James O'Brien blasts Brexiteers who don't want you to talk about Brexit

This video clip is from a LBC show presented by James O'Brien on December 22nd 2022.

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[profjoost]

"We live in a country that has been corrupted by flat out refusal to recognize reality". Well said.

[tnickknight]

The worst part, is you can no longer blame the EU for all that's wrong in the UK 🤣😂🤣

[Smithy]

“How dare you point out the flaws that we were told about but ignored!!” -Brexiteers

[ChrissyDargue]

My hard-working daughter Beth is a mezzo-soprano building a successful career throughout Europe after a poor upbringing and years of study. Brexit (which we were absolutely against) has been a NIGHTMARE for her and causes enormous stress; money; bureaucracy; lost time and reputation - who would want to hire British folk now, when they know the work visa situation is a nightmare?! Also, we're Scottish, so we feel DOUBLY aggrieved!! I feel a visceral anger when I hear the gammons perpetuate the nonsense of Brexit benefits.

[joshuaallen]

1) Create a non-existent problem. 2) Exacerbate it as much as possible. 3) Come up with a non-solution to the non-problem. 4) Vilify people who criticise your non-solution. 5) Push it through with as little sensible debate as possible. 6) Deny the negative consequences. 7) Find a new non-problem and repeat. 8) Meanwhile, keep raking the cash into your offshore bank account.

[davideaves]

Brexit was the strangest political move I have ever seen. I used to live in Switzerland and moved back to the UK just before the brexit vote. Coming from living outside the UK I wasn't against not been in the EU but what struck me is how the vote was been done and the why. Staying in the EU was a very defined arrangement. Brexit wasn't ever defined. It was like saying to a group of people do you want burgers for dinner or something else. No one defined the something else then spent 2 years arguing about what it was. Options were never defined. A vote was never offered saying right do you want to stay in, hard brexit or soft brexit. Eg do you want burger, pizza or pasta. Instead they came up with a pile of excrement and said people want this as they said they didn't want burgers. I hate to say it but from working in finance my conclusion is most people were just conned. Pre brexit the EU was clamping down on international banking rules, and the main beneficiary of these are British overseas territories and people like reese mogg. Worried about loosing money and that banking game ending the tories played the population to keep there banking game alive. Its a really sad situation and it needs fixing. 100% agree it needs intelligent honesty convo and can't just be swept under the rug. Where does the UK want to be in 10 years time?

[ThomasKing]

Time to accept that the country has been lost. lost to the selfish greedy tories and those who follow their ways.

[chrisgregory]

All the people I know who voted brexit are unhappy with Brexit
And all they say is they didn’t know all the facts at the time.

NO! you weren’t interested in facts which were readily available you were happy to confirm your baseless bias that everything wrong could be magically fixed by leaving!

[rickrock]

I think the reason they don't want to talk is, they are ashamed embarrassed and could not possibly win any argument about it.

[imck]

If brexit hadn't been a disaster they'd have banged on about the b word relentlessly

[deanlowdon]

The clearest sign that Brexit has been a failure is the fact that those who pushed for it never talk about it any more. You’d think they’d be banging on about all the benefits we’re seeing by now…

[NomadSoul]

I'm an American, and obviously we have our own problems. But I've been shocked at what I saw from people defending Brexit in the comments to these videos. The best they have to say is that maybe it'll pay off many years down the road. We're not supposed to look at what has happened now, they just want us to believe that maybe it'll work out eventually once enough time has passed.

Again, I'm just an ignorant American, perhaps I misunderstood. But I thought the entire point of Brexit was that it was going to make things better immediately. I seem to recall a bus being driven around with claims about how many millions of dollars would be redirected to the NHS.

The EU was bad, right? That's what the proponents of Brexit said. It was harming the UK now, immediately and constantly. Cutting off that malignant influence should result in immediate improvement.

So they were lying right? The architects of Brexit said that it would cause things to happen which did not happen. It has not worked. Hoping that it might eventually work and unspecified time down the road doesn't seem like an acceptable alternative.

I'll repeat it once again, I'm not British. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding things. But it seems to me that the people who voted for Brexit voted for the things that they were told Brexit would make happen. Now that it turns out that everything they were told about it was a lie, it seems like maybe there might be a reason to vote again about the reality of it. Have people liked what it's done to the country? Now that they know that the architects of the change lied to them about everything, do they feel confident that the assurances they've been given that it will all work out many years later will come true?

[ThomasKing]

I voted brexit and regret it. I'm not scared to admit it or talk about it.

[wellwell]

The fish quota one is the equivalent of losing losing £400 and finding £2.80 and calling it a better position. And that's the actual ratio as well.

[thomasjamison]

Rees Mogg isn't really a serious politician. He's a player in a steam punk role playing game that has absolutely nothing to do with reality.

[col]

I'm a proud "remoaner". I was proven right, and now I take great pleasure in seeing leavers squirm when I dismantle their pathetic cases for leaving.

Keep it up, Jimbob.👍

[Glasairman]

Brexit Advent Calenders are the BEST - every day a door closes

[hugodrax]

What's utterly depressing is that Brexit remains unchallenged at Westminster despite its clearly damaging effect on the UK economy. For the Tories, it remains their deity and to become PM you need to support it. Labour also wants to "make Brexit work" and not a peep from the Lib Dems. Bonkers.

[Constantijn]

The Brexiteers are like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they keep saying it is just a flesh wound, while in reality they have no limbs left

[martinclail]

Brexit...the grift that keeps on taking.