Well I don’t know much of anything about the whole situation so I am counting on the viewers to help educate me on Brexit.

@@SimplySavageReactions Oh I've a feeling you'll be "educated" alright lol. 😉

Agree this is still a massively contentious subject.... wait for the bile to flow from people on both sides of the argument 🤣

Very true, however for anyone outside of the EU, for or against will mean little. I agree this video he watched, was not a little biased but hugely biased.

"If you are an EU national, you do not need to show your national ID card or passport when you are travelling from one border-free Schengen EU country to another."....the video is correct you must be well travelled and educated .. maybe do research before saying things or people are wrong when your obviously not sure lol

You only needed to show your passport when entering/exiting the Schengen region; INTRA that region, there was no need.

Same i have always needed my passport and i travel multiple times per year

I've travelled Europe many times, by plane, ferry, Eurotunnel, I have visited every European country also where a group of us travel by motor bike stopping in multiple locations of each country. I am Welsh, Always needed my passport at every border, my missus is Croatian she always needed her Passport, explain that Dean, you tool?...

@@BC_Joshie because you being welsh and from the uk and not part of the schengen region you still had to show a passport like myself but most of the EU members what the video was talkin about dont... And if u wana say well the video wasnt specific well nor was u with your dumb comment and if you done all that travelling you wouldnt of replied with what you did lol

I really have never heard of the tunnel. You gotta understand, I'm in North Carolina. I can't speak for anyone else, but from my perspective, we are taught from kindergarten that US is the absolute best place in the world to be and the best country in the world at everything so we need not inconvenience ourselves with the underwhelming world outside our borders. We are the world's superhero, exposing and demolishing any and all evil that threatens our freedom. We briefly discussed other places but it must've been very little because I don't remember much. *in reality, the great USA is not the world's superhero, it's the world's bully. We have killed more innocent people in the name of fighting terrorism than the so called terrorists have. We have more than enough money to reform the education system for the better, but omg then what would the poloticians do without all of the bonuses and vacations? Can't have that. Our military has state of the art equipment and training yet there are veterans homeless and starving, suffering from things only developed after serving. It literally hurts my heart how screwed up the US is, but whats more sickening is as bad as we are, we ignore our massive amount of faults and highlight and brag about the 2 or 3 things that we do get right from time to time.

@@SimplySavageReactions James, it's perfectly understandable that you didn't know about the Channel Tunnel! What you've written here, eloquently and honestly, about inadequacies in your own country shows a lot of humility and informed social awareness. Good on you! And please try not to take negative comments to heart. You never know where people are coming from in their own lives when they direct frustrations or criticism at you, so try not to take it personally, though I know that can be hard at times, especially when you're doing your very best to learn about and understand people's situations in other parts of the world.

@@ianwalker5842 Well said - I totally agree.

Unless you arrive on a dinghy from France...

Well Brexiteer's nightmares after Macron's latest proposal for a sort of tiered structure to EU membership is gaining support and alarming brexiteers. is truly refreshing. The proposal has mostly Eastern Europe in mind, but offers interesting possibilties for the UK. It would offer economic ties without political alignment. Brexiteers are panicking because it cuts their main argument from under them. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q51pZtVp1t_bpmQ.html

Rermainers are the only good reason to continue to be respectfull with all Britts.

wow what a difference. Wales is SUCH a different country

You do realise Covid and Ukraine war has had an effect on finances right?

It's just the thought of blood lol

@@SimplySavageReactions eating congealed pigs blood doesn’t appeal to me either

@@SimplySavageReactions its main ingredient sounds bad, but it has no hints whatsoever to that once eaten

Didn’t thenUK have a say in the rules that were made, I thought all members had a yay or nay.

And it is false to say that the EU is not democratic. Members of the European Parliament Members are directly elected by citizens (universal suffrage). And the European Commission and European Council are run by each member State government representative (the prime ministers, the ministers in charge of the topic such as education or farming). So the UK was a rule maker, and had a vetoe right, as the others (and the UK was very influencial ). Of course, there is a loss of soveignty, just as in NATO or in your own family (when you are just a member of a family, you have to take the others into account). Your newspapers have been lying for years, usign Europe bashing. Your politicians also lied to you , telling you would keep all the benefits once you would be out, whereas it was clearly stated right at the begining that you would become a third country.

The vote was close but there was no 'don't know' option. It's not like a 'shall we paint the house red or shall we paint it yellow ? - oh, the vote is so close, let's do neither until we can come up with another idea'. There was no middle way: either actively remain, or actively leave. I guess you are of the viewpoint that the 'do nothing' option would be equivalent to 'remain'. I guess that you are of the opinion that 'it's the way it is. We'd need a damn good reason to abandon it for what you see as an extravagant move'. If you grew up never knowing anything else, I guess you'd have that viewpoint. For those of us who were old enough when we joined, it was clear that 'joining' was an anomalous thing to do. Not necessarily 'bad' but unusual. We were told that the Common Mkt, as was, was a purely trading cartel thing, and people voted for the CM on that basis. Even at the age of 10, I could see that this was untenable and a load of other things (pillars) would need to be built to make this work. Then came the inevitable series of 'Treaty of %EuropeanCity%' came along, taking us further away from the promoted vision of free trade. It was such a slow ramp, that many people couldn't see the incremental changes taking place. Then there was talk of losing control of borders, currency, lawmaking, army, immigration. When it started, the EEC was just a few European countries that people had actually heard of. There were about nine, and most people could list them all. Now, there are c27 of them, all with varied cultures, histories, geographies, legal systems, economics. People had just had enough of all this political manœuvring, which would make Trump look serene! Those of us who voted leave wanted to get rid of all this shit and be a proper self-government sovereign nation. I, for one, didn't expect it to be easy: I knew it would take 10y or more for things to stabilise. I thought it was worth the risk. Other people didn't. That's how voting works: you vote for what you want, irrespective of how 'wrong' it is. We were given a binary choice, and this choice was advertised (for the remain side) as being purely about economics. Those of us who were already 'poor' could get no purchase on these ideas because they would make no diffs to us (they might as well have advertised 'free swimming pool maintenance if we remain" to people who have minimal living conditions anyway). We were given a binary choice. Inevitably, those who were aggrieved by the EU voted to leave because there was no 'stay in the Common Mkt but outside the political/lawmaking realm'. Then there were the 'I voted for Leave, not for any specific variant of Leave - just fng LEAVE' crowd. So, am I glad I voted out ? Yes. Did it turn out how I expected ? Yes ? Finally, Northern Ireland was and is, seen as a bit of an anomaly to the UK. I daresay most GB people even think about it. BrExit is supposed to be the exit of the UK from the EU, but it is well named, as it appears that it is only Britain (and not NI) that is leaving. It appears that NI actually wanted to remain. Well, they got their wish. However, if they are 'allowed' to remain, it leaves no justification for Scotland being forced to leave either.

@@quantisedspace7047 In 1975 I voted NO because I could see that we were signing our country away. I listened to the debates on BBC2 most evenings. A lot of people didn't and voted Yes. At the time I was desperately disappointed and have waited all these years to get my wish. I only want them to get on with it.

Jimmy Jones. A win is a win.

@@valeriedavidson2785 Yes, in 1975 I was 10yo so couldn't vote. I just couldn't get how people were so bewitched by this idea. I would have voted to leave at any time between then and when I did.

Firstly, your maths makes no sense. 😆 it was 51.89% vs 48.11% Secondly we won! The End.

Ooo financial support of the other countries?!! Well you could say London pays for the financial support of the rest of England but you can't blame the rest of England for that. I agree sometimes England gets blamed for everything though and maybe technically speaking would be richer without the other countries (technically but a lot smaller and wouldn't be anything like as powerful as it is today without us!!). I was born and have always lived in Wales and consider myself British/Welsh by blood almost half English and half southern Irish. I don't hate the other countries at all (although some English people can be a bit ignorant/rude towards Wales - doesn't help that they think we all hate England I guess). We're far too interconnected to hate each other when push comes to shove if one is attacked the rest would come to their assistance in a heart beat. It's just healthy rivalry remaining from centuries of history. Seeing yourself as British rather than English, Welsh, Scottish, tends to be a lot less trendy nowadays but there are many that still do.

good to know you have not suffered that much; unlike the hundreds of fishermen and farmers who lost their market, countless of small businesses that are no longer viable, and thousands of brits suffering with inflation, and the lack of staff in the NHS and other gov services. the UK is now undoubtedly poorer and less competitive than its EU peers.

@@enoshima6699 Good businesses learn to adapt, not like we didn't get enough warning. Inflation isn't down to Brexit.

@@sally5983 i know, that's why good businesses moved bulk of their trading houses in Ireland and Poland; moving good paying UK jobs to EU. well done. It is asinine to ignore the effects of trade barriers, labour movement restrictions, and business closures to the cost of living crisis, uniquely suffered by brits. Maybe it is because youve not suffered difficulties. lol

@@enoshima6699 " cost of living crisis, uniquely suffered by brits" is an outright lie. That my dear is world wide go check. Again, inflation is not down to Brexit. Please go gen up on it before you reply again.

@@sally5983 nope, inflation in UK is deeper and more painful than elsewhere in EU. it also affects the poor in UK more, and it will have more long-lasting effects than in other EU economies. erecting trade barriers with yourself, and starting a trade war within your economy; create more expensive goods. the ukraine war, the pandemic, and brexit has ensured that UK economy will have decades to rebuild before it can go back to pre-referendum econ level.

Seen the latest ONS figures?

Couldn't have put it any better myself 👏

Very well said. Plus people can't help themselves blaming everything on Brexit, as they don't want to blame their beloved crooked EU.

We didn;t have to abide by them. We had the right to make our own decisions on any of them

@@ichbinschanppi Well, yes, we could have have just done a French thing and said FO to the EEC Directives, and successors. Our lawmakers didn't, but gold-plated them.

@@quantisedspace7047 yeah this whole narrative of "we had to follow EU laws" that leave want us to believe was yet another lie they bought into and are trying to convince themselves is true. It's a scary thought that such an important decision was decided by people who have no idea what they were voting for. It's also the only time I can think of people voting to actively make themselves poorer and have fewer opportunities

That was the EEC.....

I'm sorry. So many people have told me just how biased this videos is. I never watch a video before reacting to it and didn't really know what brexit it was. I was just trying to learn but I hope you understand that I really meant no offense in any way

@@SimplySavageReactions Actually, you don't need to say sorry. I doubt anyone actually has taken offence at you, certainly will have against some posts (regardless of which side you are on) but not you personally. You watched the video to learn, nothing wrong with that. No subject is clear cut, there will always be two sides of any disagreement. The video is very biased that you watch, but then if you watch one that was all for brexit, it be just as biased. My issue with the remainders is (BTW I did vote to remain myself but given another vote I would vote out) 4 years later still cannot except a democratic vote, still spouting the UK is doomed, but really still here and doing as well as any other EU country, despite us having left. Yes as with any change there will be winners and will be losers, who lost out. Which to me is no different with a change of government from one political party to another. I am sure this also applies to the US too.

As a historian ... brexit and this government scare me to death

@@ichbinschanppi The government scares me to death but certainly not scared of Brexit. Who are these nutters who want to sign their country away! It is all about sovereignty and independence. I just want this incompetent government to get on with it.

@@ichbinschanppi You must scare very easily then. The government might be incompetent, but it's only the USAns who really have fear of their government. Governments will come and go. BrExit is to stay, until they find something else to con us with.

​@@valeriedavidson2785 However, brexit leaves them in sole power with no one to answer to. It has caused the death and the poverty of many. Its not exactly a good thing. And for many people the consequences are terrifying

@@quantisedspace7047 Nah, following literal Nazi policy is scary though.

Ah, yes. Northern Ireland. For all of my youth, the country was synonymous with bombings, killings, and some nonsense with this Paisley fellow. Somebody once went to punch him in the mouth, but overbalanced and fell in ! Seriously, no one in GB really thinks about NI at all. Except for the (then) governing Conservative party, who bribed the most ultra-right-wing, ultra-catholic, flat-earth, anti-gay party in NI to prop up the numbers in parliament. People here just don't get this Catholic/Protestant thing, but it's ultra-serious for them. The two factions have marches in the others' territory, to provoke a response, like some demented street-gang. The only way the NI dichotomy is going to be solved is if there's a climate-changing event that would submerge the N part of the island uninhabitable, thus pretty much forcing people to pick a side.

100%.

Totally voted leave and not regretted it since... 100%

Yeah this video was very biased. Lots of 'ifs ' in regards break up of the UK, if I wasn't in the UK and watched that i'd think UK was about to collapse and our supermarkets shelves were empty. Oh and no more tourism because someone has to use a passport, that's just ludicrous.

I do, but then again so have I from remain to leave, if given another vote. However most probably not.

Joking of course when we used muskets lol

@@petermizon4344 no cannon and ball

You are talking absolute nonsense. .the EU doesn't want you and Eurozone in recession.

DOH

Who did that? Because that's not how the EU works... The UK government was blaming the EU for its own incompetence, now they blame the war and the pandemic. Some of them still blame the EU now that there's no relations at all. The EU laws are voted by the EU parliament and the UK population used to vote for its representatives to defend their interests. Those laws are mainly about goods conformity and people transit in the EU. But the best part of the story is that the UK businesses still have to follow them if they want to trade with the EU. But the UK doesn't have any saying anymore :D So, how is Brexit supposed to give the UK more autonomy?

@@IronFreee That's how it should work, but that not how it did work. When we tried to deport a convicted murder, EU ruled against us. Yet France and Germany both got theirs deported. As for those EU heads of parliament, not talking MEP's, but those in charge. While I don't much like Nigel Farage he ask who elected them, as a MEP himself he had every right to ask. They point blank refused to answer. That segment was on youtube until recently. Maybe someone can still find it. The UK has not collapsed as claim by so many, not doomed as claim, still here 4 years later. For most nothing has changed. Certainlly not doing as badly as other EU states.

Im sorry, Im gonna stay away from politics from now on. I seriously dont want of offend anyone. I just want to learn all I can about all aspects of the UK but I will learn about topics such as this on the side. I really hope that I didnt offend you but if I did please accept my apology and know that it was not my intention.

@SimplySavageReactions Now I feel awful 😖 Please don't worry, and please continue to explore anything you want to gain knowledge! This video about Brexit is very biased and clearly propaganda! Brexit explained should be completely unbiased for anyone wanting to understand. My apologies to you for ranting rather than an explanation of my disapproval. ✌️ ☮️ 🕊 xx

Couldn't agree more.

No I completely understand, I should've don't just a little more research and realized just how big of an issue this was/is. No more politics lol, I will learn privately. I have no clue how much this has affected you guys and here I am playing videos and commenting on something that I clearly do t understand. Even if I did understand it, I have no right to give my two sense as I don't live there, so I seriously understand everyone's frustration with this reaction. I just hope everyone accepts my apology. I will try to do better, I promise.

Possibly a better analogy would be: “Imagine Texas voting to leave the US because it didn’t like the imposition of federal laws” That’s a bit more akin to the issue than Canada/Mexico dictating laws to the US

almost but not close because that would be a part of a country succeeding from a country where as the UK "left" an organisation (still issues over NI, Gibraltar)

whereas because of NAFTA Mexico and Canada took more involvement in how the USA was run rather than just a trade agreement. You would likely see USA withdrawing or doing something about it especially if they were required to do something like no death penalty (required to join the EU), tighten gun laws or supply universal healthcare to all.

EU laws were never dictated to the UK. They were agreed laws. Who agreed them? We did! 1st of all-our elected MEP's in the wholly elected European Parliament. Secondly-the European Council (which is made up of ALL the leaders of the 28 countries). Its a democracy and sometimes you don't get all your own way. But considering that the UK was considered one of the top three most powerful countries in the EU, alongside Germany and France, we got our way more often than not. We rejected the EURO. Is that a pound in your pocket or a Euro? We rejected the Shengen Area and the ERM and many of the regulations like plugs, pints etc. We had a place at the top table and we ourselves could dictate many of the policy areas covered within the EU because Europeans respected our contribution. Not any more. They pity us as we have made ourselves a laughing stock.

Unlike all the brexit propaganda the guilible leave voters were naive enough to fall for.

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 There seems to be this idea that Leaver people were coerced by Leave propaganda. Can't say I ever noticed any propaganda. Not to say there wasn't any, just that I paid no attention to it. I had already decided to vote for Leave, over 30y prior.

It took so long because of the Remain politicians and Civil Service not respecting the result and their attempts to pull the wool over everyones eyes !!!

I work in Sourcing, haven't had a problem importing goods from my European suppliers over the last few years. maybe they have to do some more paperwork but when i used to export to places such as Saudi Arabia in the early 90s I had to do the paperwork and it wasnt exactly the catastrophe that you are suggesting. SORRY this video is full of bull crap :)

@@chsh1. I take it from you comment that you voted to leave the EU?

@@chsh1 Agree, I import from France and Germany haven't had any issues. Agree about the vid.

Not everyone wanted to leave. Hopefully we will return one day when it's being run better.

How is the Eurozone and Germany the 'Powerhouse'?

yes they shot themselves in the foot. In France I just couldn't believe they could have made such an historical mistake, even if they had never been fond of Europe construction

@@moniquehenry4041 Not really, you have inflation, high energy costs and shortages also some countries higher inflation. €66 Billion budget shortfall that has to be paid by 27 member states and a €50 loan to Ukraine to bypass vetoes of Slovakia and Hungary, when we all now know because of TIME Magazine article that Ukraine is losing the war badly. Priceless.

Nothing to do with Brexit, many EU Members have the same problem

Much worse in Cyprus today. My wife is in our house there.

@@mattgeorge9399. You keep telling yourself that mate.

People keep saying that F+V are being rationed. I can't say I've seen any such scarcity, myself: everything is just as available as it always was.

Lmao... do you live in a hamlet? Absolutely nonsense! No shortage of anything, especially fruit and vegetables.

I had no clue just how big of an issue this was

@@SimplySavageReactions yeah it's split the country right down the middle. Divided families, ruined friendships. And the country is totally broken because of Brexit and a few other things. The Brexiteers will always deny Brexit has any involvment in the current state of affairs because they can't bear to admit their Little England dream was a pack of lies and nonsense. What the world is witnessing in real time are the dying throes of a once great empire. It's incredibly sad.

I voted for Brexit and none of this are reasons I voted for it. And in fairness I should point out England is the most densely populated countries in Europe (apart from the tiny island of Malta) so being concerned about the level of immigration seems logical and a good idea.

Correction - the EU & Sinn Fein has put the Good Friday agreement at risk by annexing NI not Westminster. The European Court of Justice has no right to be on UK soil. I very much doubt that James or the US administration would accept a foreign power making and enforcing Law in say... North Carolina. The ECJ need to withdraw from NI to allow the peace process to continue. Funny how a Policeman gets shot by the military wing of Sinn Fein (IRA) days before the so called "Windsor Framework" - sort of threatening reminder of the Troubles. Biden and his lefty Mates in the EU are sticking their noses into UK Sovereignty. Biden, a proven racist Democrat who has no understanding whatsoever of the complexities of Northern Ireland swallows whatever the Irish Republicans tell him (and he's about as Irish as he is Chinese) should but out and fix the problems in his own backyard like universal Healthcare, food standards and better working rights for US citizens before trying to force tge UK back into the undemocratic 4th Reiche of Germany known as the EU.

@@mattgeorge9399 You're gonna tell us that boris got all the big calls right next hahahahahahahahaha. As for the above diatribe, never see so much delusion on one page omg

Pure politics and no real facts apart from bias and how is Eurozone? More excuses?

That's a bit dramatic. We're still a beautiful country. We haven't ruled the world in a long time but if you mean we were important on the political scene, we still are. We have made deals , not sure where you're getting your info from. We've made trade deals with Japan; New Zealand and with Australia and we still trade with the EU and are still negotiating with other countries for more trade deals. I'll resist commenting on the labour getting in, I think i've said enough already.

I did vote for Brexit and i'm still waiting for it to be delivered. Until it's delivered, Brexit is free of any blame for the state of todays affairs. The government had the mandate for a clean Brexit but have been in perpetual negotiations since, meaning we're niether in or out at this point. Just a cursery look at Rushi's bill proves the case in point, he says we gain massively, whilst EU politicians state the EU still ultimately holds the power and they win (they've been told to downplay it to allow the bill to pass). Enough said.

@@simon3745 I wouldn't pay too much attention to the claims of EU politicians, it's all PR. The EU has to look like they've 'won' to stop other countries getting the same idea. No side wants to loose face. I don't believe we have. The fact we have managed to re negotiate an already negotiated agreement to favour us and northern Island I see as a win.

​@@simon3745 it's only free from the state of today. If you're mad. Or a junkie, Brexit is literally to blame for everything that's wrong in Britain today

​@@sally5983 or just you're in a cult and don't know it It's like maga that's a cult. Trump their god fox news tell you to worship trump, Like GB news tell you to worship farage you little brexit cult

Hear hear!

The USA government has military bases all over your little island so we don’t care what the British peasants think. Get used to lad, plague island is sinking

I completely respect that and I apologize. I was only trying to learn.

@@SimplySavageReactions funny thing is The thing that probably swung the vote to leave was Obamas visit to tell us to remain There was a big swing towards leave after his visit I saw so many posts telling him to mind his own business And we don’t listen to the American president Cameron should of told him to shut the F up