5 років тому +15

    Lol trust the Grudian to do an unbiased piece...NOT!

  • @vcvitiko
    @vcvitiko 8 років тому +7

    why blame the the pm? he did the right thing, giving the people the right to decide what they wanted,right? this democracy guys not communism, the majority spoke.

  • @daydreamer1098
    @daydreamer1098 5 років тому +1

    How ironic that all the foreigners seem to want out.......

  • @grahepo
    @grahepo 8 років тому +1

    it's that reporter that is making the people angry by suggesting that people are angry, what an insidious character

  • @kynchan3332
    @kynchan3332 5 років тому +2

    If the farmers were trading profitably with the EU they would not need subsidies. The subsidies are bigger than their revenues? Oh no!!!

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo 11 місяців тому

      Now the farmers have no EU to trade with and no subsidies either. Quite an improvement, not ?

    • @kynchan3332
      @kynchan3332 11 місяців тому

      @@flitsertheo I'm trading just fine with a very niche medicinal crop for early Alzheimer's treatment. No subsidy needed.
      Farmers merely have more paper work, they can trade with the EU.
      I'm very keen on the farmers trading more locally, being more diversified and focusing on value added services.

  • @coddeh87
    @coddeh87 8 років тому

    I would be afraid be very afraid! The end is nigh.

  • @johnnicolson467
    @johnnicolson467 4 роки тому +2

    This is a turning point for Britain it won't be called the United Kingdom anymore as Scotland will soon be Independent, N Ireland will soon join Ireland so Wales and England will have to be called rUK (rest of the UK) or little Britain.

  • @moarbi1
    @moarbi1 5 років тому

    The guy from the bookies summed it up. Double loose

  • @joeking1019
    @joeking1019 5 років тому +2

    Welcome to democracy, welcome to hypocracy, welcome to the so called civilized west. LFD

  • @Georgeokello93
    @Georgeokello93 8 років тому +1

    An overwhelming sense of confusion, whatever the outcome.. lets hope for a more united kingdom in the future

    • @SI-cd7xs
      @SI-cd7xs 8 років тому

      no chance unless they reduce immigration it's going to get worse.

  • @zulkiflijamil4033
    @zulkiflijamil4033 4 роки тому

    Everything goes pear shaped? Hope it will be better.

  • @Aaqe
    @Aaqe 5 років тому +3

    Divided Kingdom? I didn't know that Scotland at last got its independence. WAAAAHHHHHHH Good on you Scotland! Well done! Good luck to the Divided Kingdom. DK instead of UK. (Note: DK does not stand for Denmark.)

    • @kurt7842
      @kurt7842 5 років тому

      Yeah dk as in you Don’t Know what your talking about

    • @Aaqe
      @Aaqe 5 років тому +1

      @@kurt7842 Independence for Scotland and Divided Kingdom: does it ring a bell? :-) No? Where do you come from? Trump land? You sound like it.

    • @kurt7842
      @kurt7842 5 років тому

      Suremes yes, Scotland is dividing the “kingdom”

    • @Aaqe
      @Aaqe 5 років тому +2

      @@kurt7842 Independence for Scotland! Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU. Scotland and Northern Ireland are smarter than England. Brexit is a disease dividing the UK. BREXIT is dividing the "kingdom", not Scotland or Northern Ireland.

    • @kurt7842
      @kurt7842 5 років тому +1

      Suremes oh I agree 1000%