That’s because, whether you like Blair or not, he actually has a huge knowledge of how the EU works.

@51bikerboy

Ай бұрын

Not only about the EU but also how international trade works! Not like Boris Johnson and the other crooks they only know every think about being corrupt by laying and cheating!

@theresenydahl9531

Ай бұрын

He's also a great politician who knows how power in general works.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Who likes Blair? Don't forget he's the man who lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime). And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@theresenydahl9531Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime). And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@markmerry1471

Ай бұрын

Not you as for normal. As I can remember when you and your EU loving crying babies told us that if we left the EU we could be going in to a big black hole but we are still here. Then if we don't take up the euro we will go into the big black hole but we are still here.

I am from a Nordic country inside EU. We nordic really miss GB. It is a catastrophe for you and us that we are not together.. Lets come together again and make the greatest pulling power

Two groups of people voted remain: the young and the intelligent.

@fortuner123

13 күн бұрын

You flatter yourself.

@rogeratygc7895

13 күн бұрын

@@fortuner123 Perhaps; then again I am a physicist who worked on various EU research projects, including as Lead Coordinator on one, so perhaps not. Blair is right, Brexit was an act of stupidity.

@lesleywillis6177

10 күн бұрын

Ok Imagine that you weren’t so intelligent. Imagine that you were a manual worker. Your wages have been held back for a decade because of cheap imported labour. These people haven’t voted remain to suit the likes of you. They voted for their own priorities. Personally I voted leave because I did not want to be a member of the United States of Europe. Ever greater union chills me to the bone.

@rogeratygc7895

10 күн бұрын

@@lesleywillis6177 I appreciate this thoughtful reply; though it won't surprise you to be told I disagree. Looking at information online concerning the UK economy, I gather that significant damage to our country has resulted, and no advantage has accrued to manual workers, while a bunch of back-benchers has been able to form a government, bankers have had their bonuses uncapped and the rich, who I suspect viewed proposed EU action on tax avoidance with consternation, can relax. Does there seem to be a connection between these groups and those who campaigned for brexit. Many small to medium sized businesses now have problems trading with Europe. Could there have been a different brexit? Perhaps. Oh and of course, EU support for research, and the UK's lack of it, might colour my views - the R&D laboratory where I worked (I retired over ten years ago) is now gone. My experience of working on EU projects was such that I was deeply impressed by my European colleagues and the system of research projects, and by the EU policy of support for poor areas. We have seen that the government we have talks of "levelling up" but it is just empty promises. I would love the UK to be part of a United States of Europe.

@1983pety

8 күн бұрын

@@lesleywillis6177 in regards to you his point still applies, the young and inteligent voted remain.

Not just Tony Blair, Michael Heseltine, Ken Clarke, John Major, Mark Carney, indeed anyone with at least half a brain!

@lizwebstersbf

Ай бұрын

I have paid tributes to Heseltine, John Major and David Lammy with similar videos. Today is Tony’s turn. Here’s heseltine’s History Shows Heseltine Has Been Consistent On Boris & #Brexit kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGyAztlxpq3gYKQ.html

@DJWESG1

Ай бұрын

None of those ppl you mentioned listed a finger to stop ot happening, and arguably laid the paving blocks of brexit in the years leading toward it.

@RazorMouth

Ай бұрын

​@@DJWESG1huh? They were all warning. Were you not listening?

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@lizwebstersbf "Tony"? You're hilarious!

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Michael Heseltine: "They are not going to allow us, by our own doing, to endanger their overall vision of a united Europe". Ken Clarke: "I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe". Any more traitors you care to mention?

He was right about Brexit. He was wrong about illegally attacking Irak.

UK: Hey EU! Do you bet that I can shoot myself in the right foot? EU: What? Why would you do that? UK: Because I want to show you that I can do whatever I want, to show you that I'm independent! BANG (BREXIT) 8 years after EU: Hey UK! Is that you behind? UK: It's your fault that I'm behind! I'm crippled because of You!!

@bbell1549

Ай бұрын

👍😀👏

@saulcomish4759

4 күн бұрын

What does 100 mean?

British people should have listened to a seasoned leader😢

@tonyb9735

12 күн бұрын

But the brexiters had had enough of experts .....

@snipermagoo

7 күн бұрын

Tony Blair led the UK into national bankrupcy. A lot of people voted Brexit just because the leadership types didn't want them to.

I'm half-English, half-French. I'm a former reporter on Tory-supporting tabloid newspapers. I was twice interviewed for the job of Communications Director for Vote Leave. Let me assure you, Tory tabloid owners and the handful of individuals who instigated Brexit haven't the slightest interest in Britain's future. Their only interest is in themselves.

@petergaskin1811

17 күн бұрын

It was always about the European Tax Directive. Far too many sweetheart "non-dom" tax deals enjoyed by Newspaper barons in England.

@sauermaischeyahoo7834

4 күн бұрын

The "Leave" campaign gained traction because unrestricted immigration from eastern Europe was undermining the workman's collective bargaining position and the tradesman's pricing power. Those adversely affected complained to the government and asked for protection. The government replied that it could do nothing, because the EU wouldn't let it. So the people being impoverished by immigration demanded that the government get Brussels to change its rules. David Cameron went to Brussels to ask the EU to change its rules on free movement of labour. He was told to go forth and multiply. This left those who care about the living standards of ordinary Britons no alternative, if the EU wouldn't change, then the UK would have to leave. Those who support the UK's membership of the EU are the people who don't care about anyone other than themselves. They don't give a damn if workmen are being impoverished, they are completely self centred.

@Sujki19

4 күн бұрын

@@sauermaischeyahoo7834 how has that worked out for farmers and fisherman?

@richardfothergill8090

4 күн бұрын

@@sauermaischeyahoo7834your point is valid. And the only reason I would have voted leave is the control immigration. But alas to get a free trade deal with India, we have to give up a load of Visas for Indians want to work the Uk. This is what’s happened and immigration is higher than ever.

@nigelmartin2254

Күн бұрын

Your comment interests me. Being half French and half British must have torn you quite badly. I actually campaigned for Brexit. I would describe my political leanings as a Christian Democrat. I was a newspaper boy on the day Edward Heath took us into the EEC on 1st January 1973, and I vividly remember reading the front pages. I worked in Africa and Australia, returning to the UK in 1993 after my father died. I was shocked at the changes with our traditional trading partners, and shocked that the European Union Commissioners are not subject to the ballot box. That smacked to me of autocracy, benign it might be. They had powers to promulgate extension of the Acquis Communautaire. I did an A level in Government and Politics to gain greater clarity of our relationship with the European Union - as it was now called. I was pretty annoyed with the Money Creation and Society Debate which can be viewed on You Tube. Precisely half way of the 2 hours 30 minutes debate, where it describes how money is created. A bank official depresses a computer keyboard and a loan is created out of "thin air". My response to all of this is in a paper I wrote dubbed the "Table Mountain Housing Finance Model". It is available on line. go well!

Of course he was right! Nobody who is not out of his mind had any doubts about it!

From my position within the EU, I look at the UK and wonder what it is doing to itself. I am sure we can all agree that the right wing in the UK seems deluded and determined to scupper the UK, but I see too that the left wing are also unwilling to address the elephant in the room. When Labour comes to power, they are suddenly going to find themselves in a damaged economy with a right wing press that will blame them for everything. To me it is as clear as daylight that the Labour party need to talk about the damage brexit has inflicted on the UK.

@theresenydahl9531

Ай бұрын

The problem is that Labour is not much better at the moment, only a similar alternative. Bring Blair back if you want change.

@NickAskew

Ай бұрын

@@theresenydahl9531 I have to agree. I think Labour are sadly portrayed as the saviours that will rescue the UK. Well I'd prefer to live under them than the Tories but Labour are clearly not actively promoting undoing brexit.

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

Bu Starmer is a wee timorous beastie and is afraid of scaring the voters. People are so fed up with the tories that they would go with a more radical agenda, but he is...a wee timorous beastie.

@fredatlas4396

Ай бұрын

​​@@NickAskew I think they are scared that if they start talking about undoing brexit, rejoining the EU they will lose votes. And if the Labour Party doesn't win the election outright they can't do anything. Sadly I still hear a lot of people blaming our problems on immigration, too many people coming to the UK. The state of the NHS and roads etc is apparently down to immigration not brexit & the tories policies since 2010 🙄

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

@@NickAskew It cannot be undone. UK is a third country in the eyes of EU. It has left the union in 2020. If you by "undoing brexit " mean some closer relations with EU UK already has the TCA wich is as good a trade deal a third counry can get. There is no more room to wiggle in any concessions from EU in that nor is there any will in EU to create any precedents for other third countries. In 2025 brexit will more or less be done from the perspective of EU, when the Euroclearing leaves London for good.

Blair/Brown fecked up on a few issues. Cameron/May/Johnson/Truss and Sunak fucked up on everything.

@andrewcooney2387

Ай бұрын

You are correct in what you say about this sadly things are going to get massively worse due to the tories government now actively trying to destroy the Irish state by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland via the north, the British government has decided to wipe out the the only nation on earth that the UK trades with which is hugely profitable to the people of the UK. Hollywood film writers could not make this up. Where is the British insanity going to end.

@bbell1549

Ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Totally agree!

@JimTimber

Ай бұрын

I can't believe Cameron is back.. the smell of fartz hits the room again

@ianmoore5343

Ай бұрын

Oh not to mention that Brown left this country nearly bankrupt and sold off most of the gold reserves!!

@mikethebloodthirsty

24 күн бұрын

Blair fked up on a LOT of issues and ended up giving advice to Eastern European dictators on how to cover up murders of their own striking citizens.

Ive always said history will remember the brexiteers as traitors who waved a flag !

well done Tony,,,,,,,Farage should be put behind bars and use as entertainment and I am from the normally staunch right

@erikzoe1

18 күн бұрын

Agreed. And of course, that is prison bars, as opposed to the kind of bars that he already spends most of his time propping up.

I remember staying up all night for the blair 96 landslide and the feeling in the morning of hope. Now look at this country 14 years of tory chaos.

@simonsadler9360

26 күн бұрын

Obviously I speak Spanish & my friends are appalled at what is happening there now , we care for each other here ,wonderful free health system .All polite & helpful !

@simonsadler9360

26 күн бұрын

In Spain now & with 17 million Britons living abroad were denied our rightful vote re Brexit ,tied via gov email gives me request denied !

@advocate1563

22 күн бұрын

Little did you know you'd elect a war criminal.

@nigelbenn4642

5 күн бұрын

97

He is also right about the fact that it will be very difficult to go back into the EU. The UK will have to negotiate from a position of weakness and therefore the UK needs to change first into a position of strength before starting any rejoining discussion. Hence this will be very far in the future. The good news is that those old idiots who caused this disaster will not be there anymore. The under 35 will bring the UK back into the EU. That is 100% going to happen and they will not look back positively on those responsible for Brexit.

@theresenydahl9531

Ай бұрын

Maybe feeling the steel while watching the EU prosper will change the UK.

@blauewaffel1469

Ай бұрын

The UK has proven itself to be a failed project controlled by aristocratic incompetents. The best future for people on the British Isles would be to put the imperial gremlin to bed and have separate states - a United Republic of Ireland, Republic of Scotland, Republic of Wales and Republic of England, all constituent members in a democratic and strong European Federation with a single market, guaranteed rights for all citizens, and full free movement within, plus a federal military force and independent nuclear umbrella covering every member state. Then, we would never be pushed around by large nations economically, nor threatened with invasion from Russia. Plus we would never have to rely on an unreliable USA.

@karenhopwood891

Ай бұрын

Too late for me unfortunately

@Cheeseatingjunlista

Ай бұрын

How long will it take these under 35's to get their hands on the levers of power? What makes you think in 20/30 years time the EU will want a bitter weak sad old UK back in?

@user-dc5qc1vb9c

Ай бұрын

Not all older people. I’m glad to see things as the young do.

The British still thinks they live in the 18th century.

@jefflittle8872

Ай бұрын

The English sir

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

And we have some foreigner who thinks he knows what he's talking about.

@damianbutterworth2434

29 күн бұрын

Why? Any proof of that?

@sauermaischeyahoo7834

29 күн бұрын

You've summed the pro-EU faction up perfectly with that observation.

The one single factor for me is the huge problem of English exceptionalism. How can we ever be part of a European collective built upon shared values of peace and prosperity when such a toxic view of the rest of the world permeates English consciousness. The prevailing view that we are fed daily, is that all we have to do to solve our economic problems is to wave our Union Jack flag more furiously and shout louder. The EU & the rest of the world will then sit up & take notice. Until such time as the zeitgeist changes, coupled with the acknowledgment that Brexit was a catastrophic mistake, will result in us forever languishing as the poor man of Europe.

@theresenydahl9531

Ай бұрын

Great point.

@jackpayne4658

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. My own parents were not extremists of any kind - sceptical Labour voters, with a deep distrust of both Tories and trade unions. And yet, their English exceptionalism was blindingly obvious, even to me as a child. That attitude doesn't die with one generation.

@henriikkak2091

Ай бұрын

🎯

@markperrin8098

Ай бұрын

So the UK wants to trade with the rest of the world and wants equal immigration from the rest of the world, while the EU refers to any country outside its borders as a third country and tarrifs them blind, and the English has the toxic view of the rest of the world? Wow.

@markperrin8098

Ай бұрын

So the UK wants more world trade and even immigration from around the world, while the EU calls anyone outside its border a third country and tarrifs them into oblivion, and were the ones with a toxic view of the rest of the world? Wow.

Legend. So sharp. I remember how good we had things in this country up until 2009

@FixUp.LookSharp

Ай бұрын

Cheers. You won as a 2016 Brexit voter. And we are all the much poorer for it. But I'm open minded that it may all come good, in about 50 years

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@FixUp.LookSharp And here's what you would have won. 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.

When Tony Blair was in power, the UK was the 4th largest economy in the world, had a bespoke membership of the EU as the second largest European economy and London being effectively the financial capital of the World. They also sat in the G8, was a member of a strong NATO, a primary member of the Commonwealth and enjoyed a ‘special relationship’ with the USA. While not being a superpower, they were one of the richest and most influential countries in the world. Now? They have removed themselves from the EU, collapsing public services and have a weak economy in general. They are, at best, around the 6th largest economy in the world and falling as other nations like China and India rise. NATO is under existential threat, the Commonwealth is no longer relevant to many countries seeking to be Republics and the relationship with the US is also rocky. The UK decline in just 20 years is astounding. Blair will always be tarnished by his policies on Iraq, but say it quietly, he was also the last true statesmen who sat in the UKs Prime Ministerial office.

@hgvbish6606

21 күн бұрын

And some of the old. I was 80 at the time and many of my friends of a similar age were equally appalled by the result. Don’t run downall us oldies

@DY-cq3qd

11 күн бұрын

Well that's the EU for you! Making the bad worse.

@marvinc9994

10 күн бұрын

"When Tony Blair was in power" He ALSO eviscerated a constitution it had taken centuries to create, lied to Parliament (for which he should have resigned) over WMD (but who cares about maimed Iraqi kids, eh?), opened the floodgates to a tidal wave of Third World riff-raff (WHAT a benefit to the property market and an already-overstretched NHS!), and fractured the unity of the United Kingdom. Some 'statesman'. As for: " London being effectively the financial capital of the World" It still is! "member of a strong NATO" Now a member of an even stronger NATO. Your point here? "sat in the G8" So what? Just another globalist talking-shop, and about as much use as all the others (WHO, UNO, World Bank, IMF, IPCC etc etc etc). God, but you're naïve: do you know ANYTHING about the REAL world of Geopolitics (as opposed to the PR version fed to you via the MSM)? "collapsing public services" What - if true - has THAT to do with the EU or Brexit? "the Commonwealth is no longer relevant" Really? Then it's high time we mended fences - having kicked the Old Commonwealth in the teeth when, at the behest of crypto-Globalist (and toilet-trader) Heath, we were deceived into joining this wonderful new Free Trade area called the _Common Market_ . The fact that it was about eventual POLITICAL union was essentially hidden from the British Public. "No essential loss of sovereignty', Heath assured us - and over thirty years later, over 80% of OUR laws were being made for us by the Commission (and rubber-stamped by the phony, fig-leaf (LMFAO) 'European Parliament'). If you really want to get some idea of the colossal mendacity of the European Project, you should get yourself a copy of the late Christopher Booker's (and Richard North's) _Castle of Lies_ . You should but you won't, of course. "a ‘special relationship’ with the USA." As far as the American PEOPLE are concerned, that's still the case. And America needs US as much as we need it. Biden's coldness towards us (not shared by Trump) derives from both his misplaced Fenian angst, and his Globalist puppet-masters within the Democratic Party: remember when Big Ears Obama presumed to tell US how to vote? Now why do you think that was? Answer: because it upset the plans of his Globalist Masters. The European Project WAS a CIA-funded, ACUE-backed project of Anglo-American Establishment, after all; it was THEIR baby. But you already knew that - didn't you? "The UK decline in just 20 years is astounding" Well, since Brexit only _effectively_ happened a mere SIX years ago - why so impatient? Some short-term turbulence was expected (even without the spiteful manoeuvrings of the EU, the absurd Theresa May, and our Quisling civil service). As to your twenty-year perspective, you must therefore have been an ardent admirer of Margaret Thatcher's - the lady who saved our nation from the permanent ruination threatened by the maniacal state socialism of the Labour party? Assuming you were old enough to vote in 1979, that is! Sadly, even she only saw through the European Project when it was too late. Plainly, you haven't yet reached _that_ level of Euro-Enlightenment. Sweet dreams!

@albal156

4 күн бұрын

5 words and 2 things sunk New Labour 2008 Financial Crash, Iraq War. Also in the end Labours refusal to reform Thatchers consensus on economic policy cost us more in the long in the end. We were very exposed to the crash and it damaged us and showed us our eonomic model was toast. Then austerity came along and stopped any recovery.

As a lifetime Tory voter (prior to Brexit), I never would have believed that Tony Blair would be an outlier speaking the truth. How did this happen?

@garlicbreath7259

Ай бұрын

Blinkers ?

Brilliant compilation, thank you🌷🌷🌷🌷I particularly enjoy how forcefully Blair spoke in the clip from 2005.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

@@SJG-nr8uj You would fit invery well with the MAGA crowd in USA. They are also deluded beyond hope and actually believe the crap they hear and what they spew out in congress and social media platforms.

I think Europe see Britain as a joke and rightly so

I could not be happier that Fartage will never be a member of the European Parliament again 🥳

@jackkruese4258

Ай бұрын

Yes as a Brit seeing him and Widdicombe waving those little Union Jacks at the end was the height of embarrassment.

@Purple_flower09

Ай бұрын

Only a tiny group of people in the UK would disagree.

@SlamSector

Ай бұрын

​@@thetruth9210 Half! Are you using 2016 numbers?

@DavidEdwards-uf5lg

Ай бұрын

@@jackkruese4258 not half as embarrassing as being part of that pile of shit EU, that's for sure.

@DavidEdwards-uf5lg

Ай бұрын

@@SlamSector it doesn't matter if it's half, or the whole fucking lot, we're out thank fuck, never to return hopefully,

Political power is the reason for the European Union and nothing was wrong with that. The right wing IN the UK cannot accept that. Blair was spot on in his speech at the European parliament when he 'called-out' Farage.

It was also very rightly pointed out by many of us that we got back a lot more than the 350 million per week we paid in in trafe alone coming back into the economy. We paid out 350m per week = 19.2 billion per year but since leaving the EU brexit has cost the nation 100-140 billion per year.

@marinusvos

Ай бұрын

The UK paid approx. 11BN a year on membership of the EU.

@RazorMouth

Ай бұрын

​​@@marinusvoscloser to 8bn after rebates etc. about 150m per week.

@davesy6969

Ай бұрын

From the Treasury's own figures, the UK paid in £137 million per week, and what we got out was worth £2,600 per week.

@RazorMouth

Ай бұрын

@@davesy6969 but the UK doesn't now have to follow those pesky EU regulations..... Ohhhh wait, it does 🤦‍♂️

@epincion

Ай бұрын

With rebates the amount the UK paid in per year was around 10 billion and that gave so much and most of all it it meant seamless borderless full free trade in in both goods and services in the worlds largest single market. Even with a full fit for purpose comprehensive FTA the best that a third party nation can have with the EU is as smooth as possible trade in goods only (not services) but that trade in goods is not seamless and borderless as that’s only for members. The EU-UK TCA is not even close to a comprehensive FTA.

I am impressed by the fact that Nigel’s children are all European.

@theresenydahl9531

Ай бұрын

He tried to become German with the help of his brother-in-law 4 years ago, all quietly of course but he was found out by a German journalist.

@elipa3

Ай бұрын

He tried to get a german residence permit, but was refused. Obviously, he doesnt reside in Germany.

@paulbird3235

Ай бұрын

There brains must have come from their mother!

@breathe3146

Ай бұрын

@@paulbird3235God knows where your spelling came from.

@user-ol6rd7pl5t

Ай бұрын

Everyone of us born here in the UK is European.

Ironic I'm seldom a labour voter but Blair was always "Bang on!!"

@g.p616

7 күн бұрын

Bang On..... WHAT!! Weapons of Mass Destruction ....1,000,000 dead Iraqis .... Are you MAD?!

Nigel is like bad smell, just lingers around, I just wonder when people will just open the windows and get rid of bad smell.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@serinadelmar6012

Ай бұрын

@@SJG-nr8uj😂 oh dear.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@serinadelmar60121. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.

@someoneno-one7672

Ай бұрын

@@SJG-nr8uj Yes, it’s a scam that stopped wars in Europe and idiotic border disputes. And watch, the European countries that aren’t in EU or not associated with EU are Putin’s pets (while Putin is making his own country a colony of China). And yes, U.K. is now priestly a bantustan at the North Sea. Nothing to reconcile with.

@79EasyE

Ай бұрын

@@SJG-nr8uj what a lod of bullocks.

Big mistake of Britain to leave Europe!

@fortuner123

13 күн бұрын

You are so wrong.

@PetronelaStelaAnca-White

13 күн бұрын

@@fortuner123 you are wrong, not me...one day people as you will understand

Free money 😂😂😂 money is not free ! Farage is still lying!

Blair was right about Theresa May’s plan.. she wasted so much time

Brexit disaster

Nigel, promising free money, ought to have been the reddest of red flags to anyone.

@CHUTNEX

Ай бұрын

He cares solely about the money going into his pockets for his collusion nobody else.

@damianbutterworth2434

29 күн бұрын

Like free internet?????

@genghisthegreat2034

21 күн бұрын

@@damianbutterworth2434 exactly. A kind of voodoo fiscal WiFi on a red bus.

@damianbutterworth2434

21 күн бұрын

@@genghisthegreat2034 Labour will import more voodoo. Might ship them in from Haiti. :)

It's true tradesmen benefitted from reduced competition from EU workers - plus the covid payout sugar rush. But now the money's run out and with Britain poorer for not being in the EU there'll be less for our tradesmen than there was before Brexit. Brexit is for life, not just for Christmas. And it is a dog.

I am Swede currently living and working in Denmark due to finding my wife here. Before Brexit I would spend thousands of pounds each year buying electronics, supplements, foods and spices, board games etc from the UK. Now I have to pay import fees and extra postal charges after Brexit. I couldn't believe it when Brexit happened. The British empire became great through trade, so I could not believe that a few well-spoken populist neo cons could dupe a people whose economy is based on trade and international economical services would leave the biggest free trade ø zone in the world in the world, where it had negotiated the sweetest deal of any member state. Now the money I spent on UK products goes to Germany, since they cannot compete price wise. It is sad.

farrage should be jailed for all the lies he has told.

@Anton-ji4td

Ай бұрын

Just like Bozo should.

United we stand, divided we fall.

@andrewcooney2387

Ай бұрын

It's the UK and Ireland that will fall.

@brigold3352

Ай бұрын

@@andrewcooney2387 what has Ireland to do with the UK apart from the CTA and GFA?

Blair is amazingly insightful. Unions are strength. He nailed it!!

I would challenge any pro Brexit individual to point out one thing that T.B. has said that is incorrect..

@peternicho

Ай бұрын

How about taking the UK into a war with his american buddie.

@iandennis7836

Ай бұрын

Really REALLY don't hold your breath......when, and only when those old farting xenophobes are dead will we see change.

@edthompson9337

Ай бұрын

Didn't he say something about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!?😂

@paulmiller6188

Ай бұрын

Are you insane, or merely evil?

@willieodea83

Ай бұрын

@@edthompson9337 in this video clip..re.brexit

Definitely Mr. Tony Blair was absolutely Right ..!!!! Actually, he anticipate the Economic Disasters for Britain . Mr. Blair he mentioned to give away form our Biggest Marketing Operating..also he mentioned that we'll be isolated to engage on this masive Economic Market ..By now June - 2024 we still cannot recover from this Stupid desicion by getting out from the Biggest Economic World Market that took effect in June 2016 😢😢😭😭😭😭😏🤨😔😔😞😞😞

Yes Blair was right, but we cannot just rejoin the single market which is a feature of the EU. The key thing missing is any sentiment in favour of throwing in our lot with EU countries is basically we’re very similar and like minded. Until that changes the EU would be ill advised to allow any closer ties.

@johnmurray5573

Ай бұрын

That's not going to change

@SonOfViking

Ай бұрын

The key thing missing and which prevents the UK from "rejoining the Single Market" is a little thing called "legality". A third country cannot unilaterally subject itself to the court which administers that market (first country) or to a court sharing jurisprudence with that court (second country). You are now, from a legal perspective as viewed from within the bloc, a third country and there is no legal mechanism beyond the EU obligingly scrapping the Rome, Maastricht and Lisbon treaties in favour of one that allows completely unaccountable outsiders to participate within its own institutions which can ever allow you to "rejoin" as long as you remain a third country. The sooner people in the UK finally get to understand international law, why it exists, how it applies to them and therefore what reality actually looks like, the sooner that effort there can properly be employed in pursuing realistic goals, and not just chasing more of the self-serving fantastical delusions that got you all into this mess in the first place.

@iandennis7836

Ай бұрын

When tptb stop showing old ww2 films on telly cos the target audience are DEAD.......then we will be ready to apply.

@johnmurray5573

Ай бұрын

@@iandennis7836 whatever sick minds you include in the first person plural here, count all decent people out

@johnmurray5573

Ай бұрын

​@@SonOfVikingonly Remainistas dont get it

Excellent post liz, but they ain’t listening,

Farage has no place in the history books he will be long forgotten about before Tony Blair

@JohnRice-vb2ze

17 күн бұрын

Farage is a giant of British, European and global politics. Blair is a war criminal and a liar who sold his country out.

What a raw ride through history ….how can one nation fuck it self this monumental…

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Please allow me to tell you what has actually been going on. The EU drafted the European Constitution, blueprint for the federal European state (aka political union, one big country, aka "the United States of Europe"). It would change the whole nature of Europe, and as such, constitutional changes required a referendum and the agreement of the people. Blair chickened out of a referendum, but France and the Netherlands went ahead with one each and both electorates voted against the European Constitution. At that point it should have been in the shredder. Instead, and by their own admission, the EU simply rewrote it as the Lisbon Treaty and got all Prime Ministers, including Gordon Brown, to sign it on behalf of their people. It was deliberately reworded to avoid referendums! But it was still the blueprint for the federal state (including economic union, unification of the EU's armed forces etc.) and constitutional experts on the Tory back-benches cried 'Foul', because it still required a referendum. To shut them up (and under pressure from UKIP) Cameron called the referendum in January 2013, but only during the course of the next Parliament, and only should he secure an overall majority, in the hope that he might not have to go through with it. He won the overall majority, was forced to hold it, campaigned for Remain and lost. The EU meanwhile continues to push towards the creation of one big country. This should have been explained to the British electorate in 2016, but it was not explained, proving beyond doubt that the EU is a giant, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@jjnen3118

Ай бұрын

​@@SJG-nr8ujPlease allow me to tell you that you are completely wrong and don't know what you are talking about. When did you become such an expert on the EU and what do the European people think? The Swedes, Finn's, Dane's are proud of their identities, languages and heritages and would never allow themselves to be erased. They are happy to be a part of the EU and be working together side by side with the rest of Europe.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@jjnen3118 Please allow the European Union to tell you what you should already know. 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). All this has been going on while you’ve been asleep for the last fifteen years.

@Sat-Man-Alpha

Ай бұрын

@@SJG-nr8uj i‘m really sorry for your complete misunderstanding of the EU/Europe Situation. Your are a victim of tory and brexiteer propaganda. We are better off now than ever …. I‘m a severly handicapped pensionier but i don’t have to fear for the Future auf my Kids👍🎉🤓

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@Sat-Man-Alpha You people are hilarious! Will you please stop lying through your teeth, because we've had enough of it. You did enough of that in 2016 - we've seen through it now. I report on the EU's treaties, documents and declarations, as follows: 1. THE EU’s FEDERAL INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 3.4: “The Union shall establish an ECONOMIC and monetary UNION whose currency is the euro.” EU Five Presidents’ Report, 2015: “Progress MUST HAPPEN on four fronts: first, towards a genuine ECONOMIC UNION that ensures each economy has the structural features to prosper within the Monetary Union. Second, towards a FINANCIAL UNION that guarantees the integrity of our currency across the Monetary Union and increases risk-sharing with the private sector. This means completing the Banking Union and accelerating the Capital Markets Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Third, towards a FISCAL UNION that delivers both fiscal sustainability and fiscal stabilisation. And finally, towards a POLITICAL UNION that provides the foundation for all of the above through genuine democratic accountability, legitimacy and institutional strengthening.” Angela Merkel’s immediate response to the referendum result, 24th June 2016: “Today is a watershed moment for Europe, and it is a watershed moment for the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS. There is no doubt that this is a blow to Europe, and to the EUROPEAN UNIFICATION PROCESS.” EU Rome Declaration, 25th March 2017: “Working towards COMPLETING the ECONOMIC and monetary UNION” (with a preferred deadline for completion of 2027). ECB’s ‘Fiscal Implications of the EU Recovery Package’ 2020. “The way that the EU has responded to the crisis also has implications for the future design and implementation of the EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. First, while expansionary fiscal policy is necessary to sustain the recovery, going forward it will be important for the fiscal rules to effectively support the reduction of high government debt in good economic times. Second, NGEU constitutes a new and innovative element of the EUROPEAN FISCAL FRAMEWORK. It will result in the issuance of sizeable supranational debt over the coming years, and its establishment has signalled a political readiness to design a common fiscal tool when the need arises. This innovation, while a one-off, could also imply lessons for ECONOMIC and Monetary UNION, which still lacks a PERMANENT FISCAL CAPACITY AT SUPRANATIONAL LEVEL for macroeconomic stabilisation in deep crises. The review of the ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK, which was launched by the Commission in February 2020 and postponed because of the pandemic, provides a GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE THESE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS.” (NGEU stands for “Next Generation European Union”). From the EU’s own website: “Once the economic and financial crisis (of 2008/9) was overcome, the EU established a process aimed at reinforcing the architecture of EMU (ECONOMIC and monetary UNION). The process is based on the Five Presidents’ Report on Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union of 2015, which focused on four main issues: • A genuine ECONOMIC UNION; • A FINANCIAL UNION; • A FISCAL UNION; • A POLITICAL UNION. These four unions are STRICTLY INTER-RELATED and would develop in parallel. The report was followed by a series of communications, proposals and measures, and the discussion is still ongoing.” In 2022 all member states reaffirmed their commitment to economic union, as part of Lisbon Treaty Article 3. From the EU’s website (dated 29/4/24): “Today the Council adopted three pieces of legislation that will reform the EU’s ECONOMIC AND FISCAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK. ‘The main objective of the reform is to ensure sound and sustainable public finances, while promoting sustainable and inclusive growth in all member states through reforms and investment. The new legislation will significantly improve the existing framework and provide effective and applicable rules for all EU countries. They will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, increase the focus on structural reforms and investments to spur growth and job creation throughout the EU. The time is now for a swift implementation’: Vincent Van Peteghem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Belgium.” 2. THE EU’S MILITARY INTENTIONS Lisbon Treaty Article 42.3: “Member states shall make civilian and MILITARY capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the objectives DEFINED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL.” The EU’s military headquarters is the Kortenberg Building in Brussels. The EU Global Strategy, 30th June 2016, issued exactly one week after the referendum, contains the right of the EU’s military “to act autonomously (of NATO) if and when necessary”. It will need this, because, as you should know, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the defence of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still under attack when it joins the EU, it will be the EU which is at war with Russia, not NATO. The defence of Ukraine doesn’t trigger the NATO charter. On 19th February 2019 Federica Mogherini told an audience in Hamburg: “... all the way through the security spectrum, up to the military operations, because not so many know that the European Union has seventeen deployed missions and operations around the world. So, together, we are already a unique global security provider.” I checked this figure recently. It now stands at twenty-one. On 23rd April 2019 the European Council issued its Military Command and Control Structures document, outlining its military command structure over member states’ land, sea and air forces. The diagram contained within reappears on the Wikipedia page for the Kortenberg Building, above. In September 2021 Ursula Von der Leyen said this: “But what we need is the European Defence Union. In the last weeks there have been many discussions on expeditionary forces. On what type and how many we need: battlegroups or EU entry forces. This is no doubt part of the debate - and I believe it will be part of the solution. But the more fundamental issue is why this has not worked in the past. You can have the most advanced forces in the world - but if you are never prepared to use them - of what use are they?” Last year the EU led joint military exercises in Spain. This is taken from the EU’s CSDP website: “The two-part MILEX 23 exercise commenced on 18 September and concluded on 22 October. The first part of this intense period was a 3-week planning phase by the MPCC in Brussels. In part two, this culminated in the EU’s first ever live military exercise from 16 - 22 October in Rota Naval Base, Cadiz, Spain. During Part 2, an EU Battlegroup-sized force carried out the Operational Plan developed by the MPCC in Part 1. Overall, 19 Member States contributed to MILEX 23.” (CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability). 3. Reckless EU expansionism across Eastern Europe - widely known and reported on, including Albania (hotbed of gangsterism and corruption), Serbia and Montenegro (both traditional allies of Russia), Moldova (part of it coveted by Russia), Ukraine (currently at war with Russia), Turkey (instantly the largest, most populous and poorest country in the EU upon joining) and several others, all of which will bring nothing but a begging bowl to the EU’s table. Oh, except for Ukraine, because, as above, Lisbon Treaty Article 42 commits member states to the military aid of a member under attack. So if Ukraine is still at war upon its accession the EU will be at war with Russia. 4. Unfettered migration into Europe from North Africa and the Middle East (the free movement of people was a secret part of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, in effect since 2010, and signed between the EU and Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestine Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey). “Eurocrats do not consider (migration) to be a problem, but rather as a project”: Fabrice Leggeri, former Director of the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex). Generally speaking, you Germans are not surprised by the thought of a federal European state and are actually looking forward to it. Why? Because, according to Helmut Kohl: "The future will belong to the Germans when we build the house of Europe." So stop the ridiculous lying.

Their needs to be another vote on brexit if starmer doesn’t call it if he gets in he should be ashamed

@nicks4934

Ай бұрын

Join labour for europe

@rrickarr

Ай бұрын

Britain should not be allowed to rejoin!!!!!!!

@ab-ym3bf

Ай бұрын

Why another vote? Brexit happened, nothing can be done to change that.

@Purple_flower09

Ай бұрын

​@@ab-ym3bf what might make sense eventually (not now) is a vote to commit to a programme of change that would eventually make the UK eligible.

@andrewcooney2387

Ай бұрын

Starmer is a brexiteer

And if you think that Farage is still parading himself like a peacock on the political stage after creating the Brexit disaster there are lots of questions to be asked why this man is still popular.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

The reason is simple. Farage knows that the EU is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam. Increasingly, so does the British electorate too, proving that Farage was right all along.

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

People do not have the headspace to fact check or reflect. They like simple solutions that they are able to understand...even if they make no sense. I seem to contradcit myself so I will explain: people are able to understand the concept of low pay. People have economic problems. There are immigrants. The UK used to be rich and have an empire. All these things are familiar. Linking them makes no sense, but it does not matter: it is all part of a familiar universe so a lot of people go with it.

@paulbird3235

Ай бұрын

Because just like his sidekick Donald Trump, he is a bull-shitter isn't he!.

@sarahneedle8308

Ай бұрын

Yeah you are right we should have been ruled by Brussels because they would rule better than English politicians

@glumonion1454

Ай бұрын

@@sarahneedle8308we were never ruled by Brussels, that was just another one of the many lies.

I have to say this is the best speech to convince me we should have never left EU if only i could have seen it before we left it would have been easy to know the right thing to do.

@robertmarshall7712

25 күн бұрын

So you voted leave then did you?

How could anyone have looked at the major Brexit proponents - Johnson, Farage, Gove, and believed a word they said??

@sic_transit_gloria_mundi

27 күн бұрын

People love skillful demagogues.

@roseanncampbell3168

16 күн бұрын

Because they are big dummies they believed him because they told them to

@tonyb9735

11 күн бұрын

And even now they still choose to believe Farage, it is agonising to me. Are these people actually incapable of learning?

@1983pety

8 күн бұрын

economics, trade, borders are all complicated things. Saying that it's the EU's fault or the immigrants is much easier so they believe the easy thing. People like Farage know this and they use it.

Took the fight to the Tories and won. He made a mistake but gave us so much. The Tories gave us Brexit they should never be forgiven.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Gordon Brown forced our departure from the European Union, because neither he nor Blair were man enough to stand up to the EU on the European Constitution/Lisbon Treaty.

@davidtaylor4815

Ай бұрын

It wasn’t the Tories that gave us Brexit it was the people.

@iandennis7836

Ай бұрын

​@@davidtaylor4815the Shitties, oops sorry the Tories, gave a large bunch of semi illiterate xenophobes an opportunity to f*** the whole country over cos they didn't (and still don't) like furriners ....and surprise suprise, they took it in both hands, lied like legends and got their way.

@johnday6392

Ай бұрын

Are you starving pal? Do you know anyone who is? This country ruled itself quite well for 1000 years without being told what to do by people we either can't elect or de-select. My Father went up the D Day beaches to uphold that principle!

@BobK5

Ай бұрын

War monger, mass murderer is not a desirable trait

"Britain's got a great alliance with America" oh yeah? How come we didn't get a trade deal then ......eh?

@cainneachdaugherty7172

5 күн бұрын

Trade deals are much easier with countries you are geographically close to.

@xtc2v

5 күн бұрын

@@cainneachdaugherty7172 How come our homes are full of Chinese stuff then? Its the other side of the world. Not geographically close at all. Its not like China and us have a common language either. The US has stabbed its most loyal vassal state in the back

It was a fight between normal businesses and private equity firms, hedgefunds and billionaires.

Mr. Putin has united Europe 🇪🇺😳 Thanks Mr. President!

I hope Starmer is listening.

I'm no fan of Blair. But here, he is spot on.

I'm a German Management consultant. And i was shocked by this decision! Because I saw the outcome! What the hell Britain has decided! But I'm sure they will return! EU, USA and China are on the same level. And probably India will join soon. That's the future! ❤❤❤❤

So sad that you can't move on.

We had so many allowances, helped by playing such major roles in drafting of procedural documents and we were very close to the start and development. So much was set up for smooth movement from goods, to animals as part of conservation breeding programmes and rewilding projects. The European standards that Brexiteers wanted out of are still there if you want to deal with the EU, only now you have no say in it!

Brexit mess

If the world was at a wedding Britain would be sitting at a small table at the back close to the toilets, sitting with the Priest, the photographer and the troublesome family members no one wanted at their table .

Tony Blair had his faults, but he could run rings around this Tory party. The Blair years will prove to be some of Britans finest and most economic. Blair will be remembered as a fine statesman long after Farage is forgotten.

@user-jv5pt2ni9l

Ай бұрын

What plant are you on

@paulbird3235

Ай бұрын

@@user-jv5pt2ni9l NOT cannabis, and You?. 😆😆😆.....

@theresenydahl9531

Ай бұрын

So true.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime). And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@pip1723

Ай бұрын

10 year's of consecutive economic growth ,a functioning health service rated one of the best in the world and not a pot hole in sight ....yep the blair and Brown years .

Both my children now have Irish passports. I have explained to them that they owe the UK nothing and to become proud Europeans. Also to make their lives abroad in the European Union.

@usainengland

Ай бұрын

I refuse to become a British citizen because having a British passport would not help me. I can do everything I need with an American passport and a residency permit. Before Brexit I would have considered citizenship because I want to travel in the EU. I wish you and your children happiness wherever you live.

@markperrin8098

Ай бұрын

Good riddance.

@someoneno-one7672

Ай бұрын

Do they owe nothing to U.K.? Why then one would write here? 🤔

@andrewcooney2387

Ай бұрын

You are welcome to Ireland and the EU, sadly the British government is now trying to destroy the island of Ireland by moving tens of thousands of migrants into the south of Ireland from the north, the tories have pinned all on the collapse of Ireland in order to prove that the EU is finished. Ireland may well be destroyed by the British government but the EU will take its revenge on the UK for this. A very bad era in European politics has begun, caused by the British government, they have sowed the seeds of the destruction of the the British Isles. Sunack will have done the damage before the people of the UK can get rid of him.

@markperrin8098

Ай бұрын

Good riddance.

Who spent 12-18 months trying to reverse the vote and rejecting every version of Brexit? It wasn’t farage. And what don’t people understand that being able to make one’s own decisions has nothing to do with economics. And here kid the kicker I’m a citizen of an EU country and there are more of my countrymen register at the London embassy now than pre Brexit.

Right on Liz. And don't forget the idiocy of Lord Dave. Let's hope Starmer may actually display a bit more courage as PM than he's showing now.

WE ARE A LAUGHING STOCK, BUT POO-TIN IS VERY HAPPY !!

@markperrin8098

Ай бұрын

You certainly are.

17.5 million voted for brexit, out of a population of 65+million. That is not a majority, and that was 8yrs ago. Far fewer people would vote that way now they realise the reality of brexit - high costs and fewer benefits for the majority, but gains for the offshore elite.

@markperrin8098

Ай бұрын

What gains for the offshore elite? Decisions are made by those who turn up.

@erikzoe1

18 күн бұрын

It wasn't even a majority of those who voted when we consider that there was no plan at the time, meaning each of them voted for their own version of what "Leave" meant. For instance, some understood that we'd still be in the EEA and still have freedom of movement. With a result as close as 52-48, the likelihood that any one clearly defined version of "Leave" would have beaten Remain looks extremely slim.

@markperrin8098

18 күн бұрын

@@erikzoe1 Lol, what a ridiculous comment.

@erikzoe1

18 күн бұрын

@@markperrin8098 Not ridiculous at all, it's a simple fact. It just doesn't suit your agenda to admit it.

@markperrin8098

18 күн бұрын

@@erikzoe1 If you want a real indication of the attitude of the UK to “rejoining the EU” I suggest you cast your eyes upon the e-petitions website. Find any petitions calling for rejoining the EU, and soak it in. There are no parliamentary debates on the matter because no such petition has ever triggered one. There was one that broke 10,000. But that triggered a government response. Explaining that the UK electorate had settled the matter in a referendum. You could also take a good look at the utterly risible turnout to the recent “National Rejoin March”. Which their site does its best to disguise. And the poultry responses to their latest efforts. You could take a look at how much “support” the “rejoin EU party” garnered in its last foray before an electorate. I can tell you what it was. They missed losing their deposit by the skin of their teeth. Just barely scraping 2.5% My advice is, stop wasting everybody's time.

It is amazing even the ex premier of China Lee ke chiang said that British is making a big must to leave EUROPEAN Union.

Blair said it all. 😮

Excellent editing and interesting context. " It's a disaster. "

Brilliant Tony Blair. Contrast his arguments with Farage.

@williampatrickfagan7590

Ай бұрын

And the Con Pms since Blair.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Blair has no arguments in favour of the EU that are worth listening to. Nobody has.

@pip1723

Ай бұрын

The more I've listened to farage the less I'm impressed with him.

@handarokadath1515

Ай бұрын

​@@SJG-nr8ujThe thing is Sj , that most people just see Brexit as a massive disappointment.

@leviathon2

Ай бұрын

​@@SJG-nr8ujyou are Russian troll

Such a shame more people didn't listen to him.

Don’t forget Blair was over in Brussels advising the eu how to deal with Britain.

Apart from Iraq I think TB was one of the best leaders we ever had.

@user-ol6rd7pl5t

Ай бұрын

Blair's only mistake was being a lapdog to the US & unfortunately we haven't yet learnt from that mistake & are continuing to do whatever is in the US interests instead of our own.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Well, he is the ONLY British leader whose actions cost the lives of 100,000 innocent Iraqis, so after taking that into consideration where would you put him?

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

@@user-ol6rd7pl5t Bush was Blair's lapdog just as much as the other way round. The Americans were eternally grateful for Blair's phoney dossiers, used to hoodwink the public, the press, Parliament and the world.

@robertbones326

Ай бұрын

Iraq was awesome fun. The only tragedy is that we left!

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

@@robertbones326 Not that fun for the more than 300 UK soldiers that died and the more than 3500 UK soldiers that were wounded.

Well said, Tony Blair. Why do we no longer have any politicians who speak so coherently.

@BobK5

Ай бұрын

Thank God Blair is not in power, how many more unjustified unprovoked wars would he started, he’s a maniac.

@rrickarr

Ай бұрын

Because the people voted for the people they voted for---Boris!!!!!!

@BobK5

Ай бұрын

@@rrickarr no they didn’t, ‘the people’ had waited decades to have a say on the EU and would have voted leave without any hype from Johnson or Farage, the EU sealed their own fate when they secretly shifted up from an economic community to a political autonomy, ‘people’ didn’t want that, they didn’t ask for that, it was forced upon them and at great cost too. As soon as ‘the people’ had the chance they voted and would vote the same today. ‘People’ who say they’ve changed their minds are Remainers pretending to be Brexiteers hoping to stir up movement back to the EU.

I hope American's wake up before it's straightened out too late

British pride has come before the fall

You're doing a great job in exposing Brexit. Blair is right, choosing to walk away from the biggest market on our doorstep should never have been an issue of debate.

@fortuner123

13 күн бұрын

You are so wrong.

@tonyb9735

12 күн бұрын

@@fortuner123 "You are so wrong." Oh really? Given that the damage that it has done to our economy is now readily and obviously apparent, please explain how you expect us to benefit from putting trade barriers in between ourselves and our biggest customers?

Switzerland is a small country and not in the EU and the Swiss economy has never been better, maybe we need zero illegal immigrants like Switzerland.

@skinless333x2

29 күн бұрын

Yeah you do understand tho that switzerland has hundreds of bilateral agreements with the EU and accepts all the rules of the EU eh? Newsflash made, switzerland will be the only country the EU will ever do this with as this takes too much time and work.

@geolocations

29 күн бұрын

@@skinless333x2 The reason is lack of will due to the effort it would take, the reason is political ill will on the side of the liberal politicians in Brussels. Fortunately this will change as even European countries are realising that their approach has failed leading to Brexit and it is more likely that upcoming more conservative leadership within Europe will align with Britain in the future. The problem with the socialist perspective it that it is entirely shortsighted and focused on short term ends that are already in the decline.

@skinless333x2

29 күн бұрын

@@geolocations Yes effort equals time and work, exactly what I wrote. No, I am sorry there will be no alignment with the UK. The UK has to do as the EU says or loses market. Produce at the standards we set and so on, diverge in the slightest and you get hit with barriers that will make the economy struggle even more. It has nothing to do with socialism, are you not aware that the UK is already being excluded as supply chain by many when it once was the gate to europe? The UK is getting more and more insignificant with each passing day. As there is simply no leverage behind any of it. Tell me about the great trade deals you managed since you left. Oh right the laughing stock for former colonies, that is how good they are. You might want to listen to Tony Blair who did very good job explaining how power works and why there is no benefit from the entire process. You are an isolated country with a corrupt government, that wants to abandon the ECHR. No wonder regarding the fact that protest has already been made illegal in the UK.

Farage is the fart in the elevator. Everyone is affected, but no one is certain who to blame. Blair encapsulates the hard facts and the realities in simple language. Farage panders to the emotions and misinformation that worked in 2016. 8 years in and I can’t stand anymore to bear witness to the destruction done and live through a forecast that says there is even more to come. Labour will do no better. Possibly even worse and that would take immense incompetence. But not an impossibility even its record in opposition. So I leave the U.K. this August. Taking my skills, resources and businesses with me. Should have done it in 2016.

How I loathe that Snake oil Salesman Fartage. Blair was fantastic, were he our PM now.

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Blair lied to Parliament (misfeasance in public office) in order to gets its support for an illegal war of aggression (war crime) in order to effect regime change (war crime). And because he knows how the EU works, he is determined that you should not know that it is a giant, dangerous, duplicitous, megalomaniac scam.

@davidbaxter4910

Ай бұрын

FARTARGE. FARTARGE. FARTARGE. FARTARGE. ABSOLUTELMENT.

@davidraddings8211

Ай бұрын

Take off your rose-tinted glasses, Blair was a politician that led the Nation based on deception & lies

@damianbutterworth2434

29 күн бұрын

He ruined the country. Can you not see.

@simonlevett4776

28 күн бұрын

You support war criminals do you ?

No one is perfect. but in terms of my quality of life has gone bad with toris. something is badly wrong. Blair was FAR better. they did look after us. but these current toris they look after them self's only . been working for last 25 years paying taxi's left right centre. for what?

If free movement of people was better regulated, Brexit would not have happened.

Traitor. When Fartrage saw the results he went straight to obtain a German passport because while they were still together he could her use her nationality and enjoy Schengen.

FARAGE... I am having a hard time, not to throw up when I see that spawn of evil.

@janstaes2172

Ай бұрын

He is laughing all the way to the bank. He is lining his pockets with his speaking tours all over the world. people believed him ...

@yanokie

Ай бұрын

@@janstaes2172 yes, that's the time we are living in. Believe this little demons.

@Clansman63

Ай бұрын

This 🤡 bankrupted the country and left Gordon Brown to sort it out while his wife was buying houses in London. He betrayed all of us and made millions out of it. He only cares about number one.

Regarding Iraq...was he not fed BS from George Dubya Bush? Fell for it unfortunately

@SJG-nr8uj

Ай бұрын

Wrong. He fed the BS to George Bush. They fell for his dossiers hook, line and sinker.

@annepoitrineau5650

Ай бұрын

He was. He behaved very stupidly because of the "special relationship". However, a number of countries also followed (remember the whole discussion about old and new Europe?). Brexit was an act of self-harm, by the UK on its lonesome.

@roppa789

Ай бұрын

The war wasn’t the mistake. It was the unplanned aftermath that caused the disaster. Dr David Kelly approved of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein even though he thought the WMD argument puerile.

@trident6547

Ай бұрын

Well he was in good company since the UN general assembly fell for it too and the US congress. If that gives you any comfort that some hundred airheads could not be arsed to question the "intelligence" presented by Secretary of State Colin Powell who appeared before the UN to present evidence that Iraq was hiding unconventional weapons. However, despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service that the source was untrustworthy, Powell's presentation included information based on the claims of Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball", an Iraqi emigrant living in Germany who also later admitted that his claims had been false. Powell also claimed that Iraq was covertly harbouring and supporting al-Qaeda networks. Additionally, Powell alleged that al-Qaeda was attempting to acquire weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. USA completely ignored the blatant facts that it was the Saudi princes who funded al Qaida and thus laid the groundwork for the 9/11 attack.

@IsSalty

Ай бұрын

It’s a difficult situation, he was fed bs, but he also exaggerated it at home in order to get the support to go there. The way it was handled by the Americans was nothing short of tragic, but I can only imagine if I was living under the wrath of Saddam, where you have no voice and are killed in the street as a warning to others if you speak against him, I’d imagine I’d want other countries to help remove him. The WMDs were a lie, Saddam being a violent dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people were not.

After the disaster of Brexit - fueled by Farage - how could anyone vote for Farage? Well probably those crazy pensioners.

I agree with him but he should be saying it from a cell in the Hague. This nauseating horror of a human is a war criminal

Has Tony Bliar found those WMD's yet?

@jhegre

Ай бұрын

Any day now...

@bh-zj4yt

Ай бұрын

I hope he can before he passes…poor OJ died before he could find Nicoles killer…sad

@iankp5901

Ай бұрын

What does that have to do with a conversation about brexit?

@mistergeneration

Ай бұрын

@@iankp5901because he is a professional liar.. that’s the connection

18:14 As a left-leaning German, I have to say that I have always blamed Jeremy Corbyn most for Brexit. His tacit agreement with the Brexiteers left the British without a strong voice for remaining in the EU. All the Brexit lies could so easily have been countered with facts and positive emotion towards the EU, but through Corbyn's complicit inaction, the British people were almost betrayed more by the Labor Party than by the stupid Tories.

@lizwebstersbf

Ай бұрын

I agree. Corbyn was the handmaiden of Brexit.

@hgvbish6606

21 күн бұрын

As a left-leaning elderlyBriton I feel exactly the same and desperately unhappy for my country

@tonyb9735

11 күн бұрын

"almost" ... but not actually.

Where are the three million more unemployed we were promised? When did all the banks leave London? When did inward investment stop completely? Where did Nissan and Toyota move their factories to? Time has revealed that more or less the entirety of the "Remain" campaign comprised untruth. However, it must be said that the "Remain" campaign played a blinder. They kept the discussion firmly focused on matters economic, and well away from matters political. They had to, because they could not construct a cogent case for keeping unresponsive and unaccountable governance by persons the public cannot remove from office rather than reverting to representative democracy. On will notice that the pro-EU faction still can't produce a cogent political case for membership, they only ever complain about the economics of the UK having chosen to make its political elite answerable to the public. In doing so, they exhibit that they're people who know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing. Currently, Starmer is proposing extending the franchise to Britons living overseas in the EU. Why would he want to do that? Those persons are no more likely to vote Labour than for any other party... however, they are more likely to vote for the UK to be part of the EU (it's simply easier for them to have a foot in the UK while living in the EU if it is). Starmer proposes to gerrymander the electorate before holding another referendum. The pro-EU faction cannot get their way honestly, so they're going to cheat.

Is it just me or do the UK's trade figures demonstrate that we always had a large trade deficit when we were inside the EU?

Tony Blair is one of the greatest leaders we have ever had……if only people had listened to him. What an embarrassing ‘self inflicted’ mess the UK is in right now!! We have no voice on the world stage, and no-one wants to invest in this country anymore as a gateway to Europe. 😢

@trucker4567

17 күн бұрын

He is one of the biggest liars we ever had.

@gillianslater9227

16 күн бұрын

😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂

@tonyb9735

11 күн бұрын

@@trucker4567 "He is one of the biggest liars we ever had." His use of spin doctors marked the moment that the British government started routinely lying to the electorate, although the Tories have taken this to whole new levels. Nonetheless, Blair still acted in what he believed to be the best interests of the country, something no Tory government has done in the last 14 years.

@trucker4567

11 күн бұрын

@@gillianslater9227What's so funny?

Blair was the best PM we ever had.

It's clear at this point that the UK was absolutely right to leave the EU. We have greater levels of democratic control over our own laws, borders and money. Project Fear has totally fallen apart, remainers could hardly have been any more wrong.

@easy1355

4 күн бұрын

Your sarcasm is incredible....

Brit abroad here - Brexit made me resent being British/English so much I want to throw my passport away yet I’m forced to renew it against my will.

And where are we now? From my prospective there are empty shelves in the supermarket and some medicines cannot not be obtained for love nor money. The Tories can go on saying this is not our fault, it's this, it's that, but at the end of the day Brexit has put the country into a weaken position and we are paying for this folly now and for years to come. The only benefits I've seen for Brexit are that bankers can now have unlimited bonuses and the Water Companies can pump sewage into our rivers and sea when ever they want.

Blair for Prime Minister, he shows just how bad the current crop of politicians really are.

@g.p616

7 күн бұрын

What! You want another War that will kill a MILLION people......That's SICK!

It was obvious to anybody with an ability to properly consider data, and make their own calculations, that leaving the EU was a bad idea....That's why I emigrated in 2017. What's been your response?

I left England as a youth as early as I could, and went back to visit my parents after 22 years. I cooked a fried rice, full of healthy vegetables. My mother had some and complemented me on the dish. My father said, "I'm not eating that foreign muck!". Sigh! Brexit itself had about as much sense. The enablers and liars who brought this about will have an excoriated place in history.

Whenever Blair is mentioned, someone always says, 'Yes - but what about Iraq?' Agreed, that was a huge mistake based on US misinformation - but the Tories were equally keen on going to war, if not more so. I recall the Blair years as generally positive for the UK as a whole. Far from perfect, obviously, but like a lost innocence before populism reared its ugly head.

@usainengland

Ай бұрын

I am truly sorry that the US lies. It wasn’t misinformation. It was disinformation. It was intentional dishonesty.

@jackkruese4258

Ай бұрын

Whilst I’d agree the Blair years now seem like a lost innocence compared to the crap that came afterwards he has to be accountable for what happened in Iraq.

@jamesmc1272

Ай бұрын

The US wanted that war and Blair was too weak to resist. What did Kelly say before he was eliminated. "they barely had enough technology to boil at Kettle"

Liz, totally on your side. We must keep fighting to rejoin!

@JohnRice-vb2ze

17 күн бұрын

And i will keep fighting you and exposing your propaganda and gaslighting