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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
  • Shoutout to our UK frogs...
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Комментарии • 436

  • @tobanta
    @tobanta Месяц назад +813

    I live where Rishi Sunak gave the speech about moving money from impoverished areas to more affluent areas like this. Everyone I know was shocked and appalled he'd say something like that and I thought it was abhorrent. Thank god he's gone what a twat.

    • @thetiredcynic
      @thetiredcynic Месяц назад +13

      Lol what? Was was supposedly his justification for that? Sounds absurd...

    • @tobanta
      @tobanta Месяц назад +121

      @@thetiredcynic our area is essentially a swing state so I guess he was trying to convince people who are on the fence to vote selfishly to make this area better rather than give the money to those who really need it

    • @nekogami87
      @nekogami87 Месяц назад +3

      > from impoverished
      Wait, what ?

    • @Vesryn215
      @Vesryn215 Месяц назад +8

      ​@@nekogami87his plans seem to have a lot of that. Aside from what the other commenter said, there was a whole thing where he proposed national service for 18 year olds, and half of the funding would come from what was going to be used to improve poorer areas.
      If your issue was with the word impoverished (because that's where the quote you used stopped), there's a fair few impoverished areas in England, generally up north, further from London. The north/midlands tend to get neglected for public funding and transport services to my knowledge

    • @nekogami87
      @nekogami87 Месяц назад +2

      @@Vesryn215 It was more the " FROM " that I was pointing to. like, really ? that' s who you want to impoverish even more ?

  • @angelorobledo1536
    @angelorobledo1536 Месяц назад +510

    Atrioc's frustration throughout this is precisely how I feel. Its just so unbelievably obvious and people just accept a system that actively sucks the life out of them.

    • @bitterbatterdog
      @bitterbatterdog Месяц назад +15

      Same situation as America lots of people informed by biased media and young people not voting. Thankfully this elections was the Tories left more then half of their seats

    • @frederz6
      @frederz6 Месяц назад +4

      I watched the video Big A's reacting to in the run up to the election and it made me so depressed, the first thing I googled after was 'best countries in the world to move to'

    • @BananaWasTaken
      @BananaWasTaken Месяц назад +5

      @@frederz6My bet is something Scandinavian or Nordic, those guys seem to have their stuff figured out.

    • @kamekofs_
      @kamekofs_ Месяц назад

      ​@@BananaWasTaken But then even they vote for a party that blames everything on the immigrants

    • @ericjoseph4203
      @ericjoseph4203 Месяц назад

      @@BananaWasTaken dont worry, we've got conservatives trying to ruin it for everyone too

  • @finncedar7388
    @finncedar7388 Месяц назад +149

    this video is so cathartic. like. everything he’s saying is so obvious but just to hear someone honestly say it and speak about it. i just feel like there has to be change coming

    • @glitchy_weasel
      @glitchy_weasel Месяц назад

      I helps for people outside the UK better understand tjeir situation I guess

    • @weebfourg
      @weebfourg Месяц назад +4

      The video suggests that Labour is the change. Personally I think the housing projects, energy independence, as well as tax hikes for the higher brackets suggested by Starmer are very welcome.

    • @cooltwittertag
      @cooltwittertag Месяц назад

      not really, his stance on nuclear is literally just the average redditor opinion and he think hes the one talking to a brick wall

    • @weebfourg
      @weebfourg Месяц назад +3

      @@cooltwittertag 8.3b towards energy projects (Great British Energy) is good regardless of what source in particular. Besides, it’s not like he is so against nuclear that he is blocking the building of Hinkley Point C or Sizewell C.

    • @Jimmy-uy1xm
      @Jimmy-uy1xm 28 дней назад

      @@cooltwittertag he's not talking about the atrioc video, he means the original britmonkey video is cathartic.

  • @wilsonrandolph540
    @wilsonrandolph540 Месяц назад +219

    My favorite stupid one liner I hear from dudes making $40,000 a year is, “You can’t just tax the ultra rich, they earned it.” LMAO

    • @sharpasacueball
      @sharpasacueball Месяц назад +43

      I know people who rent that were strongly against raising taxes on people that owned 2 or more properties. Maybe these people think they'll be rich one day or something

    • @iwiffitthitotonacc4673
      @iwiffitthitotonacc4673 Месяц назад +17

      ​@@sharpasacueballThey really can't figure out that such a policy would make them more likely to own at least 1 home in the first place.

    • @ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917
      @ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 Месяц назад

      That's actually not why we don't tax the rich.
      We try, they just know how to avoid paying taxes, like how Jeff Bezos makes minimum wage on paper, but he gets paid in stock, which he uses as collateral for incredibly large loans, which is why he's a multi-billionaire.

    • @aycoded7840
      @aycoded7840 Месяц назад +11

      @@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 Tax stock like we do assets lol, not that crazy an idea.

    • @richardmenz3257
      @richardmenz3257 Месяц назад +5

      @@aycoded7840the issue with that is it is value on paper so it can drop to be worth nothing. That being said if you make it only shares owned outside of 401k ira and other items like that it could make sense. The roll over from death resetting the taxes owed on stocks is insane and should be removed. They are getting free money it won’t hurt to pay tax on it instead of getting free money that was never taxed just insane that is a thing.

  • @Inverter222
    @Inverter222 Месяц назад +177

    Why build a road for the public when the rich can have private roads after we cut their taxes?

    • @smolpener7430
      @smolpener7430 24 дня назад

      So then you DON'T want to reduce carbon emissions? You want someone else to fund your entire life, then clean up all your little messes? And you should have the right to make those messes with impunity, at everyone else's direct expense? Did mommy wait too long to take you off the milk?
      I bet you didn't walk to school alone until freshman year.
      The interstate was a military project.

  • @EpicGamer-yu9qn
    @EpicGamer-yu9qn Месяц назад +215

    my beans on toast always fall apart

    • @Toblex_YT
      @Toblex_YT Месяц назад +4

      True

    • @leonardo56324
      @leonardo56324 Месяц назад

      It's probably because of the immigrants

    • @emma_tm
      @emma_tm Месяц назад +5

      buy rich bread

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 12 дней назад

      @@emma_tm You mean white bread?

  • @Potatotenkopf
    @Potatotenkopf Месяц назад +164

    Coffee Cowmunist, much to think about

    • @raemmio2761
      @raemmio2761 Месяц назад +37

      from each according to their thirst, to according to their brew

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby Месяц назад +364

    The Tories really messed them up

    • @olivercopeland9803
      @olivercopeland9803 Месяц назад +7

      As someone from a very poor part of the north of the uk if you think the tories are bad (witch they are) watch labour now do so much worse

    • @aprilruledearth
      @aprilruledearth Месяц назад +14

      @@olivercopeland9803 Regardless of political party, every prime minister to come after Blair has been significantly worse than the former. At lest, this is what I've noticed living in and around the Hull area.

    • @tommangan7
      @tommangan7 Месяц назад +18

      @@olivercopeland9803 what evidence do you have to suggest Labour would be so much worse? I also grew up in a poor area up north and question your knowledge both recently and historically for how governments were pre 2010 and what policies negatively affected our areas. My guess from your profile picture is you are probably too young. My personal experience through the 90s and 00s was much better than the 2010s onwards. Starmer is of a similar political compass to Blair and he produced many benefits for these kind of areas in terms of social welfare, infrastructure, support etc. relative to the Tories. You can't rationally think Austerity was much better than what is to come based off what we know, many of the issues of the future are also a direct result of tory mismanagement of finances and the public sector.

    • @vrylongethwood5568
      @vrylongethwood5568 Месяц назад

      @@aprilruledearth So what would make you happy? Reform? Green? Stop being so pessimistic and stfu.

    • @olivercopeland9803
      @olivercopeland9803 Месяц назад

      @@tommangan7 what evidence possibly I mean ignoring the unbelievable Failures of even their first five days for example releasing with only serve 40% to their sentence scrapping the Rwanda project whilst not managing to limit immigration and committing to give Ukraine three .3 billion a year for as long as they need it pretty much there’s also they disconnect from most of the population who voted right wing just unfortunately spread across the country. There’s also all the evidence given to us by previous labour governments.

  • @sarvashaktimaan7106
    @sarvashaktimaan7106 Месяц назад +224

    Big A really reading a manifesto.

    • @Craby-YT
      @Craby-YT Месяц назад +20

      The glizzy manifesto

    • @TheLethargicWeirdo985
      @TheLethargicWeirdo985 Месяц назад +2

      By the way Big A, I found these documents in your desk called 'My Manifesto' and I read a little bit and I'm wondering why did you write some of that?

    • @bojackhorseman4176
      @bojackhorseman4176 Месяц назад +1

      Imagine advocating taxes when we ALL know they're theft. We should let the free market build roads for us like our forefathers wanted

    • @Obi_01
      @Obi_01 Месяц назад

      @@bojackhorseman4176😂😂😂

    • @A.S._Trunks
      @A.S._Trunks Месяц назад +1

      @@bojackhorseman4176 Bait used to be believable.

  • @TihetrisWeathersby
    @TihetrisWeathersby Месяц назад +311

    Austurity was the main problem, The problem was they are just defunding everything and letting it fall apart

    • @MC_heart4
      @MC_heart4 Месяц назад +14

      The Uk would need to build a new house every minute with the pace of migration. It was not just austerity, the UK increased spending under the tories. If you import a class of people who disproportionately use social systems without being net tax payers, those systems collapse.

    • @taelib1425
      @taelib1425 Месяц назад +65

      @@MC_heart4 Holy shit, you're mentioned in the video! 12:56 - 13:43

    • @MC_heart4
      @MC_heart4 Месяц назад +7

      @@taelib1425 Good job not addressing the point. 😱
      It is not austerity (as the UK increased spending under the tories). We have essentially the same effective tax rate today as we did in the 50s (the marginal tax rate is pointless - what matters is the effective rate people pay). Good job not addressing the point. It has nothing to do with the country getting flooded with people leading to a housing shortage. Houses actually appear out of thin air when people come in. Having more net tax drains is actually good for society.

    • @bunger6813
      @bunger6813 Месяц назад +54

      ​​@@MC_heart4austerity isnt just about tax rate, its about what its being spent on. The problem is it used to be spent on things like public transport and housing and now it isnt

    • @dodoontherocks
      @dodoontherocks Месяц назад +3

      No is the ghosts

  • @casuallydone468
    @casuallydone468 Месяц назад +32

    Just a reminder if the Median American paid taxes equivalent to their wealth, they would pay 2.5%, the 50% percentile of America would only pay 2.5%

    • @peacemaster8117
      @peacemaster8117 Месяц назад +2

      And all the wealthiest Americans would leave and everyone else's taxes would be raised to compensate. Why can't anyone think this through past the first step? You'd all be shit at Chess.

    • @talbotsolenberger4434
      @talbotsolenberger4434 Месяц назад +28

      ​@@peacemaster8117Yeah people forget about that whole history of American history where we taxed the rich very heavily pre reagan and there were no rich people at all :/

    • @cooltwittertag
      @cooltwittertag Месяц назад +9

      ​@@peacemaster8117feel like the one whod suck at chess is the one who cant remember any openings

    • @Greenitthe
      @Greenitthe Месяц назад

      ​@@peacemaster8117 Lil bro, who cares where they live, we can still tax their assets that live in American-ran brokerages, traded on American-ran exchanges. It's all bits on a hard drive my guy. Besides which, we're goddamn America - like we'd invade the middle east for a few trillion in oil and wouldn't do the same for a few trillion in taxes? Think past the second step

    • @tomhanks4820
      @tomhanks4820 20 дней назад +1

      @@peacemaster8117yeah they’d all leave 😂😂😂😂

  • @sambmortimer
    @sambmortimer Месяц назад +67

    Posting this at 1:45am UK time is a sneaky move

    • @hxhdhhdjdjd8288
      @hxhdhhdjdjd8288 Месяц назад +1

      Im watching this at 3, big a is not helping my sleep schedule

    • @andyb2028
      @andyb2028 Месяц назад +2

      ​@@hxhdhhdjdjd8288it's 6 am, time for beans on toast yet?

  • @MagicMonkey96
    @MagicMonkey96 Месяц назад +42

    The troc was really spitting this vid. Ty Dr carbonation for teaching me about economics without being a total nerd (well for the most part)

    • @mac_sour
      @mac_sour Месяц назад +1

      without? 😂

    • @MagicMonkey96
      @MagicMonkey96 Месяц назад +1

      @@mac_sour compared to other economists, yes

  • @randomshotz13
    @randomshotz13 Месяц назад +64

    Part of the main problem with trying to tax the rich is "tomorrow's millionaires" there are huge portions of the country who incorrectly believed they will become rich one day and they want to be able to have the money if they get there because they feel they will have earned it... However they fail to recognise they won't become rich in a system that allows the already wealthy to outcompete and punishes the middle class for trying to accumulate wealth

    • @peacemaster8117
      @peacemaster8117 Месяц назад +1

      This argument always ignores the existence of empathy. I don't want ANYONE to be extorted, regardless of what tax bracket they're in or I'm in. It's got nothing to do with "I might be rich later".

    • @randomshotz13
      @randomshotz13 Месяц назад +18

      @@peacemaster8117 it's not extortion to pay your share. I feel defenders of low taxes on the rich often don't properly understand how progressive tax systems work. Taxing the uber wealthy still leaves them uber wealthy it's just puts more in the pot. The top 10% of earners pay the same % of their income in tax as the bottom 10% when you account for all taxes, because lower income households spend all their money thus paying VAT, duty and other transactional taxes whilst the uber wealthy stick it in a managed portfolio avoiding a lot if these transactional taxes. Most people agree the rich should pay more but currently in the UK as a % they don't it's the middle class in the UK that get squeezed hardest and that makes 0 sense (unless you're trying to protect your aristocratic mates)

    • @UsernameLost-z2o
      @UsernameLost-z2o Месяц назад +8

      @@peacemaster8117 Congratulations on the most brain dead comment of the day.
      Just let me point this out to you.
      The vast majority of rich people in the UK (£1M+ per year) pay less tax than someone who makes £50K per year due to tax loopholes. Then often getting tax rebates on top, meaning some rich people make a profit off the British tax payer when they are meant to be paying tax. Yes, I know this is a thing because my aunt is an accountant and this is what she does for a living. So it would seem your "empathy" is very much miss placed

    • @quinkana1
      @quinkana1 Месяц назад

      @@UsernameLost-z2o tbf I think the UK should lower tax for middle-class people as a lot of people don't want to earn above 50k per year due to the absurd increase from 20% to 40%. That's an important reason why the middle class is getting killed off.

    • @sstchief1173
      @sstchief1173 Месяц назад +2

      @@quinkana1if anyone thinks that and doesn’t understand progressive taxes I doubt they could earn more than 50k a year

  • @DavidAndersonKirk
    @DavidAndersonKirk Месяц назад +66

    Nice to hear you talk about empathy in passing, big A- there’s not enough of that these days. My niece is gen A and is growing up with really good emotional skills being taught in school. I’ve been checked for being out of line and toxic in family banter by a 14 year old. And you know what? That’s the kind of thing that gives me hope for our future. I’m too fucked at this point to have one but I think you guys will

    • @YT7mc
      @YT7mc Месяц назад +13

      I’d go as far as to say you shouldn’t be negative about yourself! I’m not sure what gives you a negative outlook about your own future, but consider having hope. A positive outlook can be a great first step in changing a poor situation, as corny as it sounds

    • @nolovedrjones9668
      @nolovedrjones9668 Месяц назад +4

      Don't let some uppity child tell you shat you can and can't say

    • @ianrau6373
      @ianrau6373 Месяц назад +8

      @nolovedrjones9668
      I think you’re much more of a child than that 14 year old. Fair criticism can come from anywhere, and if you’re not mature enough to consider statements based on validity, and not on who said them, than you have no right to be claiming that you’re better than anyone.

    • @Greenitthe
      @Greenitthe Месяц назад

      @@nolovedrjones9668 smol pp energy

    • @Gandhi_Physique
      @Gandhi_Physique Месяц назад +2

      @@nolovedrjones9668 Fragile comment, but thanks for continuing the cycle of juvenoia. It is another thing my generation will try to change, while you sit around and complain about how much better you are.

  • @DonutTrigger
    @DonutTrigger Месяц назад +19

    So scary, I feel powerless. it’s so hard to make this change happen don’t even know where to start. I vote but what more can I do.

    • @Buzzsaw.1103
      @Buzzsaw.1103 Месяц назад +7

      Protesting. Sadly not enough young people know or are educated on politics in this country, so raising awareness is THE most important thing by you can do

    • @TheEsotericProgrammer
      @TheEsotericProgrammer Месяц назад

      literally 90%of peopleinbritainfeellikethatrightnowifliterayll20%ofthosepeopledecidedtostopworking,stopbuyingun c ecssarythi ngsbeyondgroceries,goandprotest...

    • @bumibomber
      @bumibomber Месяц назад

      ​@@TheEsotericProgrammerwhatthefuck

    • @TheEsotericProgrammer
      @TheEsotericProgrammer Месяц назад +1

      @@bumibomber myspacekeydoesntwork

    • @vrylongethwood5568
      @vrylongethwood5568 Месяц назад +2

      @@Buzzsaw.1103 old british people will never protest lmao

  • @williambbq
    @williambbq Месяц назад +14

    0:29 - The Tories do not have a policy of taxing the wealthiest, although Rishi did reverse Liz Truss' planned tax cuts (because just announcing them tanked our economy). However they also said they wouldn't raise VAT multiple times and then did... Obviously the common perception of Tories is that they're the party of the rich and wouldn't hurt their core base.
    Labour in 2017 & 2019 did have plans to tax the wealthy (an extra 5% on income over £80,000, a further 5% on income over £125,000). Labour got mullered in the 2019 election, generally because a feeling from Gen-X and up that Corbyn was a crazy commie who couldn't keep antisemites out of his party.
    Kier Starmer became party leader in 2020 with a pledge to tax the 5% highest earners more.
    During the 2024 election, the Tories pushed hard on the narrative that Labour would increase taxes (there was a scandal when they claimed it would be £2000 a year per household). This left Labour reluctant to discuss tax, and the messaging was that "Working people would not see tax rises", but what that meant still hasn't been clarified.

    • @Anderslaw
      @Anderslaw Месяц назад

      the truth is Starmer's just Cameron 2.0 and people are too blind to see it. Corbyn and 2019 was a real sliding doors moment, the media blatantly control the electorate and we have no hope for decades

    • @jpo8920
      @jpo8920 Месяц назад +1

      The problem is that 'wealthiest' is subjective. I make just under £170k in London and after taxes and rent (£4k/month for a 2 bed flat in a converted terrace) I don't have a whole lot of money spare for other expenses. I haven't even been on holiday in 3 years. So it's crazy to me that Labour would want to increase taxes on people only making £80k by 5% and then a further 5% over £125k. In London I'd say £80k is the average salary, but up north you would be quite comfortable on it. I'd definitely be fairly well off if I had my current income and lived up north or the Midlands, but most good career opportunities are tied to London

  • @NerdJoshua
    @NerdJoshua Месяц назад +61

    3:47 High taxes on the rich with a billion loopholes LMAO. Actual tax income as a percentage of GDP stayed the same before and after the 70% tax bracket was changed.

    • @radeklew1
      @radeklew1 Месяц назад +9

      I'm so tired

    • @wholesomeprofilepicture585
      @wholesomeprofilepicture585 Месяц назад +12

      bro there's also a way to stop loop holes from happening

    • @Thisisthegreatestatofalltime
      @Thisisthegreatestatofalltime Месяц назад +3

      Without the loopholes, you know like it was pre Reagan.

    • @Admiral-General_Aladeen
      @Admiral-General_Aladeen Месяц назад +8

      But you can clearly see a huge growth of wealth inequality after Reagan came into power after being basically flat for decades and also the start of constant defecit spending. Of course wealth inequality will always be a thing but huge wealth inequality is basically always bad.
      I guess a lot of it came from exporting jobs oversea while also not increasing wages as fast as prices and economic disasters

    • @absolutefocus2749
      @absolutefocus2749 Месяц назад

      ​@@wholesomeprofilepicture585sure, but the point is the effective tax rate has gone down by like 15% since the 1950s. Yea rich people paying 15% less tax overall isnt good, but its hardly a societal collapse issue like Atrioc keeps thinking it is.

  • @readmore5888
    @readmore5888 Месяц назад +8

    Beans on toast… but at what cost

  • @mattbenz99
    @mattbenz99 Месяц назад +13

    The problem in the UK isn't taxes. The problem is that British industry has become non competitive outside of very specific sectors like banking. Brexit has destroyed a large portion of the UK's export market which is why they have been rushing to push through new free trade agreements like the CPTPP for Asian countries, Latin American countries, and Canada. It isn't that their taxes are too low, it is literally that their economic activity is shrinking due to their various sources of trade disappearing. This is why Starmer is so pro new trade deals and building literally everything. He realizes that taxes could double and it wouldn't fix the underlying problem of the UK economy shrinking due to Brexit.

    • @samundef3500
      @samundef3500 Месяц назад +5

      Or, wild idea, both are massive problems.

    • @Greenitthe
      @Greenitthe Месяц назад +2

      Both can be true. Why not both?

  • @samthecowboy
    @samthecowboy Месяц назад +50

    its so funny Big A saying hes not karl marx while just generally talking about the poverty of britain’s working class when that was in fact karl’s main thing lol

    • @johnathanarcher6999
      @johnathanarcher6999 Месяц назад +8

      Well Marx said a lot of things about the poor working class.

    • @samthecowboy
      @samthecowboy Месяц назад +4

      @@johnathanarcher6999 i know i was being overly simplistic for the joke

    • @jammed_yam
      @jammed_yam Месяц назад +14

      big K had a point tbf

    • @hendrikd2113
      @hendrikd2113 Месяц назад

      it was more Engels' thing.

    • @jake6509
      @jake6509 Месяц назад +8

      @@jammed_yam gonna start calling marx big K

  • @it.snowig
    @it.snowig Месяц назад +9

    @BritMonkey mentioned Rahhhhhhh 💯💯💯

  • @Bagel920
    @Bagel920 Месяц назад +27

    I’m starting to think Britain isn’t doing so great

  • @red_roy
    @red_roy Месяц назад +5

    Calm down Glizzy Marx

  • @esrynshudder4216
    @esrynshudder4216 Месяц назад +3

    love that atrioc watches every video I watch, so glad he's showing them to his audience honestly

  • @milos1967
    @milos1967 Месяц назад +5

    Troc really is reading off the man of pesto

  • @wildfire9280
    @wildfire9280 12 дней назад +1

    3:05 On that note, there’s a point at which the negative income tax would be a better working solution than just removing the income tax.

  • @ChaarGrilled
    @ChaarGrilled Месяц назад +1

    5:02 holy cow Atrioc sees Tunbridge Wells, what are the odds

  • @Hession0Drasha
    @Hession0Drasha Месяц назад +1

    I just wanna point out, that on the hsr map of europe, blue is built, purple is currently being built, yellow is planned but unfunded and not been studied yet.

  • @therearealpacas
    @therearealpacas Месяц назад +2

    in the new ghostbusters movie they plan on venturing to england to solve its economy

  • @Tomato-Icecream
    @Tomato-Icecream Месяц назад +6

    glizzy innit

  • @WhatTheHellRS
    @WhatTheHellRS Месяц назад +6

    ive lived in the seattle area for 30 years, they started the light rail project in 2008 and its just getting from Seattle to Bellevue... its been a headache and the amount of traffic that has come from it does not make this worth it

  • @gamf5996
    @gamf5996 22 дня назад +1

    I think building infrastructure is a problem in a lot of common law countries. I live in Ireland and it’s the same, good for business legislation, but dreadful and expensive to build things.

  • @jeremy.oliver
    @jeremy.oliver Месяц назад +1

    Britmonkey casually being the goat of Britain crises documentation

  • @emma_tm
    @emma_tm Месяц назад +1

    12:25 all the way to the bakery*

  • @cingkole7893
    @cingkole7893 Месяц назад +1

    2:44 BASED!!!

  • @mogaming163
    @mogaming163 Месяц назад +2

    9:00 where is Canada? 😅

  • @NolenJacobson
    @NolenJacobson Месяц назад +2

    The trouble is that letter of tax law says the rich are taxed at a respectable rate but in practice they aren't. Loopholes, tax havens, and tax fraud are a big part of the problem.

  • @Spoon80085
    @Spoon80085 Месяц назад +1

    My family is Upper Middle Class (America) and we realized that even with all of that wealth, we would *still* go bankrupt trying to start a small business
    (I say "all that wealth" like we own a yacht; we don't)

  • @SergeantShrimp1
    @SergeantShrimp1 Месяц назад +1

    I'm in my mid twenties in the UK. This is so painful. But the icing on the cake is we don't even have freedom of movement with eu anymore (obviously.) So I can't even escape this hell hole

  • @Str8UpFax
    @Str8UpFax Месяц назад +2

    Atrioc for president? Hes old enough!

  • @timjenkins7075
    @timjenkins7075 Месяц назад

    My RUclips feed is every video you watch😂. I feel like I have to watch this twice.

  • @FaustsKanaal
    @FaustsKanaal 5 часов назад

    Taxing the rich as individuals would hardly put a dent in any modern state's budget. Corporate tax would make a change. But governments spend too much anyway. And misallocated mostly. Lots of money going into cultural subsidies, foreign aid, while the roads are falling apart. That is misalocation of resources.

  • @benzym
    @benzym Месяц назад

    “Britain” *proceeds to add Northern Ireland in the same colour as the island of Britain*

  • @josephg2332
    @josephg2332 Месяц назад +2

    The main problem atm is probably our awful football team

  • @AustinJP2
    @AustinJP2 Месяц назад

    That clip of Rishi Sunak is insane

  • @Jakewake52
    @Jakewake52 Месяц назад +1

    As a scot this is why I want indipendance, our last chance was stopped by boomers worried about their pension and certian football fans that "love eh queen" all the while westminister will syphon off our taxes, refuse to actually do anything to benifit people and use literally the only veto theyve ever done to one of our laws just to be transphobic. I cannot wait for the day I see an indipendant scotland because at least fighting our gov on that would be easier than being outnumbered by London on EVERY decision

  • @illumistration
    @illumistration Месяц назад +1

    B-Britain is the one in trouble?

  • @aidv8142
    @aidv8142 Месяц назад +1

    Does anyone know where the Vod for this is? I can't seem to find it on the vod channel

  • @lKushai
    @lKushai Месяц назад +4

    4 mins in and he convinced me taxing rich makes sense

  • @Kahoneki
    @Kahoneki Месяц назад

    blessed be thou when atrioc uploads

  • @thelioc2802
    @thelioc2802 Месяц назад

    Love it when big A talks about Britain

    • @LukeG2393
      @LukeG2393 Месяц назад

      It makes me sad because it reminds me I live in a dump.

  • @mathijsfrank9268
    @mathijsfrank9268 Месяц назад +2

    Ngl, that graph on 9:00 CANNOT be accurate. The Netherlands, a country that is famous for infrastructure and public transport... among other things... is one of the worst listed. Only slightly better than the US. That is just untrue.

    • @serpenttao
      @serpenttao Месяц назад +1

      As a Dutchman, I had the same thought, so I double checked what the graph said. It only considers tram, metro, and light rail service inside of its big cities, so it's pretty skewed. Trains and buses, which makes up a huge majority of our public transport even inside of big cities, aren't counted in this chart. That's why it ranks so low. I get the point of why the chart is the way it is, because stuff like trams and metros make a huge impact on public mobility in daily life, but to look at that chart and say that it represents all of public transport is a little skewed.

  • @potatogirlalice
    @potatogirlalice Месяц назад +2

    GLIZZY GLIZZY GLIZZY

  • @Firnienarya
    @Firnienarya Месяц назад

    10:45 bro really said he empathizes for the poors XD

  • @melvinhenryson277
    @melvinhenryson277 Месяц назад

    9:02 or 16:08. There is a thing called busses.

  • @Brandon-cc4ft
    @Brandon-cc4ft Месяц назад +8

    4:25 a small part of the decrease in the height of children is malnutrition. A large part is that genetically shorter populations are having much more children in the UK (aka immigrants)

    • @A-Letter
      @A-Letter Месяц назад +7

      I read the study of the data the chart is referencing.
      The study draws the complete opposite conclusion.
      A significant part of the decrease in height in children is due to malnutrition and can also be minorly attributed in multifactorial ways to other things, such as menarche and pubertal onset, intergenerational birthing and developmental impacts and migration.
      But the preponderance in the conclusion is that nutrition ABOVE ALL is the biggest influence even going as far as influencing pathways in the prior lesser factors.

    • @Brandon-cc4ft
      @Brandon-cc4ft Месяц назад

      @@A-Letter If we are to believe that malnutrition is largely contributing to a decrease in height, it must be true that children are seeing a decrease in animal based proteins or protein in general. The World Health Organization says that the main contribution to children's height in developed nations is the quality of protein they receive.This is because the use of "protein" as a nutritional factor is inaccurate as the levels of amino acids is what truly matters. If what this study suggests is true, I wouldn't ascertain that many families are substituting traditional meals with fast food, a businesses known to replace animal based protein with soy and air. It would be interesting to see the data on milk and egg consumption for children as this would be the key indicator on whether malnutrition is leading to a decrease in children's heights.

  • @jomammajoe8570
    @jomammajoe8570 Месяц назад

    8:40 funny thing, something is being built to connect vegas to la

  • @xap.digital.
    @xap.digital. Месяц назад

    yea. the swimming pool buy us has been closed for over 3 years

  • @shadowzz8103
    @shadowzz8103 Месяц назад +6

    This video is so far from reality its unreal. Cites a graph to show how bad public transport in the uk is and excludes bus transport, the number one transport method in the UK. The UK is a tiny country, we have trains from every city to every other city that stops in 95% of towns along the way, literally a train station every like 15 mins by car. Meanwhile you are never more that a 10 minute walk from a bus stop in any town, anywhere, there's 37,800 bus's. Its like ranking US transport methods and excluding cars...
    Then it goes on to meme on 220,000 houses being built in a single year and not meeting "targets". Well, lets compare this a little, UK, 66mil people, 220,000 new houses in 2021. USA, 333mil people, 770,000 new houses in 2021 (closest data I could find at a quick google), 6x the people, 3x the houses built, seems we're not doing so bad after all...
    UK tax bands are already in place for higher earners. Less than 50k is 20%. 50k to 125k is 40%. 125k+ is 45%. Average HOUSEHOLD income is 36k, my point being, barely any "middle class" people pay higher tax bands.
    The school comments are so WILDLY off base. The reality is that 174 schools were found to have RAAC concrete issues that were not known at the time of construction and have already been funded to be completely rebuilt. That's 174 of 32,172 schools that were affected for context.
    NHS funding in 2022/23 period alone was 181.7 billion (236.8 billion dollars). The issue is not money, it's staff. Recruitment, retention, overworked, general lack of morale, misuse by general public (big one). People who can afford to pay privately don't. People who have minor issues clog up A&E. Anyone who's gone to the hospital for an actual issue will tell you the same, half the room is drunk idiots who fell over and hurt themselves, a good 25% are people who should have gone to their normal doctors the next morning, just clogging on top of clogging. A&E wait times are high because 80-90% of the people who go there are non-emergency idiots we can't turn away, but are too busy to deal with.
    The NHS, housing, and energy prices are and have real issues and videos like this make everyone look in the wrong directions. Tories sucked ass, hopefully labour can fix the problems.

    • @rudysmith1552
      @rudysmith1552 Месяц назад +6

      You have roughly the same wealth inequality as South Korea and if you want to compare busing with the United States, it just looks pathetic that you have to compare busing with the United States. Every city is served by bus. It is that bad you are an American lite. The problems are worse than your letting on right now, especially considering that income and production are no longer directly linked.

    • @shadowzz8103
      @shadowzz8103 Месяц назад +2

      @@rudysmith1552 only one country (sweden) in all of europe and the US has better wealth inequality than south korea. You are citing south korea like its some 3rd world country when in reality on this metric it performs better than any developed nation, how hilarious.
      The bus comments were to highlight the fact that the data being shown in the video explicitly refers to trains, explicitly removing the most common form of public transport in the UK.
      “Income and production are not directly linked” - what a meaningless thing to say.

    • @PhoeniX199777
      @PhoeniX199777 Месяц назад

      shh we live in a dump, i may be sat here with my 1gb internet, relativley cheap food and be in a country that is objectivley one of the best in the world but we're hell on earth! Anyway, a fuck ton of stats used to show how shit the uk is are misrepresented half the time, homeless stats for example cant be compared since countries use different defintions and ours is quite broad, saying the uk and the usa are "dumps" is just for internet clout these days

  • @ActuallyMori
    @ActuallyMori Месяц назад

    As someone who lives here: yeah we know

  • @crusader3108
    @crusader3108 Месяц назад +2

    Literally everything Atrioc said i agree with. People try to blame a mintority of people when in reality its just the rich accepting government contracts and extracting tons of money from the tax payer by overcharging massively, i like this country a lot, but goddam other times i hate it.

    • @AGW99-df3yg
      @AGW99-df3yg Месяц назад

      i don't know anyone who blames immigration who doesn't also blame the politicians that facilitate it. That'd be a fascinating perspective

  • @corporalpleb
    @corporalpleb Месяц назад

    As someone who has lived in Hawaii their whole life the world rail makes me infuriated

  • @randomvintagemap160
    @randomvintagemap160 Месяц назад +2

    "and it worked fine" um, no it didn't? look at the 70s

  • @user-cp9id1mj8b
    @user-cp9id1mj8b Месяц назад

    9:03 LOL

  • @Brandon-hw9wc
    @Brandon-hw9wc Месяц назад +4

    Wait is he anti-nuclear? I really couldnt tell by the video. From what i know theres basically no downside to nuclear as long as its done well. could be wrong tho idrk

    • @hydromic2518
      @hydromic2518 Месяц назад +1

      Idk I thought I heard him saying he supported nuclear power in another video

    • @miseri338
      @miseri338 Месяц назад

      He called the German greens party who effectively killed nuclear in Germany and stunted their energy generation "well meaning idiots." He does not support anti-nuclear so far as I can tell.

    • @Crudecoronet
      @Crudecoronet Месяц назад

      he hates those that are anti-nuclear

    • @jammed_yam
      @jammed_yam Месяц назад +12

      hes anti-anti-nuclear

    • @Ka_chi1
      @Ka_chi1 Месяц назад +1

      He supports nuclear

  • @qin2500
    @qin2500 21 день назад

    Humanity will eventually fail as a self governing race

  • @jamescharles5907
    @jamescharles5907 Месяц назад +1

    why didn't he watch the rest of the video. its a lot better and touches on really important parts he talks about regularly

  • @dq6845
    @dq6845 Месяц назад

    13:40 atrioc sees through the matrix???

  • @christiancastillo-tamayo495
    @christiancastillo-tamayo495 Месяц назад

    The CEO making billions a year to sit on his ass and play Fortnite: ☺️

  • @williamhabberjam410
    @williamhabberjam410 28 дней назад

    The Tories are out ! The Britain we knew and love will come back, i hope so at least

  • @greenoftreeblackofblue6625
    @greenoftreeblackofblue6625 Месяц назад

    I always wanted you to watch this video.

  • @barcancelN2
    @barcancelN2 Месяц назад

    I knew he was gonna watch this BritMonkey video eventually lfg

  • @spoogerification
    @spoogerification 13 дней назад

    No that’s stupid. Uk has good public transport

  • @robindegunst4934
    @robindegunst4934 Месяц назад

    So what is atriocs stance on nuclear energy? I still don’t understand

  • @AndyE7
    @AndyE7 Месяц назад

    I genuinely still don't understand how Rishi Sunak though he was in the right there

  • @MrEnriqueag
    @MrEnriqueag Месяц назад

    That graph is kinda bs if you include tram and not buses

  • @sadlyanuxtakustan8950
    @sadlyanuxtakustan8950 Месяц назад

    Finally an American that gets it.

  • @sungodniku
    @sungodniku Месяц назад

    where chat on screen

  • @unorevers7160
    @unorevers7160 Месяц назад

    These damn immigrants and their 9.000.000.000 pound tunnel!

  • @ricardosousa11
    @ricardosousa11 21 день назад

    Everyone protesting on anything is far right, must be that.

  • @ef2803
    @ef2803 Месяц назад

    Im just sad and angry

  • @ruben9912
    @ruben9912 Месяц назад

    guys if you like this video go watch Gary's Economics. Guy is an absolute legend who can actually talk on the entire range of subjects without getting stuck in meme format.

  • @onlystamina5932
    @onlystamina5932 Месяц назад

    Teeth so bright

  • @zJetskii
    @zJetskii Месяц назад

    Atrioc for president!

  • @ASOXO
    @ASOXO Месяц назад

    I'm a Brit who is leaving the UK because things have gotten so bad here.

  • @notabot1498
    @notabot1498 Месяц назад

    "tax the rich" is so stupid, rich people are taxed they are smart enough to avoid it and rich enough to not get prison time. rishi sunak is richer then THE KING i don't think he wants higher taxes.

  • @JeffMyName
    @JeffMyName Месяц назад

    hey at least us in scotland can get out, right?

  • @nottom7551
    @nottom7551 Месяц назад +3

    So the UK has worse public transport than America and America has worth dental hygiene. My life is a lie

  • @pujeetjha8265
    @pujeetjha8265 Месяц назад

    Time to stop fucking around

  • @oldoneeye
    @oldoneeye Месяц назад

    The Green Party (who won 4 seats in the last election) actually had a policy for an additional tax for anyone earning over £10 million… I guess Rishi Sunak and his £700 million a year income would just leave and I’d be pretty happy about that.

  • @28cthedestroyer
    @28cthedestroyer Месяц назад +1

    Is this Big A's actual side channel?

    • @Shiverskill
      @Shiverskill Месяц назад

      Yeh. Use to be unofficial but he hired the owner and now it's official

    • @account-yi2cn
      @account-yi2cn Месяц назад +1

      @@Shiverskillit always was his channel, he just hired the guy from another clips channel called Bigger A clips

  • @mardy3732
    @mardy3732 Месяц назад

    8:55 This list would have you believe that Dutch public transport is piss poor when in reality it's very decent, one of the best on the list. Why are city buses and trains not accounted for here?

    • @CampingAvocado
      @CampingAvocado Месяц назад

      yeah as someone who has visited the netherlands and lives in switzerland this chart is extremely dumb. Germany should not be that far up when talking about public transport lmfao

  • @Toblex_YT
    @Toblex_YT Месяц назад +2

    Glizzy Christmas songs in Britain

  • @thecaledonian7643
    @thecaledonian7643 Месяц назад

    I notice all mentions of the 'UK' in this are really just euphemisms for 'England and Wales.' What about Scotland, which has free public transport for under 25s and the elderly and the best performing NHS in the UK? I hate my country getting lumped in with losers.

  • @RemixkingDystansy
    @RemixkingDystansy Месяц назад

    When the millennial decides to whip out spell like he is in Harry Potter, we know society is cooked

  • @Nefariousbig
    @Nefariousbig Месяц назад

    mingham

  • @KarumaXD
    @KarumaXD Месяц назад +1

    I love Atrioc! Please keep up the great content!!!

  • @Toblex_YT
    @Toblex_YT Месяц назад +6

    Glizzy

  • @bonkbones
    @bonkbones Месяц назад

    but if we give everything to private companies then we can be worse off and pay more for it Big A, ever thought of that?