i only watch c-span to see the latest british house of commons "episode"...Hague can be a riot sometimes. This bit here in particular. You can almost feel the last vestiges of political respect for Gordon gradually being sucked out of the room as Hague builds up steam...
Never political, but recent events have endeared me to the Tory party. They are doing what elected government should do. Protect national and sovereign interests.
I wish Youtube still had the video of Hague's speech for the Dissolution of Parliament. I think it was even better than this one as far as his oratory skills go.
This British politican are very idiots,because the GB i a part of EU from 1973 and your politican and you Media still for almost 40 years we have held in deep sleep.
Wake Up Britons the EU an reality for you for 40 years and more than 75% of the laws you live in here are European.
@04EUone The Conservative Party are traditionally anti-Europe and Euroscepticism is a big thing over here. Many of us see the Union as a buerocratic monster intent of becoming a superstate.
@BritishTrekkie952 i know that mate but is not valid reason, i think that many english people are against EU but no one of them has really valid reason.and no one of them knows why?
@04EUone I know what you mean. At the moment, I personally, am Europe neutral. I think most Eurosceptics don't like the idea of their country being run from brussels...
@BritishTrekkie952 I know is the only reason.but is at the same time is incredibly paradoxical, because they are more or less 40 years.more than 70% of the laws come from Brussel.There are also British politicians who must serve the interests of the Britis.very fair
@04EUone such a great statement you make. Have you been ignoring the newspapers for the last 15 years? How about i kick things off by with a couple... we can set our own interest rates and print own money. Why don't you go and ask greece what they would give to have these options? Europe, we don't hate you, we just don't want to be ruled by you. Unfortunately we have some numb skulls in our country that haven't really thought anything though
Britain gave up its right to veto on certain EU issues and one of them was on the issue of EU job appointments.
If Britain still had the right to veto EU appointments (which we now dont) then Brown would no doubt veto the appointment of Blair for President of the EU because Brown, as we all know, despises Blair!
@daf867 Essentially, Gordon Brown, the current Prime Minister, who had succeeded Tony Blair, didn't like Blair, and there was a lot of tension. When Blair stepped down and left office, Brown had been gunning for the job for ages. When he got it, the point was that he wouldn't have to deal with Blair.
The problem is, Blair was in the running for EU president. Therefore, Hague (the speaker) is ridiculing how again Brown will have to face his old problems of Blair again if this goes through.
LOL! 18 people who, even after 13 years of mismanagement, STILL think that LIEBOUR are best for this country!!! LOL. Please refrain from voting and preferably EMIGRATE!!
Getting called ignorant by someone who argued that North Korea was proof that trying to provide people with equal rights and opportunities didn't work? I'm speechless. It's 'export based economy' is largely based on its manufacturing sector, specifically its electronics and communications, which have little to do with natural resources. This is irrelevant anyway, as again you've missed the point - what has the size of their natural resources got to do with their system of government?
Yeah but Queer Hague then lost all his credibility by first taking his young man lover on expensive holidays paid for by the taxpayer MONTHS before he or The Conservative Party ever HIRED him for £30,000 a year to share hotel bedrooms with him and 'advise' him
i find it bizarre that the second most highly rated comment on this is with regard to 'the left' being famous for their lack of humour - yeah, because the world of comedy is full of tories and not at all left-leaning. i do admire hague's oratory skills, but he is a tory and therefore a cunt.
@havering3 The difference is that Tories and those on the Right are good at laughing at themselves. The Left very rarely have a sense of humour when it comes to introspection. Your final sentence sums up the attitude entirely.
@WindsorB While what you say is clearly not what was meant by the 'HughStirling' in the aforementioned comment, it does make more sense. Unfortunately, it's still bollocks. Having had a Labour government for the last 13 years, the Left have certainly been laughing at themselves (let's face it, it was either that or crying). You're just spouting the same old tired cliches about the Left that the Right have built up as a defence mechanism at having been ridiculed by all sides for the last 30 years
@havering3 I appreciate it is a bit of a generalisation, but what I am trying to get across is that those on the Left generally believe that their side is superior and have some right to moral supremacy, whilst those on the Right are, in some way, intrinsically evil. Hence my remark about your last sentence, that simply because he is a Tory he is a c**t. And I think this assumption of superiority often affects their ability to laugh at themselves.
@WindsorB I thought the moral superiority of the Left was something that was accepted by those on both sides of the political spectrum?
I think Clarkson and his band of merry morons (Littlejohn, Gaunt, etc) are the ones that have promoted the view of the Left being humourless over the last decade or so, so as to make their own opinions more acceptable:
HAHAHA I'm destroying the planet with my stupid cars!
HAHAHA Kick out all the gays/immigrants/ethnic minorities!
@havering3 Lol who thinks the left are morally superior apart from the left? The left are statist corporatists while the right support individual liberty. Who really has the moral high ground?
@bonfirejovi For 'individual liberty' read every man for himself, screw the rest. Real liberty comes from being afforded the same rights to healthcare, education, employment, housing and food as everybody else. Not from being able to make as much money as you can without any regard for anybody else. Nothing infuriates me more than right-wingers banging on about liberty - you don't understand the meaning of the word.
@smoochym@smoochym 'everybody has the "same rights" in North Korea' - you're very poorly informed, I'm afraid, in North Korea there is a dictatorship that has nothing to do with socialist ideas (though like China, it purports to). I suppose everyone there has the "same rights" in that they have a right to nothing at all, whether that be freedom of speech or even enough food. It's an oft-repeated ploy of idiots on the right to cite authoritarian, 'communist' regimes when attacking the left.
What an archaic opinion you have. I hate to shatter your naive and cliche world but the left is dead and buried. The only reason Labour ever came back to power was a massive swing to the right under Blair. I don't think there is one so called "social democratic" party in Europe that disagrees with the function of capitalism.
The only countries that maintain planned economies are places like Iran, North Korea, Libya - and you hold them up as a utopia? lol.
@smoochym Also, you've inferred beliefs from my comment that I didn't imply. I don't actually disagree with the function of capitalism, I'm in favour of state ownership of certain services (it's likely that you too, like the vast majority of the UK, approve of the NHS) but also think the free market has a big part to play. However, the fact that a lot of people in this country still live in poverty is unacceptable - a far higher level of wealth redistribution is needed.
@havering3 I don't agree with the NHS whatsoever, it's chronically ineffecient like every monopolistic enterprise, it has no competitors and it's "customers" are mandated to pay out of there wages every week.
Don't give me that naive bollocks about wealth distribution. Where do you think the wealth comes from in the first place? Private enterprise, which would get increasingly smaller the higer tax rates are. The higer the tax, the less bussiness around to pay it.
@smoochym I think a small amount of inefficiency is a fair price to pay for a decent standard of universal healthcare. Turning healthcare into a free market would almost certainly lower the level of healthcare available to those with less money, pricing some people out of it completely (as in the US).
Countries such as Sweden and Norway have very high levels of tax and very strong economies, encorporating both state ownership of certain sectors and private enterprise within the free market.
Except it's not a small amount of inefficiency, people die on waiting lists or like people die without insurance. Someone could pay there national insurance every week for 50 years without injury and still be refused life saving drugs. None of the worlds top healthcare systems function like the NHS. Take the French system for example, over 90% of people have private complimentary insurance, and they have to pay for the treatment out of there own money and be reimbursed a percentage of it back.
@smoochym The inefficiency of the NHS is always greatly exaggerated by its opponents, it's not perfect by any means and perhaps would benefit from outsourcing some work to private organisations, but it still far outperforms the vast majority of health services in other countries in the world. In countries like France and Germany, the healthcare differs from the UK only in how it is provided, not from the premise of universal healthcare through the redistribution of wealth by taxation.
@havering3 you're also completely wrong about Norway and Sweden, where socialist policies have made them underperform. In 1970s Norway had the 3rd highest per capita income in the world, Sweden had the highest per capita growth for many decades up until the 1950s. However, increasing levels of regulation and public expenditure led to slow growth and eventually to the government liberalising the markets and reducing spending.
I won't even mention there vast amounts of natural resources....
@smoochym While Norway does have large amounts of oil, I don't think Sweden are significantly (if at all) better endowed than other western countries. To be honest, the fact that their economies sporadically 'underperform' is relative to how they might perform with pure capitalism - far better that everyone goes to brilliant schools, has excellent healthcare, decent food, that no one lives on the street and that there is equal opportunity for all.
@smoochym Oh, and I don't think there's any point in carrying this argument on. You clearly have very strongly-held beliefs and I respect you for that, but I fundamentally disagree with you (like you with me). Neither of us are going to change our views on the whim of a comment on a youtube video, so it's probably best to stop.
Also, in future don't caricature the arguments of the left. It just makes you and the right in general look stupid.
@havering3 except im willing to change my opinion based on objective evidence clearly you're not. You're so ignorant you can't even be bothered to spend 1 minute checking the resources of Sweden. Sweden is an export based economy with large forests and deposits of iron ore amongst other things. Never heard of IKEA?
" but it still far outperforms the vast majority of health services in other countries in the world"
@smoochym The WHO ranked the UK 18th out of 190 in the last ranking of health systems, and I'd say over 90% is the vast majority. There's less chance of you changing your mind than their is of you making an intelligent argument. I really can't be bothered responding to your cretinous views and regurgitated bollocks any more - amuse yourself with the thought of all the jobs that'll be lost and people evicted from their homes because of the risible economic policies of your clearly-beloved Tories.
The WHO rankings are totally useless (besides being published in 2000) you really think Dominica has better standards of care than in the US? The rankings are based on things like life expectancy or infant mortality which are not solely related to the quality of care. It's also based on the availability of care, so although many places have "free" healthcare it's of a low quality yet it gets a high ranking.
@smoochym I'd say the availability of healthcare is incredibly important and it makes sense to include it. Anyway, you asked to see some evidence and I provided a ranking of health services of countries by the WHO. You're grasping at straws. Again, you're completely missing the point of the original argument. I tried to end the debate before, let's try again. I think you're wrong, you think I am, the issue cannot be resolved. Life's too short. Hague's a good public speaker, but a cunt.
@WindsorB Oh and surely my final sentence sums up the opposite - I am still able to enjoy Hague's speeches despite finding the majority of his views despicable.
He doesn't sound like he has a Yorkshire accent. Maybe a mild, watered down one, but I have never thought of him as someone known for his Yorkshire accent.
"We are all conscious in this Parliament, or we should be, of the way in which the job of First Lord of the Treasury evolved in Britain, steadily developing a grip over Cabinet Departments previously independent of it, and developing into the post of Prime Minister".
Hague is a brilliant man. He is funny but has the political knowledge and ability to back it up. A wonderful speaker, he truly is a treasure of the Conservative party.
Iam a Scottish nationalist and even i am a huge fan of William Hague,his oratory skills are unmatched in modern politics.A true political heavyweight,he would put to shame the shower of numpties that we have elected here in Scotland.
@m4rkyboy Apart from Salmond, of course,who although not as good a speech writer,is about the only one capable of holding his own in the cut and thrust of Westminster politics.
The unelected EU has gained it's power through a series of undemocratic treaties that have given away Parliament's law-making powers to this unelected foriegn bureaucracy, without any consent from the General Public and against the majority's will.
The EU is the most undemocratic thing that has happened to Britain in centuries.
I think that is the thinnest arguement ever made. If you weren't such an imbecile, you might have taken a moment to watch more than one video on here, and seen that its not just the Conservatives, but Labour, and all parties. This is what we pay our MPs for, holding the government to account and it seems that William Hague is doing this to the best of his very strong ability.
hague his a master of comedy timing in political speeches. a very funny man with that cool, cutting, dry northern wit. a wit that only northerners can execute to devastating effect
Labour, Tory, Lib dems are a joke today. I moved to the UK and it's a major eye opener to see whats going on back at home and the EU. I am now all anti EU and these 3 parys do not share most people view of the UK about EU.
I hoping UKIP has a good dent in there armor because I think UK will be strong once again when we leave the EU because it's screwing us up and dragging us down
had business dealings with w hague. we wrecked his order and ruined the job by not be able to complete in time. most customers when we do this flip their top. william hague was not pleased but understood our problem in getting stuff shipped in time on site. he was the most collected and thoughtful customer and despite being really cheesed off at the delay, he was professional to the last. we completed the job but my esteem for this guy is as high as can be. he would make a cool capable PM.
You are not going to believe this. My wife dated William Hague in the 80's. This was before she met me obviously. It could have been so different, she could have married Hague, and instead of marrying an American.
Where does justtakeiteasy live?, because the country he describes and the standard of living he enjoys clearly rule the UK out of the running. I live in the North-West, real labour heartland, you know - where the curtains are still closed at midday, except on a Tuesday when the Post Office closes for half-day. If you think this counrty is better than it was 13 years ago, I have to tell you, you are very much mistaken.
@justtakeiteasy Im a commoner and a hard working at that judging by your user name I can see why you're Labour . The sooner that Labour is voted out of office the better , bring in the Eton boys , far better thanthose socialist pricks in charge .
the commoners? Tony Blair went to the Scottish Eton and Labour have had more private=educated leaders than the Tories have had in the last 40 years..and the Tories have been led by more state-educated leaders..Thatcher..Major etc so your post is nonsense..Tony Blair said the class war was over..weren't you listening?
You are completely brainwashed or stark raving mad!! You are out of touch. I see my poor benefit friends down the road were removed from benefits and placed on different benefits and now bring home more ££££££'s. Labour con trick.
justtakeiteasy - You talk like a typical student, treating it all like some football match. And that school background thing is crap - there are plenty of prominent Labour Ministers that went to Public schools. And I notice you still have not answered my question that I will repeat yet again: In what way do you and your New Labour chums differ from the Tories?
UKIP is the only popular party that listens to the general public. The other three main parties are corrupt and self serving. The EU is a HUGE waste of Britain's money but the worst thing is how undemocratically we have been forced into being part of it.
What decision is more important to the public than who governs them? Three quarters of our laws are now being made by UNELECTED foreigners.
I'm negative because that's what the state of the country has brought about. We have a lying Labour government that broke its election promise on the Lisbon treaty referendum, is wasting billions on a pointless imperialist middle-eastern adventure and the EU, and has wrecked the country, allowing the British people to be constantly ripped off.
So you as a "Labour supporter" don't support renationalisation of the utilities and public transport? So what makes you different from the Tories?
If you actually knew anything about industry (but being a New Labour fan I wouldn't expect that) you would know that useless British management was constantly uninnovative and short-sighted, constantly taking all the profits out rather than reinvesting in R&D. The car industry constantly produced substandard cars compared to Germany and the US. Now, thanks to Labour and Tories, we are massively under-industrialised, and what there is now is foreign owned.
Okay, you have proved yourself to be deluded. I and others always notice the comparative filthiness of London when returning from abroad. There was a phone-in on LBC only last week about this and lots of people agreed, London is a mess.
You are very much like your New Labour chums -living in a different world to the rest of us - you see what you want to see, rather like a Soviet era blockhead who thought Stalin was the saviour of the masses.
On a par with Japan? What a joke. The British car industry is virtually Japanese, our electronics industries have virtually collapsed due to Japanese manufacturing superiority. And now , thanks to Gordon McUseless, Britain is now behind the economies of Europe. Whether you like it or not, Britain is buggered.
justtakeiteas - You talk like the Tories used to do when Thatcher was in power, when they'd laughably claim, in pompous fashion, that British 'this' was best and British 'that' was best.
The CBI have been constantly complaining that the literacy levels of post-graduates have been getting progressively worse over the last ten years. this is not helped by Labour continually messing with the education system, replacing traditional practices with useless trndy methods.
Hospitals are not places to have "good times." All I expect is competent doctors, and I've had a couple of bad ones, and my aunt, at the same hospital in Chertsey, where they wrecked her leg. Luckily I had the inelligence to take myself to a better hospital.
The NHS is going to eventually hit the buffers thanks to Labour's PFI. These PFI companies are a virtual black hole to state funding, eg. the will often charge the NHS £200 or more just to change a fluorescent tube.
justtakeiteasy - Regarding education, you delude yourself. Britain is producing appalling educational standards where employers are complaining that graduate literacy levels are at an all time low.
British roads are best? How many have you used. This country has a deserved reputation for bad roads. Even the Romans made roads better than here. The main roads even in Crete are in better condition than those of Britain.
Like I keep telling you - you are in some parallel universe.
justtakeiteasy - so on the grounds of visiting only Romania, France, Spain, Italy and Germany you can now say that Britain is best? What about all the other countries?
As far as health care goes, Britain is not best. Cuba is recognised as having among the best health care systems in the world. I myself have recently experienced appalling NHS treatment by a couldn't-care-less Asian consultant after having to sit around for 2 hours in a smelly, crowded waiting area.
Wow, and there was I thinking I lived in a country with a badly run economy.
Labour has done well to help the poor? What, by sending working class young men out to Afghanistan to get themselves blown to bits? By chucking money at the banks while allowing industries to sink? By allowing companies to outsource th cheap third world economies?
justtakeiteasy - you really need to enter the real world and get a full time job.
GREECE HAS MANY PROBLEMS WITH ITS ECONOMY THATS OBVIOUS BUT WHY??FIRST OF ALL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE 5 MILLIONS (GREEKS ARE 9 MILLIONS).THEY USE OUR WEALFARE , HEALTHCARE TAKE OUR MONEY AND THEY DONT PAY TAXES. IN 2004 GREEK ECONOMY WAS THE BEST IN EUROPE AND LAST 2 YEARS WE ARE ABOUT TO BANKRUPT. AND SECONDLY GREECE IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE COUNTRY IN THE WHOLE EU. ONE SIMPLE COFEE COSTS 12 EUROS. HOW CAN EU ASK FROM GREEK GONVERMENT TO RAISE TAXES AND REDUCE SALARIES.!!!iiiii
Mr Hague's time will come!
max31198 3 days ago
i only watch c-span to see the latest british house of commons "episode"...Hague can be a riot sometimes. This bit here in particular. You can almost feel the last vestiges of political respect for Gordon gradually being sucked out of the room as Hague builds up steam...
Purpleflyer1 6 days ago
Fantastic stuff. William Hague is a legend in the House of Commons.
I suspect many of the Labour MPs found it more funny than the Conservatives as most of them wanted to get rid of Brown by this stage.
Robeng34 1 week ago 3
so, so good. Hague is such a fantastic speaker. It never worked out for him as leader but his service to the party has been second to none
rougebaron76 1 week ago
@rougebaron76 True!
jamdowner 1 week ago
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jayesdw 1 week ago
Absolutely brilliant!
gmcclelland1992 1 month ago 3
Never political, but recent events have endeared me to the Tory party. They are doing what elected government should do. Protect national and sovereign interests.
tripware 1 month ago 4
Blair and Brown should br stripped of wealth and titles and shot.
jimmysfish1 1 month ago 3
Cameron is in fact crying with laughter. This is just superb.
andrejpwalker 2 months ago 6
Whereas Ribin Cook was surgical, Hague points out the absurdities. He and cook are the two greatest speakers I have heard in the last 15 years.
seasorb 3 months ago
I dislike this man, but what he says is hilarious!
YodaVanGrindey95 3 months ago
Masterpiece of his speech!Although there is something odd about how to give a speech.
asianfreedom21 3 months ago
I hate the way he talks.
SirAbdulle 3 months ago
I wish Youtube still had the video of Hague's speech for the Dissolution of Parliament. I think it was even better than this one as far as his oratory skills go.
bklounge87 6 months ago
i'd love to laugh at this, but then i found george osbourne laughing also and suddenly it was no longer amusing.
45678joe 6 months ago
I did not say that all are idiots fortunately, but many yes they are.
04EUone 6 months ago
Must be good.
my grammar is bad i know that but,you skills to political understanding is so so backward,politically speaking of course.
04EUone 6 months ago
This British politican are very idiots,because the GB i a part of EU from 1973 and your politican and you Media still for almost 40 years we have held in deep sleep.
Wake Up Britons the EU an reality for you for 40 years and more than 75% of the laws you live in here are European.
04EUone 6 months ago
@04EUone are you saying the EU is good or bad? rofl, sort your grammar out.
Stephanavich 6 months ago
@04EUone I couldn't take your comment seriously after reading "This British politician are very idiots"
edzdeman 6 months ago
@04EUone The Conservative Party are traditionally anti-Europe and Euroscepticism is a big thing over here. Many of us see the Union as a buerocratic monster intent of becoming a superstate.
BritishTrekkie952 6 months ago 5
@BritishTrekkie952 i know that mate but is not valid reason, i think that many english people are against EU but no one of them has really valid reason.and no one of them knows why?
04EUone 6 months ago
@04EUone I know what you mean. At the moment, I personally, am Europe neutral. I think most Eurosceptics don't like the idea of their country being run from brussels...
BritishTrekkie952 6 months ago
@BritishTrekkie952 I know is the only reason.but is at the same time is incredibly paradoxical, because they are more or less 40 years.more than 70% of the laws come from Brussel.There are also British politicians who must serve the interests of the Britis.very fair
04EUone 6 months ago
@BritishTrekkie952 do you really think so?!?
rougebaron76 1 week ago
@04EUone such a great statement you make. Have you been ignoring the newspapers for the last 15 years? How about i kick things off by with a couple... we can set our own interest rates and print own money. Why don't you go and ask greece what they would give to have these options? Europe, we don't hate you, we just don't want to be ruled by you. Unfortunately we have some numb skulls in our country that haven't really thought anything though
rougebaron76 1 week ago
Hague is fucking quality. Not PM quality as proven, but a damm good MP.
Kozzy06 7 months ago 4
Epic Burn. I am a Social Democrat and even I find that an awesome burn.
TheVoiceOfReason93 7 months ago
Can someone explain the veto joke to me?
usainlightning 7 months ago
@usainlightning
Britain gave up its right to veto on certain EU issues and one of them was on the issue of EU job appointments.
If Britain still had the right to veto EU appointments (which we now dont) then Brown would no doubt veto the appointment of Blair for President of the EU because Brown, as we all know, despises Blair!
chewblued 7 months ago
@chewblued HaHa thats probably the best one of the lot.
usainlightning 7 months ago
His voice is brilliant. I could listen to it until the end of time.
graemeh2009 7 months ago
@TheNonbeleiver Even if that were slightly true, so what?
graemeh2009 7 months ago
@HughStirling Well, Adam Johnson wasn't that bad on HIGNFY last week, but they tend not to do it in parliament. Pity, because it's worth watching.
deadtotheworld22 8 months ago
Can anyone make tapescript of this video?
unknowntramp 10 months ago
genious!!
vaux21 10 months ago 3
@HughStirling IF THERE EVER WAS A REAL LEFT IN LONDON U WOULD BE RIGHT!
timetochilli 11 months ago
You know you've got talent as an Parliamentary orator when you can have the *opposition* in stitches.
listerone 11 months ago 34
George Osborne clearly found that alot funnier than I did.
MsDeadCorpse 1 year ago
could anyone explain this to me you can PM m if you want
daf867 1 year ago
@daf867 Essentially, Gordon Brown, the current Prime Minister, who had succeeded Tony Blair, didn't like Blair, and there was a lot of tension. When Blair stepped down and left office, Brown had been gunning for the job for ages. When he got it, the point was that he wouldn't have to deal with Blair.
The problem is, Blair was in the running for EU president. Therefore, Hague (the speaker) is ridiculing how again Brown will have to face his old problems of Blair again if this goes through.
deadtotheworld22 1 year ago 4
@daf867 It was about Blair apparently wanting to run for President of Europe.
jameslove888 11 months ago
@HughStirling and only a labour govenment could run this country with a lack of decent polices
eitherwaybarneyrubbl 1 year ago 2
@HughStirling UKIP do this type of speeches all the time.
MrGilles1990 1 year ago
@HughStirling its packed with humour
evergonge 1 year ago
The sting in any rebuke is the truth.
timbenton72 1 year ago 3
LOL! 18 people who, even after 13 years of mismanagement, STILL think that LIEBOUR are best for this country!!! LOL. Please refrain from voting and preferably EMIGRATE!!
multimill 1 year ago 2
even miliband finds it funny lol
LadyMikala 1 year ago 20
the spelling mistakes in those comments can be attributed to my somewhat disorientated state at the time of writing
havering3 1 year ago
Getting called ignorant by someone who argued that North Korea was proof that trying to provide people with equal rights and opportunities didn't work? I'm speechless. It's 'export based economy' is largely based on its manufacturing sector, specifically its electronics and communications, which have little to do with natural resources. This is irrelevant anyway, as again you've missed the point - what has the size of their natural resources got to do with their system of government?
havering3 1 year ago
only hague can represent the uk as foreign secretary, hes simply great at the work he does
NewDayStudios 1 year ago
The nasty thing is the tories then signed up for the same treaty.
And guess what these politician bastards are all the same.
Career first everone and everthing else last.
Yehbytheway 1 year ago
Yeah but Queer Hague then lost all his credibility by first taking his young man lover on expensive holidays paid for by the taxpayer MONTHS before he or The Conservative Party ever HIRED him for £30,000 a year to share hotel bedrooms with him and 'advise' him
kenfig 1 year ago
Best speech in the commons since churchill!!
BREDATOR1 1 year ago
Osbourne looks like he's always bored sitting there...
Wraithdagger 1 year ago
@HughStirling i think UKIP could stir up a speech like that look up Nigel Farage.
MrGilles1990 1 year ago
classic hague
GlNGERBREAD 1 year ago
And what has Hague done to reverse this? Nowt. In fact May has signed away more sovereignty.
harlingtonstraker 1 year ago
i find it bizarre that the second most highly rated comment on this is with regard to 'the left' being famous for their lack of humour - yeah, because the world of comedy is full of tories and not at all left-leaning. i do admire hague's oratory skills, but he is a tory and therefore a cunt.
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 The difference is that Tories and those on the Right are good at laughing at themselves. The Left very rarely have a sense of humour when it comes to introspection. Your final sentence sums up the attitude entirely.
WindsorB 1 year ago
@WindsorB While what you say is clearly not what was meant by the 'HughStirling' in the aforementioned comment, it does make more sense. Unfortunately, it's still bollocks. Having had a Labour government for the last 13 years, the Left have certainly been laughing at themselves (let's face it, it was either that or crying). You're just spouting the same old tired cliches about the Left that the Right have built up as a defence mechanism at having been ridiculed by all sides for the last 30 years
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 I appreciate it is a bit of a generalisation, but what I am trying to get across is that those on the Left generally believe that their side is superior and have some right to moral supremacy, whilst those on the Right are, in some way, intrinsically evil. Hence my remark about your last sentence, that simply because he is a Tory he is a c**t. And I think this assumption of superiority often affects their ability to laugh at themselves.
But, as you say, these are generalisations!
WindsorB 1 year ago 2
@WindsorB I thought the moral superiority of the Left was something that was accepted by those on both sides of the political spectrum?
I think Clarkson and his band of merry morons (Littlejohn, Gaunt, etc) are the ones that have promoted the view of the Left being humourless over the last decade or so, so as to make their own opinions more acceptable:
HAHAHA I'm destroying the planet with my stupid cars!
HAHAHA Kick out all the gays/immigrants/ethnic minorities!
STUPID HUMOURLESS LEFTIES!
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 Lol who thinks the left are morally superior apart from the left? The left are statist corporatists while the right support individual liberty. Who really has the moral high ground?
bonfirejovi 1 year ago
@bonfirejovi For 'individual liberty' read every man for himself, screw the rest. Real liberty comes from being afforded the same rights to healthcare, education, employment, housing and food as everybody else. Not from being able to make as much money as you can without any regard for anybody else. Nothing infuriates me more than right-wingers banging on about liberty - you don't understand the meaning of the word.
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 everybody has the "same rights" in North Korea, but certainly not liberty.
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym @smoochym 'everybody has the "same rights" in North Korea' - you're very poorly informed, I'm afraid, in North Korea there is a dictatorship that has nothing to do with socialist ideas (though like China, it purports to). I suppose everyone there has the "same rights" in that they have a right to nothing at all, whether that be freedom of speech or even enough food. It's an oft-repeated ploy of idiots on the right to cite authoritarian, 'communist' regimes when attacking the left.
havering3 1 year ago
What an archaic opinion you have. I hate to shatter your naive and cliche world but the left is dead and buried. The only reason Labour ever came back to power was a massive swing to the right under Blair. I don't think there is one so called "social democratic" party in Europe that disagrees with the function of capitalism.
The only countries that maintain planned economies are places like Iran, North Korea, Libya - and you hold them up as a utopia? lol.
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym Also, you've inferred beliefs from my comment that I didn't imply. I don't actually disagree with the function of capitalism, I'm in favour of state ownership of certain services (it's likely that you too, like the vast majority of the UK, approve of the NHS) but also think the free market has a big part to play. However, the fact that a lot of people in this country still live in poverty is unacceptable - a far higher level of wealth redistribution is needed.
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 I don't agree with the NHS whatsoever, it's chronically ineffecient like every monopolistic enterprise, it has no competitors and it's "customers" are mandated to pay out of there wages every week.
Don't give me that naive bollocks about wealth distribution. Where do you think the wealth comes from in the first place? Private enterprise, which would get increasingly smaller the higer tax rates are. The higer the tax, the less bussiness around to pay it.
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym I think a small amount of inefficiency is a fair price to pay for a decent standard of universal healthcare. Turning healthcare into a free market would almost certainly lower the level of healthcare available to those with less money, pricing some people out of it completely (as in the US).
Countries such as Sweden and Norway have very high levels of tax and very strong economies, encorporating both state ownership of certain sectors and private enterprise within the free market.
havering3 1 year ago
Except it's not a small amount of inefficiency, people die on waiting lists or like people die without insurance. Someone could pay there national insurance every week for 50 years without injury and still be refused life saving drugs. None of the worlds top healthcare systems function like the NHS. Take the French system for example, over 90% of people have private complimentary insurance, and they have to pay for the treatment out of there own money and be reimbursed a percentage of it back.
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym The inefficiency of the NHS is always greatly exaggerated by its opponents, it's not perfect by any means and perhaps would benefit from outsourcing some work to private organisations, but it still far outperforms the vast majority of health services in other countries in the world. In countries like France and Germany, the healthcare differs from the UK only in how it is provided, not from the premise of universal healthcare through the redistribution of wealth by taxation.
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 you're also completely wrong about Norway and Sweden, where socialist policies have made them underperform. In 1970s Norway had the 3rd highest per capita income in the world, Sweden had the highest per capita growth for many decades up until the 1950s. However, increasing levels of regulation and public expenditure led to slow growth and eventually to the government liberalising the markets and reducing spending.
I won't even mention there vast amounts of natural resources....
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym While Norway does have large amounts of oil, I don't think Sweden are significantly (if at all) better endowed than other western countries. To be honest, the fact that their economies sporadically 'underperform' is relative to how they might perform with pure capitalism - far better that everyone goes to brilliant schools, has excellent healthcare, decent food, that no one lives on the street and that there is equal opportunity for all.
havering3 1 year ago
@smoochym Oh, and I don't think there's any point in carrying this argument on. You clearly have very strongly-held beliefs and I respect you for that, but I fundamentally disagree with you (like you with me). Neither of us are going to change our views on the whim of a comment on a youtube video, so it's probably best to stop.
Also, in future don't caricature the arguments of the left. It just makes you and the right in general look stupid.
Oh dear. Your profile picture is of Enoch Powell.
havering3 1 year ago
@havering3 except im willing to change my opinion based on objective evidence clearly you're not. You're so ignorant you can't even be bothered to spend 1 minute checking the resources of Sweden. Sweden is an export based economy with large forests and deposits of iron ore amongst other things. Never heard of IKEA?
" but it still far outperforms the vast majority of health services in other countries in the world"
I'd love to see some evidence to support that.
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym The WHO ranked the UK 18th out of 190 in the last ranking of health systems, and I'd say over 90% is the vast majority. There's less chance of you changing your mind than their is of you making an intelligent argument. I really can't be bothered responding to your cretinous views and regurgitated bollocks any more - amuse yourself with the thought of all the jobs that'll be lost and people evicted from their homes because of the risible economic policies of your clearly-beloved Tories.
havering3 1 year ago
Wow, another incredibly self defeating comment...
The WHO rankings are totally useless (besides being published in 2000) you really think Dominica has better standards of care than in the US? The rankings are based on things like life expectancy or infant mortality which are not solely related to the quality of care. It's also based on the availability of care, so although many places have "free" healthcare it's of a low quality yet it gets a high ranking.
smoochym 1 year ago
@smoochym I'd say the availability of healthcare is incredibly important and it makes sense to include it. Anyway, you asked to see some evidence and I provided a ranking of health services of countries by the WHO. You're grasping at straws. Again, you're completely missing the point of the original argument. I tried to end the debate before, let's try again. I think you're wrong, you think I am, the issue cannot be resolved. Life's too short. Hague's a good public speaker, but a cunt.
havering3 1 year ago
@WindsorB Oh and surely my final sentence sums up the opposite - I am still able to enjoy Hague's speeches despite finding the majority of his views despicable.
havering3 1 year ago
ROTFLMAO, Absolute class. I wish Hague was PM. One sure fire way of telling Europe to shove their union up their arses.
nomoreliblabcon 1 year ago 2
hague always brings his A game to the table
199019852007 1 year ago
does he have a Yorkshire accent or not?
cnavaro88 1 year ago
@cnavaro88 yes - Yorkshire boy through and through
GoldenLegends 1 year ago
@GoldenLegends
He doesn't sound like he has a Yorkshire accent. Maybe a mild, watered down one, but I have never thought of him as someone known for his Yorkshire accent.
cnavaro88 1 year ago
is this politics or stand up comedy?
Mediumchild 1 year ago
In Europe you can stay in hotels with men and no-ones cares.
robboturner 1 year ago
@robboturner unless of course you are a member of the govenment!
GoldenLegends 1 year ago
1:07 "He is un-" what?? Can someone tell me what he says
afare1 1 year ago
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1atmrn 1 year ago
@afare1 He says he is on manoeuvres.
1atmrn 1 year ago
@afare1 ... he is on Maneuvers (meaning he is shifting from right to left in politics)
GoldenLegends 1 year ago
Nice oratory, but a Tory's a Tory. Sorry guys.
zdbdc 1 year ago
@zdbdc
No need to apologise..that's how millions feel about Labour..Labour is Labour
steps1 1 year ago
@HughStirling famous? really?
ufupn 1 year ago
Perhaps the finest political orator in the English speaking world today.
listerone 1 year ago 4
Now look at Comrade Hague: a dutiful supporter of the EU empire
readsta77 1 year ago
I hope that we will still have the opportunity to enjoy Hagues wit now that he is in office.
arthur1411 1 year ago 3
Hague is the best of a piss-poor, sorry-ass bunch. Great debater......shame about the policies!
booshblue72 1 year ago
At least Gordon got rid of that distaste; we have Van Rompuy as "Mr. President"
alonelychild 1 year ago
I didn´t understand a word, can someone translate it? What´s he saying?
alonelychild 1 year ago
@alonelychild
"We are all conscious in this Parliament, or we should be, of the way in which the job of First Lord of the Treasury evolved in Britain, steadily developing a grip over Cabinet Departments previously independent of it, and developing into the post of Prime Minister".
slogan78 1 year ago
typical hauge- very amusing and then proved totally wrong by events
duxk 1 year ago
Hate the tories, love Hague
CookieCrumble47 1 year ago
A1 oratory.
youknowituk 1 year ago 48
i love this.william is so funny and very witty.i love this sort of thing .
crisp2882 1 year ago 21
William Hague is a BAMF <3 That is all.
Mooam 1 year ago
FANTASTICO!
roma8071 1 year ago
I really like this.
123ant321 1 year ago
they're just a bunch of kids trying to make a mockery out of each other really.
TheJizzbiscuit 1 year ago
i love this guys voice haha
MrJasonSmarts 1 year ago 2
Brillaint Hague, brilliant.
Kozzy06 1 year ago
Hague is a brilliant man. He is funny but has the political knowledge and ability to back it up. A wonderful speaker, he truly is a treasure of the Conservative party.
odinnshred 1 year ago 6
OMG! that was hilarious!
mavericksf16 1 year ago 2
BRILLIANT! If I wasn't a Tory already, I would be now xD
Euparockz 1 year ago 4
Man, if we could do this in Congress, Obama and his fellow Socialists would run out crying.lol
brian8793 1 year ago 3
@brian8793
It can be done. All that is needed is an orator with the skill of The Right and Honorable WillIam Hague.
superdan1875 1 year ago 2
@superdan1875 Heck yeah,William Hagues badass...
brian8793 1 year ago 3
Iam a Scottish nationalist and even i am a huge fan of William Hague,his oratory skills are unmatched in modern politics.A true political heavyweight,he would put to shame the shower of numpties that we have elected here in Scotland.
m4rkyboy 1 year ago 7
@m4rkyboy Apart from Salmond, of course,who although not as good a speech writer,is about the only one capable of holding his own in the cut and thrust of Westminster politics.
I will miss westminster :_(
m4rkyboy 1 year ago 4
Gordon Brown is a MORON !
illuminatedSlave 1 year ago 4
Who said oratory was dead, William Hague is a master of it.
taffy402 1 year ago 8
now that was funny hague showing how it done
199019852007 1 year ago 7
did anyone mention HAGUE caps and theme parks, what about the 4 newcastle browns while out shopping? 'A JOURNEY INTO SPACE!'
billabongodrum 1 year ago
The unelected EU has gained it's power through a series of undemocratic treaties that have given away Parliament's law-making powers to this unelected foriegn bureaucracy, without any consent from the General Public and against the majority's will.
The EU is the most undemocratic thing that has happened to Britain in centuries.
MrJST87 1 year ago
@gamlastanarn
I often hear that the Swedish politics are the most ignorant of all when it comes to EU submission to EU laws.
I also heard they are one of the most ignorant when it comes to immigration in their country.
And mass immigration is ofcourse mostly thanks to EU laws.
Clausewitzz 1 year ago
Yep.
Independence4UK 1 year ago
Even Banarna boy (miliband) was laughing
blitzkrieggj 1 year ago
@blitzkrieggj I think you`ll find pretty much everyone in the chamber was laughing - including the speaker.
gabbygall 1 year ago 4
Foreign Secretary.
EdinburghLivi9 1 year ago
Anybody know what position Hague is likely to hold if the Tories getr in this year? Love this guy.
youknowituk 1 year ago
Foreign Secretary
steps1 1 year ago
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Is this what we pay these Tory MPs for?
Joking & howling like school kids?
How long did that speech take to write?
Look at how much parliament time it wasted.
Get some work done you lazy bastards.
Let's hear what your policies are.
All you ever do is try to take the piss out of the elected Labour government.
Tory Wankers!!!!!!!!!!!!
blackturbans 1 year ago
I think that is the thinnest arguement ever made. If you weren't such an imbecile, you might have taken a moment to watch more than one video on here, and seen that its not just the Conservatives, but Labour, and all parties. This is what we pay our MPs for, holding the government to account and it seems that William Hague is doing this to the best of his very strong ability.
JJGebhard 1 year ago
im with you there mate.
multiyadayadayada 1 year ago
hague his a master of comedy timing in political speeches. a very funny man with that cool, cutting, dry northern wit. a wit that only northerners can execute to devastating effect
chewblued 1 year ago 5
Labour, Tory, Lib dems are a joke today. I moved to the UK and it's a major eye opener to see whats going on back at home and the EU. I am now all anti EU and these 3 parys do not share most people view of the UK about EU.
I hoping UKIP has a good dent in there armor because I think UK will be strong once again when we leave the EU because it's screwing us up and dragging us down
northwesten 1 year ago
I would vote Tory if this guy was leader. Have a bad feeling about Cameron although I still want Labour kicked out.
Bellalodicci9 1 year ago
British parliament is a joke.
Himno88 1 year ago
Absolutely.
Independence4UK 1 year ago
had business dealings with w hague. we wrecked his order and ruined the job by not be able to complete in time. most customers when we do this flip their top. william hague was not pleased but understood our problem in getting stuff shipped in time on site. he was the most collected and thoughtful customer and despite being really cheesed off at the delay, he was professional to the last. we completed the job but my esteem for this guy is as high as can be. he would make a cool capable PM.
ianupton 1 year ago 4
he should be PM
gangstamillion 2 years ago 7
Simply stunning..simply Hague!
steps1 2 years ago 112
@steps1
You are not going to believe this. My wife dated William Hague in the 80's. This was before she met me obviously. It could have been so different, she could have married Hague, and instead of marrying an American.
pluto4847 1 year ago
@steps1
Bravo!
xxeternalbeautyxx 1 year ago
Where does justtakeiteasy live?, because the country he describes and the standard of living he enjoys clearly rule the UK out of the running. I live in the North-West, real labour heartland, you know - where the curtains are still closed at midday, except on a Tuesday when the Post Office closes for half-day. If you think this counrty is better than it was 13 years ago, I have to tell you, you are very much mistaken.
dojj1968 2 years ago 3
@justtakeiteasy Im a commoner and a hard working at that judging by your user name I can see why you're Labour . The sooner that Labour is voted out of office the better , bring in the Eton boys , far better thanthose socialist pricks in charge .
dafydd67 2 years ago 2
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The European Union is spiralling into debt, with mammoth fraud and incompetence trashing the EU inside and out.
But that won't stop EU penpushers holding member states to ransom by taking them to court to snatch their multi-million Pound wage claims!
Paste title into the bar: EPIDEMIC EU FRAUD AND DEBT NO BARRIER TO EUROCRAT WAGE CLAIMS!
TheDustpile 2 years ago
the commoners? Tony Blair went to the Scottish Eton and Labour have had more private=educated leaders than the Tories have had in the last 40 years..and the Tories have been led by more state-educated leaders..Thatcher..Major etc so your post is nonsense..Tony Blair said the class war was over..weren't you listening?
steps1 2 years ago
What a speaker. One of my 'people to have at a dinner party!'
cpjaddis 2 years ago 4
Fuck Tories and Labour.
karuspery 2 years ago
You are completely brainwashed or stark raving mad!! You are out of touch. I see my poor benefit friends down the road were removed from benefits and placed on different benefits and now bring home more ££££££'s. Labour con trick.
karuspery 2 years ago
common purpose recruits actively at uni
karuspery 2 years ago
Freeman under God
karuspery 2 years ago
justtakeiteasy - You talk like a typical student, treating it all like some football match. And that school background thing is crap - there are plenty of prominent Labour Ministers that went to Public schools. And I notice you still have not answered my question that I will repeat yet again: In what way do you and your New Labour chums differ from the Tories?
CrankCase08 2 years ago
justtakeiteasy - I see you are just repeating what I countered long ago. And you never responded to the last thing I asked you which I'll repeat:
In what way do you and your New Labour chums differ from the Tories?
CrankCase08 2 years ago
UKIP is the only popular party that listens to the general public. The other three main parties are corrupt and self serving. The EU is a HUGE waste of Britain's money but the worst thing is how undemocratically we have been forced into being part of it.
What decision is more important to the public than who governs them? Three quarters of our laws are now being made by UNELECTED foreigners.
MrJST87 2 years ago 2
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What a bag of wind this man is !!!!! Totally unappealing for voters !!
AhmadAmor 2 years ago
I'm negative because that's what the state of the country has brought about. We have a lying Labour government that broke its election promise on the Lisbon treaty referendum, is wasting billions on a pointless imperialist middle-eastern adventure and the EU, and has wrecked the country, allowing the British people to be constantly ripped off.
So you as a "Labour supporter" don't support renationalisation of the utilities and public transport? So what makes you different from the Tories?
CrankCase08 2 years ago
If you actually knew anything about industry (but being a New Labour fan I wouldn't expect that) you would know that useless British management was constantly uninnovative and short-sighted, constantly taking all the profits out rather than reinvesting in R&D. The car industry constantly produced substandard cars compared to Germany and the US. Now, thanks to Labour and Tories, we are massively under-industrialised, and what there is now is foreign owned.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
Okay, you have proved yourself to be deluded. I and others always notice the comparative filthiness of London when returning from abroad. There was a phone-in on LBC only last week about this and lots of people agreed, London is a mess.
You are very much like your New Labour chums -living in a different world to the rest of us - you see what you want to see, rather like a Soviet era blockhead who thought Stalin was the saviour of the masses.
CrankCase08 2 years ago 3
On a par with Japan? What a joke. The British car industry is virtually Japanese, our electronics industries have virtually collapsed due to Japanese manufacturing superiority. And now , thanks to Gordon McUseless, Britain is now behind the economies of Europe. Whether you like it or not, Britain is buggered.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
justtakeiteas - You talk like the Tories used to do when Thatcher was in power, when they'd laughably claim, in pompous fashion, that British 'this' was best and British 'that' was best.
The CBI have been constantly complaining that the literacy levels of post-graduates have been getting progressively worse over the last ten years. this is not helped by Labour continually messing with the education system, replacing traditional practices with useless trndy methods.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
Try driving around the London area. The roads are shit, worthy of a third world economy.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
Hospitals are not places to have "good times." All I expect is competent doctors, and I've had a couple of bad ones, and my aunt, at the same hospital in Chertsey, where they wrecked her leg. Luckily I had the inelligence to take myself to a better hospital.
The NHS is going to eventually hit the buffers thanks to Labour's PFI. These PFI companies are a virtual black hole to state funding, eg. the will often charge the NHS £200 or more just to change a fluorescent tube.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
justtakeiteasy - Regarding education, you delude yourself. Britain is producing appalling educational standards where employers are complaining that graduate literacy levels are at an all time low.
British roads are best? How many have you used. This country has a deserved reputation for bad roads. Even the Romans made roads better than here. The main roads even in Crete are in better condition than those of Britain.
Like I keep telling you - you are in some parallel universe.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
justtakeiteasy - so on the grounds of visiting only Romania, France, Spain, Italy and Germany you can now say that Britain is best? What about all the other countries?
As far as health care goes, Britain is not best. Cuba is recognised as having among the best health care systems in the world. I myself have recently experienced appalling NHS treatment by a couldn't-care-less Asian consultant after having to sit around for 2 hours in a smelly, crowded waiting area.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
justtakeiteasy - How many countries have you been to to compare with Britain then?
CrankCase08 2 years ago
Wow, and there was I thinking I lived in a country with a badly run economy.
Labour has done well to help the poor? What, by sending working class young men out to Afghanistan to get themselves blown to bits? By chucking money at the banks while allowing industries to sink? By allowing companies to outsource th cheap third world economies?
justtakeiteasy - you really need to enter the real world and get a full time job.
CrankCase08 2 years ago
GREECE HAS MANY PROBLEMS WITH ITS ECONOMY THATS OBVIOUS BUT WHY??FIRST OF ALL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE 5 MILLIONS (GREEKS ARE 9 MILLIONS).THEY USE OUR WEALFARE , HEALTHCARE TAKE OUR MONEY AND THEY DONT PAY TAXES. IN 2004 GREEK ECONOMY WAS THE BEST IN EUROPE AND LAST 2 YEARS WE ARE ABOUT TO BANKRUPT. AND SECONDLY GREECE IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE COUNTRY IN THE WHOLE EU. ONE SIMPLE COFEE COSTS 12 EUROS. HOW CAN EU ASK FROM GREEK GONVERMENT TO RAISE TAXES AND REDUCE SALARIES.!!!iiiii
PANOSKINGMASTER 2 years ago
They get paid for a laugh and a crack
addz91 2 years ago