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@@laurent3760 no there definitely not. Most British Americans ancestors have been in the country for so long that they choose to identify as American rather than British. While people with parents who have only just immigrated are more likely to identify with there parents ethnicity. Also Brits are literally a mix of Celtic and Germanic people, which are the other 2 largest ethnic groups (Ireland and Germany). 44/46 US Presidents are ethnically British (and if we include all of the British isles) 45/46. The only president who wasn’t was Martin Van Buren whose the USA’s 8th president, he was Dutch (which makes him Germanic). Ethnicity has hardly anything to do with our relationship anymore anyway, we literally watch the same shows, listen to the same music and play the same games. The hole Anglo sphere is United by culture and language, if everyone in the U.K. looked black and everyone in the USA Asian we’d still be extremely close. Millions of Brits are friends with Americans, the same can not be said about the French who are only 20 miles away.
Isn't it funny how she spoke about lowering taxes and reversing green energy policies and then suddenly the entire British political class turned on her and kicked her out to put a literal Banker on the job without a election?
@@l0lLorenzol0l Without an election? Do you even look at British politics? Sunak was the runner-up to PM bro. I don't think the conservatives choosing the next most suitable candidate after the one that got in resigned makes us a dictatorship or something, especially when the alternative is waiting another month or two for another election to go through. Its just logical man.
@@Web720More like an pair of elderly fathers with one just wanting to retire and the other trying to get back on track and in shape and the retirement guy won a game of rock paper scissors which decides their shared fates.
They aren't always national animals (the UK's is a lion, and not all nations have officially designated national animals and plants). Its still a lot more creative and distinctive than countryballs. (And lends itself to better visual gags like the UK Bulldog in an infantry helmet riding on the back of the American Bison in an infantry helmet, or the bone sticking out of the greek dolphin.)
I feel that a bison represents America better. We are strong and resilient. Bison are more powerful together and they could stand for a united country.
The water = industrialisation thing goes back even further than you think. Widespread watermill use for product manufacturing was widespread as early as the year 1000, with the doomsday book recording 6500 watermills within the country.
It just makes sense, and once people figured out that water going over the top of the wheel = more power than water going under it, whoa--things got *lit.*
It won't happen to be honest. The british public and Labour won't accept lowering food standards to give into American trade deals. We'd have to massively lower our food standards to get a stable deal with the Americans. Something the public isn't willing to do. There was a big protest about Brazilian food coming into McDonald's UK and they had to back down. This is just a taste of what would come if we gave into American demands.
Problems with making a trade deal with the US: the US wants to get a deal with EU first. UK would have to lower food/produce standards massively, something that the British public will not accept
That and Britan knows they would be overtly subservient in that role as they would rely on America economicly for everything. So it's tough question for Brits be under French and German influence or American.
If the tories are in charge of any voter reform, they will rig it so they can get in on a smaller and smaller minority. They will try to force lower standards on us, and the press will lie and say it's for our own good.
honestly the food standards argument is such a weak argument, the fda has extremely strong standards. sometimes too strong, as the baby formula shortage showed.
Unlike europe the uk gets lots of tourists because he still have a monarch even though he a terrible person and London has a big bank area filled with lots of banks
My town in the East Midlands was first a coal mining village then a huge cotton town. Not any more. Those mills are long since abandoned and a part of our town hall is burnt down. Now all we make money off is tourists and sweets. R.I.P industrial Britan
@@FreddieHowe2806 Yeh when the Empire collapsed and we couldn't exploit the colonies anymore. The cotton industry isn't coming back. Coal should though - its not like we are cutting back on using it.
Similar situation in my town in Cornwall. In the 1800's and 1900's it was a tin mining town. But since the closing of the last of the mines in the 1990's it has huge areas of land with bare concrete and abandoned buildings. Along with the surrounding area being one of the poorest places in the UK. As for the tourists... well... they just go and visit St Ives or Newquay instead.
Actually, as a French person I can tell you that we don't talk too much about the UK (the news almost never mention the UK). It's quite "odd" for us to see the British ppl so focused on France tbh
Current politics have made the two not so friendly. Worst the relationship has been in decades. French have refused to stop illegal immigration and started fights over fishing (again). Technically friends, but not enthusiastically lol
@@silverhost9782 Actually I think it's more complicated than this "licence dispute". France has never wanted to be a pawn of United States, (US doesn't have a welfare system, treats its own workers poorly (those who are at the bottom of the social pyramid), and unleashed a French-bashing because France didn't support Georges Bush Iraki's war). To sum it up, US is France's ally but not a "modele" for us. So when UK, an European Country, decided to go "Brexit" and left the EU to get closer to the US (that's how we see it), you can't expect France (and probably the others European countries) to be "lenient" toward the UK. Plus don't forget France shares its border with 8 countries (+ Brasil with French Guyana), so we obviously have been influenced by all those countries. That's why we don't focus so much on Great Britain (I think we focus our attention equally on Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.)
@@KyotoSong2 In reality, France has been hostile to the UK for a long time. It took years to get into the EU because of France- and there will be years of hostility now that we're out of it. That's fine, because France things the UK is a threat to its EU, the political entity that it created and led (arguably still does). But let's not pretend it's any more than that
@@silverhost9782 tbh that was inevitable after India left the empire after the conclusion of ww2 when the entire ship was broke as fuck. Once the Indian master log was removed, the rest of imperial dam was going down. Plus it definitely wasn't helped by the presence of 2 very clearly stronger powers now at the main table of global affairs
@@billclinton3862 not wrong but you are missing the bigger point at large. The UK is small subregional power trying to act like it is a continental power with whatever imperial power is left in the tank. Only all of our closest neighbours and even the US dislikes us at best or severely distrust us at worst now, and we have figured out the hard way that there is no imperial power in the tank anymore. And yes, our politics in that time definitely hasn't helped either
We hate the polish? Are you for real? I love the poles, you'll never find a bunch of harder working individuals, fantastic employees with a great work ethic!
Not every single brit of course but a large chunk of anti-immigration rhetoric in the UK was against the poles and Eastern Europeans in general, today it's more so the Albanians
Heard that outside london they are paid illegaly (400 pounds for the family 6)and live in shack or a roof the farmer give him (for the most i've hear) The farmer need to do that because of the articial low price of food from foreign country like pakistan russia canada france etc The poles need that for various reasons coming for most of poverty And the englishmen suffer unemployment and all the problem that come with it since the farmer aren't employing 1 english but 4 poles instead
Honestly speaking as a Brit first time I’ve gotten a good understanding of what we have to do to move forward Edit: how the hell did people move on to Ukraine
@@Tonius126 but even still us Americans have a weird relationships with you guys. Our government is best friends with you guys but the people still very much see you guys as the enemy that needs defeating “eventually” and this is also pushed kinda by the government in the school system they make sure too tell us of y’all’s atrocities in colonization. They kinda gloss over ours lol
If you want to look at it from a historical perspective, for a long time the UK has generally wanted to stay out of continental affairs, aside from when one nation became too powerful and upset the fragile balance of power. Think about pre ww1. The uk were keen to stay out of the growing alliance blocks until Germany sought to challenge british naval dominance. So with the emergence of the US as a great power, it made perfect sense for the UK to be friendly with them. Outside the politics of the continent, reliable trade partner, similar language/culture/cultural values. Also importantly even though the US eclipsed them in power, they are still too far to directly threaten the UK with invasion
That's all true, but Britain's foreign policy of trying to stay away from the continent whenever possible was only in place when we were the greatest naval and economic power on Earth. The reason for it was that the government didn't want to be dragged down by commitments in Europe, which would prevent them from focusing on the empire and the colonies, and also because they wanted a reasonably peaceful bloc of countries to sell stuff to. Pretty much none of that is true anymore, so I don't think it can really be said to have a significant effect on current policy.
9:20 The industiralization of Scandivania was quite similar to Britain though in a slightly different way. Scandivania was a very strong village based society and industrialization happened usually by those villages one by one. Even now most Danes, Swedes and Nords live in large towns and usually the capital is the only large city. It was very bottom up with most old social structure being preserved and evolving with industrialization. This is very different from the top-down industrilization of Germany or Russia. Where the central authority pushed industrilization by moving people into cities and destroyed most social structures.
@@souvikrc4499 Well it's more so the reverse. Social democracy already was a thing and guided industrialization. In Germany and Britain nobility and the government bought up huge amounts of land and displaced farmers and craftsmen sometimes by force. In Scandivania though that didn't really happen as the peasants had too much power in the government. So the industrialization happened gradually due to market forces. The US industrialization is somewhat similar though it did happen a little faster.
The industrialization of Britain was very top down. Millions of peasants and artisans are evicted from their houses and farms and hurled into factories and mines. These were funded by taxpayer money from India thanks to the conquests of the East India company.
As a Brit your analysis on the country and its future is pretty accurate. There's no way that we get to rejoin the EU with the same privileges we had before. Its also likely that Ireland reunifies, but Scotland I'm not so sure on as while support for Scottish independence seems to be growing, it's economic suicide for Scotland and besides, who says that the EU will even let them in? Long-term we're probably going to become a de-facto US territory, but in general as a country we'll be fine and I mean that in the sense that it won't collapse.
Same here, from my understanding, Irish unification is inevitable and would probably benefit Northern Ireland in the long term. As for Scotland, immediately joining the EU would most certainly be potentially suicidal, it would be the equivalent of someone who hasn't gone swimming before jumping in the deep end and just hoping for the best not to drown, although if Scotland were to join EFTA that could be more financially feasible for them.
I disagree that they were privileged, the UK was getting the least out of being in the EU so it makes sense that the economic burdens were reduced. Not really privileges when every other country was finding far more value.
@@maxdavis7722 There was a lot of countries investing into the UK because it was "the english country in the EU" though. That was worth a lot of money.
@@tempest5736 Irish reunification would probably benefit Britian as Northern Ireland is in economic deficit and has been for decades. But for Ireland, well there are about 1 million unionists that don't want to join - whether Ireland could handle the security challenges of 1 in 6 people being possible dissidents is questionable. What's stopping Northern Ireland turning into a bloodbath? Britain at least had an army they could send to stop that, Ireland's military is too small to keep order.
I grew up in England and I didn't even know we are supposed to not like the Poles any more than other nationalities. Didn't get that inpression growing up and I was in a relatively diverse area.
I find it ironic that some Brits think that Poland is a backwards state with no opportunity. It has the 3rd best education according to PISA, it has lots of available jobs and it's affordable which means the average Pole can afford unlike cough cough London. The UK is going down the drain.
@@kpeyton3 dude i have delt with this for 19 years, everyone thinks poland is some backwater and worst of all, any racism towards poles are "ok" cause we are white - oh well in 3 years I am moving back to poland so i cannot complain :)
The portrayal of Canada was hilariously accurate. As an aside, if you combine the America plan with the CANZAUK plan, that’s essentially just extending the Five Eyes into the economic domain, beyond the original military/intelligence aspects.
@@leisti My assumption is that the levels of trust needed for an intelligence alliance far exceeds the threshold required for an economic alliance. The devil is in the operational details in terms coordinating an expanded NAFTA, so to speak, but the base level inter-state trust is an enormous hurdle already overcome due to common cultural and historical elements.
Great video. As somebody who is British, I think outsiders really overestimate the prospect and pull of CANZUK on British politics. It's nothing more than an imperial-nostalgia Brexit fantasy. Would it be nice for it to happen? Yes, I feel great cultural affinity with other Anglosphere nations. But it's barely mentioned at all by politicians and does not seem realistic.
It also literally makes zero economic and political sense for both the UK and the other 3 supposed partners' point of view. The other 3 clearly (mainly Australia and Canada) are far more concerned about trade with the US whereas even after leaving the EU, the UK's largest trade partner is still the EU. It's basic geographical reality more than anything else
And on the basic point of trade deals after leaving, the deals have been basically totally worthless for the UK to the point where even former Tory ministers are saying so in Parliament
That is true like the most we do have a strong alliances with the angloshpere (and also the commonwealth) we have a strong alliance with most countries (NATO)
@@ed-b8045 tbh what strength is there in shit like the commonwealth? The UK gave up on trading with it for free by the 1960s when the EU was starting up and now the organisation is literally just nothing more than copium for the empireboos who delude themselves into thinking the empire isn't dead and buried and for the post-colonial countries it is a possible breadline for badly needed investment that they probably won't get from us lot 1) because we don't give a shit about them outside of humping dead glory and 2) we don't have money to invest considering we got did of the department of international development and we export barely anything bar financial and general services to the world around us and even that is badly failing currently.
Great video, just a minor correction. Ireland is dependent on the UK in a variety of sectors but food is certainly not one of them. Ireland is a food stable nation and is a large exporter of agrigoods.
@@Smooy1111 I heard a stat a few years ago (so could be well dated) that 1/4 of all beef burgers in Europe are Irish. I think what the other commenters are missing also is that even during the famine there was more than enough food in Ireland to go around. Instead it was used to feed the empire.
1:30 The 'Firth of Forth' isn't actually a river, Firth is Scots for Estuary, the Forth is a river that runs from the Southern tip of the Highlands into the Firth of Forth. The river itself is actually very meh, with little on it other than Stirling. The Firth however provides calm seas and shelter for the capital, Edinburgh. But I'd say if you want an example of an OP river in Scotland, see the Clyde, which runs from southern Scotland through Glasgow and out West, and it was the river where most of the ships of the Royal navy were built.
Depends on how you rank navies. China has a far stronger Navy than the U.K., but if we went to war Britain could attack China while China wouldn’t even be able to reach the U.K. Other than the USA there’s not a single country that has more reach than the U.K. militarily. Just depends on what you value, but by pure fire power you could argue that we’re not even top 5 (if nukes are banned.
@@joshbentley2307 having the reach means nothing when you cant defeat your enemy, royal navy can bully some third world country sure but they cant do shit against japan or china
@@dragenmaster5385 as a self proclaimed “military nerd” your understanding of navies and global supply chains is laughable. The U.K. can literally send one of its nuclear submarines (which is currently in the Sea of Japan) and just go and bomb Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai. China wouldn’t be able to attack the U.K. conventionally because they literally can’t reach the island. Of course that would be ridiculous for the U.K. to do due to the sheer size of China’s economy and nuclear weapons. U.K. has 14 overseas territories (most are massive military bases) and 145 (the second highest amount in the world) known overseas military bases. Along with being able to use USA military bases (800+) U.K. can attack any country. China has 1 overseas military base in Djibouti which is surrounded by bigger NATO military bases (USA, U.K. and France) Japan also has 1 overseas military base which is also in Djibouti. Military bases are placed there to fight of pirates and defend global shipping lanes.
We don’t have a strong navy, rather, it’s far reaching. We have a small presence everywhere rather than a large local presence like China. And bear in mind, it’s very unlikely we’d be fighting a war without the help of the US or someone else.
Basically, slower industrialization creates good-paying industrial jobs at a slower rate, so instead of all the kids in a rural family of ten moving to the city, only one or two actually do. Since rural families tend to have more kids than urban families, the siblings on the farm go on to have more kids while their urban siblings have fewer kids. Peer pressure from the family may help in encouraging the city folk to have more kids as well. Over time, urban couples get used to having larger families, especially if there's sufficient space for suburban housing. Replay this scenario every generation and you'll likely get a stable population pyramid.
Yeah, just France has a better dmographic than Britain and Germany catches up. It is projected, that Germanys population will grow to 86 Mio the next few years. There is a new legislation modeled after the canadian immigrant law. So Britain sems to become, or stays, the weirdo between Europe and the US with no big trade agreement so far. Also it is highly questionable that the former colonies will suddenly give Britain a first in any regard, just because they are not EU now. What shall be the upsides to this?
Commonwealth realms (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) already cooperate with each other in each level of government, the only thing missing is an economic agreement. Here in Canada we have close relations to the UK even at a municipal (city) level, since the Crown is involved with local charities and institutions.
@@Andrew-gn9qp There is economic agreement, just the UK apart of it. Its between the US, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. He mentioned it in the video, it would probably be good for them to get in on it if they can.
The UK is like this person who was rich, spoiled, and the guy who would threatened you if you never pay him. He was super muscular and powerful. He was a captain the seven seas, a businessman with a huge company, and an inventor. He had a company but lost it due to extreme competition from other companies. He raised his son even though they had their moments. The son would also meet his mother (France) sometimes since his father and mother don’t get along well (Until way later), but now his son is way richer and powerful than him. He got rich, but not as rich as his glory days. He would follow along with his very rich son since he’s the most trustworthy guy to rely on in the family. Tell me what the UK is like in your opinions. Pls don’t be offended. I did these comments before.
Uk is like a spoiled dad who's had a falling out with the neighbours in the area they've lived comfortably in for a long time and has now decided to drag his unwilling family out of the area to live on the streets for a while whilst claiming it was a family decision and the right thing to do
We’re a victim of our own culture. We’re known stereotypically for our stiff upper lip and the “keep calm and carry on” slogan. This is a true stereotype, we’re so used to living in tough times we just carry on and little changes. Although thankfully it seems people are finally fed up with the tories and things might begin to change.
I really do want to give a shoutout to all the animals country depictions. They are so spot on and must've taken a good amount of time to complete. Well done!
As a EU citizen, I had other reason to suscribe to this channel: The frickin' animal flags. They are like the dinosaur nuggets of flag representation, once you know about them, there's no valid alternative to them.
Except, UK can't really can't negotiate with the US as equal WIth France Germany, Poland and russia yes, not the US That's the whole point of the EU, the countries are too small to get an equal deal with from the US
@@stewroo That honestly seems really weird. Denmark is almost able to feed itself and all of Norway with the surplus, like 85-90% coverage of 11-12 million people, Norway got fishing, and Sweden is big enough with a small enough population to feed all of the UK in theory(if impractical due to economics and common sense, holy shit it would require so much reshaping of nature) So how come the UK cannot realistically feed itself? I mean fucksakes Denmark used to be so shit we had to import wheat while them English ones could even grow wheat in their paradise of not too rainy and warm weather....instead of the literal frozen swamplands of pre industrial Denmark....and now we can feed as mentioned, a shitload of people. So how the fuck can big ass UK not feed itself? As a state it seems to have plenty of space on the world map, relatively speaking. Is it all woodlands or just big rocks? Like....I do not comprehend it! How do you fuck up food, it should be the first fucking thing on your mind EVERY DAY....like....come on! This is how you get bullied by danish and norwegian farmers and end up with Manchester.....and York....
Yeah it's crazy everyone knew that would happen. The problem with much of the analysis against brexit is that its always on an economic pov. Many people didn't vote for that reason.
Just curious, what were your criterion when you chose the animals to represent each country/union? I've always thought they were pretty spot on and wondered how you decided on them. Probably a fairly useless question, but I must know the answer.
@@ShubhamMishrabroalthough the UK claim's the Lion as its national animal (a species that doesn't even live there). So not all of them are national animals but are closely related to the national identity of the nation (a bulldog has represented Brittain in political cartoons since the 1900s). And some have multiple national animals like the USA having both the Bald Eagle and the American Bison/Buffalo. (I think a buffalo better represents our actual behavior on the world stage)
About Nafta, I'm not sure Mexico would be eager to have a trade deal with the UK, I mean Mexico is looking to expand it's manfucaturing industry that's why an agreement with South Korea was made, the EU trade agreement is mostly about Germany looking someone to build their cars. I'm not sure what's in it for the UK.
I'd say one of the reasons Brexit hasn't gone so well is because it was implemented by politicians who didn't want it themselves, many of them have stalled the process or actively worked against it. Also being hit by crisis after crisis wont help either (COVID, Ukraine, whatever the fuck is going on in parliament rn, etc). I just don't think it's had a chance, like it's said in the video, the UK's future should be secured
No, there is no world in which placing trade barriers with by far your biggest trade partner would ever work unless you made major sacrifices like lowering standards for the US or befriending authoritarian nations like China. You cant blame global issues for the reason why we have much worse problems than other comparative countries as they are global issues. According to the CER which looked at similar advanced economies we know that Brexit has cost the UK around 5.2% GDP in 2021. COVID does not explain why we lagging far behind all our EU peers Brexit hasn't gone well because it wasn't implemented hard enough, Brexit didn't work because its a fundamentally bad idea.
@@aidan-4759 "putting up trade barriers" many of which could have been avoided by Brexiting harder. Of other countries can make it outside of the EU, I don't see why your island cannot. Sure, there's bound to be turbulence in upsetting existing agreements, but overall should be fine and should see small barriers to trade.
@@aidan-4759 @deermapping2158 I think we're falling into the trap of false dichotomy here where it's either (Brexit is the problem) or (Bad Leadership and Confounding Variables are the problem). The more likely option is both. There is no denying that leaving the EU and losing the free flow of trade + economic leverage to regulate world commerce has been bad for the UK, but with better leadership and luck we could have left without nearly as much economic hardship as we have currently. Secondly, people are not looking at trade deals with the U.S. with enough nuance. The food standards issue is basically the Remain campaigns equivalent of the Brexit bus and has just kind of been accepted by the mainstream. Yes, there are chemicals that the U.S. puts in their food that are banned by the EU, but the opposite is also true, in fact many chemicals used in EU countries' food productions are prohibited by the FDA in America, so it's not this black and white situation where the EU's safety standards are better; more so that they are just different and each are better in different circumstances. This same logic applies to the other industries as well, but food was an easy point for remainers to score and I don't blame them for taking that shot, but we _are_ out now, so if we could play our cards right America can be almost as good as the EU (unfortunately distance will always be a problem). On the point of global crises, we can absolutely say that they affected the UK differently from the rest of the world, since our economic system is not identical to everyone else. An analogy I would use is like a wrecking ball hitting two different walls. One of those walls is a newly built concrete wall with steel reinforcements, and the other has been built a long time ago with just iron reinforcements. They might have been hit with the same wrecking ball (COVID, Ukraine, Inflation, Cost Of Living etc.) but the old wall breaks in some places. The point is that the UK's economy has been stagnant more than the EU big boys have (Germany and France) since 2008; hence the wall being older, and the wrecking ball hit the UK right at its most delicate moment (during and immediately after leaving the EU), hence why the old wall only has iron reinforcements, to simulate the relative weakness of the UK's economic legislation and policy which was, and still is chaotic during and after the leaving process. These laws and policies are designed to bring order to the economy, so that businesses are able to predict how it will behave, and also to help the economy hold together during hard times. The reality is no two walls are the same, even if the wrecking ball is, the effect on the walls will never be the same. Besides, to look at Brexit from this purely economic perspective is to miss most of the point of it in the first place. Brexit primarily was a dispute over legislative and political authority. To be part of the EU is to agree that EU law supersedes national law with mind to some specially agreed upon exceptions and exemptions. The UK had a lot of these exceptions and exemptions, which already shows that there was friction between UK and EU authorities to begin with. The fact is that the UK has some pretty big disagreements with EU laws, and would prefer to have our own laws take precedence, but we can't do that whilst also remaining part of the EU. Immigration is one of the most pressing issues, and the UK _did_ have control of their borders within the EU; we were never part of the Schengen Area so we were able to turn people away at sea, but IIRC there were European Union laws which forced us to offer asylum to migrants we didn't want if they actually landed on UK soil. See, when we left the EU the Conservatives were actually supposed to suppress immigration to the UK with the new legislative power they had, and they ALWAYS talk big but do nothing as more and more visas are accepted year after year, and more and more illegal crossings pile up. We've seen this with the Rwanda plan, which they talked endlessly about and hyped it up as much as possible but then only a minuscule fraction were actually put on planes to Rwanda. This is because almost ALL of the UK's institutions are corrupted from within by pro-immigration sentiments and put up as many barriers to change as possible, and the Conservative party just LET'S IT HAPPEN. With respect to this, and other situations like it, it's no wonder many Brexiteers are so demoralized to the point that some have switched sides because they've realized just how compromised British institutions are, including the Conservatives themselves. From an economic perspective alone, leaving the EU is a fundamentally bad idea, but it is a great idea if you understand it from a legal and political perspective, and to most Brexiteers that independence was the core reason for leaving and we are willing to deal with economic hardship to satisfy that. To any pro-Brexit people here; don't forget this. The current ruling class in the UK won't be in power forever, and when they are finally pushed back maybe we can actually live up to the positive legal and political expectations that Brexit was supposed to be about all along. P.S. I hear that Germany and France are having some kind of energy disagreements which could rock the EU to its core, so rejoining is likely an even worse idea than continuing on our current trajectory with America.
2:35 the image where the 3 $ signs are isn't Westminster parliament, that is actually the pre-1801 Act of Union Irish Parliament in Dublin back when English nobles ran the show in Ireland
Great vid, though I disagree about the future of the UK. Firstly, in the short-medium term a US-UK trade deal is unlikely as the Americans don't really care about getting one and it would require lowing UK standards on things like food which is both unpopular and would make trading with the EU much harder. Secondly, most British voters already think Brexit was a bad idea (57% think leaving was a bad idea) and this number will only increase as the younger pro-EU generations become key voters. This will almost inevitably lead to rejoining the single market or customs union with a good chance of fully rejoining the EU in a decade or two.
@@aidan-4759 Do you think the EU would actually let Britain back in after all the chaos before? I think on a democratic level rejoining would settle the EU problem for the UK - as a lot of the problem was British politicians signing EU power expansion treaties without British votes agreeing to it which obviously pissed people off - most notably Tony Balir promising a referendum on Lisbon and then cancelling it. Joining again would allow people to actually have a say, which would improve perception of the EU in Britain.
@@jgw9990 Yes but they will wait for British politics to stabilize. We will only be able to rejoin the EU once there is again a consensus between major parties that we should rejoin as rejoining will take multiple parliaments. Though I do think the process will be much faster if we get proportional representation as that way the split left wing vote (e.g. LibDems and Greens) will matter much more. And the swing voters in swing seats (who don't want to rejoin) will matter less. That would make the main political parties more likely to be pro-EU.
Feels like a cope to me, unless things get significantly worse the UK parties aren't going to try to rejoin. The likelihood of things getting bad enough for that to actually be on the cards is low, despite what some (mostly foreign) people might want to believe
Man when i was a little kid i wanted to live in Europe or in the USA, but now with all the trouble in the world… Perharps i treated Mexico too harshly. Probably i won't get a lot of money but this feels comfortable
oof dont go to Mexico buddy. Just recently the Cartels shut down a couple of cities when the Federal Government arrested a big boss. The Federal government in Mexico right now is a complete joke with Trump lite in office. Mexico is a different beast
@@looseygoosey1349 My brother in christ… I live in Mexico, and yea it is crap but as long as someone doesn't kick de hornets nest civilians will be ok-ish
The view of the Midlands made me laugh (although that's not what it looks like) however, side note. I moved from the Midlands to Cornwall. They are even poorer but hey, the countryside and seaside and gorgeous! They'd argue here that the Cornish are a separate race, close to the Welsh, Irish etc. I live here and they're is a subtle difference. For one, I'm 5ft 2 and I seem to be average height in Cornwall. Whereas my hubby is 6ft and he seems like a giant...The English and Polish are keeping the height up in Cornwall me thinks! 🤔
Another possible reason for Britiain's industrialisation was the lack of wood in the preceding centuries. Wood was used as an energy source. Lack of it possibly drove people to find new energy sources.
I hope they allow they integrate with the US more so I can move there without a visa. New England is too expensive for me to gentrify, but old England…
Yeah, as a half Dane living in Denmark atm, I can say that as much as we like the Brits we are way too prudent to cut our links with the rest of Europe for them. That said, if they're up for bending the knee we could try that North Sea Empire again...
Space Canuk Would you really pick the French and the Germans ahead of us Brits? As probably the only other Europeans that we like and respect I expected more from you Scandinavians
@@lawbringer9857 We pick what works when it works, and trade with 26 other moderate to rich nations is more useful than aligning with a single country on the decline. Nothing personal, and I say that as an anglophile who was raised in old BNA loyalist country.
british food is good for certain things, I’d say if you want simple, yet delicious and filling, go for british food. Nothing beats a shepherds pie on a winter evening. That being said, europe does better summer food, it’s lighter and more exotic.
I was a kid when the whole Brexit vote happened and had no clue what the EU was other than the whole bus thing (which turned out to be a lie, btw). I still find it wild how people blame the people for being lied to, and not the politicians who actually did the lying. They get away scot-free in the public opinion. Europe and the US have a mindset that you must trust politicians and conspiracy theories are bad... but if you believe politicians and they end up having lied to you then you're a bad person who deserves what's coming. I believe that this has been the massive fuel for conspiracy theorists and government distrust --- as well as the whole pandemic situation where money was being given by the government "for PPE" but it was found out that none of the money actually went towards that and instead just went into the pockets of their mates, and the whole party situation.
Canzuk would probably be acceptable to Americans as an experiment to see if the Anglo countries can form an union before they see it's effects and either force their way in or see it's a failed experiment depending on the outcome this would also shift to union eventually
The UK did not leave the EU with no deal. The UK and EU agreed to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement which came into place on January 1st 2021, the day that the UK officially left the EU
It sounds ironic to abandon fellow continental neighbors to be "more independent" but ended up more dependent toward your former colony
Better to get closer to fellow anglo saxons and former colonies than closer competing powers like france and germany.
@@Tonius126 German Americans are the majority in the US lmao
@@laurent3760 no there definitely not.
Most British Americans ancestors have been in the country for so long that they choose to identify as American rather than British.
While people with parents who have only just immigrated are more likely to identify with there parents ethnicity.
Also Brits are literally a mix of Celtic and Germanic people, which are the other 2 largest ethnic groups (Ireland and Germany).
44/46 US Presidents are ethnically British (and if we include all of the British isles) 45/46.
The only president who wasn’t was Martin Van Buren whose the USA’s 8th president, he was Dutch (which makes him Germanic).
Ethnicity has hardly anything to do with our relationship anymore anyway, we literally watch the same shows, listen to the same music and play the same games.
The hole Anglo sphere is United by culture and language, if everyone in the U.K. looked black and everyone in the USA Asian we’d still be extremely close.
Millions of Brits are friends with Americans, the same can not be said about the French who are only 20 miles away.
@@laurent3760 America is not german, it's culture is founded in anglo saxon foundation.
@@Tonius126 no need to make this an ethnic nationalism thing here.
>Brages into becoming PM of UK
>Crashed the Economy
>Queen died of shame
>Refuses to elaborate
>Resigns from PM
🤜---Chad Liz Truss---🤛
"I'm a fighter, not a quitter !!"
Isn't it funny how she spoke about lowering taxes and reversing green energy policies and then suddenly the entire British political class turned on her and kicked her out to put a literal Banker on the job without a election?
@@l0lLorenzol0l Without an election? Do you even look at British politics? Sunak was the runner-up to PM bro. I don't think the conservatives choosing the next most suitable candidate after the one that got in resigned makes us a dictatorship or something, especially when the alternative is waiting another month or two for another election to go through. Its just logical man.
@@schwoondoggle pretty sure he was elected by the Tory party tho. Not sure on that one.
@@maxdavis7722 So was Liz Truss. It was something to do with Boris' resignation, I don't know the details though.
It's like an elderly father moving in with his son
More like an elderly father who lost everything and is trying to move back into his more successful sons.
@@Web720 if being successful means a white minority soon to become another South America state
@@Web720 A father with severe brain damage moving in with his extremely rich and violent eldest son
He couldn't take it at the old folks home anymore but he doesn't have anywhere else to go.
@@Web720More like an pair of elderly fathers with one just wanting to retire and the other trying to get back on track and in shape and the retirement guy won a game of rock paper scissors which decides their shared fates.
I love how you represent each nation with its national animal instead of the typical country balls. It's a lot more unique that way.
They aren't always national animals (the UK's is a lion, and not all nations have officially designated national animals and plants).
Its still a lot more creative and distinctive than countryballs. (And lends itself to better visual gags like the UK Bulldog in an infantry helmet riding on the back of the American Bison in an infantry helmet, or the bone sticking out of the greek dolphin.)
@@jasonreed7522 i would love to see someone create an animated series representing countries with their national animals
I feel that a bison represents America better. We are strong and resilient. Bison are more powerful together and they could stand for a united country.
@@turtlepaladin4750 Yeah a Bison is much better. Eagles are overrated and kinda german tbh.
@@FreckleShark Eagles being overrated I get but like, German? Why are eagles German?
“It’s the reason why Britain was the first place to have these towers puffing that exotic pack” has me in tears
The US had those in 2001 too
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The water = industrialisation thing goes back even further than you think. Widespread watermill use for product manufacturing was widespread as early as the year 1000, with the doomsday book recording 6500 watermills within the country.
Wow
It just makes sense, and once people figured out that water going over the top of the wheel = more power than water going under it, whoa--things got *lit.*
Wow spiny thing go burrrrr
that explains the peasants revolt
Still wonder why rivers arn't just covered in the things...
there good for power generation.
8:27 "The Queen hated [Truss] so much that she instantly died." That made the video for me. Brilliant!
So from what I got from this video is that we should accept the UK proudly as the 51st state
more like 51st, 2nd and 3rd states, plus many other oversease terratories
53rd state. Hot take but dc and Puerto Rico both deserve statehood
@@Orangelover-yo8gn Puerto Rican’s I know don’t want statehood they want independence.
It won't happen to be honest. The british public and Labour won't accept lowering food standards to give into American trade deals. We'd have to massively lower our food standards to get a stable deal with the Americans. Something the public isn't willing to do. There was a big protest about Brazilian food coming into McDonald's UK and they had to back down. This is just a taste of what would come if we gave into American demands.
@@ryanbrooks5482 not true, majority of the population wants to become a state
Problems with making a trade deal with the US:
the US wants to get a deal with EU first.
UK would have to lower food/produce standards massively, something that the British public will not accept
That and Britan knows they would be overtly subservient in that role as they would rely on America economicly for everything. So it's tough question for Brits be under French and German influence or American.
If the tories are in charge of any voter reform, they will rig it so they can get in on a smaller and smaller minority. They will try to force lower standards on us, and the press will lie and say it's for our own good.
@@outrageddeer2101 at least with europe we'd have a seat at the top table.
honestly the food standards argument is such a weak argument, the fda has extremely strong standards. sometimes too strong, as the baby formula shortage showed.
Unlike europe the uk gets lots of tourists because he still have a monarch even though he a terrible person and London has a big bank area filled with lots of banks
I wish I could go back to when England wanting the leave by EU was the biggest international issue at the time..
Haha, now we are all in danger...oh wait..shit
even more so now
Oh boy
My town in the East Midlands was first a coal mining village then a huge cotton town. Not any more. Those mills are long since abandoned and a part of our town hall is burnt down. Now all we make money off is tourists and sweets. R.I.P industrial Britan
Your currency is so overvalued nobody is going to buy your cotton because they are so expensive.
@@harukrentz435 It wasn’t long ago when the purge off mills happened. Only in the 50s.
@@FreddieHowe2806 Yeh when the Empire collapsed and we couldn't exploit the colonies anymore. The cotton industry isn't coming back. Coal should though - its not like we are cutting back on using it.
Similar situation in my town in Cornwall. In the 1800's and 1900's it was a tin mining town. But since the closing of the last of the mines in the 1990's it has huge areas of land with bare concrete and abandoned buildings. Along with the surrounding area being one of the poorest places in the UK. As for the tourists... well... they just go and visit St Ives or Newquay instead.
We made your history if it wasn't for us you would exist show some respect
As someone who knows European history, it’s weird to hear someone call Britain and France “friends” even if it is technically true.
Actually, as a French person I can tell you that we don't talk too much about the UK (the news almost never mention the UK). It's quite "odd" for us to see the British ppl so focused on France tbh
@@KyotoSong2 France is probably too focused on its neo colonies in Africa and appeasing Putin.
Current politics have made the two not so friendly. Worst the relationship has been in decades. French have refused to stop illegal immigration and started fights over fishing (again). Technically friends, but not enthusiastically lol
@@silverhost9782 Actually I think it's more complicated than this "licence dispute". France has never wanted to be a pawn of United States, (US doesn't have a welfare system, treats its own workers poorly (those who are at the bottom of the social pyramid), and unleashed a French-bashing because France didn't support Georges Bush Iraki's war). To sum it up, US is France's ally but not a "modele" for us. So when UK, an European Country, decided to go "Brexit" and left the EU to get closer to the US (that's how we see it), you can't expect France (and probably the others European countries) to be "lenient" toward the UK.
Plus don't forget France shares its border with 8 countries (+ Brasil with French Guyana), so we obviously have been influenced by all those countries. That's why we don't focus so much on Great Britain (I think we focus our attention equally on Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.)
@@KyotoSong2 In reality, France has been hostile to the UK for a long time. It took years to get into the EU because of France- and there will be years of hostility now that we're out of it. That's fine, because France things the UK is a threat to its EU, the political entity that it created and led (arguably still does). But let's not pretend it's any more than that
As a Mexican I love and appreciate that our representative animal is an axolotl
Very cool mascot
As a non-Mexican. I still don't know how to pronounce that properly.
@@SuperCatacataaxe-oh-lot-ull or axe-uh-lot-ull
i'm american and i appreciate ours being a bison. we are united in enjoying having an animal cooler than the government mandated eagle
Bison are so fckin cool. and Tasty@@adog3129
The problem with the UK is that it wants to act as if it's next to the USA, Australia, and North America (USA and Canada).
It worked well 50 years ago, until they broke off the relationship and left Canada, Australia and NZ out to dry to join the EU...
we are not acting we are a financial Arnold Schwarzenegger, the issue is our politics
Check our GDP mate ... how can 60 million people on a island match other countries GDP .. Just better bro dont hate
@@silverhost9782 tbh that was inevitable after India left the empire after the conclusion of ww2 when the entire ship was broke as fuck. Once the Indian master log was removed, the rest of imperial dam was going down. Plus it definitely wasn't helped by the presence of 2 very clearly stronger powers now at the main table of global affairs
@@billclinton3862 not wrong but you are missing the bigger point at large. The UK is small subregional power trying to act like it is a continental power with whatever imperial power is left in the tank. Only all of our closest neighbours and even the US dislikes us at best or severely distrust us at worst now, and we have figured out the hard way that there is no imperial power in the tank anymore. And yes, our politics in that time definitely hasn't helped either
UK big brain move: you can't collapse along with the EU if you collapse before all by yourself
We hate the polish? Are you for real? I love the poles, you'll never find a bunch of harder working individuals, fantastic employees with a great work ethic!
Not every single brit of course but a large chunk of anti-immigration rhetoric in the UK was against the poles and Eastern Europeans in general, today it's more so the Albanians
@@sdprz7893 The main problem wasn't the Polish, it was the large number coming in that was kinda exploited by being part of the EU (free travel)
Heard that outside london they are paid illegaly (400 pounds for the family 6)and live in shack or a roof the farmer give him (for the most i've hear)
The farmer need to do that because of the articial low price of food from foreign country like pakistan russia canada france etc
The poles need that for various reasons coming for most of poverty
And the englishmen suffer unemployment and all the problem that come with it since the farmer aren't employing 1 english but 4 poles instead
I am a Pole and am proud to be Polish. We are a very strong people, we can survive any hardship. Coincidentally, I am also British. 😅
lol imagine having polish problem and not a el habenero de mucho gusto latin american problem
Honestly speaking as a Brit first time I’ve gotten a good understanding of what we have to do to move forward
Edit: how the hell did people move on to Ukraine
Stay close to the Americans. Better than France and Germany imo.
@@Tonius126 absolutely not. Americans are too unpredictable and warmongering to be trusted
@@Tonius126 but even still us Americans have a weird relationships with you guys. Our government is best friends with you guys but the people still very much see you guys as the enemy that needs defeating “eventually” and this is also pushed kinda by the government in the school system they make sure too tell us of y’all’s atrocities in colonization. They kinda gloss over ours lol
@@SatchelChannel America is also the only friend the UK has, and without that relationship, Brexit wouldn't have even been an idea.
@@soffren what about us aussies and the rest of the commonwealth? what about the canada we fought in both world for them and we arent their friends?
Man my country is stugling to join eu for decades and my guy just left with no plan
What do you mean no pain?
"I do.", "I'll do it for the bag." has been the most accurate depiction of the relationship between Scotland and England i've seen.
If you want to look at it from a historical perspective, for a long time the UK has generally wanted to stay out of continental affairs, aside from when one nation became too powerful and upset the fragile balance of power. Think about pre ww1. The uk were keen to stay out of the growing alliance blocks until Germany sought to challenge british naval dominance. So with the emergence of the US as a great power, it made perfect sense for the UK to be friendly with them. Outside the politics of the continent, reliable trade partner, similar language/culture/cultural values. Also importantly even though the US eclipsed them in power, they are still too far to directly threaten the UK with invasion
That's all true, but Britain's foreign policy of trying to stay away from the continent whenever possible was only in place when we were the greatest naval and economic power on Earth. The reason for it was that the government didn't want to be dragged down by commitments in Europe, which would prevent them from focusing on the empire and the colonies, and also because they wanted a reasonably peaceful bloc of countries to sell stuff to. Pretty much none of that is true anymore, so I don't think it can really be said to have a significant effect on current policy.
Indeed we would experience in a British Invasion in the 60s.
Why would we ever feel like invading our best friend to the East lol
10%. We just want peace and quiet, man...
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The industiralization of Scandivania was quite similar to Britain though in a slightly different way. Scandivania was a very strong village based society and industrialization happened usually by those villages one by one. Even now most Danes, Swedes and Nords live in large towns and usually the capital is the only large city. It was very bottom up with most old social structure being preserved and evolving with industrialization.
This is very different from the top-down industrilization of Germany or Russia. Where the central authority pushed industrilization by moving people into cities and destroyed most social structures.
And the way Scandivania industralized laid the groundwork for social democracy in that region.
@@souvikrc4499 Well it's more so the reverse. Social democracy already was a thing and guided industrialization. In Germany and Britain nobility and the government bought up huge amounts of land and displaced farmers and craftsmen sometimes by force.
In Scandivania though that didn't really happen as the peasants had too much power in the government. So the industrialization happened gradually due to market forces.
The US industrialization is somewhat similar though it did happen a little faster.
@@MrMarinus18 and then Finland got independence, copied their homework and joined the council.
@@MrMarinus18 What do you mean USA's industrialisation was similar? how so? it wasn't as bad as Germany's sure but still pretty bad.
The industrialization of Britain was very top down. Millions of peasants and artisans are evicted from their houses and farms and hurled into factories and mines. These were funded by taxpayer money from India thanks to the conquests of the East India company.
As a Brit your analysis on the country and its future is pretty accurate. There's no way that we get to rejoin the EU with the same privileges we had before. Its also likely that Ireland reunifies, but Scotland I'm not so sure on as while support for Scottish independence seems to be growing, it's economic suicide for Scotland and besides, who says that the EU will even let them in?
Long-term we're probably going to become a de-facto US territory, but in general as a country we'll be fine and I mean that in the sense that it won't collapse.
Same here, from my understanding, Irish unification is inevitable and would probably benefit Northern Ireland in the long term. As for Scotland, immediately joining the EU would most certainly be potentially suicidal, it would be the equivalent of someone who hasn't gone swimming before jumping in the deep end and just hoping for the best not to drown, although if Scotland were to join EFTA that could be more financially feasible for them.
I disagree that they were privileged, the UK was getting the least out of being in the EU so it makes sense that the economic burdens were reduced. Not really privileges when every other country was finding far more value.
@@maxdavis7722 There was a lot of countries investing into the UK because it was "the english country in the EU" though. That was worth a lot of money.
@@tempest5736 Irish reunification would probably benefit Britian as Northern Ireland is in economic deficit and has been for decades. But for Ireland, well there are about 1 million unionists that don't want to join - whether Ireland could handle the security challenges of 1 in 6 people being possible dissidents is questionable. What's stopping Northern Ireland turning into a bloodbath? Britain at least had an army they could send to stop that, Ireland's military is too small to keep order.
It's not the Scotland Nationalists. Those types are just Anti-English and not even British.
I grew up in England and I didn't even know we are supposed to not like the Poles any more than other nationalities. Didn't get that inpression growing up and I was in a relatively diverse area.
Its a stereotype
I find it ironic that some Brits think that Poland is a backwards state with no opportunity. It has the 3rd best education according to PISA, it has lots of available jobs and it's affordable which means the average Pole can afford unlike cough cough London. The UK is going down the drain.
@@kpeyton3 dude i have delt with this for 19 years, everyone thinks poland is some backwater and worst of all, any racism towards poles are "ok" cause we are white - oh well in 3 years I am moving back to poland so i cannot complain :)
@@kpeyton3 Yeah none of us were saying that I think
Because it's not true.
The portrayal of Canada was hilariously accurate.
As an aside, if you combine the America plan with the CANZAUK plan, that’s essentially just extending the Five Eyes into the economic domain, beyond the original military/intelligence aspects.
Thankfully the USA wouldn't be part of CANZUK if it ever happens. They'd ruin it
@@secretname4190 I mean doesn't it make sense to call it a British Empire because then you would just be joining back with your British family
That "just" is carrying a lot of weight.
@@leisti My assumption is that the levels of trust needed for an intelligence alliance far exceeds the threshold required for an economic alliance. The devil is in the operational details in terms coordinating an expanded NAFTA, so to speak, but the base level inter-state trust is an enormous hurdle already overcome due to common cultural and historical elements.
“Your whole miserable country is the size of one state!” Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing to boast about in US
"the us is 50 countries (a third of which created by britain) in a trenchcoat"
@@Ninja-gt3zi yeah ok we have a gun problem and homeless crackheads we get it.
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@@SpahGamingA third? Not sure about that math.
As a bri' I really like the Scandinavian countries and I think they're cool both literally and figuratively
@In Wellens we trust 1 like = 1 sheep saved from the Welsh
dont drag us into your brexit thing stay away!
@@chozer1 don't worry Norway is the coolest anyway
@@jamesanderson3633 Norway doesn't want the UK to join EFTA. Norway doesn't even like the UK
@@jasonhaven7170 I'm not surprised they don't like us. I don't like the uk
Great video. As somebody who is British, I think outsiders really overestimate the prospect and pull of CANZUK on British politics. It's nothing more than an imperial-nostalgia Brexit fantasy. Would it be nice for it to happen? Yes, I feel great cultural affinity with other Anglosphere nations. But it's barely mentioned at all by politicians and does not seem realistic.
Yeah I’ve never heard it mentioned except on the internet
It also literally makes zero economic and political sense for both the UK and the other 3 supposed partners' point of view. The other 3 clearly (mainly Australia and Canada) are far more concerned about trade with the US whereas even after leaving the EU, the UK's largest trade partner is still the EU. It's basic geographical reality more than anything else
And on the basic point of trade deals after leaving, the deals have been basically totally worthless for the UK to the point where even former Tory ministers are saying so in Parliament
That is true like the most we do have a strong alliances with the angloshpere (and also the commonwealth) we have a strong alliance with most countries (NATO)
@@ed-b8045 tbh what strength is there in shit like the commonwealth? The UK gave up on trading with it for free by the 1960s when the EU was starting up and now the organisation is literally just nothing more than copium for the empireboos who delude themselves into thinking the empire isn't dead and buried and for the post-colonial countries it is a possible breadline for badly needed investment that they probably won't get from us lot 1) because we don't give a shit about them outside of humping dead glory and 2) we don't have money to invest considering we got did of the department of international development and we export barely anything bar financial and general services to the world around us and even that is badly failing currently.
Great video, just a minor correction. Ireland is dependent on the UK in a variety of sectors but food is certainly not one of them. Ireland is a food stable nation and is a large exporter of agrigoods.
Good to see they've made a recovery since the incident
@@thenickstrikebetter Recovery might be a stretch - more like 'fewer people to feed'
Most cheese in the UK comes from Ireland 👀
@@Smooy1111 I heard a stat a few years ago (so could be well dated) that 1/4 of all beef burgers in Europe are Irish.
I think what the other commenters are missing also is that even during the famine there was more than enough food in Ireland to go around. Instead it was used to feed the empire.
@@thenickstrikebetter the incident only happened because of Britain
Since you mentioned Lithuania, I think now its time to make a video about it!!
Great content!
I enjoy your style of videos, thanks for posting keep it up!
1:30 The 'Firth of Forth' isn't actually a river, Firth is Scots for Estuary, the Forth is a river that runs from the Southern tip of the Highlands into the Firth of Forth.
The river itself is actually very meh, with little on it other than Stirling. The Firth however provides calm seas and shelter for the capital, Edinburgh. But I'd say if you want an example of an OP river in Scotland, see the Clyde, which runs from southern Scotland through Glasgow and out West, and it was the river where most of the ships of the Royal navy were built.
i like how the title and thumbnail went from "can Britain survive without eu" to "why is britain in chaos rn"
as a military nerd i def say royal navy isnt second strongest on earth, its more like top 7 on earth, but they are ongoing modernization this decade
Depends on how you rank navies.
China has a far stronger Navy than the U.K., but if we went to war Britain could attack China while China wouldn’t even be able to reach the U.K.
Other than the USA there’s not a single country that has more reach than the U.K. militarily.
Just depends on what you value, but by pure fire power you could argue that we’re not even top 5 (if nukes are banned.
@@joshbentley2307 having the reach means nothing when you cant defeat your enemy, royal navy can bully some third world country sure but they cant do shit against japan or china
@@dragenmaster5385 as a self proclaimed “military nerd” your understanding of navies and global supply chains is laughable.
The U.K. can literally send one of its nuclear submarines (which is currently in the Sea of Japan) and just go and bomb Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai.
China wouldn’t be able to attack the U.K. conventionally because they literally can’t reach the island.
Of course that would be ridiculous for the U.K. to do due to the sheer size of China’s economy and nuclear weapons.
U.K. has 14 overseas territories (most are massive military bases) and 145 (the second highest amount in the world) known overseas military bases.
Along with being able to use USA military bases (800+) U.K. can attack any country.
China has 1 overseas military base in Djibouti which is surrounded by bigger NATO military bases (USA, U.K. and France) Japan also has 1 overseas military base which is also in Djibouti. Military bases are placed there to fight of pirates and defend global shipping lanes.
@@joshbentley2307 damn you know your shit my guy. Bravo.
We don’t have a strong navy, rather, it’s far reaching. We have a small presence everywhere rather than a large local presence like China.
And bear in mind, it’s very unlikely we’d be fighting a war without the help of the US or someone else.
Love your program, Hoser. It is informative, well presented, excellent narration and hilarious commentary. Great work!
The speed of industrialization as an explanation for some ascpects of the population pyramid is a very interesting idea I hadn’t though of
Basically, slower industrialization creates good-paying industrial jobs at a slower rate, so instead of all the kids in a rural family of ten moving to the city, only one or two actually do. Since rural families tend to have more kids than urban families, the siblings on the farm go on to have more kids while their urban siblings have fewer kids. Peer pressure from the family may help in encouraging the city folk to have more kids as well. Over time, urban couples get used to having larger families, especially if there's sufficient space for suburban housing. Replay this scenario every generation and you'll likely get a stable population pyramid.
"The queen hated her so much that she instantly died"
I'm trying to eat lunch while watching the video and choking on food from laughing 😂
Yeah, just France has a better dmographic than Britain and Germany catches up. It is projected, that Germanys population will grow to 86 Mio the next few years. There is a new legislation modeled after the canadian immigrant law. So Britain sems to become, or stays, the weirdo between Europe and the US with no big trade agreement so far. Also it is highly questionable that the former colonies will suddenly give Britain a first in any regard, just because they are not EU now. What shall be the upsides to this?
Commonwealth realms (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) already cooperate with each other in each level of government, the only thing missing is an economic agreement. Here in Canada we have close relations to the UK even at a municipal (city) level, since the Crown is involved with local charities and institutions.
A better demographic in that it has more Africans?
France has the same demographics as the UK and Germany is literally going to lose 20 million people by 2100
They don't have to pay money to the EU that's pretty much it. I think the UK was giving more to the EU than any other country.
@@Andrew-gn9qp There is economic agreement, just the UK apart of it. Its between the US, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. He mentioned it in the video, it would probably be good for them to get in on it if they can.
The UK is like this person who was rich, spoiled, and the guy who would threatened you if you never pay him. He was super muscular and powerful. He was a captain the seven seas, a businessman with a huge company, and an inventor. He had a company but lost it due to extreme competition from other companies. He raised his son even though they had their moments. The son would also meet his mother (France) sometimes since his father and mother don’t get along well (Until way later), but now his son is way richer and powerful than him. He got rich, but not as rich as his glory days. He would follow along with his very rich son since he’s the most trustworthy guy to rely on in the family. Tell me what the UK is like in your opinions. Pls don’t be offended. I did these comments before.
Aka they are a bit bitter they aren't number 1 anymore
Uk is like a spoiled dad who's had a falling out with the neighbours in the area they've lived comfortably in for a long time and has now decided to drag his unwilling family out of the area to live on the streets for a while whilst claiming it was a family decision and the right thing to do
Chasing old glories while ignoring new problems right?
@@jack1701e sounds true, but I’m not British. Also not living in the UK.
We’re a victim of our own culture. We’re known stereotypically for our stiff upper lip and the “keep calm and carry on” slogan. This is a true stereotype, we’re so used to living in tough times we just carry on and little changes. Although thankfully it seems people are finally fed up with the tories and things might begin to change.
I really do want to give a shoutout to all the animals country depictions. They are so spot on and must've taken a good amount of time to complete. Well done!
I love all your videos. Keep it up!
12:25 idk why but UK riding on top of US like a stead looks adorable
Bruh
Sounds like a good opportunity for Mexico, which already jumped on with a trade deal 🇲🇽🤝🇬🇧
You really think Mexico would act without the US?
Honestly, British humour and Latino humour slaps.
@@looseygoosey1349 It does. It trades and deals with whomever they want
@@redhead9253 British “humor.”
That would make the British look extremely desperate, considering that the Mexican cartel has more power and influence than the government
Almost 200K subs! Good luck on the path!
This is a fantastic channel, humorous and educational at the same time.
could you do one about France next ? Im curious to see what you think of it lol
"The queen hated her so much she instantly died" im deader lmao 💀
Just found your channel and already know it's gonna be gold
what can I say I moved to Britain in September this year from the EU and it's like the perfect shitstorm but still life isn't awful
The classic british saying, “still, could be worse”, which sums up life here pretty well I think
Thumbnail is amazing
I love your videos they're a funny and engaging way of teaching geopolitics and history with memes
Dude, love you content. The editing, the voice over, its just mmmmhmmmm
This was a good video. I liked the quick wit interspersed in the video.
i don’t like how people use england, britain and the uk as if they are the same thing. same as europe and the european union
As a EU citizen, I had other reason to suscribe to this channel:
The frickin' animal flags. They are like the dinosaur nuggets of flag representation, once you know about them, there's no valid alternative to them.
Except, UK can't really can't negotiate with the US as equal
WIth France Germany, Poland and russia yes, not the US
That's the whole point of the EU, the countries are too small to get an equal deal with from the US
Really great and informative video! I'm impressed at your knowledge
Actually, England's agricultural ability used to be incredibly well regarded before the industrial revolution.
Whether or not we are good at farming is irrelevant when we haven't the space to grow enough food for our population.
@@stewroo That honestly seems really weird.
Denmark is almost able to feed itself and all of Norway with the surplus, like 85-90% coverage of 11-12 million people, Norway got fishing, and Sweden is big enough with a small enough population to feed all of the UK in theory(if impractical due to economics and common sense, holy shit it would require so much reshaping of nature)
So how come the UK cannot realistically feed itself? I mean fucksakes Denmark used to be so shit we had to import wheat while them English ones could even grow wheat in their paradise of not too rainy and warm weather....instead of the literal frozen swamplands of pre industrial Denmark....and now we can feed as mentioned, a shitload of people.
So how the fuck can big ass UK not feed itself? As a state it seems to have plenty of space on the world map, relatively speaking.
Is it all woodlands or just big rocks? Like....I do not comprehend it! How do you fuck up food, it should be the first fucking thing on your mind EVERY DAY....like....come on! This is how you get bullied by danish and norwegian farmers and end up with Manchester.....and York....
Yep the population isn't that dense just because of immigration.
So you are telling that if I set trading barriers between my country and my economically strong neighbours, my economy would take a hit ?
Apparently, someone should tell Nicola Sturgeon real quick
@@silverhost9782 before she does referendum.. Haha true
That's not what leaving the EU was.
Yeah it's crazy everyone knew that would happen. The problem with much of the analysis against brexit is that its always on an economic pov. Many people didn't vote for that reason.
Really funny video 😂. Keep up the good work h0ser!
such great quality as always
Finally he did a video on my countries horrible economy and government.
7:23 I like that Poland is represented by żubr (European Bison). I also like that England is represented by hedgehog
I love your vids. Very informative, and your humor is very entertaining.
Just curious, what were your criterion when you chose the animals to represent each country/union? I've always thought they were pretty spot on and wondered how you decided on them. Probably a fairly useless question, but I must know the answer.
I always thought that NATO should be the Lion and not the EU as the former is far more powerful and kind of rules the world like, ya know, a lion.
Check on Wikipedia. Every country has official National animals
@@ShubhamMishrabroalthough the UK claim's the Lion as its national animal (a species that doesn't even live there). So not all of them are national animals but are closely related to the national identity of the nation (a bulldog has represented Brittain in political cartoons since the 1900s).
And some have multiple national animals like the USA having both the Bald Eagle and the American Bison/Buffalo. (I think a buffalo better represents our actual behavior on the world stage)
After this I think it's only fair we get an EU video too :)
The water made them great, and kind of screwed them too. The Anglosphere must stick together.
Agreed
No it shouldn't. Let it collapse and burn.
About Nafta, I'm not sure Mexico would be eager to have a trade deal with the UK, I mean Mexico is looking to expand it's manfucaturing industry that's why an agreement with South Korea was made, the EU trade agreement is mostly about Germany looking someone to build their cars. I'm not sure what's in it for the UK.
I'd say one of the reasons Brexit hasn't gone so well is because it was implemented by politicians who didn't want it themselves, many of them have stalled the process or actively worked against it. Also being hit by crisis after crisis wont help either (COVID, Ukraine, whatever the fuck is going on in parliament rn, etc). I just don't think it's had a chance, like it's said in the video, the UK's future should be secured
No, there is no world in which placing trade barriers with by far your biggest trade partner would ever work unless you made major sacrifices like lowering standards for the US or befriending authoritarian nations like China.
You cant blame global issues for the reason why we have much worse problems than other comparative countries as they are global issues. According to the CER which looked at similar advanced economies we know that Brexit has cost the UK around 5.2% GDP in 2021. COVID does not explain why we lagging far behind all our EU peers
Brexit hasn't gone well because it wasn't implemented hard enough, Brexit didn't work because its a fundamentally bad idea.
@@aidan-4759 "putting up trade barriers" many of which could have been avoided by Brexiting harder. Of other countries can make it outside of the EU, I don't see why your island cannot. Sure, there's bound to be turbulence in upsetting existing agreements, but overall should be fine and should see small barriers to trade.
@@AnyVideo999 Could you explain how putting up trade barriers with the EU would have been avoided if we Brexited harder?
@@aidan-4759 @deermapping2158 I think we're falling into the trap of false dichotomy here where it's either (Brexit is the problem) or (Bad Leadership and Confounding Variables are the problem). The more likely option is both. There is no denying that leaving the EU and losing the free flow of trade + economic leverage to regulate world commerce has been bad for the UK, but with better leadership and luck we could have left without nearly as much economic hardship as we have currently.
Secondly, people are not looking at trade deals with the U.S. with enough nuance. The food standards issue is basically the Remain campaigns equivalent of the Brexit bus and has just kind of been accepted by the mainstream. Yes, there are chemicals that the U.S. puts in their food that are banned by the EU, but the opposite is also true, in fact many chemicals used in EU countries' food productions are prohibited by the FDA in America, so it's not this black and white situation where the EU's safety standards are better;
more so that they are just different and each are better in different circumstances.
This same logic applies to the other industries as well, but food was an easy point for remainers to score and I don't blame them for taking that shot, but we _are_ out now, so if we could play our cards right America can be almost as good as the EU (unfortunately distance will always be a problem).
On the point of global crises, we can absolutely say that they affected the UK differently from the rest of the world, since our economic system is not identical to everyone else. An analogy I would use is like a wrecking ball hitting two different walls. One of those walls is a newly built concrete wall with steel reinforcements, and the other has been built a long time ago with just iron reinforcements.
They might have been hit with the same wrecking ball (COVID, Ukraine, Inflation, Cost Of Living etc.) but the old wall breaks in some places.
The point is that the UK's economy has been stagnant more than the EU big boys have (Germany and France) since 2008; hence the wall being older, and the wrecking ball hit the UK right at its most delicate moment (during and immediately after leaving the EU), hence why the old wall only has iron reinforcements, to simulate the relative weakness of the UK's economic legislation and policy which was, and still is chaotic during and after the leaving process.
These laws and policies are designed to bring order to the economy, so that businesses are able to predict how it will behave, and also to help the economy hold together during hard times.
The reality is no two walls are the same, even if the wrecking ball is, the effect on the walls will never be the same.
Besides, to look at Brexit from this purely economic perspective is to miss most of the point of it in the first place. Brexit primarily was a dispute over legislative and political authority. To be part of the EU is to agree that EU law supersedes national law with mind to some specially agreed upon exceptions and exemptions. The UK had a lot of these exceptions and exemptions, which already shows that there was friction between UK and EU authorities to begin with.
The fact is that the UK has some pretty big disagreements with EU laws, and would prefer to have our own laws take precedence, but we can't do that whilst also remaining part of the EU.
Immigration is one of the most pressing issues, and the UK _did_ have control of their borders within the EU; we were never part of the Schengen Area so we were able to turn people away at sea, but IIRC there were European Union laws which forced us to offer asylum to migrants we didn't want if they actually landed on UK soil.
See, when we left the EU the Conservatives were actually supposed to suppress immigration to the UK with the new legislative power they had, and they ALWAYS talk big but do nothing as more and more visas are accepted year after year, and more and more illegal crossings pile up. We've seen this with the Rwanda plan, which they talked endlessly about and hyped it up as much as possible but then only a minuscule fraction were actually put on planes to Rwanda.
This is because almost ALL of the UK's institutions are corrupted from within by pro-immigration sentiments and put up as many barriers to change as possible, and the Conservative party just LET'S IT HAPPEN.
With respect to this, and other situations like it, it's no wonder many Brexiteers are so demoralized to the point that some have switched sides because they've realized just how compromised British institutions are, including the Conservatives themselves.
From an economic perspective alone, leaving the EU is a fundamentally bad idea, but it is a great idea if you understand it from a legal and political perspective, and to most Brexiteers that independence was the core reason for leaving and we are willing to deal with economic hardship to satisfy that. To any pro-Brexit people here; don't forget this.
The current ruling class in the UK won't be in power forever, and when they are finally pushed back maybe we can actually live up to the positive legal and political expectations that Brexit was supposed to be about all along.
P.S. I hear that Germany and France are having some kind of energy disagreements which could rock the EU to its core, so rejoining is likely an even worse idea than continuing on our current trajectory with America.
Do we hate Poland ???
I have nothing but respect for Poland and that was before they helped Ukraine so much.
Gotta love Poland 🇵🇱 ❤️
somehow im learning more about nations' national animals than actual information
Why he diss Lithuania like that bruv 0:42
Love yours vids! Would be so amazing if you could do one about Portugal sometime ❤️ 🇵🇹
bro UK and India need to merge together, thats how we can become superpower again
😂 you indians are funny
If india agrees to be a kingdom under an old brit we may have an agreement
Nah India should merge with America since India will become a superpower in 20 years
Only if India wants to be a dominion under British rule again. But we’re not joining countries 👎
Great Video agian! 💯👍🏼
NGL this video was filled with a lot of flaws and inaccuracies but still pretty good. Thanks for even more content keep up the work
Ok, name some innacuracies.
2:35 the image where the 3 $ signs are isn't Westminster parliament, that is actually the pre-1801 Act of Union Irish Parliament in Dublin back when English nobles ran the show in Ireland
finally found you on this thread and tbh its been amusing
Great vid, though I disagree about the future of the UK.
Firstly, in the short-medium term a US-UK trade deal is unlikely as the Americans don't really care about getting one and it would require lowing UK standards on things like food which is both unpopular and would make trading with the EU much harder. Secondly, most British voters already think Brexit was a bad idea (57% think leaving was a bad idea) and this number will only increase as the younger pro-EU generations become key voters. This will almost inevitably lead to rejoining the single market or customs union with a good chance of fully rejoining the EU in a decade or two.
Voters aren't gonna wanna wait that Long for change
@@jonassavimbi4795 I think with fully rejoining they will wait but I think rejoining the single market is likely within the next 2 parliaments
@@aidan-4759 Do you think the EU would actually let Britain back in after all the chaos before?
I think on a democratic level rejoining would settle the EU problem for the UK - as a lot of the problem was British politicians signing EU power expansion treaties without British votes agreeing to it which obviously pissed people off - most notably Tony Balir promising a referendum on Lisbon and then cancelling it. Joining again would allow people to actually have a say, which would improve perception of the EU in Britain.
@@jgw9990 Yes but they will wait for British politics to stabilize. We will only be able to rejoin the EU once there is again a consensus between major parties that we should rejoin as rejoining will take multiple parliaments. Though I do think the process will be much faster if we get proportional representation as that way the split left wing vote (e.g. LibDems and Greens) will matter much more. And the swing voters in swing seats (who don't want to rejoin) will matter less. That would make the main political parties more likely to be pro-EU.
Feels like a cope to me, unless things get significantly worse the UK parties aren't going to try to rejoin. The likelihood of things getting bad enough for that to actually be on the cards is low, despite what some (mostly foreign) people might want to believe
Man when i was a little kid i wanted to live in Europe or in the USA, but now with all the trouble in the world… Perharps i treated Mexico too harshly.
Probably i won't get a lot of money but this feels comfortable
The UK is not Europe. There are plenty of great places to live on the continent. I wouldn't suggest you move here though.
@@uponthebay Well… thanks for the advice
oof dont go to Mexico buddy. Just recently the Cartels shut down a couple of cities when the Federal Government arrested
a big boss. The Federal government in Mexico right now is a complete joke with Trump lite in office.
Mexico is a different beast
@@looseygoosey1349 My brother in christ… I live in Mexico, and yea it is crap but as long as someone doesn't kick de hornets nest civilians will be ok-ish
@@themadsuika3909 that's pretty much everywhere tbh
The view of the Midlands made me laugh (although that's not what it looks like) however, side note. I moved from the Midlands to Cornwall. They are even poorer but hey, the countryside and seaside and gorgeous!
They'd argue here that the Cornish are a separate race, close to the Welsh, Irish etc. I live here and they're is a subtle difference. For one, I'm 5ft 2 and I seem to be average height in Cornwall. Whereas my hubby is 6ft and he seems like a giant...The English and Polish are keeping the height up in Cornwall me thinks! 🤔
As a Brit from the Midlands I can confirm that that picture is extremely accurate.
Can you make videos about Singapore, Nauru and Israel? They have interesting economic history, present and future.
Is would like a video on Israel, it is a relatively new country, but a quite interesting one
@@owenbrandon8370 can’t say bad things about Israel so not gonna happen
Nauru is a sad story
@Owen Brandon it isnt a country
@@Konkov
Most countries in the world are new
Our country will make it through, as a nation we have been through worse.
Another possible reason for Britiain's industrialisation was the lack of wood in the preceding centuries. Wood was used as an energy source. Lack of it possibly drove people to find new energy sources.
Noice video can you france next ?
I hope they allow they integrate with the US more so I can move there without a visa. New England is too expensive for me to gentrify, but old England…
1:29 Made me sad as an Edinburgh resident
I FRIKING LOVE THE SONG
IT FITS SO GOOD ALONG WITH THE ANIMATION
They could always try to focus and connect to more of the commonwealth countries but I don’t know how well that would go
Yeah, as a half Dane living in Denmark atm, I can say that as much as we like the Brits we are way too prudent to cut our links with the rest of Europe for them. That said, if they're up for bending the knee we could try that North Sea Empire again...
Dam your Danish? Get well soon I’m praying for you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Space Canuk Would you really pick the French and the Germans ahead of us Brits? As probably the only other Europeans that we like and respect I expected more from you Scandinavians
@@lawbringer9857 We pick what works when it works, and trade with 26 other moderate to rich nations is more useful than aligning with a single country on the decline. Nothing personal, and I say that as an anglophile who was raised in old BNA loyalist country.
You missed such a chance to make wales literally dragon.
A certain Far Eastern giant objected.
Can you for the love of god make one on Colombia and the Bogotazo, and history of Gran colombia is pretty interesting.
this some of the most beautiful artwork
bro what did lithuania do
3:50 - That Jamaican bird!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The sight of Chuck against the background of a Magna Carta makes me both happy and sad
right on, American here and honestly Brits are my favorite Europeans. love the music, the food, the accents. all great
Same, love the Brit’s. Our cousins across the water
the food, the accents
Sure 🤮
The food??? Bro it must be because I'm Latino but spain and Italy have the better foods compared to the UK
british food is good for certain things, I’d say if you want simple, yet delicious and filling, go for british food. Nothing beats a shepherds pie on a winter evening. That being said, europe does better summer food, it’s lighter and more exotic.
As I british person I'm confused as to why you would like are food
I was a kid when the whole Brexit vote happened and had no clue what the EU was other than the whole bus thing (which turned out to be a lie, btw).
I still find it wild how people blame the people for being lied to, and not the politicians who actually did the lying. They get away scot-free in the public opinion.
Europe and the US have a mindset that you must trust politicians and conspiracy theories are bad... but if you believe politicians and they end up having lied to you then you're a bad person who deserves what's coming.
I believe that this has been the massive fuel for conspiracy theorists and government distrust --- as well as the whole pandemic situation where money was being given by the government "for PPE" but it was found out that none of the money actually went towards that and instead just went into the pockets of their mates, and the whole party situation.
Canzuk would probably be acceptable to Americans as an experiment to see if the Anglo countries can form an union before they see it's effects and either force their way in or see it's a failed experiment depending on the outcome this would also shift to union eventually
The UK did not leave the EU with no deal. The UK and EU agreed to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement which came into place on January 1st 2021, the day that the UK officially left the EU
Scotland be like: Can I leave yet? Can I leave Yet? Can I leave yet? And so on