Valuetainment - June 25, 2026


"Been Going On for 40 Years” - The UK Grooming Gangs Scandal


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Today is the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, and the UK has had 7 Prime Ministers in the last 10 years. Is this a good or bad thing? And why is it happening? And what can we do about it?

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00:00:00.000 as a member of the parliament yourself in Britain,
00:00:02.780 today is the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum
00:00:07.580 that happened 10 years ago, and UK voted 51-9 to 48-1.
00:00:13.060 And since then, you've had 10 different prime ministers,
00:00:16.780 seven different prime ministers in 10 years.
00:00:19.200 Keir Starmer just resigned a couple days ago.
00:00:21.100 I think when you and I were speaking on Sunday,
00:00:23.600 the next day he resigns.
00:00:25.440 So why do you think, one, he resigned,
00:00:28.620 And why has UK had seven different prime ministers the last 10 years?
00:00:33.460 Well, as I think we discussed briefly when we spoke, which was an enjoyable call on Sunday evening,
00:00:42.700 it's indicative of a sort of historical, what I call heavyweight country that is in decline.
00:00:51.280 And I think where it's gone wrong is that Parliament, which basically is supposed to be populated by 650 MPs who represent the people, they are supposed to be omnipotent and they are supposed to effectively protect the interests of the British people and the British nation.
00:01:12.420 But you have to lay the blame, I think, for what is happening at the door, arguably of Tony Blair, largely, and his changes to our Constitution and his introduction of various acts and laws which undermined our Constitution, which, as you know, had served us extremely well and delivered probably the highest trust society on earth with the best functioning parliament judiciary.
00:01:42.420 civil service where you had a vocational civil service that was basically uh uh required to
00:01:48.960 deliver and and it was in its dna dna to deliver uh obviously a lot of the stuff emanated from
00:01:56.720 empire from the fact that we as a small nation were administering a very large percentage of
00:02:02.180 the globe but i think what's happening and you often see this throughout history is is is great
00:02:09.020 nations wax and wane. And I think we are slowly waning. And in answer to your question, I don't
00:02:17.760 think we now have this functioning civil service. I think the Tony Blair's changes to our Constitution,
00:02:25.460 the introduction of the Human Rights Act, the introduction of a Supreme Court, which
00:02:31.980 basically is now a quango and no longer reports to the Lord Chancellor, who basically was
00:02:39.020 accountable for appointments in the past. Also, the Equality Act, which I think has
00:02:45.240 damaged the relationship between people on the ground by basically turning it into a sort of
00:02:51.960 legal fest and enriching idle parasitic lawyers at the expense of the rest of the population. So
00:02:58.760 I think Tony Blair has a lot to blame and I for and I think he can see that himself in and recently
00:03:05.720 the old fox came out himself trying to almost distance himself from his own reforms so in
00:03:12.760 answer to your question I do think to have seven prime ministers or seven CEOs of a corporation
00:03:19.580 whatever it is that is that is not a sign of a healthy country or economy and and I like
00:03:27.720 continuity. In the businesses I run, I value continuity, I value loyalty, I value commitment
00:03:34.000 to that company or that cause. And we certainly haven't got that. We've got the disintegration of
00:03:41.000 the two-party system, which has let us down. Boris let us down in 2019 when he won an 80-seat
00:03:48.400 majority and failed to deliver the reforms that are needed. And we've really gone from
00:03:53.960 uh one disaster to another and parliament as i say has been undermined so we need to get
00:04:01.260 parliament back we need to in my view reverse devolution which i thought was it was been a
00:04:07.420 terrible plan which i think was part of the attempt to break up the most proud sovereign
00:04:13.180 nation in europe by the eu which again as you probably know the foundations of the eu is a
00:04:18.920 It was actually founded on a monopoly called the European Coal and Steel Community, so its genesis was a monopoly, and it was basically created by a bunch of largely Gramscian Marxists who, I think, realized they had to destroy the nation state if they were to create this European superpower that they've always intended to create.
00:04:42.100 but in in obviously uh uh in the in the vote in 2016 which you just alluded to
00:04:47.540 the british people threw a spanner in that in in the works and that has caused a lot of trouble
00:04:55.140 but suffice to say that despite the fact the british people are supposed to be the bosses
00:05:00.020 uh and they gave an instruction to the people who are serving them to deliver brexit
00:05:04.980 It hasn't happened. And we haven't had the proper Brexit because Europe fears what would happen if Britain truly reformed itself, got rid of this welfare economy and actually started to create wealth and to follow some form of Austrian school economic model, which deregulated and genuinely invested long term, encouraged the private sector, not the state.
00:05:33.380 all the things that are necessary to create wealth.
00:05:36.480 But Europe is petrified of that, Patrick,
00:05:39.000 because Europe is a sclerotic, dying, monopolistic sort of block of countries
00:05:45.920 who, as I say, are founded on a sort of socialist principle
00:05:49.560 rather than a capitalist principle.
00:05:51.100 Let me ask you, how much of it is they're avoiding touching
00:05:54.580 or addressing issues that the people actually want
00:05:58.380 because they're trying to, you know,
00:06:01.900 they're afraid of the minority feud that are too loud.
00:06:05.420 What are they afraid of?
00:06:06.860 What are they afraid of doing?
00:06:09.460 Well, as I say, I think it's been a plan
00:06:13.480 to arguably stop a further war in Europe,
00:06:17.020 which hasn't been successful
00:06:18.120 because we've had further wars in Europe
00:06:19.660 since the genesis of the EU.
00:06:20.960 Indeed, we have one now that's been going on
00:06:22.740 for longer in Ukraine
00:06:25.440 than the First and Second World War put together.
00:06:28.380 if you take the incursion into the Donbass and Bluhansk and Crimea in 2014.
00:06:35.300 So, look, I think they're totally misguided.
00:06:38.820 I personally like the concept of competing nation states who have a proud history,
00:06:46.740 who have an accountable parliament and accountable government,
00:06:50.060 and who put the interests of their people at the top of the agenda,
00:06:52.680 which I have to applaud the people leading the U.S. now.
00:06:56.580 I think you've been through some dark times and some of the malaise that we have, we've imported from you.
00:07:02.660 And I think when you see what happened with USAID and you see what had to be done when Joe Biden left office, 0.97
00:07:11.540 you can understand how the tentacles of what I call wokery and DEI and all the sort of cancerous, 0.56
00:07:18.540 sort of malign philosophies that have permeated both you in parts and have taken massive hold
00:07:27.920 here in our civil service, in our government, and in almost all of our big corporates.
00:07:33.720 So you've seen the demise of the family business, and you've seen the rise of faceless shareholders
00:07:40.180 through pension funds. And very often, a bit like in the US, I think the big corporations,
00:07:46.520 the management team very often own a very small percentage of the business so you you you know
00:07:52.480 it's much less accountable than a than a business is owned by a family where people can go and talk
00:07:57.920 to the people who own it and whose interests are entirely aligned with the workforce so i look i
00:08:03.280 think many things have gone wrong and maybe again we should talk about central banks and we can talk
00:08:10.660 about quantitative easing and dishonest things like that which i think have distorted the sort
00:08:16.420 of protestant ethic which used to run deep through the us and the uk but you know that's a bigger
00:08:23.580 subject to to talk about but in in the short term i i lay the blame firmly at tony blair's door
00:08:31.280 and we've got to now in my view win an election before 29 and install a group of sensible people
00:08:40.560 with experience, who are going to instigate a plan to reverse a lot of this malign legislation
00:08:48.860 and a lot of this damaging philosophy, which is, I think, part of the Anglo-Saxon world now. 0.90
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00:08:59.120 your ceiling is your kid's floor. Let me say it one more time. Your ceiling is your kid's floor.
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