@@welshjim22 "because the alternative is much worse" is a terrible mindset, you do realise there are multiple other parties but we are propagandised into a "two party" syetem and a "us vs them" system? go vote any of the smaller parties and tell everyone you know about this, i'm personally voting green party or libdems
The only way is to raise tax on the corporations and billionaires and introduce profit caps. Any profit made over the cap would go straight to the public. The money raised can be used to kickstart new businesses and revive the economy. We also need strict caps on rents, mortgages, service charges and energy bills.
How is London dying? It's never been better off. Your BS doesn't fly with reality. Only once the dirty Russian money was blocked has London truly been able to flourish. Because that oligarch's cash has been exchanged for honest investment. But I'm guessing such economic language flies right over your flat gammon head.
@@HarleyFirestorm You are probably right. Poor Tories never had a chance to do something meaningful with the country. They've only been in charge for 15 years.
@haren1116 sorry but that doesn't stand up, and this is part of the problem. Look at any of the data from our neighbours in Europe. UK government has only exacerbated these factors. They are crooks.
As an American living in the UK it has been interesting to see how many older conservative people that Ive met seem to be very knowledgeable about politics in the US. They often times comment on how crazy the government setup is and criticise the behaviour of Trump/Biden/Fox News etc., but don't seem to realize that their contribution to maintain tory leadership for over a decade has set the UK in a spiral into the direction of the current the American political hellscape.
Most of those voters only voted Tory to get brexit. And the Tories have messed that up and not fully implemented it as we aren't fully out and taking no global trade opportunities. Without the promise of a referendum on EU membership the Tories couldn't even form a majority government but strung us along all this time promising to deliver but now voters have realised they are good for nothing and ditching them at the next election for Reform Party.
The irony is we've had a conservative government for 14 years and it isn't even a good place to run a business (like a pub). We all know that Tories want to gut services, but you'd imagine they would at least be pro-business, but they aren't. When they do help businesses, it's with corrupt contracts to people they know. If you compare to 2010, people had a more affordable cost of living, so had more spare income to spend at places like pubs. You had an honest chance of running a business and people in general had a better quality of life. The money has been systematically syphoned off by those at the top and it's time things changed.
It's not even that they're pro-business or not - it's that they are shit at economics. Austerity was a giant policy mistake. The Financial Crisis meant that interest rates were super low, as was business investment. With interest rates that low, and low investment, the government should have borrowed to invest in infrastructure, house building, etc. Basic keynesian economics. They didn't - they did the opposite. Austerity attacked councils to stop them spending and building. It caused a general downward spiral, and they scapegoated EU migrants, which then led to Brexit. Then with Brexit, the nutters on the right of the Tory party got their wish, hard Brexit, which made things even worse. Meanwhile, migration continued to increase, putting greater pressure on housing stock which the government wasn't building or funding local councils to build. Instead, they helped young people borrow more and pushed up prices (ironically using the low interest rates, so they could ALREADY borrow fairly large amounts). Basically, the Tory party, who were meant to be economically literate, proved they were anything but for 14 years and generally cratered everything. And they kept on getting voted in by bribing pensioners. But it's ok for them, cos they're rich.
People only notice if the drop in living standards is overnight. Over the course of this government our quality of life has degraded incrementally, but it's been a steady drip drip.
Yet we ( who run this economy ) havent put the price of weed up ? strange given it costs more to grow & ship , yanno cos of Putin /labour the boats etc :P
@@mcfcguvnors its actually pretty complicated. black markets arent subject to same forces as other markets. like beyond tax, the actual shipping could be done as part of something else (like stuffed in a car thats being sold to someone) so thats zero logistics costs, so the price of fuel has no impact. i would also be curious to see what happens to money laundering rates... do they go up with everything else, or does all the hardship in smaller businesses open up more people doing it, giving those looking to launder money more options
This is all Tory voters "John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
And yet the Socialist Party of the United States once garnered 6% of the national vote (1912), so it's not like we're hopeless. I think the campus protest movement over the genocide in Gaza is evidence of that.
In London people believe they're millionaires just because the value of the house they own is approaching or exceeding £1M and they're driving a new car on finance. In reality they're financially closer to the homeless than the top earners. But they somehow managed to convince themselves that they're up there with the elites. They're literally living in the Matrix.
Most people i know age 18-30 dont want kids because they dont want the responsibility and the work thats involved in raising them. I know a few people in my own family on minimum or benefits that have 3+ kids and are doing fine
@@Jack-qv5ru its a double edge sword because we need them to pay taxes for our retirement. But why is it that their are lot of poorer countries that are fine with having kids? I count not afford a kid but that me as 1 person, if I had a wife with a 2nd income, would be fine.
"most young people...are moving abroad" Could you define that claim in percentage terms? With some evidence to back up the claim? I'm not disputing that the country and particularly younger people are royally f*cked by the cost of housing and life in general but I am disputing the idea that over 50% of people under 30 are leaving the country.
Houses are not built for single people. They are for families with children, multiple beds, two toilets, big living room. What the heck do you need a house for? Just rent a room or buy a small studio for a single. That's why it's a housing crisis, because everyone wants to buy a huge house to live alone. 😂 The demand for houses doubled, since in the past houses were bought by married couples.
The problem isn't the choice between healthcare and military spending. It's the systematic looting of public services by private companies. Anything privatised, either fully (water, rail, energy) or partially (healthcare), has gone up in price and declined in quality to feed the greed of shareholders.
The cause of the issue is quite simple... The people at the top are ringfencing wealth away from society, instead of reinvesting it in the economy. As a consequence the economy is completely imbalanced, demanding more and more investment from the people at the bottom who can least afford it.
It was caused by PRINTING MONEY to pay for people to stay at home for two years. Thanks to the Cantillion Effect and other reasons, this greatly increased the gap between the rich and the poor.
The Tories say that voting for Labour will take us back to square one. Considering that under the Tories we are in the negative numbers just getting back to 2010 would be a massive improvement for the vast majority in this country. The Tories used the financial crisis of 2007 as a bridge to get into power blaming Labour for something that started in the US. Now nothing is their fault it's always outside circumstances. But since 2010 not only have the Tories increased taxation for the majority to some of the highest since WW2 but have also allowed and encouraged the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the already wealthy. Now having got that wealth transfer they are talking about abolishing inheritance so they and their families can hang on to that wealth at the expenses of the rest.
Because every Labour government produces a Tory government coming back in to clear up the mess Labour cause. If you don't believe me check your history, that's why if you vote Labour you are sending the country back to square one and in a decade it will be a completely broken country again and Tories back in to cause havoc unless you vote differently, maybe choose an independent party who are responsible like Reform who will give you a 20k tax threshold and tax corporations for the overseas workers using the infrastructure, NHS and public services and welfare that we all paid for whilst keeping all the profits, this alone could generate 20 billion in taxes.
Indian background people start entering politics in Canada, its economy suffers. Indian people start entering politics in Britain, its economy suffers. We should try electing an Indian background politician for US too, it'll for sure go bankrupt.
Tories say Labour will land you back to square one, Labour says nothing except "Trust me bro, i cant be worse". Labour is the weakest it has been in a long time. It will not solve anything, Britain needs real reform. This election regardless of outcome is too little too late.
@@zaeemjaved6850The UK economy went into decline with two Englishmen at the helm. then fully tanked with an English woman and a descendent of a Ghanaian in charge. But hey lets not let your bigotry getting in the way of facts.
As an American living in the UK now, you all should be terrified of the push to private insurance. I used to pay US$300 per month for my base level insurance plan that did next to nothing for me. Still had to pay $30 any time i saw a doctor. Had a $1500 deductible (meaning i had to spend 1500 of my own money before my insurance covered anything). You will have plenty of people here go bankrupt because of healthcare costs if you allow the degradation of the NHS
Bullshit. Australia operates a public model with private topup which is cheap. The public system here pisses all over the NHS for care, prevention, access and productivity.
It's very concerning too to wonder how it would affect those of us with pre-existing conditions, and how we might find ourselves effectively uninsurable. It wouldn't just feel like a loss of financial security, it would feel like the overnight loss of our human right to equal treatment and care, which has never been a question under the NHS. The suddenness of that would feel staggering.
We are aware of the privatization of the NHS, and how bad your system is, sadly it will happen. Labour will do nothing if they get in with a 100% majority. It's all hedge funds starting to come after society, ie water, care homes, health, etc. Profit is the only metric.
We got private healthcare in the Netherlands and with dental you pay €250. Also if you use it a 375 own risk policy. It was half the price around 2005. That's how they get you. Now they wanna lower the own risk policy, but they raise the monthly cost. Another political trick for votes. People fell for it and promised tax cuts and guess what? They raised some taxes, made long flights more expensive, lowered benefits for students and raised school books prices. The only tax that went down was for companies. We got a party like Reform working with a party like the Tories in a coalition now, they were running on lower taxes. DO NOT VOTE RIGHTWING!
£12 a crate of carling in Morrisons. Few mates and a nice bbq. And you go home with a full wallet. People just can’t afford to spend £100+ on a night out these days. Our government is literally killing our country.
Wages have frozen because the Tories imported literally millions of low-skilled workers to benefit the corporations and it has led to wages being depressed and pressure on housing going up.
@@MrDanlancelotthat would be true if customer levels stayed the same but the point is that prices have doubled but people's wages haven't increased along with that increase so not as many people can afford what they used to be so those customer levels are lower.
100%. Shareholders have been allowed to take and take with no investment whatsoever. They are treasonous scum. In the midst of plenty we shall not suffer want.
@@DM-ur8vcI remember a pint of Lager costing about 15 p & twenty B&H proper king size cigarettes costing about 25 p in 1971 . If you even allow for 53 years of inflation ,the prices now are total rip off .
It was £1 a pint at Manchester Uni in 1970. I now live overseas, it's £2.5 a pint for real beer in Sarawak, Malaysia (this ignores the commercial swill), where alcohol consumption is frowned upon by the governing bodies but highly taxed of course.
@@DM-ur8vc If they were really concerned about health they all would have banned smoking & the consumption of alcohol decades ago . There will be some places where a pint was still around £2• 80 p a pint in 2010 especially in the north west & North east , even at that price of was rip off it only costs about 5 p a pint for massive breweries to produce & a maybe even less . Alcohol , Smoking & personal vehicle ownership has always been used as a cash cow by all politicians & also using the old nanny state hysterical fears over health to beat the public over the head with extortionate rip of taxes . Anyone who drinks alcohol in a pub or what passes for one these days ,has obviously got more money than sense ,when crates of it can be had elsewhere ,usually of better quality more realistically priced & in chosen company of close friends & family minus the ridiculous pub smoking bans .
Do you think they will not blame the EU ?? They are still blaming Gordon Brown 14 years later. after he left office . And after doubling the national debt he left mostly before Covid or the Ukrane problems.
That was one of the reasons for Brexit ,to stop our politicians skiving & just rubber stamping any crazy EU directives through Parliament . Now they will have to face up to the job ,without the security of a another gravy train opportunity in Brussels ,if they lose their seats in Westminster .
They'll just blame the opposite thing though. "Everything is screwed because of Brexit" instead of "everything is screwed because we're in the EU". Anything but blame the escalating profitability crisis baked into capitalism.
I saw an interview the other day with a couple walking home from a food bank. They were praising the Tories for what they'd given them. Rather than seeing the obvious, that there wasn't any need for food banks in 2010, they'd been brainwashed into believing that food banks were a Tory bonus. Terrifying levels of stupidity. In 2010 there were 35 food banks, now there are now over 1,500 food banks. In 2010 60,000 people used food banks, now it's 2.99 million people. People should be ashamed they voted for this. But they did. They voted for Brexit. We were warned we would get poorer. But immigration trumps all logic... Ironically including the logical ways of cutting immigration. Brexit was never ever going to reduce immigration either
I know, and this is coming from the flipping saxons. Maybe we should ask the extinct original inhabitants of the uk, including the obliterated wildlife aswell
There is so much wrong with the original post I don't know where to begin, then they have the gall to go on about stupid people. Its just face slappingly ignorant.
Sound engineer here. In 2010, passing around a non-foam covered lapel mic on the street would have seemed preposterous. The tory's have got a lot to answer for.
We closed our mic factories and outsourced all mic production overseas because it was cheaper, so no one cares if our cheap and nasty mics become clogged with human spit; just chuck it and buy a new one.
It’s genuinely baffling how nobody is rioting. Despite social media and always being connected, people are too tired and distracted to do anything, so they just suck it up even when things get beyond worst. Third world country.
I just came back to the UK after 14 years abroad, and my first reaction after coming home and realising what a state the country is in was literally "Where are the riots?"
The british don't riot, they have a king(and a PM, both unelected) and they will obey them until there's nothing and no one left. It's a class society who mentally still live in the Victorian era.
I'm a single man, 34 years old, earning just under 50K and I am struggling to get enough for a house deposit despite being pretty privaleged (no kids, high wage, pretty frugal) I have no idea how somebody with a child and a part time job is meant to get a house, or even afford rent.
I have no idea how you cant manage when you are so rich, i earn £200 per week and get by fine. Maybe you should seek help with managing your money if you are so wastful.
We never expected to be able to own houses back in the day , unless you were posh & rolling in bunce & as tight as a ducks arse . Most people were glad to be considered for a council flat or house ,after being married with kids to qualify & on the waiting list for 5 to 10 years , & that was in towns & cities away from London .
The middle class is broke. The government is broke. So where's all the money then? Il tell ya, the pockets of rich people! And Im not talking about grandmas with £1 million houses im talking about people sitting on £5 million+ of investments.
because people like you vote for ukraine. the problem is our (undisclosed) war against Russia. And our support in terms of trillions for an evil nazi country (ukraine). also Irsael, which are also a nazi country. If we got rid of all parties who hate Russia and love Nazis... we could afford stuff again. Its really simple. Billions going abroad means billions we don't have. Stop the support for Ukraine if you want cheaper prices. Simple. Do you think Labour is anti-ukraine and pro-russia? NO. Theres our problem.
We can't vote our way out of this. The only thing we can do is a counter-revolution. All parties are the same scum who shake their hands behind curtains.
@@timmyg44 Yes the Slavers do not give you the obvious ways to overthrow them , they do not build broadcasting antennas to announce the truth, they do not pay billions to have people sit and lie for them to tell you how to overcome them , you have to not be lazy to know who to vote for in every aspect of your life of course you can just be a complaint slave and do as your told
As a Swedish person watching this, this makes me appreciate what I have, because most of these 2010 prices are within the ballpark of what things in Sweden cost currently. My local pub charges 45sek, about £3.3, for a beer. My rent for my 36square meter apartment in central Malmö is 4500sek, about £335.
@@TheFatController. That's not what @JoelMatton is saying - they are saying that inflation in Sweden hasn't hit as hard. It may be the third most expensive country in Europe, but the gap between it and the ones below is closing.
6:46 And who has cut the services? It wasn’t me. I didn’t run the NHS down to breaking point so that there wasn’t enough PPE to respond to COVID. I didn’t fast track a contract to one of my mate’s firms so that said firm could send back substandard equipment. This whole shambles of a government with 14 years of austerity is what has done it. The politicians want you to think it’s immigrants placing a strain on services, that it’s Putin who’s responsible for high energy bills, that it’s benefits fraud that is costing the country. It’s THEM squeezing public services, it’s them not taxing the Esso’s of the world that causes our bills to be high, it’s low taxes on the rich (whilst the media tell everyone taxes are at their highest ever…Not for Rupert Murdoch or Nadhim Zahawi they’re not).
Migration is definitely a factor. It suppresses wage growth with an influx of skill supply and also reduces housing numbers , increasing rental and property prices. You can't deny that this is an issue and it's low hanging fruit to fix. We can't do much about that idiot Putin but we can control our borders and only allow in skilled workers which can't be found here in the UK.
@@AJ-qr3kc I'm originally from Leeds and go back a few times a year - it's at least £5 for a pint, generally, up there. And yes, £2.81 might have been expensive for a pint where the OC was, but it's an average, so it'll be pulled higher by prices in London & the South.
People vote for the Conservative Party because of their career position, their house ownership, and where they perceive themselves to be in life. They are project managers. They are supply chain experts. They are logistics managers, financial advisors, construction workers, shop owners, architects...it doesn't really matter what the profession is, they see themselves as 'winners'. The Tory Party is like their Waitrose loyalty card. It represents a certain point in life where you don't want to go backwards. And this is why these folk are the same people who say "I could never vote for Labour". it's not the policies of Starmer and Reeves, it's the perception that it's the party of 'losers' that puts them off.
I'm a business architect who owns a house and am generally in a very fortunate position. There is *nothing* the conservatives could offer me to make me vote for them and their selfish, evil policies.
The people who think like this are delusional if they believe the conservative party cares about them. Their whole mandate has been to rinse the country for their own enrichment, privatising, embezelling and giving out government contracts to their mates.
Canadian here. We have IDENTICAL issues here.. housing crisis, elevated food prices, homelessness, school system issues etc. Except here we blame all of our problems on our LIBERAL government and the conservatives are claiming they can come in and turn things around. I think people fail to see that a lot of these issues are occurring globally and yet politicians are ignoring this and playing silly divisive finger pointing games to gain power.
I've noticed that too. The markets of course are all connected globally, and we arguably now have late stage capitalism with companies and major corporations going for broke in squeezing everything they can out of both the system and consumer. How it will end is anyone's guess
And the common denominator is that the foreigners own our banking system, and there are far too many migrants. The truest thing will be the thing everyone avoids to talk about. Those people are the reason it doesn't matter if liberals or conservatives in power.
If the country was full of people who looked like they went without food I'd agree, however, the population appears to be getting fatter. Those who say that poor quality food is cheap miss the point that people would still have to spend a fair amount to buy the vast quantity of rubbish they consume.
People have known about this problem for decades. But the population is too apathetic, brainwashed by the class system and happy to complain and wait for someone else to fix the problem. Personally I left soon as I could and have no plans to come back.
People in London get an avarage off 15% higher wages compared to outer London.even higher % compared to up north.all capital city's are more expensive. Paris is probably worse than London
Exactly. Companies like British Gas ramped up prices because of increased costs due to Ukraine/Brexit/Covid, yet still managed to increase profits by 1,000% in a year
Greed is exactly what it is . When some inflation has come along energy companies have taken the opportunity to jack-up their profits exponentially. You can almost hear it in the British Gas corporate headquarters: ‘ right men ‘ he said ‘ hears our chance to rip off as much as we can and line our own pockets , and we can just blame inflation ‘ . Well I say to energy companies we are all onto you and you’re a bunch of thieves
I remember in 2010 thinking £2 was a rip off for an ice cream, now I regularly see it being sold for £3.50 to £4 for a 99! That's mad, food inflation has been a killer for years now. I don't think most people could sustain another period of such price increases that this video demonstrates without civil unrest. Never have we paid so much to get so little in return!
"But small boats filled with military aged men from Africa and the Middle East pouring in given free healthcare, no council tax, no food bills, no energy bills, free bicycles and £1300 a month play money" Wish those Tories wouldnt be soooo left wing and use native peoples money to support this madness. Actions speak louder than words.
You couldn't get a round with a £50 note a lot of places! "I'm sorrrrry, we don't actually accept money in this bar, obviously. We only take contactless."
“I just don’t want to have to use the NHS for anything,” says the street punter when he hears how appallingly long our waiting lists are. Two problems with that: 1) Everyone who needs the NHS feels the same way, but the problem is, no one can do anything about getting sick or getting hit by a bus. 2) We will ALL reach an age when we are relying on the NHS to keep us alive and the for quality of our lives . . . unless we’re exceptionally unlucky. And the real tragedy: That’s was the Tory plan all along, to run down the NHS until it grinds to a halt, and then sell it off to their friends and family, like they did with the pandemic, “response.”
Third problem: A problem is cheaper and easier to tackle the sooner it is diagnosed. Putting something off can cost the NHS more and increases the risk the treatment will fail.
@@dananskidolf Indeed, and as I say, that’s a feature, not a bug. The Tories are deliberately making it so bad that it will soon look hopeless and irreparable; a massive tax burden with no end in sight and no real hope of rescue. Then, instead of being blamed for destroying it, they get to be the white knights who lifted the burden from the general public, with a small tax cut and the full privatisation of the entire service. They can keep some taxes in place, claiming they need them to convert everything, even though they DON’T in terms of staffing and infrastructure (except where they can cut corners by hiring unqualified staff instead of well trained, experienced people) because they’ve already been stealth privatising all this time. I know from experience, when I get the seals for my sleep apnea machine. A nurse used to put a couple in my hand, any time I asked for them. Now, I have to email requests and answer personal questions about what I did with the old ones and why I can’t make them last longer. When I got mad about this and listed everything that was wrong with their questions and the tone of their response, a senior nurse cracked and told me the complaints were coming from a private company, ResMed, who supply the parts. She just sent me what I asked for, plus spares, and now I regularly harangue the people at ResMed, encouraging them to get a job working for a company that is less likely to result in them being refused admission at the Pearly Gates, but no longer have any trouble getting my equipment. I do this, not for the sport, (though that is a bonus) but because I know that these, “newer,” companies are still in a highly competitive phase (unlike the fiefdoms that the water and transport companies own, with no competition legally allowed) and they really, really don’t want high complaint statistics. They rely on intimidation tactics and exploitation of scared people in a vulnerable state. Well, they picked the wrong patient, my friend. And I do it because the nurses don’t like being forced to act like enforcers on behalf of a company they hate, which is interfering with the otherwise excellent service they provide. These nasty tactics are being applied across the board and it’s all quite deliberate.
People forget that in 1997 when Blair came to power pints were £1.83 so a 62% increase under Labour meanwhile under the Conservatives the price of a pint has gone up by 61% and at the same time the minimum wage has gone up from £5.80 under Gordon Brown to £11.44 an increase of 97%.
People look at the numbers they want to form a narrative, and the headline of this video was always going to do that. While it's so in fashion to blame Ukraine, on the beer one it has had a huge impact.
France here, my local is about 4 euros a pint and there's a live band.. One time I went on.a Saturday night and it was a Portishead cover band,. They were excellent.
Bulgaria here. In the most expensive ski areas a large beer is €2.25. I just bought 12 large cans of Bierra Moretti in the local Billa for €8.40.or 7 quid. Happy days! 🇧🇬❤️
@user-tf4tv9bj4f In France, the trend of craft beers and micro-breweries is verys strong, even in regions outside the traditional areas of beer drinking/producing; even in Bourgogne and the South-West that are famous for wines. I visited the Baltics recently and there are both long standing beers and recent craft beers in trendy but inexpensive places where one finds beers and "pub meals".
One thing I've learnt about Private Medical - there's no warranty or after-treatment care. If there are complications post-op then it falls to the NHS/999 to pick you up.
When my mum had her cancer diagnosis, local hospital wouldn't do the op to remove the tumor but london royal hospital would. The after care became a bit of a run around because the local hospital didn't want to take responsibility. Paid NI all her life as a private school teacher. Like why would it even be in question? The whole point is to help people survive? Time is very important. The tumor had moved into her stomach by the time the op happened, which turned out to be fatal. why can't they do the op at the local hospital? foreign doctor vs UK qualified doctor?
That's because private medical services in the UK are not a replacement for the NHS like they are in USA. Private Medical treatment in the UK is for a particular treatment at that point in time and not ongoing care.
@@garnhamr For a foreign doctor to work in the NHS they have to past a test the same as a UK trained one. It is the Tories that have starved the NHS of the resources it needs both in terms of equipment & staff to benefit private health care & the people running agencies to provide staff for the NHS as vastly inflated prices.
Trickle down economics doesn't work when all the money is stashed in the offshore bank accounts of the super rich. That money isn't trickling anywhere.
Even modest investors like myself invest in global stocks and funds because that’s where the returns are. You don’t have any choice. No one wants to put their money in the U.K. stock market because performance has been dire, dragged down by high tax, high regulation, political instability and Brexit.
I got my graduate job in 2011 in London. I could get a 1 bedroom flat...an entire flat, for £900...I imagine that same property has DOUBLED in rent costs now.
@user-tf4tv9bj4f Just say you hate brown people. Mass immigration on this scale is absolutely bad for Britain, but the only people who bring it up hate people who've been here since the 50s too. So piss off.
@user-tf4tv9bj4f meh migration is the easy thing to blame. If you're in the trenches and see the mafia of new build developers and if you see who is buying these properties in our country. You'll be disgusted. It's all one giant money making scheme for them. If you want change, dont blame immigration. Blame government policy wanting to maximise profits and not protect UK citizens.
@user-tf4tv9bj4fimmigration maybe up, but the size of the population has increased pretty much as predicted for the last 30 years. So yes more people are coming into the country but equally people are having less kids and smaller families, so immigrants haven’t actually had as much of an effect on the population as the media want you to think. Really it’s the state of the economy, house prices, rent costs etc that are putting people off starting families till later in life and as a knock on effect they’re having less children as well, as statistically the likelihood of conceiving and having no complications with pregnancy goes down the older you get.
@user-tf4tv9bj4fthat’s very inaccurate. It was 685000 in 2023. Total migration before subtracting emigration was $1.2 mill. I’m about as far left as possible in the US, but I do agree the rate of immigration is too high to be sustainable currently. However when you cite totally inaccurate numbers you just discredit yourself and sound racist
wages go up costing companies more so they have to put up the cost of the product to level it out.... other way around the wages going up is the employees do more(as in produce more or get more shit done within the shift) and then get rid of a few staff. its that fucking simple, 1 way everyone moans about the cost other way someone lose their shit and end up feeling bad
Inequality is at the root of the issue. I don't really foresee labour doing anything much about it to be honest. It's stupid that a small number of companies and people hoard wealth and assets whilst the majority are deprived. But as far as I can recall I've never seen a sensible and workable solution to it. I think labour will,at best, lessen the pace of our decline - maybe im being pessimistic (I hope so anyway) but it's still the lesser of the two evils. We all thought in 2010 we were living in austerity and lean times, this is much worse - but ya never know, we might look back in ten years and realise this was still paradise compared to 2034....
Its not a UK specific phenomenon, its the crisis of global capitalism, we just have been hit particularly hard but this will be the future of every nation in the world if we don't overthrow this system. Join the revolutionary communist party here in the UK, the only way forward is if the working class directly takes control of society and the economy 🚩
@@doc14295 yeah but communism didn't work which is why I said I have never come across a solution that has actually worked. Workers are just as selfish and power structures take root anyway, as much as I am inclined to wish it were a solution it's not - the test has already been carried out. We need a new way of doing things
My dad told me this twenty years ago, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Things will not change anytime soon. How bad can things get before they change? Look at Dehli, Lagos, Abuja, and places like Venezuela. Sadly, things can still get much, much worse.
That’s always been the way since humans existed . The only freedom & democracy you get ,is determined by your bank balance & the amount of people you know in positions that can pull influence & strings in your favour .
Finally someone with some understanding! Most of the people commenting don't understand this was going to happen no matter who is in government. They are both so similar, yet have the masses convinced otherwise.
@gss6531 I am exhausted by the "government are the only people to take care of me" mentality. Which leads to even more government. I am Australian, we have 27 million people, once you take children and the elderly out plus another 4% unemployed (and going up). We are left with 13 million employed, 3 million of those work for the government! Leaving only 10 million that create $$$. But it's the 3 million that want more and more government and don't understand why everything is taxed so high. Both of our parties love this mindset. It's gross.
During a time of high inflation, people are passing on the costs to the next person and someone HAS to take the hit. The worst thing is supermarkets have been taking advantage by increasing prices by 10%-20% when inflation has been 4%-6% and have actually been pushing up inflation even more
Yes. I've seen quite a few items go up far faster than inflation. Maggi noodles disappeared for a while during the pandemic and when they returned the recipe had changed and the price had literally doubled. Birdseye burgers used to be 12 for £4 or so (I only bought them when they were on offer for £3). I've just checked on Morrison's and they're currently on offer a packet of 10 for £4 (normal price £6.19). Even when on offer they've gone from 25p each to 40p each. Morrison's are particularly egregious though as they were taken over a few years ago and when all the prices started to go up they seemed to put there's up by more. Even Asda are at it. They're Just Essentials burgers were £1.60 for 10 when they were first introduced (after all the prices had started to increase), now they're £1.85 for 8.
@@VeritasAbsoluta I used to buy the Asda creamed rice pudding for 29p, they changed the branding, and the price now is 49p. Asda soups used to be 40p, now 70p, these price rises are far in excess of inflation, it's pure greed.
@@kidtea There are plenty of tutorials on here, I use a big pot on a propane burner and the Brew in a Bag method. Just search for BIAB. I can make a 4% session bitter for 55p a litre and a 6% American style hop monster for 70p a litre.
Don't worry mate, everyone's in it together. It's only the people at the top that are truly isolated. Not even doctors can live a good life on a one parent income anymore. Me and my partner are both from poor backgrounds and are both earning 40k each up north - which would be an amazing income ten years ago. But now we're basically treading water. We were forced to buy an ex-council house as a first home, paying a mortgage that would have got us a 4 bed new build back in 2019. We've both worked our arses off our entire lives and we're still stuck on a council estate and both feeling very bitter lol.
And just think in any other time in our history this would barely work because you would have been given pay rises, yet because of the economically illiterate tories constant want to give as much to rich as possible we earn barely anymore than we did in 2010 for the same job.
This is so relatable. I’m an EU citizen in London as well, and I am also going home to take care of medical needs if possible. Living in the UK has turned a few medical issues I had into chronic ones as I just couldn’t get to a doctor for years. Living in London gives me anxiety, as crime is on the rise, and you don’t know whether ambulances or police would come if necessary. Also - A few years ago, 1000 pound would be enough for a one bedder. Now that I could finally afford that they moved the goal post and you need around 2K to live by yourself. I don’t want to be sharing anymore, so I’ll probably have to leave London soon in order to achieve that.
But can you not see that however bad it is here for you. You have another place to return to and can get medical treatment and start another life. The average Brit cannot do that so easily or maybe not at all so whatever you experience, it's worse for Brits, plus none of us were asked if we wanted this.
Average hourly earnings 2010 = 12.57. Average hourly earnings 2023 = 17.48. After calculating the percentage increase from 2010 being £2.80 for a pint, in 2024 now based on modern hourly average, £4.81 is the price of a pint relative to salary, the actual average price for a pint now is £4.70, this obviously meaning the average person would be 11p better off compared to the modern salary average price.
Stats play for both sides. I think there is a statistical case to be made either side of the argument depending how any one person uses them. I personally think that the 'mode' for yearly salary (or salary per hour) will not be rising at the same rate as the 'mean', because of the effect of compounding. A 10% raise in salary for a £10,000 and a £100,000 job result in an enormous disparity in increase of earnings (£11,000 and £110,000 respectively). If they were to both see another 10% raise the disparity becomes greater still (£12,100 and £121,000 respectively). Mathematically speaking, the higher income earners have simply further seperated from middle income earners and both have further seperated from lower income earners in an inflationary environment like the one we have seen since the aftermath of '08. The ONS states that the poorest fifth of the populations median household income went down by 1% per year after inflation had been accounted for between 2017 to 2022, where the richest fifth "continued to grow steadily".
Hey it's not like many of us down here did either. I am highly suspect of the voting results every time. They just don't coincide very convincingly with actual people. And sure you can rustle up a compilation of idiots for the youtubes but those are hardly even supposed to be properly representative, are they? They're more like anger fuel. I've been doubting for a long time. I've spoken with tories before and the most consistent thing they seem to have in common is to be few enough to be notable to happen across. That could be happenstance bias very realistically, but hey it's not like I've got anyone else's personal experience to draw upon (and trust, anyway).
@@william_marshal not true , Scotland’s vote does not matter given the population size and number of voters compared to England which is why so many Scot’s wanted independence
It’s not a Scotland vs England issue, it’s Tory voter vs non-Tory voter. I, as a non-Tory voter in England, am not taking the blame, while a Tory voter living in Scotland hides behind a statistic.
If wages stay with the inflation YEAR AFTER YEAR. Then inflation isn't an issue. But they do not. If you do not get YEARLY RAISE that's at least, or above inflation, you've just got a pay CUT. How many of you get this? I doubt many...
The national minimum wage has increased by 92.9% since 2010. The personal tax code has also risen from 6.4K to 12.5k for most in the lower bracket. All things are relative.
@@Robbo8ball Unfortunately, the rises in both have been inconsistent, and statistics can be manipulated to show whatever the desired result is. Since 2010, every working person is £3,200 per year worse off, official ONS statistics. What you fail to mention is that for several years, both the tax code and minimum wage were frozen, therefore they did not keep up with inflation. Public sector pay in particular has suffered, because this is under government control, and this current government declined to increase public sector pay in line with inflation, which is why half of all public sector workers have been striking for more pay, and they have done so for survival, not greed. Guess whos' wealth has increased over the last 14 years of Conservative rule, by over 50%, that's right, the already wealthy. Tax on the wealthy has decreased from 83% in the 1970s', down to the current 40%, so is it any wonder that their wealth is the only wealth that has consistently grown?
@@sirstarrydah5293 House price inflation has been mostly caused by the Bank of England lowering interest rates to 1 or 2 % and printing money ( QE ) . Immigration has very little to do with it .
@@sirstarrydah5293 Thatcherism and NIMBYs are to blame. Housing is now treated as an investment opportunity (rather than a necessity) and those same "investors" petition against building new houses to protect their investments. Immigration is not a part of this issue, it's a capitalism thing. If all housing was publicly funded and being readily build (even the latter would help massively), none of this would ever be an issue
@@sirstarrydah5293 So vote the Tories out, Rishi Sunak alone in less than 2 years of being PM is about to exceed the combined immigration figures from 13 years of Blair + Brown.
Probably they own the property. A lot of landlords buy-to-rent and if banks rise the mortgage, they have no other choice. I know a few landlords who own their flats/houses and from what I now, only a few rise the rent. One friend of mine only rises the rent one someone moves out, the next person has to pay a bit more, but if you in there you pay, what he asked for and never rises unless it would be really needed. But, they all relative fortunate Scottish landowners, in my rural area.
I've been a landlord since 2013 and I have NEVER put my tenants rent up. Also I gave them a 50% discount during COVID. But I still get tarnished with the "evil private landlord" tag. Smh.
@@jameshansing5396 Nobody has said it to my face but once when I told someone I was a landlord they said "Oh you're the reason the housing market is broken then?!" Also, before I rented the house, I tried to sell it on 3 different occasions with no luck. So this idea that there were no houses is a myth. The house I was selling was a 3 bedroom mid terrace for £95k (in 2012)
Tories have risen prices as a way to take your money from you and transfer it to the rich who are the shareholders and asset owners. The rich have become massively richer. The last 4 years have seen the fastest and highest wealth transfer to the rich, ever. This is due to government policy. There's a solution. Tax the super rich on their enormous assets. This will mean they need to sell those assets to pay the taxes. This will bring down inflation, bring down mortgage rates, and prices.
@@Lekirius Easily. Problem is, people like to live beyond their means then complain about not being paid enough. Don't complain about cost of living while spending £300/month on car finance. Don't complain about your unemployment benefits when wasting money on cigs.
What I can’t get my head around is the cost of housing today, when houses near me were originally slum housing for the poorest of mill workers in the 1800’s. There’s no way those first occupants ever paid the equivalent of £250,000 How has the UK allowed an object to increased in price so much. It’s just greed.
@maccagrabme Mate, no one is falling for your racist rhetoric. If every immigrant disappeared, our country would fail and you think all the problems we have would just vanish? Nice try.
Indian background people start entering politics in Canada, its economy suffers. Indian people start entering politics in Britain, its economy suffers. We should try electing an Indian background politician for US too, it'll for sure go bankrupt.
@@zaeemjaved6850 bit racist, innit? Liz, Boris, Theresa and David did their part too. It's the right that fucks things up, nothing to do with ethnicity.
The lady who came to this country as she loved it and everything was better here is objective proof that we still think we are better in many regards. But actually we are now behind countries that used to aspire to what we had. Its going to take a long time to undo all the damage these people have done to our economy and our society... if we even can.
Whilst I can’t stand the Tories, I’m stunned people thinking that voting for any of the establishment parties will make any difference at all. They all serve their paymasters and funders, and themselves of course. Vote for independent candidates who you feel represent you. Just getting a handful of independents in to the fixed two party system could make a huge difference
The difference is that the Tories are ideologically in favour of impoverishing the general population. They do this, with reckless glee and abandon - seriously, pick any Tory MP you like and look at their voting record, without exception, 100% of Tories will always vote against majority interests. They know they can just lie during election time and be trusted by elderly people who don't understand reality.
A good idea on paper but sadly a vote for the independents will only allow the Tories to get in again. We must not allow that to happen. Vote tactically to get them out.
This video shows in itself that any party in charge will make a difference (in this case it's gone in the wrong direction). Don't believe that nothing will change, look at the last 14 years.
The system is broke. Until there is a complete overhaul don't vote. You're voting for the status quo. Nothing will change. People are fools if they believe Starmer is better than Sunak. Two peas in the same pod. Both war mongers who serve the rich.
Pint of very good guiness is £4.40 at the star in Fishponds, Bristol. Unsuprisingly they sell the most guiness in the south west. Highly reccomended ;)
A friend living in London slipped and broke her leg while walking her dog. Strangers stayed with her as she was in and out of consciousness. Ambulance took 5 hours to get to her.
Isn’t it bizarre how the cost of everything has gone up, fairly rapidly in recent years but have the average wage levels increased by the same amount? Notably and roughly within a similar period the level of public services have dropped off equally as rapidly in terms of level, quality and availability of service. So if we are spending more money, not receiving the same increment of money and quite clearly the money being put back national and local services have decreased, then where has the money gone? Surely more has been collected, less taken back so where is it? When you can answer that then you have the solution to the problems.
Corruption is expensive. One avenue for wealth to be transferred from the taxpayer to the filthy rich is private companies charging extortionate fees to carry out work in the public sector. And who owns these companies? Mates of the ministers. It's a lucrative arrangement for both parties.
I lived in London from 2009-2012, lived in a 2 bedroom near East croydon for 850 pounds per month then moved to a bedsit in tooting bec for 415 pounds per month. The latter being a bargain, who knows what it costs now, I have fond memories of those times…glad I got to enjoy it when it was better.
Honestly it’s criminal - Class Divide in Brighton recently walked the route the average working class kid on free school meals walked to school (because transport is not free) and the length was 1 hour and 20 minutes each way. Imagine.
The updated Sunday Times rich list did, however, reveal that there has been a slight drop in the number of British billionaires, from 177 in 2022 to 165 in 2024. The list features the 350 wealthiest people in the UK.17 May 2024 Who don’t pay taxes.
As a young soldier based in Tidworth, Hampshire in 1973 in our Squadron Bar a pint of Bitter was 13p. Prices in the UK have risen somewhat. 😂😢 Living here In Germany in May 2024 a 20 x half litre crate of good quality beer costs about 16 Euro, €3,50 is included as the deposit, so the beers cost €12.50. This is why, along with a hundred other reasons, why I am so happy the believing here.😊
Beer is cheap in Germany although prices generally in most things have still gone up massively. Britain needs to lower their crazy taxes on alcohol so they're the same price as the rest of europes
@@chilldude30 I would agree prices have risen here in Germany, but I do dispute your term "massively" I do most of the weekly shopping so am on top of the price rises. On my last visit to the UK it was obvious that prices for almost everything were far more expensive than here in Germany. It prevented us buying the normal things only available in the UK that we buy and bring back here. Do you live in Germany, if so in what region, as prices can vary regionally? Lets also not mention the UK roads. Potholes, wow they have got bad.
@@dfxl6587 At the start of Covid Lidls (no regional pricing in Lidl) standard price for a 1.25ltr bottle of Coca Cola was 99 cents. Today it is 1.49. While German grocery prices haven't quite gone up as much as in the UK and are now cheaper across the board than in Britain rather than around the same dependent on what you were buying, they have still risen massively.
@@dfxl6587 A bottle of coke is one of the best single units of measurement we can use here. That you take issue with that and an assume 'agendas' speaks volumes.
when i was a teen going to pubs in the late 90s a pint of websters at our local was £1.40 and that was a pub in wimbledon which was a fairly well off part of london at the time.
Most of these people would have been quite happily sucking the tory teat during covid when the money printers were going flat out paying for thier furlough. Labour repeatedly called for higher payments at the time and are now supprised high inflation "popped up" and stomped the most vunerable, who knew endlessly printing money could devalue a currency. The system is beyond broken and i'm not convinced either side actually want to fix it.
The Bank of England created a quarter of a billion pounds in the first few years after the 2008 crash - where was the inflation there? It didn't happen because inflation has never been linked to the amount of money in an economy - that is just neoliberal bullshit - it's about supply and demand of goods and services. Spend more than can be absorbed and that is likely to cause inflation. Park it in a bank account and nothing will happen. Inflation happened because of shortages in some supply chains while in others it was just naked profiteering.
the problem is our (undisclosed) war against Russia. And our support in terms of trillions for an evil nazi country (ukraine). also Irsael, which are also a nazi country. If we got rid of all parties who hate Russia and love Nazis... we could afford stuff again. Its really simple. Billions going abroad means billions we don't have. Stop the support for Ukraine if you want cheaper prices. Simple. Do you think Labour is anti-ukraine and pro-russia? NO. Theres our problem.
I feel like people are in a UK bubble, but does everyone realise living costs have risen globally (or at least in Europe)? In Spain, rent and housing has almost doubled over the past 5-7 years. Weekly shops have risen from 80 to 120-130. This is not just a 'Tory out and everything will go back down' problem; this is a European economic crisis which every party and country is suffering from.
@kaitlyn__L @@TheCam920 I'm not disputing that the UK is expensive or that there haven't been significant changes. I'm definitely not arguing that Spain isn't cheaper than the UK. It's more about the fact that the way the videos and questions are framed, it's as if the Tories are the sole reason, or things will magically go back to how they were under Labour. Take the average UK deposit statistic going from 29,000 to 53,000 from 2010 to 2023, it doesn't mention the fact it's gone from 34,000 to 53,000 over the past two years, which is an astronomical rise and it's in that same period where most of Europe has seen living costs shoot up. In Spain, based on average house prices and salaries, people need to save 20% of their salary over the next ten years in order to afford a deposit. Pretty sure it'd be a similar story in the UK? In short, get rid of the Tories for their slimy personalities, scummy viewpoints and policies, but the rising prices and the like are unlikely to change significantly with a different government. The difference is (hopefully) they won't focus on allowing their mates to profit from the crisis.
I work but I’m single so on one wage. I can’t afford hot water and have very minimal heating on in winter (I just use an electric shower). I can’t afford the dentist or glasses. After bills I live off around £60-£80 a week for food, travel, clothing etc. I know people are on less and I feel for them massively too. Something HAS to be done to help us.
its so simple, this country has produced 141 new billionaires in the last year, whilst the general public, middle classes and working classes are becoming poverty stricken more then ever before, watch garys economics he explains wealth inequality with questions and answers, the extreme wealthy say top 5% hardly pay any taxes. Old rishi for example 2 million passive income a week. 🤑
the guy at the end hit the nail on the head. It's wealth inequality, they are squeezing middle class, every little drop. Governments need to seriously start taxing the rich people, the big corps. We need a wealth tax and we need it now.
@@nataliam9764 yeah sure, the famous 'trickle down' economics. There is absolutely no factual evidence that cutting taxes for the reach results in more money for the poor. In fact, why would they give away any money? It only resulted in more people squeezed and pushed into poverty, decreasing standards of living and working rights etc etc
@@nataliam9764 That is total BullShit! the bone idle rich have been paying as little as they can get away with. It's about time they were forced to contribute their fair share to the economy!
Asking the safest Tory seat why they're STILL going to vote Conservative
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Old habits die hard
Because the alternative is MUCH worse. Labour are killing Wales and Starmer claims that is a blueprint for the UK.
This is across the world. Do the Conservatives control that ?
@@welshjim22 xD just wait for us to say this vid aged well
@@welshjim22 "because the alternative is much worse" is a terrible mindset, you do realise there are multiple other parties but we are propagandised into a "two party" syetem and a "us vs them" system?
go vote any of the smaller parties and tell everyone you know about this, i'm personally voting green party or libdems
Have we considered turning the country off and back on again
Ye I think they called that lock down
Maybe pulling the plug is the better option
The only way is to raise tax on the corporations and billionaires and introduce profit caps. Any profit made over the cap would go straight to the public. The money raised can be used to kickstart new businesses and revive the economy. We also need strict caps on rents, mortgages, service charges and energy bills.
Is that woman a 1920s time traveler
Yeah, here's the switch: 🎆
Imagine being the lady with the hat, time-travelling here from the 1920s and seeing the cost of things
@@DM-ur8vcnot! Depression was coming. Big class divide.
@@DM-ur8vc I think 25 people understood that was not the point of my joke
She'd drop dead if she saw the amount of non Brits
@@janetmalcolm6191 Just like now.
The 1920s??? How old is she? We're in 2024 ..... Maths skills, fellow Brits, maths skills ....
London is almost dead and the country isn’t far behind. At least the rich have got richer 👍 wonderful
Ironically all the labour supporters here will blame the tories for death of London.
Any evidence to back that up?
It looked fine and vibrant when I was there a few weeks ago.
How is London dying? It's never been better off. Your BS doesn't fly with reality. Only once the dirty Russian money was blocked has London truly been able to flourish. Because that oligarch's cash has been exchanged for honest investment. But I'm guessing such economic language flies right over your flat gammon head.
London is a hell hole that is youre problem not the rest of ours
@@HarleyFirestorm You are probably right. Poor Tories never had a chance to do something meaningful with the country. They've only been in charge for 15 years.
And yet 1 in 4 people at a minimum will still vote for them. Its fucking madness
Because they believe left wing will tax them more and they will have less to spend.
No it’s the ingrained serfdom that been part of this country since the Middle Ages , that’s always prop’t up
And yet even more will vote for them by omission because Labour don't meet their purity standards.
@@haren1116weird ur counting Brexit as out of the Tories hands. the Tory party famously had nothing to do with pushing for Brexit ofc
@haren1116 sorry but that doesn't stand up, and this is part of the problem. Look at any of the data from our neighbours in Europe. UK government has only exacerbated these factors. They are crooks.
As an American living in the UK it has been interesting to see how many older conservative people that Ive met seem to be very knowledgeable about politics in the US. They often times comment on how crazy the government setup is and criticise the behaviour of Trump/Biden/Fox News etc., but don't seem to realize that their contribution to maintain tory leadership for over a decade has set the UK in a spiral into the direction of the current the American political hellscape.
Most of those voters only voted Tory to get brexit. And the Tories have messed that up and not fully implemented it as we aren't fully out and taking no global trade opportunities. Without the promise of a referendum on EU membership the Tories couldn't even form a majority government but strung us along all this time promising to deliver but now voters have realised they are good for nothing and ditching them at the next election for Reform Party.
Was it George Harrison or Madonna who sung about “Living in the material world” ? Also down to rise of global politics and multinationalism ?
@maccagrabme there was never a way of properly implementing it. It was entirely a false project.
@@paddas1612 spirits in the material world by the police. that one as well
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I was a barman while at uni in 2010, and I can remember the OUTRAGE at our pub when a pint went from £2.10 to £2.80.
to be fair my dad used to run a London pub and I remember him mentioning a pint being a tenner at a competitors boozer around that time
The irony is we've had a conservative government for 14 years and it isn't even a good place to run a business (like a pub). We all know that Tories want to gut services, but you'd imagine they would at least be pro-business, but they aren't. When they do help businesses, it's with corrupt contracts to people they know. If you compare to 2010, people had a more affordable cost of living, so had more spare income to spend at places like pubs. You had an honest chance of running a business and people in general had a better quality of life. The money has been systematically syphoned off by those at the top and it's time things changed.
The tories want a privilaged few and the rest are slaves who fund the rich.
Capitalism for the poor and socialism for the few rich
They're pro big-business. But yeah, they're not at all the party of entrepreneurship that they claim to be.
think about that. Life was better 2 years after a global financial crash then it is now.
It's not even that they're pro-business or not - it's that they are shit at economics. Austerity was a giant policy mistake. The Financial Crisis meant that interest rates were super low, as was business investment. With interest rates that low, and low investment, the government should have borrowed to invest in infrastructure, house building, etc. Basic keynesian economics.
They didn't - they did the opposite. Austerity attacked councils to stop them spending and building. It caused a general downward spiral, and they scapegoated EU migrants, which then led to Brexit.
Then with Brexit, the nutters on the right of the Tory party got their wish, hard Brexit, which made things even worse.
Meanwhile, migration continued to increase, putting greater pressure on housing stock which the government wasn't building or funding local councils to build. Instead, they helped young people borrow more and pushed up prices (ironically using the low interest rates, so they could ALREADY borrow fairly large amounts).
Basically, the Tory party, who were meant to be economically literate, proved they were anything but for 14 years and generally cratered everything. And they kept on getting voted in by bribing pensioners. But it's ok for them, cos they're rich.
@@Bigbudd0045 👍😱🙈
People only notice if the drop in living standards is overnight. Over the course of this government our quality of life has degraded incrementally, but it's been a steady drip drip.
it's called boiling the frog
Yet we ( who run this economy ) havent put the price of weed up ? strange given it costs more to grow & ship , yanno cos of Putin /labour the boats etc :P
@@mcfcguvnors What does Labour have to do with the price of weed?
as far as i can tell everyone has noticed. i defy you to find any person that isnt shocked at how expensive everything is now
@@mcfcguvnors its actually pretty complicated. black markets arent subject to same forces as other markets.
like beyond tax, the actual shipping could be done as part of something else (like stuffed in a car thats being sold to someone) so thats zero logistics costs, so the price of fuel has no impact.
i would also be curious to see what happens to money laundering rates... do they go up with everything else, or does all the hardship in smaller businesses open up more people doing it, giving those looking to launder money more options
To the woman who said “£3.10 a pint in Brighton how can I afford to live here” she’s my type of person
A pint, or close to it, is the equivalent of around six pounds in Australia.
Sounds like she likes to spend same on pints as on rent
This is all Tory voters
"John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Well said!!!!
That'd so true I see it well explained...I also have a slow mind so understanding what you wrote is usually hard for me
And yet the Socialist Party of the United States once garnered 6% of the national vote (1912), so it's not like we're hopeless. I think the campus protest movement over the genocide in Gaza is evidence of that.
In London people believe they're millionaires just because the value of the house they own is approaching or exceeding £1M and they're driving a new car on finance. In reality they're financially closer to the homeless than the top earners. But they somehow managed to convince themselves that they're up there with the elites. They're literally living in the Matrix.
That's not really true of Britain thoughever
This is why young people aren't having kids
Yep. That and that kids suuuuck
Most people i know age 18-30 dont want kids because they dont want the responsibility and the work thats involved in raising them.
I know a few people in my own family on minimum or benefits that have 3+ kids and are doing fine
I think you forgot the huge cost
@@michaelfisher4737What’s the point if we can’t afford to look after them.
@@Jack-qv5ru its a double edge sword because we need them to pay taxes for our retirement.
But why is it that their are lot of poorer countries that are fine with having kids?
I count not afford a kid but that me as 1 person, if I had a wife with a 2nd income, would be fine.
If you're young and single, it is SO difficult to even think about buying a house, that's why most young people including myself are moving abroad
Where are you going to go, out of interest?
"most young people...are moving abroad" Could you define that claim in percentage terms? With some evidence to back up the claim? I'm not disputing that the country and particularly younger people are royally f*cked by the cost of housing and life in general but I am disputing the idea that over 50% of people under 30 are leaving the country.
You should be leaving those houses for families that need them, if you were full of compassion of course and not hypocrisy...
@@sirianofmorley You don’t believe single people should buy their own houses? Where should they live?
Houses are not built for single people. They are for families with children, multiple beds, two toilets, big living room. What the heck do you need a house for? Just rent a room or buy a small studio for a single.
That's why it's a housing crisis, because everyone wants to buy a huge house to live alone. 😂 The demand for houses doubled, since in the past houses were bought by married couples.
The problem isn't the choice between healthcare and military spending. It's the systematic looting of public services by private companies. Anything privatised, either fully (water, rail, energy) or partially (healthcare), has gone up in price and declined in quality to feed the greed of shareholders.
Especially with the military spending being cut year on year. They don't have the staff to man the boats they currently have.
The cause of the issue is quite simple... The people at the top are ringfencing wealth away from society, instead of reinvesting it in the economy.
As a consequence the economy is completely imbalanced, demanding more and more investment from the people at the bottom who can least afford it.
Last time I checked, that's how revolutions start...
It was caused by PRINTING MONEY to pay for people to stay at home for two years. Thanks to the Cantillion Effect and other reasons, this greatly increased the gap between the rich and the poor.
The French had the right idea on how to deal with the wealthy in 1789!
Can we stop calling it cost of living. Let's call it Tory Tax. We literally can't afford the Tories anymore!
yeah because the cost of living is totally just a UK thing.....
We can’t afford the politicians anymore if we ever could ,all of them a liability & surplus to the nation & publics requirements .
@michaelfisher4737 I never said that. But brexit and the tories have made everyone of our problems worse. That's simply a fact
We can’t afford any politicians anymore if we ever could , they are all a liability ,not cost effective & surplus to requirement .
I’ve been calling it the cost of greed crisis 😂
The Tories say that voting for Labour will take us back to square one. Considering that under the Tories we are in the negative numbers just getting back to 2010 would be a massive improvement for the vast majority in this country. The Tories used the financial crisis of 2007 as a bridge to get into power blaming Labour for something that started in the US. Now nothing is their fault it's always outside circumstances. But since 2010 not only have the Tories increased taxation for the majority to some of the highest since WW2 but have also allowed and encouraged the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the already wealthy. Now having got that wealth transfer they are talking about abolishing inheritance so they and their families can hang on to that wealth at the expenses of the rest.
Because every Labour government produces a Tory government coming back in to clear up the mess Labour cause. If you don't believe me check your history, that's why if you vote Labour you are sending the country back to square one and in a decade it will be a completely broken country again and Tories back in to cause havoc unless you vote differently, maybe choose an independent party who are responsible like Reform who will give you a 20k tax threshold and tax corporations for the overseas workers using the infrastructure, NHS and public services and welfare that we all paid for whilst keeping all the profits, this alone could generate 20 billion in taxes.
Exactly, I'm all for going back to square one! Far better than where we are now.
Indian background people start entering politics in Canada, its economy suffers. Indian people start entering politics in Britain, its economy suffers. We should try electing an Indian background politician for US too, it'll for sure go bankrupt.
Tories say Labour will land you back to square one, Labour says nothing except "Trust me bro, i cant be worse".
Labour is the weakest it has been in a long time. It will not solve anything, Britain needs real reform. This election regardless of outcome is too little too late.
@@zaeemjaved6850The UK economy went into decline with two Englishmen at the helm. then fully tanked with an English woman and a descendent of a Ghanaian in charge. But hey lets not let your bigotry getting in the way of facts.
As an American living in the UK now, you all should be terrified of the push to private insurance. I used to pay US$300 per month for my base level insurance plan that did next to nothing for me. Still had to pay $30 any time i saw a doctor. Had a $1500 deductible (meaning i had to spend 1500 of my own money before my insurance covered anything).
You will have plenty of people here go bankrupt because of healthcare costs if you allow the degradation of the NHS
Nobody wants to lose NHS it’s the government that wants to lose it and we are helpless.
Bullshit. Australia operates a public model with private topup which is cheap. The public system here pisses all over the NHS for care, prevention, access and productivity.
It's very concerning too to wonder how it would affect those of us with pre-existing conditions, and how we might find ourselves effectively uninsurable. It wouldn't just feel like a loss of financial security, it would feel like the overnight loss of our human right to equal treatment and care, which has never been a question under the NHS. The suddenness of that would feel staggering.
We are aware of the privatization of the NHS, and how bad your system is, sadly it will happen. Labour will do nothing if they get in with a 100% majority. It's all hedge funds starting to come after society, ie water, care homes, health, etc. Profit is the only metric.
We got private healthcare in the Netherlands and with dental you pay €250. Also if you use it a 375 own risk policy. It was half the price around 2005. That's how they get you. Now they wanna lower the own risk policy, but they raise the monthly cost. Another political trick for votes. People fell for it and promised tax cuts and guess what? They raised some taxes, made long flights more expensive, lowered benefits for students and raised school books prices. The only tax that went down was for companies.
We got a party like Reform working with a party like the Tories in a coalition now, they were running on lower taxes. DO NOT VOTE RIGHTWING!
£12 a crate of carling in Morrisons.
Few mates and a nice bbq. And you go home with a full wallet. People just can’t afford to spend £100+ on a night out these days. Our government is literally killing our country.
Feel for you middle class boy
@@chucky2316 chill out slumlord
Only you can’t beat draught beer
@@pevebe slumlord? That's a new one 👌🤣
And you wonder why pubs and the wider high street is doing so poorly when wages have barely risen yet everything is more than double the price.
Wages have frozen because the Tories imported literally millions of low-skilled workers to benefit the corporations and it has led to wages being depressed and pressure on housing going up.
Rent
When i was a kid, going to lidl and aldi meant you were poor and it was considered embarrassing, now its normal.
@@MrDanlancelot because all the customers have not had their wages double
@@MrDanlancelotthat would be true if customer levels stayed the same but the point is that prices have doubled but people's wages haven't increased along with that increase so not as many people can afford what they used to be so those customer levels are lower.
We should be concentrating on the obscene profits that are being announced, while more and more people are having to use food banks.
100%. Shareholders have been allowed to take and take with no investment whatsoever. They are treasonous scum. In the midst of plenty we shall not suffer want.
Doesn't seem that bad, net profit margins are often low single figures.
Don't know what operating profit margins are but that would be relevent
The are the profits _after_ they squirrel away more in tax havens & shell companies!
Majority by the way IMMAGRANTS conning the system
So they can be morbidly obese? I live in M6 - one of the most 'deprived' postcodes in the UK its full of wobbling whales.
‘Can’t go anywhere and get a pint under £6.’ Yes you can mate, it’s called the north of England. We’d riot if pints crept over FOUR quid
I remember £1 a pint nights down the SU in 2008.
@@DM-ur8vcI remember a pint of Lager costing about 15 p & twenty B&H proper king size cigarettes costing about 25 p in 1971 . If you even allow for 53 years of inflation ,the prices now are total rip off .
Still €1 pints in Benidorm in 2024…..
Dont understand this vid, I'm not Tory and never voted for them but surely most of this is just down to global inflation?
It was £1 a pint at Manchester Uni in 1970. I now live overseas, it's £2.5 a pint for real beer in Sarawak, Malaysia (this ignores the commercial swill), where alcohol consumption is frowned upon by the governing bodies but highly taxed of course.
@@DM-ur8vc If they were really concerned about health they all would have banned smoking & the consumption of alcohol decades ago . There will be some places where a pint was still around £2• 80 p a pint in 2010 especially in the north west & North east , even at that price of was rip off it only costs about 5 p a pint for massive breweries to produce & a maybe even less . Alcohol , Smoking & personal vehicle ownership has always been used as a cash cow by all politicians & also using the old nanny state hysterical fears over health to beat the public over the head with extortionate rip of taxes . Anyone who drinks alcohol in a pub or what passes for one these days ,has obviously got more money than sense ,when crates of it can be had elsewhere ,usually of better quality more realistically priced & in chosen company of close friends & family minus the ridiculous pub smoking bans .
We're all just frogs in a pot
Blender
Underrated comment.
Crabs in a bucket is the phrase your looking for
it’s a W.E.F. pot
The info is there, Brits just dont wanna actually do anything. They hate whats happening, but they eat the propaganda soup.
At least one benefit of Brexit is politicians here can't blame the EU anymore. We will have to fix our own issues. Whoever will do it gets the votes.
Do you think they will not blame the EU ?? They are still blaming Gordon Brown 14 years later. after he left office . And after doubling the national debt he left mostly before Covid or the Ukrane problems.
That was one of the reasons for Brexit ,to stop our politicians skiving & just rubber stamping any crazy EU directives through Parliament . Now they will have to face up to the job ,without the security of a another gravy train opportunity in Brussels ,if they lose their seats in Westminster .
Thumbnail looked as if he travelled back to the 1910's
No politician is going to fix it , that’s for sure , it takes people with backbones ,which politicians appear to be sadly lacking .
They'll just blame the opposite thing though. "Everything is screwed because of Brexit" instead of "everything is screwed because we're in the EU".
Anything but blame the escalating profitability crisis baked into capitalism.
I saw an interview the other day with a couple walking home from a food bank. They were praising the Tories for what they'd given them. Rather than seeing the obvious, that there wasn't any need for food banks in 2010, they'd been brainwashed into believing that food banks were a Tory bonus. Terrifying levels of stupidity. In 2010 there were 35 food banks, now there are now over 1,500 food banks. In 2010 60,000 people used food banks, now it's 2.99 million people. People should be ashamed they voted for this. But they did. They voted for Brexit. We were warned we would get poorer. But immigration trumps all logic... Ironically including the logical ways of cutting immigration. Brexit was never ever going to reduce immigration either
I know, and this is coming from the flipping saxons. Maybe we should ask the extinct original inhabitants of the uk, including the obliterated wildlife aswell
Food banks started in 2001 under Labour
There is so much wrong with the original post I don't know where to begin, then they have the gall to go on about stupid people. Its just face slappingly ignorant.
@@samhodgins9804Yes, but you are missing the point. Food banks were an incredibly rare phenomen, now they are normal.
@@thedave7760Well, there is no better explanation for Brexit than stupidity or ignorance. Take your pick.
Sound engineer here. In 2010, passing around a non-foam covered lapel mic on the street would have seemed preposterous. The tory's have got a lot to answer for.
We closed our mic factories and outsourced all mic production overseas because it was cheaper, so no one cares if our cheap and nasty mics become clogged with human spit; just chuck it and buy a new one.
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lol
They do make great ones now.
seriously what is with this trend??
It’s genuinely baffling how nobody is rioting. Despite social media and always being connected, people are too tired and distracted to do anything, so they just suck it up even when things get beyond worst. Third world country.
I just came back to the UK after 14 years abroad, and my first reaction after coming home and realising what a state the country is in was literally "Where are the riots?"
You are getting somewhere, you are starting to notice. Problem is you think it only applies to the UK
The british don't riot, they have a king(and a PM, both unelected) and they will obey them until there's nothing and no one left. It's a class society who mentally still live in the Victorian era.
We would never riot over the issues discussed in this video, all we do is moan and complain.
its not baffling at all that is why the country is in this sorry state
I'm a single man, 34 years old, earning just under 50K and I am struggling to get enough for a house deposit despite being pretty privaleged (no kids, high wage, pretty frugal)
I have no idea how somebody with a child and a part time job is meant to get a house, or even afford rent.
What are you spending it on? You must be taking home £2800+ a month at the very least
I have no idea how you cant manage when you are so rich, i earn £200 per week and get by fine. Maybe you should seek help with managing your money if you are so wastful.
You can't be that frugal then
He could be living in London to get that wage then most of this money on rent.@@andrewdouglas3338
We never expected to be able to own houses back in the day , unless you were posh & rolling in bunce & as tight as a ducks arse . Most people were glad to be considered for a council flat or house ,after being married with kids to qualify & on the waiting list for 5 to 10 years , & that was in towns & cities away from London .
The middle class is broke.
The government is broke.
So where's all the money then?
Il tell ya, the pockets of rich people!
And Im not talking about grandmas with £1 million houses im talking about people sitting on £5 million+ of investments.
The money has been siphoned away. We're never getting our money back. Tax-breaks, non-dom claimants and offshore trusts have seen to that
that's it.
Gary’s economics 😂?
Senior Tories take it all
And the first group of people to be enslaved are the working class - Akala
Even his mic felt the cost of living 😢
Broken Tory Britain
Happening across the West.
Both Left and Right have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions.
Tory or Labour. They are both the same follwing agenda 21.
Voted for by gullible Tiory Britons.
Unfortunately it started with Tony's Labour. What a shame the tories did not fix Labours mistakes.
wait till labour get in bankrupt britain
I don’t know why the shock it’s been like this for years and we keep accepting it
Most voted for it 🤣🤣
@@daftdigital 1000% 🤣🤣
I think the shock isn't so much at the current price, but just realising how many times more expensive it is than in 2010 as people do the quick maths
because people like you vote for ukraine. the problem is our (undisclosed) war against Russia. And our support in terms of trillions for an evil nazi country (ukraine). also Irsael, which are also a nazi country.
If we got rid of all parties who hate Russia and love Nazis... we could afford stuff again. Its really simple. Billions going abroad means billions we don't have. Stop the support for Ukraine if you want cheaper prices. Simple.
Do you think Labour is anti-ukraine and pro-russia? NO. Theres our problem.
Random rapsts just wander into the uk and you’re worried about the price of a pint? 😂
You found some great people for this one. Nice work Ed.
Whoever you vote for, just don't let these guys continue!!
We can't vote our way out of this. The only thing we can do is a counter-revolution. All parties are the same scum who shake their hands behind curtains.
there is no one to vote for
@@timmyg44 Yes the Slavers do not give you the obvious ways to overthrow them , they do not build broadcasting antennas to announce the truth, they do not pay billions to have people sit and lie for them to tell you how to overcome them ,
you have to not be lazy to know who to vote for in every aspect of your life
of course you can just be a complaint slave and do as your told
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@@timmyg44 we can't vote ourselves out of it. We must do ā cøùñteř ręvōlùtion.
As a Swedish person watching this, this makes me appreciate what I have, because most of these 2010 prices are within the ballpark of what things in Sweden cost currently. My local pub charges 45sek, about £3.3, for a beer. My rent for my 36square meter apartment in central Malmö is 4500sek, about £335.
Bollox... I lived in Sweden for a year, you guys have the most expensive lives in Europe only after Norway and Switzerland.
@@TheFatController. That's not what @JoelMatton is saying - they are saying that inflation in Sweden hasn't hit as hard. It may be the third most expensive country in Europe, but the gap between it and the ones below is closing.
@@FlatDerrickyou pretend that UK is the only country hit by inflation
@@e33d90 I've not offered my own opinion. so odd that you have come to that conclusion.
@@FlatDerrick but you are speaking for everyone else and dictating what others need to get out of a conversation, sorry judge derrick.
6:46 And who has cut the services? It wasn’t me. I didn’t run the NHS down to breaking point so that there wasn’t enough PPE to respond to COVID. I didn’t fast track a contract to one of my mate’s firms so that said firm could send back substandard equipment. This whole shambles of a government with 14 years of austerity is what has done it. The politicians want you to think it’s immigrants placing a strain on services, that it’s Putin who’s responsible for high energy bills, that it’s benefits fraud that is costing the country. It’s THEM squeezing public services, it’s them not taxing the Esso’s of the world that causes our bills to be high, it’s low taxes on the rich (whilst the media tell everyone taxes are at their highest ever…Not for Rupert Murdoch or Nadhim Zahawi they’re not).
Migration is definitely a factor. It suppresses wage growth with an influx of skill supply and also reduces housing numbers , increasing rental and property prices. You can't deny that this is an issue and it's low hanging fruit to fix. We can't do much about that idiot Putin but we can control our borders and only allow in skilled workers which can't be found here in the UK.
£2.81 was expensive for a pint in 2010!
London prices again. The centre of the universe!🤣
I still pay that for a pint in the Midlands with lib dems in charge, but this is based on London who currently have a labour candidates in charge 🤣
@@AJ-qr3kc I'm originally from Leeds and go back a few times a year - it's at least £5 for a pint, generally, up there.
And yes, £2.81 might have been expensive for a pint where the OC was, but it's an average, so it'll be pulled higher by prices in London & the South.
@@AJ-qr3kctalk shit mate
Before the 2020 hysteria, the cheapest good pint of real ale locally was £2.50. Four years later you'd be lucky to find a pint under six quid.
People vote for the Conservative Party because of their career position, their house ownership, and where they perceive themselves to be in life. They are project managers. They are supply chain experts. They are logistics managers, financial advisors, construction workers, shop owners, architects...it doesn't really matter what the profession is, they see themselves as 'winners'. The Tory Party is like their Waitrose loyalty card. It represents a certain point in life where you don't want to go backwards. And this is why these folk are the same people who say "I could never vote for Labour". it's not the policies of Starmer and Reeves, it's the perception that it's the party of 'losers' that puts them off.
My parents never voted Labour again after the 70s nightmare.
I'm a business architect who owns a house and am generally in a very fortunate position. There is *nothing* the conservatives could offer me to make me vote for them and their selfish, evil policies.
The people who think like this are delusional if they believe the conservative party cares about them. Their whole mandate has been to rinse the country for their own enrichment, privatising, embezelling and giving out government contracts to their mates.
Politics of Thatcherism
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Canadian here. We have IDENTICAL issues here.. housing crisis, elevated food prices, homelessness, school system issues etc. Except here we blame all of our problems on our LIBERAL government and the conservatives are claiming they can come in and turn things around. I think people fail to see that a lot of these issues are occurring globally and yet politicians are ignoring this and playing silly divisive finger pointing games to gain power.
I've noticed that too. The markets of course are all connected globally, and we arguably now have late stage capitalism with companies and major corporations going for broke in squeezing everything they can out of both the system and consumer. How it will end is anyone's guess
You have to admit that crowd you have in now are total loons
Finally someone noticed!
Working folk all over the globs are struggling.
And the common denominator is that the foreigners own our banking system, and there are far too many migrants. The truest thing will be the thing everyone avoids to talk about. Those people are the reason it doesn't matter if liberals or conservatives in power.
He means just feeding yourself has turned into a luxury
I think he means that luxuries aren't even luxuries because now they're unattainable therefore can't be considered luxury.
If the country was full of people who looked like they went without food I'd agree, however, the population appears to be getting fatter. Those who say that poor quality food is cheap miss the point that people would still have to spend a fair amount to buy the vast quantity of rubbish they consume.
Rip Off Britain.
Prison island, keep the peiple too poor to leave and theyll spend their entire lives dreaming of leaving but never be able to
@@xMrjamjam you're not getting wealthier right now? Sucks to be you, I guess.
@@jesuschrist6878 Wow. What a strange reply. Glad I'm not you!
People have known about this problem for decades. But the population is too apathetic, brainwashed by the class system and happy to complain and wait for someone else to fix the problem. Personally I left soon as I could and have no plans to come back.
@@inspectortiddles Where did you go?
People in London get an avarage off 15% higher wages compared to outer London.even higher % compared to up north.all capital city's are more expensive. Paris is probably worse than London
Cost of Greed Crisis. Businesses want to keep the same profit margins and let the customers pay more.
Cost of lockdown crisis
Exactly. Companies like British Gas ramped up prices because of increased costs due to Ukraine/Brexit/Covid, yet still managed to increase profits by 1,000% in a year
@@waynehood8836 take responsibility, you supported things that caused that, don't blame others, find a spine
Their profits actually went up so the price rises were larger than needed to keep profits the same
Greed is exactly what it is . When some inflation has come along energy companies have taken the opportunity to jack-up their profits exponentially.
You can almost hear it in the British Gas corporate headquarters: ‘ right men ‘ he said ‘ hears our chance to rip off as much as we can and line our own pockets , and we can just blame inflation ‘ .
Well I say to energy companies we are all onto you and you’re a bunch of thieves
I remember in 2010 thinking £2 was a rip off for an ice cream, now I regularly see it being sold for £3.50 to £4 for a 99! That's mad, food inflation has been a killer for years now. I don't think most people could sustain another period of such price increases that this video demonstrates without civil unrest. Never have we paid so much to get so little in return!
Is that how much it is now? I remember a large 99 used to be £1, although thinking of it that was 25 years ago.
@@VeritasAbsolutaI saw it was £4.50 for one from the ice cream van last week. We kept walking!
“But small boats”
It is silly. Today with all these problems and all the news can report on if Dianne Abbott will stand. This is how poor and misguided our media is.
"But small boats filled with military aged men from Africa and the Middle East pouring in given free healthcare, no council tax, no food bills, no energy bills, free bicycles and £1300 a month play money"
Wish those Tories wouldnt be soooo left wing and use native peoples money to support this madness. Actions speak louder than words.
We have the highest legal mass immigration the country has ever experienced..but yere, mention the boats.
@@dirkbogarde44 that's the left wing for you, making illegal things legal 👍
Blame foreigners
Its the Brexit con
It’s just depressing that you can’t get a round in for 4 people and pay with a £20 note
Can where I live (up north)
@@nathanaelsmith3553 I live in a northern shithole and our local flat roof pub charges over £6 for a pint of Cruzcambo. The carling of Spain.
I did that with a tenner in Wetherspoons Sowerby Bridge yesterday for four pints of bitter and then got £2-44 change 🤣🤣🤣
You couldn't get a round with a £50 note a lot of places! "I'm sorrrrry, we don't actually accept money in this bar, obviously. We only take contactless."
Maybe pack in drinking, live a healthier life?
Health is WEALTH
“I just don’t want to have to use the NHS for anything,” says the street punter when he hears how appallingly long our waiting lists are. Two problems with that: 1) Everyone who needs the NHS feels the same way, but the problem is, no one can do anything about getting sick or getting hit by a bus. 2) We will ALL reach an age when we are relying on the NHS to keep us alive and the for quality of our lives . . . unless we’re exceptionally unlucky.
And the real tragedy: That’s was the Tory plan all along, to run down the NHS until it grinds to a halt, and then sell it off to their friends and family, like they did with the pandemic, “response.”
Third problem: A problem is cheaper and easier to tackle the sooner it is diagnosed. Putting something off can cost the NHS more and increases the risk the treatment will fail.
@@dananskidolf Indeed, and as I say, that’s a feature, not a bug. The Tories are deliberately making it so bad that it will soon look hopeless and irreparable; a massive tax burden with no end in sight and no real hope of rescue. Then, instead of being blamed for destroying it, they get to be the white knights who lifted the burden from the general public, with a small tax cut and the full privatisation of the entire service. They can keep some taxes in place, claiming they need them to convert everything, even though they DON’T in terms of staffing and infrastructure (except where they can cut corners by hiring unqualified staff instead of well trained, experienced people) because they’ve already been stealth privatising all this time.
I know from experience, when I get the seals for my sleep apnea machine. A nurse used to put a couple in my hand, any time I asked for them. Now, I have to email requests and answer personal questions about what I did with the old ones and why I can’t make them last longer. When I got mad about this and listed everything that was wrong with their questions and the tone of their response, a senior nurse cracked and told me the complaints were coming from a private company, ResMed, who supply the parts. She just sent me what I asked for, plus spares, and now I regularly harangue the people at ResMed, encouraging them to get a job working for a company that is less likely to result in them being refused admission at the Pearly Gates, but no longer have any trouble getting my equipment.
I do this, not for the sport, (though that is a bonus) but because I know that these, “newer,” companies are still in a highly competitive phase (unlike the fiefdoms that the water and transport companies own, with no competition legally allowed) and they really, really don’t want high complaint statistics. They rely on intimidation tactics and exploitation of scared people in a vulnerable state. Well, they picked the wrong patient, my friend. And I do it because the nurses don’t like being forced to act like enforcers on behalf of a company they hate, which is interfering with the otherwise excellent service they provide.
These nasty tactics are being applied across the board and it’s all quite deliberate.
People forget that in 1997 when Blair came to power pints were £1.83 so a 62% increase under Labour meanwhile under the Conservatives the price of a pint has gone up by 61% and at the same time the minimum wage has gone up from £5.80 under Gordon Brown to £11.44 an increase of 97%.
Blair came to power in 1997
@@shazad421 Thanks, don't know how I got that wrong, have corrected the post.
People look at the numbers they want to form a narrative, and the headline of this video was always going to do that. While it's so in fashion to blame Ukraine, on the beer one it has had a huge impact.
France here, my local is about 4 euros a pint and there's a live band.. One time I went on.a Saturday night and it was a Portishead cover band,. They were excellent.
I bet it was a decent pint aswell.
@user-tf4tv9bj4f Are craft beers popular in france. I love a good pint of Ale.
Bulgaria here. In the most expensive ski areas a large beer is €2.25.
I just bought 12 large cans of Bierra Moretti in the local Billa for €8.40.or 7 quid. Happy days! 🇧🇬❤️
@@escapetheratracenow9883 That is a bargain.
@user-tf4tv9bj4f In France, the trend of craft beers and micro-breweries is verys strong, even in regions outside the traditional areas of beer drinking/producing; even in Bourgogne and the South-West that are famous for wines. I visited the Baltics recently and there are both long standing beers and recent craft beers in trendy but inexpensive places where one finds beers and "pub meals".
One thing I've learnt about Private Medical - there's no warranty or after-treatment care. If there are complications post-op then it falls to the NHS/999 to pick you up.
Why wouldn't it? You don't stop paying for the nhs because you went private, so you are still entitled to it's services
When my mum had her cancer diagnosis, local hospital wouldn't do the op to remove the tumor but london royal hospital would. The after care became a bit of a run around because the local hospital didn't want to take responsibility. Paid NI all her life as a private school teacher. Like why would it even be in question? The whole point is to help people survive? Time is very important. The tumor had moved into her stomach by the time the op happened, which turned out to be fatal. why can't they do the op at the local hospital?
foreign doctor vs UK qualified doctor?
That's because private medical services in the UK are not a replacement for the NHS like they are in USA. Private Medical treatment in the UK is for a particular treatment at that point in time and not ongoing care.
@@garnhamr For a foreign doctor to work in the NHS they have to past a test the same as a UK trained one. It is the Tories that have starved the NHS of the resources it needs both in terms of equipment & staff to benefit private health care & the people running agencies to provide staff for the NHS as vastly inflated prices.
@garnhamr
So you don't want foreign doctors but the Tories won't support cutting tuition fees for training our own NHS staff, what a surprise.
Trickle down economics doesn't work when all the money is stashed in the offshore bank accounts of the super rich. That money isn't trickling anywhere.
Even modest investors like myself invest in global stocks and funds because that’s where the returns are. You don’t have any choice. No one wants to put their money in the U.K. stock market because performance has been dire, dragged down by high tax, high regulation, political instability and Brexit.
"Square one" is looking more and more preferable IMO.
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I got my graduate job in 2011 in London. I could get a 1 bedroom flat...an entire flat, for £900...I imagine that same property has DOUBLED in rent costs now.
@user-tf4tv9bj4f Just say you hate brown people. Mass immigration on this scale is absolutely bad for Britain, but the only people who bring it up hate people who've been here since the 50s too. So piss off.
@user-tf4tv9bj4f meh migration is the easy thing to blame. If you're in the trenches and see the mafia of new build developers and if you see who is buying these properties in our country. You'll be disgusted. It's all one giant money making scheme for them. If you want change, dont blame immigration. Blame government policy wanting to maximise profits and not protect UK citizens.
Lol, currently living in Cambridge now, I’m paying £900 for 1 room in a house share with 4 other people and we’re all sharing 1 bathroom
@user-tf4tv9bj4fimmigration maybe up, but the size of the population has increased pretty much as predicted for the last 30 years. So yes more people are coming into the country but equally people are having less kids and smaller families, so immigrants haven’t actually had as much of an effect on the population as the media want you to think. Really it’s the state of the economy, house prices, rent costs etc that are putting people off starting families till later in life and as a knock on effect they’re having less children as well, as statistically the likelihood of conceiving and having no complications with pregnancy goes down the older you get.
@user-tf4tv9bj4fthat’s very inaccurate. It was 685000 in 2023. Total migration before subtracting emigration was $1.2 mill. I’m about as far left as possible in the US, but I do agree the rate of immigration is too high to be sustainable currently. However when you cite totally inaccurate numbers you just discredit yourself and sound racist
wages go up costing companies more so they have to put up the cost of the product to level it out.... other way around the wages going up is the employees do more(as in produce more or get more shit done within the shift) and then get rid of a few staff. its that fucking simple, 1 way everyone moans about the cost other way someone lose their shit and end up feeling bad
Inequality is at the root of the issue. I don't really foresee labour doing anything much about it to be honest.
It's stupid that a small number of companies and people hoard wealth and assets whilst the majority are deprived. But as far as I can recall I've never seen a sensible and workable solution to it.
I think labour will,at best, lessen the pace of our decline - maybe im being pessimistic (I hope so anyway) but it's still the lesser of the two evils.
We all thought in 2010 we were living in austerity and lean times, this is much worse - but ya never know, we might look back in ten years and realise this was still paradise compared to 2034....
Its not a UK specific phenomenon, its the crisis of global capitalism, we just have been hit particularly hard but this will be the future of every nation in the world if we don't overthrow this system. Join the revolutionary communist party here in the UK, the only way forward is if the working class directly takes control of society and the economy 🚩
@@doc14295 yeah but communism didn't work which is why I said I have never come across a solution that has actually worked.
Workers are just as selfish and power structures take root anyway, as much as I am inclined to wish it were a solution it's not - the test has already been carried out.
We need a new way of doing things
My dad told me this twenty years ago, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Things will not change anytime soon. How bad can things get before they change? Look at Dehli, Lagos, Abuja, and places like Venezuela.
Sadly, things can still get much, much worse.
That’s always been the way since humans existed . The only freedom & democracy you get ,is determined by your bank balance & the amount of people you know in positions that can pull influence & strings in your favour .
Doesn't matter what government it is, they're not for the people.
Finally someone with some understanding! Most of the people commenting don't understand this was going to happen no matter who is in government. They are both so similar, yet have the masses convinced otherwise.
@@dangernoodle4305 Exactly. The word is in the name, "govern". Bit like a giant open prison isn't it?
@gss6531 I am exhausted by the "government are the only people to take care of me" mentality. Which leads to even more government. I am Australian, we have 27 million people, once you take children and the elderly out plus another 4% unemployed (and going up). We are left with 13 million employed, 3 million of those work for the government! Leaving only 10 million that create $$$. But it's the 3 million that want more and more government and don't understand why everything is taxed so high. Both of our parties love this mindset. It's gross.
During a time of high inflation, people are passing on the costs to the next person and someone HAS to take the hit. The worst thing is supermarkets have been taking advantage by increasing prices by 10%-20% when inflation has been 4%-6% and have actually been pushing up inflation even more
Yes. I've seen quite a few items go up far faster than inflation.
Maggi noodles disappeared for a while during the pandemic and when they returned the recipe had changed and the price had literally doubled.
Birdseye burgers used to be 12 for £4 or so (I only bought them when they were on offer for £3). I've just checked on Morrison's and they're currently on offer a packet of 10 for £4 (normal price £6.19). Even when on offer they've gone from 25p each to 40p each. Morrison's are particularly egregious though as they were taken over a few years ago and when all the prices started to go up they seemed to put there's up by more.
Even Asda are at it. They're Just Essentials burgers were £1.60 for 10 when they were first introduced (after all the prices had started to increase), now they're £1.85 for 8.
@@VeritasAbsoluta I used to buy the Asda creamed rice pudding for 29p, they changed the branding, and the price now is 49p. Asda soups used to be 40p, now 70p, these price rises are far in excess of inflation, it's pure greed.
I flatly refuse to pay more than three quid for a pint. Good job I can brew my own for between 30 and 40p a pint.
I’d be interested in a video tutorial of you doing that mate that’s cool. I can get 50p a pint of 5% cider, but brewing it for cheaper is interesting.
@@kidtea There are plenty of tutorials on here, I use a big pot on a propane burner and the Brew in a Bag method. Just search for BIAB. I can make a 4% session bitter for 55p a litre and a 6% American style hop monster for 70p a litre.
7:32 mate that's perfect couldn't put it better myself
why fight if there is nothing worth fighting for?
Thanks for this, I know it’s a national crisis, but it can feel very isolating
Happening across the West
Don't worry mate, everyone's in it together. It's only the people at the top that are truly isolated. Not even doctors can live a good life on a one parent income anymore. Me and my partner are both from poor backgrounds and are both earning 40k each up north - which would be an amazing income ten years ago. But now we're basically treading water. We were forced to buy an ex-council house as a first home, paying a mortgage that would have got us a 4 bed new build back in 2019. We've both worked our arses off our entire lives and we're still stuck on a council estate and both feeling very bitter lol.
And just think in any other time in our history this would barely work because you would have been given pay rises, yet because of the economically illiterate tories constant want to give as much to rich as possible we earn barely anymore than we did in 2010 for the same job.
Prices have not gone up... The value of the pound has gone down. It went down because they printed a shit ton of it in 08, and again in 2020/2021.
Nobody will consider this
This is so relatable. I’m an EU citizen in London as well, and I am also going home to take care of medical needs if possible. Living in the UK has turned a few medical issues I had into chronic ones as I just couldn’t get to a doctor for years. Living in London gives me anxiety, as crime is on the rise, and you don’t know whether ambulances or police would come if necessary.
Also - A few years ago, 1000 pound would be enough for a one bedder. Now that I could finally afford that they moved the goal post and you need around 2K to live by yourself. I don’t want to be sharing anymore, so I’ll probably have to leave London soon in order to achieve that.
But can you not see that however bad it is here for you. You have another place to return to and can get medical treatment and start another life. The average Brit cannot do that so easily or maybe not at all so whatever you experience, it's worse for Brits, plus none of us were asked if we wanted this.
@@maccagrabmeWell actually you were. It was called Brexit.
When I first started drinking, a pint was.....18p a pint.
Mid 70’s ? And the price of seeing a band was £1/2 max!
Pre-war? 😝
@@paddas1612 Yes, around 1974/75. I was about 17yrs old, but could pass for much older, so never had a problem buying a drink in a pub.
@@adrianhjordan1981 🤣 Nope! 1974/75
35p for me
Average hourly earnings 2010 = 12.57. Average hourly earnings 2023 = 17.48.
After calculating the percentage increase from 2010 being £2.80 for a pint, in 2024 now based on modern hourly average, £4.81 is the price of a pint relative to salary, the actual average price for a pint now is £4.70, this obviously meaning the average person would be 11p better off compared to the modern salary average price.
SSShhh we don't want facts here!
Stats play for both sides.
I think there is a statistical case to be made either side of the argument depending how any one person uses them. I personally think that the 'mode' for yearly salary (or salary per hour) will not be rising at the same rate as the 'mean', because of the effect of compounding. A 10% raise in salary for a £10,000 and a £100,000 job result in an enormous disparity in increase of earnings (£11,000 and £110,000 respectively). If they were to both see another 10% raise the disparity becomes greater still (£12,100 and £121,000 respectively). Mathematically speaking, the higher income earners have simply further seperated from middle income earners and both have further seperated from lower income earners in an inflationary environment like the one we have seen since the aftermath of '08. The ONS states that the poorest fifth of the populations median household income went down by 1% per year after inflation had been accounted for between 2017 to 2022, where the richest fifth "continued to grow steadily".
worse if you live in Scotland and voted against this. we havent voted tory in 70 years but we still have them forced on us
Hey it's not like many of us down here did either. I am highly suspect of the voting results every time. They just don't coincide very convincingly with actual people. And sure you can rustle up a compilation of idiots for the youtubes but those are hardly even supposed to be properly representative, are they? They're more like anger fuel. I've been doubting for a long time. I've spoken with tories before and the most consistent thing they seem to have in common is to be few enough to be notable to happen across. That could be happenstance bias very realistically, but hey it's not like I've got anyone else's personal experience to draw upon (and trust, anyway).
You had the Tories forced upon you because you voted SNP instead of Labour !!!
@@william_marshal not true , Scotland’s vote does not matter given the population size and number of voters compared to England which is why so many Scot’s wanted independence
@@william_marshal if labour had won every seat in Scotland the tories still would have got in. basic arithmetic
It’s not a Scotland vs England issue, it’s Tory voter vs non-Tory voter. I, as a non-Tory voter in England, am not taking the blame, while a Tory voter living in Scotland hides behind a statistic.
If wages stay with the inflation YEAR AFTER YEAR. Then inflation isn't an issue. But they do not.
If you do not get YEARLY RAISE that's at least, or above inflation, you've just got a pay CUT.
How many of you get this? I doubt many...
The national minimum wage has increased by 92.9% since 2010. The personal tax code has also risen from 6.4K to 12.5k for most in the lower bracket. All things are relative.
@@Robbo8ball Unfortunately, the rises in both have been inconsistent, and statistics can be manipulated to show whatever the desired result is. Since 2010, every working person is £3,200 per year worse off, official ONS statistics. What you fail to mention is that for several years, both the tax code and minimum wage were frozen, therefore they did not keep up with inflation. Public sector pay in particular has suffered, because this is under government control, and this current government declined to increase public sector pay in line with inflation, which is why half of all public sector workers have been striking for more pay, and they have done so for survival, not greed. Guess whos' wealth has increased over the last 14 years of Conservative rule, by over 50%, that's right, the already wealthy. Tax on the wealthy has decreased from 83% in the 1970s', down to the current 40%, so is it any wonder that their wealth is the only wealth that has consistently grown?
It is excessive but let's not kid ourselves Labour will be any better they are on about taxing food so nothing will get better at all
🏠 *Over inflated house prices* is the reason for a lot of these problems!
Mass immigration raises house prices, more demand means higher rent and value.
@@sirstarrydah5293 House price inflation has been mostly caused by the Bank of England lowering interest rates to 1 or 2 % and printing money ( QE ) .
Immigration has very little to do with it .
Probably not significantly
@@sirstarrydah5293 Thatcherism and NIMBYs are to blame. Housing is now treated as an investment opportunity (rather than a necessity) and those same "investors" petition against building new houses to protect their investments. Immigration is not a part of this issue, it's a capitalism thing.
If all housing was publicly funded and being readily build (even the latter would help massively), none of this would ever be an issue
@@sirstarrydah5293 So vote the Tories out, Rishi Sunak alone in less than 2 years of being PM is about to exceed the combined immigration figures from 13 years of Blair + Brown.
I'm the first person to shit on landlords and call them grifters, but fair play to whoever hasn't put that guy's rent up in 7 years.
Probably they own the property.
A lot of landlords buy-to-rent and if banks rise the mortgage, they have no other choice.
I know a few landlords who own their flats/houses and from what I now, only a few rise the rent.
One friend of mine only rises the rent one someone moves out, the next person has to pay a bit more, but if you in there you pay, what he asked for and never rises unless it would be really needed.
But, they all relative fortunate Scottish landowners, in my rural area.
mines gone up by £70 in about 12 years. Every night I say a little prayer.... Lol..
I've been a landlord since 2013 and I have NEVER put my tenants rent up.
Also I gave them a 50% discount during COVID.
But I still get tarnished with the "evil private landlord" tag. Smh.
@@matthewsprague7674 is this said to you specifically? After you have said this? Or are you referring to genetic online talk?
@@jameshansing5396 Nobody has said it to my face but once when I told someone I was a landlord they said "Oh you're the reason the housing market is broken then?!"
Also, before I rented the house, I tried to sell it on 3 different occasions with no luck. So this idea that there were no houses is a myth.
The house I was selling was a 3 bedroom mid terrace for £95k (in 2012)
Tories have risen prices as a way to take your money from you and transfer it to the rich who are the shareholders and asset owners.
The rich have become massively richer.
The last 4 years have seen the fastest and highest wealth transfer to the rich, ever. This is due to government policy.
There's a solution. Tax the super rich on their enormous assets. This will mean they need to sell those assets to pay the taxes. This will bring down inflation, bring down mortgage rates, and prices.
The proper deposit issue has been around for decades now. I scrimped and saved for over a decade to afford a home.
Its gotten considerably worse, the cost is higher, for the desposit, the mortgage, the interest rates.
Can you save 50 grand for over a decade these days? With £35k a year the average wage?
@@Lekirius I hope you enjoy lentils and going to bed extra early
I agree
@@Lekirius Easily. Problem is, people like to live beyond their means then complain about not being paid enough. Don't complain about cost of living while spending £300/month on car finance. Don't complain about your unemployment benefits when wasting money on cigs.
What I can’t get my head around is the cost of housing today, when houses near me were originally slum housing for the poorest of mill workers in the 1800’s. There’s no way those first occupants ever paid the equivalent of £250,000
How has the UK allowed an object to increased in price so much. It’s just greed.
Open borders, vulture funds, inflation
More voming in means more demand. More demand means higher prices. Surely the numbers in should be as equally shocking to you?
@maccagrabme
Mate, no one is falling for your racist rhetoric. If every immigrant disappeared, our country would fail and you think all the problems we have would just vanish? Nice try.
Indian background people start entering politics in Canada, its economy suffers. Indian people start entering politics in Britain, its economy suffers. We should try electing an Indian background politician for US too, it'll for sure go bankrupt.
@@zaeemjaved6850 bit racist, innit? Liz, Boris, Theresa and David did their part too. It's the right that fucks things up, nothing to do with ethnicity.
The lady who came to this country as she loved it and everything was better here is objective proof that we still think we are better in many regards.
But actually we are now behind countries that used to aspire to what we had.
Its going to take a long time to undo all the damage these people have done to our economy and our society... if we even can.
Whilst I can’t stand the Tories, I’m stunned people thinking that voting for any of the establishment parties will make any difference at all. They all serve their paymasters and funders, and themselves of course. Vote for independent candidates who you feel represent you. Just getting a handful of independents in to the fixed two party system could make a huge difference
The difference is that the Tories are ideologically in favour of impoverishing the general population. They do this, with reckless glee and abandon - seriously, pick any Tory MP you like and look at their voting record, without exception, 100% of Tories will always vote against majority interests. They know they can just lie during election time and be trusted by elderly people who don't understand reality.
A good idea on paper but sadly a vote for the independents will only allow the Tories to get in again. We must not allow that to happen. Vote tactically to get them out.
This video shows in itself that any party in charge will make a difference (in this case it's gone in the wrong direction).
Don't believe that nothing will change, look at the last 14 years.
The system is broke. Until there is a complete overhaul don't vote. You're voting for the status quo. Nothing will change. People are fools if they believe Starmer is better than Sunak. Two peas in the same pod. Both war mongers who serve the rich.
@@wrestlingpwhat and labour come into power 😂
Inflation from 2014 to now is 43% so 28k today would be 37.4k
Pint of very good guiness is £4.40 at the star in Fishponds, Bristol. Unsuprisingly they sell the most guiness in the south west. Highly reccomended ;)
Person: "I hope I don't break a leg, an ambulance won't come".
The sirens of London suddenly being in every voxpop: "And I took that personally."
Probably a stabbing
🙄
Well youre in line behind 30 other people for that ambulance to hit you up.
A friend living in London slipped and broke her leg while walking her dog. Strangers stayed with her as she was in and out of consciousness. Ambulance took 5 hours to get to her.
Isn’t it bizarre how the cost of everything has gone up, fairly rapidly in recent years but have the average wage levels increased by the same amount?
Notably and roughly within a similar period the level of public services have dropped off equally as rapidly in terms of level, quality and availability of service.
So if we are spending more money, not receiving the same increment of money and quite clearly the money being put back national and local services have decreased, then where has the money gone?
Surely more has been collected, less taken back so where is it?
When you can answer that then you have the solution to the problems.
Its paying for all the fucking scroungers in this country who labour let in
Corruption is expensive. One avenue for wealth to be transferred from the taxpayer to the filthy rich is private companies charging extortionate fees to carry out work in the public sector. And who owns these companies? Mates of the ministers. It's a lucrative arrangement for both parties.
I lived in London from 2009-2012, lived in a 2 bedroom near East croydon for 850 pounds per month then moved to a bedsit in tooting bec for 415 pounds per month. The latter being a bargain, who knows what it costs now, I have fond memories of those times…glad I got to enjoy it when it was better.
Pound a pint was what we lived on in Wales every thursday.
Honestly it’s criminal - Class Divide in Brighton recently walked the route the average working class kid on free school meals walked to school (because transport is not free) and the length was 1 hour and 20 minutes each way. Imagine.
That’s so sad
The updated Sunday Times rich list did, however, reveal that there has been a slight drop in the number of British billionaires, from 177 in 2022 to 165 in 2024. The list features the 350 wealthiest people in the UK.17 May 2024
Who don’t pay taxes.
There should be general election every 4yrs,no moving the goalposts.
Make it 3 like Australia and New Zealand.
As a young soldier based in Tidworth, Hampshire in 1973 in our Squadron Bar a pint of Bitter was 13p. Prices in the UK have risen somewhat. 😂😢
Living here In Germany in May 2024 a 20 x half litre crate of good quality beer costs about 16 Euro, €3,50 is included as the deposit, so the beers cost €12.50. This is why, along with a hundred other reasons, why I am so happy the believing here.😊
Beer is cheap in Germany although prices generally in most things have still gone up massively. Britain needs to lower their crazy taxes on alcohol so they're the same price as the rest of europes
@@chilldude30 I would agree prices have risen here in Germany, but I do dispute your term "massively" I do most of the weekly shopping so am on top of the price rises.
On my last visit to the UK it was obvious that prices for almost everything were far more expensive than here in Germany. It prevented us buying the normal things only available in the UK that we buy and bring back here. Do you live in Germany, if so in what region, as prices can vary regionally?
Lets also not mention the UK roads. Potholes, wow they have got bad.
@@dfxl6587 At the start of Covid Lidls (no regional pricing in Lidl) standard price for a 1.25ltr bottle of Coca Cola was 99 cents. Today it is 1.49. While German grocery prices haven't quite gone up as much as in the UK and are now cheaper across the board than in Britain rather than around the same dependent on what you were buying, they have still risen massively.
@@FlatDerrick One bottle of coke doth not massive inflation make. Your agenda is what?
@@dfxl6587 A bottle of coke is one of the best single units of measurement we can use here. That you take issue with that and an assume 'agendas' speaks volumes.
when i was a teen going to pubs in the late 90s a pint of websters at our local was £1.40 and that was a pub in wimbledon which was a fairly well off part of london at the time.
When my son was born in 09, we rented a tidy 2 up 2 down for £525 a month. You can't get a one bed flat for that now. Fuck the Tories.
Why the heck are they shocked were have they been living since 2010
Not in pubs that why they have shut
Drink is dear enough for at home let alone go out
-everything is expensive the pound has dropped in value ,only way to explain it
Most things have changed to a huge terrible extent in just 14 years
And then there's the huge rise in NHS waiting lists (amongst MANY issues) and child poverty etc etc etc
Remember when people complained when a pint went up from a penny to tuppence?
Most of these people would have been quite happily sucking the tory teat during covid when the money printers were going flat out paying for thier furlough. Labour repeatedly called for higher payments at the time and are now supprised high inflation "popped up" and stomped the most vunerable, who knew endlessly printing money could devalue a currency. The system is beyond broken and i'm not convinced either side actually want to fix it.
The Bank of England created a quarter of a billion pounds in the first few years after the 2008 crash - where was the inflation there? It didn't happen because inflation has never been linked to the amount of money in an economy - that is just neoliberal bullshit - it's about supply and demand of goods and services. Spend more than can be absorbed and that is likely to cause inflation. Park it in a bank account and nothing will happen.
Inflation happened because of shortages in some supply chains while in others it was just naked profiteering.
"Conservative governent"
What did they do that was Conservative?
I can't think of anything really. They are just leftist scum just like Labour.
Enrich their friends, degrade public services, ruin the standard of living for the working class
They deleted my reply lol
Yeah it's pretty clear so much of the conversation is controlled. The deleted comments only ever go one way.
the problem is our (undisclosed) war against Russia. And our support in terms of trillions for an evil nazi country (ukraine). also Irsael, which are also a nazi country.
If we got rid of all parties who hate Russia and love Nazis... we could afford stuff again. Its really simple. Billions going abroad means billions we don't have. Stop the support for Ukraine if you want cheaper prices. Simple.
Do you think Labour is anti-ukraine and pro-russia? NO. Theres our problem.
6:55 in fact money is actively being withdrawn from those services to cut costs
That woman from the 1920s must be shocked
I feel like people are in a UK bubble, but does everyone realise living costs have risen globally (or at least in Europe)? In Spain, rent and housing has almost doubled over the past 5-7 years. Weekly shops have risen from 80 to 120-130. This is not just a 'Tory out and everything will go back down' problem; this is a European economic crisis which every party and country is suffering from.
Yes 100%, it’s quite funny nobody mentioned this.
While that’s true, unfortunately Spain is still far more affordable than the UK. Many people went from £50 weekly shops to £200 here.
Yes we know about Europe, and you also failed to mention that the UK had it significantly worse than average
@kaitlyn__L @@TheCam920 I'm not disputing that the UK is expensive or that there haven't been significant changes. I'm definitely not arguing that Spain isn't cheaper than the UK. It's more about the fact that the way the videos and questions are framed, it's as if the Tories are the sole reason, or things will magically go back to how they were under Labour. Take the average UK deposit statistic going from 29,000 to 53,000 from 2010 to 2023, it doesn't mention the fact it's gone from 34,000 to 53,000 over the past two years, which is an astronomical rise and it's in that same period where most of Europe has seen living costs shoot up. In Spain, based on average house prices and salaries, people need to save 20% of their salary over the next ten years in order to afford a deposit. Pretty sure it'd be a similar story in the UK?
In short, get rid of the Tories for their slimy personalities, scummy viewpoints and policies, but the rising prices and the like are unlikely to change significantly with a different government. The difference is (hopefully) they won't focus on allowing their mates to profit from the crisis.
I work but I’m single so on one wage.
I can’t afford hot water and have very minimal heating on in winter (I just use an electric shower). I can’t afford the dentist or glasses. After bills I live off around £60-£80 a week for food, travel, clothing etc. I know people are on less and I feel for them massively too. Something HAS to be done to help us.
TAX THE RICH
They already taxed, also, from what income bracket you consider rich?
its so simple, this country has produced 141 new billionaires in the last year, whilst the general public, middle classes and working classes are becoming poverty stricken more then ever before, watch garys economics he explains wealth inequality with questions and answers, the extreme wealthy say top 5% hardly pay any taxes. Old rishi for example 2 million passive income a week. 🤑
@@GoalSquad666 go watch garys economics
@@GoalSquad666I’d imagine it’s anyone with an income above their own.
train drivers ?
the guy at the end hit the nail on the head. It's wealth inequality, they are squeezing middle class, every little drop. Governments need to seriously start taxing the rich people, the big corps. We need a wealth tax and we need it now.
we need less tax, not more. if you tax the rich, there won’t be any investments, no jobs, nothing.
@@nataliam9764 yeah sure, the famous 'trickle down' economics. There is absolutely no factual evidence that cutting taxes for the reach results in more money for the poor. In fact, why would they give away any money? It only resulted in more people squeezed and pushed into poverty, decreasing standards of living and working rights etc etc
@@nataliam9764 That is total BullShit! the bone idle rich have been paying as little as they can get away with. It's about time they were forced to contribute their fair share to the economy!
@@nataliam9764 Get off your knees
And while everyone is struggling the supermarkets, gas, electricity and water are posting record profits, strange isn't it.