stories focus on hate speech tension and sustainable production. all of us are available online and of course you can share and discuss something because facebook page and other social media platforms. writers to me now. here in london it's still all about bricks it bricks it breaks it strikes it debate the analysis on what breaks it really means is still out there except what we opted for was making our own decisions and steering our own ship frags it breaks it wrecks it we want to stay friends with our british neighbors. threat is that i have to defend the interest of european citizens the fact that referendum has been hugely divisive in this country and a conflict so special this week we'll look back at some of the key arguments that have shaped this often angry debate.

one of the accusations against the leaf side is that you consistently fail to articulate what the british economy would look like after bracks. last december we got a flash of real honesty from nigel farage at the oxford union when he said that i will accept that none of us knows what the risks are if we leave the european union . muffles the most momentous decision that the british being required to take in 40 years. and you know what the risks are so not sort of fly with me and we'll see what happens yes but that's it isn't it is the whole point is that if we don't think the country is worth more than they have the hope point is if we put the x in the box in the right box on the ballot paper we then have 2 years of hopefully

a responsible government hopefully a responsible chain that will negotiate a at exit package which is 101 is 830100 word it's like surely isn't it made me you know with luck yes as is this is a huge gamble you want the british people and it's a huge it's a huge gamble for both sides the nervous time for you coming up to the referendum so nervous that you've even started talk about what it would be like to lose haven't you. well what i was actually trying to do was say that the leave campaign has made no attempt at all to describe what a post that u.k. would look like so the question i was raising was if we were to go to the rich are clearly hoped that we weren't what would the mandate be because there's a huge difference between staying in the single market or leaving it but why residents of those you sense defeat you know i'm raising it now because i think

it's really important that when people go to the ballot box on the 23rd of june they understand what leave means and at the moment there's a black hole you never stretch to fact in this campaign in every campaign some people have and no i don't think i ever did but some people on both sides used good and bad arguments but if you saw the people involved leave using bad arguments musically speaking of it look there were always some losing argument the whole country was involved in this campaign so of course there were good and bad arguments that's not an excuse for misleading people i don't think i've missed later but what about your campaign as you were leading right of the campaign some people who were campaigning for early vote used bad or you were only. very minimal did you want to rein them in. in life we are responsible for what we do right we're not responsible for every ally who might have reached the same position as you were saying let me just revoke leave camp you will know and i said i got it you on the. strategy that's the strategy you have to answer please do well here are

a number of things that were said during the campaign that i think may now be fairly decried as false we were told that there would be an emergency budget that would have to be emergency tax rises we're now being told will be tax cuts we were told there are immigration officers. that the french government as i've said that's not going to have as a consequence for what the other side said i'm only going to hold you responsible for what you said and why and you can call yourself what i said let's do course 1st with what appear to be radically conflicting claims by you and the leading lights in your campaign right after the vote you cause something of a stir on television by saying that you favored the free movement of workers to and from the u.k. it means free movement of labor you said it doesn't mean e.u. citizenship my question is at what point did you declare in the campaign vote it'll mean freeman grew out of every minute of every nearly every well actually give me one a very old program one example if you'll allow me to go well tonight just on that very program sitting around that very table with that very same interviewer at the start of the campaign i had said exactly the same thing i written

a book called why vote leave which sets it all out which sold 20000 copies are hardly think i can accuse of which something this will mean free of labor yes it does we will never accept to do the european union you cannot expect that if the british people or the majority of the british people want to go out of the european union that we shall destroy the utopian union i have to defend the interests of european citizens that i have to defend the interests of the german citizens the belgium citizens who want to keep the european union because it's in their advantage what i was saying here is this it would be a bad thing for the peoples of europe if the political class of europe will. fully go for a bad deal with britain because they want to punish us they want to discourage other people leaving the club and i do not think that across much of europe that the political elites are held in any high degree of regard so you can certainly accuse me of attacking the european elites but my goodness me they've given me some

take all right hear this from the german car manufacturers you told everyone in britain of course the germans will never allow terrorists to be slapped on their car exports to britain would want it they wouldn't want it ok so what is chancellor merkel tell the world she said the internal cohesion of the e.u. would come before defending german exports to the u.k. the association of car manufacturers says the future of the e.u. is more important than short term exports would you know what this actually plays the why has even more this gives me leave this gives me an even bigger card that i thought i had to play because here is my i don't use card that's what they're telling a little bit but i don't give a damn card oh come on the relationship between big business big banks and big politics is what it is they don't want things to change they like the status quo the way that it is what happens if it all goes wrong and we haven't even started what the negotiations do you said you know 2015 you said in 2015 at the oxford

union none of us knows what the risks are if we leave the european union none of us knows what the risks are if we stay in the year about right so we were left to just you know take your bravado and your but it's very simple and your assurance of that very simple we're left to do that very simple you could never predict the future exactly whatever side of the referendum or are you in as you say you'd u.k. well anyone who thinks he knows the future should be retarded should have a default to be about. the real question with that referendum was should we be responsible as a nation with its own identity for making the key decisions that determine our future i want to get them right or get them wrong genuinely once every 4 or 5 years have the chance to hope to work out the people who took those decisions or do we think our future better to be a small voice as part of

a bigger new state and i've been as you know objective about that as i possibly can but that's what the referendum was about what we opted for not by a massive barge of what we opted for was making our own decisions and steering our own ship and that i believe to be right it off circumstances here's a context which is really important we've said that at the end of this process when people know what the braggs that deal what leaving the european union might look like we've got a few answers that we don't have at the moment then you give the people of scotland a choice and what's been fascinating as a way that's been breached by politicians across the european institutions and across europe as well the conservative party is almost completely united around the process of leaving the european union and also by the way on leaving but it's the mechanics of the time is that where the negotiation skills we do know the outcome of the negotiations or we're going to they can express it party does give me a lot of the microcosm of the government the got just you know they want to know i could know the government doesn't even know what it was yet another so we're in the middle of a negotiation my point is you negotiate that's what you do you negotiate with the

european union european union pissed in there what it wants this government doesn't say is oh well actually i did read the other day that a number of people in the european either don't agree with the commission for example i think it was the austrian finance minister maybe wrong about exactly what job he holds or maybe it was a commission i can't remember but he actually said quite clearly that the u.k. was an incredibly strong position because the european union needed the trade we also had the fire he's the only one is in the who is the only one of me finish the finance minister of a very election mrs merkel the other day about making sure that she didn't screw up the negotiations. because over a 1000000 and a half jobs in bavaria rely on exports to the u.k. of machine tools and cars alone there are plenty as i talk to a lot of european businesses i was talking to a person the other day that does low tech product is a belgian manufacturing producer potatoes he said the last thing we need in europe is a tariff wall because my business would go down the tubes i employ lots of people i said have you spoken to your politicians he said we're talking to them now so before we just get this out of kilter the european union is in a position where they're not altogether completely united and they also recognize

that they do need a trade deal they want a deal that is your go into i know the bit more about trade is a new deal it not only trade deals let me tell you something about this trade deal i mentioned to stop interrupting me and just let me tell you about a trade deal right you might learn something here's what has to happen as we leave the european union we will also reenter the w t o as a voting member were a member but we're not a voting member now the show jewels that are owned by the e.u. actually have a financial tag to them so unless they agree with us the amount of money that we pay to take some of those shell jewels relevant to us and lodge them at the w t o they will end up as the e.u. spending a great deal more money for less potency now here's the point they have to settle that that's not they might they have to settle that at the time we leave otherwise they pick up a bigger bill so mr barney

a knows very well that until this for example is settled nothing is settled but we are where we are there's no point in revisiting history there's no demands in the country for a further general election what their arguments for from i know from standing on doorsteps in my constituency is for the u.k. government to proceed with the negotiations and then doubt the best possible deal so that's why all these things should be very much explored the my point is that in trying to get a solution that kate's both remain as and brick city years britain seems to be reduced. to putting forward ideas that are pretty much and workable is that really the best your party can do well i think that all options have to be on the table until all of those objectives well i think the understanding is understanding of the why things are rejected now the back seat referendum has been hugely divisive in this country i do think one of the mistakes made early on was not trying to acknowledge that whilst they leave campaign of $116000000.00 people 40 percent of those who voted had not voted for this so in trying to bring people together to

explain that we would be leaving but we would do it in a way that was not going to damage completely unnecessarily people's own livelihoods and our economy that's what we're sort of catching up to now that's right specks we debated both in parliament and in cabinet in the next few weeks looking back over the last 2 years you were part of david cameron's cabinet which approved this referendum why did none of you ever asked the kinds of basic questions that people are grappling with no what if what if we lose the referendum what is the budget splits what if europe applies the rules what about the northern ireland border why were none of these questions thought about before her and why can't say they weren't there weren't thought about. well partly because of the many of us campaigned in order to remain and it's difficult if your campaign for one thing to gaze into the crystal ball and answer every question that's going to come up i deeply regret the result but the result is here is we in this country of the

sea had a fair and democratic vote difficult very difficult for people to accept but i think it is the right thing to do to balance those 2 now which is to say yes we are going to leave the european union but we're not going to do it in a way that is damaging if we consider back to the past a read if the vote from 2 years ago but actually i think what happens is that attention is not given that feature relationship between the 2 parties which is very important or as we call it reston system. of democracy rule of law parliamentarism is under stress what happened in u.k. u.k. them the origin of modern parliament or is moved the most important assistant in for the 1st occurrence in this century for you kate from westminster to reverend i'm crazy islam but this is the key sticking point the

irish border the border between the irish republican northern ireland. if britain crashes out without a deal day one on this board or what happens there will be controls posing holding up those controls while both sides will need to put their own says it isn't anonymous as it isn't of course of finance is it isn't well we will need to have contingency plans for that of course so what are your contingency from day one of course you don't expect that smugglers will start importing goods into europe because at the moment we have alignment but very soon if this border is not policed well it will be abused and i'm of the e.u. use plans than what you can believe that we are going to pull displaying. 208 border crossing yes and you propose to police all those to you when we will need to control we will need to come against the wishes of the irish state against the wishes of the irish while i believe made it perfectly clear what we're saying is very clear this from simon the foreign minister the irish government will not

support the reemergence of border infrastructure on this island can it be clear of the not know it cannot be clearer than that but then they know the consequence is that then we will put the checks elsewhere than on the in try responder who who will put the check was the european union member states what do you believe what do these checks look like then who is going to put the money from tax but not from takes i mean did the customs. the customs of 3000 of various member state i mean what you believe do you believe that we are going to let any good enter the european union just unchecked and so if if the i respond do it then of course people on the continent will and so there will be a border between learned and other and and that i tell you that the republic of ireland is very much about the integrity of the single market and doesn't want to be excluded from the single market and believe me and this is the calculus that many british are just ignoring is that yes heartbreaks it will be damaging for you

$27.00 it would be even more for the u.k. but that is not our problem it would. 27 the european parliament has failed time again to connect to ordinary people brics it is proof of that and you know i don't think bricks it is proof of that we don't know that the analysis on what breaks it really means is still out because i think you know the reasons why people voted for brics that are maybe very much connected to the reasons why american people voted for trump and incidentally to turn out if you're because america really likes their freedom you get maybe you can hear me out the american turnout at the american elections is not very high either but it's clear that people are facing a choice of the kind of world they want to live in some people would like to go back in time take rights away from people you know end equality and pluralism and free democracy and that is really what's at stake here people are losing faith through the here's the paradox and the highest level of support for membership since 983 but more than half the people of europe think he was likely to collapse

within a generation all did well for the 1st breath and see also the legacy that our society is out of the chaos and implosion that unfortunately we have seen in the u.k. has been a vaccination rather than infection for the rest of europe we have seen so you should be stronger see as a result of that we have seen if i can finish my sentence do your a barrel mate took kountry of to count tree you're planning on popularity has increased even in hungary with a few exception the czech republic and we have seen one after the extreme right political parties dropping the agenda of leaving the european union and leaving the euro so why do citizens of all these day why liberals and greens have gone forward and your actions they want to stronger europe they don't want to weaken your so what you do is you go straight to the so-called future relationship. and you say what is the desired end state at the end of all of these negotiations. and that is

a comprehensive free trade agreement between the united kingdom and the european union so that we can try to a mutual benefit in advantage would lie were no tariffs into the forseeable future we were always going to have to at some point agree the future relationship so my argument would be little difference that would flood britain's low. markets manufacturing lamarck well that's a matter for negotiations but there is an existing template it's the e.u. canadian free trade agreement which was signed in 2016 which took how many years to look at well that took 7 years to negotiate it but the advantage of that is that we've already done all the heavy lifting so we all do you know all the heavy lifting is very different to. what you would do very different but what you do is you type that as a start point so you have a template that you know by definition the e.u. did accept because they signed it and then you say you don't start with a blank piece of paper you start with that and then you see whether you can modify

it so for instance it would be tough for the weaker position because by doing already of the oh yes i'm perfectly prepared to leave on w t o terms while those negotiations take place but i would aspire to the fact the industry is warning that this is going to be a nonsense if you could say well you're project fantasy you don't know who did well the european elections the european elections in this country who are overwhelmingly won by the brics party whose policy was to leave if necessary with no deal the people in this country overwhelmingly voted for that so there is a mandate we can't leave brussels without a mention of brecht's it british newspapers adjusting in the last few days that there are new overtures being made to boris johnson this after the european union has stressed repeatedly that there is no reopening of the withdrawal agreement is the e.u. in the process of blinking at the 11th hour. no we have said and ordered off on the

law and has repeatedly continued to say this we want to stay friends with our british neighbors that's not easy in the current political debate especially not easing the current debate in the u.k. but that's the principle we want to stick to but it's obvious that the treaty that we have been negotiating about me and to me government is the treated that is on the table and if you have new people now coming into the e.u. and you have a new person they're coming into all of the government but the principles behind that treaty don't change it's only the one of the 5 european countries including germany and france allegedly making contact with johnson in order to see what chance there is of a new deal you know as i said the principle that we are having all together and i think it's not only these 5 countries all countries in the european union wants to stay friends with our british neighbors so the point is that the basic principles of the treaty they are they are they cannot be changed but for sure we have to stay in touch with boris johnson and whatever other candidate that may win this battle because we want to make sure that in the long run we stay friendly neighbors we

will always be there close to each other and we cannot afford a situation where we are in a bad mood hanging around together we have to face the future together even if they usually want a new overture from the doesn't it otherwise come october. you will both both the e.u. and britain will reach a scenario that none of you wanted none of you want out with the deal exactly doesn't doesn't it's not presumption doesn't say much for the last 3 years it's your presumption that there will be maybe a crash out without the deal but it's not the deal is on the table in the u.k. and the next prime minister can still subscribe to it or make propositions how we can improve it but despite what they've said and despite what the. bush team that's obvious in politics you can in politics discuss about everything but you cannot change the principles of the treaty they must remain and the principles of the treaty are the basics of the treaty but what boris johnson or whatever candidate wants to do we have to see when they are in office here with

a vis didn't he the 1st thing about the european union this is was what he said within minutes of a vote for bret's it the c.e.o.'s of most eighty's b.m.w. v.w. an audi would be knocking on merkel's door demanding there be no barriers to the fish market didn't happen i think they said it was going to be the easiest deal in history didn't have what it should all the cards were going to be in britain's hands didn't happen this was nonsense wasn't project fantasy you know what we've what we've got is we do still have some semblance of democracy in this country whereby people are dissatisfied what the government's doing come and lobby me our lobby the prime minister they lobby the prime minister directly due to the democratic deficit in the european union we're trading with germany france and all the other e.u. countries but they've given the powers of these negotiations to an another body called the european union and and it's. what it wants to get out of these negotiations is going to be different to what our customers in those countries want

to get on there is a huge democratic deficit with the people making the big decisions in the european union and not elected or not not politically account a lot of the bill murray of the mob we just had the largest the largest democratic vote is for the european parliament yes a large 400000000 people a lot of the largest party elected that parliament is the brics a party. you're unhappy with the democracy for that's democracy is democracy mr pidgen when you look around this country you can't fail to see people getting angrier more divided more bitter demonstrations are getting angry you know like it that way the country divided from the known fact to no not at all and that's what you have just students to a deal has produced isn't no it's the resistance to leaving as i said the democracy only works you had a deal you could have left you would have been out but it was a very very bad deal and it would have it was a deal i don't think we ever would have got out of the backstop i think that was the end state for that he got in mind for our country and they would have had

a fatalist in the article 50 process we can actually leave or we're in a time of along we extend it and however unpopular it is with our electorate once which signed that would draw agreement the e.u. would have a veto when we could actually get out of that treaty. and i do think the country can come back together but one thing for sure how is it going to come back to go when we lose so deep when we actually you're about to take a position in the arguments steering brakes it steering group well it's one of the only direct that any noise to be is going to be you kick off in italy. and you've got to deal with the 11 months while are not on everything on having a bare bones deal probably yes. you could have done a deal with the reason my why didn't he do that you would have had a softer bret's it and remember gross due to insisting only i respect stop because

it's killing that finished her off didn't well she had no majority in her parliament and she could have got an agreement through if you'd let her on the backstop application of the real it i think that protecting the rights of 4 companies offer citizens are protecting peace in ireland was not a key priority i don't agree with you our government said it was a key priority but the backstop wasn't necessary but you're going to end up now with a with an outcome if britain leaves without a deal that's an outcome that nobody wants as usually the brain yeah but you didn't want it either though but it's going to cause massive disruption for you tell me why is my point is you cry out a voice it's a choice for the breath if you want to destroy their country i don't think that is what they want they have to be responsible leaders it's time for responsible europe's going to suffer too that's for sure i mean there's no good brighter.

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