The Growth of Euroscepticism - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

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This lecture analyses the growth of euroscepticism, first in the Labour Party after 1979, and then in the Conservative Party: www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
This lecture analyses the growth of euroscepticism, first in the Labour Party after 1979, and then in the Conservative Party culminating in Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech (1988) and opposition to the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. The relationship remains controversial, leading to the pressures which have led to David Cameron's commitment to further renegotiation and referendum.
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@HPRam 6 жыл бұрын

Professor Bogdanor is a national treasure! Thank you Gresham College for sharing all of these lectures. The best, free education out there.

@nigelwiseman8644 5 жыл бұрын

So impartial that it is difficult to tell what he thinks. A really great overview of the history, thank you.

@sgordon8123 8 жыл бұрын

Looking at this AFTER the referendum result you have to wonder how they did not see this coming? History repeats.

@ThePp12345678 6 жыл бұрын

S Gordon If you look at things now, colleges and universities teach youngsters "selective" history. So youngsters are taught to be ashamed of our Country. The indoctrination is crazy as the youngsters complain about debts and not being able to afford housing. They cannot see that increased numbers in UK without increasing housing to cope with increased numbers means lack of supply and increased cost. Oversupply of labour means a decrease in wages. Yet they want open borders. They cannot understand they are doing this to themselves and making things worse for themselves. But they are taught to blame the elderly instead for living longer.

@atwali 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent as ever GC and Professor Bognador. Much obliged.

@gregorystrong9399 8 жыл бұрын

Professor Bogdanor is as always, articulate, and thorough. His lecture points out that Euroscepticism has been longstanding in both major UK parties. The UK is essentially a free-trader and very concerned about the constitutionality of a supr-parliament in Brussels.

@siblinganon66 7 жыл бұрын

free trader... leaving the common market.... I don't think that has to make sense, does it?

@JohnJohnson-qm3mr 7 жыл бұрын

NZ is a Free Trading country that that has a FTA with China who has a billion people and is growing at 7% per year

@sgordon8123 7 жыл бұрын

The common market is a restricted market and imposes tariffs on most of the world and we sell less and less to it while finding it difficult to source outside it without tariffs. A big trade deficit is not in our interests especially when we pay for it in membership fees ...

@johnwhite6346 6 жыл бұрын

Gregory Strong it also a very unmeritocratic nation.free trade for big business,barriers for smaller competitors to participate on premises which are only affordable to big corporations who are free to pay tax elsewhere through accounting tricks Free trade my Arse. It's building the house from the rough mentality

@trescatrevor 4 жыл бұрын

As I understood it, the Serbs were actually defeated by the Muslims in 1389. The recent Kosovo struggle was an attempt to correct this loss by expelling the Muslims.

@sgordon8123 8 жыл бұрын

Great lecture. Premonition of doom not picked up by the people doing the questionnaire?!

@victorpearson1418 7 жыл бұрын

Not a representative sample of the nation as a whole , obviously skewed towards metropolitan / London bias .

@hjyigo4759 5 жыл бұрын

Listening to the end of this lecture always puts me to the mind of how much the establishment remainers presumed they would win the referundum. So much of the fall out since has come from their collective shock.

@billolsen4360 3 жыл бұрын

"Why Scarlett, honey, looks like we're secedin' from the Union."

@robloxinaalisa8440 5 жыл бұрын

In contrast what he expects in the video the Liberal Democrats did very well in the local elections. Thank you.

@KimPhilby203 4 жыл бұрын

Time will prove leaving was the right choice...

@petermcdonald5694 3 жыл бұрын

1:53 is incorrect surely he means European community not Europe if he can't get it right why bother 🤦‍♂️

@BattlestarZenobia 3 жыл бұрын

Bogdanor ignores the fact that Delores speech had been organized by her own Foreign Office

@Claude-fj1oh 4 жыл бұрын

I do not like the term euroscepticism, because as a scientist and a pragmatic person, I consider that everything should be analysed / approached with a sceptic view. Here it is more about europhobia, a feeling of deserving better, a sense of superiority, not a sense of oppression like too many big names portray it, a sense of being "global", the centre belly-button of the world. The relics of having been an empire.

@StatelessLiberty 4 жыл бұрын

British people have absolutely no interest in controlling what Germans or Frenchmen do. All that is wanted in return is for Europeans to show similar respect, and not get vilified as "backward" or in your word "europhobic."

@advarkmerrygoround1425 5 жыл бұрын

Now that the British People know what is involved departing from the EU in reality. The choice to choose between the Prime Ministers deal and Remain MUST be put back to the People. Every argument the Far Right put up in order to deny this legitimate argument, only makes their rhetoric more benign, and their grip on reality less sound. What are these politicians afraid of? In reality, if we do leave Europe with No Deal, the amount of hardship we face will make the 2008 crash look like a pick nick. We will welcome back the IRA (our own personal terrorists). They will probably join forces with Al-Qaeda and attack this Island from both sides. Thanks allot Boris!!