James O'Brien's Powerful Monologue On The State Of Brexit After The Local Elections

James O'Brien's Powerful Monologue On The State Of Brexit After The Local Elections. This is James O'Brien's State Of The Union on where the local election results leave Brexit. Both the Conservatives and Labour suffered losses in last night's elections as the major parties suffered what is widely thought to be a Brexit backlash. So where does that leave the UK's position on leaving the European Union? James O'Brien looked at that and his monologue was so, so powerful. In a wide-ranging address, he said: "Every single syllable of this whole sorry saga was predictable, discernable and inevitable.
"Unless a proper politician, a politician who had succeeded in getting elected to Westminster, a politician who had a party of many different types and colours, unless a Prime Minister or a leader of the Opposition stood up and reported reality, then things could have changed. "Theresa May chose to put her fingers in her ears, to cover her eyes, to ignore Cambridge Analytica, to ignore Vote Leave's cheating, to ignore the Electoral Commission's findings, to ignore the mystery of where the £8m for Leave.EU came from, to ignore the fact that people's Facebook pages were full of lies of an unprecedented and unbelievable scale, she chose to ignore all that. "That's why yesterday the two-party system came close to breaking point.
"Because neither Jeremy Corbyn, nor Theresa May, report reality. "And that's what happens when you let liars and chancers and racists to poison the public discourse for clicks and ratings and controversies on Question Time." Watch James O'Brien's Reaction To Theresa May Saying Brexit Is An "Opportunity".

[johnpelosi]

Thank you James O'Brien! Thanks#Original Jedi Watching!

[clairduffy]

O'Brien, steadfastly sticking to the facts for nearly 3yrs.
Respect.

[JesuChristus]

Thank God for sane people like O'B.

[Gethsemanes]

The mass manipulated by the few for their own needs. Utterly shocking how easily hoodwinked some people allow themselves to be.

[georgwachberg]

i am from the continent and an extremely satisfied member of the EU. here is my personal statement on brexit.


i always had very much respect for the british people. the way they thought about personal honour and integrity especially. but recent events made the country look divided with lack of orientation and i am sorry, i felt that i lost a little respect for their parliament and their processes and - being european myself - there was a point where i thought: "just get out, the sooner the better, you never really wanted this europe to begin with."


but then i remembered who saved europe in its very darkest hour from totally falling into the abyss of fashism. who - against all odds - was not willing to surrender.


my dear british friends, we, the europeans, will never forget that. there might be stupid rethoric and you might leave for good, but we wish you well, very, very well. because without you, we would not even be here. and if you ever choose to come back, oh my lord(s), you will be so very, very welcome.


go, rule those waves, britannia!

[MP-ljco]

I love you james O’Brien ! Well, your ideas really.

[offlimits]

excellent James O'Brien - as always

[avalanche]

What has become of a minority of British citizens, is quite frightening when laid out so clearly. Cap-doffing, forelock tugging, yes sir Mr. posh sir, I believe and will repeat to others anything you say without bothering to think about it.

Johnson's main flaw seems to be the forgetting of which particular lie he's going to tell next.

If nothing else, this would seem to be the beginning of the end for the tories at 500+ councellors down after these local elections.

Labour lost councils [having just decided to keep a second referendum out of their manifesto despite 75% of membership wanting that option], ukip lost out because they are now irrelevant, and the subsequent large gains for the LD and Greens who advocate a second referendum, have all been portrayed by media pundits including the bbc as being a vote for brexit. This should tell ANYONE who can be bothered to think about it, that everyone is STILL being lied to. WAKE UP people! Peace to ALL.

[TheKermit]

James needs the same airtime on mainstream media given to the career liers. We need his logical truth in an otherwise sea of obstinate ignorance.

[dvz]

The problem is the bulk of people don’t care what James is saying. They earn 18 grand a year, bring up two children in a small house and don’t have the means to travel to Europe seven times a year and don’t plan to emigrate to France at the end of their lives and convert a chateau. In their eyes all the EU has done for them is uncontrolled immigration to their small towns. As soon as James realises that there are problems, whether subjective or not, throughout this country; no one is listening. Everyday for three years he does this, everyday. And no one is listening.

[iangascoigne]

Quite simply it’s just a feeling they have. It will turn out ok in the end.

[eddieford]

"No, we voted to leave, cut all ties with the EU"

, that's the answer I tend to get whenever I ask.

[iangascoigne]

It was obvious Farage would come back because he needs to find a new gravy train.

[erhardt]

Well...
I’m not sure wether to laugh or cry...🤔
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

[christown]

Well done James. Brexit is running out of road it's running out of road (Thanks L).

[jamesatkins]

What ever it was, the Brexit Vote was a vote for Change. Clearly, to Leave would bring about changes. But voting to Remain was a vote for Change, not a vote to keep things as they are, not for the status quo. To “Remain” really means to continue the process of ever closer union. To Leave or to Continue? That should have been the question.

[alexhotujec]

Used to have a lot od respect for the UK. Following this

[advwharton]

We have generally learned to never hire anyone educated at Eton. Nor vote for them.

[Henrik]

The thing James never seems to take account of is that a whole lot of people in this country feel as though they have nothing to lose. When you tell someone in middle England whose wages haven’t went up in real terms in a decade, whose public services are in constant crisis, whose children don’t have opportunity or prospects that the eu and the political class has been good to them over the last 10-20 years it doesn’t ring true. People voted brexit for many different reasons but one of them was to say to the political class “time to upset the Applecart.”

[wvu]

I'm an American watching your horror (we each have to deal with our respective horrors), and one thing that I have always found confusing: it took a 65% majority of the vote to enter the EU in the first place, so why was a simple majority sufficient to leave?