Which EU law shall we get rid of now Brexit is done? Four calls from James O'Brien
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- The UK has left the EU and we can start to set our own path, so which laws shall we get rid of? James O'Brien asked listeners and the answers he got became increasingly bizarre.
Sajid Javid has issued a challenge to the public to identify the elements of Brussels red tape which we can remove now that Brexit has happened.
In what he is calling a "competition", the Chancellor has asked which regulations and rules set by the EU could be removed to improve people's lives.
The first caller started talking about regulations around washing machines and bat populations and subsequent callers moved on to making employees work longer and bringing back the death penalty.
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Now imagine the same people, in the US, with assault rifles and militias.
Exact same mentality, in the US they shout about the Constitution but have never even read it, instead they get told what it says. Its classic Dunning Kruger Effect, the same people who wave flags and purport to love the country and its people at the same time won't get vaccinated or wear a simple piece of cloth over their mouths to protect those around them. Imagine their response if they really had to make a sacrifice for their country.
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@@1969JohnnyM 💯 % Agree. Blind leading the BLIND.
And flags
@@1969JohnnyM
Fun fact....
The confederate flag they keep waving is the the wrong one. From history we have learned that most flags the confederates waved around was a piece of whitish cloth on a stick.
"I want to work 100 hours" ... quite quickly changes into "I want to force my employees to work 100 hours" ...enjoy Brexit :)
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We are thank you we do not beed unelected career politicians to tell us how to run our lives enjoy your life in the broken eu
@@stellaadams7289 - Have you ever taken a second to look howm many "unelected" career politicians exist in the UK? Hint: Far more than in the EU - it does start at the very top. And "broken" is kind of funny coming from a Kingdom where 2 of 4 member nations seriously contemplate leaving the union. The EU is far from perfect, but so is the UK. :)
@@stellaadams7289 how do you enjoy it?
We enjoy the freedom of not being dictated to not being firced to subsidise other countries whilst neglecting our iwn next thing is to stop foreign people using our national health service controlling immigration
" I want to be able to work over 48 hours." The EU wont let me they are taking away choice" Yes they will let you you just sign a form" Yes but i can't make my staff work it"
So basically you want to be able to force your staff to work whatever hours you want.
That rule was not a line in the sand. It is merely a level playing field datum, respective member states can apply them as the please. There is no force, no coercion, no dictatorship or a verse in the bible. Farage like knuts twisted that and fed it to the sheep.
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So take away peoples rights NOT to work overtime. It is dangerous right wingers that people like her that would take us back to Victorian times.
And she was a local authority director, wonder why our council taxes are high
So you want to be in a position where you can FORCE your workforce to work more than 48 hours. Your point about taking away your choice doesn't make sense. If you want to work more than 48 hrs then you can, so can your workforce, like you say if they sign a form but they also have a CHOICE not to do more than 48 hrs. This is the 21st Century not the Victorian times.
“The Europeans don’t allow us to hang people” ffs...
We should hang certain individuals let's be fair.
WE the British abolished hanging in the 60s before we joined the EU. What do you think about the EU straight banana regulation?
No no... according to this guy they are stopping us from hanging people who are already dead!
@@joshporter5205 @peter jack ... we can now hang bent bananas at our leisure.
@@garethnoble11 have a like mate that is class.
As someone from the US, listening to this has just been... delightful. We don't house the full population of selfish crazies, apparently.
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As far as I know, none of our leaders are Qanon believers at least...
@@NeilBlaiberg True. That particular lunatic was elected from a district 45 minutes from me. And what the media here does not yet get is she's *not* the outlier. No logic penetrates their well-fortified armor of hate and their desire to be lied to. No one makes the connection between extreme religiosity and those who believe these conspiracy theories and who are die hard Trumpists. I'm sorry, but the ability to believe in a targeted space laser and that Trump is a lesser messiah is not very far removed from a lot of the religious stories full grown adults believe in this nation. It's only going to get worse once the two completely intertwine.
@@2006glg he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy
There are crazies as you call them everywhere. How can that be a delightful discovery? ???
You very well know that.
And you up house the majority!
Where's the the delight? !
As a Canadian watching as an outsider, I just have to say has most of UK lost their collective minds? People liked to blame the EU as a collective boggey man and never understood it or why it's there. Here is the thing I think most people missing, let's take the washing machine as an example... say you own a company making washing machines and want to sell them in the EU? Do you think somehow since you left the EU you don't have to abide by the regulation standards of the EU? Because anything sold there must, so that never went away. Now say you didn't want to put any safety features that EU requires in your machine well then you cannot sell in the EU but you are now free to sell the shoddy machine in the UK or any market that is willing to accept. The purpose of these regulations is to set a minimum standard for products sold to citizens and of course companies don't want to as it will add additional costs.
Now the bat's probably has to do with environmental assessments for new constructions, do you think someone in the EU loves bats and put that law in place? It's possible but I am pretty certain that there are animals right activist in the UK that will fight tooth and nail to keep and enforce it.
Everyone seems to have thought now they left the EU things will magically get better, but the reality is if you are doing business with the EU it just got drastically harder because you still need to abide by their laws and now you must have customs to deal with. Before you were at the table to make those laws, the fact is you walked away from that and now they can pass any laws and you will have no input and you just have to grin and bare it.
Very well described. The problem for business is that before brexit they were automatically accepted as compliant, as the rules and laws were enshrined in the UK's system and legal mechanisms were in place to deal with incompliance on either side. And the UK had a role in making these rules a d was trusted.
Brexit kicked all that into the bin, and now UK exporters have to prove for every product that they comply with EU regulation - and thats massive red tape.
@@YouD0ntSay The EU accepted BJS (spit) assurance the the UK would maintain parity with the EU but then allowed substandard goods to flow into the EU via UK open borders. The UK still has not paid the fine for allowing this. It was only after the EU cottoned on to this breach of trust that they tightened up their own border controls in line with that imposed on every other third country i.e. every country outside the European Customs Union.
The UK has lost over 300 SMEs and continues to drip away from its shores, by relocating their respective business to the single market, if we look at Rotterdam as an example 140 British SMEs have set up around the city, creating 4,500 new positons for Dutch citizens.
Notwithstanding this denies the Hmrc, in the UK millions in revenue, repeat this across Europe and the sums roll into billions, mass psychosis springs to mind in regards Brexit!!
@@andyduhamel1925
True The "benefits" started to emerge now in the monthly EU trade statistics, but they are not reported in the UK.
People are too busy talking about lying rules in the HoC, sniffer dogs and last years cheese &,wine parties.
THANK you very much. I am a german and i have friends in London. My friends and I can not understand the UK leaving the EU. It seems that a lot of people think that the EU parlament is House full of idiots. I think this is big mistake leaving the EU. Wait and see. My wish is that the UK comes back in the next decade. Think about what Torys have done to your country. Sad to see.
"Why did you want to leave the EU?"
"Because they abolished hanging."
"When was hanging abolished?"
"The 70's"
"When did we enter the EU?"
"80's"
"Thanks for calling."
It was abolished in the 60s, we joined the EU in 73. what scares me is that the things they want back are negative aspects. like hanging. they really want to see others suffer like a bunch of masochists. What a sick bunch they are!
@@jean-lucpicard5510 sadists.
Hanging was abolished in the 1960s.
@HHR it's about hanging specifically, not capital punishment in general.
@@jean-lucpicard5510 Sadists think you may have meant.
Brexiteer: “there are countless, hugely damaging, draconian laws imposed by the EU on our freedom loving islands that once removed will allow our economy to thrive”
Any thinking human: “such as?”
Brexiteer: “........................... bats an’ that”
Goodnight.
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Please name one, that's ONE, or 1 draconian law, imposed on us. Please.
@@geoffwhiles8223 hope you read and understood my comment in full before assuming I’m a Brexiteer or believe that I think there are any such laws!
@@phillipmorrison9607 ooooooooooooooooops!
I guess some people don't get too well with sarcasm.. :D
“I want to be able to work two hours or a hundred hours.”
In the next breath “I’m retired.”
In the next one, “i have employees and they don’t want to work past 48 hours, it’s outrageous”.
Yeah, don't worry, the libertarians will have him competing for a low paying job with his grandchildren in no time. But he'll blame the immigrants for his problems.
Don't forget when she wants the "freedom" to be off with stress after her 16 hour days.
she is manipulative. she started off by saying no law should stop me from working 2 or a 100 hours. and then, Brian does a great job here, we find out she wants to force other people to work over 48 hours. She is the most disgusting of all to be honest.
The last thing any organisation wants is an employee making decisions beyond 40 hours a week.
"We didn't have as much terrorism in the sixties..."
Stares Northern Irishly
Yeah I love that bit, as though not having “terrorism” makes an entire decade of nuclear brinkmanship fine
we in central euro the raf. abducting and killing people on the open street, kidnapping airplanes...
@@tomunterwegs1206 Think I should point out that the raf referred to was a German terrorist group, not the Royal Air Force 🤔. Tom, it's "hijacking", not "kidnapping", which refers to humans being taken!
@@Neil070 thanks pal!
@@Neil070 thank you for the translation. After you pointed it out, I can see where kidnapping may seem like the word to use as it and 'hijacking' are both in the realm of 'taking', 'stealing', etc but before I read your comment I was giggling too hard at the image in my head of someone just grabbing an airplane and, idk, sticking it in their car 😆😆
Don't forget - the UK IS the EU as well. We were completely involved in writing the laws. IT's NOT us and them. We are (or rather were) 'them' too.
That’s it, the EU is not perfect but at the end of the day us Europeans need to band together. If we don’t want to all become Chinese vasal states.
The irony now is that Britain greatly helped to draught the EU importation laws that Britain must obey now as self-made non members.
PS ...and the Brexiteers are trying to blame the EU for the inevitable inconvenience of the Brexit which they fooled the British people into voting for.
Do you honestly, deep down, think that the people calling in are crinkly-brained enough to be able to process and understand that nuance?
If you think the U.K. had much to do with making laws ,new rules ,where the money goes and how the French think you need to see a Doctor - at once ?. 🤕
@@yorkiegilly4355
The EU had three Superstates. Now that Britain has left it has two.
"Just... Stay away from sharp things." 😂😂😂😂 Best phone call ending ever !
A straight banana can be sharp too. Stay away from that as well.
@@Ivan-kj3of You've been watching Blackadder!
At least he still can live with himself.
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It’s amazing how passively insulting that sentence is. Brilliant.
"We need to be able to hang terrorists"
"Yeah, suicide bombers are the worst"
Fkn lost it 😂
To William Stewart. Hanging was voted on and abolished in 1969. It was still on the statute books and removed under the Human Rights Act in 1998. I thought instead of going over old ground you would have been more interested in the corruption, cronyism, greed and the lies of this Govt.
Completely went over his head didn’t it. 😂
Did the caller even got the joke?
Maybe if we stopped illegally invading sovereign middle east countries, that are no threat; the "Terrorists" would also stop
@@henryjames5663 Exactly, the numpties keep having a go at innocent people fleeing their homes because of corrupt regimes many of whom we support especially through lucrative arms deals. I wonder if those same numpties ever sit back and think what they would do in their situations and again if those numpties took time to look at what is going on in the world they would see that things are only getting worse all through corruption and greed, something that we also practice.
Funny how Brexiters always say "...the point is..." but then fail to make a point.
the first call plays out like a monty python skit. "the washing machines!" "why?" "well i dont know" "what else then?" "the bats!" "why?" "hmm im not sure"
Some of the Monty Python sketches now appear to be realistic in comparison to these idiots calling the show & proving that idiocy has no limits ... I'm laughing at them but perhaps I should cry as the lunatics have definitely taken over the asylum
The only thing missing was a caller driving mad on the word "cleaning woman".
that was pure gold
Brexiteer: "The EU prevents me from working a hundred hours a day!"
Psychiatrist: "That's shocking!"
Well done. Hahahaha.
And impossible. Maybe she does need help.
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I love how he doesn't flinch at death penalty he just goes straight in with 'what in the budget?'
That made me LOL really bad!
Amazing!
As an American, can I just say I love this show. The way you are able to talk someone down and calmly dismantle their weird argument is quite satisfying to listen to.
It's not possible to talk down someone who can't answer the most obvious question "Give me an example." That person is already at the bottom on an intellectual level.
@@dirkdupont5004 The smallest point that's corrected people can bring them back. There was a former flat earthen who had a small point of derivation evidence supporting the reality that we live on a ovoid rock ball it zipper pulled apart all his craziness. As tiring it is to keep correcting these people who put blinders over their ears and eyes it's worth trying still. Mostly.
@@dragonsword7370
I fear it. It is almost impossible to remove someone from an "I belong to the chosen" position. Racism, xenophobia and religion are examples of this. In the case of Brexit, it is the British exceptionalism, the (latent or not) feeling of being better than, in this case, the continentals. Just look at the entire Brexit campaign and after. There are probably more speeches by politicians where world-beating occurs in one form or another than others. British exceptionalism is so strong that not even the opposition dares to say that something, how small it might be, is better on the continent. And many Brits will try to hide it (for themselves) with that "we're different, not better" cliche but the feeling is there, albeit in latent form.
For example, British immigrants refer to themselves as expats (an expat is someone who temporarily lives in another country for a temporary reason, such as a project), to distinguish themselves (and feel better) than immigrants in the UK.
That British exceptionalism is a studied and well-known phenomenon which, if I am not mistaken, can be attributed to a deliberate indoctrination by the then government just after the Napoleonic Wars.
@@dirkdupont5004 I know some British immigrants in a couple different countries and they don't refer to themself as an "expat"
@@Krytern I'm sure not all Brits are like that (I married one like that). As one can say the French love their cheese although I'm sure there will be some who don't..
They live amongst us.
Live , uuummmmm maybe exist 😂
And their vote has the same weight
Well, I'm in the EU so as far as I'm concerned, now they don't anymore! (Unfortunately, I have to report that even if they are not exactly the same ones, we still have our own fair share of loonies among us...)
Not amongst us anymore (eu). Yay
Frightening
So he's saying makers of washing machines should be able to produce goods that raise our energy bills.
Manufacturers and Shops should be allowed to make and sell sub standard washing machines. That mean old EU dictatorship isn't allowing to be electrocuted by substandard electrical equipment. We have a right to be electrocuted by substandard washing machines. Off with their heads, these unelected bureaucrats. Start with SIR Frosty.
Yes, they want to sell us wonky washingmachines made by someone on deathrow doing 100 hour a week slavelabor in rat (and bat) infested conditions. I don't think the UK has ever been this sad in all of history.
And add to climate change
@@Doppe1ganger omfg u have no idea how much i laugh at your comment
Exactly, you Can't have both
In Britain the EU became a lightening rod for complaints about every conceivable aspect of government and law. You don't like ice-cream fridge noise - blame the EU. You don't like the buses running late - that's the EU too. Obviously now that the UK has left, there won't be any more laws about anything in the UK.
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Well the EU won't mess with out buses anymore!!
Our independently created fuel crises will.
@@myx0myc0t4 What independently created fuel crisis? Explain.
@@thegrandmuftiofwakanda that comment was back in the days when the whole of Englad queued up to petrol stations in a fuel panic (when EU countrieds didn't have that magnitude of a fuel crisis - I know they do now. ) Please note before splitting hairs, I'm not implying that that fiasco was the UK's fault in the matter of shortages. But the panic buying created was just as chaotic as back in at the start of covid with loo rolls. I meant it sarcastically - doesn't matter how brexit influenced bus travel, as we sorted out the buses not running ourselves by creating a petrol shortage ehere there was absolutely no need to.
Now we can blame Brexit 😀
When you come across a ‘brexiteer’ just ask them what EU laws they want gone and watch them make a fool of themselves😂😂
The common fusheries policy
@@nifralo2752
What about it?
@@jayonenote7527 its a con to steal our fish. If its not explian why a) we dont get to grow our crops in Spain and b) why didnt it exist in the 50s and 60s? Why only when we Norway and Ireland toyed with joining did they introduce it?
@@jayonenote7527 See the original post for the context you require.
I'm actually going to try this!
Don’t you wonder how brave you must be to confront a radio host with a sharp wit and actual knowledge. Why do people do that to themselves?
......lololololol "sharp-wit-and "knowledge" AND James Obrien's name" ALL in the same sentence?......
His "wit" is Sarcasm and his "knowledge" from years of left-wing-propaganda - so don't make me laugh! he's just a narcissistic twit completely enthralled by his own voice & views.
Dunning-Kruger syndrome is alive and well.
@@elizabethsheffield6609 It must be killing you that he is almost always right...
@@jjg19631 ........couldn't care less if he is or isn't I don't ever listen to the sneering narcissist.
@@elizabethsheffield6609 So you have a strong opinion on someone (or something) of whom you don't have first hand knowledge of?
Very Brexit that.
Welcome to "shooting fish in a barrel" with James o Brien.
Brexit supporters are dumb man lol
Well he talks to brexiters - they don't really shine on the intellectual aspect 😁
@Frozen Retro ! and how does a fruitcake shoehorn?
Welcome to showing how ignorant brexiteers are
@NumptyMagnet you can start your insults if you can give concrete examples, I bet you can't
Unfortunately, our equivalent of trump supporters are the brexiteers.
@Chris Bronson calm down you child
At least Brexiters only have Zimmer frames and no guns:)
And there are as many If not more...
with the difference that of those is successful the other is not
Absolutely and guess who got to turn up at Trump rallys.
I remember this live, and his... "BATS??!!" always makes me laugh out loud.
Haha. Ditto. I liked how he moved his arms as well.
"What do we want?"
"A slight change to the wording of the EU regulations on washing machine energy consumption calculations!"
"When do want it?"
"Now!"
Surely this is what Britain has been crying out for since 1973.
They get hooked by words like “bureaucrats”, “sovereignty”, etc, and think it’s a wrap.
It's sad how many people in the world seem drawn to buzzwords like moths to flames, and it's revealed they care more about the buzz, than the word.
They have literally no idea what any of it means. At the root of it all is ignorance and prejudice. A profound mistrust of anything they don’t understand - or aren’t willing/cba to even _try_ to understand. They then post-rationalise their inherent mistrust with absolute crayon-chomper faux-facts about bananas, washing machines and bLuE pAsSpOrTs. 🤪 Meanwhile, Puppetmaster-in-Chiefski Putin is sitting mighty pretty... 😒
@@Aeroldoth3 but hillary, you want your World ruined by antifa...you must be a communist... 😉
Washing machines and bats.
And this idea of 'them' and 'us'. We have always had this island mentality in this country. The fact that we were an integral member and driving force of the EU goes completely over the heads of most Brexiters.
"Stay away from sharp things". Brilliant.
You have to admire how James manages to keep a straight face when speaking to these people.
I want to learn from him, that must be a valuable skill for any negotiation!
He doesn't always!
and second caller wants people in the carer industry to not be protected from being made to work too much by their bosses..
Oh Christ that second caller lives where I grew up. I'm sorry, everyone.
Please do vote Everytime to neutralize her vote. Thank you.
He has a point in regards to Bats, I build houses for a living, however, the Bat surveys are not that difficult to satisfy and it is only applicable in areas where Bats are prevalent, mainly rural and semi rural areas.
The second caller (retired) really wants more hours to work... for other people. The usual Tory.
Since the UK left the EU and I lost all my EU perks like Freedom Of Movement my relationship with Bats has improved considerably. I always knew leaving the EU would cut the red tape with Bats but I honestly thought it would take 50 years before I saw the benefit. Needless to say I am over the moon and now I have a much closer relationship with my Bats. I just wish those pesky Remainers would look at the Bat situation before we left the EU and compare it to the present and admit they got it wrong.
I wish to also point out that Pippa who represents the local Bats in my area was disappointed that she never had a chance to vote in the EU Referendum but she is glad that Brexiters such as myself knew that leaving the EU would bring more democracy to the UK and to the Bats themselves. Thanks to Brexit Pippa has registered for the first time in Bat history to vote in the forthcoming elections in May and she will be voting for the Bat Party representative Colin LongEars. Colin has lived in the area his whole life and understands the needs of the local Bats. Sovereignty For Bats is the main campaigning issue for Colin and he believes that if Bats can make their own Bat laws they'll be able to stop all the foreign Bats from coming in and taking their caves.
Now I finally understand the term “batshit crazy”.
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Couldn’t agree more mate, bats are not taken seriously enough.
At first I thought he meant the English willow ones....
Easy to identify the Daily Mail, Daily Express and Sun readers almost by the exact headline they were brainwashed by.
So, we've established from this sample that the education system is clearly failing many people. What does this tell us about the kind of governments we elect? Tragic!
I often bring my protractor into the local supermarket to check the Bananas aren't too bendy. If they are I report them to the bendy banana's hotline line in Brussels.
.......don't waste your hard-earned-money-on-deaf-dumb and blind-fascists.
@@elizabethsheffield6609 The Bendy Banana's Hotline? That's a bit harsh, calling them fascists, innit? :D
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I hope you check the label of what class bananas they are. CLass II can be as bendy as you want.
Do you subsequently send the overly bendy ones to France and Greece, so they can be sold in the "wonky vegetables" section? "Legume d'wonk" is the technical French term I believe?
Death penalty.... James “ those suicide bombers must be top of list “ 😂😂😂 the bloke never got it 🙄
We'll collect the pieces, re-assemble them and THEN hang their dead bodies - that'll show 'em!
During the bad old days of the troubles, we jailed para militaries who were caught, not executed them.
I voted for Brexit because I'm retired but want to work a 100 hour week. Hilarious!
Unpaid overtime so the workers will still need UC and food banks :) Aspirational conservatives...
This channel is single handedly curing my low blood pressure.
"Which legislation would you change when we leave the EU, how would our lives improve"
"Less protections for bats!"
"I think I preferred the bats..." - kills me every time XD
I dont think he knows but he is a comedy genius!!!
This was so funny. These people are walking about among us.
Unfortunately some of those are in our glorious government.
They have or will have children too.... this is a down going spiral....
Maybe funny but imagine they walk among us have children , pass on such tosh and have the right to vote !
@@HelenaMikas We don’t need to imagine, it’s happening
And shaping your future.
Which law shall we get rid of? In principle, this question would have been very easy to answer. It is the right to freedom of movement. After all, this was ultimately the reason why most voters voted for Brexit. They wanted to get rid of EU citizens working in the UK, didn`t they?.
Yes - and then not do the jobs they left behind.
True. It was staring them in the face. The thing is now, a lot are unhappy about losing the perks of freedom of movement and cannot quite comprehend the fact that we did it to OURSELVES. They want the perks for us British but not for the other Europeans - cake-ism. So, like most people in denial syndrome they blame others: the vengeful EU, disruptive Remoaners, devious lawyers, etc. No, your dumb uninformed vote did exactly what it said on the tin: leave the EU...thereby losing all perks of membership.
brexit was just racism 0k
Yes, but several "ex-pats" living unofficially in Spain for several months each year voted for Brexit. And guess what, they're now angry that because they never bothered to get official residence status in Spain, they're no longer allowed to live there.
That's the best example of getting exactly what you voted for that I've ever seen.
I look up these calls when I feel anxious or depressed…takes it all away 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
same here - years ago - was paid comic's great new times
I actually get even more anxious. And I'm not even a UK citizen.
Lol
The sooner we Scots get out of the UK, the better! I feel desperately sorry for James O Brien for dealing with those schmucks!
I'm from southern Ireland and I would love to see Scotland & Northern Ireland remain with us within the EU. Both regions voted to remain in the EU but have been dragged out by a majority elsewhere in the UK. Whereas there's a majority of Scots in favour of EU membership I'm not sure that there's a majority of Scots in favour of Independence. What's the general feeling on the issue in Alba now?
@@dukadarodear2176
Hi, just read your comment, and to answer your question, we are still roughly 50/50 on independence. However, we are gearing up for another referendum, and some of us have high hopes that we can convince enough people of the advantages of taking control of our own affairs
@@thomaswigfield7623 Really? Only 50/50 after the mess that the Brits made out of Brexit? It seems to me they're shooting themselves in the foot at every turn and then blame the EU for all the bleeding. Then when the EU comes in and presents a bandage they say it's not enough and they should instead build a entire hospital for them. How can anyone stand to be a part of this travesty?
38% of Scottish voters are the same schmucks... 🙄
Are these people calling from a monty python set? Ffs😂😂😂, brexit voters 😅, pure gold.
8:42 you hit the nail on the head, she wants to tell other what hours the work
The more I hear about brexit, the better it gets. I am so glad we got rid of the UK.
Some of these people are about my age but don't seem to have even the slightest shred of self-awareness, or feeling of shame, or thoughtfulness or anything related to those attributes.
Instead, they seem to be most reckless and superficial tools. How is this possible? How were these people raised? Where did they get their education from? How do they have any friends? How are they part of society?
This surprises you in some way? Have you not been following the world in real life the past few centuries?
@@nicknic28292490 No, I haven't. I've only been alive decades.
@@xnoreq Weak ;)
@@nicknic28292490 To answer your question, yes, it is a bit surprising to see people defend (bad) choices and positions so relentlessly.
I thought this was limited to religious beliefs but I guess political choices and beliefs are religious in a way..
Which is shocking, because unlike religions politics could be entirely evidence- and science-based.
@@xnoreq
I believe religious thinking trains minds to be soft and malleable, believing what they're told from "trusted" sources, NEVER questioning, and accepting the impossible as true. The brain damage done to create submissives leads them vulnerable to all other manipulation in life.
I regularly worked way in excess of 48 hrs per week up until I retired last year but I had signed an opt out from the working time directive many years ago. I understood the regs were there to prevent employers from forcing their employees from working excessive hours but the employees were free to work beyond 48 hours if they so wished.
As an HGV driver you are generally expected to work a minimum of 12 hours per day, if it was eight was eight hours the deliveries would be affected greatly.
There is an EU regulation on bananas, but it was introduced at the behest of industry having to cope with different grading regulations in different Member States; it was introduced to save money and time.
the EU regulations that cover bananas are part of the general market standards, which regulate how specific qualities of food products can be traded. If your food product is not food grade, it can still be sold for processed product. If your food product is food grade, the only thing the regulation covers is how it is graded.
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg Yep, but it wasn't a regulation saying you couldn't sell bananas in bunches and they had to be straight. Both claims were absurd but that was how it was spun in the UK press.
@@XiagraBalls oh, absolutely, I agree. And trading standards already existed before EU regulations canonised them - it was just part of the europhobe propaganda machine to pretend that food was regulated because big mean Europe made us do it.
@@XiagraBalls These are arguments absolutely nobody has been advancing.
@@thegrandmuftiofwakanda Yes, because people didn't know the details; they just believed the EU Myths.
I thought James was having a bit of fun, then I realized that he was being serious...😂
The line between a joke and his internal reality has become very fine indeed
@@charliemilroy6497 Or you could just blame it on the Glumness ...
verbanter mainia Gollum was born without a sense of humour
Freedom of movement, the first rule/law of the EU.
@bucketsandshims
By your logic that means sending nearly 4 million back, so plenty of room.
"Most of the EU regualtions are really poorly written" ok should be easy to name a tonne , - can't get past washing machines, despite having hundreds of thousand of examples. Then goes on about bats...
"How would it improve my life", very easy question to answer. As a weapon dealer I'll finaly gonna be able to sell weapons of mass destruction to Iran and North Korea.
You trying to undercut my prices to these countries that I’ve already got deals in place..??
I just found this guy and these shows are hilarious. We need LBC and James O'Brien over in the US. I'd pay to see him go head to head with Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene.🤣
Sorry but we need him,hands off!
Brexit has been so damaging to this country. Boris Johnson is a complete joke. At least when Trump was your president we had someone to laugh at. Now the rest of the world are laughing at us. I really hope Trump doesn’t get in again the man is a complete nutcase.
He is ours and we keeping him ❤
You have the wonderful Sam Seder - Scourge of Libertarians.
I wish you will come to usa, to talk with the right wingers that want to destroy us , lol really come to usa
The guy with the bats ... He's got his finger on the pulse of the nation O.o
Tell me that's irony?
@@doghouseriley4732 Lol :)
......lolololololol on "the Nation" is his tiny LBC audience no doubt.
Man was a genius- He knew f*** with bats would cause COVID-19 😂😂😂
@@elizabethsheffield6609 Quality not quantity.
Brexit spazlords are rife these days
lol I was thinking the same about you utter crybaby chunts still stamping your feet 4/5 years after losing out to democracy.
@@simonrodgers2375 I’d love to see your face when the penny drops that Pakistanis aren’t from Europe.
@@simonrodgers2375 What does democracy mean to you?
@@dundermifflinity I'd love to see your face when the penny drops that the EU isn't the same as Europe you thick AF dolt 🤦♂️🤣🤣🤣
@@mr.mintman7545 means quote a lot of things but most importantly respecting the will of the people (voters) in democratic decisions.
I want to work 100 hours😂😂😂 clown, I've been a chef and worked 90 hours a week, and its not fun, and I was always pressurised in to doing it, as a salaried member of staff getting no overtime, common in hospitality before covid, and now set to be common
When the USSR reduced the working week from 7 to 6 days productivity went up. Soon be time to send the kids up the chimney again, of course they have to be somebody elses.
there is laws to protect you use them
Really scraping the barrell on that washing machine one...
"Evil EU! Making me buy a more energy efficient washing machine that costs less to run and saves me money!"... even more pertinent considering this cost of living crisis and energy prices going through the roof
People should learn to bring facts when they call in, not just rumblings
Well, the “banana” and cucumber curvature regulation was repealed in 2008 because it had unintended consequences, including food wastage, but it’s not something you can repeal now.
That's Brexit Britain
The guy said he was in the construction industry and attempted to give examples but the buffoon kept interrupting him.
@@philmcdonald4778 the guy had nothing to say
James does this thing where he keeps pressing your knowledge on the subject to the point where you'd have to be a lawyer who's very familiar with particular laws to provide an answer. It's an extremely disingenuous method of argument and he only employs it if you disagree with his preferred narrative. I don't need to know every little detail about something to know that i don't like i., I don't need to have read everything under the sun on the subject to have an opinion.
Oh jesus! To those outside the UK, I wholeheartedly apologise for my fellow countrymen. These were the people allowed to vote on my behalf.
Actors, you mean?
Can only hope Covid and the demographic overlap with anti-vaxxers has thinned the ranks a bit.
You should of voted for yourself then !! Lol
"Stay away from sharp things"........How true is that though eh? The frighting thing is, the country is full of them?
I live in the EU. I often used to work an 80-90 hour week, and then take a week off. If I worked two such weeks in a row, I took a fortnight off. Nobody ever told me or anyone around me that this wasn't allowed. How does it work in Greece (or other tourist countries) where half the population works two jobs for six months of the year and then takes most of the rest of the year off? I've never seen or heard the EU telling them they can't.
In the EU it is clearly not allowed to do this amount of hours on a weekly basis as employees. 48 hours is the maximum based on the 11 hours for rest time. It is possible to extend it to 60 hours under specific circumstances but not higher.
The only way to be able to work 80-90 hours a week as an employee is to NOT track the hours in such a way. Otherwise, a problem can arise quite quickly.
"they do not understand what they voted for"
brexiteer "we know exactly what we voted for"
yeah right.
Since the referendum, I have often heard leavers claiming something along the lines of, "we know what we voted for, we voted to leave". For a long time, I thought they were talking nonsense - that was until maybe a couple of years ago. It suddenly occurred to me that they were in fact telling the truth/correct - at least if you understood what they were saying from their perspective.
Essentially, I realised that many leavers effectively cannot comprehend the consequences of their vote. To put it simply, topics like trade, EU laws, democracy, sovereignty etc. are too complex for many leavers to begin to understand, so they aren't a factor in their reasoning when supporting Brexit - not properly, at least. Some leavers may refer to these topics, but they don't necessarily know what they're talking about.
It reminds me of football fans discussing teams/players etc who they may never have seen play. For example, Pele - many would argue he's the best of all time, but how many have seen more than perhaps 5 minutes of highlights from his long career? There was even a video made by a Man Utd channel, in which the presenter went to Chelsea's stadium just before a game, and asked fans about made up players - almost all the fans put forward an opinion on these non-existent players!
Back to the topic, though - when leavers say they know what they voted for, sometimes this is the case - they voted to leave. That's it. Nothing more. A sensible person would want to know what the ramifications of such a vote might be. But leavers didn't care - it was too complex to understand. All they knew was, after years of hearing lies about the EU, it was supposedly evil, and something the UK should leave.
@@harryp7346 I get that when coming from average people but not from the fishing industry for example.
if a random dutch guy like me could see trade friction when exporting they could not, they had no clue about it.
These callers have no shame 🤣 voluntarily feeding themselves to the lions 🦁 👌
How do you politely put out a call for morons to call in and expose their stupidity on the radio?
I think you misused the word “shame” instead of “brain”
One of the blunt realities is that most of these EU regulations were just regulations. We'd need 99% of them anyway.
The Brexiteers would argue that at least we have the choice whether to adopt them now!
Not only that, but the UK was involved in making them and in fact voted in favour of 99.6% of them.
The Brexiteer's argument as compelling as ever 😂
"I think I preferred the bats" LOL
12:22 that smile when he mentioned bananas. 😆
We now know that one of the first EU law to be removed is the law preventing mobile phone companies overcharging their customers when they go abroad.
That is an example of 'freedom', large corporations now have the freedom not to comply with EU rules to protect customers.
"and stay away from sharp things"; genius 🙂
Americans & Canadians laughing at us shows just how far this country has fallen 😜
Keep up the incredible work James.
"Costing a fortune to record hours employees work" - Surely, you have to record hours anyway, so that you know how much to pay them FFS.
I think she just pays them a set amount and expects her employees to just work extra when required.
I feel like not wanting my tax money to be spent on her pension, she sounds like a parasite.
Can we please have the washing machine guy back ! You could telll he was in construction by the amount of diggin he did ! Lol
😂😂
It’s the only digging he’s ever done I’m sure.
Retired woman wants to force the rest of us to work ourselves to the bone. 🤦♀️
We all want to be forced by employers to work 100 hours a week without any legislation that protects us from being exploited. Hooray for Brexit!
So...washing machines, bats, working time, bendy bananas and...the death penalty?!
I am in all lines of work.....I'm actually retired LOL
Conversational, uttered rathermatterofactly but priceless.
Well spotted.
O'Brien: "When did we join the EU?
Paul: " '73 "
"A little learning is a dangerous thing..." Alex Pope
That guy was a mess 😀
Please someone, somewhere, perform an IQ test on Leavers. Guaranteed the average is over 20% lower than that of Remainers
Name one, just one, brexiteer with an IQ greater than 1
It’s not IQ test required, it’s common sense and awareness tests that’s needed, IQ doesn’t mean anything..
@@Incountry .......and a little understanding of what Missus Merkle aims were/are.
@@elizabethsheffield6609
If you don’t understand the European unity subject then you’re just wasting time here, but if you want to know more than go into any domain on the internet and discover what the point of it all was... before you ask my understanding (a word you used) my wife is Swiss, thus a need to know basis of what the EU-EEC do and it’s beneficial components for the member states...
Chancellor Merkel steps aside in September giving her party a new leader to continue to lead Germany and within that will help push the EU into a revival.
If the EU was so bad why did/do other countries ask to join..?? Look how many did in the last 25 years, it’s
16 states/countries, I think that says it all...
"Sorry Sajid, we'll hang in there" - straight after the call about the death penalty...
"... stay away from sharp things." very considerate! love it!
The first guy seemed out of it because he was only half listening. The other half was trying to find an answer on the internet.
Her statement about the care industry is nonsense. I'm a care worker and we just sign a waiver to say we're happy to work over our contracted 48 hours.
I am listening to this for the first time in 2022………wow………..great work guys.
I'm retired and I'm really invested in legislation that allows employers to force their workers to work beyond 48 hours s week for ambiguous pay. ...why people voted Brexit reason 23
Bats. The laws to protect bats goes back to the early 80's (Wildlife and Protection Act) A British Law not EU Law. SO don't blame the Europeans, if you can't build or renovate a house.
Anyway, bats eat thousands of tons of crop damaging insects every year. So it doesn't matter where the protection comes from, as long as it does!
The whole economy works better when the regulations are well written and practical... Which was exaclty the remit of EU regulations that Britain was a key influencer in writing.
The Death Penalty was abolished in the UK in 1998, however it wasn’t used since the 1965.
😂 Whenever I need a laugh, I listen to this. Absolutely hilarious.
EU Directives are not written directly into UK law, they were debated by Parliament and written into UK law by our legal system, so if they are not working it is out fault as they were not applied the same in say France of the UK
And before that they were debated in the EU parliament, and then voted, by UK representatives too.
Let me tell you about something I know about in the construction industry....no no no talk to me about washing machines
Maybe he should have started with that example then? As James rightly said, you'd presume one would begin with their strongest argument given that there are apparently "thousands" of faulty EU legislation that needs changing.
Construction Industry one would have been more embarrassing for him.
It also turned out he was wrong about the construction industry losing millions to protected bats ( the other common one from golf clubs and weatherspoons is newts) he obviously vaguely remembered that there are planning laws to protect endangered species including putting ducts under roads for hedgehogs , these laws vary from county to county , town to town and most are put in place by the NIMBY brigade who live in or near green belt and refuse planning locally, nothing at all to do with EU regulations, EU regulations are to do with quality of materials and sizes etc so if I order window frames from UK, Spain, Germany or any other member state its all same quality etc so my buying dept knows we buying like for like.
"Light travels faster than sound.
That is why some people appear bright until they open their mouth."
Second caller reminds me when I worked in protocol. The same state that says an employer can't force me to work more than 48h a week, forced me to work 70 hours a week.
Only recently started listening to James but I love these calls 😄
"Bring back the death penalty"
"What in the budget?"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
And it gets even more hilarious:
"When was the death penalty abolished in the UK?"
"Erm ... 1960?"
"And when did we join the EU?"
"Erm ... 1972?"
So it's all the fault of the EU that the death penalty was abolished in the UK?
I want to be free to hang as many bananas as I like (at least over 48 per week), without any going to waste in my washing machine so I can feed the bats! So there!
😂😂😂😂😂
And who stops you in doing it?
“I think I preferred the bats…” 🦇 😂 🦇 😂
"Stay away from sharp things."
:D oh, my, my... He delivers sarcasm with such finesse :D
"Mind how you go mate. Stay away from sharp things..."
Right my mind is numbed enough to be able to do the cleaning 😊 thanks lbc
Most likely nothing to do with LBC at all.
@@kurtgodel5236 Misogynist
Freedom of movement, the first rule/law of the EU.
Freedom of movement, the first rule/law of the EU.
The reason I voted leave.
@Marius Periwinkle we have no problem losing our freedom to move around Europe, we are hoping the freedom of movement will now slow down in England, not just Europeans but the world!