Brian Walden on the Maastricht Rebellion
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- In October 2005, Brian Walden looked back at historic events in British politics.
It was a frenzied week in July 1993 when Conservative rebels were trying to destroy the Maastricht Treaty and possibly with it John Major's government. Brian Walden talked to key players from all sides of that great drama. One participant ruefully described his own part in events as one of the greatest regrets of his political career.
The Brian Walden uploads are absolutely splendid. If you have any more I'd love to see/hear them. Some of his "Walden on Heroes/Villains/Labour people" talks are on CZcams, but too few. Personally I'd have listened to his opinion every week - he was such an intelligent & compelling speaker. But we never got that much from him, sadly
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And how did this all go? Exactly as you'd expect. Labour helped the "rebels" defeat the Government, made Major look weak, then won the election and negotiated more European integration.
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Bully boy stooges won the battle in 1993 but the people won the war in 2020!
That comment hasn't aged well - we've all seen what an utter disaster Brexit has been, and now want back into the EU.
The truth, alas, is somewhat different. We all lost and have continued to keep on losing because the Tory Party has never tackled head on its enemy within - its rabid, irrational, right wing anti-EU Militant Tendency. Britain's future is in Europe. The fact that we are currently outside of the EU doesn't change that fact. The realpolitik is that the world is divided into increasingly protectionist trading blocs and there is no future outside of this structure for a hugely indebted 'Little Englander' Britainnia trading on past glories and declining national assets (the English language).
@@zeddeka Childish, impudent comment.
No wonder polls show a large re-join vote,....there has been a systematic, non-stop media campaign
of bullying, hatred and derision against Brexit and those who voted to leave. It's all one-sided dogmatic, doctrinaire propaganda. You need to work out why you have been so easily duped.
@@markhayward7400 Buffoonish tripe. Conservatives have been infiltrated by Liberal Democrats, there are
very few centre right, True Blue Conservatives in the party any longer.
Look at those ghastly left-liberals who were rightly ousted by Boris ..ie..Gauke, Soubry, Sandbach, Grieve.
Never ever Tories...NOT in a million years.
@@markhayward7400 Notice how Major and his liberal rabble rammed Maastricht through Parliament,
just as Heath did in 1971/2, all sorts of trickery and chicanery.
These squalid One Nation (No Nation) Tories are a right bunch of squalid crooks and spivs.
Treachery by quislings and traitors.
30 years to the day after the confidence vote 23/07/2023