World Order: Brexit, Populism and Kissinger with Niall Ferguson - Conversations with History

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1. Even when you take out all of the economic stuff and just make it about "cultural" change, well that change that some of these people like to condescendingly speak of isn't necessarily a good thing. Human culture isn't equally good. Like what has happened over the last decade as the US has backed off asserting itself internationally, we've seen Russia and China and supposed caliphs fill the vacuum. That's not to say that Russians or Chinese or Muslims are bad, but Putin and the CCP and Islamists are. And within those cultures the moderates and rational thinkers are suppressed and even killed by the extremists in power. That's not to say that the US or UK or "the West" in general doesn't have its faults, it certainly does and they're all on display for everyone to see, but to have growing pockets of Islamic radicalization in Europe and US influence abroad shrinking to the benefit of Putin gobbling up the Ukraine and bombing the shit out of Syria and destabilizing the EU or China pushing the Philippines and Vietnam aside because they can due to culturally relative ideologies largely from the current Western left is a very bad thing.
2. Such patronising BS and often wrong. If people are coming in their tens of thousands to do the work Brits wont do (actually cant afford to do due to low low pay) and if these immigrants are good for Britain, why then are they immediately upon their arrival eligible for and indeed claiming in many cases, the full range of benefits for which Brits have contributed all of their lives . Why also are they allocated State housing over Brits as long as their 'need' is considered to be greater than others because they have a large family and pitch up with no home to go to. ? Free healthcare is also available to anyone who cares to come to Britain claiming to wish to work. Most immigrants send a large proportion of earned income back to their home countries so claiming they benefit because they they spend on goods and services is also false, indeed they cost taxpayers because they can also claim child benefit, even if their children dont reside in Britain, tax credits etc etc
   Britain is a tiny overcrowded and divided island now and immigration needs to be seriously restricted, before all our services collapse entirely and before there is civil unrest................
3. "I fundamentally in favour of empire. Indeed, I believe the empire is more necessary in the 21st century than every." -- Neil Ferguson in his defense for British colonialism.
4. naill admits he was wrong on brexit: https://youtu.be/332R8faUrhA
5. Kissinger is coming out with a pin up calendar. U haven't lived until you've seen this man in a banana hammock.
6. Finally one of the adults weighs in on Trump.
7. "...do jobs that would otherwise not get done." Really? Niall has not heard of supply and demand. Toilets in hedge fund buildings would go uncleaned....or perhaps they would have to put the wages up until someone would do that dirty, unpleasant job.
8. so shit hearing this bullshit argument that there taking the jobs we wont do.
   
   but why is that.?
   is it because all them coming here has put most jobs on 0 hours with agencys and diven all wages down to point you cant do that job and live on it unless you go live in a shared house.
   
   i stared 2 different jobs last year and both times i left because i was the only person there that spoke english.
   even the manager who ment to tell me what im doing each day didnt speak a word of english
9. Populism is an ideology that "pits a virtuous and
   homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are
   together depicted as depriving the sovereign people of their rights, values,
   prosperity, identity, and voice.
10. If only a small fraction of the 50% of immigration that comes from the European Union into the United Kingdom, are Eastern Europeans then why are Polish people {from Eastern Europe} now the largest foreign born demographic inside the United Kingdom, overtaking people of Indian descent for the first time? This is without mentioning immigration into the United Kingdom from the rest of Eastern Europe..
    
    There is only one logical conclusion to draw. Immigration from Eastern Europe into the United Kingdom, especially from Poland, since the UK joined the EU in 1973 has been substantial. UK communities reflect this fact and the composition of the UK low skilled workforce reflects this fact.
    
    I don't remember that possibility being put to the British people in 1973 when they were deciding on whether to join the EEC nor was it put to the British people in a referendum before 2016.
    
    I notice Mr. Ferguson stated that employment for UK citizens has increase enormously since the recovery of 2008/2009, Perhaps he would care to explain why in the last year 90% of the advertised job vacancies in the United Kingdom have been given to Non-UK citizens {official statistic}, previous years having similarly high Non-UK employment rates and that many of the UK citizens who are employed at the present moment in time are either on a stagnant wage, are a part-time worker or are on a zero hours contracts, none of which can be deemed an acceptable form of income to anyone living in a major advanced economy.
    
    All this along a backdrop of staggering wealth inequality in the United Kingdom, staggering income inequality and the erosion of English people's way of life within their own country
    
    If this is what globalization is, then British people don't want it and can live without it.
11. ‘’Europe’s nations should be guided towards the Super-state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be established by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will inevitably and irreversibly lead to federation’’. Jean Monnet
12. quite silly and wrong analysis..
13. Shame on you for whitewashing a war criminals record. It does not matter what his views where before he had any political power. When he had the power his record is clear and devastating. He prolonged Vietnam war just to benefit him personally. He planned and carried out overthought of government and destabilized countries. History has proved him wrong and shame on you for still trying to clean up his image. You will not be successful.
14. anti-immigration and anti-illegal immigration are two quite different conceptions, and you made a wrong analogy.
15. FUCK THE N.W.O. CUNTS.
16. All lies! Brits have been pushed out of an alrready destroyed Labour Market by very aggresive and organised Eastern European Workers. Those Jobs are the Son's of England and Wales.
17. Ferguson says that older UK Voters didn't have a "sophisticated idea about why they voted for Brexit". His arrogance knows no bounds!
18. the initial pathologising of Niall Ferguson in looking down especially to old people and Conservatives makes me cringe. I understand where he is coming but he better put his mind outside of his echo chamber. Forcing their type of Liberalism (Progressivism) created the rise of Populism that he is talking about.
19. omg harry kreisler is alive!! I thought for sure he'd be dead by now!!
20. So many rightly or wrongly finally had a say on how the establishment has completely ignored them..this goes back to WW1 and WW2 and how the working classes have been treated. .to be honest goes back further..people and the generation's have long memories..