The LBC callers who regret their Brexit vote
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2023
- On the third anniversary of Brexit, James O'Brien asks whether any of his listeners regret their votes. We hear from three who say they do.
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It's strange how people say this isn't the Brexit they voted for, because it's exactly the Brexit I voted against.
Yup. Nicely put.
Because they're not well informed. And being swayed by illusions.
Fantastic comment Gordon 👍🏿
So well articulated. I might borrow this when chatting to certain relatives
I'm.not sorry I voted out
"I'm a Daily Mail reader" - words to send chills down anyone's spine.
Reader is a very loose term for the Daily Mails target audience
Even worse, “I look at their website because I understand the words they use, and the access is easy”.
The internet was ruined by ease of access.
I’m lazy workshy claiming all the benefits going , and a lefty ,words that annoys all the decent people in this country
It certainly doesn't help.
There's only one way of knowing how bad it is by also reading it.
My utmost respect to the lady caller at the start for her absolute honesty on why she reads the Daily Mail. Genuinely. If we were all more honest and less proud, we could speak a lot more openly about topics that concern us all.
Totally....eloquent, smart & lovely to boot. James also.
In short the UK needs a newspaper which write the truth using a simple and straight forward expression . That was one of the strength of German Chancellor Adenauer, 600 words vocabulary and say syntaxe understable by all.
I'm really baffled by this as an American. How is the Guardian so much harder to understand than the Daily Mail? She sounded perfectly able to understand it to me.
@@franciscouderq1100 If you can't understand The BBC then there is no help for you. This was bias and convenience sugar-coated to make herself feel better about her choices.
She's admitting while not really admitting.
I didn’t see Brexit coming, but I saw something coming…. way back in the late 90s, the toxicity of British politics and most of its media had me downright scared. So I moved to NZ. Zero regrets.
NZ looks awesome, even if remote. Australia is ok for a visit, but not really. Congratulations.
I was the same...but headed to Australia. Also, zero regrets.
Didn't NZ ban guns? I gotta be able to protect myself
I think a lot of it had to do with Rupert Murdoc taking over the media over there. He is the main person responsible for transforming USA politics into the toxic wasteland it is. He has a lot of media companies in the UK and he is doing the same misinformation/polarization campaign he did in the USA.
@@patwhite8106 UK also banned buns. And Australia. In all cases, because the guns unprotected people.
I just can’t fathom how anyone could think Rees Mogg had the everyday man’s interest at heart. It was ridiculous.
Man of the people, isn't he? Just like Alexander Boris Von Pfeffle Kemal Johnson and Nigel Garbage.
To misquote Mogg: They are British idiots and all the happier for it.
@@slaterslater5944 🤩🤩👍
Absolute travesty!
Why?
I voted brexit and i have the guts to admit it didn't work. Others are still lying to themselves.
Fair play
I'm not..I would vote to leave again
@@xboxgamer7453 what's the point?
so you've succumbed to the traitorous anti democratic obstructionist bullies? That's a shame.
@xboxgamer not surprising after your comment.
"I never thought the leopards would eat *MY* face!" Cried the lady who voted for the "leopards eating people's faces party."
Classic
I know the leopards will eat people's faces, but I never thought they will eat mine.
Scotland has been trying to leave this toxic union. We were dragged out of the EU against our democratic vote. It is for that reason that we must leave the union.
Don't blame you, here in England it's Toff Tory land 13 years and counting 🤢🤮
So you'd leave the union to give money to Germany. Big brain that
SNP woke Scotland way worse
You voted to stay in both unions.
This is my only remaining hope.
I voted remain whilst studying for my PhD. When it turned out we were leaving I cried the whole day. From a purely selfish perspective, most of the science funding was from the European union. Once I got my PhD I left and went to Canada. I miss home and would like to come back, but seeing how much worse things are getting day by day I couldn’t imagine coming back, and I truly feel sorry for people that don’t have the means to escape the horrible situation Covid, Brexit and government incompetence has forced on them…
As a Brit still living in Britain I send this warning stay away for your own sanity... please stay away.
Stay in your Woke country and do us all as favour!
I got my PhD before I voted to leave and while living in another EU country. Once I was sure we were definitely going to leave, I sold up and returned to live in the UK. For all its faults, I would rather live in the UK than Justin's Canada any time.
You are not missed.
@@dogglebird4430 Sounds like you’re a bit of a bullsh*t artist......
The woman who admitted she'd been gaslighted was wonderful, very sad but she was so clear about how it all went so wrong.
Swedish employment--hiring process
Remain voter here. Respect to anyone who has the courage to accept a degree of responsibility and admit that they may have made a mistake. The ability to recognise that the ship is off course is our only hope of steering it back in the right direction.
Full support!
Really
Why they a insignificant percentage of malcontents.
Who cares what brexit voters think
Imagine losing a vote and claiming they made the mistake 😂😂😂
@@James_36 incorrect bro
Those that won the vote are saying it mistake 🤣🤣🤣
That ship is the Titanic and no one is sailing it - they are all in the first-class lounge getting smashed on the tax money they plundered.
Murdoch. One word, destroyer of worlds and democracies around the world. Murdoch.
He's a criminal!
You are so right about Murdoch. He has "generously" helped exacerbate the mess we have here in the US! From over here, I thought Brexit was anti-immigration and a bad idea (my husband is English, so we watch UK politics). Unfortunately, we add millions of guns to our mix!
Absolutely, but Britains a hereditary monarchy not a democracy but otherwise spot on
That’s 8 words…
Couldn’t agree more 👏🏽👏🏽.
Someone admitting that they were simply wrong about a charged political issue is pretty remarkable in this day and age unfortunately, so I salute any Brexit voter who is willing to do so. Hopefully the stupidity can be overturned some day soon.
What a shame it's too late. I'd never forgive brexiters if I was British.
An issue presently with this is that leaving the single market, the customs union, scraping all legislation passed whilst members of EU and rushing it all through without proper preparation for the upheaval, wasn't on the ballot. What we've gotten is nothing like what was on the ballot.
Not only should there have been more referendums, to cover all the changes, but a greater majority should have been required to ensure that a simple 1% shift wouldn't change how the vote(s) would have gone, given the significance.
Personally, I never expected it to be followed through on as it was a non-binding vote and would be hugely costly for most of the wealthiest people with influence.
@@liul no forgiveness means nobody coming together. Unity is needed now more then ever about brexit.
@@ChrispyNut geez, just let it go dude. Smh.
@Movies and Games
Underestimated the value of the Euro. After recently being worth less than a dollar. I think people were right to underestimate it's value.
The lady is blaming everything and the kitchen sink for brexit except for the person responsible for it in her life. Herself.
I remember the day after the vote, so, so gutted and angry going to my sons sports day and having to grit my teeth and tolerate the crowing and delight of most of the parents there and thinking how pathetic all of them were and they will come to regret their stupidity, I have been proven right but it is so depressing.
same
Did you also support every single covid policy like spinless, pathetic O'brien?
I wonder what these parents think now??
And how has it affected your actual life? If your an average person I’d suggest it has made no difference to you at all!
@@jeffreyroberts7438 you know what has though Jeff, and they don't want to admit it
“I blame myself.”
I blame you too.
I agree, the idea of someone voting in a democratically elected system, sickens me, people should have be forced to vote to stay in the e.u. ....
Lol if someone's being contrite it's pretty rude to twist the knife in, otherwise why would anyone admit fault ever again
@@valadier3348 exactly, OC's not helping anyone...
I also blame brexit voters
I see forgiveness is not on the lefts spectrum is it 😂😂 it’s amazing reading the oh so tolerant left being so tolerant 😂
The media doesn't have this countries best interest at heart.
Why should they, they are businesses, many owned or part owned by offshore interests. Its one reason they are slowly becoming irrelevant.
Whereas Jobby does? 😂
It never has... It's there for the establishment
well they are owned by Uncle Rupert ... he is not interested in any UK person - he is only interested in his wallet and power ! ( and tax avoiding -sorry forgot that )
@@billpugh58 yes, and the EU was threatening to clamp down on all those off-shore billionaire tax evaders - like media owners. No wonder they were all leavers
The irony being that she thinks she understands the Daily Mail but if she truly did she would never read it....
hyuk hyuk hyuk
I'd avoid it purely for my mental health. They word stories in a way to scare and anger, rather than inform.
I've always said this the remain party made it to complicated for majority of people to understand.
I said if the kept it simple as and play the leavers at their on game by saying
If we leave the EU you won't be able to play the euro millions anymore I bet that would have been enough to keep us in
She just meant she understands the vocabulary
@@saqibmunir7609
'Better together',
was simple enough.
Didn't push the right buttons like,
'They need us more then we need them'.
Those 2 slogans told all .
As these people voted to take away my rights on my own continent that I was literally born with, against my will, I find it really difficult to feel anything but contempt for these people. Even though they regret it.
I totally agree. The Brexit supports supported Brexit because of racism and the view that the world needed Britain more that Britain needs the world. This shown by British peopl calling themselves ex-pats when they are just immigrants.
@@johnvale3217Brexit was a mistake but racism had nothing to do with. The overwhelming majority(80%) of immigrants who came to the UK from 2004 to 2019 were European, so the notion that Brexit happened because people were triggered by the skin color of European immigrants is nonsense. This country has suffered wage stagnation since 1980 which many voters blamed on mass immigration.
@@algernonsidney8746 Xenophobia would be the corrrect term but people are often using 'racism' in this context. Once you use the proper word, their point stands. I felt it as a migrant in London myself. There is a strong innate dislike of other cultures, often disguised by politeness when face-to-face.
I remember I was a Brit living in Shanghai at the time of the vote. All of my Chinese friends were shocked that the British voted to change a situation that was obviously working very well for them. Most found it totally incomprehensible. So did I!
Because that's what they were told to think. Having said that, it looks like they were right.
So did I!
You would have to be working class to understand the Brexit vote 🤷♂
@@MRW515 -or regularly read certain newspapers... and we should also remember that a lot of pensioners voted to leave.
@@silversurfer8278 so no personal experience then
My family all voted remain. Are we super intelligent economic professors? No. We all thought an Irish border was a huge problem, with no answer. To have a government risk a return to domestic terrorism is unforgivable.... quite aside from from all the economic and reputation damage we've inflicted on ourselves.
👏👏👏👏
So, let's allow murderers to dictate national politics with threats of even more murders - I suppose you think Ukraine should give up sovereignty of Donbas and Crimea to prevent violence too...
Indeed. The irony is that Brexit worst affects the regions that voted for it the most, and the reasons for that didn't require a degree in economics to understand.
@UCF7oEBgsqdKTmuCZ3LqIy8
The NI farmers are exporting their produce largely via the South but NI did vote to remain within the EU......but so did the Scots and to where are their farmers exporting?
Well, it rather confirmed what people thought about England before the wote.
England has always been bad neighbours
The Daily Mail mantra: "Feed them a little bit of hate every day."
you mean LBC?
...feed who.....you are no better....what do you feed on....?
@@chatham43 tolerance and love for one's fellow man, a quality a mail reader would know nothing about
@@finalcut612 wow, so the UK newspaper with the biggest circulation is only read by people of little tolerance and compassion for other people. Takes a bit of thinking about does that.
@@mikeserridge4547 yes. That rag traffics in entitlement and othering. For it to be your primary source of news must require a profound lack of empathy.
I’m an American who lived in LDN for a few years a decade ago…watching Brexit and its aftermath from the US has been maddening and chastening - I have to thk that when I next visit the UK it will no longer feel like the very center of the world like it did post the 2012 Cool Britannia phase…it’s sad…
I used to have a lot of hatred for the people that voted to leave but hearing these callers just makes me really sad for what the people in power have done to the people of this country :(
it was a referendum, the people voted for it, stop blaming others for the peoples own wishes and mistakes.
@@qubedoo3289 It was 7 years ago and many people were not allowed to vote
When did these people first realise they were being taken for fools? Was it when it turned out the "£350 million extra per week for the NHS" turned out to be a lie, or when Rees-Mogg told them fish were happy to have British passports?
They have had 4 billion. But they released a Chinese virus unfortunately.
But that was a really nice bus...
Pmsl that's brilliant
More like £350 million extra per week FROM the NHS
It was less than 24 hours after that Farage admitted that the bus was a lie.
"I'm a daily mail reader" there in lies the problem
“I read it because I understand it” is even worse.
Albeit she did say she hoped to change fellow reader opinions. Curious?
@Wudu smart people can still fall victim to manipulation and propaganda.
Arguably it’s worse when these people are corrupted as they’re significantly more useful for the bad cause.
She should be reading the guardian ... full of honest truths. 😂💩😂
@@brianstubberfield2116 More honest than the Daily Wail, and that's what matters.
No James, people who voted for Brexit should be blamed. Wilful ignorance/stupidity is not an excuse.
Totally agre. They supported proven liars and did it out of racism
USA DISSAGREES joins the chat.
Didn't vote brexit, didn't vote tory in 2019. No sympathy for anyone that's suffering as a result of those choices nobody to blame but yourselves.
My work colleagues hate me saying “I told you so “ how disingenuous can you get?
and what did you tell them?
@@trytellingthetruth.2068 I'd bet you can make an educated guess...
Bad luck for them.
This is great. We are hearing the voices of actual voters! Please please keep on posting videos like this. There are many who need to hear this over and over again. Thanks James
You’re in a self selective echo chamber FFS. Get a life.
Thanks for sharing.
You assume they are actual voters and not paid to talk like this. Media is clever.
@@Linska495th hey, if you pay attention to the right wing propaganda machine, it would be clear that it's about _othering._ they want people to blame relatively powerless minorities for unprecedented social problems instead of the oligarchy.
You know what hurts? When in 2016 I knew they will eventually realize - and only then they will look at it closely, once the results show up, only then they will see what it really is, but somehow some of us saw it from the very beginning. How come? Me and all my friends immediately knew it was a scam.
There seem to be two types of regretful leave voter:
1. "I honestly believed _everyone_ would be better off."
2. "I honestly believed it would only negatively affect people who _weren't_ me."
And it never ceases to amaze me how the second group genuinely believes it is morally equivalent to the first and deserves the same treatment.
Proud second camper here f*** everyone else
@@mightymizzar9672 No prizes for guessing which side of the political spectrum you're on.
@@gordonstrong5232 that's right natzi party baby
There is also the moral dishonesty of number one. The facts were there for them to see and they chose to ignore them for a comfortable lie which suited their prejudices. They are the same. That's the problem.
@Minty Webb as if hiding in the mits of European Union totalitarianism is any better
Every Remainer watching this is saying Told Ya So.
No we're not. What we are/should be saying is that the people guilty of staging the con should be shamed.
No. Some of us are just really sad.
not really ...we might think that but we are not saying it because the facts are doing it for us so much better than we ever could.
Not really. None of Project Fear’s lies came true.
@@chrisj9700 🤡
I openly admit i fell for the lies and propaganda! Which I am ashamed of! One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I voted leave if i ever get the chance in my life time i will vote return!
Don't be ashamed. You were lied to by professional conmen. The shame is on them, not you. It's only on you if you fall for it a second time
but the immigrants...
Well you won't get that chance pal, because the EU won't allow Brits back into their HUGE trading bloc.
Your poor children, maybe apologise to them for ruining their futures.
Vote labor Torys are stealing everything.
@@boogaloo4640 Lies that anyone with a bit of cop on could see through.
The 'fault' is that a major decision, as complex as this, should have never been cast open to a vote by the UK Electorate.
It was far too difficult for the average voter, given the level of education in the country, to make a truly informed decision. Therefore, it was open to massive manipulation.
Therefore, the blame must ultimately lie firmly and squarely at DAVID CAMERON'S feet who allowed a Referendum....for the progression his own political career ! And where is he now?!
I must say it wasn't just Cameron's fault, as he was pushed by the ERG in the conservative party (as the women says in the video) and previously putting things for referendums was a successful tactic to dispell them e.g. AV referendum in 2011
it was not stop making excuses.
@@qubedoo3289 make sense with your reply next time! I'm sure you'll get there!
Speak for yourself, I knew, bravo brexit
Then the populists would say how anti-democratic the system is and that they won't let the people vote
Before the Brexit referendum I remember watching a Parliamentary debate on television where Boris Johnson stood up and said it would be economical disaster if Britain left the EU. I was shocked therefore that he was at the forefront of of the ‘leave’ campaign. He was a liar and deceiver then which eventually caused his downfall.
Bozo is an selfish opportunist
In reality he had no downfall he just shuffled off to do something else he and his ilk have no conscience they don’t look back
I've just caught a glimpse of your impressive mug. The one you drink from, not with...
I was a nurse in the UK, voted remain and could not believe leavers couldn't see what was coming. I was called delusional, unpatriotic and many other things. A year later I retired early and moved (alone) to Portugal while I still could. Moving abroad when I finally retired had been on my mind for a while because I knew I couldn't survive in the UK on my NHS pension. I went several years earlier than planned while I still could. It's the best decision I ever made and I can live reasonably well here.
The general opinion from the locals and the numerous immigrants from Europe, Canada, U.S etc. is the UK is a mess and nothing short of a laughing stock. That said, there are UK citizens here that voted leave and moan endlessly abut the inevitable changes that are making their lives here that more difficult. Incredible.
Thankyou for your service in the medical community in this country ❤
I think a lot of current uk nurses will end up moving to portugual/spain and end up doing very well
None of that is true, is it? I bet you supported every single covid policy. Portugal lol
@@joshevans4663 having a productive day josh? what are you up to these days?
@@Sparks95 there's a million Josh Evans' out their my guy. That Josh battle royal in America, I reckon there was at least 3 who turned up. Check my activity, (if you know how). Ain't logged in, in over a year. Only did cause James' trying to gaslight the people he hates into believing every problem of this country is their fault
But I thought they all knew exactly what they were voting for?
Yes, real know alls!
I was just contemplating exactly this, my position was always I believed remain was the correct vote but I could be wrong - but 2 points made me sure I wasnt. A, We'd be handing the Tories way more power and look how thats turned out. And B, Just what the fck are they actually voting for as there is no deal here in place to prove what they claim we will get, and a no deal exit would be catastrophic other than to stick one up to the nasty EU totalitarian killer warrior British hating dictators (that didnt and dont exist)
I mean there's no way a sane, democratically lead Government would take action on a vote that clearly not all voters knew what they were voting for, that had half the media spewing mountains of misinformation to try and sway the vote and that the Government itself was in no way prepared to deal with the repercussions of leaving. Right?
.......they did alfresco....but they aren't getting it....
They were conned with a capital C.
I'm not sure I will ever forgive brexshitters anyone who has a brain cell knew how awful it would be
Yep, no-one forced them to vote.
James, I like the 2 person who says "I'd like a door to be open in Brussels". The door is open but the recent UK government keep on building hurdles, walls, diverging legislation, etc. So the problem is NOT in Brussels but with the UK governements since YEARS 2016 or even before).
As one caller said, a referendum on such a major issue should not have been decided on such a slim majority. I think we were conned: I seem to remember that it was an advisory referendum, but the government then decided that it would be undemocratic not to act on the result. If it had been tagged as binding from the start, I expect a certain majority would have been required. To effect such a major constitutional change on that mandate was the undemocratic move. People voted for Brexit without any idea what that Brexit would look like. Which is why they are still arguing over it.
It should have been a long robust democratic process. As it is it was grubby political opportunism took us out, not a robust democratic process.
It's crazy when you consider for a country to JOIN the EU it on average takes a decade. Yet we made such a monumentally heavy decision as to leave on a single vote that was only 2% off of a 50/50 split, that most people who voted to leave had no idea what they were voting for and a lot of people who would have voted remain, not bothering because they either thought it "would never happen" or "wouldn't be decided on a single, close-call vote".
Then because the Tories got impatient we rushed out of the EU in just 4 years with very few concrete trade-deals and an economy sinking quicker than the Titanic.
@@Gohka how do you know people didn't know what they voted for. Have you spoken to every single one of them. Lmaoyp.
@@gary8306 Possibly because, in addition to the lies before the vote, key elements of the process were not decided until after it. There was no need to leave the single market for example. Even Farage was talking about a "Norway style deal" at the time. It was nutters like the ERG who insisted on the hardest possible brexit. But, as someone who has interviewed every voter yourself, I expect you've heard that before.
@@realhorrorshow8547
You call what we have a "hard brexit". Surely you must be joking?
The feeling is mutual, callers - believe me.
My friends were mostly remainers, my family mostly leavers. I researched both sides for ages and ended up more confused. What I wanted, which was to stay in a reformed EU, was not on the ballot. I abstained from voting for the first time in my life. Thats my regret. Should have gone with my gut. Thanks James.
I am loving to see that Julie had the courage to go on the radio and say how it is in her community. I hope this caller has resonated with others because of her refreshing honesty as she has resonated with me.
The UK had the best deal from the EU when it was a member, kept the pound, not in Schengen, rebate on the yearly fee (thanks to Thatcher)... I think it will be a long time before UK re-joined the EU, unfortunately.
"The UK had the best deal from the EU when it was a member, kept the pound, not in Schengen, rebate on the yearly fee"
Actually not being in the Eurozone and not being in Schengen was a very bad deal.
Even the rebate was a bad deal because all the money 'saved' went on tax cuts for rich people making the UK the most unequal country in Europe.
@@JohnSmall314 Don’t you remember the chaos caused by Black Wednesday and the misery inflicted on Greece. Why should we in the Euro?
Schengen allows terrorists to cross the border without a passport check.
How do you know the rebate was used to give out tax cuts to the rich? At least with a rebate you can use it to make your economy better. Do note the rich pay an awful lot in taxes. The top 1% of income earners pay a quarter of all income taxes, the top 10% pay half. Those percentage shares were a lot smaller in the 70s when Labour had 78% income tax top rates for earned income and 98% for unearned income.
@@JohnSmall314 incredible how wrong you are ! Do some research on what kind of power did the U.K had over U.E and support !
The EU should not let them back!
They are a threat to unity, because they think they're superior to the whole world let alone Europe.
@@chrisj9700 Trickle down economics does not work.
We should blame the media and the government for this. Not turn on each other the media and government want us to!
YOU voted for the Tories again and again, and YOU allowed yourself to be deceived by xenophobia and pies in the sky, despite _every_ knowledgeable person screaming to you of the consequences.
Yes, the media and politicians are to blame, but they couldn't have done it without YOU.
(By "YOU" I mean the British public in general, not necessarily you as a person)
Who owns and controls the media?
We should, but also recognise that people voted for this, some people are so easily manipulated by propaganda
Same old blame same one else 🙄
@The AJ that's exactly the mentality that keeps the fires burning / friction between citizens of this country . YOU are to blame for all the hatred being continued in this country and its YOU that are contributing to a problem rather than looking for a solution . It's no ones fault for thinking another party might have the right ideas for this country and believing in them if they are sick of the other parties . If roles reversed and labour had won the election and somehow brought the country to its knees I wonder if people like yourself or Labour voters would have so nobly admitted to being wrong . Hmm I wonder .
The EU thanks you for your service!
Thank you for ridding us of Britain.
I don’t think the UK should be allowed to rejoin the EU for another 25 years!
totally agree don't need toxic people in the EU.
So tell us Brexiteers did you finally "Get your Country back?" Ya know the one you never lost in the first place. 🤣
Saved paying 12 billion to the corrupt Eu , remember when Brexit happened we had a pandemic which ruined the whole world
The one we are losing now
If only Brexit was about "taking back control". The sad thing is this country was given away - to foreign investors and rich expat Brits - long before Brexit
Ask me that when we have left.
It's a bit like a man starts shouting 'I can't find my glasses, where are my glasses?' You point out to him that the glasses are still on his face and he starts feeling his face and out of joy realizes he has his glasses and shouts 'I got my glasses back'. That is a Brixiteer who thinks he got his country back after voting to leave the EU.
Why didn't they take heed of all the credible warnings about leaving and why oh why did they trust anything a tory said?
.....you mean the incredible warnings surely.......
because their motivation to vote leave was racism driven. No common sense.
"I like the daily mail because it's easy to read."
Well. They know their readership.
"Divide and rule"..it's the oldest trick in the book!
It takes guts to admit your mistakes. Better late than never! Well done
No, it doesn't. It takes simple intellectual honesty. I'm always glad when someone comes back to reality but I will not call them brave or say they had guts.
@@bipolarminddroppings Nevermind Loser.
@Steph S. well, they actively voted to destroy the country because of „reasons“. Why would anyone invite them for tea?
@@bipolarminddroppings let me guess you supported every single covid policy
@@joshevans4663
Nobody can claim to be a supporter of "every single covid policy", since the UK acted like a crazy person changing mind about everything.
For me, people who voted for Brexit solely on the immigration issue were the ones truly duped because that was only ever going to become a bigger problem when we exited Europe and it's rules.
Those who believed in better trade deals also were truly duped.
@@Leberteich did they solely make decisions on trade deals , perhaps they were better informed than those who believed we would have less assylum seekers,migrant workers, illegal aliens and refugees trying to come into the country on rubber dinghies ?
You left the Dublin Accord
My father in law, thought we would have world trade , baked beans from Australia at 60p a tin ?.
@@incognito96 🤣
Regardless of people who regret Brexit now, their single vote. Caused Brexit in the overall, so no. I do not forgive any of them. They had ample opportunity to conduct their due diligence like us "Remoaners", had access to the same information as us, the same sources and the same base-level stream of neurons within their brain. So no, we should not, and must not forgive them. If we forgive it happens again, and again, and again.
I’m from Spain. I love UK and I would love to have you in the EU again. I understood the reasons of some brexiters for leaving Europe because the EU laws and goverment are not perfect but I felt and I stil feel very sad about your exit. I used to travel a lot to the UK before the Brexit because I really love your beautiful countryside and your beautiful villages but in some way I don’t feel welcome anymore. And it’s a little painful. My grandparents lived and woked in UK for 5 years and they were very grateful for that experience. I love and respect your idyosincrasy and I would love to have you again as EU partners respecting everyone particularities.
Whenever a tory minister is involved in scandal it never makes the front page of the daily mail strange that isn't it
If only there had been some kind of national campaign to warn these people about the consequences of leaving the EU, which are actually happening now.
What little opposition there was to Brexit, was a shambles.
Yeah, hit the nail on the head. The remain campaign was truly awful. Total dereliction. All the warnings were too little too late, they never got a handle on managing leave misinformation.
A better approach would be to publicise the benefits of being in. Four freedoms, a say in rule making, strong trade deal negotiation and common solutions to common challenges. Et cetera.
I think the most interesting thing that’s happened and the proof that it’s failed is that there is no celebration of the anniversary
@@verystripeyzebra I push back on that... because it was a non-binding referendum and it was quite literally only the Tory party that actually went through with it. Britain had tricked itself into getting out via Brexist stupidity/lies/misinformation and then the Tory's tricked Britain into thinking "well, we HAVE to now!" through more stupidity/lies/misinformation.... they called the counter-BREXIT movement "project fear"...
Judy: “after the vote turned out the way it did, people were very mean to those who voted for Brexit.” - Yes, because they told you how it would turn out, and you didn’t listen. Now you’re upset because they were right.
i been watching brexit from Sweden all along, i saw the likeness between MAG and Brexit from start. Use peoples frustration with anything and redirect that anger to any agenda. EU is not perfect in any way, but blaming it for long term internal politics in UK was fairly sad. I really hope that UK get its problems sorted out and rejoin Europe politics and market in some way. We need each other to solve all kinds of problems on Earth.
Best wishes from Sweden.
What a sweet comment. Thank you for your generosity. So many governments, over the years, blamed all ills on the EU and it really showed, and the tragedy is that only about 36% of our current population actually voted to leave. The rest of us have to suffer. I very much hope we will join you again someday. Love Sweden!
Oh. Wasnt I told, that all these people knew, what they voted for?
I am shocked. Shocked.
If only someone would have warned....oh wait.
That second caller is extremely insightful, opened my eyes a little which is a surprise. We all have something to learn and should keep an open mind.
When I went to vote in the referendum, I didn’t know which way to vote. So I spent a while with Google. I tried to find arguments both for and against leaving. I worked in shipping before we were in the single market, so have some idea of the complete nightmare involved in international shipping. For instance, Kroner’s guide to shipping was a complete list of all required requirements for shipping to other countries. It was several volumes, each over 1000 pages long, which was updated monthly (usually each update was a hundred pages or so).
The single market effectively removed all the documentation for our eu neighbours and made shipping to Europe pretty much a case of “Load up a lorry, stick It on a ship and go”.
Looking at the evidence I had available, I concluded that remain was the right choice.
That said, I’ve always tried to respect the rights of others to vote differently than I do.
I too worked in Shipping both Export & Import for over 40 years and I had to use Croners and the Brussels Nomenclature (before Brexit this was a tariff guide and manual that covered duty rates for everthig from a needle to a flagpole). Mired in red tape for years and more paperwork than the Daily Mail produces in a decade) but no-one asked me my opinion at the time of the referendem!! Talk about the blind leading the blind. I'm 76 and I'll be dead before this country's back on it's feet again.
Correction.....Should have said " before our entry into the EEC" not "before Brexit".
If that woman understood the daily mail & its aims then why on earth would she continue to read it??
There was one surprise for us, continentals: the outcome of your vote in 2016. All the rest that came after was obvious. What we, still, cannot comprehend here is how poissenous brittish media realy are. And why brittish people, still, do not look around to know more.
Insular mindset, sense of superiority from the old empire they once had, absence of interest in other languages (fewer Britons learn a foreign language today than 40 years ago) and cultures, beliefs in British exceptionalism... All in all, an extremely dangerous cocktail. A nation that believes itself to be the USA's equal when Argentina would be a better analogy.
@@pritapp788 they're literally ignorants if they believe they are the USA's equal, that's insane
Because the leadership that lead them astray have no higher ambition than to become a cut-price knock off of the USA, as long as they can continue to plunder the public purse and avoid both tax and consequences.
All jokes aside, England is in trouble .
@@stevestokes-li8xr No right thinking person thinks Labour would be worse even if they don't like them.
@@stevestokes-li8xr The economy has always done better under Labour & it will again when they get in. No Labour MP could be worse than Truss or Johnson as PM.
@@stevestokes-li8xr after 10 years of Tories demonstrating what they are capable of and still some people support them.
This is truly amazing…
The UK is in trouble.
@@stevestokes-li8xr And Bully's special prize....... A speed boat.
The EU will never allow the UK back in. A unanimous vote of 27 members is required. That will never happen.
Brexit today in Scotland is seen by most people, at least the majority of the ones I have spoken to, as typical of how Westminster treats Scotland in general, with utter disdain till they need our vote. As a lifelong Labour voter and one-time Labour activist, I voted against Brexit and against Scottish independence, I now think I may have made a mistake voting for one, and it was not Brexit.
Yup shame it didn't go to plan . Westminster is pure evil
The thing you have to understand is the alcoholic, obese, drug addicted Sweatties just want who can give them the most money
@@Officialnrb You haven't exactly helped your case. :)
@@Saor_Alba
I don’t present a case, just facts.
@@Saor_Alba
I don’t have a case. I just enlighten facts and educate people.
One of the few positive things I've heard about the UK recently is that more and more people are brave enough to admit that they made a mistake in 2016.
Bregret came earlier then I expected!
Not a moment too soon.
.......yep.....after 2 whole years.....😂😂😂😂
GREAT word !!!! stealing this lol
My wife and I are middle-aged Americans and we knew that Brexit was going to be bad for England. But as an American I can hardly complain where we have millions of people who still think Donald Trump is somehow the Savior? In both cases the information is out there but people really have to want to find it.
the people have to choose the right news they don't because racism is blocking their common sense.
This should never have happened at all. Brexit is the downfall of the UK. My mother, now 84 years old voted to remain. She voted the young people and their future. Now they have none. I moved away from the UK in the 80s and I am glad that my children live and do well in Sweden.
The "Murdoch Media Paradox"
The fact that Daily Mail Readers
"Can read"
Love you James, you're so sweet and kind and understanding, I wish I could be more like you, my righteous indignation makes me vengeful and frankly vicious.
It's just a pity he became the face of Remain.
She was gaslighted relentlessly by the media, is a daily mail reader but its OK because she understands the gaslighting language they use....voted for Brexit regardless 🙄
I can't with these people
Hindsight. 20/20
@@nulnoh219 EU charter on human rights was pretty 20/20 too
@@nulnoh219 She's not like "I used to be a Daily Mail reader" but "I am a Daily Mail reader". This isn't about hindsight, but just sight.
Oof. This one hurts. Because she’s clearly smart enough to know that she wasn’t being smart, but apparently couldn’t see it when it mattered. I appreciate that she’s not doubling down and can recognise a mistake… but that mistake has pretty HUGE consequences, so it’s hard not to be at least a little irate
It's the reason why Brexit was, at it's heart, anti-democratic. The fact is people were lied to about objective facts, and encouraged to vote against their own interest.
Nice to see people are waking up to the truth! Burnt bridges can be (and should be) rebuilt!
Still believe it was partly the delusion of Brutish/English exceptionality. If I was the EU I'd wait on any new deal until the UK breaks up .
Why wait until it breaks up? There's only one country worth trading with and that's England.
@@trytellingthetruth.2068 The only place worth trading with in England is London and that place hates the rest of the country.
@@iberian5319
Unless there's the chance of a war ( Yugoslavia ) then they'll be banging on our door looking for help.
@@trytellingthetruth.2068good job on immediately proving his point
BREGRET?
Radical Idea here....Stop reading The Daily Mail. 🙄
Whilst it's a shame that these people fell for all the lies or actively chose to ignore the truth, there is nothing wrong with these people admitting that they regret their decision and that they were wrong.
Admitting that there is a problem is the first step on the road to everyone actually accepting that the issues exist and (hopefully) working towards a solution. Personally, I would prefer that we rejoin the EU, but I'll be very surprised if any future Governments of ours actually instigate this.
I respect these people… I do not respect anyone who lies about their vote or denies the truth of the situation.
Admitting your mistake is difficult, especially on public radio. Those who continue to preach brexit or try to claim it was a success or needs time or whatever are not worthy of respect.
The worst are the ones who want to move on and not talk about it. I loathe those people.
I think the majority of those that voted for Brexit did it for honest reasons, basically wanting to make the UK better. But the sad part about it is, those politicians like JRM, Boris, Farage etc wanted it as a means for their own ends. Now a portion of the Brexit voting public simply refuse to see that they've been lied to and taken for a ride...
To be fair it should never have been legal to lie about getting 300 million and it going to the nhs. Thats criminal it was allowed.
@@TheDom277 well we was an independent nation before we joined the eu, why can't we make a success on our own. The problem is the conservatives have no passion to make something of it or didn't really want to leave in the first place. they have no back bone to stand up to the eu beauracrats
If we rejoin then we join Schengen, the Euro, have no rebate, EU bailouts and not to mention the EU want their own army. Why are we better off in these?
Call it 'Regrexit'
Why continue to read these papers if you know you have been lied to ?
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
Who said that, the EU ?
@@davidpryle3935 Winston Churchill
@@ijsdrop He probably said it after the 1945 general election 😂
@@davidpryle3935 attributed to Winston Churchill but apparently there's no evidence he said it.
@@vyperlube There’s many great quotes attributed to him. My own favourite is “I never knew water tasted so bad, with no whiskey in it” 🥃
Odd how England and Wales voted leave yet NI and Scotland didn't. Same media in general.
Us Welsh, are like sheep, we like to follow others. Very rare do we as a nation, take the lead in politics.
They are a part of Britain in a British referendum 😂😂😂 you people are meant to be soo intelligent 😂😂
Few days ago due to weather I thought I want to go away from UK and live somewhere else
So decided to look for countries I could go and work without getting a work Visa
Before Brexit I could have gone to 41 countries
Now I found Gibraltar, Belize 🇧🇿, Isle of Man 🇮🇲 and ireland 🇮🇪
Are my only options
For people who voted brexit to get rid of brown people lol
I’m one brown guy due to brexit I’m stuck in UK
No darling not just the brown people,the Bulgarians and the Romanians were a massive issue for UK.I am waiting for the new blame campaign,this time will be the Indians and the Africans.There is always someone to blame.
The honesty of the second caller blew me away.
Conned and they know it.
You know what, credit where credit is due, that woman said that she understands the language and finds the lack of pay wall simple.
It actually takes a lot to admit you might not be smart enough to understand other sides of the argument. As James says, she doesn't sound like it, but it's a significant factor to admit it yourself.
Fair play, Julie. I might not agree with why you did it, but I can understand why you did it.
Yeh I think it’s hard for us to admit short comings and she just tackled the topic head on. Have to admire that
but, with that understanding, about one's shortcomings, has to come the realisation that she should have taken the status quo. And then it was "the UK is in the EU".
if she says herself that she is not smart enough to know about this, she should have voted staying. It would mean nothing would have changed for her, so nothing would be broken. Her not doing this..still voting about something she is not smart enough for (her own words) means she has not learned anything from this...and she is still allowed to vote.
Hey, she didn't say she isn't smart enough to understand the other side of the argument, she said she doesn't fully understand the language used in papers like the Guardian.
The level of reflection and insight she shows in this call suggests she's absolutely smart enough to understand the reasons for staying in the EU - the issue is that there isn't a newspaper as accessible as the Daily Mail that puts the opposing arguments in simple English...
That's a damning indictment of the English schooling system then...
@@pritapp788 doubtless. Only one of the many issues with this country. Depends on your courses as well, mind.
How is it that half the country Knew this would happen and warned brexit voters about and were constantly shut down.
The Daily Mail I have such anger for.
I can't believe it!!
He found the introspective ones he's been looking for!
Hope
You will always find some somewhere ,right or wrong in or out the U.K. voted by referendum for out
But of course. JOB likes individual anecdote to push his agenda.
There was no gaslighting, they told you exactly what your xenophobic ears wanted to hear. Gave you a ideology to support.
Brexiteers can waffle on about sovereignty but the bottom line is it was the fear of borderless immigration that scared the logic and reason from their thought processes and replaced them with bigotry and rascism.
race card remoaner eh?
Another one of O’Brien’s victims eh Martin?
Look in the mirror
Open your eyes
Speak from your heart
Acknowledgement
Before growth
I disagree with the caller & I would vote to join the Euro currency tomorrow. I don't believe our media, politicians, education or electoral system was equipped for what it takes to be in the EU. I think we need to undergo a lot changes before we join. First with our unfair voting system.
Common sense it is cheaper to have one currency in Europe. Makes business and travelling so much more easier.
We lived in France for 23 years (pre EU) and i am an international european tanker driver but i did'nt have the right to vote because i've lived outside the UK for more than 15 years. My kids grew up in France then my eldest went back to the UK and voted for brexit to get the foeigners out. My son went back for 5 years, voted brexit then came back to France. Our elder generation voted for brexit to keep thier independance from the EU. They've had thier life, never leave the UK or have any dealings with the EU. That is a sad reality of the brexit vote. For me the single currancy, only border controls for Switzerland and the funniest free health care with the EU medical card within the EU. Did'nt you used to buy holiday health care for EU holidays?
Maybe you've already covered this:
Who is actually benefiting from Brexit? Surely there must be some. Tax avoiders? Businesses that want less regulation? Serious question.
How did you benefit from being in the EU, you probably only knew we were in it when the referendum came along 😂😂😂
@@James_36Look at the G7 GDP post Brexit. All the others go up. We’re going down. There’s your benefit. And the damage is only getting started. Wait until 2026 rolls around.
Always welcome back in my book.
Greetings from the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪
Next referendum, 2057 👍
It’s going to take a long time, but we’re coming back eventually.
Noble, John. Thanks!
Generously said. We’re pretty much the most hated country in Europe now, I think, (or maybe just mocked).
@@geemo4284lol, just mocked. The most hatred country in Europe is, of course, Russia.
Three years after Brexit, the British are still waiting for the benefits.
Greetings from the Netherlands
Just tell people what they want to hear, you can get away with telling lies if it's what they want to hear.
Very sad, even if we rejoined tomorrow we have wasted 7 years. life is short and this nonsense has already wasted 7 years of our lives! All the doomongerers were absolutely right.
There is no such thing as re joining.
Out means out!
@@fcassmann Frank relax that stiff upper lip you may find you will be more happy.