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.
"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 🤣
@@secretcircusofficial immigration is also a problem though. Will a shortage of housing not limit innovation as well? who is going to take risks when you cant afford housing
@@secretcircusofficial Immigration is the No. 1 issue, lowering wages, and work standards, draining services with so many on benefits, and raising crime levels massively.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
@@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.
@@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
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It's not because they honestly think Britain's opinion matters. It's to hide from their own population that very little governing actually goes on in Westminster. There is a party consensus already as to how the country is to be run, and much of Parliament pure theatre.
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.
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
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
@@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
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
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.
half right, the Government and the left are also guilty of shorting supply which benefits producers over consumers aka rentier economics. Fuel shortages by the green agenda, Housing shortages because of mass immigration, they are even shorting food supply by setting aside farmland. This is crazy shit.
Well put! I might add that the UK is now a 'ticking timebomb' primed to implode (not explode) sometime in the next 20 years; when it'll fall apart (break up) due to the diametrically opposing visions of the future that England and Scotland want, and have chosen to take. Because of these competing visions, something has to give - and unfortunately that 'something' will be the Union. This is not what I think might happen, but WILL happen, because Scotland wishes to be part of a European Trading Bloc, whereas England does not. Scotland also wants to play a role in shaping a new, more dynamic Europe. But England wants to be alone, and take on the world single handedly, despite being woefully ill-equipped to do so. And what of London? ...well, I believe that its importance in Europe will slowly decline over the same period (the next 20 years) ...in fact this is already beginning to happen now. I don't see London as Europe's no.1 Financial centre by 2040. I don't even see it as the second largest financial centre by then. It will have been overtaken by both Paris, and Amsterdam. All of this is the price of Brexit: and the epic mismanagement of the UK by successive Tory governments who have destroyed our economy, ruined our cities, and affected every aspect of our society and how it functions.
I am 50yo and 100% British. I havent ben in anemployement since i was 35yo. Why work if you can get free money from the government. I dont buy the latest and the greatest brands, but i can go to magaluf/ benidorm at least 1 a year. If you are British i suggest to not work as the gen x doent work either. Let the imigrant pay the bills and taxes
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😅😂“
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
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.
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.
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
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!
@@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!
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+.
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.
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 .
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 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
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?
@@jamesmckean3221 I have been living in India for a few years now. I live in Bangalore and it a great city but with a huge traffic problem. If you want to enjoy nature , then I would suggest you to visit hill stations and Ladakh. Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are crowded and polluted but have great historical architecture. I haven't been to north-east India but I often hear praises about it.
@@FictionHubZA 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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeez, man. Thatcher did not take the uk from being a sick man in europe to a powerhouse. She destroyed a lot of industry outwith the financial jiggery pokery industry and the amount of actual stuff of value produced in Britain plummeted and the amount of destitution outwith the SE simply increased. The problem with this financial industry nonsense, is it relied on the perception of what the UK was. That can only last a relatively short time until memory of what the UK was faded into distant memory.
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.
"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*
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@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.
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.
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 think Britain has had so much immigration now that it wants to see an end to it entirely. You can sense a real difference in peoples attitude towards it now
@@Ryan4Labour The reality is these people don’t want to do any skilled work. They rely on handouts. I work in a certain field where I have to deal with it, I know this for a fact. Go and spend an hour in any job Center in east London and tell me the trends you see.
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
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
As a brit living in the UK. It's scary to see everything getting so expensive and the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming horrifyingly high. For the recent riots (and scapegoating for the wrong reasons), was an example of a ticking time bomb that's already exploded. I have no doubt they'll be plenty of more to come to rise against the government's incompetence.
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.
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.
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!
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...
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
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
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.
@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.
@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.
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)
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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'.
@@ruairievans I agree, I just find it amusing that people have forgotten that it was the previous Labour government that created most of these problems and more besides. Both parties are useless at best.
@@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.
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.
Its not even that at this point its glaringly obvious england isnt safe at all and the countrys declining fast, i would put my money on poland since they say its relativly safe from the stats since they have basic policies on borders and invasion J could be wrong though
please use half a braincell and look beyond the propaganda of scapegoating of minority populations such as muslims (and trans folk, immigrants etc.) and blaming them for all the problems in the UK . Muslims make up less than 7% of the UK population and the majority are peaceful, community-oriented people who build businesses and contribute to the economy. The only 'problem' in the UK is the rise of extemist right wingers and genocidal zionists sitting in our government abetting the massacre of black and brown folk in the tens of thousands, but you will never call them extreme since they're white supremacists
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Excellent report! Thank you. I have lived in the UK as an immigrant since 2007. According to my experiences, there are plenty of British people with British roots who still live with the myth of the once GREAT Britain, with great army and influence around the world, the same kind of deep belief that motivated lots of British citizens to leave the EU for the better. That is quite a surprise as one of the main features of Britain has always been to be open about what's happening around the world. I believe that the persistence of this blindness has been cultivated by the Tories in charge for so many years, who are still projecting the country within the mental boundaries for the Tacherism that so bad consequences on the average quality of life.
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.
Interesting, I'm not an expert in pension structures. But increasing the level of the safety net, having high quality public services and not fearing tax and spend according to all people's means, all seem like steps in the right direction.
@@Ryan4Labour Money Purchase is just worth less. Not completely worthless but worth significantly less than the way a real pension works. It means that reliance on the state pension component (which has its own issues) will dramatically increase over the next few years to decades and the long term cost of substandard retirement savings will further fuck an already fucked economy. On top of that you have the way the state pension works which isn't a problem in itself but is an issue due to the way that governments account for them. The way they are set up based on a ponzi system that isnt the smartest way to do it but the UK for all its economic woes is still a long way before it reaches the stage where that becomes an actual problem. But due to the way its accounted for its a problem already, forcing unnecessary rises in retirement age and as the birth rate is significantly below replacement level, requires massive levels of immigration.
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.
This is a great summary of current situation in the UK, however what hasn't been mentioned is how AI will play a role in workforce dynamics. There is a chance that aging population won't matter that much in 10-20 years due to AI taking over the jobs. Obviously there are other dangers that are coming from it, but it's worth considering this factor.
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
Why would you cite 2019-2021 trade figures, which naturally would be hugely affected by COVID, rather than the newest figures: 2019-2023, which shows nearly £160bn growth in exports? UK exports have more or less continued the trend of export growth pre-Brexit. £575.6bn exported in 2016, £864.5bn exported in 2023.
Because, in my opinion, the video poster has been paid to make a critical video about the UK. His thumbnail is identical to a similar video by "guru" that was posted around the same time and has broadly the same content.
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.
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!
The UK political class is responsible for this mess. Mainly, unchecked immigration policies have left the citizens feeling like strangers and outsiders in their own country and this has become a rot on national morale.
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.
The largest threat to the UK is mass immigration, native population and culture replacement, the very identity of what it is to be English or Scottish etc ..
who opened the flood gates for mass immigration????who kept it going all these years and did nothing about it???? yes i will vote for no government they are all crap and non of them are for the people i seriously find it hard when I see all of them flawed in their plans and lies........
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.
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 people ot Britain have voted for short term plans ,voted for a Tory Government who sold of the family silver ,voted for a government who took away long term plans ,an who replaced them with short term idolatry. Which as left the country bankrupt.
the uk voting system is not fair let me explain; we have two major right wing parties really the main one being tories, conservatives, histoically the cons were seen as the only proper party to vote for, sensible and true if you did not vote for them you were seen as an extremeist im talkibg like 1940s-1960s, winston churchill eg was a conservative, a much admired man. these days you got like 5 very popular left wing parties, labour, lib dem, green, and a few more, cos of first past the post, its always swayed towards the right, theres only two big vote getters in the right, with the big boy vote getter being the tories, about 60% of the vote is usually split between the left parties, abour, lib dem, green etc then, then 30% is concentarted on the cons, it was designed this way, to be swayed towards the cons, by the rich. so people have to really really dislike the cons, and HAVE to vote strategically in order to get labour in, the only hope of MP from the left, cos of first past the post, its rigged to be this way., We need weighted voting, and to abolsoish the house of lords. even though weighted voting risks extremeost dangerous parties getting in cos it gives so much more control to the people, the parties we have i.e. tories are so extremem and dangerous, essentially the super rich inherited this house of lords, and the tory party, lie 80% of them went to this school eton only super super rich kids can get into, they know its swayed towards them, so they sold it out, sold the country out, its been downhill since thatcher anyway, milk snatcher, they sung the witch is dead in the streets the day she died they hated that woman so much. Its to say brtian is complex, and political system is shit. my great granddad was working down the mines at 5 years old, we've always been sick with wealth desparity and abuse. nothings changedm, same system built and run by the samer people. they were never stupid the people or the politicans, the rich thye hide but are clever and built the system cleverly, the poor as always suffer. brexit vote was fixed too, they won by half a percent, dodgy
i cant be asked to explain this properly cos probs noone will read it, but thtis is the truth, the system is broken. and it needs to be ficed. tories very very rich are all profiting off underfunding the nhs, they are deliberately destroying it, underfunding schools, breaking everything. they want this pretty country as a tax haven, for the mega rich and us working class [middle class is lies, anyone who workes for a living is working class, middle class lies invented to divide workers] , down the mines once more where this time we will stay
with cons being 30% of the voyte, probs is, with first past the post only labour or cons can win, cos labour is left it's vote is always split between the 5 parties, all quite sensible. meaning cons always win, unless extreme no vote for them.
Hey, UK Resident here, home owner and married, agree with other comments my wage is slowly being dwindled away due to a constant hike in cost of living.. country is on it knews because for the last 14 years its been run by greedy politicians that profit from their crimes yet we suffer. Rishi Sunaks family personally profited from Covid and many other politicians have stock in phyiser.. imagine that, we’d be arrested for inside trading..
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.
@@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.
@@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”?
@@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.
The point about high taxes is exactly 100% wrong. Young people, who might want to start a family, should gladly fork over a large percentage of their paycheck in order to receive high quality health care, day care, education, public services, etc (ref. Scandinavia). It's corporate greed that convinces laymen to fight for low taxes - against their own better interest.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
No mention of food, farming. Farmers did not en masse vote for Brexit. Farmers did see the dangers. Farmers have finally begun holding protests in London. .. The threats to people are food insecurity, low standards, disease, and lack of choice. #savebritishfarming
True, we must grow & keep this enviroment , otherwise we're lost & will only rely on imports. We should support the people here. You definitely get my vote.
So true, being inside a protectionist bloc vs being able to potentially trade freely with most of the world is such a decline in choice, the rest of world of course produces less food than the EU alone, we are obviously forced to by lower stand food as trade isnt at all something you have a choice in, disease as we know can never enter the EU and no country outside of it could ever take measures to prevent its spread on their own. It is just some active form wilful delusion seriously, its like people just choose to forget multiple examples of how each point you just laid out could be reversed and be made for us being in the EU instead with real world big examples to demonstrate it given we'd been in the EU for 50sih years. Just a total lack of self-awareness.
@@funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871 I literally said, the Brits have finally begun holding protests. March 2024. You could always query the internet for yourself before refuting people. Cheers.
I'm 30 years old and i always wanted to move to UK (i'm from Brazil), i have an aunt in there that is married with a child and live there for like 20 years, she always invite me to go there, but she makes it very clear that i will not be able to find any kind of job without being illegal, which is a shame. I don't know why this happens, they say there's a shortage of people in UK and Japan duo to the population getting old, but they make it almost impossible for anyone from outside to work there
"The decade ahead could see the UK losing its permanent seat on the UN Security Council." That wouldn't even be possible because the seat is permanent. How this would happen under a scenario where Scotland would leave the union I don't know though.
I left the UK and moved to Argentina. While I earn far less as a qualified teacher here, my money goes 100 times further and my quality of life is so much better. No comparison. There are shortages of teachers in the UK, but doing my job back home would mean I'd be living with my parents and struggling. To quote Uncle Monty "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour".
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.
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.
Considering the uk is older than all of these countries you are referring to people this makes no sense, so it would more be we are the parents as cringe as your anology is
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
As a Brit, this is all broadly correct. But more recently the SNP (who run Scotland) are going through a major crisis at the moment so Scottish independence very unlikely now compared to 10 years ago
@@NicholasEV1986 But the SNP aren't as left wing anymore. Either they will vote Labour or they will vote Green. Greens support independence but again the votes will be split up due to FPTP.
I think one of our greatest problems is and has been a lack of good leadership, with an election now on the horizon I look at both parties and feel neither one of them are fit to run a country. We have some of the greatest minds in the world but they have to look elsewhere for support. Look at the military and weapons' sector: most of our manufactures have basically gone to the US because of the lack of support from this country. Other invivaters have been forced to look to China and India. It's crazy,. I myself attempted to launch a business idea here, finally giving up due to the red tape and various hoops I had to jump through. I am now working toward launching it in the US.
@@secretcircusofficial It would've been fine if we had a competent leader to get us through it. "New England" managed to split from us and become their own thing, even becoming one of the largest economies on the planet. The only problem we had is that we were lead by clowns who're so incompetent their entire troupe had to play musical prime ministers and STILL managed to fail to get anything done.
New England doesn’t actually exist, its a byword used to falsely stay associated with “England”. Let’s not forget that Pennsylvania was going to be called New Wales but the Anglos didn’t like it.
The thing is as the nation that industrialized first, it will also be the first to adapt and has had the longest time to adapt to the problems industrialization and urbanization caused. It has the best chance to escape a Korea style population collapse. Korea is the opposite and urbanized like 50% of its population within a generation. Other nations just aren't as far along and will soon encounter the same problems the UK has now.
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.
yes
"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 🤣
Wait, just to be clear, you're a rural farmer or "peasant" in a metaphorical sense?
,,😂😂😂
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.
Precisely. The sad thing is no one will read this comment because they're too busy blaming everything on immigration.
Losing Since1970s
Yet you foreigners are desperate to the point of risking your lives to get to the U.K.
@@secretcircusofficial immigration is also a problem though. Will a shortage of housing not limit innovation as well? who is going to take risks when you cant afford housing
@@secretcircusofficial Immigration is the No. 1 issue, lowering wages, and work standards, draining services with so many on benefits, and raising crime levels massively.
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.
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.
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.
@@SaxonExcellence That nice empire that colonised and enslaved people and killed the same amount?
@@SaxonExcellence The British Empire lasted 290 years.
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!
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.
Yep, spot on
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.
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.
@@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
brilliant AND connected. Only rich, connected, private schooled twats get the good jobs in the UK
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?
@@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.
@@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
or just pure criminal
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and yet they still have time discuss other countries internal affairs in their parliament
Old habits die hard.
It’s not abnormal for colonies to have a vested interest in the affairs of the mother country.
Funding, military bases etc.
And other countries responded like abe mc apna km krna
It's not because they honestly think Britain's opinion matters. It's to hide from their own population that very little governing actually goes on in Westminster. There is a party consensus already as to how the country is to be run, and much of Parliament pure theatre.
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.
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
You are so right. The belief of the upper classes that they are omnipotent and exceptional gets transmitted in their genes.
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
@@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
Nicely said. 😂
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
immigration has ruined the community.
I felt the same with Cardiff a few years ago. I’ve been out for 20 years.
What have the empty units been filled up with? Low quality Chicken shops and barbers? Money laundering fronts?
tbh you're spot on mate, the legion of vape shops are 100% laundering fronts
time for a change of leadership!
I recommend reading "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order," it's happening everywhere. It's not a UK only phenomenon.
The US think their country is wonderful. Its got its problems as well. The world is f***ed!
Everyone loves to make Britain the Boogeyman though
@@mogznwazlol nobody cares
@@mogznwaz As a fellow Brit: cope harder.
yeah, it will happen everywhere, but the UK was eager to get there first, decades before the rest :)
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.
i use the bank of Scotland
Wall Street control uk
Wall street don't. The fed does.
Jews.
Pagans not even jews
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.
Couldn't have put it better. Spot on
half right, the Government and the left are also guilty of shorting supply which benefits producers over consumers aka rentier economics. Fuel shortages by the green agenda, Housing shortages because of mass immigration, they are even shorting food supply by setting aside farmland. This is crazy shit.
Well put!
I might add that the UK is now a 'ticking timebomb' primed to implode (not explode) sometime in the next 20 years; when it'll fall apart (break up) due to the diametrically opposing visions of the future that England and Scotland want, and have chosen to take.
Because of these competing visions, something has to give - and unfortunately that 'something' will be the Union.
This is not what I think might happen, but WILL happen, because Scotland wishes to be part of a European Trading Bloc, whereas England does not.
Scotland also wants to play a role in shaping a new, more dynamic Europe. But England wants to be alone, and take on the world single handedly, despite being woefully ill-equipped to do so.
And what of London? ...well, I believe that its importance in Europe will slowly decline over the same period (the next 20 years) ...in fact this is already beginning to happen now.
I don't see London as Europe's no.1 Financial centre by 2040. I don't even see it as the second largest financial centre by then. It will have been overtaken by both Paris, and Amsterdam.
All of this is the price of Brexit: and the epic mismanagement of the UK by successive Tory governments who have destroyed our economy, ruined our cities, and affected every aspect of our society and how it functions.
I am 50yo and 100% British. I havent ben in anemployement since i was 35yo. Why work if you can get free money from the government. I dont buy the latest and the greatest brands, but i can go to magaluf/ benidorm at least 1 a year. If you are British i suggest to not work as the gen x doent work either. Let the imigrant pay the bills and taxes
Spot on!
Hard to lose the 2030s after you're already losing the 2020s as is. Surely they can't go lower than this, right?
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😅😂“
They've been losing since the Suez crisis
Yes. Exactly. Already lost yet still saying it's 2030.
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
@@kenselin Yes. Very funny. They change PM and govt like passing torch in 10m relay...
😂 😂
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.
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.
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
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!
@@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!
@@davidjma7226what about healthcare costs
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+.
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.
Alah oo F***ing Akhybar
But Sunak won't. He is billionaire status. The rest of us will...
He is not billionaire. His father in law back in India is.
@@dawn_alex Alright, £651 million 🙄
He still won't...
@SachinSingh-ii2pq yes.. duh 🙄
When things get bad enough, us commoners will have no choice but to eat the rich. I bet they taste like pork.
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 .
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.
Come to Australia! Great weather and you wont go to jail for pissing off some entitled prince!
@@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
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?
k bye gaijin go back to ur country why dont u bruv
@@maxwalker1159 fuck that too many spiders and critters
If it makes anyone feel a bit better, France is fucked as well.
hahahaha I don't know why this makes me sad even though i am indian ffs
@@flaminmongrel6955 Never been to India. Is it nice?
@@jamesmckean3221 I have been living in India for a few years now. I live in Bangalore and it a great city but with a huge traffic problem. If you want to enjoy nature , then I would suggest you to visit hill stations and Ladakh. Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are crowded and polluted but have great historical architecture. I haven't been to north-east India but I often hear praises about it.
@@flaminmongrel6955Go back to where you came from and stop making things worse.
@@jamesmckean3221
India is the @nus on the planet
we've been america's whipping boy since at least 1940
Even before that. The 🇬🇧 has been begging uncle Sam for help since the 1890s.
@@FictionHubZA 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.
@@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.
Suez Crisis of 1956 showed that, too.
@@FictionHubZA 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 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.
where do you live ?
@@f-zeroracer9767 Java
@@f-zeroracer9767 Java, Indonesia
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.
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.
Jeez, man. Thatcher did not take the uk from being a sick man in europe to a powerhouse. She destroyed a lot of industry outwith the financial jiggery pokery industry and the amount of actual stuff of value produced in Britain plummeted and the amount of destitution outwith the SE simply increased.
The problem with this financial industry nonsense, is it relied on the perception of what the UK was. That can only last a relatively short time until memory of what the UK was faded into distant memory.
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.
"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*
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where do u suggest going? Out of curiosity.
@@IanWHachi Argentina
Do you think other Western countries are any better?
@jimbocho660 Norway&Switzerland the only one maybe the tiny Luxembourg
@@ambessaseway5594you need to know the language though, on C1 ideally
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
Out of curiosity are you ethnically British?
@@bez2215 yes, I am
Brits can easily move to Australia , easier visa options unlike for asian countries. Go for undergrad in Australia , Western Australia is good
Im 17 too and I got the exact same dreams
Our country’s fucked.
Too many people most 5th column.
Ye
Yes, too many invaders!
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.
@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.
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.
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.
Is educating our own population too dangerous an idea, whatever their ethnic origins?! How else will we build the skilled workforce we need?
I think Britain has had so much immigration now that it wants to see an end to it entirely. You can sense a real difference in peoples attitude towards it now
@@Ryan4Labour The reality is these people don’t want to do any skilled work. They rely on handouts. I work in a certain field where I have to deal with it, I know this for a fact. Go and spend an hour in any job Center in east London and tell me the trends you see.
There is no way Britain voluntarily gives up its seat on the UN Security Council and it can’t be kicked out because the UK has a permanent veto
It seems like our politicians sit around a big table and go "alright, so how do we fuck up the country this year?"
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
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
@@MookMineola rude for no reason, give yourself a break
As a brit living in the UK. It's scary to see everything getting so expensive and the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming horrifyingly high. For the recent riots (and scapegoating for the wrong reasons), was an example of a ticking time bomb that's already exploded. I have no doubt they'll be plenty of more to come to rise against the government's incompetence.
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.
You really don't need to wait until 2030, it's here already, it is happening!
Wait until Labour get their hands on the tiller. We’re screwed.
have you seen metropolis? set in 2030s... check it out
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 😂
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.
Why are you using England and Britain interchangeably? Amateurish.
We don’t have a FTA with the US.
As as an English man, I can say we’re guilty of this too!
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!
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...
Because england is 70% of the UK gdp.
With that failing economy in the UK, I am afraid if anyone wants to have a free trade agreement with the UK.
😂🤣
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
Those are 2022 values. Now Italy is 1.2 and Spain is 1.1 and both are declining
This video is full of false allegory and non factuality
Could be lowest if u exclude the immigrants.
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
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 NHS was working well until TonyBlair improved it by ppp an a massive increase in administrative staff
The grinning monkey of politics, and the Billy Bunter = Boris Jonson " yaroo let go you beasts!"
@@spunkychops7484 money can’t fix a broken service it’s already one of the costliest and inefficient service in the world
@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.
@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.
staff wasn't the problem it was the part privatisation introduced under Blair then austerity under Cameron that ruined the NHS
The grass ain't greener anywhere else . Most people's idea of hardship is the wifi going down 😂
TBF that does suck
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)
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 😅😅😅
Or not having SKY TV.
@@aidy6000 get a different job, there's hundreds within 5 miles of me
Evidently he doesn't understand the difference between England and the UK. It doesn't bode well for the accuracy of his analysis.
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?
@@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.
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.
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
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
I can understand and agree, from Italy
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.
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.
This is the attitude. We need more people like you and fewer like the pessimists and parasites in this thread.
Engineer here and I'm leaving this soon. Cost of living is too high and taxes are also too high.
Where did you get your degree?
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'.
They went overboard with austerity, but you do remember why they did it in the first place, right?
@@snipermagoo the money is there just not spent properly.
@@ruairievans I agree, I just find it amusing that people have forgotten that it was the previous Labour government that created most of these problems and more besides. Both parties are useless at best.
"lose the 2030s" What does that mean?? As if we haven't 'lost' the last 40 years??
Not sure we will be there in the 2030's!!
@@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.
At 42. Not had that much luck tbh 😂 endured it all.
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.
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.
It's not incompetence they are doing it intentionally.
neoliberal policies since 1979
You failed to address the problem of islamic extremism on rise in UK
Its not even that at this point its glaringly obvious england isnt safe at all and the countrys declining fast, i would put my money on poland since they say its relativly safe from the stats since they have basic policies on borders and invasion
J could be wrong though
Do not forget America, especially after October 7th.
it has nothing to do with "islam"
Free Palestine
please use half a braincell and look beyond the propaganda of scapegoating of minority populations such as muslims (and trans folk, immigrants etc.) and blaming them for all the problems in the UK . Muslims make up less than 7% of the UK population and the majority are peaceful, community-oriented people who build businesses and contribute to the economy. The only 'problem' in the UK is the rise of extemist right wingers and genocidal zionists sitting in our government abetting the massacre of black and brown folk in the tens of thousands, but you will never call them extreme since they're white supremacists
The UK had Rover, the Rootes group, Austin, Morris, and etc now they have nothing.
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.
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.
Think we still hve Bristol plus Morgn, sorry letters missing on keybord!
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
Yes, but we no longer produce them.@@connorcameronjaggs
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.
Completely agree 👍
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.
Leave then, you clearly don't have the grit to help fix this country. We don't need more self serving, self loathing whingers.
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.
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.
Ah mate, did you not the way these supposed would-be revolutionaries acted during 2020-21?
@@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.
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.
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.
it will pay off in the long run.....
IF the larger society accepts the descendants of these migrants as British
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.
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.
The Roman Empire was a slave based economy. They had no need to innovate. They could just throw thousands of slaves at the problem.
I love the UK but Asia and Africa are the fastest growing economies at the moment the reason being population and room for growth .
YEH, BECAUSE MOST OF THE FCUKERS ARRIVED HERE ON RUBBER BOATS FROM FRANCE, THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE ROO FOR GROWTH OVER THERE!!!!
@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.
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.
Unless Ethiopia, Africa is growthing just in population.
@@soufianelight6154wrong
Excellent work, thank you. Should be shared widely.
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.
It's bad because you're still peasants.
The means of production.
Owned by the lords.
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.
Do you have specific examples of what in the culture needs to change?
@calc1657 I do. But that's for a different format and not the comment section.
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.
"Immigration is good for the country it increases economy" England is overflowing with immigrants today and its economy is stagnating
Everyone I know in England with anything about them is doing pretty well thank you very much.
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The UK would have to approve their own removal from the Security Council so that is never going to happen.
The UNSC only exists if there is a UN. The world order as it is could simply tear up the UN in its current format. Just like the League of Nations.
You've failed to mention that the sanctions culture has added to the UK inflation.
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.
Excellent report! Thank you.
I have lived in the UK as an immigrant since 2007. According to my experiences, there are plenty of British people with British roots who still live with the myth of the once GREAT Britain, with great army and influence around the world, the same kind of deep belief that motivated lots of British citizens to leave the EU for the better. That is quite a surprise as one of the main features of Britain has always been to be open about what's happening around the world. I believe that the persistence of this blindness has been cultivated by the Tories in charge for so many years, who are still projecting the country within the mental boundaries for the Tacherism that so bad consequences on the average quality of life.
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.
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..
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.
England is being conquested THAT IS TEH BIGGEST PROBLEM SOON ENGLAND WIL BE A ISLAMIKC NATION
Interesting, I'm not an expert in pension structures. But increasing the level of the safety net, having high quality public services and not fearing tax and spend according to all people's means, all seem like steps in the right direction.
@@Ryan4Labour Money Purchase is just worth less. Not completely worthless but worth significantly less than the way a real pension works. It means that reliance on the state pension component (which has its own issues) will dramatically increase over the next few years to decades and the long term cost of substandard retirement savings will further fuck an already fucked economy.
On top of that you have the way the state pension works which isn't a problem in itself but is an issue due to the way that governments account for them. The way they are set up based on a ponzi system that isnt the smartest way to do it but the UK for all its economic woes is still a long way before it reaches the stage where that becomes an actual problem. But due to the way its accounted for its a problem already, forcing unnecessary rises in retirement age and as the birth rate is significantly below replacement level, requires massive levels of immigration.
At one time as and example Syria, Turkey and Lebanon where all majority Christian. Now look what happen.
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.
Same thing will happen to britian
are you dumb? when were turkey or syria christian
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And Spain, Portugal, Phillipines , Malta were muslim look what happened
This is a great summary of current situation in the UK, however what hasn't been mentioned is how AI will play a role in workforce dynamics. There is a chance that aging population won't matter that much in 10-20 years due to AI taking over the jobs. Obviously there are other dangers that are coming from it, but it's worth considering this factor.
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
Why would you cite 2019-2021 trade figures, which naturally would be hugely affected by COVID, rather than the newest figures: 2019-2023, which shows nearly £160bn growth in exports? UK exports have more or less continued the trend of export growth pre-Brexit. £575.6bn exported in 2016, £864.5bn exported in 2023.
Because, in my opinion, the video poster has been paid to make a critical video about the UK. His thumbnail is identical to a similar video by "guru" that was posted around the same time and has broadly the same content.
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.
Havent been like that for 100 years.
@@patrick-bu3eq We still asserted a fair amount of dominance in the later stages of the 20th century.
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!
For now. Let’s see what happens in the 2030’s.
what does Top 10 mean to the 99&?
Yes, this 100%! All the problems we face we've been through worse and come out stronger and better off.
@@CR-og5ho You had the empire to bail you out though. Things might be different this time as the world changes.
@@devinfraserashpole4753 Britain has not had an empire for 80 years - it was a burden, not an asset.
The UK political class is responsible for this mess. Mainly, unchecked immigration policies have left the citizens feeling like strangers and outsiders in their own country and this has become a rot on national morale.
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.
The largest threat to the UK is mass immigration, native population and culture replacement, the very identity of what it is to be English or Scottish etc ..
who opened the flood gates for mass immigration????who kept it going all these years and did nothing about it???? yes i will vote for no government they are all crap and non of them are for the people i seriously find it hard when I see all of them flawed in their plans and lies........
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.
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!!
It’s too late.
Decline is baked in.
I’m a Brit, living in the uk and I’m looking to leave
We're all leaving, the government cares more about immigrants and islamists' than us so why should we stay?
The people ot Britain have voted for short term plans ,voted for a Tory Government who sold of the family silver ,voted for a government who took away long term plans ,an who replaced them with short term idolatry. Which as left the country bankrupt.
the uk voting system is not fair let me explain; we have two major right wing parties really the main one being tories, conservatives, histoically the cons were seen as the only proper party to vote for, sensible and true if you did not vote for them you were seen as an extremeist im talkibg like 1940s-1960s, winston churchill eg was a conservative, a much admired man. these days you got like 5 very popular left wing parties, labour, lib dem, green, and a few more, cos of first past the post, its always swayed towards the right, theres only two big vote getters in the right, with the big boy vote getter being the tories, about 60% of the vote is usually split between the left parties, abour, lib dem, green etc then, then 30% is concentarted on the cons, it was designed this way, to be swayed towards the cons, by the rich. so people have to really really dislike the cons, and HAVE to vote strategically in order to get labour in, the only hope of MP from the left, cos of first past the post, its rigged to be this way., We need weighted voting, and to abolsoish the house of lords. even though weighted voting risks extremeost dangerous parties getting in cos it gives so much more control to the people, the parties we have i.e. tories are so extremem and dangerous, essentially the super rich inherited this house of lords, and the tory party, lie 80% of them went to this school eton only super super rich kids can get into, they know its swayed towards them, so they sold it out, sold the country out, its been downhill since thatcher anyway, milk snatcher, they sung the witch is dead in the streets the day she died they hated that woman so much. Its to say brtian is complex, and political system is shit. my great granddad was working down the mines at 5 years old, we've always been sick with wealth desparity and abuse. nothings changedm, same system built and run by the samer people. they were never stupid the people or the politicans, the rich thye hide but are clever and built the system cleverly, the poor as always suffer. brexit vote was fixed too, they won by half a percent, dodgy
i cant be asked to explain this properly cos probs noone will read it, but thtis is the truth, the system is broken. and it needs to be ficed. tories very very rich are all profiting off underfunding the nhs, they are deliberately destroying it, underfunding schools, breaking everything. they want this pretty country as a tax haven, for the mega rich and us working class [middle class is lies, anyone who workes for a living is working class, middle class lies invented to divide workers] , down the mines once more where this time we will stay
with cons being 30% of the voyte, probs is, with first past the post only labour or cons can win, cos labour is left it's vote is always split between the 5 parties, all quite sensible. meaning cons always win, unless extreme no vote for them.
So very very true - back in the 79's I was in all the anti-tory demos - it was a complete waste of time and I've still not forgiven those voters
Hey, UK Resident here, home owner and married, agree with other comments my wage is slowly being dwindled away due to a constant hike in cost of living.. country is on it knews because for the last 14 years its been run by greedy politicians that profit from their crimes yet we suffer. Rishi Sunaks family personally profited from Covid and many other politicians have stock in phyiser.. imagine that, we’d be arrested for inside trading..
The English Empire was not the first empire on which the sun never set. That was the Spanish Empire.
Does anyone care? Nope
You mean the British Empire?
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.
Only British people care about this distinction, in the rest of the world you may as well all be English.
@@Perrirodan1just proving ur ignorance really
@@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.
@@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”?
@@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.
The point about high taxes is exactly 100% wrong. Young people, who might want to start a family, should gladly fork over a large percentage of their paycheck in order to receive high quality health care, day care, education, public services, etc (ref. Scandinavia). It's corporate greed that convinces laymen to fight for low taxes - against their own better interest.
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.
We do not need to just suffer through it we need to change
Geopolitically speaking the uk and “the west” still have a lot of influence despite what doomers say
@@santostv. spot on mate. Once you have atom bombs that’s it you’ve got authority
@@secretcircusofficial yes but we must suffer through the period of change
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.
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
Good luck, Australian rents are insane
More people are moving here than leaving
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.
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.
Made me chuckle!
No mention of food, farming. Farmers did not en masse vote for Brexit. Farmers did see the dangers. Farmers have finally begun holding protests in London. .. The threats to people are food insecurity, low standards, disease, and lack of choice. #savebritishfarming
True, we must grow & keep this enviroment , otherwise we're lost & will only rely on imports. We should support the people here. You definitely get my vote.
So true, being inside a protectionist bloc vs being able to potentially trade freely with most of the world is such a decline in choice, the rest of world of course produces less food than the EU alone, we are obviously forced to by lower stand food as trade isnt at all something you have a choice in, disease as we know can never enter the EU and no country outside of it could ever take measures to prevent its spread on their own.
It is just some active form wilful delusion seriously, its like people just choose to forget multiple examples of how each point you just laid out could be reversed and be made for us being in the EU instead with real world big examples to demonstrate it given we'd been in the EU for 50sih years.
Just a total lack of self-awareness.
It's not the British farmers protesting. Its the Europeans.
@BadPiggiesGamer9 I think the boers have more immediate issues that nobody seems to care about.
@@funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871 I literally said, the Brits have finally begun holding protests. March 2024. You could always query the internet for yourself before refuting people. Cheers.
I'm 30 years old and i always wanted to move to UK (i'm from Brazil), i have an aunt in there that is married with a child and live there for like 20 years, she always invite me to go there, but she makes it very clear that i will not be able to find any kind of job without being illegal, which is a shame.
I don't know why this happens, they say there's a shortage of people in UK and Japan duo to the population getting old, but they make it almost impossible for anyone from outside to work there
ITS A LIE THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF POPULATION A LIE A LIE TEHRE IS 15 MILLION IMMIGRANTS IN THE UK
Tommy Robinson for prime minister! Vote reform!! Reform please get Tommy in office
We've been losing since thatcher mate
"The decade ahead could see the UK losing its permanent seat on the UN Security Council." That wouldn't even be possible because the seat is permanent. How this would happen under a scenario where Scotland would leave the union I don't know though.
“You don’t know though.” You sure don’t. The UK can be voted out by the rest. You have no ‘ultimate’ authority. You really never did.
@@JohnnyinMN But the UK can't be voted out. That's the whole point of having a permanent seat.
@@JohnnyinMNOh goodness the U.K. has veto power as a permanent member yuh dunce.
@@JohnnyinMN Why are you talking with such confidence about stuff you clearly do not know anything about?
UK can loose seat if it crumbles to pieces and ceases to exist. Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales...could gain independance.
I left the UK and moved to Argentina. While I earn far less as a qualified teacher here, my money goes 100 times further and my quality of life is so much better. No comparison. There are shortages of teachers in the UK, but doing my job back home would mean I'd be living with my parents and struggling. To quote Uncle Monty "shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour".
Yes, there are definitely no issues with Argentina's economy. 😅
@@delgriffithificationBut the quality of life is much higher, no contest.
Don't cry for me, Argentina! And they understand production: Red red wine and beefsteak!!!
@Alan-ou2id People aren't flocking to Argentina. The UK can't keep them out.
@@Alan-ou2idit isnt but have fun
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.
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
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.
whats to be proud of here miserable weather miserable people everyone miserable yet the cause of that never gets rectified...
Considering the uk is older than all of these countries you are referring to people this makes no sense, so it would more be we are the parents as cringe as your anology is
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.
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.
Wealth tax = no wealth
Wealth tax is going to make everyone run away from the UK. It’s not a solution
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.
@@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.
@@TheRealVenom448 did they pay tax on their entire income?
The UK is completely done. I emigrated in 2019 and whenever I go back it is noticeable how bad things are getting.
Coward
Don't come back.
@@lervish1966 I won't. I can pay £200 a year and get a full state pension when I retire though. Thanks for that 👍
@@ttynorttyl We are better off without you.
@@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.
Excellent video and summing up of UK's possible future problems.
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.
please don't tell a Texan that...lol
Tell Kemi!!
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.
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.
1 criticism: You seem to use the names England & Britain/British interchangeably. It would help you to learn how the UK is constructed. 👍
As a Brit, this is all broadly correct. But more recently the SNP (who run Scotland) are going through a major crisis at the moment so Scottish independence very unlikely now compared to 10 years ago
Support for independence is still roughly half, though. The younger generation is going to want it hopefully 🤞🏻
@@NicholasEV1986 But the SNP aren't as left wing anymore. Either they will vote Labour or they will vote Green. Greens support independence but again the votes will be split up due to FPTP.
The U.K. needs a workforce programme where normal people who don't have skill are thought skills to work.
I think one of our greatest problems is and has been a lack of good leadership, with an election now on the horizon I look at both parties and feel neither one of them are fit to run a country. We have some of the greatest minds in the world but they have to look elsewhere for support. Look at the military and weapons' sector: most of our manufactures have basically gone to the US because of the lack of support from this country. Other invivaters have been forced to look to China and India. It's crazy,. I myself attempted to launch a business idea here, finally giving up due to the red tape and various hoops I had to jump through. I am now working toward launching it in the US.
UK has now its own legistlation, own money and out of stupid eu!! Congrats from Finland!!!
Thank you🇬🇧
We did it foolishly, most brexit campaigners, including the leader admit it was a huge mistake
@@secretcircusofficial It would've been fine if we had a competent leader to get us through it.
"New England" managed to split from us and become their own thing, even becoming one of the largest economies on the planet.
The only problem we had is that we were lead by clowns who're so incompetent their entire troupe had to play musical prime ministers and STILL managed to fail to get anything done.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung But we knew we didn't nor wouldn't have such leaders and yet (sort of) voted for it. What did we expect?
New England doesn’t actually exist, its a byword used to falsely stay associated with “England”. Let’s not forget that Pennsylvania was going to be called New Wales but the Anglos didn’t like it.
Bro UK has been getting progressively shit for yesrs. If you take London out our statistics are grim
The thing is as the nation that industrialized first, it will also be the first to adapt and has had the longest time to adapt to the problems industrialization and urbanization caused. It has the best chance to escape a Korea style population collapse. Korea is the opposite and urbanized like 50% of its population within a generation. Other nations just aren't as far along and will soon encounter the same problems the UK has now.