Andrew Doyle: The Media Misrepresented Brexit

The marches after Boris Johnson's election weren't about fun. That was an explosion of rage. I didn't see that, but it is weird to me that he looks like Trump. He looks like your version of Trump. I think he's not the same. He's not the same, but he's got wacky hair and you know it's like... And he's got that reputation of saying what he thinks and all the rest of it. So there's similarities, but I don't think they're comparable. Boris, I don't support Boris, but he's very smart and he's very... Yeah, he's a smart guy and he's... You know, I've never voted for his party. We're ignorant to your country over here. Yeah, I wonder... What was his platform? Well, so he's in the Conservative Party. We only pay attention to the Queen and the King and the Prince. And whatever Prince is in trouble because he was banging chicks on Fuck Island. Which... Oh, Prince Andrew. And then there was the other Prince who's leaving. We pay attention to that shit. You're more interested in the family that they have no power at all in our country. Exactly. We're ridiculously... I mean, you stole Harry from us, didn't you? Yes, we got him now. You got him back. You got him. And you turned him woke. You turned him really woke and then you stole him. Is he woke? Oh my God, Prince Harry. I don't know. Yeah, yeah. So Meghan Markle is completely... She turned him into a wokester? 100%. And bear in mind, he used to be the one who used to go to sort of parties and do drugs and do... I don't know if he did drugs actually, I should qualify that. She made him woke. But yeah, he's super woke now. Well, he's gonna move to Canada. It's a good place to be woke. That's why. He's also saying that he can't move to Canada because if you're a royal from England, you're not supposed to have a primary residence in Canada. Is that because it's part of the Commonwealth or something? Yes. The idea is like you can't come in there and take over because if you did... Yeah, but he's lost his title now. So all of that stuff. I know. He just get it back. He just calls grandma. That says a lot, doesn't it? She was pissed off. Oh my God. And she just said, no, you can't have your title. You've got to pay for your cottage or that money you took from the taxpayers. You've got to pay for that. It's not a cottage, by the way. It's a big estate, but they call it Frogmore Cottage. But it's funny to me that you guys over here are more interested in some sort of outmoded archaic institution like the royal family. So there isn't really an awareness of our political situation. We know Brexit bad. Brexit bad. But Brexit is not bad. That's all we hear. Brexit bad. But why... Racist. Right. Okay. Brexit bad. Can I say this because I know Brexit probably bores people, but the problem with the whole Brexit thing is people thought it was about race. People thought it was like you voted for the EU if you were a good person and voted against if you're a bad person. Correct. It wasn't that. No? No. We've been lied to? You've been lied to. Most people voted because they wanted the idea... In fact, the poll straight after the vote said that the number one reason why people voted Brexit is they wanted the laws to govern their country to be made within their country, which strikes me as a very reasonable proposition. If you're a Democrat, you want to be able to vote out the people in power. You can't vote out those bureaucrats in Brussels. You can't do it. That's the principle. It's not because we want to go back to some pre-war, nostalgic, all-white country. This is a complete lie and it's just experientially unsound. I mean, I don't meet anyone like that, you know? But that's the way it's been spun. And also, by the way, if you're left wing and you're supporting the EU, which is this neoliberal trading bloc that is really pro-corporate, ruthlessly so, then I don't know how you can even call yourself left wing, to be honest. So what is the anger in the streets in England? This goes back to what we were saying about the press. So we had six months of debate on the Brexit issue before people voted. So people really knew what they were voting for. They knew what these issues were about. But the media was constantly spinning and saying, if you vote leave, you're a racist. And if you vote to remain in the EU, you're one of the good guys. That was the narrative they were spinning from the start. And people would... And you know what it did? It did that thing of generating resentment. Did anybody step out that's logical and objective and say, hey, you can look at this in a different way? But those voices got drowned out by the utter swill that was being spilt out all the time, right? And I'm not denying that there are some racists in the UK and that some of them might have voted leave. There were probably some racists who voted remain, whatever. But they're such a minority. And when you've got a media class constantly saying to you, all you poor working class people, you're scum, you're racist, you hate, you know, whatever, then they're going to go in that voting booth and they're going to say, fuck you. And they're going to vote out. And that's what happened. And it was a big backlash against being patronized. People hated it. You know? And it's that... I hate that narrative that we live in a racist country and that Brexit is used as evidence. But I see it as comparable. I think it's very different to the Trump election. But I see the one thing that I think is comparable is that the premise, right, if you've got all these sort of woke activists who say that they believe that we live in this fascist country and that they believe a fascist would vote for Trump. And then when Trump wins, they use that as evidence for the premise that they set up. Right. And that's why they double down because they're saying, well, he won. So therefore we were right all along with a country full of fascists. And it's like, yeah, but your premise wasn't right. So so that and that's how that's how we need to break that. That's that sort of cycle of doubling down on the same bullshit and and guaranteeing Trump another term by doing so, by the way.