THE UK HAS VOTED IN ITS SPECIAL REFERENDUM AND THE MAJORITY OF
VOTERS HAVE DECIDED TO EXIT THE EU.
PRIOR TO THIS VOTE EVERYONE SPECULATED THAT STAYING IN THE
EU WOULD WIN BY A SMALL MARGIN, BUT ALL OF THE SPECULATIONS
WERE PROVEN FALSE.
ABOUT 33 MILLION PEOPLE VOTED, THE LEAD CAMPAIGN ONE BY 1
MILLION.
AS A RESULT, DAVID CAMERON HAS DECIDED TO STEP DOWN.
WE HAVE A VIDEO OF HIM NOT ONLY ADDRESSING THE VOTE, BUT ALSO
THE REASONS FOR STEPPING DOWN.
I THOUGHT THIS CAMPAIGN IN THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW, WHICH
IS TO SAY DIRECTLY AND PASSIONATELY WHEN I THINK AND
FEEL HEAD, HEART, AND SOUL.
I HELD NOTHING BACK.
I WAS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR ABOUT MY BELIEF THAT BRITAIN IS
STRONGER, SAFER, AND BETTER OFF [VIDEO BUFFERING] TO TAKE IT
IN THIS DIRECTION.
I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN AS PRIME MINISTER TO STEADY THE
SHIP OVER THE COMING WEEKS AND MONTHS.
BUT I DO NOT THINK IT WILL BE RIGHT FOR ME TO TRY TO BE THE
CAPTAIN THAT STEERS OUR COUNTRY TO ITS NEXT DESTINATION.
THERE ARE A LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS HAPPENING
BECAUSE HE WANTS TO STEP DOWN BY OCTOBER.
BUT HIS SUCCESSOR WON'T BE CHOSEN BY THE PUBLIC.
HIS PARTY WILL GO THROUGH A PROCESS TO DECIDE WHO THE
SUCCESSOR IS.
HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT.
ANOTHER THING, THE AGE BREAKDOWN WORKS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE
WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF STAYING VERSUS THOSE [VIDEO BUFFERING]
A WHOPPING 60% WANTED TO LEAVE.
THIS IS GOING TO HAVE SEVERE RAMIFICATIONS ON THE STOCK
MARKET WHICH WE'LL GET TO LATER, BUT LET'S HAVE A QUICK
DISCUSSION ABOUT CAMERON STEPPING DOWN.
HE WAS VERY MUCH AGAINST LEAVING, AND OTHER PEOPLE HAVE
VOTED TO LEAVE HE HAS DECIDED HE IS NOT THE RIGHT LEADER TO
WORK THROUGH ALL OF THIS.
IT IS TROUBLE OF HIS OWN MAKING.
HE CAVED BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE COULD WIN THIS EASILY.
WHEN HE DIDN'T THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK FROM POLITICAL ANALYSTS
THAT HE ALREADY HURT HIMSELF BADLY BECAUSE ONCE THE POLLS
STARTED TO CLOSE A BIT, EVEN IF THEY WOULD'VE WON BY TWO, OR
THREE POINTS, IT WOULD'VE WEAKENED HIM TREMENDOUSLY.
HE WOULD'VE BEEN GONE EITHER WAY.
GOOD LUCK, AND GOODBYE.
YEAH, I THINK EITHER WAY 52 TO 49,
HE PROBABLY WOULD'VE GONE ANYWAY.
AS WAS THE CASE IN GREAT BRITAIN, THE LEADER OF THE
PARTY RUNS THE COUNTRY AND THE PARTY IS THE MAJORITY.
THEY DON'T HAVE LIKE ELECTIONS LIKE WE DO.
AND OUR ELECTIONS ANYONE CAN WIN.
I DON'T KNOW BRITISH POLITICS MEDIA, BUT NOW I KNOW FOR
READING TODAY THAT FOR YEARS IN GREAT BRITAIN THEY KEPT
APPEALING TO THIS RADICAL RIGHT-WING STRAIN OF THE PARTY.
YOU APPEAL TO THAT ENOUGH, EVENTUALLY THEY WILL GET HEARD.
NOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO FEEL DISAFFECTED AND FEEL LIKE THE
SYSTEM DOESN'T WORK FOR THEM JUST PERFORMED WHAT MY
THREE-YEAR-OLD PERFORMS.
THEY STAMP THEIR FEET AND THEY COMPLAIN.
THEY GOT SOMETHING THAT THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T WANT.
NOW THEY'RE GOING TO GET A BRITISH GOVERNMENT THAT IS
RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE IS PREPOSTEROUS.
YOU SAW IN THAT VOTING THAT ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WAS THE
ABILITY TO GO LIVE AND WORK IN ANY OF THE EUROPEAN MEMBER
STATES.
THAT IS AN OPEN FREE SOCIETY [VIDEO BUFFERING] WOULDN'T IT BE
GREAT TO HAVE A JOB IN SWEDEN?
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
YOU HAVE DEPRIVED YOUNG BRITISH PEOPLE OF THAT CRITICAL
OPPORTUNITY.
ONE OF THE CRITICISMS OF THE STATE CAMPAIGN WAS THAT THEY
WERE UNABLE TO TACKLE CRITICISMS OR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE
PRESERVATION OF CULTURE.
A LOT OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH IMMIGRATION.
THOSE WHO WANTED TO LEAVE AND DID NOT LIKE THE IMMIGRATION
POLICIES.
A LOT OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
AND THE NUMBER OF SYRIAN REFUGEES.
PEOPLE WOULD ASK WHAT ABOUT PRESERVING OUR CULTURE AND
WHAT WE HAVE GROWN UP AROUND.
THE CRITICISM WAS THAT THOSE WHO WANTED TO STAY COULDN'T ANSWER
THAT.
BASED ON WHAT I HAVE SEEN I THINK THAT IS A FAIR CRITICISM.
I THINK THEY COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IN TALKING ABOUT THE
IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY AND OF A CULTURE EVOLVING AND CHANGING.
I KNOW PEOPLE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT, BUT WE ARE DEALING
WITH A SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT THE US TOOK A HUGE
PART IN.
THE TURMOIL HAS A LOT TO DO WITH WHAT THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN
POLICY IS.
OF COURSE THE UK HAS HAD A HAND IN THAT AS WELL.
THE QUESTION IS HOW DO YOU TACKLE THE ISSUE OF
IMMIGRATION AND HOW DO YOU CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT LEAVING
THE EU IS NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM.
I THINK THEY HAVE BEEN MISLED INTO THINKING IT'S GOING TO
SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND THEY NO LONGER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
IMMIGRANTS COMING INTO THEIR COUNTRY.
CAN
I JUST SAY ABOUT DAVID CAMERON, IT IS SHOCKING BECAUSE HE
CALLED FOR THIS VOTE, HE THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO WIN EASILY.
IT'S ALWAYS SHOCKING TO FIND THAT A CONSERVATIVE LEADER IS
OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE ELECTORATE.
HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY IDEA ñ SO, WHEN THEY GOT THE FIRST CHANCE
TO VOICE THEIR DISPLEASURE WITH THAT THEY DID, SO THIS IS A
VERSION OF A TRUMP VOTES.
IT'S ONLY AUSTERITY FOR THE WORKERS, IT'S NOT AUSTERITY
FOR THE RICH.
WE HAVE HAD ECONOMIES THAT HAVE BEEN FATTENING UP THE ELITES
WHILE THEIR WORKERS KEEP STRUGGLING.
WHAT DO THEY DO?
THEY BLAME IMMIGRATION JUST LIKE THE TRUMPET VOTERS ARE DOING
HERE.
WHY?
BECAUSE THEIR OWN LEADERS ARE PROVIDING THEM WITH ZERO
ANSWERS AND ZERO RELIEF.
IT PLEASANT TO THE VERY THING YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
YOU FEEL LIKE IF THINGS ARE SLIPPING AWAY FROM YOU, YOU
DON'T FEEL SECURE, YOU KNOW WHAT?
IT IS THEIR FAULT.
ABSOLUTELY.
IT PLAYS ON THE ANGER AND RAGE THEY FEEL.
ESPECIALLY AFTER THE BIG FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.
OBAMA WAS CRITICIZED FOR NOT PUTTING ENOUGH MONEY BACK INTO
THE SYSTEM.
INSTEAD WITH THE CONSERVATIVE LEADERS, THEY HAVE THIS
AUSTERITY PROGRAM WHICH STRANGLES THE MIDDLE CLASS.
YOU CAN'T RECOVER IN ECONOMY BY THEN TAKING MONEY OUT OF IT
AND TELLING THESE PEOPLE WELL, I'M SORRY.
AS BEN SAID, THIS DOG WHISTLE POLITICS.
NOW IT'S BEYOND DOG WHISTLE.
TO THAT POINT, ENGLAND HAS A PARTICULAR PROBLEM BECAUSE THE
IMMIGRATION LAW ñ THE WORK RULES ARE LAX.
THEY MAKE IT ATTRACTIVE FOR FOREIGN WORKERS TO COME IN AND
WORK.
SINCE 1990,
MANY OF THOSE FOREIGN WORKERS ARE NOT DIFFERENT COLORED.
MANY OF THOSE FOREIGN WORKERS ARE POLISH OR BULGARIAN.
I'M NOT DENYING THERE IS RACISM THERE, BUT TO JUST CALL THE
ANTI-IMMIGRANT TONE RACIST IN ENGLAND DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THAT
SOME OF IT IS JUST ñ
MIGHT BE A LEGITIMATE COMPLAINT ABOUT MY JOB IN SOME CASES.
IT'S THAT WHITE NATIONALIST FEELING.
AGAIN, TODAY WE ARE GOING TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY ñ
TAKE IT BACK FROM WHO?
BRITAIN HAS THE PARLIAMENT, THEY MAKE THEIR OWN LAWS, SO REALLY
WHAT IS BEING DENIED THEM?
IT IS BASICALLY THE TAX ñ
THEY NEED A SCAPEGOAT TO MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER.
OF THE PARALLELS JIMMY DREW A VOTERS SUPPORTING TRUMP
BECAUSE OF THEIR FRUSTRATION AND ANGER ABOUT OUR ECONOMY AND
WHAT THE VOTERS IN THE UK ARE EXPERIENCING.
I THINK IT IS A LOT OF ANGER AND IT IS MISDIRECTED.
WHAT FRUSTRATES ME ABOUT THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS I DON'T
KNOW WHETHER THOSE WHO VOTED TO LEAVE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE
ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF LEAVING THE EU.
IT'S ALREADY LED TO UNCERTAINTY IN THE MARKETS.
STOCKS HAVE PLUMMETED.
PEOPLE ARE LOSING A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THEIR
RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ALREADY.
THEY ARE ACTUALLY VOTING FOR SOMETHING THAT IS COUNTER TO
WHAT THEY GENUINELY WANT AND ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.
THEY ARE GOING BACKWARDS.
YOU CAN GO BACKWARDS.
YOU HAVE TO GO FORWARD SMARTLY.
YOU HAVE TO STILL GO FORWARD.
THE EUROPEAN UNION IS THERE AND YOU HAVE TO WORK INSIDE THE
EUROPEAN UNION.
BUT I THINK WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT IT WAS THE LACK OF
RESPONSIVENESS FROM THE GOVERNMENTS TO GOVERN THAT LED
TO THIS.
I WOULD SAY A COMBINATION OF FACTORS OF WHICH THAT IS
DEFINITELY ONE.
THE LABOUR PARTY THAT IN MANY CASES LIKE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
HERE, STOPPED STANDING UP FOR WORKING ENGLISHMEN IN THE SAME.
THEY DID IT IN A WAY THAT TRADITIONALLY THEY WERE NOT
SUPPOSED TO.
I
WONDER HOW MUCH THEY ACTUALLY WATCH AMERICAN TV OVER THERE?
WE WATCH BRITISH POLITICS, AND THEY HAD TO BE INFLUENCED BY
THE WHOLE TRUMP, MEXICANS ARE RAPISTS AND MURDERERS.
HERE ARE UPSET BRITISH PEOPLE.
DOING THE SAME THING.
I DON'T THINK THEY EVEN NEED TO WATCH AMERICAN POLITICS TO
FEEL THE WAY THEY FEEL.
I GET IT.
WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR MONGERING AND NOT JUST IN THE UNITED STATES
BUT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ABOUT WHAT MUSLIMS ARE DOING, I
THINK THAT FEAR DRIVES PEOPLE TO VOTE THE WAY THEY DO.
I THINK THAT FEAR DEFINITELY LEADS TO WHAT'S HAPPENED IN
ADDITION TO THEIR ECONOMIC FRUSTRATIONS.
BY THE WAY THE LEADER OF THE LEAVE CAMPAIGN HAS RELEASED A
STATEMENT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UPSET WITH HIM BECAUSE HE RESIGNS IN
LONDON AND LONDON VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY TO STAY.
SCOTLAND ALSO VOTED TO STAY.
BUT MANY ARE SPECULATING THAT HE WILL BE THE NEXT LEADER.
NO IDEA WHETHER OR NOT THAT WILL BE THE CASE.
HERE IS HIS STATEMENT.
THIS IS BORIS JOHNSON.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE UNITED KINGDOM WILL BE ANYWAY
LESS UNITED, NOR INDEED ñ AND TO THOSE THAT MAY BE ANXIOUS
WHETHER AT HOME OR ABROAD, THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE UNITED
KINGDOM WILL BE IN ANYWAY LESS UNITED NOR INDEED DOESN'T MEAN
THAT IT WILL BE ANY LESS EUROPEAN.
WE CANNOT TURN OUR BACKS ON EUROPE.
WE ARE PART OF EUROPE.
OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL CONTINUE TO
HAVE A WONDERFUL FUTURE AS EUROPEANS TRAVELING TO THE
CONSTANTS UNDERSTANDING THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES THAT
MAKE UP OUR COMMON EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION.
BUT THERE IS SIMPLY NO NEED IN THE 21ST
CENTURY TO BE PART OF A FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT BASED IN
BRUSSELS THAT IS IMITATED NOWHERE ELSE ON EARTH.
WE CANNOT TURN OUR BACKS ON EUROPE.
AND THAT IS THE LEADER OF THE LEAVE CAMPAIGN.
THE PARALLELS BETWEEN HIM AND TRUMP ARE AMAZING.
BOTH HAVE DISASTROUS HAIR AND CONTRADICT THEIR OWN
STATEMENTS IN THE SAME SPEECH.
IT'S AMAZING.
I WAS JUST SAYING THAT AS HE WAS TALKING.
WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM A GUY THAT DRIVES TO A PRESS CONFERENCE
ON THE BACK OF A MOTORCYCLE.
HE NEEDS A MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN HAT.
ALSO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE GET LESS UNITED ñ YES YOU ARE.
SCOTLAND VOTED TO REMAIN.
NOW THE BIGGEST REASON THEY STAYED IN THE UK WAS SO THEY
COULD STAY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION.
NOW WE'VE HEARD FROM THE LEADER THERE AND SHE IS SAYING WE
NEED TO VOTE AGAIN.
WHAT ARGUMENT ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE IN LONDON THAT THE UK
SHOULD REMAIN TOGETHER.
I SUSPECT THIS IS NOT ñ
OTHER COUNTRIES I PRESUME WOULD FOLLOW SUIT.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE GREAT BRITAIN VOTE AGAIN TODAY.
YOU READ A LOT OF QUOTES OF, "I DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD LEAVE, I
WAS JUST MAD.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE."
IT'S LIKE SAYING I DIDN'T THINK TRUMP WOULD WIN.