I am told BBC Parliament will run the lecture again for a wider audience on Saturday at 9pm, as they filmed it on the day.
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I am told BBC Parliament will run the lecture again for a wider audience on Saturday at 9pm, as they filmed it on the day.
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February 22, 2018
Great! 🙂
February 22, 2018
Certainly a great alternative to Casualty!
February 22, 2018
To maintain the BBC’s usual balance, followed by a week 24/7 of invited Remoaners saying how very wrong you are and how such talk is typical of right-wing extremism deliberately calculated to bring everyone especially single mothers and orphans to death through malnutrition and war?
February 22, 2018
Will we ever get a real Brexit from May and Hammond that we can have a life after?
February 22, 2018
Don’t blame May and Hammond.
If the Brexiters had a leader they could put in place, they would have put them in by now. But they don’t. And without a leader, you can’t implement anything (let alone win the support of voters in the elections and in Parliament).
This is one of the many great weaknesses of Brexit.
Our country is now dangerously in limbo. Brexiters need to put their money where their mouths are, and ditch May. Then we’ll see how the markets, and everything else, reacts or not.
If they react well, then Brexiters can go to the next stage of Brexit. If not, then it’s time to get out of limbo land, ditch Brexit, and focus on getting our country back together again.
February 22, 2018
I also think Brexiters are finding Brexit a lot more complicated than they ever imagined.
David Davis described Brexit as ‘more complicated than a moon landing,’ and Christopher Patten as a ‘sphinx.’
Brexit is the type of thing where you need both intuitive / creative intelligence as well as logical / analytical intelligence. Perhaps Gary Kasparov is the only one who could begin to work it out.
And so if Brexiters do ditch May, they need to be very careful about the consequences to our country. But if they don’t ditch her, there could be very serious consequences to our country, in another way perhaps. Either way, they need to get on with making a decision about Mrs May. And fast. Time is running out. Our country is drifting more and more into limbo land.
February 22, 2018
“I also think Brexiters are finding Brexit a lot more complicated than they ever imagined”.
I expect that some prisoners find that release from jail poses problems that they were absolved from when inside. Maybe the reason that some re-offend to be returned to “safety”? Trade freedom for safety and you deserve neither, IMHO.
February 22, 2018
Ed Mahony
“I also think Brexiters are finding Brexit a lot more complicated than they ever imagined.”
Get your facts right. No, it is not complicated. It is simple!
However, the reason we have a Brexit shambles is simply that we have a “Remainer camp, headed by a Remainer PM” negotiating on behalf of the British voters that wish to leave the EU. If T. May executed the voter’s wishes, this would be simple….even for you!
Remainers are deliberately, and perhaps nefariously, ignoring and damaging the public’s democratic rights. Therefore, the Remainers are completely to blame for this debacle!
February 22, 2018
Yes, and Redwood has gone very quiet on how we automatically keep the benefits of the EU’s external deals. We don’t! More brexit unicorns
February 22, 2018
When two nations want to trade with each other a deal is never far away.
You forget the UK is a lucrative market for many non EU nations.
February 22, 2018
“David Davis described Brexit as ‘more complicated than a moon landing,’ ”
He should be taken off hourly pay/ overtime and given a salary ( irrespective of hours worked over 40 ). Also a new pair of shoes as there must be scuff marks on his present pair due to dragging his feet.
February 22, 2018
Ed,
Could you explain why political, judicial and administrative union is required for a free trade arrangement?
And why would a free trade partner need to give up their fishing grounds, ten billion pounds a year, and control of their immigration policy? I don’t get it.
February 23, 2018
Ed Mahony: “David Davis described Brexit as ‘more complicated than a moon landing,’ ”
David Davis is turning out to be a great disappointment .
We might just have dodged a bullet when his leadership bid failed. Although what the Tory party got instead was no better.
February 22, 2018
If you cast your mind back, the Prime Minister who held the EU referendum said that if we voted to leave he would stay on to see us out … it is hardly the fault of those who voted to leave that he ratted on that promise.
February 23, 2018
Denis Cooper: “it is hardly the fault of those who voted to leave that he ratted on that promise.”
Entirely in character though.
What we’ve got in Parliament are committee members. No leaders, Theresa May can talk a big game, ‘ the nasty party ‘, but when the burden of leading falls on her shoulders, everything just slides off.
No use whatsoever.
February 22, 2018
But tell us, therefore, EdM why we should be better off shackled to your EU masters’ idea of Utopia? How can you become excited at the idea of a UK handing over its sovereignty to such a group of self-serving, unprofessional, vindictive, empire-building, unelected megalomaniacs? You should tell us, instead of spouting bile and becoming gleeful at the idea of your country failing. You remainders love to tell us why we should not ‘brexit’ but do not enlighten us as to how life will be good on the sunny uplands of the EU, or, incidentally, how we should be greeted should we decide to U-turn. Celebrations? Kisses from Juncker? Congratulations all round? I think not.
February 23, 2018
Ed Mahony: “If the Brexiters had a leader they could put in place, they would have put them in by now. ”
What an odd thing to say. Parliament consulted the population and were instructed – INSTRUCTED, to follow a course of action. We don’t need a leader outside of BREXIT. Our political institutions have their marching orders. Now they should do the job they have been instructed to do.
Ed Mahony: “And without a leader, you can’t implement anything (let alone win the support of voters in the elections and in Parliament). ”
If this was some sort of Marxist dictatorship, you might have a point. But it’s not (yet), so you don’t.
Normally, we’re content to allow our ‘representatives’ to ‘lead’ us. Because we have the quaint idea, they can be trusted to do the job properly.
But given the chance in the referendum we TOLD them what to do. That they are still simpering and dithering and waffling, illustrates what spineless, overpaid rascals the lot of ’em are.
February 22, 2018
No. One has a heart that’s not in it and the other does not have a heart.
February 22, 2018
Don’t know what to say..the cabinet is meeting trying to find a way forward that will be acceptable to the EU when all of informed reporting from reputable sources says, even before the meeting starts, that whatever comes out of it and whatever will be proposed hasn’t got a snowballs chance in hell of passing Barnier, Junker and Co..and now at this late stage we find you are fully engaged with giving lectures that you seem over the moon with and that the BBC is going to replay on BBC parliament..Have you even considered why the BBC parliament is going to allow this lecture? well I venture to guess.. because it will make not one iota of difference to the way talks are going now.. we are heading for the cliff edge because, the Brussels crowd also read the British press and government ministers sayings and backbenchers saying are not in the least impressed..it’s going to be a case that nothing will be agreed..so I hope you’ll be still around to give lectures on that afterwards when full reality sinks in.
February 22, 2018
The BBC Parliament Channel has airtime to fill and does so by broadcasting all kinds of things … I’m glad they are broadcasting this particular lecture and I don’t see any sinister machiavellian plot behind their decision to do so. As for what is happening at Chequers, if Theresa May summoned the assembled press at the end of the meeting and just repeated the speech she gave in Lancaster House on January 17th 2017 then she wouldn’t be going far wrong.
February 22, 2018
Has the EU accepted anything at all on the Brexit side which formerly it deemed a no-no? For Davis saying Yes, we agree to that after 3 months isn’t a negotiation, it is just a very long YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
February 22, 2018
I will certainly be watching. Thank you.
February 23, 2018
Likewise !
February 24, 2018
I notice that the time and duration of the TV programme have altered a little today compared to what was given yesterday.
February 22, 2018
It is now on my agenda ; hopefully it will follow an England victory at Murrayfield .
February 22, 2018
“I am told BBC Parliament will run the lecture again for a wider audience on Saturday at 9pm, as they filmed it on the day”.
Could you please tell me which Channel this lecture will be shown on.
February 22, 2018
The Channel itself is actually called “BBC Parliament” not “BBC One” nor , “BBC Two” etc
The BBC likes consistency, perhaps in cake mixtures.
February 23, 2018
@Qubus; If you are in the UK he did, the “BBC Parliament” Channel…!
If you are outside of the UK, preferably in northern Europe, (ignoring the fact that you should not be watching the domestic BBC services, but those from BBC World) you should find it on satellite via Astra 2E @ 10788 V 22000 5/6
February 22, 2018
perhaps you will be easier on the BBC now?
February 22, 2018
@Miss B-J
Why do the BBC QT panel comprise 4 to 1 Remainers?
February 22, 2018
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
February 22, 2018
Thank you for all you are doing to champion our survival as a sovereign nation. There’s a long way to go, and it certainly isn’t for the faint-hearted. Whatever the outcome, I believe it will have been worth it. May you and others of like mind have the wisdom, strength and resolve to take the vision forward in a constructive way, taking the leadership with you.
February 22, 2018
Totally agree Norman.
February 22, 2018
We’re always hearing predictions as to how terrible life will be after Brexit.
It is about time that we heard how our lives would have been affected by remaining in an EU intent upon further expansion and integration.
February 23, 2018
BBC watchers will undoubtedly be shown an edited version that will not do the original full justice and which will seek to water down the leave message and/or will be accompanied by snide comments from remainers.
February 23, 2018
Brexit is simple, its people that make it difficult !
February 23, 2018
Some listings magazines don’t mention the BBC Parliament channel. You’ll find it on Freeview 232
February 25, 2018
Saw your excellent speech on iPlayer where you covered many of the points you have shared with us on your blog – your passion for our sovereignty is clear.
If I may here is a link to the recording, it is available for 30 days from 24th Feb;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09thrhm/briefings-24022018
Was there a Q&A session as this was not shown in the programme?
February 25, 2018
An excellent speech. Thank you.
February 27, 2018
Agreed !