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UK MORE ON STUPIDITY OF BREXIT Liz Webster: History Shows Blair Was 💯 Right On Brexit & Farage! PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTBKrEf_BxQ Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
History Shows Blair Was 💯 Right On Brexit & Farage! Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming 11K subscribers 4.6K likes 237,574 views May 12, 2024 #Brexit #nigelfarage #costoflivingcrisis Thanks to the Tories and #Brexit, #Britain is once again the poor man of Europe. The economy is £140bn worse off as a consequence of Brexit. Our trade is about 15% lower than if we had never left. Far from having a featherbed of extra cash, Britain sinks deeper into poverty with every day in Brexitland. Blair has been consistently right about Brexit all the way through the last 8 years and Farage continues to harness populism to distract people from looking at reality. #britishfarming #foodsecurity #inflation #britishfood #food #costoflivingcrisis #tonyblair #blair #nigelfarage Transcript 0:00 I have gone back over the last eight years of Tony Blair's contributions to the brexit debate and we can certainly say that history is proving he was absolutely correct and many of the predictions that he made are coming to pass the truth about njel farage is that he largely promised that everything would be great and uh we would be getting something back but the truth is the only thing that we've got back is that we are once again the poor man of Europe European Union which is the biggest political union in the world 0:36 largest commercial Market in the world 0:38 what on Earth would would induce you to 0:40 think that you going to gain by giving 0:43 up that relationship I mean it's it's 0:46 it's an 0:47 unbelievable Act of of self-denial for 0:50 this distraction we're going to pay such 0:53 a heavy price for future Generations you should never forget that 2third of the population over 65 voted for brexit and 2/3 under 35 voted to stay the £350 1:03 million a week we send to the EU which we will no longer send to the EU can you guarantee that's going to go to the NHS no I can't and I and I would never have made that claim 17 million people have voted for leave y based I don't know how many people voted on the basis of that advert but that was a huge part of the propaganda you're now saying that's a mistake we have a 10 billion p a year a £34 million a day featherbed that is going to be free money that we can spend on the the NHS on schools or whatever it is the fact of the matter is for a country like Britain today you need strong alliances to keep your influence strong and your interest protected because you know I always say to people you've got to look at the way the world is changing go to the middle of this Century which is only you know um three decades away so by the time my grandchildren the age of my kids are now that world 2:00 in the middle of this century is going to have three Giants it's going to have America China probably India because these are large population countries in the case of America huge economy huge amount of military power these three Giants are going to be much bigger and more powerful than country number four which could be any one of the the tall countries large population countries but not nearly as large as as as China or India Indonesia Brazil Japan um Mexico um and then you're going to have the mediumsized countries so a country like indones is a population three times the size of Germany's you're can have the medium size we going to be Germany Italy France Britain right okay in this world if the medium siiz aren't banding together the Giants are going to sit in US I mean that's just the reality and anyone who's ever dealt with power and sat in a room where there's power understands that when you're with a group of of others and you're 3:02 operating as one as a strong Collective then your medium-sized countries banding together in that European Union are going to sit at that table with the three Giants on equal terms they're sitting as individuals and not sitting at that table they're sitting on a small table so it's literally as obvious as that and Britain has two strong alliances it's got a great alliance with America and it's part of the European Union which is the biggest political union in the world largest commercial Market in the world what on Earth would would induce you to think that you going to gain by giving up that relationship I mean it's it's it's an unbelievable Act of of self-denial it's you know for me it's just a very simple thing power is power and if you want you know if you have the European Union for example there's going to be huge issue as to how relations with China develop because the rise of China is now a fact okay when I was first in politics it was a yeah you put it in your speech China 4:00 is going to be rising up but now it's a fact there's not a single issue in the world today from climate change to into the global economy that can be solved without China and China is a different political system it's moved recently in a political way which is more authoritarian and for example around artificial intelligence and Technology you know there's going to be a big struggle you can see this already this dispute over Highway for example's got many many implications to it so what's going to happen to Europe with China Rising like this and this huge power they're either going to pick us off one by one play us off against each other or we're going to be together and together we can have some influence right but 4:39 separately we're we're not going to be 4:41 strong enough it's just a fact it's not 4:43 you're not diminishing your country by 4:45 saying that it's just a fact of Europe 4:47 it was our major trading relationship we 4:49 ruptured our trading relations with 4:51 Europe but we also now are out of the 4:54 political union of our own continent and 4:57 in a world where it's going to be Domin 5:00 by America by China possibly in time 5:02 India those will be the three Giants of 5:04 world politics you're going to find 5:06 round the world people coming together 5:09 in Regional blocks in order to be able 5:11 to sit at the same table as the Giants 5:13 right this is you can see this happening 5:15 all over the world so for Britain to be 5:17 absent from Europe is a real problem for 5:19 us however having left it getting back 5:22 in is a tricky tricky negotiation 5:24 there's an economic aspect I think there 5:27 are certain things that can move us 5:28 closer with Europe without going back 5:30 into the European block but then I think 5:33 there's a question of the 5:35 political Dimension to this and there is 5:38 a suggestion that we build a broader 5:40 European political Community president 5:42 macron's talked about this and Britain I 5:45 think can can can play a part there and 5:48 in areas like defense or energy or 5:50 science and Innovation you know we can 5:53 we can build those blocks of cooperation 5:56 with Europe that move us closer whether 5:58 we get to aate stage where Britain 6:00 rejoins the European Union I think 6:02 that's for a future time but you know 6:04 you should never forget the 2third of 6:06 the population over 65 voted for brexit 6:08 and 2/3 under 35 voted to stay let me 6:12 just tell you sir and your 6:15 colleagues you sit with our country's 6:18 flag you do not represent our country's 6:25 interest 6:28 this this 6:34 this is the Year 6:38 2005 this is the Year 2005 not 6:42 1945 we're not fighting each other 6:45 anymore these are our partners they're 6:46 our colleagues and our future lies in 6:52 Europe and when when you and your when 6:56 you and your colleagues say what do we 6:58 get is return for what we contribute to 7:01 enlargement I tell you what we get we 7:03 get a Europe that is Unified after years 7:05 of dictatorship in the East we get 7:07 economic development in countries who we 7:10 have championed we get a future reform 7:13 that allows us once and for all to put 7:16 an end to discussion about rebates 7:18 common agricultural policy and get a 7:20 proper reform budget for Europe that's 7:22 what we get if we had division to seize 7:24 that 7:27 opportunity coming into this battle 7:30 adding his muscle power and reputation 7:33 is one former labor Prime Minister Tony 7:36 Blair who WR writes in tonight's evening 7:39 standard in his push for second 7:41 referendum the case for a people's vote 7:43 is now overwhelming the real betrayal of 7:47 the country would be in refusing it and 7:50 he goes on to say uh this solution is 7:54 the only route to Salvation blare the 7:57 preacher back again what do we expect he 8:00 says as for labor its members are 8:03 massively in favor of a people's vote 8:05 well Tony that may be right with the 8:07 members but what about the 5 million 8:09 what about the 40% of Labor voters who 8:12 supported brexit he goes on to say the 8:16 problem with brexit is brexit because 8:19 there is no resolution so there you go 8:21 folks you idiotic stupid moronic 17.4 8:25 million people who think we can be a 8:26 free country it can't be done according 8:28 to Tony there is no resolution and in 8:31 fact I heard much the same thing from 8:33 Alis Campbell this morning when I had 8:35 the privilege of sharing the couch with 8:37 him on Pier's Morgan's show so that is 8:39 what Tony Blair is telling us what an 8:42 extraordinary use of the word betrayal 8:46 what an amazing twisting of the English 8:48 language surely the real betrayal would 8:51 be to ignore the wishes and the will of 8:54 17.4 million people in the greatest 8:56 Democratic exercise in the history of 8:59 this country where people in 20 30 years 9:02 time turn around what the hell were you 9:04 doing why W you you were prime minister 9:05 for 10 years you weren't telling people 9:06 this was a bad idea it's such a bad idea 9:10 I mean I wake up every morning with this 9:11 brexit thing sometimes in despair 9:14 sometimes in Rage and sometimes just 9:17 thinking what do we have to do because 9:20 it's a profound historical mistake for 9:22 the country it solves nothing it 9:24 isolates us in a world where we need to 9:26 be engaged and it's not just about the 9:28 economy it's it's about 9:29 you know I want my children and 9:31 grandchildren to grow up feeling that of 9:33 course they're primarily British but 9:34 they're also part of the European 9:35 identity and what's wrong with that it's 9:37 a great thing you you look at European 9:40 culture values history geography we're 9:42 linked together and then we are 9:44 separating ourselves and for what you 9:46 know for this myth that Europe controls 9:49 what we do and look at all these 9:50 promises Boris Johnson's making on the 9:52 Health Service on education on Law and 9:53 Order on spending an end to 9:56 austerity which one of those promises 9:58 depends on leaving Europe 10:00 none of them you know we make our 10:02 decisions not in Brussels but in Britain 10:04 and this is what's so crazy but this is 10:06 an issue for the country I feel so 10:08 strongly on I I'm maybe it's because 10:10 I've now got grandchildren for this 10:13 distraction we're going to pay such a 10:15 heavy price for future Generations why 10:17 are we doing it we're not doing it to 10:19 satisfy them and it obviously doesn't 10:21 satisfy people like me and the reason 10:23 the government is is in this position 10:25 it's really important we understand this 10:27 all the way through the problem has been 10:28 very simple for four and a half decades 10:31 Britain has been trading in Europe 10:33 you've gr grown up with these intricate 10:36 Supply chains for manufacturing industry 10:38 you've got a financial service sector 10:40 that allows us to be outside the Euro 10:42 but still the financial center for the 10:44 Euro you've got all sorts of things like 10:46 cheap air travel um mobile telefony all 10:49 of these things have developed as part 10:51 of Europe's single market so the problem 10:54 for the government English in particular 10:55 have never been ruled by anybody else 10:58 yes but and not by the way now I would 11:00 say but if you take the breit argument 11:03 they want to get out of all those rules 11:05 so your dilemma is this you either get 11:08 out of the single Market in which case 11:10 you're going to do economic damage at 11:12 least in the short and medium term 11:13 that's the painful brexit but if you 11:15 don't and you do what Theresa May wants 11:17 which is stay tied to Europe's rules 11:19 this is what the czecher document says 11:21 then you're in a pointless brexit so 11:23 your choice is between painful and 11:25 pointless and that's the reason why 11:27 we've had a problem all the way through 11:28 I'm skeptical that people are going to 11:29 be really angry if you say to them look 11:32 we now know this is much more 11:33 complicated than we ever thought here 11:35 are the 11:36 options take a decision but secondly the 11:39 the brexiteers the people who believe in 11:41 a different vision for Britain of which 11:44 brexit really is just the the stepping 11:46 stone to get to that different Vision 11:48 they haven't won this battle either and 11:51 the risk is what what what we do as a 11:53 country and this is the real Triumph of 11:54 the elite funly enough is if the system 11:58 kind of says look we voted to leave 12:02 leaving is really a pretty bad idea so 12:04 let's do this halfway house kind of half 12:07 in half out accept the rules but you 12:10 leave the political structures the irony 12:13 is that is the solution where a majority 12:17 of the population for sure is going to 12:18 say we don't want that because people 12:20 like me will say well this is pointless 12:22 and the true brexiters or cry betrayal 12:24 so the whole the fallacy in in in 12:27 Theresa May's approach and I stress all 12:30 the time I think she comes at this from 12:32 a completely well-intentioned Viewpoint 12:34 right she's trying to do her best in the 12:35 for the country in really difficult 12:37 circumstan I appreciate that but if she 12:40 thinks this honors the brexit Mandate it 12:43 doesn't honor what most people who voted 12:45 for brexit think and we know that 12:47 because they're say this election May 12:48 determine a government lasting for 5 12:50 years but its consequences May last for 12:54 Generations do not give Boris Johnson a 12:57 majority he does not not deserve 13:00 it 13:02 brexit is not a mistake I wish it were 13:06 it is a 13:08 disaster a disaster our country cannot 13:13 afford and I say to those of my 13:15 generation who voted for it with age can 13:18 come the wisdom of lived 13:19 experience but it is youth that has its 13:22 finger on the beating pulse of the 13:24 future and we have no right to steal 13:27 that future from them they know the 13:30 world today Works through connections 13:32 and brexit breaks them they see how 13:35 success belongs to the open 13:37 mind brexit closes that of their Nation 13:41 they understand that their hopes will 13:43 never prosper in the modern world 13:45 without attachment to the hopes of their 13:47 neighbors brexit throws those hopes on a 13:50 bonfire of confusion 13:53 confusion between national pride and 13:57 nationalism our opposition to brexit is 14:00 simply put as Britain staying 14:02 politically part of the continent to 14:04 which we naturally 14:05 belong but more deeply that 14:09 opposition is rooted in a belief that 14:13 patriotism is not defined by those who 14:16 wave the flag but by those who carry it 14:19 through the Contours of changing history 14:22 to preserve its values and our place in 14:25 the 14:26 world now the brexiteers used brexit and 14:30 brexit fatigue is the reason to do it 14:33 and they promised £350 million more 14:37 every week to our Health Service and 14:39 instead we have an NHS in crisis made 14:43 worse by losing good European workers 14:47 who came to our country and whose 14:49 presence did and does our NHS 14:55 proud they promised the new trade deal 14:57 would be easy the 14:59 Europeans battering our door down in 15:02 surrender before the Brilliance of our 15:04 negotiating 15:06 skill instead we are outside their door 15:10 in anxious supplication and now the back 15:14 stop is a front stop we have not one 15:16 border but two and those Democratic 15:20 unionists they are the prime witnesses 15:23 to the dangers of ever trusting the word 15:26 of Boris Johnson the decisions which 15:28 matter to daily lives are not taken in 15:30 Brussels but in Britain the British 15:32 Parliament decides the future of the NHS 15:35 not the European Parliament the big 15:37 decisions on taxes spending welfare 15:39 pensions crime are taken in Downing 15:42 Street not in the European commission 15:44 brexit is indeed distractive and 15:48 destructive in equal measure but that is 15:51 not a reason for doing it but to 15:53 recoiling from it returning to those 15:55 important issues through the only path 15:58 which leads there giving the people the 16:01 right to think again on brexit but this 16:03 time based not on promises but on 16:06 knowledge of what the last 40 months of 16:09 political Mayhem have taught 16:11 us because 16:13 unfortunately the distraction of brexit 16:16 does not diminish the significance of it 16:18 you know I'm not running for election 16:20 you can just be absolutely blunt with 16:22 people there are different forms of 16:24 brexit the reason Parliament couldn't 16:26 reach an agreement is they couldn't 16:27 decide which because because they're 16:29 completely different from each other and 16:32 brexit is not over after brexit CU 16:35 you've still got the main negotiation to 16:38 happen even after the 31st of January 16:40 when you're supposed to leave and 16:42 therefore I wish it were as simple as 16:44 just do it but it isn't and that anybody 16:48 who's telling you that it is that simple 16:50 is calling you and that's another reason 16:52 which worries me about Boris Johnson 16:54 because he's going around saying just do 16:56 it and then it's over with when he knows 16:59 that's not right okay you people who 17:02 aren't following the detail of this they 17:03 may not know that but he knows it so 17:06 he's actually literally looking you in 17:08 the eye and saying to you vote on the 17:11 12th of December Tory and brexit's over 17:15 I've just been seeing some of the people 17:17 in Europe who are going to be handling 17:18 this not a single person says that's 17:21 correct no one no one who's studying the 17:24 detail says that so this is a problem 17:25 for me so whatever differences I have 17:27 with the labor leadership it's a problem 17:29 for me when You' got a conservative 17:31 prime minister who unlike the 17:33 conservative Prime Ministers that I've 17:35 seen in the past who i' oppos 17:38 politically who's actually prepared to 17:40 look you in the eye and say what he 17:42 absolutely knows is not the case which 17:44 is if you vote bre for for Tories on on 17:47 12th of December breit's over and done 17:49 with it is not and that's you know 17:52 people have got to think about that 17:53 since you left par 17:56 um you know I've come to the conclusion 17:59 in politics that anger is a redundant 18:01 emotion I am more 18:03 motivated than I've ever been since 18:05 leaving power because I really do 18:07 believe we just made a disastrous 18:10 mistake for the country about its future 18:12 which is brexit and believe me in time 18:14 it will be seen to be a terrible mistake 18:16 we're going to have to make it work now 18:18 but it's a terrible mistake and the 18:20 labor party by itself self-indulgence 18:23 and that's what it was in the end was 18:25 the effect of handmaiden of brexit it's 18:27 not our fault because the fault is with 18:29 those who advocated it but our 18:32 combination of misguided ideology and 18:34 utter incompetence allowed it to happen 18:37 path of almost comic 18:39 indecision alienated both sides of the 18:42 debate leaving our voters without 18:44 guidance or 18:46 leadership the absence of leadership on 18:49 what was obviously the biggest question 18:52 facing the 18:53 country then reinforced all the other 18:55 doubts about Jeremy Corbin he persona if 18:58 I politically an idea a brand of quazi 19:01 revolutionary socialism mixing far-left 19:04 economic policy with deep hostility to 19:07 Western foreign 19:09 policy which never has appealed 19:12 tradition traditional labor voters never 19:15 will appeal to them and represented for 19:18 them a combination of misguided ideology 19:21 and terminal ineptitude that they found 19:25 insulting no sentient political party 19:28 goes to an election with a leader who is 19:30 a net approval rating of minus 19:33 40% the Takeover of the labor party by 19:36 the far left turned it into a glorified 19:39 protest movement with cult trimmings 19:42 utterly incapable of being a credible 19:45 government the result has brought shame 19:48 on us we let our country down to go into 19:52 an election at any time with such a 19:55 Divergence between party and people is 19:57 unacceptable 19:59 to do it at a time of national 20:02 crisis when a credible opposition is so 20:05 essential to the National interest is 20:09 unforgivable anti-Semitism is a 20:12 stain the failure to deal with it a 20:15 matter of 20:16 disgust that left some of us who voted 20:19 labor feeling for the first time in our 20:21 lives conflicted about doing 20:24 it so at one level sure let's have a 20:26 period of reflection 20:29 but any attempt to whitewash this defeat 20:32 presented as something other than it is 20:35 or the consequences of something other 20:38 than the obvious will cause irreparable 20:41 damage to Labor's relationship with the 20:44 elector so to speak who supported remain 20:47 and who wanted to reverse brexit and you 20:49 did everything you could to do that 20:51 whether it was going to be a second 20:52 referendum or or whatever it was are you 20:54 ready to concede that that is off the 20:56 table that brexit will happen and that's 20:58 what's going to happen to the United 20:59 Kingdom yes it's going to happen now I 21:02 mean it's tragic we should never have 21:03 agreed a brexit general election by the 21:05 way it was crazy to mix the two issues 21:06 up we should have had a decision by the 21:08 British people on brexit self-standing 21:11 as a decision but we didn't um one of 21:14 the many mistakes the labor party made 21:15 was to agree a brexit general election 21:18 uh it's now decided the government has a 21:20 majority to do brexit which will happen 21:21 at the end of January it's then going to 21:23 be a very difficult negotiation but you 21:25 know it's now important that we accept 21:29 it will happen and try and make it work 21:30 as best we can so you have talked about 21:32 the future of Britain basically 21:34 revolving around three revolutions 21:36 brexit technology and climate can you 21:39 sum up what you mean and what you mean 21:41 by revolutions so we're living through a period of time in the UK when you have these massive changes happening brexit you know the decision's over whether it's right or wrong that's done with but it's a decision of consequence because half of our Trad is with Europe it's 22:00 part of our our our continent you know we can change our politics in respect of Europe we can't change our interests or geography so brexit is a huge change we don't have a plan to deal with it secondly you've got they would say you do have a plan or they have a plan but you say they don't well they don't really we we don't have a new trade relationship in place with Europe we haven't decided what areas we want to concentrate upon in Europe our relationship with Europe at the moment 22:25 is very scratchy and difficult we 22:27 haven't resolved even Northern Ireland 22:29 so I don't think they do have a plan for 22:31 brexit then you've got a climate 22:33 ambition that's enormous it's the right 22:35 ambition but you know just to give you 22:38 an example it means we're going to have 22:39 to quadruple the rate at which we build 22:41 renewable energy in the UK you're going 22:43 to be changing all the fossil fuel cars 22:44 into electric vehicles changing all the 22:47 gas boilers with heat pumps this is 22:49 massive we have a plan there but I don't 22:52 think it's nearly adequate and then you've got the technology Revolution which is going to change everything in our world and where the real political debate should be not between old style 23:01 left and right but how do you harness this re Revolution to reform things like Health Care education Law and Order defense the whole works never mind how business operates so my point is you got three revolutions no plan for the future for Britain what this means is if we don't get such a plan and pursue it we're going to relegate ourselves from the Premier League of countries I fell out with Blair over Iraq but we bonded again over brexit and the need for Britain to be in the EU

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