‘Parliament lost its head’ over Brexit chaos | Paul Scully

“Michel Barnier frankly must have just thought all his birthdays had come at once because he was just stepping back, his hands behind his head, thinking, you crack on and argue amongst yourselves.”
Former minister Paul Scully tells Matt Chorley about being caught in the middle as parliament “lost its head” in the chaotic Brexit negotiations.
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  • @Daveyboy1066
    @Daveyboy10662 ай бұрын

    So Mr Scully got elected in 2015, was one of those who drove through and supported Brexit, and now economic consequences have come home to roost, making management of the economy so much more difficult. Rather than persevering and trying at least do something about the damage he is responsible for, he has shown his true character (or lack of it) and simply done a runner!!!! What a dispicable human being, he is certainly NO LOSS to our countries leadership.

  • @peterg4326

    @peterg4326

    2 ай бұрын

    I’m one of his constituents and I agree completely with you.

  • @nickdoughty518

    @nickdoughty518

    2 ай бұрын

    Spot on. He bemoans the Brexit chaos, but what else did he expect??

  • @nickybee3731

    @nickybee3731

    2 ай бұрын

    Great remark

  • @RichWoods23

    @RichWoods23

    2 ай бұрын

    @@nickdoughty518 Perhaps he believed the lies. Or maybe he never bothered learning what was involved in what he was against. Hmm. For some reason that reminded me of David Davis proclaiming that "within minutes of a vote for Brexit the CEO’s of Mercedes, BMW, VW and Audi will be knocking down Chancellor Merkel’s door demanding that there be no barriers to German access to the British market" before the referendum and then, even after that hadn't happened and so many of the other complications he'd denounced as 'remoaning' turned out to be real, turning up a year later for the first day of exit negotiations with nothing but a few A4 sheets of notes while Barnier wheeled in several crates of necessary documentation.

  • @nickdoughty518

    @nickdoughty518

    2 ай бұрын

    @@RichWoods23 seared on my memory. Terminally embarrassing.

  • @MarkInOxford
    @MarkInOxford2 ай бұрын

    29 minutes and 53 seconds of yet another Tory MP saying "it wasn't my fault - it was everyone else's". Good riddance.

  • @koolerking440

    @koolerking440

    2 ай бұрын

    This.

  • @trickslies844

    @trickslies844

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you kind Sir, just saved me 29 min and 53 seconds

  • @Iamjimpage
    @Iamjimpage2 ай бұрын

    “A collective loss of head by parliament itself” No, one party lost its head, everyone else had to deal with the fallout.

  • @stephanschmidt2334

    @stephanschmidt2334

    2 ай бұрын

    And he was part of that party.

  • @joea4234

    @joea4234

    2 ай бұрын

    Tories lost their head. They were in power… don’t blame the rest

  • @Iamjimpage

    @Iamjimpage

    2 ай бұрын

    @@joea4234 did you not read? That’s what I said.

  • @nicks4934
    @nicks49342 ай бұрын

    Get the tories to less than 100 seats

  • @nicks4934
    @nicks49342 ай бұрын

    So what did u achieve? Nothing. Only damage.

  • @jeffsmith3392
    @jeffsmith33922 ай бұрын

    Basically I’m no longer a minister and I don’t want to be a backbencher. Toys 🧸 out of the pram.

  • @gavinreid9184
    @gavinreid91842 ай бұрын

    Just a self deluded string of excuses why others should have implemented his dreams. He and his never had anything to implement after 2016 and he challenged the liberals and Labour to propose a better one.

  • @simonwarnerhypnotist
    @simonwarnerhypnotist2 ай бұрын

    He knows he has no chance of holding his seat , Lib Dem’s will romp home in the one and the rest of Surrey

  • @heathermalcolm7639
    @heathermalcolm76392 ай бұрын

    “I’m not running away” yeah, right.

  • @larrygerry985
    @larrygerry9852 ай бұрын

    It is like none of them actually know what they are doing

  • @geoff9759

    @geoff9759

    Ай бұрын

    Not like - they really do not have a clue

  • @BlindeEzel
    @BlindeEzel2 ай бұрын

    Anyone who still applauds brexit should not be interviewed. What is the point ?

  • @SL-sd3sg
    @SL-sd3sg2 ай бұрын

    Tories are finished for a very longtime imo.

  • @annamariadangelo7296
    @annamariadangelo72962 ай бұрын

    What a lot of BS from this MP. He is shameless!!! Horrendous. We, the public, are not going to be fooled again. Greetings from Essex.

  • @Dragonsitter
    @Dragonsitter2 ай бұрын

    No it’s Tories making us have SUCH A SHOCKING HARD LEAVE. We should have thought more about it instead of ALL THE TORY LIES

  • @yancowles
    @yancowles2 ай бұрын

    Ah, paul scully who claimed there were no-go areas in tower hamlets and birmingham, that fella. I guess we can trust him to be honest about brexit being the 'right thing to do'.

  • @goenzoy712
    @goenzoy7122 ай бұрын

    What exactly is "global" at Brexit I think I must have missed something

  • @stephanschmidt2334
    @stephanschmidt23342 ай бұрын

    Cool to always say "Parliament" instead of "we" and "us". Need to remember that trick when talking about my own fubars. Like "the family lost its head" or "the department lost its head".

  • @buchanfoulsham6314
    @buchanfoulsham63142 ай бұрын

    On Truss: "too fast too soon"; meaning he agreed with her policies.

  • @stephanschmidt2334
    @stephanschmidt23342 ай бұрын

    "Michel Barnier frankly must have just thought all his birthdays" After all these years, still thinking in terms of "war" and "winning" instead of cooperation #STAYOUT

  • @carpog
    @carpog2 ай бұрын

    Can we have Honest Subtitles please?

  • @daviddack1595
    @daviddack15952 ай бұрын

    And we the People are paying the Price, Poverty. Re-Join Now.

  • @dogglebird4430

    @dogglebird4430

    2 ай бұрын

    @daviddack1595 No thanks.

  • @michaellowe7194
    @michaellowe71942 ай бұрын

    Given the quality of our political,class it was inevitable they’d drop the ball. Leave voters should have realised that our political class wasn’t up,to the challenge.

  • @larrygerry985

    @larrygerry985

    2 ай бұрын

    Also, normal people thinking that they understood international trade and law was enjoyable. Keith from the pub was an expert apparently

  • @michaellowe7194

    @michaellowe7194

    2 ай бұрын

    ⁠​⁠@@larrygerry985tbf our politicos effectively said to Keith “this is to hard for me. You decide”

  • @maartenaalsmeer
    @maartenaalsmeer2 ай бұрын

    Is 'losing ones head' the new definition of *incompetence* then? I guess you do learn something new every day.

  • @becoming.andreia
    @becoming.andreia2 ай бұрын

    Say the word! Brexiiiit.

  • @dogglebird4430

    @dogglebird4430

    2 ай бұрын

    @becoming.andreia Brexit. A word I love.

  • @simoncook8455
    @simoncook84552 ай бұрын

    The biggest act of self harm in the history of the UK, The £pound immediately devalued and has never recovered.

  • @dogglebird4430

    @dogglebird4430

    2 ай бұрын

    @simoncook8455 You go and have a good cry about Brexit then. I think Brexit was the smartest decision we ever made.

  • @simoncook8455

    @simoncook8455

    2 ай бұрын

    @@dogglebird4430 Lol! Which bit was smart? "The frictionless border"? the " Taking back control of our waters"? the "Trading with the rest of the world"? Where are the trade deals? and why is the £pound not trading up at $1.50-1.70? Where is the industrial strategy? ......Brexshite is just that, I hope starmer takes us back in ASAP.

  • @dogglebird4430

    @dogglebird4430

    2 ай бұрын

    @@simoncook8455 Oh dear! You just looked at Sterling. OK - tale Sterling. It stood at 1.21 Euros in 2014 -m exactly a decade ago and before we left the EU - and today it stands at 1.16 Euros. That's 5 cents lower. Big deal! You skew the figures by focusing on thew 18 months prior to the referendum when Sterling was abnormally (and unsustainably) high against the Euro - because you are cherry picking stats. The US dollar was at 1.38 Euros a decade ago - today, you just get 1.08 Euros. The other things I could easily shoot down in flames and, in any case, many of those are government decisions and government failures which could have been avoided and yet you would much rather blame Brexit. You lot are a bunch of massive babies. Starmer has been clear that he will not attempt to take us back into the EU. He has no mandate to do that and, in any case, even if he did, the EU wouldn't be interested. We don't even come close to meeting the Copenhagen Criteria for EU Accession, so it's out of the question.

  • @wokozuna2134

    @wokozuna2134

    2 ай бұрын

    @@dogglebird4430Really?!? Stop sounding like extreme prat and be a better British citizen. Go away and think about it matey.

  • @simoncook8455

    @simoncook8455

    2 ай бұрын

    @@dogglebird4430 It dropped to $1.21 after the moronic vote to leave, today eight years later it has inched up to $1.26, how pathetic, in 2015 it was $1.52, so we are 20% worse off because of Brexshite.

  • @TonyGonzales
    @TonyGonzales2 ай бұрын

    This man is a pile of apologetics in a suit.. He's done nothing wrong and was squeezed out in the middle alongside remainers? Weak sauce.

  • @Gillemear
    @Gillemear2 ай бұрын

    Rats and sinking ship comes to mind

  • @joesoy9185
    @joesoy91852 ай бұрын

    Paul is not half-Burmese, but his father is/was. Assuming his mother is white British, this explains his relatively light complexion.

  • @TheLucanicLord

    @TheLucanicLord

    Ай бұрын

    I used to know a guy who was half Burmese and he had the same weird eyebrows that Scummy tries to hide with those glasses.

  • @adamy2745
    @adamy27452 ай бұрын

    "heres £25 you need it more than I do" - this is the most insane quote ever

  • @kimpetersen358
    @kimpetersen3582 ай бұрын

    Why do kids express themself strongly in public ? Because their parents express themselfs at home, and the kids judt mirror their parents, so you as a politician most certainly do have to take these things seriously !!!!!

  • @nickdoughty518
    @nickdoughty5182 ай бұрын

    The compensation scheme is still failing to pay out. So what has Scully actually achieved?

  • @haroldstamper3519
    @haroldstamper35192 ай бұрын

    Making excuses for bad politicians. Rishi doesn't have a good heart. Actions speak louder than words

  • @tara1941
    @tara1941Ай бұрын

    Of coarse they did they NEVER EXPECTED to LOOSE

  • @joea4234
    @joea42342 ай бұрын

    Typical Tory who wanted Brexit, but never had a plan to implement it (after 8 years- still don’t). We paid the price…

  • @tomthumb2361
    @tomthumb2361Ай бұрын

    This is silly. Parliament has no effective agency without a clear majority in favour of a particular policy. The real problem was that Cameron risked a leave vote with no policy to implement it that had majority support. There was no 'vision' at all. Just a miscalculation, with predictable results.

  • @linmorell1813
    @linmorell18132 ай бұрын

    He didn’t sort the post office out. Remind me about the Millennium Bug. It never happened. In 1 word fantasist.

  • @agatakawa3586
    @agatakawa3586Ай бұрын

    But Brits will be always exceptional as it is in their genes.

  • @terryomara9403
    @terryomara94032 ай бұрын

    Good luck Paul Scully

  • @lenrman969
    @lenrman9692 ай бұрын

    Unbelievanle that this guy still believes Brexit was a good idea.

  • @jimjiminy5836

    @jimjiminy5836

    2 ай бұрын

    He’s deluded.

  • @richmorg8196
    @richmorg8196Ай бұрын

    The problem was that the people wanted to leave but Parliament did not on the whole and wanted to hold a second referendum to remain except for the Brexit right of the Conservative party and as May had a hange parliament and had formed a agreement with the DUP of Northern Ireland so her hands were tied as there was MP's in her party that did not want to leave and Parliament kept on asking for extension after extension of our Membership of the EU until a trade deal could be set up. When Britain should left sooner with out a trade deal. So May resigned as PM and Boris obtained different deal from the EU and left. By obtaining leave over read deal and then he called a General election and won with a over all Majority and year later he obtained a trade deal on Christmas Eve and then Çovit came and scuffed Brexit by preventing Britain from obtaining trade deals like we have after Çovit like the Pacific trade deal and other world wide trade deals, but they have not been as successful as they could be because the Government has not taken the full potential of these deals and then Trust crashed the economy and the present PM has steaded the Country but has lost his support because he is not moving quick enough. So we need a new PM but time is running out for the Conservatives to elect a new Leader as PM and the Conservatives will probably lose the General election and Labour will have to form a Government and they will form a new trade deal with the EU and eventually rejoin the EU through the back door

  • @Joe-og6br
    @Joe-og6br2 ай бұрын

    Brexit has worked.

  • @charlesbruggmann7909
    @charlesbruggmann79092 ай бұрын

    Why was it not possible to hold a second referendum? A binding (non-advisory) with proper rules on things like finance (including Russian finance). Perhaps even clear rules about the constituent « nations »? I am repeatedly amazed by the way the victors of the Brexit vote seek to blame others for their failures. PS: for the “this isn’t the brexit I voted for” club; this is exactly the brexit remainers warned you about.

  • @dogglebird4430

    @dogglebird4430

    2 ай бұрын

    @charlesbruggmann790 A second referendum? Why? Didn't the nasty voters give you the result you wanted in 2016?

  • @kirishima638
    @kirishima6382 ай бұрын

    What’s wrong with a second referendum? Isn’t that just democracy? There was nothing on the ballot about leaving the single market or the customs Union, or the ECHR, and yet consecutive Tory leaders, in particular May, decided to unilaterally define what Brexit meant before trying to ram an agreement through parliament three times. It should have gone back to the people.

  • @TheLucanicLord

    @TheLucanicLord

    Ай бұрын

    tHey knEw whaT thEy vOATe'd fOr InNit!!!

  • @NickDeer-qk8rm
    @NickDeer-qk8rm2 ай бұрын

    A prime example of a grossly under qualified "elected representative".

  • @neilus0
    @neilus0Ай бұрын

    A career politician who has been on the gravy train all his working life now bemoans the very Brexit he helped make a reality. You could not make it up, the turkeys really did vote for christmas......

  • @Facts_Are_Facts_Are_Facts
    @Facts_Are_Facts_Are_FactsАй бұрын

    Britain has become the world's fourth largest exporter, fresh figures have shown - despite warnings that international trade would fall off a cliff following Brexit. The UK has shot up from its previous ranking of seventh in 2021, United Nations data has shown, rising three places in 2022.

  • @albionguy1
    @albionguy12 ай бұрын

    What a load of twaddle!

  • @user-qd8md4tq1q
    @user-qd8md4tq1qАй бұрын

    THERESA MAY, WORKING FOR THE EU, DURING HER ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE. SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

  • @clintcumberland1664
    @clintcumberland16642 ай бұрын

    I can not believe how blind people are. Tories have gone well out of there way to make Brexit not work. For Brexit to work we need a government that works for the people not their selfs. I would vote leave again 🤷‍♂️

  • @ftumschk

    @ftumschk

    2 ай бұрын

    How could it possibly have been made to work? No government could replace those trading arrangements, worth hundreds of billions of pounds to our economy, which we'd built up over 40 years as a key member of the largest trading bloc in the world. The "opportunities" promised by the Brexit snake-oil salesmen were unrealistic and unachievable from the outset; complete vapourware.

  • @bendreczko9054

    @bendreczko9054

    2 ай бұрын

    it was never going to work no matter what you did, it was a bad idea done poorly. Not one thing has come good out of this.

  • @RobBCactive

    @RobBCactive

    2 ай бұрын

    This is good parody but when a mark writes blank cheques they should be careful who they give them to

  • @clintcumberland1664

    @clintcumberland1664

    2 ай бұрын

    @@bendreczko9054 speaking of the blind 🤦‍♂️

  • @bendreczko9054

    @bendreczko9054

    2 ай бұрын

    @@clintcumberland1664 not as blind as you.

  • @susanpettitt713
    @susanpettitt7132 ай бұрын

    And we are all paying your price .. Enough GE

  • @nicolass7102
    @nicolass71022 ай бұрын

    Brexit disaster

  • @gullygullible9774
    @gullygullible97742 ай бұрын

    Watching Parliament at the time reminded me the best of English men they stuck together like their favourite place the public urianal 😅

  • @geoff9759
    @geoff9759Ай бұрын

    Reckons he could win his seat but wants to leave while enjoying the job. Yeah right. Can't wait this shower of nonentities are thrown out.

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