What Johnson's Cabinet Reshuffle Mean For Brexit - Brexit Explained

On Thursday night, Boris Johnson selected his new cabinet in the biggest reshuffle in recent memory. Cabinet selections really indicate what kind of people the Prime Minister wants to surround themselves with, what kind of strategies they will be using. So in this video, we will be discussing who Johnson chose, and what this might indicate about his Brexit plans.

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[solhsa]

I've said this before: just put a 99 year deadline to backstop, after which the country is given to China.

[grendelum]

You keep talking about _”renegotiation”_ of the Brexit deal when the EU has been crystal clear that there will be no such thing...

[sirdarkon]

I really NEED a recap episode of Season 1 & 2 of Brexit...

[OrleansVT]

absolutely zero need to censor the word "pissing".

[paoloanytspam]

To all BREXITERs,


Dear British friends, we fully respect your decision to leave us – the remaining 27 countries of the block. It was a pleasure to be with you for this 46 years. I fully understand that staying with us is also a question of taste or cultural links – not everybody has to be willing to stay with us. However as you are the country of Alan Turing and Bertrand Russell please do not violate, rape the argumentation art. The number of bullshit arguments I hear about the EU in the UK press resembles the level of wisdom you can gain in the renowned sources such as Facebook. I have not enough time to write it shortly nor exhaustively but please take into account the following facts:


0) Your are not leaving Brussels. You are leaving EU = a block of 28 countries having common market and cooperating to survive against much bigger powers in the world. We, the remaining 27, have some conflicts and differences but against systems such as China, Russia, USA we stay united – so far having comparable economy and negotiating power to resist their domination and their model of life. Soon we will have 15-20% less power (due to BREXIT) but still we remain the second largest market in the world. When you negotiate with all the big powers - please share with us the tactics you are going to use to negotiate better deals than we (you and us) did together.

1) All the crazy things you blame Brussels for is voted by YOUR politicians elected by YOU (see standard legislation procedure). I am afraid that what you call ‘Brussels’ is national politicians (also from the UK) voting in Brussels. Leaving EU or not – you will keep your politicians that voted for the things you do not like – you are not going to leave them in Brussels - we have enough of our own idiots. Your politicians had actually the biggest possible voting power.

2) The EU does not stop you from sending bad guys to 3rd world countries (it is Human Rights aspect dealt by Council of Europe which is not an EU institution and which is in fact established by the UK after WWII) - so if you want to solve this problem you're leaving wrong organisation

3) The BREXIT blockage is currently based on the contradiction promised by the BREXITers that the UK can leave customs union (so have a customs border or hard border) but at the same time have no border between Northern Ireland and Ireland (which stays in the EU). For sure you know that certain relationships are binary and ‘having a border’ is one of them, same way as ‘being pregnant’ - you cannot be half- or nearly-pregnant. BoJo, Theresa or nobody else will be able to make it. All you can get is pregnant or not that your politicians will sell you as ‘nearly-pregnant’ but the consequences will stick to the reality. I remind you that it is YOU who want to keep the border open more then Irish government as the potential conflict caused by reintroducing the border would happen mainly on your territory. So don’t blame the Irish people for having exotic wishes – it’s your wish more than theirs.

4) There are non EU countries that are part of the common market (e.g. Norway, Switzerland) for them paying the full EU contribution does not pay off as it is related to the GDP, so they pay less, they HAVE TO RESPECT all the laws in the common market (common by definition means common rules), which they CANNOT VOTE. So you are welcomed back to join us in the common market/free trade/customs union/free flow of products, services and people but the algorithm of payment used for Norway and Switzerland makes the contribution bigger for the UK as it was the UK’s EU payment still leaving you without the vote and forcing to respect all the laws you hate. What is the logic of this in the context of BREXIT being sold as a financial improvement?

5) Everybody may have a feeling about being or not being part of Europe, many of my friends have a feeling of being part of Asia, but the geography is part of the reality and it says that all your neighbour countries are either part of the EU or at least part of the common market. You acctually share one of your islands with EU (Northern Ireland). If you close your borders and doors you won’t be able to pass them too.

There are many more details and wrong assumptions in your press but I have no time nor willingness to fix it all.
While I am sad about your decision to leave, having visited your country so many times and having bought many products and services which I will now have to buy in France, Germany or wherever these companies will go after BREXIT, I genuinely wish you all the best outside of the block! Not only because I like you but also because no country or union wants wars or problems in the neighborhood.

EU citizen.

[spoopytime]

Boris Johnson's different hairstyles are just nests of different birds.
One day it's a magpie nest aesthetic. Another day it's some water bird nest.

[biocapsule]

Something worth noting that, as usual for Brexit, it's generally the British side saying thing are open to change. Wishing it to be true is basically all they have.

[batzkell]

Website's looking good! Great to know you guys have gotten to the point of being able to write and publish comprehensive articles and anylasis! I hope further big things for you and the TDLR team.

[tiago]

Brexit series layout revealed:
Season 3 (current season) - It's Boris time
Season 4 - The riots
Season 5 - Murder in the Parliament
Season 6 - Scotland its free
Season 7 - The troubles II
Season 8 - Just call me IRELAND
Season 9 - Guy Fawkes II
Season 10 - The mad islands get peace

[mkst]

Some workers may find themselves "surplus to requirements". A polite way to say your only worth is as compost.

[jjg]

Low taxes? Less regulations? Is that really the direction a country should move into? Doesn’t a big shoppinglist mean that the government needs more money to achieve all that? And big corporations, if they can work under a regime with low taxes and less regulation (workers rights), might not contribute enough. In comes more austerity???

[snowcold]

What I get from this is that, in the ideal scenario, the UK becomes a safe haven for big corporations to do whatever they please. Why would that ever be seen as positive by a population which is overwhelmingly low to middle class?

[Kailhun]

Lowering taxes while increasing spending. Am I missing something? There seems to be a problem there.

The policies to open Britain for business seem to be very good for the rich and large businesses. I'm not sure the vast majority of the people of the UK fall into this category.

[stocktonjoans]

where can i apply to be one of the people pissing into the cabinet?

[Kunori]

"More competitive" regulations. Appealing to corporations. Everyone knows these mean treating employees worse, right? And that would have happened with any economic downturn anyway. "Oh, things are hard, we can't afford raises and benefits so much this year"... and then that becomes the new standard.

[MadnerKami]

Wasn't the Backstop already effectively time-limited? I vaguely recall it being set up in a way, that the Backstop ends the moment that the UK found a solution for the problem. Lipstick on a pig, indeed.

[davedeputyZX]

Absolute failure to spell out what "increased competitiveness" is actually a code word for; slashing business regulations, lower wages, poorer working conditions, increased concentration of wealth upwards.

[CharalamposKoundourakis]

Hilarious that Prity Patel is already embroiled in a scandal. Doesn't waste time, that one.

[godlaydying]

This sounds rather like the early days of Trump's Presidency: "oh, he's appointing competent people, they'll keep him from doing anything too dumb."

[LarsSod]

These constant hard cuts in the audio makes it harder to listen to. Use crossfades, and/or try to make cuts after a sentence is done. If you do it to speed up the speech, just don't.