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  • James O'Brien wonders why 'we are paying billions of pounds to make lives harder for British businesses to do business', deeming it an 'act of utter insanity'.
    It comes as the National Audit Office (NAO) cautioned on Monday that a post-Brexit border control system intended to "take control" of Britain's borders lacks a clear timetable for completion.
    The public spending watchdog highlighted that repeated alterations and postponements to the government's key scheme for implementing full import controls from the EU were causing uncertainty for businesses and additional costs for both the government and ports.
    This warning comes as the £5 billion Brexit border checks system still awaits a definitive launch schedule.
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Komentáře • 723

  • @willumwhitmore9419
    @willumwhitmore9419 Před 23 dny +269

    In a year's time the Conservatives will be blaming Labour for this.

    • @whackeryounis
      @whackeryounis Před 23 dny +49

      And explaining how awesome brexit was working until they were unjustly kicked out of office

    • @firefox5926
      @firefox5926 Před 23 dny +11

      what do you mean ? i thought they already were lol

    • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
      @user-ol6rd7pl5t Před 23 dny

      They haven't finished blaming the EU for everything yet & they've still got Covid, the war in Ukraine, immigrants, the sick & disabled & a long list of other scapegoats to use to pass on the blame for their own incompetency.

    • @raymondwebb4179
      @raymondwebb4179 Před 23 dny +4

      Ites planned that way,

    • @Mar-enfrance
      @Mar-enfrance Před 23 dny +11

      And these overwhelming numbers who support the Conservatives and will still voute for them. I can't find the words or logic to name this situation.

  • @MoebiusUK
    @MoebiusUK Před 23 dny +106

    _" I don't know if anybody thought it would get as bad as this"_
    Actually, we did ... and it's going to get a whole lot worse.

    • @jmolofsson
      @jmolofsson Před 23 dny +5

      Yeah!
      The point where I have been mistaken is the quality of government and ministers.
      But the rest has so far been essentially as guessed, albeit somewhat slower.
      I had for instance expected that Take Back Control would have meant border checks once the transition period was over.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny

      @Moe So what are you all moaning about then? Are you never satisfied?

    • @Willywin
      @Willywin Před 23 dny +1

      As bad as what? I dont know where you live but I see no 'bad' from leaving the EU. I see more job opportunities, I see less reliance on agency workers (mainly EU nationals seeking work as there was none in the EU) and more permanent employees. What is lacking is the will of the political class and the civil service class to grasp with gusto the advantages of being freed from EU bureaucracy, red tape and wasteful duplication... I mean why the need for TWO EU Parliaments except for a a change in the call girls and rent boys the EU politicians get to choose from. Lets be honest we still have a remoaner Parliament aggrieved they had to do the will of the people.

    • @peterspowage5752
      @peterspowage5752 Před 21 dnem

      We still have a remainer parliament?
      Strange that, the Tory MP's must have lied when they signed a pledge to support Johnson's getting brexit done. Either that or they've now changed there minds about brexit.
      They evidently don't live where you do. Can you still get unicorns in Cloud Cuckoo Land?

  • @turnipofentropy4674
    @turnipofentropy4674 Před 23 dny +130

    Voting the Conservatives out at the next election somehow doesn't seem enough for me. I want to see the cheerleaders of Brexit in prison.

    • @GoalSquad666
      @GoalSquad666 Před 23 dny

      Labour won't be much better.
      It's actually an observable fact, all the places run by a Labour government where the most restrictive during Covid and still introducing bills to reduce freedoms.
      Digital ID in Australia for example, Melbourne or actually Victoria during the lockdowns.
      Look at the madness in Wales, where police was charging people sitting in their own garden aso.

    • @stephan5673
      @stephan5673 Před 23 dny +6

      I'm a cheerleader for Brexit.
      Best vote we ever made.

    • @joanormrod4893
      @joanormrod4893 Před 23 dny +6

      I agree. But as they're all wealthy the results of Brexit won't affect them.

    • @pipins3616
      @pipins3616 Před 23 dny

      What about all the people who had a democratic vote

    • @peterburnett1661
      @peterburnett1661 Před 23 dny +5

      Stephan5673, Tell us a benefit of Brexit.

  • @punditgi
    @punditgi Před 23 dny +91

    Another Tory scandal! 😮

    • @ecohipster7724
      @ecohipster7724 Před 23 dny +2

      it is the tory scandal and will be the death of the tory party...

    • @RazorMouth
      @RazorMouth Před 23 dny +5

      ​​@@ecohipster7724unfortunately it won't. England is still very conservative. They're representative of the population.

    • @carlbland68
      @carlbland68 Před 23 dny +2

      @@ecohipster7724 18 million idiots beleived cameron a doris lol its karma lol

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +2

      ​@@RazorMouthBut there should be a learning curve, shouldn't it? Please tell me that there is, and the UK electorate will not again fall for a politician that offers simple solutions and shiny beads.

    • @RazorMouth
      @RazorMouth Před 23 dny

      @@vullings1968 haven't learned in decades so no, as I said, they're representative of the population.
      That means democracy is working.
      That said, there is now a massive majority to apply to join the EU so a referendum should be called. It will take years to join anyway as the UK isn't currently eligible due to its political structures. Might as well get the ball rolling.

  • @lasttempoinparis
    @lasttempoinparis Před 23 dny +26

    Well, looking from the EU all is very laughable in the UK at this point
    - You paid for border custom that doesn't exist,
    - You buy land to build HS2 that will never be build,
    - You pay for a Rwanda scheme when no one has traveled to,
    - ect.
    Keep us entertain ! 😂

    • @matthewn1805
      @matthewn1805 Před 21 dnem

      Rwanda is worse, if anyone is sent to Rwanda we have to pay for their food and lodging fore the next FIVE years at an estimated cost of £140,000 per person.
      PLUS we have to accept Rwandan immigrants in return
      PLUS anyone sent to Rwanda has to be given Rwandan citizenship after which there is nothing stopping them getting on a plane back here AND we cannot then send them there again.
      Funny the press don't talk about how the current clowns negotiated such an ridiculous scheme.

    • @Ines-uw5gi
      @Ines-uw5gi Před 21 dnem

      It's not funny and only few are laughing!

  • @supernoodles91
    @supernoodles91 Před 23 dny +83

    We shot ourselves in the foot by voting for austerity, with Brexit we blew our heads off.......

    • @shaun906
      @shaun906 Před 23 dny +5

      great comment

    • @hugodrax71
      @hugodrax71 Před 23 dny +14

      Austerity produced the ideal climate for Brexit to happen.

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 Před 23 dny +4

      @@hugodrax71 100%

    • @Bob-bx2vk
      @Bob-bx2vk Před 23 dny +1

      Heads?
      Nooo
      It was the 'nads

    • @martee4297
      @martee4297 Před 23 dny +3

      Austerity lead to Brexit

  • @digitalcareline
    @digitalcareline Před 23 dny +31

    It doesn't end - Mr Ineos only wanted Brexit for the total energy market de-regulation he envisaged - He loves Monaco for its taxlessness and loves France for production that can be easily managed and sold into the single market -He wants the Brexit he paid for and not the Brexit reality he bought for all of us.

  • @eileencorcoran3057
    @eileencorcoran3057 Před 23 dny +68

    So INCOMPETENT the lot of them....GREEDY

    • @KM-wl1tp
      @KM-wl1tp Před 23 dny +1

      I agree - with your comments on the labour party

    • @BillDavies-ej6ye
      @BillDavies-ej6ye Před 21 dnem

      @@KM-wl1tp Yeah, no Tories in the trough then. Oh, wait...

    • @KM-wl1tp
      @KM-wl1tp Před 21 dnem

      @@BillDavies-ej6ye I dont support any of them. What you've done there is put 2 and 2 together - and come up with 5

  • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
    @user-ol6rd7pl5t Před 23 dny +102

    Self-imposed sanctions, an act of severe self-harm.

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 Před 23 dny

      Free trade has hollowed us out. Wake up.

    • @icarus877
      @icarus877 Před 23 dny +3

      Absolutely, no need for these checks or border provisions to be in place. A complete waste of tax payers money.

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 Před 23 dny +4

      @@icarus877 It was agreed in the TCA.

    • @Millie.com232
      @Millie.com232 Před 23 dny

      Like ‘climate change net zero’ and ‘stopping fossil fuels’ and ‘ tax the rich’ and every other bonkers left wing idea

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +6

      ​@@icarus877 Simples, within Customs Union is no/very few checks. Leave Customs Union is full WTO-checks.

  • @user-em6ie2be7x
    @user-em6ie2be7x Před 23 dny +43

    My favorite act of Tory Stupidity had to be The Backstop at the Irish border. They jumped head first into Brexit with absolutely no clue how to solve one of it's biggest problems.

    • @skunclep1938
      @skunclep1938 Před 23 dny +3

      Not just Tory. Never forget how eager Corbyn was to trigger article 50.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny +1

      Oh well, they have their open border, now, don't they? Weirdly enough, they're not happy about thst these days.

    • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
      @user-ol6rd7pl5t Před 22 dny +3

      The brexit plan never went any further than protecting tax avoiders and giving the Tories the ability to remove all our rights unhindered by outside influences, it was always about self protection for themselves & removing our protections that we spent 40 years helping to create when we were in the EU.

    • @ciaranirvine
      @ciaranirvine Před 22 dny +3

      @@rb1062 That's a one hot mess of a take. The Irish (both Dublin and northern nationalists) are quite happy. It's the (minority of) people in Northern Ireland who insist they are BRITISH (and pro-Brexit) that are still complaining - because they DIDN'T want an open border

    • @danganbeg7225
      @danganbeg7225 Před 20 dny

      ​@@rb1062We can deal with it. Unlike you

  • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
    @user-ol6rd7pl5t Před 23 dny +53

    The ostriches haven't got their heads in the sand, they've got them stuck up their own arses.

  • @johntipeti4597
    @johntipeti4597 Před 23 dny +133

    never underestimate the stupidity of the public in all western countries to vote against their best interests always.

    • @peterparker219
      @peterparker219 Před 23 dny +22

      Fully agree ! Never in the last eighty years people so willfully fell for populism and blatant lies.

    • @nialllambert3194
      @nialllambert3194 Před 23 dny +10

      More specifically, never underestimate the stupidity of the public in eastern England to always vote against their own interests..

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 Před 23 dny

      If we had the likes of George IV or Louis XVI ruling us the English would be walking around admiring and praising their world-class statesmanship.

    • @rbaxter286
      @rbaxter286 Před 23 dny +2

      Sorry, but it's BARELY half of the public. Brexit was a 2% difference, as in 2% would have ended in a TIE, just like the US' 2016 election.
      People need to get a grip and be willing to FIGHT ON!
      The Tories and MAGAts have learned that lesson and have made it work!!

    • @rossmacnab2655
      @rossmacnab2655 Před 23 dny +1

      Scottish voters were less ambiguous,67%-ish voted to remain,No revolution here cos all the young ppl have their phone screen stuck to their eye's thinking about what tastes better, strawberry ice cream or chocolate,smfh🤬

  • @globalist1990
    @globalist1990 Před 22 dny +8

    The gammon were actually thinking the eu would collapse without the uk in it... 🤦‍♂️

  • @davdonoghue
    @davdonoghue Před 23 dny +32

    We have put ourselves in a hole and we dont know how to stop digging

    • @shaun906
      @shaun906 Před 23 dny +3

      we reached the other side of the planet now were digging at fresh air trying to get air!

    • @gameofender4463
      @gameofender4463 Před 23 dny

      Rather be free and poor than rich and in an undemocratic organisation like the EU.

    • @shaun906
      @shaun906 Před 23 dny

      @@gameofender4463you got your wish with the poor bit, and your free to be poor

    • @skinless333x2
      @skinless333x2 Před 23 dny +4

      @@gameofender4463 Name something that is undemocratic about the EU. I will wait.

    • @gameofender4463
      @gameofender4463 Před 23 dny

      @@skinless333x2 VDL. She isn’t directly elected by the people. Nor does she command any parliamentary party. She was handpicked by the politicians and then approved by the MEPs. At no point was there an actual election to elect her.
      The politicians made that choice with no approval from the people.
      An equivalent would be the 50 US governors choosing who they want and congress approving it. With not input from the voters. That’s UNDEMOCRATIC.

  • @Nice0n3
    @Nice0n3 Před 23 dny +28

    No worries. The UK saves 350 Million a week because of this.
    Oh wait, that money is already in the NHS...
    Soooo, this comes from...? Where...?

    • @danoneill8751
      @danoneill8751 Před 23 dny

      Its fine, we'll all just be a little bit poorer, but don't worry, the boomers on pensions who voted for this are triple locked and wont see any fallout. By the time the next generation retire, those in their 50s now, there wont be any pensions left.

    • @jamesandrew1750
      @jamesandrew1750 Před 23 dny

      So you're against endless state spending?

    • @Nice0n3
      @Nice0n3 Před 23 dny

      @@jamesandrew1750 Simply asking where this money is coming from.
      Care to explain? I am simply wondering. We know that the massive brexit savings are already in the NHS.
      So where does this cash come from?

    • @hanszieten6288
      @hanszieten6288 Před 23 dny +4

      @@Nice0n3that money is not in the NHS, it is in the hands of ‘PPE firms’

    • @Nice0n3
      @Nice0n3 Před 23 dny +7

      @@hanszieten6288 Oh, everyone knows its in the pocket of some tory donor or peer...
      Its a simple question for the brexiteers watching.
      Have not gotten an answer so far... Wonder why.

  • @richardc6269
    @richardc6269 Před 23 dny +40

    Bottom line, this is what happens when citizens don't pay attention to their government. This never would've happened if people were informed. ✌️

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +12

      This is what happens if you don't know what you are voting for and go for catchy 3 word slogans with no substance.

    • @gameofender4463
      @gameofender4463 Před 23 dny +1

      @@vullings1968 People knew what they were voting for. Stop trying to insult voters because they didn’t go your way one time.

    • @charlievarley
      @charlievarley Před 23 dny +7

      @@gameofender4463 What did they vote for then?

    • @hugodrax71
      @hugodrax71 Před 23 dny +3

      This is the Deliveroo era. So many don't want to be informed anymore, to analyse, to study and question what's happening and what could happen. As long as there's football, Netflix and Uber Eats, all is OK.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +3

      @@gameofender4463 Did the British electorate willingly vote for this mess?

  • @toxictony4230
    @toxictony4230 Před 23 dny +26

    Border checks? I thought the EU would be falling over themselves in the rush to trade with the UK tariff free.

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 Před 23 dny +1

      They said it was only fair they took the same hit on the cost of exporting as the UK was.

    • @Jim1255783
      @Jim1255783 Před 23 dny

      The border checks are ours, not theirs, because we have to, because of WTO rules.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +2

      It is tariff free (for the most part), so it is basically a freetrade agreement. It is not a customs union though, hence the checks.

    • @user-bt8cz9nv4x
      @user-bt8cz9nv4x Před 23 dny +6

      @@vullings1968
      Great let’s have a free trade agreement with the EU! The problem is that more and more businesses in the EU don’t want to trade with the UK! Maybe we can ask Papua New Guinea to trade shrunken heads with the UK?

    • @skinless333x2
      @skinless333x2 Před 23 dny

      @@vullings1968 Actually it is just if you do as the EU pleases, divert a bit and we slap you with tariffs on it.

  • @kevonslims7269
    @kevonslims7269 Před 23 dny +13

    Not only are the torries denying reality but labour is also tight lipped about the cost of these Brexit checks.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny

      Because Labour can't change it. These checks are a direct consequence of the brexit-path taken in 2019. Labour, even if they were in govt right, can't stop it.

    • @stevewebster8527
      @stevewebster8527 Před 22 dny +1

      Stella Creasy has called it out many times in parliament.

    • @kevonslims7269
      @kevonslims7269 Před 22 dny

      @@stevewebster8527 Has starmer or Rainer called it out?

  • @tablet6109
    @tablet6109 Před 23 dny +33

    As a dutch person I blame radio and television very much for Brexit. For something as important as Brexit the BBC asked people and idiots like Rees Mogg for their opinion. Unfortunately their is a big difference between opinions and facts presented by experts. I followed many experts since 2016 and they gave facts and not opinions, but unfortunately the BBC gave them hardly and airtime. It is a duty of the BBC to give facts, and not opinions

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 Před 23 dny +7

      Farage became the know-all expert on Radio4. They seemed to have been intoxicated by him.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny

      As a Dutch person, your comment is laughably inaccurate. The British mainstream media was notoriously pro Remain. BBC programmes such as Question Time overloaded their panels with pro Remainers and only one poor Leave supporter fighting his/her corner. On this very station, James O'Brien gave Jacob Rees Mogg a hard time during their interviews. Therefore your comment is based on your wounded feelings rather than the facts you profess to follow. In spite of the overbearing media's pro Remain stance, which was officially proven by the way, I'm very proud that 52% of us stood up to the EU. 52% of us had the guts and self respect to vote for stronger borders and self governance. Your national elections have shown that many of your countrymen are waking up and taking a stand, too. Maybe you could learn something from them instead of spouting inane misinformation about our media coverage.

  • @chrispurusha
    @chrispurusha Před 23 dny +5

    “Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market”
    - Daniel Hannan MEP
    “Only a madman would actually leave the Market”
    - Owen Paterson MP

  • @jyvben1520
    @jyvben1520 Před 23 dny +13

    Already forgotten, EU does not want another Swiss like deal, too much work/bother !

    • @johnrussell3961
      @johnrussell3961 Před 23 dny +4

      The Swiss want talks when they want something. The refuse talks when the EU want something.

  • @JohnnyinMN
    @JohnnyinMN Před 23 dny +8

    I still cannot fathom how England thought it could make it on its own without a serious plan. At least the public is finally waking up. You still need a real constitution though.

  • @specialized500
    @specialized500 Před 23 dny +14

    The Ineos guy is a billioaire and had no idea either . Its mind boggling

  • @izzytrue8630
    @izzytrue8630 Před 23 dny +10

    Not idiots ... crooks!!!

  • @rumblepuffgaming9415
    @rumblepuffgaming9415 Před 23 dny +12

    When you don't have solutions to actual issues you have to invent problems you can rally the people against.

  • @IMBlakeley
    @IMBlakeley Před 23 dny +15

    I expected it to be an utter utter clusterf*ck, the only thing that actually surprised me was how long it took for the wheels to come off.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny

      But you're content now That's the main thing!

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 Před 23 dny +83

    Who voted for this nonsense?
    Oh, yeah, England.
    Indyref2 please.

    • @DaGabbaGangsta
      @DaGabbaGangsta Před 23 dny +12

      Defo, fed up of getting stuck with these degenerative life forms in Westminster

    • @stephan5673
      @stephan5673 Před 23 dny +2

      I voted for it, and I'm very glad I did.
      Would do it again in a heartbeat.

    • @Pierrick2009
      @Pierrick2009 Před 23 dny

      posted from your local weatherspoons?@@stephan5673

    • @pandora8478
      @pandora8478 Před 23 dny +4

      @@stephan5673why? What are the positive aspects?

    • @Rosskles
      @Rosskles Před 23 dny +4

      ​@@stephan5673 Why did you vote for it?

  • @HamishM22
    @HamishM22 Před 23 dny +27

    £5 billion ??? That's worth it as we now can have loud vacuum cleaners , control our immigration 😂, have a speed sign in a tunnel in MPH not KPH , save our fishing industry 😂, save our farming industry😂, and saving the best to last we can have BLUE passports ( that are made abroad). You couldn't stop 😂 if this wasn't so serious.

    • @mikkokarjalainen6480
      @mikkokarjalainen6480 Před 23 dny +6

      And scrapping much of the easy retirement plan in Spain. I think some were have to head back to UK even sell their properties since they are no longer allowed to stay...

    • @Ribod
      @Ribod Před 23 dny +11

      You forgot the pint bottles of wine.😄

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 Před 23 dny

      Don't forget according to Mogg (the physical manifestation of a 19th century mill workers nightmare) we would have happier fish........people vote for that fool.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +5

      ​@@RibodAnd crown stamps on pint glasses.

    • @peterparker219
      @peterparker219 Před 23 dny +9

      And flushing sewage freely into the rivers and seas.

  • @Rael_486
    @Rael_486 Před 23 dny +15

    The can has reached the end of the road. 😢

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +1

      I am afraid it hasn't... For the Tories, probably. For the UK as a whole the can has too much momentum to stop rolling all at once. You can try to slow it down a bit, but as there will be no next govt that openly wants to reverse brexit, the can will keep rolling on.

    • @barneyrubble1964
      @barneyrubble1964 Před 23 dny +1

      End of the road? It got kicked over the cliff and now lies broken and rusting on the rocks below as the waves crash around it.

  • @ukulelelab4219
    @ukulelelab4219 Před 23 dny +3

    ratcliffe the man who supported brexit and then moved his tax affairs to Monaco. How dare that man lecture anyone?

  • @politics392
    @politics392 Před 23 dny +7

    Get the conservatives out

  • @markhyde1970
    @markhyde1970 Před 23 dny +10

    Absolutely correct , absolute, utter madness. And they STILL deny it!

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny

      Not acknowledging a problem, makes it bigger. The snowball might roll on for a while...

  • @tat5383
    @tat5383 Před 23 dny +54

    Yes but the Brexit benefits will definitely be worth waaaaay more than 5 billion a year, won’t it?? Won’t it???? 😂😢😂

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +8

      Give it 50 years... By then somebody must have thought of a brexit benefit. Probably the possibility to freely join a big block as EU. That wasn't possible before, as UK was already tied down as a member of EU!

    • @joanormrod4893
      @joanormrod4893 Před 23 dny +1

      ​@@vullings1968 in 50 years we'll probably be more worried about the climate crisis.

    • @habi0187
      @habi0187 Před 23 dny +3

      ​@@joanormrod4893 considering the fact that the conservatives are cheering Rishi for the new North Sea licenses and the lack of public outrage I personally believe that the UK will still deny climate change when London is 10 feet under water.

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 Před 23 dny +1

      Our frozen minced shrimps to Howland Island and our Tweed to Fiji.

    • @johnjephcote7636
      @johnjephcote7636 Před 23 dny +1

      Our frozen minced shrimps to Howland Island and our Tweed to Fiji.

  • @00wheelie00
    @00wheelie00 Před 23 dny +4

    A lot of people all over the EU warned exactly for this. You all just decided that we were saying it in our own self interest and just got on with it.

    • @davebaz8142
      @davebaz8142 Před 22 dny +1

      You’ll find that almost half of us Brits saw that Brexit was going to be a massive failure too.

    • @00wheelie00
      @00wheelie00 Před 21 dnem

      @@davebaz8142 Fair enough, I was thinking of the brexiteers when I wrote 'you all'. But I can see that is not clear from how I wrote it.

  • @JV-ks3eb
    @JV-ks3eb Před 23 dny +5

    Where's that Politician called Mogg so i can give him my 2 pence.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +1

      You sill have that money to spare?

    • @AlexGys9
      @AlexGys9 Před 23 dny

      Smuggy is already insanely rich and you want to give him even more money?

  • @johnnypatterson7512
    @johnnypatterson7512 Před 23 dny +18

    Still waiting on that single Brexit benefit.

    • @gameofender4463
      @gameofender4463 Před 23 dny

      Easy. A more accountable and democratic government.
      The EU isn’t democratic. It’s a joke. Nobody elected VDL and they have the nerve to call her “president”. It’s second-hand democracy.

    • @shaun906
      @shaun906 Před 23 dny +1

      alfresco dining apparently, how when most of our pavements are 4 ft wide i'll never know?

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny +1

      @Johnny Or an EU benefit...apart from getting most of our own money back!😂😂😂

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny +1

      For a while, we weren't being forcibly jabbed like the rest of the EU. Having to show our medical papers everywhere. We nearly went down that road. If we were part of the EU, we would have had to comply with their draconian restrictions. I was very grateful we were out of the EU, then.

    • @matthewstrange3778
      @matthewstrange3778 Před 22 dny

      Exports up considerably? Oh, you don't actually want to know positive things about Brexit.

  • @jsanders100
    @jsanders100 Před 23 dny +5

    Just think what you could do with 5billion, it’s just off the scale bonkers

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny +1

      You could waste it on faulty PPE and unworkable programmes such as Test and Trace.

    • @555frontier
      @555frontier Před 23 dny +1

      That's enough for an app that nobody uses.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny +1

      Or the trillions spent on Lockdown!

  • @hailstone2554
    @hailstone2554 Před 23 dny +6

    Like a snowball rolling down the side of a snow covered hill it's growing , and it's getting WORSE AND WORSE , yes project fear really is PROJECT TRUTH .👿👿👿

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny

      And you're determined to believe it and I respect that determination!

    • @hailstone2554
      @hailstone2554 Před 22 dny

      @@chatham43 OK That's great, now tell me anything that project fear predicted that has is not fact now or about to become fact. 🤔🤔🤔

  • @sobelsb
    @sobelsb Před 23 dny +4

    The first free-trade agreement that introduces barriers in history.

    • @markhodge3112
      @markhodge3112 Před 23 dny +1

      The first time in the history of the world when to trading groups sat down to agree to make trading arrangements worse .

  • @medorajoe7542
    @medorajoe7542 Před 23 dny +2

    And Kier Starmer won’t change it. Instead he’s going to have a wee chat with the EU 😂 🤦🏻‍♂️ Don’t get all Britnat on me when I remind you the only political party to show any consistency in calling out Brexit is the SNP. Which is why I’ll be voting SNP for a road out of this rotten Union. Why should Scotland stay when it can’t affect the necessary change at WM be it Labour or Tory government

  • @pabs8345
    @pabs8345 Před 23 dny +4

    At least most of the brexiteers have realised their folly and shut tf up. We can ignore the ones still prattling on.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny

      I'm very very proud to have voted Brexit and would do so, again. We've been ignoring the nasty, childish comments from the Remain camp for years.

  • @terrytopliss9506
    @terrytopliss9506 Před 23 dny +12

    This is what happens when you allow the patients to takeover the asylum James.

  • @GarryJones61
    @GarryJones61 Před 21 dnem +1

    Why is JOB endorsing Keir Starmer who does not want to rejoin?
    Surely he should be supporting a party that wants to rejoin?

  • @christianweller4288
    @christianweller4288 Před 23 dny +9

    The Brit’s I’ve talked to seem to think that the “oh well.. mustn’t grumble” position on this is serving them well…. when actually it’s part of the problem.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny

      Yup, keep calm and carry on. That got Brits through the Blitz. This will take longer than the Blitz though.

  • @WinstonMelbourne-vt2vt
    @WinstonMelbourne-vt2vt Před 23 dny +10

    it will be more next year and the following year it is like compound interest , the only way to stop is to rejoin

    • @RazorMouth
      @RazorMouth Před 23 dny +6

      Apply to "join"
      Rejoin doesn't exist.

    • @WinstonMelbourne-vt2vt
      @WinstonMelbourne-vt2vt Před 23 dny

      @@RazorMouth please stop there the country is falling apart and the only way to start to get back is to stop the Brexit foolishness . And get back in oh by the way the EU would love to have us back yes I know I am an English but live in Athens Greece don't believe the lies they are telling you about the EU

    • @RazorMouth
      @RazorMouth Před 23 dny

      @@WinstonMelbourne-vt2vt I'm Irish in Ireland.
      And what I said was correct, there is no rejoin option. They would have to apply and pass the Copenhagen criteria. That's the law in the treaty. And they can't just change the law because it's core treaty law.
      Also the EU would be very weary that another Tory government would drag them back out of the EU down the line.

    • @AlexGys9
      @AlexGys9 Před 23 dny

      @@RazorMouth Although I personally don't like the word "rejoin" either, that very word is used in the English version of art 50.5 of the Treaty of the European Union.

    • @AlexGys9
      @AlexGys9 Před 23 dny

      @@WinstonMelbourne-vt2vt Although I was sad and disappointed when the UK decided to leave, I can't see why we would allow the UK to join again. De Gaulle vetoed the UK joining because he believed the UK would never wholeheartedly support the European project. In 1973 the UK finally got the chance to prove him wrong. All they ever did during those 40+ years of membership was prove De Gaulle was right all along.

  • @theresenydahl9531
    @theresenydahl9531 Před 23 dny +1

    Thank you for tge work you do, James O'Brien 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

  • @user-ec5xn8by4s
    @user-ec5xn8by4s Před 23 dny +4

    public dont care as long as they have an iPhone.

  • @user-xg6td3sc8w
    @user-xg6td3sc8w Před 21 dnem +1

    Hi James, I run the paint counter in an Irish Builders Merchant. We are a busy counter and have noticed the Brexit effect on one of our suppliers in particular. This supplier doesn't have an Irish warehouse. This means when we order from them it has to come from the UK. With the result, we can't tell when the order will arrive. So we are looking to get similar products from an Irish supplier. Thereby diminishing a British business.

  • @bobmason1361
    @bobmason1361 Před 23 dny +2

    The worlds biggest heist?

  • @TheMrReee
    @TheMrReee Před 23 dny +23

    A national call for a second referendum on Europe, get the return ball rolling as soon as possible.

    • @sigiriya5149
      @sigiriya5149 Před 23 dny +5

      What for? UK is far away from meeting the Copenhagen Criteria and can't join the EU.

    • @gameofender4463
      @gameofender4463 Před 23 dny +2

      @@sigiriya5149Good.

    • @JohnnyinMN
      @JohnnyinMN Před 23 dny +6

      It still will take up to 25 years. You still have to be accepted by all EU countries/states. You’re not even close to meeting the Copenhagen Criteria. As the years go by, the EU will become stronger. You will need to accept that there will be little negotiations. Accept Schengen and the Euro. You will have no choice by then.

    • @gameofender4463
      @gameofender4463 Před 23 dny +2

      @@JohnnyinMN Uh, no. Britain is free of the undemocratic, unaccountable EU.

    • @das-se4xl
      @das-se4xl Před 23 dny +4

      ​@@gameofender4463undemocratic? What on earth are you going on about? We vote for our Meps, they vote for the commission on our behalf, how many lord's have MPs voted for? Zero is the answer.
      So explain how it is undemocratic?

  • @Bluebluepoodle
    @Bluebluepoodle Před 23 dny +2

    Every time I want to write something about Brexit I get absolutely lost for words! There should NEVER have been a referendum. It broke my heart for my grandchildren’s future. It is an insane thing - I knew 5 people who voted for it - 3 of which are now dead, 1 has emigrated! And the other regrets it… yea Gods what an absolute mess.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny

      ,@Blue Bet those three now regret telling you they voted Brexit!😂😂😂

  • @firefox5926
    @firefox5926 Před 23 dny +5

    5:55 bigger question is how have you become a country where these people became government ministers and how is it that you are still a country where they still are and are respected by more that like 1 in every 20 people ... i dont actually know if they are so im just going on the assumption that at least 10% of people over there do ..

    • @AlexGys9
      @AlexGys9 Před 23 dny

      According to the latest BBC poll, still 24% intend to vote Tory in the next general election. Unbelievable but true.

  • @sararichardson737
    @sararichardson737 Před 23 dny +1

    It’s a huge embarrassment.

  • @philipwilliams2310
    @philipwilliams2310 Před 23 dny +1

    ..... THANK YOU James - you've Educated me on this 👍
    Phil. Liverpool UK 🇬🇧

  • @georgek3398
    @georgek3398 Před 23 dny +2

    If you think voting labor will save you , just think back, labor did NOT oppose brexit !

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny

      LaboUr can't save anything now, because the damage is already done. The only thing Labour can do, is mitigate the damage for the average Brit.

  • @actuallypaulstanley
    @actuallypaulstanley Před 23 dny +1

    £5Billion?! Is that all!? The _Excel 97-based_ Track 'n Trace system costs us £40Billion, so this cost is only 12.5% of this... Or, to look at this another way, is only 55% of the £9Billion loss of the £12Billion that the Department for Heath and Social Care (DHSC) spent on PPE in the first year of the pandemic...
    Let's just put this into context... ;-)

  • @marknaylor9394
    @marknaylor9394 Před 23 dny +1

    evening James...this issue really gets under nearly everyone's skin...you articulate it very well..."where does it end?" Indeed.

  • @stevenbusby5702
    @stevenbusby5702 Před 23 dny +4

    Thank you for saying this out loud. It's appalling, shocking and terrifying.

  • @cg986
    @cg986 Před 23 dny +6

    What an absolute disaster.

  • @ben_jam
    @ben_jam Před 23 dny +1

    Keep exposing them please

  • @joanormrod4893
    @joanormrod4893 Před 23 dny +1

    Jim Ratcliffe - no clue on economics. Said britain wasnt designed for more than 55 million people. Question - who designed britain?

  • @krishrajah
    @krishrajah Před 23 dny +1

    The Home Office thought they can save money by not having a contract with IBM but building their own Linux platform. It has backfired right royally

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 Před 23 dny

      @krish So lets all celebrate!

  • @godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor

    Move to Europe..

    • @alwhyte6533
      @alwhyte6533 Před 23 dny +7

      We can't, or do you not know about freedom of movement?

    • @fylbike
      @fylbike Před 23 dny

      If only we could

  • @ZenKaizen7
    @ZenKaizen7 Před 23 dny +3

    Borris bus + Nigel F 🎉 thank you for giving us pain!

  • @cloggyparsons2388
    @cloggyparsons2388 Před 23 dny +3

    Hi James. I'm no expert on Brexit other than foreseeing the devastation it would and has consequently caused, this was so obvious it was not rocket science, that said I moved to Germany in 2016 & lost 25% of my state pension due to the post Brexit exchange rate. Sadly I had absolutely no control over this other than to cast my vote to remain. For example that staggering & obscene figure of five Billion would have given 600,000 Doctors & nurses an £8,300 one off lump sum payment. Great informative show, keep it up James, thank you.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny +1

      Can you point out the "devastation" we are suffering in Britain? I see no devastation around me. Yes, we have inflation abd high energy costs but I can see rest of Europe does too.

  • @user-tl3hu2lh6u
    @user-tl3hu2lh6u Před 23 dny +2

    Give the bill to Sunak and the Tories, i'm sure they can split the bill between themselves ten times over. They wanted Brexit, they can pay for it.🧐🤷‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @bencops
    @bencops Před 23 dny +1

    I would like someone to write down the corruption and the evidence so we can get on with the prosecuting. Where can I find that list?

  • @chrstnldg6652
    @chrstnldg6652 Před 23 dny +2

    Im still convinced that part of it was HMP UK, so they have a captive workforce/tax supply who can't escape (easily)

  • @barneyrubble1964
    @barneyrubble1964 Před 23 dny +7

    I can't think of a single promise made for BREXIT that was even possible.

    • @rb1062
      @rb1062 Před 23 dny

      We should have got more of our fishing grounds back. Unfortunately, gutless Boris gave way.

    • @Cornu341
      @Cornu341 Před 22 dny

      Not being forced to declare your tax haven funds.
      Sorry, that was only apromise made behind closed doors to donors.
      The implementation date of that EU rule is also the only reason for all the hurry I could find

  • @bjrnhjjakobsen2174
    @bjrnhjjakobsen2174 Před 23 dny +2

    The book “The way out” by Tim Shipman - illustrates very very well the level of incompetence…

  • @arkskotch1589
    @arkskotch1589 Před 23 dny +21

    Country is finished, we will all become very poor very soon

    • @TheGava4
      @TheGava4 Před 23 dny +6

      FFS we already are! Have you noticed anything the last 14 years?

    • @arkskotch1589
      @arkskotch1589 Před 23 dny +8

      @@TheGava4 I'm still getting by by the skin of my teeth but it's gonna get even worse

    • @Skygrey2943
      @Skygrey2943 Před 23 dny +2

      At least the Tories got rich off it.

    • @lizdocherty3067
      @lizdocherty3067 Před 23 dny

      Agree with all these comments, but at least they are dealing with the absolute chaos that 🌈 lanyards are causing throughout the country.

    • @peterparker219
      @peterparker219 Před 23 dny +4

      So let the hunger games begin 🎉

  • @carlettoburacco9235
    @carlettoburacco9235 Před 23 dny +1

    I'd like to take a look at the list of those who have invested or have a direct interest in companies that are "sure" to provide the infrastructure for border checks. I bet it will be an interesting read.

  • @Lee-wv8vn
    @Lee-wv8vn Před 23 dny +1

    If only we were part of a customs union that is litterally designed to process immigrants.
    Oh we were but someone thought leaving it would lead to less immigration, It didn't it increased by 71% as a direct result.
    People who voted for it should be apologising to the country and take responsibility for their own actions.

  • @chicotime69
    @chicotime69 Před 23 dny +1

    Is there anyone left here that comes from the same planet as ME?????????????

  • @dextercool
    @dextercool Před 23 dny +9

    £5 billion is a tiny price to pay for the UK's fabled *sOvErEiGnTy*

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 Před 23 dny +4

      I think you mean 'sovrinty'........😉

    • @WeejimmySnazberry
      @WeejimmySnazberry Před 23 dny +2

      Sovrin tea, with tea bags made from recycled toilet paper containing a whiff of tea leaf dust

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 Před 23 dny

      @@WeejimmySnazberry 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @mininigenovesi7333
    @mininigenovesi7333 Před 22 dny

    Dont forget all the money that would have been saved and diverted to the NHS

  • @SalRizzFON
    @SalRizzFON Před 23 dny +4

    Can't remember who said it but someone described" Brexit like a trade war by the Uk on itself..spot on in my view!!

  • @martinhommel9967
    @martinhommel9967 Před 23 dny +1

    I predicted it would be as bad as it is. Didn’t need to be rocket scientist.

  • @alexanderprice6612
    @alexanderprice6612 Před 21 dnem +1

    It wasn't Brexit,
    and if it was, it's not that bad,
    and if it is, it isn't leaver's faults,
    and if it was, it's a price worth paying for sov-ren-tee.

  • @finianlacy8827
    @finianlacy8827 Před 22 dny

    I am living in a dystopian nightmare..why isn't everyone ????😢😢

  • @hugodrax71
    @hugodrax71 Před 23 dny +2

    We'll be like Singapore on Steroids. Still makes me laugh.

    • @AlexGys9
      @AlexGys9 Před 23 dny +1

      Argentina on the Channel would have been more accurate.

  • @timq8470
    @timq8470 Před 23 dny +1

    I sell online, I recently sent an item to the EU costing just over £200, they had to pay 55 Euros import duty, they paid nothing pre Brexit, they wont be back. I already sell worldwide so how do I make my EU losses up?

  • @mdb4michele
    @mdb4michele Před 22 dny

    Does this mean that the NHS won't get the 350m per week they were promised ?

  • @racingBandit98
    @racingBandit98 Před 22 dny

    "I become like a human snowball, the more I head down the hill the bigger I get and faster I move" is a truly brilliant quote!

  • @godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor

    Even turkeys don't vote for Christmas..

  • @johndean1953
    @johndean1953 Před 22 dny

    Misconduct in public office is an offence which, if proven can lead to a life spent in prison except these same incompetents have left out justice system in such a state that there aren’t enough prison places to accommodate these idiots.

  • @raypickles537
    @raypickles537 Před 23 dny +1

    I did know, the flack that I got from trying to convince others, even before the referendum, I was the idiot. They need us more then we need them. We are British, things won´t change, etc. Also I don´t understand how the idiots are still invited on TV for their opinions. If it had been me, I wouldn´t dare leave the house. Also brexit was nothing to do with Farage, he is blaming everybody else.

  • @MrsGardiner
    @MrsGardiner Před 23 dny +1

    There are not going to be any Swiss style mini contracts with the EU. The EU said no to this already.

  • @abbersj2935
    @abbersj2935 Před 23 dny +3

    "Brexit-backing billionaire Jim Ratcliffe says leaving the EU ‘didn’t turn out as anticipated’
    Oh really, not such a guru after all are you.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny

      Well, he anticipated it, that is why he moved Ineos production to France and himself to Monaco...

    • @abbersj2935
      @abbersj2935 Před 23 dny

      @@vullings1968 But he's now not big enough to own up to it.

    • @vullings1968
      @vullings1968 Před 23 dny +2

      @@abbersj2935 That is common with brexiteers abandoning ship...

  • @markwalker6673
    @markwalker6673 Před 21 dnem

    wasnt brexit about immigration mandates

  • @nicks4934
    @nicks4934 Před 22 dny

    Supply chains destroyed. That’s way more than £5billion. Permanently damaged economy. For years

  • @cachecow
    @cachecow Před 23 dny

    I think it's great that Brits get upset over 5 billion British pounds when in the Untied States that would be considered a rounding error.

  • @romansseja4062
    @romansseja4062 Před 23 dny

    When Brussels sends transports of aid packages for hungry Brits.

  • @RodH245
    @RodH245 Před 23 dny

    Strange I’ve just read that it will cost £470 million but will help reduce harmful diseases entering the UK. Maybe Dutch Elm & Ash dieback might have been prevented with stricter controls like Australia and New Zealand

  • @user-ym5ml3he1b
    @user-ym5ml3he1b Před 23 dny +1

    It was better before..easier to move .from one country to another .Why have they made it more difficult. For thier own country

  • @blue_jay31
    @blue_jay31 Před 23 dny +1

    You will be lucky if it is not more 😢

  • @Greenpoloboy3
    @Greenpoloboy3 Před 23 dny +7

    Don't worry. Rishi has a plan.

  • @ricdark
    @ricdark Před 23 dny +2

    Not only all this, but labour is a brexit party too

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 Před 23 dny

      Corbyn should of accepted the result of the Referendum and set out an alternative direction. He was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats

  • @JacarandaMusic
    @JacarandaMusic Před 23 dny

    Would be a better idea to give the timescale over which the £5 billion applies.

    • @nicks4934
      @nicks4934 Před 22 dny

      It’s not the cost. It’s the friction and delay that will destroy supply chains and increase prices.

  • @tablet6109
    @tablet6109 Před 23 dny

    Why was Radcliffe given airtime