I'm a UK peasant with my own house and married. I'm 37. I've watched my income slowly deteriorate despite working very hard. Swallowed up in debt interest and fuel costs. Combined with increasing food prices. The older generation my parents and grandparents have money due to massive shifts in house values which have been paid for by other people's debt. Children today unless they have a massive deposit they won't own a home and will be stuck in perpetual rent. The Empire enriched the Upper Class, a coal miner never benefited.

@valuetraveler2026

Ай бұрын

yes

@piramaniak

Ай бұрын

"Ooh look at Mr fancy pants with his own house" Just joking, regardless whether you're a home owner or not, the struggle in this country is real. I hope things get better for you mate, I hope one day I'll get on the property ladder too. Worked hard my whole life, still not there yet. Should have gone into accounting instead of architecture 🤣

@erlinacobrado7947

Ай бұрын

Wait, just to be clear, you're a rural farmer or "peasant" in a metaphorical sense?

@marcusjohnson0417

Ай бұрын

,,😂😂😂

@suzannebronson5209

Ай бұрын

all by design dearest

Increasing wealth inequality, will make the UK less innovative and less competetive over time. The UK has been loosing since 2000 really.

@sweetnesscanwin589

Ай бұрын

Precisely. The sad thing is no one will read this comment because they're too busy blaming everything on immigration.

@Epicgeezer

Ай бұрын

Tony Blair and his diversity pledge - to make Britain modern - in other words immigration on steroids to destroy the English culture year on year (was 50,000 per year increased to over 300,000 per year) Thanks Tony for f***ing England over

@davidpenney2334

Ай бұрын

Losing Since1970s

@TheFreshman321

Ай бұрын

Yet you foreigners are desperate to the point of risking your lives to get to the U.K.

@user-si7fj5rh5u

Ай бұрын

@@sweetnesscanwin589 Well mostly Blair, but yeah that to.

my mum came back after 5 years of living in Malaysia and now New Zealand, we walked through Cardiff city centre and she instantly felt the whole vibe was off, no one looks happy, loads ofshops left empty (they've filled a fair of them now tbh) but it was so visible to her how downhill everything has gone. Weak leaders who sell us out to their mates and corporations for a quick quid is a major issue for our political class

@raijinenel3116

Ай бұрын

immigration has ruined the community.

@ocelotjazzz

Ай бұрын

I felt the same with Cardiff a few years ago. I’ve been out for 20 years.

@RendererEP

Ай бұрын

What have the empty units been filled up with? Low quality Chicken shops and barbers? Money laundering fronts?

@RR-ut3xl

29 күн бұрын

tbh you're spot on mate, the legion of vape shops are 100% laundering fronts

@HackersSun

28 күн бұрын

time for a change of leadership!

At the height of its empire it may have been the wealthiest but most People never saw any of that wealth and after both Wars Britain was bankrupt.

@SaxonExcellence

26 күн бұрын

Just like most countries empires, it's the government who get rich not the people. Still lasted over 400 years and I'm proud of that history regardless.

@ADreamingTraveler

19 күн бұрын

Yep. Britain was asking for massive loans from the United States for decades after WW2. The Nazi's destroyed them that badly even though the Brits were able to hold off the invasion before the US came in.

@shweshwa9202

19 күн бұрын

@@SaxonExcellence That nice empire that colonised and enslaved people and killed the same amount?

@bilbobaggins5938

18 күн бұрын

@@SaxonExcellence The British Empire lasted 290 years.

@clandestino69

16 күн бұрын

Why are you surprised?

Now take a look at Norway with its Sovereign Wealth Fund. The British government spaffed our oil money up the wall. As for the NHS nearly half the workforce are managers!

@scotsbillhicks

Ай бұрын

The longest suicide note in history as the Tory press styled Michael Foot’s 1981? Manifesto, and widely ridiculed, included plans for…a sovereign wealth fund.

@kattydover6356

Ай бұрын

Yep, spot on

@simonwiggins8570

Ай бұрын

I hear you, but you can't compare a country of 67 million people to Norway that has around 5.5 million. The UK has many people, services and things to spend money on which Norway does not, meaning they could afford over many decades to create a sovereign wealth fund of its current size.

@jaspercaelan4998

Ай бұрын

No, they should have invested much more in green technologies to create more jobs. Investing in oil won't see any return for decades if any.

@mikemines2931

Ай бұрын

@@jaspercaelan4998 Why is Germany burning coal for power. Green energy my backside.

The UK is still going to be super sweet for the rich...but young potential folks are moving away....No chance to rise unless they extremely brilliant

@PS987654321PS

Ай бұрын

brilliant AND connected. Only rich, connected, private schooled twats get the good jobs in the UK

@Contractor48

Ай бұрын

They have an amazing education system which can attract a lot of talent from outside. Do they have a similar system to the US H1B? Why is the US succeeding and the UK failing?

@PS987654321PS

Ай бұрын

@@Contractor48 No, they do not. Are you thick? UK education system has been failing for decades now and over the past 10 years, since the advent of academies, it's completely ruined. UK universities outside of top 5-10 are weak. No one wants any more "outside" talent into the UK. Too many useless immigrants and not enough internal investment is why UK is failing.

@eldios831

Ай бұрын

@@Contractor48 just saying if you are above average and not rich and not super connected....Your life is just average...almost impossible to own a home...more than half your wage goes to expenses...The UK is now a more suitable place for the extremely wealthy...For the other average Joe's it's time to shift out

@Nobodycares22222

Ай бұрын

or just pure criminal

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@tokaitrading8335

17 күн бұрын

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The UK is a rentier economy, run by and for landlords and bankers. It had its chance to become a modern diversified knowledge economy in the 1990s and 2000s, and it blew it. Fiscal policy and monetary policy was set up for the benefit of rentiers rather than producers of actual goods and services. Half the population of the country thought the nation was actually getting richer as a result of buy-to-let and bankers' bonuses. Instead, it strangled the real economy. There was a second chance for a major course correction in 2009, after the financial crisis. This went to waste as well, as everybody scrambled to restore the status quo ante. Couple this with a lack of infrastructure investment and a mismatch of immigration levels with new housing stock, and you had a recipe for disaster. The tinderbox was there, Brexit lit the fuse, and here we are.

@danielforbes9167

10 күн бұрын

Couldn't have put it better. Spot on

and yet they still have time discuss other countries internal affairs in their parliament

@Banchta_kartik

Ай бұрын

Old habits die hard.

@JenniSummers-dc4hw

Ай бұрын

By a handful of people in Government and Corporate heads. 99.9% of the British public don't want to bother other countries and have zero interest in interfering in other peoples conflicts. Yet we are all constantly getting dragged into worldwide hate by a handful of western Elites. (our crap leaders)

@ernimuja6991

Ай бұрын

It’s not abnormal for colonies to have a vested interest in the affairs of the mother country.

@sweetnesscanwin589

Ай бұрын

Funding, military bases etc.

@aaravkumar9918

Ай бұрын

And other countries responded like abe mc apna km krna

I'm 28, I was studying at a University in Glasgow, Scotland, worked in london for 2 years. Soon realised UK isn't worth it anymore. I Left in January. Reasons as follows: Terrible Healthcare, high taxes, expensive housing, Unnecessary paperwork even for skilled expats. I have 3 jobs offers now, 1 from AUZ, 1 from Germany and 1 from Dubai. Mind you I am a pretty good AI engineer. The govt's agenda to penalize legal immigrants and give free food/ housing to illegal immigrants is so unfair. I have seen it in London which is full of illegal migrants, while I was paying all the taxes, visa fee, immigration fee and still had to wait for weeks to get a doctor's appointment. The economic collapse doesn't happen all of a sudden (like falling from a ceiling), it happens in a gradual sense, slowly and steadily. British economy is on the same trajectory. British are one of sweetest people, I can't say the same thing about their govt though.

@maxwalker1159

Ай бұрын

Come to Australia! Great weather and you wont go to jail for pissing off some entitled prince!

@AHSwr88

Ай бұрын

⁠@@maxwalker1159 bro you government turned totalitarian during covid. Some of the worst policies and actions to take away basic freedoms. It was especially worse if you refused the experimental jab. Australia isn’t all that much better than the U.K. And you’re currently being overrun with imported migrants while at the same time having a housing shortage. Y’all gotta do better, U.K is really low bar lol

@luaking84

Ай бұрын

Hello from Lima Peru. I also left the UK due to healthcare negligence caused by cost-cutting. Ultimately, curious about life in NZ. What's the private healthcare like there?

@liambond5653

Ай бұрын

k bye gaijin go back to ur country why dont u bruv

@John-mn3iu

Ай бұрын

@@maxwalker1159 fuck that too many spiders and critters

The Prime Minister of the UK can be ousted and replaced. The head of the Bank of England can't. Show's whos really in charge.

@idiotuk

28 күн бұрын

i use the bank of Scotland

@jhinds7433

27 күн бұрын

Wall Street control uk

@leemarco9596

26 күн бұрын

Wall street don't. The fed does.

@oliverreno4734

24 күн бұрын

Jews.

@mrqhussain1

23 күн бұрын

Pagans not even jews

17 years old right now and my literal biggest dream is leaving this place. i could not ask for anything better right now and i really hope i can get out soon, when im old enough that is

@bez2215

23 сағат бұрын

Out of curiosity are you ethnically British?

@MintyHyena

22 сағат бұрын

@@bez2215 yes, I am

I always knew the UK's obsession with Doctor Who would lead to them being trapped in a time vortex that will cause them to lose exactly 10 years

@arthuroldale-ki2ev

Ай бұрын

I always hated Dr Who and the like, I never thought that it would become a reality.

@saugat7287

Ай бұрын

​@@arthuroldale-ki2evwhy you hate it tho? From what I heard it's a pretty good show

@colinsmith1288

Ай бұрын

​@@saugat7287lt is a good show. Have you watched " baby reindeer" on nextflix. Excellent british drama.

@isthisatitleforayoutubecha3035

Ай бұрын

At least Doctor Who is started to get a little bit better

@jackayers4955

Ай бұрын

We should have turned left back in 2010.

Uks problem is we still think we are a major power and have a weight to throw around in the world. It's like a warthog telling lions what the rules of the African plains are going to be.

@rinmartell2678

Ай бұрын

This is what I am trying to tell people for age. The biggest problem of the UK is that they can’t get over the fact that they aren’t a superpower anymore. The only reason Brits wanted out of EU was because the French and Germans performed better. They couldn’t handle not being no. 1. they never overcome the loss of their beloved empire (slavery and colonialism). They should have sticked by the German and French side. Seriously pathetic. And then they spend all their tax money for a greedy royal family

@annaclarke7643

Ай бұрын

You are so right. The belief of the upper classes that they are omnipotent and exceptional gets transmitted in their genes.

@martinvanburen4578

Ай бұрын

no that's not the problem, world war II taught the UK it has to change. It did change. But the real problem is freedom, cheap travel and digital economy. Britain is a solid nation but there are good options with lower costs and people can earn and work from anywhere and still have British citizenships

@martinvanburen4578

Ай бұрын

@@TheMan-it7px Yeah OK, the Right Wing policies will solve what? Poor people being poorer while the rich still can invest overseas? Brexit was a Left Wing policy? The UK is a backwater of Europe....leaving the EU was the dumbest mistake. The only way Europeans can counter America is a united front a la a united European states

@Epicgeezer

Ай бұрын

Not the general population though - We Brits know the UK is a sinking ship and a refugee illegal asylum dumping ground

I recommend reading "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order," it's happening everywhere. It's not a UK only phenomenon.

@br377jono9

23 күн бұрын

The US think their country is wonderful. Its got its problems as well. The world is f***ed!

@mogznwaz

19 күн бұрын

Everyone loves to make Britain the Boogeyman though

@LS-bn6dv

12 күн бұрын

​@@mogznwazlol nobody cares

@Kj16V

10 күн бұрын

​@@mogznwaz As a fellow Brit: cope harder.

England and the UK is dominated by financial services and is run by bankers that hedge all their bets on an inflationary economy and property bubble. It outsourced most of its industrial heart to China and now has a very fragile economy based on services and retail, the latter simply selling the stuff that was made in China back to the public. I'm generalising a bit (100% of goods not made in China, maybe 80-90%) but overall, this is what has happened.

@MK_ULTRA420

28 күн бұрын

I'd consider that as a win considering how China destroyed their own land and people for a temporary comparative advantage in manufacturing. The UK needs to grow their service economy and specialized manufacturing if they wish to remain a major world power.

But Sunak won't. He is billionaire status. The rest of us will...

@dawn_alex

Ай бұрын

He is not billionaire. His father in law back in India is.

@27july1954

Ай бұрын

@@dawn_alex Alright, £651 million 🙄 He still won't...

@Rexorazor

Ай бұрын

​@SachinSingh-ii2pq yes.. duh 🙄

@user-zl9sh9mz6h

Ай бұрын

When things get bad enough, us commoners will have no choice but to eat the rich. I bet they taste like pork.

@MookMineola

Ай бұрын

Sunak's financial condition and assets has F.A to do with his abilities to run the country . However , while you may not like him , he'e a heck of a lot better than at least the last five PM's who are/were total morons .

Hard to lose the 2030s after you're already losing the 2020s as is. Surely they can't go lower than this, right?

@rinmartell2678

Ай бұрын

Ikr. All I was thinking while watching this video was:“dude, they are losing ever since Brexit. They lost the 20s and the will keep on losing. This ain’t news😅😂“

@Epicgeezer

Ай бұрын

The UK is on for a politically designed destruction of its culture and identity. We have psychopaths running the show and our country is not on its knees anymore - it’s on its face

@martinlord5969

Ай бұрын

They've been losing since the Suez crisis

@JCSY1

Ай бұрын

Yes. Exactly. Already lost yet still saying it's 2030.

@kenselin

Ай бұрын

SO FUNNY. THE BRITS ARE DOING THE LAMBADA DANCE. (Ha! Ha!) How low can it go? LOWER WITH EACH COMING YEAR with no turnaround in sight. THOROUGHLY BAD, OVER BLOATED GOV'T is DRAGGING EVERYTHING DOWN! Ken, Toronto, CANADA

If it makes anyone feel a bit better, France is fucked as well.

@Fyourgod22

9 күн бұрын

The demographic and aging population is a problem of all European countries, except Eastern Europe. Funny that? It's almost like migration has had a negative impact on our birth rate amongst everything else it has ruined. Imagine working a full time job 40-50 hrs a week in above minimum wage and your only solution for housing is to rent room in someone else's house or flat-share with a bunch of unreliable strangers for an extortionate amount. If you even thought about renting a 1 bedroom flat you're looking at around £1,000(harry potter cuboard with a toilet) or -£1,200(shit studio flat that's basically 1 gigantic room) then you have to pay council tax, electric, gas, phone, internet, car/travelling costs, expensive FOOD. Leaving you with literally nothing, nothing to work towards. Nothing to own. Living paycheck to paycheck with basically nothing. Immigration has ruined us and it needs to stop. This guy is completely wrong. Sometimes less is more. We don't need 1000 Starbucks and 1000 halal chicken/kebab shops 1000 barbers 1000 dodgy corner shops on every single street. We need stability, control and a leader with an actual spine and make tough decisions before it's too late for our kids and grand kids and inevitable civil war breaks out.

@Fyourgod22

9 күн бұрын

And the concept of mortgaging or outright buying a property is nothing short of a pipe dream. The corrupt Elite have placed the very value of money on the one thing it's increasingly starving it's population of, the basic right to a HOME of their own. In 1980's a milkman could get a mortgage, a car, weeks shops and still have something left for holiday. Even in poor countries where they earn say $200 in a month, they'll still be able to pay for rent on a property, buy food clothes etc. We in the west have been lied to on a scale so gigantic it's almost hard to fathom.

@Fyourgod22

9 күн бұрын

Let's also not forget to mention that young people have no desire to start a family and settle down and having a generic lifestyle. simply because it's no long available, it's been given to Mr and Mrs Gupta so we can have another pointless shitty chicken shop and a stay at home mom to claim benefits for their 11 children. Further destroying our birth rate.

@flaminmongrel6955

8 күн бұрын

hahahaha I don't know why this makes me sad even though i am indian ffs

@jamesmckean3221

8 күн бұрын

@@flaminmongrel6955 Never been to India. Is it nice?

It seems like our politicians sit around a big table and go "alright, so how do we fuck up the country this year?"

@citizenA-Z

Ай бұрын

exactly, but they have all the ultra rich sit around with them too. brexit was a ploy to trun britain into an inhospitable tax haven, they are not stupid just evil

@MookMineola

15 күн бұрын

The very point and purpose of a politician is to make things worse : that’s their function and I thought everybody knew this . I’m suprised you didn’t: silly boy

The current market/economy is unnecessarily tougher for boomers/senior citizens, I’m used to just buying and holding assets which doesn’t seem applicable to the current rollercoaster market plus inflation is catching up with my portfolio. I’m really worried about survival after retirement.

@Pamela.jess.245

Ай бұрын

Just buy and invest in Gold or other reliable stock , the government has failed us and we cant keep living like this.

@PatrickFitzgerald-cx6io

Ай бұрын

Yes, gold is a great investment and a good bet against the devaluating dollar, been holding some for awhile now, I’m grateful my adviser’s moment by moment changes in the market are lightening quick, cos who know how much losses I would’ve had by now.

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Ай бұрын

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Ай бұрын

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Ай бұрын

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I'm a 'brain drainee', working online and happily living with my wife and son in Java, Indonesia, a country I think will provide my children and grandchildren with great opportunities!! I have no intention of returning to the UK in the future other than to visit family who I hope will move here in due course.

@f-zeroracer9767

Ай бұрын

where do you live ?

@TheBlackManMythLegend

Ай бұрын

@@f-zeroracer9767 Java

@aye3678

Ай бұрын

@@f-zeroracer9767 Java, Indonesia

@jamesprivet

Ай бұрын

Well done you are not missing anything here. Nothing will improve for a couple of decades as rejoining the EU becomes inevitable then as young people demand their opportunities to live and work abroad are returned to them. Also NI may no longer be part of UK in a decade or so.

@benbim540

Ай бұрын

The US taxes its citizens on their worldwide income no matter where they move to and It's only a matter of time before UK does the same to many well educated people and rich people are moving abroad to avoid paying UK tax, making them pay full taxes on their world wide earning will stop the brain drain as no one wants to pay full tax to UK and which ever country they moved to as well.

Any oil/"gas" mined from the North sea will just go onto the open market, and won't actually help the UK. They're all multi-national companies that can't be forced to sell to the UK at a lower price.

Everything was fine until 9/11 happened. Everyone i know said the 90s felt optimistic. Infact, most people said the 90s was the happiest time of their lives, including people 60+.

@richardc861

Ай бұрын

Yes but this event also happened when the internet was just really starting to take off. If 9/11 had not have happened but the internet/smartphones continued the same trajectory, we would probably still be in the mess we are now.

@kelvinpell4571

26 күн бұрын

Alah oo F***ing Akhybar

we've been america's whipping boy since at least 1940

@ElectrostatiCrow

Ай бұрын

Even before that. The 🇬🇧 has been begging uncle Sam for help since the 1890s.

@Axolox_

Ай бұрын

@@ElectrostatiCrow America only surpassed the UK due to WW1 and WW2. it probably would've anyway even without the wars, but due to the wars there was little to no chance of recovery.

@ElectrostatiCrow

Ай бұрын

@@Axolox_ America became the largest economy in the world in 1890. That's why I said that. After that, countries slowly started to move towards the USA and the dollar.

@cocoacrispy7802

Ай бұрын

Suez Crisis of 1956 showed that, too.

@Red_Lion2000

Ай бұрын

@@ElectrostatiCrow Dont confuse you lot culturally taking us over with us "begging for help". tory filth selling us out to you is not "begging for help"

I'm from Scotland and so many people I know have ditched living here and now live abroad. I haven't and at 40 am lucky to have a good life that enables me to live here. Nonetheless many of my contemporaries emigrated overseas and I know many others planning to do the same - scarily large numbers of people who see no future for themselves in Scotland, or the UK for that matter. The UK's future indeed looks very bleak and there's no-one with the capacity to turn it around. But I'm increasingly reading about similar problems in countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia or the US where a lot of the problems we face here, such as living costs and housing, are problems in these places. Perhaps emigration is not the panacea people think it is.

@thecrimsondragon9744

Ай бұрын

This is what I wonder…where are all these people fleeing to. The entire Anglosphere and much of the developed West are plagued by the same problems eg housing, privatisation, employment, rising inequality etc. Some places may be marginally better than others but I can think of none that would justify the investment of time, energy and money required to move countries.

@Epicgeezer

Ай бұрын

The people of the country can turn it around - get to London 1st June

@weird-guy

Ай бұрын

Every country is suffering from the same issues to varying degrees.The uk problem is that is too centralize in london althou is happens in most countries in the uk is more extreme on top heavy the country is on the capital with all that cough tax evasion money cough

@davidjma7226

Ай бұрын

I live in Oman It is safe, friendly and à highest qualité lifestyle. My energy bill is £10 a month, I fill up my car for £25 and crime is non existent. I live at the beach with a marina, golf course, pools etc. The sun shines every day- and I pay zero tax on any money I earn. Nice to visit the UK from time to time but a lot of it horrifies me!

@globaltraveller

Ай бұрын

@@davidjma7226 I visited Oman about 9 years ago. A beautiful country - far better and much more authentic than the likes of Dubai. I could imagine it would be possible to have a nice life there - too hot for me though!

Engineer here and I'm leaving this soon. Cost of living is too high and taxes are also too high.

@CR-og5ho

21 күн бұрын

Where did you get your degree?

We've been losing since thatcher mate

Our country’s fucked.

@mikemines2931

Ай бұрын

Too many people most 5th column.

@the_yeegineer

Ай бұрын

Ye

@andrewtaylor6737

Ай бұрын

Yes, too many invaders!

@hrhcrab

Ай бұрын

To be fair it probably deserves to be. We have inflicted so many terrible injustices on the world, it's about time we had our comeuppance.

@terron1382

Ай бұрын

@hrhcrab that's the most brain dead take. Every country/culture since the dawn of time has done horrible things to other countries and cultures, we're not special so we shouldn't be singled out as needing punishment.

Lets get this straight , public debt isnt a problem if you issue your debt in your own currency, i.e. the Uk issues the £, no other country can issue the £, same for the US, NZ etc. So public debt isnt a problem, what is a problem is private debt , which means that more people are leveraged and at risk of default or losing their home because of interest rate hikes, if they lose their home they could lose their job and leave the economy and become dependent on the state, also their assets can be hoovered up by the wealthy. We also have a lot of precarity in the UK, with people living pay slip to pay slip. The UK economy shifted from a manufacturing economy to a services based one which isnt really productive or less productive in my humble opinion, i.e. banking , insurance etc, doesnt fill pot holes or build hospitals , improve infrastructure etc. it just moves peoples and firms money around and speculates (this adds to the UK GDP, but adds no real value to the non finance sector). The UK also sold off many assets to private corps/interests, many not even operating within the UK. We are one of the only countries with fully privatised water and shit in our rivers. We have sold off all our gas storage, we import most of our food and our energy so we are prone to inflationary pressures. All the while the amount of millionaires and billionaires has increased. The economy was designed this way by policy and legislation , it could be turned around but there doesnt seem to be the political will to do so. The issues with an aging population isnt in the fact that the tax base collapses so public services will decline, the UK government could print as many £s as it needs to fund the NHS, it doesnt need back its own IOUS to fund anything , the issue is , are there the real reources available to purchase to move from private to public and is there a productive enough economy to absorb any additional demand from a demography shift from workers to pensioners. The UK govt offers very little in terms of child support, so i dont see anything changing in terms of a demography shift away from where we are heading and as we have absolutely toxified the narrative on immigration , then that will be a hurdle that no political party will countenance as well as the tariff barriers and Brexit so all in all, its bad

@Tom-bk1yv

11 күн бұрын

One of the most concise, level headed answers to alot of the problems in the uk. Nobody seems to realise this is very intentional and due to alot of gov policy. Massive wealth inequlity. It will balance out one day though, most fictional dysoptian stories forget that. Wealthy always need to generate money from someone. When the mass majority have got none. Whos earning

The UK would have to approve their own removal from the Security Council so that is never going to happen.

What has happened is we've had 14 years of Tory rule. Austerity from 2010 meant no investment in public services, the effects of which aren't felt for several years (ie, now) where people become less healthy, struggle to get doctor's appointments under our once world-renowned NHS, public transport cuts meaning commuting to work gets harder, dentist's full to the brim with patients resulting in more hospitalization for those who have had to perform 'DIY dentistry' and end up getting infections, rising cost of living, shortening life expectancy, extremely low state housing scheme meaning thousands on housing waiting lists and many more people becoming homeless, a reduced birth rate because of many of these issues playing a factor in people deciding not to have a family because they simply cannot afford it financially or in terms of security as they grow older. There are probably a few dozen if not a 100 or so more things I could list, but these are basically the big take-aways for any foreign viewer outside the UK. What happens when you elect a government that cuts investment in services and raises taxes? Extreme inequality, the poor get poorer the rich get richer as they sit on their capital (property!) while the government gets so corrupt it gives handouts to it's friends and donors behind their backs while claiming that 'times are hard but vote for us next time and I promise it will get better'. Thank god we have an election on 4th July. It will be an 'Independence Day from the Tories'.

@snipermagoo

12 күн бұрын

They went overboard with austerity, but you do remember why they did it in the first place, right?

Simplistic and niave overview especially with regauard to Thatcher, the Current UK Government and the imbalance of UK Tax burden, which falls on the lower classes. Thatcher stole all the Public Utilities including: The Post Office, Water, Rail, Telecomm, Gas and Electricity, she also sold BP oil, National Steel, The power gird, British Leyland, [Cars and Buses] and some smaller British owned banks, to foreign companies. The costs of this is hitting the UK 30 years later, when these companies are taking staggering amounts of money out of the UK, whilst paying no tax on that money, thus further inflating the UK tax burden on the lower classes. The Current Tory government have introduced the most corrupt, cronism based systems for public supply contracts, whilst continuing the privatisation of the NHS and Health services. Brexit is a complete and utter failure. One that was instgated at the behest of the mega-rich ,as the EU introduced the new law that made it illegal to avoid tax by moving money offshore to Tax Havens. The collapse of the UK is closer than people realise. Whole generations of UK voters are completely alienated from the Two party, Fist past the post electorial system. And the Tory Party face complete anyilation at the next election. Urgent change is needed.

@drdeadred851

Ай бұрын

"Tax burden, which falls on the lower classes" are you high? Make literally a few seconds of effort to look this up. Most of tax revenues do not come from the "lower classes". Half of the country only generates about 10% of tax revenue, the top 1% percent about 30% of it. You could not be more insanely off the mark if you tried. The top 10% of earners are 60% of our tax revenue is from. It is legit terrifying how insanely deluded you and people like you are, "LETS GET RID OF ALL THESE NASTY RICH PEOPLE" *country proceeds to insantly bankrupt itself as most of income gets on a jet to literally anywhere else*

@hazelnut2002

Ай бұрын

Agree completely. Very surface level understanding of the UK is shown in this video, if you're gonna do an analysis of this kind, do your homework so you can inform people properly FFS.

@G96Saber

Ай бұрын

This is a retard-level analysis that totally ignores the fundamental weaknesses of the Post-War Consensus. Absurd nationalisation and technocratic mismanagment ruined British prosperity long before Margret Thatcher.

@CloudWalkBeta

Ай бұрын

And as much as we’re sick of tories, we also dont trust labour who back stabbed us and proved they will serve megarich ceo’s before they serve the workers who gave them their comfy job in the first place.

@albal156

Ай бұрын

100% correct.

I’m naturalised British and spent the majority of my life and my formative years here and I agree- Britain’s best days are behind it. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to get by here and it just isn’t worth it anymore. Inflation is high, cost of living is high, rents and housing affordability are gone, the NHS is crumbling, job opportunities and investments are dwindling and on top of that we’re in a period of the highest tax burden we’ve had in decades. The U.K. is a high tax country and doesn’t provide its citizens the opportunity to thrive. I don’t want to leave, but you’re not getting your value for money when you have to spend nearly half your income on taxes whilst the cost of everything’s keeping on going up. Just isn’t worth it to stay here anymore.

@IanWHachi

Ай бұрын

Where do u suggest going? Out of curiosity.

@ambessaseway5594

Ай бұрын

​@@IanWHachi Argentina

@jimbocho660

Ай бұрын

Do you think other Western countries are any better?

@ambessaseway5594

Ай бұрын

@jimbocho660 Norway&Switzerland the only one maybe the tiny Luxembourg

@NoctLightCloud

Ай бұрын

​@@ambessaseway5594you need to know the language though, on C1 ideally

The immigration issue is huge here. I think a majority of the UK citizens would love skilled to see contributing skilled workers come to the country and help improve things. The problem is a significant amount don’t do that. I live in a part of London where somewhere around 60-70% of the residents are Muslims from eastern countries that don’t work and rely on social welfare. They have over 5 kids and claim they’re suffering from overcrowding in their 2 bedroom council flat, so it’s down to the local government to rehouse them AGAIN.

@gustavnilsson2795

5 күн бұрын

Same here in Sweden mate, that's just how Muslims are unfortunately. I went to Berlin last year and guess what, it's the same bloody thing there as well.

I am British and moved back to the UK from the USA, in spite of the UK's problems, because I literally could not stand living among Americans any more, with them or in their culture. It was so refreshing to be back home again, with my people. Yes, I am not as wealthy in the UK, but there are some things that you cannot put money on.

@WalesTheTrueBritons

Ай бұрын

British? Like that’s a singular culture hey? Doesn’t explain wether you are from England, Scotland of Wales!!!! All different cultures.

@elelegidosf9707

Ай бұрын

@@WalesTheTrueBritons Of course there are cultural variations in the different regions of the UK, however the cultural differences that exist within the various regions do not prevent them from all falling under an umbrella of "UK culture". And UK culture is very different from American culture. I will try to explain it to you with an analogy, which hopefully will be clear. A tangerine is not the same as a Seville orange, which in turn is not the same as a mandarin. Each is slightly different, but they all fall under the umbrella of the orange family. This is because they have many characteristics in common. In this analogy, regional UK cultures are represented by different members of the orange family. In this analogy, American culture wouldn't be a type of orange, it might be more like an onion. I wanted oranges, not onions.

@pierrewilliams1533

Ай бұрын

@@WalesTheTrueBritons Frankly they're not that different. You clearly haven't been to the US!!

@pierrewilliams1533

Ай бұрын

I have some real US friends. But living in the US - absolutely no way!! I'm amazed that you managed to put up with it.

@WalesTheTrueBritons

Ай бұрын

They are insanely different with the Welsh having their own language, holidays, national anthem, historical figures. You are both just looking through it with Anglo eyes.

The NHS was working well until TonyBlair improved it by ppp an a massive increase in administrative staff

@arthuroldale-ki2ev

Ай бұрын

The grinning monkey of politics, and the Billy Bunter = Boris Jonson " yaroo let go you beasts!"

@yorkshirelad3524

Ай бұрын

@@spunkychops7484 money can’t fix a broken service it’s already one of the costliest and inefficient service in the world

@spunkychops7484

Ай бұрын

@yorkshirelad3524 absolute bollocks. When you defund a service, 4% a year and fine NHS trusts. You destroy a perfectly good service. Tory cuts and American health care companies own the NHS completely . Sucking all our taxes for profits for their shareholders. Jog on, mate.

@spunkychops7484

Ай бұрын

​@yorkshirelad3524 Total and utter bollocks 😂😂😂you wot??? When you defund it by 4% over 14 years. You sell off it completely to private American corporate health insurance companies and hedge funds . You Fine NHS trust their complete budgets and withhold their funding. You kill it. But if you fund it properly. And don't privatise it for profit . It works great. You need your head examined mate.

@rice4550

Ай бұрын

staff wasn't the problem it was the part privatisation introduced under Blair then austerity under Cameron that ruined the NHS

The British can turn it around if they try hard enough, if they invent enough, if they believe in themselves enough. Most importantly: Have enough children and increase productivity enough. Don't sell out to foreign companies!!

The grass ain't greener anywhere else . Most people's idea of hardship is the wifi going down 😂

@jimpim6454

Ай бұрын

TBF that does suck

@shaaravguha3760

Ай бұрын

Fr, I'm someone who has spent most of my life in nigeria (born in india) and people need to understand just how lucky they are to be born in the UK. Sure, if you have money, then you can live like a king in some third world country, but no country will give you the same opportunities even the lower class get in the UK. (except for the rest of the developed world of course and some parts of china/India/Brazil)

@aidy6000

23 күн бұрын

Even though im eating once a day and only able to get work 3 days a week, I am still buzzing that im not anywhere else 😅😅😅

@Theboxingobserver

16 күн бұрын

Or not having SKY TV.

@DisconnectedRoamer

11 күн бұрын

@@aidy6000 get a different job, there's hundreds within 5 miles of me

You really don't need to wait until 2030, it's here already, it is happening!

@davideyres955

Ай бұрын

Wait until Labour get their hands on the tiller. We’re screwed.

@suzannebronson5209

Ай бұрын

have you seen metropolis? set in 2030s... check it out

@geoffbarber3501

Ай бұрын

Yeah I moved back from dubai to London in 2018 what a mistake lol its an absoulte volcano of shit and its erupting in front of me 😂

@danbee415

6 күн бұрын

should I move to london? i have seen the crime on instagram and the immigrants, being 40% white in most places in suburbs around london. I do want to move there mind you simply because meeting young people here is so hard and London is so much easier to do loads more stuff. Mind you, housing costs is not a factor at all for this so keep that in mind.

In the video, the author says that the UK has one of the lowest fertility rates in all of Europe with 1.61. Just went on google to check fertility rates: Italy - 1.3 Spain - 1.4 Poland -1.48 Hungary 1.55 Portugal - 1.36

@impressivedark2685

Ай бұрын

Those are 2022 values. Now Italy is 1.2 and Spain is 1.1 and both are declining

@RafaquaQuetta

Ай бұрын

This video is full of false allegory and non factuality

@rohitkothari3890

Ай бұрын

Could be lowest if u exclude the immigrants.

@HaiLsKuNkY

Ай бұрын

They also said Scotland has a younger population than the rest of the uk, but is totally wrong, Scotland has the aging population, low immigration and high outward migration.. so many mistakes in this video

@derek4412

Ай бұрын

The numbers you were giving must be 2020/21 numbers. The UK reported a fertility rate of 1.49 in 2022. Which means in 2024, it’s probably dropped to around 1.42. The original point the video made about the “UK having one of the lowest birth rates in Europe” isn’t factually accurate. But it misses the point that even the healthiest European countries are still doing very poorly.

The dependency problem is the least of the UKs pension worries. The UK abolished pensions in the 1990s and replaced them with Money Purchae Schemes (retirement savings, NOT pensions) which means that it will have fully transitioned from a system where the majority of private pensions were generous and provided a comfortable retirement to one where retirement savings are completely inadequate. The impact of this on Demand is going to be massive and cement the UK's decline from a wealthy nation to a middle income country.

@DY-cq3qd

Ай бұрын

The pension crisis is so bad I'm actually retired and saving for my two kids ( 33 and 38) its what us useless boomers do..

@Guitar6ty

Ай бұрын

Its already 3rd world in many of the big cities. Expect a Beirut and Gaza to erupt in most of the big cities within 10 years at best.

@leanman9900

12 күн бұрын

England is being conquested THAT IS TEH BIGGEST PROBLEM SOON ENGLAND WIL BE A ISLAMIKC NATION

I think it's important to note that for issues such as an ageing population, nearly every other western country will face it too. Not just japan and Germany.

You've failed to mention that the sanctions culture has added to the UK inflation.

@MK_ULTRA420

28 күн бұрын

You're spot on. The UK fought Napoleon to keep their right to trade with Russia, and that was before Russia had discovered enough fuel to supply the rest of the world.

You also didnt mention some of our problems have been exacerbated by political incompetence and some decisions have been made not for economic reasons but political and ideological reasons.

@vendeux

Ай бұрын

I'd take you comment further, all of our problems are due to incompetence, so much so I believe this is a totally managed and purposeful Decline.

@3footmidgit

Ай бұрын

It's not incompetence they are doing it intentionally.

@rice4550

Ай бұрын

neoliberal policies since 1979

At least they are not bound by a dictatorial regime that works only to stay in power. They still have a largely well educated population and the freedom to think so they will be able to devise solutions.

I hope the UK can somehow recover and properly prosper going forward. Clearly the UK has unfathomably potential to be great if put to good hands that is. The options who's supposed to rule is just pathetically weak.

@VinnyUnion

Ай бұрын

@@recur68 to be honest i don't really think british people have what it takes in terms of war other than intelligence gathering. Whenever they're in a battlefield they just keep swearing and whining.

@valuetraveler2026

Ай бұрын

it will not recover for a long time.. look at places like Portugal

@PwerRanger01

Ай бұрын

it will. Fascism will fix it. It fixed Germany. Tis growing fast the media will try hide it but they will fall. it started small in 1920s then blew up hard. the conditions are right again. this time nothing will stop it. 30s that all kicked off. History repeats. Happening all over Europe too.

there is actually no value to live in the UK.......simply not worth it financially

@matthewn1805

Ай бұрын

So why have so many Russian oligarchs put their money here?

@patrikvavro1611

Ай бұрын

@@matthewn1805the UK has very strong protections of private property rights, which make it a great place to launder money

@justdoitsolutions269

Ай бұрын

@@matthewn1805 duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

@monipenny408

Ай бұрын

@@matthewn1805 not anymore they have all been seized, do keep up!

@samanthahardy9903

Ай бұрын

​@@matthewn1805Not just the Russians. Arabs as well.

Why are you using England and Britain interchangeably? Amateurish. We don’t have a FTA with the US.

@pandora8478

Ай бұрын

As as an English man, I can say we’re guilty of this too!

@printitpaintit.2436

Ай бұрын

Almost ALL western countries have a population growth well below the minimum 2.4 needed to maintain a population, that's why the west has opened the doors!

@MrTSK27

Ай бұрын

Annoying and rather ignorant....Had a UK in one form or other since 1801...and Great Britain since 1707....Not just come about yesterday...OLDER than a Inited Germany a United Italy and Kingdom of Belgium to name just 3 in Europe...

@startled_squid

Ай бұрын

Because england is 70% of the UK gdp.

@Praveen1991917

Ай бұрын

With that failing economy in the UK, I am afraid if anyone wants to have a free trade agreement with the UK. 😂🤣

The current state of the UK is like that rich kid who's parents who parents achieved a lot and they spunked their inheritance up the wall thinking it would never end. We don't have talent or innovative people we have a bunch of people who think they are.

@Anon1370

16 күн бұрын

whats to be proud of here miserable weather miserable people everyone miserable yet the cause of that never gets rectified...

This was a very informative and well-made video. Speaking as a Brit, I'm always hesitant to hear what foreigners think about our political situation, but your analysis seems to be very much on the ball. In honesty though, a lot of the problems you are describing that await the UK can easily be replicated elsewhere in many other European countries (and perhaps America too)-since globally around the world fertility rates are collapsing. Our government and civil service are lazy, and sees immigration as a convenient, effortless method of forestalling the inevitable ageing demographic imbalance and isn't bothering to resort to more common sense alternatives-like automation, mechanisation, or offering to train its own younger people to help sustain its increasingly burdened public services. In addition to that, there is an ideological (bordering on religious) component towards immigration-the idea that we, as a former Empire who colonised the world and washed it pink, have to atone for our sins after centuries of colonialism. That, in addition to factors such as the balance of power in our governance has also changed. No amount of social reforms we, as a nation, could pass would happen in a vacuum-the United Nations and IMF would all pass comment upon it. If we were to take radical steps to reform our economy, it would severely impact and complicate our relationships with other countries in the world. IE: We chose to stop importing cheap labour from India or Pakistan and tried to organise our own workforce, or we tried to limit the amount of real estate that foreign residents were able to hold in our housing market. I don't see our government having the cojones to pull this off-particularly when many people in our government are more beholden to special interests than their own constituents.

The UK is completely done. I emigrated in 2019 and whenever I go back it is noticeable how bad things are getting.

@bigsmoke8571

Ай бұрын

Coward

@lervish1966

Ай бұрын

Don't come back.

@ttynorttyl

Ай бұрын

@@lervish1966 I won't. I can pay £200 a year and get a full state pension when I retire though. Thanks for that 👍

@lervish1966

Ай бұрын

@@ttynorttyl We are better off without you.

@ttynorttyl

Ай бұрын

@@lervish1966 nah, I was in the top tax band, never used the NHS, no kids... Definitely a net provider to the exchequer. But now I just pay in around £200 a year so I can get full state pension when I retire 😬 Maybe the UK will stop aikidoing itself into oblivion at some point 🙏 I hope you do.

"lose the 2030s" What does that mean?? As if we haven't 'lost' the last 40 years??

@kattydover6356

Ай бұрын

Not sure we will be there in the 2030's!!

@MK_ULTRA420

28 күн бұрын

@@kattydover6356 The UK will still exist but only because the UN needs it to remain as an economic zone. The only chance that the UK has is by deporting their non-visa migrants and replacing them with AI and machine automation to create the biggest service economy in Europe.

@hvacrwrld1402

21 күн бұрын

At 42. Not had that much luck tbh 😂 endured it all.

“We got there first, and now we’re the worst” - Jay Foreman, 2014

I live in one of those run down industrial towns in the north of England and life is fine overall, my neighbours are from Portugal and have good jobs and love it here, work with good pay is hard to find in Portugal apparently. I do admittedly live in a good neighbourhood for the area but not particularly wealthy. That said we have lost a lot of engineering/manufacturing firms since the 1980's and you can't escape the feeling of malaise is the best way I can describe it. Retail is hanging on but there is no hustle and bustle anymore (thanks Amazon). I think this guy is right we need to stop all these negative tends while we still have skilled people to do it but the politicians need to start being honest and better quality. Cheap labour won't save us either; we need skilled immigrants in family units from anywhere. We have a lot going for us still but special interests are pulling us and our allies in the "developed" world down. All countries face similar challenges as change speeds up, fighting that change is not the answer and all of Europe in particular not just the EU is at a crossroads as signs of societies strains begin to show.

@DY-cq3qd

Ай бұрын

I live likewise but see a lot of high tech manufacturing in my area. We could help this if we made things easier to set up , gave some cheaper loans , increased tech education and still believed in our originality more.

@CR-og5ho

21 күн бұрын

This is the attitude. We need more people like you and fewer like the pessimists and parasites in this thread.

The UK had Rover, the Rootes group, Austin, Morris, and etc now they have nothing.

@jaysimpson6857

Ай бұрын

The people who own and run the U.K. also own and run other countries, it’s not unusual for business owners to run down one business in favour of another.

@alanharvey6677

Ай бұрын

Red Robby, was the typical destroyer of British Industry, don’t forget, our politicians gave away most of our solid manufacturing companies to the E U. Not only did they give it away but we the Tax payers paid for the dismantling, transportation to the newly accepted Eastern countries absorbed into the E U. Poland was one of the main beneficiaries of our industrial possessions.

@kattydover6356

Ай бұрын

Think we still hve Bristol plus Morgn, sorry letters missing on keybord!

@monipenny408

Ай бұрын

Now they have a Trillionaire Indian running the show.

@connorcameronjaggs

Ай бұрын

The UK still has some of the largest companies in the world. Just because a couple failed motor companies went down hasn't changed the global perception of British brands. Triumph, land rover, Aston Martin, Bentley, rolls Royce etc are all still highly desirable brands

Evidently he doesn't understand the difference between England and the UK. It doesn't bode well for the accuracy of his analysis.

@WalesTheTrueBritons

Ай бұрын

Yep, I’m still amazed how Americans can get it so wrong to so often. The countries are England, Scotland and Wales. And they are located on the island of Britain, those countries are currently in union called the UK! Not rocket science is it?

@lcolinwilson8347

Ай бұрын

@@WalesTheTrueBritons : it wouldn't be so bad if it was just someone speaking casually, but this is in what's meant to be an informative video.

@Perrirodan1

Ай бұрын

You are all the same, even the Irish are basically the same, your nose is so close to your country that you don't realise that you are all the same.

The fact that our foreign policy is... Do what exactly the Americans does but quietly and gentler, says a lot about the country A country with no distinctive foreign policy.

Weak leadership is the issue. At least Margaret Thatcher had a backbone like Winston Churchill did. All of Boris Johnson's bluster was nonsense and he backed down every step of the way. Sunak has proven to be incredibly weak and I have no faith that Kier Starmer will be any better. I don't know what happened to our backbone, I really don't, we have gotten really weak, pathetic, and servile over the decades and our strong spines and strong stoicism is a thing of the past. We don't get stronger leadership, we will continue our decline indefinitely.

@gustavnilsson2795

5 күн бұрын

No offence mate, but you guys had you're time, you were a superpower in the 18th, 19th and the first half of 20th century, the Americans will start to decline by the end of this century and China will take America's place then after China it might India. That's just how it works.

Every empire falls, including the UK. However, this doesn't mean that life in the UK has to be bad. Currently, things are challenging, but there's potential for stability, and the UK has many strengths. The stability of its institutions, for instance, is a significant advantage. Over hundreds of years, the UK has developed and maintained robust institutions. Admittedly, in recent years, the UK has faced stagnation and a lack of development and modernization. This stagnation is surprising, given that the UK was a pioneer of modernity with the industrial revolution. But is the UK over? I don't think so. What's needed is a cultural shift. British people need to recognize that letting go of the past and embracing the future is essential for success. Only by adapting and evolving can the UK provide its citizens with a sustainable and prosperous future.

@jrddoubleu514

Ай бұрын

It's bad because you're still peasants. The means of production. Owned by the lords.

@fantasypvp

Ай бұрын

yeah lol, imo the key thing to take away for these videos are that nearly every country is frankly f'ed, and yeah sure, it may be cheaper to live somewhere else, but where else exactly? something like 70% of the population of this planet live in poverty. the UK, europe, north america or australia seem like the only truly safe places with good opportunities. yeah our governments are incompetent and somewhat corrupt but it's nothing compared to the problems in the developing world.

@calc1657

Ай бұрын

Do you have specific examples of what in the culture needs to change?

@cunawarit

Ай бұрын

@calc1657 I do. But that's for a different format and not the comment section.

@pdxUser1411

Ай бұрын

I would argue that the stability of institutions is the problem. The infected blood scandal, the post office scandal, Jimmy Saville, the corruption and lack of accountability at the Met police, the shenanigans of the royal family, the routine slapp lawsuits institutionalized, the various covid contracting scandals, the public procurement scandal of the week, the scuppering of the 2nd Levison Inquiry by the Tories: every day a headline pointing to institutions that are expert in avoiding accountability. This totally has to change. That is the cultural shift that is needed.

i don't care about being a global power... just get the 15 million foreigners out and let us live in peace

@Selfpaid96

Ай бұрын

Pay reparations to the former British colonies before you can demand anything from the world

@NoctLightCloud

Ай бұрын

​@@Selfpaid96your leaders sold you out. you think they didn't voluntarily open your doors for them to enter? Give me a break.

@AdamStombaugh-fp6qv

Ай бұрын

​@@Selfpaid96loooool focus on actually developing your troglodyte villages, instead of crying about the past 😂😂😂

@pierregibson6699

Ай бұрын

😂

@jamessmith1652

Ай бұрын

@TalorcMacAllan I don't think human potential has a limit of capabilities unless enabled by others. On the contrary, human potential is unlimited unless people are held down by others - this is one reason Africa is now heavily pivoting away from the Global North and to the Global South.

Many people in the UK still live in the facade that we remain an extremely dominant hard power on the global stage. We're not. We are in a significant decline and chronically lacking in access to public services compared to the "poorer" and the "least economically productive" countries within the EU and Europe as a whole.

@patrick-bu3eq

Ай бұрын

Havent been like that for 100 years.

@A1D3NR1L3Y

Ай бұрын

@@patrick-bu3eq We still asserted a fair amount of dominance in the later stages of the 20th century.

The UK is in a downward spiral; this is clear to any observer inside or out. I'm thinking of where I could move to already, despite feeling shackled to the UK for various reasons.

@CR-og5ho

21 күн бұрын

Leave then, you clearly don't have the grit to help fix this country. We don't need more self serving, self loathing whingers.

Although I have interests in global economics I don't watch the news anymore... I have enough FUD lol. Thanks for this news and offering your insight on how to navigate during unfortunate times/events like this. You're right about keeping level headed when investing so that's why I think it's important to limit the amount of FUD we consume. I don't watch the media but the news that you present has enough to know issues going on without riding the emotional rollercoaster if I were to watch the news everyday. Now I buy and just trade long term more than ever, I have made over 16 btc from day trading with Kerrie Farrell in few weeks, this is one of the best medium to backup your assets incase it goes bearish.....

@JasonGavino-dj6ze

Ай бұрын

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@TedStalets

Ай бұрын

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@rogercav40

Ай бұрын

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@PatchettStalls

Ай бұрын

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@CsokiBabi

Ай бұрын

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At one time as and example Syria, Turkey and Lebanon where all majority Christian. Now look what happen.

@NoctLightCloud

Ай бұрын

this! my family is from Bosnia. The Muslims in Bosnia are radical and don't want us Christians long-term, and they've out-populated us. I'm sometimes embarassed to even say that my family is from Bosnia, because everyone immediately thinks I'm a Muslim. I usually say Croatia... I don't want to be associated with them. They have radical groups there.

@msdolly6101981

Ай бұрын

Same thing will happen to britian

@unbelievableHoruz

Ай бұрын

are you dumb? when were turkey or syria christian

@ugoekwegh4581

Ай бұрын

???

@Mus12176

27 күн бұрын

And Spain, Portugal, Phillipines , Malta were muslim look what happened

The U.K. needs a workforce programme where normal people who don't have skill are thought skills to work.

Thanks for the video

The only KZread channels I will ever like are those with real human narrators, and hosts like this one. Just curious but is a large microphone like that really necessary ?

The problem with the Thatcherite solution to Britain’s issues, is you can only privatise once. There’s not much of a public realm to roll back. The NHS is a red herring, because in the next 20 years, the Boomers will give way to Gen Xers, who are not as numerous. There’s already significant private involvement in education at all levels. The railways, and various public utilities are already in private hands. When Thatcher put through her reforms, it helped that Britain was in relative terms, an equal country. Those are the only favourable poltical circumstances, you can successfully sell such an agenda to the public. But you can’t repeat this, in what is now one of the most unequal nations in the Global North. We have two parties, that see themselves as traumatised victims of the power of organised labour. The Tories blame powerful organised labour for the economic woes of the 70s. Labour blame powerful organised labour for the electoral losses in the 80s. Both parties have a trauma led vested interest, in making sure organised labour, never has that power again. It will restructure the economy and society, to ensure this is the case. Allowing managed decline of UK manufacturing, even to the detriment of national energy security and defence? So be it. Use migrant labour in the short term, to avoid investing in domestic labour long term? So be it. Not replace sold off social housing stock, and as a result, push down housing availability, and therefore increase rents. Whilst making ownership unrealistic, and have levels of homelessness, unseen in western societies? So be it. Britain is locked on for a massive revolution. But the problem with revolutions, is they usually in the complete opposite direction, those wishing for it, hoped for.

@drdeadred851

Ай бұрын

The railways and "various utilises" are not in private hands, their in the hands of government established and controlled monopolises and in directly in state hands via nationalised rails(Network Rail, rather important to maybe you know RUNNING A RAILWAY) or the National Grid which fits the description of the former. Same with water companies. State backed monopolies that are as massivly regulated as these are are pretty much in all but name just highly corrupt nationalised sectors. If they were actual private companies like Tesco or Morrisions etc. they'd be able to fail, they'd have competitors and they wouldn't be so fundamentally micro-managed by x new declaration made by the government. Their frankly the worse of both worlds option that politicians got bored with so never felt like actually committing to privatising them fully or nationalising them fully because it was politically hard to do. So you get self-interested people seeking profit for investors without the ability to fail and with the ability to rely end of the day totally on government bailout, all on top of a state enforced monopoly. Calling this situation privatised is such a balloon brained disingenuous insanity, literally none of the fundamental mechanics that make private enterprise better than the state run alternatives are there or at the very least able to properly function.

@sdrawkcabUK

Ай бұрын

Ah mate, did you not the way these supposed would-be revolutionaries acted during 2020-21?

@ErinStephanie-mf2qk

Ай бұрын

@@drdeadred851 You sound like a right wing libertarian equivalent of those Marxists, who scream ‘but the USSR wasn’t real socialism’. And likewise you seem to arguing for an idealistic ‘pure’ form of capitalism, that in reality, doesn’t exist. It’s not crony capitalism. Or corporatism. It IS capitalism. Like any other concept, it’s not immune from contradictions and trade offs. Its relationship with the nation state, in all its forms, is a case in point. It despises it, yet needs it at the same time. It still needs the state, to guarantee not only a legal framework, but always to maintain security and defence of that realm. It’s always yearned for ‘limited government’. But capitalism’s defenders have always been vague and ambiguous, about what that entails, when confronted with reality. And the complexities of individuals and societies. If you want to defend capitalism. Fine. That’s your right. But at least take ownership of these trade offs. And stop gaslighting people, with intellectual gymnastics.

This is very clearly a video on the UK made for Americans with an American prespective rather than a global one it seems.

Most students I know are planning to move to places like South Korea and Australia because you just can’t make enough money to live here. Especially in London where all the jobs are

@zenboy1612

Ай бұрын

Good luck, Australian rents are insane

@DisconnectedRoamer

11 күн бұрын

More people are moving here than leaving

I love the UK but Asia and Africa are the fastest growing economies at the moment the reason being population and room for growth .

@user-jg2nq6ll4c

Ай бұрын

YEH, BECAUSE MOST OF THE FCUKERS ARRIVED HERE ON RUBBER BOATS FROM FRANCE, THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE ROO FOR GROWTH OVER THERE!!!!

@Epicgeezer

Ай бұрын

If this is true then why fight to come to the UK?

@jliang70

Ай бұрын

@poiujnbvcxdswq China is hardly taping off. They have grown into a 20 trillion economy. What they are doing right now is expanding the supply chain into countries like Vietnam and other part of South East Asia. We can actually see the result of that Vietnam actually increased its export by at least 10% over the last two years. Much of Vietnamese products were rebrand, or reassembled part from mainland China. In fact 80% of Vietnamese products were either come as fully assembled goods, or in parts from two countries South Korea and China. China has moved into offshoring some of its less profitable industries into Asia and Africa. Why is China viewed as a threat in the west, it is not just because it is a communist country but more importantly its tech sector is picking up the pace and will challenge the US in not just manufacturing but also tech sector. In contrast India which many in the west viewed as a possible manufacturing hub replacing China is at least 40 years behind.

@RohankrishnaB

Ай бұрын

@poiujnbvcxdswq China is growing very well, even today!!

@weird-guy

Ай бұрын

you seem like the crowd that believes uk is growing faster than the eu or the pigs are growing faster ect, doesnt mean S because quality of life is worse, is easy to grow a country/continent that was left in the dust.

Some of those problems are unique but (declining fertility + mass immigration ) are not unique to the UK. Much of Europe and the USA (slightly different as a settler country) are doing the same. It's incorrect when some people prematurely think mass immigration is the answer to low fertility rates because either way it's simply not proven yet. Nobody knows yet if the positives will outweigh the negatives in the long run.

@W1ndF4lc0n

Ай бұрын

The reality is that only some countries in Europe suffer from a migrant problem. Mainly because the migrants themselves only want to live in a few European countries and skip the rest.

@ugoekwegh4581

Ай бұрын

it will pay off in the long run..... IF the larger society accepts the descendants of these migrants as British

Excellent video and summing up of UK's possible future problems.

I would like to point out that Scotland is not the only British country showing signs of independence. People often don't realise the UK is made up of four countries; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The whole Island of Ireland used to be apart of the UK, but after fighting for their independence in the 1920s, Britain granted independence to the country. However, the North of Ireland was to remain part of the UK, as in it lived many descendants of English and Scottish colonialists (known collectively as Unionists) who still wished to remain part of Britian. 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland would form the "Free State" (Later declared the Repbulic of Ireland in 1949), whilst the remaining 6 counties became known as the country of Northern Ireland. However, in recent years there have been increasing signs that Northern Ireland is on path to reunite with the rest of Ireland. In 2022, Sinn Fein, a nationalist party (nationalists being people who wish for Irish reunification) became the largest political party in the Northern Irish Parliament of Stormont for the first time. Additionally, in the 2021 census, it was recorded that there were now more Nationalists than Unionists in Northern Ireland, and there has been a decrease in the amount of people identifying as British and an increase in the amount of people identifying as Irish. Now, all in all, Northern Ireland is not that significant to the UK. With a population of 1.8 million, we make up about 2% of the overall UK population, don't really contribute much to the economy and the loss of landmass will not be a huge blow to the UK. The only real advantage Northern Ireland provides are ports that are slightly closer to the US. Infact, we actually cause the Britian a good bit of trouble, from the violent 30 years conflicts of "The Troubles" from the 1960s-90s, along with the bother we caused in thr aftermath of Brexit, as the UK technically shares a land border with the EU due to the Repbulic of Ireland being an EU member state. However, whether it be Irish Reunification or Scottish independence, whichever one happens first will certainly have a knock on effect to the other. Plus, after the loss of the Empire in the 20th century, the breakup of the UK will truely signal how it is not the once great international power it was. And of course, most important of all, the leaving of Northern Ireland from the Union many lead to the changing of the iconic Union Jack. The Irish government has projected reunification in the next ten years, but whenever it happens, it will probably be felt more than Northern Ireland ever was apart of the Union.

25% over 65 is actually ridiculous

@pierregibson6699

Ай бұрын

😂

@weird-guy

Ай бұрын

My country has 26.6% but by 2050 it will be 40%

@Rick1Nz

Ай бұрын

@@weird-guy which country?

@dappadondadda100

Ай бұрын

​@@Rick1NzNigeria

As of 2:30 I've been aware of those historical fundamentals for some time, but when you stop, and think about it, it really is the most significant era of all human history in my opinion. According to other videos, it seems like the Roman Empire could have hypothetically had a steam driven industrial revolution, but did not. Here's an interesting idea. I once saw a documentary about the Bubonic Plague history of Europe, and one of the conclusions was that drastic population losses inspired a need for automation. I remembered that because I was struck by that concept, and the idea that maybe that was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

@NoWonderDragon

Ай бұрын

The Roman Empire was a slave based economy. They had no need to innovate. They could just throw thousands of slaves at the problem.

Austerity and lack of investment have plagued the British economy. Its decoupling from the manufacturing sector was proven to be an embarassing and dreadful fiasco. To make matters worse, Brexit hinders its economic growth and withholds every single kind of subsidies coming from the union.

There is a book cover with a guy face on the bookshelf behind him, does anyone know what title that is?

We will be fine. The future will likely view this as we now view the 70s. Our global influence won’t really decline so long as we are a nuclear power and our economy will eventually get reworked. We just need to suffer through this bit first.

@sweetnesscanwin589

Ай бұрын

We do not need to just suffer through it we need to change

@santostv.

Ай бұрын

Geopolitically speaking the uk and “the west” still have a lot of influence despite what doomers say

@Samthebritishgent

Ай бұрын

@@santostv. spot on mate. Once you have atom bombs that’s it you’ve got authority

@Samthebritishgent

Ай бұрын

@@sweetnesscanwin589 yes but we must suffer through the period of change

@PwerRanger01

Ай бұрын

yes the 30s were a hard time. Though this time the right political path will win and all will be fixed. The traitors who sent down this path that ruined will be punished accordingly.

As you seem to switch between saying England, Britain and the UK without apparently understanding that they mean different things makes it clear you have limited knowledge or authority to speak on this topic. Example- there was no English Navy after the Act of Union (1707); after this date it is the British Navy.

@Perrirodan1

Ай бұрын

Only British people care about this distinction, in the rest of the world you may as well all be English.

@AndyHenderson26

Ай бұрын

@@Perrirodan1just proving ur ignorance really

@Perrirodan1

Ай бұрын

​@@AndyHenderson26 To give a personal annecdote, I went to Ireland with my familly , told my brother in law that the Irish feel different from the English, after a couple hours he told me that he didn't see any difference and he lived in Wales and England for a couple years. Everyone in the British isles is basicallly the same, it's like the Balkan where everyone think they are different but they are basically the same.

@ianyoung6881

Ай бұрын

@@Perrirodan1 If the distinction is , as you say, unimportant then What prejudice makes you say “You may as well all be English” rather than “You may as well all be Scottish”?

@Perrirodan1

Ай бұрын

@@ianyoung6881 Because England is obviously dominating the Isles, and also they speak English, not Scottish, not Welsh, not Irish. All those people were already very similar, then the English came to dominate and leveled out the small differance with the dominance of English culture. The real reason why the people there want to identify with a different adjective to English is because it's chaffing to the fact England dominates them all. But in practical term to a foreigner they are the same. To sum it up it's more a question of feelings and political affairs than geniune difference.

at the time of this video, Scottish independence is highly unpopular in Scotland ... the SNP is facing a major collapse

Incase you didn't notice (and why woukd you), when it said "the brexit stumble" the uk flag was upside-down, an upside-down flag usually means a distress signal, this applies to the UK flag even though you wouldn't notice.

We're not running out of people. The population is ageing, but we have at least 5m sitting on benefits doing nothing. The biggest problem here is immigration - specifically bringing in people who the sit on benefits in the UK.... Most of the rest of this is nonsense too. Britain never monopolised trade routes with the Navy. Britain favoured free trade all along.

Its fine importing people to work in low pay jobs, but not bring their family and bag a passport because they in turn will become a drain.

All of these problems have been exacerbated by grossly over-populating the country "massive public service obligations"? We have the most privatised public realm in the Western world and our state pension is also one of the lowest as is our spending on unemployment. Honestly America we've had quite enough of your way of doing things - your country has tent cities and people sleeping in their cars

If British parliamentarians had half a brain to share between them then they would call on France to repay its sovereign debt to treasury, or sell the debt. France hasn’t paid a penny since 1931, the debt is heading to a trillion due to interest and it’s enough to fix every road, school, hospital, and then some.

Wealth tax. Wealth tax. Wealth tax. Fix crumbling infrastructure. Curtail the growing chasm in wealth disparity, with its knock-on effects on the housing market and the growing nature of dependency on the assets of the uber wealthy in everyday life. Put money into practical skill internships and trades. Kick out foreign corporate ownership of our economy, or heavily tax their profits unless their pumped into improvements - transport, land, water. Stop stupid policies like Rwanda which will have no real impact on illegal immigration and predatory traffickers. Build lower and mid rent housing. Audit the education system to help stem the bleeding of teachers from the profession. A wealth tax doesn't make everything possible, but it would be a massive step in the right direction. It is almost universally supported, even amongst the wealthy. Income tax fairly taxes the working, a wealth tax will tax the incomes generated by the assets of the uber wealthy.

@lervish1966

Ай бұрын

Wealth tax = no wealth

@OmarOsman98

Ай бұрын

Wealth tax is going to make everyone run away from the UK. It’s not a solution

@SuperJibulus

Ай бұрын

Imagine being one of these people who thinks taxing the wealthy will solve all our problems and won’t just cause all the wealthy to leave as they’ll have no reason to stay here and spend money anymore.

@TheRealVenom448

Ай бұрын

​@@SuperJibulus A wealth tax would barely make a dent in their yearly incomes. Even when wealth was taxed at 90% here in the U.S. during the postwar era, none of our wealthy left.

@SuperJibulus

Ай бұрын

@@TheRealVenom448 did they pay tax on their entire income?

As a Scottish citizen, Scotland independence would definitely be a big step up for Scotland and for the top half of the UK to be able to work on their own, instead of being apart of the problem that is going to get worse for the UK as time will go on. I may be 14 years old, but that wouldn't mean that I would not say anything to and for the people of Scotland.

As a British 14 year old my future will be ruined by the choices of our leaders

@delgriffithification

6 күн бұрын

Sounds like you'll be ruining your own future with that attitude.

@evanjuniorfluffy

6 күн бұрын

@@delgriffithification how am I doing that? I’m not the one getting votes from the 60 year olds to bring national service back

Many adults were denied the vote in the Referendum, 3 million, sufficient to have changed the outcome; and the problems of Brexit were not "unexpected" but entirely predicted, set out in detail, and ignored.

@MookMineola

Ай бұрын

It’s a shame that incompetent idiot Cameron couldn’t outline tho issues during his so-called campaign for the UK to remain in the EU

10:24 "...the much anticipated trade deal with the United States seen as a key benefit of Brexit took 4 years to materialize it was pretty favorable to the Americans..." Where on earth did you get the idea that there has been any USA+UK trade deal. There hasn't been. There isn't one. You're not talking about the so-called "Statement of Mutual Co-operation on Economic Development and Trade Relations" with Texas, are you? The UK wanted to call it a trade agreement, but it literally says that it is "not an international agreement or treaty and as such does not create legally binding rights or obligations under domestic or international law". Texas does not have the authority to make trade agreements with other countries.

@jbrogers655

Ай бұрын

please don't tell a Texan that...lol

@kattydover6356

Ай бұрын

Tell Kemi!!

@anteep4900

Ай бұрын

while the situation isn't great for the UK, as a whole, Aaron seems to be exarcerbating this by simply making up a load of drivel as well.

@DY-cq3qd

Ай бұрын

Its strange that as about the only long serving ally of the USA they have they don't do a bit more ...

We lost the 'Great' part of Britain a long time ago, I'm 52 and I've watched the countrys decline since the 80s, and it's a completely different country now, and not in a good way.

It looked a lot worse in 1979 - very grim indeed. But despite our small size and population, the UK still has a top ten economy on a par with India - with 15 times our population. Don't underestimate us!

@devinfraserashpole4753

Ай бұрын

For now. Let’s see what happens in the 2030’s.

@valuetraveler2026

Ай бұрын

what does Top 10 mean to the 99&?

@CR-og5ho

21 күн бұрын

Yes, this 100%! All the problems we face we've been through worse and come out stronger and better off.

@devinfraserashpole4753

21 күн бұрын

@@CR-og5ho You had the empire to bail you out though. Things might be different this time as the world changes.

@Kiltoonie

19 күн бұрын

@@devinfraserashpole4753 Britain has not had an empire for 80 years - it was a burden, not an asset.

The people that built this once great nation have died and their culture has gone with them. The british of today are of poor quality in comparison. Speak to the young adults of this nation and you will see that things are to get worse, before they get better. If they get better at all..

@citizenA-Z

Ай бұрын

haha dont be stupid, the people who built the nation, still run it today - do you think any of this doesnt work in their favour! the house of lords is heridtary, they are very the same ones who built this infrastructure running it. Yes our ancestors who farmed and mined and sewed and worked from toddlers, did their building too, but they were never the ones in power and still arent. thye didnt build these systems, and their descendants are not profiting now. im simplyinging ofcourse, but generally this is true. this mess is just want the rich want, and good job too cos they are the ones doing it. the global rich love the uk, it will quite a global sweetspot post climit change etc

People often talk about the UK's bland food but anybody rarely mentions it's bland houses too.

@mktf5582

Ай бұрын

Food isn't bland but yes quite a lot of houses are, thankfully newer houses have style/nicer.

@luaking84

Ай бұрын

I quite like the UK's bland houses. But then I live in Lima right now, which is a concrete jungle.

@buddy1155

Ай бұрын

Bland is not the biggest problem, they are tiny, even for European standards.

@thejuicydollop

Ай бұрын

Food is London is the best in the world. Just got back from a trip to Italy - the food there is so bland. No seasoning, pizza, pasta and paninis everywhere. Delighted to be back in London where I can eat whatever food I like from world class chefs.

@mildlydispleased3221

Ай бұрын

The UK's houses are better than those awful cardboard houses the Americans live in.

An Englishman here! Very well done, well researched video. Bravo! You are right about 95% of everything discussed but it all proves the point that so called "democracy" simply doesn't work. Free market capitalism, yes, but democracy no. The country is too fractured and divided on so many issues that there is no way forward and although there have been some upbeat moments in recent years (like the 80's and 90's) the reality is an overall decline since the second world war. You will see over the next few years, Politian's continue to fumble and delay, pulling and pushing in different directions, solving absolutely nothing until the inevitable happens. Only benevolent dictatorships work to build strong countries (and empires) who put the interests of their own people first and foremost. This will be proven over the next 20 years. Watch this space!

Wonderfully succinct and insightful.

The Royal Family without Lizzy is a money pit and a sad joke. Maggie destroyed the working class. Additionally, Brexit was the greatest act of self harm a country has ever inflicted upon itself.

@lynnbarsby7356

Ай бұрын

Crap,brexit never happened

You make a very important point about why the UK found itself at a competitive disadvantage after WWII. Prior to WWII, as Peter Zeihan points out, you had to maintain an empire in order to assure that your economy had adequate sources of supplies as well as markets for its products. Thus, in ecological terms, Britain, thanks to its vast empire, was among the best-adapted economies in the world. But this rationale for the British Empire disappeared after WWII when the American Navy made the sea-lanes equally open to everyone. The Royal Navy thus became an expensive heirloom rather than the key to Britain's prosperity. Not only that, the US Navy's impartiality meant that Britain faced an unprecedented degree of competition from previously marginal countries like Japan or Brazil. This brought to the fore weaknesses like the dysfunctional British class system, the Labour Party's rigid reliance on socialist programs of nationalization, and Thatcher's financialization of the economy allowing London to overshadow the rest of the country,