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1. 

   @willie-whistleblower

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   Quote from Mr Gove before the Brexit vote: "the truth is that if we vote to leave we'll be in an economically stronger position"
   
   Question: Why, Mr Gove, didn't you tell British voters before they voted how long they'd have to wait for this promise you made to them to be fulfilled!
   
   Quote from Lord Frost: " It's got some way to play out yet"
   
   Question: Would it have been more honest, Lord Frost, for British voters to been told this before they cast their Referendum votes?

   The more one hears of the manner in which the lead up to the 2016 referendum was conducted, the more one thinks that British voters are owed some kind of national Inquiry or truth and reconciliation Commission to enable them to find Brexit peace of mind through closure. After all Brexit has left in its wake a tsunami of anger and conflict that is tearing the Nation apart.

   The Commission's first task would be to establish what claims were made by those leading the leave and remain debates respectively.

   Starting with the claims of the Brexit architects , Mr Farage, Mr Johnson, Mr Gove and their chief adviser Dominic Cummings (referred to hereafter as 'the four frauds") these are by now largely a matter of record. We have the Brexit Bus and the huge poster depicting a host of people coming our way. Then we have the more subtle Leave advertising on Facebook and other social forums.

   To these untruths can now be added the four frauds' misrepresentations by omission which only now, 6 years down the line, they are starting to come clean on. Chief among these is the failure of the four frauds and others like them to disclose to voters their understanding of how long they expected it to take before the Brexit benefits they used as carrots to manipulate the way people voted would bear fruit.

   Only now is the cat finally emerging from the Brexit bag to tell us that it's found no tangible benefits (not even a mouse…). And Brexit apologists like the gentleman in Max's video are starting to tell us that we can expect a 10 to 15 year benefits 'gestation period' and, in the meantime, the British people will linger on in their purgatory of ever declining prosperity and ever increasing governmental repression.

   The Commission will need to ask the four frauds (preferably on oath knowing the value they place on integrity) whether they ever discussed between them the length of time Brexit would require to bear fruit if, thanks to their efforts, Brexit was to be voted in.

   If the four frauds reply that no such discussions ever took place then they should be asked why they did not, because it would beggar the belief of any reasonable person to imagine that the architects of Brexit would ever commit the British people to vote on so vital an issue without having even so much as considered the question how long it would take before any Brexit benefits started appearing.

   The Commission might suggest to the four frauds that the question "how long before benefits will appear" was of more fundamental importance than the untruths they had inscribed on a bus and a giant poster.

   The Commission might enquire of the four frauds if the Brexiteers' slogan: "We got Brexit done" heard so often from the lips of Mr Johnson might not have been laughably premature.

   It will be up to the Commission what questions it puts to the leaders of the remain lobby, if indeed they feel the latter did anything to be ashamed of that might merit enquiry

   It's to be hoped that when, in the fullness of time, the Commission concludes its Inquiry, the British people will find it in their hearts to forgive and forget their sufferings, as they deliberate between British and New Zealand butter for the Royal Slice of Bread (King William's bread by then!)

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   @MrSkrahman1210

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   Is this supposed to be for 3 year olds ?
   Is this what journalism has stooped to ?

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3. 

   @plerpplerp5599

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   Brexit is the strange fanatical belief that a group of self-serving clueless politicians with purely selfish ulterior motives will work for the good of everyone.

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4. 

   @koantao8321

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   This video didn't age well.

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5. 

   @concreterattlesnake2249

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   things that have gone well: economy things that went badly : THE ECONOMY

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6. 

   @Jastro88

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   Just four months later, and things are already looking quite a bit different. French – British relations are at a particular low point. The British media is starting to make up stories telling people that shelves are empty all over the EU (untrue), as an explanation for why shelves in Britain are empty. Food, medicine shortages. A growing energy crisis. The list goes on.

   But sure: let's just keep pretending Brexit wasn't "all bad".

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7. 

   @benh283

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   The things that went 'well' are things that basically didn't get much worse; not a real benefit of Brexit. So right now Britian is damaged by Brexit. When will the benefits begin?

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8. 

   @Dunnlrs

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   Overall I think Brexit is doing really well. Wages are finally going up for many who have suffered stagnation for decades. There will be many more jobs in future especially with the new FTAs. I am happy.
   In time the Negatives will be resolved, nothing physical here, just politics.

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9. 

   @anymonkey70

   January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

   missed this one for some reason but does anyone have evidence that tim martin said that?

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10. 

    @Xamimus

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    4:20 spoke too soon…

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11. 

    @GeneralBongmeister

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    Why I should be prime minister
    1. I'll make the currency bobux
    2.ill make amogus a new national animal
    3.i will undo brexit
    4. I'll form CANZUK
    5. Gaming will become a national sport
    6. History will be more interesting in school
    7. I will make a nordic style system for school work and healthcare
    8. I'll make closer ties to the USA
    9. We will aid Taiwan's navy and military
    10. I'll make more nukes

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12. 

    @alanm2809

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    This analysis was too early, you should revisit it. All trade deals are worse such as the Japan deal. The Australian deal is also a disgrace, compromising the UK green credentials signed off by an Australian Prime minister who is a climate change denier and failed marketer impacting on UK farming and still is not ratified. Don't see trade as a positive.

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13. 

    @user-kv6re6vx6y

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    The actual separation just happened January 2021.
    Let's see the real numbers.

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14. 

    @documentthedrama8279

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    it was and is an absolute disaster which the bastards who voted for it wont live long enough to see just how bad it all turns out.

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15. 

    @CarroArmatoM-jc3ci

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    Who says Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland leaving the UK is a bad thing?

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16. 

    @martinhumble

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    I live abroad and in the EU. After Brexit I don't buy anything from the UK, the same with those I know. I used to buy valuable antique books and records from small businesses, many times a year. I bought DVD/Bluray:s from Amazon every month. The tariffs make it too expensive.

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17. 

    @ffi1001

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    Thumbs down for this. What about the impact on fishermen, students, and people’s freedom of movement to live abroad

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18. 

    @joanesp100

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    Brexit will be the undoing of the UK

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19. 

    @lukaswagner1046

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    3:37 is there standing a Haas F1 Truck ?

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20. 

    @bluegtturbo

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    OK children and today's task is to write down all the benefits which have resulted from Brexit… On the back of a postage stamp in capital letters.

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21. 

    @FarFromZero

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    Brexit has only upsides. Now everyone is allowed to poison the water, he just has to mention "Corona!". Oh, what golden ages arrived!

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22. 

    @People-Business-And-Ideas

    January 6, 2024 at 4:14 am

    Its simple: Britain's birth rate is 1.4 (you need 2.1 to sustain an economy) and declining. There are more old people than young (Just like throughout Europe). The U.K, needs immigrates intensely! Brexit, will go down as the economic demise of the U.K. Ignorance, has come home to roost…

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