The Beatles' Ringo Starr: Brexit Is Good for Britain | Short Clips

would you have voted that way or revolted for breakfast yet I would have already to get out but don't tell Bob Geldof why did you vote that way ring well because I think it's good I think it's a great move I think you know to be in control of your own country is a good move brexit is a statement of national sovereignty don't misunderstand me I like Nations I like borders I like the people that live within those borders making their own laws but I don't like it when faceless bureaucrats make laws for nations they don't even live in but that's what they do in the European Union imagine a Belgian telling a Brit how much he can charge his customers all the reverse the EU bureaucrats do this in a myriad of different ways all day every day the people voted and you know they have to get on with it no suddenly it's like oh well we don't like that vote and what do you mean you don't like that but you had the boat this is what one let's get on with it these peoples have effectively been hijacked by a giant ever-expanding bureaucracy the European Union people will say but isn't there a parliament a European Parliament that represents the people of Europe well yes but this body has got no real power it can't make its own laws rather the power resides with the European Commission they're unelected and they can't be removed and that's how absurd the whole thing is the European Parliament meets in Brussels at least that's what I thought when I was elected there but once a month do you know what happens they load the contents of our offices and papers into big plastic trunks and they put those trunks on lorries and they drive them then he 400 miles down Europe's motorways to a French city called Strasbourg where for four days the contents of our office in our papers are put into a new office and the Parliament then sits there twelve times a year this back and forth happens and this from an organisation who say they want to reduce their level of carbon footprint this from an organization whose accounts have not been given a clean bill of health for the auditors for the last 20 years this a parliament it's more like a traveling circus now all of Europe knows that it's costing nearly 300 million euros every year to move this back and forth from Brussels to Strasbourg so why isn't it reformed well the way the EU has been structured to change that would require changing the treaties and to change the treaties would need all 28 member governments to agree not to go to Strasbourg 12 times a year and you know something the French are never going to agree to that because it's in their economic interests for the travelling circus to go to Strasbourg that it shows you that a system of lawmaking has been devised where not only can the voters not change anything but the institutions themselves are pretty much incapable of reform unfortunately this is no laughing matter let me give you an example my countrymen know only too well the United Kingdom is an island it's surrounded by the sea and yet as members of the European Union we were only allowed to catch 20% of the fish swimming in territorial British waters what that meant but tens of thousands of jobs lost in Britain's coastal communities as we effectively gave away the ability to look after one of our greatest resources to a bureaucracy based in Brussels they wonder we left the EU again I have nothing against Europe quite the opposite I want good relations between all the European nations I want prosperous free and fair trade between those nations but I'll be damned if I'm going to give up my rights as a British citizen so that some yura crack can tell me how to live I won't do it and I'm certain that across the continent ultimately the French and the Italians won't put up with it either I'm Nigel Faraj for Prager University